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• To provide consistent, cost effective and secure Report of the connectivity to all Data Processing Resources for all Town of Mashpee departments. Mashpee Public Library • To continue to expand the town wide network of security cameras to provide increased security for residents and town assets. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the • To expand the types of Permits and Stickers that Citizens of the Town Mashpee: can be purchased on-line via credit card at the On behalf of the Library,I am pleased to submit Mashpee Web Site. the 2022 Annual Report. • To continue Phase 2 of the multi-year Digital Records Management project to alleviate the During 2022 all of the services the library provided large amount of paper document storage within to our residents before the pandemic were restored.We town departments. Type of documents requiring are excited to watch the use of library services continue to increase and are hopeful that 2023 will restore electronic scanning, storage, and retrieval are GIS maps, engineering documents, building our usage statistics to pre-pandemic levels. With the plans,contracts,Meeting Minutes,Presentations, continued support of the town and our community,we and Legal Documents. are confident that our services,programs,and outreach • Continue the PC Installation and Replacement will exceed expectations. Plan that replaces 33% of the desktops each year Among our list of accomplishments, the most to maintain a 3 year Lifespan and Depreciation widely anticipated and welcome post-pandemic Cycle. milestone occurred when the library reinstated its six- • Maintain awareness of new systems and day operating schedule, and fully restored weekend applications and train user community on proper hours. This move extended our public service hours usage and policies. to 44 hours per week over six days,and could not have • To continue Cyber Security training initiatives to been achieved without the efforts of a very dedicated enhance overall safety of town data. staff who were committed to the goal of increasing access to our residents. Saturday visits to the library Three Year Plan and Outlook: are again becoming part of family routines, and • To provide consistent, cost effective, and secure providing comfortable spaces for studying, meeting, connectivity to all Data Processing Resources for and attending programs. As we get back on track,and all Town of Mashpee departments. circle back to complete some much delayed projects, • Continued support and statistical evaluation of we are also eagerly preparing to expand our operating our private network to provide a solid,secure,cost schedule to include 50 hours of full service, and effective backbone to all Town data processing opening the building for public use four evenings a needs. week in 2023! • To do a much better job of harvesting financial The year 2022 marked our first full-service year data out of MUNIS. of operations as a "fine free" library. In 2020, when • To constantly research ways to enhance and the pandemic forced us to close our buildings and expand our private network to better support initially quarantine returned items for up to a week those in the field, namely Police, Fire, EMT's, before handling, all libraries in the CLAMS network and Paramedics. suspended the practice of charging"fines"for materials that were returned after the due date. The service Respectfully submitted, disruptions caused by the pandemic was the impetus for libraries nationwide to evaluate policies and David A DelVecchio practices for their impact on patrons using our services. Director of Information Technology In June 2021, the Library Board of Trustees followed the lead of regional, state, and national libraries, and voted unanimously to eliminate this fee structure and remove the fear of owing money as a barrier to using the library. This decision was met with overwhelming public approval, and over a year later, our borrowers continue to bring back their materials for others to use 146