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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1939-01-17 MinutesWith the new year starting off as propitiously as it is, we all have hopes for a very successful year for the Community Chest and its agencies. Yours very truly, FAYETTEVILLE COM11MITY CHEST Assistant Secretary /: 7 0 FAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CHEST. TELEPHONE 1541 ' FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS EXECUTIVE COMMITTER January 9, 1939 J. K. GREGORY PRESIDENT ' DR. C. G. MELTON VICE-PRESIDENT T. 1. AESHIRE TREASURER - C. C. YARRINGTON SECRETARY TOM ASBURY, DIRECTOR RARC Mrs. Miriam Vincenheller, Treasurer 1 ' STIWIE. (RECTOR MARC 9TIOE. DIRECTOR — Fayetteville Public Library COMMITTEE OP 14 Fayetteville, Arkansas MRS. JEROME RRTHOLDS MRS. C. M. RKINORNL Dear Mrs, Vincenheller: MRS. DWIGHT MOORE MRS. W. R. LIGHTGN MARION Enclosed is a check for $608.76, which is the first DR- N. G..FINNEY INN JOHN CLARE quarterly payment to the Public Library from the Community OR. HARRISON HALE Chest. $224.06 is from undesignated gifts, 238.2 is 5 DR. N. P. DRAM JEROME REYNOLDS from 1938-39 designated gifts, and $6.45 is from 1937-38 WALTER MCWHORTER designated gifts. In addition, the Library received MOSS SILVERMAN FATHER TOM WALSHE 110^ $14.00, the amount due from a proration -o£ $800.00 from A. E. COLLIER the Emergency Fund of the Chest. The total amount pledged to,date is $8,720.48. There are still a few pledges to come in. After the amount for shrinkage, overhead, expense, and emergency, and $1,599.00 of designated gifts has been deducted, proration of the remainder gives the Library $896.26. The designated gifts amount to $347.35. making a total of $1,243.61 due this year from the 1938-39 pledges. $6.45 from 1937-38 designated gifts and $140.00 from the Emergency Fund added to this $1,243.61 gives the Library a total of $1,390.06 for the year 1938-39• With the new year starting off as propitiously as it is, we all have hopes for a very successful year for the Community Chest and its agencies. Yours very truly, FAYETTEVILLE COM11MITY CHEST Assistant Secretary /: 7 0 VICTOR E. RUSSUM FAYETTEVILLE ARKANSAS 1-27-39 Mrs.C.%.MoClelland,Bdoretary, The Library Board, Fayetteville. My dear Mrs.MoClelland:- Thank you very much for your kind letter of the twenty-fourth. Dwen though my contribution to the upbuilding of our library has been small in comparison with the services of other members of the governing body,I do take great satisfaction in having had the privilege of doing my little bit for the past twelve years, I It has fallen to my lot to serve on quite a number of govern- ing bodies,but I have often remarked that there vas more real satisfaction in working with the members of the Library Board of Fayetteville than I had ever found in any other group of civic workere:',Perhaps one reason for that is that none of us ever had any axes to grind,and it is my sincere hope that no one with an axe to grind ever intrudes himself upon our library. My interest in the library is merely changed from offioial to personal,and is not one bit diminished by mere nomenclature. Very sincerely yours, 2 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE 6aanvem SCHOOL January 10, 1939 To the Fayetteville Public Library Association: I have the honor to submit the following report of the activities of the book committee for the year just closing. For some years the book committee has had its own account at the bank and has paid its own bills through the librarian. In Tune it was de- cided that in view of the fact that the library was receiving some special gifts the method of handling money should be changed. It was therefore agreed that all funds should be kept with the treasurer of the library board and that all bills should be paid by the treasurer. On the 20 of June,therefore, the new s;,rstem was inaugurated.o- My ac- counts begin with that date; but I was able to complete the trans- actions for the entire year with the exception of the money that had been earned and spent by the rental shelves. Perhaps the most important change in the policy of the book committee has had to do �;ith the method•of handling books for the women's study clubs of the city. Many efforts had previously been made to find a solution for this problem. Eventually it was proposed by the book committee that the library committee would match the woments study clubs dollar for dollar for the purchase of books needed for their work. Almost without exception these study clubs have more than met their half of the expense and have generously contributed their balance to the general book fund. In the summary riven below I wish it to be remembered that in the item for women's study clubs the clubs themselves have paid half of this expense. Following is a summary of the activities of the book committee for the year. Respectfully submitted, ' Chairman of the book committee Purchases: Credit for bills paid before June 20 $104.10 Open Shelves 70 volumes $149.16 Rental Shelves 97 volumea 174.77 Children*s Library 117 volumes 153.73 woments Study Clubs 49 volumes 111.63 Business and Professional Woments Club 333 volumes $589.29 mcIlroy Bank Revenues: Credit for bills paid before June 20 $104.10 Balance in bank on June 20 66.99 Rental Shelves 135.39 Lbbrary Appropriation 225.00 Irene Galloway 1.80 A.AXoWe Study Club 8.31 modern Literature Club 20.00 Outlook Club 20.00 20th Century Club 25.00 Business and Professional Woments Club 6.45 c,-Momen'a Civic Club 100.00 mcIlroy Bank 25.00 First National Bank 25.00 Southwest Gas and Electric Company 25.00 Members of the Library Board 188900 Balances: Open Shelves :140.67 Rental Shelves 91.98 Childrents Library 154.10 6.75 Note: These summaries are complete for the year 1938 except for the items for the Rental Shelves prior to June 20, 1938, when the new method of handling money went Uto effect. These summaries take no account of two items:(1) the money from fines, and (2) the money earned by the book reviews given by the various clubs in the city. Both of these funds are handled directly by the librarian.