Special Libraries, September 1965

San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks

Special Libraries, 1965 Special Libraries, 1960s

9-1-1965

Special Libraries Association

Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1965

Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons

Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, September 1965" (1965). Special Libraries, 1965. 7. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1965/7

This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1960s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1965 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected].

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Putting Knowledge to Work OFFICERS DIRECTORS President WILLIAMK. BEATTY ALLEENTHOMPSON Northwestern University Medical General Electric Company, San lose, California School, Chicago, Illinois President-Elect HELENEDECHIEF DR. F. E. MCKENNA Canadian National Railu,ajr. Air Reduction Company, Inc., Murray Hill, New Iersey Montreal, Quebec Advisory Council Chairman PHOEBEF. HAYES(Secretary) HERBERTS. WHITE Bjbljogr@bical Center for Rr- NASA Facility, Documentation, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland search, Denver, Colorado Advisory Council Chairman-Elect KENNETHN. METCALF MRS.HELEN F. REDMAN Henry Ford Museum and Greet/- Los A1amo.r Scientific Laborator), Los Alamos, New Mexico field Village, Dearborn. Michigan Treasurer RUTHNIELANDER JEANE. FLEGAL Lumbermens Mutual Ccrsualt~ Uniotz Carbtde Corp., New Yorik, New York Company, Chicago, Illinois Immediate Past-President MRS. DOROTHYB. SKAU WILLIAMS. BUDINGTON Southern Regional Research Lab- The John Crerar Library, Chicago, Illinois oratory, US. Department of Agri- culture. New Ovleans, Louisiana EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: BILL M. WOODS Special Libraries Association, 31 East 10 Street, New York, New York 10003 MEMBERSHIP Dues: Sustaining-$100; Active-$20 (Paid For Life-$250) ; Associate 420; Afiliate-$15 ; Student-$2 ; Emeritus-$5; For qualifications, privileges and further information, write Special Libraries Association.

PUBLICATIONS A checklist for the organization, opera- Map collections in the U.S. and Can- tion and evaluation of a company li- ada; a directory, 1954 ...... brary, 1960 ...... 2.00 National insurance organizations in the United States and Canada, 1957 .... *Business and Industrial Libraries in the Picture sources, 2nd ed., 1964 ...... United States, 1820-1940, 1965 .... 7.00 SLA directory of members, as of July Contributions toward a special library 15, 1964, 1964 ...... members glossary, 2nd ed., 1950 ...... 1.25 nonmembers Correlation index document series & PB SLA directory of members, as of Octo- reports, 1953 ...... 10.00 ber 15, 1962, 1962 ...... members nonmembers Creation & development of an insur- Source list of selected labor statistics, ance library, rev. ed., 1949 ...... 2.00 rev. ed., 1953 ...... Dictionary of report series codes, 1962 12.75 Sources of commodity prices, 1960 .... Directory of business and financial serv- Special Libraries Association personnel ices, 1963 ...... 6.50 survey 1959, 1960 ...... Directory of special libraries, 1953 .... 5.00 Special libraries: how to plan and equip Guide to metallurgical information (SLA them (SLA Monograph no. 2), 1963 Bibliography no. 3), 1961 ...... 4.00 Subject headings for financial libraries, 1954 ...... Guide to Russian reference and language Subject headings in advertising, market- aids (SLA Bibliography no. 4), 1962 4.25 ing, and communications media, 1964 Handbook of scientific and technical *Translators and translations: services awards in the United States and Can- and sources in science and technology, ada, 1900-1952, 1956 ...... 3.00 2nd ed., 1965 ...... Literature of executive management US. sources of petroleum and natural (SLA Bibliography no. 5), 1963 ... 4.25 gas statistics, 1961 ...... *Latest publications SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS-Subscription, $7.00 ; Foreign, $8.00 SPECIAL LIBRARIES-Subscription, $10.00; Foreign, $1 1.00; Single copies, $1.50 TECHNICAL BOOK REVIEW INDEX-Subscription, $10.00 ; Foreign, $11.00; Single copies, $1.50 UNLISTED DRUGS-Subscription, $20; Single copies, $2.00 SLA serves as the US. ales agent for selected Aslib publications

SPECIAL LIBRARIES is published by Special Libraries Association monthly September to April bimonthly May to August, at 73 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont 05& Editorial Offrces: 31 East 10th) Street, New York, New York 10003. Second class postage pa~dat Brattleboro, Vermont. POSTMASTER: Send Form 3919 to Special Libraries Association, 31 East 10 St., New York, N. Y. 10003 he Faraday Press announces 29 major Soviet Scientific Journals now available for the first time AUTHORITATIVE COVER-TO-COVER ENGLISH TRANSLATION REGULAR YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION -BEGINNING WITH JAN. 1965 ISSUES

Cybernetics Soviet Engineering Journal Krbernetrka lnzhenernyr Zhurnal B~monthly$1 15/year B~monthly,$150/year Problems of Information Transmission Soviet Aeronautics Problemy Peredachr Informatsir lzvestlya VUZ Av~atsionnayaTekhnrka Quarterly $100/yeai Quarterly $125/year Soviet Electrical Engineering Journal of Applied Spectroscopy Elektrotekhn~ka Zhurnal Prrkladnor Spektroskopir Monthly. $160/yea1 Monthly. $150/year Magnetohydrodynamics Mendeleev Chemistry Journal Magn~tnayaG~drodrnamika Zhurnal Vses Khim Ob-va rm Mendeleeva Quarterly $90/year B~monthly $160/year Applied Solar Energy Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves Gelrotekhnika Nouchno-Tekhn~cheskieProblemy Goreniya i Vzryva B~monthly$1 lO/year Quarterly. $100/year Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds Teor et~cheskayaI Eksperrmental naya Khrmrya Khlm~yaGeterotsikl~chesk~kh Soedrneni~ Bmonthly $120/year B~monthly,$120/year Polymer Mechanics Mekhanrka Pol~merov Chemistry of Natural Compounds B~monthly$120/year Khrmrya Prrrodnykh Soedrnenrr B~monthly$1 lO/year Soviet Applied Mechanics Prrkladnaya Mekhan~ka Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology Monthly $160/year Prikiadnaya Brokhrm~yaI Mikrob~ologrya B~monthly$120/year Soviet Physics Journal lzvestrya VUZ Frzrka Soviet Materials Science B~monthly$125/year Fiziko-Kh~mrcheskayaMekhanrka Mater~alov B~monthly$1 15/year Astrophysics Astroflzika Soviet Mechanics Bulletin Quarterly $90/year Izvestrya Akad Nauk SSSR Mekhanrka Bmonthiy. $160/year Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics Moscow University Physics Bulletin Zhurnal Prrkladnor Mekhanrkl I Tekhnicheskol Finki Vestnik Moskovskogo Unrversiteta Fizrka Bmonthly $150/year Bimonthly. $1 lOiyear Soviet Progress in Chemistry UKSSR Journal of Engineering Physics Ukrarnskrr Khrmrcheskrr Zhurnal Inzhenerno-Fmchesku Zhurnal Monthly $150/year Monthly. $150/year Moscow University Chemistry Bulletin Soviet Radiophysics Vestnrk Moskovskogo Unrversrteta Khrmrya Izvest~yaVUZ Radlofrzrka Bimonthly, $llO.OO/year B~monthly.$125/year Differential Equations Soviet Genetics Drfferentsral'nye Uravnenrya Genetrka Monthly. $150/year Monthly. $150/year Soviet Radio Engineering lzvestrya VUZ Radlotekhnika Non-U S and Canad~ansubscr~bers B~monthly.$1 l5/year please add $500 per journal for postage and handllng

Order your 1965 subscriptions to these essential Soviet journals from: he Faraday Press, Inc. 84 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10011 SEPTEMBER 1965 ABSTRACTS

WORLD MEDICINE The selectiue abstracting journal

Covers the \\.hole field of clinical medicine and many allied sciences.

Some 1,500 medical journals of the world are scrutinized for each issue and only the most significant pape?s are chosen for abstracting- only those considered to be of lasting value to medical knowledge.

The journal dso pul,lishes Review Articles fioni time to time, each dealing n it11 a subject ot topical interest. These a1 t~cles have been TI idel) appreciated.

This is essentially a wlettive abstracting journal -not fully comprehensire 1)ut DESIGNED TO SAVE YOU TIME

Read 'ABSTRACTS' regularly and keep up to date. Send your sn1)scription no~c- only $18.00 for 12 issues a year.

Subscription orders only: All enquiries to The Publisher, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 80 Brighton Avenue, B.M.A. House, Tavistock Square, Boston, Mass. 021 34 London, W.C. 1, England.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Special

LI braries CONTENTS

Special Libraries Association President's Report : The Reach and the Grasp William S. Budington Advisory Council Report Lorna M. Daniells Treasurer's Report Jean E. Flegal Resolutions of Appreciation Bubara A. Begg Annual Meeting Joan M. Hutchinson 1965-66 SLA Scholarship Winners SLA Professional Award Newspaper Division's First Jack K. Burness Award Geography and Map Division Award SLA Hall of Fame Executive Director's Report Bill M. Woods Philadelphia Percolations Erik Bromberg Chapter Relations Committee Report Margaret E. Maddcn Division Relations Committee Report Dr. F. E, McKenna Committee Reports, 1964-1965 Committee Chairmen Special Representatives' Reports, 1964-1965 Special Representatives Forum on Education for Special Librarianship Carlyle J. Frarey SLA Official Directory 1965-1966 SLA Membership Statistics

Features Something's Rotten in the State of Routmg Mildred E. Barnes LTP Reports to SLA Gladys T. Piez Ha\ e You Heard Letters to the Edltor Off the Press

Editor: MARYL. ALLISON Special Ljbra,.ies COMMITTEE Assistaut Editor.: EDYTHEC. PORPA Chairnzarz: HOWARD B. BENTLEY ELLISMOUNT MRS. ELIZABETHR. USHER Papers gzrblislwd in SPECIAL LIBRARIES express tbe z~ieu'sof the authors and do not represent the opinion or the policy of the editorial staff or the publisher. Manuscripts submitted for publicatron must be typed double *pace on only one .ride of @ape+and marled to the editor. Reprint.r may be ordered immediately before or ufter publ~cation. Subscriptions: U. S. 810; forergn, $11; single copies, $1.50. @ by Special Libraries Associ- ation 1965.

IYDRXED IN Bu5iness Periodicals Index, Publir ABairs Information Seruice, Library I.rl~rafnre,Management Index and Lrbrary Sciencr A bstrarts. No reference department is complete without these valuable lnterscience journals

JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE Editorial Boaid: L. BATEMAN,The Nrltio)zal Rubber Producers' Reseaix-h As.rociatio)z: J. H. DILLON,Te.xtile Research Itzstitute. Primetotz, N. J.; N. G. GAYLORD,Gujlord A.r.rnciutes, Itzc. : J. LE BRAS,Institut dn Cuo~~tcho~~c.Pavis: H. MARK,I)zs/itute of Polymer Ke~eur.ch,Polj'techuic !~zs/i/nieof Brookl~~z:M. MORTON,11~~tjtZlle of Rubber Research. Uizi~z~sitl,of Akr.oiz: md F. PATAT,Techtzi.rche Hoch.rchz~le,i\/lmich. Provides scientists and engineers with complete and up-to-date coverage of progress in the systematic prx- tied application of polymer science. Snb.rcr~jptiotzprice for 1966: $12>.00. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE Editorid Board: R. M. FUOSS,Srtvlin~ Cbevviicnl Lubmuroq,, E'nle liniuer~~tj~;J. J. HERMANS,Chem.rtru)zd Re.cearch Cenf~r.Dfuh'zm, AT. C.: H. MARK,Imfitz//e of POI~IIICI. Rrsen~.ch,Polltec.bizic I?r.rtitu/e of B~mklyz:H. W. MELVILLE,Depnrrrneut of Scie~~tific otd Im/z~.itrjdResrurxh. Londo~z:C. G. OVERBERGER,Polytechnic Ivstit~~teof B~.ook/jiz: uild G. SMETS,U12ii'el'~//]' of Loz~?~&lz.Be/,ainm. Snb.rcr.iptiotz price for 1966: $22 5.00. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING Er/i/oi.icil Board: ELMERJ. GADEN,JR. (11ln)zuging Editor). Colunzbicl LT?liirrsity ; C-G. HEDLN,Knmlinska Institute, StocRholnr; M. J. JOHNSON,Unizlersity of LY/i.rco~.rjn: M. M. DONALD,Uniz,ersity College, London; E. M. CROOK,Uui~'er.rity College, Lom'oiz. The only journal to deal exclusively with two vital new areas of scientific and technical endeavor. It fills the ever growing need for information on modern concepts and methods in biophysics and engineering and their application and interpretation in medicine and biology. Szibscviptioa price for 1966: $1 5.00. BIOPOLYMERS Editorial Bnar.if; E. R. BLOUT,H~i.zwd iMedical School; S. BRESLER,Acudertry of Sciemes, Lelzi?zgutd, U. S. S. K.: M. CALVIN,Uniuellrity of Califostzia, Berkeley; M. GOODMAN (illri)zagjng Editor), Polytechtzic Iustiiute of Brooklyn; M. NIRENBERC,National Insti- trr/e.r of Health: L. PAULING,Cclliformja I)zstitute of Technology; mzd A. RICH,illassa- chu.set/.c I)zs/itute of Tecb~zolog?.A bi-monthly journal devoted to high-quality original research in the structure, synthesis, and behavior of biopolymers. Subscripti~)lprice for 1966: $36.00. COMMUNICATIONS ON PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS Editor.inl Board: R. COURANT,L. BERS,K. 0. FRIEDRICHS,J. J. STOKER,F. JOHN(Man- aging Editor); adNATASCHA ARTIN BRUNSWICK (Techtzical Editor). Devoted chiefly to contributions in the fields of applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and mathematical analysis. Many of the papers are highly significant technical reports of the re- >arch organization of the U. S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Atomic Energy Com- mission. Sfibs~riptjolzprice for 1966: $12.00. INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS A DIVISION OF JOHN WlLEY & SONS, Inc. 605 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Add a full-time research assistant to you r staff.. .

by simply putting The New York Times Index on your shelves.

The new annual volume of The New York 'Pimes Index can answer half a million questions about anything that happened last year . . .from the landing of Ranger VII on the moon to the eff'ects of newly discovered copper deposits in Timmons, Ontario. ,4nd it answers them fast. ...So fast it's like adding a full-time research assistant to your staff. 'The New York Times lndex is a stream- lined history of 1964.. . the only one of its kind. As a book of record, it covers all the major news published in The New York Times during 1964, including business and financial affairs, government activities, political developments, sociological trends, international :if- fairs. It gives you information on education, The New Fork 'Times Indes religion, the fine arts. Dept. SL-9, Times Square, This unique information retrieval system New York, N. Y. 10036 is a basic guide to scientific discoveries, in- ventions, manufacturing techniques. You can Please enter my order for: use it to pinpoint data for speeches, reports ClThe 1964 annual volume only .... $60. and articles.. .to locate important texts.. .to The complete service, including find dates, names and numbers. the 1964 annual volume and 24 The New York Times Index can save you issuesof theserni-monthly Index. $105. time. And work. If you don't have The New York Times ------Index, this is a perfect time to get it. You can Organization or company name begin the service now (while the supply lasts)

with the new annual volume for 1964. And -- -- you can continue it with the semi-monthly sendto the attent~onof issues which give summaries of everything that appears in The New York Times right now and throughout the year ahead. The annual volume costs $60 a copy. Full - - service, including both the annual volume and CltY State & ZIP 24 semi-monthly issues, is $105. (You save $15 over the cost of ordering each separately.) Payment enclosed Send invoice Use this coupon to order yours today. SEPTEMBER 1965 with the phenomenal growth in science with the new, expanded 11th edition of IlMERICIIN MEN OF SCIENCE The Physical and Biological Sciences

So great has been the growth in science during the past five years that the Physical and Biological coverage of this famous directory is now expanded from four to six volumes to be published in alphabetical sequence over the next three years. (The Social and Behavioral Sciences will follow.) 45,000 brand new biographies added on Physical and Biological scientists alone - a 40% increase over the past edition! This new edition provides up-to-date information on 135,000 U.S. and Canadian scientists in all -practically every American man and woman now active in agriculture, animal hus- bandry, astronomy, bacteriology, biochemistry, biophysics, botany, chemistry, engineering, forestry, genetics, etc. Arrangement is alphabetical by person's name, with the same full details that have distinguished AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE since 1906: full name, position, address, field of specialization, birthplace,. degrees, previous positions, memberships, etc. You can reserve right now any or all 6 volumes of The Physical and Biological Sciences. They're divided alphabetically: Volume I: A-C; Volume 11: D-G; Volume Ill: H-K; Volume IV: L-0; Volume V: P-Sr; Volume VI: St-Z. Each volume $25.00 net postpaid. The first volume, A-C, now ready.

Write today to

1180 Avenue of the Americas, New 1rork, N.Y. 10036 New volume: To be published shortly HOUBEN-WEYL: METHODEN DER ORGANISCHEN CHEMIE

4th rev. ed. by Eugen Miiller.

Volume X:'Part Ill: STICKSTOFFVERBINDUNGEN I, Part 3

1965 XLVIII, 971 pages bound

Subscription price $57.40 List price $63.75

7 ----- FOUNDED IN NEW YORK 1872 ys$&&z% LQNDON / PARISISTUTTGARTI BOGOTA CR~~rtONAL,0~s5t'' 31 East 10 Street 1 New Yark 3, N. Y.

Business and Industrial Libraries in the United States, 1820-1940

In this first carefully documented history of special libraries in the United States, Dr. Kruzas defines the types and distribution of business and industrial libraries, describes the antecedents of today's special libraries, and then relates the growth of company-established and -supported libraries. Statistics, a discussion of special library characteristics, a summary, bibliography, and name and company index round out the study. 1965 Hdrd Cover 144 pdges $7.00

Translators and Translations: Services and Sources in Science and Technology

Contains the names, addresses, subject and language proficiencies, and personal vita for 470 free-lance translators and 87 commercial firms. Part 3 describes 3$2 pools or other sources of translation information; part 4 cites 194 bibliographies and lists of translated literature. Five computer-produced indexes-Subject, Language, Geographical, Publica- tions, and International and National Information Centers, Depositories, and Affiliated Societies. 1965 Second Edition 224 pnges $13.J0

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION 31 East loth St., N. Y. 10003 SLA serves ds the United Stdtes snles ngetzt for selected Aslib pablications

SEPTEMBER 1965 - LIBRARY BINDINGS 2:

Here is a comprehensive guide to every facet of the design of efficient libraries. This book presents a detailed discus. sion of modular sizes, height and traffic problems, and new types of reader accommodations. It also offers a wealth of heretofore unavailable material on layouts, dinlensions of furniture and At Heckman Bindery there equipment, shelf depths, and aisle is a constant research and de- widths. The author covers in detail the velopment program. New problems involved in planning libraries for the future.. .considers financial procedures are introduced problems, including provision of funds that increase efficiency and and estimating.. .discusses library ob- quality - at lower cost! jectives and their relation to aesthetic This forward look is with problems, construction, and function. you in mind. Your satisfac- BUY THlS BOOK AT YOUR tion is in keeping with our BOOKSTORE OR MAIL THlS COUPON tradition of service and quality. These Heckman services McGRAW-HILL BOOK CO., Oept. 23-SL-95 330 West 42 Street, New York, N.Y. 10036 for you are truly "Bound to Send me Keyes D. Metcalf's PLANNING ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH LIBRARY Please." BUILDINGS for 10 days on approval. In 10 days I will remit $10 plus a few cents for delivery costs or return book oost~aid.SAVE MONEY: we Dav de: livery costs if 'you'remit with coupon. same examination and return privilege.

NAME (print)

ADDRESS

CITY

STATE ZIP CODE FM pricas outside U.S.. mite McCraw-Hill Int'l.. N.Y.E. 23-SL-9:

SPECIAL LIBRARIES No!. . . Ours This is Mrs. Borski, who directs our highly customized Cataloging Depart- ment. It wasn't easy to find librarians of her experience and ability for our other departments - Acquisitions, Receiving, Processing and Delivery, and Administrative Procedures - but we have assembled a pretty impres- sive staff of specialists in each field. Working as a team or as separate groups, our skilled professionals offer services to assist universities, school systems, government, public and special libraries in: 0 AUTOMATION AND SYSTEMS DESIGN 0 BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND SPECIAL SERVICES 0 CONSULTING AND PLANNING INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING-MULTI-LANGUAGE 0 WORLD-WIDE ACQUISITIONS AIVD, OF COURSE- 0 CUSTOMIZED CATALOGING

"Library service is our business1'*

* For details on all of our services, write for our brochure. Please be sure to include vour corn~leteaddress and vour ~rirnarvareas of interest.

Phone 202 - 337-4200 7778 22nd Street, N. W., Washington, 0.C., 20037 SEPTEMBER 1965 Up-to-date catalog listing many new titles and dates of newspapers now pre- served on microfilm by Micro Photo.

LIBRARIANS: Save space ...consult this catalog to order backfile PAPERS and current microfilm of newspapers in your area. ON Send for free copy MICRO PHOTO DIVISION MICRO BELL & HOWELL COMPANY 1700 SHAW AVENUE FILM CLEVELAND, OHIO 44112 NEW From WESTERN PERIODICALS CO.

The Ladenburg-Reiche Function $10.00 Tabulations created on the IBM 7094 at Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Table of Exponential Functions S 16.50 Tabulations created on the IBM 7094 at Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Eighth National Symposium of The Society of Aerospace Materials and Process Engineers on "Insulation-Materials And Processes For Aerospace and Hydrospace Applications" $18.00 Wave Mechanics Of A Free Particle by E. Fisher $10.00 Contents include The Fundamental Constants, The Neutrino, The Elec- tron, The Proton, Unstable and Interacting Particles IEEE Mid-America Electronics Conference Volume 1-Electronic Systems Reliability, 1961 Volume 2-Measurement and Instrumentation, 1963 Volume 3-Measurement and Instrumentation, 1965 Thermodynamic Properties of Individual Substances Tables published by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Exclusive Distributor WESTERN PERIODICALS CO. 13000 Raymer St., North Hollywood, California TRiangle 5-0555

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Shhhhhh! Let Alexander Smith show you how many ways Crestwood carpets can make your library a quieter, better, more beautiful place to study while conserving your budget too. Carpet is the modern way to improve library appearance and efficiency economically: 1. Carpet is quiet, acoustical ceilings can be eliminated. 2. Noisemakers such as books and pencils, are cushioned as they fall. 3. Carpeting helps students concentrate better. The dig- nified atmosphere increases attendance. 4. Carpet is so inexpensive to maintain it is the most economical floor covering you can use. 5. Patterns are practical. They minimize traffic lanes. And they are beautiful. Alexander Smith knows and makes every kind of carpet-and we can recommend Crestwood carpets without qualification for libraries. Crestwood wears better longer and its patterns look beautiful longer than any other carpet anywhere near its price range. WRITE FOR DETAILS:Alexander Smith CARPETS AND CUSHIONS 295 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK 16. NEW YORK E.T.S. is the name that is known throughout the United States for the QUALITY and the SPEED and the PRICE of technical translations. E.T.S. translators and editors possess high academic qualifications and experience in the~r respective fields. We handle all European languages, Russian and Japanese* in all fields of science, particularly Chemistry, Metallurgy, Physics, Electronics, Medicine, Pharmacology, and related subjects. E.T.S. will meet your desired delivery dates E.T.S. rates are fixed and keenly competitive e.g. from FRENCH, GERMAN ...... $14.70 per 1000 words of original text RUSSIAN ...... $16.80 per 1000 words of original text JAPANESE* ...... $16.80 per 1000 Japanese characters In Japanese we handle Chemistry and Physics only. FOR COMPLETE PRICE LIST PLEASE WRITE TO: EXPRESS TRANSLATION SERVICE 28 ALEXANDRA ROAD, LONDON, S.W.19, ENGLAND Telephone : WIMbledon 8876

In Our Complete "CONFIDENCE" Periodicals Service

-American or foreign. All periodicals handled with a degree of accuracy second to none! Write for our Brochure-then ASK FOR REFERENCES from any one of the hundreds of Librarians taking advantage of our outstanding and accepted procedures.-Specialists in the Special Library field.

(Send Your List for a Quotation and Recommendations) "PROMPTNESS IS A TRADITION WITH McGREGOR"

-and Promptness is a mark of Ex- perience, Trained Personnel, Ample Facilities, Proper Working Space, Fi- nancial Stability, Responsible Man- agement, Completeness of Service, and Efficiency. MOUNT MORRIS, ILLINOIS 61054

SPECIAL LIBRARIES we'll duplicate all your catalog cards,. ,

. . . and return them to you within 72 hours. structions for your convenience . . . Xerox Any number of duplicate catalog cards, branch offices in principal U.S. and Canadian copied photo-exact from your original. Same cities. Call the one nearest you-or write size, durable, top-grade stock, precision- Xerox Corporation, Roch- punched and trimmed, returned to you in the ester, New York 14603. In same order as the file you submit . . . Samples Canada, Xerox of Canada XEROX and prices on request; special mailers and in- Limited, Toronto. Interscience encyclopedias-indispensable reference works for everyone in the fields of polymer and chemical technology

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLYMER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Plastics, Resins, Rubbers, Fibers Editorial Board: HERMANF. MARK,Polytechnic lnstit~teoJ Brooklyn, Chairman; NORMAN G. GAYLORD,Gaylord Associates, Inc., Execntive Editor; and NORBERTM. BIKALES,Gdylord Associates, Inc., Editor. This is the first comprehensive source of information for polymer science and technology with full descriptions of the most important processes and methods for the preparation and manufacture of all monomers and polymers, plus a broad treatment of theoretical fundamentals. The editors do not plan to supplant monographs or review articles. They have assembled a series of authoritative articles that are written and reviewed by specialists from all over the world. Both theoretical and practical aspects are included. In some cases, both of these extremes occur, but the articles are written so that a reader interested in only one aspect will be able to obtain the necessary information without having to read the entire article. The encyclopedia will comprise approsinlately 12 volumes, with 1,000 separate contributions. It is anticipated that two volumes will be published each year. Volunre I: 1964. 893 pages. Volume 11: 1965, 871 pages. Subscviption price: $40.00 per vol~tme.Single Vo/?dnze price: $50.00.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY Second Edition Editorial Board: HERMANF. MARK,Chairman; JOHN J. MCKETTA,JR., The University of Texas; and DONALDF. OTHMER,Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. ANTHONYSTANDEN, Interscience Publishers, Ex-ecntive Editor. Long known as an unrivaled library of information for the chemical industry, this second edition of the Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia is completely revised and rewritten, in a great measure expanded, and contains a host of new articles that take into account the most recent advances and up-to-date research in all fields of chemical technology. Here are some comments by reviewers of the second edition- "The series is highly recommended. No reference library should be without it."-Chemical Processing. ". . . as useful a resource and reference work as the first edition." Jonrnal of Pharmaceutical Sriences. "One change from the first edition, however, is that many of the new authors are not American, thus providing an international coverage. This is a welcome modification. . . ." Journal of Chemical Education

17olume 1: Ahherents to Aluminum. Volume 2: Aluminum compounds to Azo dyes. Volnme 3: B to Calcium. Vo111me 4: Calcium compounds to Chloramphenical. Volume 5: Chlorine to Cosmetics. Vol//me6: Conlplesing Agents to Destrose and Starch Syrups. S//r/.rc-riptionPrice: $35.00 per t,o/?/?ne.Single-l'ol~me price: $45.00.

INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS A DIVISION OF JOHN WlLEY & SONS, Inc. 605 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016 SPECIAL LIBRARIES INTERSCIENCE: A continuing tradition of indispensable reference works to the sciences

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDUSTRIAL METHODS OF ANALYSIS Editor-ill-Chief: FOSTERDEE SNELL, Foster D. Stzell, Im. Execntiz e Editos: CLIFFORD L. HILTON,Interscience Publisher.r. Offers-in about 15 volumes-a comprehensive coverage of the chemical, physicochem- ical, and physical methods of analysis and evaluation of chemically based commercial products. Practicing analytical chemists in the plant and in technical service laboratories will find the encyclopedia a first source of information. The articles in Volumes 1, 2, and 3 deal with fundamental procedures of separation and identification of compounds, using the latest instrumentation. The articles demon- strate actual step-by-step procedures using typical equipment. Volume 4 and those to follow will be concerned with the analysis of commercial products including applications of methods or techniques to specific compounds or groups of compounds-raw materials, intermediates, and finished products. Volume 1: Absorption, Emission, and Other Optical Methods to Evaluation of Analytical Data. Volume 2 : Field Emission Microscopy to Osmotic Pressure. 1965. 1lz prepa~~atio~?. A random selection of topics to appear in Volume 1 . . . Absorption Spectrophotometry, by C. L. Hilton Acid-Base Titrations, by D. C. Wimer Amperometry 8; Amperometric Titrations, by P. Kabaskalian 8; M. D. Yudis Aquametry, by J. Mitchell Balances & Weighing, by J. Flood Chromatographic Methods, Survey, by L. R. Snyder Coulometry & Coulometric Titrations, by J. W. Miller Density & Specific Gravity, by J. K. Taylor Diffusion Methods of Separation, by S. B. Tuwiner Distillation, by F. E. Williams Flame Photometry, by R. Mavrodineanu Gas Analysis, by A. Hobbs Infrared Spectrometry, by G. L. Covert Light Scattering, L. H. Tung Literature of Analytical Chemistry, by D. Gaskill INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS A DIVISION OF JOHN WlLEY & SONS, Inc. 605 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016 SEPTEMBER 1965 LOW COST PERIODICAL AND PAMPHLET FILES ALL SIZES SAME PRICE $3.18 per doz. any assortment desired. 12 doz. or more, $2.88 per doz. FREE SAMPLE MAGAFILE sent upon request. You will receive it by return mail along with handy size-chart and additional details. No obligation or sales- man follow-up. %vkp+hd- THE MAGAFILE CO. P. 0. BOX 3121 ST. LOUIS 30, MO.

"For Scientists Everywhere" - Ann ua 1 Reviews -

Annual Review of: I 96S Edzt~oil; Publr I hed: ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Volume 3 Aug. 1965 BIOCHEMISTRY Volume 34 July 1965 ENTOMOLOGY Volume 10 Jan. 1965 MEDICINE Volume 16 May 1965 MICROBIOLOGY Volume 19 Oct. 1965 NUCLEAR SCIENCE Volume 15 Dec. 1965 PHARMACOLOGY Volume 5 Apr. 1965 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Volume 16 Sept. 1965 PHYSIOLOGY Volume 27 Mar. 1965 PHYTOPATHOLOGY Volume 3 Nov. 1965 PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Volume 16 June 1965 PSYCHOLOGY Volume 16 Feb. 1965 All z~olun~eime ~lothbomd,1~~2th cun/ulntzz e. iublect, nud nuthol zudexe I.All biick z~olunieI rrzwlnble. PRICE POSTPAID: $8.50 (U.S.A.) ; $9.00 (elsewhere) Order from ANNUAL REVIEWS, INC.

231 Grant Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306, U.S.A.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES IETNASTAK ;TEE1

MOKSTACK ... Swirbul Library. Adelphi Untversdty. Garden Clty, New York Architects: Rochard J. Neutra and Robert E. Alexander; Interlor Des~gners:Emily Malino Associates

. . . is the new standard of excellence in library equipment. Famous for rigid, sway-braceless "Uni-Frame" construction, it gives you greater strength and safety plus beauty of design. Write for brochure. Department SL9.

D 127 colors

D 5 standard heights

D 36" and 30" widths

D 5 standard depths

D Complete line of accessories (tops, end panels - steel or wood -, carrels, divider shelving, periodical display units, book trucks, book lockers, etc.)

ETNA STEEL PRODUCTS CORPORATION

229 Park Avenue So., New York, N. Y. 10003 SEPTEMBER 1965 PLENUM PRESS DATA DIVISION Reference Tools for Instant Data Retrieval ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE Edited by H. Thayne Johnson. Head, Electronic Properties Information Center (EPIC),Hughes Alrcraft Company. A major contribution toward solving the growing problem of information retrieval in this fleld, these volunies function as a convenient and comprehensive guide to literature sources of experimental data on 59 major electrical and electronic properties of nearly 10,000 materials as reported in international journals. 2 Vols., 1,695 pages. Thumb-indexed 1965 the set $150.00

SPACE-AGE ACRONYMS ABBREVIATIONS AND DESIGNATIONS By Reta C. Moser. Foreword by Bill M. Woods. Selected by George S. Bonn in Library Jorrrmd as one of 100 ". . . of the notable technical books of the past year which, in my opinion, should have been considered for posslble addition to all library collect~ons. . ." Contalns the largest number of wholly technical acronyms ever compiled. Only technicai and lndustrlal acronyms (over 10,000 acronyms with more than 17,000 deflnltlons) are included, thus eliminating areas covered in other compilat~ons. 427 pages 1964 $17.50 LASER ABSTRACTS Volume 1 Edited by A. K. Kamal. Over 750 informative abstracts of the published laser literature from the earliest researches until mid-1963. Designed to function as an abstracting service in convenient book format, thls volume is an invaluable blbliographlc and informational search tool. 185 pages 1964 $15.00 Volume 2 Edited by Jerome Swartz. This volume abstracts the laser literature from mld-1963 through early 1965. Papers read at scientific meetlngs but not subsequently published are included. In preparation GUIDE TO GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY LITERATURE By Austin V. Signeur. Consisting of over 7500 references to the publ~shedliterature and to papers presented at scientific meet~ngsin the fleld of gas chromatography up to mid-1963. th~s1s the most comprehensive bibliographic work in its field. 359 pages 1964 $12.50 Supplement No. I continues through early 1965. In preparation RUSSIAN- ENGLISH BIOLOGICAL DICTIONARY By C. W. Dumbleton. The 25.000 entries in this new dictionary have been compiled from a nultltude of Russian textbooks, monographs, research papers and journal articles. 517 pages 1965 $15.00 GERMAN - ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-GERMAN ELECTRONICS DICTIONARY By Charles 1. Hyman. The vocabulary of over 6,000 entries has been carefully selected to provlde full coverage of the spec~allzedterms encountered both in theoret~calpapers and n appl~edand comrnerclal areas 275 pages 1965 $14 00 GERMAN-ENGLISH-ENGLISH-GERMAN ASTRONAUTICS DICTIONARY By Charles J. Hyman. An up-to-date comp~lation of approximately 12,000 entries on the terminology of astronomy and astrophysics. Approx. 200 pages 1965 In preparation

9PLENUM PRESS DATA DIVISION 227 W. 17th st.. N.Y. N.Y. IOOII

SPECIAL LIBRARIES RAINING MICROFICHE?

Since the U.S. Government standardized the size and format of microfiche, an ever-increasing amount of technical information is being reproduced on fiche. The government alone disseminates a million technical reports on microfiche per month and due to substantially lower reproduction and storage costs, private industry is adopting the microfiche system more and more. You may not need an um- brella for this "downpour", but a good microfiche reader is a necessity. Microcardm engineers have designed the Mark IV to meet your most exacting reader requirements. Unlike some competitive readers offering blurry, watered- down images, the Mark IV features a crisp, clear image. Opera- tion is simple, and the only maintenance needed is a new light bulb now and then. The 9%'' x 11" screen is hooded and tinted for viewing comfort, and a whis- per-quiet internal blower assures cool operation even during periods of extensive use. Occupying less than a square foot of table space, the Mark IV is compact and attractively styled.

If you've been caught in a "flash fiche flood", just fill in and send us this SOS. We'll be happy to rush you complete information on MICROCARD" ; the Mark IV. CORPORATION I ...... DEPT. K-9. WEST SALEM. WISCONSIN i

SEPTEMBER 1965 IIIEDItAL BOOK PROFILES

A service of importance to every librarian with a scientific, technical or medical collection Here are two brand-new monthly magazines which bring you - reproduced in readable, reduced form, the actual TITLE PAGE, TABLE OF CON- TENTS. PREFACE. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. and ALL INDEXES of each 'major new sci-tech or medical book, the 'moment that book is published ! The first, SCI TECH BOOK PROFILES, carries data on books of interest to the professional scientist and technologist - no "popular" treatments or introductory texts are included. Each month, about 150 sci-tech titles are "profiled." You get up to 20 pages of information from each book - that means each issue reproduces a total upwards of 3000 pages of information! The second, MEDICAL BOOK PROFILES, covers books on the clinical and scientific aspects of medicine, psychiatry and psychology, including medical texts. Each monthly issue "profiles" about 90 books - thus each issue reproduces close to 1800 pages!

PROFILES let you really examine a new book, before you buy it! Thanks to PROFILES, you can, for the first time, study the contents, scope, etc. of a complex technical or medical book, before deciding whether it belongs in your collection . . . and your patrons can do the same. You no longer have to judge a book only by its cover, or a publisher's blurb, or a short review; all the hard-to-get details you need are in PROFILES! Each month, simply check the handy subject and author indexes in each magazine to locate details of new titles in your fields of interest. Or, have specialists in each science study the entries and make their recommendations.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Two unique monthly magazines that take the guesswork out of choosing new technical and medical books!

Of special value for "BPR" subscribers Now, when you come across an int,eresting book in your monthly issues of the American Book Publishing Record, and want to know MORE about it before buying, you can do just that! Each issue of PROFILES is keyed to each month's BPR; just note the book's Book Profile number given in the BPR index . . . then turn to this number in the same month's PROFILES for all the details!

The first issues of both magazines, covering books published in August, has just appeared. Don't miss it - or those to come . . . Fill out and mail the coupon today!

1 To: R. R. BOWKER COMPANY 1 1180 Ave. of the Americas, New York 10036 1 Please enter my subscription to SCI-TECH BOOK PROFILES I on a trial basis. If after 2 months I'm not satisfied, I may can- I cel, and owe nothing. Otherwise I pay $90 for o year's service (12 huge issues). You'll bill me later. Please enter my subscription to MEDICAL BOOK PROFILES : on the same trial terms. One year's subscription: $60. I Bill me later. I I NAME 1 ADDRESS I CITY STATE ZIP- I S I

SEPTEMBER 1965 SOURCE MATERIAL Microphotography now makes available for students and research workers tremendous new sources of documentation. Manuscripts, both ancient and modern, hitherto unpublished theses, pi- oneer work from the other side of the World, rare records in unaccessible archives, burial and birth registers from distant parishes, classical reference works long out of print-all these can now be made available in one microform or another. The research worker, using micropho- tographed material, can bring his sources to him instead of spending valuable time trudging the countryside or searching for unobtainable originals. a practical guide to help you obtain music for stringed instruments . . . MICRO METHODS LIMITED String Music East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorkshire

Here is the comprehensive guide to the string music available in this country - not just a bibliography showing what has been written for the instruments, but a practical tool to help you order the string music you want. More than 18,000 in-print publications are listed, arranged primarily by number of instruments required (duos, trios, quartets, etc.), with sub-divisions based on specific instruments needed PROCEEDINGS OF THE (.piano, guitar, woodwinds, etc.). Me- UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ticulously compiled from the catalogs ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT of 235 publishers, STRING MUSIC Geneva, 23 March-16 June 1964 IN PRINT includes a listing of maior works available abroad from a selected Final Act and Report Cloth, $6.00 group of publishers without exclusive Policy Statements Cloth, $8.00 U.S. agents. Commodity Trade Cloth, $8.00 The detailed information about each Trade in Manufactures Cloth, $4.00 publication includes composer, exact Financing and Invisibles- title as it appears in the publisher's cat- Institutional Arrangements Cloth, $8.00 alog, catalog number (if any), editor Trade Expansion and (if any), and publisher - and a list of Regional Groupings, Part I Cloth, $8.00 publishers at the back of the book Trade Expansion and Regionol Groupings, Part 2 Cloth, $7.00 shows the latest addresses and selling Miscellaneous Documents agents. and List of Participants Cloth, $4.00 Edited by Margaret K. Farish, $25 - on two weeks' approval. Complete set, 8 Volumes, Cloth, $53.00 R. R. BOWKER COMPANY 1180 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10036 SPECIAL LIBRARIES "THAT ROCHESTER MEETING ON ENERGETICS.. . CAN WE GET COPIES OF THE PAPERS?"

"I NEED A LIST OF ALL THE MEETINGS ON AEROSPACE THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE EAST NEXT FALL. CAN YOU GET IT FOR ME?"

"I HEARD ABOUT A MEETING ON BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HOLD THlS SPRING. WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION ON IT?"

"I EXPECT TO HAVE A PAPER FOR THE ACS RUBBER CHEMISTRY MEETING. WHAT'S THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS?"

To find the answers to questions like these ... and find them fast.. . reach for your copy of: TMIS Technical Meetings Zadex , . . a quarterly index to U.S. ant1 Canadian Alcetings in engineering, the physical sciences, chemistry, medicine and the life sciences. Each issue completely re\isctl and cumulated. Indexed by: date of meeting ...keyword ...location of meeting ...sponsoring organization ...deadline for abstracts or papers. ihmilI sz1~~s~riptio~l:$1 7.50 Li.S. cljzrl Ctrtztrrltr; $1 8 .SO else~ohere.

Send check or money order to: I MAIL THlS COUPON TODAY! I I Enclosed is $ ...... for 1 year sabscription. I TMIS I Please send sample copy and more information. 1 ...... 1 I?zf ornzdtiotz Service [ Organi~ation.~...... I 22 Imperial Drive I Addrcss ...... I New Hartford, New York 13413 I city...... stat.....zip ...... I Expert Service on MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS for SPECIAL LIBRARIES CATALOG CARD Hundreds of Libraries-big and small-now print 3 x 5 professional catalog cards and postcards (any quantities) with new precision geared stencil printer Faxon's Librarians Guide especially designed for Library requirements. Buy direct on Five Year Guarantee. FREE-Write TO- Available on Request DAY for description, pictures, and low direct price. CARDMASTER, 1920 Sunnyside. Dept. 49, Chicago 40 b

For the very best subscription service SWETS & ZElTLlNGER -ask about our Till Forbidden Auto- Keizersgracht 471 & 487 matic Renewal plan. Amsterdam-C. Holland Publishers and Library Agents Current Subscriptions Periodicals, Sets, Backfiles, and Separate Volumes. F. W. FAXON CO., INC. American Represenratrue 515-525 Hyde Pork Avenue Boston, Moss. 02131 WALTER D. LANTZ 555 WOODSIDE AVE., BERWYN, PA. Suburban Philadelphia Phone: 215-644-4944

.. . STICK WITH

The Original! The Proven! Book Spine Marking System There is no finer nor more effective professional, inexpensive book spine marking system on the market today . . . A-No heating irons, electric stylus, typewriter attachments . . . no tools needed, except an ordinary pencil and Kon-tacK. El-Ease of application. The l~brarianmerely selects the classifica- IMITATED . . . YES ! tion desired from a cho~ceof over 110 Kon-tacK sheets, rubs it onto the spine and ZIP . . . a professional crisp classification in either DUPLICATED . . . NO! BLACK or WHITE. Knn-tocK .. . The Modern C-Expensive? Hardly! All Kon-tacK sections are being redesigned Miracle of Book Spine to carry 6 lines of library classifications instead of 4 . . . a 50% increase in quantity AT NO INCREASE IN PRICE! Result - a substan- Marking is used by Libraries, tial savings in the already low cost of Kon-tacK book spine marking. Universities, Schools, LET US PROVE IT! Request valuable current literature (Brochure Government Agencies, Etc. K-16s) and a Free Sample of Kon-tacK. See for yourself what an outstanding product it is.

EXCITING NEW lower case FONTS NOW AVAILABLE FORDHAM EQUIPMENT COMPANY 2377 Hoffman Street; Bronx, N. Y. 10458 212 SF 3.4131 SPECIAL LIBRARIES WHO'S WHO IN LIBRARY SERVICE

-4th EDITION-

A Biographical Directory of Professional Librarians, Archivists,

and Information Specialists - the first revision in ten years

- containing some 20,000 full biographical sketches.

Sponsored by the COUNCIL OF NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS (CNLA)

- Advisory Committee - GERTRUDEL. ANNAN ROBERTH. BLACKBURNELIZABETH FERGUSON

PAULINEATHERTON DAVID H. CLIFT JOHN A. HUMPHRY

HARRYBITNER JACK DALTON BILLM. WOODS

General Editor: JOHN H. OTTEMILLER Editor: LEEASH Assistant Editor: MARTHASULLIVAN

Questionnaires are being mailed to mailing lists

provided by library schools and professional library associations.

They should be returned before November 1, 1965.

ADDRESS ALL INQUIRIES TO:

WHO'S WHO IN LIBRARY SERVICE THE SHOE STRING PRESS, INC. 60 CONNOLLY PARKWAY HAMDEN, CONN. 06514 University Microfilms puts 75,000 Doctoral Dissertations at your fingertips.

Now you can offera complete reference library of the research that's being done at most of the leading universities and colleges in the country.

