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Volume 013-3 - July 1959 (6 pages)
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treasurer, and he will have charge of the library on Monday and Wednesday eveaings; Miss Curtis on Tuesday and Friday evenings; Thomas Marshall on Thursday
and Saturday evenings; Miss Beatrice Smith on Monday and Tuesday mornings, Miss
Maud Kent on Wednesday and Thursday mornings; Miss Plank on Friday, and Miss
Curtis on Saturdays from 9 to 12.
FIRST PUBLIC FREE LIBRARY
oi GRASS VALLEY
QUOTES FROM MINUTE BOOK
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LIBRARY BOARD
(ON FILE IN LIBRARY)
September 9, 1911
The first steps toward establishing the new public library, which was.petitioned for several months ago, were taken at the regular meeting of the city council last
avening when Mayor C. Conaway appointed J. S. Hennessy, E. H. Armstrong, Thomas
{ngram, Mrs. Robert Nye and Miss Margaret Henderson to manage the affairs of the
library, the selection being ratified by the board.
The trustees are to serve until expiration of present city council, and_ their
duties are to select a desirable place for the institution and also provide a librarian
to list and care for books,
September 13, 1911
The board of library trustees held a meeting yesterday afternoon at The Union
Office and organized by selecting J. S. Hennessy president and Miss Margaret Henderson as secretary.
The law specifies the term of library trustees as three years, providing that
the first board appointed shall draw lots to determine the term of office, as an
pointment of a trustee is made each year. J. S. Hennessy and Thomas Ingram
willserve for three years, Mrs. Robert Nye and Miss Margaret Henderson two years,
and Prof. E. H. Armstrong one year.
A committee consisting of Prof. Armstrong, Miss Henderson and Thomas Ingran.
was appointed to secure information relative to a temporary location of the library
to report at the next meeting.
The secretary was instructed to correspond with the state librarian and other
librarians throughout the state in order to arrive at some conclusion as to cost of
maintenance, rules, regulations, etc. ,
As the public library is making a beginning from start, it was suggested that
parties having books they wish to donate to the library could do so and thus give the
institution a good start.
September 19, 1911
At a special meeting of the city trustees last night the tax rate for the coming
year was fixed: general 75 cents, sewer 20 cents, library 10 cents. The money derivec
from the new library tax of 10 cents on each $100 assessed valuation, (Taxable
property of city estimated about $1,000,000), will be expended to keep up the new
library. It was estimated that $100 a month was needed to operate it,
December 13, 1911
A committee was appointed to immediately secure quarters for a library and
to make arrangements for proper furnishings.
January 2, 1912
Mrs. M. V. Conaway was elected librarian.
For temporary location of the library, the downstairs front part of the Lucas
Building on Mill and Neal Streets (facing Mill and now occupied by Art's Radio
Hospital and the Sweet Shop, then one large room) had been rented for $20 per
month. For several days the library board had been hard at work fitting up the
interior and installing mission style furniture. Everything was spic and span and
ready for the opening.
“Book Donation Day” had been designated for Thursday, January 4, hours 2:00
p. m. to 4:00 p. m. and 7:30 to 9:30; and all who had books to donate were asked to
bring them at this time and help make the library a success. Everyone was invited
whether having donations or not; and a committee of citizens was on hand with refreshments and to help receive the gifts.