xaju fVt ECDKEQA LOIBtPAMROtES raEWfi ffiOJLLIlEirOM si Uerober 17 23 1157 ewspaper oewes Hafional Uuspaper Vleek EXPLORE A ITH BOOKS September 1957 To Vcl0 13 NOo 1 Issued by Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services Georgia Department of EducationCONTENTS Of General Interest GLA meeting District GEA meetings Important Notice to ALA I embers Supplement to Statistical Abstract Georgia Winners of the Dana Awards Hiss Pettus Retires Calendar of Special Events Georgia Free Materials List History of Georgia Southwestern College Lois Lenski Illustrations Ueus of Georgia Librarians Pages 1 2 2 2 3 3 h h 8 11 12lU School Librarians GALA Executive Committee Library Services Act and School Librarians School Library Hews Southern States Work Conference h 6 78 8 Public Librarians Library Services Grant Operation Library Library Services Act and School Librarians Public Library Hews Hew ALA Executive Secretaries 6 911 11 1 GLA MEETIKG The Georgia Library Association trill meet at the De Soto Hotel Savannah on November 7 8 and 9th If you have not already done so put the date on your calendar make your reservations and come enjoy the excellent program and good fellowship It will be hard to choose betueen the programs at GLA will be inviting to all who attend Most of these Registration opens at 800 pm on Wednesday November 6 in the lobby of the De Soto Early arrivals will enjoy visiting exhibits during the afternoon and night of the same day Cn Friday morning Special Librarians will hear Symposium on the Industrial Development of the Southeast The Trustees and Friends of the Library meeting will be followed by a luncheon at 1230 Mr Biswanger President of the Georgia Jaycees itfill speak Operations Library will be featured In the afternoon the Public Library Section will hear Miss Evelyn Mullin discuss Federal Library Services while the College and University Librarians will hear and participate in discussions on Inter library Loans Orientation and Special Services The first general session will be devoted to committee reports nrs Grace Stevenson of ALA and Mr Lanham Romes outstanding trustee will be featured at the second General Session Thursday night New translations reviewed by I Irs A B Burrus and Cecil Beach will draw many people to the 830 book reviews Friday morning Rosamund DuJardin writer of teen age novels will speak to the Childrens and Voting Peoples Librarians A joint meeting of the Education for Librarianship Section and the College and University Section will hear Dr Agnes Reagan Her topic Recruiting for Librarianship in Colleges and Universities Dr Reagan is an authority in this field The cataloging Section expects to consider problems in the use of Subject Headings The Trustees and Friends of the Library ui11 hear Mr Alex Laurence at the luncheon During the afternoon participants may choose either a boat ride around the Savannah Harbor or to visit historic homes Dr Uillard Thorpe of Princeton authority on American literature will be featured speaker at the Book Dinner Kiss iiary Carruth iiss Louise Trotti iiss Frances Saxon and Carl Grover will review childrens books Saturday morning Dr Floyd Watklns whose book The Characters of Thomas Uolfe has just been published by the University of Oklahoma press is to speak to the final General Session v 2 DISTRICT G3A MEETINGS The programs of the District Meetings will be centered around the theme EVALUATION OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY PROGRAK from the standpoint of I Public Relations II Student Assistants III Collection of Materials IV Professional Compentency The dates and places of meetings are as follows 1st District 2nd 3rd East 3rd West Uth 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th November h November 6 October 18 October 17 October 2 October k October 21 October 11 November October 23 October 22 Savannah Albany Abbeville Columbus Newnan Atlanta I la con Rome Uaycross Gainesville Athens Plan now to attend the meeting in your district IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALA MEMBERS In accordance with ALA Constitutional provisions a petition has been submitted calling for a mail vote of the membership of ALA to set aside the action of Council which voted at Kansas City to move the Headquarters of ALA from Chicago to Washington The ballot for the mail vote will be included in the September ALA Enlletin This is the only place in which it will appear Full background and details will be given in that issue It is necessary that onefourth of the membership approximately 5000 including personal and institutional vote in order to sustain or defeat the petition You are urged to exercise your membership right and Vote Yes or No on this important issue jt A supplement has been issued to the GEORGIA STATISTICAL ABSTRACT Libraries that have ordered the GEORGIA STATISTICAL ABSTRACT through the State Department of Education should write the Library Division State Department of Education Atlanta Georgia for their copy 3 GEORGIA WINNERS OF THE DANA PUBLICITY AWARDS Four Georgia libraries were honored in the John Cotton Dana Publicity Awards Contest sponsored jointly by the Uilson Library Bulletin of New York and the American Library Association Public Relations Committee Out of twelve categories Georgia libraries won first place in three and an honorable mention in one as follows IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES BETWEEN 100000 and 200000 POPULATION Augusta Georgia Library for skillful simultaneous campaigns for two new buildings main library and branch in different parts of town IN ARMY LIBRARIES Fort Gordon Georgia for its 6U000 contest Operation Read More its TV publicity and its exhibitions IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES Campbell High School Fairburn Georgia for publicity in which student assistants are active which has made the library the liveliest place in the school IN AIR FORCE LIBRARIES Moody Air Force Base Valdosta Georgia Honorable Mention Scrapbooks showing a crosssection of the years publicity were submitted as entries by 10f libraries from 37 states and 29 overseas libraries The judges based their criteria for selecting winners upon John Cotton Danas pioneer policies of agressive library service to the community and the publicizing of this service to increase public use of the library MISS PETTUS RETIRES Miss Clyde E Pettus Associate Professor in Emory Universitys Division of ibrarianship retired in August at the end of the summer quarter after thirtyfive yesrs of training and counseling students and librarians A dinner in her honor was given on lay 31st at the Alumnae Memorial Building Emory University with about fifty of her students friends and fellow faculty members present Their warmth of appreciation and suppressed excitement made the dinner a gay family affair The people present were not alone in honoring Hiss Pettus for they brought as a surprise to her a card catalog full of remembrances from hundreds of her students and friends In the catalog under FUND RAISING over 60000 was discovered for her unfilled Wanted List for her course in The Making of the Book Publishers and Jobbers have complained that librarians are returning books without identifying the order If you have to return books for any reason please indicate invoice number dates and order numbers a CALENDAR OF SPECIAL EVEIITS October 10national Newspaper eek iri 11 be observed by the daily and ueekly newspapers of the nation The slogan is Your ievxspaper Serves Plan with the editors in your area ways in which the library can participate in this special week Some possibilities include programs featuring newspaper ien exhibit material supplied by the press film discussions using such films as Freedom of the Press or Freedom to Read November 1723 feok 1eek Explore with Books is the provocative theme The theme was submitted by Lrs Susan Culpepper Huff of Athens Georgia Book Week materials are available from the Childrens Book Council The manual and an order card is enclosed with this Bulletin March 1622 1958national Library Week This will be the first National Library Week The week is being sponsored by the National Book Committee The American Library Association and the Georgia Library Association are cooperating in making plans for the observance Handbooks and promotion kits are now being prepared in New York for the use of state and local committees These materials will include suggestions for carrying out the campaign Dont wait Start local plans now The Executive Atlanta on Augus the other office reports made t Adkins Vice Pre program schedule Additional infor to be massed on GALA EXECUTIVE COIKITTEE Committee of the Georgia Association of Library Assistants met in t 17 Under the leadership of niss Dot Kitchens president and rs plans were made for implementing the recommendations and committee the Rock Eagle Conference After the business meeting ass Patricia sident called for suggestions from the Executive Board for the types of programs and possible speakers for the spring conference nation about this meeting is being sent to high school librarians to their student assistants A list of materials about Georgia compiled by a committee from the Public Library Section of the Georgia Library Association is enclosed with this News Bulletin If you know of other available materials which are free or not too expensive but will prove useful to school or public libraries for their Georgia collections please Trite to iss Georgia Thomas The BarrowJacksonUalton Regional Library inder Georgia giving full information 5 LIBRARY SERVICES GRAWT The Georgia plan for the further expansion and improvement of public library service in rural Georgia has again been approved by the Commissioner of Education Office of Education Washington DC The state qualified for and matched the first liO00000 in 1957 These funds were used for the purchase of reference materials for the 32 regional libraries and the state agency reference collection The Federal grant of 13921300 in 195758 will again be used for the purchase of materials State funds released from the states materials budget will be made available as a special state allotment to county and regional libraries that have met old requirements for available state grants The funds will be released to the libraries on the basis of a budget approved by the state library agency The special state allotment can be used for salaries bookmobiles materials equipment supplies and rent OPSRATIOIJ LIBRARY Georgia Jaycee chapters continue to push Operation Library in various ways in towns and cities over Georgia The project has met with a great deal of success and received praise both locally and nationally The national Jaycee organization has again made Operation Library a Class I project Ray Biswanger University of Georgia Athens will continue to serve as state chairman for Operation Library In Decatur the Jaycees sponsored open house at the DecaturDeKalb library on Sunday afternoon June 23 as the opening activity in their program The Reidsville Jaycees are working with the Tattnall County Library Board to secure signs to identify the new library building and to purchase additional equipment which is needed Hives of Jaycee members the library staff and the library board assisted in receiving at the open house and art display sponsored by the Cedartown Jaycees at the Hawkes Library as a part of their Operation Library The Barnesville Jaycee organization voted to undertake various projects to secure increased tax support for the Lamar County Library and to promote the extension of regional library service to their county within the near future The Murray County Jaycees sponsored a fish fry to raise funds for the benefit of their library as it becomes a part of the Dalton Region beginning in January 1958 October 3 will be a big day in Carrollton Operation Library sponsored by Junior Chamber of Commerce in the region the West Georgia Regional Library and many civic educational and professional institutions and organizations will bring to the city an outstanding program related to library service a giant parade of floats excellent speakers and many celebrities 6 THE LIBRARY SERVICES ACT AND SCHOOL LIBRARIES Because of the recent passage of the Library Services Act the Board of Directors of the American Association of School Librarians feels that at this time it is important for school and public librarians to review the distinctive functions of school library service and public library service and to distinguish clearly be tween them Therefore the Board of the American Association of School Librarians wishes to confirm the following statement from Public Library Service1 Public Library Service to schools is not a substitute for a library within the school The publiclibrary activities should be designed to encourage the growth of school libraries The Board of the American Association of School Librarians believes that school library services planned financed and administered by the Board of Education are a necessary part of a good educational program The Board believes further that the development and improvement of such library service to provide for children in school the library resources that are related to the curriculum and needed for an effective school program are primary responsibilities of school administrators and school librarians There are many ways in which school librarians can be of service in the implementation of the Library Services Act l by planning and participating in the extension and improvement for library service in rural areas through public libraries 2 by recruitment of young people for work in libraries and 3 by cooperation in the development of plans for demonstrations under the Act The Board of the American Association of School Librarians takes this opportunity to point out that the purpose of the Library Services Act is to promote the further extension by the several states of public library services to rural areas It believes that if funds provided by this Act were used to finance a library within a school such use would be contrary to the intent of this legislation and would deter the development of school libraries within the schools The Board of the American Association of School Librarians wishes also to enlist the understanding and support of public library personnel for the continuing development of school library service which is an integral part of school adminis tration and of instruction Public Library personnel can provide such support through interpretation to the lay public of this statement and the statements herein quoted from Public Library Service Endorsed by the Board of Directors of the Public Libraries Division June 28 1957 lPublic Library Service A Guide to Evaluation with Minimum Standards Pre pared by the Coordinating Committee on Revision of Public Library Standards fhe A public Libraries Division The American Library Association 195 150 2The Act 7 SCHOOL LIBRARY MEWS A special day honoring Mrs Ilary 0 Weeks on her retirement was held in Harlem in May Mrs Weeks has worked in Columbia County for 36 years and during a part of that time has served as librarian She is considered largely responsible for the development of the school library in Harlem Dot Kitchens President Georgia Association of Library Assistants Campbell High School Fairburn Georgia received the Cokesbury Book Store certificate of 2500 made for the first time to a student library assistant The basis on which the award is given is for professional attitude dependability cooperative spirit and excellent qualities on the library staff The Campbell High School Library Club takes an annual field trip This year the club visited the National Library Bindery in Atlanta one of the Souths largest binderies The Library Club of the Lanier County High School Lakeland extended recognition and awards to students and faculty members who had rendered outstanding services to the library as a part of a program presented at the high school chapel Special recognition was given to the library reporters who gave volunteer services in visiting the elementary grades in order to publicize library books and materials Certificates and library service pins were presented to student library assistants Certificates of awards were presented to twentythree 23 LaGrange High School students in recognition of their significant service as library assistants The presentations were made by ilr WW Keller Principal LaGrange High School Special recognition went to Mabel Home Sally McLeod Sara Turner and Sandra Williams who were completing their third year of library service at LaGrange High New Officers of the Troup County High School Library Club LaGrange are President Sandra Sledge Secretary Lizzie Smith Vicepresident June Laster Treasurer Carol Watterson 2nd Vicepresident Sue Stewart The Athens High School received money to purchase a beautiful planter for the library in conjunction with Teacher Recognition Day activities Certificates and pins have been awarded to the library assistants Those receiving recognition for the third year are Sara Patterson Connie Hall and Carol Ross Recent newspaper photographs received in the office are of the library assistants at the Worth Whitfield High School and the newly elected officers of the Second District Library Association Librarians and student library assistants all over Georgia were saddened at the news of the untimely death of Miss Leatrice Foreman Librarian Tifton High School in May Miss Foreman was a leader in library activities not only in her immediate area but all over the state and was a prime mover in the organization of the Georgia Association of Library Assistants Her enthusiasm and her counsel will be greatly missed 8 Announcement has been made of the engagement df Hiss Elizabeth Gillis Resource Librarian Area 3 Atlanta to Mr Sulemein Dahan Deputy Commissioner of Communication for the Lybian Government Miss Gillis will meet Mr Dahan in England where they will be married at the home of relatives They will make their home in Tripoli Please send to Sarah Jones Chief Library Consultant State Department of Education Atlanta Georgia any information you have about changes in school libraries positions It is important that this office know as soon as possible the names of librarians who have changed their positions and the names of librarians who have accepted new positions SOUTHERN STATES WORK CONFERENCE The Southern States Work Conference composed of representatives from fourteen lU Southern states approved a study on school libraries to begin this year Steering Committees from the Southern states met at Daytona Beach Florida June 37 and made tentative plans for the study which will continue for three 3 years Nancy Jane Day Supervisor School Library South Carolina served as Chairman of the project Sarah Jones was elected CoChairman and Nancy Burge University of South Carolina Columbia was named reporter The general theme of the study will be What Is a Good School Library Program and What Does It Do for Boys and Girls Some of the proposed areas of study will include an evaluation of preservice and inservice library education opportunities for librarians teachers and administrators a study of different patterns of school library service and their evaluation the existing library picture in the Southern states evidence of the effects of good school library situations upon boys and girls area of service and relationship of the librarian in a good school program The following people served on the Steering Committee for Georgia Mrs Rita Collins VicePresident Classroom Teachers Association Gainesville Georgia Mr William Hasty Superintendent Cherokee County Schools Canton Georgia Mr CS Hubbard Director Instructional Materials and Library Service Atlanta Georgia Mrs Doris Thomas President Elementary School Principles Association Savannah Georgia Virginia McJenkins Director Fulton County School Libraries Atlanta Georgia Mrs Grace Yancey Director Field Service Georgia Education Association Atlanta Georgia Sarah Jones Chief Library Consultant Atlanta Georgia Chairman This committee will be expanded and will meet early in the fall The three year study will involve many school librarians public librarians serving schools and institutions training teachers and librarians Through the Years a brief U8 page informal record of Georgia Southwestern College which had its beginning in 1908 as the 3rd District A M School has been written by Miss Macy Bishop Gray librarian of the college and is for sale at a nominal sum Address orders to Miss Gray at the college Americus Georgia x x 9 PUBLIC LIBRARY MEWS Burke County voters have approved the issuance of 3600000 in bonds for construction of a new county library building to be located in Waynesboro Waycross new city library valued at over 10000000 was formerly opened to the public on June 12 1957 Besides serving as a public library for the city this attractive and functional modern library will serve as headquarters for the threecounty Okefenokee Regional Library The local Pilot Club is currently conducting a successful campaign for funds to complete installation of airconditioning in the new library building Richland s new City Hall and Library were opened for use the last of May The Murray County Library Board at Chatsworth has signed an agreement with the Dalton Regional Library for regional library service effective on January 1 1958 This will make the Dalton Region the fourth regional library with four counties Among Georgia Libraries which can boast of new airconditioning this summer are The Chestatee Regional Library at Gainesville The East Point Public Library the Grady County Library and the DecaturDeKalb Library in Decatur The remodeled Downtown Branch of the Savannah Public Library held open house in May to celebrate its enlarged and newly decorated quarters Construction work has been completed on an addition to the Price Library in Macon which will provide administrative offices for the city and regional library system Plans are being made for a formal dedication to be held sometime in October The addition built at the rear of Price Library is a part of a 10000000 expansion of Macon1s public library facilities made possible by a bond issue passed last year Open House was held at the Norcross Library in late June This library is the newest of the branches in the GwinnettForsyth Regional Library with headquarters at Lawrenceville Regional library service for Fannin County began on June 17 when the TownsUnion Regional Library began the first bookmobile route in the county A good sound taxsupported library program accepted by the Fannin County Commissioner had made this improved and expanded service possible for Fannin County The citizens of Banks County received service from the BarrowJackson Walton Regional Library bookmobile for the first time on July 1 1957 Through the cooperation of the County Board of Education and the County Commissioners Banks county has become a participating unit of the regional library with headquarters at Winder A strong and active Library Building Committee in Gainesville and Hall County is well on its way to finding ways and means of financing the construction of a new library building and the acquisition of a building site 8 Announcement has been made of the engagement df Miss Elizabeth Gillis Resource Librarian Area 3 Atlanta to Mr Sulemein Dahan Deputy Commissioner of Communication for the Lybian Government Miss Gillis will meet Mr Dahan in England where they will be married at the home of relatives They will make their home in Tripoli Please send to Sarah Jones Chief Library Consultant State Department of Education Atlanta Georgia any information you have about changes in school libraries positions It is important that this office know as soon as possible the names of librarians who have changed their positions and the names of librarians who have accepted new positions SOUTHERN STATES WORK CONFERENCE The Southern States Work Conference composed of representatives from fourteen lU Southern states approved a study on school libraries to begin this year Steering Committees from the Southern states met at Daytona Beach Florida June 37 and made tentative plans for the study which will continue for three 3 years Nancy Jane Day Supervisor School Library South Carolina served as Chairman of the project Sarah Jones was elected CoChairman and Nancy Burge University of South Carolina Columbia was named reporter The general theme of the study will be What Is a Good School Library Program and What Does It Do for Boys and Girls Some of the proposed areas of study will include an evaluation of preservice and inservice library education opportunities for librarians teachers and administrators a study of different patterns of school library service and their evaluation the existing library picture in the Southern states evidence of the effects of good school library situations upon boys and girls area of service and relationship of the librarian in a good school program The following people served on the Steering Committee for Georgia Mrs Rita Collins VicePresident Classroom Teachers Association Gainesville Georgia Mr William Hasty Superintendent Cherokee County Schools Canton Georgia Mr CS Hubbard Director Instructional Materials and Library Service Atlanta Georgia Mrs Doris Thomas President Elementary School Principles Association Savannah Georgia Virginia McJenkins Director Fulton County School Libraries Atlanta Georgia Mrs Grace Yancey Director Field Service Georgia Education Association Atlanta Georgia Sarah Jones Chief Library Consultant Atlanta Georgia Chairman This committee will be expanded and will meet early in the fall The three year study will involve many school librarians public librarians serving schools and institutions training teachers and librarians Through the Years a brief I48 page informal record of Georgia Southwestern College which had its beginning in 1908 as the 3rd District A M School has been written by Miss Macy Bishop Gray librarian of the college and is for sale at a nominal sum Address orders to Miss Gray at the college Americus Georgia x x x 9 PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS Burke County voters have approved the issuance of 3600000 in bonds for construction of a new county library building to be located in Waynesboro Waycross new city library valued at over 10000000 was formerly opened to the public on June 12 1957 Besides serving as a public library for the city this attractive and functional modern library will serve as headquarters for the threecounty Okefenokee Regional Library The local Pilot Club is currently conducting a successful campaign for funds to complete installation of airconditioning in the new library building Richlands new City Hall and Library were opened for use the last of May The Murray County Library Board at Chatsworth has signed an agreement with the Dalton Regional Library for regional library service effective on January 1 1958 This will make the Dalton Region the fourth regional library with four counties Among Georgia Libraries which can boast of new airconditioning this summer are The Chestatee Regional Library at Gainesville The East Point Public Library the Grady County Library and the DecaturDeKalb Library in Decatur The remodeled Downtown Branch of the Savannah Public Library held open house in May to celebrate its enlarged and newly decorated quarters Construction work has been completed on an addition to the Price Library in Macon which will provide administrative offices for the city and regional library system Plans are being made for a formal dedication to be held sometime in October The addition built at the rear of Price Library is a part of a 10000000 expansion of Macon1s public library facilities made possible by a bond issue passed last year Open House was held at the Norcross Library in late June This library is the newest of the branches in the GwinnettForsyth Regional Library with headquarters at Lawrenceville Regional library service for Fannin County began on June 17 when the TownsUnion Regional Library began the first bookmobile route in the county A good sound taxsupported library program accepted by the Fannin County Commissioner had made this improved and expanded service possible for Fannin County The citizens of Banks County received service from the BarrowJackson Walton Regional Library bookmobile for the first time on July 1 1957 Through the cooperation of the County Board of Education and the County Commissioners Banks county has become a participating unit of the regional library with headquarters at Winder A strong and active Library Building Committee in Gainesville and Hall County is well on its way to finding ways and means of financing the construction of a new library building and the acquisition of a building site 10 Preliminary drawings for the building have been presented to the committee by the architect who has worked closely with the library Director and the library board over the past two years A subcommittee has been named to secure options from the property owners for a building site A new home is badly needed for the rapidly growing Chestatee Regional Library The Cairo Banking Company at Cairo recently made a gift of books pamphlets and periodicals to the local public library to be known as the Henry Hester Business Collection in honor of the late Henry Hester President of the bank at the time of his death The collection will have continuing support as a memorial to him Plans for a CobbCounty Library to be located in Marietta have moved forward with the appointment of a citycounty library board Board members hope to secure a Library Director at an early date and to move forward in the coordination of all library programs in the county A new library building and better taxsupport are also goals for the near future Seventyfive citizens including city state and county officials library boards members and organizations attended a barbecue on the grounds of the Dawson Carnegie Library on July 2 The purpose of the meeting