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Members of the Carroll County Public Library board of trustees approved a cooperative borrowing agreement with the other libraries in the state Wednesday night, updating the policy that had been in effect since the 1970s.The agreement -- which allows Maryland residents to borrow and return materials at any library -- was updated to accommodate technology such as bar code systems, said CCPL director Martha Makosky.For example, countians could borrow a book at Ocean City and return it in Carroll or vice versa, she said.

Ann Arrundell County Historical Society will hold its annual crab feast from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. July 8 at Kurtz's Beach in Pasadena. The event will feature door prizes, a raffle, musical entertainment and a menu of steamed crabs, crab soup, pit beef and ham, salads, beer, cake and soda. The cost is $35 for adults, $10 for children ages 6-11 and free for those younger than age 6. Tickets are available at the society's Browse and Buy Shoppes at Jones Station Road in Severna Park and Benson-Hammond House in Linthicum.

Those overdue library books will cost you 5 cents more per day beginning in March -- and officials say another nickel increase could comenext year.Expecting $50,000 less in state aid this fiscal year, the Carroll County Public Library Board of Trustees increased daily fines from 10 to 15 cents per book at its monthly meeting Wednesday night.To prepare for problems in next year's budget -- which begins in July -- board members already had approved a fine increase last monthfrom 10 to 12 cents to begin in July.

The well has run dry.After months of cost-cutting at the CarrollCounty Public Library -- from renegotiating contracts to turning offevery other light at headquarters -- board members say there is nothing more to cut to meet the latest budget crisis without affecting service.At the last round of local cuts, $135,084 -- or 3.6 percent of the total budget -- was taken to meet the shortfall in state money."We said that's all we have, Steve (Powell, county budget director),"said Martha M. Makosky, library director.

On October 8, 2009, CARTER E. MAKOSKY. Memorial service Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 11 A.M., at Grace Fellowship Church, 9505 Deereco Road, Timonium.

Albert Ellsworth Makoski, a retired oil company executive, died May 19 of prostate cancer at William Hill Manor in Easton. He was 94.Mr. Makoski joined the Standard Oil Co. refinery in Canton in 1919 and later was promoted to petroleum laboratory chemist and employee relations manager at the Southeast Baltimore refinery. In 1961, was transferred to Exxon Oil Co.'s headquarters in Houston as senior manufacturing adviser and retired in 1969.A resident of St. Michaels since 1989, he was born in East Baltimore and graduated from City College.

When the Carroll library system begins use of a new automation system in June, patrons will be able to take advantage of two new services.Library users will be able to buy miniature library cards that can be attached to key rings and will be able to tap into the automation system to see what materials they have checked out and reserve books. The Carroll County Library board of trustees endorsed both services last week.The miniature library cards -- 1 inch by 2 inches -- will be sold for $2 and can be used to check out materials, said Martha M. Makosky, library director.

Westminster library workers, armed with pen and paper, are going after drivers who use library parking spaces as an all-day free parking lot.A new plan to watch the lot for cars that overstay the two-hour limit comes in the wake of an aborted proposal to install meters behind and beside the library building on Main Street.Carroll County Public Library trustees dropped that proposal when library patrons complained that meters would unfairly penalize people who park in the spaces to use the library.

Carroll's Library Board of Trustees, denied 1991-1992 capital funding for system expansion, voted Wednesday to renew their request for 1993.Although the County Commissioners denied or postponed until 1998 all library capital budget requests this year, board members said the system's needs are unchanged. The county's capital budgets are submitted on a five-year plan.Director Martha M. Makosky said library budget figures should be similar to last year's, even though the county Bureau of Building Construction has to update costs based on inflation and square footage.