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Special Libraries

VOLUME34 ...Established 1910 ..NUMBER4

CONTENTS FOR APRIL 1943

Publicity for the Special Library ...... Lucy 0. LEWTON The War and Cataloging ...... KATHERINE UEI~LIN Aviation Needs the Special Library .....ADRIAN A. PARADIS Records of War Administration ...... HARRYVENNEMAN Microfilm Reading Machines, Part I11 (Continued) D. H. LITCHFIELDand M. A. BENNETT President's Message .....ELEANOR S. CAVANAUGH Wartime Convention in New York ...... MARGUERITE BURNETT New Libraries Formed January 1 - April 1, 1943 ...... Nominating Committee Report ...... Events and Publications ...... April Forecasts of Forthcoming Books ...... Announcements ......

Indexed in Industrial Arts Index and Public Affairs Information Service

THE STAFF

ALMACLARVOE MITCEIU Editor JFANMACALISTER B~NAPE~RSON Associate t5ditor.s KATHX,ECNBROWN STJDBINS Advertising Mmger

The articles which appear in SPECIALLIBURZS express the views of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the opinion or the policy of the editorial staff and publisher

SPECIAL LIBRARIES published monthly September to April, with bimonthly issues May to August, by The Special Libraries Association. Publication Office, 71 Clinton Street, Newark, N. J. Address all communications for publication to editorial offices at 31 East Tenth Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price: $5.00 a year; foreign $5.50; single copies, 50 cents. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Ofice at Newark, N. I., under the act of March 3,1879, and at the speciol rate of postage as prwided fm in the Act of February 28,1925 HARPER BOOKS for SPECIAL LIBRARIES I April 1943 I THE LABOR RELATIONS ACT IN THE COURTS By HERBERT 0. EBY, ~fforlt~yon the NLRB Employers, labor unions and lawyers, as well as students of the labor problem, will place a unique value on this book. Hcre is thc only volurne that assernbie~for ready reference the interpretations of the labor law which have been placed upon it by the Federal courts. Legal decisions are classified under appropriate subject headings, such as Trade Agreements, Check-Off, Interstate Commerce, Interference, etc., and reference to sources and lielpful annotations give this book a handbook usefulness possessed by no other in this field. "A book that an employer can hardly afford not to buy. It is a hard, factual presentation."-WALL S~REETJOURNAL. "He has succeeded in writing a truly useful, noo-controversial handbook . . . unbiased, accurate."-CHICAGO DAILY LAW BUL- LETIN. "Accurate, concise, illuminating . . . it is in constant uae in our office."-JOSEPH A. p.4~- WAY,General Counsel, American Federation of Labor. $3.10 PRICE CONTROL IN THE WAR ECONOMY By DR. JULIUS HIRSCH, Chief Consulta~ttto Office of Price Administration. I With a Foreword by LEON HENDERSON, Forrtzer Director of OPA. Here is the first book to give a comprehensive, simple and practical account of the background, the principles and the operation of Federal price control legislation under which we live today. It explains the problems facing business men and government officials and points out the dead-end paths which other nations have followed. Every business man and every consumer who has a case of the jitters with each new price regulation, who is apprehensive about what's going to happen next and wants to understand clearly the basic principles underlying the whole price control program will find reassurance and invaluable guidance in this book. DR. HIRSCHbrings to this book probably a wider knowledge and practical experience in the han- dling of price control problems than anyone else. His was the determining voice in the administra- tion of similar controls in the days of the German Republic and later in Denmark. Since 1941 he has occupied a strategic post as consultant to the Office of Price Administration where he has been in close touch both with the shaping of our legislation and with the methods of its opera- tion. " . . . of extraordinary interest." RAYMONDMOLEY, in Wall Street Journal. $3.00 3NSUMERS IN WARTIME BJI LELAND J. GORDON Here is a timely guide to the difficulties which everyone faces as a consumer in wartime. Problems of the quantity and quality of needed goods, of rationing, of intelligent purchasing under present conditions, are here faced realistically and helpfully. As the chief buyers of consumer goods, women householders will find that a reading of this volume can save them time, money and exasperation while helping them to contribute their part in the necessary shift-over to wartime buying and consuming methods. The author is head of the Department of Economics at Denison University; he is the author of an authoritative text, Econontics for Cotmrrtters, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. $1.75 ZONOMIC UNION AND DURABLE PEACE I By OTTO T. MALLERY Importers, exporters. and the officials of every business interested in the recovery of forei~ntrade, as well as the general reader concerned with the problems of economic post-war reconstruction, will find the proposals in this book of first-hand importance. Here is a reslistic, constructive and modern approach to the handling of vital economic issues in the immediate future and after the war. The author is concerned to prcserve the values of the reciprocal trade asreements which Secretary Hull has sponsored, and considers how these can be more effectively used in the future. Consideration is also given to the problems of access to raw materials by all, international fair trade ~ractices,the regulation of international cartels, labor standards and banking facilities. "All who cherish democratic ideals and realize that skillful planning is necessary to make them safe for the world should study Mallery's book with care."-DR. WESLEY C. MITCHELL, Research Director, National Bnrrazr of Economic Research. OTTO T. MALLERYhas rendered distinguished national service in the Departments of War and Commerce, in the War Labor Policies Board, and as Consultant to the National Resources Planning Board. In International Conferences he has been economic advisor to the United States Government deleeation at Geneva and Havana. $2.00

Order these books from your bookstore or direct from I HARPER & BROTHMS 49 East 33rd Street New York, N. Y. PUBLICITY FOR THE SPECIAL LIBRARY By LUCY 0. LEWTON Librarian, International Nickel Company, New York, New York

GOOD sub-title for this talk dreds? Miss Marian Manley has briefly would be "How to win clients touched on Public Relations (the high- and influence your companyv- brow name for Publicity) in the Novem- though, goodness knows, nowadays most ber, 1942, issue of SPECIAL LIBRARIES of us aren't looking for more clients, (1) and several others have written on over-worked and short-staffed as we are ! publicity for medical libraries (2, 3, 4). You know, of course, that it costs Concrete methods, (they need not cost $20,000 and more, to publicize-that is, $20,000 or be tricky or spectacular) that to make the general public go to hear or can be applied to extend the use and ap- see, appreciate and take to its heart a new preciation of the company technical opera, movie star, rare talent or per- library. have so far not been discussed. sonality, or to accept a new product or DANGER OF NOT PUBLICIZING service. The new talent is there but the Most of you will say but why publicize public, unfortunately, has to have it re- a company library? Hasn't it been estab- peatedly brought to its attention. That is lished in answer to a definite need for its Publicity, and its methods have developed service? Let me paint you a sad picture. in variety and cleverness (in fact, nowa- I know of a well-organized small library days one speaks of publicity "stunts") in a drug and cosmetics plant where the since the primitive days when Barnuln librarian was a true scholar, a noted or- originated the Art with the statement- ganic chemist in her own right. The li- "It makes no difference what the Public brary was next door to the research says about you as long as it talks of you laboratory but the communicating door every day". was locked, the librarian enjoyed herself Publicity for Libraries is a new subject constructing beautiful filing classification but it is developing. For three semesters systems a la Beilstein for her abstracts now, Miss Margery Quigley, Librarian of on substituted phenols while the labora- the Montclair Public Library, has been tory was researching on this topic! The giving at Columbia University an excel- researchers painfully maintained their lent course on Publicizing Libraries. Miss own abstract file and could often be seen Quigley actually practices what she in the science room of the public library preaches, for with its aid she has made doing their own searches. Once, when a suburban public library a vital force in this company put out a new product, a the life of a modern community! If a trade name serial application was made public librarian with a clientele of tens but hundreds of cartons imprinted with of thousands can achieve such results by the trade name had to be destroyed, for publicity methods why not a special li- the application was refused due to prior brarian with, at most, clients in the hun- registration by another firm. Yet a trade - 1 Address delivered before the Science-Technology- mark name file also existed in the library Biology Group of Special Libraries Association, New York Chapter, March 16, 1943. and that very trade mark, turned down I I2 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April due to prior registration, could have been Book use can be tabulated easily from found in that file. No one had thought the charge cards and this can also serve of consulting the library. It had been you as an indication on which book considered as a routine storage place for groups to enlarge, which subject collec- books and documents; at best, a pine- tions to emphasize. In our library we jot panelled background in which to receive down the day's requests and by whom visitors at the plant! on our calendars. At the end of the year I do not wish to infer that any of your for our Annual Report we tabulate and libraries have much danger of falling to classify this and thus know which com- such a low level of desuetude, yet a li- pany departments and individuals use the brary represents a definite company in- library most and whether for book and vestment in space, materials and salaries. magazine loans, for bibliographic or pat- Is it being written off on the company's ent searches, translations, or for casual books as overhead, because its service is isolated items of information. Such data routine or limited to a small group? Is is useful in allocating library costs to de- it considered a non-productive unit? If partments, should the library not have so, then some publicity work on the part its own budget. of the librarian is indicated which will If the company is active, the library's require alertness, ingenuity, and, above service requests should not remain static ; all, interested effort. they should increase with the increase in If you have accepted the rather broad company business. If service is always definition given in my article in the to the same individuals, and they few in volume Special Library Profession and number, or concentrated in one depart- What It Offers (5) that a "Special Li- ment, usually it k the same individuals brary is a body of collected experience from year to year, and automatically it on one or more special subjects, classi- is the Technical Research personnel. If fied and organized so as to be readily this is the case a publicity campaign available for use," you will agree that the within the company's other departments measure of the effectiveness of your li- should certainly be embarked upon-and brary is not its systems and organization to do good publicity you must have up- but its use, not only by the scholarly in- to-date facts about your library-statistics clined, the research group, but by every- on the physical growth, number of one in the company to whom that col- volumes, number of files and the subjects lected experience could be helpful. Happy covered in your files. I am ashamed to the librarian who has to rebind a volume admit that it was only when a Special because it has worn out in use ! Library Resources' questionnaire had to EXTENSION OF LIBRARY SERVICE be filled out that I modernized my own Since "Public Relations", like charity, information. Since then we keep cumu- begins at home, let us first consider how lative count of book accessions, maga- to extend the use of the library within zines subscribed to and abstracted, num- the company by individuals. Do you know ber of readers, circulation and also make who uses the library most, who never uses notes in our Annual Report of the year's it, and how you can reach the non-user? change in figures. We prepared a folder To answer this, a one-year's statistical entitled "Some Interesting Facts About study of who in the company uses the the Inco LibraryJ' and distributed it to library and in what way, could be made. everyone in the company. We continued PUBLICITY FOR THE SPECIAL LIBRARY

