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President's Report 1966-67 F. E. McKENNA

NE YEAR AGO, I spoke to you in Minne- planning so as to achieve better long-range 0 apolis. At that time, I suggested that an forecasts; and association must be able to act with knowl- 4) That we recognize that better planning is edgeable promptness when new problems of no avail without better organization, better arise; that looking inwards on our own in- staffing, better direction, and better control. ternal affairs is not enough; that we must arrange our affairs so that we are able to look I have been very pleased by the words and outwards and forward; and that we must be actions of many individual members, officers, able to anticipate the needs for change. and committee members-by those who did I said that I feared that our Association's respond positively, each in his own individual programs were not always implemented with manner to such pleas for excellence. a sense of urgency, even when the objectives I was dismayed, in some instances, where were received by our members with enthu- neither urgency nor excellence has been pushed siasm. And, finally, I suggested that we were with enough vigor. overlooking an important ingredient of qual- But, in summary of this year, I would say ity: the quality of excellence of purpose-and that, while no blinding successes have been excellence of action. achieved, many wheels are in positive motion. In retrospect I realize that I did not recog- Now, if only each and every one of us will nize one important question last year: Are our urge those wheels onward, we can expect a appetites-our n~ultipleinterests-too great for number of good harvests in the near future. our corporate capabilities? If we attempt to During the course of this Annual Meeting, cope with too many projects, can all of them you will hear reports from two committees be treated with excellence or, perhaps, even where especially excellent actions have oc- adequately? curred. You will also hear from several other In my opinion, one cannot, year after year, committees, whose reports, this year, do not issue trumpet calls for so-called worthy proj- sound optimistic-because some of us had ects, only to find belatedly, year after year, goofed in our past planning or, perhaps, to be that such projects cannot always be brought more candid, in our lack of past planning. to successful conclusions. Our intentions may Let me first, however, touch briefly on be good; but if our mechanisms are faulty, some of the good news. In two instances, the then our best intentions are only empty Board of Directors must be cited for especial words. bravery-because the Board backed the pro- I had addressed four expectations to four posals of two committees with appropriate levels within our Association: financial support. The Translations Activities Committee has 1) to Chapter and Division officers, taken firm and positive steps to reestablish 2) to Committees and Special Representatives; the Association's former translations an- 3) to employees of the Association; and nouncement bulletin under its new title 4) to the Board of Directors as the governing Trdnslations Regirter-Index. A business-like body of the Association. pricing policy (with initial financial support from SLA funds) was approved by the The four espectations were, in brief, Board. This is designed to lead to a measure 1) That we be flexible in the face of change; of self-support of our Translations Center, 2) That we not stifle either individuality or rather than to depend solely on government creativity; grants. 3) That we increase the sophistication of our After seven years of pious yearnings for ex-

SEPTEMBER1967 Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Usher pause to chat with President McKenna and Janet Rigney, who was the Convention Registration Chairman. ternal financing for our second salary survey, many members has been explained as being our Board again took positive action to under- due to the deep, personal involvements of so write the costs of such a survey. To me, the many of our members in the many projects of principal significance is that the Board had our Association, and in so many aspects of the gumption to put our support where our our profession. There may have been disagree- mouth often is, rather to let another seven ments about the methods and the techniques years pass by while we looked for a char- to reach our goals, but there were always itably-minded government agency! these deep, personal involvements. In several instances, the Board displayed Now I have begun to wonder if, perhaps, wisdom by discontinuing some projects and we have become too sophisticated-too soon committees that had theoretical virtues, but -too fast. Perhaps some of us want to be big- seemingly had no finite solutions. Perhaps if a time wheeler-dealers, and glibly jump into few trees are chopped down each year, we too many areas without knowing the dollar will again be able to find the forest. I feel that costs or the manpower costs to the Associa- it is a sign of maturity, when we can recog- tion, or without facing the facts of life-that nize-and admit-that some of our ambitions the Association's income is not limitless, es- are greater than our capabilities. pecially if we were to show the bad judg- Let me cite one committee that has strug- ment to think only of continuing increases in gled with, and has solved, a mountain-full dues. of problems: the Committee on Committees Perhaps we have become too complacent whose chairman is Lorraine Ciboch. Incom- about who deals with our problems. Perhaps plete definitions of committees by Boards in we do not evaluate or define our problems ac- past years had shunted an almost impossible curately enough before we assign them to work load onto the Committee on Committees. Association staff. This committee deserves commendation be- Perhaps the Association is overly organized. cause they have dared to focus a microscope We seem to have built up so many rules and on their own committee-and they have even regulations that no one person can cope with dared to question the correctness of some them-let alone remember all of them. At its Board actions. meetings, the Board is swamped with ques- For as many years as I have been a mem- tions, but without sufficient background docu- ber of SLA, the enthusiastic participation of mentation, and, therefore, the Board cannot always distinguish between major problems 1) The Headquarters Operations Committee and peanuts. is recommending an improved salary structure Frustrations, inactivity, and sometimes re- for employees of the Association (so as to sentments then set in. In some instances, good minimize the turn-over of employees). workers may even turn down further ap- 2) The Finance Committee is recommending oointments because of such frustrations-be- a systems study of operations at headquarters, cause they cannot use their individual knowl- particularly our membership records and ac- edge, initiative, and abilities without running counting operations. into organizational roadblocks. In spite of our sophisticated word for the The total of all these increased costs (both organization of information and of knowl- one-time and repetitive) cannot be fitted into edge, have are-of all people-unwittingly our present normal annual income, because sacrificed human values in an organizational our expenses in each past year were equal to hodgepodge? As repairs have been attempted our income. on some of our organizational structures, the We were thus head-on to a dilemma: errors of some agglomerations are coming to either some of the headquarters functions light. With the proper care and feeding of the should he curtailed, or Chapter and Division patient-and with everyone's good-will-the allotments should be curtailed, or our annual patient can survive and can emerge with dues should be increased, or, perhaps, some renewed vitality. combination of the three possibilities. Reluctantly hut needfully, we must today Let me put into the official record two face some rather unfortunate facts of life. items of SLA history. I do this to remind the These unfortunate facts are, undoubtedly, a members that even elected officers of a pro- cumulative result of short-range management fessional society may be just as short-sighted of the Association's financial affairs in past as our elected government officials. years. The Association's offices have been located ITEM1: A new and important committee was at 31 East 10th Street since 1939. Our rental established by the Board in January 1967, the there has been at a moderate annual rate. But Planning Committee. This was a good action. we had closed our eyes to the fact that our It would have been an excellent action, if a offices were in a loft building rather than in Planning Committee had been authorized by an office building. (To members who are not the Board in 1964 when it was simultaneously New Yorkers, I would say that this subtle recommended by two of our committees, the distinction results in a minimum difference of Committee on Committees and the "Goals for three to four times the rent.) 1970" Committee. Perhaps our problems, to- Last September we had been led to believe day, might be less severe? that our current five-year lease, which expired ITEM 2: In thumbing through some old issues on July 31, 1967, would be renewed with a of Specid Libraries, I found that the President moderate increase in rent. But in March of of SLA in 1946-47 (twenty years ago), Betty this year, our landlord indicated that he could Joy Cole, had recommended: not renew our lease, because he required the space for his own use. (He would, however, 1) That there should be improved physical allow us to occupy the premises until Decem- facilities at Headquarters; ber 31.) 2) That there should be an analysis of jobs Since March, the Executive Director has at Headquarters; and considered a number of locations. Unfortu- 3) That newer methods should be applied to nately, today's real estate market is a land- the handling of records at Headquarters. lord's market. The Board has now limited our new annual rent to $24,000 per year. In I wonder what did happen to Miss Cole's addition to the new rent, there are the addi- recommendations? tional one-time costs of moving, and of the We, the members as a whole, and the pres- architect's fees (so as to meet the requirements ent Board and past Boards, and the Executive of the New York City Buildings Depart- Director, have apparently not been sufficiently ment), and others. far-sighted. There has been no adequate, regu- The need and the timing of this unexpected lar annual budgeting for a rainy day, even move is doubly unfortunate because of two though our records do show that such recom- other projects which were already being inves- mendations had been presented by several per- tigated by committees at the direction of the sons in the past. Board: I do not enjoy the bites of a hair shirt any more than do the other members of this Board the users of the libraries as they will exist in or of the Finance and Headquarters Opera- the year 2067? tions Committees. But these events, which all Are we opening horizons for today's children occur at one time, should teach us all a lesson -and for their children-so that some of and cause us to be more conscious of the them will be intrigued and aroused by the Board's total responsibilities to the Association orderly organization of human knowledge? and to its members-that all Association ac- So that they, in their turn, can arouse still tivities must be weighed against the dollar others of our generations yet unborn to be re- value received. ceptive to the proper respect, and to the I would say that we are in the position of proper use, of human knowledge in the fu- the man about to be esecuted. As he went to ture? the gallows, he was asked if there was any last thing that he wished to say-"Yes, sir, I Why do we not emphasize more often to just want to say that this is an awful good others those aspects of our profession that lesson to me." have eternal values? Can we not emphasize This story has been used in the statement that our profession is truly an adventure of of another SLA President, Rose Vormelker, the human spirit? Stimulated largely by curi- in 1918-49. osity? Served largely by disciplined imagina- This is not a happy time, but it is a lesson tion? And based largely on the reasonable- for many of us. In the future, you the mem- ness, the order, and the beauty of the universe bers should ask more questions. We have all of which we are a part? been too complacent. I remind you that meet- Can we not emphasize our profession as one ings of the Board of Directors are open to all of the wellsprings of divine discontent that members. But let me turn from such unpleas- stirs man to seek more of life than its mere antries, because I hope that our Board (as a vegetative functions? To emphasize our acti- continuing body) will find fair and equitable vated partnership with the welfare of man- solutions. kind, with the sciences, and with the arts? One of the more pleasant aspects of a ma- Do we, consciously, attempt to attract some jor office in a professional association are the students who will develop into true scholars? opportunities to meet with students, with Persons who will contribute their original teachers, and with one's fellow practitioners. thinking to the solutions of our problems? Less than a month ago, I had the opportunity to speak to the Annual Congress of Librarians To live comfortably with exploding knowl- at St. John's University. I chose as my topic edge, it is necessary that we co-exist with a "Cooperation with Generations Yet Unborn." dynamically changing system of concepts. It And I asked some questions: is necessary to live with enough conservatism to resist our easy abandonment of concepts, Today, in 1967, are we actively preparing the but with enough flexibility to be able, when persons who will be our library practitioners necessary, "to switch rather than to fight." in the year 1997? Are we actively laying We must become more flexible, more rap- foundations still further in the future, for idly.