Every month, University Microfilms We can also give you a complete copy publishes Dissertation Abstracts. This of any dissertation listed in Disse~tation publication contains abstracts of every Abstracts. You have your choice of either dissertation received monthly from 150 microfilm or hard copy. Positive micro- colleges and universities. film will cost you about 1%cents a page. These abstracts are written by the Or you can get a xerographic copy of the candidates. They cover mathematics, original for about 4% cents a page. sciences, social sciences, and the human- To start your subscription, or for ities. They are indexed by expert cata- more information about this service, loguers from the Library of Congress. simply fill out the coupon and mail it to us. All in all, we've published more than 75,000 abstracts in the past twenty- I seven years. All of the back issues are ; Please start our subscription to available in bound volumes at a special : Dissertation Abstracts. price. You can subscribe to the current issues of Dissertation Abstracts for Please send additional information. I $70.00 a year. rn : NAME I I : ADDRESS

I ! CITY STATE- : University Microfilms, Inc. I =A SUBSlDlARY OF XEROX CORPORATION The ~eacL and The Grasp WILLIAM S. BUDINGTON President 1964-65

UR ANNUALMeeting time is upon us This year saw the publication of the long- 0 once again, and your President is called awaited Objectives and Standards for Special upon to make what is euphemistically termed Libraries. This was a Herculean task, diffi- his annual report. I say "euphemistically" cult to chart, hazardous to spell out, frustrat- advisedly. One cannot possibly recount all ing to bring to completion. None of us be- the ways in which our Association-meaning lieves them perfect in any or all respects, our membershas worked toward a better but I say this first of many steps to come professional world of library and informa- was a major accomplishment, and I salute tion service. Neither are you a group of those who brought it about. stockholders gathered to study the steward- At the end of this conference, we are hav- ship of your assets. For you are the assets ing our First Annual Forum on Education and you are the workers who come up with for Special Librarianship. Those expecting to the product. Your President and Board of attend are impressed by the work of our Directors, hopefully, provide some guidance Education Committee in setting the agenda and coordination, but they can claim only a and attracting some high calibre participants. little basic credit. So I am not going to tell This is the type of initiative and effort you all you have done; that will be noted needed on all of our Goals, and which is on the official record later. Instead, I will indeed typical of much of our committee point out two or three of what I consider work. major ach~evementsthis year, a few bother- An important element in our Association some problems, and a reminder that while life is self-evaluation. Occasionally, such our reach must be constantly extended, we study of the past and present may seem to be must consolidate our grasp in some areas. used as a substitute for work on the future. No report in this decade, of course, can But some very constructive study has taken or will fail to refer to our Goals for 1970. place and is still proceeding in what I some- As Mrs. Brode phrased it last year, these times call this Year of the Ad Hoc. Areas indeed constitute the guidance system for of concern included governmental relations, our brand of space-age librarianship. They Advisory Council composition and meeting spell out the directions in which we are schedule, the Consultation Service, allot- reaching. In nearly all respects, we have ments to Chapters and Divisions, the phi- continued our progress this year and have losophy and management of our journal, fixed our grasp in some goal areas. Later and outside activity and relationships which in this meeting, you will hear further reports implicate the Association. Of particular sig- on some of the good work. In naming cer- nificance, for example, is the study and retain selected events now, I do not mean to evaluation of our consultation Service pro- underrate others. By example, however, our gram after seven years of operation. This is earnest effort and concern with the Goals designed to check the quality of the service may be shown. and the nature of any operational problems All photos, unless otherwise noted, are by Standc2rd Photo Service Co., Philadelphia. SEPTEMBER 1965 443 and to insure that this program is carried actions at both the national and Chapter on with the highest possible efficiency and levels. success. A second area of uneasiness is the base The foregoing examples of some of our for service programs in our Association life. year's work say nothing of activity in Chap- The need for legislative awareness just noted ters and Divisions. The totality of their con- is a good example. The continuing national tribution is always staggering; a reading of surveillance required and the staging of ap- such annual reports when published is a propriate responses are probably well beyond "must" for any member, whether he be a volunteer capability. In all likelihood, we "sitter," a "doer," or a "complainer." shall have to set up joint, cooperative ar- What problems do I bequeath to my suc- rangements-meaning financial support- cessor? There are aplenty as she well knows, with other associations to achieve any degree and these are some of the more interesting. of success. I would make note of present First of all, let none of us think we have cordial relations with ALA and acknowledge done with standards. Of basic importance is its already very kind assistance to us. a continuing feedback on their merits and Two of our principal current service pro- their faults, as evidenced by experience in grams are at the Translations Center and using them. It also goes without saying that the Special Classifications Center. Neither all of our other goal areas require constant of them costs the Association a dime; we attention, too. I will not repeat the stirring are fortunate in receiving grant and contract challenges each of them presents to us nor money from various government sources. reemphasize their critical necesity. I hope But these sources do not provide support that all of us continue to be uneasy, con- forever for strictly service programs. They science-stricken, and bothered by such ques- expect service programs to become self-sup- tions as: Aren't there some really good an- porting or to be supported by their sponsors. swers to our problems in recruitment, in One day, possibly not far off, we will have education, in public relations? How can we to decide whether or not to back up our fine best implement needed programs in biblio- service philosophy with hard cash in large graphic control and resources? What is amounts. The same goes for our Association needed to put our research capability on the research program, for expanded membership right track ? and publications services, for many of the Beyond these specific Goals, I will cite things toward which we reach. In a very real just a few examples of other matters crowd- sense, our Association has growing pains. ing in upon us. The first has to do with leg- Our ambitions have extended beyond the islation. In the past five months, more Con- grasp of volunteer committees and an Associ- gressional bills relating to library service ation Headquarters staff already burdened have been introduced than in any previous with the machinery of general operations. comparable period. As citizens and librarians But we are not yet big enough, with enough we should take cognizance of these. But built-in resources, to do all we want and more important, the Association must take need to do. A specific philosophy of action steps to see that, wherever matters relevant needs to be developed, over and beyond the to our specific interest are involved, we nature of our Goals. And we need much grasp the facts and do something about more stable means of support, internal or them. While we have occasionally made our- external, for our larger service programs. selves heard, this has not always been the The world of mechanization continues to case. The need for legislative awareness ap- rescue us and to irritate us, and all shades of plies equally well to the state and local response are to be found amongst our mem- scene. Under prodding by various sources, bership. One simple fact must be faced- regional and local agencies are devising pro- the techniques and the glamor are not going grams in which we should be involved and to go away, and they are very likely to affect concerned. Improved channels and clear re- our working lives sooner or later. They will sponsibilities are needed for monitoring such require, in fact do now require, some under- SPECIAL LIBRARIES standing on the part of each of us. Only No organization such as ours experiences thus can we insure that the essential ele- instant reincarnation and glorification. Our ments of needed routines and of informa- progress is slow, hard, and stepwise. It is tion storage and retrieval, which we as spe- accomplished only by taking advantage of cial librarians practice every day, are not opportunities as they arise, and to the ex- twisted to fit the machine. Only with knowl- tent possible to us, of creating opportunities edge can we separate firm ground from blue ourselves. This cannot occur without a sky and make certain that the advantage is deeply personal and professional concern. I always on our side and properly exploited. am reminded now of the story of the chicken Our Association must continue to explore and the pig, good friends, who entered a the world of mechanization and automation, restaurant together for breakfast. The pro- travelling with new friends when appropri- prietor expressed regrets that his cupboards ate, and providing guidance at all needed were bare and he had nothing to serve. But levels. after a moment, he reflected that, yes, he At this Convention, consideration is being could provide breakfast for them all-ham given to several changes in our organization: and eggs. The chicken turned to her friend one relates to the Advisory Council, and an- the pig, saying "What about it? For me, it's other has to do with the Science-Technology just a contribution, but for you it's a real Division and its Sections. These changes sacrifice." have been studied at considerable length and Progress by our Association requires con- will, it is hoped, result in improved struc- tributions and it requires sacrifices. It re- tures. But let us not confuse improved struc- quires constructive reaching and thinking by tures with improved activity. It is all too all its members, so that our grasp of realities easy to blame inactivity on structure or on is effective. These elements are essential if lack of funds. It is ideas that count and hard the work of the Association is to be firmly work in implementing them; structures and based and have real significance in the fu- money are means, not ends. ture. Advisory Council Report

LORNA M. DANIELLS, Chairman

HIS HAS been an important year for the Ad Hoc Committee to Study the Composi- TAdvisory Council. its composition and tion of the Advisory Council. His report was effectiveness have been studied not only by followed by a lively and informative discus- its own members but by former members, by most Chapters, and also by SLA members as a whole. Whatever the outcome of these discussions, they will have served a useful purpose in spotlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of the Council and in emphasizing the need for active, interested participation of all its members.

Council Composition The question of Council composition was the principal order of business at the Advisory Council Chairman-Elect Herbert first of the two-day Mid-winter Meetings S. White and Advisory Council Chairman in Indianapolis, on February 11, 1965, when Lorna M. Daniells go over agenda with Herbert S. White presented the report of an Executive Director Bill M. Woods. SEPTEMBER 1965 sion in which many members of the Council Communication within Council took part. The fact that new as well as long- Four mailings were sent to Council mem- time members participated freely suggests bers this year.-~hefirst one, in August, was the importance attached to this problem. aimed primarily at new members-to give Toward the end, a show of hands indicated them a few background facts about the the majority favored reorganizing the Ad- Council and about their res~onsibilities. In visory Council to include both Chairmen November and again in March, members and Chairmen-Elect of Divisions and Presi- were notified of impending deadlines and dents and Presidents-Elect of Chapters, but given brief information about several mat- to exclude Committee Chairmen. ters under consideration or on which action Since that meeting, the Board of Directors has been taken. In May, a fourth memo gave has approved the necessary Bylaws changes data about the S~ecialClassifications Center. that such a reorganization would necessitate, This was in preparation for a discussion of and at the Annual Meeting of the Associa- the Center at the June 7 meeting. tion SLA members will consider this matter. Efforts were also made to alert officers- elect about the Council and its functions in Council Function an attempt to help them take over more Another subject being studied this year quickly next year as active and informed centers around the possibility that the Coun- members. They received selected notices and cil is not being used as fully or as effectively reports during the last part of the year, and as it might be both by the Council itself and they were urged to attend the Advisory by the Board of Directors. To look at this Council's Annual Meeting. The newly sched- problem the Advisory Council, at its Febru- uled half-day session for In-coming Chapter ary 11th meeting, appointed an Ad Hoc Presidents and Division Chairmen on the Committee to Suggest Areas of Responsibil- Sunday afternoon prior to Convention should ity and Study for the Advisory Council. The prove of most value in this effort. report of the Committee, with Efren Gon- zalez, Chairman, was presented at the An- Other Council Activities nual Meeting of the Council on June 7. Several other matters of importance were The Board of Directors has also recog- considered by the Council this year. At the nized an obligation for specifying some areas second of its two Mid-winter Meetings, on of Association interest that the Council can February 12, the Council heard a panel dis- consider. Last September it recommended cussion on membership requirements and that the Board study this matter. However it admission procedures. At the Annual Meet- decided later, at a meeting on February 13, ing in Philadelphia on Monday evening, to postpone deliberation until completion June 7, the Division Relations Committee of the Advisory Council's Ad Hoc Commit- Chairman presented a summary and analysis tee study. It is hoped that the Board will of the Science-Technology Division Section proceed with its investigation next year. structure and scope. There was also a report Another factor in the effective use of the of a users survey of the Special Classifications Council is that its meetings must be interest- Center, conducted by the Special Classifica- ing and meaningful. To make this possible, tions Committee. This was followed by an increased effort should be made to keep the open discussion among Council members of reading of reports at a minimum, with most the impact of the Special Classifications Cen- of the time reserved for working sessions ter on SLA. where important ideas, recommendations, problems, and questions are studied and dis- Personal Note cussed. Routine reports are not interesting It is especially important for this Chair- to hear and should be left for Advisory man to add a brief personal note of appre- Council members to read at their conven- ciation. Not having had the year of prepara- ience in the Proceedings issue of Special tion that this office usually affords, I have Libin1.ie.r. found it has been a very full and busy year- SPECIAL LIBRARIES a year of learning about SLA and about the Advisory Council; a year of becoming familiar with the several routines and of finding out how helpful the Headquarters staff can be; a year of meeting so many new people and discovering how kind and Committee Chairmen, Chapter Presidents, thoughtful they are; a year of revelation, and Division Chairman listened attentively made possible by the reading of Chapter and to the problems discussed at the Division bulletins, that there are many, many Council Meeting. people all the way up and down the line ticm of which we can all be proud! It has who have worked, and who are working, been a special pleasure to serve the Associa- very hard to make SLA the kind of Associa- tion this year.

JEAN E. FLEGAL

HE FINANCIAL statements of the Special Comparative Income and Expenditures for TLibraries Association for the year ending First Six Months September 30, 1964, together with the re- 1963-1964 1964-1965 port of Price Waterhouse & Co., certified public accountants, were published in "News Income $185,344 $199,669 Expenditures 111,394 and Notes" in Special Libm~ies, January 133,495 1965, page S-2. Balance $ 73,950 $ 66,174 The benefit of the dues increase (effective January 1, 1964) was evident in this report of the last full fiscal year. Income from dues The Association has increased its operat- was $32,640 greater than in the previous ing income, not only through increased dues, fiscal year. Other increases in income were but through its publications, income from shown by receipts from the Convention and the Convention, from the sale of mailing from Srietztific Meetings. The Association lists, and from interest on savings accounts. had one of its financially desirable years by We naturally are interested in what we receiving more income and spending little have been able to accomplish with this in- more than had been anticipated in the creased income. First, we must recognize budget. Totals for the year are: that general operating costs are increasing Actaal Budget for SLA as for everyone else-rent, supplies, equipment maintenance. This increase Income $229,099 $208,832 was modest in the last fiscal year, but is ac- Expense 212,431 212,239 -- celerating in the first six months of the current fiscal year. There has been a start toward $ 16,668 $ 3,407 balance anticipated deficit providing some long-overdue fringe benefits to the Association Headquarters staff. Because both income and expenditures are The increased income has contributed not evenly distributed throughout the year, more money for use in setting up standards, it is not possible to double these results to in recruitment, public relations, and publica- find the anticipated annual figures. tions activities-all helping to accomplish SEPTEMBER 1965 Comparative Fund Balances for First Six Months Mavch 31, 1964 March 31, 196J General fund General reserve fund Life membership fund Publications fund Scholarship & student loan fund Special Classifications Center fund Translations Center fund Translators & Translations, 2nd ed. fund Foreign publications agency fund Equipment reserve fund Motion picture fund Soviet exchange fund

Total

These figu1.e~ how an imrease of over $11,000 for the current year. the Goals for 1970. Lastly, the Divisions and over $850 (17 per cent) more than in the Chapters have benefited. In the last two year before the dues increase; and the Chap- years the Divisions have received a total of ters, over $2,660 (24 per cent) more.

Officers, staff, and guests at the Banquet head tables were: (back row) Rev. G. Hall Todd, Herbert S. White, Rev. Henry Scherer, William B. Hooker, John Harvey, W. Roy Holleman, Emerson Greenaway, Prof. John William Frey, Anthony Martin, William Beatty, Howard Haycraft, M. Richard Wilt, Kenneth Metcalf, Edward G. Strable; (middle row) Bill M. Woods, Mrs. Henry Scherer, Mrs. Ildiko Nowak, Mrs. Bill M. Woods, Mrs. Emerson Greenaway, Mrs. Florence Armstrong, Sonia Heyle, Mrs. John Harvey, William S. Budington, Grace Reynolds, Anne L. Nicholson, Marion Simmons, Janet Bogardus, Barbara Denison, Frank McKenna, Mrs. Marian Holleman; (front row) Mrs. Elizabeth Roth, Margaret Madden, Helene Dechief, Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, Mrs. Marie S. Goff, Alleen Thompson, Mrs. Ruth H. Hooker, Jean Flegal, Mrs. Dorothy B. Skau, Joan Hutchinson, Lorna Daniells

448 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Resolutions of Appreciation Adopted at the AnnGL~eetin~ Resolutions Reference Committee, BARBARA A. BEGG, Chairman

WHEREAS,the Association has been guided by a the second session on "Library Cooperation: Pana- President who exemplifies the spirit of cooperation cea or Pitfall?'; to all the other speakers who of the special librarian and who has furthered the contributed so much to the Convention, and to all Association by his friendliness and resolute atten- others who took part in panels and workshops for tion to our affairs: the Divisions and Committees; BE IT RESOI.VED:That the Special Libraries Asso- To Emerson Greenaway, Director, The Free Li- ciation hereby expresses its sincere gratitude to its brary of Philadelphia, for welcoming us to Phila- 1964-65 President, William S. Budington. delphia for the Honorable James H. J. Tate, BE IT RESOLVED:That in its awareness of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, and for toast- talent and enthusiasm and the inordinate amount mastering the annual Banquet ; of work required to plan and execute the 56th To the Convention Bureau of Philadelphia. James Annual Convention, the Association recognizes its Morrison, Director; debt to all who contributed, and especially to: To the students at the Moore School of Art for The Convention Chairman, Anne L. Nicholson, illustrations on the Convention and Banquet pro- whose calm and steady composure and organiza- grams and the lettering for the scrolls and place- tional ability culminated in a successful meeting in cards, and to Leon Brown, National Drug Com- this City of Brotherly Love; and to her administra- pany, for the signs; tion at Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation for grant- To Professor John William Frey, Franklin and ing her time for her Convention Duties. The Ex- Marshall College, for his entertaining "Pmnsyl- ecutive Committee and Convention Committee vania Dutch for Better or Worse," and we were whose Chairmen were: Exhibits, John G. Daley; sorry when the end too soon came; MLA Co-chairman, Elliott Morse; Hospitality, To all Philadelphia firms who cooperated, but Frances E. Parsons and Margaret M. Farrell; In- especially to: Institute for Scientific Information, formation, Jean M. Steever; Local Arrangements, the 3-M Company, and Drexel Institute of Tech- Barbara A. Begg; Meals and Banquet, Sylvia Heyl, nology; Catherine A. Mohr, and Helen Mary Pyle; Print- Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, and the Head- ing, Albert C. Gerould; Publicity, William B. quarters staff of Special Libraries Association for Saunders; Registration, Mrs. Dorothy S. Collins; invaluable support ; Transportation and Tours. Margaret M. Imbrie; The management of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Treasurer, Robert Giesecke and Dr. Ralph B. especially Franc Mauer, Mark Edgar, E. Teti, and Baker; and to all who assisted them; Joe Timperio for their great cooperation ; The Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and All exhibitors and their workers for providing Vicinity, Richard A. Davis, President, for hosting many new ideas and for displaying new materials the Convention, and to all the members of the and equipment to assist the special librarian in his Chapter, and their friends, for their work; goal for greater cooperation; The Convention Program Committee, Mrs. Jean G. And now in the words of Charles Brown and the Hopper, for the general sessions; and to all Divi- Pennsylvania Dutch-"Good grief, it's all." sion Chairmen and their local representatives for many activities in connection with the program; MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE A All university. public, and special libraries of QUESTIONNAIRE Philadelphia and vicinity for permitting visits by SLA members during this Convention; Individual questionnaires for "Who's Dr. Henry J. Cadbury, Professor Emeritus of Har- Who in Library Service," 4th edi- vard University, for the invocation at the Opening tion, sponsored by the Council of Session; and to Reverend G. Hall Todd, Arch National Library Associations, were Street Presbyterian Church, for the invocation at sent to all American and Canadian the Banquet; librarians, archivists, and informa- Gordon R. Williams, Director, Center for Re- tion specialists early in September. search Libraries, for the keynote address on "Li- brary Cooperation and Its Future"; If readers have not received their Rose L. Vormelker for acting as moderator and questionnaires by October 1, they Burton E. Lamkin, Harry Baum, Mrs. Shirley W. should write IMMEDIATELY to Bolles, Michel 0. Freidlander, and Stanley J. "Who's Who in Library Service," Slote for presenting papers at the first General The Shoe String Press, 60 Con- Session; and to Samuel Sass for acting as moder- nolly Parkway, Hamden, Connecti- ator and to Charles R. Nelson, Dr. Richard H. cut 065 14. Logsdon, and Scott Adams as panel members for SEPTEMBER 1965 Annual JOAN HUTCHINSON HE ANNUALMEETING of Special Li- from these various achievements will be im- Tbraries Association was held in the Crys- portant. He suggested that the Association tal Ballroom of the Benjamin Franklin Ho- become more interested in legislation relat- tel in Philadelphia on June 9, 1965, at 9:10 ing to libraries. In addition the service pro- a.m. under the chairmanship of William S. grams plus other activities of the Associa- Budington, President. Mrs. Samuel J. Mc- tion should be studied. Cartney was Parliamentarian. Jean Flegal, Treasurer, reported that op- Mr. Budington, in his presidential mes- erating income had increased and that Chap- sage, summarized the major SLA achieve- ters and Divisions had benefited. Once again ments, which were the publication of "Ob- a favorable balance was reported. jectives and Standards for Special Libraries," Lorna Daniells reported that at the Mid- sponsorship of first Annual Forum on Winter Advisory Council Meeting in In- Education for Special Librarianship, and dianapolis the composition and effectiveness self-evaluation of various units of the Asso- of the Advisory Council were studied and ciation. He indicated that expected feedback recommendations were made. In addition an Ad Hoc Committee was appointed to suggest areas of responsibility and study for the Advisory Council. Margaret Madden summarized her report as Chapter Liaison Officer, noting that all 33 Mrs. Gloria Evans re- Chapter Bylaws have been approved and ac- ported on the activities cepted, a survey of the geographic distribu- of the Consultation tion of the Chapters is well underway, and Service Committee. cited some of the various activities of the Chapters. Dr. Frank McKenna, Division Liaison Barbara A. Begg read Officer, reported that all Divisions now have the Resolutions of Ap- Bylaws. The Advertising Division is now preciation, which gave Advertising and Marketing Division, and credit to all those who the Aerospace Division came into being dur- made the Convention a ~ngthe Convention. success. Professor Ruth Leonard presented the report of the Professional standards Commit- tee in the absence of its Chairman, Agnes Election results for the Brite. She explained the method and pur- 1965-66 Association officers were reported by pose of writing the profiles to accompany Mrs. Rita L. Goodemote the "Objectives and Standards for Special for Elizabeth Mulhall, Libraries." At the present time these are in Chairman of the Tellers draft form, and it is hoped that they will be Committee. published shortly. Lois Brock advised that the SLA Classifi- cations Center is operating on a National Science Foundation grant that will terminate Mrs. Margaret H. Fuller at the end of 1965 in respect to supporting read the many-sectioned motions to amend the the service function. Consequently the Di- Association's Bylaws, rector of the Center was authorized to de- all of which termine gaps in the collection and fill these, were approved. to issue a revised guide to the holdings, 450 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Meeting Seven scholarship win- Secretary ners were announced by Chairman of the Scholar- to formalize the consultant files as a referral ship and Student Loan index, and to issue a special newsletter. A Fund Committee, Mrs. users' questionnaire indicated that material Dorothy McNutt. received upon request was of general background value and some users would be willing to pay for service from the Center. Janet Bogardus, Chairman of the Finance Committee, moved the adoption of the fol- Efren Gonzalez an- lowing amendment to Section 2 of the Gen- nounced the progress eral Reserve Fund policy (as amended and problems of the Motion Picture Com- 1960) : "There shall be $100,000 limit on mittee of which he is the General Reserve Fund. Interest on the Chairman. principal shall accrue to the Fund. In addition, the Board of Directors on recommendation of the Finance Committee, may add funds from other sources to the Gen- eral Reserve Fund, when the Board believes The Special Classifica- this use of such funds to be in the best in- tions Committee report terests of the Association." No second was was read by Lois Brock required since it was a motion from the for Chairman Meredith Committee. The vote was called for and the S. Wright. motion was carried. James Soule of the Minnesota Chapter invited all to attend the 1966 SLA convention in Minneapolis. During the following discussion Mrs. Margaret Sloane asked about the exact plans The financial health of for the motion picture, and Efren Gonzalez the Association was attested to by Janet Bo- reviewed the motion picture project to date. gardus, Chairman of the Mrs. Elizabeth Owens then stated her con- Finance Committee. cern about what SLA is getting out of the Scholarship Fund money and suggested that some strings requiring recipients to work in ported by the Professional Standards Com- special libraries for a certain period of time mittee, consideration be given to profiles for be considered. Portia Christian stated that larger libraries as well as small and medium the Indiana Library Association requires that sized libraries. its scholarship recipients work one year in Alleen Thompson, newly elected Presi- an Indiana library of any type or repay the dent, used the theme, "Where do we go loan within a long period of time at a very from here?" in her presidential talk. She low rate of interest. Mr. Budington then re- pointed out that the Association should take ported the results of a survey of scholarship a hard look at proposed programs and rec- winners. The survey is incomplete but shows ommended self-examination to determine that since 1955, 46 scholarships have been future direction of effort. awarded. Information, as known, about Dr. Frank McKenna, the new President- those working in special libraries and be- Elect, moved a demonstration of apprecia- longing to SLA was reported. Charles Funk tion to retiring members of the Board. suggested that in writing the profiles re- The meeting subsequently was adjourned. SEPTEMBER 1965 45 1 1965-66 SLA Scholarship Winners

Eileen E. Hanle Saralyn Ingram

Mrs. Judith L. McEntyre Patricia J. Pannier Mary C. Walsh

Victoria S. Potts Hannah R. Rotman

EILEENE. HANLEreceived a B.S. in chemistry from Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, in June. She will attend the library school at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. SARALYNINGRAM attended Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, Kentucky, and this June received a B.A. in English and Library Science from Murray State College, Kentucky. She has been accepted at the Florida State University Library School, Talla- hassee. MRS. JUDITHL. MCENTYREreceived a B.A. in general science and education from Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, and an M.S.T. in general biology from Cornell University. She will enter the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, this fall. PATRICIAJ. PANNIERreceived a B.S. cum laude in chemistry from St. Lawrence Uni- versity, Canton, New York, and also attended evening courses in mathematics and library science at the University of Pittsburgh. She has been accepted by the School of Librarian- ship at the University of Denver. VICTORIAS. POTTShas an A.A. in library science from Gulf Coast Junior College, Pan- ama City, Florida, and in August 1965 received a B.A. in German from Florida State University, Tallahassee. She has been accepted at Florida State University Library School beginning in September 1965. HANNAHR. ROTMANgraduated with a B.S. in education and a major in architecture from Ohio State University, Columbus. She will attend the Graduate School of Library Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1966. MARYC. WALSHreceived a B.A. in chemistry from Ursuline College for Women, Cleveland, this June and will attend the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago in the fall. 452 SPECIAL LIBRARIES SLA Professional Award Ruth S. Leonard, Associate Pro- fessor at the School of Library Science, Simmons College, Bos- ton, received the SLA Professional Award, the Association's highest- honor, in recognition of her contributions to the field of special librarianship as a teacher, adviser, and writer- of the Association's recently issued Objectives alzd Standnrds for Special Librarie~. The presentation has made at the banquet of the 56th SLA Conven- tion, June 8. In presenting a scroll

and an engravedu silver trav to Miss Leonard, SLA President William S. Budington praised her achievements with these words: "Many a librarian, special or otherwise, owes his initial grounding in librarianship to your skillful and effective teaching. To this very considerable contribution, you have added yet another, which stands as a landmark in the development of our profession. For some years, we have wished to codify the basic requirements for excellence in special librarianship and information service, to provide a succinct statement which would serve as a standard in our work. To this task you brought willingness and zeal and the determination to see the job through. From a welter of drafts and changing advice, you constructed the Association's Objectives and Standards for Special Libraries, doing so by the application of high professional judgment and clear thinking. Your beneficiaries are legion-including students and seasoned practitioners, managements, and consultants. With these sound beginnings, we can move on to further statements as they are deemed appropriate." Miss Leonard, a native Bostonian who received a S.B. at Simmons College and an M.S. at Columbia University, has taught at Simmons since 1937 and has been an Associ- ate Professor since 1948. She has also conducted workshops, organized several schools of nursing libraries, and is a member of a number of library associations. Newspaper Division's First Jack K. Burness Award Chester M. Lewis, General Service Manager and Chief Librarian of the New York Times, has received the first annual Jack K. Burness Memorial Award for distinguished newspaper librarianship. Chester W. Sanger, Chief Librarian of The Cbri~tian Sciezce iMolzitor and Chairman of the Board of the Jack K. Burness Memorial Award, presented Mr. Lewis with $500 and a copper engraved plaque on a walnut base at a special cere- mony on June 10, 1965. The award recognized Mr. Lewis' SEPTEMBER 1965 453 over-all accomplishments in the newspaper library field as well as his specific achievements during 1964. He was cited for his efficient administration of The New York Times library, which has a staff of 49 persons with annual salaries totaling nearly $200,000 and handles nearly 1,000 information requests daily from the public and the 1,000 persons served on the Times staff. In addition, Mr. Lewis was recognized for his work to improve microfilming and storage of newspaper records and toUapply computers and other information retrieval developments to the needs of the newspaper library. The award also recognized his career, which has included the position of President of the Special Libraries Association, Chairman of the Newspaper Division, a fellowship in the Na- tional Microfilm Association, and the authorship of several publications. The Jack K. Burness Memorial Award was established in the name of the man who served for nearly 30 years as Chief Librarian for The Washiizgton Post and who died

in 1963 after a short illness. Funds for the award are donated to the tax-exem~tL oreaniza- u tion by newspapers, librarians, and individuals to honor each year the newspaper library employee who has administered a newspaper library so as to extend its usefulness as a repository and distributor of information, introduced techniques that can advance the general usefulness of newspaper libraries, or contributed to wider public understanding of the newspaper library's role as the institutional memory of the press.

Geography- - and Map Division Award Esther Ann Manion, Head Li- brarian at the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., received the Special Libraries Asso- ciation Geography and Map Di- vision's Honors Award for 1965 for her outstanding contributions to geography and map librarianship. In presenting the scroll at the Division luncheon, Wednes- day, June 9, Dr. Arch C. Gerlach, Chief of the Map Division at the Library of Congress and Past- Chairman of the Division, cited Miss Manion as one who has "created, with vision and judgment, one of the world's finest libraries in the fields of geography, exploration, and mapping. Two generations of National Geographic writers and photographers as well as countless individual scholars and research staff members from government agencies, commercial firms, and educational institutions have found Miss Manion to be a most astute and willing research aid, both in preparing for assignments and in following them through to completion. Her phenomenal memory for both publications and people has become legendary, and she will retire this year from her position as Head Librarian of the Society amidst deep regrets and fond good wishes from her colleagues throughout the profession." Miss Manion, who is a charter member of the Washington, D. C. Chapter and one of the organizers of the Geography and Map Group there, joined the National Geographic staff in 1922 and became Head Librarian in 1946. She was also one of the first administrative staff members included on the National Geographic's masthead. Miss Manion studied geography at Clark University and received her degree in library science and a master's degree in geography from George Washington University. She has made the research library a vital part of the Society's editorial programs and service to the public. 454 SPECIAL LIBRARIES SLA Hall of Fame Two members have been honored by election to the SLA Hall of Fame. This recognition is granted for outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the Special Li- braries Association and is offered following completion of an active professional career or near the date of announced retirement. Mrs. Goff and Mrs. Hooker smile happily over SLA honor.

MARIE SIMON GOFF Librarian, Technical Library, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Dela- ware, 1925-1965 Home Address: 2103 Franklin Street, Wilmington, Delaware Member, International Relations Committee, 1942-1944 Member, Membership Committee, 1944 Chairman, Chemistry Section of Science-Technology Division, 1951-1952 President, Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity, 1950-1951 Chairman, Nominating Committee, 1952-1953; Member 1953-1954 Member, Editorial Board of Special Libraries, 1954-1955 Member, Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Committee, 1955-1957 Member, Professional Standards Committee, 1956-1960; Chairman 1957-1958 Chairman, Admissions Committee, 1958-1960 Member, Business and Finance Division Committee on Sources of Commodity Prices. 1956- 1959 Special Achievement Award of Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity, 1962 SLA Member, 1925-date RUTH H. HOOKER Librarian, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C., 1930-1965 Home Address: 3385 Highview Terrace, S.E., Washington, D. C. Charter member, Washington, D. C. Chapter, 1940 Treasurer, Washington, D. C. Chapter, 1940-1942 President, Washington, D. C. Chapter, 1945-1948 Chairman, Committee on Translations, Science-Technology Division, 1947 Mernber, Committee on Committees, 1947-1948 SLA Second Vice-president, 1947-1948 SLA First Vice-president, 1948-1949 SLA President, 1949-1950 Mernber, Documentation Committee, 1953-1954; Chairman, 1954-1956 SLA Representative, CNLA Committee for Protection of Cultural and Scientific Resources, 195-1-1958 Member, Committee on Organization Structure, 1955-1956 SLA Representative, Joint Committee on the Union List of Serials, 1957-1960 SLA Representative, Library of Congress Committee for Public Law 480, 1959-1964 Chairman, Convention Hospitality Committee, 1961-1962 Member, Professional Standards Subcommittee on a Code of Ethics, 1964-1965 SLA Member, 1930-date SEPTEMBER 1965 Executive Director's Report

BILL M. WOODS

ANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS can be re- permission has been given to reproduce them M ported for Special Libraries Associa- in a New York State Library report on in- tion during 1964-1965. Without question, stitutional libraries and to have them trans- the most significant was the publication in lated into Japanese by the Japan Library As- the December 1964 Special Libraries, and sociation. Six profiles of special libraries are later as a reprint, a ten-page item, Objectiz~es also being prepared by Ruth S. Leonard, and Standavds for Special Librarie~. It Consultant on Standards, under the super- seemed important that this document be put vision of the Professional Standards Com- in the hands of as many appropriate persons mittee, and will be published later. as possible. In addition to distribution to members through the journal, copies have Membership and Admissions been sent to Association officers, the library For the fifth straight year an increase in press, professional consultants, student mem- membership can be reported. The Decem- bers, and library schools; to 1,500 selected managements in leading companies, muse- ber 31, 1964 total was 6,103, an all-time ums, newspapers, trade and professional as- high, as compared to 6,091 in 1963 and sociations, government agencies, state, pub- 5,733 in 1962. Although this increase was lic, and university libraries, and founda- slight, it did prove correct the 1963 predic- tions; and to members of the Association tions of the Finance Committee that the of Consulting Management Engineers. In January 1, 1964 increase in dues would have answer to 705 separate requests, a total of little effect on membership. 4,275 of the 5,000 reprints had been dis- Some recent comparative figures for the tributed by May 1965 and required a reorder end of the year and for April 30 and Sep- of 2,000 additional copies. The Standavd~ tember 30, when official counts for fiscal and were reprinted in the 1965 Bou~kevAnnnal statistical purposes were taken, should prove of Libravj and Book Trade Infor.nzation, and of interest:

Comparative Membership Statistics I960 April 30 4,987* September 30 5,403 December 3 1 5,404

* March 31st

Active Active (Paid for Life) Associate Affiliate Student Emeritus Honorary Sustaining

Total SPECIAL LIBRARIES Latest available membership figures are and the procedures mandated by the Bylaws, for April 30, 1965, when 5,841 members it becomes easier each year. The Admissions in all classes were reported, 144 more than Committee has provided over-all guidance a year ago. By May 31, 1965, this had in- and considered specifically 43 difficult ap- creased to an unofficial 5,884. (1964 and plications. 1965 figures are for April 30; others are for In the past year, a total of 42 applications the date of the Annual Report.) were denied, 31 due to a lack of sufficient During the report year, a total of 1,035 education or experience, six as the applicants new or reinstated members were accepted were not professionally employed at the and billed, including 709 since January 1, time of application, and six did not meet 1965. Some 808 have paid (506 since Jan- requirements for personal membership. The uary) and their memberships activated. definitions of Special Library and Informa- Assignment by class of membership in tion Center formulated by the Bylaws Com- 1964 and 1965 was as follows: mittee and approved by the Board of Di- rectors will provide progressive guidance. June-December 1964 January-May 196J The recently published Special Libraries Active 9 5 172 and Information Centers; a Stati~tical Re- Associate 120 214 port on Special Library Resources in the Student 78 257 United States by Anthony T. Kruzas indi- Affiliate 29 58 cates a total of 12,212 professional librarians Sustaining 4 8 - - working in 5,511 of the 8,533 libraries in- Total 326 709 cluded. Less than one-half of these special librarians are represented in the membership In addition to extensive processing of new of the Association! How many might join if memberships, considerable time is spent in an intensive membership drive were to be the dropping from membership on March conducted ? 31 each year (as required by the Bylaws) Perhaps the year ahead, after slow prog- those who have not paid their dues. There ress, will see the Sustaining membership were 784 such "drops" this year, although, plans take shape. A brochure has been as is usual, many are reinstated in the two planned by the Membership Committee and or three months following. will be produced in the months ahead. 137 Still another aspect of the admissions pro- Sustaining members were enrolled in De- cedure is the review of Associate and Stu- cember 1964. The present figure is 135, five dent memberships. This year possible quali- higher than one year ago. fication of 250 Associate members for Active membership needed to be determined. Of Finances that number, 62 had been dropped for non- An ambitious and aggressive Association payment of dues and four had resigned so never has enough money to support all the that Associate Review notices were mailed on plans of its officers, staff, committees, and October 8, 1964, to 184 persons. Of that members. Such is true of Special Libraries number, 118 were determined to be eligible Association. Although in 1963-64, and for for Active (all but 16 have paid), while 20 the third straight year, the annual auditor's did not possess the necessary qualifications report revealed a healthy excess of income for promotion to Active (only three have collected over expenses disbursed, the remained members). Second notices were 1964-65 general operating budget is a defi- mailed on February 26, 1965, to 63 per- cit budget. Total income for general opera- sons. 38 have not responded to either notice tions in 1963-64 increased to $229,098.75 while two resigned and did not return the from $188,320.19 as did expenses, from review form. $183,925.80 to $212,430.54. The final ac- Although there is still some lack of un- counting produced an excess of income over derstanding and/or appreciation of the mem- expenses, including transfers between funds, bership requirements for SLA membership of $19,120.37. As originally approved by SEPTEMBER 1965 the Board in September, the 1964-65 budget brarianship), and the General Reserve and provided for expenditures of $242,309 and the Equipment Reserve funds. Disburse- income of $242,363. Since that time an addi- ments from these funds totaled $122,096.54, tional $1,250 has been approved, presently while income (excluding transfers between $243,559. Income, too, is likely to be in- funds) was $132,089.91. creased. In fact, during the first six months Total income for all activities in 1963-64 of the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1964, then was $361,188.66 and expenses $334,- it was $199,668.93, or an increase of $14,- 527.08. Total assets on September 30, 1964, 344.89 over a year ago. Expenses, too, were were $231,814.55 compared to $200,201.59 higher as the budget anticipated, $133,- a year before; $306,140.76 on March 31, 949.59 compared to $111,393.63 a year ago, 1965, and $295,057.73 on that date in 1764. or $22,555.96 greater. At the end of March Income from membership dues and fees 1965 there was an excess of income over for the period October 1, 1964, through the expenditures of $65,719.34 ($73,950.41 in end of May 1965, is lower than it was in 1963-64), or $8,231.07 less. 1964-65, $121,395.55 compared to $124,- For a number of reasons it has been found 123.90. More than $11,000 more is needed convenient to separate from the general op- by the end of September to meet the budg- erations (reported in the General Fund) a eted figure. The lower total of Active mem- number of activities. These are reported sep- bers suggests once again the need for an arately in some detail in the auditor's report aggressive membership campaign among (see News a~zdNotes, January 1965) in an qualified special librarians. SLA in the first additional 11 funds for the Publications six months of its fiscal year expends ap- (nonserial), Translations Center, Special proximately 55 per cent of the annual total, Classifications Center, Scholarship and Stu- while in the same period receives something dent Loan, Motion Picture, Translators and like 82 per cent of its income. Tramlations, Soviet Exchange, Foreign Pub- Principal investments of the Association lications Agency (Aslib), Life Membership are held in mutual funds and in savings and (John Cotton Dana Lectures in Special Li- loan associations. The current status:

General Reserve Fund MUTUALFUNDS Stein, Roe & Farnham Balanced Fund, Inc. July 27, 1961 129 shares at $38.64 Earnings of $367.45 reinvested 158.610 shares held April 30, 1965 Current price Loomis-Sayles Mutual Funds December 7, 1961 290 shares at $17.23 Earnings of $386.64 reinvested 350.9927 shares held April 30, 1965 Current price Johnston Mutual Fund, Inc. December 8, 1961 318.066 shares at $15.72 Earnings of $287.86 reinvested 367.358 shares held April 30, 1965 Current price Stein, Roe & Farnham Stock Fund February 28, 1962 146 shares at $34.08 Earnings of $277.15 reinvested 157.287 shares held April 30, 1965 Current price Scudder, Stevens & Clark Fund, Inc. February 28, 1962 244.499 shares at $20.45 May 23, 1962 271.50 shares at $18.44 Earnings of $1,452.05 reinvested 646.777 shares held April 30, 1965 Current price Total value of marketable securities on May 31, 1965 was $37,967.96. 458 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Interest Earned June 1, 1964 to Interest Rate May 31, 1965 American 4.85 $485.00 Lytton 4.97 192.60 Sterling 4.85 200.08 Equipment Reserve Fund Fourth Federal S & LA 4.30 General Fund First National City 4.00 West Side S & LA 4.30 Life Membership Fund Central Savings 4.25 Publications Fund California Federal S & LA 4.8 Central Savings 4.25 Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Central Savings 4.25 Home Mutual S & LA 4.85 Motion Picture Fund Manhattan Savings Bank 4.25

Publications guage, geographical location, publications, Publishing is a major part of the Associa- national and international information cen- tion's professional program and each year ters, depositories, and affiliated societies. An includes several books, a variety of profes- extensive promotion campaign was planned, sional journals and serial service publica- 600 news releases were mailed to editors of tions, and a sizeable number of news bul- scientific, technical, and library journals letins. throughout the world, nearly 6,000 direct mail pieces were distributed, and review Books copies were sent to editors of leading jour- Two books were published during the nals. year, a third will be published shortly, three During the first two weeks of July prac- more are in stages of production, and still tically all Association Headquarters staff others are imminent. participated in the alphabetizing operation The major publication achievement was necessary for the preparation of Dzrectory issuance of the second edition of Tramlators of il/lembers as of July 15, 1964. Some 105 alzd Tra~slations:Services and Sources in man-hours were required. Approximately Science and Technology. This directory rep- $1,945 worth of advertising was solicited to resents over three years of hard work by a help defray production costs. The Directory dedicated editor, Frances E. Kaiser, and the was published on September 25 and is being cooperation of many persons at the Georgia sold to members for $2.50 and to nonmem- Institute of Technology and within the As- bers for $10.00. sociation. Priced at $14.50, the 224-page Dr. Anthony T. Kruzas' history, Bminess directory was published in mid-May and and I?zdustrial Libraries in the United States, provides detailed information on 470 free- 1820-1940, was edited, indexed, and proof- lance translators, 87 commercial translating read during the spring, and copies are firms, 342 pools and other sources of trans- expected from the printer shortly. The In- lation information, and 194 bibliographies surance Division's Sources of Znsuvance and lists of translated literature. There are Statistics, which was edited by Elizabeth computer-produced indexes for subject, lan- Ferguson, has been copy-edited and is ready SEPTEMBER 1965 for final composition. The completed manu- In the twelve-month period ending May script of the second edition of Guide to 31, the sale of 5,732 books produced an in- Metallurgical Information, a project of the come of $30,516.37. Sales during the next Metals/Materials Division, compiled by year should reach a new high as six or seven Eleanor Gibson, has been reviewed and new titles are certain to be published in a approved by the Nonserial Publications six-month period. 189 copies of Aslib pub- Committee, and awaits copy-editing. The lications were sold under the cooperative Chemistry Section's Germatz Chemical Ab- sales arrangement. breviations, compiled by Donald Gholston Royalties, 30 per cent of net profits, are and Roger Martin, has been completed and paid to sponsoring Chapters, Divisions, currently is being reviewed. All three titles Groups, and Sections with $3,968.1 1 paid in should be issued by late summer or early 1963-64 (see tables below). fall. Another work in the final stages of prep- Special Libraries aration is the Illinois Chapter's Special Li- braries: a Guide for iManageme?zt. The Contents Nonserial Publications Committee has re- Sixty-six full-length articles have been viewed six new projects during the year. published in Special Libral,ies since June Two were rejected, two were approved and 1964. Thirty-one of these were solicited by are underway, and two are still being con- the Editor or guest editors, 16 emanated sidered. Picture Sourcer, second edition, was from the Annual Convention (41 papers selected by the American Library Associa- reviewed, 25 rejected, 16 accepted, 58 speak- tion as one of the 100 outstanding reference ers or panelists had no formal paper), 13 books of 1964. were unsolicited manuscripts accepted by

1963-64 Royalty Payments Insurance Division National Insurance Osgani~atiom $ 5.16 Georgia Chapter Translators and T~~~nslations,1st ed. 31.50 Picture Division Picture Sources (1st and 2nd ed.) 757.25 Business & Finance Division Sources of Conzmodity Prices 22.80 Metals/Materials Division Guide to Metallurgical Information 70.38 Petroleum Section Sources of Petroleum Statistics 38.88 Advertising Group, New York Chapter Guide to Special Issues 219.85 Rio Grande Chapter Dictionary of Report Series Codes 564.71 Business and Finance Division Directory of Business & Financial Services 736.04 New York Chapter Special Libraries: How to Plan and Equip Them 1,157.04 Advertising Division Subject Headings in Advertising, Marketing, and Communications Media 364.50

Sale of Recently-Issued Publications to May 31, 1965 Date Copies Copies Copies Pu blished Printed Sold Given Profit Directory of Business and Fi?zancial Services March 1963 3,100 1,905 Special Libraries: How to Plan and Equip Them Sept. 1963 4,581 2,465 Literature of Executiz~e Management Sept. 1963 5,063 1,241 Picture Sources, 2nd ed. March 1964 4,516 1,870 Subject Headings in Advertis- i~zg,Marketing, and Corn- nzunications Media May 1964 800 717 Directory of Members, 1964 Sept. 1964 998 688 SPECIAL LIBRARIES the Special Libraries Committee, two were Adz'ertising presented at the Metals/Materials Division's Income from advertising from July 1964 Fall Meeting, two were presented at Chapter through May 1965 totalled $26,117.37, an meetings, and three were presented to the increase of $7,091.82 over the same period Special Libraries Section of the International last year. This increase in income also in- Federation of Library Associations. In the creased the number of pages of advertising past year the Special Libraries Committee has by 49. The May-June issue was the fullest reviewed 85 manuscripts; 28 were accepted with 34 l/g pages. As would be expected, for publication, 49 were rejected, and eight this increase in advertising permitted the authors were asked to revise or submit their journal to increase its over-all annual pagina- papers to more appropriate journals. Thirty- tion by 60 pages. For the first time, contracts seven short features and reports of confer- for all five preferred positions are held for ences appeared, including three innovations the entire calendar year. -summaries of entries for the H. W. Wil- son Company Chapter Award, abstracts of Cir.culation the 1964 John Cotton Dana Lectures, and All members of the Association except "Is This a Problem?" In the Off the Press Student members receive Special Libraries as section more than 26 pages were given to a part of their membership. 239 students "Recent References" and 15 full-length book subscribe at the special rate of $2.00 in addi- reviews appeared. tion to their membership dues. There were The July-August issue commemorated the 2,093 separate subscriptions this year com- Association's 55th Anniversary with histor- pared to 1,885 a year ago. The average print ical and personal accounts of SLA's early order for the ten issues was 8,790. years and a detailed chronology of events, activities, publications, and awards. "Ob- News and Notes jectives and Standards for Special Libraries" News ad Notes, published quarterly in was published in the December issue and a July, November, January, and March, ap- round-up of opinion about it in March. The peared as a colored supplement to Special September Proceedings issue broke all pre- Libraries and carried news of the Associa- vious records for length and amount of ad- tion. It is received by all members. vertising for the second consecutive year- 128 pages, including 27 1/4 pages of adver- Scientific Meetings tising. Association Headquarters has responsibil- Three other special issues have appeared ity for the three issues each year of Scientific since last June. The Picture Division spon- Meetings. The Executive Director conferred sored the January issue on picture and art in Del Mar, California, in October with the librarianship. Its Chairman, Mrs. Helen Editor. The number of subscriptions is 1,075, Faye, was guest editor and, as befitted the an increase of 62 over 1964. subject, the text was profusely illustrated with a wide variety of pictures. Technical Book Review Index February was devoted to special libraries An October meeting of the TBRI Com- outside North America and stressed the mittee, Editor, and the Executive Director in problems encountered by consultants setting Pittsburgh reviewed plans for its continued up special libraries and the part of the Spe- improvement. Subscriptions in May 1965 cial Libraries Section of IFLA may play in included a total of 1,849, an increase over developing special librarianship around the 1,715 a year ago. world. Robert W. Gibson, Jr., served as guest editor for the March issue, sponsored by Unlisted Drugs the Metals/Materials Division and explained A contract was signed in early February the expanding scope of the metals/materials for the editing and publishing of Udisted field and the Division's related activities and Drugs by Boris R. Anzlowar. He will also concerns. handle the advertising program while Asso- SEPTEMBER 1965 461 ciation Headquarters will continue subscrip- Librarianship were given in 1964. Copies or tion management for the sponsors, the Phar- tape recordings of these talks have been maceutical Section. 686 subscriptions were noted in a recently prepared list and may be current on May 31, 1965, at the new in- borrowed on loan from Association Head- creased annual price of $20.00. A new proc- quarters. Extensive quantities of recruitment essed promotional piece prepared in the material were contributed for several meet- spring will be used to solicit new subscrip- ings and especially for the CNLA-sponsored tions. exhibit at the American Personnel and Guid- ance Association meeting in Minneapolis in Recruitment April. Another accomplishment which can best be reported quantitatively is the distribution Scholarships and Student Loans of literature designed to tell qualified young This year for the first time all processing women and men why they should consider of scholarship and loan applications was special librarianship as a career. In response handled by Association Headquarters. The to 4,270 separate requests, 48,145 items were Committee does all review and makes rec- sent. ommendations to the Board of Directors. Special Librarianship: Information Scholarship information was requested by at Work 22,825 575 persons, 399 scholarship applications What is a Special Librarian? 15,000 were sent, 76 applications were returned Data Sheets and processed for the Committee. Payment Single sheets 4,490 of ten $1,000 1964 scholarships was han- Collated sets (21 pages) 5,800 dled and announcement made for seven Posters 30 $1,000 1965 scholarships. Details of two new loans, two applications still pending, An article, "The Crying Need for Librar- and six earlier loans ($3,039 outstanding) ians," which appeared in Kiplinger's Charzg- were given attention. Total donations to the ing Tivze~in August, stimulated a flood of Scholarship and Student Loan Fund for the requests for recruitment materials. year ending April 30, 1965 were $9,196.99. The first item noted above was reprinted Individual members gave $1,447.40 ; $210.00 in 40,000 copies in November, the Data was received from memorial donations ; Sheets were reprinted in December (3,000 Chapters sent $430.15 ; the Convention-time colored sets) and again in March (5,000 scholarship ride on the "Admiral" spon- sets back-to-back on white paper with col- sored by the Metals/Materials Division pro- ored cover sheet), and "Whd' in 40,000 duced $2,059.44; $100.00 came from Sec- copies in June 1964. An issue of the Re- tions ; while outside organizations contributed cr.uifnzent Newsletter was issued in March. $4,950.00 including $4,000 from the H. W. Seven John Cotton Dana Lectures in Special Wilson Foundation. A study of present pro- 462 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Placement Activities: May 1, 1964-April 30, 1965 CHAPTERS HEADQUARTERS 7963-4 1964-5 TOTAL -- 1963-4 196$-j (25) (21) 1963-4 1964-3 New positions 438 292 216 9 1 651 Positions listed 4/30 499408 426 87 8 2 495 508 New applicants 362 332 505 435 867 767 Applicants listed 4/30 256 316 252 226 5 08 542 Placements 46 33 5 0 3 7 96 70

