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PUBLIlHED BY TIIIi) The second independent session will have SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION for its topic: The libnasy as a business Monthly except July and August. asset or the earning power of special libra- Editorial and Publication OffIce. State Library,.. ries. The results of library work are like Indlanapolls, 1nd.' all educational activities, intangible. We sub scrip ti oh^ 08 Broad street, Boston, Muss. Ihtered at the Postotace at Indlanapolls, Ind., spend the public money for public libraries an, second-class mutter. but no one can show an exact return The business man lms recognized that results in Subs&-iption,.. .$2.00 a year (10 numbers) dollars and cents do come from the library Sinnle- co~ies...... 25 cents and he spends money freely for this kind President ...... Robert H. Whltten of service. He maintains his special libra- Public Service Commission. New York Clty. Vice-President ...... Herbert 0. Brighnm ry because he can sec a money return. Just Rhode Island State Library. how it. is R money-maker through increased Becretary-Treusnrer ...:...... Guy 1, Mnrlon lrnowledge or efflciency will receive detailed Library,.. Althur D. Little, Inc., 08 Broad St. Boston. Xass. consideration. EXECUTIVD BOARD A joint session will be held with che President, Vicc-President, Secretary-Trenaurer, American Association of Law Libraries, Na- George W. Leo, CJtone k Webster, Boston; W. tional Association of State Libraries and( P. Cutter. Engineering Socletles, N. Y. Managlng Editor of Special Llbrnries :-Johr A. the Bibliographical Society of America, at Lapp, State Llbrary, ladinnupolis, Ind. which the question of legal bibliography Asalstnnt Editor. Ethel Clelnnd, State Llbrary, will be dlscuased. Indlanapoli~~Ind. be ---.----- The fourth session will a jobt one Annual Meeting Special Llbrarles Assoclatlon ...... i25 with thc American Ausociacion of Law Program for Special Libraries Aesociatlon...... I25 Libraries and National Association oi Stace Program of the A. L. A. aeneral Meetlngs and of the Affiliated Socletles ...... 126 Libraries. The subjects to be discussed are Scope and Purpomes of Special Librariep ...... 129 principally those relating to legidative Public Utllity Qefercncee ...... 133 neference and allied work. Llrt of &Mway Periodicah ...... A. .I36 Selected Lint of Recent Available Collections of Laws and Allied Material...... 138 PROGRAM FOR SPECIAL LIBRARIES Current References...... id9 Bibllogmphies ...... ,143 ASSOCIATION Notee...... 144 Flrst Session ANNUAL MEETING SPECIAL LIBRARIES Thursday, June 27, I?. M. ASSOCIATION. Paper: Ottawa, Canada,, June 26--July 2, 1912. The Plan, Scope and Result~lof Special The program pf the Special Libraries 4s- Libraries. M. S. Dudgeon, Secretary sociation pronlises to be one of unusua1,in- of the Wicconsin Library Commission, terest. There will be two independent,and Formerly chief draftsman of the Legis- two joint sessions. Each seasmionwill , cen- lative reference department. ter around' a single main topic and ample Dlucussion: time will be allowed for discussioq by Ian- A. G. S. Joaephson, John Crerar Llbra- nounced speakers and also from the floor. ry, Chicago. The first session will take up the plan, TV., P. Cutter, Epgineering . Societies Li- purposes, scope and results of special libra- brary, New Yorlr City. , , ries. The main question will be: What is 'Charles McCarthy, Legislative Refer- a agecial library? It is expected that light ence Librarian of Wiscorisin. will be thrown on the reaJ setting of the Charles B. Galbreath, Secretary of the special library in the library field. Some Ohio Constitutional Convention. contend that the special library is not dif- Paper: ferent from the general library $except in The Boston Coloperatiie Information its specialization; others point out that the Bureau. real work of the special library has little T. J. Homer, Librariap Social Law Li- resemblance to the work of the general brary, Boston. library The general library, it is true, does Second Session. some special library work, and the special Friday, June 28, A. M. library often does general library work, but .Joint session with the Amerioan Asnocia- it is one of the mah contentions of special tion of State Libraries, and Bibliographi- library workers that the special library has cal Society of America. a distinct fleld and method. Paper : SPECIAL LIBRARIES

The Legal History of the Province of PROGRAM OF THE A. L. A. GENERAL Quebec. MEETINGS AND OF THE AFFILIATED Prof. F. P. Walton. ASSOCIATIONS. Paper: Schedule of Sessions. The Present Statue of Legal Bibliogra- (Subject to change) phy: General Statement. Wednesday, June 26. John H. Wigmore. Afternoon-Executive Board Pa per: Evening-Preliminary Session. The Bibliography of the History of Law. Thursday, June 27. J. B. Crossley. Morning-First General Session. Paper. Afternoon-Council; American Ass'n of Law The Bibliography of Criminology. Libraries; Special libraries Association. F. W. Jenlrins. Evening-National hss'n of State Libraries; Paper: Agricultural Libraries Section; Catalog The Bibliography of Canadian Law Section; Am. Lib. Institute. Prof. A. McGoun Friday, June 28. Discuss~on: Opened by G. E. Wire. Morning--Second General Session. Afternoon-Joint Session Third Sess~on. American Aasn of Law Libraries Mon,day, July 3, A, M. National Assn of State Libraries Pa1)er . Special Libraries Association Earning Power of Special Librariefl Bibliogr,a,phical Society of America J. N. Handy, Insurance Library Asso- Publishing Board ciation, Boston, Mass. Children's Librarians Section Paper : College and Reference Section The Co~nmerciallibrary: An eBciency State Library Associatians-Round Table Asset to the Business World. Evening-League of Library Commisions ; (Speaker to be announced) College and Reference Sectlon; Trufl- Discussion: tees' Section. R. H. Pack, Secretary and Comptroller Saturday, June 29. Toropto Electric Light Co. I?. N. Morton, Librarian, United Gas Morning-qhird Genenal Session Improvement Co., Philadeplhia Afternoon-Drive to Experimental Farm Guy E. Marion, Arthur D. Little, Inc., and lun,ch--guests of the Dominion GOY- Boston ernment. Evening-League of Library Commisichm; Miss Elizabeth Dobbins, Librarian, Catalog Section; Government Documents li'ilene Sons, Boston, -Round Table; Bibliographical Society. Miss M. S, Murray, Librarian, Edward Accounting liGrary, ~mer~canTel. & Sunday, June 30. Tel. Co., W. Y. City, Evening--.Library School Dinners. Question Box. Monday, July I. G. W. Lee, Librarian, Stone ,ad Web- ster, Boston. Morning-Fourth General Session. Afternoon-Council ; Special Libraries Assn ; Fourth Session Children's Librarians Section. Tuesday, July 2, A. M. Evening-Fifth General Session. Joint session with the National Associa, Tuesday, July 2. Association of State Libraries and Ameri- oan Association of Law Libraries. Morning-Joint Seasion Raper : American Assn. of Law Libraries Bill Drafting National Aasn. of State Libraries Jlames McKirdy, Associate Director Special Libraries Association Legielative Reference Dep't, Harris- Professional Training Section burg, Pa. Am. Lib. Institute Plager : Afternoon-Sixth General Seasion Snags, Stumbling Blocks and Pitfalla Evening-Executive Board among the Session Laws. GENERAL SESSIONS. Charles J. Babbltt, Massachusetts Preliminary Session, June 26, Evening State Library. Addresses of welcome Raper : Response to welcome, President of the (Subject to be lannounced.) A. L. A. John H. Arnold, Librarian Harvard Address, Dr. Herbert Putman, Librarian of Law School, Cambridge, Mass. C~n~greas. SPECIAL LIBRARIES 127

First General Session, June 27, Morning. The bibliography of history of law-l. B. President's Address-The public library: Crossley. "a leaven'd land prepared choice." The bibliography of criminology-F. W &ports of officers and committees, Jenkins. The bibliography or Canadian lam-Prof. Second General Session, June 28, Morning. A. McGoun. Publlcity for the sake of informanon- Discuaeion opened by Ds. G. E. Wire Tessa L. Keleo and W. 13, Hatton, The first three above mentioned associations Publicity for the sake of support-Carl H. will hold a, joint session at which will be Milam. discussed the repoit of the committee on The breadth md limitations of book-buying natioqai legislative reference service ahid -Walter L. Brown, other macters, Including following pagers; The open door, through the book and the Bill Drafting4anles McKirdy, asst, direc- library; opportunity for comparison and tor. lenislative reference bureau, Harrls- choice; unhampered freedom of choice burg, Pa. Jessie Wells and Ch'arles E. McLenegan. Snags, stumbling blocks and picfalls Third General Session, June 29, Morning among the session 1la.ws-Charles J. Bab- (Joint session with Professional craihkng bitt. assistant, state library of Massa- section.) chusetts,, Boston. The asdstQnt and1 the boolc-Mary E. A paper by John H. Arnold, librariab, Hnaelton H~arvard law school, Cambridge, Mass. The value of the book to the public depend- (subject to be announaeclr later) ent upon the ~nrtelllgentdiscrimination of The Professional training section and the the assistant-Edith Tobitt. mein, body of the A. L, A, will hold a The cfllciency of the library ataff ahd scienti- joint session at the ihird general sesslon, fic management-Adam Strohm. (For topics see un,cler General Sessio',ns) What library schools can do for the profes- sion-Chalmers Hadley. NATIONAL ASOClATlON OF STATE Discussion : LIBRARIES, Fourth General Sqssion, July 1, Morning. There will he two join1 sessions as noted "Canada Day" (tentalive program) elsewhem At the independent session Dominion Day and its associations-Hon, the following progaa,m 11s planned: George E. Foster, Canadmn Minister of Address of welcome-Alfred D. DeCelles, Trade and Commerce. Library of Parliament, Ottawa. Conservations in Canada-James tV. Robert- Some suggestions relating to co-ogeration son, C. M, G. of the Commission of Con- between legislative refcreb~cedeparlrnents servation. Subect to be treated not so -George S. Godard, State Librarian of much from the material point of view )as Connecticut. from that of character building. Trials and trll~ulationsof a document llbra- Address (Subject not amnounced)-Prof. rim-\Villiam R, Reinick, Department of Andrew Macphail, McGi11 university public documents, Free Library of Phfla. Tha Library habit-Dr. George H. Loclce Inderlng and care of l~amphletsi~ a state Fifth General Session, July 1, Evening. libnwy-Herbert 0. Urigham, State Lib- Address-Dr. George E. Vincent, President ~larianof Ithoile Island. University of Minnesota Business. Slxth General Session, July 2, Afternoon, A series of round ttlblc conference will be Boob advertising: Information as to sub- held, at which the reports of the following ject ahd scoge of books-Charles B. Roden. committees will be presented: Rook advelXtising: Illuminat~on as to at- Co-operation between legislative reference traction of real books-Gnace Miller departments-John 4. Lapp, Chairman. Business. Exchange and distribution of state docu- JOINT SESSIONS. mdnts.-Herbert 0. Drigharn, Chairman. American Assocmtion of Law Libraries, Legislative reference service. George S. Nat~onal Association of State Libraries, Godnrd, Chairman Special Libraries Association and Biblio- Public Archives. Thon~ssL Montgomery, graphic Society of America will hold a Chairman. joh~session for the discusLsionof "Legal Publication of a municipal year-book. bibliography." James L. Gillis, Chairman. Following IS the tentative program: Systematic bibliography of state officl,aJ The legal history of the Province of Que- literature. William R. Reinick, Chairi~an. bec-Prof. F. P Walloni Uniformity in preparation and publication The present status of legal bibliography: of session laws. Claarence B. Lester, General statement-Dr. John H. Wigmore. Chairman. SPECIAL T,'IBRARIES

