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ALLEGHENY COUNTY LAW LIBRARY, PITTSBURGH, PA. MR. J. OSCAR EMRICH, LIBRARIAN

Entered an second claaa matter at the Post Oflice, Providence, R. I. under the Act of March 8, 1879. Acccptnnce for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October a, 1917, nuthorized October 22, 1927. Rates: $6.00 a year. Foreign $6.50; .single copies 60 cents. Contents ARTICLES

Community Service of a Public Health Library. By Adeline M. Macrum...... 42 Library of Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. By Lois Heaton ...... 37 Sketch of Small Library Devoted to the Arts. By Blanche K. S. Wappat ...... 33 Technical Department Library of Aluminum Corn- pany of America. By Mary Elizabeth Key ...... 39 Westinghouse Electric Research Library. By C. A. Schlesinger ...... 3 5 -NOTES A. L. A. PeriodicalsSec- Hackley Library Refer- tion...... 47 ence Service...... 53 Architectural Library.. 47 N,, classifications for Bibliographical Society ~~~i~~~~~ib~~~i~~ . , -. - .. - 46 53 Business Library Sec- Providence Public Li- tion ...... 52 brary ...... 34 Civil Service Examina- tion ...... 47 Research Problems ...... 53

DEPARTMENTS Associations ...... 48 Events and Publica- tions ...... 5 1 Committee Activities.. 49 Financial Group..- ...... 50 Editor's Desk...... 45 President's Page ...... 44

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Vol. 19 FEBRUARY. 1928 No. 2 A Sketch of a Small Library Devoted to the Arts By Blanche K. S. Wappat, Librarian of Carnegie Institute of Technology HE Arts Branch of the library of used for photographs and architectural Caraegie Institute of Technology plates. The best of the illustrations in isT essentially a special library if we define each issue of dlarchitectural periodicals one as "a library composed of special are checked by the Head of the archi- material ; or one administered in a special tectural school. Once or twice each year way." Antedating the general library these plates are mounted, classified, and of the Institute by several years, it was filed. The library binds intact certain originally called the Library of the magazines, of which two copies are School of Applied Design. It was or- bought-one for binding and one for ganized in 1913, since when it has grown mounting. These plates are circulated from a collection of a few hundred books freely, being loaned for use in the and plates, to a library of considerable drafting- rooms and studios of the value and unique character. It is located college. in the north wing of the College of Fine For miscellaneous illustrations and Arts. clippings, manila sheets nine by twelve It is architecturally unusual and inches, or eleven by fourteen, are used. beautiful. The high walls are of panelled By the use of metal rings, a number of oak, inlaid with mahogany and ebony. these may be held together, forming The hand-moulded ceiling is of white separate ephemeral volumes on "Ani- plaster in delicate relief, following the mals," "Fairies," "Ships" and no doubt design of an old Eastern rug. Unusually sealing wax, cabbages and kings! These large heavy tables are used, for the more plates are of course, quickly detachable convenient handling of the huge books for use. which form so large a part of the col- Books and plates are classified by an lection. Modified Windsor chairs, inlaid expansion of the Dewey decimal system. to harmonize with the walls, were Lantern slides, of which we have selected. This inlay design is also carried about ten thousand, are used by faculty out on the table legs. There are inviting in courses on history of art, architecture, cushioned window seats. A fireplace painting, furniture, and costume. Some at the end of the room has an exquisite of these are bought from art slide dealers, marble relief, of the Babes in the Wood, but the majority are made locally from the work of Charles Keck. The room was our own books and plates. The slides designed by Henry Hornbostel. are filed, card-catalog fashion, in drawers In this library is placed material on fitting into the wall, and concealed by architecture, painting, decoration, il- swinging panels. A special classification lustration, sculpture, theater, costume, scheme, worked out at the college, is and allied arts. Books on the history used. Many guide cards, also "See1' and technique of music are included, and "See Also" cards are used. but the music scores are filed in the We have a central dictionary catalog department of music. The book col- in the general library, but Arts Branch lection is choice, although small, num- books are at present entered by author bering about four thousand volumes. only. In the card catalog in the Branch, The plate and picture collection is ap- however, the special collection is rather proximately thirty thousand. Heavy closely cataloged, many subject headings cardboard mounts, eleven by fourteen and analytics being used. Part of the inches, and fifteen by twenty inches, are catalog is devoted to an interesting indes 34 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928 to modern American architecture. Plates asking for examples of all Mayan archi- added to the collection are entered tecture which could be found, to be used under architect, and location, thus for inspiration. enabling one to find quickly the principal Or perchance, in the stage settings works of many architects. In similar of a play which has set the country fashion, one can find indexed the build- agog, it is a joy to recognize the sketches ings of prominence in each city. which the artist showed us, after his Among the interesting collectipns hours of work among our books. owned by the library is a series of prompt Or, (and this happily is a joy which books, required by the drama school as comes to us frequently) to hear that our theses, one to be submitted by each student, who has used the library faith- graduating student. Usually a play fully and well, has received a Beaux which has been produced in the Little Arts medal or mention, or the Steward- Theater of the college, is selected as a son scholarship, or the Paris Prize! subject, by the student. The finished In the little library of the College of prompt book, of heavy paper, contains Fine Arts, and in the Reference de- text, stage directions, costume and partment of Carnegie Library, are setting information, and frequently at- surely excellent sources of pleasure and tractive sketches or photographs of cast inspiration. ' and stage are included. Here in this city of steel and industry Tracing with pen and ink is permitted there is a strong feeling and desire for in the library except when the required beauty. Here among our excellent book is rare or very expensive, when public, college and technical libraries, direct tracing must be done with pencil. are those coll'ections devoted, no less, Two of the large tables are covered with to a necessary and vital part of life. sheets of heavy paper, and all tracing Pittsburgh-the great, the rich, the must be done at these tables. The paper grimy,-is full of beauty unique and is changed as it becomes stained. haunting. She has the beaut9 of rugged Students are, with a few exceptions, contour, and river-haze; of smoky red allowed easy access to the entire col- sunsets and brilliant furnace-glow lection of books and plates. They are against the night sky. To those who erkouraged to browse around and find know and partly understand her, she is things for themselves. a city of splendid accomplishment and The Arts Branch is not intended for possibility. public use. However its policy is to Carnegie Institute of Technology, in extend its privileges to any one who its Fine Arts College, is realizing a can get needed material in no other way. magnificent dream. And, in its little A number of architects and other artists, special library, we love to think that each both local and distant, have used the plate may be an Aladdin's lamp, to resources of the library, and we are banish dinginess from life, each book a frequently asked for special information. magic carpet, bringing new dreams. The assistant in charge of the Branch is on the general staff of the library of C. I. T., and there is full co-operation Providence Public Library between branch and library. The Providence Public Library has One of the joys of librarianship is to just celebrated a double fiftieth an- see in concrete form, the results of work niversary, double because Mr. William done for others. To read a book, after E. Foster has been librarian since the we have helped the author assemble beginning of the Library. Providence material, for its making; to witness the was justly proud of both librarian and success of an engineering or an economic library and had a week of celebration project, for which the resources of the beginning on February fourth. Mr. library have been used-these things George H. Locke of thc Toronto Public give us the pleasant satisfaction of some- Library was the principal speaker of thing real accomplished. We are always the occasion and those of us in Provi- thrilled when, seeing perhaps a building dence who found him a genial host at rising white stone on white stone, we the Toronto Conference in 1927 found remember that its architect came to us him an equally delightful guest. February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 35 The Westinghouse Electric Research Library, East Pittsburgh, Pa. By C. A. Schlesinger, Librarian surveying the growth of libraries are used as far as possible, but often INattached to some of the industrial with more analytical entries. plants, one becomes impressed with the The collectioil is steadily increasing, fact that seemingly all have gone thru as a certain sum is allotted annually for the same stages of development. Hap- the use of the library. The excellent hazard in the beginning, with no par- character of the collection is clue to the ticular system or method of classihca- careful manner of selecting material tion, they are usually manned, if at all, to be added. This is done, much the by inesperienced help. It gradually samc as in public libraries, by the bccame clear that if a library is to be- Library Conmittee which meets quar- come an aid and an essential factor in terly with thc librarian to consider what the growth of any plant and is to assume books should be obtained, having pre- its proper place, it involved the intro- viously prepared a list from book: re- duction of a modern scientific system views, requests, books sent on approval, of applied library work. and other sources. This list is divided Happily for the Westinghouse Re- into classes as follows:-Mathematics, search Library, the inception of the Physics, Chen~istry,which includes Ce- library was almost simultaneous with ramics and Petroleum Technology, Me- the expansion of the Research Depart- chanics and Mechanical Engineering, ment, as it was recognized very soon Electrical Engineering, Metallurgy and that some kind of a library was essential. GeneraI, and each member of the Com- mittee is responsible for certain classes. Established in 1917, when the Re- From this it is seen that many phases search Department of the Westinghouse of engineering are covered, although Electric Sr Manufacturing Company the greater number of books are of a moved into its new building, it has theoretics! or scicntific, rather than of a steadily expanded from a very small technical or practical nature, as is fitting collection until now there are over 2,000 in a Research Dcpartment. books and as many periodicals and transactions of societies, in addition to It was originally intended to obtain about 500 pamphlets, lantern slides and only those books which were "needed as sundry other items. The space allotted working tools," but the scope has wicl- at that time has now proved to be enecl to inclucle those books most es- inadequate, but it is hoped that in the sential for reference in all the various near future additional space may be phases of work going on in the Depart- provided for the housing of the con- ment, although there is no attempt stantly increasing collection. made to provide a complete reference library. Our collection is very ably The library was at first supervised supplemcntecl by the Technology De- by the Manager of the Department, but partmcnt of the Carnegie Library of later, as the personnel and the library Pittsl~urg.11. We rely, too, on our con- was increased, by a library committee tacts with other special libraries and composed of four members, ancl it was on inter-library loans with the larger not until 1923 that a librarian was ap- public libraries, when it is necessary to pointed to take charge. consult books otherwise seldonl used, Previous to this, the books were or possibly too rare or difficult to ob- acccssioned and catalogued under au- tain to warrant their purchase. thor only, but then the Dewey decitnal Al~nost200 periodicals, 58 of which classification and the estension pre- are in foreign languages are on the pared by the Engineering Experiment library subscription list, which is re- Station of the University of Illinois was vised annually. The back numbers are adopted. Library of Congress carcls not as yet classified, but are arranged 36 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928 by subject, alphabetically under each periods only-from one clay to one week class, 011 numbered shelves. A list, or -as it is not the policy of the library to "Directory of Magazines," as it is callccl, duplicate material escept when the need giving all information regarding the is very urgcnt. volumes and years on file and their The rcfercnce .work clone both for location, is posted on the front of the this ancl other clepartn~entsis an im- stacks. This "Directory" is an inclis- portant part of the work. pensable aid in finding out quickly what The library issucs no bulletins or lists periodicals and transactions are avail- of current literature but all new publica- able. Current magazines are kept on tions are scanned when rcceived and, if racks for a rnonth before filing. The an article appears to be of special interest more popular jo~~rnalsand those of to any individual, a note is sent him ephemeral interest are destroyed at the giving the author, title and location. end of a year attd the remaining ones bound. In summing up the above facts, it is The file of reports ancl pamphlets lastly seen that the function of the is another valuable source of informa- Westinghousc Research Library is many tion. The reports of other Engineering sided. Every phase of the work is Departments are filed in a scparate considercd as an integral part of the bureau but are available for loan upon library, this becoming an essential request. factor and aid to men engaged in re- The Research Library was estab- search work. lished primarily as a reference library That the value and need of special for the use of the Research Dcpart~nent libraries are becoming more apparent only, but its service has estcnded to and are gradually being installed in the practically every engineering clepart- large industrial plants is only an in- ment, as no other library in the plant, dication of our scientific age. Books, which nlaintairis no central lihrary, is reports, information of any kind be- so complete as the one in this Depart- come valuable only as the need for using ment. Any employee of the Coqany them ariscs. Then they must be found, is erititlecl to borrow any material on each in its proper place and this is the file here, but loans are restricted to short answer of the Special Library.