Under $5,000 1 $ 5,000-5,999 8 2 6,000-6,999 12 13 7,000-7,999 8 4 8,000-8,999 6 2 10,000 and over 5 2 Not reported 1 10 fessional status of 46 earlier scholarship were conducted at Association Headquarters winners since 1955 has been made and will and approximately 200 were scheduled dur- be reported separately. Status of 26 recipi- ing the St. Louis Convention. As the Service ents of loans made since 1939 will also be becomes more dispersed and all applicants researched. receive word of openings, it also becomes more difficult to collect statistics on place- Placement Service ments and placement salaries. The shortage of qualified personnel for special libraries is as acute as at anytime in Conventions the past. The clearinghouse function of the A major activity of the Association is the SLA Placement Service was performed by Annual Convention and one requiring the volunteer Employment Chairmen in 32 major attention of the Executive Director Chapters and by Association Headquarters. and other staff working closely with the Some 43 Placement Lists have been issued Convention Chairman and his Committees. beginning with one prepared for the June Visits to Philadelphia in connection with 1964 St. Louis Annual Convention, 22 regu- the 1965 Convention were made in No- lar and 20 special lists. These lists have de- vember and April, and in October in plan- scribed 438 professional positions and an ning of other Annual Conventions to Min- additional 34 part-time, sub-professional, neapolis (1966), Los Angeles (1968), and and temporary positions. Professional posi- Seattle (1971), and to Hartford (1975) in tions were listed at these salaries: March, and two sessions in New York for 1963-1964 1964-1965 the 1967 Convention. Registration for the 1964 St. Louis Convention was 1,178. The $ 5,000- 5,999 9 3 3 6 exhibit program included 69 exhibitors in 6,000- 6,999 109 118 7,000- 7,999 56 80 80 booths. Total profits were $10,567.77. 8,000- 8,999 44 4 2 The 1965 Philadelphia Convention mcluded 9,000- 9,999 2 1 16 68 exhibitors using 79 booths for which 10,000-10,999 5 18 a printed exhibit brochure was compiled 11,000 and over 9 13 for the first time. Preparation of the Not reported 80 115 1965 Convention Program was assigned to Another function of the Placement Serv- Association Headquarters ; an 80-page book- ice is to conduct interviews both with ap- let containing 16 1/2 pages of advertising plicants and employers. Some 180 interviews was produced. SEPTEMBER 1965 Consultation Service from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific The Ccnsultation Service is another coop- and Technical Information (formerly OTS) . erative service of the Association in which The Executive Director conferred with the Committee members, Chapter Consultation Chief of the Center, Crerar administrators, Officers, Professional Consultants, and As- the Committee, and grant and contract au- sociation Headquarters participate. Accom- thorities during two visits to Chicago and plishments are reported in detail by the Con- two to Washington, and along with the sultation Service Committee. Association President, attended the dedication of the Headquarters received and made 53 referrals Clearinghouse in January. to the one-day courtesy service provided by Chapters and six referrals were made to 32 Public Relations Professional Consultants (29 different indi- Public relations is many things. Described viduals). here are a few techniques used by the As- sociation in an attempt to promote special Special Classifications Center librarianship. A second grant of $11,720 for support of Pvon~otiozalMaterials the Special Classifications Center was re- Four of the informational brochures were ceived from the National Science Founda- revised and up-dated: Activities and Organ- tion in February. Principal attention is being ization, Technical Book Review Index, given by several Committees to continued Translations Center, and Books and Journals support of the Center, to an expansion in (twice). The Organizational Chart and a services and activities, and development of a reprint were brought up-to-date in January research program. Inquiries at the Center and the Addressing Service rate card in during the year April 1964-March 1965 to- May. taled 281 (290 last year), and 758 items were sent on loan. In October the Executive Pvess Releases Director met in Cleveland with the Director, Nearly 8,670 copies of 41 press releases Western Reserve University officials, and were prepared and sent to the library press, the Special Classifications Committee. The to Chapter and Division Bulletin editors, to Director of the Center attended the Second ~ssociationOfficers, and to other appropri- International Conference on Classification ate news outlets. Seven releases concerned Research, Elsinore, Denmark, September 14- Chapter and Division activities and publi- 18, 1964, and described the Center in the cations, six Association publications, five 1965 Bowker Amual. awards, four scholarships, four officers, three the Translations Center, two each the Translations Activities Convention, SLA participation in meetings, Major attention is given by the Associa- and the Soviet-U.S. exchange, and one each tion to a variety of activities concerned with the Special Classifications Center, Medical translations. The second edition of Trms- ~ssistkceAct, placement, Standards, John latollr and Tra)zslatiom is described under Cotton Dana Lectures, and the Board-ap- Publications earlier in this report. Plans for proved nondiscrimination policy. a journal and author index to available translations are being formulated by the Media Translations Activities Committee. Principal The media lists used for distribution of activity is, of course, the Translations Cen- press releases and other material were com- ter at The John Crerar Library. pletely overhauled in two phases. First, the During the year the holdings reached old lists were checked, up-dated, and rear- 100,000 with nongovernmental contributions ranged with volunteer assistance. Second, totaling 6,378 translations. Use since last specialists were asked to verify the cards in year totaled 8,559 items. Support came from each subject field to make sure the journals a grant of $48,956 from the National Sci- carried news and book reviews and to sug- ence Foundation and A contract for $27,600 gest mmes of new journals. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Jewelry ciation, American Association for the Final arrangements were made with the Advancement of Science, St. John's Congress L. G. Balfour Company to produce gold and for Librarians, Louisville High School Sci- silver charms and tie tacks with the SLA ence Fair, the New England and the New ~nsignia. This jewelry was on sale for the Mexico Library Associations, USIA Archi- first time during the Philadelphia Conven- tecture/USA Exhibit in the Soviet Union, tion. An announcement and order form has Hartford Public Library Career Day, Guid- been prepared giving the prices of $4.95 ance Personnel Meeting, Williamsville, New for silver and $8.25 for gold, with two dol- York, American Society for Metals, Ken- lars from each sale to be divided equally tucky State Fair, Drexel Institute, Atlanta for the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund University, and American Management As- and the Motion Picture Fund. sociation Seminars. Association books were included in the Films Combined Book Exhibit at meetings of the Plans for a 28-minute, color, l6mm film American Association of Museums, Ameri- on special librarianship are progressing. The can Association of Law Libraries, the spring special Motion Picture Fund has grown by library association programs in Louisiana, generous contributions from several Chap- Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island ters. Opportunity to finance at least one and the fall programs in Pennsylvania, New frame of film at $1.25 each were offered York, New Hampshire, Michigan, Virginia, during a Frame of Film Fund-Raising Drive Ohio, California, and Indiana, International during the Philadelphia Convention. Two Federation for Information Processing, prints of the 15-minute color film, "Key to AAAS, American Academy of Political and a Future" are available on loan from As- Social Science, American Library Associa- sociation Headquarters. "Is Knowledge tion, Catholic Library Association, Pennsyl- Power?" featuring the then Senator Hum- vania Chapter of the American Association phrey, was shown to several groups of docu- of Teachers of Slavic and East European mentalists in Yugoslavia during a March Languages, Society for the Scientific Study of tour by Erik Bromberg. Religion, and the World Affairs Book Fair. The Translations Center exhibits were ICTationalLibrary Week shown at these meetings: ALA, Society for Efforts to stimulate interest and partici- Applied Spectroscopy, American Documen- pation by special librarians in National Li- tation Institute, American Oil Chemists So- brary Week included a series of reports in ciety, Instrument Society of America, Special Libvarles, mailing of suggestions on National Electronics Conference, AAAS, participation and sample display items, of- Federation of American Societies for Ex- fering an open-ended house organ story, perimental Biology, Medical Library Asso- "The Ideal Consultants: Your Business Li- ciation, and SLA. brary," written by Alvin C. Eurich, President, Lists of exhibit materials available from Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, As- Association Headquarters were distributed pen, Colorado, and the National Library as were two issues of the Public Relatiom Week Publicity Award with prize money Newsletter. A new suitcase-type exhibit has contributed by the Ford Motor Company. been prepared for the Special Classifications Center. Exhibits Cooperation of a number of Chapters Other permitted the Association's publications and The Association again in 1965 is par- services to be exhibited at a variety of meet- ticipating as a joint sponsor of Library/USA ings of library, user, and management in the U.S. Pavilion at the New York groups. This included the Society of Tech- World's Fair. A second $500 staff scholar- nical Writers and Publishers, Western Hos- ship was provided as was a supply of re- pital Association, Aerospace Medical Asso- cruitment literature. Material has been sup- SEPTEMBER 1965 pIied to editors and writers at Vezture, a scribers the Post Office zip codes and a magazine for teen-agers, Chronicle Guidance rearrangement of plates. Special requests for Publications, House dud Gnrden, and other zip codes will be on all 1966 invoices. publications carrying library articles. Space and Personnel Addressing Service To provide space for growing activities, A principal service provided units of the a number of moves within the office were Association is maintenance of membership accomplished during the year. New library records. Once a year an up-to-date list of shelving was acquired to provide more space members is supplied each unit: 6,037 cards for the book collection; the old shelving to Chapters and Groups, 9,239 to Divisions was installed in the sixth floor stockroom and Sections. Changes are sent monthly- and used for sale stock of journals. The 6,599 to Chapters and Groups; 8,566 to archives files were expanded and the in- Divisions and Sections. terim correspondence files relocated. Summary of the Cards Made 1964-65 1963-64 1962-63 New and reinstated members 1,066 619 923 Change of name, address, affiliation 2,324 2,801 1,817 Cards sent new officers 15,276 20,646 18,682 Cards for changes sent units 15,165 17,615 11,461 --- -- Total cards made for all purposes 70,214 59,813 50,876 In the past 12 months the Addressing Nrw job descriptions and salary ranges Service completed 84 Units runnings: 106 were prepared for the 17 full-time and four for official use and 162 outside runnings part-time staff at Association Headquarters (1963-64 figures were 62,114, and 115). and for three editorial personnel located Income from outside runnings was $4,- elsewhere. Barbara Lee Ellenbogen fills a 159.32. new position of Departmental Secretary. Ap- pointed to fill vacancies were Ronald Win- Addressograph Plates Maintained as of ley as Membership and Placement Assistant May 31, 1965 (replacing Herbert Prival who resigned May Members, geographical 5,960 31, 1965) ; Mrs. Lylla M. Paddyfote, Ed- Members, by Divisions 6,647 Special Libraries 2,093 itorial Secretary; Robin Dennis, Secretary to Scientific Meetings 1,075 Executive Director (replacing Gail Cohen Technical Book Review Index 1,849 who resigned July 24, 1964) ; Johnny W. Basic Media 154 Davis, Publications Orders Assistant (re- Other Media 885 placing Mrs. Arlene G. Peller who resigned Associations and Universities 1,332 on August 4, 1964) ; and Gregory M. Gor- Advertisers and Exhibitors 857 don and Donald Pensiero, part-time clerks Sustaining Members 136 handling mail and Addressograph assign- Professional Consultants 78 ments. Mrs. Rose Mary Ferrante resigned as Bulletin Editors 47 Subscription and File Clerk on May 2 1 and Board, Council, Special Reps. 170 Unit Officers to receive changes 84 was replaced on June 10 by Marie E. "Picturescope Paid Subscriptions 133 O'Hare. *New York Library Club 1,150 Miscellany Total 22,650 Soviet Excha~fge * Service provided at Addressing Service rates The National Science Foundation awarded A major assignment during the next two a grant of $27,100 for support of an ex- years and before January 1, 1967 is the ad- change of technical librarians between the dition to all addresses of members and sub- United States and the U.S.S.R. The ex- SPECIAL LIBRARIES The 1965-66 Board of Directors (Standing) Kenneth N. Metcalf, Ruth Nielander, Mrs. Dorothy B. Skau, Helene Dechief, Phoebe Hayes, William Beatty; (Seated) Jean Flegal, Herbert S. White, Alleen Thompson, Dr. F. E. McKenna, Mrs. Helen Redmond. change is being directed by John P. Binning- Maysie Webb, Patent Office Library, Lon- ton and will, in all likelihood, be scheduled don; Josef Vinarek, Director of the State for the fall of 1965. Library in Prague; and Loretta G. Fisher, Assistant State Librarian of Oregon. The IFLA Board of Directors and other officers were A $500 grant from the Rockefeller Foun- guests of the Association Headquarters staff dation permitted the Association's repre- at a September 24 buffet supper. sentative, Dr. Karl Baer, to attend the International Federation of Library Associa- Meetings, Visits, Committees, and tions' meeting in Rome, September 14-18, Publicutions 1964. Dr. Baer is Chairman of the newly Participation by Association Headquarters organized Special Libraries Section. staff in the affairs of other organizations is a major activity. The Executive Director has IOG just been elected to a second term as Chair- Principal activity of the Joint Operating man of the Council of National Library As- Group (ADI-SLA) was publication in sociations and in that connection has at- March of a pilot issue of Information h'ews. tended two CNLA meetings, two meetings Actual mailing of the issue was handled at of the Board of Trustees, a two-day Chicago Association Headquarters. meeting in October of the Placement Com- mittee, several committee meetings during Visitors the ALA Washington Mid-winter Confer- A number of distinguished persons have ence, a Joint Committee on Library Educa- visited Association Headquarters including tion meeting in May, and two meetings of Mr. Takashi Ariyama, Secretary General of the Joint Committee on Hospital Libraries the Japan Library Association; P. E. Vasar- at the ALA in St. Louis and in Chicago in helyi of the Research Institute for Telecom- February. He has also organized several munications, Budapest ; Dr. Alois Tesitel, meetings concerned with a new fourth edi- Director, Library, University of Chemical tion of Who's Who i~z Library Service, Technology, Pardubice, Czechoslovakia ; Miss which CNLA will sponsor, participated in SEPTEMBER 1965 several meetings in New York and Wash- nical Writers and Publishers meeting in ington reorganizing the 2-39 Sectional Com- Washington on inter-society cooperation and mittee on Library Work and Documentation served as a panelist at its New York meet- sponsored by CNLA, and attended a March ing in May, attended the Rutgers Library meeting in Washington of the US. Book School Seminar on Faceted Classification, Exchange, an independent body founded by and served as a juror at the Educational CNLA. Film Library Association Film Festival. The Executive Director is serving a second Other attendance or membership by staff year as a Director of the National Associa- included the following: New York Society tion of Exhibit Managers, attended the New of Association Executives, American Society Orleans Convention in December, and con- of Association Executives, Association of cluded his chairmanship of the NAEM New American Geographers, Council of Plan- York Group. He has also finished his term ning Librarians, Library Public Relations as Treasurer of the now disbanded Federa- Council, Beta Phi Mu, Princeton Area Li- tion of Management Organizations and as brarians meeting, dedication of libraries at 1964 Chairman of The New York Metro- St. John's University and West Point, Con- politan Reference and Research Library ference of Eastern College Librarians, Chem- Agency, Inc. He serves as Trustee of the ist Club Symposium, Suffolk County Library New York Library Club and moderated a Association, American Documentation In- December meeting on cooperation. Talks stitute, Pratt Institute Conference on Li- were given before several library school brarians, Books, and the Poverty Program, classes, by the Assistant to Executive Di- New York Library Club, ALA Commission rector at the University of Ottawa and by on a National Plan for Library Education, the Executive Director at the Universities of special sessions on medical library prob- Illinois and Minnesota. He participated in a lems, health careers, problems of interna- panel on cooperation at the New York Re- tional management, copying methods, initial gional Group meeting of the Medical Li- meeting of the ABPC-SLA Joint Committee, brary Association, spoke at the initiation din- and numerous meetings of SLA. The num- ner of Theta Chapter of Beta Phi Mu at ber of luncheons, receptions, and cocktail Pratt Institute, spoke on librarianship as a parties is uncounted ! career at the Seven Colleges Vocational The Publications and Public Relations Workshop at Barnard and during National Director authored "Observation on Special- Library Week at Brooklyn College, ad- ized Book Reviewing" in Stechert-Hafnev dressed the Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Book. News, April 1965, and prepared three Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and articles for the third edition of Encyclopedia talked to the University of Minnesota Li- of Libvariamhjp. The Executive Director brary Professional Forum. The Executive was author of "The Impolite Librarians" in Director served on the Advisory Committee the July-August 1964 Special Libraries, for the St. John's University Congress for wrote the Preface for Space-Age Acro?zyms, Librarians, on the Advisory Committee for prepared a short piece on the Standards for the Kent State University Department of the January-February 1965 McGraw-Hill Library Science, attended and presented a Special Libraries Bulletin, contributed a book paper on library association archives at the review to the SLA Geogi.aphy atzd Map Di- Florida State University Seminar on Library t'isio?z Bulletitz, and served on the Advisory History, moderated a session at Drexel Board for the Gale Research Company Man- Institute on circulations systems in special li- agement Information Guides. Articles or braries, spoke at Chapter meetings in Min- speeches are being prepared for Librnry nesota, Pacific Northwest, and Southern Cal- Tre?zds, American Association of Law Li- ifornia, and attended the Catholic Library braries, a University of Illinois Allerton In- Association Convention in Philadelphia. stitute on "The Changing Environment for The Publications and Public Relations Di- Library Services in Metropolitan Areas," and rector attended a two-day Society of Tech- a meeting of SLA Employment Chairmen. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Philadelphia Percolations ERIK BROMBERG

HE JET from the West took the four of facilities-but expansion is possible in only Tus from the Pacific Northwest Chapter one direction, and on that site is the original (advertisement: come to the Seattle Conven- Horn and Hardart, founded in 1902, the tion in 1971!) low over the Schuylkill River. world's first Automat restaurant. The busy Philadelphia airport gave us a Eating in Philadelphia was no problem. foretaste of the heat and humidity which was After trying the "name" place I put a bill to plague us for the days to come. in the hands of a bell boy and we talked The taxi driver was an unreformed tour about restaurants. Two blocks from the hotel guide, and he took his well-worn Plymouth is Kelly's Famous Oyster House, established in and out of narrow historic streets and in 1841, excellent in service, food, and price. alleys. His ~peilwas good enough to encour- And about five blocks away at 1214 Sanson age me to take a brief walking tour of Phila- Street is Hoffmann House if you like good, delphia after dinner. heavy German food and beer. The Benjamin Franklin is the largest and After dinner I walked arcund the down- perhaps the oldest of the first class hotels in town area and set myself up for a scolding the city. It was built in 1925 on the site of I was to receive later from John C. Pop- the historic Continental Hotel. The Con- peliers, Editor and Architectural Historian tinental, built in 1860 and then the largest of Historic American Buildings Survey at hotel in the United States, was modern be- the National Park Service in Philadelphia. yond its time with elevator services, the Mr. Poppeliers gave an excellent slide lec- latest fire security devices, and its own ar- ture, sponsored by the Planning, Building tesian well. It was host to the Prince of and Housing Section, to a regrettably small Wales, Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, Pres- group of 30 on Tuesday, June 8th. In my ident Lincoln, General Grant, Sarah Bern- walk down Market Street I felt the not too hardt, Richard Mansfield, Melba, Lillian genteel shabbiness of the area. Then I passed Russell, and P. T. Barnum, among a few. through the rococo City Hall and was sud- Today the Benjamin Franklin has a prob- denly in a city of the 21st century. This was lem, complicated by the very history that a city of graceful glass and steel buildings. I steeps Philadelphia. The hotel needs to ex- remarked to Mr. Poppeliers that I felt the pand to provide more adequate convention city was schizophreniac. He snapped that schizophreniac indicated that Philadelphia was sick and that it most emphatically was An Association Conventio7z attendee of many not. "All right," I cringed, "let's settle for years, thrs ]ear's reporter zs libra~ianat the 'split personality."' And that, friends, is U. S. Department of Interior in Portland, Philadelphia-a city of hallowed history Oregon. blended with a city of modern vigor. Doormen in Colonial dress met members at the entrances to the Benjamin Franklin Hotel; soon they were up in the busy registration room receiving their kits and checking off punched cards for the meals and tours they wished to attend. Back at the hotel I decided to see just ship and Student Loan and Motion Picture what made a convention tick-besides Bill Funds, and the New Jersey Chapter sold Woods. (After all, we hope to give you about $650 worth of tags. strictly the finest in Seattle in 1971.) The In a less frantic room was ensconced the Registration Chairman, Mrs. Dorothy S. public relations crew chaired by Bill Saunders, Collins, and her crew were zipping around who spent a good deal of his time looking like tireless, but wounded, ants. Fingers of for the editor of this journal, Mary Allison. all were bandaged" from cuts received in Mary supposedly is quartered in the press folding a cardboard carrying and mailing room, but this time. as usual. she was off in case given to each registrant. Eleven hun- all nooks and crannies-followed by a plump dred pre-registrants assured Mrs. Collins of local photographer or searching for speakers' a successful convention, and it proved so papers. She did manage to find time to knock with a final total of approximately 1,780. out a number of press releases entitled: Na- Another frantic booth was the information tional Library Week Publicity Awards to counter headcd by Jean M. Steever. Piled Greater St. Louis Chapter and Parke, Davis high on the table were a huge amount of & Company Engineering Library, Esther chamber of commerce and similar type fold- Manion Receives Geography and Map Divi- ers. Then there was the locator file for all sion Award, Membership Gavel Won by registrants and the usual blackboard for Pacific Northwest Chapter, Chester M. Lewis m&ages. When the conventioneers really Receives First Annual Jack K. Burness Me- began to pour in, it was the meals and ban- morial Award for Distinguished Newspaper quet and the transportation and tours booths Librarianship, Marie S. Goff and Ruth H. chat took on the aspect of a fire sale. Hooker Selected for 1965 SLA Hall of There were also a couple of competitors Fame, Rio Grande Chapter Wins H. W. in the registration area. Side by side were Wilson Company Chapter Award for Third booths of the SLA Public Relations Com- Time, SLA Professional Award to Ruth S. mittee and the New Jersey Chapter's fund- Leonard, First Annual Forum on Education raising drive for the proposed SLA Motion for Special Librarianship, and New SLA Picture. The former sold gold and silver tie Officers Begin 1965-66 Term. tacks and charms with the Association's in- ~os~itactyCommittee members, alas, had signia, and the latter in exchange for $1.25 no room of their own but were in a Mezza- awarded one with a tag reading "I Financed nine hallway. Since no Chapter can carry the a Frame of Film-How About You." The burden asked of a Hospitality Committee, jewelry group netted $184 for the Scholar- each Chapter and each Division lends a hand. Convention Headquarters, of course, was housed in a good sized room. Here, bearing up well under the heavy pressure, was the Convention Chairman, Anne L. Nichol- son, the Convention Treasurer, Robert Gie- secke, and Local Arrangements Chairman, Barbara A. Begg. There are a few more suites about the place-such as that of the President and the Executive Director, but my favorite is the Placement Service Office, headed by Grace Reynolds. Grace has her problems-the main one concerns statistics. As you know, Chap- ter Employment chairmen all receive the openings listed with her. Many of these are Grace Reynolds, Placement Service Di- filled-sometimes by non-SLA members- rector, looking over a resume with Mar- through these notices with no feedback to garet Faughnan. Grace. Then, there are the scores of jobs 470 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Exhibits! Fxhibits! A portion of the lobby exhibit area during the opening reception.

Marjorie Griffin, Chair- man of the Documenta- tion Division (center), explained a retrieval system, one of the many on display in the Division's exhibit suite.

Questions were asked and answered as exhibitors and conventioneers became ac- quainted.

SEPTEMBER 1965 Mr. Budington and Mr. Elizabctl~ Snlit 11. Richard John Connor md RO~LI t Woods chatted with Robert Carpenter, and Uq Dowell G~hson, new (,hapter 'ind Maxwell, President of Per- before mAdverri\ing&Mar- Di\ ision Lialwn Officer,, gamon Press. lieting Division luncheon. with Janet Bog'irdus, Finance Committee Chairman. Personalities

Sci-Tech Anne L. Nichol- speaker, Curtis son, Convention G. Benjamin. Chairman.

Staff outside New York : Mrs. Ildiko Nowak, Chief, Translations Cen- ter; Anthony Martin, Editor, "Technical Book Review Index"; Mrs. Marian Holleman, Ed- itor, "Scientific Meet- ings"; and Barbara Denison, Director, Spe- cial Classifications Cen- ter.

Documentation Divi- sion Indexing Work- - shop leaders: Mrs. : Claire Schul tz, hIar-

I jorie Griffin, Mrs. Pauline Atherton, and Everett Brenner.

Library Cooperation session: Scott Technical Papers session: Michel Friedlander, Adams, Samuel Sass, Charles Nel- Rose Vormelker, Mrs. Shirley W. Bolles, Burton son and Richard Logsdon. Lamkin, Harry Baum, and Stanley Slote. President Budington presented scrolls and meddlions to Hall of Famers, Mrs. Marie S. Goff and Mrs. Ruth H. Hooker, and the Membership Gavel to Mrs. Betty Lou Wagner, Incoming President of the Pacific Northwest Chapter, which increased its membership 14.7 per cent. Banquet Highlights

Speaker Toastmaster Professor John Emerson Green- William Frey. away.

Mrs. Florence Armstrong presented the second place National Library Week Pub- licity Award on behalf of the Ford Motor Company to Mrs. Gloria Evans of the Engineering Library of Parke, Davis & Company (left) and to Mrs. Elizabeth Owens (right), Chairmen of the Greater St. Louis Chapter's first prize program.

Lee Parman, Rio Grande Chapter President, accepted the H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award from How- ard Haycraft.

President Budington presented his successor, Alleen Thompson, with the presidential token of office. Later both received good wishes at a reception hosted by the Philadelphia Chapter. Al. L. Allison Bethlehem Steel Photo Lloyd Wagner and At the reception for first convention- TheMetals/Materials other members of the eers, Carol Kline, Nancy Hartley, Win- Division toured the New Jersey Chapter ifred W. Hudak, and Norma Shosid Bethlehem Steel Com- sold film tags. enjoyed punch. pany.

Marian Lechner encouraged Virginia Bersagel, Frank McKenna presented Robert Elizabeth Ferguson, Marjorie Holt, and Janice G. Krupp with one of two door Babb to buy an SLA gold or silver charm. prizes given at the Annual Meeting. "Putting Knowledge to Work"-SLA'ers studied the racing forms before placing their bets: (left to right) Charles M. Wolfenberger, Elaine S. Weil, Alleen Thomp- son, Bill M. Woods, Bill Budington, Joyce Bohon, Pat Lillis, Ruth Larson, and Elizabeth M. Walkey. LzhriIs Hell Park filled at Convention, sparked by announce- were observed with gentle tolerance by the ments on the bulletin boards, with no word old timers who either-have arrived or do not to the Placement Service. want to arrive. It was a typical week for Grace. Into her It is pretty hard to get through the early humid, tiny suite poured well over 500 crowd without a number of invitations from people. Some were looking, some were exhibitors to visit their suites for "open browsing, some were sizing up the market. house." These "open houses" compete on To cope with this flood Grace had help the Sunday with similar affairs put on by the first three days but was alone the last two. Divisions and Sections. As a diligent Con- There were three bulletin boards on which vention reporter I visited a number of them prospective employers could display their and can recall only that they were all crowded charms. By end of the session these bulletin and happy, but with no great imagination or boards were jammed-103 notices in all. A ingenuity as to refreshments. new develo~mentI occurred at this session. The Sunday morning Board of Directors Nine applicants put resumes on the bulletin meeting was chaired by the outgoing Presi- board. As far as Grace knows, this is the dent, Bill Budington. The half-dozen specta- first time this has been done. Besides the tors heard a good discussion about the future bulletin board, there was available to each of the Special Classifications Center and visitor a thick sheaf of vacancy announce- other matters of Association business. There ments prepared just prior to the Convention. is a basic level-headedness in the infrequent Of the Service one English visitor observed comments of Bill Woods-always bringing discreetly, "We don't do our recruiting quite the discussion back to earth-sometimes with so openly." an obvious thud. Though you know there Of course, the "slave market" extended have been other Executive Directors, you out into the lobby where knowledgeable em- feel that Bill has been around since Bretton ployers were "sweet-talking" some friend's Woods in 1909. prize assistant. The conversation about jobs All the "brass" turned out for the Sunday always seems to lead to one fantastic devel- afternoon entertainment for first convention- opment in the field. Special libraries, tradi- eers and for the welcome to incoming Divi- tionally well paid, are suddenly losing top sion officers. But the meeting really begins men to the academic world. Departing spe- for most of us with the Convention-wide re- cial libraries for "hallowed halls of ivy" are ception and exhibits opening. I was attend- Wil Baatz, Dan Bedsole, Frank Bertalan, ing the Documentation Division's excellent Paul Wasserman, and Ryburn Ross. exhibit of retrieval efforts of various mem- In the lobby were the potential successors bers at the time of the opening. Suddenly to such librarians and to others of us in the the crowd was no more, and I followed the future-the young people from Drexel Li- stream to the huge refreshment bar. There, brary School. The old lecher in me noted for the first time, was everybody-all your that girl library students seem to be younger exhibitor friends, your old buddies, and the and prettier each year. Ruth Hooker, looking people you see once a year. refreshed and unhurried in her recent retire- All SLA Conventions appear to have seven ment, remarked to me on the number of new principal events, importai

Those who took part in the opening general session were: Bill M. Woods, Gordon R. Williams, Henry J. Cadbury, Richard A. Davis, Anne L. Nicholson, Mrs. Jean Hooper, William S. Budington, and Emerson Greenaway. self together and conducted an impromptu third in the stretch, came up to win, barely workshop on microfilming of clipping files. staving off Mr. Hayes-the longest shot of the day! Spring Sonnet paid $16.40 for $2. 3. Dean Wesley C. Clark, Syracuse Univer- The President of the track came down to sity School of Journalism, speaking on our box and expressed his pleasure with our "Newspaper Research at the Syracuse Uni- attendance. He put his public relations spe- versity School of Journalism" : "Our school cialist in our hands, and she gave Alleen bows to no one in the quality of research we Thompson, Bill Budington, Bill Woods, have done on newspapers, except in the single Elaine Weil, Charlie Wolfenberger, and our area of information retrieval. We admit we reportorial staff the tour of a lifetime, which have not yet solved the problem of 'how to extended from the track itself to the Dress get back the book that little bastard bor- and judges room, high atop the grandstand. rowed six months ago.' " Our new President was photographed con- Fun night was a sell-out! There were 450 gratulating a winner, much to the disgust of tickets to the Convention-wide affair at the an irate loser who mistook her for the races Wednesday night. For your $10 you owner! He kept telling her that retribution received a real bargain-transportation to was on the way once she got her horse to Liberty Bell Park, admission to the track, a another track. sumptuous dinner, and you also made a good I wondered for a time what a man from donation simultaneously to the Scholarship Mars would have thought of all this. No and Student Loan Fund. All this was cooked Martians being present, I took Keith Atkin up by the Metals/Materials Division under of the British Iron and Steel Research Asso- the able guidance of Elaine Weil and Charlie ciation to lunch to discuss the proceedings. Wolfenberger. Liberty Bell Park is about an Keith, incidentally, chose to dine on that hour's bus ride northeast of Philadelphia. It all-American dish-lox, scrambled eggs, and is shining new, beautifully designed and bagels! Our British friend was particularly lighted, and features harness racing which impressed with the clockwork program ar- to an old bookie joint patron like me is a rangements and the prolific exhibits. Natu- mystery beyond belief. rally, he found the Metals/Materials Divi- We were seated in the air-conditioned sion sessions quite stimulating. However, he grandstand restaurant-the Turfside Ter- felt that like Aslib we have not succeeded in racewhere piping hot food and excellent making our general sessions lively and imag- cocktails came to the patrons while they inative. If he were asked, he said, he would selected their horses, placed their bets, and suggest programs more involved with day-to- then screamed encouragement to their favor- day problems and more leisurely sessions, ites. Winners were observed all over the which allowed for thorough discussion on place. Evelyn Butler, School of Social Work all sides. Well taken, Keith. at the University of Pennsylvania, used an And now, Philly, goodbye. I will keep original "system." She bet on horses with memories. One is of walking down Market Scotch names and had the luck of the Irish. Street late one evening and going into the Among others, Clarice Davis of the Los unique Doktor's Pet Shop, crowded with Angeles County Museum of Art came up adults, cooing over appealing pups and with the right answer to the question. She kitties. Another of sailors from a German picked the daily double on the nose and got naval vessel trying their best to converse back $19 for her $2. with would-be-interested girls. And, lastly, The fifth race was the Special Libraries of that 3.00 a.m. while in the bathtub when Association Race-a real screamer. Angie I found that the hot water would not turn Ella, Tar Lady, and Hogestown were the off and saw myself rapidly turn red as a favorites of the eight entries, but Spring lobster before I leapt out and called for a plumber. Sonnet who was fourth at the quarter, fourth at the half, fourth at the three-quarter, and Ah, Philly, goodbye. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Chapter Relations Committee Report MARGARET E. MADDEN, Chapter Liaison Officer

Committee Activities Chapter Activities In mid-July, after some 6,000 librarians from After reading and reviewing 32 Chapters' An- the various library associations departed happily nual Reports received to date, the following infor- from last year's convention city of St. Louis, mation sums up the highlights of Chapter activi- an introductory letter was sent out to the Chapter ties during the past year. Presidents naming the members of the Chapter Relations Committee and briefly outlining the Atfendanre function of the Committee. It also included a Attendance at Chapter meetings was men- schedule for the year's formal reports and re- tioned specifically in many reports. Some Chapters quested cooperation in promptly responding to the were disappointed because, in spite of great efforts requests for various types of information that by their Program Committees to have interesting each year brings. professional meetings, attendance was usually be- The CLO then proceeded with the standard low expectations. On the other hand, an equal yearly assignment that involves an enormous number of Chapters commented that they had amount of time-arranging Chapter visits for the great success at their Chapter meetings. The secret Association President, William S. Budington of satisfactory attendance could not be correlated (nine) and the President-Elect, Alleen Thompson with Chapter size, type of meetings, time, or (eight). place of meeting. For those who considered at- Much assistance was given to the Bylaws Com- tendance unsatisfactory, here is what some Chap- mittee in requesting all Chapters to submit revised ters did who thought their attendance was good: Chapter bylaws for approval by the Association 1. Baltimore's greater emphasis on interesting Bylaws Committee. I am very happy to report that speakers, not necessarily library personnel, but the 33 Chapter bylaws have been approved and those oriented toward libraries. accepted, but, unfortunately, changes in the Ad- 2. San Francisco's diversification of programs-a visory Council make-up will mean another round balance between speaker and workshop, mecha- of Chapter bylaws changes. nization- and non-mechanization-oriented and A detailed survey including geographic dis- specialized library versus general interest library. tribution of the Chapters' membership and maps 3. Rio Grande, because of travel distances of showing their locations and a list of Chapters' many members, often scheduled meetings for a membership and estimates of attendance at local full-day session on Friday. Chapter meetings is well under way. Hopefully, this mammoth project will be completed and Incidentally, the Boston Chapter routinely dis- recommendations made to the Board at the Fall tributes attendance cards at their meetings. It finds Meeting. the information very useful to Chapter officers in Interesting speakers in specialized subjects seeking out future appointees. In addition, the available for Chapter programs on a circuit-rider cards allow the members to express their opinion basis were proposed at the Mid-winter meeting in of the meetings in a way sure to be read. Indianapolis and received a great deal of enthusi- It seems to the Committee that this year's re- asm. Most Chapters are very much interested in ports of poor or good attendance emphasize the cooperative program planning within a given lack of a standard by which Chapters can measure geographic region. Plans are now being developed attendance. Therefore, it would be useful for the on this idea. Committee to obtain meeting attendance figures Two Chapters have proposed name changes, the from every Chapter during the 1965-66 Associa- Georgia Chapter to South Atlantic Chapter, and tion year. These counts can be converted to per- the Western New York Chapter to Upstate New centage of Chapter membership and a true picture York. Assistance was given to Ruth Eggleston, of attendance compiled. It may be found, for ex- Chairman. Richmond-Hopewell Special Libraries ample, that large Chapters can be content with 50 Club, in forming a Chapter of Special Libraries per cent attendance while the smaller Chapter will Association in Virginia. consider 75 per cent satisfactory. This is worth ex- For the first time. an afternoon session during ploring as this year's comments were quite fre- the Annual Convention for Incoming Chapter quent regarding disappointment with the at- Officers has been initiated. tendance. SEPTEMBER 1965 Program Speakers Thirty Chapter members were host to library Reports of notable speakers came from the fol- assistants as "Librarian-For-A-Day." The local lowing Chapters: Boston, The Honorable Stuart high school students interested in further explana- Hensley, Canadian Consul General, and Walter tion of special librarianship went to work at these Carlson, U. S. Department of Defense.; Cincin- local special libraries. A pictorial scrapbook was nati, Irwin Feldman, U. S. Department of Labor; submitted for the National Library Week Award. New Jersey, Roger McDonough, State Librarian, 2. Western New York Chapter has developed a and John Stearns, National Referral Center; permanent roster of members willing to inter- Greater St. Louis, Charles O'Halloran, State Li- view students in special librarianship. Simultane- brarian; Pittsburgh, Forrest Carhart, Jr,, Library ous mid-winter meetings were held in four cities Technology Project; Washington, D. C., Robert on the recruitment theme attended by over 160 J. Havlik, U. S. Office of Education; and Rio students, parents, and guidance counsellors. Grande, Carlos Ramirez, NASA. 3. Southern California joined with four other li- It was noted that three speakers appeared be- brary groups to staff the annual Los Angeles fore more than one Chapter attesting to a wide Career Guidance Center for ten days. About 500 interest in their respective subjects-Bernard Fry, counsellors and 4,900 students and parents visited Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical the library booth, and 14,000 pieces of literature Information ; Paul Wasserman, Graduate School were distributed. Visits to special libraries were of Library Service, University of Maryland; and frequent due to the presence of three library Stafford Warren, Special Assistant to the President schools in the area. Guest lectures were delivered for Mental Retardation, the White House. by 12 Chapter members at library school classes in Needless to say, the SLA President and Presi- special librarianship. dent-Elect continued the Chapter visit program, 4. The San Francisco Chapter's Education Com- which is a highlight of local programs. Next mittee repeated a two-day workshop for library year's round of visits will include Chapters not assistants, which was so successful last year. There seen this year. were 67 registrants. Many Chapters were happy to report that stu- Placement dent memberships have increased this year and Several of the Chapters commented that place- that these people are attending meetings and ment activities have increased over the last year visiting local special libraries. For the second and have become a sufficiently large burden on the year, the Minnesota Chapter underwrote four Chapter officer assigned to require a different ap- student memberships. The Louisiana Chapter pre- proach to handling the transaction. For example, sented a plaque to the outstanding local high the Washington, D. C. Chapter has established a school library club and another to the Louisiana clearinghouse operation where a list of vacancies Library State University Library School for an- is sent to anyone supplying a self-addressed en- nual inscription of outstanding student names as velope. Sixty requests were satisfied in this man- chosen by the faculty. ner. However, some people still "go it alone." The epitome of the busy Chapter Placement Serv- ice is the San Francisco Employment Chairman A number of interesting special publications with 137 contacts processed including ones from have been the result of Chapter activities: Ireland, Germany, and Israel. The Chairman per- Michigan-Advisolg List of Chapter Members sonally interviewed 68 applicants, surely a rival TVilling To Have Visitors, 2nd edition to the SLA Headquarters operation. Cleveland-Union List of Serials (continuous re- This year's round of Chapter reports includes vision) emphasis on placement in many areas of the Rio Grand-Southwestern Union List of Serials country. Since local or regional placement activ- (summer publication) ity can be fairly high, perhaps the Association The Ofice BooRshelf. a bibliography. should consider adapting its Association Head- Illinois-Guide for Management (final draft com- quarters placement operations to a branch office pleted) system with appointed members at strategic points Pittsburgh-Membe~rhip Direciory. revision and around the country to work with data from local supplements groups. Western New York-Coti.tideri?~g Libra?-ianrhip, Recruitment a bibliography Georgia-Histoviral Mups of Georgia, an anno- Recruitment activities of various kinds were tated bibliography reported by almost every Chapter. Four Chapters Bonklist for Techrzical Institute Lib~aries (aid carried out programs of more than ordinary to editor Julia Parker) scope: 1. Greater St. Louis Chapter devoted one meeting Chizpte~Happy Birthdays to recruitment with 20 industrial executives plus Congratulations to the Western New York and high schoo! and college counsellors in attendance Connecticut Valley Chapters who celebrated their to review opportunities in special librarianship. 20th aid 30th anniversaries. respectively. 480 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Division Relations Committee Report DR. F. E. McKENNA, Division Liaison Officer

Reports for the activities of the year have been Through its Projects Development Committee, received from 14 of the 15 Divisions. Two name the Science-Technology Division has made avail- changes have occurred: Advertising has become able $300 to the Rio Grande Chapter for this Advertising and Marketing, and Metals has become Chapter's Report Workshop to be held in fall Metals/Materials. 1965. The New York Chapter's Science-Technol- Two Divisions have held annual meetings in ogy Group again cosponsored a meeting with the addition to the SLA Convention sessions. Military New York AD1 and with the New Jersey SLA Librarians held their Eighth Military Librarians Chapters. The Washington Group of the Geog- Workshop and plan to pblish the proceedings, raphy and Map Division had a joint meeting with "The Alilitary Librarian in the lnformation Association of American Geographers. Process: A Report to Management." Metals/Ma- All the Divisions' Bylaws have now been ap- terials held its 15th Annual Fall Meeting and proved by the Associations' Bylaws Committee. again had its booth at the Metals/Materials Show. The last Division (Documentation) is expected Business and Finance Division published a to adopt its bylaws during the Convention. bibliography in the July 1964 issue of EanRitzg Financial reports have been received from five magazine. This Division has been asked for stand- Divisions. ards for libraries in two-year business schools by In addition to such positive achievements, one the Accrediting Commission for Business Schools. must also have problems. The Transportation Di- Pic~ureSouizes, the second edition of the Pic- vision in an effort to increase its membership sent ture Division's book was selected as an outstand- a mailing to 200 librarians in the transportation ing reference book in 1964 by the American Li- field; this resulted in an increase from 68 to 75 brary Association. The Aerospace Section of the members of the Division (which is still below the Science-Technology Division has sold 175 sub- minimum of 100 members for establishment of a scriptions of its journal, Proceedings in Pht, Division). The future of the Division is again to and has thereby earned $2,700. The Advertising be discussed during Convention. Two different and Marketing Division has published volume 20 programs are cosponsored with the Military Li- of its successful What's New in Advertising and brarians and with the Science-Technology Public Marketirrg. The Enlletin of the Geography and Utilities Section. Map Division is reported to have been almost The Social Welfare Section's continued status self-supporting during the past year without ad- as a Section in the Social Science Division is to be ditional support from outside sources. Two manu- discussed again during the Convention. The other scripts were submitted to the Nonserial Publica- Section of this Division (Planning, Building, and tions Committee by the Transportation Division; Housing) has been active in preparing its Con- no action has yet been reported. vention program. Division awards this year include the first Within the Science-Technology Division, and Jack K. Burness Memorial Award by the News- with the prompting of the officers of the Division, paper Division and the Honors Award of the all except two of the Sections are actively ap- Geography and Map Division. proaching Division status. A petition from 156 Duplicate exchanges have continued to be op- members of the Aerospace Section was presented crated by two Divisions: Science-Technology and to the SLA Board of Directors for Division Metals/Materials (the latter has earned a net of status. Two of the Sections are too small to re- 878 as a result of the subscription operations of quest divisional status (63 members in Paper and this exchange). Textiles, and 75 members in Public Utilities). Ap- The Social Science Division is beginning a study proximately 400 Division members are not affil- of bibliographic control of international docu- iated with any of the Sections. ments. The Publishing Division again has its Because the bulk of the Publishing Division's booth at the Philadelphia Convention; a source of membership is in the New York City area, there income is the charge of $15 to $25 per volume has been some attempt to find additional mem- to publishers whose books are exhibited. bers in other locations. Two issues of Special Libmvier have been the The use of newsletters or bulletins continues product of two Divisions-Picture and Metals/ in varying degrees. There was an over-all average Materials. of 2.5 issues per Division during the past year, SEPTEMBER 1965 ranging from two- or three-page newsletters to been too great a time span since the time of the printed publications of 40 to 50 pages. One Di- individual nominees contribution (usually long vision, in attempting to increase its coverage, al- before any DL0 is in his office). most came into financial problems (there may be The Convention Program Committee has three a request from that Division to the Board for representatives of three different groupings of Di- some amount as an additional allotment). visions, as well as the DLO. Here, in theory, the DL0 contributes to, and becomes aware of, the Division Re-alignment Convention program planning. However, is the Since February the only activity has been to ob- duplicate representation of Division interests nec- tain from the Divisions and Sections their own essary ? definitions of their scope and/or areas of interest. Division Manual Revision These definitions have been compiled and distributed to the Advisory Council for discussion on A copy of this revision has been sent to each Monday, June 7. I believe that this project has member of the Board. The format of the revision been the most important, and possibly will be the differs from that of the existing manual and most productive, of any of this Committee's at- parallels that of the Chapter Manual. A number tempts to fulfill the directives of the Board in the of topics are included that were formerly omitted area of Division structure. on the basis that certain areas of Association ac- I would recommend to the Board and to the in- tivities are not normally involved in the opera- coming DL0 that further work be emphasized to tions of the Divisions. However, such areas have refine these statements of scope by the Divisions. posed questions, and answers have not been avail- In particular, attention should be paid to the able in the existing Division Manual. statements that appear in the brochure, "Activities Because of the time consumed in the prepara- and Organization." These descriptions of the action of the revision, the Board may not wish to tivities of the Divisions and Sections are, more approve the revision at its June 5 meeting but often than not, not in agreement with the state- may perhaps wish to postpone such approval until ments now received from the Divisions and Sec- a later meeting during the Convention, or in tions. September, or by mail ballot during the summer. Another lead to follow is that the Divisions, Last September the Board approved a budget although nominally subject Divisions, are really item of $150 for the production of the newly organizations of persons in similar areas of em- revised manual. (The typing and printing of the ployment. Therefore, theoretical approaches to the 40 unapproved copies has been contributed.) If classification of knowledge will not match the de- the final printing is not completed before Septem- sires of the members. ber 30, a corresponding amount should be included in the Committee's budget for 1965-1966. Duties of the Chairman, Division Relations Recommendation Committee I recommend to the Board that the participa- The time available to the DL0 for conversations tion of the DL0 in such other activities be re- with Division Officers, particularly during June considered so as to allow the incumbent more Convention and Mid-winter Advisory Council time to spend on his primary responsibilities. I meetings is at a bare minimum because of the recommend, in addition, that such reconsideration DLO's defined membership on various committees. not be assigned to the Committee on Committees He is a member of three standing committees: at this time, but that such a study be made by a Convention Program, Public Relations, and SLA committee appointed from the Board because the Professional Award and Hall of Fame Committees. Liaison Officer is the transmitter of information In addition, there are usually one or two ad hoc to and from the Board. Perhaps, one or more committees. former incumbents could be appointed to such a Perhaps the studies of Division realignment committee. (While some of these considerations plus the problems of bylaws for the Divisions may also apply to the CLO, my recommendation have added extra chores during the past several is directed solely to the functions of the DLO.) years. I have felt, however, that there has been no time for personal contacts to discuss problems EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board referred the recom- or pseudo-problems with the Division officers nor mendation to an ad hoc committee. time to attend Division business meetings if needed. In this way, the prime responsibilities of Officers Meetings the DL0 have been short-changed due to other The Board of Directors will hold its Fall defined areas of the DLO's activities. Meeting on September 23-24 at the Bel- The SLA Professional Award and Hall of Fame mont-Plaza Hotel in New York City, and Committee requires a number of relatively lengthy convene for its Mid-winter Meeting along sessions. In theory, the DL0 was apparently placed with the Advisory Council on January 20-22 on this Committee because of his knowledge of in Albuqutrque. New Mexico. the nominees. In almost all instances. there has SPECIAL LIBRARIES Committee Reports, 1964-1965