in the library following the barbecue was to review the history services and future program of the TerrellCalhounLee Regional Library Bulletin boards maps and exhibits prepared by the library staff along with reports and talks by board members patrons and staff of the library reemphasized the invaluable service of the regional library to all of the people living in the three counties served by it Headquarters of the PolkFloyd Regional Library has been moved from Lindale to Rome The new location is on the ground floor of the Cambro Apartments The Wilcox County Library at Abbeville will soon have a new library building The project is being sponsored by the Abbeville Lions Club in cooperation with the Abbeville PTA The County Board of Education has pledged 200000 and the County Commissioners 200000 A planning committee has formed to raise the additional funds necessary The RT Jones Community Foundation has contributed an additional 1000000 for completion of work on the RT Jones Memorial Library at Canton which will serve as headquarters for the CherokeePickens Regional Library The Dalton Regional Library Mrs Evalyn Rutledge Director offered a training course in public speaking during the summer for its patrons and other interested citizens This was made possible through the cooperative efforts of the library director the library board and Mercer University The Statesboro Regional Library has begun an interest file to help in serving individual needs of its patrons Return postal cards were sent to the membership of the various clubs and civic organizations requesting them to list their chief interests and whether they would like to be notified when the library secures new or unusual materials on those topics It is expected that several mailing or telephone lists will develop from this interest file11 A series of book review programs at the library was initiated by the Monroe County Library at Forsyth in June The Jenkins County Memorial Library at Mi lien also offered a series of reviews of current books as an additional service from its new quarters The Coleman Library of LaGrange established and supported by the Callaway Mills as a community service sponsored a twoday service of meetings in August for recent high school graduates who are going away to college for the first time this fall Members of last years college freshman and sophomore classes shared their experiences and gave advice on various phases of college living to the group The Augusta Library varied its film programs during the month of June by showing feature length color movies at the Appleby Branch Programs were chosen from motion pictures receiving highest ratings from Parents Magazine and the National Legion of Decency These films were secured for rental through funds contributed by Mr Scott B Appleby long a benefactor of the Augusta Library They included Young Bess Ivanhoe The Scarlet Coat and The Prisoner of Zends This series was followed by a series of musical films on Tuesday nights during July and August The Senior Citizens Club continued its program of travel films at the Atlanta Public Library during the summer months These films were selected from the collection owned by the library and from other sources as well Eleanor A Ferguson director of the Middletown Conn Library Service Center has been appointed Executive Secretary of the Public Libraries Division of the American Library Association She will take up her duties at ALA Headquarters in Chicago on September 1 Eleanor Phinney widely known for accomplishments in library planning and development and recently in adult education research has taken up duties as the first Executive Secretary of the new Adult Services Division of the American Library Association Miss Phinney has been Research Assistant in the ALA Office for Adult Education and will continue research activities for the Office She was also Consultant in the ALA LibraryCommunity Project tt LOIS LENSKI ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS Requests are in order for public libraries and school libraries which desire to display the collection of the original drawings made by Lois Lenski to illustrate her books during the fall and winter months after November 11 1957 Send such requests to the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services State Department of Education 92 Mitchell Street SW Atlanta 3 Georgia attention Miss Beverly Wheatcroft 12 NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS Miss Georgia Thomas has joined the staff of the BarrowJacksonWalton Regional Library at Winder Georgia She succeeds Mrs Dorothy Dunn Henderson who has accepted a position in Macon at the Middle Georgia Regional Library Miss Thomas will serve as Assistant Director of the Regional Library in Winder Mrs Henderson will be in charge of the extension services at Macon Miss Anne LeConte McKay formerly on the staff of the Mercer University Library is now a member of the Middle Georgia Regional Library staff She will make a study of the community inaugurate needed educational programs and conduct a publicity and public relations program through radio telephone newspapers etc Mrs Katherine Brown began work on September 1 1957 at the Chatham Effingham Regional Library Mrs Brown will assist in the bookmobile and branch services of the regional library system Miss Helen Clark has worked during the summer months at Canton Georgia as general assistant in the new CherokeePickens Regional Library Mrs Martha Jean Bryan has returned to the Athens Regional Library and will serve as Bookmobile Librarian Mrs Betty Hawkins formerly with the regional library in Decatur became Director of the PolkFloyd Regional Library with headquarters in Rome Georgia Mrs Hawkins succeeds Miss Sara Young who has retired and moved to Florida where she will hold a school library position at Panama City Florida Miss Youngs many Georgia friends and coworkers regretted that her years of service made it possible for her to retire to another state She was honored by her board and staff at a dinner before her departure where a beautiful engraved silver tray was presented to her in appreciation for her work Mrs Mary Glenn Groover has accepted a position with the Chestatee Regional Library Gainesville Georgia Mrs Elizabeth D Moore became Director of the Laurens County Library at Dublin on September the first Mrs Moore was formerly with the Middle Georgia Regional Library Miss Ethel Peerson Director of the Flint River Regional Library at Griffin has resigned to accept a position on the staff of the State Library Agency in her native state of Alabama Miss Edna Sullivan has joined the staff of the TownsUnion Fannin Regional Library Mrs Doris Dean has succeeded Mr Jim Pearson as Director of the TrpupHarrisCoweta Regional Library at LaGrange Mrs Martha Jane K Zackert has been appointed to the faculty of the Emory University Division of Librarianship for the year beginning in September Mrs William T Hunter will succeed Mrs Zackert as librarian of the Southern College of Pharmacy on a part time basis 13 Miss Patricia Ann Cook has accepted a position on the bookmobile staff of the Cherokee Regional Library at La Fayette Miss Kathleen Dillon will be in charge of work with children and young people at the Cherokee Regional Library after September the first She succeeds Miss Lola Keown who joined the Dalton Regional Library staff in June Mrs June Wester Mrs Bill will work in the West Georgia Regional Library on a parttime basis as an assistant in the adult education services of the library Mrs Wester was leader for the library sponsored young adult American Heritage discussion group at the regional library Mrs Irene Holt is the new librarian in charge of the St Marys Library replacing Mrs Catherine McLendon who is retiring for reasons of her health This library was given last spring to the city by the Woman1s Club which had established and operated it over a period of years Miss Winifred Merrier has been appointed circulation assistant at the Satilla Regional Library Headquarters in Douglas Mrs Mike Carter has been elected Gainesville City High School Librarian Mrs Carter was formerly bookmobile assistant librarian with the Chestatee Regional Library Mrs Garner B Williams Sr has retired as librarian of the Smyrna Public Library after 13 years of service Miss Mazie W Nelson has replaced Mrs Williams Mrs Edna Olson Member of the Flint River Regional Library Board of Trustees served as the official delegate for Georgia at the meetings of the American Association of Library Trustees in Kansas City in June These sessions were held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Amencsn Library Association Mrs Laura Robinson Dodson retired from her position as head librarian of the Ida Williams branch on July 1st having completed twenty five years of serviceon the staff of the Atlanta Public Library Mrs Dodson had been in charge of this branch since it moved in a new building in 19k2 and became a unit of the Atlanta and Fulton County Public Library system Located in the strategic Buckhead area the library has had a phenominal growth under Mrs Dodsons capable and enthusiastic direction Mrs Frederick Shelton who has been in charge of the childrens work at this branch since 192 has been appointed head librarian to succeed Mrs Dodson On September 15 1957 Mrs Dodson assumes her new duties as librarian for the Division of Librarianship at Emory University This library serves the faculty and students of this library school Mrs Mary Frances Slinger Waddell succeeded the late Miss Welle Barmore as librarian of the US Public Health Communiciable Disease Center Library on July 1st Miss Barbara Bronson former Chief of the Fort Benning Post Library system succeeds Mrs Waddell as staff librarian Third Army Special Services Library with headquarters at Fort McPherson while Miss Waoma Hollis assistant to Miss Bronson has been appointed to take her place at Fort Benning Ik Miss Rosa Anders is now Chief of the Fort Gordon Post Library system at Augusta Mrs BL Holton beloved librarian of the Camilla High School has retired She is succeeded by Mrs Vaughn Eubanks The Commerce Junior High School has as its first librarian Miss Barbara A Vickery Mrs Roy Bowen has been appointed librarian of the Swainsboro High School She succeeds Mrs CH Walton Miss Louise Ward has been appointed librarian of the Cartersville High School She will also supervise the Junior High Library Mrs JR Belflower is the newly appointed librarian of the Tifton Junior High School Miss Mary Emily Burch has accepted the appointment as High School librarian of the Tifton High School Mrs T E Wail has been appointed full time librarian of McDonough Elementary School UNIVERSITY Of GEORGIA JAN2 458 LIBRARIES January 1958 Voio 13 NOo 2 Issued by Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services Georgia Department of EducationCONTENTS Of General Interest Childrens and Young Peoples Library Section State Meeting 1 Georgia Library Association Meeting 2 Original Drawings Available 2 National Childrens Book Week Programs 89 National Newspaper Week 10 Copies of Music Grand March of Georgia 11 National Library Week 12 Important Notice 12 Representative Lanhams Death 13 ForestryWild Life Contest 13 District GEA Meetings lfc15 Officers of Children and Young Peoples Library Section of GLA 17 UDC Essay Contest 17 News of Georgia Librarians 1819 Necrology 20 School Librarians Student Assistant Associations Student Assistant News School Library Study School Library News Bound separate Bound separate 1 1617 Public Librarians Public Library News New Public Library Buildings Operation Library Libraries On the Air Great Books Programs Profile of a Good Trustee Savannah Names Downtown Branch for Miss Wyeth Workshop on Library Service for Young Adults 35 56 7 9 10 a 12 College and Special Librarians Open House at Emory Special Libraries Association Tea Dedication of Addition to Library at Berry Georgia Tech Made Depository 10 12 6 13CHILDRENS AND YOUNG PEOPLES LIBRARY SECTION SPRING MEETING Plans are well under way for the meeting of the Childrens and Young Peoples Library Section at the annual GEoAo Conference The business meeting and luncheon will be held at the Bass High School on Fridays March 21 The Library Section is cooperating with the Georgia Council of Teachers of English in bringing to the State Dr Dwight L Burton Editor of the English Journal and Professor in the School of Education at Florida State University Dr Burton who has the reputation of being an excellent speaker will talk at the library luncheon It is hoped that a large number of librarians and others interested in children and reading will attend the Childrens and Young Peoples Library Section meeting Mrs Lois Sue Camp Resource Librarian Area 2 Atlanta is in charge of local arrangements SCHOOL LIBRARY STUDY The Georgia School Library Study Committee of the Southern States Work Conference held a oneday meeting in Atlanta on December 6 The committee of approximately fifty superintendents principals supervisors teachers and librarians divided into four groups each group exploring a specific area of the study and planning the machinery for securing the information that will be necessary for making the study Group A under the chairmanship of Mrs A B Smith Jonesboro High School set itself the task of examining the preservice and inservice education of librarians teachers and administrators Mrs Percy Jones Miller County High School Colquitt led Group B in considering existing patterns of school library service and how the different patterns may be evaluatedo Group C under the chairmanship of Miss Isabel Lumsden Supervisor Lumpkin County Schools Dahlonega was concerned with collecting evidences to show what effect a good school library situation has upon boys and girls0 Group D was charged with examining the areas of service and relationships of the librarian in a good school program0 Mrs Elizabeth Bailey Supervisor Cherokee County Schools Canton was chairman of this committee0 Mrs Florence Songer Baldwin County High School Milledgeville Mrs Marron AlversOn Moultrie High School Miss Willene Webster Campbell High School Fairburn and Mrs Euneta Shadburn Supervisor DeKalb County Schools Decatur were elected cochairmen of their respective groups Miss Grace Hightower State Department of Education Mrs Mary Leyda Supervisor Mitchell County Camilla Miss Frances Nunn Librarian Athens High School and Mr C G Green Principal Medlock Elementary School DeKalb County served as recorders Members of the State Steering Committee together with Dr Ira Aaron and Dr Lution Wootton of the University of Georgia were consultants to the groups Georgia has had the reputation of furnishing outstanding leadership in the various studies that have been sponsored by the Southern States Work Conference and all indications are that the Georgia Library Committee over the three years of the study will not only contribute materially to the success of the regional study but exert a great influence in improving school library services in Georgia GEORGIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MEETING Georgia Librarians about 300 in numbers attended the biennial meeting held in Savannah November 7 through November 9D Meetings ware scheduled daily from 830 Ao Mo through lOsOO Pc M0 with committee meetings and conferences squeezed in between At these meetings the librarians listened and talked to each other about the various phases of library work from its broad general aspects to the minute details of the different tasks involvedo There were opportunities to meet and hear several authors who were at the conference and to meet outstanding librarians from other states who came to tell of new developments in various areas and to learn of new developments in the schools public college university and spesial libraries in Georgia Publishers and library equipment representatives offered attractive exhibits of new books and equipment and were there to discuss these and advise on needs of local libraries Library Board Members9 Friends of the Library Members and Jaycees were there to assure the librarians of their interest in promoting and strengthening library development and to learn from each other what projects and methods have proved successful in their endeavors There were planned and informal tours of historic areas and of Savannahs bustling waterfront There were shops and other libraries to visit with Savannah librarians graciously offering tea at both the downtown branch and the main public library There were delightful speakers at the dinners and luncheons and opportunities to catch up on news of friends and neighbors from other libraries The program presented people of local stste and national prominence in the fields of governments law literature and industry as well as the library profession The late Representative Henderson L Lanham of the Seventh Congressional District spoke on the importance of the mass media of communication Speakers for other meetings included Alexander A Lawrence Savannah Attorney and authority on local history Miss Evelyn Day Mullen Field Representative for the Library Services Division of the United States Office of Education Mrs Annis Duff Viking Press writer on childrens reading and literature Mrsc Rosamond Du Jardin J P Lippincott Company author of books for teenagers Eugene A Yates Jr Industrial division manager of the Georgia Power Company Ray Biswanger Jrof of the University of Georgia Ore Wiilard Thorpe of the English Department of Princeton University Dr Floyd Watkins of the English Department of Emory University and Mrs Grace To Stevenson Deputy Executive Secretary of the American Library Association Officers for the next biennium are Miss Evalene Jackson Director Emory University Division of Librarianship President Mrs Edith Co Bell Librarian Americus High School first Vice President Miss Jean Cochran Director Augusta Regional Library second Vice President Miss Wiilsne Webster Librarian Campbell High School Treasurer Fairburn Secretary and Ira E Farber Emory University Librar Original drawings by Virginia Griliey authoriilustrstor of A Shilling for Samuel are available for display purposes For further information write Miss Olga Victoria Bingel Artist0s Representative 305 West 45th Street New York 36 3 PUBLIC LIBRARY HEWS JEhe West Georgia Regional Library has just completed the first series of its Armchair Travel programs as a part of its adult education program Announcements took the form of travel brochures for looks Tours Tickets were available at the library headquarters Clever passporta were issued each member of the group and these were stamped with the name of ach county visited as the group progressed The series planned for the older patrons of the library presented at each meeting a film on some country selected for the tour Following the film presentation there was discussion of the film of the ideas and places it had presented and of reading materials related to the country The books were on exhibit at the meeting and opportunity was provided for members of the group to check out any they wished to read Those members of the group who had visited in the country being discussed frequently brought examples of the crafts of that country for exhibit The first tour in the series consisted of six meetings Mrs June Wester staff member of the West Georgia Regional Library in charge of this project reports that it was a most successful effort and met a real need of the older citizens of the community The Public Library of Columbus now known as the Bradley Memorial Library passed Its fiftieth anniversary in October The Columbus Ledger carried a history of the library and its services in a series of articles It pointed out how the library has grown from a small downtown building serving only the city of Columbus to the present library system serving three counties and operating two bookmobiles The Carnegie Library of Newnan this summer entered into a contract with the TroupHarrisCoweta Regional Library to become a participating unit of that library system In October the Reading Circle a group organized to promote cultural values in the community devoted its program to the library and its services Mrs D B Blalock presented the history of the library which dates back to 19XA and told of projects which the reading Circle is considering to promote the library The Brooks County Library at Quitman has recently been repainted The South Georgia Regional Library Headquarters at Valdosta is another Georgia Library that can now boast of its airconditioning which was installed during the past summer Miss Evelyn Day Mullen was a recent visitor to several libraries over the state Miss Mullen a Virginian has worked in libraries in Virginia Horth Carolina and Alabama She recently joined the staff of the US Office of Education as Extension Specialist The Montezuma Carnegie Library has received from the estate of Mrs James E Bays Georgia historian and former director of the Division of Archivesnearly 100 books dealing with history the classics and religion Also included in the collection are many interesting and valuable pieces of Georgiana Mrs Louise Hays Gaston of Columbus and J K Hays of Thomaston presented the books to Mrs Sidney Moore Librarian The Hardin Library of Tift College had on exhibit during the month of November a group of thirty prizewinning paintings that have been chosen over the past ten years from the Southeastern annual exhibition The collection is a loan from the Atlanta Art Museraa Pufcher interest in art study is evidenced by the organisation of an art study course to meet at the GwinnettForsyfeh Begional Library during the fall months This study gpup was organized through the efforts of she staff of the Gwinnett Forsyth Regional Library Mr Erwin Mapp Director and the University of Georgia Mr Charles Morgan is the teaches The outstanding float in the recent parade la Madison was that of the Jasper MorganPutnam Regional Library It portrayed Uncle Remus delighting the Little Boy and his friends with his tales of Brer Rabbit and the other critters Uncle Remus was portrayed by Eatontons official Uncle Remus Mr Emory Tucker with boys and girls from the local school representing the children The little boy was portrayed by the son of Mrs Grace Thearpson f the Regional Library Staff Gordon County has joined the Dalton Regional Library System with bookmobile services to the county having begun in September 2200 books were checked out to teachers and student during the first trip into Gordon County Mrs Mildred Greeson continues in charge of the local county library at Calhcun The Dalton Region now serves three counties Catoosa Whitfield and Gordon shile Murray County will join the region in January 1958 The Savannah Public Library has undertaken the sponsorship of a project to complete the indexing and abstracting of the Savannah Mominj News for the years 18701895 Miss Geral dine LeMay Director of the Library said that the volumes for 18501869 which were completed as a WPA project are among the most useful reference volumes in the library and the other volumes are badly needed Volun teer woxkers from the Friends of the Library the Junior League and other organisations are working on this project under the supervision of Mrs Perry Brannen who was formerly staff member of the library The Brooks County Library at Qroitman is trying out a test program of keeping the library open one night each week for the benefit of students and working people who could not otherwise be able to visit the library during the daylight hours The Dalton Regional Library with the assistance of a teacher from the county school system Mrs Byron Wilson has prepared a list of books and materials for the use of ParentTeacher Associations which will be useful to these groups in planning their individual reading The DecaturSeminole Regional Library recently held an exhibit of paintings representing the work of a number of Bainbridge residents who participated in an art class conducted under the joint sponsorship of the library and the DeeaturCounty Department of Education last yearQ At the exhibit an opportunity was offered for interested viewers to sign up for a second course to be offered during the fail monthso An exhibit of art work done by local persons was held in the headquarters building of the MeriwetherTalbotUpson Regional Library in Manchester this fall All types of arts and crafts were displayedo While there was no age limit primary emphasis was placed on school art work0 A Regional Health Clinic sponsored by the Northeast Georgia Regional Library was held in Clarkesville on October 150 Approximately sixty leaders attended from Habersham Rabun Stephens and White Counties representing medical associations PoToAo groups agricultural extension groups public health staffs ministers dentists teachers and business and civic drganisations The morning program consisted of a panel We Do Have These Problemsv at which time the health problems were discussed with their effects upon lives and learning or earning capacities of the citizens of the area0 The afternoon panels What Can Be Done About These Problems was discussed from two points of emphasis What is being done now and what more can be done in the nottoodistant future0 MrsQ Charles Center and Miss Annie Taylor represented the State Department of Health with Miss Lucile Nix representing the Library Division of the State Department of Education An exhibit of materials on health were a special feature of the clinic0 NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT A reading terrace has been added to the Carnegie Library at Rome through the cooperation of the Rome Junior Chamber of Commerce and the City of Rome The landscape design class at the University of Georgia submitted several designs for the terrace to library officials who selected the one which best answered their needso In September Open House was held at the Regional Library building in Lawrenceviiie which was redecorated and furnished with some new equipments Two small buildings near the American Legion Clubhouse on the Athens highway will be used for storing and processing books freeing some space in the main library building and providing work space for processing the regional library materials0 Contracts have been let for remodeling and renovating the front part of the Covington Junior High Gymnasium to house the Newton County Library a unit of the DeKalbNewtonRockdale Regional Libraryc In addition to the remodeling and renovation the local library board expects to add several needed pieces of furni ture and equipment In Augusta final approval has been given to plans for a 600000o00 main library to be constructed with funds derived from saie of a bond issue approved by Richmond County voters last yearc In addition to providing space for the regular reading areas for adults and children as well as workroom and office space for the library staff the plans call for an auditorium an exhibition room a meeting room and a staff lounge with special provisions being made for the bookmobile service0 Hoyt 3alvin librarian of the Charlotte North Carolina Public Library is serving as consultant in planning the buildingCompletion of the new library building in Chatsworth is expected by January 1 19580 The new building is being constructed by the Chatsworth Womans Club on the same site of the old library The library is presently operating from temporary quarters while the work is in progress The Murray County Library which has its headquarters at Chatsworth expects to become a unit of the Dalton Regional Library in January 1958 and the new quarters will enable the library personnel and officials to give greatly improved service to the people of this county Dedication ceremonies were held on October 30 for the newlycompleted Price Library administrative annex in Macon Following the ceremonies during which a piaque was unveiled open house was held from five until nine oclock The administrative center for the library was built at a cost of 32i90o00 as a part of Macon0s program of general improvements through a i800o00 bond issue The new building will be headquarters for general offices of Macons public library system and the regional library services for the Middle Georgia Library which has its center here Storage and parking space for the bookmobiles are provided in the new constructiono The Brunswick Regional Library boasts delivery of a new Gerstenslager bookmobile The new vantype bookmobile will hold approximately 2000 volumeSc It replaces a bookmobile which was purchased in 19480 The Atlanta Public Library has purchased a new bookmobile for use in the further extension of library service in Fulton CountyD It is an airconditioned Gerstenslager0 The CityCounty Library Board of Dublin announces the dedication of the Katherine Wo Gray Library for Negroes which opened in October Funds for the building were raised by public subscription and it was named in honor of the Jeanes supervisor in Laurens County in recognition of her work with the teachers and others of her race for many years0 The library will be operated as a branch of the Laurens County Library and will be financed jointly by the city and county0 The Board of Trustees of the Flint River Regional Library has honored the memory of the late Carrie V Goidwire by naming the East Taylor Street branch library in honor of this Negro educator The State Board of Education has named the new library at the Georgia School for the Blind at Macon the Mrs0 Hamp Riley Library in honor of Mrsc Riley of Butler9 who is now retired after having served the institution for 35 years The Sarah Hamilton Fleisehmnn addition to the library of Berry College was dedicated in October in ceremonies attended by several college presidents librarians and other distinguished guestSo Mr Waiter G Dunnington dedicated the building and MTo William McChesney Martin Jr representing the Berry Board of Trustees accepted the building on behalf of the college The original section of the library was renovated during the building and its