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University of Illinois Library School

Class of 1915

In the recent administrative reorganization of the Detroit Public Library, Mabel L. Conat was made assistant librarian—Reference Services She is one of four assistant librarians who will have direct supervision of all the services of the library. Class of 1918 Wilma Loy Shelton resigned in March as librarian of the University of New Mexico Library, in which capacity she had served for twenty-five years. She will devote her entire time to her duties as professor and head of the Department of Library Science and readers' advisor to faculty and students but will also hold the title of librarian emeritus. Miss Shelton was granted an eight months' leave of absence before resuming her teaching this fall.

Class of 1919

Nellie M. Coats, chief, catalog division, Indiana State Library, has an article on the history of the Indiana State Library in the May 1945 issue of Indiana Slant, organ of the Indiana Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. The library was 120 years old February 11, 1945. She has also written two book reviews for the June Indiana Magazine of History. j Sarita Robinson joined the H. W. Wilson Company staff as editor of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature early in November. Miss Robinson was formerly head of the Cataloging Department of the State University of Iowa Library.

Class of 1920

A correction should be made regarding Rudolph Gjelsness' service at the Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, as stated in the last issue of the News Letter. Mr. Gjelsness served as acting director of the Biblioteca only two months before being officially designated director, in which capacity he served for one year, beginning in October 1943. Mr. Gjelsness has been reelected treasurer of the A.L.A. Amelia Krieg is president, 1945-46, of the Division of Cataloging and Classification, of the A.L.A.

Class of 1921

James B. Childs is general editor of an important new series of guides to official publications of the other American Republics now being issued by the Library of Congress. He is assistant director, Acquisitions Department for Planning at the Library of Congress. Class of 1923 Elizabeth Pieters, formerly of the National Archives Library, Washington, D. C, is now serving in the Patients Library, General Hospital, State University of Iowa, Iowa City. She has described her work there in two published articles, one in the Book Trolley, fall 1944. and the other in Special Libraries, November 1944. The death of Eunice Wells, Kalamazoo, Michigan, during the Spring '( 1941 has recently been reported to the Library School.