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Special Libraries VOLUME40 ...... Established 1910 ...... NUMBER4

CONTENTS FOR APRIL 1949

SLA Charter . . 123 SLA Conventions and Past Presidents . . 124 Special Libraries Association Chronology, 1909-1949 . . 125 Remembrance of Things Past . . 134 New Horizons . . ROSEL. VORMELKER 144 Tribute to the Editors . . REBECCAB. RANKIN 145 SLA Structure of Chapters and Groups . . 147 SLA Publications 19 17-1949 . . 148 Tentative Program of the SLA Fortieth Annual Convention in Los Angeles, June 12-17,1949 . . 151 SLA Chapter Highlights . . 153 SLA Group Highlights . . 154 Announcements . . 155 Indexed in Industrial Arts Index, Public Mairs Information Service, and Library Literature

ALMA CLARVOEMITCH~L KATHLEENBROWN STEBBINS Editor Advertising Manager The articles which appear in SPECIALLIBRARIES express the views of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the opinion or the policy of the editorial staff and publisher.

SLA OFFICERS, 1948-49 ROSE L. VORMELKER,President Business Information Bureau, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland 14, Ohio MRS. Rum H. HoOK~R,First Vice-president and President-Elect Naval Research Laboratory, Washington 20, D. C. ~VINJ. VOIGT, Second Vice-president Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh 13, Pennsylvania DAVIDKESSLER, Treasurer ...... Department of Public Relations, General Motors Corporation, Detroit 2, Mich. MRS. KATHLEENB. STEBBINS, Executive Secretary 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, New York m.IRENE M. STREBY,Immediate Past President Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis 6, Indiana DIRECTORS ELMAT. EVANS,Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Buffalo 21, New York. DONALDT. CLARK.Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston 63, Massachusetts. MARGARETHATCH, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, San Francisco 20, California.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES published monthly September to April, with bi-monthly issues May to August, by The Special Libraries Association. Publication Office, Rea Building, 704 Second Ave., Pittsburgh 19. Pa. Address all communications for publication to editorial ofices at 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3. N. Y. Subscription price: $7.00 a year; foreign $7.50; single copies, 75 cents. Entered as second-class matter February 5. 1947, at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Accepfance for mailing at special rale of posfage provided for in the Act of February 28. 1925, authorized February 5. 1947. RECOMMEND THESE BOOKS TO YOUR COMPANY EXECUTIVES

APRIL

THE EPIC OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY By JAMES BLAINEWALKER. A dramatic history of the rise of industry, commerce, communication and business in America that makes clear the sources of America's industrial strength and still expanding economic power. Here is a tribute to the achievements of American drive, enterprise and ingenuity, and a convincing affirmation of the benefits and potentialities of a free economic system. Executive Books, Inc., selection. Illustrated. $5.00

PROFIT SHARING Democratic Capitalism in American Industry By KENNETHM. THOMPSON.Foreword by ROBERTS. HARTMAN,Exec. Sec., Council of Profit Sharing Industries. This book supplies the only comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the American profit sharing movement. Special emphasis is given to the reasons for past successes and failures, the elements of a sound plan and the methods of setting one up. Of particular value is the author's evaluation of the role played in profitable labor management relations by a well-conceived profit sharing provision. $4.00

CORPORATION FINANCE By FLOYDF. BURTCHETTand CLIFFORDM. HICKS. A systematic and comprehensive summary of basic information about the financing of modern corporations, this book should be in every business library. Here is an invaluable reference on the basic ideas, terminology and typical operating methods of American corporations. $7.50

PUBLIC ORGANIZATION OF ELECTRIC POWER Conditions, Policies and Program By JOHN BAUER and PETER COSTELLO. The problem of the organization, control and development of the electric power industry is here presented by a long-time authority in this field. Made necessary by the number of new factors affecting the power industry, this book is the only up-to-date examination of the case for public power and for the further extension of Federal and state control. $4.00

COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH 1948-1949 Edited by PAULF. LAZARSFELDand FRANKN. STANTON. An essential reference manual for executives in the fields of advertising, radio, public opinion measurement, newspaper and magazine publishing. Here is a timely and much- needed examination of urgent present-day problems of the highly controversial communications field, analyzing both the effects of mass media and the ways in which communications research can be refined and improved. Coming April 27th. $4.50

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KNOWALL MEN BY THESEPRESENTS, That we, Francis E. Cady, Mary H. Brigham, Mary Louise Alexander, Rose L. Vormelker, Elizabeth B. Wray, Mary de J. Cox, William Alcott and Herbert 0.Brigham, all of lawful age, hereby agree to and with each other: First. To associate ourselves together with the intention of forming a corporation under and by virtue of the powers conferred by Article I11 of Chapter 248 of the General Laws of Rhode Island. Second. Said corporation shall be known by the name of Special Libraries Association Third. Said corporation is constituted for the purpose of promoting the collection, organization and dissemination of information, developing usefulness and efficiency of special libraries and other research organizations, and encouraging the professional welfare of its members.

RESOLUTION

AUTHORIZINGTHE SECRETARYOF STATETO ACCEPTCERTAIN ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATIONWITHOUT NOTARIAL ATTESTATION (Approved April 13, 1928) RESOLVED,That the secretary of state is hereby authorized and em- powered to accept without notarial attestation the articles of association for the incorporation of the Special Libraries Association, under the authority of Chapter 248 of the General Laws and all acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, provided, that two members of the association resident in Rhode Island certify as to the genuineness of the signatures of the incorporators subscribed to the aforesaid articles of association. (Signed) ERNESTL. SPRAGUE, Secretary of State. CONVENTIONS AND PAST PRESIDENTS

Organization Meeting Date Presiding Officer Bretton Woods, N. H. 1909 John Cotton Dana

Convention City President Term of Office New York, N. Y. John Cotton Dana 1909-1910 Mackinac Island, Mich. John Cotton Dana 1910-1911 Pasadena and New York Robert H. Whitten 19 11-1912 Ottawa, Canada Daniel N. Handy 19 12-1913 Kaaterskill, N. Y. Daniel N. Handy 19 13-1914 Washington, D. C. Richard H. Johnston 1914-1915 Berkeley and Haines Falls, Andrew A. Bostwick 1915-1916 N. Y. Asbury Park, N. J. Frederick N. Morton Charles C. Williamson Louisville, Ky. Charles C. Williamson Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Guy E. Marion Asbury Park, N. J. Maud A. Carabin New York, N. Y. Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr. Swampscott, Mass. Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr. Detroit, Mich. Rebecca B. Rankin Atlantic City, N. J. Edward H. Redstone Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Daniel N. Handy Swampscott, Mass. Daniel N. Handy Atlantic City, N. J. Francis E. Cady Toronto, Canada Francis E. Cady Washington, D. C. Francis E. Cady Washington, D. C. William Alcott San Francisco, Cal. Margaret Reynolds Cleveland, 0. Alta B. Claflin Lake Placid, N. Y. Mary Louise Alexander Chicago, Ill. Mary Louise Alexander New York, N. Y. Ruth Savord Boston, Mass. Howard L. Stebbins Montreal, Canada Howard L. Stebbins New York, N. Y. William F. Jacob Pittsburgh, Pa. Alma C. Mitchill Baltimore, Md. Alma C. Mitchill Indianapolis, Ind. Laura A. Woodward Hartford, Conn. Laura A. Woodward Detroit, Mich. Eleanor S. Cavanaugh New York, N. Y. Eleanor S. Cavanaugh Philadelphia, Pa. Walter Hausdorfer No Conference Herman H. Henkle Boston, Mass. Betty Joy Cole Chicago, Ill. Irene M. Strieby Washington, D. C. Rose L. Vormelker

