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SAN FRANCISCO IN RETROSPECT The Industrial West President Alcott's Address

Committee Reports Convention Notes

British Library Conference September 19-22, 1930

Entered aa aemnd elm matter at the Past OfRoc, Pmvldenm, R. I., under the Act of March 3, 1819. Aemplpna? lor mailing at special rata of postage pmvidcd lor in sclion 1104 4ch ah Oaobd l&,r1@7,' authorid 00rtobcr 22, 1827. Rah$6.00 a year Fomlgn 16 60: singlc copiea 60 cants Contents ARTICLES

Industrial West. By F. T. Letchfield ...... 220 President's Address. By William Alcott ...... 2 15

CONFERENCE Committees-Reports ...... 232 Conference Notes ...... 228 Editor's Report ...... 236 Executive Committee...... 23 1 Resolutions ...... 23 1

EDITORIALS AND NOTES Bibliographic Service ..,...... 236 .. British Conference ...... 225 Editorials ...... 226 Letter from Siam...... 236 President's Message ...... 227 White House Conference on Child Health and Protection ...... 237

Special Libraries Published Monthly September to April, bimonthly May to August by THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Publication Ofice. 11 Nisbet Street, Providence. R. I. All payments should be madc to Special Libraries Association, 11 Nirbrt Street, Providqnce. R. I. SPECIAL LIBRARIES July-Augurt, 1930 Institutional ~ekbers

California Massachusetts State Library, Boston Lon Angelel Public Library, Los Angeles Metcalf & Eddy, Boston Standard Oil Company of , San Social Law Library, Boston Francisco United Fruit Company, Borton Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco Michipen Connecticut Dctroit, Ncws, Detroit Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., Hartford Detroit Publrc Lrbrary, Dctruit Yale Un~versrtyLibrary, New Havcn Gcncral llotors Corporation, Detr ort Missouri Delaware Crty Poacr Rr Light Company, du Pont de Nemours, E. I., W~lrnington ICansas Crty

New Jersey Byllesby & Co., 1-1 M., Bakelite Corporation, Bloomfield. Combustion Utilities Corpora~ior~,Linden, , Chicago N. J. Commonwealtli Etlison Company, Clircago llontclair Frcc Puhlic Lrhrary, hlontcln~r Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, Chi- New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, Newark cago Newark Public Library, Business Branch, Illinois Chamber of Conlmerce, Chicago Newark Insurance Library of Chicago Public Service Corporation of New Jcrsey. 'hlirldle West Utilities Co., Chicago Newark Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago R. C A. Radiotron Co, Inc, Harr~son Peoplcs CRSL~ght & Coke Co., Chicago Standard Oil Development Co , Elizabeth Indiana New York Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., Fort Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York Wayne American Bankers' Association, New York American Electric Railway Association, New Marylmd York Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co., Baltimore American Geographical Society, New York Maryland Casualty Co., Baltimore American Institute of Accountants, New York American Management Association, New York Mammachumstts American Museum of Natural History, New Baker Library-Harvard School of Business York Administration, Boston American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Borton Elevated Railway, Boston New York Boston Globe, Boston American Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Christian Science Monitw, Boston Library, New York Edison Electric Illun~inatingCo., Boston American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Law Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Library, New York First National Bank, Boston Association of Life Insurance Presidents, New York Insurance Library Association of Boston Baker & Taylor Co., New York Jackson & Moreland, Boston Bankerr Trust Co., New York Massachusetts lnstrtute of Technology, Li- brary, Cambridge Batten, Barton, Dr~rstine& Oshorn, Ncw York Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co , Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York Springfield Blackman Co., New York *New memben jolned alnce Iwt hue of SWdLlbmh, July-August, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRA RIBS 213

British Library of Information, New York Standard Brands, Inc., New York Edison Company, Brooklyn Standard Statistics Conrpany, New York Brookmire Econotnic Service, New York Sutro & Company, New York Child Study Association, New York Time, Inc., New York Cleanliness Institute Library, New York United States Ihbber Company, New York Consolidated Gas Co of New York Walker Brothcrs. Ncw York. Davisson, hIanice, New York Western Union Telegraph Company, New York Dohcrty, Henry L & Co., NCWYork Whte & Kenlble, New York Electric Bond & Share Co., New York Wilson Co., I-I.W., New York Federal Reserve Rank of New York Ohio Ford, Bacon & Davis, New York Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus. General Electric Co , Main Library, Sche- nectady Ohio Oil Co., Findlay Proctor & Gamble, Cincin~~ati Grant Co., W. T., New York Crosvenor Library, Buffalo Oklahoma Guaranty Company of New York U. S. Burcau of hines, Bartlesville Haskins & Sells, New York Pennsylvania Intl~.i,Govern~ncnt of, New York Armstrong Cork Co., Lancaster Industrial Relations Counselors, New York Franklin Institute, Philadelphia International Telcphonc & Telegraph Co., Houghton, E. F. & Co., Philadelphia Ncw York Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Pittsburgh John Price Jones Corpomtion, New York Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh. Library Bureau Division, Remington Rand New Jersey Zinc Co., Palmerton Business Service, New York Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Philadelphia McCall Company, New York Pldadelphia Company, Pittsburgh McGraw-Hill Publ~shingCo. Inc., New York Philadelphia Electric Company, Philadelphia Merchants Association of New York Ph11adclphi.1 Rapid Transit Company, Phila- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New delphia York Philadelphia Record, Philadelphia Mun~cipalReference Library, New Ynrk Pittsburgh Railways Company, Pittsburgh National Aniline & Chen~icalCo., Inc., New Provident hlut~~alLifc 111suranceCo., Phila- York delphia. School of Fine Arts, Univ. Penna., Philadetphia National Automobile Chamber of Comnlerce, Westinghouse Electric Research Library, E. New York Pittsburgh Nrt~onalCity Financial Library, New York Wyo~niasi~~gTrade Scl~ool,Wyo~nissing National Investors Corporalion, New York Rhods Island New Jersey Zinc Company, New York Rhode Island State Library, Proviclence New York Telephone Company, New York Wiaconsin New York Times, The, New York North American Company, New York First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee Port of New York Authority, The, New York Kimberly-Clark Corp., ICimberly *Postal Telegraph Co , New York Marshall Ilslcy Bank, Milwaukee Putnam's Sons, G. P., New York Canada riailway & Utilities Investing Corp., New Hydroelectric Power Commission of Ontario, York Toronto Imperial Life Assurance Co of Canada, Toronto Russell S;~geFoundation, Ncw York Insurance Institute of Montreal, Montreal. Schwarzschild, Otto P., National Statistical Service, New York Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal Selected Industries, Inc., New York *Sun Life Assurance Co., Montreal Sinclair Refining Co., New York Toronto Transportation Cornmiaaion, Toronto *NIWmslkn lqlnd dna Inat hmof S& UW. Special Libraries

Vol. 21 JULY-AUGUST. 1930 No. 6

We print as the leading article the address of President Alcott who not only reviewed the events of the preceding year, but also took the opportunity to note the accomplisl~mentswhich have occurred cluring the life of the Association. We also present as a pr~ninentarticle the con~prehensive i~ddresson the In- dustrial West by Mr. F. T. Letchficld of the Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco.

President's Address By William Alcott, Librarian, The Boston Globe lNCE last we met as an association, "Lovcr of books and beautiful th~ngs, S we have been called upon to mourn helper of men, he based idealisnl on the loss of our most distinguished common scnsc and jolrled loveliness member, John Cotton Dana, librarian with utihty. Ilc blazed intellectyal of the Newark Free Public Library, the trails in culture, education and in- founder of Special Libraries Associa- dustry." tion, and for the first two years its John Cotton Dana, idealist and prag- president. matist, in his ideal of American art, More clearly than any other man of expressed a view which we as mem- his time, Mr. Dana saw the meaning bers should hold toward S. L. A., when of the new movement in the library he said: world, and he saw also the need of an "First, we must gct it; then we must association of those engaged in this study it; next we must crit~cise it, new and special library field, and adversely where we fcel compelled; through his leadership Special Li- and finally, we must praise it where braries Assoc.iation was organized we can." twenty-one years ago. Throughout our history, Mr. Dana has been a staunch Members of this association will friend of special libraries and of their long hold John Cotton Dana in grate- association, and he will be missed in- ful remembrance. ded. At the first meeting of the execu- **** tive board following his dcath on July Today we reach a new milestonc in 21, 1929, rceolutions were adoptcd and the progress of Special Libraries Asso- spread upon our records. ciation. This is our freedom birthday. Last month a bronzc tablet was Today we attain our majority, we com- erected in his memory in the Newark plete 21 years of history, and I invite Public Library, containing thesc senti- your attention to a brief rcview of the ments, which will find an echo in the association through the wonderful hearts of all members of our associa- years of world history, and to a look tion : forward to the next things. 216 SPEC1 AL LIBRARIES July-August, 1930

Conceived in the brilliant mind of one years contemporary with ours, the Mr. Dana, Special Libraries Associa- older association has grown more tion was born at a conference of the rapidly than ever before. The develop- Amtrican Library Association, meet- ment of the special library field has ing in its 33rd ycar, in the White been the task of this association. To Mountains of New Hampshire. From this purpose it has devoted much time, those peaks one may look across the much effort, and all the money it could landscape to the waters of the Atlantic procure. A vast amount of unpaid vol- Ocean. unteer work has been done in the past Today we have crossed the con- and is being done in the present, and tment to the Pacific Ocean to celelrrate without this generous help we could twenty-one years of achievement, and hardly cxist. to review the results of the past year. One of the earliest declarations of John Cotton Dana did not create the policy of Special Libraries Association special library, but he did bring a new was that as an association we would type of library into the organized li- not undertake to do work which others brary movement, a type of l~brarydis- were already doing, and to this policy tinctively different from that with which we have steadily adhered. library-minded people of the time Within the past year a situation were familiar. The special library had arose which seemed inimical to the in- already developed, and was performing terests of S. L. A., and at the request its part in the world of art, science of the executive board your president and business, without an organized went to Chicago and discussed the association. matter with the council of A. L. A. In organizing the little group of men As a result the council adopted a re- and women who met at Rretton Woods port which declared illegal the election on July 2, 1909, and were interested in of officers of the section complained of. this new field of library work, there **** was a discussion as to the form which Last September, S. L. A. was rcpre- the new association should assume. sented at the annual conference of the Should it be a wholly separate entity, Association of Special Libraries and or should it be a part or section of the Information Bureaux in Cambridge, existing library body, the American England, by Miss Isabel Towner, who Library Association? That was the brought the greetings of S. L. A. chief question. The former plan was Reports from local associations and favored, and in 1911, at a meeting of chapters tell of a year of helpful mect- A. L. A. in Pasadena, California, the ings and attendance uniformly larger council of A. L. A. formally approved than usual. The executive board has affiliation. That arrangement has since consistently aimed to develop closer ' continued, and under its terms we are relations with them. The board at- required to meet once in three years tended meetings of the two local asso- with A. L. A. and to pay each year to ciations in Boston and New York, and that body a per capita tax of ten cents two members attended meetings of the for each of our members who is not a Special Libraries Council of Philadel- member of A. L. A. Last January, un- phia. The president attended meetings der this arrangement, the check of S. of Illinois and Cleveland Chapters, and L. A. went from our treasurer into the Miss Rankin, a former president, at- treasury of A. L. A. tended the organization meeting of For these twenty-one years the two Baltimore Chapter as the representa- associations have lived side by side, tive of the executive board. Baltimore, each doing its own work. The newer Illinois and Cincinnati Chapters have association in its special field attained applied for affiliation and the applica- a growth in its first twenty-one years tions have been granted. Cleveland somewhat larger than the older asso- Chapter carried through successfully a ciation did in its first twenty-one regional union meeting to which years, while during the past twenty- Illinois, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati July-Auguat, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 117