"Did you know that-", which listed the nor did they issue abstracts to their clients subjects covered in our library file and in printed form. abstract service, i. e., the scope of our A good library bulletin, well edited and library, topics on which we can quickly regularly issued, is, I believe, the best produce information and the services we formal publicity you could have-"by are prepared to render. your works they shall know you"! An- Too often individuals who do not use other way of reaching your clients in- the library say their work isn't "high- stead of waiting for them to come to you brow" enough or they are too far away is to send "Attention Notes from the to come to it. Operating personnel usually Librarian". These are short memos on aren't very library-minded. Yet library a subject of particular, or even personal, service can be extended to these by in- interest. They should be on characteristic cluding practical "know-how" books in paper (in time clients get to recognize the collection-even locating a small these as worth immediate reading) and branch in an easily accessible spot of the should state "The following item may be plant and changing the books therein of interest to you" giving an abstract of constantly. the information and closing with "The CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF PUBLICITY Library can furnish you the original ar- It should not be necessary for clients ticle." Such small attentions have ac- to come to the library to make use of it. complished much in selling the library to A company library can and should go the most apathetic client. We keep sta- to its clients. Magazines can be circulated tistics on responses to these "Attention to the client's desk. In our library each Notes" to see how near we are to "hitting client once a year is sent a list of all the nail on the head." The items of these magazines received in the library and on notes nmst be of the most pertinent in- this he checks off those he wishes to terest to the work of the client and this have regularly circulated to him. These often takes "keeping an ear to the lists are kept up-to-date with the chang- ground" on the part of the librarian. ing interest of the client. The librarian can do this by sitting in Library service is best publicized by on weekly research conferences, reading the weekly or monthly Library Bulletin company reports, sometimes even persist- of Current Abstracts which should be ently questioning the client on his current on the desk of every executive and techni- work and interests. The mere presence cal man in every office and plant of the of the librarian at a conference, aside company, a constant reminder of the from a means of keeping her au courant work of the library. Our Library Bul- and the library abstracting pointed in letin is sent out (96 copies) to England, the right direction, also provides good op- Canada, West Virginia, Australia and be- portunities for publicizing the library. At fore the war, to all company offices in our research conferences at the end of a continental capitals and Japan. I can not topics' discussion I always get in the re- emphasize enough the advantage of a frain-"We have data on this collected regular library publication of abstracts. It in the library". Often this data is sent came as a shock to find, in connection out without a request, with a note at- with a survey of libraries I had to make tached "Apropos of your discussion at recently, that half of the special libraries this morning's meeting you may like to contacted did not abstract for themselves look over the attached". In fact, I have 114 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

not been averse to tucking a whole box Dewey number to your book collection in file under my arm and marching out with addition to your private classification it myself to advertise our wares when number. Liberalization of your loan we have data pertinent to a new line of rules may convince him it is, after all, the work about to be started. same book-if the long wait at the public Taking charge of research files and library doesn't! "Everyman his own Ab- the company lantern slide collection, al- stractor", another type, has the tables though outside scope of usual library turned on him. We incorporate his ab- service, can serve to integrate and tie stract in ours or use it beside ours in the more closely the real library service with B~illeti~z-the comparison is usually other company activities. odious. The hasty individual who "can't Library search jobs, bibliographies and be bothered to look it up in the library" translations are usually made at the re- is usually afraid of library systems. A quest of a client. If well done, they sell logically organized subject file, sufficiently him forever after on the usefulness of subdivided is quickly productive of in- the library, and a so!d customer is the formation, while handbook, directory and best publicity agent. But such special re- statistics shelves clearly labelled and even quest jobs may be useful to several other the book classification outline typed and people, did they but know of their exist- pasted on the library table, will show him ence. Casual conversation with clients just where everything is located and save can provide an opportunity to say "We his time. have just finished a bibliography on And the new employee! Is he going to for Mr. So and So", or a be ten years with the company before he note to that effect may be sent to in- accidentally stumbles into the library and terested parties; but far better is a sheepishly exclaims "why I didn't even monthly Bibliography of Bibliographies know the company had a library !" This in the front of the Libmrv Bzdlctiu, while has been known to happen, but not if a monthly li~tof new book accessions dis- the librarian practices Publicity ! As soon tributed to everyone will increase book as she hears about a new employee being loan traffic. engaged (and in this, one can be "in INTANGIBLE PERSUASIVE PUBLICITY cahoots" with the Personnel Depart- All of these are concrete methods of ment !) she sends him a basic reading list publicizing library service but intangible including background articles about the persuasive publicity wiles must be prac- industry, the company and its products. ticed with certain die-hard types. Take They may be either technical or non- for example the man who keeps a branch technical but specially chosen for interest- library on his own desk. The best way to ing presentation and content as they are reach him would be to wait until it piles for home reading. The new worker mill up hopelessly and he cannot find some- be grateful, for in this day of rapid per- thing, then tactfully suggest "We have it sonnel turn-over all too little is done to in the library" and quickly produce it. induct him. This is but an introductory I miss my guess if it doesn't result every bow. Later the new employee is sent the time in the yielding up of the private list of magazines circulated and "The In- collection and a complete reliance on the teresting Facts About the Library" library thereafter. Then there is the con- folder. His checked magazine reading firmed public library user who gives the list will give the librarian a line on his 19431 PUBLICITY FOR THE SPECIAL LIBRARY "5 interests and work, which may be further Articles and research work by company supplemented by a personal interview, personnel which are considered metal- laying the groundwork for attention lurgical classics were shown and the notes. Some librarians even give periodic volume title page held open by the actual lectures and conduct tours through the li- medal, prize or citation awarded to the brary to familiarize new employees with paper. These were willingly loaned by its scope and systems. the recipients of the honor. The original REACHING THE EXECUTIVES patent specification under which the con?- So much for extending use by individ- pany processes operate, as well as cer- uals-it is far harder to extend the use- tain famous documents ; the first check re- fulness to various departments and hard- ceived for sale of a new product; a est of all to woo the interest of the private letter describing the discovery of company executive group-yet, those who an ore deposit, etc., were also exhibited. hold the purse-strings are the clients the The three incunabula owned by the li- special librarian would most like to win brary with explanatory notes on their if she is to improve the status of the pro- rarity were on exhibit. This was the best fession. A statistical compilation has "publicity stunt" we ever pulled off as often greased the way for many a library the exhibit made all kinds of visitors salary raise. When the librarian comes aware of the interesting, aside from the across reviews of new books on Finance, useful resources of our library. One li- Marketing, etc., she should send notes on brarian I know, had a large poster ex- these to the executive interested. An hibit: "For Sale-Cheap to American In- Annual Report of Library Activities dustry-by Alien Property Custodian- summarizing library growth and jobs Foreign Patents-ask the library to get accomplished is often the only means of you the foreign patent specifications". presenting its value to the most difficult This was tied up to Mr. L. T. Crowley's executive-the president of the company. listing of same in the Federal Register. I firmly believe that today it must be T,ibrary quarters can well be the scene the librarian's self-assumed responsibility for permanent graphic exhibits on dra- to stimulate the executives of the com- matic advances in research and industry. pany in thinking of "Winning the Peace". A picture of the electron microscope or All articles on post-war developments, the photo spectrophotometer will draw plans for economic reconstruction and clients in for a visit and incidentally give marketing from Vice-president Wallace's them a chance to look over the new book- idealistic "New World Freedom" speech shelf. New accessions. of course, are pub- to the more concrete plans from various licized by being placed on a prominent sources should be available in every spe- shelf by themselves. A bulletin board in cial library, whatever its subject, and the library on which are posted Technical should be called to the attention of every Society news and notices of meetings as company executive. well as company rulings will bring them EXHIBITS to the library just as surely as the barker Many a library has stimulated the lured them into Barnum and Bailey's. formation of a company museum by being Given proper publicity within the com- the first to collect and exhibit company pany, library service might well become products. Our library had an exhibit a productive unit in the whole organiza- focussing on the history of the company. tion to be featured in the company's ex- I 16 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April ternal publicity. The library service of may take the form of being a member the International Nickel Company has so of the Educational Committee, organizing been featured and the framed "ads" now and taking charge of the employees li- proudly hang in our library. Co-operative brary, or some social activity, such as relations with other company libraries, in- giving a tea in the library on library an- ter-library loans, exchange of files and niversaries. This, written up in the visits, all are the librarian's contribution employees' house organ, will bring the to the company's publicity program, pay- librarian in contact with the clerical em- ing good dividends in improved customer ployees she may not ordinarily meet. relations and company esteem. Active participation in the meetings and Recently Miss Eleanor Cavanaugh, our projects of the Special Libraries Associa- national president, wrote me that she tion is the best personal publicity effort would like us special librarians to be the special librarian can make, for it recognized by the outside world as spe- simultaneously makes her company, her cialists in our subjects. Today, unique op- library and herself known and judged by portunities exist, for the world, thanks to her peers-other special librarians. Vol- Washington, is becoming specialist- unteering for S. I,. A.'s war jobs such as minded, so that one with a rare service no the Co-operative Conservation Abstracts longer has to seek publicity opportunities, for the W. P. B., or any other call for but only to realize them as such when special compilations from the Military they appear. One such golden opportunity Intelligence Divisions, aids not only in was an article in the Wall Street Jozwnal "Putting knowledge to work" in winning describing the war work of some special the war but also helps to publicize S. L. libraries. Another, of similar nature, will A. as an active professional association. appear shortly in This Week, the Herald CONCLUSION Tribune Sunday Magazine. Above the door of a Chinese library Although we can only look forward to were inscribed these lines "Ten thousand the millenium when private special li- yesteryears lie buried here"! May it be braries will open their files to all scholars said of our special libraries that these needing their special information, is there yesteryears are being distinterred and any harm in writing a description of the used today and tomorrow. special collection or whatever makes a BIBLIOGRAPHY given library unique for the interest of (1) Manley, M.: "The Responsibility for S. the general public? The librarian herself L. A.'s Public Relations Program", Special Libraries, 33, Dec. 1942, No. 10, is the one best qualified to do this. Sev- pp. 373-375 eral such articles have appeared in non- (2) Posteel, W. D.: "Stimulating Interest in a library journals, in house organs and Medical Library", Bulletin of the Medical newspapers. The medical profession, the Library Association, 29, March 1941, pp. group heretofore most shy of publicity on 141-146 (3) Naylor, M. V.: "How to Advertise Your their accomplishments, is gradually letting Library", Bulletin of the Medical Library down the bars, so why not librarians. Association, 30, July 1942, pp. 327-332 PUBLICIZING THE LIBRARIANS (4) kmcke, H.: "Publicity for Medical Li- Now, a word about publicizing the li- brary", Special Libraries, 33, Nov. 1942, No. 9, pp. 335-336 ; brarian personally First within the com- (5) Lewton, L. 0.: chapter on "An Engineer- pany, gracious participation in the Em- ing Library", Special Library Profession ployees Club (though meant for clerks) and What It Offers, S. L. A. 1938 THE WAR AND CATALOGING By KATHERINE UEHLIN Cataloger, Standards and Poor's Corporation, New York, New York

