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Charlotte Ryan, librarian of the Public Library of Jacksonville, Illinois read a paper, " 1 he librarians responsibility," before the meetine of the Illinois Library Association last October. Christine Sanders, librarian of the St. Albans Free Library at S t Ubans, Vermont, gave a paper before the State Library Association at its meeting in October on the "Regional Library Experiment in Franklin County." Lyndal Swofford, librarian of the Central State Teachers College, Edmond, Oklahoma, gave a paper, "Some new and some old problems in cataloging reconsidered for the new times," before the meeting of the Southwestern and Southeastern Library Associations in October. Bess Stewart of the Carnegie Library, Oklahoma City, and Mary Terrance, head of the Catalog department of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, were co-chairmen of the Catalog Section of the Southwestern and Southeastern Library Associations meeting at Memphis. Ellen Torgrimson, county librarian of Chouteau County Free Library, 9 Fort Benton, Montana, read a paper entitled, "The County looks ahead/ at the Montana State Library Association meeting. She also had a paper, "Work with schools in Montana," which she read before the Pacific Northwest Library Association at Walla Walla last June. Arnold H. Trotier, head of the Catalog department of the University of Illinois, gave the results of a questionnaire on economies in the cataloging of continuations before the Catalog section of the A.L.A. at Montreal. Myrtle J. Weatherholdt, 1926-27, served as Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the Indiana Library Association held in South Bend, Indiana, October, 1934. Elizabeth Windsor, librarian of the Flagg Township Library, Rochelle, Illinois, was Chairman of the Membership Committee of the Illinois Library Association for 1933-34. Jerome K. Wilcox, reference librarian at John Crerar Library, taught a class in Trade and National Bibliography in the University College of the University of Chicago last fall, and a course in Special Libraries in the winter and spring terms. He is a member for this year of the Research Committee of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, the A.LA. Committee on Public Documents and the Committee on the Resources of American Libraries. He is also editor of the J.C.L. Quarterly. Leila Wilcox, librarian of the Port Huron Public Library, is now second vice-president of the Michigan Library Association. Margaret Windsor, B.S. '34, librarian of the Science Library at Antioch College, gave a talk at the April meeting of the Ohio Library Association on book reviewing media for general science. Ida F. Wright, librarian of the Evanston Public Library, was elected a member of the Executive Board of the American Library Association at the meeting in Montreal. ALUMNI NEWS Metta M. Loomis, 1896-97 (Armour), retired from her position as Librarian of the College of Medicine Library, University of Illinois, Chicago last September and has gone to California to make her home. Miss Jane E. Cooke, B.L.S. '99, retired from the Library of Congress July 1st, 1934, after a service of thirty-three years in the I atalogue Division. For the greater part of this period she had Specialised in English and American literature and had a knowledge of this field that cannot he ; < isily replaced. To her natural ability, developed by academic training in