Chapters were invited. Special Li- nary business envelope, which might be braries Association of Boston has re- sent four times a year or oftener to all vised its constitution and changed its associate members, telling them the name to Boston Chapter, S. L. A. news of the national association and of There is still need for closer co- chapters, groups and committees. I ordination of the work of the separate recommend that the executive board chapters. The work of one chapter and consider the subject. its accomplishments should be of help **** and interest to others. There is need The association has long been under for a deeper consciousness that as spe- obligation to Mr. Herbert 0.Brigham cial librarians working in our own For his splendid service in the position spheres we are also a part of a nation- of editor of the magazine, "Special Li- wide association seeking to promote braries." I cannot too highly commend the interests of special libraries and his generous and valuable service. He special librarians everywhere. has constantly lifted the magazine to a higher plane of usefulness; making Good reports come from the groups. it easily the leader in the special li- The Newspaper Group has carried on brary field. During the past year the a campaign for new members through volumc of advertising was the largest a large part of the year. The Museum in our history. Jn the whole year of Group, learning that few of its mcm- 1923, the last full year before Mr. hers would be able to attend the con- Brigham became editor, the magazine ference in San Francisco, arranged carried a total of six pages of paid acl- with the approval of the executive vertising matter. In 1929, the magazine hoard to meet this year with the carried 81 pages of paid advertising, American Museum Association in which was wholly the result of Mr. Buffalo, and to send reports of the Brigham's efforts. meeting to this conference. There are still opportunities for im- provement in the magazine when time and money afford. Further assistance Committee work has been active antl should be provided for thc editor, antl of conspicuous progress. The commit- he needs all the co-opcration that tee on classification, Miss Louis Keller, members of this association can give chairman; the committee on member- him. ship, Miss Florence Bradley, chairman ; In recent years the executive board and the committee on publications, has voted a small honorarium to the Miss Linda H. Morley, chairman, have editor, but the time has come when S. had unusually good results. The work L. A. should do substantially more. Mr. of the committee on classification has Cady, our former president, .pointed grown into a department in our maga- the way to secure funds for mnintain- zine. Membership has increased twelve ing a paid secretary, and the plan has per cent in the year. The publications worked perfectly. It would seem that committee studied and passed upon a the same means might be used to se- large amount of literary material. cure larger support for the magazine. The effort of active members to sell Although a substantial gain irt mem- the institutional membership idea for bership was made during the year, the betterment of the magazine would there is lack of contact between asso- be a commendable purpose. ciate membership and the tlational Onc other suggestion on the maga- body. Active and institutional mern- zine-we have a committee on mem- bers maintain contact through the bership, and n very active and efficient magazine, which most associate mem- one, but we have no committee on sub- bers never or rarely see. To meet this scriptions. This list of members just situation the secretary has suggested published throws a flood of light on the publication of a little leaflet, pos- this phase of our work. It indicates all sibly of four pages, to fit into an ordi- subscribing libraries, and while there 218 SPECIAL LIBRARIES July-Augurt, 1930 are subscribers in 44 states and 16 and chapters spread across the continent foreign countries, there are many And it has repeated itself in a sort of re- large libraries where the magazine fined degree through .the organization of does not, but ought to go. I believe groups of particular interests. that a committee to handle this piece It gave impetus to the organization of a of work would be worth while. similar associat~on in England. **** It has published a magazine throughout the One of the early actiohs of the years, often times llnder great difficulty, and executive board this year was to pro- developed it into the very finest magazine in vide for printing the list of members. its field The first list of special libraries ever It has published national and local direc- published appeared in Library Journal tories of special libraries and list of special in September, 1909, two months after librarians. S. L. A. was organized, and comprised It has published many bibliographies of a roster of the special libraries inter- suhjects useful to the special librarian and the ested in the formation of this associa- lihrary world. tion. In the third issue of our own It has published descriptions of every spe- magazine, "Special Libraries", in cial library that could be discvoered. March, 1910, a fuller list of special li- It has compiled and published union lists braries was printed. Again in 1912 and of periodicals in important centers. in 1915 directory lists were puhlished, It has made a study of special library the latter showing 370 libraries, but all methods, made an exhibit of them, and puh- these lists were of libraries rather than lished the results. of librarians. In 1921 came the first It projected Public Affairs Information directory of special libraries, followed Service and carried it on to the point where in 1925 by a second edition, a book of it could become an independent and success- 188 pages, listing 975 special libraries. ful business enterprise. Since then local directories have been It originated Industrial Arts Index and issued in Boston, New York, Philadel- subsequently turned it ovcr, to the publish- phia and San Francisco, but S. L. A. ing house of H. W. Wilson Co. was without a complete puhlished list It compiled and published a Handbook of of members. It is, therefore, a matter information services, and is now prc1)aring a of much gratification that a list of revised edition. nlemhers pf S. L. A. as of May, 1930, It has conductctl ed~lcational courses in has been puhlished, and copies of it are special library work. available here in San Francisco for dis- It has ro-operated in the formation of tribution and sale. By vote of the trhing courses for special library work in executive board the price is one dol- library schools. lar. It will be sent to all institutional It has co-operated with the Library of members free, and will be sold to our Congress and with commercial associations own members for fifty cents. in mutual projects, **** Tt has projected and held library exhibits A review of our twenty-one years of in many parts of the country. history shows accomnlishments like It has done constructive work in solving these : new and difficult problems of classification The association formed in 1909 has been for modern business and industry. maintained and developed The benefits first It has maintained registration conunittees dcsircd of knowing who else was engaged in to aid members in securing employment. special library work, and where, has been and It has established a permanent office. is being achieved, for it is a never-ending It has procured the services of a paid sec- pursuit. retary. The association has hcld an annual con- The association has become incorporated. ference of incstimahle value, cvcry year since It has helped those in special library work th~heginning to know each other better, to know of other Tt has repeated itself many times over collections of source material, and to serve through the organization of local associations their organizations more efficiently. July-Augult, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 219

Within the past year the executive unusual effort to come in contact with the hoard has worked together effectively local associations and chapters. and harmoniously. Six meetings have The ed~torof the magazine made a new been held, one in Washington, one in record for the amount of advertising secured. Boston, three in New York, and one on For the first time the full list of members the train overland bound for San of the association has been published. Francisco, and with so many meetings The executive board continued the record we have all been able to keep in close of not refusing a single request of a local touch with the affairs of the associa- association for funds. tion. A summary of our activities should include these things : In closing may I speak a personal word. has been joy to discowr the A system of tnonthly statements has been It a universal spirit of co-operation which inaugurated showing income and expenditures obtains and it been and liabihties. in S. L. A., has a great pleasure to work with officers The plan of paying all bills within 30 days arid members for the association. From has been effected. one and all I have received utmost Needed furniture and equipment for the consideration. executive has general office has been provided. The board been superb, attentive the meetings, Files of our own magazine have for the to alert the interests busi- first time hecn permanently bormd. to of S. L. A., ness-like, faithful and co-operative. To An invetltory of the stock prtblicdtions on oficers, to committees and to mem- hand has been made. bers express gratitude and ap- Property of the association in Providence I my preciation. has been insured against fire. Five years ago, in the preface to A set of forms to show the cost of each Special Libraries Directory, John separate publication, and whether its pub11- Cot- ton Dana used words: cation was a financial gain or loss, have been these prepared and w~llhe put into effect imrne- "The growth of special libraries is the diately. outstanding feattrrc in recent library The year shows a substantial gain in in- history. The end is riot yet. The ex- come tension of the field is limited only by Membership gains netted 12 per cent with the growth of modern science and a total of 1274, as compared with 1129 last by the growing desire for accurate year. fact information!' A new chapter was organized at Baltimore. To those of us who are engaged in The Cincinnati special libraries club asked this great field of service a new day for affiliation. has dawned, and prospcct is full of Members of the executive hoard have made promise. 1909 Special Libraries Association 1930 Executive Board PRESIDENT-Miss Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee, Wiaconsin. FIRSTVICE-PRESIDENT-Miss Jessie Callan, Librarian, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. SECONDVICE-PRESIDENT-Mrs. Louise P. Dorn, Librarian, Detroit Edison Company, Detroit, Michigan. . TREASURER-Miss Elizabeth 0. Cullen, Reference Librarian, Bureau of Ratlway Economics, Washington, D. C. Dl~~c~oRs--Wil~iamAlcott, Librarian, Boston Globe, Boston, Mass. Miss Eleanor S. Cavanaugh, Librarian, Standard Statistica Co., New York City. Arthur E. Bostwick, Librarian, Public Library; St. Louis, Mo. Angus Fletcher, Librarian, British Library of Information, New York, N. Y. General Wee EXECUTIVESECRETARY-Mrs. Mary H. Brigham, 11 Niabet Street, Providence, R. I. Phone, Plantations 0798. 13 2110 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Je-Auguat, 1930 Industrial West By F. T. Letchfield, Industrial Engineer. Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco WOULD caution those of you who better to ascertain the forces that have are newcomers to California that created the thing rather than to sum- Iherc in this state there are only two' marize its present conditions. So I kinds of weather, the perfect and the shall attempt to keep my remarks as unusual. This is not an unusual day, free as possible of statistics for two hut please bear that in mind. reasons: One, I don't like them, and I was going to say, before listening second, I always put in a flock of the to Mr. Newhall's and Mr. Ferguson's letter S that do not belong in it. addresses of welcome, that the two To go back to the beginning of de- things that warp human judgment velopment in this country, it is very more than anything else are,sfirst, thc obvious that New England and the tendency to confuse effect and cause; rest of the Atlantic seaboard should and secondly, thefpride of possession. have become the center of our activ- I make that. rather verbose prologue ities. to the subject of the Industrial West First let me say this: That there are for this reason : I am going to assume three basic factors to business; first, that thc speaker is permitted not to there is the production of raw ma- talk on the subject per se, because In- terials (that may be edible wheat or dustrial West is only a portion of the inedible cotton or hides or dairy Unitcd States as a whole, and its de- products or minerals or whatnot) ; the velopment is merely the result of the second is the processing of raw ma- conditions that shape the destinies of terials in the factories, and so on, into America. Consequently, with your finished products; and the third is the permission, I would prefer to outline distribution of the finished products to perhaps some of the basic forces that the ultimate consumer. Those three are at work and see if we can draw a are the tripod upon which the business few conclqsions as to why the present structure rests-banking, insurance, coqditions exist and possibly make an operation of hotels, theaters and I analysis of what the future may hold, might even say librarians are merely 2nd whv. I do that for this reason: handmaidens to those three things. T at life is made up of two things. We are discussing this morning, at ve'I 4 largely: first, there are the great this time principally, the second of and,.pon'derable forces over which none those, although the inter-relation of all of ui'has any control; and secondly, is three are so close that it is impossible what we individually or collectively do to find where one begins and thc mother to harinonize our policies, our actions, leaves off. So that to get back to the ij$&'thosc forces. beginning of industrial development in As I recall, it was on the 28th of this country, it very logically is cen- June, 1914, when a madman assassi- tered along the Atlantic seaboard, for nated thc ArChduke Ferdinand. None of there was the concentrated market and us had any control over his actions and the largely concentrated peoplc in New yet he has affected our lives, thc lives England, because there were availablc of many gencrntions to come, also. We the streams which at that time afford- have no control over thc weather, over ed the only source of chief power intcrnatinnal conditions, over the law through the use of undershot and ovcr- of supply and demand, or any of the shot wheels. And as the country grew great forces that actuallv govern our and developed westward, with thc individual and collective destinies. coming of the trans-continental rail So that in the analvsis of any prob- system, there was still existing in this lem, whether it he this or that, that country a very disproportionate con- particularly of an economic suhiect- centration of population, with the ex- such as Industrial West-I think it is ception of a narrow strip along the July-Augurt, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 221