Resigned. SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION CHRONOLOGY - 1909 - 1949' JOHNCOTTON DANA, President, libraries, and for Publications and Pub- 1909-1911 licity. The formation of these commit- Free Public Library tees might well be considered the be- Newark, 3. J. ginning of our present Groups. A month- ORTY years have passed into ly magazine, SPECIALLIBRARIES, first history since the organization of issued in January 1910, served as a FSpecial Libraries Association. clearing house for news and information Early in 1909, John Cotton Dana, Libra- of special interest to all the members. rian, Public Library of Newark, New Jer- It also contained valuable book lists and sey, and Mr. F. B. DeBerard, Statistician, bibliographies prepared by SLA mem- Merchants Association, New York City, bers. John A. Lapp, Legislative Refer- wrote librarians associated with manu- ence Librarian of Indiana, and Guy E. facturing, business and engineering Marion, of Arthur D. Little Company, firms, civic and commercial bodies and Boston, were the magazine's first edi- public libraries maintaining business tors. The first directory of members, in- departments, regarding the possibility cluding about 100 special libraries de- of an association for librarians in spe- voted to 23 subject fields, appeared in cialized fields. This idea was enthusi- the April 1910 issue. astically received and during the con- At the second and third annual convention of the American Library Asso- ferences held in July 1910 and in Sep- ciation held that year at Bretton Woods, tember 1911, such projects as a Trades New Hampshire, Mr. Dana invited those Index, which later became the Industrial interested in the formation of such an Arts Index, and a Public Mairs Index organization to meet with him on July were discussed. At the second confer- second. At this meeting it was voted to ence SLA formally requested affiliation form the Special Libraries Association with A.L.A. This was granted on Jan- and twenty of the twenty-six persons uary 6, 1911. present became organization members. Of the founder and organizer of Spe- Although the early records are incom- cial Libraries Association, William Al- plete, it has been definitely determined cott has written: "Founder and or- that by November 5, 1909, the date on ganizer, and for two years President, which the first annual conference was more clearly than anyone of his time, held, there were 57 members all of whom John Cotton Dana saw the meaning of are regarded as Charter members. the new movement in the library world Mr. Dana, as the Association's first and of the need for an association for president, laid the ground work for the those engaged in this new and special Association's future. During his two library field." years in office, committees were appointed for Agricultural, Commercial ROBERTH. WHITTEN,President, Associations, Insurance, Legislative and 1911-1912 Municipal Reference, Membership, Pub- New York State Public Service Commission lic Utility, Sociological and Technology Albany, N. Y. During Robert Whitten's term, the question under consideration was prima- 1 This article was prepared from a more rily the definition of a special library lengthy chronology, copies of which may be secured from Miss Emma Boyer, Librarian, and how it differed from a general li- National City Bank, Cleveland 1, Ohio. brary. Papers, devoted to its scope and 126 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April purpose, were presented at the annual special library movement was growing: conference and also at a joint session "The special library has marked an- with the National Association of State other advance in the campaign to make Libraries and the American Association the information from books, magazines, of Law Associations. In summing up the papers, manuscripts and special re- discussions, William P. Cutter said, "I searches a factor in the practical work consider a special library as one that of commerce, industry and public af- serves people who are doing things, and fairs . . . one after another of the plans a reference library one which serves which have been formulated have been people who are thinking things." carried into action . . . five years time has seen the special library approved by DANIELN. HANDY,President, big business and commercial concerns. 1912-1914 The next five will see it established as Insurance Library Association a permanent adjunct of all progressive Boston, Mass. enterprises." In 1912, the membership of the As- sociation included members from prac- RICHARD JOHNSTON, President, tically every state in the United States. H. 1914-1915 The inauguration of "Responsibility Dis- Bureau of Railway Economics tricts" was suggested by Herbert Brig- Washington, D. C. ham, who had served as one of the As- It was in Mr. Johnston's administra- sociation's first directors. The Execu- tion that the H. W. Wilson Company tive Board, acting upon this suggestion, took over the publication of the Public directed the newly-elected president, Affairs Information Service; the office Mr. D. N. Handy, to name fourteen of the Assistant-Treasurer was created; Districts, each one to be presided over the need for a Headquarters Office was by a District Head. The formation of discussed; and the retiring president these Districts was, without a doubt, automatically became a member of the the beginning of the "Chapter" idea. Ac- Executive Board. tive Chapters are functioning today in During the five years since the or- five of the original "Responsibility Dis- ganization of SLA its membership had tricts," namely, Boston, Cleveland, Los increased to 354, including members Angeles, New York and Pittsburgh. from every section of the country and During Mr. Handy's administration, from foreign countries, "all interested the Public Mairs Information Service in new methods of using print"; and was established with headquarters at SPECIALLIBRARIES had published 75 the Indiana Bureau of Legislative In- bibliographies and many articles on formation, Indianapolis. Forty institu- various types of special libraries. tions enrolled and a system of exchange developed. Also during Mr. Handy's A. L. BOSTWICK,President, term committees were created: (1) To 1915-1916 study the subject of a clearing house Municipal Reference Library for municipal information; (2) To re- St. Louis, Mo. port on special libraries in relation to The first SLA Group, the Financial, the training of men in industry; (3) To was formed during Mr. Bostwick's ad- study classification schemes and their ministration and had charge of the applicability to special library collec- SLA program held on January 12, 1916, tions; and (4) To publish a book de- in New York City; the H. W. Wilson voted to the special library movement. Company announced the publication of A statement made following the sixth the Agricultural Index in February annual conference shows how the new 1916; and the Association recommend- 19491 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION CHRONOLOGY 127 ed that steps be taken urging members LIBRARIESto replace Ralph L. Power, of Congress to grant sufficient funds to who was in the overseas service; a short establish a Municipal Reference De- course in library methods for business partment of the Library of Congress. libraries was conducted by Louise B. John A. Lapp, Editor of SPECIALLI- Krause, of Chicago, at the Riverside BRARIES, first used the expression "Put- Library School; and William Jacob was ting Knowledge to Work", when he said appointed chairman of a committee to of the eighth annual conference: "Many collect data on special libraries through- contributions were made, not the least out the country. of which was the clearer recognition of the basic purpose of the special library, MAUDEA. CARABIN,President, namely, to put knowledge to work." 1919-1920 Detroit Edison Company Detroit, Mich. F. N. MOR~ON, President, Miss Carabin stressed "the advisabil- 19 16 United Gas Improvement Company ity of SLA's developing a service plan Philadelphia, Pa. whereby it would become a positive ad- (Resigned because of illness). junct to business research, co-ordinating data on various lines of research both complete and in progress, aiming to CHARLESC. WILLIAMSON,President, eliminate the uncompensated losses due 19 16-19 18 Municipal Reference Library to duplicated research." As a result, a New York, N. Y. Committee of Seven, the members con- The Official Index of State Legisla- sisting of three from A.L.A., three from tion, edited and published by the Law SLA, and one a member of both asso- Reporting Company of New York City, ciations, was appointed to study the was one of the accomplishments of Mr. various methods of research in busi- Williamson's administration. Others in- ness and industrial libraries. cluded cooperation with A.L.A. in At the twelfth annual conference the the war effort; suggestions for improve- General Electric Company displayed a ment of SPECIALLIBRARIES; organiza- model industrial library and the New tion of local Groups; the formation of York bank librarians exhibited a model an Employment Committee in the New financial library. York SLA; and the suggestion that the SLA annual conferences be held inde- DORSEYHYDE, President, pendent of the American Library Asso- 1920-1922 ciation. Packard Motor Car Company Detroit, Mich. GUYE. MARION,President, By the time Mr. Hyde began his 19 18-19 19 presidency, the liaison between the spe- Business Library Organizer cial library and business had been Boston, Mass. permanently established and courses in The formation of an Advisory Coun- business library technique were begin- cil to the Executive Board came into ning to be taught in many library being in Mr. Marion's term of office. schools. In February 1921 the Uni- Two members from each Group-Com- versity of Michigan announced its in- mercial, Financial, Insurance, Legisla- tention of placing a technical library at tive Reference, Technical and Engineer- the disposal of Michigan manufactur- ing, Industrial and Welfare--were ap- ers, and in April of the same year, pointed to serve in this capacity. F. H. Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Com- Friedel was appointed editor of SPECIAL merce, pointed out the value of the ser- 128 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [~pd vice rendered to science and industry of subject headings designed primarily by the special library. for the business library; Charlotte Also during Mr. Hyde's administra- Noyes compiled a cumulative index to tion, Adelaide Hasse was appointed edi- SPECIALLIBRARIES, VO lumes I-XII; tor of SPECIALLIBRARIES; the Trade Leonore Tafel was appointed editor of Catalogs (Lewis A. Armistead, Chair- SPECIALLIBRARIES; the President's Page man), Methods (Ruth G. Nichols, in the magazine was inaugurated; and Chairman), and Information Services Groups for the first time were complete- (Herbert 0.Brigham, Chairman) Com- ly organized (Advertising-Commercial- mittees were appointed; Kenneth G. Industrial, Civics, Financial Insurance, Walker gave the first radio talk on spe- Medical, Newspaper, Sociological, Tech- cial libraries, speaking from the Pitts- nology ). burgh Post Station on "Putting Facts to Work;" Ralph L. Power called the first EDWARDH. REDSTONE, President, meeting of the Southern California spe- 1923-1924 cial librarians; and Mr. Hyde was ap- State Librarian, State House pointed a member of the National Re- Boston, Mass. search Council. Mr. Redstone's administration marked one of the milestones in the Associa- REBECCAB. RANKIN,President, tion's history. It was during the sixteenth 1922-1923 annual convention that the question of Municipal Reference Library SLA becoming a section of A.L.A. was New York, N. Y. heatedly discussed, some members be- Upon assuming office as President, lieving that such a union would be ad- Rebecca Rankin outlined the following vantageous for both Associations. The ten point program for further develop- proposal was defeated by a large ma- ment of SLA: (I) Establishment of a jority. At this annual meeting the re- Headquarters Office to serve also as vised SLA constitution was adopted an information center; (2) Preparation and included provision for affiliation be- of library exhibits at annual conven- tween the national and local associations of professional organizations; (3) tions and for Group organization. Promotion of Groups; (4) Preparation During the year Laura R. Gibbs was of a library exhibit for the Philadelphia appointed editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES. Sesquicentennial Exposition; (5) Sys- tematic study of equipment devices; DANIELN. HANDY,President, (6) Possibilities of certification for spe- 1924-1926 cial librarians; (7) Improvement of em- Insurance Library Association ployment possibilities; (8) SLA pub- Boston, Mass. licity in periodicals; (9) Establishment Ten years from the time Daniel of training classes; and (10) A new di- Handy's first administration ended rectory of special libraries. (1914) he began his second. His great- Miss Rankin also established a new est task during these two years was the policy of activity for the Association unification of the controversial forces throughout the year to culminate at the within the Association. This he accom- annual convention, and she suggested a plished with courage and with the revision of the Constitution to allow for knowledge that SLA would grow in the formation of Groups and local Asso- strength as the years unfolded. ciations, integrating all in the national It was during this administration that Association. many library exhibits were held at na- Also during her administration, Julia tional conventions of other associations. Elliott published the first classification These included two sponsored by the Fi- 19491 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION CHRONOLOGY 129 nancial Group at the annual meetings Council in Chicago; at the American of the American Bankers Association; Electric Railway Association Conven- one sponsored by the Technology tion in Cleveland; at the American Gas Group at the American Gas Associa- Association Meeting in Chicago; and tion Convention, held in Atlantic City, at the American Bankers Association N. J.; one sponsored by the Illinois Convention in Philadelphia. Chapter at the annual meeting of the At the end of its first twenty years Illinois Products Association in Chicago; SLA looked back over a period of con- and one sponsored by the Boston Chap- stant growth and "entered upon its sec- ter at the Associated Industries of Mas- ond twenty years with a firm resolve to sachusetts Exhibit. make the special library even more ef- Other highlights were the appoint- ficient and valuable to industry." At ment of Herbert Brigham as editor of this time there were 1,129 SLA mem- SPECIALLIBRARIES, and R. H. Johnston bers. as Chairman of a Survey Committee to report on the condition of the Associa- WILLIAMALC~, President, tion and its future program; prepara- 1929-1930 tion of union lists by the Chicago, Phila- The Boston Globe delphia, Pittsburgh and Southern Cali- Boston, Mass. fornia Chapters; a special library course Mr. Alcott's administration continued offered by the American Correspond- the excellent procedure of holding li- ence School of Librarianship, with Mar- brary exhibits with one being displayed garet Reynolds, instructor; a series of at the American Bankers Association advanced courses in special libraries to Convention in San Francisco, California, be conducted by the Library School of and another at the Investment Bankers the New York Public Library, with Association Convention in Quebec, Can- Linda Morley, Florence Bradley, Wil- ada. During this administration a Com- liam Powlison and Claribel Barnett as mittee on Cooperation in Business Li- lecturers; and the first conference held brary Service, with Marian Manley as of the Association of Special Libraries chairman, was appointed to act as an and Information Bureaux, a British li- intermediary between special librarians brary association patterned after SLA. and public librarians in the field of business service and to study problems FRANCISE. CADY, President, affecting them. 1926-1929 General Electric Company, Nela Park MARGARETREYNOLDS, President, Cleveland, Ohio 1930-1931 The years 1926-1929 were important First Wisconsin National Bank ones for the Association for they saw Milwaukee, Wis. the formal adoption of the Institutional Miss Reynolds inaugurated the idea Membership; the increase in subscrip- of holding Executive Board and Council tion price of SPECIALLIBRARIES from Meetings in cities having Chapters so $4 to $5; the incorporation of Special that Chapter members would become Libraries Association in accordance with better acquainted with the national offi- the laws of the State of Rhode Island; cers. During 1930 the Financial Group the establishment for the first time of an sponsored two library exhibits, one at Executive Office in Providence, R. I., the American Bankers Association on September 15, 1927, with Mrs. Her- meeting in Cleveland and the other at bert Brigham as a part-time paid secre- the Investment B ank ers Association tary. Library exhibits were held at the convention in Chicago. annual Congress of the National Safety It is interesting to note the change in 130 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

the tone of the papers presented at the ed the appointment of Florence Brad- Association's twenty-third annual con- ley as editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES; the vention. Prior to this time papers had holding of the first Methods Clinic at a stressed the need for special libraries, regional conference at Briarcliff Manor, but at the Cleveland meeting the em- New York, on June 17, 1933 (The phasis was on business conditions and Clinic was conducted by the New York other subjects of general interest. This Chapter); a grant of $7500 from the change in theme showed that SLA had Carnegie Corporation toward the financ- reached maturity. ing and support of SLA's trade associations Project; the appointment of Ruth ALTAB. CLAFLIN,President, Savord as liaison officer between the 1931-1932 national Association and local Chapters Federal Reserve Bank so as to establish closer cooperation; the Cleveland, Ohio During Miss Clafln's administration, employment of Elizabeth Lois Clarke as Mrs. Herbert Brigham resigned as Ex- the first full-time paid Executive Secre- ecutive Secretary and the Board, ac- tary; and the inauguration of a mem- cepting the generous offer of the Stand- bership gavel award to the Chapter ard Statistics Company, made through having the largest percentage of increase in paid-up membership from May its Librarian, Eleanor Cavanaugh, transferred the Headquarters Office to the 20 to May 20 of each year. Standard Statistics Building in New RUTH SAVORD,President, York City. This office was in charge of 1934-1935 Rebecca B. Rankin, assisted by a paid Council on Foreign Relations employe. New York, N. Y. Also during this period Ruth Savord The outstanding accomplishment of was appointed editor of SPECIALLIBRA- Miss Savord's administration was the RIES; a new publications policy was Board approval to publish the Tech- adopted; a committee was appointed, nical Book Review Index, which had with Rose Vormelker as chairman, to been discussed when Miss Alexander cooperate with trade association execu- was president. Also during Miss Sa- tives; Linda Morley offered a course in vord's term of office Marian C. Manley Special Library Administration at the was appointed editor of SPECIALLIBRA- School of Library Service, Columbia RIES and an Organization Chart for University; budgeting systems for local SLA was prepared and published. Chapters were adopted; the trade name, Special Libraries, was registered; HOWARDL. STEBBINS,President, and the employment work conducted 1935-1937 by the New York Chapter was trans- Social Law Library Boston, Mass. ferred to the Headquarters Office. During Mr. Stebbins' administration, MARY LOUISE ALEXANDER,President, a second grant, from the Carnegie Cor- 1932-1934 poration, this time for $3000, was made Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc. to SLA for the purpose of promoting New York, N. Y. the Technical Book Review Index. Miss One of the first projects undertaken Granville Meixell, Engineering Libra- by Miss Alexander, when she assumed rian at Columbia University, was ap- the Presidency, was the appointment of pointed editor of the Index, which posi- a committee to take a national census tion she held until the publishing of of the Association to learn the desires TBRI was transferred to Pittsburgh, and aptitudes of all SLA members. Pa. During this period the bank accounts Other events during these years includ- of SLA were consolidated; a monthly 19491 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION CHRONOLOGY 131 financial statement was issued from Tenth Street, New York City. From Headquarters to all SLA officers; a re- 1931-1939 it had, through the generos- serve fund for the Association was ity of the Standard Statistics Company, established in March 1936 with $500 been housed in its building, rent free. in U. S. Bonds; and the first issue It was during her administration that (October 1935) of the Associate Mem- the Executive Board began to hold sev- bers Bulletin was issued. Ruth Savord eral of its meetings separately from was the first editor of this Bulletin; the Advisory Council; TBRI was later Marguerite Burnett took over the transferred to the Carnegie Library of editorship and also served as liaison Pittsburgh to be edited and published officer. It was also while Mr. Steb- under the supervision of a committee bins was in office that SLA appeared composed of Jolan Fertig, Chairman, on the air for the first time during an Edith Portman and Elwood McClel- annual convention. The arrangement land; the Special Library Page in the for this broadcast was made by Wil- Wilson Bulletin was inaugurated with liam Jacob. New committees appointed Mary E. Newsome as its first editor; were: the Committee to Promote the Virginia Meredith was appointed editor Development of Business Libraries, and of SPECIALLIBRARIES succeeding the Committee on Training and Re- Marian C. Manley, who resigned; SLA cruitment. representatives were appointed to the Joint Committee on Indexing and Ab- WILLIAMF. JACOB, President, stracting, to the Joint Committee on 1937-1938 Survey of the Special Library Field, General Electric Company to the Joint Committee on Relations Schenectady, N. Y. During Mr. Jacob's administration between National Associations; and to the first Trade Names Index was pub- the American Standards Association lished; the Student Loan Fund was Committee (2-39); Microfilm and established; a suggested form for Chap- Documentation, the Archives, the Pro- ter Constitutions was presented for dis- fessional Standards and the National cussion; the first SLA representative to Defense Committees were also appoint- the American Documentation Institute ed; the Executive Secretary was named was appointed; other SLA representa- Advertising Manager of SPECIALLIBRA- tives appointed were those to the World RIES; Miss Clarke resigned as SLA Ex- Congress of Universal Documentation ecutive Secretary; the first Life mem- and to the H. W. Wilson Company; the bership was taken out by Hazel Dobson Chapter Town Crier, with Marguerite and for the first time all the SLA Chap- Burnett as editor, was issued for the ters ( 19) were visited by the president. first time; and the first salary survey inaugurated under the chairmanship of LAURAWOODWARD, President, Ruth Savord. 1940-1942 Maryland Casualty Company ALMA C. MITCHILL,President, Baltimore, Md. 1938-1940 Mrs. Kathleen B. Stebbins was ap- Public Service Corporation of New Jersey pointed Executive Secretary under Miss Newark, N. J. Woodward's administration. Grace Aik- Miss Mitchill's two years in office enhead served as editor of SPECIALLI- marked another milestone in SLA's his- BRARIES the first year of Miss Wood- tory. It was during her administration ward's presidency and upon her resig- that the Headquarters office moved for nation, Alma Mitchill took over that the first time into rented quarters at office. Under Miss Woodward's leader- the G. E. Stechert Company, 31 East ship, the Council of National Library 132 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

