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Contents ARTICLES Around the World With the Insurance Year Books. By Abbie G. Glover ...... -...... 157 C;lsualty Inwranc=. By Jesse S. Phillips...... 1 4 1 'T'hI,l&at;onal -Ji;o:!c of the Casualty Actuarial Society. R! Pi~!nrdFmdiller ...... 1 43 Iosuiairce J~l)m:~es;n the United States ...... 15 1 The Literature of Fire Insurance. By D. N. Handy...... 146 The Place in Insurance Business of Organized Insurance Libraries. By Frederick Richardson ...... 145 The Public Service of Fire Insurance. By W. E. . Mallalieu ...... 139 NOTES Baking Library ...... 1 69 City Planning ...... 158 Convention News-Transportation ...... 1 7 1 Convention Notice ...... 1 68 Cover Design ...... 175 Information. . Bureaux and Specialist Libraries in Great . Brltain ...... 156 The Library and Research ...... 1 59. 1 69 Personal Notice ...... 159 159 Publishing Annual. .of Interest ...... Report of Nominat~ngCommittee ...... 156 Secretary of Labor's Report ...... 1 44 Section on Cataloging and Classification ...... 144 Special Libraries Notice ...... 1 68 DEPARTMENTS EDITORIALS Associations ...... 1 72 Swampscott . Conference... 1 60 Events and Publications ... 1 70 Foreign Field ...... ?...... 1 69 CONVENTION Personal Notes ...... 175 Annual Convention ...... 161 World of Business Print... 1 66 Croups ...... 1 65

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Surered rn asand alala matter December 17. 1923 at the Port OElce. Sen Yort. S.P., under lha act of bf~rchS, 11119 AmeDIpas tor maPlna at ~~eclalraze of Doatage provided for In section 1108. Aat of, October 8. 1817. authorW Uaemher 14. 1OPa *slew 14.00 a year, Forelun $4.50; slnulc copies 50 cent# Special Libraries Vol. 16 May, 1925 No. 5 THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF FIRE INSURANCE By W. E. Mallalieu, General Manager, The National Board of Fire Underwriters N a leaflet recently issued by The Na- abandon the attempt to control rates and I tional Roard of Fire Underwriters ap- about ten years later all supervision over pears this statement: "Fire insurance is agent's commissions was relinquished. the 'backlog of business,' 'the balance- Thus the Board passed completely out of wheel' of commerce; it promotes thrift, the field of jurisdiction over such tech- safeguards industry, and protects cred- nical insurance matters, and since then its." That is the economic function of has grown notably as an institution of a fire insurance-principally stock fire in- public service character, its work bene- surance, for it furnishes cover for risks fiting the public as well as the companies of all kinds, anywhere-but these same which compose its membership. stock fire insurance organizations play an During the Great War, and for several additional part in serving the public, as months following the conclusion of the will be demonstrated. armistice, the National Board rendered It was realized some time ago that al- invaluable service to the Federal govern- though fire insurance profited by the ment in a number of departments, partic- ever-present likelihood of burning, the in- ularly in safeguarding cantonments, navy cineration of material wealth had reached yards, hospital bases, food depots and such proportions that it threatened eco- numerous other gears in the war ma- nomic disaster and that the business chine. The organization of the draft owed it to society to modify such a con- army necessitated the hasty erection of dition as far as it could possibly do so. large camps and depots at various points Therefore, by concerted movement they and because of the dire need for speed authorized The National Board of Fire the required structures had to be made Underwriters to formulate a campaign of wood and they presented a conflagra- along engineering and educational lines tion hazard of the first magnitude. that has developed steadily in scope and The services of most of the engineers intensity during recent years. of the Board of the regional organiza- Since the National Board was organ- tions of the fire insurance companies ized in 1866 to save the business ol fire were donated to worlc out plans for pro- underwriting from disruption due to the tecting these wooden cities from fire, and demoralization following the Civil War, they were highly successful. During the the organization has developed in a good period of occupancy, the per capita fire many directions unforeseen when it was loss of the cantonments averaged about created nearly sixty years ago. It first one-fifth of that cxperienced in civilian had undertaken to be the controlling cities. factor in fixing both rates and commis- Since the war, the Doard has resumed sions, and thus started out to be a fire energeticaly the interruptecl work of insurance trust; it was, in fact, the first making city surveys, the number of great American trust, antedating by some municipalities that have had their fire twenty years the period of combination hazard symptoms carefully diagnosed and centralization in indu'stry and now approximating three hundred and finance. forty. These surveys are made without The effort was disastrous, however, cost to the cities visited and cover all the and in 1876 it was definitely decided to known features of fire hazard, particu- SPECIAL LIBRARIES

larly those that affect the probability of preme importance when a conflagration- conflagration. Among the matters ridden city calls upon a neighboring checked are those relating to general community for assistance. structural conditions, fire department The Committee on. Construction of operation and equipment, water supply Buildings operates along slightly differ- and its distribution, regulations concern- ent lines, concentrating upon structural ing building and the operation of hazard- features and promoting the use of a ous occupancies, wind velocities and top- standard building code. The latter de- ographical conditions. partment keeps in touch with progress in The engineers customarily work in the manufacture and use of fire-resistive crews of four, each man being a spe- materials as well as new methods, and cialist in his line; they make a thorough is considered the chief national force for inspection and require about a month to safer construction. It might be said that survey a city of one hundred thousand the operations of these two committees population. There can be no question have been at the foundation of a large regarding the value of this scientific part of the improvement in municipal service to the different communities, par- conditions as regards fire hazards. ticularly when it is recognized that the The Board's Actuarial Bureau Com- engineers' constructive suggestions for mittee analyzes and tabulates the major improvement make for the greater safety portion of the fire losses of the United of life and property. States and has become the national cen- In lessening the likelihood of great, ter of such statistics. Its records show sweeping fires that devastate large areas, just what hazards are causing the great- the fire insurance engineers render a est toll of destruction by firc and also service that cannot well be measured, for the extent to which different occupan- every serious conflagration creates suf- cies are suffering, thus making available fering and financial loss far in excess of definite knowledge concerning the dan- the insurance involved. gers which the public should particularly Following the San Francisco catas- avoid in order to reduce its burden of fire trophe, to cite a major example, the in- waste. demnity payments amounted to some The Committee on Public Relations $220,000,000, whereas the aggregate toll takes this statistical data, as well as the .of destruction approximated $350,000,- information gathered by the other com- 000. mittees, and utilizes it in an educational The ever-present thought of the fire way. Its activities embrace the various prevention engineer is to enhance the forms of "printers' ink" and it also uses safety of life by bringing about the in- motion pictures for purposes of combined stallation of sprinklers, cut-offs, ade- entertainment and instruction. It gives quate exit facilities, better fire depart- particular attention to educating the ment operation and increased water sup- school children, by means of a nation- ply, so that in the event of fire the occu- ally used manual upon fire prevention, pants of a building will have a better and its efforts should have a material chance to escape death or serious injury. bearing upon the future burning ratio. Our Committee on Arson and Jncen. The National Board's activities are diarism has becomp increasingly success- carried on through various standing com- ful in reducing the number of fires re- mittees, and practically all are working sulting from attempts at "burning to de- to raise the factor of public safety and fraud" and other forms of incendiarism. to prevent fires in property of all kinds, Its activities also tend to enhance the whether insured or uninsured. safety of the public since loss of life is The surveys mentioned, for instance, often caused by the despicable criminal are made by the staff of the Committee who starts a fire in an effort to "burn on Fire Prevention and Engineering for profit." It might be added that sup- Standards which committee has also pro- pressing illegal fires tends to reduce the moted successfully the standardization of cost of insurance protection to the public. hose-thread couplings, a matter of su- (Concluded on page 174) Mayl 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES CASUALTY INSURANCE A Concise Description of Its Scope and Function By Hon. Jesse S. Phillips, General Manager and Counsel, National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Under~rit~rs CIENCE AND INVENTION, Burglary, Robbery and Theft Insur- S ioupled with education, steadily ance. Burglary Insurance insures against tend to reduce the number of adversi- loss of property occasioned by felonious ties. Death is inevitable, though science entrance into the insured premises by has done its part to lengthen the period force and violence. of life. In the field of fire, marine and Robbery Insurance insures against loss casualty insurance, invention and science of property which is taken from its cus- have been similarly effective. There is todian by violence or by putting the cus- a limit, however, to prevention: Certain todian in fear of bodily injury. misfortunes cannot be eliminated. Theft Insurance insures against theft Casualty insurance has grown to its of property by dishonest servants, deliv- present important position because of the ery men, mechanics, etc., who have un- impossibility of entirely eliminating cer- restricted access to the property, and who tain of these adversities from our daily feloniously appropriate such property to existence. The adversities commonly in- their own use without the consent of the sured against in the casualty insurance owner. field are covered under various forms of Plate Glass Insurance. Plate Glass insurance policies, as follows : Insurance insures against all damage to Workmen's Compensation Insurance plate glass caused by accidental break- and Employers' Liability Insurance. age. Workmen's Compensation Insurance and Steam Boiler, Engine, Flywheel, Ma- Employers' Liability Insurance insure chinery and Electrical Equipment Insur- against loss caused by reason of the ancs. Steam Boiler, Engine, Flywheel, legal liability of the employer in case Machinery and Electrical Equipment In- of industrial injuries which arise out of, surance affords insurance against loss and occur during employment. (caused by explosion, rupture or crack- Automobile Public Liability, Property ing of any object insured) by reason of Damage, and Collision Insurance. Auto- damage to any property, and by reason mobile Public Liability Insurance insures of assured's liability on account of death against losses by reason of injuries or injury of any person not employed (caused by automobiles) to persons. by the assured. Automobile Property Damage Insur- In states where no workmen's compen- ance insures against losses by reason of sation laws are in effect, this form of damage (caused by automobiles) to prop- policy may include coverage in case an erty. employee of the assured is killed or in- Automobile Collision Insurance in- jured. sures against losses caused by damage to In case of loss of production due to the insured automobile. the failure of a boiler, engine, flywheel, Miscellaneous Public Liability, Prop- piece of machinery, or electrical equip- erty Damage, and Collision Insurance. ment, there is a special form of insurance Protects against all forms of public lia- provided called "use and occupancy in- bility, property damage and collision surance." losses, arising out of causes other than Personal Accident and Health Insur- the maintenance, use and operation of ance. Personal Accident and Health In- automobiles. surance guarantees specified payments to Sprinkler Leakage and Water Damage the insured in case of disability caused Insurance. Protects against loss through by an accident, or in case of lost time damage by water or leakage arising out and money through sickness. of the use of fire sprinkler systems and None of these forms of casualty in- from other causes. surance is of an age comparable with 14' SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1925 marine, fire and life insurance. Marine contribution to business and industry. insurance dates back to the marine loans The capital, surplus and other assets of the Ancient Greeks, while life and which they are required to maintain as fire insurance are three hundred and fifty security for the payment of losses, for and two hundred and fifty years old, re- unearned premiums, and for the fulfil- spectively. The oldest form of casualty ment of other insurance obligations, are insurance is personal accident and health carefully invested. These vast funds are insurance which is approximately one constantly used for the establishinent of hundred years old. Plate glass insur- business credit, and for the encourage- ance and boiler insurance have been ment of industry. The stock casualty written for about seventy and sixty companies operating in the state of New years, respectively. York at the close of 1923 had invested However, in spite of the short period in stocks and bonds of various legitimate of time during which casualty insurance business enterprises throughout the coun- has existed, there has been a rapid and try, and in municipal and government progressive increase in the business. In bonds nearly $450,000,000. The invcst- the past ten years there has been a ments of all classes of insurance com- premium volume increase of 370 per panies in this country employed in the cent. In 1913 the casualty insurance various channels of trade, and for the ad- premiums of the stock companies ministrative affairs of government, will amounted approximately to $108,785,319. equal nearly $11,000,000,000. This is a These premiums increased in 1923 to service too often overlooked, in which $401,377,354, which is nearly four times insurance carriers and their policyholders as great as the premiums of 1913. To- are engaged for the benefit of the public. day, the volume of premiums has prob- Legal service, which is provided in the ably reached $500,000,000, and this is not majority of casualty insurance policies, the limit of accomplishment for in some is a feature which often is not consid- departments of the business, the surface ered by the public. The annoyance and only has been scratched. uncertainty of litigation is greatly re- While the increase in premium volume duced by the legal aid provided under is large when the writings in all Iines the terms of casualty insurance policies. are considered, it is difficult to compre- In addition, every casualty insurance hend the increases which have been made company maintains an active departnlent in certain departments of the business. which takes prompt and efficient care of Owing to changes in legal conditions, the settlement of all claims covered by and in methods of compiling experience, policies. This further reduces the bur- it is impossible to trace accurately the den which would ordinarily fall upon the growth of workmen's compensation and shoulders of the assured. automobile insurance. It may be stated, Casualty insurance has also contrib- however, that whereas during 1913 stock uted to the public welfare in the field of companies wrote approximately $53,000,- prevention. It has always sought in 000 in workmen's compensation and lia- every practicable and reasonable manner bility premiums, including automobile to prevent the occurrence of the very premiums, they wrote approximately misfortunes for which irideinnity is fur- $230,000,000 in premiums for these same nished, thus not only fostering and en- lines during the calendar year 1923. The couraging prevention but also minirniz- total automobile premiums of the stock ing hazards, and reducing the cost of casualty conlpanies alone for 1923 ex- insurance to policyholders. In this man- ceeded $125,000,000. The increase in ner casualty insurance has gone to the premium volume for this period was not root of the proposition; it has not only less than 200 per cent for any br~mch offered business and industry safety and of the business. security against the effects of misfortune, The average person usually regards but at the same time it has attacked the the payment of losses by insurance con+ causes of these misfortunes, eliminating panics as their only purpose. Important some and rendering others less prolific as this function is, it is not their only in the production of those occurrences May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 143 which underlie the various forms of pro- Engineering Standards Committee, the tection embraced in this branch of the Underwriters' Laboratories, the National insurance business. Safety Council, and the National Council This has been accomplished in several on Strect and Highway Safety, all of ways. The companies, through their which are striving to reduce hazards in trained inspectors and engineers, have business and industry. made hundreds of thousands of inspec- Casualty insurance has become a nec- tions, and have instructed their policy- essary part of the insurance system of holders in methods designed to remove or the world. Within a comparatively short modify hazards which have been dis- time, through its protection against losses covered in this process. Every year mil- not covered by the older forms of insur- lions of dollars are spent for inspections ance, and through its legal, claim and ac- alone. The companies have also sup- cident prevention service, it has been ported, and have been active in the work recognized as a necessity to business and of sucl~organizations as the American industry. THE EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE CASUALTY ACTUARIAL SOCIETY By Richard Fondiller, Secretary-Treasurer JOR to the organization of the Cas- tary-Treasurer (75 Fulton Street, New ualty Actuarial Society in 1914, coin- York City). parativelyP" little technical stucly was given The society has two grades of mem- to the actuarial and underwriting pl-ob- bership, Associate and Fellow ; candi- lems of most of the branches of casualty dates are required to first pass the asso- insurance. The object of the society is ciateship examinations before being ad- the promotion of actuarial ancl statistical mitted to take the fellowship exainina- science as applied to the problems of cas- tions. The examinations are four in ualty and social insurance by incans of number, two each for both Associate ancl personal intercourse, the pl-escnlatton Fellow. Examinations have been held an- and discussion of appropriate papers, the nually since 1915, in May of each year. collection of a library and such other It generally requires two or three years means as may bc found desirable. With study for a candidate to become a Fel- the founclc?,tion of this organization an low by examination, and thereupon he is impetus was givcn to educatioaal work granted the diploma of the society. The in casualty actuarial science by the ap- society has a total rnclllbership of two pointmcnt of an Educational Corninittee hundred and forty-SIX, comprising one to formulate a syllabus ancl secoinmel~da- hundred and fifty-nine Fellows and tions for stucly for students desiring to eighty-scven Associates. The subjects b~coinemembers of the society by ex- included in the syllabus for both grades aniination. The yoting men and women of membership are (1) elementary alge- einployed in the offices of casualty in- bra, doublc entry boolclteeping, elenlents surance colnpanies require some guide as of statistics; (2) elements of the theory to the course of study and the best text of probabilities, policy forms and under- books for the various topics in the ex- writing practice, practical problems in aminations, and for this purpose the statistics, practical problenls in insurance Educational Coinmittec has issucd the accounting; (3) advanced algebra, clif- "Recoininendations for Study." These fcl-entlal and integral calculus and cal- recomn~endationsare now in their third culus of finite differences, critical analy- edition by reason of amendments to the sis of statistics, theory of life contin- syllaLus and the publication of new text gencies, economic theory of insurance ; books, the last edition having been issued (4) advanced problems in statistics, cal- in 1924. This pamphlet may be obtained culation of premiums and reserves, ad- without charge upon request to the Secrc- vanced problems in insurance accounting, 144 SPECIAL LIBRARIES underwriting problems in casualty insur- The examination questions are set by ance. the Exainination Committee which has The society has purcllasecl sets of the no connection with thc Educational Com- various text books suggested for study, mittee. The Examination Committee is in New York and Hartford, which are not governed by the Recornn~enclations loaned to students pl-eparing for the ex- of the Educational Committee and the aminations. This avoids the necessity of questions need only keep within the syl- any student malting a large outlay for labus laid down by the governing board, books, some of which are expensive or the Council of the Society. The Secre- are reference books only. tary-Treasurer assigns numbers to the Under the leadership of Edwin W. candidates, who are thus unlrnown to the Kopf, the chairman of the Educational Examination Committee. Con~mittee,the "1924 Recommendations The society twice a year issues a pub- for Study" were issued and the commit- lication entitled the Proceedings, which tee has assumed the supervision of three contain the various papers presented at volumes which are in preparation and the May and November meetings of the which will probably be completed in 1926 society. There have been twenty-two and 1927. These volumes will be en- nutnbers of the Procerdings published. titled "Casualty Insurance Law,"= in- They are contained in ten bound volumes cluding law and its adtninistration and and contain one hundred and forty-one commercial law, "Statistics"l and "Cas- original papers dealing with the scientific ualty Insurance Accounting."l These aspects of the various casualty lines. texts will be unique in that they are being Many of these papers are like text-book prepared not for the laymail but for presentations, which have been written actuaries, accountants, statisticians, and by members of the society who are spe- administrators in the insurance business cialists in their respective lines, for the who need to know enough about these benefit of students. The society also subjects to discuss them intelligently publishes annually a Year Boolz, which contains the list of members, examina- with the technicians of their companies. tion papers, and infornlation relative to The volumes are also intended to be of the examination requirements. This pub- material assistance to students preparing lication may be obtained without charge for the examinations of the society. upon request.

