The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-10-23

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At FAMU

At FAMU
TALLAHASSEE - Especially -
"The Library and It's Effective
ness in an Educational Institution"
was the subject of a highly infor-
native and provocative message
delivered by Dean d. Eric Moore
of the North Carolina College
school of library science here last
Friday.
Speaking before the members Of
the Florida Safe Library associa-
ton at their annual fall meeting
which was held at Florida A and
M University, Dean Moore said,
During the past two decades, col
lege and university presidents, pub
lie school superintendent and prin-
cipals, school and college faculties,
Librarians and educational founda-
tons and associations have striven
to improve the effectiveness of the
American school and college edu-
cational program through the i'm
proyement of the school and college
library"
Some IS Librarians from through
out the state attended the confab
which began with a conference
committee meeting Wednesday eve
ming and ended with an editorial
committee meeting Saturday at
noon. Theme for the meeting was
"The Librarian and Public Rela-
TONS" Miss Emily Copeland, head
Of the A and M department of lib
rary service, Is president of the
FSLA.
University President George w.
Gore, Jr., welcomed the visitors to
the campus at the initial Friday
morning session. Others who ex-
tended greetings were DR.. T. @.
Shrigley, educational director Of
children's books for the E. NJ. Hale
Company, and DR.. G.. T. Porter,
executive secretary for the Flori-
da State Teachers Association.
The initial speaker for the open
ing session Friday morning was
Charles J. Smith, III, director If
public relations at the university,
who spoke from the subject, "The
Meaning of Public Relations" He
was followed by A. L. Kidd, asso-
ciate dean Of the college of arts
and sciences who had as his SUBJ
ct, Developing Skills in Human
Relations"
Two sectional meetings were
held Friday afternoon designed for
school and college and public lib
rarians. The, topic for the school
Librarians section was "a Public
Relations Program for the School
Library" Participants included
Mrs. Sarah Kretzman Shrigley and
DR.. Samella Lewis. Dean Moore
and DR.. Dorothy Dodd participant
ed in the second sectional meeting
which had as its topic, Library
Staff and Teacher Cooperation as
a Public Relations Device"
President Copeland announced at
the conclusion of the meeting that
three county library organizations
have been formed in Marion, Pinel-
las, and Duval counties. She also
disclosed that the association will
sponsor three sectional workshops
which will serve as a guide for
future county workshops, and that
the association adopted its revised
constitution.
Dean Moore said, Librarians
are being admitted to faculties and
recognized as teachers even though
they do not operate in classrooms
or laboratories, for they are work
ing with classroom teachers and
students to make the library a
teaching instrument.
"In American higher education
we have some striking institutions
in which the work OF classroom and
library are 50 thoroughly integral
ed that the student does not realize
any clear separation between the
two. In them the teacher often
holds classes in some portion of
the library building or books are
taken to the classroom building so
this instruction goes on in the midst
of books"
It was the speakers thesis that
the library is the facility of any
educational institution that stands
as the repository Of the sum total
of mankind's knowledge and skills.
Greater utilization of the facility
is to be desired and encouraged
by the librarian.
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