-- ANOTHER VIEW OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY LAW LIBRARY February, 1918 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 3 7 The Library Mellon Institute of Industrial Research By Lois Heaton, Librarian ELLON Institute's research system cates, slag, synthetic resins, vitrified M had its beginning at the University sewer pipe, carbon black, cereal, clean- of Kansas in January, 1907, when Dr. ing, cotton yarns, edible gelatin, hospi- Robert Kennedy Duncan first put into tal survey, insecticides, iodine, sleep, actual operatibn his Industrial Fellow- sleeping equipment, steel, food varieties, ship idea. In March, 1911, this system carbonated beverages, dental products, was brought to the University of Pitts- fatty acids, fur, insulating lumber, burgh, and in 1913 Andrew William laundering, licorice, pharmaceuticals, Mellon, now Secretary of the Treasury, naval stores, school supplies, surgical and his brother, Richard Beatty Mellon, supplies, textiles, utensils, and waxes. established the present institution, which Most of the Institute's researches are in not only bears their name, but is also a the province of chemistry, but investiga- memorial to their father, Thomas tions are also being conducted in the Mellon, and to Robert Kennedy Dun- fields of physics and biology. can. The first stage of Industrial Fellow- "The industrial research of the In- ship work is preparatory, and includes a stitute is organized on a contract basis, critical study of the literature of the the problem being set by a person, firm subject to be investigated. Each in- or association interested in its solution, cumbent of an Industrial Fellowship the scientific worker being found and submits a report of what he has found engaged by the Institute, and an In- on his subject in the literature before he dustrial Fellowship being assigned for and his advisers actually plan the sub- a period of at least one year. Each sequent experimental work. holder of an Industrial Fellowship is Let us look at the Library facilities given for the time being the broadest provided -by the Institute for its per- facilities for accomplishing a definite sonnel. The Library organizatioll was piece of research, and all results obtained begun in 1913 with an appropriation of by him belong exclusively to the founder $20,000, which was invested in standard (donor) of the Fellowship. Only one chemical reference books and in chemical investigation is carried out on a par- and technical periodicals. At that time, ticular subject at any one time and due to the fine spirit of coijperation that hence there is no duplication of the prevailed then as now in the Technology research activities of the Fellowships Department of the Carnegie Library of in operation."l At the present time Pittsburgh, which is but a ten-minute (January 15, 1928), there are 60 Fellow- walk from our building, it was thought ships on which 110 chemists and en- unnecessary to purchase volumes of gineers are engaged in research. journals previous to 1900. At present, Anlong the subjects now under in- however, as funds and opportunity vestigation in the Institute are the fol- make possible, we are gradually filling lowing: Coke, fertilizer, heat insulation, in the earlier volumes oi the incomplete natural gas, paper finishing, petroleum sets. During the year 1927 we received refining, petroleum production, yeast, 256 periodicals currently, and of this industrial alcohol, organic synthesis, number 158 will be bound. Many of the phenol, aluminum, cast iron, chrome ore, files which we do not bind, we store .composite glass, enamel, flat glass, glass away, and these are always available for prdduction, foundry practice, scales, reference. Our books and journals come insulators, Portland cement, protected to us from all over the world, although metals, refractories, rock products, sili- the majority are American, English and

lMellon Institute of Industrial Research: "Industrial Fellowships," 1924. See also Diroctor.Weidleln's abstract of Fourlesnlh Annual Report, Ind. Eng. Chem., News Editlod, 6 (1927), no. 7, 2-3, 12; and Hamor, W. A. Special Libraries. 14 (1928), 17-22. 38 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928

GerF Other publications are re- and extranlural research workers fre- ceived from Franc'e, Belgium, Holland, quently make use of our collection, how- Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, ever, through the inter-library loan China, Australia, India, and The Phlllp- system and through spccial permission. pines. The book collection is classified by This Special Library now contains the Library of Congress system, which about 9,000 books and periodicals. we find very satisfactory for a library Statistics show that 590 volumes were in a very special field. All new material acquired in 1926, while 667 were added is cataloged as soon as cards are avail- during the past year. Our book allow- able. Our card catalog is a straight dic- ance IS almost unlimited, and we pur- tionary arrangement, in which we have chase all the more important books and included references to the information periodicals relating to the varied re- file of ephemeral and pamphlet material. search work that is being actively carried I11 March of each year the Librarian on in the Institute. Regardless of a prepares a list of all the books, bulletins, very crowded condition at present, we journal contributions, and patents of aim to purchase all important literature the members of the Institute during the published in the special fields of chem- preceding calendar year. Bibliographic istry, chemical technology and related Bulletin, No. 1, published in 1922, subjects. Besides the regular books and covered all the publications by the periodicals, the Library maintains a file Institute membership during the period of trade literature from about 1,000 1911 (when the Institute opened here manufacturers. This material is filed in Pittsburgh) through 1921. This alphabetically by company and is kept compilation was made by Mrs. Clara in file cases, the bou~lcl catalogs being Guppy Stateler, who was then Li- given shelf space. Society and industrial brarian. Each year thereafter, supple- directories are in much demand, and we tneilts have been issued in inimeographed would find difficulty in functioning with- form. These supplements, together with out our collection of city telephone Bibliographic Bulletin, No. 1, were directories and registers of American cumulated in 192'1 to form Bibliographic industries. Bulletin, No. 2. This publication con- The Library is principally used for tains 1,434 entries, divided as follows: reference purposes, but there are be- 12 books; 52 bulletins, 844 journal con- tween 200 and 300 books in constant tributions; 314 United States patents, circulation. The charging system is very and 211 foreign patents. The entries simple, our borrowers being able to are numbered consecutively throughout, charge all material for themselves. and are arranged alphabetically by There is no time limit set for the return author under each group, with cross- of books, although it is tacitly under- references for joint authors. The stood that journals shall not be kept out Bulletin also has a complete subject longer than is absolutely necessary. index, which facilitates its use. Anyone Once every two months all library interested in Bibliographic Bulletin, No. material charged out is supposed to be 2, or in other Institute publications, can checked up. Books not in use are re- obtain copies upon direct application. turned to the Library, while material Among the other bibliographic ser- still needed is renewed. We find that vices available to members of Mellon very few books are lost during a year, Institute are several select lists of ab- and often those that seem to have dis- stracts, compiled weekly or monthly, appeared turn up when they are least by Industrial Fellows. In these ab- expected. The Library hours are from stracts attention and space are chiefly 9-5, but the Industrial Fellows have given to the foreign and the less avail- access to the room at all times. Since able American journals. Whenever the Library is primarily for the use of possible, the abstracting is done from the Institute membership and for the the original, and photostatic copies can faculty and graduate students of the be furnished at cost Whereas the cir- University of Pittsburgh, books and culation of some of these abstracts is other material are seldom loaned to strictly confidential, the Pine Institute individuals outside. Other libraries of America publishes each month a February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 39

