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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1920s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1928 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. - Vol. 19 November, 1928 ---- No. 9- Army Medical Library Transportation Libraries Value of Bibliographies Library of the Port of New York

Manufacturers' Conference Links Library Research Chicago Round Table Session During Midwinter Meetings

Exhibits Library Aids Groups Departments

Entered ns socond class mnttcr at thc Post Ofnce, Frovidencc,,*R. I. under thr Act of Mnrch 3. 1879. Acceptnncc lor mniling at speclnl rate of postnpc provided lor in section 1103, Act of 0rtolrt.r 3, 1017 authorized October 22,1927. Rates: $5.00 a yenr. Foreign $5.60: bingle copies 50 cents. Contents ARTICLES.- Army Medical Library. By Colnnej P M. Ashburn 3 1 1 Library Service For the Port of [dew York Authority By M. E. Pellett ...... ,...... 314 Necessity for Transportation Libraries. B; W. Rodney Long...... 3 1 8 Value of Bibliographies. By Eugene R. Woodson 321

CONVENTION MEETINGS

Group Reports ...... 328 Chicago Round Table 326 National Association Croup Meetings ...... 330 of Manufacturers. .. 327 Special Librarians at a Local Committee Re- State Library Con- port ...... 323 vention ...... 33 7

DEPARTMENTS -NOTES Associations ...... 327,335 Civil Service Examina- Editorials ...... 324 tion ...... 329 Gas Association Issues Events and Publica- First Aid on Library 326 tions ...... *.... 337 How to Kill an Asso- Institutional Members 308 ciation...... 334 Library Exhibit ...... ,326 Personal Notes ..... JdW National Museum Bul- President's Page ... 324 letin ...... 332 We Do This ...... 333 Wants and Offers ...... 327

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Consolidated Gas Co of New York Ohio Oil Co., Findlay Electric Bond S: Share Co., Ncw York Proctor 8: Gnmblc, Cinc~n~iati Fecleral Reserve 13anl: of New York Fleisclimann Company, New York Oklahoma Ford, Bacon & Davis, New York S Bureau of hl~ncs,Eartlesville General Electric Co., Main Library, Sche- U. nectady Grant Co., W. T.,New York Pe,nnsylvania Grosvenor Library, Buffalo Guaranty Company of New York Armstrong Cork Co., Lal~c,~ster Home Insurance Co., Ncw York Franklin Institute, Pliiladclpl~la Industrial Relations Counselors, Ncw York Iloughton, E. F & Co., PliilL~delphin International Railway Co., Buffalo Jones & Lauglilin Steel Company, P~~tsbr~rgh 'John Price Jones Corporation, New York New Jcrscy Zinc Co., Pal~nerton Longmans, Green & Company, New York Philadelphia Collcgc of Pliar~uxyand Science, McCall Company, New York Pl~ilndelpl~la Merchants Association of New York Philadelphia Electric Colnpany, Philatlelphia Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, Pliila- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New delphia York Pittsburgh Railways Company, Pittsburgh Municipal Reference Library, New York Providenl Mutual Lifc Insurn~~ceCo., Phila. National Association of Manufacturers, New School of Fine Arts, Univ Pcnna., Phila. York University of Pittsburgh Library, Pittsburgh National Autorilobile Chamber of Commerce, Westinghouse Electric Rcscarcli Lihmry, E. Ncw York Pittsburgh National City Financial Library, New York Wyo~nissingTrade School, R'yo~uissing New Jersey Zinc Company, New York New York Academy of Medicine, New York Rhode Island New York Telcphone Company, Ncw York Rhodc Island State Library, Providence New York Times, The, Ncw York North American Company, New York I(r Price, Waterhousc Co , New York Wisconsin Putnam's Sons, G. P., New York Russell Sage Foundation, New York First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee Sinclair Refining Co., New York Marshall Ilslcy Bank, hlilwaukce Standard Statistics Company, New York Schuster & Co., Edward Inc., Milwaulcee United States Rubber Company, New York Western Union Telegraph Company, New York White & Kemble, New York Wilson Co., H.W., New York Canada I-Iydroelectric Powcr Con~r~~issionof Ontario, Ohio Toronto Imperial Life Assuranre Co ol Canncla, Toronto General Elcctric Co., Rcscarcli Laboratory, Royal Bank of Canadn, Montreal Clcveland Toronto Transportntion Commission, Toronto

'New members joincd sinco last issue of Special Librarilp, Special Libraries Vol. 19 NOVEMBER, 1928 No. 9 Army Medical Library

By P. M. Ashburn, Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. A.

FIE Army Medical Library, ltnown tinues. You can unders~and that to the worlcl as tlie Libtat-y of the economists and faddists have often TSurgeon General's Oflice, owes its begin- tried to break the habit, ancl the fate of ning to the foresight and genius of First the libfary was long the sul~ject of 1,ieuteuant John S. Billings of The Medi- periodical ansiety, and at one timc a bill cal Corps, supported most liberally by was introcluced directing that the Ii- Surgeon General Barnes, who~eability brary vacate the building in wl~ichit is arid largeness of vision have not been housed. There was no place provided for given too much, if nearly ellough credit. it to go and had the bill passed it would At the close of the Civil War, the have gone to thc street. I-Iappily, that Surgeon General had in his control a was avoided. large sum of money detived f1.on1 the In 1892, a joint resolution of Congress mess funds of the numerous general placed the library at thc disposal of the hospitals of the army which had bcen nleclical profession of tlie country, under closed as their patients were clischargecl. such restrictions as might he found From this sum he allotted $80,000 necessary, and it has re~nained~o since. for the iniprovetnent of the Lilxary of Our greatest single user of books is the his office and charged Assisiant Surgeon L)epartn~entof Agriculture. John S. Billings with the task. I-Ie choae Congress allots in the neiglil~orlioodof wisely, for Billings, as you doul>tless $20,000 a year for Lhe puichase of books know as well as I, 11ecamc the greatest and periodicals, with whicl~amount we librarian in America, one of the great are able to purclme about as many as ones of thc worlcl. He Ixgan at once to we can handle with our present force. gather valuable and rare medical books Fro~nthe small collection of books ancl he continued in the Library until listed in the catalogue of 1861, a small his retirement for age, before which volume of 24 pages, the library has time his fame was internatio~~aland grown to be the greatest purely medical books and information about books library in the world, the best catalogued sought him. Like many great men, he and most rcadily accessible. It is known accornplisl~eda tremendous amount of where bibliography and progressive work and established high reputation medicine are ltnown, and outside of our in more than one field. He had a large country, and possibly mitllin it, it is part in planning Johns Hopkins Hospital probably, or was long, regarded as the and Medical Scl~ool,and in the ad- Iwst evidence of a scientilic spirit in the ministration of the Carnegie Founda- h/Zedical Tlepartment of the Army. The tion, he was widely ltnown as a sanitarian catalogue now embraces 45 volumes and was the first Professor of Hygiene in three alphal~etical ~eries. The 7th in the Army Medical School He was volime of the 3rd series is now in press. a prolific writer. After his retirement he At the present timc the library con- reorganized and remade the New York tains approsi~nately320,000 bound vol- Puhlic Library. umes ant1 between 500,000 aid 600,000 Surgeon General Barnes, after furnish- other printed items, such as pa~nphlets, ing funds to give the library a start to monographs and society transactions, greatness, was able to start Congress thousands of portraits of phys~ciansand on the good habit of an annual appro- between 500 and 600 incunabula, books priation for it, a habit which still con- printed between 1457 and 1500 A. D. 312 SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928

The library also contains a large sta- caused me to have made a cursory tistical section, consisting of approxi- examination which revealed that our mately 50,000 items, donated by the ~rinted titles under Dinbetes fill 102 Prudential Insurance Conlpany of Amer- pages, while our still unprinted cards ica and collected largely by Dr. Frederick number thousands and in addition L. I-Ioffman, the statistician of that articles in books would in themselves company. constitute a large library. Such re- From the Library of Congress we quests as this are not nearly as rare as receive one copy ol each copyrighted you might think, Discrimination is medical book published in America; necessary in the use as well as in the others come as gifts, and foreign pub- preparation of bibliography. lications'we buy. We receive by pur- The personnel of the library, including chase or gift more than I700 diflerent laborers, numbers 26, ages ranging froin journals and periodicals, published in all "uncertaint1 to ninety. lwguages which have periodical medical The money value of the library has literature. This literature is available been estimated at $4,000,000 to $5,000,- to readers who come to the library and 000. Many items are worth exactly most of it is also available for loan to what they might fetch and that would medical officers in all parts of the world vary, according to manner and place of and to the medical profession by sale, for a given item from a lew cents to means of interlibrary loans in the United a thousand dollars. Examples, I-Iarvey's States and Canada. Last year we made "DeMotu Cordis" brought ten pounds, loans to 365 Iibrasies. Escep~ionsare ten shillings in 1895 and ]low is worth a made of current and unbound period- great deal more. During the war a copy icals, and of old or rare books which of Pirogoff's atlas, valued at S1,000 was could not be readily replaced in case of lost. I fancy that few medical officers, loss. These may be used at the library uninformed as to its rarity, would pay only, but for small sums, 15 to 30 cents so much. Such rarities as this, the per page, photostatic copies of anything incunabula and especially ancient Greek, we have c~lbe supplied. The readers Latin, Hebrew or Arabic manuscripts in the libraiy were 4600 in fiscal year are mostly vanities. 1927 and in that year 11,551 books were Now a few words as to the work. I sent out on loan. have often been asked by medical One medical publishing house keeps officers as to my duties, the inquiry a force of six persons constantly at the pronounced in such a way as to imply a library doing bi1)liographical re~earch, belief that I am a person of elegant translating and abstracting. leisure, with nothing to do but read The greatest work of the library, that atid absorb knowledge and to become a which is known throughout the world, widely informed gentleman ol the type is the preparation of the Index of General McCaw. There have been Catalogue, fornlerly also the preparation few times since I entered the service of the Index Mcdicus, and also aid in when I had less opportunity to do read- the preparation of the Quarterly ing or other things of a diverting nature, Cumulative Index Meclicus, which is a no time when I was less busied in combination of the old Index Medicus routine. Age has some coinpensatiotls and the Quarterly Cuinula~ive Index and among them is the fact that routine of the Journal of the American Medical may then be a comfort in many ways. Association. Our part in this work is No longer, as in childhood or youth, the indexing of 885 periodicals not does nature cry for constant change and handled by the Amcrican Medical Asso- variety. So we old people at the library ciation. Through these put~licationsthe go along doing our daily stints after the medical literature of the world is made lnanner of old wheel horses. If brilliant, known to investigators all over the cnormously industrious, and thoroughly world. The volume of this literature is familiar with the work, as was Billings, immense. Today, as I write, there has it is possible to do the stint and a great come in a request from a gentleman deal besides. If not all three, one is not that we send him everything we have on apt to set any rivers afire. We take 1720 diabetes. The naivetk of the request journals and magazines and we acquired November. 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 313

