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Grab your bags and lets go to the biennial meeting of the Georgia Library
Association at the King and Prince Hotel on St Simons Island October 22 24
You will seeall of your library friends there for the hotel reported a full
house by July Dont worry There are plenty of good places to stay More
about reservations later We think we have an exciting program lined up for you
Authors and other celebrities will be on general and section programs How does
this sound to you the Governor of Georgia and the Executive Secretary of the
American Library Association for the first general session on Thursday night You
have heard rumors about the Book Dinner on Friday night and now they can be con
firmed Dr Frank Slaughter author of THE ROAD TO BITIIYNIA THE GALILEANS and
SANGARFE will be with us and will talk on Fact into Fiction Be sire to plan
to stay until Saturday afternoon Mr Dan Lacy of the American Book Publishers
Council will speak to us on the freedom to read at the general session on Satur
day morning The Children and Young Peoples Section is planning something spe
cial for the Saturday luncheon Friday afternoon after the Trustees and Friends
of the Library Luncheon we will have a conducted tour of the Island Unless you
have heard Mrs Cate describe the historic spots you have never had the history
of the Golden Isles come alive All exhibit space has been taken
Do not let the fact that the King and Prince is full deter you from attend
ing the conference The rooms are large enough to accomodate three people com
fortably if you have friends with whom you would like to share a room There are
attractive modern tourist courts on the Island Crafts Ocean Court Wood Avenue
St Simons with fifteen inits accomodating two to four people is on the beach
within valking distance of the King and Prince Queens Court with twentythree
units is located in the village Write now for information and reservations
It will be necessary to make a deposit in order to hold a reservation at any
tourist court Ifyou wish other suggestions about places to stay please write
Miss Monita Elliot Director Brunswick Regional Library Brunswick Georgia
There is no public transportation to the Island If we can give the Local
Arrangements Committee some idea about how many people will be arriving by train
or bus and at what time the committee will try to see that transportation is
provided at a reasonable cost
The tentative schedule of meetings is as follows
Thursday October 22 1953 Friday October 23 1953
900 AM Registration begins 330 AM Review of Adult Books
1000 AM Education for Librarianship
100 PM Business Session
1 300 PM Public Libraries Section
1000 AM Children and Young
Peoples Section
Cataloging and Classi
fication Section
College and Reference Section
600 PM Shore Dinner
800 PM General Session
1230 PM Friends of the Library
Luncheon
300 PM Tour of the IslfljHlVEieS
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730 PM Book Dinner UBRARESf
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Saturday October 4 1953
830 AM Review of Childrens Books
1000 AM General Session
100 PM Children and Young Peoples Luncheon
With this newsletter we are enclosing a schedule of the meetings and the
meal functions It will be very helpful to us if you will fill it out and return
it immediately
Please see that your Trustees Superintendent President Dean Principal
members of your Board of Education Instructional Supervisor and all others in
your community who are interested in library development in Georgia have a per
sonal invitation to this conference Lets use this meeting as a springboard to
even greater library development

You have been sent a copy of the new Georgia Library List and the new Order
Directions Additional copies can be requested if necessary Appreciation is
due Wessie Connell Fae Kent Mrs Joyce McGouirk Mrs Marie Mann Mary Varnom
and Sara Hightower Chairman for serving on the Professional Library Committee
and for spending so much time and thought in the thorough revision of the list
A revised list of prebound preprimers and easy reading material is available
on request
System superintendents have been notified about the amount of library match
ing funds available this year If the individual schools have not already re
ceived information about the extent to which they can participate in the school
library matching fund this information should be secured as soon as possible
from the superintendent

Four new radio scripts have been selected for distribution to members of the
National Scholastic RadioTelevision Guild during the coming school year They
are PETER AND THE ECHO LUCIFER SAMUEL SLATERS MACHINE and THE NEW SOUTH
Members in the NSRTG rocoiVe the scripts production notes newsletter and
other services Membership 400 per year is open to any school class guild
or workshop actively interested in radio or television also radio and television
stations
These scripts are available to nonmembers at 250 each which includes pro
duction rights
The radio spot announcements 8 per month described in the last Bulletin
arc still available from ALA

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GEA DISTRICT MEETINGS
The District GEA meetings have been scheduled as follows
1st District
2nd District
3rd District West
3rd District East
4th District
5th District
6th District
7th District
8th District
9th District
10th District
October 26
October 28
October 29
October 30
October 16
October 9
October 19
October 23
October 27
October 21
October 22
Savannah
Thomasvillo
Amcricus
Abbeville
Griffin
Atlanta
Macon
Rome
Douglas
Gainesville
Augusta
Make your plans now to attend the Children and Young Peoples Library Section
meeting in your district The chairman of the district has charge of planning the
program around a significant problem or problems Some suggestions made at the
program planning conference were
1 Guidance cooperation between the librarian and the guidance program
2 Library Assistants organization on a district basis
3 Elementary School Libraries problems of the ones now operating and of
the new ones being built
U New Books more and better displays and different ways to present new
books
5 Publicity and Public Relations
6 Wow programs for library cooperation as activities sponsored through the
library like The American Heritage Our World Today etc
7 Student and classroom teachers responsibility with library problems

BOOK WEEK
Reading Is Fun is again the slogan for Book Week November 1521 Posters
350 and the manuel describing this years Book Week Aids are available from the
Childrens Book Council 50 West 53rd Street New York NY Write now for yours
and begin planning exciting programs for your library

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ALA CONFERENCE
Amid the variety of workshop sessions discussion groups committee reports
and recommendations papers and addresses two ideas were dominant at the Seventy
Second Annual Conference of the American Library Association in Los Angeles June
2127 They were the importance of freedom to read and the responsibilities of
libraries regarding that freedom These were highlighted when the Council endorsed
the report of the Committee on Intellectual Freedom and when President Eisenhowers
letter was read The text of the Presidents message is carried elsewhere in the
News Bulletin and will be of interest to librarians trustees and citizens through
out the state
The Public Libraries Division Workshop to explore and discuss findings and
implications of the recent ALA Adult Education Survey was of special interest
to Georgians Appearing on the panel at the opening session was Miss Edith Foster
of the West Georgia Regional Library Miss Lucile Nix of the State Department of
Education and Louis Griffith Director of tho American Heritage Project inGcor
gia served as group loaders for the discussion sessions which followed Miss
Nix and Mr Griffith also participated in tho clinics dealing with tho administra
tive problems program planning and leadership training for the American Heritage
Project
Miss SarahJones of the State Department of Education attended the confer
ence as a member of the organizations executive board In addition she attended
some of the meetings dealing with work with schools and with children and young
people
Another workshop of interest was that dealing with Bookmobile Service Par
ticular stress was laid on tho importance of a live book collection and the impor
tance of a trained librarian in serving bookmobile patrons Emphasis was also
placed on the keeping of accurate records so that some comparative studios could
be made and standards of service agreed upon Miss Roxanna Austin Georgia
representative on the ALA membership committee attended the sessions of this
workshop
Other Georgians attending the conference were Miss Mary Baxter Carrolltonj
Miss Byrd Ivester Clarkesvillej Miss Ethel Pcerson Griffin Miss Margaret Baker
Valdosta Miss Joan Cochran Augusta Miss Margaret Jemison Emory University
Miss Clyde Pcttus Emory University Mr John Settlemeyer Atlanta and Mrs A W
McPhccters Atlanta
The theme oftho conference was America Looks West Americans went West
to report to soc to exchange ideas to study their problems to renew acquaint
ances to meet new people to loam What they did will be reflected in the pro
grams of library service throughout the country in the coming year
Judge Frank A Smith moving spirit behind the Rabun County Library in
Clayton Georgia was awarded one of two 1953 Citations of Merit by the American
Library Association for distinguished contributions by library trustees The
awards were made at the Second General Session of the ALAs 72nd Annual Con
ference in Los Angeles June 2127
Judge Smith was honored in recognition of his establishment and promotion of
a library as a focal point for the cultural and economic regeneration of a country
of his imaginative use of books to meet rural situations of his untiring efforts
to obtain state appropriations for Georgias country libraries and of his contin
uing interpretation of library needs to the officials and the people of Georgia
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington
June 2 1953
Dear Mr Downs
Thank you for your letter of June fifteenth I am glad to know of the annual
conference of the American Library Association conveningthis week and of tne
spirit of conscientious citizenship ruling its deliberations
Ourlibrarians serve the precious liberties of our nation freedom of inquiry
freedom of the spoken and the written word freedomof exchange of ideas
Upon these clear principles democracy depends for its very life for they
arc the rcat sources of knowledge and enlightenment And knowledge Ml un
fcttcrodknowlodge of its own heritage of freedoms enemies of the whole world
of men and ideas this knowledge is a free peoples surest strength
The converse is just as surely true A democracy smugly disdainful of new
ideas would be a sick democracy A democracy chronically fearful of new ideas
would be a dying democracy
For all these reasons wo must in those times bo intelligently alert not only
to the fanatic cunning of Communist conspiracy but also to the grave dangers in
meeting fanaticism with ignorance For in order to fight totalitanans who
exploit the ways of freedom to serve their own ends there are some zealots who
5th more wrath than wisdom would adopt a strangely mint elligent cour se They
would try to defend freedom by denying freedoms friends the opportunity of study
ing Communism in its entirety its plausibilities its falsities its weaknesses
But wo know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of toe tyrant As
it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence so it is
no loss obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence And any who act
as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear
confess a doctrine that is alien to America
The libraries of America are and must over remain the homes of free inquir
ing minds To them our citizens of all ages and races of all creeds and
political persuasions must over be ableto turn with clear confidence that
here tSy canreely seek the whole truth unwarpod by fashion and compromised
bv epediercy For in such whole and healthy knowledge alone arc to be found and
SdcStoodthose majestic truths of mans nature and destiny that prove to each
succeeding generation the validity of freedom
Sincroly
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LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS
The Council of the American Library Association reaffirms its belief in the
following basic policies which should govern the services of all libraries
AS A RESPONSIBILITY of library service books and other reading matter select
ed should be chosen for values of interest information and enlightenment of all
the people of the community In no case should any book be excluded because of
the race or nationality or the political or religious views of the writer
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THERE SHOULD BE the fullest practical provision of material presenting all
points of view concerning the problems and issues of our times international
national and local and books or other reading matter of sound factual authority
should not be proscribed or removed from library shelves because of partisan or
doctrinal disapproval
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CENSORSHIP OF BOOKS urged or practiced by volunteer arbiters of morals or
political opinion or by organizations that would establish a coercive concept of
Americanism must be challenged by libraries in maintenance of their responsibil
ity to provide public information and enlightenment through the printed word
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LIBRARIES SHOULD ENLIST the cooperation of allied groups in the fields of
science of education and of book publishing in resisting all abridgement of
the free access to ideas and full freedom of expression that are the tradition
and heritage of Americans
AS AN INSTITUTION of education for democratic living the library should
welcome the use of its meeting room3 for socially useful and cultural activities
and discussion of current public questions Such meeting places should be avail
able on equal terms to all groups in the community regardless of the beliefs and
affiliations of their members
NOTEj By official action of Council on 3 February 1951 the Library Bill of
Rights shall be interpreted as applying to all materials and media of communi
cations used or collected by libraries

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PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS
The newest library board in the state is that appointed in early summer by
the commissioners of Jefferson County to set up policies and make plans for the
organization of a countywide library service with headquarters at Louisville
1000000 has been appropriated by the commissioners for the first year of the
program The board has located a suitable store building near the center of
town which will be redecorated and equipped for library purposes Plans are
underway for securing a new bookmobile and agraduate librarian to head up the
program Mrs Frank Hardcman of Louisville is now serving as librarian
Two now regional libraries bring the total now in operation in Georgia up
to twentyfive systems serving sixtythroe counties The TcrrellCalhoun
Regional Library will have headquarters in the Dawson Carnegie Library and will
serve Terrell and Calhoun Counties with Lee County joining this region in Janu
ary 1954 Henry Shearouso formerly of the reference department of the Atlanta
Public Library is the director for this new region and Mrs Nina T Smith
formerly librarian of the Morgan High School will be assistant director
The second now region has been named the Chostatec Regional Library and is
composed of Hall and Lumpkin Counties Headquarters is the Hall County Library
in Gainesville and Mrs Howard Purcell is director of this region
Newton County has joined the DoKalbRockdale region with headquarters in
Decatur Mrs Betty P Hawkins formerly with tho elementary school at Coving
ton is joining the staff of the DoKalbRockdale region
The Montgomery County Library at Mt Vcrnon along with other County offices
was destroyed by fire after being struck by lightning early in July Miss Frankie
Stanford librarian reports that limited service will continue from the offices
of tho county instructional supervisor and tho county ordinary Plans arc being
made for a permanent location and a return to normal service at tho earliest date
possible
The Cave Spring Library located in the Hcarn Academy in Rollator Park
opened on May 1 as a branch of tho PolkFloyd Regional Library
The Grand Jury in Calhoun County recommended an increase in support for the
County Library and as a result both tho city and tho county appropriations for
the County Library have been increased
Tho Burke County Library proudly announces the initiation of bookmobile ser
vice beginning Julyl Tho bookmobile is the gift of tho Wayncsboro Exchange Club
and will make possible a much broader and bettor service from the county library
Mrs J D Allen has been appointed bookmobile librarian
LIBRARY BUILDINGS
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Plans are now well underway for a new addition to the DecaturDeKalb Library
building This new addition was provided forin a 25000000 bond issue approved
by the voters last year The amount however includes funds not only for this
expansion of the main library in Decatur but also for a branch library at Dora
ville
The new addition will be built directly south of the present library building
on land which is now a parking lot for library patrons and will be an integral part
of the main building Plans call for a building of early American architecture
identical with the present library Space will be provided for a reading room for
youngadults a fine arts department and an auditorium primarily for library pur
poses but which may also be used for civic meetings
The city of Macon has begun the conversion of the old Negro Academy for the
Blind building into library facilities at a cost of 2500000 Plans call for a
general reading room a childrens reading room display space office and work
room as well as storage space
A recently announced program of development for Manchester includes plans for
an adequate regional library building Tentative plans for the regional library
headquarters call for the remodeling of an existing building either the abandoned
Main Street Grammar School building or the Community Building
The Ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library on the campus of the University of
Georgia now all but completed and equipped has been the scene of much activity
in the past few weeks as the staff and dozens of janitors under the direction of n
Library Director W P Kellum beganthetransfer of the 240000 book collection
from the old building to the new 2000000 ultramodern university library Al
ready thousands of volumes formerly housed in a warehouse downtown because there
was not room for them in the old library have been moved to their new headquarters
Dedication of this library and the new library at the Georgia Institute of
Technology will be an outstanding event in Georgia library history this fall
The Cherokee Regional Library Board has purchased the property where the
library is now located and will begin a campaign for funds for a new library build
ing at an early date
The TroupHarrisCoweta Regional Library has recently expanded into the space
in the LaGrange Memorial Library building formerly used by the Womans Club This
added area when remodeling and redecoration work is completed will greatly
increase the attractiveness and usefulness of the regional library headquarters
Construction has begun on the new branch library for Negroes in LaGrange
This building designed by Mr Sam Turner architect for the Calloway Mills will
be modern and functional in every respect Funds for the building and lot were
given by the Calloway Foundation The community raised 10000 which has been
matched by the Calloway Foundation for the purchase of books and equipment for this
new library which will be a unit of the TroupHarrisCoweta Regional Library System
The Rossville Library will move at an early date into the Health Center build
ing which has been rebuilt and redecorated for library purposes
The library at Northeast Georgia College is more attractive than ever with its
comfortable colorful and attractive new furnishings
An open house and community barbecue Heralded the opening of the Northwest9
DeKalb Community Building which includes a health center auditorium and library
This attractive new library unit is another visible evidence of the excellent
spiritof cooperation that exists between the officials of government the Decatur
DeKalbRockdaleNewton Regional Library and the communities served by the library
NATIONAL LIBRARY SURVEY
Condenced from an account in New York Times June 15 1953
According to a recent study conducted by the New York State Library in cooper
ation with forty state librarians the public libraries of the United States are in
a deplorable condition Only three states reach the minimum expenditure of 150
per capita recommended by the American Library Association The largest per capita
amounts spent for libraries are 250 by Wisconsin approximately 185 by Massa
chusetts approximately 160 by California Connecticut ranks sixth in the forty
eight states with a per capita expenditure of approximately 130 Some states
spend as little as fourteen cents per capita for books and services The median
for the United States is said to be eighty cents Nine states reported thatJP5
of the people had no free book service of any kind
The survey disclosed that inflation has dealt the libraries a severe blow
particularly in rural areas and that the public library has been overlooked in
the tremendous increase in the cost of governmental services Shortage of trained
personnel is one of the major difficulties Construction of new public libraries
has not kept pace with the demand
Seventyseven per cent of the state librarians report that the development of
regional libraries is being encouraged in efforts to overcome the gaps in library
service This effort is endorsed by the American Library Association Twentyfive
of the states held that increased funds to attract better personnel was the most
pressing need of the public libraries Thirtyone of the state librarians reported
that increased local support for the libraries was essential twentyfour held that
state aid either financial or through field agents to assist local communities was
a must
The survey concluded ltIf the free public library is to remain an important
factorin the citizenship training and adult education of the people of the United
States as a democratic institution it must have local support from the community
and leadership and financial assistance from the state agency
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UNESCO GIFT COUPON PLAN
The closing of the Project office at ALA headquarters does not mean that AIA
is no longer interested in the UNESCO Gift Coupon Plan In fact many librariesare
just beginning their activity in spreading information about this plan for provid
ing books for areas where they are sorely needed
If you are interested in the Plan itself write to the UNESCO Gift Coupon
Office United Nations New York If you wish professional advice regarding the
specific library approach on such programs write to ALA headquarters in Chicago
If your library or your community undertakes any action regarding the coupon plan
or information concerning it both ALA and UNESCO would like to have copies of
reports on such action
United Nations Day in October will be an opportune time to make information
about the UNESCO Gift Coupon Plan available in your library
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Film Rate
The new Postal Bill S971 Public Law 11 enacted July 20 1953 will reduce
the cost of mailing films and other audiovisual materials
Only 16mm films and 16mm film catalogs may be shipped by or to any person
organisation or company except commercial theatres anywhere in the United States
for the following postal rate 1st lb 80 each additional lb or fraction theredf
The following information must be stamped on the film case on or near the
address label MAILED UNDER SECTION 383 e PLNR

Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read the joint declaration of publishers and librarians has
been published in pamphlet form and is available from the American Book Publishers1
Council 2 West 46th Street New York 36 New York The Council will supply indi
vidual copies free and the price is four cents 4 each on quantities exceeding
twentyfive
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For Local Radio Program
Quoting from CHILDRENS BOOK COUNCIL CALENDAR Libraries are finding valuable
material for local radio programsin the Enrichment Records based on the Landmark
Books published by Random Housea series of twelve 15 minute radio programs
can be arranged as advance promotion for Book Week or as regular library programs
Professionally prepared commentaries which promote Book Week and reading in general
for the announcer to use when presenting therecords arcavailable without charge
through Enrichment Records 246 Fifth Avenue New York 1 New York
AbingdonCokesbury 150 Fifth Avenue New York 11 New York has offered to
lend the record of the Carnival of Books broadcast on Cherokee Bill by Jean Bailey
to libraries or other organizations They will send it out wherever it can be
used Write them for details
Book Bazaars
A complete new packet for conductingbook bazaars and book fairs is now
available from Scholastic Teacher magazine In the packet are Lets Have a Book
Bazaar a 195354 manual by Hardy R Finch which gives complete instructions on
how to begin how to organize how to publicize and how to run a book bazaar in
school a largo poster by artist Robert McCloskey reproductions of drawings about
reading by cartoonist Robert Osborn book jackets a special radio script and
other useful materials Price to schools is one dollar to cover cost of materials
postage and handling from Scholastic Teacher 33 West 42nd Street New York 36
New York Separate manuals are 25 cents each separate posters 50 cents each
The Wonderful World of Books is the theme of the fall book bazaars which will
be held from the beginning of Book Week up to the Christmas holidays23
Library of Congress Appropriation
On July 29 the Senate passed the Appropriation Bill for the Library of Con
gross The amount of 39800 cut by the House from the Distribution of Catalog
Cards item was restored The House agreed to the Senate restoration
Letters of thanks should go to Senator Karl E Mundt Chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee which considered this appropriation and to the other
membersof the subcommittee The list was given in the Washington Newsletter for
July 12 1953
Maps
Official United States wall maps published by the Bureau of Land Management
Department of Interior size five feet by seven feet may be requested by libra
ries This was made possible under S Con Res 30 a concurrent resolution which
passed the Congress on June 4 1953 This resolution allows the printing of
30015copies of the above map of which 99 copies mounted and backed and 745
copies not mounted and backed shall be for the use of the Senate and 441 copies
mounted and backed and 22050 copies not mounted and backed shall be for the
use of the House of Representatives Each Senator will be allowed 50 of these
maps and each Congressman allowed 75 for distribution to schools and elsewhere in
his State
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Postal Book Rate
Special attention is called to the fact that libraries are entirled to a book
ratr o LA for the first pound and If for each additional pound for books mailed
to pbints within the state See Section 3483 of Postal Laws and Regulations
1948 Cite the above section to your postmaster if your use of the rate is
questioned
AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK
Goocl Schools Are Your Responsibility is the general theme for American Edu
cation Week November 8 Li Posters planning helps scripts publicity mats
and other materials are available now from American EducationWeek National Edu
cation Association 3201 Sixteenth Street NW Washington 6 DC
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When an outstandingfigure in progressive library education brings out a
book its literary news But Bngi Roforonce Sources An Introduction tojjato
rials and Methods is the third in the lineage of basic reference books by Louis
ShoresDean of the Library School at Florida State University former Fullbright
scholar and Library Consultant for Colliers Encyclopedia It will be published
this winter by the American Library Association Chicago
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RECEKT VISITORS
Once again Georgia has boon priviledgcd to have its program of library ser
vice selected for study and observation by visitors fromafar Miss Hanna Dieck
and Miss Maria Gress of Germany who are both librarians spent six months in the
United States touring libraries in different parts of the country under the State
Departments exchange of persons program During the month of May they spent a
week in Georgia where they visited libraries of all types They were especially
impressed by the freedom with which all books arc made available to borrowers who
wish to use them and by the efforts made to tako books to people where they are
through bookmobiles deposits in homes schools country stores etc
Mrs Rosalyn T Shamblin a librarian from Houston Texas has chosen to make
a detailed study of the regional library development and the program of state aid
to libraries in Georgia as a part of the work for her Masters degree from the
library school at the University of Texas Mrs Shamblin spent a month in Georgia
visiting various regions and the office of the library service division of the
State Department of Education

LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP
Prospective library school students planning to specialize in childrens work
will be glad to know that the Caroline M Hewins Scholarship for childrens libra
rians has been made national in scope Applicants now need not be residents of
New England to qualify for it
The Scholarship was founded in 1926 as a tribute by librarians and friends to
one of the great pioneers of American librarianship in special recognition of her
creative work for children Contributions arc still welcome to the fund
The fund yields approximately 250 annually Candidates fctf the 1954 award
should submit applications and credentials not later than February 1 1954 to
Magnus K Kristoffersen Librarian of the Hartford Public Library and Chairman of
the Committee on the Award Contributions to the fund should also be sent to Mr
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us if there has been any change in your address
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AMERICAN HERBAGE
Georgias statewide American Heritage Program this month enters its second
year as a continuing program in the public libraries Last year 21 library sys
tems in the state took part in the adult education project in addition to Athens
Regional Library with its five branch groups which was in the second year of an
independent program
Whilo the terms of the grantinaid from the Fund for Adult Education through
the American Library Association provide for a onethird cut in the grant to Geor
gia libraries the program will actually expand in this state Six to eight libra
ries will be added to the program and several of the systems which last year
offered the program will start branch discussion groups this year
Six hundred and twentysix people took part in the 26 discussion groups active
in Georgialibraries last year Of these 240 were men and 386 women In most of
the groups 50 percent or less had participated in group discussion previously In
occupational background they ranged from teachers and public welfare workers to
postal employees salesmen accountants auto dealers farmers doctors housewives
and ministers
Many joined because they thought that the program would be interesting Some
felt that they would be better informed seme felt a need to exchange ideas and
others were interested in American history
This group has provided an opportunity for creative thought and expression
and has been especially valuable because it brought together such a cross section
of people and opinionsgiving the group members a chance to know better the ele
ments of this community wrote one participant
Our members were universally pleased with the discussion and themselves
wrote one librarian I confess I was more critical but certainly felt the
experience was worthwhile We arc looking forward to an even better program next
year
In LaGrange the editor of the paper wrote we had the pleasure of sit
ing in on the first meeting of the American Heritage discussion group It was
one of the most entertaining interesting and fascinating quick two hours we have
ever spent
Under consideration is a program that will appeal to Georgias Young Adults
and in all probability the program will be expanded in this direction during the
coming year Young adult groups wore tried successfully in other parts of the
country during the past year
A total of 15 areas in the United States will be taking part in the American
Heritage program during the coming year Connecticut and New Jersey are the latest
additions totho statewide programs Margaret E Monroe New York has succeeded
Jack Spear as director of the program Miss Monroe on leave from New York Public
Library was assistant to Mr Spear last year Active for a number of years with
adult discussion groups in the New York Library she has worked with the Heritage
program since its beginning two years ago

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Mr HonrvShearouse formerly head of the reference department of the Atlanta
Publif LiSS haf accepted the position of director of the TerrellCalhoun Regxon
al Library which has its headquartors at Dawson
Mrs Nina T Smith who received her BS in library science from Peabody in
Augusf will Secome assistant director of the new TerrellCalhoun Region xn Septem
ber
mn Rottv Bartlett formerly librarian at the Peabody High School at Milledge
villn will become director of She JasPerlorgan Regional Library with headquarters
It Madisei in SeptemSr Mrs Florence Songer will be the Peabody librarxan
Mrs Robert Bateman former director of the JasperMorgan Region will return
to hef former position as high school librarian at Madison xn September
Mrs Ruth L Marshall who recently completed work for her degree at FSU is
the assistant director of the DecaturScminole Regional Library at Baxnbrxdge
Miss June Brice who has been librarian of the Elberton schools has joined
the staff of the Athens Regional Library
Miss Ethel M Manning of Wellesley Massachusetts has jg1
the staff of the Cairo Public Library Miss Manning has her library degree ir
the University of Chicago
Mrs C E Hawkins of Covington has joined the staff of the DoKalbRockdalo
Regional Library
Mrs Homer Greeson is the new librarian at the Gordon County Library in Cal
houn
MTS 0 E Stewart has succeeded Mrs Charlene Free in the Fannin County
Library at Blue Ridge
Mrs Franlc Hardeman is the newly appointed librarian for the newly organized
Jefferson County Library at Louisville Georgxa
Mrs Faye W Clarke has been named telnseer
Library at Jonesboro during the leave granted Mrs Mary A barncvo
illness
Mrs R M Newberry is the new librarian at the Miller County Library Col
quitt
aA Mro nnfnq Pnrchand as librarian of the
Miss Eleanor ftdth has Joined the staff of TiSiafaf0
Mr Carey Francos Huddloston has joined tho staff of tho Chostatoo Hogional
Library at Gainesville
Miss Peggy Sutton has accepted the position of librarian at the Dalton High15
School Frances Saxon formerly at Dalton will be a member of the teaching staff
of the Tifton High School
Misses Clara Lewis McMeokin director of the TownsUnion Regional Library and
Connie Lowe from Columbus are both back on the job after operations and recupera
tion during the summer
Miss Gloria Powell Winthrop College and Columbia University has recently come
to the Augusta Public Library She succeeds Miss Mac McCall as Childrens Libra
rian
Miss Mory Torranco of Dccatur who served twenty years as assistant librarian
at Emory University has joined the staff of the Little White House at Warm Springs
Georgia In her new work she will catalog arrange and file a mass of material re
cording the phase of President Franklin Roosevelts career as a citizen of Warm
Springs
The Montezuma Senior Womans Club in Appreciation of the thirty years of devot
ed service given her community is honoring the late Mrs S R Forehand librarian
by sponsoring a book shower for the Montezuma Carnogic Library Attractive book
plates avc been printed which will bear her name the years of her service and the
signature of the donor Criteria for the selection of the gifts have been set up
by Mrs Sidney Moore the new librarian and lists of the donors will appear from
time to time in the local paper This is a fitting memorial to one of the many
librarians who have unselfishly served their communities through the public library
Miss Virginia MeJenkin director of Library Servicefor the Fulton County
Schools attended the National Education Association meeting in Miami in July where
she presented a report as Chairman of the JointCommittee of the American Library
Association and the National Education Association
Mrs Winnie Clayton has recently joined the staff of the Cherokee Regional
Library Mrs Clayton succeeds Miss Eula Martin who is now studying for mission
work
Mrs Agnes Barnes Instructor of Library Service GSCW has been a member
of the teaching staff at Boono North Carolina during the summer
Mrs J G Tarvin librarian Gordon County Library retired on October 1
1952
Miss LaTrolle Seymour joined the Lithonia School faculty as librarian for this
school year
Miss Mory W Shipps has returned to Faycttcville as school librarian
Miss Edith Moore former librarian of Faycttcville High School is now libra
rian of Folkston High School
Mrs J F Sosby is to be the librarian in the new Murphy Junior High School
in Augusta this year

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Thc Cairo Public Library has been invited to join the pilot group in a tost
program dealing with public relations materials The plan involves cooperation
of about 50 libraries of different types and sizes from different regions of the
country and aims to test the suitability for library purposes of various kinds of
promotionand publicity materials produced by publishers Miss Uessio Connell
librarian reports that the library is pleased with the first materials sent and
that they arc enthusiastic about participation in this study which should result
in help for several other libraries in their public relations programs
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Talk and Double Talk about Books from the Vacation Reading Club is the
title of an attractive booklet producedby the Savannah Public Library as a
result of its 1952 reading club program It contains thumbnail sketchesof
books written by the boys and girls themselves as well as several intriguing
statements on why they liked the reading club program Miss Frances Recs and
Miss GeraldineLoMay are responsible for this unusual report on the Savannah
VRC activities

In her Library News column in the Rome Tribune Mrs Lucolia Henderson
recently reminded club leaders to send in matorial for the Civio CalendarDoe3
your library keep such a file of civic organizations with their presidents dates
and days of regular meetings as well as any special activities carried on by such
groups

