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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

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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 and early part of ruled the science of legislation from its the nineteenth centuri~s, are standing beginnings. For let us not forget that witnesses to the efficacy of intelligent legislation is a thoroughly modern pro- effort. On the other hand, as the coun- cess. As has been said, the first law- try expanded, as economic development making was achieved by means of fic- went forward, as society became contin- tion, at a time when men believed that ually more complex and required higher law could not be made consciously. Long and higher specialization and division of after men began to make law deliber- labor, the efficacy of effort proceeding ately, they did so under a fiction, and only on common sense and natural rea- to some extent under a belief that they son, relying on pioneer versatility and di- were but ascertaining and declaring cus- rected only by good intentions, became tom. After they became aware that they less and less. Maine tells us that the were makimg law rather'than finding and capital fact in the mechanism of modern declaring it, for a long time they pro- states is the energy of legislatures. But ceeded cautiously, selecting from com- the conspicuous fact in recent political peting rules, harmonizing and adjusting thought throughout the world is lack of ,April, 1916 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 129 confidence in legislation. This reaction creation is not a making of something is an inevitable result of application of out of nothing. We must work with the the rationalist method in the complex materials of the past, giving them shape society of today. with the ideas of the present to the needs of the present. But what we suceed in Lessons of History doing with those ideas to meet those needs will depend largely or even chiefly Early in the nineteenth century, by way upon the materials with which we work, of protest against the institutional waste and the materials are given by the past and paper constitutiohs of the era of the and are given independently of reason. French Revolution, men turned from The lawyer perceives quickly that much reason to experience, and historical of which we complain in the administra- method superseded rationalism in legal tion of justice in our large cities of to- and political thought. Rationalism had day results from a disregard of history been scornful of experience and of his- and confident reliance on pure reason tory as a record of experience. What: and on pioneer versatility in the forma- men had done in the past showed us no tive period of American institutions. more than their imperfect reasonings and We cannot throw over wholly any of their attempts to put those imperfect these methods of the past. Authority, reasonings into the form of institutions reason and experience have 'each their and doctrines and precepts. The only place. In a busy, crowded, hurried lessons to be learned from history were world, which cannot stop to investigate lessons that our reasons could teach us everything at the crisis of action, much quite as well. When men saw before must be left to authority-but authority them the results of such thinking in the must be tempered by reason. In all our political excesses and legal extrava- constructive work of social engineering gances of the French Revolution, they we must rely on reason-but reason must began to throw over reason and to en- proceed on the basis of experience. We throne experience, interpreted by history, must draw on experiepce to save us in its place. Thus we acquired the mode from repetition of fmitless experiments, of thought that became dominant in the ,to give us an assured basis for reason- legal science of the last generation-the ing, to tell us what we may reasonably idea that law cannot be made, it can only hope to achieve by conscious institution- be found ; the idea of the futility of con- making and conscious lawmaking, and scious effort at improvement ; the idea where we must turn to other agencies that laws and institutions must and can of-- -..social control in reference to the law. only grow and that he who seeks to do Above all, experieke must temper the more than discover and plot the orbit of method of reason as the method of growth seeks vainly to ho what cannot reason tempers that of authority. The be done. method of the present ought to be one No one believes less than I in the doc- of reason on the basis of experience. trine of salvation by blundering and There are many signs that the juristic naive trust that social and legal problems pessimism of the immediate past is being will solve themselves, which this mode given up; that lawyers are coming to be- of thought involves. But it was a needed lieve once more that they can do things, corrective of the excessive faith in pure and are becoming conscious that the al- reason that went before it and we need ternative is likely to be an outbreak of not wonder that it has become wide- rationalist activity in which the legis- spread among the public at large in view lative steamroller will flatten out good of recent experiments in rationalist law- and bad alike in its destructive course making and rationalist overhauling of toward the ends which public opinion de- political and economic institutions in mands. Russia. We need to bear in mind when Revived faith in the efl'icacy of effort we berate the lawyer for his obstinate is demanded. But in order to achieve en- skepticism as to the efficacy of effort, during results it must be intelligent ef- that, except as an act of omnipotence, fort, scientifically directed and employed 130 SPECIAL L upon carefully chosen materials. In a crossings and turns, so the high-pressure pioneer era, retired army officers with operations of modern business requires some training in military engineering lines to be laid out and permissible might be the engineers of the beginning courses of conduct to be indicated in ad- of our railway system. In such an era vance. Even more the multiplication of we could rely upon apprentice-trained mechanical devices, with high potential or spontaneously evolved lawyers and menace to the general security, requires physicians and on volunteer generals. us to develop legal and administrative Today the pioneer versatility is failing machinery no less effective to maintain us. The medical profession has shaken the general security, and to do so as off the yoke of the pioneer and has done speedily as we may. wonders for the public health through Two governmental agencies are avail- specialization and scientific research. In able to meet the needs of our transition the last war we gave over the idea that from a rural agricultural society to an governed in the Civil Was. We have urban industrial society. These are leg- ceased to send civilians into the field islation and administration. Whether we with commissions to command army do things through the one 01- through corps and divisions and brigades on the the other, we must be prepared to do strength of their natural powers of them. To use a military analogy, we leadership. No one now believes in lay have been in a state of ,unpreparedness; engineering or lay medicine; and we and it bas been no one's duty to keep smile at the lay economics and lay finance us legally prepared. We have had no of the organized farmers of our western legal intelligence department ; no legal states. But what greater ground have aerial scouting service; no legal siege we for faith in the efficacy of well meant trains psepased in advance; no prepara- lay tinlterings in the domain of law? tion for any considerable drain upon our Here also there is a scientifically or- legal munitions. It has been no one's ganized body of experience. Here also duty to keep an eye upon the legal sys- there is abundant experience of what tem as a whole and on all its parts to see has achieved its purpose and what has what is working well and what is not, to failed of effect. Here also there are study the why in either case, and thus many things, known to the expert but not to provide suitable data for legislation manifest upon the surface, which must be reckoned with in all constructive ac- and administration. In legal matters, tivity. state and nation alike have no general staff. When a legal emergency con- I am not one of those who disbelieve fronts us, we must draw men from other in legislative lawmaking. It is idle to work for temporary service at the ex- declaim against it. Legislation is the pense of their real tasks. Our executive type of lawmaking of the maturity of the departments of justice are proSecuting law. It is the type most imtnediately and departments. Our judicial departments most completely responsive to public are a hierarchy of separate tribunals each opinion. Those who are inclined to with its own jurisdiction. For the most scoff at it should remember that legis- part the conception of a court as a lation solved the problem of provision bureau of justice has made little head- for industrial accidents when judicial de- way. Our legislative judiciary commit- cision had failed; and that the exigen- 'tees are compelled by the mere pressure cies of modern business preclude waiting of work, if for no other reason, to be for a slow process of judicial inclusion little more than sifting agencies. and exclusion to work out legal concep- If we think of the administration of tions for many a settled practice of mod- justice in terms of the military art as a ern manufacturing and marketing. Just social objective, we can no more obtain as the high-powered motor vehicles of this objective with the judicial armament today require us to mark out the middle and administrative methods inherited of the road upon the pavement and to from seventeenth-century England and mark out zones of safety and street shaped in the rural agricultural comrnit- April, 1916 SPECIAL LIBRAR'IES 131 tees of the nineteenth century than we of another institution fraught with great may expect to conduct a military cam- possibilities for legal preparedness. paign today with the mule trains and the When we prepare for war against injus- commissariat arrangements of the Civil tice and wrong-doing, as we prepare for War. We need urgently something in military and naval warfare, the state li- the nature of a ministry of justice brary must be at the very foundation of charged with the duty of active and con- our system. Here will be the reports, tinuous effort to make the law effective the documents, the statistics, the treatises, for its purpose-just as the courts are the recorded, digested and interpreted charged with the duty of effective ad- experience on which the legal general ministration of the law when provided. staff must act. Whether there is a The legislature will do the final sifting formal ministry of justice, as in Conti- and provide the sanction. But some one nental lands, or whether other bodies, must do the preliminary study; must per- such as the judicial council, develop and ceive the leaks to be stopped; must dis- the powers of these bodies evolve so as cover the anomalies to be pruned away; to makc of them in substance a ministry must find directly the advantageous prac- of justice, or whether, while such things tices to be extended, the conflicts to be are coming, we still rely upon zealous, abated, the inconsistencies to be recon- public-spirited volunteers, we have in a ciled, the overlappings to be adjusted, and properly maintained, properly equipped, the responsibilities to be imposed. SO properly conclucted state library a first long as this is everybody's business, it is condition of our tasks. We have already nobody's business. So much of the pres- a first item in our prograln of prepared- sure for legislation comes from selfish ness. May this institution, intelligently motives, that one who essays a real im- fostered, generously maintained and provement out of pure public spirit is wisely conducted, be put to the uses for not unlikely to be met with suspicion. the public service of which a great li- Yet as things are, most of what has been brary is capable. May it do such service, done has come about through such in the hands of well organized and com- volunteers. petent agencies of legal preparedness, as Massachusetts has made one notable to be rated deservedly among the chiefest step in the true direction in the setting instruments in the Commonwealth for up of the Judicial Council. And we are the advancement of justice-and justice met today to celebrate the anniversary is the first interest of men upon earth. The Voices of Finance By Leone T. Kohn, Editor, Service Bulletin, 'Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland RE are twenty-five thousand The feminine voice went on. "And so periodicals published in the United I have brought along these periodicals." States alone," the librarian's high clear Spreading them out upon the table, the voice was heard desperately trying to librarian suddenly paused-and listened. make an impression, "and even if only She heard voices that she knew could fifty of those were financial magazines- not be thosc of the men sitting opposite though, really, the number is many times her. Now the tones were more distinct. that-you yet would have to make a "I am American Bankers Association choice." Journal. My name alone tells you that The officers of the bank were inter- I speak for the bankers of this country csted. Each was accustomed to reading and to them, about the new nlovements the two or three journals that he just in American banking and finance. I often couldn't do without, and hadn't bothered picture, too, how the other half lives, I about others that might have been just mean the banking world outside of the as worthy of his attention. United States." 1996 139 SPECIAL L IBRARIES April, lcWhy,that's what I do myself," came take in the thriving Middle West." The the enthusiastic voice of Bankers Maga- modest boast was cut short by a mightier zine. "1 review the economic conditions 'one. in the foreign countries every tirtX, "What about the still more thriving though for the most part I concern my- Far West?" and the Coast Baltker self with American banking problems, swelled near to bursting. both theoretical and practical." A juvenile voice joined the friendly "Practical-that's me," was the un- fray. "I'm not nearly as old as you fel- grammatical but forceful outburst from lows-I've only recently celebrated my Bankers Monthly. "My business is to first birthday-but I'm proud of my teach the bankers how to run all their birthplace, and that's why I work with departments by showing them just how the bankers for its welfare and prog- other bankers are doing it-and doing it ress," and the youthful face of Fourth ~ucce~~fully.~~ District Banker and Manufacturer "I have that in mind, toon-this is glowed with the pride of work well done. Burroughs Clearing House spealcing- Now a dozen voices were raised in "only I'm not always so frank about it. chorus. "We are the Monthly Business I prefer that the banker believes himself Reviews of the Federal Reserve Banks. to be entertained the while I am really VJe tell bankers and business men just giving him suggestions how to do this and what is happening in their district. If that in his bank." they don't keep themselves informed, "The banker's daily worries are my it's not our fault. They ought-" A meat, also," chirped in Bankers Home fatherly voice interrupted. 1Mngazine. "Easy, easy, my children." The Fed- eral Reserve Bulletin was admonishing, "And I look after his mechanical and had a right to, of course, for the wants," came the staccato accents of banking and business conditions in all the Bankers Equipment Service Bulletitz. districts came within his range. An imposing rumble frbm the Bank The librarian was beginning to won- Director. "Like the rest of you, I am der. She knew there were many more concerned in seeing that a bank is run banking periodicals, and she could not right. Only I leave off where you other figure out how they'd all get a chance to fellows begin. I exist to tell the direc- speak. Besides, there were other kinds tors that it is their business to direct, of financial journals, waiting patiently or and just how they ought to do it, for impatiently for their say, And while the good of the bank and the avoidance conjecturing, she probably missed some, of legal entanglements." for already the not-exacting-banking "Legal entanglements-that might al- publications were making themselves most be my nickname," laughed the heard. usually staid-looking Banking Law Jour- "No one who in any way pretends to nal. "Without them I just simply follow the commercial and financial news wouldn't be." Which remark seemed to of the day can get along without me, enliven all the specialists at one time. Comnercial and Fimncial Clzronicle. My "Trust Companies give me a large ter- size and my make-up and my frequent ritory all my own. I am the magazine appearance all add to my worth." of them, by them, and for them." None offered to do battle. Only An- "And I for the saving banks," was the nalist was heard quietly saying that curt rejoinder of Savings Bank Journal, though she had no claims as to size and practising economy in words even as she didn't like to talk about her make-up, preaches it in thrift thoughts. yet she felt that the bankers and busi- "The cognomen Banker-Farmer ex- ness men rather liked her, too. plains my dual personality, b'gosh." And "They'd miss our weekly visit," came if the name didn't, the remark did. in a duet from Dun's and Bradstr'eet's. "I'm .Chicago Banker. And though "Thought it is plain we don't try to con- someone recently suggested that Chi- ceal the numbers of those who have cago 'hogs the earth,' I'm only trying to passed out via bankruptcy, yet we just April, 19a6 SPECIAL L IBRARIES I33 as cheerfully give the news of 'all's well' Banker-Farmer. Agricultural Commission, in this or that trade center." American Bankers Association, 522 First National Bank Bldg., Madison, Wis. $I. "Maybe they can manage without me, Monthly, but they'll never be as happy," and the Bankers Equipment Service Bulletin. Rand, librarian was secretly pleased that Com- McNally & Co., 538 S. Clark St., Chicago. merce and Finance had spoken up, for Supplement to Bankers Monthly. Monthly. she had taken a particular fancy to him Bankers Home Magazine. Bankers Encyclo- pedia Co., 324-528 Broadway, New York. $3. because of his fascinating manner of Monthly. presenting even economic conditions, and Bankers Magazine. Bankers Publishing Co., his discovery of curious news from all 71-73 Murray St., New York. $5. Monthly. sources. Bankers Monthly. Rand, McNally & Co., 538 What sounded like a friendly tif? was S. Clark St., Chicago. $5. Monthly. Banking Law Journal. 71-73 Murray St., New going on among Magazine of Wall York. $5. Monthly. Street, Forbes, United States Investor, Barron's. 44 Broad St., New York. $10. and Barrods. They were trying to ex- Weekly. press their investment importance, at the Bradstreet's. Bradstreet Co., 346-348 Broad- same time reciting all their other good way, New York. $5. Weekly. Burroughs Clearing House. Burrough Add- features. ing Machine Co., Detroit. Free. Monthly. Presently the librarian felt she must Business. Burroughs Adding Machine Co., be in the Tower of Babel, for certainly Detro~t. Free. Monthly. there was a growing confusion of Chicago Banker. 431 S. Dearborn St, Chi- cago. $5. Weekly. tongues. She strained her ears, and Coast Banker. 576 Sacramento St., San Fran- picked out the distinguishing words. clsco. $10. Monthly. Robert Morris Associates for banlc credit Commerce and Finance. Theo. H. Price Pub- men. American Banker, the only banlc- lishing Coro.. 16 Exchanee-, PI.. New Yorlc. $5. Geekly.' ing daily. A. I. B. Bulletin, I. B. A. of Commercial and Financial Chronicle. William A. Bzllletin. Ye gods ! Acceptance BuEle- B. Dana Co., 138 Front St, New York. $10. tin, too. Finance and Industry, Finan- Weekly. cial Age and Ecommic World. What is Dun's Review. R. G. Dun & Co., 209 Broad- the world coming to ? Business, Harvard way, New York. $3. Weekly. Economic World. Chronicle Co., 128 Water Bz~siaessReview, University Journal of St., New York. $5. Weekly. Bzuiness, Survey of Current Business, Federal Reserve Bulletin. Federal Reserve and Nation's Business. This couldn't go Board. Washington, $2. Free to member on. She hoped that the president and banks.' Monthly. the treasurer were keeping their wits Finance and Industry. Finance Publi'shing Co.,... .834 ~ Union Trust Bldg., Cleveland. $5. about them, for she was getting a bit Weekly. dizzy herself. Maybe all the twenty- Financial Age. 132 Nassau St., New York. five thousand will present their credits. $5. Weekly. The idea was so horrible that she jerked Forbes. B. C. Forbes Publishing Co., 120 Flfth Ave., New York. $5. Semi-monthly. up only to hear the soothing voice of the Fourth District Banker and Manufacturer. vice-president, "Indeed, we shall be gIad 407 Caxton Bldg., Cleveland. $3. Monthly. to leave to your judgment the choice of Harvard Business Review. A. W. Shaw CO., periodicals for our new library." Cass, Huron and Er~eSts., Chicago. $5. Quarterly. I.B.A. of A. Bulletin. Investment Bankers Financial Periodicals Association of America, 105 S. La Salle Acceptance Bulletin. American Acceptance St.. Chicano.- Irregular.- Council, 120 Broadway, New York. Month- Magazine of Wall Street. Ticker Publish- ly. ing Co., 42 Broadway, New York. $7.50. American Banker. 32 Stone St., New York. Bi-weekly. $12. Daily. Monthly Business Reviews. Individual pub- American Bankers Association Journal. IIO lications by each of the Federal Reserve E. 42nd St., New York. $3. Monthly. Banks. American Institute of Banking Bulletin. IIO Nation's Business. Chamber of Commerce of E. 42nd St., New York. $I. Quarterly. the United States, Washington. $3. Annalist. New York Times Co., Times Monthly. Square, New York. $5. Weekly. Robert Morris Associates. Bulletin. Lans- Bank Director. Financier Publishing Co., 115 downe, Pa. $5. Member subscription price, Broadway, New York. $2. Monthly. $2.50. Monthly. 134 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, ~94

