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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 27
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I 'nircrsity of Illinois Library School Lois Shortess, state supervisor of school libraries for Loui,*. address before the School LiUrvrm Section of t h e j g g j ^ J an Library Association. % Howard B. Sohn, librarian of Alliance, Ohio, sent a folder descrW >u i . f , s library, which is now serving parts of t h r e a t «« n d u S ^ a ^ h in S e r i n e , a town of 4,000, several s / a t i o n s X ^ and schools. Since January this library has operated a /r f l ,/, r 6 r a „ f A » described in the Library Journal for J u n e 15, 1938. ***!,, H. Dean Stallings, librarian at State College Brookings, was elected, the second time president of the South Dakota Library Association. Emma Lou Taggart librarian, Sioux Falls College, gave a taik • -Leisure Reading in the School and College Library before the COBJ and School Libraries Round I able of the South Dakota Library Ass*! tion; she also presided over the meeting. Jeannette VanderPloeg, cataloger, State College Library, San Jose,CaL is secretary of the section for Teachers T r a i n i n g Institutions of the Associa tion of College and Reference Libraries of the A.L.A. Clara Wurdell, librarian at Gilman, 111., is secretary of the Illinois State Library Association for 1938-39. Wayne S. Yenawine, library assistant a t t h e University of Illinois Library, is treasurer of the Illinois .State L i b r a r y Association for 1938-39. Lee F . Zimmerman, librarian of the Minnesota State Department of Education and chairman of the Library Planning Board, gave a paper suggesting a program for Minnesota at the last meeting of the association. As state director of the state wide W.P.A. Library project, he has been issuing a series of weekly news releases for Minnesota newspapers giving them information on prevailing library conditions. A.L.A. Committees—No attempt has been made to list all the activities of the alumni in various A.L.A. sections and committees; but an examination of the list in the front of the Handbook showed one and sometimes more Illinois graduates on almost every committee. LIBRARY GRANTS Carnegie Corporation of New York made three-year grants to 29 teachers' colleges for the development of their libraries through the purchase of books for general reading. Illinois graduates are the librarians of 8 of the 29. SOUTHEASTERN STATES i* HfXTffCl Exch KNIUT, ( 64:10 KOHX. L Libra Lmun Octo MQKAX, Libra PECK,XO Wlw East Carolina State Teachers College, Greenville, N . C , James Ratchff Gulledge, l i b r a r i a n . . . . . . . $6 000 te eac lers Vrrlo ? r il ! College, Conway, ' X r l ^ ' Florence Beck Mculachhn, librarian / $3 000 MIDWESTERN STATES Libra , w. i "-sifts . s s ; s s ' S !•• xr . „ T•err W • •• : • , Y>SSSr. NORTHWESTERN C K STATES °"<*- —>'• »*. Ann, Vva i in • k j i
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