Atlantic seaboard the rest of the coun- time capacities, but we 'weren't so try was extremely thinly populated. mobilized. Consequently, it cost us up- We had to operate on the policy of wards of twelve billion dollars and concentrated production at one point, created an enormous oveidprodnction and the long haul to that center, and of facilities. In 1919, throbghm fatuous the long haul of finished products for optimism we lost our heads and cx- distribution. To accon~plish that we panded still farther and woke up with had to build up a system of distribution a severe economic headache in 1920, through the jobber, wholesaler and re- and it took the better part of 1921 and tailer; and duc to the distances and 1922 to recover from that. time elements involved, we used to It was not an ill wid, however, bc- have to buy six months, twelve months cause it begot a lot of peculiar things and in some cases eighteen months that hnvc more or less revaniycd our ahead. So that led into mass produc- entire business philosophy and methods tion in large units. of doing business. When the merchant In the textile industries, for instance, found it was necessary to curtail com- where they knew that they had orders mitments and reduce inventories, the ahead for, say, four months or six producer l~kewisefound it was neces- months, it was an easy matter to con- sary to operate in synchrony ' with centrate production in large units. consumption, and much to his surprise Now, those conditions obtained up to he found that not only was he to (lo 1914, and theti a lot of things happened. so but he found out a lot of interesting The War might bc said to be a catacly- facts about his own business. As a re- ser which, as you probably know, is sult, thc hand-to-mouth buying that an agency in chemical matters which camc into being at that time has bc- materially increases the rapidity in come a perrnancnt habit. It has intro- which an action takes place. duced the philosophy of the rapid turn- In 1914 we owed something like over of the (Lollar. l3y thCltI mean this. three bill1011 dollars to Europe. Our Supposing a company colrltl go into imports were largely manufactured business with one hundred thousand articles secured from Europe and else- dollars and turn its capital over oncc where, and our exports were for thc a year and operate on ;I twenty per most part raw materials to those man- cent margin, and supposing a coinpet- ufacturing countries. Overnight that irlg concern employed only lifty thou- supply was cut off and everybody here sand dollars but turned its capital over in the room can recall when you twice a year. The lattcr could opcratc bought a silk stocking there was a on a ten per cent basis becndsc thcy little sign attached to it saying that would still be n~alringtwenty pcr ccn~ the fastness of the dye was not guar- on their investment. Or, if a third con- anteed because the German supply was ccrn in the same line of L)usiness used curtailed. only twenty-five thousand clollnrs in We had to build up in this country capital and turned that over lour times a dye industry that had taken gener- in a year, it could operate on a five ations to perfect in Germany, and wc per cent basis bccause they are still are all familiar with many parallel making twenty per cent on their capi- cases so that I won't take the time to till and that, of course, is the yardstick enter into that. Suffice it to say that by which all business operation nlllst the rapidity and the dcgree to which be measured. we arrived at a self-sustaining basis in J mean this, thcn: That the lirsi a manufacturing sense is onc of the would havc to get one dollar and outstanding accomplishments, indus- twenty ccnts for its investment, the trially, of all time. Now in 1917, had we second woulcl have to get $1.10 and thc been prepared, inclustrially, we could tllird $1.05, on the turnover. I mention have made an army of two and one- that because it is the essencc of Imi- half million men in Prance and utilized ness philosophy and it has been tllc less than twenty per cent of our peace- largest single factor in crcating a de- 222 SPECIAL LIBRARIES July-A#, 1930 centralization of production, whether first place, Mr. Alcott, I am wandering that be in the West or South or else- vzry widely from the subject itself. wher, In addition to the philosophy of the The same philosophy, of course, is rapid turnover of the business, and the applied to distribution. There are some maintenance of high wages, and the of these chain stores that go so far as increased per capita wealth, there are to sell goods for cost. They make their certainly other factors that came into money on a two per cent cash discount, being that have tnaterially altered the but they have their markets so care- complexion of the economic structure fully gauged that they are turning of the country. In the first place, the their money every ten or fifteen days, cost of rail transportation rose im- which in a year is no small margin of measurably. So that the long haul profit. I emphasize that, as I say, be- theory of rate structures had to be cause it is fundamental philosophy more or less scrapped. At the same back of business today. time the Panama Canal came into Now, besides that, in this country we effective operation. Now that has had have learned a lesson: That the ser- this effect, that in practice it has al- vant is worthy of his hire. We have most squeezed the Atlantic and Pacific found it is far better to pay a man ten Coasts together. So that so far as dollars a day than to pay him five. All transportation costs go, you might re- that is necessary to acconiplish that is gard the Pmacific Coast running on a to place in his hands labor-saving ma- line between Vallejo, Columbus, Cleve- chines or devices that enable him to land and Cincinnati. On top of that we turn out a little more than twice as have immeasurably improved our much because, after all, it doesn't mat- methods of transportation, including ter whether the man who made that the airplane and the express service ash-tray (indicating) here on the table that is accomplished by the railroads, got ten cents an hour or ten dollars an so that geographic advantages have hour. The ,all-important thing is, What been largely discounted. is the cost of labor in that particular Again, we have had a westward article? So that on the one hand we migration of population, particularly have had narrow margins of profit and west of the Rockies, and our markets on the other we have had maintenance have become more far-flung. So that of high wages. all these things together, then, have Now, in addition to that we must thrown the old theory of concentrating not lose sight of the fact that a development of America along the At- lot of extraordinary forces place the lantic Seaboard into the d~scard.It has world's wealth in our hands; particu- been made impossible and has createcl larly after the War when European forces that have decentralized develop- currency was denioralized we acquired ment and production, and that is the something over sixty-five per cent of thing that has brought about a rather the world's gold supply and still have interesting industrial development here most of it. in the West. During the War, and the years that I said I wouldn't use statistics. I am preceded it-at least our participation going to give you one. Prom 1919 to in it-there was a flow of wealth to 1927 sixty-five per cent of all new in- this country that enormously increased dustrial act~vitiestook place in these the per capita purchasing power, so thrce Pacific Coast states. However, that we were able to buy homes and we are not interested, as I see it, in furnish them, radios, automobiles and what has transpired; that is water all those other nice things of life. That, over the dam. What we are concerned in turn, begot a rather unusual busi- in is, What is going to happen particu- ness activity. I am going into this larly at this time when we have n rather in some length in order to ar- rather disturbed business condition and rive later on at an analysis of our pres- th,ere are a world of questions in the ent condition. As I warned you in the minds even of business leaders as to JulpAuguat, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 2 23 what is ahead? It might not be a mis- ful cabinet. They were making three take to see if we can, calmly analyze thousand of those ~n eight hours. The the present situation and draw a few boards for that cabinet cvnle up in the conclusions. rough and in less thap an hour the I-Icre in America we are faced today cahinet which you buy is prcpared, a wi,th a lot of serious and major read- beautiful piece of work. It is all done justments. T,he stock market crash of by labor that is unskilled, at least in last Npvember was merely one of the the cabinet making sense, and I could manifestations of a faulty condition. go on more or less ad infnitum, telling During the last several years we have of the things that have increased our had so much money in this country, and production capacity. it was so easy for business to get it in As I say, we have gtven practically large sums, that they have tried so all our thought to that phase of busi- many different kinds of experiments, ness and now we find ourselves with and we are now in the throes of fnd- its concomitiint distribution somewhat ing out whether those experiments are, aggravated. We have stimulated do- so to speak, toad stools or mushrooms. mestic consumption by installment We have seen our purchasing power buying, by high wages, by direct sell- enornlously increased due to the de- ing and the other expedients, and we moralized condition of European cur- still have a surplus of manufacturing rencies. Those countries are practically capacities and today wc have an un- on a gold basis today, so that now on comfortable and large unemployment that wealth will follow the natural figure, perhaps around three millions. channels of trade. We have seen our- Now, we have one of three alterna- selves buy automobiles until we have tives, either to keep them unemployed, between twenty-five and thirty million which is unthinkable; or to employ in operation in this country alone. We them and produce distress merchan- have built our homes and our offices dise, which IS equally unthinkable; or up to the saturation point and we have to put those three million people back acquired most of the luxuries and to work and get rid of our surplus quasl-luxuries that we have longed for. merchandise through the cllannels of In other words, we have come to a international trade. To do that we have more or less saturated situation. got to do as all other countries that On top of that, ever since 1914 we have had world dominance have found have been giving all of our national ~t necessary to do, and that is, we have thought and energies to production. 