Darlington Borough Council
Reference: Da/Bk Catalogue Title: Darlington Borough Council Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: Darlington Library Department
Covering Dates: 1885-1967
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Catalogue Contents
Darlington Library Collection (Ref: Da/Bk)Library opening and visitors/users (Ref: Da/Bk 1/1-7, 16)Ref: Da/Bk 1/1
Signatures of burgesses opposed to the Sunday opening of the reading rooms, 1890-1891
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/2Signatures of burgesses in favour of Sunday opening of the reading rooms, 1890-1891
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/3Visitors' book with signatures of people using reference library, March-September 1933
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/4Visitors book, March 1943 - September 1944
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/5Visitors book, April 1953 - February 1954
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/6Visitors book, April 1963 - December 1963
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/7Visitors book, April 1963 - December 1963
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/16List of Visitors present at the opening of Darlington Public Library, 23 October 1885
(1 paper)
Lending statistics (Ref: Da/Bk 1/8-9)Ref: Da/Bk 1/8Graphs of book issues, May 1933 - March 1935
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/9Graphs of lending issues, April 1934 - September 1935
(1 volume)
Staff wages (Ref: Da/Bk 1/10-15)Ref: Da/Bk 1/10Wages book, July 1912 - November 1914
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/11Wages book, September 1921 - August 1922
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/12Wages book, August 1922 - July 1923
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/13Wages book, April 1931 - March 1932
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/14Wages book, March 1932 - February 1933
(1 volume)
Ref: Da/Bk 1/15Wages book, June 1941 - August 1943
(1 volume)
Correspondence files (Ref: Da/Bk 2/1-5)Ref: Da/Bk 2/1Correspondence with Alderman Wooler, mainly about donations to the library and museum, with a list of his prints, 1916-1927
(1 file)
Ref: Da/Bk 2/2Correspondence with G.A. Fothergill about donations to the library, 1924-1927
(1 file)
Ref: Da/Bk 2/3Correspondence with A.C. Wilson about his family's part in the Stockton and Darlington railway and donations to the museum, 193O-1932
(1 file)
Ref: Da/Bk 2/4Correspondence with Major J. Fairfax Blakeborough about donations to the library, 1936-1966
(1 file)
Ref: Da/Bk 2/5Correspondence with Darlington Society of Arts, include lists of members, 1934-1966
(1 file)
Library management (Ref: Da/Bk 2/6-7)Ref: Da/Bk 2/6File of library management documents, 1931-1967
Comprises:
Lists of staff and salaries, 1938-1967
with lists of duties of female staff c.1938
Report on hours, salaries, training and conditions of service in British Municipal Libraries 1931, edited for the Association of Assistant Libraries by F. Seymour Smith F.L.A.
Statistics of urban public libraries in England and Wales, 1931-1932, published by H.M.S.O.
Darlington scale of salaries and conditions of service 1934, 1936
National Provincial Council booklet of rates for manual workers, 1956
(1 file)
Ref: Da/Bk 2/7Letters, quotations and pictures of office furniture by Cox and Falconer, Haward and Sons, Fred Moses, and the North of England School Furnishing Co., 1932-1940
(4 files)
