1886-17-05 City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 05/17/1886
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: William C. Boyden, William R. Driver, Edward L. Giddings, Franklin
Leach, and Joseph D. Tuck
Board members absent:
Others present:
Recorder: Franklin Leach
May 17th 1886
The Meeting this evening discussed fully and at length the matter of a branch library at the
Farms, not being unanimous in all the details of any one plan, the following report was submitted.
The Trustees of the Public Library to whom the petition for the establishment of a branch
library at the Farms was referred at the meeting in April, have considered the subject and submit the
following report.
To furnish the people of Beverly Farms with the facilities of the Public Library, a system of
special delivery can easily be adopted by which books can be regularly furnished at a central point.
The annual expense need not exceed two hundred dollars which sum should be in addition to the
usual annual appropriation. A system of this kind has given satisfaction in other places.
If the Town should consider that a Branch Library ought to be established at the Farms and
a building furnished for its use, the Engine House if vacated would be an excellent building for the
purpose. It can probably be fitted up at a cost of $300. For the purchase of books as a beginning the
sum of $500 should be appropriated. For the necessary expenses of the Library for the current year
$200 would be required. For one thousand dollars therefore the nucleus of a library can be formed
the extension of which would depend upon the interest of the citizens in that part of the town.
Signed Franklin Leach for the Trustees