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Photograph of the Old Presbyterian Church Public Library

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Photograph of the interior of the Old Presbyterian Church where the library was for several months after a fire in the Roberts & Greene building, taken October 6th, 1892.

City Librarian's Goals November 1, 1989 to October 30, 1990.

These goals of the city library form 1989-1990 include development, implementation, and promotion of new employee orientation, volunteer guidelines, staff camaraderie, library foundation, business center, funding, database conversion, and quarterly…

Public Participation at Board Meetings - November 1988

This is a memo from James Seidl to the Board of Trustees with the rules and regulations for the public to participate at Board meetings. The following is mentioned in the memo" bylaw addition, permitted, open meetings, comments, questions, time…

Article - Missing Phone Directories - January 1990

This is an article written by Jessica Seidl reporting on Ameritech's decision to start charging the public for telephone directories and predicting possible problems for public libraries. In the process they will also be declining the number of free…

City Librarian's Report November 1995

This is the city librarian's report of November 1995. Mr. Moorman discussed the roof, bookmobile, focus groups, children's services, health insurance, adult services, brochure, MIS, ARIEL, extension division, children's division, cataloging dept.,…

Cell Phone Policy - 2012

This is the cell phone policy for the Decatur Public Library. Items included are rationale, guidelines, cellular phone use areas, descriptions, exceptions, public telephones, comments

Lincoln Memorial Library Memo February 8, 1990

This is a memo from James Seidl to the Library Board answering and explaining Richard Lockmiller's questions concerning Springfield Memorial Library's proposal to have Sunday hours and also to increase their materials budget for the coming year.