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Janet put a display about Teen Read Week in the you we are beginning construction. We are second on library lobby display case and conducted a raffle for a waiting list for$2,500,000 in state funds towards the teens visiting the library that week. Kari is displaying construction costs. We are hoping the General Coun posters about public library activities at the High will reauthorize a new construction bond bill early in School. Janet and Kari contacted the art teachers to 2007. Even with state funds, we have a financial gap encourage students to create posters about My Own to fill in. Fund raising has continued but we may have Cafg. Which will increase awareness of the website. to come back to the voters to ask for the remaining . piece of the funding. A model of the new library,con. We have identified teens as an underserved group structed by the late Kathleen Eynon, is on display at in our Long Range Plan. Services for them will be the library. Funding for the model was generously greatly improved in a new building but meanwhile,we donated by Thomas O'Neill. are encouraging more young adults to use the library's resources. I am purchasing more contemporary titles The Friends of Mashpee Library continued to to encourage teen readers. In 2005, only 3,500 Young work very diligently at fund raising. In May,they held Adult titles circulated, compared to 25,000 Juvenile a Mermaids Art Auction at the Coonemessett Inn and books. Updating the collection with more current in August had their annual Artisan's Fair on the library books and magazines will increase the usage of this grounds. Special thanks to Sheri Bergeron for orga. collection. Partnering with the High School will help nizing a very successful Artisan's Fair. Mashpee get the word out that we have many resources for teens Commons LTD donated a Whale to the Friends as part at the library. of the Cape Cod Whale Trail campaign. Local artist, John Woodruff created Daddy Whalebucks which was We have additional services for adult users too. auctioned off at the end of the summer to benefit the The Town's MIS Department added wireless access at building fund. the library last spring. Patrons with Internet capable laptops can connect @ the library on their own equip- We had a team of runners in the Falmouth Road ment. We have three hard wired workstations patrons Race, including Trustee David Burton and his son may register to use but the wireless access has helped James, Ted Nadolny and his daughter and Kelly cut the waiting lines for those computers. We have Konstanty. Kelly Konstanty and Trustee Heather added downloadable audio books to the collection. Lakatos organized the second annual Walk to Read 1 Patrons with high speed broadband connections can Fundraiser. Heather has also been a prime force in the download E Books onto their home computers. Bricks and Benches campaign which she co-chairs Patrons can listen to books on the computer or can with Sandi Abrams. The Mashpee Women's Club transfer the book to an MP3 player. Titles are checked very generously issued a challenge to match money out for three weeks and then are automatically check raised by December 31st, up to $15,000. Many pea backed in. ple have contributed time and talents, to fund raising projects to make the new library a reality. I have men There are several benefits to downloadable col- tioned a few by name but it's through the efforts of lections. An unlimited number of patrons may check many that will help us reach our goal. out the same title simultaneously eliminating waiting lists. Automatic check in prevents overdues and there Respectfully submitted, are no parts to break or lose. The library benefits Helene DeFoe because the collection doesn't take up any of our lim- Library Director ited physical shelf space. Interested patrons can sign u for free Net Library accounts by selecting E Audio P �' books from the CLAMS homepage (www.clamsnet.org) or by going through the library h' homepage as described above for Novelist. Select the downloadable E Audio book link. Uppermost in many minds is when will we have a new library? I hope by next year's report I can tell r :i 112