Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1916 — LIBRARIANS WILL HOLD CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

LIBRARIANS WILL HOLD CONVENTION

Annual Meeting of District B Members to Be Held at Crawfords-

Crawfordsville is to be tlje seat of this year’s annual convention of District B of the State Library association, comprising seventeen cities and towns in this section of the state. The library people will convene March 1, and they will probably meet in the club rooms of the Carnegie library building at Crawfordsville. Some of the most important library cities in the state are included in district B, and the convention promises to be a large affair. Following are the cities and towns in the district: Attica, Boswell, Brook, Clark’s Hill, Crawfordsville, Delphi,. Earl Park, Flora, Fowler, Frankfort, Goodland, Kent-land, Ladoga, Lafayette, Monticello, Remington and Rensselaer. Last year the librarians of this district met at Frankfort and the convention was profitable and pleasant. There are teit districts of the state library association and in these are placed every city and town having a At the convention each year matters pertaining to the general library work throughout the state are discussed, reports heard and papers read. The convention is valuable in helping the librarians all over the state keep abreast of the times in their work, and this, together with the spreading of the usefulness of the library and the knowledge of its advantages is the object of the organization. The president of the association this year is Miss Margaret M. Colerick, of Fort Wayne.