IN FRANCE ON LIBRARY WORK

Mr. W. B. Briggs, assistant librarian of the Widener Library and now in France, is, as representative of the American Library Association, in charge of the problem of distributing books to the military bases of the Expeditionary Forces. Twenty thousand books of fiction and general interest have recently been purchased in England by the American Y. M. C. A., and are now being sent to the soldiers at the military camps.

A news bulletin from the National Y. M. C. A. War Work Council states that "the book stores of France and England are being ransacked in order to supply the American soldiers in France with reading material for the winter. Owing to the fact that the supply of English books in France is small, arrangements are being made to secure a large number from England.