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW son, of the University of bhicago Library, LIBRARIES. will lead in the diacuaslon of "Departmental library problems;" Dr. W. K, ,Jewett, will There will be at least one independent present ,a gaper oh "Thc proportion of uni- session in additiarl to the two joint ses- versity library income which should be sions noted elsewhere. The following spent on administration;" and Willard program is being arranged: Austen, of Cornell university library, will Address of welcome. H. H. Bligh, K. C. present a paper on "The rights of all users Library of Supreme Court, Ottawla. of a university library, and how io preserve Prcsiden,t's address. thein." Other subjecls which may be pre- Repoi-t of Treasurer. sented are. "Inter-library lams; " "Special Report of Executive Committee referer~cecollecLions In ,Cana,dian libraries;" Report 01 Special Committees; B~bliography "University library advertising," and "The oi bar association proceedings; Diblio- circ~ls~tionof books to university students." gralihy of American statute law; Reprint- ii~gof session laws; National legislative CATALOG SECTION. inforniatiotl service; Lisl of law 1ibra.ries F~rstsession: and law libaa,rians; Latin-American laws; Sym~osiumon subject headings Committee to confer with the Llbrary of A. L. A. List of subject headings-Mary Congress on shclf classification ; Lessen, J. Briggs, Buffalo public library. ing fees charged by clerks of Federal L. C. List of subject headings-Mary Mc- Courts tor col~iesof oginions; Legal biblio- Nair, Library of Congress. graphical training; Binding. Round Table discussion: Dl4. E. C. Rich- Library school trainilng for employees of ardson, Dr. G. E. Wire, J. C. M. Hanson law 1ibi:a.ries-John B. Kaiser, librarian and others. of Llle deparlment of economics and socio- logy. University of Illino~s. Second session: Books of the beginnings-Mrs. M. C. Klingel- Program not yet announced. smith, law library, University of Penn- CHILDREN'S LIBRARIANS' SECTION, sylvania. First sesslon: Matters pertaining to law and legislative libraries in Carmda-E. 0. S. Scholefleld, T.\'orlc of spbciaJ l~brarieswith children. legislative library of British Columbia. With the children in Canada-Mary S. Round Tables: 13iscussion of committee Sax, Westmount public library, Montreal. reports. "Tentative headings and cross Co~~ntywork with children-Alice Godard, references for a subject catalog of Amen- head of childre~l's degartment, public can and English 18a,w,"recently published library, I-Iagerstown, Md. by the Library of Congress. This will be Second session: discussed and suggestions for the defilnli- Work with schools. tive edition sought. Teaching library use in normal and high schools-Frank Keller W8alter, vice- LEAGUE OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONS. director of the N. Y. State Library First session. school. Libraries in state institutions Discussion: Rcport of federal prisons committee Dr. S. B. Sinclair, dean of the school for Committee reliorts: teachers, MacDonald college, Ste. Anne, City cbarter provisions for public lib- Quebec. raries The possibilities of the high school library Library post -Mary E. Hall Librarban of the Girl'a School library systems. high school, Brooklyn, N. Y. Discussion: Second session. Gllbert 0. Ward, supervisor of high school Cornnuttee reports: branches, Cleveland, 0. Publications General Discusaian. Study outlines Lcague year-book. SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Uniform financial reports. See Page 125 COLLEGE AND REFERENCE SECTION. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SECTION.. Two sessions will be held. Froin the eigh- ~usinesssession followed by an informal teen topics suggested for discussion program: 'va.rions members of the section, 'it is evi- The new quarters and resources of the New dent that discussion is likely to be ,active. 'York State library school--$. K.' Walter. Robert K. Shaw, librariau of the Worcester Trainmg versus teaching; or the differance public library, will lead in the discussion of between training and teaching-Agnes "A central reference bureau." J. C. M. Han- Van vallrenburgh. ' ~PE('1hT;LIBRARIES A llrojacccd normal course a1 thc Pratt Tn- bLiLute school -Joselll)in.e A. Rathbone. THE SCOPE AND PURPOSES OF SPE- O~~mrtunil~for any school which is doing CIAL LIBRARIES. new work to set forlh ~tsadvantage and M. S. Dudgeon, Secretary Wisconsin Free plans, nind gencral di~cussion. Library Commission. The special library is, of course, related AGRICULTURAIL LIBRARIES SECTION. tc and a development of the gexleral refer- ence library. It is impossible to fix a bound- Ol~cwlng ndclrcss (speaker not nnnounced) ary between the flelds occupied by the two Library crtenslon work o,f the state agri- The efficient modern reference library does trullul~nl colleges-lvnl. M. Hel~bnrn, much work and has much material very T~iljrarlnn,Purcluc University. similar to that of a special library. On the Suggcstions ill regard to a policy of ndmih, other hand, a sgecial library is often used as isl~~~tion01 agricultural college and ex- a general reference library. In the comgari- l~crimontslalio~l 1ibra.ries. (Speaker not sons ancl contrasts suggested bctween the a~lnomicc~d) two in this discussion, it must be understood Sonle types of agricultu~-al college and ex- in the first place that we are peaking in the periment stt~tionlibraries. most general terms; and 1n the second Agricullural college and experiment place that we are not dealing with the func- sl t~lionlibuaries combhed aln~d sepa- tions of the two in the zone where they mle L'rom llie University llbrary, but blend into one another, but are speaking of under its control Wisconsin college the typical reference library as compared of agriculture libraryhclnrence S. with the typical sl~ec~allibrary. 1-1 ean, Librarian. The Special Library Arose to Meet a Defi- JCxl~orimcat slation library separate nite Demand. from Ihc college or university library When a scientific, sociological or profes- but under iLu control. sional problem has been fully solved or is Sb~locollegc of Washil~gton Library well on lts may toward solution, some one -As& Uo'n Dickinson. writes a book recording the facts. A sys- I~x~~e~~iincalslation l~brary consoli- tematized collection of these books consti- rlatctl will1 the university or college tutes n general reference library. Such 1ib1'ary. books interest the student alld as long as he Unlvcrsily 01 Illinois library- Miss remains a mere student, the book is suffi- RIIarg,zrel I-Iulchins, reference depart- cient. men t. When, however, a worker begins to do Oregon Agricultural collegc library- original \!-orli, he must attack problems Mrs Ida A. Kidder, librarian. which have not yet reached the stage where Sympo~iurnon recent referencc books and there aye grinted books dealing wllh them. new lm'loclio~lsof special ~ntereslto argl- This is true whether the worker 1s an ag- cullural libraries. gressive alderman, an intelligent legislator, 1. New l~erlodicals an industnal chemist, or an ingenious en- 2, Agricullural reteronce books giueer. Nothing is so new, however, but 3. Rcfercnce books in che sciences relat- that some one else has worked on the prob- ing lo agriculture. lem or is working on ~t.So this worker, Thc program for the trustees section has attacking the solution of the ~roblem, not yet been announced. aisely demands the latest data In order to iniorm hmself as to just how far others AMERICAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE. have gone, what features of the problem have been solved, what work has been well Two sessions are being arranged. The 8one, what work needs going over, and what cosl of library adnlinislration will be con- mistakes have been made. With little tlme sldsrcd and papers will be contribmed by in which to do many things, he requires that C. We1lm;ln and Arthur E. Bostwick this data lle placed in his hands, although it may not be in print in any form. It must BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF also be ready for instant use. He has no AMERICA time for research work and cannot devote his energies to dlgging out the data The In addilion to the joiht session elsewhere research work must be done by others; the noted there will be obe independelit session, data must be collected, summarized, ana- with the following program: lyzed, grouped and placed In negotiable form The literary ourput in French Canada- ready to be transferred to him. In other Prof. James Geddes, Jr. words, he needs a special library. The need The index to Can,sdi.aa documents-L. J. for the legislative reference library has been Burpee thus stated: Reporls of oflicers and committees. "The difficulty of the legislative problem Election of officers. cc~nstantlyand rapidly increases as social SPECIAL LIBRARIES and econonlic conditions become more com- We will keep our library down as far as plex. Indeed the needs of society have be- r~ossible to a small working collection or come so varied that a political legislature books, and our librarian shall be a go-be- unassisted is well nigh helpless to meet tween us and the other library facilities them. * * * It is to be remarked that of the city of Chicago, when we want in- the legislative problems before all civilized fcrmation not available in our own collec- communities are essentially similar. Every- tlon." (Public Libraries, Dec. 1910.) where are groblenls growing out of crime If a general reference library is within and pauperism; marriage and divorce prob- reach of those patronizing the special li- lems; problen~srelating to hours of labor, brary, the special library should be stoclrecl child labor, and wages; various problems with the following: connected with the relation of labor and (1) With printed material so special in capital and the rights and duties of both; its nature as n~tto be found in the general problems arising out of insurance, inheri- reference library. tance, taxation, and the regulation of pub- (2) With material