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Important Books of the Year - Fourth Annual ' Symposium by Correspondence . . . . . , ...... One Way of Making Bibliographies Alive . . Isabella M. Cooper Events and Publications . . . , ...... Handicaps in Effective Use of Public Documents Jerome K. Wilcox Contacts with Our Clientele ...... Caroline W. Lutz The Development of the Municipal Reference Service in the Bureau of the Census ...... Oliver C. Short In Memoriam ...... Margaret G. Smith Board Meeting Notes ...... From the Editor's Point of View ...... News Notes ...... , ...... Letters to the Editor ...... Success Stories from Our Files - Margaret R. Bonnell; Finally - A Definition of Special Library - Rebecca B. Rankin; Are We Satisfied with Special Libraries? - Sarah Bradley Pruden. Publications of Special Interest . . . , ......

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DECEMBER 1 937

NUMBER lo SPECIAL LIBRARIES MARIANC. MANLEY,Editor Vol. 28, No. 10 December, 1931

Important Books of the Year Fourth Annual Symposium by Correspondence

A librarian from an industrial rela- vidual's wage-earning capacity, Hop tions library writes wood's book is a compact summary of much that had appeared earlier in peri- UR criterion for interest and popu- odicals or pamphlets and now gives to the 0 larity of new books in the labor industrial executive a practical manual relations field is principally their perti- in establishing a definite system of wage nancy to current questions and requests administration and job evaluation. The which we receive. The books of particular changing concept of the purpose of in- value to us, in our own research and for dustrial training is brought out in the inclusion in selected lists of references, revised edition of James W. Greene's fall into four very broad groups. The first Organized Training in Business. While it is the broad historical and theoretical presents the factual, technical material discussion of labor problems. No par- inlportant in any study of a training ticularly outstanding books of this type program, it also recognizes the broader have been published in 1937. The one phase of training as an essential function most nearly approaching this type is of management, even in such non- Herman Feldman's Problems in Labor mechanical develo~mentsas cnllective Relations, and it is principally of interest bargaining. as a casebook for use in graduale or In any period as engrossed in labor undergraduate courses. However its pres- dissatisfaction and turmoil as the pres- entation of specific cases is provocative ent, there are bound to be many books readihg for anyone wishing to "get into" explaining "why." Thus the third gen- actual labor situations. eral grouping in which we are interested, The second grouping includes studies including those books describing the of management approach to personnel development of the labor movement administration and employee relations. broadly or within certain particular forms Two books belonging here deal helpfully of organization, is well represented in with the important problem of determin- 1937. One such book which gives a ing the fair wage for the individual panoramic view of the Aniericar! worker's worker (as distinct from changes in the continuous efforts to improve his status general wage rate). They are Com$ensat- is Malcolm Keir's Labor's Search for ing Indzutrial Effort, by Z. Clark Dickin- More. New and old factual msterial is son, and Salaries, Wates and Labor Rela- mustered to describe this upward surge tions, by J. 0. Hopwood. The former is and the economic and political pressures an exhaustive study of wage incentives, which deter or help the irregular progress- considering the effects of economic fac- In contrast to Keir's impersollal study of tors, personnel and general management trends is Robert Brook's Vl~enLabor and employee attitudes upon the indi- Orgatzizes. It is a realistic picture of recent SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 major engagements between labor, trying the basis of political, economic and social to gain its objectives, and employers life in any community. trying to withhold or to give something Within the last broad grouping are the other than what the group demands. many writings dealing with the impact Qut of this hectic picture of struggles, the of government upon labor. This includes author tries to draw some implications not only wages, hours and collective for the future. One concluding question bargaining, but also social security. The is, "May not the labor movement be most valuable material appearing during recognized as an effort to reassert the the year on these subjects is in the form forms and practices of democracy in an of magazine articles, pamphlets and gov- industrialized society? " ernment reports, rather than books. Of books dealing with labor relations Anyone interested in governmental ac- in particular industries, two stand out - tion on hours and wages will find the Industrial Relutions in Urban Transpor- Joint Hearings on the Fair Labor Stand- fution, by Emerson P. Schmidt, and ards Act (June, 1937) invaluable. In the Economics of the Iron and Steel Induslry, collective bargaining field, the Decisions by Carroll R. Daugherty and others. (Volume I, December 7, 1935, to July 1, The former is a concise description of 1936) and First Annual Report of the management problems in an important National Labor Relations Board are im- public utility and of a comparatively portant documents showing both the peaceful working relationship between labor problems involved and govern- one union and many employers over a mental influence on trends. Because the long period of time. The second volume bound volume of decisions published by of the steel report not only describes past the Board lags so far behind current and present labor struggles but points decisions, a recently inaugurated service, out possible solutions of the conflict. Labor Relations Reports, published by the These suggestions aroused a storm of Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Wash- comment which is not yet exhausted. ington, is most helpful. It is concerned Any list of important books of the year principally with Labor Board cases, but in this field must include two which treat also includes news on trade union devel- the labor problem as an integral part of a opments and a few special studies, such community's political and economic de- as provisions in recent trade agreements. velopment. They are American City, by A number of good,books and many Charles R. Walker, and Middletown in important articles and documents have Transition, by Robert S. and Helen M. appeared on social security. Two books Lynd. American City is Minneapolis. are of outstanding value. Social Security The present explosive labor and political in America (published by the Social conflicts form the dramatic action with Security Board) is described by its sub- the empire-building era as stage setting. title, "The factual background of the Middletown in Transition is less specifi- Social Security Act as summarized from cally concerned with labor, but industry staff reports to the Committee on Eco- and the employed and unemployed nomic Security." The other, The Social workers are vital parts of the changing Security Act in Operation, is written by scene in Middletown. Both of these books two technical advisers to the Social are fascinating reading and both are val- Security Board, Birchard E. Wyatt and uable aids to an increasing realization of William H. Wyatt, with the collaboration the strained but essential homogeneity of of the Chief of Training, W. L. Schurz. employer and worker who together form It is intended primarily as a working December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 345 handbook for employers, but is a con- interest and use are the following books: venient reference manual for anyone Organic Chtmistry, by F. C. Whitmore; interested in the Act. new edition of Colloid Chemistry, by In compiling any list of "most im- Jerome Alexander; Electrical Measure- portant" books, many good ones are ex- ments, by H. L. Curtis; Elektrische cluded. But the reader with limited time Messungen, by Werner Skirl which is and the library with limited budget remarkably well illustrated; Engineering realistically demand a short list. The Alloys, by Woldman and Dornblatt; books included here seem to reoresent a fourth edition, volume 1 of Thorpe's Dic- minimum collection of the publications bionary of ApgZied Chemistry, which brings of the year in the labor relations and references and material up-to-date. -Al- social insurance fields. - Helen Baker, vin~L. Ahl, Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Industrid Relations Section, Princeton University. A business branch librarian wrttee When I am asked for a list of our most The librarian of a paper company important and interesting books of the writes year, I hardly know where to begin, for The most used book in our library is surely the business branch of a public the new third edition of the Manzlfadnre library has a varied and wide field to of PuZ# and Pafier, Volunre III. This cover. volume deals with the preparation of The first book I would list as a real pulpwood, the manufacture of pulps, find is the Mines Register, a continuation and the testing of pulps. The previous of the Mines Handbook. It contains edition was published in 1927 and since descriptions of more than 4,000 active then much progress has been made in mining companies and references to the manufacture of pulps. This is the more than 15,000 inactive ones. Among only book bringing the subject up-to- its new features are a statistical section, date. Volumes IV and V of this set are security prices, a directory of consulting being revised and should be as useful as and mining engineers, managers, super- Volume 111. intendents and purchasing agents, as Published in Holland, the book, Dic- well as descriptions of some of the leading tionary of Paper and Pafier-making non-ferrous metal mining companies of Terms, by Labarre, should become in- the world. dispensable not only to paper chemists In the third annual number of Adver- and papermakers, but also to translators, tising and Publishing Pmductiopl Ymr- dealers and others interested in the field. book is an excellent list of type faces, The term is given in English followed by probably the most complete compilation the definition and description, then the to be found anywhere. equivalent given in French, German, The fifth volume of Marvyn Scudder Dutch and Italian. A good history of Manual of Extinct or Obsolete Companies, paper making is also included. Bleiche now published by Robert D. Fisher, was des Zoellstffe, by Erich Opfermann and a welcome addition to our collection. Ernst Hochberger is an excellent com- Prentice-Hall has issued the first v01- plete book on the subject of bleaching. ume of a four-volume Encyclopedk of Bibliography of Paper making, 1928- Corfirale Forms, a comprehensive, reli- 1935, compiled by Dr. C. J. West is able and up-to-date collection of an- indispensable to our library. notated business forms, which will cover Among others which have been of the entire field of corporate practice. 20* 346 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10

We have only just received Real Estate cooperation have been of value: Jacob Analyst, the real estate service issued by Baker's Cooperative Enterprise and Amer- Mr. Roy Wenzlick, but it appears to con- ican Cooperation. Mr. Baker, as head of tain excellent material. the Inquiry on Coaperative Enterprise, The second edition of McMichaells came into contact with every phase of Appraising Manual contains a vast fund the subject in Europe. The American of miscellaneous information on land Institute of Cooperation in its annual measurements, prices and values, rentals, collection represents the current trend of interest tables, etc. cooperative thought and action. The fifth edition of Taintor and An impressive book is R. S. and H. M. Monro's Secretary's Handbook competes Lynd's Middletozun in Transition, a with Hutchinson's Standard Handbook sociological portrait of NIuncie, Indiana, for Secrelaries in answering the inquiring which the same authors surveyed a few secretary's demands. It has probably a years ago in Middletown. more conservative attitude about mat- Zorn and Feldman's Business under ters of punctuation, etc., than the latter. the New Price Laws, is necessary for an The American Book of Days by G. W. understanding of the problems raised by Douglas is a compendium of information the Robinson-Patman act and the price about American holidays and anniver- maintenance laws. saries. A few titles which have been popular The first major attempt to show the are the following: Berle'r; Invenlions and kinds of new inventions which may Their Management; Einzig's World Fi- affect living and working conditions in nance; Graham's Interpretation of Finan- the next quarter century, the problems cial Statements; Hogben's Mathematics resulting, and the lines of national for the Million; Ivey's Successful Sales- policy of necessary adjustment is found manship and Salesmanship Applied; in Technological Trends and National Kahm's Start Your Own Business; Laird's Policy issued by the National Resources Psychology of Selecting Employees; Law- Committee. rence's Cost Accounting; McDonald's One of the most readable books of the O$ce Management; Montgomery's Fed- year is Carl Crow's Four Hundred Mil- eral Income Tax Handbook, 1936-1937; lion Customers, an account of the author's Owen's Controlling Your Personal Fi- experience as an advertising agent in nances; Shultz and Caine's Financial China. Development of the United States; War- The National Industrial Conference show's Understanding the New Stock Board has published Cost of Government Market. - Adra M. Fay, Business & in the Ur~ited States, 1934-1936; EGO- Municipal Branch, Minneapolis. nomic Development of Germany under National Socialism; and Income Received A librarian for a petroleum cor- in the Various States, 1929-1935. poration writes A monumental work is The Econonlics There hake been many useful books of the Iron and Steel Industry in two published this year and I will merely list volumes by C. R. Daugherty and others. a few of those which we have found very This sets forth in detail the economic valuable additions to our library. Absorp- conditions surrounding the production tion and Extraction, by Thomas K. and distribution of iron and steel under Sherwood ; The Retardation of Chemical the Code of Fair Competition. Reactions, by K. C. Bailye; Polymeriza- Two books on the popular subject of tion, by Burk, Thompson, Weith, Wil- -.A"-., -/;-;,jl-- - -u..rc-A

