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lltry H. Clay, librarian of the Mary I) n SA to be one of a group of college a«... university i , i ,)lnI M ,n, s ', , , Jced to w j - ^ Q / w t h - > r f l A««ftr5ft»5^tt ~t r ~ n — " _*. ' " m tsKcd sked by the Southern Association of Colleges and Second! who i,cU been a h o o , a nrcpare a set of practical criteria for the measun m< m of t : K ? to ffie libraries. Her special work is to assist in r a n k i n g ^ j f e j i S r a r i i s T o f reference tools and anotheVlUt of p7rTod?ca"s a, rdin« r to their importance for use in college libraries. wording Will H. Collins, librarian of the Akron Public Library, conducted * publicity consultant service at the Ohio Library Association meeting \£ was also chairman of the nominating committee. Lois Crouch, librarian of the State Teachers College, Wayne Nebraska was chairman of the Scholarship committee of the Nebraska "Library Association and gave quite an extensive report based on the results of a questionnaire before the meeting. Lora Crouch, librarian of the Mitchell, South Dakota Library gave the report of the Federal Relations Committee before the South Dakota Library Association. She also gave a talk on the Library Inventory and is a member of the Association planning committee. Arthur Curry, state supervisor of the Texas Library Service Project spoke before the Oklahoma Library Association on "The Library Profession." Myrtle Deason is chairman of the certification committee of the South Dakota Library Association. Virginia Ebeling, cataloger at the Ohio County Library, Wheeling, West Virginia, was elected president of the West Virginia Library Association at their meeting in October. She has already served as treasurer and vicepresident. Edith M. Foster, project supervisor of Nebraska's union catalog, spoke before the Nebraska Library Association on their work. Hoyt R. Galvin of the Regional Library Extension Department writes, A considerable portion of my time during the past year has been occupied

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I Kshing a Public Library Service Division (Alabama's first agency), i am serving as President of the Alabama Library Association,jmd I was recently appointed by the Governor as Chairman of the State Board for our m „w . -, Public Library Service Division. I have felt that a functioning state agency w „ r could be the * " best " insurance for the permanent functioning of our Regional program, and I have consequently felt justified in spending time in this work." Louise Winn Getchell of the catalog department of the University of Maryland is the Maryland representative on the Executive Board of the Maryland, Virginia and D.C. regional group of catalogers. T . Myron W. Getchell, associate editor of the Decimal Classification at the Library of Congress, is also teaching two courses in Classification during the summer at Catholic University. On the occasion of the death of Miss Fellows hp w ™ t * ™ annreciation of her work which appeared in the Wilso rary Translation in the official organ of the Young Japanese Li Toshenkan, Kenkyu. ^T . .. ,lfDA RernaHi*^ n i a « ^ r area supervisor, district No. 2 state-wide W.P.A. 9 U b ^ 7 ^ c ? ^ 1 ^ i n T ^ n c l discussion at the Nebraska Library Association. L. . ,,, and Mae Graham, assistant professor of library science: a W Mary College, was elected first vice-president of the Virginia L sociation for 1939-40. • „< Alma F Grass served as chairman to the southwest distr . n c ^ i ™ *i.c Kansas I-ibrary Association which met at Lam,<l, April 15, 1 W