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Can S.L.A. Operate a Self-Supporting Program of Publication? Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr. Solving the Problems of a Pamphlet Collection (continued) Margaret G. Smith Microphotography for the Special Library . Vernon D. Tate What Our Membership Figures Show ..Maud E. Martin Something New Under the Sun ..Howard L. Stebbins Conference News ...... Travel Information for the June Convention ...... Official Notices ...... Notice of Annual Meeting - Nominating Committee Report - Proposed Amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws. Letters to the Editor ...... A Correction - Maria C. Brace; Flood Time ! - E. Gertrude Avey. Over the Editor's Desk ...... Publications of Special Interest ......

Indexed in Industrial Artr Index and Public Affairs Information Service

APRIL 1937

VOLUME 28 NUMBER 4 SPECIAL LIBRARIES MARIANC. MANLEY,Editor Vol. 28, No. 4

Can S. L. A. Operate a Self-supporting Program of Publication? By Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr.1 Past President, Special Libraries Association

SUCCESSFUL publication program from Advertising to Public Utility Valua- A depends upon the discovery of a tion; from Business Information Services logical series of publications which appeal to Constitutional Decisions; from Com- to a buying market of sufficient size; it munity Centers to Municipal Account- is necessary, further, that the publica- ing; from Editorial Libraries to the Milk tions be so planned as to avoid excessive Industry; from Fire Prevention to Chem- production cost and that the sales price ical Warfare; from Legislative Investiga- per unit be reasonable. tions to Street Railway Service; from S. L. A. publishing history has shown Mothers Pensions to Motion Pictures, that certain publications, when well and from Real Estate to Business Dic- planned, show a profit, while others, less tionaries and Glossaries. well planned, barely bring in enough cash In the November, 1932, issue of return to cover printing costs. The long- SPECIALLIBRARIES, President Rankin time success of our publication program wrote: "During the years from 1921, will depend upon our ability to choose when Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr., published the items of the first type and to avoid items first Special Libraries Directory until of the second type. today, the Association has a long list of More so than most other professional titles to its credit." This statement, so bodies, S. L. A. from the start was com- flattering to the author of this hasty mitted to a policy of publication of much article, is subject to misconstruction. wider scope than that of most other pro- While said author did edit and publish fessional agencies. It was proposed that the publication in question the arduous the Association not only publish informa- initial task of material assembly was tion concerning its own profession, but performed by a Census Committee that it undertake, further, the publica- headed by our present Vice President, tion of little known materials for research William F. Jacob and including also Dr. and of bibliographies relating to all -or John A. Lapp, Mr. Guy E. RIarion, and nearly all - of the fields of specialized Miss Alice J. Gates. knowledge. It should be noted, further, that, while A hasty survey of the lists and bibli- the Directory was the first publication ographies published in the earlier issues printed apart from SPECIALLIBRARIES, of SPECIALLIBRARIES reveals this wide there were several other prior projects diversity in subject matter: we jump which were particularly noteworthy.

1 Director of Arch~valServ~ce, The Nntlonal Archives. Thus, in the October, 1915, issue of SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4 SPECIALLIBRARIES, it was pointed out S. L. A. Later separate publications, such that the sale of Marion's Bibliography of as the Special Libraries Directory, ap- Scientific Management and Efficiency peared in article form. The first "direc- "has been unusual," and that the sale of tory," for example, appeared in the - Theodora Kimball's City Planning refer- April, 1910, issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES ence list "has probably been almost and took up all of five and one-half pages as far reaching as that of the Efficiency of that issue! number." The first era of S. L. A. publication During the first ten years of S. L. A. history closed with the end of the World history a market for more specialized War; the second era coincided with that publications did not exist; hence the of the "tremendous twenties" (as op- wisdom of concentrating effort upon posed to the "gay nineties") when all SPECIALLIBRARIES magazine as did Dr. that was needed was the initiation of an Lapp during his able eight-year period of aggressive publication policy, based upon editorship. Three pressing needs, how- past traditions, which would offer to the ever, were fully realized and advocated; buying public certain specialized types a Public Affairs Index; an Artisan's of reference publications the real need for Trade Index, and a Newspaper Index. which had been sufficientlydemonstrated. The first of these came to fruition as Those were the scary days! With a the Public Affairs Information Service, treasury balance insufficient to cover initiated by Dr. John A. Lapp "in con- more than the regular association ex- nection with the S. L. A." The second penses, how were we to finance the project, sponsored by Joseph L. Wheeler printing cost of a separate book - the in a plan printed in the June, 1910, issue first Directory of Special Libraries in the of SPECIALLIBRARIES, came to realiza- United States! We took this matter up tion in 1914 when the H. W. Wilson with an amenable printer who offered to Company commenced publication of the print our 125 page book for something Industrial Arts Index. The third project over $500. With fear and,trembling we was realized, in part, when, in 1911, the leaped into the void of possible deficit and H. W. Wilson Company extended the personal responsibility. Then, we resorted scope of the Readers Guide to include to frantic publicity; we implored all newspaper articles, and was realized still special and public libraries to order further when, in 1913, the New York copies; we sent specially prepared stories Times resumed publication of its well- to newspapers and to trade periodicals. known Index which had been discon- As a result we had 70 or more special tinued since 1909. write ups - and then the orders began Another important publication of these to roll in! early days, not issued by S. L. A. but of Encouraged by this success the Asso- inestimable value in spreading the special ciation planned another Directory - of libraries viewpoint, was the pamphlet Commercial Information Services. A few entitled "Special Libraries " by our years later this publication was marketed well-loved fellow member, Richard H. in the same manner and also proved to be Johnson, which appeared as Chapter 8 a money-maker - not to mention its in the Manual of Library Economy practical value to special librarians and published by the American Library to research workers in the fields of Association. economics, finance and statistics. In this early period, SPECIALLIBRARIES In the field of publicity -to lay the was the principal publication venture of basis for increased sales of future publica- April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 109 tions - two other publications were of greatest importance to the Associa- issued. The American Library Associa- tion, were derived from this service. tion published, partially under their own In the November, 1931, issue of and partially under S. L. A. imprint, a SPECIALLIBRARIES appeared an "His- pamphlet entitled "Workshops for As- torical Review of S. L. A. Publications, sembling Business Facts," which was 1910-31," in which the anonymous au- designed to carry on the educational task thor stated : "To scan the progress of the created by Brother Johnson's pamphlet 21 years of publishing is interesting and on "Special Libraries," above mentioned, it is also interesting to note how closely and the pamphlet entitled "Commercial we have held to the program as formu- Libraries and the Department of Com- lated in the first year. The influence of merce" which was designed to tie up S. L. A. has made itself felt in two ways S. L. A. with the Hoover program of -by publications outside of the asso- business efficienw and to secure national ciation that grew from ideas within the recognition of the importance of special membership and promoted by them library service to business. (P. A. I. S., Industrial Arts Index, and The publicity and profit outcome of Times Index), and by those aids to the these post war experiments emboldened profession actually compiled and printed the association and an enlarged program by S. L. A. (Special Libraries Directory, was adopted which definitely put S. L. A. Directory of Commercial Information into the publishing business. In 1923, the Services, etc.). The Association can well Association was advertising on the back be of its (publication) accom- page of SPECIALLIBRARIES six separate plishments." publications: the Special Libraries Direc- So much for the fairly successful "tre- tory; the Handbook of Commercial mendous twenties." Then came the Information Services; Workshops for "tiresome thirties " which demonstrated Assembling Business Facts; the Pre- the need for mqre careful scrutiny of all liminary Report of the Compittee on publication projects from the cost versus Methods; Commercial Libraries and the profit viewpoint. Although I do not have Department of Commerce; and a reprint the exact figures for substantiation I am entitled Bibliography - Foundation of of the opinion that this period has Scientific Research by W. A. Hamor. By demonstrated the need for more atten- 1931 the complete list of S. L. A. publica- tion to types of publication to be under- tions, the great majority dating since taken, cost of such publication, and scope , 1920, totalled more than 30 items (in- of probable buying market. cludingreprintsfrornS~~~1~~L1~R.4~1~~).The ideal, in my estimation, would be Aside from separate publications the to develop a series of reference publica- "tremendous twenties " witnessed an- tions - such as the Special Libraries other outstanding development which Directory and the Directory of Commer- made SPECIALLIBRARIES self-support- cial Information Services -which meet ing. Herbert 0.Brigharn, who, like Lapp, a general need and revised editions of was Editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES for ap- which may be issued at short periodic proximately eight years, was most largely intervals. I think we could easily extend responsible for the development of this series to include five or ten standard SPECIALLIBRARIES as an advertising reference works for which there would be outlet. Because of his efforts SPECIAL an assured market and from which the LIBRARIESbecame a recognized adver- Association could secure a dependable if tising medium and substantial revenues, moderate increase to its annual income. 110 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4

In addition to such publications, how- sponsorship of leading scholarly, &en- ever, we must consider the more special- tific, library and other national bodies. ized types of publications such as bibliog- Under this plan S. L. A. would send raphies of restricted appeal, the sales the typed copies of its highly specialized market for which is necessarily limited. bibliographies to the Documentation Efforts in the past to print these special- Institute, where they would be offidally ized lists in SPECIALLIBRARIES, or as registered and filed and notice of this separate pamphlets, have not brought in action, including a brief description of the a proportionate income. The solution of list or bibliography would be printed in this problem may be found by the adop- SPECIALLIBRARIES. Then any member tion of a new policy regarding such desiring a copy of the item in question publications. would communicate with the Documen- The cost of printing these publications tation Institute, which would supply, at of restricted appeal is out of proper reasonable cost, a micro-film copy of the relationship to the sales return. This fact, required document. Thus S. L. A. would however, may be overcome by the be relieved of editing, proofreading and duplication of the more important lists printing costs; of advertising and sales or bibliographies by less expensive meth- promotion costs, and of stock storage ods, such as mimeographing, multi- and other incidental costs. graphing, or multilithing. A series of Furthermore, under this latter plan processed publications of this'type might S. L. A., through the Documentation be offered to our members and to others Institute, could undertake to make at a reasonable cost which nevertheless generally available a much greater num- would make such publications perhaps ber of specialized lists and bibliographies slightly better than self-supporting. than it could ever hope to issue in printed This plan, however, should be applied or processed form. only to those lists and bibliographies of As already stated by other S. L. A. relatively wide appeal. I do not believe historians, the publication record of our that those of the most restricted appeal organization has been enviable. It is my could be handled on a satisfactory cost firm belief that the adoption of a program basis by the Association. For this latter such as that advocated above, will go a class I suggest that provision for dis- long way toward extending this basic aim tribution be made through the agency of while, at the same time, it should aid the new Documentation Institute now materially to put S. L. A. activities on a being created in Washington under the self-supporting basis. Solving the Problems of a Pamphlet Collection By Margaret G. Smith (Continued)

