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Libraries in Montreal Mary Jane Xl'endmson New BOOKS

Rocket Propulsion By Eric Burgess. Written by a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and Honorary Member of the Pacific Rocket Society, this book provides a link between popular (and largely imaginative) works on space travel and technical papers on rockets, high-speed missiles and allied subjects. In the simplest possible terms it explains the fundamental operating principles of rockets; gives the basic technical information on their aerodynamics, motor design. fuels and other engineering features; tells what problems have still to be solved: and describes a possible trip to the moon. $4.50 Zoogeography of the Sea By Sven Ekman. This latest volume in the distinguished series of Textbooks of Animal Biology. edited bj Julian Huxley and H. Munro Fox, describes the marine animals found in the world's various seas and ocean levels. the environmental conditions determining their distribution. and the effects of geologic history on that environment. There are nlany maps. drawings, and tables, and a full bibliography. $6.50 Refractory Hard Metals By Paul Schwarzkopf and associates. For the first time in twenty years this book now makes available full. up-to-date information on the structure. preparation and properties of the carbides, borides. nitrides, and silicides. and compares the performance of metal-bonded inaterials with superalloys, ceramics and other materials now being developed for high-temperature uses. To he ready in May. $10.00 (probable) The Expansion of the Universe By Paul Couderc. Awarded both the Paul Pelliot and the Henri de Parville prizes of the Academie des Sciences of France, this book, now in English translation. re-examines what is known about the vast reaches of space and the bodies in it, the methods by which this knowledge was gained, and the theories deduced from it; and points the way to possible new. more accurate concepts that will unify the laws of gravitation, electromagnetism, and matter. $6.00

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THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL SLA CONVENTION WILL TAKE PLACE JUNE 22-25, 1953 AT THE ROYAL YORK HOTEL, TORONTO, CANADA

PUBLICATIONS OFFICERS Aviation Subject Headings. President 1949 $1.75 ELIZABETHFERGUSON A Brief for Corporation Libraries. Institute of Life Insurance, New York, N. Y. 1949 $1.75 First Vice-president and President-Elect Classification Schemes and Subject MRS. LUCILEL. KECK Headings List Loan Collection of SLA. Joint Reference Library, Chicago, Ill. Rev. Ed. 1951 $1.50 Second Vice-president Contributions Toward A Special Library CHESTERM. LEWIS Glossary. 2nd Ed. 1950 $1.25 The New York Times, New York, N. Y. Creation & Development of an Insur- Secretary ance Library. Revised Edition. 1949 $2.00 KATHARINEL. KINDER Johns-Manville Research Center, Fakes & Forgeries in the Fine Arts. Manville, New Jersey 1950 $1.75 Treasurer List of Subject Headings for Chemistry EDWARDH. FENNER Libraries. 1945 $1.50 Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md. Nicknames of American Cities, Towns and Villages Past and Present. DIRECTORS 1951 $2.00 ROBERTE. GRAYSON Numerical Index to the Bibliography of New York Herald Tribune, New York, N. Y. Scientific and Industrial Reports, M. MARGARETKEHL Vols. 1-10. 1949 $10.00 Library School, Drexel Institute SLA Directory of Members. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1951 $4.00 KENNETHH. FAGERHAUGH Social Welfare: A List of Subject Head- Carnegie Institute of Technology ings in Social Work and Public Wel- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania fare. 1937 $1.00 HELEN M. PYLE SLA 1950 Transactions. 1951 $5.00 Sun Oil Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Special Library Resources. v.2-4. MRS. NELL STEINMETZ 1946-1947 $22.90 Pacific Aeronautical Library Los Angeles, California Subject Headings for Aeronautical En- EUGENIAP. TENNEY gineering Libraries. 1949 $4.00 l~~ternationalMinerals & Chemical Corp. Technical Libraries, Their Organization Skokie, Illinois & Management. 1951 $6.00 Immediate Past-President Union List of Technical Periodicals. GRIEGASPNES 1947 $6.00 Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minnesota

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CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Special Libraries Association 44th Annual Convention Preliminary Program ...PAULINE HUTCHISON Special Libraries in Ontario ...... AGATHA LEONARD Libraries in Montreal ...... MARY JANE HENDERSON Post Convention Tour ...... Quebec ...... JOE H. FOUNTAIN The Maritime Provinces ...... JEANNETTE FOSHAY Books on Canada : Travel ...... KATHERINE WALES Convention Travelers Should Know ...... Reference Books on Canada: Business . ROBENAM. DOW Convention Speakers ......

DEPARTMENTS Division Highlights ...... Have You Heard ...... The Executive Secretary's Desk ...... Calendar ......

Editorial Board Chairman: ALMA CLARVOEMITCHILL ERNESTF. SPITZER HARRYR. SNOWDEN,JR. Ex Officio: EDITHC. STONE

Editorial Staff Editor: DORARICHMAN Business Manager: MRS. KATHLEENB. STEBBINS

Regional Representatives MIDDLE WEST: EUGENIAP. TENNEY WEST: ISABELLAM. FROST SOUTH: MRS. LOUISET. JACKSON CANADA : GRACEREYNOLDS

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 or the publisher. important New Books for "Special Libraries"

ABC OF INVESTING 1953 Revised Edition By R. C. EFFINGER,Vice President, Irving Trust Company -An investment guide that has become widely popular-among laymen as well as with investment experts. In this timely revision the author has included an entirely new section on professional management facilities, fresh research data on formula plans, and additional examples of successful investing programs. Sample programs describe specific policies for such persons as the doctor, widow, small businessman, the man with large inherited funds, and others. $1.75

EDITING THE COMPANY PUBLICATION By GARTHBENTLEY, Editor of "The Seng Book" -This book will be a standard reference work for all industrial editors, as well as for public relations and personnel executives concerned with company publications. Covering publications directed toward consumers and distributors as well as those designed for employees, the discussion includes what kinds of news and information company publications should contain, how the material is gathered, problems of format, writing editorials, headlines, illustrations, production, and distribution. Coming April 15th. $3.00

REACHING OUT IN MANAGEMENT By WILLIAMB. GIVEN, JR., Chairman of the Board, American Brake Shoe Com- pany-A leader of American business describes another aspect of the unique approach to management that has proved so successful in his corporation. "A rare approach to the administrative methods of one executive who has demonstrated a thorough understanding of human relations." - Personnel News Bulletin. $2.50

THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION A Study in the Ethics of Economic Organization By KENNETHE. BOULDING,Professor of Economics, University of Michigan- "In his exploration of the ethical implications of this revolution, Mr. Boulding has laid the foundation for an ethical interpretation of the whole free enterprise system, of why the ultimate values of life are better sustained by the seemingly blind forces of a free economy than by the calculated beneficences of a planned economy . . . An honest and a brilliant book. It sets new sights on social thinking." -Boston Herald. $3.50

AT YOUR BOOKSTORE OR FROM I 40 E. 33d st. HARPER & BROTHERS N~W YO.^ 16. n.r. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements Special Libraries Association 44th Annual Convention

JUNE 22-25, 1953

Headquarters - Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

It is only through the co-operation of Division Chairmen and their local representatives, and the work of a splendid advisory committee, that we are able at this time to give you so much of the program for your 1953 convention. Many fine speakers have consented to take part in the Workshop. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Owens, librarian of the Union Electric Company of Ailissouri, St. Louis, will be its moderator. You have asked for a forum on Canadian resources. The four speakers we have chosen are renowned in their fields. Bertha Bassam, director of the Library School, University of Toronto, will conduct the forum from which we hope you will take away a new understanding of Canada and her people. Division Days, Wednesday and Thursday morning, will be full to over- flowing, with lots of work and some play. The Annual Business Meeting on Thursday afternoon is important to the welfare of the Association. It would be well for all of us to plan to attend. Friday, the Montreal Chapter will hold open house in its libraries for those who plan to visit that city. SLA members may wish to cruise down the St. Lawrence and up the beautiful Saguenay as a fitting end to their visit to Canada. Toronto boasts many fine buildings, large department stores within a few blocks of the hotel, and many beautiful specialty shops. A new subway is nearing completion. Consequently, the downtown area has been in a state of confusion, but it is hoped the board pavings from which we have suffered for many months, will have disappeared by June, and we will be our normal selves again. Plan now to be with us in Toronto, June 22nd to 25th, 1953. PAULINEHUTCHISON, Chairman 1953 Convention Committee. CONVENTION PROGRAM Sunday, June 2 1 The Executive Board will meet at 9:30 A. M. for an all-day session. The meeting is open to all interested SLA members. The Hospital Division will hold an Advisory Board dinner meeting at 6:00 P.M. For early arrivals, films on places and things Canadian will be shown at 8:00 P.M. through the courtesy of the National Film Board. Coffee will be served. a Monday, June 22 MORNING OPENING SESSION 9:00 - 10:15 A. M. ELIZABETHFERGUSON, president, Special Libraries Association, presiding Opening Session Invocation: The Right Rev. F. H. Wilkinson, Bishop Coadjutor of Toronto. Welcome to the Province: Honourable W. J. Dunlop, Minister of Education, The Province of Ontario. Welcome to fhe City: His Worship Allan A. Lamport, Mayor of Toronto. Reply: Elizabeth Ferguson, president, Special Libraries Association. Exhibits Review by Exhibits Chairman: Marjorie C. Beaton, reference librarian, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto. Introduction by the Convention Chairman: Pauline Hutchison, librarian, Canada Life Assurance Company, Toronto. CONVENTION-WIDE WORKSHOP 1 O:3O - 12:OO Noon MRS. ELIZABETHW. OWENS,past president, SLA, chairman Trained Librarian Versus Specialist: Four speakers for ten minutes each, followed by general discussion. Subject Headings for Picture Files and Handling of Pictures in Large Quan- tities: One speaker for ten minutes, followed by discussion by two members, one from the United States and one from Canada. DIVISION LUNCHEONS 12:15 - 1:45 P. M. BIOLOGICALSCIENCES DIVISION BUSINESSDIVISION. Luncheon, guests of Toronto Puhlic Library Board. FINANCIALDIVISION HOSPITALDIVISION MUSEUMDIVISION NEWSPAPERDIVISION 130 SPECIAL LIBRARIES MONDAY, JUNE 22 SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION : CHEMISTRYSECTION. Luncheon and business meeting. ENGINEERING-AERONAUTICSSECTION. Luncheon and business meeting. PETROLEUMSECTION. Luncheon and business meeting. PHARMACEUTICALSECTION. Luncheon and business meeting. PUBLICUTILITIES SECTION. Luncheon guests of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. Business meeting. SOCIALSCIENCE DIVISION. Sectional luncheon and business meetings. AFTERNOON CONVENTION-WIDE WORKSHOP 2:00 - 4:00 P. M. General Principles for Filing Pamphlets: One speaker for fifteen minutes. Discussion. Interlibrary Loan Problems: Two speakers for fifteen minutes each. Dis- cussion. Introducing the Library User to Technical Information: Two speakers, one from a public library and one from a special library. Discussion. 4:00 - 6:00 P. M. BIOLOGICALSCIENCES DIVISION, see HOSPITALDIVISION FINANCIALDIVISION. Visit to the Canadian Bank of Commerce Library. Library Problems of the Branch Banking System: M. A. Peat, librarian. HOSPITALAND BIOLOGICALSCIENCES DIVISIONS. Tour of Sunnybrook Mili- tary Hospital (administered by the Department of Veterans' Affairs) 4:30 P. M. NEWSPAPERDIVISION. Visit to The Globe and Mail. PUBLISHINGDIVISION. Visit to McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited. 5:00 P. M. ADVERTISINGDIVISION. Cocktail party. INSURANCEDIVISION. Chairman's cocktail party, courtesy of the Manufac- turers' Life Insurance Company, Toronto. EVENING 7:00 - 9:00 P. M. Chapter Presidents' Dinner. Division Chairmen's Dinner. 8:00 - 9:30 P. M. Demonstration of Public Relations Clinic. 9:30 - 11:00 P. M. Reception

