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University of Illinois Library School Editors, News Letter losie B, Houchens, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois Dorothy M. I Hack, University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois Library School News FACULTY NOTES Robert B. Downs, director of the Library School and Library, was initiated into Phi Kappa Phi, national honor society, in January. Following the initiation dinner of the University of Illinois chapter, he addr.^sed the group on "American Library Resources." Mr. Downs has been appointed representative of the Association of College and Reference Libraries on the Joint Committee on Reproduction of Enemy Publications, and also represents the A.L.A. on the Library of Congress Committee to advise on the Distribution of Foreign Acquisitions. Director Downs has contributed several articles to recent professional periodicals: "Academic Status for University Librarians — a New Ap,, proach in College and Research Libraries for January; "Uniform Statistics for Library Holdings" in the Library Quarterly for January; "Project for the Cooperative Acquisition of Recent Foreign Publications" in the January issue of D.C. Libraries; and a review of Library Resources of the University of North Carolina, edited by Charles Rush, in the Library Journal of March 1. P. L. Windsor, director emeritus, has been serving as president of the local chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, national honor society, during the current year. Lewis F. Stieg, assistant director, has accepted the chairmanship of the Constitution Committee of the Professional Training Round Table which held a meeting in Chicago at the last mid-winter conference to consider the question of divisional status in the A.L.A. Dr. Stieg also read a paper at the conference summarizing the arguments for the reorganization of the Association of American Library Schools as a division of the A.L.A. lie is continuing: to serve on the Research Committee ot the Association of American Library Schools. Mr. Downs, Mr. Windsor, Miss Simpson, Mr. Stieg, Miss Bond, Miss Boyd, and Miss Spencer arc planning to attend the A.L.A. conference in Buffalo in Juno. Miss Boyd will preside at the meetings of the Association of American Library Schools, of which she is president. j Alice Lohrcr, assistant professor, is serving on a committee of tie j Illinois Library Associalion to take up with the State Certification Board the possibilities of considering the B.S. in L.S. degree equal to the M-degree in a subject field for school librarians. Miss Lohrer is also a menit^ of the Committee on Library Service to Schools, which is working *
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