By Committee Chairmen

Admissions Advisory Committee to The Admissions Committee has not met this Elizabeth and Ruth Ferguson year due to widespread geographic location of its members. Admissions problems have been handled on a Bibliography, Descriptive by air mail. The Committee has made decisions on the ap- Bibliographies Originated by plication cases referred from the Executive Di- Special Libraries rector as set forth in Article I1 of the Bylaws and in the Guidelines approved by the Board of No annual report. Directors at the St. Louis Convention, June 1964, on a tentative basis. Archives During the year the Committee has corresponded with the Bylaws Committee Chairman, The Archives Committee members have been who with her Committee has been engaged in working regularly at Association Headquarters to refining the Guidelines. The result of this work keep the archival material processed and ready to was approved by the Board of Directors at the file. meeting in Indianapolis, February 11-13, 1965. Mrs. Martha O'Leary, a Committee member, has The new Guidelines have been of special assist- reorganized the Scholarship and Student Loan file ance to the Admissions Committee in determin- to make it more readily accessible for information. ing eligibility of nonlibrary applicants. Papers and reports not published and those on The Admissions Committee, through its Chair- tape are being cataloged and placed in the Papers man, participated in a panel at the Mid-winter and Reprints file. The John Cotton Dana Lectures meeting to help clarify for the Advisory Council are also being cataloged by author and placed members current admission practices and policies. with the recruitment material. The borderline or disputed applications referred The Executive Director Bill M. Woods has re- to the Admissions Committee this year have been cently provided added space for the Archives in of three main types: I) incomplete application the vertical files. This is a big help because the forms; 2) discrepancies in dates and position file grows like "Topsy." It is hoped that the ad- titles; and -3) changing structure of places of em- ditional space provided will care for the material ployment and positions in the information sciences. for the next few years. The Admissions Committee has recommended Division Chairmen have been sending material to the Association Headquarters liaison member to the Archives from their files. This is being that any comments made about applicants by checked. Advertising and Marketing and Trans- Association Headquarters staff be written on a portation Divisions' material has been checked. covering memo rather than on the application so Genevieve Ford has completed the indexing of that the Committee Chairman may return the ap- the minutes for 1964, and those using the Index plication when incomplete. now find material in the minutes easily. To help solve the main problems relating to The file clerk is also a great help in keeping applications. the Admissions Committee members reports and other material in the Archives filed believe that a change in the application form may up-to-date. help solve certain problems. Also a form letter of JOSEPHINEGREENWOOD the checklist type would be of assistance to the Committee Chairman in corresponding with ap- Awards plicants. As the form letter is intended only as a time-saving aid for the Admissions Committee and The following actions were taken on earlier as the changes suggested for the application form recommendations: relate only to matters of format and clarity of in- 1. The wording of the "Certificate of Merit" formation, it seems likely that they may be handled that accompanies the engraved silver tray for the by the Executive Director rather than by the SLA Professional Award reads, "The Special Li- Board of Directors, but in any event we recom- braries Association Professional Award 19--19- mend adoption of the new form letter and the is presented to in recognition of revised application form. professional achievement and contributions to PORTIACHRISTIAN Special Librarianship." SEPTEMBER 1965 2. The wording of the "Certificate of Honor" a shorter meeting during the Philadelphia Con- that accompanies the Medallion for the Hall of vention. The work of the Committee for the year Fame Award reads. "The Special Libraries Asso- can be divided into three distinct sections: ciation Hall of Fame Award 19--19- is presented to in recognition of sustained Chapter and Division Bylaws and distinguished service to Special Libraries As- A year ago the bylaws of 11 Chapters and eight sociation." Divisions had bcm approved by the Committee. 3. Rules for National Library Week Publicity By early fall 1964 the bylaws of all but one Di- Award: vision were approved. It has since been approved. Individual librarians who are members of Spe- During the summer, 22 unapproved Chapter by- cial Libraries Association or SLA Chapters as a laws were reviewed. Of these, 11 were returned unit may compete for the SLA National Library to the individual Chapters for complete revision Week Publicity Awards. Both types of entries either because of conflicts with Association By- will be judged on the quality, originality, and laws or because they had not been rcvised since effectiveness of the National Library Week pro- the "sample" bylaws were approved by the SLA gram evolved. Individual winners will receive Board of Directors. The remaining 11 were either certificates suitable for framing, but the monetary approved or returned for minor changes. By the prizes of $75 and $25 will be given to the Chap- time of the February 1965 Board and Council ters of which they are members. meeting, the bylaws of 20 Chapters had been ap- Chapters that wish to compete as a unit may proved. The remaining 13 were approved this either submit entries describing a cooperative com- spring. The Association Bylaws Committee wishes munity or regional program in which many Chap- to thank the Chapter Presidents and Division ter members participated or a summary of the in- Chairmen for their cooperation during the past dividual projects undertaken by members. These two years in the task of revising 18 individual group entries may be submitted by the Chapter sets of bylaws in line with the new Association President, Public Relations Committee Chairman, Bylaws adopted August 9, 1962. or Chairman of a special National Library Week Project Committee. Definitions and Guidelines To give equal opportunity to all, the entries At the June 1964 Board of Directors meeting, submitted should represent the work of a library preliminary defiizitio~zs of both a special library staff or Chapter. Although display, commercial and an information center and guidelitzes for use art, or public relations departments of organiza- at the time of application were presented and dis- tions may assist in the preparation of exhibits or cussed. These were reworked and revised. pre- promotional materials, the library staff or Chapter sented at the February 1965 meeting of the Board committee should generate the ideas behind the of Directors and before the Advisory Council, program and conceive the purpose of the exhibit, and then approved by the Board for use. They are promotional items, or other activity. given below. The basic entry should consist of no more than Defitzitions a two-page, double-spaced, typewritten description Sperlul Librar1,-A library maintained by an in- of the project, its objective, coverage, procedures, dividual, corporation, association, government uses, audience(s) reached, and results achieved. agency, or any other group for the collection, or- Additional documentary material such as photo- ganization, and dissemination of information and graphs, newspaper clippings, or special items pre- primarily devoted to a special subject and offer- pared for distribution, may also be included. Six ing specialized service to a specialized clientele. copies of the written report, each with the name and address of the library and librarian or Chapter IN~OYYIZU~~UI~Cetztej-An organization which may member responsible for a Chapter project, should include the functions of a special library and be sent to the Association's Public Relations Di- which may extend its activities to include re- rector by May 20, 1965. Clippings, photographs, lated collateral functions such as: technical writ- bookmarks, and other promotional pieces should ing, functions performed by machine methods, be mounted on 8% x 11 white or colored paper. and library research for clients. The Award winners were announced at the Con- vention Banquet. Entries were displayed at the Guldelli2es for ('.re ;it Time of Applicntion Association's Public Relations booth at the Con- Persons with academic degrees in library science or vention, and all entries became the property of information science who hold administrative or Special Libraries Association. professional positions in a special library (or in a LEE W. TRAVEN special department of a national, state, public, university or college hbrary) or in an informa- Bylaws tion center-ACTIVE or ASSOCIATEwithin experi- cnce requirements. During the 1964-1965 Association year, the Bylaws Committee met four times: in September, Pelsons with acailemic degrees in other disciplines January, and February for all-day sessions ant1 for than library science or information science who SPECIAL LIBRARIES hold administrative or professional positions in a sibilities for committees, and definitions for the special library (or in a special department of a H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award Com- national, state, public, university or college li- mittee and the new Convention Advisory Com- brary), or in an information center-ACTIVE or mittee. A~SOCIATEwithin experience requirements. Ready for Board action in Philadelphia were: definition of the Special Classifications Committee, Persons with academic degrees in library science the Scientific Meetings Committee, the Tellers or information science who hold general adminis- Committee, and the new Government Information trative or professional positions in a national, Services Committee. stdte, public, university, college or school library- At its meeting in Philadelphia, the Committee AFFILIATE. will ready for final, later Board action, assignments to which a good deal of consideration has Persons with academic degrees in library science, already been given: the question of a geograph- information science or in other disciplines, who ically centralized Nominating Committee, appoint- have in the past held administrative or profes- ment of non-SLA members to SLA committees, a sional special library positions and did not become Active members of SLA at that time, and clearer definition of ex ofirio, the change of name of the Special Libraries Committee, and a recon- who now hold general administrative or profes- sideration of all aspects of subcommittees in the sional positions in a national, state, public, uni- Association structure. versity, college, or school library-AF~1~1A~E. Work will begin on a number of as yet un- Persons with academic degrees in library science, touched assignments: the Planning and Evaluation information science or in other disciplines who Committee, the McKinsey Foundation Book hold general administrative or professional posi- Awards Program Committee, clarification of tions in a systems development company, a com- "Headquarters liaison" and "special and ad hoc pany selling researched information or consulting committees," the proper length of appointment of services to special libraries and information committee chairmanships, and the responsibilities centers-AFFILIATE. An interest in special li- of special representatives. bratianship and have "knowledge and experience EDWARDG. STRABLE qualifying them to cooperate in furthering the objectives of the Association." Consultation Service Persons or companies selling library equipment, books, periodicals, bindery service, etc. to special The establishment of 22 new special libraries libraries and information centers and desiring to highlights the activity of the Consultation Serv- support the objectives and programs of the As- ice Committee since the annual report of June sociation-SUSTAINING. 1964. Attached are the statistics taken from the reports of the Chapter Consultation Officers. The Association Bylaws Changes 33 Chapters reporting received 165 inquiries At the February 13 meeting of the Board of concerning the Consultation Service, and 117 Directors, the Bylaws Committee was instructed consultations were given at the Chapter level. to prepare the Bylaws changes necessary for re- From these consultations, 22 libraries have been organization of the Advisory Council. The basic established, and 41 inquiries are pending. In change and related changes applying to the Ad- each category an increase is shown over the visory Council together with a change in the re- 1963-64 statistical report. We are pleased to quirement for voting from "voting members pres- note that in four of these libraries, professional ent" to "voting members present and voting" librarians have been hired and in at least three were approved by the Board, published in the libraries, college graduates with some library ex- April issue of Special Libraries and were presented perience are being employed. In the remaining ten for vote at the June 9 Annual Meeting. Directives new libraries, clerical personnel are in charge; in for implementation of the Bylaws changes, when several cases the Chapter Consultant has indicated and if they are approved by the membership, were his intention to keep in touch with management prepared. in the hope it can be persuaded to eventually employ a qualified person. Unfortunately, in at least MRS. MARGARETH. FULLER one case this might have been accomplished by this time had the right person been available. Committee on Committees The Executive Director reports that Association Headquarters received and referred to the Chapter These paragraphs are in the nature of a progress Consultation Officers 53 inquiries during the past report since the current assignments of this Com- year. This represents a drop from 1963-64, when mittee stand at various stages of completion or 89 referrals were made. However, since the Chap- lack of completion. ters report an increase in consultation activity, Accepted by the Board thus far this year were: perhaps it can be assumed optimistically that more SLA Committee Znfomzation, a short manual to effort is being placed on Chapter consultation define common procedures, problems, and respon- work. SEPTEMBER 1965 CHAPTER Alabama Baltimore Boston Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Connecticut Valley Dayton Georgia Greater St. Louis Heart of America Illinois Indiana Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Montreal * New Jersey New York Oak Ridge Oklahoma Pacific Northwest Philadelphia Pittsburgh Rio Grande San Diego San Francisco Southern California Texas Toronto Washington Western New York Wisconsin

* Professional library established this year following consultation two years ago.

On the professional consultation level, Associa- tion Officers and the Professional Consultants. tion Headquarters received six inquiries for the Beginning with the March issue the Chapter Pres- use of professional consultants during the past 12 idents were added to the mailing list as we began months. The names of 32 consultants (29 different to increase our efforts to make them more aware individuals) were given to the inquiring organiza- of the Consultation Service. tions. These figures represent a considerable drop Arrangements were made to hold a joint meet- from 1963-64 and strongly point up the fact that ing of the Chapter Consultation Officers and the a good publicity program to reach top management Professional Consultants during Convention week is necessary. in Philadelphia. In place of the usual business Ten applications for approval as Professional meeting, this year's program took the form of a Consultants were received during the past year. three-member panel discussion with a Chapter Three of these applications were ratified at the Consultation Officer, an SLA Professional Con- fall meeting of the Board of Directors; the re- sultant. and a management consultant, each giving maining seven are being held pending any changes his views on what makes a good consultation. for the rating of Professional Consultants that The Chairman was granted time at the Incom- may be advised by the Ad Hoc Committee when ing Chapter Officers meeting in Philadelphia to it made its final report to the Board of Directors. speak briefly on the important role the Chapter Three issues of the Consultation Serz'ire News- can play in making the Consultation Service a letter, compiled as a joint effort by the Commit- success. Chapter Presidents will be urged to ap- tee and reproduced and mailed at Association point n strong person to the position of Chapter Headquarters, were sent to the Chapter Consults- Consultation Officer, and Chapter officers will be 486 SPECIAL LIBRARIES asked to make every effort to understand and tribute and share in this exchange of information. support the aims and objectives of the Consulta- At the same time we hope to motivate the Chapter tion Service within their own areas. Consultation Officers and the Chapter Presidents During the past six months every effort has to join with us in making known to management, been made to encourage the use of the SLA lhrough their Chapters, the services that are Standards. The Chairman of the Professional available from the SLA Consultation Service. We Standards Committee contributed an article for realize, of course, that a good publicity program the May Newsletter, emphasizing the importance will require careful planning, but by September of Standards in all consultation work, at both the we hope to have the nucleus of such a program Chapter and professional levels. ready for consideration. At the request of the Executive Director, a Appreciation is extended to the Executive Di- short annotated bibliography, The Orgirnization of rector and his staff for sharing the interest and Special Libraries, was prepared by the Consulta- enthusiasm in the work of the Consultation Serv- tion Service Committee and sent to each Chapter ice and also to Mrs. Elizabeth Roth, Chairman of Consultation Officer and each Professional Con- the Ad Hoc Committee to Study the Consultation sultant. Additional copies will be kept on file at Service, for her cooperation in compiling such an Association Headquarters and will be enclosed excellent report, which will be beneficial not with replies to letters inquiring about the Con- only to the present Committee, but to future Com- sultation Service. The bibliography will be up- mittees as well. dated and revised periodically. MRS. GLORIAEVANS The appointment of an ad hoc committee last fall to review and assess the progress, accomplishments, and future of the SLA Consultation Service Convention Program has, perhaps, been the most significant event of This is a relatively new Committee, established the 1964-65 year. After nearly eight active years in 1960. Its purpose is to provide better advance of consultation activity, a reexamination of the planning of Convention themes and general ses- original objectives as laid down by the founding sion programs. To that end, this Committee, in committee in 1957 was necessary. It has been consultation with members of the host chapter realized for some time that a definite lack of for 1966, Minnesota, chose the theme of The coordination exists among the Chapters in the Special Librarian-Vital Link in Communication way they accept, approach, and handle consulta- and decided on three general sessions. tions; it is known that not every Chapter Consul- First steps in planning began when the Chair- tation Officer and Chapter President has a true man sat in on meetings in June 1963 where plans understanding of exactly how the Consultation for the St. Louis (1964) and the Philadelphia Service works. Unfortunately the once-a-year meet- (1965) Conventions were discussed. ing at Convention time could hardly begin to At the 1964 Mid-winter Meeting in Baltimore cover every problem, and the fact that Chapter and during the St. Louis Convention, ideas and Consultants were representatives of SLA and the themes for the 1966 Convention in Minneapolis library profession, and in this capacity were meet- were developed; at the Mid-winter Meeting in ing all levels of management, weighed heavily on Indianapolis (February 1965), final plans were the conscience of the Committee. Thus, the ad hoc considered, and during the Philadelphia meeting committee chairman. by writing such an excellent the Board of Directors gave its final approval. report, has pointed out those areas where the Few SLA members will plan more than one SLA standing Committee must concentrate in the convention. For anyone charged with this great months ahead. responsibility, this system of advance planning The Chapter Consultation Service report form provides the time, the stimulus, and the counsel was revised this year to allow for a more complete needed to make sure that each SLA Convention report of the Chapters' consultation activities. This program is carefully thought out and arranged for has proved most successful and has generated some its maximum appeal and benefit to the members excellent ideas for other Chapters to follow. In- who attend. teresting items from these reports will be printed Division programs make up much of the "meat" in future issues of the Neu~rlefter,and where a of any SLA Convention and are a prime reason for Consultation Officer has requested assistance with attendance by many SLA members. To help the a specific problem, every effort will be made to various Divisions with their advance planning, the answer the inquiry and make suggestions as to Chairman met with the Incoming Division Chair- how the situation can best be handled. man during the 1965 Philadelphia Convention. He outlined the theme, the reasons behind its During 1965-66 the Committee will continue choice, and offered each Division a small "kit" to draw an exchange of ideas from among the of ideas for Division programs that might tie in Chapter Consultation Officers, and through the with the general Convention theme. General re- medium of the Newsletter, these ideas, case sponse to this innovation was good. The best studies, etc. will be passed on. Again, we will time for Divisions to start planning their pro- encourage the Professional Consultants to con- grams is one year in advanceduring the pre- SEPTEMBER 1965 ceding meeting when face-to-face discussion and SLA letterhead and to greet old friends not yet exchange of ideas among Division officers and met during a busy Convention. members is possible. Anything the Convention Also for the first time a General Session of Program Committee can do to aid and stimulate Technical Papers gave special librarians a general this planning should be helpful. It is recommended opportunity to submit reports of their work to that the theme of the Convention, the number of the Convention. The Convention Committee is general sessions, and when they will be held most gratified by the response and attendance to should be decided and approved no later than this recognition of the professionalism of our at the Mid-winter Meeting, one and one-half years members. preceding the Convention itself. These plans Under the leadership of Grieg Aspnes, the First could then be sent to each Division early enough Annual Forum on Education for Special Librarian- so that full discussion could start at least one ship was sponsored by the SLA Education year in advance. With proper preparation, some Committee on the day after the Convention. In ad- Divisions might be able to plan most of their dition on that day, and the afternoon before, facil- programs and arrange for joint programs with ities were made available to two specialist groups other Divisions before they leave the Convention of librarians, those in forestry and the geosci- preceding the one being planned. ences. At the former's Second Workshop and the GRIEGASPNES latter's First Round Table there were discussions of information services and plans for improvement in those fields, thus implementing the Asso- Convention 1965 ciation's objective, "to encourage and promote the utilization of knowledge." The 56th Convention of Special Libraries As- sociation was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Membership Attendance June 6-10. 1965, with a 1,780 registered attend- CHAPTER ance of 1,347 members and 433 visitors, guests, REGISTRATION and exhibitors' representatives. Advance registra- Alabama 17 tion was 1,108 before cancellations and no-shows. Baltimore 16 Professional papers and talks were given by 64 Boston 65 members and 62 guest speakers in the 147 sched- Cincinnati 2 1 uled events on the final program. Cleveland 24 Colorado 14 Review of Program Connecticut Valley 17 The theme, "Library Cooperation-Key to Dayton 15 Greater Resources" was keynoted by Gordon R. Georgia 2 5 Williams, Director of The Center for Research Greater St. Louis 14 Libraries in Chicago, at the opening session with Heart of America 17 his realistic appraisal of "Library Cooperation and Illinois 76 Its Future." The Convention theme was developed Indiana I6 further in another General Session by Charles R. Louisiana 1I Nelson of Nelson Associates, Inc., Dr. Richard H. Michigan 4 5 Logsdon, Director of Columbia University Li- Minnesota 30 braries, and Scott Adams, Deputy Director of the Montreal 3 4 National Library of Medicine, with Samuel Sass of New Jersey 74 the General Electric Company William Stanley New York 231 Library as Moderator, and in 15 programs spon- Oak Ridge 11 sored by the Divisions and the Translations Ac- Oklahoma 1 tivities Committee. Three other SLA committees Pacific Northwest 14 held open meetings, and one presented a panel Philadelphia 175 program to inform on government information Pittsburgh 36 services. There were 26 group trips and library Rio Grande 12 visits, 21 receptions, and 63 meal functions of San Diego 5 which eight were Dutch treat and five sponsored. San Francisco 30 A successful reception for first conventioneers Southern California 38 was held on Sunday, and about 100 attended to Texas 2 2 meet the Chairmen of their Division interests. Toronto 20 The two Incoming Chapter and Division Officers Washington, D. C. 152 and Bulletin Editors meetings were held for the Western New York 48 first time on Sunday, and to advantage. Wisconsin 13 A reception for the Board of Directors and Unaffiliated or unknown 8 Award winners was sponsored by the local Chapter after the Banquet. Hundreds of members wel- Members (76%) comed this opportunity to meet those known to Non-Members (9% ) them so often only by letter or as names on the Students, full-time SPECIAL LIBRARIES Students, part-time 5 Local Arrangements: Barbara A. Begg, Drexel Guests (including members) 71 Institute of Technology Exhibitors (including members) (10%) 185 Meals and Banquet: Sylvia Heyl, Moore College Headquarters Staff of Art Tickets: Catherine A. Mohr, Container Corp. Registered attendance of America and Helen Mary Pyle, Sun Oil (Paid registrants Company Printing: Albert C. Gerould, The Free Library of Philadelphia Publicity: William B. Saunders, Marketing Science Institute Advertising and Marketing Registration: Mrs. Dorothy S. Collins, The Budd Biological Sciences Company Busin,ess and Finance Transportation and Tours: Margaret M. Imbrie, Documentation E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Geography and Map Insurance * Convention Executive Committee, and in addi- Metals/Materials tion: Military Librarians Chapter President: Richard A. Davis, Drexel In- Museum stitute of Technology Newspaper Evelyn Butler, University of Pennsylvania Picture Mrs. Marie S. Goff, E. I. du Pont de Nemours 8: Publishing Co. Science Technology Gretchen D. Little, Atlas Chemical Industries, Aerospace Inc. Chemistry Lawrence I. Chasen, General Electric Co. Engineering Nuclear Science The Convention Committee Chairmen found Paper and Textile themselves ill-informed as to the details of their Petroleum work and needs in the Convention Manual and in Pharmaceutical estimating attendances. Therefore all joined in a Public Utilities concerted program of complete attendance statistics No Section and are making many suggestions for the Con- Social Science vention Advisory Committee's revision of the Con- Planning, Building & Housing vention Manual. They welcomed the questions of Social Welfare numerous 1966, 1967, and 1968 Operations Chair- No Section men who came by to learn and suggest that if Transportation possible such Chairmen actually assist in the operations of the years before and after their own Division Affiliations Conventions, especially when the sponsoring Con- Not indicated or found vention Chapters are small.

Committees Division Representatives The Convention Chairman and Executive Com- Advertising and Marketing: Marguerite A. Zulick, mittee is heavily indebted to the following Opera- Farm Journal tions Chairmen, their many assistants, and the Biological Sciences: Mrs. Ruth E. Brown, Institute Division and Section Program Representatives for Cancer Research for their dedicated attention to all the many de- Business and Finance: Claire R. Waldner, Towers, tails involved in producing and coordinating a Perrin, Forster and Crosby, Inc. Convention for the 37 units of the Association rep- Documentation: Barbara A. Begg, Drexel Institute resented in the program. of Technology Geography and Map: Albert C. Gerould, The Convention Program: *Mrs. Jean G. Hopper, The Free Library of Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia Insurance: Mrs. Rose Thompson, Huebner Hall Convention Treasurer: *Robert Giesecke, Temple Insurance Library University Metals/Materials: Mrs. Elaine S. Weil, Foote Co-Treasurer: Dr. Ralph B. Baker, American Mineral Co. and Charles M. Wolfenberger, Viscose Division, FMC Corp. Pennsylvania State University Exhibits: John G. Daley, Drexel Institute of Military Librarians: Mrs. Margaret R. Osborne, Technology U. S. Frankford Arsenal Hospitality: Frances E. Parsons and Margaret M. Museum: Mrs. Miriam L. Lesley, The Free Li- Farrell, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. brary of Philadelphia Information: Jean M. Steever, Radio Corporation Newspaper: Joseph E. Molloy, The Philadelphia of America Inquirer SEPTEMBER 1965 Picture: Mrs. Helene H. Martin, Willet Stained Information Glass Studios Arrangements recommended by recent past con- Publishing: Eleanor M. Tafel, The Free Library ventions were continued with success. Because the of Philadelphia list of collections in the Philadelphia area is very Social Science: Ellen Brennan, Pennsylvania Econ- large, only those libraries declared to be open to omy League visitors during Convention week and a few addi- Planning, Building, and Housing: Ellen Brennan tional collections were assembled into a Visitors' Social Welfare: Evelyn Butler, University of Guide for the registration kit. An innovation was Pennsylvania an appended subject index. Science-Technology: Dorcas H. Cheavens, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Meals and Banquet Aerospace: Wallace C. Olsen, U. S. Federal The single events ticket was used again but Aviation Agency with less success in our area of heavy commuting Chemistry: Marylee C. Sturgis, FMC Corp. attendance. It was a problem to have large lunch- Engineering: Rose E. Lonberger, University of eon ticket sales to those who came on the morning Pennsylvania of an event or after Registration closed the day Nuclear Science: Marion A. Kreiter, University before. A very useful event sales record form was of Pennsylvania devised for counting event sales but did not pre- Paper and Textile: Marilyn F. Leasure, E. I. vent the sale of the last ticket simultaneously in du Pont de Nemours & Co. three ticket lines when a limit had to be set. It is Petroleum: Gwendolyn MacMurray, Atlantic hoped that passing on five year attendance records Refining Co. for Divisions at Conventions held in differing Pharmaceutical: Jacqueline D. Bastille, Smith, parts of the country will supply a foundation for Kline and French Laboratories better advance estimations. A form was devised Public Utilities: Mrs. Marie B. Spillane, Phila- for these records. A Royal McBee man said that delphia Electric Co. needling cards had no advantage over the event Transportation: Ellen Brennan, Pennsylvania Econ- sales record form used. Three persons were needed only League just to record sales and changes and to file. and withdraw. duplicate events tickets for changes. The ~roblernof how to manage ticket sales for Exhibits anxious members who cannot arrive days ahead In general the installation of 67 exhibitors in of an event may require a return to separate 79 booths went very smoothly with only one booth tickets for each event in Eastern cities. Further number problem quickly resolved. That three areas development of procedures seems advisable. for exhibits were necessary resulted in one being a more favorable location. The basic lighting for Local Arrangements some areas was insufficient, and too often ex- In general arrangements were successful, but hibitors did not build enough fight into their distinct need was shown for a Convention Manual exhibits or order additional lighting from the recommendation that there be four assistants with hotel. The opening reception and twice daily responsibility for 1) signs, 2) equipment check in coffee hours were continued with success. A more and out, and monitoring speakers' use of audio- detailed description of activities for the local Ex- visual aids, 3) statistics and the distribution and hibits Committee during Convention is recom- return of monitor cards, rating cards, and at- mended for the Convention Manual. tendance counters, and 4) a room assistant to The first subject guide to exhibitors was pro- check the monitoring of hotel arrangements and duced for the registration kit to stimulate interest. for curing public address faults. An SLA Manual The heading list circulated to the exhibitors pro- for Speakers is recommended. For the first time a duced a few strange entries and misunderstanding monitored attendance record was arranged for all of the difference between information service work events. and an index service publication, for instance. No The number and percentage of the 1,780 reg- editing of the exhibitors' checked headings was istered who attended the various morning, after- carried out. noon, and meal periods follows: Attendance at Convention Events