Special Pamphlet Serics such as the Bureau of Standards Tech- nological papers, or Farmer's Bulletins, If the library possesses a long string of publish their own indexes or price lists, publications of one institution or of a the use of which saves the librarian the government bureau, it is cheaper to trouble of cataloging or indexing. A small shelve them or file them as a separate col- amount of time spent in checking the col- lection. Most collections of this sort, lection against the index, reduces the April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES need for cataloging or classifying. If there collections of material on that subject is some reason why it is desirable to cata- which do not otherwise appear in the log, the clipping of a duplicate set of in- catalog. dexes and mounting them on catalog Colored cards to indicate different cards will not only answer the purpose, classes of material may be used. For but will provide more information than example one library uses blue cards for can be typed on a card. Incidentally, books, white ones for periodical refer- duplicate copies of lists or indexes should ences, orange for pa ent subject analyt- always be checked. Nothing is more ag- ic~,and yellow for pi tentees. In turning gravating than for one index to be mis- to any compound in the catalog, such as laid or in use and no other copy available. quinine for instance, if a patent is desired, the blue and white cards are automati- The Question of Cataloging cally disregarded. Likewise,when hunting Having considered the pros and cons of for an article by M. R. Jones, all the the various ways of handling pamphlets, yellow cards and blue cards under his in the library, let us consider for a mo- name are eliminated. Color is of use when ment the cataloging of them. Cataloging some particular specialty in the library is in a special library may use short cuts, of much more importance than the rest, and omit some items from the cards, but and it is expedient to indicate its occur- it is fundamentally based on a sound rence to save time in searching. knowledge of general cataloging. In a sci- ence library, for example, there is not Classifying the Colleclion much point in using the author's full It is necessary to have an adequate name, and generally the initials will suf- classification working in the library be- fice; however if the publication is one of a fore trying to start classifying pamphlets. series, whether government, university, Of course, no standard classification fits a foundation or any other institution, a special library precisely, and must be series card is most important. Many a adapted to fit the collection at hand. Too publication in a special library is known many librarians make the error of work- to the clientele only by the publisher and ing out a minutely detailed classification, the number. Generally, title cards are a which is quite grand when they have it waste of time as material is not asked for finished; but the progress of science and by title but by subject. Subject headings economics will outmode any but the most are of great importance and more so in a fundamental divisions in ten or fifteen special library where there is no check years. All decimal classifications are list or organized source for them. The im- weak. After having used up ten major print is useful in that it serves to identify divisions, there is no room left for expan- the publication, but unless there is some- sion, and the inclusion of some future thing very special about the publication, eleventh or twelfth major division in its all the collation except the main paging appropriate and reasonable place. Some or number of volumes can be omitted. of the recent classifications using letters The liberal use of "see" references in and a decimal system seem more adapt- the catalog, will save much duplication able for expansion. of cards. "See also" references are not Pamphlets on the shelves must follow used as much in the special library cata- the library's classification, but it is better log, as much of the material is entered to follow the major divisions only than to under specific headings. They are used in try to work each publication into the the catalog to refer to pamphlet or other minute decimal division it should fit into. B 112 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4 In other words, it is better to group on terminology, and the term in current use the shelves all the pamphlets relating to in the profession and used in the indexes paper, for example, in a library not de- will never be found in a dictionary or voted to paper as a specialty, than it is to encyclopedia. A third source for subject try to subdivide them into various phases headings is Sears "Subject headings for of the paper business. Of course, the small libraries.'' The special library will number of pamphlets on the subject be able to get only very general headings determines what is to be done with them. from this book, but it is an excellent If there are 300 pamphlets on paper guide for making cross-references. alone, it would be utterly foolish not to The most common method of making subdivide them according to some classi- subject headings in special libraries fied arrangement, while if the library seems to be by the trial and error method. possesses only five pamphlets on the sub- These are a few things which are helpful: ject, it would be just as ridiculous to try first, to adopt a sensible and consistent to fit one under paper pulp, another on scheme of procedure, making sure that the sulphite process, etc. all headings used in the various indexes are carefully checked, and the cross- Subject Headings references, if any, noted. Cross-referenc- The worst part of the pamphlet busi- ing liberally, a few good "see" refer- ness is the assigning of subject headings. ences, means a saving of much time and There is no one source which a special effort. Little of new terminology will ap- library can follow, so it becomes neces- pear under that term in indexes, and it sary to set up either a list of one's own will be necessary to call in the expert in headings, or check several sources for that field, and get his suggestions regard- suitable headings. There are three types ing terminology. of sources; the first are the Indexes, Specific headings are the most desir- general and specific. The special library able and least complicated to use. In a can get the best subject headings from small collection on a specific subject, these. An old copy of Readers' Guide, In- there is no point in using general head- dustrial Arts Index, or Chemical ~bstraits ings. On background material, for ex- may be used as a base. There is a great ample, for a mathematics collection in a advantage in following the terminology chemical library which is necessary for in one of the standard indexes, as the occasional use, it is probably wiser to use " refer " and "refer from" references are general headings. The headings should usually indicated. For specific headings, follow current terminology, not only of use the index most closely related to the literature, but of the organization. your own field; for general headings, an Inverted headings are not as good as old copy of one of the standard library specific headings, but this is usually the indexes, such as Readers' Guide, can be beginner's method of attack. Their use used, and the headings used carefully gathers too many things under one head checked. The second source for subject in a narrow field of interest, but inverted headings is found in encyclopedias, dic- headings are a good means of pigeon tionaries and handbooks of the subject; holing a new undetermined heading un- the only trouble being, that they are of til the terminology adjusts itself and be- little use for the material which is just comes stable. Then it is necessary to re- appearing in print, and isn't old enough catalog or re-subject head all material to have found a place in the dictionaries. under that heading. It is not advisable to Also, dictionaries are exact in their use many general subject headings in the April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES specific field of interest, but a few well- mounted on paper, with the source care- chosen ones are necessary as dumping fully noted, or placed in envelopes, and grounds until better places can be found the source noted on the clipping itself. or better headings originate in the litera- The mounting or envelope has the ap- ture. On the other hand, general headings propriate subject headings written on it on borderline or general material are very and it is filed. In one large library where desirable in a special library, as they statistical information is compiled largely group together related material, which by clippings from papers, and journals, under individual specific headings would the clippings are mounted on sheets of be lost in the mass. It is good practice to paper of different colors, blue denoting use main headings freely, until the bulk dividend notices, for example; and these of material warrants a breakdown into are bound together in springback folders. subdivisions or other subject headings. Photostats can be treated in the same It is a waste of time to try to anticipate way, and if there are several pages, they the literature, and make specific subject should be stapled together, and the refer- headings until the subjectexpands enough ence from which they were taken care- to warrant the work. fully noted. There is nothing more ex- In placing subject headings on pam- asperating than a photostat of p. 21-23 phlets, the most important factor is visi- of Liebig's Annalen with no indication of bility. It makes little difference whether which of the 400 or more volumes it came the top right or top left corner is used, but from. Sometimes they can be identified most people seem to prefer the right. by author or subject matter, by means of The headings may be written on, or an index; and if not, they may as well be typed labels pasted on. Various colors of thrown into the wastepaper basket. If labels may be used to indicate different the library possesses a large collection of sorts, classes or groups of material, or photostats, it is sometimes better to special things about the collection which make a separate collection of them rather need to be brought out. Colored binders than to try to scatter them in the vertical or folders in the Information File may be file. One of the simplest means of doing used to indicate different types of mate- this, providing the photostat is cataloged rial, for example, a brown folder for a under author and subject, is to give it a photostat, a yellow envelope for a special number and file it numerically in a file set of clippings, etc. drawer or on the shelf. The number ap- pears on the catalog card, to locate it, Eguifiment for the Pamphlet Collection and it can be charged for circulation, Before discussing the equipment neces- merely by number. In a library which sary for the pamphlet collection, let us finds it wise to maintain an inventory of consider the other types of ephemeral photostats, a simple ruled book may be material and permanent material which provided in which the numbers are en- are likely to be found in a special library. tered in serial order together with a brief These consist mainly of clippings, re- author entry, and the periodical refer- prints, translations, maps, charts and ence. This constitutes an adequate shelf blue prints. Science libraries do very list. Discards can be marked out with a little clipping preferring to preserve their colored pencil, and the cards removed periodical material perfect and in long from the catalog; those lost, and known strings. Many other libraries clip articles only by number can be identified, the of importance and add them to their In- catalog checked, and a replacement or- formation File. Clippings may be either dered. The same technique can be used 114 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4 for other sorts of material of which there should be plentiful (most libraries skimp is a large bulk, for instance reprints of on these) and sufficient to hold the mate- articles by members of that company. A rial in place. Without sufficient guides similar scheme was employed by the li- the material slides down and gets an brarian who was called in to catalog a acute case of the "bends." Stiff envelopes large steel company's blue print depart- sealed, and cut open on the long side ment. Blue prints present all sorts of make excellent filing envelopes. An problems mostly due to size. An occa- envelope not sufficiently stiff allows sional one fits best into the Information everything to slide down into it. The un- File, but several hundred of them should even packages of material make the use be treated as a separate collection, with of a good grade of filing folder impera- either a number or subject heading tive. Some prefer a folder with projecting scheme relating to them exclusively. lip for the label, others use a straight Maps can usually be put in the Informa- folder with a label pasted in the corner. tion File under geographical subject Colored labels for special types of mate- heading, unless a collection is maintained rial under a subject heading are con- and then they are best hung in a map venient to use. Cross-references may be case, and filed geographically. Cards for pasted on the guides, or a special guide these may be made for the catalog, and card used, or they may be typed on a this is usually done in public libraries. It card and that card attached to the guide is doubtful whether special libraries card. They should not be put on cross- would have enough maps to warrant such reference sheets in the front of folders treatment, unless that library is con- such as is the common practice with cerned with civil engineering, mining or correspondence. A half a folder makes a geology and has a special collection of good cross-reference guide, and the use of such maps. a different colored label for the cross- Some libraries, particularly advertising reference is a help in searching for mate- ones, make a collection of pictures. rial quickly. Visible index folders are too These are not filed with the Information expensive for general use, but do offer the File, but are maintained as a separate advantage that the slip can be changed at collection under the appropriate subject any time to a new heading without in- headings in filing cases. The reason for juring the folder, and with a minimum of the separation is not due to the differ- time. ence in the physical make-up of the mate- rial, but to the difference in the type of The Question of Discarding subject headings used by each. There is one advantage in a permanent It is pretty well agreed that the legal pamphlet collection over a transitory size filing case is best to house the In- collection, which is that the permanent formation File. Most pamphlets are 6 by collection needs little, if any weeding. 