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University of Illinois Library School

Wright is acting chief of Extension Services of the Illinois State I K during the absence on leave of Charlotte Ryan. Miss Wright was !> ^ f the State I .ibrarv representatives at an A.L.A. conference of state lihr-"'- ° in Chicago, January 19 and 20, to consider the Library Development'^ campaign. Class of 1905 Grace I). Phillips resigned her position as cataloger in the Juvenile r J partment of the Illinois State Library April 10 and is now witt the Denver Colorado, Public Library. Charles W. Smith, librarian, University of Washington Library, Seattle is chairman of the Committee on Bibliography of the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Class of 1906 • Lucy M. Lewis retired on January 1, 1945, from her position as director of libraries, Oregon State System of Higher Education and librarian of Oregon State College. Failing health led her to request retirement at this time. Miss Lewis has had thirty-three years of continuous service on the campus of Oregon State College. Since 1920 when she became the college librarian, the book collection has grown from 41,000 to 205,500 volumes and the number of staff members from 9 to 30. She was named director of libraries of the Oregon State System in 1932 when that position was createi by the Board of Trustees. • ! "Miss Lewis' administration has been characterized by originality a < n willingness to employ new methods," states the Oregon State Library' Letter to Libraries of February 12. "The development of the unified system of libraries under her direction, unique at the time it was established, has attracted national attention. A union author catalog for the University of Oregon, Oregon State College, University of Oregon Medical School, and three colleges of education was copied in record time with the aid of the College Photographic Service Department and a centralized ordering of books was set up. Statistical methods have been standardized, and budget procedures for the smaller libraries brought into conformity with good library practice. During her administration the Oregon State College Library was remodeled and libraries were constructed for the University ot Oregon at Eugene and its Medical School at Portland." Miss Lewis was president of the Pacific Northwest Library Association. 1936-37, and played a large part in establishing the Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center, on whose administrative committee she has served co tinuously. Miss Lewis, who now has the title of director of hbrar emerita, is making her home at Depoe Bay, Oregon. Class of 1908 following a vts •« visit Margaret Hutchins flew to Mexico in December, following a Texas one was back in INew York tor Christmas aim returned to her as. She was hack in New York for Christmas and rewi^; ^ xcAits. tng duties at the Columbia University School of I-ibrarv Service the semester, after her sabbatical leave.