December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBXiARIES 347 liams; Organic Chemistry, by F. C. picture weekly that America has the Whitmore. worst slums in the world, Essentially Why Keefi Them Alive is a simple book, I We were also glad to have a new edi- tion of Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, its one thesis and one conclusion being which is one of our most frequently used that children need not be ill, need not die I reference books. - Thelma Hoffman, of diphtheria, tuberculosis, rheumatic Shell Developmeni Company. heart disease; that it is only poverty with its tragic consequences of under- A music librarian writes nourishment and lack of sunshine that is It took me almost no time to decide responsible for the fact that they do die. which books to "enter" in this sym- Unless, of course, they are "Quints." posium; but as I began to write about His last chapter, "Children Can Live," them I discovered they are all 1936 publi- tells the dramatic story of the successful cations. It speaks well for their vitality battle for the lives of these dreadfully that I still think of them as recent. handicapped, ill born children. Before In a review of books by librarians it is that chapter you will have read of one a pleasure to include a publication by district's fight on tuberculosis, a despair- other members of the profession. Cer- ing fight because the devoted men and tainly from my point of view one of the women making it, find out that it's plain most useful reference tools of the last dollars and cents that defeats them. couple of years is An Index to Folk Dances Then the author says to ignore (if you and Singing Games compiled by my can) the heartaches and body aches of colleagues on the staff of the Music de- the little victims and put the matter on a partment of the Minneapolis Public business basis. "In short," he says, "it Library and published by the A. L. A. would cost per year not more than one- The scope of the book includes classic hundred-and-seventy-fifth the price of dances, tap and clog and some of the one death-dealing modern battleship, to early square and contra dances. Some- save all these lives, . . . in short, it thing over a hundred titles have been would within ten years, effect a saving of indexed and the book's service to a busy more than one million dollars per year of music librarian is invaluable. Librarians the tax-payers' money." But even these in other fields can hardly realize the bald, unemotional facts don't save the amount of reference work to be done babies with the penny wise, pound these days on the subject of the dance. foolish city officials. To read the book is The arrangement of the book permits to share his indignation. libraries to include their own indexing of Popular in the library throughout 1937 new collections and the key to symbols has been Irving Kolodin's The Metropol*- gives plenty of space to add the classifi- tan Opera, 1883-1935. To the ordinary cation number. reader it is an exciting and vivid chronicle One of the most exciting books to me of who, what and when in the history of is one whose fundamental importance this famous house. As a book of facts it is was consistently played down by the particularly useful because of the detailed majority of professional book reviewers. lists of casts; in spite of occasional errors I refer to Why Kee# Them Alive? by Paul these are extremely serviceable. TO the De Kruif. This book is of general and music student or observer it is also an individual significance to every librarian, absorbing, but discouraging account of exactly as is the startling statement ap- the state of opera in America. "Built for pearing in a recent issue of a national the Boxes" was the heading of one writ- SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 er's review of the book and "managed For this reason, even though it appeared for the boxes" might be the general, if in 1936, I am citing as important the unoriginal commentary of the whole English translation of Otto Franzius, history of the institution. In spite of Der Verkerswasserbau (Waterway En- great music, varied repertoire and bril- gineering). liant casts, the Metropolitan is still far In connection with river control, the from being the home of opera for the Engineering News-Record published in people. In late years the heirs of the 1936 a series of articles on Mosquito scions of wealth for whom the place was Control Engineering. The articles, writ- built (in rivalry to the old Academy of ten by authorities in the field, were so Music with too few boxes) have been well received that they were issued in compelled to appeal to the general public 1937 by McGraw-Hill as a booklet en- to save for them their inherited financial titled, Mosquito Control Engineering. interests. Opera being the expensive While it is true that mosquito control business it is (even at its worstl) one must be given special consideration in feels after reading this social, artistic and southern climates, it is a real engineering economic history of the Metropolitan problem wherever drainage work and that the only way to share fine opera water storage is carried on. As the book- with everybody and to create new oper- let points out, the malaria problem is no atic forms springing from the heart of less real in New Jersey than in the South. the people is through generous govern- Of inestimable value to special librari- ment support. With a steady income from ans are the publications of the Federal the government we could hear great government. One of the most interesting opera and yet know it was operating on a of these is the Federal Writers' Project's sound, democratic basis. - Jessica M. first publication, Washington, City and Fredricks, Music Department, Sun Fran- Capital, a beautifully illustrated volume. cisco Public Library. This is only one volume of a series of American ~uideswhich will be compiled. The librarian of a technology library The National Resources Committee writes continues to issue useful documents. A copy of the Pennsylvania Railroad Particularly noteworthy is the report, Company's illustrated History of the Technological Trends and National Policy. Floods of March, 1936 and January, The letter of transmittal explains that 1937 came to my desk as I was preparing this document is an attempt "to show the final draft of this list of important the kinds of new inventions which may books. The photographs of actual flood affect living and working conditions in scenes are very interesting. Incidentally, America in the next 10 to 25 years." in the light of the January flood of the The report also considers the problems Ohio River, there has been submitted to which might result from these inventions the Congressional Committee on Flood and emphasizes the need for national Control, A Comprehensive Flood-Control efforts to make possible all necessary Plan for Ohio and Lower Mississip@' readjustments. Two other considerable Rivers. This is listed as Committee reports of the Committee are Drainage Document No. 1, 75th Congress, 1st Basin Problems and Programs, and Our Session. Cities. As a result of floods, drouths, and dust The President's Committee on Ad- storms, river regulation is becoming of ministrative Management made its re- more and more concern to this country. port on Government Reorganization I

December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 349 early in the year. To accompany this Who's Who in Engineering was last report there have been issued several revised. Consequently, the appearance I studies on administrative management of the 1937 edition was a welcome in the Federal government. companion to this year's directories and The National Industrial Conference Who's Whos. The new edition is the Board can be counted on for three or four fourth and contains 12,000 names. - good studies each year. For 1937, they Harry C. Bauer, Tennessee Valley Au- have published Kimmel's, Cost of Gov- thority. ernment in the United States 193+1936; ~~aughter'sIncome Received in the Vari- A municipal reference librarian ous States, 1929-1935; and Brower's Per- writes sonnel Practices Governing Factory and In the City Hall office of the Cincin- Ofice Administration. nati PYIunicipal Reference Bureau, the In the field of social science, the Lynds greater part of our most used material is came through with their supplementary in pre-book form, including special study, Middletown in Transition, a study studies, research reports, conference pro- in cultural conflicts, thereby making ceedings, and magazine articles. There- Muncie, Indiana, front page news. An- fore, since in any given year we buy and other supplementary volume came from use such a comparatively limited number the North Carolina University Press. It of books, it is difficult to present in terms was the Manual to Odum's valuable of book titles a picture of the most used reference book, Southern Regions. literature in our field. It may, perhaps, Every year new editions of standard suffice to indicate some of the problems engineering and scientific handbooks with which our " customers " have been appear. These are too numerous to be in- especially concerned this year, and some cluded in this list. The following en- of the materials which they have been gineering books, however, have been reading. Such an outline can only be found to be very useful: Dodge, Fluid suggestive, not inclusive. Mechanics; Curtis, Electrical Measure- First, mention should be made of a ments; OIBrien and Hickox, Applied few of the general, standard, annual ref- Fluid Mechanics; Hogentogler, Engi- ence works and reports which constitute neering P~operties of Sd; Bonbright, the foundations of a Bureau such as ours: Valuation of Property; and the Lightning the World Almanac, the American City's Reference Book of the American Insti- Municipal I?zdex, the Yearbook of he tute of Electrical Engineers. International City Managers' Association, In addition to the foregoing books, their Recent Council-Manager Develop several miscellaneous titles are finding ments and Directory of Council-Manager much use, such as: Benge, Ofice Econ- Cities, municipal tax-rate and bonded omies; Telford, Classification Manual; debt studies in the National Municipal Mosher and Kingsley, Public Personnel Review, and the annual yearbooks and Administration; University of Chicago, proceedings, together with the periodic Manual of Style; Knoeppel, Managing for newsletters, of the various national Profit; Meriam, Public Senrice and Spe- organizations in the field of public cial Training. The Soil Science Society administration. of America in issuing the proceedings of Then there are the technical publica- its first meeting has begun a series of tions of such groups as: the American outstanding importance in its field. Society for Testing Materials, with its It has been several years since the triennial standards and yearly tentative 350 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 standards, constantly used by our water Practice in Municifial Accounting, by the works, building, highways, and purchas- Municipal Finance Officers' Association ; ing departments; and the National Fire Gross Debt in Dayton, by the Dayton Protection Association and National Research Association; Reorganization of . Board of Fire Underwriters, with such Boston's Fiscal Agencies into a Unified publications as the 1937 National Elec- Finance Deflartment, by the Boston tric Code. Here also should be mentioned Municipal Research Bureau, and the the Proceedings of the First International like. Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foun- The concern with floods and flood dation Engineering. control, which here happens to be closely It would naturally be impossible to connected with stream purification and mention here pertinent recent literature sewage disposal, led to much use of such on all the problems confronting our local publications as Surface Water Sufiply, city government. Hence this discussion Ohio Rzver Basin, U. S. Geological Sur- will be limited to a few typical samples. vey; Levees, Flood Walls, Ohio River Thus, during the past year, much Basin, U. S. House Report; History of thought and study have been devoted to the January 1937 Flood as It Afected the the problem of crime and its prevention, Cincinnati Street Railway Comfiany; and especially juvenile delinquency. In this all of the specific studies and reports on connection Unzform Crime Reports of the these subjects. F. B. I. have furnished statistical data. Basic to planning in all municipal New Light on Delinquency and Its Treat- fields are the various population studies, ment, by Healy and Bronner, Social such as The Population of Hamilton Trcahent in Probation and Delinquency, County, Ohio, in 1935 (A summary and by Young, Social Determinants in Juve- interpretation of the Regional Census of nile Delinquency, by Sullenger, and Pre- Hamilton County) ; and Syracuse Popu- venting Crime, by Glueck, have been lation, Characteristics and Trends, by the much used, in addition to publications Syracuse Housing Authority. dealing with the work of coordinating Among the various other municipal councils, and with the crime prevention problems which have received much activities of various police departments. attention in the literature of the past Likewise, relief and unemployment year are those bearing upon: control and have continued to be problems of in- regulation of trailers, the cities' r6le in sistent co,ncern. Two local publications strikes, unionization of public employes, in this field should be noted: The Relief traffic engineering, personnel administra- Program in Hamilton County, Ohio, 1937, tion and training, storage of inflammable by the Cincinnati Bureau of Govern- liquids, municipal pension systems, taxa- mental Research; and Cincinnati's 4- tion, health, and recreation. Point Employment Program, by the As the last item in this necessarily Cincinnati Employment Center. brief and eclectic outline, especial atten- In the realm of housing, attention tion should be called to the comprehen- should be called to James Ford's Slums sive study of cities and urban living and TIousing, and the housing studies published in June 1937 by the Urbahism made in specific cities by local planning Committee of the National Resources and housing bodies. New York City's Committee under the title Our Cities: new building code has been of much Their R61e in the National Economy. interest. This remarkable survey and analysis is In accounting and finance: Standard doubtless one of the foremost publica- December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 351 tions of the year in its field. - Nellie promises to be a useful contribution has Jane Rechenbach, Cincinnati Municipal been issued by the publishers of public Reference Bureau. works magazine, entitled The Manual of Slreel ad Highway Equipment ad Ma- The librarian of the bureau of pub- terials, 1937 edition. It is a combination lic roads writes text-book and catalog in which a de- Publications relating to highways and scription of equipment and materials is highway transportation are many and woven into a discussion of methods of varied. In the field of highway research, conslruction. the Highway Research Board, through There appears to be no recent book on its Proceedings, makes an outstanding the technique of tunneling. Archibald contribution. Organized as a branch of Black has written The Story of T2~nne.I~. the Natiqnal Research Council, much of This is good reading for the engineer who the technical work of the Board is done has given but scant attention to tunnels. by committees of specialists and recog- It. pictures the difficultiesof the work and nized authorities. The annual meetings is non-technical. are held in Washington, D. C., in No- In the field of materials and specifica- vember or December of each year. tions, George S. Brady has published a The demand for a modern text-book third edition of Materials Handbook in- of highway engineering covering ad- tended as an encyclopedia for purchasing vances in highway engineering practice agents, engineers, executives and fore- has led to the issuance of a second edi- men. The American Association of State tion of Highway Design and Construction, Highway Officials has issued a supple- by Arthur G. Bruce, originally published ment to its Standard Specifications for in 1934. The chief changes are in ampli- Highway Materids and Methods of Sam- fication of the information regarding +ling and Testing, giving new standards treatments of natural subgrade including and revisions in existing standards soil stabilization, and the insertion of adopted in 1937. The American Concrete questions and problems. The science of Institute has had lithoprinted a Progress soil mechanics is covered in a book on Report of the Joint Committee on St'undard Engineering Properties of Soil, by Chester Sfiecificationsfor Coxcrete and Reinforced A. Hogentogler. These two books are Concrtte, January 1937, submitting rec- perhaps the most comprehensive text- ommended practice and standard specifi- books on their respective subjects now cations. A meeting of the International available. Any review of the literature of Association for Testing Materials was soil mechanics, however, would be incom- held in London, April 19-24. Advance plete withoui mention of the Proceedings proofs of the papers are available. of the International Conference on Soil The problem of the house trailer is Mechanics and Foundation Engineeting, discussed in a report prepared by the held at Harvard University, and pub- American Municipal Association in to- lished in 1936 in three volumes. A book operation with the American Public wel- for field use, by H. Criswell, on ZIigkway fare Association, American Society of S#irals, Banking and Vertical Curves was Planning Officials, National Association published in England. The Ministry of of Ilousing Officials, entitled Tire House Transport of Great Britain has issued a Tyailcr, Its Efect on Slate and Local GOV- Memorandum on the Lay-Out and Con- ernmcnt. ~hcfirst edition, February struction of Roads. 1937, \as soon eshausted and a second An interesting new publication which edition was issued in hIay. It discusses SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 governmental regulation of the trailer, highway obligations, and State servicing trailers as seasonal and as permanent of local highway debt. dwellings, taxation, and trailer and In reaching the end of a pioneer period trailer camp ordinances. Numerous books in the improvement of our roads and have appeared on the design of house with the extension of Federal aid to local trailers and on touring in trailers. One roads, it has become necessary to obtain published by Irving White Lyon under factual information as a basis for future the pseudonym, Freeman Marsh, en- planning. State-wide highway planning titled Trailers, includes discussion of surveys are being made in nearly all of trailer organizations, manufacturers, the States. These include a detailed in- publications, laws and regulations, di- ventory of roads and structures, a study rectories of trailer parks and camps, and of the character and flow of traffic, National arks and available facilities. weight and commodity surveys, finan- Three recent publications relate to cial compilations, and studies of road use different phases of roadside development. and road life. Possiblv because conditions The technical side is covered in the Re- are changing and methods are in a state port of the Joint Comnzittee on Roadside of development, no comprehensive books Deuelowent of the American Association on highway planning or planning sur- of Stute Highway Oficials and the High- veys have appeared. Probably the most way Research Board, 1936, published by helpful information is contained in three the Highway Research Board, June papers by H. S. Fairbank. One was read 1937; the legislative side is presented in before the American Association of Planning Broadcasts, a Bulletin of the State Highway Officials and published in American Planning and Civic Associa- the January 1937 issue of American tion; the popular side appears in the Highways; one was presented at the an- June issue of The Roadside Bulletin pub- nual meeting of the American Society of lished by the National Roadside Coun- Civil Engineers, and abstracted in the cil, which contains a pictorial story of March 1937 issue of Civil Engineering; the American highway and a discussion and the third is included in Papers Pre- of highway zoning. sented at the Highway Conference.Held at Two useful publications have ap- the University of Colorado on January 14 peared in the field of highway adminis- and 15, 1937. Publications useful in con- tration and finance. The International nection with the making of surveys are Chamber of Commerce, Paris, has pub- numerous. The reports of the State lished a brochure, Highway Administra- planning boards have sections relating to tion and Finance in Fifleen Cciuntries, transportation, some of the Boards have with a preface by Dr. F. H. Fentener van issued separate publications on the sub- Vlissingen, the reports being prepared ject. During the year the National Re- (except those on the U. S. A. and China) sources Committee has published Our by Louis Delanney. There is a separate Cities, Their Role in the National Econ- report for each country, preceded in omy, and Technological Trends and Na- nearly every instance by a short intro- tional Policy. There is a new Harvard duction written by a national authority City Planning Study by John Nolen and on highway finance. Edna Trull's Bor- Henry V. Hubbard entitled Parkways rowing for Highways presents informa- and Land Values. C. A. and A. H. Rath- tion, statistical and otherwise, on State kopf have published The Law of Zoning highway miIeages, revenues, expendi- and Planning. An outstanding traffic tures and debt, including refunding of survey report of the year is Street Trafic, December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 353