found in the general lic service corporations. What the legisla- referenae library but so ilitlmately related tor needs to lcnow is what efforts other tc the special librarian's worlr and so much communities are nlalring to solve these prob- iu demand that it will be frequently needed. lem and how they are succeeding, so that l'hls should be placed in the special library good measures may be adopted from other so as to be accessible without the delay communities and failures need not be dupli- incurred in sending to a library for it. It cated." (Yale Review, Nov. 1907.) will be readily understood that the more It is the gnrposc of the general reference Alstant the general ref'erence library the library to serve, as well as may be, all per- lsrger must be the proportion of this class sons interested in any topic within the field ol' material. of human knowledge. Tt'has something on 13) With printed material found in some everything The special library offers to form in a general reference library but re- this worker all the best material obtainable arranged and in new form so as to be mol'e in some one small subdivision of the field readily accessible and usable by the worlcer. of human knowledge. It seeks to give him The form must be such that a reasonably what he needs in concise form, unobscured ccmplete collection of material upon any by unimportant details. The general refer- given topic may be handed to the mquirer ence library is in a sense the Jack-of-all- and cnrrled away by hlm without difflculty. trades. The special library is the expert in For example, the busy worker may be un- one line. Conditions similar to those which able to stay in the library and look LIB half make it necessary for men to become spe- a dozen articles in half a dozen bound vol- cialists make it necessary for libraries to Limes of a magazine. He might be able, e~ecialise 3owever, to carry away a ~~HnphIetbox in Function of the Special Library. which had been placed the same artlcles either in the form of reprints or in the The function of the special library is to form of pages removed from the periodical. Celiver to the busy worker, ready for his (4) Wlth material specially prepared for use, the records of other men's thonght and special reference worlr of a kind not often work and experience, in order that there found in print, such as tabulat,ecl statistics may be no duplication of experimental ef- and statements, digests and summaries, data fort and no regetition of errors. collected by correspondence, typewritten In order to accomplish this function, the translations of valuable foreign mater~al, material in the library, the qualification of etc., etc, the librarian, and thc nature of the work As illustrative of what should be placed done, must differ from those of a general in a special library, we quote from an article reference library. on the legislative reference library found ill First. The material required In the special the Yale Review for Nov. 1907: library differs from that found In a gen- "Prior to each session a special effort is eral reference library. laade to get copies of every law on every It must be borne in mind always that the 6ubject which is likely to be legislated upon nork of the special llbrary is not to dupli- ar the current session. All data bearing cate but to supplement the general refereuce upon the success or failure of the legisla- library. It should take up the worlr where tion enacted in other states and countries the general reference library lays it down. are also collected. If a measure has falled Miss Louise B. Krause, librarian for H. M. or has been repealed, the reasons for the Byllesby & Co., says on this point: failure or repeal are sought. IF it has been "H. M. Byllesby & Co. adopted at the successful, its provisions are carefully stud- start this library policy, which some of you ied and analyxed with a view to their recognize as an aspect of the discussions adaptability to local needs. on coordiuation of libraries, in which the "Books are not always nor often up to American library association is interested: date on current legislation, and hence let- SPECIAL LIBRARIES ters, legal briefs, and articles and clippings library. The first essential of a special li- upon legislative subjects are carefully col- brary is a special librarian. Without the lected and classifled. Experts, including both librarian the library is dead. The special university men and men of practical expe- hbrarian is needed to put life into the col- rience, are asked to make criticism and lection and make of it a vital, growing, con~nlentupon existing legislation. A store vorking force. * * * The librarian of the of critical data has been thus collected. sl ecial library must take an intelligent, ac- Every effort has been made to so classify tlve interest in the problems to which his and arrange material as to render it quickly special collection relates. He must read and accessible and to place it in such form as to study many and know the contents of more make it understandable to the man who de- of the lbooks in his charge. He must look sires to make a hurried study of any qnes- at each problem from the viewpoint of the tion. investigator and collect in advance the data What is wanted 1s not so much an exhaust- from every source that rvlll be wanted for ivo study of a subject as a honcise presan- its solution!' tation of it. A mass of material which There bas been a somewhat extended dis- might be of great value to the university cussion as to whether the proper process of man with lelsure to go into a subject in a making a special librarian is to take a per- scholarly way would be in too much detail son already a trained librarian and glve him to be of use to the legislator in his hurried knowledge of the subject or to take a per- view of the same subject. One of the prob- son with special knowledge and give him lems in collect~ngthe material is to keep library training. it concise and to prevent it from growing We have always maintained that no to unnecessarily large progortions." amount of technical training can render a librarian of a public library efficient unless Second. The special ilbrarian must have there is back of the professional technique special knowledge as well as llbrary a fundamental knowledge and understand- techn~que. ing and appreciation of literature and of A coinmittee of the National Municipal books. The person of literary taste and League appointed to investigate and report scholarly attainments can acquire sumcient upon nlunicipal reference libraries came to library science to make good, while on the this conclusion: olher hand a person with abundant tech- "That tho qualifications for the head of nical training who has no impulse toward such a library should be a liberal education, Looks can never acquire any literary appre- with special training in political science, ciation. By a similar course of reasoning economics, municipal government, and meth- we are impelled to the conclusion that it ods of organization and administration, and 13 more important that the special librarian bc should be selectecl for merit alone." should have an original taste for and a It seems to be conceded that special knowledge of the subjects treated in the linowledge of the subjects upon which ma- special library than that he be a trained terial is collected and handled is a pre- librarian. It is easier to teach library tech- requmite to special librarianshig. Special nique to the specialist than to give special Llbrarles for Sept. 1911 thus phrases it: knowlege to a librarian without any taste "The first essential of the ofRce library is for it. But it is equally clear that the per- the person in charge. Special training and son with special knowledge who undertakes special q~lalifications are necessary. * * * to run a special library without regard to The librarian of an engineering firm needs library teahnique wlll make a sorry failure to have training in engineering; for a flnan- of it. As well try to run a commercial plant cia1 institution, training in economics, stn- without plan or system or booklreeping. tirtical method, and flnance. In addition to After all, however, the important consider- this special technical training, however, ation is that the successful librarian have there is needed a knowledge of library both sl~ecial knowledge and library tech- methods and special capacity for the sys- nique, and it is of comparatively little im- tematic collection, classilication and Index- portance which is first acquired. ing of material. This is.a climcult comlbina- Third. Methods of work of the speclai lion and as the profession of librarian- Librarian differ from those of the general statistician has not been established, it is reference librarian. often necessary to take some one who is The general reference librarian has ger- expert in only one of these two flelrls but fcrmed his function when he has acquired who has the capacity of becoming expert the material, accessioned, classified, cata- in the other also," logued, and arranged it so that it is readily Robert H. Whitten 111 a paper read before accessible to the patron. I am aware that the Special Library Association in New York the modern efficient reference librarian City words it thus: often does much more than this: Witness, "The purchase of a lot of books on a par- for example, extensive bibliographies. But ticular subject cloes not make a specla1 even such work as this serves only the pur- SPECIAL LIBRARIES pose of opening up further sources to the What special llbrarlan must do for Patron. student, which he must himself explore and So Pnr as delivery of material to gatrons from which he hlmself must work out his is concerned, the gen,eral reference librarian data. has accomplisher his purpose when he has, Acqu~rementof Material. so to speak, led his patron up to it. If a The special librarian, however, operates student visits a library, special or general, in a manner entirely different when acquir- and asks for a lbook upon a oertain sub- ing his materiaI. The general reference li- ject, and the librarian places that book upon brarian more often &buysthan acquires other- the table before him he has not clone special wSse; the sllecial librarian more often ac- library work, but has done gencral reference quires his material otherwise than by pur- library work. When, however, the patron chase. Government publlcations, federal, is a technical worker or a legislator, the li- state and foreign, publications of voluntary brarlan musL not only place the printed ma- associations and educational institut,ons, and terial entire before him as befare the stud- material In periodical form, much of which ent, but he must select the material so cannot be purchased but must be accomu- that only the parts wanted are delivered. lated by exchange, by gift, or by culling but, It must be cut doyn In bulk by extracting, constitute probably four-fifths of the ma- abstracting, summarizing, generalizliig, and