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Special Libraries, June 1916 Special Libraries Association San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1916 Special Libraries, 1910s 6-1-1916 Special Libraries, June 1916 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1916 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, June 1916" (1916). Special Libraries, 1916. Book 6. http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1916/6 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1910s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1916 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special Libraries Program, Special Libraries Association, Annual Meeting, 1916 Columbia Hotel, Asbury Park, N. J, Wed~iesdny,diinr 2s. Clnss~ficat~onsystems: Leader, Miss 11anan R. Glenn, Librarian, Amencan Bankers' 0:30 a, m. Assoc~ation,Sew Pork C~ty. Opening address by the President, Andrew Special librasy publicity: Leader, Brainard Linn Uostwick, Mulnc~~~alReference Li- Dyel*. Public~tgUanager, Sational Calvbon brary, S1 Law nldg. Co . Cleveland, 0. Soul-ces ol information for business men, D. Co-opcsat~onin Bibl~ographicalTI-orli, H. EI. C. Bnell, Railway Educational 13ureau, B AIeycr, L~braryof Congress. Omaha, Neb. P~tblicollicials and the spccial library, Dr. C. C. Ti'illiamson, 3Iunicipal Refareme Li- brarim, New Yorlc Publ~cL1hrar.v The public affall s illforination servlce ; its Standal*dlzation by a library unit system, past, present and future, John A. Lapp, G. TIT5'. Lee, Librarian, Stone & Webster Bureau of Legislative Inflo~mat~on,In- Corp., Boston, Mass. d~anapolis,Ind. The editorial ofice: a new field for libra- Co-operation between specla1 libraries and rians, Jliss Renee 13. Stern, Mother's Nag- the engineerinq profession, Kcniieth G. azlne, Elgin, 111. TVallreis, Technology Librarian, New Ha- ven Public L~brary. Report on national center for ~nunicipalIn- formation, Clintou Rogers Woodruff, Sec- The special lihrary and the student of busi- I-eta~y,National JIunici~alLeaguc. ness, Ralph L. Power, Librarian, College of Business ddmlnistration, Boston Uni- versity. The municipal ref~rencelibrary as a public Roun it 'l'nhle L'onfeiwice% Plans have been utility, Frederick Rex, JIuniclpal Befer- made for round tahle confel'enccs as fol- ence Librarian, Chicago, Ill. lows : The work of the Dctroit Edison Comyany's Treatment of pamphlets Leader., MISS library, Miss JIaud A. Carabin, Llbrar~an, Elizabeth V. Dobblus, Librarian, Alilorlcan Detroit Edmon Co., Detroit, IIich. Telephone and Telegra~hCo., New Yorlr City. Special hhrary emlrlopes: Leader, D. N. Regular busmess sesbion, ~ncludirlgreports Handy, Lihrarian, Insurance Library Asso- of con~m~ttceson clippmgs, membership clation of Boston. and techn~cal~ndesing. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Libraries In Business Houses Tile substance of an address by Mr. Frank from our I~usiness,then we have to lry to Chitllalll, a Director of the Firm of AICSSrS. devclol, 2 rjcw-point which wlll help us to Selfrldge &: ~o,Ltd (Londo~l),at a ~01111 attam that object. Wc realize that. before llleetlng of the L~hraryAssocialion and L1- one can gct vciy ~nuchpleasure fro111 one's I)rary ,\sslstantsl ~ssoc~at~on,held 011 Otto- u~)rIrone must have a thorough lrnowledge bey 13tll, 1!)1,5 ; reprlntcd from The Library of the work in hand. Fro~ninterest comes -Assistant, h'ovemt)er, 1915: a desire for lrnowlerlge, and with knowledge a greater degree of intelligence and pleas- Ever slncc mankind has becn able to ex- urc from the work in mhich we are en- picss llis thoughts in wr~ling,whether on gaged. cl:ly tablcts, 1)archment or leather, he has It seems to mc that rcadcrs as a whole gathc-led 111s w~l~ngstogethcr lnto what we may roughly be dividcd into thrce classes. inay call lib~~ar~es.This was plobably done (1) Those whn 1,ead with some gract~cal for Inany ~casons. The grocesb oC the gro- ohject in view; (2) those who read merely duction of boolcs or manuscrl~tswas neces- for pleasule-as a pastme; and (3) those sarily slaw. Today a man may bc a mritcr who read for the mtellectual delight oi and never l~utpen to paper, but in those reading Certainly business Inen cannot far off days one needed not only to thinlc out claiin to belong to elther of the two latter the matter which one wished to express 111 classes-I thinlc they rightly belong to ~vr~ling,but llad to do that writing oneself. the fi~'sl. By reading for practical pur- In short, one had to be a craftsman as well poses I do not mean that it becomes ncces- as a wlter. The scarcity of books and the saly and is any