OUR WORLD TODAY
The topic
7 September
14 September
21 September
28 September
5 October
12 October I
19 October
26 October
2 November
9 November
16 November
23 November
30 November
7 December
14 December
3 to be studies this fall under the Our World Today program arc
Labor in America c v
Opening of United Nations
The German Elections
Farm Income Last Season
Meeting of NATO
Assembling of US Congress
Assembling of British Parliament
Assembling of Indian Parliament
Disarmament Question UN
Far Eastern Situation
Republican Trade Policy
The Philippine Election
French Presidential Election
The Growth of Pacific Alliances
Council of Europe
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February 195U
Vol 9 No 2
Division of Instructional Materials
and Library Service
Georgia Department of EducationG E A MEETING
Be sure to attend the annual statewide meeting of the Childrens
and Young Peoples Section of G0 E A which will be held in Atlanta on
March 19
Miss Mary Varnom Chairman reports that a very interesting program
centered around the librarys part in the art program is being planned by
Betty Bartlett Program Chairman Miss Emory Rose Wood Art Department
Fulton County Schools will be one of the guest speakers at the morning
session mm
Mrs Myrta Carper Local Arrangements Chairman has announced meetings
rooms as follows
Morning Meeting 1000 AM
Luncheon 1230
Price 185
Faculty Lounge Price Gilbert Lounge
Georgia Institute of Technology
T Room Brittain Dining Hall
Georgia Institute of Technology
Reservations Send with Check or Money Order to
Miss Clyde DeVore
Southwest High School
3116 Sewell Road SW
Atlanta Georgia
Librarians will receive help in planning for more attractive libraries
hints about preparing posters organization of art materials and suggestions
about books to add to the library collection Time will be available for a
tour of the beautiful new Tech library
Be sure to send in reservations with advance payment for the luncheon
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New district GEoA Library officers are FIRST DISTRICT Chairman
Mrs W Wo McCune Savannah Public Library Savannah Georgia Secretary
Mrs Saxon Bargeron Massie Street School Savannah Georgia SECOND
DISTRICT Chairman Mrs Elizabeth K Scruggs MitchellBaker Regional
Library Camilla Georgia Secretary Mrs Mary Durham Norman Park Georgia
THIRD DISTRICT EAST Chairman Mrs Mary Ginter Cordele High School
Cordele Georgia Secretary Mrs Pierce Foshee Vienna High School Vienna
Georgia THIRD DISTRICT WEST Chairman Mrs Iva P Goolsby Cuthbert
High School Cuthbert Georgia FOURTH DISTRICT Chairman Miss Fae Kent
LaGrange High School LaGrange Georgia FIFTH DISTRICT Chairman Miss
Janie Near OKeefe High School Atlanta Georgia SIXTH DISTRICT Chairman
Mrs Monroe Moore Joseph Clisby School Macon Georgia Secretary Miss
Vivian Pettis Mary Persons High School Forsyth Georgia SEVENTH DISTRICT
Chairman Mrs0 Julia Witherington Adairsville High School Adairsville
Georgia Secretary Miss Mildred Carson Mt Berry School for Boys Mt Berry
Georgia EIGHTH DISTRICT Chairman Miss Theo Hotch Coffee County Library
Douglas Georgia Secretary Mrs Leon V Ryals McRaeHelena School McRae
Georgia NINTH DISTRICT Chairman Mrs Sara Perkins North Canton High
School Canton Georgia0 TENTH DISTRICT Chairman Miss Margaret Bailie
Richmond Academy Augusta Georgia Secretary Miss June Brice Athens
Regional Library Athens Georgia 2
District library meetings are being planned for the Third District
East on January 27 Third District West on February 20 and the Tenth
District on February 26 A meeting is also being scheduled by the chair
man in the Eighth District
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The Children and Young Peoples Library Section of Georgia elected the
following officers at the meeting of the Georgia Library Association
Chairman Mrs Dorothy Blake Decatur High School Decatur Georgia Secretary
Treasurer Miss Cornelia Lowe Bradley Memorial Library Columbus Georgia

On Tuesday morning Miss Elizabeth Lott presented Ik books to the Douglas
High School Library The books are a gift from the John Hay Whitney Foundation
of New York in recognition of Miss Lotts participation in the Humanities pro
gram sponsored by the foundation Miss Lott English and Social Studies tea
cher at the Douglas High School was a John Hay Fellow at Columbia University
New York City in 195253

A very successful Tag Sale brought 38681 to Cordele schools last week
to buy new library books according to Mrs Mary Ginter librarian

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Georgia librarians will want to
write a note of appreciation to Miss
Lurline Collier State Home Demonstra
tion Agent Jefferson Georgia who has
recently retired Always actively in
terested in better library service for
rural residents of Georgia Miss Collier
was responsible for the action taken by
87 Home Demonstration Clubs in raising
funds for the purchase of the State
Demonstration Bookmobile She is suc
ceeded by Miss Eddys Ross who is also
a friend of libraries3
PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS
On January 1 195U Lee County joined the TerrellCalhoun Regional
Library making this the tenth threecounty regional library system in the
state This regional library is also putting into operation a second book
mobile to serve the Negro population in the region William D Beasley Jr
has been elected librarian in charge of this service He was former libra
rian of Carver High School in Dawson and is working on his M S degree in
library service at Atlanta University School of Library Service
The Millen Public Library celebrated its twentyfifth anniversary with
a silver tea held in the library on Thursday October 1st Members of the
Womans Club and Garden Club assisted the Library Board in entertaining the
large group of interested friends who called during the afternoon
The library board of Bamesville Carnegie Library has honored Mrs
J A Corry who served as chairman of the board for twentysix years by
establishing a special bookshelf upon which will be placed material per
taining to Barnesville and Lamar County A bronze plaque marks the shelf
bearing the inscription In appreciation Ailene Pitts Coriy A special
program was presented at the library with appropriate ceremonies dedicating
this shelf Mrs Corry continues to serve as a member of the library board
holding the position of vicechairman
Augusta Public Library is the recipient of a valuable new piece of
equipment a microfilm reader presented by the Friends of the Library of
which Rev Kassey M Hetlzel is president The machine has been installed
in the reading room and is ready to be used by any persons visiting the
library The library has been securing microfilms of various magazines for
several years so these are immediately available to those who may wish to
consult them in the easy way Library officials hope to photograph historic
issues of local newspapers so that they may be preserved before they de
teriorate beyond use Persons may have access to such invaluable historical
material as they contain
The PikeSpalding Regional Library is setting up a collection of pho
nograph recordings at the neadquarters library in Griffin with the assistance
of a group of interested citizens who will raise special funds for the pur
chase of a record player and recordings as well as solicit gifts of record
ings from citizens in the community and counties comprising the region The
library is providing space to house the record player and collection of re
cordings and the staff will catalog and process them as well as handle the
circulation which is similar to the system for borrowing books and subject
to somewhat the same regulations
The Rome Carnegie Library is carrying on a Great Books discussion group
for the second year and reports that the group has made a wonderful beginning
under the leadership of Dr E L Wright and Mrs Lamar Jackson This libra
ry has recently added night hours of opening six to nine P M with a trained
librarian in charge This is another step forward in library progress and
expanded services to the people of that community Other libraries in the
state have recently conducted successful Great Books discussion groups Among
them are the Dalton Regional Library and the W E Bradley Memorial Library
of Columbus k
As the newsletter goes to press Putnam County becomes the third county
to participate in the services of the JasperMorgan Regional Library making
this the eleventh threecounty regional library system in the state The
Putnam County Library Board attended the regional board meeting in Monticello
on January 12 and presented a check for their first payment for service
The Savannah Public Library was fifty years old in November so the last
two weeks of the month were given over to activities of various kinds in
celebration of this half century of progress The Friends of the Library
entertained with an evening reception in the library honoring as special
guests the organizations representing the founders of the library An after
noon tea was also given in the library with the lady members of the Board of
Managers representatives of organizations which give special assistance to
the library and individuals doing volunteer work in the county branches act
ing as hostesses The puppet show Cinderella was shown for school chil
dren on Friday afternoon
The men members of the Board of Managers and the president of the Friends
of the Library held a special mens night open house at the library at which
a large group of representatives of the city and county governments various
labor civic fraternal church and professional organizations were present
The special feature of this occasion was a tour of the library where the
guests met the heads of departments and were informed of the many activities
and services offered to men through the library
Many interesting and attractive exhibits were on display throughout the
period of the celebration including Book Week displays in the childrens
room maps showing the librarys service areas a projected book machine
a microfilm reader and an adult book exhibit Fifty Years o Best Sellers
presenting the favorite books of Suvannahians for the past half century
An attractive bookmark summarizing past accomplishments and prospects
for the future was printed and widely distributed

Going on the assumption that the avowed educational objective of the
American public library lan only be achieved if the library acquires the
important and significant books as they are published a list of the good
and notable books published in the last twenty years has been prepared for
checking with public library catalogs The list containing 1209 fiction
and nonfiction titles will be sent in duplicate to any public library
able to devote approximately six hours checking time to the job The dupli
cate copy may be retained by the checking library For copies of the list
write to Professor LeRoy C Merritt School of Librarianship University
of California Berkeley li California

Freedom to Read reprints are available for distribution Up to 100
copies will be supplied without charge to any library or community group re
questing them Address Wilson Library Bulletin 950 University Avenue
New York 2
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IMPORTANT IMPORTANT 1
Georgia Library Association Dues of 3 00
for 19h Now Payable to
Frances Nunn Librarian
Athens High School
Athens Georgia
As the Georgia member of the ALA Membership Committee I wish to
send good wishes for the New Year to all librarians in Georgia I also wish
to express the hope that each member of the ALA has renewed his or her
membership and that nonmembers will join our national association
All librarians must maintain their professional zeal if they are to
keep pace with developments in the library world and there is no better
means for a librarian to keep abreast of new developments in his profess
ion than to become or to remain a member of the American Library Asso
ciation
To nonmembers I would like to say that every librarian derives aid
from the activities of the ALA whether or not he has contributed to its
support It is constantly seeking opportunities for extending and improv
ing library service It has concerned itself with problems of securing fi
nancial support for libraries with education for librarianship with stand
ards with salaries and with all other aspects of the profession The
ALA would be able to accomplish its task more effectively however if
it had the moral and financial support which you can give it by enrolling
as a member No matter whether you are a public school special college
or university librarian the ALA has something to offer you and you
have something to contribute to the ALA Of course a membership costs
something but seldom is anything worthwhile obtained without paying for
it in some manner
Porter Kellam Director of Libraries
University of Georgia Athens
Some of the divisions of the ALA have regional and state chairmen
All of these urge that as you join ALA you indicate Division Membership
Mrs Dorothy Blake Decatur High School Chairman AASL says
Every school librarian should request membership in the American Associa
tion of School Librarians a division of the American Library Association
Membership in ALA entitles you to membership in AASL without addi
tional cost providing you fill in the AASL Membership Form No 5
Join nowi
Southeastern Dues Payable to
Dick Harwell Executive Secretary
Emory University Library
Emory University Georgia
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NOMINATIONS FOR 195U
A L A AWARDS NOV IN ORDER
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The American Library Association is seeking nominations for several out
standing awards which will be presented at the A L A Annual Conference
June 20 to 26 in the Twin Cities Minneapolis and St Paul
Nominations are sought for the following awards
Margaret Mann Citation for contributions to librarianship through cat
aloging and classification during the year 195253 Nominations sent not
later than February 1 195U to Miss Lura C Colvin Chairman of DCC Award
Committee Professor of Library Science Simmons College Boston 15 Mass
E P DuttonJohn Macrae Award of 100000 for advance study in the
field of library work with children and young people Proposals submitted
must indicate clear possibilities of contributing to library service to
children and young people as well as to the professional growth of the recip
ient Applications for the l5k55 award must be submitted by March 15 195U
to Mrs Frances Lander Spain Chairman E P DuttonJohn Macrae Award
Committee New York Public Library Fifth Avenue and l2nd Street New York 18
New York
Trustees Awards for two outstanding trustees of libraries Recommenda
tions must be accompanied by a full record of the candidates achievements
The recommendations should be mailed to the Jury on Citation of Trustees
American Library Association 50 East Huron Street Chicago Illinois not
later than March 15 195k Georgia librarians will recall that the Honorable
Frank Smith of Clayton was one of the two trustees so honored last year
The Joseph W Lippincott Award of 500 and a special certificate pre
sented annually for distinguished service in the profession of librarian
ship such service to include outstanding participation in the activities
of professional library associations notable published professional writing
or other significant activity on behalf of the profession and its aims
The Letter Award to a librarian of 100 and a special certificate
presented annually by Mrs Ada McCormick editor of the magazine Letter to
a librarian who in the line of duty contributes most to emphasize the hu
man qualities of service in librarianship
The Letter Library Award of 100 and a special certificate given
annually by Mrs McCormick to a library for distinguished contribution on
an issue of current or continuing importance
The Melvil Dewey Medal established in 1952 by the Forest Press Inc
awarded annually to an individual or a group for recent creative professional
achievement of a high order particularly in those fields in which Melvil
Dewey was so actively interested notably library management library train
ing cataloging and classification and the tools and techniques of librarian
ship
Nominations for the last four awards should be submitted before March 15
195k to Helen E Wessells Chairman of the ALA Awards Committee Office of
Editor of Library Journal 62 West U5th Street New York 36 New York
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ADULT EDUCATION IN LIBRARIES
Important findings of the American Library Associations Survey of Adult
Siucation in Public Libraries and State Extension Agencies were brought to
librarians at state association meetings this fall by ALA Associate Executive
Secretary Grace T Stevenson
The survey the first of its type ever done by ALA was made possible by a
grant from the Fund for Adult Education
The study dealt with services to community groups and adult education agen
cies and the libraries own adult education programs in U S conrnunities of
2500 and over from 1951 to 1952
Questionnaire findings show
The services provided by 50 per cent or more of all libraries are
exhibits and displays book talks advice in planning for commun
ity leaders printed discussion materials and physical facilities
About 20 to 25 per cent of the libraries provide audiovisual
services to groups
Few libraries provide TV programs and training in group parti
cipation and leadership
About twothirds of the libraries do not provide information
on community adult education resources or studies of communi
ty needs and resources
Forty per cent of the libraries conduct their own adult edu
cation programs such as book programs discussion programs
audiovisual programs
Fiftyfive per cent of the personnel conducting these libra
ry programs were volunteers and specialists from the communi
ty
Only 10 per cent of the libraries had separate adult educa
tion departments
Reasons most frequently given for not providing services were
lack of funds lack of space and lack of staff
Those libraries which provide programs have been helped by a
great deal of cooperation from other organizations in the
community through cosponsorship and the provision of per
sonnel equipment administration and funds
Needs which the survey reveals are training for librarians in adult
education field analysis of community needs and resources by local libraries
and more scientific evaluation of library adult education activities A com
plete report of the survey will be published early in 195k
Quoted from Adult Leadership 8
GEORGIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MEETING REPORT
Georgia librarians and friends of libraries including members of the
State Board of Education were afforded rich opportunities for learning
for exploring their mutual problems for pointing up their achievements
and for seeking the expert advice of outstanding leaders visiting the
meeting during the 1953 conference of the Georgia Library Association
St Simons Island the site of the conference offered a beautiful location
steeped in history with the usual hospitality of the famous coastal resort
The program committee under the leadership of Miss Sarah Jones as
general chairman brought to the group such outstanding figures as Governor
Herman E Talmadge Dan Lacy Managing Director American Book Publishers
Council Dr Frank G Slaughter author of bestselling historical novels
Helen Ferris Editor for the Junior Literary Guild and her husband Albert
B Tibbetts also a writer for children and the husband and wife author
team Thelma and Corydon Bell Program participants from the American
Library Association were David Clift Executive Secretary Mildred Batchelder
from the Division of Libraries for Children and Young People and Cora M
Beatty from the Membership Services Department
The first general session program was concerned with the importance of
libraries and librarians in the world today Governor Talmadge and David
Clift shared the platform each pointing out the vital part that libraries
play in the rapidly changing world and emphasizing the development of libra
ry service in recent years and its needs at present The last session was
concerned with books and freedom Dan Lacy spoke on the dangers of censor
ship and the various threats to freedom through suppression of books re
strictions etc after which there was a discussion led by Louis Griffith
Director of the American Heritage Program in Georgia There were reports
from committees dealing with Federal Relations Student Assistants joint
payment of dues for all library associations the Governors Committee on
Children and Youth Library Development and other topics
Section meetings dealt with special interests and unusually fine pro
grams making the choice of which meeting to attend in case of a conflict es
pecially difficult Mrs Margaret Davis Cate authority on local history
spoke at the Friends of the Library Luncheon after which she led a tour of
the island Dr Frank G Slaughter well known for his historical novels of
the general area was a fitting speaker for the traditional book dinner The
book review sessions were given an unusual turn at this conference Recent
adult books were presented from the point of view of a librarian a patron
and a writer Childrens books were presented by showing one of the activi
ties of the Brunswick Regional Library as the Reverend Talbert Morgan mem
ber of the library board demonstrated with a group of children one of the
ways the library presents childrens books on its weekly radio program
New officers elected for the next two years are President Sarah Maret
Director of the Athens Regional Library First VicePresident Earl J
Thompson Emory University Library Second VicePresident Mrs Adele Dickey
Librarian Decatur High School SecretaryTreasurer Miss Frances Nunn
Librarian Athens High School

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STUDMT ASSISTANT NEWS
The Student Assistant Association of the Fifth District GEA held
its second meeting at Decatur High School on November 12 153 The approxi
mately 16U student assistants in attendance enjoyed a lively discussion pro
gram centered around activities and projects they would like for their organi
zation to engage in during the coming year Among the topics brought out for
discussion were
1 Selection of Student Assistants and persistent absence
from club meetings
2 Publication of the Association
3 Interesting Boys in Becoming Student Assistants
U Making Money
5 Technical Problems
6 Workshop and Social Meetings
The following officers were elected for the coming year
President
VicePresidentt
SecretaryTreasurers
Historians
Reporter
Betty Langford Decatur High School
Bobby Ryan Avondale High School
Carol Kirk Bass High School
Carol Jean Fox College Park High School
Janice Watson Hapeville High School

The first meeting of the Student Assistants of the Third District East
will be held on February 20 At this meeting the proposed constitution
prepared by the Constitution Committee will be presented for ratification and
officers will be elected A representative from each school had attended the
regular meeting of the Childrens and Young Peoples Section in October At
that time they voted to organize and appointed the Constitution Committee
The schedule for the day has been tentatively set as
1000 1130
1200
200
130
300
Get Acquainted and Ratification of
Constitution
Lunch
Business session
The Library Club of the Colquitt School is planning several trips for
this year according to an article in the Killer County paper One of the
places they plan to visit is Andrew College in Cuthbert
The Lincolnton School Library Club has received excellent publicity
through the Augusta Herald Qualifications for membership are those who
were members of the 1952 club and students and assistants who maintain a B
average
According to an Augusta Herald article the Jenkins County High Library
Assistants Club enjoyed a skating party and weiner roast at Coleraan Lake re
cently
The nine girls assisting in the Waycross School Library received recogni
tion for their service to the school by the Waycross Journal Herald 10
The meeting of the Bacon County High School Library Club was held
November 11 in the High School Library Mrs James W Carter is sponsor
Club officers are Johnny McLean President Valine Taylor Secretary and
Treasurer LaVerne Nettles and Florence Meeks Club Reporters
Peggy Angelyn Smith of Lithonia freshman student library assistant
at Georgia Southwestern College was elected temporary secretary of Student
Library Assistants Club of the Library Section of the Third District West
Georgia Education Association at the meeting at Georgia Southwestern College
Lloyd Gulledge associate editor of the Dalton NewsCitizen talked to
the library group at Murray County High School Wednesday morning December
16 1953 during activities period
Emory University will again sponsor the School Problems Laboratory
during the coming summer June h July 16 Plans for this workshop con
tain a library core designed to help the elementary teacher responsible for
library service or the beginning librarian The work carries two course
credits and is acceptable by the State Department as two of the four courses
required for certification as a teacherlibrarian They are also recognized
by Emory Library School as a part of the prerequisite work for entrance
into the graduate library school
Address inquiries and applications to Dr John Goodlad Division of
Teacher Education Emory University Emory University Georgia Applications
must be in by May l 195U
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Elementary School Libraries Are Learning Centers is available upon re
questfrom the Library Division Please request copies to call to the atten
tion of your superintendent elementary principals and elementary faculty
members

Miss Sarah Maret President of the Georgia Library Association asks
all members of the Association to give their personal support to the 195U
MARCH OF DIMES campaign and also to offer such cooperation through their
libraries as the library board or other authorities may see fit Inaugura
tion of the polio prevention program in 195U calls for a much larger amount
of money to be raised this year than ever before Since this prevention
program will be carried on in a selected number of counties in Georgia our
state will certainly go over the top in this drive

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LIBRAE BUILDINGS
Contract for remodeling and redecorating the LaGrange Memorial Library
has been let and renovation of this building is now underway Funds amounting
to 2833500 were provided through the generosity of the Callaway Community
Foundation Plans call for the removal of the wall which separated the li
brary from the room formerly used by the LaGrange Womans Club making one
large area This will provide ample space for the adult browsing room and
reference area at the front a soundproof music room children and teenagers
sections at the back as well as librarian1s office workroom and storage
facilities Interior and exterior walls will be repaired and repainted new
floor covering of asphalt tile acoustical tile for the ceiling and fluo
rescent lighting will add to the attractiveness and convenience of the build
ing
The Amelia G Hutchings Memorial Library was dedicated for the use of
Negro citizens of Macon on Sunday afternoon November 1 in ceremonies
attended by city and state officials and educational leaders The library is
located on the first floor of the old Academy for the Blind The city pro
cured the building through legislative action assigning it to the Bibb County
Board of Education which in turn deeded it to the city The city spent
2750000 in converting the lower floor into a library Mayor Lewis B
Wilson made the principal talk at the dedication ceremonies and delivered the
keys of the library to the librarian Gwendolyn C Williams
The county commissioners of Screven County have appropriated 800000
toward the construction of a library building to house the ScrevenJenkins
Regional Library This was voted to match a similar gift from Mrs George
B Lorimer The library board and librarian Miss Mildred Looney are going
forward with plans for the new building feeling that its construction is
now assured
The North DeKalb Library opened on Tuesday November 3 in the Doraville
Community building with approximately 3000 volumes provided by the Decatur
DeKalb Regional Library of which the Doraville Library is a unit Mrs Hiram
Bobo is in charge The library was built as a wing of the Doraville community
center building and represents the first library paid for by DeKalb County out
of last years bond issue for libraries
The Clayton County Library Board has announced the purchase of the old
post office building which will be converted into a permanent home for the
Clayton County Library This building will provide ample space for immediate
and future expansion and the facilities for better service to library patrons
A plan has been worked out for marking the book shelves with metal plates
giving the names of those persons in whose honor or memory donations have been
made to the building fund
Additional book shelves which will accommodate about 3000 books have been
added to the Augusta Public Library as a part of the general library expansion
program This shelving however has eliminated reading room space which is
also badly needed in this rapidly growing program
New fluorescent lights were installed during the summer throughout the
two stories of the Clarke Library at Marietta Reading facilities have been
greatly improved as a result of this modern uptodate lighting system12
The Carnegie Library building at Barnesville has been given a new coat
of dazzling white paint the lawn around the building has been leveled grass
planted and new landscaping completed Thanks are due to the city manager
and council for these improvements to the library building and grounds which
give a new look to that entire part of town
The GiLmer County Library at ELlijay reports beautiful green Venetian
blinds and the installation of two fluorescent light fixtures which add
beauty and comfort to the library quarters Six new comfortable chairs were
also purchased recently to accommodate the browsers and those who may want to
linger over a good book or magazine
A new home for the Henry County Library in McDonough has been provided
free of charge by the Planters Warehouse and Lumber Company in their build
ing on Covington Street General remodeling painting a new tile floor and
a lighting system were furnished by the city and county so now this three
year old flourishing library can continue to grow and develop its services
under the direction of the library board and Mrs Wade Pullin librarian
The quarters of the Berrien County Library in Nashville have been re
modeled and redecorated with light cream colored walls new floor covering
and new ceiling Additional book shelving takes care of the growing book
collection and all of these improvements add to the attractiveness and use
fulness of the library
Dedication of the new library building for the use of Negro citizens of
LaGrange and Troup County took place on Monday January h attended by state
and local officials library board members and staff representatives of the
Callaway Foundation and many citizens This building is constructed along
the newest lines of modern library architecture functional in operation and
attractive in appearance both inside and outside It is open from 200 PM
to 900 PM each day of the week in order to suit the convenience of many
Negro patrons who are at work during the day It operates as a branch of the
Troup Harris Coweta Regional Library system under the general direction and
supervision of Mrs Evelyn Rutledge Laura Scott librarian in charge is a
college graduate and is working towards her library degree at Atlanta Univer
sity School of Library Service
November 19 20 21 were three Red Letter Days in Georgia when the
dedication of the Ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library of the University of
Georgia at Athens and similar ceremonies for the Price Gilbert Library of the
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta brought a large group of distin
guished librarians and educators to the state including the president of the
American Library Association Miss Flora B Ludington of Mount Holyoke
College South Hadley Mass Governor Herman TaLmadge speaking at the dedi
cation of the Tech Library pointed out that the four million dollars in
vested in these buildings marks immense progress in the states educational
system Each of the new buildings was erected under provision of the Univer
sity System Building Authority supplemented by substantial gifts from the
persons for whom the buildings are named
Dedication ceremonies at Athens on November 19 were followed by a sym
posium on the availability and use of research materials in which the visit
ing librarians participated The symposium was continued in Atlanta on
November 20 preceding the dedication of the Price Gilbert Library on November
21 Statewide publicity has been given to these ceremonies in the newspapers
and the library periodicals will carry full accounts of the symposium 13
The new T D Tinsley elementary school in Macon has a beautiful li
brary with spacious workroom and conference room facilities
Mitchell and Baker County Schools have centralized their elementary
collections under the leadership of the MitchellBaker Regional Library
and interested administrators and teachers New furniture has been pur
chased for the Hopeful School library The Camilla High School library has
been greatly expanded and plans are underway for providing a library for
the elementary school in Camilla
The Wayne County High School library is oeing moved to new quarters
Instead of one small room the library will have a large reading room with
a well planned workroom The shelving and such special items as an atlas
stand and dictionary stand are being built locally It was interesting
to observe how many students came by each period to see how the work was
progressing Mrs Sara Loveless the librarian helped plan the use of the
space and design the equipment

The staff of the State Catalog Service work with machines but they
themselves are very human indeed They are rather proud of themselves for
being able to send out over 16000 sets of catalog cards in December while
contending with the holiday spirit and the virus
They wish to thank the people in the local libraries for their careful
following of order directions their making up of orders that are free of
errors easy to read and to check off The cataloging staff believes that
much of the credit for the amount of the work that they can accomplish is
due to the local people

The School Lunch Mvision State Department of Education has announced
the revision of the bulletin School Lunch Policies and Standards This
bulletin can be purchased for ij0 from the Distributors of Publications for
the Southern States Work Conference State Department of Education
Tallahassee Florida

Literary Profiles of the Southern States a manual of Southern authors
and their writings can be purchased for 100 from the author Dr David
J Harkness Division of University Extension University of Tennessee
Knoxville

The listing of winterspring topics of Our World Today is available
on request from Drr Ernest A Lowe Director Division of General Extension
University of Georgia AthensXI
BOOKMOBILES
The new bookmobile for Morgan and Jasper Counties a Ford Vanette
long a cherished goal of library service arrived in Madison on Friday
November 13 193 just in tune for the celebration of Book Week It was
on display at the regional library headquarters for several days where many
persons who had had a part in securing the bookmobile came to see and admire
it Its purchase was real cooperative effort on the part of many organiza
tions and individuals in both counties supplementing the funds appropriated
by the city and county authorities
Gwinnett County Library is another of the libraries which has replaced
its original bookmobile provided by WPA more than ten years ago with a
new modernly equipped and streamlined bookmobile Funds for the purchase
of this bookmobile were provided by the Gwinnett County commissioners and
the County Board of Education which bodies jointly finance the Gwinnett
County Library
The state demonstration bookmobile has been on loan to Worth County for
the six month period from June 29 1953 to December 31st0 During this time
a regular weekly schedule has been carried on taking books to deposits in
stores homes and community centers It is hoped that this demonstration will
result in the purchase of a bookmobile for the Worth County Library so that
the service begun with the demonstration can be carried on permanently and
expanded
The Dalton Regional Library recently purchased a oneton Chevrolet
Caravan made into a bookmobile with all inside shelves for 1000 to 1300
books The bookmobile was purchased through a local dealer at a cost of
3200 with no tradein The money had been donated to the library during
the past few years by individuals and business firms in Dalton
Equipment includes 120 lineal foot shelving charging table four dome
lights run on the car battery and fluorescent lights which can be plugged
into an electric switch at school and community stopsj a swivel drivers seat
and extra right hand seat fresh air beaters and louvred ventilator on roof
There are two clothes closets in the rear and glass in the rear doors Other
builtin features include linoleum on floor mat in step well two defrosters
on circulating fans and ventilator quarter windows on drivers side
The bookmobile is painted in two tones of green The upper half is
light green with dark green and blackshaded letters and the lower half is
dark green
The machine is easy to drive and seems to answer the needs of bookmobile
patrons and the requirements of travel in rural areas of North Georgia
The printed materials and films for a series of studies on World Affairs
Are Your Affairs may be secured through the General Extension Service
University of Georgia for 2500 Librarians who are interested in these
materials for discussion groups should write to the General Extension at the
University for information

