Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1920 — WOMAN PRESIDENT OF A. L. A. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN PRESIDENT OF A. L. A.

A woman now holds the presidency of the American Library Association, the third to be honored in -this way in the more than forty years of the Association’s history. Miss Alice S. Tyler, director of the Western Reserve University Library School, at Cleveland, Ohio, was elected to the chief office of an organization comprising more than 4,000 librarians of the United States and Canadp, at the recent conference of the -Association in Colorado Springs. The selection of a woman, occurring at the most important and critical stage in the history of library work in America, is to be interpreted as a recognition of the predominant service of -women in the librarianshjp of America, library leaders say. The foremost task undertaken by Miss Tyler will be the successful accomplishment of the “Books for Everybody” movement of the American Library 'Association. Following the conclusion of its war work of providing library service for the fighting forces, the A. L. A. set itself to meet the library needs of America. The enormous field for library extension is revealed by a government survey which shows more than sixty million P*” 0 "* without access to free P«bnc libraries. The success of the Books for Everybody” movement deP*™ B upon obtaining the fund of 000,000 now being sought throughout the country. While progress has been made, the efforts of librarians and friends of libraries must be redoubled if the appeal is to be entirely successful, officials of the Association declare. Other woman presidents of the A. L. A- have been Mra. Theresa West Elmendorf, of the Buffrio Library, and Mias Mary Wnght Plummer, of the New York City Public Library School, who died in September, 191 I Many fans were disappointed at Goodland Sunday when the Marion team, a traveling organization, faU- . ed to put in an appearance.