Community Corner
NOTES: Sachem Public Library Meeting
Teen services boasts 900 participants in summer reading club.
Diane Longo was re-elected as a Library Trustee until 2015 Monday night at the Sachem Public Library board of trustees meeting.
She will also serve as president of the board now. Secretary Marguerite Barone was moved into the position of vice-president and Carol Paulsen was nominated and elected as secretary.
Library director Judith Willner announced that on July 6 the library had a record breaking one day circulation of 10,210. Willner went on to speak about the concerts that library has held in the Inside/Out Garden so far reporting that the Six Gun concert of July 9, drew a crowd of approximately 550. A teen concert held on July 16, which featured four different bands, had about 350 people in attendance.
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Willner also announced that the library has been a Letterboxing site since June and has recently become a GeoCaching site. She explained that the library's coordinates will take an individual within 10 feet of the site and from there additional clues will help them find the object. To date seven people have found the cache hidden at the Sachem Library, the first person, Willner added, found it within one and a half hours of hiding the cache.
Carol Brand, the assistant director of the library, featured the Teen Services department in her report this month. She said that this year 900 teenagers have signed up for the summer reading club, which is already 39 percent more participants than last year. Brand added that currently 104 books are logged into the club a day and that 33 percent of teen books are currently checked out. Of that, the Twilight series and similar books are the most popular.
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A motion was accepted that would no longer allow new DVD's (material is considered new for six months), to be checked out on Direct Access or InterLibrary loans. This motion was set forth because these items were always checked out and never on the shelves for patrons. Another motion stating that Sachem residents who do not have a permanent address will be eligible to get a local use only library card with a signed affidavit. A local use library card would not allow an individual to use Direct Access or InterLibrary loans was also accepted.
The next meeting for the Sachem Library Board of Trustees will be on Monday, September 20, 2010.
