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Special Libraries, April 1926 San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1926 Special Libraries, 1920s 4-1-1926 Special Libraries, April 1926 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1926 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, April 1926" (1926). Special Libraries, 1926. 4. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1926/4 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1920s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1926 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 17 ~vril,1926 No. 4 The State Library Modern Society Making Better Business Men Unemployment Insurance Voices 01 F'inance Published Monthly Except August and September by . THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Contents ARTICLES Agricultural Libraries in the United States. Mabel Colcord 138 Atlantic City Conference ............................................................................ 139 Making Better Business Men. Grace D. Aikenhead ............... 135 State Library in Modern Society. Prof. Roscoe Pound ......... 127 Unemployment Insurance ........................................................................... 134 Voices of Finance. Leone T. Kohn ................................................ 13 1 . Bibliography on Illumination .................................................................... 15 1 Kinks in Correspondence ............................................................................. 151 Legislative Periodical ................................................................................... 151 Valuable Reference Tool ........................................................................... 151 . Assoc~ations.............................. 1 46 Library and Research......... 1 42 . Mail Bag .................................. 1 43 Editorials ............................... 1 40 Personal Notes ..................... 152 Events and Publications... 1 49 We Do This ........................... 1 44 Special Libraries Publishing office, 958 University Ave., New York City. Editorial office, State Library, Providence, R.I. Treasurer's office, 195 Broadway, New York City. All payments should be made to Miss Gertrude D. Peterkin, Treas- urer, c/o American Telephone & Telegraph Co., New York City. Entered an aecond olaaa matter December 17. 1823 at tbe Post Omce, New York. N.Y., under the aot of Marsh 3. 1818. AcceDtance lor mailing at eDecIal rate OI ~ostago Drolided lor in smtlon 1103, Aot of Octobcr 3, 1017, authorized December 17, 1029. Rates: 84.00 a yeor. Foreisn $4 60; single coulea 60 cents. Special L-ibraries Vol. 17 A&, 1926 No. 4 The State Library in Modern Society' By Roscoe Pound, Dean of Harvard Law School ORD ROSEBERRY referred to a li- action to the end that specialized effort brary as a cemetery for dead books. may go forward in security, and the di- SuchL it may easily be or may easily be- vision of labor may proceed unhampered. come. Yet it may be also that the In a developed society that social con- lifelessness is not in tile library, but in trol is itself differentiated and specialized, those who suffer it to remain no more and me get elaborate and complex SYS- than a repository for the storage of boolcs terns of law, highly organized lawmalcing to be viewed in Inass from time to time machinery, and complicated judicial and by the curious, or browsed in by learned administrative machinery to provide and idlers, or consulted here and there by enforce the precepts of the legal order on pedants. A library may be merely a col- which the social and economic order lection of boolcs to gratify instincts of have COme to depend. acquisitiveness and of display-a form Our task is both to lnaintain and tc> of that conspicuous waste which minis- further civilization. Ilence we have to ters to the desire for recognition and make both for stability and for progress. manifested superiority. More than one We have to ~llail~tainwhat has come library of antiquity, more than one li- down to us, to add to it and improve it, brary gathered by prince; king or state, and to transmit it so improved to those and more than one great private library who come ifter us. As social conditions of modern times, may have owed its change, as the economic order moves origin to these instincts. Again, a library forward, we have to express that prog- may. be a place of recreation for the pub- ress in the law. The traditional legal lic. It may be a sort of intellectual park materials register the social progress of or playground. Undoubtedly municipal the past; and wc seek to formulate the libraries today have some such function; social progress of the present in lawrnak- and it is a useful function. With such ing, as a condition of maintaining it. libraries we have no concern. Since the Such a task requires preparedness; and epoch-making work of Dr. McCarthy at the state library is a large factor in any Wisconsin, we have come to realize the plan of preparedness for the social and possibilities and the importance of an- legal problems of modern society. other type of library-the library which is a workshop, or better a laboratory, wherein to shape the materials and carry Tasks of Social Engineering On the studies required for the tasks of have sought to meet the tasks of administration and legislation in the corn- ,ilat one might social engineering plex society of today. in four ways. The first is the method Civilization involves a mastery over of authority. The social and legal order nature, both external nature and inter- as men find it is talcen to rest upon au- rial nature whereby we are enabled to de- thority. The laws are gifts of the gods velop human powers to their highest pas- or commands of the gods. Or, legal and sible unfolding. It involves an increas- political institutions were devised and ing interdepelldencc throu& specialized legal precepts were prescribed by the effort and division of labor. ~h~~ it wise men of old, and are to stand fast rests upon social control of individual forever on the authority of their wisdom. 'Address delivered at the 100th Anniversary of Massachusetts State Library, March 3, 1926. 148 SgE-CIAL LIBRARIES April, 1916 Or, the social organization, lepa!'and p preceptf..to each other, abrogating and litical institutions, and legal pwwprs are aeanding here and there, but making regarded as of immemorial aaftitfri& &I&.It was not till 1688 that Parlia- sanctified by long observance and rest- meht ,became supreme in England. Co- ing on an unchallengeable basis of cus- lonial legislatures began to assert them- tom. When men think thus, the most selves in the eighteenth century. In the that seems allowable is to interpret or last quarter of the eighteenth century the to develop logical consequences. Law- Declaration of Independence set free making takes the form of fiction. New thirteen sovereign legislatures to make precepts are introduced surreptitiously law freely. Bentham's activity in the by interpretation, by so-called correction science of legislation begins that same of the sacred text, or by declaration that year. But this was at the zenith of the the new is immemorially old. age of reason. Men were to reason as to what utility demanded and were to ex- A second method is the method of pure reason. In reaction from the faith press that reason in codes and statutes. Thus a second cause of the persistence of the Middle Ages in authority, a bound- less faith in pure reason came in with of rationalism in American legislation is the Renaissance. Men expected miracles that this was the theory of lawmaking of sheer reason. Law, legal and political when our institutions were formative. institutions, legal precepts were but em- A third reason is to be found in the bodied reason. They derived their au- simple conditions of pioneer America. thority from their intrinsic reason. All Versatility was a necessary quality of the that was needed for lawmaking was to pioneer. It was a part of his enforced draft into service the most powerful self-sufficiency. Unless he was equal to reasons in the community and instruct everything which an independent life re- them to exercise their reasons and put quired, he failed. If he could not do the product in the form of chapter and for himself whatever was to be done, he verse of the written law. This mode of must die or return ignominiously whence thought was at its height in the seven- he came. His social and political and teenth and eighteenth centuries. In the legal problems were simple. His com- eighteenth century it was believed confi- mon sense, his versatility and his inven- dently that by an effort of pure reason tive resource proved quite equal to them. jurists could make a code good for all The theory of legislation as a mere exer- men, in all places, at all times. cise of reason gave him confidence. No one can deny that his confidence and in- There are three reasons for persistence ventive resource enabled him to do great of this pure rationalism in American things. The Constitution of the United legislation. One is that it was the mode States and the state and Federal laws of of thought that prevailed when true leg- the legislative reform movement of the islation began, and in consequence has end of the eighteenth
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