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are over 1200 former students of the School in active work, of these ^ wo hundred are life members and so contribute only to the GradJ Scholarship Fund. This makes the publication of the New, Letter entirelj dependent on the $1.00 annual membership dues. It is not a large sum and it is probable that most of the alumni would join if they just gave « a little thought. Isn't it worth a dollar to keep in touch with your profc sional Alma Mater? When you go to the A.L.A. dinner reunion of the Library School Alumni, isn't it worth a dollar to feel that you are taking an active interest in the gathering, making a contribution to the Student Loan Fund, to the costs of the News Letter, to the general feeling of unity in the professional group with which you are most closely allied? Think it over and see if you haven't a dollar to send to the treasurer. SCHOOL NEWS Our estimated enrollment of fifty students for the Summer Session is now complete, but applications continue coming in. Two of the first year courses will be taught by Mr. Charles H. Stone, '16. Mr. Stone has had years of library science teaching experience. He organized the Library School at George Peabody College for Teachers, and continued his teaching at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina when he left Nashville for Greensboro. Various summers have been spent in teaching at the Columbia School of Library Service. i It seemed opportune to present the new course in Children's literature, offered by Miss Hostetter, for those who have had their training before such a course was included in the curriculum, and who may feel the need for such training in connection with their public library or school library work at the present time. The advanced work stresses government documents. In connection with the interest aroused in this field through the programs of the A.L.A. Public Documents Committee, we have found a growing desire for training m it. While the courses as outlined seem like a heavy diet of one ingredient, still we feel that librarians might care to specialize this year in this one phase. Twenty-eight of the students of the class of 1933-34 who are without prospects for positions for the coming year co-operated in issuing, with the consent of the Faculty, a series of printed records of their training and experience. The individual record is on heavy paper of post card size and includes beside the information indicated, a photograph and personal data. 1 he group of records has been sent to large university and public libraries, to state commissions, to state and city supervisors of school libraries and to a selected group of other institutions where it was considered there might be an interest in Illinois Library School graduated Each student has a small supply of his own slips for personal applications The response from the organizations to which the records were sent as a group have all been commendatory so far, but as was expecTed there was no indication of immediate possibilities of placement T i c w , d

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