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Mashpee. With your help, we will continue to provide has begun on weeding the Adult Fiction collection and the professional planning services required to meet the will continue through 1996. many challenges facing our community. Working together,we can keep Mashpee the special place we're The library has also gathered all its books on Native all proud to call "home". Americans and shelved them in a special collection, Materials were formerly scattered through the main Respectfully submitted by, collection, shelved by subject area. Setting up a spe. cial collection allows patrons to see the entire range of F. Thomas Fudala, Town Planner materials available and will encourage greater use of this collection. Thus far, the library owns in excess of 300 items concerning Native Americans and will con. tinue to develop this as a major subject strength to reflect the town's cultural heritage. Town Meeting also approved conversion of the Report of the library's existing heating system. A new,more energy. Mashpee Public Library efficient gas system was installed in December to cut the cost of heating the library as well as providing greater comfort for staff and patrons. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and The library Trustees and the Library Director have the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee begun planning the future expansion of the library I report with Pleasure that the Mashpeeee Public facility. A preliminary mrnar request outlining the library's Library enjoyed its most successful year ever. Circula- future space needs and the costs of expansion have tion for 1995 totalled 77,944 items; an 8% increase been submitted to the Capital Investment Committee, over the number of transactions for 1994. During the The library will need additional space by the year year, 51,346 library patrons made use of the library 2000. Sufficient space is available at the current site. and its services. Refinement of space needs and exploration of poten- tial funding sources will be further pursued over the In recognition of the tremendous growth in circula- upcoming years. tion at the library, Town Meeting authorized a part- time Circulation Assistant as well as increasing the Respectfully submitted, hours of an existing position. This staffing has helped cut the size of waiting lines at the circulation desk and Helene B. DeFoe allowed the library to open a second charge out station Library Director during peak periods. In response to patron requests, borrowing limits have been increased.Additional staffing is able to han- dle a higher volume of returns and can keep current with overdue notices.Patrons may now borrow 5 adult and 5 children's items per card and may also borrow 3 Report of the videos. This is a dailylimit, with a per card limit of 1 5 P items out at any time. Phone renewals of items except Board of Health videos are encouraged if the patron can't return an item on time. Items with reserve request lists are not renewable.The new drive-up book return has added to To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and patron convenience and is able to keep up with the the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: high volume of items returned after library hours. We, the Board of Health, respectfully submit our, Having adequate staffing has freed up the Direc- annual report for the calendar year 1995. tor's time and provided more opportunity to work on collection development, additional children's pro- gramming and provided more time for planning future which was transported to the SEMASS Waste to Ener' services. The Adult Non-Fiction collection has been gY Plant in Rochester, MA. This represents almost' weeded to remove out-dated or worn materials and the 5%decrease over 1994. Again,credit must be giveO travel guides have been completely updated. Patrons our conscientious recyclers.The cost of recycling con will find browsing in the Non-Fiction easier and more tinues to decrease. In particular, recycling newspriol enjoyable now that the shelves are less crowded. Work and white goods now generates significant revenues, 98