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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.