interior decoration and furnishings match those of the new addition Miss Florrie Jackson is head librarian of the Berry College Libraryc The CherokeePickens Regional Library Canton expects to receive its new bookmobile in December According to MrQ T C Hendrix Director of the library work in the headquarters building is almost completed and dedication exercises are planned for January0 OPERATION LIBRARY TOURNAMENT OF BOOKS One of the most successful projects ever undertaken in prompting library consciousness in an are was the West Georgia Regional Librarys Tournament of Books which was held on October 3 in Carrollton Cooperation was the theme and the keynote of the celebration The Carrollton Junior Chamber of Commerce sparked the observance as part of its Class I project Operation Library Operation Library is the name given by the national Junior Chamber of Commerce to its nationwide project to advance the cause of public library progress Local Jaycee organizations are encouraged to adopt this as a major project and to work with the local public library adminis tration in promoting support and use of the library The Carrollton group invited the Jaycee organizations in each of the other counties served by the West Georgia Regional Library to join them in sponsoring the events of this occasion and each group participated in planning and carrying out the days program The daylong program featured the West Georgia Regional Library the branch libraries the college library and the school libraries It also honored the civic religious and cultural groups that have had a part in developing the Regional Library Program in the four counties Carroll Douglas Haralson and Heard Committees from all of these groups worked with the Jaycees and with Miss Edith Foster Director of the regional library to plan the events of the day These plans were made well in advance and the officers of the Carrollton Jaycee group workedwith the local city and county authorities to coordinate them and keep things working smoothly The morning program featured the public schools of the area in a unique book character party which was held in the college gymnasium Children from all the schools in the area came dressed to represent characters from childrens books and appeared in a skit Once Upon a Time which was written for the occasion by Miss Foster and was narrated by George Moorman professor of speech and dramatics at West Georgia College Following the skit the children heard stories told by Miss Roxanna Austin of the State Department of Education who appeared as Miss Once Upon A Time At noon a barbecue lunch was served The afternoon feature was a parade with more than 75 floats several bands and other marching units from schools and civic organizations in the area Most of the floats represented books or book characters but some of them depicted activities events or places which could be related to books or libraries On the reviewing stand were the judges special guests of the morning and other celebrities including Miss Jody Shaddock Miss Georgia and runnerup forMiss America whose appearance was sponsored by the Jaycees Other celebrities were the movie actress Susan Hayward who now lives in Carrollton the baseball star Whitlow Wyatt city and county officials representatives of the Library Services Division of the State Department of Education the State Federation of Womens Clubs the Federated Garden Clubs of Georgia members of Congress and the Georgia General Assembly The climax of the days activities was a meeting at which Mrs Grace Stevenson Deputy Executive Secretary of the American Library Association and president of the Adult Education Association of America spoke in the college auditorium At this meeting awards were made for the winning floats Tournament of Books drew national publicity and editorial comment The advance publicity and the coverage of the days ewents resulted in a new awareness of the public librarys services to the people of the area 8 national chhjjkens book week programs Books Unlimited was the slogan far tha Atlanta Public Librarys Book Fair for youngsters which was planned as part of the celebration of Childrens Book Weeko Running froHi November 11 through December 7 the Book Fair had several purposes These according to director John Co Settelmayer were to expose the greatest number of parents and children to the best books to promote the buying of good books no sales at the library and to emphasise the value of books as permanent Christ mas giftso In addition to offering special displays of books organized by subject and age groups the library presented four speakers one each Monday evening who directed their talks to parents Among the speakers were MrSo Annis Duff assistant juvenile editor of Viking Press and writer n the subject of books for children William R Scott president of the Young Scott Publishing Company and Miss Agnes Gregory professor of library sienee at the Xdlsrary School at Florida State University The Athens Area Association for Childhood Educaticc sponsored a Book Fair for that area to jointly observe Ameriaa Eduogion Week and Childrens Book Week The fair coordinated by Miss Dorothy Firor had maay interesting exhibits of aew and colorful books for children from 5 to 15 en display k shelf of best sellers was planned by Mrs Kathleen Broadbarst of the University of Georgia and reference books on many levels were shorn by Miss Sarah Maret Director of the Athens Regional Library Miss Annette Zuber served as general hostess for the Book Fair assisted by students from the University of Georgia College of Education Provisions were madefes child ren frcffi the Clarke Comity Schools to visit the Fair with their classes A set f reference books for children was presented to the Ball County Library to commemorate Childrens Book Wack by the members of the local Book Club Their contribution was part of the observance planned by the staff of the Chestatee Regional Library Explore With Books wa the theme of the 1957 Childrens Book Week throughout the United States This theme was suggested by a Georgian Mrs Susan MLpepper Huff and was selected from slogans suggested fey individuals all over the United States Mrso Huff a native of Tifton Georgia is married to a geologist and is the mother of two chilrea She is attending classes at the University of Georgia to complete rsquirensents for a degree in elementary education and suggested this slogan tc tie in with the observance of the International Geophysical Year A large number of public libraries over the state celebrated Childrens Book Week by holding specie ceremonies or programs during which the feature was the awarding of certificates of achievement to boys and girls who participated in the Vacation Reading Clubo Emphasis in newspaper publicity and in talks was placed on the fact that Johnny 3oes read aad the exhibits and displays called attention to the wide variety of really good books which he reads in increasing numbers The Flint River Regional Library3 observance rated an editorial salute from the Griffin Daily News calling the library an essential cornerstone In Albany the Mayor issued a proclamation and the Education and Fine Arts Departments of the Junior Woraans Club sooperated with the Carnegie Library in observing the occasion In Thomasville new books for children gifts from the Junior Service League were on display at the Annie Wright Memorial Library The MitcheHBakerWorth Regional Library participated in the observance by extending an invitation to all boys and girls in the area to visit the childrens rocm to be introduced to the fun of reading good books A bibliography of books every child should have a chance to 9 read and enjoy was made available to help people select interesting titles for Christmas gifts0 In Valdosta a party was held for the Vacation Reading Club readers who completed the requirements for a certificate and the certificates were awarded at that time This plan was fonowed in many libraries over the state0 School libraries and Public libraries cooperated in offering programs of story teliing9 special displays of childrens books by local authors or of original illustrations from outstanding wellillustrated books radio programs and other programs In many of the schools where certificates for Vacation Reading Club achievement were awarded in assembly programs excellent dramatizations were offered Many ciever plays presented book characters in costume Where it was possible class groups came with their teachers to the public library for visits to see special exhibits and were served refreshments or given special bookmarks as mementoSo In both elementary and high schools the entire week saw unusual posters skits assembly programs dramatizations booklists and special bookmarks calling attention to the opportunity to Explore With Books Classroom teachers and school librarians cooperated to focus attention on the importance of good reading and good library service to the school and the community LIBRARIES ON THE AIR A new service being offered patrons in the JasperMorganPutnam Region is a series of radio broadcasts in the form of a discussion on the general theme of People Places and Books Through the courtesy of the Book of the Month Club Gilbert Highet distinguished teacher author and critic will be presented by transcription once each week for thirteen weeks over radio station WMGE in Madison The Dalton Regional Library is sponsoring a Book Parade over WBLJ the local radio station each Saturday morning at ten oclock This series offers recorded reviews and discussions of outstanding books both old and new by outstanding critics and writers Sunday book review programs are another service of the Athens Regional Library These are offered in the afternoon over Station WGAU Reviewers are local people who are noted for their wide reading and interest in certain topics Faculty members of the University and other prominent people in the Athens area are cooperating in this program Mrs Violet Moore Librarian of the Montezuma Carnegie Library is on the air for fifteen minutes each Friday afternoon at one oclock on the Perry radio station Her programs cover a variety of subjects relating to books old and new and authors each talk being closely related to the library and its services to the Community0 10 NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK Throughout the state libraries joined with state and local newspapers in cieibrating National Newspaper Week from October 1 through October 8 The theme for this years observance was Your Newspaper Serves characterizing simpiy and directly the chief responsibility which newspapermen and librarians mutually shareo This observance was marked by special exhibits and displays in libraries and in newspaper offices and by programs calling attention to the contributions of newspapers in informing and inspiring people through the printed page0 Prominently featured in the displays were the various newspapers available to readers through the local library systemsQ Other exhibits and displays showed how newspapers have stood together with libraries in making available all the facts on any subject in the tradition of democracy0s great contribution to the thinking of free men everywhereo Several librarians who have regular columns in local papers took the occasion to pay tribute to the cooperation shown the library in all of its programs The newspapers in return saluted the libraries editorially and expressed appreciation for the services rendered by them GREAT BOOKS PROGRAMS IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES The Great Books discussion programs continue to hold a strong interest for readers throughout GeorgiaQ Several libraries report beginning groups this fan and others axe continuing some into the fifth year of the program In Atlanta the discussions have been carried on at the Main Library for the past three years and have been successful enough to draw greater numbers of participants each year of their operation Branch libraries are now undertaking first year programs with groups organized at College Park Inman Park Ida Williams and at the West Hunter Brancho The Rome Carnegie Library is in the fifth year of its Great Books series which is jointly sponsored by the Rome OffCampus Center of the University of Georgia and the Carnegie Library The Dalton Regional Library reports that the program is being offered this year after having been suspended for a few years The Marietta Great Books Discussion Group started its third year at the Clarke Library this fan and the DecaturDeKalb Regional Library reports an active group meeting in the library at Decatur Groups as slso meeting at the Flint River Regional Library in Griffins and at the Augusta Public Library The newly remodeled Emory University Library held Open House on the evening of November 15 in connection with the inauguration of Dr Sidney Walter Martin Emorys new president A number of librarians and faculty members were present to congratulate Mr Guy Lyle librarian on the functional and pleasing rearrangement of the library areas0 PROFILE OF A GOOD TRUSTEE by 0 Byron Bowen3 President Board of Trustees Lowville New York Free Library He is a good library trustee who listens quietly and attentively to the sales talk of the person who is trying to persuade him to accept the office This talk usually emphasizes particularly that the duties of a library trustee are not at all onerous or time consuming and that one has to attend only a few short meetings nothing more A good trustee listens to this talk and then accepts the office with the full knowledge that any position worth taking is not as simple as all that 4 good trustee accepts his office because he feels that the library is one of the most important institutions in any community It is a privilege and an honor to help carry out the program of such an organization He knows that the library can and should play a significant part in the educational cultural and recreational life of a community Good reading does all of those as you know And now the growing importance of film and record collections broadens the scope of the librarys program even more Of course a good trustee sees to it that the library property is satisfactorily maintained so that the book film and record collections are suitably housed and the reading room is quite and attractive He sees to it that the library is well staffed and he is willing to listen to the librarians problems and help with their solution He tries to show the village or city government that the funds appropriated for library use are essential to the welfare of the community and works to increase the budget when necessary He is glad to tell his friends and neighbors about the library and its program so that they may make greater use of this worthwhile institution A good trustee does more than attend a few meetings of the library board SAVANNAH NAMES DOWNTOWN BRANCH FOR MISS WYETH Dedication services were held on Sunday afternoon November 2ii at the Down Town Branch of the Savannah Public Library renaming it in honor of Miss Ola M Wyeth The Mayor and City Council of Savannah and the Board of Managers of the Savannah Public Library in this way recognized Miss Wyeths distinguished service to the city during the twentyseven years she served as head librarian Miss Wyeth continues to be quite active in the various organizations of the city At present she is serving as secretary of the Friends of the Library group and is working to promote the program it sponsors Miss Wyeth8s many friends both within and outside of the library profession who have come to know and love her will be happy to learn of this new honor which has come to her The Ola M Wyeth Branch of the Savannah Public Library will serve to remind the public of her valuable contributions to the development of the citys library service Copies of the music Grand March of Georgia are free upon request from the Secretary of States Office State Capitol Atlanta Georgia 12 NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK Marsh 1622 1958 is the date that has been set for the celebration of National Library Week Mr Robert Sommervlle President of the Atlanta Transit Companya also husband of Georgia librarian and author Evelyn Hanna has been named chairman of the Georgia Committee and will work in cooperation with Miss Evelene Jackson President of the Georgia Library Association in setting up a statewide committee of citizens and librarians to spearhead plans for celebration of the week throughout the state0 All librarians in the state are urged to cooperate with the state committee in setting up local committees to plan for local programs and activities that will give emphasis to books reading and library 9rvice throughout the week The aim of National Library Week is a betterread betterinformed America The week is being sponsored nationally by the American Library Association and the National Book Committee Inc0 2k West Uoth Street New York 1QS New York Watch for correspondence and materials from the state chairman and act promptly when you are requested to do a job LetBs make the week meaningful in Georgia IMPORTANT NOTICE Publishers and jobbers have complained that librarians are returning books without identifying the order0 If you have to return books for any reason please indicate invoice numbesv dates and order numberso 3fc3fi3frK3 A workshop on Library Service for Young Adulis will be conducted by the Library School of Louisiana State University February 2328 158 under the cosponsorshp of the ALA Library Education Division the Louisiana State University and the ALA Young Adult Services Division For further information and for reservations address the Library School Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana The Georgia Chapter of the Special Libraries Association entertained at a tea on October 5 in honor of Miss Alberta L Brown President of the Special Libraries Association Miss Brown who is librarian of the Upjohn Company Kalamazoo Michigan was on an official visit to the Georgia Chapter 13 REPRESENTATIVE LANHAM S DEATH Georgia Librarians experienced a sad loss in the sudden death of Congressman Henderson L Lanham of the Seventh Georgia Congressional District One of his last appearances in public was at the general session of the Georgia Library Association at its meeting in Savannah on November 7 1957 when he talked on the importance of mass communication Mr Lanham a lover of books and reading himself was always interested in working to improve and strengthen library service to the rural areas When the Library Services Act designed to strengthen and extend library service in rural areas was under debate in the House Appropriations Committee he was instrumental in restoring most of the funds which had been cut from the bill in Committee and he was active in the fight for successful passage of the bill Mr Lanham was known as a man who spoke his convictions clearly and supported them with honesty and forthrightnesSo He always held the respect of his opponents as well as his friends His efforts in behalf of libraries will be sorely missed GEORGIA TECH MADE DEPOSITORY The Library of the Georgia Institute of Technology has been designated one of two depositories in the nation for articles on research published by the Office of Technical Services a government agency According to Dale Barker associate director of the library this material has heretofore been quite difficult to obtain and its availability from now on ought to mean much to the people in Atlanta who are interested in this scientific and technical information Although the publications may not be checked out of the library copies and photostatic copies of them may be obtained after only a short waiting period Georgia Tech Library and the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Public Library are the only two libraries in the United States now serving as depositories for this information The Conservation Department of the Georgia Federation of Womens Clubs is sponsoring a ForestryWild Life jingle contest which is open to all fourth and fifth grade school children in the state of Georgia Entries will be judged on originality and knowledge of the subject Preliminary judging will be done in the districts by March 1 1958 and the winning entries will be judged by April 1 1958 This emphasis on the theme of conservation offers an opportunity for libraries to cooperate with the Georgia Federation of Womens Clubs in one of their projects and to promote the use of library resources in this area 1U DISTRICT GEoAo MEETINGS The fall district meetings of the Childrenss and Young Peoples Library Section of GEAo were well attended Those attending benefited from excellent programs Some of those programs featured such speakers ass Dr Frank Jenkins Area Representative State Department of Education spoke to the fifth and sixth districts on Evaluating the Libraryo As a part of his talks he shared with the groups opinions of the library gathered from a number of boys and girls in various sections of Georgia Miss Marguerite Gilbert Librarian Waycross High School spoke to the eighth district on the summer work she has been doing in the elementary schools of the system Miss Sarah Tipton Director Hamilton County Tenn School and Community Libraries spoke at the seventh district meeting Her topic was Evaluation of School Library Service96 within the school within the community and in relation to other library agencies Miss Ira Lois Brown Albany Public Librarys shared with the second district slides made on a recent trip to Europe Miss Elizabeth Jones Librarian College Park High School told the fourth district group about the Georgia Association of Student Assistants how it was organized its purposes and plans for the future Miss Roxanna Austin and Miss Grace Hightower discussed at the first district meeting the values of student assistants organisations local district and state0 Miss Clara Starnes Librarian Clara Cox Epperson Librarys Cookville5 Tennessee spoke on Evaluation of School Library Service at the Third District West meeting Mr0 Porter Kellam Librarian University of Georgia and frsi 3me Outturn Athens Regional Library discussed the challenge of being a librarian at the Seventh District meetilng0 Officers elected for l5758s 1st District Chairman Mrs Emily DeLoach Glennville High School Glennville Georgia CoChairman Miss Elizabeth Sorrier Statesboro High School StatesborOj Georgia Secretary Mrs Thelma B Glisson Collins High School Collins Georgia 2nd District Chairman Mrs Marron Alverson Moultrie Senior High School Moultriey Georgia 1st Vice President Miss Evelyn Toms Cairo High School Cairo Georgia 2nd Vice President Mrs Eloise Jones Miller County Hiqh Colquitt Georgia Secretary Treasurer Mrso Stanley Brown Albany Junior High Albany GeorgiaD3rd District East 3rd District West 4th District 5th District 6th District 7th District 8th District 9th District 10th District 15 Chairman Miss Elna Capei Warner Robins High School Warner Robins Georgia Vice Chairman Mrs Hazel Humpheries Fitzgerald High School Fitzgerald Georgia Secretary Mrs E L Mason R W Lindsey School Warner Robins Georgia also Charies Thomas Elementary School Warner Robins Georgia Chairman Miss Cornelia Lowe Bradley Memorial Library Columbus Georgia Secretary Miss Nell Jo Owens Baker High School Columbus Georgia Chairman Mrs Lewis Swint Jr West Point High School West Point Georgia CoChairman Mrs Myrtice H Hargett Harris County High School Hamilton Georgia Secretary Mrs Dan Pace GriffinSpalding County High School Griffin Georgia Chairman Mrs A B Smith Jonesboro High School Jonesboro Georgia Vice Chairman Mrs Farris B McGready Dodd School Duluth Georgia Secretary Mrs Wilma Cravey Chambiee High School Chambiee Georgia Chairman Mrs Frances Harrison Bibb County Elementary School Libraries Macon Georgia CoChairman Mrs Dorothy C0 Aifriend Sparta High School Sparta Georgia Secretary Miss Gertrude Pierce East Laurens School Route 6 Dublin Georgia Chairman Mrs0 Grace Olsen Rome High School Rome Georgia CoChairman Miss Kathleen Lutz Lylerly High School Lyierly Georgia Secretary Mrs Burl Scoggins Fort Hill Junior High School Dalton Georgia0 Chairman Mrsc To P Exums Lanier County High School Lakeland Georgia CoChairman Miss Raye Osborne Brunswick Regional Library Brunswick Georgia Secretary Mrs0 Bryan Mathis Vaidosta High School Vaidosta Georgia Chairman Mrs Mary Garrard Lumpkin County High School Dahionega Georgia Secretary Mrs L T Sovey Rabun Gap High School Rabun Gap Georgia Chairman Mrs Annie Bell Ayers Hart County High School Hartwell Georgia Secretary Mrsc Marline Miles Athens High School Athens Georgia 16 SCHOOL LIBRARY NEWS Mrs Brooks Pittman Librarian at Bowdon High School has reported a very interesting project With the school principals enthusiastic support Mrs Pittman decided to have music playing at all times in the school library One student reported I deeply enjoy the music in the libraryc I feel that music plays an important part in our lives and we should listen to it all we can Music relaxes the mind and body giving you a better atmosphere in which to work The Nahunta High School Librarian and her Library Assistants realized that all members of the faculty were not visiting the library and availing themselves of the services and advantages of a good library They decided to entertain the faculty after a faculty meeting Mr T W Edwards Principal requested the presence of each teacher0 During this entertainment different members of the club explained different library services and passed out lists of filmstrips and magazines They worked up a booklet listing information about and services of the library Book jackets suitable to the subject interests of the individual teacher were used as covers In these booklets were a welcome to the teachers a list of the Library Assistants and the periods they serve A list of the officers of the Library Club with its motto the approximate number of books in each classification in the library the number of magazines comments on the few professional books the number of filmstrips in the library with suggestions as to other available film strips a page of film service and equipment a page encouraging more frequent visits from all teachers a list of the newspapers a page discussing the proper and improper attitude of students toward the library librarians and materials while in the library and a final page listing the new books in the library at this timee A suitable comment or quotation was on the bottom of each The students of Heard High School are learning more about the services of their libraryQ An excellent manual You Need To Know How To Use The Library was prepared by Mrs Ruby McLendon librarian Several business firms made the printing of the manual possible Mrs McLendon reports that the results of such an aid to the students are already being felt in the use made of the library Campbell High School had a picture and writeup of one of their bulletin boards printed in the September issue of Wilson Library Bulletin According to recent newspaper articles a number of new elementary libraries have been opened this fall Ty Ty School opened its library under the supervision of Mrso Clayton Gibbs Jacob Go Smith School Library was activated under the direction of Mrs Mary Perkins with the assisfcance of Miss Mae McCali and Miss Frances Drew from the Savannah Public Library and Mrs W E Hutchinson and Mrs Paul Cargill PTA Chairmen The students of Toccoa Falls Elementary School are making wonderful use of the library organized by Mrs Mae Wheeler Principal and Miss Daisy Hayes Librarian Stephens County High School Camilla Elementary School opened its library in a completely remodeled room with new equipment under the direction of Mrs Myrtis A Eubanks Open house was held in the newly renovated and very attractive library of the Celanese Elementary School November 23 Mrs Frank Campbell is the librarian 17 Two excellent articles told of the expanded quarters of the Tifton Junior High School This library has a fulltime librarian for the first time Mrs JoH Belflowero McDonough Elementary School Library was organized through the cooperation of Mrs TH Mobley principal Mrs LL Moore high school librarian teachers and P7 A members Mrs TE Nail is the fulltime librarian in the elementary schoolo The Summerville Elementary School has a fully equipped central library Hrs John Stubbs Sr who has had library training is in charge of the library and of the audiovisual aids in the school Other news articles reported improvements and services of libraries Among these ares CasimirPulaski Elementary School Caraden County High School Fayette County High Edison High and Turner County High Additional copies of Musts for Georgia Bookmobiles MA Selected List of Recordings for the Small Public Library and the list of free and inexpensive materials about Georgia may be secured by writing to the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service 92 Mitchell Street SW Atlanta 3 Georgia These lists were prepared by committees of the Public Library Section of the Georgia Library Association The Children and Young People5s Library Section of the Georgia Library Association elected Miss Mary Carruth LibertyGuinn School as its Chairman and Miss Sue Frazier Cedartown High School as SecretaryTreasurer The Georgia Division of the UDC has announced the subject cf the Historical Essay Contest for school children John H Reagan Po5t Master General 186165 Leaflets are available to school and public libraries from the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service 92 Mitchell Street Atlanta 18 NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS Mrs Clifton Baxter has been named librarian of the Long County Public Library succeeding Miss Maree Gordon resigned William F Grant has been appointed law librarian for the Walter F George School of Law at Mercer University assuming his duties on September 1 1957 Mrs J C Walters has joined the staff of the Tift County Library succeeding Mrs J R Belflower as assistant librarian Mrs Belflower