Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 18 [PAGE 7]

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Margaret i.raiwsly. instructor, University of Illinois Library S case a vcr\ helpful discussion on "Eliminating non-essentials in Z routines" at this meeting, ** Ethel Krutz. librarian of the Public Library at Champaign, spoke on "Children's Hooks, I NixiANA LIBRAIY ASSOCIATION Virginia Rinanl training school librarian in the State Teachers College Terro Haute, was Chairman of the arrangements for the Library section at the 3rd annual Conference on Teacher Education which was held at Terre Haute in May. School at LaPorte, Indiana m French, librarian of the an address on Library Linos, an ville, Illinois. High School spok hiirh school library."

LOUISIANA LIBRARY

Charles R. Flack, librarian of the Southwestern Louisiana Institute, is on the membership committee of the Association. Margaret Herdman, assistant director of the Library School at the University of Louisiana, is a member of the nominating committee, 1932-33. Helmer L. Webb, librarian of Tulane University, is first vice president of the Association. Mr. Webb has recently been appointed chairman of a committee of the New Orleans Library Club to undertake a survey of the newspaper resources of the libraries of New Orleans, hoping in time to extend it to a checklist of the newspapers in Louisiana. Lois F. Shortess, state supervisor of school libraries for Louisiana, is a member of the steering committee of the Association for the Citizens library movement.

MICHIGAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

Mabel Conat. associate reference librarian of the Detroit Public Library, was secretary of the Association and wrote up the article about the fortysecond meeting which was held at Traverse City in October, in the Michigan Library Bulletin, January, 1933, Dorothy Dowsett, librarian of the Public Library at Jackson, was also a member of the Round Table Committee for 1931-32. She was a speaker at the meeting of the Jackson Business and Professional Woman's Club held last September, her subject being ' T h e pleasure of books." Elizabeth Laidlaw, head cataloger of the State Library, was on the nominating _ _ VA M4W _, r Margaret Mann, professor *of Library ^Science at° the University of Michigan, opened a series of talks on different phases of librarjMvork given a and * the meeting of the Association, cataloging of books. T' Blanche Robertson, reference librarian of the Hackley Public Library, Muskegon, was chairman of the Reference Section of the Association. She authorizing " f™ active in urging a new amenumcni 10 me cunsuiuuun a reference section and other sections of the Association. , Esther A. Smith, head cataloger of the General Library of the UniverS1 *yAof Michigan, was on the nominating committee of the Association, i dam Strohm, librarian of the Detroit Public Library, presided at the ,a st general session of the Association. Jackson E. Towne, librarian of the Michigan state college, eav€:a talk n > utraining and supply of southern school librarians before the Colligt ml ° Table Section of the Association. 171