Associations was organized and the first article on the special librarian appeared volume of Special Libraries Resources, in Mademoiselle for September 1943, edited by Rose Vormelker, was com- entitled "Passing the Book"; Something piled and published. These two years Special, a novel type of recruiting pam- also saw the Placement Service in- plet, was issued; a double entry system augurated at Headquarters; the Dupli- of bookkeeping was instituted at Head- cate Exchange List and Classification quarters; and a new type of financial Schemes and Subject Headings Lists quarterly statement was prepared by transferred to Headquarters; andthepub- Walter Hausdorfer, Chairman, Finance lic Relations Committee and the Com- Committee. mittee on Cooperation with Special Li- braries in Latin America appointed; the WALTERHAUSDORFER, President, Associate Members Bulletin discon- 1944-1945 tinued; the appointment made of a School of Business, Columbia University Washington, D. C. liaison officer (Ade- New York, N. Y. laide Hasse) to keep SLA informed of In Mr. Hausdorfer's term of office new legislation pertinent to business as the publication policy of SLA was re- it affected special libraries; the exten- vised giving full authority over all pub- sion of SLA services to all libraries en- lications, including SPECIALLIBRARIES gaged in national defense. A special and the Technical Book Review Index, grant of $100 was received from the to the Publications Governing Com- Office of Coordinator of Inter-American mittee, with the editor of SPECIALLI- Affairs by the SLA Committee on Co- BRARIES, who was also chairman of the operation with Special Libraries in Latin Editorial Sub-committee, and the chair- America for the transportation costs of man of TBRI, ex-officio members of the distributing SLA publications requested Publications Governing Committee; the by special libraries in other American annual convention in Chicago was post- republics. poned to conform with World War I1 restrictions on travel; Ruth Savord at- ELEANORCAVANAUGH, President, tended the United Nations Conference in 1942-1944 San Francisco to assist Paul Kruse, from Standard Statistics Company the Library of Congress, to set up a New York, N. Y. library for Conference delegates; Isabel During Miss Cavanaugh's administra- Towner classified all classifications tion, a Committee of Three was ap- schemes on file at Headquarters and a pointed to make a study of all the As- mimeographed list by subject was is- sociation's activities; the SLA Man- sued to all SLA members; the pamphlet, power Survey was inaugurated; the For Profit, Progress and Profecfion, was name of the National Defense Com- prepared to interest small business committee was changed to the War Activ- panies in libraries. ities Committee; the Duplicate Ex- change Service was discontinued; a HERMANH. HENKLE,President, representative was appointed to the Li- 1945-1946 brary Binding Institute; the Interna- Processing Department, Library of Congress tional Relations Committee, a succes- Washington, D. C. sor to the Committee on Cooperation Shortly after Mr. Henkle became with Special Libraries in Latin Arner- president, Special Libraries Resources, ica, was established; the president was Volume 11, edited by Isabel Towner, appointed a member of the Explora- came from the bindery. A study of SLA tory Committee on Aid to Libraries in structure to cover organization of War Devastated Areas; a new type of Groups and Chapters was undertaken, 19491 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION CHRONOLOGY 133 and the Committee of Three was in- ROSE L. VORMELKER,President, creased to five members. The Commit- 1948-1949 tee on the Development of Advisory Business Information Bureau, Cleveland Public Service to Business and Industry was Library, Cleveland, Ohio appointed at this time, and the results One of the highlights of Miss Vor- of the SLA salary survey were reported. melker's term of office has been the re- moval of the Executive Offices from the BETTY JOY COLE, President, fourth floor of the Stechert - Hafner 1946-1947 Building, 31 East Tenth Street, New Calco Chemical Division, York, to spacious new quarters on the American Cyanamid Company eighth floor. The Association took a for- Bound Brook, N. J. ward step when a pension plan for the During Miss Cole's term of office, the Headquarters staff was instituted July Executive Board voted, upon recom- 1, 1948. The Science-Technology Group mendation by the International Rela- sponsored a chemical library exhibit at tions Committee, to use some of the the convention of the American Chem- 1946 surplus of the Association towards ical Society, held in Chicago in October a scholarship for a foreign library stu- 1948. Several publications have come dent; SLA became affiliated with the from the press during the past year.' International Federation of Library As- Also completed was the Manual of the sociations; the first Newsletter was is- Geography and Map Group which will sued in April 1947; Volumes 11- IV of be published in August as a supplement Special Libraries Resources were edited to the Library Journal; and a commit- by Isabel Towner; and an SLA pub- tee Manual, the third in a series of oper- licity brochure was mailed by all Chap- ations manuals, giving functions and his- ters in the U. S. and Canada to compa- tory of all committees, is in preparation. nies in their areas which were without In this, the Fortieth Anniversary year, libraries. the membership has grown to 5500 members in the U. S. and Canada and IRENEM. STRIEBY,President, 32 other countries. The Reserve Fund 1947-1948 Eli Lilly and Company now totals $44,144.26, and SLA has Indianapolis, Ind. been represented for several years at Following the Board's vote in Miss international library conferences held in Cole's administration to offer a library Great Britain and on the Continent. scholarship to a foreign student, Miss There are now 22 Chapters in the U. S. Anne Margrethe Lovaas from Norway and 2 in Canada and 14 Groups, not to was chosen as the recipient immediately mention innumerable committees and after Mrs. Strieby assumed the office representatives to other organizations of president. Also during Mrs. Strieby's and associations. administration, Mr. H. A. Fountain, As her presidential term draws to a Management Controls Consultant, was close, Miss Vormelker sees the greatest engaged to make a "Survey of office needs of the Association as (1) a good procedure at Headquarters plus a re- public relations policy, (2) an employ- view of the present job analysis for em- ment policy, (3) a recruiting and train- ployes"; the Chapter Manual, prepared ing program and (4) a publications in 1930, and the Group Manual, pre- policy. pared in 1933, were both revised; a Aside from the concrete accomplish- second salary survey was undertaken ments, however, Miss Vormelker's year by Walter Hausdorfer as chairman; and as president has been one of gathering SLA voted to participate in the newly organized U. S. Book Exchange, Inc. lSee page 149 for list of SLA publications. 134 SPECIAL LIBWES [April many controversial opinions into a and Advisory Council meetings over the smoothly-running organization. It will years and from back issues of SPECIAL go down in SLA's history as one in which LIBRARIES.If such is the case Emma the Association has gained encourage- Boyer, Chairman of the Chronology ment and fortitude through the efforts Committee, and the Editor ask your in- of a patient and far-seeing leader. dulgence. In compiling these notes it has been our intention to set forth the highlights of each administration as well [EDITOR'SNOTE: There undoubtedly as "firsf' events. If some have been are several discrepancies in this chron- overlooked, let us know so that they ology, since it was prepared primarily may be incorporated in our Fiftieth An- from minutes of the Executive Board niversary history.]

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URN back the pages of time. In Mr. Dana's plans and asked me to pre- the history of nations four dec- pare a tentative form of organization Tades is a brief period, but to the and a draft of a constitution for the Special Libraries Association, it repre- proposed new library association. sents in the beginning a struggle for As a preliminary to the planned existence and even for recognition. Fif- meeting, Mr. Dana at the fourth Gen- teen years after our formation we eral Session of the A.L.A. on July 2, weathered a serious crisis and at various 1909, presented a brief statement under times friction caused minor difficulties, the title "Municipal, Legislative Refer- but as a rule the progress has been ence, Commercial, Technical, and Pub- steady and the primary results eminent- lic Welfare Libraries." He noted that ly satisfactory. Sarah B. Ball, of the Newark Business I am writing these reminiscences as Branch Library, and Miss Sears had one of the founders of SLA and I am compared notes and decided to discover probably one of the few surviving mem- what was being done in similar institu- bers who attended the organization tions. Then came the idea of an asso- meeting held at Bretton Woods in the ciation of those interested in special summer of 1909. libraries. In closing, Mr. Dana urged It is worthwhile recalling that the that persons interested in this move- idea for the creation of SLA originated ment spend a few moments at the end in the fertile mind of John Cotton Dana, of the Session in room four of the Con- who observed the great need for the vention hotel. establishment of this highly specialized The organization meeting convened group. This is not the place to make in this small room at the Mount Wash- comparisons between the public and ington Hotel and, if memory serves me, the special library field, but Mr. Dana the following persons were present: Mr. in his persuasive way enlisted the help Dana, who presided; Miss Sears, who of his worthy assistant, Beatrice Win- acted as secretary; Miss Winser; George ser, and Anna Sears, then librarian of W. Lee, of Stone and Webster; Robert H. the Merchants Association of New Whitten, of the Public Service Commis- York. Earlier in the Bretton Woods sion, New York City; and myself. There conference of the American Library were also a few others, including those Association, Miss Sears told me about persons who had heard the earlier in- 19491 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST 135