9, and two of these can be placed side by The transitory collection whether shelved side in the legal size drawer, but can be or in file cases, has to be regularly and filed only one after the other in the periodically weeded, that is the material standard correspondence size. This leaves looked over, and that which is considered several inches on the side for the pam- of no value thrown out. Many libraries phlets to slide and slip around. All files have weeding programs, and weed at should have sliding drawer supports, so stated intervals; others have a continu- that the maximum amount of filing space ous process. For instance, one library can be obtained from the drawer. Guides goes through its whole Information File April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 115 every two years, and discards about 10 business. Someone will inevitably ask for per cent of the total. In another very it, and doubt its lack of value so it is well large collection the process is continuous. to keep it on hand for exhibition pur- Every time a folder is taken out, the poses. material is examined before filing, and that which is over a year old is discarded. Summary This means that every piece put in the To sum up briefly, pamphlets give Information File must be dated. Some- new and current info mation in compact times whole topics will lose their im- form. They can be 6btained from three portance, and the whole collection may different types of sources. Treatment of be thrown out. Temporary statistics are them depends mainly upon whether they often issued in pamphlet form apd fol- are of permanent or transitory value. lowed later by more complete and final Those of transitory value may be housed statistics, and the temporary ones are in vertical file cases, as an Information discarded. Even pamphlets on shelves File, or shelved as a Pamphlet Collection. must be gone over and discarded. It is Those of permanent value are best cata- probably easier to discard classified loged and treated as part of the book col- shelved material, than Information File lection. The advantages and disadvan- material. tages of each method should be carefully Just because a pamphlet is of no value considered. Cataloging and classifying for the information it contains is no rea- follows the same general basis as that son to discard it. Sometimes it is well to used for the book collection. Other types keep it, to prove this point, especially if of ephemeral material may require differ- it has been noted in the literature of the ent treatment. Good equipment is de- subject, and the title indicates a close re- sirable for the storage and use of pam- lation to some phase of the company's phlets. Microphotography for the Special Library By Yernon D. Tate Chief, Division of Photographic Reproduction and Research, The National Archives, Washington, D. C. ROM its inception photography has paper print. The third, called micropho- Frendered great services to libraries, tograph~,has attained relatively great particularly to those with specialized prominence in recent years. collections. At present, photographic Microphotography is the making of contributions may be classified in three reproductions of manuscript or printed general groups. The first is the familiar material which are reduced to such a de- photographic print made with an ordi- gree that some method other than direct nary camera and processed in the usual visual examination must be employed to manner, of which picture collections and read them. In other words, a microcopy book illustrations are examples. The is a miniature facsimile on film, glass, second is the direct paper reversed copy. paper, or other substance. This process has become so well identi- Microfilming has many uses in the li- fied with the products of the Photostat brary. Rare or fragile materials are be- Corporation that the name "photostat" ing preserved economically and sheltered has become synonymous with the direct from the dangers of haphazard consulta- 8 * SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4 tion. At the same time their contents are use to one organization in one city, the readily available. We are all familiar problem is not difficult. On the other with the great changes in the art of mak- hand, if an organization possesses many ing paper in the nineteenth century branches remote from the central library which brought- about a tremendous ex- collection, quite a different situation pre- pansion of printing. Unfortunately, wood- vails. The library of the Department of pulp paper has not withstood the rav- Agriculture in Washington contains an ages of time; hence, many eighteenth outstanding collection of books and files century books are in far better condition relating to all phases of agricultural en- than books of the middle or later nine- deavor. It is a special library. The De- teenth century. By making films from partment of Agriculture has branches materials printed on wood-pulp paper and also maintains close contact with and by removing the originals from cir- universities, agricultural colleges, and culation, many valuable volumes will experimental stations throughout the be safeguarded for posterity. country. Suppose a library on the Pa- Almost contemporaneously with these cific Coast desires to borrow from the changes in paper manufacture, substi- Department library a bound volume or a tutes for printing or aids in the art of periodical on inter-library loan. Perhaps recording made their appearance. The 10 or 20 pages are all that is required. typewriter, the hectograph, the mimeo- Still, the library must subject the entire graph, to mention a few, have facilitated volume to the danger of being damaged the reproduction and dissemination of while traveling across the continent and data, but at the same time have created back. The possibility of loss and replace- a mass of transitory or fugitive mate- ment cost must be considered, and for rial. Any librarian or scholar faced with the month or six weeks that the book is a block of duplicated material or a in transit or on loan it is not available for pamphlet collection can comprehend the consultation by any other agency. Fur- attendant labor involved in preserving, ther, the financial outlay on the part of assembling, filing or binding, and main- the borrower is not inconsiderable. The taining such files. A recent Government franking privilege will carry the volume experiment, known as the N.R.A., and to its destination, but in most cases re- its contemporary, the A.A.A., produced turn postage and insurance must be voluminous quantities of hectographed, defrayed by the borrower. Here was a mimeographed, and other cheap proc- challenge to a new technique. Micro- essed materials. The accumulation of a photography answered the challenge and file of these was a problem. How to keep through the kindness and coijperation of it, once obtained, was an even greater Miss Claribel R. Barnett, librarian of the problem. Both the N.R.A. and A.A.A. Department of Agriculture, the Biblio- code hearings were placed on film. In Film Service was formed. that condition they are permanent, easy The Biblio-Film Service is a non- to consult, convenient to store, cheap to profit organization supported in part by maintain and the original cost was the Department of Agriculture library slight. and in part by Science Service. It has The circulation of books perplexes installed a camera, together with the many librarians. To loan or not to loan- appropriate processing mechanism, in that is the question. Administrative the Department of Agriculture, and has economy usually dictates that loans shall offered to scholars, scientists, librarians, be made. If the books are restricted in and the general public a service at once April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 117 valuable and exceedingly cheap, Thirty- it for a few years, and the microcopies five millimeter motion-picture film is save from 85 to 97 percent of the storage employed, with two pages being placed space that would be necessary to care lengthwise on the film for each so-called for the originals. double frame, which merely means that A more universal problem, however, is each page of the periodical or book is re- that of newspapers. These flimsy, fragile, duced 7 or 12 diameters from perhaps 6" important records are indeed a problem. by 9" to %If by %Ir. It is possible to ob- The impermanence of their wood-pulp tain at a cost of one cent for each page, paper has long been recognized. The high together with a service charge of 10 cost of binding a volume is well known; cents for each order to cover mailing, a the amount of space occupied by a file facsimile of all or part of any book or when bound is considerable; the ease of periodical housed in the Department of consultation is negligible; still, the news- Agriculture library. This is indeed an paper is one of the most valuable records outstanding achievement. The library of contemporary thought and life. At one need no longer fear for the safety of its time, certain large metropolitan dailies books, for they are kept within its walls printed limited miniature rag editions and are accessible at all times. The re- as a permanent record. The expense, how- cipient need not pay excessive trans- ever, was found to be prohibitive. It is portation charges for the temporary loan possible now to microcopy satisfactorily of a volume. Instead he purchases at a a year's file of newspapers for less than relatively low cost a facsimile copy of all the cost of binding it. The space occupied material of interest to him, including by the microcopy is less than one-tenth graphs, pictures, charts, tables, maps, of that required by the originals. Con- etc. sultation is far easier. In short, micro- Let us return to the problems of the copying offers a most essential and eco- library itself. Space is always at a pre- nomical method of mace conservation. mium. The National Archives possesses Let us consider card files, or more par- approximately 10 million cubic feet of ticularly the index to the Veterans' Ad- storage space. Surveys show that this ministration papers in Washington. It entire area could be filled more than happens that many of these papers were twice over bv Government records now transferred to The National Archives. in existence, without providing for the but the one inclusive card index covering annual rate of accumulation, which in both current and past records could not itself is staggering to contemplate. Much be spared by the Veterans' Administra- of this material is intrinsically very val- tion. Hence, an anomalous situation uable: hence. it must be housed and con- arose: some of the papers were in The sulted with the maximum of care. On the National Archives, the index (comprising other hand, much of it is merely infor- over 2,600,000 cards) was in the Veter- mational in character; that is, the docu- ans' Administration. Because of the re- ment itself is not valuable but the in- cent pension Iegislation, these past rec- formation it contains may subsequently ords have become increasingly active. prove to be exceedingly important. Can- As a matter of fact, no one who has not celed bonds, receipted bills, paid checks, had immediate contact with them can filled-in forms. and tabulations of all conceive of their scope. Indeed, in 1934 kinds are examples. It is possible to the United States Government was still microcopy and house facsimiles of this paying pensions to two widows of the material for less than the cost of storing War of 1812, and in 1935, to one widow. 118 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4 It was decided to reproduce this card in- was not carried through in its entirety dex. If it had been duplicated by any with photographic techniques, as it method known at the present time other could have been, it is possible to obtain than microcopying, the cost would have from it some idea of the tremendous econ- been between $26,000 and $75,000. Ac- omy which can be effected in work of this tually, it is costing approximately $2,000 nature. to reproduce. The file is very carefully It should be pointed out, however, arranged with guides for about every 100 that a microfilm card file is a relatively cards. It is then microfilmed by machine inflexible device; that is, only closed or in accordance with a special procedure slow-growing files may be placed on film. developed for the purpose. Cataloging The chief obstacle encountered is that of exoerts state that the microfilm card file filing in. It may be possible, however, to is easier to use than the original file and solve this difficulty in the near future. that consultations to it are far more Progressive thought directed toward the rapid. microfilming of card files indicates the A project in card filming which has desirability of consulting them by means attracted considerable attention is the of card-locating machines or stroboscopic Union Card Catalog for the libraries of index readers. It is now possible on a the Philadelphia area being prepared laboratory scale to index or key each under the guidance of Mr. Paul Vander- microfilm card and employ a photo- bilt and financed by Federal relief funds. electric cell as a selector device; hence, in This very significant project was carried the future it may only be necessary to out in the following manner: A crew of classify and key all card files according operators with high-speed rotary photo- to any standard cataloging scheme, then graphic machines visited each library in to run the entire film through a high- the metropolitan area and photographed speed automatic machine which will stop the entire card file on 16-millimeter film. the moment that the information is The film was then transferred to a cen- found, or which may even print off a note tral point, or workshop, where typists card or reference card automatically. prepared catalog cards directly from the Similar applications of the photo-electric negatives as they were projected in a cell permit tabulation and many other viewing machine. Catalogers then ar- related operations. The frontiers of ranged the material. While this scheme microfilm card files are widening daily. (To be continued) What Our Membership Figures Show By Maud 6.Martin, Chairman, Membership Committee we first glance at our mem- 278. Of the total loss, however, 190 weie WHENbership statistics and see that on dropped for arrears, in accordance with June 1, 1936, our total membership was the provision of the new constitution, 1,776, and that on February 28, 1937, it leaving 152 who died, resigned or were is only 1,712, our first reaction is one of transferred. It must be mentioned in this horror at the falling off, but on close connection (in our present system of analysis we discover encouraging aspects. keeping membership records) that those Our total loss in members from June included in the "transferred " classifica- 1st to February 28th was 342, our gain tion reappear as new members. While April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 119