Savings Bank Journal. 11 E. 36th St., New United States Investor. Frank P. Bennett & York. $3. Monthly. Co., 530 Atlantic Ave., Boston. $5. Weekly. Survey of Current Business. Superintendent of Documents, Washington. $1.50. Month- university ~~~~~~l of Business. B~~ lo, F~~- ly. Trust Companies. 55 Liberty St., New York. ulty Exchange, University of chicago, chi- $5. Monthly. cago. $3. Quarterly. Unemployment Insurance HE Hame Ofice, the house maga- From this in December, 1925, we pass zine of the Metropolitan Life Insur- to the Joz4rnal of Commerce in January, Tante Company, in a recent issue under 1926, and read that "a bill has been in- the department of Wbrary Notes" pre- troduced in the Legislature at Albany, sented a brief working list on unemploy- to furnish benefits for employees in case ment insurance which is so timely that of . . . unemployment." we have taken the liberty of reprinting This is indeed the time for the insur- the entire story. ance man to find his journals-even his Like all the literature on general in- daily paper-bearing so closely upon his surance, that dealing with unemployment future work that a brief working list of insurance is legion, but scattered and of some of the material on unemployment unequal value. Above all it is interest- insurance in the library is opportune. ing, but who can take time to review The following are interesting: books, association ~ublications,addresses, Craig, James D.-Unemployment Insurance, 1923. magazines and newspapers enough to dis- A brief history of unemployment insurance cover for themselves the authors whose to date ending with a convenient tabular ar- names, like those of Cohen in England rangement of the subject by country. and Astor, Commons, Craig, and Wol- Law and Labor Ilfagwine-Unemployment man here, stand for current and signifi- Insurance: a Study of Comparative Leg- islation, December, 1925, p. 311. cant work. It is necessary to know how A clear concise review of the "Study of problems of unemployment, similar to Comparative Legislation" made by the Inter- many which will be faced here, are being national Labour Office. The review covers worked out abroad under various circum- briefly seventeen countries. International Labour Office-Industry and stances. But conciseness, clarity and labour information, November 23, I92Sr brevity are not characteristic of every P. 378. author writing on the subject. Gives prtsent condition of unemployment The library has been studying its ma- insurance m Great Britain, Netherlands, United States, Finland, France, Poland, Aus- terial-buying new books, running down tria. sources referred to in footnotes and Astor, J. J.-Third Winter of Unemploy- combing recent labor publications and ment; Report of an Inquiry Undertaken magazines as well as current newspaper in the Autumn of 1922. Gives conclusions of a committee of busi- reviews, selecting for its readers such es- ness men, statisticians and economists who sential, clear material as is indispensable undertook a general mquiry into the problem to them. It is interesting to note that of unemployment in England. Their method: among all this miscellany of material per- was to combine an analysis of official reports haps no whole volume is more significant with special inquiries in nine selected areas. Astor, J. J.-Unemployment Insurance in than the one little clipping which reports Great Britain: a Critical Examination, an interview with our president in which 1925. he makes the statement that: A broad survey of thC economic effects of "The Metropolitan Life Insurance unemploynent insurance undertaken by the au- thor with the sole aim of collecting evidence Company with assets of approxi- to test the results of legislation. Inquiries mately $2,000,000,000 is willing and were made simultaneously into eight areas. anxious to experim~ntwith unem- Great Britain-Ministry of Labour-Report ployment insurance If authorized to on an investigation into the persona1 cir- cumstances and industrial history of do so by amendment of existing in- 10,903 claimants to unemployment benefit, surance laws." November 24 to 29, 1924-1925. April, 1926 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I35

