1935-01-31City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 01/31/1935
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Katharine P.Loring, James A. Cronin,, Robert O. Small, and Horace
W. Woodberry, Jr.
Board members absent: Saul J. Cagan, Thomas F. Delaney, Marian P. Motley, Rev. Clarence S.
Pond, and Fred H. Porter
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, January 31, 1935
The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees was held at the library on Thursday, January
3 1st at 4 p.m.
There were present of the Board, Miss Loring, and Messrs. Cronin, Woodberry, and Small.
The records of the Special Meeting of January 3rd were read and approved.
Mr. Small then read the letter which had been sent to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, with
the budget for 1935, and reported that to date he had not been called to City Hall to discuss the
matter.
After informal discussion, it was voted that the Circulation Committee, with the Librarian, be
asked to prepare a salary schedule for various positions, and with recommendations for step
increases, which should be adopted as the policy toward which the Trustees should work.
The Committee on Circulation recommended the purchase of 67 new titles. Voted: that this
recommendation by approved.
The Trustees then moved to the organization of the Board.
By ballot, Miss Stanton was again chosen as Secretary, and Miss Loring unanimously elected
Chairman of the Board
Voted to adjourn.
Adjourned.
Marjorie H. Stanton, Secretary