last year about 1500 books. The books have taken up some minutes of my time, must be looked at sufficiently to be and if there be some hundreds to head, classified for the proper place in the as there frequently are, the delay is catalogue, the journals and magazines serious. 1 try to clean my desk daily, searched and selection made of the but do not always succeed. To work articles cleemed important, apt to be all clay and see the pile of jourllals sou ht and worthy of cataloguing. This diininish hour by hour until 4.20 P. M. tasf < is of necessity done hurriedly and, and then have a n~essengercome in with therefore imperfectly. If in a nlorning another armload is disturbing. The I have brought to me a large stack of cards, having been classified, are filed jourds in several languages, none too until Dr. Alleinann, who prepares the well known, and if by evening those proof for thc Indes Catalogue, reaches journals have all been run through and them. Hc then goes over them, rejects the original articles checked or rejected, nlany ancl sends the others to the you may lrriow that they have not been printer, after which those printed (ex- read carefully, but that in most instances cept author cards) are dcstroycd. All the judgment of worth has been based of this helps rnakc the Catalogue cost upon the character and general worth of much more than ils sale price, for the journal, the author or the iilstitution example: Vol. V of thc 3rd Series sells in which the author works or from which for $2.55. One thousnncl copies cost the he writes, upon the genekal look of the library $1S156S.2S for printing and article, its sub-heads, illustrations and paper, $18.57 pcr volume. The prepara- conclusions. Mistakes are bound to tion was estinlated to cost $14,280, occur and such mistakes are more fitly iilakilig the total cost $32.85 per volume. characterized as wrong guesses than as Mention of money makes me feel as rnistakes of judgment. It is financially though I were Imdily back in the li- and physically impossible to get all brary. Money, pay, is a matter of headings printed in the catalogue, hencc universal ancl daily interest. Our the need for this selection. The journals clerical, non-military persnnnel draws then go to the typists, who type a subject from $1,320 to $3,000 per annum with card for each article checked, and 395 per cent dcducted toward retire- journals and cards,are then returned to ment at the agc of 70 and works hard the officer checking, who writes on each at tra~-tslation, classification, book se- card the catalogue heading under which lection and olher highly technical tasks, it must be filed. This particular task is ancl is unsatisfied. The library is a queer still for me a slow one. Colonel Garri- little world, in which cvery person is son's speed is limited only by his speed convinccd that every other is queer in writing, for he knows the classifica- and only himself quite right. In this it tion and, through years of practice, can resembles but outruns the larger world. assign a card its proper place at first But as cach 1-ealizes that this queerness glance. I am still apt to be puzzled by of thc others throws a great respon- such a simple title as "Sarcoma of the sibility upon himself, I am not sure that hletacarpal Bones. Shall it be (1) Bones it does not rcsult in a greater output (Metacarpal) Tumors of, sarcomatous ; of work ant1 enables us to carry on. I (2) Hand (Diseases and Tumors of) ; (3) am told I)y librarians that our output Tumors (Sarcomatous) of hand; (4) is esceptional in its relation to per- Tumors (Sarcomatous) of bone. I may son nel . have to look at all four headings and the Certain men, in the service and out, article beforc I can decide the question have accomplished great things outslde according to precedent and custom. the big clay's work. Osler is a shining My instinct would be to put it "Sar- euamplc. Rcad his Lifc by Harvey coma (Bones) metacarpal," but I know C~lshing,110th Ior the pure delight of it enough to know that that is wrong. IE and as an inspiration to work and learn the article be in a foreigp language and that, for men so co~lstitutedas he, each I am not sure of a word in the title, I clay has ali of 48 hours, some of them also have to consult the dictionary, always for l~uolcs. I-Ie was a great lover and a great uscr ol books and of the i possibly two or three dictionaries. So you sec that this one card heading may Surgeon (:eneral1s Library. It is SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1028 interesting to learn that Osler, personal Garrison's. But our library has more friend of Billings, great lover of books source material than any other in Amer- and great admirer of our library, for ica, at least. losing a book was punished for one year. Hence our titles on magic, medicine, He borrowed Peacock's "Malformations magical and spagyric, popular, pfimi- of the I-kart" and lost it. Billings de- tive, ancient and mediaeval, on rel~gion prived him of the privilege of taking in mecli&~e,clinical medi&ne, astrology, books from the library and .Osler there- alchemy and other stages of progress after had to make many a trip to our toward the present statiis of the art and library to consult books which he could science, occupy inany pages of the not find in Baltimore or Philadelphia. catalogue. The library has large collections on some subjects which the practitioner Cushing has said that "the soul rarely uses, such as anthropology and of an institution that has any pretense ethnology. The history of medicine also of learning comes to reside in its library, constitutes a specialty in which our no less than does the soul of a profession collection is very rich, but to which most or of an individual." The Army Medical medical men rarely refer, as they na- Library is a worthy residence for a great turally prefer in their busy and practical soul. It is hoped that that of the lives to get what they get of the subject Medical Department may long inhabit at second hand, in such works as Col. it. The Library Service of The Port of New York Authority By M. E. Pellett, Librarian

N taking over the Port Authority Some of you, strangers or only oc- 0 Library, I found it consisted of only casional visitors to the great port of a small collection of books, reports, New York, may wish to know sorne- pamphlets and periodicals, all packed in thing about the nature of our work. 1)oses; and on the spiritual side there was I?irst, what is the Port of New York, a liability in the form of an almost total geographically considered? The name absence of library-mindedness. That "New York" does not describe the port, was somewhat less than two years ago. but it is convenient, like "American" Now, everybody in the organization to designate a citizen of the United makes use of the Library, and if we do States of America. Everybody knows it; not have the material, we do have at you could not displace it, for it is fised least tlie "leads" to all the information in the linguistic habits of hundreds of available in the entire Port Authority millions of people, not only at home, organization,-and beyond; for there, but abroad. When I returned from also, are my "contact" files, so dear to Europe in 1925, I bought in Paris a the librarian. ticket entitling me to passage from Thanks to tlie Special Libraries As- Cherbourg to New York. I landed at sociation, my "contacts" include many Hoboken. of you wholn I can, and perhaps too often do, call upon, by letter, by tele- Now, Hoboken is in the Port of New graph or by telephone to clear up some York, just as much a part of it as olxcure point, to request the loan of a Brooklyn or Manhattan itself; so is all book, or to arrange an interview for the long line of waterfront, crowded with some member of the Port Authority staff piers, 011 the Jersey side of the River and who is seeking special, perhaps unpub- Bay. lished, information on a technical sub- Bear that in mind when you think of ject. the Port of New York, over which The November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 315

Port of New York Authority has by the Port Autl~olit~and .i Comniittce jurisdiction. appoinled l~ytile rn~lro~iclscnic~lng Ncw The Port of New York Authority was Yorlc City. created by Compact entered into on CONSTRUCTIVE STATI(J?TSon !,l;~~~l,;~ttnn, April 00, 1921, by and between the a matter now the subjccL of hearings bcltrlc States of New York and New Jersey, the lnterstatc Co~ii~iic~ceCo~nmission s~t ting and appro~wlby the Congress of the in New Yorlc. IJnited States on August 23, 1921. The DRAWBRIDGES across Ncwnrk BJ~and Port Authority is the instrunlentality Hackensack and Passaic lilvcrs. of the two States. Under the statute it DRY DOCK for the Port of New Yolk Distr~ct. Iias- FERRY between 13rooklyn and Ne\v Jerscy. FREE PORTS for the Port of New York. "full power and authority to pur- FOOD MARKETING, in connection with chase, construct, lease and/or oper- which the Port Authority has for scars becn ate any terminal or transportation co-operating with the U. S. Dep.irtnlent of facility within said district; and to .Agriculture, univcrsiiies, espcrilncnt sta- make charges for the use thereof; tions, New York State anrl C~tyclepatt- and for any of such purposes to own, ments. hold, lease and/or operate real or GRADE CROSSING ELI.14INXTTON has personal property, to borrow money received tlie Port Authority's attention in and secure the same by bonds or by relati011 to tllc Comprchcusive Plan for the mortgages upon any property held port's development. or to bc held by it." INLAND TERMINALS, as n factor in tlic A Comprehensive Plan for the de- freight clistribuiion problem of the Port of velopment of the Port of New York was New York District adopted by New Jcrsey on Feb. 23, 1922, NEW YORK POIJLTRY ESCIIAKC;E, IC- and by New York on February 24, 1922, cently created untlcr authority of Ic~islnLiuri and approved by the Congress of the passed only about n ).car ago; tlic Port United States on July 1, 1922. Autliorlty is rcprcscntccl on the Escliange. There has since been supplementary PORT PROTECTION, uhicli you will find legislation, particularly in connection fully covered in the Port Authority's annual with the bridges we are building. report for 1927 at 13. 9, 29-42. In this con- To indicate to you the scope of the nection may IIC cited tlic comment of the Port Authority's activities, allow me to "Dock anti Hnrhor Authorily," the chief enumerate some of the things it has English port publication, In ILS issuc lo1 been, or is, occupied with: April, 1928, at p. 181: "The annual report of Thc Port of ?!cw l'ork AIRPORTS In tlic Ncw York lnctropolitan Authority lor the cdcntlar year 1025 con- area, a sul~ject which we studied in co- stitutes a striking record of thc Authority's operation with Sccrctary Hoover's coni- efforts in clealing nit11 vit:il p~olrlcmsa~is~ng mittcc (the RlncCracken Committee). in the administration ol America's chiel BELT LINES, as a part of the Comprehensive port." Plan for the development of the Port of New RAILROADS-CONSOLIDA~i'ION, n s~r1)jcct York. in which the Port Autho~ityhas vc~y actively BRIDGES: two across the Arthur Klll participated. hctmcen Staten Island and New Jersey, one RAILROADS-RATES, ~nnttcr of corlslallt across the Kill van I

SUBURBAN TRANSIT, a study of the iliter- found similarly engaged in any other state phases of the New York situation in co- port area in the world. An ever in- operation with all the transit agencies on both creasing number of them are coming siclcs of the Hudson. to the Port Authority Library. Nor TESTING LABORATORY: At Jcrsey City a are they our own people merely. They laboratory for testing all materials cntering come from all sections of the United into the construction of the four Port Au- States and from abroad. Within recent thority bridges is functioning; a new building months we have received visitors from to house a new and powerful testing machine England, Belgium, France, Germany, is under way. South America, and the Orient. TITLE INSURANCE, a quesLion we have had I believe the Port Authority Library to handle in the purchase of the real cstate has a future, for I firid it impossible to above mentioned. picture a successful Port of New York TOLL BRIDGES: The four bridges under con- Authority without a library, and at that, struction are to pay for themelves by tolls, a library second to none of its kind, as and the actual operation of two of them will befits the organization having jurisdic- be undet way within a few weeks. tion over the greatest port in the world. TRAFFIC SURVEYS: It is upon careful I feel that in the Port Authority Li- traffic surveys that the Port Authority has brary, we are laying the foundation of been ablc to float bonds for the construction just such a library-the best in its special of thc bridges. field. That is the star to which our wagon TRUCKING, as to which the Port Authority is hitched. has made cornprchensive studies. With that star to guide us, we are trying to function as efficiently as our To sum up, we are, briefly, interested means permit. Our situmtion is far from in the economic and engineering aspects hopeless, for we do enjoy some facilities. of all means of transportation, with Any special librarian appreciates the special emphasis on terminal facilities. importance of kllowing the needs of his This audience of librarians does not organization, and therefore, the value of need to be told what amount of study is any and all means to that end; knows involved in the solution of the economic that contact between the library and and engineering problems I have men- all departments of the organization it tioned. It would likewise be gratuitous serves is vital to success. In this respect for me to emphasize the Library's r81e the Port Authority Library is peculiarly in this work. As in the case of most fortunate. In addition to my duties as special libraries, a picture of ours is a Librarian, I sit in at all Board meetings cross-section of the activities of the or- and staff conferences, prepare all ganization it serves. minutes, and also act in the Secretary's Inasmuch as The Port of New York absence. I index the minutes, using the Authority is a public agency, spending cumulative form, with a consolidated public funds in the public interest, it index at the end of each fiscal year. I follows that its library is a public li- maintain a central index of all depart- brary. In the parlance of librarians, it mental files, and as all filing is done is, of course, not a public, but a special under my supervision, the files are to me library. However, like The Municipal as much a source of information as are Reference Library, it is a public library the books on the library shelves. The serving a special public, or serving the filing system we use is alphabetic. A public in a special way. From another feature of the central file index is a point of view, it is the library of the duplicate set of cards (corresponding to Port of New York District, and in this the legends on the folders) classified respect, is unique; it is the joint special according to the Dewey Classification, library of the States of New York and which we use in the Library. This New Jersey. classified card file covers both name and In its restricted or special way, it is subject files. The same system applies serving a constantly widening public. to our newspaper clipping file. In this There are probably a greater number of way all records of the Port Authority individuals studying the problems of the are co-ordinated, so that we can, with a Port of New York District than will be pull on one string, so to speak, bring out November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 317

