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1945-09-27 City of Beverly, Massachusetts Public Meeting Minutes Board: Library Trustees Subcommittee: Date: 09/27/1945 Place: Beverly Public Library Board members present: Thomas F. Delaney, John C. Birmingham, Lawrence E. Foster, William A. Rowe, and Robert O. Small Board members absent: W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr., Thomas J. Casey, Louisa L. Vaughan and B. Frederick Yoffa Others present: Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton Beverly, September 27, 1945 The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees was held at the Library on Thursday, September 27, at 7:30 P.M., with Messrs. Delaney, Birmingham, Foster, Rowe, and Small in attendance. The records of the meeting of June 28 were read and approved, as was the report of the meeting of the Administration Committee held on September 10, to open bids for repairs to the marble platform of the front steps at the main Libraxy. The report of the Finance Committee giving expenditures and balances for the first nine moths of the year was red and approved. Mr. Delaney reported fore the Administration Committee that work on the marble steps would bee started in the very near future. He also reported that plastering was beginning to crack and fall in several placed on the lower floor of the Main Library and that though no money was available at present to make extensive repairs, it might be wise for the Trustees to be considering some more permanent sort of repairs, in the future, than "mere patching." Miss Stanton, in her report of the summer and fall activities, stressed the need of more adequate reference facilities for both Junior and Senior high school students, and a committee consisting of Mr. Birmingham, chairman, Mr. Foster and Mr. Small was appointed to work out some solution of this problem: - either by taking the present Document Room as an Intermediate Department for junior high students or by closing the present Children's Room at 6 P.M., during the school term, to all boys and girls below the eight grade, and using it during the ensuing hours as a Reference Room for pupils of both Junior and Senior High. The Circulation Committee reported that since the June meeting 670 books had been purchased and 39 books received as gifts. Voted: that this be approved. The Circulation Committee also presented for discussion the magazine list for 1946. It was voted to approve the list as read~ and since it would not be necessary, legally, to advertise for estimates on this, it was voted to p-place the list with Miss June Picketing of Beverly who has given very satisfactory service during the last two years. Miss Stanton, who had been asked to look into the matter of library salaries in places of approximately the same size as Beverly, reported that after consulting with Miss E Louise Jones of the State Library Commission, and pay-plans often libraries near Boston, she had found the following standard to be in force:- Librarian A certificate Salary $2500 - 3000 Ass't Librarian A or B certificate 1600 - 2000 Heads of Depts. including A or B certificate 1400 - 1800 Branch Junior Assts B, C, or D 1200 - 1600 Clerical C, D, or no certificate 1000 - 1200 The Trustees voted that as soon as money is available, this standard of minimum and maximum salaries be put into force for regular members of this Library Staff. An application was received from Mrs. Lois Ross Markey for a 'position on the Staff, Mrs. Markey is a Beverly resident, a graduate of Simmons College and has done both Children' s and Adult work in the libraries in New, York, Califomia, Reading and Lynn. It was voted to engage Mrs. Markey to being work on November 1, at a salary of $1700, provided Mayor McLean would again appropriate this amount for 1946 - the vacancy existing carrying a salary of only $800 a year. Mr. Birmingham was requested to get this confirmation from the Mayor. It was further voted to raise the salary of Miss Marion Allen. The Assistant Librarian, from $1500 to $1800, at the earliest opportunity. The Secretary was instructed to write Miss Jane Bogan of Beverly Farms that the vacancy on the Staff was being filled by a graduate of Simmons College. Adjoumed Marjorie H. Stanton Secretary