Dr. F. E. McKenna enjoys a coffee break with Rabbi Nahum Cohen of the United Synagogue of America. Rabbi Cohen offered the invocation at the First General Session Treasurer's Report

JEAN E. FLEGAL

N JUNE OF 1966 your Treasurer called at- leaving a net of some $8,200 increase in in- I tention to an excess of $4,624 income over come. expenditures for the fiscal year ending Sep- tember 30, 1965. This report ended on the This $8,200 increase in income was more optimistic note that "the opportunities for than used up by an increase in expenditures of growth are present, and we look forward to $18,000. Considering, however, these increases: continued acceleration of this trend." Allotments to divisions $ 7,200 You have already heard some warnings of Salaries and payroll taxes 6,400 change in our financial picture. It will be the Postage and shipping charges 2,000 function of the Treasurer's report to alert you to the financial situation at the end of the Total $15,600 last fiscal year and for the first six months of the current fiscal year. the increased expenditures in large part are explained. Fiscal Year, October 1, 1965- September 30, 1966 Even though the rapid change in financial position can be explained, the financial picture You have seen in the January 1967 issue of was not good at the end of last fiscal year. Special Libvaries the audited statements of With a general operating fund plus General SLA for the fiscal year ending September 30, Reserve Fund balance of $161,680 (down 1966, showing an excess of expenditures over $4,000 from the preceding year) and a budget income of a little over $5,000. True, about of over $260,000, SLA's financial situation $8,100 of the expenditures were book transfers needs close scrutiny. or actual transfers from the General Fund to In addition, the auditor has noted the pos- other funds, but the fact remains that at the sibility that back taxes of $28,000 for the end of the 1965-66 year the Association had years 1963-1966, or approximately $7,000 for $7,000 less for general operations than it had each year, could be levied against the Associ- at the beginning. During this period the Asso- ation if we lose our non-profit status on our ciation was operating on a total budget of income from Convention exhibits and from $258,000, which expected a deficit of $3,800, the addressing service. This is still not settled, or about 1.5 per cent of the total. The change but conceivably this could become an annual from the favorable report of the previous fis- expense. cal year is sufficiently serious to require a post mortem. Briefly, and in rounded-off num- Six Months, October 1, 1966- bers, the total income increased about $8,200, March 31, 1967 resulting from: The first six months of the present fiscal Dues $10,800 year offers some slight encouragement, keep- Periodicals 800 ing in mind that at the end of six months Interest from savings accounts 300 most of the income from dues has been received, while many expenditures are still to reduced by decreases in: be made. Addressing Service revenue $ 2,600 Comparing the situation a year ago at the Convention income 600 end of March with the same period this year Miscellaneous income 5 00 gives some indication of the trend: End of 6 months Publications Fund 29,000 33,000 (March 31) Salary Survey Fund - 4,000 Scholarship and Student 1966 1967 Increase Loan Fund 23,000 26,000 Total Income $213,000 $225,000 $12,000 Translations Register- Total Expendi- Index Account - 10,000 tures 136,000 129,000 ($7,000) Let me hasten to add that with the excep- Excess of income tion of the General Fund and the General over expendi- Reserve Fund, all other fund monies are ear- tures $ 77,000 $ 96,000 $19,000 marked for special use.

The amount of increase in total income in- Summary cludes only $6,100 from dues, compared with With a prospect of constantly increasing ex- $9,792 increase from dues at this time last penditures and of income failing to meet the year. outgo, this is a time for level-headed ex- Knowing how much money the Association amination of our situation. It is a time for has in each of the funds at the end of March knowing where we want to go and how to get of this year in comparison with last year will there. There is no question that we need more help round out the financial picture for the income, and the major source of income, in first half year: this Association, has always been dues, which March 31 means MORE MEMBERS. As we undertake this scrutiny of our finan- 1966 1967 cial situation, I would like again to repeat General Fund (for op- what I said in my report last year: that the erating expenses) $189,000 $180,000 opportunities for growth are present, we look SLA Special Funds 122,000 148,000 forward to a continued acceleration of that Equipment Reserve Fund 7,000 8,000 trend, and to add that I feel confident that we General Reserve Fund 55,000 59,000 will put knowledge to work on this Associa- Life Membership Fund 5,000 6,000 tion problem and find sound ways to finance Motion Picture Fund 3,000 2,000 this growth without losing momentum.

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Directors Phoebe Hayes, Charlotte Georgi, Gordon Randall, and Ruth Nielander attend to business during the Annual Meeting. SPECIALLIBRARIES Annual Meeting 1967

THEODORA ANDREWS, Secretary

HE 1767 ANNUALMEETING of the Spe- was centered on the Association's financial Tcial Libraries Association was held in the position, and discussion of membership and Windsor Ballroom of the Commodore Hotel, admission requirements were postponed until New York City, on May 31, 1967, at 9 A.M. next year's Midwinter Council meeting. with President F. E. McKenna presiding and John Connor, Chapter Liaison Officer, re- Richard S. Kain as Parliamentarian. ported that three new Chapters were added Since Dr. McKenna was suffering from to the Association during his term of office, laryngitis he asked Charles Stevens to preside Virginia, North Carolina, and Princeton- in his place and Robert Gibson to read his ad- Trenton. Also Hawaii had made inquiries. dress. Robert Gibson, Division Liaison Officer, In his address Dr. McKenna referred to his reported that the Division publications were message of the year before when he suggested the highlights of the individual reports he had that an association must be able to act with received and named several of them that had knowledgeable confidence when new problems been completed or were under way. He also arise and to anticipate the need for change, mentioned some projects which were being and that the members may have been over- carried out and expressed the feeling that looking the quality of excellence of purpose some Association projects could be done as and action. One year later he wondered if divisional projects. our appetites, our multiple interests, may not Roger Martin summarized the principal de- be too great for our corporate capabilities. velopments of the year of the Translation Ac- Dr. McKenna pointed to some of the spe- tivities Committee. SLA terminated its con- cial accomplishments of the year, such as the tractual relationship with the Clearinghouse establishment of the new Trmslations Regis- for Federal Scientific and Technical Informa- ter-Index. the salary survey, and the Com- tion at the end of 1966, but continued efforts mittee on Committees' work redefining the were made to continue cooperation where Association's committees. He then SLA deemed it suitable. The Board took ac- out that the Association at this time must tion in January to initiate publication of a face some unfortunate financial facts. The new serial, Trdnsldtions Register-Index. The Headquarters office would have to be moved National Science Foundation was asked to ex- to a much more expensive location, the salary tend a grant of funds until the publication be- structure for its staff should be improved to comes self-supporting. Mr. Martin reported minimize turnover, and a systems study of that the first issue had just been issued. He operations was recommended by the Finance also reported that he had represented SLA at Committee, particularly the study of member- a meeting of the European Translation Center ship records and accounting procedures. In and that they have begun work also on a con- order to implement these changes some of tinuing index of translations. He urged the the Headquarters functions would have to be membership to make use of the available 125,- curtailed or Chapter or Division allotments 000 translations at the Center. be curtailed or annual dues increased, or per- Mrs. Shirley Harper presented a short re- haps some combination of these. port of the Personnel Committee whose only Jean Flegal presented a detailed Treasurer's activity was the 1967 salary survey. She re- report. She then summarized that the Asso- ported that members' comments indicated that ciation has a prospect of constantly increasing they want assurance that a biennial survey expenditures and of income failing to meet will be continued and that the time between outgo, but expressed confidence that we would the collection of the data and the publication find sound ways to finance this growth with- of it be short. out losing momentum. Alleen Thompson presented the report of Mrs. Helen Redman in her report of the the Headquarters Operations Committee. She Advisory Council pointed out that much of indicated that a uniform pay plan for head- the meeting in Houston was devoted to a con- quarters personnel had been approved by the sideration of efforts to increase membership. Board. She also reported that rental space for During the meeting of May 29, attention headquarters after the move would cost about Reporting for their respective committees are Roger Martin, Translations Activities, Shirley Har- per, Personnel, Alleen Thompson, Headquarters Operations, and Margaret Madden, Finance.

$4.25 a square foot (in any metropolitan project was decided against largely because area) in contrast to the $1.65 the Associatiaon of the cost involved. is now paying. She mentioned that there are Mrs. Martha Jane Zachert spoke for the other necessary costs associated with the move Education Committee indicating that federal and that the Board voted that for the next government fellowships are available for the eighteen months all the costs, including training of librarians, funds for institutes are eighteen months rent, architects' fees, new available also, and the U. S. Office of Educa- furniture, and so forth, should not exceed tion is seeking specialists for regional posi- $25,000. The Committee felt that all possible tions in consultation and leadership offices ways to trim expenditures would have to be which it is establishing. explored. Margaret Pflueger, Chairman of the Bylaws Margaret Madden, Chairman of the Finance Committee, presented a tightened schedule Committee, reported on the actions the Board under which a member would be dropped for took regarding the Association's financial situ- nonpayment of dues. Those present voted to ation. After her presentation the incoming accept the change. This action will result in Chairman of the Insurance Division, Mrs. a mail ballot to the membership. Annette H. Beard, announced that the Divi- Mrs. Elizabeth Burrows, Chairman of the sion would contribute $1,000 to the Associa- Scholarship and Loan Committee, reported tion to be used at the discretion of its Board that 95 persons applied for the year's $1,500 to help meet the current financial emergency. scholarships. Six individuals were chosen as Herbert Holtzbauer announced that the winners. Documentation Division also contributed $500 Mrs. Moira Cartwright, Chairman of the to this need. Resolutions Reference Committee, presented a Robert Krupp, Chairman of the Publication number of resolutions of appreciation, which Program Committee, indicated that the com- were adopted, to officers, members, and other mittee had three projects, one dealing with persons for work well done. Convention paper abstracts, another with sub- After some questions from the floor were scription discount policies for agencies han- discussed the report of the Tellers Committee dling Association periodicals, anh the other on the results of the mail ballot for SLA involving the possibility of dividing Specid officers and directors was presented. Libmries into two other publications. The Herbert White, President-Elect, asked the first project is to be reported on at the next assemblage to give a standing vote of thanks meeting, the second was handled by the Board to the retiring members of the Board of Di- by the-decision to allow 10 per cent discount rectors before Mrs. Elizabeth Usher, incoming for such titles, and the third, more difficult President, declared the meeting closed.

Also heard from are Robert Kmpp, Publication Program, Margaret Pflueger, Bylaws, Elizabeth Burrows, Scholarship and Student Loan Fund, and Moira Cartwright, Resolutions Reference.

472 SPECIALLIBRARIFS Advisory Council Report 1966-67

HELEN F. REDMAN, Chairman

HE 1966-67 YEAR was the second for the member categories of Patrons and Sponsors, TAdvisory Council in its recently recon- with 10 per cent of the income resulting from stituted make-up, and the first year in which each being returned to the Chapter or Division the benefits of second-year members could be responsible for the successful solicitation of felt. Although the Council, its officers, and its the contribution. Agenda Committee are still feeling their way With modifications both recommendations in trying to determine and exploit its potential were accepted by the Board. usefulness to the Association, the activities this year demonstrated that it can serve as an In addition to these membership-re1a:ed effective forum for discussion of Association considerations, the Advisory Council in Janu- affairs and that it can be helpful to the Board ary recommended: of Directors in the formulation of policies. 1) That beginning in 1968 the designation This year the Advisory Council attempted for the Association's Annual Convention be a continuing study of some closely related changed to Annual Conference; Association problems. Following through on 2) That further consideration be given to the its hurried look last year at the Association's possibility of making abstracts of Conference recruitment activities, it devoted much of its papers available to SLA members in advance; meetings at Houston on January 19 and 20 and to a consideration of efforts being made to 3) That the Publisher Relations Committee increase membership. It discussed all classes of be asked to investigate unacceptable format membership, but sent only two recommenda- and subscription practices of publishers of tions regarding them to the Board of Direc- some periodicals and services. tors: These recommendations were also accepted by 1 ) That Student memberships include receipt the Board. of Spec/al Lzbraries, and 2) That in addition to Sustaining member- The Advisory Council planned to continue ships, the monetary support of industrial or- its study of the problems of increasing Asso- ganizations be sought through two new non- ciation membership by consideration at its

Herbert S. White rises to make a point as Council Chairman Helen Redman presides. At her left is Chairman-Elect Charles Stevens. meeting on Monday, May 29, of admissions 3) It concurred in the need for a dues increase requirements, but higher priority questions re- such as was being considered by the Board, lating to the Association's financial position but urged planning toward future balanced that were referred to the Council by the Board budgets with the gradual replenishment of the of Directors made postponement of that ques- General Reserve Fund through economies in tion necessary. present and planned projects, charges for In considering the financial problems facing routine services, and greater management ef- the Association, the Council took the follow- fectiveness in Headquarters operations. ing positions: These opinions were taken into consideration 1) It endorsed the use of up to $35,000 of the by the Board of Directors in formulating a resources of the General Reserve Fund to meet course for dealing with the financial problems. short-term fiscal needs, and urged that moneys from this fund and from the General Fund In all these actions the Advisory Council Savings be used on a matching basis as long has shown signs of its value to the Associa- as $10,000 or more remains in the General tion. As it goes on during the coming year to Fund Savings; consider more deeply the questions of mem- 2) It expressed dissatisfaction with the pro- bership requirements and their relationship to posal that no allotments be given Chapters Association goals and finances, it will have and Divisions having total cash resources of the opportunity of realizing its potential even more than three times their current annual al- more fully. Under the guidance of its officers, lotments, and urged instead that the present Charles Stevens and Mrs. Charlotte Mitchell, allotment practice be maintained. Neverthe- and with the help of its Agenda Comn~ittee,I less, it called upon its members to petition feel confident that it will do so. their Chapters and Divisions for grants from It has been a pleasure and an honor to have unit treasuries to assist in meeting the current the opportunity of serving as the Advisory crisis. And, finally, Council chairman during the past year. Illinois Chapter Wins SLA Professional Award