HAT effect total war is having and cross references help to bring some on cataloging is a question sort of order out of the chaos. The prob- w which occurred to the writer lem of correct main entry for newly after a period during which none of the established semi-official organizations, old familiar publications came to her calls for special alertness since a certain desk. Each new book and pamphlet car- proportion of publications still is issued ried a warlike title, bristling with new without benefit of full bibliographical in- facts, new figures; and wore a "hot off formation. With directories out-of-date the griddle" air. Trying to insert them almost from the moment they are pub- into the classification scheme and to fit lished, probably the best source of in- them with consistent subject headings formation for these is the daily news- raised the question as to how far other paper. Using this means of keeping fore- special libraries were affected and what warned also lessens the emotional shock cataloging problems they had to solve be- for the busy cataloger who must drop cause of current events. Not all special everything, pull cards, type cross refer- libraries are collecting military and his- ences and refile all, immediately after an torical material. Most of us will be executive order has blitzed a whole sec- "sticking to our lasts" and will continue tion of the stacks. to build up collections in our special Subject headings, too, call for special fields, but we shall find new points of attention, as here again most of us are view coming to the fore, new evaluations on our own. The consensus of opinion of older theories and opinions, new dis- seems to favor continuing the use of coveries, and, alas, new gaps in statistical established headings with the addition of series which have long been trump cards a sub-heading as "-War effects" when in our particular game. the publication contains material pertain- Classification-since many special li- ing to the war effort. Some libraries are brary catalogers perform both operations bringing all war material together by sub- -is not up for consideration. "What to dividing the heading "World War, du with Dui" or any other classification 1939-". Others are using the heading scheme is a problem which each library "War and-"; i. e. "War and health". has already decided for itself. Obviously we are all adding some new Main entries for documents have been headings but most catalogers seem to be getting out of hand lately, and in some handling this problem with the alertness libraries constitute a really serious prob- and caution of commandos. Sources for lem. Departmental alignments within the these are usually technical periodicals, government have a way of changing over- newspapers and specialists in the various night, with further changes resulting in subjects. state and local set-ups. Copious notes Because many industries and profes- I 18 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April sions have gone "all-out" in the war cataloger to be especially alert in search- effort, libraries in these fields find current ing for other sources that may offer some material constituting a "collection within help in breaching the gap. Many con- a collection", the bulk of it pertaining to tinuations, formerly issued with monoto- the effects of the war on these fields and nous regularity, have now ceased publica- being in great demand as such. The prob- tion "for the duration". Many national lem confronting them is how to keep this conferences have been cancelled and in material together and have it readily their place local conferences may be held. available without causing too great dif- Any proceedings which are issued should ficulty in shelving and cataloging. be examined and analyzed with more than One library is planning to keep this ma- the usual care as in some fields they may terial permanently, and is solving the constitute the only source of information problem by following its usual procedure at the present time. In addition such con- for classification and cataloging. In addi- ferences as are held frequently, feature tion to the customary catalog cards, one as speakers important leaders and govern- extra card is made and filed in a separate ment officials. Despite censorship, per- "war file" catalog tray, which also con- haps because of it, what they have to say tains cards for ephemeral material. When assumes added importance and may well the present crisis is over the separate card be worth more than their weight in file can easily be discarded. analytic cards. Reports of state depart- Another library receiving a great deal ments may also repay careful examina- of ephemeral material is shelving it in tion. Many of these departments have pamphlet boxes with all the material been shaken out of their routines and listed in the catalog under one subject have had to assume additional responsi- heading. Still another library has a col- bilities. Their reports offer added sources lection of war pamphlets which are fully for local information and local activities. cataloged but which are in such demand Because time is so valuable and errors that it is a waste of time to try to shelve in judgment are so costly, catalogers must them. They are therefore kept in several keep informed more than ever about large envelopes at the circulation desk. events which are affecting the work of This same library has another collection all of us with increasing rapidity. Only of ephemeral pamphlets, which are un- by keeping in closest touch with these cataloged and which are kept on a special events will we have the right background shelf for use in the library. All three of for making our decisions. Other cata- these libraries have very limited vertical logers are undoubtedly facing many other file space. problems than those presented here. Many special libraries find themselves These few ideas are set forth with a view cut off from former sources of informa- to bringing out further questions and tion because of the disorganization in with the hope that some of us may wish various fields of activity. It behooves the to share the answers.

This article by Miss Uehlin will be followed in a future issue by a digest of the replies received by the Editor in response to her letter to several S. L. A. members asking if the war had forced them to adopt a more simplified library technique because of increased work and depleted staffs. AVIATION NEEDS THE SPECIAL LIBRARY By ADRIAN A. PARADIS Librarian, Department of Economic Planning, American Airlines, Inc., New York, New York

IX THOUSAND planes a month; port or cargo plane involves more than a 1,000,000 flying cadets; giant knowledge of structural design, aerody- S cargo carriers ; 66 passenger trans- namics, mechanical and electrical engi- port planes; that is the picture of avia- neering. The designer must know how tion today! Here is the fastest growing altitude, atmospheric conditions, speed industry, constantly jumping ahead of its and age will affect each delicate mechan- own shadow, employing more men and ism; he must determine the maximum women daily, building new airports, fac- weight which will afford the most profit- tories, schools and laboratories, already able operation; he must have access to planning and shaping the world of tomor- the latest regulations pertaining to air- row. Today, we see victory through mili- plane design and performance ; he must tary air power but tomorrow we must know what his competitors are both do- prepare to dominate the trade routes in ing and planning-and beat them at their the air if we are to remain a world power. own game! The designer of a bomber What will the future bring? What new or fighter plane must also consider mili- bearing will aviation have on our eco- tary requirements of speed, manoeuvre- nomic and social structure, indeed on our ability, armored protection, standardiza- very lives? How does the library fit into tion of parts, and, most important of all- this picture and what role will the library technical advances introduced on enemy play in the coming "air age"? aircraft. A "Flying Fortress" is the composite Only the special library can supply product of 110,000 manufactured parts, this information. each developed, perfected and tested by ESTABLISHMENT OF AVIATION LIBRARIES an independent group of research work- During the past two years numerous ers, scientists and technicians. To fly this aviation libraries have been established. plane an elaborate organization of pilots, Aircraft manufacturers desiring technical mechanics, engineers, meteorologists, traf- information to solve production and engi- fic specialists and clerical workers is neering problems were among the first to necessary. The manufacture and opera- require library service. Today one large tion of all commercial aircraft is further aircraft company has four separate li- influenced by the dictates of available braries in the same plant! Research or- financial backing, proper legal sanction ganizations have always found libraries and government licensing regulation. indispensable and as these are established, Unlike other fields of knowledge whose a library is soon considered an essential scope lies within fairly well defined or department. Four of the largest air narrow bounds, aeronautics comprises transport companies have libraries, three practically every known science. For ex- of them maintaining two or more depart- ample, sketching the blueprint of a trans- mental collections within their organiza- I20 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April tion. Most aviation companies consider corporation, with the happy result that their libraries not only a source of in- budgets are very generous. With the formation and a storehouse of facts for rapid postwar growth of the air trans- the management, but also a potent educa- port industry, many new airlines will tional force, enccuraging and aiding em- spring into existence. Some of the pres- ployees to learn more about their job and ent carriers will undoubtedly merge and the industry. For the sake of clarity, it later absorb newly-founded companies, might be well to briefly suggest the more thereby strengthening their own position. important types of aviation libraries. The library will play an important part Aircraft Manufacturing Companies, in this activity. Every company producing commercial Research Libraries are maintained by and military aircraft is already vitally government authorities such as the Civil concerned with developinx busine:,~ for Aeronautics Board and the Army Air the postwar period. Undoubtedly many Corps, trade associations such as the In- independent n~atl~~facturingplant? will stitute of Aeronautical Sciences, and the eventually merge, with a resuliing coil- important representatives of private in- solidation and strengthening of their li- dustry. In general these libraries may be braries. After the war. separate depart- designated as either economic research or mental libraries within one compaiiv may technical research. Today industrial re- be replaced by a general company library search organizations are working on a in the interest of economy and efficiency. cooperative basis making discoveries of Air Transport Libraries. For some military import available to all. However time various departments within each air- any postwar planning research now being line company have kept books, pamphlets conducted is a closely guarded secret, in- and catalogs pertaining to their particu!ar dicating that after the war is over. re- subject. In most cases no attempt search will become highly con-xtitive as has been made to coordinate these each manufacturer or operator seeks new individual collections which for the most markets. There will be an increasing need part are uncatalogued and shelved in two for even larger research libraries organ- or three offices. One company is now ized to house and supply neceLsary it:- considering the possibility of hiring a li- formation, statistics and data. brarian to merge their miscellaneous de- Air Cargo. One of the most important partmental collections into one library. postwar developnlents in aviation will be Undoubtedly others will do the same as that in the field of air cargo and express. they too realize that a central library, At the present time three independent rc- well organized, can function better and search groups are stuc'iing different cheaper than scattered units. phases of the problem. Over a dozcn Management has recognized the need newly organized companies have filed ap- for a library to serve its own require- plications with the Civil Aeronautics ments and all but one of the major air Board requesting various air cargo routes transport companies have libraries con- in the United States. The railroads too nected with their statistical or economic are busy studying this potential threat to research departments. It is interesting to their business. As yet no special libraries note that in every case the library is di- devoted exclusively to air cargo have been rectly under the supervision of and re- established. sponsible to an executive officer of the Public Libraries. As the public be- 19431 RECORDS OF WAR ADMINISTRATION I21 comes more and more air minded there all of them came from special libraries or will be increased demands on public li- fresh from library school with no particu- braries for books, periodicals and publica- lar training in, or knowledge of the sub- tions on aviation. It is not inconceivable ject. Each must learn the hard way, that the larger public libraries, particu- adapting past training and experience to larly those now departmentalized, will the problems on hand. Today with our find it necessary to open Aeronautical Di- war effort expanding the industry at visions to cater to the new reader interest. break-neck speed, it is not easy to fill Schools and Colleges. We are on the these new library positions. Trained li- threshold of an "air-age" and in one way brarians are scarce enough but librarians or another our universities and colleges with aviation background or experience will find aviation assuming an increas- are unobtainable. After the war this de- ingly important role in the curriculum. A mand will slacken as budgets are reduced few university libraries already have spe- and personnel qualifications react to a cial aviation collections; these will grow, surplus labor market. At that time li- others will be established and eventually brarians will be sought who have had spe- require properly trained librarians. cial aeronautical training or experience. It is impossible to keep pace with the It is the responsibility of the library specialized aeronautical trade schools school to meet this challenge by institut- sponsored by the government and private ing specialized courses in aviation bihliog- capital. Many of those schools which raphy, reference work and library or- have excellent libraries will survive the ganization. In the meantime the Special postwar jolt and continue to prosper. Libraries Association will perform the TRAINING FOR THE AVIATION LIBRARY important function of encouraging and Who are the men and women in charge effecting closer cooperation between avia- of aviation libraries today ? Practically tion libraries.