Secretary of Labor's Report its periodical collcctiot~ which has been The annual rcport of the Secretary of La- largely augmented by numerous foreign bor for the year 1924 calls special attention journals rcceived on exchange. Current issues to the department's library, maintained as a total two hundred thousand from forty-five division in the office of the secretary. different countries. Special attention is called to the classification and annotated bibliography "The dcpa~tmentlibrary" Sccrctary Davis on the literature relating to ch~lcllabor and states, "rises to the importance of a bureau minors' industry, 1916-1924, which is now ap- In the magnitude of its operations and the pearing in a series of bulletins prepared by importance of the service performed." He the Children's Bureau. adds, "The department hbrary is perhaps the most important arid extensive collection of literature dealing with industrial relations in Section on Cataloging and the world." Classification The detailed report of the library states that the collection now consists of one hundred Plans are under way for a session Friday thousand books and pamphlets, a unique col- afternoon, June 26, 1925, under the direction lection covering the whole field of social wel- of the Committee on Methods, devoted to fare. The library places special emphasis on problems of cataloging and classification.

' BY William Brosmith, Byroti Clayton, E. W. assistance of Advlsory Committees. Kopf, M. S. Applegate and R. S. Hull with the May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I45 THE PLACE IN THE INSURANCE BUSINESS OF ORGANIZED INSURANCE LIBRARIES By Frederick Richardson, United States Manager, General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd. 'HOSE of us who have a taste for entire field of its direct operations is cov- literature as an art may be disposed ered by textbooks, records and studies to thinlc that public libraries exist mainly of various Itinds. So exhaustive has this for the purpose of encouraging a taste literature become that no single individ- for reading. The writer having been per- ual or company could maintain an ade- mitted to be a borrower of books at the quate library, especially as there are col- early age of eight, on condition that he late~-a1lines of research straying into the washer1 his hands at the nearest pump, domains of vital statistics, chemistry, en- has wandered long enough in the realm gineering and other branches of science of the printed word to know that bad that have a dlrect bearing upon the oper- books from the conventional standpoint ations of the business. It can truthfully may sometilncs be good literature, where- be said that insurance touches almost as higldy moral works may die of their every activity and, therefore, every own dullness! I-Ie realizes that in per- purely mundane science may have its sonal reading everything is determined bearing upon the technical side of insur- by interests and tastes and for that rea- ance cnterprise. It would be in~eresting son alone the cultivated reader will form to see how far Mr. Handy's famous li- his own library where and whenever he brary in Boston has made excursions can. He perceives that certain books lie into these selated fields. It can certainly must have as the tools and weapons of not be denied that in future the difficulty his personality and his professioa, and will be to know where to stop if the aim lo try to get along without them would is to secure a complcte collection of be a supreme inconvenier~ce, and this worlcs and records dealing with every quite apart from the special requil-ements collateral phase of the business. of an expert. A Philadelphia judge has There can be no doubt whatever that just conlpleted a translation of the work technical, insurance libraries will be of in clog Latin that Browning found on a growing importance. It would certainly book stall in Florence and out of which not bc economical to have inore than one he evolvcd "The Ring and the Book." in any large center ; therefore, co-opera- TOdo so t11c translator acquired a special tive effort seems to be essential. NO library of more than one thousand vol- single company would desire to inaintain umes. Scliolarship means nothing less a reasonably complete library to which than this, that the records, such as they any student 01- investigator could have may be, nlust be cshaustecl, and the evi- access. Moreover it is much to be clencc and all that goes to elucidate the doubted whether every insurance library evidence must be gathered together for in the country should aim to be exhaus- the ptrpse of attacking any one problem tive. There is undoubtedly a place for or series of problems. ;I premier insurance ltbrary wl~lchcould Tlic insurance business is not a very receive national as well as local support, old one in its modern application al- where works of less cotnmon use could though ancient Greek mariners had an be shelved so that they may be avail- elabaratc cock in which there was some al~lefor the uncoinmon investigator. It form of co-operative indemnity. The lit- ~vouldbe stupid to suppose that because terature of the business is in the main there is a large number of books to which a matter ol comparatively recent history reference IS seldom made there is no use and no worlcs on the subjcct of any im- for an inclusive collection. The ~OCU- portance have been lost so far as we can nlentation of the insurance business js tell. The literature of insurance has soinething of vital importance to every- grown rapidly of late and from present one connected with it. At one time or appearance it will not be long before the another, whethcr we are actively em- 146 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1915

ployed in insurance or not, we are all tion in the education of students quite bound to come into contact with it. In- apart from its primary object of meet- surance libraries do not exist, therefore, ing demands for information that need to for insurance men only but for investi- be met from time to time. The library gators in every walk of life. Insurance is the inalterable sign of civilization. companies feel a strong need to maintain Knowledge and technique are helpless contact with the documentation of the business but have no facilities for any- without it, for these things are built up thing but a partial maintenance of on themselves in much the same way as printed records. The solution of the dif- the coral insects form the reef that may ficulty is the local insurance library ultimately rise above the sea to catch new coupled with a national library the first and incalculable sources of growth. and of which will perform a valuable func- power.

THE LITERATURE OF FIRE INSURANCE Some Notes for Study of Its Sources and Importance By D. N. Handy, Librarian, The Insurance Library Association of Boston HE field of fire insurance is covered by a protection. 7th ed. Van Nostrand, New fairly extensive lilerature. In recent York. 1924. To serve as a basis of edu- yearsT scholarly contributions to its theory cation in fire reve en ti on and protection. and practice have been matte hy Professors Cyclopedia of Fire Prevention and Insur- ance. 4v. American School of Corre- Riegel, Huebner, Gephart, Zartman and others. spondencc, Chicago. 1912. General ref- Mr. Hardy of the New York Fire Insurance erence work on fire and fire losses, con- Exchange has brought to light much interest- struction, hazards, policy, eic. ing historical matter. Many men active in Dominge, Charles C, and Lincoln, Walter 0. the business have contrlbutcd manuals and Fire insurancc inspection and underwrit- treatises of great practical worth. In the ing. gd ed. Spectator. New York, rgz3. An encycloped~ahandbook defining insur- historical field Walford, Relton, and Fowler ance terms, the policy contract, special still continue the sources of our most abun- forms and describing processes and haz- dant information. Curiously, although fire in- ards of manufacturing. surance underlies much of the credit system Dunham, Howard P ed. and comp. The of the modern worId, touches allnost every business of insurance; a text book and relationship of life, and undoubtedly is a con- reference book covering all lines of in- surance, designed to give a practical work- tributing factor of almost immeasurable ing knowledge of the subject. 3v. Ronald importance to initiative, no scholar has yet Press New York. 1912 found the oppoltunity or the inclination to Freitag, Joseph Icendall. Fire prevcntion give us the much needed inquiry into its es- and fire protection as applied to building sential ccoilomic and social significance. We construction. 3d cd, rev. Wiley. New have had scholarly treatises on capital, labor, York. 1921 managcmcnt, but none which adequately as- Gephart, W. F. Principles of insurance. Life and Fire. General discussions. av. signs to fire insurance its proper place in mod- Macmlllan. New York. 1911 ern life. That insurancc will gain enormously Hoffman, Frederick L. Insurance science in public esteem if and whcn this contribu- and cconomics. Spectator Co. New York. tion is made, no thoughtful person will ques- 1911. tion. Insurance Society of New York. The fire Among the more important works on gen- insurance contract; its history and inter- eral theory and practice of insurance the pretation. Indianapolis, Rough Notes, 1922. Compilation of lectuces giving a following may be listed: clear interpretation of the debatable fea- Barbour, Robert P. Thc agents' key to fire tures of the policy contract. Insurance. Spectator Co. New York. 1922. Riegel, Robert and Loman, H. J. Insurance gd ed. Giving aqents, brokers and field principles and practices. Prentice Hal!, men information on the essentials of the New York. 1921. Explains economic business and a collection of modern policy services and business uses, fundamentals forms. and organization of insurance. Firc, life, Crosby, Everett U., Fiske, Henry A., and compensation, marine and title insurance. Forster, H. Walter. Handbook of fire Sample policies and forms. May, 19~5 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I47

