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ear of work, will be wanted the dejrrce r>f>nri r R^fajor ftf r i ww^>^^w«i students in Library Science now year oiuucuu m laorary c rh ^ " ' Graduate Scho6Tat candidates f6f th* Master* aeyr^ in Library Science. No action has as yet been taken to"a~ SeB.L.S. will ear Library School courses completed by students befo September, 1V26, will not apply as credit toward the Master's degree in the Graduate School. This year the enrollment was larger than usual, there being a total of seventy-four. Eight of these are men, and two already have their Doctor's degree; several of the students, as in former years, have a Master's degree in some subject other than Library Science. This year four students will receive the degree of B.L.S.; five will receive the Master's degree, and about fifty will receive the degree of B.S. in Library Science. — ••• jsent time the Library School does not offer more than two full years of work in Library Science and for that reason a holder of the B.L.S. degree cannot register in enough new courses to take the Master's degree in Library Science. It would be more advantageous to take a Master's degree in some other subject, until the graduate courses in Library Science are more numerous and varied. Owing to the increase in attendance last fall, provision was made for an additional member of the faculty, and Miss Avis M. Pillsbury, 1920-21, recently of the Bangor (Me.) Public Library, was appointed as assistant. The faculty now numbers seven, who give full time to the work of the School. The temporary quarters of the School are on the ground floor of the New Library building and were occupied at the beginning of the academic year. It is a great pleasure to be in so large a room and one so light and airy. Book cases at one end of the room are so arranged as to make three offices for members of the faculty. Miss Simpson's office and two class rooms are on the same floor of the building. The second unit of the New Library building is now being constructed and there is some hope that the School may be in its permanent quarters, on the third floor of this unit, next September. The current issue of the Illinois Alumni News is carrying an article about the New Library and arrangements have been made for all former Library School students to receive a copy so that they may have some idea of the new building. ALUMNI GOSSIP Margaret Mann, '96, has resigned her position on the faculty of the Paris Library School, and is teaching at the Library School which has been established at the University of Michigan. , , Betty Jean Britt, 25- 26, is an Assistant in the Public Library at Dei Moines, la. Sylvia Laithwaite, '25-'26, worked part of the summer in the Detroit Public Library, from there she accepted a position in the Public Library, Toronto, Canada. 1*1