Tuesday, June 23 7:30 - 9:00 A. M. Placement Breakfast and Round Table. Editors' Breakfast and Round Table. Association Publications. Dora Richman, editor, SPECIALLIBRARIES. FORUM ON CANADIAN RESOURCES BERTHABASSAM, president-elect, Toronto Chapter, chairman 9:30 A. M. - 12:OO Noon Scientific Research: Dr. R. C. Wallace, president-emeritus of Queen's Uni- versity, Kingston, Ontario, and executive director, Arctic Institute of North America. TUESDAY, JUNE 23 Industry: J. Gerald Godsoe, vice-president and director, The British Ameri- can Oil Company Limited, and vice-president, The Canadian Chamber of Commerce. 2:00 - 4:00 P. M. Business and Finance: W. G. Lougheed, economist, Canadian Bank of Com- merce, Toronto. Government: G. E. Jackson, consulting economist. Discussion periods following each address. 12:00 - 2:00 P. M. Military Services Librarians. Luncheon. Speakers. DIVISION LUNCHEONS 12:15 - 1:45 P. M. HOSPITALDIVISION SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION : CHEMISTRYSECTION, see METALSSECTION ENGINEERING-AERONAUTICSSECTION, see METALSSECTION METALS, CHEMISTRYAND ENGINEERING-AERONAUTICSSECTION. Joint luncheon. Speaker: Dr. H. H. Saunderson, director, Division of Information Services, National Research Council, Ottawa. PHARMACEUTICALSECTION SOCIALSCIENCE DIVISION. Executive Board and Advisory Council luncheon. AFTERNOON 4:30 - 6:00 P. M. ADVERTISINGDIVISION. Film and tea at Lever Brothers Limited. INSURANCEDIVISION. Tea at the Granite Club. Guests of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association. SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION : METALSSECTION Business meeting and cocktail party. Guests of Iron Age. PHARMACEUTICALSECTION Tea at the Ontario College of Pharmacy. Guests of the Ontario Col- lege of Pharmacy and the Rexall Drug Company. Speaker to be announced. DINNERS ADVERTISINGDIVISION. Dinner at the Old Mill. 6:00 - 8: 00 P. M. BIOLOGICALSCIENCES AND HOSPITALDIVISIONS. Dinner. Speaker to be announced. Pageant on the History of Nursing. 5 :30 - 8 : 00 P. M. BUSINESSAND PUBLISHINGDIVISIONS. Visit to the Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company. Dinner guests. 6 : 00 - 8 :00 P. M. FINANCIALDIVISION. An American Investment House Establishes in Canada. Gordon Crotty. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane, Toronto. 6:OO-8:00P.M. GEOGRAPHYDIVISION. 6 :30 - 8 :00 P. M. HOSPITALDIVISION, see BIOLOGICALSCIENCES DIVISION. INSURANCEDIVISION. Dinner at Confederation Life Association's Staff House. Methods Meeting: Selling Library to Management; Library Bulletins; Mending Demonstration. 6 : 00 - 8 :00 P.M. NEWSPAPERDIVISION. Dinner at The Guild of All Arts, sponsored by The Star, The Telegram and The Globe and Mail. 4 :00 - 8 :00 P. M. PUBLISHINGDIVISION, see BUSINESSDIVISION

132 SPECIAL LIBRARIES TUESDAY, JUNE 23 SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION : PETROLEUMSECTION. Reception and dinner guests of Imperial Oil Limited. Speaker to be announced. 5 : 00 - 8 :00 P. M. SOCIALSCIENCE DIVISION. 6 :30 - 8 : 00 P.M. EVENING 8:00 P. M. Advisory Council and Executive Board Meeting

Wednesday, June 24 TRIPS GEOGRAPHYAND MAP DIVISION.Field Trip. 9 :00- 9 :30 A. M.: Assemble in hotel for orientation. 9: 30 - 12 :00 Noon: Bus trip for regional reconnaissance study. 12 :00 - 2 :00 P. M. : Luncheon and business meeting. 2 :00 - 5 :30 P. M. : Bus trip and visits to local map-makers and libraries. MUSEUMDIVISION 9: 00 A. M. - 2 :30 P. M. Meeting at the Art Gallery of Toronto. Tour. In Search of Canadian Art, Dr. R. H. Hubbard, curator of Canadian Art, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Luncheon guests of the Art Gallery. Welcome by Martin Baldwin, director. Business meeting. 2 :30- 5:00 P.M. Visits to the Lee Collection of Medieval Art, Hart House, University of Toronto, and to the Sigmund Samuel Canadiana Gallery. Talk by F. St. George Spendlove, curator. Tea. MORNING HOSPITALDIVISION. Breakfast. 8 :30 - 9 :30 A. M. BIOLOGICALSCIENCES DIVISION. Breakfast. Bibliographical Methods in the Sciences. Dr. K. A. Baer, assistant chief, Medical and Reference Library, Veterans' Administration, Washington. Business meeting. 9:00 - 12:OO Noon ADVERTISINGDIVISION. Speakers: D. Henshaw, MacLaren Advertising Com- pany Limited; Mrs. W. R. Walton, president, Canadian Association of Consumers. BUSINESSDIVISION. Breakfast and business meeting. FINANCIALDIVISION. Canadian Sources of Information: Government Sources. Mildred Turnbull, librarian, Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal. Legislation and Legislative Sources. Mrs. Mildred Fraser, librarian, The Legislative Library of Ontario, Toronto. Business and Financial Services. Mary Jane Henderson, librarian, Sun Life Assurance Company, Montreal. INSURANCEDIVISION. Methods Meeting: One and Two Man Libraries; Re- tention of Records; Weeding; Subject Headings and Classifications; Work Simplification. NEWSPAPERDIVISION Co-ordinate Indexing for Newspaper Libraries. Dr. Mortimer Taube, president, Documentation, Inc., Washington, D. C. 9 :00 - 10:00. A. M. Transcopy: Talk and demonstration. J. H. Preston, Remington Rand Ltd. 10:00 - 10.30 A. M. 70 Millimeter Microfilm as Applied to Newspaper Clippings. Eugene Power, president, University Microfilms. 10:30 - 11 : 15 A. M.

APRIL 1953 133 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Bibliography and Current Reference Sources. Edward H. Fenner, head, Business and Economics Department, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore. 11: 15 - 12 : 00 noon. SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION. Business meeting. SOCIALSCIENCE DIVISION. Business meeting. 9:30 - 1 1 :30 A. M. HOSPITALDIVISION. Clinic. Speakers to be announced. LUNCHEONS ADVERTISING,NEWSPAPER AND PUBLISHINGDIVISIONS. Speaker, V. M. Knight, Reginald Saunders Publishing Company. 12 :30 - 3 :00 P. M. BIOLOGICALSCIENCES AND HOSPITALDIVISIONS. Joint luncheon at the Plaza Room, Park Plaza Hotel. Speaker to be announced. 12 :00 - 2 :00 P. M. BUSINESS,FINANCIAL AND INSURANCEDIVISIONS. Canada's Federal Pro- gramme of Social Welfare. Mrs. Adelaide Sinclair, executive assistant, Deputy Minister of National Health and Welfare, Ottawa. 12 :00 - 2 : 00. FINANCIALDIVISION, see BUSINESSDIVISION HOSPITALDIVISION, see BIOLOGICALSCIENCES DIVISION INSURANCEDIVISION, see BUSINESSDIVISION NEWSPAPERDIVISION, see ADVERTISINGDIVISION PUBLISHINGDIVISION, see ADVERTISINGDIVISION SOCIALSCIENCE DIVISION. Speakers to be announced. 12 :30 - 2 : 30 P. M.

AFTERNOON ADVERTISINGDIVISION. Panel discussion. 3 : 00 - 5 : 00 P. M. BIOLOGICALSCIENCES AND HOSPITALDIVISIONS: 2 :00 - 3 : 15 P. M. Tour of the Hospital for Sick Children. 3: 15 - 4:00 P. M. Visits to the libraries of the University of Toronto. 4: 15 P.M.Tea. Guests of the Academy of Medicine. BUSINESSAND FINANCIALDIVISIONS: 2 :00 - 4 :00 P. M. Visits to the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Hallam Room, Toronto Public Library. 4 :30 - 6 :00 P. M. Tea. Guests of the Bank of Nova Scotia. FINANCIALDIVISION, see BUSINESSDIVISION HOSPITALDIVISION, see BIOLOGICALSCIENCES DIVISION INSURANCEDIVISION : 2 :00 - 4 : 00 P. M. Library visits. 4:30 P.M. Tea at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. Guests of the Im- perial Life Assurance Company and the North American Life Assur- ance Company. NEWSPAPERDIVISION : 3: 15 - 4: 15 P. M. Business meeting at the Toronto Star Limited. 4 : 15 - 5 : 15 P. M. Visit to the Toronto Star library. PUBLISHINGDIVISION. Visit to the library of the Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company. Business meeting. 4 : 00 P. M. SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION : CHEMISTRY,PETROLEUM AND PHARMACEUTICALSECTIONS. Nomenclature and Cross-Indexing Problems. Speakers: Mary Alexander, assistant to research director, Universal Oil Products Company, Des Plaines, Illinois; H. L. Alexander, head, Literature Department, Squibb Insti- tute for Medical Research, Brooklyn, New York.

134 SPECIAL LIBRARIES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24

ENGINEERING-AERONAUTICSAND METALS SECTIONS 1: 00 - 3 :00 P. M. Availability and Sources of Foreign Documents: British and Canadian Documentary Sources. L. F. MacRae, director, Defense Scientific Information Service, Ottawa. The ASTIA Program for Documentation Services. E. E. Miller, deputy director for operations, Armed Services Technical Infor- mation Services, Department of Defense, Washington, D. C. International Activities in the Field of Documentation. Dr. M. Taube, president, Documentation, Inc., Washington, D. C. 3 :00 - 5 :00 P. M. Machine Aids to Documentation : A Survey of Machine Systems for Literature Searching. Mrs. M. R. Hyslop, editor, Metals Review. A System of Indexing for Literature Searching. J. W. Perry, Bjork- sten Research Laboratories, Madison, Wisconsin. The Use of Telefacsimile and Television in the Library. G. M. Conrad, documentation specialist, Technical Information Division. Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. METALSSECTION, see ENGINEERING-AERONAUTICSSECTION PETROLEUMSECTION, see CHEMISTRYSECTION PHARMACEUTICALSECTION, see CHEMISTRYSECTION PUBLICUTILITIES SECTION : 2 :00 - 3 :00 P. M. Round Table Discussion. 3 :00 - 4: 30 P. M. Visit to libraries of the Hydro-Electric Power Com- mission of Ontario, Toronto. SOCIALSCIENCE DIVISION. Library visits. 3 :00 - 5 :00 P. M. BANQUET 7:00 P. M. DOROTHYTHOMPSON, president, Toronto Chapter, presiding Greeting on Behalf of the Librarians of Canada: Dr. W. Kaye Lamb, librarian of the National Library of Canada. Greeting: George J. Haering, United States Consul General. Speaker: A. Davidson Dunton, chairman of the Board of Governors, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Entertainment.

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Thursday, June 25 Morning ADVERTISINGDIVISION. Breakfast and business meeting. 8:30 A.M. BIOLOGICALSCIENCES DIVISION. Tour of the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories, University of Toronto, including the Connaught and School of Hygiene Libraries. 9:OO - 12 :00 noon. FINANCIALDIVISION. Breakfast and business meeting. 8: 00 - 12 :00 noon. GEOGRAPHYAND MAP DIVISION.Problems of Map Reference Service and Problems of Geographical and Cartographic Exhibits. Speakers to be announced. 9 :00 - 12 :00 noon. HOSPITALDIVISION. Breakfast and business meeting. 8 :30 - 11 : 30 A. M.

