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University of Illinois Library School

Lois Butler Payson, librarian of the State College Library, Bozem, cn m president of the Montana State Library Association. * > 1$ Ruth Phillips, assistant, information desk Enoch Pratt Library, Baltic 1 Md., is secretary of the eastern district of the Junior Members Round ^ 1 tl and assisted in preparing material for the J.M.K.I Section in the U/T Bulletin for February. This section contains a letter of greetings from her 1?'! an excellent photograph. She also served last year on the editorial committee r^:^ for the library leaflets contest. . Louise G. Prichard of the Hill Memorial Library, spoke on professional standards at the first general session of the Louisiana Library Association in March at New Orleans. Miss Prichard has recently gone to Portland, 0regon as reference librarian. Nannie H. Rice, librarian of the State College Library, State College is president of the Mississippi Library Association. Perma Rich, while reference librarian of the Kentucky Library Commission prepared thirty-five reading lists for a reading project with Kentucky's rural | women for the use of the Home Economics Extension division. The purpose I of this project was to develop a taste for reading which would ultimately result in more adequate local public library service. For an account of this see Library Journal, October 1, 1936. Miss Rich is now librarian of the Union College Library and is president of the Kentucky Library Association. Sarita Robinson, superintendent of the catalog department, University of Iowa, led the discussion on "Student assistants: Some points in their training," at the College and University Section of the Iowa Library Association meeting, November 3, 1936. Gerald H. Sandy, exchange assistant, University of Illinois Library, is treasurer of the Illinois Library Association. H e is also preparing the section on National Libraries for the "Handbook of library practice in Spanish," which is being prepared by the committee on library cooperation with Latin-America. Margaret Jean Sim, assistant librarian, Wasco County Library, The Dalles, Oregon, is chairman of the Oregon School Librarians Committee, 1936-37. Wilma Loy Shelton, librarian of the University of New Mexico, was vicepresident for New Mexico, and presided over the College and Reference Librarians luncheon at the meeting of the Southwestern Library Association in October. Lois Shortess, state supervisor of school libraries, gave an account of the Atlanta Conference before the Louisiana Library Association at New Orleans. Charles W. Smith, librarian of the University of Washington, Seattle, and chairman of the P.N.L.A. committee on Pacific Northwest bibliography, issued a call for a bibliographical conference for that section. On November 28, 1936 a group of librarians gathered in the Portland Library in response to this call The meeting discussed the advisability of establishing a bibliographical center at some point in the Northwest. Seattle, because the University owns more of the expensive bibliographical tools than any other library in that region, was the most probable location. Esther A Smith, head of the catalog department of the University of ,, Michigan read a report on Refer from references before the Catalog Section of the A.L.A. which appears m an abridged form in the Conference Proceeding' p. 668. ' an< M rgan W.Z \ ?i 1 Stoddard of Drake. University, assisted Miss Mary fell Nethercut also of the Drake Univers.ty Library, in the preparation of paper on The promotion and measurement of skill in the use of the library, which she presented for the College and University Section of the Io»* Library Association meeting, November 4, 1936 E Wa d B S t a n f o r d mior re ei .t / i ' % A j -ence assistant, Williams College Librae gave the final report on and send-off to the leaflets on "The mL «l Khrarv tool for library users" before the J.M.R.T. meeting in ChicagJ These leane s U the result of a contest open to junior members and sponsored l y the H. V Wilson Company for the best three expositions on library to 1 Ch e H iur w i i ' ^ o n e , director of the Library School, College of William anda ini Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, will be second vice-president of the V i ^