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It should be more widely recognized that libraries in all countries con- tribute to education and thus to economic development. Many cooperative projects are being and have been undertaken. Areas in which advanced countries can assist libraries in developing nations include establishing na- tional research libraries, exchanges of publications and bibliographic services, use of microfilm and low acid paper to encourage acquisition and preservation of materials, development of universal classification, catalog- ing, and indexing systems, and education for librarianship. Mechanisms currently furthering cooperation are enumerated. Some Objectives of International Library Cooperation LUTHER H. EVANS

Y PURPOSE is to discuss certain broad hending research and the informational ac- M areas and outstanding needs in library tivities concerned with day-to-day technical cooperation across national boundaries, rather and administrative tasks of the most practical than to list all the activities that are now in and mundane sort, such as building a bridge, progress or have been carried on in the past. draining a swamp, harvesting a crop, curing It would be a real contribution to have a de- a sick cow, or running a government bureau. scription of such activities, with evaluations The way is open for librarians to move of their results. I believe such a study would their work to a higher level of appreciation surprise all of us as to what it would reveal and understanding, now that everyone is in- about the variety, the magnitude, and the im- terested in economic and social development portance of the help libraries and librarians and the economists have come around to the have given one another and the ways in position that education is a more important which other intellectual and educational en- measure than anything else of a nation's po- deavors have depended on the cooperative tential for development. A few years ago enterprises of libraries. education was taken too much for granted This leads to the first point I would like and hence was overlooked to a great extent to emphasize, viz., that there needs to be an when it came to listing practical measures to increased recognition by librarians and others, be taken to further development. But now more by others than by librarians, of the role we know better. Here is an opportunity to do of libraries in the educational process. I mean a selling job on libraries that we have not educational in a very broad sense, compre- had before. But a real effort is required to

Dr. Evans, who is Director of I~zternutionaland Legal Collections at Colambia Univer- sity, was formerly Librarian of Congress and Director-General of Unesco. This is the key- aote talk he presented ut the Metal.r/Materidls Division's program on international library cooperation at the 36th Special Libraries Arsoriution Convention iz Philadelphia, Jnne 9, 1963. MARCH 1966 149 do the selling. In doing it, we must be tem- books to aid (technical and other) in cata- perate, however, and discriminating in match- loging, from advice on classification to train- ing the cure to the prognosis. There are various ing budding librarians in schools and on the ways in which libraries can serve education, job. and various ways in which education can In many instances the aid to libraries is a serve development. Another way of saying segment of a larger program, such as a uni- this is that some activities can be far more versity development program. For instance, relevant and productive than others. Since Columbia University is involved in a Ford there is so much more that needs to be done Foundation project to develop law schools at -

in total than can possibly be done, it is im- the university level in Africa. A segment of , perative to choose high priority activities and that project is the development of the law give them the right amount of support. school libraries. As Law Librarian of Colum- bia I am frequently able in one way or an- National Libraries Needed other to assist. this project by advising on It seems to me that one of the greatest personnel, giving in-service training to Afri- can law librarians while in school in the needs is for one or more strong research li- - braries in each country that is not adequately United States, advising visiting librarians on provided with them. This means support for everything from best books to cataloging, national and university libraries. 1 would put and by giving surplus books needed by them this objective far ahead of the development (with shipping paid by the project). I do of a system of public libraries in the countries not overlook the other side of the coin, be- of low economic development and low edu- cause I realize that these librarians and li- cation of the populace. Usually, the estab- braries can help my library in many ways, in lishment of such libraries requires the tem- bibliographical and publications exchange ac- porary guidance of librarians from advanced tivities particularly. countries, including the United States. They are needed not only for the leadership of a Exchanges, Bibliography, and Acquisitions Carl White to work out plans for a national In the acquisitions, exchange, and biblio- library in Nigeria, but for heads of catalog- graphical area we find one of the most fruit- ing and acquisitions departments and other ful fields of cooperation between American key positions, as well as experts in the design and foreign libraries. The possibilities of ex- of library buildings or portions of buildings change have only been tapped, and they assigned for library activities. These persons should be vigorously exploited. The selec- are typically on temporary loan from their tion process can be aided greatly by the help regular positions, and their loan requires a foreign libraries can give in bibliographical genuine act of cooperation in the general service. Such service can also be used for con- interest. ducting microfilming and other copying pro- In the development of national and uni- grams. Librarians in areas where the book versity libraries, particularly in the early trade is poorly organized can help by advis- stages, there is need for cooperation going ing on sources for the purchase of materials. far beyond libraries as institutions. There I think on our side more progress can be must be a commitment shared in by the in- made by sending books and other library stitution to which the cooperating library on materials in exchange for bibliographical this side belongs. There must be financial service than if we merely exchange our sur- cooperation, at least in many cases, by foun- plus materials for theirs. Our encouragement dations, or Unesco, or multilateral or bilateral to foreign libraries to compile national bib- aid programs. Much in library development liographies where there are none, or even in underdeveloped countries is owed to the lists of government publications, could be Ford Foundation and other foundations, to highly rewarding to all concerned. Unesco and UN aid programs and to United In the area of bibliography, there is also a States and other country aid programs. The great need for more cooperative work on an aid given takes many forms, from building international basis in particular subject fields. plans to construction aid, from planning aid I think this is more important in areas other to actual administration, from grants for than the natural sciences, since the diversity of local conditions affect the natural sciences I should like now to make a few minor less than other subjects. In such work coop- points about acquisitions. The first of these eration should involve specialists and their is that libraries should refrain from placing - .~ssociationsas well as libraries and librarians. any limitation not required by law or con- As to union catalogs, I do not believe they tract on the absolute freedom of access to are generally worth their cost except in na- what they possess in microfilm form, subject tional location terms or where nations are only to recovering the cost of the copy sup- small and fairly closely linked (the Scandina- plied. If they are not in a position to give vian countries, for instance) in regional terms. rapid service, they should permit copying by National union catalogs, or lesser ones, can reputable outside services. Also, no library serve a wide bibliographical purpose when should in the future make or have made mi- they are made available in book form. Press- crofilm negatives that are not capable of pro- ing for the reproduction of such catalogs as ducing Xerox copies. The relevance of these exist but have not been made widely avail- suggestions to cooperation with foreign li- 'lble should be one of our objectives. braries is obvious. The United States Book Exchange is de- The preservation of our deteriorating ma- serving of greater support in the matter of terial printed on paper of high acidity should the acquisition of material by foreign li- be viewed as a sort of acquisition or re-ac- braries. Librarians should, in my opinion, quisition problem. There is a crying need put more pressure on the United States gov- not only for a nation-wide attack on this ernment to make fuller use of USBE in potential disaster but a world-wide attack strengthening foreign collections. also. Here is a natural for cooperative en- In terms of the broad acquisitions program deavor. Everything we do should take into needed to sustain American scholarship as it account not only the interests of the libraries should be sustained, we must go beyond possessing the deteriorating material but also purely cooperative arrangements with for- the interests of other libraries, in some cases eign libraries. We need a strengthened Farm- a few, in many cases a much larger number, ington Plan, and we need the extension of in acquiring copies for the first time. PL 480 to additional countries and the de- As a preventive to the continued building velopment of like programs for certain coun- up of the preservation problem for future tries to which PL 480 is not extensible. generations, we should also have a nation- As a sort of personal campaign, I have for wide and a world-wide campaign to secure many years counseled librarians to use self- the use of paper of low acid content. W. J. restraint in the matter of acquiring library Barrow, financed by the Council on Library materials, mostly in manuscript form, which Resources, Inc., has kindly done the research may be regarded by foreign peoples as being necessary for us to have a platform from part of their cultural patrimony. I think this which to launch these campaigns. In this idea should be respected in our dealings with matter we have identical interests with our foreign libraries. Where the damage has al- foreign brethren, and we should involve ready been done, I think we should try to them in our activities in this area from the undo it. Let me give a hypothetical example start. -If I were to find that my library possesses a unique and important item concerning the Classification, Cataloging, and Indexing development of the constitution of an Afri- In the matter of classification, it seems to can state, I would return it to that state, keep- me that a long-term cooperative effort is ing a copy for my own library. In my case, called for, looking toward the eventual crea- this would require a vote of the University tion of a satisfactory classification that could Trustees, but I believe they would support be used by the whole world and for all sub- me in this matter. The self-denying principle jects and languages. I envisage a system that about new acquisitions is, of course, much would have provision for certain alternative easier to apply. The goodwill that would ways of handling material in different na- come to us from the wide acceptance of such tional, cultural, and religious contexts, but I a policy would be great, and we would reap would have the system go as far as possible large benefits from it. toward uniformity. With the coming of com- puters to our field of work, we would do provide flexible opportunities for brief pe- well to develop such uniformity to be able riods of employment in their various services to use a uniform numerical notation in our for foreign librarians already on the job. conceptual work and in our communication In carrying out programs of library co- system. I am dismayed that there is so little operation, including those I have suggested concern among librarians about this major above, we already have many useful mecha- responsibility, which our sponsors and sup- nisms. Let me conclude by mentioning- some porters have every right to expect us to per- of them: form. I believe that librarianship will not be 1. United States aid programs, including a full-grown profession until it proves that AID, USIA, and PL 480 it can generate a universal classification sys- 2. Unesco (in United States the National tem that, with the kinds of adjustments de- commission for Unesco and the Unesco scribed within it, can prove satisfactory on a Library Panel of ALA) world-wide basis. This will probably require 3. International Federation of Library As- a generation to complete, and the need is sociations pressing. Let us get on with the job. 4. International Federation of Documenta- The development of uniform cataloging tion rules, being less difficult and exhausting, has 5. International Relations Board of ALA received more attention. Even here, the job 6. Library of Congress is not finished. Since the situation is generally 7. United States Book Exchange known, I will only state that it would be use- 8. The foundations ful to have at a national center in each coun- 9. Organization of American States try an advisory service for solving difficult 10. International Microfilm Association cataloging problems and for interpreting and 11. Various scholarly associations in area revising the rules on a current basis. studies fields, such as the Asian Studies Attention should be given to the possibili- Association, some of which have com- ties of further cooperation between American mittees concerned with the acquisitions and foreign librarians in the indexing and of foreign library materials abstracting of subject-matter literature. Much 12. Farmington Plan Committee of the As- of what is being done in one country is being sociation of Research Libraries duplicated in others, and hardly any of the 13. Exchange Service of the Smithsonian In- projects are extensive enough in their cov- stitution erage. There are some joint ventures in these 14. Various committees of the International fields, I realize, but we should have a much Standards Association and of American larger one that is well designed as to the Standards Association bibliographical systems used, the publication distribution system, and so on. Naturally, the potential of computer use should not be Planning Begun for National Center overlooked. The creation of an accepted System Development Corp., Santa Monica, world-wide classification would be necessary California, is conducting a $50,000 planning for best results. program for the newly chartered National Center of Communication Arts and Sciences, Education which will consist of a $10 million facility An area of international library coopera- for the collection, analysis, and distribution tion that can claim significant progress is that of communication knowledge- for industry, of the training of library personnel. Many education, and government and communica- under-developed countries have library per- tions media. A computer, library, research sonnel who have been trained in advanced facilities, and a permanent staff are included. countries, and many of them have library The planning p;oject, which is making rec- schools set up with-the advice and with the ommendations of the type of facilities and participation of librarians from advanced personnel required, the sequence of projects countries. This is all good, but more of the to be undertaken, requirements for funding, same is needed. It would also be useful if and a timetable for putting the Center in more libraries in advanced countries wouId operation, will be completed-by July 1. Presents a background on international activities in the field of librarian- ship, particularly the growth of FID, IFLA, and the latter's Special Libraries Section, and then describes the activities and objectives of SLS and its goal of serving as a catalyst for speeding up the development of closer ties be- tween IFLA and FID. Urges special librarians with special interests to cooperate with the Section on an international basis. IFLA - SLS in Action KARL A. BAER

IBRARIANS HAVE always been international- in an attempt to give cohesion to the basic L minded. After all, books represent history of FID. . . . In 1904 the possibility thought, and thought does not know any of an international library organization was frontiers. Always, however, librarians have discussed at the ALA meeting at St. Louis, also been individualists and that is why, over and a few years later (1910), a permanent the centuries, librarianship as a practical art Committee for the Preparation of Interna- reached a high level without producing any tional Congresses, to be held at long inter- associations of libraries or librarians or any vals, was created at Brussels. But the First organized international activity. As a matter World War meant a long interruption of any of fact, the first national associations and the international program, and it was 1926 when first international activity occurred almost the next International Congress of Librarians simultaneously less than a century ago. took place at Prague. Finally, in Rome in 1929, the International Committee, which Parallel History of FID and IFLA even then was composed of representatives of In 1876 ALA was founded; in 1877 the library associations of the various countries, Library Association of the United Kingdom became the International Federation of Li- followed. Curiously enough, the establish- brary Associations (IFLA). ment of this latter national organization was I shall pass by the ups and downs experi- a direct outcome of the First International enced by IFLA during the Second World Conference of Librarians, held in London in War and the periods immediately preceding 1877. And then, things happened rather rap- and following it, to stress one exceedingly idly. In 1895, the Institut International de important event. In 1955, IFLA and FID met Bibliographie at Brussels began its activities, jointly at Brussels; this was one of the mass which then were largely limited to the crea- meetings to which IFLA never has been par- tion and propagation of what is now known tial, and I believe that it served to move the the world over as the Universal Decimal two organizations farther apart, rather than Classification. pull them together more closely. While FID In the wake of the First World War, when considered the Brussels Meeting a success, the first great burst of technical and scientific IFLA was "not altogether pleased," to quote documentation activity began, the Institut from Professor Brummel's History of IFLA.1 changed its name and became the Institut In- Until the Brussels Meeting, IFLA and FID ternational de Documentation. Finally, in used to meet separately but usually not very 1933, it became, through another change of far apart in space and time-mostly in di- name, the F6d6ration Internationale de Docu- 1. BRUMMEL,L. De internationale organisatie mentation, known today as FID. van hep bibliotheekwezen Bibliotheekieven, vol. But I have been getting ahead of my story 48, no. 12, December 1963. Dr. Baer is well qualified to write about the Special Libraries Section of the International Federatiojz of Library Associations as he was one of its founding fathers and is its first Pres- ident, 1964-6. He presented this talk to the Metals/Materidls Division's panel, "Some In- ternational Aspects of Library Cooperation," at the 56th Special Libraries Association Convention in Philadelphia, June 9, 1965. Dr. Baer is Chief Librarian of the National Housing Center Library in Washington, D. C. rectly successive weeks in the same or neigh- ferences-largely semantic-should be recon- bouring countries. After it, the meetings be- ciled. I decided to start at the top in promot- came more and more independent, separated ing my conviction and to form a group farther and farther locally and chronologi- within one of the two organizations that cally. In 1965, for instance, IFLA met at Hel- would have the rapprochement of IFLA and sinki in August and FID met in Washington, FID as one of its avowed principal aims. D. C. in October. Thus, in 1964, the Special Libraries Section The timing of two other milestones in FID (SLS) of IFLA came into being, because and IFLA history shows once more the basic special libraries seemed to me to occupy an parallelism of their development. Only three almost ambiguous in-between position when years apart from one another, IFLA and FID it comes to the problem of librarianship ver- established permanent secretariats with full- sus documentation-a position that suits time secretaries. The importance of this can them particularly to serve as an active and hardly be overestimated, even though I ex- interested liaison. press it in a negative term-no international The story of this Section has been de- organization can flourish without a strong scribedz-adequately, I hope-and I shall and effective permanent secretariat. Con- not repeat it here, except to stress the fact versely, the appointment of a permanent sec- that efforts at creating a more solid union met retary demonstrates that an organization has with the interest of the leadership of IFLA achieved maturity and that its problems have and FID. Both Sir Frank Francis, President reached a complexity that makes it impossible of IFLA, and Dr. Burton W. Adkinson, to carry on with volunteer assistance. IFLA President of FID, attended the first meeting and FID, working in at least closely related of the new group in Rome in1964. fields, therefore reached organizational ma- We of SLS look forward to the future with turity almost simultaneously, and the ques- great confidence. The Section has been tion of what keeps them apart becomes more strengthened immensely by the decision of puzzling than ever. Aslib-long a prominent FID member-to Let us look at their aims. IFLA, with a join us in our task. SLS now comprises the membership now of more than 80 countries, three leading national organizations in the wants, according to Article 2 of its Stat- special libraries field-SLA, Aslib, and the utes, "to promote cooperation in the field of West German Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spe- libraries and particularly to carry out investi- zialbibliotheken. It has the support of special gations and make propositions concerning libraries and librarians in many countries the international relations between libraries, where no such national organizations exist. library associations, bibliographers, and other It has begun- work on the first of its pre- organized groups." And what are FID's liminary programs, the creation of an inven- goals? Indeed, they are just about identical, tory of special libraries throughout the world. with one modification, FID in its various A Committee on a Guide to Special Libraries programmatic announcement replaces the was created under the efficient chairmanship words "libraries" by "documentation organ- of Jorgen K. Nielsen (Denmark) of the izations" and "librarians" by "documental- United Nations Library. A preliminary letter ists." Then, it all boils down, in the end, to was sent out-both in French and English-- problems of definition-who is a librarian, to request the participation of non-European who is a documentalist, what is a library, countries. The text of the letter addressed to nhat is a documentation center ? those librarians-mostly in developing coun- tries-was given the most careful attention. I Activities of Special Libraries Section had the benefit of excellent advice from both Over the past years, I have felt consist- Joseph Groesbeck, Deputy Librarian of the ently that the supposed differences between United Nations, and Mr. Nielsen. We were libraries and documentation centers have been guided by one idea-we wanted the recipi- talked about to such an extent that the basic ents-our colleagues-most of whom have identity of the two professions (if they are accomplished a good deal on slender means, two professions) has become more and more 2. BAER,Karl. A World-Wide Future. Special Li- obscured. To me, it appears that these dif- brzlrir~..vol. 56, no. 2, February 1965, p. 87-92. to tell iv.r about their achievements in the SLS will be happy to assist any committee special libraries field. We carefully refrained in the international field that you may wish from offering them any unwanted assistance to organize. Such an effort originating in . or advice. The response-including such the United States and sponsored by your Di- countries as Madagascar, Dahomey, Congo, vision would be a most desirable implemen- Ghana, Kenya, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Senegal, tation of President Johnson's words, "The Somalia, Zambia, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, world wants America to reach out its hand Malaysia, Jamaica and Trinidad-was most for a handshake, not to leave a tip." gratifying. There is no doubt that our well- considered approach was the reason for our PROJECT LEX UNDERWAY success. We hope that the Gnide to Repre- sentative Specid Libravies of the World will Project LEX is the name given to the work be a comprehensive, carefully annotated of developing a technical thesaurus for the work, and that it will supply much needed, Department of Defense. The job, which has presently unavailable information on special been assigned to a special task force working libraries in many lands. in the Office of Naval Research, is expected We approached our fellow librarians not to be completed by the summer of 1967. J. only in connection with the Gl~ide,however. Heston Heald has been transferred from the hut we also asked for their contributions to a Office of the Director of Technical Informa- New.rletter the Section plans to publish in tion to the ONR as Project Director. A series April 1966. This Newsletter is intended to of subject sessions have been scheduled, and do somewhat more than its name implies: it librarians and information specialists are in- will include short articles on philosophy, vited to participate in the deliberations in methods, equipment and other professional sections of their interests. The Project is lo- matters of interest as well as new items. As cated in Temporary Building E, 4th and a matter of fact, we secretly hope that this Adams Drive S.W., Washington, D. C. The publication will someday become the Zntenza- mailing address is Project LEX, ONR, De- tioual Jozwzal of Special Libvai.iamhip and partment of the Navy, Washington, D. C. serve as an international clearinghouse for The schedule of sessions is: facts and opinions. Biological and Medical Sciences, April 1-8 The program of our second meeting, in Earth Sciences and Oceanography, April 11-15 August 1966 in Helsinki, was carefully de- Materials, April 18-27 signed to develop the Section's main idea." Atmospheric Sciences, Astronomy, and As- Being special librarians, we shall always trophysics, April 28-May 6 keep in mind that activities in special sub- Nuclear Science and Technology, May 9-13 ject fields require additional special accom- Military Sciences, May 16-27 modation. We are indeed happy that, after Aeronautics, Missile, and Space Technology, only one year, we have an application for the May 31-June 10 formation of a special group of observatory Navigation, Communications, Detection, and libraries ; the respectable number of 40 ob- Countermeasures, June 13-24 servatories is involved, under the inspiring Propulsion, Fuels, and Energy Conversion, leadership of Mme. G. Feuillebois of the June 27-July 1 Paris Observatory. How this group is to be Electrical and Electronic Engineering, July absorbed, organizationally and administra- 5-19 tively, is still an unsolved problem, but it Mechanical, Industrial, Civil dnd Marine, will be done in the expectation that other July 20-29 similar subject groups will follow. Chemistry, August 1-9 The members of the Metals/Materials Di- Physics and Mathematical Sciences, August vision of SLA have always shown the true 10-19 pioneering spirit; here is a challenge to orig- Ordnance, August 22-30 inate a most worthwhile undertaking. The Agricultural, Behavioral, and Social Sciences, Methods and Equipment, August 31-Sep- 3. -- . The 31st Session of the IFLA General Council, Special Libraries, vol. 57, no. 8. October tember 9 1965, p. 598-9. Contingencies, September 12-2 3 Happier outlooks brighten the literature as shown in 194 citations, most of which are annotated. Vast metropolitan areas are accepted, reluctantly, - as inevitable. Multiple interests and disciplines are exhorted to fuse efforts at improving urban livability, design, transportation, human relations. - Anachronistic governmental forms are assaulted, and the increased federal role applauded or deplored. Laggard building technology is prodded. Pre- cept and example are offered to up-date real estate business practices. Construction and city planning board the computer bandwagon. His- torians trace urbanism's development. Review of the Literature on Housing and Urban Development during 1964 and 1965 ELSA S. FREEMAN

HAT ARE THE trends since the 1963 ning rather than construction and technology. W literature survey?" Greater optimism Basic or recurrent source materials mentioned and more accent on the positive, I believe. in the earlier article* are not repeated in the The creation of the new federal Department bibliography at the end of this one. The of Housing and Urban Development may earlier article should be consulted bv those have sparked encouragement. Fewer dirge- requiring such information. like laments on the fate of the urban sector The literature of the past two years showed appeared. Although ample justification exists increased emphasis on-the problems of the for Siby Moholy-Nagy's contention that city urban complex, transportation, metropolitan planners are allergic to cities, it gives them form, and urban aesthetics. nightmares (23, 54, 74, 89). Most planners, Journals not normally associated with ur- however, do propose remedies. There is less ban affairs devoted whole issues to the sub- nostalgia for what was or might have been. ject (37, 58, 110, 160, 161). In addition, The spread urban area is recognized, how- Sat~lrday Review published an issue on air ever reluctantly, as here to stay. To accept pollution, May 22, 1965, and one on "New suburban reality is not to oppose urban re- Architecture of U.S. Cities," January 23, newal nor to deny the downtown business 1965, and Life Magazine publicized "The district. The central city and the suburb are U.S. City," December 24, 1965. seen as an entity (1). Mankind is reshaping Rampant urbanization is recognized as one his habitat into a "megalopolitan" world of themost compelling issues of our time. (15). It tends to dwarf him. However, Urban sprawl coupled with inner city blight more thinkers are attempting to reconcile and is the core of the problem. The extended accommodate the contradictory desiderata of suburban area with-a dense central city is city and country. becoming the dominant pattern of human This synthesis concentrates mostly on a settlement. Virtually all the future popula- selection of United States, Canadian, and tion increase will be urban (104). More than British books published in 1964 and 1965. half the world's people will probably be liv- The emphasis is on housing and urban plan- ing in cities of 100,000 or more by 1990