APRIL 1953 135 THURSDAY, JUNE 25 INSURANCEDIVISION. Business meeting. 9 :3O - 10:30 A. M. MUSEUMDIVISION. Meeting at the Royal Ontario Museum. 9:00 - 1 :30. The Chinese Collection and Chinese Library. Helen E. Fernald, curator. The Quebec Gallery: Silver and Furniture. F. St.George Spendlove, curator. Cafeteria luncheon in the Museum Courtyard as guests of Toronto members of the Museum Division. NEWSPAPERAND PUBLISHINGDIVISIONS: 9 : 00 - 10 :45 A. M. Filing Systems; Time Saving Devices; Record Re- tention. Speaker, Margaret Odell, Remington Rand, Ltd. Followed by question and answer period. 10 :45 - 11: 15 A. M. Transitions in Newspaper Library Services. Round Table Discussion. Chester M. Lewis, chief librarian, The New York Times, moderator. 11: 15 - 12 : 00 Noon. What Special Libraries Expect from Publishers. SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION. Combined Sections Meeting. 9 : 30 - 12 :00 noon. Abstracting and Information Services: National Research Council Library and Information Services: Edna Hunt, assistant librarian, National Research Council, Ottawa. Technical Abstracting and Related Information Services: I. H. Jenks, director, Division of Publications and Documents, Aluminum Lab- oratories Limited, Kingston, and A. E. Rushbrook, editor, Abstract Bulletin, Aluminum Laboratories Limited, Kingston. Co-operative Abstracting: Mrs. Irene Strieby, librarian, and Jewel1 Maurice, assistant librarian, The Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, Indiana. Another speaker to be announced. SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION : CHEMISTRYSECTION. Advisory Council breakfast meeting. 8 :00 - 9 : 00. SOCIALSCIENCE DIVISION. Library tours. 9 : 00 - 11:45 A. M. AFTERNOON 12:OO - 2:00 P. M. Luncheon and School for Incoming Division Officers. Luncheon and School for Incoming Chapter Presidents: Visual Presentation in your Chapter Program. 2:00 - 5:00 P. M. Annual Business Meeting

Friday, June 25 9:30 A. M. - 5:00 P. M. Executive Board Meeting

Notice of Annual Meeting As required by By-Law VIII, Section 1, notice is hereby given that the Annual Business Meeting of Special Libraries Association will be held Thursday, June 25, 1953, at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada, in connection with the Annual Convention of the Association. ELIZABETHFERGUSON, President KATHLEENB. STEBBINS,Executive Secretary

136 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Hart House, University of Toronto

Special Libraries in Ontario AGATHALEONARD University of Toronfo Library

NY DISCUSSION, however brief, of Avenue, and along Queen's Park to A special libraries in Ontario will Bloor Street - a distance of less than necessarily begin with those in Toronto, three miles -will uncover a cross-sec- since that city has the largest concen- tion of the special libraries in the city. tration of libraries of all types. An en- Here he will find some of the finest terprising librarian uncovered an early buildings, the largest collections of record listing ten libraries in Toronto books on law, government, education in 1885. One was the Free Library, five and industry, typical small libraries em- were college libraries, and the remain- phasizing business and finance, and as ing four were, what we call to-day, "spe- well, several unique and highly special- cial libraries". By 1938, the proportion ized collections, rare in any city. had changed greatly. A survey showed Any normal trip has at least one de- forty-six special libraries in Toronto. tour, and ours is no exception- in fact, The current Directory of the Toronto it begins with one. Before reaching Chapter lists approximately one hun- University Avenue, within a few short dred special libraries covering a wide blocks of the hotel are the offices of the range of subject specialization, service three daily newspapers, and two of the and size. largest and most modern banks. The It is manifestly impossible to give, in libraries of all these are worth visiting. a short space, any detailed description The Evening Telegram, housed in one of the functions and operations of even of Toronto's older office buildings, with a quarter of these, and the library vis- cramped quarters for the library, dem- itor will naturally gravitate to those in onstrates daily in its operations that, his particular field of interest. But if he however helpful modern labor-saving wishes to see other collections, beyond devices and equipment may be, they his immediate field, a short trip from are not a sine qua non of efficient li- the Royal York Hotel up University brary service. The Telegram library

APRIL 1953 has a large collection of reference ma- ready outgrown its quarters. Establish- terial, clippings and pictures, organized ed as an adjunct to the economics de- twenty-five years ago, which serves the partment of the bank, the collection is organization's daily publication and the concentrated on periodicals, mono- recently established weekly, as well as graphs and ephemeral material in the the general public. The library of the field of economics and finance. Similar- Daily Star was formed in 1910, and its ly, the Canadian Bank of Commerce li- resources include clipping files on some brary, established in 1867, the year of 20,000 personalities, many subject files, the incorporation of the bank, was at some 300,000 photographs, maps, and first confined entirely to books of pro- about 7,000 volumes of reference and fessional interest for reference by head other material. An interesting feature office officials. The collection has been is the fiction and non-fiction collection expanded steadily and is now available of review copies which are circulated to the staff throughout Canada. A among the staff. The library serves the monthlv bulletin of recent accessions is staff of the daily journal, as well as the issued, and one notes that recreational Star Weekly, and the Star Newspaper as well as professional literature is in- Service, and provision is made for the cluded. An unusual feature is the range general public to use the library. The of circulation. All bank employees, and spacious quarters of the Globe and Mail their wives, are entitled to membership, library were made available in 1938, and the library serves all branches in and since that time a collection of 5,000 Canada, as well as the head office. volumes and 1,500,000 clippings has Reaching University Avenue, we been gathered. It is interesting to note come first to Osgoode Hall and the li- that the picture collection of this news- brary of the Law Society of Upper Can- paper is separate from the library. A ada. Over 100,000 volumes establish visit to all three of these libraries im- this as the largest strictly law library presses one with the similarity of the in the country, and to the intrinsic in- basic collections, and the variations that terest of the collection is added the are possible in handling the material. architectural beauty of the building. It The newest bank building in Toronto is claimed that the American Institute is the Bank of Nova Scotia, and the of Architects, when it met some years importance of the library to the insti- ago in Toronto, agreed that the Great tution is shown in the way it has al- Library, designed by Barlow Cumber- land in 1881, is probably the finest library on the continent. As well as the legal collection, there is a superb collection of Canadiana based on the library of the late Chief Justice Riddell. In addition to the Great Library, for the use of the members of the law society, the Phillips Stewart library serves the justices of the Supreme Court of Ontario. Across University Avenue from Os- goode Hall are the offices of the first Canadian life insurance company in Canada, The Canada Life. Although the company was formed in 1847, the library was established only in 1931, but with its beautiful appointments and spacious reading-room has become an integral part of the institution it serves. WILLIAM H. WRIGHTBUILDING Home of the Gloht. and Mail Approximately 8,000 volumes and 130

SPECIAL LIBRARIES periodicals cover the field of life insurance, insurance law and actuarial science, as well as a general reference collection. A special feature is the collection of legal books, formerly the oldest privately owned legal library in Can- ada, which was the gift to the firm of a former solicitor of the company. As a respite from the routine of business libraries, a visit to the Royal Can- adian Military Institute discloses an unusual and interesting collection. Founded in 1890 to provide a "library, museum and club for officers and ex- officers of Her Majesty's regular and auxiliary forces", the library houses a fascinating collection of military publications, army lists, and regimental his- Canada Life Assurmce Company tories, with special emphasis on early Canadian military history. Across the Avenue is the library of brary. Scarcely an architectural gem, the MacLean-Hunter Publishing Com- there is, nevertheless, something singu- pany. As distinct from the libraries of larly impressive in the swtbeping ap- the daily press, this library concentrates proach, lofty ceilings, and broad service on material dealing with Canadian busi- desk enclosing the tiers upon tiers of ness, industrial and mining companies, stacks. Designed primarily for members financial institutions and insurance com- of the government, civil servants and panies, and has as well, a complete file teachers, the library contains volumes of compilations by the Dominion Bu- on law, general reference and govern- reau of Statistics, and much other sta- ment documents, and a large collection tistical information. As a research libra- of professional educational material for ry, it serves the workers on the many teachers of the province which is mail- and varied publications, including the ed, post free, throughout the province. Financial Post, leading Canadian finan- It is a depository library of U. S. gov- cial weekly, issued by the company. ernment publications, and its news- The largest industrial library in the paper section contains most of the daily city is that of the Hydro-Electric Power and weekly Ontario newspapers, as well Commission of Ontario, with 12,000 as a representative newspaper from volumes and a current subscription list each of the other provinces. of 400 journals. The emphasis is main- A library of still another character is ly on material dealing with the genera- to be found on the east side of Queen's tion and distribution of electrical en- Park in the Ontario Research Founda- ergy, and there is one special collection tion. The origin of the Foundation is of power commission reports, and an- interesting. Created in 1928, subscrip- other, of vital current interest, relating tions from private individuals and cor- to Niagara Falls and the St. Lawrence porations were matched dollar for dol- River. Recently a branch library has lar by the provincial government, and been established in the Research Di- the revenue from this fund supports a vision, in another part of the city. permanent research organization, con- In Queen's Park, at the head of Uni- ducting fundamental scientific and in- versity Avenue, are the Parliament dustrial research. The library of 10,000 Buildings of the Province of Ontario, volun~es centres on the fields of bio- and there one finds the Legislative Li- chemistry, chemistry, engineering and

APRIL 1953 metallurgy, parasitology, textiles, and on international affairs. A library of industrial research services. On file also 5,000 volumes, extensive clipping files, are government documents, reports and innumerable pamphlets, data pa- from other research institutes, and stand- pers, documents and reviews of foreign ards and specifications. The latter are trade, help it to achieve this end. being found increasingly important to Leaving the city, with an apology to the industry, especially in connection all the other interesting and unusual with defence work. libraries we have been unable to visit Reluctantly, we by-pass the Univer- because of the geographical limitations sity of Toronto on the west side of we imposed upon ourselves, we find Queen's Park, which, with its main li- about twenty-five miles to the north, brary, its separate college and depart- the David Dunlap Observatory at Rich- mental libraries, covers the whole range mond Hill. The collection of volumes of knowledge-and the alphabet-from which forms the library of the Observa- Art to Zoology, and a tour of its special tory, consists mainly of astrophysical collections should occupy a special and mathematical material and supple- chronicle. ments, rather than overlaps the Uni- The Royal Ontario Museum brings versity of Toronto's collections in those us to Bloor Street, and we make a men- departments. tal note to return another time to visit At Guelph, sixty miles from Toronto, the famous Chinese collection, and the is the Ontario Agricultural College. The Chinese library of 30,000 volumes in Massey Library of the College harbours the Department of East Asiatic Studies. the largest collection of books on agri- To the west along Bloor Street is the culture in Canada, with the exception library of the Academy of Medicine. of the library of the Department of Organized in 1887 for the use of the Agriculture in Ottawa. The Unwin and fellows of the Academy, to-day it con- Canadian Rooms house special collec- tains approximately 45,000 volumes tions of English and Canadian litera- and provides full reference services for ture. The College also supervises the fellows, both in town and out. The distribution of films throughout the new Osler wing, with its modern lecture rural circuits in Ontario, for the Film hall, enlarged stack and reading-rooms Board Library. has greatly enhanced the services of the Also at Guelph, the Dominion Rub- library. Besides the essential current ber Company has its research library of medical literature, the library has a fine some 3,000 volumes. Intended primarily collection of medical classics, and much for service to the research staff of fif- material on the early medical history teen, the library has acquired basic of Ontario. The museum contains a chemical monographs and journals and small but select collection of early in- the necessary reference tools. struments. In Sarnia is located the head office A few blocks east on Bloor Street is of the Imperial Oil Company, with the the library of the Canadian Institute of largest refinery in Canada, and here is International Affairs, where can be the main technical library of the com- found something on everything in the pany. Operated for the research services field of world affairs since 1918. The of the organization, the collection is a Institute, based on a pattern set by the working library in the field of petrole- Royal Institute of International Affairs, um research. There are two other com- has twenty-seven branches from New- pany libraries at the executive office in foundland to British Columbia, all of Toronto. One is attached to the Public which rely on the central library in Relations Department and has a small Toronto. It aims to be a Canadian nucleus of basic volumes and seventy- centre for students, business men and five current journals of general infor- the general public to secure information mation, with emphasis on petroleum. A

140 SPECIAL LIBRARIES smaller collection in the Technical Serv- loguing, circulation and storage, and it ices Division of the Marketing Depart- is both instructive and interesting to ment is concerned with the use and im- see how the difficulties are solved in provement of the company's products. this library. The National Research At Kingston, on the St. Lawrence Council has the largest collection of River is the plant of the Aluminum material on pure science in Canada. Company of Canada. With the tremen- The resources of the library include a dous development of the use of alumi- comprehensive listing of serial publica- num during the war the research de- tions in all languages, and these are partment expanded greatly, and the made available to research workers and library which serves it has grown ac- research institutions throughout the cordingly. As in other scientific libraries, country by means of interlibrary loans the preponderance of material in the and duplicating processes. library is periodical literature, reprints We cannot leave Ottawa without and translations of articles from for- visiting the Parliamentary Library. The eign journals, with a core of basic texts circular Gothic building is the only one in the field. of its kind in North America, and is In Ottawa, the libraries of the various curiously fascinating in its architecture. departments of the government will at- The library has only one floor, and the tract those interested in such specific books, shelved around the walls, are fields, but special attention should be reached by balconies. The serried ranks drawn to the libraries of the National of books rise from the floor to the blue Film Board and of the National Re- interior of the dome, 140 feet above. search Council. A film library, with its From the 600,000 volumes of the li- highly specialized collection, creates dif- brary will be drawn the nucleus of ficult problems of classification, cata- Canada's National Library.

