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O&id Journal of the Special Libraries Association

wMARCH Printed in two sections Section I

Indered in Industrial Arts Indez and Public Affairs Information Service PROCEEDINGS of the

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Thirty-First Annual Conference MAY 23-27, 1939 BALTIMORE

for the

Containing

Discussions on trade agrcernents, car loading statistics, banking, legislation, oc- cupational diseases, potent searches, lifo FRIENDLINESS conservation, social security, unemploy- ment compensation, professional training, COMFORT eto. SERVICE Symposiums on cataloging, classification schemes, indexing, aubjcet headings, source liats, periodical routing, reference service, book budgets,atandards, etc. A warm welcome awaits the Reports on work in agricultural, medical, members of the Special Libraries muscum, newspaper, advertising, banking, insurance, manufacturing, industrial, and Association who will be our welfare fields, and universities and collegoa. honored guests in June, 1940. A NECESSARY REFERENCE VOLUME FOR OIIFICE, LIBRAItY, AlVU HOME * GEORGE G. CUNNINGHAM 163 gagen $2.00 plue postage General Manager (Special price to S. L. A. members $1.00 plus postage) Order from SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS SPECIAL LIBRARIES Established 1910

Volume 31 MARCH1940 Number 3

CONTENTS

Conference Leadership Method at the S.L.A. Convention JOSEPHINEB. HOLLINGSWORTH77 S.L.A. Convention Notes . . . , ...... 79 Library Methods and Inquiries . , . , , . . . . . , . . . 80 So You May See Methods . . , , . , . . MARIELUGSCHEIDER 80 Theatre Collection, Harvard College...... LILLIANA. HALL 81 History in Santa Fe . . . , . , . . , . . . HE~TERJONES 83 Advertising for Employment . . . . . , , ...... 86 Nutrition Literature ...... GRACEC. KIMBALL 87 Technology and Business Departments of Public Libraries in the United States ...... , . BRADFORDA. OSBORNE93

Special Collections ...... , . . , 95 Publications and Publicity . , . , . . . , . . . , . . . 96 Chapter News ...... , ...... 98 News Briefs . , , . . . . . , ...... , 99 Personal ...... 103 Indexed in Industrial Arts Index and Public Affairs Information Service

VIRGINIAMEREDITH Editor MARYELIZABETHE BARTLEY BERTILLESHAY Arsirtants to the Editor ELIZABETHA. GERBARDT CYNTHIAGRIFFIN MARIELUGSCHEIDER LUCILEL. KECK Associate Editors ELIZABETHLors CLARKE Advertising Manager

SPECIAL LIBRARIES published monthly Se~tembeito April. with bi-monthly issues May to Aug~af.by The Soda1 Libraries Association. Publication Office. 10 Ferry Street. Concord. N. H. Editorial and Advertiainz mcea at 31 Eaat Tenth Street. New York. N. Y. Addrees all correspondence to 31 East Tenth Street. New York. N. Y. Subscriotion ~riee: $5.00 a year; iordgn $5.50; .in& mpies. 50 eenta. Edilnd as second-don molls of the Porl Ofica or Cacord. N. H.. rndn ihr ocf of Morch 3. 1879 - BUSINESS AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY STEPS IN SUCCESSFUL COOPEnATION Edited by MARIANC. MANLEV We are pleased to devote this space to congratulating Special Libraries Association on the publication of this book and calling the attention of our readers to it. It merits the widest circulation and study throughout the library world. Wherever good books are valued this manual should be valued. - Ordway Tead, Editor, Economic Books, Harper & Brothers

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

Conference Leadership Method at the S-L-A, Convention

HE conference leadership method is can be heard easily. He keeps the dis- Ta proven technique for small groups cussion leisurely but not lagging, lively to discuss common problems under hut not acrid, exploring but not per- skilled guidance. It has as its objective manently detoured and allows ample the mobilization of all the knowledge of time to sum up the points brought out those present for the solution of a proh- and to state the conclusions reached. By lem as yet unsolved, but capable of the conference method, all problems worthwhile discussion by all present. It are presented in the form of questions. is successful when the conference mem- These are usually placed on a black- bers have some practical knowledge of board. As each factor is suggested, it in the subject under consideration and some turn is listed on the board so that all responsibility for the carrying out of the may readily follow the development of action recommended. the thought. While remaining in the With a subject of common interest, background as much as possible, the the group is purposely kept small in leader stimulates wide participation by size to permit and insure general partici- frequent questions addressed to the pation. There is little value in assembling group generally rather than to individu- a number of people specially chosen for als, restraining those who are inclined their knowledge of the subject under to talk too much and drawing out those consideration and then to allow the who are timid in presenting their ideas. meeting to become too large for them to When a conference has been well con- have an opportunity to contribute their ducted, the conclusions reached are the ideas. Even a small group, with a well- outcome of the experience and judgment chosen topic for discussion, cannot of all the group rather than the precon- succeed unless the leader has skill in ceived beliefs of any one member who guiding and directing. A well-trained and might have been able, under different experienced leader uses many devices to circumstances, to dominate the thought achieve general and balanced discussion. of the others. He places his conference members so Would you like to see this method they all face him and each other and all tried at Indianapolis? We would have 77 there an ideal assemblage, of special Mrs. Irene M. Strieby, our national librarians with similar fundamental ex- Convention Chairman, has asked that I periences though with different subject serve as Personal Conference Chairman and geographical viewpoints. By dividing for the 1940 Convention. If you would into small groups under skillful leader- like to see this method substituted for ship, we would have a chance to effect the customary man-to-man interview, truly a genuine exchange of ideas. please write me and give me your As an example of the workings of the suggestions as to general problems and method, let us suppose that a group individual questions which you would wished to discuss public relations as like to have considered. related to special librarians. On three It has been proposed that advance successive days, the subject could be registration be required, and that a fee considered in relation to the individual of $2.00 to $3.00 be charged to cover library, to the local chapter and to the incidental costs. Each section would be national association. A typical discussion limited to twenty-five members and as for the first day might well be somewhat many sections formed as the registrations like this: indicated would be needed. Tentative

BLACKBOARD PRESENTATION

How CANA SUCCESSFULPUBLIC RELATIONS PROGRAM BE DEVELOPEDIN A SPECIALLIBRARY?

Media Methods

1. Contacts over the desk 1. Friendliness and good service 2. Contacts over the telephone 2. Interest and efficiency 3. Interofficerelations 3. Must be businesslike and reasonable 4. Through information supplied 4. Must be given promptly and accurately 5. Reputation of library in community 5. Obtained through effective publicity and interlibrary cooperation 6. Prestige of librarian and staff professionally 6. By maintaining personnel standards and participation in professional activities 7. Participation in company employee activi- 7. By holding office and serving on commit- ties tees, etc.

While the blackboard presentation section topics already suggested are (1) might look like Figure 1, the chart of Public relations. (2) Methods, (3) Per- the actual discussion resulting in these sonnel and standards, and (4) Running listings might look like Figure 2. a chapter. As the chart indicates, in addition to Each section would be provided with a answering the leader directly, members secretary and a technical adviser in of the conference may discuss the matter addition to the conference leader; it is with other members and cross discussion hoped that a report of the discussion develop. This is wholesome and often might be made available later. Whether serves to clarify the issues, but side or not you plan to attend the convention, discussions should not be encouraged as please send me any questions you may they tend to decentralize and retard the have, as well as suggestions for leaders, progress of the group's main conference. technical advisers and efficient secre- 78 SPECIALLIBRARIES taries. It is felt that skill in leadership is more important than knowledge of subject matter, so the leaders will be assisted by technical advisers. If li- . brarians with skill in conference leading

, can be obtained, the ideal situation will be attained. The assistance of all S.L.A. members is much desired. JOSEPHINEB. HOLLINGSWORTH, Librarian xindicatesoverhead questions by leader (addreseed to prow) A indicates direr westion by leader and or comment by Municipal Reference Library member FIC~B2. Los Angeles, Califorornia