City of Detroit, published by the Michigan Outstanding among publicatjons in the State Highway Department. field of structural engineering are those of Publications on traffic regulation and the International Association for Bridge safety are numerous and only a few can and Structural Engineering published by be mentioned. The Manual on Unqorm the General Secretariat in Zurich. Noth- Trafic Control Dm'ces for Sireets and ing issued in 1937 has as yet been re- Highways, approved as an American ceived by the writer, but the earlier standard by the American Standards Pz~blications,with their papers in French, Association, November 7, 1935, and German and English, by eminent au- published by the American Association thorities in the several countries, and the of State Highway Officials and the Na- Preliminary Publication of the Second tional Conference on Street and High- Congress, published in 1936, are too im- way Safety, was reprinted in September portant to overlook. A third edition of 1937. The U. S. Bureau of Public Roads Strength of Materials, by Alfred P. published Guides To Tyafic Safety, a re- Poorman, has been published, and a port prepared by the Executive Com- fourth revised edition of Hool's Rein- mittee of the National Conference on forced Concrete Conslruction, VoL 1, Fun- Street and Highway Safety, approved ahmental Principles. Charles M. Spofford May 23-25, 1934, and revised by the has written a book on the Theory of Executive Committee, May 1937. It also Continuous Structures and Arches; David published a Bibliography on Highway A. Molitor has contributed a book on Lighting, compiled by Mildred A. Wilson. Structural Engineering Problems, Dealing A Bibliografilzy on Driving Safety, pre- .with Frames, Wind Bracing, Rehiiring pared under the direction of Dr. Harry Walls, Sheet Piling, and Wave: Pressure R. De Silva, was published by the Har- on Breakwaters. To meet the need for a vard Bureau for Street Traffic Research. book on the history of bridges, W. J. It includes various phases of the safety Watson has written A Decade of Bridges, problem. Engineering for Trafic Safety 1926-1936; and in coIlaboration with S. was published by the National Safety R. Watson, another entitled Bridges in Council. A great many publications have Hzstory and Legend. With further im- appeared which relate to the driver. provemeni in methods of welding, pub- Among these are Safe Driruing; Human lications have become numerous. Among Limitations in Automobile Driving, by recent books may be mentioned: Welding J. R. Hamilton and Louis L. Thurstone, and Cutling Yearbook, 1936/37, by Helsby and A Teacher's Manual Designed for Use and Hamann, published in London; The zuith "Man and the Motor Car," edited by Hobard Arc Welding Manual and Opera- H. J. Stack, for publication by the Na- tor's Training Course; How to Wdd 29 tional Bureau of Casualty and Surety Mefuls, by Charles H. Jennings; and the Underwriters. Man and Ihe Motor, by A. 4th edition of the Procedure Handbook of W. Whitney, was published by the same Arc Welding Design and Practice, pub- organization in 1936 "in response to a lished by the Lincoln Electric Company, demand from high schools for a text- the latest imprint of which contains book on the automobile and how to use the symbols adopted in May 1937 by the it." The American Automobile Associa- American Welding Society and published tion has added to its Sportsmanlike in the June, 1937 issue of the Welding Driving Series. The Keystone Automo- Journal. - 0. Louise Evans, Bureazr of bile Club has published a Highway Public Roads, U.S. Deparhnent of Agri- Safety Textbook for High Schools. culture. 354 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10

One Way of Making Bibliographies Alive By Isabella M. Cooper, Bibliographer

HAT is an "alive" bibliography? seemingly tedious and unnecessary bibli- WThis question opens up unlimited ographic or cataloguing description. fields of discussion. The answer, it would However, given a certain problem to seem, lies in consideration of the purpose consider for intelligent, popular presenta- to be achieved by or the use to be made tion how may a way be developed and of any bibliographic undertaking. There followed toward the consummation of an is no need, in these columns, to dwell "alive" bibliography in a special field? upon an enumeration of types of such The purpose may be fourfold: To edu- compilations the study of which involves cate those who know little or nothing of years of continuous experience in use to the subject; to incite further specialized develop balanced appreciation of re- interest and research among students, spective values and purposes. Suffice it to young or advanced; to create and pro- say that the painstaking, meticulous mote general popular interest in histori- recording of physical and technical items cal, economic, technical, commercial of one compilation may be a valuable phases of said subject; to encourage the source of scholarly or commercial verifi- intelligent workers themselves toward a cation to the connoisseur or a meaning- realization of the wide importance of and less, utterly dead list or volume to the diversified interests connected with their uninitiated; while the fully annotated, special job. readable set-up of another may prove to The first, primal, basic requirement is be a footless product to the specialist a survey of the entire subject in order who knows his subject thoroughly and to gain a properly balanced knowledge wishes only identification of specific of values leading to a classified plan of leads to sources. Moreover, all too often selection procedure. This should be a annotations afford too little or no in- careful survey of existing material avail- formation. able rather than an exhaustive study of Before going on to indicate ways of the subject itself. The intelligent, well- gaining aliveness, it is necessary to raise informed bibliographer, librarian or other a word of caution against the all too educational collector and dispenser of prevalent cry of substance versus me- printed information develops his arsenal chanics. In the eagerness to gather fruit, as he proceeds so that he becomes thor- facts of the exact requirements of forced oughly appreciative of the needs of the cultivation cannot be overlooked or the specialists with whom he cooperates to result will be a very poor, unsatisfactory, make a valuable tool. unreliable group of specimens. The ma- Now then, having made the survey of chinery must be perfect in order that the materials, shall we proceed to a mechani- service to consumer may be accurate and cal distribution of catalogued items under complete. Surely special librarians have subdivisions of the great subject and suffered too many blows from boomer- leave the users of the compilation to take angs resulting from leads to material a chance on titles which seem to be perti- required by executives who demand sub- nent to the information each is anxious stance instantly, to belittle in any way to procure? Surely this would produce lit- accurate and complete itemization of tle better results than the suggestion to a December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 355 business or professional man that he When the true bibliographer is delving select his items from the card catalogue into his subject he is constantly thrilled of a library, under subject headings; by discoveries of origins. "Is it indeed which request usually brings upon the in- possible that this art was practiced at so quirer a violent form of apoplexy. Shall early a date, almost prehistoric? But of we then add a tantalizing line of words course, conditions were thus and so and which only incites suicidal despair be- as a consequence the people would be per- cause it really tells no secrets concerning forming these functions." As the survey the item listed? In connection with this research continues one may be carried last, it might be here stated that the into many lands and observe many cus- present writer when about to embark toms, great names of epochs may be upon a long bibliographic undertaking connected with the development of the announced that annotations from library trade, industry, science, art. We must put bulletins would not be quoted because this spirit of discovery and adventure they were, in the main, useless so far as into the brief descriptions which at the giving information of book content was same moment must be meticulously ac- concerned ; the books themselves must be curate in statement and reference value. seen and adequately annotated. It is impossible to make a reference item What does adequately, here, mean? It analysis of books and documents in the means putting oneself in the place of the limited space of a note but it is possible prospective user of the bibliography and to indicate sections, divisions, groupings comprehending what he wishes to know, dealing with various phases of the sub- not what the annotator sees fit to let him jects treated, thus making the quest know because of lack of imagination, vital alluring rather than leaving the searcher interest or printing funds. This does not after possibilities, groping up a blind mean writing an essay or being verbose; alley. it means clear, strenuous thinking with This spirit of adventure in fresh fields definite, objective service in mind. In the coupled with deep interest in exact in- case of the kind of bibliography we have formation will carry over into the sci- set out to compile it also means a flair for entific, technical, educative, social as- exciting interest in a way that will lead pects of a subject. These groupings, of some to new fields and others to an en- necessity, will be made according to the largement of their specialization; at the natural trends and devdo~mentsof the same time meeting the approval of those whole picture to be presented according already fully informed. Also from the to the needs and interests of the in- point of view of the reference librarian, dustrial, social, economic, governmental, the research worker or the student, the educational or other group for whom the annotations must prove the value of the tool is being prepared. It is amazing to whole as a tool in facilitating rapid serv- find oneself becoming almost a pure ice to inquirers with varying needs. What scientist, almost an engineer, almost an hours of futile expenditure of physical artist, almost a head-hunter, almost a and mental energy would librarians be prehistoric age or monster, almost a saved and what wear on nerves of waiting statistician, almost President while try- clients if annotations, when used, were ing to comprehend enough of a subject to adequately serviceable in eliminating be able to lead the users of the research material non-pertinent to the immediate or reference bibliography to vital, ab- call. sorbing, authentic sources. Above all it To return to our historical beginning. must be authentic within the compass of 356 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 the problem as intended to be worked form, purpose and use makes any brief out. This does not always or even often word seem quite beside the point and mean original research; but in so far as somewhat futile; but it is hoped that the the authorities listed are concerned and text assigned has been adhered to and statements therein there must be no that it has been definitely established doubt of authenticity. that to make any type of bibliography The bibliographer who wishes his tool alive, the bibliographer himself must live to be "alive" cannot be a dead one him- his subject and delight in making it real self. It is moreover necessary that he be to those who desire to profit by his an interpretative medium translating iabours. the material which he has brought to- It is not easy, the way of the annotator gether into a vitally important source of is hard, let him who is without slips throw interest, refreshment, satisfactory verifi- the first stone; but also let him return to cation or detailed research. his own bibliography as a harried refer- Again and lastly, the vast variety of ence librarian and thus discover his deeds bibliographic possibilities in manner, left undone, there will be no health in him.