mimeographed bulletin called "P. I. A. tenance of a distinct bibliographic ser- Abstracts.'' Dr. W. B. Burnett, who is vice bureau in the Library. The ob- in charge of the Pine Institute of jective of the Institute's system is to America Fellowship at the Institute, produce specialists in branches of tech- is the abstractor and compiler. He aims nology, and this aim makes it necessary "to cover all the current literature con- for each Fellow to become acquainted cerning pine-tree products with the with and to follow the literature of his exception of news items, statistics, and subject. In some cases the Fellows build the chemistry and utilization of the wood up for themselves files of material re- for lumber, pulp, etc." Original copies lating to their particular work which is of articles abstracted may be borrowed too specific to be in the general Library. from Dr. Burnett at Mellon Institute, For example, Dr. E. W. Tillotson, one or, if the original cannot be furnished, of the first Fellows and now an Assistant photostatic copies will be supplied at Director of the Institute, who is a cer- cost. The first issue of "P. I. A. Ab- amic specialist, has in his office a file stracts" appeared in August, 1927. of gIass literature that is perhaps un- Libraries interested in such subjects as surpassed in this country. This is only rosin, turpentine, naval stores and the one example of many valuable files main- like may have their names added to the tained at the Institute which are avail- Pine Institute's nlailing list to receive able to thosc Fellows who need them in copies of the Abstracts by applying to their research work. The Library staff, the Pine Institute of America, Inc., consisting of two trained librarians and Barnett Bank Building, Jacksonville, a clerical assistant, are able to take care Florida. The Pine Institute is also pre- of all the regular routine and general pared to furnish back numbers for those reference work. who desire a complete set. The Library is regarded as one of the Almost no bibliochretic work is done most important departments of the by the Librarians of Mellon Institute, Institute, and is accorded all the privi- as each Fellow docs his own literature searching and studying. The scope and leges that pertain to such a recognition. variety of the Institute's research ac- It also ranks high among the chemical tivities are too large to justify the main- libraries of the United States. The Technical Department Library of Aluminum Company of America By Mary Elizabeth Key HE technical library of Aluminum The Dewey decimal classification sys- T Company of America was estab- tem is being used with the metallurgy lished about 1919 to serve the Tech- section expanded. The correspondence nical Department of the colnpany which and reports are grouped according to includes the Research and the Technical the subject matter and cards are typed Direction Bureaus. Its ambition is to and placed in the general file. Mr. have everything "known" about alum- Dewey only left one number (669.7) inum available "at a moment's no1 ice." for the metallurgy of aluminum and he The library has charge of the central would probably be surprised at the files of the Technical Department of service which it has to perform. The the company, including both letters expansion of Dewey is interesting, but and repoh. The collection of patents, applicable only to the aluminum indus- patent correspondence, technical corre- try; there are divisions for aluminum spondence and reports is far larger in compounds, production of aluminum, bulk than the technical books and applications of the metal, alloys, fab- journals on the shelf although every rication, etc., all subdivided with suf- technical book is purchased for which ficient detail to make filing and search- there is a reasonable demand. ing accurate and rapid. The same 40 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928 classification is used for correspondence, list includes a very representative col- patents and books and when one is lection of dictionaries for the English, familiar with the subdivisions it is an French, German, Italian, Norwegian, easy matter to find material on the same Danish, Swedish, Spanish and Russian subject in either the patent or the report languages. The collection of works on file. aluminum is extremely useful and effort The material in the general file (cor- has been made to have this collection respondence and reports) is permanent as complete as possible. and is retained in 10 by 12 inch en- One of the most iinportanthctivities velopes in the usual metal filing cabinets. of the library staff is the monthly A title entry is inadc for each folder of publication of the Abstract Bulletin. letters and as many subject cards as are The library rcceivcs about fifty tech- necessary, filing under company names, nical magazines which are distributed trade names and captions of letters. In regularly among the staff for abstracting. filing reports the author card is the main This list includes the patent office entry; the face of the card shows the journals of the United States, Great division from which the report Britain, Canada, Norway, Germany originated, its serial number and date and Austria. The magazines are re- as well as the title. Thc circulation of turned to the library with articles this material exceeds that of the other marked "B" for which bibliography groups of library material. cards are to be made and filed and An attempt has been made to collect articles marked "A" which are also to and maintain a complete file of the be included in the Abstract Bulletin. United States and foreign patents which Most of the abstracting of technical pertain to the industry so it is readily articles is done by members of the understood that this file is quitc ex- technical staff especially interested in tensive. The foreign countries covered the field covered by the journal. These quite completely are England, Germany, abstracts are given a card for the France. Cards are made under the name Abstract Bulletin file; then the ab- af the patentee, the number of the patent stracts are collected and edited, stencils and its subject matter. These cards are made and the company printer stand in a separate file which also in- mimeographs the bulletin. About three cludes cards for the patent correspond- hundred copies are distributed to the ence. This file has proven invaluable in members of the technical department, making rapid and complete searches on sales department, and heads of the pro- any phase of the aluminum art. A1- duction departments. Its distribution is though the same classification is used confined within the company. The for patents and correspondence there is bulletin is quite useful in keeping the a "subject headings" list for each. executive, sales aod technical force in The one for the patent file contains touch with what is being said about fewer headings, because the whole file aluminum the world round. Up to the is smaller; it includes a wider range of present time no index has been compiled subjects but in less detail. The subject although during the past six months headings list for the general card indes there has been some demand for one. is worked out in detail for this particular The bulletin has been published since industry and is a growing affair, for 1919 and the abstract cards have been research on aluminum is continually carefully kept, so the material for leading the department into new lines building an index is at hand when it is of investigation. de'cided that one should be available. The book collection needs no special As reported before the bulletin is a copy explanation as it includes the books issued monthly and generally contains usually needed in a technical reference about twelve to fourteen pages of library. The larger portion is composed abstracts. of the transactions of technical societies, The magazines after the abstracting reprints of papers, handbooks and tests work is completed are routed to other on general metallurgy, chemistry, geol- members of the department who may ogy, engineering and physics. Chemical be interested, or they are filed in the Abstracts is used a great deal. The library. The more important maga- February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 41

