VARSITY LIBRARY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 285, 28 August 1931, Page 11

VARSITY LIBRARY

Carnegie Aid Offered COUNCIL ACCEPTS £lOOO a Year for Five Years An offer from the Carnegie Corporation, New York, to consider assisting New Zealand University libraries on a generous scale was accepted by the . Victoria College Council last evening and the college librarian, Mr. H. G. Miller, was nominated for a Carnegie Library FellowSb The library fellowship involves a grant of £6OO from the Carnegie Corporation for one year’s study of library science at Michigan University. The course would begin next year, and it is expected that Mr. Miller will leave for the United States within the next few months. . The Carnegie Corporation also advised the College Council that a grant of £<>ooo for extension of the university library might be available. Similar offers have been made to the Auckland, Canterbury, and Dunedin Universities, and the Auckland University College Council has nominated its librarian, Miss Minchem, for the fellowship. Regarding the £5OOO grant, the corporation suggests that on the return of the trained librarian to the university the trustees would consider an application for a grant of £lOOO a year for three years for the purchase of books for undergraduates reading in the fields of the arts £nd sciences. This would be made available on the understanding that the grant would not affect the usual provision made by the university college for Its library. Following this grant a final application for £lOOO a year for two years would be considered.

BEQUEST TO ,COLLEGE Mrs. Marjory Hannah’s Will £2OO FOR PICTURES Under the will of the late Mre. Marjory Hannah, who died at Wellington on October 1 last as tlje result of being knocked down by a motor-bus, the Victoria University College will benefit to the extent of £2OO, to be expended in the purchase of pictures. , At last evening s meeting of the college Council, a letter was received, from deceased’s solicitors advising that she had bequeathed to the council ‘the sum of £2OO to be expended upon the purchase of pictures painted by New Zealand artists (one at least to be the wqrk of Nugent Welch) and selected by my trustees; and I direct that such pictures shall bear no inscription save a writing on the back, ‘bequeathed by Marjory L. Hannah,’ and that they shall be hung in the women’s common room at the said University College.” It was decided to assist the trustees in any way in the purchase of the pictures, and to ask if they had any suggestions.