3/8/2011 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Teen Services Report On Saturday,January 29, we held our first Teen Movie Night. Although we publicized the event at the Mashpee High School, other local schools, and at the library, attendance was low. We did have three enthusiastic young men attend the screening of The Social Network, and provide their names and email addresses to be placed on a distribution list for future programs. Several days after the event, we were informed that our poor turnout may have been due to the fact that the Mashpee Boys and Girls Club showed the very same film the night before we did. I have since reached out to Ruth Provost, the Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club and asked if she or staff members would be available to meet with me and discuss ways that our two organizations could cooperate and collaborate on future scheduling and programs. I have been referred to Mallory Callinan, the Director of Teen Programs, and am currently trying to arrange a convenient meeting time: Strengthening the Library's relationship with local schools is a top priority, and I have had several successful meetings with High School Media Specialist, Kari Lapointe. On Tuesday, March 15, Kari and I will jointly conduct a Library Card drive during the annual Curriculum Night at the High School. This evening provides an opportunity for parents to come to the high school and learn about the courses of study available for their teens. After a brief meeting in the auditorium,the parents will proceed to the school library where Kari and I will have a table set up to collect signed applications. We will also be notifying parents and students of this opportunity during the week via daily notices and flyers posted at the school. Although traditionally these events do not immediately generate a huge number of new library card applications, it has proven to be an effective way of raising awareness among parents, who will then later come to the library to pay off teens' fines or request a replacement card for their teen. It's also just a positive way to meet parents and make them aware that the library is available as a resource. I followed up on the recommendation made at the January board meeting and joined the Mashpee Cares initiative. I am tentatively scheduled to attend a Teen Suicide Prevention workshop this Friday, March 11, at the Mass Maritime Academy from 9:45 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. (I will be doing this on a volunteer basis, and will not count this time as Teen Services hours associated with Rose's gift.) This opportunity has been made available, free of charge to ten members of the Mashpee Cares group. The group has distributed a collection of surveys and report to the members, which we are all currently evaluating for possible use in Mashpee. One potential priority for the group is to generate a grant proposal to secure funding for the program. I have volunteered to work with the committee that might be formed to write the grant proposal. In January I applied for a Summer Reading Grant offered by the Massachusetts Library System in conjunction with the MBLC. Mashpee was awarded the $3000.00 grant, and Janet Burke and