1950-09-28City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 09/28/1950
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Thomas F. Delaney, John C. Birmingham, Louisa V. Conrad, and
Robert O. Small
Board members absent: W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr., Thomas J. Casey, Lawrence E. Foster, William
A. Rowe, and B. Frederick Yoffa
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, September 28, 1950
The regular meeting of the Board was held at the Library on Thursday evening, September
28, with Mr. Delaney, Mrs. Conrad, and Messrs. Birmingham, and Small.
The records of the regular meeting of June 29, as well as the meeting on July 17 when the
bids for painting were publicly opened, were read and approved.
The report of the Finance Committee, giving expenditures to date was then presented and
approved.
The Circulation Committee recommended the purchase of 595 books and the acceptance of
8 books as gifts. It was also announced that a portrait of Lucy Larcom had been given to the library
by the granddaughter of a friend of Miss Larcom, and that the Rotary Club had presented a projector
for the use of films, to be used especially for the benefit of Children. Mrs. Conrad was asked to send
a note of thanks to the Rotary Club, Miss Stanton having already sent notes to the other donors.
This Committee also presented for consideration the proposed magazine list for 1951. It was
voted to subscribe to the same magazines as those taken in 1950, with the addition of the Ladies
Home Journal for the hospital and Plays for the Children' s Department.
The Trustees also vote to give the list to Miss June Pickering for estimate, her figure to be
presented at the next Board meeting.
The Administration Committee reported that the cesspool at the Farms Branch had had to be
cleaned out, and Mr. Delaney reported that after conferring with the Board of Health on the matter,
it would be expedient to connect it with the sewer there - the City to pay for digging the trench and
the Library bearing the cost of the necessary changes in plumbing.
It was voted to reopen the Deposit Station in the Centerville School, which had been closed
during the summer months, and to see whether or not, after a three months' trial, the circulation
showed increase to warrant keeping it open longer.
Voted to adjourn
Adjourned
Marjorie H. Stanton, Clerk