Anne C. Roess, President of the Illinois Chapter, accepts from Dr. McKenna the 1967 SLA Professional Award, which was presented to the Chapter for its project in producing the monograph "Special Libraries: A Guide for Management," published by SLA in February 1966. The citation read in part, "The 1967 Award recognizes the excellence of six excellent special librarians who, with diligence and high ability, cooperated-under the aegis of an excellent Chapter of the Association-and, in their own words, 'searched for some of the eternal verities of special librarianship.' " Contributors to the monograph were Edwa-d G. Strable (editor), Jo Ann Aufden- kamp, William S. Budington, Shirley F. Harper, Ruth Nielander, and Doris E. Saunders. 474 SPECIALLIBRARIES Oklahoma Chapter Does It Again Donna Lehman, Treasurer of the Okla- homa Chapter, acknowledges her Chapter's receipt for the second year in a row of the Membership Gavel Award, given annually to the Chapter having the largest paid-up percentage increase in membership since the previous Convention. Okla- homa increased its membership by 33.8 per cent. Runners-up were Louisiana with a 30.2 per cent increase, and Indiana with 27.6 per cent. Wilson Award Goes to Upstate New York Howard Haycraft, president of the H. W. Wilson Com- pany, announces the winner of the annual H. W. Wilson Co. Chapter Award. A commemorative scroll and a check for $100 were presented to the Upstate New York Chap- ter for its two-year project in producing an area library directory, enabling Chapter members in a broad geographic area to work together effectively to make the area's resources known within and outside the Chapter. Other Chapter entrants in the 1966-67 competition were Alabama, Boston, and Illinois.

Metals/Materials Honors Margaret Fuller Moira Cartwright (left) and Elsie Ray (right) share Margaret H. Fuller's proud pleasure in the scroll and plaque presented to Mrs. Fuller as the first Metals/Materials Division Honors Award. She was cited as "an exemplary special librarian, ornament of the American Iron and Steel Institute, coordinator of librarians in her industry," and an outstanding Association President.

A. 0. Vietor Receives Geography-Map Honors Alexander Orr Vietor, curator of maps at the Yale Uni- versity Library, was awarded the 1967 Geography and Map Division's Honors Award for outstanding contributions to geography and map librarianship. The award cited Mr. Vietor, who has been in his present position since 1942, for bringing to the collections of the Yale library unique additions of cartographic works and paid tribute to his collaboration with others in identifying and describing the Vinland map, which stimulated research on the earliest discoveries of America.

SEPTEMBER1967 47 5 Report of Executive Director

BILL M. WOODS

AJOR CHANGES in personnel, a conteni- the Executive Director, Emily R. Marks, edi- M plated move of the Association Head- torial secretary, Ruth Eyerman, bibliographic quarters, publication of a major salary survey, assistant (retired from H. W. Wilson Com- and continued heavy involvement in the many pany), Joan B. Mathews, receptionist (replac- programs, publications, and services of the ing Mrs. Elsie Parachini, long-time telephone Association mark 1966-67 as the busiest year voice of SLA, who moved from New York yet. Some of the facts, figures, functions, and City), and Lawrence Dattory and Eugene faces are reviewed. Feliciano, office clerks. Present vacancies include Director, Membership and Personnel Personnel and Association Headquarters Services, accounting assistant, accounting Major appointments to the staff of Associa- clerk, departmental secretary, and office clerk. tion Headquarters were Guy R. Bell as Direc- Association Headquarters since 1939 has tor, Publications and Public Relations, Mar- been housed in the Hafner Building at 31 East garet M. Price, Director Fiscal Services, Mrs. 10th Street in New York. The building owner, Ellen Maky, Office Services Supervisor, and Stechert-Hafner, has indicated their own Marguerite Von Geyr, Publications and Pub- pressing need for the space now occupied by lic Relations Assistant. Mr. Bell, a Princeton SLA. A search for improved and enlarged graduate and editor of Church in Metropolir space is going on and a move to new quar- published by the Executive Council of the ters is anticipated during the next several Protestant Episcopal Church, on October 1, months. 1966, replaced Mary L. Allison, who after nearly eleven years with SLA became editor of Membership and Admissions "Books for Educators" at Scholastic Book Members are SLA's most important asset; Services. their contributions to the Association in time Miss Price, who replaced Mrs. Emily B. and service are outstanding. Their numbers, Shoemaker who retired after twenty-two years although increasing steadily, are still not in and three months with SLA, is a graduate of proportion to the number of special library Fordham University and a Certified Public and other information service personnel Accountant. Daniel A. Sipe filled the position known to be employed in the United States on an interim basis until his resignation due and Canada. A high-geared membership cam- to illness. Mrs. Maky, formerly Office Services paign for Active and Associate members es- Assistant, was promoted to head a newly pecially must be planned and carried out. created department. Miss Von Geyr on Janu- Recent partial efforts have produced mixed ary 1, 1967, replaced Edythe Porpa who re- results. A year ago a brochure describing the signed to begin graduate work leading to a benefits of Sustaining membership was dis- doctorate in anthropology at the univeisity of tributed widely. From April 30, 1965, to that Colorado. Miss Von Geyr, who had been a same date in 1966 the number of Sustaining part-time bibliographic assistant for several members increased from 132 to 153. The months, is a graduate of the University of figure on April 30, 1967, was 176, a 33 per Leipzig and was formerly Administrative As- cent increase in two years. A Student menl- sociate with ASA Sectional Committee 239. bership campaign, however, was not so suc- Grace Reynolds, Director, Membership and cessful-303 on April 30, 1966, 338 in 1967. Personnel Services, since 1962 resigned effec- Although not as members, the Association is tive June 5 to return to Canada. seeking to enroll Sponsors at $500 and Pa- Numerous other vacancies have occurred trons at $1,000; promise of the first Patron during the past twelve months and been filled has been made. on a temporary or probationary basis by a During the year 625 requests for rnember- number of persons. New to the staff during ship information were filled. Processed were the year were Bernice Anderson, secretary to 1,003 new memberships with the follou~ing assignment: Emeritus Honorary June-December January-April Sustaining 1966 1967 Active 105 192 Total 6,457 6,221 5,841 Associate 117 174 Student 76 233 Finances Affiliate 3 5 32 The 1965-66 financial statement of SLA Sustaining 18 2 1 reported total assets of $279,020.43 compared Total 35 1 652 to $247,431.96 in 1964-65. March 31, 1967, assets were $334,277.47 compared to $344,- With the cooperation of the Admissions 002.18 in 1966. The annual statement was Committee and the approval of the Board of published in the January hTeics nnd A'ote~ Directors, the review procedure for Associate and quarterly reports prepared for Board of members was greatly simplified. Responsibil- Directors and Finance Committee informa- ity for the review of status was placed with tion. the members, who could request review. In General operations income for 1965-66 was the past year, fifty-eight persons were denied $262,588 and expenses $267,840 with an es- membership due to a lack of qualification, cess of expenses over income of 365,252. fourteen of these upon decision by the Ad- $6,084 of the expenses, however, were trans- missions Committee. Another fifty-eight appli- fers between funds for overhead, as was cations were given Committee attention. $2,000 in stated transfers. Total income from Another new membership high was re- all activities in 1965-66 was $438,971.92 and ported for December 31, 1966, when SLA had expenses $405,293.45-an over-all "profit" of 6,704 members, an increase of 401 over a year $33,678.47. ago. Latest figures are for April 30, 1967, At the end of March 1967 the excess of when 6,457 memberships were current, 236 income over expenses was $94,529.90 ($76,- over a year ago. The number of drops for 040.15 last year). Income for membership nonpayment of dues before March 31, 1967, dues and fees for the period October 1, 1966- was 903, a substantial increase over the 602 April 30, 1967 was $141,274.34 compared to last year. Since that date, as usual, many of $127,808 in 1965-66. these persons have been reinstated-197, in Although the Association is a non-profit fact, and such reinstatement is continuing. 501(c)6 association under regulations of the Comparative figures by class of membership Internal Revenue Service, Association income as of April 30: from two activities-Convention exhibits and the Addressing Service-is being challenged 1967 1966 1965 by the IRS as "unrelated" income. The Asso- Active 4,592 4,563 4,326 ciation feels that both activities are important Active (Paid for Life) 42 47 45 parts of its program and plans to make any Associate 949 814 738 necessary appeals. Affiliate 254 229 175 Investments of the Association are sum- Student 338 303 318 marized below:

Bill M. Woods delivers the annual Executive Director's report to the Advisory Council meeting. General Reserve Fund MUTUAL FUNDS Stein, Roe & Farnham Balanced Fund, Inc.* July 27, 1961, 129 shares at $38.64. 1966-67 earnings of $497.76 reinvested. 357.954 shares held April 30, 1967. Current Price, $21.92. Loomis-Sayles Mutual Funds December 7, 1961, 290 shares at $17.23. 1966-67 earnings of $437.05 reinvested. 412.4325 shares held April 30, 1967. Current Price, $16.18. Johnson Mutual Fund, Inc. December 8, 1961, 318.066 shares at $15.72. 1966-67 earnings of $374.47 reinvested. 407.487 shares held April 30, 1967. Current Price, $21.31. Stein, Roe & Farnham Stock Fund? February 28, 1962, 146 shares at $34.08. 1966-67 earnings of $354.00 reinvested. 515.613 shares held April 30, 1967. Current Price, $14.55. Scudder, Stevens & Clark Balanced Fund, Inc. February 28, 1962, 244.499 shares at $20.45. May 23, 1962, 271.50 shares at $18.44. 1966-67 earnings of $955.55 reinvested. 754.874 shares held April 30, 1967. Current Price, $18.81. Total market value of securities on April 30, 1967 was $44,863.66.

