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bronze tablet now hangs in the Library building, near the rooms occupied by Library School. ' . . _ 5. When Miss Frances Simpson, Assistant Director of the Library School was about to retire six years ago after many years of service, the alumni contn buted nearly $1200 and presented it to her in cash, in token of their affection an their wish to add to the pleasures of her announced trip around the world 6. The Library School Association, about ten years ago, authorized 1, memberships at $25, the money for these life memberships to go into a p, manent fund to endow one or more scholarships or fellowships in the Libra School. That endoivment fund now amounts to nearly $7000 and each year a Graduate School scholarship of $300 for second year students in Library Science is provided by the income. 7. The annual dues of the Library School Association are $1.00. Genera from 75 to 200 annual memberships are paid, and this money is used, first, in paying the ordinary running expenses of the Association, which are small second, in printing and mailing to each former student an occasional aluir "News Letter"; and finally, the surplus goes into a loan fund for students in th Library School. This loan fund now amounts to over $1000. 8. The University of Illinois Library Club which, while officially not a par of the Library School, nevertheless is closely related to it, recently establish the Adah Patton Memorial Fund, in memory of Miss Patton, long a libraria in the University of Illinois. This fund now amounts to $2000 in cash, and u when it grows to $4000 or $5000, furnish an annual income which will probabi be used for printing occasional bibliographical and other works of special value to the work of librarians. Most of the Library School alumni are graduates of other colleges an universities who have later come to Illinois for a year or two of. professional study in the Library School; these naturally owe a loyalty to the other institution as well as to Illinois. When we consider this, and the fact that librariar generally have only modest salaries, the above record is most commendable. We all are in entire sympathy with the General Alumni Association of th University of Illinois and with the newly organized University of Illin foundation; many of us are members of the general Alumni Association, and will work with it and the Foundation. However, it seems quite natural for the Library benool Alumni Association to continue to be somewhat independer perhaps just because it always has been independent, and because of the p fessional ties that bind the members together.