AMERICAN HERITAGE IN GEORGIA 193h
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The American Heritage Program in its second year in Georgias public
libraries has not only extended itself through additional groups and addi
tional libraries but through a program for young adults The 21 libraries
in Georgia which offered the adult discussion program last year have been
joined by six new participants this year with the program in Atlanta Public
Library expanding into seven branches
Young Adult discussion groups have been formed in Carrollton Clarkesville
Dalton LaFayette and at West Hunter Branch Atlanta
While this phase of adult education is increasing funds from the ALA
American Heritage Project are diminishing A grantinaid of 1000000 from
the Fund for Adult Education ALA project set Georgias program in motion in
the fall of 1952 but for 19535U the grant was cut by onethird Funds
will be withdrawn at the rate of onethird per year with the area playing
an increasing part in the financing of the program
Funds from the grant have been used during the past two years largely
for training of volunteer local leaders and for administrative purposes
Book purchases and clerical help for the program have been provided largely
by the library services of the state
Georgia library leaders point out that each library has contributed in
its own right a great deal in time effort and enthusiasm to the program
items which cannot even be estimated in dollars and cents But returns to
the libraries sponsoring the program have been rich and varied The adult
discussion groups have brought people into the library on new ventures They
have made the public aware of adult education potential of the public library
and they have opened new contacts for participants and librarians
Most of the Georgia groups in their first year discussed historical
crises in relation to Anerica today examining the Bill of Rights the decla
ration of Independence and basic papers and document 5 of the United States
Second year groups have been concerned with propaganda analysis world aifairs
in relation to the destiny of the United States and threats to basic free
doms
Libraries in which American Heritage programs are being offered this
year include
Albany Carnegie Library Mrs R L Riley librarian Atlanta Public
Library John Settlemeyer director Augusta Regional Library Miss Jean
Cochran librarian
Bainbridge DecaturSoninole Regional Library Miss Dorothy Spence li
brarian Brunswick Regional Library Miss Lonita Elliott librarian
Cairo Grady County Library Kiss Wessie Connell librarian Camilla
MitchellBaker Regional Library Miss Georgia Thomas director Carrollton
West Georgia Regional Library Miss Edith Foster director Clarkesville
Northeast Georgia Regional Library Miss Byrd Ivester director Columbus
Bradley Memorial Library John Bannister director Covington Mrs C E0
Hawkins librarianDalton Dalton Regional Library Miss Frances Gish directorj Decatur
DecaturDeKalbRockdaleNewton Regional Library Mrs0 A0 Bc Burrus directorj
Douglas Coffee County Library Miss Theodosia Hotch librarian
Gainesville Chestatee Regional Library MrSo Howard Pursell librarian
Griffin Flint River Regional Library Miss Ethel Pearson director
LaFayette Cherokee Regional Library Miss Annie Rae Jennings director
LaGrange TroupHarris Regional Library Mrs0 Evalyn Rutledge director
Lindale PolkFloyd Regional Library Miss Sarah Young director
Macon Middle Georgia Regional Library Mrs Jo E Powers director
Madison MorganJasper Regional Library Miss Betty Bartlett director
Manchester MeriwetherTalbotUpson Regional Library Mrs Phillip Mann
director Millen Library Mrs J I Bates librarian Rome Carnegie
Library Mrs J0 L Henderson
Savannah ChathamEffingham Regional Library Miss Geraldine LeMay
directory Statesboro Regional Library Miss Isabel Sorrier director and
Valdosta LowndesEcholsLanier Regional Library Miss Margaret Baker
director
Brunswick Covington Lindale Millen Statesboro and Valdosta are
all in their first year with the program The remainder of the libraries
are well into their second year some like Clarkesville and LaGrange with
more than one group Atlanta West Hunter Negro branch which had an adult
group last year is working with young adults this year while the Auburn
Street Branch works with adults this year Augusta Carrollton Columbus
Dalton Decatur LaGrange and Macon are among those libraries offering the
program in Negro branches
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DO YOU NEED A Do0o CLASSIFICATION BOOK
The Division of Librarianship Emory University has some duplicate
copies of the 12th edition 1927 and of the 13th edition 1932 of the Dewey
Decimal Classification which it will be glad to give away in return for
postage to any interested person or library Send request to Division of
Librarianship Emory University Georgia and state whether a 12th edition
is desired if all copies of the 13th edition have been disposed of

Readable facsimiles of CHARTERS OF FREEDOM the DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE THE CONSTITUTION and the BILL OF RIGHTS are available at
per copy from the National Archives and Records Service Washington 25 D
Mail check or money order not stamps made payable to the United States
Treasury with your order directly to the National Archives and Records
Service
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CA GOOD MEDIUM OF LIBRARY PUBLICITY
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The Dalton Regional Library has an attractive pink sheet mimeographed
with a drawing of the library building at the top which is sent to all
newcomers to the city via a person employed by the Dalton merchants It is
also posted in suitable places in both counties of the region
We cannot reproduce the picture here or the general format but the
wording is as follows and may give an idea for something similar to other
librarians in regional or county libraries Trances Gish regional director
will doubtless be glad to mail a copy of this sheet to any library who writes
for it
THE DALTON REGIONAL LIBRARY
INVITES YOU
To Use Its Books and Services
The Dalton Regional Library has approximately IiOjOOO books and offers
free reference informational and recreational service to residents of
Whitfield and Catoosa Counties The Dalton Public Library 101 S Cleveland
Street serves as headquarters There are two branch libraries one in
Ringgold and one in the Snery Street School in Dalton A bookmobile serves
small communities schools and rural centers in Whitfield and Catoosa
Counties
The Dalton Public Library has attractive club rooms on the second
floor which are available free of charge to educational civic and cultural
groups in the two counties It has musical recordings and access to an ex
cellent film library belonging to the State Department of Education The li
brary owns a film projector which can be borrowed by group leaders

Harriet G Longs book Rinh the Treasurej Public Library Service to
Children was released by the publishers the American Library Association
Chicago on November 16 The book reviews the role of the public library in
the life of the child so that the librarys contribution may be made increas
ingly effective and traces the early beginnings of children9slibrarianship
and relates the profession to contemporary thought about the child and to the
stream of effort by which the modern community hopes to develop better citi
zens of tomorrow


FILM SERVICE TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES
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Libraries now participating in the Georgia Public Library Film Service aTi
Albany Carnegie Library Albany
Athens Regional Library Athens
Augusta Regional Library Augusta
Cherokee Regional Library LaFayette
Coffee County Public Library Douglas
IDalton Regional Library Dalton
DecaturDeKalbRoekdaleNewton Regional Library
Decatur
Flint River Regional Library Griffin
Grady County Library Cairo
LowndesEcholsLanier Regional Library
Valdosta
Middle Georgia Regional Library Macon
MuscogeeMarionChattahoochee Regional Library
Columbus
Northeast Georgia Regional Library Clarkesville
Rome Carnegie Library Rome
Statesboro Regional Library Statesboro
TownsUnion Regional Library Young Harris
West Georgia Regional Library Carrollton
The increased number of libraries registered for this service reflects the
modern philosophy of the library as an informational center which affords
access to all of the various media of communication films as well as books and
other printed materials
The Georgia State Department of Education has made available a collection
of 195 films for the exclusive use of public municipal county and regional
libraries These are administered by the AudioVisual Service of the Department
under regulations worked out by a committee of librarians and the director of
that service The regulations are sufficiently flexible to afford wide use of
the films and to encourage libraries to experiment The committee is continu
ously previewing and studying films to add to this collection
It is the objective of this service to lend films to libraries for use in
their own programs and for loan to responsible organized groups who are follow
ing a serious educational program of activities and turn to the library for
materials to enrich that program An annual registration fee of 1000 is
charged to cover insurance and postage Libraries not registered for the ser
vice may apply to the Director of the AudioVisual Service 121 Memorial Drive
SoW Atlanta Georgia

The much needed book on County and Regional Library Development by Gretchen
M Schenk was released by the American Library Association on January 2 19J
price 25 This book will be a most welcome addition to the materialavailable
in this field which has for years been sadly out of date The author has had a
wide scope of grassroots experience in extension work so we look forward to
having a practical compact volume at hand which will be of interest to all
Georgia county and regional librarians and library minded board members as
well as to other librarians who anticipate developing local library services
along such lineso
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INTERESTING GEORGIA ITES
The HISTORY OF MIDWAY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH LIBERTY COUNTY GEORGIA written
by Dr0 James Stacy and originally published in 1899 has been reproduced with
an addenda bringing the history up to 1951 and is for sale at 1000 by L H
Quarterman Flemington Georgia Orders should be placed direct
The University of Georgia Press Athens has issued a facsimile reprint of
THE SALZBURGER AND THEIR DESCENDANTS by P Ac Stroebel price 300 originally
published in 1855 This is an account of the colony of German Lutheran Protes
tants who immigrated to Georgia in 173U and settled at Ebenezer near Savannah
Both of these volumes will be valuable additions to the Georgia history
collection of any library
1951 UDC ESSAY CONTEST
SIDNEY LANIER is the subject chosen for the essay contest conducted by the
Georgia Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy for the school children of
the state A pamphlet on the life of Lanier has been prepared and will be dis
tributed by the state chairman of the Essay Contest Mrs J M Toomey of Decatur5
through the District Chairmen All libraries should secure several copies of
this pamphlet from the local UDC chapter and hold for reference use in the
library The Library Extension Service has a supply of the pamphlets so libra
rians may write for a few extra copies if needed Address 92 Mitchell Street
SW Atlanta 3 Georgia
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The high school debates are over but the other contests including the
literary ready writers contest will be held in the spring The subject for
this contest is HENRY W LONGFELLOW Fortunately there are two good editions of
Longfellows Complete Poetical Works in print both published by Houghton Mifflin
The Cambridge edition sells for 550 and the Craigie edition for 275 School
libraries will certainly want to buy one of these volumes if any students in the
school are taking part in this contest8
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EPSIL0N SIGMA 0MICR0N READING COURSES FOR FEDERATED CLUB WOMEN
Reading Youll Like is the title of a leaflet listing the books to be read
for recognition by Epsilon Sigma Omicron honorary educational sorority of the
General Federation of Womens Clubs The Division of General Extension of the
University of Georgia is cooperating with the Georgia Federation in this project
by issuing enrollment certificates to each federated club member who registers
fee 100 per unit and will handle the book reports and other details of this
adult education program
Public libraries are receiving one copy of the leaflet with this News
Bulletin and copies are available to other libraries by writing directly to the
Division of General Extension University of Georgia Athens
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NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS
Miss Jane Oliver of Athens Georgia has been appointed to the position of
State Librarian by Governor Herman Talmadge The Governor administered the
oath of office to Miss Oliver on Tuesday December 1 1953 She will assume
her new duties in the State Capitol on April 1 19k succeeding Miss Ella
Kay Thornton who is retiring Hiss Thornton has been a member of the State
Library staff since 1909 and has held the post of State Librarian since 1926
She will remain at the Capitol as honorary librarian having been given this
title and honor by the General Assembly during the spring session of 1953
Miss Oliver holds her B A degree and also her degree in library science
frorn the Texas State College for Women and has recently done graduate work in
political science and lav at the University of Georgia
Miss Georgia Thomas director of the MitchellBaker Regional Library at
Camilla and Mi ss Mildred Looney director of the ScrevenJenkins Regional
Library at Sylvania have been appointed members of the State Board for the
Certification of Librarians by Governor Herman Talmadge Hiss Looney succeeds
Miss Louise Smith of Fitzgerald who has served continuously on this Board
since 1938r being one of the original appointees Miss Thomas succeeds Miss
Sara Young of Lindale past Chairman of the Board whose term expired
December 31 1953 Both new members took the oath of office at the State
Capitol in December so that their appointments could be confirmed by the
General Assembly while in session at that time Miss Sara Hightower was chosen
as Chairman at the Board Meeting on January 7 195h
Miss Virginia McJenkin director of Fulton County school Libraries has
received another national honor having been appointed by Miss Flora B
Ludington president of the American Library Association as one of five members
of a special Federal State Relations Committee to work with President Eisenhowers
Commission on Education
Mrs Rosalyn T Shamblin librarian of the D M Anderson Hospital for
Cancer Research in Houston Texas spent several weeks in Georgia during the
past summer studying regional library techniques and services in connection
with a study she is carrying on at the University of Texas She spent some
time at the West Georgia Regional Library at Carrollton and at the Athens
Regional Library and also visited the Decatur DeKalb Regional Library and
other libraries in the Atlanta area A week was spent at the state office
of the Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services in Atlanta
examining records and statistics of other regional library systems Visits
were also made to the regional library headquarters at Clarkesville and
Gainesville Mrs Shamblin was particularly impressed with the cooperation be
tween our local city and county governments in providing and financing library
service for all the people of the area and felt this was the basis for the suc
cess which our regional library program can claim At the present time Texas
does not have any regional libraries in operation
Mrso James C Bonner Emory Library School has begun her duties as libra
rian of Georgia Military College replacing Mrs Lucile C Rotchford who re
signed to accept the position of reference librarian at the Naval War College
Newport Rhode Island Mrs Bonner nee Ida Munro is the wife of Dr J C
Bonner head of the history department of Georgia State College for Women
a a 21
Miss Sarah F Barnes of Fayetteville North Carolina is the new libra
rian at Camp Gordon in charge of four facilities on the post which include an
Army hospital library Miss Barnes comes to Camp Gordon from service as li
brarian at Fort Myers9 Virginia and Fort Bragg NC
Mrs Leroy Hutzler of Pittsfield Massachusetts Columbia Library School
has joined the staff of the Rome Carnegie Library and will be in charge during
the evening hours of opening from 600 to 9s00 P M The Hutzlers have recent
ly moved to Rome where Mr Hutzler is connected with the G E Corporation
Mrso Ira Dent bookmobile librarian for Coffee County Public Library re
signed her position and has been succeeded by Mrs Jo W Sikes who began work
in the fall
Mrs Eva Martin who had charge of the Stewart County Library for thirteen
years resigned in the fall to accept a business position Miss Anna Colbert
has recently been elected to succeed Mrs Martin During the interim Mrs
Pearl Haire had temporary charge of the library
Mr Owen H Page Jr prominent Savannah attorney was elected president
of the Friends of the Library Association for 19J succeeding Mr E C Bowen
Mrs John Bates is the new librarian of the Jenkins County Memorial Libra
ry succeeding the late Mrs Julia Brinson Jenkins County is a part of the
ScrevenJenkins Regional Library system
Mrs Claude S Adams has been appointed by the Regional Library Board to
serve as librarian of the Seminole County Library unit of the Decatur Seminole
aegional Library
Mrs James Martin has joined the staff of the LaGrange Memorial Library
and is in charge of circulation
Miss Mildred McElvany has succeeded Mrs Margaret Settle as librarian of
the Nancy Gwinn Library at Conyers which is the Rockdale County unit of the
DecaturDeKalbJtockdaleNewton Regional Library Mrs Settle has accepted the
position of librarian of the West Fulton High School in Atlanta
Miss Mary Janette Agan is the new librarian at Shorter College in Rome
Mrs M P Campbell has resigned her position as librarian of Brewton
Parker Junior College at Mt Vernon Mrs Samuel Breland is acting librarian
for the present
Miss Leslie Cameron has succeeded Miss Jane L McDaniel as librarian of
Martha Berry College at Rome
Miss Ortha Burris is the new librarian at Rabun Gap Nacoochee School re
placing Miss Courtney Randolph
Miss Dorothy Alexander librarian of Bessie Tift College library at Forsyth
was married during the summer She is continuing in her librarian position for
the present
Miss Elizabeth King was married in the fall to the Reverend Joe Scruggs
They are living in Pelham where Mr Scruggs is pastor of the Presbyterian
Church Elizabeth is continuing her work with the MitchellBaker Regional
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Miss Sybil Price formerly a member of the staff of the Augusta
Regional Library has accepted a position with the Spartanburg South
Carolina Public Library
Mrs Winnie Clayton of Tulsa Oklahoma Peabody Library School has
joined the staff of the Cherokee Regional Library as assistant director
succeeding Miss Pauline Martin who resigned to o into another field of
service
Miss Sarah Jones Chief Library Consultant of the State Department
of Education was the outofstate consultant at a twoday workshop for
Alabama school librarians held in Birmingham Alabama on December 2 and
3 1953
Mr Charles Johnson has joined the staff of the MeriwetherTalbot
Upson Regional Library as assistant to the Director Mrs Marie Mann

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May 195U
Division of Instructional Materials
and Library Service
Georgia Department of Education
Vol 9 No 3ALA CONFERENCE
Knowledge A Free Peoples Surest Strength is the theme chosen for
the 73rd Annual Conference of the American Library Association to be held
in Minneapolis June 20 to 26 An outstanding group of prominent men and
women will speak before the assembly They include Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby
Secretary of the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare Dr
Charles W Mayo of the Mayo Clinic Rochester who is President of the
American Association for the United Nations Dr James Lewis Morrill
President of the University of Minnesota and L Quincy Mumford Librarian
of the Cleveland Public Library and incoming ALA President
This meeting is one of Americas largest professional gatherings
and will provide nearly 250 different meetings dealing with all phases of
librarianship There are also sections for trustees and other affiliated
groups Miss Flora B Ludington ALA President and Librarian of Mt
Holyoke College will preside Reports will be heard dealing with several
nationwide projects under the sponsorship of ALA and intensive study will
be given problems of improving and extending library services Special
workshops running through the entire conference period are planned by the
American Association of School Librarians and the Extension Section of the
Public Libraries Division and special sessions are planned by the other
major divisions of ALA as well A preconference group will study library
buildings for two days June 19 and 20
There will be several library school reunion dinners and the social
highlight will be the traditional NewberyCaldecott Dinner at which awards
for distinguished childrens books of the year will be presented Various
other awards will be presented in recognition of outstanding contributions
to library work
Opportunities will be provided for visiting libraries in Minneapolis
and for exchanging ideas with librarians from all over North America
See you thereI
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The Order Card What it Can Do For You a helpful booklet for both
school and public libraries has recently been issued by the Division of
Instructional Materials and Library Service of the State Department of
Education Miss Virginia Drewry with the assistance of others on the
state staff worked very hard to make this booklet a useful tool for those
who are responsible for the ordering cataloging and processing of books
She submitted the material for criticism to a number of librarians in the
state and made changes on the basis of the suggestions that were sent in
to the state office Copies of the booklet are available on request

GEA PLANNING CONFERENCE
The state and district chairmen of the Children and Young Peoples
Section of the GEA met at the annual GEA Planning Conference in
Milledgeville on April 30 to plan the fall conferences and the spring
meeting and to discuss the program to be carried on in the districts
Present were
Miss Mary Varnom Chairman Dodge High School Eastman
Miss Cornelia Lowe SecretaryTreasurer Bradley Memorial
Library Columbus
Mrs Bess McCune First District Savannah Public Library
Savannah
Mrs Elizabeth Scruggs Second District MitchellBaker
Regional Library Camilla
Mrs Mary B Ginter Third District East Cordele High
School Cordele
Mrs Ada Smith Fourth District Spalding High School
Griffin Representing Fae Kent
Miss Clyde DeVore Fifth District Southwest High School
Atlanta
Mrs Celia B Moore Sixth District Board of Education
Macon
Miss Theo Hotch Eighth District Coffee County Library
Douglas
Mrs Sara Perkins Ninth District North Canton High
School Canton
Miss Margaret Bailie Tenth District Richmond Academy
Augusta
Many excellent suggestions were made for possible programs and
activities to be carried on in the districts These proposals are to be
referred to librarians in each district for comments and suggestions
Two problems discussed were the importance of librarians making known
the present and future needs of the library in relation to an adequate
program of education and careful planning to make the library assistants
organization as meaningful as possible
Mrs Elizabeth Scruggs was appointed chairman of a committee to
prepare a handbook for district chairmen
Mrs Celia B Moore Librarian Bibb County Elementary Schools was
appointed the official representative of Georgia school librarians at the
annual meeting of the AASL State Assembly during the American Library
Association Convention in Minneapolis in June
Be sure to check the Children and Young Peoples Library Section
when you pay your GEA dues in September A percentage of your dues
goes to the section of your choice
There is still time to join the American Association of School Li
brarians and other Divisions of the American Library Association Write
to Mrs Dorothy Blake AASL Membership Chairman Decatur High School
Decatur Georgia Porter Kellam Georgia Representative on the ALA Mem
bership Committee University of Georgia will send information about
ALA membership

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WHAT NEXT
Anyone with the old time notion that libraries are dull places
where one goes just to find some dusty tome on the shelves or even to
check out the latest best seller and mystery thriller may be surprised
to hear of all the things that are going on today in Georgia libraries
The American Heritage Discussion groups now in their third year
are so well known and so well established that they are almost becoming
a part of the everyday library routine in the new library like book
mobile service or circulation of audiovisual materials films record
ings etc Many other interesting things are going on such as the
Experiencing Poetry series on Sunday afternoons and the Informative
Group dramatic readings on Wednesday afternoons at the Bradley Memorial
Library in Columbus the record series of national music Russian French
German and English held weekly in the music room of the AugUsta Regional
Library exhibit of Currier and Ives prints depicting scenes typical of
19th Century America which were on display in the DecaturDeKalb Regional
Library in April while the Johnson County Library at Wrightsville ex
hibited the paintings of Mr Holbrook of the University of Georgia in
February at which time Mr Holbrook gave a lecture in the library on his
art collection
The midweekly noon book reviews given at the Down Town Branch of the
Savannah Public Library have been going on for several years Their con
tinuing popularity and excellent attendance is ample proof that people do
like to hear books talked about by authorities in their field Persons
attending the Savannah Public Library Institute were fortunate in hearing
Chauncey Kelley Director of the Savannah Symphony Orchestra review two
books on new music on the program of Friday April 9
Activities of the Rome Carnegie Library are varied enough to appeal
to everybody The Great Books discussion group meets biweekly on Thurs
day eveningsj a European film tour takes arm chair travelers or those
preparing for a summer tour of Europe to a different country each Monday
evening recently the hth Rifle Company US Marines sponsored an art
exhibit in the library through which paintings and sketches in oil and
inks depicted the life of the US Marines at various stations throughout
the world including combat living conditions in the Korean conflict
Fort Bennings main library has purchased a record playeraudiophone
and seven sets of foreign language records which will make possible the
study of these languages by student officers needing this experience in
preparation for overseas duty This is a forward step in library service
provided by the new librarian Miss Barbara Bronson of Monrovia California
Congratulations go to Miss Sally Barnes Chief Librarian at Camp
Gordon Library in Augusta for winning the 1953 Third ArmyLibrary pub
licity contest first prize of 100001 Scrapbooks showing library services
were submitted and contestants were judged on such items as excellence
of originality variety interest objective and appeal of publicity rather
than on the overall beauty of the scrapbooks Fort Benning Library won
third prize of 5000
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PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS
Putnam County has joined the region already serving Jasper and Morgan
Counties under the direction of Miss Betty Bartlett with headquarters at
Madison Increased funds necessary to finance this expanded program were
provided by the City of Eatonton the Putnam County Commissioners and
Putnam County Board of Education The Eatonton Carnegie Library becomes
a participating unit in the regional library program receiving new books
regularly from the regional book collection while the bookmobile visits
rural communities on its regular schedule of travel over the three counties
Forward looking citizens of Long County have established a county li
brary in Ludowici located in the community house with Mrs F A Delk
Librarian in charge Mrs Mary D Gordon Superintendent of Long County
Schools and the Long County Board of Education are responsible for getting
this newest public library service under way They are to be congratulated
for thus reducing the number of remaining black countiesM in Georgia those
without any form of public library service to two A large group loan of
current books has been sent from the Library Extension Service to enable
the new library to begin book lending immediately while new books are being
selected and purchased with the state aid funds provided to all county pub
lic libraries meeting state requirements
News has just come of the action of the Brantley County Library Board
and officials in joining the Brunswick Regional Library system thereby
making Brunswick the third regional library system to expand to four
counties Hats offHi to Miss Monita Elliott Director the library board
and the staff
Jefferson County inaugurated bookmobile service on April 7 195U when
the new bookmobile took to the road after having been on display in
front of the county library headquarters in Louisville so that all local
citizens could admire it A schedule of visits to all schools and commu
nities in the county has been set up and needless to say this form of
getting books directly to the people is proving as popular in Jefferson
County as in all other counties in the state which now enjoy bookmobile
service
The DecaturDeKalbRockdaleNewton Regional Library Headquarters in
Decatur will soon move into a greatly enriched and expanded program of
library service to the public as work on the new annex to the library
rapidly nears completion Space in the new structure will include an
audiovisual showing room which will seat 75 to 80 people This room
will be used for story hours adult discussion groups and other group
meetings The new facilities also include rooms for young adult service
a fine arts department and the catalog department In addition there is
a beautiful and colorful auditorium which will seat some 250 people
Open house was held at the Berrien County Library at Nashville on
Thursday afternoon April 22 The library has recently been completely
renovated and expanded The face lifting included new shelving tiled
floors celotex ceiling new draperies and equipment The date for the
open house coincided with Georgia Authors Day and special exhibits played
up their books Library board members county commissioners and patrons
of the library were present for the meeting Misses Lucile Nix and Grace
Hightower represented the state staff
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SCHOOL LIBRARY NEWS
An Easy on the Eyes allglass wall is one of the special features
of the library in the new Moultrie Senior High School Another unusual
featiire is the terrace reading room The school has just recently been
completed and is now in use as the senior high school The old building
and its library serve as a junior high school
According to an excellent and well illustrated newspaper article
the Osborne School library has just moved into their spacious new quar
ters The library is located in a new wing housing several new class
rooms beside the library
The Richard Arnold Commercial High Savannah recently received a
gift of several hundred books according to an article in the Savannah
Press The gift was made in honor of the late Miss Louise S Falligant
by members of her family Miss Falligant taught for over 30 years at
Richard Arnold Junior High School
A recent article in the Camden County Tribune reported that after
a thorough spring cleaning of the Camden County High School library
new books and pictures are brightening the shelves and walls A partial
list of the new books was included with an invitation to come to the
library to examine these and other new additions
The Library Group of the Future Teachers Club of Clayton recently
visited the Chestatee Regional Library in Gainesville An account of
their trip in the Clayton Tribune stated that in spite of the rain they
enjoyed a most profitable and delightful day Besides a general tour of
the library the group was shown how books are processed from the time
they are received until they reach the shelves as well as mending pro
cesses and circulation procedures

LIBRARY CLUB SPONSORED
PROGRAM ON OFF TO COLLEGE
The Library Club of the Americus High School sponsored a program
for the entire student body designed to help pupils planning on going to
college
Barbara Sue Brazil President of the club explained the two books
Vocational Information and Occupational Planning for College Women Ann
Stein Secretary gave a review of the book Off College and Kay
Colbert Treasurer explained the different types of scholarships that may
be obtained Charlotte Griffin listed a number of scholarships available
both in Georgia and out of the state
The Georgia Libraries News Bulletin is interested in receiving in
formation about the club projects Please send them to us so we may share
them with others
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STUDENT ASSISTANTS NEWS
The Library Student Assistants Association of the Seventh GEA
District was organized by an enthusiastic group of students attending the
library meeting in the Rome Carnegie Library on April 23 Approximately
l0 students and librarians representing many schools in the district
were present
Mrs Julia Witherington Chairman of the Seventh District Children
and Young Peoples Library Section presided Mrs C B McGarity Li
brarian Dallas High School led the discussion The Rome Student
Assistants were responsible for an entertaining skit on nA Night in the
Libraryw
A constitution was adopted and the following officers were elected
President
Vice Presidenti
Secretary
Treasurer
Reporter
Helen Cole Dallas High School
Miriam Lanier Rome Senior High School
Anne Kay Rome Junior High School
Linda Rice South Cobb High School
Judy Parrish Lake View School
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Librarians and students from the Eighth District met in Hazelhurst
on March 12 to discuss the organization of the library assistants and to
participate in a bookmending clinic The group was interested in a dis
trict organization and asked that Mrs Buna Fain Librarian Hazlehurst
and Mrs June H Ryals Librarian McRae with members of their staffs
get together to prepare a constitution to be submitted to the group at
its next meeting Miss Theo Hotch Librarian Coffee County Library
and Chairman of the Eighth District Children and Young Peoples Library
Section presided Mrs P H Tripp Librarian Ocilla High School led
the discussion on organizational problems and benefits
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Students and librarians from the Tenth District met in Athens on
February 26 under the leadership of Margaret Baillie Chairman of the
Children and YoungPeoples Library Section for that district Dis
cussion centered around the advisability of forming a student library
organization Mrs C T Spratlin Lincolnton School Library and Miss
Beth Clinkscales Librarian Elberton High School with representatives
from their staffs were asked to prepare a suggested constitution and plan
for the next meeting of the group After a luncheon the students visited
the Athens High School the Athens Regional and the University of Georgia
libraries

The Fifth District Student Library Assistants held their spring meet
ing at the Hapeville High School Betty Langford President presiding
The program included a panel on the problems and responsibilities of libra
ry assistants a get acquainted period during which refreshments were
served and a series of library skits The nominating committee made its
report and nominees were introduced Election is by mail ballot and the 7
following officers have been elected
President
Vice President
SecretaryTreasurer
Reporter
Historian
Thomas Morris Clarkston High School
Mary Louise Savage Decatur High School
Barbara Stallworth Russell High School
Bill Bracewell Bass High School
Frank Cooper Russell High School
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The Student Assistants Library Organization Second District held
its second meeting on April 23 in the new Moultrie High School Library
The meeting was attended by 103 students and librarians A constitution
was adopted and the following officers were elected
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Reporter
Historian
Nan Dunn Moultrie High School
Jody Webb Seminole County High School
Sydnor Peacock Albany High School
Glenda Brinkley Pelham High School
Betty Jean Johnson Bainbridge High School
Vinita Cochran Mitchell County High School
Some of the decisions made at the meeting were
1 There shall be two meetings a year One in the fall
next year in November and one in the spring next year
in April
2 Dues will be collected in the local clubs and sent in
to the district treasurer before the November meeting
3 Officers will be elected at the April meeting

The Student Assistants of the Third DistrictWest held their
second meeting on February 27 in Cuthbert The Cuthbert group
presented an entertaining skit on library procedures
The group adopted a constitution and elected a temporary pres
ident Miroi Doescher Cuthbert High School
After a lively discussion of future meetings and types of
programs the group adjourned to the lake for a picnic lunch
and to Andrew College for a tour of the library