* Two-for-one stock split February 28, 1966. + Three-for-one stock split February 28, 1966

SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND SAVINGS BANKS Interest Earned April I, 1966- Interest Rate March 31, 1967 American S & LA Lytton S & LA Sterling S & LA EQUIPMENTRESERVE FUND Fourth Federal S & LA GENERALFUND$ First National City West Side S & LA LIFE MEMBERSHIPFUND Central Savings PUBLICATIONSFUND$ California Federal S & LA Central Savings

SCHOLARSHIPAND STUDENTLOAN FUND Central Savings American S & LA of Calif. MOTIONPICTURE FUND Manhattan Savings Bank

$ Other money is held in a checking account. 5 $10,000 of this amount allocated to TRI account. 478 Publications lished in January and sells at $4.00. Two Book and journal publishing is an impor- other publications were the reprint ($2.25) of tant professional activity of Special Libraries A Study of 1967 Annual Salaries of Members Association. The major efforts during 1966-67 of the Special Libraries Association and the are described. Documentation Division's survey on The Use of Data Processing Equipment by Libraries and Information Centers published in Decem- BOOKS ber by the Library Technology Program of Directory of Members as of June 28, 1966 the American Library Association. Picture was published in October in one thousand Sources, second edition, is being reprinted to copies and sold for $3.00 to members, $12.50 meet a continuing demand. Alz~tualExchange to nonmembers. The second edition of A in the Scientific and Technical Library and Checklist for the Organization, Operation and Information Center Fields-A Report from Evaluation of a Company Library by the late the Special Libraries Association Delegation Mrs. Eva Lou Fisher was issued in December to the Soviet Union, 1966, the report of the and was the first book to be covered by a new 1966 NSF-supported SLA Soviet Exchange Association policy permitting personal authors is on press and will be issued soon. In hand a royalty of 10 per cent of annual gross re- for final editing is A Bibliogrdphy in Classifi- ceipts. cation compiled by Barbara Denison of the The Library: An Introduction for Librmy Western Reserve University School of Li- Assistdnts, edited by William C. Petru for the brary Science. San Francisco Bay Region Chapter, was pub- After review by the Nonserial Publications

SALE OF RECENTLY ISSUED PUBLICATIONS TO APRIL 30, 1967 Date Copies Copies Copies Profit Pzlblished Printed Sold Given or Loss Translators and Translations, 2nd ed. May 1965 3,582 1,472 88 Business and Industrial Libraries Aug. 1965 1,023 738 46 Guide to Metallurgical Informa- tion, 2nd ed. Oct. 1965 2,024 1,087 180 Guide for Management Feb. 1966 5,500 2,103 206 German Chemical Abbreviations May 1966 1,000 765 226 Aviation Subject Headings May 1966 804 256 39 Directory of Members, 1966 Oct. 1966 1,023 674 29 Checklist, 2nd ed. Dec. 1966 5,088 432 54 Library Assistants Jan. 1967 3,011 492 52 Royalties, 30 per cent of net profits, are paid to sponsoring Chapters, Divisions, Groups, and Sections, with $1,922.48 paid in 1966-67: Advertising and Marketing Division Subject Headings in Advertising Business and Finance Division Bzrsiness and Finatzce Serzfices Business and Finance Division Commodity Prices Chemistry Division German Chemical Abbreviations Georgia Chapter Translators, 1st ed. Insurance Division National Insurance OrgaYZi~dtionsin the United States and Canada Metals/Materials Division Guide to Metallurgical Information, 1st ed. Metals/Materials Division Guide to Metallurgicdl Information, 2nd ed. New York Chapter Special Libraries: How to Plan New York Chapter, Administrative Group Guide to Special Issues Petroleum Division Petroleum Statistics Picture Division Picture Sources, 1st ed. Picture Division Picture Sources, 2nd ed The cooperative publication sales program with Aslib is being discontinued and final accounting will be completed during the next few months. Committee and a special committee, Orguni- TECHNICAL BOOK REVIEW INDEX zation nnd Manngernent of Special Libravie.r TBRl is prepared using the facilities of the has been dropped as an Association project. Technology Department of the Carnegie Li- Some seven other projects are in preparation brary of Pittsburgh. A slight decrease in sub- and four projects are being reviewed currently scriptions to 1,793 from 1,904 compared to a by the Nonserial Publications Committee. year ago is noted as of April 30, 1967. During the year ending April 30, 1967, the sale of publications totaled 6,958 and pro- LINLISTED DRUGS duced an income of $37,699.09. Conlplete editorial and business management of Unlisted Drug.r, a publication of the SPECIAL LIBRARIES Pharmaceutical Division, was transferred to Content.(: The ten issues of Specid Librnries Boris R. Anzlowar at the end of 1966. Sub- during the past year totaled 752 pages. Con- scription management had been handled by tents included sixty-four professional articles Association Headquarters since 1962. (235 pages), 163 pages of SLA items, 119 pages of features, and 249% pages of adver- OTHER JOURNALS tising. Special issues were concerned with communications, education, systems analysis, sal- Documentation Ab~fracts,a joint publica- aries, and the 1966 Convention. A total of 101 tion of SLA, ADI, and the Division of Chem- articles (51 unsolicited and 50 from the 1966 ical Literature of the American Chemical So- Convention) were considered by the Special ciety, and under the control of a separately Librnries Committee; forty-four were ac- constituted Board of Directors, was first is- cepted, forty-eight rejected; six were revised, sued in summer 1966. and three referred to another journal. Copies of the four volume-one issues were distributed to the Board of Directors, Ad- Advertising: The effect of an April 1, 1966, visory Council, and others in the official SLA rate increase was not fully effective until family and to Sustaining members. September and produced an increase in in- Copyright ownership of Proceedings in come of $5,456. A total of 249% pages of ad- Print, published by the Aerospace Division, vertising were carried ($36,672) compared to was transferred to the editors. 248% pages ($31,216) a year ago. A new single issue record number of ad pages was Translations Activities reached with the forty-three in the recently issued May-June issue. The previous high was For more than twenty years the Association thirty-nine pages. has supplied to the scientific and technical community a translations service. The col- On April 30, 1967, a total of Circz~lation: lections of the SLA Translations Center now 2,028 separate subscriptions to Special Li- total 125,273 and beginning in 1967 will be bruries were current, representing a slight de- supported by the users through a newly insti- crease over a year ago (2,125). Included were tuted service charge in addition to grant sup- 21' Student subscriptions. A subscription rate port. 1966-67 grant support by the National increase to $12.50, foreign $14.00, and single Science Foundation totaled $48,915. A sup- copies $2.00 became effective with the Janu- plemental grant of $7,610 was received on ary 1967 issue. June 30, 1966, for 1965-66 activity, while an extension of the 1965-66 grants for $8,856 NEWS AND NOTES was also approved. The Clearinghouse for Four issues of A'eu,.r nnd Notes (twenty- Federal Scientific and Technical Information four pages) were included in issues of Special provided $13,800 support during the period Librnries in July-August, November, January, July-December 1966, but this contract has not and March. All pages were devoted to Associ- been renewed. ation news as were 163 additional pages in The $80,530 grant from the National Sci- Specin1 Libraries. ence Foundation to support preparation of an indes to available scientific and technical translations n7as implemented beginning in SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS August 1966. Progress is being made with A January 1967 subscription rate increase publication planned for late 1967 or early to $10.00 and $4.00 for single copies resulted 1968. in a slight decrease in subscription, from 1,135 Plans for a new bi-monthly Trunr/ntions to 1,117. Regrter-lnde~and initial support of $10,000 were approved in January. Additional support four new Data Sheets were prepared and from a three-year $47,894 grant is being asked added to the set. of the National Science Foundation. Subscrip- tions at $30.00 are being solicited by Associa- Scholarships and Student Loans tion Headquarters. The Translations Activi- Announcement of the 1967 SLA scholarship ties Chairman attended a May meeting in the and loan program was distributed widely and Netherlands discussing possible cooperation as a result 506 requests for information were with the European Translations Center. received and 424 applications sent. The Com- Also being planned for publication by SLA mittee reviewed ninety-five applications and is A Guide to Scientific and Technical Jouv- has recommended six persons to receive $1,500 nal~in Trdn~1ntion.rbeing conlpiled by Mrs. each. When these are awarded at the 1967 Grace E. Boyd and Carl J. Himmelsbach. Annual Convention the total number of winners since 1955 when the program began will Recruitment be sixty-seven and their total grants $66,900. The John Cotton Dana Lectures in Special Information about loans was supplied sixteen Librarianship were sponsored in sixteen ac- persons; two loans were made-for $500 and credited library schools. Two issues of the $325. Some $2,764 is outstanding in loans to Recruitment Areu.rlettev were issued. The six persons. Contributions during the year to- principal activity as usual was distribution of taled $9,188.35, including industrial contribu- materials describing special librarianship as a tions of $950, $4,000 from the H. W. Wilson career. In fact, during the year 40,100 copies Foundation, Association units $1,625.60, me- of booklets and data sheets were distributed morial gifts $920, and $1,492.75 from indi- in answer to 2,550 separate requests. vidual contributors. Present balance in the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund is $23,- Special Librarianship: 322.49. Information at Work 14,475 What Is a Special Librarian? 13,375 Placement Service Data Sheets Single sheets 1,975 During 1966-67, the SLA Placement Service Collated sets (25 titles on 13 sheets) 9,925 issued forty-six Placement Lists, including one Posters 130 prepared for use at the Minneapolis Conven- Car Cards 220 tion, twenty-two regular semi-monthly lists, and twenty-three special lists that described "What" was revised in December 1966 and 388 professional positions and 62 part-time,

Placement Assistant Ronald Winley discusses job openings with SLAers, applicants and employers, at the Convention Placement Office. SEPTEMBER1967 PLACEMENT ACTIVITIES, MAY 1, 1966-APRIL30, 1967

New positions 450 518 293 24 1 743 749 Positions listed 4/30 385 431 140 123 525 554 New applicants 516 399 458 306 974 705 Applicants listed 4/30 308 366 45 2 313 760 679 Placements reported 6 5 28 76 65 141 93

Under $6,200 $ 6,200- 6,999 7,000- 7,999 8,000- 8,999 9,000- 9,999 10,000-11,999 12,000-13,999 14,000 and over Not reported sub-professional, and temporary positions. fessional Consultants with fifty-one different Two hundred fifty-seven interviews were consultants involved. Additionally, many of- scheduled at Association Headquarters and fice and telephone conferences by staff dis- 404 during the Minneapolis Convention; 268 cussed the problems of establishing and main- requests for information were filled. In addi- taining a special library or information tion a number of positions are advertised in service. Three issues of the Newsletter were Special Libraries and in several Chapter bul- distributed. Three hundred eighty copies of letins. A Board decision was made to adver- Objectives and Standards for Special Libraries tise or list only those professional positions and 650 copies of the Profiles were sent gratis paying $6,200 or more. upon request. Positions listed with the Placement Service were at the following salaries: Salary Survey The 1967 salary survey, produced with the 1966-67 1965-66 close cooperation of the Personnel Committee Under $6,200 7 7 26 and Creative Research Services, Inc., was pub- $ 6,201- 6,999 7 5 146 lished in the April Special Libraries and as a 7,000- 7,999 88 107 separate. A mean salary of $9,620 is reported 8,000- 8,999 41 48 for 3,867 members who returned the ques- 9,000- 9,999 2 1 37 tionnaires mailed early in 1967. Particularly 10,000-10,999 28 26 significant is the 58 per cent increase over the 11,000-11,999 6 10 mean salary of the 1959 survey. The survey 12,000-12,999 13 - develops means and medians based on loca- 13,000-13,999 - - tion, type of employer, size of library staff, 14,000-over 6 - work responsibility, education, experience, mo- Not reported 9 5 118 bility, and age. Also developed is a profile - - of the Association membership. It is hoped Total 450 518 that the survey will be conducted biennially.