vitation. During the meeting, R. R. Commercial Associations, Mr. DeBer- Bowker, of the Publisher's Weekly, and ard; Insurance Libraries, Mr. Handy; Dr. Frank P. Hill, of the Brooklyn Pub- Legislative and Municipal Libraries, lic Library, entered the room and both Mr. Lapp; Public Utility Libraries, Mr. wished us success in our undertaking. I Lee; Sociological Libraries, Mrs. H. P. do not recall the presence of C. W. An- Bates; and Technology Libraries, Mr. drew~,of the John Crerar Library, Chi- Wheeler. cago, but later he took an active interest In January 1910, the initial issue of in SLA and became identified with the SPECIALLIBRARIES appeared; in March Membership Committee. the Boston Branch was formed, and The officers chosen were Mr. Dana, Guy E. Marion, of Boston, replaced President; Mr. Whitten, Vice-president; 'Miss Sears as Secretary-Treasurer. In Miss Sears, Secretary-Treasurer; George that same month Mr. Lapp became Winthrop Lee and Herbert Brigham as managing editor and Mr. Marion busi- other members of the Executive Board. ness manager of SPECIALLIBRARIES. The first regular meeting of SLA was Here are the highlights of those held in the assembly room of the Mer- early days. Forty years is a long time chant's Association of New York City, to keep alive the memories. The men on November 5, 1909, with about fifty and women who carried the torch in persons in attendance. The speakers the very beginning stand out in retro- were Sarah B. Ball, of the Newark Busi- spect with friendships that endured ness Branch Library; Beatrice Carr, of through the four decades. Daniel Handy, Fisk & Robinson, New York; George with his keen sense of humor and fine Winthrop Lee, of Stone & Webster, Bos- companionship, has gone to his reward. ton, Mass.; Milo R. Maltbie, of the Guy Marion, way out on the Pacific Public Service Commission, New York; coast, writes often, but I wish I could Robert H. Whitten and Herbert Brig- see him face to face; George Lee, with ham. Mr. Dana presided. I have not his earnest approach to life, retiring before me the register of that meeting, many years ago and before his death but I am sure that many of our pioneers drifting away from his old associates; were present. This list should include John Lapp, who carried heavy burdens D. N. Handy, Guy E. Marion and in the editorship of the periodical, and Frank 0.Stetson of Boston; Horace E. now a labor arbitrator, far afield from Flack of Baltimore; John A. Lapp and legislative reference; John Cotton Dana, Ethel Cleland of Indianapolis; Eleanor the great man of genius, who conceived Kemp and Sarah Kerr of New York; the whole idea and never lived to know F. N. Morton of Philadelphia; Joseph the full measure of his great undertak- L. Wheeler of Washington. To the list ing. But enough of personal remem- should be added the names of H. H. B. brances. This story has not told the Meyer of the Library of Congress, who difficulties that beset the officers, edi- furnished yeoman service in the field tors and committee chairmen in the of bibliography, and Wallace P. Cutter second decade of the century. For these of the Engineering Societies, New York, men and women were nearly all hold- who suggested the international techni- ing down important jobs and the work cal index. of SLA had to be done in the so-called The Association was growing. The leisure hours, much of it at great per- Executive Board had appointed various sonal sacrifice. committees and chairmen as follows: In glancing through the pages of the Membership, Mr. Brigham; Publication, earlier numbers of SPECIALLIBRARIES, Mr. Dana; Publicity, Mr. Lee; Agricul- I am impressed with the great number tural Libraries, Miss M. F. Warner; of bibliographical undertakings which 136 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April received their first impetus in the columns rather than applied to."' of our magazine. In conference discus- W. P. Cutter's definition, "A special sion, in correspondence and in special library is one that serves people who committee, these bibliographical plans are doing things" as distinct from "a took shape and blossomed into full- reference library which serves people fledged services of importance. In all who are thinking things" marks the most this accomplishment, Halsey W. Wilson telling difference. Reference is academic took an important part and must be -special is dynamic. M. S. Dudgeon considered one of the early supporters said, "A reference library is an academic of the special library movement. institution for the scholar. A special li- HERBERTOLIN BRIGHAM, brary is a utilitarian establishment cal- Charter Member. culated to serve the worker too busv to take time for scholarly investigation." From our earliest years there had Richard H. Johnston described spe- been dissatisfaction with the connota- cial libraries in 1915 as Chapter VIII tion of the word "special" but no more of ALA's Manual of Library Economy. descriptive word for the Association had Fifteen years later, he rewrote his pam- been devised. phlet and privately printed it at Silver Accordingly there were those who Spring, Md., where he still resides. In sought to broaden the basis of our his second edition he pointed out clearly membership to make the going easier that it is not the book collection but the while others thought it better to justify librarian that makes the library "special". our existence apart from the A.L.A. by D. N. Handy, who served as presi- sticking closely to our original idea- dent four terms, set up, with the writer, each according to his own connotation the first fourteen "Responsibility Dis- of the word "special." tricts."Vhis cut our new Association The occasion for a statement came geographically. with the invitation during my term for John A. Lapp set the course for SPE- a chapter on "Special Libraries" for the CIAL LIBRARIESand inspired the whole A.L.A. Manual. It transpired that I was membership with a spirit of cooperation compelled to write this Chapter VIII and mutual helpfulness. Adelaide R. myself. I maintained that a special col- Hasse raised it from an association or- lection was not necessarily a special li- gan to "the dignity of a periodical"; and brary but a special library was usually Herbert 0. Brigham increased its finan- a special collection applied to and ser- cial status beyond the dreams of its vicing a special interest or business. To founders. The long list of other mem- that idea of a Special Library Associa- bers who contributed so largely to the tion many still adhere. success of our early years cannot be R. H. JOHNSTON, named for lack of space. Many occupy President, 19 14-1915. a niche of specbl regard in my memory. In 1919 the writer served as SLA's John Cotton Dana initiated the spe- tenth president. It was the thrilling period cial library movement and pointed out of World War I. It was a time of revalu- its direction and purpose. His definition ation of many things. The Association of such a library as "the library of a modern man of affairs" still stands close 1 R. H. Johnston in SPECIALLIBRARIES, examination after forty years. "It is a li- 1931, pg. 3. brary to which one does not repair, but 2 See SPECIALLIBRARIES. 3: 194-6 When I parted from him last summer, he remarked from which emerges anything and every- "Guy, it was a great crusade, wasn't it?" to thing applicable to the needs of a busi- which I thoroughly agreed. It was Dana's Cru- ness firm. It is a library that is applied, sade. 19491 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST 137 began to think of the whole nation as maining are new developments arising its field rather than the Eastern Sea- through the years. board and to see itself as an essential Devoting a word to the present, the part in the whole library movement. In whole field of special librarianship has my presidential address at Asbury Park, grown so tremendously since 1919 that N. J., after appealing for the support of one can hardly grasp what has taken special libraries by public libraries for place. The Treasurer's report of re- their reaction of each upon the other, ceipts in 19 18-19 showed $1,366.86 I said, "In this way we have a complete while that of the calendar year 1947 and entire library system for the whole showed $54,604.41; the membership nation. It centers in the Library of dues were $1,2 73,60, including subscrip- Congress at Washington, from there it tions, compared with $30,080.30 today. radiates to every state in the Union to While the past has been noteworthy the several State Libraries, thence to and much that we dreamed of in the the local public libraries within each early days has come to pass, the future state, and each of these in turn will be ought still to be compelling. In growth surrounded by a group of financial, of numbers and spread of Association commercial, industrial, medical, techni- interests, the next decade does not seem cal and other special libraries. We thus so clear. Surely it should not be our disarm all opposition and construct a goal merely to grow in size, if in that whole organism. Special libraries should very diversity we should lose sight of be helped not hindered, their Association the original purpose, namely, to take should be supported and fostered, and the library idea -the use of print - the very greatest cooperation should into the realm of active doers. Service, exist between all libraries. No one ele- as distinct from method and minutiae, ment alone is complete without the was our original challenge. We should others. All are stronger for each other's refocus our attention on these funda- help." mental objectives. Our junior past presi- At this time a new definition was of- dent has seen our internal defects of fered: "A special library consists of a organization and discussed our struc- good working collection of information ture in her annual report. It would be either upon a specific subject or field of tragic if in growth we lost all purpose activity; it may consist of general or and became a heterogeneous mass of even limited material serving the in- unrelated units. A more cohesive interests of a special clientele, and pre- ternal structure should be one of our ferably in charge of a specialist trained early and important goals, and its ex- in the use and application of the par- pression should be so simple that every ticular material." Perhaps this defini- member, new or old, could comprehend tion would still stand today. it at a glance. If such a unity can be The most important step of that year achieved, the power of our Association was the creation of the Advisory Coun- should be magnified many times. cil, which gave concrete expression to GUY E. MARION, the Group idea, by permitting each of the President, 19 18-1919 seven Groups to elect two members to and Charter Member. the new Council. Here was the beginning of our highly developed Group I was much interested to learn that structure of today-starting with seven, a Fortieth Anniversary number of SPE- it now numbers fourteen, and of the CIAL LIBRARIESwas being planned, and original seven at least four or five per- sincerely regret that I cannot cooperate sist and perhaps, under changed names, in the way suggested. In the first place, the other two or three, while those re- I seem to be constitutionally unable to 138 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [ Apd reconstruct from memory a realistic and understood. The truth is that busi- picture of any part of my past experi- ness in the United States today has ence, especially of a past so remote as reached a size and scope so unparalleled my presidency of the SLA. I can't even that its conduct must be based upon recall the dates! I am sure we had some continuous study and appraisal of past "burning" questions and equally sure development and of the results of past that we thought at the time we had ac- decisions and actions. complished something definitely worth- But research regarding the economic while. I doubt, however, that to the development of a particular business or present generation of SLA'ers our tri- corporation cannot be based entirely umphs would seem to have any impor- upon the material contained in the tance at all. special library of that particular firm Some day I suppose a history of SLA because its activities are related to or will be written. If, and when, it is, I overlap the activities of other business shall be surprised (and gratified -as- firms. Hence the need for an organiza- suming I am still alive) if my adminis- tion such as Special Libraries Associa- tration is even mentioned, outside of tion and for finding media such as the the chronological list. Perhaps you will Special Libraries Direcfory, the first is- say I should make sure of a place in sue of which was published in 192 1 by history by taking advantage of this our Association. opportunity to put the future historian Business in the United States today on the right track. But, alas! it can't be has arrived definitely at the conclusion done. Not only is my memory a blank, that all activity must be based upon a but I have no documentation at hand. fact basis. Special Libraries Association Congratulations, and best wishes for has made real contributions to this end the continued usefulness and constantly and all of our future efforts, as members enlarging scope of SPICIALLIBRARIES. of the Association, should be aimed at CHARLESC. WILLIAMSON,locating and obtaining all factual infor- President, 19 16-19 18. mation which will aid American business in reaching still higher standards of completeness and accuracy in the plan- From the international standpoint the ning and administration of all activities United States of America has always of the economic America of today. been looked upon as a new country and DORSEYW. HYDE, this viewpoint has greatly influenced President, 1920-1922. the thinking of many American citizens. As one important result of this type of thinking we find that the American It was my privilege in 1920 to be people, in the past, have not given a elected president of the New York Spe- great deal of thought to the history of cial Libraries Association into which we the nation, the separate states, the coun- instilled new life and activity. Monthly ties, the cities and towns, the various dinner meetings were instituted, and a social, business and professional groups, large membership was soon attracted the families and the individuals whose by spirited speakers. Interest was arous- efforts have resulted in the United ed and competition stimulated by divid- States of today. ing the Association into subject groups. The above is one of the reasons why Our objective was professional improve- the special library is a relatively mod- ment which, in two years as president, I ern type of institution, the importance was able to stimulate through publica- and practical value of which has only tion of a Directory, a subject key to the recently come to be generally recognized resources of our special library collec- 19491 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST 139 tions, a sampling of methods, and a the question as to whether it should registration for employment. Many com- remain by itself or become a section of mittees set to work on definite objec- the American Library Association. Some tives of this nature and with a changing of its members wanted to stay and work personnel interested the entire member- out their own destination by remaining ship and attracted new blood. Scores of independent of the A.L.A. As the years New Yorkers enlisted then continue have passed, the Association has grown their active support today. in numbers and strength due, in large When chosen to serve as president of measure, to the efficient paid Secretary, Special Libraries Association in June to its most competent Editor and to an 1922, I determined to coordinate the interested group of leaders, eager for activities of the local associations into its future. With its strong Chapters the national. Those ideas which had throughout the strategic centers of the developed successfully in the New York United States, and with competent lead- local were applied to the national. The ers, the success of the Special Libraries locals were made Chapters and af- Association is assured for the years to filiated to form the national; Groups come. were created in accordance with sub- EDWARDH. REDSTONE, ject interests, and they soon functioned President, 1923-1924. as vital parts of the national. The Con- stitution was revised to permit of the new reorganization. The finances were The main problem confronting SLA improved to tie in with the scheme of when I was honored with the office of administration and an institutional President was that of financing. Prior to membership recommended to give more that time the large corporations, whose stability to the national Association. librarians formed the bulk of the Asso- Efforts were initiated toward the estab- ciation's membership, were asked for lishment of a Secretary's Office as head- annual contributions. This meant that quarters for information which grad- each year the question of contributions ually developed through the years, be- to SLA had to be discussed with other coming a reality in 1928. appropriations by executive boards and These basic stones in Special Libra- decided pro or con. ries Association comprise the founda- In talking, one day, with the head of tion upon which an excellent structure the Nela Park Department of the Gen- has been erected by many special libra- eral Electric Company, he told me the rians. The Association has functioned best way to handle this problem of fi- effectively and will continue to do so nances was to set up for corporations in the coming years under the constant so-called "institutional memberships" leadership of capable officers, chosen by similar to company memberships in an alert membership. electrical and other societies. In this May all the young members drive as way, when a company had once taken fast and efficiently in their new air- out such a membership, it automatically planes as we in the past forty years would be paid year by year unless some- have driven in our automobiles! More one on the company's board objected. power to you! Throw in your throttle This suggestion was passed on to the full ahead! SLA Board and adopted and has been REBECCAB. RANKIN,followed ever since. It put the Associa- President, 1922-1923. tion's finances on a solid basis. Another forward step during my ad- During the year 1924-1925, the Spe- ministration was the incorporation of cial Libraries Association had to solve SLA. With the charter of the Associa- 140 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

tion, SLA reached full legal status? library did more than raise my morale, FRANKE. CADY, for my inferiority complex wholly dis- President, 1926-1929. appeared. In association with the Chap- ter members I found warm and helpful When The Boston Globe Reference friends, and not until recent days have Library was placed in my charge, in I found it necessary to be absent from 1922, I had already served on The their meetings. Attendance at the an- Globe for eighteen years as a reporter, nual SLA conferences also opened up followed by sixteen years as night city to me another world of friends and editor, and I entered upon the new work helpers, and, in 1929, came my election with trepidation. I knew only too well as president. No one could have had that I knew nothing about library man- more congenial and cooperative fellow- agement. workers than I did both as a member When a few months later, the new of the Executive Board and as presi- president of the Boston Chapter, Mr. dent: Mary L. Alexander, Florence Walter L. Briggs, assistant librarian Bradley, Francis E. Cady, Eleanor Cav- of the Harvard College Library, asked anaugh, Caroline Faltermayer, Sir An- me whether I would have the Chapter's gus Fletcher, Daniel Handy, Rebecca opening meeting in The Globe Library, Rankin, Rose Vormelker, and many I was almost frightened. But I spoke others, to say nothing of the splendid with the management about it, and men and women in the Newspaper while there was no room in the building Group. Now in my eighty-first year, I for such an affair, the president promis- look back to the association with those ed a room at a neighboring hotel, if friends and acquaintances as a happy that was satisfactory, and before the chapter in a long life, and am grateful arrangements were complete a dinner for it. for the Chapter members was included. WILLIAMALCOTT, Ordinarily dinner attendance aver- President, 1929-1930. aged 50, but the acceptance of the Globe's hospitality reached 103. When The most outstanding accomplish- the business session was over, the crowd ment during my administration as presi- swarmed into the library. Everyone was dent of SLA was the inauguration of anxious and interested to see what a the plan, since followed, of visiting newspaper library was like. At the end the various Chapters throughout the of the visit a group approached me and country, from the Atlantic to the Pa- introduced themselves as members of cific, so as to cement our relations. Al- the faculty of the School of Library most every city where Chapters were in Science at Simmons College, and they existence was visited. At the same time expressed themselves as being both many special libraries were visited. For surprised and delighted with the visit. the future I believe that SLA should "This is the first newspaper library we stress establishing closer contacts with have ever seen," they said, and then individual libraries so that when we asked if they might have samples of the need help in our reference work we will containers we used for clippings and know exactly to whom to turn. for photos, as well as prints from the MARGARETREYNOLDS, rubber stamps we used. After that meet- President, 1930-1931. ing my morale rose 100 percent. Evidently the meeting at The Globe After five years retirement from active special library work, I still feel the

