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W.T. Layton's Oral History
Tags: "bear" crew, "gandy-dancers", 1982, accidents, Allis Chalmers, Army, Betty Turnell, braking, Conductor, Decatur IL, diesel engines, firing, freight trains, golf, grandchildren, interview, May 1982, Meyers' Brothers, Norfolk and Western Railroad, oral history, passenger trains, pension, politics, recording, retirement, social security, Steam Engines, track maintenance, Travel, W.T. Layton, Wabash Railroad
Mrs. Erma Wait Cook's Oral History
Tags: 1985, Anna B. Millikin Home, August 1985, Betty Turnell, changes to Decatur, childhood, Country Club, Decatur High School, Decatur Hotel and the Arcade, Decatur IL, Erma Wait Cook, fire, Interurban, interview, junior high school, Lincoln Theatre, Mary French School, Millikin University, Morehouse and Wells, Mrs. George Cook, oral history, Packard automobile, recording, St. Nicholas Hotel, stage plays, streetcar, Transfer House, Travel, vaudeville, W. Main St., Wait-Cahill Wholesale Company, Women's Club, Wood Street School
Board of Directors Meeting - September 2001
Tags: Administration, Adult Division, Agenda, August mintues, Baby Talk, bills and payroll, board of directors, Board of Directors contact information, Board of Trustees, Bookmobiles, building division, children's division, circ division, circ stats, City Librarian's Report, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, division head report, DRA, DRA training, e-mail accounts for staff, Expenditures, Extension Division, Finance and Properties, Friends Book Sale, Gate Foundation Grant, GEAC, Illinois Power, job ads, job description, lease space, Lee Ann Fisher, long range plan, Meeting, Minutes, Personnel Policy and Pubic Relations, power outage, RCC, reports, residency requirement union staff, Revenue, RPLS, September 2001, Staff, Standards for Illinois Public Libraries, Statistical Report, system administration, tech division
Decatur Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting October 19, 2000.
Decatur Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting Sept 29, 2000. No quorum no meeting.
Decatur Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting, August 17, 2000.
Board of Trustees Meeting - October 2001
Tags: Administration, Adult Division, Agenda, bills and payroll, board of directors, Board of Trustees, Bookmobiles, building division, building paid off, circ stats, City Librarian's Report, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, DPL webpage, DRA, Expenditures, Extension, Finance and Properties, friends, Gates Foundation Grant, GEAC, Lee Ann Fisher, long range plans 2001-2006, Meeting, Minutes, PA system, personnel policy and public relations, reports, Revenue, revised job description, RPLS, September minutes, Standards for Illinois Public Libraries, Statistical Report, Sunday hours, Trustee Times, weather related emergencies
Board of Trustees, Decatur Library, Decatur, IL.
Annual Meeting Board of Trustees on May 25, 2000. Monthly Board Meeting Board of Trustees June 15, 2000.
Tags: 5/25/2000, 6/15/2000, annual reports, Applicaton for Grant, Board of Trustees, Circulation, Committee Reports, Decatur IL., Decatur Public Library, Expenditures, John Moorman, Mary Gladney, nominations of officers, RCC, Richland Community College, Robert Healey, Shirley Moore, Statistical Report, Stephen Bean, wages
Mrs. Marie G. Baker's Oral History
Tags: 1977, 4-year scholarship, A.H. Mills, A.M.E. Church, African Methodist Church, Betty Turnell, brother, C.L. Livingston, childhood, College Street Chapel, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, discrimination, Dr. Ellis, Edward Jacobs, family life, First Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, housing discrimination, Howard Shaw, Howard University, Huron Place, injunction, interview, James Millikin University, job discrimination, John Reagan, Lake Decatur, Lincoln School, March 1977, Marie G. Baker, Marietta Street School, Mary White Ollington, Mrs. Buster, Mrs. Eugenia Bacon, Murfield Storey, N. Union St., NAACP, National Civil Rights Law, national meetings, Niagara movement, oral history, Pennsylvania line, Physician's and Surgeon's College, Pugh School, race discrimination, Railway Postal Service, recording, Rev. E.M. Antrim, San Tucker, Singleton's Restaurant, Springfield Race Riots, swimming beach, swimming pools, truck garden, Warren Hardy, William English Walling