zines are bound annually and placed on locate material it is felt that an extra the shelves. Those that are not bound card may facilitate matters, while too are more difficult to handle; they are few cards may cause unnecessary delay. wrapped in packages for storing. It In following the thought of the recent is not the practice to clip articles from convention at Toronto the Ali~rninun~ the magazines, but the whole publica- Company library "contacts" with li- tion is preserved. At the present titne braries of Pittsburgh have been most only one newspaper The United States pleasant and useful. With Carnegie Daily is being taken. The current copy Library within commuting distance and is found on the magazine rack with the public utilities and other comrpercial current magazines. collections available, we have received The magazine subscriptions and book valuable helps from our neighbors. orders are sent dircctly from the li- However, we cannot always reciprocate l~rary. Books ate ptrrchased upon the such kindnesses, for most of our collec- recommendation of the Director of tion is of a confidential nature and is not Research ancl his assistant. Suggestions for circulation outside the company. as to books to be bought for the library Very little translation work is done are made by inembers of the depart- in the library. It has been found that ment who may be particularly interested the men of the staff well versed in in them. There are no "clivision li- metallurgy and chemistry do this work braries," but in some cases books have with greater ease, speed and correctness. been charged permanently to the Physi- I-Iowever, some training in foreign lan- cal-Chemistry Division, the Physical- guage is asked of the library staff, for Testing Division, etc. Such books are they must recognize the French and usually only of particular interest to German as such and at least he able to that group of men; it rarely happens translate titles. that these books are called for from The actual questions which come to another department in which case the thc library arc always interesting and charge can be easily changed. In adcli- may cover as nlany subjects as a five tion many of the technical staff have and ten cent store contains articles. extensive personal libraries, usually During one day last week there were along special lines. requests for some general material on The library staff makes an annual psycl~ology,a request to order a copy check of its records. Thcre is no time of a property act of the Irish Free State, limit for returning material in circula- a question on the meaning of a certain tion because the group of men using the French idiom and the usual run of calls library is small, and very little of the for pamphlets, articles, books, transla- matcrial leaves the building. Once a tions, letters and patent office actions. year letters are sent to each person Very often requests for letters take this charged with material and he is asked form, "Two or three years ago we wrote to check his files for the library material Mr ...... about the fabrication of a and to return it if he has finished with certain' material ; will you please find it. These letters generally cause a stir what he said about it?" Or perhaps for as soon as they are received the owner someone brings a letter from the Berlin begins a small house cleaning of his own or Paris office about an alloy and the desk and book shelf. inquirer wants to know what information For labeling books, aluminum paint the library has on the subject. is used in place of a linen label. It is The sales apprentices of the company easily st,enciled ancl looks well with have been using the library as a study India ink lettering. Most of the cards room and this has greatly increased the are typed, for the greater part of the clientele. This group follows very material comes from within the com- carefully the shelf material on the metal- pany and Library of Congress cards lurgy of aluminum. Whatever questions would not cover this sort of work. The come to us, whether technical or non- card files are extensive both for the technical, we try to give or to locate patent and non-patent group and it the source of the answer and in this way takes a great deal of time to make and serve as an information bureau as well file cards. The file contains something as the storehouse of the company's over 10,000 patents. When it is time to technical information. 4 2 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February. 1928 Community Service of a Public Health Library By Adeline M, Macrum, Librarian, Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh rcnlarliable progress maclc with- teilsion of libraries was given a furtller THEin thc past few clccades by science impctus as the mecliaeval ~~niversities in all its branches is very gratifying. increascd in importance and broadened Medicine and public hygicne 111 par- in scope. The invention of printing in ticular are profiting enormously by the the middle of the 15th century made advances in physics, chemistry, biology, avnilal~le inany copies of the ancient psychology ant1 sociology. It is well to and mecliaeval meclical treatises, while remember, however, that this progress the assembling of this mass of material is not a sudden growth, but is in reality into medical libraries in the larger the frui.t of the long, painstaking work educational centers of the old world of men who for thousands of years have followed as a matter of course. been working, more or less in the dark, \Vlth this history as a background, on phases of these same problems. and a tradition of humanitarian service They gathered bits of knowlcclge here ovcr nineteen zenturies old, let us con- and there, made discoveries, proved sicler our own era. There are in 1928 hypotheses, disproved others, ancl pre- over two hundred medical libraries in served much of the information ac- the United States. By far the largest quired for the use of future generations. ancl most important of these is that of It is this cumulation from many different the Surgeon General at Washington, sources that has enabled modern workers with its 350,000 volumes, rich in in- to piece together all parts of the puzzle cunalula, historical collections of rare picture, and has made the librarian's books, and the most complete file of opportunity to aid in creative work. medical periodicals in the world. It The library, of course, is one of the contains much public health material primary factors in the gathering to- which it lends to smaller libraries on gether in one spot of valuable data request. for the use of students and scientists. Of the two hundred nlcdical libraries Carlyle has said: "All that mankind above mentioned, only ten are speci- has done, thought, gained or been, fically public health collections. In we see lying as in magic preservation Washington, D. C., there are the two in the pages of books." Looking back, libraries of thc United States Public we see cuneiform tracings on clay, Health Service,-that of the Hygienic later papyri, then manuscripts, then Laboratory with 12,250 volumes and printed books, all being collected in over 10,000 pamphlets, and thc library various parts of the world, catalogued of the Bureau of Public Health Service with loving care by men who gave their with 7,500 volumes. In Baltimore, the lives to this work, the dignity of whose Johns Hopkins School of Public Health office, we are told, "was such that it and Hygiene has a library of 10,000 was on occasion claimed as a prerogative volumes. New York city contains a by those of royal blood." number of important health libraries, The first man to collect a medical the Rockefeller Foundation collection, library, accorcling to Strabo, was the begun as a library on hookworm, has Greek philosopher Aristotle, who died extended its scope to include public 322 B. C. Alexandria, Rome and health, and now contains 20,000 Constantinople contained the great li- volumes. Another interesting health braries of antiquity. The libraries of collection is that of the Public Health thc first part of the middle ages were Division, New York Municipal Rcfer- largely monastic,-lor esample that at ence Library, which now has 6,000 Tours and the library of the Vatican at volumes, many of them city health re- Rome, also the collections in the English ports difficult to procure elsewhere. Cathedral towns. The growth and ex- Perhaps thc most rounded health col- February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 43 lection in the country is that of the material, was printed in the American National Hcaltli Council, at 370 Scventh Review of Tuberculosis, volume 8, Avenile, New York. This body, or- no. 2, October, 1923, and also appcared ganizccl in 1920, consists of ten important in the seconcl edition, 1925, of "The national agencies interestccl in some Boston Medical Library, Medical Classi- phasc of health work. Four of ~licse, fication," pages 38-40, the American Social Hygiene Associa- tion, thc National Commitiee for Mcntal Our library is opcn to all rcsidcnts of .-lllcgheny County. All scrviccs arc free. Hygiene, tlic Kational ( )rganization for Pul)lic Hcalth Nursing, and thc Sational 111addition to our own siaff, our rending Tubcrculosis Association ha\.e forn~ecl, public at present consists chiefly of with the National Health Council itself, cloctors, nledical students, nurscs, social a conunon scr~~icecornmittce and under workers, school-teachers, librarians, ant1 this cornmittce have cwmbinecl their ministers. The library is open during library collcctions, with trainecl li- thc usual office hours, and a reading brarians in charge. room is reserved for patrons. Uie render five types of service: first, the direct One of the pioneer health libraries usc of the material as a reference col- of the country is the snlall collection Icction by the investigators themselves; of 3,000 volun~esand 2,500 pamphlets sccond, reference rescarchcs by the owncd by the Tubcrculosis League of librarian; third, preparation of bib- Pittsburgh. Every year the cream of liographies and reading lists; fourth, the new public health books is added reviewing of current perioclicals and to the collection,-specializing of course listing of articles of intercst in advance on tuberculosis, but with a fair number of the publication ol standard map of books in other fields, particularly in zine indexes; fifth, the circulation of bacteriology, all respiratory diseases, material. heart conditions, comn~unity liealth, child hygiene, aid nursing texts. The charging scheme employed is We receive currently about fifty very simple. All books and pamphlets periodicals. These are looked over have a 3 s 5 card attached giving the carefully by the librarian. Articles of author, title and call number. When a interest to the particular departments book circulates, the card is detached, or to members of the staff are noted the borrower's name and the current and the attention of those departments date are entered on the card, which is or individuals is callecl to the articlc; then filed in an alphabetical file. A an extra copy of such lists is posted on temporary ~nanilaslip is used for current the library bulletin board. Additions magazines or ephemeral material. When are made at this tiine to certain bib- the book is retul-necl, a line is drawn liographies which we try to keep up, through the borrower's name and date, such as those on artificial pneurnothorax, the card is replaced in thc book, and the lung abscess, heliotherapy, etc. Bp book is shelved. Manila slips are clc- watching these current rnagazinc artl- stroyed. cles, we build LIP our pamphlet file, Library rules, routine and record- procuring from authors reprints of all keeping have been kept as sirnple as is the more important papers on our consistent with efficiency. That ~nuch topics. These reprints are of value i11 overworkccl term "service" has been the connection with our teaching work at library's motto since 1906. The librarian the University of Pittsburgh and else- feels that public health library work is where, as it is much easier for the in- a very interesting field, so ncw that it structors to carry about three or four still retains many of ihc charms and reprints than the same number of heavy allurerncnts of pioneering. One is amply bound periodicals, and it keeps the latter repaid not o1i1y by the daily interest on the shelves for reference use. and inspiration derived from the work, The material is classified according but by the knowledge that one is per- to the Boston Medical Library scheme. forming a valuable public service which An expansion of this system, devised may do much to promote the health and by the librarian for the tuberculosis welfare of the whole community. SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928

