Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-12
LIBRARY DIRECTORS
TO DISCUSS RADIO
Movies Also to Be Brought
Up at Convention, Opening
in City Tomorrow.

Whether the radio and movies are
competing successfully with the library
for the leisure hours of the American
public, and If so, to what extent these
two devices can be employed by the
library to further its own ends, Is one OF
the questions this week before the
American Library Association, which
meets here tomorrow in fifty-flrst an
nual session.
Twenty-Five hundred delegates are ex-
pected, representing public, school,
prison, business, institutional and coll
lege libraries in all parts of the coun-
try. The program permits group dis
cussion on the phases of the work.
Coup sessions will be held in hotels
here. although the general meetings will
convene in the Washington Auditorium,
Nineteenth street and New York ave-
nue..
Visual Aids to be Discussed.
The subject Of radio broadcasting
As it pertains to the library will be taken
up Friday afternoon at $3.50 at the
washington Hotel. G. H. Brown Of the
Iowa State College Library, will pre-
side at the round table discussion, to
be addressed by Arthur E. Bostwick,
st. Louis Public Library; Forrest B.
Spaulding, Des MoineS Public Library;
Berthe E. Weston Of the Library Jour-
nal, New York City: Julia F. Carter,
Cincinnati Public Library and Ruth
Calvin of the Iowa State College
Library.
the motion picture and other visual
aids to library work. This group meets
at 2:30 pm. in the Washington Audi
torium. room 4, and will be led by j. r.
Patterson of the Chicago Public Library.
Among those who will address this
meeting are Carl E. Milliken. secretary
Motion Picture Producers and DiStribu-
tors of America: Marilla W. Freeman Of
the Cleveland Public Library and Mr..
Patterson.
Much interest has been manifest In
the exhibit Of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commissions models.
plans and pictures Of the Government
building development here to be held in
connection with the convention. The
display will be in the Corcoran Gallery
OF Art.
The Office Of the local committee in
charge will be open daily at the audi
forum from $3.50 am. to s pm.
Honorary Members Listed.
The committee consists Of honorary
members as follows: Andrew w. Mellon,
chairman, Library of Congress trust
States commissioner of education;
Theodore w. Noyes, president of trus-
tees, Public Library Of the District Of
Columbia; william p. Stafford. vice
president of trustees; Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent Of schools; Cloyd H.
Marvin, president, George Washington
University; James H. Ryan, rector,
Catholic University; John C. Merriam,
president. Carnegie Institution Of
Washington, and Vernon Kellogg, Sec
Rotary, National Research Council.
Active members of the local commit
tee In charge are: George F. Bowerman,
chairman; Frederick w. Ashley, Charles
E. Babcock, C1aribel r. Barnett, Eliza
beth DeSsez, Isabel Dubois, Georgiana
c. Fenton, Charles H. Hastings, Clara
w. Herbert. Dorsey w. Hyde, jr; Rich
ard H. Johnston, Mary G. Lacy, M.
Alice Matthews, II. H. B. Meyer, Joy
E. Morgan, Miles o. Price, Laura A.
Thompson and Ralph L. Thompson.
Honorary chairmen appointed from
nearby Maryland and Virginia to assist
with plans for entertaining the visitors
are: William G. Baker, president; Enoch