S,L,A- Convention Notes

PRE-CONVENTIONTRIP See SPECIALLIBRARIES, February 1940, Rates - AU rooms with bath p. 42, for announcement. Single...... $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 Spring Mill, Indiana, is a restored Double rooms. . . . .$4.50 $5.00 $5.50 pioneer village. Its history began with the Twin bedded rooms. $5.00 $5.50 $6.00 establishment of a log gristmill, imme- $6.50 $7.00 diately after the War of 1812. The village Both the Riley and Chateau rooms are itself is a museum filled with furniture air conditioned, as are the public dining and household implements of the pioneer rooms. The Atrium Room, Tavern, Cof- villagers. At Spring Mill State Park are fee Shop, as well as the outdoor Pompe- the Donaldson and Twin Caves, in whose ian Loggia, offer meals to fit each pocket- subterranean waters were discovered book. There are half a dozen restaurants blind fish, evidences of pre-historic occu- within two blocks of the Claypool, where pancy, and the remains of a very early one can eat for twenty-five and fifty powder mill. All of Southern Indiana is cents. scenic, historic and delightful, and Spring Mill lies within some of the State's most spectacular scenery. S.L.A. will sponsor commercial exhib- its on the Mezzanine Floor of the Clay- pool Hotel during the Convention. Rate Railroad fares, because of revision in for space is $3.00 per running foot. The March, will be announced in the April booth space is six feet in length. The issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES. Convention Chairman should be notified Indianapolis taxi fares are exceedingly of organizations who are interested in low. exhibiting. Library Methods and Inquiries

Pamphlets Cataloged by L.C. System 1. Q. Do most special libraries use broad sub- ject headings with subdivisions (i.e., Our pamphlet material, of which we have a Advertising - Media - Radio), or spe- great deal, is cataloged, as are all our books, cific ones (Radio advertising)? by the Library of Congress system. We file A. We use specific headings, but with more pamphlets in vertical files with guide cards to subdivisions than are used in general indicate the classification numbers and the libraries. Portions of the section on labels at the top rather than at the bottom of FIRE (which in our library is under- the pamphlet for better visibility. A special stood to mean FOREST FIRES) will subject file is also maintained with the guide illustrate some of these subdivisions. cards arranged alphabetically by subjects of Fire damage (general) -Appraisal - Forage quicker service. Pamphlets, which would be -Human life scattered throughout the whole classification -Insects system, are thus placed, for a time, under one -Recreation head -such as all material on industrial re- - Reproduction search, or academic salaries. -Timber CALLIEHULL, Librarian -Watersheds National Research Council -Wild life Washington, D. C. This method of subdivision is used for other subjects as the need arises. Organizations' Rosters 2. Q. What techniques are used to reduce One of the most constant requests which we work in establishing new headings, i.e., receive is for new officers of scientific and leaving old material under old headings technical societies. \h'e have found a card with reference to new heading for with columnsfor the president, secretary, meet- material of later date. ing, and source of information very useful in A. We use an electric eraser to remove the this respect. It gives a continuous history of old headings. New headings are then the society's officers for several years, and the typed in. It takes more time, but it sources often lead to more complete informa- saves time and confusion for the users tion on the society. This card is also used to of the catalogue. And it is much neater! record data on international congresses which ANNIEM. AVAKIAN, LibrWiafl constitute a separate file. California Forest and CALLIEHULL, Librarian Range Experiment Station National Research Council United Stales Forest Service Washington, D. C. Berkeley, California So You May See Methods A Letter to Methods Committee Chairmen

HE exhibits at the convention this gathering material. It is the plan used by Tyear are going to he devoted to the New York Chapter at their January "Methods." We need to work fast to as- "Job Show." semble these exhibits, inasmuch as they The Show was worked up quickly - in must all be in Indianapolis by May 15th. less than three weeks' time - and had Here is a plan, proven successful, for the enthusiastic support of the members. It was held in connection with a dinner mounted to fit the Convention bulletin meeting of the Chapter; a separate room boards and shipped to Indianapolis. was given over to the exhibits. Member Such a "Job Show" can better be de- libraries supplied samples of forms, ex- veloped within a very short time. It amples of indexing, means for inexpen- undoubtedly captures the imagination of sively mending and labeling books, the members. A Chapter's Methods Rep- methods of filing and indexing newspaper resentative can arrange for the exhibits clippings and examples of excellent bib- and direct and manage the show. Voting liographies, and other exciting things. can indicate what exhibits should be se- The Chapter aimed to keep the exhib- lected for Indianapolis. After such selec- its anonymous because they were voted tion has been made, the Methods Repre- upon for awards. Each item was labeled sentative should get in touch with the carefully with the number of the exhibi- National Methods Chairman for direc- tor. The exhibits were arranged on tables tions as to re-mounting and shipment to and hung on the walls of the large room the Methods Chairman, who will arrange where members could easily see them. for the direct shipment to Indianapolis Each person attending the Show voted before May 15th! for theexhibit he thought best and prizes Since your programs of Chapter meet- were distributed at dinner. Books, do- ings have already been set for the year, nated by various companies, were awarded they may not easily permit such a Show to those exhibitors receiving "honorable at one of your regular meetings. How- mention." The three exhibits receiving ever, it could be held in connection with a the largest number of votes were awarded Chapter Methods Tea, or at a special cash prizes. Chapter meeting. We shall all be inter- Selection from this Show has been ested in seeing your results. made of the exhibits which will be suit- Marie Lugscheider, Chairman, able for the Convention; these will be re- Methods Committee

Theatre Collection Harvard College BY Lillian A. Hall, Curator IKE Rome, the Theatre Collection at of age with the accession of the Robert L Harvard was not built in a day. Gould Shaw library. For several years, This, the largest and richest special Mr. Shaw, one of the foremost collectors library of its kind in the world, had its of dramatic memorabilia in the country, origin some thirty-six years ago in a had been watching this development modest library of dramatic tracts be- at Harvard with growing interest. At queathed to Harvard by John Drew, the length, he offered to donate his entire actor. Presently, word got around among library, liberally endowed. The college the graduates that contributions to this authorities, accepting the gift, provided nucleus would be welcome. Slowly at spacious quarters for this now important first, but with gathering momentum, special library on the top floor of the donations increased the embryonic col- new Widener Memorial building. lection. Two years later, another great private In 1915, the Theatre Collection came library joined the Theatre Collection. MARCH,1940 81 This was the bequest of Evert Jansen Theatre Collection for factual and illus- Wendell, who for many years had been trative material. And students find here Mr. Shaw's most formidable competitor an inexhaustible store of subjects for in the field of dramatic collecting. In themes and theses. richness, the Wendell material closely Among important publications, to rivalled the Shaw collection and in which the Theatre Collection has ma- actual size, somewhat exceeded it. More terially contributed, may be mentioned than three hundred packing cases were Professor George C. D. Odell's Annals of required to transport this bequest from the New York Stage, Professor Ernest New York City to Cambridge. Bradlee Watson's Sheridan to Robertson, Meanwhile, from various sources, a Professor Arthur Colby Sprague's Beau- steady influx of new books, autograph mont and Fletcher on the Restoration Stage, letters, manuscripts, prints, playbills, Professor Hazelton Spencer's Shakespeare photographs, paintings and rare dramatic Zmproued, Professor Robert Gale Noyes' curios adds constantly to the collection. Ben Jonson on the English Stage, and New trends in the drama, notably the many others. At the present time, its recent Little Theatre Movement, and facilities are serving the editors of an the development of motion pictures and edition of the. letters of David Garrick radio as important media of dramatic and the author of a new and greatly expression, have imposed new responsi- expanded edition of Genest's Some Ac- bilities on the Collection. For this is not count of the English Stage. a dead repository for things of the past, The library of the Theatre Collection but a living and growing institution, comprises upwards of five thousand aiming to keep abreast of the times and volumes on stage history, theatrical to reflect every important new develop- biography, opera, ballet, playwriting, ment in the field of dramatic entertain- stagecraft, and other special and techni- ment. cal aspects of the stage. Included, are Contemporary criticism, together with many rare theatrical tracts of the seven- programs and photographs of current teenth and eighteenth centuries, and a productions, are carefully preserved. The unique collection of books on magic. It Hollywood producers have been gener- has been deemed advisable, except in ous in providing moving picture stills. special instances, to transfer all printed Friends of the Collection, many of them plays to the vast collection in the litera- members of the profession, send pro- ture division of the college library grams and clippings from various parts proper. of the country. The leading networks Careful thought has been devoted to have donated scripts of broadcast dra- the arrangement of the various classes of mas. And of special interest, is a growing material to insure accessibility. The collection of voice recordings of dis- playbills, which number approximately tinguished British and American actors a million, occupy several sections of the and actresses, usually of selected speeches stacks, and are filed geographically by from their leading r6les. cities and towns. Some forty thousand This contemporary material will in- engraved dramatic prints and upwards crease in value and interest with the of two hundred thousand photographs years. Yet its present usefulness is well are filed alphabetically by subjects and attested by daily requests for informa- stored in conveniently sized boxes and tion. Biographers, historians, dramatic cabinets. News clippings are filed in critics, writers of books and articles on envelopes in cabinets, alphabetically every phase of the drama, call on the under the names of persons, titles of plays, and miscellaneous headings, with sisters who appeared together on the generous cross references. All prints, stage. After admitting that offhand we playbills and autograph letters inserted could not recall such a family, we prom- in extra-illustrated books have been ised to search our files. "Oh, don't indexed in a separate card file. bother," said she, "I never actually heard Simplicity is the keynote, to facilitate that there were six sisters on the stage handling the daily flood of requests for at one time. But wouldn't it make information -a routine sometimes en- a dandy question for 'Information livened by amusing incidents. For ex- Please '! " ample, the perennial freshman request All visitors, regardless of university to see a few original manuscripts of connections, are invited to inspect or Shakespeare. Or the enthusiast who asks make use of the Theatre Collection. And, for a chronological list of all the plays needless to state, contributions of dra- produced in America. Or the lady who matic material, however modest, are recently inquired for the names of six welcome.

