CORRESPONDENCE. The A.L.A. Meeting at Ottawa. To the Editors of THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD. DEAR SIRS, You are of course aware that the approaching Annual Conference of the American Library Association is to be held in Ottawa this year. I presume that you have already received from the Local Committee in Ottawa a request to extend to as many members of the Library Association as may feel willing or able to undertake the trip to Ottawa a cordial invitation to attend the Conference. The dates of the meetings are from 26 June to 2 July, and it has been arranged that, after the Conference proper is over, members will come to Montreal, and after spending the greater part of a day here will have the opportunity of an excursion from Montreal to the Upper Saguenay, and return on a steamer which has been specially chartered for the occasion. McGill University has invited all members of the Association to visit her buildings while in Montreal, and a Committee representing various organizations in the City has been formed in the hope that it will be possible to make the short visit to Montreal both interesting and pleasant. The Committee is especially desirous that our confrères from the Mother Country shall be represented here next summer, and I have been instructed to extend, through you, if you will kindly permit me to do so, to all members of the Library Association a hearty invitation to visit Montreal and McGill University when the American Library Association is here. I enclose a memorandum of the Post-Conference trip. We shall be most pleased if any members of the Library Association will join in this also. We would like to send personal invitations to each member of the Association, but this seems hardly practicable. Let me assure you, however, that the invitation, though extended generally, is intended for each particular member. None who visit Montreal during the Conference will receive a warmer welcome than will our brethren from across the seas if they will only do us the favour to come here. I am, dear Sirs, Very faithfully yours, C. H. GOULD, Secretary, Reception Committee, American Library Association. LIBRARY OF MCGILL UNIVersity, POST-CONFERence Trip. The party will leave Ottawa on Wednesday morning, 3 July, arriving in Montreal for lunch and will spend the afternoon and evening in seeing the city, visiting McGill University and the Westmount Public Library. On Wednesday evening, 3 July, the party takes special steamer and proceeds down the river, passing Quebec the next morning, calling in the afternoon at the little French village of Les Eboulements, and later at Tadousac at the mouth of the Saguenay. Between Tadousac and Capes Eternity and Trinity occurs the very finest scenery on the Saguenay; and this part of the route will be traversed while the sun is setting and the late moon rising, so that the Capes themselves may be seen by moonlight. Early next morning the steamer will be at Ha Ha Bay, near Chicoutimi, and chosen instead of the latter as the turningpoint of the excursion. Having ascended the Saguenay by night the descent will be made by day with a long stop at the Capes, and at Tadousac. Thence the steamer will cross the St. Lawrence, here 18 to 20 miles wide, in order to give the party an additional taste of salt water and also to get the effect of the sunset on the northern cliffs. The next day will be spent at Murray Bay; the next (Sunday) at Quebec. Three Rivers at the mouth of the St. Maurice River will be reached on Monday morning, and there a landing will be made for a day's excursion to Shawinigan Falls. On Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock the PostConference trip will end at Montreal in time for all home-bound trains. Bibliographical Library. To the Editors of THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD. DEAR SIRS, The Library Association has very kindly presented the Library of the University of London with such of its publications as are in print, but unfortunately a number of parts are missing. I am anxious to complete the sets if possible, and with a view to asking students or members of the Association to present the numbers required, I enclose herewith a few lines, and will be glad if you will insert them in the next issue of the RECORD. Yours very faithfully, Goldsmiths' Librarian, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 21 May, 1912. The Library of the University of London has formed a special Bibliographical Library from which students attending the classes in Librarianship and Bibliography held in connexion with the Library Association, have the privilege of borrowing books, on the condition that each student shall obtain a recommendation form signed by his Teacher and by the Secretary of the Education Committee. The Library Association has presented the University Library with such of its publications as are in print, but it is regrettable that several parts of sets are missing. The University Librarian is most desirous of having complete sets available for students at the University Library, and would be very grateful if members of the Association having spare copies would present the missing parts to the Library. The parts required are : PROCEEDINGS. Eighth Annual Meeting, Plymouth, 1885. III. 1882, Title page and index. IV. 1883, Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 12; also title page and index. THE LIBRARY: A Magazine of Bibliography and Library Literature, edited by J. Y. W. MacAlister. Vols. 3-10 Vol. VI., 1904, No. 1; also title page and index. Vol. VII., 1905, No. 2. Vol. VIII., 1906, No. 1; also title Vol. IX., 1907, Nos. 2, 3, and 6. For Public Libraries. To the Editors of THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION RECORD. SIRS, Kindly permit us to state that a generous friend of public instruction has authorized us to place at the disposal of Public Libraries in the poorer districts of the United Kingdom and British Colonies, 500 copies of the recently published book "Under the Russian and British Flags," translated from the Italian by Miss Helena Frank, and enlarged with notes and some essays by Mr. Jaakoff Prelooker (Editor of The Anglo-Russian," London), whose personal experience during some forty years in both countries forms the subject of the book. Applications will be attended to in order of rotation. A hundred copies will be kept for demands from the Colonies. The book will be sent post free. 21 PATERNOSter Square, LONDON, E.C., May, 1912. Yours faithfully, J. F. SPRIGGS, Publishers. 1 The Monastic Libraries of Wales, Fifth to Sixteenth Centuries On the Proposed Division of the N.C.L.A. Area. By H. E. JOHN- This Magazine is edited by the Publications Committee of the Library Association, who are responsible for all Unsigned Contributions. Contributions and communications for the Record should be addressed to The Hon. Secretary, The Publications Committee, The Library Associa- tion, 24 Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C. Contributions are specially invited as follows:— 1. Articles on Library Administration, Bibliography, and kindred subjects. 2. Catalogues, Bulletins, Reports and other Library Publications (these, after notice, are placed in the Association Library). 3. Books and Periodicals (which should come within the scope of the 4. Notes of Adoptions, Benefactions, New Buildings, Library Practice, "Current Views" should be sent to Dr. E. A. 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