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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.

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 Objects series contains three-dimensional items collected by Library-In-Action. Items include two hand fans from the Roy Mizell Funeral Home, a Library-In-Action red sun visor hat, and two t-shirts.

The Photographs and Slides series contains images of Library-In-Action (LIA), the Sistrunk Historical Festival, and neighborhoods in Broward County. Photographs in color and black and white display Library-In-Action programs, libraries, Tyrone Bryant and LIA staff, Rock Island Library opening (1980), the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dedication on Sistrunk Boulevard (January 15, 1982), and the Sistrunk Historical Festival in Fort Lauderdale (1983-1984). 35mm slides depict LIA programs, LIA canvassing in neighborhoods, Collier City Library groundbreaking (February 1979), "Roots" with Alex Haley, library buildings, Collier City, Sistrunk and Plantation communities, Sistrunk Park, the Pan African Book Festival at Provident Park, and the Sistrunk Historical Festival (1980). The Slides sub-series includes 1,764 slides.

The Printed Materials series consists of articles, newsletters, newspaper clippings, press releases, poetry, and student publications collected by or about Library-In-Action. The General sub-series include Collier City Library press releases, the Broward County Library Association newsletter, First Annual South Florida Black Film Festival, "Impressions" newsletter for Library-In-Action, Library-In-Action publicity, literacy press releases, newspaper clippings (1976-1990), poems by Mildred Keeve, "Touch" newsletter for Library-In-Action staff, the Tyrone Bryant Library dedication program (1988) and the "My Soul is Witness" book poster (oversized). The Read Campaign Student Publications sub-series contains thirteen short stories written by youth and adult students during the Broward County Library Read Campaign in 1987 and 1989.

The Programming series contains materials related to the programs and events hosted by Library-In-Action. Materials include program flyers, handouts, and programs, curriculum, songs and stories, coloring books, project plans and outlines, and handbooks. Programs conducted by Library-In-Action staff include but are not limited to the Black Heritage Open House and Cooking Contest, Famous Amos, Hair braiding, Pass-It-On, Peer Production Workshop, Project Passport, Adventures in Self Awareness, Alex Haley's visit to Library-In-Action (1980), Athletes Who Dare to Be Great, Homework Assistance, Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Jr. Literary Arts Competition and Celebration, and the Read Campaign.

The Sistrunk Historical Festival series contains documents relating to the establishment, operations, and promotion of the festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Materials of the Sistrunk Historical Festival (SHF) include flyers, brochures, souvenir booklets, budgets, vendor contracts and permits, Articles of Incorporation, by-laws, Oratorical contest papers, SHF Committee, planning, and the Samuel Morrison Roast event hosted by the SHF Committee. The series is organized alphabetically by title.