part of the reader's intcn- difficulty of thew production made it desir- t~onmerely to lead those things which will able that they should be hroughl together, bring hi111 11ecuniary gain-that would he in order that thelr contents mght he more lndeecl a debaslng end to have 111 vlem. In read~lyaccessil~le to those who werc intcr- husiness our great am and object is to ested. eliminate wasted effort, and we must apply ~t is jateresting to note that the flyst li- th~spslnciplc to our reading. For reasons brary of wh~chwe haw any record at all, which I will explain presently it would be some 4,000 years before Christ, mas also a largely wasted cK'ort to spend much of our p~bl~clibrary. On one of the tablets, now scanty lelsure time in readmg works of a preserved in thc Brit~shAIuseuin, is part technical natnre. The lrnowledge which we of the bequest of the Kmg, wh~chsays that as merchants wish to acquire is thc lrnowl- th~slibrary shall be for the use of 111s sub- edge of the merchandise which we disln- jects for all time. Early libraries, too, bute, and when I tell you that there IS \yere in a sense technical lihraries, wherein hardly a spot of the cilivized, or, indeed, were reco~dedthe slow and laborious meth- uncirilized, world that does not contributc ods by which the ancicnts lea~~nedtheir first ~0lll~thiligto the contents of this building, rudiments of sclencc. The writers thcn be- you will realize how wide our range of pos- longed to one class, they were entirely of sib~htiesbecornes. From thc furs of the the priesthood, they kept the archives of the Arctic to the splces of the Indies; from the Government and recorded scientific discov- cornfields of Canada to the pastures of New eries These discoveries and inventions Zenlnnd, one must have some knowledge- mere largely and necessarily of a purely and inore than a passing Itnowledge-of the practical cha~wter,and it is 1n the practical goods with which they sugply us. But, ob- sense that I want to consider libraries for viously, me cannot have a comglete techni- a few nmutes tonight. cal lrnowledge of the various processes of We business men envy you ladies and the manufacture of the many thousands of gentlemen your more leisured life and the articles which we sell, and we do not try opportunit~es it aifords for intellectual vcry hard to acquire this technical lcnowl- pleasures, garticnlarly when those intel- edge. We are more concerned-indeed, al- lectual luxuries become part, as they do, of most solely concerned-wlth a complete and your daily duties. But as business men, we thorough knowledge of the finished article. have little tinle for the Indulgence of read- It may seem to you that it is impossible to ing for purely intellectual pleasure. I do have a working knowledge of the flnlshed not wish to convey for one moment an im- alticle wthout lrnowing wlth some degree ~)ressionthat intellectual pleasures are shut of thoroughness the various manufacturing Ollt hnl the llves of business men and processes that are necessary to its produc- Women, hut Only that they must find a dif- tion. Let me show you how impossible it ferent eXPreSSion, and the pleasure that is would be to hope to become really expert denied US to which I have just referred 1s in the commonest things that we hnndle. found in Our business itself-in our dally Let us take, for example, a piece of scarlet '~ork. Busmess today, taken seriously, flannel. If we are to know everything that Im3m.s a ver). Strenuous I~fe,and if we are must he known about this flannel before it going to get what we should rightly expect can be produced we could not compress that SPECIAL LIRRAR.IES. 99 linomledge into a dozen lifetimes, to say a heavy technical book for the purpose of norhing of one. A cbom1)lete Irnowledge ~tudsinzmailulacturing details. Jve do not would bcgin with the farmer 111 Iar-off dm- esl~ect it, and hence, we (10 not provide Iral~awho grows the wool. IIc 1~111have vc14y a1111)ly for a hig l~brargof boolis on to dctcrmine what liind of wool he shall these suh~ects. Our interests, as I have grow; he has to decide whcther it will pay said, We mainly ccutcred In the finished 1i1m best to grow his sheep L'or the cw- artlcle, and ~t 1s liel-e that sc expect our cass, or to grow them foi- tlie wool ; he must salcs~eople to be proficient-we cspect wc~gh the chances 111 time of diwughl of thein to lirlo\\- the va13ious character~st~cs Iiilling off his shecg, and so at least gett~ng of tllc goods they sell and the best purgose :,omething, against the cl~anccsol Irecping foi whirh cacll is suited.
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