terial in the average special library. We even tabulating. It must be portable, read- have already noted that some of the ma- ill transferable, negotiable. He must add terial musl be manufactured. material acquired by correspondence con- Classification and cataloguing. tainmg suggestions and opinions of experts. It has been demonstrated that it is per- He will in so.me cases And it necessary to fectly practical to classify according to make original investigation on his own part recognized systems of classification. Many -as a trip to Germany taken by one li- subjects nlust be greatly elaborated, liow- brarian to Investigate workmen's comgensn. ever. For example, in a legislative reference tion. library so much material falls wthin cer- Herbert Puti~am,Librarian of Congress, tain subject heedings in the 300's that there after stating that the Library of Congress must be many subdivisions provided. It will hadorepeatedly, upon request of cominittees bc often i'o~und that in order to group to- or congressmen, furnished lists of refer- gether material that will be demanded at ences to all printed literature in its regular the same time and ~11011the same occasion, form, including documents, monographs, so- material must bc placed differently than in ciety publications and periodicals, says: n reference 1lbroary. For example, in a legis- "9 legislative reference bureau goes fur- lative reference library a vast amount of ther. It undertakes not ,merely to classify material that will be demanded at the same and to catalogue, but to draw ,off from a time and upon the same occasion, material general collection the literature-that IS, the must be nlaced differently than in a refer- data-bearing upon a l~articularlegislative ence library. For example, in a leglslatlve project. It indexes, extracts, compiles. It reference library a vast amount of material acquires extra copies of society publications is grouyed under the subject "Employers' and periodicals and breaks these 'up for the liability." which in other libraries n~iglitbe sake of the articles pertinent to a. l~artlcular d~strihuted elsewhere. Then the general subject. It clips from newspapers; and it subject containing this mass of material classifies the extracts, the coomyllations, thd luust be subdivided and elaborated until the articles, and the clipl)~ngsIn 'scrapbook, or catalogue constitutes a fairly complete sub- portfolio, or vertical file, in such a way that ject index. all malerial relating to that topic is kept The special demands likely to be made together and can be drawn forth at a mo- upon the library must be also kept in mind. ment's notlce. To printed literature it otten The catch word whlrh the worker is l~kely adds written memoranda a:; to fact and even to use in thinking of the subject or in ask- 0111nion as to merlt, which it secures by Ing for the material must be used by the correspondence with experts." (Report of cataloguer. For example, material relative the Librarian of Congress for 1911, p. 185.) to a statute m>ilcing it possible to collect Spec~al librarian must have prophetic damages for mental anguish occasioned by vision. failure of a teleg~.aplicompany groml~tlyand correctly to transinit a message would prob- IVlien the demand comes for inatenal it ably be placed in a general reference li- is usually so imperative that time cannot brary under "telegraph," "damages," or be taken to send for it or work it up. If other technical ~vortl. Nine out of ten law- the dcmand is met a1 all it must, be with ~EI-sor legislators, however, in slleaking of material on hand. It 1s not enough to be the snl~jertor in looking in the catalogue strictly ng to date. The special librarian for material upon it would use the term must sense the probable demand. He must "mental anguish" and under that subject it have a prophetic vision. He must intuitively shoulcl be indexed. foresee what subjects are to be investi- SPECIAL LIBRARIES 133 gated: which means that he must be a PUBLIC UTILITY REFERENCES. high grade speclalist. F. N. Morton, Librarian United Gas Im- provement Go. Legislatice and mun~cipal reference librar- Accounting. ies should draft bills and ordinances. Unifortn System of Accounts for Telephone If it is the duty of the special librarian to Corporations. Publlc Service Cornmission, 21111 Dis- deliver the material in the most advanced trict, Kew Yorlc, 1st issue Jan. 1, 1912. form so as to spare the patron all burdens Railroad Problem: Unit Cosls and Eficiency. of development, the logical conclusion~sthat Engineering Mag. Jan., 1912, 1). 488. the legislative or municipal reference l~brary Unlform Accounts for Systems of Water should draft bills and ordmances, since these Sup111 y. constitute the Anal form whic;l the material U. S. Bureau of Census 1911. takes. Into this phase of the worlq how Municlpai Cost Accounts. E. E. Staub. ever, it will not be necessary to go since it Journal of Acconntancy, Beb., 1912. Rallroad Problem; Rates, Unit Costs and appears in only certain forms of speclal Bmcieucy. F. L. Hutchins. library work. Engmeering Nag., Jan., 1912. Keeping Power Plant Records. A. P. Hyde. Some further distinctions. Practical Engineering, Mar. 1, 1012, g. 242. In a general reference library the lxe- A Form for Annual Reports Prescribed by dominating material is boolrs. In a Special Law in England. library tbe material of the most vital im- Railway Age Gazette, Apr. 5, 1912. portance is not in ,books--often it is not Uniform Systems of Accounts for all util- even in print.. ities. In a general reference library the ma- Maryland Publlc Service Commission, terial is stored, classifled, autl catalogued June 12, 1911. so that it constitutes a fertile field 'into Uniform Classification. Accounts of Water C. A. Siefert. which an investigator can go and pLean out Utilities as Alq~liedin Wis. Public Service Regulation, Apr., 1912, information bearing upon his subject. In a 1). BS6. special reference l~brarythe infolmatibn is Standardlzatiop of ~ccounting Forms and already gleaned, made up and concentrated Methods No. 3. into portable parcels, by thg librarian, and Journal of Accountancy, May, 1912, P. Js ready to be del~veredto the qpecial work- 315. er too busy to investigate for himself. pevelopment of the Railway Mail in the U. A general reference library is a storehouse 8. of perfectly good, well-authenticatecl though Engineering and Conhacting, Mar. 27, possibly somewhat antique information on 1912, D. 359. subjects or phases of subjects no longer cur- Rates. rent. The specla1 library is a clearing house Just Value of Monogolies, and the Regula- of live ideas on live problems, many of the tion of the Prices of their Products. Jos- ideas being slill in a formative stage eph hlayer. A reference library is an academic insti- Society Civil Engineers Proceedmgs, tution for the scholat. A special library is Jan., 1912, p. 19. a utilitarian establishment calculated to Fares: Discussion of Report of Conlmittee serve the worker too busy to take time for on Deterlnining Proper Basis Tor Rates scholarly investigation. Often such schol- and Bares in ilfilwa~~lree.R. B. Stcarns. arly attainments as are involved In the in- Blectric Railway Jnl, Jan. 27, 1912, 11. vestigational work must be furnished by the 154. librarian. The special librarian becomes in Electrlc Utilities: Rate of Return in Nil- fact a bureap of investigation. waulree. C. N. Dnffy. , . A general reference library is preserva- Electric Rwg. Jnl, Jan. 20, 1913, 1). 103. tive. A specla1 llbrary la creative. Motor Rates in Wisconsin. A general reference library deals largely Engineering Record, Jan. 20, 1912, 11. 68. with the pasL; it deals wlth the present and Conflict Between State Control ancl Federal the future only incidentally. The special 11- Control of Railway Rates. brary deals primarily with the present and Engineering-Contracting, ,Tan. 24, 1912. the future; it deals only incidentally with Georgia Commission Rulcs in Matter of Im- the past. proved Sewice and Reduced Fare on 131ec- The view of a general reference libranan tric Railways is retrospective, historical. The special li- Public Service Reglllation, Feb., 1912. brarian must have a vislon of the tuture To Amend Express Rates: that is almost prophetic. Put~llcService Regnlatioll, Feb., 1932 134 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Effect Of Two Cent Fares on Passenger Traf- Electrical Review, May 11, 1912. flc and Earnings. Some Features of Rate Fixing for Electric Railway Age Qaz., Mar. S, 1912. Public Service Properties, G. L Hoxie Rates of Fare on Electric Interurban Lines. Jnl. of Elec. Power & Gas, May 4, 1912, George Eberle. p. 397. Electric Traction Weekly, Mar. 2, 1912. Engineers and Architects Assn. of Arbitrary Extension of City Fare Limits De- Southern California, Apr. 18, 1912. feated in Belleville, Ill., Rate Case De- Rates for Electricity. R. L. Ellis. cision rendered Jan. 10, 1912, by U. S. Dls- Engineering Mag., May, 1912. trict Court. Adjustment of Electric Lighting Rate. Electric Rwy. Jnl., Feb. 10, 1912, p. 240. Power, Apr. 9, 1912. Low Rates and the L)evelopmeut of the Cen- Electric Rates. Herman Spohrer. tral StaLion Service. W. E. Burnaud. Electrical Review, Apr. 20, 1912. Electrical WOI-Id, Feb. 3, 1912, p. 261. Determining a Reasonable Rate. Movable Peg Model of Wholesale Rates. Ra~lwayWorld, Apr. 19, 1912. Electrical World, Feb. 24, 1912. Savannah (Ga.) Rates of Fare Upheld by Maryland-Wash ~ngtonFare Case: Decmon Decision of Commission. by Interstate Commerce Commission, Electric Rwy. Jnl., Apr. 20, 1912, p 663. Jan. 9, 1912. Wlthdrawal of Reduced Ticket Fare at W11- Electric Railway Jnl., Feb. 17, 1912, p. mington, Del. 289. Elec. Rwy. Jnl., Mar. 30, 1912, p. 501. In the Matter of the Minimum Monthly Argument for Faw Rate Making: The Basis Charge for Lighting Service Furnished by of Western Rate Flxing. Electric Companies. Jnl. of Elec. Power & Gas, Mar. 30, 1912, Now Jersey Board of Public Utility p. 296. Commissioners, Jan. 16, 1912. Pac~ficGas Rate Valuation. John A. Brit- Central Station Load Factors. E F. Tweedy. ton. Elecirlcal Worltl, Feb 3, 1912. Progressive Age, Agr. 15, 1912. Low Fnre Experiment in Glasgow. J. Dal- Limiting, State Regulation: Decision in rymple. Minn Hate Case. Jay N. Baker. Hlectric Rwy. Jnl., Mar. 2, 1912, p. 358. Public Service Regulation, Mar., 1912. Fare Rate Case: Decision of Interstate Com- Method of Investigating an Existing Rate merce Commission re Onlaha & Council Schedule for Motor Service. F. B Fletch- Bluffs St. Ry. Co. of Omaha, Neb. er. Electlbic Traction Weekly, Mar. 3, 1912, Electrical World, Mar. 30, 1912, g. 693. 11. 29s. Electric Lighting Rate. Adjustment Extract Lower Rates for Railway Service. from Reports of Wis. Rwy. Com. and Electric Railway Jnl, Mar. 3, 1912, g 3. paper by Prof. Cory showing influence of Average Rates for Electricity in 36 large Load Factor on Total Cost. American Cities. Power, Apr. 9, 1912, p. 498. Electrical World. Mar. 16. 