Consultation Service Conventions A unique service of the Association is the The 1967 Annual Convention met in New Consultation Service, which since 1957 has York for the first time since 1952. The ex- processed well over 1,200 inquiries. During hibit program was the largest ever, with the past year 121 referrals were made to the seventy-six exhibitors in ninety-four booths; Chapters which participate actively by pro- 25% pages of Convention program advertis- viding courtesy one-day consultations. Nine- ing were sold. Registration for the 1966 Min- teen referrals were made to eighty-nine Pro- neapolis Convention was 1,332, sixty-eight exhibitors rented seventy-nine booths, and 20% American Association of Law Libraries, and pages of advertising were included in the Con- the National League for Nursing. vention program. Total profit on Conven- The Translations Center exhibit was shown tions during the year was $16,143.34. Visits at ALA, ADI, AAAS, SLA, MLA, American were made to Los Angeles to assist in plan- Medical Association, National Electronics ning the 1968 Los Angeles Conference and to Conference, National Metals Exposition and Houston to discuss the 1973 Conference. Fiscal Congress, and the Federation of American management of Conferences will be the re- Societies for Experimental Biology. sponsibility of Association Headquarters beginning in 1968. An audience survey of per- OTHER sons attending the exhibits at the 1967 New Thirty-five pieces of SLA jewelry have been York Convention is being conducted in order sold during the year. The film, "Is Knowledge to obtain marketing information useful for Power?", has been borrowed and shown four planning future programs. times. The Monsanto slide presentation was shown three times before it was lost in the Public Relations mails; since then ALA has loaned its copy. PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS In January the Board of Directors decided to drop the proposed motion picture on special Brochures were revised describing Activities librarianship. A Public Relations Newsletter and Organization, the Translations Center, was mailed in April. Technical Book Review Index, Consultation : ' Service, Books and Journals, Placement Serv- ice, Why and How to Join SLA, and the Ad- Addressing Service dressing Service. Special Libraries Association provides a unique service to its units, in that new mem- PRESS RELEASES bership files are supplied annually and up- Thirty-six press releases were prepared and dated monthly for seventy-nine association units. Such a service is a luxury and one distributed in more than 7,300 copies. Eight which is largely unappreciated until updating were concerned with Chapter and Division activities and publications, seven with Associa- gets behind schedule. Such has been the situation publications, four with awards, four tion during the past two or three months. The with officers and staff, three with the Trans- creation of five new Divisions, the institution lations Center, two each on scholarships, Con- of zip-coding and several subsequent changes vention, and recruitment, and one each on in regulations, severe staff shortage and turn- Association policy on book advertising prac- over, and impatient customers have com- tices and statements made in the name of the pounded an otherwise busy season. As of Association. April 30 all but a very small percentage of the backlog had been worked off. There is NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK real regret that anyone was inconvenienced. In 1968 with a proposed drop date one month NLW promotional material was sent in into the new membership year still other prob- quantity to all Chapter presidents, bulletin editors, and public relations chairmen. A spe- lems are anticipated. Also anticipated are im- cial house-organ piece, "Libraries in an Elec- proved equipment and a full staff. tronic Age," was prepared by L. Quincy On May 1, 1967, 24,501 plates were on Mumford, Librarian of Congress. Promotional file; the following files were maintained on articles were published in several issues of May 1, 1967: Special Libraries. Members, zip-coded including Sperial Libvarie~ EXHIBITS Members, by Divisions Major exhibits of Association publications Srientific Meetings and services were shown at the ALA, SLA, Technical Book Rezjiezc Index and AAAS conventions, the National Metals Basic media Exposition and Congress, and the St. John's Other media Congress for Librarians. Associations and universities Publications were included in combined Advertisers and exhibitors book exhibits at five spring state library as- Sustaining members sociations, AAAS, Catholic Library Associa- Professional Consultants tion, ALA, Medical Library Association, Bulletin Editors Board, Council, Chairmen, committees of Exhibit Managers and Hospital Special Representatives 222 Libraries in connection with SLA representa- Unit officers to receive changes 80 tion. New York Library Club 1,461 He also served as a trustee and Secretary of METRO, served on advisory committees of Total stencils in file 24,501 the New York State Library, and is on the Li- brary Development Committee of the New Following is a summary of cards made: York Library Association. Conferences of the ALA were attended in New York and New Orleans, a Manpower Conference in Washing- New and reinstated ton, and a Statistics meeting in Chicago. members 1,174 1,623 In November 1966 he directed a Library Change of name, address, Association Administration Workshop at or affiliation 3,243" 2,172 Drexel Institute and edited the proceedings. Cards sent new officers 17,524 17,799 During the summer of 1967 he will teach Cards for changes sent units 14,149t 14,022 Special Library Service at Drexel. Talks were Total number of cards made given at the Library School at the University for all purposes 67,289 60,214 of Maryland, the Library Services Branch of the U.S. Office of Education, and an Illinois * Approximately 7,220 Addressograph plates Chapter-Metals/Materials Division meeting. had to be corrected or new plates prepared. Along with the President he attended the + No cards indicating "drops" were supplied meeting of the three advisory committees to .r: the five former Sections of Science Technology Di- the Library of Congress. Other meetings at- vision; cards for new Division members were sup- tended included an ASAE-sponsored workshop plied. on automation in associations, ABPC Arden House conference on information technology, Runnings completed by the Addressing National Association of Exhibit Managers Service during the past year included sixty-six meeting in Atlanta, and served on a joint for Association units,, 111 for official use, and NAEM-Association of National Advertisers 141 for outside interests. committee on trade show audits and the New York Society of Association Executives Mem- Meetings, Visits, Articles, and Committees bership Committee. Articles or reviews were The Executive Director has just completed published in Pioneer, Approaches to Library a three-year chairmanship of the Council of History, Journal of Education for Libmrian- National Library Associations and attended ship, The Bookmark, Word Business, Drexel meetings of CONLIS, 239, Who's Who in Library Quarterly, and The Changing Enui- Library Service, and USBE in connection with ronment for Library Service in the Metropoli- the chairmanship and meetings of joint tan Area.

Treasurer Jean Deuss, Director Gloria Evans, DL0 Robert Gibson, Director Charlotte Mitchell, and Ad- visory Council Chair- man Charles Stevens weigh matters carefully at the first meeting of the 1967-68 Board of Directors. 484 Special Libraries Association Membership as of April 30, 1967 ACTIVE (Pd. for Assoc1- CHAPTERS ACTIVE Life) ATE ATE DENT TAINING Alabama 8 1 Baltimore 9 8 Boston 55 9 Cincinnati 7 - Cleveland 15 5 Colorado 18 4 Connecticut 13 3 Day ton 8 1 Greater St. Louis 16 3 Heart of America 11 2 Illinois 4 1 6 Indiana 10 5 Louisiana 10 2 Michigan 33 11 Minnesota 19 6 Montreal 40 4 New Jersey 58 4 New York 174 7 2 North Carolina 5 3 Oklahoma 10 6 Pacific Northwest 27 1 Philadelphia 44 7 Pittsburgh 33 8 Rio Grande 9 4 San Diego 7 7 San Francisco 4 1 16 South Atlantic 18 7 Southern Appalachia1 7 2 Southern California 54 17 Texas 28 2 Toronto 30 6 Upstate New York 25 10 Virginia 9 1 Washington, D. C. 51 8 Wisconsin 11 7 Unaffiliated U. S. & Canada 2 2 Outside U. S. & Canada 5 - - - 96 1 256 Less extra Chapter affiliations 12 2 - - Total 949 2 54

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS During the week of September 4, Association Headquarters moved into new quarters in Manhattan. Effective immediately, please address all mail to : Special Libraries Association 235 Park Avenue South New York, N. Y. 10003 The telephone number remains the same: 212-777-8136. A forthcoming issue of Special Librurirs will take you on a photo tour of the new Head- quarters location. Chapter Relations Committee Report

JOHN M. CONNOR, Chapter Liaison Officer

WELVE of thirty-five, only 63 per cent, down the minutes and seconds so as to meet . Ttwenty-six, nine and five. No, this is not report deadlines with stop-watch precision. a numbers game. It is, rather, a discouraging In our President's inaugural address, enthu- series of simple statistical observations. siastically entitled "Expectations of Excel- Only twelve of thirty-five annual Chapter lence," at one point as you may recall he re- financial statements reached the Chapter Liai- ferred to ". . . the hundreds of members who son Officer on the July 30, 1966, due date. hold some sort of office or committee appoint- The Chapter cash allotments are based on ment . . . that such a massive roster is our these fiscal reports. Even with money as the strength . . . but we delude ourselves with incentive, the remainder trickled in during the only a roster of names." Then he continued, next two months with the last one arriving "I would address three expectations to all of at the September meeting in New York, lit- you, at all levels of the Association, but I erally about ten minutes before final budget would specifically address them to those of action by the Board. At the Houston Advisory you who have accepted specific responsibili- Council meeting only 63 per cent of the eli- ties: To the Chapter . . . officers who are gible Chapter officers were present to partici- re.rponsible for the advancement of pro8ram.r pate as the duly elected conciliar representa- at the local levels." tives of their Chapters. After such a ringing challenge, I admit I

A comprehensive and we hoped effective was a bit disappointed- - to find that the ratio Student membership campaign and recruit- of quality performance to casual or poor per- ment program was authorized and heartily formance remained unchanged. I am taking endorsed by the Board at this same Septem- this opportunity through the medium of this ber 1966 meeting. The Chapter Relations annual report to remind the Chapter officers, Committee implemented this campaign pro- all of them, both elected and appointed, that gram through the Chapter structure of the with the acceptance of an office one accepts Association. A detailed suggested procedure all the responsibilities of that office. The pres- including a list of assigned library schools idents and presidents-elect according to the was prepared and mailed to all the Chapter Bylaws are the constituted representatives of presidents, with at least three follow-up mem- their Chapters to the two Advisory Council oranda. Prior to the Houston meeting your meetings, one of which is held at the Annual CLO asked for a Chapter report of participa- Conference, the other at the Midwinter Meet- tion. Only nine Chapters responded. In prep- ing. Unless they intend to be present at these aration for this fine meeting in New York my two meetings they should not accept nomina- spring memo to the Chapters specifically re- tion for office. As the leaders of their Chap- quested a summary of Student membership ters, they "are responsible for the advance- and recruitment activity. Only five responded ment of the programs at the local level," and by separate letter, though buried in ten annual should accept the obligations for reports and reports were some fine evidences of both vig- for the influence of leadership, sparking lively orous performance and imaginative ap- recruitment, membership activities, meaning- proaches to the programs. From the rest no ful Chapter programs, or any other activity response whatever. And speaking of annual that advances the purposes and prosperity of reports, as this report is being written, fifteen both their own group and the parent body. days after the deadline, nine Chapter annual Like the human organism, our Special Librar- reports are among the missing, too late for ies Association grows from the inside out. If any noteworthy consideration in this report. I may be permitted a biological simile, the This gloomy recital of a state of affairs individual member is the cell, the Chapters should not be taken as a verbal chastisement. and Divisions the organs. Healthy cells and One does not chastise adults. Nor is it reac- organs provide a rich tonus and vitality to the tion to a case of frustration. When I accepted total organism-the Association. the appointment to do this job I had no de- Among the active and responsible leaders lusions that everyone would be standing in there has been a high order of excellence, as front of post offices or mail boxes, counting expected. Noteworthy activities included: sev- 486 number, the Division Liaison Officer. Over 160 members attended. The President of the Connecticut Valley Chapter appeared before the state legislature in support of a library service extension bill, and for the first time in history, the Pacific Northwest Chapter was invited to prepare an exhibit for the Governor's Conference on Li- brary Resources. The Cleveland Technical So- cieties Council, comprising over forty technical societies, numbers the Cleveland Chapter among its members. Colorado has started a Friends of the Chapter Group. They invite business and industrial leaders to share in the activities of the Chapter. In an effort to relate programs to the interests and needs of the members Michigan effectively uses a questionnaire to poll member preferences, and the Southern Appalachian Chapter has a Special Projects Committee aimed at developing vital programs and projects. There were five outstanding contributions era1 ambitious worksho~s and institutes: a to the recruitment of young people to our vo- growing body of evidence that more and more cation. Greater St. Louis, in addition to par- special librarians and their libraries are participation with the Missouri Library Associa- ticipating in political and community affairs tion in a state wide recruitment program, held related to their profession; serious attention during National Library Week a librarian-for- to devising ways and means of developing a-day event. Twenty-seven young men and useful and attractive programs, not only for women were assigned to twenty-one of the the members, but for management, the mern- bers' employers; and in spite of the fact that industrial, business, and other special libraries the over-all participation in the recruitment of the area. For the sixth year the Southern program was a meager one, with only eight California Chapter with other library organi- Chapters reporting any activity, five of them zations manned a booth and interviewed coun- did an outstanding job. selors, teachers, and students in the ten-day Illinois attracted 350 young people to a Career Guidance Center organized by the Los Saturday afternoon conference of the Catholic Angeles County Superintendent of Schools. Over fifty-five thousand students, counselors, Association of Student Librarians. Dayton and teachers (last year's attendance) from held a workshop for library assistants. One of our new babies, Virginia, together with the high and junior-high schools were brought by bus for two-hour visits. At the West End Jay- Richmond Professional Institute and the Rich- mond Area Special Libraries Club sponsored cees four-day Career Program, that lively baby Virginia had SLA on view for the first time at a two-day library institute, and said the Vir- ginia Chapter Report, ". . . we hope to con- a booth financed by Friends of the Richmond tinue such an annual program, because we Public Library. Montreal offered speakers to have no library school in our state." Upstate the universities of McGill, Ottawa, and Mont- New York had a two-day symposium on real. Indiana cosponsored a car-card campaign "Systems Analysis and Design Related to Li- in over seven hundred public vehicles in the braries." New Jersey conducted a very suc- state's ten major cities during National Li- cessful workshop on "Report Literature and brary Week, and also made arrangements to Source Information." And just last month the give Special Libraries to the Indiana Univer- Michigan Chapter sponsored a regional meet- sity Library School students. ing to which it invited Cleveland, Dayton, 11- One reason for the sluggish response to linois, Indiana, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Cincin- the recruitment program-Student membership nati, and Wisconsin. This two-day program, campaign may be the cost of the promotional including tours of the General Motors Re- leaflets and other literature. A resistance of search Library and Laboratory, was conducted some consequence was evidenced by a few under the able chairmanship of my opposite Chapters and several individuals to the re- 487 cruitment and membership drives. They ex- well informed. The Alabama Bulletin is an pressed the view, in various forms, that pro- excellent example of good editing, attractive motional recruitment literature should be composition, and meaningful content. available free of charge to Chapters engaged Now in conclusion, my term of office as in this important Association-wide function. Chapter Liaison Officer brought three new Presently there is a charge for all but a token Chapters into being-Virginia, North Caro- supply, which for some Chapters represents lina, and at this meeting here in New York a fiscal hardship. In the matter of Student the Princeton-Trenton Chapter. And in my memberships, many feel that such member- hotel mailbox last night I found a note saying, ship is meaningless unless at least a gratis sub- "Aloha! Hawaii wants in! How do we go scription to Special Librdries is included. At about it?" this New York meeting I have been informed Some of our Chapter officers when they that two or three of the Chapters are refer- studied their Chapter manuals heeded the ring proposals on these matters to appropriate admonition of Francis Bacon when he wrote, authority for action. "I hold every man [and woman] a debtor to To the many other fine examples of excel- his profession." I fervently wish we all would lence, as expected, two call for brief mention. respond to this call to professional responsi- The San Francisco Bay Region Chapter, when bility. the sponsorship of its Union List didn't mate- And before I'm ruled out of order and with rialize, requested a loan from Headquarters, my other hat as Chairman of your host city but sold enough subscriptions in the interim next time, a warm and cordial invitation to to make the loan unnecessary. And let's take Ld Ciuddd de Nuestra Senora, la Reif14 de Los a look at the fine job one of our smaller Chap- Angeles, June 2-7, 1968. ters, Alabama, is doing to keep its members

