Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-10
many attend
Library meet
District Meeting Held Here
Considered one of Most
Successful in the
State.
INTEREST
The State Librarian Of Des
M0ines Present and
Gave Talk.

The district library meeting held in
this city at the Kendall Young library
Friday was one of the most sue
lcessful, as well as the, largest, of any
of the eight similar meetings previous
lily held in the various districts Of the
Estate. Twenty-Five out Of town librar-
|ians and trustees from the different
Titles in this district were present,
which, together with the Kendall
Young library staff and other Webster
City people, made nm attendance OF
more than thirty.
The morning session opened at 10
O'clock with Miss Mariah Brace of
Waterloo, president of the Iowa IL
brary association, presiding. The en-
tire morning was given to an informal
discussion of library problems and
some excellent and profitable sugges-
tons were secured.
At noon the visiting delegates We're
)guests of the Kendall, Young library
lat Il delightful luncheon served by the
ladies Of the Universalist church.
Trustees Problems.
The trustees We're given an OppOr-
ttunity to discuss their problems and
subjects of interest to them at the af-
ternoon meeting. This discussion was
led by. G. V. Findley, trustee of the
Fort Dodge library. Following this, a
discussion Of books was taken up dur
ing which Miss Mary r. K%ingsbury OF
Hampton talked on Fiction" Miss
Isabella c. Hopper, Of Fort Dodge, on
E"Non-FictiOn,' and Miss Ruth H. Dun
more, 'children's librarian of Mason
lefty, led the discussion on Juvenile
Books"
State Librarian johnson Brigham of
Des Moines was in attendance at the
injecting and gave an exceedingly in
teresting address on Librarians Read
ling"
In a set of resolutions adopted, the
Legislative committee of the Iowa Ii
brary association was asked to investi-
lgate the possibility Of increasing the
appropriation for the maintenance of
the Iowa Library commission and also
the maximum levy for public library
Service. This committee vas also ask
ed to report concerning the legality OF
using a special levy which may be made
for the purpose Of construction, as a
repair fund. Investigation also of the
Laws in other states relating to county
librarians was asked, with a report and
ia. Recommendation at the state meeting
of the Iowa Library association at Des
Moines in October.
The AFTERNOON session Of the meeting
was necessarily shortened, as a num-
her of the delegates left on the after
noon trains.
The Delegates.
AS this is the first meeting of the
kind eve held in this city the local
librarians and trustees are justiiably
pleased with the splendid success Of
the meeting and the unusually large
attendance.
Out Of town people present were
Julia Robinson, Des MOines; Maria G..
Brace, Waterloo; Elsie B. Damn, Eagle
GrOve; Catherine C~ruikshank, Ft.
Dodge; Mrs. Belle B. Birdsall, Clarion
Mrs. L. NJ. Hartsock, Clarion !; Mary f,
WheelOck, EldOra: Caroline Orvis,
Mason City; Mrs. +. G. Anders, Iowa
Falls; Mrs. A. j. Barley. Boone; Mrs.
A. +. Betz, Parkersburg; Bertha Baird,
Mason City Ruth H. Dunmore, Mason
City Annie Tabor Evers, Independ-
ence Gertrude c. Haley. Fit. Dodge
Isabella G. Hopper, FIT. Dodge; c. v.
Findley, Ft. Dodge; Katherine s.
Furry, Alden; Lolita L. Spencer, Alden
Mary Il. lshermOOd, Waterloo; Nellie
Homes, Waterloo: Mary e. Kingsbury,
Hampton: johnson Brigham, Des
Moines; Mrs. f. II. Allan, Rockwell
City Miss Cora Corwin, Rockwell City.