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The important Finance Committee of the A.L.A. likewise represents this Co %ir. tee on the Budget Committee. cenaea a conierence ot the Special r mm ittee Chicago l T_ Book Buvine held in C h i r a J ^n January. on 1 Marie ITostctter, who is on leave of absence for study at North western University, made a brief visit to the campus in March to a : fiftieth anniversary celebration. The Publications Committee of the Association of College and Re{ ence Libraries is under the chairmanship of Guy R. Lyle. Mr. Ly£ discussion of " T h e Reference Function in the College Library" gjven ai the University of Chicago Institute for Librarians last summer appears in the volume The Reference Function of the Library recently issued by the University of Chicago under the editorship of Pierce Butler. John Herrold Lancaster has been appointed assistant professor o f Library Science and will take over the courses in administration at the beginning of the 1943 fall term. Since 1939 he has been librarian at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio. Before that he was director of student teaching at the same college and has had teaching experience in various high schools in the state of Ohio. Professor Lancaster was graduated from Ohio Wes- laacsiflp leyan University in 1920, received his M.A. at Ohio State University in son ton 1926. In June 1941 he was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy degree by Columbia University and in October of the same year received his B.S. tort beta in L.S. degree from the Columbia University School of Library Service. tack] He is author of The Use of the Library by Student Teachers (Teachers by College, Columbia University, Contribution to Education, no. 849). Professor Lancaster is married and has two sons. let Mary R. Kinney has resigned her position as instructor in the UniIk I versity of Illinois Library School to accept an appointment as assistant professor of library science at Simmons College, Boston, 01 Miss Kinney has been on leave of absence from the University of Mm wkerin during the past year while teaching at Simmons.

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The University of Illinois Library School summer session of eig weeks started June 14, with the following faculty: Carl M. White, director, University of Illinois Library and Library Scho°l Errett W. McDiarmid, assistant director, University of Illinois Library beno Ethel Bond, associate professor, University of Illinois Library School Gwladys Spencer, assistant professor, University of Illinois Library School Mildred E. Singleton, associate, University of Illinois Library School G. Flint Purdy, librarian, Wayne University, Detroit Michigan y e assistant 1 J x r ^ r ^ ^° J ' librarian, University of Wisconsin. Madison, W * ^ Winifred B. Linderman, librarian, Garden City High School, New York l«>

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