National Industrial Conference Board- Gives the Procter and Gamble Co. plan- proposed legislation for unemployment a guarantee of regular employment. insurance in the United States. (In Re- Afiterican Labor Legislation Review-Un- search Report No. 51,June, 1922, p. 103.) unemployment Funds in Needle Industries Commons, John R.-Unemployment Insur- Begin to Function. (In American Labor ance; the Road to Prevention-a digest Legislation Review, September, 1925, p. of the 1923 Huber unemployment preven- 223.) tion bill by A. B. Forsbyrg, 1923. Shattuck, Henry L.-Unemployment In- A bill for unemployment insurance in Wis- surance Legislation in Massachusetts. (In- consin. Senator Huber is now Lieutenant- American Labor Legislation Review, Governor of Wisconsin. March, 1921, p. 45.) New York (City) Merchants' Association- Dennison Manufacturing Co.-Plan in Use Unemployment Insurance in the United by an American Industry for Combating States. (In Greater New York) May 19, Unemployment. (In American Labor 1924, p. 11. Legislation Review, March, 1921,p. 53.) Explains details of unemployment plans' of Deering, Milliken & Co.-An American Em- the Cleveland Garment Manufacturers' Asso- ployer's Experience with Unemployment ciation, Ladies Garment Union of Cleveland, Insurance. (In Anwrican Labor Legida- Chicago Industrial Federation of Clothing tion Reviezu, March, 1921,p. 41.) Manufacturers, and Amalgamated Clothing Plan in use in a cotton industry firm. Workers of America. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.-Unem- Hoffman, Frederick L.-An American Ex- ployment cover in private hands advo- periment in Unemployment Insurance. cated. Metropolitan urges advantages at (In the Spectator for November 15, 1923, hearings in New York bill. (Inszwance P 20.) Field, March 14, 1924, p. 9.) Gives plan in operation by the Amalga- Hohaus, Reinhard, A.-Stirring debate on mated Clothing Workers of Amcr~ca. unenlployment insurance ; Metropolitan Hoffman, Frederick L.-Unemployment In- Life and Chicago plans are discussed by surance by Industries from the Standpoint economists and laborites at the Hotel of American Conditions. (In Econo~nic Pennsylvania. (In Insurance Press, Jan- World, April 26, 1924, P. 598.) uary 6, 1926, p. I.) Making Better Business Men1 By Grace D. Aikenhead, Librarian, The W. T. Grant Company Library (Miss Aikcnhead prcfaced her address by an dred office workers. The library was amusing discussion of a booklet prepared by planned for the use of this large scat- Lewis Carroll in 1884, entitled Feeding the Mind. tered organization. Several weeks after a man comes to our company we send T must have been with something of him by mail a bodk and a letter telling I the idea of Lewis Carroll and his pre- about the library services. From his re- scription for "mental diet" that Mr. R. sponse we learn his interests and needs H. Fogler, our personnel director, vis- and send material especially suited to his ioned the W. T. Grant Company Library. degree of business development. Think He said "Let us build a library to make what it means not to see your reader 'better, broader business men' in our who may be located in Maine or Texas. company." Our library has been organ- Many times we do not meet this reader ized five years on these sweeping lines. perhaps for two years until he comes to In order that you may realize some the New Yorlc Office. -of the special problems of the library, To bridge the gap between the ltbrary it is necessary to tell you something and the reader, we have used very suc- about the W. T. Grant Company. We cessfully a little "comment card." This operate seventy-nine department stores card is sent with the book and has a throughout the country with the execu- space for the man to give the ideas which tive headquarters in New York City. We have been helpful to him. You will be have about five hundred men employees, interested in hearing some of these com- two thousand salespeople and two hun- ments : 'Address before New York Special Librams Association, March 24, 19.6. SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1916 136 I We have also the outstanding books on Nystrom, "Economics of Retailing'' It advertising, salesmanship, textiles, insur- "Was impressed very much with ance, banking, and general economics. At the method he uses in giving the : concrete examples of the business first we were able to put into this col- retail game of our country's most lection only the practical books, but now successful stores of today. This we are backing these up with theory. has made it very easy to under- The value of business reading, we be- stand. It gives much food for lieve, is increased if one alternates con- structive business books with books of L thought and study of this field of work in which we are engaged." travel, biographies, and others of general interest. Our collection on these sub- Nystrom, "Economics of Retailing" jects is small, but chosen entirely for "A very helpful and interesting men readers, which makes it unique. To work, with many practical sugges- meet the needs of the specialists in the tions covering the entire field of re- organization, we have books on research tailing. Problems of merchandis- and statistics and market surveys, etc. In ing and personnel are clearly de- all we have about twenty-five hundred fined. The history of retailing books. shows the rapid development and Recently we have worked out what points out further improvements in may be called a "mental diet" for our the art of retail selling." men. You know all reading from our library is voluntary; it is up to the in- Copeland, "Principles of Merchandis- dividual whether he uses our services ing" or not. However, we certainly do every- "I am returning the book 'Prin- thing in our power to stimulate his in- ciples of Merchandising' which I terest in printed material. We are al- have had out for some time. ways pleading with him to read a good "Two chapters in this book were business book a month. We feel this exceptionally interesting and helpful can be done on a reading budget which to me, the one on advertising and calls for two hours of reading each week. the other on turnover. I found the Many business men do that amount each author had analyzed the retail mer- day, but we make our suggestions for a chandise field very carefully and for mininlum. This is our suggested budget: that reason I found the book very 1. Constructive business reading-one- instructive." half Gerstenberg, "Principles of Business" 2. General reading-biography, travel, etc.-one-sixth "Perhaps the best book that I have 3. Relaxation-one-sixth ever read on the subject, which is 4. Current events-one-sixth covered in great detail. A major We have found that 96 per cent. of portion of it is, however, devoted to the men in the field were regular readers production, yet as it is generally from our library. conceded that the science of produc- We try to make our library a service tion is much further advanced than department to keep our organization in is the science of distribution, many profitable suggestions relating to the touch with the latest business develop latter can be gained from an analy- ments. We use the same material that all librarians use, books, newspapers, sis of the former. The chapters on Salesmanship, Advertising, and magazines, pamphlets, speeches, book re- Forecasting impressed me as being views, reprints and posters. However, of greatest value." our method of using this material is different. We have made available to the men in our organization the finest books on Books retailing, ranging from elementary ones We have already told you how we to be used by stock-room readers to ad- work individually with each reader vanced ones for experienced readers.- ._-. through correspondence. We send a let- April, 1926 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I37 ter out about each book giving some We index magazine articles and point of interest about it, but always sug- broadcast them in our Daily Bulletin gesting some material connected with it. which goes out each day from the New Naturally in this way we have in our York office to each store. We circulate mind a definite plan which we hope to newspaper clippings. inspire the reader to follow. We have a fiIe of current directories which we use for special information for Course in Marketing our buyers. We hunt out trade names, It was with the idea in mind of or- new sources of supply of manufactured ganizing and simplifying the reading of articles, get ratings of manufacturing the members of our organization that firms..- during the past year Mr. Fogler and I We do general reference questions have worked out the W. T. Grant Com- from a small collection of special refer- pany Course on Marketing. We have ence books. At times we investigate tried to make it simple, comprehensive new subjects that have not yet found and suited to the needs of our men. In their way into print. the course there are three terms with We purchase books for the entire or- six books in each term. Each book is ganization, enter subscriptions for all our followed within two weeks by a set of patrons, place magazines in the rest questions based on the book. In as rooms for the salesgirls in the individual many instances as possible we have asked stores we issue a special Christmas bul- the questions in such a way as to apply letin containing suggestions for Christ- the theory in the book to Grant Company mas book gifts,. place merchandise man- problems. The papers are rated by Mr. uals in the various departments in our Fogler and myself and the mark for each stores. completed term's reading becomes a part Perhaps the greatest fun is our broad- of the individual's personnel record. casting of magazine articles, pamphlets, The response to the course has been book reviews and book bulletins to each amazing. We have had requests to take member of our organization. We try to the course from over two hundred men catch the new idea, new presentations of and already have one hundred and ninety old ideas-all kinds of growth material men started on it. We are now begin- (usually called inspiration). We send ning a reserve list of men who will not out something nearly every week. be able to start until some of the first Advertising two hundred either complete the first Librarians are too often content to term or drop out of the course. We have scout the material and get it onto shelves already one reader who has completed and then let it take care of itself. We the first term's work. The papers have have recently discovered that only very been most interesting, for they show little of our time is devoted to the ac- great variation. In many cases it is sur- quisition of material. Nearly two-thirds prising the way the theory presented in of our time we spend in getting this ma- the book has been rounded out by prac- terial presented in an alluring way, and tical experience of the individual. getting the material off our shelves into We are most enthusiastic about the the hands of some person we feel can course for we feel it will give the Grant use it. Advertising is our medium and Company man the theory of marketing we try out all sorts of schemes. We which, combined with his practical store have been particularly successful with work, will give him a general background various lists which we have compiled on of retailing. It is necessary to know the special subjects. We have used the general field before one can become a American Library Association phrase specialist. A chain store man is a spe- "Read with a purposeJJso intensely that cialist in retailing and for that reason recently we received a letter from one of we feel this course will give him all pos- our men in which he quoted it to US. sible assistance in developing into a Our libra~ycirculation has increased broad-minded executive with clearness with leaps and bounds since our library of vision. was o~ened. It is as follow: 1921- 138 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1926