Weekly Undcrwriter. Live articles on so iar as applicable, rights, remedies, Special Hazards, 15v. Underwriter Print- pleading, practice and cvidence. 1st ed. ing 8r Publishing Co. New York. A series 4v. Bancroft-Whitney San Francisco. of articles reprinted from the monthly fire 1897. lzd ed. 5v. Lawyers Coop. Pub. Co. insurance supplement of The Weekly Rochester. 1917. Underwriter. Richards, George. A treatise on the law Willet. Allan H. The economlc heory of of insurance in aIl its branches with an risk ' and Insurance. Columbia Universi- appendix of statutes affecting the contract ty Press. New York. 1901. and a collection of forms 3d ed. Banks Yalc Readings in Insurance. Ed. by Zart- Law Pub. Co. New York. 1911. man and Price. zv, Yalc University Press. New Haven. 1914. Rev. ed. I?&, ma- Docu~rlcntarySowces. In Great Britain the rine, life. Selections from insurance lit- national government has interposed itself erature, lectures, etc.. which will inter- very little between the insurer and the as- pret best the prhciples. sured An early law defining gambling and Jurisprudence. Fire Insurance is not a liti- more rccent acts lodging certain powers with gious business. Reports to the National the Board of Trade to which all insurance Board of Fire Underwriters show that during offices in Grcat Britain now report comprise the nine years ending in June, 1924 more than practically all English legislation supervising 3,150,000 claims for fire losses were paid by or conlrolling insurance. the companies rcporling to the Actuarial In the lhitcd States, however, governmental Bureau. There are no figures to show how supervision and control have been constant many claims were paid during the same period and itlcreasing over a long period of years. by the insurers whose losses were unreported. In Pad us. Virginia, a case classical in insur- Yet during this time but fifteen hundred fire ance annals it was decided that corpora- insurancc cases were tried in all the Federal tions are not citizens and that insurance is and state courts of the United States. This not commerce. As a result the individual means, roughly speakmg, that but one loss states were confirmed in their right of was brought into the courts for every twenly- insurance supervision and control, and the two hundred settled without question. Nor national government in practice was estopped would it be true to say that all or nearly all from inlcrfering in insurance matters within these represented disputed claims. For fire and bclwecn the states. Thc consequence has insurance likc every growing business involves becn tlic tleveloprncnt in each slate of the innumerable complications which only the Union oi an elaborate code of stalutory pro- courts can dissolve. It is literally true that visions having to do with insurance and its tens of thousands of polic~esare issued and operations. The labor of enforcing this settled amxably to one which involves its code has become so onerous that in holder in legal contentions. most states an insurance department has been Nevertheless, fire insurance begins with a crcated having a1 its head an official called contract and all its subsequent relationships tlic Superintcrldent of Insurance or Insur- are closely Interwoven with legal principles and ance Commissio~~er. The incorporation their application. The literature of fire in- of compallics within thc slatc, the admission surance jurisprudence, therefore, is consider- to the slate of companies incorporated with- able. Among its principal texts are the fol- out, and all foreign companies are under close lowing : statc supervision. Thc form of policy is Cooley, Roger W. Br~efson the law of in- provided by statute. The kinds or business surance. 5v. West Pub. Co. St. Paul. 1905. that can be writtcn and the manner of doing Supp zv. Coolcy & Vold. 1919. Fur- nishes briefs on every phase of the insur- business are carefully prescribed. Reports ance contract covering in the grcatest detail all operations Insurance Law Journal. Monthly journal of thc company must be filed. Agents and riving- - the full text of everv insurance de- I~rokers arc specifically defined and licensed cision in every court of -last resort in by the state. In recent years supervision has U.S. 64v. Insurance Law Journal. New York. 1871-date. Index of cases in each been extended to the rates of premiums volume with topical index. charged and it1 some statcs the mechanism for Insurance Digest. Annual digest embracing rate making is set up by the statc itself. All all decisions in any manner affecting in- surance companies or their contract. Ed. this exte~~sivcmachinery as may be stlpposed by John A. Finch. Since 1899 by Guilford has not Iunctioned without producing as a by- A De~tch.35v Rough Notes Co. Ind~an- product a vast amount of information relat- apolis. 1888-date. ing to insurance. Somc of the more important Joyce, Joseph A. A treatise on marine, fire, -- life, accident and all other insurances, and, sources of insurance informatiotl growing out 148 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1925 of state supervision and control are the fol- Proceedings of the National Convention of Iowit1g : Insurance Commissioners. Published since 1871 contain a vast amount of infor- Annual Reports of Insurance Commission- mation concering the development of state ers. These contain principally statistical supervision and the problems which it matter relating to the companies, and has presented. The secretary of this statistical tables showing aggregate results association for many years has been Col. of insurance business done by companies Joseph Button, Richmond, Virginia. admitted to the state. The reports of the insurance departments of New York Fires arzd Fire Losscs. The chief source of State and Massachusetts are particularly information on fires and fire losses in the valuable. They have, over a period of United States is the National Board of Fire many years, particularly in the Commis- sioners' Introduction, contributed sub- Underwriters, 76 William Street, New York stantially to the discussion of insurance Clty. The Board maintains an Actuarial problems. Bureau to which the leading stock and mutual Barnes' Condensed Reports of the State companies of the country report their losses. of New York. Cover in five volumes .a Since 1915 when the Actuarial Bureau was es- mass of data concerning insurance ~n New York State dur~ngthe early years tablished more than seven million loss reports of its existence. have been received and more than 3,150,~ Codified Insurance Laws. From time to loss claims filed. Much valuable information time each state issues corrected copies concerning the extent, nature, and cost of fire of the codified Insurance laws. The cur- losses derived from this vast mass of figures relit issues give the insurance requirements of the state. Sets of the cod~fied laws is distributed through the press and through give a reasonably complete documentary the National Board's monthly publication en- record of the devclopmenl of insurance titled, Safeguarding America Against Fire. supervision over a period of years. The annual reports of the National Board Fire Insurance Laws, Taxes and Fees. Cpn- also contain useful information concerning tainitig a digest of the statutory require- ments in US. and Canada relating to fire losses. Its figures of losses in cities of fire insurance companies and agents, with twenty thousand inhabitants and over, ex- many quotations from the statutes; also tendmg over many years are especially note- a compilation of county and municipal worthy. taxes and fees. Spectator Co. New York. 1901-date. 24 annual editions. The National Fire Protection Association, Legislative ~niesti~ations. Occasionally, 40 Central Street, Boston, Mass., also compiles leeislativc investieations of insurance have extensive and valuable information on fires rehted in repor& of considerable value. and fire losses. Its analyses of fires in sprink- In Fire Insurance the following reports lered manufacturing risks published from time of such investlgaling committees are note- worthy : to time in the Quarterly, the official organ of New York. Report of Joint Committee the association, are unique in their field. appointed to Investigate Corrupt In many clties and states where fire mar- Practices in Legislation. I~II.3v. shals or similar officers exist, their reports Illinois. Report of Legislative Com- cover in considerable detail fires occurring mission. 1914 Wisconsin. Report of Legislative Com- within the states and cities themselves. In mission, 1911-12. Massachusetts, the state police gathers figures Rulings of Insurance Commissioners. These of this kind publishing them it1 the Annual unfortunately are not available for early Report of the Insurance Commissioner. Much years. Some oi the more important rul- study of fires and fire costs has been made by ings will be found in the Annual Reports the insurance con~panie~particularly by the of the Commiss~onersby whom the rul- ings were made. Some in more or less group known as the Factory Mutuals; but complete iorm have been prlnted in the their published reports as a rule are for the insurance journals. Rather extensive re- use of their members only ports but for confidential use have been made by Associations of Underwriters Rates and Rating. The rate is extremely such, for example, as the National Board important in fire insurance because it deter- of Fire Underwriters and the National As- sociation of Life Insurance Presidents. mines largely the cost of insurance to be Beginnmg with the year 1917 rulings of borne by the con~munity. Fire insurance rates lnsurance comnnssloners have been are still judgment-made, although the tend- printed, distributed, and at the end of the ency for many years has bcen to introduce year accumulated into bound form bv the -weekly Underwriter, 80 Maiden Lane, greater and greater refinement of judgment. New York. Elaborate schedules have been devised by SPECIAL LIBRARIES wh~chto effect a better analysis of fire haz- Fire Insurance Pocket Index.. S~ecta-- ards and greater uniformity in rating methods. tor Co. In casualty insurance great progress has Handy Chart (Casualty), Spectator Co. been made with rates based on experience. Standard Fire Insurance Tables, Stand- ard Publishing Co. In Fire Insurancc experience plays only a Pacific Insurance Chart, R. W. Neal, secondary part. Among the more important 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco, d~scussions of fire insurance rates are the Calif. following : Annual Reports, National Board of Fire IJnclerwriters. 76 William Street, New Dean, A. F. Rationale of Fire Rates. 2d ed. York City. J. M. Murphy. Chicago. I~OI. Bests Insurance Reports, Fire and Marine, Glidden, Jay S. Analytic System for Casualty. A. M. Best Co, 75 Fulton St., Measuretnent of Relative Fire Hazards. New York City. Rough Notes. Indianapolis. 1918. Distribution by States of Fire Insurance, Hardy, E. R. Fire Insurance Rating. Spec- Spectator Company. 135 William Street, tator Co. New York. (In press) New York City. Moore, F. C. Standard Universal Schedule. Fire Insurance by States, Jenney. Weekly New York. 1932. Richards, E. G. Experience Grading and Underwriter. Rating Schedule. Van Nostrand. New Fire Insurance in New England, Standard York. 1921. Publishing Co. 141 Milk St., Boston, Mass. Insurawe Directories. Few fields have been Spectator Yearbooks, Fire and Marine, better covered by directories than insurance. Casualty and Miscellaneous. 135 William Street, New York City. Among the leading firms publishing directories State Chart, Harrison Law. Nutley, N.J. are the following : Statistical Tables, Harrison Law. Nutlcy, Amencan Insurer, New Orleans, La., Direc- N~T~- . ., . tories covering Arkansas, Mississippi and Weekly Underwriter Insurance Almanac. Texas. Weekly Underwriter. 80 Maiden Lane, Baltimore Underwriter. Baltimore, hfd.. Ncw York City. Directories covering el aware and is- trict of Columbia. Insurance Journalism. Insurance has been Hcrald-Argus Co., Atlanta, Ga., Directones fortunate for many years in having attracted covering Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. to the field of insurance journalisn~ a very Insurance Field Co., Louisville, Ky., Direc- tories covering Northwest, Kentucky, high type oi men. Thc names of ~tsjournal- New Jersey,- -. New York. North Carolina, ists and publishers include many men of broad etc. culture and special learning. Their contribu- Many State Insurance Departments publish tion to the intelligent discussion of fire in- directories of agents and brokers, as New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Oregon, surance problems, extend~ng over a period Pennsylvania, Florida, etc. of eighty years has been of constructwe and National Underwrjter Co., Chicago, Ill., Di- enduring value. It is impossible within the rectories coverlng Delaware, Illinois, compass of so brief an article to list all in- Maryland, etc. surance journals. Among the more impor- Rough Notes Co., Indianapolis, Ind , Direc- tor~escovering Indiana and Illinois. tant, however, are the following: Standard Publishing Co., Boston, Mass. Best's Insurance News. A. M. Best Co., Standard Insurance Directory, covering 75 Fulton St., New York. Mo$hly. the New Enaland states. Eastern Underwriter. Eastern Underwriter Underwriters keport, San Francisco, Cal. Co., 86 Fulton St., New York. Weekly. Directories covering Pacific coast. Insurance Age- Journal. Frank L. Arms- U S. Iieview Pub. Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. strong, ed. 55 ICilby St, Boston. Weekly. D~rectoryof Pennsylvanta. Insurance Field Insurance Field Co., Louis- Statistics. Fire insurance is greatly inter- ville, Icy., Weckly. Property, Surety and ested in thc statistics which tell what and Compensation Indemnities. National Underwriter. National Under- how the business has been done; and cover- writer Co., 175 W. Jackson Boulevard, ing the insurance field are many noteworthy Chicago, 111. Weekly. publications of this kind. It wlll be impossible po11~~-Holder44 Lloyd St., Manchester, Eng. Weekly to enumerate all of them but some of the Post Magazine & Insurance Monitor. 9 St. more useful are the followmg : -Andrew - St. London, E.C,4, England. Annual charts so called-being pocket edi- Weekly. tions of carefully compiled statistical Rough Notes. Rough Notes Co., Indianap- data-are prepared by the following: ohs, Itid. Monthly. Argus Chart, Natiot~al Underwriter Spectator. Spectator Pub Co., 135 William Company. St.. New York City. Weekly. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Standard. Standard Pub. Co., 141 Milk the work of the National Board, The National St., Boston. Weekly. Devoted primarily to New England. Fire Protection Association, The Under- Weekly Underwriter. Underwriter Print- writers Laboratories, and the Factory Mutuals ing & Pub. Co., & Maiden Lane, New as illustrating the scope and importance of York. Weekly. these two activities. They ,have not only Associuhorrs Fire insurance has always called {or conslant use of data and informa- been characterized by associat~onalactivities. tion, hut have themselves contributed very Associa~ionsmay be grouped roughly as; first, generally to information in the fields which general supervisory, such for example, as the they cover. The standards prepared and Eastern IJnion, Union, and the National Board promulgated by the National Fire Protection of Fire Underwriters; second, rating associa- Association and the National Board; the re- tions as, for example, the New England In- ports embodying the results of the researches surance Exchange and the New York Fire and experiments of the Underwriters Labora- Insurance Rating Association ; and third, edu- tories ; and the contributions of inspection cational. boards and bureaus, to the knowledge of fires The proceedings oi the associations of the and their effect on materials have been note- first class are of a more or less confidential worthy and productive of results far beyond nature and usually are not published for dis- the circle immediately conversant with them. tribution. An exception is made, however, in I do not think of a single new application of the case of the National Board of Fire Under- power, heat, or light, or a single new process writers whose proceedings are published and introduced into industrial arts which has not widely distributed, and contain much valuable found the fire insurance companies prompt data concerning the development and opera- to recognize its dangers; quick to act for tion of fire insurance in America. Aside from their proper safeguarding and control; and their annual reports the principal publications yet always reasonably tolerant of other of rating associations are them rules and people's opinions and willing to co-operate regulations which naturally are printed for with them in producing standards of safety the use of their members and clients. by which the whole community has been bene- The group of associat~ons largely of an fitted. Petroleum, electricity, the extensive educational character have contributed very and more modern use of the refined products substantially to the practical literature of fire of petroleum, and the enumerable changes insurance. Their proceedings and other publi- which have entered into industrial processes cations are quite truly storehouses of infor- have all felt the influence of the fire insur- mation. Among the more important of these ance companies, and always I think it may be are : The Insurance Library Association of confidently claimed in a manner wholly in Boston, Boston, Mass.; The Insurance Society the public interest. of New York, New York; Fire Underwriters Some of the leading books on fire protec- Association of the Northwest; the recently tion and prevention follow : organized Insurance Institute of America, Crosby, Fiske, Forster Handbook of Fire New York; Fire Underwriters Association of Protection and Prevention. Van Nos- trand. New York. the Pacific ; The Insurance Club of Chicago ; Dana, Gorham. Automatic Sprinklers. and in Great Britain the Chartered Insurance Wiley. New York. Tnstitutc and its affiliated local associations. Fr~~rag.Fire Protection and Fire Preven- The journals published annually by the tion. Wiley. New York. N.F.P.A. Handbook of Field Practice. Chartered Insurance Institute beginning with National Fire Prevention Association. 1&j8 constitute one of the most substantial Boston, Mass. contributions to the practice of insurance to be found in the English language. In the foregoing article I have briefly touched upon some of the sources of infor- Fire Puotectiorr and Prevention. Fire insur- mation on fire insurance and its related sub- ance companies early interested themselves jects, fire protection and prevention. The field in the study of fire causes and the means of is broad and merely to list its literature would reducing them. In recent years the vast and require many issues of SPECIALLIBRA~ES. far-reaching character of their fire protection Manifestly, much has been omitted and prob- and prevention activities has entitled them ably some that has been included will not quite justly to be styled public service institu- seem to all our readers to have been included tions. Mr. Mallalieu in his article points to with the best of judgment. May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 151 INSURANCE LIBRARIES IN THE UNITED STATES A Brief Description of Some of the More Noteworthy Collections E Libraries describccl below comprise other tnaterial by the Dewey Decimal. Li- Tthc lcading insurance lhraries in this brary series members of thc association and country. It would be misleading, however, to its cxccutives for whom research is done. It say that they constitute all ava~lable collec- is ~uldcr thc immediate supcrvision of the tions of insura~iceinformation. Some of the association's executives. Five pcrsons are cm- state insurance departments, notably those of ployed. Librarian, Edith H. Sillence. Massachusetts and New York State; and CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSUR- many of the insurance publishers, especially ANCE COMPANY, Hartford, Conn. those of many years' standing such as the .Ttandnrd in Boston, the Spectator and Comprises actuarial subjects, Insurance, law, 1Veckly Underzoritcr in Ncw York, and and other top~csof interest to insurancc com- Rough Notes in Indianapolis possess quan- panies. Maintained for the company's own tities of information of the highest value. use. Docs not have a librarian. So too, it is quite likely that many of the EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCI- insurance companies have substantial collec- ETY OF THE UNITED STATES, 393 tions of boolcs and pamphlets whlch are drawn Seventh hvc., New York. Organized, 18%. upon for daily requirements. Covers princqally lifc insulancc and re- This article aims to list only the more or lated subjects It is uscd chiefly by the offi- less organized collections to which the name cers and staff OF he company. A key to the librdry may properly be applied. In a later collection is lurriished by a dictionary index. article we hopc to say somethmg about in- Librarian, Gracc W 5lorse. surance libraries abroad. D. N. H. FIDELITY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, COhCPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. Organized Research Division, Hartlord, Conn , Or- 1878. ganized, 1915. Covers life insurance, actuar~alscicncc, in- The library is part of the Inspection Divi- vestments, medical aspects of lifc insurancc, sion. Books, magazines, and infor~nation file sales~nanshipand advert~sing. Library is in- deal mostly with engineering and chemistry dexed by one gcncral index with books shelved as related to mdustrial processes; and with in the departments to which they especially occupational diseases and the several aspects apply. Books on gcncral topics and Inst~r- of safety. Ofices located in several build- ance DcpartrnenL Reports arc placed in the ings, making it necessary that many of the I~b~aryproper. Librarian, Elsie Lllrich. books be placed in the department using PIKE UNDERWRITERS ASSOCIATION them. Books uscd principally in the Research OF THE NORTHWEST, Chicago, Ill. Department ; but loaned througho~lt organ- Organized February, 1871. ization; photo-stats of material made when requirccl Uscs indexes of the Industrial Arts Library covers fire insurance and related and Engineering Magazine, and specifically subjects; also to some cxtcnt accident and card-indexes so iar as possible, proceedings health, workmen's compensation, and lilc in- of the National Safety Council, the National suI'ancc. Safety News, and certam state and Federal hInintaincd by thc association and used by documents. The I~brarycollects material for members and others in Chicago and through- rcsearch and prcpares occ~sionalbibliograph- out the western ficld. I3ooks mailed free of ical matter. L~brarian,Clare G. Osborn charge to patrons residing outsidc Chicago. Used extensively by students in the lecture ASSOCIATION OF LIFE INSURANCE courscs of the Insurance Club of Chicago. PRESIDENTS, Ncw York. Organized During past ycar zq81 b001is were loancd, Dec., 1906 and 3116 incluiries handled by library employ- Library covers life insurance and related ees. IvIatcr~alis filed by thc Decimal system subjects. Life insurance malerial 15 classificd adoptcd by the Insurance Library Association by the Library of Congress classification; all of Boston. Material indcserl on cards, books 152 SPECIAL LIBRARIES M~YI19%