RECORDS OF WAR ADMINISTRATION' By HARRY VENNEMAN Administrative Assistant, Bureau of the Budget, Washington, D. C.

Inadequacy of available data experience in the present war. At an on administration of war activi- early stage, the President expressed in- T""ties of the Federal Government terest in the project, and at his sugges- in the last war and the need for such data tion an advisory Committee on Records in connection with current problems of of War Administration was appointed in war organization have prompted the order to draw upon the guidance and establishment of a small staff unit in the advice of scholars and officials interested Bureau of the Budget to develop more in this phase of public administration. nearly adequate records of administrative The Committee includes representatives

1 Summary of a talk recently given before the Social of the American Council of Learned So- Science Group of the S.L.A. Washington, D. C. Chapter. cieties, American Historical Association, I22 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

American Political Science Association, important war agencies to assemble the American Society for Public Administra- significant documents and to write up tion, Social Science Research Council, the those phases of the work which are es- Library of Congress, and the National sential to understanding the course of Archives. Dr. Pendleton Herring serves events but which are not normally set as Executive Secretary of the Committee down in writing. Among the agencies and chief of the staff unit for the project. which have such projects under way are The scope of the project is limited to the War Department, Department of administration of non-military war activi- Agriculture, Department of State, Navy ties of the executive branch of the Federal Department, War Production Board, Of- Government in Washington. The objec- fice of Lend-Lease Administration, Board tive is to capture and record the history of Economic Warfare, War Savings Staff of this unique administrative experi- of the Treasury Department, War Re- ence, in order to provide both useful ad- location Authority, and National Hous- ministrative tools for current appraisal ing Agency. Many other agencies have and control and historical data for sub- taken first steps toward the adoption of sequent use. Methods used include selec- war records programs. tion, segregation and analysis of docu- The staff of the Committee on Records ments which are produced in the proc- of War Administration serves as a central esses of administration and creation of clearing house of information on war original records (written reports of inter- records activities of Federal agencies and views and conferences, etc.) on events works in close collaboration with histori- and developments which ordinarily would cal officers and other records personnel not be documented. within these agencies. Efforts are made The staff of the Committee gives at- also to keep in touch with war history tention primarily to what may be called projects and related activities of other in- the over-a11 record of organizational de- stitutions and organizations, such as the velopments, i. e. war administration above Committee on the Conservation of Cul- the departmental level and the interrela- tural Resources, which is promoting the tions of war agencies, in a number of establishing of State and Local War His- broad subject fields, including production tory Commissions, and the National Re- and procurement ; international economic search Council, which is sponsoring a relations ;price control and rationing ;man- project for a medical history of the war. power and labor relations; information, Libraries in general, and particularly morale and censorship ; civilian protection libraries of governmental agencies, should and social welfare; war shipping and have more than a passive interest in this transportation; power, fuel and energy undertaking. The needs which these resources ; and war finance. projects are designed to meet are needs To provide records of administration of which alert librarians have long been at the departmental level, efforts are being aware and which some progressive de- made to stimulate the major war agencies partmental libraries have attempted to to maintain records of their own war- meet, at least partially, through main- time administrative development and tenance of administrative reference serv- activities. Historical officers or other re- ices. Every institutional library should be sponsible officials, with appropriate assist- able to provide such services, at least with ance, have been designated in most of the respect to its own agency or organization. MICROFILM READING MACHINES By D. H. LITCHFIELD Supervisor, Periodicals and Microfilms, Columbia University Libraries and M. A. BENNETT Supervisor, Department of Binding and Photography, Columbia University Libraries, New York, New York