National Film Board of Canada. LIBRARY OF PARLIAMENT Inferior of the Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada, showing statue of Queen Vicforia

APRIL 19.53 141 Libraries in Montreal

Librarian, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, Montreal

ONTREAL, a city of two cultures, serves Westmounters free, others may M follows this dual cultural pat- pay a fee. The Fraser Institute carries tern in its libraries. on a free reference service. The Jewish There are two Universities. McGill Public Library is very active. The Li- University, chartered as the Royal In- brary of the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes stitution for the Advancement of Learn- Commerciales is a public library in its ing, gives its courses in English, with field. Children's libraries and commun- broad instruction in French. For many ity libraries are growing rapidly. years it has had a French Summer Montreal has had special libraries for School. The University of Montreal, some time. They are strong and vigor- originally a part of Lava1 University of ous and their numbers are increasing. Quebec City, gives its courses in French. They work together to provide their Their libraries follow the language of clientele with a service not rendered by their instruction. Both have library community facilities. schools and both have special libraries Among the oldest libraries in Mon- within their structures. treal are the Bank of Montreal, dating Sir George Williams College (Y.M. from 1817, the McGill University Med- C.A.) offers day courses and it also has ical Library from 1823, and the Advo- a particularly flourishing night school. cates Library from 1828. It is serviced by a busy and extremely There are two insurance libraries. active library. One belongs to the Insurance Institute The public library situation in Mon- of Montreal and has a collection of treal reflects the difficulties of serving "other than life" material. The second a public of two cultures. There is: as belongs to the Sun Life Assurance Com- yet, no general public library system to pany of Canada. Its collection is main- service the city. The Montreal Public tained to service the requirements of a Library is continually extending its serv- Canadian life insurance company which ice, and now has a number of branches conducts an international business. in addition to its central building. The Both large Canadian railway systems, Mechanics Institute Library is avail- The Canadian National and The Can- able through membership fee. adian Pacific, have their head offices in The Westmount Public Library Montreal and both maintain libraries.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES The library of the Railway Association opinion that it would be preferable to of Canada is one of the newer libraries. have a purely local organization rather The International Civil Aviation Or- than to establish a single Canadian unit ganization (ICAO) and the International in a large U. S. association. Others were Air Transport Association (IATA) are of the opinion that both organizations located in the city and have libraries. were necessary and desirable for their The Canadian Car and Foundry Com- work, and that action in one direction pany, Ltd. has a collection on air and would encourage rather than preclude other types of transportation. Canadair the other. A small group of Special Ltd., has an aeronautical collection. Library Association members, some of There are several collections asso- long standing, others with new mem- ciated with the pulp and paper indus- bership, took the necessary steps to try, including those of the Pulp and form a Montreal Chapter. Many of Paper Research Institute of Canada, them assisted also in the promotion and The Canadian Pulp and Paper Asso- the formation of the Quebec Library ciation and the Newsprint Association Association a year later. In 1936, Mon- of Canada. treal welcomed Special Libraries Asso- Aluminum Secretariat and Alumi- ciation on the occasion of its twenty- num Company of Canada, Dominion seventh convention, which was held at Textile Company, Ltd., Canadian In- the Mount Royal Hotel. dustries Ltd., Imperial Tobacco Com- pany, Shawinigan Water and Power National Library Company, Charles E. Frosst and Com- The scene has changed since those pany, Canadian Liquid Air Company early days of the Montreal Special Li- Ltd., The Bell Telephone Company of braries Association. It includes, now, Canada, The Royal Bank of Canada, the activities of the Canadian Library The CBC and its International Service Council, the Canadian Library Associa- have libraries. The Engineering Insti- tion and the new National Library. tute of Canada provides a library serv- The Canadian government has just ice for its membership, and many other completed some steps preliminary to organizations have industrial and com- the establishment of a National Library mercial libraries. in Ottawa. Dr. W. Kaye Lamb has been Special Canadiana book collections named as its librarian, and an assistant in the city include the Gagnon collec- and a fourteen member advisory coun- tion in the Municipal Library and the cil has been appointed. A list of books St. Sulpice Collection owned by the published in Canada, written by Cana- Province of Quebec. dians, or about Canada is issued month- There are numerous theological and ly. The Canadian Index fo Periodicals historical c o 11 e c t i o ns in theological is published. Approximately 2,500,000 schools and classical colleges. books have been included in a union SLA in Montreal catalogue. Depository arrangements The Montreal Special Libraries As- have been made with publishers. A site sociation was formed in 1932 and has been chosen for the library and adopted a constitution in 1933. plans are in preparation. The develop- At that time, the McGill University ment of a national library service and Library School Alumni Society was the collection will be a great boon to spe- only association of librarians in the cial librarians. city. There was no provincial library as- In 1940, the Special Libraries Asso- sociation and a Canadian Library As- ciation of Toronto came into being as sociation had only a nominal existence. the second Canadian chapter of the As- There was some controversy over the sociation. Territorial division of mem- formation of an SLA chapter. Some of bership was set from Kingston west to the Montreal librarians were of the the Pacific for the Toronto Chapter and

APRIL 19.53 from Kingston east to the Atlantic for POST-CONVENTION TOUR the Montreal Chapter. The two cities are too far apart to WARM WELCOME awaits SLA join frequently in meetings and discus- A members in Montreal on Friday, sions. However, it has been possible to June 26, following the convention in schedule three "regional" conferences, Toronto. On behalf of SLA's Montreal sponsored by the Montreal, Toronto, Chapter, Mme. Juliette Caron-Dupont, and Western New York Chapters. Mon- president, extends a cordial invitation treal has participated also in joint to all SLA members attending the con- meetings, conferences, and special proj- vention to visit Montreal and its spe- ects with the Canadian Library Associa- cial libraries. tion, the Quebec Library Association Libraries open to SLA visitors, Fri- and other professional organizations. day, June 26, include the following: The Montreal Chapter has sponsored ALUMINUMLIMITED . . . . . 9 : 00 a.m. to 5 :00 certain publications, among them a brief ALUMINUMCOMPANY (ALCAN) ...... 9:30a.m.t05:00 to the Royal Commission on National BANKOF MONTREAL. . . . . 9 :00 a.m. to 5 : 00 Development in the Arts, Letters and BIBLIOTHEQUEDE L'INSTITUT BOTANIQUE Sciences (Massey Commission). A new (Botanical Gardens) . . . 9:00 a.m. to 5 :00 serials list is in preparation and a bul- BELL TELEPHONECOMPANY OF CANADA...... 9:00 a.m. to 4: 30 letin appears regularly. CANADIANBROADCASTING COR- The Montreal Chapter is distinguish- PORATION. Reference, Record ed for the close cooperation of its mem- and Music Libraries . . . . 9: 00 a.m. to 6: 00 bers and the liveliness of its professional DOMINIONTEXTILE COM- PANY ...... 9 :00 a.m. to 5 :00 discussions. Its resources provide a rich . . . . BCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE. . . 9: 00 a.m. to 5: 00 reservoir for research. ENGINEERINGINSTITUTE The Montreal Day planned at the OF CANADA...... 9 :00 a.m. to 5: 00 end of the Toronto Convention for YOUNGMEN'S HEBREW those taking the Saguenay cruise, and ASSOCIATION...... 2 : 00 to 5 :00 p.m. LIQUIDAIR RESEARCHIN METALLURGY for others eastward-bound, will offer AND CHEMISTRY...... 9 : 00 a.m. to 5 : 00 one more opportunity to welcome SLA MCGILL UNIVERSITY: members to Montreal and to its special DIVINITYHALL ...... 9: 00 a.m. to 5: 00 libraries. PHYSICALSCIENCES (closed PURVISHALL during Cruise MEDICAL noon hour) A special, post-convention, all-expense, four- LAW LIBRARY...... 1 :00 to 5 :00 p.m. day tour is offered to SLA members using COMMERCELIBRARY . . . 9 :00 a.m. to 5 :00 New York Central Railroad transportation OSLER LIBRARY...... 9 : 30 a.m. to 5 :00 roundtrip for the SLA convention. Special MUSEUMOF FINE ARTS . . 10: 00 a.m. to 1:00 sleeping cars will leave for Toronto from New 2:00to4:30p.m. York, Boston and Chicago. Direct service to PULP AND PAPER RESEARCH Toronto is available also from St. Louis, Cin- LIBRARY (Research Institute cinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, originating of Canada) ...... 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 on the New York Central. RED CROSS ...... 10 :00 a.m. to 1 :00 The post-convention tour includes trans- 2:00 to4:30p.m. portation from Toronto, reaching Montreal ROYALBANK ...... 9: 00 a.m. to 5: 00 Friday, June 26th, and includes hotel accom- SHAWINIGANWATER & modations for Friday night. Visitors will have POWER ...... 9:00 a.m. to 12:OO the day free to visit special libraries. 2:00 to 5:OOp.m. Buses will leave the hotel Saturday morn- SUN LIFE ASSURANCE. . . . 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 ing for a three-hour sightseeing tour of Mom treal. The steamer leaves Saturday evening for a three-day cruise on the St. Lawrence and the The quarterly, Hermes, issued by the facul- Saguenay River. ty of the School of Commerce and Business The four-day tour leaves from Toronto, Administration, Lava1 University, Quebec, be- Thursday, June 25th, at 10:30 p. m., and gins its second year of publication. The closes in Montreal, Tuesday morning at eight journal includes articles in French and in o'clock. Return transportation from Montreal English on business, industrial relations, eco- to points of origin has been scheduled. nomics, etc. Lucien Montreuil is the editor.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Quebec

JOE H. FOUNTAIN Public Relations Officer, Canadian National Railways, New York City

UEBEC PROVINCE,one of the oldest venturers all played a part. Huge in- Q areas settled by white men in dustries have built their plants beside Canada, is also one of the most pictur- historical sites; motor highways divide esque. This is so not only because of a long narrow fields enclosed by cedar mighty river, a thousand miles long; fences; a guide who is a direct descend- the Laurentian Mountains which are ent of a coureur de bois uses the latest among the most ancient in the world; model of outboard motor to take sports- innumerable trout lakes and splendid men moose hunting or fishing for big salmon streams; a sea coast that delights and wary red trout; nuns and monks, the geologist and the vacation-taker in frocks of various colors and historical alik?, or glittering church steeples shin- design, mingle with the smartly dressed ing above every village, but because all modern crowds which throng the cities. these and many other exclusive fea- Even in Montreal, stone towers, erected tures create, in Quebec, a background as a protection against the Indians, for an enchanting blending of ancient still stand in the lee of modern man- customs and modern trends that make sions and the garden of the famous this corner of North America entirely Order of St. Sulpice, to which the different from the others. whole Island of Montreal was given by During the 150 years that Quebec the King of France, is surrounded by was called "New France7' and was gov- tall office buildings of twentieth century erned from the Court of Versailles, the design in the heart of the city. French-Canadians, while developing an But the main charm of Quebec Pro- independent and typical North Ameri- vince is not due exclusively to the con- can spirit, tenaciously held to the lan- stant juxtaposition of the old and new, guage, religion, traditions and zest for or to that different picturesqueness in life of their country of origin; so much which spinning wheels, ox carts, woven so, that many parts of what was orig- carpets, wood sculptures, wayside inally "New France" could, today, truth- shrines, odd traditions and costumes, re- fully be called "Old France". There are ligion and language are all a part. It many evidences of this. Among them is goes much deeper. For the quaintness, the architecture of a large section of oddities and contrast that one finds in Quebec City; farms on the Island of this old French province are not en- Orleans which have been in the same tirely the result of a part pris to be dif- families since the start of the 17th cen- ferent or singular; but they belong to a tury; a three-hundred-years'-old vocabu- scheme of things patiently and sub- larly used by the fishermen of the Gasp6 consciously evolved by a people whose Peninsula and social traits particularly supreme ambition it has been to draw characteristic of the country people. from life, each according to his philos- In population and spirit, Quebec is ophy and conception of happiness, what largely French. Thousands of tourists suits his taste and temperament. Gaiety, have discovered and been warmed by urbanity, a delightful hospitality and its winning charm. willingness to please, as well as the Here the present lives in harmony numerous attractions of this much di- with a glorious past in which courtiers, versified province, contribute to the missionaries, Indian fighters, heroic spell of Quebec. All who visit Quebec women, gallant explorers and gay ad- inevitably must fall under this spell.