for the re~earchworker all the data there c~ccptwhen it is n clucbtion of Ila~-i~lgLO are on a given sul~jcctin the entire or- clrink it1 ganization. 1 love h11il)s; I lo\-c tl~c:cab on \tllicll Our indeses covcr e~rerytl~ing-boolts, they sail; I lu\~tl;c portti at 'untl Iron pamphlets, periodicals, misccllaneous which they ru.ri\.c anti rlcat-. I all1 land clata, maps, photographs, printers' cuts, librarians, too; I~utI c~)nfcssI an1 more files, clippings, and inailing lists. And at Ilomc among scamen, stc\-cclores, all clata can bc reached through 110th steamship agel-1ts, ~)ilols,the varic,~~~ alphabetic and classifiecl channels. tribes that hancllc tl~egrcxt mater\)orne conmerce of the world. I lovc the snlell In the library proper we Imvc three of cargo, the sound rll thc wincll, the main clivisions: (1) Bound volumes, on taste of salt air, LIIC Feel of tile decIr, tI1e the shclves; (2) Pamphlets and unl~o~rncl sight of scagulls and Ihc vast 1)luc periodicals, in paniplilet bo~es; (3) espanses of the sea. Miscellaneous data, in vertical files. All In my ~voslcas 1-i1)rarian of The Port are classified according to the principles of New York Arltl~o~it!-and a:, !'hair- of the Dewey C'lassifiration Boolrs and lnan of yo~~r\l'ater Trnnsportatio~~C'om- pamphlets are fully catalogued. Mis- mittee, I am living anciv, if 111 a less cellaneous data, in what we call our In- direct m!., helife that I lcrl for ho many formation File, are not catalogued; but years. U'e rewive a constant stream of we do maintain a fairly conlprehensive port literature from all over the world. alplpabetic key to the Inforlnation File. I wish I had thc timc to read it The I was pleased to note, in an article by' temptation is great, especially .when a Guy E. Marion, in thc March number of volume on some far-ofi port that I have SPECIAL LIBRARIES, that much the known cor~lcsto my tlesli. To thumb its same scheme for information files 1s used pages is like revisiting old familiar in thc Research Department of the Los scenes-I had almo,t said bo~~hond Angeles Chambcr of Commerce. I scenes, altliough it Ivas only tlirce years hope our 1-0s Angeles friends have found ago thc 15th of t111s rnonth that I it as practical and as much a timesaver definitively returner1 home from Irly as we have. travels abroad. I might with propriety go into more I have dipped into this I~ilof my detail as to the nleans we employ in private life only for the purpose of show- rendering service to the technical staff ing you the 1)arl;grounrl of the picture of the Port Authority, telling you of our I unclertoolc to draw for you-of the ~nagazinecirculation system, the bulle- Lil~rarySen-ice of Tlic Port ol New tin we issue for the inlormation of the York Authority, with a word almut tllc staff, and the bibliographic work we are Chairmansliip of thc \\'a!er Transporta- constantly doing. But I forego that tion Sol)co~nmitteeof this great associn- pleasure and will close with a reminder tion of 1il)rarian.s. I hope it? recital will that under the leadership of the Chair- cause you to accept, nt 100% plus, my man of the Transportation Committee of assurance that I am, heart arid soul, the Commercial-Technical Group, the wrapped up in this work, and in the work subcommittee which he has appointed being done and to be clone by the Special to handle Water Transportation is Libraries Association. My enthusiasm functioning. It was with a great deal gets me to my cleslr at hall past seven or of pleasure that I accepted the Water eight in the morning, and keeps mc there Transportation Cliairma~iship In the until late hours at night It leads me to category of utilities, transportation- a devoted study of the problems in- especially transportation by water- volved, leads me e\-cn to impose, I fear, is about the only subjecl as to which I upon those whn have joined me on the have any honest-to-goodness kno-ivledge. committee, but if it leads also, event- Ships and ports and terminals are my ually, to a realization of our 11ope~a stock in trade I have worked and slept water transportation catalogue nlerltlng with them (and aboard, too, for I have a place in the mon ~~rnenla1 \~ol-liplanned done my bit at sea) for the last ten or by the Transportation C'ommittee,-I twelve years. Air, rail, and highway shall espect the forgiveness of all those transportation I accept with only moder- to whom my importunities have made ate enthusiasm; but water-I love it- me an insufferable pest. 318 SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928 The Necessity for Transportation Libraries By W. Rodney Long, Chief, Foreign Railways Section, Transportation Division, Department of Commerce

PECIAL LIBRAIiIES dekoted to able to us thi-ough the courtesy ol the S transportation subjects have be- Bureau of Railway Economics, ~vliicl~ come necessities to the commerical unclo~~btedlypossesses one of the finest interests of our country. There is hardly collection of railway public.ations in a phase of economic activity which in this country, and the Pan American some manner cloes not embody trans- Union, whose collection of Imoks 011 portation From the selectn~en's meet- Hispanic countries is second to none, ings held in the little Ixick schoolho~~sethat our study woulcl liavc cnclecl heforc in some urban village to the Board it actually con~inenced. Lye learned Room of our largest financial institu- several interesting things, however, dur- tions information is dcnlanded on trans- 'ng this research and one was that there portation su1)jects. Small villages desire 1s probably more clata available in this data on traffic problenls which have country on railways in certain foreign been ~olvedby the larger cities during countries than is actually possessed in the couwe of their growth. The de- any one source by the country itself. veloper of a community wants to know Our st~~clywas undertaken at the re- haw hest to lay out his home sites to quest of various industries of tlie [Jnited atTorcI aclerluatc means of rommunica- States to provide them with certain tion with the nearby city to which he financial and traffic clata, as well as looks for prospective p~~rchasers.'The right of way characteristics, ill order farmer is ansious to learn l~owhis fellow that they might have an opportutiity farmer in some otlicr section of the to srrutinize a prospective rrm-leet I~efore country or a foreign country is solving attempting to enter it. This work has his transportatiun problems. The di- practically I~een.completed, but in the rector of a ra~lwayis interested in lalow- meantime other pro1)lems have ariscn. ing what his fellow railwaymen have There is increasing interest in foreign accomplishe$ in using motor and aerial countries regarding the use of motor rail transportation in connection with their cars. railways. The steamship owner needs information relative to handling of A short time ago we received an cargo in foreign ports; tlie inlancl inquiry from our Conimercial Attach6 in waterways developer, data on the foreign London, England, written on 1)ehalf of operation of inland waterways. Thesc the High Commissioner of Railways in are hut a few of the nlany diversified India, requesting certain clata pertain- interests who look to special transporta- ing to railway motor cars. Fortunately tion libraries for their inlormation wc were able to secure from the Library Naturally, special libraries are not of the Bureau of Railway Economics available in every nook and hamlet a bibliography covering all available in the country and there must be some data on this subject. We forwardecl it to other means of providing these seekers London and received a prompt ac- with information as to how they can get knowledg~nent from the High Corn- the desired information. There is but missioner to the effect that nothing one answer to this and that is bib- could have been more suited to his liographies prepared under the auspices purpose than the bibliography which of a specialist in each part~cularfielcl was sent him. with full reference made to where such Similarly we had a comnlun ication publications as may be included in the flmn our office in Sydne)?, New South list can be consulted. Wales, asking that certain information During the last few years we have be forwarded to them for the L1.e of an been engaged pritnarily in a study of Austral~an railway official who was foreign railways and we iuust say that making a study of the Url~anElectric were it not for the material made avail- Railway problems in his State. Almost Novcrnber, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 319 ill the nime mail we rei.ei\wl a "lieler- anywhere in this (-ounlry. Incidentally, ence List of Literature on Ilrban Electric while undertaking this research we also Railways" compiled by the Trans- ascertained that there was no particular portation Committee of this Associa- lihrary specializing in idand waterways tion under the Chairmanship of Mr. subjects. We learned, however, that Armistead, Librarian of the Boston Mr. Pcllett of the Port Authority Elevated Railway. \/lTllether this was a Library, New York City, is now cngaged divine act or not I hesitate to state, but in preparing a biblio~raphy of such the bibliography was immediately mailed publications which when available will to our foreign ofice with the suggestion undoubtedly fill a long felt want in that that it be carefully read and that the respect. publications which were desired be so There is one phase of transporta- indicated and the list returned. This tion work which I believe has been sadly was certainly a great help to us and our neglected. Tl~atis the preparation of a thanks are due to Mr. Armistead in this 1)ibliography OII Transportation Period- respect. icals. I know of no single source, es- We have often felt that the work of cluding, of course, Bolton's "Catalogue the special libraries' is not receiving the of Scientific and Technical Periodicals" recognition which it deserves. In our published in 1897, that furnishes in- own esperience we have many times formation of this sort. I presume, of had occasion to refer an inquirer asking course, that supplementary informa- for specific information to a library tion is available but not in such form as located in his own city with the state- to make it readily accessible. This sort ment tha~the data he desires is con- of information is something which busi- tained in some publication on file there. ness organizations engaged in trans- In view of this fact, I would suggest portation or in s'elling to transportation that more publicity be give11 to the work companies lids particularly essential. performed by the various lilxaries of We oftentimes receive inquiries asking your Association. Particularly, closer for ilifornlations as to possible advertis- co-operation sho~~lclbe effected with thc ing mediums in foreign countries. In district and co-operative offices of the the past we have always handled these Department of Commerce, Chambers of incluirids' I)y referring them directly to Commerce and business organizations our field olfices, as the information is not througliout the country. Let them know available in this cout~try. Believing that what you have and the work which you you might be interested in the work of are doing and I am sure you will find the Transportation Ilivision of the that through these outlets your efforts Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- will receive the greater recognitio~ldue merce, Department of Commerce, I them. As far as we in the Transporta- will outline the various activities in tion Division are concerned, our only which it is engaged. The Division was knowledge, of research being under- inaugurated ahout five years ago to taken by special libraries is secured engage primarily in the study of trans- through announcements in trade papers. a or tat ion prohlems throughout the world While we are not intimately associated and during the first year of its existence with library work, we do have many acquainted itself with the data available occasions to consult them. Recently in this country on transportation sub- we were called upon for certain data jects. With the knowledge of what was regarding the possibility of utilizing then available the Division sent out cableways as a means of transportation questionnaires to supplement this data, between barges on our inland water- particularly pertaining to transporta- ways and warehouses which sometimes tion subjects which had not been covered are located many feet above the river by any of the available sources in this surface. After consulting the various country. Asa result wenowhaveex- sources of information that we had cellent libraries and files on Railways, available, we determined that outside of Shipping, Aeronautics, Highways and a little information on file in the Li- other forms of transportation projects. brary of the Bureau of Railway Eco- This material is available to interested nomics there was no data available parties and we are at all times glad to 320 SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928

our files .at the disposal of any ciation in special studies of traffic and research student. The main lil~raryof transportation; conducts studies of traf- the Department of Colulnerce has ap- fic growth, finance, bills of lading, and proxilnately 150,000 voliunes of pub- co-ordination of railway and other licatiolls primarily co~~cenling.foreign forms of transportation. It also makes trade. Indirectly many of these pub- special domestic transportation studics lications have some bearing on trans- in connection wlth shippers and re- portation, particularly if the country ceivers of freight, such as the FlolAida owns or operates its transportation Transportation Field Survey. systems. The Traxportation Ilivision (B) Second it directs investigations and has issi~ed swh pul~lications as its makes special studies in connection with series of railway I~mcll~ooks01.1 Latin foreign and domestic warehousing, in- American Railn-ays, Inland Water cluding distribution of products througli Transportation in the United States, centrally located warehou~es; collab- Great Lakes-LO-Ocean \Yaterways and orates with the shippers, warehousemen, Civil Aeionautlcs in the I;nitcd Iiing- brokers and railwaymen in relation to &m, as well as many others. At the standard contract terms and conditions present time the Divisio~~is d~videcl into for the warehouse industry. It collects six sections, the activities of which are and disseminates information regarding as follows: the basis rate making for warehousing The Shipping Section collects and ancl is now conducting a survey of foreign clisceniinates information on (1) Ocean warehouse distribution facilities for Shipping, domestic and foreign; bills of Amel-ican products in the principal lading; charter partics, companies, con- foreign countries. ferences, con\-entions, discriminations The Packing Section collects and dis- by foreign governments, finance, freight seminates inforn~ationon various types rates, a general average, idle shipping, and kinds of shipping containers used invent~ons,legidation, marine insurance, in both domestic and foreign shipping pilotage, seamen, subsidies and other by rail, water and truck. The Section forms of government aid, etc.; is particularly interested in the develop- (2) Panama and Suez Canals; facilities, ment of scientific n~ethodsof container administration, charges, traffic and construction and pilferproof devices as regulations. applied to containers. It regularly in- (3) R/Iethocl of dispatcliiug shipnlents vestigates the latest practices of Aineri- to foreign countries, routing of ship- can exporters in shipping their mer- ments ancl trade terms; chandise overseas and studies the best (4) Shipl~uiltling; methods employed by European ship- (5) Ship sales, domestic and foreign. pers in both their domestic and export The Shipping Research Section : in trade and is particularly interested in collaboration with the United States ~ecuringand disseminating detailed in- Shipping Board conducts investigations formation and photographs of new and special studies of foreign ports, developments in packing for foreign and storage of ships cargoes, storage factors, domestic marketing. cargo handling, etc. (The loreign series The Coin~nunications and Aviation will be similar in scope to the domestic Section provides information on (1) port series prepared and issued jointly Electrical communicatious abroad, in- by the War Department aid Shipping cluding international conferences, agree- Board.) ments, legislation, rates, estent of ser- The Transportation Field Surveys vices, new services, etc , concerning work is divided into two groups: cables, wireless, radio broadcasting, tele- (A) First it conducts special studies in graphs and telephones; (2) Foreign transportation, includi~~gdomestic rail- mails-legislation, rates, services, etc.; way problems. potential traffic studies (3) Aeronautics-commercial air trans- in waterway problems; studies of do- portation abroad, special reference to mestic ancl foreign inland waterways extent of existing service, type of equip- and of motor vehicle transportation; ment, auxiliary services such as landing aids and assists the Regional Advisory field, lighting, signals, n~eteorological Boards of the American Railway Asso- operation, new developments, etc, November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 341

