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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 Correspondence series contains professional letters and memorandums to and from Library-In-Action staff. The series documents the conception and operations of libraries within the Library-In-Action initiative: Carver Ranches, Collier City, Dania, Rock Island, and Von D. Mizell branches. Correspondence covers major projects and grants during the Library-In-Action program, such as Homework Help, LSCA grants for literacy, and the Read Campaign. Letters from Director Tyrone Bryant, Assistant Director Janet Hansen and Outreach Services Coordinator Tanya Simons-Oparah to library personnel and community members are also included. The series is organized chronologically by date.

The Langston Hughes Library and Tyrone Bryant Papers consists of documents collected by Tyrone Bryant during his tenure at the Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center in New York (1969-1975) and at Broward County Library in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1976-1988). Materials include correspondence (1969-1975), meetings, Langston Hughes Library profile and photographs, reports, Library Action Committee files, library brochures and budgets, outreach and programs, Langston Hughes Library personnel files including employees supervised by Tyrone Bryant, newspaper clippings about Langston Hughes Library, Tanya Simons projects (Tanya Simons-Oparah was a colleague of Tyrone Bryant at Langston Hughes Library before joining him and Janet Hansen for the Library-In-Action initiative in Florida), and a tribute to Reverend Leon H. Sullivan. The series is organized alphabetically by title.