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ticularlv for librarian! in smaller communities, the conference c around the theme, "The Expansion of Library Service;' Registratfn^ o n fi ares totaled 209, a gain of 53 over the preceding year. gThe speakers included Essae M. Culver, executive secretary f Louisiana Library Commission; Mildred W. Sandoe, state library ore? • for Ohio; Harold L. Hamill, librarian of the Kansas City, Missouri p ^ Librarv; and Dorothy Hiatt, librarian of the Jacksonville, Illinois'P,}? r t Library. ur:_:r_~i U. T in.i.rmnn 0 f the Summer School facult Winifred n Linderman Beatrice U. Wade, director oi cne occupational therapy curriculum a t ^ ne University of Illinois also took part in the program. A special feature of the Institute was a series of talks on current book in various fields by several members of the University faculty: Directed R. B. Downs of the Library School, Director Fredrick S. Siebert of th School of Journalism, and Assistant Professor Brice Harris of the English Department. The social event of the meeting was a reception held in the Lounge of Wesley Foundation by the Library Club and the Librarians' Association. It was a highlight of a most successful institute. FACULTY NOTES I

On May 21, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, conferred the honorary degree of Litt.D. upon Robert B. Downs, director of the University of ] Illinois Library and Library School. Dr. Downs was librarian at Colby J College from 1929 to 1931. ' Dr. Downs spoke on ' T h e Functions of a College Library" at a meet- j ing of the presidents and librarians of Negro land-grant colleges in Chicago on October 24. He reviewed A. F. Kuhlman's The North Texas Regional Libraries for the July, 1944 issue of the Library Quarterly. P. L. Windsor, director, emeritus, has his granddaughter, Elizabeth Harding, spending the year with him in Urbana while she attends the University High School, where she is a senior. At the October meeting of the A.L.A. Council in Chicago the report on "Postwar Library Personnel," prepared by a special committee of which Dr. Stieg was a member, was presented. Frances Simpson, assistant director, emcrita, attended the-sixtieth anniversary reunion of her class at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. last June. Miss Simpson reports that she and one other of the remaining five members of her class were present. She enjoyed seeing a number oi Library School alumni while on this trip to Evanston and Chicago. A slightly sprained ankle marred the last day of the visit, but Miss Simpson quickly recovered and is enjoying her various professional and social activities this fall. Ethel Bond, associate professor, spent the past summer working on her anonymous classics cataloging project. Anne M, Boyd, associate professor, attended a meet ing of the Association of American Library Schools in New York, September 23-24. Sn* is vice-president and president-elect of the Association for the conn"? year.