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[ From the report at the Illinois Library School dinner a fcity, it is evident that the School has started on a new era. The first [unit of the New Library is completed, the second under construction, good prospects that the third unit will be provided. This means not only adequate facilities for the general library for many years to come, but provides the Library School with enlarged quarters and an unusual laboratory for practice work. The President and the Board of Trustees have given further evidence of their high regard for the quality of work done in the Library School by making it a definite part of the Graduate School, and conferring the degree of M.A. for two years work. What are we, the alumni of the School, going to do to show our appreciation of what it is doing? Surely every one of us wants to have a forward movement. Then let us decide, first, to have a Library School Association with a hundred oercent membershio. At :iation percent membership, present, not quite half of the former students now in active library work are members. Membership means, financially, only a dollar a year, but as an indication of loyalty and interest in the school, it means far more. We now have 78 life members but we must increase this number to at least two hundred in order to build up an endowment fund. It was evident at the Atlantic City dinner that many were hesitating to become life members until more definite plans were announced regarding the use of the money. You will remember that at Saratoga Springs, ifrwas decided that the principal should be kept inviolate, as a perpetual fund. A committee has been appointed to draw up regulations governing the disposition of the interest, and is to report at the Toronto meeting in June. If you have any suggestions to offer, please write to any one of the committee, which comprises: Margaret S. Williams, Chairman, School of Library Service, Columbia University, N. Y. Adam Strohm, Detroit Public Library, Detroit. Willia K. Garver, University of Illinois Library, Urbana. Miles O. Price, U. S. Patent Office Scientific Library, Washington. Laura Ciibbs, Public Library, Boston. The aim of the committee will be to make the regulations flexible enough so that the money can always be used in the way most beneficial to the School, at the same time respecting the wishes of the Association as nearly as they can be ascertained. It is probable that for several yea is, at least, the money will be devoted to scholarships as that seems to be the immediate need.