President's Page

HE best way to make any organization successful is to make it useful and this T can be accon~plishedby having it active along those lines in which results are immediately apparent. Our association was established primarily to give service, service to its members in helping them to do their work better, service to those responsible for our libraries in making thcrn more productive. Having consolidated our membership and provided for more revenue, let us llow bend our efforts toward those activities which will not only be helpful to ourselvcs and our employers but will show that Special Libraries Association is so valuable in our profession that everyone interested will want to be a meinher and will feel that they cannot afford to stay out. In this program no branch of the organization can play a more important part than the local associations. They form the back- bone and through their more frequent contact with their members can do everything to stimulatc and maintain interest. Those in charge of local programs are urged to give as much time and-thought as possiblc to their preparation so that they may be not only helpful but interesting. In emphasizing the latter, the former is somctinles lost sight of. Miss Vormellrer, our Secretary-Treasurer, has been asked to give special attention to the work of the local associations and will be glad to assist program committees with suggestions for topics and lines of activity and with in- formation as to what is being clone by other locals. The groups in the organizations provide the opportunity for association of those furnishing service to the same or kindred interests. Their activities naturally segregate themselves into those connected more directly withthe particular subject for which the group was organized. It has been suggested that, in view of the number of requests for inlormation 011 how to start a library ancl for lists of suitable books to start with, each group take as a regular activity the preparation of a list or lists covering its particular subject, and see that these lists are kept up to date. The Executive Board has been working on the general activity involved in ex- panding the idea of co-operation with other national associations. Our success with the Illuminating Engineering Society has stimulated hope for equal success with other societies such as those in the rubber industry, the oil industry, the textile inclustry, etc. In this connection we are happy to announce co-operation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the publishing of the Bulletin on Sources of Information on Electrical Engineering, prepared by the Electrical Engineering Committee of the Commercial-Technical Group. The Institute has agreed to con- tribute toward the cost of publication in return for copies of the Bulletin to be dis- tributed by them. It is hopcd that this contact can be continued with future bulletins. Activity seems to be an essential element of happiness as well as interest. As Will Rogers would say, "Yours for more activity."

FRANCIS E. CADY, President. February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Editor's Desk Pittsburgh, master city of the Alleghanies, at the confluence of three rivers is a city of contrasts. Destined to pre-eminence as a gateway to the spreading plains of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys it has within its borders libraries and art museums of distinction, world famed illdustrial plants and banking institutions. An inland metropolis, railroads dominate its transportation and above all steel, the base and fibre of the community. In these pages a few of the noted libraries, maintained by the leading organizations, present their stories. Pittsburgh greets you, a modern American city.

A New York correspondent in writing to the Editor recently stated: "If you could suggest to me a series of contacts with whom I could co- operate on a reciprocal basis in the matter of obtaining information, I should appreciate it greatly. A straight line is the shortest distance between two points and the biggest part of providing inforination is in the knowing where to find an authentic and reliable source." His letter, which is similar to many communications conling into the General Office, shows the extramural value of our Association and indicates the wisdom of the program-makers for the Toronto conference when they seld-ctecl "Contacts" as the dominant theme and asked the President of the New York Association to present her constructive and stimulating address.

Special librarians pride themselves on certain attainments which give them a claim to professional standing. They like to think of themselves as belonging to a group which more and more is to be accorded professional recognition. In all professions as well as in all highly specialized fieIds of effort, one of the privileges of membershi'p is contribution not only of time but of money towards the maintenance of professional standards. Doctors, lawyers, teachers and engineers count it not only a privilege but a duty to support their represciltative organiza- tions. The contributions of the individual members who make up trade organizations would seem surprisingly large to most special librarians. To the special librarian, Special Libraries Association represents his professional aspirations. Are individual metnbers supporting thc association as they ought? How many individual special librarians are maintaining a personal membership entirely independent of any individual or institutional membership maintained and paid for by the firm? I solnchow have the impression that most special li- brarians feel relieved of all responsibility if the firm secures an mclividual mernber- ship in their name; and that many others withhold their memberships if the cmployer will not pay for it. I should like to suggest that every special librarian interested in the success of the special library movement become personally a member of S. L. A., regardless of whether his or her employer pays for an institutional or individual membership. It is not much to do to maintain the one association devoted to the special library field. D. N. HANDY. SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928 Bibliographical Society

The mid-minter meeting of the B~bliograph- Tlie clucstlon of a general endowment was ical Society of Amer~cawas held in Washing- discussecl but it was agreed that the time was ton, December 29 and 30. Considerable bus- no1 ripe to take up the matter. ness was accomplished, interesting papers were It was nnnouncccl that the plan mhcreby the read, good d~scussionsheld, new bibliograpliical Library of Congress would print cards lor projects noted, new members gained. About photostatic reproductions in American li- sixty members were in attendance. braries of manuscript material, temporarily At the business ~neeting,the report on the laic1 asiclc, has been taken up again, dncl committee on the continuation of Sabin's shortly printed cards would be available for D~ctionaryof Boolcs Relating to An~ericawas this material. This is one step and an im- read. Part 97 has been distributed and Part portant ohe in its implications, in making 98 is about to go out. The separates on John known the resources of American libraries Smith are on hand for sale Considerable to scholars in different parts of the country. contributions have come to the fund for At the second meeting three talks were finishing the work. As only 206 parts were dis- given. tributed to subscr~bers,and as there wcre at L. L. Hubbard of Iloughton, Michigan, pre- least 400 or~glnalsubscribers, the committec sented five bihliographical problems graphically would be glad to know of those having sets through five lantern slides. The first related who are not receiving the new parts. to different title pages of Bernard Hubley's British Museum Catalog. The question of a "H~storyof the Revolution" with accompany- reprint was taken up by President Meyer with ing questions as to reasons. Two and three Sir Frederick Kenyon in October. In furtlier- related to diffcrences in illustrations supposedly ance of th~smatter, Mr. Bowker and Mr. the same in different editions of the same book. Bishop were appointed as a committee to report Four was a chart of the editions of Robinson at the next meeting. Crilsoe. Five was an investigation of certain Thc death of Mr. Root, so recently Pres~dent, statements about Columbus's last voyage was noted in a resolution expressing applecia- which may reflect on the credibility of Las tion of his bibliographical work, of his scholar- Casas. Dr. Richardson, presidmg, commented ship, and of h~sfriendship. Tlie resolution will on the possibility of the genealogical method be printed in full In the Papers. applied to books and also of the connection of The President re~ortedthat henceforth in bibliography with history. the Papers, sketches bf deceased members would Mr. W. W. Bishop of the University of appear, together with personal bibliographies. Michigan, spoke on Photostatic Reproductions The next meeting will be coincident with the of Rare Early American Newspapers He said American Library Association, at West Baden, his paper was really only a footnote to Mr. Ind., probably the week of May 28. MI. C. Ford's paper in the Massachusetts It having been suggested that it would be Historical Society Proceedings for April, 1925, acceptable if certain publ~cdocunlents were listing photostat~creproductions of newspapers printed on rag paper, the President announced and othcr material. Mr. Bishop clescribcd in he would take up the matter. Those interested detail the work done on reproduc~ng the arc adv~sedto confer with Presideat Meyer, Kentucky Gazette, 1787-1800 and Detroit especially as to what classes of documents Gazette, 1817-1830. Some of the salient points should be thus treated, and some action will were, the difficulty of finding missing nurnbers be taken at the next meetmg. to complete reproductions, the container made The nominating committee asked the present to convey priceless documents, the quest~on officers to hold over until the next meeting. of permanency, the question of cost, the This was agreed to by the Society and the question of placing too great a burden on officers. libraries by doing too much reproduc~ngwork There being numerous requests for Joseph- at a time. To consider especially the latter son's Bibliography of Bibhographies, the question, a committee was voted, consisting question of a reprint of the second edition was of Mr. W C. Ford, Mr. Lawrence Wroth, Mr. referred to the Committee on Publications and A. J. Wall, to take up the question of colonial the Secretary to report in May. newspapers and their further reproduction. The draft of the Constitution was also laid Dr. S. J. Buck of the Minnesota Historical over untd May. Society, on "B~bliographyof American Travel" February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 47 traced the conception of a scheme for such a A. L. A. Periodicals Section bibliography seventeen ycars ago and its course to the present. The plans now call for a The Periodicals Section of the A. L. A., bibliography of Travel in America from 1600 undcr the chairmanship of Miss Carolyn F. to 1900, covering continental United States, Ulrich of the New York Public Library, is arranged chronologically and geographically, preparing for its second year of aclivity as a with an index of authors, topics, locd~ties,and full-fledged section. Following up the interest- the locatiori of at least one copy of each ed~tion, ing papers ant1 tliscussions of the ro~~nd-tables together with critical comments. Dr. Buck at thc last two Annual Meetings, the Section estimatecl 6000 titles, and the cost of preparn- hopes to have a program of lively facts ancl tion to be about $3,000, anti the published book perhaps livelier fancies in June, 1928. All to pay for itself. librarians of pcr~odicalliterature will find food It was announced that Representative A. J. for thought and possibly basrs for action In the Montague of Virginia had introduced House work of this new Section. Membership is open Bill 5626 authorizing the reprints of the to all who are interested. Early regislration will census from 1800 to 1840. Those inte~estecl ensure receiol of notices of the Sectional Meet- mere urged to write their Congressmen and the ings. Dues of fifty cents are payable now to society voted its endorsement. the Secreta~jr-Treasurer, Janet Doe, New York Academy of Meclicine, 2 East 103rd Civil Service Examinations Street, New York City. The United States Civil Service Conimis- sion announces the follow~ngopen compctitlve Architectural Library examinations: Catalogue of the Avery Architecturnl Li- JUNIOR LIBRARIAN, $1,860 brary, a ~nemorial library of architecture, JUNIOR LIBRARY ASSISTANT, $1,500 archaeology and decorative art, N. Y., 1895. MINOR LIBRARY ASSISTANT, $1,140 1139 p. LIBRARY ASSISTANT, $1,680 Colun~biaUniversity Library has a number UNDER LIBRARY ASSISTANT, 51,320 of copics of the catalogue on hand ancl will LIBRARY AID, $900 send a copy, so long as the supply lasts, ex- press collect, to Libraries that make request Applications for thcse positions must be on for one. file with the Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C., not later than March 10. The date for assembling of competitors will The Executive noartl of thc Spec~al Li- be stated 011 their admission cards ancl will braries Association will mcct on February 23, be about ten days after the close of receipt of 1928 in the Library OF the Nat~onalAutonlobile applications. Chan~berof Commerce, 366 Madison Avenue, The exa~ninationsare to fill vacancies in thc New Yorli City. Departmental SerlGce, Washington, D. C., and in positions requiring similar qualifications. The Buffalo Museum of Natural Scicn~es The entrance salaries In thc Departmental is soon to move into new ant1 spitcious quar- Service are indicated above. A probationary ters. Among other features of ~ntercstin its pcriod of six months is required; advancement expansion is the creation of a scientific library alter that depends upon individual efficiency, for research workers. increased usefulness, and the occurrence of vacancies in higher positions. For appointment outside of Washington, D. C., the salaries will be approximately the same. The Slnndard, a leading insurance periodical, Wornen are usually desired for a11 positions unclcr the title "Insurance Library 40 years except library* aid. For the pos~tionof library oltl," presents the story of the clcvclopment of a~dmen are usually desired. the Insurance Lil~raryof Boston. Thc article, Full information may be obtained from the written by I). N. Handy, librarian, is most United States Civil Scrvicc Comrniss~on at readable. In a final paragraph the editor Washington, D. C., or the secretary of the appends a br~efsketch of Mr Handy, who is United States civil scrvice board of examrners entering his twentieth year as librarian of the at the post office or custonihouse in any city. association library. SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928 Associations