Events and Publications Contributions front Margaret R. BonncU Avenue, Chicago, publishes Cement and Concrete, The Tdjord Classijicalion Manual preparcd by a reference book for the layman. 32 pages, Fred Telford, 4728 Fourteenth Street, N. W., available on request. Washington, D C. (price $10 postpaid) describes An important new book has just been publ~shed in detail procedures for making and using an oc- by D. Van Nostrand Co. - The Science of Sentrg cupational classification of 'positions in a public by Matthew Luckiesh and F. K. Moss, authori- or commercial organixatlon. While there is a great ties on illumination research. The treatment of deal in personnel literature about classification the subject is concerned chiefly with new con- principles, objectives and results, very llttle is cepts and knowledge of aeeing and with con- available in print on actual procedures in occupa- trollable factors which can contribute toward tional classification work. quick, certain and easy seeing. This approach Meclmnrcal Collon Picker is the t~tleof a recent should be of interest to anyone concerned with publication of the Works Progress Administra- vision, with any aid to seeing or any activity in- tion in its "Studies of Changing Techniques and volving seeing in relation to human efficiency and Employment in Agriculture." The sectlon on welfare. mechanical cotton harvesting d~scussesthe strip- The National Bureau of Standards, in Wash- per-type cotton harvester, the Rust-type me- ington, has ~ssuedLetter Circular 501 in response chanical picker, then costs, losses, and other to mquiries about sources of information on factors. The probable effects of a successful picker rubber production, manufacture and properties. on labor, size of farms, etc., are the subject of the It does not attempt to be an exhaustive list but second part of the monograph, and a selected list rather to point out books, periodicals and other of references in appended. publications which are likely to be accessible and The Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the useful to American readers. Only casual reference Department of Agriculture has issued a 1937 is made to patent literature since patent9 are classified list of Economic Reports and Services seldom useful as sources of general information. of the Burcau. The list is entitled A Guide to the Literature of The releases which have been issued from time Rubber and includes a partial list of firms in the to time on Conszrmer Use of Sclecfed Goods and United States which issue publications relating to seruices, by Incomc Classes, for 32 cities, are now rubber. available in two volumes (Market Research D~scr~mrnationAgainst Older Workers in Mass- series No. 5-11 and 5-12 of the U. S. Bureau of achusetts, an address by R. F. Phelps, Director of Foreign and Domestic Commerce). Prlce 25 Statistics, Massachusetts Department of Labor cents each. and Industries (whose investigations were the Portland Cement Association, 33 West Grand chief source of statistical data used in the article December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 357 on the subject published in the June Monthly - sales" and "Drug chain - salea" are entered Labor Reuinu of the U. S. Department of Labor) thus under the heading "Production and Dis- is available in mimeographed form. More com- tribution" in the appropriate section of the book. plete reports will appear as part of the Annual The symbol for frequency and page entries follow Report of the Massachusetts Labor and Indus- the entry itself, inclu ing the name of the com- tries Department for 1936. piler, period covered (4 s well as frequency), pub- Copies of the Massachusetts Act prohibiting lications in which the series appears, and its discriminat~onagainst persons in employment on description. account of their age, the first Act of its kind It is easy to ascertain whether the series ap- passed by any state in the United States, are also pears in one or more publ~cations.In some cases, available on request. where the coverage of the series is not completely Motor Trirck Facts, 1931 edition, published by known, this fact is stated. If a more complete de- the Automobile Manufacturers Association, 366 scription of the sertes is available, reference to the Madison Avenue, New York City, gives besides primary source giving such a description is given. the usual statistical information on motor truck The use made of primary source material when transportation over a period of years, such data published in secondary sources is stated. Limita- as State limitations on sizes and weights of tions in secondary sources are analyzed. trucks, amounts of special taxes for trucks, sum- The book consists of nearly two hundred pages, mary of state laws and regulations of hours of includinga few blank forms at the end of each sec- service of motor truck drivers, big truck fleets tion upon which additional entries may be made. owned largely by private shippers, number and population of communities dependent solely on ContribuLionsfrom Eleanor S. Cavanaugh motor trucks, by states, and a list of motor truck Sockl Security in America -the factual back- transportation publications, including truck ground of the Social Security Act as summarized association magazines. from staff reports to the Committee on Economic Cash Security Deposits of Salesmen and Col- Sccunty. Social Security Board, Washmgton, lsdors is the title of a recent report by the Policy- D. C. 15 cents. holders Service Bureau of the Metropolitan Life Digest of State and Federal Labor Legulation - Insurance Co., 1 Madison Avenue, New York enacted September 1, 1936 to July 1, 1931. U. S. City. The practices of fifty companies consulted Department of Labor, Bulletin No. 15. are considered in detail for each industry repre- Busitaess Migrofion and Taxation - Tax Pol- aented. icy for October. Tax Policy League, 309 E. 34th Street, New York. 50 cents. Anyone interested in Contributions from Maria C. Brace current agitation concerning effect of taxes on An Index to Business Indrces - D. H Daven- location of industries w~llfind this study valuable. port and Frances V. Scott, Business Publications, Gives important findings of Wisconsin and New Chicago, 1931. York Survey. Tables, by states, showing principal "An Answer to Librarians' Prayers" would be taxes upon business enterprises. a good sub-title to this book! For here 1s a com- Retailers Manual of Tares and Regulations - prehensive index to statistical serics covering Published by Institute of Distribution, Inc., 510 commodity prices, securities and general business Seventh Avenue, New York. $5.00. Shows status conditions. It includes descriptions of rcgfgirlarly of states in regard to chain store and sales taxes, published series "which the authors consider to trade practice regulations, business and occupa- have sufficient general significance for the analy- tional restrictions, wage and labor restrictions. sis of current business conditions." "It does not Index to Business Indices - Donald H. Daven- include series which are compiled on an annual port and Frances V. Scott. Published by Business basis only, those which are not kept up to date, Publications, Inc., Chicago. $2.25. A guide to the or those which are not available to the public. most important index numbers and other statis- Regional measures have been included only when tical mdices that reflect business conditions in they are con~piledas sub-groups of a national U. S. Arranged in two parts - Part I: a finding total." index arranged by alphabetical subject; and The material is well organized and the coding Part 11: various index numbers and indices is simple and logical. Definite and detailed in- classified and described. Very valuable to all structions (by concrete example) are given for libraries using index numbers. Gives compiler, the use of the findingjndex. "Department stores frequency, period covered, descriptions. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10

Handicaps in Effective Use of Public Documents By Jerome K. Wilcox, Assistant Librarian University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

4 CIAL libraries probably more than send to the Superintendent of Documents' sp"any other group in the profession feel Office one copy of every document issued keenly the need for simplification of by them irrespective of whether it be tnethbds and for close contact with their printed or processed. Regional or state of- subject fields. Keeping up-to-date in most fices which have been set up for so inany of of the many fields in which special libraries the federal government agencies often have are well established necessitates an un- their publications printed elsewhere than at limited use and knowledge of public docu- the Government Printing Office or have ments : federal, state, foreign, and munici- them processed, hence they are not listed pal. However, public documents are get- in the Montlzly Catalogilc. ting more out of control than any other The Alo~itlzlyList of State Pz~blicatio?ts field of publications. Why ? issued by the Division of Documents of the First, the use of near print processes Library of Congress is at the present time (mimeograph, multigraph, rotoprint, mul- not more than 70 per cent inclusive of the tilithograph) in making public docun~ents state documents actually issued. Of course available to the public is ever increasing. this is not a check-list in the strict sense, The growth of this form of issuing public but an accession list of onlv those docu- documents since 1920 alone is amazing. ments received by the Library of Congress. At first it was used mainly to make cphem- I have been making a study of new state era1 or preliminary niater~alsavailable as functions and sources of information con- soon as possible. At the present time, how- cerning them for the Committee on Public ever, some of the final editions of the most Documents of the American Library Asso- important public documents are issued in ciation. For the fifteen functions covered this form only. Near print material can no in this study, the following facts have been longer be regarded as of temporary value, discovered. The publications of only two but must be permanently preserved along of these functions, the state ERA'S and with the printed. As a matter of fact, in state planning boards, have been to any ex- many cases, it is inlpossible to determine tent adequately listed or indexed. These are whether n~uchof the near-print statistical the only two functions which are system- reporting is in its final form, not even atically covered in the Monthly List of after repeated inquiries directed to the State Ptrblications. Approximately 50 per issuing agency. cent of the publications of the state milk Along with the rapid increase of docu- control boards and the state liquor control ments issued in near-print forin, has come comnlissions are listed in the Monthly List a breakdown of complete public docu- of State Pziblicatio~zs;however, the subject ment listing and indexing. The Monthly grouping of these two state functions at Catalogzte of United States Public Doczt- present in the annual index is milk and uaenfs has attempted to list all processed alcoholic beverages' regulatioi~srather than docu~neatssince January 1936, but has not milk control boards and liquor control been able to do so largely due to the failure agencies. Most of the monthly periodicals of the federal agencies to systematically of the state employment services are not December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 359 listed or indexed anywhere to my knowl- federal public documents listing in the edge. The publications of the state racing Monthly Catalogl~c.In the case of the state commissions which exist now in half of the public documents I can see no immediate states are also very poorly listed or indexed. solution unless we can get some organiza- Finally, the publications of the state tion in each state td issue a periodic list of N.Y.A., W.P.A. and National Emergency its state docunlents of the excellence of the Council offices are almost forgotten except state lists of Minnesota and Wisconsin in the W.P.A. Library's Weekly Acces- public documents issued by the Minnesota siom List. These publications of the state and Wisconsin Historical Societies respec- offices of federal agencies are omitted in tively. the Monthly Catalogue of United States Libraries have tended for many years Public Documents and also omitted in the toward elaborate and detailed records. In Monthly List of State Publications, prob- the field of public docunlents have de- ably, in the latter case, because they are veloped very elaborate checking records. technically federal offices. In many cases, more records are found We hear rumors of the Library of Con- than documents. Fortunately special libra- gress or some federal agency being asked ries, with the possible exception of a few to issue a monthly list of municipal publi- larger ones, have not developed these dc- cations. Should not there first be a complete tailed recording systems. Naturally enough listing or indexing of federal and state where one or two persons have to manage documents ? the library as in the case of most special The Committee on Public Documents of libraries, as many details as possible have the American Library Association is hop- to be eliminated. ing for a solution of inadequate indexing Could a document collection be main- of federal public documents in seeking to tained without any records and, if so, how? secure passage of House Bill H.R. 5471 Briefly, the arrangement of public docu- introduced into the House on March 9, ments might be either by subject or by issu- 1937, by the Honorable Ross A. Collins of ing agency. If by subject, they might be Mississippi. Part of this bill will provide placed on the shelves along with books or "That of all publications and maps printed pamphlets or arranged in a vertical file. or reproduced elsewhere than at the Gov- Here their identity as public documents ernment Printing Office the issuing agency can be completely forgotten and their sub- shall not be precluded f rorn furnishing the ject content, only, considered. A subject necessary documents for distribution to arrangement will function better for depository libraries under this section." separates than for public documents issued The word "reproduced" is supposed to be serially or periodically. For serials or interpreted as the processed documents, periodicals an alphabetical arrangement by those which are mineographed, multi- agency, and under agency by title is more graphed, rotoprinted, etc. The Chairman of satisfactory. Here again the publications the Public Documents Committee has re- may be placed in pamphlet boxes on shelves quested a definition of this word in the or in vertical files. The latter arrangement bill so that there will be no ambiguity as to would quite adequately care for the press its meaning. A rider to it which will make releases which are probably the most diffi- ~tnecessary for all federal agencies to sub- cult of all public documents to handle. mit periodically lists of their publications Thus if public documents are system- to the Superintendent of Documents has atically kept arranged by issuing agency, also been suggested. The natural sequence any separate checking record of the serial in any case should be a practically complete and periodical documents can be elimi- 21* SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 nated. For example, take the Secwity Act such simple arrangement as this, a com- of 1934 Relcases of the U. S. Security and plete series can be maintained without Exchange Commission. These releases are burdening the library with detailed records distributed daily to all those on the mailing the permanent value of which to special list. As they arrive each morning arrange libraries is doubtful. In fact, I am almost the releases numerically, then file them in of the opinion that elaborate checking numerical order in the pamphlet boxes on records for public documents are unneccs- the shelves or in the vertical file. Lastly, sary in any library. note any missing issues in the file since last Let us tend toward simplification in received and make out immediately a post- library routine whenever we can do so card claim for them. If for any reason a without impairing the service of the 11- checking record is necessary, it might be brary. The librarian's time should be given placed on the outside of the pamphlet boxes more and more to bringing the collection containing the releases or in front of the to the individual and less and less to the vert~calfile containing them. With some voluminous recording of material. Contacts with Our Clientele By Caroline W. Lutz, Librarian Research Laboratories Division, General Motors Corporation, Detroit