2,898 l922-3,878 ; l923--6,254 ; 1924 these ideas, some to one idea, some to -8,092 ; 1925-10,643. The circulation another. An intellectual stimulus or a for February, 1926, reached the highest "mental bun," as Lewis Carroll would peak for the entire period. say, is created which keeps the entire or- ganization mentally alert. In this day of Why is a firm interested in such a li- the keenest competition, a firm, all of brary? The library has become a broad- whose members are mentally wide awake, casting station for ideas. The entire is in an ideal condition for growth and personnel of the organization react to expansion. Agricultural Libraries in the United States' By Mabel Colcord, Librarian, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture N Madison, Wisconsin, there has re- journals are received by gift and about cently been established the Charles C. one hundred others will be subscribed to Miller,I Memorial Apicultural Library. from the endowment fund. With the Upon the death of Dr. Miller in Septem- new year this library issues Library her, 1920, a number of his friends, seek- News Notes, a mimeographed sheet. The ing to establish a memorial which should February, 1926, number contains an in- keep fresh in the minds of future bee- teresting note on Francis Huber (1750- keepers one of the greatest workers in 1831), the blind bee master, and his the history of beekeeping, decided this works contained in the Miller library. should take the form of an apicultural At Cornell University another big library. They chose a committee, col- apicultural collection has been started. lected funds, and began to assemble the Dr. E. F. Phillips, formerly of the Fed- literature of beekeeping. As Dr. Miller's eral Bureau of Entomology, is now there home was at Marengo, Wisconsin, the as Professor of Beekeeping. Through University of Wisconsin was given the an arrangement with the A. I. Root Com- privilege of acting as custodian of this pany of Medina, Ohio, over one hundred library, and in August, 1922, it was es- and forty bee journals are now being re- tablished at that institution. Prof. H. F. ceived there; several back files of im- Wilson, editor of Wisconsin Beekeeping, portant foreign journals have been pur- formerly a member of the Federal Bu- chased, and others will be added as funds reau of Entomology, is in charge. Under permit. For American bee books and his energetic management, through gifts journals they are depending almost en- from individual beekeepers and from the tirely on donations from interested bee- funds collected for the endowment, this keepers in the United States. TQestab- is fast becoming one of the great apicul- lish an endowment fund Dr. Phillips has tural libraries of the country. In June, devised an ingenious scheme whereby 1925, it had an income of considerably any beekeeper in New York State or over $100 a year from the endowmtnt elsewhere, desiring to co-operate, may fund and many small gifts of books and set aside one colony of bees, the income periodicals are constantly being added. of which at the end of a year is to be A twenty-five page list of the books and given to the endowment fund. When panlphlets contained in the librasy was contributions from any one co-operator published in Wisconsin Beekeeping for have reached $50, each year thereafter June, 1925, and additions have been one book will be purchased from the en- listed in later issues. The University of dowment fund and inscribed with the Wisconsin has agreed to spend a certain name of the donor. The colonies of bees sum yearly for periodical subscriptions set aside for this work bear special metal and to pay for the binding of all un- plates, and prizes are offered for the one bound material secured. Forty or more making the most money yearly. This

'From Agricultural Library Notes for February, 1916. April, 1ga6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I39 library will be cataloged and will become to try to secure everything, but to get the an integral part of the library of the New more important apicultural works both York State. College vf Agriculture. A foreign and domestic, and thus gather collection of portraits of beekeepers, of together a representative working collec- autographed letters, and of original tion of the bee literature of all coun- manuscripts will also be kept, and ulti- tries. mately Dr. Phillips hopes to establish a museum of important objects in the ad- These three libraries are growing so vancement of apiculture. He has com- rapidly that the need is felt for a special piled an interesting pamphlet The Cornell classification of bee literature. Prof. H. Beekeeping Library which gives in detail F. Wilson, Dr. E. F. Phillips, and Miss his lans for the library. Mabel Colcord, librarian of the Bureau TK e apicultural collection of the Li- of Entomology, United States Depart- brary of the United States Department ment of Agriculture, are now at work on of Agriculture is filed at the Bee Labor- such a classification and hope soon to atory, Somerset, Maryland. It is at pres- evolve one which will be of use not only ent probably the largest and best collec- for their large collections but for smaller tion in the United States. Its aim is not collections of bee literature as well. Atlantic City uonf erence LANS for the Special Libraries As- tory of the library profession. Delegates P sociation conference are ra~idlvtak- from many foreign countries will be in Gg shape. The President ha; bekn in attendance at the conference and the frequent correspondence with the execu- growth of libraries in the last fifty years tive officers of the American Library As- will be the main theme of the general sociation and the following tentative conference. Our own program will be schedule has been arranged: October 4, in keeping with the major program and Monday morning, preliminary business members of the S.L.A. are urged to re- session; Monday afternoon, first general main the entire week of the convention. session; October 5, Tuesday, second Many of the delegates will doubtless plan general session; October 7, Thursday to spend the preceding or the succeeding morning, final business session. Sunday at Atlantic City and hotels will A special program has been arranged extend the same rate for the entire pe- by the A.L.A. at Philadelphia on Wed- riod. nesday, .October 6, when cornrnemora- The President of the Association, or tive addresses will be made in connec- the Editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES, will be tion with the fiftieth anniversary of the glad to receive suggestions regarding the A.L.A. programs or any matters relating to the Our Association will be represented by procedure of the conference. In the a speaker at the fifth general session of July, 1925, issue of our magazine, Mr. the A.L.A. which occurs on the morning Lee made some excellent suggestions of Friday, October 8. concerning future conferences and we The Program Committee is also plan- should be glad to print in our columns ning numerous Group meetings through- similar suggestions or to forward these out the week and in a later issue of SPE- items unprinted to the Program Com- CIAL LIBRARIESc~mplete announcements mittee. will be made concerning the allotted time In preparation for the convention, the for Group meetings. I July issue will come off the press some- Our headquarters will be at the Hotel what later than is customary and the Chelsea and room reservations should be October issue will be printed prior to the made with the hotel management. The conference, reserving the November is- week at Atlantic City promises to be an sue for the preliminary report of the event of unusual importance in the his- proceedings. Special Libraries EDITOR, Herbert 0. Brigham State Library, Providence, R. I. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Henry H. Norris Ethel Cleland A. A. Slobod Rebecca B. Rankin R. H. Johnston Margaret C. Wells Margaret Reynolds

A British Definition UR English colleagues have been wrestling with the term "special library" 0 which has for so many years perplexed our associates in the public library field. In a recent circular issued by the A.S.L.I.B. the compiler notes the de- velopment of intelligence departments and bureaux of information, calling atten- tion to the need of a rapid and accurate liaison between the inquirer and the actual (or potential) centers of information. The writer continues : "The gen- eral library is designed to serve the varying needs of the general reader. For closely specialized investigation in a circumscribed subject, the inquirer must of necessity delve more deeply, unfettered by any such barrier as that of language. It is here that the special library steps in with its aid." Continuing the discussion, the writer states: "The phrase 'special libraryJ is often loosely used as meaning a collection of books in a limited field; the collection may or may not be separately housed; the various technical libraries are in this sense special libraries. But in its fullest sense, a special' library is essentially one that is special not only by virtue of its limitation to a definite subject, but by reason of its administration and treatment of an expert or skilled staff. Through such a staff, a repository of printed matter-a term, unfortunately, which to many people is synonymous with libray-becomes transmuted into a closely organized system offering an intimate service to a limited clientele. Used in this sense, the special library movement, though well known in America, is a new development in this country."