being l~stedby title, author and subject. Oc- at the library. The library is used by its casional bibliographical work done. No re- members, many of whom in the associate search. Two employees. Librarian, Edith class are outside the field of insurance; and Y. Wetmore. by students in technical schools and universi- ties in Boston and vicinity. It maintains dur- FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION ing the fall and winter months lecture OF THE PACIFIC, San Francisco, Cal. courses in fire, casualty and marine insurance Library covers all branches of insurance now attendcd by about two hundred and fifty but prmcipally fire. More than five thousand men and women. Library facilities are ex- volumcs Nearly two thousand visitors came tended to st~ldenis in its cvening classes. to its rooms in 1924. It loans books to mem- Four persons employed in the library. LI- bers. Maintams lecture courses on insurance. brarian, D. N. Handy. Keys to the reading room are distributed to two hundred and fifty members enabling them THE INSURANCE SOCIETY OF NEW to LISC the library out of business hours. The YORK, 84 William Street, New York. l~brarywas completely destroyed by the great Organized 1901. conflagration; and the present collection has The library covers all branches of insur- been assembled since that time. ance, and contains, in addition, a few general INSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION reference works. The number of books In the OF ATLANTA, Atlanta, Ga., Organized library on May I, 1924 was 16,946. 1921. It is open to the public for rcference use Material on all branches of insurance and only. Members may borrow books for home related subjects. Used chiefly by field men use. According to the last printed report, and others covcring the southern field. Ac- 3557 books and pamphlets were loaned from cessions to the library are indexed. No re- April 30, 1923 to May I, 1924. Over five search or bibliographical work is undcrtaken. thousand readers used the library and over Librarian, Isabel Stevens. one thousand of them asked reference ques- t~onswhich required three minutes or more THE INSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIA- to look up. TION OF BOSTON, 18 Olivcr St., Bos- The library co-operates with other insur- ton, Mass., Organizcd 1887. ance libraries and with public, university, and Incorporated under the Iaws of Massa- business libraries throughout the country. chusetts. Collection limited to the field of Questions on insurance come by mail from fire insurance a~ldfire protection and prevcn- all parts of the United States. tion. Within these fields has accumulated This year the society has about six hundred very thoro~~ghl~and systematically all procur- students taking the insurance courses of the able info~mation. Has sought to include Insurance Institute of America who have the records and documc~its to illustrale early privilege of borrowing books from the library development of insurance, as well as evcry- The classificatioti system is based upon that thmg of contemporary interest. In early uscd at the Insurance Library Association of pamphlcts, proceedings of insurance organ- Boston. Thc library is not fully catalogcd izat~ons,legislative documents, and periodicals and indexed. New books and pamphlets are devoted to insurance, ~t is very complete. It listed in thc News Letter, published by the has becn madc the custodian of the Gayle T. society. L~brarian,Mabel B. Swerig. Forbush collection of fire prints and engrav- mgs. It has acquired prints, engravings, MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY, photographs, as well as literature pertaining Baltimore, Md. Organized 1919. to the business A substantial beginning has Research library of 'the Engineering and becn made In the acquisit~on of foreign Rating Division. Collects all data on accident language material having to do with its special prevention and on processes in industries and field. Material is classified by a special their hazards. Indexes by subjects, articles classification of the subject, based on the in books, pamphlets, plant magazines, govern- decimal method. Material is indexed. Card mcnt publications, magazines and clippings. cabinets contain about one hundred thousand Makes special effort to obtain information cards. It issues a Bdletirz containing an in- concerning the prevention of the occurrence dex to much of thc material on fire insurance of accidents of various kinds both industrial and fire protection and prevention received and public. Used by engineers and officers May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I53

or thc company, hy qafcty cnginccrs and by of thc officers of those divisions most con- policy-holdcrs. Tl~rccpcrsons devote all or ccrncd. The MctropoIitatl Life Insurance part of thcir time to tl~clibrary. Librarian, Company Library is one of the oldest special Nnorni Txwy. lihrarics in New York City. Librarian, Nor- cncc 13radlcy. 3CETlZOPOI.ITAN LI1713 INSUIiANCE COlIP \NY, I llatl~sonAve, New York. MliTITAI, BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE Or~n~ii~ctlIkc, ~qog. COkIANY, Newark, N.J. Organized, July, Tlic lilmry t~owhas sotnc sixty thousand 1922 hcxk5, rcports and tlocun~cntscovering indus- Agellcy Dcpnrtmcnt Iiciercticc Library. trial hy~lcnc,public hcalth, acc~dcntpreven- Covcrs ~ntcnsi\cly such subjccts as policy tion and pensions, in addition to its main huiltling ; organlzat~on; finance and compensa- su1)ject-hlc ~nsurancc. While it has an active tion ; recru~tingand training; sales promotion c~rculatmgdcpartmcnt, etnpl~nsishas bcen put and training; salesmanship and selling; office on thc dc\clopmcnt of rcsenrch work for organizat~onand conservation; statistics and thc last ihrcc years. The four phases of refer- miscellaneous life insurance, and related lit- cncc and rcscarch work now carried on by erature. thc library arc; insurancc, industry and cco- Matcrinl is filed by a modification of the nomics, publicity, and p~~l)lichcalth-all sup- Dewey Systcm of classification and is indexed portccl by gcncral rcfcrcncc work, book order- on cards arranged alphabctically in card ing and catalogmg ncccssnry for such act~vi- cabinets. A card color scheme is used to dif- tics. ferentiate material in book, pamphlet: or leaf Thc Dcwev Dccirnal classification is used form. Thc library kecps before it the ideal for the gcncral c~rculatingI~ooks but a modi- of an agency department information bureau. fication was ncccss~ryior thc collectio~i on Its most vital scrricc is to agents in the fidd social insurancc ; whilc Library of Congress who arc encouraged to send their problems to classification Iorrns thc bass of the general the library and to seek from the library ma- insurancc. Specific subjccts In books and terial which will help in the~rsolution. The magazincs are. analyzed; and a special cata- library IS advertised ch~cflythrough the conl- log on Personnel Managcmcnt is in process pany's home oflice publication which prints of making. This a~ialyzcs house organs, each month announcements of new books and magazine articles and boolcs on all reported helpful material and suggests ways by which personnel activities-bonus, housing, lunch- agents may profit by their reading; and by a rooms, mctlical service, pcr~sions,etc. series of library reports. No research or The lihrary subscrilm to six hundred bibliographical work is done but every effort mngazincs thc routing of which is a heavy is made to keep information up to date and but intcrcstin~ phasc of circulation work. promptly available and to be in a position 10 Equally important is thc abstracting of the advise agcnls wherc helpful information can art~clcsin the magazincs for certain depart- be obtained. Librarian, Helen M. Walton. rncnts necding that scrvicc-fiitcen hundred to twenty-fiw huntlretl abstracts being dis- NATIONAL BUREAU OF CASUALTY tribr~tctl cnch n~ontli. AND SURETY UNDERWRITERS, 120 Thc lil~ra~y staff nu~nbcrstwenty-eight, con- West qdSt., New York. Organized, sisting of trained librarians, junior assistants, 1916. and typists. They scl-ve a company of sev- The l~brarycovers ; enty-fi\c hundl-cd to cight thousand employees (I) Wo~ltmen's compensation and em- cithcr directly or through thc deparlments. ployers' liability and property damage New boolcs arc 1)ought 011 request of an in- I~aldityinsurance lines. cli\ idual for plcasurc or I~usmess rcading ; (2) Automobile, public liabil~ty,proper- special ctnpliasis IS put on the "reserving" of ty damage and coll~siotl insurancc. non-fiction. Wcckly lists of additions to the (3) Burglary, thef~and robbery insur- I~brnryarc tl~strihuted and a page of "book ance. notcs" is contributed each month to the Home (4) Steam boiler, englne and fly- heel, 0ffir.r magazine. and electrical machinery insurancc, Thc library is under thc supcrvision of the and Welfare Diiision thou~h all new develop- (5) The allied subjects of industrial mcnts depcnd upon thc advice and approval arid public accidents, etc. I54 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1915

It is espccially strong in material having to to insurance is classified by the Dewey method. do wlth rates and rate-making, accident sta- Librarian, (Mrs ) Alice F. Fitzgerald tlstics, and the prevention of acc~dentsthrough education. It indexes regularly about seventy- NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL, 168 N. five perlod~calsper month; also very minutely Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill., Organized, proceedmgs of conferences, books and govern- 1913. ment documents relating to the subjects of Library organized and maintamed by the Insurance, labor and industry. The collec- National Safety Council. It covers accident tion is supplemented by information files con- prevention ; industrial health and industrial sisting of approximately twenty thousand clip- betterment. Employs for indexing and cata- pings and pamphlets. It issues monthly a loging trained library school graduate, who mimeographed bulletin containing recent ad- devotes practically her entire time to this ditions to the library. It is used in advancing work, analyzing all publications of the N at' Ion- investigations and researches made by the a1 Salety Council, the annual Congress Pro- company members of the bureau, its staff and ceedings, the National Safely News, and over that of its branch offices. Librarian, Mildred two hundred industrial engineering, sociologi- B. Pressman. cal and insurance magazines subscribed to by the Council. The cataloger also is charged NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COM- with the examination of all technical articles PANY, Hartford, Conn., Organized 1915. indexed in the Industrial Arts Index, and The library is opcrated in connection with similar indexes, to see that matcrial useful the filmg department. Covers fire insurance for the Council is properly noted on library and relatcd subjects. Indcxes Insurance peri- cards. odicals and maintains a self-indcxing vertical Intensive research is done by the Council, file of newspaper clipp~ngs. Assembles par- no1 only in the library but through the library t~cularly,besides material on insurance, ma- In the large technical colfections of the John terial on all Latin American countries, oil Crerar Library, the Western Society of Engi- hazards and electricity. It maintains a special neers, and similar technical libraries in the file for United States Commerce Reports, and sty. Also special researches are carried on for marine insurance. The object of the li- through the Coroner's office, and the munic- brary 1s to provide a department of informa- ipal library. Considerable bibliographical tion and information service for officials and work is done, Among recent subjects in- heads of departments and for employees in vestigated and treatccl bibliographically arc the selvlce of the company. Libranan, Mary health hazards of printers, and accident pre- A. Bowen. vention on electric railroads. During a single NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COM- month as many as seven hundred subjects wcrc in\estigaled in thc l~braryon request PANY, Alontpclicr, Vt., Organized, June, of mcmbcrs or o~~tsldecompat~ics and infor- I 922. mation furtlishcd. Scven thousand and Organized by thc proklsion of a central li- th~rty-onc pieces of literature were cir- brary room of generous proportions in the culated in response to these seven hun- new home office bullcl~ngancl the bringing to- dred rcquests The use of the library is gether of literature which had accumulated in stilnulated 1,y exhibits presented at the An- thc various deparlments and executive offices nual Safely Congresses and other large safe- during a period of over seventy ycars. Numbers about seventy-five hundred vol- ty convcntions, book reviews, and reference lists printed in the National Safcty News and umes covering law, insurance, and related by special publicity methods. Four- persons subjects, the material on law being espccially tlerote their entirc timc to the library; one complete. I~hrarlan, a librarian, a cataloger The librarian reports that in the three ycars reference iuncl a general assistant. Librarian, Mary which have elapsed since its organization the Costwick Day. library has conclr~s~velydemonstrated its usc- fulness to the executives and employees of the NEW YORK FIKE INSURANCE RATING company. Materlal relating to insurance and OliGANIZATION--Syracuse Division, mvestments is indexed and arranged under a Syracuse, N Y , Organized, 1921. scheme ol classification drawn up for the pur- Scope ; fire hazards, fire prevention, rating, pose which is proving adequate and sat~s- eng~necring,fire insurance. All books, maga- factory. Miscellaneous material not rclatmg zincs ancl pamphlets of value are indexed May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 155

