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Vol. 11 JANUARY, I 920 No. I

Special Libraries in the Enlarged Program BY J. 1-1. FRIEDEL Member of the Committee on Enlarged Program, Represetlting the Special Libraries Association

The question of our relations with the this as n victory; but we are not particu- American L~braryAssociation is the imgor- larly proud of this victory. Refusal of the tant matter before us at the moment. The Committee to give us membership where our question itself is so vital that in a manner interest was so vitally concerned was a it affects the future of the Special Libraries denial of justice which we are naturally Association and in a degree touches its very pleased to see remedied. It was not a pleas- existence. More important still, it affects ant situation while it lasted, but me vitally the welfare of the country's indus- congratulate ourselves that being in the trial and technical libraries, whether con- right we did not compromise nor waver. nected with private manufacturing estab- Bnclc-bone won for us, aud we may hold our lishments, with government-owned plants or heads high because, we alone stood as we with public Institutions, 'such as public libra- did and where we did. On the other hand, ries. we may congratulate the Committee on an- The American Library Association has in larged Program that flnding itself in the its Enlarged Program given conalderation to wrong, it did not hesitate to reverse its po- buainess libraries and proposes to set aside sition and recommend the addition of a rep- certain funds to be raised for their further resentative of our own and the other asso- ctxtension and development. ciations to its membership. Such a reversal Upon the repeated protest of the Special i~ never a pleasant situation, but it, too, in- Libraries Association that the A. L. A. was dicates character. Let us not overlook that. not the agency to do this work because it On December 12, 1919, at its meeting fn knew nothing of the work and problems of Boston, Mass., the Executive Board of the the business libraries, and upon our further Special Libraries Association foreseeing protest that we would not be compromised that the A L. A, must shortly see matters in any plan in which we had not been con- in the same light as itself, voted that in the sulted and offered an opportunity of fair and event of the Special Libraries Association open hearing, the Co,tnmittee on Enlarged being asked to send an official representa- Program recommended "That th Executive tive to the Committee on nnlarged Program Board of the A. L. A. ask .the f ius amliated that Mr. J. H. l?rfedel, editor-in-chfef 02 associations each to name a representative Rpccial Libraries, editor of the Department to serve on the Committee on Enlarged Pro- of Business Information of 100%-Ti&e Hfi- gram." This recommendation the Executive riency Yagazinc, librarian of the National Board of the A. L. A, endorsed. Industrial Conference Board and a member Thus out of the protest of the Special Li- of the Exeoutive Board of the Special Libra- braries Association, not only we but the ries Association, be its designee. other three amliated associations have The mid-winter meeting of the A. L. A. gained. Wall might we pride ourselves on was held in Chicago, but owing to the short SPECIAL LIBRARIES

notice given, my attendance at this meeting 3. National certifiwtion of librarians was impossible. However, I was present at should be provided for through the or- the meeting of the Committee on Enlarged ganization of a National Certification or Program in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Jan. 17, 1920. Examining Board which would grant As a result of the Chicago meeting the certificates in various grades to ex- Enlarged Program has undergone consider- perienced librarians after examination able revision, Below is a reprint of the and without examination to those hold- summary of the program as it is at present. ing diplomas from accredited library I wish particularly to direct the attention of schools. members of the Special Libraries Associa- 4. The American Library Association tion to that part of the program under the should endeavor to increase the salaries head of C-5 Also in reading this, it should and itnprove the working conditions of be remembered that the program is still ten- librarians by bringing facts, statistics, tative and that further changes may be reeolutions and arguments directly and made as a result of further study and recom- repeatedly to the attention of those re mendation sponsible for the support of libraries.

SUMlMARY B. PUBLIEIIINQACTI~ITI~ mD TIIE PROMO- Proposed Actitvities of the A. L. A. TIOX OF THE INTELLIQENTUSE OF PRINT. PART I. 1. It is proposed that the publishing activ- It is proposed that the American Library ities of the Association be placed in tho Association, working through existing hands of one competent person, under library agencies as far as possible, extend supervision, who would give full time to its present scope to include the activities the future developrncnt and extension of indicated below. the publishing activities. 2. The American Library Association THE DEVELOPMENTAXD ~VAXCJ!IMEKT OF should undertake the publication of TIJX LI~RARYPI

education active in this country and en- deavor to cooperate with them in sug- gesting to readers and students greater 9. L'ul.openn H~adquar.tersat Paris should use of books and libraries. be mainlamed to encourage interchange Of illfornlatiun about libraries between European countries and America. This will also serve as a public library for 1. A comprehensive szhrvey should he made American residents and others in Paris. to find out where general a11d special LO. Special attention should be given to the librarjes stand so that future develop- devclo~nientof juvenile depu~tmenlsin ment may be wisely directed. libraries and the promotion of good read- 2. Libraly Emtensio?~- When requested ing nnlong childrea. practical aid shotrld be given in promot- 11. A Del~a~twtentoJ InPov~t~alio~tcmd Ed+ ing the further development of libraries, cation should be responsible for the pro- in obtaining desirable legislation provid- mulgation of the lihrary idea through ing especially f01- more adequate SUP- megaxines, newspapers, leaflets, exhihits port of libraries; for establishing library ant1 in other legitimate ways co~nn~issionsiu states without them; for cstablislling county libraries to meet the need of the rural population. A70te.--The service indicated in paragraph 3, ridvicc through fleld workers and from riu~nber9 in and in all paragraphs in heaclquarters should be given upon re- C D, is now being rendered as Library War Serv- quest on all phases of library develop- ice (with nloney received fro111 the United ment and practice, including tho estab. Wnr Work Cunds, the use of which is limited lishing and reorganizing of libraries and to these sgeciflc purposes), and will be con- the erection of library buildings. tinued an such for perhaps one year. As 4. Tho Asnociation, in cooperation with soon as possible, this work should be re- other educational organizations, should lea~ed to local libraries, library commis- work for more adequate provision for sions, the government, or other agpropriate university, collep?, normal scAooZ and agencies. But the A. L. A, may have to con- pubtic school libraries. tinue solne features beyond 1920 in order 5. In cooperation with the Special Libra- to 11ut them on an adequate, permanent basis, ries Association, practical aid should be and so they are included as a part of the given to business concerns in tho organ- ICnlargerl program. ization of speclal libl-arks. Further cle- velogment of technical and busi?zess de- 1. The U?tited States Shzgpinu Boa?% an& partments in public libraries should a160 0th~~mcrchant mnl-ine vesseZs wlll be be fostered. provided with collections of books and with a service that will make speciflc 6. Advice should bc given to penal, cot'rec- boolrs available when and where they tionnl and chu1ila8le imtitutions wish- are needed. ing to establish libraries, where existing library agencies cannot do this. 2. Ex-service man who want books far study will be suppliecl ' with them 7, Education in citiaensh.lp and American through local library agencies, or, when ideals ~houldbe further encouraged in necessary, by direct loans. libraries through cooperation with schools and other organizations, through 3. Boolcs in Braille grade 11L2 are being exhibits, through the foreign language printed far the use of blind ex-se~vice press and in all other possible Wny6. 'nzen. 8. The Association should do all within its 4. Pu,BPic Health Nervicc Hosgitals and power to enconrage and assist our lmvate hospitals in which there are ex- Canadian fellow-members in the further- service Inen and men from the merchant ance of the project to establish n. marine, etc., will be supplied with boolrs SPECIAL LIBRARIES

when local libraries are unable to meet brary Commissions, and the undersigned as the need. your representative. 5. Coast Guard Btations, Ligkthoz&% aand A prograin for the meeting had previously LigAtships will receive collections of been prepared and the meeting proceeded books unless they are within easy reach in accordance with this. Letters from sev- of local libraries. eral persons endorsing the Enlarged Pro- gram plan were read. The plan for the 6. A few federal iadust?ial plants and other (former) war work industries will two million dollar drive was discussed. This plan is now being formulated and I shall continua for a time to receive limited service, and advice w~llbe glven in the advise you regarding its details when all organization of libraries in those indus- has ,been definitely determined. The dlvis- ion of the country into ten d~strictseach in tries on a permanent basis. charge of a regional director was outlined; flve of these d~rectorships have already It is proposed that a continuous effort be .been filled, the others are still onen. The made to have each phase of the work listed regional directors are to be responsible for in Part 1 taken over and ma~ntainedby the lnalring the drive a success in their dis- ,government or other appropriate agency. tricts. Mr. Hill asked that I suggest any persons for regional directors since he PART 11. wished to have special librarians to take an It is yrol~oseclthat the American Library active part in the drive. Inasmuch as it Association appeal for funds to make pos- did not seem to me that we commit our- sible the carrying out of the activities listed selves 'before knowing where the Committee in Part I. stood on the qnest~onof special libraries, - I suggested that I had no names to offer The l~roblelnbefore us now is, what atti- at the time but that later I might (10 so. tude shall we take? In order that the mem- Several parts of the program, particularly bers of the Association may know definitely those dealing with the establishment of a my own opinion and recommendation, I sub- Eurogean headquarters, aid for rural libra- ries, the work of the Committee on Certifl- mit a copy of my flrst report to the Execu- cation, were considered. In the afternoon tive Board of the S. L. A. the plan of flnancial 'campaign was outlined, 120 Peterborough St., both by Mr. Hill and by those who will have The Fenway, i,t in charge, notably the Publicity Director I3oston, hlass., Jan. 20, 1920. and the Director of the Organization. To Members of the IIlxecutivo Board: The program of the A. L. A. is pretty Herewith I give you my first report as well developed and while still in the tenta- representative of the Special Libraries As- tive stage, is taking flnal form. It has been socitltion on the Enlarged Program Com- modified considerably and at present is in mittee. much more satisfactory form as regards I attended the meeting of the Committees special libraries than it was before. The on Enlarged Prograni in Brooklyn, New plan now is to raise and set aside $150,000 Yorlr, on Saturday, January 17th. There to be spent in cooperation with the Special were present, besides the members of the Libraries Association in furthering the es- Committee as originally constituted-Mr. tablishment of special libraries. I wish to 13111, Mr. Milam, Mr. Brown, and Miss Web- call your attention to Section C, paragraph stei-the representfitives of the four aiRli- 5 of the Summary of Proposed Activities of ated associations, Mr. Hicks of the Colum- the A. L. A, which I enclose. bia University Law Library for the Amer- The practical question is: Do we want ican Association of Law Libraries, Mr. God- to endorse the program in its present fom ard of the Connecticut State Library for the and go out with the A. L. A. in its drive for National Association of Stato Libraries, funds, helping in every way, and calling Miss Kingsland of the New Hampshire upon ow members to help? Library Com~nissionfor the League of Li- My own feeling is that we should if we SPECIAL LIBRARIES can secure from the A. L. A. a guarantee support that I can most truly represent your that it will give us real cooperation. To wishes and those of the association. this end I am ready to suggest that we en- The Committee on Enlarged Program is, dorse ofAcially the program provided that I believe, desirous of doing the square thing the Enlarged Program Committee will agree by us, and if they do, they should receive our that to carry out the section above men- full Support. On the other hand, if we Can- tioned that a C'ommittee under this head not secure any guarantee such as I have sug- 'be set up as soon as the drive is over, the gested or something similar, it seems to me membership to be appointed three or flve that we should make it clear that tho pro- by the Amoldcall Library Association in any gram is not acceptable. manner thut it may determine, and three or Please do not fail to let me hear from flve to be named by the Special Libraries you before the 28th Association in any manner that it may de- Very truly yours, termine, the six or ten members to choose J. H. FRIEDEL. one additional member who shall ,be both a I hope that special libraries everywhere member of the A. L. A. and of the S. L. A. as This Committee shall then be charged with will make it then business to advise me, their official representative, of their opinions inalring pltm for the management Of the fund raiscd to aid special libraries. of the Enlarged Program, of their recom- Upon my suggestion to the Committee on mendations for its extension or diminution. Saturday that we werc not entirely satisfled Whatever action we take, it should be Con- and that before the Committee went out structive, deflnite and 'backed by the same as with its program before the public that we quality of decision and the same energy would like an opportunity to make a num- we have shown in our work during the last ber of constructive suggestions, it was de- ten years and that has made the Special cided that a substantial part of the next Libraries Association what it is today-the meeting be set aside for me to present any recognized expert on special libraries. It the plans or constructive criticisms. should furthermore be in accord wlth I therefore would like to have you send to statement of principle so well expressed by me, not later than Wednesday the 28th a our President, Miss Maud 9. Carabin, in statement of any suggestions that you would letter deflning our attitude toward the A. L. like to see embodled or of any changes that A. and toward other aseociations: you would like to see made. The Commit- (1) The SPECIAL LIBRARIES AIS'SOOIA- tee will meet again in Brooklyn on the alst TION as constituted dodau stmd* and I want to go there and make the best ready and does cooperate whenever showing for us possible. requested 4% good faith by the Ante?+- I think we have an unusual opportunity to can dssoctation of Law Ubrarks, get acrosa in cooperation with the A. L. A.- American Library Asso&Dlon, League if we can get in in the right form-what is of Library Cmmissutns and Na.tdona2 closest to our hearts, namely the welfare of Association 0)' State Librwies; the country's business and other special (2) That its attitude ia olte or dinwitled re- libraries. Therefore in considering any spect for the professioml strivbngs 07 proposal, I hope that it will not only be con- these organizations; structive and broad, but that it is something (3) Tht its deliberations we oj Szcch. a that we can well afford to approve. character as to mpect a hlce respect Here frankly is an opportunity to do for its prof essienal aapiratzona; something, and I hope that the members (4) That it expect3 in all cases invoZvi7~g of the Executive Board will take advantage cooperaCtom between, any or all of these of this. Therefore, let me know what you organizatimw that swA matter8 be in- thlnk of the program as at present, whether troduced through the dzbl.11~ oonatitz~tecE you endorse it or not, whether you approve channels; the proposal offered #by me in paragraph 7, (5) That dt has no deske to dominate the and anything else that you think I should proceedings nor wllcie8 of these or- know. It is only by having your advice and galvtzatims; SPECIAL LIBRARIES

16) .t t~d that (1 (let ent vespect for the the six or ten to choose an odd member librniy pwfrss~ondemands t71at these who shall be both a member of the A. L. A. lmrl fcs in lllcfrscyrwate ,i.ndentzties ex& and the S. L A,, this committee subject to :orjcfAcr rlt har?)ao?au and goo0 fellow- the supervls~onand direction of the Director slii]~. or Enlarged Program to manage the fund In nialzlng any decision, it may not be set aside for special libraries? anliss to suggest some of the questions to Do you believe thlat a special fund should be consideretl: be set aside for business and industrial li- Shall we give up our own program for the braries? Wlll you help to see that your flrm, future of business, technical and other spe- association or institution contributes? clal llbrnries, in order to support a single Do you approve generally of the A. L. A. progmm-that of the A L. A? program as outlined above? If not, in what particulars do you diffemr? Shall we gil'e up our own projected drive What matters would you like to see added for funds in ordeiS not to interfere with the to the program? success ol the A. L. A, fund? These are some matters upon which an Assuming that we can secure real co- opinion from special librarians will be help- C, operation, 4iall we endorse section para- ful. Will not, therefore, every special libra- L graph 5 of thc A. A. program? rian who reails this take it upon himself to In case we cannot secure any real co- write to me immediately gfving me his frank operation on a basis of fa~rilessand equal- opinion:' All such rephea to be most useful ity, shall the S. L. A representative with. should be in my hands not later than the draw from tlie Committee on Enlarged Pro. end of the month. The Committee on En- gram? Tn that case should we actively and larged Program nleets again on ,January 31st. pulllicly ol~posethe A. L. A. program? It is to your interefit to write now, ad- Are you ill favor of having a committee dressing your letter to the writer at 120 of sis or ten set up, this nnmber to be Peterl~orougl~St., The Fenway, Boston 37, chosen eqoally from both A. L. A, and S. L. A,, Mass.

The Wrenn Library at the University of Texas BY LENA MEGEE Supervisor of Loans, The Uniuersity of Texas Library

One of the valuable special libraries in Are-proof Library building at the University this country is the Wrenn Library at the of Texas, has an appropriately beautiful and University of Texas. This library, contain- impressive setting, designed and installed ing between five and six thousand volumes, by Talmadge and Watson of Chicago. The was tho gift to the University of Major woodworlc in the room is all hand-carved George W. Littlefield, and was purchased by American walnut, showing many different him f~onithe heirs of tlie late Mr. John designs, the most beautiful of which, per- Henry Wrenn of Chicago, who spent his haps, is the door, above which is a design lifetime collecting it. The collection con- of blue-bonnets, the Texas state flower; in sists largely of wol.1~~111 English and Ameri- tlie center is the seal of the University. The can literature, from tlie sixteenth century lighting is perfect, there being a magnificent to the present time, including many first chandelier in the center, and at each end editions, authors' corrected proofs, original two clusters on high bronze pedestals, sur- manuscripts, presentation copies of certain mounted by artistic, opaque bowls .of ala- books, and other interesting and valuable baster marble. The soft green of the velvet 1)oolcs. hangings and the colors in the ceiling deco- ?'he Wrenn Library, housed in the modern rations and in the upholstery harnlonize SPECIAL LIBRARIES 7 exquis~tely The windows, inaile in Iiostoll or Marley's ghost, and other faiiiiliar char- especially for this room, add much interest acters. Perhaps one of the most interesting with their stained glass synzbolic flgores, boolrs is one containing a story called Julia SIICII as Epic Poetry, Tragedy, Coniedy, etc. written in 1836 in the original microscopic Tlie ceiling alone is an absorbing study, as it handwr~ting of Charlotte Rrontci, a story sho~vsthe seals of various Alnericun and which has never been pnnted. There is fore~gn universiJies, a pirsturer1 history of also a collection of-her letters in tlie origi- costume of all the ages, the last shown be- tzul iiianuscril~t. ing the very mode~'naviator and doughboy, ('omltig to ii~orc reccnt tiines, we find and innumerable ]winters' devices. surh treasules as autograph ropies of some But the beauty of tlie room does not outdo of Stovenson's boolts, and some beautifully that of the books themselves in their rich illustraLetl copleq oi' liis Child's Gilrden of bindings, snch bindings as lnosl of us are Verse, a ~nnnuscriptleticr of Kipling's. to not by any nieiltls accustomerl to seeing The his "dear Alick," some of his rarest pr'iv:~Le- boolrs, frequently thee or four centuries old, I\' ~lrintetl1 oemx, i~tlthv ~IYJU~'01 Pr11nu111 have been given this ncJw drew I)y tlie ~1 I'etnl us, rorrwtd 111 liis handwr~ling and lector in recent years, iund Lli~yare ~linhtei.. signell "Iiudyard ILondon hy Rivicre, cl~istinwith the kind regi~rtlsof Win. Words- ~ndonly tlie rl~ostexquisite leather, oC many worth, IAon(lon, May 38th, 1836;" and the d~fferentsoft colors, and (lccorntctl with the very twc first editlon nl C'harles Lninb's first most ~ltibornte but dehci~te gold tracing. ~)l~blisht?tlpoetry with thc t~tleUlt~nlc Verw was used. In holiie cases where thr oriqinxl of ('11:irles Llo, rl i~ntlC'liarlcs Liml), printed I~intlinffs are be~ngp~~escrvcd, thc Imolc is it1 1798. There is iilso a copy of Hrowning's enclosed in a lire-1;roof box, exactly rescm- Tlells and Po~iiegr~inalcsbearing the al~thor's blhig a book, often cont:tining an insltl~' anlograph Insc~~~l[~Llon,wliirh he sent out to vtibing covered with silk. The hook shelves Nvw Zealant1 to his friend, Allr~tlDonlett are of gk15~,which aside froin I)t!ing prt~cti- h five-volunw 1)roof copy of Walter Snvugc: CRI, add dist~nc:lly to the a],pe;u*anco of the IAntl(lor's Inlaginary ('onvelwillons, correct- rows of boolts. 1x1 fnlly in his own liantlwriting, came from But leaving the setting antl llle l)lntlings, Swinl)urne'h Llbrtiry , iml a paper-covered let 11s exan~inea few of the boolcs fl~eni- copy or thc first rrlition of tlic Fitzgerald selves. Anlong some of the oldest nneh a]-e t~~imslationof the Rubiayat of Omar IChay- the first editions ol' Sl~euser's Faelsie y;1111 ivlth Sw~nl~l~rne'situtogrt~ph on the Queelle in two voln~nes,grinte~l in 1580, litlc-pagc Is tlic itlenlic:~l copy that Swin- and 13en do11so11'~ Worlzes, IlXd, antl tI11' burnt puralxisetl for :I penny wlwn it lirst- thii~Icomlrlete edition of Chaucw's worlts, vaine trul. 1,111 lor wh~cl) \IT \\'rr1111 was printed as early as 1550 1-Iel.e tlie stutlenl ol)ligrvl Lo 11;1y Ilinsly-flve po~intls 'l'hrro arta of Old Ihglish can revrl to his healqt'h cun- also nurnc>rons ver'! r',~rc', pr'i~c~trly[)rirltcsrl, tent. A book in Grrelc and Latin with thp worlrs oS Swinhu~mc's ol"rent~yson'h ilntl date 1617 is from Ben Jonson's lilwury :knd othors. 'l'hr Tennyhon c~ollcclion is said to hears liis own autograi111 011 its title-llirge, as bc Lhe best in Anicric*:~ well as his motto ir~Latin, also in lijs 1it111d- The 1)oolr ol pcrhnps tlie most 1ntin1:rtc WI it~ng. ~~ersontllassoc~ation 1s a 11itl~~nII~?cti~n of The collector did not fall lo get many flt,st I oetry by Shelley, c:~llcrlThc Original I'oet- editions of the various works of Milton, Dry- ry of Victor ;in11 C'axirr, ~)rintetl In 1810, den. Polw Defoe, Swift, arid others or our which is Ihc identical ropy Lint the poet favorites Tlie excessively rare first editions gave to 111s consin iintl fiancbe, I-l:irr~ei of l-lob~nsonCrusoe in three volumes, print- Grove. in whose fulnily it ren~nilletl iintit ed in 1719, arid of Gillliver's Travels, 173Ii. purchased by Mr. Thomas J. \Vise, who sold In two volumes, are there. 1'011 can also see it to Mr. Wren11 It niay be interest~ngto, the original edition of Dickens' Christmas Itnow that Mr. Wren11 aid Sour huntlred and Carol with its little funny colored pictures fifty pounds for this boolc Xhide fro111 the .SPECIAL LIBRARIES personal interest of the book, it is very rare, Edgar Allan Poe has this inscription: ''As being one of only three copies known to ex- far as I can learn this is the only complete ,I&, one being in the Britlsh Museum, and copy of the 'Tales of the grotesque Gd the other in Mr. Wise's library. arabesque' in existence. It was found in the The nlanuscripts form an important part trunk Poe had with him on his last journey. of the library. The rarest of the manuscripts was sent to Mrs. Clemm, who gave it to 'An- are two in the handwr~tingof lzaak Walton, nie,' who presented it to me. John H. In- gram." There is an exceedingly rare pam- written in 1660, the only known examples of his script in America, one of them bearing phlet by Whittier, entitled The Narrative of his autograph. which is one of the rarest of James Williams, an American Slave, and a Dnglish literary autographs. It is next to book by William Penn, called William and impossible to read the Angler's writing, so Deborah (1705), which is probably the only different is it from that of later times, and copy in existence, and which bears marginal also on account oq the difference in the spell- notes in the author's handwriting. ing of the words The manuqr'ripts ax, Valuable for Art's sake are many modern however, wonderf~~llywell preserved. An- de luxe volumes and limited editions, such other exceedingly interesting mnnuscripl is as n large Rill Van Winkle with a white vel- that of Lachrymae RIusarum, written by lum bind~nglettered and decorated in gold. William Watson in colnnlemoration of the illustrated by fifty full-page drawings in death of Lord Tennyson, thc writing of color by Arthur Rackham. A beautiful copy which, under the stress of hls great grief, is of the Scarlet Letter, issued by the Grolier said to have caused the mental unbalancing Club, has full-page illustrations in color from of the aulhor A letter froni Edgar Allan water-color pictures by a French artist; and POP,exhibiled in a case attracts one's atten- Eugene Field's Love-songs of C!l~ildhood. tion prin~ar~lybecause it gives the date of printed on Japan vellum in fac-simile of the the 11oet's birth as four years later than it author's damty hnndwriting and illustrated really was. There are a great many other by photograllhs of the children to whom the ariglnnl lelters, including some from Robert poems were dedicated relrresents the last Brownmg, Percy Ilysshe Chelley. Charlotte work of the great lover of children. Thre~ Bronte. Longfellow and Whittler; and other shelves are lillcd wlth the I)oolcs, n~ostlyin manuscripls, sonle ot entire stories and white vellum covers, tied with delicate col- books, of Swiiiburne. William Morris, the ored ribbons, designed and printed 11). Wil. three Rossettis, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. limn Morris at the Kellllscott Press. Thc. Shelley and Robert Lollis Stevenson. masterpiece of the Kelnlscott books is a very The libr.lry is very rich in hrst editions large complete edition of the works of Char1 of plays, some of great rarity, especially of cer, with cighty-seven woodcuts from dr the EHxabethnn period The most impor- signs by Sir Edward Rurne-Jones, and 1)e:lr. tant of these are three of the folia editions Ing thls ~nscriptlon "'(T;llliurn Morrfs of Shakes~)eare'bplays, the earliest being Kelmscott House. Hemmersmith, ,July the second impression, printed in 1G32 1856" Bcsides the above-menhoned ~11.t Th~scopy was formerly thc ~~ro~~erty,and bool\s, there are Whistler's etchings in three bears the autograph of Viscount Rochford. portt'ol~os,books about other artists, all~t who was tlie son of I-Tenry Carey, the broth- other books issued by various art clul).~ er-in-la\\ of the ill-tated Anne Boleyn Of Two of the most unusual books In the II- about tlie same date as the Shalrespcare is brary are a Hehrew B~bleprmted in Am- a folio edition of the plays of Be~~umontant1 sterdam in 1700. with a filigree silver bind- Pietcher. ing and clasps; and a fifteenth century illu- The American literature corner is exceed- minated mnnuscrlpt of Flemish execution of jngly interesting, containing first editions of the Hours of the Blessed Virgin. In the most of the works of the foremost Amen- latter, exquisite colors and an abunclance of -can authors. A two-vo111me copy of the gold were used in the marginal decorations. 'Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by In the pictures and in the initial letters The SPECIAL LIBRARIES 9 whole is on vellum, and represents many now being printed in London under the su- tedious days, monthe, and years of hand- pervision of Mr. Harold B. Wrenn will be a work. treasure-house of interesting. information The above-mentioned are only a few of the Copies of this catalogue will soon be in the many interesting books to be seen in the ~ossessionof many of the leading universi- Wrenn Library. The catalogue which is ties of America.

The Official Library at Railway Adminstration Headquarters, South Africa BY GILBERT E. CHITTENDEN

Tn the big organization of railways in a lesser clcrh and l~ninstalringtygiste, aye. South Afr~ca,a very interesting and infor- and if the whole truth be told, nlRny n mative department has grown up during the "IITRSY-hat"loo, foresaw the permanent pass- past two or three years It seldonl colnes ing of occusional and permissible browsings into the limelight, though it is brimful Of it1 literature among the cool cloisters of the recorded w~sdon~and experience. Officiall~ Iiascment. Those brief ~nolnents of grace, it 1s Itnown as the "I-Ieadcluartcrs Technical snntched from the eternal round, made TJil~rary," but that, one thinks, it rather a rnmy a tiring day of work seem a little less misnomer nnrl a title duo lo tlssociation irlisorne, and when tlic change wan COLISU~~ with the mixed Illwary of facts and flctioll 111:1turl, it see~nedas if all the romance of formerly I~ouse(l in the bnsemcnt of the the lil~ra~~ywerc dead, succeeded by a cold Flead(l~~arterOmces. A few years ago, the environlucnt of tonle upon tom of calcu- c:~mIlined I~brary,to which we have illst re- 1:ltors :1nd economists. Rut in reality it was ferred, came under the investigating eyes srurccl~as 11atl as it aptleared to be, and Out of depart~nentalreformers and apparently ol' the imagined trilgerlp of change much thciy act~v~tiesgave rise to fi sort Of B01- good came forth. The romantic library, on shcvisln anlong the books On tho one side the other side of road, freed from the llic grim masses of facts and figures, stood sh:~c~klesoP oiiicial restraint, greatly extend- out a~oinstthc marc ~~ictureuqnearray of ed itself, ant1 lo-day It more than appeases p~ose-lict~cmand poetry, and the bookish re- the 1iter:rry yearnings of the rcnrling staff. lat~onsl~il~sfinally attained to such a state 111 the Im.senient, on the other hand, the or mutual intolerance that a schism fol- iron ern of facts nil11 figures has entered lowed ~nevitablv. The "Crcat Powers" on upon a golden age of interest and enlighten- Ihc first Hoor ililervened. Dy the lerlns of ment Tt ~nuybe, tho bureau of uninspiring thcir :~b~trament,the volumes ol' iacts nnd luct is not quite so popular with the prole- fijiurrs ~etainedl)ossession of the territory tariat oC the permanent way as the library of Heatlquarter's bnsement, while poctry and ol' Action, but as a working departnlent of fictwn, with thal indomitable s'p~ritchar- wide reference and ready information, it is acter~stlcof their Bind, crossed the border- corning more and more into play as n u6ePul Inntl r~lan adjoining street to Lound a new n11d necessary tactor in what is, probably, cwlony of roniatlc literature in the neighbor- Lhe largest State-owned railway in tha world. ing regions of the Iiailway Institule. We hinted before that the technical library At the tme, the rallli and file of local at Headquarters is, strictly sl~ealring,not a rit~lwaynlen deplorecl the change and secret- library. It is handicapped by its title. It ly 11c.rnnanetl the esodns of the entertaining might be more aply labelled by a happy nu\el> ant1 readable poetry In the banish- phrase of the late Sir Frederick Donaldson, nlenl (11 fictlon' from the ofFlce realm, many namely, "A Clearing House of Knowledge," in whicll experience, practice and precept are stacked In a common pool of record from which anyone may draw. It 1s a department SPECIAL LIBRARIES

company should feel confident that once the I~brarianlanows their needs he will contitine to find matter on the subject until directed to sto11, that if new Ideas on old subject come to hand they will he advised of them. and that the librarian shoulcl be, in fact, an aysistant hot11 to the stafl and the executive. . . . He must know ~nstinctivelywhat sub- jects are IIOIIII~ to come up for discussion at some future time and accun~ulatcmaterial to aid the executive in the proper study of tlne cluestion with the least mnount of time. The m8terial should not consist of stacks of l~oolcs or paruphlets (lumped upon his desk to such an cstent lhat tlne esecutive groans at the sight of the job bel'ore him, but of specially marlred pages or pnragraghs in l)oolis, rcwews, ctc., bearing directly 011 the sn~l~~ect.The librarian shor~ldalso demon- strate Iiis ability to advise how various queu- tions have heen vicwed by d~fferentminds, and report why certain schcmes were a suc- cess or failure . . . . the work of this .specialieecl hbrarian are placcd so high . I hat one is ~nclineclto think that an Admir- able Crichton would lie required if the post mere to he ])roperly filled." It is refreshing to find that thcse axionns of working are largely in roglle in the Technical L111rary at I-Ieadqua~.tcrs. The value of tills department or "docu- nmtnt~on"in the administrative ant1 execu- 11vc I~rancllesof railway work is incalcul- able. The fact thal the catalogue comprises close Ilpon ten thousand entries, indicntes In a certain Ineatiure tlne scopc of the I~iirary, and, at Ihe samc time, ironically suggests what a versatile and inexhaustil~lcprofes. sion that of an all-round railway omcer can he made. The interests of the lil~rary,Inow- ever, are not confined to railway inatters or Lo hterature exclusively useful to the Man- agemenl. There is n wide range of informa- tion eqnally vflluable to commercial and in- dustrial concerns seelcing details and statis- tics oC trade and clevelopments in other coun- tries. In the necessarily limited propor. tions or a sketch of this lrincl it is hardly possible to exanline the full scope of the library in a manner that would do ~ust~ce to the subjcct We can only reler to the general classification of material on hand. Thl~s, under the heading "Government," one fl?l(k complete records of "Hansard." or, SPECIAL LIBRARIES

in the redoubtable work, well lYa&lllgt0n, all institlltlon appenrb preserved ''Ies Of Press reports of what the to Ile the centralizillg close upon R legislature achieves ill the "windy" periods hulldred railway libraries in various parts of the Parlinmentary nlonsoon Further of A~~~~~~. there are Statislics, Ordinances, Proclama- Lastly, there is brallch of the lil,r.arY tiom (both We- and post-union), Blue- which is concer~led with. technical press- Boolis, Reports of Select Committees and cu~ttings-a raried and useful source of ill- Special Commissions, Census and Clustoms fornmtioll-coupled with the dling of the Returns, miscellaneous trade statistics and more valuablo periodicals, many of which Government publications. date back in complete numbers for mallY The library is notable for an extenawe col- years, litlle sub-section is reserved for Icction 01 worlcs on rnilway organnation, the preservation ot historical railway docu- practlcc md control, and a fine assortment ments, a, few of them going back to the of literatnre treatilig of rail~vay hlstory, origin ol' the iron road in South Africa. It law, staff ndmi~~istrntion,finance, account- is a side of great interest a~ldmight very in& rates and tariffs, surveys, construction, well form the nucleus of railmvay archives trains mld rolling stock ogeratlons and har. in this country which, if anything, have bors ant1 shipping. Almost every phase of been neglected hitherto. railways and their workings are covered by But what appeals to one as being the the wife range of reference boolcs, greatest interest of the Library at Head- The most versatile soction IS that class- quarters is not so 111uch tlle existing institu- ifled under the heading "General," wliich in- tion as the possibilities mhicll it suggests. eludes publications hy coln~nercialand mnni- 111 its l,l-esent state it is a fie- cipal bodies in South Africa and other COUP llartll,e~~t a railway us,,+ 1,ult there tries, war books anrl business mannals, en- seellls to be it should llot he c~cloi~acdiae,guide boolcs (a particularly aIld devolol,ed illto a , Central instrucllve colleclion), geograi~llical, legal Infornlatioll nnyolle and historical worlrs, volumes on political in of llot economy, saicnce, manuhcl.ure, engineering, a,,ailable to the puhllc, lllay tllem agricullurc, Sorestry, insurance, medical sub- wlt,lout delay, alltl, above all, witll jects, lranlting, well as civil service lists as I,leasllre ;,Mcial gllarantee as to their and biogrn~hieu. rcctness. So far as one is nware, no such From a. to~icali)oint of view, perhaps the centralized to gublic in- nlost ~nteresling section is the one given quiry, is ellstellce In soUtll-~f~~~~. The over to 1)criodicals which einbrace the !jest Railway Adlnlnistralion alld a few of the ]inown pnblications, from all parts of the lllore urogresslve luunicil,al bodies have World, dealing wilh labor, financial alld ad- guhlicity agencies, but their activities and mlnivtrative subjects, railways, ship~~ing, llardly conle witlllll scope of a do- architeclura, engineering, tra(k conlmerce, partlllel,l of ~documentatloll~such as and many other to~icsand l1ro~essions. The refer to. 01 all tile Ull~on~~~~~~~~&~~t De- wide selaction of current literature partments, that ot the railways and harbors the staff to lceep au fait the latest is, perhays, the lnost favorably situated to tllought and Progress ill railway lnallgurate and concluct for, if necessary, to trade and shiil~lng. AlanY Government pub- collaborate with other clepartments for the lications Crom Lhe United IClngdom find their purpose) an organizatiol~ of the lrind. It way into the library, as for example, Itlay not be generally Bnown that the Rail- of Trade journals and reports from the way Administrati011 of this Country is in Ministries of Lahor and Reconstruction* touch with many of the largest systems in ltl.~rary is. so to say, amliated to a mm- a11 parts of the world. There ifi a wide- &r of silnllar institutions in other quarters spread reciprocity in the matter of reports of the globe, and a brisk interchange of of working, and frequent correspondence, publications a.lld trade reports is kept UP. which Beeps the local authorities regularly A valual,le association of the kind exists posted in oversea developments, not only in ra~lwayand harbor matters, but in trades with *.reall of ~~il~~~Economics in SPECIAL LIBRARIES

miscellaneous collection of law books con- stantly in use, besides other books of gen- eral reference, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and maps-everything of this sort that is likely to be called for any time for use on the floor at a moment's notice. "This library is what the members use In debate, while the other libraries are used for research. It was establ~shedin 1868, hilt the present librarian holds all records He is George W. Sabine, who lives in the Royalton, 918 RI street northwest. I-Ic is the oldest employe on the roll of the clerk of the House. On December 14 he will have been in contin- uous service on this one jol) for twenty-four years. He is especrally valuable, ir~ the opinlon oC t.he members, because he has mado himself so Samilinr with the contents of this hdle~l.dowr~library of congressional informa- tion that lie can ha11c1 ont what they want at a mement's notice. He not only Icnows where the Iloolrs arc, but what they conta~nand how to And it. in a hurry. "Now, hcre's a secret of twenty-l'our years' standing as to how George made s h~ghit on the flrst clay he was on the job His me- decessor had a sort or condensed catalogue The Library on the Floor of the of the books and references tnost likely to House be called for in a hurry, which he warlted In the Washington (D. C.) Eucnz~~gStar to sell to George for $100-and George was of Sept. 6, 1919, there appeared an articlo broke. It was kept alphabetically, and in entitled "Librarian on duty 24 years," which glancing at it George decided to n~alcea men- we take pleasure in reprinting. It gives an tal photograph of as many items as he could. insight into a special library of which few One of those was "Boman Act, 5'01, 22, Pagc hear, but wh~chis always on the job. 485," and another supplen~entarr to this "Theie's a library de luxe in Washington, was "Tucker Act, Vol. 24, Page 505." During right under the dome of the Capitol, that his first day on the job, wh~lelistening to few persons even lcnow ex~sts,and yet it lhc debate on the floor, he si~ddenlyheard plays a very important part In all federal reference to the Bolnan Act. Bel'ore his legislation. Those who know about it call mind's eye sudtlenly flashed the mental pho- it 'the library on the floor of the House,' but tograph he had made of the entry, "Boman it is more familiarly referred to as 'The Hole Act, Vol 22, Page 485," and he clcctclecl to in the Wall.' This is because its only win- see if his memory was correct Just as he dow is a small, round porthole overlooking turned to tho page In rushed n paye, :rslti~~g the door of the House leader's private office. "This library occupies a cuhl~yhole12 by for that very reference, and he shoved the 16 feet, into which are crowded 3,000 volumes book at h~mlike n flash. stacked dowble on the shelves so as to make "The next morning Sabine was scarcely the spacc do maximum duty. It is a bureau 'on the job' before in walked a diglifietl liltle of legislative information. It contains evely man. He said he came to sed what sort of speech ever delivered in Congress, and print- n wondershog that library was. I-Ie intro- ed, besides all the House journals, all the duced hilnself as Judge Gibson or' Tennessee, Supreme Court reports, all the laws that and said the day before he heard reference have ever been enacted by Congress with a in the debate to the Boman Act. It was a SPECIAL LIBRARIES new one on him, and so he sent a boy to Newark's Plan for Business get it so she could see what it was about. "I saw the page go through this door, Library Service In a pamphlet recently issued entitled and I'll swear while I was still looking "Newarlr's Industries and Newark's Libra- at the back of his head out he came again ry" ~ohnCotton Dana, Librarian of the New- with the proper book and the place all ark Public Library outlines a plan of "Pay- found," said Judge Gibson in amazement, ment by Newark industries of the cost of all "and I wanted to Bee what sort of a force Or service rendered by the library over and machinery you had in here to give such abovc SIIC~Iservice as it may, as a public, ~ervice." tax-sflP1Jorted institution, be reasonably ex- "Librarian Sabine admlts now that hi- " dent had more than anything else, to do with pectpd to lenrlcr to all inquirers We re- gret that it IS ~ml~ossiblefor ns to reprint in hls hnvlng filled the place so well for a quarter of a century. It showed him what full this plan of Mr. Dana's. I-Iih cwtlnence in library work is u~lquestioned. I-le has he could do by concentrating his mind on his ~orli" twen a ploneer in many fields of library en- rleavor. In this plan Mr. Dana again points B new way. He says: Public Libraries in the Czecho- "This pamphlet was presented, 111 the form slovak Republic of a. letter, to the trustees of the Newurlc According to the Czechoslovali Board, The L~bmrya few weeks ago. After due delih- National Assenlbly of the public has passcd eration they authorized its publication in a, law ~nalting it the duty of every city, ~)arnphletform and its distribution to manu- village and town to establish a gublic library. facturers and other men of affairs in New- Here is what the Revie~upublished by the nrlc. At the same time they authorized the Board states OF' the action taken: Library to make a charge .of one dollar per "Every library will have a circulating ho~u'for all research work over and above division, a reference division, and a read- that which it may properly give without ing room with pcrioflicals. Every villaga, chnrge to any resident or tax-payer of the where there s a public school, must have city the l~braryin use within one year from "It I& no[ pos~iblefor the Liblm9yto spend the date of the law; smaller villages have $15,000 on the acquisit~on of boolrs and two years' time, Mamtenance of the library journnls ,111rl on the elnploynlent of experts is a charge u~lonthe mullicipal or village ill lhc Iltcralurt' ol I~us~ness,manufactu~ring. b,udget. The council will elect a library chemistry and design, as suggested in this board consisting of four to eight inemhers, pampblel N~vsrtheless,the plan herein set and th~sboard will select the librarian. In forth, to make the Newark Library more villages the schoolmaster w~llordinarily act useful than ercr before to Newnrlr's Indus- as librarian; in cities with population of tries wtll t~c~iut-sued eq far as possible. 10,0(10 or more a professional librarian must, "Men rngilgetl in I)uslnes8 are often in Iw e~nployed. The minislry of education and grt!ill. need of information on some aspect of culturc will have supervision over the carry- the~rtvorlc. This needed information may ing out of th~slam. have to do nit11 a chemical formula, the .'Ava~lablestatistics show Lhat in 1910 there transport I'acililies or or from a certain port ?.?ere in Baheinia alonc. 4,451 public libraries; in Asia, the history and standing of a cor- of Ihal nunlbev 3,885 were Cxech and the poratlon, the farming contlitions of some rest Corman. Slightly over a half 01 smaller part of a western state, the results of erper- villages did not have a pubhc library. In iments made In Norway on s new quality of aflflilion to the public libraries there were steel; or any one of n thousand other things. in operation also 2,139 society aud lodge The Ne~varlrLibrary is pretty well equipped libraries. All these libraries loaned out for to furnish the kinds of fnforrnation thus sug- home use 2,678,000 books in 1910; that is gested. It has in hand the resources set just about one book to every three Bohe- forth blx!fl!: ill this pamphlet, and it ha^ mians " ready access to many libraries and bureauc: SPECIAL LIBRARIES of research in New Yorlr ancl other cit~es. "Now conles the plau of perniitting the What is, perhaps, even more important than men of affairs to say to the library, 'Give me possession of much that is in print on all th~sinformation, regardless of cost up to a American businesses and industries and certam sum, and send me the blll for so ready access to st111 greater stores of it in ~lluchof your labor as goes beyond what you ather cities, is the fact that It has a staff of can give any inquirer for nothing.' workers skilled In the art of Anding that "We are qulte snre that, as soon as which may be called for and 01 wisely ab- Newark's industries learn that they can thus stracting and presenting the same. call on their l~braryfor spec~alwork, they "The charge that can now be made for will send in their inquiries." special work of all ltinds, from mere copying at the current rate pcr folio, to the most difficult research, removes one of L11e ob- As we go to press, wc we in rece~ptof stacles to the Library's ussfulness to New- the follow~ngletter fro111 the Dlrector of ark's industries. The busmess man likes to Eulnrged Progrtl~n appealing for nlaterial pay for what he gets. It has been cliWcult to that can be used in the publicity ctunpdien malie him see that "the Newark Public Li- for the Library Extension Fund. brary is 111s." in every sensc of the phrase. An~ericdnLibrary Association We believe that our exgerlence with him has been a good guide when it has told us Comniittec on Enlarged Prograln that if me could chdrge him a fax- price for Jan 52, 19211 the service the library can give, he would 'I'D I,lbtwtninrls of i3l)cc'iuJ Ltbt arirs. feel much more free to ask for that service In December several librar~anscainc ti1 "This charge for service is not to be made Kew Yorlr to cull on the editors of maga- for anyone's proflt save Newnrk's. All money zines and interest them in the promotion oC received therefor will be deposited with the libraries. Out of nearly one hundrecl editors city treasurer and be sct forth in detail in who have ,Wen seen, Iess than halC a dozen the library's anni~alfinancial statement. The fallell to be interested. city will no doubt return these receipts to The result is that we now have calls from the library for the purcha.se of nlore books editors and writers for great quantities of and journals and the employn~entof expert lilmry material, Much has been received workers as needed. in responsc to our prevlous requests but "Nor wll this charge for bemice lnalre the much more is needed. library any less free to all citizens. It will There is naturally a very great interest in continue to be free bureau of informatioll a stories about the use' of books by I~usiness as heretofore; giving to every inquirer all men aud inen in industry! and it is for ma- the attention thal he can properly ask. The terial of this sort that we are appealing par- special and extended service for which the ticularly to the Special Librarians. ' charge w~llbe made will add to the library's income, and, as just indicated, will make its We need figures and facts, stories, pic- resources fuller and its eml~loyees better tures, anccclotes, bulletins, staten~entsabout equipped than ever to give the free service the special aid you glve to special groups for which it was primarily establisl~ed. ancl especially the story about some individ- ual 1111an or woman who has been hel'ped by "This is all a new thing in public library Sour library. To yon these facts may seem work. But Newnrlr seems to be kindly to the new in its educational institutions. Cer- trlte ant1 unimportant; to the magaztne edi- lor they are new and suggestive. tain quite popular features of the public RTith hearty appreciation for the stories ~scliools,11Be all-year sessions, and evening and pictures already sent and an urgent plea schools found their beginnings here and for more, I am. Sincerely yours, have been widely copied. The business branch of a library is a purely Newark in- CARL H. MILAM vention and finds daily a wider use and Temporary address: 33 West 15th St., greater approval New York City. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

train for the highest instead of for the low- S~ecialLibraries est rungs? The movement toward stand- Pr~bI~sl~~rlVonthly except July nnrl August ardimtion and cerliflcation is but an evi- Idltorial OBlce dence of the fact that there are too nuluy 120 I'cte~.borunrh St.. The l~cnwuy,Buston, Mnas. mttrglnal librarians-too Iunny persons - - Entered (~tthe Post Omce nt Uoston, 3I;1ss., sa floating a,bout who are not up to par. It wcuntl rlnss uintter under tho Act uf ineane thttt we are not training for libra- JI~lrch3, l8iO rinnshll) as we should. But standnrdizn- Subacriptiona (10 isaues) ...... $4. 00 n penr tion and rerti11c;ltion are salves; 111 thelll- Single copiev . ,...... W.W selves they present no cure for lhc sorc. Edllnr-In-Clrler...... J. 11. FILIBDEL \\'11:1t wfc necyl is Lo stnnd~rcliaeand ccrlil) ASSOCIATIC EDITORS thv schools, more than tlie individuals thoy Agllcultur:tl :III~IGorwurncnt Libr~lrles Claribol It, Rarnett t111-n out \\'hen the schools have 11cen I)rougllt 1111 to gar, we will 110 assured thi~t the 1)ersons thal they turn oul arc up to par It means more. Wc! liwe got to in- sist that every library and every agency that prelends to train for 1ibr:irianship con- forms to nn approved standard. Tlin idea of mediocre training so that the Aces for Librarianship lilwary will Lhereby be ahle to pay only a The ctlitor has receivecl within the lost ~ned~ocresalary is ~nrlafenrtlblc. lnnfletlni~te tea tl;i>h ;I copy of Arcs foi' Ind&st1'~by traming. poor librarians and :wlst:ints, lioor liulus Srcwle ([-Ioughton, 5Iinln1 Co., 130s- salnries-lherc we haw ;l vicious circle ton). 11 I& n ficlion story based on facL wliich il is in our power la 11reillc St;ui(b t~rdimtion;~nd cwtiflc:~tloii as :tpplietl lo the inrlividn;~lprr~.sc~nt no cm~li.r.Rut I)etlcr train- ing, l'rs~~llin~:111 11c?ttcr litlwl IJcrsons who 1nenl:: t1111l IS willen in n mannw that is uill r~onlni;ln(ll~ett(~r snli~rirs is ihc wny lo certain to .11111ealto the growing boy toll- inwt 111s halai-y' nroblem ~uml Illc trninin~: de~wil:the clloiee of a voc;ltioll ilnd to the pro1)lrrn. V711nl we nrcd :is rnucnh as more ~~~iiplo?.rr~nterested in training ;1nd dsvcl- prcgrtlixs js I~OIT l)~winsin lil~r~~~~i;~~~sl~ij). oping mc11 fol. th~swork. Writlen in t~ StniiQni~diz:~licluinid r(vlifirallon may resnll nvid. 1..1cy style that no1 only fdsriiittles bllt in tlcr8iit~o/~ori.hat they iirc a pclrw patent that c'i~r~,iclsthe render along lllrol~glitho 111ct1icino. 11' \YO Ilavc n~,~i;r!;L hilllrc of narative u~ilillie is c~onvinca(lol' tlie (rut11 training and rrrruitirlg, shi~ll wo rclnli:~te that \vh:~twe need in indlistl'y today is not :1~111nstthe Infllvidl~i~lsimply I~rca~ischa Ims merely men subinc!rged in thcir dnily toil. c80nfolmrtl lo whnt wc harc cle~nnnAct1 ; is but norliers ~itl~the spiril of the avlnt~oil not the fnult in ourselves for trnini~ighim ace to wlioi11 obstacles are ,but incentives poorly? CerLillcation may pmvirle n very and all~~re~l~rnts.who do not llcs~tateat a Pretty means to keep the intlividunl in n new. n~etliorl simply l)eci~oseiL is new and stt-algl~t-j;~clcet:it may providr n very glnus- to w11o1n ,~rcomplishment is its own rc- il~lemethod for con ti nu in^: lo Irwp snlarlee wttril, tlir book is well ~~;orth a place in as low as thc! are, 11 mny help to hnilil un every lndastrial library. :I ilne hiernrc,lly presiiled over by a S:ltionnl Tile thought suggested by this book is: Certifictltinn Ronrd. ah.\. not Aces tor Librtirinnship? Years It is a pretty piece of work urfied on .go, when llbrarianship was still groping plausible b111 vcisy questionnblc gro~inds,1mt towaihd the scientific method, we used to it is alsn ti nasly bit of work. Lil~rarlans hear it said quite often that "tlie librarian should awi~liento the danger or rortiflcntion is born not made." Today we lmve come tml sl~~ntlardizution,lest they find them- aro~und to believe that every man must be selves inveigled unwarily into a scheme thnt trained for his job, that all that men may 1s meant lo bind tliom hip and thigh and lw born with is an aptitude for hard work. that is sure to prove an incentive to union- Drit if we nre to train, why shall we not ization and to civil service. 16 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

lye wd]]t better trained and better spread appeal that does not act in accord equipped men and women in the work. with the principles on which American in- The way to secure them is to train them stitutions rest. The right to representatives properly. In other words the way out would of their own choosing is inherent in demo- be through standardizing courses and by cratic government, yet we have seen the ~nak~ngit inlpossible for every ,Tom, Dick A. L, A. refuse us representation on the all[] Hlirry nsrespective of his fitness or abiL War Library Service, although it proudly to ell]bark any scheme tor training. claimed that that was a special library serv- lt we llaye poor fruit, we look after the ice; have seen the A. L. A. for inuny inonths tree If ;I Imat does not move, we look at refuse us a representative of our own choos- the engine and boilers.. If a building 1s ing on the Co~nni~tteeon Enlarged Progsam, shaky we look ;[t the fouudation dlld that althor~gl~the hope for success of that Pro- IS r;liat we must do in libral'y work gram rests largely on its abihty to n~ake nre want -4ces for Llbrasianshig TO get cepitnl of what the special libraries have them we nl~lsttram th8111, not bind tl~lll b~endoing for years. By its action it fra1l.k- \\'e must see that they are fit for the work ly says to 11s: "We will let you dlg the .1nd then give them every o~portunit~for wound, plant the seed and raise the fruit, per5onal development. hut we will eat it." That is the doctr~neof Certificiit~on ;i~ltl standardization sound democracy in library workgas we face it. Let well In theorj., but as a practical lneasore ur hope that it will be a passing ghase And they do not worli well and bring in thelr the sooner the A. L. A learns that to be rep- train an inevitable wave of unrest. Let us, 1-esentativc it 1n1,st represent, that to be the therefore, look before we leap. national association it must give every spe- The Enl:lrged Program provides for na- cial interest and group the right of a hearing tional certification The program itself is and of representation in matterfi which di- tentative. It is still within our power to rectly aft'ect their welfare, the sooner will have that section relnovecl from the pro- it win that sunport which is now withheld, posed artiv~ties of the Bnler~can Library and withheld justly Association. Let us not be carried anfay by A second serious hindrance which musr fine sound~ngphrases. but rather s11ow some be faced after the first has heen met is the t)wIr-bone mltl ollpose this dangerous move- Inck of a truly national libi*a,ry headquarters ment to put librari:~ns into a strn~ght-jacket. At present earh separate associat~ontries J. FI. FRJEDEI, to esctrt what influence it can from its re------slrectire headquarters. How much better it A National Library Center rr~ould be wpre dl1 the associations located The runlor that the American Lihrary As- at one partic.ulnr ntldress, where each could xocLl:~on \vould move ~tsheadquarters to render the other the effective cooperation Sew York has aroused wiclesl~rcnd ~ntesest wliic.11 WP ,111 always tnlli about and which and comment In the conrroversy itselr we for v:n'ioos reasons we do not always render nr? not ~)nrtirularlyinterested Hut the fact The cstnl~lishmentof a national library cen- does remain that at l~resenttwo serious ter seemq the obvious next stel) Only ise- hindrances to the most effective influence of r~rntlt-tlic National Ed~~cationAssociation librarianship exist. One is the lack of a cletermincrl to purclmse a site for a n:~t~on,~l trllly representative assoclation oC l1l)rarians. Ii~arlq~~artersat Washington. D ('. We do I?] the A. I 21. we have what its founders not socg-est \Vasliington :is tlie best locntion ho!)~lwould be a rcal association of Xmeri- Inr ;I national library heaclqnarters Rut call librarians. But the dominnt~onof the TR~shington has its attractions and ad~an- X L. A b!' the public library interest and tnges w11ic.h callnot I,e overloolced and which tlie failure of the A. 1, A. to give the esist- ]nust x-eigh heavily in making any decision ing nssociations and sections a voice In the Let 11s then first make the A. L A. the na- affairs and councils which directly concern tioiial library association representine and them not only weakens its influence but serving all librarians, not any one gronp. and threatens its existence. No association can tlien let us aim at the establishment of a na- hope to exist in America have a wide- tional library center. T. H. F SPECIAL LIBRARIES 17 The Guaranty Club Library The report of the librarian shows that and the relation of these in turn to th~ the total number of readers of boolrs token general institutional work and policies. from the Guaranty Club Library ul, to Sep- Again they fall short because they do not tember 1 of this year was 1367, an increase seek to avoid by general reading the nar- of 435 over the preceding year. The c~rcula- row~ng influence of close and continued tion fro111 September, 1918, to September, application to a parthxlar subject. Per- 1919, was 2,300 books, an increase of about mitted to go on for years, this influence 200 books over the circulation of 1917-21118. beconles irresistible. and the v~ctirn of it The Guaranty Club L~brary,located in becomes warped and constricted mentally the Men's Club Room, is one of the most in exactly the same way that certain valuable features of the service wh~chthe rraftsmen become cril~pledphysically. con~pmyprovides for ~tsemployees From The dangers here suggested have be- small beginnings it has been bnilt u11 grad- collie so frequently man~fest,especially in ually until now there are about 900 boolrs large enterprises where the worli Is mental These 11al.e been carefully class~fiedand rather than physical, that it has become any eniployec desiring to follow a coursc an important part of the study of our of rendins will be assisted in his selections leading librar~nnsto determne what books by the librarian. While the greater num- are best fitted to help business people in ber of the books are upon the subjects of avoiding them. There has been, accord- money and banking and commerce and ingly, a great increase in the number of trade, there are many books of general good gooks on business subjects, especially interest, including history, flction, drama, on banking and finance, and the man or biography, government, languages, travel, woman who studies them systen~atically011- and general reference There are also a tams not only that mastery of his job which number of excellent boolcs on business and comes when lcnowlerlge of theory and funda- banking lam, taxation, the Federal Reserve mental laws supplenients native abil~tyand Act, and the Income Tax Lams. practical experience, but also a mental dis- The advantage of a library which can cipIine such as many men and women spend be used in connection mith the work of the large sums and years to attain In colleges various departments of the bank hns been and special schools. There are within the discussed very often of late in relation to Guaranty Trust Company, to say nothing of the needed better training of bauk em- institutions such as the American Institute ployecs. In looking over thc broad field of Uanlcirig, with whiclf ~t has affiliationh, now opening to American enterprise and those who nre capable of and willing to ad- considering the opportunities which are vise with any ernployce who ~vautsto un- presented not only to the bank as a whole, dcrtalre snch a course in sclf-iniprovcment but to the ~ndividnnlwhose grasp of his Nol only that, but upon every poss~bleocca- particular specialty makes institutional slon they have e~~couragedit. success possible, it has become apparent There has been a great deal of discur- that while there are any number of men sion during the war years of the system or and wolncll capable of handling eficiently education, especially the higher educatio~i, the routine morlc that comes to their de- In th~scountry. Jt hac; concerned itself partments, there are few who are fitted for chicfly mith Lhe question oE whether or not executive ~~ositions.They fall short in the that education prepares: men and women first place because of a lack of that keen for particil~ation In affa~rs,and espec~ally interest In the worlc which alone can de- business affairs IVithout behttling in any velop a sense of its larger aspects, particu- way the value of classical and scientific larly of the relations of the detailed task studics as a discipline of the minrl the qucs- to other divis~onal or departmental tasks tion has been raised as to whether or not just as valuablc a discipline may not be ob- tained from a well directed study of econom- SPECIAL LIBRARIES ics, finance, and banlring. If menlal disci- the varied points of view of those with pline is the object in view, it isn't so much whom this institution comes in contact, a question of what you study as ~t is of how whosc vision goes beyond national boun- you study and there are not a few very broad daries and into the vast complex of inter- minded men, accordin~ly, who are con- national affairs. These qualifications are tending in our day that it would be a good within range of those whose interests more lhing for men and women to get their disci- than cover the immediate task upon which pline out of studies which are in line with they are employed; those who have broad- the work wh$h these men and women are to ened their outlook By availing themselves of do for a living. every opportunity to learn something more This controversy touches very closely than their present duty requires. such an institution as the Guaranty Trust The Club Library offers this opportu- Company' It is very vitally concerned in nity. It does not contain all the boolrs the possession by its enll~loyeesof thc re- written upon the various phases of our sults of mental discipline, froin whatever work here, but it conlains enough of then1 source derived. It is in daily need of men to see thc studetit well on the way to a good and women who can go to the heart of n urlderslanding of any subject lie cmses to problem at oncc, who can see all its pliases talrc up. Circulars of the latest business and who can then think out a solution of boolrs pu1)lisI~ed are received every month ~t.The ability to do that is in nine cases and an effort is made to keep the library up out of ten tllc result of pcvslslent study of to date. Snggeslions arr also gladly re- ones job. It is 111 daily ~leetlof inen and cciverl concesnmg boolrs lo be added to the women who have nn untlc~rstnnding of the 1 -1 book service clivislon is ~nain- social and cronom~c rnoveluenLs of this tnlned, wllereby books n~yIIC pwchased 81 transitional ~~criod,who arc allla Lo get (('o~rli~lrcrloil pngc 2s) SPECIAL LIBRARIES A Reading List on Industrial Research CLARENCE J. WEST AND EDWARD D. GREENMAN with an Introduction by DR. ARTI-IUR D. LITTLE

