Library, Records and Handbook Committee

The Library, Records and Handbook Committee supervises the selection and acquisition of books, periodicals, and other informational materials for the library and, in cooperation with the Religious Education Committee, does the same for the First Day School. It also formulates rules for the care and use of these materials and seeks to stimulate interest in new and old publications relating to our testimonies. The Librarian serves ex officio on the Library Committee and may be its clerk. 

The Committee meets as necessary to establish policy concerning the generation, maintenance, and storage of Meeting records. This Committee is also charged with identifying actions of the Meeting for Business and of Monthly Meeting committees which require changes in the Handbook, developing appropriate revisions, and presenting those revisions to the Meeting for Business as necessary. A report on Handbook changes is presented semi-annually and the full Handbook is reprinted as the number and complexity of revisions warrants. Revisions not reflecting decisions already approved by the Meeting for Business are held over for at least one month. Editorial changes and corrections of errors of fact are reported by the committee but need not be held over.

Members include the Recorder and one or both Meeting Historians; they have no specific terms. In addition, two or three members, recommended by the Nominating Committee for approval by the Meeting for Business, are appointed for staggered three-year terms. Additional members may be co-opted as necessary, and volunteer helpers may be needed at times. 

Here are links to a prior version and to the current version of the Handbook: 

Click here to read the former Records and Handbook Committee’s Semi-Annual Report, Jan. 2018

Click this link to view list of committee members.