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Ruth L. Hoff, head of the ['eriodical department of the Uni versitv sas Kansas was on the program of the Northwest Dtstnct library m e e t i n g

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Harriet E. Howe, director or me ^ipnjry o u i w i , Denver, nas been cW, President of the Colorado Library Association. ** Helen E. Inness, librarian of Ottawa University, Ottawa Kansas, was, the program of the Northwest District Library meeting held at Tope£*

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Mary Helen James, librarian of the Weste Ohio, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Ji the A.L.A. for 1935-36 ' *Mildred Kenney, chief of the Genealogical Section of the Denver p ^ . Library is on the "Preliminary Committee upon the publication of a con-l solidated Genealogical Card Index Service/' She will have added opportunity to pursue her main interest, her vocation as she calls it, when the Genealogical collection of the State Library is moved to the Denver Public Library, as it; will be shortly. , ^ ^ *1. r r „ , I Ethel Kratz, librarian of the Champaign Public Library, talked on "Home Made Aids" before the Public Library Section of the Illinois Library Association in October. Olive Lewis, assistant classifier of the Newberry Library, Chicago, is secretary of the Chicago Library Club, 1935-36. Bernita J. Long, University of Illinois Law Library, was elected to the k Executive Committee of the American Association of Law libraries at its Denver meeting. Mrs. Long is also active on the Legislative Committee of the Champaign County League of Women Voters. j Amy C. Moon, head cataloger of the Public Library of St. Paul, Minnesota, is District Chairman for the Middle West Regional group of Catalogers. Carlyle Morris, reference assistant in the Chicago Public Library, gave a j paper on "Some Amenities and Asperities of Reference Work in a Large I Public Library" before the Illinois Library Association meeting in October. I Oscar E. Norman, librarian of the Peoples Gas, Light & Coke Company, Chicago, Illinois, is Secretary of the Business Libraries Section of the A.L.A. for 1935-36. j Grace D. Phillips, instructor in the Boone Library School at Wuchang, China, was invited by Director T. L. Yuan to visit the Peiping National Library j and make a report of her impressions of the efficiency of their records and j routine in various departments. She has also contributed an article about this library to the Boone Library School Quarterly, special number on national libraries of the world. December, 1935. | Esther Piercy, Cataloging department, New Mexico University Library, Al- j buquerque, talked on "Cataloging in a College Library" at the New Mexico Library Association annual meeting at Albuquerque in October She was secretary-treasurer of the Association last year. Cora Case Porter, librarian of the Public Library, Muskoeee Oklahoma, was president of the Southwestern Library Association in 1935 I Nannie H. Rice, librarian State College Library, State College, Mississippi, | was president of the Mississippi State Library Association 1934-35 I V 1 R R B S •„ of the T % ? ^ " ' 'h'Association,°?n the Revision of Constitution Commit' ' ? * ' > 1935-37. tee Texas Library Christine Sanders, regional librarian at St. Albans, Vermont has issued a report on the "Experiment in Regional Library Service St A?hk«*Vermont, September 1934 to September 1935." Having described in'a very ^ c S ^ the conduct of the experiment and the various handicaps which had to I* overcome, she concludes, "It would seem that the regional [ibrarV inV i< tl most practical one for the extension of bock service to people whn,i,\ , ;., rural communities, whether the whole county is served, or onfy p a n of it even parts of adjacent counties. But it is a slow proa to prove that this s the lost I W 1 ^ J ^ J ^ o She t also open S the summer schoolW kthe °* course, St F it I i J e * L 1 H ^ ~ X / _ of 'can Pub accomplished." Vermont