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Show ' oo 11MIET0 BE IMDELr EXTENDED Regional Directors Raise Fund For 'Books for Everybody' and Plan Organization New York, March 2. Following a two weeks' conference, regional directors direc-tors for the "Books for Everybody!" fund of the American Library Association Asso-ciation are returning to their respective respec-tive sections of the-country to put into immediate operation the organization , plans evolved. The project of the association for which tho regional directors will secure se-cure financial support calls for the .promotion of library service through-' through-' out the nation, fn an effort to increase 'the knowledge and appreciation of I American ideals and Institutions, especially espe-cially among the 15,000.000 now Amer-, icans of the United States. Library ! extension measures, it is held, will help , to solve social and economic prob-llcins prob-llcins by affording opportunity for self 1 education to the millions to whom It is I now denied because of the lark of j public libraries. In co-operation with Jsiate library commissions, the Association Asso-ciation will work for the extension of the county library system In every section of tho United States, i For CaliCoinfa, . Nevada and T'luh, I Dillon J. Ferguson. California Slate I Librarinn at Sacramento, will srve ps' regional director. Slate directors will! be appointed immediately to assist in' the national appeal for the fund of' $2,000,000 which Is to carry the work' for three years. The fund wtll be sc-' cured through the efforts of librarians.) library trustees, and friends of llbvnr-J ies, without resorting to an intensive, drive. The Association will promote library! service in industrial plants for the1 purpose of imparting bxpert know-1 ledge. Continuation of tho A. L. A.'s library service on all ships or the Mer- chant Marine, at lighthouse and coast guard stations, and in hospitals of the, Public Health Service, and the publication publi-cation of more books for' the blind in the uniform Braille type recently odop'ed are other important features' of the moenient. on i |