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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction

CarlM. White............i

I Found Myself in a Library

Mark Van Doren...........2

University Libraries Are Part of the Nation's Strength

Grayson Kirk............5

The Organizing Committee and Its Activities

Merle M. Hoover...........6

The Story of a Plastic Surgery Library

Jerome P. Webster..........9

Chance Encounters at Avery

James Grote Van Derpool........18

Adventures in Acquisitions

Roland Baughman...........21

Other Recent Gifts............24

Members of the Friends..........25