* The author, who is Librarian of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D. C., prepared an earlier survey, "Urban Planning and Housing Literature in 1963," which appeared in Special Libraries, vol. JS, no. 3, March 1964, P. 148-56. iMrs. Freeman is currently Chairman of the Planning, Building, and Housing Section of the Social Science Division of SLA. The views expressed in this article are uot necessarily those of the Department of Homing and Urban Development. (37) . In the United States at present, 70 per segments of society interested in urbm re- cent live in metropolitan areas and by 1980 vitalization is the Community Renewal Pro- about 75 per cent will be living there (134). gram. It provides comprehensive planning Since World War 11, the long-distance and data feed-back. One example of its work movement from country to city hai been ac- is cited (38). The government also sponsors companied by the short-distance one from other very active, report-producing programs : the center to the periphery. The spread seems Demonstration Grant (42, 129), Urban irreversible. The nature and dimensions of Planning Assistance, Low Income Housing, this wave of metropolitanism is the subject Mass Transportation, Open Space Land, and of many studies (25, 35, 56, 72, 92, 131, the General Neighborhood Renewal Plan. 146, 147, 173, 174, 184, 185, 186, 187). Their locally-produced documents are too Profound political consequences have re- numerous to cite. sulted from the emergence of the United The response to the challenge of the ugli- States as a metro-urban society. Coincident ness superimposed by people on the beauty with it has been the federal government's in- of the country is the evolvement of urban volvement in direct relationship with cities in aesthetics, conservation, and preservation problems once held to be purely local (47, (110, 116, 137, 158, 189, 190). Some au- 108). Abrams (2) accuses all government of thors write in fury about the desecration failure to deal with the gathering world (23) ; some extoll open spaces (140, 183) ; crises of urbanism. Even the most urbanized some plea for preservation of historic or countries still exhibit the rural origins of handsome, man-made structures ( 112). All their institutions. Proposals and counter pro- would have order and design in megalopolis posals for altering the conventional frame- and urge the need and place of nature in the work of political units, as well as discussions city of man. of the increasing importance of all govern- How to develop and utilize land more ef- mental bodies and the proliferation of their fectively, scientifically, and aesthetically is de- interrelationships are discussed frequently described (4, 19, 26, 75, 99, 100). (63, 64, 107, 139, 151, 169, 170, 191). The Housing (.20, 70, 76, 78, 87, 96, 102, 118, administrative, political, and fiscal realities 129, 144, 175, 176) and city planning (24, that restrict the building and rebuilding of 34, 44, 45, 67, 75, 77, 93, 94, 95, 114, 125, cities are acknowledged. 138, 152, 163) came in for their usual share Life styles are altered by the tensions and of study. Urban renewal, rehabilitation of conflicts and the confrontation and conges- neighborhoods, and relocation, are discussed tion of urban environments. Health is af- (1, 12, 33, 46, 62, 71, 90a, 110, 120, 171, fected (73, 82, 133). For many the city 176, 185, 186, 194; the first three items are provides a richer, more stimulating fabric as not very favorable to the present govern- well as higher professional and material re- mental approaches). wards (37). There is a reawakened interest The d&nal migrations from residence to in urban sociology (28, 192). work and back and th~other movement of The citizen is urged in prose and verse to persons and goods in, out, through the met- exert his constructive influence in shaping his ropolitan area are part of the urban trans- city (22, 32, 85, 137, 159, 188). Some pro- portation crises. Another aspect is the spatial Dose that the church can have an effective organization of human activities. A vast in- voice in the politics and planning for the ur- crease in the literature has occurred (16, 42, ban renaissance rather than be its helpless 47, 59, 61, 65, 101, 109, 141, 155). victim (39, 111, 145, 193). The creation of new communities and In the quest for the living metropolis, planned satellite towns as solutions to ur- pluralism in planning is advocated by plan- banism's problems has taken on a fresh vi- ners (67, 134), economists (164, lgl), and tality (77, 126, 154, 160, 178). Concern others (79) who want to bridge the gap for housing the elderly (49, 123, 177) and between economics, human resource pro- minority groups (39, 49, 124, 162. 165, grams, and environmental planning. 186) is evident. The federal mechanism that attempts to Some maintain that important contribu- overcome the compartmentalization of the tions to understanding the urban world come not from planning theorists or professionals Over-all view of urban land and housing prob- but those with more practical contacts with lems, p:~licies, and progress by one of the top e specialists. Emphasis is on underdeveloped areas the multiple disciplines that touch housing of the world. and urbanization (159). Housing has been Z. AGAN, Tessie, and LUCHSINGER,Elaine. The labeled the stepchild of the industrial and House; P~if~ciples,Resources, Dynamics, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1965. 357p. illus. scientific revolution (159). In the realm of Today's housing needs in light of the changing advanced technology, that may be true; how- nature of the modern family's requirements. Ex- amines total effect of housing industry. Encourages ever, many books discuss construction and home ownership. materials (5, 14, 31, 41, 48, 51, 69, 105, 4. ALONSO,William. Location and Land Use; To- 118, 119, 128, 135, 149). u'ard a General Theor) of Lazd Rent. Cambridge, . Architectural publications considered here Harvard Univ. Press, 1964. 204p. diags. Mathematical analysis of rent theory with paral- are related to housing (52, 66, 86, 90, 91, lel explanations in words and diagrams. Shows 97, 122, 142, 153, 166). Books on real estate complexity of relationship between rents and trans- and mortgages abound (6, 8, 9, 27, 30, 57, port costs in cities and regions. Points out the differences from agricultural rent theory. 81, 84, 98, 104, 106, 121, 127, 132, 136, 5. AMERICANINSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS.Build- 150, 167). iag Produrf~ Regirter [3rd ed.]. Washington. The market for housing (168, 181) and D. C.: 1964. 454p. charts. Compares physical characteristics and perform- the importance of non-economic considera- ance criteria of building products. Reference mate- tions in the selection of a house (43) are rial for each product type is brought together and covered. The joys of home ownership, pro- summarized. Lists under each product, data such as: manufacturer, trade name, AIA or Sweet's file vided that ample care is taken in its selection number, uses, material description, product speci- and maintenance, are discussed (3, 41, 68, fications, dimensions, installation. Cross-indexed. 88, 115, 130, 143, 148). 6. AMERICANINSTITUTE OF BANKING.Home Mortgage Lending. New York: American Bankers Not to be outdone by other disciplines, Association, 1963. 440p. planning is also worrying with the applica- Helpful textbook. tion of computers to solve its dilemmas (17, 7. AMERICANINSTITUTE OF PLANNERS.Proceed- 29, 60). mgs (48th Annual Conference). Washington, D. C.: 1965. Annual. Noteworthy among the new periodicals The source for current thinking of planners. launched since the 1963 literature survey are The title of the 1965 volume is The Planner in Urbal~ Affairr (City University of New Emerging Urbm Society-A Confronfation. 8. AMERICANINSTITUTE OF REAL ESTATE AP- York, sponsor), Urban Renewal atzd Pnblic PRAISERS. The Appaisal of Real Estate, 4th ed. Housijzg in Camda (Central Mortgage and Chicago: 1964. 483p. Housing Corporation), and Urban Stdies 9. ----- . Red Estate Appraisal Bibliography. Chicago: 1965. 303p. (University of Glasgow) . Homkg apzd Covers 1945-1963. Indexes only 12 appraisal Plamin~References, issued by the Depart- sources; almost all of these are journals. However, ment of Housing and Urban Development, coverage is most comprehensive. Arranged by is now available on subscription. subject, partially annotated. No author index. 10. AMERICANMUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION. Proceed- It may be fitting to close this survey by ings (40th Congress). Washington, D. C.: [1964]. noting volumes that historically review our Annual. 1963 is Economics and New Ideas for Cities. transformation from a limited government, American Municipal Association changed its name small town, agricultural society to an urban, in 1965 to the National League of Cities. industrialized one (13, 20, 24, 72, 113, 125, 11. AMERICANSOCIETY OF APPRAISERS.Appraisal 138, 157). and Valuation Manual. Washington, D. C.: 1965. 330p. 12. ANDERSON,Martin. The Federal Bulldozer; A BIBLIOGRAPHY Critical Analysis of Urban Renewal, 1949-1962. 1. ABRAMS,Charles. The City Is the Frontier. New Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1964. 272p. York: Harper & Row, 1965. 394p. Seeks to prove that only free enterprise can Critically analyzes the urban renewal program achieve the admirable goals set by the federal and main causes of urban blight. Presents blue- urban renewal program. Urges repeal of the Ur- prints for cities, suggesting better design, more ban Renewal Program. Though book purports to parks, citizen participation, neighborhood renewal, be based on analysis of data, personal interviews rehabilitation, commercial clustration, walkability, and extensive survey of the literature, many dis- realistic mass transportation programs. Offers a pute its facts and conclusions. However, it has new philosophy for cities. some expert defenders. 2. --- . Man's Struggle for Shelter in an Ur- 13. BEBOUT, John E., and GRELE,Ronald J. banizing World. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1964. Where Cities Meet; the Urbanization of New 307p. Jersey (The New Jersey Historical Series, vol. 22). Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1764. 129p. 23. BLAKE, Peter. God's Owu ]unkyard; The illus. Planned Detevioration of Americds Landscape. Holds that the geographical position midway New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. between New York and Philadelphia has led to a 143p. illus. "City of New Jersey." It is the nation's most Documents with pictures, the degradation of the urban state where 88 per cent of the population American landscape. Blames this waste on venal- live in a city environment. An historical study. ity, vulgarity, uglification. 14. BENTLEY,Howard B. Building Co?~structio?z; 24. BLIJSTRA,R. Toum Planning in the Nethev- It/fovrnatior~ Sources (Management Information lands Since 1900. Amsterdam: P. N. van Kampen Guide no. 2). Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1964. and Zoon, 1965. 74p. 181p. Planning and architecture in Netherlands has as Comprehensive guide to source materials, associ- much international impact as that done in Scan- ations, research in building construction, broadly dinavian countries. An excellent guide. interpreted. It is arranged by categories and by 25. BOLLENS,John C., and SCHMANDT,Henry J. subject. There are excellent discussions of the The Metropolis, Its People, Politics and Economic rarious sections. Items are annotated. Included are Lije. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. 643p. author, title, and subject indexes. Author is prom- Study of metropolitanism. Chapters on metro- inent SLAer. politan communities in a world setting and on the 15. BERKMAN,Herman. Our Urban Plant; Es- shape of the future. Includes bibliographic essay. rsys in Urban Affairs. Madison: Univ. of Wiscon- 26. BROWN,Robert K., ed. The Ideal City. At- sin Extension, 1964. 66p. lanta: State College, School of Business Adminis- Very good brief summary of situation for study tration, 1764. 12Op. purposes. Has footnotes and suggested readings. 27. -. Real E~tateEconomics; ari Itztroduc- 16. BERRY,Donald, S., et al. The Technology of tiom to Urban Land Use. Boston: Houghton, Mif- lrvban Tran.rportatzon. Evanston: Northwestern flin, 1965. 388p. IIniv. Press, 1763. 145p. 28. BURGESS,Ernest W., and BOGUE,Donald J., One of the monographs in the Transportation eds. Contributions to Urba~z SocioIogJ. Chicago <;enter's series on urban transportation. Presents and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1764. 673p. several ways of moving persons and goods in met- Original contributions and mature second r~spolitanareas. Includes for each, information on thoughts by leaders in field. Connecting essays by design features, capacity, performance, costs, con- the editors survey the historical highlights of the ditions for which each type best suited. Unilersity of Chicago's urban sociology program 17. BESHERS,James M., ed. Computer Methodf in begun five years ago. the Analpsir of Large-Scale Social Spstems. Cam- 29. CAMPBELL,Robert D.. and LEBLANC,Hugh bridge: Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Mas- L. An Information S).rtem for Crhan Plarzning. s.~chusctts Institute of Technology and Haward (U. S. Urban Renewal Administration Urban Vni\ ersity. 1965. 214p. Planning Bulletin No. 1). (Prepared for the Proceedings that bring together many diverse Maryland National .Capital Park and Planning perspectives on social research that use computers. Comn~ission).Washmgton, D. C.: George Wash- These perspectives are suggestive of many new ington Univ. Urban Planning Data System Project, lrnes of research to be explored for possible appli- Government Printing Office, 1965. 96p. c.~tionto urban and regional problems. 30. CASBY,William J. Real Estate Desk Book. 18. BETEHENNER,Lyle. City Planning and Zoning New York: Institute for Business Planning, 1765. in Aniwim72 Le~ulPeriodicals (Council of Plan- 279p. ning Librarians Exchange Bibliography no. 28). 31. CENTRALMORTGAGE AND HOUSINGCORPORA- Eugene, Ore.: 1765. 137p. TION. Building Terms Dictionurs. Ottawa: 1965. 19. BEUSCHER,J. H., ed. Ldnd Use Controls- 356p. Cares atzd Mate~ials. 3rd ed. Madison: College Text in English and French. Printing and Typing Co., 1964. 577p. 32. CHAMBEROF COMMERCEOF THT UNITED Major recent statutory and case law. STATES.Cuse Studies iz Communitv Dez,eIopment. compiled by S. Howard Evans. Washington, D. C.: 20. BEYER,Glenn H. Hou.ring and Society. New 1963. 412p. York: Macmillan. 1765. 575p. illus. Approaches urban problems on assumption that Housing liewed from historic, marketing, pro- each is interwoven with others. Case studies break duction, acquisition, consumption, and statistical problems down into series of steps and then show aspects. It is based on the author's Housing; A how they are coordinated to produce a unified F,zctual At~al~sis(New York, Macmillan. 1958). solution. Chapters devoted to all aspects. It is Like its preclecessor, it is an exhaustive study. designed as a help to citizen participation and local A'ew bonk includes historical analysis of housing organization of expert groups. in foreign lands, cooperative housing, and housing f(lr the elderly. Emphasis is given to applications 31. ---. The Impart of Fedelzrl Crbal7 Retzewal rather than theory. and Pahlic Housing Subsidies. Washington, D. C.: 1964. 87p. maps. 21. BICKER, William, et al. Conparatiz/e Urbaz Maintains that net impact of federal renewal and De~~elopment:an Annotated Biblio~raphy (Papers housing subsidy programs is that more affluent in Public Administration Comparative series no. comm&ities are sLbsAized at the expense of those 5). Washington. D. C.: American Society for less well off. Also critical, among other things, of Public Administration, 1765. 151p. costs of program and high costs of control in rela- 22. BIDDLE,William W., and LOUREIDE,J. Com- tion to actual subsidies. munity Development Proce~s:The Rediscovery of 34. CHAPIN, F. Stuart. Jr. Urbari Land U.re Ph- Local Initiatize. New York: Holt, Rinehart and njtig, 2nd ed. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, K'inston, 1965. 334p. 1965. 498p. maps, charts. One oi the best texts for city planning courses Includes case histories of several neighborhoods and a reference book for professionals in city plan- that are waging successful battles to renew them- ning agencies and firms. selves. 35. CHINITZ,Benjamin, ed. City and Suburb; the 47. DANIELSON,Michael N. Fedeval Metropolitan Economics of Metropolitan Growth. Englewood Politics azd the Commuter Crises. New York: Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1964. 181p. Columbia Univ. Press, 1965. 244p. These articles by economists present growth Describes the roles of the central city, the sub- problems as viewed by the employer and worker, urbs, the states, and the urban congressman in the the area planner, the local government official, and passage of the Transportation Acts of 1958 and the consumer. 1964, resulting in federal aid for mass transit. De- \-elops a set of hypotheses about the nature of fed- 36. CHRISTENSEN,David E. Cvbatz Developmetzt. eral-metropolitan politics and the probable pattern New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. of federal metropolitan relations in the next decade. 95p. illus. Brief, readable summary with a glossary and bib- 48. DEATHERAGE,George E. Co~zstructionEstimat- liography. ing and Job Preplannitzg. New York: McGraw Hill, 1965. 307p. illus. 37. Cities. Scie~ztific American. ~ol.213, no. 3, Sept. 1965. 280p. illus. 49. DENTON,John H., ed. Race and Propertj. Entire issue includes articles by Kingsley Davis, Berkeley, Calif.: Diablo Press, 1964. 159p. Lloyd Rodwin, Benjamin Chinitz, Charles Abrams, Essays on the legal, governmental, industrial, John Dyckman, Nathan Glazer, Kevin Lynch, Hans real estate, and sociological settings for reconciling Blumenfeld, and other experts on the origin, evolu- property and civil rights. tion, and shape of cities. Excellent general discus- 50. DICKINSON,Robert E. City and Regiotz; a sion of world-wide trend. Geographical Inter;bretation. London: Routledge 38. CITY PLANNINGASSOCIATES. Commu?zity Rr- and K. Paul, 1964. 588p. newal Program (prepared in cooperation with Buf- 51. DOELLE,Leslie L. Acou~tics in Architectural falo Department of Urban Renewal, U. S. Urban Design; an Antzotated Bibliography. Ottawa: Na- Renewal Administration Community Renewal Pro- tional Research Council, 1965. 543p. gram). Buffalo, N. 1965. 131p. charts, maps. Y.: 52. DONAT,John, ed. World Architecture Today. 39. CLARK,Henry. The Church and Residetztial New York: Viking Press, 1964. 255p. illus. Also Desegregation; A Case Study of az Open Housing World Architecture 11, 1965. 219p. illus. Covenant Campaign. New Ha\ en, Conn. : College 53. DORFMAN,Robert, ed. Measuring Benefits of and Univ. Press, 1965. 254p. Government Investments (Papers presented at a Study of Newfield, Connecticut. Conference of Experts held 1963). Washington, 40. CLARKE,John J. Building Laus atzd Re~ula- D. C.: Brookings Institution, 1965. 429p. tiom; A Concise Guide atzd Refevence. London: Includes chapters on outdoor recreation, urban Odhams Books Ltd., 1964. 208p. highway investments, urban renewal programs. Primarily British law. Latter is a very useful text for making benefit-cost 41. COLE,V. B. The Way to Buy a House. Lon- analyses. don: The Bodley Head, 1964. 128p. 54. DOXIADIS,Constantinos A,, and DOUGLASS, Emphasis on British practice. Truman B. The New World of Urban Man. Phila- delphia: United Church Press, 1965. 127p. 42. COMMITTEEFOR ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT (Research and Policy Committee). Deve10pifz~q A lively series of dialogue lectures delivered at Metropolitan Transportation Policies: A Guide for the University of Pennsylvania. These were spon- sored jointly by the United Church of Christ and Local Leadership. A Statemeut on Natiofzal Policj. the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of New York: 1965. 99p. U. S. Department of Housing and Urban De- Fine Arts. velopment, Mass Transportation Demonstration 55. ECKBO, Garrett. Urban Latzdscape Design. Grant Program. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. 248p. illus. Considers building in groups such as parks and 43. COONS,Alvin E., and GLAZE,Bert T. Housing Market Analysis and the Gwwth of Nonfarnz playgrounds, streets and squares, building and site, (Bureau of Business Research neighborhood, community and region. Says design Home Ownership should be influenced by maintenance. Monograph no. 115). Columbus: Ohio State Univ.. 1963. 173p. 56. ELIAS.C. E.. et al.. eds. Metroboh: Values in Significance of important changes in the pattern Conflict. ~elmoht,~aiif.: ~ads~orth Publishing of home ownership in the United States since Co., 1964. 326p. World War 11. Studies the home buyer as Investor Problems and value conflicts produced by in- and as consumer motivated by non-economic con- creasing urbanization discussed by outstanding au- siderations. Compares theories against data col- thorities via excerpts from their works. This is an lected in Westerville, Ohio. excellent antholo& of readings meant for adult discussions or courses on urban problems for uni- 44. CROSBY,Theodore. Architecture: Cit~Sm.re. versity students. Essays are under major categories New York: Reinhold, 1965. 96p. such as Metropolis: Destroyer or Creator; Sub- Really city planning. urbia: Values in Transition; Urban Design; Social 45. CULLINGWORTH,J. B. Tou'tz atzd Couvtry Issues in Urban Life; and Governing the Metrop- Planning in England and Wales, An Introduction. 011s. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press [1964]. 301p. 57. ENGEL, Irving M. Real Estate and Income 46. CUNNINGHAM,James V. The Resurgent Neigh- Taxes (revised by Robert Sterling and Robert H. borhood. Notre Dame, Ind.: Fides Publishers, Bloom). New York: Practicing Law Institute. 1965. 224p. 1965. 268p. 58. EVERETT,Robinson O., and LEACH, Richard LOCALGOVERNMENT. Report of the Committee on H., eds. Urban Problems and Prospects. Law and Housing in Greater London. London: HMSO, Contemporary Problems, vol. 30, no. 1, Winter 1965.441~. 1965. p. 1-229 (entire issue). 71. GREBLER,Leo. Urban Renewal in European Symposium. Excellent. Because of magnitude of Countries: Its Emergence and Potentials. Philadel- problem, this is the fifth issue in recent years of phia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. 132p. this journal to be devoted to urban America. (Pre- First comprehensive analysis of emergent pro- ~iousones were Spring 1955, Summer 1955, Au- grams of Western Europe. tumn 1960, and Winter 1961.) 72. GREEN, Constance McLaughlin. The Rise of 59. FITCH, LYLEC., AND ASSOC.Urban Transpor- Urban America. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. tation and Public Policy. San Francisco: Chandler 208p. Publishing Co., 1964. 279p. History and discussion of the rise of cities in Examination of all forms of urban transporta- the United States from the 17th century to date, tion and methods to improve them. Suggests meth- told with verve in a witty narrative style. ods. Analyzes costs. 73. GRIMM,Sergei N. Notes on Consideration of 60. FITE, Harry. The Computer Challenge to Ur- Physical Environmental Factors as a Whole in Re- ban Planners and State Administrators (The Amer- lation to Health. Syracuse, N. Y.: Engineering ]can University Technology and Management Se- Planning Association, 1965. Iv. ries). Washington, D. C.: Spartan Books, 1965. 74. GRUEN,Victor. The Heart of Our Cities. The 142p. Urban Crisis; Diagnosis and Cure. New York: 61. FOSTER,C. D. The Transport Problem. Lon- Simon and Schuster, 1964. 368p. illus. don and Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Ltd., 1963. 354~. Part 1 discusses anatomy and values of a city; Has sections on the general framework, the rail. part 2, the forces that threaten and destroy the transport, and road problems in Great Britain. city-the anti-city; part 3, how a city can regain Assesses these on strictly economic grounds. Urges its health and vigor. that a clear transport policy be adopted. 75. HAAR,Charles M., ed. Law and Land; Anglo- 62. FRIEDEN,Bernard J. The Future of Old Neigh- American Planning Practice. Cambridge: Harvard borhoods; Rebuilding for a Changing Population. Univ. Press and the M.I.T. Press, 1964. 290p. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1944. 209p. Attempts to show how the law can be made to New York, Los Angeles, and Hartford chosen serve our cities in combating slums, urban blight, for detailed and thoughtful study of housing, congested traffic, diminished open spaces. British movement of people, economics of rebuilding old and American attorneys present views. Mr. Haar neighborhoods, social effects of housing programs. is now an Assistant Secretary of the Department 63. FRIEDMANN,John, and ALONSO,William, eds. of Housing and Urban Development. Regional Development and Planning; A Reader. 76. HAAS,John H. A Homing Manifesto, Resi- Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1964. 722p. charts, maps. dential Housing Problems; Diagnosis and Treat- 64. FRIEDRICH,Carl J., and HARRIS,Seymour E., ment. Washington, D. C.: Workshop 221, Inc., eds. Public Policy; a Yearbook of the Graduate 1964. 95p. School of Public Administration. Cambridge: Har- 77. HALL, Peter. London 2000. London: Faber vard Univ. Press, 1963. 370p. and Faber, Ltd., 1963. 220p. illus. Includes essays by authorities on urbanism, plan- Concrete plans and proposals for London in the ning, and city government. year 2000. Discusses jobs, people, administration, 65. FROMM,Gary. Transport Investment and Eco- homes, travel, new towns. ~omicDevelopment. Washington, D. C.: Brook- 78. HARRIS,Walter D. La Vivienda en El Hon- mgs Institution, Transport Research Program, duras. Housing in Honduras. Washington, D. C.: 1965. 314p. Organization of American States, 1964. 6llp. Papers by specialists on transport system ob- Second of the comprehensive housing surveys jectives, technology, design, regional and national carried out as Alliance for Progress projects. First planning, financing, etc. Case studies of planning one on Peru was published in 1963. Publications in the Soviet Union and Chile are also presented. are in Spanish and English. Essays were gathered to aid emerging nations. 79. HAUSER,Philip M., and SCHNORE,Leo F., 66. FRY, Maxwell, and DREW, Jane. Tropical eds. The Study of Urbanization. New York: Architecture in Dry and Humid Zones. New York: Wiley, 1965. 554p. Reinhold, 1964. 264p. illus. Inventory and appraisal of the study of urbaniza- Includes 17 appendixes of technical data. tion in economics, geography, history, political sci- 67. GOODMAN,William I., and KAUFMAN,Jerome ence, sociology, and anthropology. Points up the L. City Planning in the Sixties; A Restatement of gaps in knowledge about the antecedents and con- Principles and Techniques. Urbana: Illinois Univ., sequences of urbanization, especially in developing Bureau of Community Planning, 1965. 74p. areas. 68. GOTTLIEB,Lois Davidson. Environment and 80. HAYS, Forbes B. Community Leadership; The Design in Housing. Julius Shulman, photography Regional Plan Association of New York. New consultant. New York: Macmillan, 1965. 258~. York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1965. 190p. rllus. A study of the leadership aspects of the Re- Aids to homeowners in improving housing fa- gional Plan Association's activities in the New cilities. York metropolitan area. 69. GREATBRITAIN, BUILDING RESEARCH STATION 81. HEBARD,Edna L., and MUSIL, Gerald S. (Garston, Herts). Prefabrication; A History of Its Principles of Real Estate Law. New York: Sim- Development in Great Britain, by R. B. White. mon-Boardman, 1964. 532p. London: HMSO, 1965. 354p. 82. HERBER,Lewis. Crises in Our Cities. Engle- -0. GREATBRITAIN, MINISTRY OF HOUSINGAND wood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965. 23913. illus. Air pollution, water contamination, and stress Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Har~.'udUniversity). of over-urbanization. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, . 83. HIGHWAYRESEARCH BOARD. Top Issues it? 1964. 209p. Urban Research, 1963. Washington, D. C.: Na- Thirteen contributors provide a definitixe dis- .- tional Research Council, 1965. 105p. cussion. Unfortunately, it is in typical uninviting Four reports presented at the 43rd Annual committee print format. Meeting. 93. KEEBLE,Lewis. Principles and Prarijce of 84. HOAGLAND,Henry Elmer, and STONE, Leo D. Tuu'n and Countrp Planning, 3rd ed. London: Real Estate Finance, 3rd ed. Homewood, Ill.: R. Estates Gazette, Ltd.. 1964. 382p. ~llus.Very help- D. Irwin, 1965. 628p. ful, especially for British subdivision and town center planning. 85. HOLDEN,Arthur C. Sonnets for My City: An Essay on the Kinship of Art and Finance as 94. KENT, T. J., Jr. The Urban Generid Plan Fartovs in the Development of the City and the (with a bibilographic essay on the urban general Moulding of Math Enz,ivonmen/. New York: plan by Holway R. Jones). San Francisco: Chan- Schulte Publishing Co., 1965. 231p. tiler, 1964. 213p. Verse and prose on the city. Architect-city Describes the ideal policy control instrument the planner-author believes that verse appeals to the general plan should be, with examples. Holly emotions, has wider impact than arguments ad- Jones has provided an annotated reading list and dressed to reason alone, and that rhyme helps the discussion, p. 191-210. memory. He uses verse to gain effective citizen 95. KEYES,Scott, ed. Urban azd Regional Studies support in combating city problems. at L'. S. Unive~sirirs(Report based on a 1963 86. HOPE, Alice. Toumn Houses. New York: Hay- Survey of Urban and Regional Research). Wash- den Book Co., 1965. 159p. illus. ington, D. C.: Committee on Urban Economics of Resources for the Future, Inc., 1964. 127p. (Dis- 87. HOUSE& HOME.Housing Facts and Trends. tributed by the Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore). New York: McGraw-Hill/Dodge, 1965. 201p. Includes work in process. tables, graphs. Assembles and makes easily accessible basic 96. KLEIN, Woody. Let in the Sun. New York: housing industry statistics taken from private and Macmillan Co., 1964. 297p. governmental sources. Helpful to economists, real Story of a tenement house in East Harlem built estate people, manufacturers of building products in 1906 as a house of hope in an attempt to wipe and equipment, and planners. Useful reference out existing slum conditions. Today it is an example tool. of horrible housing in the worst area of New York City. Author blames landlords, tenants, politicians, 88. House Brauiiful's Pocket Libravy of Home and social reformers. Urges much stronger federal Ouwitzg Ideas. New York: Hrarst Corp., 1964. and municipal action programs and expenditures 5 pamphlets by different specialized associations for housing to eliminate poverty and slums. and experts. 97. KLOSH,Dietrich. Meiropolitaw Padkg Struc- 89. HOWARD, Ebenezer. Garden Cities of To- tures; a Surt~eyof Architectural Problems and So- morl-uur. Ed~tedwith a Preface by F. J. Osborn: /ntion.r, translated into English by E. Rockwell. introductory essay by Lewis Mumford. Cambridge: New York: F. A. Praeger, 1965. 247p. illus. M.I.T. Press. 1965. 168p. English and German. New paperback reissue of 1898 English classic exegesis on how to best combine town and country. 98. KNOWLES,Jerome, and PERVEAR,John E. This edit~onadds the essay by Lewis Mumford. Real E~latcA11ptai.rnl Manual. 2nd ed. Northeast 90. HUNT,William D., ed. Com/wehensi~~eArrhi- Harbor, Maine: Jerome Knowles. 1965. 294p. tectural Services: Gef~elzrlPvinciples and Practice. 99. KKASNOWSKI,Jan. Cases and Matevials on New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 24lp. Oumnel-ship and Del'e/op?~zentof Land. Brooklyn, 90a. HUNTER,Da~id R. The Slums; Challenne N. Y.: Foundation Press, 1965. 846p. and Respon~e.New York: Free Press of Glencoe, Legal casebook. Macmillan Co., 1964. 294p. 100. Land Planning and the Law. LTCLA Law Re- Deals with education, housing, race relations, ,,j, .,,\,I. 12, no. 3. March 1965, p. 707-89(;. poverty of people in slums. Suggests specific reme- Excellent articles on land planning, broadly dies on city, state, federal lexel. interpreted, and the effect on urban America.

