Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
LIBRARIANS ELECT
MARYLAND WOMAN
Miss Adelaide Pratt Heads
Columbian Association.
Other Officers Named.

Miss Adelaide Pratt, Maryland State
director of public libraries, was elected
Pc president of the newly-formed Column
bian Library Association composed OF
library groups in Maryland, Virginia
and the District of Columbia, at the
annual meeting at the Grace Dodge
Hotel yesterday afternoon. Other Of
f1cers of the nominating committees
slate who were unanimously elected
were: Miss Eleanor Falley, librarian,
Goucher College. Baltimore, and F. w.
Ashley. assistant librarian, Library OF
Congress. vice presidents Miss Grace
Barnes. librarian, University of Mary
land. secretary, and W. Taylor Purdum,
chief, order department, Washington
Public Library, treasurer.
F. w. Ashley, formerly president OF
the District of Columbia Library ASSo-
citation, which became part OF the
Columbian Library Association yester-
day, acted as chairman and relinquished
the chair upon the election OF Miss
Pratt.
More than 200 delegates from the
Maryland, Virginia and District library
bodies attended the meeting.
-. Green's Secretary Speaks.
At the morning session, Miss F. c.
" Thorne of Philadelphia, secretary to
William Green, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, was the prin-
cipal speaker. Miss Thorne spoke on
the campaigns of the trades union
movement for public schools through
out the Nation and of the interest the
American Federation c7 Labor and its
associated groups are taking in edu-
cational affairs. 1.-THE library is q
necessary supplement to the boy or girl
going to school and it is the continual
ton of the education of the worker
out of school," she declared
THE American Federation of Labor
and, IN fact, the entire international
trades union movement" she added,
ARE built on the foundation of equality
for all through education, and the
library groups of the country can ex-
pect the utmost cooperation from the
American Federation of Labor and its
affiliated organizations"
In comprehensive paper at this ses-
sion, DR.. George F. Bowerman, Libra
rfan, Washington Public Library, dis
cuSsed the new trend in biography His
paper dwelt with the newer biographers,
such as Lytton Strachey, Andre Maui
roiS and Gamaliel Bradford, who. he
said, have lifted the biography from
the old set formula of two or more
bulky tones full of exhaustive but
poorly co-ordinated facts, and distorted
by. hero worship, to the highly readable,
more novel-like works that have sprung
up almost entirely since the ending Of
the World War.
Visit Library Exhibits.
Following the morning session lunch
con was served at the hotel and then
the delegates spent the afternoon visit
ing the various library exhibits about
town, including the new library with
its manuscripts and rare books Just
brought from Italy at Catholic Univer-
sity; the Library of Congress and the
American Library Associations exhibit
at the Grace Dodge Hotel
Last nights meeting followed the an
nual dinner at the hotel DR.. D. A. Rob-
ertson, assistant director of the Ameri-
can Council on Education, discussed re-
cent English poetry in paper read be-
fore the evening meeting.
The relations between the librarian
and the research worker and how the
former can better aid the latter were
discussed in paper also read before the
meeting by DR.. K. j. Gallagher, pro-
fesSor Of history, Goucher College.