History in Santa Fe By Hester Jones HE Museum Library in the old Curator, State Museum TGovernors' Palace in Santa Fe is Santa Fe, New Mexico interesting not only for its content but also for the special functions it ~erforms whose descendents still occupy their in this peculiar but vital little culture age-old pueblos and perform tribal cere- center. Although New Mexico is one of monies today. Any visitor becoming the two youngest states, Santa Fe is curious about the meaning of these rites older and has been a capital longer than can refer to books on the subject here. any other capital in the country. Shortly The Library was built in 1931 as an after Columbus discovered America, ex- annex or wing attached to the Old peditions of Spaniards began coming Palace. It is designed in the same Spanish North from Mexico looking for wealth Colonial style; its ceiling is of huge pine such as Cortez had found there. Zealous logs which project to form a portal facing missionaries were also eager to reach the the patio of the old building. The only aboriginal tribes in the New World with decoration is the hand-carved wood- their message of Christian faith. Santa Fe work around the windows and doors was founded in 1610, and the Governors' and at the top of the pillars. The walls Palace, then known as "El Palacio are of white plaster over adobe (mud) Real," was built at that time. brick, typical of Santa Fe architecture. The Palace is a fitting location for the The Museum Library is a reference Museum Library, because the Library library for graduate students, for crea- contains the historic records of this tive writers and for the interested public, ancient city, as well as many books on who want accurate information about the colorful history and ethnological New Mexico's past and the Southwest studies of the early race of Indian tribes in general. The Library's scope is limited who inhabited this region for centuries mainly to archaeology, ethnology, art, before the coming of the white man, and and history of this region. A trained li- MARCH,1940 83 brarian and two trained assistants make Poetry, the Churchill Memorial Library, up the staff which serves both this refer- the Springer Set of Territorial Statutes ence library and the New Mexico State and Land Claim Reports. There is a Extension Service, which is housed by complete duplicate set of the Bureau of the Museum. Through the facilities of American Ethnology reports and bulle- the latter, books are sent all over the tins, complete bound volumes of Art and state into the many communities that Archaeology, of the American Anthro- have no other library service. The com- pologist, and similar scientific publica- bined purposes of the Library make it an tions; including bound sets of state intensely important institution. It draws historical quarterlies of the southwest. upon the rich culture which has accumu- The manuscript material has been lated in the picturesque capital city, growing, and now includes the distin- and spreads this culture all through the guished Benjamin Read Collection, the state where cultural needs are crying. Blackmore Papers, and letters of officials The reference books were accumulated and important families. Here are the during many years before the Library service records of all the New Mexico as such was established. The New Mexico World War veterans, records of the In- Historical Society, whose books are in- dian wars, and many pertaining to the cluded, was founded in 1857. Its library Civil War in New Mexico. It is here that was started very early and includes val- families obtain records through which to uable papers and records of the state receive pensions for war service. The file history, and also an almost complete fife of early New Mexico maps and photo- of the earliest newspapers published in graphs has become very valuable. Santa Fe and many from other towns. Besides the regular daily readers, the These have been bound and indexed, and Library is used by Indian students from date back to 1848. The State Museum the government Indian school, Spanish- was organized in 1909 and began build- American artists who wish to study old ing up a scientific library particularly design, priests from the Archbishop's relating to archaeology and ethnology. library, graduate students working on Both of theseorganizationsstartedregular theses, workers for the "American Guide publications of their own, thus assem- Book"; also such well-known writers as bling more data specifically on this re- Willa Cather, the late Mary Austin, gion. The Museum has charge of the Erna Fergusson, Harvey Fergusson, Ruth Spanish Archives of New Mexico which Underhill, Ruth Barker Alexander, Alice date back to the earliest Spanish history, Corbin, Paul Horgan, and Haniel Long; into the seventeenth century. These also artists of the local art colony. extremely valuable documents tell the The Library itself was established in story of this earliest European colony in 1930, under the direction of Mrs. Rupert the United States, and they have been Asplund, assisted by Miss Helen Dorman indexed and photographed and many of who is now the head Librarian. The them have been translated. greatly needed extension service started Special collections included in the Li- with no fund for books. Books were ob- brary are the complete New Mexico leg- tained through private donations of islative records, dating back to the books and money. At the beginning, Kearny Code of the first American legis- emphasis was placed on juvenile books lative acts in New Mexico, in 1846. The and helps for teachers. Two hundred records were printed on an old local non-fiction modern books, especially on press. There is also the Twitchell Art the Southwest, were obtained. A Library Library, the Underwood Library of bulletin was started. It must be realized 84 SPECIALLIBRARIES that the majority of towns in New Mex- wrote the account of this expedition in ico would be classed as rural communities. the form of an epic poem. He was New Santa Fe, itself, has a claimed population Mexico's first man of letters. A large of only 17,000. The state is really poor, portrait of him by Gerald Cassidy is and the building of this service into its hung in the Library. Carved in the pine present circulation of thousands of lintel over the door, beneath the coat of books has been a vital accomplishment. arms of Ofiate, is a quotation from Vil- The Cuarto Centennial celebration to he IagrA: "Yguales Las Palabres Con Las held this year in honor of the coming of Obras" (Let the Words Be Equal to the Coronado in 1540 will stimulate and Deeds). finance many additional publications on this region enriching the present store. Before concentrating on history in New Mex- The Museum is introducing a chil- ico, Rester Jones learned to know other parts of dren's department in the near future. the country. She was born in Wausau, LVisconsin. After one year at Milwaukee-Downer College, This will include a children's reference she went to Vassar College, from which she library which will emphasize the Indians graduated. In New York City, she was employed of our state in relation to the history of by the International Magazine Company and by all races, showing the connection between the Butterick Company. After two years with the Indians, white people, and other races. Indian Detours in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she became Curator of the Historical Society of New This library will also include other books Mexico. She is also Curator of History for the of general cultural interest to children. Museum of New Mexico. Her position with the The Museum Library has been dedi- Historical Society placcs her as the first point of cated to Don Gaspar Perez de VillagrB, contact for all visitors; upon her guidance de- Spanish Conquistador with Oiiate, the pends much of their subsequent understanding of the history and locality. founder of New Mexico, in 1598. VillagrS. MARCH,1940 85 Advertising for Employment