190 seems a large loss in the total mem- on a quarterly pro rata basis, we must bership, we must remember that these also remember that the next month and a have obviously been disinterested. half are the final lap in the race for the What are the encouraging factors? gavel, and we may hope to continue to do First, that we have cleared out the dead as well as we did in February when we wood, and secondly, but not secondly in took in 60 new members. importance, we find that while the The tables printed below give these majority of our losses have been among figures in detail, together with Chapter Associates - 265 out of the total 342, standing in paid and unpaid dues for Institutional 8 and Active 69, our gains 1937. Four chapters showed completely have been Institutional 25 and Active paid up dues for 1936, Connecticut, 102 out of the total 278, showing a net Montreal, New Jersey and Pittsburgh, gain of 17 Institutional and 33 Active. and of these Connecticut was paid up on On revenue balance we, therefore, are December 31 1 The Chapter Membership practically $200 to the good. As far as Chairmen have been emphasizing paid anticipated revenue is concerned, the up dues steadily all year, and we are gain is considerably more. While we may sanguine enough to believe that the have to drop more members for arrears majority of their members shown below before May 31, since our dues are payable might be paid up by May 31st.

S. L. A. Membership Statistics-Status as of February 28, 1937 * Chapters Institvtional Active Associate Total P LIT PUT P U T PU T Albany ...... 1 1 2 5 5 10 448 Baltimore ...... 4 1 5 8 5 13 20 20 Boston ...... 10 4 14 43 19 62 $6 68 144 Cincinnati ...... 3 .. 3 639 1 10 11 Cleveland ...... 1 1 2 Connecticut ...... 6 6 Illinois...... 9 '2 11 Michigan...... 71 8 Milwaukee...... 3 1 4 Montreal...... 3 2 5 New Jersey. .... 16 3 19 NewYork...... 67 10 77 Philadelphia .... 10 2 12 Pitteburgh ..... 5 5 San Francisco...... 5 1 6 S. California...... 2 1 3 Unaffiliated...... 10 1 11 ------Total. .. 162 31 193 450 260 710 401 408 809 1,013 699 1,712 P- Paid; U- Unpaid; T - Total. S. L. A. Summary as of February 28, 1937 * Number of Members Institutional Active Associate Tdal Total, June 1, 1936...... 176 67 7 923 1,176 From June 1, 1936, to February 28, 1937: Gains...... -25 -102 -151 -278 Sub-Total ...... 201 779 1,074 2,054 Losses: Arrears...... Other...... ------Net, February 28, 1937...... 193 7 10 809 1,712 * Prepared at Headquarters. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. '4

Something New under the Sun

speaking at conventions is men- Each delegate on registering will re- ALLaced by two pitfalls. It must not be ceive one pamphlet. This will contain the so dull as to bore the listeners. If it is to complete program of the convention, the be printed, it must not be so light as to complete set of printed reports, notes of lose value for permanent reference. what to see and do in New York and a The speaker's mood may be airy and liberal amount of advertising applicable entertaining; he may carry his audience to the convention and S. L. A. This one along without conscious effort on their pamphlet, containing all needed informa- part. Too often in this case his remarks, tion, will take the place of the half dozen captured in cold print, seem hardly qual- items we have been dropping and picking ified for reservation. up at previous conventions. The reports Another speaker may have prepard a will later on be reprinted in SPECIALLI- report or an address packed with valuable BURIES from the same type. observations and statistical deductions. At the business meeting, Friday morn- On the printed page its value is instantly ing, each officer, chairman and chapter recognized ; in oral presentation too often president who has occasion to report will the attention of the audience wanders not read the printed matter already avail- far afield. able but will speak briefly on some out- Certain reports are always made at the standing point in his work and will an- S. L. A. convention. The President, the swer questions. Delegates are expected to Secretary, the Treasurer and the Editors coiiperate by at least glancing through give an account of their stewardship. the reports during the week and being Leaders of committees, groups and chap- ready with questions on any points that ters tell what they have done during the interest them. year and outline their plans for the fu- Notice has already gone to every per- ture. All these reports are made perma- son who will take part, notifying him of nently available by inclusion in the pro- the date when copy must be in hand. Be- ceedings number of SPECIALLIBRARIES. cause of the necessity of printing the pro- Their value as printed matter is obvi- gram in advance, the reports must be ous; but, during the reading how many of written up a little earlier than usual. you have fidgeted or looked out of the Will each officer, chairman and president window or surveyed the hat three rows consider this page a personal appeal ahead? When so many reports are dealt to him to make this innovation a suc- with at one session, a certain amount of cess first, by turning in his written repetition is inevitable. Figures and per- - centages are sometimes included, and report on time, and second, by pick- there is difficulty in appreciating their ing out one salient feature for oral significance. comment. How, then, shall we avoid these two "There is no new thing under the sun," pitfalls? At the June convention some- said a writer rich in wisdom. Possibly thing definitely new is to be tried. The not, but changed approaches, changed reports will be printed and available to methods and changed emphasis are po- every delegate, and the report makers tent factors for infusing old matters with will discuss their work informally and the vitality of new. answer questions. HOWARDL. STEBBINS,President April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Conference News STREAMLINED convention, with leader of discussion. Mrs. Marie S, ~~ff, A time enough (well, almost) for all E. I. du Pont de Nernours & Company, the exciting things you want to do in Inc., Caroline W-Lutz, General Motors New York- that's the program now Corporation, Florence Bradley, Metro- practically settled for the 29th conven- politan Life Insurance Company, and tion of Special Libraries Association at others will take part. Thursday evening the Hotel Roosevelt, June 16th to 19th. comes the banquet and this will be a Except for the Executive Board and Ad- gala event! visory Council meeting, Wednesday morn- Friday morning brings the general ing is free for group meetings, registra- business session (but short!) and at the tion, greeting your friends and visiting afternoon session, on "Shop Talk," with some of the famous metropolitan libra- Ruth Savord, Council on Foreign Rela- ries. The Financial, Public Business and tions, Inc., as leader of discussion. Kath- Insurance Groups have a joint session erine D. Frankenstein, Batten, Barton, Wednesday afternoon featuring " Busi- Durstine & Osborn, Inc., Rose L. Vor- ness Information Service." At four-thirty melker, Cleveland Public Library, Je- there will be a tea where S. L. A. mem- rome Wilcox, Duke University, and Alma bers will have a chance to renew old C. Mitchill, Public Service Corporation friendships and hear the latest news. A of New Jersey, will be speakers. On Fri- joint meeting of the Commerce, Insur- day afternoon the National Industrial ance, Financial and Social Science Groups Conference Board will give a tea to mem- will be held that evening. Speakers (and bers of the Financial Group. Friday eve- they will be outstanding) for their joint ning we play - refined amusement or meeting will be announced in the May- cultural entertainment, as you desire. June issue. Saturday is Columbia University Day, At the first general session on Thurs- with open house in the morning at all the day morning, Rebecca B. Rankin, New campus libraries and a tour of the new York Municipal Reference Library, will library building, followed by lunch at the . welcome the convention to New York; Faculty Club. Dr. Williamson and an- William F. Jacob, General Electric Co., other speaker are on the propram. The ' and our first Vice President, will respond balance of the week-end is yours to com- for the Association. Howard L. Stebbins mand; breakfast, Sunday, at the Rain- , will give his President's Address, and a bow Room, Rockefeller Center, from one symposium, "Looking at Ourselves," to three o'clock is sure to appeal to most will be held with speakers, to be an- of you. The next issue will also give the nounced later. " How to Run a Library " individual group plans in detail. If you will be discussed at the afternoon general have any further suggestions or wishes, session, with Eleanor S. Cavanaugh, send them to the Convention Chairman, Standard Statistics Company, Inc., as Hazel E. Ohman, at once.

