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University

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Alary G. Kurwash, agriculture librarian, University of Illinois L h ry i> a n lembcr of the Committee on the Oberly Memorial Award ] ' isccrcd by A.L.A. The award is made every two years to the An? " ^ 11 citizen who compiles the best bibliography in the field of agricultu^^ re 0r related sciences. Class of 1917 Ruth E. Hammond, librarian, City Library, Wichita, Kansas, served chairman of the nominating committee of the newly organized Division ** n ot Public Libraries of the A.L.A. Class of 1919 Besides being chief of the Catalog Division, Indiana State Library Indianapolis, Nellie M. Coats serves as librarian of the Indiana Academy of Science. Miss Coats is also a member of an-editorial committee to prepare a cumulative index to the first fifty volumes of the Academy's Proceedings. During the past year she has served on a subcommittee of the Indiana War History Committee. She is also devising a classification scheme for a small collection owned by the Indiana Federation of Poetry Societies. An article by Miss Coats on the Prophet Elksinatawa appears in the Indianapolis Star of November 5, 1944. Class of 1920 Rudolph Gjelsness, chairman, Department of Library Science, University of Michigan, returned to the University in October 1944 after a year and a half in Mexico as acting director of the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin. While in Mexico City Mr. Gjelsness also had supervision of the Union Catalog of Serials projected by A.L.A. with Rockefeller Foundation funds. During the spring and summer of 1944 he taught an introductory course in Library Science as a part of the professional course for librarians in the National School for Anthropology. Anita M. Hostetter cooperated with two other members of the A.L.A. Board of Education for Librarianship, of which she is secretary, in the preparation of a recruiting folder. The folder, which is based on the report, "Postwar Library Personnel," is for distribution to counselors in colleges and schools. Miss Hostetter has been reappointed as one of the A.LA. s three delegates to the American Council on Education for 1945. Amelia Krieg, head of the Catalog Department, Seattle, Washington, Public Library, is chairman of a special committee to revise the constitution of the A.L.A. Division of Cataloging and Classification. Janet Arie Roe, who was formerly an assistant in the Tipton, Iowa, Public Library, now has charge of a rental library in the Killian Department Store, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mrs. Roe lives at 1412 4th Avenue, S.E.. Cedar Rapids, I o w a ^ Class of 1921 Jesse L. Rader, librarian of the University of Oklahoma, presented a talk on "Recruiting for Librarianship" before the 1944 conference of th< Oklahoma Library Association last October.