Part 111-continued Description and Evaluation of Some Outstanding Models

Leits Reading Desk. 1936. to perfect it until in 1925 the camera was Screen. Translucent, ground glass, 93/4~934 finally put on the market. inches. This instrument was an immediate suc- Optical system. The box contains a front surface mirror. About an 8x enlargement. cess and was widely purchased by schol- Lens system depends on the enlarger used. ars for copying manuscripts and other re- Size. 10% inches deep, 10 high, 10% wide. search material. As microfilm accumu- Made of wood. lated in scholarly libraries, the Leitz firm Price. About $26.00. began to receive inquiries about apparatus Manujacturer. Not given. Distributor. E. Leitz, Inc., 730 Fifth Ave- for reading it. In 1933 it announced the nue, New York, N. Y. Udimo projector for 35mm. film3. A lec- Since the middle of the last century the turer who wished to show a few pictures house of Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Cer- on a filmstrip to his audience found the many, has been widely known for its Udimo to be satisfactory, but a scholar optical goods. For many years it has been who wished to read a film of a book producing fine microscopes and special needed something to hold 20 or more feet camera lenses for use in photomicrog- of film as it unwound. The answer to this raph~.~When the motion picture indus- was a film carrier designed to be attached try arose in the 1900's it turned to an- to the film gate of the Udimo. It con- other branch of photography and worked sisted of two drums joined together with on the problem of a fast lens for the in- a bar and could be placed behind the film dustry's needs. gate so that the entire reel of film was A young scientist, Oskar Barnack, placed in one side and wound into the joined the staff of 1,eitz and in 1914 he drum on the other side. Unfortunately invented the Leica camera for testing the there was no winding mechanism. The time of exposures on the 35mm. film used reader, presumably sitting at the side of in motion pictures. The war intervened, the projector and reading the image on a but in 1920 Barnack was able to resume wall screen, turned a spindle to advance work on his camera. The firm decided to the film. As it advanced, the film coiled develop the Leica for individual use by up in the drum instead of winding on a the general public, so Barnack continued reel. Although one of the flats retracted, there was bound to be a good deal of 1 Copyright 1943 by Dorothy Hale Litchfield and Mary Angela Bennett. - 2 Photomicrography, the photographing of niicro- 3 Library journal 58:240. 1933. The Udimo is pro- scopic objects under a microscope. nounced You-dyev-moh. 124 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April scratching on the emulsion of the film. lars theory are reminded that the ground However, ten years ago the owner of a glass screen and front surface mirror microfilm was more concerned with be- must be of good quality to ensure a clear ing able to read it comfortably than with image, and that the position of the mirror preserving it from scratching. He found is determined by the focal length of the the wall screen inconvenient so he de- lens and the size of the screen. As there manded some sort of reading screen he is no provision made for holding the film could use at his desk. or winding it, the reading desk device Instead of making another accessory to should be adopted only as a last resort. use with his projector, Leitz decided to make a reading desk to be used with an Leitz Viewing Apparatus. 1939. Screen. Opaque, 10 x 10 inches. enlarger. This is a piece of photographic Optical system. About an 8x enlargement. laboratory apparatus used to make paper Optical system is that of the projector prints from negative film. It is mounted used. on a board and projects light through a Size. Table model. Dimensions not given. filmstrip. casting an image on the photo- Price. About $100.00. Manufacturer and distributor. E. Leitz, graphic paper underneath. Since the paper Inc., 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. prints, when finished, are separate units, No longer on the market. it does not matter whether the image is The change in educational methods to horizontal or vertical on the film. embrace all kinds of visual aids has made The designer of a reading desk had to the purchase of a projector for 35mm. make allowance for the fact that pictures film imperative for most teaching institu- of manuscripts would be taken with suc- tions. It was borne in upon E. Leitz that cessive pages in either the horizontal or the projector, not the enlarger, was going vertical position. The Udimo projector to be a standard piece of equipment was already equipped with a rotating film wherever microfilm was used. Many more gate to take care of this; it was now ap- teachers and research workers would be parent that one would be needed for the using microfilm than making paper prints enlarger if it was to be used with a read- from it. So Leitz set to work to make ing desk. The Leitz enlarger on the mar- a reading desk to use with the projector. ket at that time was the Valoy. Used with His Viewing Apparatus is a rectangular the new Reading Desk, it required a rotat- box about 16 inches long and 13 inches ing film gate, a 100-watt bulb in place wide, with the top and front cut away. of the 75-watt, a diffusing condenser, and The open end faces the reader, who reads a ventilating ring to take care of the in- from an opaque screen at the bottom of creased heat. An enlarger with these ac- the box. The projector is mounted on a cessories was announced as the Vogos platform at the rear of the top. A metal and priced at $59.00 instead of the $45.00 bar connects the two front sides and holds Valoy. This did not include a lens, but a mirror in the center, facing the projec- many owners of a Leica camera use the tor. This reflects the image from the camera lens in their enlarger. lens to the screen. The Reading Desk for use with the The Apparatus may be used with the Vogos is made of wood and therefore is Udimo or its successor the VIII-S pro- not affected by priorities on metal. It jector. One library built a wooden box has a good screen and mirror. Adherents resembling this device at a considerable of the anybody-can-make-it-for-ten-dol- saving over the list price of the original JW~J MICROFILM READING MACHINES 125 one in metal and is still using it. The E. Leitz, inc. Complete illustrated price VIII-S and VIII-C (also called Gnome list of Leica cameras and accessories. 11) projectors are available and both N. Y. 1937. (Booklet 1224-6th edi- could be used with a reading screen. tion) 65p. illus. An explanation is in order about the Page 41 for specifications and 2 views cost of Leitz projectors. The purchaser of the Udimo projector. The film attach- ment for this projector is pictured on p. 41 buys the "unit", or body of the projector, and the specifications are on p. 43. which is standard for each model. Then Same. N. Y. 1939. (Booklet 1275) 97p. he selects the lens and condensers to go illus. with it, both of which vary in price. If The Viewing apparatus is described and the library has a Leica camera, the lens pictured on p. 81. We have been unable to may be used in any Leitz projector. The find any reference to this Apparatus in unit of the VIII-S is about $85.00. Li- library literature. See p. 71-79 for the Gnome I1 and braries that buy or make a viewing ap- VIII-S projectors and their accessories. paratus or reading desk do so because they already have projectors, enlargers or cameras and can use the parts and ac- Micro-Newmeader. 1939. Screen. Translucent, 21 x 23% inches. cessories of these instruments. Because Plastic with a glass back. the lens is of photographic quality the Optical system. A 50mm. photographic definition on the screen is good. lens. f number not given. Two con- densers, one of which serves as a flat REFERENCES and heat filter. Enlargement 16x to 24x. Carruthers, Ralph H. Essential features With sliding screen, 12x to 28x. 200-watt in a wall projector for 35mm. film. lamp controlled by a rheostat. Joztrnal of documentary reproducti'on Winding mechanism. Handle on front of base. One flat retractable. 1 : 213-216. Spring 1938. Head. Located in the base. 90-degree ro- Brief and clear analysis of the projector. tation. Positions I, 11, 11-S, 111. Gives criteria for selection. Size. Floor model on castors. 56 inches Kellner, G. W. A combined enlarging and high, 36 deep, 24 wide. 100 pounds. projecting equipment with reading Price. Announced at $350.00; later $250.00; desk. Institut international de docu- then $275.00. With screen for greater mentation, Communications v. 3, fasc. range of enlargement, $25.00 extra. Manufacturer and distributor. Graphic 1 : Ke 1-4. 1936. illus. Microfilm Service, Inc., 60 Adams Street, With a full-page plate containing views Waltham, Mass. No longer on the mar- of the Leitz enlarger used as a projector ket. and as a viewer. Leitz Gnome I1 (model VIII-C) projec- We have mentioned the Graphic Micro- tor. Journal of documentary reprodzic- film Service (formerly the Graphic Serv- tion 2: 135-136. June 1939. illus. ice Corporation) in discussing the Ansco- The renaissance of photography. Leica graph. This versatile firm has been active photography 8 : August p. 5-7,16.1939. from the first in such varied fields as The story of the invention of the Leica manufacturing 35mm. cameras and read- camera. ing machines, serving the Boston and Trade Literat we Philadelphia areas in the capacity of a E. Leitz, inc. Leitz combined enlarging general microfilming agency, and spon- and projecting apparatus with reading soring filming projects in cooperation desk. N. Y. Leitz, November 1936. 6p. with libraries. Its publication department illus. has issued films of important items which I 26 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April many libraries could not afford in the The focusing mechanism is of the worm- original, such as the Shakespeare first and-gear variety. In the center of the folio and Poor Richard's almanac. One winding crank is a knob. When the user of the pioneers in microfilming news- turns this, it revolves a rod. The end of papers, it has been acting as the filming the rod is threaded (the worm), and the agency for the Haward University Li- threads mesh with a cogwheel (the gear). brary Cooperative Project for Foreign The cog comes into contact with the lens Newspapers. mount and moves it as the outside knob Its work in this field led Graphic Serv- turns. This is almost as fine an adjust- ice to build a reading machine that would ment for focusing as the micrometer show an entire page of a newspaper on screw. the screen. At the time it started experi- The unique feature of the Micro-News- mentation on this problem, the only reader is the winding mechanism. In an newspaper reading machine on the mar- understandable effort to keep the wind- ket was limited to showing a quarter of ing crank within easy reach of the news- a page at a time. For good measure, the paper reader, who must spend much of screen of the Micro-Newsreader is 6 his time skimming the film rather than inches wider and 2 inches longer than a reading it page by page, the designer put newspaper page. When an enlargement the whole winding mechanism in the base of 17x or so is desirable, a turn of the of the machine. It practically rests on the handle on the right side of the case op- reader's lap. The winding crank or erates a chain drive which moves the handle is now too low for comfort, and mirror. This enlarges the image just as because it is in a position to be knocked when a wall projector is moved farther about it is often out of order. The reels away from a screen. For an enlarge- for loading film are in the base with the ment as high as 28x the purchaser could winding and optical systems. Access to order a sliding screen with a 9-inch ex- all these parts is gained by opening the tension range, at an additional cost of front panel of the machine. The unfor- $25.00. tunate juxtaposition of the reels and ma- The 200-watt lamp gives an extremely chinery is very bad for the latter. Readers bright light which many readers find hard who open the panel to put on a film or on the eyes. This is especially noticeable remove a used one are led to explore and when the light is used in combination tinker. One library reports that some of with the regulation white screen. To di- the detachable parts have vanished alto- minish the glare, the manufacturers of- gether. fered an optional "daylight" screen with Another objection to having the a bluish cast. There is also a rheostat, mechanism in the base of the machine is which allows the light to be increased the heat generated by the lamp. On other when the screen is moved forward. This machines the bulb is on the top, where enables the reader to keep the light at the housing is ventilated by louvers. about the same intensity on the screen In the Micro-Newsreader the lamp is whether the image is large or small. An- under the metal floor of the case. There other advantage of the rheostat is that is no way for the heat to be drawn more light may be used on a negative off by a natural circulation of air. film and less on a positive. This goes a To offset this condition the manufac- long way toward relieving eyestrain. turers have substituted a piece of asbestos 19431 MICROFILM READING MACHINES 127 for the reflector usually placed in back Trade Literature of the lamp; and they have installed an Graphic service corporation. Microfilm electric fan to force a current of air bulletin. ( 1940) (4p.) across the heated surface. The rheostat that regulates the light also controls the Optigraph Reading Machine, models A & fan,-when the light is at its brighest, B. 1936. Screen. Translucent. Early models of the fan revolves at top speed. (The fan glass, later ones of plastic with a glass blades are made of rubber in case the back. reader decides to investigate the mechan- Model A. 10 x 10 inches. ism while the fan is in motion.) Model B. 12 x 14 inches. Optical system. 40mm. Goerz lens, cor- We think the Micro-Newsreader's lack rected for astigmatism and chromatic ab- of acceptance by librarians was due to erration; f number not given. Three three factors. First, the winding mechan- condenser lenses, later reduced to two. ism is badly situated and too compli- 100 or 200-watt projection lamp. Heat cated; secondly, the parts of the optical filter. Winding mechanism. Crank and gears. In and winding systems are so insecurely place of flats, a revolving glass drum and mounted that they need frequent repairs ; rubber rollers that move with the film. lastly, the heat in the base of the ma- Head. As a substitute for head rotation, chine and the noise of the fan are sources there is an extra mirror to turn the image. Positions I, 11, 11-S, 111. of discomfort and distraction to the Size. Table models. reader. We gather from the recent an- Model A. 12% inches wide, 20 deep, 18% nouncement of the Anscograph that it is high. Weight 31 pounds. a successor to the Micro-Newsreader. Model B. 15 inches wide, 24 deep, 26 There is every reason to hope that the high. Weight 46% pounds. Price. Model A. $ 95.00. manufacturers have overcome these limita- Model B. $165.00. tions in designing their new machine. Manufacturer and distributor. International Filmbook Corporation, South Norwalk, REFERENCES Conn. No longer on the market. Micro-newsreader. Journal of documen- Optigraph Reading Machine, model C. tary reprodwction 2 : 136-137. June 1936. 1939. illus. Screen. Opaque, 12 x 14 inches. Washable. The first announcement of the Micro- Metal, later changed to laminated plastic. newsreader. Adjustable from horizontal to 30-degree Changes in Micro-newsreader. Journal angle. of documentary reproduction 2 :203. Optical system, Winding mechanwrn, Head. September 1939. Same as models A and B. Size. Table model. 17 inches wide, 19 Adams, Karl, jr. Microfilming-a service deep, 33 wide. Weight 45 pounds. business. Journal of doctmrntary re- Price. $165.00. production 3 : 263-269. December 1940. Manz~facturerand distributor. Same as Page 264 for a short notice of the models A and B. machine. "An Optigraph Reading Machine is some- thing new. Nothing like it has ever been Fussler, Herman H. Photographic repro- seen." duction for libraries. Chicago, Uni- With this statement of the inanufac- versity of Chicago press, ~1942.illus. turers we are heartily in accord. Launched Brief notes, p. 134. Photograph of the front of the machine. showing- the screen. with an advertising campaign such as was writing shelf, and front panel. never seen in the library world before I 28 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April or since, the Optigraph claimed to do is used, but if a different enlargement is everything. The sponsors saw visions. needed one of the other lenses can be They announced their reading machine swung into position and used in combina- and suggested ways in which microfilm tion with the first. When the higher could be used: as a substitute for tele- magnification is used only a part of the phone books, projected in dark booths page can be seen at a time. There is a where the large clear numbers would re- scanning mechanism for shifting from main on the screen two minutes while one part of a page to another. As the you made a phone call; for the sick, un- lenses are superior to those in most ma- able to hold books or magazines, to pro- chines, the definition at all ratios is very ject on the ceiling over their beds; li- good. The focusing mechanism is of the braries in steamships, airplanes, smoking worm-and-gear type. cars and hotel rooms; editions of best Unhappily, the provision for changing sellers on the five-and-ten-cent-store from one Position to another was not counters; a collection of his professional equally successful. In order to read a literature by a specialist; the acquisition film in which the images are sometimes of a large library by small public schools ; vertical (Positions I, 111) and sometimes classics on film to be sold in chain stores ; horizontal (Positions 11, 11-S), the user and (a little lost among these grandiose turns a knob which changes the number schemes) interlibrary loans. No one was of mirrors. However, this not only turns surprised to learn that the Optigraph's in- the image through 90 degrees but reverses ventor, Mr. Verneur E. Pratt, was a well- it just as a mirror always does. The known advertising man and the author of reader must then remove the film from the textbook Selling by mail. the reels, rewind it in the opposite direc- Before the Optigraph came out there tion, and put it back in the machine. An was only one reading machine on the impractical procedure if the film is one, market. It was an opaque-screen model. for example, of holograph manuscripts Librarians who had been using it found which the photographer has filmed in dif- two major faults. In the first place, it ferent placements. This feature of the was constructed primarily for reading Optigraph raises an insuperable objec- film in Positions I and 111, and by 1936 tion in a library that services films of pri- most octavo books were being filmed in mary source materials. Position 11. Secondly, as the film ran The winding mechanism embodies an between the glass flats it became badly original idea which may yet prove to be scratched. The International Filmbook this machine's major contribution. The people decided to use a translucent screen designer knew that glass flats, even when and to provide enlargements from 12x retractable, scratch the emulsion of the to 24x for film in any Position. film. His solution was to discard flats The change in magnification ratio is altogether. In their place there is an in- effected by actually using different lenses. verted glass bowl or drum. On either side One lens, furnished with the machine, are spindles to hold the reels. rubber is in a fixed position; two additional guide posts for the film, and brushes to lenses could be supplied. All three are keep the drum free from dust. As the mounted in a triple lens turret. At the film moves, it causes the drum to revolve. basic magnification (lox on model A, 16x In theory there is no friction because on models B and C) only the first lens film and drum move together. Motive 19431 MICROFILM READING MACHINES 129 power for the drum ought to come from pany soon offered an attachment for the winding mechanism instead of from models B and C with which standard 100- the film; there would be no friction if the foot reels could be used. As to putting two were synchronized. a film on the machine, the instructions Even the manufacturers must have had stated that some misgivings, since they state that the "Anyone who can insert a nickel in a emulsion side of the film is always away slot or a cartridge in a rifle can insert a Filmbook cartridge in the reading machine." from the drum. Evidently they were thinking of positive films only, filmed from It would be interesting to see this put to right to left, in Positions I or 111. The the test by a dozen or so library assistants films they made and sold to use with the or members of the reading public. Even machine were of this type. Librarians more pertinent would be to see the same have found that sometimes a negative person try to thread film on a Film-lok film has to be threaded with the emul- Spool. The method of locking the film sion side in, bringing it into contact with in place tends to break off the film and the drum. When the drum sticks, the sooner or later the leader is considerably film is drawn directly across its surface. shortened. The crank handle on the right One can readily imagine the effect this wall of the case operates the winding has on the emulsion. mechanism by a belt drive. By pushing Probably the feature of the winding the handle in, the user can shift to high mechanism that told most heavily against gear which winds the film five times the machine was the fact that it was de- quicker than low gear. signed to take only those reels supplied Several accessories were announced. by the manufacturer. The winding posts There was a special holder for filmstrips are hexagonal, whereas the reels in uni- too short to reach from one spool to an- versal use have square holes. At first the other. There was a rheostat for diminish- company made its own spools (to hold ing or increasing the light, and an index- only 50 feet of film) and cartridges for ing stroboscope by nmans of which index holding the spools. The reader inserted numbers along the edge of a film ap- his film on an Optigraph Film-lok Spool peared to be stationary while the film and locked the spool in an Optigraph was in rapid motion. There was a re- Filmbook Cartridge. "Leave the film mote control for advancing the film at permanently in the cartridge", advises the two speeds,-a hand switch on the end of instruction booklet. "so it will be pro- an extension cord. This accessory would tected from dust (the film outlet is lined be useful on any reading machine. with velvet) and from contact with the All three models of the Optigraph are hands. To make assurance doubly sure, alike in mechanism and the parts are seal the cartridge with sealing wax and interchangeable. The firm advertised the forever inter the film within its crypt". advantage to the purchaser if he decided This would indeed preserve the film but to exchange model B for C or vice versa: it would also cost the owner $2.00 for they would simply transfer the works each cartridge. The paradox of suggest- from one case to another. There was a ing microfilm as a money-saver, and then justifiable pride in the case, which was charginy $2.00 to store 'each film ! described as having a piano finish. This No doubt this was pointed out early cabinet of wood is probably the hand- in the advertising campaign, for the com- somest of all reading machines. I30 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [Awl