The Foreign Railways Section deals through esport bill of lading in con- with the economic, financial and phy- nection with foreign railways. sical aspects of rail transportation in The Highway work which was for- foreign countries. It collects and dis- merly carried on in this Division has seminates information on the foreign recently been transferred to the Auto- markets for railway locomotives, rolling motive Division for the sake of closer stock and equipment, sales and repre- contact work with the Automotive in- sentatives in foreign countries. Special dustry. services of foreign rail carriers such as In conclusion, I would like to remark refrigerator cars, reconsignment, cart- that if any of you can spare the time, age, etc., are investigated. It also con- come and visit us and find out for your- ducts studies of store door delivery, the selves the material which we have avail- use of motor vehicles in connection with able. If you find that this is impossible foreign rail carriers, types of container we would be very g ad to have you write cars, grade crossing accidents, extent of us regarding any transportation prob- electrification and the use of uniform lems in which we can be of assistance. The Value of Bibliographies By Eugene R. Woodson, Railway Accounting Officers' Association, Washington

IBRARIES are often regarded as "bibliography" sl~oulcl have. Anyone non-productive, their budgets scru- who brings forward a shorter word or Ltinized with unusual care and thorough- some means of popularizing the term de- ness, their expenses subjected to criti- serves that tril~utewhich librarians could cism and oft-repeated suggestions for and wo~lldcotiler. reduction. The result-producing qual- May we pause long enough to com- ities of the library, being intangible, plain that 1)iI)liograplly has alLogether have no yard stick by which to be too many different tncanings. It has measured, and are, therefore, ques- too many applications. It conveys di- tioned all too frequently. verse impressions. It is generic. These Of course, libraries are expensive, but are some of the liurclles to 1)e jumped, their existence finds ample justification some of the ol~staclcsto 1,e overcome to in the self-evident fact that ignorance make smoolll and easy the way of the costs more than knowledge. The es- word "I)il~liogrrrphy." Can you not penses of a library must find warrant herald the need for a more specific word in the service which it renders; that is, or for some more specific application of the degree to which the library serves the term "bibliograpliy?" its purpose. That is where bibliography Too much time and cffort may be demonstrates some of its value. devoted to exploring the Ijypaths and Libraries are storehouses of literary, the wilderness of litcrasy curiosities. practical, uscful information. Bibliog- The external appearance of boolrs, or raphy is the key that unlocks those their make-up, or their typographical storehouses and opens the door for their history may appeal to the idiosyncracies utilization, for visualizing their potent- of those who ltke to delve inlo the un- ialities. usual. Bil~liographiesof that nature un- There are some complaints that could doubtedly serve their purpose, whatever reasonably be made against the word it may bc, but thcy are not the sort of bibliography. Unnecessary length, re- bibliographies untlcr cliscussion here garded by our present day standards, Thc major I~il~liographicalliterature and some degree of technical appearance consists ol blbliographics on essential or sound are handicaps to be overcome subjects. Such a I~ibliograpliyunder- if there is to be hope or expectation of takes to disc.lo\e the e~tentof literature attaining the popularity which the word on a partirular suljject and makes con- 322 SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928 -veniently accessible the scattered frag- from time to time, but that should not ments of book knowledge. Bibliography, be the cause of undue solicitude. Even thus applied, becomes a guide to the Ivory Soap is only 99-44/100% pure. worth w]iile, enduring literature relating The user of the library desires the to a special subject. A more technical literature on some particular subject. description of books is not sufficient. His demand is for quickly and con- Bibliography should be informative as veniently ascertaining what 1)ooks are to the contents of the books. It is in the available on tlie particular subject, nature of lending a helping hand. It and some general idea of the phase of is like erecting sign-post? on tlie high- the subject treated by those books. ways of literature, indicatmg the shortest Cataloguing cannot accomplish this, and best route to your destination. If ancl bibliographies must be depended -1 were pcrlnitted to give an illustration, on for tliosc results. Bibliography, I would refer to tlie bibliography on systematically, adequately and sym- American Railway Acco~~nting,coni- pathetically compiled, is the determin- piled by thc Library of the Bureau of ing factor for making special libraries Railway Economics and published in our more useful, helpful ancl serviceable. book "Railway Accounting Proceclure." The Special Libraries Association is Thousands of copies of that I~ookhave primarily a human organization-not a been distributed throughout tlie world. collection of methods, practices or recom- The bibliography which it contains has mendations-for these are merely the stimulated an interest in railway ac- outward symbols which embody the counting which co~~lclhardly be es- views and experiences of the librarians pressed in words. That l~~bliographywho compose tlie organization. The represents a definite contribution to the Special 1,ihraries Association is the advancement of railway accounting, for medium thl-ougli which its members in no other way wotdd it have been become articulate, and express the finest possible to get the results which have and best they have ever known or es- been brought about since its compila- perienced. tion and distribution. Those results Uncloubtedly there are few lil~rarians have had a very practical and lielpful who becpme members of the Special effect here in this country, as well as Libraries Association without finding abroad. occasion to correct some errors into Mlliether the bibliography is to be which they have unconsciously fallen, chronological according to date of pub- and without obtaining a broader view lication; alphabetical by authors' names; of their profession from a fuller knowl- alphabetical by first words of titles; ar- edge of its resources, and a clearer sense ranged hy subjects; according to na- of its various responsibilities and oppor- tionalities, languages or dialects; ac- tunities. Your association fosters am- cording to places of publiration, etc.- hitions and engenders high hopes to this is to be determined 1)y the use to escel by offering opportunities for corn- which the bibliography is to Ile put. munion with those of kindred ~n11)itions There are advantages to all these and aspirations. methods, and some disadvantages must The interchange of ideas and esper- also be recognized, but tlie arrangement ienccs-that is the rneclianism by which used should be such as to appeal to those an association develops its message ancl who will apply tlie bibliography. assists its members in getting results. The business, scientific, professional, Bibliographies represent the consumma- or literary man usually is interested or tion, the completion, the destination, concerned in one subject at a time. (Of the culmination of the interchange of course, woman is also included in this ideas and experiences on special subjects, use of the word "man," as I am in- made tangible and ready for utilization formed that the ~nasculineembraces the and service; available for all, and not feminine, even in language). Let us have just for the elect few. Bibliographies are bibliographies on one subject at a time. the manifestation of Library Literature, Maybe they won't be con~plete;maybe made concrete, visible, accessible, usable. they won't be perfect; and maybe they In altogether too many libraries, tlie will have to be changed or added to books look pathetically down from the November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 323 shelves, like aged dogs wondering why bibliographies; in popularizi~lg bib- no one takes tl~einfor a walk. Bib- liographies; in buttonholing, literally liographies to the rescue! No one can or figuratively, those library users or undertake to place a value on bib- would-be or should-lje users who are liographies, for they represent a service now outside the fold and do not realize I,eyoncl any standard to measure. the significance and usefulness of bit)- 'Tlie future of yo~~refforts in en- liographies-the future of your efforts c.o~~r,lgingant1 promoting tlic Inow es- in these directions will I)c the future of Lerlslvc and ill t cnsivr wnipilat ion of the special lil~raries. Local Committee's Report Mr. Dorsey \V Hydc, Jr., chairman Miss Clara 147. Herbert of tlie Arrange- of the committee, in sulmitting the re- ments Committee, provided a local port of the Committee 011 Imal C'om- information desk at registratioll head- mittee 1028 Convention, noted the quarters, nianl~eclby delegates from the foniiation of the com~nittee,Mr. I-Tycle, local libraries. Arrangements were made ('hairinan; Dr. George F. Rowernim, with the Potolnac Flight Service for the 1st iTice-Chairman; 1;reclerick \I?. Ash- use of planes on Rrednesday morning lej., 2nd Vice-Chairman; Miles (_). Price, ancl with the \Vashington Coach Com- 3rd \'ice-Chairman; Miss Clai-ibel R. pany for busses to carry the delegates Hartlett; Dr. H. H. B. Meyes; Miss to and frotn the flying field and for sight- C'la~a \b . Herl~ert; Miss Mary G. Lacy; seeing trips tlirougliout tlie convention. Miss Laura A. Thompson ; Miss Martha The local committee was also of in- Cericke; Miss Isal~el DLI Boise; Miss valual~leaid in securing and always a Ruth Todd. member of tlw local committee was at The I-Iotel IYasliington was chosen as hand to render assistance. convention heaclc~uartersand voted to The District of Columbia Library prepare a directory of Washington Association, Mr. Frank W. Ashley, libraries "in celebration of the conven- President, worked whole-heartedly for tion and as a converlience to the dele- the success of the convention, issued gates." It rnade other plans for the con- formal announcements to the reception vention, including inecting places, the and dance given to the delegates by use of the Grand Council Chamber of the Association. the Chamber of Commerce of the United Publicity was a strong feature of the States and a general plan of entertain- committee's work and we have already ment. The committee received invita- noted in anotlier column of this maga- tions from the director of the Bureau of zine their activities in this respect. Standards, Dr. George S. Burgess and the director of the Pan Atneiican IJnion, In conc ~lsionthc conlnlittee stated : Dr. Leo S. Rowe, to visit their re- "All the costs incident thereto have spective institutions. Through the Ixen I)or~ie1qr the Washington Chamber kinclness of Mi-. Theodore \V. Noyes, of ('ommerce, the 1)istrict of Columhia edttor of The Eve?li?z~S*lar, me~nhersof Library Association and individual the newspaper group were invited to Washington 1il)rnrians as their contribu- visit the newspaper plant ancl be the tion to tlie success of thc 20th Annual guests of the Slur at luncheon. Through Convention of the Special Library the courtesy of Mrs. Merritt 0. Chance, Asso~iation.'I president of the Women's City Club, It is obvious that mere resolutions of the facilities of that club were offered thanks on the part of the Special Li- to the women delegates. A conference braries Association hardly compensate with Mr. Everett Sanders, Secretary to for the thoughtful kindnesses rendered President Coolidge, resulted in arrange- by tlie local committee and various ments for a group photograph on the members of the District of Columbia White House lawn. Library Association. Inasmuch at! tho 21st annual conlercnce of S. L. A, will probably be held in Washington, 13. C., In May, 1929, It is most fitting that we reproduce here in rondenned form the Report of the Local Cornn~itt~cpr~pared by Mr. Hydc, rind lorwarded to Prrsidrnt Cady. 324 SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928 Editorial Board EDITOR, Herbert 0. Brigham, State Library, Providence, R. I. Associate Editors William Alcott, Boston Globe; D. N. Handy, Insurance Library Association of Boston; NI. E. Pellett, Librarian, Port of New Yorlc Authority. Department Editors Charloite I,. Carmody, Deparmcnt of Conl~ilerceLibrary, \Vashington, D. C. Ethcl Cleland, Business Brancl~,Public Library, Indianapolis, 111~1. Elizabeth 0. Cullen, Bureau of Railway Economics, Washington, D. C. Mary C. Parker, Federal Reserve Bank, New York City. Rcbecca B. Rankin, Municipal Reference Library, Ncw York City. Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee, Wis. A. A. Slobotl, Gencral Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Further RE\'IE\Y of last year's progress should always be borne in mind that the A sho~~lclhe a source of gratification primary purpose of the local meetings and stimulation to every member of the is to provide the opportunity for the Associahn. \Yith an established central meinhers to eschauge experiences, to office, nith a fine start on institutional help each other to do more efficient work membeisliil), with the \.due of the and to learn from general discussions Association's output recognized by other and papers how to make their libraries prominent associntions, there 1s every more useful to those who maintain them. reason for a glow of satisfaction and In order to make more progress, may every reason to ~nalre a still greater I suggest that each member devote a few effort in thc direction ol further progress. minutes at least to a consideration of \\:hen labor is crowned with success how or in what way he or she can "do there is increased incentive for continua- their bit" during the coming year to tion. promote further progress in S. L. ,A., Anlona the activities which interest both nationally and locally. and invdi\.e the inenlbei-s as a whole are the incrcase in institutional member- FRANCISE. CADY, ship and the building up of the local President. associations. The former involves two We congratulate the New York Special phases, getting present associate mem- Libraries Association for its enterprise I~ersliipstranslerrecl to the institutional in issuing a leaflet entitled "Associa- class and getting new institutional tion News." The initial issue contains members from companies not now the program of the hrst autumnal meet- represented in the Association. The up- ing, a president's column, amend~neiits building of the locals is of especial im- to the constitution and news notes of portance in connection with the develop- interest to the local associalion. Con- ment into local chapters of those gather- tributions for the latter column should ings in cities which have not yet pro- be sent to Miss E. B. Wray, U. S. gressed to the point of asking recog- Rubber Co., 1790 Broadway, New York nition City. "How to Kill an Association," There seems to be a tendency in local a clever decalet, is reprinted by per- work to allow the meetings to become mission in this issue of SPECIAL LI- standardized and hence a tendency BRARIES. toward sameness which militates against *C* interest. The secretary is working on this The Weekly List of Sele~ted United problem and hopes to have some ssg- States Government Publications is a gestions to make to the smaller locals welcome addition to the librarian's desk. which have I~addifficulty in arranging Buy Government Documents should be for attendance-pulling programs. It the special library slogan. November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 325