Information is used by the office force in MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 4th rate making and by field men, members of and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., Or- the association. Librarian, Lucile R. Crock- ganized, 1916. ett. Library organized and maintained by the company. Covers life insurance, office man- PHOENIX MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE agement, bnsiness psychology, actuarial science COMPANY, Hartford, Conn., Organized and life insurance salesmanship. Material is 1920. classified according to a modification of the The library is maintained by the company. Dewey Decimal System. A dictionary cata- Covers insurancc, business economics and fi- log card-indexes all books and pamphlets by nance ; has considerable material on biogra- author, subject, and occasionally by title, as phy, poetry, history, conduct of life, fiction, well' as many important articles In periodicals. and rhetoric. Ahout one hundred business and trade peri- Its functions arc to prov~cle immediately odicals are received into the reading room, available information on insurance and such reviewed for business leads, and distributed related subjects as will be useful in the con- to general agcnts 111 the field. Some refer- d~~ctof the company business to executives, ence work is done and a few reference lists department heads, managers, salesmen and are prepared. Books, pamphlets, and periodi- employees; and, to secure and circulate ma- cals arc circulated among officers and home terial which will aid salesmen and employees office force and lectures given in educational In efforts at self-improvement and self-cul- courses offered to office employees help to ture. It is in close touch with the research stimulate the use of the material in the li- division and furnishes it with material for brary. Librarian, Mary S. Allen. its work in market analysis and in connec- PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY tion w~thinsurancc and business conditions. OF AMERICA, Newark, N.J., Organ- It has about one hundred and ten periodi- ized, 1895. cals, including thirty-six insurance pcriodicals ; This library, conceived and developed by most of which are distributed to executives and division heads, for examination. Atten- Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, himself one of the foremost author~t~eson industrial life insur- tion is callcd to articles on subjects in which ance, and insurance medicine and health they are especially interested. Articles of problems in Amcr~ca,at one time numbered general interest are marked for clipp~ng. over two hundred thousand volumes and The library co-opcratcs in the training pampl~leis. In its comprehensiveness it ex- classes ~naintained for agcnts. Books are celled all similar collections in the Unitcd mailed to agents and purchased lor them. States. It consisted of seven main sections, They borrow lreely from the library's collec- viz., (I) statistics and economics, (2) insur- tion ol clippings from current periodicals ance (3) occupat~onand industry (4) Amer- wh1c11 is maintained to furnish information ican statistics and information (5) foreign on the special problems of the business. The statistics and information (6) public health agency iorce is kept in touch with the library (7) medicine and science; each sec- through articlcs publ~shed in the company tlon being in charge of a clerk responsible for magazine, 'l'lzs field. A reading course has ~tsupkeep. been outlined for them and a prize oflered In 1922 the company decided to restrict the lor the best list of reading with comments, library to its insurance section making satis- rclurncd to the library in the spring lacto~yarrangements with a number of other The c~rculationof the l~braryduring 1924, libraries for the proper prescnation and con- was as follows : insurance, 439; business, 434; ituity of the several sections the care of which ficlion, 1827, o~her material, 1190; currcnt had become too onerous and room consuming. periodicals, 1063, clipp~ngs,970. Reading l~sts Accordingly aside from the gift of its medical on personal devclopmet~tand efficicncy, Eng- section to the Army Medical Library at Wash- lish, life Insurance, office work, and economics, ington the company presented its economic etc., have been uscd to dircct thc reading of section to the Industrial Relations Division of the home office employees and prizes offered the library of Princeton College; its agricul- in connection with this reading. Two per- tural and forestry section to Yale University, sons devote their entire time, and one gives to M4-,ich in former years the company had palt time to the hbrary. presented a large collection of books on chari- 156 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, I995 ties and correction; its geological and geo- in rcnclering service to the customers of the graphic section to Wellesley College; its sec- company. Books are circulated to eighty-four tion on labor and industry as well as foreign branch offices located in different parts of the countries to the llbrary of the Babson Insti- United States, Canada and Hawaii. An in- tute and its section on mining and engineering formation file of cl~ppings receives a great to Leh~ghUniversity. This brcaking up of deal of attention and is used for reference. the library while regrettable was unavoidable Librarian, Elizabeth Hanner. since it had been offered in its entirety (ex- cepting the insurance section) to the National TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Research Council which was not in a position Hartford, Conn. to accept it. It is estimated that in the ag- A reference and circulating library for the gregate not less than two hundred thousand use of officers and.employees of the Travelers. books and pamphlets were thus disposed of. Covcrs all branches of insurance; and eco- The insurance section has been much im- nomics, statislics, finance, medical science, proved during the past two years especially business, business English, labor prob- as regards the methods and rcsults of domes- lems, etc. Complete files of insurance year tic and foreign insurance companies. The books, state reports and insurance journals. insurance section is under the general direc- Material is indexed as received. Circulation tion of Dr. Hoffman but in immediate charge for 1924, 2372 volumes. Bibliographical work of Air. Albert Shopp of the consulting sta- on pensions. Two employees. Librarian, tlsticians office. Emily C. Coates. RETAIL CREDIT COMPANY, Atlanta, WEEKLY UNDERWRITER, 80 Maiden Ga., Organized, 1910. Lane, New York, Organized 1839. The chief object of the library is the devel- The library represents the accumulation of opment of employees of the company. It is one of the oldest and leading insurance pub- not limited in its scope to technical material, lishers in the United States and covers in- but includes many general and miscellaneous surance in all its branches. Material in the books which will help to self-improvement and library is indexed for quick and accurate ref- sell-culture. Considerable insurance material erence. Bibliographical and research work is is collected since problems of underwriting done in connection with company's publica- and inspection must be studied by employees tions Librarian, A. Irving Brewster. Report of Nominating Committee The Nominating Committee consisting of W. P Cutter, Louise Keller, A. C. Mitchell, W. L. Powlison, Mary Louise Alexander, chairman, has submitted its report nominating for officers of the S.LA. for the year 1925-26 the following persons, all of whom have consented to serve if elected : PRESIDENT,Danicl N. Handy, Insurance Library Assn., Boston, Mass. Fmm VICE-PRESIDENT,Win. F. Jacob, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. SECONDVICE-PRESIDENT, Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee, Wis. SECRELARY,Gertrude D. Peterkin, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., New York, N. Y. TI~EASURER,Gertrude D. Peterkin, Amcrican Telephone B Telegraph Co , New York, N. Y. EXECUTIVEBomn, John Cotton Dana, Public Lihrary of Newark, Newark, N. J. EXEC~TIVEBOARD, Rebecca 13. Rankin, Municipal Reference Library, New York City. Information Bureaux and Mr. G \V. Icecling of London, Ibrmcrly of Winches~er and 1Ctng's College, Cambridge, Libraries in Great Britain has bcen appointed Organising Secretary to the Conmittec which was forlued during Ihc C't~il- ~l~~ highly ~~~f~~.~~~~held Hoddcsclon in Scptembcr, 1924, 011 Special Li- ference to ensure the continued co-operation brarlcs and Information Uurea~ishas resulted of the interests there represented. Activc a:.- rangements are being made for the holding in financial support bcing obtained from the of a second week-elld corlferenceat the end CarlWic Ulllt~d ICiilgdoln Trustees for a of Septetnber of this year, and for the pclla- period of two years in order to givc thc new ration of a Directory of Special Libraries and movement an opportunity of becoining self- Information Bureaux for the United King- supporting. dom. May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 157 AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE INSURANCE YEAR BOOKS A List of the World's Leading Reference Books on Insurance By Miss Abbie G. Glover, Assistant Librarian, Insurance Library Association of Boston

I. Annuairc des assurances. L'Argus. 2, Rue Reports on American and foreign conl- de Chateaudun, Paris. fr. 15. panies giving financial statements, his- Dctails of all French insurance companies tory, management, officers, etc. twenty- and all foreign companies working in five annual ed France regarding laws, taxes, admission 8. Bourne's Insurance Directory. Insurance requiremcnts. Publishing Company, Ltd 188, Strand, Lon- 2. Annuaire des Assurances en Belgique. don, W.C.2 SI IS. (Bclgium Insurance Yearbook). 79, Rue Financial statements of all British life Basse, Antwerp. frs. 5, paper cover. ofices. Premiums, rates, etc. Direc- New publication of Belgian activities; lory of head ofires, assessors, brokers, laws, taxes, English-French vocabulary officials, etc. 01 terms, directory oi companies. g. Dansk Forsikrings P arbog. Assurance 3 Annuaire dcs Societes d'Assurances Oper- Tidende, Holbergsgade, Copenhagen, &on- ant en France, ctc. La Scmaine, 97, Rue de cr 10. Richelieu, Paris. 1o/6. Register of companies in Denmark, Consists of five parts :-French law; list abridged balance sheets, list of foreign of companies operating; foreign com- admitted companies, review of classes panies in various countries ; French of ~nsurance syndicatcs, brokers, etc ; ~niscellaneous. 10. Dansk Forsikringsstat. Dansk Assur- 17 ed. ances Forlag, Overgade, 10. Copenhagen. 4. Assecuranz-Compass ; edited by Lothar 10s. Paltinger Gustav J. Wischniowsky, 36, Directory ol Danish companles, brokers Piaristcngassc, Vienna VIII. and agents. Biographies of Danish in- First published in 1893 Exhausiive rec- surance notables. ord of Insurance companies in the world. Brief survey of insurance con- I I. Guidc Pratique de l'hssureur. L'Assureur, dii~onsin fifty-one countries. 51 Ruc Traversiere, Brussels, frs. 15, paper 5. Assekuranz- Jahrbuch. Compassverlag, Vien- covcr. na. Standard puhllcation of 11s kind in Rel- g~um. Directory of all Belgian and Foundccl by Dr A. Ehrenzwcig. Useiul coinpilation of insurance conditions in foreign companles Resume of lcgisln- tion. inosi parts of thc world 43 ed. 6. Auskunftsbuch uber das Vcrsicherungswc- Ia. Insurance :\lmaiiac and Encyclopedia. scn. 0. Bcrgmann and Bolwm. Published Undcrwritcr Printing Pr Publishing Com- by Wili~~ersclorf,57, Augusta Strasse, Ber- pany, SO hlaidcrl Lane, New York $2. lin, Germany. Directories of officers, state officials, First issue 1923 Contains d~rectoryof na- agents, broke1 s, associat~ons, laws, t~veand iorcign insurance companies statistics of companies. Compiled by in Germany with exiensive mformation Weekly Unclcrwriter. concerning each ; particulars concerning 13. Insuiance Year Book. Fire and Marine, mun~cipaland provincial organizations, CasuaILp, Llfe. Speclalor Co , 135 William "\~crm~ttlingsgesellschaften," state in- Street, Ncw York. 0~01s$15 each. spection bureaus, "Konzerne." Rcports of companies giving financial 7 Bcst's 111surance licports. Fire and Mar- statement, officers, history, classes of in- ine; Casualty and Miscellaneous. Alfred Ivl. surance written, etc. Directory of Best CO., Inc. 7j Fulton St., New York, agents, lawyers, adjusters. 52 annual zvols. Sel vice subscription. issues. I 58 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 19%~

14. Jaarboek voor het Assurantie en Hypo- 19. Rotterdamer Serversicherungs-Borse, Ihre theekwezcn. 39, Spoorsingel, Rotterdam. Entwicklung, Bedcntung und 13edingungen ; Exhaustive information regarding the In- By F. Krach. International Union of Mar- surance and Mortgage institutions in ine Insurance. Rotterdam, Holland. 4s post Holland. Directories oi foreign and free. dorncstic companies, agents and-brokers. Published in German, Deals with Dutch 15. Jahrbuch fur die offentlichen Feuerver- insurance. Contains history of Dutch sicherungs-Anstalten in Deutschland. Vcr- marine insurance; a survey of Dutch band offentlicher Feuerversicherungs-An- marme insurance law and practice In stalten in Deutschland. Rotterdam; the economic development Seven eds. issued by Union of German of Rotterdam and specimens of Rotter- "Public" Insurance Societies. Exhaus- dam carso and hull policies. Livc account of mcthods, resulls etc. 20. Stone & Cox Accident Year Book. Stone of the Societies, and of kindred insti- & Cox, 188, Strand, London, W.C. 2 1716 tutions in Austria and Switzerland. net. 16. Norsk Forsikrings Aarbok (Norwegian Annual accounts of British offices. Di- Insurance Yearbook) Den Norske Forsik- rectory of head offices Discusses vari- ringsforening & A/S Okonomisk Literature, ous classes of accident insurance. Klingenberggt, I), Christians. Kr 15 21. Stone QL Cox Fire and hfarine Yearbook. Gwes general information regarding in- Stone & Cox, 188,Strand, London, W.C. 2 surance in Norway and a directory of z~/net all companies operaling in Norway. British offices revenue accounts, also 17 Post Magazine Almanack, the Insurance colonial and foreign Brokers and as- D~rcctory, Reference and Yearbook, con- sessors directory. Chapters on fire bri- taining Statistics and Facts of Ordinary gades, fire prevention, reinsurance, etc. Life, Industrial Life, Fire, Accident and Marine Insurance. Post Magazlnc, g, St. 22. Svensk Forsakrings Xrsbok (Swedish In- Andrew Street, London, E C. 4. 4/6. surance Year Book) Postfack 43, Stockholm E~ghty-four issues of this valuable work. Directory of Britlsh and Co- Activities of the Royal Insurance Inspec- lonial insurance offices, Who's Who, torate; results of natlve and foreign business transacted, financial statements, companies. French-Swedish vocabulary resume of events of preceding jrear. of insurance terms. 18. Revista de Seguros, 248, Florida, Buenos Aires. Index by Countries Divided in scven sections giving Direc- Austria, 4, 5; Belgium, 2, 11 ; France, I, 3; tories of Agcnts, OT companies in Brazil, Denmark, 9, 10 ; Germany, 6, 15 ; Great Britain, In Argentine; notes on life insurance 8, 17, 20, 21; Holland, 14, IS); Norway, 16; So. and workmen's cornpensatlon ; laws ; America, 18,Sweden, 22; United States, 7, 12, legal decisions ; financial statements. 13.

City Planning The In~crnat~onalCongress on Town, City date oE April zznd, on account of the City and Regional Planning was held in New Plnnning Conference. York City, April 20-25th. A splendid exhibit A ncw quarterly magazine, City Plannmg, fillcd the four floors of the Grand Central begins publication with the April number. It Palace. Smallcr exhib~ts wcre scen at the is the official organ of the American C~ty Pennsylvania Hotcl where thc convention Planning Institute and the National Confer- met, also at the Regional Plan of New York ence on City Planning. Two spccial hbrarians, and at the Municipal Reference Library, 512 Mrs. Thcodora IGmball Hubbard and Kath- Municipal Bullding arine McNamara of the Harvard University The M~wicipal Rcfrwnce Library Notes School of Landscape Architecture Library ran a spccial City Planning numhcr under have contributed articles to it. May, 1925 SPECIAL LlBRARIES 159

Library and Research Publishing Annual of Interest Fred Y Presley of the Harvard Committee Crowded space has prevented comment on Economic Research has an article in Sys- upon many important annuals which appeared tem for April entitlcd "How to n~easureyour soon after the first of the year. The Inter- market." national Yearbook number of the Editor and Publisher, printed as a section of the issue for The Dartnell Corporation, Ravenswood January 31, 1g2j is a case in point. Ave., Chicago, has added a librarian to its The publication is replete with valuable staff and has a rapidly growing library de- tables, including "Rates, Circulations and Ex- voted to salesmanship, advertising, market- ecutive Personnel of Daily Newspapers" and ing, retail merchandising, etc. an "Analysis of Magazine and Newspaper Cir- culations by StatCs and Territorial Market The Wyoming Historical and Geological Groups," including circulation of leading Snciety, Wilkes Barre, Pa., has a large grow- magazines. Many other valuable figures relating to Ing collection on geology, anthracite coal and newspaper circulat~on, advertising lineage, coal mining and American Indians, which is newspaper wage scales and machine composl- used by pcople of Pennsylvania and the whole tion educational courses are presented. United States. Valuablc compilations also show "Adver- tising Agencies and their Spacc Buyers;" and The Special Libraries Directory, recently "Newspaper Advertising Representatives" compiled by a committee of the Association, is throughout the country. already arousing considerable interest and ad- Within the volume may also be found a "Directory of Merchandising Papers" main- vance sales indicate a strong demand for the tained by newspapers ; news syndicates ; publication. The editor would be glad to re- schools of journalism; journalistic and pub- .eive any newspaper or magazine comments lishmg clubs ; advertising associations ; the G-hich may come to the attention of our principal forcign language ncwspapcl s and rcaders. newspaper broadcasting stations. Listings of the press gallery at the United The Chicago Trust Company offers prizes States Congress and in the state legislatures, foreign correspondents in the United States for research relating to the subject:-Busi- and even the United States correspondents ness Development and the Modern Trust at tllc League of Nations are included. Company. Annual monograph prizes of $300 Among items of special interest to librarians and $200, and a Triennial Iiesearch Prize to are a list of standard books on newspaper making and advertising, and a column en- be awarded in the autumn of 1925 may be titled "Liteiary and Art Market of the United striven for. Rules governing thc competition S~ates"concerning acceptal~cemethods of over may be secured horn the Secretary of the a hundred national publications. There are Committee of Award, Professor Leverett S. also speclal sections with kindred mattcr de- Lyon, Dean of the School of Con~mcrccand voted to Canada, Grcat Britain and Latin Finance, Washington University, St. Louis, Yo. Personal Note

The Harvard Business Review for April Miss Ahgarel Reynolds, librarian of the First Wisconsin National Bank, XIilwaukee, contains in its department "Sun~maries of presenkd "Library Work as a Vocation" at Busincss Iiesearch" a study of merchandising the Older Girls' Conference held in Wauwa- service in newspaper advertising adapted from tosa, Wisconsin, on hlarch 28th. On h4arch a thcsis by S. hlcI<. Thompson, a student in 26th Miss Reynolds spoke before the Woman's Fortnightly Club of Her subject the Ilarvard Graduate School of Business Milwaukee. was "Autographed Boolcs and Association Admmistrat~on. Thc scrwe makes a detailed Copics." She has recently bcen elected a di- study oi nine of the largest newspapers of rector of the Rusiricss and Professional Wo- the country. men's Club 01 Xlilwaukee. Special Libraries Editor Special Editor Associate Editor HERBERT 0. BRIGHAM DANIEL N. HANDY PROF. HENRY H. NORRIS State L~braty Insurance Library Asso. McGraw-Hill Co. Providence Boston New York

Swampscott Conference HE forthcoming Swampscott Conference is so important that the usual edi- T torials have been displaced and the program of the conference placed in the pages usually devoted to editorials. We urge evei-y illember to make a strong effort to attend the sixteenth annual conference. It has been an unusual year in the history of the Association and one of considerable accomplishment. Our Program Committee, assisted by the Boston local committee, has made claboratc plans and every indication points to a successful convention. * * * * * HE conference which will take place at the New Ocean House at Swamp- T scott from June 22d to 27th bears promise of being one of the most note- worthy sectional events in recent years. The organizations participating are the state library associations of each New England state, the New England College Librarians and the national Special Libraries Association. On another page there is presented the tentative program of the Special Libraries Association, nevertheless special attention should be called to the im- portant events of the week which will cause many special librarians to reserve hotel rooms for the entire period. The opening session on Monday evening will be under the auspices of the Massachusetts Library Club, the principal speaker being Honorable Albert J. Beveridge of Indianapolis on the topic, "The Making of a Uoolc." A general reception will follow this address. The session on Tuesday morning will be in charge of the Vermont Library Association with a special program. On Tues- day afternoon there will be an address on Adult Education and a group meeting for hospital librarians at which Dr. Blackwood will be the chief speaker. The Boston Group of Catalogers will also hold a meeting on that afternoon. Tuesday evening will be notable for a dinner given in honor of Miss Caroline M. Hewins, for nearly fifty years librarian of the Public Library at Hartford, Conn. After the dinner there will be an address by MacGregor Jenkins of the Atlantic Monthly on the subject, "The Friendliness of Books." Connecticut will be sponsor for the meeting on Wcclnesday n~ornillgwith Mr. Hamilton Holt as one of the speakers. The afternoon program will be in charge of New Hampshire with an address by J. Randolph Coolidge. Wednesday evening has been assigned to Rhode Island with Maude Howe Elliott as the principal speaker, followed by a play to be given by the Rhode Island Library Association. Thursday morning the officials of the Maine Library Association will con- duct the conference with Professor Hartshorn of Bates College as the principal speaker. May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 16 r

Adult Education will again be the topic on Friday morning with a round table in charge of Mr. Charles F. D. Belden, and Mr. Matthew Dudgeon of Mil- waukee, chairman of the Committee on Adult Education of the A.L.A., will also be present. On Friday evening there will be a joint meeting of the Special Libraries Association with the various state library associations and at that meeting Dr. Ball of Ginn & Co. and Professor Davis of Boston University will debate the merits of business or every-day English. An all-day excursion to neighboring libraries has been arranged for Saturday. The New England College Librarians have not fully arranged their program, although they will probably meet the latter part of the week.