For meal periods the plus figure gives added attendance for the speakers. 490 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Printing which could be picked up by individuals who Printing operations were considerably reduced wished to forward their exhibit materials and other papers separately from their luggage. It is with use of the events ticket, and, in addition this year, the helpful production of the final program suggested that the registration form be revised to by Association Headquarters. Assembly of the show SLA membership that exhibitor and guest registration be handled in a revised manner fully manuscript for the three printed editions of the program requires hundreds of hours because of described to them to avoid duplicate registration, minor omissions. Many last minute phone calls and that an explanatory work sheet be used each vear for consistent compilation of Chapter and were necessary for completeness. A directive sheet for distribution might be useful to the program ~ivisionstatistics. IBM punched card registration chairmen who generally are new to this work. records were not used in compilation of the three supplementary registration lists. The advance registration of 1,108, 62% of Program final attendance, ended with 43 (3.9%) cancella- The theme and general session speakers on it tions and no-shows. New registration was: Sunday were determined by the Association's Program 299, Monday 192. Tuesday 111, Wednesday 94, Committee and its Chairman the year before. Ap- Thursday 26, totalling 41y0 of final registration. proval for a third session of papers resulting from Maximum hotel room use was 966 on Tuesday a general Call for Papers was obtained, and ar- night in two hotels, 54% of final registration; 870 rangements were handled by the Program Chair- were used Wednesday night and 478 on Thursday. man. Procedures for this operation are being These figures are dependent on the place of the drawn up for approval in the Convention Manual. Convention; maximum St. Louis use was 77% of A procedure tried this year, to have the prelimi- the attendance, 899 rooms. nary program, which must be sent to Headquarters In conclusion we must report that it was a by December 5, carry at least a program topic for successful affair, as attested by the many comments every Division and Section event, resulted in most received Convention week and letters afterward. favorable membership comment. For this the pro- The Chapter members feel most honored by this gramming units were asked to submit their pro- appreciation and are grateful to the Divisions gram topics by September. A preliminary ar- and SLA Committees for their fundamental dona- rangement was assembled, and the first draft sent tion-good program content that makes Conven- in October to each program chairman for review tions worth attending. and consideration of co-sponsorship. Only one of ANNEL. NICHOLSON the latter resulted. The Divisions that scheduled papers to be written by their members had their programs complete by November 15. The greatest delay in completing programs apparently arises Copyright Law Revision with important guest speakers who cannot engage The activities of the Copyright Law Revision to speak six to eight months ahead. Committee this year have centered on considera- The fourth day of the Convention was not re- tion of proposals by the Joint Libraries Commit- stricted to tours but used to schedule Division tee on Copyright. These proposals were an attempt technical programs and decrease conflict. The to present a unified statement by the library field procedure caused fewer Wednesday night de- on copyright revision. Full details are to be found partures than usual, it is felt. Appreciable de- in the report of the SLA representative to the partures did not begin until Thursday. Joint Libraries Committee on Copyright. CHESTERM. LEWIS Rating Card Survey St. Louis Chapter members most kindly supplied and printed the event rating cards for continuing the evaluation survey. The Division Rep- Education resentatives and monitors for other meetings During the past year the Education Committee capably handled their distribution and return, helped SLA take a big step toward its goal of along with their many other duties. Mr. Gonzalez better programs of preparation for careers in will have to process the registration forms into special librarianship. IBM cards before making his correlations of Di- This was the first annual post-convention Forum vision and Chapter attendance. The writer feels on Education for Special Librarianship held in that this survey might be valuable for a study of Philadelphia on June 11, 1965. We invited repre- inter-Division interests in the organizational struc- sentatives from all the schools that have shown ture. an interest in the field of special librarianship/ information science. About 30 schools were repre- Registration sented at the Forum; another 50-75 individuals A mailable registration kit was used for the attended, including SLA members who serve on first time but required a very large storage area Chapter or Division education committees, mem- and extra persons for the assembly. A sponsor bers of the Medical Library Association, the might supply a smaller number, not assembled, American Documentation Institute, ALA, the SEPTEMBER 1965 National Science Foundation, and other organiza- Office of Education, Library Services Branch. Much tions. interest was shown by many of the administrators With this Forum we hoped to offer the means in SLA's program of cooperation and mutual help for educators to discuss among themselves some with the schools. of their problems in this area and to stimulate an As with all new committees, this one spent exchange of ideas and experiences between the some time defining its purposes, goals, and means schools and SLA, ADI, and other organizations for achieving both. In summary, these might be who may be interested in these problems. stated as: Our first Forum dealt with the following topics: 1. Who are we? Where are we? How many are What can SLA do: we? Robert Havlik, library research specialist for . . . to help prepare more students better for ca- the U.S. Office of Education, Library Services reers as special librarians through formal programs Branch, reviewed his recent survey of special li- in the schools. braries serving state governmental agencies and . . . to help working librarians keep up with new also other surveys of special libraries and informa- trends and developments, new techniques. new con- tion centers. He outlined LSB's plans for a concepts. etc., on a formal, intensive, selective basis tinuing series of studies that will count special that would augment their individual efforts of libraries serving the federal government, educa- reading, Division activities, attending Chapter tional and non-profit institutions, and private in- meetings, and annual conventions. dustry. . . . to help the librarian who has been inactive, or 2. What do we do? Practical personnel problems the non-special librarian who wishes to enter the in special libraries. Veteran SLA members Charles field of special librarianship, to prepare himself Bauer, Marie Goff, and Jo Ann Aufdenkamp for this new and different type of career. drew on their long experience to summarize some . . . to train subprofessionals ("library aides," of the qualities and qualifications they seek when "technicians." "assistants") for duties that would they recruit, interview, select, hire, train. and help them free the librarian from necessary but supervise members for their staffs. routine tasks and allow him more time for more 3. A look at the literature. Dr. Jesse Shera, Dean professional duties. of Western Reserve's School of Library Science, gave an informal resume of his recent study of How can SLA Chapters help the schools in their the literature on education for special librarian- area (guest speakers, lecturers, teachers, guide ship. This study. made under a Carnegie grant, tours and visits, internship programs for students, will be published later this year. special Chapter meetings and recruitment activities, 4. Two philosophies of education-general or spe- aid with short courses, seminars, symposia, and cial? Dr. Howard Winger, University of Chicago reviewing curricula) ? Library School, outlined the general or "core" What do working special librarians think about approach for preparing students for library ca- the preparation they received in school? (SLA reers; Mrs. Martha Jane Zachert described the might survey its members, ask for their opinions program at Florida State University where highly on the courses they have found most helpful, specialized courses are offered to fill specific which seem less important, if they were to do it needs. over again, how would they do it differently in 5. Information Science-where does it go? Dr. school r ) There is much still to do. We have made a Laurence Heilprin, President of the American Documentation Institute, plotted a scientific start. The job is a never-ending and ever-expand- "model" of the growth in research and publication ing one. Under the leadership of the new Educa- relating to the field of information science and tion Committee Chairman, Erik Bromberg, con- compared it with similar types of rapid growth tinued progress is insured. This Committee wishes in other fields to forecast possible future trends to thank all the many SLA members who con- and what it all may mean for the field of special tributed ideas, comments, suggestions, and criticisms. Their interest reflects the interest that SLA librarianship. as an organization must have in seeking to do The warm response to the idea of the Forum all it can toward developing more and better spe- and the spirited discussions that followed most of cial librarians. the presentations indicate that this first effort was GREGASPNES worthwhile. Future Forums might provide more spare time for informal discussion, and Friday of Convention week may not be the best time to Finance hold any meeting. Making the Forum an integral The Committee met at Association Headquarters part of the Convention might make it easier for September 4, 1964. After a' detailed explanation more people to take part more completely. of the tentative budget for 1964-65 by the Ex- In April 1965. the Education Committee Chair- ecutive Director, the Committee voted to recom- man represented SLA at an Institute on the Prob- mend to the Board the following, which were lems of Library School Administrators held in approved by the Board at its meeting on September Washington, D. C. unda the aegis of the U.S. 25, 1964: SPECIAL LIBRARIES 1. That the tentative budget, 1964-65, as presented Foundation Grants by the Executive Director, be accepted. 2. That the 15 per cent allotment to Chapters and In August of last year, the National Science five per cent allotment to Divisions, with a mini- Foundation granted Special Libraries Association mum of $150, be retained for the 1964-65 budget. the sum of $27,100 for the support of a project 3. That the maximum balance in the payroll ac- entitled "Exchange Visits of American and Rus- count be increased from $4,000 to 35.000. sian Scientific and Technical Librarians." Several 4. That a handling charge of $1.50 per paid sub- meetings were held by John Binnington, Project scription to Special Ljbrarie~based on the number Coordinator; Bill M. Woods, SLA Executive Di- of subscriptions as of September 30, 1964, be rector, and the Foundation Grants Committee added to the 1963-64 budget. with each other and with members of the National 5. That the SLA Special Classifications Center Science Foundation and the State Department tentative budget 1964-65, as based on an NSF working out the details of this grant. Currently, grant, be accepted. the project is out of the hands of the Foundation 6. That the SLA Translations Center tentative Grants Committee, but negotiations are progress- budget 1964-65 be accepted. ing with the Russians to complete timing of the two visits. The Committee recommended to the Board at During the Board of Directors meeting in St. its Mid-winter Meeting on February 13, 1965, that Louis, the Foundation Grants Committee was in- the maximum of the General Reserve Fund be structed to secure funds, if possible, to send a raised from $50,000 to $100.000 and that the representative to the September 1964 IFLA meeting following motion be presented at the Annunl in Rome. We were fortunate in securing a grant Meeting June 9, 1965: of $500 from the Rockefeller Foundation, which "That Section 2 of the General Reserve Fund (as enabled Dr. Karl Baer to attend and fulfill his amended 1960) be amended to read: There shall commitments toward the formation of a Special be $100.000 limit on the General Reserve Fund. Libraries Section of IFLA. We are now working Interest on the principal shall accrue to the Fund. on a grant that will aid Dr. Baer to attend the In addition, the Board of Directors, on recom- 1965 meeting in August in Helsinki. Dr. Baer has mendation of the Finance Committee, may add been elected President of the new section of IFLA. funds from other sources to the General Reserve Unfortunately, SLA's travel policy does not extend Fund, when the Board believes this use of such to Special Representatives to other associations. funds to be in the best interests of the Associa- It would seem, though, that SLA does have a tion." moral obligation to aid in sending our representa- This recommendation was accepted by the Board tive while he is President. of Directors. The Foundation Grants Committee has a The Committee was instructed by the Board to further instruction from the Board of Directors. present its opinion at the Board Mid-winter Meet- The SLA Special Classifications Center was dis- ing on the problem of interim financing for the cussed at length during the February 1965 Board Special Classifications Center until the status of of Directors meeting in Indianapolis and given support from the National Science Foundation was the responsibility of attempting to secure funds clarified. The Committee suggested that a clarifi- for a research grant for the Center. The SLA cation in Board long-range policy for the SCC Special Classifications Committee is working with was needed before the Finance Committee could the Foundation Grants Committee to formulate make informed judgments on the availability and such a proposal. Renewal grant of $11,720 from use of Association funds. The Committee coun- the National Science Foundation was secured for seled caution in committing funds until such the current calendar year, but further aid for the policy was set. The Board voted interim support Center's maintenance will be more difficult to up to $4,600 if necessary. The NSF grant was find. We are trying, however, ta locate possible later allowed retroactive to January L. sources to cover this part of the Center's opera- The Committee had been asked to present to tion. the June 1965 Board meeting its opinion on the ROBERTW. GIBSON,JR. availability of funds to implement Board action in raising the Division allotment from membership dues from five per cent to ten per cent. The Com- Government Information mittee believes that this increase can be provided for in the 1965-66 budget without undue fi- Services nancial strain. On February 13, the SLA Board of Directors The Chairman of the Finance Committee at- voted to elevate the Science-Technolocgy Division's tended the Board of Directors meetings on Sep- Committee on Government Information Services tember 23, 1964, and February 12-13, 1965, as to Association level. This change had been recom- well as the Headquarters Operations Committee mended by the SLA Ad Hoc Committee on Asso- Meeting, May 13. 1965. ciation and Unit Relationship with Government JANET BOGARDUS and approved by the Science-Technology Division Advisory Committee at the SLA Mid-winter Meet- brarians and the CNLA Committee for Visiting ing in Indianapolis. The Government Information Foreign Librarians) and handle correspondence Services Committee is expected to operate in the pertaining to international programs, exchanges, future much like it has in the past, but now all etc. A number of queries from abroad were re- subject areas of SLA will be represented. As the ceived from librarians wishing to come to the Chairman of the Committee on Committees out- United States for study, visits to libraries, and lined it: "Its duties have been to survey the other purposes. In couching replies to these letters, whole area of policies, services, and products of one is aware of the great need for a center that government information producing agencies and could serve as a clearinghouse of information for decide upon appropriate action in this area. It is these foreign colleagues. The Committee is still expected that the Committee shall act fast and hopeful that the CNLA Committee will be able decisively when the need arises to serve as the to obtain funds with which to begin such a center. official Association spokesman in the area of Several foreign librarians attended the Philadel- government information services." phia meetings and were introduced at the first The past year has seen numerous changes general session. A small reception was held for within the government agencies that supply in- this group by the President in his suite. Some of formation services. The Defense Documentation the foreign guests were: Dr. Hoos Verhoeff, Center and the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific Technical University, Delft, Holland; Mercedes and Technical Information have established a new Reis Pequeno, Music Librarian, National Library, working relationship, and improved products and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Mr. K. W. Atkin, British services have resulted. The Committee, through Iron & Steel Research Association, United King- its "man in Washington," Peter Pocock, has kept dom; and James Traue. New Zealand General As- in contact with the various government agencies sembly Library, New Zealand. and has been represented at their conferences. In It was impossible to have a full meeting of the addition, the Committee responded to a letter to Committee during the year. However, there has Special Libraries Association from the Select been a flow of correspondence among the mem- Committee on Government Research of the House bers, and two of the three members met for dis- of Representatives. A review of their study num- cussion during the Annual Convention. Some of ber four (Documentatiun and Dirsemination of Re- the matters discussed will be followed up during search and Development Resu11.r) was prepared the next year. for the February 1965 issue of Special Librarie.r. ELAINEA. KURTZ On June 10 an open meeting of the Committee was held in Philadelphia. Featured participants McKinsey Foundation Book were Mr. A. G. Abdian of the Defense Docu- mentation Center, Bernard Fry of the Clearing- Awards Program house for Federal Scientific and Technical Informa- Special Libraries Association is participating for tion, Hubert Sauter of NASA, and John Sherrod the third year in offering nominations for the of AEC. This meeting provided an opportu- McKinsey Foundation Book Awards sponsored by nity for government representatives to describe the American Academy of Management. The the latest developments within their agencies and Program (which operates under a grant from the at the same time receive comments and questions McKinsey Foundation for Management Research, from Committee members and the audience. Inc.) is for the purpose of honoring books that As this Committee broadens its base and in- contribute significant insights, ideas, informa- creases its scope, it is hoped that valuable as- tion, or concepts to managers with major policy sistance can be given to all special librarians and responsibilities. to the various government information-producing SLA offers nominations of works meeting the agencies to accomplish more effectively the SLA established criteria by special invitation of the motto of "Putting Knowledge to Work." American Academy of Management. Nominations D. T. BEDSOLE are also accepted from members of the Academy, from publishers, and from reviewers of manage- Governmental Relations ment books. Only those books published between July 1, 1964, and December 31, 1965, are eligible No annual report. for consideration in this year's program. Final selection of Award winners will be made by a Headquarters Operations Board of Judges composed of outstanding Ameri- can executives and educators. No annual report. Nominations on behalf of Special Libraries As- sociation are made by each of five members of the International Relations McKinsey Committee, who are selected because of their familiarity and competency with the litera- During 1964-65 the Committee has continued ture of management. Each Committee member to participate in various international activities selects the work he or she considers most deserv- (the Jointly Sponsored Program for Foreign Li- ing of an Award and prepares a comprehensive SPECIAL LIBRARIES synopsis of the book to substantiate the nomina- Kaiser, and Business and Industrial Libraries in tion. The Committee Chairman coordinates the /he United States, 1820-1940, by Anthony T. work of the Committee members and submits the Kruzas. However, the year has been an extremely nominations to the Awards Office prior to the busy one. Four projects are in the final stages of announced deadline. preparation and will, in all likelihood, be pub- Early in July 1965 the Academy decided to lished very soon: change the time of publication criterion for Souvces of In.rurance Statistics, edited by Elizabeth eligibility. In previous years only those books Ferguson for the Insurance Division; Special Li- published from July 1 of one year to July 1 of bwries, A Guide for Management, an Illinois the next were eligible for consideration; the new Chapter project; Guide to Metallurgiral Informa- publication period will be based on calendar years, tion, 2nd ed., edited by Eleanor Gibson for the with the transitional year spanning an 18-month Metals/Materials Division; German Chemical Ab- period. The deadline for nominations was ex- bveuiation~by Donald Gholston and Roger Martin. tended from August 1, 1965 to January 31, 1966. Fifteen other projects were considered by the PEARLCHARLET Committee during the year: four of these are far enough along to be sure that publication will result; three were rejected by the Committee, the Membership other eight are in early stages of preparation or under active Committee discussion. No annual report. Two SLA publications, now out of date, are popular and should be revised and republished: Motion Picture the Dictionary of Report Series Codes and the Hundbook. of Scientific and Technical Award.r. The Committee Chairman reported on the dona- Compilers of the first edition of each have reserva- tions from individual numbers who bought tags tions about preparing up-dated material. The during the Convention stating, "I financed a frame Committee is seeking new author-compilers for of film-How about you?" The proceeds totaled these books and welcomes suggestions from the approximately $630. It was also reported that Board. during 1965 two more Chapter donations were Active consideration of contracts between the received: $200 from the New Jersey Chapter and authors and the Association has led to a request $1,000 from the New York Chapter. Donations that the Board express its views in this matter. t~)the Motion Picture Fund since its establish- SLA has not had author contracts, and Commit- ment in 1964 now total approximately $2,600. tee opinion varies between mild and strong as to Immediate plans of the Committee include prep- the need for the protection such a document of- aration of a prospectus to delineate the areas and fers both parties. ALA and other associations do aspects of special librarianship that the film will use a simple contract. Preparation and institution cover. This document will be used as backgrouncl of contracts for new projects would be a relatively in further fund raising activities. It will also serve simple clerical matter. If the Board expresses as orientation in discussions with film producers. positive interest, the Committee will gather final The Committee also plans to contact the Chap- facts and present a recommendation for Board ters and suggest a continuation of the tag sale, action at an early date. instituted during the Convention, at the local CHARLESH. STEVENS level. An ample supply of tass was ordered in advance for this purpose. The response from the Chapters and further information regarding the Personnel prospectus and contact with producers will be reported at the Mid-winter Meeting of the Board At the Board meeting in Indianapolis, February of Directors in Albuquerque. 12, 1965, the Personnel Committee was instructed The Board agreed that publicity for this project to develop a questionnaire and to proceed to should include coverage in Special Libraries. acquire information about beginning salaries of library school graduates in special libraries. The information requested was: 1) broad subject field of the position, i.e., science, business, arts, Nominating etc. (these were not named, but this is the degree of specificity); 2) experience, simply yes or no; For report. see Special Libraries, vol. 55, no. 9, and 3) starting salary. Additional information can November 1964, p. S-21 "News and Notes." be asked but should be kept to a minimum. On April 7, 1965, a letter was sent to the 36 Nonserial Publications accredited library schools in the United States and Canada. Answers are still coming back, four hav- Three items were published this year: SLA ing been received in May. Fourteen of the replies Directory of Members, 1964, Translators and included information, and all indicated that they Translations: Services and Sources in Science and would cooperate. The information returned was Technology, second edition, edited by Frances E. that which had been compiled for the Strouts or SEPTEMBER 1965 which had been charted for the school's own uses. draft and send it to librarians with similar li- Some gave "average" salaries without saying how braries for critical commmt. This procedure, with many persons reported. Very few gave any signifi- some exceptions, has not produced the response cant subject field indication. All had salary ranges Miss Leonard was looking for. Many of the re- that were so broad as to destroy significance of spondents were loud in praise of the profile but "average" salaries in such limited returns. offered little or no constructive criticism of spe- The next moves will probably be to contact the cific points. While the praise was appreciated, Strouts and the Association of American Library Miss Leonard would have preferred more com- Schools. After that, the Committee should be ready ment. to decide on a specific form by which to request It seems the possibilities of correspondence information and from whom. have been exhausted. To improve on the accuracy LOYDR. RATHBUN of these profiles, it is now necessary for Miss Leonard to have personal contact with librarians in similar libraries, and she is willing to give Placement Policy two weeks of her time to this project. The Asso- No annual report. ciation will provide travel funds. It is thought it will be necessary to travel only in the northeastern United States and Chicago. Professional Standards It is believed these profiles will provide a yardstick for comparing existing libraries and will aid One method used for the collecting of informa- in reorganizing and starting new libraries. The tion for the writing of "Objectives and Standards following are excerpts from some respondents: for Special Libraries" was a survey of selected special libraries. In some instances it was not pos- "I hope this profile will be published and be- sible to include some statistical data from the come available to libraries and management questionnaire in the Standards because of the throughout the country." (Aerospace library) smallness of our sample. In order not to lose this "Most important and would be something help- information, it was suggested that profiles describ- ful to show my bosses and help in work load, and ing specific kinds of special libraries be written. in salaries, and in unit work measurements, for a A profile is not intended to give a statistical library similar to ours." (Public utility library) average of present practices but to be a selection How pleased I am that you are able to work of desirable practices. The compiler would use out such a profile . . . this kind of information the survey as a guide, but those activities that were has been most useful. . . ." (Bank library) substandard would be improved on. At least three questionnaires were used in writing each profile. The only other activity since the last report As each of the libraries surveyed is an excellent was the writing of an article on using the library. the resulting profiles provide a specific "Standards" for the Consultation Committee. guide for the purpose of comparison. The major As this is my final report as Chairman of the points of comparison for inclusion in a question- Professional Standards Committee, I wish to ex- naire were size of staff and collection. Other func- press my personal appreciation for Miss Leonard's tions were also considered. As survey libraries contribution to the Committee and to the Associa- were assured that questionnaires were confidential tion. It has been a privilege to work with some- and would be seen only by Ruth Leonard, this one so cooperative and willing to give so much of project has been solely the work of Miss Leonard. her personal time to a project that will benefit all The six profiles obtained from the questionnaires special librarians. are: Recommendations : 1. Research library in a manufacturing company. I. That the Board of Directors approve the ap- Staff of one professional and one nonprofessional. propriation of travel funds for Ruth Leonard to 2. Library for a research and development di- visit libraries in the northeastern United States and vision of an electronics corporation. Staff of six Chicago over a period of two weeks. professionals and nine nonprofessionals. 2. That after the final drafts of these profiles 3. Library for a public utilities firm. Staff of three have been written, that they be published in Spe- professionals and four nonprofessionals. cl-rl Libraries and be made available as reprints. 4. Bank library. Staff of four professionals and four nonprofessionals. 5. Advertising agency library. Staff of four professionals and four nonprofessionals. EDITOR'SNOTE: Both recommendations were ap- 6. Library for the research and development di- proved. vision of a chemical manufacturing company. Staff of two professionals and three nonprofessionals. Subcommittee on Ethics These profiles are all in second drafts, except for the last. The procedure has been to write a No annual report. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Seven 1965 lectures will be delivered at: Public Relations 1. The University of Denver-P. Roger de Ton- At the September 1964 meeting of the Board nancour of Directors, $265 was authorized for the de- 2. Kent State University-George Mandel velopment of jewelry using the Special Libraries 3. Louisiana State University-Maryann Duggan Association insignia. The jewelry will serve as 4. McGill University-Gordon Randall identification of an SLA member; in addition, the 5. Rosary College--William Richardson sale of the jewelry will be a fund-raising project 6. Simmons College-Eugene Jackson for the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund and 7. Western Michigan University-Joseph Sim- the Motion Picture Fund. mons A design presented by Balfour Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, has been selected; the One issue of the Recruitmext Newsletter was items chosen are bracelet charms and tie tacks, written by the Committee Chairman and distrib- both available in both sterling silver and 10-K uted in the spring of 1965. gold. A contribution of $2.00 to be divided The recruitment film moved closer to reality equally between the Scholarship and Student Loan with the establishment, by the Board of Directors, Fund and the Motion Picture Fund is included in of an Association-wide Motion Picture Commit- the selling price as well as all other expenses in- tee and with formulation by this Committee of volved in distribution and sales taxes. Prices have fund-raising plans to be instituted at the Philadel- been rounded off resulting in $4.95 for the ster- phia 1965 Convention. The Recruitment Commit- ling silver items (both charm and tie tack) and tee will continue to cooperate in every way in $8.25 for the 10-K gold items (both charm and tie efforts to make the motion picture a reality. tack). Twenty silver charms, 15 gold charms, 15 silver Chapter Activities tie tacks, and 5 gold tie tacks were ordered. They Many Chapters operated vigorous and in- were available during the Convention at a booth genious recruitment programs. These have been in the registration area. Prepaid orders were also reported in the Recruitment Newsletter, in Chap- left at this booth for future delivery. The booth ter bulletins, and in the reports of Chapter Re- was manned by Chapter and Division Public Re- cruitment Chairmen. Only a few will be excerpted lations Chairmen during the times when there was here: activity in that area. A flyer was included in each Convention kit, and an announcement made in The Cleveland Chapter planned a meeting for the May 1965 issue of Special Libraries. After the Western Reserve and Kent State library school Convention, the jewelry is available from Asso- students and high school guidance counselors. ciation Headquarters by mail, prepaid. The Greater St. Louis Chapter invited execu- Two Public Relations hlewsletters were mailed tives and guidance counselors to a program at out during the year. Monsanto at which special library careers were MARIANG. LECHNER outlined and explained and at which a strong operating special library was demonstrated. Chap- ter members participated in career day programs. Publications In addition, the Chapter celebrated National Li- brary Week by inviting high school seniors to be No annual report. "Librarians for a Day." The Michigan Chapter undertook a variety of activities, including participation in a Women's Recruitment Career Conference at Marygrove College, hosting For the first time in four years, the Committee tours of special libraries by library school stu- did not author a new publication. With two dents, participation in community career con- booklets less than two years old, which did not ferences, and the holding of panel discussions for require major revision, 21 Data Sheets including Liniversity of Michigan library school students. some recently revised ones, and a poster, the The New Jersey Chapter hosted a dinner meet- Committee did not consider a major new publica- ing attended by 24 students and three placement tion of particular urgency and did not feel that counselors at the Esso Research and Engineering the cost would be warranted. Company. The John Cotton Dana lectures, initiated in The New York Chapter made five loans of its 1961, will enter their fifth year with seven lec- slides and speakers' guide for use in library re- tures to be delivered in the fall of 1965. After cruitment. The Chapter also participated in a the 1965 series, 35 accredited library schools will vocational planning meeting at Barnard College. have been the recipient of one JCD lecture. A The Western New York Chapter accepted re- number of these lectures have been published in cruitment as its major Chapter activity for the Special Libraries and Librarj Joug.nal, and a con- year. Much recruitment literature was distributed, siderable number are available for loan from Chapter members gave talks on recruitment Association Headquarters in typewritten form and throughout the Chapter area, and publicity was on tape. arranged through radio and TV stations. SEPTEMBER 1965 General Recommendations SLA Professional Award This report completes the current Recruitment Chairman's four-year tenure of office. A new Re- and Hall of Fame cruitment Chairman, although a member of the No annual report present Committee for many years, will be taking over. It is good that this should happen because it is almost inevitable that the recruitment pro- Scholarship and Student gram reflect in large part the personality, idio- syncrasies, and biases of the Chairman. It is im- Loan Fund portant that no one person should be allowed to place too heavy a personal stamp on the recruit- Seventy-six applications for the seven $1.~100.00 ment policies of this Association. scholarships were received this year. For the most It is to be hoped that the John Cotton Dana part the qualifications of the applicants were very lecture program will be continued and perhaps good, insuring a continued interest of outstanding expanded. There has been such a heavy demand on individuals in the special library field. It was ex- the recruitment publications developed and dis- tremely difficult to make the selection of this year's tributed by the Association that more diverse and finalists. Many applicants worked part-time in li- more inexpensive recruitment tools must be found. braries during the summer as well as in special Present efforts to achieve wider publicity in pro- libraries during the school term. A special "thank fessional and general media must be continued. you" is given at this time to the many SLA Although we have made progress, there are still Chapter Presidents and members who cooperated far too many who have never heard of special so graciously with the Committee. Also, gratitude librarianship, and there are still far too many is expressed to the Association Heaclquarters per- potential special librarians we don't get because sonnel who untiringly attended to Committee de- they have never heard of us. We are making tails, thus expediting the entire processing pro- progress in having the requirements of special cedure. librarianship recognized by the accredited library The winners of the 1965-1966 Special 1-ibraries schools and by the new schools of information Association $1,000 scholarships, listed alphabet- science. Much of the credit for this should go to ically. are: Eileen Elizabeth Hanle, adtimore, the Education Committee, but the Recruitment Maryland ; Saralyn Ingrarn, Owensboro. Kentucky; Committee must continue to work closely with Mrs. Judith McEntyre, Claremont, California; the Education Chairman toward this end. Patricia Jean Pannier, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Finally, it is recommended that the Recruitment Victoria Suzanne Potts, Panama City. Florida; Committee examine its own program against the Hannah Rochelle Rotman. Pomon~. California; yardstick of the Goals for 1970 recommendations and Mary Clair Walsh, Lancaster, South Carolina. that pertain to recruitment. It is this Chairman's Alternate winners, listed in order of preference opinion that reaching, or even approaching. these are: Susan Louise Hough, Sandwich, Illinois; goals will require drastic revision and enlarge- Georganne Myrdith Banks, Massillon. Ohio; Floris ment of the recruitment program of the Associa- Flam, New York. New York; Jeanne Denice tion and the profession. Thrasher, New Albany, Indiana; hfaureen Louise HERBERTS. WHITE Smith, Avon Lake, Ohio; and Mrs. Barbara Lou DeCoster. Bothell, Washington. The second part of a scholarship award of 5500.00 not accepted the second semester by one Reprography of last year's winners was awarded to the next alternate winner. A question arises at this time as to whether this practice is desirable. Quoted from The Board of Directors, on June 7, 1964, ap- Provisions for Scholarships: "Scholarships will be proved a change of name for the Document granted for one year of study leading to a degree Reproduction Committee to the Reprography Com- or an alternative plan for study acceptable to the mittee. The members for the 1965-1966 Commit- Committee." tee include Marylee C. Sturpis, Helen J. Waldron, and John Sherrod. No questions or problems were referred to the Contributions Committee for action during the year. The Com- As usual, this year contributions to the Scholar- mittee's work was limited to the preparation of ship and Student Loan Fund have been sizable brief notes and reviews for Special Librasies. from business organizations, memorials from The Committee met during the Annual Conven- Chapters and Divisions as well as from some in- tion and agreed on projects for the coming year, dividuals. Four thousand dollars were received which will include the preparation of a report on from the H. W. Wilson Foundation, Inc. Howard microfiche standards, a review of the micro-opaque, Haycraft, President of the Foundation, said: "It is and a look at plans for new microfiche processing our hope that even more friends of libraries in equipment. the business and organizational world will adopt JOHNSHERROD this practical and effective means of aiding li- SPECIAL LIBRARIES brary recruitment. . . ." To mention a few others, In memory of Rose Boots (from gifts were received from Atlas Chemical Industries individual donations) (seventh consecutive yearly contribution), Bell In memory of Kathleen B. Steb- Telephone Laboratories, E. I. duPont de Nemours bins (from individual dona- & Co., and Time, Inc. tion) The Metals/Materials Division, which origi- In memory of John T. Holzemer, nated and has carried on a unique tradition for Sr. (from Michigan Chapter) the past four years, contributed the sum of In memory of Eleanor V. $2,059.44, the profit from the "Admiral" cruise Wright (from Michigan Chap- sponsored by the Division during the 1964 St. ter) Louis SLA Convention. This Division's Past- In memory of Cleveland Noble, Chairman wrote: "Much credit must be given to father of Valerie Noble (from our local representatives and the local Convention Michigan Chapter) Committees for their untiring efforts in the ex- In memory of Robert Gibson, ecution of these affairs, thereby insuring their Sr., father of Robert W. Gib- success." son, Jr. (from Michigan Your Committee was pleased to read in the Chapter) SLA Public Reldtions Newsletter, May 1965, that new SLA insignia jewelry would be first available at the Philadelphia Convention. In addition to Organizations having an attractive piece of jewelry, each buyer Bell Telephone Labs. Inc. will be making a contribution of $1 to the Schol- Time, Inc. arship and Student Loan Fund. Atlas Chemical Industries The Chairman contributed an article on scholar- E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. ships and student loans to the June-July 1965 H. W. Wilson Foundation issue of the McGraw-Hill Special Libraries Bul- Ieti,. Loans were made this year to two persons, totaling $1.000. Chapters The Committee believes a detailed guide for San Francisco Bay Region the use of SLA members interviewing an applicant Philadelphia for a scholarship would prove helpful. Illinois Several applications were received from persons Cleveland interested in school, general public, and theology Southern California libraries. none of which constitutes specialties that Greater St. Louis fall within the scope of the Special Libraries As- sociation. The Committee believes that to clarify this point. the application form should contain Divisions a statement specifically defining the scope of the Metals/Materials Association and describing its Divisions. Sections Pharmaceutical Analysis of Past SLA Scholarship Awards Preliminary steps have been taken at Association Total contributions Headquarters to set up a schedule to check the Total interest earned May 1, 1964 to whereabouts and positions of past winners. A let- April 30, 1965 ter received by the Committee from Drexel Insti- Repayments on loans May 1, 1964 to tute, School of Library Science, recorded statistics April 30, 1965 on the winners enrolled in Drexel from 1955 to date. A full report will be submitted at a later time. SUMMARY FINANCIALSTATEMENT Cash balance May 1, 1964 Less-Scholarship and Student SCHOLARSHIPAND STUDENTLOAN FUND Loans (1964-1965) hl~j1. 1964 to April 30, 1963 Balance Contributions Additions May 1, 1964 to April Indiz,idnd memherr 30, 1965

Merno)id donationr Cash balance in Fund April 30, 1965 In memory of Charles Stolberg Loans outstanding (from Newspaper Division) $ 50.00 Balance in Scholarship and Student In memory of Isabel Bronk Loan Fund April 30, 1965 (from individual donation) 25.00 SEPTEMBER 1965 Recommendations contained 48 pages, and the January 1965 issue The Board considered the Committee's request contained 96 pages. that a card or letter be sent to a Chapter or family of a deceased member in whose memory a con- Recommendation tribution has been made to the Scholarship and It is recommended that the single issue cost for Student Loan Fund and asked the Committee to Scieiztific Meezings be changed to $2.50 per issue. develop a workable plan. The Committee requests that a ruling be made on money remaining from a scholarship partially accepted. We feel that this money should eot be EDITOR'S NOTE: The Board approved the price given to the next alternate in the middle of the change. year, but should be returned to the Scholarship Fund. MRS.DOROTHY C. MCNUTT Special Classifications National Science Foundation Grant GN386 in EDITOR'S NOTE: The Board approved the Com- the amount of $11.720.00 for the period January mittee's recommendation concerning the money 1, 1965 through December 31, 1965 was re- remaining from a partially used scholarship. ceived with the indication that it is to be considered a "terminal" grant so far as the main- Scientific Meetings tenance of the Center's service function is concerned. Proposals for "research" funds will, Scientific Meetings is now in its third year as however, be considered. The appreciation of the an Association publication. For the past year it Association for the contribution by Western Re- has been operating on a break-even financial basis. serve LTniversitp of the cost of rent and administra- During the past year, improvements have been tive services for the period from September 9 to made on the format by eliminating unnecessary December 31, 1964, was expressed to the Uni- title information, such as meetings, conferences, versity by the Association's Executive Director. etc., and by making better utilization of the The Special Classifications Committee reviewed spacing of each entry. In addition, the key word the activities of the Center under the new grant index has been improved by selecting the most and instructed the Director to emphasize the fol- specific terms for each listing. lowing activities during the first six months of As reported in February, Harry Baum of Tech- operation: nical Meetings Information Service, who pub- 1. Verify the basic adequacy of the collection and lishes Technical Meetings Index, requested a begin to fill in the most important gaps. meeting with members of SLA concerned with 2. Plan to issue the revised guide to holdings by Scientific Meetir~gs. This meeting was scheduled the end of 1965. during the Convention in Philadelphia. 3. Issue a Special Classifications Center "News- There are now two major publications that list letter" with as wide a distribution as possible and technical and scientific meetings since the Deutsch implementing the Center's intention to act as a & Shea list has been merged with Technical Meet- clearinghouse for information on developments in i~gsIndex. The scope and audience of the two classification and related fields and reports on re- publications are quite different. TMI provides gen- search in progress. eral information about meetings plus a description 4. Cooperate with Argonne National Laboratory of the technical coverage, number of papers to in the preparation of a joint proposal for grant be presented, estimated attendance, deadlines for support of the project to collect computer pro. abstracts and papers, numbers of exhibits expected, grams. and contact for further information on exhibits 5. Formalize the consultant files as a referral in- and availability of transactions. Very few meet- dex. ings held outside of the United States are listed. To date, items 1, 2, and 5 are underway. Item Scientific Meetirzgs lists general information about 3, the appearance of the first issue of a "News- the meetings plus registration fees and availability letter," has been deferred pending a reply from of transactions. It does include many meetings that Dr. R. Molgaard'hansen, FID/CR Committee on will be held in foreign countries. Classification Research, clarifying working ar- At the time the Association took over the pub- rangements between the Center and FID with lication of SM, the subscription cost was set at reference to the collection and inclusion in the $7 in the United States, and $8 elsewhere. Single "Newsletter" of the types of information the at- copies of the January issue were set at $5, and the tendees at the Elsinore Conference wished to supplements at $1.50 each. It seems that the sup- have disseminated. Item 4 has been deferred un- plements are almost as large as the January issue, til October 1965 at the request of James Andrews so a change in pricing would be advisable. In of the Argonne National Laboratory. 1964, the January issue contained 80 pages, the As requested by the Board, the Special Classi- May issue contained 64 pages, the September issue fications Committee has conducted a brief survey SPECIAL LIBRARIES of 83 users of the Center's services from January years. A gross increase in the use of the Center's through April 1965. The 50 replies received to services would necessitate revision of staff re- date are tabulated below: quirements, and a gross increase in research activity in the area of classification could generate 1. How did you become aware of the Center? sufficient publication to affect the materials budget. By publicity from the Center: 7 In the projection given, only the normal growth By personal referral: 27 rate is considered. Other: 18 2. Was the material you received of no value? 1 Basic Service Functions of background reference value only? 16 1. Acquire, maintain, and organize (with proper useful directly or with only slight modification? 6 bibliographic controls) a definitive collection of: useful as a basis for development of your own a. Classification schemes and notation systems system? 21 b. Subject heading lists other: 6 c. Thesauri 3. Would the service have been more useful if d. Terminology lists and dictionaries when they the material had been accompanied by an are in a form which would be usable for subject evaluation of the adequacy of the system? heading lists or classification schemes Yes: 21 No: 21 ?: 1 e. Works about classification and subject 4. Would you have been willing to pay a nominal headings fee for the service, e.g., $5-$lo? 2. Build and maintain a bibliographic. - file that Yes: 25 No: 18 ?: 1 will provide access by author and subject to materials in: ALA, AALL, ADI, and the CLA have been ap- a. above but which are not held in the collec- proached with a tentative inquiry as to the degree tion itself. of their interest in supporting the service functions 3. Provide bibliographies of the materials in 1 of the Center. No reply has been received from and 2 above. CLA or ADI, but both ALA and AALL have in- 4. Maintain a lending service for all materials dicated their willingness to consider any proposals held in the collection according to procedures and SLA might make to them. policies established in the Center's Code of Op- Division representatives to the Special Classifi- erations. cations Committee were contacted again in March 5. Provide a consultant service by referral and and reminded of the need for their active coopera- maintain a current listing of specialists available tion in the identification and acquisition of special for referrals. schemes within their subject area. The Biological 6. Act as a Center for the exchange of information Sciences Division through its representative, on developments and research in classification and Marilyn Stahle, has been especially active in com- plying with the request, and Miss Stahle has re- related fields. turned the results of a questionnaire that will be 7. Encourage the use of the Center as a research helpful in guiding the Center's acquisitions in this resource. subject area. 8. Encourage the development of new and im- Other recent developments include receipt of an proved special classification schemes and subject informal inquiry as to whether SLA would be in- heading lists and the study of classification theory terested in a proposal by Documentation, Inc., to and practice. reduce the Center's collection to microfiche, with 9. Participate in cooperative programs with other Documentation, Inc., to handle the sale of micro- organizations concerned with classification prob- fiche copies, presumably as a profit-making ven- lems. ture. Several requests have been received (as a result of the Association's press release on the Staff grant renewal) to purchase microfilm of the en- To operate the Center on the minimum service tire collection. No action has been taken on the level, a half-time Director and one secretary are above items. required. Since methods of support for the second As a result of review of the financial support half of the Director's time have not been deter- for the Center at the February 1965 meeting of the mined, the full salary is included. During the first Board of Directors, the Special Classifications year it is anticipated that the present Director Committee was asked to outline what it con- would serve for about three months as Assistant siders a minimum satisfactory level of operation Director and would then leave the project. It is for the service functions of the Special Classifica- also anticipated that hnly half-time clerical help tions Center, exclusive of programs that might be would be needed during the first year. supported by research grants. These activities are The Director should be a person who possesses listed immediately below. Comments on staffing a degree in library science (or equivalent), has and required funds for operation at this level had administrative experience, has an interest and follow the listing and are based on the operating competence in classification, and, if possible, has experience of the Center during the past three an established reputation as a classification expert. SEPTEMBER 1965 Cost r It is the conviction of the Committee and of the Costs. not including SLA overhead charges are Center staff that funds must be found to support estimated below: the basic service functions of the Center as an I966 1967 entity, and that with the Center in existence, re- Salary search programs that can support themselves will Director $12,000 $12,500 develop. Both also recognize that the problem of Assistant Director (three securing such funds probably cannot be solved months) 2,200 -- before the expiration of the current grant year. Secretary 2,000 4,000 The opinion has been expressed that foundation Payroll taxes 700 700 support for the service functions cannot be found, Equipment 300 100 and that a research proposal is essential. Supplies 500 500 The Committee and the Director of the Center Printing 500 500 are, however, of the opinion that an acceptable Communications 500 500 research proposal cannot be prepared except by a Travel 300 300 classification research expert who also can be listed Materials 750 750 as the principal investigator for the project pro- Rent 4,150 4,200 posed. Attempts to find such a person have so far Newsletter 1,000 1,200 been unsuccessful. However, the Committee requested the Director of the Center to prepare a draft of a proposal for consideration by a special Association group on June 5th, but it must be Several possible sources of funds for the basic recognized that the lack of personnel experienced service functions of the Center may be considered: in research is a serious handicap. 1. Self-support through user fees. Recommendations a. The Committee's brief survey indicates that about one-third of the users would have paid The Special Classifications Committee requests a $5-$10 fee for the service they received. This that the Board act to: suggests a possible annual income of about 1. Approve the outline of the basic service func- $400.00. tions of the Center b. Some income could conceivably derive from 2. Direct the Foundation Grants Committee to consultant fees and Center publications. There seek support for these service functions is at present no basis for estimating what this 3. Authorize the Foundation Grants Committee to might be. submit a research proposal if a suitable one can 2. Joint support by professional societies con- be prepared 4. Authorize the expenditure of a sum of not cerned with classification problems. more than $1,000 to be used for the preparation 3. Foundation support for the service functions, of a research proposal, in case no marketable proper .re. posal results from the meeting of June 5th 4. Sustaining memberships in the Center. MISS MEREDITHS. WRIGHT 5. Exploitation of the Center's resources and EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved the four services on a commercial basis, for example, by developing the Center as a sales agent for other organizations or by arrangements such as that suggested by Documentation, Inc. Special Libraries These are not mutually exclusive possibilities, A comparison of actions by the Committee on but all would require redefinition of the present manuscripts received for consideration over the Association and Center philosophy and policies. past five years is given below:

Summary of Manuscripts Reviewed In Process Asked to Year Submitted Accepted Rejected of Review Revise -- 1960-61 7 3 29 44 0 0 1961-62 103 48 53 3 2 1962-63 98 40 48 10 0 1963-64 100 40% 5 1 3 6 1964-65 85 2 8 49 0 8+ * Includes two offered and published by another journal. f Includes two recommendations to authors to submit paper to another journal SPECIAL LIBRARIES Evaluation of these statistics is an almost an increase in subscriptions from the newer com- hopeless task since so many factors actually de- munity colleges. termine the raw data. Why, for example, was The following table will quickly give the there a marked decrease in the number of papers financial picture for the year: submitted during the past year? The Committee April I. 1964-March 31, I965 continues to fail to interest experienced and new authors in sending in contributions. Is the average Receipts $20,957.06 rejection rate of about 50 manuscripts per year a Expenditures - $13,995.17 too discouraging factor? The Committee feels a deep obligation to choose papers that will con- Profit 3 6,961.89 tribute significantly to the profession. Unfortu- nately this requires a high rejection rate; a rate, incidentally, which may still be too low. The Committee appreciates the role two con- Tellers sultants, Alberta Brown and Dr. I. A. Warheit, played during the past several years in develop- The mail ballots for SLA Officers and Directors ing new and improved editorial policies for were officially counted at Association Headquarters Special Libraries. For the time being, no new con- on May 12, 1965. 2,693 ballots were received, 15 sultants will be appointed as replacements. of which were declared invalid. 2,678 valid bal- The Committee on Committees has under con- lots were tallied. The following candidates re- sideration a Committee name change to Special Li- ceived a majority of the votes cast for each office: brar2e.r Editorial Committee. This phrasing would President Alleen Thompson seem to better describe the Committee's activities, President-Elect Dr. F. E. McKenna functions, and scope. Chairman, Advisory Council Herbert S. White The fourth annual open meeting was held on Chairman-Elect, Advisory June 7,1965, at the Philadelphia Convention and Council Mrs. Helen F. Redman was well attended. Director Ruth Nielander R. G. KRUPP M. Director Phoebe F. Hayes Statistics No annual report. Translations Activities Technical Book Review Index Two events of the past year made 1964-65 a banner season for translations activities: the first, Volume 31, January 1965, started the second on March 5, was the occasion of receipt at the year of the new format for Technical Book Review Translations Center of its 100,000th translation; Index. and the second, on May 10, was the publication The resources of the Carnegie Library of Pitts- of the second edition of Frances Kaiser's Trans- burgh, Science and Technology Department, are littors and Translations: Services and Sources in used for the reviews, which are selected from Scieme and Technol~g~. some 2,000 journals. There are approximately 150 Neither of these events would have been pos- abstracts of reviews included in each issue, to- sible without the web of cooperative relationships talling about 1,500 per year. that SLA translations activities represent. We The total number of subscribers to TBRI has acknowledge the continuing support of the Clear- increased by 88, or 1,804 subscriptions: 1,490 inghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical In- domestic and 314 foreign. The Editor has noted formation. the National Science Foundation, and

Translations Activities Com- mittee members browse through the results of three years of work, the second edition of Translators and Trans- lations. From left to right are: ~Mrs.Irma Johnson, Chairman ; Frances E. Kaiser, Editor; Mrs. Ildiko Nowak, Chief of the Translations Center ; and Com- mittee members, Elizabeth Walkey and Margaret Pflueger.

SEPTEMBER 1965 especially the anonymous donors of translations Future Planning whose contributions make possible the sharing of With the receipt of the 100,000th translation this unique research resource. The Center now this year, the SLA Translations Center is now has I77 regular contributors of which 25 organiza- estimated to be a $10 million research resource, tions donated more than 50 translations each and the Committee, Center staff, and Contractor during 1964-65. Through the fine performance of are all increasingly concerned with transforming the Translations Center staff, over 9,000 transla- that rich deposit into a more complete informa- tions were supplied in response to some 12,000 tion center. Members of the Committee and the requests this year. Center staff met in Chicago in February with representatives of the supporting government agen- Translators and Translations cies, and the President, President-Elect, and Ex- Cooperation was the key also in the compila- ecutive Director of the Association for a day-long tion and publication of the second edition to discussion, which included current operating prob- Translatorr and Tvans1ation.r. The Georgia Chap- lems and planning for the future. Other meetings ter of SLA, Mrs. Crosland and members of the during 1964-65 included discussion between the library staff of the Georgia Institute of Tech- Center Chief and the Chairman in Chicago in nology, and the Rich Electronic Computer Center June and again in February, and consultation of all contributed to the compilation and production the Chairman in November with the Executive of this important work. Thanks are due most of Director. She attended also the national meeting all to Frances E. Kaiser whose devotion to a job of the American Translators Association, and met begun is hardly matched in the history of the As- in January in Washington with CFSTI officers sociation. Final disposition has not yet been made and the Association President and Executive Di- of the project files. If Georgia Institute of Tech- rector. nology does not continue the project actively, the The Committee expects in the next Association Committee has recommended that files be shipped year to focus its attention on two principal areas- to the Translations Center in Chicago. the projected index to translations, and policies relative to promotion, planning, and coordina- Promotion tion activities. Promotional activities this year have included MRS. IRMAJOHNSON exhibits at professional meetings, revision of the brochure on the Translations Center, and two press releases from Association Headquarters. One H. W. Wilson Company was on the occasion of receipt at the Center of the 100,000th translation, and the other, released Chapter Award earlier in the year to scientific, technical, and library journals, invited donations of translations The subject of the 1965 H. W. Wilson Com- and publicized Center services. The Center Chief pany Chapter Award was "Information Resources and the Committee have collaborated also on Development and Cooperation." The subject was three new letters for direct mailing: one to ac- announced to the Chapters the first part of August company translations orders filled, one to go to 1964; a follow-up letter was mailed in October former donors from whom we have not heard for 1964. some time, and the third to go to a much larger There were entries from three Chapters: Cin- list of research directors and librarians outlining cinnati (Louisville, Kentucky group), Rio Grande, Center services and appealing for donations. and San Francisco. The Chapters that entered each The Committee sponsored a translations lunch- realized they had made an investment in the eon at the Convention in Philadelphia in con- future through development of regional informa- tinuing efforts to keep the membership informed tion resources, and each should be commended. of the services available to them at the Center, The winning entry was a four-part assault on to appeal for tegular translation deposits, and to the problem and demonstrated outstanding leader- receive feedback from members themselves. In ship in developing a program making information addition, Elizabeth M. Walkey, a member of the resources of a large geographical area known to Committee, spoke to the Metals/Materials Division a diverse audience. The Rio Grande Chapter was at the Convention on international cooperative awarded the $100 prize for its "Gateways to In- activities in the translations field; in June Mrs. formation" project. Nowak represented the Center on a panel at the Association Headquarters supplied information American Society for Engineering Education on Chapter participation in the previous years of meeting in Chicago. this Award. The pattern of Chapter interest as shown by the number of entries in each competi- Index of Translations tion was studied. Half the Chapters have never An estimate of the number of translations to be participated. Further effort to make this Award indexed plus other data for deriving costs of more meaningful is suggested. compiling an index were submitted to the Con- tractor in April. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Special Representatives' Reports

