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Series 21: Trustee Reports and Documents, 1887-1929

 Series
Identifier: NL Archives 02/01/21

  • Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Official document file containing reports, agreements, resolutions, memoranda, lists, and statements presented to the Board of Trustees regarding the administration of the Library. Included are manuscript copies of annual reports, Trustee committee reports, reports of the Librarian (Poole, Cheney) and Financial Agent (Moss), reports by library staff (including Medical Department), library usage statistics, monthly receipts and disbursements reports, memoranda regarding personnel, Trustee certificates of elections, resolutions regarding retired or deceased Trustees, and Trustee committee lists. All aspects of library operations including endowment, budget, personnel, acquisitions, and collections management are considered in these materials.

Library reports and documents also filed in the Eliphalet W. Blatchford Papers (02/15/01), and in Trustee committee records (02/02/01, 02/02/07).

Dates

  • Creation: 1887-1929

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Newberry Library Archives are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Unprocessed records are available by appointment only. Advance notice is necessary, particularly for administrative files, so that files may be screened for personnel records that are removed when records are processed.

Files containing personal or confidential information about individuals (including individual files on members of the Board of Trustees, individual donor files and records reporting the donations of an individual, personnel records, payroll records, and individual accepted fellows files) are closed for 30 years.

Extent

4.7 Linear Feet (2 boxes and 2 oversize boxes)

Arrangement

Series organized with reports and documents pasted in volumes (1892-1898) filed prior to loose foldered documents (1887-1929). Arranged chronologically.

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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