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graduate field is maintained in Barnard College with the aid of a
special fund. It is exemplary.

The complex problems facing any library which collects mate¬
rials for theatre study have been the subject of a course given in
the summer at our School of Library Service by one of the out¬
standing leaders in this perplexing field, George Freedley, who is
the director and guiding spirit in the vast and carefully arranged
Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library. So we have
good neighbors in this aspect of library activity, with the result
that the student of dramaric literature or of the theatrical arts who
uses the joint resources of the New York Public Library and of
the Columbia Libraries has an enviable opportunity for work in
most of the fields to which he is likely to turn.