Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-07 | Page 16 | Librarian Back Tells of Visit

faBli! i Miss Grace Harris, librarian of thC I Carnegie Free Library of this city, has returned from a convention of the I American Library association which j was held at San Francisco and at Los I Angeles, Cal. Because practically tho same Ideas were given at l.os Angelca as were placed before the San Fran-sicco Fran-sicco meeting, Miss Harris attended only the latter convention. She slated that the American Library Li-brary association, after having firmly, established itself during tho war as one of the seven activities which assisted as-sisted in making provisions for the welfare of men in the service, nas ny intentions of retiring to the "shell of inactivity" that it had before the war. It will now take up a "books for everybody" movement, Miss Harris stated, "with the view of placing tho better class of literature before the American public." To gain this end, a campaign to raise ?2,000,000 Is contemplated by the organization. Miss Harris jstated, and plans indicate that this money will be raised through individual effort, no extensive ex-tensive drive being thought necessary. Frank P. Hill, of the Brooklyn pub-lie pub-lie library, and A. B. Trlp.p, librarian at New Bedford, Mass., wero the principal prin-cipal speakers at the San Francitsco convention. Miss Harris said. Tho convention was largely attended, attend-ed, librarians from practically every city of tho United States being present.