Division Relations Committee Report ROBERT W. GIBSON, JR., Division Liaison Officer

AM SURE that most of you who have not lose sight of this effort and should show our I held the office of Division Chairman in re- appreciation to these individuals who have cent years have no idea of the amount of agreed to lead our Divisions by offering these work that is currently involved in adequately individuals as much cooperation and help as is completing the requirements of the position. possible. We, the Association as a whole, should not The past year has been another busy one, especially for our Division Chairmen. Our year started with two meetings during the Conference in Minneapolis. The nest meeting of the Chairmen and incoming Chairmen was during the Board of Directors-Advisory Council meeting in Houston. In between regular meetings were numerous comn~unications to the Division officers from the DL0 regarding minutes of the annual meetings, financial statements, revised descriptions of the Divi- sions and their activities for inclusion in the brochure "Activities and Organization," current information on Division bulletins for the yearly Bulletin chart which appears in Special Libruries, and annual reports, to name a few. The Chairmen and incoming Chairmen also have an obligation to attend the Advisory Council meetings, both the one held during the annual Conference and the two meetings held in conjunction with the Board meetings SPECIALLIBRARIES in January. All of these responsibilities are in no representation, some Divisions represented addition to trying to direct the affairs of a Di- by members other than the Chairman and in- vision with enthusiasm, intelligence, and incoming Chairman and some with only one of spiration. I suppose it is noteworthy that some the two elected officers. It should be under- divisions are beginning to find it difficult to stood when we assume the office of Chairman secure two candidates to run each year for the or incoming Chairman that attendance at top Division offices. these meetings is a part of our accepted re- The financial statements-their preparation sponsibilities. There are all sorts of reasons and subsequent auditing-have taken a great why individuals have not been able to attend. deal of time during the past year. There has However, I noted with interest that there been a growing concern, and rightly so, that were individuals at Houston who had paid the approximate sum of $100,000 controlled their own way. There were others whose by our Chapters and Divisions is a sum sig- Chapter or Division paid part of the costs nificant enough that the Association and its where their companies would not or could units should develop more systematic and not support their travel. I would hope that in businesslike procedures in reporting the use the future more stress could be received from of these funds. It was during this year that the Association President on the importance the Board of Directors did place the addi- of attendance at these meetings to our incom- tional requirement of auditing financial state- ing officers. ments on our Divisions and Chapters. More study is to be conducted on these statements Summaries in an attempt to simplify the reporting and at the same time to make the statements of the There are some problems that seem to find sub-units more compatible with those of our their way into many of the divisional reports. parent Association. One is a reflection of a problem that seems to Before I proceed with a summary of high- have existed for several years, that is, the lack lights from the reports of the twenty-one Di- of good ideas for divisional projects. visions, I would like to add that the past year It occurs to me that perhaps the Association as Division Liaison Officer has certainly is missing the boat, so to speak, in that per- passed all too quickly. It has been a year of haps some Association projects could be done challenges-our five new Divisions are begin- as divisional projects. I am sure that some of ning to find themselves and develop appropri- our Divisions could very easily perform the ate programs. And it is interesting to note necessary work for a publication should the that not everyone in the Sci-Tech Division Nonserials Publication Committee suggest a has elected to leave their parent in favor of project of this sort. Perhaps even some of our a new "lusty" Division. Committee work could be done by Divisions There is one disappointment, however, that as a project. My statements concerning proj- does cast somewhat of a shadow on our total ects should not be taken as an indication contributions. This is the matter of attendance that there are no active projects within the at the Advisory Council meetings. More em- Divisions, but as a possible source for the phasis does need to be placed on the impor- completion of delayed programs due to in- tance of attendance by both the Division sufficient personnel or time. Chairman and incoming Chairman. The Ad- Division publications are the highlights, the visory Council as now constituted truly does main subject, of the individual reports. The represent the dual interests of all of our mem- saddest news first, SOCIAL SCIENCE DIVISION bership, that is, local area groups as well as has suspended publication of its Balletin of international divisional relationships. the Socidl Science Dicision. If the Council is ever to really fulfill its MILITARY LIBRARIANS DIVISION has com- potential as an advisory channel to the Board, piled a directory of the Division members each of the different viewpoints of the sub- which includes not only mailing addresses, but units needs to be represented at the Council the members' positions, name and address of meetings. I believe that in the past the argu- their library, and autovon phone number. ments concerning the importance of attending ADVERTISING AND MARKETING DIVISION'S the Council meetings had not been presented Whdt'.r Neu is keeping its members and as strongly as may have been necessary. Your friends informed and continuing to be a DL0 and Chapter Liaison Officer have both money-maker. The BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DI- tried to stress this importance. However, I VISION is well under way in preparing Biblrog- was surprised at the attendance of the Hous- rnphy of Injormation Sou~re.rin the Biological ton meeting. There were some Divisions with Sciences. And we have the cooperation of science-technology oriented divisions in using Awards of special note to be presented at Sci-Tech News as their voice to members. the various Division annual business meet- Several of the newer divisions have elected to ings are: GEOGRAPHY AND MAP DIVISION'S use this means of publishing. Honor Award and the METALS/MATERIALS insurance Index, project of the INSURANCE DIVISION is presenting an Honors Award for DIVISION, makes possible a contribution to the first time during this Conference. the Scholarship Fund yearly. This year the Other interesting activities by the Divisions amount is $1,000. The Instlrance Literature, a include the CHEMISTRY DIVISION exploring the regular periodical, has undergone changes of possibility of a joint meeting with the ~&i- printer and distribution policy which, it is can Chemical Society's Chemical Literature planned, will modernize and increase its ap- Division to be held in 1968; a MILITARY LI- peal to members and subscribers. The Indexing BRARIANS DIVISION workshop held in San project pilot study of the TRANSPORTATION Diego with its theme: "Library Employe De- DIVISION is well under way and tabulation of velopment." A proceedings is available from member reactions as to what is desired in the the Defense Documentation Center. Transportation Index will be announced Some of the Divisions are completing, at shortly. A bibliography relating to library this Conference, or have just completed, ap- automation in general and map libraries in proval of their bylaw revisions in accordance particular entitled Atltorndtion in Map Libvar.- with changes made necessary by Association ies was sponsored by the GEOGRAPHY AND MAP changes. DIVISION. Periodic updating is planned. Duplicate Exchange was continued by the Last but not least, the DOCUMENTATION DI- METALS/MATERIALS DIVISION which also fea- VISION has been extremely busy this year is- tured at its annual fall meeting during the suing a monograph and preparing microfiche. ASM Conference "Creativity Amidst Mid- Their membership has now received the maze," a reflection of the expanded interests microfiche copy for a Mechanized Indexing of the Division as well as the diversity of re- Bibliography. The important survey sponsored search topics. This active Division has an an- by this Division of SLA in cooperation with nual project which originated in 1961 at the the Library Technology Program of ALA on San Francisco Conference with the proceeds "The Use of Data Processing Equipment by going into the Scholarship Fund. Several thou- Libraries and Information Centers" reported sands of dollars have already been donated. as a preliminary last year was completed by While on the subject of the SLA Scholarship Creative Research Services, Inc., and a volume, Fund, the NEWSPAPER DIVISION has voted to Directory of Libraries Planning to Automate, contribute $50 yearly to it as a memorial to was issued in October 1966. deceased members of that Division.

Howard Haycraft, president of the H. W. Wilson Co., and Elizabeth Ferguson, Convention Program Chairman, socialize with two of the Association guests, Miriam H. Tees of the Canadian Library Association and Paul Myers of the Theatre Library Association. NEW YORK ROUNDUP Chicken Every Day with SLA