has taken the post of librarian at the Tifton Junior High School Mrs Loyal Smith Bookmobile Librarian for the Chestatee Regional Library at Gainesville is recuperating from a fractured vertebra suffered in a fall on the library steps Miss Louise Smith beloved librarian of the Carnegie Library at Fitzgerald has resigned her position because of ill health Miss Louise has served as librarian in Fitzgerald for 42 years Miss Pauline Ennis is acting librarian The Baldwin County Library Board has announced the retirement of two people long associated with its library program Miss Floride Allen Chairman of the board for many years resigned because of ill health Mrs Lillian Webber who served as librarian for fifteen years has retired from service Mrs Royce Smith of Milledgeville has been appointed as librarian of the Baldwin County Library Mrs William E Young has been appointed director of the Flint River Regional Library which has its headquarters at the Hwkes Library at Griffin Mrs Young succeeds Miss Ethel Peerson who resigned to accept a position with the Alabama Public Library Service Division at Montgomery Mrs Olga Craig has succeeded Mrs Gertie Howell as the librarian of the Pike County Library at Zebulon Mrs Howell has retired after several years of faithful service Miss Patricia Cook has joined the staff of the BarrowJacksonWaltonBanks RegionaJ Library at Winder Miss Doris Dickerson has accepted a position at the new CherokeePickens Regional Library at Canton Mrs Beulah Kirby Tucker will join the Cherokee Regional Library staff on January 1 1958 Mrs Roberta Ryan has resigned the position as Director of the ColquittThomas Regional Library to become Librarian at the South Georgia College Library at Douglas Mrs Anna E Schinkel of Pavo will become Acting Director of the regional library on January 1 1958 Mrs Sammie Lackey will join the staff of the Augusta Regional Library early in the new year Mrs Leslie Jones former librarian at Piedmont College at Demorest has succeeded Mrs S B Tolar as librarian at the Henry Duckworth Library Younq Harris College 19 Mrs S Bo Toiar for many years the librarian at Young Harris College and an active member of the TownsUnion Regional Library board has retired from active librarianship Mrs Tolar is devoting her time to her home and family and to community activities in Young Harris Miss Elizabeth Coffee has been appointed librarian at Piedmont College Demorest New appointments on the staff of the Mercer University library staff are Mrs Margaret Weir Bennett as cataloger and J R Woodward as assistant librarian in charge of reference work Mr Ray Taubman has assumed his duties as head librarian of Oglethorpe University Library Miss Helen Clark has succeeded Miss Olive Counts as librarian of Brenau College Library at Gainesville Miss Margaret Jackson is the new librarian at TruettMcConnell Junior College Library at Cleveland New staff members at the University of Georgia library Athens include Mr John David Marshall and Miss Mary Ellen Drane Miss Doris Isley librarian of the Architectural Library at Georgia Institute of Technology has resigned to accept a position with the United Nations as technical expert for the library program at the Middle East Technical University Ankara Turkey Miss Isley leaves for Paris on January 4 1958 for a weeks briefing there before going on to Turkey where her first assignment is the organization of an architectural library at the University in Ankara Mrs Rosemary M Glenn and Mrs staff of Atlanta Public Library Constance Bennett Pease have recently joined the Mrs Maud CQuinn has retired from her position as librarian of Bacon County Library at Alma after many years of faithful service The library is now in charge of Mrs R W Sanders Mrs Florence Songer Baldwin High librarian was the speaker for the Elementary Education Club of Milledgeville at their November meeting MrSo John Harris assumed the duties as Folkston High School librarian in October The Georgia Department of Education Library Division loses one of its veteran employees through the retirement of Miss Nina Morgan Librarians throughout the State have depended on Miss Morgan for help in difficult reference work and will miss her cheerful and efficient service Mrs John Lewis Hapeville Georgia has joined the staff of the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service State Department of Education as head of the Reference Service Miss Mary Lou Barker who has been Chief Cataloger at the Price Gilbert Library Georgia Institute of Technology for the past five years has resigned her position in order to work on her sixth year Masters at Columbia University Library School Miss Eleanor Smith former Serials Cataloger has been named new Chief Cataloger Taking Miss Smiths place as Serials Cataloger is Miss Mildred Emmons formerly of the University of Louisville 20 NECROLOGY The State Department of Education library staff suffered a distinct loss in the death of Mr Paul D Farr on September 14 1957 following a heart attack in his car on the way home from work Mr Farr joined the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services in May 1948 as shipping clerk for the library at 92 Mitchell Street and also had charge of handling the textbooks which are at times returned by school systems no longer using them and may later be used by another school system In 1952 it became necessary to move the textbooks to a separate warehouse and Mr Farr was placed in charge Soon thereafter the library for the Blind was turned back by the City of Atlanta to the State Department of Education where the service first originated in 1928 and Mr Farr became Manager of this library service for the blind people in Georgia and adjacent states He was a man of fine Christian character high principles and integrity as well as pleasing personality His jovial smile and cordial manner to everyone will be sadly missed by those who worked with him and many others who know and respected him e le om m lu jLRMKDH mW tBOJCLtLCITjQW May 1958 Vol 13 No 3 Issued by Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services Georgia Department of EducationTABLE OF CONTENTS Of General Interest National Library Week Sears Roebuck and Company List Southeastern Library Association New Director of the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service ALA Conference Donation to GALA Scholarship Fund Summer Training Opportunities Exhibit of Childrens Book Illustrations Valuable Materials Lists Georgia Official Marching Song New Social Security Regulations Newberry and Caldecott Awards Summer Reading Institute Miss Pettus Honored Issues of CB I News of Georgia Librarians School Librarians Reprint of School Library Edition of ALA Bulletin Student Assistant Meeting Children and Young Peoples Library Section Meeting School Library News GEA Planning Conference Student Assistant Certificates Student Assistant News Credits for Student Assistants Public Librarians Page 13 3 u h 5 6 6 7 7 12 16 16 17 17 1719 6 13 13 1U 1 15 16 20 Friends of the Library Career Day Public Libraries Institutes Public Library Buildings Bookmobiles and Equipment Southern Public Library Workshop Trustee Organization Local Art Exhibit Miss Elizabeth Stevenson Receives Fellowship College and Special Librarians College Libraries Southern College and Research Library Workshop r h 7 89 9 1011 11 11 12 12 16 h 11 1 NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK Georgia libraries cooperated to the fullest in the observance of National Library Week March 16 through March 22 This week designed to acquaint the public more fully with library services available to them and to help bring about a wider and wiser us of books was conceived and sponsored by the National Book Committee and the American Library Association Local laymen were invited to serve on committees to work with librarians to make plans for the ways in which the week would be observed Plans were varied In nearly every town the mayor issued a proclamation and newspapers carried at least one editorial pointing out the importance of libraries in a free democratic society and calling upon Americans to read more These pro clamations were in line with the Presidents proclamation which was issued after Congress passed a resolution setting up the week The Georgia newspaper stories and editorials reflected the major articles in more than UO periodicals having nation wide circulation Open house was perhaps the most popular method of observing the occasion Most of the libraries in Georgia had open housesome for the entire week others concentrating on one or two days with interesting programs and elaborate celebrations Several of the libraries invited local business people to take their coffee breaks at the library with one the MeriwetherTalbotUpson Regional Library at Manchester prevailing upon the local A P Grocery Store to furnish the coffee Many civic groups cooperated to serve as hostesses sponsors guides etc Several libraries took advantage of the week to open new branches or to invite people in to see new or renovated quarters Newspapers throughout the state cooperated with generous coverate of all aspects of the observances In addition to editorials and regular news stories many papers ran special features on the library or on some aspect of its service Many of these honored the librarians and the library staff members by using their pictures and call ing attention to the many services which they render to the community The Uncle Remus Regional Library serving Jasper Morgan and Putnam Counties had featured articles in local papers written by prominent local citizens about their favorite books The Manchester Mercury devoted an entire issue to National Library Week and many other papers cooperated in developing valuable histories of their local libraries and publishing them for the information of all of the citizens Bookmobiles and bookmobile services came in for their share of attention Many of the libraries were able to put on display new bookmobiles or to announce approval of purchase of new ones to call attention to this important method of taking books to the readers who want and need them Special exhibits were arranged at the libraries to attract the people Several libraries took advantage of the release of the American Library Associations annual list of Notable Books of the year early in the month to prepare exhibits featuring them The DecaturDeKalb library arranged exhibits of the latest books for both adults and children a display of prints in the fine arts department and also an exhibition of musical recordings The MonroeWalton County branch of the Piedmont Regional Library featured a display of part of a blue ribbon winning Georgiana Collection gathered over a period of years by a staff member Miss Patricia Cook Store windows were given overto special displays of library treasures and exhibits calling attention to the values of reading In Savannah Arthur Gordon nationally known Savannah author was presented in a lecture by the Friends of the Library This group took the occasion to conduct its annual drive for new members Daily tours Of all branches of the library were arranged for those who were interested 2 In Albany representatives of practically all civic military school and library agencies pooled their efforts to prepare a weeks calendar of activities which brought all county school children for a visit to the main public library had members of the Toastmasters Club visiting each civic club which met that week to explain the significance of Library Week and invite the club members to the Friday evening program when Dr Gilford F Quarles scientific and technical consultant to Major General JB Medaris commanding general of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville Alabama spoke at a public meeting This was a citizens Library Night emphasizing science In Athens a dictionary or some other book was offered as a prize to the winner of a contest to find the owner of the oldest dictionary in Athens The public was invited to a tea given in honor of Dr ES Sell author of the book Geography of Georgia Articles were written for the local newspapers by outstanding Athenians on What Reading Means to Me The Jaycees distributed Library Week posters and cards and made a special effort to get all Jaycees who do not already have library cards to secure them Many libraries took advantage of the observance to spark drives for new buildings equipment etc Some sought the return of overdue books by declaring a return with no questions askedno fines charged period Bainbridge and Brunswick featured local history with displays of rare old books and other items concerned with their historic past Radio and television were widely used in promoting library week The Terrell CalhounLee Regional Library at Dawson had a radio program each morning on which they presented views of editors students teachers school administrators citizens and civic leaders as to what libraries mean to them in their lives and work One of the programs presented a description of European library service as contrasted with American library service Local citizens appeared on stations WGGA WDUW and WLBA in Gainesville in interviews Spot announcements revealed the wide range of services offered by the Chestatee Regional Library and the values attached to them by the people of that area A weeklong Book Fair with the theme Reading For Everyone was presented by the West Georgia Regional Library and Hortons book store in Carrollton The local radio station cooperated with publicity announcements quiz features etc The Walker County Library headquarters for the Cherokee Region initiated a new program of planned reading for adults with a good enrollment of individuals seeking pleasure and enjoyment and hoping to improve their understanding of certain topics Throughout the state school and college libraries participated in the observances In nearly all cases these cooperated in the overall planning so that their activities would fit into the weeks celebration Typical activities were assembly programs dramatizations skits open house at the school library visits to the public library special bulletin boards and displays The speech class of the Monticello High School cooperated with the Uncle Remus Library branch at Monticello by presenting a radio program devoted to books and reading Several schools conducted essay contests on topics related to reading and libraries The Marion County High School at Buena Vista was among those sponsoring poster contests A library orientation film was also shown to the school groups during the week 3 The Cedartown High School Library in cooperation with the English Department held a Book Fair to highlight National Library Week The Meigs High School Library Club members celebrated National Library Week by presenting skits to the Kiwanis Club PTA and in the school auditorium The decoration of store windows book talks to classes story telling for the elementary grades and questionnaires on student and faculty reading tastes were among the other activities carried on by the club The Moultrie Junior High School held a poster contest as a part of its observance of National Library Week Buck Hill was awarded the first prize The posters were placed on display at the various stores and at the ColquittThomas Regional Library Other schools receiving newspaper recognition for National Library Week obser vance wereMoultrie Senior High School Arlington High School Wheeler County High School Irwinton Elementary School Dallas High School and Weir School Many schools cooperated with public libraries in conducting reading surveys Others arranged for visits to neighboring schools as learning experience for the student library assistants In Dawson the regional library Terrell County High School and Andrew College cooperated to present a program at the high school which was arranged by the foreign exchange students attending the college Practically all military base libraries joined with the civilian libraries in the celebration Their activities were similar and there were exchange open house occasions between the two groups particularly at Fort Benning Fort Gordon and at the Moody Air Force Base Prominent Georgians who had a part in developing the idea included Representative EL Forrester and other members of the states congressional delegation and Senators Russell and Talmadge who helped steer through the Congress the resolution proclaiming the week These are only some of the ways in which the week was observed This issue of the News Bulletin could well be devoted to detailed accounts of the unusual ideas clever gimmicks hard work and wonderful cooperation of numbers of peoplelibrarians board members citizens club groups and newspaper radio and television people A high standard has been set for the next celebration of National Library Week Sears Roebuck Companys 1957 Christmas Gift catalog featured a selection of books dealing with the nations development as suggested by the American Library Association The catalog is distributed to approximately 8 million homes Although Sears object is to sell books it carefully points out to its customers in the accompanying catalog copy that their public library has many or all of the books shown and urges them to make full use of that fine pubLic institution The Company plans to carry lists of selected books on other subjects in future catalogs Watch for them and make sure that you are prepared for any requests which may stem from this promotion u SOUTHEASTERN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION The biennial conference of the Southeastern Library Association will be held in Louisville Kentucky on October 2325 1958 with headquarters at the Kentucky Hotel Tentative plans for the conference program were discussed on February 2122 1958 at a workshop held in Atlanta for the officers committees and section chairmen of the association Mr Randolph Church President of SELA and the section chairmen are developing plans for an interesting informative and inspirational program All Georgia librarians interested in attending SELA should write now for reservations COLLEGE LIBRARIES Two Georgia libraries are among the 87 which received subgrants in this years program of awards by the Association of College and Research Libraries a division of the American Library Association These funds were granted to the ACRL by the United States Steel Foundation for the purpose of strengthening or modernizing library teach ing or learning tools in privately owned colleges and universities The Candler Memorial Library at Wesleyan College has been awarded 20000 which it will apply toward the cost of a consultant in planning a future addition to the present library facilities Mercer Universitys Hardman Library has been awarded 10000 which will be used to purchase back files of the New York Times on microfilm The Fuller E Callaway Foundation has established a reserve fund grant of 1750000 for LaGrange Colleges William N Banks Library The fund will be used to enable the school to obtain a basic collection of books in widely varied fields Dr CS Hubbard has been named Assistant State Superintendent of Scnools in Georgia He was appointed by Dr Claude Purcell new State Superintendent and will hold the position formerly held by Dr Purcell Dr Hubbard beloved by his staff and all Georgia librarians has devoted all of his working years to the improvement of Georgia schools and libraries He will continue to do so in his new position Mr Zade Kenimer has succeeded Dr CS Hubbard as Director of the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service of the State Department of Education Mr Kenimer came to his new position from Harris County where he was serving as County School Superintendent Mr Kenimer is a graduate of Young Harris and Piedmont Colleges He is an attorney and has served two terms in the Georgia legislature He was coauthor of a bill establishing the 12th grade in Georgia schools and was active in the passage of the Minimum Foundation Program for Education Bill Mr Kenimer has just completed a term as President of the Georgia Education Association He was a member of the TroupHarrisCoweta Regional Library Board FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY A new group of Friends of the Library was recently organized in Griffin A membership drive was conducted with Mrs Edna Olsen serving as Chairman The Jaycees are cooperating with the drive as a part of their Operation Library project This drive has resulted in new memberships on the part of some sixty individuals and organizations 5 ALA CONFERENCE San Francisco is the city for the 1958 conference of the American Library Association Plans are being completed for the regular business and program sessions and fromall accounts there will be something of interest for all librarians Several Georgia librarians have made plans to attend the conference Seme are combining vacation trips with professional activity and have made plans to drive out with family or friends while others have made plans for interesting side trips before and after the meeting Any librarians or trustees who plan to attend should make hotel reservations directly with the hotel of their choice in San Francisco An unusually large number of workshops institutes and symposiums are planned in connection with the San Francisco Conference Among these are Parents Children and Books a 5day workshop at the University of Washinqton Seattle July 712 Iron Curtains and Scholarship the 23rd annual conference of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School July 79 Catalog Code Revision Institute cosponsored by the Cataloging and Classification Section of the Resources and Technical Services Division ALA and Stanford University Libraries July 912 San Francisco Poetry Festival sponsored by Childrens Services Division July 1012 Villa Hotel San Mateo California Climate ofBook Selection Social Influences on School and Public Libraries July 1212 Berkeley Campus University of California Manuscript Society July 1012 Los Angeles Buildings Institute July 1112 Richard Gleeson Library University of San Francisco Using TV in Library Adult Education cosponsored by the ALA Adult Services Division and the AudioVisual Committee July 1213 San Francisco American Association of Library Trustees Workshop Sunday July 13 San Francisco Written and Oral Library Reporting July 2123 Santa Barbara Campus University of California Supervision of School Library Systems twoweek graduate institute offered by Graduate Department of Library Science Immaculate Heart College Los Angeles July 21August 1 Mrs Martha Jane Zachert President of the Atlanta Library Club announced at the conference of the Georgia Association of Library Assistants a gift by the Atlanta Library Club to the GALA scholarship fund 6 SUMMER TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES Summer courses for librarians beginning their professional education will be available again this year Write the institution of your choice for dates and more specific details Division of Librarianship Emory University Emory University Georgia Miss Evalene Jackson Chairman 201 Library Administration 211 Use of Books and Related Materials 307 School Libraries 315 Selection and Use of Books and Related Materials for Children and Young People 221 Cataloging and Classification Georgia State College for Women Milledgeville Georgia Miss Virginia Satterfield Librarian Library Science U5U Reference and Bibliography Library Science U58 Reading Guidance and Book Selection Georgia Teachers College Collegeboro Georgia Miss Hassie McElveen Librarian Library Science 302 Organization of Books and Materials Library Science 303 Administrative Practices University of Georgia Athens Georgia Mrs Kathleen Broadhurst LE 30h Organization of Library Materials LE U06606 Experiencing Literature with Children LE 305 Administration of Small Libraries 1 EXHIBIT OF CHILDRENS BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS The Division of Librarianship Emory University and The Atlanta Art Association sponsored an exhibit of contemporary Childrens Book Illustrations in February The exhibit consisted of books illustrated by the better known illustrators of childrens books accompanied by original paintings of these artists Printed programs were available listing and annotating the books exhibited Copies of this program may be secured as long as the supply lasts from Mrs Martha Jane Zachert Division of Librarianship Emory University Reprints of the February issue of the ALA Bulletin are available on request from the Library Division State Department of Education This issue was devoted to school libraries 7 VALUABLE MATERIALS LISTS Several valuable materials lists have been compiled and published in various library periodicals in recent weeks Among these which should prove particularly helpful to librarians are the following NOTABLE BOOKS OF 1957 to be found in ALA BULLETIN March 1958 BOOKLIST March 1 1958 and the NEA JOURNAL April 1958 INTERESTING ADULT BOOKS OF 1957 FOR YOUNG PEOPLE found in ALA BULLETIN March 1958 BOOKLIST March 15 1958 NOTABLE CHILDRENS BOOKS OF 1957 found in BOOKLIST April 1 1958 This list replaces the Distinguished Childrens Books of the year The Childrens Services Division of ALA made this change to allow them to include important and useful books which could not appropriately appear on a list of Distinguished Books EARTH SATELLITES GUIDED MISSILES ROCKETS AND SPACE FLIGHT a bibliography of books and periodicals by Mildred Benton found in WILSCN LIBRARY BULLETIN February 1958 EXPLORE WITH BOOKS the Bookshelf section of NEA JOURNAL January 1958 is devoted to the theme of the International Geophysical Year SCHOLASTIC TEACHER NATIONAL FILMSTRIP AWARDS found in SENIOR SCHOLASTIC teachers edition April h 1958 The Middle Georgia Regional Library at Macon developed an attractive information sheet to be used in the Quota Club Career Day in Macon Schools Other libraries may find the idea useful in promoting libraries on career days in their areas GEORGIA OFFICIAL MARCHING SONG Included in the package with your News Bulletin is a copy of the music and words for Georgias official march song Grand March of Georgia This song was composed by DeKalb Countys Mrs Alberton Denton Marshall who has long been prominent in Decatur and in musical circles in the state The song was adopted as the official march song of the State of Georgia in a resolution passed by the House of Representatives in February 1957 This copy is made available to your library through the office of the Secretary of State Mr Ben Fortson Lists of the Notable Books of 1957 and Notable Childrens Books of 1957 are enclosed with this News Bulletin A copy of EVERY CHILD NEEDS A SCHOOL LIBRARY is enclosed in the packages going to the school librarians Others wishing a copy may order them from the American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago 11 Illinois 5 copies for 125 8 PUBLIC LIBRARIES d k Thf doPtion of an eleven point policy concerning book selection for the Savannah Public Library was announced recently by Miss Geraldine LeMay Librarian This action came as a result of requests by the library board for a written policy Points covered in the general policy include such considerations as needs of the community quality of the material accuracy literary standards evaluation in time of production relation ship to the rest of the library collection and other local collections intrinsic value rather than popular demands and the building up of a collection of Savannah and Georgia materials The Augusta Library has begun the work of revamping its entire circulation system The new system will provide a plate for each borrower similar to the chargaplate systems used in large department stores i k Pauldn9 bounty Library at Dallas has recently joined the West Georgia Regional Library which has headquarters at Carrollton The Baldwin County Library with uTnl1 tk 3t MiJville has become a participating unit of the Middle Georgia Regional Library at Macon With the addition of these two counties 101 of Georgias 159 counties are now in 33 regional library systems t The Cairo Public Library was featured in a recent issue of the magazine Adult Leadership The Cairo Library a Force for Education was the title of the center SpSm16 ePrrd L1yd Co Grady County School Superintendent This presentation of the Cairo Librarys outstanding adult program is a tribute to Cairo and Grady County its librarian Miss Wessie Connell and the library staff The Jenkins County Memorial Library has received a cash gift of 27900 from the former Business and Professional Womens Club in Millen The Northeast Georgia Regional Library has added a new service the lending of prints of paintings by old masters as well as modern and contemporary paintings Several regional libraries have recently shortened the name of the region The BarrowJacksonWalton Regional Library is now the Piedmont Regional Library The TownsUnionFannin Regional Library is to be called the Mountain Regional Library The Uncle Remus Regional Library was formerly the JasperMorganPutnam Regional Library The Social Security officials in particular are happy that new Social Security contracts will no longer be necessary when additional counties are added to regions The Baldwin County Library has reopened for service after being closed for remodelling inventory and the installation of new lighting Patrons and visitors to the library are impressed by the many improvements that have been made Mrs Royce Smith is the new librarian and Mrs Frank Dennis the new chairman of the Library Board The Board of Trustees of the Baldwin County Library has announced the opening of a Book Deposit at the Milledgeville Plant of JP Stevens Company Inc The books have been placed in the personnel office for circulation to plant employees Bacon County is the fourth county to join the Okefenokee Regional Library at Waycross J Patrons of the Rome Carnegie Library may now borrow framed paintings as well as books and recordings The loan period will be for one month after