Taking Time by the Forelock Already one group has begun to consider- the 1926 meeting of the Special Libraries Association and Miss Reynolds, chairman of the financial group, sends this message to her confreres: Bromidic as it may sound, almost before we know it, the 1926 meeting of the Special Libraries Association will be in session in Atlantic City. What suggestions have you, for the Financial Group program. What prac- tical problems do you have, which you would like to have discussed? We want to make the meetings as suggestive as possible. Even in Milwaukee, the robins have been singing these last few days. This means that -spring is around the corner and our vacations will be beginning soon. Do write to me before you go on your vacation. Incidentally, if you have any suggestions for the "We Do This Department" of SPECIALLIBRARIES, send them along, too. MARGARETREYNOLDS. April, 1916 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 141

Library Centenary The one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts State Library is a matter of considerable interest and the event was properly signalized by appropriate exercises held on March 3, 1926 at the State House. The principal address was delivered by Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School, and we are glad to reproduce in our columns his scholarly address. In his address the Dean stressed the value of the State Library as a laboratory or workshop and showed its potential influence as a competent agency of legal preparedness. The Massachusetts State Library, under the leadership of C. B. Tillinghast, Charles I?. D. Belden and Edward H. ~edstone,has always held a high rank among the state libraries of the country.

A Munificent Grant The munificent grant of $4,000,000 to the American Library Association by the Carnegie Corporation of New York will be of immense value to the future development of the library movement in America. It will enable the American Library Association, now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, to carry out long cherished plans for the furtherance of libraiy service, especially for the library in the smaller communities. The benefaction also shows the friendly spirit of co-operation existant between the officers of the Carnegie Corporation and the executive officers of the American Llbrary Association.

Get the Habit Get the habit of sending the Editor the various publications of your library, which may be issued from time to time. Put him on the mailing list for the an- nual report, quarterly report or monthly bulletin of your special library, Send him news items and clippings from newspapers and periodicals worthy of inser- tion in your magazine. The editorial staff find many stories of interest, but it is impossible to catch all the vital news of the special library and research field. If you want a better magazine do your part! * 4 4 Some one has been trying to ascertain the financial value of the business li- brary. The Minneopolitan of March 2, 1926, quotes the Boston Transcript as follows : "In Minneapolis an unusual computation has just been made of the service of business library there. It is estimated that 75,000 persons were saved 28,000 hours' time-conservatively estimated as worth $28,000 in cash-by being SUP- plied with prompt answers to business questions."

The Midwest News Syndicate and Clipping Service is anxious for new ideas on filing clippings. Write to them direct at 422 Court Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa, or through the editorial office at Providence. * * * The Chicago number printed as the January issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES has been in such demand that the edition is exhausted. Subscribers will confer a favor by returning discarded copies of this issue to the editor. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Library and Research Carnegie Corporation Grants "The library is not only a subscriber to most of the technical periodicals but Four million dollars has been set aside for has on file many reports and text books library purposes, payable over a ten-year covering many phases of public utility period, by the Carnegie Corporation of New operation. Its indices are unusually com- York, according to word recently received by plete and through connections established the American Library Association from F. P. with other libraries its staff is able to Keppel, president of the corporation. quickly secure information not in its own One million is to endow a graduate school possession. of librarianship in some great university, yet "I believe it to be one of the most use- to be named Another million is to provide ful of our intra-organization activities, an annual income which will be used to aid and call the attention of Public Service other library schools. The third million is for people to its possibilities for helpfulness general endowment of the American Library to them." Association. The income will be used by the Association in promoting the extension and The publication contains short abstracts of development of library service. articles appearing in current periodicals and The fourth million will be used in carrying technical society publications, also a list of on the general activities of the Association new books and pamphlets. For convenience and in aiding library schools until the three these abstracts are printed on one side of the million endowment, in cumulating capital paper on the right hand page, and spaced so grants, is completed. that they may be clipped and pasted on In a statement explaining the grant Presi- standard library cards. dent F. P. Keppel of the Carnegie Corpora- tion expressed the hope that this would spe- Agricultural Library Notes cifically enable the Association to develop The mimeographed publication, entitled more intensively the small library service. "Of Agriczllt~wal Library Notes, which is issued all his benefactions the one nearest Mr. Car- monthly by the United States Department of negie's heart was the small library," said Dr. Agriculture Library with the co-operation of Keppel. the libraries of the land grant colleges and In announcing the acceptance of the million the state agricultural experiment stations, dollars given for the endowment of the presents in its February issue such a notable American Library Association, Charles F. D. mass of informational material that the whole Belden, president of the Association and li- number is worthy of special comment. brarian of the Boston Public Library, states that this gift is to be considered as the first The bulletin presents a few bibliographical contribution toward the endowment fund notes, a group of references on artificial which the Association intends to raise in this manures, also a short list of references on its fiftieth anniversary year. agricultural surplus plans. Miss Colcord, li- brarian of the Bureau of Entomology, con- New Library Bulletin tributes a short sketch on agricultural libra- The Public Service Corporation of New ries in the United S+ates which is reproduced Jersey recently began a series of monthly bul- in another column of SPECIALLIDRARIES. letins. The opening number, issued January The Librwy Notes also prints a "List of x), 1926, entitled Library Bulletin, contains New Agricultural Periodicals and Changed a mcssage from Thomas N. McCarter, presi- Titles," a "Selected List of Mimeographed dent of the corporatian, speaking of the li- Publications of Importance issued by the De- brary, he states: partment of kgrlculture" and "Duplicates "My personal experience has taught me Available for Exchange!' that an appeal to the librarian for data Throughout the bulletin there are scattered brings a response that saves valuable time, valuable items concerning topics of agricul- and that information is there directly vail- ture. We reproduce in the department "We able that could be collected in other ways Do This" some pertinent suggestions regard- only with the greatest difficulty. ing the disposal of duplicate material. April, 1916 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

A Library Query Mail Bag The "Notes and Queries" column of the To the Editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES, Bos!oiz Transcvi~tfor March 20, 1926, pre- Providence, R. I. sents a query of a subscriber which is of un- Dear Sir: usual interest to technical librarians. We hope SPECIAL An advertisement has lately appeared in a that a reader of LIBRARIESmay be trade organ which contains a statement that able to verify the quotation. is so misleading and likely to be injurious to (9023.) In an address of welcome to my professional reputation that I ask your the assembled librarians in a joint meet- indulgence to contradict it in the columns of SPECIALLIBRARIES, not only as a protection to ing of the Southern New England Libra- myself, but also as a warning to fellow li- rians at Providence, Jan. 25, 1923, R.1, brarians who might find themselves in a simi- President Willlam H. P. Faunce of Brown lar position. University stated that once while attend- I refer to an advertisement of the Shaw ing the dedication of, a new building to Walker Company, manufacturers of filing be devoted to laboratory purposes where equipment, in Editor and P~~blisherfor Jan- the library of the institution was still uary 30 (page 238). The advertisement is il- housed in an out-of-the-way basement lustrated with two photographs (untitled) of room the eminent biologist, Jacques Loeb, the reference department and library of the said to him: "This is typical of some Bostolt Herald and Boston Traveler, one phases of American education and em- taken before and one after I had completed bodies a great mistake. We imagine that its reorganization. The statement to which I it is in the laboratory that men discover refer is as follows: ney truths and that if we can only pro- ". . . . The top photograph was taken vide well-equipped laboratories, important beiore the Shaw-Walker newspaper ref- truth will soon be discovered. That is erence department specialist went to work. The lower piclure was taken after. not the case. Real discoveries are ac- ...... tually made in the library and subse- "Paper after paper throughout the coun- quently tested out in the laboratory. A try is changing over to the new filing sys- new discovery is a combination of old tems as planned and installed by the ideas, and those combinations are most Shaw-Walker newspaper reference depart- likely to occur to the mind of the scien- ment specialists." , tist, not when he is handling material The impression conveyed in these asser- things, but when he is brooding over the tions is wholly false and misleading. No fil- thoughts of other men and rethinking ing company "spcc~alist" planned and installed them himself. In those hours of pro- the Boston Herald reference department and found reflection, the new combination may library. Shaw-Walker filing cases were used, it is true, but the responsibility for reorganiz- occur to him and then he goes to his lab- ing the Herald reference department and li- oratory to verify or disprove. The library brary was cntirely mine. remains the great essential to discovery." After completing such an Augean under- I am quite anxious to locate in print the taking I have no intention of being robbed material in quotation marks in the above of the credit. I trust that fellow librarians paragraphs. I do not find it in the Library in the Newspaper Group as well as all mem- Journal or Public Libraries, or the Bzdletin bers of the Special Libraries Association may of the Massachusetts Library Club, and profit by my experience. neither Presidcnt Faunce nor Mr. Drury, as- Very truly yours, sistant librarian at Brown, can identify the PAULP. FOSTER, quotation, although both recall it in a gen- Director Reference Department and Library, eral way. Can any of your readers refer me The Philadelphia Inquirer. to the printed source?-J. B. K. March 10, 1926. SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, rgd We Do This Margaret Reynolds, Department Editor The disposal of duplicate and discarded of their periodical rack, so that readers could books is a live topic in this department for see for themselves the many changes in the this month. periodical world.-M. R. Agricultural Library Notes, the new Duplicates and Discarded Books. We mimeographed publication of the Federal De- send our duplicate books to the Municipal partment of Agriculture has also made some interesting comments on this subject and we Reference Library here and I know that Mr. have taken the liberty of adding this mate- Eaton, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, rial to "We Do This." Keep Miss Reynolds will be delighted to have duplicatks sent to in touch with all new ideas that come to your him.--G~Rmne D. PETERKIN,Librarian, Legal attention-EDITOR Department, American Telephone and Tele- List of Additions. The Federal Reserve graph Company, New York. Bank of Chicago issues a mimeographed list Our duplicate books we usually give to li- of books and pamphlets added every two braries which may need them, and duplicate months. The Stone 6 Webster Journal each volumes of periodicals, transactions of socie- month contains a list of additions to their li- ties, etc., we sell to second-hand periodical brary. The Bank of Italy Library, San dealers, like the H. W. Wilson Company, B. Francisco, through its librarian, K. Dorothy Login & Son, etc. Pamphlets which are of Ferguson, is now issuing a weekly bulletin no technical interest and reprints of articles magazine of two Gages, listing periodical which are included in our bound periodicals, articles. Included in this list are some refer- we place upon a table at the entrance of the ences to periodicals which the library does Reading Room with a sign "Help Yourself," not have but will obtain if desired. The bul- near them and it is quite interesting to see letin has been a great success in stimulating how quickly this material disappears.-B~TEA reading among all officers and employees. I P. TRULL,Assistant Librarian, Massachusetfs am circulating about one hundred and twenty- Institute of Technology. five copies to all officers at the head office for We do not discard very many books. There all bulletin boards, some employees and some are many reasons why we desire to have copies branches. I also send a few complimentary of all the editions of certain books available copies to libraries from whom I receive cour- in this library, so in one or two cases where tesies. The response from the branches is books have been discarded they have been unusually encouraging.-K. DOROTHYFER- turned over to libraries of universities but GUSON, Bank of Italy, San Francisco, Cal. we do not permit the discarding of books, Index Numbers. Irving Fisher, a Yale especially early editions, because it is of con- professor, who knows much about index num- siderable value to us to know the extent of bers is working on a Cyclopaedia of Index revision that has been made in later editions. Numbers His sample sheets indicate, as one We do not discard duplicates of magazines. might expect, that the work will be carefully In all cases of duplicate periodicals, I clip done. Quotations will be given for regular whatever I 'wish for my own file. Tbesc periods as reported by the standard trade magazines are then turned over to certain of journals; manufacturers or sales agents; our engineers who are specialists in the field boards of trade; associations and federal or covered by a given periodical 'and these en- state bureaus. Graphs depicting various gineers are permitted to clip as extensively changes will be used.-I~m~c FISHER,Yale as they wish and that magazine, when they University. are through with it, is discarded. If the library receives requests from mem- Practical Uae of Periodica. While visit- bers of the staff for back copies of duplicate ing the Northwestern University School of magazines intact, notations are made to this Commerce Library, Chicago, I noticed that effect and at the time that the magazine would Miss Helen Thomas, the librarian had at- ordinarily be discarded or clipped, it is sent tached her monthly copy of Periodica issued to the person who desires it.-PYRRHA B. by the Library Service Bureau of the Frank- SHEFFIELD,Librarian, Portland Cement Com- lin Square Agency, New York, on the side pany, Claicago. April, 1ga6 SPECIAL L IBRARIES 145