1 See copy of charter on page 123 of this pleasure and pride which I have always issue. had in my association with so many 19491 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST 14 1

keen-minded, alert, hard-working, un- spirit nor lessen the accomplishments. selfishly devoted co-workers. With such MARYLOUISE ALEXANDER, a group our Special Libraries Associa- President, 1932-1934. tion cannot fail to continue its outstanding contributions to the library profession as a whole. It has my very best My presidential year, 1934-1935, saw wishes for its future development and the organization of two new Chapters usefulness. and of three new Groups, publication of ALTA B. CLAFLIN, a national Directory and of the first President, 1931-1932. and only SLA Organization Chart, and the inauguration of TBRI. There was It is difficult to remember any pro- also an increase in membership, in sub- gram that goes back fifteen years in scriptions to SPECIALLIBRARIES and in history and I do not have access to any advertising revenue. All this was done files. So, here are my impressions of in the sixth year of depression, and two very interesting years -of hard with a president who was ill for sev- work, some frustration but some very eral months. I take particular pride in real rewards. In addition to the personal recalling these accomplishments because satisfactions, perhaps one or two of the credit for them belongs so completely following may still be considered gains to the loyal, hard-working Groups, Com- for SLA: The first full-time paid secre- mittees and Chapters and to the 1800 tary was employed and a regular office interested members who were respon- set up in space generously donated by sible. I can think of no better future the Standard Statistics Company; the for our Association than a revival of first Carnegie Corporation grant to SLA that spirit of individual responsibility was secured for the promotion of library which vitalized the whole Association service to trade associations under the that year. NRA; the first procedure manuals were RUTH SAVORD, written for the operation of SLA Groups President, 1934-1935. and Chapters as one of our many efforts to help these important units. After a considerable struggle, it was decided to The years 1935 and 1936 were not purchase a government bond as a token entirely peaceful for SLA. Divergent that the Association meant to operate views on the rights of Associate mem- on a sound financial basis. The first bers, allocation of dues and budgets, and bond for $500 was bought during How- the status of Chapters under the Con- ard Stebbins' administration, thus start- stitution came to a head in that period. ing SLA's Reserve Fund. To pilot the ship was not an easy As I follow SLA reports today, I task but the efforts of wise counsellors think of the lean years when we were brought us eventually into calmer seas. in the red as often as in the black. Dur- I do not recall that my two years in ing my administration, funds were so the president's chair coincided with any low that the noble, resourceful editor spectacular developments or with any of SPECIALLIBRARIES, Florence Brad- radically improved methods or basic ley, had regularly to check on the bank steps forward. I believe it was a con- balance before she could plan and structive period because we proved to produce the next issue of the journal. ourselves that sharp differences of opin- SLA has come far through the efforts ion and tenacious holding of points of of devoted members and I am terribly view could be harmonized and that a proud of it. My great hope is that pros- few concessions here and there could perity shall not kill the early pioneering unify our purposes and clear the way 142 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April for continued advance. When I look back upon my two years HOWARDSTEBBINS, as president the one event which stands President, 1935-1937. out most prominently is the moving of SLA Headquarters into rented quarters. May I step out of the shadows of It was an entirely new procedure and back-stage and into the spotlight of many members of my Board were skep- front-center just for a brief moment, to tical for fear we could not survive finan- congratulate the Special Libraries As- cially if rent were added to our other sociation on its fortieth anniversary! expenditures. The years which followed Who would have thought, from the have proven how successful has been meeting of a small group of determined that venture into the unknown. Head- individuals back in 1909 at Bretton quarters Office not only flourished in its Woods, that the spark they generated new home, but increased in usefulness then would grow into the present dy- to all members of the Association, so namic Association of over 5500 mem- that before long a larger staff and ad- bers throughout the world! ditional space were needed. Last July What a terrific expansion from the Headquarters moved into its present little Association of only 1,997 mem- location on the eighth floor of the Stech- bers in the year when I was at the ert-Hafner Building which is approxi- helm - 1937-1938---only 11 years ago! mately three times the size of the room In reminiscing, I think of two accom- occupied in 1939. plishments which, to me at least, are The attitude of the Association that landmarks of my brief tenure: (1) year when it had to assume a larger from a publication angle, the issuance financial burden has been, I believe, of the first Trade Names Index; (2) characteristic of SLA from its organi- from an organizational viewpoint, it zation in 1909 to the present time. It was the first year, that SLA vice-presi- has never side-stepped its responsibil- dents were assigned definite executive ities. In those early days when SLA responsibilities in national SLA affairs, was finding its place in the library world, instead of simply having a title and a it was fortunate in having for its lead- vote at board meetings. In my opinion, ers men and women with far-seeing this latter idea paved the way for the vision and in its later years, having present practice of considering the first reached its maturity, its leaders have vice-president as the president-elect for been of the same outstanding calibre. the succeeding year. No longer need a Let us hope in the years ahead that our person take on the office of national Association will not become too un- president, as I did, without adequate wieldy or too engrossed in material preparation. gains to lose the far-sightedness of our As to the future--World War I1 early pioneers. taught the world the value of library ALMA C. MITCHILL, methods and research. The special li- President, 1938-1940. brary idea is spreading like wildfire. At the present phenomenal rate of growth, War Years! Years of intensive activ- SLA will soon be in the front ranks of ity and production for SLA! The years the professional associations of the of four new Groups: Geography and country. Map; Hospital and Nursing Librarians; More power to you, SLA! I'm proud Advertising; and Transportation. A new to have had a brief moment in helping Chapter: Minnesota was born. New you on the road to professional glory! publications came off the press: War WILLIAMF. JACOB, Subject Headings; Index to Pefroleum President, 1937-1938. Statistics, rev. ed; Aeronautical Refer- 19491 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST 143

ence Library; Manual of Classification efforts, the future of the Association is and Cataloging of Maps; Handbook of assured. Commercial, Financial and Information WALTERHAUSDORFER, Services, rev. ed.; and Patent Index to President, 1944-1945. Chemical Abstracts, 1907-1936. The years we were all out on editing Spe- Much more vivid than my memory cial Libraries Resources, Vols. 2-4. The of what I did for the Association while years of the Manpower Survey and the I was president are my recollections of Salary Survey; the years when the Fi- what the presidency did for me. It left nance Committee made a six-year com- me with a vivid impression that the parative analysis of our income and ex- strength and vitality of SLA stems di- penditures; when double entry book- rectly from its membership, and espe- keeping was installed at Headquarters, cially from the activities of its Chap- and HQ staff enlarged; when we initiat- ters and Groups. The primary contri- ed quarterly budgeting; when we had an bution that any president could make annual surplus of $4000 one year and would be to improve ways and means $7200 the next; when we transferred by which this vitality can find expres- $20,000 from the checking account to sion and by which communication be- the Reserve Fund; when we voted by tween members and groups of mem- mail ballot for the first time. The years bers can be improved. As an objective of an intensive training and recruiting this was uppermost in my mind during program with two recruiting pamphlets the year, and I hope we made a little off the press. The years when the Illinois progress. A special effort to increase Chapter did such a grand job for the membership participation through the Alien Property Custodian. The years Board and Council meetings did appear when we proudly announced 75 mem- to meet with some success. bers in the Armed Forces. It seems like HERMANH. HENKLE, only yesterday that I was visiting Chap- President, 1945-1946. ters, getting bumped off planes, and sitting up all night in airports or rail- There is just one factor which ac- road coaches-Years of intensive mem- counts for Special Library Association's bership cooperation with telling results past growth, its present recognition as -Grand years to have been president! an outstanding organization and its fu- ELEANORS. CAVANAUGH,ture position in the library world. That President, 1942-1944. is cooperation. This characteristic was, in my opinion, the most outstanding There is so much of importance to be during my term of office. SLA's strength done that no one president, no one lies in this cooperative thinking, plan- board, in the course of a year, can con- ning and working. Without it, SLA tribute more than a small bit to the would disintegrate; with it, SLA will total. Considering the three-fold aims continue to progress in a manner in of administration: continuing the life which every member can be proud. of the profession; giving continuity, co- BETTY JOY COLE, herence and significance to the pro- President, 1946-1947. grams; and perfecting the structure of the Association so that it will be demo- In 1947-1948, SLA approached an- cratic and efficient, it is clear that what- other milestone in its growth. The pre- ever is accomplished in one year or ceding decade brought opportunities for another is due to the work of many service undreamed of when the Asso- members over a period of years. Be- ciation was organized. Likewise, these cause of the vitality of our cooperative same years accumulated problems. In 144 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April trying to understand them and to pre- Founded in Bretton Woods, New pare for further Association develop- Hampshire, in 1909, by a stalwart group ment, the necessity for a more cohesive of far-seeing persons, the Association organization became apparent. Many has grown to its present proportions, members recognized that lines of com- both in its membership and the work munication at all levels were breaking it has accomplished, because of the down. To strengthen them, Group and spirit which filled its members in those Chapter Manuals were revised and dis- early years. Although our numbers were tributed, calling for an active period in small and our finances precarious at clarifying committee policies integrated times, much of the work which is being at the Group and Chapter levels. Many carried on so efficiently today had its gaps appeared, pointing the way for humble beginning then. Now, through continued efforts to achieve coordina- increased membership, due to indus- tion, thus re-emphasizing the need for try's needs for libraries to aid its re- installation of a communications sys- search, we are better fortified financial- tem to handle every type of informa- ly to develop and expand our program. tion that SLA members want to get We are doing so with telling results and across to one another. This urgent need with the ever-growing respect from the for a fully informed membership went world at large in which we hold our hand in hand with the realization that rightful place. there must also be a cautious approach The future of SLA looks brighter to alterations in the structure and scope than ever before. We should be mind- of an organization which had gone for- ful, however, that its continued success ward too rapidly to pause for a period of self-examination. is again dependent upon the spiritual IRENEM. STRIEBY, ideals of its forbears. In our great desire President, 1947-1948. to go forward, let us remember this and keep closely to our own interests The Special Libraries Association is through a corresponding membership. fast approaching its fortieth birthday, Let us not attain this through material and I, as one of its early members, means but by a loftier aim upon which pause to salute it, and to review briefly any sustained growth is attendant. those years in the light of the past, the MARYDEJ. COX, present and the future. A Signer of the 1928 SLA Charter.

NEW HORIZONS

T this forty year mark we are fac- its duty to foster the organization of the ing a world which undoubtedly record of the amazing amount of re- A will be so different from the one search in the world in order that its re- we've known to date that the changes sults and tremendous implications may electricity brought in the past will be be put to greatest use. dwarfed in comparison. This is no mean program. It de- Yet one basic fundamental reason mands clear thinking on our part. It re- for the existence of SLA remains the quires a re-examination of our objec- same. The world will continue in its tives. It needs our direction for the need for knowledge which may be "put training of those who would be part of to work" and indeed more so than ever. the program. It calls for a 100 percent It will be SLA's opportunity as well as alertness on the part of every SLA 19491 NEW HORIZONS 145 member to go outside the confines of his ly in the air age which is upon us, or her library to inform and to instruct and the atomic age which is around those as yet unfamiliar with this move- the corner, we have come to another ment. crossroads, but SLA's part is still, to It means more active participation in put it in the words of John Lapp, "to real work -preparation of more tools gather all of the experiences available to expedite the use of resources at our with regard to an institution's prob- command; it means continuous study lems, to classify it in such a way as to on our part; and above all it means make it quickly available, to digest and putting aside all petty thoughts of what- prepare same in usable form, to study ever origin they may be and working actual problems which confront the in- constructively with each other. stitution and to attempt to bring the in- Techniques and form of organization formation gathered to the right man at may need revision. As an Association the right place so that it may function we shall have to cut our pattern to fit in the work of the institution which it the cloth but may it never be without serves." To this we should add "at the vision of its potentialities. right time" for a piece of information Throughout the files of SPECIALLI- presented tomorrow when it should BRARIES we find the statement "We have been yesterday may spell the dif- are at the crossroads," reiterated by ference between failure and success. one after another of our leaders. Sure- ROSE L. VORMELKER,President.