SUGGESTION made to the President of an assistant to an avalanche of lettersfrom people A Spec~alL~brarlesAssociationthatS~~cl~~. . not qualified for the job at all. LIB~RIESpublish in its advertisement col. Other specific points which were brought out umns, notices of positions open and of qualifi- are' cationsof bath members and non-members, was (1) It is a question how many employers (other than librarians who already know about considered by the National Employment Corn- our employment activities) read SPEcInr. LI. mittee. The Committee's Chairman, Margaret snAaIEs and would see the advertisements, In Bonnell of the Metropolitan Life Insurance this connection. Miss Rankin recalled SPECIAL

made the following report: type of publicity the Employment Committee ~l~h~~~has ~i~~ ~~~ki~reminded us, the tried. While well received by the membership, as ~ossibilitvof SPECIALLIBRARIES beine used as a fa' as she knew it no response from

vertisement column. Several members voiced SPECIAL LIBRARIES, November 1939, page apprehension that such a column would be filled with persons' evaluations of their own qualifica- 314, listed the Employment Chairmen of tions, and probably be a record of the least em- Chapters. There has been one change in the ployable people in the Association: and on the list. The Chairman for the Milwaukee Chapter other hand would open up employers who need is Ruth Shapiro, Xlilwaukee Public library. -* -* NE of the most stimulating S.L.A. bulletins to Win Space and Influence Editors," by Louise 0.IS the November issue of the Chapter Town Gambill, Memphib; "Invading the Trade Jour- Crier, edited by Josephine B. Hollingsworth. nals," by Caroline I. Ferris, Philadelphia; "How Grouped under the general heading of Public Re- a Chapter Might Use Radio Effectively,'' by lations as Chapter Activity are eight short and Rebecca B. Rankin, New York City; and " Pres- very inspiring papers. The articles and their writ- tige of Special Librarians in Film and Fiction,'' ers are as follows: " Promoting Public Relations by llelen Gladys Percey. Los Angeles. Through Contacts within the Organization." by If you have not seen a copy, borrow one from Florence Bradley, New York City: "Making your chapter president or secretary. You will get Friends with Other Professional Workers,'' by a refreshing lift to new S.L.A. enthusiasm and Marian C. Manley, Newark; "Dramatizing our ambition. There are a score of questions and ServiceThrough Exhibits," by Emma G. Quigley, problems which deserve the consideration of Los Angeles: "Selling Service to the Business every S.L.A. member, and you will enjoy the Man," by Margaret Hatch. San Francisco: "How avenues of thought which they open up. Nutrition Literature By Grace C. Kimball, Ph.D. Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