STUDENT ASSISTANTS CERTIFICATES
Write immediately for certificates for the student library assistants
who merit them The Georgia Library Association issues these certificates
to students who have completed a year of successful library work A gold
seal is given for each succeeding year Send the names of the students and
indicate whether a certificate or a seal is needed These certificates are
issued through the Library Division State Department of Education Atlanta
Georgia
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Librarians are always proposing new and better ways of improving
library service Sara Hightower Pepperell School Lindale has this
suggestions
I know there are many good book lists in print I know there are
excellent suggested reading lists in the textbooks we use but somehow
neither of these seem to take care of my situation So many books on
the printed lists in the textbooks are out of print not available to
many Georgia Schools and not suited to our locality Therefore many of
us have to make our own lists Every year I spend a great deal of time
doing this I am wondering if other librarians in the state are doing
likewisej if so I would like to work out an exchange with them
At the present time we have a list of 95 books all in the Georgia
library Catalog or County and Regional Catalogs on the Civil War Period
Likewise we have a Revolutionary War Period list We have worked out
a list to go along with the textbook The World of America by Bailey
and published by American Book Company and several other textbooks We
will be glad to share this work we have done and would also like to have
copies of your lists We are interested in getting lists on vocations
fiction Indian stories suitable for 6th and 7th grade students World
History Religions and many more
MDo you think we can save time and have fuller and more useful lists
by doing something of this sort
The Library Division would like to help with this project We shall
be glad to multilith any bibliographies you have that you think will be
useful to others If you need a special bibliography we shall try to find
someone who has already compiled one or who will be willing to work on one
Send us your bibliographies and your requests as soon as possible We
shall keep you informed about lists that are available Address your ma
terial and requests tos Library Division State Department of Education
Atlanta 3 Georgia
APEGs AN ADEQUATE PROGRAM OF EDUCATION IN GEORGIA
A guide is being prepared by the Georgia Education Association that
will help local school communities study the needs of their schools and
arrive at the cost of an adequate school program A compilation of these
figures from all systems in the state will be the basis for determining
the cost of an adequate program on the state level Part 7 of the Guide
is headed Other School Costs and includes information that will be
needed to determine the cost of adequate school and public library pro
grams Enclosed is a copy of the probable questions that will be asked
of librarians by committees studying the educational program of the com
munity Please be prepared to answer these questions with facts and
figures Use your invoices to determine the average cost of books Mag
azine order blanks filmstrip and recording catalogs and equipment and
supply catalogs will help determine other costs Now is the time to plan
an adequate program for the years ahead
VACATION READING CLUB
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Board a Space Ship to the Wonderful World of Booksl is the slogan
to spark the statewide Vacation Beading Clubs throughout Georgia this
summer Many libraries using this theme have already planned for ingen
ious journeys through space to the various planets and have helmets
pressure suits and marvelous communication systems all worked out For
those clubs following the state slogan booklets are available for record
ing books read and a certificate for those boys and girls who fulfill all
the requirements
A list of books dealing with space travel science fiction and astron
omy and flying to give some background information for these fanciful
flights has been prepared and distributed by the Library Division of the
Department of Education This list is suggestive of some of the worlds the
club members may want to explore through their reading in addition to the
worlds of poetry romance animal stories biography etc
Plan now to have a Vacation Reading Club in your library throughout
the entire area you serve and to share your successful experience through
reports to the Georgia Libraries News Bulletin
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EXPERIMENTAL READING CLASS
According to a recent newspaper article the seventh grade at Massie
Elementary School Chatham County is benefiting from an interesting read
ing class Like all classes the reading abilities of the group varied
greatly from the fourth month of the ninth grade to the eighth montn
of the third grade The pupils and their teacher worked out a plan by
which each person would read books he or she liked and keep a record of
his reading growth Reading classes consist of sharing what you have
read with others working on new words discovered in your own reading and
reading books of your own choice at your own rate of speed After pupils
have chosen books which are of interest and within his reading ability the
books are kept at his desk so that he can read them when he is not occupied
with other studies
The class is working out successfully The slow readers have greatly
increased their level of reading the fast readers have been able to work
on ahead and the students in between have also been allowed to progress
at their normal rate
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Library Assistants in thirty schools of the Fifth District were in
vited recently to be guests at a tea held at the Library School Emory
University The tea was sponsored by the Recruitment Committee of the
Atlanta Public Library Club and the faculty of the Division of Librarianship
Members of the faculty and the Recruitment Committee Virginia McJenkin
Chairman acted as hostesses Refreshments were served by the Library
School students Three films depicting library service were shown after
which there was discussion of the opportunities for work in the library pro
fession and the requirements needed for entry into the profession
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STREAMLINE YOUR BOARD MEETING
At the first meetings of the Board of Trustees for the TerrellCalhoun
Regional Library quite a long time was spent in discussing and transacting
the business of the Library The Director felt that too much time was con
sumed in giving information necessary to intelligent decision making and
in giving reports of progress Accordingly before the last meeting of the
Board the staff of the Library spent almost a full week in preparing copies
of the financial report the public service or circulation report minutes
of the last meeting and the constitution and bylaws of the Board These
were sent along with a letter to all members of the Board about ten days
before the meeting The letter gave information about place and time of the
meeting and listed all items of business to be discussed This agenda was
made up by consultation with the Chairman of the Board In addition to the
listing of the agenda a paragraph on each item listed discussed the why
and how for each item giving all information necessary for decision as to
action to be taken The letter closed with an invitation for further dis
cussion before the time of meeting if desired by the Board members
Though a great deal of time was consumed and effort spent on prepar
ing these documents the Director felt that it was well spent The meeting
was concluded within the hour allotted and all members of the Board were
well pleased with the decisions reached This expenditure of time and
effort left additional time for the Board to consider the more important
problems and to discuss theories of library operation and administration

LIBRARIAN AS MOTHER OF THE YEAR
Georgia librarians have received many honors but this is the first
time so far as is known for a Georgia librarian or in fact a librarian
in any part of the country to receive the honor of being selected as
AMERICAS MOTHER OF THE YEAR Mrs Love McDuffie Tolbert of Columbus has
been so named for 19h by the Golden Rule Foundation sponsors of this
annual event Mrs Tolbert was selected by this national committee from
among nominees of individual states and U S Territories having already
been chosen as Georgias Mother of the Year She has been a leader in
civic and religious activities in her home town of Columbus and in the
state and was elected as a member of the General Assembly of Georgia in
1953 serving in the House of Representatives from Muscogee County for two
years At present she is the librarian of the Johnson Elementary School
in Columbus
Mrs Tolbert was honored on May 7th at a luncheon at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel in New York City given by the American Mothers Committee
All Georgia librarians join with others in paying tribute to her
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MAGAZINE LIST
The 195U5 magazine list has been sent to school and public librarians
superintendents and supervisors Be sure to send in your order for renew
als or new subscriptions by May 15 if the magazines are to come in September
If any renewal dates come before September please address your order to
Sarah Jones Library Division State Department of Education
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DECREASING OVERDUE BOOKS AT BOOKMOBILE STOPS
When the TerrellCalhoun Regional Library began full operation in
September 1953 a bookmobile schedule was set up for visits to central
stops in towns once every four weeks Although books are stamped with
the date of the return engagement and notices appear in local news
papers we found that many of our patrons were forgetful of the date and
consequently our books were sometimes long overdue
In order to counteract this tendency and to remind the citizens of
the town of our visit we devised sandwich signs to be placed in a
prominent place on the main street with the wording Meet Bookmobile
Tomorrow The signs are two feet wide and three feethigh painted in
the same colors as the bookmobile ivory and coral red These are put
into place early on the morning of the day preceding our scheduled stop
They are taken up by the bookmobile the next day and returned to head
quarters for use in another town
Since we began to use these signs our overdue problem has decreased
and we have registered a number of new borrowers as a result of their use
We feel that our money has been wisely used on this project

BOOK ELEVATOR
The MeriwetherTalbotUpson Regional Library is located in the base
ment of the Manchester Community Building Carrying books up the stairs
and out to the street was a long trip until a book lift or elevator
was built The lift raises the books up about ten feet and out of a
window near to the driveway where the bookmobile can be parked
Phillip Mann designed and constructed the lift at a cost of 3877
2077 for materials and 1800 for labor A well windlass is the
means of raising the 2x3 foot platform to the top of the window where
each box of books is unloaded A heavy weight attached to one end of
the ropecounter weights the lift so that it can be raised or lowered
easily just by turning a crank The operation is similar to drawing water
at an old fashioned well


A new course in county and regional library service will be offered
at the school of librarianship University of Denver in Denver Colorado
from June 21 through August 20 195 Miss Carol Trimble well known for
her work as regional librarian of the Yakima Valley Washington Regional
Library will be the instructor Persons interested in the course should
write to Mr Leslie L Poste Director of the school for further informa
tion
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LIBRARIANS IN PRINT
Several Georgia librarians have published articles in recent issues
of professional publications Among these are Sarah Jones article Freedom
to Read in the May 195U issue of the Alabama Librarian A Mountain Against
Which to Lift the Eyes is the title of the Edith Fosters article appearing
in the April issue of the ALA Bulletin This was written at the request
of the Bulletin Editor Ransom L Richardson and is based on the ideas set
forth by Miss Foster in her speech at the 1953 conference in Los Angeles
Wilson Library Bulletin for March 19h carries Edna Sullivans account
of the library exhibit of the Fannin County High School at the County Fair
last fall and has the caption Come to the Fair
Dont miss Louis Griffiths article in the spring issue of the Georgia
Review Cracker Barrels and Public Libraries Of course it tells about
the American Heritage program in Georgia and in the most delightful way
possible
Lets Read This Summer Story Hour in Savannah by Margaret Godley
Publicity Assistant in the Savannah Public Library is one of several arti
cles in the April issue of the Wilson Bulletin
Miss Byrd Ivester and Miss Lola Keown are among other librarians pre
paring articles for publication in the near future Watch for them
The first Delta Kappa Gamma scholarship of 100000 to be given in
Georgia has been awarded to Miss Cornelia Lowe Bookmobile Librarian in the
regional library at Columbus Miss Lowe is to be congratulated on this
recognition of her merit Our best wishes and congratulations go with her
as she begins her graduate library training this summer

The Atlanta Library Club has established its first Scholarship Fund
to be awarded to a worthy library school student in need of 10000 to
15000 to complete his library education
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Mr Quincy Mumford Director Cleveland Public Library and President
ELect of the American Library Association has been nominated Librarian of
Congress by President Eisenhower It is hoped that the nomination of this
distinguished librarian will be quickly confirmed by the Senate
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LIBRARY BUILDINGS
Bessie Tift Colleges new library building was dedicated on April 13
195U with appropriate exercises The building designed by John Leon Hoffman
is in Southern architectural design to blend with the other buildings on the
campus It is of brick and tile construction with a total floor area of
92114 square feet Cost of the building with equipment was 9000000 On
the main floor space is provided for the main reading room book stacks
the special book room and librarians office while the ground floor con
tains an exhibit room for paintings a projector room music room workroom
and storage space Flourescent lighting is used throughout the building
the furniture is natural finish birch in modern design which is not only
pleasing in appearance but also functional in use and comfort Students
were given a holiday for one day for moving the library books from their
old quarters to the new building and everyone worked together from the
youngest freshman to the college president in forming a human chain of
hands so that the books could be passed along from their old location to
the shelves of the new library building Under direction of Mrs Dorothy
Alexander Smith Librarian this plan of moving the library was success
fully carried out
The Cairo Public Library has moved from quarters on the second floor
of the City Hall which had been occupied for fifteen years ever since
the library was first established in 1939 to the ground floor building
across the street formerly occupied by the Nicholson Seed and Fertilizer
Company property of the W B Rodderibery Company Renovation of the
building and conversion for library purposes was a joint enterprise of the
City of Cairo and civic organizations while youth groups such as the School
Patrol Girl Scouts and others helped in the physical moving of the books
and in arranging books on the shelves in the new location This change in
library quarters providing more space and a ground floor location should
certainly add to the comfort and convenience of staff and patrons in using
the library
The east wing of the old City Hospital building in Douglas has been
converted into an attractive new home for the Coffee County Public Library
which had long outgrown its original quarters in the Womans Club building
The move to this new location was made in January 195U The building has
been renovated and made entirely adequate to house the entire personnel
of the library which will add greatly to the efficiency of the staff and
operation of the library Prior to this move Miss Theo Hotch Director
had her office at the South Georgia College
The City of Griffin and the Federated Garden Clubs have cooperated
generously in landscaping the library grounds of the Hawkes Childrens
Library building which houses the Flint River Regional Library planting
shrubbery on all sides of the building and thus adding greatly to the
attractiveness of this prominent public building of Griffin
Gifts totaling f20000 have been made to the Brookhaven Library Unit
of the DecaturDeKalb Regional Library system for the purchase of a round
table and chairs and a bench and stool for the childrens corner This
furniture was purchased in regulation library design and adds greatly to
the attractiveness of the library quarters
The Doraville Civic Club voted to spend part of the prize money won
in the 193 Georgia Power Champion Home Town contest for the new library
unit of the DecaturDeKalb Regional Library system From this source a new
typewriter clock table and chair and bulletin board were provided and
20000 was given in cash for thepurchase of new books Hi
Beautification of the grounds adjoining the Georgia Historical
Society Library in Savannah has been completed as a project of the Mens
Garden Club A A McCurdy President The extensive planting of camel
lias azaleas sassanquas and shrubbery will make this corner a site com
parable in beauty to nearby Forsyth Park
Redecorating of the Dalton Public library and enlarging of the
assembly room on the second floor have been completed library officials
have announced Mrs Travis Rhodes gave her services as consultant in
the redecoration project
The interior of the library has been painted both upstairs and down
and new seat covers have been put on the wicker furniture in the adult
reading room on the first floor
A partial partition wall which limited the seating capacity of the
assembly room upstairs has been removed and new recessed lighting fix
tures added to this room
The assembly room which formerly accommodated only 30 to 35 persons
now has a seating capacity of from 55 to 60 The room has always been
available free of charge to educational civic and cultural groups in the
region Reservations for the use of the room must be made in advance so
there will be no conflict library officials pointed out
A smaller room upstairs known as the Robert Loveman room has been
papered This room houses the DAR book collection and also books by
Dalton authors and is furnished with tables chairs and a desk from the
Robert Loveman home
The Robert Loveman room is used for committee meetings by small
study groups and by individuals consulting the books on genealogy owned
by the Governor John Milledge Chapter of the DAR
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The Georgia Geological Survey publishes a most interesting and in
formative Georgia Mineral Newsletter The latest issue Spring 1951 has
been mailed to a limited number of libraries since the edition was not
large enough to include all However any library wishing to receive
this publication regularly for purposes of filing it for permanent refer
ence may write to the Georgia Geological Survey Mr Garland Peyton
Director 125 State Capitol Atlanta and ask to be put on the mailing
list Printing of future issues of the newsletter will be increased
sufficiently to take care of such requests

CARNIVAL OF BOOKS
Boys girls parents and librarians will be delighted to know that
Carnival of Books is back on the NBC network andis being rebroadcast
by WSB every Friday night at 715 If this program is reaching your com
munity be sure to write MSB Atlanta expressing appreciation for the
return to the air of this excellent program about childrens authors and
books
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CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM
Many community agencies nationally and at the local level are
active in the Crusade for Freedom and it is suggested that Georgia libra
rians may wish to be in touch directly with them to assist their efforts
Some libraries are having exhibits of their materials on the many
subjects involved in the Crusade for Freedom These exhibits might well
surround a display of the 12 books to dramatize the meaning of freedom
selected by the White House Library Committee of the American Booksellers
Association
Here are the titless
ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Benjamin Thomas Knopf
THE AMERICAN MIND by Henry Steel Commager Yale
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILL ROGERS Houghton
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Macmillan
A DECLARATION OF FAITH by Herbert Agar Houghton
JEFFERSON THE VIRGINIAN by Dumas Malone Macmillan
LIFE OF MAHATMA GANDHI by Louis Fischer Harper
PIONEM AMERICAN by Carl W Drepperd Doubleday
SPIRIT OF LIBERTY by Learned Hand Knopf
THIS I DO BELIEVE by David E Iilienthal Harper
TRIAL AND ERROR by Chaim Weizmann Harper
YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS by Catherine D Bower Little
Further information and display materials may be obtained by writing
directly tos Crusade for Freedom 2h East U6th Street New York 17
New York

Libraries already making use of radio facilities or those planning
to do so will be pleased to learn that the eighth series of Book Parade
scripts based on specially written book reviews by authors critics
educators and editors is now available Formerly known as the TeenAge
Book Parade this series features reviews by Senator Paul Douglas Lionel
Barrymore Jose Ferrer and Harold Stassen

Radio stations which are members of the National Association of
Educational Broadcasters can obtain tape recordings of the WNYC Book
Festival programs for local broadcasting These programs were presented
by the Childrens Book Council and are of special interest to parents
librarians and teachers
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THE BOOKMOBILE IS NOT A PASSING FANCY
There is no doubt that the bookmobile is one of Mitchell Countys
most appreciated public services In addition to the warm welcome given
the bookmobile librarians Mrs Ruby Holton and Mrs Lois McCorkle the
rural people of Mitchell and Baker Counties have set the Mitchell County
Commissioners right on one point of false economy as J L Wingate
laughingly illustrates the determination of the people in saying that the
bookmobile budget will not be lopped off and tells this story about it
Word got around back in 19U that the Mitchell County Commissioners
in an attempt to cut expenses were going to abolish the bookmobile ser
vice Came the morning for the final decision and the commissioners met
as usual in their office in the court house in Camilla People from every
corner of Mitchell County and some from Baker County were already there
in protest over doing away with the bookmobile and withdrawing the library
appropriation There were at least fifty angry adults in the commissioners
office and there were fifty or more in the halls
Mr Wingate a veteran library board member said Theres no telling
how many children in addition to the adults would have been there if school
had not been in session
How did the word get around so fast I wondered
Well I dont know exactly but two ardent library admirers helped
spread the news
I guess this put an end to the trouble for once and always
One time later when we were trying to cut expenses it was just men
tioned in our meeting he said but as chairman I immediately told them
about the 19U5 incident and there was no more said about it He added
The bookmobile is one thing that has come to Mitchell County to stay
If you don t believe it just try to abolish it
Miss Eleanor Phinney Research Specialist on the staff of the
Graduate Library School of Rutgers University New Brunswick New Jersey
spent several weeks in Georgia recently studying adult education activi
ties in Georgia Public Libraries She was particularly concerned with
the American Heritage Discussion Groups in small and medium sized libra
ries While in Georgia she visited libraries at Athens Watkinsville
Madison Gainesville and Carrollton Findings of her study will be used
as the basis for a guide for adult education in small and medium sized
libraries
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ENTOMOLOGY CENTENNIAL
Just a hundred years ago in 185U Americans became sufficient
ly aroused by the depredations of harmful insects to demand employment of
the first Federal entomologist and the first State entomologist in New York
to study ways to control these pests In 100 years a small bank of sci
entists has so successfully worked out means to control plantdestroying
and diseasespreading insects in a vastly expanding agriculture that the
American public is now among the healthiest and bestfed of any on earth
The profession of entomology is observing its centennial by attempting to
EeIl the publicTow insects afTect our dailylives what insect control
hasacmpTJshedand what remains tobedone TnTKe future in this ageold
battle
Because the youth of today must fight the diseases and produce the
food and fiber of tomorrow we should like to enlist your support Libra
rians are asked this year and in coming years to help to interest and
young people as well as adults in insects in their collection and
study because of their scientific fascination and in control of harmful
insects for our economic survival Your influence can be inestimable
So says Mr Louis G Davis Chairman of the Education SubCommittee of
the Centennial
Georgia librarians may get lists and material from the Centennial
Chairman for Georgia who is
Mr C H Alden
Director of Entomology
State Capitol
Atlanta 3 Georgia
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VISITORS
Mr David Clift Executive Secretary of the American Library Asso
ciation paid a brief visit to Atlanta in March staying long enough
however to speak to the Atlanta Library Club on A Three Dimensional
View of the Library Profession at the meeting of March 23 Mr Clift
was entertained at dinner by the club officers preceding the meeting

NEWBERYCALDECQTT
The 33rd annual Newbery Award was given to Joseph Krumgold fcr
And Now Miguel published by Crowell The Caldecott Award winner
was Ludwig Bemelmans for the illustrations in Madelines Rescue pub
lished by Viking
The official presentation will take place at the NewberyCaldecott
Dinner in Minneapolis during ALA convention
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MISS THORNTON RETIRES
Miss KLla May Thornton retired on April 1 195U from her active
position of State Librarian of Georgia and now becomes honorary state
librarian for life with an office provided in the State Capitol Friends
and coworkers in the State Capitol assembled in the Governors office on
Thursday morning April 1 and presented her with a handsome platinum and
diamond wrist watch as a token of esteem and affection The presentation
of this gift was made by Governor Talmadge with appropriate remarks to
which Miss Thornton responded in her own witty and inimitable manner
The Atlanta Library Club at its April meeting paid tribute to
Miss Thornton as special honor guest in awarding a CITATION the first
in the clubs history and decorating her with an orchid corsage The
CITATION reads as follows
ELLA MAY THORNTON of Atlanta Georgia graduate of the
Library School Carnegie Library of Atlanta charter
member of the Atlanta Library Club veteran member of
the Georgia Library Association Southeastern Library
Association and past president of the National Asso
ciation of State Libraries staff member of the
Georgia State Library for fortyfive years and appointee
of six governors to the office of State Librarian from
1926 to 19k holder of the title honorary State
Librarian for life with an office provided in the State
Capitol by Act of the General Assembly of 1953 first
professionally trained librarian to hold the office of
State Librarian in Georgia and one of the few pro
fessionally trained state librarians in the nation
exofficio member of the Georgia Library Commission
1926 to 19U3 when this Commission was abolished
pioneer in library extension especially through
legislation such as appropriations for the Library
Commission the county library law state law for
certification of librarians and revision of the laws
governing the State Library authority on Georgia
history and author of many bibliographic tools which
have aided librarians in finding and handling Georgia
materials public official honored and respected for
her integrity in making the State Library a source
of information on all sides of public questions and
for making that information available with unfailing
graciousness
The Atlanta Library Club extends to Miss Thornton
an honorary life membership as an expression of appre
ciation and esteem for her library leadership and the
many honors she has brought to the library profession
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NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS
Mrs Sarah Wells Blakely Emory Library School has been appointed
Director of the Jefferson County Library at Louisville and began her
duties in March 19h Mrs Blakely and her husband a Presbyterian mini
ster have recently returned to Georgia to make their home She brings
to the new Jefferson County Library not yet a year old not only her
friendly and charming personality but also a wide range of experience in
library work including service abroad and teaching library science at
Winthrop College A warm welcome is extended to Mrs Blakely and her
family
Miss Virginia Cullen of Orange Mass has joined the staff of the
Northeast Regional Library at Clarkesville and will travel on the bookmo
bile in Habersham County as well as assisting at the headquarters libra
ry Miss Cullen recently graduated from Piedmont College so is well
acquainted in the county and local communities
A new staff member of the Chestatee Regional Library at Gainesville
is Mrs Edward White a graduate of Brenau College who will have charge
of accessions Mrs White replaces Mrs Wilson Porter who is moving to
Decatur with her husband
Mrs Clay Fain was in charge of the Clay County Library at Fort
Gaines for several months during the illness of the Librarian Mrs Mabel
K Sutton We are glad to report that Mrs Suttons health has sufficient
ly improved now so that she is back in the library
Mrs Charles Brown Librarian of the Monroe County Library at Forsyth
will retire on June 1 after more than thirty years of faithful service
Mrs Brown has seen this library grow from a small book collection housed
in the Masonic Hall to its present size and was instrumental in securing
the library building reconditioned from the City Jail and since expanded
with additional rooms
Miss C B Sharpe Librarian of the Vidalia Public Library which is
headquarters for the Toombs County library service as well has been
forced to tender her resignation to her library board on account of home
conditions and the time needed to care for her elderly parents Her suc
cessor has not yet been appointed
Miss Lucile Nix State Department of Education will be guest speaker
at a conference on larger units of library service sponsored by Rutgers
University June 7 13
Louis Griffith who has served as Director of the Georgia American
Heritage Program for the past two years has recently been appointed
Public Relations Director for the University of Georgia Our good wishes
go with Louis in his new work The Universitys gain is our loss for Louis
has been an able and successful leader in the development of Georgias first
statewide program of discussion groups in public libraries
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NECROLOGY
Many friends in Georgia have learned with deep regret of the sudden
death of Miss Miriam Tompkins on March 2 1951t in New York where she
held the position of associate professor on the faculty of Library Service
of Columbia University Miss Tompkins was associate professor on the
faculty of Emory University Library School from 1930 to 1935 during which
time she endeared herself to students and other friends for her charm
gaiety of humor and quality of mind Many Emory Library School graduates
holding positions in Georgia today owe their knowledge of the wide field
of literature and their love for books to Miss Tompkins understanding
instruction in this field The library profession has suffered a real
loss in her untimely death

Halsey W Wilson beloved founder of the H W Vilson Company of
New York died peacefully in his sleep on Monday morning March 1 1951
at his home in Croton Heights Westchester County New York after an
illness of several months Funeral services at North Presbyterian Church
525 West 155th Street New York on March 3 were attended by hundreds
of Wilson staff members librarians publishers and other friends
Internationally renowned as a bibliographer Halsey William Wilson
was the founder and Chairman of the Board of the worlds largest refer
ence publishing house the fiftysix year old H W Wilson Company of
New York publishers of more than twenty major indexing and reference
services acclaimed as indispensable to research and scholarship in
libraries the world over Best known perhaps of the Companys pub
lications are the CUMULATIVE BOOK INDEX and the READERS GUIDE TO
PERIODICAL LITERATURE

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GENERAL LIBRARY
SEP 27 1954
UNIVERSITY OF GEUKlilA
Jept 195U
October jfSV
Vol 10 No 1
Division of Instructional Matera
and Library Service
Georgia Department of Education2
Reference Classified List of Reference Books and Periodicals
for College Libraries and Control of State Historical Mate
rial
Catalogers Mr David J Haykin Editor of the 16th edition of
Dewey onthe 16th edition and Miss Clyde Pettus of Emory Uni
versity on the new look in cataloging
Saturday
lOgOO AM School and Childrens Librarians Problems in current book selec
tion school library service and tasks ahead Nancy Jane Day
incoming President Southeastern Library ASSOciation and President
of the AASoL will be among the group presenting the program
College and University Education for Librarianship in the South
east by Jack Daltonof the University of Virginia
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The PreBound Juveniles list for 15U
the Division of Instructional Materials
1955 is available upon request from

BOOK WEEK
The 36th Annual Observance of National Book Week will be November II4 20
The theme is Lets Read Information concerning materials available to helpin
the observance was mailed out along with the Supplement to the Georgia Library
List

TEENAGE BOOK PARADEg A series of radio scripts written by wellknown book
critics using titles sure to be enjoyed by teenagers and adults alike are avail
able free of charge to librarians from Broadcast Music Inc 80 Fifth Avero
New York 19 NY These scripts may be used by local radio stations and are to be
read by a local staff announcer librarian or someone in the community interested
in books and radio A sample script and a list of books already reviewed i the
series will be sent on request

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DISTRICT GEA MELTINGS
The district chairmen of the Children and Young Peoples Library Section
are plajining interesting and informative programs for the fall meetings
These meetings are scheduled as follows
1st District
2nd District
3rd District East
3rd District West
iith District
5th District
6th District
7th District
8th District
9th District
10th District
Statesboro
Albany
Warner Robins
Columbus
LaGrange
Atlanta
Macon
Rome
Waycross
Gainesville
Athens
October 11
October 13
October 19
October lit
October 15
September 30
October 18
October 8
October 12
October 21
October 22
ery school regional and county librarian is urged to attend the meeting in
your district You will enjoy the programs as well as getting to know the libra
rians in your district

Librarians needing books for people with a language or education handicap
will welcome the new edition of Books for Adult Beginners ALAo 19Sh3 135
The list provides over 500 annotated and graded inprint titles which are of in
terest to adults who read English poorly or not at all
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Georgia A Guide To Its Towns and Countryside has been revised and ax
tended by G G Leckie Copies of the new edition are available from Tapper and
Love Inc at 600

aSCHOOL BUILDINGS
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The Berrien High School Nashville moved into their new building in time for
the opening of school The library quarters are spacious and most attractive The
boys and girls seemed to be particularly enjoying the informal seating arranged con
veniently near the magazine shelving Mrs Evelyn Edwards the librarian and her
group of student assistants were most enthusiastic about the conveniently arranged
workroom
The inviting new Albany High School Library reflects the careful planning that
was done by Mrs Kabel Hogue librarian It includes a large reading room two con
ference rooms an office workroom magazine stack space and an audiovisual room
The Moultrie High School boys and girls are particularly pleased with their new
library It not only has the more conventional facilities but has a patio reading
area Mrs F B Alverson the librarian is especially pleased because visitors
consider the library the beauty spot of the school
The new Roswell High School was dedicated at the beginning of the school year
Its fine facilities include a lovely library of which Mrs J0 B Wing is the libra
rian
Other new and attractive libraries that have been visited by the staff of the
Library Division are the McDonough Elementary Library the Marion County Colored
School Library at Buena Vista the Homerville Consolidated School Libraries and the
Homerville High and Elementary Library
The South Georgia Trade School at Americus has remodeled a classroom to provide
the first library that has been available in the school
LIBRARY SERVICES BILL
Plans are underway for reintroduction of the Library Services Bill in the 8Irth
Congress in accordance with action taken at theALA conference in Minneapolis The
8Uth Congress certainly presents the best opportunity yet to secure passage of legis
lation by the U S Congress We can do it only if everyone puts his shoulder to
the wheel See your Representatives and Senators while they are at home Discuss
the Library Services mil with tKem and tell tEimTTwill be reintroduced in 195
One important thing is for these members to know more about thelibrary situation
i S161 Wn districtS3 both where the library service is good and where it is poor
Invite them to visit and see for themselves what is being done in their districts
AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK NOVEMBER 713 I9k
The general theme for this year is Good Schools Are Your Responsibility
Suggested programs posters and other materials can be secured from National Educa
tion Association 1201 Sixteenth Street NW Washington 6 D C 5
LIBRARY BUILDINGS
The LaGrange Memorial Library building has recently undergone extensive
remodeling with increased facilities resulting in greatly increased use and
circulation Remodeling and renovation of this building was made possible by
a donation of 2833500 from the Gallaway Community Foundation and included
changes to permit use of the room formerly used by the LaGrange Womans Club
The wall separating the library from the former club room was removed in order
to make one large area and the stage and kitchen were torn out and replaced
with an office for the librarian a workroom and a storage room The main
library now includes an adult browsing area on one side and a reference area
on the other at the front of the building a sound proof music room and charg
ing desk in the center section and areas for teenagers and children at the rear
of the building Flourescent lights soft restful colors on walls and woodwork
and comfortable furniture in modern design make the library a most attractive
place enjoyed by scores of adults and children The exterior of the building
has been repaired and repainted and a concrete walk has been laid from the side
walk to the side entrance This is especially convenient for the children as it
gives direct entrance to their part of the library building
The Dodge County Library has recently been renamed the Murrell Memorial
Library in memory of Judge Charles B and Martha H Murrell parents of Mrs Lula
Murrell Bush The funds provided in Mrs Bushs will for establishing a library
in memory of Mrs Bushs parents has been turned over to the three agencies City
of Eastman Dodge County Commissioners and Dodge County Board of Education as a
refund for the amounts spent by these agencies in constructing the present library
building which was completed in 1953 and the name changed as stipulated in the
will Under the terms of agreement between attorneys for these agencies and the
administrator of Mrs Bushs estate the County Board of Education will maintain
and operate the library
MorganJasperPutnam Regional Library has rented office space downtown in
Madison to use for cataloging and processing new books Whereas this arrange
ment is not very convenient to the staff it will relieve the crowded condition
at the headquarters library in the gymnasium of the school building and give bet
ter working conditions
New quarters are being provided for the M E Roden Memorial Library Pulaski
County in Hawkinsville in the City Hall and the library will be moved the last
of September
Candler County Library at Metter has been given attractive and most com
fortable quarters in the new community building The library was moved in the
spring so that Mrs Abbie Collins Librarian is one of several librarians who
along with the library patrons has enjoyed a cool and comfortable summer in a
well ventilated room with large electric fans
Henry County Library at McDonough is another library which has moved into
new quarters which are air conditioned while at Moultrie air conditioning units
were installed in the librarians office and in the workroom so that the libra
rian and staff members have been able to work in comfort this summer
Construction will soon begin on the twostory addition and basement to the
Atlanta University Library The contract for 17500000 has been let to BargeThompson Company The present building was erected about 1931 at a cost of
fij50p00000 a gift from the General Education Board to serve seven Negro
colleges jointly
The citizens of Waycross approved the item of 85 s00000 in a recent bond
issue for the construction of a library building Plans for this building can
now go forward without further delay
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National Newspaper Week will be observed October 1 8 by the daily and
weekly newspapers The theme is Your Newspaper Freedoms Forum Here is
another opportunity for libraries to cooperate with another community group
Plan with your editor ways the library can help in the observance
Some suggested wayss
1 Call your daily and weekly editors and tell them you would like to
participate in the observance They might be invited to meet with you to plan
the events
2 Ask the editors if they would wish to supply exhibit material and
posters for your library This exhibit would also include books and other ma
terials relating to Freedom of the Press and to the growth and development of
newspapers nationally and locally
3 Your trustees might wish to hold a luncheon or openhouse function
with local newspapermen as guests As a feature of the gettogether there
might be i tour of the library with especial emphasis on the reference re
sources which could be of frequent assistance to editors and reporters
h Hold discussions based on films such as FREEDOM OF THE PRESS United
World Films or FREEDOM TO READ Center for Mass Communication Columbia
University or on the Freedom to Read statement and similar documents Invite
editors to take part
5 Offer to write a letter or guest editorial for your local papers on
thejoint responsibilities of editors and librarians in the area of ready access
to information as provided by newspapers and libraries
6 Work National Newspaper Week material into your librarys bulletin and
radio spot announcements
7 In all your cooperative endeavors show the relationship between what
Freedom of the Press means to the citizen and the principles set forth in the
Library Bill of Rights and the Freedom to Read statement
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NEW BOOKMOBILES
Georgia librarians attending the meeting of the Southeastern Library Asso
ciation in Atlanta will have an opportunity to see the new bookmobile belonging
to the South Georgia Regional Library formerly known as LowndesEcholsLanier
Regional Library with headquarters at Valdosta Miss Margaret Baker Director
and her staff are justly proud of this new vanette built by the Gerstenlager
Company and it is through the courtesy of this firm that this new Georgia book
mobile will be put on display instead of importing one from Ohio The pre
sent bookmobile purchased in 19hSs will be reconditioned and used for extending
service to Negroes in this region A Negro librarian will be added to the staff
to handle this work
Brunswick Regional Library has placed an order with the Gerstenlager Com
pany for a new bookmobile
Bibb County officials have approved the purchase of a new bookmobile for
service in the Middle Georgia Regional Library
The library board and appropriating bodies in the MitchellBakerWorth
Regional Library are negotiating for a new bookmobile to serve this expanded
territory
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Now under new management Library Publicity Clippings has been expanded to
include original press releases features newspaper filler items and additional
radio spot announcements The emphasis of the net materials is on easy adapta
bility by the smaller public libraries and a change in subscription rates has
been made to accomodate libraries with limited budgets The new editor of this
practical publicity aid is Howard Samuelson City Librarian of the Salinas Calif
Public Libraryj and active in public library publicity for many years Interested
librarians may receive a free sample publicity package by writing to Library
Publicity Clippings Box 73 Salinas California
The Library Journal is launching a new publication on September 1t 19h to
be called Junior Libraries It will be mailed to all regular subscribers to the
Library Journal Sample may be secured by writing to Miss Gertrude Wolff Editors
62 West Ii5th Street New York 36 NY
Junior Libraries will contain all the material on work with children and
young people that LJ has regularly offered including reviews of important books
that
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PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS
Do YOU know and have you spread the good news through your local newspaper
Georgia now has 26 regional libraries serving 72 counties
half of the counties in the state
almost one
Fortyseven bookmobiles are now giving service in 80 counties more
than onehalf the counties in the state
Georgians read 10126h60 books from public libraries during 1953 just
about 3 books per person in the state an all time high in library circu
lation
Total library funds now average 6h per capita which is higher than ever
before though not high enough to approach the ALA recommended standard
of 225
These and other interesting statistics about public library service in Georgia
in 1953 will be found in the mimeographed bulletin Georgia Public Library Statis
Il ig 53 issued June 19h9 and mailed to all pubTTFTlbrariesTiHTuTyG5od
use can be made of this annual compilation with library boards public officials
and other groups Additional copies of the statistics are available upon request
to the Library Extension Service 92 Mitchell Street SW Atlanta or to any li
brary staff member v
Regional library number 26 is made up of Jackson Barrow and Walton Counties
none of which have been receiving state aid for the purchase of library materials
although each county has a public library Librarians and representatives from
these library boards together with members of the county boards of education
city and county officials interested teachers and other local citizens met several
times m the spring with representatives of the State Department of Education
Library Division staff and worked out plans for setting up this regional librarv
Quarters were provided in the Matthews School building in Barrow County near
Winder and Mr Cecil Beach who has had several years experience with the Decatur
DeKalbRockdaleNewton Regional Library Bookmobile Service has been appointed
director In addition to substantial appropriations for operating expenses to
meet the requirements for state aid funds are being raised to furnish and equip
th5fbrai7 ers and to purchase a bookmobile The state demonstration boofc
mobile is being loaned to this new region so that service can begin soon after
schools open The public libraries will continue to operate with their present
librarians m charge as participating units and additional staff will be employed
lor the regional headquarters The written agreement between the officials in
the three counties has been worked out on a most satisfactory basis Copies may
be requested from the Library Division State Department of Education Atlanta
Middle Georgia Regional Library with headquarters at Macon has become a
four county region Wilkinson County having joined with Bibb Twiggs and Jones
for service from the bookmobile to rural schools and communities and strengthen
ing of the public library at Gordon
Worth County has joined the MitchellBaker Regional Library making a three
county organization under the direction of Miss Georgia Thomas The chairman of
the SylvesterWorth County Library Board who was instrumental in bringing about
this merger points out the many advantages to be gained by the single county 9
library unit in becoming part of a larger library system More books and a
greater variety of books will be available for distribution through the three
counties by the bookmobilej additional state funds are provided for books and
the services of a third professionally trained librarian who will give spe
cial attention to library service for the schools in the region
Four new electrical machines for charging out books have been installed
at the Augusta Regional Library and on the bookmobiles and an entirely new
system for handling book circulation went into effect the first of September
This required registration of all library patrons uhlch was carried on during
July and August so that cards would be ready for as many library patrons as
possible when the new system is started The use of such machines in checking
out library books increases both the speed and accuracy of this routine and
enables the library staff to devote more time to other library services
The DecaturDeKalb Library has opened its new art department and has a
collection of pictures available for circulation to library patrons This ser
vice is for adults and each picture may be kept for 28 days The initial col
lection includes classic studies reproductions of the works of famous masters
and moderns Since the opening of the new annex this library is greatly ex
panding its collection of recordings
Several public libraries have recently secured microfilm readers by pur
chase or gift from some local organizations Among them are the Albany Carnegie
Library the Augusta Public Library and the Washington Memorial Library at Macon
The public library at Thomasville has been officially designated the Annie
Wright Memorial Library in tribute to the late Miss Annie Wright who served as
chairman of the library board over a long period of years and gave untiringly of
her time strength and effort to build up this library The Thomasville Study
Class will place a simple bronze plaque in the library to record the name and
action by the club and city officials who jointly operate the library
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CONGRATULATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
The dream of getting students and books together is coming true at the
University of Georgia in the Ilah Dunlap Memorial Library where the open stack
system is being used Statistics show that during the first year in the new
building students borrowed 85 percent more nonreserve than during the preced
ing year Faculty use of the library likewise increased 18 percent during the
same period
A sheet showing two lithographed maps of the United States one depict
ing the percent of the total population WITHOUT local public library service
and the other showing operating expenditures per capita for local public li
brary service is enclosed with this News Bulletin to public libraries We
are glad to say that Georgia shows up very well on both maps in comparison with
other states This map can be used to good advantage for local publicity pur
poses and more copies may be procured fi a the ALA Washington Office 10
ELEMENTARY LIBRARY CONFERENCE
The first elementary library work conference in Georgia was held at Emory
University August k 7 This conference came as a result of the planning of the
Elementary Library SubCommittee of the Committee on Library Education of the
Georgia Library Association The committee members were Tommie Dora Barker
Sara Hightower Sarah Jones Virginia McJenkLn and Lucile Nix The Conference was
officially sponsored by the Georgia Library Association the Divisions of Librarian
ship and Education Emory University and the State Department of Education Essen
tial to the success of the conference was the financial help given by the Sears Roebuck
Foundation and the Georgia Library Association The State Department of Education pro
vided consultative help and the Committee was especially fortunate in securing the
services of Miss Pauline OMelia Assistant Professor Division of Library Science
University of Indiana in this capacity
Early in the planning the Committee agreed that the conference group should be
limited and that each area in the state should be represented It was further decided
that the group should be made up largely of superintendents instructional supervisors
principals and classroom teachers A total of fifty people participated during the
conference and thirtyfour made up the working groups These people considered the
many problems involved in beginning elementary library service in selecting and or
ganizing materials and in administering the library for most effective use
A report of the conference which will be a guide in developing elementary li
braries will be available later in the year


THANK YOU
faioita3
Georgia Library Service in Pictures the Crystalite booklet prepared for the
Public Library Division exhibit at the American Library Association conference in
Minneapolis received a great deal of favorable comment from librarians and other
visitors We wish to express our appreciation to each librarian who sent in pictures
in response to our request thus making the picturebook possible and to ask that you
continue to keep the Library Division office supplied with new pictures of your libra
ry activities in order that this state file may be kept uptodate These pictures
are constantly used and in a wide variety of ways
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U N DAY OCTOBER 2l 1951
The Library Advisory Committee of the U S Committee for United Nations Dav has
prepared a bulletin Librarians for U N Day Miss Geraldine LeMay Librarian of the
Savannah Public Library is a member of the Library Advisory Committee of which Mrs
HelenT Steinbarger Consultant for Adult Education Public Library of the District of
for1 S Sav BlTf SPlS fr be S6CUred frm the U S Committee
lor U N Day 016 21st Street NW Washington 6 Do C

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REPORT OF ALA CONFERENCE
The Georgians who attended the American Library Associations annual con
ference in Minneapolis June 20
26th found it rewarding
A number of the Georgia group attended the Library Buildings Institute which
was held June 19 and 20 All types of buildings were discussed as well as pro
cedures in planning new quarters
There was inspiration in the general assembly speeches and a sense of unity
in working toward goals in the Council meetings The special group programs
running each morning through the entire conference provided discussion on common
problems but presented an enhancement of riches to those who wished to learn more
about the topic of each program The Association of Young Peoples Librarians
took the theme Adapting the Large Library Program to the Smaller Library The
Adult Education Sections program was on Presenting Books to Adult Readers The
Library Extension Section studied ways to improve library service through coop
eration The Reference Section studied Basic Reference Books for a General
Reference Collection The American Association of School Librarians emphasized
the need for knowledge of the child and curriculum materials
Other Divisions and Sections held one or more open meetings and there was
always the exhibit area to study and explore for new books new equipment and new
supplies There was also time to discover more about the land we call our own
The General Mills Flour Plant the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company the
Ford Motor Companys Glass Manufacturing Plant and the Theo Hamm Brewing Company
afforded views of typical industrial plants In tours over the Twin Cities
Minnehaha and Hiawatha were discovered in stone by one of their waterfalls and the
many boats on the myriad lakes were found to have abandoned motors and turned to
sails in consideration for the surrounding homeowners

HELPS FOR THAT STORY HOUR
STORY HOUR FOR THE THREE TO FIVE YEAR OLD is a publication which can be had
from the Enoch Pratt Free Library Baltimore Maryland for 200 The pamphlet
includes techniques sample programs a list of suitable stories musical records
action rhymes and finger plays
FORTHCOMING BOOK FOR TRUSTEES
The heretofore standard title THE LIBRARY TRUSTEE by Hall is now out of
print and the Trustees Section of the Public Library Division of ALA has
announced that the Hall title will be replaced by a new manual for trustees to be
published at an early date by the R R Bowker Company The manual is tentatively
entitled The Challenge of Public Library Trusteeship112
STUDMT ASSISTANT NEWS
Library clubs and student assistant groups all over the state have received ex
cellent newspaper recognition for their activities and services Clippings from
cities and towns from Albany to Winder Cedartown to Sandersville have pointed up
the interesting high lights of district county and individual school groups
Some of these activities included classroom librarians from an entire region
benefiting from a tour of the regional headquarters a group of seven from a school
learning to mend books at their regional headquarters picnics and social getto
gethers setting up standards and outlining duties special ceremonies for awarding
certificates of service field trips to points of interest both literary and histor
ical and the special project of one group in recording the 1075 books read by their
ninth grade as to type to show that modern young people do read worthwhilebooks
Lets keep up the excellent work and continue to bring the attention of our
communities to the activities of our libraries and library assistants

GFWCS KNOWYOURLIBHARY MONTH
The Libraries Division of the General Federation of Womens Clubs has launched
a twoyear program Know and Grow to help clubwomen become more familiar with
libraries and library services and stimulate efforts to improve them
A highlight of the program will be Know Your Library Month to be observed
in November of 19 and 1955
Librarians and Library Trustees are urged to work out activities with the
president of the local womans club and arrange functions which would bring club
women to the library Functions could range from an open house to a social occa
sion where trustees would be hosts and the club women guests A variety of exhibits
could be arranged including those which show how the library helps club women pre
pare for their study programs display of resources directly related to various club
projectsj demonstrations of how the library acts as a clearinghouse of information
on community events3 materials showing what portion of the tax dollar goes to the
public library
Other suggestions include joint radio and TV programs newspaper releases
film showings and publication of a variety of informational literature
The total twoyear Know and Grow libraries program of the GFWC is divided
into three sections 1 Know and grow through personal and club use of libraries
2 Know your library and help it growj 3 Know how to get a good library if you
have none

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AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAINING PROGRAM
Plans have been completed for the leadership training sessions for the
American Heritage Project of discussion programs in Georgias public libraries
Young Adult group leaders will meet September 2U 26 at West Georgia College in
Carrollton Miss Jane A Ellstrom national director of the Young Adult work will
direct the training program She will be assisted by Miss Roxanna Austin member
of the state staff and State Director of the Young Adult Program
Sessions have been planned for adult leadership teams in Atlanta for October
8 10 at the West Hunter Branch of the Atlanta Public Library and at the Briar
cliff Hotel in Atlanta for October 22 2ll Mr R E Dooley will conduct the
training for these groups Mr Dan Kitchens Louis Griffiths successor will
assist in the adult training programs It is expected that Louis Griffith will
also attend some of the training sessions this fall
Mr Dan Kitchens the new Georgia Director of the American Heritage Program
is a member of the journalism faculty at the University of Georgia Mr Kitchens
a native Georgian has a wide background of training and experience He received
his A B and Mo A degrees at the University of Georgia Dan has had practical
newspaper and teaching experience including five years in England during the war
The American Heritage Program will continue under the general supervision of
Lucile Nix with Roxanna Austin directing the Young Adult Program and Dan Kitchens
the Adult Program
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PUBLIC LIBRARY FILM NEWS
Thirty new titles have been added to the public library film collection
making a total of 215 films available to the public libraries in Georgia Some of
the films in this most recent group deal with the cultivation and growth of flowers
and flower arrangement These will be of particular interest to Garden Clubs
Other new films deal with art music safety travel in other countries and with
world problems
The list of educational sound films for public libraries has been revised to
include these new titles and is available from the State Department of Education
at 92 Mitchell Street S W Requests for the list should be addressed there
Libraries wishing to subscribe to the service should write for registration forms
which should be returned with the annual fee of 1000 before service can begin
Washington Memorial Library in Macon which serves Bibb5 Twiggs Jones and
Wilkinson counties reports a highly successful film festival which was held in
August Letters were sent out by Mrs Joseph W Reid Jr Coordinator to all
adult clubs and organizations which might be able to use films in their programs
next year These enclosed cards for suggestions of subjects in which films would
prove useful and explained that a great many films on a variety of subjects would
be shown
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PLD REPORTER
A new publication beginning this month has been announced by the American
Library Association called The PLD REPORTER It will be issued at irregular inter
vals and will consist of reports on public library practices The first issue deals
with the use of paper bound books in public libraries Other subjects contemplated
for future issues are television in public libraries bookmobiles and cooperative
ventures of libraries
Orders should be placed with the ALA Publishing Department 50 East Huron Street
Chicago 11 Illinois Single copies will be 175 each standing orders for all
copies as issued 150 each

FILMSTRIP CAN MARKINGS
Does your marking on filmstrip cans rub off
Brunswick Regional Library has developed a method which the staff finds both
permanent and satisfactory They had a round rubber stamp made one and onefourth
inches in diameter This size was chosen because it fits the bottom of the can and
will also fit inside the top the two places chosen for their ownership marks With
this stamp they are using an opaque ink such as is in use in marking canned goods
in a grocery store one such is EolgerBs
They report the process is fast the mark is legible and it really sticks They
also use it for stamping phonograph recordings proving more convenient and perma
nent for them than white ink or gummed paper

The League of Women Voters of Georgia 217 Rhodes Building Atlanta 3 Georgia
has a new 200 packet of League material The pamphlets included ares Georgias
Government Lets Talk About Elections in Georgia Lets Talk About the Democra
tic Party in Georgia Lets Talk About Public Welfare In Georgia and Individual
Liberty
s
Why Industry Chooses DeKalb County Georgia is a most attractive booklet full
of pictures compiled and published by the DeKalb Industrial Development Board The
DecaturDeKalb Regional Library serving three counties DeKalb Rockdale and Newton
has a full page of pictures and reading matter in this booklet which is an indication
of the recognition given to the public library by business and industry Copies of
this booklet are being sent to the public libraries with this News Bulletin Other
librarians may write to the publisher at 121 Atlanta Avenue Decatur Georgi a for a
free copy
9 15
NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS
Miss Tommie Dora Barker distinguished Southern librarian and Director of
the Division of Librarianship of Emory University retired on September 1 195U
bringing to an official end the library career of one of the foremost leaders in
the library profession The 195U summer issue of the Southeastern Librarian and
the current Newsletter from the Emory University Division of Librarianship carry
inclusive articles on Miss Barkers many contributions to library development in
all fields as well as library education so we add here only the heartiest good
wishes from every reader of the Georgia Libraries News Bulletin for many years of
health happiness and good reading to one whose life has been dedicated to see
ing that others had the opportunity to enjoy library services under the direction
of well trained librarians
Miss Evalene Jackson who has been a faculty member of the Btiory Library
School since 1936 has been appointed Director to succeed Miss Barker Miss
Jackson is well known in the fields of library research and education as well as
for her avid interest in books and her willingness to share her knowledge and
enthusiasms her likes and dislikes with friends in her charming and inimitable
book reviews
Miss Margaret Jemison who has been in charge of the Qnory University Library
since 1921 retired on September 1 195k and has returned to Talledega Alabama
to make her home with her sisters Miss Jemison has been a leader in college and
university development In Georgia and in the South both in resources and in
sharing materials through establishment of the union catalog of holdings in a
number of libraries in the Atlanta area She is chiefly responsible for amassing
Emorys nationally known John Wesley and Joel Chandler Harris collections and the
9000 volume collection of Confederate material
MTo Guy R Lyle former Director of Libraries at Louisiana State University
has been appointed to direct the libraries of Emory University and began his
duties on September 1 19 Mr Lyle is well known in Georgia having been li
brarian of North Carolina Womans College from 1936 to I9I4I1 when he went to
Louisiana He is extended a warm welcome to the ranks of Georgia librarians
Mrs S J Smith has accepted the position of Director of the Terrell
CalhounLee Regional Library with headquarters at Dawson Her assistant will be
Miss Lila Rice a former teacher and recent graduate of the Library School at
Peabody
Mr Erwin E Mapp Jr will become Director of the Gwinnett County Library
at Lawrenceville on October 1 Mr Mapp is a native of LaGrange Georgia and
returns to the state from the Brooklyn Public Library where he was serving as
Young Peoples Librarian Mr Mapp succeeds Mrs Ethlyn Rolfe who recently
went to the Dodge County Library to help in the establishment of a regional li
brary program
Mrs Eleanor J Newton TeacherLibrarian in the Wadley High School worked
as a substitute librarian in the Jefferson County Library during the month of
August
Miss Raye Osborn who received her library degree at Peabody in August has
accepted a position with the MitchellBakerWorth Regional library at Camilla
Miss Helen Toms worked during June and July as Readers Adviser hlldren
and Young People at the Brunswick Regional Library Miss Toms is a school libra
rian in Brunswick 16
Kiss June Steele formerly in the Catalog Department of the University of
Kansas Library began her work on July ls as Bookmobile Librarian in the Cherokee
Regional Library
Miss Bernyce Evitt a teacher at Cedar Grove School in Walker County worked
as an assistant on the Cherokee Regional Library Bookmobile during the month of
August
Mrs Sammy Spence Lackey from Shelbyville Tennessee has succeeded Miss
Colleen OBrien as Assistant Director of the ColquittThomas Regional Library at
Houltrie
The friends of Mrs Don So Royal Bookmobile Librarian in the South Georgia
Regional Library at Valdosta will regret to learn that she recently underwent a
serious operation at Battey Hospital in Rome
Mrs Elizabeth D Moore who graduated at Emory in the Spring is now working
in the Middle Georgia Regional Library with headquarters in Macon She will assist
in the establishment of points of service throughout the region and will help in
the development of service to schools She will be in charge of all interlibrary
loans
A new staff member in the regional library at Columbus is Miss Sally Smith
former teacher in North Carolina schools and more recently an Army librarian at
Fort Benning Georgia Miss Smith succeeds Mrs Lucia Green who has moved with
her family to North Carolina
Mrs Frances Smoke is the new librarian at the Forest Park School
Mrs Nell Bateman has resigned as librarian of the Morgan County High School
to become the Director of the MorganJasperPutnam Regional Library She succeeds
Betty Bartlett who has moved to Florida State University
Miss Birdie Johnson succeeds Mrs Bateman as librarian at Morgan County High
Mrs Adelle Dickey has accepted a position on the staff of the MorganJasper
Putnam Regional Library Mrs Katherine Swint has succeeded her as the librarian
at Decatur High School Mrs Lorraine Quiery is serving as assistant librarian at
Decatur High School moving from Chamblee High School
Mrs
Sam Vickery is the new librarian at Blackshear School
Mrs Elsie Hobbs of Clarkesville is a new member of the bookmobile staff in
the Northeast Georgia Regional Library
Ware Countys new trained librarian is Mrs Buna Turner Fain who returns to
her home city of Waycross to help in the establishment of a regional library proeran
wxth waycross as headquarters
Mr Henry G Shearouse Jr resigned in August as Director of the Terrell
CajhounIee Regional Library and has accepted a position with the Flint River Te
gxonal Library
Miss Virginia Drewry of the state staff has been elected to serve as
Councilor for the Division of Cataloging and Classification of the American lib
Association xa iuij
Mrs Helen Fat tig Bass High School Librarian has bea
Atlanta Public School Librarians Club for 19h55 17
Misses Byrd Ivester and Edith Foster attended a Library Workshop at Milwaukee
Wisconsin in August This workshop sponsored by the Wisconsin Library Commission
was well attended by librarians from all parts of the country Miss Foster served
as one of the group leaders and represented the workshop on a TV program that gave
special emphasis to bookmobile service
Congratulations to Louis Griffith on the very fine report which has just been
issued on the Georgia American Heritage Program for 19535U Copies of this report
are available on request from the state office
Miss Edith Foster was elected VicePresident of the Adult Education Section of
the Public Library Division of the American Library Association and took office at
the Minneapolis conference in June
Mrs G M Moore who has served as librarian of Evans County Library for the
past sixteen years resigned June 1 lfli and has been succeeded by Mrs W S
Loyd
A special honor has come to Miss Louise Smith Librarian of the Fitzgerald
Carnegie Library in being selected by the Pilot Clubs to receive one of two
national awards made to women for outstanding contributions to their community
This is a well deserved recognition to Miss Louise for there is no public li
brary in the state which is a more vital and integral part of the community than
the library in Fitzgerald Thanks to the iniative and vision of this outstanding
Georgia librarian
Mrs Ruth Barron has been chosen librarian of Jeff Davis High School at
Hazelhurst to succeed Mrs Sam Fain
Miss C B Sharpe has resigned from the Vidalia Public Library in order to
be at home with her aging parents Mrs Clyde Rountree had charge of the library
during the summer
Mrs Dorsey Jordon was elected county librarian by the library board at a
recent meeting Headquarters will be changed to Lyons and this library will here
after be known as the Toombs County Library
Miss Frances Nunn worked in the Childrens Department of the Athens Regional
Library for two months this past summer
The newly established regional library with headquarters at Winder and
serving Jackson Barrow and Walton Counties will have as its Director Mr Cecil
P Beach formerly Bookmobile Librarian in the regional library at Decatur Mr
Beachs assistant will be Mrs Mary Jane Lewis of Winder
Miss Pollyanne Herrin Middleton has resigned from the staff of the Brunswick
Regional Library to become school librarian in the High School at Nahunta Mr TC
Hendrix recently graduated from Emory will succeed Miss Middleton Mr Hendrix
will be in charge of Extension and audiovisual programs
Mrs Russell Brown whom many will remember as Margaret Woodall is the new
librarian at the Pelham High School
The faculty of the Sylvania High School is delighted to welcome back Miss
Mildred Harvey who had to resign as librarian several years ago on account of ill
ness in the family
Miss Maggie Edith Moore is librarian at Sparta High School 18
Mrs Lila Brady Brim has returned to the Terrell County High School Library
after an absence of two years
Mrs T A Reese former chairman of the Hancock County Library Board has
accepted the position of librarian of the Sandersville High School
Miss Dorothy B Brown is the new assistant bookmobile librarian for the Bruns
wick Regional Library

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Vol 10 No 2
Issued by
Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services
Georgia Department of Education
JIM
Children and Young Peoples Library Section
Meeting During GEA Friday March 18 1955
Mrs Mary Varnora Kanley Presiding
Books Are Our Business Too
9U5 am
1015 aT
1200 noon
Business Session E Rivers School 8 Peachtree Battle Ave NW
Some New Products and How to Use Them A panel discussion on new
TFiHdsTnTokiToFThTiaren an3 young people and how books may
be used in special subject areas
Moderator Mrs Nell Bateman Director
Jasper Morgan Regional Library
Members of Panel Mrs Frances Wing Librarian Roswell High
School Miss Evalene Jackson Director Division
of Librarianship Emory University Mrs PA
Springer Spanish Teacher E Rivers Elementary
School Mrs Betty Corley Instructional Supervisor
Fulton County Schools Mrs Dorothy Calder Art
Teacher Decatur High School Miss Madge Hufferman
Home Economics Teacher Hapeville High School
Luncheon Peacock Alley Restaurant 21U3 Peachtree Rd NW
Books for Personal Pleasure Mrs Bernice McCullar
Make reservations for the luncheon with Kiss Patricia Peel
Fulton County School Library Department 332 Central Ave SW
Atlanta Send check for 200 Lijnit 120 reservations
Ample parking space For public transportation take trolleys
number 23 Buckhead or 23 Oglethorpe anywhere on Peachtree north
of Broad to E Rivers School If you drive to the meeting go out
Peachtree and turn left on Peachtree Battle Transportation to
the luncheon will be provided
Every Elementary School Can Have a Library a manual is available upon
requeiTTFom the Library Division State Department of Education Atlanta This
manual was prepared as a report of the Work Conference on Elementary School
Libraries held at Emory during the summer of 195U It can be used as a guide
in the selection organization and use of library materials It contains suggest
ions for working with teachers and pupils in administering school libraries2
LIBRARY BILL 0 RIGHTS
At the beginning of a new year it seems fit to review some of the principles
generally accepted as governing policy in libraries The Library Bill of Rights
adopted by the American Library Association in 19U8 seems particularly timely in
light of current investigations and various efforts at censorship of library
materials It is offered with this issue of the NEWSLETTER to refresh our minds
on these basic principles
LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS
The Council of the American Library Association reaffirms its belief in the
following basic policies which should govern the services of all libraries
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As a responsibility of library service books and other reading
matter selected should be chosen for values of interest infor
mation and enlightenment of all the people in the community In
no case should any book be excluded because of the race or
nationality or the political or religious views of the writer
There should be the fullest practicable provision of material pre
senting all points of view concerning the problems and issues of
our times international national and local and books or other
reading matter of sound factual authority should not be proscribed
or removed from library shelves because of partisan or doctrinal
disapproval
Censorship of books urged or practiced by volunteer arbiters of
morals or political opinion or by organizations that would estab
lish a coercive concept of Americanism must be challenged by
libraries in maintenance of their responsibility to provide public
information and enlightenment through the printed word
Libraries should enlist the cooperation of allied groups in the
fields of science of education and of book publishing in re
sisting all abridgment of the free access of ideas and full freedom
of expression that are the tradition and heritage of Americans
As an institution of education for democractic living the library
should welcome the use of its meeting rooms for socially useful and
cultural activities and discussions of current public questions
Such meeting places should be available on equal terms to all crroUps
in the community regardless of the beliefs and affiliations oftheir
members
American Library Association Bulletin 1228 JulyAugust 1918
Happy Birthday to Booklist This ALA publication celebrates fifty years
of service to librarians with its January 1 19 issue3
SCHOOL LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS
In the schools of our democracy libraries are concerned with the preserva
tion of American freedoms through the development of informed and responsible
citizens To this end the American Association of School Libraries asserts that
it is the responsibility of the school library
To provide materials that will enrich and support the curri
culum taking into consideration the varied interests abil
ities and maturity levels of the children and youth for
whom they are selected
To provide materials for children and youth that will stimu
late growth in literary appreciation in aesthetic values in
ethical standards and in factual knowledge
To provide a background of information which will enable
children and youth as citizens to make wise choices
To provide objective materials in the areas of opposing view
points and controversy representing all sides of these areas
that as young citizens they may develop the practice of logi
cal critical thinking and evaluation
To provide materials which are representative of the many re
ligious ethnic and cultural groups and their contributions
to our American heritage
To place principle above personal opinion reason above pre
judice and judgment above censorship in the selection of
materials of the highest quality in order to assure an objec
tive collection appropriate for the users of the library
To use democratic practices in the administration of all phases
of school libraries as an example for children and young people
Tentatively accepted with the understanding that it be submitted for evalua
tion before final adoption
EVALUATING COMIC BOOKS MOTION PICTURES
RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS
The National Congress Bulletin PTA for October 195U has an excellent
article on evaluatingcomics and mass media programs The article carries a biblio
graphy of suggested sources for information and a very useful Guide for Evaluation
The Guide is not designed for use in setting up approved or disapproved lists
It is suggested to be used by individualsparents teachers young peoplein
terested in examining the content of mass mediak
SCHOOL LIBRARY NEWS
The Bowdon High School PTA at a recent meeting made a study of the library
needs of the school according to a recent newspaper story This is the first year
the school has had a fulltime librarian and they felt this was the first step to
wards making the library what it should be Their greatest concern was building
up an adequate book supply since the present budget is hardly sufficient to main
tain the collection and not sufficient for building a basic collection
The library quarters at Macon Vocational School have had a face lifting
According to a Macon Telegraph article the new books desk shelves and floor are
making the library more useful and pleasant in every way Miss Jerry Wheeler is
the librarian
River Bend School Library recently received a grant according to a newspaper
article The school was burned last year Through the efforts of the Hall County
Junior Red Cross and the National Childrens Foundation the grant was made to pur
chase books
A book fair was held earlier in the year at the Stone Mountain Elementary
School The purpose as stated in a newspaper account was to give the people of
the community an opportunity to see the new books and make selections for the new
school library
Other news items told of the I3O new books given to the LaGrange High School
new bookcases tables and audiovisual equipment to the Sylvester library and the
Lanier County High School Librarys very effective Book Week program Rapid pro
gress is being made in organizing this library since Mrs TP Exum is now full time
librarian Pictures showing library activities at the Darlington School and the
Wrens School helped interpret their library programs to the general public
A new card catalog has been purchased for the Jeff Davis High School A mending
program has resulted in the return of 3l books to the shelves since the beginning
of the school year
The PTA of the Jim Cherry Elementary School DeKalb County has taken as a
major project the building of a reference center in the school library
The elementary library at Lithonia has new tables and chairs According to
newspaper publicity this was the first elementary library in DeKalb County The PTA
helps sponsor this library
The Patterson School Library as a Book Week activity sponsored a contest for
the most original bulletin board and attractive book marker
Newspapers have given publicity to the fine Book feek programs presented by the
Monroe High School Cook High School and Elberton High School student assistants
Tribute has been paid to Mrs J A Whitehead for her successful efforts over
the years to promote better school library service and facilities in the Pinehurst
School

An outstanding event in the fall program of the PTA of the Decatur schools was a
library workshop for the benefit of volunteer personnel who staff the local elementary
school libraries5
Two mornings were spent in giving practical information about ordering se
lecting processing care and mending of books and on ways to improve the appear
ance and use of the libraries
The workshop was sponsored by the Decatur PTA Council and was directed by lire
Henry Cobb Library Chairman for the Council Mrs Cobb was assisted by Misses
Sarah Jones and Virginia Drewry Library Consultants for the State Department of
Education and Mesdames J T Swint and E uiery high school librarians
Mrs Edith Bell Americus High School shared the following list of Duties of
Library Assistants with those attending the Third District West GEA meeting
Duties of Library Assistants
1 Check books in
2 Shelve books
3 Processing new magazines
U Placing old magazines in
magazine room
5 Straighten magazine room
6 Count circulation
7 Process new books
8 Put papers on sticks
9 Type overdue slips
10 Type letters
11 Make adjustments to
catalog cards
12 File catalog cards
13 Get magazines from
magazine room
liu Shift books
15 Check books out
16 Fix bulletin boards
17 Water flowers
18 Mend books
19 Dust
20 Prepare reserve shelf
21 Work with vertical file
22 File shelf list cards
23 Work with professional books
2l Fix schedule of duties
25 Read shelves Broken down
into 10 classes
26 Straighten work room
27 Miscellaneous
28 Study or choose
29 Type reading list
30 Straighten college catalogs
Librarians can help each other by sharing their ideas plans and activities
with others Take a few minutes now to write up some new activity some unusual
bulletin board some future plans Hail the write ups to Georgia Libraries News
Bulletin Division of Instructional Materials and Library Services State Depart
ment of Education Atlanta Georgia
Libraries will be discussed on the University of Chicago Round Table Sunday
February 6 over NBC Radio MSB carries the program from 130 to 200 pm Check
to see when other stations schedule this program This is worthy of calling to the
attention of all citizens and getting as many as possible to listen6
PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS
The Griffin Womans Club presented a portable record player to the Flint
River Regional Library for use in the librarys record room This club helped
to sponsor the Know Your Library Month during November and gift of this re
cord player was a special feature of this project
Griffin has joined the rapidly increasing number of public libraries in
Georgia installing electric charging machines for checking out library materials
Registration of borrowers is under way as the new charge out cards are issued
and already 2900 people have received these new cards
Fort Benning opened its seventh library on November 1JU 95k with a ribbon
cutting ceremony and open house This library located on Indian Head Road is
under the direction of Miss Mary Frances Horton 19h graduate of the University
of Alabama The library will contain popular magazines daily newspapers a
record player and albums and more than 5000 books to serve the military per
sonnel in that area
The Dublin Carnegie Library headquarters for Laurens County library service
celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with special exercises at the library on
December h to climax a week of observance by the local newspaper radio station
and civic organizations Mrs 0 L Chivers chairman of the library board pre
sided Special tribute was paid to the early librarians and recognition was given
the present library staff headed by Mrs Virginia Lawrence One member of the
original library board Mr G H Williams was present for the occasion Open
house was held following the program with members of the library board serving
as hostesses Miss Roxanna Austin represented the state staff on this occasion
The Athens Regional Library celebrated Book Week with a series of programs
in the Childrens Department of the headquarters library during the week of Novem
ber 11420 On the first four days two students from different foreign countries
were there to talk to the children giving them the opportunity to meet people
from seven other countries On the fifth day there was a special program of maPic
tricks to entertain them
Another example of the kinds of programs sponsored by public libraries was
the discussion of China Painting As a Hobby which was led by Miss Mary Frances
Carter at the Athens Regional Library headquarters in Athens recently Miss Sarah
Maret Director reports the discussion was enthusiastically attended Clever
postal cards decorated with a giltedged china plate and an artists brush were
sent as invitations to interested groups
The Cherokee Regional Library serving Walker Dade and Catoosa Counties cele
brated its tenth anniversary at a dinner for the regional library board and visitors
at its annual meeting Place cards were in the form of an opened tin can and the
contents pouring out were books films filmstrips recordings magazines etc
The same idea was used on the cover of the mimeographed annual report which was dis
tributed at the meeting7
I BUILDINGS AMD QUARTERS
The Appleby Branch of the Augusta Regional Library will be opened early in
195 to serve people of Augusta living in that part of the city This branch will
be housed in the handsome Colonial hone which Kr Scott 3 Appleby has given to
the city and county Cor library purposes At the present time the house built
in 1339 is being redesigned for library use without injuring any of the gracious
lines of the residence Shelving is being installed suitable floor covering and
window decorations put into place library furniture and equipment is on order and
the initial book collection of some lj000 volumes is being processed Included in
the Appleby gift were a grand piano and many other handsome pieces of furniture
while the grounds are landscaped with trees from many parts of theworld
The Emanuel County Library at Swainsboro will soon be housed in its own
building through the generosity of Mrs James H Morgan and Mrs Paul Anderson
daughters of Dr and Mrs Rufus Franklin who have recently riven the former resi
dence of their parents to be used as a library building for this library This
nine room brick structure with spacious grounds is located on West Main Street and
will be maintained as a memorial to Mrs Franklin who was one of Emanuel countys
oldest and most beloved residents The building has been accepted by the library
board the city council and county commissioners and will be remodeled to provide
modern and uptodate facilities for the county library
The Chestatee Regional Library headquarters in the Hall County Courthouse in
Gainesville has had a facelifting reports Mrs H E Pursell Director The
interior of the rooms was remodeled to provide for more efficient use of their space
and to renovate the staff lounge Facilities for hot water were also added The
entire library xas repainted giving the rooms a fresh attractive appearance
The Vidalia Public Library headquarters for the Tcombs County Library Service
has been moved to new and larger quarters in the building formerly occupied by the
City Hall This space has been painted and new shelving and lights have been in
stalled Located in the heart of the shopping area the library is now attracting
many more adults than it formerly did The Vidalia Womans Club original sponsors
and faithful supporters of the library and the local library board held a silver
tea and open house to celebrate the move
New fluorescent lights have recently been installed in the Jefferson County
Library at Louisville Congratulations to the library board and staff on this
added improvement to the library quarters
The Thomas Public Library at Fort Valley will soon purchase new equipment and
make additional improvements in the library through a gift of 100000 from the
Chairman of the Library Board
DECATURDEKALB AUDITORIUM
Cooper Hall the new auditorium of the DecaturDeKalb Library was formally
dedicated in ceremonies climaxing the annual meeting of the librarys board of
directors on the evening of December ll The 250 seat auditorium built behind the
main library was financed by DeKalb County bonds It will be used by small groups
for cultural programs according to Mrs A B Burrus Director of the library
The auditorium is named in honor of the late Thomas and Annie Scott Cooper
who donated the land on which the present library is built Dr Wallace W Alstonpresident of Agnes Scott College made the formal dedication Board Chairman C H
Blount presided and J C Haynes treasurer of the library board was in ZrEe of
the program Special guests included members of the Cooper family members of the
Decatur city commission Congressman and Mrs James C Davis and Miss Lucile Nix
Chief Library Consultant of the State Department of Education
The completion
possible to mention
to boys and girls
and administered by
High School library
County High School
year
of new school libraries is occuring so rapidly that it is im
all oi the nne library facilities that are becoming available
The new West Berrien Elementary School library is being organised
the pupils under the guidance of their principal The Nahunta
is a source of pride to students and teachers The Charlton
with its attractive library was to be opened early in the new
ALA MIDWINTER
binCTTihnnniUai Midwintf Meetin of e American Library Association is expected to
bring 1200 librarians from all sections of the country to the Edgewater Sch Hotel
in Chicago January 31 to February 5 ewaer aeacn Hotel
innQTh mefing isvoted to approximately 10 business sessions of ALA divi
sions boards committees and round tables surrounding three meetins of tP a
Council the policymaking body of the Association TheTA Jth1nnual Confer
ence which includes many program features will be held in PhilallphlJuly 3 to 9
Jan AaitSiSai7 StocJftion Wkshopthird of its kindwill be held on Monday
Jan 3D with Marguerite Giezentanner President of the Illinois Library Association
presiding The workshop will be devoted to discussion of the planning and operation
of state meetings Miss Sarah Maret President of the Georgia LibJar Association
will attend and has been asked to participate on one of the panel discussions
POSTAL MANUAL
The United States Post Office Department issued on December 1 a new Postal Manual
This manual contains two sections Chapter I Post Office WiLVi Tr Manual
Superintendent of Documents U S Government Printing Office Washington BV9
NEW BOOKMOBILES
The new bookmobile body in Coffee County has given a new boost to the
library program in that area The body was built by the Bluebird Body Company
at Fort Valley The shelves and other equipment were made by a cabinet maker
in Douglas under the direction of Miss Theo Hotch Librarian who designed the
interior and supervised its construction Representatives from four counties
met at the Coffee County Library early in December to discuss the possibilities
of regional library service for counties adjoining Coffee County
The Brunswick Regional Library staff and board are proudly displaying
their new Gerstenslager bookmobile Larger and better equipped than the old
one this new bookmobile is proving to be well worth the added cost for its
purchase
Committees from two of the counties in the BarrowJacksonWalton Regional
Library have completed their drives for funds for the purchase of the new book
mobile It is anticipated that the third county will secure its quota early in
the new year
One of the two bookmobiles in the South Georgia Regional Library at Valdosta
has recently been overhauled and repainted and is now ready for use in the exten
sion of library service to all the people in this three county region
The McKee Map of American Folklore and Legend is still available at 0 cents
per single copy or three copies for one dollar from the National Conference Ameri
can Folklore for Youth Ball State Teachers College Muncie Indiana The map is
2k inches by 36 gaily colored and carries more than one hundred of the folklore
characters of the fortyeight states
An interesting and attractive booklet entitled Family Reading and Story
Telling by Margaret E Martignoni published by the Grolier Society is available
FREE upon request to the State Department of Education Division of Instructional
Materialsand Library Services 92 Mitchell St SW Atlanta 3 Georgia This
will be most helpful to young parents who wish to start their youngsters off with
good reading habits and to groups who are promoting the idea of more reading in the
home10
ALA AWARDS
The following list of awards and citations are to be made at the 7lth Annual
ALA Conference in Philadelphia July 3 to 9 1955 We have some Georgia librar
ies and librarians worthy of these honors Lets nominate them
Melvil Dewey Medal awarded annually to an individual or a group for recent
creative professional achievement of a high order particularly in those fields in
which Melvil Dewey was actively interested notably library management library
training cataloging and classification and the tools and techniques of librarian
ship
Joseph W Lippincott Award 500 and a special certificate Presented annually
for distinguished service in the profession of librarianship such service to in
clude outstanding participation in the activities of professional library associa
tions notable published professional writing or other significant activity on be
half of the profession and its aims
Letter Librarian Award 100 and a special certificate Awarded annually to a
librarian who in the line of duty contributes most to emphasize the human quali
ties of service in librarianship
The Letter Library Award 100 and a special certificate Given annually to a
library for distinguished contribution to the development of an enlightened public
opinion on an issue of current or continuing importance
Nominations for these four awards with a statement of reasons for the choice
should be sent to the Chairman of the ALA Board on Awards Robert E Scudder
Free Library of Philadelphia Logan Square Philadelphia 3 Pennsylvania The dead
line for each of these awards is April 15 1955
Grolier Society Award 500 and a scroll or plaque Given annually in recogni
tion of the achievements of a librarian in a community or school who has made an
unusual contribution to the stimulation and guidance of reading by children and
young people The nominee must be a salaried librarian who spends the major part
of his time in work with children and young people The award may be given for con
tributions made either over a period of years or for one particular contribution
of lasting value Nominations must be accompanied by five copies of a statement
of achievement prepared by the nominating group or individual and should be sent
directly to the Chairman of the Committee on the Grolier Society Award James E
Bryan Newark Public Library 5 Washington Street Newark 1 New Jersey Letters
in support of the nominations will be accepted also Deadline for entries is March
15 1955
E P DuttonJohn Macrae Award a fellowship amounting to 1000 for advanced
study in the field of library work with children and young people Open to school
public or other librarians working with children and young people Prospective
applicants should write to David H Clift ALA Executive Secretary at ALA
Headquarters for fuller information Applications must be submitted bv April 15
1955
Trustee Citations are limited to trustees in actual service during at least a
part of the calendar year preceding the 1955 ALA Conference Equal considera
tion is given to the service records of trustees of both large and small libraries11
The jury will be interested in the state and national activities of the candidates
as well as their contributions to the local library Recommendations must be
accompanied by a full record of the candidates achievements and may be submitted
by any library board any individual library trustee a state library association
a state trustee organization a state library extension agency or by the Trustees
Section of the ALA Public Libraries Division Nominations must be mailed to
the Jury on Citation of Trustees 50 East Huron Street Chicago 11 Illinois not
later than March 15 1955
Oberly Memorial Award made every two years to the American citizen who compiles
the best bibliography in the field of agriculture or the natural sciences The 195
award is Tor a bibliography issued in 1953 or 195U The bibliographies are judged
on accuracy scope usefulness format and special feature such asexplanatory
introductions annotations and indexes Four copies of each bibliography with a
letter of transmittal should be sent to the Chairman of the Oberly Memorial Fund
Committee J Richard Blanchard Librarian University of California Library Davis
California Tvpewritten bibliographies are acceptable Final entry date is March
15 1955
John Cotton Dana Publicity Awards for the best crosssection of library
publicity in the year ending December 195U or if preferred the school year may be
used Entries will be considered in the following groups Public Libraries by
population of community County and Regional Libraries by population of area served
School Libraries College and University Libraries Service Libraries by branch of
service and Miscellaneous including special libraries state and regional libraries
and library associations
Several Georgia libraries have done outstanding publicity projects during the
last year Scrapbooks from them should be included in the competition Entry
blanks may be secured from the John Cotton Dana Awards Committee American Library
Association 50 East Huron St Chicago 11 Illinois Entry blanks must be in by
April 1 1955 but the completed scrapbooks are not due until May 1 1955
Margaret Mann Citation awarded annually to a librarian who has made a dis
tinguished contribution to librarianship through cataloging and classification
Nominations should be sent to the Citation Chairman Bertha Bassam Director Library
School University of Toronto 371 Bloor Street W Toronto Canada not later than
February 1 1955
Newberry and Caldecott Medal winners for 195U will be announced by the Child
rens Library Association on March 7 1955 in the New York office of Mr Frederic G
Melcher who established and endowed the awards Nominations for the 195U awards
which were due in December 195U have been made by librarians to the NewberryCalde
cott Award Committee composed of twentytwo childrens librarians
BUYING LIST OF BOOKS FOR SMALL LIBRARIES by Orilla T Blackshear has been revised
bringing the titles uptodate from 1915 to 1953 Published by the American Library
Association 0 East Huron St Chicago 11 Illinois 375 This is an excellent
buying guide for small public libraries12
CATALOG SERVICE
The staff of the State Catalog Service used the two state Christmas holi
days for a good deep breath before heading into the last half of the fiscal year
Last year January brought requests for 1277 sets of cards February brought
requests for 23U09 March for 19011 April for 11173 May for 23998 and June
for 17Ui7 Good service during this half of the year depends in large part
upon clearly madeup orders that precisely follow the state order directions
and the staff feels much more cheerful over the prospect of the next six months
because most of the orders that have been coming in are in their words beauti
ful Every letter in the names of the authors and titles is important because
incorrect spelling may cause the master plates from vrtiich the cards are made to
be missed in the files and a search must follow From its beginning in 19kh to
the end of December 195U the Service has cataloged 16782 titles and the staff
appreciates the goodlooking orders that help them to select quickly from this
number the proper titles

Miss Evalene Jackson Director of the Division of Librarianship at Emory
University and Miss Lucile Nix Chief Library Consultant of the State Department
of Education were among the 36 librarians and educators invited to attend a con
ference on the training of librarians for adult education which was held at Aller
ton Park University of Illinois on November lU16
Georgia librarians who attended the Institute of Citizenship at Emory University
on October 227 were
Miss Mary Clark
Augusta Regional Library
Mrs Mary Pursell
Chestatee Regional Library
Gainesville
Miss Ola Vyeth
Savannah
Miss Alma Hill Jamison
Atlanta Public Library
Miss Vivian Polk
Brunswick Regional Library
Mrs Evalyn Rutledge
TroupHarrisCoweta Regional Library
LaGrange
Miss Evalene Jackson
Division of Librarianship
Emory University
Miss Lucile Nix
State Department of Education
Miss Theo Notch
Coffee County Public Library
Douglas13
STUDENT ASSISTANT NEWS
There are now six district student assistant clubs organized in the state
All of the groups are made up of enthusastic boys and girls who are contributing
greatly to these organizations as well as to their local libraries
The Second District student assistants met in Tifton on November 13 and en
ioved an excellent program consisting of a speech by Mr Walter Johnston Librar
ian of Abraham
College on LibrarianshipA Profession and skits by the
Albany and Sale City clubs on the importance of having libraries m the schools
Over 126 members attended
President Nan Dunn Moultrie
Vice President Joey Webb Donaldsonville
Secretary Sydnor Peacock Albany
Treasurer Glenda Brinkley Pelham
Reporter Penny McDaniel Albany
Historian Venita Cochran Camilla
The Third West organization met in Columbus at the time of the district GEA
After a business meeting several members participated in a panel discussion of the
various duties performed by assistants in their schools and how they could improve
their work Officers elected
President Barbara Lay Terrell County High
Vice President Gwendolyn Drew Richland
SecretaryTreasurer Claire Brightwell Americus
Historian Sherwood Ingram Jordan High
Reporter Julia Culbreth Cuthbert
Plans are underway for a meeting of the Fifth District student assistants
organization in the very near future Officers of this group are
Vice President acting President Mary Louise Savage Decatur High
SecretaryTreasurer Barbara Stallworth Russell High
Reporter Bill Bracewell Bass High
Historian Frank Cooper Russell High
The Seventh District organization met in Rome at the time of the District
GEA After the program the group had a business session where the following offi
cers were elected
President Anne Kay Rome Senior High School
Vice President Barbara Lewis Rome Junior High School
Secretary Linda Adams Cartersville
Treasurer Mary Peck Rome Senior High School
Reporter Ben Saterfield Cartersville
The student assistants of the Eighth District met on December 10 in Valdosta
At this meeting they adopted a constitution and made plans for future activities
Officers elected
President Howard Smith Valdosta
Vice President Sara Ann Strickland Waycross
SecretaryTreasurer Dot Barker Lakeland
Reporter Joan Peterman Valdosta
Historian Lullebel McEven Nashville Ui
On November 12 the assistants of the Tenth District met in Athens A
constitution was adopted and temporary officers were elected Tentative plans
xere made for a spring meeting
President Janet Duke Hartwell
SecretaryTreasurer Leslie James Athens
Local library assistant clubs are receiving excellent newspaper recogni
tion for their services The Lincoln Journal carried an article concerning the
Lincoln County High School Club at the time they were presented a 2000 check
from the American Legion for the clubs exhibit in the county fair
Throe elementary student assistant groups in Bibb County Joseph Clisby
Heard and Union School have had their pictures in the Macon Telegraph In the
article accompanying the Union School assistant group it was reported that the
library had a new home in a much larger and better equipped room In this
article as well as some of the others the many duties of the assistants were
outlined
The Tubman Junior High School Student Library Club has recently been
organized
The Library Club at Model School is composed of student library assistants
and student film operators
Other library clubs praised recently by articles in their local papers
are
Tifton High School
Alma High School
Conyers High School
Cairo High School
LaGrange High School
Terrell County High
Cuthbert High School
Dallas High School
Richland High School
Albany High School
Cook County High School
Camden County High School
GEORGIANA BXKI3ITS
The Atlanta Public Library is exhibiting the works of Georgia authors of
the 19th century The selections making up the exhibits are from the Georgiana
Library of a private collector The selections are being exhibited in thirteen
series Each series is being exhibited for approximately thirty days and is
accompanied by excellent illustrated catalogues
The series already shown have been Some Notable Books In Georgia History
and Georgia Poets and Poetry Some of the future series will be Georgia
Novels and Novelists Georgia Books for Juveniles and The Cherokee Indians
of Georgia15
DISTRICT OFFICERS OF THE CHILDRENS AND
YOUNG PEOPLES LIBRARY SECTION OF GEA
The following people were elected to serve as chairmen and secretaries of
the various districts at the fall GEA meetings
1st District Chairman Miss Mary Reeves Soperton High School
Secretary Mrs Margaret D Curl Bryan County
2nd District Chairman Mrs Elizabeth Andrews Sales City High
Secretary Mrs Alta Humphries Bainbridge High
3rd District Chairman Mrs Evelyne Smith Jordan High School
West Secretary to be appointed
3rd District Chairman Mrs Mary Ginter Cordele High School
East Secretary Mrs Betty Clark Warner Robins
Uth District Chairman Mrs Mildred Garrett Manchester High
Secretary Mrs Ernestine Swint West Point High
5th District Chairman Mrs Sue Russell Bolton School Atlanta
Secretary Miss Will Gary Williams Gardens Hills
6th District Chairman Mrs T H Chambers Gray High School
Secretary Miss Ruth Rowland Cochran High School
7th District Chairman Mrs George W Collett Trion High
Secretary Miss Winona Early Rome High School
8th District Chairman Mrs Mae Olliff Patterson High School
Secretary Mrs Sam Vickery Blackshear High
9th District Chairman Mrs Will Williams Norcross High
Secretary to be appointed
10th District Chairman Miss Beth Clinkscales Elberton High
Secretary Mrs Charles Pickens Monroe High
M
A new publication which will be of interest to those who are responsible for
personnel administration in libraries is a newsletter called BPA NOTES This is
edited by Herbert Goldhor of the Evanston Public Library who was a fall visitor
to the State Department of Education Published by the Board on Personnel Admin
istration of the ALA in Chicago its purpose is to bring together new and infor
mation likely to be of interest to those to whom it is addressed For the first
year the newsletter will be distributed free to anyone who requests it as long as
the supply lasts After that period it will be available on a subscription basis
LIBRARIES16
AUDIO VISUAL NEWS
1955 finds twenty Georgia county and regional libraries registered for the
public library film service Thirty new films were added to the public library
collection of films in September and it is expected that ten more will be avail
able by late January or early February A listing of these will be sent to all
participating libraries when they are ready
School Libraries the publication of the American Association of School
Librarians reports a cheap but ingenious device for use as a filmstrip viewer
described by Miss Ethel Wood of Jefferson Junior High School Oak Ridge Tennessee
A cardboard box 12x12x18 inches was used One end was cut out and the other
openings taped up The opposite end was lined with white paper and the remaining
interior with black paper With the box placed on one end of a library table and
the filmstrip projector on the other one or two students can view a filmstrip
without darkening a room This is often an important part of the preparation for
a class project
This idea could be used by any library whose collection include filmstrips
and would help to solve some of the problems of previewing filmstrip material in
the library
A new tape recording service is being offered by the AudioVisual Service
State Department of Education The tapes will be available to schools and public
libraries using the film service A catalog will be available in a few days For
further information write Mr Garland Bagley Director
Nonmusical phonograph records are the subject of three new lists which will
be helpful to librarians Requests should go directly to the addresses listed
below
The Childrens Reading Service IO78 St Johns Place Brooklyn 13 New York
a distributor of childrens records has a new annotated 195U list of phonograph
records for the kindergarten through senior high school The list is classified
instrumental language arts folk music social studies vocal etc
Language Records in an entirely new series affords libraries individual 12
LP records in the important foreign languages According to Helen Geer in the
ALA BULLETIN welleducated narrators speak their respective tongues naturally
clearly and informally Different voices give interesting and authentic infor
mation about daily lives and customs Spanish French and German are currently
available in the series copyright 195U by Wilmac Recorders 921 E Green Street
Pasedena 1 California
Enrichment Records 2I46 Fifth Avenue New York N Y specializes in dram
atized recordings of historical and literary events Addressed to students in
grades 9lUj the records are especially useful in social science and English
classes17
World History is the subject of a series of recordings issued by Audio
Classroom Services 323 South Franklin Chicago Illinois Although they are
made with the high school student in mind these appeal to the elementary stu
dent as well
A new filmstrip about using filmstrips is available from the Stanley Bowmar
Company 12 Cleveland Avenue Valhalla Hew York Titled Introducing Film
strips it has 39 frames in black and white and sells for 300 The strip
explains in cartoons what a filmstrip is what it can do and how it should be
used
Professional organizations which offer assistance and information in the
field of audiovisual materials are discussed in a stimulating and helpful article
in the December issue of School Libraries the official publication of the Ameri
can Association of School Librarians Among those listed and those will be of
value to any library using education films are
Educational Film Library Association EFLA
3U U6th St
New York 17 N Y
Emily 3 Jones Executive Secretary
Personal and Constituent Memberships
Department of AudioVisual Instruction DAVI
National Education Association
1201 Sixteenth Street N 1
Washington 6 D C
Film Council of America
600 Davis Street
Evanston Illinois
AudioVisual Round Table
American Library Association
50 East Huron Street
Chicago 11 Illinois
CHILDRENS BOOK DISPLAY MATERIALS
A list of sources Tor securing materials for childrens book displays is being sent
with this issue of the GEORGIA LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER Libraries wishing to purchase
dolls or figures representing authentic book characters literary maps of various kinds
flags etc will find it a very helpful reference list The Childrens Department of
the Topeka Kansas Public Library prepared the list and it was first distributed at the
Joint Meeting of the Kansas Library Association and the MountainPlains Library Associa
tion Topeka in the fall of 195U13
A FILM PROGRAM
Hiss Mary E Clark assistant director of the Augusta Regional Library sent
the following report to the state office to show hoxj the Augusta Library is handling
its film program Miss Clark is in charge of audiovisual work in that library and
her account is offered Vxrs Bulletin readers to suggest ways in which other librar
ies may begin film service to their communities
Programs
As a means of promoting a serailibrary sponsored program with a minimum of
effort and staff time The Augusta Library has begun a program of observing those
national weeks which have some appeal to the public in general By contacting an
organization which would be most interested in cooperating in the promotion of a
subject we have to date very easily planned film forums with discussion leaders on
the subjects of National Newspaper Week United Nations Week and American Art Week
If these develop successfully we will continue with the idea
Publicity
Recognizing the fact that as news feature a library can hardly expect to get
more than one or two good stories published on the availability of films in general
the Augusta Library is working a very neat little device which in some respects is
more valuable publicity than that promoted directly by the library When we have
booked films for an organization we ask that in its ncxTrspaper publicity it be
stated that films obtained through the Augusta Library will be shown Conse
quently the library will not only be getting a film notice in the paper every week
or so but with the added implication that other clubs are using the library why not
rours
An old fact learned anew in the booking of films is that with all due respect
to newspaper publicity it is still the personal contact that is most effective
Membership in organizations acquaintance with program committee personnel and pro
jects and being personally on the spot at the time a need arises pays off in
library patronage and a better informed public about the variety of available
library materials The Augusta Library is actually just beginning to live so far
as films are concerned but it is beginning As of today Sept 22 the Augusta
Library has booked eightyfive films since the beginning of the year July 1 19f
which represents more than twice the total number of films shown by the library in
19i3U Out of the eightyfive over twothirds of those booked were the result
of the personal acquaintance of a library person with the specific program interests
of a group
Staff shortage being here as it usually is to wit acute participation in
organizations necessarily limits itself but 1 do personally believe that although
a busy participation in community life may encroach to a degree on library time the
library business in turn is carried more pertinently into community affairs and
so things even up Particularly until a community is familiar with library re
sources and learns to turn automatically to its library for help this librarian
believes that if all key people on a staff are encouraged to participate to a rea
sonable degree in civic clubs with a thought for the library in the participation
the results will be highly profitable to the library19
MARGARET MITCHELL ROOM
The Atlanta Public Library dedicated on the evening of December 15 1951
the new Margaret Mitchell Memorial Room located on the second floor of the library
A handsome inscription so designating the room ras unveiled in ceremonies at the
library with Atlantas Mayor William B Hartsfield members of Miss Mitchells
family some of her close friends and former associates as special guests Miss
Alma Hill Jamison assistant librarian who was head of the reference and re
search department when Miss Mitchell was writing Gone With the Wind presided
In this room can be found copies of Miss Mitchells book printed in various
languages and her Pulitzer Prize certificate Other items relatingtto the novel
and Miss Mitchells life and work were bequeathed to the Atlanta Library by her
late husband John Marsh J C Settelmeyer director of the library announced
that the display will not remain static but that the mementos will be changed
regularly in order to make the memorial more interesting to the general public

The State Executive Board of the Business and Professional Womens Clubs is
stressing the importance of having program coordinators and club presidents aim
toward a unified program that is broad enough in scope and imagination yet practi
cal enough to challenge every committee to contribute to its success They suggest
two types of programs one being the World Affairs are Your Affairs discussions
with films as a background and they point out that the public library in each
town would welcome an opportunity to work with the clubs in presenting such pro
grams This is one more instance of organized groups recognizing the opportuni
ties and importance of good public library service in their planned programs
Would you like to borrow an exhibit showing how a childrens book is made
Random House has a few such exhibits and is eager to have them enjoyed by librar
ians and teachers Each exhibit includes some of the original manuscript and art
work proofs a pasteup dummy and a finished book All parts are labeled so
that those viewing it may know how author artist designer and printer work to
gether to produce the book For information write to Childrens Books Random
House hSl Madison Avenue New York 22 N Y
A new Landmark Booklist grouping the US and World Landmark books by histori
cal period is ready for distribution to key teachers and librarians For free
copies write Childrens Books Random House U57 Madison Avenue New York N Y20
OUT OF STATE VISITORS
Mrs Orcena Mahoney Executive Secretary of the Division of Cataloging and
Classification American Library Association spent four days during the first
part of December visiting the Library Division of the State Department of Educa
tion and libraries in the Atlanta area Mrs Mahoney pointed out that the Cata
loging and Classification Division is concerned with all types of libraries and
that she is interested in the cataloging and classification problems of elemen
tary schools as well as in those of universities She was particularly in
terested in cataloging on a regional basis because she has received so many ques
tions on ways and means of cataloging and preparing books for use for a number
of libraries at a central point
Miss Boonchua Ankapradit Head of the Library Section of the Department of
Educational Techniques under the Ministry of Education in Thailand spent several
days in Atlanta in December visiting the State Department of Education Fulton
County and libraries in the metropolitanarea The Atlanta Public Library served as
her host for the visit Miss Boonchua is doing graduate library work at Florida
State University on a Foreign Operations Administration fellowship and took ad
vantage of the Christmas vacation period to visit libraries in neighboring states
PICTURE EXHIBIT CAMELLIA SHOW
The fourth annual competitive exhibition of pictures in color any medium
but not on china will be held in Marshallville Georgia Wednesday February 23
1955 from 29 PM This is also the date of the Marshallville Camellia Show but
the Picture Exhibit will be held even if the Camellia Show has to be called off
because of weather conditions At least one camellia blossom must appear in each
picture entered and the artist must be a resident of Georgia working principally
in Georgia Rules for the competition may be secured by writing to Picture
Exhibit PO Box 235 Marshallville Georgia
Miss Mary Helen Kahar of Brooklyn Hew York has recently joined the ALA
headquarters staff as Executive Secretary to the American Association of School
Librarians
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ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP
January brings around again the time to pay annual dues to our library
organizations If these matters are attended to early in the year there is no
question about membership and the receipt of bulletins and other publications
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION dues may be sent directly to Chicago or forms
may be secured from and dues sent to the Georgia representative on the member
ship committee Mr W Porter Kellam Director of Libraries University of
Georgia Athens Georgia
GEORGIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION dues should be sent to Miss Frances Nunn
SecretaryTreasurer Georgia Library Association Athens High School Athens
Georgia
SOUTHEASTERN dues should be sent to Mrs Anne Bugg Executive Secretary of
Southeastern Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta Georgia

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LIBRARY SERVICES BILL
Now is the time to write to your Representative or Senator about the Library
Services Bill If you did not get a chance during the adjournment period to dis
cuss library legislation do write to them now to call attention to the Library
Services Bill and all other Federal legislation affecting libraries which might
come before the new Congress According to the ALA Washington Newsletter pros
pects for passage of the bill never looked so good
K iV W
Until the Librarian Comes is the title of an article in the December l
195U issue of the Library Journals JUNIOR LIBRARIES by Miss Sarah Jones Chief
Library Consultant of the State Department of Education The article describes
the threeday work conference held at Emory University last summer which was
planned by the Elementary Library SubCommittee of the InService Education
Committee of the Georgia Library Association Miss Jones is also in print in re
cent issues of the SATURDAY REVIEW with book reviews she contributed for the Books
for Young People department of that magazine
Our Country in Books is the title of an attractive literary map of America
for young people which is reprinted from the November 19h cover of the American
Junior Red Cross News These maps measuring U4 by 20 inches are printed in
black and white on a blue background and are available free upon request to the
Library Services Division State Department of Education 92 Mitchell St SW
Atlanta Georgia22
KNOWXOUItLIBBAKT I ONTH OBSERVED
KnowYourLibrary Month was observed in many ways in a number of libraries
throughout Georgia during November This special month was proclaimed by the
General Federation of Womens Clubs to initiate a twoyear program giving special
emphasis to having librarians and club women work together for better library
service This project has the active support of the American Library Association
and the Georgia State Department of Education
The Flint River Regional Library at Griffin serving Spalding and Pike Counties
mimeographed a sheet describing briefly the services available from the library
giving hours open telephone number etc These sheets featured a lovely water color
drawing of the headquarters building and were given to patrons as they came into the
library The Griffin Womans Club and the library sent a letter jointly to all
organizations in both counties inviting the citizens to visit the library during the
month and share in the project Another sheet featured a bookmobile and was given
out at the county fair
The Jonesboro Womans Club held its November meeting in the new quarters of the
Clayton County Library The library board members served as hostesses and told of
the progress and needs of their county program The program was devoted to library
service in Georgia its progress and its needs
STUCKEY BUILDING DEDICATED
Special library service took another step forward with the dedication of the
new Stuckey Administration and Library Building at the Georgia Experiment Station
in Griffin on December 20 195k Dedication exercises and a luncheon brought
together a distinguished roup of people for the unveiling of a portrait of the
late Dr H P Stuckey for whom the building is named and for a tour of the
building
Some 1 Georgia librarians attended the dedication services and were most
enthusiastic about the attractive and functional library so well planned by Mrs
Edna Olson librarian at the Experiment Station They were gratified to hear a
guest speaker from Washington compliment the library and comment that a good
library is essential for good research
The Worlds Biggest Helping Hand is the title of an article appearing
in the Saturday Evening Post of November 7 195k which deals with the Ford
Foundation and explains exactly the relationship of the Ford Foundation and the
Fund for Adult Education which largely finances the American Heritage Project23
TOM IE DOHA BAHKER SCHOLABSHIP FUND
Two hundred and fifty friends of Miss Toramie Dora Barker assembled in the
dining hall at Emory University on Saturday evening October 2 Lo honor this
outstanding Geor ia librarian and educator at a testimonial dinner I iss
Lucile Nix and Miss Evalene Jackson shared in presiding during the dinner and
program which followed This occasion was a complete surprise to Kiss Barker
which proves the point that a lot of people women and men CM KEiiP A 5EC3E1
when they so desire Former library school graduates came from as far away as
Ohio to be present on this happy occasion which was arranged immediately
following the Southeastern Library Association meeting so that many iibrarv
school alumni from far and near could be present Dr Goodrich C White paid
tribute to Miss Barker in behalf of Emory University Faculty and students while
Mr Jack Dalton spoke for all of the 900 library school alumni to whom Miss
Barker has been a staunch friend and counselor as well as an inspiring leader in
library affairs This leadership extends throughout the country but has been
felt especially in her own Southland where her name is synonymous with the very
best traditions of library service and the highest ideals of professional
librarianship
Following these two speakers Miss Nix made the announcement of the Torr ie
Dora Barker Scholarship Fund amounting to 790800 which alumni and friends
had contributed in response to the letters of invitation sent out by a committee
of librarians with Kiss Lucile Nix as Chairman and Kiss Clyde Pettus Treasurer
The goal of this scholarship fund is 2000000 and it is anticipated that this
goal will be met within a few years by continued contributions to this fund ifts
for that purpose should be made to Emory University
Despite her overwhelming surprise at this announcement Kiss Barker responded
in her own inimitable manner expressing her gratitude for this perpetuation of her
name and her influence in the Division of Librarianship of Emory University for
which the scholarship is designated
SOCIAL TI ACT CHANC
New amendments to the Social Security Act passed by the last Congress will
extend coverage to about ten million gainfully employed people including self
employed farm operators and most farm workers
The operation of this law as it affects the farm people and other newly
covered groups will be greatly accelerated through an education program The
DistrictOffices of Social Security Administration have pamphlets available for
distribution to the public Libraries which operate bookmobiles serving rural
people may offer a valuable service by placing copies of the pamphlets on the
bookmobiles They may be secured from either the District Office or the State
Office in Atlanta 2h
CARNIVAL OF BOOKS
Carnival of Books NBC radio program featuring interviews with authors
and excerpts from outstanding stories for children promises an excellent series
for the coming year This program is worthy of our calling it to the attention of
children and parents Pitture programs will be
January 2 Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome
January 9 The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
January 16 Outlaws of the Sourland
by Keith Robertson
January 23 The Highly Trained Dogs of
Professor Petit
by Carol Eyrie Brink
January 30 The First Book of Poetry
by Isabel J Peterson
February 6 The House of the Fifers
by Rebecca Caudill
February 13 The River Road
by Keridel LeSueur
February 20 Thunderhead Mountain
by Margaret Ann Hubbard
February27 The Lousest Noise in the World
by Benjamin Elkin
Radio station WSBAtlanta carries the program on Sundays at 100 pm
Inquire the day and hour of broadcast from stations WJBIAugusta WDAKColumbus
WLMLMacon and WSAVSavannah If they dont carry the program encourage them
to schedule it
The ALA Division of Libraries for Children and Young People would like to know
of successful ways in which Carnival of Books is promoted on a local basis Reports
and samples of any materials will be welcomed by Miss Mildred L Batchelder Execu
tive Secretary
The new edition of the calendar of Special Days Weeks and Months is ready
for distribution by the Chamber of Commerce of the United StaTes Washington DC
at 25 cents per copy It will prove useful in planning special programs for
radio newspaper publicity bulletin boards etc25
AMERICAN HERITAGE PROGRAM
The start of the third year of the American Heritage program in Georgia
sees a total of 3JU adult groups embarking on various subjects of study and dis
cussion Indications are that the expansion of the program will continue In
addition to the adult groups 29 TWhite and Negro there are at present h
White and 2 Negro young adult groups active in the state
Crisscrossing the state from Clarkesville to Bainbridge and from Dalton to
Brunswick the groups represent all elements economic education and religious of
the population They are also evidence of the service to people by the librarians
and the State Department of Education and the cooperation of the American Library
Association And last but far from least they are a partial measure of the
desire to know more about things that more and more are becoming the mark of the
responsible citizen of our times
Although many of the groups will not get into the full swing of their projects
until sometime early in the New Year some are already underway Those began their
meetings after the leadership training sessions held in Atlanta during October
At the October sessions held at the West Hunter Branch of the Atlanta Public
Library and the Briarcliff Hotel some 50 group leaders and librarians attended
Mr R E Dooley Director of training for the national office ably conducted the
sessions with the aid of Louis Griffith former State Director of the program
and Miss Lucile Nix Chief Library Consultant State Department of Education
Young Adult leaders held their sessions at West Georgia College in Carrollton
with Miss Jane Ellstrom Young Adult Specialist on the ALA staff in charge
Next gettogether on tap for group leaders and librarians will be on January
8 for leaders and librarians of Young Adult groups at the Briarcliff Hotel in
Atlanta and on January l and January 22 when all 3U groups will be represented
at clinics to be held in Atlanta and Decatur Again Mr Dooley Mr Griffith Mr
Dan Kitchens and Miss Nix will be on hand to discuss problems and progress with
librarians and group leaders from the regular groups while Miss Ellstrom and Miss
Roxanna Austin of the State Department of Education will work with the Young Adult
groups
Letters giving details of the clinics have been sent to all librarians
with Heritage groups by Dan Kitchens state director and Roxanna Austin director
of the Young Adult Program in Georgia
Following is a list giving location and number of adult groups
Athens
Bo gart
Lexington
Watkinsville
Atlanta
Main Library
Inman Park Branch
Ida Williams Branch
Uncle Remus Branch
Auburn Ave
Clarkesville
Columbus Fourth Ave Branch
Dalton
Daws on
Griffin
Lindale
Macon Branch Library
Madison
Monticello
Eatonton
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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Bainbridge
Brunswick
Branch ft 1
Cairo
Camilla
Carrollton
Kin Street Branch
1 Manchester
2 Iillen
Savannah
1 Statesboro
1 Douglas
2 Decatur
Covington
1
1
1
1
1
2
Young adult groups are in progress in Carrollton Clarkesville the Ida
Williams Inman Park and west Hunter Branches of the Atlanta Public Library and the
Fourth Avenue Branch of the Columbus Library
Public Librarians may look forward to several new publications to be issued
in the coming months Committees of the Public Libraries Division of the American
Library Association are currently busy on the revision of several standard works
Miss Lucile Nix ir a member of the Committee working on the revision of
PostWar Standards for Public Libraries
Other Committees are revising State Grants to Public Libraries and Regional
and District Library Laws
PATTERNS IN READING is a unique reading list based on the authors wealth of
experience with young people and their reading interests in the Cleveland Public
Library The list is designed to satisfy young people or adults working with
them searching for another good book like the one I just read Ttoos Jean C
PATTERNS IN READING annotated book list for young people American Library
Association Chicago August 19U 176 pp 225
The Bureau of Business Research of the College of Business Administration
University of Georgia has announced the publication of the 19gii Georgia
Statistical Abstract a volume of useful statistics giving basic information
concerning tnTljolF activities in Georgia The volume sells for 300 and may
be purchased with state aid funds through the usual channels27
NEWS OF LIBRARIANS
Mrs Lois Williams is now serving as principal and elementary librarian
for the Nahunta Elementary School Mrs Pollyanne Herrin Middleton has
succeeded her as the Nahunta High School Librarian
Mrs J C Olliff has returned to the library ranks as the librarian at
Patterson Public Schools Mrs Olliff served as librarian for a number of years
at Metter
Miss Edith Moore is the librarian at Sparta High School
Mrs W C Davis is the librarian at the North Canton School Canton She
succeeds Mrs Sara Perkins
Mary Varnom Chairman Childrens and Young Peoples Section of GEA and
Dodge County High School Librarian has recently married Her new name is Mrs
Manley
Miss Lila Rice formerly on the staff of the TerrellCalhounLee Regional
Library has accepted the position of Assistant Director of the Flint River
Regional Library at Griffin
Miss Martha Worsham has succeeded Mrs Charles Brown as librarian of the
Monroe County library in Forsyth
The friends of Miss Verna Clark will be interested in her marriage at Christ
mas She will continue to make her home in Macon
Mrs Ruth Haslam recently resigned from her position as librarian at the
Macon County Library at Marshallville to be married to Dr Virginius Brown of Fort
Valley Miss Florence Lester has been elected by the board as Mrs Haslams
successor
A new staff member at the Brunswick Regional Library is Miss Dorothy B Brown
Assistant Bookmobile Librarian formerly teacherlibrarian at iiortense
Mrs Wade Pullin who recently resigned as librarian of the Henry County Library
has been succeeded by Miss Talitha Smith Miss Smith a graduate librarian is a
native of Georgia and returned to McDonough to live with her mother
Mrs Elizabeth D Moore has accepted a school library position in Wilkinson County
Mrs W A Hemphill a member of the staff of the Washington Memorial Library in Macon
succeeded Mrs Moore on the Middle Georgia Regional Library Staff and will supervise
cataloging and processing of all regional library materials
Mrs Julian Holland has succeeded Mrs John Doss as librarian of the Turner County
Library Ashburn0
Miss Jennie Denmark beloved librarian of the Brooks County Library Quitman
recently retired She will be succeeded by Mrs Sam Harrell formerly chairman of
the Brooks County Library Board
Mrs Lois Rainer Green formerly director of Alabama Public Library Service
Division joined the Industrial Relations Department of Callaway Mills Company23
on September 1st as director of the Coleman Library This library is now under
construction in the Southwest LaGrange community by the Callaway Community Founda
tion and is named for thelate W C Coleman who for many years was welfare and
education director for the Callaway organization Mrs Green has mariy friends in
Georgia and her wide and varied experience in library work should make her a valued
addition to the rank of Georgia librarians
Miss Jean Cochran Director of the Augusta Regional Library has recently been
appointed to the national Friends of the Library Committee of the American Library
Association hiss Cochran is credited with organizing the first such local group
in South Carolina in 1Q17 when she was head of the public library at Sumter The
Augusta Friends of the Library was organized in 1951 and is outstanding among such
groups in Georgia
Mrs Martha Jane Zackert librarian of the Southern College of Pharmacy in
Atlanta is the new president of the Georgia Chapter Special Libraries Association
Membership in this group includes librarians in variois business and industrial
organizations
NECROLOGY
MrsA P Longdon who served as librarian of the Hawkes Free Childrens
Library at Griffin from 1918 to 1937 died in Daytona Beach Florida on October 20
1951u Mrs Longdon was the second librarian of this library and during her nine
teen years of devoted service she built up the book collection and inaugurated many
fine services to the people of Griffin One of these was the development of a sepa
rate childrens department of which Mrs Logan Wallace had charge When Mrs Longdon
retired in 1937 and moved to Daytona Beach to live with her daughter Mrs Wallace
was elected to succeed her Mrs Longdon had many friends among Georgia librarians
who will regret to learn of her death

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UDC ESSAY CONTEST 1955
ject of the UDC essay contest for 1955 is MRS JOHN B GORDON A
been prepared to provide information on Mrs Gordons life and is being
through local UDC Chapters Librarians in communities where there
Chapter are advised to secure copies of this leaflet to assist school
ing part in this essay contest The Library Extension Service has a
er of copies for distribution Librarians and teachers are advised to
o J M Toomey State Chairman UDC Essay Contest 523 Church Street
rgia if the local UDC Chapter cannot meet their needs

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ServxccsALA CONVENTION
Libraries in the life of the Nation1 is the therae of the ith Annual Con
ference of the American Library Association to be held July 3 to 9 in Philadelphia
where A0LA was founded and the modern library movement launched in 1376
Assistant Secretary of State George V Allen will discuss the role of lib
raries in government at the first general session on Monday evening July i
Libraries in the field of labor will be discussed by Victor Reuther Assistant to
the President and Director of International Affairs Congress of Industrial Organ
izations j and in business and industry by John A Stephens VicePresident Indus
trial Relations U S Steel Corporation both at the second general session
Wednesday July 6 evening Jonathan W Daniels author and editor of the Raleigh
NCo News and Observer will speak on libraries in rural life at the third session
on Friday July 8 eveningo
John S Richards Librarian of the Seattle Wash Public Library who has
been serving as AL0A Presidentelect will be inaugurated as President at the
third general session
The NewberyCaldecott Dinner annually a social highlight of the Conference
at which winners of the noted awards for childrens books are feted will be held
on Tuesday July 5 evening The Friends of Libraries Committee luncheon meeting
will be held on Tuesday with a panel discussion and Marchette G Chute author
as speaker0
A banquet of the Association of College and Reference Libraries on Tuesday
evening will open a book exhibit covering four centuries of Philadelphia at the
University of Pennsylvania Museum The exhibit which will be open to the public
will feature the rarest imprints of the leading libraries in the Philadelphia area
The ACRL is also sponsoring a Moonlight Cruise with square dancing aboard a
Wilson Line excursion steamer on the Delaware River on Thursday July 7 evening
The program meeting of the American Association of School Librarians on
Tuesday afternoon will be devoted to an overview of the White House Conference on
Education Clint Pace Director of the Conference will talk on Critical Areas
in Education and two school superintendents will also be heard The discussion
group meeting of AASL on Thrusday morning will concern School Libraries and the
Gifted Reader
The Public Libraries Division and the ALA Office for Adult Education will
hold a joint allday meeting on Saturday July 9 for representatives of state
extension agencies and state associations to discuss implications of the Library
Services Bill and the new ALA LibraryCommunity Project
The program of the Public Libraries Division membership meeting on Tuesday
July 5 will be highlighted by a report on the revision of PostWar Standards
by Dr Lowell A Martin Dean Graduate School of Library Services Rutgers
Universitya Among the activities of the Divisions five sections will be an all
day program of panel discussions and a dinner meeting on Thursday July 7 of the
Trustees Section
The Division of Libraries for Children and Young People will present as the
speaker at its program on Tuesday July 5 Dr E Preston Sharp Director of the
Youth Study Center in Philadelphia The Childrens Library Associations four
day program Tuesday through Thursday will be highlighted by talks by Elizabeth
Nesbitt Associate Dean Carnegie Library School Pittsburgh and Ken McCormick
editorinchief Doubleday and CompanyThe Division of Cataloging and Classification will conduct a program on
Thursday July 7 morning with cosponsorship of AASL ACRL and PLD with dis
cussions centering on What Is Wanted from the Card Catalog The Margaret
Mann Citation will be awarded at this meeting
Prior to the Annual Conference there will be three meetings A Book
Selection Work Conference sponsored jointly by the Intellectual Freedom Committee
and the ALA Public Libraries Division will be held on Saturday and Sunday July
2 and 3
Purpose of the Work Conference at the BellevueStratford Hotel is to
bring together librarians particularly from the smaller public libraries who
are concerned with policy questions in regard to book selection Those who attend
will receive kits of materials on the subject including samples of existing book
selection policies
Registration is limited to 300 and reservations with the fee of 3 should
be sent early to Paul Bixler Librarian Antioch College Yellow Springs Ohio
The AudioVisual Institute will be held on Saturday and Sunday July 2 and
3 a For further information see page 3
The Personnel Administration Workshop sponsored by the Personnel Adminis
tration Board is scheduled for July 1 and 2 The Institute is designed to give
library administrators an opportunity to discuss with one another their exper
iences with and ideas on democratic administration in general and in libraries
in particular The registration fee is s500 Checks or money orders should
be sent to Hazel B Timmerman 50 E
accepted in the order of receipt
Huron St Chicago Reservations will be

The Georgia Library Association will hold its biennial meeting November 3
k and 5 1955 at the Bon Air Hotel Augusta Georgia Program plans are under
way and we are sure the Program Planning Committee Porter Kellam Chairman will
have an excellent program for us
Air
Make your plans now to attendI
Hotel as soon as possible
Reservations should be made with the Bon
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The Alumni Association of the Rabun GapNacoochee Junior College has
raised and donated U0000 to the college library for the purchase of new books
This gift represents the third group which has taken particular interest in
building up the book collection of this library The Cornelia Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Rabun Gap Beta Club have recently
contributed books to be put in the library
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The third edition of Whos Who in Library Science 1955 is now available
for 500 from the Grolier SocietyAUDIOVISUAL NEWS
A preconference AudioVisual Institute will be held on Saturday and Sunday
July 2 and 3 at the 7ith Annual Conference of the American Library Association
in Philadelphia This will be the first AudioVisual Institute to be held since
1951 and will cover developments in the field since that time Cosponsoring this
affair are the ALA AudioVisual Board
Office for Adult Education
the AudioVisual Round Table and the ALA
At this Institute the first results of a survey of cooperative film services
will be discussed to help shape the final survey report Another feature will be
a Problem Clinic when participants may go from one small group to another for ans
wers by experts to specific questions Among the subjects to be covered at the
Institute will be Educational TV Materials for Young Adults Building and Servi
cing a Recordings Collection The Place of Film in Library Service to Children
and the Use of Films in Discussion
Georgia Librarians who plan to attend this conference should make advance
registration 200 for Institute 650 for the banquet by June 1 with Mrs
Grace T Stevenson Associate Executive Secretary of the American Library Associ
ation
The Public Library Film collection continues to serve the public libraries
and their patrons effectively in its fourth year of operation While it now
serves 21 libraries any public library which wishes to make use of this service
is eligible to borrow films for use in their own library programs or to lend to
responsible organizations Requirements are an annual fee of 1000 and a
projector which will be operated by a reliable projectionist Catalog and appli
cation forms should be requested from the State Deparmtment of Education 92 Mit
chell Street Sa W Atlanta
The American Library Association announces the 1955 revision of the annotated
list FILMS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES Price is 150 Some 358 currently available
sound films are annotated in this list

The Brookhaven Public Library one of the units in the DeKalbRockdale
Newton Regional Library System celebrated its fifth anniversary on Saturday
April 30 1955s with open house and a flower show in which four neighborhood
garden clubs participated
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April 2128 1955 was celebrated as GEORGIA AUTHORS WEEK sponsored by the
Georgia Writers Association This was the sixth annual observance in which
schools libraries and civic and cultural organizations throughout the state
participated with appropriate programs exhibits and other appropriate activities
honoring Georgia authors
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LIBRARY TRAIN DIG OPPORTUNITIES
Summer 1955
The shortage of librarians in Georgia at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels places on librarians a real responsibility for helping recruit to the
profession people whose personality interest and abilities will enable them to
furnish dynamic library leadership Librarians in service who have not completed
their program of library education are urged to continue their training this sum
mer o
The General Education Workshop at Emory will again offer a library interest
group with emphasis on elementary library problems The work carries credit
towards renewing certificates as well as towards entrance requirements for grad
uate library school
Regular undergraduate courses in library service are being offered at Emory
University Atlanta University of Georgia Athens Georgia State College for
Women Milledgeville and Georgia Teachers College Statesboro
Graduate library work can be begun andor continued in the south at Emory
University Atlanta Florida State University Tallahassee University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill Peabody College Nashville and Louisana State
University Baton Rouge
For detailed information write to the school of your choice
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Librarians working with adult groups will be interested in these two
summer workshops on Adult Education
Rutgers University Workshop for information writes
Dr Lowell Martin Director
Library School
Rutgers University
New Brunswick New Jersey
Midwest Workshop in Community Human Relations for information writes
Dr Bettie B Sarchet
University College University of Chicago
19 South LaSalle Street
Chicago 3 Illinois

YOUR ALBANY a booklet issued by the Albany League of Women Voters includes
an historical review of the city and an article on the Carnegie Library pre
pared by Mrs Virginia RIley Librarian
STUDENT ASSISTANT NEWS
The Eighth District Library Assistants Association held their spring meeting
in Lakeland Friday March k Representatives from seven schools attended The
program consisted of a discussion of local club activities and problems
Sarah Strickland Waycross was elected president
The fall meeting is being planned for November 16 at the Berrien High School
Nashville
O OG O O O
The Third District West Association will hold their spring meeting in Colum
bus on Saturday May lljth
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The Second District Association met at the Albany High School on April lit
Around 22 student assistants attended the meeting The Pelham Club presented a
skit based on book characters and Miss Grace Hightower spoke on the opportunities
in library work Sydnor Peacock Albany was elected president for the coming year
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Many library clubs have been receiving excellent newspaper publicity Among
them have beens
The Lincoln County Club for their discussion of What other Clubs are doing
using information from national library magazines and for their lovely Confederacy
Ball
The Sale City Club for their tea in honor of Mrs Elizabeth K Scruggs on her
retirement from the MitchellBakerWorth Regional Library
The Seminole Donalsonville Club for their tea honoring the school faculty
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CLUB ACTIVITIES
quoted from
The SAL0Ao News Bulletin of the Second District Association
Pavo High has a library page in their school paper Pirate Press containing
interesting bits about the library0 One item of special interest was a Book Bazaar
they had on April 29 Mr Ralph McGill editor of the Atlanta Constitution was
guest speaker at that time
Meigs High reports that their libraryclub enjoys more prestige has done
more for public relations and is more popular than any other school club accord
ing to a poll of the clubs in their school They also made 12300 on concession
stands at ballgames which is to be used for new library books What a splendid
reports
Seminole County Donalsonville reports that each teacher has a library
assistant who is his or her special representative This sounds like a very good
idea Perhaps more of us would like to try this idea They also reported a study6
of parliamentary procedure and help with the Red Cross drive Too we cant pass
up the lovely way in which they entertained the Executive Board of SALoA in
January We understand they are planning a new library Good lucki
Cairo High Library Club reports that they hold a luncheon meeting once a
month at noon for business
Sale City Library Assistants not only assist with the High School Library
but have complete charge of the Elementary Library During Book Week they held
contests and gave parties to the classes reading the most booksD They also gave
a library tea for the former chairman of Childrens and Young Peoples Library
Section Mrs Elizabeth Scruggs
Baker County High Newton reports having put on a special program for
each day of Book Week
Mitchell County High Camilla reports as one of their jobs the checking
and care of audiovisual materials This is a new field in which we could all
help
The Moultrie Junior High Club reports a library party for the Seventh
Grade its purpose to make them feel at home in the library when entering
Junior High School A delightful ideaj
Doerun High reports a poster making contest with prizes These posters
were displayed at a night PToA meeting This sounds like a good way of
making our PTAs library conscious
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SL0Ao Student Library Assistants of the Fifth District held its Spring
meeting at the College Park High School on March 31 1955 Mary Louise Savage
Acting President presided
The program was planned as a school day and divided into four partss
Civicsthe business meeting MusicCollege Park Glee Clubj MathClassification
Quiz RecessPaper bag lunch in cafeteriaj LiteratureTalk by Mrs Clara Ingram
Judson author of Andrew Jackson and many other biographies and stories for
children and young people
Fifth District S0LAo has announced the election of the following new officers
Presidents Ann Rapier Murphy High School
VicePresidents Frank Cooper Russell High School
SecTreass Louise Cunningham Decatur High School
Reporters Robert Aldredge Campbell High School
Historians Tommy Sargent West Fulton High School
Each school brought mimeographed copies of its library activities to share
with all the other schools Some of the reports included
Recommendation for improved library service in the areas of shelfreading
overdues marking catalog drawers staff recruitment staff handbook College
Park High School
Celebration of the school librarys 75th Anniversary including a birthday
party also some good bulletin board suggestions Roosevelt High School
Report on service projects and selection of materials
School
Avondale High7
An excellent and comprehensive manual for library assistants Newton
County High Schools
Description of scrapbook and information about the annual gift of the
library assistants Southwest High School
Georgia Authors Day how the material is assembled and the activities that
climax the project Campbell High School
Club activities including field trips parties installation of officers
and Book WeekMurphy High School
Sponsorship of bulletin board displays by clubs or classrooms United Nations
Display plans for two most outstanding library assistants Chamblee High School
Preparation of a Biography File and Activities in connection with the Christ
mas Box Hoke Smith High School
Description of display on travelTucker High School
Bulletin board contest and a book clearance sale West Fulton High School
Policy with regard to schedule of staff members Suggestion Box and activities
in the areas of bulletin boards improvement in appearance of library and book
mending Milton High School
Description of bulletin board practices with picture of winning bulletin
board for the 3rd quarter Russell High School
Initiation of new club members improvement of school grounds Roswell
High School
If library clubs in other districts would like to see the material briefly
described above and the Newsletter from the Second District we shall be glad to
lend the folder for a short period of time
1955 VACATION READING CLUB
TREASURE IN BOOKS is the theme selected for 1955 vacation reading clubs and
all libraries which wish to use this theme have been supplied with notebooks
posters directions for carrying on the club and a list of suggested books to be
used in carrying out the Treasure idea from the Library Division State Depart
ment of Education 92 Mitchell Street S Atlanta Georgia State Certificates
will also be furnished as usual to participating libraries