ET us consider the clientele of the spe- appliances are manufactured by two other L cial librarian as those persons who divisions. One division and one affiliated come to her expecting to find data of a company manufacture cominercial vehicles special nature, inforination in book form, and two divisions manufacture refrigerat- periodicals, translations, reports, graphs, ing equipment. The manufacture of Diesel drawings, tables, charts, etc., which they engines and Diesel locomotives has been thenlselves, their colleagues or their con- undertaken recently. Each manufacturing temporaries may have been instrumental division employs its own engineering staff. in creating. In addition there are a number of central- In considering the subject, "Contact ized engineering organizations, such as the with Clientele," three questions arise. Research Laboratories Division and the Who are my clientele and where are they Proving Ground. The engineers in the di- to be found? What services can I offer visions are interested in current problems them and how can they help me? If this and problems of the near future. The Re- service is appreciated, how can we further search Laboratories initiate projects of a the cause of special libraries in our broader nature, which are thought to have industry? possibilities leading to the development of General Motors employs more than new industries. 240,000 people. Its products are manu- Soon after the laboratories were incor- factured and assembled in fourteen states porated as the General Motors Research and in seventeen countries abroad. Theo- Corporation in 1920, the nucleus of the retically this is my clientage. There are library was formed and from its very in- thirty-f our divisions in General Motors, ception the management has made it an among which we find six divisions manu- essential part of the organization. The facturing passenger cars. Air condition- entire staff accepts it as a foregone- conclu- ing and lighting equipment and household sion. One would indeed have difficulty in December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 361 finding more sympathetic associates. A Let us consider one or two typical proof of one executive's interest, is shown "cases" and see how they are handled. The by the fact that all the checks he receives "contact manJ' writes a letter asking the for special publications are given to the librarian to send him the references listed. library. This fund now an~ountsto ap- We find that wc can send him one book proximately fifteen hundred dollars. and two magazines from our own collec- In 1925 it became apparent that the li- tion, that the second book is in the public brary, like the laboratories, could extend library and the third periodical is in the its services to the whole corporation and in Engineering Societies Library, L~braryof 1927 a catalog of books was published and Congress and Yale University. We call the distributed. This catalog was followed by public library, get permission to borrow two supplen~entsand more recently by the the book, and send a messenger for it. A monthly list of new books. A list of peri- photostat copy of the article is ordered odicals, frequently revised, indicates the from Engineering Societies Library. We exact inclusions for our sets and is like- do not wait until this has been received, but wise distributed to the engineers in the send the books and magazines we have at laboratories and the divisions. There is no hand, with a letter stating that the books abstracting done by members of the library and periodicals are due the date stamped in staff. We have complete sets of the major the back of the book, May 24th, for in- scientific and engineering abstract journals stance. If, however, they could be re- and subscribe to Engineering Index Serv- turned earlier, we should appreciate it, as ice. In order to make these cards available our hound volumes are in frequent de- to the maximum number of people the mand. The lettcr also explains that a pho- week's accumulation of cards is arranged, tostat copy of the third article has been twelve to fourteen on a board, and repro- ordered from the Engineering Societies duced by an offset printing process on a Library and will be sent as soon as possible. sheet 8% by 11. The sheets are collated and If the charge for the photostat is a nomi- sent to strategic points it1 the divisions, nal one, the laboratories absorb the cost. If, with a request that the chief engineer, or however, the request is for a photostatic the contact man, redistribute them to other copy of a lengtliy article, our reply may be men in their departments. In the labora- something like this : "We find upon investi- tories, each man receiving the list checks gation that the article requested is rather the articles he would like to see and returns extensive, twenty-six pages long, and the it to the library, whereupon, the librarian cost of photostatic reproduction would be , !I fulfiIls his request. Some of the men cut $6.50. Would you not rather send for a out and file the particular abstracts that copy of the periodical containing this arti-

they find of interest. This service brings cle ? It can be purchased for $1.25. YOUcan I us in close touch with the divisions and obtain it by writing to : The Association of results in a large correspondence. From Official Agricultural Chemists, Box 290, January 1st to May 15, 1937, we have let- Pennsylvania Avcnue Station, Washing- ters requesting 222 literature references. ton, D. C." It is not always as simple as If this number of requests are made by the this for the periodical in questlon may be divisions located outside of Detroit, you pblished abroad or may be otherwise dif- can imagine how frequently the library is ficult to obtain. In such a case the photostat , i used by the offices adjacent to it, the cen- is ordered. I i tral office across the street, and the di- ][n the next case a typical reference ques- visions located in other sections of the tion is handled in a typical way. Request: "Some tinle ago, possibly ten or twelve city. I SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 months, I read in one of the periodicals library had charge of this work, the circu- several articles comparing hydraulic cir- lation of reports increased four hundred cuits with electric circuits for the operation per cent. of machine tools. . . . May we have these As a part of the student training pro- articles?, Answer: "We are sending you gram, conducted by the laboratories, the photostatic copies of the articles listed librarian briefly explains to the student the below. In our search for these we came use of the catalog, the arrangement of upon an article in the German magazine, books on the shelves, the circulation of Mnschine~zbauentitled, 'Hydraulische und books and periodicals and the use of the Elektrische Antrieb' by 0.Volk. This ar- magazine indexes. This is one means of ticle discusses both types of drive compara- introducing to the younger tnen in General tively, as to their value for machine tools. Motors the facilities available in the library If you read German and are interested in and in the laboratories. seeing this article we shall be glad to send For those clients outside the "family" you a copy." The article was sent. the service is similar to that within. Infor- The library compiles bibliographies, mation, not confidential, is at their dis- makes searches and arranges for transla- posal. When a letter is received, we try to tions. All of these services bring us in close estimate what library facilities the writer touch with our clients. The librarian who has available. If the postmark is that of a knows her clientele and the work it is do- large town or city, or a community near a ing, may perform another service that will large center, we may send a bibliography be very useful and from which she will and ask the man to find his material there. derive much satisfaction. If, when all other If it indicates a small place we try to send sources fail, she can send her client to some books and magazines or photo- one who is carrying out an investigation in stats. Not long ago, a recalcitrant ex- the same field, who has arrived at some employee found himself in jail. For a year solution of the problem and is willing to we sent him all the books on automo- disclose his results, she has reached the biles and aeronautics that he had time to ultimate in contacts. Of course, before she read. can send her client to this man, she should I think I have told you enough about our call him, state the problem as succinctly as services, now I am going to tell you about possible, tell the engineer how she has tried some of the people who make them possi- to handle the question and failed, and ask ble. The first place goes to the public li- him if he will talk to the man. I have had brary. I should like to add Technology Di- success with this method of approach and vision. We call upon them so continuously the client is usually well pleased with the and find them always "ready, willing and results. able" to serve. other departments, of The library is responsible for the clas- course, do their share as efficiently, but our sifying, cataloging, filing, circulating and demands center in Technology. distributing of all technical reports pre- We borrow books from the Uriiversity pared within the laboratories. In view of of Michigan and Ohio State University. the fact that this information is confiden- The Detroit Public Library, University of tial, it is very important that we know to Michigan and Engineering Societies Li- whom each copy of the report is sent and brary are our chief sources for photostats. that it reaches its destination without de- We receive help from other industrial lay. We have attempted to make these re- libraries and do not hesitate to call the ports as available and useful to the engi- librarians at the Ford Motor Company, neers as possible. In the first year that the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit Edison, December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 363 Chrysler Corporation, Detroit NEWS,most fourteen years the librarian's desk Parke Davis, or any other place where we has been the first to be encountered by the think the material may be found. visitor. The telephone is answered from Inside the corporation it is the librarian's this desk. I think we have no rules that business to know something about the have not, or cannot be broken. functioning of the Purchasing and Ac- Librarians too often wear a top hat. counting departments, the Industrial Rela- There is a standard we set for oukelves tions Department, the Department of Pub- that is above that demanded by industry. lic Relations, and the Patent Department. If I had all the training I could use in my She should know where to obtain informa- job, I would be a mechanical engineer, a tion on standards set up by the corporation chemical engineer, a metallurgist, an elec- and on production and marketing statis- trical engineer, a physicist and a mathe- tics. It is also important that she keep in matician. I would be able to read German touch with company publications, such as and French readily, and have a knowledge those issued by the Custon~erResearch of Russian and Italian, not to mention Staff and especially such educational book- Japanese. I would know how to build clas- lets as those written by the Technical Data sification schedules as well as how to use Department. them. I would know all sources of material There are plenty of opportunities in in- and in reference work I would know re- dustry for the librarian, if she will come lated subjects, so that if I could not find down to earth. Upon graduation, she will my material in one place, I could find it in be expected to start at a salary equivalent another. But on the other hand, if I knew to that of an efficient secretary, or student all these things, I would have a hard time engineer. Her advancement willdepend en- convincing anyone in industry that I was tirely upon her willingness and ability to worth the salary I might with such train- serve. Behind the desire to serve there ing expect. Perhaps I would cease to be a must be the details of cataloging, filing and librarian. searching that make service possible. After having been in contact for such a Friendliness and tact will not come amiss. long time with the work done in the labora- As the librarian serves one group of tories, and with the enormous field of ac- patrons, so will the reputation of the li- tivities undertaken by the Corporation, I brary spread, that libraries will either be- become more and more humble. I realize come an essential part of organizations, or that it is next to impossible for any one will fail. If we can teach the apprentices person to know much of many things and and student engineers, at the beginning of that it is indeed difficult for him to know all their careers, that the library can help them about one thing. This is, however, the day solve their problems, they will learn to de- of the specialist who devotes himself to one pend upon the library and later on, when branch of knowledge. It is, therefore, the they have reached executive positions, they cooperative efforts of many people that will support it, either in General Motors or make for progress today, and the special in some other industry. librarian has a very definite place in know- In all our library relationships a rich ing, understanding, and correlating the human element prevails. There is no sanc- khrkers, as well as the results of their tum sanctorum for the Iibrarian. For al- labor. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10

The Development of the Municipal Reference Service in the Bureau of the Census By Oliver C. Short Executive Assistant to the Director, Bureau of the Census

establishment of some type of function of the Bureau of the Census, THEmunicipal information service has provided for by law, as much of the been advocated for many years because of material would deal extensively with such the increased number of contacts cities subjects as city finance and taxation, have with the Federal Government, the and whether the Census, a Federal increasing interrelations of local units of agency, should not be the clearinghouse government, and the growing demands of for statistical and financial information municipal officials for additional com- of this nature and that the results should parative information on cities. Evidence be official and the records be the property shows that much sentiment has existed of the Federal Government through the for such service to be rendered by the Bureau of the Census rather than that of Bureau of the Census along with its other a quasi-public organization. services to cities. As early as 1914, in During the first week of October 1936, addressing your Conference, the late several meetings were held in Washing- John Cotton Dana stated that a central ton, attended by representatives from bureau of municipal information had the U. S. Conference of Mayors, the long been thought and talked of . . . to National Resources Committee, the Cen- which should be sent from all cities of tral Statistical Board, the Works Prog- this country, information concerning the ress Administration and the Bureau of activities of all other cities. He pointed the Census. As a result, it was the con- out that the Bureau of the Census has sensus of opinion that the Federal Works been developing municipal information Progress Administration should collect which covers a part of this field and he the material and that the Division of advocated the enlargement of the scope Financial Statistics of States and Cities along similar lines to that now being of the Bureau of the Census should be attempted. made the repository and servicing agency On September 30, 1936, the New York with full cooperation of the Conference of Times reported that the Works Progress Mayors and other interested agencies. Administration's Federal Writers' Project A committee was formed to draft the proposed to gather and index for the use schedule to be used in collecting the of municipalities, general information material. Suggested lists of documents to pertaining to the operation of cities be secured were prepared and submitted having a population exceeding 50,000. by the members of the committee and The U. S. Conference of Mayors was other interested agencies and persons. announced as the sponsor of the project. On October 14th, a final form of schedule The announcement led many interested was approved by the Director of the persons to query whether this work was Bureau of the Census, subsequently not a duplication of a long established approved by the Works Progress Ad- December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 365 ministration and cleared with all Federal and crematories ; liquor control ; special agencies by the Coordinating Committee regulatory ordinances; courts; industrial of the Central Statistical Board and the regulations and special research studies. Works Progress Administration, to avoid The Works Progress Administration duulication of collection. has been indefatigable in its efforts The purpose of the project is to assist through the Washington and field staffs in the establishment of a national col- of the Federal Writers' Project, in under- lection of documentary material, under taking the collection and checking of this the direction of the Bureau of the Census, material and it has been largely due to concerning municipal governments in the their work that we have been able to United States. establish a Municipal Reference Service The collection of material is confined in the Bureau of the Census. to cities over 50,000 population and will Partial or complete documentary ma- be limited to such data as has been terial is now on hand for 113 cities and officially compiled as a matter of public the Federal Writers' Project estimates record, copies of which may be obtained that approximately sixty-five per cent in printed, mimeographed, typed or of the anticiuated material from the similar form (including newspaper clip- collection has been received. Doubtless pings), or copied without too great many gaps will exist at the close of the difficulty from the official records. Writers' Project; some cities will be only The material is being collected in partly covered and others will be omitted duplicate. One set of documents will be entirely. It will be our task to fill these permanently retained in the office of gaps and to follow up and along new the Bureau for reference and research channels not now evident. use of Government workers and other Although the Municipal Reference persons in Washington interested in this Service is still in a formative stage and information and a duplicate set will be its collection is incomplete, adequate made available to cities upon request. plans have been laid for its future de- The subjects include data of a general velopment. There are only two persons nature, such as the city charter and code on the immediate staff of the Service but of ordinances; material pertaining to the it is fortunately situated in that it can administrative function of the city; the draw on the personnel resources of the methods of holding elections; adminis- Division of Financial Statistics of States trative personnel; pension system; pur- and Cities for research and assistance. chasing methods; budget ;general financial The Service has already rendered reports; data on taxes, including prop- assistance io Federal, state and local erty valuation; public safety details, officials. Information has been supplied including police and fire regulations; concerning housing, purchase specifica- building inspection; smoke control; pub- tions, milk ordinances, public welfare lic health and hospitals; highways and administration, regulation of peddlers, streets; sanitation; street lighting; city and other subjects. planning and zoning; housing; welfare The Service is in its infancv. We feel and corrections; parks and recreation; that it is a rather husky infant and gives education; public and privately owned hopes of early development into a strong, utilities ; airport management ; cemeteries useful and valuable adjunct to society. 366 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 In Memoriam - Margaret G. Smith ITH the untimely death of Mrs. Margaret membership in the first Technical Book Review wG. Smith, December 9th, 1937, the Special Index Committee. Libraries Association has lost a member distin- Mrs. Smith's training under Elwood McClel- guished for creative work and an intelligent, land in Pittsburgh, and her work with the U. S. objective consideration of problems. Rubber Company in Passaic, gave her the M~~. work with the ~~~~i~~i~~foundation for an appreciation of special library has dated from the organization of the N~~ problems that was enhanced by her educational Jersey Chapter, of which she was one of the most background. She was a graduate the Carnegie constructive members. Under her stimulating Institute of Techno'ogy and he'd a Master'a Degree from the University of Pittsburgh. High direction, the Ncw Jersey training classes were school teaching experience had developed her organized, and her fine analysis of the intro- ability for class administration. Her work as a ductov course, published as "Special Library chemist and her interest in research problems Problems," is an important tool in any considera- had increased her skill in dealing with ~~~~i~- tion of the educational possibilities for in-service tion problems. H~~ ability to recognize funda- workers. As national chairman of the Training m:ntals and cut through confusion had earned and Recruiting Committee, she developed a her general respect. constructive program to gather data and to Mrs. Smith is survived by her husband, Theo- establish contacts of value to the Association. dore R, Sm~th,of Blackwell's Mills, Belle Meade, Among her many activities for S. L. A, was her New Jersey, and her father and sister. Board Meeting Notes HE forty-one reports presented at Of the many excellent committee re- Tthe Board meeting on November ports, some were of particular and imme- 20th, together with the new and old busi- diate interest at this mid-season session. ness on the agenda, gave the Board and The Convention Committee reported Advisory Council a full day and showed that the tentative dates of June 7-10 for progress along many lines. As always, the the 1938 convention were now perma- President's report indicates the extraor- nent, and that the convention will be dinary demands on our officers' time held at the William Penn Hotel in Pitts- made by the Association's correspond- burgh then. Plans for the convention are ence. It included the welcome news that still in embryo, but the chairman, Mrs. he is planning to speak at meetings of the Jolan M. Fertig, said that she had writ- Illinois, Milwaukee and Michigan Chap- ten the officers, Committee and Group ters the last week of December. Another chairmen and Chapter presidents asking high spot was the Treasurer's report with for an expression of their wishes in regard its record that receipts for membership to the convention and would like to hear dues were approximately $1,000 over from each one, as well as from other in- anticipated revenues for the year, and terested members. that expenditures were well within The Employment Committee reported budgeted appropriation. This gratifying progress and asked for an appropriation fact may be balanced, however, by a note of $150 to cover the purchase of some that $592 in dues are still outstanding necessary filing equipment and to carry and that the Board found it necessary to on an essential salary survey. appropriate $124 more for necessary ex- While the Nominating Committee had penditures before December 31st, so that no report to make, the chairman, Mrs. every effort must be made to bring in Louise P. Dorn, urged the members of additional revenue. The reports of the the Advisory Council to stress to other Technzcal Book Review Index and SPECIAL members of the Association that their ex- LIBRARIESshowed a sound condition. pression of opinion on possible candidates aq plnoa sue~d paaa~duro:, Maj a~ep Kpaue qsns JE Jnq 'ssa~8o~dSu!)sa~a)u!

