| Description | The following special sub-committees were formed for specific reasons, sometimes sitting for just one session, for the purpose of undertaking the project stated in the sub-committee title. The description here lists all relevant minute volumes, dates and minute numbers together. This has been done to avoid making the hierarchical structure of the catalogue too complicated. The special sub-committees that reported to the Public Libraries Committee, and its predecessors, are listed below:
1. Special sub-committee minutes 1860 - 1861:
Buildings Sub-Committee minutes, October 1861 - November 1863, minutes 1 - 96.
March 1860 - April 1860, minutes 1 - 17 (Carrying out Libraries Act).
August 1860 - February 1861, minutes 1 - 17 (Library Accommodation).
These minutes are found in the minute volume entitled 'Free Public Libraries & Museums Sub-Committee', and labelled BCC/1/AT/10/1/1.
2. Special sub-committee minutes 1879:
January 1879, minutes 1 - 13 (Special Fund (After Fire)).
These minutes are found in the volume entitled 'Special Fund', and labelled BCC/1/AT/10/1/2.
3. Special sub-committee minutes 1879 - 1928:
January 1879, minutes 1 - 2 (Temporary Premises).
February 1881 - July 1882, minutes 1 – 20 (Fittings at New Central Library).
January 1882, minutes 1 - 4 (Government Grants).
February 1888, minutes 1 - 5 (Loss of Books).
January 1890 - April 1891, no minutes (Wages).
July 1891, no minutes (Holidays).
December 1891, minutes 1 - 2 (Duplicate Books).
November 1892, minutes 1 - 4 (Harborne Lettings).
March 1896, no minutes (Estimates).
January 1902, no minutes (Library Association Visit).
February 1906, minutes 1 - 2 (Issuing Books in Lending Library).
February 1906, minutes 1 - 2 (Staff and Wages).
March 1906 – April 1906, minutes 1 - 16 (Library Association Meeting).
April 1906, minutes 1 - 2 (Staff).
October 1907, minutes 1 - 2 (Central News Room Lighting).
October 1907, minutes 1 - 3 (Staff Examinations).
June 1909, minutes 1 - 4 (King’s Visit).
July 1910, minutes 1 (Hot Water).
December 1910, minutes 1 (Accommodation).
March 1911, no minutes (Periodicals).
October 1911, minutes 1 - 2 (City Extension).
September 1912 , no minutes (Sparkhill Library).
January 1913, no minutes (Catalogue: Local Collection).
March 1914, minutes 1 - 2 (Periodicals and Newspapers).
May 1915, minutes 1 - 2 (Powers of Sub-Committees).
November 1915, minutes 1 - 7 (War Time Policy).
May 1918 - April 1919, no minutes (Commercial Library).
December 1919, minutes 1 - 2 (War Bonus).
April 1928, minutes 1 - 3 (Wages and Bonus).
These minutes are found in the volume entitled 'Special Committee Minute Book 1879 -', and labelled BCC/1/AT/10/1/3.
4. Special sub-committee minutes 1960 - 1965:
November 1960, minutes 1 - 5 (New Central Library).
November 1960, minutes 1 - 6 (Centenary).
March 1960 - November 1966, minutes 1 - 40 (Central Library Building).
January 1962 - November 1964, minutes 1 - 4 (Gramophone Library).
August 1964, minutes 1 - 4 (City Librarian Appointment).
June 1965, minutes 1 – 2 (Staff Grading).
July 1965 - December 1965, minutes 1 - 8 (Services).
The above minutes are in the appropriately dated Public Libraries Committee minute volumes (see BCC/1/AT/1/1/32 and 34). |