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University of Illinois Library School VISITING LECTURERS

.Visitors to the Library School who spoke to the students, during th second semester, included Helene Rogers, assistant librarian of the Illlnoi* State Library, Springfield, who discussed the new state demonstration libraries; Richard B. Sealock, librarian of the Gary, Indiana, Public I. j . brary, speaking on T h e Librarian and the Board of Trustees"; and Emerson Greenaway, librarian of the Knoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland, who described his library's post-war plans. Other lj] brarians scheduled for special talks include Grace W. Gilman of the Lincoln Library, Springfield, Illinois; Agatha L. Shea, director of Children^ Work in the Chicago Public Library; and Dorothy E. Hiatt, chief of the Extension Service, the Illinois State Library, Springfield. On April 23, Solon J. Buck, archivist of the United States, Washington, D.C. gave a lecture on "Your Government's Records in the National Archives'' which was open to the public. S U M M E R S E S S I O N 1946 The eight weeks summer session in the Library School will begin on June 24. Enrollment figures will probably be double those of the 1945 session. Prospective students include several new graduate students and several veterans. I Regular faculty members who will be teaching are Professors Bond, Phelps, Hostetter and Spencer. Professor Irwin Berg of the Psychology Department will again offer his course, Psychology for Librarians. Dorothy Black, assistant reference librarian in the University Library wil teach Introduction to Government Publications. Visiting faculty include Lura E. Crawford, librarian of the Oak Park High School, Helen M. Brown who is librarian of MacMurray College, and Richard B. Sealock, librarian at Gary, Indiana. A new departure this year will be the offering of teacher-librarian courses through the Extension Division of the University at Alton, Illinois. Ada Wood, who has taught these courses on the campus for several summers, will be the instructor in charge. P R O S P E C T S F O R 1946-47 Indications for the academic year 1946-47 are that the Library School will have a class comparable to those of pre-war years. Thirty-five new students have already been admitted and the number of inquiries from prospective students increases daily. There will be many more advanced students studying for the M.S. degree, and the number of men students will be greater than during the past four years. Many veterans will be included, especially in the graduate group. BOOKPLATES added to the Library Three interesting bookplates have recently been Doyle, catalog librarSchool's collection. Two are those of alumni, Irene and Katherine Doyle | University of Wisconsin Library, and Jackson