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Chairman’s report to the Annual General Meeting for the year ended 31st March 2025

We have maintained good attendances at our varied programme of meetings throughout the year. Without resorting to Zoom it has sometimes been difficult to engage speakers since Covid, which explains the slightly erratic scheduling of meetings…
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Gibson Library Society – Accounts 2024

Gibson Library Society Income & Expenditure 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 2023 - 2024 2022 - 2023 Income £ Expense £ Income £ Expense £ Memberships Donations general Christopher Cornell Donation Gibson…
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Trustee’s Report, May 2023

Challenges During the Reporting Period and Essex County Council Support The transition between the Library Management System (LMS) Vsmart to the LMS Symphony Sirsi-Dynix in late 2020 (necessitated by the joining of The Library Consortium…
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Gibson Library Society – Accounts 2023

Gibson Library Society Income & Expenditure 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 2022 - 2023 2021 - 2022 Income £ Expense £ Income £ Expense £ Memberships Donations general Christopher Cornell Donation Gibson…
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Chairman’s report on behalf of the Trustess to the Annual General Meeting for the year 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023

The year has seen us make considerable progress in resolving the outstanding problems stemming from the County Library Service's implementation of a new catalogue. The items that had their catalogue records cancelled, have now been reinstated…

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