1912. o. 595. Result of 7-cent Tube Fares. Electric 1Jtilities: ~inancial~bsults; ifunic- Electric Rwy. Jnl., May 18, 1912. inal Ownershin Features. C. N. Duffy. Management. - Public service, Feb., Mar., 1912. Sta,ff Co-01)eration Toward Better Relations Fixlng Normal Operating Costs: Decision of and ~ncieasedEmciency of ~rhployees. Wis. R, R Co~l~xnission W. R, Molinard. Engineering Record, Mar. 9, 1912, p. Progressive Age, leb. 1, 1912, p, 118. 258. Electrical Review, Feb. 17, 1912, 1). Mr. Mellln Testifies on Commutation Rates. 319. PI'. Y. Pub. Serv. Comm. 2nd Dist., Feb. 28, Results of Welfare Work at St. Joseph, Mo. 1912. Electric Trac. ?Veelrly, Feb. 3, 1912, p. 115. Electric Railway Jnl., Mar. 2, 1912, p. Suggested Methods for Iricreaslng the EfRc- 355, ed. 334. iency of Water Works Management. Abs Abolishing Minimum Charge (Cornmon- E. Devonshlre and W. Matthews. wealth Edison Go.). Object 01 Effective Organization C. J. Mor- Electrical World, Mar. 16, 1912 rison. 'Plotting a Consumption Curve for Each Engineering Mag., Jan. 1, 1912, p. 649. Customer. F. B'. Fletcher. Elementary Time Study as a Part of the Electrical World, Mar. 30, 1912. Taylor System of Scientific Management. Graphical Analysis of the St. Louis Resi- H. K. Hathaway. dence Rates. Industrial Eng., Feb., 1912, 1). 85. Zlectrical World, Mar, 23, 1912 Practical Application of Scientific Manage- Cedar Rapids Rate Fixing Decision. ment to Railway Operation. W, E. Sy- Progressive Age, May 15, 1912, p. 438. mons and Discussion. Rules Regulnting the Rates for Service. Jnl. Franlilm Inst., Feb , 1912, 11. 141. Maguire and Mooney. Jnl. Franklin Inst., Mar., 1912, p. 271. SPECIAL LIl3RAL:IE:'j

Method of Studying Power Costs w~thRefer- Commlsslons. ence to Load Curve and Overload Econo- Oklahoma Comn~ission:Review of Organiza- mies. George I. Rhodes. tion, Powers and Worli. Edward F. Mc- Amer. lnst. Elect. Eng. Proc., Feb., 1912. Kay. Libraries. Pu.,llc Service Regulation, Jan., 1912 lnvestlgatlon Of Maryland Commission. Forms Used in Compiling Infornlat~onin the Pnblic Service, Mar., 1912. 1906 Appraisal of Railways of Minn New Yorlr Publlc Utilities. Travis H. Eng. & Contracting, Jan. 10, 1912, 1). 52. Whitney. Library Science as an Adjunct to Engineer- Pnblic Service Regulation, Feb., 1912. ing. Present-Day J~~risdictlonof State Bodies Eng. Record, Mar. 2, 1912, 11. 233. over Public Servlce Corporations. Labor. Electrical World, Feb. 24, 3 912. Reports. Maryland Public Service Commls- Workmen's Com~ensation Law. C. H. sion, 1911. Crownhart. Prellm~naryReport of the Public Utilities Elec. Rwy. JnI., Jan. 20, 2912, p. 107. Commission, State of Connecticut, 1911. Brltlsh National Insurance Act. R. F. Foors- Llst of Public Ljervice Commissions Regu- tor. lating Electrical Companies. Quarterly Jnl of Economics, Feb., 1912, Electrical World, Mar. 9, 1912, 11. 525. 11. 275. Working of Wisconsin Commlseion. H. V. German Worlrmen's Insumnce Code, July Johnson. 19, 1911. Publlc Service, Apr,, 191 2. B,ulletm Bureau ol Labor, Sept., 1911. Commlssion~ and tho Courts, Milo R. Employers' Liability Laws in Ill, and Ohio. MalLbie. Electrical World, Mar. 9, 1912, p. 628. Public Service, Apr., 3913. Cost of Workmen's Compensation to the Proposed Massachusetts Pnblic Service Railways. Commission Act, 1912. Railway Age Gnz.,Apt. 19, 1912, 1). 897 Special Message of Gov Poss on Publlc New Labor Laws: What Will Really Cost Utilities. Mass Legislature, Mar. 6, Employers? 1912. Business, Apr., 1912, p. 279 Public Utilities Acl and Its Relation to Mu- Capitalization. niclyalities. Max Thclen and B. C. Car- roll. Review of Recent Legislation in Wisconsin Pacific Municipalit~es,Feb. 29, 1912. Affecting Public Utilities. Arthur IT'. Callfornla's New Law. M. Thelen. Fairchild. Public Service Regulatlon, Apr., 1912, p. Electric Rwy. Jnl., Jan. 27, 1912. 260. The Railroad Problen~. F. L, Hutchlns. Mun. Engineering, Apr., 1912, D. 245. Engineering Mag., Feb., 1912, p. 709. Rhode Island Public Utihties Act, Jan., 1912. Regulatlon. Electrical World, AD^. 27, 1912, 11. 891. Com- Federal Courts Must Halt; Conl.inued Inter- What is being Done by Public Utility ference in State Regulation Should Cease. missions. L. I,. Leonard. Graut G. Martin. Central Law .Tournal, May 3, 1912, Public Service Regulation, Jan, 1912. First Annual Report Nevada Public Service Law That Has Teeth. W. M. Daniels. Commission, 191 1. Public Service Regulation, Jan., 1912. First Annual Report Washington Public Lack of Trolley Growth in New England. Service Commission, 3911. H. S. Baxter. State vs. Cilv Control. John Dailey. Public Service, Feb., 1912, p. 62. Public Service Regulation, Mar., 1912. Judlelal Review of Public Regulation. Milo Competltlon. R. ~altbie. Different Classes of Com~etitionResulting Electric Traction Weekly, Mar. 9, 1912. in the Malrlng of Railroad Freight Rates. Regulatlon of Public Utilities. F. W. Stone. T. C. Powell. P~ogressiveAge, Mar. 15, 1912. Railway Worlci, Jan. 26, 1912. Future of Railway Regulation. Chas. A. Prouty. Electrolysis. Railway Age Gaz., Agr. 5, 1912. Electrolysis in Underground Pipes. E, B. What is Expected from Regulation F. W. Rosa and B. M'Collum. Stone. Jnl. of Gas Ltg., Feb. 13, 1912, p. 435. Public Service, May, 1912. Electrolysls: Nost Electrolytic Troubles are State and Mvluncipal Regulations for the Due to Dsfectlve Rail Bonding. A. F. Quality, Disrributlon and Testing of 11- Ganz luminating Gas. Electrical World, Feb. 24, 1912, p. 403. U. S. Bureau of Standards Circular 32, Electrical Review, Feb. 24, 1912, p. Apr. 1, 1912. 383. Franchlses. Public Service, Mar., 1912, 1) 105. . Street Railway Franchises Valuing the Property of Public Utilities. H. Municigal Eng., Mar., 1912, fi. 188. Almert. Where Limited Franchlses Lead. Public Service, Feb., 1912, 11. 65. Elec. Rwy. Jnl., Feb. 24, 1912, p. 298, Edit. Value of Water Power. Wisconsin Water Power Law Held to be Eng. Record, Feb. 17, 1912. Unconstitutional Going Value. Frank F Fowle. Electrical World, Feb, 10, 1912. Jnl. Western Society Eng., Feb., 1912, 11. Indeterminate Franchise Bill, New Jersey 117. , Senate KO. 181, Feb. 13, 1912. Some Criteria of Value in Public Service Comnlents Thereon. Delos F. ,lVilcox Industries. Clarence P Fowler. and W. 11. Danlels. Engineering Mag., Mar., 1912. Rallway Rights in City Streets us(ler State In re Determining and Fixlng Just Conipen- sation to be Paid to ICanlrnuma Gas, Elec. Franchises ' Columbia Law Revlew, Apr., 1911. Light & Bower Co. ,by City of Kaukauma Limits City Interference; Wisconsin Su- for Property of sald cornlmny. preme Court Decision. Wisconsin R. R. Comnllsslo~lNo. U-142, Public Service Regulation, Agr , 1912. . Dec. 26, 1911, 11. 409. Bill Depreciation. , for Physicla Valnation of Railways. Life of Physlcal Railway Property: ~rnck Railway Age Gaz., Apr. 6, 1912. and Way Slructures. W J, Flsench. Unit Prices Used in the First A~yraisalof Street Ry. Bullel in, Jan., 1912, p. 42. Electric Railways in Chicago. Opinions of C~nlmissionin 3rd Ave. Case Engineering-Contracting, gpr. 3, 1912. (New Yorlr) Company's reply. Valuation Reports on Chicago Elevated Elec. Ry. Jnl., Feb. 10, 1913, g. 23i, &it. , RoaAs. 230. Elec. Trac. Weekly, May 11, 1912, 1). 556. Custody of Depreciation Flmds. George L. Elec RWY. Jnl., May 11, 1912: 1). 797. Home. Elec RWY. Jnl., May 18, 1912, p. 829. A Electrical Worlcl, Feb. 17,. 19U. Valuat~onof Public Utilities for Purposes Arbitrary Depreciation llequirement. or Con~l~ensntionF. H. Bell. Railway Worlcl, Feb. 16, 1912. Canadian Law Times, Jan., 1911; Treatment of Depreciation in Connection Appraisal of Public Service Properlies as a with the Federal Corporatioli Tax. Basis for Regulation of Ratcs. C. E. Jomsnal of Accountancy, Mar., 1912, p. Crimslry. n* A ALJ, Amer Soc. Civil Eng. Proc., Apr., 1912. Life of Elements of Subway Property. . Appraisal of Water Rights. Electric Rwy. Jnl., Apr. 6, 1912. Engineering-Contracting, A])r. 17; 1912. Treatment of Depreciation and Maintenance Increment versus Rates. Ward Pronty. in Greater New Yorlr. Public Service Regulation, Mar., 1912. Electric Rwy. Jnl., Apr. 6, 1912, 1). 539 Compensation for Condemni~tionof Proper- Caring for Depreciation. Earl A. Saliers. ty. Maguire and Mooney. Jnl. of Accountancy, Apr., 1912, 11. 241. Electrical Review, Apr. 13, 1912. Transfers. Principles Governing a Railroad Appraisal Text of Transfer Decision in New Yorlr of an Unusual Nature. G. F. Swain. City. Eng. Record, Feb. 17, 1912, 11. 174. Electric Traction Weekly, Feb. 10, 1912, Municipal Ownersh~p. 13. 1SG. State Railways of France: First Railway Taxation. originaterl in 1S78. Synopsis of Decisions Relating to Special Engineering, Apr. 12, 1912, 1). 294. Excise Tax on Corporations. About Municil~nlOwnership 111 Canada and U S. Treasury Decisions Dec 21, 1911, Europe. p. 57. Public Senice, May, 1912. Annual Record of Assessed Valuation of Shortcomings in Government Administration Real Estate of Corporations and Special of Public Utilities. Franchlses. Stone & Webster Pub. Serv. Jnl., May, City Record Supplement, 1912. 1912. Valuation. Government Railway Operation in France. Physical V~luationof Electrical Pro~el-ties Pan1 Leroy-Beauhen in Oregon. Railway Age Gaz., May 10, 1912. Jnl. of Elec. Power & Gas, Jan. 20, 1912, - 1). 49 LIST OF RAILWAY PERIODICALS. Financial Costs that Frequently are Under- Prepared by Bureau of Railway Econornlcs, estimated. Washington, D. C. Engineering R; Contracting, Mar. 6, 1912. Archiv fur Eisenbahnwesen. I-Ierausgege- Intang,ible Assets of Public Utilities. N. I. be11 in1 lion~glich Preuszischea Minis- Garrison. ferium der Offcntlichen Arbeiten Ber- SPECIAL LlUliilRIES

