U.S. LIBRARIES OVERSEAS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24123, 6 December 1943, Page 6

U.S. LIBRARIES OVERSEAS

ONE TO BE ESTABLISHED IN WELLINGTON (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. Five United States libraries are to be established in other countries by the British division of the Office of War Information in close co-operation with the Division of Cultural Relatione of the Department of State and with the Library of Congress. One of them is to be in Wellington. Miss Mary Parsons, who is to be in charge of the library in this country, and her assistant, Miss Doris Kavanagh, have already arrived in Wellington to assist with its establishment and to take charge of the library when it is ready for use. The library will follow the pattern of the American library in the Embassy in London. Other libraries will be located at Sydney and Melbourne. Johannesburg and Bombay. The American library in London and the five new libraries to be established in Australia, South Africa, India, and New Zealand are designed to serve writers, the press, radio, American missions, local government agencies, and educational, scientific, and cultural institutions and organisations. They will not be lending libraries for casual readers but small, highly selective libraries containing reference material produced in the United States. Each library will be staffed by two librarians Irom the United States, and three associates employed locally.