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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 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.