VIRGINIA STERNBERG

LOVE to go to SLA conferences. My plans it or not but you can arrange to squeeze into I are made weeks ahead of time. The staff one Saturday: breakfast at Rumplemayer's, gets the fever and keeps everything ship- shopping on Fifth Avenue, lunch at the shape during the week I am attending. For Palm Court in the Plaza, a wedding at St. seventeen years I have attended conferences ; Patrick's Cathedral, shopping with Mary missing only two for personal reasons. I Vasilakis for costumes for the Pittsburgh have met many people who would have been International Folk Festival. a dinner of lamb only names if I had not attended national and okra at the Greek restaurant Pantheon, meetings. and an evening at the theater joining in the My first Convention was in Atlantic City fun and song of Zlyd Darling and even meet- in 1950 when I was a library school student. ing a member of the cast. This is highly rec- Margaret Kehl, that great, inspirational, spe- ommended as a perfect way to start a week cial library instructor at Drexel, escorted sev- of meetings. eral of us to a very exciting SLA convention Well, after one day of frivolity the serious where that new breed "documentalist" was business started on Sunday morning at 8:45 discussed. Then, after I got my first job, my A.M. Eric Bromberg got the meeting off the first real Convention was in New York. ground about 9:15, stating that the innova- What excitement! This was the first time tion of utilizing Sunday prior to the SLA that I saw Dr. Jolan Fertig in action, and meeting for the Forum on Education was an other stalwarts like Ruth Savord, Marie Goff, experiment. Dr. Harold Lancour, Dean of and Katherine Kinder. the University of Pittsburgh School of Li- And now SLA back in New York sixteen brarv and ~nformationsciences. and mod- years later. erator of the morning session, looked into The pace in New York hasn't changed. It our sleepy countenances and graciously catches you up as you arrive and leaves you averred that we were all "morning" people. breathless as you depart. A conference in "The Library Technician" subject had two New York is a week of decisions. One feels worthy panel protagonists. Mrs. Elena Hor- duty bound to go to committee meetings ton skillfully presented the pro side of the when theaters, museums, specialty shops, picture, describing the orange County Com- and famous eateries beckon. An experienced munity College program for technicians. She conference attendee has the ability to sched- ~ointedout that the technician can relieve ule everything. The merry-go-round of the the professional of non-professional chores. 58th SLA Conference in New York began The librarian can then be free to work with for me on Friday night. library clientele and in special libraries be- A Friday night arrival permitted a head come a true partner of management. Lively, start on the extracurricular activities. Believe witty Samuel Sass drove home many points in his paper entitled "Library Technician- Caveat Emptor." He particularly reminded Mrs. Sternberg is librar- us of the fact that the public believes anyone ian of the Beth Atomic who works in a library is a "librarian." The Power Lab, Westinghouse two-year community college courses for train- Electric Couporation, ing library technicians may create more problems than they solve. Dr. Lancour closed North Miflin, Pennsyl- this very thought-provoking session by stat- vania. ing that the problem facing us now is bigger Volunteers at the registration and The First Conventioneers Reception ticket booths had a busy time checking offered opportunities for old-tim- in the more than 2,300 Conventioneers. ers and new-comers to get together. than it appears on the surface, and now is I must admit it was difficult to be hospi- the time for professional associations to take table in the old Commodore. Rooms were a stand. not clean, some were not airconditioned, and Luncheon proved to be a delicious repast plumbing was old and ill-functioning. Con- of fruit cup, chicken, string beans, potatoes, sidering that management of the hotel was blueberries melba, and coffee. Little did we changing on June 1 (the day before the SLA know, when we dutifully purchased our conference ended) service was fairly good. tickets in advance, that this was the same The New York Chapter deserves the highest luncheon to be served all week. Later in the praise for their undaunted spirit in the face week one of the Division Chairmen opened of coping with this situation. I must admit her remarks by stating, "While you are fin- I didn't have the stamina and moved out ishing your all too familiar dessert. . . ." after one night. Melvyn Douglas, I mean Gordon Randall, Another social event on Sunday was the was the luncheon speaker. As he discussed Convention Reception and Opening of Ex- employer standards he mentioned what many hibits held in the Grand Ballroom. This was of us know from our own experience, that another good place to meet old friends and the fifth year graduate is still not a finished to renew acquaintances with the exhibitors librarian. and their representatives. Since there were The afternoon session of the Forum on no formal evening programs, the reception Education was moderated by Dr. Theodore was an ideal launching platform for groups Hines, School of Library Service, Columbia to take off for some of the famous dining University. The papers and discussions cen- spots. Division Open Houses later in the tered around the topic of "Foundation for evening were sparseIy attended, which is an- Education in Librarianship and Information other indication that New York has such Science." The four schools represented, Le- star-spangled attractions that everyone can high, Western Reserve, Drexel, and Georgia find his own amusement elsewhere. Tech, are now advancing into subjects such Monday was the spectacular opening, the as symbolic logic, computer systems, and First General Session. New Yorkers have a transformation processes. It made one begin talent for doing great things casually. The to wonder if those in the field are keeping New York Chapter, no exception, arranged up to date. to have Mayor John V. Lindsay welcome As a Division representative on the Hos- SLA to New York. During the week, as pitality Committee, next on my agenda was New York was having apartment mainte- the Sunday afternoon tea for the First Con- nance problems, we sympathized with "that ventioneers. This proved to be a good place nice young man who really knew quite a bit to meet many of the officers who stopped in about libraries." to help welcome the newcomers. Would you say that someone had an inside track when the Convention Chairman to a delicious repast-the same as Sunday and the incoming President were both from exceDt the chicken was on a slice of ham. the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the The big moment of presentation of the Keynote Address was presented by Thomas awards arrived. The Membership Gavel P. F. Hoving, the new Director of the Met- Award went to Oklahoma again for the sec- ropolitan Museum of Art? Jim Humphry ond year. Donna Lehman, Treasurer of the and Elizabeth Usher took some good-natured Chapter, accepted the award. The H. W. ribbing about it. Anyway, "Hoving makes Wilson Company Chapter Award went to things happen" is the way Look magazine the Upper New York State Chapter for its described him in the May 2nd issue. His ad- publication Dir.ectoiy of Resoz~rces. Robin dress was a "happening" in SLA. Direct, Murray, President of the Chapter, accepted stacatto, dynamic, and dramatic, he was the the award. epitome of New York as seen through the In a departure from the usual way of eyes of a tourist. awarding the SLA Professional Award the Instead of a banquet this year, there was Committee gave it to the Illinois Chapter for an Awards Luncheon. An invocation has its project in producing the book Special Li- come to be a formality and, although mean- braries: A Gzlide for Mazagement. Perhaps ingful, usually forgotten. Not so this one by 1967 should be remembered as "the year of the Rev. John H. Harrington, in which he the book awards." referred to us as "elevator boys of knowl- Many of the Divisions and Sections held edge." their business meetings after the Awards This good person unwittingly pointed out Luncheon. Some interesting facts and figures to me where we stand in the eyes of the lay- on new Divisions and old Divisions came to man. A trained technician, not a learned light. The Nuclear Science Division (as any professional. It reminded me that Dr. Alvin ocher Division) was required to have onk Weinberg calls us "gatekeepers" ; again hundred people petition to become a Divi- trained but not knowledgeable. Maybe these sicn. Although the officers labored long this involuntary comparisons should give us food year to get the fledgling Division function- for thought. In this day and age a patron ing, it now seems that there are only szxty- can do without an elevator boy and a gate- eifht members. What happened to the other keeper-the elevator is selfoperating, the thirty-two? The big raised in con- doors are operated by electric eye. Perhaps nection with these new Divisions is, why is as John S. Galbraith in his address to ALA Sci-Tech still 2,016 strong? One purpose of stated, "librarians are becoming obsolescent the new Divisions was to encourage people even if books are not." to belong to their subject specialty Division After rationalizing about the uniqueness and slowly phase out Sci-Tech. of the term "elevator boy" we settled down The Chemists' Club Library presented its

In a glare of lights for the benefit of TV news cameramen, Mayor John V. Lindsay welcomes the SLA Convention to New York; Thomas P. F. Hoving makes some last-minute changes in his keynote address. SEPTEMBER1967 annual symposium in conjunction with the speakers was that we would have "Automa- SLA Chemistry Division. The ~rovocative tion in our Library Future." title "Symposium on the Development of a The exhibit area was like a maze. It was National Network of Science Information difficult to be really sure you had seen every- Systems" drew a large crowd. I was unable thing. The Convention Exhibits Committee to attend due to the press of a "business" offered several incentives to lead you to the meeting. One of my informants advised that exhibit area. In the morning and afternoon, it was "reassuring to practicing librarians to free coffee was served. The big extra was an have their ideas confirmed by experts that expense paid tour for two on the post-Con- computerization is still fifteen to twenty-five vention trip to Grand Bahama Island. In or- years away." der to be eligible for the prize, you had to The first day ended with the Advisory tour the exhibits. You received a card at the Council meeting where we heard in more entrance to the exhibits. If you progressed detail the actions of the Board and the prob- through to the opposite end your card was lems facing them. The major of stamped, dropped in a box, and you could moving Headquarters, paying for the move, hope to be the winner. The lucky winner, and operating funds required for the next Martin Konecnik, Pennsylvania State Uni- eighteen- months dominated the scene. versity, was announced on Wednesday night Can you really blame anyone for rushing after the closing of the exhibits. out to catch the latest belly dancer scene ? Laments were heard that the SLA Trans- Starting off Tuesday bright and early was lation Center booth was in such an out-of- breakfast with the Recruitment Committee the-way spot, down at the end of the line, Chairman, Mary Lee Tsuffis, and her two across from "Tours." Those who were in- guest speakers, Mrs. B. J. Connors and Don- terested in reviewing the new publication ald Hunt. The enthusiasm of this trio is Transtation Register-Index had to look smart catching. Their suggestions for luring people to locate it. into the library field are apparently tremen- Hopping over to the Sci-Tech luncheon dously successful since the library schools on Tuesday, we had "that lunch" again. Dr. now have more students applying than they Jerrold Ome, chairman of the 2-39 Com- can accept. Marv Lee. in her usual efficient mittee, spoke of "The Place of Standards in manner, had prepared a booklet of ideas, the New Technology of Information Sci- reports, projects, and recommendations for ence." His quotable quote was, "Time spent recruiting that she had collected from the on standards is not in vain." SLA Chapters. Due to tight scheduling, the Sci-Tech The Second General Session had an SRO business meeting had to be rushed through crowd. Being a late arrival with two hours in order to vacate the room for another meet- of standing in view, I took off for the ex- ing. Fran Stratton, Chairman of Sci-Tech hibit area instead. Mv fellow conference at- adroitly handled the situation, but to me the tendees report that the consensus of the disconcerting aspect of the business meeting

At the Second General Session, speskcxs on "Automation in Your Library Fu- ture" were Dr. Charles De Carlo, IBM Corp., Joseph Becker, EDUCOM, Charles P. Bourne, Programming Services, Inc., , and Dr. Harold Wooster, U.S. Air Force. At Lincoln Center's Library and Museum of the Performing Arts Charlotte Mitchell enjoys the Dance Collection display while others take in "Opera from Score to Stage."

was that of the 2,016 Sci-Tech members, brary system is what really amazed us all. less than twenty-five cared enough to attend. The Ports-of-Call Promenade Concert gave As mentioned earlier in connection with the many of us from out of town a chance to Division business meetings, what is the ex- have the very novel experience of sitting planation for the large membership in Sci- around a table sipping wine while we lis- Tech-a personal attachment to old tradi- tened to beautiful music. After the concert tions or a subconscious realization that there was even time to skip over to the opera decentralization is unnecessary ? house to see the chandelier and grand stair- Due to a plethora of interesting subjects way. presented on Memorial Day afternoon, only The Annual Business Meeting was held four people attended the "open" meeting of on Wednesday morning with a packed house the 1967 salary survey. The three member spilling out into the overflow room. Charles Personnel Committee and the President of Stevens presided under the direction of table- Creative Research Services, Inc., the organ- pounding Frank McKenna, our President, ization which compiled the statistics, an- who had lost his voice. The Committee re- swered the few questions asked. As a mem- ports appear elsewhere in this issue so will ber of the Committee I was disappointed not be repeated here. The overriding con- that there was so little reaction. Could we cern of the morning was SLA's financial de- console ourselves that the survey accom- cisions brought about by the necessity to plished its mission and there is no more to move the Headquarters office. say on the issue? The reprints of the survey The only difference in the luncheon on are available, so buy a stock to pass out to Wednesday was the speaker. Aerospace wage and salary people (commercial). heard from John Glennon of AIAA, Engi- It could be expected that a committee neering from Robert Dunlop of IBM, News- would come up with several spectaculars in paper and Advertising and Marketing from a city vibrant with activities. We were not E. Clifton Daniel of NYT, and Nuclear Sci- disappointed. One spectacular for Tuesday ence from Edward Brunenkant of AEC. Be- night was the "Evening at Lincoln Center." ing a loyal Nuclear Science Division attendee, First came a tour of the Library and Museum I had chicken for lunch and then heard of the Performing Arts. By 6:30 P.M. the about INIS, the International Nuclear In- library was crowded with librarians im- formation System, and other plans for gov- pressed by the techniques used to display the ernment-wide information svstems. special pictures, memorabilia, and music. The The afternoon sessions sounded like being wide entryway, with checkroom, registration, informative ; for example, "Project Lex," and charge-out counters, was what many of "Cost of Putting Knowledge to Work," "In- us see in our dreams. To think that this is formation Management." But an appoint- actually a part of the New York Public Li- ment at Kenneth's famous beauty salon took '67-'68 President Elizabeth Usher draws the winning entry for the Exhibits Extra as exhibitor Gilbert Colgate, Jr., of Business International Cor'P., Convention Chairman James Humphry 111, Exhibits Com- mitteeman Joseph J. Fletcher Exhibits Chairman Dorothy McGowan, and Program Cha.ir- man Elizabeth Ferguson look on.