s!q~lap!suo3 0%aa~puo3 ~u!oF e w~oj01 payse aJam saayqwuro3 ~uaurAoldur3puo 'suopeqqnd 'Zup!nma~ puo SU!U!EJJ, 'dp~aquramaq~ jo uaw+xp aql 'we~ld 368 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10

sional terms in a "special" rather than a is determined may be questioned -but "general" sense? Have we analyzed our it is certain that a letter such as Miss day-by-day activities to see if we have Pruden's brings up for thoughtful con- not added many intensive developments sideration many features that affect our to such an activity as "Cataloging," so professional progress. The Annual Report that the connotations of that term for us of the Editor, as printed in the July- are something entirely different from its August issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES, has meaning for library school faculties? decided bearing on the questions Miss These are problems that we need to pon- Pruden raises. The magazine's develop- der, and Miss Rankin's letter might well ment is a topic on which the readers must serve as the first topic for such medita- have views of varying intensity. May we tion. count on some expressions of opinion on That SPECIALLIBRARIES is the meas- this subject which represents a major uring stick by which Association progress activity of the Association? News Notes Board Meeting Visilors. . . . The con- members of the Board who travelled structive support given S. L. A. activi- some distance were Mrs. Charlotte ties was plainly indicated by the at. Noyes Taylor from Wilmington, and tendance at the Executive Board and Mrs. Lucile L. Keck from Chicago. Advisory Council meeting on Saturday, Meetings Here and There. . . . Indi- November 20th. The palm for out of anapolis had another informal dinner for a town attendance went to Boston whose members of S. L. A. on November 8th, representatives were Howard L. Steb- when Mr. Harold Reineck, special agent bins, director, and chiirman of the Fi- in charge of the Federal Bureau of Crim- nance Committee; Florence W. Stiles, inal Investigation, spoke on the work of chairman of the Museum Group; Mary that Bureau with particular reference to H. Welch, chairman of the Newspaper files and filing. Charlotte Leiber of the Group; and Elinor Gregory, president of Family Welfare Association Library the Boston Chapter. Pittsburgh came presided at the meeting. . . . The Bos- next with Mrs. Jolan M. Fertig, chair- ton Chapter met in the Bureau of Foreign man of the Convention Committee; and Domestic Commerce in Boston, Edith Portman, president of the Pitts- November 22d, where Mr. Harold P. burgh Chapter; and Mrs. Julia L. Stani- Smith, district manager of the Bureau, land, chairman of the University and gave an interesting talk. . . . The New College Departmental Librarians Group. York Chapter held a novel meeting No- Montreal, Hartford, and the Albany vember 19th at WNYC, the municipal Capitol District tied for third place, with broadcasting station, when Mr. William Montreal sending Mary Jane Henderson, F. Jacob, the national president, Mr. director, and T. V. Mounteer, president Isaac Brimberg, engineer of WNYC, of the Montreal Chapter; Hartford send- and Miss Margaret Kehl, of the Munici- ing Leslie Reid French, president of the pal Reference Library, talked on differ- Connecticut Chapter, and Emily C. ent aspects of radio. Coates, chairman of the Insurance Dr. Robert W. Kelso, director of the Group; while the Albany Capitol Dis- Institute of Public and Social Adrninis- trict sent William F. Jacob, national tration of the University of Michigan, president, and Harriet R. Peck, president gave an authoritative speech on housing of the Albany Capitol District. Other at the December 1st meeting of the Mich- December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 369 igan Chapter. . . . The members of the practices? Do you prefer to have dinner Southern California Chapter heard Mr. meetings held at organizations belonging H. A. Perryman, director of research of to our Association, thereby giving you the Los Angeles Railway Corporation, the opportunity t visit the library be- speak on "The Value of Research in fore the dinner m Peting? What types of Transportation" in the library of the libraries would you like to visit? Do you Los Angeles Railway Corporation on have facilities in your organization to November 16th. . . . The Illinois Chap- make it possible for a monthly dinner ter devoted its November 2d meeting to meeting to be held at your library? a discussion of training for special li- Would you attend a course in cataloging brarians, which included a talk by Dr. if it were given by the Chapter at a Phineas L. Windsor, director of the Uni- nominal charge? Would you use a chapter versity of Illinois, and brief talks on library such as I have outlined? Could what training is desirable in six different you loan material to such a library? fields by representative librarians. Tentative questionnaires discussed at The joint meeting of the Albany Capi- the Board meeting were proposed by the tol District Chapter and the Connecticut Training and Recruiting Committee and Chapter went off most successfully, with the Employment Committee, one a Miss Peck presiding. William F. Jacob salary survey, and the other intended to as the first speaker, talked on the prob- secure information on the qualifications lems confronting the Association. Ruth needed for specific types of libraries. Savord, as second speaker, dwelt on the Answers are still needed for the ques- necessity for further information on tionnaire sent out by the Employment salaries. The meeting was distinctly Committee in the spring, and by the profitable and shows the merit of joint Training and Recruiting Committee chapter meetings. . . . The New York last ~ecember.Questionnaires may seem Library Club is forehanded in letting a nuisance, but the information secured librarians know that a meeting is to be through such coaperation is of value to held February 15th in the American the Association and all its members. Telephone and Telegraph Company audi- Training Notes. . . . The Southern torium, 195 Broadway, New York, deal- California Chapter has appointed a com- ing with the development of films. mittee on education to study and define Speakers will be Mr. John E. Abbott of the educational needs of special librari- the Museum of Modern Art Film Li- ans in that locality. . . . The New York brary, and Mr. Paul Rotha, the English Chapter, after considering the report of producer, who will talk about documen- the Training and Recruiting Committee tary films. of the National Association, felt that a Questionnaires. . . . Questionnaires cataloging course was a demonstrated are still in evidence. Pittsburgh sent one need for the New York Chapter. Ade- to its members so as to have complete laide C. Kight, of the Industrial Rela- knowledge of the special information tions Counselors, Inc., will give such a resources of the libraries in the Chapter. course beginning January 14th for fifteen . . . The New York Chapter had a consecutive weeks. questionnaire on types of meetings and Publicity of Different Kinds. . . . The training, asking these questions: Do you Insurance and Financial Groups are prefer speakers from within our Associa- leaders in securing publicity. The Finan- tion or outside speakers? Do you prefer cial Group got much attention through discussion of library techniques and the recent exhibit at the American Bank- 2 2 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 ers Association convention. Five articles the Executive Board. . . . Mrs. Thekla have been appearing in the Eastern Hodgson leaves the library of the Merrill- Underwriter and the National Under- Palmer School, Detroit, December 1st to writer on insurance libraries. The July join the staff of the Social Sciences De- 30th issue of the Eastsrn Underwriter had partment of the Detroit Public Library. an article on the activities of the Insur- . . . Miss Ethel Bixby, head of the Busi- ance Group and printed the photographs ness and Municipal Department of of the three officers. . . . The July 6th the San Diego Library, is now Mrs. issue had an article on the Philadelphia Harry Leech. . . . Mrs. Dorothy How- Insurance Society written by Caroline I. ard Bowen has a daughter born August 25. Ferris, vice-chairman. . . . And the No- . . . Mr. Phillips Temple, formerly in the vember 5th issue had another news item Business & Economics Department of the on librarians in an "Ask Me Another" Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, has r81e. . . . Pacijic Bindery Talk, in its been made librarian of the Riggs Me- issue for October 1937, had an article, morial Library, Georgetown University, "Southern California Thru the Kaleido- Washington, D. C. . . . Helen Steele is scope of Its Special Libraries," by Har- now librarian of the Patent Department, riet Febiger Marrack, of the Philosophy Aluminum Research Co. of Amer~ca,New and Religion Department of the Los Kensington. . . . Miss Margaret 0. Meier, AngeIes Public Library, that gave an ex- formerly of the Rochester Public Library, cellent survey of the work of this Chap- has been made head of the Reference De- ter. In Mtxhanical Engineering for No- partment of the Duluth Public Library. vember, Elsa von Hohenhoff's " Paten t . . . Jessie Callau Renedy has accepted List" is mentioned as one of the more a position as cataloguer in the University important "Special Indexes" which en- of Pittsburgh Library. gineers should know. Art Exhibit. . . . Friends of Ina Clem- The Montreal Chapter arranged a ent have been charmed with the exhibi- Classified Booth containing business and tion of her water colors, held during technical books and a Model Business December in the gallery of the Municipal Library at the first book fair ever held in Reference Library in New York. This Montreal. It was planned and executed revelation of a major interest was a under the chairmanship of Mrs. Sylvia surprise. Zackon. And, as a result of the public- New Library Denrelofime~s.. . . A li- ity, two new members and two sales of brary designed to be a "living memorial " S.L.A. publications by the end of the to the late Henry Wright, New York second day resulted. architect and town planner, was dedi- News Notes. . . . At the 25th anniver- cated September 22nd at the Federation sary of the American Woman's Associa- Technical School, 116 East 16th Street. tion, Florence Grant, librarian of Stand- This collection of data suitable for hous- ard Brands, Inc., who with Miss Anne ing and planning research has been as- 'Iorgan and Miss Thelia Newton Brown sembled under the direction of the Hous- founded the A. W. A,, talked on the de- ing Guild, which Mr. Wright helped to velopments which have taken place in establish. It may be utilized now by the last decade. . . . Adelaide Hasse, of students and others interested in housing the Works Progress Administration, is and town planning. . . . A Bureau of president of the District of Columbia Li- Governmental Research has recently brary Association, and Elsie Rackstraw, been established at the University of of the Federal Reserve Board, is on California at Los Angeles for the purpose December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 37 1 of making studies in the field of public Insurance Institute of Montreal, 503 administration. A specialized library of Coristine Building, Montreal. Members governmental documents and reports who want a chance to use this list should will provide the basic materials for the get in touch with their local representa- research program. Professor Frank M. tives. What is even more important is Stewart, chairman of the Department of the opportunity they are offered to sub- Political Science, will direct the activi- scribe to this and later monthly lists of ties, assisted by Miss Evelyn Huston, duplicate exchange offerings at $1.00 a librarian. year to take care of the operating ex- Dufilicate Exchange Activities. . . . penses. Duplicates are useful for many The first duplicate exchange list has gone people. Through the work of this com- to local representativesof all the chapters. mittee, the members of the S. L. A. are It consists of fourteen and a half pages offered an opportunity to avail them- containing some 500 different offerings selves of much valuable material. The and represents intensive work on the part time element is of distinct importance, of the Duplicate Exchange Committee so that in this case the $1,00 investment chairman, Miss Beatrice M. I-Iowell, would be definitely worth while. Letters to the Editor Success Stories from Our Files that Special Libraries does even more than we have a right to expect for its members. OR a year Miss X had been seeking a special MARGARETR. BONNELL,Chairman, Flibrary position of the sort for which she was Employmctrt Comnriltce. qualified. One of the openings for which she had been referred by Miss Houghton, of the New Finally-A Definition of Special Library York State En~ploymentService, had provided an URING twenty-eight years that: the Spe- interesting job for about thrce months, but now cial Libraries Association has been in that was at an end with the close of the educa- D existence, no one has defined the term "special tional year, as she had known it would be when library" so that it was generally acceptable. If she took it. you read through all the volurnes of SPECIALLI- One day at noon the ringing of her telephone