1950-01-26City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 01/26/1950
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Thomas F. Delaney, John C. Birmingham, W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr.,
Thomas J. Casey, Lawrence E. Foster, and Robert O. Small
Board members absent: Louisa V. Conrad, William A. Rowe, and B. Frederick Yoffa
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, January 26, 1950
The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees was held on January 26,, at 7:30 P.M. with Mr.
Delaney and Messrs. Birmingham, Boyden, Casey, Foster and Small. The records of December 29 were read and approved.
Since the budget for the year had not yet been approved, the Finance Committee could make
no report except to say that expenditures for January had been normal.
The Administration Committee reported that work at the Farms Library had been completed
- except for a few repairs for which an additional appropriation had been requested - and that the
Library had been reopened on January 18 after being closed for six weeks.
This Committee also reported that one leaking radiator in the Children' s Room at the Main
Library had been repaired - at a cost between a hundred and a hundred-and-fifty dollars - and that the
grates in both boilers had been burned out and must be replaced at once.
The Circulation Committee recommended the purchase of 109 new books and the acceptance
of 10 gifts. Approved.
The report of the Librarian, giving a summary of expenditures, circulation, registration of
borrowers, and activities in the Children' s Department and in the various Deposit Stations was read
and placed on file.
Since the circulation of books at the Station in the Centerville School had decreased steadily
during the last few years, Mr. Boyden was asked to find out if the collection of books could be placed
in the Fire Station instead of in the school, thus making the books more accessible to the public.
A request was received from Mrs. Palmer that insurance on her car in which she carries books
to shut-ins be paid by the library as in previous years. Voted: that this bill be paid from Trust Fund
Income.
With reference to the question of allowing the Boy Scout Troop at Beverly Farms to use this
Library Hall, it was voted to discuss this matter again at the next Board meeting, Mr. Delaney to find
out, in the meantime, how much support this troop receives from the Community Fund.
Mr. Small suggested that the City Government be asked to publish the Library report,
separately not bound with the report of the Cemetery or other Department of the City, since such
copies are used for exchange with other libraries and are more dignified when separately bound. Miss
Stamon was asked to forward such a request to the Mayor.
Voted: to adjourn
Adjourned
Marjorie H. Stanton
Clerk