The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1956-07-07
Library Association
Closes ConcIaue Here

the o,oUU delegates ana VlSLOrb at
tending the 18th Annual Convex
>tion of the American Library As
ISOLATION were Negroes. The con-
vention was spread over several
of the plush hotels - the Fon-
tainbleu, Eden Roc, the Sorren-
to, the Lucerne and the Empress
for both housing and for the
meetings of the various divisions
of the association. Everyone was
pleased with the meeting which
was the largest and best organized
so far. There were a few COM
plants about having to travel
from next-door to several blocks
away for meetings but after the
first day no more was heard
about thatl
Among the out-of-state libra
rians attending were DR.. Virginia
Lacy Jones, director of the School
of Library Service, Atlanta USi-
versity; DR.. Cadie B. Delaney of
the TuSkegee Veterans Facility,
outstanding for her work in de-
veloping the use of bibliotherapy
for the mentally disturbed; Mrs.
Charlene Rollins, Children's LIZ.
brarian at the Hall Branch of the
Chicago Public Library member
of the faculty of Roosevelt Col
lege, Chicago, and compiler of two
photographers in the area of hui
man relations. Mrs. Rollins is
president-elect of the Division of
Children's Librarians Mrs.
Augusta Baker, librarian of the
Countee Cullen Branch of the
New York Library was featured
on the Story Telling Festival. Mrs.
Baker had published last year a
collection of stories for telling,
"The Talking Tree" Wallace
Van johnson, librarian at Virgin
ia State College, former State De-
partment worker Mrs. Thel-
ma Nix and Mrs. Charlie Shelf
field, both of South Carolina
State College Miss Frances
Smith of Texas College, Tyler,
Texas Miss Camella Shade of
Southern University, Baton Rouge,
Mrs. Hazel Moore, assistast libra
rian, Tougaloo Christian Southern
College, Miss.
Also DR.. Benjamin Smith and
Mrs. Smith of North Carolina
College, Durham; Mrs. Clotelie S.
Davis, East Winston Branch Liz
brary, coordinator of adult edu-
cation i. Mrs. Margaret Rey-
holds Hunton and Miss Effie Lee
Morris of the NY Public Library
-. Mrs. nellie Wright and teen
age daughter from Greensboro
NC.
Miss M. Walker, state library
consultant, Georgia; Mrs. Ella B.
Mccain, Summer faculty, Allan
ia School of Library Service; Mrs
Annie McPheeters, director oil
Negro department, Atlanta Pub
lie Library and her mother, Mrs
) Walters of Rome, Ga.
Joseph Reason, librarian Of
Howard University and Mesdame:
Rush, McAllister, and Jones o.
the Howard staff Richard
Griffin, librarian, Texas South
ern University, Houston; M is
Enid Bough, Virgin Islands
Miss Marian Jacobs, Charlotte
Mrs. Mae Gates Nance and Mrs
Sylvia Crary both of Norfolk, Va
=. Mrs. Josephine Glover, Oak
land Branch, Chicago Public Lii
brary; Mrs. Charlotte Dean jack
son, Los Angeles Public Library
:. MRS. Harriette E. jenkins
Burke High School, Charleston
sc. Mrs. Crowder, wife ,oi
former Bethany Elder, now prin-
cipal of Ephesus School, Birming-
ham :. Miss Vivian Bell, for
mer dean of women, billiard, now
librarian Smithfield Branch, Bir-
mingham Mrs. B. HI. Akin
son and Mrs. Jewle Freeman
Savannah, Ga; Mrs. Odessa Alex
ander, librarian, board of educa-
ton, Newark, NJ J.
Also Miss Mollie Dunlap, Ii
brarian Central State College anc
one staff member, Mary Mile:
Fisher Miss Walker Of For
Bragg Army Library, Fayettee-
vile, NC: Miss Mimi.
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