APRIL 19.53 The Maritime Provinces

JEANNETTE FOSHAY Librarian, Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited, Montreal, Que.

HE THREE SMALL Eastern Canadian of 643,000, of predominantly English, Tprovinces known as "The Mari- French, Scottish and Germant descent. times" are the Provinces of New Bruns- Since the Province has a coast line wick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward 4,625 miles in length, it is only natural Island. These Provinces are almost en- that one of its chief industries should tirely surrounded by the waters of the be fishing. Other sources of income are Atlantic Ocean, and no part is more agriculture, mining and forestry. than 100 miles from salt water. New Brunswick The area of the Maritime Provinces New Brunswick, along with Nova is roughly equivalent to that of the Scotia, was known as Acadia in the State of New York. New Brunswick, early days of occupation by the white bordered on the west by the State of man, and the history of the two pro- Main, is the largest of the three; Nova vinces is closely united. They shared Scotia, a peninsula jutting out into the the many vicissitudes of the conflict Atlantic and including the famed island between the French and the English. of Cape Breton is about the size of and the memory of those violent days is West Virginia, and Prince Edward today preserved in the ruins of Fort Island, lying just beyond New Bruns- Beausejour near Sackville. wick and Nova Scotia in the Gulf of St. The present population of 515,000 is Lawrence, is the smallest of all Can- made up mainly of the descendents of adian Provinces. the thrifty and hardy settlers of Eng- Though small in size, The Maritimes, lish and French origin. Nearly four- with their romantic history and culture, fifths of the land area of New Bruns- diversified industrial life, and variety wick is in forest, and lumbering is the of beautiful scenery, form one of the most important industry, followed by most interesting and colorful areas in fishing and agriculture. North America. Because of the unspoiled freshness Nova Scotia of its great outdoor regions, New Bruns- Nova Scotia was first colonized by wick has gained international fame for the French in 1605, who established its sport fishing and hunting. Among there the first permanent settlement in the many scenic attractions for the America north of Mexico. This fortified visitor is the coastline of the Bay of settlement, called the Port Royal Habi- Fundy in the Southern part of the tation, has been authentically recon- Province. structed and is one of the many inter- Prince Edward Island esting historical sites to be seen in the Prince Edward Island, "The Garden Province. In 1625, the peninsula be- of the Gulf", was named for Prince Ed- came an English possession, and for ward, Duke of Kent, father of Queen 150 years was a battleground for Brit- Victoria. ish and French supremacy. During this This charming island has a present time occurred the expulsion of the population of 98,000, of which almost Acadian settlers from Grand Pre by all are native born. It is the most com- the British, recounted in Henry Wads- pletely and uniformly settled area in worth Longfellow's famous poem the Maritimes. The Island is predomi- Evangeline. nantly rural, and the economy is large- Nova Scotia today has a population ly dependent upon agriculture.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES There are no great extremes of tern- BOOKS ON CANADA perature in Prince Edward Island be- KATHERINEWALES cause of the moderating influence of the University of Toronto Library sea. In the summer months, visitors History the Island' attracted by the Old CANADA.(United Nations Series). Edited by charm the scenery and George William Brown. California: Uni- by the splendid bathing beaches of the versity of California Press, 1950. northern coast. CANADA,AN INTERNATIONALPOWER. By Andre Siegfried. London: Cape, 1949. Libraries in the Maritimes CANADA,THE FOUNDATIONSOF ITS FUTURE. The Maritimes have many fine libra- By Stephen Leacock. Montreal: House of ries, though the development of "special Seagram, 1943. libraries" is far behind that of the more THEGOVERNMENT OF CANADA.By MacGregor populous and industrialized areas of Dawson, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1948. Quebec and Ontario. A SHORTHISTORY OF CANADAFOR AMERI- The Maritimes are noted for their CANS.By Alfred Leroy Burt. Minneapolis: many excellent schools and colleges, University of Minnesota Press, 1942. and each of these institutions maintains THEUNKNOWN COUNTRY: CANADA AND HER PEOPLE.By Bruce Hutchison. Toronto: a first class library. Some of the lead- Longmans, 1943. ing university libraries are found at the University of New Brunswick at Fred- Guide Books ericton, Mount Allison University at EXPLORINGTHE NATIONALPARKS OF CANADA. By Devereux Butcher. Washington, D. C.: Sackville, N. B., Dalhousie University U. S. National Parks Association, 1952. at Halifax, N. S., and Acadia University THE NATIONALPARKS OF CANADA.2nd ed. at Wolfville, N. S. Ottawa: Canada National Parks Bureau, Each province has a fine legislative 1938. ONTARIOIN YOUR CAR.By John and Mar- library operated in connection with the jorie Mackenzie. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, provincial governments. 1950. Most of the larger cities and towns QUEBECIN YOURCAR. By John and Marjorie in the Maritimes have free public libra- Mackenzie. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1952. ries, and Prince Edward Island has a TRAVELLER'SGUIDES FOR CANADA.V01. 1, Quebec; Montreal; University Editions, Ltd.; library service second to none, thanks Vol. 2, Ontario. Toronto: Collins, 1950. to the generosity of the Carnegie Cor- General References poration which financed the establish- THEARTS AND CRAFTSOF CANADA.By Doug- ment of a circulating library system. las George Wallis McRae. Toronto: Mac- The system has since been carried on millan, 1944. by the provincial government. Today, THE BOOK OF CANADIANACHIEVEMENT. By P. E. I. is the only province in Canada Helen Palk. Toronto: Dent, 1951. CANADIANBANKING SYSTEM. By James Holla- where every rural school has a com- day. Boston: Bankers Publishing Co., 1938. plete library service, and worthwhile CANADIANREGIONS, A GEOGRAPHYOF CAN- books are available in all parts of the ADA.Edited by Donald F. Putnam. Toron- Province. to: Dent, 1952. Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, CREATIVEWRITING IN CANADAAND SHORT HISTORYOF ENGLISH-CANADIANLITERA- has just completed a beautiful new TURE. By Desmond Pacey. Toronto: Ryer- public library building. This city is also son, 1952. the Maritime centre of the develop- FREEGOLD, THE STORYOF CANADIANMINING. ment of special libraries, including the by Arnold Hoffman. New York: Rinehart, 1947. Nova Scotia Research Foundation and THE PARLIAMENTOF CANADA.By George the Nova Scotia Barristers Society. Hambleton. Toronto: Ryerson, 195 1. The Regional Library System is very REPORTOF THE CANADIANROYAL COMMIS- active in Nova Scotia. A well regulated SION ON NATIONALDEVELOPMENT IN THE system of travelling libraries brings read- ARTS, LETTERS AND SCIENCES.Ottawa, 1951. ing material to many small-town and THE ST. LAWRENCE.By Henry Beston. New rural areas throughout the Province. York: Farrar, 1942.

APRIL 19.53 147 View of Toronto from the air

Convention Travelers Should Know. . . ENTRANCE TO CANADA

~KRI~NENTU~ITEL) S.~ATES RESIDENTS require no passport. It is well, however, to carry a birth certificate, or other form of identification, since proof of citizenship may be requested on return to the United States. Naturalized United States citizens should carry their naturalization certificate. AUTOMOBILESmay be brought in without payment of duty or deposit, but a permit for admission of the automobile must be obtained from the Canadian customs. The motorist should carry his automobile registration card (Motor. Vehicle Permit) as this must be displayed on demand of the customs officials, also his driving permit. CA~ADIANCUSTOMS: There is no duty on personal belongings. IT. S. CUSTOMS:U. S. residents returning from Canada after a stay of not less than forty-eight hours may bring back $200 worth of goods. (This exemption is allowable only once in any 31-day period.) U. S. residents who remain in Canada not less than twelve days are allowed an additioual exemption of $300. (The additional exemption is allowable only once every six months.) CLIKRERCY:TO avoid trouble and delay it is wise to buy your Canadian money before leaving home. EXPENSES HOTEL:Convention Headquarters-Royal York Hotel. Rates: Single, $7.50 - $9.50 a day. Double, $1 1.50 - $1 4.50 a day. MEALS:Prices are comparable to most large U. S. cities and slightly less than New York or Washington. The Banquet scheduled for Wednesday, June 24th, will be approximately five dollars per person. TRAKSPORTATION:The distance, fare and time by air and railway from a few key cities in the U. S. to Toronto is given as follows:

148 SPECIAL LIBRARIES By Railway By Air 1st Class Hours Hours From Mileage Return Fare 1 Way Mileage Return Fare 1 Way Atlanta 973 $ 72.50 23 785 $103.80 7 Chicago 516 41.90 13 461 53.10 3 Denver 1563 101 .50 30 1370 163.50 6 1/2 Kansas 101 1 67.98 22 866 102.70 4 112 Los Angeles .. . . . 2815 167.55 63 2212 271.20 9 205.10 (air tourist rate) 544 42.75 12 365 40.80 2 71 1 54.75 19 639 84.60 5 650 45.85 15 422 68.20 51/2 via N. Y. 53.40 51h via Buffalo 1'1.b:ssb: NOTI;: Add 15% tax to above fares if purchased in the United States. Figures have been supplied by the Canadian National Railways and American Airlines. WEATHER Don't let the Ontario boundary line fool you. A quick look at a map will show you that the southern end of the province is actually farther south than the northern part of California. Here are a few comparative average mean temperature readings: June July 63 69 68 74 66 72 59 59 62 66 67 70 For the past ten years Toronto temperatures for the last week in June have been in the low seventies. So come prepared-even for rain!

POST CONVENTION TRIPS

VISITMONTREAL LIBRARIES and enioy a three-day cruise down the St. Lawrence and up the beautiful Saguenay Rivers. Full particulars were sent out with the advance programme. TIIE CAPITAL CITY OF CANADA, OTTAW~.with its stately Parliament Buildings overlooking the rushing Ottawa River, is charming to visit, especially in the summer. Lying between the Rideau River and the Rideau Canal are beautiful parkways. The French character of many of the government buildings, as well as the fine Chateau Laurier Hotel, add to the interest. The Tower of Remembrance and the unique Parliamentary Library (dam- aged by fire recently) should be seen; and a summer evening promenade along Parliament Hill as the carillon bells ring softly over the Ottawa River lingers long in the visitor's memory. THE MUSKOKA~,AKES, GEORGIANI:AY, HALIBIJKTON, THE TFIOISARD ISLANDS, provide happy and varied holiday spots for those who wish to combine their vacation with the convention. As part of its boundaries, Ontario has four of the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence and the Ottawa Rivers, and Hudson Bay. Ontario can provide scenery, sport and diversion to suit every taste. Those who linger after the convention may be interested in the Shakespeare Festival to be held at Stratford (one hundred miles from Toronto) beginning the second week of July. Festival productions are under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie of the Old Vic Theatre, London, England, and the Metropolitan Opera; Alec Guiness is coming from London to be the particular bright star of the first Shakespeare Festival to be played on a specially-designed Shakespearean stage. It should be a gala occasion. Whenever you come-and wherever you go-Canada will welcome you.

