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hold and its possibilities, in the O h i o Valley Regional group of cat* P aU logers meeting held in H l o o m i n g t o n , Indiana, on May 15, 1937. ~ Arthur R. Curry, as vice-president of the T e x a s Library AssnriaH™ resided over the third general session of their meeting in Dallas, April

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LeNoir Dimmitt, director E x t e n s i o n L o a n Library Bureau Univemitv f Texas, gave the president's address, "Signal Lights," before the T e x l s Library Association m e e t i n g at Dallas in April. Mildred W . E a s t o n , circulation d e p a r t m e n t , Tulsa, Oklahoma, Carnezie ibrary, writes that she was t o b r o a d c a s t over the " K n o w Your Library Program," and that she w a s j o i n i n g the W r i t e r ' s Club, so that "my time •r loafing is definitely at an end." J Myron Gctchell, associate editor, Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C , is teaching classification at the Summer School Session at the Catholic University. Josie B . Houchens, b i n d i n g librarian and lecturer in the Library School, University of Illinois, will again be an instructor in reference and bibliography in the S u m m e r Session of the School of Library Service, Columbia University. Blanche L a n e of Berea College Library, was secretary-treasurer of the Ohio Valley Regional Group of Catalogers meeting held in Bloomington, Indiana, on May 15, 1937. Anne Fraser Leidendeker, head of the science and technology division of the Los Angeles Public Library,^ has been elected one of the directors of the All City E m p l o y e e s Association, and is very active in the campaign to establish a r e t i r e m e n t fund for city employees. T h e library staff is almost one hundred per cent m e m b e r s of the Association. Mary Alice M a t t h e w s , librarian of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, W a s h i n g t o n , D. C , expects to attend the A.L.A. conference in New York and then sail on J u n e 19 for Paris, where she will be engaged in reorganizing the E u r o p e a n Center Library of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, located at 173 Boul. St. Germain, Paris. She expects the work to occupy all summer. Miles O. Price, librarian of the L a w Library of Columbia University, will teach a special course in L a w Library Service at the Summer Session of the School of L i b r a r y Service, Columbia University. P e r m a A. Rich, librarian of Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky, calls attention to the fact that she is not president of the Kentucky Library Association, as reported in the last News Letter, but is president of the Illinois Library School Alumni in Kentucky. Elizabeth S a n d e r s o n of the Missouri Library Commission, gave a book review during the Library H o u r sponsored by the Missouri Library Commission and the Missouri L i b r a r y Association over K F R U at 4:15 p.m. Wednesdays in March. Wilma L o y Shelton, librarian and professor of library science at the University of New Mexico, expects her new library building to be completed in 1938. A g o v e r n m e n t appropriation made it possible for the university to erect the building which will be one of the most interesting of university libraries. T h e plans, drawn by John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, are representative of the architecture of the Southwest. The building will provide for three reading rooms, thirteen seminars, and cubicles for research workers It will seat 700 readers and house about 450,000 volumes, but is so placed on the campus that extensive additions may be made Special features will be a Coronado R o o m for Southwestern materials, and a Spanish Room. Miss S n e k o n h a s ° b ° £ n librarian since 1920 and has built up the Present library from a very small number of books to the present collection The library report is printed and gives a good survey of. the activities of the library. A checklist of New Mexico newspapers was issued by the staff as