91. INTERNATIONALUNION , OF ARCHITECTS. 101. LAPIN,Howard S. Structuring the ]ourney to Habitation; Pro~mmme, Derrgn, Produrtioi~, 2 IP'ork. Philadelphia: Unir. of Pennsylvania Press, vols. (International Documentation Series no. 2. 1964. 227p. charts. 1959; no. 3, 1964). J. H. Van den Broek, ed. Indicates kinds of data required in solution of New York: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1959-1964. problem. Illustrates methods of analysis. Seeks to illus. improve predicabilitp I-f work-trip flows. Points Vol. 1 was published in 1955 and covered direction for further research. 1945-55 in general. and Algeria, Western Ger- many, Argentina. Brazil, Norway, Netherlands, 102. LIRLIT.Jerome. ed. Hou.rin,p the Coohe~dizv Poland In particular; Vol. 2. Belgium, Denmark, W'ay : Selected Readin~s. New York: Twayne, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, 1961. 300p. Czechoslovakia; Vol. 3, Finland. Greece, Hungary, 103. LORENZ.Robert. ed. A World of Cities: A Turkey, Yugoslavia, United States, Russia. Cvo.r.i-C~lturalCr,.ban Bibliography. Syracuse: Syr- 92. JOINT CENTERFOR URBANSTUDIES. The EJ- acuse Univ. Center for Overseas Operations and /ectiveness of Metropolitan Planfling (prepared in Research. 1964. 1 5Op. cooperation with the Subcommittee on Intergov- 104. LIJSK,Harold F. Law of the Real Estafe Busi- ernmental Relations of the Committee on Govern- ness, rev. ed. Homewnod, Ill.: R. D. Irwin, 1965. ment Operations, US. Senate, by Joint Center for 495p. 105. MCKAIG,Thomas H. Applied Stvuctural De- House at the Right Price. New York: Collier sign of Buildings! 3rd ed. New York: McGraw- Books, 1965. 220p. Hill, 1965. 499p. ~llus. 116. NAIRN, Ian. The American Landscape; a 106. MAISEL,Sherman J. Financing Real Estate: Critical View. New York: Random House, 1965. P&zciples and Practices. New York: McGraw-Hill, 153p. illus. 1965. 432p. illus. Text and pictures of the good and bad physical 107. MARGOLIS,Julius, ed. The Public Economy aspects of man-made America by an English archi- of Urban Communities (Papers presented at the tectural writer. second Conference on Urban Public Expenditures). 117. NATIONALASSOCIATION OF HOUSINGAND Washington, D. C.: Resources for the Future, REDEVELOPMENTOFFICIALS. Hou.rin8 and Urban 1965. 264p. (Distr. by Johns Hopkins Press, Rrftewal Directory, 1964-1965. Washington, D. C.: Baltimore.) 1965. 386p. Deals with public service activities of urban Lists official and unofficial housing and rede- government. Studies the role of government as a velopment agencies by state and also federal producer of goods and services and as mechanism agencies. New edition of important reference tool. for setting the rules of economic and social organi- 118. NATIONALHOUSING CENTER LIBRARY. Basic zation. text^ and Reference Books on Housing and Con- 108. MARTIN,Roscoe. The Cities and the Federal struction, 2nd ed. (Bibliography Series no. 7). Sy~tem.New York: Atherton Press, 1965. 199p. Washington, D. C.: 1965. 42p. Impact of evolution of metro-city on govern- 119. --- . List of Subject Headings in Home- mental relations. Treats of expanded federal part- building and Allied Fields, 2nd rev. ed. Compiled nership with cities and argues that it is a welcome by Gertrude Fox, revised by June Suzuki, edited development. by Karl Baer. Washington, D. C.: 1964. 80p. 109. MEYER,John R., et al. The Urban Transpor- 120. --- . Urban Renewal: A Selected Anno- tatme Problem (Rand Corporation Research tated Bibliography (Bibliography Series no. 8). Study). Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1965. Washington, D. C.: 1965. 131p. 427p. charts. In addition to general books and periodicals, it Part I describes environment for urban trans- includes legal articles, lau-s, legislative documents, portation systems; Part I1 focuses on cost analyses and court cases. of different modes of transportation; Part 111 de- 121. NEEDLEMAN,Lionel. The Economics of wlops for policy formulation and planning the Housing. London: Staples Press, 1965. 232p. ~mplicationsof the empirical and cost findings of Economic effect of housing and mortgage finance Parts I and 11. Also, this section evaluates some in the United Kingdom. of the newer alternative methods. 122. NERVI,Pier Luigi. Aesthetics and Technology 110. MITCHELL,Robert B., ed. Urban Renewal: in Building, trans. from the Italian by Robert Goals and Standards. American Academy of Po- Einuadi. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1965. litical and Social Science, Annals, vol. 352, March 199p. illus. 1964. 234p. Very good essays by specialists. Each has its 123. NIEBANCK,Paul L., and POPE,John B. The own abstract. Nature, health, culture, finance, pol- Elderly in Older Urban Areas; Problems of Adap- itics, sociology, and the city are among subjects tation and the Effects of Relocation. University studied. Park: Institute for Environmental Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1965. 174p. 111. MOORE,Paul. The Church Reclaims the City. New York: Seabury Press, 1964. 241p. 124. NORTHWOOD,L. K., and BARTH,Ernest A. Episcopal Bishop draws on his experiences in T. Urban Desegregation; Negro Pioneers and the inner cities of Indianapolis and Jersey City. Their White Neighbors. Seattle: Univ. of Wash- He suggests ways to deal with the problems of ington Press, 1965. 131p. city parishes-the downtown church, the neighbor- An evaluation of sociologic case studies in 15 hood one in a blighted area, the parish undergoing neighborhoods in Seattle. Presents facts for solv- the tensions of transition. Describes ways the ing the integration problems. church can be effective in urban renewal and hous- 125. OLSEN,Donald J. Town Planning in Lon- ing. don; the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 112. MONTAGUE,Robert L., 111, and WRENN, New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1964. Tony P. Planning for Preservation. Chicago: 245p., plus 50p. of illus, and maps. American Society of Planning Officials, 1964. 42p. Lucid, witty, and scholarly study of the creation Preservation of historic homes. Court decisions of enclaves of sophisticated urbanism, though not and aids in preparing ordinances and legislative large-scale or dramatic city planning. controls included. 126. OSBORN,Frederic, and WHITTICK,Arnold. The New Towns; the Answer to Megalopolis. In- 113. MOWRY,George E. The Urban Nation, 1920- troduction by Lewis Mumford. New York: Mc- 1960 (The Making of America Series). New Graw-Hill; London: Leonard Hill, 1963. 376p. York: Hill and Wang, 1965. 278p. illus. maps. Historical interpretation of rise of urban mass mind and politics in the United States. Invaluable survey of the new towns movement in Great Britain. Assesses in separate chapters 114. MUNZER,Martha E. Planning Our Town each of the 19 new towns. Authors are foremost (For the Conservation Foundation). New York: authorities. Knopf, 1964. 179p. illus. 127. PEASE,Robert H., and KERWOOD,Lewis O., Although written for young would-be planners, eds. Mortgage Banking, 2nd ed. New York: it is a good introduction to city and regional McGraw-Hill, 1965. 466p. illus. planning. Reflects latest thinking of 39 leaders. Standard 115. MURRAY,Robert W. How to Buy the Right work on mortgage banking. 128. PENN, W. S. Plastics-ill-Building Handbook. Academy of Political and Social Science, Annals, London: Maclaren & Sons, 1964. 310p. illus. vol. 359, May 1965, p. 1-156. Includes an essay, "Urban Renewal: A Case 129. PENNSYLVANIADEPARTMENT OF COM- Study in Emerging Goals in an Intergovernmental MERCE,BUREAU OF COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENT. .- Financing Lower-Middle Income Housing. Harris- Setting," by Clifford C. Ham. burg: 1964. 107p. 140. RICKERT,John E., and PICKARD,Jerome P. Consultant for this project was Temple Univer- Open Space Land, Planning and Taxation; A sity Bureau of Economic and Business Research. Selected Bibliographj. Prepared by Urban Land A U. S. Urban Renewal Administration, Demonstra- Institute for the Urban Renewal Administration, tion Grant Project. Housing and Home Finance Agency. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1965. 58p. 130. PERL, Lila. The House You Want: How to Find It, How to Buy It. New York: D. McKay 141. RITTER,Paul. Planning for Man and Motor. Co., 1965. 210p. illus. New York: Macmillan, 1964. 384p. illus. maps. charts. 131. PERLOFF. Harbey S., and COHEN, Henry. Definitive, exceptionally well-illustrated study Uvban Reseavch and Education in the New York of problems throughout the world. Includes sec- Metropolitan Region. A Report to Regional Plan tions on man-vehicle relationship, needs of man Association, vol. 1. New York: Regional Plan as an organism, needs and nature of vehicles, new Association, 1965. 29p. towns with traffic segregation, urban renewal, Report on the more effective employment of the traffic, segregation in residential areas, residential intellectual resources of the region in coping with renewal, history of traffic separation, a 15-page the problems of the New York metropolis. bibliography, and translations into French and German of Contents and Introduction. 132. PICKARD,Jerome P., and TWERASER,Gene C. Urbata Real Estate Research 1963 and 1964 (Re- 142. ROBERTS,Rex. Your Engineered House. New search Monograph 10, 11 ). Washington, D. C. : York: M. Evans, 1964. 237p. (Distributed in as- Urban Land Institute, 1965. 1963, 96p.; 1964, 91p. sociation with Lippincott, Philadelphia) Sixth and seventh in the Series of Urban Real How to achieve a well-designed house even on a Estate Research inventories. Encompasses central tight budget. Author is a builder. business district, economic base, finance, highway 143. ROSE, Jerome G. Legal Advisor on Honze impact, housing, industry, land planning, land use, Ownership. Garden City, N. Y.: Institute of zoning, real estate, renewal, planning, shopping Legal Knowledge, 1964. 292p. centers, taxation, urban research methods. Re- search in process as well as that published in 1963 144. ROSKILL (0. W.) INDUSTRIALCONSULT- ANTS. Housing itt Britain; A Survey Commi~sioned and 1964 is included. by the Town and Country Planning Association. 133. PRESIDENT'SSCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, London: Town and Country Planning Association, ENVIRONMENTALPOLLUTION PANEL. Restoring 1964. 150p. the Quality of Our Environment. Washington, Comprehensive survey of all factors. D. C.: The White House, 1965. 317p. 145. SCHALLER,Lyle E. Plannhg for Prote~tan.tism 134. Process Planning: Symposium on Program- in Urban America; How Long-Range Urban and ming and the New Urban Planning. American In- Church Planning Inte~act.New York: Abingdon stitute of Planners' Journal, November 1965, vol. Press, 1965. 223p. 31, no. 4, p. 282-338. Includes chapters on the planning process and Almost entire issue devoted to the changing urban renewal. planning role as viewed by some outstanding 146. SCHLIVEK,Louis B. Man in the Metropolis: planners. A Book About the People and Prospects of a 135. RAGSDALE,L. A., and RAYNHAM,E. A. Metropolitan Region. New York: Doubleday, Building Materials Practice. London: Edward Ar- 1965. 432p. illus. nold Publishers, 1964. 325p. illus. Covers New York City area. About half pic- tures and half text. 136. RATCLIFF,Richard U. Modern Real E~tate 147. SCHNORE,Leo F. The Urban Scene; Human Valuation; Theory and Application. Madison, Ecology and Demography. New York: The Free Wis.: Democrat Press, 1965. 195p. Press, 1965. 374p. 137. RAYMORE,Henry B., and ORTLOFF,H. Stu- Includes sections on metropolitan growth and art. It's Your Community: A Guide to Civic De- decentralization functions and growth of the sub- velopment and Beautification. New York: M. Bar- urbs. Socio-economic status of cities and suburbs, rows & Co., Inc., 1965. 240p. changing color composition of metropolitan areas, Practical guide for the citizen on how he can urban transportation. Has a chapter on satellite take initiative to preserve and improve the ap- towns and suburbs. pearance of his community. Ranges from urging 148. SCHWARTZ,Robert, and COBB, Hubbard H. the planting of shrubs to designing parking meters The Complete Homeowner. New York: Macmil- and new zoning laws. Ian, 1965. 434p. illus. 138. REPS, John W. The Making of Urban Amer- 149. SCOTT, John S. A Dictionary of Building. ica: A Histovy of City Planning in the United Illustrated by Clifford Bayliss. Baltimore: Penguin States. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1965. Books, 1964. 367p. 574p. illus. plans. Clear explanations of processes, tools, materials Thoroughly documented and illustrated survey for builder and layman. More British- than Ameri- of American planning 1565-1917, by one of the can-oriented. leading authorities. A classic. 150. SEMENOW,Robert W. Selected Cases in Real 139. REYNOLDS,Harry W., Jr., ed. Intergovern- Estate. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1964. mental Relations in the United States. American 638p. 151. SENGSTOCK,Frank S., et a]. Consolidation: 163. TETLOW,John, and Goss, Anthony. Homes, Building a Bridge Between City and Suburb. St. Towns and Traffic. London: Faber and Faber, Louis, Mo.: St. Louis Univ. School of Law, 1964. 1965. 224p. illus. 136p. maps. Aimed mainly at general public for quick under- 152. SHILLABER,Caroline. A Review of Planning standing of town planning. Bibliographies. American institute of Planners' 164. THOMPSON,Wilbur R. A Preface to Urban lournal, November 1965, p. 352-60. Economics. Baltimore: 1965. Published for Re- Exceptionally good, retrospective summary by sources for the Future, Inc. by The Johns Hopkins the librarian of the Harvard University Graduate Press. 413p. School of Design. Tries to bridge gap between economists and ur- ban planners. Discusses problems faced by city 153. SHIPWAY,Verna Cook, and Warren. Mexican planners and local administrators. Advances an Homes of Today, New York: Architectural Book economic theory of urban growth. Uses techniques Publishing Co., 1964. 248p. illus. of economic analysis to solve problems of quality 154. SHKVARIKOV,V., et al. The Building of New of environment. Towns in the USSR. Moscow: n.p., 1964. 123p. 165. TILLY, Charles Jackson, et al. Race and 135. SMERK, George M. Urban Transportation; Residence in Wilmington, Delaware. New York: /he Federal Role. Bloomington: Indiana Uni~. Teachers College, Columbia University, 1965. Press, 1965. 336p. 145p. Comprehensive, essentially nontechnical discus- Experience of a representative city. sion. 166. TROEDSSON,Carl B. Architecture, Urbanism 156. SMITH, Herbert H. The Citizen's Guide to and Socio-Political Developments in Our Western Zoning. West Trenton, N. J.: Chandler-Davis Pub- Civilization. Goteborg, Sweden: Scandinavian Uni- lishing Co., 1965. 182p. versity Books, 1964. 313p. 157. SMITH, Wilson, ed. Cities of Our Past and 167. UNGER, Maurice A. Real Estate, Principles Present; A Descriptiz'e Reader. New York: Wiley, and Practices, 3rd ed. Cincinnati: Southwestern 1964. 291p. Publishing Co., 1964. 758p. United States cities. Basic comprehensive text on real estate business. 158. SPREIREGEN,Paul D. Urban Design: The Ar- 168. UNITED NATIONS, DEPARTMENTOF ECO- chitecture of Towns and Cities. Written and illus- NOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS. Vorld Housing trated by the author for the American Institute of Conditions and Estimated Housing Requirements. Architects. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. 243p. New York: 1965. 58p. illus. 169. U. S. ADVISORYCOMMISSION ON INTERGOV- Includes chapters on the Heritage of Urban De- ERNMENTAL RELATIONS.Impact of Federal Urban sign, Urban Esthetics, Circulation, Regulation and Development Programs on Local Government Or- Control, Governmental Programs. Several illustra- ganization and Planning. Prepared in cooperation tions are on every page. The extensive bibliography with the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Rela- IS divided by chapters. tions of the Committee on Government Operations, 159. STEINER,Oscar H. Downtown USA; Some U. S. Senate. Washington, D. C.: Government Aspects of the Accelerating Changes Sweeping Our Printing Office, 1964. 198p. Nation. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.: Oceana Publications, 170. ---- . Metropolitan Social and Economic 1964. 200p. Disparitie~: Implications for Intergovernmental Author is a civic leader and retired industrialist Relations in Central Cities and Subuvbs (Report who believes that private financing should play a A-25). Washington, D. C.: Government Printing vital role in urban renewal. Blends theorv and ex- Office, 1965. 253p. perience, sociology and life, finance and ieal estate enterprise in a readable manner. 171. --- . Relocation: Unequal Treatmerzt of People and Businesses Displaced by Governments 160. Symposium, New Towns. Washington Uni- (Report A-26). Washington, D. C. : Government versity Law Quarterly, February 1965, p. 1-104. Pr~ntingOffice, 1965. 141p. Includes articles on French, English, and Ameri- can new communities. 172. -. Statutory and Administrative Con- trols Associated with Federal Grants for Public 161. Symposiun~on Housing and Home Finance Assistance (Report A-2 1). Washington, D. C.: New York Law Forum, part 1, vol. 10, no. 4, Government Printing Office, 1964. 108p. December 1964, p. 459-572; part 2, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 1965, p. 1-110. 173. U. S. CONGRESS,SENATE COMMITTEEON Officials and specialists of the then Housing and GOVERNMENTOPERATIONS. Metropolitan Amer- Home Finance Agency discuss the basic legislation ica; A Selected Bibliography. Prepared for the Sub- .md the programs of the Agency (now the Depart- committee on Intergovernmental Relations; com- ment of Housing and Urban Development). piled by Mark H. Freeman and W. Brooke Graves. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 162. TAEUBER,Karl E., and Alma F. Negroes in 1964. 37p. Cities; Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Excellent, full annotations. Arranged by major Cha~ge.Chicago: Aldine, 1965. 284p. tables. subjects with author index. Residential segregation ensures the segregation of neighborhood schools, hospitals, libraries, parks, 174. U. S. HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE and stores. It is major barrier to equality in race AGENCY.*National Survey of Metropolitan Plan- relations. This approach by two population experts ning, 19G4. Prepared for the Subcommittee on In- is comparative and statistical. Conclusions are based tergovernmental Relations of the Committee on on block-by-block systematic study. Finds high de- Government Operations, 89th Congress, 1st ses- gree of racial segregation universal in American cities, whether North or South, suburb or metro- * Now Department of Housing and Urban De- politan center. velopment. sion, U. S. Senate. Washington, D. C.: Government Profound, thoughtful, scholarly discussion by Printing O&e, 1965. 121p. the then Administrator of the U. S. Housing and Includes a summary of data and individual Home Finance Agency, now Secretary of the De- agency data by Standard Metropolitan Statistical partment of Housing and Urban Development, of Areas. new communities, urban renewal, dilemmas of race, 175. -.* LIBRARY.Bibliography on Housing, and other issues. Despite the author's official posi- Building and Planning for Use of Overseas Mis- tion, he does not take doctrinaire stances nor pre- sions of the United States Agency for International tend to have all the answers. Development, rev. ed. Washington, D. C.: 1964. 186. -- . The Urban Complex: Human Values 52p. in Urban Life. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Selected, annotated list of about 500 publica- 1964. 297p. tions and list of suggested periodicals. All publica- The then Administrator of the U. S. Housing tions are available for acquisition in the U. S. and Home Finance Agency authoritatively discusses 176. -.* Films, Filmstrips and Slides on the urban frontier, urban renewal, the urbanization Housing and Community Development. A Selected of the Negro, and what federal, state and local Bibliography. Washington, D. C.: Government governments are doing and planning to alleviate Printing Office, 1965. 21p. the problems. 177. -.* Housing for the Elderly; Annotated 187. WEBBER,Melvin M., et al. Explorations into References. Washington, D. C.: Government Print- Urban Structure. Philadelphia: University of Penn- ing Office, 1965. 36p. sylvania Press, 1964. 246p. 178. -.* New Communities; A Selected An- Metropolitan area planning. notated Reading List. Washington, D. C.: 1965. 188. WHALEN,Richard J. A City Destroying It- 24p. self, an Angry View of New York. New York: 179. -.* Periodicals Currently Received and William Morrow & Co., 1965. 127p. drawings. I~zdexby Subjects, rev. ed. Washington, D. C.: Emphasizes the shadow that New York's failure 1965. 33p. throws across the future of an increasingly urban 180. --- .* Office of General Counsel. Chron- civilization. Urges citizens to feel that the city is ology of Major Federal Actions Affecting Housing worth the bother. Popular presentation. Imagina- and Community Development (July 1892 through tive drawings by Feliks Topolski. 1963). Washington, D. C.: Government Printing 189. WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCEON NATURAL Office, 1964. 69p. BEAUTY.Washington, D. C. 1965. Report to the 181. -.* OFFICEOF INTERNATIONALHOUS- President; Statement by the Chairman and Summa- ING. Housing Market Analysis in Latin America; tions by the 15 Panel Chairmen. Washington, A Technique to Estimate Housing Requirements D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1965. 48p. in Terms of the Ability of Families to Afford 190. WHYTE, William H. Cluster Developmetzt. Shelter at Various Price Levels. By Richard Met- Foreword by Laurance S. Rockefeller. New York: calf and others; prepared for the Department of American Conservation Assn., 1964. 130p. illus. State, Agency for International Development. Readable survey, with examples. Washington, D. C.: 1965. 48p. 191. WILLIAMS,Oliver p., et al. Suburban Dif- 182. UNITED STATESCONFERENCE OF MAYORS. City Pvoblems of 1965, Proceedings of Annual ferences and Metropolitan Policies; a Philadelphia Conference. Washington, D. C. Annual. Story. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Government partnership, community develop- 1965. 363p. ment, law enforcement are among major subjects. Contrary to most books that stress interdepend- ence of local units of government and resulting 183. URBANLAND INSTITUTE. The Homes Asso- need for integrative governments, this study stresses ciation Handbook; A Guide to the Development the forces for independence, the values and policies and Conservation of Residential Neighborhoods that impel local units to cherish and protect their u~ithCommon Open Space and Facilities Privately separate identities. Owned and Maintained by Property Owners Asso- ciations Founded on Legal Agreements Running 192. WIRTH, Louis. On Cities and Social Life. with the Land (Urban Land Institute Technical Selected papers edited by Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964. 350p. Bulletin. .. no. 50). Washington, D. C.: 1964. 406p. Illus. Systematically coordinates the theoretical con- This study was made for the Federal Housing cepts and techniques of sociology with city plan- Administration under contract. Extremely useful ning. Wirth died in 1952; his classic essay on guide to subdivision development and maintenance "Urbanism as a Way of Life" is included. of open space, recreation centers and other com- 193 YOUNGER,George D. The Church and Urban munity facilities in residential developments by Renezcal. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lip- automatic membership homes associations. No pub- pincott Co., 1965. 216p. lic funds are involved. The activist role of the church in urban renewal. 184. VON ECKARDT,Wolf. The Challenge of Meg- This study was sponsored by the United Presby- alopolis; a Graphic Presentation of the Urbanized terian Church and written by a Baptist minister. Northcartern Seaboa~dof the United States. Based 194. ZIMMER,Basil G. Rebuilding Cities: The Ef- on the original study by Jean Gottmann. New York: fect.( of Displacement and Relocation on Small Macmillan, 1964. 128p. illus charts. Busii2e.r.r. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964. 363p. 185. WEAVER,Robert C. The Dilemmas of Urban Examines human aspects as well as economic America; the Godkin Lectures at Harvard Univer- implications for the community and individual sity, 1965. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1965. business enterprise. Finds that displacements are 137~. hastening the suburbanization movement of com- *Now Department of Housing and Urban De- mercial and industrial establishments. The most velopment. severe are among small business establishments. Simulated machine indexing was accomplished by using the subject index of Physics Abstracts as a simulated computer memory. Three methods of generating index terms from titles of articles were used: 1) matching word by word titles with the thesaurus, 2) editing titles into phrases, and 3) word by word plus two-word combinations. These three machine methods were compared with each other, with the humanly created index terms of Phy.rics Abstracts, and with KWIC generated terms. KWIC scored the highest total number of access points and also the highest number of irrelevant access points. The use of a thesaurus as a simulated computer memory was shown to produce an index almost equal in relevancy to human indexing and superior to KWIC in relevant access points. Simulated Machine Indexing, Part I: Physics Abstmct~Subject Index Used as a Thesaurus MASSE BLOOMFIELD

