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San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1949 Special Libraries, 1940s 11-1-1949 Special Libraries, November 1949 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1949 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, November 1949" (1949). Special Libraries, 1949. 9. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1949/9 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1940s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1949 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special Libraries VOLUME40 . Established 1910 . NUMBER9 CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER 1949 From the President's Desk . RUTHH. HOOKER What Price Membership? . RUTHSAVORD New York Chapter Experiment in Sub-Professional Training . ELIZABETHFERGUSON Special Librarianship -What It Connotes . S. R. RANGANATHAN A Cataloger's View of the AEC Library Program CHARLOTTEFORGEY CHESNUT New Guides and Aids to Public Documents Use, 1945-1948 . JEROME K. WILCOX SLA Group Highlights . Events and Publications Announcements . Indexed in Industrial Arts Index, Public Mairs Information Service, and Library Literature ALMA CLARVOBMFTC~ILL KATHLEENBROWN STEBBINS Editor Advertising Manager The articles which appear in SPECIALLIBRARIES express the views of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the opinion or the policy of the editorial staff and publisher. -- -- SLA OFFICERS, 1949-1950 MRa RUTH H. HOOKER,President . Naval Research Laboratory, Washington 25, D. C. MRS. ELIZABETHW. OWENS, First Vice-president and President-Elect Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company, St. Louis 1, Missouri BEATRICEV. SIMON,Second Vice-President Redpath Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada DAVIDIZESSLER, Treasurer . General Motors Corporation, Detroit 2, Michigan MRS. KATHLEENB. STEBBINS.Secretary . 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, New York ROSE L. VORMELKER,Immediate Past-President Business Information Bureau, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland 14, Ohio DIRECTORS MARGARETHATCH, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, San Francisco 20, California ESTELLEBRODMAN, U. S. Army Medical Library, Washington 25, D. C. PAULGAY, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4, Pennsylvania- SPECIAL LIBRARIES published monthly September to April, with bi-monthly issues May to August, by The Special Libraries Association. Publication Office, Rea Building, 704 Second Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Address all communicationa for publication to editorial offices at 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, N. Y. Subscription price: $7.00 a year; foreign $7.50; single copies, 75 cents. 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Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK Y remarks in the September is- burden. sue of SPECIALLIBRARIES in- I have had manv letters since last M cluded a reference to the feeling June urging that the placement service that many of our members, remote should not be discontinued. To those from Headquarters, have about not be- who thought this was the intent, may ing able to participate to the fullest I say that I think no one really wished extent in the advantages and obligations to discontinue this service. Rather, the of membership in Special Libraries As- feeling was that with serious study a sociation. This was brought clearly into plan for better service to the entire As- focus at the last Annual Business Meet- sociation would result. ing in Los Angeles during discussion Therefore, as directed by the mem- relative to current Placement policy and bers attending the Business Meeting, a practice. Frequently, as in this case, a committee has been appointed to study policy set forth in writing appears fully all aspects of our placement policy and to answer certain needs but fails to how it functions, to recommend any anticipate some of the complications changes which seem advisable, and to which arise. At the Business Meeting it submit a report to the entire member- was brought out that some Chapters ship for decision. The committee has have no local volunteer employment ten members to give it good geographic committee. For example, there are two coverage. They are Miriam Vance Chapters who rely entirely on Head- (616 Investment Building, Washington, quarters placement. This is a very nat- D. C.) Chairman; Audrey Ide Bull ural thing for them to do since they are (Toronto); Helen Forsberg (Baton in the vicinity of Headquarters. I think Rouge); Agnes Hanson (Cleveland); any Chapter with Headquarters nearby Katherine Laich (Los Angeles); Gretch- would do the same, particularly in view en D. Little (Philadelphia); Ruth S. of the excellent placement service the Leonard (Boston); Gertrude Low (New Secretary has provided for them. York); Ruth Parks (Chicago); and However, the general opinion at the Dorothy Thomas (San Francisco). Two meeting appeared to be that each Chap- of the suggestions already submitted for ter should have an employment com- consideration by the committee are: mittee to clear purely local placements (1) that all Chapters maintain volun- in order to relieve the central service teer placement committees so that at which is supported by the entire Asso- least screening can be done; (2) that ciation. Only a person who has had ex- the Secretary send out a weekly letter perience in placement work can appre- to all local placement committee chair- ciate the amount of time required to do men listing all vacancies which have a good job. It is obvious to anyone with been referred to Headquarters so as to such experience that to carry on the broaden the opportunity both for the entire placement work for the Associa- employer and the librarian. tion would require a greatly increased I hope all SLA'ers who have ideas to staff at Headquarters-at increased ex- contribute in this study will send them pense. It may be significant that SLA to any member of the committee, for- is the only large library association warding a copy of the letter to the which has not as yet found headquar- chairman. ters placement an impossible financial RUTH H. HOOKER,Presidenf. 335 WHAT PRICE MEMBERSHIP? By RUTH SAVORD1 Chairman, SLA Constitution Committee INCE membership provisions - special libraries, including special sub- the types to be provided for and ject departments