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Erle Railroad Employes' Rlagazino. Zkie (Mr. Hardy is asst. private sec, to the Railroad Co., 60 Church St., New York Governor.) City. $1. !Monthly.) Education. Mlliott, Edward C. State school Frisco Man. St. Louis and San Francisco systems: 111. Legislatiotl and judic~al Railway. St. Louis, Mo. (Monthly.) dccisions relating to public educution. 1 l l inols Central Employes' Magazine. Illi- Oct. 1, 1908 to Oct. 1, 1909. 1910. (U. S. nois CenLral Railroad Co., 1201 M~chigan Bureau of Education. Bul. 1910, no. 2.) Ave., Chicago, Ill. $3.60. (Monthly.) No. 1 (1904-1906) 1s Bul. 1906, no. 3. Malze. Chicngo Great Western Railroad No. 2 (1907-1908) is Bul. 1908, no. 7. Co. Chicago, 111. (Quarterly.) Farmers1 Institutes. U. S. Expel'irnent Sta- Northwestern. Chicago and Northwestern tions OfRce. degislation relating to farm- Railroad Co., 226 Jaclrson Boulevard, Chi- ers' institutes in the U. S.; by John Ham- cago, Ill. (Monthly.) ~lton. Revised to Aprll 1, 1911. 47 11. Pilot. Reading Railway Department, Y. M. (Bulletin 241.) C, A. Reacling Terminal, Philadelphia, (The thlrd issue of this compilation. Pa, (Monthly.) The first two appeared as Bul. 135, Rock Island Employes' Magazine. Chicago, issued in 1903 and revised in Oct., Rock Islallcl and Pnciflc Railway Co. La- 1905.) Salie Station, Chicago, Ill. (Monthly.) Food. Dunlap, F. L. The food laws of the Santa 5-6 Employes' Magazine. Atchison, United Kingdom and their administration. Topeka and Santa FB Railway Co., Rail- 1911. 43 p. (U. S. Chemistry B'nreau. way Exchange, Chicago, Ill. $1.50. Bul. 143.) (Monthly.) (History of English food laws and dis- Southern Honleseelter and Investors' Guide. cussion of the more recent ones. Norfolk and Western Railway Co., Roan- Text of laws is not given.) oke, Va. (Quarterly.) --- U. S. Chemistry Bureau. OfRcials charged with the enforceruelll of food SELECTED LIST OF RECENT AVAIL- laws in the U. S, and Canada, Revised ABLE COLLECTIONS OF LAWS AND to July 1, 1911. 48 11. (Circular 16, rea ALLIED MATERIAL. * vised.) (General compilations only.) Game. Palmer, T. S. Chronology and in Agricultural colleges. U. S. Experiment cler of the more important events in Ame~ Station Omce. Organization lists of the ican game protection, 1776-1911. 1912. agricultural colleges and experiment sta- 62 p. (U.S Etiological Survey. Bul. 41.) tions in the U. S., Dec., 1910. 1911. 100 p. (Text of laws not given. Development (Bul. 233.) of game laws is reviewed and game (Name and address and stntlon staff of laws enacted 1901-1910 are tnbulated.) each agrici~lturalexperiment station ) Game. U. S. Agriculture Department. Game Banking. Weldon, Samuel A. Digest of laws for 1911. A summary of the pro- State banking statutes. 1910. 746 11. 3 visions relating to seasons, shlpments, folding tables. sale, hmits and licenses. 1911. 62 p. (Com1)ilecl for the National Monetary (Farmers' Bul. 470.) Commission.) This is the twelfth annual summary of Same, 61 Cong 2 sess., Sen. the game laws of the U. S, and Can- doc. 353. ada. United States. Statutes. Laws ---- U S. Biological Survey. Directory of the United States concerning money, of officials and orsanizations concerned banlrlng and loans, 1778-1909. Compiled with the pro~ection of birds and game. bcl A, T. Huntington and R. J. Mawhinney 1311. (18th annual directory.) 16 p. 1910 v. 812, xxllp. (Circular 53.) (Comp~led for the National Monetary Labor. U. S. Labor Bureau. Cunlulative Corn nlission.) index of labor laws and decisions relab -- Same. 61 Cong.-, 2 sess. Sen. ing thereto. (13.~11.v. 21: 1161-1196,) doc. 580. (Covers the 22d ann, rept. of the corns. Bullding construction. Hartford, Conn. of labor which is a compilation of la- Citv Dlan commission. Fourth annual re- bor laws in force at close of 1907, and ]

(A discllss~ollof the distinguishing feat- Hamilshire, Sew Jersey, Mrashington, ures of the mining laws of each of Wisconsin and the texts of bills pre- the Australian states of New Zea. aared by the Illinois, Minnesota and land.! Ohlo conlmissions, as well as the text Patents. List of co~oniallaws dealing wit11 of the bills dratted by the American IJatellts, (lesigns, trade marks, and the Federation ol Labor and the National ~nal'l~ingOf nlerchandise, and regulations Civic Federation.) lssuerl thereunder. London, 1910. 11 1). -- U. S. Labor Bureau. Summary (Great Rrit~itl, Colonta~ office. Colollial of foreign workmen's com~ensationacts. reL)orts, misc. ser. 110. 70.) (Bnl v 21, 11. 719-748 ) Pollution OT waters. Goodell, E. B, re- (Part of Lindley D. Clark's article on view of the laws forbidcling ~ollnt~onof "Recent action relating to employers' inland waters in the U. s.; ed. 2. Wash- liability and workmen's comgensation ington, 1906. I49 p. (Water supgly antl acts. The workmen's compensation In8igatlon pager 152.) acts are summarized. Alberta (1909), (The flrst edition was printed as Pager Austria (lXS7, amended to 1D02), Bel- no. 105.) gium (19051, British Colnmb~a(1903), Prl maries. Mich~gan-State Library-Leg- Cape of Good Hope (1905), Denmark lslative Reference Deuartment. Laws of (1698, amended to lgO:<), Finland the various states relating to presidential (ISCJSj, France (1898; amended to primaries. Fob., 1912. 25 1). 190i), Germany (1SS4; amended to Public Health. U. S. public health and 19003, Great Britain (1906), Greece marine hosgital service. Digest of the (1101), ITungary (19071, ItaIy (19041, lnws and regulations of the various states Luxembourg (1902), Netherlands 119011, Kern South Walcs (19001, New relating to t4e reportmg of cases of sick- Zealand (1900; amended to 19061, ness. Wash., 1911. 191 p. (U. S. public health bulletin no. 5.) Norway (lS93), Quebec (1909, Queens- --- U. S. public health and marine land (3905), Russia (19031, South Australia (lgOQ), Spain (EIOO), Sae- hospital service. Municipal orclmances, dcn (1901; amended to 19041, Trans- rules and regulations pertaining to public vaal 19071, Western Australia 11905). health. (]Each number of the weekly l)ublication called "Public Health Rel~orts" in- CURRENT REFERENCES. clndes the text of recent municipal or- Assaying. The Assay con~mission of 1912, dinances relating to Public Hygiene.) met at the Philadelph~a mint, Beb. 14, River improvements. Brunclten, Ernest. 1911, for the purpose of testing the coin- Rivcl* Improvement laws in other states age executed and reserved (luring the year and co~~ntries.1908, 29 1). (California 1911 as required by law and the Pro- State I,ib17ary, Legislative Reference Bul- ceedings of thls meeting have been issued letin 2.) by the Government printing office in a (Review; no text.) l~alnphlet of 32 pages, which also con- Smoke Prevention. Nolen, John. Replan- tains the laws of the United States relat- nlng Reading, Pa. 1910. (Contains a ing to the annual assay antl rules for the summary of smoke prevention ordinances organizntion and government of the Board of the cities of the U. S.) of assay commiss~oners. 1912. Tar~ff. ITniied States. Statutes, Tariff Charities-blnnicipal administration. A acts passed by the Cong13ess of the U. S. valuable document on the municipal ad- from 1789 to 1909, including all acts, reso- ministration of publlc charitable institu- lutions and proclamations modifying or tions will be found in a pamphlet report, changing those acts. 1909. 1040 p. issued Julv 10, 1811, by thc Commission- --- Same. G1 Cong., 2 sess. ers Prom the flrsl and second judicial dis- Rowe doc. 671. tricts and the citv of New York with re- Weights and measures. U. S. Standards latlon to the conditions and needs of the I311reau. State and national laws concern- Delmrtment of puhlic charities of ths city ing the weights and measures of the U. of New Yorlr, tozetller with prol>osed lay- S. Ed. 2. Washington, 1912. 564 11. outs and views of the institutions of the Workmen's Compensation. Clarl;, TJ D. Del~artmeatand the report of the inspec- n7orianen's compensation and insurance: tor TFe ten views, showing the proposed Laws ancl bills, 1911. (In U. S. Labor ijevelollment of the already ex~stingchar- Bureau Bul. v. 22, p. 97-51.) itable institutions form the bulk of the (Reviews reports of workmen's corn- report. pensation commissions of Illinois, city planniu:, "A brief survey of recent Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jer- city plannlng reports in the United sey, Ohio, Washington and Wiscon- Slates", appears in Lanscape architecture sin; gives texts of employers' 1ial)ility for A~jril,1912. p. 119-126. laws of California, Kansas, New Coal miups-Explosives. A thorough study SPECIAL LIBRARIES

under the tltle "Investigations of explo- for such union district or townsh~phigh sives used in coal mines" by Clarence schools. Illus 32 p. Hall, W. 0. Snelling, and S. P. Howell, Homesteads. Labor bulletm S8 of the Mas- with a chapter on the national gas used sachusr:tts bureau of statistics contains at Pittsburgh, by B. A. Burrell, constitutes the report of Lhe Homestead Commission, Bulletin 15 of the U. S. bureau of mines. a bill embodying a ~lanfor state assist- 197 11. 1912. ance in aiding morlring geogle from the Employers' liabil~ty The West Virginla congostecl cllstricts to acquire homesteads Comm~usion created by legislative enact- in the suburbs, a resume of the projects ment of 1911, on employers' liability and for llousing working yeople already laborers' com~ensationhas submitted to worked out in foreign couatries ancl the the Goi7ernor part one of its Report. This United States ,citations of legislation gro- part covers the hability and compensation viding public air1 in housing of the work- ing classes, ancl a blhl~ography 46 11. , laws of the several state^ and of the United States, a rllgest of the purport of .Jan. 1912. these laws, a summary of their leading Immigration. The title of the l~ublished features and of expert opinions upon them I-'roceedings of the Conference of state and the more imaortant bills which have imn~~gralion,lands and labor omcials wlth been proposed by State cornmissions and rel~resentatives of the Division of intor- private associations. Part two of the Re- niat~onof the Bureau of immigration and part will contain the flndings and recom- naturalization of 111e U. S L)epartment oL' mendations. 27 11. 1911. con1merce and labor held in Washington, ~eeble-rnlkded. Iu resgonse to the rlirec- Nov, 16-17, 1911, is "Distribution of ail- tions of the leglslalure, the Virginia state inittetl aliens and other reslclents " At board 3F charities and corrections devoted this meeting, it was resol'ved to make the much tiine in the year 1911 to investigat- organization a permanent national body. ing the problem of the feeble-mmdecl, the Rrielly, its objects are to arouse l~ublic indigent crlpplecl and the deformed sentiment in such matters as the l)ebyling classes. The results of this work whlcli of agrlcnltural districts with ~lersonsfronl form part two of the third annual report congested population centers, the creation of the Boarcl for 1911, 11, 9-37, is a val- and extension of powers ol: state bureaus uable addition to the already exisling of immigralion and co-operation between studles of these subjects. state and federal irnmlgration authorit~es Further resolutions in regard to amend- Fertilizers. On Dec. 18, 1911, President ments of the imrnigratlon laws, the estab- Taft transmitted to Congress a prelim- lishment of state free employn~ent bu- inary report on "Fertilizer resources of reaus, etc., were adoptecl. These pro- the United States", prepared in the Bu- ceedings were published by the Depart- reau of soils by F. K. Cameron and a nlent of commerce and labor. 115 11. corps of assistants, the first results of an investigation which mas authorized by A B.nreau of industries and immi- the preceding Congress. This work of gration was created by the Legislature of wide and valuable scope includes iwenty New Yorlc ~tatein 1910 on recommenda- appendices on various phases 04 the snb- tion of a state imimgratlon coinm~ssion ject, nineteen plates, three figures, and This Bnrean, whose aim IS to Iteel) in nineteen maps. Special bibliographies oc- touch with all aliens arriving or already curring in the report will be found lister1 in the state issuer1 in March of this year, under "Bibliographies" in this number. its first Annual report, covering the year 290 p. 1912. encllng Sept. 30, 1911. The work of the Bureau as shown in this report includes Flre preventlon. The two little text boolts investigations into the following, as they on "Dangers and chemistry of fire" lor affect aliens: distribution of labor, trans- primary schools and for grammar schools porlation, labor and llving conditions, sav- prepared by the Ohio state fire marshal's ings banks, legal affairs, education and departmenl have been adopted and re- assimilation, social charges. The policy issued by the Insurance Conlmission of of the Bureab is outlined, and recommen- Montana to fulfill the requirements of a dations for legislation presented, an ac- 1931 law of that state providing for in- count of com~~laintsand adjustments be- struction in the schools in fire dangers fore the Bureau is glven and interesting and means of prevention appendices aud charts complete the Re- H lgli Schools. Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 7, Nov. port 184 p. 27, 1911, of the University of Illinois Industrial accidents. The Wisconsin indus- (Bulletin no. 5 01 the School of Educa- trial commission created to the end that tion) ims a revision of an earlier bulletin "all places of employment shall be made on the same subject, "The township high safe," issued the first of a scries of 13111- school in Illinois" by H. A. Hollister. letins on May 20, 1912, which will contain Illino~sis one of sixteen states providing the general orders adopted by the Com- SPECIAL LIBRARIES

