A document worker's experiences in State documents; better distribution; The Government and libraries: New re- Document sales by book stores, libraries, The radio and library extension through What do libraries want in the new print- READERS ROUND TABLE Chairman, Arthur E. Bostwick, St. Louis Wednesday, April 25, 2:00 p. m. Brief papers, or talks, appreciative or crit- Service to artists and musicians. School library plans and equipment- Library instruction—Adeline B. Zachert, Elementary school round table - Janet Special Types and Features of School High school round table-Frances O'Con- Socializing the Library. A call to service-Howard B. Sohn, Methods used to convince architects What shall we do to interest school School library's means of encouraging Advisability of combining a public Normal school round table - Helen A. Training course for teacher-librarians in Tuesday, April 24, 2:00 p. m. Practical Problems of Co-operation and High school round table. Book Lists and Teaching "Use of Li- What constitutes a well balanced high Best means of book selection for high Should high school libraries encourage Teaching high school pupils the use of Novels of 1920 and 1921 suitable for A schoolman's vision of the school li- Housing and equipment- Guidance of recreational reading- Methods of handling books reserved for New books useful to teachers- 45. Reports from round tables Tuesday, April 24, 8:00 p. m. (Joint meeting with Second General See program of General Sessions, page SMALL LIBRARIES ROUND TABLE Chairman, Margaret A. Wade, Carnegie Public Library, Anderson, Ind. Thursday, April 26, 9:30 a. m. Sally M. Aikin, Public Library, Marietta, Georgia, presiding. General topic: Extending Library Consciousness to a Community. Leader, Helen Birch, Public Library, Hannibal, Mo. Subtopics: Extension through schools and work with children-Lucia Powell, Wichita Falls, Texas. Extension through individual reference service-Laura M. Elmore, Library Association, Montgomery, Ala. Who is your neighbor?-Reaching the byways and hedges-Florence Dillard, Public Library, Lexington, Ky. County service without a law-Louise Smith, Public Library, Fitzgerald, Ga. What is coming; a prophecySymposium-Short cuts and simplified routine Please bring your best ideas All papers limited to ten minutes. SOUTHWESTERN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION President, Elizabeth H. West, Texas State Library, Austin; secretary, E. W. Winkler, University of Texas Library, Austin. Monday, April 23, Morning and Afternoon General Subject: Library Extension. 8:00-9:45-Registration. 9:45-Call to order; preliminary business. Greeting from President Utley, of the A. L. A. 10-12-Short talks and discussions on the following topics: A plan for co-operative library extension work in the Southwest-Mrs. J. R. Dale, Oklahoma Library Commission, Oklahoma City. How the county library takes books to everybody Mrs. Cora Case Porter, Carnegie Public Library, What can the school library do to How the business library can increase The religious and theological library; 12:30-2 p. m.-Luncheon. (Eastman Hotel, $1.50 per plate; all wishing reservations notify W. E. Chester, Manager, Eastman Hotel, before April 21.) Topic: The Graces and Anxieties of Library Pioneering-Short talks by members of the Southwestern and of other regional associations on problems and possibilities 2:30-4:30 p. m.-What the Southwestern library can and should do forThe negro-Henry M. Gill, Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana. The foreign-born-Wilma Loy Shelton, Albuquerque, N. Mex. The blind-Speaker to be announced The illiterate Speaker to be an nounced. The delinquent Miriam E. Carey, State Board of Control, St. Paul, Minnesota. Needs of public libraries in the Southwest-Mrs. Maud D. Sullivan, Public Library, El Paso, Tex. Pan-American library relations; the plans and the hopes of MexicoSenorita Luz Garcia Nunez, Mexico City, Mexico, D. F. Business. TRUSTEES SECTION President, Mrs. Elizabeth Claypool Earl, Muncie, Ind.; secretary, Mrs. Dwight Peterson, Toledo, Ohio. For program, see Facts for Trustees, p. 70. UNIVERSITY LIBRARY EXTENSION SERVICE ROUND TABLE Chairman, Edith Thomas, University of Michigan Library Extension Service, Ann Arbor; secretary, LeNoir Dimmitt, Extension Loan Library, University of Texas, Austin. Wednesday, April 25, 9:30 a. m. Some responsibilities of university library extension service-W. W. Bishop, University of Michigan Library. Conducting a package library service on a limited appropriation-Helen E. Wagstaff, University of Kansas Extension Division, Lawrence. The value of a package library service in the development of community organization-A. G. Scott, Extension Division University of Oklahoma, Norman. Plays and readings for use in library extension service; our plan-Evangeline Pratt, Executive Secretary, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Friday, April 27, 2:30 p. m. Round Table Discussion Subject: The State High School Debating League. Discussion opened by Louis R. Wilson, University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill. General discussion-Mary Vick Burney, Extension Loan Library, University of Texas, Austin; Miss Almere L. Scott, Department of Debating and. Public Discussion, University of Wisconsin, Madison. WORK WITH NEGROES ROUND TABLE Chairman, George T. Settle, Louisville Public Library. Tuesday, April 24, 2:30 p. m. Subject: Library Extension-Reaching the Negro. 1. Survey for the year (general)-Ernestine Rose, New York Public Library. a. Progress, North-Mary K. Pearson, Cleveland Public Library. b. Progress, South - Julia Ideson, Houston Public Library. c. Progress, West-Purd B. Wright, Kansas City Public Library. 2. Books for negroes-Henry M. Gill, New Orleans Public Library. a. Suggestions-Charles D. Johnston, Cossitt Library, Memphis. b. To be avoided - Tommie Dora Barker, Atlanta Public Library. c. Books by negro writers - Jennie M. Flexner, Louisville Public Library. General discussion. TRAVEL ANNOUNCEMENTS RATES For details of travel, and fares from the principal centers to Hot Springs, Ark., see the January Bulletin. Apply for rooms at the conference to W. E. Chester, Hotel Eastman, Hot Springs, Ark., and not to the Travel Committee. The railroad rate of fare-and-one-half for the round trip, which will be available from all points in the United States and Canada, can only be obtained by presenting an "identification certificate" to ticket agent, when buying round trip ticket. These identification certificates are free to all members of the A.L.A. and affiliated organizations. Write at once for yours to American Library Association, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago. Round trip fare-and-one-half tickets are good returning only by the route of the going trip. They may be purchased April 19-25 and passengers must return reaching original starting point prior to midnight of May 4 with the following exceptions: From Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming, the dates of sale are April 18-24, inclusive, and the final return limit is May 5; from British Columbia (on Great Northern Railway only), California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, the dates of sale are April 17-23, inclusive, and the final return limit is May 6. Those taking the post conference trip should buy one way regular fare tickets and do not need identification certificates. SPECIAL PARTY TRAVEL Chicago Party Full announcements were made in the January Bulletin, page 7. Register with John F. Phelan, Chicago Public Library, before April 15, sending $8.25 to cover Pullman fare. This party will spend all day Sunday in St. Louis. The morning will be free. Early in the afternoon the eastern party will arrive and join with the Chicago and other parties in a sight seeing trip including a visit to the St. Louis Public Library and its branches. New England Party Register with F. W. Faxon, 83 Francis Street, Boston 17, Mass., before April 12, sending $16.13 to cover half an outside stateroom on Fall River boat and Pullman lower, New York to Hot Springs. The price of half a stateroom and Pullman upper is $13.20. The party will leave South Station, Boston, April 20, at 6:00 p. m. by Fall River Line, joining the New York party at the Pennsylvania Station, New York City. Buy tickets reading "via New York, New Haven & Hartford, Pennsylvania and Missouri Pacific railroads." |