APRIL 1953 149 Reference Books on Canada Selected Bibliography for a Business Library ROBENAM. DOW Toronto Star Library

Bibliographies CANADIANMOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY YEAR- CANADIANGOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS BOOK. Edited by Hye Bossin. Toronto: Film MONTHLY CATALOGUE.Ottawa: Queen's Publications of Canada, Ltd., Annual, No. 1 Printer, 1953. A comprehensive listing of 1952. all official publications. Contains all items CANADIANOFFICIAL RAILWAYGUIDE, WITH listed in the Daily Checklist of the previous AIRLINES. Montreal : International Railway month and is distributed during the second Publishing Co., Monthly. Alphabetical list week of the following month. of railway stations, showing county or dis- CANADIANINDEX TO PERIODICALSAND DOCU- trict and the railway line on which situated. MENTARY FILMS.Edited by Dorothy B. Population figures given for small places, Chatwin. Canadian Library Association in not easily found elsewhere. cooperation with the Canadian Bibliographic CANADIANRADIO AND TELEVISIONANNUAL. Centre. Indexed monthly. Cumulated an- Edited by T. J. Wheeler. Toronto: T. J. nually. Author-subject index. Wheeler, 1950. CANADIANA.Ottowa: Canadian Bibliographic CANADIANREPRESENTATIVES ABROAD AND Centre. Public Archives of Canada. Indexed REPRESENTATIVESOF OTHER COUNTRIESIN monthly and quarterly, cumulated annually. CANADA.Ottawa: Department of External A list of publications of Canadian interest. Affairs, Quarterly. CANADIANTRADE INDEX. Toronto: Canadian Encyclopedias Manufacturers' Association, Annual. Infor- ENCYCLOPEDIAOF CANADA.Edited by W. mation regarding export trade, and an al- Stewart Wallace. 6 vol. Toronto: University phabetical list of all Canadian manufactur- Associates of Canada, Ltd., 1935-37. ers with branch offices, factories, trade- ENCYCLOPEDIEGROLIER. 10 vol. Montreal: La marks and brands, also classified list of Soci6t6 Grolier LtBe., 1947. Articles are in manufacturers. French. FINANCIALPOST BUSINESS YEARBOOK.TO- ronto: Maclean-Hunter, Annual. Market Almanacs, Postal Guides and Yearbooks survey of latest statistics of Canada's pro- CANADAOFFICIAL POSTAL GUIDE. Part 1. vinces, cities and towns. Regulations, rates of postage and other in- FINANCIALPOST SURVEYOF INDUSTRIALS.TO- formation. Part 2, Alphabetical list of post ronto: Maclean-Hunter, Annual. Industrial offices in Canada. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, companies arranged by classification, with 1947. (Monthly supplements. ) Newfound- index. (This firm also publishes FINANCIAL land not included here: see next item. POST SURVEYOF MINES and FINANCIAL A LIST OF PLACENAMES OF THE ISLAND OF POST SURVEYOF OILS.) NEWFOUNDLAND,WITH THEIR GEOGRAPH- FRASER'SCANADIAN TRADE DIRECTORY. Mon- ICAL POSITIONS. Ottawa: Department of treal : Fraser's Trade Directories, Ltd., An- Mines and Technical Surveys, Geographical nual. Classified list of manufacturers, trade Branch, 1950. and brand names, foreign firms represented CANADAYEARBOOK. Ottawa: Dominion Bu- in Canada. (This firm also publishes FRAS- reau of Statistics, The Queen's Printer, An- ER'S CANADIANTEXTILE APPAREL AND FUR nual. Official statistical publication on re- TRADEDIRECTORY and FRASER'SCANADIAN sources, history, social and economic con- LEATHERDIRECTORY.) ditions of Canada. Includes a chronology of ONTARIOMOTOR LEAGUEROAD BOOK. TO- outstanding events in Canadian history since ronto: Ontario Motor League, Annual. 1497. (Other provinces issue similar road books.) CANADIANALMANAC AND DIRECTORY.Edited ONTARIO MUNICIPAL DIRECTORY.Toronto: by Marsh Jeanneret and Beatrice Logan. Ontario Department of Municipal Affairs, Toronto: Copp Clark Co., Annual. Annual. Counties, townships, cities, towns CANADIANANNUAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC AF- and villages in Ontario, with names of lead- FAIRS. Toronto: Canadian Review Co., An- ing officials, population, area, etc. for each. nual, 1901-1938. No longer published. Use- Biographies ful historical review of events year by year, BIOGRAPHIESCANADIENNES-FRANCAISES. 16th particularly economic and social; includes ed. Montreal: J. A. Fortin, 1952. Mainly list of books published in Canada during useful for legal professiori and people in the the year. business world.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES CANADIANPARLIAMENTARY GUIDE. Edited by G. P. Normandin. Published in Ottawa, with the patronage of the Parliament of Canada Canada's National and of the provincial legislatures. Annual. Biographical sketches of Privy Councillors, Library members of the Senate of Canada and the House of Commons at Ottawa, with results of elections by electoral districts. Also sim- Dr. William Kaye ilar information for each of the provincial Lamb, recently ap- legislatures. CANADIAN WHO'S WHO. Toronto: Trans- pointed as the first li- Canada Press, V.l, 1910; V.2, 1936-37; V.3, brarian of Canada's 1938-39; V.4, 1948; V.5, 1949-51. new National Libra- DICTIONARYOF CANADIANBIOGRAPHY. Com- ry, will be present at piled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: SLA7s convention Macmillan, 1945. Biographical sketches of deceased persons with bibliographies. banquet in Toronto, DICTIONARYOF NORTH AMERICANAUTHORS Thursday, June 25, DECEASEDBEFORE 1950. Compiled by W. to welcome and ex- Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson, 1951. tend greetings to SLA visitors on be- DIRECTORYOF DIRECTORS.Compiled by the half of the librarians of Canada. Financial Post. Toronto: Maclean-Hunter, Annual. Executives of Canada; gives pro- Dr. Lamb was formerly Dominion ar- fession, companies and addresses. chivist. His special assignment was to WHO'S WHO IN CANADA.Edited by B. M. Greene. Toronto: International Press, Ltd., prepare the way for the National Libra- Annual (sometimes biennial ) . Similar to ry. Parliament appointed a National Li- CANADIANWHO'S WHO, but each work in- brary Advisory Committee made up of cludes names not in the other. librarians and representative individ- General References uals, and Dr. Lamb was designated as CANADAAND ITS PROVINCES.Edited by Adam the chairman. Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty. Toronto: first recommendation Publishers' Association of Canada, Ltd., The of the Com- 1914-17. 22 volumes plus general index and mittee, in 1949, led to the establishment chronologies. of the Canadian Bibliographic Centre in CANADAOVERSEAS REFERENCE BOOK. Edited Ottawa, as a preliminary step to the by Robert Hamilton Coats. London: Todd, National Library. The Centre began to 1949. CANADIANQUOTATIONS AND PHRASES,LITER- compile a union catalog for the whole ARY AND HISTORICAL.Compiled by Robert country, and each month it issued a M. Hamilton. Toronto: McClelland and publication, Canadiana, listing the cur- Stewart, 1952. rent national bibliography for use by li- FEDERALAND PROVINCIALGOVERNMENT DE- brarians elsewhere. PARTMENTAL REPORTS.Includes the LABOR in Canada and (Dr. GAZETTE (a monthly) and CENSUS OF Jean Lunn, editor of Canadiana, has CANADA(reports issued currently). written an informative article describ- GAZETTEEROF CANADA.Ottawa: Canadian ing the activities of the Centre in the Board on Geographical Names. Vol. 1, 1952. January 1953 issue of SPECIALLIBRA- Southwestern Ontario. INDEX AND DICTIONARYOF CANADIANHIS- RIES, page 23.) TORY. Edited by L. J. Burpee and Arthur On January 1, 1953, the National Li- G. Doughty. Toronto: Morang and Co., Ltd., 1911. brary Act, passed by Parliament at its OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIAOF CANADIANHIS- last session, became effective, and with TORY. Edited by L. J. Burpee. London and it, Dr. Lamb's appointment as librarian. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1926. STYLESOF ADDRESS,A MANUALOF USAGEIN The new library will be built in Otta- WRITINGAND SPEECH.By Howard Measures. wa, not far from the Parliament Build- New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1947. ings. Publishers will be requested to At time of publication of this book the send two copies of each book published author was Protocol Officer of the Depart- National Library. ment of External Affairs, Ottawa. As a re- in Canada to the More sult, the information may be considered than two million books have already oHicial for Canadian usage. been catalogued.

APRIL 1953 Convention Speakers at the Forum on Canadian Resources

Convention Program Chairman, Pauline M. Hutchison, has announced an outstanding panel of speakers for the Forum on Canadian Resources to be held Tuesday, June 23, in Toronto. The Forum has been planned as a convention-wide meeting to allow all members to take advantage of the opportunity to hear leading authorities discuss and explore vital fields of information on Canada. The Forum will be conducted by Bertha Bassam, president-elect of Toronto Chapter. Scientific Research The Forum will present a comprehensive survey of scientific research in Canada by the eminent authority, Dr. R. C. Wallace, president emeritus of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontaria, and director of the Arctic Institute of North America. Dr. Wallace was president of the Research Council of Ontario from 1945 to 1948 and he has served on many commissions. He was born in Scotland and educated there and abroad. He holds a number of degrees from Edinburgh University, Gottingen University and St. Andrew's University. He has contributed widely to technical literature. Dr. Wallace is noted for his erudition, his broad interests and his numerous accomplishments. He is one of Canada's leading citizens and has played a prominent part in the development of the nation. Following Dr. Wallace's talk, SLA members will have the opportunity to ask questions and to take part in discussion. Canadian Industry An exposition on Canadian industry by the distinguished Mr. J. Gerald Godsoe, vice-president and director of the British American Oil Company Lim- ited, and vice-president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, will present the picture of Canada's resources, development and growing importance to the United States and to the world. Mr. Godsoe came to Toronto in 1931 to form the legal department of Confederation Life Association. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and at- tended Halifax Collegiate and Dal- housie University, receiving an LL.B. degree. During the last war, Mr. Godsoe served as chairman of the Wartime In- dustries Control Board and Co-ordinator DR. R. C. WALLACE

SPECIAL LIBRARIES of Controls. In this post he was responsible for the supply and distribution of basic war materials and transport services for the whole of Canada's war industry. In 1946, he was made a Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.) Mr. Godsoe is extremely active in Toronto as a director of numerous private and civic organizations. He is also the immediate past president of the Toronto Board of Trade. Business and Finance Mr. W. F. Lougheed who serves as economist to The Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto, will present the w. F. LoUGHEED highlights of current business and finance in Canada. Mr. Lougheed was born in Toronto and educated at the University of TO- ronto Schools, at McMaster University and at the University of Chicago. He taught economics at Wayne University in Detroit, and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and later was head of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Between 1940 and 1944, Mr. Lougheed worked with the Economics Division of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and served also as advisor on industrial relations to the Provincial Government of Manitoba. Mr. Lougheed took his present post with The Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1944. He has written two books: a study on labor-government-management relations and a work on provincial finance. He has collaborated also in the preparation of a study on intergovernmental fiscal relations and has contributed to many journals treating on financial and economic matters.