mission, with accompanying illustrations, ly by the Iowa historical society, Jan., valuable information regarding accidents 1912. In this reprint, the origmal article and the most practical means of preven- is supplemented with notes, references tion. These bulleting will be distributed and a comprehensive index. to all the manufacturers of the state. Nurses. In Bnlletin, 1912, no. 7, whole Uum- lndustr~alarbitration. A series of articles ber 475 of the U. S. bureau of education, on industrial arbitratlor1 in Europe and in the questions of the eclucatlon of nurses this country conlprising altogether almost and the educational status of nulssing are 500 pages, constitutes the main part of tllo~oughlydiscussed by M. Adelaide Nut- the Bulletin of the U. S, bureau of labor ting. Five stati~ticaltables are included, of Jan., 1912 (no. 98). The titles of the dealing with training of nurses and a pallers show the scope of the Bulletin: tabular summa13y giving somo important Mediation and arbitrat'ion oC railway la- features of state laws of registration of bor disputes in the U. S,by C. P. Neill; of nurses. 9Cp. Canarllan mdustrial disputes investigation Peat. "The uses of 'peat for fuel and other act of 1907; Conciliation ancl arbitration purposes" .are discuhsed by C. A. Davis of railway labor disputes in Great Britain; in Bullehn 16 of the U. S. ,bureau of Attltocle of em~loyinginterests towards mines'in continuati011 of a co,mprehensive conciliation and arbitration in Great investigation that bureau is making of Bntain, by A. Maurice Low; Attltude of mineml fuels in the United States, 21.4 11. labor toward conciliation and arbitration 1912. in Great Britain, by A. E. Holder; Concil- Playgrounds. Two rel~ortsmadc, one for iation, arbitration and sanitation 111 the the Board of school directors and the cloak, suit and skirt industry in New Pork other for the Child welfare commission city, By C. H. Winslow; Industrial courts of the city of Mllwaulree by RoWlalld in France, Germany and Switzerland, by Haynes, 'constitute "Recreation survey," H. L. Sumner. Bulletin no. 17, of the Bureau of econonly lndustrlal relations. The Committee on in- and efllciency of that oity. To investi- dustrial relations to secure the appoint- gate the conditions relative to recreation ment of a federal comn~issionof industrial and recreation ,facilities ancl to forlnulale relations issues trorn time to tine to fur- a plan for the varlous city departments ther its cause, what it designates as to co.operate i11 further work 111 that line, "Pocket gamphlets, to be slipped inside nre the objccts of the report. 33 11. the coat". These are discussions ancl Portland cement. Part one of no. 3 of the reprints by prominent authorities aud the Technologic papers of the U. S. hurean topics as "Work relationshigs and the of standards, ~ssucd Aug. 22, 1911, is clemocracy", "A conmission ok industrial "Tests of the absorl~tiveand permeable relations-why it is needed", "The hap properties of Portland cenlent nort tars hazard public agencies for settling indus- and concretes" by R. J. Wig and P. H. trial disputes", "I1 IS time to lmow-a Bates of the Bureau. Part two is a pauer statenlent in support of the Hughes-Borah on "Tests of clamp-proofing and water bill to create a conlmission on industrial proofing cornl)ounds and materials" by relat~ons based on a study of the Lam- the same authorities, Sixteen tabulated rence strike", "The terms of industry", tests of mortar, concrete and water-plSoof- etc., etc. ing materials complele in the two papers. Leprosy. The U. 8, public health and ma- 127 11. rine-hosl~italservice of the U. S, is con- Public documents. The 7th edition of the ducting a series of "Studies upon Leprosy" "List of publications of the U. S. depart- eighteen numbers of which have already ment of comhmerce and labor available for appealed in Public health bulletins nos. distribution" api>eared Jan. 15, 1912. All 26-28, 33, 36, 41, 47 and 50. publications listed are intended for dis- Library catalogs. A bulky pamphlet of 500 tribution and are issued from the Pollow- pages from the Virginia state library- vol. ing Rnreaus of the Department: Census 4, nos. 2, 3 and 4 of its Bulletin-contains bureau: Coast and geodetic survey; Cor- a finding list of the boolrs in that library atio ions bureau; Fisheries bureau; Im- in science, medicine, agriculture, technol- migration and naturalization bnreau; La- ogy, mllltary and naval science This bor bureau ; Lighthouse bureau ; Manufac- constit~ltesthe eleventh of these classed tures bureau; Navigation bureau; Stand- lists this library has issued in Lhe past ards bureau; Statistics bureau; Steam- four years. boat inspection service. GG pi, Municipalities - Comniission government. Public utilities commisslons. The origin, "Commlsslon government in Iowa: the growth and work of public utilities com- Des Moines plan" hy B. F. Shambaugh, missions," an address delivered by A. S. which appeared in the .Nova, 1911, Annals Hills before the Accountants' theories and of the American academy of political and talks club of the America1 telephone and social science has been reprinted separate- telegraph company, N. Y., Nov. 18, 1911, is issued in a pamphlet of 17 pages. Mr. Missouri" is discussed by 0. L. Kunkel Hills attempts in his paper to answer the and W. W. Charters in the University questions: Why are these commissions of Missouri bulletin, Education series, v. here? What position do they occupy in 1, no. 9, Nov. 1911. In addition to treat. our form of government? What are they ing local condtions, advantages of con- doing? solidation, objections, methods and trans- Publ~cutilities regulation. Governor Foss portation are taken up and a short biblio- of Massachusetts sent two special mes- graphy is included. 36 p. sages to the 1912 General Court of Massa- School statlstlcs. A preliminary edition of chuaetts, on the subject of public utilities, the "Report of the Committee on uniform one on March 6 urging the passage of the records and reports to the Department of bill creating a Public service commission superintendence of the National education for the state, and the other, on April 24, association" has been published as Bul- callmg attent~onto a bill "To provide for letin, 1912, no. 3, of the U. S. bureau of the establishment and #maintenance of ad- education, to assist in furthering the best equate service by public service commis- nlethods of and unformity in recording sions and improvements therein'' author- and reporting state, city and rural school izing a lease of the Boston and Mains statistics. 46 p. railroad to the New York, New Haven Steel trust. The second part of the Report and Hartford companies, and further regu- of the U. S. commissioner of corporations lating the operation of such corporations on the steel industry appeared Jan. 22, under the name of the New England lines. 1912. The first part of the report of this Rables. A paper by J. G. Wills, Chief veter- investigation was issued in July of last inarian of the New York state department year and was devoted to the questions of of agriculture on "Rabies and ~tscontrol organization, investment, proflts and PO- in New York state" has been ~ssuedby sition of the United States steel cor- that Del~artmentas its Bullet~n29, Nov. poration, while the part recently ~ub- 1911. The article dwells on the history of lishecl is ent~relyon the subject of cost rabies, its medical aspect with several of production. It is only in the nat~weof Pages of opin~onsof medical authorities a preliminary report. 144 11. and the methods of control. 24 p. Street lighting. The subject of "Street Ra~lroads-Valuat~on. Under a New Jersey lig7hting1' is discussed extensively by J. law of 1910 an expert was appointed to M. Bryant and EI. a. Hake in Univemity make an inventory and appraisal of all of Illino~sBulletin v. 9, no. 8, with a view the railroad and canal property, inclnd- to make available informat~onconcerning ing franchises of the state. Hls report, street illumination and to assist in fram- covering the year 1911, has been recently ing municipal ordinances on the subject. published and comprises a volume of 466 61 p. uages. The table of contents shows the Strikes and lockouts. A Report to the Great following grouping of the information Britain board of trade on "Strikes and compiled* Introductory; state tax laws; lockouts" has as a sub-title "Memoranda value of remaining property; including prepared from information in the posses- franchise; franchise ; stocks and 41onds; ,sion of the Labor department of the Board organlzatlon, operating cost and values, of trade relating to the text and operation comgutation of value, main stem; land, of certain laws in the 'British dominions real estate, etc.: .tangible personal prop- and foreign countries affecting strikes and erty, notable cases of exceptionable con- loclcouts with special reference to public ditions; depreciation of rolling eguipinent utility services." On p, 107-116, United and machmery; depreciation of floating States legislation on the subject is di- equipment; operation of floating equip- gested. 162 p. 1912. ment : apDortionmerit of equipment to Tropical diseases. The Report of the Ad- New Jersey; canals of New Jersey; vlsoi-y committee for the Tropical disease0 method of conduct.ing agpra~sal; taxes; research fund of Great Britain, for the conclus~ons:appendix. year 1911, published in 1913, Includes very School consolidation. The Rural educational interesting and valuable information as conference of Great Br~tainhas published to the research work being done in the its Reilort to the Board of Agriculture and laboratories supported by this fund. 217 p, fisheries and the Board of education on Typho~d'fever. Public health bulletin, no. the "Consolidation of rural elementary 51 (Nov. 1911) of the U. S. public health schools." The report expresses approval and marine hospital service, is devoted to of consolidation but also recognizes the "The causation and prevention of typhoid difficulties incidental to its establis*hment. fever with silecial reference to conditions An appendix contains a brief survey of observed in kakema county, Washington," the consolidated schools of the United by L. L. Lumsden. Two appendices to States 13 p. the bulletin are on the subJects of the -"Rural school consolidation in construction and maintenance of a sani- SPECIAL LIBRARIES