BRARIES you find the term commonly used but proved to be Miss Houghton who, aL a qunrtcr of comparatively few attempts at a definition and twelve, had been askcd by a member of the New nonc of them ever adopted as satisfactory. York Chapter to find her a qualified cataloging This was the situation which faced three spe- person. This librarian had just becn informed by cial librarians in New York who were invited to her superior officer that her oft-repeated requests serve as advisers for the ~rojected"Glossary of for such an assistant had becn granted, and she Library Terms" being compiled by the Com- lost no time in asking Miss Houghton's help. At mittee on Library Terminology of the A. L. A. one-thirty Miss X was interviewillg the head This A L. A. Committee has been at work for librarian, and at four-thirty a tclephone message several years, collecting from library literature offered her the position. the terms used in our professional work and where possible securing definitions thereof. The Com- A candidate who had been recommended for another position wrote to the Employment mittee will determine the terms and definitions to be selected for inclusion in the Glossary. Librari- Chairman: ans in all fields have been asked to advise with the Your letter concerning the opening for an as- Committcc of which Georgia N.Faison of Uni- sistant librarian with the -Co, was waiting versity of North Carolina Library is chairman. for me when I returned from m vacation. I mentioned the existence of tKe vacancy to my The readers for the Con~mittceproduced a list immediate superior and feel that it may be in- of 59 terms which wcre cons~deredas distinctive strumental in obtaining my long-looked-for raise. to special library usage. The special librarians In that case, connection with Spec~alLibraries werc asked to check the list, and evaluate defini- Association feeds the flesh as well as the spirit. I do want you to know that I appreciate your tions, and suggesl other terms. A group of twelve notifying me of this vacancy. It makes me feel in New York representing all types of special li- 372 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 braries consulted together and drew up a new and subject index, and I have found two things. First, more complete list of special library terms. Of the that the articles in our journal are written year original list submitted by the A. L. A. Committee after year by the same people. Second, that the only seven terms were retained, and the entire list subjects from year to year are the same. Third, of terms and definitions as finally recommended the type of article as written follows one pattern. numbers sixty. It is without personal criticism that I suggest This represents a most careful selection of that the Association seriously consider the great terms. Perhaps the most constructive part of the possibilities of this journal. Every association of undertaking is a definition of Special Library. importance uses its journal as a document The credit for this definition is due primarily to wherein it records the progress in its scientific Linda H. Morley, who gathered all attempts at a field. Every association of importance holds its definition together and, w~ththe best from each, editorial doom open to any member in good made a composite which has been mulled over standing with a worthwhile article and places and reconstructed often by many interested particular streaa upon novelty, interest and the librarians. The result is as follows: contribution that it makea to its science. A special library is a service organized to make We have had many valuable articles that have available all experience and knowled e that will helped junior librarians, but junior librarians further the activities and common otjectives of grow up and then want graduate reports. I think an or anization or other restricted group, with a that our journal fails to give the senior librariana staff Raving adequate knowledge in the field of specialization and of the activities of the clien- what they need and to acquaint the executive, tele, as well as professional preparation. Its func- whose responsibility is the library, with the fact tion is (1) to assemble information from published that the library asaociation is progressive. sources both within and without the library, (2) 1 would like to suggest the following meas- to secure information directly by correspondence and interview from individuals and organizations ures to bring about a new type of SPECIAL s ecializing in particular fields, and (3) to present LIBRARIES: tRis information at the appropriate time and place 1. Elimination of business reports that have on the initiative of the library as well as upon re- quest, that it may take an effective part in the already been reported at conventions. work of the organization or group wrved. 2. Elimination of personalities that at the Policiea, methods, and collectione va on the present time touch upon but few of our one hand according to the library's szject in- members and are unknown to the majority terests: economics or business, social sciences, science and technoloy or the fine arts; and, on of us. the other hand, accor ing to type of organization 3. That an editorial board be selected. One of which the library is a part: a corporation, representative from each National Group, association, or institution, government office or a who will evaluate papers in his or her field. general library having definitely decentralized departments. 4. That the journal shall be a place for debate of such subjects as, "Standardization of Li- It would be constructive to have criticisms brarians in the Library Profession"; "The from the entire membership of S. L. A. on the Need for a Central Depository for Scientific definition. Is it satisfactory to you? If not, give Documents." the Editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES the benefit of My ideas no doubt differ from those of the your ideas, and reword it to suit yourself. founders of SPECIALLIBRARIES", but I think the REBECCAB. RANKIN,Librarian, New time has come when we should cease to use York MuniciN Referenu Library. the valuable space of such a journal for reporting the business details of our Association, and to use Are We Satisfied with Special Libraries? it to a better end, that of reporting the technique AY I make a suggestion in regard to of our science, not only to librarians, but to an M SPECIALLIBRARIES? I have been looking interested public. over the back issues and the index for several SARAHBRADLEY PRUDEN, Librarian, years. I have checked the author index and the Natwnul Oil Products Company. Publications of Special Interest Baker, H. C. and Routzahn, M. S. How to methada by which the hopes embodied in various aocial interpret social work. Russell Sage Foun- activities may hcome a rcslity. Well annotated. Selec. t~vereading list included. Useful for anyone who Is dation, N. Y. 1937.79 p. $1.00. persuading people to action for unselfish aima. Lessona on the uw of constructwe publicity in ape&- ing or writing. Concrete and stimulating illustration of Brunner, E. de S. and Lorge, Irving. RuraI December, 1937 SPECIAL I trends in depression years. Columbia the foreign mrrespondent. Giver descriptions of lading Univ. Press, N. Y. 1937. 433 p. $3.25. newspapers, by countries with comment on their pol~tical A survey of village.centered agricultural communities slant. Any number of illuminating anecdotes gwen as giving much statistical and factual data on sociolosicul, footnotes. Extensive bibliography included. educational and industrial aspects, showing how co. operation for mutual development from an economic Dick, Everett. Sod-house frontier, 1854- angle, and for recrcat~onalpurposes, has spread and en- 1890. Appleton, N. Y. 1937.550 p. $5.00. riched community life. The current nature of the data Emmently readable account of the varloun factor8 that makes the study part~cularlyuseful. went into the development of the central Miss~uipp~ valley w~thparticular attention to Kansas and Nebraska. Burgess, Gelett. Look eleven years younger. Extensive quotations from origmal sources. Many illus- Simon & Schuster, N. Y. 1937,233 p. $1.96. trations. Bibhography of source material. The unfortunate mannerisms and tricks of motion that may become an unconscious part of our actions are Dickinson, A. D. Best books of the decade. pointed out as unnecessary evidences of sen~l~tyeven in H. W. Wilson. N. Y. 1937. 194 p. $2.00. the young. The necessity for pmse and interest In A list of 400 books based on them inclusion in a num- maintaining a fresh outlook is well developed. A new ber of other hsts by authorities. Each hmk has a deserip angle on a problem touching us all. Interesting and tive note wrltten with a fine sense of evaluation as well pertinent. as keen appreciat~onof distinguishing elements. A com- pact bnt expressive biographical note is given for each Carron, Stanley. Progress and catastrophe. author. Supplementary unannotated lists give best books Harper, N. Y. 1937. 264 p. $2.75. of different types. Annotated list of the authorrtica' How the study of archaeology provides a basis for an lists, on which this comprlation is based, included understanding of present condit~onsand their relation to human prowress is simply and effect~vclyshown in thrs Digges, Jeremiah. Cape Cod pilot. Viking clear and engrossing prcture of the two grcat catastrophes Press, N. Y. 1937. 403 p. $2.00. -the fall of the M~noanworld and the fall of Rome. Another in the American Cwidc mriea giving the Chalfant, A. B. What's holding you back? stra~ghtblstory and colorful anecdote of this section in McGraw, N. Y. 1937. 252 p. $2.50. most readable style. Fine photographic illustrations. Brief hihhography A region unusually rich in folklore and Another of the many bxks on self-analys~sand stlmu- atn~osphereia described with enl~veningdeta~l. lation that is rather more direct and practical tban many. Its chief value is its sane treatment of many everyday problems of personal relationr. Doubrnan, J. R. Fundamentals of sales man- agement. Crofts, N. Y.1937. 465 p. $3.00. Clark, T. D. History of Kentucky. Prentice- An unusually well.organiztd and wdl-wr~ttentext Hall, N. Y. 1937. 702 p. $5.00. book covering the factors affecting the salesman and his One of the factual buainessl~ke state histories issued management. Good chapter on applied research. The under the direction of Carl Wittke. Fairly well illustrated author shows wide familiarity with current devclop. and gives many btbl~ograph~calreferences. Not colorful ments. Excellent bibliography and many footnotes. in style hut tells a straightforward story. Dumond, D. L. Roosevelt to Roosevelt. Committee on Banking Studies. Postal sav- Holt, N. Y. 1937. 585 p. $3.75. ings system of the U.S. American Bankers A comprehensive picture of the changes and events Association, N. Y. 1937. unpaged. of the last thirty years interpreted from a lihral point An illuminating study of the growth of the Postal Sav- of view. Relates trends in literature to the hiatory of inga System and the extent to which ~t wmpetes with the day. Includcs coniprelrensive bibliography to sup- chartered banking institutions. Many statist~caltables, plement each chapter. A fair and balanced account of charts, etc. events. Corbett, P. E. Settlement of Canadian- Edstrom, David. Testament of Caliban. American disputes. Yale Univ. Press, Bunk & Wagnalls, N. Y. 1937. 340 p. $3.00. New Haven. 1937. 134 p. $2.50. The fascinat~ngrecord of a turbulent career in which One of the series of studies on Canadian-American a Swed~shpeasant came through an American boyhood relations, giv~ngthe history of the various disgree- and years of strugsle, to international fame as a sculptor. ments as an rllustration of the effective use of arbitration. Many interesting and famous characters are seen through h~reyer. Art movements in many European Dahl, Iroquois. One thousand and one out- countries are noted. Restraint and dissipation contend door questions. Funk & Wagnalls, N. Y. as dominating influences. A vigorous, enthudaatic story. 1937. 406 p. $2.00. An entertain~ngand enlightening collection of notes on Federal Writers Project. Massachusetts, a bird and animal Me, fishing, and huntinp bad on the guide to its places and people. Houghton many questions on woodcraft coming to hrld and Slrcam. Mifflin, Mass. 1937. 675 p. $2.50. Arranged alphabetically and includes index. Another invaluable description of the hiatory, physical phases, flora, fauna, and literary output. Beautifully Desmond, R. W. Press and world affairs. illustrated by photographs. well arranged and written by Appleton-Century, N. Y.1937.421 p. $4.00. one who can understand the fine points of description. A well-wrrtten and engrossing story of the work of Many maps included. All In all, a tool of great value. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 Fisher, M. T. K. Serve it forth. Harper, America. Columbia Univ. Press, N. Y. N. Y. 1937. 253 p. $2.50. 1936. 108 p. $1.50. One of the rare and delightful books on the fine art Papers descrlbmg the origin of the I.L.0, and the of eating in which historical and literary anecdote is relatlon of ~tsactivltics to employers and employees in intasperaed with epicurean notes. Fascinat~ngread~ng, this country as well as to the progresg of international stimulating in its suggestions for the development of labor standards. The posstbilitics for statistical and re- latent powers of appreciation. search co5peration are brought out. Gray, A. K. Benjamin Franklin's library. Millis, H. A. Sickness and insurance. Univ. Macmillan, N. Y. 1937. 