We receive very few books as gifts which Miss Estelle Lutrell, librarian of the Uni- are of no value to us. Those not retained versity of Arizona, states the Agricultzcral Li- are sent to the Free Library or to one of the brary Notes has sent the following query special libraries in town, depending upon the to the Library of the United States Depart- class of the book. Discarded books are sent ment of Agriculture and would no doubt be to our storeroom or thrown away. Those glad to have suggestions from other libraries: sent to the storeroom are old volumes of an- "I should like some advice from your library nuals, such as Moody's Rating Books, Bank- as to the best disposition to make of a large ers Directories, etc. These are sometimes re- quantity of United States Department of ferred to. Discarded magazines are all sent Agriculture and state experiment station to the Free L~~~~~~.-MADELEINEJ. SCHIEDT, duplicates. For twenty-five years or more two Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. collections were maintained of this material We give to the Milwaukee Public Library, on our campus. Of late we have consolidated our duplicates of back city directories, they and should like to place this material where in turn exchange these for directories of other it would be of some use. Although these cities. We give the back numbers of our du- two sets have been running for some time plicate bank directories to our correspondent we do not have a complete file of either the bankers in the state, for most of whom a federal or state documents, and should nat- last year's bankers directory serves just as well urally like to exchange some of our numbers as a current one. We have made gifts of for others which we lack. Of course I am books we ourselves could not use to the Eliza- familiar with the method of sending out beth L. Greene Memorial Library, Milwaukee 'Duplicate lists' and 'Want lists,' but I also Downer-College, Milwaukee, the Marquette know that but few librarians take the time University, the Wisconsin Free Library School to check these through. Do you attempt ta and the Riverside School of Library Service.- store United States Department of Agricul- M. R., First Wisconsin National Bank Li- ture duplicates, or arrange for exchanges? Is brary. there anywhere a clearing house for this type of material, both federal and state? Our Wht do librarians do with books they no duplicates have become a burden, and still I longer need? Most business libraries are dislike the thought of destroying numbers crowded for space, and some may be in our which may be the very ones needed by some predicament: when we buy a new book we other library to complete its files!' By giv- usually have to throw an old one away. This ing publicity in Agricultwal Library Notes to sounds extravagant but is almost a blessing Miss Lutrell's offer, it is hoped that it will in disguise. It keeps our library a real, work- come to the attention of some library which ing collection, because any book which is not will wish to take advantage of it. useful enough to earn a place on the shelves Attention is also called to a set of the should be weeded out. We have two methods earlier bulletins of Cornell University Agri- of dispssing of these. cultural Experiment Station which can be ob- (I) We send some to the Public Library. tained upon application to the librarian, Such books as expensive directories are Bureau of Plant Industry, United States De- usually welcomed by the Public Library be- partment of Agriculture. cause their funds do not always provide for The question of duplicates is one of the new copies of each directory each year. most troublesome with which a library has to (2) We offer the other books to members deal. Every librarian feels as Miss Lutrell of the firm. I am surprised to find how many does, that the duplicates are a burden and yet is people in our office have "built-in bookcases loath to destroy them, knowing that there are at home, that they are trying to fill," or an probably among them many items which empty shelf in their office that they would some other library lacks and would be glad like to decorate with books. to have. Few libraries, however, are able to A few years ago we tried to sell our old take the time to list their duplicates and it books, but found they brought so little that is also probably equally true that not many we preferred to invest that "little" in building libraries take the time to check such lists of up good-will for our library.-MARY LOUISE duplicates as are offered. Up to date only ALEXANDER,Chief, Research Department, Bar- two requests have been received for any of ton, Durstine & Osborn. the dupl~catesoffered by the United States SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Department of Agriculture Library in the duplicate station publications which it cur- January issue of Agricultural Library Notes. rently receives from various sources. The Li- Unless more requests are received in future, brary of the Department was also formerly able to do much more with its duplicates than it will apparently not be worth while to con- it is a't present, but as in the case of the Of- tinue to list them. Having made the offer, fice of Experiment Stations, limited space and however, less compunction need be felt in de- assistance for the work has made it necessary stroying the duplicates, which action will soon to leave to the indefinite future the carrying be necessary on account of lack of space. At out of the dream which it once had of acting one time the Library of the Office of Experi- as a clearing house for agricultural dupli- ment Stations did in effect act as a clearing cates in general. In the meantime it is hoped house for state experiment station publications, that lists of "Offers" and "Wants" in Agricul- but lack of space as well as lack of sufficient ture Library Notes will be of some service assistance finally forced it to return all of its along this line and that suggestions will be duplicates to the issuing stations. This same forthcoming as to other ways of helping to practice it now follows in connection with the solve the problem.

Associations Reports from England head the list this The Association plans a third conference month. during the week-end September 24-27, 1926. Reports from the local associations show a The conference will again be held at Balliol wide range of interest; business literature, chain store libraries, personnel problems, College, Oxford, ahd it is hoped that a repre- commercial fisheries are among the topics dis- sentative from the Special Libraries Associa- cussed. The Boston Association continues ~ts tion (United States) can be preesnt. journeys to well known manufacturing plants, this month learning the art of making paper The British Association has recently issued novelties. a four-page leaflet describing the objects of the Association, the field for special libraries, Great Britain a definition under the titlc "What Is a Spe- cial Library?" and the origin of A.S.L.I.B. The Association of S~ecialLibraries and Information Bureaux held a business meet- Boston ing at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Storey's Gate, London, on Monday, March 29 The March meeting of the Special Libraries This meeting mas called to receive the report Association of Boston was held Monday night, of the Standing Committee and to consider March 29 at the plant of the Dennison Mfg. the formal inauguration of the Association. Co. in Framingham with about fifty in at- A draft constitution was submitted, together tendance. with proposals regarding membership. A During the afternoon the group was con- Council was also elected at the meeting. The ducted by guides through the plant where officers elected will be reported in a later issue crepe paper, tags, boxes, etc, were seen in the of SPECIALLIBRARIES. process of manufacture. The variety of the product and the beauty of it, together with The Association has in compilation a Di- the automatic machinery in use gave the li- rectory of Speczal Lzbraries and Information brarians a distinctly interesting experience. Bureaux 61. the British Isles. No complete list The display room of the company with its exists at present and the Directory will be a made-up novelties was open for inspection. valuable book of reference. The expense of Exquisite lamp shades, vases, jewelry and compiling this publication is being defrayed paper decorations showing what can be done by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees with sealing wax, crepe paper, etc, were ex- who have, in addition, set aside the sum of hibited here. $4,500 to assist the Association during its The library with its three thousand volumes first two years. It is anticipated that a year was especially interesting to the special libra- will be occupied in collecting the necessary rians. Mr. Mooney, librarian, had some fig- data for the Directoru. ures showing that the non-fiction circulation April, 1ga6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 147

