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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 33
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12 I diversity of Illinois Librar appreciation that come back to us." A feature story in the Sund «y \> < >regonia>i of May 16, 1943, is accompanied by a photograph c / u "personal librarian for the navy and merchant marine," deliver! 'H !rL oi \XML a ! box holding about sixty books, to a Portland-built Liberty Shin W H PDefor • , «*i|. nii!" time. ' A picture of Kate I). Ferguson and an interesting story 0f how th British Council had invited her to come to London to be interv lewed rtla; tiive to establishing libraries on the West Coast of Africa were car i ledl he "| the New York World Telegram of August 27, 1943. Miss Ferguson, though born in England, is an American citizen S h was educated in France and Belgium. For eighteen months during Wot War 1 she worked in libraries for American doughboys. At the present time she has a nephew in a German prison camp u wrote her requesting that she send him food. After the first package reached him he added the names of twelve fellow prisoners to whom food should be sent and the list finally grew to three hundred. Pancake flour was the most frequently asked for item. An article by Felix Chiappini in Mundo Uruguayo, July 1, 1943. and one by Mario B. Bardoni in El Via, May 23, 1943, tell of the installation S^sotttatv. in Montevideo of the library Artigas-Washington. This library is the third Kcaanseas' of its type to be established in Latin American countries, the other two ] jood is amply being the Benjamin Franklin' Library in Mexico City and the library jhtts instead < Americana in Managua, Nicaragua. Founded under the auspices of the fete, but jus American Council of Learned Societies and the Office of Coordinator of Eugene B Inter-American affairs, it will be nevertheless an independent entity gov- | ASTP Unit, erned by a board of seven members, five North Americans and two Taas,*hcrt Uruguayans. ogJKcrmg. The installation and organization of the library were entrusted to Louis A, Arthur Gropp, B.S/30, A.M/31, formerly librarian of the Middle American and ral Research Institute, Tulane University. The papers ran portraits of him ta ich i taken in Montevideo and gave him credit for being a specialist in librar) vkich won economy and an influential force in spreading culture. Both accounts speak * was com of his enthusiasm for his work and indicate the high esteem with which he is regarded in Uruguay. beThe aim of the library will be to strengthen the cultural relations tween the United States and Uruguay and to furnish to citizens of Wj a is countries information and material relative to cultural, economic, and scientific development. Besides library services which will be given free, t library provides for the showing of films, the holding of conferences, a exhibits and classes in English. Mr. Gropp wrote recently that one hundred Ac and sixty people were taking advantage of this opportunity to team I. speak English. . Mr. Chiappini in his article in Mundo Urugauayo writes "This is gP^ news for all, even those who do not know English. In times such as the* there is great need for increasing public library facilities SO thai &° n can have the wise comforting presence of those good friends, hooks. » I more than ever is there the need for improving mind and spirit S *• O there may be a durable reconstruction of human civilization." * * * * * * ': ft* J** I
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