Canadian Government An outstanding consulting economist, Mr. G. E. Jackson, will discuss the various aspects of government in the Dominion. Mr. Jackson was born in Yorkshire, England in 1890 and was educated at cambridge. He came to Canada in 1911 as lecturer and was subsequently professor of economics at the University of Toronto until 1935. He served also as director of studies in commerce and finance. From 1927 to 1935, Mr. Jackson was also economist for The Bank of Nova Scotia, and for several years following, he was advisor to the Governors of the Bank of England. Since 1939, Mr. Jackson has been a consultant to business and has served on various boards and commissions. He was made an Officer of the British Em- pire (O.B.E.) and he was awarded the Order of King Christian X of Denmark for war work. Mr. Jackson is the author of If Thine Enemy Hunger (1941); Facts in the Case ( 1944); and a series, Memo- randa for Post-War Planners. FEATURED SPEAKER Program Notes At the annual A special demonstration of the visual SLA Convention presentation developed in the Public Banquet, Wed- Relations Clinic under the direction of nesday, June 24, Sidney Edlund, management consultant, Dorothy Thomp- will be shown by popular request in son, the Toronto Toronto. Chapter presi- The demonstration will take place' dent, will have Monday evening, June 22, from eight the honor of intro- to nine-thirty, immediately preceding ducing the dis- the SLA Reception so that all members tinguished guest may attend. speaker, Mr. A. The showing will be similar to the Davidson Dunton. demonstration before the New York chairman of the Board of Governors of Chapter and the SLA Executive Board the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. and Advisory Council, March 13. As noted in the March issue of SLA's Bul- Mr. Dunton was born in Montreal in letin, the adaptability of the presenta- 191 2. He was educated at Lower Canada tion to an individual library situation College and at McGill University in Mon- was demonstrated at: that time by Kath- treal, at the Grenoble University in arine Kinder, librarian at the Johns- France, at Trinity College and at Cam- Manville Research Library, and by bridge University, England, and at the Mrs. Angelica Blornshield, librarian at University of Munich in Germany. the New York Life Insurance Company. Mr. Dunton's career began in the field A special showing of the presentation of journalism. In 1935 he joined the edi- will take place at the School for Incom- torial staff of the Moutreal Star. Two ing Chapter Officers, Thursday, June years later, he became associate editor 25, followed by discussion on its use for and the following year he was appointed chapter programs.* * * editor of The Stan dard. Bulletin Editors are invited to attend Mr. Dunton left The Starldard in 1942 the breakfast roundtable session sched- on loan to the newly-organized Wartime uled for Tuesday morning, June 23, lnformation Board. He played an impor- prior to the Forum on Canadian Re- tant role in the Board's organization and sources. development and became its general This meeting will provide an oppor- manager in 1944. His work with the tunity to meet fellow chapter and di- War lnformation Board included the or- vision bulletin editors, to talk shop on ganization of press relations and services methods and techniques for disseminat- at the two historic Quebec conferences. ing SLA news in SLA's publications. Dora Richman, editor of SPECIALLI- In 1945, Mr. Dunton was appointed BRARIES,will preside at this informal the first full-time chairman of the Board meeting. All interested SLA members of Governors of the Canadian Broad- are urged to attend. casting Corporation. A year ago, he was * * * re-appointed for a period of ten years. Details of the complete program planned for the convention-wide Work- Mr. Dunton was married in 1944 to shop Meeting which will take place on Miss Kathleen Bingay of Vancouver, a Monday, June 22, will be published in lawyer who was with the Department of the May-June issue of SPECIALLIBRA- External Affairs. They have a four-year RIES. old daughter, Darcy, and live at Rock- *** cliffe, near Ottawa. Division Day is Wednesday, June 24, and features a wide variety of activity Mr. Dunton is at ease in four Ian- throughout the city of Toronto and en- gauges: English, French, German and virons. All paths will meet in the even- Spanish. He is an enthusiastic skier and ing at seven when the annual banquet tennis player. will take place.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES An attempt is being made to initiate a Division Highlights course to train newspaper librarians. PICTURE DlVlSlON This newest Division of SLA has been in- ADVERTISING DlVlSlON tent on getting organized. A joint meeting Bonnie Dewes of D'Arcy Advertising Com- of the Association of Federal Photographic pany won one of the Emma Proetz annual Libraries, the proposed Washington Group of awards given by the Women's Advertising the Picture Division and Officials of the Pic- Club of St. Louis. She was winner of the ture Division of SLA was held in Washington National Television award for her work on in January. Aims, purposes and goals of the the Laclede Gas show. new Division were discussed. The first meet- The New York Advertising Group spon- ing in New York was held March 2. sored a series of lectures on Advertising SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY DlVlSlON Sources for six weeks this winter. General Information A membership list was published with the A revised list of holdings of the Bibliogra- October What's New in Advertising. phy Pool has been distributed. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIVISION A survey has been made to determine the The January 1953 issue of the Reminder future of Sci Tech News. describes the new Texas Medical Association Selected Abstracts Vol. 6, No. 3, Part 11 Memorial Library in Austin and the addition was distributed with the September issue of to the Marquette Medical School Library Sci-Tech News. called the Eben J. and Helen Carey Memorial The Bibliography of Awards Committee has Library. Both libraries provide the maximum completed 108 awards. of utility, beauty and comfort. Chemistry Section FINANCIAL DlVlSlON Questionnaires on prospective purchasers of The January 1953 issue of the Financial the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Division Bulletin includes articles on "Of- Transaction Index indicate some interest in ficial Domestic Sources of Financial Informa- the project. tion" by Ethel S. Klahre and "Official Sources Engineering Aeronautics Section of Financial Information: Laws and Regula- A periodical and translations exchange is tions" by Ruth Von Roeschlaub. planned with ASLIB. Two revisions are under way: ( 1) Banking Metals Section and Financial Subject Headings; (2) Sources Hundreds of copies of book lists, bibliogra- of Investment Information. phies and SLA booklets were distributed at GEOGRAPHY AND MAP DlVlSlON the Metals booth at the National Metals Ex- In cooperation with the Geography and position in Philadelphia last October. Map Division, the Library of Congress is pre- Petroleum Section paring an inventory of map library resources A glossary on references to refining nomen- of the United States and Canada. This volume clature is ready for publication. It will ap- will supplement the reference work entitled pear in one of the Petroleum trade journals. Special Library Resources. Mrs. Marie C. Pharmaceutical Section Goodman is chairman of the committee and a The Union List of Serials is available at $3. questionnaire has been sent to SLA members. a copy from Helen Loftus, Lilly Research HOSPITAL DIVISION Laboratories, Indianapolis 6, Indiana. A Questionnaire has been sent to Hospital Public Utilities Section Division members concerning future activities This Section took an active part in the of the Division: (1) the formation of Groups American Gas Association Convention at At- within Chapters; (2) the publication of a lantic City in October. Division Bulletin; (3) the possibility of join- SOCIAL SCIENCE DlVlSlON ing with the Biological Sciences Division as a The third edition of the Source List of section. Selected Labor Statistics will be published INSURANCE DlVlSlON shortly. This publication is sponsored by the The winter edition of the Bulletin contains Industrial Relations Section and has been pre- descriptions of insurance libraries in Toronto. pared by Hazel Benjamin, Rosemary Markey MUSEUM DlVlSlON and Katherine LaMont, chairman. A membership directory was published in A subject heading list is being prepared by the October issue of the Bulletin. It has been the Social Welfare Section under the direction compiled by Mrs. Elizabeth A. F. Averill and of Dorothy Andres. lists members' names and the organizations to Ellen Commons, chairman-elect of the So- which they belong. cial Science Division is helping to prepare a NEWSPAPER DlVlSlON Manual of Procedures for the Division. The paper on "Fire Insurance and the News- Questionnaires have been sent to members paper Library" given by Milton Prensky at on a salary survey. A second survey is being the SLA Convention in New York was re- made on the continuance of sections. Results will printed in the Bulletin, December 1952. be reported at the annual business meeting.

APRIL 1953 Have you heard . . . Workshop for Library Administrators Company Library Abstract Bulletins Ralph R. Shaw, librarian, U. S. Depart- A discussion on the problems attending the ment of Agriculture, will conduct a workshop preparation of company library abstract bul- for library administrators at Western Reserve letins, and on the merits and shortcomings of University, July 6-24, 1953. The workshop this widely-featured type of library service, will consider management research in relation was held March 11, 1953, under the auspices to work simplification, operational efficiency of the Science-Technology Group, New York and the formulation of library policies, and Chapter of SLA. Alice C. Rankin, librarian will review the basic principles of scientific of the Nopco Chemical Company, Harrison, management in application to given library New Jersey, and Winifred Sewell, librarian of problems. the Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Application for enrollment should be made New York City, participated in the discussion. by May 1, 1953. Further information may be There was general agreement by those present, obtained from the Office of University Ad- on the significant aid rendered by the bulletin mission, Western Reserve University, Cleve- to individuals requiring current information in land 6. Ohio. specific technical fields.

Classifying Arbitration Miss Rankin noted the uneven coverage of technical articles and the delayed publication Jay W. Stein, the author of A Classification in existing abstract bulletins, the duplication for Communications Materials, published and of certain material available, and the omission adopted by the Columbia University School of of an extensive area of vital information. Miss Library Service, has prepared a classification Rankin presented a detailed description of scheme for use in the library of the American Nopco's two abstract bulletins and their prep- Arbitration Association. aration, and summarized their usefulness to An adaptation for a more general collection, members of the organization. giving broader categories and subject headings for use in arranging and locating research ma- Miss Sewell's remarks centered on the high terials on arbitration, has been published in cost of providing this essential service; on the The Arbitration Journal, a quarterly issued by incomplete, and often, superficial abstracting the American Arbitration Association. "Classi- due to lack of sufficient personnel, time and fying Arbitration" is the title of the paper money; on the suspension of the excellent which includes the classification scheme and Squibb Abstract Bulletin due to mounting it appears in the issue dated 1952, Volume 7, production costs. Number 3, on pages 153 through 158. Miss Sewell proposed a cooperative effort by organizations with similar subject inter- Business Librarianship ests, where joint planning and a pooling of The University of Chicago Graduate Library resources could result in a superior abstract School announces a new program of study bulletin with increased coverage for a specific leading to the M.A. degree with a specializa- field of information. Miss Sewell cited The tion in business librarianship. The program is American Petroleum Institute Refining Divi- offered in cooperation with the School of sion which has approved a plan for a petrole- Business of the University and provides for um abstract bulletin representing a cooperative course work in both schools, with guidance effort in this subject area. from a faculty adviser in each school. The program is open to students with two years A survey of the libraries represented at of college training for whom a three year pro- this meeting revealed the prevalence of the gram leads to the M.A. degree. Applicants company abstract bulletin as part of library for admission to the program with more than service. Those libraries unable to perform two years of college work will have their this service were deterred from doing so be- previous training evaluated and appropriate cause of the cost factor. reductions in course requirements will be made for equivalent work already accomplished. For Detroit Municipal Reference example, students holding a B.A. degree with The City of Detroit Ordinance, passed No- a major in business from a traditional four- vember 12, 1952, has designated the Municipal year college can complete the course require- Reference Library in Detroit, Michigan, as ments for the M.A. in about five quarters. the depository and reference library for all For further information, and application city official reports and documents. This action forms, write to Dean of Students, Graduate provides official recognition by the Common Library School, University of Chicago, Chicago Council of the service rendered by the library 37, Illinois. since it was established in 1945.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES INTERNATIONAL LIBRARIANSHIP The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School will be held from August 17 to 22, 1953 and will deal with the subject "International Aspects of Librarianship." The program will include papers on the subjects of librarianship in foreign countries, on the information program of the State Department, and on problems of international library cooperation. The papers will include: The Interdependence of Knowledge and Information in the World Today The UNESCO Program in General ar~dthe Libraries Program in Particular Problems of American Libraries in Acquiring Foreign Publications Problems of Foreign Libraries in Acquiring American Publications Lacunae in Foreign Bibliography The Program of the State Department: Cultural Institutes and Libraries The American Contribution to Foreign Library Establishment and Rehabilitation Two informal evening sessions will also be held, one on the subject of education for librarianship abroad, and one a symposium by former librarians in U. S. Information libraries. A leaflet describing the detailed program of the Conference will be available upon request. For further information address the Dean of the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois.

Aslib Aeronautical Meeting Technical Literature in Mexico City Eugene B. Jackson, chief, Division of Re- In a talk, recently, before the American search Information, National Advisory Com- Society of Mechanical Engineers (Mexico Sec- mittee for Aeronautics, gave a paper on The tion), Donald B. Campbell, of the George D. NACA Classification System-A Case History, Camp firm of consulting engineers, Mexico at the meeting of the Aeronautical Group, City, and an active member of SLA's Science- Aslib, March 27-29, in Cranfield, England. Technology Division, proposed the establish- The meeting included discussion on the prob- ment of a union catalog of the technical litera- lems of aeronautical engineering classification, ture available in Mexico City. aeronautical engineering cataloging, and the ac- According to Mr. Campbell, the main prob- quisition of aeronautical engineering materials. lems facing the technical literature researcher Following this meeting, W. Kenneth Lowry and collector in Mexico City are (1) the high of the Air Research and Development Com- cost of technical books in Mexico City, (2) mand, together with Mr. Jackson, participated the scarcity of such items in the local public in detailed discussion of these problems at a libraries, and (3) the expense of cataloging conference of the Advisory Group for Aero- and maintaining the ever-expanding private nautical Research and Development. collection. As a solution to these problems. Mr. Camp- British Technical Libraries bell proposed that ASME members pool their K. J. Rider. librarian of the Birmingham resources by preparing a joint catalog, by Technical Library in Great Britain, is the making collections available to fellow mem- author of an article, "Library Service in In- bers, and by eliminating, where possible, the dustry", which appeared in The Engineer, purchase of duplicate material. February 13, 1953. A committee has been appointed to study The article reviews and evaluates existing the possibility of putting this proposal into library facilities and technical information effect. services available to industry in Great Britain. Chemical Bulletin Collection Ottawa Library Course The Library of The Cooper Union for the The Library School of the University of Advancement of Science and Art. New York Ottawa is offering its first one-year course City, is preparing a special collection of bul- leading to a certificate of studies or an A.B.L.S. letins issued by manufacturers of industrial degree. Detailed information may be ob- chemicals. When the collection is organized, tained by writing to the Director of the Li- the material will be made available for refer- brary School. ence to those interested in the development or improvement of products containing chemicals.

