Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-07-24 | Page 2 | New President

Li N New w Pre President ident i V k S 'S Si r r i 3 cc k l' l P MRS E. E CRANE WATSON Mrs E. E C. C Watson Heads Librarian Ethel Mitchell and Jetta Peters re New V Vice C Presidents Presidents' l Ir Mrs Mr E. E Crane Watson Iron c county librari librarian n at Cedar City was ele elected tea pre president ident of of the Utah Library a association s ocI at the closing session of the annual convention of or the organization Saturday aft aft- She succeeds ds Julia T T. Lynch of the Salt Lake public library Eth-el Eth L. L Mitchell of Salt Lake and Irett Iretta P Peters of of Brigham were chos chosen n first and s second cond vice pr presidents presidents si- si dents respectively ely i The They succeed Mrs Watson atson and nd W. W T. T Purdum of Ogden Mr rr Mrs Ida A. A Hulsh HuIsh of Payson su succeeds Edith Williams of S Salt lt Lak Lake as se treas secretary ure Anna of Provo a and d Merle Massey of Vernal Vrna were chosen ho en executive lye board loa q er t succeeding Miss Peters and Lou Louisa Loul Rowland Howland ADOPT RESOLUTIONS Resolutions ns favoring f oring the the continuance contin continuance o Uan-ce Uan of the U University of Utah summer school library course COUre and rid asking that state officials investigate investigate investigate gate library conditions In this arid and other states with the view of helping conditions of libraries in Utah were ere adopted It was brought out that insufficient lent funds c curtail operations of the various libraries of ot the State Stat Marion Marlon Jones of f the training school library at the University University sity sHy of Utah delivered red a re report report report re- re I port on the Toronto Canada convention convention con con- con con- of the American Library association and W. W T T. Purdum of i the Ogden Osden Carnegie library re- re I Continued on page 8 MRS E. E C C. C WATSON WATSON HEADS LIBRARIANS Continued from page 1 I 1 ported porte on the convention of the Pacific Northwest association held at the Sea Ore The s session closed with a dIscussion discussion discussion dis dIs- dis- dis of methods of preventing i the loss of library hooks books either by theft or fire tire Books Sent Sen Out By Parcel P Post st I Use of the parcel post In servIng serving serving ing rural communities with books was described by Miss Merle Massey Mas- Mas tasey sey e ey of Vernal l Uintah county librarian who is in Salt Lake for tor forthe forthe the convention of the Utah Library association The parcel post proves very very verv successful s she ehe e said paid Most of the people in Uintah county find it impossible to come cometo cometo cometo to Vernal for their reading matter matter matter mat mat- ter ter she said And the county library ras kas no means distributing distributing tIng its books other th than n the United States mati mail That method is rather expensive but It lt works There is quite a large number of readers in Uintah county who rely on the postman for their reading reading- matter Books Circulated In C County S Schools The Cache county library manages manages manages man man- ages to make a a. few books bools go a along along along long way according to Miss Dora Wright of Logan county librarian With books bools the library gets the same circulation results as if it had bad she said This is accomplished by circulating the books through h the county schools and arid th thus s carrying the library to ton all n parts of the county Country Folk Read Favorites Tastes in of books country people people peo peo- Pie are almost the same as those rif of City folks according to MIss Hattie 1 of Beaver Deaver Beaver Beaver Beaver Bea Bea- ver county librarian Fiction is the mos most popular form of ot literature literature literature litera litera- ture and the popular writers find the most moat favor The country is a little more conservative than the city and and It holds bolds to its old fa favorites fa- fa