Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-08
LIBRARIANS ARE
HERE NEXT WEEK
Illinois Association Opens An
nual Meeting in Rock Is
land Tuesday.
MANY AUTHORITIES COME
Three Joint Sessions to Be Held With
Iowa Organization, in Conven-
ton in Davenport.


nois Library association will convene |
in this city next Tuesday afternoon. |
simultaneously the Iowa Library asso- |
citation will meet in Davenport. Dur
ing the three days in which the two
state bodies will be in session there
will be joint meetings held. The pro-
gram for the Illinois association meet i
ing is to be as follows
Tuesday AfternOOn-ROcl1 Island
Library.
2:15-A meeting of the council.
2:45-GeneraI session.
Report of the secretary-F. X. W.
Drury, Champaign.
Report of the treasurer-Jane Hub
bell, Rockford.
Symposium Library conference
and Vacation Experiences, Miss Irene
Warren, school of education, Chicago
university
Five and 10-minute reports from IL
| brarians.
Tuesday Evenings O'clock.
Joint reception at the Davenport
Outing club given by the library board
of the Davenport public library. Spe-
cial cars, starting from the New Har-
per, will run to the Davenport Outing
club ..........
Library.
! General session-C B. Roden, as
sistant librarian, Chicago public IL
brary. chairman.
! 1.-"Auxiliary Activities That At
tract" Louis J. Bailey, librarian pub
lie library, Gary. Ind.
2.-"LabOr Saving Devices in the
Service of the Library" F. X. w.
Drury. assistant librarian, University
of Illinois.
3.-"Reaching the People in Chi
cago,' John F. Phelan, chief of branch
es division, Chicago public library.
Members are urged to contribute to
the success of the meeting by coming
prepared to discuss and to add to the
points brought out
"wednesday Afternoons O'Clock.
Joint session at First Methodist
church. Rock Island.
Editions of Classics for Children"
Miss Edna Lyman, presiding; Miss
Douglas, St. Louis, Miss Moore, Oak
Park, and others.
wednesday Evenings O'Clock.
Joint session at st. Johns church,
Davenport.
Fairgrounds and the Chicago Public
| Library" E. B. DeGroot, Chicago; H.
E. Legler, librarian, Chicago public Ii
brary.
Reunion dinner of Illinois library
81, ut m
at New Harper hotel, Rock Island.
Thursday Morning - Rock Island
Illinois library extension committee.
5000 a. m. Round Table:
Problems of the Small Library"
Eugenia Allin, organizer, assisted by
Mrs. Mabel Jewell, Altamont free pub
lie library Miss Mabel McIlvane,
Lake Forest public library.
Question box-Librarians are asked
to have questions ready for the ques-
tion box.
1000 a. m-General session, Mrs.
Eugenia NJ. Bacon, secretary of the
commission. presiding.
1-"What the Public Expects of the
Commission Miss Alice Tyler, secre'
tary of the Iowa commission.
opportunity VI DCNSlOpihS q
Civic Consciousness Through the Trav-
cling Libraries" Joseph Freeman
member of the commission.
Thursday Afternoon O'clock.
Joint session at st. Johns NJ. E
church, Davenport.
2:0O-"Some Principles of Book Sc
lection Miss Elva Bascom, editor A
I l.. A. booklist
3:3O-Address: '"The Modern Nov
ell Professor Richard Burton, Univer
sity of Minnesota.
4:30-Automobile ride.
Tips for Delegates.
Headquarters for the Illinois Library
4 association will be at the New Harper
All Illinois sessions will be held al
the Rock Island public library, two
I blocks south of the hotel.
4 Joint sessions in Rock Island at the
] NJ. E. church, three blocks south Of
4 the hotel
Joint meetings in Davenport will be
held at st. Johns NJ. E. church, corner