APRIL 1953 Adventure in an Airliner

the partition between the cabin and the cockpit. Mary Ireton is the former librarian at His feet protruded into the aisle. I heard no sound, the Environmental Health Center of the and if I had not glanced up when I did, I would U. S. Public Health Service, in Cincin- not have known what had happened. Two small nati, Ohio where she was an active holes could be seen near the lock of the door. member of SLA's Cincinnati Chapter. I half rose from my seat, but Carlos motioned In the fall of 1951, Miss Ireton left this me back. We knew that the purser was beyond position to work as librarian for the our help, and that something dreadful was taking U. S. Information Service, American place in the cockpit. Embassy, Manila. I glanced at the other passengers and it seemed This account of her extraordinary ex- that only we three had observed the tragedy. I perience was written by Miss Ireton for whispered to Carlos and Marshall that the man Parade, Sunday picture magazine, which wearing the leopard-cloth jacket was no longer in carried the story in its issue for Febru- the cabin! ary 8, 1953. Through courtesy of Parade, We sat staring dumbly at the closed door of the we give you Miss Ireton's story. cockpit. The plane turned left, and we noted with increasing horror that we were leaving Northern I am a librarian for the U. S. lnformation Service, Luzon and were flying out over the China Sea- American Embassy, Manila. In my months of flying toward Red China. back and forth over the Philippines I have become We recalled that the Philippine government had accustomed to many hardships, but never did I been rounding up Chinese communists. We sur- dream of the experience that ended my flying for mised that one or more Chinese communists were 1952. hijacking the plane to escape to Red China. In early December, Marshall Nunn arrived to Now we were really worried! assist in the supervision of the lnformation Centers, We had been flying over the China Sea for about and we made brief inspection visits to acquaint an hour when I noticed that the plane was turn- him with his new duties. ing around toward the Philippines. But the plane Our final trip to the lnformation Center, Laoag, straightened and again proceeded west. was completed on December 30, and Marshall and I soon noticed that the engine on my side of the I were returning to Manila for New Year"s Day plane was sputtering as if it were not receiving festivities. At the airport, at 10:15 am., we joined sufficient fuel. It was then that we started putting Carlos Barranda, an insurance adiuster, who had on life jackets. been a congenial fellow guest at the hotel. While About 2:30 p.m., we were flying over hilly farm- we were waiting on the porch of the airlines office, lands which we recognized as Chinese. The sputter- I noticed a young man in a leopard-cloth jacket ing of the left engine still alarmed us, but about speaking with one of the airport employees. this time we had another glimmer of hope. The We were in a iolly mood as we found our seats, signal to fasten seat belts was flashed on, and we Marshall and Carlos in the double seats by the right reasoned that someone was still interested in our emergency door and I in the single seat by the safety. left emergency door. I noticed the man in the Suddenly we were startled by obiects striking leopard-cloth iacket among the several passengers. the plane. Marshall and Carlos looked out and He was sitting alone in a front seat. saw two small planes following us. Bullets from As soon as we were aloft after a smooth take- their guns hit the right wing. Then I could hear off, I asked the purser to bring me the morning what I took to be anti-aircraft fire hitting the bot- paper. A few minutes after I had started to read, tom of the plane directly beneath my feet. I the slamming of the cockpit door blew the news- lifted my feet and even then was amused at my paper against my face. reaction. Carlos and Marshall excitedly exclaimed "The crew must be expecting rough weather," I that the planes bore the Chinese Nationalist in- thought, and resumed my reading. Suddenly, a signia. terrific lurch to the left brought blankets and Marshall waved his handkerchief to the fighter safety jackets tumbling down. pilots, whom he could see plainly. The wings of The purser paused at my seat and we asked, our plane wig-wagged, and Carlos said it was a "What on earth has happened?" "It must have distress signal from the person at the controls been a terrific downdraft," he replied. of the plane. I settled back again, straightened my paper, and I reached behind me and pulled the white seat as I glanced at it, my eye was caught by the cover from the back of my seat. Carlos grabbed purser, who was trying to force his way into the it and said, "Give me your lipstick!" While Carlos cockpit. He put his foot against the door to force was writing SOS-U.S.-P.I. on the seat cover, I it in, and then bent down to look through the key- reached over and pulled the seat cover off the hole. Then he stood straight up. Immediately, seat in front of Carlos. He wrote SOS-US. on it blood spurted from his head. He spun around and and handed it to Marshall. Carlos held the mes- fell face downward between the first seat and sage to the right window and Marshall held the

SPECIAL LIBRARIES other to the left. Soon we noticed that we were As soon as Felix Gaston, the co-pilot, could losing altitude. We looked out and could see only explain what had happened to the Ch~nese officers, fields and paddies. the young man in the leopard-cloth iacket was For what seemed hours, we waited for a crash. placed under guard. All of us were taken the Then we began to climb again. military police headquarters. We had now been flying for nearly six hours. After much coming and going of oficers, we Again, the Nationalist planes reioined us and we learned that Captain Pedro Perlas had been shot concluded that they were guiding us to a landing by the young man now under guard, when the field. Then the Chinese Nationalist flag! We soon captain refused :o obey the youth's written com- landed, taxied for several minutes and finally mand to fly to Amoy, Red China. The lurch of the stopped near a large plane bearing the letters plane that had frightened us was the Captain's last C.A.T. (Civil Air Transport). act to save his plane and protect his crew and We leaped from our seats and one of us opened passengers, for the youth fired two shots into his the door. A Chinese soldier met us and motioned back during the lurch. At gun point, Felix had for us to remain on the plane. The soldiers re- been forced to obey the youth who made him fly peated "Shanghai? Shanghai?" to which we gave to Red China. an emphatic "No!" By various signals, Felix had informed the pilots Then I glanced up and saw the co-pilot coming of the Nationalist planes that he was in distress up the aisle, followed by the young man in the and that he wanted them to take him in. Instead leopard-cloth iacket. I had not seen them enter of landing in Red China as the youth had planned, the cabin. In fact, for the moment I had forgotten we were escorted to Kinmen, an island still the danger behind the cockpit door. controlled by Free China only a few miles from Now we stood aside so that the two men could Amoy. The anti-aircraft fire had come from Com- go down from the plane. Soldiers and officers munist guns. were flocking from all directions. Later the pilots of the Nationalist planes came I lost sight of the leopard-cloth coat after we to greet us and to apologize for firing on our passengers were permitted to go down. Then, plane, but they had to fire to show that they meant with gestures, the guards assured us we were business. We welcomed the opportunity to express safe. We were almost aiddv-, with relief. our gratitude for their action in bringing us to Free China. SCHOLARSHIP FUND RECEIPTS That same night we fl

APRIL 1953 been established with a view to stimulating Mrs. Josephine G. Morton younger librarians in their studies. Memorial The competitors should draft their paper The medical librarians of the in either of the official languages used by the Washington, D. C. area have pre- Federation for its publications. sented a collection of some thirty- The article should be despatched anony- one volumes of medical works to mously. Each one should bear a symbol and the same symbol must be written on a sealed the Library of the Howard Uni- envelope containing the surname, Christian versity Medical School as a memo- names, date and place of birth, nationality and rial to the late Mrs. Josephine G. address of the author. Morton, Librarian of the School The size of the essay must comprise a from 1927 to 1952. Each volume minimum of fifty, maximum of one hundred contains a bookplate reading: typed pages. "Given in memory of Mrs. Jose- The International Library Committee takes phine G. Morton, Librarian, School the necessary measures for the composition of Medicine, Howard University, of the jury. 1927-1952, by her colleagues in The author of the winning article is at the medical libraries of the Wash- liberty to publish it with the mention of the ington area." award received but the text must conform to that submitted to the jury. New Editor Entries should be addressed not later than the 31st of December, 1954 to the Secretariat Tesse H. Shera. dean of the School of Li- of the International Federation of Library brary Science at Western Reserve University, Associations, c/o Library of the United Na- is the new editor of American Documentation, tions, Geneva. issued by the American Documentation In- The jury will determine the amount of the stitute. prize which will not be more than one thou- Dr. Shera is an active member in SLA and sand francs. In certain circumstances it may in other professional library organizations, and be divided ex aequo - five hundred francs has written extensively for professional jour- each. nals and for publications in the fields of librarianship and American history. Archivists to Meet The seventeenth annual meeting of the So- Sevensma Prize for 1955 ciety of American Archivists will be held at The Fourth Sevensma Prize will be awarded Ford Motor Company Archives in Dearborn, in 1955 by the International Federation of Michigan, September 1953. Col. William D. Library Associations to the winning essay sub- McCain is president of the Society. mitted on the structure and organization of a Meetings will be conducted at Fair Lane, union catalog in relation to its utilization. the late Henry Ford's home which now houses The essay must analyze, for a given period, the Ford Archives. Mr. Henry E. Edmunds the kind of requests received by one or more is the Ford archivist. regional or national union catalogues in relation to the character of the libraries included SLA Members in Print and that of the users, e.g., the proportion of new and old works, of books and of periodicals, The library of the Studebaker Corporation, and of books and periodicals in the different South Bend, Indiana, was described in an branches of science, etc. article appearing in the New York Herald Tribune, February 22, 1953. The essay can comprise the whole problem or be limited to a special aspect, e.g., peri- Mrs. Geraldine Walter, an SLA member, odicals. is in charge of the Studebaker library which The author must draw conclusions as to the was first organized in 1909. The collection in- best structure (classification, division, etc. ) cludes technical and legal information, archival and the organization (quality of the personnel, material, and also recreational reading. bibliographical equipment, relations with the A review of Elizabeth Ferguson's talk be- participating libraries) of the catalogues stud- fore SLA's Milwaukee Chapter was published ied, or of union catalogues in general. in the Milwaukee Journal, February 9, 1953. The competition is open to any member of The article, "Business Library Interest Char- an association affiliated with the Federation tered," noted the intensive service offered to who has not yet reached the age of forty on business and industry by the special library the date of entry, December 31, 1954. This and gave a brief description of Special Libra- age limit has been fixed because the prize has ries Association.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES CALENDAR APRIL 7-10 Catholic Library Association. Co- lumbus, Ohio. Annual Conference. APRIL 16 Connecticut Valley Chapter. Spring- field. APRIL 25 Illinois Chapter. Special library It would be interesting to note which tour. Chicago. of the many services offered by SLA APRIL 27 Headquarters would take first place on Boston Chapter. Worcester. the list of the average member. The APRIL 28 -MAY 1 placement service would probaby oc- The Library Association. Llan- dudno, Wales. Annual Conference. cupy a very prominent position on such MAY 1 a list as it is the one service which most Philadelphia Council. members wish to use at one time or an- MAY 5 other, either when seeking a new posi- New Jersey Chapter. Fort Dix. tion or when looking for applicants for MAY 6 vacancies in their libraries. Although the Connecticut Valley Chapter. Hart- only paid staff to carry on this service ford. must also attend to numerous other MAY 13 Aslib. Annual General Meeting. duties, it is possible, through the excel- MAY 15 lent cooperation of chapter employment Philadelphia Council. Science-Tech- chairmen, to bring together candidates nology Group. and employers for the benefit of all MAY 19 concerned. Philadelphia Council. Social Sci- ence Group. Until 1941, SLA's placement service JUNE 16-19 was maintained by a volunteer commit- Medical Library Association. Salt tee and the records housed in the library Lake City, Utah. Annual Meeting. of the chairman. At that time, because of JUNE 22-25 Special Libraries Association. To- the increase in interviewing and corre- ronto, Canada. Annual Convention. spondence, it was decided to turn the JUNE 21-27 work over to the Executive Secretary at American Library Association. Los Headquarters. Some 450 positions are Angeles, Calif. Annual Conference. listed annually, either in the twenty-four JULY 6-24 chapters away from the metropolitan Western Reserve University, School of Library Science. Workshop for area or at Headquarters, and about forty Library Administrators. Cleveland, per cent of these are filled through SLA. Ohio. The service is free to Student, Active and AUGUST 17-22 Institutional members and to all em- University of Chicago Graduate Li- ployers. It has resulted in attracting many brary School. Annual Conference. fine recent library school graduates to special librarianship and more and more students are using the service. It also has helped to make employers aware of the best source of candidates for library I ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN positions and has resulted in new Insti- Young woman interested in library work tutional memberships. needed by large midwest pharmaceutical firm. Must have B.S. in chemistry or in biological science with strong minor in In order that the chapter employment chemistry. Training or experience in library science desirable but not essential. chairmen may discuss mutual problems, Send resume to a meeting has been scheduled for June 23rd at the Toronto convention. All in- A. C. Moore, Assistant Manager terested members are invited to attend. Parke, Davis & Company As in former years, the placement serv- Research Laboratories ice will function during the convention, Detroit 32, Michigan on June 22, 23 and 24.

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University Microfilm copies of periodicals solve this wasteful problem. They cost less than binding - and save up to 94% storage space costs. They are easier to file, locate, and handle. They produce a clear, sharp image, and are practically permanent.

The U. M. Plan of periodical storage saves your library money - saves your staff time and work - releases shelf space for volumes in greater demand. Write for details, including list of 800 titles available.

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