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of Illinois Library School and Santa Robinson

'Wari. I 1/ spent the summer of 1942 in Bogota, Colombia, establishing a $<*,*' 2 for south American librarians. Mr. Gjelsness was co-director of , £ courses for librarians at the National Library of Colombia, sponsor?? the American Library Association and the Colombian Ministry of^' [ pt cation, and Miss Robinson served on the faculty. Miss Robinson j ' member of the advisory committee of the A.L.A. Committee on Libra/ Cooperation with Latin America. Mr. Gjelsness presented a paper ^ "Education for Librarianship in the United States" before the educatioll and recreation section of the Pan-American Child Congress which met in Washington, D.C., in May, 1942. Arthur E. Gropp, B.S. in L.S.'30, M.A.'31, librarian of the Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, is now in Montevideo, Uruguay, to establish and direct a library similar to the recently inaugurated Benjamin Franklin Library in Mexico. Mr. Gropp, who is chairman of the executive committee of the A.L.A. Committee on Library Cooperation with Latin America, was engaged for the work in Uruguay by the American Council of Learned Societies. Mr. Gropp is also a contributing editor on libraries to the annual Handbook of Latin American Studies. James B. Childs, B.L.S.'21, chief of the Documents Division, Library j of Congress, is a contributing editor on government to the Handbook of Latin American Studies, and also serves as advisory editor of the quarterly I Inter-American Bibliographical Review. Mr. Childs is the author ot numerous bibliographical contributions on the publications of the Latin American countries. Marion A. Milczewski, B.S. in L.S.'38, M.S.'40, is executive assistant of the "Books for Latin America" project through which books in English by United States authors will be distributed to libraries in other American republics. This project, recently initiated by the American Library Associa; tion, has its headquarters in the Library of Congress Annex. Mr. Milczewski was one of the compilers of the American Library Association's mimeographed report issued in 1942 on Latin American Activities of the A.L--Miles O. Price, B.L.S/22, librarian of Columbia University Law JJbrary, spent some time during the past year in South America collecting law books for his library. Exciting aspects of the return trip on a W ted laden with munitions are revealed in excerpts from his diary, P"" LL Law Library Journal, March, 1942. When other passengers disembark 8 to return by plane, Mr. Price writes, he "stayed put in the face of a virtu order to go ashore and take my 17 cases of books with me." The risk* his ships being a target for submarines seemed preferable to that of sep* ration from the volumes after his trouble in collecting them.

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Alumni Gath

Twenty-one Illinois alumni gathered Ifor o k- ut ,. ~+^i* on Octrea or tober 24 104? ,!„,-;„., t,uo r\x • L , , ),r T a breakfast meeting »" 1 Unng h m o \ Atw' ° ary Association Cnniorencc in Col"" bus, Ohio. Margaret Old father, B.S/27 M A' >i • Ohio Stat diversity, sent in the fol.owin, H« of I b ^ ^ e m ^