Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1920 — LIBRARY CONFERENCE [ARTICLE]

LIBRARY CONFERENCE

Mrs. James H. Chapman and Mrs. Ora T. Ross will represent ' the Rensselaer Public Library at I the forty-second annual conference of the American , Library Association, to be held June 2 to 7 at Colorado Springs, Colo. The yearly gathering, which draws attendance from four thousand librarian members and from the public, college and institutional libraries of the United States and Canada, will r have especial significance next month, as it will occur at the height of the Association’s “Books for Everybody” movement, which it is hoped can be concluded July 1. Librarians of the nation, following the conclusion of their war work of providing library service for the 'fighting forces, to which the local library contributed by raising money and collecting books, realized more than ever the ex- 1 treme need for library extension! throughout large sections of the' United States, emphasized by re- i quests for assistance from ex-ser-' vice men who had feturned to home communities without public libraries. Plans for the enlarged program of the A. L. A. were first formulated at the 1919 conference at Ashbury Park, N. J., and have ' since evolved into a broad project for making public library service a vital, influence in every American community and an institution thru which s4lf-education—will be possible for every American. Friends of libraries throughout the country are now assisting in: raising the “Books for Everybody”, fund of $2,000,000, without resort to an intensive drive. It is expected that substantial progress will be reported at the Colorado Springs conference.

Those who live in modern flats have little room to complain.—Columbia Record.