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nous. Library of Congress. The library, which was set up in the Vet Cra ns Building, San Francisco, working headquarters for the delegates '• . scribed in the New York Times of April 29. Some 3,000 volumes were 6 lected by Mr. Kruse from the libraries of the University of Calif ° ^ Stanford University and Mills College, the Hoover War Library and^l?' San Francisco Public Library, and many additional publications have b - * sent for as the need has arisen. All research work must be done in th" library. "As a reading room, therefore/' comments the New York Th ^ s "it is as international as the conclave itself." ' Nellie Morris Miles (Mrs. John C. Miles) accepted a position as refe ence assistant in the Reference Department, University of Illinois Library March 15. Mrs. Miles had been teaching mathematics in the University during the war emergency. Her husband is an associate in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Announcement has been received of the marriage of Margaret Elizabeth Page to M/Sgt. Lester H. Schulze on March 8, 1945, at the First Baptist Church, Roseburg, Oregon. . Louise Ware Turpin is senior assistant in the Reference Department of the Dayton, Ohio, Public Library. She is living at 768 Miami Chapel Road, Dayton 8, Ohio. Elizabeth Wellshear, M.S.'43, writes of her enthusiasm for her work at the Central Branch, District of Columbia Library, where she is in charge Washing ton 8, D.C. Class of 1941 On January 2, 1945, Elizabeth Chambers assumed her duties as head cataloger of the University of Louisville Library, Louisville, Kentucky. Herbert Kleist, former reference assistant of the John Crerar Library, Chicago, is now reference assistant and cataloger at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Nina Stamps McGivaren to Captain Robert Elwin Wright, '41, U.S. Army Air Forces, on December 30, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. Captain Wright is in charge of Training Intelligence Service at Chanute Field, Illinois. The couple are living at 402 East John Street, Champaign, Illinois, and Mrs. Wright is working in the Circulation Department of the University of Illinois Library. Mrs. Wright, who was commissioned an ensign in the WAVES in June 1943, has been placed on the inactive list following an illness. Mrs. M. M. McMichael, the former Stella B. Jackson, is librarian of the High School, Dumas, Texas. Kenneth R. Shaffer is on leave from his position as assistant librarian of Indiana University Library to serve as director of the project for supplying books to devastated and Other libraries in war areas. Th project is sponsored jointly by the Department of State and the Library of Congress, With Robert A. Miller, librarian of the Indiana University Library, Mr. Shaffer is co-editor of The Indiana University Library Qu dy for Bookmen, volume 1, number 1. January 1945. Jacob Blanck, in the Pub-

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