Richard Rogers Bowker recently cele- Johnston was a speaker at the Wash- brated his eightieth birthday at his hon~e ington conference on May 23rd, and in the Berkshircs. Publishers' Weekly afterwards the editor had the pleasure for September 8th, gives a short sketch of conferring with him many times at of Mr. Bowker's interesting life ac- the West Baclen convention of the companied hy an excellent photograph. A. L. A. * * I A specialist in history, he has also A new feature of the annual meeting been a keen student of bibliograpl~yand of the National Association of Manu- library science and the work that he was facturers was a special conference on doing in the special collections for the library and research, held in connection Library of Congress was in itself an with the sessions at the Waldorf-Astoria under~akingof great importance. Dr. Hotel, New York City. Attractive Johnston had promised us a ~eriesof personal cards were sent to a wide group articles which would have appeared in extending a cordial invitation on the future issues of SPECIAL LIBRARIES. part of the Association to attend the His death is a serious loss to the library. sessions. In another column we present profession. the report of this special conference. * * .i. Amerira?~Industries for October in In another column we announce the announcing the program for the meeting Business Library Rouild Table in con- states: "The research library is ever nection with the midwinter incetlngs becoming a more integral part of in- of the A. L. A. at Chicago. The dustry. This year, as something of a Executive Board of the S. L. A. at its novelty to manufacturers, the research last meeting discussed the value oi phase of business will be given a great holding Special Library round tables deal of study and debate." in connection with meetings of the A. The editor of SPECIAL LIBRARIES L. A. when the Special Libraries As- has always believed that there is a close sociation holds its annual conference lmlr between research and special library entirely separate from the A. L. A. work and the attitude of the National 'This action would be subject, of course, Association of Manufacturers bears out to tile approval of the proper committee our contention. of the A. L. A. * I I In order to obtain time for study and As the magazine goes through the novel Miss Eleanor ff. Duncan has press, word comes that the annual con- resigned the post of managing editor of ference of the American Library Asso- the library Journal. The editor of ciation will be held at Washington SPECIAL LIBRARIES will miss the during the week beginning May 13th. interesting chats which were a feature While the Executive Board of the of recent annual library conferences. S. L. A, has not taken lor~nalaction regarding Washington meeting, it was the intention of the Board to plan its The sudden death of William Dawson nest meeting in connection with the Johnston, of the Library of Congress A. L. A. so doubtless the association will on November 18th, comes as a distinct again visit the national capital for its shock to all of his fellow-librarians. Dr. 2 1st annual conference.

Executive Board President-Francis E. Cady, Research Laboratory, Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 1st Vice-President-Ethcl Cleland, Business Branch, Indianapolis Public Library. 2nd Vice-President-Angus Fletcher, British Lil~raryof Information, New York. Secretary-Rose L. Vormelker, Public Library, Clcvelancl, Ohio Treasurer-Elizabeth Baxter, Hdskins Si Sells, New York, N. Y. Board Members-Joseph ICwapil, Public Lcclger, Philadelphia, Pa.; Elizabeth 0. Cullen, Rurearr of Railway Economics, Washington, D. C. SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928