TRIBUTE TO THE EDITORS

NE of the first steps undertaken and with no compensation except the by the Special Libraries Associa- satisfaction of a job well done and the 0 tion when it was organized in knowledge that, but for their leadership 1909 was the publication of a monthly in editing the contributions of the mem- magazine. This was indeed a wise de- bers to SPECIALLIBRARIES, the Associa- cision as it has proved beyond a doubt tion would not have enjoyed its current to be the instrument which has made prestige. possible the Association's growth and John A. Lapp, Bureau of Legislative through which the special library prin- Information, Indiana State Library, the ciple has extended itself into every first editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES, set type of business and industry as well the pattern of the magazine and devot- as the professions and among govern- ed seven years to his ideal for it. He mental agencies. remained as editor until September SPECIAL LIBRARIEShas been most 1917. The length of his devotion to the fortunate in its editors. Through forty job was also matched by the term of years there have always been capable Herbert 0. Brigham, Rhode Island State special librarians who volunteered to Librarian, who was our able and ener- serve as the guiding hand in the publi- getic editor during the years 1924 to cation of a monthly magazine. The edit- 1931 when SPECIALLIBRARIES was a ing of a regularly issued publication re- much huskier periodical and the ex- quires much time and effort, and a ponent of a fast-growing and vital As- strong conviction in the person who association. Again our present devoted sumes such a responsibility that it ben- editor, Alma C. Mitchill, has bettered efits his profession. Our editors have all those previous long term editorships given ungrudging and unstinted service, and is now entering upon her eighth 146 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April year in guiding our magazine in the Leonore A. Tafel, of the research ranks of the best library journals. So staff of the Metropolitan Life Insurance these three loyal special librarians have Company in New York, was editor for served as editors for more than half of nine months in 1923. This was the first the forty years of SLA's existence. time photographic illustrations in the Marian C. Manley, Librarian of New- text were attempted. A cumulative in- ark's Business Library, also gave un- dex for volumes I-XI11 was prepared stintingly of her enthusiasm to SPECIAL by Charlotte Noyes, Librarian of Du- LIBRARIESfor the five years 1934-1939. pont Company, and printed in the 1923 Her editorship was characterized by a volume. general survey of the special library Laura R. Gibbs, Information Chief of profession made under her stimulus Tel-U-Where Company in Boston, was which proved to be a splendid recruiting Secretary-Treasurer of Special Libra- feature. ries Association in 1924 and generously Most of the other editors of SPECIAL assumed editorship of the magazine as LIBRARIESserved a term of one or two well for that year until Mr. Brigham years, and each and every one of those took it in October 1924. Mr. Brigham nine persons did an admirable job, un- continually improved SPECIALLIBRA- dertaking the responsibility with en- RIES by increasing the contributions thusiasm and interest, reflecting in the from members and starting "Events and magazine the ideas of the membership Publications" in 1925, continued ever and reporting well the varied activities since, and by his procural of advertise- of its component parts. Let us recall ments to help defray costs. these confr6res chosen by the Executive When the Secretary's Office was re- Board for editorship : organized and moved to New York in Ralph L. Power was Librarian of the September 1931, Ruth Savord, Librari- Boston University College of Business an of the Council on Foreign Relations, Administration when called to the edi- accepted the appointment as editor, torship in September 1917 and carried while M. Dorothy Howard, of Standard it loyally until the appointment of J. H. Statistics Company, served as Advertis- Friedel in September 1918. Also of Bos- ing Manager. Miss Savord's editing re- ton, Mr. Friedel represented SLA on flected an active Association with re- A.L.A.'s enlarged library program and, newed vigor, extending its service into as editor until September 1920, gath- new fields. That year of 1931-1932 saw ered a staff of associate editors to help a few photographs in SPECIALLIBRARIES him in subject fields such as govern- and many splendid articles. Miss Flor- ment libraries, business libraries, etc. ence Bradley, Librarian of the Metro- Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr., elected presi- politan Life Insurance Company, con- dent in 1920, was forced to edit the tinued the same high standards from October issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES be- September 1932 to July 1934, when fore the newly-appointed editor, Miss Marian Manley took the helm. Adelaide R. Hasse, then Librarian of Between Miss Manley's term and the Council of National Defense in Miss Mitchill's, Mrs. Virginia Meredith Washington, D. C., brought to SPECIAL was editor for the year 1939-1940 and LIBRARIESa refreshing interest in Fed- Grace D. Aikenhead for the year 1940- eral Government libraries. Her "Gov- 1941. To each and every one of these ernment Services Department" was a thirteen editors the members of SLA new feature which continued until the are eternally grateful for their leader- end of her editorship in 1922. The ship and for their product, SPECIALLI- "President's Page", too, was first begun BRARIES. in 1922. SPECIALLIBRARIES, a bound file of 19491 SLA STRUCTURE OF CHAPTERS AND GROUPS 147

39 voiumes, fills more than a %foot a monument to our library profession shelf, each volume varying in thickness in which we take pride, and to the edi- from 200 pages in the early years to tors we shout forth a paean of praise 500 pages nowadays, all well-indexed and give full tribute to all for their suc- and forming an encyclopedia of infor- cessful efforts and good works. mation on special libraries. It is indeed REBECCAB. RANKIN.

SLA STRUCTURE OF CHAPTERS AND GROUPS

Chapters

Since the membership of the Association was scattered over a large number of states, the SLA Executive Board in 1912 approved a recommendation to form Responsibility Districts, each one to be presided over by a District Head. By means of these Districts, members of one locality could meet together for in- formal discussion between annual conventions. In some instances these Districts became local associations. In 1924 the Constitution was amended to provide for these local associations and several requested affiliation with the national organization. Thus the SLA Chapter idea was born. Today there are twenty-two Chapters in the United States and two in Canada. The following list gives the name of each Chapter, dates of organization and of affiliation with the national Association, and total membership as of January 1, 1949. ALBANY CAPITAL DISTRICT: (Org. No- MINNESOTA: (Org. and Aff. June 1943) vember 23, 1934; Aff. February 9, 1935) Membership, 112. Disbanded March 25, 1944. MONTREAL: (Org. and Aff. June 13, 1932) BALTIMORE: (Org. and Aff. May 15, 1930) Membership, 111. Membership, 66. NEW JERSEY: (Org. April 24, 1935; Aff. BOSTON: (Org. May 15, 1910; Aff. January June 11, 1935) Membership, 141. 5, 1925) Membership, 293. NEW YORK: (Org. May 15, 1913; Aff. Janu- CINCINNATI: (Org. June 2, 1927; Aff. Sep- ary 5, 1925) Membership, 1,256. tember 29, 1930) Membership, 91. PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL: (Org. 1913; CLEVELAND: (Org. December 1919; Aff. Aff. January 6, 1934) Membership, 284. February 24, 1927) Membership, 124. PITTSBURGH: (Org. December 5, 1922; CONNECTICUT VALLEY: (Org. May 17, Aff. January 5, 1925) Membership, 156. 1934; Aff. June 19, 1934) Membership, PUGET SOUND: (Org. and Aff. March 1945) 96. Membership, 88. GREATER ST. LOUIS: (Org. and Aff. De- SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION: Org. cember 15, 1941) Membership, 74. 1921; Aff. October 9, 1924) Membership, ILLINOIS: (Org. June 24, 1925; Aff. Sep- 229. tember 1, 1925) Membership, 348. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: (Org. March INDIANA: (Org. June 11 ,1941; Aff. June 15, 1922; Aff. January 5, 1925) Member- 15, 1941) Membership, 61. ship, 196. KANSAS CITY: (Org. and Aff. January TORONTO: (Org. May 9, 1940; Aff. June 1948) Membership, 49. 3, 1940) Membership, 85. LOUISIANA: (Org. and Aff. June 1946) WASHINGTON, D. C.: (Org. September 30, Membership, 64. 1940; Aff. October 25, 1940) Membership, MICHIGAN: (Org. 1926; Aff. March 14, 735. 1929) Membership, 155. WESTERN NEW YORK: (Org. and Aff. MILWAUKEE: (Org. December 2, 1939; Aff. March 1945) Membership, 181. February 23, 1931) Membership, 51. 148 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [~pd Groups

During the first year of the Association's activities, Committees such as (1) Agricultural Libraries, (2) Commercial Associations, (3) Insurance Libraries, (4) Legislative and Municipal Reference Libraries, (5) Public Utility Libraries, (6) Sociological Libraries and (7) Technology Libraries were appointed. The idea that promoted the establishment of these Committees might well be considered the birth of our present Groups. Separate Group organization, however, is first mentioned in the Proceedings of the tenth convention, held in June 1919, when the ( 1) Commercial, (2 ) Financial, (3 ) Insurance, (4) Legislative Reference, (5) Technical and Engineering, (6) Industrial and (7) Welfare Groups were formed. Those now functioning are listed below with dates of organization or affiliation with the national Association and approximate membership as of January 1, 1949. ADVERTISING: (Aff. 1942) Approximate MUSEUM: (Aff. 1929) Approximate mem- membership, 340. bership, 337. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: (Aff. 1934) Ap- NEWSPAPER: (Aff. 1925) Approximate proximate membership, 6 12. membership, 328. BUSINESS (Formerly "Public Business Li- PUBLISHING: (Aff. 1948) Approximate brarians" : ( Aff. 1934) Approximate mem- membership, 136. bership, 461. 1 1 COMMERCE: ( Aff. 1924) Disbanded No- SCIENCE -TECHNOLOGY: (Org. 1924; vember 5, 1943. Aff. March 1925) Approximate member- FINANCIAL: (Org. 1919; Aff. 1924) Ap- ship, 1,886. proximate membership, 481. SOCIAL SCIENCE (Organized originally as GEOGRAPHY AND MAP: (Aff. 1944) Ap- the "Civic-Social" Group which name was proximate membership, 189. changed to "Social Science" Group in HOSPITAL AND NURSING LIBRARI- June 1936) : (Aff. 1928) Approximate ANS : ( Aff. 1944) Approximate member- membership, 986. ship, 310. TRANSPORTATION: (Aff. 1943) Approxi- INSURANCE: (Org. prior to 1922; Aff. mate membership, 164. date not available) Approximate mem- UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE: (Aff. bership, 173. 1934) Approximate membership, 957.

1 This Group, formally organized in June 1 4, was originally known as the "Technology" Group. In October 1926, the "Advertising-Commercial" Group and the "Technology" Group merged as the "Commercial-Technical" Group. Eight subcommittees representing (1) Adver- tising, (2) Chemistry, (3) Electrical Engineering, (4) Illuminating Engineering, (5) Industrial Relations, (6) Marketing, (7) Oil, (8) Public Utilities, (9) Rubber, (10) Technical English and (11) Transportation, were appointed. In October 1933, this Group was again divided into two Groups, namely, "Science-Technology" and "Commerce". SLA PUBLICATIONS

PECIAL LIBRARIES, the official journal of the Association, has been published regularly since its inception in January 1910. Issued ten times Sa year it includes articles of interest to SLA members on both professional and non-professional topics, a section on Events and Publications and news of Association activities. Technical Book Review Index, issued ten times a year, is unique in its field, providing quotations from approximately 800 scientific and technical publications. This Index serves as a check list and as a reference guide to reviews on innumerable scientific and technical books. 19491 PUBLICATIONS 149

