Found 5 collections related to Public library trustees -- New York (State) -- New York

The Committee on Branch Libraries, formerly the Circulation Department Committee, and prior to that, the Committee on Circulation, oversees the operation of the circulating libraries in the N.Y.P.L. system. It was established in 1901 as a standing committee of the Board of Trustees and today consists of seven members, of whom at least a majority must be trustees. In 1978 the Committee on Branch Libraries was replaced by the Branch Libraries Council as a special advisory committee of the Corporation. Records consist of correspondence and minutes pertaining to the Branch Libraries. Correspondence & Book Balances, arranged in rough chronological order, consist of correspondence, much of it with the City of New York Board of Estimate regarding real estate, and figures on book appropriations. The Minutes are records of Committee meetings. There are no records for the period from 1928 to 1967. less

The Treasurer of the Board of Trustees is a member and officer of the Board, responsible for the financial matters of the N.Y.P.L. Corporation. Those who have served as Treasurer for the period of the records here described are: Edward King (1895-1908), Edward Sheldon (1909-1933), Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr. (1934-1935), Junius S. Morgan (1936-1942, 1952-1954), Henry Bruere (1943-1951), Dana T. Bartholomew (1955-1959), Grant Keehn (1960-1973), Bradford A. Warner (1974-1977), and Ralph E. Hansmann (1977-1985). Treasurer's Reports are the financial accountings of Library assets and expenditures issued annually. Correspondence concerns mostly bills of the Law and Executive Committees and the Circulation and Reference Departments. Director John Shaw Billings and N.Y.P.L. Business Superintendent I. Ferris Lockwood are the principal correspondents. Financial Statements & Budgets include budgets of the Treasurer and reviews of them and income and assets statements by outside accounting firms. Stock Holdings & Transactions include an 1897 Treasurer's Report of securities holdings, stock transaction receipts and letters. less

The Art Committee of the Board of Trustees, established in the Library's early years, has general supervision over pictures, paintings, statuary, and other objects of art belonging to the N.Y.P.L. Corporation. Records of the Art Committee consist of handwritten, typewritten and printed documents. They constitute the series Correspondence & Memoranda, 1966-1971, which includes memoranda regarding policies for the acceptance of works of art and correspondence concerning specific cases of acceptances and rejections. less