1948-10-28City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 10/28/1948
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Thomas F. Delaney, John C. Birmingham, W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr.,
William A. Rowe, and Robert O. Small
Board members absent: Thomas J. Casey, Louisa V. Conrad, Lawrence E. Foster, and B.
Frederick Yoffa
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, October 28, 1948
The regular meeting of the Board was held on Thursday, October 28, at 7:30 P.M., Mr.
Delaney, and Messrs Birmingham, Boyden, Rowe and Small being present.
The Secretary's report of the meeting of September 30 was read and approved. -
The report of the Finance Committee was presented and approved. The Committee also
stated that though the request for the additional appropriation of $815.00 had been referred to the
Mayor for approval, by the Finance Committee of the City Government, noting definite had been
done about the matter.
The Committee on Circulation recommended the purchase of 139 new titles and the
acceptance of 167 gifts. This was approved.
The report of the Librarian, including the statement that Mrs. Dorothy Day of Beverly
Farms had been engaged as the Branch Librarian in place of Mrs. Deborah McGann who had
resigned, was read and placed on file.
With the engaging of Mrs. Day, as Branch Librarian and Mrs. Olive White as part-time
assistant there, the Branch is once more on a satisfactory working basis.
It was voted to subscribe for 1949, for the same newspapers as those taken for 1948, the
order again to be placed with the Merrill Company of Beverly.
It was voted to hold a Finance Committee meeting at 4 P.M. on Monday, November 15,
in order to have the budget for 1949 ready for the consideration of the Board at its meeting on
November 18th: - that being the date set for the next regular meeting which would otherwise fall
on Thanksgiving Day.
Adjourned
Marjorie H. Stanton
Clerk