News from the Field

East

Mary A. Richardson, N. Y. S. L. S. '89, of the staff of Wesleyan University library, died at Middletown, Conn., on December 8. Miss Richardson had been actively engaged in library work for many years as cataloger, classifier and indexer for brief periods and as librarian of Atlanta University and of the New London (Conn.) public library. Her connection with the staff of Wesleyan University dated from December, 1906.

The annual report of the Public library of Haverhill, Mass., records books in the library, 99,000; circulation, 184,652, per capita, 4.1 v.; fiction, 72 per cent; card holders, 19,324; population, 45,000. Receipts, $21,633; expenditures, $21,161. Salaries, $9,809.

The working schedule has been changed from 43 to 41 hours a week, the year around. Vacation is four weeks with sick leave of two weeks. Some

advancements in salaries were made.

A small exhibit illustrating shoe making, the local industry, was added. It is planned to make the Washington Square branch especially a business men's

branch.

Many books were added to aid foreigners in learning English. An experiment in window advertising was most successful.

Central Atlantic

Dr Andrew Carnegie passed his seventy-eighth birthday on November 25. Mrs C. M. Charles, formerly librarian of Foxburg, has been made librarian of Ellwood City, Pa.

Anna Perkins, librarian of the Public library at Ilion, N. Y., has resigned her position on account of ill health. Her successor has not yet been named.

Susan R. Clendenin, Pratt, 1901 and 1904, has received the appointment of librarian-in-charge of the Falls of the Schuylkill branch of the Philadelphia public library.

A new branch of the Utica public library was opened in East Utica, N. Y., November 15. The occasion was one of considerable interest, particularly on the part of the children.

The new library building at Perkiomen seminary, Pennsburg, Pa., a gift of Andrew Carnegie, was dedicated November 20. The speakers of the occasion were President John G. Hibben, of Princeton university, and S. W. Pennypacker, ex-Governor of Pennsylvania.

The Administration committee has been authorized by the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn public library to use the auditoriums of the Carnegie building for moving picture shows of an educational character, illustrating history, biography, travel, outdoor sports,

etc.

The Falls of Schuylkill branch of the Free library of Philadelphia, was dedicated November 25. This was the fifteenth branch provided by the Carnegie gift, of 30 branches which it is expected

will be erected. Sites for 12 of the 15 branches have been gifts from private citizens, and the other three were donated by Council. Several of these branches are already congested, and an effort will be made in future building cupying new territory. to relieve pressure on them before oc

Franklin F. Hopper, for five years librarian of the Public library of Tacoma, Wash., has resigned his position. to become connected with the New York public library. He will become chief of the Order division of the New York

public library January 1. The library board passed resolutions expressing regret at his departure, and commended in the highest terms his services for the Public library of Tacoma. During his time, the library was re-organized and re-cataloged, and the circulation extended from 101,741 v. in 1908, to 355,946 v. for the year 1913.

Central

The Public library of Milwaukee, in the South division branch, is going to

Katherine Doyle, formerly connected. with the Allerton public library, Monticello, Ill., has taken charge of the Public library at Mt. Vernon, Ill., for one year. She will reclassify and recatalog the library during this time.

Miss Esther McNitt has been appointed assistant in the history department of the Indiana state library. Marcia Furness has been engaged as assistant in the cataloging department of the same library.

A branch of the Public library of Des Moines, Ia., is to be opened in University Place. The board has set aside $2,000 for the branch. The Public library has 55,104 v. on its shelves; circulation was 317,254 v. of which 46 per cent was adult fiction.

Mrs Ella R. Heatwole, for more than 10 years librarian of the Public library at Goshen, Ind., has resigned and will retire from active work. Elizabeth Brockwell, who has been assistant since the library was started, has been elected her successor.

Exercises commemorative of the long service of Dr Reuben Gold Thwaites to the State historical society of Wisconsin, were held in the State capitol on Friday, November 19. The memorial address was delivered by Frederick J. Turner, L1. D., of Harvard university.

The two branch library buildings of the Public library of Dayton, O., have been stocked with books by an additional gift of $15,000 made by Andrew Carnegie to remedy the conditions caused by the flood. The branches will start with some 10,000 to 12,000 books for reference and circulation, January 1, 1914.

The Board of trustees of the Reuben MacMillan free library, Youngstown, O., has decided, in view of the appropriation for the coming year, which will be $6,000 less than the actual expense for carrying on the library, to open the library for nine months, and shut down entirely during the summer. The de

building but the branches also.

