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Excerpt from Annual Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1985: Document 15, 1984 1985 And so it went: each unit planning on performance by objective even as I subscribed to management by objective. As acting director, I assembled a long list of goals. My main targets were continued staff development, more community outreach in branches, immediate response to the entering public in the General Library by expansion of the information desk, a continued move toward modern automation, an increase in circulation, and maximizing efficiency within budget constraints. Literacy The Library's intensified concentration on literacy in fy85 responded to two major goals: outreach and increased circulation. Surely there is no more significant effort for libraries than expanding the number of readers by finding nonreaders and awakening them to the skills and glories of the written word. As the result of a grant proposal funded by the Library Services and Construction Act in the amount of we were able to move ahead in literacy activities. The grant encompassed programs and print and audiovisual materials geared to functionally illiterate adults. The funding covered January through September 1985. By the time we commenced the funded period, staff of the General Library and eight branches had attended a training workshop, nearly fifty reading centers had been apprised of our program, and half of the materials had been ordered. Catherine Clancy, Special Projects Librarian in General Library Services, has been charged with overseeing all this activity. The project work has moved slowly but effectively. Understaffed reading centers are unable to bring students to library sites as often as librarians would like to see them. On the positive side, three additional branches have joined the program. The Adult New Readers sites in the Library now include the central library, Brighton, Charlestown, Codman Square, Dudley, East Boston, Fields Corner, Jamaica Plain, Grove Hall, Parker Hi