"The Place of the Library in a University" will be discussed by college administrators and librarians from all parts of the country this week at a conference in Lamont Library, starting at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon in the forum room.

The relation of libraries to students, scholars, and the life of a university will form the topics for the three meetings of the conference.

Speaker at the conference will include: Zochariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; William A. Jackson, Professor of Bibliography and Assistant Librarian in charge of Houghton Library; Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University library; and presidents and librarians from Stanford University, University of California, and Amherst, Vanderbilt, and Oberlin Colleges.