HIS STUDY was conducted to evaluate ma- this study, the second method of the KWIC T chine indexing using a thesaurus as a system was utilized so that keywords would simulated computer memory. The evaluation stand alone. Thus titles would be found compared three methods of simulated ma- close to the keywords of this study so that chine indexing with KWIC indexing and the title could be easily inspected. This with subject headings prepared by human method was advocated since thh user could indexers. The objective of this series of pa- see the complete title in its natural order. pers is l) to evaluate machine indexing sys- The major complaint that can be leveled tems and 2) to find a method to quantita- at the KWIC method is that the keywords tively define indexing journals and methods. are in reality Uniterms. Coordination, as needed in Taube's coordinate indexing for Inadequacies of KWIC Indexing Uniterm~.~is not necessarv in the KWIC The KWIC indexing method as outlined system because enough or all of the title is by Luhnl was based on a cyclic permutation displayed close to the index term. of keywords or information-carrying words The basic criticism of Uniterms involves from a title. Knowledge of a title and fa- problems of semantics and the lack of cross miliarity with the permutation system is nec- references.4 There is complete anarchy in essary to know which is the initial word of a both the KWIC and Uniterm svstems. The title. In cases where the title is longer than use of cross references in a developed list the 60 characters in the first KWIC system, of subject headings or a thesaurus gives or- title words can be chopped off leaving incom- ganization and structure to an index. With- prehensible letters in the index. out this organization and structure, the user A variation of the Luhn KWIC program must develop his own patterns when trying lists keywords alphabetically in one column to find terms used by authors in a title and then, on the same line in a second col- (KWIC) or an indexer using single words umn, gives the complete title. This method from either the title or the abstract or the was used by the U. S. Office of Technical complete text (Uniterms) . Services in its defunct Kepom! Index.2 For single words do not lend themselves to the kind of organization familiar in such a tool as the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Mr. Bloomfield is Supervisor of the Culuev Thus the use of the single words, e.g., City Lihq of Hughes Aircraft Company, Cnlt~erCzty, Culifornia. This is the first of a sound, noise, and acoustics, appear with serier of fozrr studies and is based on a pvoj- equal weight in Uniterm index& without ect for the cozrrse in "lnfornzation Retrieval" reference to each other, and the user must ut the School of Librury Science dt the Uni- remember to look under all three words if he i'lewty of Sozrthern Californict. wants all items in the index that concern the effect of noise on metal fatigue. Then A search was made in Physics Abstrzlr-t~ again, title keywords may only include the index to determine what subject terms and - words decibel or audio s&nals-or- audio fre- cross references were used for the citation quency. There is a complete lack of an asso- A search was also made to find the equiva- ciation path in the KWIC or Uniterm sys- lent Phy.ricr Abstvacts terms for the key- tem to lead the user through the maze. sin- words of the title. Exhibit 2 shows all the onyms are only part of the problem. headings in the index having any relation- Another semantic problem is handling ship to the words of the sample title. Note concepts contained in phrases consisting of that several subheadings have been included. two or more words such as boundary layer. For this study, however, they were deleted KWIC and Uniterms separate two-word because the computer program to include phrases. Thus not only do& the index gen- them was felt to be too complicated. erated by KWIC lack references, but the Exhibit 3 has five lists of index terms. index terms themselves can be misleading. List 1 is composed of terms the KWIC sys- Recognizing these inadequacies of KWIC, tem provided. List 2 shows the subject head- an attempt was made to find a more accept- ings issigned by the indexers of physics AL- able approach to machine indexing. stt.ncts and a see nlso reference. The first method of obtaining simulated The Study machine index terms was to use single words A simulated approach was the basis for from the title for input to match the words this study. The idea was to use a subject in- of the Phpics Abstracts subject index. List 3 dex already in existence, which could be shows the results of this matching. It should used as a simulated computer memory, and be noted that one word was deleted. It did words of titles would be matched against it. not match any terms in the thesaurus and The complete subject index was calculated to therefore would either have to be ins~ected overcome the deficiencies of the KWIC sys- after the matching operation and be added tem. It would organize the keywords of a to the thesaurus as valuable or listed in the title into generalized headings and at thz file of words to delete. same time provide see also references. As other titles were matched, it was nu- It was felt that the subject index of Phys- ticed that the title searched word by word ics Abstracts would provide the initial the- produced good results. However, it was felt saurus. A computer memory was simulated that some attempt should be made to bring by the subject index to Volume 63 (1960). two-word terms such as "specific heat" into To explain in detail the methods used to the machine listing. This was attempted by arrive at the index terms and to allow the matching two-word combinations of the ti- reader to perform the same mechanics, all the tle with the thesaurus. Thus List 4 represents information and steps used refer to the cita- all the index terms of List 3 plus the re- tion given in Exhibit 1. sults of matching two-word combinations of the title. Note that none of the four two- word combinations were located in the the- Exhibit 1 : "Physics Abstracts" Citation saurus. They were placed in the deleted cate- MARTIN,D. L. Specific Heats of Lithium Iso- gory of List 4. topes from 20" to 300° K. Physicd, vol. 25, A second attempt was made to solve the no. 11, November 1959, p. 1193-9. (PA-63- problem of the Go-word phrase. Because 15813) single words have additional meanings in Abstract: Measurements on lithium metal combination with two or more other words, containing 99.3% LiG are reported. The details it was felt that the title should be edited of the martensitic transformation appear to be into these phrases and then matched against very similar to those for lithium with natural the thesaurus. The title of Exhibit 1 was isotopic composition. These measurements to- edited into the two following terms: specific gether with other recent results for Li7 rich heats and lithium isotopes. List 5 shows the metal are analysed to give approximate values results of matching the edited title against for the pure isotopes. The results are in ac- the thesaurus. In this case both specific heats cord with theoretical expectations. and lithium isotopes were deleted. Specific Exhibit 2 : Thesaurus Excerpts from "Physics Abstracts" for Simulation Heat (See also Radiation, heat; Thermodynamics) Heat capacity (See also Specific heat; Thermodynamic properties r Heat conduction (See also Conductivity, thermal) Heat losses (See Heat transfer) Heat measurement (See Calorimeters; Calorimetry) Heat of absorption Heat of combustion Heat of crystallization Heat of dissociation Heat of formation Heat of fusion Heat of reaction Heat of solution Heat of sublimation Heat of transformation Heat of vaporization Heat radiation (See Radiation, heat) Heat transfer (See also Convection; Heat conduction; Radiation, heat I Heat treatment Heating Heats (Not listed in Physics Ab~trdcts) Isotope exchanges Isotope separation Isotopes -detection (See also Mass spectra; Radioactivity) -relative abundances (See also Elements, relative abundances) Lithium Lithium compounds (See also Alloys) Specific heat (See also Heat capacity; Thermodynamic properties I

Exhibit 3: Index Terms Generated by Various Methods for the Citation List 1 List 2 List 3 List 4 List 5

MACHINE PHYSICSABSTRACTS INDEXING KWIC TERMS TERMS EDITEDTERMS Heats Isotopes Isotopes Isotopes no entries Isotopes -Li6,7, specific Lithium Lithium Lithium heat Specific Specific Deleted Specific Lithium Lithium isotopes -metal containing Deleted Deleted Specific heats 99.3% Lie, sp. Heats Heats ht. 20-300" K Heats of Specific heat Isotopes from -Li isotopes, Lithium isotopes 20-300" K of lithium References Specific heats Specific heat see also Heat capacity; Thermodynamic properties heats would hare to be post-edited so that given to use the referred term. When see the correct form, specific heat, would appear. also references appeared, instructions were given that these references appear with the Simulated Computer Instructions index terms for additional association paths. The terms of the subject index were stored The words of the titles were the simulated in the simulated computer memory. When input to the subject index. Each title was see references were found, instructions were numbered so that when an index term was MARCH1966 generated, the title would appear with it. For four. The arbitrary relevancy of the word this study, when a word from a title matched heats was a zero (minus four), isotopes, six - a thesaurus term or the first word of a (plus two), Iithium, eight (plus four), and multi-word thesaurus term, the word ap- specific, zero (minus four). The relevancy peared in the output as an index term. When factor for this example of KWIC terms was two-word combinations of a title were 14 (minus two). ~hesenumbers were then searched, an index term resulted when the averaged with the relevancy values of the first two words of the thesaurus were other KWIC examdes. The number of ir- matched. With these instructions, the simu- relevant access points was determined by lated program mas conducted. counting the number of terms whose rele- vancv was zero or minus four. which totaled The Evaluation two in this case. This number was then av- eraged with the results of the other examples. A numerical evaluation was made for the The same relevancy values assigned to the five different methods of generating index KWIC terms were also used for the simu- terms. This numerical evaluation was di- lated machine index terms. The Phyics Ab- vided into four factors. First, the number stracts subject headings were all given a value of access points were counted for each of eight (plus four). This weights human method of indexing. These were averaged indexing as heavily as possible. and became the first arbitrary factor in the Once all the arbitrarv numerical values evaluation. Then the number of see also ref- were assigned for the 20 examples used in erences that were generated by the use of the this study, an average of each indexing subject index were added to the number of method Gas taken foteach of the four fac- access points. These totals were then averaged tors. Table 1 shows the averaged results. and gave a second evaluation factor. The Two methods of determining relevancy next arbitrary number was a subjective evalu- were used: cumulative addition of ~ositive ation of the evaluator's estimate of the rele- integers and the algebraic addition of nega- vancy of each term on a scale of zero to tive and positive integers. KWIC scored al- eight; eight being the most relevant and most the highest by the cumulative addition zero being irrelevant. The relevancy factor of positive integers and lowest when assign- was based on the method used by Maron, ing algebraic numbers. This rather incon- Kuhns and Ray.5 The same ratings of zero sistent verformance was the result of the to eight were converted to a minus four to large number of index terms generated by plus four rating scheme, totaled algebraically KWIC that had some relevancy and at the and averaged. The last number given was a same time included a large" number of irrele- count of the access points that had a zero or vant terms. The simulated machine indexing minus four rating. method excepting the edited terms, scored Thus in the case of KWIC terms given in very well in relevancy when compared to Exhibit 3, the number of access points is KWIC because most of the irrelevant terms

Table 1 : Average Numerical Values for the 20 Examples from "Physics Abstracts" MACHINE INDEXING MACHINE TERMSWORD INDEXING BY WORD KWIC PHYSICS TERMSWORD PLUSTwo- TERMS ABSTRACTS BY WORD WORD TERMS Average number of access points Average number of access points plus references Average relevancy factor Average number of irrelevant access points were eliminated in the matching process. The arrange the words of a title into phrases be- simulated machine indexing methods using fore searching a thesaurus. edited terms did poorly because so few terms were generated. Summary Human indexing of Physics Abstracts scored well using both methods of determin- This study has shown that a thesaurus used ing relevancy. However, this numerical eval- as a simulated computer memory can be used uation was biased in its favor. That both in generating relevant index terms by ma- KWIC and simulated machine indexing chine methods. The major value of a the- scored close to Physics Abstracts is an indici saurus is that it has eliminated most of the tion that machine indexing can have value. irrelevant terms. However, it is imperative Almost half of all the index terms gener- that post-editing be done to insure that the ated by the KWIC method were deemed ir- final index includes some of the deletions. relevant. In the case of simulated machine The results showed that the most productive indexing, less than 20 per cent of the terms machine method would be to search a the- were deemed irrelevant. This shows dra- saurus word by word plus two-word com- matically that matching against an estab- binations. It is also possible to search a the- lished thesaurus eliminates most of the ir- saurus using three-word combinations, but relevant words in titles. this would not have generated a single index The evaluation therefore indicates that entry for the titles used in this study. simulated machine indexing using word by It should be noted that the proposed com- word matching plus two-word combinations puter was extremely simple. Because there is provided an index that almost equals human a definite relationship between the use of a indexing in relevancy and provided a greater dictionary in machine translation and the use number of access points than human index- of a thesaurus in this method of machine in- ing. dexing, the computer programs for machine Human indexing did not score very well translation might be applicable. Those pro- in number of access points in this study. This grams are far more sophisticated than the one reflected the conservative nature of Physics used in this study. Abstracts indexing. Even with the see -also The use of Physics Abstracts subject index references added to the number of access as a simulated computer memory has been points, it did not reach the total number of access points generated by the KWIC shown to produce an index almost equal in method. However, it exceeded KWIC in relevancy to human indexing and superior access points if the KWIC irrelevant terms in relevant access points to the KWIC were subtracted from the total generated by method. KWIC. The simulated machine indexing method CITATIONS using word by word matching of the title scored a higher number of relevant access 1. LUHN, H. P. Keyword-in-Context Index for Technical Literature. American Documentation, points than KWIC. vol. 11, 1960, p. 288-95. The method of editing the title into 2. U. S. DEPARTMENTOF COMMERCE. OFFICE OF phrases for simulated machine indexing had TECHNICALSERVICES. keyword^ llzdex to U. S. the poorest score of all five methods. The Government Technical Index (Permuted Title reason for its poor showing is that phrases Index). Washington, D. C.: 1961. from a title rarely match those used in a 3. TAUBE,M., et al. Studies ilz Coordinate Index- ing, 3 vols. Washington, D. C.: Documentation, subject index. This method provided an ac- Inc., 1953-1956. cess point rate of but one article. It de- 4. BLOOMFIELD,M. Evaluation of Coordinate In- leted between two and three phrases per dexing at the Naval Ordnance Test Station. Ameri- article when the majority of these phrases can Documentation, vol. 8, 1957, p. 22-5. should have been included in the index. It 5. THOMPSONRAMO WOOLDRIDGE, INC. Probabil- is far too much work to have human editing istic Indexing; A Statistical Technique for Docu- ment Identification and Retrieval (Ramo-Wool- before and after a search and then have such dridge Laboratories Technical Memorandum 3; poor results. It is a distinct disadvantage to AD-272572). Canoga Park, Calif.: 1959 A 10-day survey of public use of private special libraries in metropolitan Chicago showed that out of five occupational groups, the largest identifi- - able class of users was librarians. Factors investigated included the profit or non-profit base, subject matter, and policies of the host libraries, types of questions asked, and channel of communication. Analysis of the out- come of 636 requests showed that the only factors having a discernible bearing on receiving an answer to a question were personal visits (as op- posed to telephone calls and letters) and applying to social science host li- braries (rather than to those in business or science). Private Special Libraries as a Public I Resource in Metropolitan Chicago FLORENCE E. JOHNSON

o ESTIMATE the extent to which private Nature and Service of Tspecial libraries in metropolitan Chicago Cooperating Libraries act as a public resource, two sets of data were There was very little difference between needed: one to identify the private special li- the universe of 132 libraries and the respond- braries as to staff, physical resources, and pol- ing sample of 104 with respect to location icies; the other to record the particulars of (inside the central business district, outside any outside requests made by the public dur- it, outside the Chicago city limits), presence ing a control period of ten working days. of profit-making and non-profit organiza- To obtain these data, questionnaires were tions, and principal subject matter. Fifty-one sent to the 132 librarians in private special of the libraries in the responding sample libraries listed in the 1961-1962 SLA Illinois were in science-technology, 26 in business Chapter Menzbership Directories located in and finance, and 27 in the social sciences. the six-county Chicago Standard Metropoli- Fifty-nine libraries had liberal policies on tan Statistical Area. The information returned giving service to the public and 39 had re- concerning the cooperating host libraries was stricted policies. punched into one set of IBM cards and that A feeling of responsibility for providing on the public inquirers and their requests the library's specialized data and information into another deck. In deck 1 (for 104 host to persons seeking them was revealed in such libraries for which data came in), columns statements as ". . . when the person or com- 1-52 were punched. In deck 2, columns pany has no special librarian to use as a con- 53-80 were punched for data pertaining to tact . . . we are still quite willing to offer the 636 individual outside requests recorded the use of our materials and service," and during the control period. These columns "We will do almost everything for outsiders were for details about the inquirer, the nature that we do for own own clientele, except of his question, and how it was handled. Each provide confidential material or undertake card in deck 2 also had gang-punched into literature searches." columns 1-52 all the data from deck 1 on the During the survey, 636 individual requests particular host library approached. from members of the public were recorded Mrs. Johnson is Librariun at the Chicago College of Osteopathy. This is a resume of her master's thesis, of which she writes: "I am indebted to Edward G. Strable who suggested this thesis topic while I was a student in his class at the Gradlnate Library School, Univer- sity of Chicago. Copies of the original master's thesis are at the University of Chicago, the Chicago Municipal Reference Library, and Special Libraries Association headquarters in New York. Microfilm copies are in the library schools at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia." Mrs. Johnson received an Eleanor S. Cavanaugh Scholarship in 1961 and last year served as Chairman of the Planning, Bnilding, and Honshg Section of the Social Science Division. 172 SPECIALLIBRARIES March 1966, No. 2 SPECIALLIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Published quarterly by Special Libruries Associution, 31 East 10th Street, New York 10003

he Rio Grande Chapter layed host to G. Baker, Librarian, Chemstrand Research T the Midwinter Meeting of the Board of Center, Inc., Library, Durham; Treasurer, Directors and the Advisory Council on Janu- Edwina D. Johnson, Librarian, Biology-For- ary 20-22, 1966, at the Western Skies Hotel estry Library, Duke University, Durham; and in Albuquer ue, New Mexico. Chapter mem- Directors, Harold E. Holland, Chairman, bers met wi& the Board and Council for a Department of Library Science, Appalachian banquet Friday evening, which was followed State Teachers College, Boone; and Charles by a program "Technical Research and De- E. Kip, Chemstrand Research Center, Dur- velopment Activities in New Mexico-A ham. Glimpse of Two Current Programs." Dr. Louis Rosen, Leader of the Medium Energy he new Virginia Chapter will include Physics Division at Los Alamos Scientific Tmembers in the state with the exception Laboratory, discussed the proposed Meson of the northern Virginia area adjacent to Physics facility, and Lessel E. Lamkin, Di- Washington, D. C.-Fairfax and Arlington rector of Environmental Testing at the Sandia Counties and the city of Alexandria. The fol- Corporation, outlined its current projects. lowing slate of has been chosen: Approximately 85 Association officers were President, Ruth M. Eggleston, Librarian, on hand for the three-day meeting, including Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; First ten Board members and the Chapter and Vice-president and President-Elect, Bess A. Division Liaison Officers. Whitworth, Librarian, Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspaper, Inc., Norfolk; Secretary, Jo E. Association membership Jordan, Librarian, Albemarle Paper Manu- Gr;%$ed requests from members for facturing Company, Inca, Richmond; and new Chapters in North Carolina and Virginia. Treasurer, Frank R. Ho&, Librarian, Vir- The Association's Board of Directors ap- ginia Division of Mineral Resources Library, proved these petitions, thereby bringing the Charlottesville. The installation of officers is total number of SLA Chapters in the United planned for April 23, during ~~ti~~al~i- States and Canada to 35. At the same time brary week. the Board approved the suggested change of name of the Georgia Chapter to the South Atlantic Chapter. The President of the re- The Board expressed interest in cooper- named South Atlantic Chapter is Theodore ating with AD1 and the Chemical Lit- J. Kopkin, Research Information Specialist, erature Section of the American Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Marietta, Georgia. Society in the new quarterly¶Doc- umentution Abstructs, but deferred taking ac- tion until June when the Finance Committee he North Carolina Chapter will be led Thy the following officers: President, will submit a report on the costs involved. Richard C, David, Research Librarian, Liggett Chemstrand Research Center, is and Myers ~~b~~~~company, ~~~h~;~i~~tserving as SLA's representative on the jour- Vice-president, Bertram M. Burris, Technical nal's Librarian, Electronics Research Laboratory, Corning Glass Works, Raleigh; Second Vice- ed Miller, Convention Chairman, dis- President, Robert E. Betts, Librarian, Tech- Tcussed Convention plans with the Board. nical Library, Western Electric Company, The Metals/Materials Division's Scholarship Winston-Salem; Recording Secretary, Darlene Fund event will be a performance of "As L. Ball, Assistant Manager, Technical In- You Like It" at the Guthrie Theatre on May formation Services, Burlington Industries, 30. Tickets will sell for $7. The advance reg- Greensboro; Corresponding Secretary, James istration form, which was mailed to all mem- s-9 bers along with the preliminary program also approved in principle the JOG recom- early in February, provided space to reserve mendation that SLA and AD1 exchange tickets for this theatrical evening as well as sponsorship of programs at annual conven- for the Convention-wide dinners on Sunday tions. and Monday nights and the Wednesday ban- quet. Mr. Miller also announced that the key- he newly composed Advisory Council noter will be Dr. Walter W. Heller, the Tmet for the first time since it was reor- former Chairman of President Johnson's ganized with the passage of amended Bylaws Council of Economic Advisors. in 1965. Heston Heald described Project LEX, of which he is Director, and invited an Diego was selected as the site for the members to make suggestions for the new 1976 Convention. thesaurus program. The Professional Stand- S ards Committee asked for ideas on how to implement the Standards, and Robert Havlik t the recommendation of the Metals/ discussed federal legislation of interest to A Materials Division, the Association will special libraries. Membership cards were dis- hereafter assume responsibility for the SLA cussed briefly, and the Motion Picture Com- exhibit at the annual National Metals Show mittee was urged to seek funds from the in the fall. government under Title I1 B of the Higher Education Act. Charles Stevens presented he Board approved four recomrnenda- several questions on behalf of the Nonserial Ttions of the Finance Committee to in- Publications Committee. The Council evi- crease the Association's income : I) Effective denced no interest in carrying LC cards in January 1967, the subscription price to Spe- Association books but did favor having a cial Libraries will be increased to $12.50 in memo of agreement or suitable contract be- the United States, $14 elsewhere, and single been the Association and personal and cor- copies, $2; 2) advertising rates for Special porate authors. Libruries, except for positions open and wanted ads, will increase on April 1, 1966; here was considerable discussion of the 3) subscription rates for Scientific Meetings Tsuggestion of the Ad Hoc Committee to will be raised to $10 and $4 for single copies, Study Operations of the Advisory Council effective January 1967; and 4) rates for the that there be a project review committee to Addressing Service should be increased. evaluate and relate the work of Association committees. At its second meeting the Coun- ee Traven, Chairman of the Awards cil approved the formation of a new five-man L Committee, submitted three recornrnen- Committee to Seek out Areas of Responsi- dations, all of which the Board approved: 1) bility for the Advisory Council, which in- Student members will hereafter receive one cludes Mrs. Helen Redman as Chairman-Elect unit of credit in the count for the Chapter of the Advisory Council, Charles Stevens, Membership Gavel Award; 2) the last liv- and Nancy Wright for 1966 and Mrs. Jeanne ing recipient of the Professional Award will B. North and Kenneth Carroll for 1966-67. no longer be a member of the SLA Profes- The group will review and assess the appli- sional Award and Hall of Fame Committee; cability of selected new committee projects and 3) hereafter the H. W. Wilson Company in relation to the Goals for 1970 as well as Chapter Award will be granted for a project projects not or inadequately covered by exist- undertaken by a Chapter for a period of two ing committees. Recruitment will be the first years or less and there will be no theme. activity studied. ules for SLA National Library Week e American Book Publishers Council- R Publicity Award: Individual members ThSLA statement recommending practices of Special Libraries Association or SLA for the advertising and promotion of books Chapters as a unit may compete for the SLA was approved by the Board. National Library Week Publicity Awards. Both types of entries will be judged on the oard members favored the intersociety quality, originality, and effectiveness of the B report suggesting more cooperation National Library Week program evolved. In- among professional associations in the conl- dividual winners will receive certificates suit- munications fields in areas of mutual con- able for framing, but the monetary prizes of cern and expressed SLA's interest in being $75 and $25 will be given to the Chapters of represented on a coordination committee. It which they are members. This year's prize money has been generously contributed by considerable discussion by the Board and General Motors Corporation. Council, the Board voted to discharge the Chapters that wish to compete as a unit Committee with thanks for its work. In its may either submit entries describing a coop- place a five-rnan Committee to Investigate erative community or regional program in Audio-visual Techniques will be appointed which many Chapter members participated to investigate all means of achieving an au- or a summary of the projects undertaken by dio-visual presentation for recruitment and individual members. These entries may be public relations purposes. This Committee submitted by the Chapter President, Public will study both technical and financial factors Relations Committee Chairman, or Chairman involved, including the possibility of pro- of a special National Library Week Project ducing a film in cooperation with a university Committee. or other organization. To give equal opportunity to all, the en- tries submitted should represent the work of he Board of Directors will hold its next a library st& or Chapter. Although display, Tmeeting in Minneapolis on May 28 and commercial art, or public relations depart- 29, while the 1966-67 Board will hold its ments of organizations may assist in the prep- first meeting on June 3. The Midwinter aration of exhibits or promotional materials, meeting of the Board and Council will be the library stafl or Chapter committee should held at the Shamrock Hilton Hotel in Hous- generate the ideas behind the program and ton, Texas, January 19-21, 1967. conceive the purpose of the exhibit, promo- tional items, or other activity. While quality of art work and display is of interest, con- he Association published the end of cept and program will form the primary basis TFebruary Special Libraries: A Guide for for decision. Management to assist those res onsible for The basic entry should consist of no more establishing or evaluating speciaf libraries or than a two-page, double spaced typewritten information services answer the basic ques- description of the project, its objective, cov- tions: How is a special library started? What erage, procedures used, audience(s) reached, does a special library do? What resources and results achieved. Additional documentary does a special library need? Management materials, such as photographs, newspa er consultants, administrators, library school clippings, or special items repared for is- students and faculty, and all concerned with library development will find this readable tribution, may also be inclu I! ed. Six copies of the written report, each with the name and Guide informative and helpful. Edited by address of the library and librarian or Chap- Edward G. Strable and written by six dis- ter member responsible for a Chapter proj- tinguished special librarians in Chicago (in ect, should be sent to the Association's Public addition to Mr. Strable, Jo Ann Aufdenkamp, Relations Director by May 16, 1966. Clip- William S. Budington, Shirley F. Harper, Ruth pings, photographs, book marks, and other Nielander, and Doris Saunders), the 72-page promotional pieces should be mounted on illustrated Guide sells for $4. The first two chapters discuss what a special library is and 8% x 11 white or colored paper. the common situations that indicate a special The Award winners will be announced at library is needed. Chapters three through six the Convention Banquet. Entries will be dis- pose the questions to be asked in determining played at the Association's public relations the functions and function levels of a partic- booth at the Annual Convention, and all en- ular special library. The processes of acquir- tries will become the property of Special Li- ing (selecting and ordering), organizing braries Association. (classifying, cataloging, indexing, maintain- ing records, and arranging collection), and s the Advisory Council indicated little disseminating (circulation, reference serv- A interest in another newsletter, the Board ices, issuing acquisition lists and bulletins, decided to drop SLA's joint sponsorship with translating, editing, use of outside resources, AD1 of Information News. and other library services) materials and information are thoroughly discussed. The fren Gonzalez, Chairman of the Motion final four chapters deal with the relationships E Picture Committee, reported that his to the parent organization and special library group has been encountering many problems staff, space, equipment, and initial and yearly of financing and agreeing upon objectives budget requirements. Statistical tables, graphs, and methods of undertaking a color motion floor plans, photographs, and a selected bib- picture film about special librarianship. After liography reinforce the lucid text. SLA Sustaining Members The following organizations are supporting the activities of the Special Libraries Association by becoming Sustaining Members for 1966. This list includes all applications processed through February 11, 1966. ABBOTTLABORATORIES LIBRARY A. C. MCCLURGAND COMPANY RICHARDABEL & COMPANY,INCORPORATED MCGRAW-HILL,INCORPORATED AMERICANCAN COMPANY,Research Center MARATHONOIL COMPANY AMERICANCANCER SOCIETY, INCORPORATED MARQUETTEUNIVERSITY MEMORIAL LIBRARY AMERICANCYANAMID COMPANY MAXWELLSCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, AMERICANELECTRIC POWER SERVICE INCORPORATED CORPORATION MELLONNATIONAL BANK AND TRUSTCOMPANY AMERICANGAS ASSOCIATION MINNESOTAMINING AND MANUFACTURING AMERICANIRON AND STEELINSTITUTE COMPANY AMERICANLIBRARY ASSOCIATION NATIONALASSOCIATION OF ENGINEAND BOAT AMERICANTOBACCO COMPANY MANUFACTURERS AMPEXCORPORATION NATIONALBANK OF DETROIT ARGONNENATIONAL LABORATORY NATIONALCASH REGISTER COMPANY ATLASCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED NATIONALLEAD COMPANY BANKOF AMERICA NATIONALLIBRARY, Singapore BASICECONOMIC APPRAISALS, INCORPORATED NEW YORKLIFE INSURANCECOMPANY BELLAND HOWELLRESEARCH CENTER NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY BELLTELEPHONE LABORATORIES NEWYORK TIMES BETHLEHEMSTEEL COMPANY NORTHAMERICAN AVIATION, INCORPORATED BOEINGCOMPANY PENNSYLVANIASTATE UNIVERSITY BOSTROM CORPORA~ON PEOPLESGAS LIGHT& COKECOMPANY R. 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GENERALELECTRIC COMPANY TRW SYSTEMS GENERALFOODS CORPORATION UNIONELECTRIC COMPANY GENERALMOTORS CORPORATION UNITEDCOMMUNITY FUNDS & COUNCILSOF GLICKBOOKBINDING CORPORATION AMERICA,INCORPORATED HARVARDGRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNITEDSTATES AIR FORCEACADEMY ADMINISTRATION UNITEDSTATES STEEL CORPORATION MILTONS. HERSHEYMEDICAL CENTER LIBRARY UNIVERSALOIL PRODUCTSCOMPANY HONEYWELL,INCORPORATED UNIVERSITYOF ARIZONALIBRARY HUGHESAIRCRAFT COMPANY UNIVERSITYOF MINNESOTALIBRARY IDAHOSTATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVERSITYOF MISSOURIAT KANSASCITY INDIANASTATE LIBRARY UNIVERSITYOF OKLAHOMALIBRARY INTERNATIONALBUSINESS MACHINES UNIVERSITYOF TEXAS CORPORATION UNIVERSITYOF WASHINGTONLIBRARY JOHNS-MANVILLERESEARCH AND ENGINEERING UPJOHNCOMPANY CENTER WILLIAMJOHN UPJOHN ASSOCIATES WALTERJ. JOHNSON,INCORPORATED WAYNESTATE UNIVERS~TY KAISERALUMINUM AND CHEMICALCORPORATION WESTPORTPUBLIC LIBRARY ELI LILLYAND COMPANY H. W. WILSONCOMPANY LITTONSYSTEMS (CANADA) LIMITED WORCESTERFREE PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCKHEEDMISSILES AND SPACECOMPANY WYETHLABORATORIES, INCORPORATED Los ANGELESCOUNTY MUSEUM OF ART XEROXCORPORATION Table 1.-Composition of the Inquiring Public by Occupational Groups1 NUMBEROF PERCENT GROUP INQUIRERS OF TOTAL Librarians 139 2 2 Academic inquirers (students and teachers at all levels) 102 16 Inquirers in commerce and industry 98 15 Professional people, government officials, etc. 105 17 Unidentified inquirers (don't know and not answered) 192 30