NY attempt to discuss the literature Vitamins A.whlch 1s essential for the nutrition- There have been many books written ist will intrude into the realm of several on that phase of nutrition which has re- other of the basic sciences. This is in- ceived so much publicity, the vitamins. evitable in any borderland science; and it One of the older standard reference must be understood that the literature in works in the field is Funk, The Vitumins. these other fields is presented here only as For a summary of the most recent work, it is pertinent to the nutrition worker. the symposium published by the Ameri- The evaluations are not those which can Medical Association in 1939, and also would be made by one who is working entitled The Vitamins, is most complete. solely in one of these other sciences, and Thirty investigators bring together the much has been omitted which would be current research concerning the chemical very necessary for such a person. No at- nature, physiological action, clinical ef- tempt is made here to cover the literature fects, methods of assay, and the body's of applied nutrition, dietetics, but only requirements, for each of the better that literature necessary for the labora- known vitamins; and there is a short tory worker can be discussed. summary of some of the lesser known For a good summary of the very early ones. work in pure nutrition, Voit's book Physiologie des allgemeinen Stoffwechsels Nutrition Periodicals und der Erndhrung, 1881, is quite com- The most important journal for the plete. At the other extreme The Newer nutritionist is the Journal of Nutrition, Knowledge of Nutrition, published by which carries most of the basic work in McCollum in 1939, is indispensable for the field. The Journal of the American the most recent work in the field. It is Medical Association also publishes a good very extensive, well supplied with refer- deal of material on the clinical aspects of ences, and essentially a research book. nutrition; and the Proceedings of the So- Another very complete survey is the ciety for Experimental Biology and Medi- United States Department of Agriculture cine includes work in nutrition and publication, Food and Life (1939). It in- physiology. Aside from these there are, of cludes material on food and animals, as course, many articles of interest to the well as fundamental nutrition. nutritionist widely scattered throughout There are older standard works, such other journals. The most important as Lusk, Science of Nutrition. He ap. means of following such articles is Chemi- proaches the subject chiefly from the cal Abstracts, which covers nutrition and physiological side, stressing the effect of physiology, as well as pure biochemistry various foodstuffs and other nutritional in the section by that name. There is also factors on the metabolism of the body. a section on foods. A more specialized Armsby and Moulton, The Animal as a abstract service is supplied by Nutrition Converter of Matter and Energy, also Abstracts and Reuiews. It covers a wide emphasize what happens within the ani- range: technique, chemical composition mal, and then go on to evaluate these of foodstuffs, phsyiology of nutrition, and changes from the engineer's standpoint of human diet in relation to health and efficiency. disease. There is also a review article in each number, book reviews, and depart- in language not too technical for the lay- mental reports. A good general index to man. It covers the fundamentals of nutri- scattered work in nutrition, or in the re- tion and dietetics, and also those aspects lated biological fields to be discussed of physiology, chemistry, and medicine later, is, of course, the Quarterly Cumu- which are involved in problems of nutri- lative Index Medicus. tion. Food, Nutrition, and Health by McCollum and Becker does not present ~oods as much scientific material, nor is it so Aside from the literature in pure extensive as the first two. It is a combina- nutrition, there are books which are im- tion of the principles of nutrition and portant for the worker whose primary common sense, with the emphasis on interest is foods. Sherman's Food Prod- man's living habits. ucts presents the industrial processes by which various classes of foods are pre- Animal Nutrition pared for the consumer, in an effort to For the worker in animal nutrition evaluate the economic value of these there are two standard volumes. May- foods. He also considers the fundamental nard's Animal Nutrition sets forth the nutritional factors in foods, their func- general principles of nutrition, and their tional r6le in the body, and some of the special application to scientific work with broader aspects of food control work. domestic animals. There is material on The journal, Food Research is important balance studies, and other problems for the laboratory investigation of foods, peculiar to animals. It is essentially a and Food Industries covers the technical book for the laboratory worker. On the and commercial side of the subject. To other hand, Morrison, Feedsand Feeding, follow other articles in this general field is a practical book for the feed expert and the English index is valuable, Index to the the stockman. He, too, reviews the princi- Literature of Food Investigation. ples of nutrition and follows these with extensive sections concerning the practi- Literature for the Public cal problems of raising and feeding each Since nutrition is a field in which peo- of the common domestic animals. There ple are more or less their own doctors, are also many tables of technical data on much has been written with the purpose feed values. Much of the current research of bringing fundamental nutrition princi- work with farm animals appears in the ples to the attention of the general pub- Experiment Station Record. lic. A few of these books should be iu- Some work has been done with rather cluded in a review of this kind, especially small specialized groups of animals. since some of them are scientific enough The person who is working with dogs, to serve as texts for college students in either experimentally or in breeding ken- introductory nutrition classes. Such a nels, will find a small pamphlet by Mc- text is Rose's Foundations of Nutrition. Cay quite useful, The NutritionalRequire- She starts with a consideration of metab- ments of Dogs. He has brought together olism, and the factors affecting the me- the scattered literature on the subject, tabolic needs of children and adults. including composition tables for the com- Then shediscusses building materials and mon feed ingredients, and an extensive regulators of the body, various classes of bibliography. The small amount of work nutriments, and finally, practical dietary which is being done on insect nutrition ~lansfor various ages and conditions. usually appears in Physiological Zoology. Nutrition and Physical Fitness, by There are two sources for the work with Bogert, is another book which is written fish, Transactions of the American Fisher- 88 SPECIALLIBRARIES ies Society, and the Conservation Reports, Agricultural Chemists contains standard such as those of New York State. methods which are used uniformly throughout the country. The standard Biochemistry methods for vitamin assays may be found Nutrition work would be almost im- in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States possible without chemical analysis. For of America. this reason the nutritionist must have a The literature on the chemistry and thorough grounding in the principles of analysis of primary food substances is so biochemistry, and one or two of the extensive that only one or two books can standard texts in this subject must be at be mentioned for each. For the protein hand for constant reference. One might specialist there is the monograph by mention Bodansky, Physiological Chem- Mitchell and Hamilton, Biochemistry of istry, which includes a fair amount of the Amino Acids. It covers their physical physiology, and Gortner, Biochemistry, and chemical properties, analyses, ab- which is chiefly useful for colloid chem- sorption,physiologicalsignificance,catab- istry. There is also the new Biochemistry ohm, and some of the biological and by Schmidt and Allen, which includes medical problems involving protein me- laboratory techniques. In addition to the tabolism. A more recent book in the field usual methods they have collected a is The Chemistry of the Amino Acids and number of those which are important for Proteins, edited by Schmidt. It is a sym- work with endocrines, enzymes, and vita- posium that covers chemical properties, mins, which are ordinarily difficult to synthesis, analysis, biological signifi- find because they are scattered through- cance, colloidal and electro-chemistry, out the literature. dipolar structure, and solubility. For the interpretation of any analysis In the field of the carbohydrates, there run on the body fluids or excreta, Quanti- are The Carbohydrates, by Armstrong and tative Clinical Chemistry, Vol. 1, Interpre- Armstrong, a book for the research tations, by Peters and Van Slyke, is very chemist, and A Comprehensive Survey of valuable. They present extensive back- Starch Chemistry, by Vl'alton, a book for ground material concerning the metabo- the chemist in industrial, technical, or lism and function of the chemical sub- food work. stances in the body, and collect a great Among the books on fats, Jamieson's deal of data in regard to normal and Vegetable Fats and Oils is of wide general physiological variations, as well as the use. And Maclean's Lecithin and Allied changes in diseased conditions. Substances; the Lipins is also good. The second volume, Methods, of this The industrial and technical material is work by Peters and Van Slyke, offers a covered in Lewkowitsch, Chemical Tech- wide variety of analytical methods for nology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and each of the body substances. Hawk and Waxes. This is in three volumes and in- Bergeim, Practical Physiological Chem- cludes tables of botanical and zoological istry, is much more concise, including names, but it is rather old. A slightly physiology, methods, and interpretation newer and much more compact work is of results all in one volume. It is not so that of Hilditch, The Industrial Chemis- much of a research book as Peters and try of the Fats and Waxes. Van Slyke. For the determination of vitamins and small amounts of minerals, spectroscopy Food Analysis is a useful tool for the chemist. A very For the analysis of foods the Methods recent book in the field is Brode, Chemical of Analysis of the Association of Official Spectroscopy. The November number of the Journal of Afiplied Physics for 1939 one or two of the standard texts in physi- was devoted entirely to this subject. ology. The more recent of these are Best and Taylor, The Physiological Basis of Periodicals in Biochemistry Medical Science, and Wiggers, Physiology There are so many journals of interest in Health and D.isease. For the person to the chemist in nutrition that it is im- working in animal nutrition, Dukes, possible to cover the field in a review such Physiology of Domestic Animals, or as this. Only some of those of general im- Marshall and Halnan, Physiology of portance can be mentioned. The special- Farm Animals, might prove more useful ist has to follow his own. than the medical physiologies. The most important summary is the Ageing is a fairly new and important Annual Review of Biochemistry. This is a field in which the interests of physiology symposium covering the year's advances and nutrition overlap. The symposium in many different fields, each written by a edited by Cowdry, Problems of Ageing, recognized worker in that field. The