80 p. $2.00. of Chicago Press. 1937, 166 p. $2.00. A delightful brief history of the origtn and growth of A study of the sickness problem and health msurancc, this library started by young mechanics and tradesmen giving many statistics on wage loss through slckncss, in pre-Revolution days. The part played by lts resources medlcal costs and physlclnns' and nurses' incomes, with in the hlstory of the country is well treated. Good ~llua- careful references to speclal reports and other sources trations. of information. Much attentma 1s given to health msur- ance abroad ns well as many references to specinl group Greene, J. H. Organized training in busi- movemcnts here. On the whole, a con~prellensive and ness. Harper, N. Y. 1937. 350 p. $4.00. clear picture. A comprehensive repart on the developnlent of the training methods In effect in such companies as West- Mitchell, W. C. Backward art of spending mghouse. Givca program for training course, detailed money. McGraw, N. Y. 1937.421 p. $3.00. charts and auggcstlons for methods Includes excellent Essays by an outatandlng economist on the socinl summary and extensive bibliography. sciences In planning and research, on various theorles of economics, and on cconomlc trends. Written with Hillhouse, A. M. Municipal bonds. Prentice- beautiful clarity of style. Hall, N. Y. 1936. 579 p. $5.00. Morell, Peter. Poisons, potions, profits. An excellent book, clear, compreherlslve and on occa- sion w~tty. Many tabulations and statist~cal analysis Knight Publishers, Inc., N. Y. 1937. $2.00. over a period of years glvcn. Good chapter on sources A little brother to 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, givlns of informat~onon mun~cipalhnds and extensive bibhog- very little that is new hut stressing more cmphat~ully raphy. the deleterious psychological effects of broadcastlng. Includes New York Ctty Secret Black List of dangerous Jennings, W. I. Cabinet government. Mac- drugs and cosmetics. millan, N. Y. 1937. 484 p. $5.50. Mohrhardt, F. E. List of books for junior An authoritative, detailed account of the development of the Engllsh government, carefully documented and college librarres. Am. Library Asaocia- lnclud~nga summary of the different changes with the tion, Chicago. 1937. 378 p. $3.00. names of the Prime Minlstcrs and bibliographical refer- A comprehensive llst of periodicals, refcrcnce books ences. Biographical and blbliographical notes for Prlme and general texts arranged by subject. No annotations hflnlsters included In separate appendix. arc glven, but hlbliographical information includes price Kahm, H. S. Start your own business. Hill- and publisher. Includes list of publishers with addresses. man-Curl, N. Y. 1937. 128 p. $1.50. Morton, R. S. Woman surgeon. Stokes, N. Y. A practical little hok suggestmg lines of busmess 1937. 399 p. that may be started w~tha capltal as low as $15.00 or as A fascinatmg life of a woman who as a surgeon, en- high as $2.500 Glves notes of outlay needed, methods to tered fully into many aspects of living. Written vividly. follow in kecplng stock upto-date and lndlcates revenue The colorful pattern of a life that mingled the background that mny be expected. of a Southern belle wltb that of a medical student abroad Leeds, S. B. Cards the Windsors hold. Lip- and a physman rn the war. An engrossing book. pincott, N. Y. 1937. 221 p. $2.00. Mowrer, L. T. Journalist's wife. Morrow, Rather falrer and more comprehendmg than much that N. Y. 1937. 414 p. $3.50. has been written but loslng weight through an exag- Twenty years of swift changes in the European po. gerated style On the wl~olt, however, tclls a stra~ght htlcal scene are pictured In this vivid yet restrained story and ind~cates the compl~cat~ons.Well dluptratcd narrative. The leadlng figurea In Itahan, German and from photographs. French diplomacy and governnlent are seen through the eyes of an acute and intelligent observer. A sympathctic, Mack, R. P. Controlling retailers. Columbia discerning record and a vital footnote to contenlporary Univ. Press, N. Y. 1936. 551 p. $4.50. history. A study of co6pcratlon and control In the retall trade National Health Series. Funk & Wagnalls, wlth spec~alrefcrcnce to the N.R.A. and giving an ex- haustive and fully documented survey. The efforts of N. Y. 1937. 20 v. 100 p. each. Per volume, trade association actlvltles, and consumer education 356. movements are ind~cated and much cons~dcrat~onis A series of compact volumes on such a variety of glvcn to the possibilltles ~nvolvedin Ieg~slation. health topics as adolescence, cancer, the care of the eyes, and others more general In application, etc. Readable Miller, Spencer, Jr., ed. What the Interna- and containing authoritative miormation. An excellent tional Labor Organization means to library on topics of universal importance. December, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Newhall, Beaumont. Photography, 1839- by many well.sclected subjects. No bibliography nor 1937. Museum of Modern Art, N. Y. 1937. index. 225 p. 995 plates. $3.00. Shoemaker, E. C. Noah Wetster, pioneer of A fine account of the development of photography, sup. learning. Columbia Univ. Press; N. Y. plcmented by well-selected illustrations from an exhibi. 1936. 347 p. $4.00. tion Good selective list of books. A well-rounded record The many contribut~onsto American educat~onin text of an Important development. books and constructive effort as well as In d~ctlonary O'Dea, Mark. Preface to advertising. MC- conip~lingare descr~bed In this fully documented work. An extensive b~bliographyIS included. Well illustrated Graw, N. Y. 1937.216 p. $2.00. A collection of auccinct pointed editorials in which Strong, W. M. How to travel without being essent~alfeatures in advertising success arc clearly pre- ricb. Doubleday, N. Y.1937.110 p. $1.50. sented. Vivid, and interesting both to the consumer and Possibly the most enticmg, satisfying. book available the produccr. on how to get out of our ruts All kinds of tips on short, Opdycke, J. B. Take a letter, please. Funk & long, cheap or cxpcnsive trips w~thnotes on language Wagnalls, N. Y. 1937. 479 p. $2.75. and season problems. Long list of hoks on travel. One of the best investments for s small sum. Another of the author's skillful and illuminating handbooks, in this Instance concentrating on the problems Sure, Barnett. Little things in life. Apple- of technique that beset the unwary letter writer. The ton, N. Y. 1937. 340 p. $2.50. cho~ccof dlustration is as always excellent. A careful, rather technical d~scussronof the relation Oswald, J. C. Printing in the Americas. of vitamines and hormones to health, zlvlng accounts of some deficiency d~seases,the specific effectsof the various Gregg Pub. Co., N. Y. 1937. 600 p. $7.50. vitamines, them place in diet and many ~llustrationaof An ambitious nttempt to record prlntlng h~storyin the them nctions Many footnote references to other authori- aevcral states, in Canada and South Amcr~ca.Chaptera t~cs.Includes glossary. cover specla1 printers and type and process changes. On the whole, fairly successfui in ~tsattempt at complete Thomeon, J. J. Recollections and redec- coverage and certainly an important tool for the study tions. Macmillan, N. Y. 1937. 451 p. $4.00. of the prlntlng arts. Well indexed. The great scientist, discoverer of the electron, writes Parker, R. A. Incredible Messiah. Little, most informally of the development of the work in physics nt Tr~rntyCollcge. Cambr~dge,and of the noted Brown, Boston. 1937. 323 p. $2.50. men who were attached to the college. An engrossing study of the prychical phenomena repre- sented by such characters as Father Div~nc.Fair, sympa- Thornborough, Laura. Great Smoky Moun- thetic, and appreciative of the factors ~nvolved, the tains. Crowell, N. Y.1937. 160 p. $2.00. author treats the fundamental phases in a scholarly and The rtory of the fascinat~ngmountain regions in east- satisfying wny. Dibliography included. ern Tennessee and western Noith Carolina told with Post, Emily. Etiquette-the blue book of attention to tile flowcrs and birds, as well as the history of the Indian ond white settlements Fine illustrations. social usage. Funk & Wagnalls, N. Y. Much detail on routes through the park and other useful 1937. 877 p. $4.00. data. The unfalhng guide to charn~and good manners nppcnrs Thornton, Janet. Social component in medi- again, and w~thmnny add~tionsto cover cbanglng condt- tions. Common sense nnd social experience combine to cal care. Columbia Univ. Press, N. Y. produce an ~nterestingns well as enlightening hned hook 1937. 411 p. $3.00. for unusual, and everyday soc~alproblems. An illun~inatingstudy of the effect of social conditions Ripley, T. E. Vermont boybood. Appleton, in spcc~ficcases of dlncsa showing the great possibilities for constructive dcvclopments of this kmd Many case N. Y. 1937. 234 p. $1.50. histories with sptciRc data. A pleasant informal dcscript~onof happy days in the full fam~lylife of a prosperous household soon after the Civil War. The details of small town Itfe in those days THE FIRST TIME EVER PUBLISHED are lovmgly remembered and effectively described. Rogers, Agnes. Whynot enjoy life? Harper, N. Y. 1937. 255 p. $1.75. LEXICON OP AUSTRIA'S COWEMPORARILS Not just another book on self-improvement, but con- ("Wer lat Wcr." Lexlkon oc.tcmelchlachcr Zeltgenouen ) structlve, practical and enliven~ngsuggestions for living 420 page.. 840 columns. Cloth $7 SO rather than existing. Stimulating for everyone and as A valuable reference book which offera rhart but com~lctc enjoyable rcadmg for those who have reached hcr con. ldorrnntlon mbout the lesdlng Aumtrlmna 01 today, qxh u clus~onsseparately, ns it will be productive for those .dcntl.ti, budnem men, polltldpna. lrtl~u,mlnlaten, who can st111 take a word from the wise. etc. Indl.pemsble for every Spcdrl Llbraw. Orden corn bcjlltJ dmmrdblrly lhrowh Russell, H. G. Home portraiture with the Ihr sole dl~lribulorlorAmrrlrs: miniature camera. Greenberg, N. Y. n.d. B. WESTPRMANN CO., INC. 108 p. $1.50. 24 Went 48 Street BRymt 9-5633 New Yolk Cttj Publirh~rrand Imgalwr rinca 164 Steps in amateur photography described and illustrated 376 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 10 - Tobitt, Janet and White, Alice. Dramatized ballads. Dutton, N. Y. 1937. 192 p. $2.00. SCIENTIFIC A charming illustration of the effective use of var~ed dramat~cmaterial. The srmple method3 that may be fol- ILLUSTRATION lowed are described clearly and many possihllitleb for further development indleated. Delightfully illustrated By John L. Ridgwy. Thii is a practical and eomprled. A God-send for schools, camps, etc. working manual of the principles and Walker, J. R. Bank credit as money. Harper, best practices in the selection, prepara- N. Y. 1937. 158 p. $2.00. tion, and reproduction of illustrative An interestrag explanation in simple language of the material designed for scientific publica- tme element in loans as an inflationary factor. Good illustrat~onaare uaed. The author is convinced of the tions, and piaces the matter in form con- soundness of his point of vrew and does not refer to venient for reference. It is a book for the other sources. Not mdued. scientist whose articles must be illustrated Watkins, M. W. Oil stabilization or con- as well as for the artist who does the work. servation. Harper, N. Y. 1937.269 p. $3.50. $4.00 Thrs study developed undtr the d~rectionof Brook~ngs Inst~tut~onis an amply documcntcd analysis of the pssi- hilit~esof regulation in a basic industry It considers the ECONOMICS OF THE problems of conservation, the hus~ness structure, the SULFURIC ACID regulation of marketing practices and labor administra- tlon and preaents the problems in a clear and open manner. INDUSTRY Wheeler, F. C., ed. Technique of marketing By Thodorc 3. Krcpi. Mr. Kreps treats research. McGraw-Hill, N. Y. 1937. 422 the development of the industry, the vari- p. $4.00. ous types of competition met, both from A comprehensive and thorough discussion of the proh- lems and procedure rn eonncctron with this study. Many within the industry and from without, illustratrve forms gwen-analysis of campaigns and steps and the outlook for the future. It is a in thew development mcluded. Long b~bliographyincluded. basic study that should be in every busi- A valuable aid In sampling collectrve og~nions. ness library. $5.00 Wilgus, W. J. Railway interrelations of the United States and Canada. Yale Univ. Press. New Haven. 1937. 304 p. $3.00. OUR CALIPORNLA An rnipressive analysis of the investment in and growth STATE TAXES of the mterwoven chain of railroads showmg how a somewhat haphazard program has worked for the best By H. Dcwcy Anderson. The author tells ~nternationalrelations. The volume represents efiaust~ve research in an uncharted field. Many statlstlcs, tnhles what the layman wants to know about and maps included as well as comprehensive bibliography. our various state taxes. While the statis- Woytinsky, W. S. Labor supply in the tics apply to California, the principles are United States. Committee on Social Secu- equally applicable in other states. $2.75 rity, Washington. Dec. 1936. 129 p. $1.50. 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