As the Optigraph sales campaign prog- Bulletin of the American library asso- ressed, the company substituted a new ciation 30 : 974-978. December 1936. model whenever an old one proved un- Special Features of Optigraphs, p. 977. satisfactory. Sometimes a library found 1937 to its astonishment that the new one not Tate, Vernon D. American progress dur- only corrected the faults of its predeces- ing the year. Microphotography for li- sor but embodied improvements in con- braries 1937 : 13-38. struction. This necessitated learning the Note on the Optigraph, p. 25. mechanism anew. Impatience in library Architectural record 82: 35. October circles mounted. The manufacturers made 1937. an introductory offer of a machine at A picture of model A (or B?). half price, and continued to exchange new Reading machines. Microfilm 1 : 13-20. ones for old. One library reports that it July 1937. had three machines for half the list price Page 17 for a picture of model A ( B ?). of one. The company claimed that the 1938 Optigraph was improved by its customers, Tate. Vernon D. The present state of but the customers decided for themselves equipment and supplies for micro- that the machine had been put on the photography. Journal of documentary market while it was still in an experi- rep~oduction1 (no. 3, pt. 2). Summer mental state. 1938. Our objections to this reading machine Page 41, a brief note. are based on its applicability to library LJArchitecture &a24 jourd'hui 9 :94. March use. If it had caught the popular fancy 1938. and been widely purchased by the general A picture of model C. public for use with the films of standard 1942 books sold by its manufacturer, our Fussler, Herman H. Photographic repro- criticisms would not apply. Each film duction for libraries. Chicago, Uni- would remain locked in its cartridge ready versity of Chicago press, c1942. for projection, and if it became scratched Optigraph Projectors, p. 132. the owner could probably buy a new one Trade Literature at small expense. If the time ever comes International filmbook corporation. Direc- when all reading machines for library use tions for use of Optigraph reading are as difficult to operate as this one, the machines ; models A, B and C. Edition library schools will have to add mechani- 2 (Book catalogue 937). n. d. 25p. cal aptitude tests to their present entrance One of the best instruction booklets is- rt tquirements. sued with any reading machine. Photo- In spite of their lack of success with graphs and diagrams explaining all the parts and how they work. tl~eOptigraph, the International Film- International filmbook corporation. Film- b3ok Corporation played an important books. (Book catalogue 936). n. d. part in microfilm history. Their advertis- 16p. ing campaign did much to popularize International filmbook corporation. (Va- microfilm and bring it to the attention of rious broadsides, folders, leaflets.) the general public. REFERENCES 1936 (Part 111 in this series on Microfilm Reading Machines will be continued in the next Raney, M. Llewellyn. Reading of films. issue. Reprints are available.) THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

HE Executive Board and Advisory hope, will bring them to the attention of Council met in New York at the all their members. T Pennsylvania Hotel on Saturday, COMMITTEE OF THREE March 27, 1943, with an excellent repre- Miss Betty Joy Cole presented the re- sentation from Chapters, Groups and port of the Committee of Three on Committees. We were agreeably surprised Groups and much discussion came from with the attendance from out of town in the members of the Council. All points spite of the present difficulties in travel. discussed by the Council at this meeting REPORTS will be considered by the Committee be- The report of the Secretary and Ad- fore its final report is presented to the vertising Manager including the Place- membership. ment Service, showed that the Executive MEMBERSHIP Office is functioning 100 per cent. In face The Chairman of the membership cam- of great difficulties advertising in SPECIAL paign, Rosalind Morrison, gave a grand LIBRARIES is being maintained at the usual report. Through March fifteenth, when level. the campaign closed, 311 new members During the past five months, the Place- had been added to our roster, 28 Institu- ment Service has filled 90 positions, with tional, 184 Active and 99 Associate. salaries ranging from $1,200 for sub-pro- Eleven chapters reached or exceeded their fessional workers to $4,000 for a chemical quota of 10% increase. librarian. The War Bond went to the Greater St. The treasurer's report showed a net in- Louis Chapter, with an increase of 38%. crease of $4,200 as of December 1, 1942. Washington, D. C. Chapter was second To save time for discussion, all of the with an increase of 30.6% and Illinois reports of Chapters, Groups and Commit- third, with 20% increase. The five dollars tees were abstracted and read. These in war stamps for the representative-at- reports were indeed stimulating and large, went to Mrs. R. C. Daniel of the clearly indicated that the members of Technical Department of the Fort Worth S.L.A. are all on the job and working Public Library, Fort Worth, Texas. in a decidedly professional manner. They All chapters still have a chance to win showed that our members had geared and the annual Gavel Award for membership. directed their activities toward the war TRANSPORTATION GROUP FORMED effort, and that the total contribution of At the Board meeting the request of S.L.A. to the war effort was more than ten members for a Transportation Group considerable. The Chapters, Groups and was favorably considered and Mr. Adrian Committees are to be congratulated on Paradis, Librarian of American Air the fine work they are accomplishing. Lines, was appointed to organize this The abstracted reports are included in the Group. minutes of the meeting and will be sent CONVENTION to members of the Advisory Council, in- The subject of the Convention caused cluding Chapter Presidents, who, we spirited discussion and the Council with 132 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April but one dissenting voice went on record as Federal Reserve Eank of New York, has definitely wishing a short War-Time Con- been appointed Convention Chairman. ference in New York in June. When The President wishes to take this op- the question of convention came before portunity to thank the Executive Staff the Board for final action, there was a and the Chapters, the Chairmen and the division of opinion, five Board members members of all Groups and Committees voted for and two against holding a con- who have contributed so much to the vention this year. The majority having national organization during the past been in favor, there will be a War-Time winter. S.L.A. can only make progress Conference held at the Pennsylvania when the entire membership is interested Hotel in New York on June 22, 23 and and active. 24. Miss Marguerite Burnett, Librarian, ELEANORS. CAVANAUGH

