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A document worker's experiences in
England and France (English and
French publications and sales).

State documents; better distribution;
monthly check-lists; sales.
"Hearings" and libraries.

The Government and libraries: New re-
lations.

Document sales by book stores, libraries,
post offices.

The radio and library extension through
broadcasting of document news.
"The selective plan" and results of the
"Checklist" vote. (With exhibit.)
Popular documents for small libraries
and schools. (With exhibit.)
Report of questionnaire on document
courses in library schools.

What do libraries want in the new print-
ing bill?

READERS ROUND TABLE

Chairman, Arthur E. Bostwick, St. Louis
Public Library.

Wednesday, April 25, 2:00 p. m.
Introductory paper: How Readers Help—
Arthur E. Bostwick, St. Louis Pub-
lic Library.

Brief papers, or talks, appreciative or crit-
ical, on the following topics, by per-
sons unconnected with library ad-
ministration or management, with
discussion by those present. Speak-
ers' names to be announced later.
The library's current book service.
Service to women's clubs.
Service to schools and teachers.
Technical, industrial and business serv-
ice.

Service to artists and musicians.

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School library plans and equipment-
Sarah C. N. Bogle, American Li-
brary Association, Chicago, Ill.
Training of school librarians-Susie Lee
Crumley, Library School, Carnegie
Library, Atlanta, Ga.

Library instruction—Adeline B. Zachert,
director of school libraries, Penn-
sylvania Department of Education,
Harrisburg.

Elementary school round table - Janet
Jerome, Denver Public Library, pre-
siding.

Special Types and Features of School
Work.

High school round table-Frances O'Con-
nell, Senior High School Library,
Little Rock, Ark., presiding.

Socializing the Library.

A call to service-Howard B. Sohn,
McKinley High School, Canton,
Ohio.

Methods used to convince architects
of the needs of adequate library pro-
visions A. B. Hill, Superintendent
of Public Instruction, Little Rock,
Ark.

What shall we do to interest school
authorities in the value and needs
of the library?—

School library's means of encouraging
knowledge of locality-

Advisability of combining a public
branch library with a high school li-
brary-Purd B. Wright, Public Li-
brary, Kansas City, Mo.

Normal school round table - Helen A.
Ganser, State Normal School, Mill-
ersville, Pa., presiding.
Instruction of normal school students
in the use of books and libraries-
Library instruction in grades and high
schools as demonstrated in schools
of practice-

Training course for teacher-librarians in
school library administration-
Possibilities of the course in children's
literature-

Tuesday, April 24, 2:00 p. m.
Elementary school round table.

Practical Problems of Co-operation and
Administration.

High school round table.

Book Lists and Teaching "Use of Li-
brary."

What constitutes a well balanced high
school library?-Zora Shields, Cen-
tral High School, Omaha.

Best means of book selection for high
school libraries-Emily W. Kemp,
Sam Houston High School, El Paso,
Tex.

Should high school libraries encourage
departmental collections?

Teaching high school pupils the use of
the library-Pearl Durst, Manual
High School, Indianapolis.

Novels of 1920 and 1921 suitable for
high school reading list-Susie Lee
Crumley, Atlanta Library School.
Normal school round table.

A schoolman's vision of the school li-
brary-

Housing and equipment-

Guidance of recreational reading-

Methods of handling books reserved for
reference-

New books useful to teachers-
3:30 General meeting

45.

Reports from round tables
Business meeting

Tuesday, April 24, 8:00 p. m.

(Joint meeting with Second General
Session.)

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,
Enid, Oklahoma.

What can the school library do to
spread the library idea? - Mary
Hynes, Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The responsibility of the college li-
brary with reference to extension
work-Estelle Lutrell, University of
Arizona, Tucson.

How the business library can increase
its service to the public-Virginia
Fairfax, Standard School of Filing
and Indexing, Globe-Wernicke Co.,
New Orleans, Louisiana

The religious and theological library;
sectarian or non-sectarian? Leslie
R. Elliott, Seminary Hill, Texas.
Library training in the Southwest-
Elva L. Bascom, University of
Texas, Austin.

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.

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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."

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