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awarded ^ 5 been serving an interneship in the library system at Tennessee' Valley" Authorittr The nominating committee presented the slate for 1939-40 which was accented p u and officers declared elected. The President then introduced the Chairman of the Dinner Committee Miss Kate Ferguson. After extending greetings to the members present she turned the meeting oyer to the toastmistress of the evening, Miss Frances Simpson former Vice-Director of the School. The program which followed was in honor of Director P. L. Windsor who was to retire at an early date upon completion of thirty years of service to the University of Illinois Library and Library School. Miss Simpson announced that Columbia University had honored Mr. Windsor with the degree 51 of im of Doctor of Letters at its recent Commencement on June 6th. arc:. ' She then introduced Miss Willia Garver, Order Librarian of the University ~ hool of Illinois Library, who gave the first address on "Our Librarian." • Miss Garver, representing the library staff, spoke as follows: "Tonight it is my great pleasure to try to express what the rare privilege of working closely 'at thtji with Mr. Windsor has meant to those of us on the Library staff who have had se coniritj that privilege; it is my pleasure to pay tribute to the man who for thirty it funds t years has guided our destinies, the Director of the University of Illinois Library. T h e title of Director is a fitting one, for it not only means one who directs, ay. Rat but one who guides, a leader; and through association with Mr. Windsor it has acquired for us the connotation of a man of vision, and a man of influence, inati lanot only within his own professional group but within the University and re all pk within the civic community as well. and he I "When our Director came here thirty years ago in August, 1909, the UniIT. versity was comparatively unknown and comparatively small with a faculty and staff of 430, and an undergraduate student body of 4,600. The graduate school was just taking form. T h e Library contained then 142,804 volumes and En, Pt< the permanent Library staff numbered 34 with some temporary assistants. We now have a total enrollment of 17,500, and a faculty and staff of 2,145; but the growth of the Library has far outdistanced the growth of the University, bus. Obj tor the 142,000 volumes has increased to a million and a half and the staff now numbers 99 professional assistants, 19 clerical assistants and 140 undergraduate nape student assistants, besides 89 N.Y.A. students. In his thirty years as adminiswife M trator of the Library Mr. Windsor has added over one million volumes to the collection and from an average sized Library, he has with vision and forelens, sight created a great University Library. He has raised the rank of this Library among other university libraries from 19th to Sth place and to 1st rank among Lib*' state university libraries, truly a monumental achievement. "To house this great collection, he planned and built some thirteen years •gar. ago, a library building that has become a model for its convenience of arrangement and its economy of administration. I can truly say, that he built the library, for I remember the painstaking care with which he watched all of the details construction. Many librarians and college administrators have sought his adviice on their plans and the ideas he incorporated in the library at Illinois, have been foliov d in other libraries. "With a sympathetic understanding of the needs of research scholars, both those of the present day and those of generations to come, he has taken ad-

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