all of the paintinos have been displayed as Picture of the Month at the library 9 Eight Georgia library systems are experimenting with the use of a group of Canadian travel films in a film circuit plan Those which are participating are the Augusta Regional Library the DeKalbRockdaleNewton Regional Library the Washington Memorial Library at Macon the Bradley Memorial Library at Columbus the Carnegie Library at Albany the ColquittThomas Regional Library at Moultrie the South Georgia Regional Library at Valdosta and the Okefenokee Regional Library at Waycross The films distributed by the Canadian Travel Film Library are designed to promote interest in travel in Canada and are furnished to the librarians free of charge Other libraries which may be interested in this project may write to Mr Ron Ward Director Canadian Travel Film Library Suite 658 International Building 630 Fifth Avenue New York 20 New York The Uncle Remus Regional Library has conducted a most successful adventure in adult education with their sponsorship of a course in The Art of Effective Reading Meetings are held alternately in Eatonton and Madison An Eatonton native Mr John Gregory now a professor at Emory Junior College at Oxford is conducting the course The PolkFloyd Regional Library has issued a list of religious filmstrips which are available from its collection for use by various groups in its area Topics covered range from Daily Christian Living the Story of Jesus through Foreign Missions How to Have a Vacation Bible School and Great Christian Missionaries a INSTITUTES Plans have been completed for four Public Library Institutes to be held in May 1958 All public librarians and their trustees are invited to attend one of these institutes to be held in the following places May 1213 May 1516 May 1920 May 2223 DecaturDeKalbRockdaleNewton Regional Library Decatur Price Library Macon Hotel Gordon Albany Near the Carnegie Library Okefenokee Regional Library Waycross Emphasis at the Institutes will be placed on How to do it with special attention to keeping the library attractive keeping the library running smoothly keeping the library from being an island being a better reference librarian getting people to do more and better reading and putting on the Vacation Reading Club These inservice institutes are sponsored by the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service of the State Department of Education in cooperation with the State Board for the Certification of Librarians 39 librarians holding Grade I Public Library Certificates will renew their certificates for the next two years by attend ing all sessions of an institute 10 PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDINGS The Wilcox County Library will soon be moving into its new building which is near ing completion in the park directly in front of the court house The building is constructed of concrete blocks and will be heated by electricity The Brunswick City Commission has contracted to buy the Colonial Store Building on Glousester Street to be used as a public library When the library can move is contingent upon the date of release by Colonial Stores The new library headquarters will provide more than double the space of the present facility This is not to be considered permanent library headquarters The city hopes to construct a new library building in the future and looks on this as a temporary measure until such a building can be erected Construction of the new Burke County Library Building will begin as soon as weather permits Burke County voters approved the issuance of 3600000 in bonds for the construction of the library last year The Uncle Remus Regional Library has begun a concentrated drive to solicit funds to renovate the old Main Street Elementary School Lunchroom building for use as a public library This space will be used for local service to Madison people and the quarters in the present location will continue to house regional library operations Gainesville and Hall County worked out a solution to the problem of additional space for both the library and the courthouse which was presented to the voters in a bond referendum in May Plans call for a new library wing to be added to the present courthouse building The bond issue failed to pass by one vote Land has been donated to the Habersham County Library Board on which the headquarters building for the Northeast Georgia Regional Library is to be erected Plans are now being made to secure funds to finance a new building The Dade County Branch of the Cherokee Regional Library has been opened in the basement of the Morrison Building in Trenton The Carrollton Public Library has moved in to its new quarters in the remodelled City Hall Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Senior Scouts and Explorer Scouts with their scout masters and librarians directing moved the books from their temporary quarters on Harris Street into the renovated repainted city hall Temporary quarters for the CobbMarietta library have been provided in the Park Street School in Marietta Members of the newly formed joint citycounty library board are working on plans for a permanent building The RT Jones Memorial Library in Canton was dedicated in services held in January The library is located at the corner of Main and Brown Streets and is the remodelled McAfee home place The RT Jones Community Foundation bought the home and turned it over to the library board last summer together with funds to renovate the building A twostory stack area and a bookmobile loading platform were added to the structure This library serves as headquarters for the CherokeePickens Regional Library The Newton County Library has moved to its new location on Conyers Street The space formerly used as classrooms was renovated and reconstructed with funds made up of 700000 from a trust fund under the will of the late James Hyde Porter gifts from Mr and Mrs RM Paty The Newton County Theater Guild the Covington Book Club and several other individual donors The Jaycees have accepted the responsibility of raising money for furniture and fixtures for the library during 1958 as their Operation Library activity 11 Open house at the library was held Thursday evening February 6 for adults with children being entertained the next day from three to six oclock This affair was sponsored by the Newton County Junior Chamber of Commerce the Home Demonstration Clubs of Newton County the Garden Clubs of Covington and the Library Board The new Murray County Library at Chatsworth is now open for business This modern and attractive library is a credit to the citizens of Chatsworth and Murray County Circulation and use of the library have increased since the county library moved into the new quarters and became a participating unit of the Dalton Regional Library Additional shelving in the Gordon County library at Calhoun has greatly improved the appearance of this library and has made life much easier for the librarian and the patrons of the library The MitchellBakerWorth Regional Library Staff are rejoicing over obtaining considerably added space in the Camilla City Hall for use by the library Remodelling and painting of the library quarters are now in progress BOOKMOBILES AND EQUIPMENT The Northeast Georgia Regional Library is expecting delivery soon of a new Gerstenslager bookmobile to replace the old one now in use The Dalton Regional Library has ordered a second bookmobile to serve the fourcounty region Dougherty County Commissioners approved a request by the trustees of the Carnegie Library in Albany for 270000 to supplement library funds on hand to purchase a new bookmobile A new Vanette Bookmobile has been purchased by the Flint River Region Library to help care for the expanded service in that area Two bookmobiles are now giving service to this twocounty region i The Southern Public Library Workshop sponsored by the Florida State University Library School and the Florida State Library which was originally scheduled for July 35 1958 will now be held from September 25 through September 27 1958 in Tallahassee Mrs Florence Craig Director of Adult Education Cuyahoga County Public Library Cleveland Ohio will be the director The workshop will deal with adult books and reading and will include consideration of important books methods of encouraging adult reading ways in which books either alone or in combination with other media can be used as program material for adults The first Southern College and Research Library Workshop to be sponsored by Florida State University Library School will be held in Tallahassee from June 2527 1958 Ben E Powell Librarian of Duke University will keynote a consideration of Southern Library sources and resources Friday afternoon is reserved for fishing and touring in the Tallahassee area 12 HERE ARE THE NEW SOCIAL SECURITY REGULATIONS As you know there are some school systems that have already voted on whether they wanted Social Security or not Majority vote governed all Any new teachers coming into those systems that voted for Social Security must a 1 soTakeocia 1 Security In the future however since the passage of the recent law by the General Assembly individual teachers may choose in those counties which hereafter institute Social Security First step will be that the County Board of Education must vote on whether they will finance their part of Social Security If they do this then an individual teacher may choose whether or not she will take Social Security But any WEW teacher coming into that school system in the future MUST take it If a teacher moves from a system that is covered by social security to one that is not the teacher will not have social security in the system where she is newly employed She must conform to the new employers policies about this Note All inquiries about Social Security should be addressed to Frank DeLamar Director State Employees Retirement System Labor Building Atlanta TRUSTEES ORGANIZATION 125 library trustees representing 39 states gathered in Chicago in January for the midwinter meeting of the American Association of Library Trustees Georgia was well represented by Mrs Nelson Severinghous who represents Georgia on the membership committee and Mrs Charles Davidson who served on the committee planning the work shop for the San Francisco meeting Both Mrs Severinghous and Mrs Davidson are members of the board of the DeKalbNewtonRockdale Regional Library and are well know for their work on that board throughout Georgia Mrs Severinghous has formed a state committee and is working hard to have every library board in Georgia represented in the ALA trustee organization to make sure that they receive the publications and are familiar with the work of other trustees all over the nation Mrs Edna Olsen member of the Fling River Regional Library Board at Griffin will attend the workshop at San Francisco in July and will take part on the program discuss ing what federal funds made available through the Library Services Act have done for rural public libraries J LOCAL ART EXHIBIT IN THE GWINNETT FORSYTH REGIONAL LIBRARY LAWRENCEV1LLE Local artists of Lawrenceville and vicinity are displaying their handiwork in every available bit of space in the headquarters library building of the Gwinnett Forsyth Regional Library following an art course sponsored by the library and taught by a staff member of the Atlanta Art Institute The exhibit includes pictures done in crayon water color oils and other media It has attracted wide spread attention from the community and surrounding area 13 STUDENT ASSISTANT MEETING The second state meeting of the Georgia Association of Library Assistants was held at Rock Eagle 4H Club Center April 1113 1958 294 delegates from all districts of the state were in attendance Dot Kitchens president presided over the meetings One of the main features of the program was an address by Miss Nancy Faulkner well known author of books for young people Another special event was the banquet meeting featuring a speech by Mrs Sara Srygley Associate Professor Florida State University Library School Other excellent events of the program included Inspirational programs by the Valdosta and Lanier County High Schools under the chairmanship of Mary Catherine Johnson Workshops on Bulletin Boards by Miss Elizabeth Donovan State Department of Education and on Bookmending by Mrs Newell Spangler West Georgia Regional Library During the business session various committees reported and the following new officers were elected President Gwendolyn Perkins Richland Vice President Laura Doster Athens Recording Secretary Larry Elliot Hapeville Treasurer Nancy AdamsWest Fulton Reporter Lettie Peel Jenkins County Historian Nick Pavlakos Southwest DeKalb Parliamentarian Charles Hobby Fitzgerald A complete report of the entire meeting will be multilithed and mailed to all registrants and member schools Others wishing a report should write to the Library Division State Department of Education CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLES LIBRARY SECTION OF GEA The annual state meeting was held at Bass High School March 21 1958 during the annual GEA Conference Mrs Percy Jones Miller County presided over a most interesting program The business session was devoted mainly to reports from the district groups and introductions of the district officers for 195859 Reports were made of GALA and state regional and national library conferences A luncheon meeting was held in the school cafeteria The guests were entertained by the Dublin Brass Quartet Dr Dwight L Burton Editor of the English Journal spoke to the group on Reading Interests and the Search for the V 14 SCHOOL LIBRARY NEWS The Campbell High School Library held a Book Fair on January 2930 1958 Over 200 new books with bright plastic covers were on display in the library The Book Fair was sponsored by the Library Club under the direction of Miss Willene Webster and Miss Latrelle Seymour and the Clippings Club under the direction of Mrs Robert Johnston Each member of the faculty was invited to examine the new books and plans for using them in their classes were discussed The books were purchased with state and county funds supplemented by the Campbell High PTA i The new library at the Buncombe School was dedicated and opened for inspection at the February meeting of the PTA The Georgia Corner is the newest point of interest in the Isle of Hope School Library Here may be found books about Georgia by Georgians and with Georgia settings Pupils and teachers carefully check the Savannah newspapers for information about new publications that should be added to the Georgia Corner Elementary libraries have been recently opened in the Alexander II School Macon and the Jacob Smith School Savannah Cooperative efforts of the school faculties the pupils the administrative personnel and the PTA1s of the respective schools are responsible for these achievements The Crisp County schools under the leadership of the administration and Mrs Mary Ginter Librarian of tfie Crisp County High School Cordele are studying their library needs in terms of materials equipment space and personnel Immediate and long range plans will be made for meeting the needs that are identified through the study If you have a library handbook you would be willing to share with other school libraries please send a copy to the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service State Department of Education This office can make a copy if only the original is available Please indicate if you wish the handbook to be returned to you Anyone planning to change positions for the next school year or anyone wishing to know of vacancies that exist please write Sarah Jones Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services and include your summer address Publishers and jobbers will be notified not to ship any library books to schools between June 1 and August 15 If you have an order outstanding that you wish shipped during the summer please write to the Library Division by May 15 If you place a new order that you wish shipped during the summer please write on each page To be delivered during the summer 15 GEA PLANNING CONFERENCE The state officers and district chairmen of the Children and Young Peoples Library Section of the GEA met together at the GEA State Leaders Clinic at Rock Eagle 4H Club Center May 23 Those present were MrsEloise Jones Chairman Colquitt Miss Sue Frazier SecretaryTreasurer Cedartown Mrs Helen DeLoach Glennville 1st District Mrs Marron Alverson Moultrie 2nd District Miss Connie Lowe Columbus 3rd District West Mrs Frances Harrison Macon 6th District Mrs Grace Olsen Rome 7th District Miss Annie Bell Ayers Hartwell 10th District Sarah Jones State Department of Education The group decided on an action program to 1 2 3 4 5 Promote and encourage library assistants programs including the Georgia Association of Library Assistants Cooperate with the Georgia Library Associations recruitment program Study all available data and resources to give better reading guidance to all groups such as the average the slow and the accelerated Cooperate with the Southern States Work Conference in collecting data on school library service Stress the importance of representation of all districts at the GEA State Leaders Clinic The dates for the fall district GEA meeting are as follows 1st District November 4 2nd District November 10 3rd E District November 6 4th District October 17 5th District October 3 6th District October 20 7th District October 10 8th District November 5 9th District October 22 10th District October 24 Savannah Albany Hawkinsville Griffin Atlanta Macon Rome Waycross Gainesville Athens STUDENT ASSISTANT CERTIFICATES Librarians who plan to request the certificates awarded by the Georgia Library Association to student assistants for satisfactory service in the library should send the list of names to the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services at least two weeks before the certificates are to be awarded Students who receive this recognition more than once receive avgold star for each additional year Information indicating whether a gold star is needed for anyone on the list should be included 16 STUDENT ASSISTANT NEWS The student assistants of the Ninth GEA District met and organized as a district group recently This makes ten district organizations leaving only one district not organized Many district groups have met since the last News Bulletin and many local clubs have sponsored interesting and worth while projects and programs News of these activities will be contained in a special news letter for student assistants This news letter will be mailed with the report of the GALA meeting to all member schools If others would like a copy please feel freeto request one from the Library Division NEWBERRY AND CALDECOTT AWARDS The 1957 winners of the Newberry and Caldecott awards for childrens books were announced March 31 1958 in the office of Frederic G Melcher donor of the medals Selection of the winners and runnersup was made by a committee from the Childrens Services Division of the American Library Association Formal presentation of the medals to the winners will be made at the NewberryCaldecott dinner at San Francisco on July 15 1958 during the ALA Conference Newberry Award winner is RIFLES FOR WATIE by Harold Keith Runners up were THE HCRSECATCHER by Mari Sandoz GONE AWAY LAKE by Elizabeth Enright GREAT WHEEL by Robert Lawson and TOM PAINE FREEDOMS APOSTLE by Leo Gurko Caldecott winner was TIME OF WONDER by authorillustrator Robert McCloskey Runners up for this award were Don Freeman for FLY HIGH FLY LOW and Paul Galdone illustrator of ANATOLE AND THE CAT by Eve Titus SUMMMER READING INSTITUTE Science Research Associates is conducting a summer institute at Grove Park Inn Ashville North Carolina June 913 1958 to train teachers to plan inaugurate and operate a program for the improvement of reading at the Junior and Senior high and Adult levels Miss Dorothy Kendall Bracken well known director of the Reading Clinic at Southern Methodist University will be the reading specialist in charge of this institute Registration is limited to 50 participants any teacher or supervisor of teachers at the junior or senior high school or adult level being eligible to attend Tuition will be 7500 Application forms and further information may be secured by writing to Science Research Associates 75 West Grand Chicago 10 Illinois attention Mr Virgil Henry Miss Elizabeth Stevenson former staff member of the Atlanta Public Library and author of The Crooked Corridor a study of Henry James 1949 and Biography of Henry Adams 1955 which brought her the recognition of being selected Atlantas Woman of the Year in Arts 1955 is one of three Atlanta recepients of Guggenheim Fellowships for 1958 Miss Stevenson will study the life and works of Lafcadio Hearn The Guggenheim fellowships are designed to assist recipients to advance to higher levels of accomplishments in their fields Of research and artistic creation 17 MISS PETTUS HONORED torilMlS SinnhLPeUUS ai t8a 9iven in her honor the Atlanta Library Club on for the cour ein ruTtT It aCCUnt f her ventures with book funds the course in The Making of the Book which she taught at Emory before her retirement The o2tSJuteSttoSnL2 Sel 6Vide Pl6aSUre MisS Pettus had in her experiences e Her story S lJ June 1954 September 1954 October 1954 November 1954 dImm contact Mass Gladys DeLoach Librarian Georgia Teachers College Ceganc Georgia NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS RegionalLibrarJ7101 temp0rarily in9 as mber of the staff of the Dalton Mrs William Cavender will join the staff of the Dalton Regional Library in June by anrUcle ZL1 at the Awtticu8 Carnegie LibrarV was recently honored oy an article m the local newspapers Know Your Neighbor Series at DubUnCharltte S U the n6Wet member 0f the 0conee Re9ial Library staff SatilSRMSooyrfriS f Wrk n FebruarY the first as Assistant Director of the SatUla Regional Library Miss Harris was married in April to Mr Neal Parrish Mrs Lucile Parmenter Dunn has joined the staff of the ColquittThomas Reoionai SSSLlSSithe further dev f iSJWSS LibraSinSthensSn DWneS iS 8taff member f the ersity of Georgia General ABAC Site8TfUh c3 JJned the Staff 0f the Coastal plains Regional Library ABAC Station Tifton as Extension Librarian y Collegewalka Cr6er SUCCeeded Miss Bnma M as librarian at Reinhardt 18 Miss Elizabeth Nicolassen veteran librarian of the Sheppare W Foster Library Emory University School of Dentistry retired in September 1957 after many years of efficient service and after a short rest period has taken the position of receptionist with an Atlanta dental firm Mrs Kathleen Barron has succeeded Miss Nicolassen as librarian at the Dental College Mrs Henry Cobb has recently taken charge of the J J Haverty Library of the Atlanta Art Association located at 1280 Peachtree Street N E Atlanta Mrs J L Stephens is acting librarian of the Coastal Plains Experiment Station Library at Tifton since the retirement of Mrs Dan Sutton who had been in charge of that library for a number of years Mrs Harry Collins has succeeded Mrs Eloise Loyd as librarian of the Evans County Public Library at Claxton Mrs Cedellia R Ford has joined the staff of the Flint River Regional Library Griffin as assistant to Mrs Ruth Young Director Atlanta Public Library has added a number of professional members to its growing staff during the past few months including Mrs Frances T Arrington Mrs Sue L Lawrence Mrs Constance B Pease Mrs Josephine M Smith Mrs Katherine M Young Misses Mildred G Emmons and Lacy Rucker and Mr Richard D Boyce Mrs Mary Z Rogers is now in charge of childrens work at the W E Bradley Memorial Library at Columbus New staff members at the DecaturDeKalbROfkdaleTNewtonwn Regional Library include Mrs Elizabeth Steffins who has replaced Mrs C E Hawkins as coordinator for the AudioVisual Service and Mrs George R Ridge reference librarian Mrs Sarah Bugg Reddick who has been librarian of the Tubman Junior High School in Augusta for several years resigned at the end of the midyear term due to a change in her husbands business interests which necessitated their moving to Atlanta Mrs Helen Postell succeeded Mrs Reddick as school librarian there On February 1 1958 Mrs Reddick joined the professional staff of the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services State Department of Education as reference librarian Miss Louise Ward has recently joined the staff of the Emory University Library as chief of the Circulation Department Miss Ward was formerly an Air Force Librarian in Durderop England Mr Marion Kelley of Atlanta has assumed the duties of librarian at the LaFayette High School replacing Mrs Ollie Tucker who has accepted a position with the Walker County Library Personal and professional friends of Miss Mildred Estelle Carson Librarian of the Boys High School at Mt Berry have been saddened over the news of her death Mrs Miriam Moon Librarian of the Jefferson High School was elected teacher of the year for the Jefferson City Schools 19 Mrs Lucile E Mann Librarian of the Lyons Elementary School was elected teacher of the year for the Lyons School system The many friends of Miss Edith Moore Librarian of the Perry Schools will be distressed tD hear of hex death The Twelfth District PTA has expressed its appreciation of Miss Sarah Maret by making her an honorary life member of the Georgia Congress of Parents and Teachers Miss Mary Carruth Librarian Alpharetta was recently married to Mr Cliff Vaughan Virginia Drewry Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service has been named as a continuing representative of the American Library Association on the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee Miss Tommie Dora Barker and Miss Clyde Pettus will teach courses at Emory during the summer quarter 20 CREDITS FOR STUDENT ASSISTANTS At the meeting of school librarians during the conference of the Georgia Association of Library Assistants it was voted that a study be made of the type of credit given to student assistants for work in the library and the requirements that must be met to obtain these credits It will be helpful if you will answer this questionnaire and return it to Mrs Eloise Jones Chairman Children and Young Peoples Library Section of GEA Miller County High School Colquitt Be sure to include your name and address QUESTIONNAIRE Are you interested in a study being made of library credit for student assistants Yes No Does your school give credit Yes 7 No 7 If yes what type of credit Activity 7 Other 7 What are the requirements for securing these credits Signed Address r32 tevUJu U 4Wd fVU kuAs It hi ain J UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA OCT 16 58 LIBRARIES October 1958 Vol 14 No 1 Issued by Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services Georgia Department of EducationTABLE OF CONTENTS Of General Interest Southeastern Library Association Meeting Vote on Scholarship Amendment ALA Conference Special Dates Library Orders Miss Donovan Retires Scholarship and Fellowship Winners Foreign Visitors News of Georgia Librarians Page 1 3 4 5 5 14 15 15 1620 School Librarians GEA District Meetings 2 School Library Study Southern States Work Conference 2 GALA News 3 School Library News 5 Attention School Librarians 9 Kentucky School Library Luncheon 14 Public Librarians Public Library News 67 Public Library Institutes 7 Georgia Plan for Use of Federal Funds 89 Buildings and Quarters 1011 Bookmobiles and Equipment 11 Vacation Reading Club 12 Public Relations Planner 13 Public Library Film Service 13 GFWC Study Program 15 Home Study Course for Library Trustees 16 College and Special Librarians Georgia Southwestern Library Gift 7 Fort Gordon Library Award 11 Executive Secretary of ACRL 12 Georgia Chapter Special Library Association Meeting 14 1 SOUTHEASTERN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT Programs for the 18th biennieal conference of the Southeastern Library Association have been mailed to the membership of the Association The meet ing will be held in Louisville Kentucky October 2325 1958 and Georgia librarians and library trustees are urged to attend If reservations have not already been made they should be made immediately with the Kentucky Hotel or the SheratonSeelbach Hotel Speakers at the general sessions will be Verner W Clapp President of the Council on Library Resources Jack Dalton from the ALA International Relations Office Fitzgerald Bemiss Chairman Richmond Virginia Public Library Board Interesting programs have been planned for all Section meetings The Public Library Section program will feature a talk entitled Alone in a Conestoga Wagon Surrounded by Television Sets by William C Baggs Editor of the Miami News The School and Childrens Library Section will have a panel discussion on the topic What is a good school library and what does it do for boys and girls The Public Library Reference Survey will be discussed at the Reference Section meeting while the College and University Section will hear an address on the subject Library Education with Special Reference to Preparing Librarians for College and University Positions Special Projects under the Library Services Act will be emphasized at the meeting of the County and Regional Librarians The Southeastern Regional Group of Catalogers will hear a discussion on Cooperation and Communication Miss Lucile Nix will be installed as Southeasterns president for the next two years A large group of exhibitors will present their displays for all to see The meeting gives promise of being one of the best yet for Southeastern librarians A report has reached the state office that a representative of Bookmark Guides has falsely represented services and collected advertising costs for Bookmark Guides that have never been delivered and the representative cannot be located Librarians are advised not to endorse such projects and to advise local businesses not to give advertising to this or similar promotional projects involving the library unless the company is known to be reliable G E A