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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 37
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University of Illinois Library School week we visited libraries in the London area under the guidance of t h, I ibrary Association. This included the British Museum, London School of I Economics, H. M. Stationery Office, Public Records Office, a n d many others. At the end of this week of tours I went to Sheffield in Yorkshire 4 for three weeks of on the job training'. There I was assigned to the Main I Public Library. The librarian, Mr. Lamb, warmly welcomed me and arranged a schedule so that I got a good look in on all the phases of lj. brarianship there. I have enjoyed this training in England very much indeed. Right now I am awaiting plane passage back to Austria." Mr. Kenney has been stationed at Kufstein, Austria for some time and has written of a trip to nearby Innsbruck which afforded an opportunity to enjoy the magnificent mountain scenery and picturesque towns of the Inn River Valley. Early in the summer he taught a class for servicemen on the organization and operation of a small Army library. The course, based on instruction Mr. Kenney had himself received earlier in Paris, was J preliminary to the setting up of small libraries in his Division of the European Theater of War. Corporal Kenney's address is: Cpl. Louis A. Kenney, Hq. Btry., 542 F.A. Bn., A.P.O. 411, c/o PM, New York, N.Y. Lawrence 544th _ _ _ _ _ _ ^ c* ^ — r t — Sq, APO 959, c/o PM, San Francisco, California. Latest address received for Charles R. Knapp, B.S.'40, on leave from the Law Library, University of Illinois, is: Sgt. Charles R. Knapp, 329 AAFBU, Squadron A, Alexandria Army Air Field, Alexandria, Louisiana. Joe W. Kraus, B.S/39, M.A/41, on leave from the Circulation Department, University of Illinois Library, has been assigned to Headquarters, Air Technical Service Command, as assistant chief of the Reference Branch, Technical Data Laboratory, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Hi is in charge of the four branches of the library and the Special Documents and Collections Unit. He may be addressed as follows: Lt. Joe W. Kraus, Hq., Air Technical Service Command, TSEAL-6G Area "B," Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. r J J In a letter of July 30, Ralph E. McCoy, B.S/39, writes that after a year and a half in the 42d Infantry Division he was sent to the Officers Candidate School at Camp Lee, Virginia, receiving his commission last February. He was assigned to the faculty of the Quartermaster School at Camp Lee, where his work consists of research and writing of technical publications for the War Department. He also serves as officer-advisor of the Quartermaster Technical Library, which is under the supervision of a civilian librarian with civilian and WAC assistants. "My work is interesting," he adds, "for it keeps me in contact with library facilities (after 1 # years in the infantry where I practically never saw a book), and it brings me in touch with interesting persons in various technical fields. My wife, Melba McKiblxn, '39, and our 3-year-old boy are with me, living about 4 miles out from Petersburg, Virginia." tte Patterson, B.S/41, M.A/44, Hew to Paris fnun New York, October 17, to serve as an Army librarian in Europe. Miss Patterson writes of a comfortable trip in ,i C-54, cargo plane, and describes the b uitv v\ the view as the ship took off over New York in the moonlight, the Stop over
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