1945-10-25 City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 10/25/1945
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Thomas F. Delaney, John C. Birmingham, and Robert O. Small
Board members absent: W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr., Thomas J. Casey, Lawrence E. Foster,
William A. Rowe, Louisa L. Vaughan and B. Frederick Yoffa
Others present:
Recorder: M. Marion Allen
Beverly, October 25, 1945
A regular meeting of the Board was called for October 25, at 7:30 P.M., but since Messrs.
Delaney, Small and Birmingham were the only Trustees present, all action taken was subject to
ratification at the next meeting of the Board.
The Secretary's report of the meeting of September 27 was read and approved as was the
report of the Finance Committee giving expenditures to date.
The Administration Committee reported that it had been necessary to have the cesspool at the
Farms Branch cleaned twice within the past three months, and that it might be necessary to build a
new and larger one if trouble continued.
Miss June Pickefing's price of $265 for the magazine subscriptions for 1946 was approved;
and it was voted to subscribe also for six additional titles which had been recommended for libraries
of this size.
Voted also to subscribe to the same newspapers as those taken in 1945, and to place the order
again with the Nathan Foster store of Beverly.
Mr. Birmingham reported that his committee recommended, at present, that the Children's
Room be used as a Reference Room during the evening hours; and stated that the Committee would
look into the matter of using the Document Room as a Junior High School room - studying the
expense of fitting up the room for this purpose and the cost of a duplicate collection of reference
books, magazines, etc.
Voted to adjourn
Adjourned
M. Marion Allen
Secretary pro tem