1940-10-31City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 10/31/1940
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Katharine P. Loring, Thomas F. Delaney, Mrs. E. Prebble Motley, Sr.,
William A. Rowe
Board members absent: W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr., Thomas J. Casey, Marion Glidden, Moses I.
Simon, and Robert O. Small
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, October 31, 1940
The regular meeting of the Board was held on October 31, with Miss Loring, Mrs.
Motley, Mr. Delaney and Mr. Rowe in attendance.
The records of the meeting of September 26 were read and approved; as was the
statement of the Finance Committee giving expenditures to date.
The Committee on Administration gave a report of the work which had been done at the
Farms Branch and at the Main Library, and Mr. Delaney, as Chairman, was authorized to take
from the Trust Funds sufficient money to finish the work satisfactorily.
The Circulation Committee recommended the purchase of 362 new titles and the
acceptance of 121 gifts. This was approved.
This Committee also presented the Leon Doble estimate for the magazine list for 1941.
Voted: to place the order with him at his price of 259.85, and then to add to the list the magazine
Yachting which had been requested by several readers.
Voted: to place with Nathan H. Foster of Beverly the order for newspapers for 193 1 - this
list to be the same as that of 1940.
Voted: to request the City Government to transfer the sum of $350.00 from Maintenance
Account to Salary Account, to take case of substitutes and part time workers for the balance of
the year.
Voted: to change the hour of the Trustees meetings from 4 P.M. to 3:45 P.M.
Voted: to adjourn
Adjourned
Marjorie H. Stanton