N.Z. LIBRARIANS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 899, 17 February 1930, Page 11

N.Z. LIBRARIANS

DELEGATES COMING HERE FOR CONFERENCE

LECTURE PAPERS PREPARED The seventh conference of the Libraries Association of New Zealand will begin in Auckland on Tuesday. March 4. and will sit also on the two following days. The conference was last held in February, 1925, at Christchurch. Forty delegates are coming on this occasion. Every library of importance from Whangarei to Invercargill will be represented. The conference is to be held in Auckland at the invitation of the City Council. The president is Miss Ellen Melville, chairman of the Libraries Committee of the council. The following papers will be read: A presidential address by Miss Melville; “New Zealand Library Problems,” by Mr. John Barr, chief librarian. Auckland: “Reading for the Blind,’’ by Mr. Clutha Mackon?(i. director of the Blind Institift, “Libraries from the Readers’ Point of View.” by Mr. J. W. Shaw, lecturer in English at the Training College": “Libraries Censorship.” by Mr. E. J. Bell, chief librarian. Canterburv Public Library; “Library Posters and Publicity,” by Mr. J. Xorrie. chief librarian. Wellington Public Librarv. During their stay here the visitors will be given opportunity to see the city. Mr. J. B. Johnston, dietingchairman of the Leys Institute Library Committee, and a member of the Harbour Board, has arranged with the board to place a launch at the disposal of delegates.