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Show SSMABV B. DOWNEY, DOW-NEY, who has been employed to tour the state in the inter-est inter-est of libraries. flHELilf FACILITIESOF STATE Noted Woman Organizer Is Employed by State Board of Education. A movemout lo generally iipbtnW and increase tho- library facilities ot tho state has been undertaken bv state board or education. Miss Maiy E. Downoy of Columbus, Ohio, library organizer of national reputation, , has arrived in Salt Lako and will begin work immediately to accomplish these things. Miss Downoy has bcou era-plovcd era-plovcd by tho board for six months, but it is possiblo that her place ns stato library organizer may lator be mado permanent. In addition to being at the- service of all libraries of tho stato when they are in need of assistanco, Miss Downoy will make a tour of the stnte and visit all the libraries. Sho will encourage the taxation of communities for the establishment es-tablishment and miuntcnanco of public libraries and will agitato tho tounda- tion of libraries m towns wnicu nuvu nono at the present time. Thero tire now about thirty public libraries iu tho state. Ten Carnegie libraries arc now in operation and six aru building. Iu addition, thorc are a nutnbor ot more or less extensive school libraries which are available to the gonoral public. Miss Downey will give instruction in the keeping of records, installation of owners5 charging systems, clasHtii-cation, clasHtii-cation, encourago the increased use ot libraries, assist iu the work ot the stato library association and, library work of women's clubs and give library libra-ry extension instntctiou in teachers institutes. A library course will bo offered by Miss Downey in connection with the 'University of Utah summer school this year. After graduating from the olemonta-ry olemonta-ry schools, Miss Downey received an A. B. degreo from Dcnison university and graduated in tho course of library scienco at the University of Chicago. While iu school, Miss Downey was employed em-ployed in the college libraries and was private secretary to the librarian of the University of Chicago. Later, she was assistant librarian of the Pield museum in Chicago. Following this, Miss Downey was librarian of the public library in Ottuinwn, Iowa, for six years. For four years she was state library-organizer library-organizer in Ohio and then resident director di-rector of the Chautauqua library school for nine years. At present she is president pres-ident of the Ohio Slate Library assb-ciation assb-ciation and a member of the American Library association. She is chairman of the library extension committee of the Ohio Association of Women's clubs and is the author of a number of pamphlets pam-phlets and magazine articles on library work. Miss Downey will work under tho direction of the state library board and immediately under the supervision of Stnte Superintendent of Public Instruction In-struction A. C. Matheson and Secretary Secre-tary Howard Tt. Driggs of the slate library li-brary board. Tho slate board of education educa-tion is ex officio the stato librarv board. |
