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<HEAD>Administrative History</HEAD>
<P>Begins as Free Library Special Committee and became a standing committee in 1877. Renamed Public Libraries Committee in 1880. Briefly merged with Laing Art Gallery Committee in 1927 but experiment ended after just one year. Discontinued 1967. Function transferred to General Purposes Committee.</P>
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