Sixteenth Annual Convention tentative program for the sixteenth annual convention of Special Libraries THEAssociation is presented herewith. At this writing, ten weelis before the convention, there are necessarily some details to be settled and much correspond- ence to be done. It is not too late to change the program and to improve it, and the Program Committee would welcome suggestions from any menher. Such suggestions should be sent to William Alcott, chairman of the Program Commit- tee, at the Boston Globe Library, Boston, Mass. Briefly summarized, the program covers three days, with events planned for every forenoon, afternoon and evening. There will be five general sessions, of which two business sessions will be held on forenoons, and the other three meet- ings will bc held on the evenings of the three days. Group meetings will be held Wednesday afternoon, Thursday forenoon and Friday afternoon. An automobile outing is planned for Thursday afternoon. Special Libsaries Association of Boston will serve tea on Wednesday after- noon at 4 :30. Reports of the year's work will be given, and in addition, the cllairnlan or presi- dent of each local association and each group 11as been invited to bc ready with a brief report telling of the work of the past year. This feature ought to he in- forming and inspiring. The Editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES will have a chance to face his audience and make oral report of what his work with the magazine has been. The report of the Special Committee on Survey ought to interest cvcry nleniber of the Association. At the secolld business session, which will come on Friday forenoon, June 26th, the business will be carried on behind closed doors. It will give the inem- bers of the Association a chance to be by themselves and determine in a business- like way the future of the Association. In order to cover the many interests of the Association, it will be necessary to begin the morning sessions at 9 :30. It is hoped that many members will plan to arrive on Tuesday, so as to be on hand at the opening session Wednesday nlol-ning. The fact that the Library Clubs of New England will be in sessioll at the same place and the sallle time, will provide abundant lneetillgs of interest ior special librarians who can spend more than three days at Swampscott. The New Occan House has made special rates for the convention. Reserva- tions sllould be made direct with the hotel, and should be made early. SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1ga5

Special Libraries Association Sixteenth Annual Convention, New Ocean House. Swampscott, Massachusetts, Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. June 24, 25, 26, 1925 TENTATIVEPROGRAM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 10:30 A.M.-Call to order. First General Session. Address of Welcome, Charles F. D. Belden, director, Boston Pub- lic Library. Response, Miss Rebecca B. Rankin, librarian, Municipal Reference Library, New York City. President's Annual Address. Reports : The Secretary, the Treasurer, the Editor. Reports of Standing Committees. Report of the Special Committee on Survey. Reports from Local Associations and Groups. Appointments. Announcements. 2 :00 P.M.-Group Meetings. Advertising-Commercial-industrial. Frederick A. Mooney, chairman. Financial, Miss Margaret Reynolds, chairman. Insurance, MISSFlorence Bradley, chairman. Newspaper, Joseph I?, Kwapil, chairman. Technology, Francis E. Cady, chairman. 4:30 P.M.-Tea served by Special Libraries Association of Boston. 7:00 P.M.-Dlnner. Followed by Second General Session. Subject: "Revolu- tion Through Research." 1-"In Industry," by Professor Vannevar Bush of the Massa- chusetts institute of Technology. 2-"In Public Utilities," by Edward Dana, General Manager, Boston Elevated Railway. THURSDAY, JUNE 25 9 :30 A.M.-Group Meetings. Advertising-Comn~ercial-Industrial,Frederick A. Mooney, chairman, Financial, Miss Margaret Reynolds, chairman. Insurance, Miss Florence Bradley, chairman. Newspaper, Joseph F. Kwapil, chairman. Technology, Francis E. Cady, chairman. 2:30 P.M.-Automobile Outing to North Shore, or to Concord and Lexington. 8 :00 P.M.-Third General Session. Subject : "The Special Library and Se- lected Industries." H. N. Dowse, Dennison Mfg. Ca., Fram- ingham, Mass. FRIDAY, JUNE 26 9 :30 A.M.-Fourth General Session. (Executive) Reports of Committees. Election of Officers and Committees. Reports from Local Associations and Groups on "The Outloalc for the Coming Year." 1925 May, SPECIAL LIBRARIES 163 2 :30 P.M.--Meetings for new committees to organize for the coming year. Group Meetings : Advertising-Con~n~ercial-Industrial.Financial. Newspaper. Round Table on Cataloging and Classification. 8 :00 P.M.-Fifth General Session. (Union meeting with the Library Clubs of New England.) Subject : "Every Day English." Speakers : Dr. Francis Kingsley Ball, Boston; Professor Roy Davis, Col- lege of Business Administration, Boston University. SATURDAY, JUNE 27 Visits to libraries in Boston and vicinity. The Massachusetts Li- brary Club has arranged an outing, to which ineinbers of S.L.A. are invited. Lunch will be served at noon at Waltham.

Advertising, Industrial and Commercial Group F. A. Mooney, Dennison Manufacturing Co., Chairman All inembers and all others who are interested in the problems peculiar to the libraries in this group are urged to attend the sessions scheduled for Wednes- day afternoon, Thursday morning, and Friday afternoon on June 24, 25 and 26. Each type of library included in the group will be represented by the follow- ing speakers : Miss Harriet Elias, George Batten Co.-Advertismg Miss Grace D. Aikenhead, W. T. Grant Co.-Department Stores D. F. Brown, Standard Oil Co.-Industrial Miss Ethel A. Shiclds, Hastman Kodak Co.-Industrial Miss Eunice E. Peck, The Yale-Towne Manufacturing Co.-Industrial Miss Alma C. Mitchill, Public Service Corp. of New Jersey-Publtc Utilities Miss Jennie Lee Schram, lllinois Powel- and Light Gorp.--Public Utilities hliss Jessie Callan, Bessemer Q Lake Erie Railroad Co.-Public Utilities Mrs. Grace Child Bevao, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance CO. Miss Mary De J. Cox, Arncrican Telephone and Telegraph CO. Miss Mary L. Alexander, Barton, Durstine and Osborne. Miss Lenore A. Tafel, Metropolitan Life Insurance CO. We plan to have three twenty-minute speeches at each conference and de- vote the remainder of the time to discussion. Each speakel- will tell how his or hci- library serves its clientele. In this way it is believed that we will come to understand each other's problems better, and, therefore, to pave the way for more effective co-operation. You have problems. You have solved problen~s. Would you be willing to mail to the chairinan of the group questions which you would like to have dis- cussed during our get-together at Swampscott ? Send as many as you like and the chairman will see that they are presented at one of the meetings. The final form of the program will appear in the June issue of SPECIAL LIBRARIES. ~64 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, ~925

Third Annual Conference of Newspaper Librarians New Ocean House, Swampscott. Massachusetts, June 24, 25. 26. 1925

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2 :30 P.M. Subject: "Filing Systems for Newspaper Clippings." 1-The Dewey Systen~,by Mrs. Alice Nichols Lundberg, librarian, Portland Evening Express, Portland, Me. 2-The ,Dictionary System, by Miss Agnes J. Petersen, librarian, Mil- waukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wis. 3-The Classified System, by Joseph F. Kwapil, librarian, Public Led ger, Philadelphia. &The New York World System, by James W. Wells, librarian, New York World. 5-The Numeric System and the Photograp11 Library, by John H. Mil- ler, King Features Syndicate, New York Round Table Conference, led by Paul P. Foster, librarian, Boston Herald. 1-Handling New Boolcs-Accessioning, Classifying and Cataloging. 2-The Dewey System for Books in a Newspaper Library. 3-Special Reference Shelves. &New Publications of Especial Value to the Newspaper Library. THUKSDAY, JUNE 25, 9 :30 A.M. Annual Business Meeting. Reports. Election of Officers. Subject: "The Newspaper Index." 1-New York Times, by Miss Jennie Welland. 2-The Sprinfield Union, by Miss Evelyna E. Pine. 3-The Baltimore Sun, by Wilbur A. Coyle. Round Table Conference, led by William Alcott, librarian, Boston Globe. 1-The Card Catalog-Malting It Indispensable. 2-Keeping the Library Clean. 3-Binding Newspaper Files for Permaizency. What Is the Best Way? FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2:30 P.M. Newspaper Libraries and Libi-arians. 1-The Newspaper Library and Its Possibilities. 2-The Newspaper Group : Its Aims and Purposes, hy William Alcott, librarian, Boston Globe. itound Table Conference. Boston Catalogers The Doston Group of Catalogers and Classiiiers will hold a special ineeting during the Swampscott Conference on Tuesday aiternoon, June 23, at 2:30 P.M. . The topic chosen is a discussion of the library's card catalog and classifica- tion froin the point of view of use : 1-From a College Reference Librarian. 2-From a Public Lihrary Referencl: Librarian. Coilshuctive Criticism Is the Purpose. 3-Discussion. All catalogers and classifiers who are not to attend the Seattle meeting arc asked to come. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Groups The five most active groups in the associa- Newspaper Group tion have the programs for their sevcral Thc Newspaper Group, chairman Mr. meetings already wcll worked out, ancl a Joscph F. Kwnpil of thc Public Ledger, Phila- scrics of u~lusually interesting sessions may delphia, is planning for three sessions, and be expected. they are all very Iull oncs Program appears Group LIcetin~swill occur on Wednesday on page 164. altcrnoon at r, Tl~urstla~morning at g :SO, and Financial Group sonic ol tlic groups will have a third session Thc Financial Group, chairman Miss Mar- on Friday aitcrnocm at 2:30 garet Ileynolds, First Wisconsin National Technology Group Bank, hlilwaukee, Wis., will have two ses- Tlic Technology Group, w~thFrancis E. sions. On Wedesday afterno011 Miss Eleanor Catly, of thc Neln Research Laboratory, S. Cavanaugh, librarian, Standard Statistics Cleveland, as chairman, has pla~inedfor two Company, New York, will rcad a paper on meetings, the first of which will be devoted "Ol)scure and Sometinles Occasional Sourccs to thc prese~~tationof committee reports and on the Stock Market and Stocks and Bonds;" their discussion. The following group com- and Elberl A. Harvey of Lee, I-Iigginson & Co. mittees have signified their intention of partic- Boston, will read a paper on "F~nancialBack- ~pating: C:hem~stry, Cons~ruction, Elcclrical grounds and Sourccs." Discussion will fol- Engineering, English, Illuni~nating Engincer- low, ancl thcrc will hc a business meeting and ing, Public lltilitics ancl Rulher; and the sub- lhe appountinent of committees. jects on the program for d~scussioil include On Tllursday morning, Roy F. Bcrgengren I)ibliograpliics, unio!i list of periodicals, classi- will speak on "Crcclit Unions." A feature of fications, and co-operat~on with other libra- the Thursday session will be a scrics of four- rics. Two suhjects that ought to attract much minnte talks on "What We Do Every Day that intcrest are thc value of bringing advantages Pleascs Our Officers Most." The speakers of the library to the attention of technical arc to be announccd later and con~niercial execut~ves through agency esh~hitsat national conventions such as the Insurance Group National Electric Light Association, and a The Insurance G~oup,Miss Flo~cnceBrad- symposium on in usual ancl bizarre requests ley, librarian, Metropolitan Lifc Insurance ior information or assistance. Thc formal Company, Ncw Yorl;, chairman, is arranging I~nsinessof thc group will also be handled at for two scssions, onc on Wednesday afternoon thc first session. and thc other on Thursday mornmg. The The second session will be occupied with experiment is to 11c trictl this year of dividing formal papers and informal discuss~on. The the group illlo two sections, one dcnling with L(.yno[c ol the session mill be: "Selling thc library prol)lcms of life insurance, and the Library to Esccutivcs and Employees of the other with library problems ol firc insurance, Company." William I;. Jacob, of the General both scctions to nicct on Wedncstlay arter- I3xtric LlLrary at Schencctatly, N.Y., will noon. Then on Tlit~rsdaymorning the sec- ,gi\.e dn informal talk, ill~~stratctlwith lantcm iions will mcet togcthcr. Letters have been shdcs, showng nicthods morl;cd out by hinl scnt to a num1)er of ~nc~iibers,a~id ~t IS hoped for th~s[ypc of public~ty Nrs. P. Caffcrata to alrange a program of interest and itlipor- 01 the Portland Ccmcnt Associat~on Library tancc. will gibe a paper on thc facilities and thc pub- Thc rcqucst is made that rcatlers of this licity of hcr library. Mrs. Ruth McG. Lane, annoullcemcnt who arc not members of S.L.A. Vail I~brariati,11. 1 T., will tell of her library. will call to the attcation ol thc~rexecutives It is Iiopcd that J. F. Smith of the Goodrich the ~alueof these meetings and Impress upon Tirc and liuhhcr Company library, will speak ~hcmlhc impoltancc of attentlancc at the con- on "Classificat~on Proble~nsof Incl~~strialKe- lere~icc. scarch Libraries." Miss Elizabeth Wray of tlic Vnitcd States Rubber Co has been askcd Advertising, Industrial and Commercial to present a paper on "I