1 got to go abroad with .our capital and can best illustrate that by telling of finance these enterprises even as the a visit to the Packard plant in 1911, French, Liritish and German capital when they had a capacity of fi fteen financed our railroads, our canals, cars a day. I recall seeing one old mines, etc., in this country. mechanic who had gone gray in the So here in the West, then, on the business, who was talancing fly- Pacific Coast particularly, wc feel we wheels by hand, and he could do fifteen have an important Euqction to fulfill, a day. industrially, in that we mark the jump- Last year I saw a modern automo- ing off place, so to speak, for the bile plant of a very well known makc future fields of international trade, the of car. I saw two machines that you thing upor. which America today must could put into the corner of this room, lend her major efforts. operated by unskilled workers, that are We feel that the West has an ex- automatically balancing eight hundred tremely important place in the fly-wheels in eight ,hours. In other economic structure of Lhe United words, they had multiplied the capacity States as a whole. We have raw ma- of this skllled laborer. terials, we have a populir,tion of nearly I had the privilege of going and see- twelve million people living west of ing the Radio Victor plant last year. the Rocky Mountains, we have direct You are all familiar with that beauti- access to about three-quarters of the 2 24 SPECIAL LIBRARIES July-Augurt, 1930 population of the globe over our tives and anti-toxins for all these vari- waterways, we have the power and all ous ills and effects. And we are doing of the other materials and things that this through man's ability to profit by are necessary to create business and the accumulative experience of his an- industrial activities on a tremendous cestors and to think deductively and scale. So that while we are proud, per- inductively. haps, of our present accomplishments Now you people as librarians in your we are endeavoring to forget that and profession, that are custodians if you looking ahead to .the problen~sthat are will, are the very heart not only of before us, the responsibilities and obli- business but of our whole social struc- gations that are ahead of us in those ture. It seems to me that if you grasp respects, in fulfilling our proper func- the possibilities of the use of libraries, tion in the whole American business either in your individual concern or for structure. the public at large, you are contribu- Now in closing I should like to men- ting immeasurably to the human tion just one thing; I cannot leave any knowledge that is necessary ; but more message, I don't intend to; but as I important than that you are begetting see your work as librarians I am won- a philosophy, and habits if you will, of dering if you-and I presume you do- thought that are absolutely essential, grasp one thing. You know, there are because it doesn't take any seer or two things that set the man apart prophet to see this : That today we are from the rest of the animal kingdom; facing, in America as elsewhere in the the first is his ability to reason, deduc- world for that matter, an absolute tively or inductively; and secondly, his necessity for a brand of thinking that ability to profit by the accumulative is quite superlative in relation to experiences of his ancestors. In other the brand of thinking that we have words, a dog that is born today has been doing. Just think, for instance, all of the things to learn of itself that what the intelligence and the cali- its progenitors ages ago had to learn. ber of thinking that creatcrl these But not so with man; he starts off automatic devices for the balancing of where the other generation ended. crank-shafts did to the knowledge and In business we have seen these experience of that old gray-haired things happen: We have seen the mechanic. Think of what the intelli- methods of accounting change from gence of somebody in the Radio Victor haphazard systems of addition and organization did to the skill of the old- subtraction to one of the modern bud- fashioned cabinet maker. gets, cost accounting, marketing sur- In other words, as I see it we are veys and all that. In okher words, we building in this country an intellectual are tending to eliminate fallible human aristocracy, if you will, the line of judgment from that side of business. demarcation between those that are There was a time, not over ten years creating things and those that are ago, when manufacturing plants were operating the machines, if you will, located according to the warmth of the that that intelligence is creating. That welcome, whether they were given tax line of demarcation is becoming more exemption, free sites and all that sort apparent every day, and as I see it thc of thing. That day is over. Manufac- only requisite for standing among the turers today are located on a mathe- aristocracy, if you will, is that we matical basis. There we are again think and keep on thinking. eliminating fallible ,human judgment in that instance. Next month we print the talks which We have had our business ills just followed Mr. Letchfield's Address by Mr. like a child has measles and chicken- pox and all those things, and just as Cowles, Mrs. Caya and Miss Windele the medical profession is finding pre- for San Francisco, and by Mr. Marion, ventatives, anti-toxins for those ills, so Mr. Edwards, Miss Percey and Mrs. in business we are finding preventa- Creveling for Los Angeles. July-Auwat, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 225 Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux Seventh Annual Conference, New College, Oxford, Sept. 19-22, 1930 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Friday, September 19th. Sunday, September 21st 6 45 p. m. Rcception of dclcgates by the SECTIONAL MEETINGS Council of the Association. 9.45 a. 111. (A) Chairman: Professor P,lt- 7.15 p. m. Dinner. Address by the Presi- rick Abercon~b~e,M.A , I:.R. dent-elect, Mr. )I. T. Tizard, 1 l3.A. C.B., F.R.S. Swveys ad Plnniring, their relation lo organiserl injornta- 8.30 p. m. GENERAL SESSION. Chair- tion. man: Mr. 11. T. 'rizard, C.B., Mr. C. C. Fi~gg,F G.S. (LC- F.R.S. play Housc) The Year's Work oj the Asso- Mr. G. L. Pepler, F.S.1. ciation. (Ministry of I-lcalth) Brigadier-General Magnua Mr. S. I<. Ihck, B.A. ('l'llc Mowat, C.B E., M. Inst. C.E., New Survey of London Ldc M.I. Mech. E. and L.~bour) (l3) Chairman: The Rev. Canon Saturday, September 20th. Hubert Curtis, M.A. The Technique of Itrjorma- SECTIONAL MEET1NCS fiotr itrlhe TrniningojStudetrls Mr. G. F. O'Riorda~~,U.Sc., 9.45 a. 111. (A) Chairman: Thc Right Hon. Baron Olivier, P.C., K.C.M. M. I. Mecli. E., (I'rincipal of G., C.B. Battersea Polytechnic) The Dissemination of In- Mr. B. M. IIeadicar (Ii- formation by ExhiMlron and brarian, London School of Display. Econo nrics) Colonel Sir IIenry G. Lyons, 11.45 :I. nl. (C) Chairman: To be arranged. D.Sc., F.R.S. Technic01 Etrglislr Mr. F.A. Bather,F.R.S. Mr. C. C. Wliarton (Britisli Other speakern to be ar- Thornson-I-louuto~i Comp'y) ranged. 8.30 p. 111. GENERAL SESSION. (B) Chairnian: The Right Ilon. Cl~airman:Dr. R. S. 1-11lt.tmi. the Countess of Warwick. The Organisalion of I?~Jormaliota Animal Weljarc, its depend- in Gernrany ence on accurate anjormation. Herr. Alfred Sclilomann Captain C W.I-Iume, M.C., RESOI.U'I'IONS, ctc. B.Sc. OFFICERS Chairnian: Colonel Sir Fred- Presidetr I: eric Nathan. Sir Joscph J. Thomaon, O.M., P.R,S. 11.45 a. 111. (C) The Inadequacy oj the Al- Chnirnrnn np~dHon. Srcrrlory: phahetical Subject 1nde.v. Brig.-General Magnus Mowat, C.B.E., Professor A. F. C. Pollnrd, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., A.R.C.S.,F.I.P. Institution of Mechanical Enginccrs. Dr. S. C Bradford. Hotr. Secretary: 5.30 p. In. ANNUAL GENERAL MEET- Miss A. L. Lawrence, ING. M.B.E., M.A., LL.B., 8 30 p. m. GENERAL SESSION. British Medical Association. Chairman: To be arranged. General Secretary: Organised Injortnolion in 1%- S. S. Bullock name ofice Mr. Oscar Hobson (Editor, 26, Bedford Square, The "Financial News") London, W. C.1. 226 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Editorial Board EDITOR, Herbert 0.Brigham, State Library, Providence, R. I. Associate Editors D. N. Handy, Insurance Library Association of Boston; M. E. Pellett, Library The Port of New York Authority; Rebecca B. Rankin, Municipal Reference Library, New York City. Department Editors Charlotte L. Carmody, Department of Commerce Library, Washington, D. C. Ethel Cleland, Business Branch, Public Library, Indianapolis, Ind. Elizabeth 0. Cullen, Bureau of Railway Economics, Washington, D. C. Emilie Mueser, Engineering Societies Library, New York City. Louise Keller, Independence Bureau, Philadelphia, Pa. Marion C. Manley, Business Branch, Public Library, Newark, N. J. Mary C. Parker, Federal Reserve Bank, New York City. Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee, Wis. A. A. Slobod, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. San Francisco Convention HE San Francisco convention will long be remembered for its many attractive features. Our first visit to the West since 1915, we receivql a glorious welcome fromT our California hosts. The program stressed in part the development of the industrial West and we were addressed by prominent banking officials, by officers of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and by other local officials. The various conunittees had made elaborate plans for entertainment and the evenings were entirely given over to special dinners at varied locations. The first day a fornlal dinner was held at the Mark Hopkins Hotel; the second day in the heart of Chinatown, and the third day in an attractive forest setting at the Woodside Country Club, each dinner differentfrom the other and each having its own special charm. Drives about the city and over the countryside gave us opportunity to see something of San Francisco and the Bay cities. A visit to Stanford University with a glimpse of the beautiful Stanford Chapel preceded our dinner of Friday evening. Accounts of the program are presented in other columns of this issue and Miss K. Dorothy Ferguson deserves great credit for arranging a program which not only covered a wide range of subject matter, but was so organized that conflicts were less numerous than usual. The various local committees worked efficiently and as many of the delegates to the conference were newcomers to the Pacific Coast, the Hospitality Committee welded the conference by its effective work. 'The Anniversary Dinner on the opening day was especially enjoyable. Mr. Milton J. Ferguson, State Librarian of California, made a delightful toastmaster, the other- speakers were entertaining and there was a keen undercurrent of clever humor which added to the pleasure of the evening. *** another column we print the advance program of the 7th Annual Conference of INAssociation of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux to be held at New College, Osford from September 19 to 22, 1930. If any member of S L. A. plans to be in England at that time we suggest that he get in touch with Miss Margaret Reynolds, our new President. *I* I<. W. Drury, in a recent communication to the subscribers of "Reading with a F Purpose," has requested suggestions for subjects to be published in the R. W. A. P. Series. This valuable series of pamphlets, published by the American Library Association, has now reached its fifty-sixthvolume and these little publica- tions have been distributed to a wide circle of readers. July-Auguat. 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES President's Message SMALL, but regionally representative group of members of the Special Li- A braries Association attended our twenty-second annual conference June 18- 21, at Tlie Clift, San Francisco. We welcomed a transplanted es-president. We welcomed several Public library staff members who had never attended an S. L. A. and some other Public Library people who had met with us before and came agaln for further contacts. Some of us renewed our acquaintances amongst the Cali- fornians, while others saw some of our members and the State for the first time. The careful plans made by Miss Marian C. Manley for the second general session made it possible for the meeting to "run off," with splendid papers which created good discussions, although an unfortunate automobile accident prevented the presence of Miss Manley. Both outgoing and incoming ofticers, with the exception of the treasurer, were present. At the first executive board meeting, called by the new president, three officers, two directors, the executive secretary and the editor of SPECIAL LI- BRARIES were present. Glance at the list your nominating committee persuaded to run and see the geographical range. Then marvel at the representation. In my speech of acceptance no verbose promises were made, but an inscription said to appear on the New York Post Office building (New Yorkers pleasc verify) was quoted: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." We are your couriers, communicate with us freely and frankly. Your president has a few concrete ideas about which will circle the work of the year. We want one hundred per cent memberships from as many libraries as possible. How about yours? We want to make more active workers out of some of our newer members. We want to make our relations with the public libraries throughout the country more firm. John Cotton Dana once said: , Business civilizes the world . . . Gentlemen, let us attend to business! That is what we intend to do. Will you help us? MARGARET REYNOLDS, Presiclen t. *** HE Public Affairs Informition Service has again submitted its usual report to its subscribers. The report of the accompanying documents is a model of its Tkind. The auditor, Mr. H. J. Grunipelt, Bursar of the New York Public Library, has included detailed tables of value. His report shows a net profit for the year of $419.63 and surplus as of September 30, 1929, of $7,522.56. The report shows an income of $15,685.69 and the balance sheet indicates tntal assets of $15,933 08. Tlie Public Affairs Information Service, originally created by the SPECIAL 1.A- BRARIES ASSOCIATION, has always been successiul and the current report indicates its excellent financial condition.

