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1 ,l),ary to assist in the survey now being made of the University Library resources The resignation of Lena B. Nofcier as director of the Library Exten sion Division, State Department of Library and Archives, Frankfort Kentucky, is announced in the Courier-Journal, Louisville, August 26, 194 Miss Nofcier has accepted the position of librarian of Asbury College \\ ilmore, Kentucky. The newspaper article thus reviews her work in the state library: "Notable advances during Miss Nofcier's administration have been recodification of the library laws, except for first class citieslegal certification for librarians; provisions for acceptance and administration of federal aid; the use of funds to provide for the retirement of librarians; and the furtherance of institutional libraries. Miss Nofcier's aid to organizations and individuals . . . has brought friends from the ,, entire state. Miss Nofcier served as chairman of the A.L.A. Development Fund and Campaign and of the Kentucky Library War Bond campaign. Her reports on these activities appear in the June 1945 issue of the Bulletin of the Kentucky Library Association.

Helen A. Ridgway, M.S., Columbia '34, Library Extension Division, State Education Department, Albany, New York, is a member of the Council of the New York Library Association. She also served as 1945 chairman of the Library Survey Committee of the Association.

Class of 1929

Edna E. Bothe, formerly head of the Library Science Department, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, is now extension librarian, Missouri Library Commission. The bibliographical activities of James J. Hill, now librarian of the University of Nevada, during his years as assistant librarian and professor 01" library science at the University of Oklahoma are the subject of a sketch in the June 1945 issue of College and Research Libraries, which also includes a photograph of Mr. Hill. Especially interesting among Mr. Hill's projects at Oklahoma were the compilation of a bibliography of the Cherokee Indians. 1540-1940, a checklist of official publications relating to the Indians of Oklahoma, and an index to the first twenty volumes of the Chronicles of Oklalioma. Alleen Wilson, Union College Library, Barbourville, Kentucky, is a member of the College and University Libraries Committee of the Kentucky Library Association. Lee Zimmerman, M.A/32, director of libraries, has collaborated with three other members of the Library Division, Minnesota State Department of Education, on the compilation of a "Booklist for Small Public Libraries" which appears in the June 1945 issue of Minnesota Libraries. Mr. Zimmerman also wrote the introduction. Class of 1930 Myrtle I. Deason of the Illinois State Librar} has accepted the position of librarian of the recent!) established North Little Kock, Arkansas,