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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 Awards and Proclamations series consists of plaques, certificates and proclamations awarded to Library-In-Action staff and community members. Director of Library-In-Action Tyrone Bryant received the BCL Annuel Budget Busters Award, the Broward County Adult Education certificate, and a certificate of appreciation from the Sistrunk Historical Festival Committee. There are two plaques awarded for literary categories in the Martin Luther King Jr. Literary Contest. A proclamation from the Board of County Commissioners recognized National Literacy Month in Broward County in 1988 due to Library-In-Action's leadership in literacy efforts.