HE News Committee, under the energetic direction of Miss Isabel I-I. Jackson T of the staff of the Bank of Italy Library, performed yeoman service in de- veloping publicity. The local newspapers of San Francisco and Oakland gave an unusual amount of space to the convention. Miss Jackson has placed on file at the General Officea group of clippings from various papers throughout the coun- try which shows more than anything else the good work of the News Committee. SPECIAL LIBRARIES July-Augurt, 1930 Conference Notes

Many famdiar faces were missed at the Breakfast meetings wcre again in voyc conference and among them might be mcn- and three d~fferentGroups chose the hour of tioned our Ex-Presidents 1). N. Handy, Miss 830 for bcginning the day's deliberations IIcbecca B. Rankin, F. E. Cady, and our pre- sidmg President of thc prcvlous ycar, An- Thc Publicity Sub-committee of the Sdn gus Fletcher. *** Francisco Convention Committee were active throughout the co~lferer~ce.A file of clippings Clmatown offered many interesting thrills, concerning the doings of the week was prc- but the v~sitto the morgue and jail did not parctl by this committee and filctl with the rspec~allyappeal to some of our members. Editor. Our gu~deswerc plain clothcs men who have * * * had years of expericncc in Chindtown. *** To Miss K Dorothy Ferguson, librarian of Thc v~stafrom the windows of the Wood- thc Bank of Italy, San Francisco, must be side Cou~~tryClub caused many exclamat~ons gwcn much credit for the large success of of plcasurc from the guests. One could hardly the conference It was Miss Ferguson, who ask a finer setti~~gfor a dinner in the open. l~yher regular attendance at the annual con- *** fcrcnces in the east ir~rcccnt years, who year Miss Margaret Reynolds, who belongs both after ycar has mv~tedand urged the assocla- to Wisconsi~l and to Cal~fornia, as newly tlon to meet in San Francisco. At the Wash- clccted Prcs~dcntextended a welcome to thc ington confcrcncc in 1929 she literally swept members of thc Executive Board at a lunch- the members off their fcet by her appeal in eon ill Mr Alcott's suite. behnlf of San Francisco, and she carried thcm *** with her in her fervor for the city at the The address by Mr. Howard Whipple, Goldcn Gate. After the executive board VICC-President, Bank of Amcrica of Cali- sclcctecl San Francisco as the meeting place, fornia, on "Grn~~pand Branch Bmking" be- much of the burden of the meeting, 111 adtli- fore the Financial Group should have been tion to the program, fell to Miss Ferguson, heard by the entire Association. Mr. Wh~pplc and she acqu~ttcdherself gloriously. She had is an authority on the subject of hranch bank- the hearty support of the officers and mem- ~ngand has appeared before con~mitteesof bers of San Francisco Chapter. And no rnern- Congress. bers wcre morc enthusiastic over the hospi- *** tal~tyand efficiency and thoroughness of the The friendly rivalry between San Francisco Snn Francisco plans and planning than those and Los Angeles frequently crcpt to the sur- from San Fra~~cisco'sr~val, Los Angeles "San face during the conference, hlr Guy E. Francisco certainly knows how to do it," was hfdrion of the Los Angeles Chdmbcr of Coin- the commcnt of one of the eminent Los An- rnercc often weaving into his talks the state- geles members rnent, "Los Angclcs now enjoys a population of 1,231,730." S. L. A. never had its annual dinner in a *** morc heautiful betting than was furnished by The Clift Hotel made an cxccllent meeting the famous Room of the Tlons in the Mark place for our convcntion and hIr H. S. Ward, Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco on June 18, Afanager, and other rncr~~bersof his staff, 1930. The floral dccorations alone would havc were extremely courteous in admmistering to sct the place qu~teapart from all others our welfare. which havc served as the place of the antlual *** dinner in thc past. It is a matter of regret that Miss ,Manley's automobile accident wh~lcen route to the. conference prevented her attendance, but she Miss Florence Bradley gave the nletnbers rccovcretl sullicicntly to be present at the Los traveling on the offic~altrain a novel task on Angclcs convention of the A L A. thc fol- thc evening before arriving at the conferct~ce lowing week city. To each member she gave a sheet of July-Augut, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 229 paper with the injunction to write a limerick to bid godspeed to the travelers, and she about any person on the train or in S. L. A placcd in the hands of Prcsidcnt Alcott a She reaped a rich harvest. nlanimoth basket of fruit for thcm. That was *** the first of a long scrics of courtesies which Miss Mary Louise Alexander, as chairman thc mcmbcrs rcccived on the tour. of the travel committee, early suggested a * * * plan for meals on the west bound train which Mcmbcrs of Illinois Chapter did thcn~sclvcs proved to be a happy one. "Go to meals with proud on thc westward trip. The official party a d~ffcrcntgroup each time," was the sug- arrived st C11ic:igo st 3:30 011 thc aftcrnoon gestion, and everybody fell in with it. of June 13, and busscs wcre awaiting at Ihe *** station to take the visitors on a sight-sec~ng Joseph F. Kwapil, librarian of the Publ~c tour of thc great city, while their special rats Ledger, Philadelphia, chairman of the News- were being shifted to another station Upon paper Group, had his courage tested on the returning. to the Stcvcns Hotcl at h 30 mcm- trip Assigned by his papcr to attend the bers of S. L. A. wcrc rnct by nearly nicmbcrs conference on the Pacific, he started on the of Illinois Chaptcr It was the first that so journey with all his usual enthusiasm. At many Chicago and eastern mcnlbcrs of S. L. Chicago he was taken seriously ill A physi- A had rnct, ,rnd the greetings wcrc cordial cian adviscd him to take to bed immediately. Joseph A. Conforti, prcsidcnt of Illinois Joseph rebelled, and said hc would go as far Chapter, at~dMiss Mildred A. Burkc, retir- as Kansas City, wherc he had relatives, and ing prcsitlcnt, wcre lcat1111g the rcccptio~~ if he did not improve, hc wotrld givc up. nut committee. In :~dd~tionA. L. A. I~eatlquarters at Kansas City, hc seemed to bc much bet- was largely rcl)rcsentctl in thc group of tcr, and he continued to the Coast, and Chic;lgoans who welcomctl the official party handled the aff:lirs of thc Ncwspapcr Group to Chicago. Mr. Carl EI. Milam, sccrctary of with all his mual vim and efficiency. On thc A. L A,; Miss Sarah C N, Doglc, assistant last day of thc confcrcncc he had anothrr ill sccrctary; Mrs. Dnvcs Rossell, ctlilor of thc turn, and he started hornewartl Upon rcach- A. L. A Bulletin ; hiiss Julia Wright hfcrrill, ing Philadelphia he entered Jefferson Hospi- executive ;~ssistn~~ton library extension. and tal, where on July 12 he undcrwcnt a seri- Mrs. Esther H. nixon, in charge of cntlnw- ous ahdonlinal operation In a week he was rnent and spccial mcmbcrbhip$, wcrc among making good progress. the A L. A clelcg;~tion.hnner was scrvcd * * informally, thc company being scatctl at small San Francisco showcd easterners some- tables At the central table, with President thmg new in the matter of planning for con- Conforti of Chicago werc Prcsidcnt Alcott, vention entertaining. Under the direction of President-nomincc Margaret Reyr~olds,Scc- Mrs Mable T. Johnson, chairman of the retary Milan of A. L. A,, Miss Alcxantlcr hospitality co~nmittcc of the Chamber of of thc Travcl Committee, ant1 Miss Cavil- Commerce, a list of 16,000 names had been naugl~of the crccutive hoard. Following din- collected of San Francisco men and women ncr an opportunity was given to scc Chicago who have agreed to give thrce days a year by night from the roof garden of the hotel, to the entertainment of visitors. On the day whcrc cool breezcs from the lake made the of the S. L. A tour of the city, Mrs. Johnson evening one of rare delight. A dclcgation also drew upon 26 on the list. visited, by special permission, the ttrwcr of *** the Chicago Tribunc, under the g~ridamcof Miss Rebecca B. Rankin of New York was Miss Burkc. the chairman of the Hospitality Committee, **I but the task of moving her I~brary, the Two sl)ccial slccping cars left Chicago for hlunicipal Reference Lilmry of New York, the coast. Both thi New Yorli Cctlt~~~land prevented her attendance at San Francisco the Santn Fc managcmcnt made thc trip to But she was on thc job just the same, as the coast as pleasant as possiblc for thc S much as possiblc. When the delegates for thc L. A. delegation. Pacific assembled at the Grand Central Sta- *** tion in New York on Thursday aftcrnoon, Or1 the wcstward journcy, aftcr lcavtng June 12, Miss Rankin was there, together New York, a mceti~~gof the excc~~tivcboard with a score or more of New York members, was hcld for the purpose of con~plctingbusi- 230 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Jdr-August, 1930 ness matters of the year. It was the sixth On Tuesday, June 24th, the visitors with meeting of the executive board. The first members of the local Chapter were conveyed meeting had been held in Washington on by bus to the Port of Los Angeles where a the day of the last annaal conference. Then motor boat, furnished by courtesy of the port came two meetings whett the exec~~tiveboard authorities, awaited them. Two hours were met with the local associations in Boston and spent in making a tour of the harbor whi~h New York, and were for the purpose of included a view of the vessels of the Battle- bringing members of local associations and ship Division of the U. S Navy, the aircraft the national officers into closer contact Two carrier Lexington, the wide range of the othcr meettngs, one for the consideration of harbor and the ships of all nations at the the budget and to select place and time of various docks and piers. Then followed the the atu~ualcoufcrcncc, and to dispose of return drive to the city with a delightful ditl- Ilurnerous administrative matters. ner at the Mary Louise. Mr. Ralph M. Whit- ing presided at the dinner and brief talks were given by Miss Margaret Reynolds, the The reception committee of San Francisco newly elected President, the Secretary and Chapter were early on their job when the the Editor of "Special Libraries." offic~alparty arrived at Oakland at 630 on the morning of Junc 18. Headed by Thom.~s Co\vles, president of the Sat1 Francisco hlr. and Mrs. Edwin James Thomas of Palo Chaptcr, with Miss K Dorothy Ferguson, li- Alto, California, have anno~~ncedthe enrage- brarian of the Bank of Italy, chairman of thc ment of their daughter, Miss Aimee Belle Progran~Committee. Mrs. A. M Caya of the Thomas, to Ralph Judson Brenner. Miss California State Chamber of Commerce, and Thomas is a graduate of Miss Ransome's W. A. Worthington of the Pac~ficGas and Schnol and Stanford University. Mr Bren- Electric Company, the visitors were greeted ner is also a graduate of Stanford and is a by the quartet and made to feel that Cali- nephew of Professor James E Brenner of fornia W~Shome. The party was escorted to the University. Miss Thomas, who is librarian the great ferry boat, where breakfast was of the San Francisco Stock Exchange Insti- served, and when San Francisco was reached, tute, took an active part in the San Fran- and everyhody was safely seated in taxis, cisco convention, serving as a mcmber of the there was a shrill siren whistle, and the line Dinner Committee. of cars, headed by a n~otorcycle officer, whirled up through Market street, the princi- pal business street, to the Hotel Clift, where The Pctroleunl Section of the Commercial- the offic~al headquarters was established. Technical Group held a supplementary scs- sion at Los Angclcs on June 26, 1930. This meeting was called by Mr. Byron E. Ed- The Clift Hotel management was courtesy wards of the El Segundo Refinery, Standard aid ho5pitality personified To Mr Alcott, Oil Company of California, upon the request prcsitlcnt of S. L A, was assigned a parlor of Mr C. P Bowie. suite on the front corner of the third floor, and an attractive basket of California fruits The report of the Group meeting held at bore a card of greeting from the hotel man- San Francisco was read and discussed. A full agcmcnt to Special Libraries Assoc~at~on.Mr. explanation of the methods and needs of the H S Ward, manager of thc Clift Hotel, Petroleum Bibliography issued by the Bureau placed every facihty of the hotel at the dis- of Mines in co-operation with the Special posal of S. L A, for the comfort of its mem- Libraries Association and the American bers. Petroleum Institute was presented by Mr Edwards. A large number of the members present urged identification with the Petro- The memhcrs of the Southern California leum Section of the Special Libraries Asso- I'hapter of the S. L. A extc~lrlcd entertain- ciation. To Mr C P. Bowie and to Mr. D. P. ment to those membcrs of the S. L. A. who Brown, Chairman of the Petroleum Section, attended the convention of the A L. A. at certain recommendations were made concern- Los Angeles. ing the Bibliography and its form. JulpAuguat, 1930 SPEClAL LIBRARIES 23 1