2nd sent in by 46 of the cooperating librar- Students and teachers asked the highest ians. An additional 20 host librarians re- percentage of questions relating directly to ported no use. Large libraries (over 10,000 the parent enterprise of the host library or to books) had a mean public use of 11, as com- its field of interest (specialty-oriented re- pared to nine applications for assistance go- quests) (see Table 2). Why librarians had ing to each medium-sized and each small fewer specialty-oriented (and more non-spe- library (2,000 books or less). Inquiry distri- cialty-oriented) questions is not clear. Quite bution was uneven. The median number re- possibly some had already tried other li- ceived was 2.5 and, at the upper extreme, braries whose collections they felt were more three libraries had over 80 requests each. appropriate and, when these sources failed, No matter what their principal subject may have approached other, less likely, li- was, all non-profit based libraries had more braries. calls from the public than their profit-making Queries from undergraduates included in- counterparts. By far the greatest public de- dividual requests on the condominium, oxy- mand went to the four library-non-profit, gen therapy, the effectiveness of advertising, liberal-policy, business and finance group, how traffic counts for billboards were made, with a mean of 47 requests, close to eight the emotional aspects of polio and scoliosis, times as great a demand as went to the coun- and the etiology of traffic accidents. One terpart group of 12 libraries in the profit- graduate student came in person to seek ideas making category. A total of 60 percent of all and material to help in converting theatres requests was for information or materials in into supermarkets in the family business in the host organization's specialty. Tokyo. Many of the requests from commerce and Inquirers and Their Requests industry inquirers related to the consumer The largest occupational group of inquir- and the sale, manufacture, and transportation ers were librarians (see Table 1). of products and commodities. Specific ques-

Table 2.-Types of Requests Made by the Five Groups of Inquirers2

UNIDEN TIFIED Specialty-oriented 29% 69 % Not specialty- oriented 14 13 Service, routine, and specifics 5 1 12 Don't know and not answered 6 6 - - 1ooC/; 100% (139) (192) Table 28, p. 38 in thesis. 2. Table 30, p. 43 in thesis. Table 3.-Inquiries by Occupation of Inquirer and Communication Channel Used3 PROFES- COMMERCE SIONAL ACADEMIC AND AND GOV- UNIDEN- ALL CHANNELUSED LIBRARIANSINQUIRERS INDUSTRY ERNMENT TIFIED GROUPS Written communication 16% 34% 32% Telephone call 82 2 6 59 In person (or deputy) 2 40 9 - -- - 100% 100% 100% (139) (102) (98) tions included the percentage of customers The inquiring librarians and the commerce who shop at a supermarket because of the and industry groups both placed most of various advertising media, a survey of the their requests by telephone and fewest - brewing industry, the history of bread-mak- through personal visits. Many host librarians ing, and pork movement through Chicago. doubled as inquiring members of the public. Questions in safety factors ranged from those Altogether librarians working in special li- on the psychology of accident prevention and braries accounted for 88 percent of the inquir- proneness to accident statistics for profes- ing librarians. A number made two, three, or sional and amateur boxing and the hazards as many as five, separate inquiries each. These - and safe handling of methylene chloride. multiple request people made up over half of A total of 42 percent of the inquirers the group of 139. Since all host librarians showed a preference for business and finan- were listed in the SLA Illinois Chapter Mem- cial libraries, followed by 34 percent who bership Directory, this would help account for applied to social science collections. The the large percentage of inquiries made by over-all distribution according to the size of telephone. the host library's holdings varied from a low of 20 percent of the 636 inquiries placed Handling and Outcome of the Requests with small libraries, to a high of 48 percent Although it can be stated how many of the going to medium-sized hosts. All groups inquirers received some kind of answer, placed over 90 percent of their requests with neither the difficulty or significance of the libraries having a liberal public use policy, questions nor the merit of the answers and except for the commerce and industry inquir- referrals can be estimated. ers who placed 88 percent. Inquiring librarians, who had the lowest percentage of answered questions (71 per- Communication Channels Used cent), were the very ones who had posed the About a third of the questions were writ- lowest percentage of specialty-oriented ques- ten, half telephoned, and a sixth in person. tions (29 percent). Conversely, academic in-

Table 4.-Outcome of the 636 Requests by Occupation of the Inquirer4 PROFES- COMMERCE SIONAL OUTCOME ACADEMIC AND AND GOV- UNIDEN- ALL OF REQUESTS LIBRARIANSINQUIRERS INDUSTRY ERNMENT TIFIED GROUPS Answered 71% 91% 82% 87% 84yh 82% Not answered 17 4 5 7 5 8 Referred 12 5 13 6 11 10 ------100% 100% 100% 100~ 100% 100% (139) (102) (98) (105) (192) (636) -- 3. Table 38, p. 53 in thesis. 4. Table 43, p. 60 in thesis. 174 SPECIALLIBRARIES quirers, with the highest percentage of an- During the ten-day survey period those swered questions (91 percent), had placed private special libraries included in this study the most specialty-oriented requests (77 per- were asked for service by members of the cent). However, the precision of these re- public 636 recorded times. These public quests must also be taken into account. Most users, from many walks of life and from of the students, who made up by far the most of the 50 states and a few foreign coun- larger proportion of the academic group, tries, availed themselves of the facilities of were asking for mdtevial on a given topic and 46 libraries. In response, the host librarians could be satisfied by a variety of responses, spent from a few minutes to over an hour on whereas the librarians tended to ask for spe- each request and were able to find answers cific items with no alternative possible. For 82 percent of the time. example, librarians made up only nine per- To some extent then, private special li- cent of the 199 individuals who received free braries in metropolitan Chicago did act as a material as a11 or part of their "answer," public resource during the survey period. whereas academic people made up 16 percent Studies of the direction in which this service of this category. is changing and the ways in which Chicago Referrals in Table 4 include only those differs from other metropolitan areas in this who received no other type of reply. People field would make rewarding subjects for fur- who obtained an initial answer and were also ther investigation. referred to further sources for additional in- formation totalled 75 cases out of the groups of 524 persons who were listed as having MESSAGE FROM LILLIPUT been answered (82 percent of the 636). The Is professional status a mantle auto- gross total of individual referrals, those with matically acquired by those who, having achieved a prescribed academic level, are replies plus referrals and those with referrals granted employment under a label such as only, was 136. In 53 percent of this inclusive "librarian"? Some strident voices from the group of 136, inquirers were sent on to an- 30,000 ALA and 6,300 SLA membership other department or individual specialist in loudly assert the claim. the host organization, 19 percent were sent This will do as propaganda for the Wage and Salary Administration. We are not op- to outside nonlibrary sources, and 18 percent posed to librarians earning a salary com- to another library. mensurate with that of the chemist who holds a master's degree. We are all in favor of social recognition of the MS in LS being Analysis of Outcome equivalent to that granted the instructor in the English Department whose thesis on the For a simpler overview of the results, a "Botanical Knowledge of Wordsworth as two-fold compression was adopted for three Displayed in His Pre-1805 Poetry" earned of the factors. Borrowers were divided into him an MA degree. If the English instruc- tor is granted faculty club privileges, the inquiring librarians and all others, questions librarian has a right to it also. into specialty-oriented requests and all others, But does this academic achievement war- and outcome into questions answered and rant the acquisition of professional status? those either not answered or referred. This Hardly. left two categories the same: I) subject mat- Professional status, like respect and rec- ognition, must be earned. The librarian who ter of the host libraries (business and finance, performs those functions that could be as science-technology, and social science) and effectively done by a bright high school 2) channel of communication (written, graduate is not a professional. It doesn't phoned, in person). take a master's degree to paste book pockets comparison of outcome was made by on the inside back cover of a book. A Then what does lend credulence to the sign tests (keeping all but one variable con- claim of professional status? stant) and by averaged differences. Both ap- Try creativity-contribute something new proaches pointed to two factors that influ- to the profession, its techniques, its pro- enced the outcome: I) the personal visit cedures, and, oh yes, to its basic store of knowledge. This may place you in the upper constituted the best channel and 2) the social one per cent of your "profession." But if it science-oriented host library was the best is professional status you want, try it. source for obtaining a reply. B. LITTLE MARCH1966 175 The Status of Library Statistics in the United States Office of Education FRANK L. SCHICK

ECENTLY in an article in the Library Groups-one for information systems deal- R Journa1,l the outcome of the reorganiza- ing with libraries, adult education, and edu- tion of the United States Office of Education cational TV, and one for statistical meth- was referred to as an "education pentagon." odology. The following status report deals only with The program of the Center aims to corre- that corner of the Office of Education re- late all essential educational information, to sponsible for educational statistics (The Na- coordinate the data collection by mailing out tional Center for Educational Statistics) and fewer but more comprehensive forms, and to in particular, with the nook concerned with automate as far as practical the information statistical data about libraries. collecting, processing, retrieval, and dissemi- - As indicated by the October 1, 1965 Or- nation activities. ganization Chart (see figure) the structure of These tasks are increased by the Center's the Office consists of four bureaus and a responsibility to design and process all gen- number of staff offices, among which is the eral information and all grant program National Center for Educational Statistics forms for federal legislation administered bp (NCES) whose Assistant Commissioner is the Office. When this program is more - Alexander M. Mood. Each of the four bu- fully operational, collected data that have reaus is headed by an assistant or associate been stored on magnetic tapes will permit commissioner, who reports to Harold Howe, random access at frequent intervals to the 11, the new Commissioner. The Bureaus are various grant programs. This retrieval sys- Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher tem will provide information about the Education, Adult and Vocational Education, status of grant funds and also general infor- and Bureau of Research. mation about various aspects of the nation's . The statistical responsibilities for all pro- educational institutions and operations. grams in the Office are now located in the National Center for Educational Statistics, Forthcoming Library Statistics Programs which conducts general statistics and opera- As a result of these plans, in the future tions analyses concerned with all aspects of the Center will probably discontinue to education, including library activities. process separate forms about elementary and The NCES consists of the Assistant Com- secondary school as well as college and uni- missioner's Office and four Divisions: Data versity libraries and instead incorporate re- Sources and Standards, Statistical Analysis, quests for information about these libraries Data Processing Services, and Operations in more comprehensive manifold forms, Analysis. The Division of Statistical Analysis which will be sent to parent institutions. has separate branches for Elementary and In the case of public libraries, requests for Secondary Education, Higher Education, information will continue to be directed to Reference Estimates and Projections, and two them through state library agencies; how- ever, as far as practical, the data collection 1. BERRY,John N. An Education Pentagon. Li- brary Journal, vol. 91, Jan. 15, 1966, p. 195-200. for grant programs, i.e., the Library Services and Construction Act, and general informa- Dr. Schick is Coordinator tion surveys may be combined. of Ad& Education and With regard to special libraries where no Librai.y Statistics, Na- grant programs exist and where no other tiotzal Center for Educa- data are being collected from their parent or- tioual Statistics, United ganizations, it is planned to continue with States Ofice of Edz~ca- special surveys as required by the Office of tion, Washington, D. C. Education and national programs of other LISFARY SERVICES

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Ramon6 Stanley organizations. The extent of these operations Statisticr of Public School Libraries 1960-61. is limited by the availability of resources, Part I. Basic Tables, Part 11. Analysi~and In- staff, and computer and publishing capabili- terpretation, and Pnblic School Library ties of the Office. Statistics, 1962-63. The data for the Swz~eyof Special Li- In March 1965 the publication Continu- braries Serving State Governments, I964 ing Educittion for Librarian-Conferences, have been collected and are now being tabu- Workshops, and Short Cozrrses, 1965-66 ap- lated. Release can be expected some time in peared, followed in June by Library Edzca- the first half of 1966. tion Dii.ectoty, 1964-65. Both of these di- A statistical survey of federal libraries is rectory-type releases contain some statistical being coordinated with the newly created data. It is expected that they may be con- Federal Library Committee (Paul Howard, tinued in similar format in closer relation to Chairman), which is also currently surveying relevant grant programs. the computer capabilities of these libraries. It is hoped that surveys covering other seg- National Conference on Library Statistics ments of the special library area can be un- The Statistics Coordinating Project of dertaken either by the Office or by other ALA and SLA was completed last year, and groups that will receive NCES assistance. the results of this work, the Handbook of During the fall of 1965 such service was Library Statistics, will be published by ALA given to the Medical Library Association. in the spring of 1966. A chapter of this pub- This Association's Committee on Surveys and lication deals with special libraries; another Statistics, in cooperation with the American provides common statistical terminology for Dental Association and the American Coun- a11 types of libraries. To highlight this pub- cil on Pharmaceutical Education, prepared a lication, to discuss the use of library statistics, questionnaire for a 1965 Survey of Medical to assess library performance, and to consider Libraries in the United States. Forms were the new statistics program of the United sent out in January of 1966 to all libraries States Office of Education a National Con- of medical, dental, and pharmaceutical ference on Library Statistics is now being schools and colleges. Discussions have planned for June 1966. started to provide a similar service to the This national conference will be co-spon- American Association of Law Libraries. sored by NCES and the ALA Library Admin- The 1963-64 survey of college and uni- istration Division. Among the participants versity libraries was published in January will be the members of the various statistics 1965 under the title Library Statistics of Col- committees of ALA, SLA, and other library leges and Universities, 1963-64; Institu- associations and organizations. The agenda tional Data. The questionnaire to collect will deal with topics such as the responsibility comparable data for 1964-65 was mailed out for data collection on the federal, state, and in November 1965 and will be released in local levels, OE's plans for library statistics, and the United States and international stand- the spring of 1966. The analytic report for ardization of library statistical terms and def- the years 1962-63 and 1963-64 has been initions. tabulated and is also expected to be released Attempts will also be made to assess the in the first half of 1966. quantifiable aspects of library service, i.e., The latest public library survey for 1962 the retrieval and dissemination of the in- was released in the summer of 1965 as formation found in books, magazines, and Statistics of Public Libraries. Part I. Selected documents and stored on films, tapes, and Statistics of Pnblic Libraries Serving Popula- other media that are cataloged and indexed tions of 35,000 and Aboz.e, Institzrtional for user access. Data. The analytic data have been tabulated The re-tooling for the new statistics pro- and should be available in the spring of gram presents challenges and brings about 1966. Questionnaires for the 1965 survey changes that in due course will help to pro- were distributed during February 1966. vide a more integrated, automated, and mean- The latest school library surveys were pub- ingful approach toward the evaluation of the lished in 1964-65 under the following titles: nation's educational and library services. Profiles of Special Libraries

osr OF US like to read about ourselves. Here we have the chance M to read about six special libraries and to see how ours compare- space, personnel, and budget. Do we feel more or less fortunate? Al- though these are all only examples, we all will make comparisons. The idea for doing the Profiles originated when the "Objectives and Standards for Special Libraries" were being compiled. Agnes Brite, Chairman of the Professional Standards Committee at that time, sug- gested to Professor Ruth S. Leonard, who was analyzing the respons&, that Profiles would be a means of providing quantitative information, within the limits of information available from the questionnaires, on specific kinds of special libraries. Such information would be impossible to include in the Standards. Through consultations and visits to 28 li- braries in the New York and Chicago areas and conferences and corre- spondence with some 50 additional librarians, Professor Leonard has compiled the Profiles presented here. While the Profiles represent com- posites of collections, the space requirements have been calculated on the basis of recommended mactices. However, although we are apt to compare our libraries with those in the Profiles, we must remember that comparisons should be made only in the light of individual library situations. Differing orgnizations, geographical locations, the availability of large research collections from which materials may be borrowed, and so on all have a bearing on each library. The descriptions given in the Profiles must be used as general guidelines only. Too, services can be listed, but depths and levels of service can only be implied. The Professional Standards Committee hopes that these Profiles will contain something of value and interest to all. But it hopes especially that the Profiles will be of help to consultants. The information given is the type that consultants are constantly being asked for. Persons starting new libraries want quantitative information. Even though the Profiles represent just a few of the many types of special libraries, the guide- lines will be of help to all. For instance, although six different li- braries of varying sizes are represented, the percentage budgeted for salary in all cases is about the same. It is impossible to thank and acknowledge individually all members who participated, to make through the questionnaire, visit, or conversa- tion, the Profiles possible but to all who did help, the Association owes a sincere thank you. To Agnes Brite and Eunice Walde, past and present Chairmen of the Professional Standards Committee, we are all grateful. Our special thanks goes to Professor Ruth S. Leonard for her analysis of the statistical data available from the Standards project, her formula- tion of the general outlines of six special libraries, and her synthesis of meaningful and specific Profiles for all to study. Two profiles follow; the remaining four will be published in the two succeeding issues. As with the Standards, this is just a beginning. The Profiles are not ends in themselves but an adjunct to the Standards. We will, as with the Standards, update and revise as needed. They will not be static. ALLEENTHOMPSON, President Profile of a Research Library in the ABC Manufacturing Corporation

HE LIBRARY of ABC Manufacturing Cor- lation, periodical routing, photoduplication TPoration serves an active clientele of 200 and interlibrary loan processes, filing, typing, persons most of whom are engaged in research and other secretarial or clerical duties. and development of the Corporation's prod- ucts. About five years ago the Corporation Summary of Major Library Activities employed a research librarian to organize a SELECTION,ACQUISITION, AND COVERAGE library to serve the entire company but par- OF LIBRARYMATERIALS ticularly the research interests of its scientists About 80 percent of the items bought for and engineers. The librarian, in consultation the library are selected by the librarian; the with the vice-president in charge of staff de- remainder are suggested by users. The major partments to whom he reports, made plans part of the collection reflects selective cover- for the library's quarters and equipment and age of the main subject interests of the com- set forth a tentative plan for developing, or- pany. However, some 20 percent of the col- ganizing, and giving the kinds of library lection covers other subjects. Duplicate copies service needed by the company's clientele. of publications are purchased only when The research librarian functions in a dual there are many requests for particular titles. role as administrator and as a professional All publications used in the company are employee. As administrator he is responsible purchased through the library. for the selection, training, and supervision of the clerical assistant, the formulation and ORGANIZATIONOF THE COLLECTIONS execution of library policies, the planning of The Dewey Decimal Classificatiorz system the library budget, and the promotion of is used for the book collection. Some sections effective use of the library by its clientele by have been expanded to cover the library's keeping informed of their activities and in- particular needs. It is possible to purchase Li- formation requirements. brary of Congress (LC) cards for about 90 The librarian also performs all the profes- percent of the new books. The remainder are sional services of the library. The following cataloged by the librarian. The cards are re- are his major activities: produced manually (by typewriter) by the 1. Selects and acquires publications and all clerical assistant. Subject headings used for other library materials. This is done by perus- the book collection and for the pamphlet ing the bibliographical sources relative to the collection are derived from the Library of company's interests and by receiving sugges- Congress Sdject Hendings list, supple- tions from the library's clientele. mented by terms used in current indexing 2. Analyzes publications and other library and abstracting services. The Defense Docu- materials to provide for appropriate physical mentation Center Thesazlrzls of ASTIA De- arrangement, content or subject indexing, sc~iptors and the Engineers Joint Council and bibliographical identification of items, Thesanws of Engineering Term are used using systems that make information con- in indexing the company's internal reports, tained in these materials most readily acces- research notebooks, and technical reports. sible. REFERENCEAND INFORMATIONSERVICES 3. Provides materials or information in re- sponse to requests from clientele or in In addition to answering specific requests anticipation of their requests. for information by telephone or in person, the librarian brings specific periodical ar- The clerical assistant performs all routine ticles, monographic works, and so on to the functions under the supervision of the li- attention of users. This is done on an indi- brarian. These include writing book orders, vidual basis as well as through the prepara- assisting in processing of publications, circu- tion of selected acquisitions lists. The de- SPECIALLIBRARIES partmental managers keep the librarian THECOLLECTION TITLESVOLUMES informed of current projects. When neces- NUMBERNUMBER sary, outside agencies are used to provide Periodical titles received the materials or data requested. About 400 currently 250 items are borrowed on interlibrary loan or Duplicate titles 10 obtained as photocopy each year. Received through In response to a client's request the li- membership 12 brarian searches the literature for pertinent Received gratis or by items, which are sent directly to the client, or exchange 50 he may compile a bibliography or a survey Retained 2-3 years 210 report of the relevant literature. As many as Retained permanently 40 100 such requests for highly selective or Retained partially in comprehensive surveys of the literature may microform 5 be filled in any one year. A relatively small Periodical volumes (bound number of translations are requested each and unbound), including year-some eight or ten. The request may be back-files and 5-year filled by an existing translation in the li- projection brary or by request to the SLA Translations Pamphlets and other paper- Center. Occasionally the services of a com- back documents in files mercial translator may be used. Current (reprints, annual reports, issues of technical periodicals are routed au- government publications, tomatically to a selected list of the library's trade catalogs, patents) 2,500 clientele. Instead of lending periodical vol- Annual additions 400 umes, photocopies of articles are sent to users Internal reports and re- of the library. search notebooks, and technical reports (un- classified) 500 Records of periodical subscriptions, hold- Annual additions 7 5 ings, and routing are now maintained on machine punched cards. Data processing equipment, however, is not part of the li- 3-foot shelves for books, reference brary. works, abstracts, indexes, etc. 3-foot shelves for periodical Statistics collection THECOLLECTION TITLESVOLUMES File cabinet drawers for NUMBERNUMBER pamphlets, etc. Books 2,400 2,500 File cabinet drawers for internal General reference works reports, etc. (encyclopedias, dic- Card catalog cabinet (24-drawer) tionaries, handbooks, Card catalog cabinet for index to yearbooks, etc.) internal reports, etc. Books and reference Microfilm cabinet works added annually Visible index file for periodicals Indexing and abstract- Atlas stand, dictionary stand ing publications and (1 each) services received Microfilm reader currently Microfilm reader-printer Total number, back-files Photocopier and 5-year projection Telephone lines Total number of volumes Telephone instruments in collection (exclud- ing periodical vol- 1. Allows for expansion of the collection over a umes), 5-year projection period of five years. SPACE AREA' BUDGETRATIOS PERCENT SQUAREFEET Salaries (professional and Reference and reading area clerical) 70 (reading tables and chairs, Books, pamphlets, documents, counters for abstract and etc. ; periodical subscriptions ; index services, desk, society memberships (for photocopy and microfilm publications) 25 equipment, stands, etc.) 600 Binding, supplies, microform Stack and storage area (in- publications, photocopying cludes provision for file expenses, etc. 3 cabinets) 630 Technical processes and staff Professional association ex- area 300 penses, including travel ex- -- penses and attendance at Total 1,530 professional meetings 2. Allows for expansion of the collection over a period of five years. Total

Profile of a Library for the Research and Development Division of the DEF Industrial Corporation

HE TECHNICALInformation Services De- In addition to the administrative and su- Tpartment, hereafter called library in this pervisory responsibilities that the manager profile, serves primarily the information re- and assistant manager share, the following quirements of scientists and engineers in the are the major activities performed by the six Research and Development Division of the professional library staff members: DEF Industrial Corporation. To fulfill the 1. Selection and acquisition of library ma- functions of this technical library, the man- terials, a responsibility mainly of the man- ager, with a professional staff of five and a ager and assistant manager. nonprofessional staff of nine, are needed. 2. The organization of the collections, in- The manager reports to the Director of cluding such technical processes as classifica- the Research and Development Division, tion, cataloging, indexing, and abstracting- who, in turn, reports to a vice-president. As responsibilities of the assistant manager and administrator, he is responsible for keeping two catalogers and indexers. abreast of the library requirements of the 3. Reference and research, including litera- professional and administiative staff of the ture searching and bibliography compilation Division and maintaining and promoting ef- -responsibilities of the two reference li- fective, specialized library service for this brarians. Division. In particular, he is responsible for 4. Dissemination of information, document the formulation and execution of library control, and translating-responsibilities of policies, the planning of the library budget, the manager and two reference librarians. and the selection of his staff. Both profes- sional and nonprofessional staff have grown The nine staff assistants perform clerical, in number as the library has increased and routine, and secretarial functions under su- diversified its services and collection to meet pervision as follows : order publications ; cir- the needs of its clientele. The Division has culate material ; handle interlibrary loans ; approximately 1,200 employees, of whom assist in technical processing, which includes 800 are active users of the library. filing of publications, cards, etc.; check in periodicals; prepare material for binding; length each year. If the information cannot handle technical and internally-generated re- be found in the library, other libraries, asso- ports; maintain and requisition supplies; and ciations, government departments, subject in- perform secretarial work, including typing formation centers, and subject specialists are of bibliographies, etc. used. The library borrows about 100 items on interlibrary loan and receives as photo- Summary of Major Library Activities copy about 800 items each year; the library, SELECTION,ACQUISITION, AND COVERAGE in turn, frequently lends or photocopies OF LIBRARYMATERIALS items for other libraries. About 75 percent of the materials added In a year's time the library may receive as are selected by the manager and assistant many as 40 requests for existing translations, manager; the remainder are acquired in re- and the professional staff may prepare 40 sponse to requests from the library's clientele additional translations. The SLA Transla- in consultation with the manager. About 85 tions Center and a commercial translating percent of the collection reflects comprehen- service each supply about 10 translations a sive coverage of the organization's major year. fields of activity. The remaining 15 percent On the average 450 books and 150 tech- represents selected materials in subject fields nical reports are lent to library clients each of auxiliary interest to the company and a week. Photocopies of periodical articles are general reference collection to supplement sent to clients. Periodicals do not circulate. the library's specialized sources of informa- As part of its reference and information tion. The library orders additional copies of services the library indexes its technical re- books and multiple subscriptions to periodi- ports and its internally-generated reports and cals in response to requests. other selected research reports. It identifies the special interests of its clients and sends ORGANIZATIONOF THE COLLECTIONS them abstracts, technical reports, or special The Library of Congress Ck~ssificationsys- items as they are acquired, according to these tem is used for the book collection. Subject interests. Its acquisitions list, periodical hold- headings are taken from the Library of ings list, and table of contents pages in Congress Subject Headings list and terms photocopy are distributed to 700 clients. used in the pertinent indexing and abstract- ing services. Library of Congress (LC) cards are purchased for about 70 percent of the The professional staff supervises the acqui- new books. About 30 percent of the acquisi- sition, maintenance, and distribution of in- tions for the shelf collection require original ternally-generated reports and technical re- cataloging. Cards for these are reproduced by port literature. For material acquired or use of Multilith mats. maintained in microform, the library uses a Authoritative thesauri such as the Defense reader-printer to supply the client directly Documentation Center Thernwnr of ASTIA with full-size, readable copy. De~criptonrand the Engineers Joint Council Periodical subscription and periodical holdings records are maintained on machine Thesauws of Engi~zeerhzg Termr, plus a user-tested list of index terms developed in punched cards. An automated system for re- the library, have been adopted for the tech- production of catalog cards, the acquisitions nical and internally-generated reports. list, and the periodical holdings list is under consideration. REFERENCEAND INFORMATIONSERVICES The library answers many requests for in- Statistics formation or for the materials that supply THECOLLECTION TITLESVOLUMES the information sought. Often materials are NUMBERNUMBER gathered, screened, and sent directly or in the Books 12,000 13,000 form of photocopy to the inquirer. The General reference works reference librarians compile some 50-60 (encyclopedias, diction- selective bibiliographies and make some 200 aries, handbooks, year- literature searches of varying scope and books, etc.) THECOLLECTION TITLESVOLUMES EQUIPMENT NUMBERNUMBER File cabinet drawers for Books and reference works pamphlets, etc. added annually 1,200 1,500 Cabinets for : Indexing and abstracting Microforms publications and services Card catalog (90-drawer) received currently 50 200 Punch card index for technical Total number of volumes, reports (11-drawer) including back files Visible index for periodical file and 5-year projection 3,000 Atlas stand, dictionary stand, map Total number of volumes case (1 each) (excluding periodical Microform equipment: volumes) in collec- Microfilm reader tion, including Microfilm reader-printer 5-year projection 23,2001 Microcard reader Periodical titles received Photocopier currently 600 Telephone lines Duplicate titles 25 Telephone instruments Received through- member- ship Received gratis or through exchange Retained average 2-3 years Reference and reading area (in- Retained permanently cludes space for circulation con- Retained partially trol and reference desks, reading in microform tables, counters for indexing and Periodical volumes abstracting services, cabinets for (bound and unbound), index cards, etc.) 2,215 including back files Stack and storage area (includes and 5-year projection provisions for file cabinets) 3,260 Pamphlets and other paper- Vault of open shelf filing of tech- nical and internal reports 800 back documents in files (reprints, annual reports Technical processes and staff area 2,100 of companies and organizations, govern- Total 8,375 ment publications, etc.) 2,000 Annual additions 200 Maps 1,200 BUDGETRATIOS PERCENT Annual additions 30 Salaries (professional and clerical) 69 Internal reports 5,000 Books, pamphlets, documents, mi- Annual additions 500 croform publications, other non- Technical reports (classi- book materials ; indexing and ab- fied and unclassified) 30,000 stracting services, etc. 19 Annual additions 5,000 Periodical subscriptions, including EQUIPMENT NUMBER^ society memberships for publica- 3-foot shelves for books, reference tions 7 works, indexing and abstracting Binding, supplies, photocopying ex- services, etc. 1,550 penses, miscellaneous outside serv- 3-foot shelves for periodical ices 3 collection 760 Professional association expenses and travel expenses 2 1. Allows for weeding. 2. Allows for expansion of the collection over a period of five pears. Total 100 184 SPECIALLIBRARIES A small planning library's work with planning staff, area );outh, other similar libraries, and local citizenry proves that although small in size of collection, a great deal of service can be given to these various groups. Suggestions for acquisitions, research techniques, and circulation of mate- rials with the aid of a published monthly annotated bibliography are also of importance. A book catalog for the staff is planned so that the results of Project URBANDOC may be utilized. Pleasures and Problems in a Planning Library MARY L. KNOBBE

ORTUNATELY, the "pleasures" override to the Prince George's County staff via phone Fthe "problems" in the Maryland-National and interoffice delivery service. A card cata- Capital Park and Planning Commission Li- log is also available, but pamphlets and pe- brary. Hopefully, in the near future, the riodicals-the mainstay of a planning library problems that do exist may be solved in part -are all housed in the main library. by some form of automation. There is one prerequisite for a planning The Library essentially provides research librarian-the desire to delve into bibliog- materials for the 106 planners and planning raphies, book reviews, footnotes, publishers' technicians in this bi-county (Montgomery catalogs, advertisements, and the fine print and Prince George's Counties, Maryland) of government catalogs to ferret out material agency. At present these 106 staff members for the collection. Much material found in are in four geographic locations-ranging these searches is free; a postcard request from two blocks to 20 miles apart-thus cre- usually brings results. The increase of book ating a problem of contact. In another year material in the planning field is gratifying when the new Prince George's County Re- but still not sufficient to supply answers to gional Building is ready for occupancy, there all current problems, so the need to search will be just three locations. Expanded library through all sources is most important. facilities are planned for this new building, Many of the most vital parts of a planning and in anticipation of being able to give im- collection are in the form of paperbacks and proved service immediately upon moving pamphlets, but a method of preserving these into it, selection, buying, and cataloging are items has been developed. The Commission now being done. has a spiral punching machine; a pamphlet The Montgomery County Regional Build- or paperback is punched and spiral bound. ing now houses the main library collection Then it can be cataloged along with regular (1,200 books, 2,000 pamphlets, 65 period- books and will stand the shelving and re- icals, and the archives). Service is provided shelving that is necessary with frequently used materials. If an item is listed in both hard cover and paperback, the paperback is MU. Kuobbe has been purchased, thus making a substantial savings. Research Librarian for the In the matter of budget-saving the Library Maryland-National Capi- likes to make the fewest number of copies go tal Park and Planning as far as possible. A Xerox copy of the table Commission, Silver of contents of a current periodical or of a book Spri~g, Maryland, since (particularly books with a compilation of 1961. She is a member of articles) is circulated-never the magazine D. C.. Chabter of SPecial Libraries ~Jsocjation and the cdzln;il of or book itself until someone requests it. This Plantzing Librariam a~dis a candidate for makes materials more accessible to everyone, her marter'r degree at the Gradzlate School and long searches for material in someone's of Libvary Science. Uuizreriity of itlaryland. "in" basket are not necessary. Probably one of the greatest pleasures subject, name of requestor, and approximate comes with working with young people. A date of need is placed on the tab; 3) as the bibliography for civic and social science librarian reviews incoming current literature, teachers in both counties has been prepared a bibliography is begun that includes coni- and distributed. Materials listed by reading plete citations, pagination, and any other per- levels and subject matter for planning are tinent information; 4) as time permits, a recommended for acquisition by the school search is also begun on periodical or cata- libraries. The response has been one that loged material already in the collection. By makes librarianship a rewarding profession. the time the staff member is ready to begin The community leaders of tomorrow are in the new project, a complete bibliography has our schools today; any insight that can be been assembled. This method serves very given to community problems-and our ef- well now, but it is hoped that in the future forts to deal with them-is essential educa- retrieval will be more automated with faster tion for the future. data gathering and more depth of coverage The Commission's Brookside Nature Cen- of source materials. ter in Wheaton Regional Park has a fine An annotated bibliography is prepared and technical collection for work in identification distributed each month to keep all segments and conservation of area resources. The natu- of MNCPPC staff aware of the current lit- ralist there works with Boy Scouts, Girl erature that has been acquired. Special bib- Scouts, elementary school teachers, conserva- liographies are compiled and issued accord- tion groups, and garden clubs. Two new ing to need and as time permits. These lists nature centers are being developed so these are given all staff members and posted on specialized collections will continue to be en- office bulletin boards. The lists are also mailed larged. Also, an arboretum, under develop- to other local planning agencies and area li- ment and manned by the area garden clubs, braries. and a limited distribution is made to will need other specialized and technical certain contacts across the country. literature. Size of physical facilities and budget lim- Five large universities plus numerous jun- itations decree maintenance of good inter- ior colleges and private schools are in the library relations with a wide variety of area area. Students in such varied courses as pub- libraries. The Maryland Room in the Mc- lic administration, urban geography, and so- Keldin Library of the University of Mary- cial planning are assigned papers or select land is one depository for all material issued thesis topics requiring research in the Plan- by our agency. Both county regional library ning Library. Thus the youth of the area svstems receive materials for their reference from grade school on through college are collections and in return make inter-library reached either directly or indirectly. loans on such items as out-of-print or special As a public agency the Library must also materials. give limited service to those "who pay the Our relationship with the Housing and salaries." Many times this proves to be the Home Finance Agency, Urban Renewal, highlight of a given day. For example, John Federal Housing Administration (now De- Doe is suing John Smith, and Doe's lauyer partment of Housing and Urban Develop- ment). and the U.S. Census libraries is is told that he can prove his client's case ,J through a speech Smith made at a public sometimes a little one-sided-we borrow and hearing, so he calls and asks for reproduction they lend. However, upon rare occasions we of a page or pages. have been able to give help to them, and this Research requests by the planning staff are is always a pleasure. always of utmost interest because they keep Our Commission, in cooperation with the the librarian alert to specific as well as gen- county government, is expecting to incor- eral planning topics. In doing research for porate electronic data processing into its the staff the following method has proved planning program. The librarian hopes to satisfactory, although not perfect: I) a plan- produce a printed book catalog for distribu- ner or technician is assigned a project and tion to each of the planners and planning the librarian is notified of the topic, use, and technicians on the staff. This book catalog depth of coverage needed; 2) a folder, with and its preparation will put the Library in a position to make use of URBANDOC, when Council of Planning Librarians, P.O. Box 5211, that project is completed. Eugene, Oregon. $5 individual membership; Project URBANDOC, under the direction $20 institutional. SUBSCRIPTIONS: of Mrs. Vivian Sessions, at the City Univer- American Institute of Planners. AIP Journal. sity of New York (Federal Urban Renewal Quarterly. 917-15th St., N.W., Washington, emo on strati on Grant), has many implica- D. C., $8 per year. tions for planning libraries. Since many mu- American Society of Planning Officials. ASP0 Newsletter, $10 per year. Includes annotated nicipalities, counties, and planning agencies book lists. are putting land-use inventories into machine Bureau of Community Planning. The Newslet- form, the same can be done with many other ter. Quarterly. University of Illinois, 1202 records, e.g., population statistics, zoning West California, Urbana, Ill., free. economic information, and planning research Housifjg and Plannrng References. Bimonthly. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Of- and reference materials. fice, $2.25 per year. Suggested aids for a planning librarian Monthly Checklist of State Publications. Wash- with a limited budget and physical facilities ington, D. C., Government Printing Office, are : $2.50 per year. Trafic Quartevly. Eno Foundation for Highway MEMBERSHIPS: Traffic Control, Saugatuck, Conn., free. American Society of Planning Officials, Planning Urban Land Institute. Monthly News and Advisory Service, 1313 East 60th St., Chicago. Trends & Technical Bulletins. Washington, Write for n~embershipcosts. D. C., 1200 18th St., N.W. $25.00.

COUNCIL ON LIBRARY RESOURCES, INC. GRANTS The Library of Congress has received two The University of North Carolina received grants from CLR, one amounting to $87,650 grants from the National Science Foundation to support a Secretariat for the Federal Li- and the Council on Library Resources to sup- brary Committee, and the second, $130,000, port the work of the American Standards for a pilot program for the distribution of Association Committee 239, Standards in Li- cataloging data in machine-readable form. brary Work and Documentation. The NSF The immediate aim of this latter project is grant will fund the following subcommit- centralized preparation and distribution of tees: International, Machine Input Records, data from which participating libraries can Periodical Title Abbreviations, Translitera- automatically produce library materials at tion, Abstracts, Proof Corrections, Arrange- local computer centers. The larger goal is to ment of Periodicals, Program, and Trade assess the ultimate feasibility of a national Catalogs. The CLR grant will help the ac- communications network in which machine- tivities of five subcommittees: Bibliographic readable data would be transmitted electri- Reference, Library Statistics, Terminology, cally from library to library. Indexing, and Classification. 239 has recently The Association of American Law Schools worked on a standard for trade catalogs, received $30,000 for the preparation of which has been adopted and will be pub- book-selection lists intended to provide opti- lished shortly. An American standard for mum library collections of Anglo-American, library statistics is ready for final considera- foreign, international, and comparative law tion, with summer publication planned. for law school libraries. The University of California's Institute of The New York Public Library received Library Research, with $68,498, will develop $40,000 to study the problems involved in a "Handbook of Data Processing for Li- the preparation, issuance, and maintenance braries," which will organize existing mate- of cataloging data for large research libraries. rial relating to data processing in libraries. Nonconventional and present methods for Summaries of techniques used in the analysis the efficient bibliographical treatment of over of alternative methods for handling clerical 100,000 volumes a year will be explored as processes and criteria for evaluation of the well as computer techniques for the produc- best and most economic methods will be pro- tion of card and/or book catalogs or visual vided. Completion is expected in two years, television presentation. but results will be reported as they occur. MARCHl9GG Special Libra1.ie.r is prepared for you and ered as best as possible by the journal. all other members of Special Libraries The Special Libraries Committee herewith Association. solicits from each member manuscripts dealing with every kind of problem in Because the membership is drawn from every kind of special library. so many kinds of special libraries (news- paper, publishing, museum, advertising, "As the official organ of the Special Li- science, and business) published articles braries Association, Special Libraries pub- cover many subjects. Sometimes a particu- lishes I) information on administration. lar subject will be of no interest to you, organization, and operation of special yet be tremendously important and useful libraries and information centers and other to another member. In a sense, the journal matters deemed by the editor to be of in- tries to be all things to all men, an impos- terest to the readers and appropriate to the sible feat to accomplish in any one issue. journal, 2) official business of the Associa- tion and its subunits, and 3) news of Another problem in publishing a jour- members and for members. nal such as ours is the varying levels of experience of readers. Some are new to "Special Libmries intends to provide special library work, some have been put- material on a11 important subject areas and ting knowledge to work for many years, methods for putting knowledge to work. some have small libraries and small budg- New and developing areas of librarian- ets, some have large libraries and large budgets. Some members report to librar- ship are sought out. Professional stand- ians or chief librarians, some report to ards, salary information, education for management. Some work in profit-making librarianship, recruitment, and public re- corporations in which the member's daily lations are representative subjects which decisions reflect the tempo and economics are covered. Controversy is not shunned. of the parent corporation. Others of us work in institutions in which protracted "The content includes news items, bib- research is done and in which time and liographies, bibliographic essays, discus- money do not figure as primary factors in sions, and opinions that are intended to decision-making. be authoritative and have lasting value or to reflect original- research. Also included Another feature of our journal is that are book reviews and annotations of pe- it is written by members almost entirely. riodical literature, reports, etc. that per- With few exceptions, all manuscripts are tain to special librarianship directly or in- received from members. directly.

Because of the diversity of Special Li- "The journal serves in one sense as a braries readers, the Special Libraries Com- unifying agent for members of the Special mittee feels that the following statement Libraries Association for it is received by of purpose, recently approved by the all of them and provides material for in- Board of Directors, will help to let each formation, discussion, disagreement, and member know that his needs will be cov- other shared reactions."

LSS INN EAPOLIS: City of Lakes MELVIN KIRKPATRICK

HE 1966 SLA Convention ciq-bright and modern-has its destinies Tentwined with those of its sister city, St. Paul, and with the sprawling region of forests, farms, and lakes the pair serve. It should be made clear at the outset that lines, even though the two are situated deep Minneapolis is a twin. And she really doesn't in the heartland of the continent. The mind at all, folklore to the contrary notwith- towns are proud of their "brainpower" in- standing. St. Paul and Minneapolis-insep- dustries, of their medical achievements, of arable Twin Cities-are really affectionate the University of Minnesota, and of their md well-mated companions. new eminence in theatre and sports. One For that reason, though the site of the of the area's suburbs boasts the motto "big 1966 SLA Convention is Minneapolis, this league and booming." The phrase could well article will also take a peek at St. Paul and apply to the whole five-county area. in fact will examine a few of the resources The two cities have much in common. of the entire Twin City metropolitan area. Both host festivals of national note-Minne- The metropolitan area, with its two dom- apolis has its annual pean to summer, the inant communities and their ring of thriving Aquatennial, and St. Paul its tribute to ice suburbs, forms the major manufacturing, fi- and snow, the Winter Carnival. The two nancial, educational, and distribution center have nourished joint projects for years: the of the vast west central region of the United world-famed Minneapolis Symphony (as States-Minnesota, North and South Dakota, much the creation of St. Paulites as of Min- and parts of western Wisconsin. Embracing neapolitans), the Twin City International five counties with a population of one and Airport, the football Vikings, the Minnesota one-half million people, the Twin Cities rep- Twins baseball club-and the newest exam- resent "downtown" to the whole upper mid- ple, the Tyrone Guthrie repertory theatre. west of the United States. The two cities The spirit of the Twins is far more that of also form the gateway to the huge recrea- cooperation than self-seeking rivalry. To bet- tional area of the north with its treasures of ter examine this paradox that is twins and pine forests, thousands of lakes, and count- yet a single entity, let's look at the cities one less canoe trails. at a time. Twin Cities' thrusts in technology, cul- Minneapolis is the larger of the two. tural affairs, business, industry, and sports Nicknamed "The City of Lakes," it has 22 have made national and international head- lakes within the compass of its city limits- along with some 150 parks. once' the flour 11/11.. Kirkpatrick the milling capital of the world, it now represents Lib"dridn at CampbeLL- the headquarters of these lively milling giants Mithi'nq Inc" fMinne- rather than actual production. Still, grain ele- *polis du~ing zc~orking honnr nnd an amatew vators standing in mute rows about the city thespj,,, in his leiJllre testify to the community's leadership in ag- time. He ZL,~Unct ds toast- ricultural rna.rter nt the Anniinl Con The place to start an exploration of Min- ~n-leMorr;z St~rdior z'e?7fiotzBarzqnet. neapolis is quite naturally the Convention National Life Insurance building, its 63 graceful columns soaring six stories skyward. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, this beauti- ful newcomer to the skyline, and its top- - notch library, are on the tour list for insur- ance librarians. Hard by the Northwestern National Life building you'll spot the new Minneapolis Public Library, a metallic dome forming a jaunty cap to the library's planetarium. Opened in 1955, this completely modern li- brary counts anlong its resources a Business and Economics Department that is the sec- ond oldest in the nation and an Art Depart- ment with a collection of over a million pic- tures. Full service to the public is provided by such conveniences as typing rooms, music listening rooms, carrels, an auditorium, a sci- ence museum, and other features. The Gateway and the loop have other new buildings: The Sheraton-Ritz Hotel, a new IBM office building, the silver eminence On the boards at the Tyrone Guthrie of the First National Bank, the green and Theatre. glass of the Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance hotel, the Radisson (you'll find other French building the newly-opened and almost to- explorers' names on the land in Minneapolis tally-electric Northern States Power Company -Nicollet, Hennepin, Marquette) . This headquarters, and the Northstar Center com- handsome hostelry is located smack in the plex, which contains in one block the North- middle of the Minneapolis loop, convenient star Inn Motor Hotel, the Pillsbury Building, to restaurants, shops and, of course, some and the Cargill Building. fine libraries. The loop area is sprinkled with libraries. The most arresting feature of the Minne- Financial librarians will find the Ninth Fed- apolis skyline for many years has been the eral Reserve Bank library, the Northwest Foshay Tower, a 32-story office building Bancorporation library, and the library of In- modeled to duplicate the style of the Wash- vestors Diversified Services. The U.S. De- ington ~onumint.~lthough the Foshay has partment of Commerce Field Office library stood as a major (if unlovely) landmark is located in a new federal building. Adver- since its construction in the 1920's, attention tising and marketing librarians will visit the in recent years has been slipping away from libraries of the Pillsbury Company (Com- it and toward a veritable pride of new build- mercial Research) and Campbell-Mithun, ings rising all over the loop, most particularly Inc. in the Gateway Center development. There are still others: the Martin Luther The Gateway, once a skid-row haunt, has library in the Lutheran Brotherhood building been transformed from crumbling pawn and the Minneapolis Gas Company library. shops and flop-houses into an exciting array Newspaper librarians will tour the plant and of gleaming new architecture. SLA visitors library of the Minneapolis Star & Tribune can make an easy trek to the Gateway from newspapers on the edge of the loop. This the Radisson and have a good time doing it library houses some three million clippings if they dawdle on nearby Nicollet Avenue. and one and one-half million photos. Nicollet, perhaps the finest street of shops Beyond the loop the Convention explorer between Chicago and the Coast, leads straight will find more to delight his eyes and senses. to the Center. A bit to the south near Loring Park, is the The first structure to capture the eye in Walker Art Center. Still farther south is the the development is the new Northwestern Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Both museums contain traditional and contemporary paint- munity in contrast to its rambunctious neigh- ing, sculpture, and exhibits of the first rank, bor. That's changed. Under vigorous lead- and each has special treasures of its own- ership St. Paul has pushed hard to be as Walker's jade collection, for example. modern and as grow~h-consciousas any city Just behind the Walker Center is the in the United States. Evidence of this new famed Tyrone Guthrie theatre, where con- vigor is present in St. Paul's Capital Center ventioneers will have an opportunity to en- development just north of the central busi- joy Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and at ness district and under the shadow of the the same time contribute to the Association's capitol building itself. Scholarship and Student Loan Fund. (The- One of the jewels of this unfolding area atre is a big subject in Minneapolis, and the is the new Arts and Sciences Center, a focal visitor with special interests along these lines point for activity in art, theatre, music, and might well inquire about the University the dance. The Center is on the tour agenda Show Boat, the Old Log Theatre, and other of the Museum and Picture Divisions. ventures.) The old things, of course, are still highly Of interest to almost everyone are such valued in St. Paul. The Minnesota Historical visual delights as Minnehaha Falls in Minne- Society's Museum is one of the country's best haha Park, Southdale Shopping Center, Met- and dldest institutions of the "genre.. It has ropolitan Stadium, the Municipal Rose Gar- particular strengths in its newspaper and dens, Fort Snelling, or any of several large manuscript collections, and one of the most and inviting lakes-Calhoun, Lake of the ambitious microfilming projects anywhere (it Isles, Harriet, Cedar, or Nokornis. Tours will is filming almost two million newspaper be provided to some of these spots. pages per year in addition to a manuscript re- There will be plenty of library junketing, cording project). too. Sci-tech librarians may be exploring li- Another well-known institution in St. Paul braries at Archer-Daniels-Midland, Honey- is the James Jerome Hill Reference Library. xvell, or Control Data. West of the city, head- Endowed by the Hill Foundation (Jim Hill, ing toward the inland sea that is Lake you will recall, was one of America's most Minnetonka, marketing librarians will inspect colorful railroad builders), this downtown the fast developing marketing research li- library has been serving St. Paul since 1920. brary of General Mills and the kitchens of The library emphasizes business and tech- Betty Crocker, and sci-tech librarians will be nical materials, particularly periodicals and seeing the same company's James Ford Bell services. It's been described as a kind of spe- Research Center. cial library for special librarians. Next door, Heading east, across Minneapolis and the in the same building, is the headquarters of meandering Mississippi River, we find St. the St. Paul Public Library. Paul, the other Twin. St. Paul, the capital of SLA Convention visitors will be welcomed the state, and the older and somewhat smaller at a number of St. Paul libraries. Chemical of the Twins, was long a conservative corn- librarians will be looking at the technical At left, the research library of Cargill, Inc., at the international grain trading firm's research facility a few miles west of Minneapolis, near Lake Minnetonka. At right is the new business and law library of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Co., located in the home office building designed by Minoru Yamasaki. communications center and central research and fifth largest in the nation, is set down be- laboratory library of the celebrated 3M Com- tween the two cities with campuses in each. pany (Minnesota Mining and Manufactur- It's the University of Minnesota. ing). This corporation, with its reputation On the main campus in Minneapolis the for research and its some 15,000 products, SLAer will find the Walter Library (the has its headquarters in a complex of build- main library) and many excellent depart- ings flanking the Hudson Road several miles mental libraries-journalism, geology, phar- east of the city. macy, law, technology, and others. Several The Transportation Division will examine special collections deserve mention, too. The the assembly plant of the Ford Motor Com- James Ford Bell Room, a gift of the late pany near the Mississippi. Newspaper librar- chairman of General Mills, is a splendid col- ians have the St. Paul Pioneer Pre~sC. Dir- lection of maps, manuscripts, and books deal- patch plant on their list. ing with world trade with special reference Other library possibilities in St. Paul are to North America. Also in the Walter Li- those at Brown & Bigelow, the world's brary is the Ames Library of Southeast Asia. largest manufacturer of calendars and adver- a collection of specialized materials pertain- tising specialties, the St. Paul Fire and Ma- ing to all aspects of that troubled part of the rine Insurance Company library, and the li- world. braries and campuses of several fine colleges In Diehl Hall, which houses the Univer- -Hamline, Macalester, St. Thomas, and St. sity's bio-medical library, is the new Historj- Catherine's. of Medicine collection. Barely launched, this Aside from library-looking the visitor new library promises to be a happy comple- might want to see the towering 32-foot high ment to the state's preeminence in medicine. Indian figure, sculpted by Carl Milles, that But the Twin Cities are not the whole of broods over the main floor of the Ramsey the Minnesota story. For that reason several County Courthouse in downtown St. Paul. tours will lead the visitor out of the metro- This figure has become a sort of St. Paul politan area. A couple of Divisions will be trademark. Or you might want to trek to heading for LeSueur to visit the Green Giant Como Park, 400 acres of ground that in- Company library (ho, ho, ho) and the Folke cludes an excellent zoo, a conservatory, pic- Bernadotte library at Gustavus Adolphus nic grounds, and a golf course. College at St. Peter. Another school, the biggest in the state And there's a pair of day-long tours scheci- uled to give Convention registrants a larger view of the state. One tour will visit Roch- ester to see the world-renowned Mayo Clinic (no, it's not in Rochester, Nen York), and some of its supporting facilities. A second tour will travel to St. John's University at Collegeville to see the unusual architecture of the Abbey Church and new li- brary designed by French architect Marcel Breuer. At the library, termed the most mod- ern in the state, visitors will see something of its Monastic Microfilm Project, an ambi- tious program underwritten by the Hill Foundation and designed to record monastic manuscripts from all over Europe beginning with Monte Cassino. This same tour will also include a trip to Sauk Centre, Sinclair Lewis' home town and the locale of Main Street. and will also visit the Charles A. Lindbergh A cozy but busy corner at the Ordnance Library of the Honeywell plant in subur- home at Little Falls. ban Hopkins, one of several Honeywell This hurried look at Minneapolis and its Inc. libraries in the Minneapolis area. neighbor, St. Paul, will hopefully give you a 192 SPECIALLIBRARIES If one looks beyond the unusual tree column, one of two supports for the roof, one can see the al- most completed library building of St. John's University. Conventioneers will be able to see the fin- ished product.

foretaste of things to come. You will of Suggested Reading course make individual discoveries about this BOOKS wonderful area on your own. BRINK,Carol R. The Twin Cities. New York: One of these personal discoveries will Macmillan, 1961. GOPHERHISTORIAN. Minneapolis, City of surely be the friendliness of Minnesotans. It's Lakes and Mills. St. Paul: Minnesota His- a chronic and all-pervasive characteristic. Per- torical Society, 1961. haps it's the openness of the country-the ARTICLES 10,000 lakes, the expanses of forest and sky. BLAIR,Clay, Jr. Minnesota Grows Older. Snt- Or perhaps it's the range of weather from wday Evening Post, March 18, 1961, p. crackling sub-zero temperatures in winter to 30-1; 85-8. ENGH,Jeri. Try Paul Bunyan Country for Va- the wilting heat of August. Or maybe it's cation Size. Toddy's Health, July 1965, p. just because it's the happy land of Betty 18-23. Crocker, Paul Bunyan, and the Jolly Green LUDWIG,Jack. A Tale of Twin Cities. Holiddy, Giant. Whatever it is, we know you'll experi- June 1962, p. 54-63; 121-2. ence it. In fact, we're warming up a great big YOUNGBLOOD,Dick. Minneapolis-St. Paul Still Believes in Improving Natural Beauty. Minnesota smile for you right now. See you The Phinunan, September-October 1965, p. May 29th. p. 20-4; 61.

COMING EVENTS The MEDICALLIBRARY ASSOCIATION will The THIRDANNUAL NATIONAL COLLO- hold its 65th meeting June 6-10, 1966, at the QUIUM ON INFORMATIONRETRIEVAL will Sheraton-Boston Hotel in Boston. be held at the University of Pennsylvania, The Division of University Extension and May 12-13. The theme is "Information Re- the ~~~d~~~~school of ~ib~~~~Science of trieval-A Critical Review." For further the University of Illinois will sponsor a details write to Ashley W. Speakman, E- 1. DuPOnt Company, Secretary's three-week, noncredit SEMINARON COM- ~UTER-BASEDSYSTEMS FOR LIBRARIES,June Centre Building, Wilmington, Dela- 27-July 16, on the Urbana campus. The Sem- ware 19898. inar, which is open to professional librarians A WORKSHOPON THE ACQUISITIONAND with at least two years of library work ex- ORGANIZATIONOF GOVERNMENTPUBLICA- perience, will emphasize the planning, im- TIONS, sponsored by the Drexel Institute of plementation, and availability of computer Technology Graduate School of Library Sci- applications in the library. Tuition is $125, ence and the Pennsylvania Library Associa- and a check payable to the University of tion, will be held May 11-13. Registration Illinois should be submitted by May 1 and fee is $50, and attendance is limited to 75 sent to the Seminar Supervisor, ll6d Illini persons. For details contact Carole P. Butcher Hall, Champaign, Illinois. at the library school. Soviet Information Experts Tour United States ~nformationFacilities

HE DEPARTURE for MOSCOWof the Soviet gave a detailed presentation of the organiza- Tdelegation of information scientists on tion, history, and current programs of the Thursday, February 10, marked the conclu- Association. The remainder of the week com- sion of a successful first half of an exchange bined visiting and travelling with stops at the of U.S. and U.S.S.R. information scientists Research Library at General Motors Corpora- and scientific and technical librarians ar- tion in Warren, Michigan, the Information ranged under the agreement between the Center at the Research Laboratories of 3M United States of America and the Union of in Minneapolis, and at the Documentation Soviet Socialist Republics on Exchanges in Center of Western Reserve University. The the Scientific and Technical Fields under the combination was interesting in that the So- sponsorship of the Special Libraries Associa- viets saw a traditional research librarv.,, a tion. A $27,100 grant from the National Sci- technical information center administered ence Foundation made the exchange possible. principally by scientists, and a university- This exchange, the first of its kind, was oriented group concerned with research in initiated by SLA to learn through discussions information science. The social highlight of and observation the manner in which prob- the week was an evening visit and dinner at lems relating to the collecting, organizing, the home of the Robert W. Gibsons. and disseminating of scientific information The following week was a crowded one are being solved in each country. with Battelle Memorial Institute, Chemical + The Soviet delegation was a distinguished Abstracts Service, Goodyear Tire and Rubber one. Its leader, N. B. Arutyunov, is Chief of Company, Institute for Scientific Informa- the Administration of Scientific and Tech- tion, and the Franklin Institute on the list. nical Information and Dissemination, USSR By this time the questions being asked by the State Committee on Science and Technology. Soviets revealed their particular interest in Under Mr. Arutyunov's direction, the Ad- visiting the United States. With the scientific ministration is embarked on an extensive pro- information system in the U.S.S.R. now un gram to reorganize, improve, and mechanize dergoing a reorganization, strong interest was the scientific and technical information system evident in the evolving-. system in this coun- throughout the entire Soviet Union. Another try. Is a national information system being prominent member of the delegation was organized? If so, is the policy being deter- Professor A. I. Mikhailor, Director of the mined in the federal agencies? How will the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Tech- States Technical Services Act be adminis- nical Information. Accompanying the group tered, and what will its effect be on a na- was the author, who is the leader of the U.S. tional system? What is the role of the tech- delegation, and L. Markov-Moghadam of the nical information center in relation to the U.S. State Department, who served as an library? Is the library becoming a part of the interpreter. information center ? Is the salary range of the A carefully planned itinerary was arranged information scientist and the librarian the for the group to give it a cross section view same? Is the salary of both comparable to of libraries and information centers repre- that of the laboratory scientist ? sented in Special Libraries Association. In- The visits at Chemical Abstract Services cluded in the tour were visits to company and Biological Abstracts ended with discus- libraries, federal libraries, and private enter- sions on present and future indexing tech- prises engaged in scientific information. niques and the application of machines to On Monday, January 17, the group com- these techniques. Particular interest was menced its 24-day tour of 17 installations by shown at each installation in the methods assembling at SLA Headquarters. Here the used to provide individual current awareness final details of the itinerary were settled, and services. Questions were asked about the fu- Bill M. Woods, Executive Director of SLA, ture role of private scientific information 194 ser\.ites such as the Institute for Scientific Social highlights for the week in Wash- Inforn~ation a~idInforlnation for Industry ington include~la dinner at the International and Docunlentation, Inc. Would these ccm- Inn given by the Washington Chapter of panies be able to survi~e, except as contr'w SLA. There the So\& delegation \vas 1most tors for federal i~gencies? interested in the ~iisplayof m.lchine-gener- The soci,ll c:llentlu for the seconcl \veel; .~tedc-atalogs and lists. The excellent food and included a dinner for the group ,lt the home drink cornbinecl u,ith the congeniality of the of Eugene Garfield, President of the Institute Washington Ch~ptermembers made this one for Scientific Inforin.ltion, and a tour ot of the mobt enjoyable ex enlngs for the So\ iets. Pliil,~delphi,lprovided bj citizers of the (city On Thursday e~wiing,.L rcception was ~vhoentertain foreign \is~tors. held xt the Soviet Emh'lssy, and ,it the request The arri~.alin W;lshin,qton coinci~ledwith of Mr. Arutyuno\~,the U;S. clelegation tc; the that of the heaviest snowF,111 in .i:i ymrs. .41- Soviet Union, memhers of the stdfs of in- tho~~ghall go\wnment buildings \\,ere close~t stitutions visited in Washinfiton. ,lnd others on ~Mond~ly,January 31, hec,~use of rrhe pro~ninentin the field of libr<~rianship,clocu- storm, memhers of the staff of the Lihr;lry of mentation, and inform,hon scieiice bvere in- (:onfires were on hand to keep their eng'lge- \.ited. ment \zith the Soviet clelegaticn. The clay The conrludlng eek of the tour \iA c.oncludeJ u.ith an impromptu tour of the inaug~mted \vith a reception held at the C+t.ol led by Congressmm hfoeller of Ohio. Rainbow Room hy the New Yorl, Chapter of The group finally fell victim to the b,lcl SLA, a dinner at ;I small Italian restaurant in weather when a substit~ltedriver was pro- Greenwich Village, and a visit to the apart- vided for the trip to the Clearinghouse for ment of Donald Wasson. Federal Scientific and Technical Information. A most successful tour was made of the An arrival some four ho~lrslate necessitiiteJ Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory of A somewhat abbreviated tour of CFSTI. An IHM at Yorktoun Heights, where the group invitation was extended to the Soviets to re- observed the coordination of librarv activ- turn later in the week, but the decision was ities with that of a technical information ten- made to follow the predetermined schedule. ter and a program of company-wide technical This included visits to the National Bure,m information activities. In addition, the dele- of Standards, the Patent Office, md the Na- gation was advised of activities in the field of tional Library of Medicine. research in information science. Following the

