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their reading log each week, receive a stamp on their square feet in the present building. While all services log sheet and collect a small prize. Several performers will benefit from the new building, the public will see appeared at the library during the series to encourage major improvements in Children's Services, Young l the children to use their reading skills. Adult Services and community meeting space. A schematic of the proposed building is currently on dis- On July 7th, Library Director Helene DeFoe and play at the library. Library Building Committee Chairman Sheldon Gilbert learned the outcome of the library's applica- During construction, the library will move to tion for state funding for the new Mashpee Public temporary quarters at a yet-to-be-determined location. Library. On a prioritized list of 41 communities, In preparation for the move, library staff has been Mashpee placed twelfth overall. Seven communities weeding the collection of any out-dated materials. received provisional grants immediately and the This is a cost savings measure so no dead wood will be remaining communities were placed on a waiting list moved or put into storage. Purging these items prior ` pending additional bonding authorization from the to the move will help make the moving process state. Mashpee is currently fifth on this ranked list, smoother and more cost effective.In the meantime,the and receiving the highest ranking of several Cape and public will have a more attractive and current collec- Island towns. Previously, Mashpee voters authorized tion. The Trustees look forward to beginning con- the town to borrow $3,500,000 towards the construc- struction in FY 2007, once the entire funding package tion of the new library. The state grant will provide an has been secured. ,': additional $2,500,000 in construction funds. These two sources provide about 75% of the necessary fund- The library staff made several customer service ing. The Friends of Mashpee Library are conducting a improvements this year. Bridget Bontrager,Technical � Capital Campaign to raise the last 25% of the neces- Services Librarian began using the Acquisitions mod- Capital funding. Eastern Bank of the South Shore kicked ule of the CLAMS Millennium software this past sum- off the Capital Campaign with a very generous dona- mer. Acquisitions provides patrons with information tion of$25,000 for the building fund. Other fund rais- about items that have been ordered for the library col- ing activities included the annual Artisan's Fair, a lection but have not yet been received. Using family event called Walk to Read and the collection Acquisitions alerts patrons to what items the library of pledges supporting Friends President Ted has ordered and allows them to place requests on new Nadolny's run in the Falmouth Road Race. heavily advertised Best Sellers before they are actually received. Patrons looking up these items will see an The new library will be designed by architects J on order status in the catalog record. Since Bridget Stewart Roberts Associates of Sommerville, creates the catalog record at the same time she places Massachusetts. The library will be built on the same the order, final processing is much faster when the site as the present library. The new library will be library actually receives the order about 22,000 square feet in comparison to the 5,000 "Km 167