Special Libraries Association Convention Committees Hazel Eleanor Ohman, Convention Chairman Program : Banquet : Eleanor S. Cavanaugh, Standard Sta- Florence Bradley, Metropolitan Life tistics Corporation, Inc., Chairman Insurance Company, Chairman 122 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4

Travel : garet M. Miller, Standard Oil Com- Ernest F. Spitzer, Consolidated Oil pany of California, San Francisco Corporation, Chairman Southern California - Katherine J. Chupter Representatives: McCreedy, The Sixth District Agri- Albany Capitol District -Alice Delp, cultural Association, Los Angeles Railroad Young Men's Christian Columbia Day: Association, Albany Rose Boots, Marvyn Scudder Finan- Boston - Albert H. Davis, The F. W. cial Library, School of Business, Faxon Company, Boston Columbia University, Chairman Cleveland - Mrs. Bertha J. Whidden, Registration : The Cleveland School of Art Ruth von Roeschlaub, Financial Li- Michigan - Mrs. Louise P. Dorn, The brary, Central Hanover Bank & Detroit Edison Company Trust Conlpany, Chairman Montreal - Mrs. Mabel E. Beving- Entertainment: ton, Department of Immigration Dorothy M. Avery, General Library, and Colonization, Canadian Pacific New York Telephone Company, Railway, Montreal Chairman Philadelphia - Joseph C. Cassel, Pub- News : lic Relations Department, The Au- Alma Jacobus, Time, Inc., Chairman tomobile Club of Philadelphia Olga Anderson, Time, Inc. Pittsburgh - Edna Casterline, Mel- New York Chapter: lon National Bank, Pittsburgh Mary Pierson McLean, American San Francisco Bay Region - Mar- Bankers Association, President

Travel Information for the June Convention special convention rates have been ONEWAY FARESTO NEWYORK From Coach Fare 1st Class Fare ALLabolished since last summer when Albany, N. Y.. . . $ 2 85 $ 4.30 the new, low rates went into effect. The Baltimore, Md.. . 3 75 5.60 Boston, Mass. . . 4 60 6.90 table given here lists coach and first Cincinnati, 0...... 15 .05 22 55 class one-way fares from the various Cleveland, 0...... 11.45 17.15 Hartford, Conn.. . . . 2.20 3.30 chapter cities to New York. There is no Chicago. Ill...... 18 20 21.25 reduction on round trips so that the Detrort,.Mich. . . . 14 16 21.50 Milwaukee, Wis.. . . . 19.90 29 80 round trip rate is twice the one-way rate. Montreal. Canada. . 8.45 12.05 The first class rate represents the basic Philadel~h~a.Pa. . . . 1.80 2.70 Pittsbuigh! Pa. . . . 8.80 13.20 cost of Pullman transportation. To this San Franc~sco,Cal.. 49.41 92.85 the cost for the accommodation desired, Lo6 Angeles, Cal. . . . 43.41 91.50 c.g., chair, lower berth, upper berth, etc., 2. By Boat must be added. Bnal 10 New From L~nr York, one my Round Tnp Please note that all tickets routed over Albmy, N Y (1) Hudson River Day Line L.00 13.60 the N. Y. Central Lines will bring you to (2) Hudson River Nlght Llna 2.60+hb- 6. Wtatab Grand Central Terminal which is di- rmm (11.00 room (S1.W UP) UP) rectly connected with the Roosevelt Bmton.Mpsa Enabrn Bhmhip 6 W+atak 8.Wtatate- Llnm room (11.00 rmm (81.00 Hotel by an underground passageway. UP) UP) The Roosevelt can be reached from 3. By Air -Air Rates to New York Pennsylvania Station by taxicab or sub- From One Wn Round Tnp Line Bmbn Masa 8 25 M, Amarim Air Lisa way (Interborough Rapid Transit Co.). 0incind.ti. 6. '' . ~d 68 55 hwit- hrLirm April, 1931 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 123

From Our Way C-, 0. . . . 28 Rg%Tr&tsdLj&, the George Washington Bridge (to up- ChimmIII...... a0 06 71 80 TWA. 47 95 M.80 Amenan &Unjba town New York). Daboit Mioh. a.1o hcrirmhrL'na In connection with driving in New MI' :: 44 96 76.W TWA. 96 hm-"Utd York City attention is called to the MontrdCd. . 23-- 40-~ 42 10 ~itbburrblP... . 18.06 &io , . m 2a.m berimvn,tsa following trafficregulations : 130.96 261 W TWA b~a.~df.. IM m 288 m (a) Even-numbered streets carry eastbound one-way traffic; odd-numbered etreete carry west- 4. By Bus bound one-way traffic. There are some exceptions Bus RAT&. TO NEWYORK such as 14th St., 23rd St, 34th St., 42nd St., (Greyhound Bus Co.) 59th St., etc., which carry two-way traffic. From Onc Way RoundTrip (b) NO turns on red light are permitted except Albany, N. Y...... $ 2.00 $ 3.60 where designated. Baltimore, Md...... 3.10 5.60 The Rooeevelt Hotel is located at Madison Boston, Maes...... 2.95 Cincinnati, 0...... 11.25 2i:i55 Avenue and 45th Street. Inasmuch as the hotel is Cleveland, 0...... 8 75 15.75 located in a restricted zone, there are no garages Hartford, Conn...... 1.50 2.70 in the immediate vicin~ty.Cars can be left at a Ill...... 12.95 23.35 garageat $1.00 per day; they will bedrivento the Detro~t,Mich...... 9 95 17.95 ~il~~~k~~,wia, ...... 13.05 23.50 hotel or to the garage for 25b each trip. As a means Montreal, Canada. . . . . 7.25 13.05 of saving money, and for convenience, it is sug- Pittsburgh, Pa...... 6.75 12.15 gested that members leave their carsat thegarage NOTE.-Watch for special excursions! and use the transit facilities instead. NOTE.- Please contact the Travel Committee 5. By Private Automobile member~--~-~ in vour local chaoter lor information on The two important approaches from special excursions, etc. the West and South are the Holland ERNESTF. SPITZER, Tunnel (to downtown New York) and Chairman, Travel Committee.

Official Notices Notice of Annual Meeting Keck, Librarian, Joint Reference Li- As required by By-Law VIII, Section brary, Chicago, Ill. 1, notice is hereby given that the annual Second Vice President - Alma C. Mitch- business meeting of Special Libraries As- ill, Librarian, Public Service Corpora- sociation will be held Friday, June 18, tion of New Jersey, Newark, N. J. 1937, in the Hotel Roosevelt, New York Treasurer - Adeline Macrum, Assistant City, in connection with the annual Editor, Industrial Arts Index, The convention of the Association. H. W. Wilson Co., New York City HOWARDL. STEBBINS,President Director for Three Years - Mary Jane ELIZABETHLOIS CLARKE,Secrekzry Henderson, Librarian, Sun Life Assur- ance Co. of Canada, Montreal, Quebec. Nominating Committee Report JAMESF. BALLARD DOROTHYBEMIS HE Nominating Committee submite FLORENCEBRADLEY Tthe following list of candidates as ALTAB. CLAFLIN officers of Special Libraries Association FORDM. PBTTIT,Chairman for the year 1937-1938: NOTE.- The Directors whose terms President - William F. Jacob, Librarian, have not expired are Miss klarguerite Main Library, General Electric Co., Burnett, who retires in 1938, and Mrs. Schenectady, N. Y. Charlotte Noyes Taylor, who retires in First Vice President - Mrs. Lucile L. 1939. 124 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4

As the last &ring President, Mr. pointed annually by the Executive Board. They ~~~~~d L. stebbins continues to be a shall have charge of their respective publicationa subject to the editorial policies approved by the member of the Executive Board. Board. The Editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES shall at- tend the meetings of the Executive Board, and . Proposed Amendments to the shall have the right to speak on any question be- Constitution and By-Laws fore the Board, but not the right to vote. Thc N ORDER to clarify certain points services of any editor may be terminated after I in the constitution and by-laws the thirty days' written notice by either party. Committee on Constitution and By- The purpose of the first change is to Laws, and the Executive Board, have limit the power of the Executive Board to agreed to recommend three changes to fill vacancies, when the term of any va- the Association, to be voted on at its cant office extends beyond the next an- 1937 annual meeting. nual meeting of the Association. The proposed amendments appear The purpose of the second change is to below, new ort changed matter being do away with possible confusion as to the printed in italics: powers and responsibilities of the Com- Constitution, Article IV, Executive Board mittee on Constitution and By-Laws. Section 2, Vacancies: Any vacancy occurring The purpose of the third change is to in the Executive Board by reason of resignation limit attendance of editors at sessions or death may be filled by a majority vote of the remaining members of the Board, the appointee lo of the Executive Board to the editor serve unlil lhe next annual election. of SPECIALLIBRARIES only. As SPECIAL Constitution, Article VII, Amendments LIBRARIESis the journal of the Associa- Section 2, Proposals: Amendments to the Con- tion this editor is particularly charged stitution may k proposed in writing by the with interpreting the actions and policies Executive Board, by the Committee on Consti- of the Board to the membership at large. tution and By-Laws, or by any twenty-five For the Executive Board voting members of the Association, except that @ofiosals origimting in the aforesazd Cornmillee HOWARDL. STEBBINS,President. shall be rcported $?st to the Executive Board. For the Committee on Constitution By-Law X, Publications and By-Laws Section 2, Editors: The Editors shall be ap- DORSEYW. HYDE,JR., Chairman. Letters to the Editor A Correction from one member of the Cincinnati Chapter of MS that I was in error in stating in my S. A. 1:;: of last fall that Mi= Haax is doing Through much of January 1937 the weather certain indexing ~~w.iththe approval of the ten- was mild and it rained. All day long and for many tral Statistical Boardu and that many people days it rained. It was not normal winter weather. have an impression that she is now preparing Then the Ohio River began to rise. Cincinnati has indexes under the direction of the Board. At the 26 miles of front on the Ohio River. High water request of Miss Joy, theBoardls Chief Economist, is unusual and a flood is a fairly frequent I am asking you to publish this note to correct event. Just a word about the river. Today the that impression. river gauge is 16 feet. We call over 53 feet flood MARIAC. BRACE,Chazrman stage. But 79.99 feet was a new and different Committee on Indexes to Sources story. And just a word about the topography of Statistical Information Cincinnati. As the Ohio rose so did the Little Miami River running through the eastern part Flood Time! of the city, and Millcreek running through the REAT disasters, like the 1937 flood in the western part The bottoms, M, called, are occu- G Ohio River Valley, are a different experi- pied by storage, factory, wholesale businesses, ence for each one affected. This account is just very modest houses, and some parks. The bottoms April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 125

