Records of an organization founded to foster cooperation between Milwaukee area libraries.
The collection includes reports, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, financial records,
meeting minutes, publications, library directories, and union lists.
The collection contains many directories, guides and reports that often are filed
separately by title. However, in cases where such items are the products of a specific
committee they are filed by committee name and then title. Committees often were formed for
the purpose of completing certain projects or advancing certain goals. Committees of note
include Archives, Continuing Education, Coordinated Collections (which was formed to
evaluate the library collections of LCOMM members and to foster cooperative collection
development), Data Base Services, Legislative, Membership and Public Relations, and Public
Services and System Council Study. Also included are the records of LCOMM's two long-range
planning committees, the Long-Range Planning Committee (1975-1976) and the Long-Range Plan
Steering Committee (1979-1982). Each of these committees formed various sub-committees to
investigate different areas of the long-range plan. Some of these, such as Archives and
Continuing Education, became full-standing committees.
The executive board is the administrative governing body of LCOMM. Executive board members
are elected by LCOMM members. Most administrative information is found in the records of the
executive board. These consist of correspondence, memoranda, meeting minutes and reports
containing information on elections, finances, committee formations and general
administrative issues. The correspondence files also consist mostly of correspondence to and
from the executive director, although other correspondence is sometimes included as
well.
The Libraries for Milwaukee project (1980-1981) was funded by a National Endowment for the
Humanities grant and was designed to promote the role of libraries for studies in the
humanities. This resulted in a number of community service programs such as neighborhood
walking tours, lectures, performing arts programs and exhibits spotlighting local Milwaukee
history. Records in this series are filed by "Libraries for Milwaukee" and then by name of
the specific program.
The collection contains some audio and visual materials from 1975 to 1981. These include
audio cassettes, film reels, slides, and videorecordings. Subjects include Milwaukee labor
and ethnic history, neighborhood walking tours and LCOMM's Infopass system. There also are
some continuing education materials for librarians.
