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University of Illinois Library School The change was made to facilitate supervision and contr 1 of f the collection. Students who wish to withdraw reserved books fo ° their desks in the Study Room may do so, but the new Libra" ^ at so attractive and apparently so conducive to study that many *tLf * U s prefer to do much of their work there. Laboratory collectio cataloging and reference have been left in the Study R o o m ? ^ other book services are now centralized in the new Library. Roomm' the former "Conference Room," is now a seminar for graduate cla Graduate students have been assigned desks in the large Swh Room with the first-year students. At the present time there is pleV of room for all, and the counter down the middle of the room for ^ a barrier to separate the sheep from the goats. When the enrollment of the School again reaches prewar figures, new quarters will undoubtedly have to be found for the graduate students. Donna Finger became librarian in September, just in time to supervise the moving of the collection and the planning of the new Library A graduate of the School of Library Service at Columbia University 44 tern University and received a Master of Arts degree in English f rom Wisconsin OFFICERS OF T H E L I B R A R Y SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Executive Board President: Dorothy Hill Gersack, National Archives, Washington, D. C. First Vice-President: Mary E. Silverthorn, Library School, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada White. Universitv of Missouri Columbia, Missouri Secretary-Treasurer: Josie B. Houchens, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois Trustees of the Endowment Fund J. S. Cleavinger, School of Library Service, Columbia University, New York, 1941-45 Bertha M. Schneider, Ohio State University Library, Columbus, Ohio. 1940-45 Leona Durkes Wilson (Mrs. P. B. Wilson), Ninety-sixth Street Branch, New York Public Library, 1942-45 Editors, News Letter Josie B. Houchens, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois Dorothy M. Black, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois

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