Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 28 [PAGE 14]

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Dorothy J. Hill of the catalog.division of National Archives s0umi busv-?'We have started our seminars in the various division, B * * t f a d w i n t e r sessions. I gave a report on reference sources used £ J.fc] wpes of films and recordings I also reported in the department 0 > merce Archives on the type of records that the division of C a t a l o g ^ * for the Commerce collections. My »aw courses seem much more R ^ this year and I enjoy my association with the legal people m the Universijh Ruth Heiss now on the staff of the Indianapolis Public Library L a speaker at the panel discussion "Should library extension be handled D single state agency" at the San Francisco conference. >i Mary Elizabeth Hinkley is in charge of a series of weekly broads for the Springfield, Missouri Public Library. Selma Hogenson, librarian of Augustana College, gave a talk on th, Orientation Course in the Library before the South Dakota Library Association She was Vice-President of the Association for 1938-39. Alma Hook, head cataloger at the University of Maryland, is chairman of the Regional Group of Classifiers and Catalogers for that section o f the country. Leona Krehbiel was in charge of the college section of the roundtable meetings of the South Central District meeting of the Kansas Library Association in Newton, March, 1939. Lucy Lewis, director of libraries for the Oregon state system of higher ! education, acted as a consultant in the clearing house for library problems at the A.L.A. Conference at San Francisco. I Selma M. Lindem in July returned to the Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, as librarian after a six-month leave of absence during which she organized a central library project for hospitals in New York City. The Junior League sponsored the project. Miss Lindem assembled and catalogued the central library, and developed plans for volunteer service under Junior League auspices in a number of hospitals. She also assisted in organizing or reorganizing library service in ten hospitals, and with the cooperation of the United Hospital Fund of New York made a survey of library service in twenty-nine hospitals. She then gave volunteers an intensive training course in hospital library work. For nine years Miss Lindem has directed the library service at the Presbyterian hospital under the auspices of the woman's board. The board has built up a library of 7,000 volumes, and a bedside library service utilized by about 300 different patients each month. Glen Maynard, librarian of Butler University, Indianapolis, writes "A e department of Library Science has been established here at Butler. l» courses we offer are intended entirely for School librarians in order to meet the State requirement of library training for School Librarians Euphemia Nesbit of Wooster was chairman of the Junior Members Round Table at the Ohio Library Association meeting. Margaret Oldfather of the catalog department, University of Ohio, gave a report on the check list of state documents at the Cataioeers and ClassiCO fiers breakfast at the Ohio Library Association meeting She was also <chairman of the College and University Libraries section . Grace Palmer, librarian of the Teachers Colleee Snrinirfield, Missouri, is; carrying on an appraisal of the resources of the libra rv Her•methods are unusual and have attracted much interest from other lifcaries Wat treasure cfc

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