Contains:Reminders concerning borrowed and non-returned books; personnel matters of auxiliary staff in the libraries; German Central Office for Popular Libraries, Hofmann, concerning petitions against the reduction of civil servants and employees in state and municipal service (1923, with printing of petitions); Regulations for the Public Libraries of the City of Cologne 1919 and draft 1924), submissions by the Rheinische Zeitung, Wilhelm Sollmann, and the Kölner Naturheil-Verein concerning the layout of the association's publications (1924), refusal by the librarian (widow Carl) Hartmann to accept the loan service in the public library VIII/Nippes due to poor heating (1923); Procurement of ovens, also for Volksbibliothek II/Antwerpener Straße; subsidies for the Preußische Volksbücherei-Vereinigung (Prussian People's Library Association) and the advisory centre for popular libraries for the administrative districts of Cologne, Koblenz and Trier (1924); Complaint by Volksbibliothekarin Hedwig Wieland, Volksbibliothek III/Geisselstraße because of rude behaviour of Hausmeister Weiser; various room, accommodation and personnel matters of the individual Volksbibliothek, telephone connections, including Volksbibliothek XI/Urbanstraße, IX/Kalk, Direktion Pfälzer Straße, Volksbibliothek III/Geisselstraße, correspondence with Paul Therstappen, among others; Local visits, including Neptunbad for the purpose of accommodating the Volksbibliothek III/Geisselstraße, with cost estimate, floor plan, break; examination of the introduction of lending fees, increase of fees; extension of lending times; establishment of a library in the Volksschule in Bickendorf, Borsigstraße (with cost estimate, plans, 1922); application of the youth cartel of the Free Trade Union of A.D.G.B. and the Allgemeine freie Angestelltenbund - Afa concerning the extension of evening lending times, reports of the individual libraries; dissolution of the library established in 1918 at the Berufs- und Fachschulen (1924); organisation of reading aloud evenings, justification of the contract with the Deutsche Zentralstelle für volkstümliches Büchereiwesen by Reuter against critical statements by Therstappen and Dr. Hanna Meuter (1925); application of the district cartel of the Christian trade unions concerning the interpretation of the newspaper "Der Deutsche, abgelehnt durch Reuter (1925), complaint of Josephine Küppers concerning the hanging of the picture of her brother Georg Küppers-Loosen, founder of the library An der Rechtsschule; Zweckverband für Leibesübungen Gross-Köln concerning procurement of gymnastics and sports literature, statement by Reuters with list of available literature (1925); submission by citizens for the establishment of a public library in Sülz, establishment in the elementary school in Palanterstraße (1920-1923, with cost estimate, floor plan); Appropriations for funds, budget matters, participation of the Volksbibliotheken in the Gesolei (with Gesolei advertising leaflets, report on a meeting of August Haas, a deputy of the Gesolei, concerning the participation of the City of Cologne in various forms, rejection of participation by Paul Honigsheim and Reuter according to the given exhibition scheme, request for a special exhibition in Cologne, cooperation with the Deutsche Zentralstelle für volkstümliches Büchereiwesen, Leipzig), inquiry concerning the establishment of a lending office in Dellbrück (1926); Temporary closure of library IX/Kalk, merger with Volksbibliothek XII/Deutz, Statistics for Deutz (1924); business distribution plan for the administration office (1926); complaint concerning the operation of a carpenter's workshop in the Volksbibliothek Ferdinandstraße by the son of the librarian, investigations (1924); Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe und Verbreitung guter Jugendschriften und Bücher betreffend Unterstützung, abgelehnt (1926); opening of the Volksbibliothek Sülz, Palanterstraße 13 (1926); Deutsche Zentralstelle für volkstümliches Büchereiwesen, Walter Hofmann, concerning non-participation in the Gesolei (1926, with guidelines for municipal educational policy, print); Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Jena, concerning Deutsche Volkheit und Umfrage an deutsche Schriftsteller (1926, with prospectus of the series Deutsche Volkheit and favourable opinion by Reuter); Takeover of the library of the Westdeutsche Gesellschaft für Familienkunde (1926); relocation of the management from Pfälzerstraße to Andreaskloster; considerations for the establishment of a public library in the new school building Vorgebirgstraße in Zollstock (1927), Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft Abt. Köln, Albert Ahn, concerning the interpretation of association magazines (1927); air conditions harmful to health in the public library An der Rechtsschule, manufacture of a ventilation system (1926-1927); question by Ms H. Pair concerning the reinstatement of the distant works of Rudolf Herzog (1927); Deutscher Städtetag concerning the purchase of free copies of newspapers and the complaint of the Association of German Newspaper Publishers about excessive wishes (1928); Statements by city councillor Ernst Unger on the too low proportion of workers' poets in the libraries, statements by Reuter (1928, with list of available Fine Literature, as far as it is "suitable for workers"); full-time deployment of Paul Neuhaus-Gobiet, who had previously been employed in the children's reading halls; employment of unemployed persons who had left school as book helpers (1927-1928).Reference number:A11 II 3 247-52,292.