Professional Tools As the need arises for a publication to increase the efficiency in a special field the Association arranges for its compilation and printing. The following is a list of SLA publications from 1917 to date: 1917 - No. 11. Bibliographies of Bibliographies "The Business Library as an Investment. 1931 1921- No. 12. Bibliography on Illumination, *Workshop for Assembling Business Facts. 1929-30 1923- No. 13. Bibliography on Electrical En- "Bibliography: The Foundation of Scien- gineering, 193 1 tific Research. ::'Secondary Reserves and Investment Pol- *Preliminary Report of the Findings of the icies in Banks. Committee on Methods. ::'Statistics on Commodities. 1926 "Trade and Technical Associations and the :@Your Bank and the Organization of its Library (SPECIAL LIBRARIES-Reprint Library. October 1931 ) 1922-25- Wnion List of Periodicals in Special Libra- *Commercial Libraries and the Department ries in the New York Metropolitan Dis- of Commerce. . trict. 1925- 1932- "Source List of Statistics of the Rubber In- "Basic List of Current Municipal Docu- dustry. ments. Walue of the Company Library. "Federal Relief Program: A reading list and 1924-26- outline. "Bibliography on Rubber Technology. Sec- :*Proposed Changes in the Banking Struc- tions 1-7. ture. 1928- +Taxation: A reading list. "Railway Transportation: A reading list. 1933- 1929- $:qqew Deal" Emphasizes the Need for *Use of the Museum Library. Business Libraries. 1930- 1934- *The Bank Library, 3rd ed. (Earlier editions *Business and Trade Dictionaries. published in 1928, 1929) :*Facts: How to have them when you need '::An Employer Selects a Business Librarian, them. by Louise Krause. "The Librarian in the Field of Research. *Urban and Interurban Electric Railways: (SPECIAL LIBRARIES- Reprint August A selected list. 1934) 1931- QRubber Periodicals: A selected list. *Gold: A reading list. "Trade Associations. A preliminary direc- "Information Bulletins tory for Northern California. No. 1. Recent Technical Bibliographies, "'Trade Associations in the United States: March 1925 A finding list of directories. No. 2. Foreign Bureaus of Information ::'Trade Associations in the United States: in New York City, 1925 A reading and reference list. No. 3. Bibliography on Illumination, :*Trade Catalog Collection. 1924-25 1935- No. 4. Bibliography on Illumination, "Organization and Activities Chart. (SPE- 1925-26 CIAL LIBRARIES-Reprint January 1935) No. 5. Bibliography on Illumination, :*President's Page. Constitutional Revision. 1926-27 (SPECIALLIBRARIES-Reprint September No. 6. Bibliography on Electrical Lit- 1935) erature, 1928 "Special Libraries Association and Business No. 7. Bibliography on Rubber Tech- and Professional Workers. nology, June 1926-Dec. 1927 *Statistics of Canadian Commodities. No. 8. Bibliography on Illumination, 1936 1927-28 *Proposed Constitution and By-Laws (SPE- No. 9. Bibliography on Illumination, CIAL LIBRARIES-Reprint April, Septem- 1928-29 ber 1936) No. 10. Trade Directories, 1931 *SLA Regional Promotion of Information Sources. "Out of print. +Special Library in Business. 150 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

"When Business Uses the Public Library "Trade-names Index. (SPECIAL L1~~~~1~~--ReprintFebruary +World War 11; a bibliography. 1936) 1942- 1937- *SLA Handbook. Guides to Business Facts and Figures, 2d W. S. Government Periodic Publications. ed. (First edition published in 1933) 1943- :i:Scope and Purpose of Special Libraries "An Aeronautical Reference Library. Association. Contributions Toward a Special Library :::Social Welfare: A List of Subject Headings Glossary. in Social Work and Public Welfare. *Index to American Petroleum Statistics. "TBRI and What It Offers. "War Subject Headings for Information Files. 1938- :;:Business Profits and the Use of Published 1944- Information. Handbook of Commercial, Financial and ':'Directories for the Business Man. Information Services. (Formerly publish- '::Problems Involved in Considering Ade- ed under title of Handbook of Commer- quate School Courses for Special Libra- cial and Financial Services) rians, by L. S. Morley. (SPECIALLIBRA- ::;Source List of Selected Labor Statistics. RIES-Reprint May-June 1938) 194.5- :::Select List of Current Foreign Financial Classification and Cataloging of Maps and Sources. Atlases. :%Special Library Profession and What It :PClassification Schemes and Subject Head- Offers. ings Lists. :kSuggested Form of Constitution for Chap- List of Subject Headings for Chemistry ters of SLA (SPECIAL LIBRARIES-R~- Libraries. print April 1938) ':'What the Special Library Profession Offers. 1947- Directory of Microfilm Services. 1939- Special Library Resources, Vols. I-IV, 'PHandbook of Commercial and Financial 1941-1947. Services, 2d ed. (First edition published ':;Union List of Technical Periodicals. (For in 1931; for later editions see Handbook earlier editions see Union List of Scien- of Commercial, Financial and Informa- tific Periodicals) tion Services) :::Professional School and Departmental Li- 1948- braries. Classification Schemes and Subject Head- ':'Technique of Group Leadership, by Ralph ings Lists Loan Collection. SLA. Supple- de Somari Childs. ment. :::Union List of Scientific Periodicals. (Later ::'Directory of Members of Special Libraries revised under titI+Union List of Tech- Association. Latest ed. (Earlier editions nical Periodicals) published in 1921, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1945) 1940- SPECIALLIBRARIES Index :::Associate Members' Bulletin, Oct. 1935- Vols. 1-13 1910-22 April 1940. Vols. 14-17 1923-26 "'Banking and Financial' Subject Headings. Annual indexes, Vols. 18-39; 1927-1948. "Business and the Public Library. SLA Proceedings 1938, 1939, 1940. (Pub- 1949- lished as separate volumes during these Aviation Subject Headings. years) Special Librarianship As A Career. Latest ed. (Earlier editions published in 1933, 1941- 1937, 1942, 1945, 1947) "'Abstracts of Committee, Chapter and Group Reports. 33rd Annual Conference. IN PREPARATION- Creation and Development of an Insurance A Brief for Corporation Libraries; A Guide Library, 2d ed. (First edition published for their Operation and Management. in 1932) Manual for Newspaper Libraries. ':.Directory of Microfilm Sources. Manual for Science-Technology Libraries. ':'Discussion Conference Units, Hartford Subject Heodings List for Aeronautical Li- Convention. braries. Tentative Program of the SLA Fortieth Annual Convention in Los Angeles, June 12-17, 1949 ITH the arrival of the New The Employment Office will be open York Central's Anniversary Spe- from 3: 00 to 9 :00 P. M. The Science- Wcial Train at 10:40 of the morn- Technology; Social Science; Business ing of June 11, 1949, the Fortieth An- and Newspaper Groups will hold din- nual Convention of the Special Libra- ner meetings which will be followed by ries Association will be unofficially an evening meeting of the Social Sci- under way. After a sufficient interval to ence Group. allow members and their friends to re- Breakfast meetings of the Newspaper; gister at their respective hotels, a lunch- Publishing; Geography and Map Groups eon will be held at Hotel Clark to ex- are scheduled for Tuesday morning, tend to all the warm welcome that is June 14. Exhibits of interest and im- typical of true California hospitality. portance to special librarians will be The balance of the afternoon will be displayed at theBiltmoreHote1 beginning devoted to registration and distribution Tuesday at 9:00 A. M. and continuing of information kits at the Hotel Bilt- through Friday. The Executive Board more. and Advisory Council Open Meeting On Sunday, June 12, the Executive will convene at 10:OO A. M. and all Board will convene for the greater part members are urged to attend. Luncheon of the day. Two tours have been ar- meetings are planned for the Business; ranged for those who need not be pres- Newspaper; Insurance; Science - Tech- ent at that meeting: a short tour of nology (Pharmaceutical Section); Bio- Hollywood via the ocean, and a more logical Sciences and Hospital and Nurs- elaborate one to the enchanting Padua ing Librarians; Social Science; Financial Hills with stops at San Gabriel Mission and Museum Groups. Afternoon meet- and the famous Guasti Winery on the ings will be held by the Social Science; way. The Registration and Information College and University; Insurance and offices will be open during the afternoon Business; Financial and Science-Tech- at the Biltmore Hotel, and every day nology (Engineering - Aeronautics Sec- thereafter from 9 :00 A. M.-5 :00 P. M. A tion) Groups. Visits to the various news- reception in the evening of visitors by paper libraries are planned for the national officers of the Association and Newspaper Group during the late after- those of the West Coast Chapters will noon. The Employment Office will be mark the official opening of the Conven- open from 2:00 to 5:00 P. M. The En- tion. This event will be held in the love- gineering-Aeronautics Section of the ly Renaissance Room of the Biltmore. Science -Technology Group, and the Breakfast meetings will be held Mon- Newspaper Group are both scheduled day, June 13, by the Insurance, Finan- for dinner meetings that evening. The cial and Newspaper Groups. The First Group and Chapter Relations meeting, General Session, which will be address- which is open to all members, will be ed by President Rose L. Vormelker, held at 7:30 P. M. at the Los Angeles will take place from 10:OO A. M. to Public Library. 12 :00 noon. Miss Vormelker will speak On Wednesday, June 15, the Registra- on "Special Librarianship Today." A tion and Information offices at the Bilt- general luncheon will be followed by more will be open as usual from 9:00 meetings of the Newspaper and Social A. M. to 5:00 P. M. as will the Employ- Science Groups and a late afternoon ment Office. Buses will leave the Bilt- tea for the Biological Sciences Group. more at 10:OO A. M. for a two-hour trip 152 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

to the Huntington Library in Pasadena. romance of early California-the days The Biological Sciences and Hospital and of the Spanish mantilla, missions and Nursing Librarians; Insurance; News- gay caballeros. The cost for this outing, paper and Transportation Groups are which includes a barbecue supper, is all scheduled for luncheon meetings. approximately $4. Afternoon activities include a joint The highlight on Friday, the final meeting of the Insurance, Financial and day of the Convention, will be the An- Business Groups; a meeting of the So- nual Business Meeting. There will be cial Science Group; and a meeting of one breakfast meeting-a business the Science-Technology Group followed meeting of the Newspaper Group. by a tea. Additional visits to newspaper Luncheon meetings are planned for the libraries will occupy the Newspaper Science-Technology and Newspaper Group during the afternoon, and a visit Groups. The afternoon will be devoted to the Mt. Wilson Observatory Library to a tour of the motion picture studios, is planned for the Science-Technology without which no visit to California is Group. Dinner meetings are scheduled complete. A dinner meeting of the for the Newspaper and Science-Tech- Newspaper Group will mark the official nology (Chemistry Section) Groups; close of the Convention. and evening meetings are planned by A cruise to Catalina Island has been the Museum Group and the Science- arranged for Saturday, June 18. A spe- Technology Group. cial train will leave Los Angeles at 8:30 The calendar for Thursday, June 16, A. M. for Wilmington where Conven- is marked for breakfast meetings for tioneers will board the ship at 10:OO the Transportation; Newspaper; Finan- A. M. arriving at Catalina at 12: 15 P. cial; Insurance and Science-Technology M. A full afternoon's entertainment has (Petroleum Section) Groups. Registra- been planned which will include lunch- tion, Information and Employment of- eon at the Seafood Grotto; a trip to the fices will be open from 9 :00 A. M.-5 :00 Submarine Gardens via glass bottom P. M. A joint meeting of the Business boat; a drive along Avalon Terrace; and and Advertising Groups is planned for a visit to Bird Park. These activities are, mid-morning as are sessions of the Hos- of course, optional; members are free to pital and Nursing Librarians; News- formulate their own plans for the after- paper; Biological Sciences; Science- noon. The ship leaves for the mainland Technology (Petroleum Section) and at 4:30 P. M., making connections with Social Science Groups. A metals sym- the train at Wilmington at 6:45 P. M. posium is planned for the Science-Tech- Arrival in Los Angeles is scheduled for nology Group to begin at 10:30 A. M. 8:00 P. M. The cost of the entire trip Luncheon meetings will be held by the is $11.57. Newspaper, Science-Technology (Pub- Due to the enthusiasm and efficient lic Utilities Section), and Insurance planning by the West Coast Chapters, Groups. The afternoon will include the Fortieth Annual SLA Convention meetings held by the Business and bids fair to be one of the most outstand- Science -Technology (Pub1 ic Utilities ing ever held. Members are urged to Section) Groups. The University and send in their pre-registration and hotel College Group will be entertained at reservation forms not later than May 1 tea at U. C. L. A. after a visit to the in order to expedite final arrangements. University libraries. Thursday evening This schedule is of necessity a tenta- has been reserved by the San Francisco tive one. Complete and final Convention Chapter for an outdoor "Centennial plans will be outlined in the schedule Swing"-an event that will attempt to which will appear in the May-June convey to visitors some of the color and issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES. SLA CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS

A number of inquiries have come to the Bureau of Advertising. Chapter Liaison Officer concerning outlines On Sunday, February 20, the ST. LOUISand and descriptions of courses or institutes con- KANSAS CITY CHAPTERSparticipated in the ducted by Chapters or Groups either current- radio program Quiz of Two Cities. Members ly or in the past. Beatrice V. Simon, Chair- from the KANSAS CITY CHAPTERwho took man of the Sub-committee on Library Edu- part were: Jane Ahern, Theodore Cutler, R. C. cation, is interested in any courses which have Janeway and Sarah Lechtman, with Zelia been offered by Chapters. The Spring Institute French and Idris Smith, as alternates. Those conducted by the NEW YORK CHAPTER,the from ST. LOUIS were: Anna Irene Marten, course offered by the NEW JERSEY CHAPTER, Allen Ring, William Vitali, Elizabeth W. and those offered by the Advertising, Financial Owens, and two alternates, Krimhilde Williams and Insurance Groups of the NEW YORK CHAP- and Dorothy Drach. TER, and the PITTSBURGHCHAPTER'S educa- METHODSMEETINGS tional course, 1948-49, are the types in which Methods meetings continue to be popular. her Committee is interested. If your Chapter MINNESOTA'Smeeting at the Historical So- has ever given such a course, won't you, as the ciety was an outstanding one. Miss Lucille Chapter President, write the details to Miss Kane, Curator of Manuscripts, explained the Simon. Her address is: The Redpath Library, methods used in evaluating manuscripts as 3459 McTavish Street, Montreal 2, Quebec, potential source material for organizational Canada. histories. The BOSTONCHAPTER'S News Bul- ARCHIVESCHAIRMENARE YOU KEEPING letin says: "We begin the New Year with YOURARCHIVES UP TO DATE? our annual methods meeting. Many expres- The report of the Archives chairman of the sions of approval have been heard for this PITTSBURGHCHAPTER reminds us that the type of meeting in the past few years, and archives of each Chapter are important. your program committee has taken cognizance Whether it is a new Chapter or an old Chap- of the fact in planning the year's program." ter, it is necessary that records be kept. It Bernard B. Lane, PUGET SOUNDCHAPTER, is easy to keep current records but very diffi- says "Response has been slow coming in for cult to replace them if they are lost. The the Manual on Shortcuts and Gadgets. Please archives file should contain the minutes of all send in your suggestions on library procedures meetings, annual reports of officers, commit- which you have worked out so that others tees and Groups, Chapter bulletins, programs may benefit." Mr. Lane's address is: Mon- of meetings, and Chapter problems. Some santo Chemical Co., Seattle 4, Washington. Chapters bind their bulletins at intervals. This NEWS NOTES is a good practice for all Chapters to follow. We like the way some Chapters announce HOW ABOUT A CAR-POOLFROM EVERY more than one meeting in advance. The CON- CHAPTERFOR CONVENTIONTRAVEL NECTICUT VALLEYCHAPTER does a very good Some members of the WESTERNNEW YORK job of this. With all details given of meetings CHAPTERare planning to drive to the Con- well ahead of the date, plans can be made to vention and some in the LOUISIANACHAPTER attend. The NEW YORKCHAPTER mails each are making similar plans. Why not an SLA month to all members a postcard listing all car-pool from every Chapter? meetings held during that month, whether SLA ON THE AIR Chapter or Group, Several members of the NEW YORK CHAP- The CINCINNATIBulletin carries a column TER have appeared on the air recently. Cath- of news about the Oak Ridge Library Club. erine Heinz, Librarian of the United Hospital Many SLA'ers are active in this group. Fund, was a guest on the Margaret Arlen From the CLEVELANDCHAPTER Bulletin we Show, December 14, 1948, over WCBS, and learn of Special Library courses offered at spoke on the need for books in veterans hos- Western Reserve University: "Indexing & Ab- pitals. stracting," Feb. 10-June 2; and "Reference Margaret Hills discussed her library and Work in Science & Technology," Feb. 11-June the Bible as the Book of all nations, when she 3. Special librarians interested in attending was a guest, December 12, 1948, on the Living without formal credit are welcome, with no Bible program, WNEW. charge for tuition. Harry Marble's Hits and Misses program At the January meeting of the MILWAUKEE over WCBS, January 17, 1949, featured three CHAPTER,the star attraction was Mrs. Esther librarians from SLA; they were: Mary Martin, Purdy Potter from the Library of Congress in Sales Management; Lydia Gifford, Steuben Washington, D. C., Director of the Dewey Glass Company; and Caroline Lee Gilbert, Decimal Classification Revision, which is to 154 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April be published in 1950. The subject of her talk HAVE YOU READ? was of such widespread interest that many . . . "Characteristics of the Research Litera- guests turned out as well as a good showing ture Used by Chemists and Physicists in the among the members of the Chapter. Mrs. U. S." by Herman H. Fussler, Assistant Di- Potter gave a fascinating account of the prob- rector, University of Chicago Library, in Li- lems and scope of this revision. brary Quarterly for January 1949. . . . "Library Usage Means Integrated Teach- The March PITTSBURGHmeeting sounded ing" by Brother James Alpheus, F.S.C., Libra- particularly interesting. Mr. 0. J. McMunn rian, Christian Brothers College, published in spoke to the Chapter on "The Service the Catholic Library World, November 1948. Special Librarian Renders Management." Miss . . . "We Have Cut Our Catalog Costs" by Garland, President of the Chapter, said: "At Jerrold Orne, Librarian, Washington Univer- our March meeting, we had the opportunity of sity, in Library Journal, October 15, 1948. viewing our problem through the eyes of one sitting on the other side of the table. We are Carnegie Institute of Technology has an- equipped to tackle a situation from the libra- nounced that it has completed its drive for a rian's angle, but it takes a business trained special book fund to be used to fill in mate- executive to give us a new slant and a differ- rials needed for research and instructional pur- ent approach to the problem at hand." poses. Total amount received was $110,000. The major share of these funds will be used to Many SLA'ers, particularly those in the provide files of periodicals in the sciences and Science-Technology Group, had an excellent engineering fields. C.I.T. has now obtained ex- opportunity to obtain some constructive ideas tensive and nearly complete holdings of the for handling Publication Board Reports, etc., most important sets in the field of mathe- at the March meeting of the NEW JERSEY matics. Additional funds will provide materials CHAPTER. Morris Schoengold and Paul A. in the fine arts. Sutherland, both of the Standard Oil Develop- ELIZABETHW. OWENS, ment Company Library, spoke on "Handling Chapter Liaison Officer and Chairman, of German Technical Information." Chapter Relations Committee.

SLA GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

Plans for the Los Angeles Conference are just as much participation from members in progressing. Most of the Groups' plans for attendance as time permits. From four to six meetings have passed their preliminary stages. persons will appear on the formal panel, thus Very excellent programs are in the offing, well leaving time for general discussion. spiced with visits to interesting libraries. We Most of the mid-year reports of the Groups are looking forward to meeting many of our have been received. Their contents indi- colleagues who have been unable to make the cate conscious direction and considerable ac- long trek across the nation to our past con- tivity. The HOSPITALand NURSINGLibrarians ferences. are launching a survey of hospital and nursing Last year, meetings of Group officers and libraries throughout the United States. The Chapter officers were held separately but objectives and standards for medical and simultaneously. Many Group and Chapter nursing school libraries, previously in prepara- officers and SLA members interested in Group tion by this Group in cooperation with the and Chapter affairs wished to attend both comparable group of A.L.A., has been ex- meetings. It has also been found that a great panded to participation by M.L.A. many problems appear in both Chapter and The GEOGRAPHYAND MAP GROUP is com- Group organizations. With these factors in mitted to a project, sponsored by the Library mind, it was decided that a joint meeting Journal, to edit a special edition of the Journal should be held in 1949 with topics on the entitled Maps in Libraries. There will be agenda of interest to both Groups and Chap- about sixteen short articles by various authors, ters. Projects and Publications has been on subjects relating to the need, acquisition, chosen as the general topic for the joint meet- processing, cataloging, etc., of maps. ing. It is expected that various other issues Gretchen Little, chairman of the Science- will be brought out in the course of the dis- Technology Group, is not only the ranking cussion. Therefore, it is to be hoped that the officer of the Association's largest Group, but joint meeting will have the same attendance she is setting a new record in promptness of as a General Session, and that there will be reporting. As a part of her mid-year report 19491 SLA GROUP HIGHLIGHTS 155 she sets forth five items under Problems, which I believe will be of interest to all members Announcements of Groups: 1. Keeping the Group membership inform- Who Will Win the Membership Cave1 ed (charging a feeso membership will Award? be limited to only those really interested). "It ain't the guns nor armament 2. Informing national officers of Group ac- Nor the army as a whole, tivities, especially the Public Relations But the everlastin' team work chairman. Or every bloomin' soul." 3. Organizing the Group so that the chair- -Kipling. man will have less correspondence. Your Membership Chairman, in looking 4. Financing Group Section publications over some Membership Promotional Manuals that have limited interest. (Would the na- for ideas, discovered the above verse, which tional Association sponsor these projects she thought expressed the idea of membership or loan the money? For instance, The work very well. Every SLA'er should con- List of Chemical Awards. This should be sider himself or herself a member of the issued in pamphlet form, perhaps by off- Committee and take advantage of all oppor- set. American Chemical Society mem- tunities to interest eligible prospects in the bers and others in allied fields would be class of membership best suited to their interested in the publication.) needs. Only in this way can we keep our 5. Having Chapter representatives write to organization healthy and growing. The dead- their officers giving them comments from line for tabulation of memberships for the 20. Chapter members. This report would be GAVELAWARD is May IZZO, mailed to all Chapter representatives in MRS. HAZEL Chairman, the hope that some response would be National Membership Committee. forthcoming. Dr. Marie H. Law, Drexel Dean, To Retire The Pharmaceutical Section of the SCIENCE- Dr. Marie H. Law, dean of the Graduate TECHNOLOGYGroup has launched a new pub- School of Library Science at Drexel Institute lication, the first issue of which was received of Technology, Philadelphia, for the past February 10. This is Unlisted Drugs, a current twelve years, and member of the Institute's listing of new information not readily available faculty since 1922, will retire September 1, from standard sources. The first issue was de- 1949. In approving Dr. Law's formal retire- voted to foreign equivalents of trade names ment at their regular meeting, the Drexel of pharmaceutical products on sale in the Board of Trustees also voted to appoint her United States. The publication is compiled Dean Emeritus. from contributing information sent by mem- The Board named Dr. Harriet D. McPher- ber librarians, and is obtainable at a subscrip- son, now professor of library science at Drexel, tion rate of $5.00 per year. to be Dean Law's successor in September. The The INSURANCEGROUP reports that "plans dean-elect joined the Institute's faculty last for next year's meetings are being started. June, coming to Philadelphia from Smith Col- Mrs. Hinkle, new vice-chairman in San Fran- lege, Northampton, Mass., where she was head cisco, is in charge of the program and is al- librarian. ready hard at work. There is also another idea in progress: to hold an East Coast meet- Dr. Milton J. Ferguson to Edit Forthcoming ing sometime before June, probably in New Edition of the Dewey Decimal York." Classification The Dewey Decimal Classification Com- The SOCIAL SCIENCEGROUP'S publication, mittee of the Lake Placid Club Education Source List of Selected Labor Statistics, has Foundation has announced the appointment, become an Association publication. effective March 1, 1949, of Dr. Milton James The FINANCIALGROUP is helping to plan an Ferguson, retiring chief librarian of the Brook- interesting joint meeting in Los Angeles which lyn Public Library, as editor of the 15th will be a "Work Simplification Clinic." This Standard Edition of the Dewey Decimal Classi- Group has just compiled a List of Bank Libra- fication and Relative Index which the Foun- ries in the United States and Canada and a dation intends to publish in 1950 through its List of Eoonornic Letters which are published subsidiary, the Forest Press of Lake Placid, by banks in the U. S. and Canada. Both of New York. these will be published in the Group Bulletin. Because of the useful public service the HELEN ROGERS, Decimal Classification Committee is perform- Group Liaison Officer and Chairman, ing, the Library of Congress cooperates gen- Group Relations Committee. erously with it and has granted the use of office 156 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [~pd

and working space in the Library Building in Washington, D. C. Dr. Ferguson will make his headquarters there until the new book is published, and Mrs. Esther Potter, who at present is supervising the preparatory staff, will act as his chief assistant. Oberley Memorial Award VEGETATION The Oberley Memorial Award is given every two years to that American citizen who com- piles the best bibliography in the field of Selecfions from the agriculture or the related sciences. The twelfth Writings of . . . . award, for 1947-1948, will be made in 1949. Those interested in competing for the prize FREDERIC E. CLEMENTS, Ph.D. should send four copies (either processed or printed) to the chairman of the Award Com- mittee not later than June 15, 1949. They should be accompanied by a letter which states that they are being entered in competi- Compiled and Edited by B. W. tion for the award. The award is limited to ALLRED, Chief, Regional Range Di- publications issued during the calendar years vision, Soil Conservation Service, 1947-1948. Librarians or others who are aware of existing bibliographies which should Fort Worth, Texas and be considered are urged to call this notice to EDITH S. CLEMENTS, Ph.D., Author the attention of the compilers. The Chairman and Illustrator of the Committee is Marvin A. Miller, Uni- versity of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Ohio Valley Regional Group of Catalogers to Meet The Ohio Valley Regional Group of Cata- 296 pages-146 photographs on logers will hold its annual meeting, Saturday, 69 full page plates-Index- May 21, 1949, at the University of Louisville, Glossary-$3.75 postpaid Louisville, Kentucky. Fremont Rider of the Microcard Foundation and Chairman of the Microcard Committee, will be the speaker. It was Mr. Rider, Librarian of Wesleyan University Library, who first suggested the possibilities of the microcard in his book, 1i'or tllc greater pa11 of Itis ljrufcb- The Scholar and the Future of the Research bional life Dr. Clenler~tswas an As- Library. Since the microcard involves many sociate of the Carnegie Institute phases of library work, the meeting is open ill ecological research and a Col- to librarians in all fields. Those who wish to laborator of the U. S. Soil Conserva- attend should contact Elizabeth Chambers, Head tion Service. This book is a com- Cataloger, University of Louisville, who is in pilation of selected writings for which charge of local arrangements for the meeting, there is a widespread continuing or Lois Goan, Cataloger, DePauw University, demand as serviceable references and Greencastle, Indiana, chairman of the Group. guides for agronomists. range men, II biologists, foresters, conservationists, Expert Service on Magazine teachers and students. Subscriptions for Special Libraries

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