im- considers fully both of these aspects of portant periodicals in biochemistry in- the subject, as well as the psychological, clude the Journal of Biological Chemistry, cultural, medical, and statistical ques- published in this country, the Biochemical tions connected with it. Journal, for the English work, and two The nutritionist can keep abreast of German journals, Biochemische Zeit- current work in physiology with the aid schrift, and Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift of the Annual Review of Physiology, an fur physiologische Chemie. The French excellent symposium; Physiological Re- Compes Rendus de la SocidtC de Biologie views; and The American Journal of contains analytical methods and papers Physiology. in physiology which are of interest to the nutritionist. The new journal, Growth, Pathology carries a good deal of work on individual The experimenter in nutrition is con- amino acids as growth factors. Any at- stantly meeting diseased conditions re- tempt to follow the great amount of sulting from faulty diets or vitamin de- chemical literature requires the use of ficiencies in his animals. In order to Chemical Abstracts, and many of the understand these disease processes he other publications of the American should have some one of the standard Chemical Society would be useful for the texts in pathology. To mention only one, analyst. MacCallum's Textbook of Pathology con- tains very adequate discussions, refer- Physiology ences to the literature, excellent illus- Another field which must be accessible trations, and sections covering recent to the nutritionist is physiology, for he work on the pathological manifestations must know what the physiologist finds in of vitamin deficiencies and endocrine regard to the processes of digestion, ab- disturbances. The symptoms of mineral sorption, synthesis, and excretion. The poisoning are also of interest in nutrition. r6le of enzymes, and the function of the If one studies the diseased tissues micro- blood, play an important part in the scopically, a text in histology is also use- understanding of nutrition. The physi- ful. Cowdry's Textbook of Ifistology ologist's study of respiration is basic for approaches the subject from the stand- the nutritionist's work in metabolism, point of physiology, which would prob- and the study of hormones also throws ably be more pertinent for the nutrition light on this field. For these reasons, the worker than one of the other texts which nutrition worker should have available stresses embryology or structure. Problems to be Solved BEST, C. H. and N. B. TAYLOR.The physio- One difficulty with the literature for logica2 basis of medical science. Baltimore, the nutritionist is in finding critical William Wood. 1937. 1684 pp. reviews of analytical methods. Much BODANSKY,M. Introduction to physiological time is wasted looking for the one best chemistry. 4th ed. N. Y., John Wiley and suited for a particular problem. Another sons, 1938. 686 pp. difficulty is in finding dietary work for BOGERT,L. J. Nutrition and physical fitness. specific animal groups. Information on 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1938. 566 the diet of the furbearing animal would PP. BRODE,W. Chemical spedroscopy. N. Y., be very helpful for the commercial fur John Wiley and sons, 1939. 494 pp. farm. And dietary work on wild animals COWDRY,E. V. A textbook of histology. 2nd ed. in captivity would solve some of the Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger [c1938]. 600 problems of the zoo manager. PP. As for the future, one should watch COWDRY,E. V. Problems of ageing; biological the literature on radioactive atoms, the and medical aspects. Baltimore, Williams and so-called tagged atom. Certain elements Wilkins, 1939. 758 pp. have been made radioactive by the use of DUKES,H. H. Physiology of domestic animals the cyclotron, and then synthesized into . . . 4th ed. Ithaca, Comstock publishing organic substances which can be assimi- co., 1937. 695 pp. lated by the body. The path of the food- FUNK,C. The vitamins. Baltimore, Williams stuff can be followed and its ultimate and Wilkins, 1922. 502 pp. fate determined, by detecting this radio- GORTNER,R. A. Outlines of biochemistry. 2nd activity. Several fundamental problems ed. N. Y., John Wiley and sons, 1938. in nutrition may be solved by this tool. 1017 pp. The literature regarding several new HAWK, P. B. and 0. BERGEIM.Practical physiological chemistry. 11th ed. Philadel- and little-understood vitamins should phia, Blakiston [c1937]. 958 pp. produce some interesting material; and HILDITCH,T. P. The industrid chemistry of the one should also watch for the determina- fats and waxes. N. Y., Van Nostrand, 1927. tions of the needs of adults for certain 461 pp. vitamins and minerals. That work has JAMIESON,G. S. Vegetable fats and oils . . . been done almost exclusively on young N. Y., Chemical catalog co., 1932. (Ameri- growing animals or on children, and very can chemical society. Monograph series little is known about the adult. 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She received her I theil.) Leipzig, Vogel, 1881. 575 pp. early training in that city, and was graduated WALTON.B. P. A comprehensive sumey of from the University of Rochcstrr in 1932. Far a starch chemistry. N. Y., Chemical catalog year or two after that, she worked in the Monroe County Hcalth Department as a bacteriologist, ca., 1928. 360 pp. and in 1933-34 matriculated at Cornell Univer- U'IGGERS, C. J. and C. J. WIGGERS,JR. sity as a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Physiology in health and disease. 3rd ed. Philosophy. At Cornell, her thcsis was on the Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger, 1939. 1144 subject of the effects of mitogenetic radiation on PP. the growth of cells. This esoteric subject, first dis- covered by the Russian Gurvitsch, has only a Periodicals very few research workers engaged on it, so that American Fisheries Society. Transactions. v. 1, scientific arguments about data, methods, etc., take as long as thc mails to Russia. Italy, South 1870+. 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If a interim of twenty-three months before this An- request comes for regulations on alley ball games, nual Compilation of Rules was available is still for instance, our index quickly shows it to be in most useful, really supplementing the official The Ciry Record of August 6,1938, page 5490, and document. later in the October 6. 1939 issue. Daee. 6265. The card also shows it to be under the Department of S.L.A. public it^ Licenses. Over one hundred of these subject cards Josephine Hollingsrvorth, second Vice Presi- were made during 1938 and 1939. For the con- dent and Chapter Liaison Officer of S.L.A., con- venience of other libraries, the subject list was tributed an article on "Special Libraries Associa- compiled and mimeographed and distributed to tion and Special Librarians" to the first issue of those desiring such an index. the new publication, Bulletin of the California Mast welcome, therefore, is a volume which the Library Association. Reprints of her article can Corporation Counsel of the City of New York be had by writing to Avis Rryson, 818 Merchants has now published -First Annwl Compilation Exchange Building, San Francisco, Cal. of the Ruler and Regulations of New York Cily ~~cndes(Room 1743, Municipal Building- $1.00). It includes all rules filed with the City An A.L.A. Quarterly Clerk from January 1,1938 to November 1,1939. College and Racard is the title of the new quar- Anyone using the Administrative Code and terly journal being published by the American Charter with its Supplement, must mnsider this Library Association and the Association of Col- book as a legal necessity. lege and Reference Libraries. Editor of the jour- Caution is advised, however, for the rules are nal is Dr. A. F. Kuhlman. Chairman of the only thosefiled with the City Clerk. That means A.C.R.L. Publications Committee and Director that there are many existing regulations not yet of the Joint University Libraries. Nashville, in print, and others nqt included here. An out- Tenn. Further information may be obtained standing example of the latter is the extensive from the American Library Association, 520 regulations of the Health Department. Depart- Nnrth Michigan avenue, Chicago, Ill. SPECIALLIBRARIES Classification Soheme terials, introduced between 1930 and the present ~h~ union ~h~~l~~i~~lseminary in the city time, is appended. In cases where the bills finally of N~~ york has published a became law, that fact is indicated." Also, " refer- edition (793 pages) of its ~ib~~~~~~classification cnce is made to related bills and to hearings and system as prepared by Julia Pettee, Chief cata. reports." This listing is made chronologically by loguer. In the preface to this edition, Dr. William Walker Rockwell, Librarian, says of the system, For services in the preparation of this bibliog- "After some experiments it was decided to raphy, acknowledgement is made to Cornelia a notation consisting ,,f two letters and one or Not", Librarian of the U. S. Tariff Commission, two figures. This combines the advantages of an and staff. expansive base for the main topics and the con- Spooial Libraries' Publioity venience of a decimal notation which may be used mnemonically for subtopics. . . Libraries Contributions to the new Special Libraries with comparatively small collections may wish to page of the Wilson Litrary Bulldin should be condense the scheme. This can be done readily. addressed to Mary Esther Newsome, Librarian, . . . The Union scheme covers in outline all Suffolk University, Boston, Mass. departments of knowledge; and in so far as it Mickey's Library does, it is a general scheme; but the arrange- ment of the classcs is from the point of view of The Librarian of the Walt Disney Library, theology, and, as far as logic permits, designs Mrs. Helen Ludwig-Hennessy, was pictured with to keev in convenient vroximitv.-. erouvs used the account of the growth of the library in the together. . . ." WilsonLibrary Bulletin for December, 1939. Janet In 1909, Miss Pettee was invited to reclassify Martin wrote the article, "Librarian to Walt the Union Theological Seminary Library. Draw- Disney." ing upon her experience in reorganizing the Newspaper Publicity Library of the Rochester Theological Seminary, Lenore Greene, Librarian of the Los Angeles and on work with the plan developed by the Museum, was featured in an article on the library Hartford Theological Seminary, Miss Pettee collection and its special features in the Los "spent fifteen years from 1909 on, in perfecting Angeles Times on December 31. the tentative form of the Union Seminary classifi- cation. She tested it in practice by applying it to Beatrice Winser's accomplishments, as Direc- more than half of the departments of the library. tor of the Newark (New Jersey) Museum and as Provided with an adequate index it was issued in Librarian, were told in a story about her on the one hundred mimeographed copies in 1924. . . . women's page of the Neu York Herald Tribune, Far several years this edition has been out af December 24, 1939. "Under her direction the print." This enlarged edition may be obtained library reached its peak of activity when in 1932, from the Union Theological Seminary, Broadway 2,786,788 books were borrowed for home use. and 120th Street. New York Citv.. . for $15.00 . . . She established the Junior Museum. . . . post paid. She also has continued to foster the movement It is a useful auxiliary in erpandinr Dewey or to bring together art and industry. . . . When the Library of Congress Classifications. in 1933 unemployment combined with shortened