Two recent books will be of peculiar inter- of Real Estate," by Frederick M. Babcock, est to investors because each treats of a phase discusses the basic principles underlying the of investing about which little, if anything valuation of real property and serves as a at all has appeared in print. Ralph E. Badger, practical guide for the appraisal of various Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown types of real estate. University, from material originally assembled The Revenue Act of June, 1924 necessitated for inheritance tax purposes, has written a a new edition of E. C. Kohler's "Accounting book, "The Valuation of Industrial Securities," Principles Underlying Fedcral Income Taxes," Prentice-Hall, in which his aim has been to Shaw, the first editlon of which appeared in "give the every day investor certain princi- 1924 Discussions of the various sources of ples to help him in arriving at hls independent incolnc, of deductions, of invested capital, of judgment regarding the values oi industrial rates of taxes and rcturns, with charts, forms, securities, whether actively traded in, or not." problenls and the text of the recent act, make E. L. Smith, In his "Common Stocks as Long up a large and comprehensive volume. SO Term Investments," Macmillan, presents a rapidly have chain stores developed and multi- novel study of the comparative value of bonds plied of late that H C. Greer's "Chain Store and common stocks. Accounting," McGraw, will be welcomed by the To asslst the general public in understand- chain store merchant, the accountant and the ing the present railroad situation, by tracing nlerchant who is competing with this method: the development of our "railroad net," by a of merchandising. The main theme of the presentation of the services of thc railway, by book is Lhe problen~scommon to chain sys- an analysis of the economics of railway enler- tcms in general but several chapters are de- prise and by a survey of railmad regulation, voted to special types of chains, Anthony B. was the ambition of Sidney L. Miller, Univer- Manning, in his little book 'Elements of Cost sity of Wisconsin, In writing his "Railway Accounting," McGraw, employs a number of Transportation, Prmciples and Points of graphic charts, with related explanatory text, View," Shaw. to make his points. Origmally a series of A seventh edition of John Yule's standard Icctures before his classes in the New York work, "An Introduction to the Thcory of Institute of Accountancy and Commerce, it Statistics," Griffin, London, has been issued, will also prove helpful to the executive who more because the sixth edition was rapidly wants to understand more clearly the exhausted than to include vital changes in the fundamental principles of cost accounting and text although, the author states, thc chapter its relation to accounting as a whole. A new on Association has been largely rewritten and tcxt 111 bookkeeping and elementary account- the list of references brought 'up to date. An- ing, preparcd in the Extension Division of other book of statistical theories but with a Wisconsin University, "Bookkeeping and In- decidedly practical application is Frederick C. troductory Accounting," by H. W. Sweeney, Mills' "Statishcal Method, Applied to Business has also been published by McGraw. Designed and Economics," Holt. The author is Asso- especially for study without class room aid, ciate Professor of Business Statistics, Colum- it will be cxceptionally valuable in libraries. bia University. Each chapter is summarized and problems Volumes 11 and III have been added to the bring out the plinciples of the immediately notable series bang sponsored by the Joint text. Comnlission representing the National Asso- Covering the whole field of credit but with ciation of Real Estate Boards, the United special stress on mercantile credit, T. N. Beck- Y.M.C.A. Schools and the Institute for Re- man, Ohio University, in his "Credits and search in Land Economics V. I, published Collections in Theory and Practice," %fcGraw, in 1923, was "Principles of Real Estate Prac- outlincs a scientific n~ethod of approaching tice," by Flsher. V. I1 is "Elements of Land this rapidly growing function of modern mer- Economics," by Richard T. Ely and Edward chandising. 13s section on Sources of Credit W. Morehouse. Its twofold purpose is "to Information seems particularly good and the deal in a scientific but elementary way with last three chapters, on Credlt Insurance, As- land as an economic factor, as other elemen- signments and Receiverships, Bankruptcy, are tary books in general deal with all economlc significant. Groups of references close each factors; and, second, to furnish a foundation chapter and customary terms of sales used in of economic principles for the treatment of credlt work are listed and defined in the ap- land as a commodity." V. 111, "The Appraisal pendix. J. H. Tregoe and John White, col- I68 .SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1915 laborating in a volume ~ublishedby Prentice- types of occupations with a short bibliography Hall, "Effective Credit Letters," limit their on each. discussion of credit to the collection letter it- "Taking the Guess Work Out of Business," self, which they recognize as having broad by William R. Bassett, Forbes, is an inspira- possibilities as an active business agent out- tional little volume but the inspiration is on side of its primary function of collecting a solid basis as the author's view point of overdue accounts. Both authors are officials business has been thal of both accountant and in the National Associat~on of Credit Men industrial engineer and he has actually anal- and the book is a practical one, consisting of yzed many businesses before he writes on a general and brief introduction in which the such topics as these, chosen from his chapter psychology of the collecting of accounts is headings : Guess Work vs. Scientific Planning, dwelt on and-occupying the greater part of The High Cost of Variety, Taking the Risk the volume-a large number of sample col- out of Buying, Eliminating the Financial Risk, lection letters with short explanatory para- The Sure Way to Profits. graphs. A well known auditor, Theodore I. Schnei- To the growing group of interesting biog- der, has prepared, as a guide for jobbers, raphies of special interest to business men, "Budgetary Control for the Cloak and Suit may be added Earnest St. Elmo Calkins' Industry," published by Maxwell Keller Pub- "Louder, Please," Atlantic. /Mr. Calkins has lishing Company, New York. From this a charming way of writing/as well as an in- data, drawn from actual businesses of this teresting story to tell of a small boy who nature, jobbers can prepare scientific budgets starts life in an Illinois prairie village, learns for their own concerns. The author an- to read early, keeps on reading, reads all the nounces the future publicition of a similar more, no doubt, because he is handicapped by study, "Budgetary Control in the Dress Indus- deafness, attends a school remarkably ahead try." of its day, gets hold of a printing press, meets A new textbook on retail trade is "Prin- a little magazine, Printer's Ifik-well, from ciples and Methods of Retailing," by James then on he was headed straight for the posi- H. Green, McGraw, a general survey of tion he now holds as one of the deans of the principles, finance, actual merchandising prac- advertising fraternity. Much philosophy, tice, publicity and service offered by the mod- much of the early history of advertising, ern large or small establishment. The author much inspiration for the young man contem- is personnel director in a large department plating the profession, may, be found along store of Pittsburgh and also an instructor in witK the story. Cyril C. Freer, practical news- the University of Pittsburgh School of Busi- paper and advertising man of London, pre- ness Administration. sents an English view of this field of business activity in his "The Inner Side of Advertis- Special Libraries Notice ing," Van Nostrand. It would compare better Readers of SPECIALLIBRARIES will be glad with American advertising books of a decade to learn that Mr. H. 0. Brigham, Editor, who ago than it does with our more recent ones underwent an operation for appendicitis last as it lacks what ours are striving to attain, week is making wholly satisfactory recovery a scientific approach to the subject. But tt It became necessary owing to Mr. Brig- is a practical summary of the details of the ham's illness to turn over to the President the business of advertising. There is a new print- galley proofs of this issue of SPECIALLIBRA- ing, with corrections, of F. J. Allen's "Ad- RIES. We trust that our readers will excuse vertising as a vocation," a book that since its the delay and any imperfections which the appearance five years ago ha? proved its use- magazine for this reason discloses. fulness to the young man entering business, D. N. HANDY,PRESIDENT. the advertising man and the vocational direc- tor. Convention Notice "Choosmg Your Life Work," by William June 23. At the New Ocean House, Rosengarten, McGraw, is in its second edition. Swampscott, Mass. Boston Regional Group of Written expressly for the vocational director Catalogers and Classifiers. Special meeting by a high school educator familiar with the during the sessions of the Massachusets Li- problems of the boy who is leaving school to brary Club and other New England Associa- go to work, the book includes a presentation tions. All eastern catalogers invited. of the necessity and means of choosing a vo- FLORAE. WISE, Secretary, cation and discussions of forty-three distinct Wellesley College Library. May, 1915 SPECIAL LIBRARIES THE LIBRARY AND RESEARCH We have been informed by J. David Thomp- within two or three years, is one indication son, director of the Research Information of the healthy development of the special li- Service of the National Research Council, brary idea among our business institutions. that the policy of the Research Information Service of the Councll has been changed and The Boston Transcript for April 8, 1925 in that service is now restr~ctcdto aiding scien- an article entitled "Boston, an Open Book," tific jnvestigators in connection with their re- describes the plans of the Extension Service search problems and that henceforth miscel- Committee of that city, a voluntary under- laneous scientific and technical inquiries from taking conducted. by a group of Bostonians, the general public will not be answered. among whom are many librarians. Commis- sions have been formed on educat~on,recrea- As a memorial to their father, Louis Liv- tion, religion, engineering, art, music and ingston, Julian and Nilton L. Livingston have evcry-day English. Mr. George Winthrop established at the American Inst~tuteof Bak- Lee, librarian, Stone & Webster, will be glad ing, Chicago, the largest scientific library in to furnish further information concerning the world on the fertnentation industries. It what is believed to be the first attempt to will be built up as a baking library, states issue city-wide information. the Journal of Indzistraal and Engineering Chemistry, although it was originally started by Dr. Max Henius as a library on yeast The Library Jozlrnal for April 15, 1925 and fermentation. Many of the original pub- features the literature of business. The lead- lications 01 Louis Pasteur are included in the ing article by Miss Ethel Cleland, a depart- library's shelves, as well as the assaults ment editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES, is entitled on Pasteur by Justus Leibig of Berlin "Reference Sources for Business Use." It and Giesscn. The library contains over compresses into a small compass a vast amount of useful information which is un- six thousand volumes and ten thous- usually valuable to every special librarian. and pamphlets and monographs. It will be Under the sub-headmg "Business Information developed under the direction of Dr. 13. E. Services" the Commercial Information Ser- Barnard, director of the Institute. vices Handbook, prepared by a committee of The library work of the Dennison Manu- the Special Libraries Association, is given facturing Company, Framingham, Mass., is prominence growing rapidly in all of its departments: Two uusigned articles also appear in the research, special reading courses, special in Library Jounzal, a selected list of current vestigat~on, information, publicity, and recre- business books published in recent months ation. Each of these departments IS crowded and an article relating to the General Elec- to the limit. The growth of this library from tric Company's publicity exhibit entitled "Sell- a one-librarlan institution to the present size ing the Library to the Company."

FOREIGN FIELD The Oxford University Press have recently tion, including library work, social service or published a History 01 Western Australia by public health J. S. Battye, L.H.D., public librarian of west- ern Australia. Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood of Boone Uni- verslty Library, Wuchang, China, who was A fellowship of $1~00 is announced by the largcly instrumental in sccuring from Con- American Association of University Women, gress remission oi the Chmese Boxer Indem- (Professor Agnes L. Rogers, Smith College, nlty, is eagcr that a portion of the indemnity chairman of Commiitee on Fellowships) open fund, to be used for cducational purposes, to women students of the Latin-American re- may be devoted to library development. It publics, its stated purpose being the prepara- is largely through Miss Wood's efforts that tlon of well qualified women for some form Mr. Arthur E. Bostwick as a representative of public service to their countries in educa- of the American Library Association is now SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1925 enroute to China to study the situation. cals and four hundred annuals and is in T. C. Tai, chairman of the Library Section charge of M. du Retail, already librarian for of the Chinese National Association for the the Ministry of Commerce. Eventually the Advancement of Education and librarian of list of periodicals and %annualswill be greatly Tsing Hua College Library, Peking, has also increased. been influentlal in arranging for Dr. Bost- The librarian is now at work cataloging wick's vislt. and organizing the material. On account of the restricted funds at the command of all L'fndusfrie Chimique describes a library of departments, the library at present is situated practical economic information recently in inadequate quarters. The government hopes opened in the "Office National du Commerce that the library will be freely used by busi- Exterleur" of France, where a notable assem- ness and manufacturing concerns. bly of officials was present at the dedication. It is evidently the first government library The library contains sixteen hundred periodi- of its kind in France.

EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS Miss Rebecca B. Rankin, Department Editor John Cotton Dana has an article in the Overbuilding tendencies in New York City Golden Book for April, 1925 under the title are discussed in "The Rental Market in de- "Books I Hope Will Last." lation to New Building Projects" by Spear and Co, 1261 Broadway, New York City. For figures on gold and silver, consult Samuel Montagu & Co's "Annual Bullion Let- The Proceedings of the ninth annual con- ter, 1924." vention of the Financial Advertisers' Asso- ciation held at Richmond, Va., contains a The American Management Association is- paper by Robert J. Izant of the Central Sav- sues an Office Executive series-the latest of ings National Bank and Trust Company, which is entitled "Training office Employees." Cleveland, on the "Development of Insurance Trust." Bureau of Railway Economics, Washing- ton, D.C. is responsible for the issuance of Paul M. Warburg's "Theory and Practice; "A Statistical Review of the Railroad Year, Price Fluctuations and the Discount Policies 1924." of Central Note Issuing Banks!' New York: Academy of Political Science, 1925, is a pam- The March, 1925 number of City Manager phlet useful to the financial libraries. Magazine is the annual number which con- tains the Proceedings of the Association. "Shifting of Income and Profit Taxes." New York: National Tax Association, 1924, The place oE the motor truck in the trans- in which Dr. David Friday refutes the theory portation system, including many statistics, that "no matter wherc the tax is levied it is wlll be found in the Wall Street Journal's "A finally shifted to the consumer in higher New Era in Transportation." prices."

The Jownal of fke American Statistical The March issue of the Equitable ENVOY, Association for March, 1925 presents the Can- which is published monthly for the members adian plan of organization of government sta- of the organization of the Equitable Trust tistlcs, preparcd by R. H. Coats, the Domin- Company, New York City, contains an illus- ion Statistician of Canada. trated article called "Solve Your Research Problems in the New Library," pages 21-4. A useful list is that published by the New York State Society of Certified Accountants, Chase National Bank of the City of New 30 Church Street, New York City. "Certified York. "The Gold Standard Versus a Man- Public Accountants in the State of New aged Currency," by B. M. Anderson, Jr. New York," December 31, 1924. York. Chase National Bank, March 23, 1925 May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 171

39p (Economic bulletin, Vol. 5, No. I.) dis- Thc Officc Manager, March, 1925, Vol. I, cusses Mr. Keynes theories and presents argu- No. 2, pages 57-8, "The Selection and Use of ments to prove that they are unsound. Libraries in Business Offices; Actual Work- ing Requirements Should Be the First Con- Thc Massachusetts Library Club Bulletin sideration In Planning Business Library" by for March, I925 presents a five-foot shelf or George Winthrop Lee. This is a suggestive library aids, including library economy, book general article. Incidentally, ~t'sinteresting to selection, children's work, school libraries, re- note that one of the faculty in Miss Brown's cruiting and training, special lists, indexes, School of Business in Milwaukee considered biograph~calmaterial and directories of pub- the article so good that she used it in dic- lishers. tating to one of her classes.

"No Time to Read," American Bankers As- Have you seen "Paper or Sawdust, A Plea sociation Jouynal, March, rg25, pages 586-7 is for Good Paper for Good Books," which a copy of the Roosevelt list as compiled by H. M. Lydenbcrg prepared for the Paper the Century in 1905. Manufacturers' Educat~onal Association 7 It has a gay binding with a gold design of some "Developn~ent of a Business Library," old printers at work (the same design in H. M. Byllesby and Company, 1905-1925, in reduced sizc is also on the title page). The Public Ltbraries, April, 1925, pages 193-4 gives paper and the type are beautiful and the text the history of an investment banking library. is delightful, altogether as charming an ad- vertisement as I have seen, and especially one for boolcy people. The Engineering Societies Library has re- cently compiled a list of references on "Re- inforccd Concrete Grandstands." Mimeo- The Bureau of Agricultural Economics of graphed copies of Lh~s list may be obtained the United States Department of Agriculture from the library at 29 West 39th Street, New has recently slarted a new series of bibliog- York City, for the price of $1 cach. raphic~ on agricultural economics. No. I carries that specific title and is compiled by The New York SUM,Research Department, Mary G. Lacy, librarian of the bureau. No. 2 has prepared a unique map, "The Shopping relates to flour milling and bread making, Place of Millions" which shows, by means of compiled by C. Louise Phillips and J. H. twelve colors the retail stores ol New York Shollenbcrgcr. No. 3 is entitled "A Begin- City visual~zing the exact location and ap- nlng of a Bibliography of the Literature of proximate size and floor plan of each, and liural Life" and No. 4 is a selected list of distinguishing betwecn kmds or classcs of reference on price spreads, comp~ledby Louise stores. 0. Bercaw.