By the Association's Special Representatives

The outgoing Chairman, Dr. Oliver M. Little- American Association for the john, Southern College of Pharmacy, recommended Advancement of Science to the AACP that the list of pharmacy theses be updated annually in a publication of one of the The 1964 annual meeting of the AAAS was Associations represented on the Joint Committee. held in Montreal, December 26-31. Section T, The new Chairman is Dr. Frank L. Mercer, St. Information and Communication, featured a panel Louis College of Pharmacy. meeting of research scientists and editors who ex- MRS. MILDREDP. CLARK plored various aspects of current practices in com- EFRENW. GONZALEZ municating the results of scientific research. Al- though many weaknesses in the present system were noted, panelists and members of the audi- American Documentation ence agreed that scientific reporting in its present form probably is here to stay. Institute Section T's program for the 1965 meeting, No annual report which will be held on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, December 26-31, will feature a two-session symposium, "Science Infor- American Library Association mation and Communication in Mainland China." Association of Hospital and Institutional Libraries, American Association of Standards Committee Colleges of Pharmacy The Joint Committee met on November 5, 6, 7, 1964, with four consultants at American Li- Joint Committee on Pharmacy brary Association Headquarters in Chicago. A tentative outline in considerable detail was worked College Libraries out by the group. Certain subject categories were Work has gone forward steadily on the Com- left unfinished to be completed by individual mittee's primary project of the year, the compila- members and returned to the Chairman. These tion of a ten-year list of theses accepted by the were then to be reassembled by the Committee, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy but, to date, no further meetings have been member colleges. Dolores Nemec, University of scheduled. Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, is the coordinat- HELENHUELSMAN ing compiler. The possibilities of S1.A puhlica- tion is under active consideration. ALA Commission on a National Plan A Cumulative Index for 1959-1963 of the for Library Education Proceedings of the American Association of Phamacy Colleges Teachers' Seminars was pre- No annual report. pared by Jack Key, Lovelace Foundation. This assignment was given to the Committee by the ALA Interlibrary Loan Committee AACP and, happily, Mr. Key was able to accept the request to prepare this excellent Index. No annual report. Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, Southern College of Pharmacy. and her associates are preparing the ALA Joint Committee on first supplement to Bibliugraphy of Books and Government Publications Reference Wforks Relating to Professional Couvses in the Pharmaceutical Curriculum. No annual report. A workshop for pharmacy college librarians has been tentatively rescheduled for the Boston meet- Library Technology Project ing of the Medical Library Association in 1966. Advisory Committee The Committee urged deans of the member colleges to encourage and assist their librarians to The Library Technology Project Advisory Com- attend. mittee meeting was convened at the Sheraton SEPTEMBER 1965 Hotel, Washington, D. C., on January 25, 1965. from Chairman Florence Hopkins on January 11. Because of concurrent meetings of other com- In lieu of personal representation, a summary mittees, the full Advisory Committee was not in letter amplifying the following ideas was sub- session at any time. It was, however, one of the mitted: more meaningful Advisory Committee meetings from the standpoint of the future of LTP. 1. Why cooperation in fact is a natural develop- In the past. the sole financial support of the ment among special libraries. Library Technology Project has been the Council 2. In what form this cooperation exists, as a rule. on Library Resources, Inc. This year, for the first 3. The 1965 Annual SLA Convention theme is li- time, ALA Headquarters has contributed to the brary cooperation. support of the activity. Even though the scope of 4. Two unique experiments in cooperation: the the support was token, it will amount to an Insiders of Minneapolis and the Houston Libraries equivalent dollar value of something in excess of plan. Photocopies from Special Libraries on the $10,000 during 1965. ALA no longer charges latter two were attached. To determine the current nor assesses an overhead fee on the project. rent status of the Houston plan we corresponded In addition, it has contributed $3,000 to the with Harold Richardson. revolving fund. Since Committee meetings are arranged on ALA Previously LTP has had two budgets: operating meeting schedules, it might be well to consider and project. For 1964-65 the operating budget will for the next appointment someone who is an active run approximately $130,000; the project budget member of both Associations-perhaps a uni- $100,000. The Advisory Committee reaffirmed its versity librarian who might attend some of the interest in having LTP include in its project ac- ALA sessions. count an amount of approximately 100 per cent of BERNADETTEA. BECKER the project costs. Over a period of time this will make it unnecessary for LTP to look for a financing source for its overhead operation. This Resources and Technical procedure will require a more sophisticated form Services Division, Book Binding of accounting than is currently used. Because of government regulations limiting the amount of Committee overhead that may be assessed against any project, No annual report. both the terminology and the manner of approaching foundations may have to be changed. The National Science Foundation. for example, is Resources and Technical Services limited in the amount of overhead it can give a grantee who applies for financing. If. however, Division, Catalog Code NSF goes searching for an organization to under- Review Committee Consultants take an activity, it is not held to the cost of the During 1964-65 the Special Representative re- project plus the percentage method for financing ceived memoranda and draft revisions for Chapters the project. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Anglo-American Catalog- With the federal government interest in in- ing Rules from the ALA Catalog Code Revision creased financial support to libraries as indicated Committee. One answer sheet for points at issue by President Johnson's budget request, the sources in the cataloging of works of religious bodies was of financial support for LTP may include, in addi- filled in and returned to Mr. C. S. Spalding. The tion to the Council on Library Resources, the Re~resentative was unable to attend the Mid- U. S. Office of Education, the National Science winter meeting in Washington on January 23-24, Foundation. and state agencies. 1965. The first issue of Library Technology report^ MRS. FLORENCEE. JOHNSON was distributed in January. LTP had assumed that the break-even point for the reports might be reached at the end of two years when it was ALA-SLA-AD1 New York World's hoped that 370 subscriptions would be sold. As Fair Advisory Committee of the time of the Advisory Committee meeting, nearly 100 more than this number had been It is a pleasure to report the success of Library/ placed. The increased circulation does increase the USA during the first year of the Fair and the cost of the publication, but with the first issue it auspicious start of its second year. Twenty-four will be solvent. reference and children's librarians served the Li- G. E. RANDALL brary each month, and these included a delegation of military librarians and groups from the Na- Reference Services Division, tional Library of Medicine and the National Agri- cultural Library. Cooperative Reference Service The intensive training course given these people Notification of the Committee meeting at the has been much admired. It not only gives them the ALA winter meeting on January 26 was received know-how to operate the equipment at the Library SPECIAL LIBRARIES but a valuable briefing in data processing applica- Richter (the others were Donald Holmes of the tions to library functions. In remitting the scholar- Library of Congress, Chairman of PH-5. Forrest ship funds pledged last year to SLA, several Carhart of the Library Technology Project, Chair- donors commented on this. man of 2-85, and Harold 0. Olsen of the hTa- ELIZABETHFERGUSON tional Science Foundation) attended the 10th Plenary Meeting of Technical Committee 46 of the International Standards Organization in Buda- Statistics Coordinating Committee pest, Hungary. Various subjects were discussed No annual report. with resulting responsibility being placed on Dr. Orne, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Trans- literation, who has accepted the International Sec- American Standards retariat on the Conversion of Languages, and on Association Dr. Schick's Subcommittee on Statistics. The Eng- lish language draft of the proposed standard on PH-5 Sectional Committee on Indexes of Publications, prepared by Mr. Kingery Photographic Reproduction and Mrs. Richter, was used as a working document and will be circulated among the member of Documents nations for vote with the recommendation that its The American Standard Specifications for Micro- scope be extended to include mechanical indexing. opaque Readers was approved on October 27, A meeting of the Sectional Committee was 1964. held on November 20, 1964, in New York at The activities of the three subcommittees of which 21 of the 37 member organizations were PH-5 are as follows: represented, plus guests, observers, and staff. Re- ports were received from the chairmen of the PH5-1, the Subcommittee on Micro-transparencies majority of the subcommittees mentioned in is studying the feasibility of standards for the this report, showing continued activity in the following: splices, 16 and 35mm reels for strips, various fields. A meeting of the International Sub- storage of microfilm, a method for measuring the committee, composed of the chairmen of all other resolving power of microfilm, a standard for meas- subcommittees, followed the sectional meeting. uring the speed and contrast of microfilm, and a Votes were taken on three international proposals method of measuring resolution of readers. falling under Dr. Orne's Subcommittee on Termi- PH5-2, the Subcommittee on Micro-opaques con- nology. At this meeting a statement was presented sidered specifications for the quality of micro- from the National Science Foundation which, opaques and microfiche standards. during 1964, had provided a grant of $16,940 for PH5-3, the Subcommittee on Documents Readable the activities of the 2-39 Committee and its sec- without Optical Devices has been considering retariat. This statement indicated that it was NSF's standards for paper sizes, quality of paper stock. policy to provide only seed money support for quality of images, the physical characteristics of initiating activities rather than indefinite opera- print-out, and measuring the density of Diazo tional support, and suggested that any future papers. funding should be determined by the merit of the It was reported at the last meeting of PH-5 that specific projects proposed. It was agreed that the National Microfilm Association has hired a subcommittee chairmen be asked to prepare budget research fellow, who will work at the Bureau of requests based on the plans and activities of each Standards starting July 1, to study the problem of group. Mr. Kingery asked that thought be given "micro-spots." to a successor to himself as Chairman of the CHESTERM. LEWIS Committee and reported that Marguerite von Geyr, his administrative associate, might accept PH-5-3 Subcommittee on another more secure post within the pear. In February of 1965 Mr. Kingery tendered his Documents Readable Without resignation as Chairman of 2-39 due to ill health. Optical Devices Miss von Geyr also resigned at this time. Bill M. No annual report. Woods, Chairman of the Council of National Library Associations, sponsor of 2-39, assumed responsibility for the transition and named Mrs. 2-19 Sectional Committee on Library Richter Acting Chairman. The sectional meeting Work and Documentation scheduled for April 2 was postponed, and in its The past year has been one of change and place the International Subcommittee met in New challenge for Sectional Committee 2-39 on Li- York with full attendance. Mr. Woods presented brary Work and Documentation of the American a brief history of 2-39 as background for con- Standards Association. In October of 1964 an sidering the current problems of the Committee. American delegation, numbering seven in all, with He announced that the CNLA Trustees had acted four members from 2-39, Robert Kingery, Dr. as a Nominating Committee and presented the Jerrold Orne, Dr. Frank Schick, and Mrs. Anne following names for officers: SEPTEMBER 1965 Chairman: Dr. Jerrold Orne, to serve for 2 years on the question of finance and future programs. until June 30, 1967 Dr. Orne has held a preliminary meeting with rep- Vice-chairman: Mrs. Anne J. Richter, to serve resentatives of the National Science Foundation, until June 30, 1966 and further discussions took place after the May Secretary-Treasurer: Harold Oatfield, to serve 28 sectional meeting. until June 30; 1966 MRS.ANNE J. RICHTER The Chairman would be eligible for an addi- 2-84 Sectional Committee on tional two-year term, and the other officers each eligible for two additional one-year terms, pro- Glossary of Environmental viding overlapping terms. The nominations were Terminology approved and the officers accepted. Dr. Maurice No annual report Tauber of Columbia University School of Library Service agreed to draw up bylaws for 2-39 to be presented at the next meeting of the Sectional Council for International Committee, which was set for May 28, 1965, in Washington, D. C. Progress in Management The American Standards Association had been No annual report. asked by the American Society for Testing Ma- terials to consider its standard, CODEN, as an Council of National Libraries American standard, and the responsibility for this consideration has been accepted by 2-39. It has Associations been referred to James L. Wood's Subcommittee on Periodical Title Abbreviations and will be re- The Council of National Library Associations ported on at the May meeting. Arthur R. Blum of operated for the year 1964-65 with the following the ASA staff resented a statement of the U. S. paid members: American Association of Law Li- Committee on FID on a Universal Decimal Classi- braries, American Library Association, American fication standard. This was referred to Gertrude Documentation Institute, American Theological Oellrich's Subcommittee on Classification for com- Libraries Association, Association of American Li- ment at the May meeting. Further votes were taken brary Schools, Catholic Library Association, Coun- on various international documents with Dr. cil of Planning Libraries, Medical Library As- Orne's recommendations. sociation, Society of American Archivists, and 2-39 has been under the jurisdiction of the Special Libraries Association. Miscellaneous Standards Board of the ASA, but The objective of the Council "to promote a this year the ASA has voted to give the Informa- closer relationship among national library association Processing Systems Standards Board secondary tions of the United States and Canada by providing jurisdiction over 2-19 when machine aspects af- a central agency to foster cooperation in mat- fecting the interests of both Boards are involved ters of mutual interest, by gathering and exchang- in proposed standards. The Miscellaneous Stand- ing information among its member associations, ards Board will retain the primary responsibility. and by cooperating with learned, professional, and scientific societies in forwarding matters of com- Various subcommittee chairmen made their reports. Ann McCann's subcommittee has completed mon interest" was advanced through the work of its final draft standard on abstracts, and it is being its several elected officers, standing, special and edited to conform with ASA regulations. Dr. joint committees, and by discussion and actions at Schick discussed a possible joint meeting in Paris the two meetings in New York on December 11, with the IFLA group on statistics. Mr. Brown's 1964, and May 14, 1965. Proof Corrections Subcommittee has a report on The SLA Representatives attended both meet- symbols ready for reproduction. Mrs. Richter's ings and the Association's Executive Director gave dynamic leadership and direction to the work of subcommittee has suggested that its name be the Council by serving as its Chairman. At the changed from "Layout of Periodicals" to "Ar- May meeting he was elected Chairman for 1965-66. rangement of Periodicals." Dr. Rothman's Sub- In the future, continuity of action and purpose is committee on Indexing has had several meetings to be gained by making the Chairman, Vice-Chair- and expects to have a revised standard ready by man, and Secretary-Treasurer two-year offices. The the end of the year. Dr. Baer's Standard for Trade operations of the Council were placed on a more Catalogs is now being circulated among the Com- businesslike foundation by a change in the Bylaws mittee for final vote, and, on approval, will be proposed at the December meeting and passed at available in printed form. Miss Oellrich an- the May meeting, basing the dues on size of nounced that a draft of a classification standard member associations according to the following is being circulated to several specialists for review scale: membership under 500-$20; membership before being submitted to the Sectional Committee 500 to 1,000-$50 ; membership over 1,000- for a vote. $100. All subcommittee chairmen had submitted budg- At the May meeting there was considerable dis- ets, and Dr. Orne and Mrs. Richter are working cussion of the best means of securing stronger, SPECIAL LIBRARIES more centralized representation of library inter- SLA's Special Representatives to these joint com- ests in relations with government. mittees. Only a few of the highlights will be given here. CNLA-Sponsored Activities The 10th edition of the Bou'ker Annual of Li- Joint Committee on Library Education brary and Book Trade Info~matiou, a CNLA- In the absence of progress of ALA's National sponsored ~ublication, was ~ublishedMarch 30, Plan for Library Education Program, the CNLA 1965. Because of rising costs, it has been neces- Joint Committee on Library Education, chaired by sary to increase the price from 57.50 to $10.25. Julius Marke, has been instructed to proceed on This edition contains added information on royal- its proposed manpower utilization study. Encour- ties paid, a second five-year cumulative index, and aging replies to letters offering participation in the telephone directory on blue paper. All member such studies have been received from the Depart- associations were urged to support and promote ment of Labor and the Office of Vocational Educa- sales of this most useful information tool. Sug- tion in HEW. Subcommittees of JCLE will ex- gestions for additional information included plore I) the assistance library schools may give Association membership qualifications, Association in training librarians for automation in libraries fiscal year, and officers of Associations selected and 2) the means of attracting the older person in January or February. with professional subject training to the library Alice Ball, Executive Director of the L. S. Book profession. Exchange (the outgrowth of one of the Council's first projects) reported a very successful year for Joint Committee on Placement USBE in spite of the abrupt withdrawal of the The Committee urges all librarians and libraries support of AID. USBE is now self-supporting to use the United States Employment Service pro- through the institution of a $12 annual member- fessional placement services to the fullest extent ship fee and increased handling fees, but there is possible as a stopgap until a profession-wide at present no massive distribution to libraries in placement service can be developed. The Commit- the newly developing areas of the world, although tee is sponsoring a machine-based placement serv- active plans are being made to resume this on a ice pilot project to be carried out at Argonne Na- sounder basis than before. tional Laboratory under the direction of Hillis Miss Ball called the attention of the Council to Griffin, a member of the Committee and Informa- the White House Conference on International Co- tion Systems Librarian of the Argonne National operation to be held in November 1965. USBE Laboratory. will submit a proposal for "Books Abroad," In- ternational Library Activities. The closing date for Joint Committee on Library Work As a Career the submission of ideas was June 30, 1965. The Committee has placed strong emphasis on The American Standards Association Sectional the work being done with the vocational coun- Committee on Library Work and Documentation, selling associations, attendance at their meetings, 2-39 (another CNLA-sponsored activity) pres- and distribution of recruiting material to them. ently chaired by Dr. Jerrold Orne, has several MRS. MILDREDH. BRODE projects in process and nearing completion despite BILL M. WOODS a mid-year reorganization of the Committee's operational structure. Seven delegates were sent to the meeting of the International Standards Joint Committee for Visiting Association in Budapest in October 1964. At this Foreign Librarians meeting Dr. Orne was elected Chairman of the In- ternational Committee on Transliteration. Dr. As indicated in the 1964 report, a new pro- Frank Schick will attend the International Meeting posal was written to interest academic groups as on Library Statistics to be held in Paris in con- well as foundations. This proposal is now before nection with IFLA. For the first time, the Com- a university. mittee had financial backing from Library MARYANGLEMYER Resources Council, Inc. CODEN, a system of pe- ELAINEA. KURTZ riodical title abbreviations used in mechanically produced announcement bulletins and automated Joint Committee on Exhibit Managers retrieval systems, has been referred to James Wood, Librarian of Chemical Abstracts. Dr. Karl No annual report. Baer, Chairman of the Committee on Standards for Trade Catalogs has this Standard nearly ready to Joint Committee on submit to ASA. 2-39 is now composed of repre- Hospital Libraries sentatives from 37 member organizations and institutions. The Association's Representative attended both meetings of the Committee, June 29, 1964, in St. Joint Committees Louis, and February 8, 1965, in Chicago. A more detailed report of the significant actions The final official steps have been taken to bring of CNLA's joint committees will be presented by the Committee under the aegis of the Council of SEPTEMBER 1965 National Library Associations. Membership still Interagency Council on Library includes the four library associations and the two hospital associations, so the Committee continues Tools for Nursing its function of providing an opportunity for the exchange of information and plans on a broad The Interagency Council on Library Tools for scale. Nursing met on October 23, 1964, and March 12, The official changes in sponsorship of the Com- 1965. During the year the Interagency Council saw mittee have necessitated corresponding changes in the realization of a project that has been one of the Committee's organizational guide. This has its concerns since its establishment in 1960-the now been brought up to date. initiation of a comprehensive index to the cur- The Basic List of Guides and Informatio~z rent periodical literature on nursing activity. The Sources for Setting Up Hospital, Medical and service, entitled "International Nursing Index," to Nursing Libraries, a 13-page pamphlet produced begin in 1966. will be published by The Ameri- by the Committee in April 1964, has met with can Journal of Nursing Company and will be considerable favor. Miss Yast and Mr. Beatty have produced as a recurrent bibliography from the been asked by the Committee to revise this, and MEDLARS system of the National Library of the new edition, entitled Basic List of Guides and Medicine. The feasibility of this enterprise was Information Sources for Professional and Patients' made clear by a study undertaken by Dr. Vern M. Libraries in Hospitals, was available in May. Pings, August-October 1964. The Joint Committee on the Revision of Hos- The Interagency Council recognized two new pital Library Standards (AHIL) is proceeding challenges presented by a comprehensive index with its revision of the 1953 edition of the revealing a broad spectrum of nursing literature: Standards. No definite publication date has been the need to strengthen the resources of nursing set. libraries and to orient nursing faculties and stu- The American Hospital Association will hold its dents in the use of the new tool. It was thought next teaching institute in Minneapolis in October that work in these areas might be initiated on the 1965. regional level. Therefore, the Interagency Council Recruiting pamphlets have recently been issued suggested I) that the Division of Kursing Educa- by ALA (The Hospital Librarian) and MLA tion, National League for Nursing, devote portions (Medical Library Careers). of its regional conferences to the development and The various representatives also drew attention use of library facilities and resources and 2) that to the programs for their annual meetings. American Nurses' Association sections be en- Helen Yast, American Hospital Association, is couraged to include in their clinical sessions conserving as Chairman of the Committee for the sideration of the development and use of library year 1964-1965. facilities and resources. WILLIAMK. BEATTY At the invitation of the National League for hTursing, the Interagency Council set up an exhibit on indexes to the literature essential for Joint Committee on nursing study and practice at the KLN biennial convention in San Francisco, May 1965. The ex- Library Education penses are to be shared by the member agencies. No annual report JACQUELIKE \Yr, FFELTEK International Federation of Joint Committee on Library Problems Relating to the Peace Corps Library Associations Although the Special Representative attended The events up to and inclusive of the 1964 no meetings of this Committee, she did notify the meeting of the International Federation of Li- Chairman, Earl Borgeson, that she was spending brary Associations Council and the meeting of the time abroad this summer and would make contacts Special Libraries Section of IFLA have been de- in the countries visited. scribed in detail in Special Libvaries for February FANNIESIMON 1965. In the meantime. further progress has been made: Joint Committee on Library Work 1. A program for the open session of the Special Libraries Section at the IFLA meeting in Helsinki as a Career in August 1965 was prepared. The topic was spe- No annual report cial libraries and documentation (or information) centers. It was discussed by the President of the West German counterpart of the Special Li- braries Association, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Joint Committee on Placement Spezialbibliotheken, Dr. Gunther Reichardt, Pres- No annual report. ident, by Mme. Mayvepeva, Librarian of the All SPECIAL LIBRARIES Union State Library of Foreign Literature at Mos- into official being, as far as SLA is concerned, cow, and by the representative of Latin America. when the Board of Directors approved its forma- 2. A meeting was held at the United Nations Li- tion September 25, 1964. brary in New York on April 2. Joseph Groesbeck, The purpose of the Committee is to provide a Deputy Director, UN Library, Jorgen K. Nielsen, means for SLA members to present their problems Chief, Preparations Division, UN Library, and and ideas regarding the ~ublishersof books and your Representative participated. This meeting periodicals to industry officials in a systematic was called to find ways of implementing an earlier way. It would also permit the publishers to speak decision of SLS to establish an international guide to representatives of special librarians to present to special libraries. It was considered most im- the publishers' viewpoint. The first meeting was portant at this time to achieve the participation held April 7, 1965, in New York City and was of the non-European nations. Accordingly, the chaired by William S. Budington, SLA President; Committee, which was appointed under the chair- Bill M. Woods and two other SLA members were manship of Mr. Nielsen, mailed individual letters present. The ABPC delegation was headed by Dan in English or French to 78 non-European li- Lacy, Managing Director of ABPC. The follow- brarians, each representing one nation, in which ing topics were discussed: I) current federal leg- their cooperation in the project was sought. En- islation affecting both groups; 2) desirability of couraging replies have started coming in. This creating revised editions of certain reference tools; Committee plans to hold two working sessions in 3) advertising practices of publishers; and 4) the Helsinki, one before and one after the open meet- role of computers in both ~ublishin~companies ing of SLS. and libraries. 3. The Special Representative would appreciate- It was agreed that the SLA delegation would and, as a matter of fact, is dependent on-stronger prepare a draft of recommended practices for ad- support on the part of SLA for the efforts of the vertising departments of publishing companies to new Section. He would welcome: a) participation be discussed at the next meeting, which was ten- of the International Committee of SLA in this tatively set for the fall of 1965. work, since the experience and advice of the members forming this Committee would be extremely Recommendation valuable; this assignment falls within the com- It is recommended that the Committee prepare petence of that Committee, but the Committee has this draft of recommended advertising practices so far refrained from showing any active interest; this summer for review by the SLA Board of b) the appointment of a permanent representative Directors prior to presentation to the ABPC dele- instead of 3 Special Representative; and c) that gation at the next joint meeting. Comments are a second SLA member, familiar with at least two also invited from an appropriate group within of the three official languages of IFLA (English, ALA to present along with the SLA statement at French, Russian), and enjoying a recognized the meeting. stature among the profession, be at The Hague in ELLISMOUNT 1966; nobody can just walk into an IFLA meeting and hope to take an active part in its efforts. These suggestions are made to the Advisory EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board instructed the Com- Council instead of to the Board of Directors since mittee to proceed with its plans on the draft of it is felt that they should be more thoroughly con- recommended advertising practices. sidered and refined before going to the Board. Time limitations have not permitted this. KARLA. BAER Joint Committee on Committee on Library Building Union List of Serials During 1961-65, the Special Representative ar- The publication date of the third edition of the rmged for the transmittal of reprints by the Union Lirt of Sevials is expected to be the fall of Association Headquarters staff of Special Libraries: 1965. The exact date of publication and the ex- Hour to Plru and Equip Them and sent 12 re- act price of the third edition have not been set. prints from Special Libraries in August 1964 and The Treasurer reported that there would be a three in June 1965 to Jean Bleton, Chairman of small balance remaining from the supplemental the IFLA Committee. grant from the Council on Library Resources, Inc., G. E. RANDALL if the editorial operations ceased on schedule in June. The Chairman of the Committee was charged Joint Committee of with the responsibility of developing a program for the future of JCULS. He will present his ABPC-SLA recommendation to the Committee, July 6, 1965, This C~unmittee,made up of members of SLA during the ALA conference in Detroit. and the Anlerican Book Publishers Council, came IDRISSMITH SEPTEMBER 1965 Joint Libraries Committee single copies and has taken no position with respect to duplication in multiple copies. on Copyright Fnir Use The name of the Joint Libraries Committee on The Committee is persuaded that the provisions Fair Use in Photocopying has been changed to of the present bill, which do no more than ac- the Joint Libraries Committee on Copyright since knowledge the existence of the judicial doctrine the interest of the library field is broader than of "Fair Use," are preferable to any attempted just the copying aspect. statutory delineativn of the scope or content of the The Joint Libraries Committee has had a con- Fair Use Doctrine. A proposal to substitute statu- tinuing interest in copyright revision and has par- tory certainty for difficult professional and com- ticipated in the panel meetings convened by the mercial and academic decisions is tempting to all Register of Copyrights. It has also kept abreast, of us-including librarians. But to whatever ex- either formally or informally, with the positions tent there is or may be conflict between the prac- of other groups interested in copyright law retical demands of research. teaching, and similar vision, and, in particular, the position of the Ad uses of copyright material, the conflict must be re- Hoc Committee (of educational institutions and solved by a flexible doctrine that can be adapted organizations) on Copyright Law Revision. This to the realities of a given situation. Accordingly, group has 33 constituent members in related edu- the Joint Libraries Committee is persuaded that cational fields. the present bill, in this respect, is entirely satis- The Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee factory. #3, began hearings on copyright revision Wednes- day, May 26, 1965. The Joint Libraries Com- Notice mittee has prepared a preliminary statement that was scheduled to be presented by the Committee The copyright date is of vital importance to Chairman during the first week of June. This libraries as dispensers of information and as pur- statement was the summation of specific positions chasers of books. Publication dates, alone, can be extremely misleading. The Joint Libraries Com- taken by the SLA and other members of the Joint Libraries Committee in regard to revisions ir? the mittee has an indirect interest in the existing provisions of the copyright law to the extent they proposed copyright bill. furnish an incentive tv the inclusion of dates on The text of the complete preliminary statement ~ublishedworks, and urges the extension of the will be found in the transcript of the hearings, and will be published in a future Special Libraries. year requirement to such graphic works as maps In general, the statement is concerned only rather than the relaxation of requirements for all works contemplated by the present bill. with those parts of the over-all copyright revision The provisions of Section 404(a) (2) of the proposals that have or may have a unique impact bill, by effectively eliminating the incentive to on the functions of libraries. comply with the notice requirement, map encour- There are three specific subjects of particular age publication without notice or without a com- concern to libraries: library copying, copyright plete notice including the year of first publica- notice, and copyright duration. tion. Accordingly, the Joint Libraries Committee therefore urges the inclusion in Section 404 of a Copying requirement that the omission of notice be inad- Single copies bj Iibruvies tlertent. The Committee believes that exemplary The summaries of the Joint Committee sum- regulations of the Register of Copyright contem- marized in our 1961 report with the final revised plated by the bill, together with the requirement recommendations in 1963, both of which were that the notice be in such manner and location as published in Special Librul-ies, establish that the to give reasonable notice of the claim of copyright, present practices of libraries with respect to sin- are sufficient. gle copies are traditional and essential and are not damaging to the interests of copyholders. The Duration Committee is in complete agreement with the ap- Librarians would join users in having a very proach of the current Celler Bill (HR 4347); decided preference for a single fixed term of that is, the silent approach in which no statutory copyright measured from the year of first publica- reference is made to library copying. The Joint tion. The length of the period of protection is Libraries Committee knows of no possible not of paramount concern to librarians, and they statutory provision that would not either limit es- would join copyright owners in urging that it sential library services beyond what is necessary to would be long enough to guarantee as great a protect the interests of copyright owners, or limit protected period as that generally applicable in the interests of copyright owners beyond what is Europe. The Committee is also persuaded from necessary to permit essential library services. long experience with the challenge of copyright Multiple Copying status for manuscript material that the current In its treatment of library copying, the Joint proposal for dealing with unpublished work by Libraries Committee has concerned itself only with federal copyright statute is desirable. SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Joint Libraries Committee, therefore, rec- effort to have a rapid communication medium that ommends that for all works, whether published or would inform all those in the information com- unpublished, whether solely or jointly authored, munity of the current news in the field. It was and whether or not anonymously or pseudony- done in newspaper format and had sample depart- n~ously published or made for hire, copyright ments, such as, letters, classified ads, publications, endure for a single fixed period of years from the calendar, academic news, grants, personal notes, date of publication or a somewhat longer fixed etc. It also included sample news items of im- period of years from the date of creation, which- portance. The issue was dedicated to Hans Peter ever period expires first. Luhn, former President of AD1 and veteran at- tender of SLA Annual Conventions. Other Provisions The initial reactions to the Information News Libraries, of course, are directly affected by one were rather favorable, but important financial con- additional provision: the express library exemp- siderations caused others to pause. There was a tion from the import restrictions in Section 601 of questionnaire distributed with the "comprehen- the current bill. The Joint Libraries Committee is sive" issue, and the recently completed results of confident that the library exemption must and this questionnaire show that: will be a part of any import limitation. Total mailed-6,500 The provisions of the so-called "manufactur- Total returned-1,399 (23%) ing clause" have unnecessarily hampered publication of many works and are of concern to libraries. NUMBTR The "manufacturing clause" is out of place in a Copyright Act. The Joint Libraries Committee be- CATEGORYI-NEED lieves that the current bill does not adequately Great 590 correct the unwarranted provisions of present law Fair 292 that make domestic manufacture a condition of Forget It 250 valid copyright. If any manufacturing clause is to be retained, the Joint Libraries Committee urges 1132 a subcommittee to retain the first sentence of CATEGORY11-CONTENT Section 6Ol(d) of the current bill and to delete Excellent 204 the balance of the section. Good 664 The Joint Libraries Committee is familiar with Adequate 300 the views presented to the subcommittee on be- Poor 82 half of the Ad Hoc Committee (of educational institutions and organizations). It is the belief of the Joint Committee that most of the "creative teaching practices" referred to by the Ad Hoc CATEGORY111-STYLE Committee would not constitute copyright in- Excellent fringement under the existing law or under the Good current bill. We are cognizant of disagreement Adequate among copyright authorities and of the difficulties Poor of requiring teachers to decide such issues at their peril. The Joint Libraries Committee, therefore, supports the recommendation of the Ad Hoc Com- mittee. CATEGORYIV-SUBSCRIPTIONS CHESTERM. LEWIS Yes No Joint Operating Group 1142 (ADI-SLA) CATEGORYV-PRICE $2.00 or less The main interests of the Joint Operating $2.50-$4.50 Group in the past year have been on a news organ $5 .00 for information science and consideration of the mutuality of interests of the two Associations. Following a landmark meeting at AD1 Head- CATEGORIESOF INTEREST quarters in Washington, D. C., in February, at 80+ Indexing which JOG members were joined by the Presidents Document retrieval and Executive Directors of the respective associa- Library service tions, the decision was made to distribute a sample Information centers issue of Injormation Neu's. It later came out under the date of March 4, 1965, as a "comprehensive" Mechanized searching issue with the Co-editors listed as Claire K. Bibliographic service Schultz and Robert McFarland. There was an Current awareness SEPTEMBER 1965 Classification The proposal for joint sessions of the two Information specializing Associations or a one-day joint institute following Computers one or the other conventions was considered. The Industrial libraries sessions should be SLA consideration of the im- Abstracting plications of the progress of AD1 members in the Document processing AD1 field of greatest competence. such as publi- Specialized dissemination cations and subject analysis, and the AD1 consideration of SLA's greatest competence in the It is recommended that the favorable reaction on field of literature service. Another possibility was the questionnaire be accepted as a positive indi- to have issues of the journals of the two Associa- cation that the matter of a newsletter be kept on tions having interpretive articles on the same the pending agenda of JOG. (Notice should be subjects as above, by persons qualified in the areas taken that SLA provided the billing and adminis- of the other Association's main interest. trative services for the newsletter project and that The joint news bulletin received a favorable the AD1 contributions included considerable mention. It was recognized that local Chapters effort on the part of Claire Schultz, its former could hold joint meetings easier than the national President.) associations, and their efforts at such should be On mutuality of interests, the general consen- encouraged. It was felt by both groups that the sus of the Washington and New York groups. study should continue, and there was a meeting meeting separately, was that AD1 and SLA should set for Monday lunch, during Convention week at "go steady before deciding to become engaged." Philadelphia, of the two groups. Elizabeth Ferguson's group included Margaret It is recommended that the matter of mutuality Fuller and Robert Krupp from SLA and Theo- of interests be a continuing item on the agenda dore Hines and Ben Weil from ADI. All except of JOG. The cooperation of the AD1 parties to Mr. Weil were able to attend a May meeting. these discussions is greatly appreciated. Bernard Fry's Washington group consisted of Mildred Benton and Elsa Freeman of SLA and Mr. Fry and Lillian Hamrick for ADI. The Washington group outlined the following Jointly Sponsored Program in ascending order of possibilities: for Foreign Librarians 1. Cooperation in the form of joint activities, such During the year, the Committee has placed nine as joint local meetings, exchange of convention grantees, bringing the total of librarians placed program sessions, joint publications, recruiting, to 55. Of the nine placed this year, four are al- newsletter, etc. ready working. There are also two grantees from 2. Joint or exchange memberships as an experi- FY 63 still in the United States. Seven new li- ment. In this connection the preliminary results braries were added to the program, bringing the of a tabulation made by this task force showed total of participating libraries to 38. that a comparison of the AD1 list of October 1961 More sponsor libraries are needed to offer 11 and the SLA list of 1964 showed 293 persons on months of work to trained librarians from over- both lists. seas. The undersigned will be glad to supply 3. Amalgamation with these possible stumbling complete information about the program. blocks: MARYANGLEMYER ELAINEA. KURTZ a. SLA membership requirements. b. Structures of the two Associations. c. Outstanding individuals in both associations Library of Congress for who would not be sympathetic for a variety of reasons. This class was felt to be the greatest Public Law 480 impediment to possible serious consideration of No annual report. amalgamation. Liaison Committee of Librarians The Fry group recognized that there was a significant continuity of interests between AD1 No annual report. and SLA. They felt there were overlaps in membership and some programming. Regardless of the National Academy of Sciences- possibilities of an ultimate merger, the groups should work more closely together as a matter of National Research Council, accepting the concept of the continuum of infor- Advisory Board of the mation services that do exist at this time. The group felt that there should be a joint conven- Office of Critical Tables tion as soon as possible, perhaps in New York City, in view of the concentration of AD1 mem- The Advisory Board as a body held no meet- bership in this area. ings in the period May 1964-June 1965. SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Ofhce of Critical Tables has been active The Special Representative has held discussions along the lines of its responsibilities by encour- with representatives of the microfilm industry re- aging international coordination with respect to lating to library applications and has attended a critical tables work and in furthering the work of number of manufacturers' demonstrations. Progress the National Standard Reference Data Program of continues to be made in designing new and im- the National Bureau of Standards by sponsoring proved systems and equipment. Many new ways or cosponsoring meetings and a second Gordon are available now for storing and retrieving Conference on Critical Tables. images. Costs, savings, and the design of equip- The Direc~ory of Cotzhuzng Numerical Data ment are all important to the library market. Projects is being revised and expanded. More complete information on these activities Recommendation will be found in Chemical and Engi~~eeringNeu's, It is recommended that a symposium on micro- May 31, 1965, pages 79-80. film be included in the 1967 Convention program ANNE L. NICHOLSON to be held in New York. It should be designed to update our information and to provide appropriate National Library Week information for discussion with management and with vendors. Adequate scheduled time and prep- No annual report. aration should be given if such a program is included. This would permit having speakers from the microfilm industry of a stature and level of National Microfilm Association operation that would insure appropriate discus- The 14th Annual Convention and Exhibition of sions. the National Microfilm Association was held Programs have already been scheduled by the May 11-13 in Cleveland. The program included American Documentation Institute, Medical Li- three general sessions and 12 workshop seminars. braries Association, American Library Association, Papers presented at the first general session gave and other archives and records retention groups. an over-all view of the growth, progress, and fu- Such a program would contribute to the continuing ture trends of the industry. Those presented at education of the membership both from the point the second session discussed technical advances in- of view of information handling and also that of cluding a new method for making direct silver consumer education. Such a program would enable halide images called "Photosolubilization." Systems those who are responsible for procedures and applications were offered at the third session. methods to plan for the future. Each of the workshop-seminars covered one im- LORETTAJ. KIERSKY portant aspect of microreproduction, and the discussions were conducted by qualified authorities. In his paper, "Current Researches on Archival EDITOR'S NOTE: The Board referred the recom- Microfilm." C. S. McCamy, Chief, Photographic mendation to the Convention Program Committee. Section, National Bureau of Standards, gave a progress report on the research program he ad- ministers at the request of the U. S. government United Nations agencies and prominent microfilm and equipment manufacturers. sponsored by the NMA Committee Nongovernmental on Quality. This is the study of the aging, or microscopic blemishes, found on microfilm held in Organizations Observer storage. The reports of micro-blemishes indicate The Observer represented the Association at they were found on negative silver-gelatin type the International Convocation on Pacem it1 Terris microfilm in roll form. Apparently only extremely in New York City, February 17-20, 1965, at the small amounts of information loss have been re- New York Hilton Hotel. ported. The objective of the research program is Invitations to briefing sessions at the United the development of well-founded recommendations Nations continued to be received, but those at- for the preparation and preservation of archival tended by the Observer did not directly concern microfilms. This study has been under investiga- Association activities. tion for more than two years. The Observer attended the following two ses- Microfilm standards was one of the topics under sions of the Annual Conference of the Nongov- discussion in one of the workshop-seminars. At- ernmental Organizations, United Nations Head- tendees were invited to propose areas where new quarters, May 27-28, 1965: 1) presentations on standards are required and where present standards increasing effectiveness of NGO work in the in- need modification. Reference was made to existing formation fields through a more professional ap- standards and also to those in progress. These are proach, and 2) panel presentation on how NGO's the standards of the NMA, ISO, ASA Sectional work with the Office of Public Information, in- Committee PH-5, and the DOD-EDMS. This area cluding discussion relating to information prob- is of interest to all users of microfilm formats and lems of ICY, the 20th Anniversary, and the equipment. Information Centres. SEPTEMBER 1965 It is strongly recommended that the Association nical information does occur. Survey results indi- continue to show its support of the United Na- cated that none of the organizations contacted had tions by maintaining this relationship. a formal (or informal) arrangement for the dis- VIVIAND. HEWITT tribution of its technical information. Some of the organizations strongly urged employees to publish United States Book Exchange in the open literature, and others dealt rather exclusively with government contracts. This informa- During this year the USBE has completed a tion was not what the survey was determining, but most effective reorganization of its financial struc- rather, those exchanges outside these two sources. ture so that it has become completely self-support- Apparently the technical information exchange is ing. Much credit is due to the Executive Director, on a more personal man-to-man basis. Alice Dulaney Ball, and a faithful, efficient staff. The tenth meeting of the U. S. National Com- At the annual meeting of the corporation, March mittee was held in Washington on January 25, 29, 1965, the SLA Special Representative was 1965. Several reports were presented and dis- elected to the Board of Trustees. cussed including linguistics problems, central ELIZABETHFERGUSON classification, mechanized storage and retrieval, and Universal Decimal Classification. Current United States National status of preparations of the 1965 FID Congress to be held in Washington in October was read. Committee for the The question of translation of papers into several languages as well as concurrent translation of the International Federation General Assembly was discussed, and the possibility of SLA's aiding FID in this area was sug- for Documentation (FID) gested. At the ninth meeting of the National Commit- As the Washington, D. C. Chapter seemed to tee in May 1964, a subcommittee was formed to be situated geographically closest to the meeting examine the specific activities now being carried and also might possibly have the greatest transla- on by various groups working in the field of pro- tion potential, the President of that Chapter was viding technical information and to develop co- contacted to offer help to Lee Harte, over-all meet- operative relationships with them. This subcom- ing chairman. The next meeting was tentatively mittee, consisting of Karl Heumann, Chairman set for Wednesday afternoon, October 13, 1965, (Engineers Joint Council) ; Dr. Dwight Gray (Li- during the 1965 Congress. brary of Congress); and your Representative, met ROBERTW. GIBSON,JR. in New York last June. One of the facets of the subcommittee's problem was a survey of some A User's Key for Translators and Transla- representative special libraries to determine avail- tions: Services and Sources in Science and able facts on the exchange of technical information Technology is available free of charge from with other organizations, especially foreign. Most SLA. The key supplements the explanatory information given in the Introduction and indexes. of us are aware that such exchange of new tech- Other library associations represented at the Special Libraries Association Conven- tion in Philadelphia were: Professor Otto E. Albrecht, Music Library Association; Professor Leonidas Dodson, Society of American Archivists; John Harvey, American Association of Library Schools; Sister M. Claudia, Catholic Library Association; Marion Simmons, Library Public Relations Council; Mrs. Vivian Sessions, Council of Planning Librarans; Edward Strable, American Library Association; and Special Libraries Associaton President Budington. Forum on Education for Special Librarianship

N FRIDAY,June 11, approximately 100 and Grieg Aspnes, featured papers by Dr. 0 librarians and library educators met Howard Winger (Graduate Library School, together in Philadelphia under the sponsor- University of Chicago) and Mrs. Martha ship of the SLA Education Committee for Jane Zachert (Florida State University Li- the first annual post-convention Forum on brary School, Tallahassee) describing, re- Education for Special Librarianship. Under spectively, the elements of a common core the chairmanship of Grieg Aspnes, the Com- curriculum for all students whatever their mittee planned a meeting with two objec- intended specialization and its relationship tives: 1) to sharpen understanding of the to the education of special librarians, and nature of the market for special librarians- special programs of study for special librar- how many there are, how many are needed, ians like that at Florida State. Dr. Laurence and what their qualifications should be-and Heilprin (Council on Library Resources, 2) to consider existing programs for educat- Inc,, Washington) concluded the afternoon ing special librarians. meeting with his projection of the probable The morning session included analyses of place of information science concepts and recent statistical data on special librarianship Eechnology in library school curricula of the derived from studies made by the Library future. Services Branch, U.S. Office of Education, Much of what was said recapitulated sat- and by Dr. Anthony T. Kruzas, University isfactions. criticisms. and frustrations mu- of Michigan Library School, presented by tually shared for years by those who practice Robert Havlik of LSB. Papers by Charles special librarianship and those who teach it. K. Bauer (Lockheed-Georgia Company, At- lanta), Mrs. Marie S. Goff (du Pont, Wil- mington), and Jo Ann Aufdenkamp (Fed- eral Reserve Bank, Chicago) focussed on the present education of special librarians and problems of interviewing, selecting, em- ploying, training, and supervising professional staff. Kenneth Fagerhaugh (Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh) and Mrs. Elizabeth Owens (Union Electric Co., St. Louis) moderated the meeting. President William S. Budington presided at luncheon where Dean Jesse H. Shera (School of Library Science, Western Reserve University) summarized his study of the literature on education of special librarians. Dr. Shera observed that his study emphasizes that today's problems are not new and that most of the issues before the Forum had historic continuity almost as old as librarian- Grieg Aspnes, Chairman of the Education ship itself. Nothing new under the sun, per- Committee, and his successor, Erik Brom- haps, but hardly no matter. berg, discussed the morning's meeting The afternoon session, moderated by Mrs. with Mrs. Marie S. Goff and luncheon Shirley Harper (University of Chicago), speaker, Dean Jesse H. Shera. SEPTEMBER 1965 517 Dr. Howard Winger and Mrs. Martha Jane Zachert listening to Mrs. Shirley Harper as she introduced their discussion of curricula for training special librarians.

The statistics on special library operations our needs through the use of such analyses. in the United States emphasize their signifi- Unfortunately, the time available to him for cance and afford much food for thought- presenting his paper and to the participants 6,000 libraries (over 40 per cent serving for discussing it was far too limited for even science, technology, and medicine), employ- superficial consideration of the significance ing 12,000 librarians, holding 131,000,000 of his ideas. volumes, and spending $190,000,000 an- This was the real weakness of the Forum. nually. Discussions of personnel and their There was simply insufficient time for any education reiterated anew that while Der- discussion of the ideas and issues raised. sonal and educational qualifications of recruits Perhaps this was inevitable in an initial to the profession are improving signifi- Forum. However, these deliberations emphasized the great need for a continuing dialogue cantly.,, we have achieved no real consen- sus about the most suitable general, spe- between doers and teachers. As in other cial, and professional education for those professions, the preparation of future li- who would be s~eciallibrarians. Failure to brarians is a shared responsibility between do this after several generations of discus- 1vractitioners and educators. Teachers must sion, practice, and experiment reflects our lead and anticipate the needs of the future admitted inability thus far to devise adequate but to do this they need the counsel of measures to assess the qualifications of re- librarians sensitive to the changing charac- cruits to librarianship or to determine ob- teristics, needs, and demands of the publics jectively the best combination of selection thevJ serve who will assess these and com- and admission, course content and structure, municate them obiectivelv to the teachers. If teaching techniques, and apprenticeship to teachers in turn keep librarians informed assure high caliber performance by special about the changing characteristics of those librarians or by librarians of any persuasion. who come to be taught, a meaningful two- It may even suggest that effective and suc- way flow of information is established from cessful librarians are products of such an in- which only mutual benefits can result. Let finite variety of educational and socio-cul- the Forum series continue, but let there be tural ex~eriencesthat the search for a best L fuller recognition in future sessions that the method for finding and training them has issues are many and heady and that mean- about as much chance of success as the quest ingful discussion of only one or two of for the Holy Grail. Dr. Heilprin's analysis them is likely to be possible within the con- of the probable evolution of information fines of a one-day session. science and the implications of this projection for the kinds of personnel needed, their CARLYLEJ. FRAREY,Assistant to the Dean education and training, and the services so- School of Library Service ciety will expect of them suggests that we Columbia University may be able to achieve better perspective of New York City SPECIAL LIBRARIES SLA Official Directory 1965-1966

