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The appearance 01 tier new DOOK, zeeona Shift, makes it i l ,hi Phyllis (.raw ion! has made a definite place for herself as a writ! * « Wl for young people. Her Last Semester, published in 1942, has J, <* iu av t0 a best ^n».' «i" "s ^ • d * stories — o UCM seller among college for girls ~- * has received hi^h .H and "«a hi"h from librarians and educators. In preparation for the writing 0f v * Shift—a story of a young girl in an airplane factory—the autho ^ nt some time in one of these factories. Miss Crawford won the lull- T' le worth Ford Foundation prize of $3,000 for Hello the Boat, 1938, asto houseboating on the Ohio River during the mid-nineteenth century °\ ^ Lire book for the very young, Blot, Little City Cat, was published in fi" til 1 Under the pseudonym "Josie T u r n e r / Miss Crawford has published two] books for adults, Elsie Dinsmor.e on the Loose, 1030, a collection of sketches which originally appeared in the New Yorker, and Posie Didn't Say, \^\ a novel of the early 1900's. Mrs. Jeanne Everaert Gray, scholarship student from Belgium, 1923-24 is now engaged in research and analysis on overseas matters for the Office of War Information. Her husband has recently been transferred from the Consular Service in Barcelona, Spain, to State Department duties in Washington. Mrs. Gray and her two young sons returned to America shortly after the United States entered the war and since that time she has been employed in the Library of Congress. Her address is 4426 Volta Place, N.W., .Washington, D.C. j

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The work of Selma Lindem Heath as librarian of Presbyterian Hos-• pital. Chicago, is described in Mrs. Beatrice Sawyer Rossell's recent volume g Public Libraries in the Life of the Nation. In a chapter "Where specialists are needed," Mrs. Rossell refers to the "excellent personal service for which the Presbyterian is noted," given by Mrs. Heath with the help of trained volunteers. | Ruth C. Krueger, circulation librarian, Oregon State College, Corvalhs, Oregon, is secretary of the Agricultural Libraries Section of the Association of College and Reference Libraries for 1043-1044. Margaret Oldfather is now a reviser in the Catalog Department, Ohio State University Library, Columbus, where she lias been a staff member since 1932. cia Editor of the Informant, publication of the Illinois chapter of >F raries Association, is Wilma Troxel. M.S/32. iafai

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Mildred A. Doss has been promoted to associate librarian in char*^ ' Index-Catalogue, Zoological Division, National Agricultural Research ministration, Beltsville, Maryland. Icko Iben is a member of the archives staff of the Illinois State Library ot ] Springfield, Illinois, and is working with the Perrin collection * Illinois documents.

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