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^ Jackson E. T o w i J librarian of the Michigan State College, presided at the Agricultural Libraries Section Round Table at the A L A k n d i n I Books and their uses in Agricultural experiment stations" He w S also secretary of the College and Reference section and was elected Chair! man ot the Agricultural Libraries section for 1933-34 Ida F. Wright, librarian, Public Library, Evanston, Illinois, was Cochairman of the Committee on Library Work at the Institute of Occupa tions (Biennial Convention of the National Federation and Professional Women's Clubs, held in Chicago, July 10-11, 1933, and is Chairman of the Membership Committee A . L A . 1933-34. Jerome K. Wilcox, associate reference librarian of John Crerar Library, is a member of the Survey Committee of the Chicago Library Club, the Committee on Resources of American Libraries, and the Public Documents Committee of the A.L.A. for 1933-34. He is also editor, John Crerar Library Staff Quarterly and presented a paper on "Book Plates" at the meeting of the J.C.L. staff association in June. He is a member of the Program Committee of the Chicago Regional Group of Catalogers and Classifiers for 1933-34. Wilder Local Nebrask Wilson the Ohio Valley Regional Group of Catalogers and presided at their meeting at Madison, Indiana in May, 1934. Odell Green Wilson gave a paper "Library problems of Negroes in the South" before the ninth annual convention of the National Association of College Women last April. This paper was based on a questionnaire and a folder suggesting criteria for the effective college library, which was sent to the President, and Librarians of eighty-one colleges for negroes. Mrs. Wilson is also on the editorial board of the Journal of the College Alumni Club of Washington. Grace van Wormer, 1909-10, acting director of Iowa State University Libraries, Iowa City, recently accepted an appointment to a state committee on library planning, as one of the representatives from college libraries. Each state has its own committee of this kind. ALUMNI N E W S Sarah S. Dickinson, Armour 1894-95, the head of the Periodical department of the John Crerar Library, Chicago and a member of that staff for 39 years, retired March 1, 1934 and has gone to California where she plans to live. Jennie A. Hulce, B.L.S. '02, who has been a member of the Catalog lepartment of the John Crerar since 1903 died suddenly at LaGrange, Illinois on June 4th, 1934. She had been recently retired from active service and was living in LaGrange. Ellen Garfield Smith, B.L.S. '02, represented the University of Illinois at the ceremonies held from June 15-18, 1934, commemorating the 75th