Association Officers BALTIMORE:Clement G. Vitek, Librarian, The Baltimore Sunpapers, Calvcrt Bi Centre Streets, Baltimore, Maryland 21203 Alleen Thompson, Librarian, Atomic Power Equip- BOSTON: Barbara M. Davis, Research Librarian, ment Department, General Electric Co., 175 Curt- Cabot Corporation, Concord Road, Billerica, Mas- ner Avenue, San Jose, California 95125 sachusetts PRESIDENT-ELECT CINCINNATI: Elva Roche, Librarian. School of Nursing, Victoria Hall, Good Samaritan Hospital, Dr. F. E. McKenna, Supervisor, Information Cen- Dixmyth & Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio ter, Central Research Laboratories, Air Reduction Company, Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey 07971 45220 CLEVELAND:Joan M. Hutchinson. Building 7, CHAIRMANADVISORY COUNCIL Apartment 103, 37455 Grove Avenue, Willoughbp, Herbert S. White, Executive Director, NASA Ohio 44094 Scientific & Technical Information Facility, Docu- mentation, Inc., P.O. Box 5700, Bethesda, Mary- land Headquarters CHAIRMAN-ELECTADVISORY COUNCIL 31 East 10th Street, New York, K.Y. 10003 212-777-8136 Mrs. Helen F. Redman, Librarian, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, EXECUTIVEDIRECTOR New Mexico 87544 Bill M. Woods DIRECTOR,MEMBERSHIP AND PERSONNEL TREASURER SERVICESDEPARTMENT; ASSISTANT TO EX- Jean E. Flegal, Librarian, Business Library, Union ECUTIVE DIRECTOR Carbide Corporation, Room 9-101, 270 Park Av- Grace E. Reynolds enue, New York 10017 PUBLICATIONSAND PUBLICRELATIONS DIRECTORS DIRECTOR William K. Beatty, Librarian, Northwestern Uni- Mary L. Allison versity Medical Library, 303 East Chicago Avenue, PUBLICATIONSAND PUBLICRELATIONS Chicago, Illinois 6061 1 ASSISTANT Helene Dechief, System Librarian, Headquarters Edythe C. Porpa Library, Canadian National Railways, 935 La- DIRECTOR,FISCAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT gauchetiere Street, West. Montreal, Quebec, Can- Mrs. Emily B. Shoemaker ad.1 OFFICESERVICES ASSISTANT Phoebe F. Hayes, Director, Bibliographical Center Mrs. Ellen Maky for Research, Denver Public Library, 1357 Broad- way, Denver, Colorado 80203 (Secretary) Outside New York Kenneth N. Metcalf, Librarian, Henry Ford Mu- SCIENTIFICMEETINGS EDITOR seum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan Mrs. W. Roy Holleman 2069 Sea View Avenue, Del Rhr. Cali- Ruth Nielander, Librarian, Lumbermans Mutual f ornia Casualty Company, 4750 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois 60640 SPECIALCLASSIFICATIONS CENTER DIRECTOR Mrs. Dorothy Beckmeyer Skau, USDA Southern Barbara Denison Utilization Research and Development Division, School of Library Science. W'cstrrn Ke- P.O. Box 19687, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 serve university, 11161 East Boule- IMMEDIATEPAST-PRESIDENT vard, Cleveland 6, Ohio William S. Budington, Associate Librarian, The TECHNICALBOOK REVIEWINDEX EDITOR John Crerar Library, 35 West 33rd Street, Chi- Anthony A. Martin cago, Illinois 60616 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania 1521 3 Chapter Presidents TRANSLATIONSCENTER CHIEF Mrs. Ildiko D. Nowak ALABAMA:Mrs. Audrey House, Librarian, Bir- The John Crerar Library, 35 Wrest i3rd mingham News, Reference Library, 2200 4th Av- Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616 enue, N., Birmingham, Alabama 35203 SEPTEMBER 1965 COLORADO:Margaret L. Hayes, 4955 South Inca RIO GRANDE:Charles W. Sargent, 8100 Harwood Drive, Englewood, Colorado 80110 Avenue, N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico CONNECTICUT:Mrs. Mary Braman, Librarian, SANDIEGO: Dalton A. Degitz, Supervising Librar- Travelers Insurance Company, 700 Main Street, ian, Science and Industry Section, San Diego Pub- Hartford, Connecticut 061 15 lic Library, 820 E Street, San Diego, California DAYTON:Mrs. Helen M. Rolfe, Head Librarian, SAN FRANCISCO:Theodor B. Yerke, Librarian, NCR Library-Office Building, The National Cash Special Technical Services, Pacific Southwest For- Register Co., Main & K Streets, Dayton, Ohio est & Range Experiment Station, Box 245, Berke- 4 5409 ley, California 94701 GEORGIA:T. J. Kopkin, Department 72-34, Zone SOUTHERNCALIFORNIA: Mrs. Johanna E. Tall- 400, Lockheed-Georgia Company, Marietta, Geor- man, 11263 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, Cali- gia 30061 fornia 90066 GREATERST. LOUIS: Alma Girand, Maryland TEXAS:Mrs. Shula L. Schwartz, P.O. Box 5621, Manor, Apartment 91 5, 451 5 Maryland Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75222 St. Louis, Missouri 63108 TORONTO:Heather McCallum, Toronto Public Li- HEART OF AMERICA:Mrs. Adelaide D. Wikle, brary, Theatre Section, College & St. George Head, Business & Technical Department, Wichita Streets, Toronto 2, Ontario, Canada City Library, Wichita, Kansas 67202 UPSTATENEW YORK: Stephen John Kees, Rt- ILLINOIS:Mrs. Shirley F. Harper, Librarian, The search Department Library, Ontario Paper Com- A. G. Bush Library, University of Chicago, 1225 pany Ltd., Thorold, Ontario, Canada East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 WASHINGTON,D. C.: Logan 0. Cowgill, Chief INDIANA:Mrs. Elizabeth S. Milner, Librarian, Librarian, Office Chief of Engineers Library, Room Technical Library, Gates-Lord Hall, Fort Benja- G-118 Bldg. T-7, Army Department, Washington, min Harrison, Indiana D. C. 20315 LOUISIANA:Dr. Ruth M. Baldwin, Assistant Pro- fessor, Library School, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Division Chairmen MICHIGAN:Mrs. Gloria Evans, Librarian, Engi- ADVERTISING& MARKETING:Betty Dumbauld, Li- neering Division, Library, Parke, Davis & Com- brarian, Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Pruden- pany, Detroit, Michigan 48232 tial Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60601 MINNESOTA:James I. Soule, Director, Research AEROSPACE:Michel 0. Friedlander, Grumman Library, Green Giant Company, Le Sueur, Minne- Aircraft Engineering Corp., Bethpage, New York sota 56058 11714 MONTREAL:Madeline Ryan, Librarian, Legal De- BIOLOGICALSCIENCES: Irene Graham, Librarian, partment, Canadian Industries, Ltd., Box 10, Mont- Rowland Medical Library, University of Missis- real, Quebec, Canada sippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39206 NEW JERSEY:Marguerite K. Moran, M & T Chemicals, Inc., P. 0. Box 471, Rahway, New BUSINESSAND FINANCE:Mrs. Lulu B. Hardesty, Jersey Business & Labor Service, Akron Public Library, NEWYORK: Mary Margaret Regan, Reference Li- 11 South Summit Street, Akron, Ohio 44308 brarian, Young & Rubicam, Inc. Library, 285 Mad- DOCUMENTATION:Irving M. Klempner, 4341 Ed- ison Avenue, New York 10017 son Avenue, Bronx, New York 10466 OAKRIDGE: Elizabeth B. Howard, 248 North Pur- GEOGRAPHYAND MAP: Eunice V. Salisbury, U.S. due Avenue, Apt. 201, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab- OKLAHOMA:V. Vern Hutchison, U.S. Bureau of oratory, Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 282, Han- Mines Library, P.O. Box 1321, Bartlesville, Okla- over, New Hampshire homa 74004 INSURANCE:Virginia M. Bersagel, Institute of PACIFICNORTHWEST: Mrs. Betty Lou Wagner, Life Insurance, 277 Park Avenue, New York 10017 Architecture & Urban Planning Library, 206 Ar- chitecture Hall, University of Washington, Seat- METALS/MATERIALS:Donald Redmond, 801 Mis- tle, Washington 98105 sissippi Street, Lawrence, Kansas PHILADELPHIA:Beverly Marie Knower, 16 Frank- MILITARYLIBRARIANS: Dwight C. Lyman, Librar- lin Avenue, Claymont, Delaware ian, U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory, PITTSBURGH:Mrs. Nancy M. Wright, Librarian, Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut H. J. Heinz Company Library, Operations Divi- MUSEUM:Mrs. Alice Palo Hook, Cincinnati Art sion, P.O. Box 57, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Museum, Eden Park, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 SPECIAL LIBRARIES NEWSPAPER:Mrs. Marian Orgain, Houston CHAPTER RELATIONS: John M. Connor, 23 1 Chvotzicle, 512 Travis Street, Houston 2, Texas South Carondelet, Los Angeles 47, California PICTURE:Mrs. Celestine G. Frankenburg, Young COMMITTEEON COMMITTEES:Edward G. Strable, & Rubicam, Inc., 285 Madison Avenue, New Executive Secretary, ALA American Library York 10017 Trustee Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chi- cago, Illinois 6061 1 PUBLISHING:Mrs. Anita Krapp, Assistant Librar- ian, Scott Foresman & Company, 433 East Erie COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTINFORMATION Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 SERVICES:Chris G. Stevenson, Manager, Technical Information, Battelle-Northwest, Pacific Northwest SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION: Charles H. Ste- Laboratory, Richland, Washington vens, Project Intrex, Room 10-403, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts CONSULTATIONSERVICE: Mrs. Gloria Evans, Li- brarian, Engineering Division, Library, Parke, Da- CHEMISTRY:Elizabeth Mulhall, 28 Madison vis & Company, Detroit, Michigan 48232 Street, Morristown, New Jersey 07960 CONVENTIONPROGRAM: Elizabeth Ferguson, Li- ENGINEERING:Molete J. Morelock, 421 Wal- brarian, Institute of Life Insurance, 277 Park Ave- dron, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906 nue, New York 10017 NUCLEARSCIENCE: Charles Gottschalk, 9619 DIVISIONRELATIONS: Robert W. Gibson, Jr., Re- West Bexhill Drive, Kensington, Maryland search Librarian, General Motors Technical Center, PAPERAND TEXTILES:Frances E. Kaiser, Price 12 Mile and Mound Roads, Warren, Michigan Gilbert Library, Georgia Institute of Technol- 48090 ogy, Atlanta, Georgia 30300 EDUCATION:Erik Bromberg, US. Department of PETROLEUM:Virginia Lee Wilcox, Arthur Interior, P.O. Box 3621, Portland 8, Oregon Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines, Gol- FINANCE:Janet Bogardus, Chief Librarian, Fed- dm, Colorado 80401 eral Reserve Bank of New York, Reference Li- PHARMACEUTICAL:Charlotte S. Mitchell, Miles brary, Federal Reserve P.O. Station, New York Laboratories, 1127 Myrtle Street, Elkhart, Indi- 10045 ana FOUNDATIONGRANTS: Eugene B. Jackson, Direc- PUBLICUTILITIES: Lila M. Stern, Peoples Natu- tor, Information Retrieval and Library Services, ral Gas Company, 2 Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, IBM Corp., Old Orchid Road, Armonk, New Pennsylvania 15222 York 10504 SOCIALSCIENCE DIVISION: Janice Babb, Conti- GOVERNMENTALRELATIONS: Alice D. Ball, 2820- nental National American Group, 310 South 31st Street, S.E., Washington 20, D. C. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois INTERNATIONALRELATIONS: Mrs. Elaine A. PLANNING,BUILDING, AND HOUSING:Mrs. Elsa Kurtz, 6640 Adrian Street, Lanham, Maryland Freeman, Librarian, Housing and Home Finance 20801 Agency, 1626 K Street, NW, Washington, D. C. MCKINSEYFOUNDATION BOOK AWARDSPRO- SOCIALWELFARE: C. Eugene Hoyt, Librarian, GRAM: Pearl Charlet, Librarian, Library and Re- National Society for the Prevention of Blind- search, Hewitt Associations, Libertyville, Illinois ness, 16 East 40th Street, New York 10016 MEMBERSHIP:Elizabeth Mulhall, 28 Madison TRANSPORTATION:Lois Zearing, Director, Library, Street, Morristown, New Jersey 07960 National Safety Council, 425 North Michigan Av- NONSERIALPUBLICATIONS: Beverly Hickok, Li- enue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 brarian, Institute of Transportation and Traffic En- gineering, University of California, 1301 South Committee Chairmen 46th Street, Richmond, California 94532 Standing PERSONNEL:Loyd R. Rathbun, 13 Bristers Hill Road, Concord, Massachusetts ADMISSIONS:Ralph Phelps, Director, Engineering Societies Library, 345 East 47th Street, New York PLACEMENTPOLICY: Mrs. Moreen Hopkins, 333 10017 East 79th Street, Apt. 21N, New York 10021 ARCHIVES:Mrs. Josephine I. Greenwood, 104 PR~FESSI~NALSTANDARDS: Dr. Eunice C. Walde, Huntington Road, Garden City, L. I., New York Librarian, R. T. Vanderbilt Company Library, 33 Winfield Avenue, East Norwalk, Connecticut AWARDS:Lee W. Traven, IBM Research Labora- tory, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. SUBCOMMITTEEON ETHICS:Rose L. Vormelker, Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 1886 East lOlst Street, Cleveland 6, Ohio BYLAWS:Mrs. Margaret H. Fuller, Librarian, Li- PUBLICRELATIONS: Marian G. Lechner, Librarian, brary. American Iron & Steel Institute, 150 East Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, 42nd Street, New York 10017 Hartford, Connecticut 061 15 SEPTEMBER 1965 521 PUBLICATIONS:Richard A. Davis, 21 Snowden SLA PROFESS~ONALAWARD AND HALLOF FAME: Road, Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004 Mrs. Mildred Hooker Brode, Chief Librarian, Da- vid Taylor Model Basin, Washington, D. C. 20007 RECRUITMENT:Mrs. Mary Lee Tsuffis, 38 Lake Road, Andover, Connecticut TELLERS:Virginia M. Bersagel, Institute of Life REPROGRAPHY:John Sherrod, Assistant Director, Insurance, 277 Park Avenue, New York 10017 Systems Development, Division of Technical In- H. W. WILSON COMPANYCHAPTER AWARD: formation, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Winifred Sewell, 6513 76th Place, Cabin John, Washington, D. C. 20545 Maryland 20731 SCHOLARSHIPAND STUDENTLOAN FUND:Jackson B. Cohen, Librarian, Science & Industry Depart- Ad Hoc ment, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 8th and Vine Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio AD Hoc COMMITTI~ETO INVESTIGATEEXTRACUR- 45202 RICULA ACTIVITIESOF DIVISIONAND CHAPTER LIAISONOFFICERS: F. E. McKenna, Supervisor, SCIENTIFICMEETINGS: Joan M. Hutchinson, Information Center, Central Research Laboratories, 37455 Grove Avenue, Building 7, Apartment 103, Air Reduction Company, Inc., Murray Hill, New Willoughby, Ohio 44094 Jersey 07971 SPECIALCLASSIFICATIONS: Kenneth Fagerhaugh, AD HOC COMMITTEETO STUDYEXTRA-ASSOCIA- Box 430-A, R.D. #l, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania TION RELATIONS:Katharine L. Kinder, Chief Li- SPECIALLIBRARIES: Howard B. Bentley, Time- brarian, Johns-Manville Research Center, Manville, Life Inc., Time-Life Building, New York 10020 New Jersey STATISTICS:Dr. D. T. Bedsole, Manager, Techni- AD Hoc COMMITTEETO STUDYSPECIAL LIBRAR- cal Library, Aerojet-General Corp., P.O. Box 1947, IES: William S. Budington, Associate Librarian, Sacramento 9, California The John Crerar Library, 35 West 33rd Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616 TECHNICALBOOK REVIEWINDEX: Jeannine Krey- enbuhl, Librarian, Callery Chemical Company and MSA Research Corporation, Callery, Pennsylvania Special Representatives TRANSLATIONSACTIVITIES: Mrs. Irma Johnson, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts AMERICANASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachu. OF SCIENCE:John Sherrod, Assistant Director, setts Systems Development, Division of Technical In- formation, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Special Washington, D. C. 20545 AMERICANASSOCIATION OF COLLEGESOF PHAR- ADVISORYCOMMITTEE TO ELIZABETHAND RUTH MACY,JOINT COMMITTEE ON PHARMACYCOLLEGE FERGUSONON A BIBLIOGRAPHYOF DESCRIPTIVE LIBRARIES:Efren W. Gonzalez, Director, Techni- BIBLIOGRAPHIESORIGINATED BY SPECIALLIBRAR- IES: Elizabeth Ferguson, Librarian, Institute of cal Communications, Grove Laboratories, Inc., Life Insurance, 277 Park Avenue, New York 8877 Ladue Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63124 10017 AMERICANDOCUMENTATION INSTITUTE: Irving CONVENTION:Theodore Miller, Research Librar- Klempner, 4341 Edson Avenue, Bronx, New York 10466 ian, Investors Diversified Services, Inc., 8th & Mar- quette, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55102 ALA AssocrAT10~ OF HOSPITALAND INSTITU- TIONAL LIBRARIES,STANDARDS COMMITTEE: Helen COPYRIGHTLAW REVISION:Chester M. Lewis, Huelsman, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola General Services Manager, New York Times, 229 University, 706 South Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, West 43rd Street, New York 10036 Illinois 60612 HEADQUARTERSOPERATIONS: William S. Bud- ALA COMMISSIONON A NATIONALPLAN FOR ington, Associate Librarian, The John Crerar Li- LIBRARYEDUCATION: Erik Bromberg, Librarian, brary, 35 West 33rd Street, Chicago, Illinois U.S. Department of Interior, P.O. Box 3621, Port- 606 16 land 8, Oregon MOTIONPICTURE: Efren W. Gonzalez, Director, ALA INTERLIBRARYLOAN COMMITTEE: James C. Technical Communications, Grove Laboratories, Andrews, Library Director, Library Services De- Inc., 8877 Ladue Road, St. Louis, Missouri G3124 partment, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 NOMINATING:Lois W. Brock, Librarian, Research South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60440 Department, General Tire & Rubber Company, ALA JOINT COMMITTEEON GOVERNMENTPUB- Englewood Avenue at Holmes, Akron 9, Ohio LICATIONS:Dr. Frank Bertalan, Dean of Library RESOLUTIONSREFERENCE: Raymond A. Bohling, School, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla- 2142 Inca Lane, St. Paul, Minnesota homa SPECIAL LIBRARIES ALA LIBRARYTECHNOLOGY PROJECT ADVISORY Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- COMMITTEE:Gordon E. Randall, 2240 Van Cort- braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New land Circle, Yorktown Heights, New York York 10003 ALA REFERENCESERVICES DIVISION, COOPERA- CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEFOR VISITINGFOREIGN TIVE REFERENCESERVICE COMMITTEE: Catharine LIBRARIANS:Mrs. Elaine A. Kurtz, 6640 Adrian Heinz, Librarian, Television Information Office, Street, Lanham, Maryland 20801 666 Fifth Avenue, New York 10019 Mary Anglemeyer, 2035 Trumbull Terrace, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20011 ALA RESOURCESAND TECHNICALSERVICES Dl- VISION, BOOK BINDING COMMITTEE(Advisory CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON EXHIBIT MAN- for Library Technology Project study of perform- AGERS:Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Spe- ance standards for library binding): Paul How- cial Libraries Association, 31 East 10 Street, New ard, Librarian, US. Department of the Interior, York 10003 Washington, D. C. 20240 CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON HOSPITALLIBRAR- ALA RTSD CATALOGCODE REVIEWCOMMITTEE IES: William K. Beatty, Librarian, Northwestern CONSULTANT:Dr. Theodore C. Hines, School of University Medical Library, 303 East Chicago Library Service, Columbia University, New York Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 6061 1 10027 Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- ALA-SLA-AD1 NEW YORK WORLD'SFAIR AD- braries Association, 31 East 10 Street, New York 10003 VISORY COMMITTEE:Elizabeth Ferguson, Librar- ian, Institute of Life Insurance, 277 Park Avenue, CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON LIBRARYEDUCA- New York 10017 TION: Erik Bromberg, Librarian, U.S. Depart- ment of the Interior, P.O. Box 3621, Portland 8, ALA STATISTICSCOORDINATING COMMITTEE: Dr. Oregon D. T. Bedsole, Manager, Technical Library, Aero- jet-General Corp., P. 0. Box 1947, Sacramento, CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON LIBRARYWORK AS California 95809 A CAREER:Mrs. Mary Lee Tsuffis, 38 Lake Road, Andover, Connecticut ASA SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON PHOTOGRAPHIC CNLA JOINTCOMMITTEE ON PLACEMEKT:Ruth REPRODUCTIONOF DOCUMENTS,PH-5: Chester M. Lewis, General Services Manager, New York Nielander, Librarian, Lumbermens Mutual-, Cas- Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York 10036 ualty Company, 4750 North Sheridan Road, Chi- cago, Illinois 60640 ASA SUBCOMMITTEEON DOCUMENTSREADABLE INTERAGENCYCOUNCIL ON LIBRARYTOOLS FOR WITHOUTOPTICAL DEVICES, PH-5-3: Chester M. NURSING:Margaret Bonnell, 330 Brook Avenue, Lewis, General Services Manager, New York Plainfield, New Jersey Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York 10036 INTERNATIONALFEDERATION OF LIBRARYASSO- ASA SECTIONALCOMM~TTEE ON LIBRARYWORK CIATIONS: Dr. Karl A. Baer, National Housing AND DOCUMENTATION,2-39: Mrs. Anne J. Rich- Center Library, 1625 L Street, N.W., Washing- ter, R. R. Bowker Company, 1180 Avehue of the ton, D. C. Americas, New York 10036 IFLACOMMITTEEON LIBRARYBUILDING: Gordon ASA SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON GLOSSARYOF E. Randall (Correspondent), 2240 Van Cortland ENVIRONMENTALTERMINOLOGY, 2-84: Charles E. Circle, Yorktown Heights, New York Funk, Jr., American Cyanamid Company Library, JOINT COMMITTEEOF AMERICANBOOK PUBLISH- 1937 West Main Street, Stamford, Connecticut ERS' COUNCIL-SLA(ABPC-SLA) : Nanette Farley, 06914 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Room 1E238, Murray ASA SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON LIBRARYEQUIP- Hill, New Jersey MENT AND SUPPLIES,2-85: Charles C. Wadding- Mary A. McNierney, Librarian, Bache & Company, ton, 15 Barnes Street, Providence, Rhode Island 36 Wall Street, New York 10005 02906 Ellis Mount, Engineering Library, Columbia Uni- versity, New York 10027 COUNCILFOR INTERNATIONALPROGRESS IN MAN- Eugene B. Jackson, Director, Information Re- AGEMENT:Donald Wasson, Librarian, Council on trieval and Library Services, IBM Corp., Old Foreign Relations, Inc., 58 East 68 Street, New Orchid Road, Armonk, New York 10504 York 10021 JOINT COMMITTEEON UNION LIST OF SERIALS: Chester M. Lewis, General Services Manager, New Idris Smith, Head, Business and Technical De- York Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York partment, Kansas City Public Library, 311 East 10036 12th Street, Kansas City 6, Missouri COUNCILOF NATIONALLIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS: JOINT LIBRARIESCOMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT: William S. Budington, Associate Librarian, The Chester M. Lewis, General Services Manager, New John Crerar Library, 35 West 33 Street, Chicago, York Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York Illmois 60616 10036 SEPTEMBER 1965 523 JOINT OPERATINGGROUP (ADI-SLA) : William Library, Air Reduction Company, Inc., Murray S. Budington, Associate Librarian, The John Cre- Hill, New Jersey 07971 rar Library, 35 West 33rd Street, Chicago, Illi- UNITEDNATIONS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZA- nois 60616 TIONS OBSERVER:Mrs. Vivian D. Hewitt, Car- JOG (ADI-SLA) TASK FORCEON A NEWS OR- negie Endowment for International Peace, U.N. GAN FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE: J. Heston Plaza at 46th Street, New York 10017 Heald, 2416 Benjamin Street, McLean, Virginia UNITEDSTATES BOOK EXCHANGE:Elizabeth Fer- (Co-chairman) guson, Librarian, Institute of Life Insurance, 277 Mildred Benton, 7900 Curtis Street, Chevy Chase Park Avenue, New York 10017 15, Maryland Herbert S. White, Director, NASA Facility, Docu- UNITEDSTATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE mentation, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland FEDERATIONINTERNATIONALE DE DOCUMENTA- TION: Robert W. Gibson, Jr., Research Librarian, JOG (ADI-SLA) TASK FORCE ON MUTUALITY General Motors Technical Center, 12 Mile and OF INTEREST(New York Committee): Eliza- Mound Roads, Warren, Michigan 48090 beth Ferguson, Librarian, Institute of Life Insur- ance, 277 Park Avenue, New York 10017 (Co- ASSOCIATIONWITNESS: Ireta E. Burgess, Librar- chairman) ian, Stone and Webster Service Corp. Library, 90 Mrs. Margaret H. Fuller, Librarian, American Broad Street, New York 10004 Iron and Steel Institute Library, 150 East 42nd Street, New York 10017 Robert G. Krupp, Chief, Science and Technology Division, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue Something's Rotten in the State of Routing and 42nd Street, New York 10017 To route, or not to route: that (Washington Committee) : Mildred Benton, 7900 is the question: Curtis Street, Chevy Chase 15, Maryland Whether 'tis better on the whole Mrs. Elsa S. Freeman, Librarian, Housing and to suffer Home Finance Agency, 1626 K. Street, N.W., The delays and frustrations of Washington, D. C. automatic routing, JOINTLYSPONSORED PROGRAM FOR FOREIGNLI- Or to take issue with the host of BRARIANS (Washington Committee) : Mary An- glemeyer, 2035 Trumbull Terrace, N.W., Washing- readers, and refuse to pamper them. ton, D. C. 20011 You route; they read and pass on, each Mrs. Elaine A. Kurtz, 6640 Adrian Street, Lan- journal in its proper time ham, Maryland 20801 Falling on the appointed desk; 'tis a LIBRARYOF CONGRESSFOR PUBLICLAW 480: consummation William M. Lee, 1312 Bolton Street, Baltimore Devoutly to be wished. You route; 17, Maryland they set aside, LIBRARYOF CONGRESSLIAISON COMMITTEE OF And, entering with fervor on more LIBRARIANS:Alleen Thompson, Librarian, Atomic urgent tasks, Power Equipment Department, General Electric Company, 175 Curtner Avenue, San Jose, Califor- Forget; ay, there's the rub, for in nia 95125 each journal's route Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- What gaps may come, what hiatus keep it braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New From completion of its rounds, must York 10003 give us pause, NATIONALACADEMY OF SCIENCESADVISORY For who would fail to find the article BOARDOF THE OFFICE OF CRITICALTABLES: when needed, Anne L. Nicholson, Librarian, Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation, 900 First Avenue, King of Prussia, When vital issues hang upon the balance, Pennsylvania. who would say: NATIONALLIBRARY WEEK: Pauline Lybeck, Di- "That magazine's on routing-it rector of Information Services, Papert, Koenig, cannot be had today!" Lois, Inc., Advertising, 777 Third Avenue, New MILDREDE. BARNES,Chief York 10017 Cataloging Branch Department Library Duane R. Day, Librarian, Campbell-Mithun, Inc., Department of the Interior 1000 North Star Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S. 55402 Washington, D. C. NATIONALMICROFILM ASSOCIATION: Loretta J. (Reprinted from Washington, D. C. Chapter Kierskp, Librarian, Central Research Laboratories, Noter, vol. 24, no. 1, October 1964) SPECIAL LIBRARIES Special Libraries Association Membership as of April 30,1965 ACTIVE SUS- (Pd. for ASSOCI-AFFILI- TAIN. Life) ATE ATE ORARY - -. - Alabama I Baltimore 2 Boston 6 Cincinnati 1 Cleveland 5 Colorado 3 Connecticut Valley 1 Dayton - Georgia 2 Greater St. Louis - Heart of America 2 Illinois 1 Indiana 4 Louisiana 2 Michigan 6 Minnesota 1 Montreal 3 New Jersey 7 New York 6 1 Oak Ridge 7 Oklahoma - Pacific Northwest - Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 6 Rio Grande 1 San Diego 5 San Francisco 9 Southern California 11 Texas 1 Toronto 2 Upstate New York 6 Washington, D. C. 12 Wisconsin 6 Unaffiliated U. S. & Canada - Outside U. S. & Canada 1

178 Less extra Chapter affiliations 3 - 175

The SLA booth at ALA's Detroit Convention. At the left center, Frances E. Kaiser and Frances Cheney chat with Bill M. Woods. On IDEA (illustrators, designers, editors, authors) Day SLA authors Frances E. Kaiser and Dr. Anthony T. Kruzas (right) were on hand to discuss their new books. o,,,, .Associntes, I,,~. LTP Reports to SLA

GLADYS T. PIEZ

A meeting of members of the Advisory of ALA. The 1965 list includes 915 items, Committee and others concerned with the a record number. project to develop performance standards for LTP has offered subscribers to Library library binding, Phase 11, was held at the Technology Reports a free copy of a revised W. J. Barrow Research Laboratory in Rich- edition of Mozdng Librq i1lnie1.id.r by mond, Virginia, on May 17. The binding Peter Spyers-Duran, originally published by study is a joint project of SLA and ALA, a group at the University of Wisconsin-Mil- administered by LTP. The meeting was held waukee. Nonsubscribers may purchase the to assess progress of the program to date book by sending a check or money order for and determine how much of it can be com- $2.50, payable to the American Library As- pleted by January 1966, when the second sociation, to William P. Cole (see above). phase is scheduled for completion. Payment must accompany all orders. The LTP is offering ten stencil duplicators book describes theoretical and practical ap- (nine small and one full-size) for sale to proaches to moving from 1,000-to one mil- libraries at one-third of list price plus pack- lion volumes. ing and shipping charges from Chicago to The two major reports in the third issue destination. The nine small duplicators- of Library Technology report^. distributed Chiang Catalog Card Duplicator, Faith 7, late in May, are the evaluation of small Gem Postcard Duplicator, Library Card- stencil duplicators, mentioned abo~e, and master, Multistamp No. 3, Portable Printer an article by Professor Robert M. Hayes of Model 60, Print-0-Matic A2R, Speed-O- the University of California, Los Angeles, Print Liberator 50, and Sure-Rite Model entitled, "The Concept of an On-Line, Total C5-were used in making the evaluation Library System." AS announced in Special that appears in the May issue of Librarj Libraries for October 1964, the yearly sub- Technology Reports. The tenth, a full-size scription price of the reports is $100. Subscrib- machine, is the Marr Style duplicator. Sales ers may purchase extra copies of individual will be on a first-come-first-served basis. Or- issues for $17.00 each; to nonsubscribers, ders should be sent to William P. Cole at the price is $20.00 each. As of June 1, the ALA Headquarters, 50 East Huron Street, number of subscribers had reached 650. Chicago. Foster D. Snell, Inc., is evaluating for Copies of the 1965 Certified Products List LTP a pressure-sensitive adhesive of British are available from LTP on request. This is a manufacture. This is a so-called double listing, published by the Institutional Re- strength, permanent adhesive that is being search Council, of cleaning and maintenance tested to compare it with American-made products and commercial carpets and textiles adhesives of t6e same tv~e.LTP has so far i l that have been laboratory tested and certified been unable to identify a pressure-sensitive to comply with the prescribed standards for adhesive that could be considered to have 1965. The list is being distributed auto- permanent adhesive characteristics. matically to all subscribers to Library Tech- LTP is interested in hearing from special nology Reports and to institutional members librarians about any new products or new categories of equipment and supplies that they think might be developed, modified, or tested to advantage for use in libraries. What Mrs. Piez is the General Editor of the Li- systems studies might improve librdry effi- brary Technology Project, American Library ciency? LTP will be glad to consider sug- Association, Chicago. gestions for inclusion in its program. 526 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Have You Heard . . . 1966-67 SLA Scholarships Available display. Notification of a Chapter's inten- Special Libraries Association is offering tion to enter the competition should be filed scholarships for the academic year 1966-67 with the Executive Director no later than to be used for graduate study in special li- April 1, 1966. brarianship leading to a degree at an accredited library school in the United States Reorganization of Office of Education and Canada. To be eligible, an applicant With the increase of staff and budget for must be a college graduate working in a the Office of Education, a committee was special library, or have experience in a spe- appointed by President Johnson to make cial library, or be a recent college graduate recommendations for its reorganization. or college senior wishing to enter special li- These went into effect July 1. The former brarianship. He must show a definite interest three major bureaus, based on function, Re- in and aptitude for special library work and search and Development Programs, Educa- have a sincere intent to contribute to the tional Assistance Programs, and Interna- profession, prove financial need, and have tional Education Programs, have become provisional admittance to an accredited li- four major bureaus based primarily on lev- brary school in the United States or Canada. els of education: Bureau of Elementary and Applications may be obtained from Associa- Secondary Education, Bureau of Higher Ed- tion Headquarters and must be submitted to ucation, Bureau of Adult and Vocational the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund at Education (which includes the Division of SLA no later than February 1, 1966. Since Library Service and Educational Facilities), initiating its scholarship program in 1955, and a Bureau of Research (which is in turn the Association has awarded 53 scholarships. made up of divisions based primarily on lev- A Student Loan Fund is also available to els of education). The statistical staff and provide financial assistance to individuals services of the Office of Education are cen- who wish to carry on graduate professional tralized at the National Center for Educa- study in special librarianship at an accredited tional Statistics, reporting directly to the library school in the United States or Canada. Commissioner of Education. The Division of Library Services and Educational Facilities will consist of the Library Services Branch H. W. Wilson Award Theme with a staff of 34 and the Educational Tele- The H. W. Wilson Company Chapter vision grant program with a staff of 13. Award Committee has announced that the The LSB staff and programs will continue theme of the annual competition as well as mainly as before, and if passed, the Divi- that of the 1966 Convention is "The Special sion and Branch would also administer the Librarian-Vital Communications Key." The Library Training Program under Title I1 B winning Chapter will receive a scroll and of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The $100 from the sponsors of the award, The College Library Resources Program, Title H. W. Wilson Company, at the Annual I1 A will be administered by the Bureau of Banquet in Minneapolis in May. The Com- Higher Education and the School Library mittee suggests that Chapters organize proj- Resources Program. Title I1 of the Elemen- ects around one or more of the communi- tary and Secondary Educational Act will be cations channels in which the special administered by the Bureau of Educational librarian participates. Such projects might in- and Secondary Education along with Titles I volve special meetings, training programs, and 111 and Titles I11 and V A of the development of materials, or other methods NDEA. A principal change has been the to assist the individual special librarian in transfer of six staff members who edited his role as a communicator. The entry and prepared the library statistics for pub- should consist of a summary and a visual lications and the Assistant Director, Dr. SEPTEMBER 1965 F. L. Schick, who supervised the statistical New Building for NSF program, and his sec;etary to the National The National Science Foundation has con- Center for Educational Statistics. As a result, solidated all its offices, which had been in even though the staff of the Division and five annexes throughout downtown Wash- Branch will continue to reauest the librarv ington, D. C., in a new building at 1800 G statistics needed and will analyze the data Street, N.W. The new location is a large received, the Division and staff will have commercial office building that NSF will less control over what statistical survevs re- share with other tenants. 1;s former building" ceive the highest priority and what the on Constitution Avenue will be taken over timetable for completion and publication by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The NSF will be. The National Center. with a sub- mailing address is unchanged: Washington, stantially mcreased staff, is planning an in- D. C. 20550. ternal reorganization and is expected to give a high pr~orityto statistics required by the LaQue Report on Standardization new legislative programs and the evaluation of their results. Plans for new methods of The LaQue Report, which was prepared by obtaining statistical information are also un- the Panel on Engineering and Commodity der consideration. To date, the plans for Standards of the Commerce Technical Ad- completion of the Survey of Special Libraries visory Board, has been sent to over 150 Serving State Governments and the Survey technical societies, trade associations, proof Special Libraries Serving Federal Govern- fessional organizations, consumer and indus- mmt remain unchanged. try groups, and other interested groups by the United States Department of Commerce DOD EDP Evaluation Study for comment. The major recommendations Booz-Allen Applied Research, Inc., Be- of the panel, which was composed of lead- thesda, Maryland, was recently awarded ing industrial technologists, was to establish $100,000 by the Defense Construction Sup- a new, federally chartered inat'tute to coor- ply Center to conduct a nine-month evalua- dinate voluntary standardization activities in tion study of automatic data processing ap- the United States. It was suggested that the plications to Department of Defense library development of standards be left to the pri- functions, which involves detailed survey of vate organizations already active in this held. DOD Library and Information Analysis It was also recommended that standards, is- Centers in various parts of the United sued by the institute be designated as USA States. It is expected that the results will aid Standards, and preference should be given in "improving interchange of scientific and to reconstituting the existing national stand- technical information through greater uni- ards organization, the American Standards formity, common practices, and improved Association. The LaQue Report is available systems." from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scien- tific and Technical Information. Section A Increased Availability of Government (PB 166812), containing major findings Translations and recommendations, is $2; Section B (PB The Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific 166812), containing the reports of the vari- and Technical Information. U.S. De~art- ous task forces, is $6. ment of Commerce, will increase the public availability of government-sponsored trans- Biography Correction lations by expanding its announcement and distribution to include translations in the Phoebe F. Hayes (see Sperjal Libraries, July-August 1965. page 374) became Li- social sciences. These will be announced in brarian at the National Farmers Union in Tech~?ical Tramlatiom, CFSTI's semi- Denver in 1950 and Director of the Biblio- graphical Center for Research in 1961. The monthly publication. Copies of translations Center is a nonprofit corporation located in are available at the cost of reproduction and but not a part of the Denver Public Library. handling SPECIAL LIBRARIES Recordak Microfilm Seminars Division's Committee on Division and Sec- Recordak Corporation, a subsidiary of East- tion Structure. The Workshop hopes to bring man Kodak Company, has opened a modern together librarians in the region who have demonstration showroom at 1015 Wisconsin professional interest in certain topic areas. Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C., where For details, contact Mrs. Bertha Allen, Box educational seminars on microfilm informa- 196, Cedar Crest, New Mexico or Madeline tion retrieval will be conducted by Recordak Canova, 719 Morningside Drive N.E., Albu- personnel. Each step in typical microfilm sys- querque. tems from document input on film to output The THIRTEENTHANNUAL MARKETING on hard copy, including film processing by CONFERENCE,sponsored by the National the users, will be covered, as will techniques Industrial Conference Board, Inc., will be involving the use of existing and future mi- held October 20-22 at the New York Hil- croforms, simplified code indexing, and elec- ton. Sessions will cover marketing plan- tronic Information retrieval. For customers ning, sales management, and marketing re- unable to attend the sessions at the show- search. Complete registration is $95 ; panel room, a Recordak mobile demonstration sessions, $20 each; and the dinner session, team will arrange to conduct a special sem- $12.50. Registration forms and information inar complete with demonstration equipment may be obtained from the Controller, NICB, and materials on a customer's premises. 845 Third Avenue, New York 10022.

Coming Events Members in the News The AMERICANRECORDS MANAGEMENT ALFRED N. BRANDON,Librarian at the ASSOCIATIONwill hold its tenth annual con- Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins Uni- ference October 11-13 at the Sheraton-Ritz versity, Baltimore, was elected President of Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The the Medical Library Association for 1965-66. theme is Mining the Gold in Your Moun- Other SLA members serving with him are: tain of Records. Vice-president, MRS. MILDREDC. LANGNER, The American Hospital Association, in col- School of Medicine Library, University of laboration with the University of Minne- Miami, Florida; Secretary, BETTY WITH- sota's Library School and its Office of Con- ROW, Bowman Gray School of Medicine Li- tinuing Hospital Education, will conduct an brary, Winston-Salem; and Treasurer, DR. INSTITUTEON HOSPITALLIBRARIANSHIP on DONALDWASHBURN, American Dental As- October 18-22 at the Sheraton-Ritz Hotel in sociation Library, Chicago. Minneapolis. The course is intended to give DR. ESTELLEBRODMAN, Librarian and Pro- practical help in health science librarianship fessor of medical history at Washington to those without professional education. En- University School of ' Medicine, St. Louis, rollment is limited to personal members of was a recipient of the Eliot Award of the the AHA and employees of hospitals that Medical Library Association for her "Guide- are institutional members. The registration lines for Medical School Libraries," deemed fee is $50.00, and applications and further the publication that has done most for medi- information may be obtained from AHA, cal librarianship during the year. 840 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 60611. MARYW. COVINGTON,former Librarian at Union Carbide Corporation, New York, has The Science-Technology Division and the Rio Grande Chapter of SLA will sponsor a accepted a position with the Copper Devel- opment Association doing documentation REGIONALWORKSHOP ON THE REPORTLIT- and information work, primarily for a new ERATURE during October 31-November 2, information system. 1965, at the Hilton Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is the first meeting result- MRS. SYLVIAGOLDMAN, formerly Assistant ing from the response to a questionnaire Librarian of the Reference Library at The prepared in 1961 by the Science-Technology Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics SEPTEMBER 1965 Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland, is Canada, retired after 37 years of service. She now Supervisor of the Document Library. is continuing her service to McGill by teach- MRS. ELIZABETHM. HUTCHINS,Librarian ing special courses in special librarianship. at Freemont, Michigan, Public Library, and Survey Reveals Low Library Standards formerly at Young & Rubicam, Inc., New York, received a John Cotton Dana Pub- A National Inventory of Library Needs, the results of a pear-long survey conducted by licity Award, sponsored by the Wilson Li- brary Bulletin and American Library Asso- the U.S. Office of Education's Library Serv- ciation. She was honored for "the successful ices Branch and the American ~ibraryAs- and continuing involvement of the total sociation, was announced at the ALA Con- community in its drive for a Iibrary, using vention by Edwin Castagna, President. $4.3 ingenious publicity with an imaginative ap- billion is needed to bring libraries up to and maintain minimum national standards. proach." ROBERTG. KRUPP,former Librarian at Bell Linda Hall Library Annex Telephone Laboratories, New York City, This spring a $1 million, three-story addi- has been appointed Chief of the Science and tion to the Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Technology Division of the New York Pub- Missouri, was completed, doubling the size lic Library, succeeding GEORGES. BONN, of the library. The collection includes 300,- who is now associated with the University of 000 volumes, mostly journals, and is grow- Hawaii Library School. ing at a rate of 25,000 to 30,000 volumes DR. PAULKRUSE, who has been teaching a year. at the University of Ceylon under a Ful- Letters to the Editors bright grant, has recently joined the faculty at North Texas State University, Denton, as an Associate Professor of Library Science. During the past pear the Louisiana State Uni- A. VENABLELAWSON, former Assistant versity Library has been making a particular Professor at Florida State University Library effort to gather together the professional litera- School, became Director of the Division of ture on special libraries put out by the Associa- tion in order to support courses in special Librarianship at Emory University. libraries taught in our library school. In doing JUDITHLEONDAR, former Scientific Informa- this we find that the professional literature now tion Officer at the Institute of Naval Studies, being produced by all but the national office of the Special Libraries Association is very diffi- Cambridge, Massachusetts, has recently been cult to obtain and therefore, even when free, is appointed to the newly established Bureau very expensive. Each Division or Section and of Information Sciences Research at Rutgers tach Chapter as well must be contacted sepa- -The State University, New Brunswick, rately for its publications. Since in almbst all cases the publication is edited by a different New Jersey. person at a different address each year, keeping JOHN G. LORENZ,former Director of the an up-to-date list of editors even at the national Division of Library Services and Educational office seems to be impossible. The librarian working on this project reports that some of Facilities in the Office of Education, Wash- the editors still credited with the responsibility ington, D. C., has recently been appointed for a publication do not know the current edi- Deputy Librarian of Congress. tor. Once the editor has been found, there is no assurance of getting on the mailing list, as most DR. JESSE SHERA,Dean of the School of of these publications are printed or mimeo- Library Science at Western Reserve Univer- graphed in just sufficient quantity for members sity, has been honored with the American of the Chapter or Division at the expense of the Library Association's Beta Phi Mu award, group. Even if the requesters are willing to pay, the publication is not set up on a large enough for "distinguished service to education for scale with a proper mailing list to accommodate librarianship." them permanently. During the past year I have edited four issues BEATRICESIMON, Assistant University Li- of the Louisiana Chapter Special Libraries Bulletin. brarian at McGill University, Montreal, Although I was fortunate in being attached to a SPECIAL LIBRARIES library school which bore n~uchof the expense our own special libraries, retrieval systems, or and where student assistants largely took over what have you? the project, nevertheless a great deal of time NEIL VAN ALLEN,Technical Librarian was invested in it and Chapter funds were Missile and Armament Department strained. If this were justified there would be General Electric Company, Burlington, Vt. no question or criticism. However, I wonder if 33 bulletins issued by the local Chapters are worth the combined efforts of all those involved To RECOMMENDOR Nor TO RECOMMEND in producing them. Usually the final project is Mr. Samson need not necessarily consider it primitive and in temporary form which makes (see Special Libraries, May-June, p. 323) a rob- proper distribution and preservation difficult. lem. No one need hold it against him if he does In examining bulletins from a number of not take up his valuable time to write any kind chapters I have failed to find real justification of recommendation. Silence will have its own for their separate existences. It seems to me that virtue. all their worthwhile content should be incor- It's Miranda that has the problem. It is porated into the national bulletin. I€ a speech Miranda that needs a condemnation at self-ex- or article is good enough for a local bulletin amination rather than a recommendation. (and the same speech is frequently printed in But, should Mr. Samson feel an obligation to many bulletins), it should have national cover- his country, to his colleagues in the library pro- age. And a section of the national bulletin fession, and to his partners in the investment could be given to Chapter news of worth, much business then he should attempt the truth as he of which is already included there-the officers, sees it, perhaps somewhat thusly: changes of position, notable awards, retirements I. It was under his tutelage and help that Miranda and deaths. gained her knowledge and confidence enough to Most of us are interested in what goes on in all admit that she knew "as much as her Boss." the Divisions and Sections of the Association (Render unto Caesar . . .) even though we cannot belong to all of them. 2. Since he is 'investment-minded' he chanced at Here again we have a great many flimsy pub- Miranda's trust with guiding her towards sub- lications circulated to Division and Section professionalism perhaps hopefully that she would members where, because of their very nature, be an investment to Bowler, to him and to her- they quickly disappear. In fact when they ap- self. But she left. There are ways of describing pear in New Serials Titles they are frequently this in investment terminology: He got 'cornered'; listed as discarded. And yet if they are worth he pulled a 'bull and bear,' or as the Chinese publishing for the Section or Division, they are proverb goes: 'He who holds the bag . . .' worth including in the national publication 3. Miranda's training may have a ring of pseudo- where they can be given national circulation and education since her technical training consisted of more important be indexed so they are not lost. an experimental adult education course in a local Therefore, 1 suggest enlarging our national high school. Any inadequacy, therefore, would publication to include all material of the Asso- have to be augmented, expanded, improved, cor- ciation, its Chapters, Sections, and Divisions, rected, enhanced, and inspired by Mr. Samson not substantial enough to be published as a with his background of a formalized Master's monograph in permanent enough form to sur- Degree in library science. Who is to do it when vive on its own. Mr. Chipps isn't around? What will happen to DR. RUTH M. BALDWIN,Associate Professor professionalism ? Library School, Louisiana State University 4. Miranda's adeptness might have been proven at Baton Rouge, Louisiana organizing files, shelving magazines, and ordering books, but is Miranda capable of being head IN A NUTSHELL librarian in a similar company with similar duties Ralph Shaw says the whole thing in one sentence as that of Mr. Samson's. What about selecting in his article in American Documentation for and acquiring materials; location of resources of April 1965, end of the top paragraph, second persons for subject information; literature search- column, page 79. ing; subject analysis; abstracting and/or annotat- "The important requirement is that we have ing, translating, research, and the vexing problems staff competent to do each of the kinds of jobs of interpreting information problems; not to that needs to be done and that we use the tools mention systems evaluation, policy-making, and and systems that are most suitable, rather than personnel supervision. This has not been estab- predetermining the kinds of staff and tools to lished so any potential employee may have to take be used based on labels or slogans." a gamble on Miranda. Why had not Miranda been Why do we so often wait for the man at the selected as manager at Bowler if she is so quali- top of his (and our) profession to make such a fied? Can we have a management's verdict at this simple statement that our only answer can be, time? "Of course!" before we seem to accept what 5. Miranda has drive. Drive is important if it has should be the basic premises on which we build proper channels. She succeeded in being motivated SEPTEMBER 1965 to enroll in adult education. What is to prevent It seems to me that the main reason we en- her to equip herself with a college education (if courage young people to attend library school is she can be qualified) and then on with a graduate that it presents what is still the safest. most degree in library science (if they will qualify thorough, and most rapid way to learn what her) ? one needs to learn to operate competently in a library. I think that our experience has borne It then seems to be a two-fold problenl-Mr. out this assumption. However. neither the li- Samson's duty to his profession and Miranda's, a brary degree nor the college degree can guaran- review of herself. There are already too many tee professional success any more than the lack Mirandas in the profession who lack insight into of a degree can forbid it. their own problems, thus creating difficulties in The personnel departments of all industrial the progression of the profession. If, and only if, organizations with which 1 am familiar use after reviewing herself earnestly, and if Mr. equivalence factors to equate on-the-job experi- Samson hasn't chosen someone else, and if she ence with formal education and training. usually finds it within herself to give him his due respect, on a two years for one year basis. If under this she should take a cut in salary in addition to program. non-engineers can become engineers giving a portion of her salary to Mr. Samson as and non-economists economists, then I think reward on-the-job-training tuition. Then perhaps that non-librarians can also become librarians. with the right attitude she might earn her pay- The road is hard and few make it, but the path or perhaps even her right to be known by other is unmistakably open. than her Christian name--something like Miss Mr. Samson lucked into quite a bit of good Kan'dy ? fortune with Miranda. She has devoted her eve- MARIASVORENICK. Reference Librarian nings to courses to make her a better qualified Chicago Medical School Library employee, she has 12 years of on-the-job es- perience, she can run a library, she can catalog, To recommend or not to recommend a non- she can do reference work, and she can or- professional librarian for a professional position ganize a library collection-and all this for the is not a question of ethics. It's a question of bargain salary of a clerk. What more do the judgment. professionals do? Mr. Samson's dilemma is this-Is Miranda In my managerial experience in special 11- really a professional in a non-professional braries, I have seen employees without library straitjacket? If she is. she deserves a change degrees and without even college degreer per- in status where she is. If she has the qualifica- form satisfactorily and even superbly in profes- tions requisite for head librarian, she deserves a sional library positions. I have graded and paid recommendation. If Miranda doesn't qualify, it them as professionals. I have seen other incum- would be a mistake (not unethical) to recom- bents with masters' degrees in library science mend her, even if she were professionally from accredited universities who could perform trained. satisfactorily only as clerks, and I have graded What makes a professional librarian profes- and paid them as clerks. To our mutual satisfac- sional? Certainly not the mere acquisition of a tion, they left shortly thereafter, and I am sure college degree. That just makes one a member that despite my poor recommendation they haJ of the fraternity. Isn't it rather the attainment no difficulty in landing a "professional" posi- of standards of work and conduct that draw the tion. respect of both staff and clientele that merits I don't mean to imply that the library school the accolade "professional"? degree is not important. because I think that it In our emphasis on formal library school is. I consider it the most important ingredient in training (yes, training), we're prone to forget the making of a professional librarian. But it is that school of hard knocks-experience-which not the only ingredient. and it is possible to can be 3s educational as formal education. It succeed without it, or to fail with it. ought to be recognized. How many professional Mr. Samson has really only one question to librarians hare learned as much, or more. on the ask himself-can Miranda do the job for which job as they did while working for that open she is applying? If she can, by what right can sesame, M.L.S. ? he fail to recommend her? Why did he en- ELIZABETHE. BROWN courage her to study cataloging and reference IBM Research Library service? So that she could become a more use- Thomas J. Watson Research Center ful clerk to him? Yorktown Heights. New York In actual practice, Mr. Samson will probably give Miranda a poor recommendation. He can't The case study described by Louise Stoops in afford to lose her. She's doing all of the profes- the May-June Specid Librarie~ is of particular sional work in the library. interest to me, since I have faced Mr. Samson's problem several times in my library career. Un- HERBERTS. WHITE.Director like him, I had no hesitancy in coming to a NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility decision. Bethesda, Maryland SPECIAL LIBRARIES Oftbe Press., ,

Book Review One of the most valuable tables of the manual is the last one, entitled Cost Comparison Work CATALOG CARD REPRODUCTION-Report on a Sheet. This gives comparative costs of equipment, study conducted by George Fry & Associates, Inc. materials, estimated staff operating time, and other -(Library Technology Project, Publication No. cost data that will enable one to arrive at the 9). American Library Association: Chicago, 1965. total annual estimated costs for various processes. xii, 81 p. $8.50. Individual librarians will have to adjust some This publication is a most useful addition to of the items in this work sheet, but it should the corpus of technical manuals that help profes- prove to be a valuable aid in estimating costs in sional librarians in the analysis and efficient plan- actual situations. When fully mechanized library ning of their work and objectives. The subject systems are achieved, catalog cards will still be of catalog card reproduction may appear trivial used, in all probability, as auxiliary aids. It is to non-professionals, but, as the Report under quite conceivable that cards will be produced review shows, this area presents many problems. automatically in the very near future by com- No two libraries have identical needs in respect puters used by large libraries and in processing to catalog cards and, consequently, "no single re- centers for groups of smaller libraries. In the production process, method, or piece of equip- meantime, while we wait for the computers to ment can meet the needs of all libraries." In relieve us of some of our problems, we, the other words, complete standardization of the card working catalogers, like the writer of these lines, reproduction operations is impossible. Each li- have to make the best use of the existing equip- brary must analyze its own problems and adopt ment and machines. For this task the publication a synthesis of available techniques best suited for reviewed here is an invaluable aid. Appreciation its purposes. is extended to the Council of Library Resources It is necessary to qualify these remarks by for providing the grant to undertake the study on stating that at present many libraries are experi- which the Report is based, as well as to its menting with mechanization of their technical compilers and publishers. processing activities. A by-product of this work MRS.LUBOV ALFERIEFF could be the automatic production and reproduc- Cataloging Librarian tion of catalog cards. However, this area of re- IBM Research Library search is outside the scope of this Report because Yorktown Heights, Kew York few libraries have access, at the present time, to computers, and much of this work should be Supplement to "Biological Abstracts" considered as being in the developmental stage. The Report is divided into three parts. In the In the last four months of 1965 Biological Sci- first a general analysis of the subject is presented ences Information Services of Biological Abstracts together with recommendations for the best will report an additional 20,000 research papers methods of card reproduction for small libraries through Biological Titles, BA's new supplement. and for larger libraries. The practical value of Subscribers to BA will receive BT free of charge. this analysis is enhanceed greatly by a compre- BT consists of three parts: a bibliographic sec- hensive table showing costs of card reproduction tion, subject-title index, and author index. Listings by different methods and in different quantit~es- include references to all important areas of the from 500 to 35.000 titles per year. The second biosciences selected from the world's research part of the manual gives detailed descriptions of literature. BT was established with the help of a the equipment and processes for 13 different National Science Foundation grant. methods of card reproduction. The machines are illustrated by a number of good photographs supplied by the manufacturers. Oceana Publishes "RES Bulletin" The third part of the book is devoted to cost Oceana Publications Inc., 40 Cedar Street, Dobbs data and a comparison of processes. A variety of Fey, New York, has recently taken over the considerations may determine the choice of tech- publ~shingof Repl.int Expediting Serzire Bulletin niques most appropriate for a given situation. In from the Resources and Technical Services Division most cases, economy is of paramount importance of the American Library Association. The Bulletiu, but it is not necessarily the governing factor. For a bibliographic and reference service on reprints instance, the appearance of the cards and the rela- for librarians, is now published bimonthly instead tive permanency of the image are two other im- of quarterly. Annual subscription rates are $12.50 portant considerations. Illustrations of actual cards In the United States and Canada; elsewhere $15. reproduced by the various processes are included Individual copies are $3.25 including postage and in the last section of the Report and should be handling. Review and examination copies of the useful in establishing desired standards of quality. two 1965 issues are available from the publisher. SEPTEMBER 1965 Aerospace Membership Directory mittee on Scientific and Technical Information of the Federal Council for Science and Technology. The Aerospace Section (now Division) of the The List (PB 166 877D), which is available from SLA Science-Technology Division recently pub- the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Tech- lished a Membership director^^-1964-65, listing nical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22 15 1. the officers and the membership alphabetically by for $1, consists of 22 major subject fields with name and by state. Foreign membership, alpha- a further subdivision of the fields into 178 betical by name, is included. The computer- groups. For announcement or distribution pur- produced Directory was prepared by The Boeing poses, abstracts and citations can be gathered into Company, Renton, Washington, with the aid of these broad subject fields or groups for display to Louise K. Montle, Library Supervisor, Engineering the user. They may also be useful for arranging Library. Copies may be obtained by sending 25 projects, tasks, or programs for management re- cents in stamps or coin to Malcolm M. Ferguson, porting purposes. COSATI created the task group 396 Main Street, West Concord, Massachusetts consisting of representatives from AEC, NASA, 01781. and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, IDC Micro Editions of Research Materials Defense, and Health, Education, and Welfare to develop the List. International Documentation Centre AB, Tumba, Sweden, has recently ~ublishedIndia Gazetteers as SLA Authors one of its series, Basic Collections in Micro-edi- BOAZ, Martha. ALA's Intellectual Freedom Com- tion. The listing, which includes the Imperial, mittee. Wilson Librayy Bulletin, vol. 39, no. 8, Prwincial, and District Series, is a checklist, an April 1965, p. 651. index, and an order catalog for research material --- . The Situation We Face. ALA Bulletin, and information sources on the history and culture vol. 59, no. 6, June 1965, p. 470. of India. Prices are given in dollars and copies BRADLEY,James J. Wheelsville, USA. Library of the catalog are available from IDC. Other Journal, vol. 90, no. 12, June 15, 1965, p. 2752-6. catalogs in the series are Slavonics, Botany, Zo- ology, Humanities, and South Asian Research Ma- BRODE, Mildred H. Special Libraries and Li- terials. brarians: Meeting the Challenge of the "Informa- tion Explosion." The Oklahoma Librarian, vol. 14, Opportunities in Information Sciences no. 1, January 1965, p. 4-7. Listing BROWN, Alberta L. Special Libraries: Company Robert J. Ansell & Associates, P.O. Box 4176, Sponsored Units Aid Research and Development. Arlington, Virginia 22204, has recently begun Michigan Challenge, vol. 5, no. 7, April 1965, p. publishing Educational Opportunitie~ in the In- 22-3. formation Sciences, a monthly listing of courses, BROWN, Jack E. The National Science Library: seminars, conferences, and meetings dealing with Information Centre for Industry. Industrial Canada, information processes and research in the United vol. 65, no. 1, March 1965. States. It also includes a description of current Cox, Carl C. Mechanized Acquisitions Procedures graduate curriculum in information sciences. The at the University of Maryland. College and Re- first issue appeared as volume one, number one, ~earchLibraries, vol. 26, no. 3, May 1965, p. May 1965. Yearly subscription rates are $15. 232-6. Serial Price Change GOODWIN,Jack. Current Bibliography in the His- tory of Technology (1963). Technology and Cul- Cbemicd-Biological Activities, a new serial de- ture, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring 1965, p. 346-74. scribed in the May-June Special Librarie~, page GREENAWAY,Emerson. Greater Division of Fed- 345, has revised its subscription prices. This bi- eral Taxes. Library Journal, vol. 90, no. 9, May weekly publication of the American Chemical SO- 1, 1965, p. 2080. ciety Chemical Abstracts Service is now $800 a HAMLIN,Arthur T. The Signs Are Propitious: year, retroactive to January 1, 1965, and includes The Current Library Scene in France. Library up to 25 scientists at the subscriber's address. A Journal, vol. 90, no. 9, May 1, 1965, p. 2081-6. $50 surcharge is made for each additional group of 25 or less scientists. Orders for this index to HIATT, Peter. Urban Public Library Services for the current literature on the biological activity of Adults of Low Education. The Librery Journal, organic compounds should be sent to: Service vol. 35, no. 2, April 1965, p. 81-96. Division, Chemical Abstracts Service, The Ohio LAKE,Albert C. Pursuing a Policy. Librdry Jozr- State University, Columbus. nd, vol. 90, no. 11, June 1, 1965, p. 2491. LAUDERDALE,JO Ann. The Noble Foundation "COSATI Subject Category List" Biomedical Library, The Oklahoma Librarian, vol. COSATI Subject Categorj List, a uniform subject 14, no. 1, January 1965, p. 10-11. arrangement for the announcement and distribu- MOHRHARDT,Foster E. Documentation: A Syn- tion of United States government scientific and thetic Science. TVilson Library Bulletin, vol. 38, technical reports, has been endorsed by the Com- no. 9, May 1964, p. 743-51. SPECIAL LIBRARIES RICHMOND,Phyllis A. Misery Is a Short Foot- RECENT REFERENCES note. Library Resources and Technical Services, Prepared by JOHN R. SHEPLEY vol. 9, no. 2. Spring 1965, p. 221-4. Librarianship RICKING,Myrl. Recruitment: Challenge for Qual- ity. The Oklahomd Librarian, vol. 14, no. 1, Jan- ARCHER,H. Richard, ed. Rare Book Collections: uary 1965, p. 26-7. Some Theoretical and Practical Suggestions for UJ~by Librarians and Students (ACRL Mono- SHARP, Harold S. Principles for Executive Ad- graph No. 27). Chicago: American Library As- vancement. Trained Men, vol. 45, no. 1, 1965, sociation, 1965. viii, 128 p. pap. $3. (L. C. 65- p. 10-12. 19754) , Seven Keys to Sparkling Speeches. Pev- Ten essays by specialists on the nature, handling, sonnel Journal, vol. 43, no. 9, October 1964, p. and use of the rare book collection. Includes a 496-8. statement of recommended library policy regarding TAUBER,Maurice F. Documentation Activities appraisals and a selected bibliography. of Associations. Wilson Library Bulletin, vol. 38, ASH, Lee, comp. Conference on Future Programs no. 9, May 1964, p. 768-72. for Medical Library Cooperation. New York: ., co-author. Technical Services in 1964. Survey of Medical Library Resources of Greater Lib~ar~Resources and Technical Services, vol. 9, New York, 5 East 102nd Street, 1965. 69 p. pap. no. 2, Spring 1965, p. 177-89. $1.50. (L. C. 65-19528) . Technical Services in the University of Report on a one-day conference, December 1, New Mexico Libraries. Albuquerque, N. M.: Uni- 1964, New York City. Papers, summaries of dis- versity of New Mexico, 1964, 124 p. (Distributed cussion groups, participants' commentary, criticism, on request.) and suggestions for future meetings. New Serials BERECZKY,Liszl6. Meeting of the Methodological Departments of the Hungarian Learned and NUCLEARDATA, a journal devoted to compila- Special Libraries, Budapest, 21st October 1964. tions and evaluations of experimental and theo- Budapest: Centre for Library Science and Methods, retical results in nuclear physics, will be published Mhzeum utca 3, 1965. 20 p. pap. Apply. shortly by Academic Press, 111 Fifth Avenue, Report on the material discussed at the title New York 10003. It will appear irregularly in meeting. Outlines the organization of Hungarian two sections: Section A (of which volume 1 will librarianship and points out the methodological be available in the fall), is devoted to data on problems of the learned and special libraries. Bib- cross sections, binding energies, lifetimes, magnetic liography. moments, and related topics and Section B, which BUCK, Paul. Libraries C Uniuersities: Addresses will consist of future nuclear data sheets. Each and Reports, ed. by Edwin E. Williams, Cam- volume will be approximately 600 pages and cost bridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Uni- $15. versity Press, 1964. xx, 172 p. $1.95. (L. C. 64- SCIENCEBOOKS, A QUARTERLYREVIEW, was 25053) published by the American Association for the A collection of addresses, articles, and reports Advancement of Science this spring. Juvenile, by the former Director of the Harvard University trade, and text books in science are reviewed with Library, arranged under the headings: The Per- only a few advanced or professional publications. spective of the Historian, Interpretations of the Yearly subscription rates are $4.50; single copies Harvard University Library, Librarians and Read- are $1.25. It is available from AAAS, 1515 Mas- ers, Other Landmarks of an Administration, sachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, D. C. Epilogue. Introduction by Howard Mumford 20005. Jones.

