1932-11-22City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 11/22/1932
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Katharine P. Loring, James A. Cronin, Thomas F. Delaney, Fred H.
Porter, and William A. Rowe
Board members absent: Caleb B. Hood, Marian P. Motley, Rev. Clarence S. Pond, and Robert
O. Small
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, November 22, 1932
The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees was held at the Library on Tuesday, November
22, at 4 P.M.
There were present of the Board Miss Loring, Messrs. Cronin, Porter, Rowe and Delaney.
The records of the meeting of October 27 were read and approved.
The Administration Committee reported that repairs had been made to remedy leaks at the
Farms Branch, and that certain minor repairs would be necessary at the Main Library; and
recommended that any unexpended balance under the item "Furniture and Repairs" should be spent
for chairs for the adult reading room.
Voted: that this report be approved.
The Committee on Circulation recommended the receipt of 378 titles - 270 of these being
juveniles bought for Children' s Book Week - and the receipt of 67 gifts. This recommendation was approved.
The newspaper list, for 1933, as presented by the Committee on Circulation, was approved
- the list being the same as that of 1932, except that the New York Herald Tribune was substituted
for the New York World Telegram, and that the New York Times was added to those taken for the
Farms Branch.
Voted: that the annual report of the Board of Trustees, as prepared by Miss Loring,
Chairman, be accepted as the report of the Board for 1932, and forwarded to the Mayor and Board
of Aldermen at the proper time.
After informal discussions of the overcrowded conditions prevailing in the adult reading
room, and the possibility of being forced to request the High School pupils not to use the adult
reading rom after 6:30 or 7 P.M., it was decided to postpone further discussion until the next meeting
of the Board - the Librarian being authorized to make that request, in the mean time, if conditions
warranted.
The report of the Finance Committee, giving details of expenditures for the eleven months of
the year, was read and approved; and the Finance Committee was requested to bring the budget for
1933 for discussion at the December meeting of the Board.
Voted: to adjourn.
Adjourned
Marjorie H. Stamon
Secretary