Administrative Files, 1973-2001

Scope and content:

The Administrative Files series contains budgets, meeting minutes, staff manuals, personnel records, grants and grant proposals, reports, policies, research, conferences, notes, library building blueprints from Library-In-Action. Rock Island Library, Tyrone Bryant Library, and Collier City Library dedication programs are included. Conferences attended or hosted by the Library-In-Action staff were the Laubach Literacy Action Conference, Florida Literacy Coalition, Florida Library Literacy Conference, and the Florida Challenge Conference. The Library-In-Action management team wrote Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) grants from 1977 to 1987 which funded literacy programs and complemented Broward County Library resources. The Research sub-series includes articles consulted by the Library-In-Action staff as they built the program. Research topics include adult illiteracy, Black history facts, education, child psychology, group dynamics, management, library career advancement, mental health, and Florida population projections.

The series is organized alphabetically by title, concluding with one sub-series: Research.

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