flooded. The retail district is on a plateau Finally the "Ten wet days" paseed. The rivu far above the bottoms. The res~dentsections are began to fall and the worst was over. Normal on hills back from the river and far higher. These actwities returned in added numbers each day. are never in danger of even this year's high water. Finally there was even a regular water supply Black Sunday, January 24, everyone glued and a bath. There was electricity enough allowed themselves to the radio for reports. These became for the usual uses, and phone calls were en- blacker and blacker. The City Water Works couraged. pumping station went under water and there If you have never seen the mew which follows would be no water for anyone. The two electric a flood you cannot imagine what the flooded parta generator stations of the Union Gas and Electric of this city look like. Personal property which Co. became flooded, and lights, radios, refriger- had not floated away was shoveled out with the ators, street cars, and street hghts went out. mud. Houses look all the same shade of mud tan. Even a few gas mains broke and added to the There was little loss of life, and little illness, but discomfort of those in certain sections. Then a the loss of property and personal possessions was fire broke out covering three miles in length and terrific. The whole of this story will never be one-half mile in width. The entire Fire Depart- known. The long pull now will be rehabilitation. ment was placed into action and they fought this This will last for years. fire with water pumped from flooded Millcreek. In the main the special libraries in Cincinnati Reports came of huge oil and gasolme storage were all closed. One librarian had to vacate her tanks off of their foundations and floating here second floor apartment, when the water came up and there to add to the hazard. the street and into the cellar. No special libraries Now of course there were many citizens and were in the water. The Cincinnati Public Library their families to be rescued out of houses which had some book loss from Deposit Stations and were used to floods, but many others from homes never before in the water. Most of ua were just from two branches into which the water came, shut in, living without many of the things we and of course books were left by many in their liked, and getting nervous over what might hap- flooded homes. pen next. We are back to normal with a new time desig- The city authorities were wonderful. A holiday nation B.F. and A.F. (Before the Flood and schedule was declared and all but food stores were After the Flood.) closed. The Red Cross and all aocial agencies E. GERTRUDEAVEY, were organized for relief. There were many more Aeld Represcntalivc volunteers willing to help than could be used. Cincinnati Public Library Over the Editor's Desk S. L. A.'s Marriages. . . . We hear Institute of San Francisco, is now Mrs. rumors of the wedding of Elizabeth W. Canton. Willingham, of Fenn College, chairman Moving Here and There. . . . Mary K. of the Employment Committee of the Armstrong has succeeded DorotheaVance Cleveland Chapter, - but details of to Hall as librarian of the General Statisti- whom and where are not yet available. cal Department of the Gulf Oil Corp., . . . Fern De Beck, librarian of the Pittsburgh. . . . James Brewster, acting Ricker Library of Architecture of the state librarian for Connecticut, has re- Univ'ersity of Illinois, is now Mrs. Arthur ceived his permanent appointment as S. Davis. . . . Constance Beal, cataloger successor to George Goddard. . . . Mrs. of the Russell Sage Foundation Library, Florence M. Hartman is now librarian of is now Mrs. Adams. . . . In October, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadel- 1936, the Secretary-Treasurer of the phia, succeeding Miss G. Jeannette Cra- Baltimore Chapter, Miss Ruth E. King, ven. . . . Miss Eileen d'Acre Smythe, assistant librarian of the Maryland former librarian of W. Atlee Burpee Casualty Company, was married to Mr. Company, Philadelphia, is librarian of Jesse Gore. . . . Doris Asplund, a mem- the Engineering Division, RCA Victor ber of the library staff of the Mechanics' Division, RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc., 126 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4 at Camden. . . . Mrs. Anne Bochow, the beaten track for its meetings, the formerly assistant librarian of the Finan- Southern California Chapter met in cial Library of the Central Hanover March at the engineering laboratory of Bank and Trust Company, New York, is Electrical Research Products, where Mr. now librarian of the Department of Phil- K. F. Morgan told of the work. His talk anthropic Information of the same bank. was followed by demonstrations of sound . . . Jeannette Randolph is now libra- films. . . . At the San Francisco Bay rian of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Chapter's February meeting, Mr. Dwight New York, succeeding Ruth Earnshaw. Newton, librarian of the Sun Francisco . . . Leila K. Henderson has recently Examiner, gave an entertaining and prac- joined the library staff of the Bell Tele- tical talk on his work and then took the phone Laboratories, Inc., New York. Chapter on a personally conducted tour . . . James Lyle Bruce, for the past four of the library. . . . The March meeting years assistant curator of the Bostonian of the New York Chapter was held at the Society, has been placed in charge of the New York Telephone Company, where Society's collection, as successor to a fascinating demonstration of "Science George R. Marvin, who died in Janu- Behind the Telephone Lines " was given. ary. . . . We have just had news of the . . . The Montreal Chapter attended a appointment last fali of Barbara Beetle meeting of the Quebec Library Associa- as librarian of the Amos Tuck School of tion in January to hear Mrs. Mary Dun- Administration and Finance, Dartmouth can Carter speak on library publicity. College, succeeding Mrs. Constance W. At the Chapter's February meeting, Pro- Burbank. fessor Leonard Marsh, head of the Mc- S. L. A. is delighted to welcome back Gill University School of Social Research, to its membership Edith Phail, now Mrs. spoke on "The Balance Sheet of the Curtis Prout, of Summit, N. J. As chair- U. S. S. R." . . . The March meeting man of the Industrial Group, 1919-20, of the Boston Chapter was held at the director 1918-19, and an active worker Emerson College of Oratory, with Miss for industrial libraries, Miss Phail's en- Marjorie Knapp, librarian, .as hostess. thusiasm did much for the Association. The topic of the evening was "Quality Chapter Meetings. . . . The plans for Collections," a talk by George Brinton the final meetings of the season for the Beal, an instructor at Emerson College. Albany Chapter are well under way. The . . . On Thursday, March 25t11, at the March meeting was held in the New Algonquin Club, Boston, there was an York State Library, where rare and early organization dinner of the Friends of the newspapers and other historical records Library of Massachusetts Institute of of the State of New York were discussed. Technology. Mr. Hensley represented At the April meeting, Marian C. Manley the Boston Chapter, and Mr. Stebbins will discuss the part played in the devel- the S. L. A. . . . The State of New opment of library business service by a Jersey, in coijperation with the New Chapter of S. L. A. The May meeting Jersey Council on Adult Education and is to be at the General Electric Com- the American Association for Adult Edu- pany's "House of Magic". . . . At the cation, called a conference on adult edu- February meeting of the Milwaukee cation for April 2, 1937. As one of the Chapter, Miss Mamie Rehnquist dis- several interested organizations invited cussed knotty reference problems in con- to cooperate, the New Jersey Chapter nection with government documents. of the S. L. A. sent two delegates- In keeping with its practice to get off Alma C. Mitchill, President of the Chap- April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 127 ter, and Marian C. Manley, Chairman of ventions, the ASLIB Annual Conference the Program Committee. at Cambridge, September 2427, is an Exhibits. . . . The Chairman, Mil- added attraction. The conference is to be dred A. Lee, Atlas Corporation, of the held at Gonville and Caius College. From New York Chapter's Financial Group, is the enthusiastic comments on these con- looking back with some satisfaction to ferences by Miss Low and Miss Meixell, two strenuous occasions, - the Mid- S. L. As's delegates for the last two years, Winter Trust Conference and the Spring these dates should b kept in mind. Savings Conference of the American On Be Educations 9Front. . . . At the Bankers Association. This Financial invitation of the A. L. A. Board of Edu- Group maintained model library exhibits cation for Librarianship, the Training at both these conferences and distributed and Recruiting Committee of S. L. A. an excellent pamphlet compiled for the will meet with that group on Saturday, occasion, covering books, periodicals, June 19th1 just after the close of the services, as well as a list of subjects cov- S. L. A. conference and prior to the open- ered in the vertical files. . . . For the ing of the A. L. A. . . . The chairman March meeting of the Northern New of the Committee, Mrs. Margaret G. Jersey Chapter of the American Chemical Smith, was asked to contribute an article Society, the New Jersey Chapter ar- to the Hunter College Bulletin on the ranged an exhibit of books on patents, possibilities in special library work. . . . including a chart showing the relation Marian C. Manley (Business Branch of of the library to patent work. the Newark Library), Betty Joy Cole Directories. . . . The Philadelphia (Calco Chemical Company), and Ann Council can breathe a sigh of relief and Staley (New York University, Wall sit back for compliments in connection Street Division), were asked by the vo- with its "Library Directory," recently cational director of the New Jersey Col- published. This fifth edition covers 209 lege for Women to talk on various fea- libraries, giving librarian, address, hours, tures of special library work at a voca- telephone number, descriptive notes for tional conference for the students. . . . the library, and both a personnel and Mrs. Mary Duncan Carter, formerly as- topical index. Advertising for the direc- sistant director of the McGill University tory shows the existence of excellent Library School, Montreal, is now director support in Philadelphia. The directory of the School of Library Service, Uni- has an attractive format, and the chair- versity of Southern California. . . . Af- man, committee members and editors ter twenty-four years as director of Sim- deserve congratulations for their work. mons College School of Library Science, . . . The new "Directory of Special of which many special librarians are Libraries in the New York Metropolitan graduates, Miss June R. Donnelley is re- District" is in process of preparation, tiring at the end of this session. Herman with Delphine Humphrey, of McCann- H. Henkle, of the faculty of the Uni- Erickson, working hard to get the ma- versity of Illinois Library School, has terial compiled and off the press for the been appointed director to succeed Miss convention. Donnelley. Mr. Henkle's keen interest Conferences. . . . June is to be a busy in special library problems will assure a month for librarians, with S. L. A. hold- continuance of Simmons graduates in the ing its convention one week, and A. L. A. special library field. holding it another week. For those who Here and There in Print. . . . The set sail for England soon after these con- March, 1937, issue of American Busiwess, 128 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4 published by the Dartnell Corporation, did in his own life, a tremendous breadth ran a double spread, "Information While of interest. You Wait," illustrated by photographs The general library covered the field of of sections of the special libraries of the manufacturing, management, economics, National Association of Real Estate business, personnel, organized labor, and Boards, the Travelers Insurance Com- some of the legal phases touching science, pany, the Abbott Laboratories, the invention and operation. As a result of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Com- this gift, New Jersey will be a Mecca for pany, the First Wisconsin National students of electrical engineering. Bank, and the Portland Cement Associa- Another treasure in the field of engi- tion. . . . In the February issue of The neering that New Jersey is fortunate Exeress Messenger, the monthly publi- enough to , possess is the collection of cation of the Railway Express Agency, Vinciana assembled through many years Inc., D. B. Gilchrist, librarian of the by the late John W. Lieb of New York, University of Rochester, wrote about and given to the Stevens Institute of "The Best There Is in Transportation," Technology Library in 1932. In the in- in moving the famed Samuel Johnson troduction to the catalog, Maureen Cobb Collection from Buffalo to Rochester. Mabbott writes, "This unusually com- . . . The New York Woman for March 3 ulete edition of Leonardo's works is not has an amusing note about the telephone only the largest in this country, but in- reference library of the New York Tele- cludes all the facsimiles that have been phone Company. published to date. It is the only collection Our friend and advertiser, L. A. Wells, of Vinciana that has been formed by an of Waltham, Mass., has sent out a blotter engineer with an emphasis on Leonardo's carrying Massachusetts, New Hamp- mechanical genius, and it therefore con- shire and Vermont library notes, and a tains general works on the history of section on Special Library Notes with an aviation and techniques out of the prov- announcement of the convention and a ince of other collections." quotation from John Cotton Dana, In Memoriam. . . . Reginald T. Elmes, S. L. A.'s first president. institutional representative of the Dis- New Jersey's Good Fortune. . . . By tinguished Service Foundation of Op- the will of the late Dr. Edward Weston, tometry, and a member of the Boston the Newark College of Engineering re- Transcrifit editorial staff for more than ceived his entire general and scientific twenty years, died early in March. . . . library, all the scientific apparatus, and Word has been received of the death of the models, drawings, and all material in Olive L. Morrow, formerly librarian of connection with Dr. Weston1s patents the Aeronautics Reference Library of the in the field of electricity, which num- U. S. Department of Commerce, Wash- bered something over 300. ington. . . . Adelaide V. Dougherty, of The general scientific library consisted the National Council on Compensation of approximately 16,000 volumes of sci- Insurance, died early in February. . . . entific works and about 110,000 transac- Miss Alice L. Stewart, children's libra- tions of scientific societies in American rian at the Perkins Institution for the and foreign countries. Of particular inter- Blind, and a graduate of the institution, est and value were certain transactions died February 21st after a brief illness. of societies in Italy, Czechoslovakia,Rus- . . . Sympathy is expressed for Rev. sia, Germany and France. The scientific William J. Cloues, librarian of Andover- books alone comprise a valuable collec- Newton Theological School, in the death tion, and they exhibit, as Dr. Weston of his wife, who died February 25th. April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 129 Publications of Special Interest