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NE: more link in our unbroken of "Information from Washington in chain of annual conventions will Wartime," when it is planned to have 0be forged June 22, 23 and 24 speakers from Washington tell us about when many SLAers will assemble in New Government policies both in making avail- York for a Special Libraries Association able and in suppressing information Convention. The War shadow was re- needed by special libraries. There will be sponsible for delaying the decision to hold an opportunity for the librarians to ques- a Convention this year, but at a meeting tion responsible government officials of the Advisory Council, held on March about their problen~sin obtaining the data 27, there was a strong feeling evidenced and material they need. Those who at- that there should be a discussion of com- tended the Detroit conference last year mon problems at this time. will remember how satisfactory it was to be able to question directly librarians and Times are serious and we too shall be other representatives of Washington Gov- The short three day conference serious. ernment agencies. will be given over almost entirely to busi- On Wednesday afternoon will be held ness. The middle of the week was chosen joint group meetings on the subject of in order to conform with the Govern- "Postwar Planning." These will cover ment's request that travelling over week- such topics as the Beveridge Plan, the ends be avoided. No banquet will be held National Resources Planning Board Re- but a number of group luncheons and port, and the Keynes and White Postwar dinner meetings will provide social con- Banking and Monetary Plans. The tacts as well as an opportunity for in- Groups arranging this program are the formal discussion of problems and ex- Advertising, Financial, Insurance and change of ideas. On Tuesday evening, Social Sciences. No other Group sessions however, the New York Chapter will act will be scheduled for this afternoon so as host at a reception. that all may attend what promises to be A General Session will be held prob- a very stimulating and informative meet- ably on Tuesday afternoon on the subject ing. 19431 NEW LIBRARIES FORMED I33

On Thursday morning a General Busi- this year and start your vacation in New ness session will be held. At this meet- York with your friends in S.L.A.? ing, in addition to the usual reports, we The rates at the Hotel Pennsylvania, hope to have a speaker present a bird's- 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue, New eye view of what our chapters and indi- York, N. Y., are from $3.85 for a single vidual members are doing in the war room; from $5.50 for a room with double effort. bed, 2 persons; and from $6.60 for a room with twin beds, 2 persons. All A decided attraction, in case of any rooms include bath and shower. premature summer heat in June, will be MARGUERITEBURNETT, the delightfully air-cooled convention Convention Chairman, rooms offered by the Hotel Pennsylvania. Federal Reserve Bank, Why not combine business and pleasure 33 Liberty St., New York, N. Y.

New Libraries Formed January 1- April 1, 1943

American Swedish News Exchange, Inc. Pan American Airways System Miss Florence Grant, Temporary Cataloger Public Relations Department 630 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Mrs. E. Enid Grote, Librarian Chrysler Building, New York, N. Y. Eclipse-Pioneer Division Bendix Aviation Corporation Pittshurgh Coke & Iron Co., Inc. Miss hl. M. Baker, Librarian Miss Hazel C. Anderson, Librarian Bendix, New Jersey Neville Island, Pittsburgh, Pa. Julian P. Friez & Sons Radio Corporation of America Division of Bendix Aviation Corporation Miss Helen Yoder, Librarian Mrs. Helen F. Thompson Lancaster, Pennsylvania Engineering Department Rohm & Haas Company Towson, Maryland Miss Jeanne Ossent, Librarian General Aniline & Film Corporation Research Department Miss Isabel M. Cubberly 5000 Richmond St., Philadelphia, Pa. 230 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Scintilla Magneto Division General Motors Overseas Operations Bendix Aviation Corporation Miss Leva A. Spencer, Librarian Miss Vera Morgan, Librarian Overseas Library Engineering Department 1775 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Sidney, New York The Solvay Process Company Montefiore Hospital Miss Mary E. McGrane, Librarian Miss Helen Silverman, Librarian Syracuse, New York 100 East Gun Hill Road, New York, N. Y. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. Northern Electric Con~pany Mr. A. W. Beck, Librarian Special Products Development Department Statistical Department Miss Josephine Sheffield, Librarian Kansas City, Missouri 1261 Shearer Street, Montreal, Canada Winthrop Chemical Company Pan American Airways, Inc. Miss M. Dorothy Gleockle, Librarian Miss Rose Gallagher, Librarian Chemlcal Research Department La Guardia Field, New York, N. Y. Rensselaer, New York War Production Board Rubber Division Miss Lucile A. Carter, Librarian Washington, D. C. THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT

The NOMINATINGCOMMITTEE submits Pettit, Director of Reference Work, The the following list of candidates as officers Detroit News, Detroit, Michigan. of Special Libraries Association for the The Directors whose terms have not year 1943-1944 : expired are Herman H. Henkle, Director, President-Eleanor S. Cavanaugh, Li- Processing Division, Library of Congress, brarian, Standard & Poor's Corporation, Washington, D. C., who retires in 1944, New York, New York. and Betty Joy Cole, Librarian, Calco Chemical Division, American Cyanamid First Vice-PresidentWalter Haus- Company, Bound Brook, New Jersey, dorfer, Librarian, Columbia University who retires in 1945. School of Business, New York, New As the last retiring President, Laura York. A. Woodward, Librarian, Central Re- Second Vice-President-Phillips Tem- search Library, Maryland Casualty Com- ple, Librarian, Riggs Memorial Library, pany, Baltimore, Maryland, continues to Georgetown University, Washington, be a,member of the Executive Board. D. C. FLORENCEBRADLEY Tremurer-Jean Norcross, Librarian, MARGARETBUCK GLEDHILL Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., New York, MARIANSPATER MAGG New York. MARGUERITERUMMELL Director for Three Years-Ford M. GEORGEA. R. GILPILLAN,Clnirmun

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The Curtis Publishing Company has com- reference. (Washington, D. C., 2201 M St., pleted an EDITORIALINDEX to Country Gentle- N. W., 1943. $5.) wtan for 1942. Market analysts, sales and ad- *** vertising managers, advertising copywriters, A third review of CURRENTIDEAS IN STAW students, and others will find this index helpful LEGISLATURES,prepared by the State Law In- in evaluating the social and economic impor- dex, has just been issued by the Library of tance of this country's farm population as re- Congress. It is a survey of legislation of the flected in the editorial content of this rural State Legislatures of 1940-41 ; and appears as magazine. (Philadelphia, Pa., 1942, 17p.) The Report No. 6 in the series of State Law Digest INDEXis available to all libraries requesting it. Reports which was started in 1938. Report No. *** 6 is available from the Superintendent of Docu- The Department of Administration of the ments, Washington, D. C., at 15 cents a copy. State of Minnesota maintains a Division of * * * Administrative Management and Research FILMSFOR AMERICAAT WAR (Washington, whose function it is to analyze state procedures D. C., American Council on Education, 744 and study state governmental functions and Jackson Place, $1) prepared under the guid- services for purposes of improvement and long- ance of the Committee on Motion Pictures in range planning. This Division is distributing Education, supplies essential information on 114 a publication, STATEPUBLICATIONS : A FIELD war-related films. It forms the first supple- FOR WAR CURTAILMENT(October 1942. 66p. ment to SELECTEDEDUCATIONAL MOTION PIC- mimeo.) with the hope that it may point the TURES : A DESCRIPTIVEENCYCLOPEDIA. The films way to one more method of streamlining state are limited to those which deal with domestic government and making additional facilities phases of the war effort. Information on each available for the war effort. film includes the full title, appropriate audience *** levels, running time, primary source, release date, rental sources, an appraisal of the film, a Maps and graphs prepared for use with the judgment of its technical quality and a com- War Department Orientation Course have been plete objective description of its content. published as a GRAPHICHISTORY OF THE WAR. *** SEPTEMBER1, 1939 - MAY 10, 1942. (Washing- A. Edwin Fein has prepared a BASIC MAR- ton, D. C., U. S. War Department, 1943. 72p. KETING CHARTOF THE UNITEDSTATES, (Re- 256. ) *** search Company of America. 341 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.) which follows the Census Five of the volumes in the Science Diction- Bureau pattern of subjects, and reports in 49 ary Series of the Philosophical Library of New separate columns, data for each of the nation's 9 York (15 East 40th St.) are nearing comple- geographic divisions, and for each of the 48 states tion and soon will be released. The entire and the District of Columbia. All figures are series includes: THE DICTIONARYOF WORLD projected in percentages to provide a simple LITERATURE; ENCYCLOPEDIA 01: MODERN EDUCA- working base for comparative analysis. The TION ; ENCYCLOPEDIAOF CHILD GUIDANCE, DIC- charts are 17" x 22", printed on heavy stock. TIONARY OF SCIENCEAND TECHNOLOGYIN ENG- The price varies according to number pur- WSH, FRENCH,SPANISH AND GERMAN;THE chased, a single chart, $2.50; ten and over, $1.00 D~CT~ONARYOF BIOCHEMISTRY; and the ENCY- each. CLOPEDIAOF SYNTHETICSAND SUBSTITUTES.The *** purpose of these reference books is to take the INDEXINGAND ALPHABETIZINGSIMPLIFIED, place of the foreign, mostly German, works in (1942. 19p. 506) by Vera Avery and Freida use up till now. Kraines, is available through the Pamphlet Dis- **+ tributing Company, 313 West 35th Street, New Increased activity in the copyright field has York, N. Y. It represents a culling of exist- prompted the Bureau of National Affairs to ing rules in the light of current usage and publish the COPYRIGHTLAW, by Herbert A. trends. Supplementing the text is a list of Howell, recently retired from the Copyright names and words which have been indexed and Office. A direct approach and logical arrange- alphabetized in accordance with these rules. ment make it easy to find answers to questions *** of modern procedure and practice. All phases The only WHO'S WHOfor all Latin America of the subject are topically indexed for ready is published by Stanford University Press and 136 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

