THE LIBRARIES
CONFERENCE CONTINUED
SUPPLYING BOOKS TO SCHOOLS,
(BT rELEGtUPH. —NtESS ASSOCIATION. J
DUNEDIN, This Day,
The Libraries Conference was continued, .this morning. A resolution waa eiu-i'ioil,- congratulating the Am■t:ricaii ■Libraries''- Association on conif>lvtinfj its fifteenth year. ■■ It was deci<lr<] tip lioM tJiu next conference at VVaii^imui in February, 1927. The t'nllowing officers wore elected:—President, Miss Melville (Auckland); vieo-|>n.',-;i(le>it)j, Mr. J. J. Clark (Dunelm), Mr, John Burns (Wellington), •■JMr. ■ Jlopc Gibbons (W'anganui), Mr. J. I'\ Arnold (Timaru); secretary and tvV'asu'ra', Mr, IT. Btiillic (Wellington); executive, Misses Blackctt (Waiigaiiui.), and Oulvcnvcll (Timaru), Messrs. Sell and M'Ewan (Dunediu), Ban- (Auckland), Anderson (Wellington), and Farnall (luvercargill). A ]-e.mit,.was carried, tliut, in view, of the good'results obtained by the introdiK'tion of the system of public libvaries supplying bockj to public schools in Wellington and Auckland, fife council" recommends its wider udoption in cities and boroughs. The conference is also of opinion that it would be a great advantage if, in the •(•oU!itry'<listricts, where 'local-authori-ties tiro unable en financial and administrative grounds to inaugurate such a system at school libraries, the Education Department would undertake this work.- •
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1926, Page 6
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182THE LIBRARIES Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1926, Page 6
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