Boston Public Library: Historical Documents Online: Administrative Documents
A guide to digtized documents produced by the BPL relating to the history of its operation.
Legal Documentation
- Act to authorize the city of Boston to establish a Public Library, March 18, 1848Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
Section 1. The city of Boston is hereby authorized to establish and maintain a public library, for the use of the inhabitants of the said city; and the city council of the said city may, from time to time, make such rules and regulations, for the care and maintenance thereof, as they may deem proper : provided, however, that no appropriations for the said library shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year.
Section 2. This act shall be null and void, unless it shall be accepted by the city council of the said city of Boston, within sixty days from its passage. [Approved by the Governor, March 18, 1848.]
Chapter 52, p. 636 of the 1848 Acts and resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts
- Library Department & Trustees of the Public LibraryCity of Boston Administrative Code
Annual Report
Reports from the BPL Board of Trustees
- Index to Trustees Records byCall Number: Z733.B75 I533 1984xNo date range stated, but set begins in 1852.
Misc. Documents
- Boston Public Library Documents From 1887-1891Call Number: GOVDOC/6201.5Publication Date: 1887-1891...a compilation of documents from 1887-1891 on the new public library building on Boylston Street, some of the documents can be found in the City Documents...
- Extracts From the Records of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston Relative to the New Library Building on Copley SquareCall Number: Z733.B75 E9 1896xPublication Date: 1896
- Specifications for Boston Public LibraryCall Number: Z679 .B709Publication Date: 1972Additions to BPL plans & specs Copley Square addition.
Boston Public Library West End Branch plans and specifications
- Statistical Reports/Boston Public LibraryBoston Public Library.
Boston : The Trustees,
Note:
Description based on: 1943.
v. ; 24 cm. - Upon the objects to be attained by the establishment of a public libraryReport of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston 1852