DISTRICT MEETINGS The fall District G E A Meetings will be held as follows First Second Third East Third West Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth November 4 November 10 November 6 November 7 October 17 October 23 October 20 October 10 November 5 October 22 October 24 Savannah High Sthool Albany High School Hawkinsville High School Columbus High School Griffin High School Atlanta Municipal Auditorium and GSBA Macon Miller Junior High School Rome City Auditorium and Junior High School Waycross City Auditorium and High School Gainesville Junior High School Athens Fine Arts Auditorium University of Georgia The programs of the Childrens and Young Peoples Library Section meetings will be planned around the following topics 1 Better reading guidance to all groups such as the average the slow and the accelerated 2 More and better recruiting activities 3 Promoting and encouraging the use of library assistants and their affiliation with District and State Associations All school and public librarians are encouraged to attend the meeting scheduled in their district SCHOOL LIBRARY STUDY SOUTHERN STATES WORK CONFERENCE The annual Southern States Work Conference met at Daytona Beach from June 9June 13 1958 The school library study was begun in 1957 and will continue for three years The School Library Study group spent most of the conference time in review ing the work of the state committees and in making plans for gathering additional information that will be needed to show What Is A Good School Library Program and What Does It Do for Boys and Girls Approximately 29 members of the Georgia School Library Study Committee were in attendance This State Committee will hold a meeting during the fall to make plans for securing needed information concerning library service and education in Georgia All librarians and other school personnel are urged to supply any information requested by the committee VOTE ON SCHOLARSHIP AMENDMENT An amendment to the State Constitution will be voted on in the November general election This proposed amendment to the Constitution No 75 House Resolution No 1424296 provides that The State Board of Education shall have the authority to grant to citizens who are interested in becoming teachers and who are bona fide residents of the State of Georgia such scholarships as are necessary for them to complete programs of study in preparation for teaching The terms and conditions thereof shall be prescribed and regulated by the State Board of Education but shall include the con dition that recipients of such scholarships shall upon the completion of their programs of study teach in the public schools of Georgia for a period of one year for each 1000 received and include the further provision that any person using any such scholarship shall teach in the public schools of Georgia for at least three years in any event The State Board of Education has the responsibility for receiving and passing upon applications for setting up rules and regulations etc This will not be done unless the amendment passes It is our understanding however that scholarships will be available for training in school librarianship both at the undergraduate and graduate levels and that the training can be taken during the summer sessions as well as regular sessions You will want to call attention to this amendment and vote according to your conviction in the general election If you would like a copy of the resolution please request one from Mrs S C Patterson Consultant Teacher Recruitment 133 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Georgia GALA NEWS The Executive Board of GALA held its first meeting of the new school year at the Bradley Memorial Library Columbus August 21 1958 Main items of business were the appointment of committees and the making of tentative plans for the spring meeting Membership blanks will be going out to all high schools in the near future Local clubs are encouraged to return these blanks along with their dues as quickly as possible GALA pins will be available for the first time to any member who wishes to purchase one Order blanks will be mailed out along with the membership blanks The annual spring conference will be held at the Rock Eagle 4H Center on April 1012 1958 Join Now District Associations will be holding meetings during the fall months Notices of these meetings will be sent out by the district officers These are most worthwhile meetings and all high school librarians are encouraged to make provisions for their assistants to join and to be active members x 4 SAN FRANCISCO ALA CONFERENCE Georgia was well represented in the deliberations of the 77th annual conference of the American Library Association when it met in San Francisco July 13 through July 19 Elementary and high schools public and special libraries colleges and universities military installations and trustee groups were present as librarians chose from the nearly 300 scheduled meet ings and reported to the unscheduled but highly important small committee work sessions which play such an important part in the Associations busi ness Several Georgia librarians took part on division programs and were active in the preconference institutes Mrs Edna Olson a member of the board for the Flint River Regional Library at Griffin made a particularly outstanding contribution at the American Association of Library Trustees workshop at which she along with Miss Edith Foster and Miss Byrd Ivester represented Georgia It was a heavily attended hardworking conference The official registration was 4400 making this the fifth conference in ALA history to draw more than 4000 people Several of the divisions had planned for joint meetings which presented outstanding speakers and discussion programs on topics of interest to more than one type of library This was the first general conference under the reorganization and reflected in its planning the bringing together of several groups having common areas of interest Conscious effort was made to reduce conflicts in meetings and to organize time most effectively for the participants The traditional free afternoon was not scheduled so tours both to libraries and for sight seeing had to be sandwiched in at the least crowded periods The program planners had thoughtfully arranged some of the meetings so that conference participants might visit a few of the citys famous and picturesque areas such as the Far East Cafe and Fishermans Wharf The NewberryCaldecott Awards dinner was the biggest ever with 1400 people spill ing over two huge banquet halls at the Sheraton Palace Hotel The new modern exhibit hall made visiting the unusually fine displays convenient and pleasant as the librarians were shown new goods and gadgets for better library service Southern librarians particularly those who had driven across the country reveled in the brisk climate which brought out suits and top coats in July and in the traditionally foggy atmosphere of the port city ALAs International Responsibilities was the conference theme This theme was underlined by the grave headlines of the San Francisco papers during the week and was emphasized in meetings through the presence of foreign guests from all over the world and in the international atmosphere of the fascinating and fabulous host city The theme was given final emphasis by the departure of several of the conferees for the MidPacific Library Conference in Honolulu as well as by many librarians and their families going on to vacation in the Islands the Far East Mexico or Alaska 5 SCHOOL LIERARY NEWS Mrs Eloise Jones Librarian Miller County High School planned a one day work shop for the county school teachers during preplanning week The selection of material and the preparation of posters and exhibits were emphasized 92 The elementary school library program in sixteen school systems was strengthened and improved again this year through the work of the high school librarians who are working on a twelve months basis Annual reports are not yet due but letters and conferences indicate that a number of new libraries were organized Many books were processed and personnel to operate the libraries was trained through work shops institutes and onthejob instruction The Wilcox Central High School Library under the direction of Mrs CE McDonald is compiling a library of costumes Sixteen costumes have already been cataloged and are ready for use ixw V6l tub fsool srlJ o erfj dim Tsri oi Mr Milton Keener Librarian of the Ringgold High School Library hasob reported enthusiastically on the help that has been given the library by the Beta Club The members contributed time as well as money in improving library service in their school TtetdiJ The Piney Grove Junior High School Wayne County has dedicated its bo2 completely remodeled library to Mrs Elizabeth Yeomans a worthy person who has given her life to the education of rural boys and girls etdelisvs sidh 9fa nn9T e s doiy sslouM SPECIAL DATES m01 n bsee xtsidid dWAQ rfrioW sriT November 28National Childrens Book Week A eri The theme for this year will encourage children to Explore with Books Folders giving information on ordering posters book mark andother aids is enclosed with this News Bulletin Btzuou April 1218 1959National Library Week tteluoiio This will be the second annual observance of National Library Week under the sponsorship of the National Book Committee and the American Library Association The objective of the program will continue to be a betterread betterinformed America Miss Edith Foster will be State Chairman Begin makingplans now for observing this all important week 9I itituo i sdf yd bet ViSTdxJ wsl teqraoo sdi Ho assy to sil tisiit to tloal ATTENTION LIBRARY ORDERS The business office of the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service has requested us to ask librarians NOT to stapLe library orders This should be a time saver for the people preparing orders and certainly for the people processing the ordersin the state office IsH 9dJ ajpublic library NEWS An auto book return box has been installed in front of the Athens Regional Library headquarters for the convenience of patrons who wish to drop off books there It is proving to be a popular feature of the librarys service The Cairo Public Library received the top award of the Garden Club of Georgia Inc at its annual statewide meeting in May The award was made for the excellent Garden Center which the library has maintained for several years in cooperation with the local garden clubs An unusual and beautiful exhibit showing the use of the rose in textile design is available to libraries Entitled The Rose in Textile Design this exhibit was assembled by the Scalamandre Museum of Textiles and shows many unusual uses of the rose in various fabric designs It was exhibited in Albany during May with local florists arranging flowers with designs and color tones to harmonize with the various fabrics and with members of the local garden clubs acting as hostesses The Dalton Regional Library is the most recent library to display another type of exhibits from the museum and Mrs Evalyn Rutledge Librarian reports that it was very well received Exhibits are free except for freight which one must pay to have them shipped from one point to another Libraries interested in booking exhibits should write to Mr John Tilton Scalamandre Museum of Textiles 57 East 57th Street New York 22 New York Another interesting exhibit offered by the Augusta Regional Library during the summer was The Useful Atom This is one of several exhibits available from the American Museum of Atomic Energy which is a part of the Institute of Nuclear Research at Oak Ridge Tennessee The North DeKalb Library at Doraville has purchased nine paintings from the Atlanta Art Festival These paintings are the work of local artists and are to be hung in the library for the present Later they will be loaned to members of the library The Augusta Library has completed the installation ot che new Bookamatic circulation system This system uses a plastic borrowers card similar to a chargeaplate It is expected that its use will speed up the circulation routines at the main library and improve their efficiency in general The Brunswick Regional Library was featured in a recent issue of Pine Chips the publication of the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company The article Our New Library describes the many services offered by the library outlines its organization and support and urges employees of the company to use its facilities for personal growth as well as to improve their knowledge of their jobs An arts and crafts fair was a feature of the Lithonia Public Library a cooperating unit of the DecaturDeKalbRockdaleNewton region at the end of its program of summer activities for the children in that area This fair featured the work which the children had done during the summer One of the regional libraries which is making a serious effort to interest young people ready to go to college in librarianship as a profession is theMitchellBakerWorth Region During August Mrs Margaret W Browne Director worked with every newspaper in the region on a project in which they carried news articles about library work as a career These articles encouraged young people to consider librarianship as an interesting and rewarding profession Workshops for teacherlibrarians were sponsored by regional library headquarters at Camilla Columbus and Manchester as well as other libraries as a part of their work in preparation for the opening of the new school term PUBLIC LIBRARY INSTITUTES How to be a better reference librarian how to stimulate more and better reading how to keep the library from being an island how to put on a good Vacation Reading Club how to keep the library attractiveall of these were topics considered at the series of four Howtodoit institutes which were held in the state during the month of May These inservice institutes for county and regional library staff members were sponsored jointly by the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service and the State Board of Certification of Librarians Emphasis was placed on practical workable ways of improving these areas of service in the local libraries represented 242 librarians and trustees attended the various sessions which were held in the DecaturDeKalbRockdaleNewton Regional Library headquarters in Decatur the Price Library in Macon which serves as headquarters for the Middle Georgia Regional Library the Gordon Hotel in Albany and the head quarters library for the Okefenokee Region in Waycross Thirtyseven of the librarians present were fulfilling the requirements for renewal of their Grade I Library Certificates The other participants were members of county or regional library staffs library board members and staff members from the State Department of Education who planned and conducted the sessions with the help of librarians in each area At each institute opportunity was given for discussion of the problems raised by the librarians in addition to the other parts of the program Opportunity was given for them to examine and learn to use new or different reference materials and to learn new uses for standard works already in local library collections Exhibits and demonstrations brought new ideas for Vacation Reading Clubs and for making and keeping the library a vital part of community life Georgia Southwestern College at Americus has received a valuable collection of books and periodicals as a recent gift Among the periodicals of interest are THE NEW ENGLAND HOME 18991900 HARPERS 1843 19521853 and GODEYS LADIES BOOK 1846 8 GEORGIA PLAN FOR THE EXTENSION AND IMPROVEMENT OF LIBRARY SERVICE IN RURAL AREAS UNDER THE FEDERAL LIBRARY SERVICES ACT I General Aims and Policies a b c d e f g h Strengthen and improve present county and multicounty regional library programs 1 Funds will not be granted to independent libraries that are not now or do not become cooperating units of county or multicounty library systems 2 Systems must qualify under State Aid regulations for both the State allotment for materials and allotment for salary and travel of qualified personnel before Federal funds will be used in the development of service in area Establish new multicounty regional library systems and add additional counties to present multicounty regional systems Hold annually inservice institutes and workshops for librarians and trustees at state and district levels Increase and improve collections of materials at the State and local levels Give assistance from State level to library systems in the development of more discussion groups and other programs for adults and young people Help librarians serving rural areas to make more and better use of mass media of communication including newspaper radio and TV Participate in the further development and stimulate the use of an already established Union Catalog available for use by library systems serving rural areas Criteria for selection of library systems 1 Library must serve rural population on county or multi county basis 2 Library program must be under direction of trained librarian 3 Prospective base of local support must be broad enough to insure continuation of more adequate library program after Federal funds are withdrawn 4 First preference will be given to newly developed multi county regional library programs and to older ones which extend service to counties not now in their area of service 5 All programs must first meet State Aid requirements 6 Both professional and untrained staff must agree to parti cipate in the inservice training program sponsored by the Agency II Methods of Administration b c d Visits and consultations with local librarians trustees and citizen groups Conduct clinics and workshops Establishment of criteria for study and evaluation of library service Development of publicity and public relations material and assistance in their usePurchase of materials through State Agencys procurement office at State discounts Selection of materials at the State or local level from selection aids approved by Agency Provision of catalog cards by the state cataloging service for all books purchased Strengthen book collection for adult use including the development of collections in specialized areas of concern to rural people Grantsinaid for materials salaries etc to existing multi county regional libraries to extend and improve service and similar grantsinaid to encourage other library systems to join existing regions or to pool their resources to form new regions j Broaden the program of leadership training for adult and young adult discussion groups and other group activities in rural areas HI Program for July 1 1958 to June 30 1959 e f g h i IV a Continue to buy books and other library materials to strengthen already established county and multicounty regional libraries under the overall State Aid plan b Develop new multicounty regional libraries under the overall State Aid plan c Encourage addition of new counties to already established regions d Strengthen and improve catalog service at the state and local levels e Provide special leadership training for book and film centered dis cussion groups f Develop more publicity and other public relations material for use in the promotion of more and better library service throughout the rural areas of the state g Promote Home Study Course for library trustees to be offered through cooperative project of the State Department of Education and the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Georgias plan for the use of Federal funds has entitled the state to the following allotments thus fars Fiscal year 1957 4000000 Fiscal Year 1958 14915900 Fiscal year 1959 17295900 These libraries rrust have qualified for the maximum amount of State Aid funds available under all State Aid regulations before they become eligible for special state grants ATTENTION SCHOOL LIBRARIANS Please notify Miss Sarah Jones Chief Library Consultant Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service State Department of Education of any changes in positions It would also be helpful to have any changes in the names of schools or changes in the schools address 10 BUILDINGS AND QUARTERS The Brunswick Regional Library has moved its headquarters into the renovated Colonial Store building on Gloucester Street This building provides more than double the space formerly available in its old quarters and also has sufficient parking space for its patrons and its bookmobiles It is hoped that this building will serve until a new permanent head quarters building can be constructed in the future Headquarters for the West Georgia Regional Library has been moved to a renovated and remodeled duplex apartment house in downtown Carrollton This move was necessitated by the growth and expansion of services of both the regional library and the West Georgia College Library where the West Georgia Regional Library has been housed from its organization Both agencies were in need of additional space and are planning building programs in the future Air conditioning has been assured the Waycross library headquarters for the Okefenokee Region The Pilot Club of Waycross began a drive for funds for this project when it became evident that the initial bond issue would not provide air conditioning for the building The Waycross City Commission voted to accept the gift of the funds raised by the Pilot Club and to appropriate the necessary amount to complete the installation Members of the Statesboro Womans Club have undertaken a series of projects to raise funds to install air conditioning in the Regional Library headquarters at Statesboro The Pierce County Library at Blackshear which is a cooperating unit of the Okefenokee Regional Library is now offering its patrons the added comfort of air conditioning The local library board is working on plans for a new building within the near future Patrons of the Cordele Carnegie Library are enjoying the comfort of air conditioning in their building Other library buildings which report new cool ing systems are the ToccoaStephens County building at Toccoa the new Wilcox County building at Abbeville and the Warner Robins Public Library in the City Hall at Warner Robins Fluorescent lighting has been installed in the childrens reading room of the Carnegie Library at Americus This muchneeded improvement came as a gift from the Citizens Bank of Americus through its president Evan Mathis Headquarters for the Uncle Remus Regional Library in Madison is located in an apartment in the Williford House and is now ready for service to the public in the new location The bookmobile collection is housed in the old Main Street School lunchroom building This move gives the advantage of ground floor locations for both services and added convenience for both patrons and staff The MonroeWalton County Library has moved from its former location in the City Hall to the Launius Memorial Library in the old High School 11 Headquarters for the Piedmont Regional Library formerly in the Matthews School Building near Winder have been moved to the building in downtown Winder which was formerly the recreation center This move gives more space for better organization of work and better service to the area Construction has begun on the new library building for Burke County in Waynesboro It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy in the fall BOOKMOBILES AND EQUIPMENT The Augusta Regional Library has purchased two new bookmobiles to serve its patrons Both were built by the Gerstenslager Company and are air conditioned The Middle Georgia Region added a new bookmobile in May This unit will be used for suburban service and to supplement the other vehicles now in use in that Region A new green and white bookmobile similar to the two now in use has been delivered to the West Georgia Regional Library in Carrollton to take care of expanded service since that region now comprises five counties The new bookmobile ordered by the Dalton Regional Library has been delivered for use in its expanded service program in the five counties served by this region The State Demonstration Bookmobile has been repainted and refurbished It will be loaned to the CobbMarietta Library in September to enable that library to begin service under its newly organized plan The CobbMarietta Library expects to purchase its own vehicle at an early date A hifi record player a microphone and two sets of earphones are a valuable recent gift to the Augusta Library from th Junior League of Augusta This equipment makes possible an expanded listening program for patrons of the library A Listening Corner has been established in the childrens room of the Dublin Carnegie Library The Califone record player and other equipment are gifts of the Dublin Service League The Northeast Georgia Regional Library at Clarkesville has received its new Streamlined Gerstenslager bookmobile This new unit went into service in August to improve coverage in the four counties of the library system The Fort Gordon Library was awarded one of the John Cotton Dana Publicity Awards during the ALA Conference The award was for the librarys publicity designed to attract the major classes of users and its excellent use of many media and skillful art work 12 VACATION READING CLUB All over Georgia bookniks were launched every day as boys and girls registered for the Vacation Reading Clubs for 1958 New Orbits of Fun and Knowledge Through Reading the theme of the statewide club for 1958 were carried out in many ingenuous ways Launching platforms space stations missies satellites creatures from other worlds stars planets and galaxies were used to project young readers into the path of good reading habits with all of the pleasure and benefits which come from these habits The reading programs were tied in with the events of the summer and the happenings in connection with the International Geophysical Year and resulted in an unusual amount of reading along scientific lines as well as the usual wide variety of interests of the boys and girls Story hours for the younger children were carried on in several different ways Some libraries made use of local college students in this phase of the program while others made use of volunteers from such organizations as the PTA the Junior League the library board and of talented story tellers living in their areas Many libraries such as the Cairo Public Library organized Listening Clubs for those too young to read for a state certificate while others followed the example of the Bookmobile Reading Clubs from the MarionMuscogeeChattahoochee Region and mimeographed special junior certifi cates for younger readers who met their local requirements Films filmstrips and recordings added much to the summer reading programs Many excellent posters and displays were made in cooperation with the schools and with other organizations during the summer Newspapers radio and television gave excellent publicity to the programs The Augusta ChronicleHerald devoted one of its Sunday feature section front pages to several delightful pictures of children from that area engaged in various readirg activities Generally speaking newspapers all over the state gave excellent news coverage with several following the example of the Griffin Daily News which dvoted its lead editorial to the pleasure and profit to be had from participation in the Vacation Reading Club In addition to bookniks and New Orbits of Fun and Knowledge there were Reading RoundUps Gray Ghosts Reading Clubs Cowboy and Indian Clubs and armchair travel clubs No matter what the theme Georgias boys and girls read more during Vacation 1958 than ever before Richard B Harwell Executive Secretary of the Association of College and Research Libraries a Division of the American Library Association has been appointed Associate Executive Secretary of ALAone of two new Associate Executive Secretary positions approved by the Executive Board as part of the reorganization of ALA Headquarters services Mr Harwell was at one time a member of the Emory Library staff 13 PUBLIC RELATIONS PLANNER Public libraries which order the Public Relations Planner through the state are reminded that renewal orders for that service are due now Libraries which have not subscribed for the Planner may also place their orders now if they wish to do so The Public Relations Planner is a two part service designed to help libraries in their public relations programs There is a monthly newsletter which includes practical ideas centered around a current theme pointers on who the various publics of libraries are and ways to reach them suggestions on ways to make displays professional and have more pulling power and a time table and calendar to help plan far enough ahead for best results In addition there is a publicity packet each month on the same theme as the newsletter In it are five small posters 100 folders matching the posters suggested newspaper releases ready to use or to be adapted radio spot announcements and editorial or news features which can be used in librarians columns or as the librarian sees fit Additional copies of the publicity materials are available for purchase Public libraries may place orders through the state at the special rate of 6600 per year PUBLIC LIBRARY FILM SERVICE The 1958 catal Film Service is now forms to the regiona were registered for to have copies or li in branches may have Mitchell Street S using this special f address for the nece og of 16 mm films available to users of the Public Library ready Copies have been mailed with the annual registration 1 library headquarters and to all other libraries which the service last year Other libraries which would like braries which need additional copies of the catalog for use them by writing to the State Department of Education 92 W Atlanta Georgia Libraries which would like to begin ilm collection should write to Miss Lucile Nix at the above ssary registration forms During the period from September 1957 through June 1958 twentynine library systems were registered for the use of these films The collection now numbers 416 