The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-04
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY A. 1857

, teenth Miss Myrtle Foster, who had been away for one year on leave of obsence, resigned to continue her course at Simmons college.
 The problem of a successor to Miss Thompson was met by severing the reference and industrial depart- ment which was combined under one head six years ago in order to solve an administrative difficulty existing at that time. There seemed no longer any good reason or advantage in continuing this arrangement es- pecially since the departments are located in separate rooms, and Miss Mary Hardy. the first assistant in the department, was made head of the business and industrial division, because of her natural aptitude for this special kind of work. and Miss McEvoy. the second assistant in the department. was given charge of the reference division. Miss Mcdonald was assigned the position of assit- ant in the business and technical department and Miss Burns was transferred from the catalOging de- partment to fill the corresponding position in the reference department. Miss Burns position was filled by transferring Miss Nelson from the loan department. Miss Nelson's po- sition in the loan department was filled by promoting Miss Lowering from the position of third to second assistant and Miss Anne Moore. who had been substituting for Miss Eos ter, away on leave of absence. was appointed to the third position t1 the loan department. left vacant by Miss Lovering's promotion.
 Upon Miss Cooke's restoration ~ bicI Rbpco pffecfivo in SanfpIn- Der. Miss Loverin". because of her normal school trainir" md success full experience in working with chill dren, was transferred and again promoted to the position of first assistant in the children's depart ment. Miss Lovering's position in the loan department was filled by transferring Miss Gibson from the Rose Hill Branch. Miss Esther Hardy. the second assistant in the children's department was promot- ed to the position of branch librarian at Rose Hill. continuing to work part time in the children's department. Miss Fosters resignation in Septem- Der, Miss Shanahan was advanced to the fourth position in the loan de- partment and Miss Mary Luddy, graduate of Crosby High school and for one year a full time assistant in the mending department. was ap- pointed to the professional staff as fifth assistant in this department. Miss Ann Cronin. a graduate of New Rochelle college. was appointed general assistant assigned half time to the loan department and half time to the children's department. It is matter to interest and re- cord that during the year 1880, for our professional staff of 21 people the loss of time through illness aver aged but four days each. One-third of the staff lost less than a day, one third only two or three days and of the rest only two people were out longer than two weeks. This is, l think, a health record to be proud of.
 The Central Building
 From a fund of seven hundred dollars appropriated for repairs it was obviously impossible to consider the power elevator mentioned as necessity in the last five reports of the library. nor did it seem at all likely that linoleum floor covering