Adamson, E. I. So you're going to a psychia- valved in fair and conststcnt regulation of such diverse trist. Crowell, N. Y. 1936. 263 p. $2.50. methods as aviation, railways, plpe hnes, water and motor transporhtlon, are gvcn due welght. Government A simply written, logical discussion of psychological versus prlvate ownership, suhs~diesand methods in other problem In development. Number of apt ~llustrations cauntrles all receive attention. Clear and readable. u8.d Not indexed. Harrison, L. C. and Laine, Elizabeth. After Allen, E. W. North Pacific. Professional & repeal. Harper, N. Y.1936.296 p. $2.50. Technical Press, N. Y. 1936. 282 p. $2.50, A study of present-day I~quorcontrol made under the Interestlug notes on Alaska with particular stress on ausptces of the Institute of Public Admlnlstratron. Givcs the fishing industry. The rcktlons of Japan and Siberia a clear picture of the d~fferentmethods In effect In the to Alaska are discussed and parts of each country de- various states and the parts played respectlvcly by local. rcrihed. A chapter on libraries in Japan is included. state and federal governments. Comparison of regulations Bibliography with good annotations is ~ncluded. and costs given. An able treatment of an administrative Basset, E. I.Zoning. Russell Sage Foun- problem. dation, N. Y. 1936. 275 p. $3.00. Hopkins, J. A. Elements of farm manage- A study of the growth of zoning rcgulat~ondur~ng the ment. Prentice-Hall, Inc., N. Y. 1936. first twenty years. Includes comprehensive referencte to 390 p. $2.20. court cases. The effect of varlous factors in developing An excellent text on the operation of the average farm, auch regulation 1s considered. Some definitions are in- coverlng the general organization, crop systems, llvestock cluded. The baok provides a clear, authoritative account systems, the economical use of power and labor, budgeting of an Important civic movement. Comprehensive and the necessity of records, markets and external factors bibliography such as rise and fall of prices. It g~vesthe costs and expected returns on various farm crops and llvestock, Bates, Sanford. Prisons and beyond. '~ac-and points out some of the fallacies the average farmer is millan, N. Y. 1936. 334 p. $3.50. likely to meet In considering profitable and non.p~ofitahle The former U. S. D~rectorof Prisons writes clearly entcrprlses. The tables and charts are worthy of note, and conslructlvcly of present and future programs In- both for smpl~cityand for their pertinence to the sub~ect tercstlng notes on prison activities arc given, as well as speclfic mention of libraries in prisons with particular Jackson, J. H. Mexican interlude. Macmil- reference to the Lewishurg nenltcntlary. lan, N. Y. 1936. 232 p. $2.50. A delightful record of an automobile trlp down the Beale, H. K. Are American teachers free? famous highway with its occas~onallyhazardous mome~lts. Scribner, N. Y. 1936. 855 p. $3.50. The color and charm of hlulco is caught while the references to contemporary artlsts and writers add inter. In part twelve of the Report of the Commission on eat. Many excellent photographs A fascinat~npintroduc- Social Studies, Dr. Beale has produced an engrosalng and tmn Not indexed. Includes sketch map of Pan-Amcrlcan arresting picture of a fundamental problem of our educa- highway. twnal system. The many factors involved m the questlon, and the mass of evidence affccting its consideration and Luengen, M. B. Professional cosmetology. solutlon ale treated in a masterly fash~on.A book that cannot be m~ssed by anyone fundamentally concerned Chas. S. Morris, Los Angeles. 1935. 704 p. with the country's growth. $5.00. A comprehensive questlon and answer trealment of the Copeland, J. F. Every day but Sunday. technical s~deof beauty parlor work lncludlng detallcd Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, Vt. descriptions of treatments from manicures to faclal mas. 1936. 294 p. $2.50. sage and giving many formulas ior cosmetics Glossary included. Th19 pleasant record of the development of ~ndustry in a New England town from the Revolution to the Millis, Walter. Viewed without alarm. twent~ethcentur) shows it8 variety, and the step-by-step Houghton, Mifflin, Boston. 1937. 79 p. methods of its growth. Easy to read. Much illuminating mcident. Includes excellent b~hliography. $1.25. Slight sketches of Russia, Germany, England and Dana, Julian. Man who built San Francisco. travel problen~son the conttnent that give a seasoned and Macmillan, N. Y. 1936.397 p. $3.50. hopeful pcrspectlve on the Man in the Street and hi1 relation to war. A consoling bok in whlch tragic para- The spectacular story of the great Californian pro- b~litiesare recognlred but to some extent discounted b~ moter and financier, Wiln~anC. Ralston, told wlth per- an exper~encedobserver. haps too much color and incldent of San Pranc~sco development for unity, but giving a vivid plcture of its Millspaugh, A. C. Local democracy and early days. Includes a list of references. crime control. Brookings, Washington. Duncan, C. S. National transportation prob- 1936. 263 p. $2.00. Y. 1936. 315 A clcnr analysis of the forms and ~ntcr-relationof state lem. Appleton-Cgtury, N. p. and local governing un~ts,how they developed, their $3.00. ful~lreand thew poss~ble place In any reorganization The whole field ia cmsidcrcd, and the problenls in- scheme. Well presented and documented 130 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 4