Chicago Round Table Library Exhibit, The Special Libraries Association will have a A niodel business library was on display Business Library Round Table in connection at the Annual Convention of thc Nationdl with the midwinter mect~ngsof the A. I-. A. Association of Manufacturers, held in New 22-24, 1928. The Round Table will hc lielcl at the Hotel York City, October This ex- hibit was gencrnl in scope since it was ~mpossil~lc Llrdke at 230 P. hq., on Friclny, December to present a typical manufdctur~riglibrary tluc 28th Men of proniinence will address tlic to tlie varicd ~nanufacturingindustries reprc- group, among the~iiErncry T. F~lbey,Dean of sentccl. Books and magazines covering niarlll- tlic School of Bus~nessAclm~nistmtion, IJniv- facturing in gcneral, aclvcrtising, salesmanship, crsity of Cliica~o. It is also espectc(l that hlr. factory management, finance, busi~~ess Quilin Ryan, radio announcer of the L'hirz~o tlitions, accountancy, cconomics, etc., wcrc ~II Tribzrirr (WGN) \\dl speak, hforc complete display as wcrc also the well-k~iownbusiness det.iils will be given later. ancl finnncinl services, niar~uals,and clircctorics. Miss Carrie M Jones, National Association .Posters, library bulletins, and slides, called of Real Estate Boards, 310 S. Michigan Avc- attention to th~vdue of company libra~ies. nue, Chicago, is chairman of the committee on The Cliairnian of the Co~nmitteeon Es- arrangenients. Other members of tl~cco~n- hib~tsof tlie Special Libraries Association, Miss mittee are: MISS Milclred A. Rurkc, Chicago Alma C. hIitchill, Librarian, Public Se~vice Tribune Library, htlr. Oscar E Norman, Corporation of New Jersey, assistecl by hliss Peoples Gas, Light & Coke Company, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Wray, Lib~arian,U. S Rubber Jennie Lee Scliranl, Illinois Chamber of Com- Company, New York, wcrr in rhnrge of ilir Iiiercc, hliss Marion J. Reynolcls, Swft & Co. lil~r~lrycshil~it, Gas Association Issues First Aid on Library At thc annual convention at Atlantic Ci~y, Business Ruildi~ig, Employees Developnicnt, October 5-12,1928, tlic Amcricun Gas Associa- and Etiiployce Moralc-and can IIC nixlc :is tion, through a Co~nrnitteeon tlie Education of low and high as desired. Gas Company Ernployecs, prcsetitecl a sub- Equipment need not I>c claim-ate. T-r~~nlw conimittee report on the Gas Company Ii- and colored paint can mnltc n rcnrling or brary. The Chairman of this sub-committee reference room attractive. is Mr. (3. E. Norman, Librxian of the Peoples' Cultural nlaterial is just~ficcl by the report Gas and Coke Assoc~ationof Chicago. of tlie Carncgie Foundation for tlic Advance- This report proposes to stimulate the mcnt of Tcaching wherein 1,500 successful establishment of a Gas Company Library and engineers gave the essentials of Success to be: to serve as a first aid in its clevelop~nent charactcr, 41 %, juclgment 17.5 %, cfficicncy Grouped in three main heatlings this report is 14.5y0, undcrslandzng of me11 14.00/0, Sub- filled with valuable suggestions. total of Non-Technical Qualities 87%. Part 1, "Is a Library necessary?" was basctl ICnowledge of fundamentals of cngincering on the truism that "A man's jurlgmcnt is no science 7.0%, technique ar~tlcurrcrlt 1)racticr better than his infornution " LO%. Sub-total of Technical Q~~nlities137;,. Part IT, "I-low to builcl up an Employee's If the essentials of success for nli engineer ,lrv Information Service," developed that the pur- for Technical Qualities only 13% against 87';; pose to which a hbrary is directed may be busi- for Cliarncter Qualities, the samc holds good ness or company, cducation atid training of more so in other fields, ancl employees slio~~ltl employees, tlicir recreation, or 3 con~binntionof strive to perfect ihemsclves accorcli~ig to these. these findings. To that encl Reading Courscs Further~norc, Purposc cletermincs for cach should be valuable:-The I-Ialdeman-Julius collection the Personnel, Name, Location, five cent classics, hook clubs, and the A. L. A. Control, Material, Users, and Publ~cityMeth- Courses in Reading with a Purpose. Credit fur ods. such reading has proved an incentive for some In developing a service valuable help can be companies. obtained from local libraries, the Spccial Gas companies were advised to write to tlic Libraries Association, and the American Li- national library associations, the American brary Association. Gas Association headquarters, and to public Part 111, "Som Practical Suggestions" were utilities companies that ~iiaintainlibraries. to start and develop slowly along useful lines. The Report is illustrated with cuts showing The cost will depend again upon the purpose- the interiors of five leading utility libraries. November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES National Association of Illinois Chapter Manufacturers The first meeting of the 1928-29 season of For the first time in its history the Natlonal the Illinois Chapter of the Special Libraries Association of Manufacturers, on October 23, Association was held on Wednesday evening, 1928, devoted a session, in its thirty-third October 24, in the assembly hall of thc Union annual meeting, Lo the aid that libraries ant1 Central Life Insurnnce Company on the 23rtl research departments are giving to industry. floor of the Bankers Building at 105 West One of the most important questions taken Atlams Street, Chicago. up was "The Relation of Economic Research Miss Ada L. Bush, in cllarge of the Special to Industrial Growth in America," wh~chwas Inquiry Section of the Domstic Commerce discussed by Mr. Carl Snyder, General Statis- Division, U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic tician of the Federal Reserve Bank of New Commerce, gavc an interesting talk on "The York, in an exceedingly interestir~g atlcl~css Scope of the Work of Special Inquiry Seciion." The work of this important section of the Dc- illustratetl by charts. ' partment of Commerce, of whicl~ P~esidcnL- Ten-minute talks were given on t11c follow- elect of the United States, Hon. I-Ierbcrt ing topics: "What Can a Library Accomplish Iioover, was the Ileacl for the past eight years, for a Company?" ably answcred by Mr. Mirl was described in a lnanncr which only special E. Pellett, Librari~nand Ass~stant Sccretary librarians can apprcciatc as they arc handling of the Port of New York Authority; "1-Iow specla1 inquiries practically all the time. Ac- Can a Library Increase Public Appreciation of cording to Miss Bush, service is the keynote the Good In Industry," discussed by Mrs of the Scction of which she is in charge, just ns I-Iesler A Wetmore, Librarian, H. I,. Doherty servirc is the commodity which the speclal & Co., New Yorlc; and "1,111raries 1;rom tlic librarian is cntlcavoring to sell to the public Dollars and Cents Valuepuint," presented by in an incrcnsing manner tluy by day. Miss Bush Mr. 1-1. V. Coes, Enginecr, of Ford, Racon cYr proved a most effective ~peaker,and her ad- Davis, Inc., New York. clrcss will long be remcrnberetl with great Round Table Discussions on "Adult Brluca- plcasure by those present. tion of the Illiterate in the Factory" and on Judging from the turnout of nmnbers at this "Co-operation Between Company Libraries meeting, the year promises to be full of great and University Libraries," were contluctetl by results. The President announced the np- Mr. M. E. Pellett pointment of a Program Comnittee and of a This conference, organized ant1 conducted Membership Committee. by Mrs. Agnes S. Perk~ns,Librar~an and Re- search Secretary of the National Association of Wants and Offers Manufacturers, was a pl~enomenal success. An attendance of 227, represenling tilany Pentisylvanin wish to obtnin the followinl: states, cornprisecl for the greater part lil~rarians. puhlicntions: ---IJ. S. Federal trade conlmission, Nevertheless, about twenty per cent of the Mcnlorantlu~n on unfair con~pcLition at tlic auclicnce were non-librarians, which is 1101 a comn~or~I:I~; IJ. S I~~tli~strialcon~mission rc- bad showi~~gfor a first ~~~(lertakingof this ports, vols, 1, 6, 11, 14-15; IJ S. Conl~nissior~er kind. of intcr~~.~lrcvcnue. Annual repolls, 191 1/12, The Proceedings of the annual mecli~lgof tht. 1910/20, lJ. S Istl~minr~canal ro~n~nission, National Association of Man~~fact~~rerswill 1005-14. Annual repol 1, 1000/10; 1J. S. contain the adclresses and cliscussio~~s. 111 I'liil~ppinc co~nnlission. v, 1, Rcp~rtto tlir answer to special requests, reprints with tllc I'rcsidcnt, Jan. 31, 1900 to Dcc. 20, 1000: charts will be prepared separiitcly for tlis- U. S. T~Iiff co~nmission. Tariff ~nformation tribution. series, no 1-2, 4, 15, 17 ant1 25; Econo~nisl, The value of this joint meeting of librarians Jan. 5, 1924 and March 6, 1926; Journal of the with manufacturers was two-fold, for not only American judicature society, v. 2, No. 4, v. 4, was it of benefit to the manufacturers, but it No 1; Manufacturing industries, April, 1925 set an ex2rnple for other institutions to follow (Management and administration), July, 1925, This dual importance was the cause of comment Jan. and July, 1926. by Miss Rebecca R. Rankin, Librarian of the The Lippincot1 Library offers for sale or Municipal Reference Library, New York City, exchange ocltl nunlbers and volurncs of periotl- who called attention to this feature in a shorl icals and other publications. List available on address at the close of the conference. applica~ion.Apply to DorotIi)~Ber~~is,Librarian. SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928 Group Reports Last month we printed the report of thc monograpl~s on oils, fats, and soaps by Newspaper group, submitted at the Washing- American authors are also in demand. As a ton conference. In this issue we present the remedy for this lack of material she suggests remaining Group reports. In cvcry case it is a that encoumgement for the preparation of such story of progress. books might be brought aboutby librarians through the technical rnaga7incs. It seems a Commercial.Technica1 Group good suggestion and one which the Association might do well to consider. Conz7nercial Research:-This committee which The main work of the various committees of is n new one this year with Mrs. Schram as the Commercial-Tecllnical Group this year has Chairman, has compiled (1) a mailing list of been securing of new inembers and comp~lina people in the U. S. interested in corn~nercial of bibliographies. In December, Miss Mitch~ll, research; (2) a little guide for Special Libraries Group Chairn~an,received a lctter from Miss Association members on "Sources of Research" Humble, Executive Secretary of the National and (3) a list of important publications dealing Association of Book Publ~shers,asking for lists with comnlercial research and giving a brief of books suitable for starting commercial and resum6 of each which have bzen published dustrial libraries in plants which were ~nterestedin installing special libraries. This within the last year or two. interest had been aroused in these companies Electrical Engineering:-Mrs. Maynard and through a letter sent them by the National her conmittce offers as their contribution this Association of Book Publishers suggesting that year a very comprehensive bibliography on such libraries be established within their or- "Electrical Engineering" which I believe is ganizations. Many of tlie committees within now ready for distribution. The printing of this thc Comnlercial-Technical Group have addcd publication was sponsored by the Massachu- the compilation of such l~ststo their other com- setts Institute of Technology. mittee work English Usage:-Mr. Lee is compil~nga general The following is a brief resu~niof the nc- list on English tivities of the group committees. Illumi?~atingEngineering:-Miss Taylor, Chair- Advertising and A~arkctzngr-Working on an man, has sen1 in a very fine list of books suitable increased membership program. Miss Alexander, for an Illuminating Engineering Library and is the ~haijman,is in contact with the Inter- continuing with other members of her com- national Advertising Association wl~ich is mittee the compilation of the Illuminating undertaking a five years' research program and Engineering bibliography. hopes that Special Libraries Associition w~llbc Industrial Relations:-This committee unclcr represented on this program. Mi IS Alexander Miss Morley as Chairman has divided its has also sent in a list coniprislng what she activities between the compiling and completing considcrs the cream of advertismg books. of a biblipgmphy of en~ployehandbooks issued Chemistry and Physics:-Miss Garvin and her by corporations and material on the methods committcc have circulated among the members of compiling such handbooks and co-operating "exchange of wanted material and subscription with the Classification Committee in bringing lists" the latter having proved very useful since about a better classification and tcrrninology many libraries in the group are not covered by for industrial relations. The Chairman also Wilson's new index. Miss Garvin has brought received from Miss Morley bibliographies on up for consideration a question which although "Industrial Relations" and "Personnel Ad- applying particularly to the Comrnercial- ministration." Technical Group yet is pertinent to evcry mem- ber of the Association, that of "needed books." Manzifactziring:-A new committee under the By this term she means subjec~sfor which there chairmanship of Mrs. Perkins. Plans are under is a demand but on which there seems to be way for an increase in membership, book lists either very little or nothing written. As relative to manufacturing arid industrial li- exan~plesshe mentions the lack of a satisfactory braries, and a list of key magarines for the technical Italian-English dictionary and the main groups of industries. need for a better German-English dictionary Oil:-Mr. Brown and his committee are com- than those at present on the market. Good piling a union list of serials of oil libraries. A November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 329 list of books suitable for an oil library has also "Thc membership com~nitteehas endeavored becn completed. lo interest Stock and Bond PIol~see,'' Those are the olitstahding actlvltles, Public Utilities:--Miss Grccnwood, the Chair- .- . .. . - man, has brought up to date with tlie help of The Bibllography Commlttec, Mlss the rnenlbcrs of her committee the "Sources of Mar- guerite Burnett, felt that Its first Informaticn List for Public Utility Libraries." Chairman, This list it is hoped will be printed and available colicern should be the c01nplet;oh ahd revishi of thc preliminary list on "Govertlmcnt prese for distribution before the next convention. relenscb," which was presented in Mlmeb= Rubber:-Miss Shearer and her coinmittce havc graphed form at the 1927 nleetihg of the Fihati- devoted the year to the continued distribution cia1 Group. There has beet1 a contittuous da- of the Bibliography on Rubber origitlally mand for the list eve11 in the utlfinished form issued in 1926. The chief accomplish~l~eht,and iIl addition a reqllest from the publltatioa~ however, is the publishing of the second committee of S. L. A, to submit it fot p~blies- bibliography on the Technology of Rubbcr tion in the bibliogtaphlcal series of the As= covering tlie period June, 1926 to Deceml~cr, sociatioli. This wotk has, therefore, oecdpl&cl 1927. This is an 80 page booklet and will ap- the whole attentioilof thecomrnlttecforth~~~ai'. pear as Special Libraries Association Informa- All the members of the rommlttee were tion Bulletin, NO. 7. chosen from New Yotk in order to fa~ilitat~ The financial returns from the first Bibliography work on thc list. At meetihg held in Deetm- have been gratifying. The Rubber Colnmittec ber, it was decided to scnd the pr'eliminafy voted to donate 10% of the publication funds l~stto four or five libraries which were known to the Special Libraries Association general to havc large collections of the mimeographed funds and $40 was immediately turned over to material, askkg them to check our list for ~d- the Association. ditional entries. This was done atid the li- Trd7tsportation:-This committee under the braries co-operated most willingly in the work, chairmanship cf Mr. Armisteod is divided into It was lcarned that the New York Public sub-conln~itteesreprcsenting transportations in Lib~aryhad tlie largest collection of these its various phases such as steam railroads, street releases in the country, outside the Library of ra~lways,air, niotor vehicles and water-and Congress possibly, and it was decided to make through these sub-committees a coinprehensivc up the list for the volumit~ouspublications of b~bliographyon the subject of "Transporta- the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- tion" is in preparation. Parts of this bibliogra- merce and the Census Bureau from this col- phy are already completed and ready for clis- lcct~on, Quite providentially the Library's tribution. arrangerneat provcd to be by bureaus atid sub- divisions instead of by subject classifications This brief summary of the activ~tiesof the as is the case in most special libraries. This Com~nercial-Technical Group will give sonic simplified tlie work of the committee. idea of the work already accomplished by this It is planned to sub~nitthe typewritten copies group and its plans for the futurc. of cach bureau's list to the head of that bureau ELIZABETHR. WRAY, Secrelary. lor checking, and if this is done it will probably Financial Group not be possible to have the list ready to present to the meeting, at the convention. This IS Miss I<. Dorothy Ferguson, Chairman of the regretiable, but as our aim is absolute ac- Financial Group, submittcd an informal report curacy and the list if printed will have to bear to Prcsident Cady in which she emphasized close scrutiny, we think the delay is justifiable. the work of the various sub-Committees. She states: Civil Service Examination "The classification committee has clone very The United States Civil Service Commisskn good work in reviewing the survey of classifica- announces an examination for Associate Li- tions used by financial libraries and which was brarian to fill a vacancy in the U. S. Naval done in 1923. This survey, I hope w~lllead to Observatory, Naval Department, also a va- working out a classification which can be cancy In the Bureau of Education, Interior recommended as a standard classification for Department. The minimum salary is $3,200 a Financial Libraries." year. Applicolions must be on file with the "The bibliographical committee, under Miss co~nmissicn in Washingtcn not later than Burnett, has revised its list of government Decenlbcr 12th. Competifors will not be releascs and I hope will have it ready lor the required to report for cxarnination at any place. publisher." For thesc vacancies men are desired. SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928 Group Meetings

Finaqcial Group Miss Mary Hayes, librarian of the National City Financial L~brarythen read a paper on The membership committee of tlie Financial "Publications of Foreign Governments and Group, Miss Florence Wagner, Chairman, has Foreign Corporate Organizations available for been particularly active this year. It was felt Financial Libraries." A m~meographed list that thcre were many excellent financial houses was given out which Miss Hayes followed in her which had not joined simply because they talk. were not falniliar with the existence and aims of the Association. Consequently, our efforts Miss Marguerite Burnett, chairman of the Bibliography Committee, next reported that were extended to remedy this situation to the her co~n~nitteefelt that its first concern should mutual advantage of all concerned. be the co~npletion atid revision of the pre- In order to reach all parts of the United liminary list on "Govern~nent press releases" States, a reg~onalcommittee was formed which which was presented in ~iii~neographedform at was conlposed of the following ine~nbcrs: tlie 1927 meeting of the Financial Group. This Josephine Curry of Reclmoncl & Company, New York City; Marion G. Eaton, Federal work has occupied the whole attention of the committee for the year. The publications com- Reserve Bank of Boston; Laura Jane Gage, Central Trust Company of Chicago; ancl mittee of S. L. A. has requested that this list: be submitted for publication in the bibliograph- Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee, Wisco~lsin. We were un- ical series of the Association. Therefore since fortunate in being unable to sccurc a member the completed list will have to bear close to cover the Pacific Coast. scrutiny, it seemed wise not to hu~ryit even A personal letter, outlining Lhc history ancl though it could not be presented at this con- purpose of our organization was sent to all ven tion. prospective members. Personal contacts were Miss Alta B. Claflin of tlie Federal Reserve made wherever it was possible and with Bank of Cleveland, then distributed a list ol gratifying results. At the conclusion of our "Important Financial Books and Pamphlets year's aclivities, we are pleased to report pub;ished in the United States, June, 1927- that there have bcen 5 institutional member- May, 1928" (exclusive of annuals and other ships, 14 individual nwn~herships, and 7 serials). She said it was not a recommended associated ~nemberships added to financial list hut rather a list of financial publications group this year. which had appeared during the year. She then commented upon sonle of the titles and asked Miss Ethel Baxter and others to discuss other The first meeting of the Financial Group titles. A general discussion followed after of the Spccial Libraries Association was called which the meeting adjourned at 4:00 P. M. to order by the chairman, Miss Dorothy Fergu- The second meeting of the Financial Group son of the Bank of Italy, San Francisco, Cal., was held on Wednesday afternoon, May 23, Tuesday afternoon, May 22, 1928, at 2 P. M. 1928, at two o'clock. Miss Elsie Rackstraw, librarian of the In the absence of Mr. Robert L. Smitley Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D. C., of the Dixie Rook Shop, his paper on "Im- was the first speaker on the program, speaking portant Foreign Financial Literature" was read on "Washington aids for Financial Librarians." by Miss Ferguson. A list of the titles referred She passed out a list of such aids and discussed to in Mr. Smitley's paper was distributed. the various types of material obtainable on In this paper a suggestion was made that a request, limited distribution and not obtain- committee be appointed to gather information able without cost, giving prices of the latter regarding these foreign publications and that titles. this committee be a clearing house for those The Membership Committee, with Miss members wishing this type of information. Florence Wagner of the Wall Slreel Journal, A discussion followed with many commenting Chairman, then reported that her committee upon the usefulness of such a piece of work. were happy to report that there had been added No action was taken at this time. Miss Curry to the Special Libraries Association and the mentioned the new "International Fmance Financial Group, 5 institutional memberships, Source Book" issued by the Investn~ent 14 individual memberships and 7 associate Bankers Association as a useful bibliography melnberships. listing sources of information in the finances In the absence of Miss Margaret Reynolds, and economics of European and other foreign chairman of the Publicity Committee, her countries. report was read by the secretary. She reported Novcr~lber,1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 33 1 that ten notices had \)wn sen( out during thc after suggesting tli,~ta vote of thanks be cx- year to sixteen financial journals covering the tentlctl to Miss Fcrguson, dismissed the nicct- work of the Financial Group and tlie program ing. for this convention. Thc menibcrs, having rmcl these notices from time to time in the nlagazines appreciate the good work of this Insurance Group committee. Motion 1vas made that tlie secre- Two nicetings of thc Insurance Group wcre tary arice hliss Rcyl~olds expressing regret held during the convention, on Monday, May that she was unable to attend the convcntion 21, and Tuesday, May 22. antl the hope for lier speedy recovery. Sixteen were present at these sessions. hliss Ruth Nichols, librarian of the Federal hlr I-Imdy, presided. Reserve Bank of Chicago, Illinois, then read En~rlyC. Coatcs, Librarian of the 'Travelers the report of the Classification Com~ililtec. Insurance Company, was electctl tc~uporary 'I'liis report was receivecl with niucli interest, sccrctary to serve during the group meetings both by membcrs of the group and others who antl until a pcrmnnent secretary could be ap- had conie in to hear it Among this group wcre pointed. Miss Louise Kcller, Mr. W. P. Cutter and Miss Mr. Rollin M. Clark, Assistant Manager, Dorcas Fellows. Discussion followcd, h4iss Insurance Department, United States Chamber Nichols calling upon hliss Burnett who dis- of Commerce, addressed thc group on Monday, cussed the "Autllor armngemel~t",Miss Hayes, giving a most instructive talk on "The Work of "The Cutter adaptecl to their neccls", Miss the United States Chambcr of Co~miercein tlie Fellows of the Dewcy Reclisio,~,asking for co- Field of Information Ge~tingad 1Jsing." operation betwecn all hus~nesslibraries and licr The Unilccl Statcs Clia~nbcrof Com~iiel-ccwas organization. Mr. Cutter of thc Raker Library orgnnizerl in 1912 and their building was corn- discussed tlie progress which had heen made in plctctl ir~1926. Tl~crcare four main functions developing his classification for the use of thc of thc Clia~~ll~el:Promotional, Rcsearcli, Scr- Uakcr Library He said that he is working on vice, dnd Adnlinistr~ti~e.Thc first function, classification, catalog rulcs ancl su1)jcct Iieacl- the pro~iiotional end, is the creating of public ings, the latter having hccr~ well worked out. tl~o~~gl~l:antl pol)lic opi~i~on,The second, re- Miss I