IV~thiii;I ~rrutc~~sio~ialexperience of ~iiol~~ood lies in holtli~igwht~t ~t has securer1 in than thirty ywrs nothing hii~be~n so stiilr- no~iiinnlwage.;. while restonng the purchas- in# 21s Lhe ~iiiddr~irt1rognitioii of tli~fundi~- illg ~~owcrnf the dollar it receives through mcsnt:tl in~lrortanc~c~of isetlst?arch by govern- thr inerrnsc oL' ~rrorl~ictiveelforts Seronclly, ments Icatleix 01 ~iitl~~stry,i~ncl tlie nitln in il (leiii:~ii(Isthtl (s~~~iillrte ~itilizationby the the street diirlng tli~progi,ess of' the Jvnr i~gc~liciesc~f ~rl'c~tlilc.tion ot that vitst body of The w;ir ~tqelllias heen cliaracterizc~~lah a organizctl Irn~iwletlge\\~Iiicsh we call science, vlieinist'b war, anrl chemistry has periiiwLet1 ~nrlfli~;~liy, it reqiiircs tlie suppression oP rver y aspecat ot it The chemists in all the the preposteroiis wahtes \vlilch have so long 1)elligerc~nt rountries have been organized clmactarizecl our indnstrial. niunicigal. and 1nLo tlie rq1iir;rlnit of what we hnre ternled national actirftfes. tlie ('heniical \\'arfare Servive and for the lieseal-ch Is ail iii~triiiiieut of unlimited ti11ir3, to \vl~icliwe may no\\, happily refw in potentialities in each sector of Lhis ci1111- tile past tense. thc, entil'c c*l~+wlcnlbrain and 1):ligli Jt ~'i~nn~lof itself educntr labor, hut rnergy ot enc'h cwnbt~t:~nlniltion was en- il is tlic llasis of moqt invreases in the pro- g:ige(l 111 the solution of tlie ~~rolilenisof tliictivlty of labor: it is tI1e life blood of ofica~isrt;~r~tl dcI'~i~st~ TI~P ;~b~io~rn:~l .;tiiiii~lt~- sc.iencc\, thc ir~wlcrnteenemy of waste. tion of spccial iiitl~~.;tric~ssclnt old ~~wthorlh Uy wny ol sii,f!g~stio~i let ~iicpo~iit out a to the ~1.ii1)hc:~~ and tletletl tlip rule of Jew of tho iiio~robvious hrltls of applicatioii th~~iiili.A single ])~*otlucerCoi~iid it !leers- 1 r;r I hc r~seRI'('I111ietiiorl. st~rylo rmploy n~ol-eth:~n a tliousiultl chein- l'hcrr! is first the control of quality of Ish. Fo18 the lirst timr the Antlings of the raw iii:~teml.; as in caqe of steel, alloys, 1;lbtrrntory I)rg;~~ito take on in Everyman's l~caringmetals, lubric'ants, coal, paints, pa- mmd the reasona1)lcness and authority of per, c'cment, and pracnt~callyeverything else tlir ('omnion 1,dw Th(~\vholr? world becanic you IRlg. ii\\alienr~d;~ntl aronswl to the vital neccss~ty Secsond, l~crlial~s,is tlie problein of finding of ;~pplyinglhr scwwtlfic. ~~irtliorlnot only to snjtal~lesul)stitutes for snch snpplies as are rhr acliv~tier.of wai, 1)ut 111 govcrnment;~l iliiol)t;tinalile or uml~ilyhigh in price. For anti 11ns11irr.r.i~ffnirs ilh WCII, if lrrohllerity c+s:inii)lc, Ll~ereIS the use of selenium in place ant1 evcbn iii~lirrnalsecurity arcL to be ahrurctl of gold ill (lie ~~~(JdllctlOIIof ruby glass, the to I pol 'rhur. it lias I)ecome rlie tliity ~~llrstitr~tionoi tui~qsteii l)o~iits for platinlrrn ;\rid tlir pri~ilegeof Lhosc of us who ars in s]~;ir.lcplu#s, ol silica ware lor platinlim rii~iiili:~~\\ ith this ii~~tl~otland its a lq~llc'~- tlislrc.; lor tlic coi~conlration of sul])hriric ton to ~lreavlrth~ (:ospcl oS ILewaixsl~ ;~citl.01' casei~~lol* glue, of clilo~atcol' soda 'I'lic grcs;~tesl 1~ol)lemI~elore the \iorld for chlo~~alcot lrolash 111 dyeing, of zeia, cle- rotla\ is l11' ~~rol)lr.niof i~icrrascd protluc- rivt~d Crom corn, for the prohibited shellac tion ]~~.odiic.tio~ioil ;i sc-ale so great :LS shull lnl- r;i~*li~sliiil~confertionerv, oC sl~eciflcatlon enal~lr11r. la s;ttisfy immediate vrying iir~ds, 011s for oil.; \vhosc \nlue is I:~rgclyin brand lrc'imit 11s to carry witlio~itsit~ggcrjii~ our linnlcs, ant1 ot' the s~ecificinrlicaled chemi- heavy hu~dei~of taxalion, and then to re- (-fils in place of high 11ricrtl Irorler com- +Lore \vithin ;.I ~'easonableperiod tlie colossal pounds c'alr~ttrllosses resulting from the war, Where 01 eve11 greater importance is the scicn- I< the solution or this lwobleni to he found? tifiy control of prrwesses of production, con- It miist come first throng11 the education of trol or forriiuIae, temperatures, Pressures, labor, mhir~li must he mnde to ~pgrelienrl lime and fi~nci~ig,fineness of material. moist- t ledrly tliiit its qi'calwt oplmrt11nit.v ant1 111.c c'o~llent,aiirl all tl~eother I'actors wl~lch~ SPECIAL LIBRARIES

influence the quality and anlount of your dustrial research to the solution of the daily outgut. Correlative with such control economic, industrial, and social problems are the studies having for their object the which confront us holds out a prospect calcu- standardization of your product and the lated to flre the dullest imagination. It pas. elin~inationof seconds and rejections. tulates the wise development of natural re- Wastes can be m~nimized and often sonrces; a far more efficient agriculture; the turned to proflt hy well-directed research. rational evolution and coordination of means The waste liquor of tlie sulphite mills is of transportat~on which shall tie together now a source of alcohol and of adhesives. rivers, railways, good roads and motor trucks, Barker waste IS an excellent raw nmterial landlng flelds and aeroplanes; the releasa of for certain low grade papers. The Cottrell industry from the rule of thumb; and such process of electrical precipitation effects the increases in product~onas shall quickly re- recovery of values of smelter fumes, cement place all capital losses and satisfy the rea- dust, and many other chimney products. In sonable demands of all efficient workers. some industr~es,as lumbering, the potential Science, which assumes these promissory \slues in the wastes are greater than the oi~l~gations,is nothing more than organized raaliwtl values 111 tlie product. cXornmon sense, and research involves only 'rhcz wholly ahnormal conditions under the ar)glicntion of this common sense and the which Imsiness everywhere is now conductor1 orwnized knowledge behind it to the solu- lend 11articula1, intrrcsl to another function tlon of specific pro1)lerns. Science is no long- ol' industriiil resenrcah, nanlely, that of find- er re~uoteand esorteric: it is truly republi- Ing new outlets for present prod~~ctsand can a~~dpragmatic It is here to serve and nrw ])roducts I'or cxisting plants. To take it calls upon evcry man for the opportunity. an cstren~ccase, 110 one, for examllle, real- F~~~ally.it cannot be too strongly empha- izes I~etterthan the clu Ponts that the vast s~zedthat the progress and development of new r~lantswh~ch they constructed for the industry as a whole are cond~tionedon the mnnulaclua'e of esl)los~ves to meet the re- anlount and quality of research available to uuirelncnts of thc Allles have found thelr i~~d~~slry.This applies no1 only to the gen- occn~)ationgone The sn~aciousofficers of eral i~~dustrialdcveloplnent and prosperity Ihis ro~~~orahonlong ago turnctl their nt- of tlie country, but to every industry in the tentim~to utilizatlo~~or their plant and spec- counlrv. The ral~idly growing recognition ial prod~~ctsin the constructive arts of of 111~fun(lamenta1 importance and the earn- neace. They hare 1)egun the ~nnnufact~~reing power of research is evidenced in the ac- of art~ficialleather, lacquers, celluloid, picric cmnpanying bibliography which has been ac~dTor use in dyeing, heavy chcnncals, and ])repa15ed in the hope that ~t may facilltate mnuy indivld~laldyes and inter~nerl~nles. Ilie cons~cle~~ationof the advantages to be In a less acute sense, but no less surely, tlcs~rcdfrom its application to speciflc prob- similar I roblems confront nlanufacturers lems cv?r\.\~l~crc.And their solution in anything Atltlms. F. D. Industrial research and Irut :I hit-or-miss and half-way fnshion fn- national prom-ess. ~Min.Eng. Rec. 24, 142- 146 (June, 1919). \ r11t es Intens~vei~~(lustr~al resent-ch. . Tho need for industrial research in \\'(I huvc only to csoi~slllt0111' own exl~erl- Ctlr~ada. Advisory Council for Scientific tanc.r to recall instancaes In wl~lchthe output and 111dustrial Resenrch. Bulletin No. 1. of II pla111 has been multiplied by three with. 1918. oul chmqing its equil)~nent;where the sav- Administration of industrial research labora- lnqs due to rcseirrch haye relnicl weekly tories, Met. Chem Erg. 13, 922 (Dec. I, 1915). Illrough :I term of ycnrs thc ent~recost of Advisory Council for the organization and tho in\ esligation, wl~erc research has dis- develol)nlent of scientific and industrial cBloscd potentla1 ~slnesin waste material research. Engineer 121, 259-2130 (Mar. 24, 8l'csotcr than the gross reccived Iron1 the 1916). II~~III:~l product : uvherc industries, presum- Advisory Council on industrial research. Kature 95, 321-327 (May 20, 1916). :1l11> f~vetland stal~le,have been revolution. Alexander, nI W. Important phases of the Ired I)y the loeic- of the laboratory labor probleni. Iron Age 104, 1258-1261, III ~tsIlroader ;~sl~rctsthe nppl~ratiol~of in- l32!?-l3'76 (NOT..21-28, 1918). SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Alloy foundry run under scientific direction. Foundry 47, 381-384 (June 15, 1919). American Society for Testing Materials Topical discussion on cooperation in In- dustrial research. Am. Soc. Testing Materials, Proc. 3, 5-67 (1918). Austmlfa. Advisory councll of science and industry. Recent developn~ents in the organization of National Tntlustrial Re- search Institutions Mclhourne, 1918. Bacon, R. I?. Industrial chemical problems. Oil, Paint rind Drug Rep 90. No. 35. 71 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

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