had increased very considerably in the last are seventeen hundred and sisty-nine year and that the tendency of the library was stockholders in this group. Three years' to enlarge its non-fictional content rather than sekice is required before anyone auto- its fictional. Magazine circulation last year matically is placed in this group. Allot- was as high as eleven hundred a month. ment of shares land of profits is based on Besides having a page of book notices in the salary of the employee and on his each issue of the plant paper, The Round years of scrvice. This stock cannot be Robin, there is a publication called Library purchased. Review with book reviews which has a circu- ~l~~ Managerial Industrial partners stock lation about three hundred among the plan has been successfully in ope ratio!^ since executives of the plant. rgrr and the Ernploycc Industrial Partners The Dennison Co, is maintaining a history stock plan has been in practice seven years. room of very great value and interest. Here While there are difficulties of determination are found ~ictures,.samPles,etcv of the Den- as to who should belong to the Managerial nison product from the time of the organiza- Industrial Partners, etc., the plan and its or- tion the date- em- ganization by and large has proved itself suc- ployees are giving full time to the maink- cessful, It eliminates the possibility of ab- nance of this exhibit which is a valuable sentee ownership and gives those are contribution to the history of manufacturing actually in the company an opportunity to in Massachusetts and particularly to the his- have a voice in its operation, tory of the Dennison Co. The Special Libraries Association of Bos- New York ton, as guests of the Dennison Co., were served dinner in the cafeteria, decorated with The New York Special Libraries ~ssocia- ~~~~i~~~ papers. ~h~ tables were covered tion held its monthly dinner meeting on the with Dennison paper cloths ; Dennison napkins evening March '41 at the and place cards were at each plate and also American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 195 complimentary copies of instructions for the Broadway. The 'peakers were making of lamp shades and other novelties. N~strom,Professor of of Business, Columbia University, and Director ~f~~~ dinner the meeting was adjourned to an assembly room where M~. ,. S. Keir, Eco- of Associated Merchandising Corporation, who nomic ~d~i~~~to the ~i~~~~~~~of the discussed "Greater and Better Use of Business pany, described the Dennison Partnership Literature." Plan. Dr. Nystrom spoke informally and sketch- hi^ is really a management and profit- ily of his contacts in the past with business sharing plan. There are four classes of stock- libraries. holders : In the course of his remarks, hc stated that his acceptance of the invitation to speak on I. The first preferred with four hundred and this topic was to serve as a testimonial to ninety-one investors. The stock is 8 per business libraries as a means of getting an cent, transferable and non-voting. educalion. In his own case, he stated that 2. The second preferred with seven hundred of his had come fronl the and twenty-nine investors. This is 7 per help of materials such as provided by busi- cent. transferable, non-voting stock. ness libraries rather than from regular 3. Managerial Industrial Partners who hold courses study and schools. He felt that non-transferable and voting stock. There there must bc many in business who have been are three hundred and seventy in this similarly aided, and that due credit to the group of stockholders. In order to have profession of business librarians, should be this stock, a Person must have given five pllblicly .granted. years' service to the conlpany in some Getting an edt~cationis quite a different managerial position. These stockholders thing from getting through school. Getting elect the board of directors of the corn- an education means making systematic howl- Pany who decide company policies, etc. edge a part of self and finding practical This stock- cannot be bought. uses for it. any people go through schools 4 Employee Industrial Partners who hold and do not get such an education, but the non-transferable, non-voting stock. There young business man or woman who goes to 148 SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1996 the business library with the specific problem Miss Grace D. Aikenhead, of the William is being helped to a bit of real education. T. Grant Co. Library, discussed her unusual work in connection with the scattered per- There are many services performed by sonnel of the seventy-five department stores business libraries that are very different from under the control of the William T. Grant services required in straight library work. Co. Her address is printed in this issue. Some business librarians are really heads of Mr. Robert E. Sherwood, author, lecturer information departments. All sorts of in- and editor of Life, presented an illustrated quiries come to them. Other business libra- lecture, entitled "Traveling with a Strange rians are really engaged constantly in re- Family." His talk was based upon his ex- search. In a few instances business librarians periences with the Barnum and Bailey's cir- interpret general business trends for their con- cus which had lured him from homc at the cerns, and often make application of the in- age of nine. Later he became a clown in formation concerning the trends to the specific lines in which their executives may be inter- the same circus. His pictures showed the famous clowns, bare-back riders and other ested well-known characters of the circus as it In addition to the aids to business already existed in the latter part of the nineteenth enumerated, the business library serves effec- century. His interesting talk was inter- tively in awakening interest on the parts of spersed with comments and delightful humor executives and employees of their respective and was considered a rare treat by the libra- concerns in the reading of books and periocl- rians present. icals. * * * There are very few figures available to The employn~ent committee of thc New show the actual amount of reading done by York Special Libraries Association has per- business people, or for that matter of the formed excellent service since its establish- whole American people, but such figures as ment in November, 1925, and has placed and exist, are not very encouraging. It is sur- registered during this period sixty-five per- prising, for example, to learn that there are sons, and has received applications from not more than three thousand book stores in twenty-four institutions for assistance in se- the whole country, and that there were less in curing librarians. Seventeen of these positions 1920 than in 1910. There are over thirty have been filled, and seven are still open, thousand automobile dealers and about one awaiting decision. Of these vacancies, three million places where one can buy cigars and are cataloging positions, paying good salaries, chewing gum. which demand college and library school edu- The total book production in this country cation. There is also a vacancy for a re- according to the last census was about two searcher, a vacancy for a head librarian, and and one-half volumes per capita and one book one for an abstractor and indexer. There is out of the two and one-half was a text book. also a vacancy for general assistant. For these leaving one and one-half for every other class positions there are opportunties for well- of literature including fiction. There must, trained special librarians. therefore, be a great many people who read The committee of which Rebecca B. Ran- next to nothing in book form. A possible ex- kin is chairman, reports that it finds itself planation is that there is a very great output unable to find available librarians to recom- of papers and periodicals of all kinds, but the mend who are suitably trained for positions. ephemeral character of this type of literature Philadelphia points to the great need for work of business The previous issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES librarians and others in developing interest in contained a report of the February meeting books. of the Special Libraries Council of Philadel- Reading is a means of enjoyment, but from phia and Vicinity. the standpoint of the business librarian, it is Miss Alida E. Finch, Personnel Department, a means of keeping abreast of the times. It Strawbridge and Clothier, was the speaker. is hopeless for the business executive to at- Miss Finch described the. features of per- tempt keeping up with his job merely through sonnel work in a large department store em- contact with people and things, The desire ploying between four and five thousand per- for, and the ability to use books is an abso- sons, in three hundred and seventy-five dif- lute necessity of the times. ferent kinds of jobs. April, rga6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I49

Under the system in operation at Straw- Pittsburgh bridge and Clothier, the Personnel Depart- The March meeting of the Pittsburgh See- ment comprises such functions as employment; cial Libraries Association was held on the betterment; and educational work, including ~gth,in the library of Carnegie Institute of the increased use of the library facilities pro- Technology. This was the last regular meet- vided for the employees. It was interesting ing of the year, the April meeting being for to hear of the methods used in the selecting the election of officers. The speaker of the and placing the right person in the right po- evening was Leo R. Etzkorn, head of the sition; in promotion and advancement, and Technology Department of the Youngstown instruction in principles of salesmanship and Public Library. He contrasted special libra- clerical work, all with the idea of inspiring ries and special departments of public libra- the employees to do their best in their re- ries, with particular reference to the work spective jobs. of his own department. After the program A short business session followed the ad- an informal reception was held by Mrs. Wap- dress, when progress reports were heard from pat and the staff of the Carnegie Institute of a number of committces. Technology Library. Miss Nina C. Brother- ton, principal of Carnegie Library School, and Mrs. A. L P. Bulla, librarian of the Republic "Indexes and Tools for Periodical Refer- Iron and Steel Company, at Youngstown, an ence Work" was the subject of a paper pre- out-of-town member, were guests at this sented by Miss Edith B. Skinner of The Free meeting. Library of Philadelphia, Periodical Depart- Southern California ment, at the March meeting of the Spccial The regular meeting of the Special Libra- Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicin- ries Association of Southern California, was ity, held in the Philadelphia Chamber of Com- held Friday evening, March 12, 1926, at the Commerce Building. California State Fisheries Laboratory on Miss Skinner outlined thc historical back- Terminal Island. ground as well as the use and nature of many Mr. N. 3. Scofield, head of the Commercial of the indexes and tools used as aids to ref- Fisheries Department, told what the Com- erence and research work with periodical lit- mission is doing to further the interests of the erature. Under such headings as indexcs, commercial fisheries. Mr. W. L. Scofield, in digests, newspaper annuals and directories, and charge of the laboratory, discussed the rela- union lists, many interesting publications were tion of scientific research to the fisheries of brought to attention and discussed. The pa- the state. Dr. H. C. Bryant of the Museum per was received with much enthusiasm, and of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of a general request was made that copies of it California explained the education, publicity be supplied to those present. and research work of the Commission.

Events and Publications Rebecca B. Rankin, Department Editor Special librarians may find stimulus and Camden First, the official organ of the opportunity for gratification in "Does SYS- Chamber of Commerce of Camden, NJ., for tematic Training of Employees Pay?" by Ma ~~b~~~~~,r92,j,is devoted to the banking and M. McCants, general manager of the Market financial houses of that city. Street Railway Company which appears in Aera, March, 1926, p. 173-7. John Cotton Dana has a stimulating article "Your JudmentNo Better Than Your In- in the Szlrvey, Graphic Number, March I, formation," by Monica Shannon, Publicity De- 1926, entitled "A Museum of, for and by partment, Los Angeles Public Library, ap- Newark!' It is illustrated by a portrait of pears in the Coast Banker, vol. 36,- .- p. 212, Feb- ruary, 1926. Mr. Dana done by Douglas Volk. SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1916

