Records, 1852-1981.

ArchivalResource

Records, 1852-1981.

Records, 1852-1981.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155456973

Collection includes correspondence; reports; studies; budgets; minutes; statistics on reference and circulation; gift acknowledgement letters; records of American Library Association conferences and committees, 1961-1971; and reports and correspondence with the N.Y. Library Association, 1951-60. Subjects include book budget, loan periods, book selection, lost books, children, circulation, National Library Week, the United Staff Association (representing library staff), 1929-1950, Reading Improvement Program, 1952-1960, and other topics of interest to the library. Correspondence with New York City agencies such as the N.Y.C. Department of Personnel, 1957-1966; the N.Y.C. Youth Board, 1959-1964; and the Department of Public Works, 1955-1967; also executive orders from Mayor John V. Lindsay, 1966-1970. Also included are bylaws; treasurers' reports; annual reports; trustees' minutes, 1867-1903, of the Brooklyn Mercantile Library; and similar records of the Brooklyn Public Library, 1879-1900; records of the transfer of property from the Brooklyn Library to the Brooklyn Public Library; filed separately are Trustees minutes, 1892-1981, of the Brooklyn Public Library; Trustees minutes, 1896-1903, and Board of Directors' minutes, 1899-1900, of the Brooklyn Library; Trustees minutes, 1865-1896, and Board of Directors minutes, 1874-1899, of the Brooklyn Mercantile Library; and Trustees minutes, 1852-1922, of the Brooklyn Athenaeum and Reading Room.

80 cubic ft., 129 v.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory