Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES [ARTICLE]

ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES

Held Annual Meeting at Hotel Severn—Rensselaer Library Sent Delegate—Brief Report. The seventh annual convention of the Indiana Library Trustees Association, the only organization of its kind in the country, was held at the Hotel Severin in Indianapolis, Nov. 17-18, with an attendance of about seventy members and delegates and a number of visitors. The president, Mrs. Elizabeth Claypool Earl, a member of the public library commission for many years, opened the meeting with a message covering a great many valuable points, and suggesting a legislative bill for county libraries, and a slogan for the year “Fitness First” A most interesting program followed, including the principal address “Privileges and Responsibilities of the Library Trustee,” by Purd D. Wright, of Kansas City; a paper on “The Financial Responsibility of the Trustee to the Community,” by Geo. B. Utley, secretary of the American Library Association; and a fine talk on “The Library as an Educational Force,” by Prof. Will D. Howe, of Bloomington. A round table and a question box brought out a discussion of the many problems of the trustee. The full proceedings will be published in the Decurrent, the organ of the commission. The Rensselaer public library was represented by Mrs. Ora T. Ross, the retiring treasurer of the association.