tary privy and ,measures to prevent the form of Library circulars a "Monthly rec- spread of infection from the bedside of a ord of current educational publications" typhoid fever patient. illus., maps, 53 p. which will be an up-to-date check list for Vivisection. The Great Britain Royal com- books. uami~hlets.U. S. ~ublications,pub- mission on vivisection which was created licatlons ,of- assokiations; pxiodicals and in 1906, has made its final report in a articles in ~eriodicalswhich treat Of edu- document of 139 pages, issued in 1912. cational topics. The Report comprises discussions of the Excess Condemnaton. The Newarker, a existing law, progress of science and re- .monthly publication of the Free Public sults of experiments on animals, pain of library of Newark, N. J., which is an ad- experiments on animals, the moral qus- dition of the past year to library period- tion, suggestions and recommendations. icals, contains in its May, 1912 numlber Weights and measures. The Report of the s select Hst of references on excess con- Sixth annual conference on Weights and demnation, a topic interest in whlch has measures of the United States, held at come to the front along with the pres- the U. S. lbureau of standards, Washing- ent day movement for beautifying and ton, Feb. 17-18, 1411, was published by the improving the streets and parks in our Bureau in 1912. Delegates from twelve cities. p. 117.119. states and the District of Columbia were Homesteads. Labor bulletin no. 88 of the present and gave reports. In addition Massachusetts bureau of statistics is de- other interested persons were invited to voted to the question of "Homesteade for' attend the Conference. Among the special workingmen" and contains a bibliography points discussed at the four sessions, were on the subject. The references, although the sizes of containers, toleranca, rail. only to material in the Boston public li- road scales and uniform legislation; and brary, the Massachusetts state library or the appendix to the Report contains model the library of the Bureau of statistics, uniform regulations for state legislation. cover eight l~agesand, as Massachusetts 157 P. is the first state to attempt this solution Wireless telegraphy. A list of "Wireless of the housing problem, these sources are telegraph station's of the world, including probably the most fruitful of material on shore stations, merchant vesseia, revenue this subject. cutters and vessels of the U. S. navy" In~tiatlve,Referendum and Recall. A ,blblo- corrected to Jan. 1, 1912, is a recent issue graphy that will be eagerly welcomed by from the Government printing ofice. An libbrarians is the last one issued by the alphabetical list of call letters is included. Chief bibliographer, H. H. B. Meyer, of 165 p. 1912. the Library of Congress, "A select list of references on the initiative, referenudurn BIBLIOGRAPHIES. and recall," compiled with the co-oper- Algae. "Reference list of papers concern- ation of the State and Legislative refer- ing the economic uses of algae and con- ence libraries and recently published. The cerning the salts derived from ashes," and items are classed by countries and those "Reference list to the literature of the, dealing with conditions in the United marine algae" constitute Appendices S States are further classed under the head- and 'I?of the "Preliminary report on the ings "general," "favorable" and "opposed." fertilizer resources of the United States" A table of contents and author an0 sub- recently aubmitted to Congress by the ject indexes further facilitate the use of U. ti. bureau of soils. p. 271-276 and 277- the 94 pages of entries. 290. 1912. Munlcipal Welfare. The St. Joseph, Mo., C~tyPlanning. Mr. Jesse Cunningham, Mu- Library, Chas. E. Rush, Librarian, has re- nicipal reference librarian of the St. huls cently issued a folder giving lists of sub- public library has prepared a list of books jects on Civic activities in city building. and articles on city planning and civic The list is issued to advertise tho resources centers This, list mas published in the of the library for the municipal worker. bulletin of the lilbrary and has been re- It Is divided into seven ~arts;Physical printed, 11 pages. aspects of the city; Social welfare of the Corroslon. Msorton C. Tuttle, Secretary of citizen: Physical welfare; Intellectual weld the Aberthaw construction Co. of Boston, fare; Moral welfare; Municipal research contributed to the April, 1912, number of and efllciency; Extension of good citiaen- Engineering news, a '(Bibliography of the ship. corrosion of iron and steel in cinder con. Parks--National. A list of "Magazine ar- crete," which was compiled in the course ticles on national parks, reservations and of an investigation of the subject. p. 765- monuments" has been prepared and pub. 756. Ijshed by the U. S. department of the Education. Beginning with Jan. 1912, the interior, including all magazine articles Library division of the U. S. Bureau of printed up to Jan. 1, 1911. The items ex- Educaiion is publishing each month in the cept those on parks .in general and on big SPECIAL LIBRARIES

trees, are gouped under the name of the library. As this library is one of the larg oarticular national nark which whioh they est in municipal documents, the Ust prom- heal 15 p. ised to be of great value in giving informa- Peat. "A selected bibliography on peat" oc- tion about muncipal' documents. . . cunies two naaes of BulIetin 16 of the U. The list Is not to be continued, however, S.bureau of mines. "The uses of peat for in the bulletin. Upon hearing this fact, the fuel and other purposes" by C. A. Davis. editor of National Municipal Rev~ewsecured p. 204-5. 1912. Miss Hasse to make a aelected list of docu- Phosphates. The "Preliminary report on the ment~for each issue of the Review. While fertilizer resources of the United States" noL so complete, this list will serve an ex- transmitted to Congress last December by cellent purpose in getting municipal docu- We U. S bureau of spils contains an ex- ments into efficient use. haustive twenty-nine page "Reference list for phosphates." 11. 78. (U. S. Congress, 62d, 2nd ses. Sen. rep. no. 190.) The St. Louis public lilbrary has made ar- Public Utilities. A selected bibliography on Yangements whereby all public municipal Public utilities is given in King's Regu- documents are to be distr~butedthrough the lation of Munic~palUtilities. N. Y., Ap. library. This is one of the few cities of pleton, 1912. The book is one of the Na- this country which distribute city documents tional Muulcipal League series and is from one central place. The arrangement edited by Prof. Clyde L. King of the makes it possible to systematize the work University of Pennsylvania. and enables outsiders to obtain the docu- Recall. The Librarian of the Ohio state li- ments promptly and without omission. brary, Charles Wells Reeder, has compiled The next step which should be taken is from material availeble in that library a to secure similar action by all of the lead- select list of references on "Recall of pub- ing cities. Municipal documents are the lic offlcids," which appears in the Bulletin least used because the hardest to obtain of of bi~bliographyfor April, 1912. This list any kind of documentary literature. on a subject of so much present interest, The condition of distribution of city docu- is rendered particularly useful for stud- ments is now even worse than that which ents by a scheme of indicating, in regard prevailed with the etate documents until a to the various items, whether they are systematic attempt was made to secure cen- favorable, opposed or merely general tral distribution. hfortunately the cbang- discussions, g. 6-8. es in librarians of state libraries has de- School Consolidation. A bibliography on ru- stroyed a good part of the emciency which ral school consolidation occupies the last formerly prevailed in distrimbuting docu- two pages of the University of Missouri ments. A new effort is needed now to ' bulletin, Education series, v. 1, no. 2, strengthen state distributlpn of state docu- Nov. 1911, which is devoted to a discus- ments Jong with the effort to secure cen- sion of that subject, particularly as it af- tral distribution of municipal documents. fects Missouri, and thirty-seven art~cles on other topics of present day interest - to educators are listed. The Lllbrary of Congress has issued under Tariff. Price list 37 (3d edition) is a ''List the title guide to the Law of Germany, the of Udted States public documents relat- first of a series of guldes to the legal in- ing to the various tariff lams and Oan- stitutions of foreign countries. prepared by adian reciprocity for sale by the Super- Eklwin M. Borchard, law labrarian. intendent of documents," issued in Feb. This work completely covers the field of 1912. The items listed cover 90 pages. legal literature of Germany showing the history, development and status of the legal institutions of that country. It cover0 bib- NOTES. liography, legislation, court reports, legal The Banks Law Publishing Co, has re- education, jurisprudence, legal history, civic cently issued a vork on valuation of Pub- code, commercial law, social insurance and lic Utilities by Robert R. Whitten. The sub- labor laws, civil proceedure, criminal law, ject is a live one, being one of the knottiest criminal proceedure, reform of criminal law problems of ~ublicservice commissions and and proceedure, pubic law. Dr. %'hitten's connection with tihe Newl A glossary of German legal terms and a York public service commission renders him full index are added. The work fllls a big admirably fjtted to make the book at once place for the investigator and its com- practical and theoretical. T,he price of the panion volumes for other countries will put book is $6.60. the American lawyer in dose touch for the first t~mewith foreign law and legal insti- The New York public library published in tutions. Washington 1912, 226 pages. For its bulletin for January and yarch a list of sale by the Superintendent of documents at recent imuni~ipaldocuments received by the sixty-flve cents.