West Georgia Regional Library is distributing an attractive bookmark calen
dar Besides the calendar and the librarys name the bookmark carries the
slogan Always Ready to Serve You8
SCHOOL LIBRARY NEWS
Dear Newsletter
In answer to your inquiry we think that we have something to print in
your next bulletin
Namely the Lumpkin County High School Library in Dahlonega the Gold
Rush Town has gained something and lost something this year both representing
progress in the field of school librarianship
The High School Library has gained its first librarian with library training
Mrs Helen B Wilson who is working on her Masters degree in Librarianship at
Emory
The High School Library has lost its study halls and Home Room in order to
accommodate the increasing library traffic
Since this high school did not receive the extra teacher which was earned
by increased enrollment the transfer of the Study Hall and Home Room repre
sents a great deal of ingenuity on the part of our Principal Mr J P King
and a great deal of cooperation on the part of the class room teachers who have
been willing to absorb the study hall pupils into the vacant seats in the back
of their classrooms where such occurred and special credit goes to our Commer
cial teacher Mrs H B Forester who took the Librarians Home Room this semes
ter so that there would be room for students from every Home Room our first half
hour to visit the Library
Orchids to Lumpkin County High Schools
This letter was received in response to the request contained in the last
issue It is hoped that others will write Newsletter Library Division State
Department of Education concerning their achievements
Mrs Iva Goolsby Cuthbert High School Librarian was the speaker at a re
cent meeting of the Cuthbert Rotary Club according to the Cuthbert Times Mrs
Goolsby discussed the schools library program with particular emphasis on the
ability of the library to supplement the instructional program by supplying appro
priate reading and audiovisual materials on all levels of ability
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More and more elementary school children are having an opportunity to
benefit from a school library program Recent articles in the Macon Telegraph
tell how much the children are enjoying and learning from the newly opened lib
raries at T D Tinsley and Joseph N Neel Schools of Bibb County
Medlock Elementary School DeKalb with the help of the PTA has built
up one of the largest elementary school libraries in the county according to a
recent article inthe DeKalb New Era The article carried several excellent
photographs as well as a detailed account of the way in which this library has
been developed and is being operated through cooperative effort on the part of
the parents pupils and teachers9
Other newspaper publicity told about the new bookshelves for the Edison High
School the settling of a friendly argument by checking information in the library
materials at Jones County High Gray the book fair at the Sandersville High
School new books received at Berrien High SchoolNashville Soperton School
Stone Mountain High and Calhoun High
The DeKalb County School librarians and teacherlibrarians recently met
together to consider book collections and magazine orders Mrs Alice Bohannan
Supervisor planned the meeting to help the group in making out their spring maga
zine order and in appraising their book collections prior to selecting books for
next fall
Virginia McJenkins Director Fulton County School Libraries discussed
Criteria for the Library Book Collection Grace Hightower Library Consultant
State Department of Education discussed Selection of Magazines After the
discussion period the group divided some to examine copies of all the magazines
on the state list and some to examine and discuss some recent books with Louise
Trotti from the DecaturDeKalb Regional Library
Moore Avenue Elementary School library has been a busy scene this year accord
ing to a report from Margaret LaFar Principal It all began with an empty new
library room The faculty PTA and pupils wanted a real library not just a
room fully equipped but with out materialsI
A faculty committee with one teacher from each grade level was appointed and
several PTA members volunteered to assist the committee With the guidance of
Frances Rees Savannah Public Library Staff member and one of the mothers who
had been a school librarian the committee went to work They collected books
from all over the school selected new ones processed books and proformed all the
other necessary tasks Now they are ready to organize pupil assistants to help keep
the library in order and to circulate the books
Miss LeFar stated that their ultimate goal is a librarian Until then though
we want our youngsters to have the thrill of browsing checking out books for home
leisure reading and for learning the skills of how to use a library
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The East Side School Lumpkin County held an Open House April 21 as a
culminating activity following a years work to determine what would be the effect
on the faculty and pupils of an allout program of complete library service The
program was directed by Miss Isabel Lumsden Supervisor Lumpkin County and Mrs
Howard Pursell Director Chestatee Regional Library The program called for as
complete use of the library service as possible by teachers and pupils Both the
faculty and students took part in planning the program as well as in its execution
A Library Council was organized with two pupils from each room as members They were
responsible for keeping records of books read by each pupil for the book display
table and for the Book Week celebration The program will be evaluated on the basis
of an informal evaluation by teachers and pupils on a record of the childrens
reading on reading test scores and on comparison of circulation statistics
Some conclusions were reported at the open house more interesting class
activities wide reading on the part of all pupils the ability of the pupils to
take care of materials and routines connected with libraries and bookmobiles and
that too frequent visits of the bookmobile is not necessary if provision is made for
wide circulation of the materials between visits10
NEW BOOKMOBILES
A new bookmobile for use in the MitchellBakerWorth Regional Library
System was delivered early in the year and was put on display in Sylvester
Camilla and Newton during successive days before starting on its regular
schedule of service in these counties A local firm in Poulan converted
a panel truck into a modern attractive bookmobile with all the latest
features It has a capacity for about 1200 volumes The outside is
painted light green with white lettering while the inside finish is
in a soft grey This region now has two bookmobiles operating inthe
service area of the three counties thus giving much more effective
service to schools communities and rural patrons
TownsUnion Regional Library has a new bookmobile replacing the
original jeepmobile which first served the people of this mountainous
region The new bookmobile boasts an International chassis on which a
Gerstenslager bookmobile body has been built Capacity is 800 volumes
which is ample for this small and sparsely settled region
A new Gerstenslager bookmobile has also been recently delivered to
the PolkFloyd Regional Library at Lindale and will soon begin traveling
over these two counties replacing the old bookmobile which has been
worn out through hard and continuous service over a period of years

NEW REGIONAL LIBRARIES
The Okefenokee Regional Library has recently been organized
with Mrs Sam Fain as director in charge Library resources of Ware and
Pierce Counties have been pooled to form this new region headquarters
having been established at Waycross in the present public library
which will be replaced soon by a new library building for the city
and region Officials of Clinch County have been in conference with
the Regional Library Board and perhaps by the time this Bulletin is
in print this county will have become a part of the Regional Library
System
Dodge and Telfair Counties have likewise joined together to form
a Regional Library System for these two counties with headquarters at
the lovely new library building in Eastman known as the Murrell
Memorial Library Mrs Ethelyn Rolfe is in charge as director of this
program
Georgia now has 28 Regional Library Systems serving 77 counties
almost onehalf of the 159 counties In the state which we think is
a pretty good record in ten years time with state aid as the stimulus
for this development

Friends of the Augusta Library have adopted as their 1955 project
the purchase of speedreading equipment for aid in the teaching of faster
and more comprehensive reading This nonprofit organization is devoted
solely to the sponsorship of Augustas library program The Friends
have already supplied a movie projector hifi apparatus and a micro
film reader for the use of library patrons11
NEW LIBRARY QUARTERS AND EQUIPMENT
The Annie Prairie Appleby Branch of the Augusta Regional Library was
officially opened to the public on March 26 1955 with Miss Emily Sheftall in
charge as branch librarian As announced in the January 1955 issue of this
Bulletin this handsome home was given to the city by Mr Scott B Appleby for
library purposes and is well located on Walton Way to reach a number of citizens
in that part of Augusta who have not found it convenient to use the main library
located in the down town business section 116 new borrowers were registered
during the first week that the new branch was open which is evidence of the ex
tended service which can be rendered from this point
New quarters for the Chatooga County Branch of the Cherokee Regional Library
are being provided in the new city hall building in Summerville The library will
be moved from its present location within a few weeks as soon as the new building
is completed
Final approval has been given by all parties concerned for the operation of
a library branch of the AtlantaFulton County Public Library System in the City
of College Parko Funds from a bond issue voted by the citizens of College Park
some months ago are being used for the construction of the library building which
will open about the first of September 12 0000 annually will then be paid by
the city officials of College Park to the City of Atlanta for the maintenance and
operation of this library branch
Construction has begun on a new book stack room on the north side of the
Dalton Regional Library building to match the stack room now on the south side of
the building The growing collection of books and periodicals for reference and
informational services of this library has necessitated the building of this new
stack room which should meet the shelving needs of the library for many years to
come Funds for this purpose have been provided chiefly by gifts from friends of
the library
The Annie Wright Memorial Library at Thomasville has recently been repainted
and renovated with some additional shelving provided for the growing book collec
tion This has made possible rearrangement of books on the shelves and a general
house cleaning within the library preparatory to the summer library activities
This library is housed in a section of the Thomasville city hall
Members of the Chatsworth Womans Club sponsored the face lifting of the
Murray County Library the women themselves doing the work of repainting and re
decorating the inside of the library building rearrangement of the books and other
general cleaning up processes to make the library more attractive and inviting and
also more workable for the librarian Mrs Johnnie Hartley and for the public
An electric water cooler has been donated to the Americus Carnegie Library
by the Bank of Commerce as a memorial to the late Frank P Harold who was a trus
tee and officer on this library board for many years The cooler has been install
ed in the entrance lobby of the library building marked with a bronze plate bearing
an appropriate inscription
The Statesboro Regional Library has likewise been given an electric water
cooler by the Statesboro Rotary Club as part of their celebration of their golden
anniversary fifty years of civic service to the people of Statesboro and vicinity
New book cases have been built and installed in the Miller County Library at
Colquitt by members of the Future Farmers of America under direction of Mr Harry
Davis their counselor12
The headquarters building of the DecaturSeminole Regional Library at
Bainbridge has recently been repainted throughout in a beautiful shade of
aquagreen and the old lighting system changed to flourescent lighting
Bright colorful and inviting this library will be even more attractive to
this libraryminded community Plans are under way for air conditioning to be
installed before the summer months
A table magazine rack and two attractive chairs in wrought iron were
recent gifts of the Garden Club to the Cairo Public Library
The Green County Library at Greensboro has obtained an additional room
in the county office building This space will greatly relieve a very crowded
condition in that library and make it possible to give more effective service
to the public
Plans are under way in Perry for the renovation of the Houston County
Court House which will include space for the Perry Public Library
Ground breaking ceremonies were held at the Talullah Falls School on
April 21 1955 for a new administration building which will include spacious
quarters for the Passie Fenton McCabe Library named in honor of the mother
of Mrs K Ottley Chairman of the former Georgia Library Commission for more
than twentyfive years
The new community owned recreation center which has just been completed
at Forest Park includes a spacious room to house the local branch of the
Clayton County Library The Forest Park Womans Club has agreed to furnish
and equip the library quarters and the ladies are busy studying color charts
library catalogs and raising funds for this project
A new library desk was recently presented to the Statesboro Regional
Library by the Educational Committee of the Statesboro Womans Club Funds
for the project were raised through a letter sent out by each member of the
committee to six people of their own choosing
The Bogart library a branch of the Athens Regional Library is for the
first time located in its own home on the first floor of a modern two story
brick building in the heart of the town This new building is a splendid
example of what initiative determination hard work and cooperation can accom
plish Funds for the new structure were raised through contributions from in
dividuals and groups assisted by the Oconee County Board of Education and County
Commissioners the officials in the town of Bogart and the local Masons
Many of the furnishings and a great deal of the paint was donated Lumber
was contributed for the reading table and the librarians desk One man gave
lumber for the shelves A school teacher donated a swivel chair Draperies
were made possible through a project of the local home economics students
Patrons of the thriving little community of Bogart are proud of their attrac
tive cheerful new library The librarian Mrs DeWitt Daniel feels sure that
business in the library is going to be better than ever since so many people
have shared in giving their library a home of its own

Mrs Lizabelle Langston Swift a former member of the Georgia Library
Commission and Librarian of the Seaboard Railway Free Traveling Library died at
her residence Hill Top Farms in Elbert County on March 2113
GEA PLAMIING CONFERENCE
It pays to advertise was the theme adopted for the 195556 program of work
for the Children and Young Peoples Section of the Georgia Education Association
at the Planning Conference held in Athens on April 29 and 30 Under the capable
leadership of Mrs Garrett the newly elected Chairman for the section the dis
cussion of activities programs and plans was lively and productive In addition
to the plan for emphasizing better library public relations including all forms
of publicity the group will push forward the completion in the late summer of a
handbook for officers of the organization Mrs Sue Russell Bolton School
Atlanta was appointed to the chairmanship of the Handbook Committee The planning
group also endorsed the idea of strengthening and encouraging student library assis
tants organizations and gave consideration to a statewide organization of student
assistants in libraries
All districts with the exception of one were represented at the conference
Others present were Miss Cornelia Lowe Secretary and Treasurer of the section
and Miss Lucile Nix from the State Department of Education

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CHILDRENS AND YOUNG PEOPLES LIBRARY SECTION OF G0EA
Books are Our Business Too sounded the theme for the annual meeting of the
Childrens and Young Peoples Section of the Georgia Education Association on
Friday March 18 1955 The beautiful library of the E Rivers School was packed
with high school librarians elementary librarians teacherlibrarians classroom
teachers and principals who came to learn what some of the new trends are in books
for children and young people and how books may be used in special subject areas
This was brought out in a panel discussion in which the following participated
Mrs Nell Bateman Director JasperMorganPutnam Regional Library Madison Georgia
Mrs Frances Wing Librarian Roswell High School Miss Evalene Jackson Director
Division of Librarianship Emory University Mrs P A Springer Spanish Teacher
E Rivers Elementary School Mrs Betty Corley Instructional Supervisor Fulton
County Schools Mrs Dorothy Calder Art Supervisor Decatur City Schools Miss
Hazel Huffman Home Economic Teacher Hapeville High School
Attractive displays were set up and bibliographies were available for the
special areas discussed
Mrs Bernice McCullar Chief of the Public Relations Office of the State
Department of Education spoke at the luncheon meeting Her topic was What Are
You Reading which challenged librarians to read as they challenge children and
young people to read

A workshop in public affairs is being conducted by Syracuse University July 5
to August 120 Those desiring further information write Professor Phillips Bradley
Workshop in Public Affairs 218 Maxwell Hall Syracuse University Syracuse 10
New York1U
WHAT WILL THEY BE DOING NEXT
Anyone who thinks that libraries are now places just to deal with BOOKS over
the desk or even on the bookmobile will find himself sadly lacking in knowledge
of the modem uptodate library and its varied activities SUCH AS
THE PROJECTOR CLINIC conducted at the MeriwetherTalbotUpson Regional
Library headquarters at Manchester by Mr Harry P Mays representative of the
Calhoun Company at which eight ladies representatives from as many clubs in
the region learned how to operate the motion picture projector which the city
has recently purchased for the use of the Civil Defense Committee and other
organizations The library has a film collection which may be borrowed by such
organizations but the problem of showing the films is sometimes an acute one
now solved by having a club member properly trained in the techniques of the care
handling and showing of films
PUBLICITY INSTITUTE for the benefit of the publicity chairmen of organi
zations conducted by Mr Louis Griffith public relations director for the
University of Georgia at the Savannah Public Library on Friday February h 1955
won1t the newspapers be pleased with this one
ART LECTURE by Raymond MacMahon Professor of Art at Birmingham Southern
College on the history and development of modern art opening the Hospital
League Fine Arts series in Albany Carnegie Library
SERIES OF PUBLIC FORUMS ON POETRY given during February and March at the
Chestatee Regional Library at Gainesville under the direction of Phillip Wolf of
the University of Georgia OffCampus Center This was a joint project of the
library and the Center for Continuing Education of the University of Georgia and
proved most successful
HOBBY TALKS at the Athens Regional Library aimed directly at children but
adults were also invited This series continued for three afternoons during Feb
ruary each talk on a different subject given by an expert in his field
GARDEN CLUB CENTER Coffee County Public Library at Douglas has joined the
ranks of those libraries setting up a garden club center in cooperation with the
local garden clubs Easy chairs special book shelves for all gardening books
and attractive floral displays what more can a good garden club member ask for
STORY TELLING INSTITUTE conducted by the Savannah Public Library during
the last week in April Mrs Ruth T Young of Frankfort Kentucky widely known
for her accomplishments in this field was instructor for this institute to
which interested organizations and individuals in Chatham and Effingham Counties
were invited More than sixty persons registered for this training
GREAT BOOKS GROUP which has been meeting at the Carnegie Library in Rome
since January 13 1955 under sponsorship of the University of Georgia Off
Campus Center there and the local library Many such groups in the state have
studied great booksduring the past five or more years but the interest in
this continues and spreads from town to town
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ATLANTAS WOMAN OF THE YEAR IN EDUCATION 1955
Another honor has recently come to Miss Tommie Bora Barker retired director
of Emory University Division of Librarianship who is at present touring Europe
with Miss Fanny Hinton in having been chosen Atlantas Woman of the Year in Edu
cation Miss Barker was one of six Atlanta women representing different fields
of activity who were honored at the annual WOTY recognition banquet at the Piedmont
Driving Club on Wednesday January 26 1955 She was presented a handsome silver
trophy as a lasting memento of the occasion A large group of librarians from
Atlanta and vicinity attended the banquet to honor Miss Barker who is the fourth
Atlanta librarian to win this distinction since the WOTY annual awards were begun
in 19U2 Other librarians so recognized have been Mrs Dorothy Crosland Miss
Fanny Hinton and Miss Ella May Thornton
OUT OF STATE VISITOR
Miss Dorothy Darrow of Miami Florida assistant coordinator of the
Dade County School Libraries spent Monday April 18 1955 at the Division
of Instructional Materials and Library Services State Department of Education
making an intensive study of the State Catalog Service with the idea of setting
up a similar centralized cataloging service for the Dade County Florida School
Libraries Miss Darrow seemed very much pleased with the helpful and detailed
information she received
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THE SCHOOLHOUSE STORY published by the State Department of Education is
a most attractive and informative pamphlet report of the State School Building
Authority and how Georgia has built two hundred million dollars worth of school
buildings in the past few years Copies of this Bulletin together with the
biennial report of the State Department of Education for the period ending
June 30 195U which includes the official report of the Division of Instruct
ional Materials and Library Services is being mailed to the public libraries in
the state as well as to the state library extension agencies of other states
library schools and a selected mailing list of other organizations and institu
tions Other libraries wishing to receive a copy of THE SCHOOLHOUSE STORY may
write for it
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The Mary Willis Library at Washington Georgia will be included on a
tour of interesting places in that historic community taking place on May k 1955

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TRAINING PROGRAM IN GROUP DISCUSSION LEADERSHIP
The Savannah Public Library has completed a very successful training program
for group discussion leadership Louis Griffith conducted the program for the
library
The two series adults on Friday night and young adults on Saturday ran
for five weeks Seventeen signed up for the adult group and eleven for the young
adult group Interest and attendance remained high throughout the program
Invitations had been issued to about lo different organizations with
limited attendance from any one organization 21 different organizations were
represented in the attendance of the groups
At the conclusion of the meetings several members indicated that they would
want to go ahead with further discussions It is hoped that some of the organiza
tions will form discussion groups within the organization
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A new publication
LIBRARY PLACEMENT EXCHANGE
is offering a unique service to libraries and librarians It contains listings
of position opportunities and positions wanted in the library world Address all
inquiries tog Library Placement Exchange PO Box 172 Benjamin Franklin Station
Washington h D C
CO o O o o
Junior Members Newsletter also carries announcements of vacancies Address
inquiries to Mr Wm J Quinly Head AudioVisual Center Chicago Teachers College
Chairman of Junior Members Round Table
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GEORGIA LIBRARIANS IN PHINT
Ira Lois Brown of the Albany Carnegie Library received a FREE ALA member
ship for her quotation in the OVERDUE FINDS column of the March A0L0AQ Bulletin
The April issue of the Wilson Bulletin carries her article The Book Hospital
so look for it
Bookmobile or Milk Truck was the title of Lola Keowns article published in
the October 19 issue of Wilson Bulletin Miss Keown is a staff member of the
Cherokee Regional Library at LaFayette
The April issue of Wilson Bulletin carried Annie Rae Jennings excellent
article You Can Have What You Want The article is an account of how an
elementary school went about organizing a central library
The May AoLA Bulletin carries an OVERDUE FIND from Gladys Deloach Labora
tory School Collegeboro
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PROCHESS REPORT HADE AT MEETING OF REGIONAL LIBRARY
Commerce News January 20 1955
A report on the progress of the Regional Library for Barrow Jackson and
Walton Counties featured a meeting of mayors of cities chairmen of the city
and county boards of education editors library board members superintendents
of schools county agents librarians commissioners of roads and revenues and
visiting teachers in the Area More than i0 citizens attended the meeting which
was presided over by Mrs Wise chairman of the regional board
Reports were made by Cecil Beach director Mr and Mrs Ridgeway of the
bookmobile Mrs Dunahoo bookmobile librarian the assistant director and
stenographer and the treasurer
Georgia introduced the threecounty plan for regional libraries and the
plan has been copied by other states Mr Beach stated Forty white schools
32 colored schools and adult stations comprised of about 12000 students are
being served in the three counties Each school receives onethird as many
books as students per month to date he stated Separate books are provided
for the colored schools
More than U000 books have been purchased to date plus 2500 which are
being loaned by the state Daring the months of October November and Decem
ber these 6500 books were read by approximately 21600 people he pointed out
The regional library also supplies by special request books and will assemble
material for programs
The bookmobile serves the Commerce Grammar and High Schools the local lib
rary and the Johntown School The bookmobile service goes through the summer
months and children reading under the supervision of the bookmobile librarian are
eligible for state reading certificates
A special fund of 200000 per county is being raised to purchase a book
mobile The one in use at the present time is being loaned by the state
Barrow County has already raised 212050j Walton County 212500 and
Jackson County has raised only 150000
Every Negro teacher in Jackson County has subscribed 500 each
The regional library is the 26th founded in this state

Representatives from more than fifty organizations public agencies and
institutions met in Athens on April 1115 1955 for the first conference devoted
entirely to adult education activities within the state Kiss Lucile Nix Chief
Library Consultant for Public Libraries of the State Department of Education pre
sided over the conference having served as chairman of the Planning Committee
A number of librarians were in attendance and participated in the workshop sessions
and general discussions Plans were formulated for the organization of permanent
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SPECIAL LIBRARIES NEWS
The Georgia Chapter Special Libraries Association announces publica
tion of a Directory of Libraries Represented in Georgia Chapter Institutional
members and the libraries of individual members are included with data concerning
size kind special collections and services to other libraries College univer
sity and public library reference librarians will find this useful in locating
special collections of materials within the state
This preliminary edition is mimeSSgraphed approximately 50 pages and sells
to nonmembers for fifty cents It will be available to nonmembers after Kay 20
1955s from Miss Katherine Glass Librarian Technical Library Research and Devel
opment Division Callaway Mills Company LaGrange Georgia Copies will also be
available at the 1955 meeting of the Georgia Library Association
o o o e e
On March 7 and 8 1955 the Georgia Chapter SLA had the privilege of enter
taining Miss Gretchen Little President of the Special Libraries Association Miss
Littles attention was focused on Chapter business during a meeting of the Execu
tive Board but most of her time was spent meeting Chapter Members and friends
at luncheons dinners and a reception and visiting Georgia Special Libraries In
iwo days Miss Little managed to visit two university libraries six professional
school libraries two technical research libraries and special departments of a
public library Libraries visited were at Emory University main library medical
law and business and library science Atlanta University main library library
science Southern College of Pharmacy Callaway Mills Company West Point Manu
facturing Company and Atlanta Public Library Business Fine Arts Margaret
Mitchell Room
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The May meeting of the Georgia Chapter SLA will be of general interest and
is open to all who wish to come At this meeting Dr Maneck Bapuji Vajifdar will
speak on the subject Indian Libraries Dr Vajifdar is Assistant Librarian
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bombay India He is one of a group of
foreign librarians brought to this country for internships in leading American
libraries under a joint program of the AaLA and the U S State Department He
has spent some time in Washington and attending various seminars before coming to
Atlanta where he is currently working on his internship at Price Gilbert Library
Georgia Institute of Technology
The meeting will be held on May 20 at 7s30 PM in the Communicable Disease
Center Library PeachtreeSeventh Building Following the meeting there will be
a reception in honor of Dr Vajifdar
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The Professional Library Committee met April 2930 to select material for the
Georgia Library List Sally Smith Sweetwater Valley Library Austell was elected
chairman of the group and Ethel Peerson Flint River Regional Library Griffin
served as secretary Other Members of the Committee were Louise Reeves Supervisor
Newton Countyj Mrs JW Kilner Gainesville Mill Schoolj and Louise KcDaniel Rus
sell High School East Point The Library Division as well as librarians who use
the lists appreciate the careful evaluations made by these professional committees

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NEWS OF GEORGIA LIBRARIANS
Mr Henry Siearouse has been appointed to the position of library consultant
for the Tift County Public Library at Tifton to work with Mrs Ruth Thornhill
County Librarian and other staff members in expanding and improving the services
of this library
Mrs Mildred C Garret Librarian of Manchester High School was elected
new chairman of the Children and Young Peoples Section of the Georgia Education
Association at the meeting held in Atlanta on March 18 1955 during the GEA Con
vention
Mrs Lewis Ethridge has succeeded Miss Anna E Colbert as Librarian of the
Stewart County Library at Richland Kiss Colbert resigned to accept another type
of position
Mrs Myrna Schnell is the new librarian at Warner Robins Public Library
succeeding Miss June Ferguson who resigned
Mrs Jim Griffeth Jr has been appointed librarian of the Winder Public
Library which is a unit of the JacksonBarrowWalton Regional Library System
serving the people of that community She succeeds Miss Dorothy Maynard who
served as librarian for a few months following the resignation of Mrs Frances
Potts who was identified with this library since its founding as a WPA Library
Project in 19Ul
Miss Florrie Jackson Librarian of Berry College was initiated into the
Beta Phi Mu Honorary Library Science Fraternity during the midwinter conference
of the American Library Association in Chicago
Miss Louise Trotti Director of Extension for the DecaturDeKalbRockdale
Newton Regional Library was initiated into Alpha Kappa Chapter of Delta Kappa
Gamma Honorary Education Society at a meeting held in Avondale on Wednesday
March 16 1955
Mrs C Jo Martin is now in charge of the Liberty County Library at Hines
ville succeeding Miss Mary Fraser
Brewton Parker Junior College Library at Mt Vernon now has a professionally
trained librarian in charge Miss Margaret Sandlin who has recently come to
Georgia from Arkansas to assume her library duties at the college
Mrs AOjTia W Newton has succeeded Mrs Eugenia Cavender on the staff of the
Dalton Regional Library She will serve as director of work with children and
young people
Marguerite Gilbert Waycross High School will be working during the summer
months in the Education Library at Syracuse University
Mr John A Griffin has joined the staff of the Okefenokee Regional Library
at Waycross Mr Griffin is a former teacher and holds a masters degree in ed
ucation
Mrs Manning Tripp is temporarily employed on the staff of the DodgeTelfair
Regional Library at Eastman
Miss Wessie Cornell Librarian of the Cairo Public Library is still confined
to her home on account of illness Her doctor has permitted her to go to the library20
for a short period of time in the past few weeks
Mr C S Hubbard Director of the Division of Instructional Materials and
Library Services State Department of Education attended the meeting of the
National Textbook Directors Association in New Orleans in April after which he
went on to Los Angeles California for the meeting of the Rational Association
of AudioVisual Education At this meeting Mr Hubbard took part in a panel
discussion on the use of instructional materials
Miss Sarah Jones of the State Department of Education Library Division
Staff spoke to the School Librarians Section of the Kentucky Education Associa
tion at the annual meeting in Lexington in April
Mrs J R Belflower former junior high school teacher has joined the staff
of the Tift County Library She will serve as assistant to Mrs Ruth Thornhill
bookmobile librarian
Mrs Harry Stanton formerly head of the childrens room at the Savannah
Public Library has succeeded Miss Edith Inglesby as head of the downtown branch
of the Savannah Public Library Miss Inglesby is retiring after 28 years success
ful experience on the library staff Mrs Stanton returns to the staff after a
years leave of absence for study
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Did you hear the University of Chicago Round Table discussion on LIBRARIES
broadcast on Sunday February 6 1955 with L Quincy Mumford ALAo President
Robert J Blakely Fund for Adult Education and Lester Asheim Dean of the
University of Chicago Graduate Library School participating If not or if you
did and would like a printed copy of this most worth while discussion write
to the State Department of Education Division of Instructional Material and
Library Services92 Mitchell Street SW Atlanta and a free copy will be mailed
as long as the supply lasts
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The Journal of the National Education Association for February 1955 carried
a double page cartoon in color entitled YOUR LIBRARY IS YOUR BANK This was pre
pared by the Joint Committee of NEA and ALAo and is especially suited to
high school library propaganda It is an excellent bulletin board material
Any teacher or librarian may secure one free copy by writing directly to the
National Education Association 1200IoTih Street NW Washington 6 D C or
you may secure a copy by writing to the State Department of Education Division
of Instructional Material Library Services 92 Mitchell Street 5W Atlanta
as long as the supply lasts
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