The Association of Special Libraries and Kyte, Librarian of the Medical Library, Information Bureau will hold its Fifth Con- showed some of the valuable books and told ference at New College, Oxford, from Septem- of the work of this Library. Miss Jean Bennet ber 14 to 17, 1928. explained just what the Library rneallt to the Nurses. Boston * Illinois The January mccting of the Special Libraries The Illinois Chapter of the Special Libraries Association of Boston was held Monday eve- Assoc~ationhad a well attended and most in- ning, January 16, In one of the chambers of teresting meeting in the John Crerar Library the Court House, adjoining the Social Law on the evening of January 10, 1928. Library, whose librarian, Howard L. Steb- Dr. Oscar E. Norman, Superintendent of btns, was the host. Before and after the Training and Education and Librarian of the meeting the members were privileged to visit People's Gas Light & Coke Company, spoke the spacious quarters of the library whose to those present on the work of the special special function is to supply the needs of law- library attached to a large public utility; yers in the active practice of their profession. Miss Carrie M. Jones, Librarian of the National President Stebbins spoke of the history and Association of Real Estate Boards, effectively work of the library and was followed by Prof. demonstrated the valu'e of a library to the Eldon R. James, librarian of the Harvard Law realtor. Library, who gave a most interesting account According to Mr. John Cotton Dana, Li- of its collections of juristic literature and brarian of the Newark Public Library, there records. It is richer in English imperial and are several thousand libraries in the United colonial law, for example, than any library in States at the present time devoted almost Great Britain or her colonies. solely to the promotion of business wisdom. Judge Charles Thornton Davis of the Massa- Mr. A. H. Center, Librarian of the A W. Shaw chusetts Land Court, told of the work that is Company, described the systematic manner being done by the members of the Massachu- In which the huge publishing concern of books setts bar to simplify the administrat~on of relating to business with wh~chhe is connected justice, eliminate unnecessary delays in court uses the library as a clearing house of facts procedure, and to make it possible for the courts and informat~on. to get through the enormous amount of work that presses upon them with greater efficiency. Miss J. L. Stiles, Librarian of the General This work, he observed, had been initiated and Electric Company, and Miss Grace Enos, in process of acconlplishment long before the Librarian of the Medical Library of St. Luke's criticisms leveled at the courts growlng out of Hospital, gave short talks on the organization the delays in concluding the Sacco-Vanzetti and operation of their respective libraries, case whtch were, as a matter of fact, due to the which aroused a great deal of interest. Miss zeal of the accused men's attorneys in putting Pyrrha B. Sheffield, Librarian of the Insurance every obstacle in the way of carrying out the Library of Chicago, closed the meeting with a sentence. description of the Library of the Chicago Board of Fire Underwriters. Mr. William Alcott, chairman of the mem- bership committee of the Association, proposed Pittsburgh nine new members for election. These were unaninlously accepted, making thirty who have On Thursday evening, January 12, 1928, been added to the Association's membership the Pittsburgh Special Libraries Association since September. met at the Mellon National Bank, as guests of Miss Edna Casterline, the librarian. There Cincinnati were 15 members preseht. At a short business The Spec~alLibraries Association of Cincin- session, held in the bank club room, the matter nati had a regular meeting on Monday, Jan- of amending our constitution in order to make uary 16, 1928. Twenty-one members were it conform to that of the national association present. After dinner and a business meeting was taken up. Three amendments were passed at Vernon Manor the Association visited the by unanimous vote. Medical Library and also the Library for the The meeting then adjourned to the bank Nurses at the General Hospital. Miss Eva library, where Mr. Donald L. Fleming of the February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 49

Credit and Advertising Department of the program was in charge of Mr. V. A. LeSieur, bank gave a short talk. He told about thc and was extremely interesting. general functions of a bank and the part played On January 19th, the association held a by the library of such an institution. After a meeting at the White Me~noiial Hospital general survey of their own collection of books Library. The members were invitcd by that we were given an opportunity to browse around Library to be guests at a buffet lunch, which the library and examine the vertical files in the proved to be a bounteous and delicious meal. Credit and Advertising Department. Afterward Dr. Magan, thc Dean of the Mcclical Departnlent of the Hospital gave a no st in- Southern California teresting talk on the valuc of general culture in ~nedicaleducation, as well as knowledge of The Special Libraries Association of Southern medicine itself. Miss McKown followed with a California met on December 20111, with the talk on methods, which dcvelopetl into a dis- Southern California Telephone Company, hav- cussion of the best methods for circulating ing as a program a demonstration of how a magazines among thc menibcrs of an organiza- telephotograph is sent and received. This tion.