Dr W. Dawson Johnston has resigned his position as librarian of Columbia university, New York City, to accept the appointment of librarian of the Public library of St. Paul, Minn.

Dr Johnston succeeded the late Dr James H. Canfield as librarian of Columbia university, July, 1909. Dr Johnston was graduated from Brown university in 1893, took his Master of Arts at Harvard in 1898, and received the honor degree of LL. D. from Rutgers college in 1911.

Richard A. Lavell, for the past three years assistant librarian of the Public library of Minneapolis, having charge of all the branch libraries, died at his home in Minneapolis November 29.

Mr Lavell lived in the Northwest all his life, coming at an early age from Canada to North Dakota. He was graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1904. The next year he took the work of the Library school at Western Reserve university at Cleveland, and then entered the Public library at Minneapolis. For the past three years he has been assistantlibrarian and had a promising future before him.

Mrs Helen J. McCaine, retiring chief librarian of the Public library of St. Paul, Minn., has been with the Public library for 40 years. She has served the community faithfully and satisfactorily during this long period, but she does not wish to assume the responsibility attendant upon re-organization and the erection of a new library building.

When St. Paul supported a subscription library under the name of an association, Mrs McCaine was in charge of it. Since then, the library has grown from a few thousand volumes to 150,000.

Mrs McCaine retires full of honors, and with the affectionate regard and respect of all with whom she came in

contact.

She is a native of Peterboro, N. H. born in 1836, and is a graduate of the Peterboro academy. She was married

to William McCaine in 1865. He died in 1900. They came to St. Paul in 1871 and she began her work six years later. South

A permanent exhibit by the Fine arts department of the city federation of women's clubs, St. Joseph, Mo., has been opened at the Public library building.

An interesting report is made of the Free library of Waynesburg, Va., which is, perhaps, the second, and certainly the third, wholly public library in the State of Virginia.

The library was started through the efforts of Mrs E. H. Stevens, who interested a number of citizens in the matter, with such success that the Town council has been induced to give assistance, and the future of the library seems bright.

There are at present 1,407 books on the shelves, of which there was a circulation for the past year of 7,692.

West

The first township library in North Dakota was opened in Leonard, November 27. It was made the occasion of considerable interest, the governor of the state, L. B. Hanna, being the principal speaker of the day.

The building and grounds, together with 700 volumes, were given by Edgerton Watts as a memorial to his wife.

The people have voted a tax for the support of the library, and its prospects. for the future are bright.

Pacific Coast

A gift of $25,000 for library purposes under the will of the late Robert Gracie has been made to Merced, California.

Mirpah G. Blair, formerly with the Public library, Cincinnati, O., later with the State university library, has removed to Oregon, and taken up work with the Oregon State library at Salem.

Helen S. Watson has been chosen as children's librarian of the new Queen Anne branch of the Seattle public library. Miss Watson had a year of training in the Pittsburgh training school for children's librarians and is a graduate of the College for women, Cleveland.

Mary B. Hunter succeeds Annie E. Hall as children's librarian of the University branch of the Seattle public library, Miss Hall having been transferred to the Columbus branch as librarian. Miss Hunter is a graduate of the Pittsburgh training school for children's librarians and of Mt. Holyoke college.

Agnes F. P. Greer, Pratt '08, has been appointed librarian of the Ballard branch of the Seattle public library to succeed Stella R. Hoyt who resigned September 1 to be married. Miss Greer comes to Seattle from Pittsburgh where she has been on the staff of the Carnegie library for about six years.

Frances Louise Holmes is to be the librarian of the Queen Anne branch of the Seattle public library which is expected to be ready for opening early in December of this year. Miss Holmes is a graduate of Knox college and received her training in library work from the Wisconsin library commission. She had two and a half years of experience in Oregon libraries before going to Seattle.

Foreign

Mr P. Barr, at one time assistant in the National library at Glasgow, has been appointed librarian of the Public library, Outland, New Zealand. He succeeds Mr E. Skillington, who is retiring after many years of active service.

This is the second important post in New Zealand that has gone to young Britishers this year, Mr Bell from Fulham, London, having been appointed to the Christchurch public library. These accessions should mean much to the library service of New Zealand.

The librarian of Dunedin, New Zealand, is Mr W. B. MacEwan, one time librarian of the Public library, Stirling, Scotland.

The city council of Wellington, New Zealand, has agreed to further extend the Public library, which has become greatly overcrowded. The proposed work will provide storage room for about 16,000 volumes, and also improve the staff room.