Repository: UIHistories Project: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 33 [PAGE 8]

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Kmcritus Windsor is making a survey of the I Ci,,ai lli)r in the Kansas City, Missouri, area lor the trustees of th^V" ari ,,al1 morial Library Fund, to assist the trustees in deciding on the W^ \ ln 1 to be established with the fund. The survey is being made ' "'""' pices of the A.L.A. ] Dr. Windsor's Honors Day address, "Books and the St r Ufe appears in Illinois Libraries for October. The Library JourT " Au r 1943, contains his article "Frank K. Walter Retires." ' k ust Frances Simpson, assistant director emerita, was recently visit } sister of Mobile, Alabama. Miss Simpson does not plan to g0 SQ h H winter, because of the difficulties of travel. She is taking an active* Part in local library and church organizations. Ethel Bond, associate professor, attended a meeting of the redo group of catalogers in Chicago, November 1, and on the same day ameetin of catalogers and reference librarians held at the University of Chicago Proposed changes in the Library of Congress cataloging rules were discussed at these conferences, which were called by Lucille Morsch and Dr. Herman Ilenkle. Miss Bond also attended the Illinois Library Association dinner meeting at which new officers were installed. Anne M. Boyd, associate professor, has reviewed LeRoy C. Merritfs The United States Government as Publisher for the September issue of College and Research Libraries. Marie M. Hostetter, assistant professor, has returned to the Library School following her sabbatical leave of absence, which was spent in study under Dr. Paul Witty at Northwestern University. Her special project was "Backgrounds of Book Selection for the Secondary School." Miss Hostetter received the Master of Arts degree. She was elected to membership in Pi Lambd Miss HosWork in the Gray Ladies Corps of the Red Cross is giving tetter and Miss Boyd opportunity to study the therapeutic value of boo* Miss Hostetter is continuing her experiments in the mental hygiene ot rw ing in connection with pre-nursing education at the St. Francis ^ School, Springfield, Illinois, which supplies nurses for St. Johns Hosp Springfield. Rose B. Phelps, assistant professor, attended the Institute on t c ^ brary in the Community held at the Graduate Library School, UM of Chicago, August 23-28. . ^ n ]l The interesting dissertation, The Chicago Public Library: ° ! ^0Backgrounds, by Dr. Gwladys Spencer, was published during t h e . P ^ ^ mer by the University of Chicago press as one of its Studies in 0j Science series. In reviewing Miss Spencer's book for the October! iro* c Library Quarterly, Dr. Paul M. Angle speaks of her "wofkmafll* > 4 full tin and notes that the book has "that further appeal which comes ffW° mastery ui a suojeci. of H subject." iciy j ^ Mildred E. Singleton has resigned as instructor in the library ^ and has accepted a position as librarian of Klmhurst College, l l n Illinois.

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