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WANTED:WOMEN IN INDUSTRY:THE COM- PLETE GUIDETO THE WAR FACTORYJOB, by America's most complete, authoritative L. N. Baker. Dutton. Price $2.00. "Tells manual recording domestic and foreign the woman war worker how she gets her job, events and interpreting their bearing what it is like, what she is paid, what skill on American affairs. she needs-and the problems she will en- counter." The 1943 Edition of the WAR ON CANCER,by Dr. Edward Podolsky. Reinhold. "It discusses in simple language the various ways in which the problem is AMERICAN being attacked by scientists and physicians." WAR PLANES01 ALL NATIONS,by W. Winter. Crowell. Price $3.00. "Never have so many YEAR BOOK airplanes been described and illustrated in a book." Editor - WILLIAM M. SCHUYLER You AND YOURPUBLIC, by V. Burnett. Harper. Probable price $2.50. "One of the outstand- General E~~~o~-AI.uERTBUSHNELL HART ing public relations executives of the country here presents a highly original, interesting and Comprehensive, authentic, accurate- informing study of his own approach to pub- this great reference volume contains a lic relations work." significant record of events of 1942. relates and interprets war and other issues in America, and appraises for- eign developments bearing on Ameri- Announcements can affairs. Here is the complete table of contents of THE AMERICAN YEAR BOOK-1,000 pages of vital, up-to-the- Notice of Annual Meeting minute facts and information, ar- AS REQUIREDby BY-LAWVIII, Section I, ranged in seven parts: notice is hereby given that the annual business meeting of Special Libraries Association will be PARTONE - Historical held Thursday, June 24,1943, in the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York, New York, in connection PARTTwo - American Government with the annual convention of the Association. PARTTHREE - Governmental Functions ELEANORS. CAVANAUGH, President PABTFOUR - Economics and Business KATHLEEXB. STERBINS,Secwfa~y PART~VE - Social Conditions and Typewriters Wanted for the Armed Forces Aims To equip the Army and Navy with the vitally PARTSIX - Science-Principles and necessary equipment to carry on the essential Application services of mechanized warfare, typewriters are "must" equipment on every bomber, PT boat PARTSEVEN - The Humanities and tank command car. Therefore, if you have a typewriter either at home or at your office which can be spared, write the Typewriter This survcy of 1942 gives Procurement Division, War Production Board, 122 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. authentic details of America's participation in. the war. American Library Association $10.00 The Executive Board and Council of the American Library Association at its meetings on January 30 and February 1 voted to hold no Thomas Nelson and Sons regular annual conference in 1943. Business 385 MADISON AVENUE meetings of the Council and Executive Board NEW YORK, N. Y. will be called only if they are necessary for the transaction of business essential to the war effort. 19431 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Chairmen and members of committees and boards (other than the Executive Board) ap- DIARY OF pointed by the A.L.A. will be "frozen" in their positions for one year. The President is author- ized to fill vacancies. The Executive Board recommends that officers of round tables also be frozen in their positions for one year. The divisions and sections have authority to 7Events make their own decisions. Compiled by J. A. H. HOPKINS The election of officers in the A.L.A. will Chairman, National Bureau of proceed as usual, the new officers to take office Information and Education on July 1, 1943. First and only complete factual record of all that has S.L.A. Financial Group occurred since Munich as reported day by day in the The National Financial Group announces the American and Foreign Newspaper Dispatches. Composed of photographic reproductions of the actual preparation of two new publications. One is News Articles, Official Reports, Maps, Cartoons, Pic- tures, and Anecdotes every day since September, 1938, an up-to-date supplement to the Handbook of all in Chronoloaical Order. Comwrcial and Financial Services containing Also includes Con ressional Bills, Debates and Acts, Income and other %ax Measures, Appropriations, Edi- both additions and changes to the 1939 edition torial Comments etc., in full text and presents a vivid of the Handbook. The Revision Committee is and unbiased pekpective of the most critical years in headed by Walter Hausdorfer, Librarian, School the World's History. The "Diar of World Events" is automatically date of Business Library, Columbia University, New indexed an2 elaborately cross-indexed by subject, country, and writers, so that any desired item may he York, N. Y. found easily and quickly. The second ~ublicationis the first manual "UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION" ever to be issued describing the organization of J. ,A. H, Hopkins has made a unique contrjhution to h~storicalresearch. Knowing how difficult ~t 1s to a financial library. Although it is not expected locate important material that first appears in those to be ready for distribution before another year, primary recorders of history the newspapers, Hopkins has collected in ohotonraohic) reoroductions 11.000 cliv anyone interested in obtaining information re- pings-on-the pe;iod getkeen Munich and May, 194i. There is a lengthy index which makes reference to the garding the procedure involved in setting up a items simple and practical.-Newark Evening News. financial library is requested to communicate As Mr. Hopkins' clip file grew (of the war and with Miss Roberta Herriott, Librarian of the events leading up to it) he conceived the idea of re- producing his clippings chronologically to provide a Chase National Bank, New York, N. Y., who running story. The result of this idea is a set of volumes that will grow steadily in interest and value is chairman of this project. with the years.-Baltimore Evening Sun. S.L.A. Member Foils Nazis "A MUST FOR EVERY LIBRARY" Sergeant David Thibault, Jr., a member This work seems to me a must for every lihrary, for L. the history department of every university, for history of the S.L.A. Detroit Chapter and chief indexer research organizations, for students of current affairs, and for large newspapers-Hiram Motherwell, Re- in the Detroit News Reference Department be- viewer for the New York Herald-Tribune. fore his enlistment in 1941, was instrumental in "ADDED VALUE AS YEARS GO BY" keeping an American Army vehicle out of the This book is certainly worth the price and will have added value as the years go by.-Robert Casey, For- hands of a German tank crew in Tunisia. Ser- eign Correspondent, Chicago Daily News. geant Thibault had been in the habit of carry- "PRICELESS FOR THE HISTORIAN" ing with him a bottle of gasoline for emergency Your collection of clippings will be priceless to the historian of these times. It will save him months or destruction of confidential regimental records. years of research in newspaper files and documents.- When the half-track he was manning stalled Charles Edward Russell. in the midst of an overpowering German tank "PRICED LOW" Better than a year of newsreels, does not mince attack, he used his gasoline to set fire to it and words, and gives you the record as it is. The set is escaped on foot. priced low.-Westchester Features Syndicate. S.L.A. War Roster 800 Pictures and Cartoons-18,000 News Articles 300 Anecdotes400 Maps Donald Cable, formerly Librarian of the IN 20 VOLUMES WITH SUPPLEMENTS United States Rubber Company, Passaic, N. J., Volumes I-X (Now ready) ...... $18.75 who re-enlisted in the U. S. 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and now of the Personnel Department, has been accepted for Officers Training by the Marines and will leave shortly for Massachusetts for training. WAR SUBJECT Oscar C. Orman, formerly Director of the Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, Missouri, has been commissioned a Lieutenant, HEADINGS j. g., in the Navy and is in training at Jackson- ville, Fla. In his absence Dr. Stuart A. Queen, FOR INFORMATION FILES Professor of Sociology, has been appointed act- ing Librarian and Chairman of the Faculty Library Committee. Revised and Enlarged Edition Celebrates Thirty-fifth Birthday The Milwaukee Municipal Reference Library By popular demand a new and en- is celebrating this year its thirty-fifth anniver- larged edition of subject headings sary. An article by the Librarian, Norman N. Gill, describing this library appears in the March for information files dealing with 1943 issue of College and Research Libraries. the present world conflict is now and brings out the interesting fact that Mil- waukee was the second city in the United States ready. to establish this type of a library. "In the recent months, special emphasis has New lists from Cleveland War been given to the development of a comprehen- Information Center and Standard sive collection of materials relating to national and civilian defense, on such topics as organiza- and Poor's Corporation are added. tion of local defense councils, air raid shelters, Subject headings of Council on blackout ordinances, staggered hours, camou- Foreign Relations, Inc. and Time flage techniques, priorities and rationing orders, fair rent regulations, salvage campaigns, and Inc. as included in the first edition. civilian defense training, materials. In the early stages of the local civilian defense w-ork, the You will need these headings to library rendered extensive secretarial service to supplement the earlier publica- the mayor's civic coordinating council on de- fense problems, and the librarian is at present tion. Order your copy today- on the research committee of the county defense limited number available. Orders council. "The Common Council, by resolution, recently filled in order received. instructed the library to prepare a War Code of all official actions taken by the city govern- ment relating to the \Yar effort, for the dura- tion. News items on civilian defense are pre- pared for the bulletin of the county defense council. Information as to state and Federal developments is supplied regularly to the alder- Price: $2.00, plus postage men in their capacity as chief air raid wardens of their wards ; and bibliograhies are prepared upon request. The most recent activity has been the preparation, at the request of the exec- SPECIAL LIBRARIES utive director of the county defense council, of a set of reading materials to be used for teaching ASSOCIATION purposes in the air raid wardens' training eve- ning classes, held in the public schools through- 31 EAST TENTH STREET out the city. The materials are abstracted from NEW YORK books, periodicals, and pamphlet material in the library, with the cooperation of the public library's war information center." 19431 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I43 NEW BOOKS OF LASTING VALUE Library Paste Dictionary of World Literature CRITICISM - FORMS - TECHNIQUE Permanent Clean $7.50. Edited by Joseph T. Shipley with Cream the Paste with the Lewis Mumford, G. A. Borgese, Henry S. brush. Spread thin. Card Canby, S. I. Hayakawa, Andrt Maurois, pockets, book plates, and 1. A. Richards and others. even bindings will be inseparabiy held. Encyclopedia of Modern Education $8.50. Edited by Harry N. 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