Newfang, Oscar. Economic welfare. Barnes ities in a folder to be used in seeking positions. Rather & Noble, N. Y. 1936. 187 p. $1.50. tw much drrussion before getting to the basic features. No indu. A brave attempt to relate future economic welfare to world harmony and repulatron. An independent ap- Ratzlaff, C. J. Theory of free competition. proach without hlbliograph~cal references Univ. of Pa. Press. Phila. 1936. 341 p. Ostrolenk, Bernhard. Electricity for use or $3.00. for profit. Harper. 1936.211 p. $2.00. A review of the writings of the classical nnd current economists on thin basic [actor. Freely documented. Long An effective though mmewhat dramatic discussion of unannotatcd bibliography including book, pamphlet and the value of the yardstick in electric rate fixing. Easy to periodical refcrencca. read hut giving many refcrencea to source data. Gives illustrations of rate changes caused by competition and Richards, H. I. Cotton and the A.A.A. on the other hand examples of stock manipulatron at the Brookings, Washington. 1936.389 p. $2.50. expense of the investor. Another careful study of national economic prohlema Parker, W. E. Books about jobs. Amer. Lib. well arrangcd to show the situation needing Improve- Assoc., Chicago. 1936. 402 p. $3.00. ment, the means taken to relievc the problem and the rwulta of the methada. Carefully documented and in- This brbliography of occupational literature is well cluding many chnrts and tables. arranged and annotated and gives adequate hibllograph- ical literature. If it had been posslhle to include more Richards, R. H. Robert Hallowell Rich- current references, its value would have been greatly cn- ards: His Mark. Little, Brown, Boston. hanced but for a hook published in October 1936, it accms 1936. 329 p. $3.00. weak in 1935 references. With improvement in that di- rection it wlll be ~nvaluable.It is now an Important tool A record of the development of mrning engrncerlng and in thc use of vocational Iltcrature. the unassuming and delightful autobiography of a great teacher of the the subject who was associated wlth Parkins, A. E. and Whitaker, J. R., eds. Our Massachusetts Institute of Technology from ~tsbegin- natural resources and their conservation. ning and for 49 yeare. The lntervsting aspccts of his lifc from hrs lmyhwd in Maine to his schooldays In England Wiley, N. Y. 1936. 650 p. $5.00. and New England, in his association with a brilliant wife, The many aspccts of the conservatron problem prc- one of the few women members of the A. S. hI. E., all sented by speclal~stsin each field. Prrmarily for textbook contribute to the charm of the book. use, it also affords an excellent handlmok. Many maps and statistrcal tables included. Good blhliography by Ross, Ishbel. Ladies of the Press. Harper, subject. N. Y. 1936. 622 p. $3.75. Parsons, E. C. Mitla: town of the souls. A fascinating baok full of incident, recording vividly the part played by woman in the newspaper world. The Univ. of Chicago Press. 1936. 590 p. $4.00. number of people and angles covered is amazing, the An anthropologrst studres and describes the lifc of an material engrossing. Well mdexed. Has portrartr of forty Indlan town In Mexico. Includes sympathetic detarled leading women journalists. account of the customs In family and social contacts. Many illustrations from snapshots. Yaps rncluded An Sayles, M. B. Substitute parents. Common- interesting record of an early civrl~zat~onexistrng in the wealth Fund, N. Y. 1936. 309 p. $1.75. present day. The different considerations and traits ~nvolved in placing children in foster homes are consrdered and vari, PortrE-Bobinski, Germaine. Natchitockes. ous psychological features in child development drscussed Darneron-Pierson Co., New Orleans. 1936. from a sympathetic and sane pomt of vlew. Good de- 222 p. $3.00. scription of various cases and the parts played by the A local lr~storyvolume that grves many interesting children, the foster and real parents and the child placing old rccords of the early settlement Current material agency. rather narve Some old newspaper rccords included. Schmeckebier, L. F. Government publica- Inrerestlng illustrations of drfferent types of early wrought Iron work. tions and their use. Brookings Institute, Washington. 1936.446 p. $3.00. Price, M. P. America after sixty years. The author's complete famlliar~ty w~thgovernment Macmillan, N. Y. 1936. 235 p. $3.00. publicat~ons Insures a careful and accurate interpretn- The Amc~icantravel records of an English father and tion of their types and purposes and the cxisting tools for son, one kept in 1860 and the other more than sixty years their use, such ns check lists and guides. A list of later. Both puhhc servants, the records show keen ob- depasrtory I~brariesdivided Into groups with complete servation of aocldl condrtron?i, and an understandrng and and with selective collections is included. Irkral pornt of vrew. Not only New York and New Seldes, Gilbert. Mainland. Scribners, N. Y. Englaud but Utah, California, New Mcxico and the sooth are vrslted and commented upon. 1936. 443 p. $3.00. A dlscussron of Amerrca and the Americans in wbiclr Rahn, A. W. Your work abilit~es;how to lwht IS thrown on the jaundiced point of view of the In- express and apply them through man tclllgentsra, and attention focused on the underlying power specifications. Harper, N. Y. 1936. strength nnd courage of the average Amerrcan treatment of problems Includes sketches of individuals unique in 134 p. $1.75. thew contribution ranging from John Humphrey Noyes A practical method of playing up the individual's ahil- to Irving Berlin. April, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 131 Sherwood, M. H. From forest to furniture. Waldo, E. L. Dakota. Caxton Printers, Cald- Norton, N. Y. 1936. 283 p. $3.00. well, Ida. 1936. 459 p. $2.50. A delightful descriptive h~storyof woods, their native This informal story of terrltor~aldevelopment covers settings and their uses in furniture. The special qualittcs the r~vcrdaya, the hunt for gold, the tragedy of the md the decorative features of different species are well Custer Masaac~e,army outposts, Roosevclt in the Bad- described. Good Illnatrations. B~bhographyand table of lands and the adventures af the romantlc and an~b~t~ous condensed data on 60 woods ~ncluded. Marqu~rde Mores. Another harvest of the tales that go to make a country's trad~t~onBr~ef h~hl~o~raph~cal Spaetb Sigmund, Great symphonies. Garden note. City Publishing Co., Garden City, N. Y. Wall, Alexander, How to evaluate financial 1936. 361 p. $1.00. statements. Harper,/N. Y. 1936. 319 p. Entertainmgly written with 350 musical illustrations $4.00. from the great symphon~esMakes clear the purpose and A dcta~leddiscussion of methods of analys~s~llustrated structure of symlihonic muslc, and puts the important by care reports In dtfferent lmes of industry. Inclodes themes of thc syrnphomes in a form easdy rementbered. a chapter of definit~onsand formulae. For those wanting to Increase and un~fya alight knowl. edge of muslc. Wallace, I. S. Mexico today. Meador Pub. Co., Boston. 1936. 364 p. $2.00. Streeter, F. B. Prairie trails and cow town. An enthusiast~c account of things Mextcm, by an Chapman & Grimes, Boston. 1936. 236 p. ~rnpresa~onablebut un~nsp~redobserver Son~cnotes on $2.50. auto versus traln travel mcluded Many fair photograph~c The ltbrarinn of the Kansas State Colle~eat Port ~llustrntio~a.Some statist~caldata and list of fest;vals. Heyr has compded an mteresting collection of colorful Waltersdorf, M. C. Regulation of public anecdotes of Fort Dodge. Ellsworth, Abilene and other parts of Kansas. A vwid faotnote on a stage In tlic utilities in New Jersey. Waverly Press. country development. Good list of rcfcrcnces w~thrather Baltimore. 1936. 225 p. $2.50. inadequate b~bhogrnphicdetad. New Jersey serves as an illustration of comn~isslon resulation of publ~cutilities, and ~tsh~story, acti!~t~es Subcommittee on Nursing School Library. and results nre clearly and intcresttn(r1y treated. An im- Library handbook for schools of nursing. pressive amount of factual data on tlie state's develop- Nat. League of Nursing Education, N. Y. ment In these and related factors is included An Impar- t~albut analyt~cnltreatment Good bibl~ographyaud list 1936. 264 p. $2.50. of cases cited arc given A well arranged text that treats concisely the maln problems In the administrat~onof such a library; tncludcs a short readtng l~ston the subject, a carefully selected I~stof pcriod~calsfor tlie hbrary as well as one of sources of free and inexpensive material. The subject head~ngl~st Both Recornmcrukd for Lr#r Libraries from tlie Bellevuc School of Nurs~ngas well aa its class^. and Spezial Libraries by the A. L. A. ficat~onoutl~ne are also glven. A fine tool for the many aspects of the problem. Subscription Books Bullerin Sullivan, E. D. This labor union racket. Who's Who In Commerce Hillman-Curl, N. Y. 1936. 311 p. $2.00. and Indnstry Th~sso.called study of labr unions Elves many de- ta~lcdaccounts of d~fficulticsand unfa~thfulstewardship a cornbmcd Business ''Who's Who" and on the part of unlon offic~als,at the same tme commcnd- Corporation Directory nt a popular price; ing with fervor the development of company unions. contains names and addresses and com- Sweeney, H. W. Stabilized accounting. Har- plete biographies of officera of 4.445 per, N. Y. 1936. 219 p. $3.00. largest corporations and banks. Price A noteworthy contr~but~onto an understanding of basic $15.00 financial problems since it develops an accounting method based on price indues rather than on the dollar. Apnlica- Who% Who Among tlon to various industries, a public utility, a woolen mtll and a factoring company are given. Includes a chanter Amsodation Exeartives on objections and their answers. a lit of important trade and profeasiond Tarbell, I. M. Nationalizing of business, aseociationa, and biographical data relat- 1878-1898. Macmillan, N. Y. 1936. 313 p. ing to 2,700 of their secretaries and $4.00. managera. Price $8.50 A masterly summary of expansmn by different indus. Order from tries with spec~ficrcferencea carefully documented. In- cludes mater~alon organirmg movements of lahor and htltuta for Ransmh In Blo~.mphy,IUO. capital and the relatmn of pol~t~calevents to industrial 205 Emt Mad Strest. Naw York progress. Includes excellent cr~t~calconinlent on hibho- graphic sources of all kinds Y * Pages 132-136 deleted, advertising.