- ~ workine- hours browht- an unusual influx of visi- Union List tors to the institution, Miss Winser organized A subject index to the resources af special li- them into hobby groups. . . . This Adult Work- braries in Southern California has been published, shop . . . while it has been temporarily discon- in mimeographed farm, by Mrs. Norma Olin tinued, out of it have developed such activities Ireland. Over 300 subjects have been included, as as the Nature Club. which conducts field trios found in the collections of 111 special libraries. and holds discussions in scientific fields; a series The list, generally, indexes the specialties of the of musical programs, and the Sunday afternoon libraries. program on art and science." A biography of Miss Winser and her photograph are included in Bibliographies this article. Raw Materials Bibliography lists 635 general references to selected raw materials and basic Tax Survey economic resources. The listing is alphabetical by Rosina Mohaupt, Research Librarian of the author with an eleven page topical index. "As an Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research, was aid in tracing the activities of Congress affecting given national publicity for her survey of taxation raw materials, a list of Congressional bills dealing in 270 municipalities, released December 14 by mainly with strategic, essential, or critical ma- the National Municipal League. Chapter News

Members of the Albany Chapter and their year. Their constitution was amended to provide friends heard two lectures on Leonardo da Vinci that the fiscal year of the Chapter run from July at the January meeting held in the library of the through June, effective in 1940. Division of Laboratories and Research of the The new slate is headed by Mrs. Esther S. New York State Department of Health. Mrs. Horine, Bureau of Public Health Information, Maureen Cobb Mabbatt spoke on Leonardo, the President; Adelaide R. Hasse, Research Con- Artist, and Miss Enid May Hawkins on Leonardo, sultant with the Federal Works Administration, the Scientist. Each talk was illustrated with Washington. D. C., Vice President; John R. lantern slides. Spellissy, Director and Librarian of Loyola Col- These presentations on the work of Leonardo lege, Secretary and Treasurer; F. Stirling Wilson, da Vinci were based upon the Lieb Memorial Editor of Domestic Commerce, Department of Collection of Vinciana in the Stevens Institute of Commerce, Washington, D. C., Board Member; Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, under the Margaret Coonan, Assistant Librarian of the care of Miss Hawkins. Librarian. Mrs. Mabbott Library Company of the Baltimore Bar, Board has prepared and published a Catalogue of these Member. materials and the following quotation taken from her Introduction suggests its rare character: The Washington Activities Group of the Balti- "The unusually complete collection of editions more Chapter was established this year to bring of Leonardo's work, listed in Part One, is not only to the notice of the Chapter for transmission to the largest in this country, but includes all the its members or to headquarters, information of facsimiles that have been published to date. One usable data in Washington. The Group is plan- comes to feel that Leonardo's greatest contribu- ning a bulletin on research facilities and another tion to humanity was not the Mona Lisa, not any on the State Department's new Division of particular drawing, painting or manuscript. Inter-American Cultural Relations. What, above all things, he gave to the world was a Meetingsof the Chapter will alternate between method and an attitude. He was his own master- the home city and Washington to allow of greater piece. That masterpiece may bc studied fully and benefits from the government study program. at one's leisure in the Lieb Memorial Rooms." At the January meeting, Dr. Clinton I. Winslow, Books and prints illustrating Leonardo's me- Professor of Political Science at Goucher College, chanical inventions, his anatomical drawings, and spoke on the history and service of the Citizens' his paintings were on display in the library. League. Two other exhibits of interest at this meeting The Connecticut Chapter's January member- were photographs and publications of the Divi- ship meeting had as guest speakers Mrs. Virginia sion of Laboratories and Research illustrating its H. Meredith, Librarian of the National Associa- growth and accomplishments, and a series of tion of Manufacturers and Editor of Spec~n~ medals and plaques with selected references on LIBRARIES,whose talk was titled "And So They the history of bacteriology as represented in the Got a Librarian," and Rosamand Cruikshank, works of van Leeuwenhoeck, Pasteur, Koch, Technical Branch of the Hartford Public Li- Theabald Smith and others. brary, who described "Starting a Technology The meeting had been by a dinner in Department." At the February meeting, Elk- the staff dining room of the Laboratory. beth Tracy of thc New Haven Public Library led a round table discussion on pamphlets and Boston Chapter's January meeting heard two clippings. speakers on the collecting of ephemeral material: Professor Norman Scott Brien Cras, lsidor Straus At the January meeting of Cleveland Chapter, Professor of Business History at Harvard Grad- J. W. Banden Bosch, Statistician, and Clifford uate School of Business Administration, and Gildersleeve, Industrial Commissioner, spoke Keyes De Witt Metcalf, Director of Harvard on Cleveland's development and industrial University Library: also an address by Presi- opportunities. dent Alma C. Mitchill. Illinois Chapter arranged its December meet- Baltimore Chapter announces new officers who ing to coincide with the dates of the A.L.A. will serve from January 1940 through June 1941. Midwinter Conference in Chicago. The guest because of a change in the fiscal and operating speaker, Halsey W. Wilson of 11. W. Wilson Company, New York City, was the magnet of McCartney Library, Geneva College, who spoke interest for all librarians special and general, on "Personnel Relations"; Rosemary Hanlon, with his talk on "The Vertical File Service Inside Mine Safety Appliances Company Library, Out." Mrs. Margaret Sagers, Librarian of the "Relations with Other Libraries"; and Hazel C. Chicago Daily Timer, was in charge of the Janu- Anderson, Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh, ary meeting devoted to the current S.L.A. mem- "Relation of the Librarian to the Profession." bership drive. Edith Portman was chairman of the discussion. The deadline for the Pittsburgh Union List, A joint meeting in Februarv of New Jersey third edition, is April first.