Committee Activities

Transportation Committee For the Air Division, it was voted to request tlic Librarian of the Philadclphin Rapid The Transportation Committee of the COIII- Transit Company and librarian of Bureau of mercial-Technical group held a meeting in Railway Economics to supply chairman of New York City on Friday, January 13th, Air Transportation Co~nmittecwith list of 1928. The Committee is divided into five material as to air transportation in their li- divisions, all actively interested in their special braries. Also, it was voted to approve sug- field. gestion of Chairman of Water Transportation The divisions consist of steam railroads, Committee that list ol material as to air- strcct railways, air transportation, motor ports in bibliography just compiled be for- vehicle6, ancl water transportation. There mas warded to Chairman of Air Transportation a good attcnclance, especially in the steam ancl Con~mittee. street railway divisions, with a 100yo rccord. During the course of the meeting formal action For the Motor Vehicle Division, it was votecl was taken in regard to tlic following matters: to approve compilation of tentative list of For the steam railroad clivis~on,it was voted mater~alfor sub~nissionat conling convention. that the Chairman Ile requested to obtain an For the Water Division, it was voted to aid appropriation of one hunclrccl dollars for the Chairillan in finding sui~ablepcrsons in New issuance of a bibliography of periodicals relat- Jersey who can locatc material valuable to thc ing to steam railroad transportation. Also study the Cliairnian has in hand. Also, it was it was voted to cont~nucchecking the contents voted to ~nalcceKort to find Literat~~refor the of libraries against the list of ra~lwayperiodicals complet~onof a reniarlcable bibliography now in the Library of the Bureau of Railway in manuscript form relating to tlic Port of Economics in Washington, so as to have as near Ncw York, toll bridges, and storage ware- perfect a bibliogr.~phy of periodicals as possible houses; also it was voted to thank Chairman to present as a report at the coming convention. of Watcr Transportation Committee for in- For the Street Railways Division, it was ffucncing American Engineering Society to voted to circulate list of books ancl rnaterial inclucle certain transportation cards in new submiitcd to the Chairman among the street service just starled by the Society. railwav libraries for aclclitional ~naterial. It was also voted to classify this material in ac- Fillally, for the Transporlation Committee corclance with subject headmgs as submitted as a wliolc, it was votecl to keep everlastingly by chairman and to prepare this data as an at the job of compiling a bibliog~aphyof all aclclenda to the "List of Literature on Urban transportation literature with the hope that Electric Railways" subm~tted by the COIII- eventually such a piece of work can he printed mittee at the Toronto Convention. in five volurncs. 50 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928 Committee on Classification Miss Helen M. Rankin, The Free Library Financial Group of Philadelphia dnd Miss Anna S. Bonsall, The Financial Group has decided to survey Assistant Librarian, E. F. Houghton & Co., itself. The project is to find out what classifica- have rejoined the Committee on Classifications. tions are being used in financial libraries- They are now working on the Bibliography of and why; in what part~cularsthey have been Classifications which is to be one of the Com- mod~fied or expanded; how sat~sfactory the mittec's tools in future work. rcsults have been and what the needs are. A Miss Loraine A. Sullivan, Special Libraries questionnaire is to be used, and if you receive Department, The Public Library of the City one, please put the matter out of your way at of Boston, has joined the Con~mittee on once by filling in and returning it to the Corn- Classifications, as its Boston representative. rnittee as soon as possible. The Committee on Classifications is so The Survey is undertaken because of several fortunate as to have received the only copy for requests for information and advice in the distribution of the Extension of the Dewey selection of classifi@ions wh~chhave come to Decimal System of Classification applied to the attent~onof the officers of the Group. Both the Electrical Industry, by A. A. Slobad, Main infornlat~on and material for comparative Library, General Electric Company. This is a study seem to be meager. As a consequence, tentative edition in mimeograph form. In- Miss I<. Dorothy Ferguson, Chairman of the terested librarians wishing to examine it should Financial Group, has appointed a Committee apply to the Committee and not to the General to make this study. It is hoped to assemble a Electr~cCompany. considerable number of classifications and modifications which will be available for com- parison and study and to present a report on classifications in use which will be helpful in Membership Committee the selection of such a tool. The Committee, so far as ~t can be named The Membership Comn~ittee met at the now, consists of Miss Annctte Windelle, office of the Standard Statistics Company, Librarian-Atnerican Trust Company, San New York City on Friday, January 13, 1928. Fr'ancisco; Miss E. Ruth Jones, Librarian- It was voted that local chapters do the work Security Trust & Savings Bank, Los Angeles; of procuring new members. Also it was voted Miss Marion G. Eaton, Librarian-Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Miss Gudrun Moe, that librarians outside of localities that have Librarian-Bankers Trust Co., New York City; chapters be approached by the Chairman of MISS Sue Wuchter, Librarian Continental the Membership Com~nitteeof S. L. A. Also, National Bank and Trust Company, Chicago, it was voted that exception to the above be and Miss Ruth Nichols, Librarian-Federal ~nadein the case of newspaper prospectives Reserve Bank of Chicago. Each of these per- sons will act as a clearing house for the survey now being handled by Mr. William Alcott, in her district, and will answer questions about Chairman of the Membership Committee of filling in the questionnaires. We want to get the Newspaper Group, and that he be requested as complete information as we can with a full to keep chairman of local cliapters advised as and free expression of opinlon as to how the to his activities in the different communities classifications now in use in financial Ilbraries are meeting their needs. in order to prevent over-lapping. Also, it was voted that letter No. 1, as compiled by the The questionnaires will be sent to a selected New York S. L. A., be suggested for use by list of libraries. They will be distr~butedbefore February 15th and must be back in the hands the Membership Committees in all local of the Committee by March 15th. If you are chapters and by the Membership Conl~iiittee asked to help in this matter, please give us of S. L. A,, in approaching members. This your hearty cooperat~on. letter to accompany the new circular just authorized by the Executive Committee of Ruth G. Nichols, S. L. A. Chairman. February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Events and Publications Rebecca B. Rankin, Department Editor

Important meetings occupy the attention of The Library of the Port of New York Au- Special L~brariansduring the winter months. thority, Mr. E. M. Pellett, librarian, has begun The Boston association held its usual joint the publication of a mimeographed Librnry meeting wlth the Massachusetts Library Club Bzdletin, Volume 1, no. 1, dated January 19, on 1928. "Its purpose is to keep the staff informed The Special Libraries Councd of Philadelphia as to available literature on the actwities and participate in a Library Institute conducted problems of the Port Authority." by the Drexel Institute School of Library The Americax Cily magazine has adopted a Science during the week beginning February larger size and a new dress, and enlarged its 20, 1928. contents. It seems to be a marked improve- At the opening session held jointly with the ment. Pennsylvania Library Club an address will be given by A. Edward Newton, the well-known The Standard Statistics Inc. has moved to 200 Varick Street, New York City, where the bibliophile. Library has been given more space in their new The Editor of Special Libraries will speak at quarters. the session on Thursday, February 23, and R4iss Rebecca B. Rankin, former President of The growth of special libraries in New York S. L. A,, will discuss training for special library City is apparent. The new "Directory of work. Special Libraries In the Ncw York Metropolitan Ethel Cleland, Business Branch Librarian District" shows a total of three hundred and in Indianapolis, has a short article -in the seventy-three libraries. In 1921 when the list December Reader's Ink, published by the of special libraries in New York City was first Indianapolis Public Library. compiled, Re coulcl locate only two hundred George W. Lee in the January, 1928, Stone and forty-six. Hence in a period of seven years, ad PTJeb~tcr Journal, describes picturesque1 y thc increase is about fifty per cent or an his new library quarters at 49 Federal Street, average of seven per cent increase per year. Boston. This is very gratifying progress. Edzlorial Research Reports you tnay all know. The A. B. Leach Company-a brokerage The enterprise was established in 1923 at house in New York, has establishcd a new IVashington to "supply editors and publishers library and Miss Virginia Hinners, formerly of newspapers and periodicals with the facts assistant in First Wisconsin National Bank essential and adequate review and sound in Milwaukee, has been appointed librarian. general understanding of important current problcrns." Some of the libraries are now Forecasting has come to be used in various finding these Reports may be used for iuforma- fields. For the first time we find it In the build- tion and reference use. The Reports are issued ing construction field. The "Building Age and about once a week, are filled in a loose-leaf National Builder" are responsible for "a binder and at the end of three months a bound serious, analytical attempt to measure that set arrives with a complete detailed index. construction against normal requirements, and The Editorial Research Reports are inclcxed to forecast in infinite detail the probable con- in Public Affairs Informolior~Service. struction of the approaching year." The Russell Sage Foundation has published This booklet of 24 pages entitled "Probable a revised and enlarged edition of "Sources of 1928 Construction Nornlal Requirements and Infornlation on Play and Recreation," compiled the Typical Building Year" (Building Age by Marguerita P. Williams, the first edition of Publishing Corporation, 243 West 39th Street, which appears in 1915. This up-to-date New York, N. Y.) contains easily read tabula- classified bibliography is a most useful one. tion of figures. Their statist~cshave been A feature article of Lucius H. Cannon ap- based on the authoritatlvc ones regularly peared in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Maga- issued by Dodge, Straus, U. S. Census Bureau zzne, November 13, 1927. Mr. Cannon is the and Department of Labor. Analysis has been municipal reference librarian of St. Louis, made by different kinds of structures, by size and is known by many special librarims. of towns, by money values, etc. 5 2 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1928 American Library Asso* will be to nullify the affiliation of the S. L. A. with the national body ciation 4. All that the petitioners profess to hope to attain can be achieved by a better under- Proposal For Business Section standing between A. L A. and S. L. A. A petition from twenty-five members of the 5. Those who dislike to ally themselves A. L. A. asking for the pr~vilegeof organizing with S. L. A. can have an informal Round a Business Library Section was presented to Table of business librarians at A. L A the Council on July 7, 1925,and \\as rcferred to lIr. Utley made the following statements in a Spccial Comnnttce on Dccernber 29, 1927. favor of grantmg the petition: Chairman Gcorge B. Utley prescntecl a report 1. It has been the unbroken custom of on behalf of the Committee which includcd A. L. A, to permit its members to form sections also Louise B. Krause, L. Elsa Loeber, D. S. when they askcrl the privilege and complied Handy, and ~'illian~F. Jacob. with the regulations. Mr. Utley stated that ~woof his associates 2. Formation of such a section would not on the committee approved the granting of the be unfriendly to S L. A. It is not a question of petition and two opposed it. After summarizing certain members seceding from S. L. A. It is a the arguments on both sides, Mr. Utley stated group of A. L. A. members, who insist on con- that he rccornn~cnclcdthe granting of the peti- ducting their activities under A. L. A. (if they tion. The arguments for granting the pet~tion conduct them at all), who present this petition. may be briefly sumnlarued as follows: 3. Some duplication of effort may result but 1. The A L. A, is funct~oningas a national it is not serious-one group's activities will spur association In the interests of all types of li- both groups on. braries, not nlerclp for public libraries, and 4. The Council in granting the petition would cannot log~cally refuse business libraries a be taking a constructive step in permitting section without disbanding agricultural, col- certain A. L. A. ~nembersto make a contribu- lege and reference, or thc school libraries scc- tion to A. L. A. tions. Mr. Utley moved that the Council grant the 2. A relatlonsliip between A. L. A, and busi- pet~tionand permit certain members of the ness libraries would be of profit to the Associa- A. L. A. to organize a Section of the Association tion, for a business library section composed to be known as "The Busmess Libraries of a group of business librarians within the Section." Thc motion was seconded organization would offer close co-operation w~th The question was discussed by Francis E. techniqal, busmess and scient~ficdepartnients Cacly, president, Special Libraries Association, of public libraries. who opposed the motion, by Miss Loeber, who favored the motion. Joseph L. Wheeler pro- 3 X business librarians sect~onwoulcl serve posed a substitute resolution as follows: the threefold relation of helpfulness to its mem- Wlzerens it does not appear that the senti- bers, to the American L~braryAssociation as ment of the majority of thc members of the a whole, and to other orgamzed groups in the Special Libraries Association and its officcrs -4merican Library Association, in harmony are in favor of the creation of a Business Li- with the establ~shedpollcies and ideals of thc brary Section of the A. L. A., therefore be lt -4.L. A. The Busmess Libraries Round Table, Resolved that this petition be not granted which has been meeting since 1925, has had a at the present time. large attcnclance. Round tables are ephemeral, The motion mas seconded by Edward F. while section organ~zationmeans defin~tecon- Stevens. Th~smotion was discussed by M. S. tinuity in organid work. Dudgeon and Samuel H. Ranck. Arthur E. The reasons given for not granting the Bostmick moved to lay the petition on the petitlor1 arc bricfly summarized as follows: tahle The motion was seconrlcd and carried. 1. The proposccl Sect~oncould not expect MISS Krause expressed regret that this action to be numerically representative of business had been taken and her bel~ef that ~t un- libraries. necessardy deprived members of the A. L. A. 2. If the section is formed there will be two who happened to be business librarians of rival national bodies, to the injury of l~brary adequate opportunity to make their contribu- work as a whole. tion to the library profession as an organ~zed 3. To establish such a sectlon of the A. L. A.

