Activities of the Friends
 

Fall Meeting on November 12. As «'e go to press, the date is
approaching for the initial gathering of the Friends for the new
academic year—on the evening of November 12. The program,
centered around the subject "Bookbindings," is .scheduled to have
;is speakers Aliss Dorothy Miner, Librarian and Keeper of Manu¬
scripts at the AA'alters Art Gallery in Baltimore, and Roland
Baughman, Head of Special Collections in the Columbia Libraries.
The exhibit "Bookbindings, Historical and Modern," which was
arranged especially for this occasion, will be continued until
January 3.

Annual Meeting on January 1^. Plans are already well advanced
for the annual business meeting of our association which will be
held in Butler Library on the evening of Monday, January 19.
At that event Russia will be the focal point, with two of our mem¬
bers, who are Columbia faculty members, as speakers. The prin¬
cipal address will be given by Professor Geroid T. Robinson,
who was Chief of the USSR Division, Research and Analysis
Branch, U.S. Office of Strategic Services during World War II,
and who was the first Director of Columbia's Russian Institute
(1946-51). He went to Russia this .summer to .study the differ¬
ences between official indoctrination there and external propa¬
ganda, preparatory to writing a book on this subject. He will
present a summary of his findings. Professor Philip E. Mosely,
Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Chair¬
man of the Administrative Committee for Columbia's Archive on
Ru,ssia and East European History and Culture, will speak briefly
about some of the remarkably rich holdings of manuscripts and
other research materials which the Archive has acquired. The
Libraries will open in January a large exhibit of Russian publica¬
tions of the period of the Russian Revolution.
 

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