Southern Californians' In-Service Training by four speakers: Watson Davis, American Class has been sponsoring a series of nine lec- Documentation Institute of Washington, D. C., tures during February and March on a "Survey "The Mobilization of Scientific Knowledge"; of Special Library Reference Methods and Miles 0. Price, Law Librarian of Columbia Tools." Member librarians will discuss and dem- University, New York City, "The Technique onstrate their special methods and tools as the of a Patent Search and the Patent Department class visits the various libraries. Library's Part in it"; Elizabeth J. Cole, President of New Jersey Chapter, "Industry's Need for Emma G. Quigley, Chapter President, in- Regional Library Facilities": and Roger Mc- formed Los Angeles clubwomen about "Southern Donough, New Brunswick Free Public Library, California Chapter of Special Libraries," when "Methods of Filing and of Indexing Laboratory she was guest columnist in November for Mar- Reports." garet Stimson, club editor of the Los Angeles Examiner. There's an idea for other chapter Library methods, techniques, ways and means publicists to build on - persuade your favorite were on exhibit at the January Job Show assem- columnist to go on vacation while you handle his bled by the New York Chapter. Fifty member or her column to extol and explain Special Li- libraries contributed. braries Association. Awards for the displays receiving the greatest number of votes in a poll of over 250 visitors, were presented by Alma C. Mitchill, national News Briefs S.L.A. President, at a dinner meeting following the exhibit. Would You Like Part Time in Honolulu? First prize of $10.00 went to the Union Thea- Marion Morse, Librarian of the Honalulu Acad- logical Seminary Library which displayed several emy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, and an active medieval illuminated manuscripts and books, member of S.L.A., would like to exchange jobs including a Latin Bible of the 13th century, a with some librarian on the Atlantic coast. She Book of the Hours in Latin written by a French would like the exchange to begin in the fall of this acribe of the 15th century, and s copy of the year and last for six or nine months. The exchange ninth edition of the Bible in German printed in would have to be with someone trained in art the year 1483. reference work. Those interested should address Second prize of $5.00 was awarded to the Miss Morse, 900 South Beretania Street, Hono- Library of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, lulu, Hawaii; cable address, Honart. Inc., which showed same unusualexamples of the work of an advertising library. Third prize of Education Notice U.00 was given to the Joseph Conrad Library of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York. Simmons College School of Library Science is Honorable mention awards, three of which again opening its course in "Organization and were offered through the courtesy of Mr. H. W. Administration of Special Libraries" to a small Wilson. President of The H. W. Wilson Co., and number of qualified librarians. Ruth S. Leonard a fourth award offered through Laura Bankhead is directing the course which runs from February as Librarian of the Grolier Society, went to: 1 to May 24. Cooper Union General Library, Curtis Publishing Company Library, Central Hanowr Bank and Free "Penny-Poetals" Trust Company Library, and the Queens Bor- Postal cards, having a sketch of the Claypool ough Public Library. Hotel on the face, are available free from Head- quarters. Request them from Special Libraries Participants in Pittsburgh Chapter's February Association, 31 East Tenth Street, New York discussion of Library Ethics were Miriam Grosh, City. Second Largest Law School Library in U. S. A national campaign for additional endowment for the Yale Law School Library has been started. out-of -Print I It began with the offer of several hundred thou- sand dollars from an alumnus of the class of '91. The total amount raised is to be used for the pur- BOOKS I chase of books. Its Librarian is Professor Freder- ick C. Hicks. A press report announcing the cam- paign quotes the opinion that "In increasing numbers librarians as well as lawyers in search RICHARD S. WORMSER of scholarly works came to the Yale Law Library PP WEST 48TH STREET to study the unique classification scheme which NEW YORK resulted from many years of effort on the part of Professor Hicks and his associates. It is unique in that the main sections dealing with thc de- scriptions af claascs and the schedule of classi- Old Prlna lllumkion~fmm Old Booh fications are supplemented by a third section deal- Old Phokogra~hr Masarlnes and Nsw~apsrr ing with practice.'' I Importations and Foreign Subscriptions PICTORIAL ARCHIVES I Those wishing information concerning the im- portation of foreign books and periodicals may 228 East Forty-first Street request to receive "statements" as issued, of the New York Joint Committee on Foreign Importations. Dr. I H. M. Lydenbcrg, Chairman of the Committee, Telephone: MUwey Hill 2-5658 may be addressed at the New York Public Li- I brary, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New E'ork City. Dr. Donald E. Cable, the special representa- tive of S.L.A. on the Committee, will be glad to answer questions addressed to him at the United States Rubber Company, General Development Division, Passaic, New Jersey. DESS & TALAN CO. Life of a Binding INCORPORATED "If you operate a company library, how long 213 EAST 144th STREET a book will last is important. Haw many times NEW YORK CITY would you guess a new book in the original bind- TeI. MOtt Hoven 9-3636 ing could be borrowed before it falls apart? . "The Public Library of the City of Boston has figures on 400 ncw books. Copies were borrowed For over thirty-five years: an average of six times before rebinding. expert service "How long does a book circulate after rebind- ing? The Boston Library says: Forty or more highest grade materials times to outside borrowers. The New York Public modern equipment Library says: As often as 160 times: depending on prompt attention whether it's taken home, and in what section of skilled craftsmanship the city it's used. Both binderies agree that a . book aftcn holds together even after 40 to 160 readings; but pages are so dirty and featheredged Our decorative bindings, "Picture Covers," and original layouts aerrs a no one would touch them. . . ."-Dun's RNiew, widening clientele. January 1940. . Library for Employees? May we solve your binding poblems ? Permile Patter, the house organ of Aluminum . Industries, Inc., of Cincinnati, Ohio, in its Janu- ary issue, urges the company's employees to use SpeeloI~otsin the Public Library. "Read a book or two about LIBRARY BINDING your own work - or -acquire some knowledge - about the job next higher up." SPECIALLIBRARIES Work of Women A collection of writings of feminine authors has been donated to the Deering Library at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. THE Dr. Theodore W. Koch, the Librarian, prepared the catalogue to this collection; it lists over 2,OW volumes published in thirty-seven countries. The collection represents the outstanding works RUMFORD of the writers. It was begun seven years ago, and has been assembled by Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton, who is Chairman of Letters of the National PRESS Council of Women, and also Vice Convener of Letters for the International Council of Women. CONCORD NEW HAMPSHIRE Independent Stores Study A surplus stock of Group Selling by 100,000 Refailers, published in 1936 and then priced at $3.75, has made it possible to offer copies to mem- bersof S.L.A. at a cost of only 50 cents to cover WHERE postage and other minimum handling charges. PRINTING IS STILL A The book is a 212 page study of voluntary and cooperative groups of grocery stores. It is still the latest treatise available on the 50up selling movement. Copies may be obtained from the American Institute of Food Distribution, Inc., 420 Lexing- ton Avenue, New York City, for 50 cents paid in advance. Speaker on City Code and Index At a recent meeting of the Newspaper Group of the New York Chapter, Reuben A. Lazarus, Assistant to the President of the Council, (N. Y. C.) and Counsel to the Board of Statutory Consolidation, was theguest of honor. Mr. Laza- rus described some of the problems encountered by the Board of Statutory Consolidation in the preparation of the New York City Administrative Code which became effective on January 1, 1938. He described the navel system of indexing which he himself devised, as especially adequate for handling the tremendous and varied mass of legal matter which needed codifying. Personal Frances E. Walsh, Librarian of the Bankers Trust Company, New York City, passed away an Expert January 11, 1940. Miss Walsh had been with the HAND BOOK BINDERS Bank since 1929; Librarian, since 1936. Finely bound books in leather or cloth. The recent death of Mrs. Betsey Foyc Veasey, Special bindings and repair work. head of the Branches Department of the Los Angrles Public Library, ended thirty years of "Leather Nova" conditioner restores, lubricates and cleanses. 8 oz. $1.00. service to the city. Write for illurtrated literature Next Generation Eusene Hart, Librarian of the Los Angeles EGGELING BOOK BINDERY County Library, received his best Christmas 31 East 10th Street ' New York STuyv-anr 9-3083 present, a baby daughter, just one day late. Leetluera Rose L. Vormelker, head of the Business In- formation Bureau of the Cleveland Public Li- brary, delivered two lecture at the School of Librarv Science of the Universitv of Toronto in January. Robert R. Bruce. Research Director at Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, spoke on Motion Pic- A COMPLETE ture Research at the December meeting of the CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF Pacific Coast Historical Association. BRAZILIAN LITERATURE New Positions and Changes Mrs. Jacquelin D. Sykes is the new Librarian of MONTHLY Arthur D. Little, Inc., at Cambridge. Mass. A ncw speciallibrary in San Francisco is that of Subscription price, $1.00 prepaid the Golden State Ca., Ltd. Elise Hoffman, Li- brarian, is acquiring material on milk, and re- lated subjects, and equipping a laboratory. Dr. Leland D. Baldwin, author of The Dclecla- WE ARE IMPORTERS OF ble Country, a current best seller, is the acting Librarian of the University of Pittsburgh. The European and South Ameri- former Librarian, J. Howard Dice, who died in December, will be remembered for his hospitality can Scientijic and Technical to the College and Reference Section during the 1938 S.L.A. convention. Oscar E. Norman, Librarian of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company of Chicago, is retiring after nineteen years with the Company. He is the DUTCH LITERATURE author of the Romance of the Gas Indushy and other articles on the industry. Margaret M. Miller, Librarian of the Standard Oil Company of California, is welcoming visitors in her new offices at 265 Bush Street. San Fran- cisco. The Company's Researchand Development BOOK SERVICE Library at Richmond was also moved to new offices,in the recently completed Research and to obtain authoritative informa- Development Building. Howard L. Stebbins, Librarian of the Social tion about all current literature of Law Library of Boston, has moved to new quar- your special field. ters on the twelfth floor of the new Court House. AlbertaE.Fish becameLibrarian of the Califor- nia State Relief Administration when the offices were moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Mrs. Blanche Dalton was the Librarian at San Ask for our new catalog Francisco. "BOOKS IN SCIENCE" John Richmond Russell will become Librarian of the University of Rochester on April 1. Mr. Russell is the present head of the cataloguing division of the National Archives at Washington. He has been with the National Archives during NORDEMAN the past five years. Prior to that time, he had been PUBLISEIlNG COMPANY on the staffs of the New York Public Library and of the University of Michigan. Also, he spent one year in Europe as Fellow in librarianship of the 215 FOURTH AVENUE Gcneral Education Board. NEW YORK Rosemary Jacquith has resigned as Librarian at the General Petroleum Corporation in Los Angeles, and has been succeeded by Richard W. Johnson. Committee Member Edwin T. Coman, Jr.. Librarian of the Grad- uate School of Business, San Francisco, was named Chairman of the California Library Asso- ciation's Special Committee on the Distribution FOR SALE of California State Documents. He is a member of the national S.L.A. Nominating Committee. in spite of war Engaged German and British Eliza Crannell. Librarian, Gulf Research and Development Corporation (Pittsburgh), to Win- ton Brown. SCIENTIFIC BOOKS the Katherine Mapill.-. Research ~ Librarian for Delivery "within about 35 days" Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Creighton. Pennsylvania, to Dr. Stuart E. Whitcomb of (1) "Fortsehritte in der tech- Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Dr. Whitcomb is in- nisch-ehemischen Indus. structor in physics at Georgia School of Tech- trie" by Brauer & d'Ans: nology in Atlanta. Bet Married (2) "Haudbuch der anorgan- Elizabeth Galbreath, Assistant Librarian, Re- ischen Chemie" by search Laboratories of the Aluminum Company of America (Pittsburgh), to JarnesThompsoo, in Abegg: set December 1939. (3) "Hanbnuch der anor- Carol Ruben, formerly Assistant Librarian of ganischen Chemie" by the San Francisco Ncus, to Richard Pearce, in November 1939. Gmeilin-Kraut: set Ralph A. Ulveling. Associate Librarian of the (4) "Chemie und Teehnologie Detroit Public Library, to Elizabeth Baer, in der Fette u. Fettpro- December 1939. Elizabeth Osborn. Legal Librarian for Aetna dukte" by H. Schoenfeld: Life Affiliated Companies, to Foster E. 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