titles all of them with sound and most of them in color There are films suitable for all age groups on a wide range of subjects 48 new titles were added in July and these are listed in the 1958 catalog The Public Library Film Collection loans films to public libraries for use in their own librarysponsored programs or for loan to groups served by the library for use in their own programs Each year its usefulness grows as more and more libraries are able to purchase projection equipment and as the librarians publicize the availability of these materials 14 MISS DONOVAN RETIRES Miss Elizabeth Donovan Coordinator of Supervision and Elementary Education has retired from the State Department of Education She will teach elementary education and supervise student teaching at Emory University The library program in Georgia has had no better friend than Miss Donovan She came to the Department in July 1942 as a member of the staff of the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service Miss Donovan has on all occasions emphasized the importance of school and pub lic libraries and has worked at the state and local levels to help establish new and stronger library programs Her many library friends will wish to express to her their appreciation of her help and guidance and to wish her happiness and success in her new work We can be assured that Miss Lizzie has merely moved her office and that her energy and thoughts will still be directed toward improving the educational opportunities of the boys and girls of Georgia with libraries and librarians continuing to have high priority Her address is 538 Ponce De Leon Place Decatur Georgia GEORGIA CHAPTER SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION MEETING The biennial meeting of Georgia Chapter Special Libraries Association will take place on Friday and Saturday October 1011 1958 on the campus of Emory University The Alumni Memorial building will be available for the meetings as well as housing the outoftown members and guests attending the conference Human relations in the library field will be the theme of the conference with specialists in this field speaking at the opening session and a panel discussion at the Saturday morning session Miss Marian Lucius Executive Secretary of Special Library Association has been invited to attend and will speak at the Friday evening session on Communications within the Association A large attendance of members and other librarians interested in this field of service is expected The Kentucky Association of School Librarians will be having a luncheon on Saturday October 25 at the close of the SELA convention at Louisville Librarians from other states are invited to attend Mrs Anne Emery will be the speaker Reservations should be sent to Zelma R Langworthy Louisville Public Schools Educational Library Administration Building Louisville 8 Kentucky Price will be around 200 per plate 15 SCHOLARSHIP AND FaLOWSHIP WINNERS Miss Wanda Hannah of Cleveland Mississippi is the recipient of the Tommie Dora Barker fellowship in librarianship for the next academic year at Emory University This is the second award of the fellowship which was set up in honor of Miss Barker who until her retirement was Head of the Division of Librarianship at Emory Miss Hannah is a former junior high school librarian in Natchez Mississippi The winner of the 1958 scholarship award from the Library Binding Institute is Miss Ruth Carol Schearer of Ruston Louisiana This announce ment was made by Zack B Haygood of the National Library Bindery in Atlanta who was chairman of the Scholarship Committee of the Institute Mrs Edna Hanley Byers of the Agnes Scott College Library and John Settlemayer of the Atlanta Public Library were members of the committee to select the applicant to receive the scholarship Mrs Virginia de Treville assistant in charge of the Appleby Branch of the Augusta Library has been awarded a fellowship for one year to work on a Masters Degree in the Division of Librarianship at Emory University She has been granted a years leave of absence GFWC STUDY PROGRAM Modern foreign language study is one of the areas of special emphasis this year by the education department of the Georgia Federation of Womens Clubs Many local clubs through the state are making plans for the organization of both formal and informal study groups Public librarians will want to be aware of this interest and begin making plans with the leaders for securing materials or information about materials which will be helpful FOREIGN VISITORS Miss Marion Gilroy Saskatchewan Canada spent several days in Georgia recently Miss Gilroy was particularly interested in regional library develop ment and adult education activities in libraries Two other foreign visitors came to Georgia from Australia Mr W George Buick was particularly interested in regional library development Mr Eoin H Wilkinson was interested in learning about the over all library program in Georgia 16 HOME STUDY COURSE FOR LIBRARY TRUSTEES A Home Study Course for Library Trustees will be offered soon through the Home Study Program of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education A syllabus for the series of ten lessons has been prepared by Miss Tommie Dora Barker who was employed by the State Department of Education as a special consultant to do this work The cost of the course will be 1000 Miss Barker will be the correspondence instructor and certificates will be awarded to those who complete the course It is hoped that a number of Georgia librarians and library trustees will register for the course NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS Mrs Wilma Cravey has transferred from the Chamblee High School to the new Cross Keys High School in DeKalb County Miss Annie Scott Duren has succeeded Mrs Cravey as librarian at Chamblee High School Two other new DeKalb high schools have opened with Mrs Lewan H Collings as librarian at Gordon High School and Mrs Elizabeth C Jackson at Briarcliff High School Mrs Mozelle Smith is the high school librarian at Southwest DeKalb High School Mrs Smith was formerly at the Bremen High School Mrs T L Everett is the librarian of the new Ware County High School Waycross Mrs W J Branner has been appointed librarian of the new Junior High School in Jessup Mrs Hilda J Deriso has been appointed elementary librarian to serve the two elementary schools in the Newnan school system Mrs Grace Wakefield formerly librarian of the Rossville High School is now the librarian of the George E Bastow III Memorial Library Berry Schools Mount Berry Georgia Mrs Emma Buck Lee has resigned from the Atlanta Public Library staff and is now librarian of the Longino Elementary school in Fulton County Mrs June Ryals formerly librarian of the McRaeHelena School McRae Georgia is the librarian of the LibertyGuinn Elementary School Fulton County Other librarians serving in Fulton County elementary schools for the first time are Mrs Marion Perry Guy Webb School Miss Carolyn Rainey Morgan Falls and Newtown Schools Mrs Eloise Greer Harris Street School Miss Sara Lee Lane S R Young School and Mrs Jerry Fuller College Street School 17 Mrs Jane Morgan has returned to library work after a number of years absence She is the assistant librarian at Russell High School in Fulton County Mrs Jacqueline Williams and Mrs Atlanta High School librarians Mrs OKeefe Evelyn Seitz have joined the ranks of Williams is at Bass and Mrs Seitz at Mrs Dorothy Blake has returned to library work as librarian at White foord and East Lake Elementary Schools in Atlanta Mrs Ruth Donaldson is now the fulltime elementary librarian at Rock Springs School Atlanta Other new staff members doing library work in the Atlanta Schools are Mrs Ronnie Wiggins at Morningside and S M Inman Elementary Schools Mrs Alvada Smith at Adair and Peeples Elementary Schools and Mrs Martha Booth at Lakewood and Humphries Elementary Schools Mrs Colleen 0 Williams formerly a speech teacher in Barrow County has joined the staff of the Piedmont Regional Library at Winder Mrs Elizabeth Clark Jensen is the new bookmobile librarian in the Middle Georgia Regional Library She will be responsible for operation of the second Gerstenslager unit in the regional system at Macon Mrs Betty L Sanders became an assistant to Miss Edith Foster Director of the West Georgia Regional Library on September 1 Mrs Sanders was formerly Childrens Librarian at the Athens Regional Library She returns to her native Georgia from the Webster High School Library in Webster Florida Miss Frances Wunn is now serving as Childrens Librarian in the Athens Regional Library Program Miss Nunn was librarian at the Athens High School for a number of years Miss Marcia Hodges is a new recruit to the library program at Bainbridge She will serve as a general assistant to Miss Dorothy Spence Director of the Regional Library Mr William M Pickens a principal in the Gwinnett County School system worked during the summer months as an assistant in the Lanier Lake Regional Library at Lawrenceville Mrs Kathryn Sovey and Miss Margaret Hearn have recently accepted positions in the Northeast Georgia Regional Library Mrs Charlotte S Bowers continued work on her library degree during the summer months During her absence Miss Gertrude Pierce East Laurens School Librarian served as substitute for Mrs Bowers in the Oconee Regional Library Carlton J Thaxton has succeeded Philip Ogilvie as Director of the Coastal Plain Regional Library at Tifton Mr Ogilvie went to Roanoke Virginia in August to direct the Roanoke Public Library Miss Mary Frances Cox formerly librarian of the Boys and Girls Room at the Atlanta Public Library served during the summer as temporary librarian for the newly organized CobbMarietta Library18 William L Whitesides formerly of the staff of the Atlanta Public Library has been appointed Director of the CobbMarietta Library He assumed his nev duties on September 1 1958 Mrs Kathleen Clyatt has retired as librarian of the McDuffie County Library in Thomson She is making her home with her daughter in Hew Jersey Mrs C G Windham became librarian of the McDuffie County Library in June Miss Gladys Brown is the new librarian of the Taliaferro County Library in Crawfordville She succeeds Mrs Ruth Reed who resigned Mrs Neal Parrish has resigned from the staff of the Satilia Regional Library at Douglas due to her husband being transferred from the city Mrs W J Dickey has resigned as director of the Uncle Remus Regional Library at Madison to accept the position as librarian at Emory Junior Colleee at Oxford Mrs Frances Hinton retired on September 1st from her position of librarian of Emory Junior College at Oxford after a long period of faithful and efficient service Mrs Alice Wallace continued work on her library degree at Peabody College this summer She is acting Director of the Uncle Remus Regional Library at Madison since the resignation of Mrs W J Dickey Mrs Nelle Eateman will return to Madison in the near future to become Director of the regional library Miss Cornelia Lowe completed her work and was awarded the Masters Degree in Library Science at Florida State University in August She has been named to Kappa Delta Pi national education hener society Miss Lowe has returned to her position as Director of Extension for the MuscogeeMarionChattahoochee Regional Library at Columbus Mrs Anna Schinkel who has served as Acting Director of the Colquitt Thomas Regional Library with headquarters at Moultrie since the resignation of Mrs Roberta Ryan some months ago has been elected by the library board to the position of Director Miss Colleen OBrien a former staff member of the ColquittThomas Regional Library at Moultrie who has recently been teaching at Fort Benning Georgia flew to Frankfurt Germany the latter part of August where she assumed her duties as a teacher of dependent children in the U S Army Mrs Allen Hazeworth has resigned as librarian of the CharIton County Library at Folkston one of the cooperating units of the Brunswick Regional Library system and has been succeeded by Mrs Howard DeVane who formerly served as librarian This library unit is sponsored by the Folkston Junior Womans Club Mrs Beverly Hyers Johnson has accepted a position with the Okefenokee Regional Library at Waycross19 Miss Carolyn Wray formerly librarian at Judson College Marion Alabama has been appointed head librarian of Berry College at Rome succeeding Miss Florrie Jackson who joined the staff of the University of Georgia Library on September 1st Miss Mary Elizabeth Bedford of Tuscaloosa Alabama has been named assistant librarian at Berry College Mrs Wallis Cobb Jr succeeds Mrs Helen Legette on the library staff of Georgia Teachers College at Statesboro Mrs Legette has accepted the position of librarian of North Florida Junior College at Madison Florida Mrs Carolyn Black Dallavalle has returned to the library staff of Price Gilbert Library of Georgia Institute of Technology after some years absence Mrs Helen S Walzer is also a new member of this library staff Mrs Dan Sutton has retired as librarian of Georgia Experiment Station Library at Tifton after fifteen years of service She will not get away from libraries entirely however as her home in Harding Community serves as a deposit station for books from the Coastal Plain Regional Library Six staff members of the W C Bradley Memorial Library at Columbus who are retiring upon completion of services ranging from seven to fiftytwo years were recently honored by the library staff at a dinner at which tributes were paid to each one by John Banister Director of libraries and W H Shaw Superintendent of Muscogee County Schools Each retiring person was also presented a corsage and a 2500 savings bond The group includes Mr William R Thayer Mrs Wheeler Tolbert Misses Daisy Reade Rochelle Martiniere Marion Whitaker and Mrs Mae Humber Miss Jeanne Hollis reference librarian of the W C Bradley Memorial Library at Columbus spent six weeks at Peabody College this summer completing work on her Masters Degree in Library Science which was awarded at the end of the summer school session Mrs W J Cavender joined the staff of the Dalton Regional Library on September 1 1958 Mrs Mildred Greeson librarian of the Gordon County Library at Calhoun one of the participating units in the Dalton Regional Library system was recently cited as Woman of the Month for her community and county Special tribute was paid to her efforts in behalf of improved library services in the area Mrs Olivia Young has resigned her position as assistant director of the Cairo Public Library to accompany her husband to his new position in Tennessee Mrs Faye Watson Bridges has been appointed acting childrens librarian of Washington Memorial Library at Macon She is a 1957 graduate of the University of Georgia and had served as a student assistant in the library during her college days Mrs Ruth Young director of the Flint River Regional Library for the past two years has resigned to accept the position of associate librarian at Wesleyan College Macon Mrs Young succeeds Miss Sara Lamon who has been on the library staff of Wesleyans Candler Memorial Library for the past twelve years but is now returning to high school library work at the Lanier Junior High School in Macon20 Mrs Mildred Parrish Patrick has joined the library staff of Westminster Schools in Atlanta as assistant in the Boys High School Mrs Patricia Meeks Hinson has accepted a position with the Satilia Regional Library at Douglas Miss Violet Hendricks Catalog Service State Department of Education was married to Mr Cal Hendrix Director CherokeePickens Regional Library on September 2J Miss Virginia McJenkin Director of Fulton County School Libraries spent six weeks on the West Coast as Visiting Professor in the Library Science Department of the University of Southern California Los Angeles 1 5 ah s NEWS BULLETIN UNIkksity Of GEORGR JAN 2 6 59 LIBRARIES January 1959 Vol 14 No 2 Issued by Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services Georgia Department of EducationCONTENTS Of General Interest Spring GEA Meeting You and Professional Organizations National Library Week New Edition of Georgia Manufacturers Southeastern Library Association Meeting ALA European Tour AtlantaAthens Union Catalogue Officers of Atlanta Library Club E P DuttonMacrae Award Edition of Industrial Survey and Directory for Georgia National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections Dental Health Kit Publicity Bibliography NewberyCaldecott Medal Display Kit Books on Exhibit Recent ALA Publications Librarians In Print Catalogue Cards for NonBook Materials Paperback Books News of Georgia Librarians Page 1 1 2 2 3 3 5 5 5 8 11 11 12 13 14 15 15 15 16 1618 School Librarians School Library Study GEoA District Officers List of Tests School Library News Student Assistants Traveling Science Libraries National Defense Act 1 45 7 910 11 11 16 Public Librarians Publication on Service to Labor Public Library News Meeting of Library Directors Public Library Buildings and Quarters Bookmobiles and Equipment Assembly of State Librarians Conference on Metropolitan Library Problems Vacation Reading Club 2 6 6 7 8 8 13 14 College and Special Librarians Officers of Special Libraries Association Grants for Libraries 13 14SPRING GEA MEETING The Children and Young Peoples Section of GEA will hold its annual meeting in Atlanta on Friday March 20 The meeting will be in the Shrine Mosque at 400 Ponce de Leon Avenue beginning at 930 A M Richard Chase author and folklorist will be the luncheon speaker Make your reservations now with Mrs Lois Sue Camp Resource Librarian Area 2 Lakewood Health Center 2925 Lakewood Avenue S W Atlanta and send your check with the reservation Lunch will cost 175 This promises to be an unusually interesting and wellattended meeting so be sure that your name is on the list Mrs Edna Clay Librarian Avondale High School is chairman of the committee on Local Arrangements SCHOOL LIBRARY STUDY SOUTHERN STATES WORK CONFERENCE The Georgia Library Committee of the Southern States Work Conference Study of School Libraries met in Atlanta on December 6 to study the report of the Daytona meeting and make plans for gathering and evaluating additonal data that is needed Some of the information will be gathered by personal interview and some through questionnaires It is important that librarians and other school personnel cooperate in this study since the results may point directions and recommend programs that will influence school library development in the South and Georgia for many years x YOU AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The professional library organizations are constantly working to improve library service facilities and standards We all need to have an active part in these associations Begin the new year right by joining or renewing your membership 1 The Georgia Library Association Mr Ira E Farber Treasurer Emory University Library Atlanta Georgia 100 2 Southeastern Library Association 200 Mrs Anne Bugg Executive Secretary Price Gilbert Memorial Library Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta 13 Georgia 3 American Library Association Scaled to salary Miss Geraldine LeMay Georgia Membership Chairman Savannah Public Library Savannah Georgia 2 NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK National Library Week under the sponsorship of the National Book Committee and in cooperation with ALA will take place again in 1959 Dates for the observance have been set for April 1218 1959 Already the steering committee under the chairmanship of Theodore Waller who served as vicechairman in 1958 has been at work The slogan for this year will be the same as last year Wake Up and Read Georgias observance of National Library Week Miss Edith Foster Director of the West Georgia Re executive director for National Library Week and i composed of the following Dr M D Collins Cha President of the Georgia Library Association Miss special libraries Miss Sara Hightower representi Coston representing municipal libraries Mr J C Citizens Library Committee Mrs W M Crane Jr Service Georgia Congress of Parents and Teachers Education Committee Georgia Federation of Womens Lucile Nix Chief Library Consultants for the Stat will again be gional Library s working with irman Miss Eva Marian Taylor ng school libra Haynes repre Chairman of Re Mrs John Lewi Clubs Miss Sa e Department of an active one has been named a committee lene Jackson representing ries Miss Eunice senting the Georgia ading and Library s Chairman rah Jones and Miss Education All libraries in the state are urged to participate in this observance The state committee will be sending out materials in the near future but plans should be made now to make the best possible use of the emphasis which will be placed on the importance of good library services during the celebration of National Library Week A recent publication which will be of interest to libraries thinking of instituting or expanding service to organized labor groups or which need materials on organized labor is the Guide for Developing a Public Library Service to Labor Groups This guide contains an excellent bibliography and gives helpful information to those who offer such services Published by the Joint Committee on Library Service to Labor Groups of the Adult Services Division of the American Library Association the pamphlet may be secured from Mrs Dorothy K Oko Chairman Joint Committee on Library Service to Labor Groups Donnell Library Center 20 West 53rd Street New York 19 N Y A new edition of GEORGIA MANUFACTURERS 1958 which gives a listing by county of all types of industries with name and address of the firm and likewise carries a subject listing of manufactured articles in Georgia is available from the Georgia Department of Commerce 100 State Capitol Atlanta price 500 This is a valuable reference tool in all libraries and should be ordered direct from the Department SOUTHEASTERN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MEETING Louisville and the state of Kentucky displayed their traditional hospitality and graciousness to the large number of librarians and trustees who attended the Southeastern Library Association there on October 2325 1958 The registration figures showed almost 700 people in attendance which makes the Louisville meeting one of the best attended regional conferences in recent years Georgias delegation was one of the largest present and Georgia librarians were active in the programs of the various sections and groups within the conference The meeting was concerned with current developments in all types of libraries with therelationships between SELA and state library associations with regional ism and its implications with academic libraries in foreign countries with trustees and public relations cooperation and communication characteristics of a good school library and its effects upon boys and girls The participants talked about the public library reference survey problems in library education book reviewing the effects of the Library Services Act and plans for National Library Week m 1959 The meeting resulted in many new and renewed friendships and brought challenge and inspriation to librarians to continue working at their problems There were opportunities to visit school public and university libraries as well as some of the interesting special libraries in the area Visitors from A L A headquarters and other parts of the world added to the interest and the exhibitors provided friendly hospitality and the opportunity to see the latest developments in books goods and gadgets aimed at improving library services Even nature cooperated providing her most beautiful fall colors for those who drove through the countryside and the mountains to reach the city and bringing bright crisp weather for most of the sessions Miss Lucile Nix Chief Library Consultant for the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services in the State Department of Education was installed as president of the association for the next biennium A special tour of Europe will be sponsored by the A L A following the annual conference in Washington D C on June 27 1959 A chartered plane will carry members of ALA and their families only The 35day tour will include England Holland Germany Switzerland Italy and France and will end in Paris on August 1 with an overnight flight arriving in New York on the morning of August 2 There will be specially arranged programs in some of the continents most important libraries as well as the more usual tourist attractions Mr C Donald Cook Assistant to the Director of Libraries of Columbia University and a welltraveled man himself is in charge of the tour He announces that the cost will be well below that of comparable commercial European vacations because of the chartered plane Arrangements are being handled by Compass Travel Bureau Inc 55 West 42 Street N Y N Y Costs and detailed itinerary may be obtained by writinq directly to them GEA DISTRICT OFFICERS CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLES LIBRARY SECTION 19591960 First District Chairman Miss Elizabeth Sorrier Statesboro High Statesboro Vicechairman Miss Mildred Harvey Screven County High Sylvania Secretary Miss Ollie Mae Jernigan Southeast Bulloch High Brooklet This group voted to have the vicechairman to be the chairman elect for the following term f Second District Chairman Miss Evelyn Toms Cairo High Cairo 1st ViceChairman Mrs Gertrude A Giles Baker County High Newton 2nd ViceChairman Mrs Marron Alverson Moultrie High Moultrie SecretaryTreasurer Mrs H Stanley Brown Albany Junior High Albany According to the Constitution the chairman automatically becomes second vicechairman Third East Chairman CoChairman Secretary Mrs Mary Manley Dodge County High Eastman Mrs H E Jones Turner County High Ashburn Mrs W T Jolly Oglethorpe High Oglethorpe It was voted that the cochairman would be the chairman elect Third West Chairman ViceChairman Secret aryTrea surer Mrs Marian McGlaun Marion County High Buena Vista Mrs Ellen Viets Columbus Junior High Columbus Miss Evelyne H Smith Jordan Vocational School Columbus Fourth District Chairman Mrs Ruby McClendonHeard County High Franklin ViceChairman To be appointed Secretary Miss Alice Burroughs Carrollton High Carrollton Fifth District Chairman Mrs Lois Sue Camp Resource Librarian Area 2 Lakewood Health Center 2925 Lakewood Avenue S W Atlanta ViceChairman Mrs Annice Snyder Hammond School 300 Thonson Ferry Road Sandy Springs Secretary Mrs Reba Jones Decatur High Decatur Sixth District Chairman Mrs T A Reese Sandersville High Sandersville CoChairman Mrs Margaret Loudermilk Georgia Academy for the Blind Macon SecretaryTreasurer Mrs Ruth Bond Elementary School Libraries Macon Seventh District ChairmanMrs E J Quiery Marietta High Marietta ViceChairmanMiss Sara Hightower Pepperell High Lindale SecretaryMiss Emily Powers Model High RomeEighth District Chairman Mrs Lucile Young Clinch County High Homerville ViceChairman Mrs Sam Fain Okefenokee Regional Library Waycross SecretaryTreasurer Mrs T L Everett Jr Ware County High Waycross Ninth District Chairman Mrs Mary Barton North Habersham High Clarkesville Secretary Mrs Wayne Ruskin South Hall High School Gainesville Tenth District Chairman Mrs James Clary Warren County High Warrenton Secretary Mrs John T Faust Oglethorpe County High Lexington The report of the Union Catalogue of the AtlantaAthens Area discloses that the catalogue has become even more effective as a location tool Factors which contribute to this effectiveness are greater efficiency in filing and editing card contributions more accurate techniques in searching through the complexities of the Union Catalogues single entry file and the additional libraries and increased resources which are listed in the Catalogue each year A study is now under way to collect information on requests for titles not among the holdings of the twenty five participating libraries It is the belief of the Advisory Faculty Council that such information will prove valuable in building more serviceable libraries Miss Marion Taylor is Editor of the Union Catalogue OFFICERS OF ATLANTA LIBRARY CLUB Miss Tattie Mae Williams of Price Gilbert Library Georgia Tech is the 195859 president of the Atlanta Library Club Serving with Miss Williams are Vice Presidents Virginia Wilson Milton High School Alpharetta and Carol Hart State Department of Archives and History Secretary Eleanor Robinson Atlanta Public Library Treasurer Mrs Linda Johnson Federal Reserve Bank Library The E P DuttonJohn Macrae Award for the Advancement of Library Service to Children and Young People is an annual fellowship of 1000 for advanced study or a significant project by a professionallyeducated librarian who has had at least three years experience in serving children or young adults You may write for application blank and complete details to Chairman DuttonMacrae Award Committee American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago 11 Illinois Completed applications must be received before April 1 1959 x 6 PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS The new name chosen for the MeriwetherTalbotUpsonTaylor Regional Library is Pine Mountain Regional Library Taylor County has become the fourth county to be served by the Pine Mountain Regional Library system The Flint River Regional Library which has its headquarters at Griffin has begun the fourth year of the Great Books Discussion Program in Griffin An art exhibit circulated by the Georgia Association of Artists was pre sented at the Hawkes Library headquarters for the Flint River Region in September The Utility Club of Griffin was the sponsor of the exhibit A series of films on art were shown during September and October at the Hawkes Library in Griffin It is expected that another series will begin early in 1959 A Personal Hygiene Institute for the girls in the area was conducted at the library in Manchester headquarters for the Pine Mountain Regional Library by Miss Lila Rice and Mrs Calvin Jackson of the county health department Films filmstrips books and pamphlets