1t WRS suggcstecl that tlie Insurance Group the names of these leaving to the librarian, it preparc a l~an~phlcton "How to Proceed in will be a great hclp. For~ning:In tnsurance Library." Also, that tlic The next cliscussion, "Selling tlie Library to issuilrg of at1 111surancc h'll~nberof SPECIAL an Executive," was lctl by Miss Ilclcn Hcrtell LI13RARIES covcri~~gcurrcnt sul~jectsbe matlc of the Connecticut Gencral Lifc Insurance aa ahrlual ahit. Company. The use of bulletin boarcls, page in It was thought that Llle libtarians 1iiig11t clo employees' magazines, revicws of new books, more creative work by suggestirig topics to the annotated lists of new ~natcrial,were recorn- itisura~iceperiodicals, mcndecl as helps. The hlctropolilan Lifc Miss I\Iildrcd R. Pressman, L~brarianof the Insurance Company has a novel way of reach- National Uuteau of Casualty antl Surcty ing new people, by sending pads of inforniation Uiidetwritcrs, gave a dcta~lctl rcport on rcquest blanks to men not accustomed to using "Sources ol Casualty Inforniation," this berng the library, also, pads of reserve ~ards. n co~lthi~ationof a report given last year. Mrs. Alice I;. Fitzgeralcl of tlie National Life 'Hie T~lesdnyaftcrr~oon session was clcvotccl Insurance Company read a paper cntitlccl Lo irlformal discussio~~s.Miss Edith H. Sillcnce, "Ncw Books of Special Intcrest to thc Lifc Libmr~atl,Association of Life Jnsumnce Presi- Insurance Lil~rarian." In this papcr, slic gave clents, led the first clisc~ission. Her subject was very conslruct~vecriticisms of reccnt hoolcs on "The liouting of Pamphlets, Magazines, life insurance, dwcll~ng, principally, on life Correspondet~ce,etc." Sevcral suggestions werc Insurancc trusts given as to the liest way of routmg matcrial "To What Extcnt are Insurancc Libraries so that it would riot bc lost and could bc located Collecting hIatcrial on Aviation antl S~milar in a short time. The Switch Board Opcrator New Branches of Insurancc" and "\Vliat Arc was to send noticc when any of the nienilxrs Their Sources of Information" were tlic topics were al~sent Everything mas to be returnctl discussed by RIlss Grace Stcpliens of the Re- to tlie library before going on to thc ncxt tail Credil Company. Some sourccs for col- person. All the mall was to be liat~clledby onc lecting material on avi~tionInsurance as given person who was to route it and charge it to tlic wc~c: The Chamber of Conlmerce of New different inclividuals. A good suggestion of York; Domestic Air News, a pul~lic~ttionof thc speeding matcrial along was to put tlic time Aeronautics Branch of thc Department of whcn rcceived and tune when it left on the Commerce. routing sl~p. MISS Ed~tliM. Flagg, chairman, Insurance Thc ncxt cliscussion was led by Mrs. Grace Group, New York Special Libraries Association, Bevan, Librarian of the Phoenix Mutual Life gave a dctailed rcport on "To What Extcnt IS Insurance Company. Her subject was "The Insurance Matcr~alnow Available for Studcnts Circulation of Books and Magazines and How Outside the Business of Insurancc!" to Inform People About New Books " Mrs Miss Pyrrha R. Sheflield, Librarian, In- Bevan's chief problem was the collecting of surance Library of Ch~cago,was elected chair- overdue books. She sends out threc overclue man of the Insurance Group anti Mrs. Alice notices, a week apart,. and then a lettcr telling F. F~tzgeralcl,Secretary. the person that if the book is not returned by a certain date, she will infer that lie wishes to pay for the book Sevcral good suggestions were made by Miss Bradley of possible ways of National Museum Bulletin avoiding the formal overdue noticc, aslring if The ed~torhas an inquiry regarding the the book is of sufficient importance to the U. S. National Museum 13ullctin, No. 103, borrower for him to recom~nendthe purchase Contributions to the geology and paleontology of a duplicatc copy; what excuse to make to of certain areas in Central America ancl the others who are wa~tingfor the overdue book, a West Indies, 1919. We shall be glad to obtain personal letter instead of a formal one; over- a copy of th~spublication if available. clues are an expensc, the finc is chargccl to cover this notice, if not finished with thc book, would hc give some idea when he woulct be. A tele- Hartford Business Branch phone call or a niessenger sent werc found l'ru~umTe~nplc, L~brar~an of the Hartford effectivc ways of collecting overdues To avoid Public Library, has recently established a Business Branch In the center of thc corn- losing books whcn employees leave, ~f the per- ~nerc~alsection. Miss Mildred B. Potter has sonnel tilanager or office supervisor would scncl been placed in charge of the ncw Branch, November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES We Do This Margaret Reynolds, Department Editor The editor owes the hcacl of this rlep'wt nlent "Hook Bindings. Francc. 16t11 Cen- and our readers apologies for fadurc to print tury," elc. WE DO THIS in an c~rlicrnumber. 1:or m,lny Ruth S. Granniss, Librarian. Grolicr Club months thc material has been stancling in tppc, Ncw York. waiting for a place in the magazine. Miss PAbII'IILET COLLECTION-Our panlplllet Reynolds has asked the editor to remind li- collection numbers over eight thousand brarians that clu~ingthese Inany months alert titles. The greater numl~crarc separates mi~ldshave clcvi~.ecl new ~mctho-Is ol doing or rcpr~nts,antl our catalogue cards for things antl the rcnders of Special 1,ibrarics tl~csebear a note giving the titlc, volumc, shoulcl be told about them. Plcasc scntl items 11u111berand date of thc periodical or scrd of interest to hliss Reynolds at thc First in which the article originally appeared. Wisconsin National Bank at Milwaukee. The reason for the note, of course, is REQIJESTS BY MAIL-We ham no loan obvious. 1. If the reprint is out in circula- collection of books or photograplis hut tion we can tuln lo the original source. are glad to answer rcqucsts by mail when 2. If another institution wishes to bol~ow people cannot comc to the library. Ethel- this a~ticle,me can loan the periodical wyn Manning, Librarian, Friclc Art if the reprint 1s in use. 3. If the pamphlet Reference Library, New York. is lost the notc on the catalogue cards APPOINTMENTS l3Y LETTER-Our rcfer- gives us information where the resedrch ence room is open to the public from t& worker may find his material, even if w.e to four, l\Iondays to Fridays; ten to twclve havc to horrow the periodical fro111 another on Saturclays, A first appomtrncnt by inst~tution. For, of course, we do not have telephone or letter is requcstccl. Ethelwyn all the tilles from wl~ichthese separates Manning, Librarian, Frick Arl Reference have bcen reprinted, though our currcnt Library, New Yorlc. pcriodical list numl~ersover 870. The CLASSIFICATION-Wc use the Library of pamphlets are stapled into Gaylord Press- Congress classification in the arrangc~ncnt Iloartl binde~s, which havc the l~brary of our books; an arbi~rarynumericd ar- bookplate embossed on one sidc, author rangement of our pamphlets ,and our and title are printccl on the cover, and periodicals ancl documents are kept in two pamphlep are shelvccl alpllabetically. Ray alphabetical files. These Iihrary prin- Simpson, Librarian, Brooklyn Botanic ciples are rather st~ictlyaclhercd to but Garden, Brooklyn. otherwise our plan is to adjust the library CURRECT L>UBLICATIONS-The current and ourselves to the needs of the scientific pui)lications received wli~chdo not belong staff. Zeliaette Troy, Librarian. Boyce in thc current periodical table, or cu~lent Thompson Institute for Plant Research. agriculLura1 shelves, or rccenl accession Yonkers. hook shclves, are placed in a box for about BOOKS AS EXAMPLES OF PRINTING-AS a wcck, so that the staff may have the it is largely for the members of thc Club, opportuni~yof loolcing over the rccent who are all book collectors or book men ~natcrial. No publications currently re- in one way or another, our ~nethocls of ccivcd are placed on the permanent course are adapted to their neecls, the shelves before the staff has had time in principal "kink" that I think OF just now which to look them over. The librarian bcing the fact that a book, which is not a has ,I ready reference file at her clesk, wl~ich reference work about boolcs, is usually in- was begun twclve years ago and which is cludecl hcre as an esamplc of printing, ~~sefulin answering questions covcrlng a binding, or illustration, etc., and is so wide field-which plant is used in the catalogued, the main entry being unrlcr nlanufacture of chewing gum; a plan of a the prmter, binder, illustrator, somctirncs Japancse garden for stage scenery; is jewel puhlishcr-the subject cards accordingly, weecl a cure for ivy poisoning, ctc. The as lillmry also has a filc of commercial sect1 "M~lwaukee. Typography. Examples. catalogues, of A~ncricanand loreign firms. 20th Century." This file has a subject catalogue, so that SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928

we may readily give information as to card file we are keeping which rcprescnLs which firms specialize in alpines or rock the important articles and an occas~onal plants; native wild flowers; bulbs; western special book, winnowed from our reading plants; cacti; or perhaps some individual list of over eighty periodicals, mostly flo-wer, such as the iris or the rose Ray foreign, by which we attempt to keep Simpson, Librarian, Brooklyn Botanic up-to-date in the ficld of economics and Garden, Brooklyn. finance. The file is a subject catalogue, that is, under the name of the country the CARD FILE - POSSIBILITIES - Many cards are filed under subject. In a few books are publ~shed,which we cannot tell cases, such as "Reparations," "Gold at first whether to buy. We do not kcep Stanclard" or "National Wealth ant1 In- these as "unfinished business," but assign conie," the subject leads and the country them imtnediately to a card file which for becomes a subclivision. Incidentally the lack of a better name we call "Pos- file has become an interesting ancl, because sibilities " As reviews appear or other of its size, harmless place in wh~chto ex- information comes to hand, notes are made periment with new subject headings such on the cards. This information sometimes as "Cartels," "Valorization," etc., which clefin~telypoints out why a book is not a are not sufficiently establishccl to ]lave desirable buy for this library. It also become part of the Library of Congrcss answers inquiries about material which classification, but xyhich are important may or may not later be acquired. When questions of the day, ancl are asked for more mature judgment dictates purchase under those subjects. This file and a the card is transferred to the orders file. memo ran dun^ filc of thc various official On the other hand occasional weeding series of documents included in tlie collec- keeps out tlie book which several years' tion, together with niaterial which is experience has proved not likely to be scattered beyond thc bounds of the wanted. The main pbint is tliat wl~ilethis foreign public finance section in the Li- brary. In keeping these files we make an file is always "current" its items are not effort to acquaint the users of thc col- coming up again and again to seek definite lection with the sources from which tlie decision. Howard L. Stebbins, Librarian material is drawn and to bring new periodicals, or new research tools to their Social Law Library, Court House, Boston. notice. Laura Turnbull, Librarian. Ren- jamin Strong Collection of Foreign Public CARD FILE -ARTICLES - It occurred Finance, Princeton University Library, to me that you might be interested in a Princeton.