braries" as in the previorts year. It was voted Executive Board that the advertisitig rates as set forth iri Rate The Executive Board held a special mcet- Card No. 3 be approvcd, ing on the Lake Shore Limited cnroute from It was voted that the President hppoint a New York to Chicago. A formal petition for ncw Auditing Committee to takc care of the the new Baltimore Chapter of S. L A, was audit for tlic year 19.29-30 inasmuch as the presented and voted and the Chapter duly trlembers of the committee previously ap- authorized by the Executive Board. A pcti- pointed were absent from the convcntion. tion of the Ctncinnati Chapter for affil~ation was also accepted. Speci,al forms for reports were prepared and suhrnitted by the hlisscs Resolutions Alexander and Cavanaugh and later the rna- "BE IT RESOLVED, By the Special Li- terial was furnished to the General Office. It braries Association in its Twenty-second An- was also voted that resolutions be passed uual Confercncc Assembled. upon the death of Miss Alice Rose, fnrmcrly "1. That its grateful appreciation be ex- Librarian of the National Citv Rank. tended to the tnally distinguished speakers During the meeting the new mcnibership who have givcn of thcir valuable tin!e for list was presented, duly voted and accepted. our enlightenment and inspiration. A meeting of the new Executive Board was "2. That its dcep gratitude bc convcyed to called by the President, Miss Margaret Rey- the many convcntion oficcrs and corrimittcc nolds, on Friday, June mth, at the Clift nicrnbers who have worked with ut~flagging Hotel. Meeting places for the next session zcal for the comfort, ct~tcrtain~ncntn11d pro- were discussed, but no tlecision was reached. vision of interesting t~iect~t~gsfur the clele- The question of a leaflet for associate mem- gatcs. bers also was presented for consideration and "3 That Mr. Nathan Van Patten, Dircctor it was voted that the Secretary prepare vari- of the Stanford U~liversity Libraries, 11c ac- ous forms for final selection by thc Execu- cortlcd our sincctc thanks for his I~ospitalit~ tive Board. It was also voted that the Presi- in welcoming the mcmbcrs to thc Sta~tfortl dent be authorized to appoint a committee Campur. whose duty shall be to obtain s~tbscriptions "4. That the Association's very generous for the magazine "Special Libraries". th.rnks he cslmssed to thc San Franciscn The Executive Board went on record at Chamber of C'o~~~mcrce,and partic~~liirlyto the nieeting for closer co-operation with puh- Mrs. Mablc T. Jol~t~soti,who has, it1 her lic libraries and the members were requested charming and cordial niantler, hantllctl tnulti- to send to the President suggestions for the farious clctails with dispatch and cficicncy. personnel of a Committcc on Relations with "5. That the San Francisco Convention ad Public Libraries Tourists League hc thanked for eclctilq~i~~l: It was made a matter of record that Miss and supplying personnel for the registratiun Florence Bradley be urged to continue the dcsk and for its pulilicity efforts in our l1c- chairmanship of the Membership Committee. half. It was also placed on record that the na- "6. That Mr. Harold S Ward, Vice-Prcsi- tional chairman .be given frce reign in ap- dent and Manager of the Clift Hotel, be pointing committee members and in working thanked for the hospitality nntl many cour- with local officials. tcsies extendcd to thc dclegatcs. It was also reconmended that an effort be "7. That the San Francisco Poltcc Dcpart- made to estahlish a fund whereby the ofti- mcnt bc cordially thanked for the careful RL- cers of the Association may visit the rneet- tctition, protcctioti and guitlancc ptovitletl for ings of the local associations st wring us cslml~tiouslythrough thc mam It was further suggested that the Ways and of Sat1 Francisco traffic. Means Committee give consideration to the "8. That we cvtend to the newspapers in possibility of research for some of the ind~~s-San Francisco our sincere tllnnks for thcir tries of the country who might finance the truthful and accurate accounts of our pro- project. ' ceedings. During the meeting the Board re-elected The Committee on Rcsol~ttions, the Secretary and the Editor for the ensuing MARGUERITE UURNETT, year and reaffirmed the rates for "Special Li- Chairnian, 23 2 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Juiy-Augrut, 1930 Reports of Committees, 1929-30