The Soviet information specialists at Battelle Memorial Institute: Charles Brophy, Jr., Battelle Librarian, John P. Binnington, leader of the U.S. delegation, A. I. Mikhailov, N. 5. Arutyunov, leader of the Soviet delegation, D. S. D'Yakov, A. I. Cherni, G. A. Lcbedev, V. S. Chernyavsky, A. G. Ershov, and L. Markoff-Moghadam. laboratory visit, the delegation was driven to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Randall, where all partook of an excellent dinner. Dean Dalton and members of his staff at the School of Lihrary Service at Columbia University welcomed the delegation for the concluding session of the tour. At this time the Soviets had the first opportunity to dis- cuss the educational programs offered stu- dents interesteci in careers in special librar- ianship and information science. The U.S. delegation, consisting of John P. Rinnington, William S. Budington, Boris Gorakhoff, Irma Johnson, Frank E. Mc- Kenna, Gordon Randall, and Winifred Sew ell left for Mosco\v on February 17. Insti- tutions to be visited in the Soviet Union .Ire: (in Moscow) the V. I. Lenin Library, All-Union Institute of Scientific and Tech- nical Information. State Public Scientific- Technical Library, Bureau of Technical Information and the Technicdl Library of the Likliachev Mosco\v Automobile Factory, Cen- tral Scientific Research Institute of Informa- tion and Technical-Economic Research in Ferrous Metallurgy, Bureau of Technical In- formation and the Technical Library of the Dinanlo Electrical Equipment Factory, State (hmmittee of Standards, Measures and Meas- uring Instr~unents,Stiite Committee on In- ventions and Discoveries of the USSR, Bu- rew of Technical Information ;~ndthC [.me J rwl Itj.. Tccfinical Library of the Kr~~sn~z~hz.t silk- briny N'ltional I.li\rarv Wee(;, c-.lch oi Weaving Mill, State Central Scientific Me& the coo1x1-~1(inglil>r~r;cs Ji>pl'~~c~i posters, icd Library, Central Institute of Technic;ll lnohiles, gLl\.em'ly hokm;~rlis..md one li- Economic Research in the Oil and Gas In- hrq provided refreshments. A total of dustry, Library of the Geographic Institute 2,000 .3;11 Compt~jLil/r.,ir) Se~r~ice.cLvere of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. distributeJ to employees by the libraries. Thc Scientific Research Institute of the Technical 3M Technicd Library mailed 400 copies to Economic Study of the Chemical Industry, technical personnel housed in the same build- Library of the Academy of Medical Sciences, ing. A~lditional copies \vill be available to ' and the Fundamental Library of the Social ne\v technical employees throughout the year. Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the As a friendly gesture aimed at promoting USSR; (in Leningrad). Institute of Culture, interlibrary cooperation, u letter and a copy and Technical Information Section and the of the booklet were mailed to each Minne- Technical Library of the Leningrad Metal- sota Chapter member of SLA. lurgical Plant. It \vas generally felt that through this li- JOHN P. BINNINGTON brary effort, a step forward had been made Head, Research Library at 3M. A movement to\vard unity among our Brookhaven National Laboratory librarians has been initiated. Following this Upton, New York first s~~ccessfulventure, future cooperative ED~TOR'SNOTE: A full report on the U.S.-S1.A projects are anticipated. delegation's tour of Soviet libraries and infor- ANITA FAVERO,Librarian mation centers will appear in ;I later issue of Speriul Librdrie c. 3M Tethnicd Library, St. Paul, Minnesota LURASHORB, re- Hdve Yon Hedrd. . . tired Manager of the library at Alabama MEDLARS Search Center Hercules Pow- The University of Alabama Medical Center der Company in Birmingham is the site of the third MED- Research Center, LARS Search Center, part of a proposed net- died suddenly work of regional MEDLARS facilities to ex- January 2 1. Miss tend the system's search and retrieval capacity Shorb, who was throughout the United States. Under a one- active in Special year, $82,000 contract, the Alabama Center Libraries Asso- will use duplicate National Library of Medi- ciation since becoming a member in 1933, cine MEDLARS computer tapes on its own was among the first to be selected for the computers to furnish bibliographic services SLA Hall of Fame in 1959 for outstanding, on demand to qualified users in Alabama, continuing contribution to the growth and Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis- development of the Association. She served sissippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennes- as President of the Special Libraries Council see, Texas, and Puerto Rico. The other two of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Chairman of centers in operation are at the University of the Science-Technology Chemistry Section California Medical Center, Los Angeles, and and Chairman of the Publications, Finance, the University of Colorado Medical Center, Nominating, and Scholarship and Student Denver. Loan Fund Committees. Miss Shorb also contributed to professional journals and was a member of other professional and library Medical Librarian Internship associations. The National Institutes of Health Library is State University of New York Library offering a third Medical Librarian Internship School Accredited Program in 1966-67 for recent graduates with a M.L.S. from an accredited library The American Library Association has re- school. Further requirements are a good cently accredited the School of Library Science reading knowledge of at least one foreign of the State University of New York at Al- language, meeting the current qualification bany. Irving A. Verschoor is Dean. The num- standards of the U.S. Civil Service Com- ber of ALA accredited library schools now mission, and preferably having a scientific totals 37. background. The program consists of an orientation period, rotating work assign- Article Available for National ments, seminars and lectures, attendance at Library Week professional meetings, visits to area libraries, workshops on information storage and re- General Edwin W. Rawlings, Presi- trieval, and pertinent course work in the dent of General Mills, Inc., has pre- NIH Graduate Training Program or in pared a short article entitled "Reading Washington, D. C., area institutions. Further and Libraries-Management Tools" es- information may be obtained from Jess A. pecially for the use of special librarians Martin, Chief, Library Branch, Division of during National Library Week. Ap- Research Services, NIH, Building 10, Room proximately 300 words in length, the 5Nll8, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. Applica- piece is intended for house organs, tion deadline is April 1. company publications, and local news- papers and is open-ended so that an individual librarian or editor may add In Memoriam a story about his organization's special library or reading program. Copies are PAUL JOLOWICZ,Manager of the Second- available upon request from Associa- hand Periodical Department, Walter J. John- tion Headquarters. son, Inc., died suddenly February 10, 1966. - Members in the News was founded at a February 25 conference MRS. HELENKOVACS, Director of the State held at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New University of New York, Downstate Medical York. ARSC will have headquarters in New Center Library, Brooklyn, has been invited York City, and its purpose is to "form a pool to lecture and show a film on the library's . . . to carry out a mutual exchange of services to groups of medical librarians in ideals and materials." One of its first tasks is Turkey, Yugoslavia, Hungary, France, and likely to be the compilation of a directory of England. coIIection holdings. Officers elected were: President, Philip Miller, Chief of the Music MARVINW. MCFARLAND,former Assistant Division, Research Library and Museum of Chief of the Library of Congress' Science the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New and Technology Division, has been ap- York; Vice-president, Carlos B. Hagen, Map pointed Chief. Library, University, Los Angeles; Treasurer, Donald L. Leavitt, Library of Congress; Re- THEODORED. PHILLIPS, formerly Research cording Secretary, Mrs. Paul Jackson, New Librarian at the ASD Research Library, IBM Corp., San Jose, California, has been ap- York Public Library; and Corresponding Sec- retary, Paul T. Jackson, Rodgers and Ham- pointed Manager of that company's Systems merstein Archives of Recorded Sound, Lin- Development Division Library. coln Center Library. LEEW. TRAVEN,formerly on the staff of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center Library, Letters to the Editor IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York, has ANOTHERAEC INFORMATIONANALYSIS been appointed Chief Librarian at the Sin- CENTER clair Oil Corporation, New York City, suc- The compilation of information centers and ceeding J. G. RAYMOND,who has retired. special libraries in your Special Libraries jour- nal has just come to my attention. While the . Public Library of the High Seas article is generally complete and informative The American Merchant Marine Library As- on AEC and DOD centers, there is one gross sociation again asks that its "Public Library omission, i.e., the Nuclear Safety Information of the High Seas" be remembered with con- Center which has been in operation since 1963. tributions of books and funds. Books can be I am enclosing one of our brochures and in- formation on our center so that you may see sent to AMML offices in Boston, San Fran- what was overlooked. cisco, New Orleans, New York, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Norfolk, and Seattle. J. R. BUCHANAN,Assistant Director Nuclear Safety Information Center Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 Associate Membership in IFLA/FIAB The International Federation of Library As- EDITOR'SNOTE: This omission is greatly re- sociations has instituted the grade of Asso- gretted, but to complete the record, data com- ciate membership to make it possible for li- parable to that covered in the original article braries, bibliographical institutes, schools of are given below. librarianship, and other information-oriented organizations and companies to become mem- Nuclear Safety Information Center bers. Associate members would receive all P.O. Box Y, Oak Ridge National Laboratory IFLA publications including the Proceedings Cak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 of the Council of IFLA. Dues for this class Telephone: 615-483-8611,X 3-7253 of membership are $35 a year. Further infor- Director: William B. Cottrell mation is available from the Secretariat, 13 AEC COGNIZANCE Vine Court Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Division of Reactor Development & Technology Division of Technical Information New Librarians Association MIssIoN Serves the nuclear community by evaluating The Association for Recorded Sound CoIIec- and disseminating safety information relevant tions, a national organization of archivists, to the design and operation of nuclear facil- curators, and collectors of sound recordings, ities. SERVICES While I am sure you will agree that these Provides references to documents and current are good sound logical answers to the trying research and development projects situation, it seems that there could be more Compiles data and state-of-the-art reviews to this problem than appears on the surface. upon request Further, there are answers needed to other Weekly SDI program questions that arise that were not covered in Provides technical consultant services the problem. Questions like "How old is Vi- USERQUALIFICATIONS ola?", "What kind of shape (36-22-36, etc.) Services available without charge to govern- is she in?", "Did Roger have a normal child- ment agencies, research and educational insti- hood?", "Where did he learn such language as tutions, and the nuclear industry 'tarnation'-from a campus demonstration?", PROFESSIONAI.STAFF "Could it be that our pouting pretty is really a plant from 'Playboy' working her way to 1 manager, 1% information specialists, 13 bunny-hood?", "Maybe Roger is really a part-time technical specialists schizophrenic-paranoid whose troubles stem PUBLICATIONS from -a sheltered childhood by a covetous Quarterly indexed, computer-produced bibliog- mother." raphy of Center's accessions I am sure that with the answers to these Ntlclear Sdfety, quarterly questions, we could leave the additional needed facts to determine the complete solution to the situation. Upon receipt and review of a thoroughly Any other problems? water-logged December 1965 issue of Special Libraries (precipitated by a totally unexpected VICTORJ. M~CHEL,JR., Supervisor California shower that caught the mailman Autonetics Division, North American with his umbrella down), I stumbled upon Aviation, Inc., Anaheim, California the interesting problem of Roger Smith and Viola ("Is This a Problem?" page 726). Nor- mally, the first reaction would be to consider I am happy to be able to supply the follow- this from a management development view- ing untrustworthy information: point, that is, discipline, organizational struc- During a highly informal colloquium fol- ture, employee motivation, service to the pa- lowing a pre-symposium workshop being held trons, etc., but on second reading, I felt there in conjunction with a technical seminar con- was something much more deeply rooted that gress (session I) in Philadelphia last year, a was creating the problem. small group of Big Brass (and some near-miss To assist me in the investigation and analy- alloys) from the cataloging and acquisition sis, I solicited the aid of eight key staff mem- departments of a choice selection of major li- bers for their evaluation of the problem (to braries in the East decided that their interests, be accomplished on their own time as part of particularly in the blossoming field of com- our own management development program). puter applications, were being inadequately After unanimously agreeing that I had once met by any of the existing professional socie- again flipped my lid, they gleefully accepted ties. (Let the grammarians in the audience the challenge and in a very sincere business- parse that sentence!) These wags, therefore, like manner came up with the following sug- determined on the spot to form a new organi- gestions: zation to be known as the National Institute 1. Viola should "shape up or ship out" (3 of Technical Processers, Information Consult- times) ants, Keyword Experts, & Retrieval Specialists. 2. Lack of maturity on the part of Viola (3 Fully cognizant of the acronymistic implica- times) tions of their new association, the NITPICK- 3. Roger should not have lost his temper (5 ERS decreed that standards for membership times) shall be rigidly upheld and consist solely of 4. Problem should have been discussed im- willingness to haggle over minutia, whether mediately (3 times) meaningful or not. 5. Personal conversations in library should not Very little else is known about the new as- interfere with business (2 times) sociation except that it plans to hold meetings 6. When Senior V.P. calls, all hands should concurrently with all future meetings of ADI, jump (Good management potential here) SLA, and ALA. 7. Roger should have used a bullwhip to get S. K. CABEEN desired results (Sadistic, but sometimes ef- Engineering Societies Library fective) New York City Oftbe Press. , Book Reviews against common pitfalls. He stresses that each HOLMAN,William R. Library Publications. library publication should have a definite ob- San Francisco: Roger Beacham, Publisher, 406 jective and that all the considerations involved in its preparation-choice of type, paper, cost, Pacheco St., 1965. viii, 67 p.; folio, 10% x 15. $28.50; set of illustrated clip sheets, and 30 design, method of printing-should contribute illustrated inserts in pocket: $16.50; sold only to fulfilling that objective. Another point made as a unit, $45 (Not available through book- throughout is that a well printed and designed item need cost no more than a mediocre piece. stores or jobbers) The final chapter, "Printing on a Budget," Last September the R. R. Bowker Company recommends ways to save money on paper, published Marshall Lee's Bookmaking: The II- typesetting, and illustrations. Lustrdted Guide to Design and Prodaction, a Special librarians should be particularly in- lavishly illustrated and highly informative trigued by the description of the versatility tome that deserves many accolades for its own of offset duplicators as a printing medium, outstanding bookmaking, design, and manu- since so many of them have access to this facture. Mr. Lee, one of the top book designers equipment in their parent organizations. They and production specialists in the United States, may also be surprised to learn how compara- presented in detail the step-by-step creative tively simple it is to add illustrations to their and technical processes involved in preparing publications by reproducing line cuts, photo- attractive, readable books and jackets, and his graphs, and other graphic materials appearing work will surely be a bible to graphic artists, in the books, archives, or files of their own li- production departments, editors, and others braries (providing, of course, that the original actively concerned with the niceties of book is not currently protected by copyright). publishing. The selected bibliography and thoughtful Now William R. Holman and his wife, foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell should also Barbara, have given librarians what Marshall be mentioned. Lee gave the publishing industry-an instruc- It is unfortunate that Library Pub1ication.r tive, beautifully illustrated presentation of the was printed in a limited edition-although methods and techniques of creating tasteful this is understandable in view of the superior booklists, announcements, handbooks, and hand labor required in its production-for it other library publications. The Holmans-he merits wide distribution. Any librarian seri- is City Librarian of the San Francisco Public ously interested in improving the quality of Library, she is a designer, and they both are his booklists and printed materials would be private printers in their leisure time-have had well advised to order the volume immediately long experience with the problems and pleas- before copies are snatched up by collectors. ures of library publishing, and their book is a The Holman's book will be a handsome and reflection of their belief that library publica- substantive addition to any library collection. tions can compete with mass media by utilizing mla good design principles, pleasing type, appropri- EDITOR'SNOTE: It is a pleasure to report that ate paper, and controlled printing. Indeed, the February 1966 issue of Wilson Library Bul- their volume is such an exquisite example of letin contains an offset facsimile reprint of the fine bookmaking-hand printed, hand bound, chapter "Simplicity in Design" from Librur~ tipped in samples, lovely warm hand-marbled Publications. Those who cannot purchase the paper over board covers-that one tends to re- complete volume can now sample the spirit, good gard it as a work of art instead of a book to be sense, clear writing, and tasteful design of the read and studied. original. It deserves to be read and studied, however, by any librarian who uses the printed word to FOSKETT,Douglas J. Science, Hmaanism and publicize the services and resources of his li- Libraries. New York: Hafner Publishing Co., brary. In non-technical language Mr. Holman 1964. 246 p. $4.50 discusses the elements of good design, various This collection of articles and speeches, methods of printing, and the use of different largely not familiar to readers in the United type faces, colors, and papers to achieve cer- States, represents the thinking of the author tain effects. He draws freely from his own in three areas primarily: 1) classification, espe- broad experience, gives some historical back- cially faceted classification; 2) reference service ground where appropriate, and offers many and documentation for special libraries, specif- practical suggestions as well as warnings ically in the humanities and social sciences; and 3) in the first and final chapters, his con- on Ranganathan, depart in substantial ways cerns with communication between the scientist from his Colon classification. Recognizing the and society. If one has had an earlier acquaint- need for a universal faceted scheme, this ance with Foskett, this book will not surprise. group's advocacy of objective research into He is a literate man who writes with style. classification on a cooperative basis has not There is some repetition of his ideas, as there been supported by public or other funds in is likely to be in a collection of this kind. These Britain. Foskett misses no opportunity to be essays were directed originally to a particular critical of our enslavement to Dewey and audience related to the time and locus of de- Library of Congress in the TJnited States, livery or publication. Regrettably they are not where it has been difficult even to keep alive dated, nor is the original source usually in- meetings of an American classification study dicated. Yet the thread of his basic arguments group. It seems appropriate to ask why not is continuous. fundamental support of research into classifica- In the first and last chapters there is his tion in the United States and to suggest that, preoccupation with the communication of sci- with the transfer of the Special Libraries Asso- entific research. The blame for failure to com- ciation Special Classification Center to Western municate in large measure can be laid to the Reserve University, this question might be scientist and to the fragmentation of scientific more than academic. research. This has been a concern rather more Foskett's miscellanea include a chapter on historic than the Snow-Leavis arguments and national lending libraries and their functions can be traced to the preference for the ver- and one on the contributions of Marc-Antoine nacular over Latin in Newton's day, as one Jullien to a classification of the sciences, to example. Because T. H. Huxley sought style methods of documentation, and to the estab- in scientific writing, popularizing science with lishment of public libraries. Since little regard- literary merit, he is quoted with admiration as ing Jullien exists in the English language, this a further example. This essay in itself is a chapter is an extremely interesting one. There literary essay. The librarian's attitude toward are often excellent bibliographies at the con- reference service as ". . . humanism in prac- clusion of these essays, and many of them tice" also advocates the imperative to com- could be used to advantage as collateral read- municate. The author believes librarians and ing in courses in the literature of the sciences special libraries come closer to it because of the and in comparative classification. habits of giving intensive service with full ex- PHOEBEF. HAYES,Director ploitation of accessible resources. He refers to Bibliographical Center for Research, Inc. an intriguing suggestion-that grants to special c/o Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado libraries would inject them into full participa- tion in a national library plan. Foskett finds Library Legislation Issue the problems of communication no less acute in The February 1966 ALA Bulletin is a special documentation of the humanities and the social issue on federal legislation affecting libraries. sciences and calls for more research here. Seven articles, written by members of the staff The eight out of the 18 chapters devoted to of the Library Services Branch and the Divi- classification provide the most solid contribu- sion of Plans and Supplementary Centers of tion of this book. Foskett's arguments are the Office of Education and the Library of simple: I) classification must be a vehicle of Congress, explain federal legislation, tell how communication that identifies with, not isolates to obtain federal assistance, and describe spe- from, reference service; 2) to accommodate cific programs already developed. Preprints are new ideas and the complex interrelationships available in single copies from the Library of these ideas, hierarchical classification Services Branch or the ALA Washington office, schemes will not do; 3) the solution is faceted The Coronet, 200 C Street, SE, Washington, classification because ". . . it seeks to analyze D. C. 20003. Quantity orders should be sent to the phenomena that occur in nature into sets of ALA, with prepayment and self-addressed homogeneous categories or 'facets' and to list mailing label. Costs are $2.50 for 25 copies; in each category the names of the things, proc- $9.50 for 100. esses, and so on, that are appropriate to that category. . . ." Automation Conference Proceedings These chapters review the history and in- The Purdue University Libraries and the adequacies of the hierarchical schemes, offer a Indiana Chapters of Special Libraries Associa- critique of Ranganathan, and proceed to re- tion and American Documentation Institute, view the work of the British classification Re- sponsors of "Automation in the Library- search Group whose members since 1952 have When, Where, and How," October 2-3, 1964, been constructing schemes which, while based have recently published the papers from the meeting under the same title. They include tronically controlled Recordak film readers. - Basic Computer Information for Librarians, The third pattern uses a Kodamatic Indexer, Automated Procedures at Purdue and Indiana whose code lines, as the film is advanced in University Libraries, Attitudes and Hopes the reader, change in position in relation to the Where Automation Is Concerned, Thermo- index scribed on the fixed Kodamatic Indexer physical Properties Research Center, and Oper- code-scale at the edge of the reader-screen. ations Research in the Library. The proceed- When the code-line positions on the film in- ings may be purchased for $2.50 from Mrs. tersect with the desired index number on the - Theodora Andrews, Pharmacy Librarian, Pur- fixed code-scale, the searcher needs only to due University, Lafayette, Indiana 47907. locate the individual image of the page con- Make checks payable to Indiana Chapter, SLA. taining the needed abstract. Index to Insurance Journals Journal Notes Insurance Periodicals Index for the period Jan- uary-June 1965, a cumulation of the index COMPUTERSAND BIOMEDICALRESEARCH, a published monthly in Insurance, has been pub- quarterly covering the application of computers lished by the SLA Insurance Division. Ap- to life sciences research, is planned by Aca- proximately 2,000 entries, with the selected demic Press. A journal of original research as inclusion of articles, from 31 periodicals are well as an information exchange medium is listed under appropriate subject headings. The envisioned. Index, which is issued as a supplement to the FORTHCOMINGBOOKS is the R. R. Bowker 1964 Index, is being distributed free to the Company's new bimonthly listing of United purchasers of the 1964 edition. The Index and States general, technical, scientific, and juvenile this supplement can be purchased for $7, pre- books. Volume one covers the period January paid, to SLA Insurance Division, P.O. Box through May 1966. Books are listed by title 406, Back Bay Annex, Boston 021 17. and author, and the publication combines and replaces Publishers' Weekly's six index sec- Directory of Montreal Special Libraries tions, although PW will continue to index all The SLA Montreal Chapter has recently pub- books appearing in its special announcement - lished the seventh edition of Directory of issues. Each issue of Fortbroming Books will Special Libraries in Montreal. Libraries of 160 update the previous one. Yearly subscriptions companies, organizations, and universities (not are available from the publisher at $12. schools) are listed alphabetically giving the address, telephone number, name of librarian, THE PEACOCKREVIEWER, a monthly "literary and special collections. Personnel and subject magazine devoted to reviews and commentary indexes as well as a list of large out-of-town concerning the work of books and authors," libraries in Ottawa, Kingston, Washington, is published by Peacock Press, Berkeley, Cali- D. C., and Burlington, Vermont, are included. fornia. Cost of a yearly subscription is $5; two Cost to members is $2; nonmembers, $2.50. years, $9; three years, $13; single copy 60 cents. Orders should be sent to Alice Kudo, Financial Foreign rates, including Canada and Mexico, Times of Canada, P.O. Box 6160, Montreal 1, are $G a year. Order from P.O. Box 117, Hay- with checks payable to Montreal Chapter, SLA. ward, California. CA on Microfilm Patents on Microfilm Beginning with the January 1966 issue, Chem- The Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and ical Abstracts, published by Chemical Abstracts Technical Information is selling l6mm micro- Service, a division of the American Chemical film of all new patents issued by the United Society, is available on 16mm microfilm on a States Patent Office beginning with the Jan- subscription basis. Subscribers will receive ab- uary 4 issue of Oficial Gazette. There will be stracts from 1907 to the present in film maga- an estimated 1,260 patents a week, and distri- zines or on 100-foot spools. Volumes 1-61 bution to subscribers will be in the form of (1964) of CA, which amount to approximately 100-foot reels, thus making a saving in buying, 330,000 8% s 11 pages, are condensed to 253 storing, and binding copies of the patents. The magazines or reels of 100 foot-long microfilm. same patents ordered in printed form would The entire CA microfilm library takes up only cost $33,500 a year. The annual subscription a few drawers of a standard desk or less than price is $830; $850 for foreign mailing; $920 two drawers of a six-drawer microfilm file for foreign air mailing. Orders with payment cabinet. Three indexing patterns are used to should be sent to: Clearinghouse (Code find an abstract on microfilm, two of which 410.14), U.S. Department of Commerce, provide for push-button retrieval with elec- Springfield, Virginia 22 15 1. Change in Availability of IBM Booklet "The purpose for this taxonomy is to provide The publication, The IBAl 870 Library Admin- the student with a useful framework for order- utratrz3e Processing System for Federal Gor- ing the components of the literature. . . . Conse- quently the areas and works innumerated (sp.?) ernment Libraries and Special Information Re- are merely suggestive." positories, as listed on page 68-9 in the Janu- KUJAWSKI, Wilma F., comp. Bibliogvaphy of ary 1966 Special Librdries, may be obtained Vitamia E, 1960-1964, vol. vi. Rochester, N. Y.: from the IBM office located at 220 Church Distillation Products Industries, 1965. unpaged Street, New York 10022. The cost is 75 cents, pap. Apply. and the publication number is E 50-0029. Computer-produced listing of 1,884 papers ar- ranged under broad subject headings. Author and SLA Authors subject indexes. ADKINSON,Burton W. Libraries: Cooperation or MUNDLE,George F., comp. Industrial Relations Chaos. In First Governor's Library Conference, Bibliographies; A Check-List (Bibliographic Con- Albany, New York: June 24-25, 1965, p. 34-7. tributions No. 8). Champaign, Ill.: University of DOBLER,Lavinia J. The Dobler World Directory Illinois, Institute of Labor Relations, 1965. iii, oj Youth Periodicals, 8 vols. New York: Schulte 54 p. pap. mimeo. $1. Publishing Co., 1966. xi, 37 p. Focus is on bibliographies published separately HAVLIK,Robert J. Federal Assistance to Special in the United States and dealing with American Libraries. ALA Bulletin, vol. 60, no. 2, Februaq industrial relations. Single items are chronologi- 1966, p. 30-2. cally arranged from 1893-1965; series items, LEONARD,Ruth S. Laura Catherine Colin. Library alphabetically. Author, title and subject indexes. Re.rources and Technical Seri'ices, vol. 9, no. 4, OLIVE, Betsy Ann. Management: A Subject List- Fall 1965, p. 389-91. ing of Recommended Books, Pamphlets and Jour- PIZER,Irwin H. A Mechanized Circulation System. nals. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University, Graduate College and Research Libraries, vol. 27, no. 1, School of Business and Public Administration, January 1966, p. 5-12. 1965. viii, 222 p. pap. $4.50. RICHMOND,Phyllis A. Systems Evaluation by Com- Books and pamphlets section lists 4,281 refer- parison Testing. College and Research Libraries, ences arranged by subject. List of periodicals; au- vol. 27, no. 1, January 1966, p. 23-30. thor index. SHERA,J. H. The Library as an Agency of Social PRAKKEN,Sarah L., ed. Books in Print: An au- Communication. Joufrtal of Documentation, vol. thor-title-series index to the Publishers' Trade 11. no. 4, December 1965, p. 241-3. List Annual, 1965. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., RECENT REFERENCES 1965. xxviii, 2,663 p. $18. (L. C. 4-12648) Bibliographic Tools 18th annual edition. Lists approximately 185,- 000 titles available from 1,600 American pub- HALLOU, Eleanore F. Refrrence Buuh (PACAF lishers. Basic Bibliographies for Base Libraries). San Francisco: 1965. ix, 195 p. pap. spiral binding. . Subject Guide to Books in Print: An In- Apply. (Available from Commander-in-Chief, Pa- dex to the Publishers' Trade List Annual, 196S, cific Air Forces, ATTN: DPSR, Command Li- 9th ed. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1965. brarian, APO San Francisco 96553.) xxviii, 2,249 p. $17.50. (L. C. 4-12648) An annotated list of selected reference books Analyzes some 145,000 books under 25,000 ttj aid Air Force librarians in building basic col- headings with 35,000 cross-references. Fiction, lections. Supersedes PACAF Bibliography, Refer- poetry, and drama are usually omitted. rim Books, dated 1 February 1963. Author-title Select Bibliography: Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, index. Latin America: Supplement 1965. New York: DOUMANI,George A., ed. Antarctic Bihliograph?, American Universities Field Staff, Inc., 366 Madi- vol. 1. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, son Ave., 1965. 82 p. pap. $2.00. (L. C. 60-10482) 1965. vii, 506 p. $4.25. (L. C. 65-61825) (Avail- Third biennial supplement to the 1960 guide able from Government Printing Office.) adds over 500 titles, mostly in English, published Citations and abstracts (in English) of 2,000 between June 1963 and June 1965. Most entries books and articles published in 30 countries be- are annotated and keyed to indicate relative use- tween 1962 and 1964, grouped in 13 major subject fulness to college libraries. Author, title index. categories with each entry assigned a Univer- SWORAKOWSKI,Witold S. The Communist Inter- sal Decimal Classification number. Keyed to indi- national and Its Front Organizations: A Research cate holdings of Library of Congress, eight other Guide and Checklist of Holdings in American and government agencies, and the American Geo- European Libraries (Hoover Institution Biblio- graphical Society. Indexed by author, subject. graphical Series: XXI) . Stanford, Cal.: Hoover place, and grantee. Sponsored by the National Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1965. Science Foundation. 493 p. pap. $10. (L. C. 65-12622) HARMON,Robert B. Political Science: A Biblio- More than 2,300 titles of books and pamphlets paphical Guide to the Literature. New York: are listed, written in 22 Western and Slavic lan- Scarecrow Press. 1965. 388 p. $8.75. (L. C. guages, held in 44 American and four European 65-13557) libraries. Detailed name and subject index. Urban Renewal; A Selected Annotated Bibliog- plex printing history of about 900 editions and raphy (Bibliography Series #8). Washington, variants of some 360 Defoe titles. Standard dic- D. C.: National Association of Home Builders, tionary arrangement. National Housing Center Library, 1965. 131 p. Coc~x,A,, comp. Cafalogue Collectif Belge ei pap. spiral binding. $5.00. Luxembourgeois des PPriodiques Etrangers en Its 1,500 references covers, in separate sections, Couvs de Publication, 2 vols. Brussels: Biblio- bibliographies, directories, books and articles (ar- theque Royal de Belgique, 1965. approx. 1,982 p. ranged by state, region, foreign), legal docu- $48. ments, congressional documents, and court cases Complete bibliographic information on 48,000 (arranged by state). Author index. current periodicals. including- advances, Fort- WALKER,Audrey A,, comp. The Rhodesias and schritte, and other non-monographic materials, Nyasaland: A Guide to Oficial Publications. indicating their location in more than 400 Belgian Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1965. and Luxemburgian libraries and documentation xv, 285 p. pap. $1.50. L. C. 65-60089) (Avail- and information centers. able from Government Printing Office) LIBRARYOF CONGRESS,comp. The National Un- Tenth in the Library's series of guides to docu- ion Catalog of Manuscript Collections, 1963-1964. ments of African governments. Includes 1,889 Washington, D. C., 1965. approx. 500 p. $10. entries covering the period 1889 to 1963. Loca- (L. C. 62-17486) (Available from Card Divi- tions in American libraries reporting to the Na- sion, Library of Congress Building 159, Navy tional Union Catalog or sources of identification Yard Annex, Washington, D. C. 20541.) are cited for all entries. Author and subject This third volume in the Library's manuscript indexes. collection catalog series describes 2,050 manu- WITHERELL,Julian W., comp. llladagascar and script collections in 98 repositories. Together with Adjacent Islands; A Guide to Official Publica- the first two volumes, covering entries prepared tions. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1959-1962, the published catalog now describes 1965. xiii, 58 p. pap. 406. (L. C. 65-61703) 14,374 collections in 425 repositories in 47 states. (Available from Government Printing Office) Index (235 p.) ; guide to entries by repository. The 11th in the Library's series of guides to PIERCY, Esther J. Comn~onsemeCataloging: A documents of African governments. Contains 927 Manual for the Organization of Books and Other entries terminating for Madagascar with October Materials in School and Small Public Libraries. 1958, date of the establishment of the Malagasy New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1965. 223 p. Republic; for the other islands, with March 1964. illus. (L. C. 65-24135) Location in American libraries reporting to the Designed as a practical manual for the begin- National Union Catalog or sources for identifica- ning cataloger, it includes the physical prepara- tion are cited for all entries. Author-subject in- tion of the book for library use as well. Con- dex. forms with the best practices developed in the YATES, B. How to Find Out about Physics: A profession over the past 20 years. Seven-page Guide to Sources of Information Arranged by the bibliography. Decimal Classification (The Commonwealth and Dictionaries International Library, Libraries and Technical In- Dictionary of National Bibliography: Correctiom formation Division). Oxford: Pergamon Press, and Additions. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1966. 1965. x, 175 p. pap. illus. $2.95. (L. C. 65- - -- Prepublication price: $20, U. S. and British Isles: 25338) $32, elsewhere. After July 31, 1966: $25, U. S. Since this guide to information sources of and British Isles; $27.50, elsewhere (5% dis- physics is intended for a somewhat diffuse mar- count on prepaid prepublication orders). ket-librarians, physicists, students, and the gen- Estimated 1,300 entries in alphabetic order eral public-its selections are largely indicative cumulated from "Corrections and Additions" to only of material published, in the main, prior to the Dictionary, which have appeared in the Bul- 1963. Scholarships, awards, opportunities for letin of the Institute of Historical Research, Uni- study abroad, and guides to careers in physics, the versity of London, 1923-1963. latter current and detailed only for the United Kingdom, are covered in an introductory chapter. GEDDIE,William, ed. Chambers's Twentieth Cen- Covers Dewey classes 530 and 548. Subject-title- tury Dictionary. New York: Hawthorn Books. organization index. 1965. xii, 1,396 p. $5.50. (L. C. 65-22425) American edition of a British dictionary. 150,- Catalogs and Cataloging 000 references. Strong on literary words (Shake- BOSTON PUBLICLIBRARY. Catalog of the Defoe speare, the Bible, Spenser, Milton, Scott, Burns). Collection. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1965. Pre- Some inconsistency with Americanisms (gives publication price $15, U. S.; $16.50 elsewhere; "honour" and "honor," but "labour," "catalogue," after July 31, 1966, $19, U. S.; $20.90 elsewhere. and "humour" only). (5% discount allowed on prepaid, prepublica- MONKHOUSE,F. J. A Dictionary of Geographj. tion orders.) Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1965. viii, 344 The 1,800 cards in this catalog of the world's p. illus. $7.95. (L. C. 65-20516) second largest collection of works by and relating American edition of a British work. 3,400 en- to Daniel Defoe analyze or enumerate the com- tries with 244 illustrative diagrams. Well cross- referenced; careful attention to differences in commensurate with experience. Apply to Dr. American and British usage. W. B. Spaulding, Associate Dean, Faculty of RICCI,Julio, comp. Elsrcirr's Banking Dictionarj. Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, On- tario. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., 1966. Approx. 250 p. $14. CHIEF-Government Publications Department. Sal- English/American (with definitions) and equiv- ary range $8,300-$10,000. Experience with docu- alents in French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and ments or related materials required. Collection of Current 82,000 documents: federal, international, local. German. Indexed by non-English terms. Plans call for Department to become a social sci- and outmoded banking terms as well as those from ence reference and materials center. Excellent pro- economics used in banking have been included. fessional opportunity in expanding situation; new VAUGHAN,F. and M. Clifford, comps. Glos.rary space planned for next year. Academic status, 24 of Economic Terms. New York: American Else- working days vacation, liberal benefits. Scenic vier Publishing Co., 1966. Approx. 210 p. $12. region midway between mountain resorts and sea- shore. Write: R. P. Lang, Acting University Li- English/American, French, German, Russian- brarian, University of California Library, River- 1904 entries. It "comprises general industrial and side. California. labor economics, and applied micro-economic analysis. . . . Terms of an accounting, legal and DIRECTOR-Law and Documents Division, Librar- banking nature are included only when directly ian IV. MLS degree from ALA accredited library school plus five years experience in appropriate related." fields-one year in administrative capacity. Salary to $10,440. Challenging opportunity in fast grow- ing state near university city of Reno, Lake Tahoe, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING and historic Cornstock Lode country. Within 5 Positions open and wanteW0 rents pn line; hours driving time from the Bay area. Apply to: minimum chmge $1 .SO. Otber classifieds-75 rmtJ Mildred J. Heyer, State Librarian, Nevada State a line; $2.23 minimum. Copy must be received by Library, Carson Citv. Nevada 89701. renth of month preceding month of publication. INTERNATIONALINFORMATION CENTER of large - - - chemical company requires reference librarian to POSITIONS OPEN collect and organize information, answer questions, ----- and help develop global information center of serv- ASSISTANTLIBRARIAN-For reference. Opportunity ice to the whole company. Qualifications: chemical to work with automation. This position carries the and business background, experience in indexing, responsibility for selection of articles for "The good personality; knowledge of German and/or Weekly List of Articles on Neoplasms" and plan- Spanish desirable. Starting salary: $6500. Send ning for automation of that list. Some reference resume to J. U. Crampton, Placement Supervisor, work. For further information write: Personnel Dow Chemical Company (47 Building), Midland, Manager, The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Michigan 48640. Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas 77025. LIBRARIAN-Interestingposition with faculty status in a National League for Nursing accredited di- ASSISTANTLIBRARIAN-N~~~~~ at church-related ploma program with 150 students. Library science liberal arts college beginning September 1. MS. degree and experience required. Liberal salary and in L.S. required. Experience desirable but not personnel policies. Apply to Miss Nancy Howard, required. Twelve month salary begins at $6,500, Assistant Personnel Director, New England Dea- revisable upward depending on experience and coness Hospital, 185 Pilgrim Road, Boston, Massa- qualifications. Good fringe benefits. Apply to chusetts 02215. An equal opportunity employer. Frank J. Anderson, Librarian, Kansas Wesleyan Universitv. Salina. Kansas 67401. MICHIGANTECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSIW-kqui- sitions librarian, archives & special collections li- ASSISTANTLIBRARIAN-Small university art depart- brarian, instructor of library science courses, refer- ment. Splendid opportunity for bright, young li- ence librarian, serials librarian needed for new brary school graduate with MS. to participate in $2 million air-conditioned building to be occupied the building of a first-rate art history library with June 1966. Salary range from $7,200 to $10,200, liberal funds and connected with energetic exhibi- dependent on qualifications and experience. Fac- tion and academic programs. Responsibilities would ulty status, tenure, retirement pension, paid hos- include: reference work, cataloging, some admin- pitalization insurance, 24 days vacation, 12 days istration. Strong interest and training in the hu- sick leave, pleasant living conditions in vacation- manities and foreign languages essential; art his- land area. College library experience preferred tory background desirable. Both candidates with but not essential. Apply to Michael V. &enitsky, and without library experience will be considered. Director, Michigan Technological University Li- Physical quarters very attractive; opportunity to brary, Houghton, Mich. 49931. audit art history courses. Salary: around $6500, depending on qualifications. Please write personal PROFESSIONALLIBRARIAN-M.L.S. degree. At least attention of Mrs. Charles Neu, Librarian, Art De- two or three years experience in a special library. partment, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Training in engineering and/or science preferred. Texas 77006. Librarian capable of administration and organiza- tion of a technical library. Duties would include CHIEF BIO-MEDICALLIBRARIAN-required to ini- reference work and book selection. Applicant tiate and develop a Bio-Medical Division of Mc- should have experience in reference materials in Master University Library. Challenging position scientific fields. Cataloging experience would be with opportunity to have important role in the helpful. Applicant will be given opportunity to proposed new Health Science Complex. Salary develop methods of increasing dissemination of technical information to the staff. Write to Mr. G. H. Clewett, Research and Development Depart- POSITIONS WANTED ment, Union Carbide Corporation, Mining and Metals Division, 4625 Royal Avenue, P.O. Box B.Sc.-Geogfaphy, geology minor; MA. history, 579, Niagara Falls, New York 14302. education mlnor; engineering chemistry, physics, mathematics; some clmpetence French, German. RESEARCHSPECIALIST-College graduate with ma- Russian, Spanish; extensive experience includes jor course work in political science or public ad- military procurement, supply, logistics; heavy con- ministration. Graduate degree desirable. Three struction ; aerospace ; Foreign Service; responsible years of progressively responsible experience in supervisory administration. Age 48, single, com- research methods and related report writing re- pleting MALS June. Please advise location and ap- quired. Some public or private administrative ex- proximate salary range. Write Box C 32. perience useful. Salary $625 to $715 depending on -.------experience. Send applications to: Oregon State GEOLOGYINFORMATION SCIENTIST-F~~~~~. B.S. Library, Salem, Oregon 9731 0. & M.A. degrees. Training in geology; experience as geologist in various phases in industry, univer- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYLIBRARIAN-For eS- sity, and government. M.S.L.S. and four years ex- tablished university library in Southwest. Respon- perience as university geology librarian. Desires sibility for administration of an engineering branch position as technical information specialist, per- library and two other science branches, as well as forming literature searches, preparing bibliogra- engineering reference service, and over-all super- phies, and related activities. Currently employed. vision of science and technical book selection for Write Box C 30. all system libraries. Activities focus on preparation for centralization of all science and technical collec- LIBRARIAN-M.A. librarianship, June 1966; B.A. tions in a new building to be completed in two anthropology ; Master's degree. education, Har- years. M.L.S. required, and science degree pre- vard. Knowledge life sciences. Two years' experi- ferred, but applicable experience may be substi- ence. Special/academic library, Boston area or tuted. Send complete resume including salary in- Southwest preferred. Good references. Write Box formation to Box C 26. C 34. SCIENCEDIVISION LIBRARIAN-For rapidly grow- SPECIALLIBRARIAN-Male. B.A., M.L.S. Experi- ing collection and curriculum. Offered: $6,504- enced in reference and acquisitions in technical 8,004 (depending on education and experience), library. Fair reading knowledge of French. Desires excellent fringe benefits-Blue Cross, life insur- position in southwest but will consider other areas. Available early July. 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