It interests special librarians to see that Sen- An article entitled "The Scope of Bibliog- ator Truman has introduced a bill in the New raphies," by J. Strohl, director of the Con- York State Legislature which provides for the cilium Bibliographicum, pappeared in Science publication of a New York State Industrial for February 26, 1926. Directory. There has been none issued since A seven-page typewritten bibliography, en- 1913 and it certainly is needed. We hope the titled "Swamps and Swamp Vegetation" has bill passes. recently been compiled by Miss H. E. Stock- bridge, librarian of the Forest Service, ' The annual statistical issue of Automotive Industries has appeared. United States Department of Agriculture. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics Li- United States Census Bureau, Bulletin NO. brary, United States Department of Agricul- 158 Cottotr Production and Distribution con- ture, has prepared a bibliography entitled tains a summary of statistics for cotton for the season of 1924-1925. "Some References to the Export Corpora- tion Plan!' A bibliography on this subject The forecast of building for the coming was compiled a little over a year ago by the year may be consulted in a reprint from the Division of Bibliography of the Library of Architectural Record of January, 1926, by Congress. Thomas S. Holden, "The Building Prospect A valuable aid to librarians is the schedule for 1926." of hearings to be held by the Committees of A new Polish Handbook has just been is- the United States House of Rcpresentatives sued, edited by Francis B. Czarnoniski, pub- which the Congressional Record has been lished by Eyre and Spottesweede, London. publishing daily since February 4, 1926. It is hoped that a similar list will soon be fur- A publication, Guide to the OrigCal Sources nished by the Senate. for the Major Statistical Activities of the United States Governnsent, issued by the A great deal of valuable material in re- United States Eficiency Bureau gives the gard to the activities of the United States De- names of branches engaging in the collection partment of Agriculture and the condition of of data and the dissemination of information agiiculture is contained in the hearings on under each subject covered by the statistical the Agricultural Appropriation Bill, 1927, be- activities of the government. fore the Sub-committee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, and the Do you see The Pijer which is a periodical Hearings before the Sub-committee of the devoted to books and authors, the advertising House Committee on Appropriations. medium of the Houghton Mifflin Company? The United States Daily made its first ap- The Agricultural Economics Bibliography pearance on March 4, 1926. This publication No. rr, of the United States Department of presents the only daily record of the official Agricultuye, may be useful to many of us- acts of the legislative, executive and judicial it is a selected l~stof economic periodicals branches of the government of the United of foreign countries published in the English States of America, and will have a daily, week- language. ly and yearly index. Are you aware that the American Bankers' The Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Association, IIO East end Street, New York United States Department of Agriculture, has City, is responsible for a great many pam- recently compiled a short list of references phlets which are distributed gratis to insti- to comments, principally in farm journals, on tutions and libraries? A recent classified list various plans for the disposal of the agricul- of these publications which are available may tural surplus. bc secured upon request to Miss Ethel L. Bax- ter, librarian. The Milwaukee Teachers Association be- sides tnaintaining permanent offices and club Industrial 1Mzlwaukee-A Trade Review of rooms, maintains a rapidly growing reference 1925 is a mighty attractive pamphlet con- library of professional literature. Members taining many economic and industrial facts may not only draw books, but books may be about that city compiled by the Commercial ordered at a discount. Current magazines Service Department of the First Wisconsin and reference books for extension courses are National Bank, Milwaukee also available. April, 1926 SPECIAL L IBRARIES 151

The report contains approximately forty-one Legislative Periodical pages, the material being arranged in topical The American Legislators' Association, of form for handy reference, and represents a which Mr. Henry W. Toll, Denver, Colo., is valuable source of information for the il- president, is issuing a monthly periodical en- luminating engineer. titled The Legislator. Information of value In order to place this information at the to national and state legislators is furnished disposal oi the members of the Illuminating by the publication and it will also serve as an Engineering Society, the Council has author- unbiased medium of communication between ized an appropriation to cover the cost of members of the American Legislators' Asso- printitlg and distribution, and as soon as the ciation, the Commission on Uniform State printing is completed by the Special Libraries Laws and the American Bar Association. :Issociation, copies will be mailed to the I. E. The association will be controlled by the. S, membership. It is expected that this ma- legislators themselves who will elect a gen- terial will be available shortly. eral assembly who in turn will elect an exec- The Bibliography on Illumination issued as utive committee. The officers of the associa- Information Bulletin No. 3 is just off the tion will be elected by the executive com- press. The publication will be rcviewed in the mittee. The financing of the publication will next issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES.-EDITOR. be under the supervision of the executive com- mittee and no compensation' will be received Valuable Reference Tool by anyone for service rendered in the con- duct of the association or in the editing of The growing recognition of magazlnes as its periodicals. sources of authentic information in matters of a historical, scientific and technical nature has Kinks in Correspondence led an increasing number of cotnmunties to George W. Lee, librarian, Stone & Web- makc a survey of their periodical resources stcr, Inc., Boston, Mass., would like to receive for the benefit of their stuclcnts and technical memoranda of "kinks" that are used in con- workers. nection with correspondence. He is interested The result of such a survcy of material in in preparing what may prove to be a sheet and about Los Angcles, states a recent issue in a loose leaf handbook, and this sheet will of News Notcs of California Libraries, has have to do with letter writing and communi- just been made available by the Special Libra- cations generally. One subject in which he is ries Association of Southern California with particularly interested is what might be called the financial backing ol the local universities, suspense material, such'as letters waiting for the public library and many ~ndustrialfirms bills, bills waiting for books, material to be of ihe city. filed waiting for data that shows the source, The fact that the Los Angeles Channher of orders that are not likely to be filled for six Commerce, three large petrolcum companies months or more, and, generally speaking, and an important electrical company were will- things that depend upon something else be- ing to joili the more purely learned institutions fore they come to their full use. Doubtless in making the publication ol this list possible every librarian has experiences with these is significant of the growing place of research problems of suspense and should be glad to in the conduct of modern business. contribute his part to the siudy that is being The Union List of: Periodicnls in Libmries made. of Soz~fhernCalifornia is a carefully prepared volume of about two Ilundred lJages contain- Bibliography on Illumination ing the titles af al~outthrec thousand periodi- At the last convention of the Special Ii- cals to be found in southern California libra- braries Association, states a recent bulletin of ries, the volumes and dates being indicated in the Illuminating Engineering Society, an or- each case. The printed matter is contained ganization of special librarians who have in the left-hand coIumn, while the right-hand charge of libraries in industrial and commer- margin is left blank for insertions and cor- cial institutions such as banks, insurance com- rections. An extension sheet gives a key to panies, public utility companies, manufacturers, the symbols and abbreviations employed, thus etc., there was presented in the form of a obviating the necessity of turning back each report, a bibliography of illumination cover- time an interpretation of the symbols is de- ing the year from June, 1924 to June, 1925. sired. SPECIAL LIBRARIES April, 1916 Personal Notes Margaret C. Wells, Department Editor Mrs. Ruth Delaney of the General Petro- Dr. William Edward Schroeder, who died leum Corporation, Los Angeles, Cal., resigned in Florida on February 5, left his medical li- her position as librarian and ,left December 1 brary valued at $25,000 to the Wesley Me- for Spain where she and her husband plan to morial hospital in Chicago. Dr. Schroeder make their home. Miss Nelle McKenzie, was the chief surgeon at Wesley Memorial. formerly of the San Diego County Library, has been appointed to succeed Mrs. Delaney. Miss Katharine B. Johnson has been ap- Mrs. Paul G. Lovinggood, formerly Miss pointed head of the Reference Library of the Helen Hulen, assistant librarian of the Secur- Chase National Bank under the jurisdiction ity Trust and Savings Bank, Los Angeles, Cal., left the profession March I, 1926. Miss Agnes of Dr. B. M. Anderson's office. Miss John- Lokken, who has been in the library at the son comes from Toledo, Ohio, and has been University of California, Southern Branch, in the bank for several months, working in will be the new assistant. the Stenographic Department and, later, on Dr. Archibald Malloch, from Montreal, special work for Dr. Anderson. She is a Canada, is the new librarian at Academy of graduate of Smith College, the class of 1924. Medicine, 17 W. 43rd Street, New York. The library, states the house magazine of the bank, is located on the first floor of 4 Miss May Peffer, 272 West 73rd Street, Trinity Place and here Miss Johnson New York, has been placed in a tem- may be found with abundant energy and porary position in the Western Union Li- readiness to gather financial facts of almost brary. any description from her files of corporation Miss Gladys M. Pardoe, formerly of the statistics, reference manuals and current finan- law library connected with Cravath Hender- cial magazines. son & de Gersdorff, is now librarian of the George Batten Co., 383 Madison Avenue, Miss Caroline S. Waters has an interesting New York. article in News Notes of California Libra- Miss Rhea Barziley, formerly librarian of ries, January, 1926, entitled "The Libraries I the American Exchange Pacific National Visited While in Europe!' Naturally the Bank of New York, is now librarian for Ivy place of first interest was the American Li- L. Lee, III Broadway, New York brary in Paris, but she found great pleasure Miss Estelle L. Liebmann will sail for Eu- in visiting Miss Wilson, librarian of the League rope on April 15, spending her time largely of Nations Library. Another fascinating li- in France. Her European address will be 10 brary was the little "Joyous Hour" (L'heure Rue Weber, Paris 16me, France, c/o M. joyeuse) at Brussels, the first children's li- Erlanger. brary established in Europe. S. Ashley Gibson has been appointed libra- rian of the library maintained by the Provi- Mr. Johnson Brigham, state librarian of dence Journal Company. Mr. Gibson was Iowa, received unusual honors on the occasion formerly city editor of the Evening Bulletin of his eightieth birthday which occurred on published by the same corporation. March 11, 1926. On the previous evening Miss Margaret Reynolds, librarian of the Mr. Brigham was the guest of distinction at . First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee, a dinner attended by over two hundred guests. spoke before the students and faculty of the On the following evening the Unitarian Girls' Trade School in Milwaukee, on March Church, of which Mr. Brigham is an active member, also honored him with a dinner. On 23. Her subject was "Why Read." the evening of March 12 he was the guest of Miss Katherine Fravell, 120 Harrison honor at a dinner of the Press and Authors Street, East Orange, N.J., formerly with the Club of which he is past president. Mr. Irving National Bank has been placed as as- Brigham was elected state librarian of Iowa sistant to the librarian of the American in 1898 and has had a distinguished career as Bankers Association. lecturer, author and historian. Pages 153-156 deleted, advertising.