~~u~-gme usual cumtom tb rcporta 01 the various mmmitteea were auhmittd during the do= The Com- mit- on ConLinuation Rmdlng, Fdlblts and Training lor Uhnrldpdld not mrka nporta thls yeu. Classification willing to devote some time and effort to the wwk, and a reasonable amount of help should A yearly report is supposed to include an be afforded them by the chapters. account of work done, but this year I shall As to the work to be done, each classifica- break with traditton ; partly because, like the tion problem is as individual a matter as re- Hibernian gentleman of Pigs is Pigs, I may ligion or medicine, hut as in the latter two, not take time from shoveling guinea pigs to certain general lines of work may bc fol- count them, and partly because I have more lowed. In every place you will find books on important things to say. library science scattered in various libraries, Last fall I wrote to the Executive Board I whtch if drawn into one lending pool would must have help, and Miss Bradley went home return the original investment thirty-fold considering how the New York chapter might How many librarians have painfully workcct. help In the meaatin~e,MISS Mueser was hav- out extensions of classifications, or corrtpilcd trig troubles of her own with classification subject headings which might prove to be questions from the wide flung membership of that for which some other librarian is clamor- the various engineering societies ing? How many inexperienced people are She thought of the columns of a magarine struggling with problerns wh~chsome one else as a means of preventing the sarne question has solved! being asked over :rnd over. Two ttceds met A few people with imagination to see needs and we have the Department of Classification and provide for them; who will watch the md Indexing in "Spccial Libraries." Only one field of classification, with more than personal issue of the Dcpartmcnt has appeared as I interest, and who will be ready with advice write this, but letters in response are already when it is needed; these will be a real asset coming in to any local chapter. And it seems to me this Thc Special Libraries Council of Philadel- work could be so done' as to enrich the in- phia md vicinity has appointed a Cotnn~ittee d~vidualsdoing it, and by reason of its sprcdd on Cataloging and Classification, which is to not burden them unduly. act ill at1 hdvisory capacity for members, and What are you, the local chapters, going to others who may have need of such help. The do about it? The rcsponsihility is yours, for Council has appropriated some money for it is local service that we now need. The books, and its mcmbcrs will be encouraged to selection of people should be yours, for you do some studying, with occasional confer- wtll know best how to choose them. The work ences to help along. Should questions go to actually started, the local committees and the Spectal Lihrar~esfrom Philadelphia, I should national corrlmittee can plan together how cxpcct then1 to be accompanied by part of best to interweave the work. an answer, at least LOUISE KELLER, What are other localities doing? Chairman. Now it is not to be expected that every member of the Special Jhraries Association has the inclination, or the time, to delve Ceoperation with the deeply into the subject of classification; which docs not alter thc fact that most of us Library of Congress know less on the subject than is good for us, Project I3 in the L~braryof Congress, of or good for our hbraries. It is therefore ordi- which Dr Ernest Kletsch is director, is the nary good sense for the local chapter to en- project whereby the Union Catalog is being courage a few of their n~etnhersto become brought down to date The aid to reference classification specialists Such people need of such a catalog 1s obvious. not IJC chosen of necessity from those who The members of the Sl~ecialLibraries As- clcvotc all their time to cataloging, (The per- sociation can assist this project materially by spective afforded by other duties may become having placed on their respective mailing lists an advantagc); but they should be people to receive bibliographies, memoranda, and JulpAugurt, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES other publications of thcir libraries, the fol- has accumulated much information about lowing address various members, and is able to d~rectrc- Library of Congress quests and make connections between pco- Project B plc. As we do not have a large number of Washington, D. C. active members, thls informal lncthod has thus bringing to the attention of Project B, worked very well, and has not interfered recent material of ~mportance. w~ththe accomplisl~mcntof other work rc- Material addrcsscd simply to the Library quiring more organization " of Congress gocs to the general library files, Miss Kcllcr also tells about the Advisory but a second set, sent direct to Project B, Connnittcc of which the Cnmmittcc on will go into its files. Cataloging and Class~licatlonis a part, and As th~sand othcr projects devclol~at the the 1st of worth while books on thesc subjects L~braryof Congress othcr ways of co-opera- which the latter has compiled. She writes : t~onwill suggest themselves "The Advisory Committee has asked us to LUCY W. CULLEN, select from this list the books we considcr Chairman. most essential and to add to thcm the most important works on other branches of II- Methods Brary sclencc, antl to prcscnt the cornpilation In resummg its activiti~sduring thc past next fall. year the Committce on Methods has adopted "Thc hccutivc Bo;~rdoI the Council in the a suggestion offered by our prcsidcnt, Mr mcmtimc has appropriated a sum of money Alcott. By this plan the cornmittcc will serve to be spent on books dealing with library as a cer~tralclearmg house of information or1 science, and we hopc to supplcrnent this by methods, and will be linkcd up with the work g~fts,antl by arrangements for loans from of cach local committec for such work as thcy our members may be cngagcd in. "We believe such a loall collection will To th~send letters have been sent to cach prove of great value to our members, antl to local association asking about its work along the extension work of ow Council, since such this line, and apparently the Boston chapter books arc of necessity in the reference col- is the only one which, this year, has had an lcctions of general libr;~rics, and arc, aa a organized committec on methods; though in rulc, but meagerly reprcscntcd in thc collcc- the replies rece~vedto our letters two of the tions of special libraries." correspondents wrote that they would rcfcr our lctters to the incoming prcsidcnts. Just ]low, beforc thc hlethotls Committce In Boston the Committee on Methods has gocs any i~~rtlicrin its work, woaltl it not be been cngagcd on a bibliography of periodical wcll to tlcfinc the ficld which it will cover? references on methods, wh~rh,when complctc, l'hc S. L. A. already has a Co~r~rnittccon it is proposed to publlsl~.The n~attcrhas al- Classifications; and that subjcct, likc the sub- ready been -taken up with thc Executive jects of C;~talo~uingand S~~bjcctHcatlings, Board, and the matter now rests thcrc. seem too lnrgc to bc cnvcrctl by as broad n I think Miss Claflin of Clevelard expressed colnmittcc as this one. If thcsc are to bc the situation very wcll when sl~csaid, in cx- untlcrtakcn at all should they not cacli have plaining why thcy havc no such committees: a scparate cornmittce? "Each of our special libraries in Cleveland Then there is thc q~~estinnof including li- is so different from the rest th~twe havc brary atlrr~~i~~strationttnclcr ~ncthotls.Atlmin- never found it worth whdc to wotk out simi- istratim would covcr such things as lhr Ken- lar methods. I certainly tllink it is a good era1 policics of thc library, the arrhilcct~~re, thing for thc National Association to carry furniture, v;icatior~s,utc. The Mcthocls Com- on " m~ttecin Boston has purposely cxclutlcd atl- Miss Imise Keller of Philadelphia, explains ministrat~on from its field, and has dcfinctl about their Council which gtvcs evcry pos- mcthods as "physical mcthods of dctail work". sible assistance to anyonc asking for hclp. However, it might be well for this nati011a1 Shc says. cornmittce to include atltninistmtion, hfay we "We havc been fortunate in having the have some opinions on this mattcr? continuo~~sservices of one Secretary, Miss MARION ROWMAN, Helcn M. Rankin, who in thc course of time, Chairman. 234 SPECIAL LIBRARIES July-Auguat; 1930

