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the alumni to make construction of the Ulini Union building an major concern, it asks the co-operation of the alumni as it sends

' < i gifts to make F I R S T the Illini Union and LATER many I alities. 111 £e University needs help. This is the message of the Foundation to 130,000 Jumm NEWS-NOTES The Library School roster and schedule of courses has shown many changes Ihe past two or three years. in Ijliss Singleton was the first instructor to take leave for study at Columbia Univ< rsity, School of Library Service, the first semester 1935-36. Miss Phelps spent last year at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Library Science preparing for her doctorate. She is carrying only two courses this first semester so that she may have time to study for her preliminary examinations. Miss Marion y . Higgins, who taught Miss Singleton's and Miss Phelps' courses during their absence, has gone to Emory University as instructor in Reference and Bibliography. Miss Boyd is on a sabbatical leave of absence this semester. She spent the past summer in Washington, D. C , revising her book on Government Documents, and is at present studying in the office of the Publisher's Weekly gathering material on American publishing. Incidentally, she is visiting many other libraries in New York, and seeing many University of Illinois Library School alumni. In order to arrange for Miss Boyd's absence, courses have been rearranged as follows. The Order course has been distributed in three other courses. Trade Bibliography has become part of Reference and Bibliography, now 4 Jnirs, under Miss Singleton. Order routines are handled as administrative techniques by Mr. McDiarmid in his 4 hour course. Miss Hostetter is teaching look Selection, and is including some new information on publishing. This course bears 3 hours credit this year. The Administration course has been under the direction of three different men in three different years. Mr. Guy R. Lyle came from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and left us for the University of North Carolina Women's College Library, Greensboro, North Carolina. Mr. Herman H. Henkle, his successor, came from graduate study at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Library Science, and in the spring accepted the position of Director of the Library and Library School of Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Erret W. McDiarmid, Ph.D., University of Chicago, Graduate Library School, and formerly librarian of Baylor University, Waco, Texas, is our new instructor in Administration. Mr. McDiarmid has served on the Advisory Committee on Junior College Libraries, and is at present working on a book related to library surveys. It is anticipated that Mr. McDiarmid will give a graduate course on Library Surveys in the second semester. I Placement: Since placement is considerably more active than it has been Jfor years, it is wise to keep the Office informed of your latest salary, title, duties, honors, etc. Catalogers and order assistants are in demand. Have I been ^eglccting any of you who can profitably make changes in these fields for $13001500? Are any non-catalog rs interested in changing? The demand for individuals with the Master's degree is increasing. Please keep your record in the office up to date.

AMELIA KRIEC

JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES As Illinois graduates in charg< of Junior College Libraries have written in u > tell that they arc located in sch< Is receiving grants from the Carnegie Cor* poration, they have expressed a wish to know how many other Illinois graduates Were in charge of libraries receiving grants. We find that ninety-two Junior 'lieges received grants varying from $1500 to $6000, Only fifteen of these wer< administered by Illinois graduates. Only one library received the smallest

um and t w o t h e largest, seven reeei\ 1 $3000 a n d live Were given $4500. The