A number of our special librarians do a Convention News-Transportation cons~derable bit of writing for magazines. Two articles by Miss Margaret Reynolds in The Transportation Committee will plan to the Bnqtker-Manufactztrer lor April, 1925, run busses direct from the North and South haye come to our atlention; one is entitled Stations in Boston to the New Ocean Ilouse "Books and Booklets for Busy Bankers," and in Swampscott meetmg long dislance trains, if the other, "When a Bank Opetls Its Doors" mernbcrs who have registered at the New is a distinctly practical suggestion about little Occan House will send a postal card to Lewis things wh~chencourage big business. A. Armistead, chairman, Transportation Com- mittee, Room, 711, Park Square Building, Bos- The Joztrnal of the City Council of the city ton, Mass., advising probable time of arrival of Chicago in its issue of April I, 1925, pre- in Boston. This service will not cost more than sents the report of Frederick Rex, municipal $1.25 from either station to the New Ocean rcference librarian The report shows in- creased duties on the part of the librarian, House and will obviate taxies in Boston or especially in relation to the distribution and Swampscott and train service. sale of city publications. Over seven thous- Unless twenty persons ask for this service and copies were sold during the fiscal year. busses cannot be hired. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

ASSOCIATIONS Boston time. Thls is in vertical file form containing The regular monthly meeting of the Special a classified collect~onof clippings, pamphlets, Libraries Association of Boston was held on photographs, etc. in over ten thousand folders March 30th in Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston and amounting, even at this stage, to over a University. After a short business meeting million items. the president introduced as the speaker Mr. In 1910 the International Museum was es- Godfrey Dewey, president of the International tablished. Through its gcographical, historicat Institute of Bibliography, who told in a most and scientific sections it attempts to visualize Interesting manner of the plan for a world the world and its contcnts and at present oc- center of organized co-operation in intellect- cupies over sixty-five large halls. Thirteen ual work countries have contributed to form a collec- This has already taken form and is suc- tion of twcnty thousand pieces. cessfully functioning through the following The most important step was talcen in the enterprises-the International Institute of same year when the Union of International Bibhography, the International Library, the Associations was founded. This includes in- Documentary Encyclopedia, the International ternational organizations of every kind. By Museum, the Union of International Associa- 1913 about two liundrcd and fifty associations tions and the International University. These had joined and while the Union suffered have been developed chiefly under Belgian severely during the war, it is now coming up auspices and the leadership of Senator Lafon- again. taine and M. Paul Otlet. They are now The final step (in 1920) was the establish- housed in the Palais Mondial at Brussels. ment of the International University, a loose The first step in the development of this federation of the universities of all countries. plan was taken when the International Insti- Beginning in 1922, it has held each year, for tute of Bibliography was founded in 1895 for the discussion of international problems, a the preparation and maintenance of a uni- two weeks conference, at the most recent of versal bibliographical catalog covering works which seventy-two speakers gave ninety-six of all times, all topics and all countries, lectures on eighty subjects. Twenty-three classed by author and subject. As a result of countrics are represented in the University. co-operation anlong all European countries So far the financial support has come chiefly and to a very slight degree from this coun- from private sources. Through efficiency and try, the catalog now contains twelve and one- co-operation concrete results have been half million cards. For a number of years achieved far greater than the amount of the International Institute of Bibliography has money expended would suggest. published the European edition of the decimal The International Institute of Bibliography classification. Last year a conference was has been recognized by the League of Nations held, wilh representatives of this country as its official bibliographical organization and present, for the purpose of bringing the ex- granted a small appropriation. Also a Com- pansion of this classification in Europe and mittee on International Co-operation has been America into accord. appointed by the League. The second step came in 1907 when the coI- With all of these organizations so success- lections of slxty-two small libraries of an in- fully demonstrating their usefulness, it is ternational character existing in Brussels were hoped that a more general co-operation in all joined to form an international library. In countries, both official and unofficial, may bring time this will contain a selection of the most about the realization of this plan for interna- important works of each country, all official tional co-operation in intellectual work. The publications, the independent periodicals and best place for this world center would seem monographs of all learned societies, and some to be at Geneva, which with the League of newspapers from all countries. It will be a Nations, is now the international center of depository for special international collections. gravity. This has not been dcveloped to any extent **** as yet. The Methods Committee of the S.L.A.B. The library is supplemented by a documen- sent out a questionnaire on pamphlets and tary encyclopedia, established at the same presented its preliminary report at the meet- May, 1925 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 173 ing of the Asssociation on March 30, 1925. formation, Miss Elizabeth Wray, librarian of Copies of this report may be obtained from the United States Rubber Co, Miss Ruth George W. Lee, chairman, 147 Milk St., Lavord, librarian of the International Educa- Boston, Massachusetts. tion Board and Miss Allie M. Pike, librarian of the Silk Association of America, who gave program Bibliography No. 2 discusses "In- very interestmg accounts of the work in each ternational Intellectual Co-operation Among particular field. Librarians." It notes the various intcrnation- An appeal was made through Mrs. Gardiner a1 library conferences beginning with the con- in charge of the Colleges and Universities ference at London in 1877. It mentions among Group for the Cathedral Fund Drive, and the libraries which have an international view- both moncy and pledges were received. New point, including the American Library in York Special L~brarieshas pledged the price Paris, the Library of the Carnegie Endow- of one stone, $50, but, as the amounts already ment for International Peace and the League received and pledged have exceeded this of Nations Library. Some general periodical amount, it is hoped that with a little more articles oi interest are noted and the program effort $1~will be obtained. concludes with a suggestion for members to search for themselves for other material on Philadelphia this subject. The Special Libraries Council of Philadel- **** phia and Vicinity were the guests of the Uni- The Boston S.L.A. held ~tsmonthly meeting versity of Pennsylvania Library on April 3rd. on the evening of April 27th at the Zion Re- After a brief meeting, Mr. Dickenson, libra- search L~brary,Brookline. Tlic general sub- rian, conducted a pilgrimage through the li- ject for dmussion was "Theological Librar- brary, where the visitors were shown the ies." The principal speakers were Miss Mary several additions to the University Library. M. Pdlsbury, libranan, General Theological The most important of these was the Henry Library, and Miss Elizabeth P. Sherman, li- Charles Lea wing, which gives the library new brarian, Boston Un~vers~tySchool of Reli- Periodical, Cataloging and Order Depart- gious Education. Mrs. Longyear described a ments ; and n fine hbrary of rare books, among recent visit to Jerusalem, which was illus- which are over one hundred incunabula. tratcd by lantern slides. There were a great many things not so new but quite as interesting, and altogether the The Education Committee of the Boston Council spent a delightful evening. Spccial Libraries Association, of which Mr. F. A. Mooney of the Dennison Manufacturing San Francisco Company is chairman, is conducting a course The March meeting of the San Francisco on Classification and Cataloging, as illustrated Special Libraries Association was held March in various spec~allibraries of the city. The 23d at the Ho-Ho Tea Room. This was the coursc is as follows: Law, Mr. Howard L. firsf dzwler meeti~lgof the Association and it Stebbms of the Social Law Library; T"'inance, proved a means of drawing several members Miss Marion G. Ealon, Fcdcral Rescrve who have not bcen able to attend the lunch- Bank; Aledlcal, Mrs. G~accW. Myers, Mass. eon meetings. General Hospital; Chemistry, Mr. W. P. Cut- The important topics for discussion at this ter, Arthur D L~ttle,Inc; Insurance, Mr. D. meeting were attendance at the A.LA. Con- N. Handy, Insurance Library Assoc; Social venlion in Seattle, and the information file Serv~ce, Miss Margaret Withington, Social of research material ava~lablein San Pran- Service Library. The course is well attended cisco business libraries. Miss Cox of the Fed- and is proving of much intcrest and value. eral Reserve Bank is chairman of the Com- mittee on a Union File and she has reported New York that a start has been made in collecting in- The New York Specla1 Libraries Associa- formation as to material In the various col- t~onheld its March meeting in the Officer's lections. Dinmg Room, Federal Reserve Bank of New The San Francisco organization has enrolled York at 33 Liberty Street, March 26th, at a number of new members within the past 6 p.m. The speakers of the evening were Mr. two months and is feeling the stimulus of Angus Iletcher of the British Library of In- these new contacts. I74 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1925

Boston Catalogers libraries has suggested a list of subject-head- The Boston Group of Catalogers and Classi- ings. Thc committee decided to make this fiers held their spring meeting April IS, at and somehow the work of compiling the "List the Boston Public Library, preceded by din- of Subject-Headings" was "wished on him." ner at Hotel Victoria. Sixty-two were He started and made the "Refer from" ref- present including two guests. The discussion erences. Mr. Cutter and Dr. Wyer were the of thc evening centered on Subject-Headings. other members of this committee. Mr. Jones Somc of the points considered included: (I) gave other interesting reminiscences of this Authority used in own library. (2) Supple- early work. mentary authority to bring headings up to Opcn discussion and questions which had date. (3) Reasons for using main authority. to be cut short by the lateness of the hour (4) What kind of a record is kept. (5) was followed by a vote to express the prefer- What should be the iourth edition of the ence of those present regarding the question "A.L A. List of Subject-Headings?" of the evening closed the meeting. Mr. Chase, reference librarian of Boston Public Library gave a brief address of wel- come. He spoke of the great importance of The Public Service of Fire Insurance wise decisions of subject-headings, of the (Cotzcluded from page 140) dependence of good reference work, buying of books and much else upon the careful, The Underwriters' Laboratories also is scholarly work put into good cataloging and maintained by the National Board. This classifyillg. unique, scientific institution tests articles, Mr. Currier, of Harvard College Library, supplies and processes of all kinds that as acting chairman of the A LA. Comlnltiee affect the fire hazard, fire fighting and on Cataloging, gave a statement of the situa- fire prevention. The Laboratories' main tion of the need of a new edition of "The office is in Chicago, but it has a large A.L.A. List of Subject-Headings," and ques- branch in New York Citjr and representa- tioned the form that should be followed. Then tives throughout the country. The MISSMary Elizabeth Hyde, Associate Profes- growth of this institution has been as- sor ol Library Science at Simmons College, tonishing, and it now issues millions of opened the discussion "Shall the 'A.L.A. List labels monthly to manufacturers whose of Subject-Headings' be republished?" As a productions have been tested and not teacher of wide experience her contribution found wanting for the purposes for was particularly valuable. She traced the which they were designed. development of both the "A.L.A. List of Sub- In co-operation with the National Fire ject-Headings" and the "Library of Congress Protection Association, the Board has List of Subject-Headings," carefully criticis- formulated numerous, standards of con- ing defects and emphasizing values. Speak- Ing of some of the tests to be applied to a struction and maintenance as they relate good list, she cited these three:-I. The to hazardous industries and these sug- present scope of the llst as compared with gested regulations are very generally ac- your present and prospective needs. 2. The cepted as the best technical thought upon provision made by the publisher to keep it up the subjects they treat. The Association to date. 3. The ease with which the list could has also been active in an educational be used. way and together with the Board has Four members of the group continued the promoted with increasing success the discussion Miss Marion A. Cookc, Provi- national observance of Fire Prevention dence Public Library; Miss Florencc hl Os- Week in the fall of each year. borne of Lynn; Miss Helen M.Laws, IYelles- ley College Library and Mr. Gardner M. Thus it is evident that the stock fire Jones, librarian of Salem Public Library. Mr. insurance companies, through the Na- Jones told of his experiences as chairman tional Board and affiliated organizations, of the original co-operative cornmlttee ap- have, with the years, rendered an in- pomtcd at the Lakewood conference in 1892 creasing service to the public both by im- to make recommendations or anything they proving material conditions and by les- pleased. He found that some one of the early sening the danger to life. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

PERSONAL NOTES Miss Margaret Wells, Department Editor Mrs. John Koren has been appointed libra- 6th last, taking as his subject "Common Sense rian of the Town Room, Boston, Mass. in Civic Development."

Miss Emma B. Hawks, assistant librarian Mrs. Cassie M. Lyne of Atlantic City, New of the United States Department of Agricul- Jersey, has joined the staff of the United ture, has left for a three months' trip to States Department of Commerce Library and France and Italy. Miss Mary E. Martin, formerly with the Li- brary of Congress, has accepted a temporary Miss Helen Squires, who was formerly in appointnicnt with the Library of the United heOsterhaut Library, Wilkes-Barre, has been Statcs Bureau of Agricultural Economics. appointed assistant librarian at Girard College, Philadelphia. Mr. George S. Maynard has been appointed by the Trustecs of the Boston Public Library Miss Annis L. Kinsman, formerly librarian to succecd Mr. Rowlands as first assistant in of the United States Naval Hospital Library the Special Libraries Department. He contin- at Chelsea, has accepted a position in ihe De- ues as chief of the Technology Division, also. troit Public Library. Miss Clara W. Herbert, assistant librarian Mrs. Gcotge S. Maynard has resigned as ol the Public Library and president-elect of librarian of the Massachusetts Horticultural the District of Columbia Library Association, Socicty and is reorganizing the library of has advanccd the suggestion that local sec- the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. Lions be organized for free and informal dis- cussion of professional administrative proh- Miss Wilma Trost, an assistant in the lems and bibliography. American Appraisal Library, Milwaukee, has recently been selected by Olson & Enzinger, At the District of Columbia Library Asso- Inc., Advertising Agency, to act as their re- ciat~onmeeting of March 27th a resolution search worker. was passed in commendation of the high pro- fessional services rendered by the late Dr. kllss Ethel A. Sl~ields,librarian of the East- T. B. Thompson, recently placed in charge man Kodak Company, is publishing short ot the Division of Documents 01 the Library lists of books on various subjects in Kodak of Congress, who died as the result of in- Mngasias, for employees of the company. juries received when struck down by an inter- urban trollcy car. Dr. Thompson brought a Mr. Louis H. Bolander, at one time assis- wealth of skill and enthusiasm to his new tant librarian of the New York I~Iunicipal task and madc many friends in Washington Reference Library and now reference librarian and his clcah is a great loss to the prolession. of Duke University at Durham, N.C., re- pork that Mrs. Bolander, after a serious oper- Our Cover Design ation, 1s on the road to good health. The cover design of thls issue of SITCIAL Mlss Edna L. Stonc, assistant librarian of LIUI~ANESconsists of a reduced photocopy of one c)f thc earliest fire irlsurance policles in thc United States Department of Labor Libra- existence. It is from the officc of Nicholas ry, IS thc compilcr of a "List of References on Barbon, coturnonly known as the father of Min~mun~Wage for Women In the United fire insurance, and is dated 1683. But two Stales and Canada," issued as Bulletin No. 42 other copies of policies from this officc are of thc Women's Bureau of the Labor Depart- known to be in existence; one 01 them is in the British Museum. ment We intended to devote this number to iti- surancc in all its branches. The bigness of Mr. Dorscy W. Hyde, Jr., chief of the Na- the field, howcver, atid [he limlted space avail- tional Civics Bureau of the Chamber of Com- able in a single issue of SPECIALIABRARIES merce of the United States, addressed the madc it necessary to limit this issue to Pire and Casualty Insurance. Numbers dcvoted to Annual Civic Dmner of the Homestead, other branches of insurance will appear from Pennsylvania, Chanibcr of Commerce, April time to time later. Pages 177-160 deleted, advertising.