quet and asked for the support of the in- News livldual newspapers. Our second and last let- In submitting this report I would prcier tc ter was sent out last Monday night with our call it the Report of the Local Convnetion opmlng release. We arc happy to say that Publicity Committee, as my connection w~th we have had most courteous treatment from the work of the News Comm~tteeis rather the press and believe that in every way we ~ncomplete prlor to my appointment last lavc had good and fair presentation of our month. matter w~tha min~rnumof misspelled names Our work here was begun under the able and misappl~edt~tles. leadersh~pof Miss Ruth Turner of the Shell Our "Dope Sheet" which you have had each Oil Company, who was forced by illness to mornmg would have been a more pretent~ous' rcslgn her post, so whenever I use the Lintl- adhelpful tlaily paper had the ever elusive bergh "We" 1 allude to A[iss Turner antl my- funds lieen more ample As ~t is, we hope self. We knew the fut~lityof trying to make that it servcd its ptrrposc antl made you feel contacts wth the press 111 citles of some great morc In touch with everything that was go- distance, so .it the outset we wrotc asking mg on here, three thousand miles from home. some ~nemberof each local chapter to serve Whether or not such a publication is to be as a long-tlist;ince publicity committee mein- rlsctl In the future dcpcnds on the will and bet to send on our releases to their papers. the financial resources of the News Com- From thesc ~ndwidualswe received a grcat mittee. deal of co-operation In our work and sugges- In our work our only dcviat~onfrom last t~onsfor further rclcas$s. year's plan, as outl~nedin the News Com- Then we circularized the group chairman mttee Report for 1929, is the iuclusion of for the names of the outstand~ngper~odlcals trade publications 111 sendlng out releases. within the~rvarlous groups and sent out a That is a small matter but In our case so far general convention story to each editor, mak- from the center of things, we felt that one Ing the story bear upon the group whose in- source of all news at convention time was terest the magame best servcd. Response infinitely preferable. here, too, was part~culryly gratifying and ISABEL H. JACKSON, especially the high tr~butethat the editors Chairman. paid to individual librar~ansin them answers to our letters Thus far we had cared for the news to the (Publications outside agencies. Our next work was to get During the past year twelve pt~blications the group and local chapters Into the "Go have been ~ssuedw~th the imprint of the Spe- West" frame of mind Thts was accomplished, cial Llbrarics Assoc~at~on,or III co-operation or we likc to believe that it was at least with other organizations Important among accon~plishedby our monthly letters to the thesc is the descriptive 1st of U. S tnmeo- Krunp chairmen and to the local presidents graphed statements complled by the Financial These letters, three in all, were +ent out Group, which has rcceived much favorable ctn~~h.lslzlngmuch the same sort of thing co~rlrncnt.'Due to publicity wh~chthe group wh~chwe stressed In our elTusions tui'Spec~al ~nstituted,the edition of four hundred copies LiI>rarlesnunilcr thc l~eatl~n~"Clip & Frle". has already been drstriLutetl Next our nork centered on telling San Five small leaflets about the S. L. A. and Francisco ahout you. We knew the futility ~tsactivit~es were puhlished prin~ar~lyfor the c~ftry111g to interest city editors in 11s at the use of the membership committees. A sixth earllest stages of the cmventlon planning, leaflet, about the work of the Newspaper antl taklng a !caf from Mr. Kwdpil's report Group, was publ~shcd in sim~lar form but of last year we waited untd two week's prior without expense to the Association to the convention and then sent personal let- Four bibliographies compiled by committees ters to the city ed~torsof the newspapers 111 of S. L A. have bee11 published with the co- the Ray Illstrict, accompanied by a general operation of other organizations. Thesc in- story, a copy of thc I>ooklet on the Scope of clude the fifth annual "Bibliography on the S L A :md a copy of the official con- Illumination 1928-1929", compiled by the vention program In this letter we extentleil Comm~ttee on Illuminatiot~ and published clur ~nvitation to the sessior~sand the ban- with the co-operat~onof the Illominating En- July-Augumt, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 235 gir~ccring Society. The Rubber Committee completed Section 1 of the "I3ibliography on Ways and Means Rubber Technology", which is on "Latex and The Ways and Means Committee w:ks np- Raw Rubber". It was published it1 mimeo- pointed at the first meeting of the Execut~vc graphed form through the co-operation of Bwnrd of last year Thewembers arc. the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Miss Schnlze--Prulor & Gnnlble hfiss Cullcn-Dur. of Rnllway Rconolnlcs Company The Exhibit Committee of the MI. T1andy.-Thc Il~suranmLibrary Ass~cialior~a1 F~t~anchlGroup compiled an 84 page Dosloll pamphlet, "Sources of Investment Informa- Mr. nrlghnrn-R. I. Stale Llbrary M~sqCnvn~~augh--Sln~~dard Stxlistica &., IIIC. tion", for the Investment Bankers Association of America which was published by thcm but The ohject of this Co~nmitteewas to go into the subject of raising money for the As- made available to all instltulional membcrs of so:iation. Aftcr much disct~ssion it was dc- S. I-. A. and to other members on request. cidcd that, until we h,rd sclmcthit~g very Thls same Committee also prepared a rcviscd definite to offer outside agencies we would edit1011 of the pamphlet "A Bank Library" have to confine our mo~tcymaking activities whlch was issued with the co-operation of the to our tnembership. The ~iiajorityof the Com- Amer~can Bankers' Association and several mittee fclt that we could not go to :illy As- finnnc~alpublishers The Insurance Comniit- sociation and ask thcm for a grant of money tee prepared a bibliography "The Insurance until we had something to offer them and Library" which was printed through the knew exactly just In what way we would courtesy of the Retail Credit Company. make use of the money when we got it. However, needing money as wc do we de- Four other publications arc now on the cided that for the time being we woulcl un- press : a complete membership list of S. L A. ; dertake to revise the handbook on commcr- a union list of periodicals for San Francisco; cia1 information services which was publislictl a new edition of California special libraries in 1924 and which is now very much out of directory; and the 1928 edition of the date. "Dibliography on Rubber Technology." The Publication Committee for the hand- book consists of : The Publications Committee reconmended Miss Manlcy-Newark Public Llbrnry to the Executive Board that a new edition of MISS Morlcy-Industrid ICclations Conllsclors, rllc. the "Handbook of Commercial Information Miss M~tcl~cll-PublicServlcc @rp al N J. Services" be issucd and that a committce be hiiss Alexn~~dcr-Rn~ton,~~IIOII, narstine 81 0s- borne, Inc. appointed to compile it. This was done antl hflss Cava1ta11y11-StalldortlStuti~tics CD., Chair. the committee has the work nearly ready for nlnn. pt~blication. severalbbther compilations havc This committce has had thrcc or four I>ecn approvctl I>y the Public;rticins Committee meetings during thc ye;ir adat the prcwtlt hut require further editorial work before pub- time wish to report that we havc practiciilly lication.' ready for the press the rcviscd edition of the handbook. This will cover somc two hundrcd The Publicatiorls Committee believes that rommcrcial antl financial scrvices that :ire a policy of ~ssuingreferinre tools of value to issucd regularly. I3eSitles the index il will in- many special libraries should be followctl clude an appendix ancl ;ui author ant1 suhjcct rather than one of issuing publicatiot~son tlc- index. taded subjects which are naturally of value The cornmiltee has reccivctl permission to a relat~velysmall part of our membership from the Executive l3oartl lo contract for advertising space for the I~antlbookto pay for Exceptions to this practice are desirable, at least part of the printing The co~nmittcc however, wheh the financial co-operation of hopes that this book will have a very wide other organizations is obtained through the and ready side and the treasc~rywill hc~lefit activ~tiesof S. L. A. committees. by several hundred dollars. LINDE H. MORLAY, E. S. CAVANAUGH, Chairman. Chairmatt. 14 236 SPECIAL LIBRARIES July-Auguat, 1930 Editor of "Special Libraries" Report, 1929-30 HEREWITH submit an ~nformal report printers, the Snow & Farnham Co., made 1and plan to submit in print In a future strenuous elforts to put th~smagazine out 111 iss~~cof "Special Libraries" a more complete time for the convention. statcmcnt wl~~chw~ll includc tlctailetl accounts During the year wc have prmted 90 pagcs of advcrtis~ng. of advcrtising, a notable increase over prc- As usual thc tnagWi~tespe'tks for itself- v~ol~syears The advertising for the San ~tsvirtues and faults stand forth for every Fratlc~scoconvention number was noteworthy reader. Th~sycar wc have had morc and and amour~tedto over 17 paycs of which 14 morc demands lor spacc and many articles of were full page tl~splayadvert~scrnents Solici- merit we~cnot accepted or condensed to meet tation of this advertising plarcs a serious bur- printing rcquiren~ents. den upon the Editor, but it has been gratifv- New departments have increased the de- ing to find such a ple;~singresponse to our tnantl for space and on several occasions rcquests for advert~scrnents,as wcll as the crowded rulumns havc forced us to omit val- continuous use of space on the part of many uable tlcpartmental matcrial. advertisers. Thc convcntlou ~mxecdingshave created a I take pleasure in acknowledging the val- re:d problem The large mass of reports and uable ass~stancerendered by the advisory and addresses arc rrady for print at a time when department editors advertising revenue is at its lowest cbb and HERBEKT 0. DRIGHAM, the conscquent congcstiot~of copy makcs ~t Editor. necessary to tlcfer publication so that many worth whilc addresses do not appear in print until several months after prescntatlon at thc A Letter from Siam conference. Miss Manley of the Business Branch, Newark This year we have tricd the experiment of Public Library, recently received an interesting publishing thc mnual reports of the Croups letter from a correspondent in Bangkok, Siam, and Local Assoc~at~onsprior to the San Fran- acknowledging the rcceipt of "500 Business cisco convcntlon and have forwarded to thc Magazines." Nai Leck, Assistant Librarian Pac~ficCoast an cxtra supply of the signa- of the Business Library, located on Third turc containing all convcnt~onmaterial. Th~s Avenue, Rong Muang Road, in Bangkok, method obviates the ncccssity of preparing in states in his letter: "The library is an organiza- advance mimcogmphetl copics of the.various tion for those engaged In business and its alnl rcports. is to procure advancement in commercial L)urmg the pcriod since the last convention education and to promote intercourse among its members, the exchange of ideas, etr." we havc printed eleven issues .IS thc convert- t~or~in 1929 was a month earlier than usual. The writer adds: "We are not a book store, The reatling mattcr covered a wde range of but purchase books for the interest of our mem- bers; we have also a public reading room where subjects and (luring the year but two special leading periodicals and other trade papers are numbers were issuccl, a Newspapcr number placed." In Novembc~, 1923, and a Public Lihrary Bus~nessnumber in April, 1930. The latter issuc was ~~ntlerthe spet~aleditorsh~p of Miss Bibliographic Service liarian ( , Manlcy, Btanch Librarian of the A new bibhographrc scrvice was irlaugu- Eusiness Uranch of the Ncwark Public LI- rated at the Boston mcetlng of the National t~rary. Conference of Soci~lWork where, through The San Francisco convcntion nurrtber the courtesy of the Russell Sage Foundation, which has recently been mailed to subscribers free assistance in book problems was made represents the efforts of the Editor ;md mem- available. Mrs. Bcrtha F. Hulsetnan, Li- bers of the cntcrpr~singSan Francisco com- brarian of the Russell Sage Foundation Li- mittee This numbcr also carried as feature brary, Mrs. Mabel A Badcock and Miss Con- articles interesting stones conccrning the stance Beal alternated in attendance at a llcwspaper libraries of thc New York Times special booth at the Hotel Statler. This new and the St Louis Post-Dispatch. This aug- service was appreciated by delegates to the mented number contained 72 pages and our conference July-August, 1930 SPECIAL LIBRARlES

White House Conference on Child Health and Protection

At the session of the Special Librar~csAs- That has not the enct~uragcmcnt to cu- sociation on Friday, June ZOth, President Al- press ill fullcst mcasurc thc spir~t within, which is the final rntlownicnt of cvcry 111rtix~11 cott brought to thc attention of the mcni- bcing. bcrsh~pa lcttcr from thc Secretary of thc Interior, Ray Lyrnan Wilbt~r,rcldtir~~ to the This is a vcry far-re.~chi~~gproRrntii At prcscnt ovcr 7(K) cxpcrts in all parts of tlw Wh~tc1-Iousc Cor~fercncc on Child Ilcalth conntry :rrc workt~i~on rcpot ts ai~tlI~il~l~o- and Protert~on Mr. Wilbur in h~scotnmuni- graphics and the Scrrct;rry iinturally rccls that the lilwarics, spccial as well as gcncral, cation stated that hc had asked hIiss Edith next to the prcw haw pcrliapn tlic jircatcst Gucrrier of thc I3oston Puhlic IArary to tell opportunities for ~ivingplthlic~ty to tl~cfind- ings of thc cotiimittccs." the story of the plans for the general con- ference to be held during the fall of 1930. Miss Florcncc Bratllcy, First Vice-I'rcsi- MISS Gucrricr gave an cxtcnsivc talk bc- dent of S. I-. A., prcscntctl thc loll ow in^: fore the Civ~c-SocialGroup, but at thc scssion resolution which WAS votctl c~pnti lavornl)ly on Friday morning outlincd the gcncral plans by thc niembcrs of the cor~fereticc.Miss Guerr~crin hcr ad- "Kcsolvctl, That Spccial Lihri~ricsAssu~~a- dress statcd. tion, in annual meeting assen~blcd,apprcci- atcs thc cfiort~bcing matlc by the U~iitctl "Briefly, the Wh~tcHousc Confcrcncc is States Govcrnn~ent,through the Hor~.Hay made up of a company of expcrts who arc Lyman Wilbur, .Secretary of thc Interior, In engaged in st~rvcying availa1)lc rcsourccs the plans for thc Whitc Hol~scCnnfcrcncc on (other than thosc offered by the child's en- Chrld Health and IJrotcctio~~;we thank him vironment) for further~ngthe care, protec- for calling this i~nport:rnt projcct to our at- tion and nnrmal dcvclopmcnt of the childrcn tct~tion, atid for his coc~rteby in scntlitig a of these United States. rcl~rcscntativc to our :rnnual confcretlrc to cxplain in detail the pctrposc of thc prol~osctl "When this survey is completed and the rc- confercncc and we pledgc to Iii~nour fdl co- sults have becn tabulated and class~fied,plans operation il~th~s ncw cflort for social wcl- will be projected not only for making avail- farc." able but for making usable this accum~~lation of knowledge and information. The Confer- hliss Bratllcy, in prcscnting the motion, ence, at which experts are to present prc- liminary reports, will occur in November, also stated: 1930. The ideals of the Confcrencc are summed up in the Child's Rill of Rights I might add a word here, to say that any drawn up by President Hoover. librarians who might wtsh further cnlightcn- ment, or desire to know how dcvelopmc~~ts "The Ch~ld's Bill of Rights is as follows: are taking place, should gct in to~rcli with the National Health Library in Ncw York The ideal to which we should strive is that City. The American Child Health Association there shall be no child in America- has its association thcrc ant1 thc Nat~o~inl Health Library is the library group that That has not been born under proper con- wo~ild represent thc Amencan Child.1-Icalth ditions ; Association to ns for any further atlv~ccthat we might want from timc to time, bccause it That does not live in hyg~enicsurround- is difficult for us as librarians, with as littlc ings ; information as we have had so far, to kcc11 it) as close contact with thc day-by-(lay dc- That ever suffers from undernourishment ; velopments, and as Miss Guerricr says, when That does not have prompt and efficient thc project gets to the point whew li1)rari:rns medical attention and inspection, are supposed to enter in, I think devclop- metits will happen fast. That does not receivc primary instruction in the elements of hygwnc and good health; "Mr. Hoover has been the President of thc American Child Health Association ever since That has not the complete birthright of a the American Relief Association was dis- sound mind in a sound body; solved."

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