were used with discussion following A total of 172 girls participated in the institute The Smyrna City Council recently appointed an eightmember committee to plan and work for a new city libraryhealth building in Smyrna Mr William Whitesides Director of the CobbMarietta Library is actively working to secure better library facilities and services in all communities in Cobb County and has offered his services to members of the committee at Smyrna in laying plans for the building campaign and construction Fiftyfive original members of the Dawson Library Association were recently honored by the Regional Library Board at Dawson with a memorial piece of furniture The sixty drawer card catalogue cabinet will be formally dedicated in the memory of the founders as soon as the plaque on which their names have been engraved is received at the regional headquarters MEETING OF LIBRARY DIRECTORS Librarians from libraries that have qualified in 19581959 for full grants under the state and federal grant programs met in Atlanta for a one day conference on December 16 to discuss administrative and other problems of mutual concern Meeting with them were Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr C S Hubbard Assistant State Schools Superintendent Mr Zade Kenimer Director of the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Service and members of the professional library staff of the Division Also in attendance were members of the Library Development Committee of the Georgia Library Association Miss Tommie Dora Barker is Chairman of this committee Other members of the committee are Miss Virginia McJenkin Mrs James E Powers Mr Dale Barker Miss Marion Taylor Miss Sara Hightower and Miss Evalene Jackson PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDINGS AND QUARTERS The Rossville Public Library is moving to new quarters in the south side of the building which houses the Peerless Cloth Store on Bailey Avenue The move will be made just as soon as the work of remodeling the building is completed The Callaway Community Foundation has given to the city of Manchester the sum of 650000 as a contribution toward purchasing equipment and remodeling the building owned by the city which serves as the Negro branch of the library Open House and dedication ceremonies were held for the newCarrollton Library headquarters for the Vilest Georgia Regional Library in October The Carrollton Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored the open house which attracted a large number of visitors Among the new services and activities made possible by the new facilities are loan of art work and musical recordings to individual borrowers additional filmstrips and projectors a greatly expanded reference collection centers for Girl Scouts Garden Clubs and a larger collection of current magazines and newspapers A record player with earphone attachments furnishes a listening corner and space is available for a regular childrens hour program The interior of the Hawkes Library in Griffin headquarters for the Flint River Regional Library underwent repairs and redecoration during the last two weeks of November Another in the growing number of libraries to provide air conditioning for the comfort of the patrons and staff is the Dalton Regional Library The Hart County Public Library held open house in November to celebrate the move from their one room to more spacious quarters in the county courthouse Another open house celebration was held in Brunswick in December to enable the public to inspect the new attractive and functional library quarters there more than twice the size of former space Christmas decorations and music added background for all visitors on this happy occasion The Pine Mountain Regional Library has undergone a recent facelifting with the provision of new shelving in the Childrens and Young Peoples section and the addition of shelves for the Extension and Bookmobile departments School librarians will be particularly interested in the multiple list of tests approved for purchase with state funds If the counselor in the local school does not have this list or if additonal copies are needed they may be had by writing the Division of Instruction Guidance and Testing State Department of Education State Office Building Atlanta 3 Georgia x BOOKMOBILES AND EQUIPMENT mohJoe TCnee R9irau Librapy at Dublin has received its handsome new book mobile It was built by the Gerstenslager Company and will be used to enable this fairly new region to expand and strengthen its bookmobile services to X n 6 3 PG 9 The ScrevenJenkins Regional Library at Sylvania has put into operation their new bookmobile which is painted attractively in blue and white p h Tthlr T bookmobile which has recently been placed in service is the lZrtll7lf WaS Purchased b the Uncle es Regional Library with head New equipment continues to arrive for the Wilcox County Library at Abbeville Two new gas heaters have been installed as a gift from the city of Lbeville Wonman Club the Ubrary by the U c and the at ThlmasvilTe5 wJth J Thomaville has presented the Annie Wright Memorial Library suffer from inn aPotion magnifier a device which enables readers who suffer from poor eyesight to read a regular book more easily ASSEMBLY OF STATE LIBRARIANS Miss Lucile Nix Chief Library Consultant State Department of Education was invited by the Librarian of Congress to attend an Assembly of State Librarians at the Library of Congress November 1214 1958 to discuss matters of mutual concern to state libraries and the Library of Congress The agenda included Legislative Reference Service to Congress and the State Legislatures Law Library Services to Legislative Judicial and Executive branches of Federal and State Governments Development of Standards of Service and Responsibilities of State Libraries Depository and Exchange of State Libraries Archival Service ot state Libraries General Reference Services to Federal and State Governmental Agencies State Library Responsibilities for Library Services to the Blind and Special Programs of the Library of Congress as they relate to State Libraries Inirtyeight state librarians and a number of Archivists and Legislative Reference people were m attendance Librarians came from as far as Alaska The Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico The 1959 edition of the INDUSTRIAL SURVEY AND DIRECTORY FOR GEORGIA is available from the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce 900 Forsyth Building Atlanta 3 Georgia price 60 stamps are acceptable when sent with the order The forty pages of industrial data on the state generously illustrated with new maps charts and photographs should be a helpful addition to the Georgia reference collection in all libraries This item should be purchased with local funds x 9 SCHOOL LIBRARY NEWS For the past several years each visit by the state library staff and each collection of newspaper clippings bring news of new school libraries Each library reflects the interest of the administrators teachers librarians and students in improving library services and each one represents better educational opportunities for Georgia boys and girls The new Willingham Senior High School Library opened in November The members of the Parent Teacher Association of the Eastside Elementary School Thomasville approved plans for the establishment of acentral library in that school and agreed to appropriate 80000 to help start it The new Ware County High School Library was officially opened on September 15 Mrs Carol Everett is the librarian of this very attractive and functional library The pupils of Florence Bernd School Macon are very proud of their library which has been moved into larger quarters The Deborah McCrea Balfour Library at the Robert C Balfour Jr Elementary School Thomasville contains 1600 books and attractive furniture and equipment presented by Mr Balfour in honor of his wife The cabinet work and shelving in the Wayne County High School is unusually well done The local cabinet maker who is responsible for this professional looking job also designed and made an excellent circulation desk The librarian Mrs Wesley M Carr and the students are enjoying the attractive new library at the Blackshear High School The Grady Street Elementary School has a central library and a room is being remodeled in the Main Street Elementary School for its library A fulltime librarian will have charge of the two elementary libraries The newly constructed library on the Valdosta High School campus has been named the Rubye McKinney Memorial Library in honor of a member of the high school faculty who served the school for thirtyfive years The Board of Education has authorized setting up a memorial fund to help provide additional books for the library Miss Elizabeth Jones librarian College Park High School reports that she has forty student assistants She holds library staff meetings regularly twice each month Among other activities the new teachers were invited to attend the staff meeting on October 1 to discuss their use of the library and the ways in which the library staff could help them The Hapeville High School Library Staff under the direction of Mrs G H White librarian and Lititia Holt president sponsored a course in parliamentary procedure for club and class officers The course included one session on various phases of parliamentary procedure such as kinds of motions and duties of officers The second session was devoted to the actual practice of the rules10 that had been learned Campbell High School Library Club under the sponsorship of Miss Willene Webster librarian conducted their fourth annual parliamentary procedure class in October Members of the Avondale Teen Age Club have presented 20000 to the library of the Avondale High School Mrs Edna Clay librarian used the money to buy badly needed reference titles in the areas of science sociology mathematics and foreign languages Mrs Emily DeLoach librarian of Glennville High School and Chairman of the First District Children and Young Peoples Library Section held a meeting of librarians and library assistants in Metter for the purpose of organizing the library assistants of that district Gail Mobley Glennville was elected the first president and Mrs D L Stephens librarian Jenkins County High School and her assistants were named to draw up the constitution All of the districts in the state now have an organization of student assistants The Gracewood Elementary School mothers have agreed to serve as the librarians of that school Mrs Sam Tyson Augusta Public Library trained them in simple library procedures and a definite schedule has been worded out for the mothers who volunteered their services Miss Virginia McJenkin Director Fulton County School Libraries has been appointed the Chairman for the Southeast to implement the new standards for school libraries being prepared by a committee of the American Association of School Libraries Miss McJenkin is also responsible for the chapter on library planning in these new standards Library Assistants Problems was the theme of an original playlet presented by members of the LaGrange High School Library Club during the regular assembly period The purpose of the play written and directed by Janice Smith senior library assistant was to give students a better understanding of the duties and responsibilities of library assistants and the importance of the library to students Members of the Falling Creek Elementary School PTA have undertaken the big job of organizing and cataloging the books in their school library Mrs Dixie Pruitt Instructional Supervisor of Elbert County and a member of the state library staff have worked with the PTA The Senior Library Assistants of the Summerville High School sponsored a Book Fair consisting of paper back books of the best American and English classics The purpose of the book fair was to give students an opportunity to know more about the classics and to purchase the titles at a reasonable price for their own personal libraries 11 STUDENT ASSISTANTS Plans are underway for the annual conference at Rock Eagle April 1012 1959 Be sure your assistants have joined the state association so that they may have representatives present Membership blanks can be secured from Nancy Adams West Fulton High School Atlanta Georgia More information about GALA meeting plans district association and local student assistants news is being published in a Student Assistants News Bulletin This Bulletin is being mailed to members of GALA TRAVELING SCIENCE LIBRARIES The American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced that plans have been made to continue the Traveling High School Science Library Program in 195960 Any senior high school interested in securing additonal information about these traveling libraries of 200 books should write to the Association 1515 Massachusetts Avenue N W Washington 5 D C Some of the high school libraries now using this service are Avondale Morgan County Putnam County WashingtonWilkes Oglethorpe County Waycross Gordon Lee and Dalton A NATIONAL UNION CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS TO BE ESTABLISHED AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS A central national inventory of manuscript collections has been a lonqfelt need of studies which depend upon such sources These studies include not only civil military and social history but also literary history and criticism the history of the arts biography and genealogy paleography business and economic history the history of science and legal history and inquiries Believing such an inventory to be important the Council on Library Resources Inc has made a grant of 200000 to the Library of Congress to initiate work on a National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections It is hoped that this catalogue will eventually record all collections of manuscripts held by libraries and archives in the United States The immediate goal is to bring together uniform descriptions of some 24000 known collections in approximately 75 cooperating repositories in addition to some 3000 collections in the Library of Congress itself x A kit of excellent material on dental health is available on request from the Georgia Department of Public Health The request should be made to the Dental Health Services Georgia Department of Public Health Atlanta 3 Georgia 12 PUBLICITY A Selected List of Articles Recently Appearing in Library Literature Adamson J Oak Ridge Dreams of the Future Library Journal 812615 November 1 1956 Barnes K S Why Publicity Odds Book Ends No 2056 Winter 1956 Brown E F TVFriend or Foe Wilson Library Bulletin 31533 March 1957 Buchanan Mrs M B Publicity A Tool of Public Relations Missouri Library Association Quarterly 1729 March 1956 Burrowes A V Your Library and Your Newspaper Missouri Library Association Quarterly 1729 March 1956 Delaney J J Publicity and Promotion Methods Texas Library Journal 3134 March 1955 Ebeling M V TV Ohio County Librarys Calling Card West Virginia Librarian 82 June 1955 Frankenfield Mrs P No Money Publicity Campaign Library Journal 812156 October 1 1956 Georgia J K Kims Klub Tulsas Television Program Oklahoma Librarian 682 October 1956 Harvey J F Put Your Librarys Imprint in Print Library Journal 81783 April 1 1956 Howe M Television Book Bandwagon Library Journal 812414 October 15 1956 Hunter L Advertising Can Be Fun Wilson Library Bulletin 29254 March 1955 Littleton I T TV Aids University Library Library Journal 81354 February 1 1956 Reed E W Book Talk ALA Bulletin 5039 January 1956 Ross Mrs E S Hints from a TV StoryTeller Library Journal 81680 April 15 1956 Samuelson H K How to of Library Publicity Library Journal 81680 March 15 1956 Scoggin M C Radios Young Book Reviewers Library Journal 812416 October 15 1956 Reprinted from Maryland Libraries Winter 1958 V 24 No 2 13 NEWBERYCALDECOTT MEDAL DISPLAY KIT A special display kit for the annual Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners is available from The Childrens Book Council Inc This kit includes a sturdy three part standing poster and two slit cards all handsomely printed in blue gold and black Both the poster and the slit cards carry large reproductions of the two medals and on the poster there are descriptive paragraphs explaining these medals Below each medal is a shelf on which to stand the new winners when they are announced on March 20 The kits should be ordered before March 1 at 185 each from The Childrens Book Council Inc 50 West 53 Street New York 19 Newbery and Caldecott bookmarks can be ordered at the same time This year there will be two separate bookmarks l A Newbery Medal bookmark printed in blue on gold with a short history of the award and a list of all winners giving the year title author and publisher 2 A Caldecott Medal bookmark printed in blue on white with a short history of the award and giving a list of all winners by year title author and publisher These sell for 100 per 100 900 per 1000 Orders should specify by name which bookmarks either Newbery or Caldecott are being requested Columbia University announces a threeday conference on Metropolitan Public Library Problems to be held at the School of Library Service in New York on June 1820 immediately preceding the 1959 annual conference of the American Library Association in Washington D C The purpose of the conference is to bring together representative librarians from the metropolitan areas to share their experience their projects and their problems in interlibrary relationships in the urban areas of the United States Membership in the conference will be limited to fifty persons with those eligible being library administrators from large urban public libraries librarians from suburban communities state librarians faculty members of library schools and schools of public administration and representatives of interested private and public planning agencies A fee of 1000 will be charged For further information and for application forms write to the Dean School of Library Service 516 Butler Library Columbia University New York 27 N Y OFFICERS OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION GEORGIA CHAPTER Miss Marion Taylor librarian of the Union Catalogue of the AtlantaAthens are was elected president of the Georgia Chapter Special Libraries Association at the biennial meeting held in October 1958 Other officers include First VicePresident Miss Dorothy H Jones Price Gilbert Library Georgia Tech Second VicePresident Mr Venable Lawson Atlanta Public Library Secretary Miss Helen Hagan Division of Librarianship Emory University Treasurer Mr Stanley J Bougas Emory University Law Library x 14 BOOKS ON EXHIBIT The Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services has been approached by the directors of Books on Exhibit to know whether it would sponsor one or two of these exhibits in Georgia in 195960 The exhibits contain approximately 600 new and recent elementary and high school publications of the major book companies The Division would be responsible for scheduling the exhibits but individual school systems would be responsible for costs of trans portation to the next place of exhibit This cost would probably run from 800 1000 Since the directors of Books on Exhibit are interested in large numbers of teachers pupils and parents seeing the exhibit it would be available only to school systems or regional or large public library systems that could arrange a central place for the exhibit or that could transport the exhibit from school to school or public library to public library If any school or public library system is interested in having such an exhibit or would like additional information please write to the Division The exhibit can be handled only through the State GRANTS FCR LIBRARIES The University of Georgia Libraries vail receive an endowment of more than 10000000 under the terms of the will of the late David Knox McKamy Birmingham Alabama attorney and native of Georgia He was an honor graduate of the University and died in Birmingham in September 1957 Another bequest from Mr McKamy went to the Dalton Public Library The sum of 500000 was left to the library and according to Mrs Evalyn Rutledge Director part of it has been used to install air conditioning and a new furnace Mr McKamy at one time lived in Dalton The Board of Regents has announced that North Georgia College will receive an allocation of 12500000 for enlarging its library Architectural plans should be completed and construction started in the spring of 1959 for this annex which will more than double the floor space which the Stewart Library present ly has available VACATION READING CLUB SUMMER 1958 The final report a total of 63543 chi of these receiving ce 13167 receiving gold approved books Most New Orbits of Fun and municipal county and Materials and Library on the summer 1958 Vacation Reading Club in Georgia showed ldren and young people registered for the clubs with 36514 rtificates indicating they had read at least ten books and star certificates indicating that they had read twentyfive of these clubs followed the statewide theme Bookniks Knowledge Through Reading and were sponsored by local regional public libraries and the Division of Instructional Service State Department of Education 15 RECENT ALA PUBLICATIONS Librarians in all kinds of libraries will be interested in two recent publications which will prove helpful in dealing with some of their problems The Adult Services Division of the American Library Association has issued pre liminary drafts of three papers in its new series to be known as the ASD Guide to the Literature of Libraries and various subjects with which they will deal Those now available are THE BOOK TALK TELEVISION and PROGRAM PLANNING Each includes a survey of the literature and a detailed bibliography on the topic Order from the American Library Association 50 E Huron Street Chicago 11 Illinois The Association of College and Reference Libraries has issued number 18 in its series of monographs SPOKEN POETRY ON RECORDS AND TAPES an Index of Currently Available Recordings This paper bound monograph sells for 175 and should be ordered as follows ACRL Monographs American Library Association 50 E Huron Street Chicago 11 Illinois LIBRARIANS IN PRINT Library Journal for December 15 1958 contains articles by two outstanding Georgia librarians Miss Anne L McKay of the staff of the Middle Georgia Regional Library at Macon writes of the Quota Clubs presentation of various careers to the high school students in an article called Recruit Through a High School Futurama In Junior Libraries for December 15 1958 bound with the regular December 15 issue of Library Journal Miss Virginia McJenkin Fulton County School Library Supervisor has an article entitled The Supervisor as an Architect This issue of Junior Libraries is devoted to school library super vision and Miss McJenkins article is a valuable contribution Mrs Minnie Friedsam of the staff of the Albany Carnegie Library Albany has had a story accepted by Jack and Jill to appear in a future issue Miss Jean Cochran Director Augusta Regional Library described the new Wallace Branch in the December 1 issue of Library Journal CATALOGUE CARDS FOR NONBOOK MATERIALS Catalogue cards for films filmstrips and for phonorecords may be purchased from The Library of Congress For precise information on procedures correspondence should be directed tos The Library of Congress Card Division Washington 25 D C It will be necessary to establish the method of payments to receive u rAscriber number and to learn the specifications required in ordering cards The catalogue cards for phonorecords are ordered on forms different from the forms for films and from the forms for printed materials Order slips are furnished free by the Card Division and correspondence should include information about the kind of cards that are desired x 16 NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT Funds made available by the National Defense Act for materials as provided in Title III will have to be matched at the local level It is our understand ing that regulations at the national level will not permit the use of state aid funds such as our library matching funds to be used for the purchase of audio visual and print materials Several libraries have expressed interest in paper backs A new edition of Paperbound Books In Print has just been published by the R R Bowker Company 62 West 45 Street New York 36 The price is 200 NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS Mrs Martha 0 Hutcherson has transferred from the Lanier Junior High School to the new Willingham High School Macon Miss Lucille Traylor is the librarian at McEvoy High School Macon Mrs R L Jordan is the librarian at Bacon County Elementary School Alma This is the first year this school has had a fulltime librarian Mrs R j Morton has succeeded Mrs Lewis Swint Jr as librarian at West Point High School West Point Miss Martha Weaver is the librarian at Griffin High School Griffin Mrs J I Musselwhite has been elected librarian at the Cook County High School succeeding Miss Jeanette Hall who resigned to take a position with the Tifton CountySthools Mrs Nelle Bateman has assumed her duties as Director of the Uncle Remus Regional Library at Madison Mrs Bateman has served as Director of the library on two previous occasions and was Director when the regional library was formed in 1952 Mrs Harris Mitchell has joined the staff at the Annie Wright Memorial Library at Thomasville Mrs Sam Rouse has been appointed librarian for the Victoria Evans Memorial Library at Ashburn Mrs Rouse replaced Mrs Julian Holland who had served as librarian for three years Miss Patsy Gaskin has joined the staff of the Satilla Regional Library at Douglas Miss Gaskin will be the assistant on the bookmobile Mrs Carl W Groover has been appointed Chief of Adult Services at the Augusta Regional Library Mrs Groover comes to her new job from Gainesville 17 Georgia where she was employed as Reference Librarian in the Chestatee Regional Library Mrs Mary Z Rogers of Buena Vista has recently joined ths staff of the Pine Mountain Regional Library at Manchester as Assistant Director Mrs Elmore Curtis the former Miss Eva Martin head of the technical processes department of the Savannah PuDlic Library and the ChathamEffingham Liberty Regional Library has retired effective November 1 1958 She was succeeded by Mrs George L Trentham Jr senior assistant in the department Mrs Anna Schinkel Director of the ColquittThomas Regional Library at Moultrie was the winner in the drawing for the complete microfilm file of Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper from 1855 through 1900 given by the Micro Photo Inc of Cleveland Ohio Mrs Schinkel won this file while attending the South eastern Library Association at Louisville Kentucky Mr Robert N Smith will go to Griffin on February 1 to assume his duties as Director of the Flint River Regional Library Mr Smith has held the position of Chief ScienceTechnology Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology Library for the past five years Georgia librarians attending the Southern Public Library Workshop which was held at Florida State University in Tallahassee during September were Miss Lila Rice Director Pine Mountain Regional Library Manchester Mrs Doris Dean Director and Mrs Dorothy McDonald Assistant Director TroupHarrisCoweta Regional Library LaGrange Mrs Betty P Hawkins Director PolkFloyd Regional Library Rome Mrs Alma Newton Assistant Director Dalton Regional Library Dalton Mrs Marian Shaw and Mrs Catherine Mauduit from the staff of the Savannah Public Library Savannah Miss Dorothy Spence Director DecaturSeminole Regional Library Bainbridge Mrs Anna Schinkel Director ColquittThomas Regional Library Moultries and Miss Roxanna Austin Library Consultant Georgia State Department of Education Georgia librarians who were enrolled as students at the FSU library school who participated in some of the sessions were Miss Barbara Williams Cairo and Ralph Black from the Atlanta Public Library Miss Virginia Drewry Library Consultant in the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services State Department of Education served as a member of the special advisory committee of the Dewey Decimal Classification during the time the recently published 16th edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification was being prepared Miss Drewry continues to serve as a member of the Dewey Decimal Editorial Policy Committee as a representative of the American Library Association Mrs Marjorie Mayfield Taylor joined the staff of the Grady County Library in October 1958 Miss Edith Foster Director of the West Georgia Regional Library at Carrollton has been named national coordinating chairman of Americas Operation Library for 1959 This is a program sponsored nationally by the Junior Chamber of Commerce Miss Foster heads the committee to coordinate the Jaycee activity with that of The American Library Association Mr W Porter Kellam director of the University of Georgia Libraries been named chairman of the Library Advisory Committee of the University Ce has 18 in Georgia He succeeds Mrs Edna Byers librarian at Agnes Scott College This committee of the University Center assists with the administration of the Centers Union Catalogue which is housed at Emory University and lists the hold ings of the libraries in the AtlantaAthens area Miss Marion Taylor is editor of the Union Catalogue and current president of the Special Libraries Association in Georgia Mrs E P White librarian at the Lithonia Public Library since 1952 retired from active service on January 1 1959 Dr William R Pullen assumed his duties as head librarian of the Georgia State College in Atlanta on January 1 1959 Dr Pullen comes to Georgia from Chapel Hill North Carolina where he has been a staff member of the University of North Carolina library since 1951 serving first as Documents librarian and later as Assistant librarian Mr W W Noyes Jr former librarian will continue as assistant librarian to Dr Pullen at Georgia State College 9eieozs g