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/4/«mnt Afctttf Letter Windsor reports that the fishing was good. He gave a talk on the L'ni % of Illinois Library before the Eagle River Rotary Club. * This fall the Windsors visited in Akron, Ohio, with their daughter Mrs. Mary Frances Harding, and her family. While there they called on the John C. Settelmayers, recent arrivals in Akron, where Mr. Settel fflayer is now associate librarian of the public library. Assistant director McDiartnid is the author of an article on "The place of experience in developing college and university librarians" in th issue of July, 1942. Ltbrory Quarterly.

Miss Frances Simpson, assistant director emerita, has fully recovered from the accident suffered last winter in Florida. She attended the A.L A conference in Milwaukee last summer. Miss Simpson is assisting with plans for the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Library School. Anne M. Boyd was one of the speakers at the Institute on Reference Work for Librarians in Service held at the University of Chicago in July. Her topic was "Personnel and training in reference work." Miss Boyd's book, United States Government Publications, was voted third among outstanding reference books of 1941 in a canvass of reference librarians throughout the country conducted by the Wilson Bulletin, according to a report in the latter's June, 1942, issue. Guy R. Lyle has rejoined the Library School faculty this year on leave of absence from his position as librarian of the Woman's College, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina. Mr. Lyle taught n the Library School in 1935-36. Marie M. Hostetter, who is studying at Northwestern University while on leave of absence from the Library School, may be addressed c/o Mrs.

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. . 1900 book bv i is announced for publication in January by the University of Chicago Press. The title is The Chicago Public Library: Origin and Background. Miss Spencer has an article about Dr. Louis Round Wilson in the October, !942, issue of Illinois Libraries. In addition to teaching in the Library School, Miss Spencer is now serving as librarian of the Education, Philosophy and Psychology Reading Room of the University Library, to which Position she was appointed September 1, succeeding Ida Tod who retired. During the past summer Alice Lohrer, instructor in the Library School, taught courses in library science for teacher librarians at J j J « « ^ % , Lafayette, Indiana. As chairman of the S c h o o l ^ ^ J ^ . ^ l mittee of the Illinois Library Association Planning B ^ . ^ ^ ^ X assisting in the preparation of standards for he training of teacher hbrarians in the elementary and secondary schools. On leave of absence f - n i her position on h W m o ^ b r a r y . S e ^ Acuity, Mary R. Kinney, M.S. S/f is reacim & College.

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