The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10
LIBRARY MEETING
STATE ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN
 JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Birmingham, Besscmer and Ensiey Each to Be yisited--EnOrt to Establish Public Library
 Rt NRirminGham.

The fourth annual meeting of the Alabama Library Association will take place in Jefferson County on November 25. 2s. 27. the program for these meet ings having been arranged by the Pres ident, pr. Thomas M. Owen. Director of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History.
 The sessions of the Association will be held in the City Hall at Birming- ham. the Carnegie Library at Besse- mer and in the Carnegie Library at EnsIey, respectively. One of the spe- ciaI purposes of this meeting will be to arrange for the establishment of e free public library at Birmingham.
 Since the estabfishment of the Ala bama Library Association many com munities have established free libra ries, and 1t is now the general purpose of the Association to have a free H. brary in every city in the State of 5000 inhabitants or more.
 Dr. Owen mas given much of his time to the furtherance of the purposes of the Association, and says he believes now that within the no&e few years Alabama will have more free libraries per capita than any other State. in the South.
 "It is a great educational scheme" said Dr. owen yesterday, land we send enlightenment into the homes of the poor, very often, when they do not even realize 1t. The Association is growing rapidly and at the meeting to be held in Birmingham believe that plans will be put on foot that will be of untold benefit"
 The program for the three Jeffer- son County cities includes some of the best speakers in Alabama and all of the sessions are certain to be interest Svo ia oc fnl1nWGs
 First day. Monday November, 25. Evening session, 7:S0 o'clock in the City Hall. Birmingham.
 Welcome, ex-Governor William H. Sims. Birmingham.
 Response, Mrs. Lee Moody, Carnegie Library Board. Ressener
 '"rhe Free Public Library in Modern Life" pr. Charles Coleman Thach, President Alabama. Polytechnic Insti- tute, Auburn.
 "TraiIled Librarianship," Miss Ora Ioneen Smith, Librarian University of Alabama.
 Welcome-W. H. H., Judson. Editor Bessemer Weekly. Bessemer:
 Annual address-Dr. Thomas M. Owen. President. Montgomery.
 Reports of officers: Executive Coun- ell. Secretary, Treasurer: Committees: Library Extension, School Libraries and Memoirs.
 pr. Thomas D. Parke, Birmingham.
 Library Courses for State Normal Schools"-Prof c. W. Daugette. Presi- dent State Normal College, Jackson - ''The Library Summer school"-Miss Alice Wyman, Librarian Alabama Girls Industrial School, Montevallo.
 After adjournment the party will have lunch. then take sightseeing trip through Bessemer, returning to Birmingham in time for the evening session
 Evening session, 7:3O o'clock, in the City Hall, Birmingham.
 The Free Public Library and the Industrial Community"-Dr. E. F. Buchner Professor of Pedagogy. Uni- versity of Alabama.
 "Librarianship as Profession- Miss Jessie HopkiHs, Assistant Libra rian, Carnegie Library. Montgomery. Third Day, Wednesday, November. X.
 Morning session. 9:S0 o'clock in Ems ley Carnegie Library.
 Welcome-D. F. tugg, Mayor, Ems
 'Iibraries in the Universities and Colleges of the State"-Prof. D. P. Christenberry. Southern University, Greensboro.
 Plans for Library Development at the A. P. I."-J. R, Rutland, Libra rian A P. l., Auburn.
 The Library and the High Schoof- Prof Joel C. DuBose, Birmingham. The Value of Books in the Research and Experiment Work of the Agricul- tural Schools"-Dr Clarence J. Owens, southeast Alabama Agricultural School. Abbeville.
 Paper by Mrs Teresa Miller, Libra riau Carnegie Library. Eufaula.
 After lunch the principal industries of EnsIeY will be visited.