How Kill Association

1. Don't come to the meetings, especially if thc weather doesn't suit you; and if you come, come late. 2. Never accept an office, as it is easier to criticize than to clo things. Nevcrthelcss, get sore if you are not appointed on a committec, but if you are, do not attend comn~itteemcetings. 3. If asked by the chairnian to give your opinion regarding somc important matter, tell him you havc nothing to say. Alter the meeting tell every onc how things ought to he done. 4. Do nothing more than is absolutely necessary; but when other members roll up their sleeves and willingly, unselfishly use their ability to help matters along, howl that the association is run by a clique. 5. Don't tell the association how it can help you; but if it docsn't help you, resign. 6. Agree with everyth~ngsaid at the meeting and disagree with it outside. 7. Tell every one that the NEWS is a waste of money and ink ancl dull reading besides, but if you hear anything of interest to the members, keep it to yourself. 8. Wait till after the time limit to send for your dinner reservation, or better yet, take n chance and come without-"one extra won't make any difference." (They all Lliink that.) 9. Don't bother about getting new membcrs. Let the secretary do it. 10. Hold back your dues as long as possible, or don't pay at all. (Association News New York Special Libraries Associatio?t.) November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Associations

As we go to press, several associations are planning their November mectings. A tip to secretaries or chairmen of News committees- On Noveml~er 2, the Special Libraries Please send copy promptly. Cou~lcilof Philadelphia, was glven an oppor- tunity to hear Mr. Howard Strong, of the New York has a little magazlne of its own, Regional Planning Federation tell about the ask Miss L. Elsa Loeber, Charnber of Corn- problenls of and plans for the Philaclclphia nlerce of State of New York, for a copy. region. The Federation is attempting to stem Boston the further "just growing t~p"of the c~ty. We were shown various maps and slides The Special Libraries Association of Boston indicating the trends of population, suburban held its regular monthly meeting, Monday growth, inclustrial growth; the need for de- evening, October 29th, In Langdell Hall, veloptnent of circutufrential or by-pass high- I-Iarvarcl Law School, Cambridge, Mass. The ways, and the possibilities of park development speakers were Prof. Joxph Henry Ueale, in. the Philadelphia regton. There are 357 Professor of Law, and Prof. Eldon R. James, independent administrative units outside of our Librarian of the I-Iarvard Law School. city whose political borders must be forgotten Prof. Beale spoke more particularly of the when we consider such problem as sewage early beginnings of the Law Ltbrary and how disposal, water supply, and transportation, it had ~nadeits first acquisitions, in one case all of which affect the large center of population the sum of $20,000 being borrowecl from the as well as the outlying comniunity. At the alumni to acquire a valuable English collection. present time the Federation is co-operating with Prof. James ctnphasized the present inlportance the U. S. Geodetic Survey in revising the map of the Library, which has the most complcle of the Philadelphia region. This work IS being collection of juristic literature in the world, chcckccl by means of sectional aeroplane maps. and is constantly adding to the volumes on A tour of inspection of the Federation's its shelves. After the meeting had adjoutned offices followed Mr. Strong's informative talk. the librarians wcre taken through the stacks and into the room where the rarest of the Pittsburgh rarest of thc Library's treasures are kept, somc of these being manuscripts nearly 600 Pittsburgh Special Libraries Association held years old. the first meeting of the year at the Plaza Restaurant on Thursday evening, October 25, New York 1928. There wcre 15 members prcsent. The New York Special Libraries Association Reports were made on the Special Libraries held its October meeting on the twenty-ninth, Association Conference in Washington, the at the Wellesley Club Rooms in the I-Iotel Arncricnn Medical Association Conference in Barbizon. President Ruth Savorcl was in thc New York, the American Bankers Association chair ant1 there were 136 members and guests meeting in Philadelphia, the National Associa- present. tion of Manufacturers Conference in New Dr. Kcppel of the Rockefeller Foundation Yorl:, and the Pennsylvania State L~brary told something of his impressions gained during Association Conference in Uniontown. his recent survey of South Africa. As a rcsull of The rcsignation of Miss Helen Thompson the survey Mr. Ferguson of California and Mr. was rcad, a!td the appointment of Miss Mary Pitt of Glasgow, have been sent to spend a year M. Lynch to fill thls vacancy on the Executive in South Africa to act as advisors in library Comnwttee annou~~ced. problems there. Miss Ruth Granniss of the Grolier Library, told about her work and the main features of Coming Events her Library. The changes in the By-Laws, as presented to December 28, 1928. S. L. A. Round Tablc the members in the printed pages of the NEWS, at A. L. A. Mid-winter meetings, Hotel Drake, were voted on and the motjon made, seconded Chicago, Ill. and accepted to adopt the changes. May 14, 1929. S. L. A. meetings, Washing- Other business was postponed to a later date. ton. (Exact date subject to revision.) SPECIAL LIBRARIES November, 1928 Personal Notes Mary C. Parker, Department Editor

Mrs. Helen Graham is now librarian of the Miss Freida Jones has resiqne:l from licr Hospital Library and Service Bureau of the position as Librarian of the Fnirchilcl Publica- American Conference on Hospital Service, tions. Chicago. Mr. Guy Kccling, secretary of the Association Miss Ruth '~a~lorhas been appointed of Spccial Libraries and Information Bureaux, assistant librarian of the Security Trust and resigned to beconle executive secretary of the Savings Bank at Los Angeles. older organization, The Library Associat~on. Mr. S. S. Bullock succeeds Mr. Keeling as Miss Eleanor Rogers has been appointed an secretary of A. S. L. I. B., the address of which assistant in the Museum Library at Los is now 26 Bedford Street, London, W. C. 1, Angeles England. Mr. Baker of the American Steamship Owners Association has become an active Miss Marian Mead has been appointed member of the Water Transportat~on Sub- librarian of the New York University Graduate committee. School for Business Administration, 90 Ttinity Place, in place of Miss Johnstone, resigncd, who Miss Elizabeth Halderman, formerly of the is now librarian of the American Institute of Coluni,b,ia University Library, is now cataloger Accountancy. at the Missionary Research Library, New Yorlc City. Mrs. Nancy Vaughan, formcrly active anlong Miss Florerice Lester, formerly assistant in the special librarians of New York, and recently University of Georgia Library, is now on the just as active a membcr of the Southern staff of the Columbia University Library California Special Libraries Assoc~ationwhile principnl of the sclence and industry depart- Miss Margaret Fife, librarian of the Flagler ment of the Los Angeles Public Library, has Memorial Library, htiami, Florida, has ac- returned to New York Clty, where she has cepted a position as reference librarian in the accepted a position in the Reference Depart- Frick Art Reference Library, New York City. ment of the New York Public Library. We Miss hlargaret Baldwin, a recent graduate hope she will maintain her interest in special of New Jersey College for Wornen library class libraries. has become an assistant in the Library of the American Bankers Association. Miss Alice Jewett, formerly with the New York Public Library and recently librarian of Miss Isabel Cubberley of New Jersey College the Larclimont Public Library, has returned is doing substitute work in the Municipal to the New York Public Library as first assist- Reference Library, New York City. ant in the Economics Division. The special Robert W. G. Vail, formerly librarian of the librarians of New York are glad to have an old friend thcre in Miss Eunice Miller's place to Roosevelt Memorial Library in New York City, has joined Che staff of the New York answer their many requests. Public Library Miss Bertha L. Gunterman, editor of the Mrs. A. B. Lawrence has accepted a position Children's Department for Longmans, Green as librarian of the Dental College of New York Rr Co., states the Publishers' Weekly, is at University at Washington Square. present abroad consulting with European Miss Elizabeth R. Tepper is employed as authors about books which her firm plans to publish in translation. The brief note in an assistant in the library of the Joint Com- mittee of the National Utility Association, P~~blisRers'Weekly for October 20th is ac- companied by a photograph. under Miss De Vinne, the librarian. Miss Margaret Reynolds, librarian of the Miss Winifred Knapp, formerly head cat- First Wisconsin National Bank, has returned aloger of Indiana University Library, is now to her work after a rest of several months in connected with the Ilarvard Graduate School California. of Business Administration. November, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Events and Publications Rebecca B. Rankin, Department Editor

During the month of October the library of This committee has recetitly Issued n Dictionary the New York Academy of Medicine exhibited of Leather Terminology, which in small conl- books on old age and diseases of old age. pass contairts a vast amount of useful data. **+ *I* Edexco Graphics Age is the title of a little Miss Margaret Reynolds, L~brarian of the leaflet issued by the Educational Exhibition First Wisconsin National Bank, at the Mil- Company at Providence. Mr. Swarts, the waukec meeting of the Wisconsiri Library owner, specializes on graphic novelties. Associatiotl, October 10-12, discusbed the *** Better Busi~~ess1300ks of 1928. She also clis- Miss K. Dorothy Ferguson of the Bank of tributed a little leaflet containing the titles of Italy Library, has prepared a 1928 Supplemcnt thirteen leaders anlong the business booke of to the Reading List on the McFadden Bill and the year. The list was also distributed at one the Branch Banking Question. of the meetings of the Rotary Club of Mil- *** waukee. Miss E. Ruth Jones, Librarian of the Security *** Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angelcs, in the The Providence Magazine lor October, 1928, Bafikcrs Magazine for September, 1928, writes devotes a page to the Business Branch of the on business libraries under the title "The Providence Public Library. The story reviews 'What For' of the Business Reference Li- an article which appeared in the Providence brary." .Touraal under the heading "The Business *** Branchcs of Newark, Indianapolis and Provi- Charles E. Babcock, Librarian of the Colum- dence," an interesting cornparibon of the three bus Memorial Library, Pan A~ncricanUnion, notable libraries of this type. in a recent issue of the Bulletin of the Union, ++* describes the Mexican participation in MISS M. E. Atldison, Librarian of the Re- American Library Association work. The search Department of the Los Angcles First article is accompanied by a photog~aphdepict- National Bank, presents a Monthly Magazine ing the visit of the lMexican library delegation Digest in the current issue of the bank period- to the Pan American Union. ical. Miss Acldison also conducts a department *** entitled "What Shall I Rcad" in the .SoulBern , The Tanners and Lcather Goods Industries Cdijor~inBnnkcr, a publication of the Los have formed n Joint Comtnittce with hcacl- Angeles Chapter of the .41nericnn Institutc of quarters at 41 Park Row, New York City. Banking.

Special Librarians at a State Library Convention

At thc 32nd Annual Meeting of the Illinois filing of ephcmeral material." This was a State Library Associat~on,a general session practical scholarly paper. "The work of a child was devoted to the subject "Spcclal Libraries welfare library," was given in a cotnprehens~vc As Aids to Public Libraries." Miss Mary l3. paper by Mrs. Mary W. Taylor, Librarian of Day, Librarian of the National Safcty Council, the Eligabeth McCormick Menlorial Library. acted as chairman. An interesting exhibit of their publications was The first paper presented by Miss Virginia on the plntforrn. Savage, Librarian of Halscy Stuart and Co., The subject of "Indexing" was discussed by was entitled UWhat inforrnatlon the specialized Miss Julia Elliot, Director, Indexers. She library may share with the public library." traced indexing through the ages down to Miss Savage stressed the importance of financial present times. literature, and illustrated her talk with a very All of the papers were unusually valuable- interesting exhibit of financial material which given Ily authorities in their respective fields, can be obtained free or at small cost. and there was much favorable comment on the Miss Ann D. White, Assistant Librarian of session. H, M. Byllesby & Co., spoke on "The care and M. B. D. Pages 339-3411 deleted, advertising.