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working in the trades, and who are not able to go to regular 

 schools; we are offering a course by the fire marshal of the 

 state, and we are conducting a course in vital statistics by the 

 state registrar. If you have work that can be put into this 

 department we shall be very glad indeed to use it. 



The Municipal Reference Bureau deals with all sides of the 

 life of the various communities; it deals with the engineering, 

 with the legal, with the social, with the administrative phases 

 of community life. In connection with this Municipal Refer- 

 ence Bureau we are maintaining a library, and if there are 

 any of your publications, papers, or special information which 

 any of you may possess which will bear on municipal prob- 

 lems, we shall be very glad indeed to have them and to file 

 them with our other material so that they may be available 

 for the uses of those whom they would benefit the most. 



So in our club-study work, in which we prepare outlines for 

 dozens of clubs in the state, and in which we furnish a great 

 many lecturers for the various communities, it may be that you 

 are possessed of information or are able to suggest lines of 

 work that would be of benefit to the serious and studious 

 women and men of this state. If so, we should be very glad 

 to have such suggestions as may come from your experience 

 along special lines, and shall be very glad indeed to base our 

 outlines and to furnish the material along these lines. 



One of the most important phases of the University Exten- 

 sion work is the furnishing of what are called package li- 

 braries, which are clippings from various publications and 

 which are furnished free of charge to those who may be in- 

 terested in writing for them. The articles on various subjects 

 are bound together and are furnished to those who are work- 

 ing in the subject. We suggest subjects to these people by 

 publishing every year a list of the principal package libraries, 

 and we shall be glad indeed in this field to have any con- 

 tributions that you may make. 



So, too, we publish from time to time various bulletins on 

 subjects of general or public interest, and we are glad to have 

 contributions from any source whatever towards the making 

 of these bulletins. The only question involved is as to the 

 public and general value and interest of the material that we 

 present. 



