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Alumni News Letter, 1936

n«i,nts for the Public Documents Committee of the A L A " Ho ; c ™„* ^ g ? 5 . i . c Monthly Checklist of State Documents, New Deal fifi^S .K issued in the states. Florence M. Craig^head of the Catalog dcpartmctttjrt Stanford University a n d chairman of the Catalog Sect ions Committee on Publications^ gave W e ' \ 1 , A . on the "New Catalogers' and Classifiers' Yearbook/' presenting ortat S interesting history^ of the yearbooks in which credit was given Grace O

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Association, i»«" * v^»««*^».^* * _ * w^^-^v,, <u iu«> w i u u c i meeting neia in L.ni*» » cago. Miss Conway is Supervisor of the Catalog department of the Chicago Historical Society Library in Chicago. Arthur Curry, librarian of the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas, is chairman of the Unemployment Committee of the Texas Library Association Committee, 1935-37. H e was elected 1st vice-president of the Association for 1935-36. A very interesting report and summary of the work of the Galveston Public Library appeared in the Galveston Daily Nezvs for January 27, 1936. (irace Derby, librarian of the Agricultural College Library, Manhattan, Kansas, is president of the Kansas Library Association. Harriet Dickson, children's librarian, Public Library, Houston, Texas, is ii the standing Publicity Committee of the Texas Library Association, 1935-37. She was also elected treasurer of the A.L.A. Section for work with children. Lenoir Dimmit, extension loan librarian, University of Texas, was elected president of the Texas Library Association for 1935-36. Miss Dimmit was the subject of a very interesting article which appeared in the News Notes of the Texa> Library Association for July, 1935. Irene Doyle presided over the Small Libraries Round Table of the Catalog Section at A.L.A. She is also secretary-treasurer of the Tennessee Library Association. F. K. W. Drury, librarian of the Public Library, Nashville, Tennessee, was president of the Tennessee Library Association last year. Rudolph H. Gjelsness, University of Arizona Library, presided over the Large Libraries Round Table of the Catalog Section at Denver. He was also president of the Arizona Library Association, 1934-35. Arthur E. Gropp was acting chairman of the Committee on Library Cooperation with Latin America at the A.L.A. Conference and wrote the brief report of the meeting, for the Library Journal, September 1, 1935. • Ruth E. Hammond, librarian of the Wichita (Kansas) City Library, gave an address on "Public Library Friends and Memorial Gift Plans" before the Library Gifts Round Table at the A.L.A. Conference. Alice S. Harrison, librarian of the Austin, Texas, High School, is on the school Libraries Division of the Project Study Committee of the Texas Library Association, 1935-37. I May C. Hessler, reference librarian, State Library, Springfield, Illinois, Save a talk on "Reference Aids on Illinois Authors" at the Illinois State Library [Association meeting in October. A Vivian Hedgcock, librarian of the New Mexico Normal University at Las | W a \ talked on "The School Librarian Presents School Library Service to the Schoolman" at the New Mexico Library Association annual meeting at AlP"<l"erque, October. I Isabel H o m e , librarian of the Public Library at Maywood, gave a demonstration on mending books before the Public Library Section of the Illinois f-ibrary Association meeting in October. L Marie M. Hostetter, assistant professor of the University of Illinois Library fchool, was elected chairman of the Professional Section and chairman of the Poard of Directors of the School Libraries Section. . Paul Howard, librarian of the School of Mines and Metallurgy, University M -Missouri, has been elected chairman of the Junior Members Round Table Pi the A.L.A. for 1935-36. • • . (»retchen Howell, cataloger, East I exas State 1 eachers College, I omJ^ercc, Texas, is on the Publicity for Project Division of the Project Study Committee of the Texas Library Association, 1935-37.