SCIENCEPERIODICALS FROM MAINLANDCHINA is DOMINIONBUREAU OF STATISTICS,EDUCATION a quarterly journal published by the National DIVISION(Canada). Survey of Libraries, Part 11: Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Academic Libraries-1962-63. Ottawa: 1965. Services and includes the tables of contents of Queen's Printer. 53 p. pap. 756. major Mainland China science journals received English and French. Results of three surveys on by NSFAIS. The first issue was distributed gratis, university and college libraries and centralized and the subscription to the remaining three issues school libraries for the academic year 1962-63, is $3.00; $4 for Canada; $5 elsewhere. Photo- and library school graduates in 1964. Thirty-five copies of microfilm copies of the articles in the statistical tables. journal are also available from NFSAIS, 324 East F. Donier Dujvis-His life and work (NIDER Capitol Street, Washington, D. C. 20003. Photo- Publication Series 2, No. 45). The Hague: Nether- copy costs are 35 cents a page with a $1.25 mini- lands Institute for Documentation and Filing, 43 mum; microfilm costs include a 50 cent service Bezuidenhoutseweg, 1964. 80 p. illus. $8.35. charge per article plus three cents per double page Eight colleagues combine to pay tribute to the with a minimum charge of $1.25. Payment must memory of a famous documentalist. Includes bib- accompany the order. liography of works by and about him. SEPTEMBER 1965 GAVER.Mary V. Patterm of Development in Ele- the SLA Special Classifications Center. Objectives metztar) School Librarier Today, 2nd ed. Chicago: and Standards for Special Libraries (Special Li- Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1965. 32 p. pap. 50t. lirarzes, December 1964) and the American Stand- Revision of an earlier report appraising the 84 ard for Periodical Title Abbreviations are re- school systems participating in the 1963 Encyclo- printed. Five-year cumulative index, 1961-65. paedia Britannica School Library Awards program, UNITED STATESDEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, updated to include data on the 75 school systems NATIONALAGRICULTURAL LIBRARY. Report of that qualified for the 1964 awards. Proceeds from Task Force ABLE (Agricultural Biological Litera- the sale of the booklet go to the American Associa- ture Exploitation) : A Sjstems Study of the h'a- tion of School Librarians. tiotlul Agricultural Libruq ni7d itr CTrer.r. Wash- GUJRATI,B. S. Libmriaicship. New Delhi: Lak- ington, D. C.: 1965. vi, 477 p. pap. Apply. shmi Book Store, 42 Janpath Market, 1964. xii, 92 A two-year study recommending an overall p. Rs. 10. system of automation for the Department's library. Brief introduction to the elements of librarian- Bibliographic Tools ship. Chapters on book selection, library tech- AMERICANINSTITUTE OF PLANNERS.Abstracts of niques, school, college, public, and university li- Student Theres iiz City dnd Regjoid Planning. brary practice, reference service, early printing in Washington, D. C.: 917 Fifteenth St. N.WJ., India. Supplementary reading lists; index of sorts. 1965. $3. MASON, Amy. ed. In-Service Training: Proceed- Covers the past several years and most United ings of the 12th Annual Confererzce, Norti?zgham, States planning schools; includes an index to March 20th-2.31.d, 1964. London: The Library As- thesis abstracts carried by the AIP Juurizal from sociation. Reference. Special and Information Sec- 1958 through 1963. tion. 1964. 47 p. pap. 10s.; 7s. 6d. to Library AMOSU,Margaret, comp. Creative Africmz TY'riting Association members. in the Eurupean knguages: A Preliminary Bib- Papers presented at the Conference, with dis- liography (Special Supplement to African ATote.r. cussion summaries, and a report on in-service Bulletin of the Institute of African Studies). training reprinted from The Library Associutiotz Ibadan, Nigeria: University of Ibadan, Institute of Record. African Studies (1964 ? ). vi. 35 p. pap. Apply. NEAL, K. W. Technical College Libraries; A Admittedly preliminary and incomplete, pub- Guide to Pf,oblem.r a~zdPractice. Wolverhampton, lished to fill an immediate need. Approximately Staffordshire, England: 1965. xvi, 159 p. 30s. 250 authors and 650 titles, arranged by country. (Available from the author at 41 Wychbury Road, Gives author (with dates if possible), title, type Finchfield. Wolverhampton, Staffs., England.) of work, place of publication, publisher, date of Discusses the role of the technical college li- first publication. Final expanded edition will in- brarian and such problems as planning, estimates c!ude notes and critical references. and expenditures, book selection, classification, etc. BARRY, Rozanne M., comp. African Neu~spapers Bibliographies ; index. in Selected American Librarie.r: A Utzion List. 3rd REED, Sarah R. and TOYE,Willie P. Coztinuing ed. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1965. Educatiotc for Librarian.r-Conferenrer, Work- viii, 135 p. pap. 75&. (L. C. 62-60052) (Available hops. aud Short Courses, 1965-66. Washington, from Government Printing Office.) D. C.: U. S. Department of Health, Education, Lists the holdings of 33 libraries for 708 news- and Welfare, 1965. 33 p. pap. Apply. papers published in 48 African countries, an in- Lists 258 events in tabular form, giving date, crease of 283 titles over the 2nd edition (1962). title, place, sponsor, director or instructor, aca- Includes files of positive microfilm. Title index. demic credits, tuition or charges, deadline for CHESIRE,Esther. Review of Irorc il~dSteel Litera- registration, and person to contact for details. ture for 1963: A Clas~i/iedLirt of the More Im- ST~TN~TECHNICKA KNIHOVNA V PRAZE.Rucion- portant Book.r, Serialr and Trade Publicatiom alitare priice 2.e Sta'tui technickk knihovnt 2, Praze Dzrri~cgthe Year: uith a Feu, of Earlier Date Not (V9mPna zkuimosti sv. 3). Prague: 1965. 139 p. Prel,iuusly Anizounced. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Li- PdP. Apply. brary of Pittsburgh, 1964. 82 p. pap. Apply. A symposium on "Work Rationalization in the Forty-seventh annual compilation; reprinted State Technical Library in Prague." Summaries in from The Bla.rt Furnirce and Steel Plant, August- Russian. English, and German. December 1964. General (international) and U. S. STECKLER,Phyllis B., ed. The Bowker A1enud of government publications; some annotation. Lihrurj adBook Trade Informdion, 196j. New Cumulated Subject Index to Psychologtcal Ab- York: R. R. Bowker Co.. 1965. 426 p. $10.25. Stl.dCt.1. 1927-1960, 2 vols. Boston: G. K. Hall & (L. C. 55-12434) Co.. 1965. $650 (U. S.) ; 5715 (outside U. S.). Tenth anniversary edition. Additions include a Approximately 350,000 entries from 34 annual review of book trade practices, 1964 international volumes, in a single alphabet and with cross-refer- book trade statistics, Unesco recommended stand- ences added. Supplements planned every five years. ards. a survey of the resources of public libraries DAKAN. Norman E. Iizteiligence (PACAF Basic in the national education structure, a report on Bibliographies for Base Libraries). San Francisco: SPECIAL LIBRARIES 1965. vi, 73 p. pap. spiral binding. Apply. (Avail- -- . New Commurzi:ies: A Seleczed, Annota:ed able from Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Air Forces, Reading List. Washington, D. C.: 1965. 24 p. ATTN: DPSR, Command Librarian, APO San pap. Apply., Francisco 96553.) 292 pubhcations in English, mostly written since Another in the series of annotated bibliographies 1950. Includes significant foreign examples and for the use of Air Force base librarians. Includes ideas. Geographic index. books on espionage, guerrilla warfare, prisons and INSTITUTEOF LIFE INSURANCE.A List of 1Y'orth- prisoners, survival, propaganda, civil defense. while Life Insurance Books. New York: 277 Park Author-title index. Supersedes PACAF Basic Bib- Ave., 1965. 48 p. pap. Gratis. liography, Intelligence, dated 1 April 1962 and Annual, annotated selection of books on life Supplement dated 15 November 1963. insurance and closely related subjects. Publishers' EMBREE,Ruth G. et a/. Pacific Area, supplement I1 addresses, title index. (PACAF Basic Bibliographies for Base Libraries). INTERNATIONALATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY. Ura- San Francisco: 1965. vi, 62 p. pap. spiral binding. nium Carbides, Nitrides and Silicides (Biblio- Apply. (Available from Commander-in-Chief, graphical Series No. 14). Vienna: 1965. 174 p. Pachc Air Forces, ATTN: DPSR Command Li- 24. (Available from National Agency for Interna- brarian, APO San Francisco 96553.) tional Publications, Inc., 317 East 34th St.. New Annotated listing of books on Korea, Japan, York 16, N. Y.) Okinawa, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Guam, 790 references to the literature published in Hawaiian and mid-Pacific islands. Author-title English, French, Russian, German, Italian, and index. other languages, between 1961 and 1963. Ar- EYCHLER, Barbara. Bibliografia Bibliografii i rangement is alphabetical by author, with titles Nauki o Ksiaice (Bibliographia Poloniae Bibliog and abstracts given in English. Author and sub- raphica, Rok 1961). Warsaw: Biblioteka Nar- ject indexes. odowa, Instytut Bibliograficzny, 1964. 267 p. pap. MCGRATH,Daniel F., ed. Bookman's Price Index: zl 50. An Annual Guide to the Values of Rare and Bibliography of Bibliographies of Science of the Other Out-of-Print Books and Sets of Periodicals, Book. In Polish. 2,888 entries ranging through vol. 1. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1964. x, 1997 Documentation, Bibliography, Structure and His- p. $32.50, (L. C. 64-8723) tory of the Book, Manufacture of Books, Library Based on catalogs of major antiquarian and Science, and the Use of Books. Index. specialist dealers in the United States, England, FARISH,Margaret K. St?-ing Music in Print. New and Western Europe. Lists approximately 32,000 York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1965. xvi, 420 p. $25. books and 28,000 periodicals, with abbreviated (L. C. 65-14969) dealers' descriptions giving price, condition, name A guide to published music for the violin, viola, of dealer, and specific catalog in which the item violoncello, and double-bass, compiled from pub- is offered. To be issued annually with cumulative lishers' lists and catalogs. Solo music, accompanied editions every five years. and unaccompanied; chamber music, including REQUA,Eloise G. and STATHAM,Jane. The De- combinations of stringed instruments with wind veloping Nations: A Guide to Information Sources instruments, keyboard instruments, harp, guitar, Concerning Their Economic, Political, Technical percussion, and voice. List of publishers. and Social Problems (Management Information HORECKY,Paul L., ed. Russia and the Soviet Guide 5). Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1965. 339 Union; A Bibliographic Guide to Western-Lun- p. $8.75. (I.. c. 65-17576) page Publicutions. Chicago: University of Chi- Annotated listing of books, articles, reports, con- cago Press, 1965. xxiv, 473 p. $8.95. (L. C. ference papers, general reference sources. bibliog- 65-12041) raphies, directories, periodicals, agencies and in- Companion volume to Basic Russian Publica- stitutions, etc. Limited to publications in English. tions (1962). 1,960 annotated entries, covering Directory of publishers; author and title indexes. general reference aids and bibliographies, general UNESCO. Bibliography of Interlingual Scientific and descriptive works, geography, ethnology and and Technical Dictionaries, supplement. Paris: demography, nationalities, history, the state, eco- 1965. 83 p. pap. $2. (Available from Unesco nomic and social structure, and intellectual and Publications Center, 317 East 34th St., New York.) cultural life in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Text in English, French, and Spanish. 455 Union. Emphasis is on works in English; many entries on dictionaries published through 1964 translations from the Russian included. Index. and covering 45 languages. Author, subject, and HOUSING AND HOME FINANCEAGENCY. Films, language indexes. Filmstrips, crnd Slides on Housing and Com- . Index Translationum 16 (1963): Interna- munity Development: A Selected Bibliography. tional Bibliography of Tuanslations. Paris: 1965. Washington, D. C.: 1965. 21 p. pap. Apply. 820 p. $28. (Available from Unesco Publications Annotated listing by subject categories; includes Center, 317 East 34th St., New York 16, N. Y.) names and addresses of distributors, sales price, Over 35,000 translated books published in 1963 and/or rental or loan conditions. Title index. in 69 countries, with some published in earlier SEPTEMBER 1965 years and not previously listed. Arrangement by (outside U. S.). Subject Catalog, 20 vols.; pre- UDC headings under each country. Descriptive publication price $975 (U. S.), $1,072.50 (outside text in English and French. Author index; statisti- U. S.) ; after January 31, 1966, $1,220 (U. S.), cal table of translations. $1,342 (outside U. S.) . UNIVERSIIY OF PITTSBURGH,DEPARTMENT OF Between 500,000 and 600,000 volumes in the ECONOMICS,eds. Cunzulative Bibliography of Eco- fields of education, social sciences, and law, plus nomics Books, annual ed., vol. I, 1954-1962. New archives of the Department's publications. Author/ York: Gordon & Breach, 1965. x, 352 p. $30. Title Catalog contains about 500,000 cards, Sub- (L. C. 65-16720) ject Catalog about 350,000, both arranged alpha- Citations contained in the 42 issues of Eco- betically as nearly as possible. nomics Library Selections published by the De- partment of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins Dictionaries and Directories University between 1954 and 1962. For annota- AMERICANSOCIETY OF ASSOCIATIONEXECUTIVES. tions, readers are referred to the original series. Membership Directory: Who's IVbo in Associa- Code letter following each entry indicates type of tion Management, 1965. Washington, D. C.: library for which book is recommended. Index. 2000 K Street N.W., 1965. xxiv, 90 p. pap. $5 YOUDEN,W. W. Computer Literature Bibliog- to members; selected distribution to non-members raphy 1946 to 1963 (National Bureau of Standards $50. Miscellaneous Publication 266). Washington, Alphabetical listing of ASAE members, list of D. C.: U. S. Department of Commerce, National associations represented, key word directory, and Bureau of Standards, 1965. iv, 464 p. $3.75. geographical listing. (L. C. 64-62989) (Available from Government AUTOMOBILECLUB OF ITALY. World Car Cata- Printing Office or from local Department of Com- Bronxville, N. Y.: Herald Books, P. merce Field Offices.) logue. 0. Box 63, 1965. 668 p. illus. $13.75. Computer-produced bibliography, and KWIC Covers every model of every manufacturer, title, and author indexes. Over 6,000 artides pub- American and foreign, currently in production- lished in 9 journals, 21 books, and over 100 nearly 600 models. Technical specifications, per- proceedings. formance data. Indexes by country of origin and Classification manufacturer, engine capacity, maximum speed, DOBROWOLSKI,Zygmunt. Btude sar la Construc- price. tion des SystBmes de Classification (Collection FOWLER,H. W. A Dictionary of Modern English Documentation et Information). Paris: Gauthier- Usage, 2nd ed., rev. by Sir Ernest Gowers. New Villars, 55 quai des Grands-Augustins, 1964. xvi, York: Oxford University Press, 1965. xxii, 725 302 p. pap. 30 F. p. 55. A practical classification manual. In French. Conscientious updating of a classic. Index. SRIVASTAVA,Anand P. Theory of Knowledge Clas- Graphic Arts Typebook. Vol. 1: Machine Compo- sification in Libraries. New Delhi: Lakshmi Book sition/Serif Faces; Vol. 2: Machine Composition/ Store, 42 Janpath Market, 1964. xiv, 206 p. $6.75. Sans Serifs, Square Serifs: and Miscellaneous Faces. Modern concepts of classification illustrated by New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1965. examples from the Dewey Decimal system and 288, 256 p. $595 per vol. (L. C. 65-14035) Ranganathan's Colon Classification. Glossary of Specimen book showing the range of available technical terms; index. typefaces. Sewn, hard-cover volumes to withstand repeated usage. Running text is the Autobiography Cataloging of Benjamin Franklin. NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY. Catalog of Hebrew HEITMAN,Francis B. Historical Register and Dic- and Yiddish Tztles of the Jewish Collection, 3 tionmy of the United Stu2e.r Arnzj,, fmm its Or- vols. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1965. $130 ganizutian, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, (U. S.) ; $143 (outside U. S.). 2 vols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965. Reprint of the last three volumes of the Diction- 1,695 p. $20. ary Catalog of the Jewish Collection of The New Facsimile reprint of a privately compiled refer- YorR Public Library, previously published by Hall ence work first published in 1903 by direction of in 14 volumes. Lists all books in the collection Congress. Contains alphabetical listing of com- printed in Hebrew characters: approximately 35,- missioned officers, with service records, from 1789 000 volumes in Hebrew, 15,000 volumes in to 1903. Also biographical data on Presidents, Yiddish, and a section of titles in Ladino. Vice-presidents, Secretaries of War, and command- UNITEDSTATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,EDU- ing generals; battle losses from the Revolutionary CATION,AND WELFARE.Catalogs of the Depart- War to the 1900-1901 insurrection in China; ment Library. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1966. lists of wars, campaigns, battles, skirmishes, etc.; Author/Title Catalog, 29 vols. ; prepublication other organizational and historical material. price $1,550 (U. S.), $1,705 (outside U. S.); NATIONALREFERRAL CENTER FOR SCIENCEAND after January 31, 1966, $1,930 (U. S.), $2,123 TECHNOLOGY.A Dimtory of Information Re- SPECIAL LIBRARIES sourcer in the Uttited States: Physical Sciezces, An annotated directory covering all European Biological Sciences, Engineering. Washington, member countries of the OECD, plus Yugo- D. C.: 1965. iv, 352 p. pap. $2.25. (L. C. 64- slavia, an associate member. Lists both general 62809) (Available from Government Printing and specialized sources of information, national office j . technical information liaison offices and guides to Describes the subiect specialization, informa- research institutes and documentation centers. In- tion services, libraries and publications of some dex of subjects and organizations, and by country. 1,100 professional societies, academic research PULP AND PAPER RESEARCHINSTITUTE OF groups, industrial firms, government offices, and CANADA.Thesaurus of Pulp and Paper Terms. technical libraries throughout the United States. Pointe Claire, Quebec: 570 St. John's Road, 1965. Arrangement is alphabetical by name of organiza- $10 Can. (Free to maintaining member companies tion; subject index. of PPRIC.) NATIONALRESEARCH COUNCIL, CANADA TECH- A word authority list for the keyword indexing NICAL INFORMATIONSERVICE. National Technical and subsequent retrieval of technical information lnformatioiz Services 1VorlduGde Directory (FID by concept coordination. Based on the principles Publication No. 359). Ottawa: 1964. 57 p. pap. and terms adopted in the EJC Thesaurus of Engi- 51 Can. neering Terms, with the addition of approximately Compiled on behalf of the International Fed- 2,000 unique pulp and paper terms. eration for Documentation (FID). Lists a single, SCHNEIDERMAN,Harry and KARPMAN,I. J. Car- major channel for each country through which min, eds. Who's Who in World Jewry: A Bio- sources of technical information in any field could graphical Dictiotzary of Outstanding Jews, 2nd ed. be located by anyone unfamiliar with that country's New York: David McKay Co., 1965. xxxii, 1087 technical facilities. Entries include, when known, p. $37.50. (L. C. 54-12036) the scope of the facility described and the work- Revision and updating of the first edition pub- ing languages used. lished in 1955. About 11,000 biographies, repre- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION,OFFICE OF senting most parts of the world, including Yugo- SCIENCE INFORMATION.Current Research and slavia and Hungary but not the USSR and other Development if2 Scientific Documentation, No. 13 communist countries. (NSF-6417). Washington, D. C.: 1964. xxii, 486 p. pap. $1.75. (Available from Government Standard Periodical Directory, 1964-Gfi. New Printing Office) York: Oxbridge Publishing Co., 420 Lexington Research projects, as reported in the summer Ave., 1764. xvi, 544 p. pap. $12.50. (L. C. 64- and fall of 1763, by 380 organizations, including 7598) 126 organizations in 27 foreign countries. List of Over 20,000 entries covering all types of peri- acronyms and abbreviations, index of individuals odicals in the United States and Canada except and organizations, geographical index of organi- local newspapers. Includes newsletters, directories, zations, index of sponsors, equipment index, sub- house organs, advisory services. Listings arranged ject index. by subject classification. Subject guide; index. NEVERMAN,F. John, ed. International Directory Price includes a semi-annual supplement to be of Back Issue Perzodical Vendors (Original, Re- published at mid-year. print, Microform). Albany, N. Y.: State Uni- STEINER-PRAG,Eleanor F., comp. Anzerican Li- versity Bookstore, 135 Western Ave., 1964. viii, brary Directory, 24th ed. New York: R. R. Bowker 45 p. pap. $1.50. co., 1964. xii, 1,282 p. $25. (L. C. 23-3581) 146 dealers in various parts of the world. En- Classified list of libraries in the United States tries include scope, form of periodical (original, and Canada, compiled biennially, with personnel reprint, or microform), countries, languages, sub- and statistical data, and including a selected list jects, and additional notes. Language and subject of libraries around the world. Expanded coverage indexes. of special and medical libraries abroad and a 1963-1965 Directory of Professional Photography. separate index for special libraries are new fea- Milwaukee, Wis.: Professional Photographers of tures of this edition. America, Inc., 152 West Wisconsin Ave., 1964. THOMAS,Robert C. et dl., eds. Acronyms and 186 p. pap. $5. (Gratis to buyers of photography Initialisms Dictionary: A Guide to Alphabetic from publisher) Designations, Contractions, Acronyms, lnitialisms, Geographical listing of PP of A photographers, and Similar Condensed Appellations, 2nd ed. indicating the photographic specialities of each. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1965. 767 p. $15. Includes a listing of industrial members, a classi- (L. C. 64-8724) fied directory of suppliers of photographic goods 45,000 entries, an increase of nearly 400 per cent and services, and data on PP of A. over the first edition, drawn from most areas of ORGANISATIONFOR ECONOMICCO-OPERATION modern life and including many of foreign origin. AND DEVELOPMENT.Guide to European Sources UNIONOF INTERNATIONALASSOCIATIONS. Year- of Technical Information. Paris: 2 rue Andr6- book of International Organizations, 1964-65, Pascal, 1964. 294 p. pap. $3. 10th ed. (Publication No. 189). Brussels: Palais SEPTEMBER 1965 d'Egmont, 1964. 1,702 p. $18; with supplemen- will run to about 50 volumes, that of foreign tary index Who's Who irz Znternutional Organi- patents to about 30. 1964-65 (86 p.) $19.50. zatiom, JANDA, Kenneth, ed. Cumulatit~e Index to the Describes 1,897 international organizations, American Political Science Review, Volumes 1-1i7: 239 of which did not appear in the 9th edition. 1906-1963. Evanston, 111.: Northwestern Univer- English and French keyword indexes, index of sity Press, 1964. xxvi, 226 p. $5. (L. C. 8-9025) initials, geographical index. The supplement, an The 2,614 articles appearing in the first 57 index to all personal names in the Yearbook, lists volumes of the APSR indexed by the KWIC sys- 12,000 officers and is priced at $2 by itself. Dedi- tem. Author-alphabetized bibliography and author cated to International Cooperation Year. cross-reference. VARET, Gilbert and KURTZ, Paul, eds. Interna- Kutalog des Kzlnsthistu~iscbenImlitnts in Florenz, tional Di~ecto~of Philosophy and Pbilo.rophers. 9 vols. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1965. Prepub- New York: Humanities Press, Inc., 303 Park lication price, U. S., West Germany, Italy, $470; Ave. South, 1965. 295 p. $12.50. elsewhere, $517. After January 31, 1965: U. S., First such directory in the field of philosophy. West Germany, Italy, $590; elsewhere, $649. Lists philosophers, departments of philosophy in Basically an alphabetical author catalog of some universities and colleges, philosophical journals, 60,000 volumes on the history of Florentine and institutes, research centers, associations and socie- Tuscan art. with such other regions of Italy as ties, and philosophical publishers-over 15,000 Milan, Bologna, Venice, and the Veneto repre- names and addresses. A section on international sented. Includes works on history and literature organizations is followed by sections on 63 coun- relevant to the study of art and on the art of other tries, in four languages, English, French, Span- nations showing contacts with Italy. About 70.000 ish, and German. cards. VORMELKER,Rose, ed. Diyectory of Communiij RICHMOND,Phyllis A., comp. Itzdex to Scie>zlific Research Resources. Cleveland, Ohio: Community ]our12111 Title Abbreviations Found in the Phpsical Research Conference of Northeast Ohio, 1010 Review (AIP/DRP 64-4). New York: American Euclid Ave., 1964. Approx. 110 p., loose leaf. $25. Institute of Physics, Documentation Research Information on over 50 business, governmental, Project, 1964. x. [74] p. pap. Apply. community planning, educational, and economic Some 700 title abbreviations are given in ex- research organizations in northeast Ohio. Includes panded form as an aid to finding the journals in list of 608 publications issued by these organiza- a library. Lists all possible titles to which the tions and a partial subject guide. Price includes abbreviated citation could refer and makes a plea plastic ring binder and supplements as issued. for a minimum acceptable abbreviations form. 1Vodd of Leurning, 1964-61i, 15th ed. London: Offset from a computer print-out. Europa Publications Ltd., 18 Bedford Square, Information Handling Techniques 1964. xiv, 1,502 p. $23.50. A directory of universities, colleges, academies, BEREZIN,I. S. and ZHIDKOV,N. P. Computing learned societies, libraries, museums, art galleries. Methudr, 2 vols., trans. from Russian by 0. M. and research institutes throughout the world, in- Blunn. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publish- cluding the names of principal officials and titles ing Co.; Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1965. xxxiv, of periodical publications. Opening section is de- 464; xvi, 679 p. $15 per vol. (L. C. 61-11157) voted to Unesco and gives a list of the principal Based on a course of lectures offered at Mos- scientific, educational, and cultural organizations. cow State University for graduate students spe- Index of institutions. cializing in computer mathematics. BUCKLAND,Lawrence F. The Recording of Li- Indexes and Indexing bruv of Congress Bibliographicd Data in Ma- INTERDEXCORPORATION. Internatio~zal Index of chine Form. Washington, D. c.: Council on Li- Patents. Williamsport, Pa.: Bro-Dart Books, Inc., brary Resources, 1965. x, 54 p. pap. Apply. 1609 Memorial Ave., 1964. Approx. 700 p. per (L. C. 65-18647) vol.: Chemical: United States, 1790-1960, 6 vols., Sets forth a practical method of preparing $450; Chemical: Foreign, 5 vols., $375; Electrical: Library of Congress card catalog data in ma- United States, 6 vols., $450; Electrical: Foreign, chine form for the automatic typesetting of cards 5 vols., $375. and book catalogs; discusses the bibliographic Key to the archives of the United States Patent and cataloging problems raised by the conversion Office. Each of these first four units of the Index of catalog card data to machine form. contains its own Manual of Classification, Subject CALINGAERT,Peter. Principles of Computation. Index, Index to Dates of Patent Numbers, Nu- Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., merical Index, and Standard Industrial Classifica- 1965. viii, 200 p. $7.75. (L. C. 65-12118) tion Guide. Foreign patents are grouped by coun- Textbook for introductory courses in compu- try of origin but classified by the United States tation, computers, or programming. Digital com- system; United States patents are completely cross- putation, numbers, analog computation, numer- referenced. Complete index of United States patents ical methods. Index. SPECIAL LIBRARIES service-oriented operation. Must handle own correspondence, telephone inquiries. Technical experi- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ence essential. Send complete resume, including Positions open and wanted-SO cents per line; salary information to Box C 5. minimum charge $1.50. Other classifieds-75 cents a line; $2.25 minimum. Copy must be received by tenth of month preceding month of publicatior~. LIBRARYDIRECTOR-For medical library. Two year old, 520 bed, ultra-modern hospital. Degree

-- required and knowledge of medical terminology preferred. Salary commensurate with education and POSITIONS OPEN experience. Send resume to Personnel Director, Research Hospital and Medical Center, Meyer ASSISTANTCATALOGER-For large bank research Boulevard at Prospect, Kansas City, Missouri. library. with emphasis on economics, finance, bank- ing, domestic and foreign area economic conditions MONTREAL-Sir George Williams University, with and international finance and trade. Qualifications: an active undergraduate program, and research MLS degree. Experience not required. Salary com- and graduate work commencing, has an expanding mensurate with qualifications. Apply to: Person- library with problems awaiting solutions. Reclassi- nel Department, Federal Reserve Bank of New fication program from Dewey to Library of Con- York, 33 Liberty Street, New York 10045. Equal gress underway, a steady increase in acquisitions Opportunity Employer. in progress, and preparations for a new Science and Engineering Library for 1966 to be com- ASSOCIATE~~EDICAL LIBRARIAN-O~~O~~U~~~Y to pleted. We have openings for the following po- work with automation. This position shares the sitions: Science Librurian to assist in preparing for responsibility for selection of articles for "Weekly the opening of the Science and Engineering Li- List of Articles on Neoplasms" and planning for brary in the new Henry F. Hall building in the automation of "The List." Development of a lit- summer of 1966; to direct the development of erature retrieval project is also planned. Some collections and services in the sciences and en- reference work. Carries administrative responsibili- gineering; will play a major role in selecting pro- ties. Salary S7.000-. For further information write: fessional and clerical staff for the library. Recog- Loraine Neal. Medical Librarian, The University nized professional training plus at least four years' of Texas. M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor experience in science and engineering subjects, Institute, Houston, Texas 77025. some of which has been administrative. An advanced science or engineering degree would be an A~rjtliiitf L/br,uinn for Refereace-Shares respon- asset. Salary range $7,700-$9,700, with allowance sibilities for all activities named above with the for experience. Cataloguers to join an existing staff exception of administrative duties. For further in- of six cataloguers, to assist with cataloguing and formation write: Loraine Neal, Medical Librarian, classification of new materials, and reclassification The ITniversity of Texas, M. D. Anderson Hospi- of the old collection of some 36,000 titles to Li- tal and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas 77025. brary of Congress. Recognized professional training. Experience desirable. Science or social science HEADLIBRARIAN-TO run private company library backgrounds would be an asset. Salary range for large multiple-line insurance company operat- $5,600 to $7,600 with allowance for experience. ing country-wide. Create and direct expanded li- Librarian in the Acquisition Department to assist brary projiram. Library Science degree required- with bibliographic checking, selection, and devel- minimum age 30 with background in library work. opment of the collection. Book and serial budget Salary open up to $10,000, depending on experi- $174,000. Recognized professional training. Expe- ence. Hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. Monday rience desirable. Salary range $5,600 to $7,600 through Friday. Paid vacations and holidays. with allowance for experience. These positions are Earned days-free retirement program-group in- now open. Staff benefits include one month's paid surance-subsidized cafeteria. Apply by letter and vacation, pension plan, group life insurance and resume to Dr. E. B. Knauft, Assistant Vice-Presi- health insurance. Address letter of application and dent, Personnel Department, Aetna Life Affiliated a ri.sum6 of education and experience to: Mr. Companies, 15 1 Farmington Avenue, Hartford 15, K. Crouch, University Librarian, Sir George Wil- Connecticut. liams University, Montreal 25, Canada.

LIHRARIAN-~~~~~~to organize and administer a NEW BROCK UNIVERSITYLIBRARY-Situated in "Special Library" in a large life insurance organ- the Niagara Peninsula, has three professional po- ization in the Fox River Valley. If you're inter- sitions still vacant. ested in a challenge and have a master's Degree in Library Science, this will interest you! Here's what Head, Technjcal Services in charge of all ordering, you'd have an opportunity to do: plan and organ- purchasing, and cataloguing procedures for the Li- ize the library; administer total library operation; brary. Applicants must have a library school de- develop procedures ; recommend library policy ; gree and several years of relevant experience. Sal- perform research functions; maintain professional ary $7,920-$9,000. memberships. If you'd like this challenge, send your qualifications and resume in confidence to Cutulo~uerin charge of all cataloguing activities Box C 13. in the library and of overseeing the integration of our electronically produced book catalogue and the card catalogue. Applicants should have at least LIBRARIANREFERENCE-For organization serving three years' experience in cataloguing. Salary aerospace industry on nationwide basis. Busy, $6,520-$7,500. SEPTEMBER 1965 Xefe~enreand Circulation under supervision to assist in building the reference collection and pro- WANTED TO BUY viding reference services. A~~licantsshould have a-d&ee f rom an accredited' library school. Salary PERIODICALS,duplicates, surplus for cash or ex- $5,500-$6,400. change. Write for free Library Buying List. Can- The starting date for these three positions is Sep- ner's SL, Boston 20, Massachusetts. tember 1, 1965. Please send curriculum vitae to: Chief Librarian, Brock University, St. Catharines, FOR SALE Ontario, Canada. BACK Is~~~~-Engineeringand Mining Journal, PHOENIX,A~~~~N~-(population 545,000) has a 1940 to present. Some bound. Write Box B 150. new Section Head opening for a Librarian with a science and industry background. $7,056-$8,928 MAXWELLSCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, INC. is plus comprehensive Civil Service fringe benefits. pleased to announce that it has initiated a series of If the opportunity to grow with one of the na- special bulletins covering back issues of interest to tion's fastest growing resort areas appeals to you, Serial Librarians. Issued monthly, each bulletin send resume to R. W. Galloway, Personnel Super- will cover a specific field of interest. The first bul- visor, 25 1 West Washington, Phoenix, Arizona. letin lists publications in mathematics through 1965. If you have not yet received your copy, RESEARCHL~BRAR~AN-SUPER\'ISOR-O~~O~~U~~~~ please contact MSI who will be pleased to send for man or woman to take charge of established a copy to you. Maxwell Scientific International, research library serving the needs of over 200 Inc., 44-01 21st Street, Long Island City, New chemical and biological research scientists. Appli- York 11101, 212-361-7900. cants should have a degree in library science, a specialized background in chemistry or biology, TRANSLATIONS and several years of library experience, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry. Write giving quali- GERMAN~ENGLTSHTRANSLATIONS-By scientist fications and salary desired to: Personnel Depart- with MS. degree. Gerhard Kisch, 295 Fifth Av- ment, Wyeth, Box 8299, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- enue, New York City. Telephone 212-OR 9-3112. vania 19101. An Equal Opportunity Employer under Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964. TECHNICALTRANSLATIONS-E~~~~S~-G~~~~~,Gcr- man-English. Engineer offers services as free- SCIENCEDIVISION LIBRARIAN-For rapidly grow- lance translator at reasonable rates. Write Box C15. ing collection and curriculum. Offer: $6,000- $7,584 (depending on education and experience), TRANSLATIONS-J~~~~~S~Patents, 1953 to latest excellent fringe benefits-Blue Cross, life insurance, major medical, good retirement income, So- week; extensive partial translations available for cial Security, 12 days annual (accumulates to 60) $15-$30; most subjects return air mail; 150,000 sick leave, 30 days vacation. Modern building, specifications on file. Cite publication number and friendly campus and staff, four hours drive from year. Rotha Fullford Leopold & Associates Pty., Yellowstone, Sun Valley, Tetons, Salt Lake. Ltd., P.O. Box 13, Black Rock, Victoria, Australia. Wanted: 5th year L.S. degree, prefer 1-3 years re- Cables ROFULE Melbourne. lated experience, college major or master's in a science or applied science. Position open February 1, 1966. Apply: E. Oboler, Idaho State University MISCELLANEOUS Library, Pocatello, Idaho. Phone 208-233-2160, extension 231, 9-5:30 M.S.T. for further details. SEND YOUR BOOK WANTS to our free book-find Three references (1 former employer) required. service. Join the happy band of special libraries who have discovered our astonishingly successful results, courteous promptness, and indefatigability. No book wants? Send for free ball-point pen, any- POSITIONS WANTED way. Martin Gross, Booksellers, 1 Beekman Street, New York, N. Y. 10038. CATALOGER-Attending Columbia University eve- nings. Experience in radio station and college library. Mary Hoos, 4317 Barrington Road, Balti- more, Maryland 21229. SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL LIBRARIAN-Ten years experience in PERIODICALS charge medical center and nursing school libraries. Seeking hospital, training or other interesting position. Available September. Write F. J. Inch, from POLAND River Road, West, Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Can- Daily press- ada. General and special interest publications. Ask for our general catalogue. SENIOR LIBRARIAN-L~~~U~~~S,sciences, MLS background. Supervisory experience in university EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS REPRESENTATIVES. INC. and research libraries. University teaching and 132 West 43rd Street graduate study beyond MA. Prefer industrial re- New York, N. Y. 10036 search or university library. For resume write US. Representative of RUCH, Warsaw Box C 10. SPECIAL LIBRARIES TECHNICAL LIBRARIANS

The Technical Information Services Department of Xerox Corpora- tion is in the process of expanding its services, and several openings for professional librarians currently exist. These openings require a proven record and the potential to grow in responsibility. Salaries are commensurate with individual abilities and a liberal, cost free benefit program, including profit sharing, is available to all employees.

TECHNICAL LIBRARIAN-ACQUISITIONS To be responsible for acquiring all types of published and unpublished literature, administer inter-library loans, and assist in mechanization of technical processing activities, especially in periodicals ordering, claiming and control. An M.L.S. degree and five years' experience emphasizing technical processes and systems are required.

TECHNICAL LIBRARIAN-REFERENCE To perform reference services including supervision of inter-library loan verification, receipt of serials and new books, shelf reading and assistance in book selection program and circulation. M.L.S. degree and a B.S in Sciences with 4-6 years' experience in research oriented library required.

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN-REPORTS CATALOGER To be responsible for cataloging and classifying reports and other unpublished materials and assist in preparing a thesaurus for the report collection, and establishing machine retrieval procedures in this area. An M.L.S. and a B.S. in Sciences with a minimum of two years' experience in reports/documents area of special library and a knowledge of information storage and retrieval systems are required.

These positions are in Rochester, New York. If interested in exploring these openings, send your resume in confidence to Mr. D. A. Zrebiec, Dept. SL-9, Xerox Corporation, P.O. Box 1540, Rochester, New York 14603. XEROX An Equal Opportunity Employer e SEPTEMBER 1965 WANTED TECHNICAL LIBRARIAN to develop and direct library of 12,000 volumes and 250 periodicals for Research and Engineering Division of 250 profes- Complete composition, press sional and administrative employees. and pamphlet binding facilities, cou- B.S. degree in one of the physical sci- pled with the knowledge and skill ences or engineering. gained through fifty years of experience, can be put to your use-profitably Satisfactory completion of at least one year study in an accredited school for librarianship and/or meeting the standards of the Special Libraries As- sociation-or equivalent knowledge of library techniques achieved through experience as a librarian in a tech- PRINTING COMPANY nical library. Excellent opportunity. Write for de- Brattleboro, Vermont tailed information. All replies confidential. Write to- Personnel Procurement PRINTERS OF THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL Kimberly-Clark Corporation OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Neenah, Wisconsin An Equal Opportunity Employer

Catalogers

The Boeing Company's Aero-Space Divi- (TECHNICAL) sion in Seattle has immediate long-range openings for catalogers qualified to assist Requirements include a degree in Li- in developing a large aerospace research brary Sciences. Master's preferred. 2-3 and development information center. years' engineering library experience. These positions provide an opportunity Write to Mr. J. J. McMahon, Room to help construct subject term thesaurus, and to develop machine applications and 98-MJ, ITT Federal Laboratories, 500 improved systems. Washington Ave., Nutley, N. J. Requirement is a fifth year degree from an accredited library school. Subject specialty and languages desirable. Please write today, including your experience and educational background, ITT to Mr. Lawrence W. Blakeley, The Boeing Company, P. 0.Box 3822 - LSB, FEDERAL Seattle, Washington 98124. Boeing is an equal opportunity employer. LABORATORIES

An Equal Opportunity Employer

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Even upside down! That's where you find bindings are safe: no knifing. But you'll the built-in Shelf-Grip strip that prevents have to see these book supports to know skidding and sliding. . . even under many what a decorative touch they can con- pounds of pressure. Of course that's just tribute to your library. Their contem- one bonus. The Bro-Dart Shelf-GnipTMfea- porary design and soft, smart color range ture costs half the price of conventional are the final proof. So take a look: See felt, cork or urethane bases . . . a saving your Bro-Dart catalog or order now from of 56 or more a piece. And even this is the price list below! only a beginning. These book supports Plastic Book Supports are precision molded in high impact poly- Sce:6%" H x 5%" W Colors: Black, Sand. Red, Green or Gray t44 501 with Shelf-Grip Strip-10-99 1.40 ea; 100-5W 1.35 ea. styrene. Each one is nonlosable: clearly #44 500 with Plain Bottom - 10-99 .35 ea; 100-500 30 ea. visible on the shelf. What's more, your Price applies within hitof Continental U.S.A. only

Dept. 1022B,56 Earl Street, Newark, N. J. 07114 0 1888 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90025 Key business data soro.ces sunzmrtrized by expert editors in new subject bib1iogrc~phie.s. . . MANAGEMENT INFORMATION GUIDES Editor: Paul Wasserman, Dean, Graduate Library School, University of Maryland

Textile Inciustr) Irtlol-tnatiou Sources: :lr! ,l!r 11111f1tf~d(;IIII/~, 10 111, 1 il,+!<~tuvoi 1 YII!~ FI/wI$,/)),I,\ ,1!1f1 lhci~ig,1k\i$11 IIII~ Ik\t 11~1l101~. ~I'C~IT~~IJ,~,.\III(/I~II~,I.J~, /I?I(/ 011101 ~~111~ct~.cIi~c stitrctc. CO\CI.Sthe literature of \rnerica'\ ninth largest indostr\ .

I ist111gsfor <,a111[~ri~~tefl SIJIII~C of III~II~~II;IL~I~I in( lurle f111l I~il,liograpl~ictletail5 l~lr~sannot:l- tions. Iutrirs 101- organi/atiotls and govc1-11n1e11 I;~I I~otlies;II~ \imilarl\ tlc~tailrtl.E';I~I Iwoh i.; Iluilcling C:onhtrc~c.tiotr Infortnation Source%. lull\ it~tlcvcil Ydical IJ\ Howa1'11 I\ Ikn~lc~,.A I~II~C~~II~~ lor~r~fl;III(I Jlorrw n11c1t1,)11w n~agd/inc.r. Covers 1'111.\1 1111.1 \ \\ \11.\1~1 KO\\ building industr) information sources concern- The lkveloping IVations: -1 ~;III(/~ro Iri/o?111(1- ing hoth major hasic problems and lesser matter* of every-clay concern. (In Library Jour~?nllist /LIHI \OIIWI,SConcrri~i~~g Thr~r I~,'COIIOIIIZ~, 1'0- /itic.ri/. I'r~l~~ri(n/a11r1 Corral Pi-oblr~vi.I

r- Pleose enter our Standing Order for eoch title in the Management lnformotion Guide Series as published Pleose send the MIG titles given below GALE RESEARCH COMPANY

1400 Book Tower Nome Detroit 26, Michigan Company or Institution Address City Zone State