The action of the A. L. A. Council is printed herewith for the lnformation of our membera. It ie taken verbatim from the Bullettn of the A. L. A,, January, 1928. We reserve comment unttl n later issue. February, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 53

Hackley Reference Library that they were asscts to the business, and stood on the credit side of the companies' ledgers. Service Is it surprising, therefore, that this should The annual report of the Hackley Public also be true of the comn~unity's reference Library for 1926-1927 is a six-year revie~vof library, where all have pooled their interest the work of the library. The whole report is and support, attaining larger service at re- called Serving a Reading City and FTUzat il duced overhead cost?" Costs. The librarian is Harold Wheeler and he writes: New Classification for Business "It seems rather far-fetched to think of the public library as a money making department Libraries of the city's government. Yet it would perhaps A new classification for business libraries be no great exaggeration to venture the opinion is in course of preparation at the Baker Li- that the Hackley Library, through the informa- brary of the Ijarvard Graduate School of Busi- tion provided by its Reference Department, ness Administration. While it is of course has enabled the city and the citizens of primarily designed for use in that library, it Muskegon to save or to make more dollars and is hoped that, when completed, it may be found cents during the past few years than have been applicable to other similar libraries. spent on the library during the same time. The subjects covered may be roughly in- Questions of practical concern that are regu- dicated as those which are included in the larly being answered for manufacturers and Dewey 300's and 600's and the Expansive shippers, for the technical departments of local classes H-J and R-T. They cover the activities industrial plants, for merchants, fruit growers, of the human race which have to do with the builders, for the Chamber of Commerce and material side of existence. departments of local government-the cash earning or saving resulting from the informa- It will be of great assistance to the compiler tion thus given by the library can not be com- to have at hand copies of all special classifica- puted or estimated, but there is every prob- tions which are within this scope, and more ability that it makes the library, not an ex- especially those which have not been printed, pense, but a financial asset to the city. Nor is or have been printed in periodicals or other this result any more than would be expected serial publications. by any one familiar with modern reference The generous co-operation of librarians is library work. Hundreds of the country's lead- invited in the furnishing of such schemes. ing business and industrial concerns maintain their own plant libraries, not for the recrea- Correspondence may be addressed to me tional use of their employees, but purely as at the Baker Library, Soldiers Field, Boston, supplementary laboratories for technical re- Mass. search. The New Jersey Zinc Company, the W. P. Cutter. National Cash Register Company, the Eastman Kodak Company, the Babson Statistical Or- ganization, the International Harvester Com- Research Problems pany, the Du Pont Powder Company, the Committees of the American Library Insti- General Motors Research Corporation, Stone tute on encouragement of research requests and Webster, Engineers, the Guaranty Trust librarians to send H. 0. Severence, Librarian, Company of New York, I-Ialsey Stuart and University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., before Company, the American Brass Company, May first. 1928 the General Electric Company, the Republic Iron & Steel Company, the American, Fire- 1. Problems of research work completed by stone, Goodrich, Goodyear and United States them during 1927-28. Rubber Companies, practically all of the 2. Problems of research work on which they largest banks and trust companies of America- are now engaged. these and hundreds of other business concerns would not maintain their plant libraries and so that a complete list may be compiled and employ trained librarians for a day if the li- presented to the institute at the conference at braries had not demonstrated beyond question West Baden, May 28th. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Magazine of the Association EDITOR, Herbert 0. Brigham State Library, Providence, R. I.

Associate Editors William Alcott, Lewis A. Armistead, D. N. Handy Department Editors Ethel Cleland, Business Branch, Public Library, Indianapolis, Ind. R. H. Johnston, Bureau of Railway Economics, Washington, D. C. Henry H. Norris, Boston Elevated Railway, Boston, Mass.' Mary C. Parker, Federal Reserve Bank, New York City. Rebecca B. Rankin, Municipal Reference Library, New York City. Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee, Wis. A. A. Slobod, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Local Associations SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON Pres.-Howard L. Stebbins, Social Law Library. Sec.-Gladys L. Saville, Christian Science Monitor. CLEVELAND CHAPTER Pres.-Emma M. Boyer, Union Trust Co. Sec.-Minnie W. Taylor, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. ILLINOIS CHAPTER Pres.-Frederick Rex, Municipal Reference Library, Chicago, 111. Sec.--Frances Cowan, Dartnell Corporation, Chicago, 111. NEW YORK SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres.--Angus Fletcher, Brltlsh Library of Information. Sec.--W. L. Powlison, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. SPECIAL LIBRARIES COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY Pres.-Mrs. Gertrude W. Maxwell, The Electric Storage Battery Co. Sec.-Helen M. Rankin, Free Library of Philadelphia. PITTSBURGH SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres.--Jess~e Callan, Besserner & Lake Erie Railroad. Set.-Henrietta Kornhauser, Mellon Institute. SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO Pres.-C. H. Judson, Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co., San Francisco. Sec.--Agnes Green, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco. SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Pres.-Josephine Hollingsworth, Municipal Reference Library, Los Angeles, Cal. Sec.-Helen D. Townsend, Barlow Medical Library, Los Angeles, Cal. Recent Publications Special Libraries Directory, 2nd edition, 1925...... $4.00 Handbook of Commercial Information Services, 1924...... 2.00 Cumulative Index to Special Libraries, 1910-22...... 2.00 Cumulative Index to Special Libraries, 1923-26...... SO Information Bulletins No. 1-5...... egch .25 Directory California Special Libraries ...... 50 Directory New York Special Libraries Association...... 1.00 Our Field SPECIAL LIBRARIANS BUSINESS CONSULTANTS STATISTICIANS RESEARCH ANALYSTS EXECUTIVES ECONOMISTS Pages 55-62 deleted, advertising.