Board hears updates on facility projects, study booths and consortium growth
Summary
The board reviewed near-term facility upgrades (picture book room carpet and shelving), grant-funded study booths and incoming consortium membership that require additional shelving and space for SC Lends; friends groups committed funding to local projects.
Amanda Dickman (S2) told the board the Friends of the Beaufort Library pledged funding for new shelving and activity centers to replace older shelving and update the picture book room at the Beaufort branch. She described additional end-of-fiscal-year projects including carpet and paint replacements and new activity features for children's areas.
Dickman also summarized usage of recently installed, grant-funded study booths: Bluffton's booth recorded 60 uses in March and 69 uses in April, while Beaufort's study room recorded 15 uses in March and 10 in April. She said roughly 8,000 items a month come through the county sort room for the SC Lends consortium and that seven new counties will join the consortium in July, prompting shelving reconfiguration and space expansion in the sort room.
The Friends groups and the Public Library Foundation were credited for funding licensing and shelving needs that enable these facility and collection improvements.
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