precedent. After all, how often does one chaired the session of well-prepared and pre- have a chance to be feminine and frivolous sented papers. Although it was not truly a at an SLA conference. Afterwards, in a mod workshop-type session, Tom Lindsley of coif and in tune with the madding crowd, IBM, Paul Fasana of Columbia U, Cliff there was a wild taxi ride to the pier to catch Johnson of Project URBANDOC, and Sam the boat trip around Manhattan. Metals/Ma- Waddell of Parkinson Information Center terials came up with another great Scholar- presented detailed descriptions of their op- ship Fund benefit. The Circle Line Tour erations. Perhaps the size of the audience usually makes a circle down the Hudson past should me that librarians are no the Statue of Liberty, up the East River longer fearful that the computer will replace through "Spite'n Dibel," around the Island them and are considering its use. Unfortu- on Harlem River to the Hudson, and then natelv I remember as far back as 1957 that back down to the pier. An interesting trip the Documentation Division had an over- during the day, it could be boring at night flow crowd. when you can't see anything. But our clever Taking- a breather from the Documenta- Committee made arrangements to go around tion Division meeting, I was casually saun- the harbor twice, during daylight and then tering along the corridor when I thought I after dark. The night was clear and crisp was overhearing a violent family brawl. A and the lights of New York sparkled and woman was shouting something about, shone in a brilliant display. "Well, here you are, drunk as usual. Why While enjoying this evening interlude in can't you ever stop drinking?" conference activities, there was an oppor- My first thought was to get out of there tunity to meet friends and fellow conferees as fast as possible and not intrude on this and talk with some of the people who had family argGment. It seemed so violent and been tied down with running the Confer- headed for mayhem, the thought ran through ence. The consensus of those regaining their my head, "You can't just stand by when land-legs was: a great trip-hope it was a someone is about to be killed." So I ap- great success for the Scholarship Fund. proached the door where the shouting was Thursday was the beginning of the all-day coming from, thinking I would ask for di- tours where librarians rushed out to visit rections to a meeting in hope of breaking up laboratories, museums, refineries, broadcast- the brawl. To my great relief it was the So- ing stations, newspapers, atomic energy sta- cial Sciences Divisicn play "Lady on the tions-and some libraries. A few Divisions Rocks." I was so relieved I leaned against held off on tours until Friday. the wall and watched for a moment. Then I One of these was the Documentation Di- headed back to the Documentation Division vision, which had almost an overflow crowd meeting- where I should have been "minding for the Thursday morning "Workshop in my business" in thz first place. Basic Data Processing." Stella Keenan ably Aftzr fcur days cf chicken with SLA, 496 luncheon with the other members of the racks. Next came a delicious luncheon of Personnel Committee was a welcome change. SLA chicken (sorry, John, I couldn't resist Engineering Societies Library and Engi- mentioning this just to carry out my theme). neering Index were hosts to the Aerospace, Last, but not least, a tour of two labs at Chemistry, Engineering, Metals/Materials, Brookhaven where we saw many of the Nuclear Science, Petroleum and Science- phenomena (Cherenkov effect) and equip- Technology Divisions. The tours were well ment we had heard about but never actually organized and smoothly operated. The staff seen. It was a most satisfying way to com- in each department was most cooperative, plete an SLA conference. answering questions cheerfully and inviting A bus trip to the airport and goodbyes. us back after the tour if we had more ques- I am glad that Eric Moon, Library Journal tions. Finishing- off the tour with refresh- editor, attended different meetings than I ments in the pleasant cafeteria gave us did at the SLA conference. The combination strength to continue on the merry-go-round. of this report and his report in LJ will give The Docun~entationDivision was still go- you fairly complete vicarious coverage. ing strong Thursday evening with the crowd In retrospect what over-all impressions re- spilling out into all rooms of the Club Suite main? Writing this after two weeks of hik- and the corridor. ing in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo- Only one program was scheduled for Fri- ming, where life is stripped to essentials and day, the Paper-Textile Section symposium man becomes so insignificant, my impres- on "Technical Information Management in sions are: the Paper, Textile, and Allied Industries." Documentation Division scheduled a meet- I enjoyed myself. ing at the IBM Systems Research Institute I didn't learn anything new. and Nuclear Science Division scheduled a SLA has to move Headquarters. trip to Brookhaven National Laboratory. I followed my subject specialty and went to Since I invested part of my vacation in Brookhaven to tour the lab I had heard about this conference I am perhaps more critical for so many years. On the way I had a very than heretofore. A firm believer in saying interesting conversation with one of the nothing unless constructive, perhaps I can visitors from overseas, Dr. Hans Wellisch, offer this comment. Let's PUT KNOWLEDGE Head of Library Services, Center of Scien- TO WORK, choose topics to stimulate old- tific and Technological Information, Tel timers as well as newcomers, consider tu- Aviv. In spite of the fact that his country torial sessions as some technical societies was at that moment engaged in a battle for have, relegate SLA operating details to the its life, he did his best to concentrate on a background, maintain and improve the discussion about technical libraries. standards of the Association so that we can The Brookhaven library was first on the look back with pride and be grateful to the tour. One of the most interesting spots in Association for the opportunities it offers in the library was the periodicals area where providing direct contact with current think- there were special shelf units and display ing and those who shape it.

Following a Convention-wide reception hosted by the McGraw-Hill Book Co., SLAers set out to sea on the M/M Division-sponsored Scholarship Benefit boat trip. SEPTEMBER1967 497 Resolutions of Appreciation Adopted at the Annual Meeting

Resolutions Reference Committee, MOIRA J. CARTWRIGHT, Chairman

WHEREAS,the Association has been guided Elizabeth Ferguson, Convention Program by a President who has fulfilled our expecta- Chairman, for presiding at the second general tions of excellence in putting his knowledge to session on "Automation in Your Library Fu- work in the interests of Association business: ture" and speakers Dr. Charles R. De Carlo, BE IT RESOLVED:That the Special Libraries Joseph Becker, Charles P. Bourne, Dr. Har- Association hereby expresses its sincere grati- old Wooster, and to all others who took part tude to its 1966-67 President, Frank E. Mc- in panels and workshops for Divisions, Sec- Kenna. tions, and Committees; BE IT RESOLVED:That in its awareness of the Mayor John V. Lindsay of the City of New talent and enthusiasm and the inordinate York for welcoming us; amount of work required to plan and execute All the New York firms who extended coop- the Fifty-eighth Annual Convention, the As- eration to the Association in the form of time, sociation recognizes its debt to all who con- equipment, facilities, and personnel; tributed, and especially to: The Convention Chairman, James Humphrey Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, and to 111; the several Convention committees; and the Headquarters staff of Special Libraries As- the New York Chapter and its President, S. sociation, for invaluable support; Kirk Cabeen; The management of the Commodore Hotel, All libraries, service agencies, and friends in especially Louis Fiora, Convention Manager, New York and vicinity for permitting visits and Sandy Fabri., Ballroom Floor Manager; by special librarians during the Convention; All exhibitors and their workers for providing Thomas P. F. Hoving, Director, the Metro- many new ideas and for displaying new ma- politan Museum of Art, for his keynote ad- terials to assist special librarians in putting dress; their knowledge to work.

Enjoying the Third Forum on Education for Special Librarianship are (fore- ground) Mrs. Anna Irwin, YWCA Ballard School, New York, Elizabeth Fer- guson, and Lester Asheim, director of the ALA Office for Library Education. 498 SPECIALLIBRARIES Committee Reports, 1966-67

By Committee Chairmen

Academy of Management or professional positions in an organization other than a special library or information center except Book Awards Program organizations selling packaged information (see No annual report. the following Guideline); and, who have knowledge and experience that qualify them to make a professional contribution toward the objectives of Admissions the Association-AFFILIATE. Included in this cate- The Admissions Committee has had a particu- gory may be chemists, engineers, economists, educators, lawyers, management personnel, physical larly busy year, partly because of the increased and social scientists, etc., who qualify as above. number of applications received. Also it provided advice to the Executive Director regarding a sim- Such persons do not necessarily need to be actively plification which should save the Headquarters engaged in bibliographic work or directly responsible for a library. Also included would be persons staff many hours work in handling the review of who as a major part of their employment provide Associate memberships. The Board of Directors consulting, information or other professional type approved the change in procedures at its meeting services specially tailored to the needs of a par- on September 27, 1966. ticular special library or information service." Additionally, the Committee has carried on ex- tensive internal and external correspondence in Also recommended is changing the Guideline trying to develop a revision of the vague definition which reads as follows: of Affiliate membership in the Bylaws or, if not a revision in the Bylaws, at least revised "Guide- "Persons or companies selling library equipment, lines" to reduce the confusion caused by Article books, periodicals, bindery service, etc., to special 11, Section 4. It has been a source of trouble for libraries and information centers and desiring to years. The report of the Admissions Committee in support the objectives and programs of the Asso- 1963 recommended that the Board ask the Bylaws ~iation-sus~~1~1~~:' Committee to study the wording of the Section in to read an effort to define its terms more specifically and "Persons and companies who package researched thereby clarify its possible interpretation. This is information, bibliographic information, or similar still desirable. information in the form of a book, report, period- It is our understanding that the Advisory Coun- ical, indexing service or other format available for cil may recommend some change with respect to purchase and general use by anyone; and persons membership requirements. If this takes place the and companies engaged in advertising, distributing need for a revision of the Bylaw covering Affiliate and selling library equipment, books, periodicals, membership may satisfied, but any changes be bindery service, etc., who desire to support the ob- which may be proposed will take at least a year, jectives and programs of the Association-sus- and probably much more time, to become effective TAINING." as Bvlaws. Further, the Admissions Committee recommends that the following changes be made in the Bylaws. 1. It is recommended that the phrase reading: The Admissions Committee therefore recom- "experience in information work," which appears mends changing the Guideline which reads as fol- in both Sections 2d and 3b of Article 11, be lows: changed to read "experience in library-type infor- "Persons with academic degrees in library science, mation service work." information science or in other disciplines who Two examples of interpretations that have been hold general administrative or professional posi- made of the present phrase are: a) that experience tions in a systems development company, a com- as the owner of a motel and gasoline station who pany selling researched information or consulting gave travel information should be considered ac- services to special libraries and information cen- ceptable, and b) that a news reporter is in infor- ters-AFFILIATE. An interest in special librarian- mation service work. The Admissions Committee ship and have knowledge and experience qualify- does not accept interpretations such as these. ing them to cooperate in the objectives of the As- Inasmuch as the Bylaws specify a number of sociation." years of professional experience in a special library or information center, then the other years to read of experience may have been gained in work in "Persons with academic degrees in library science, other places, e.g., a public library, college library, information science or in other disciplines, who company reports office, or some such place which are self-employed or hold general administrative may be covered by "libraly-type," but we hope to eliminate the motel, news reporter, and like ex- ~alues in determining the Membership Gavel perience. Award. 2. Bylaw Article 11, Section 3b, contains a sentence 4. The two-year period of the eligibiltp of the reading: "one year of higher education shall equal H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award should one year of nonprofessional experience." be clarified to read: "The two-year period eligible There is no equivalent provision in Article 11. for consideration will be restricted to the period Section 2d. This was brought to the attention of covered by the current Association year and the the Bylaws Committee in 1965, and in a letter immediate past Association year." dated November 11, 1965, Mrs. Margaret H. Fuller, then Chairman of the SLA Bylaws Commit- Also, the Awards Committee concurred with the tee, wrote that it was the unanimous decision of Committee on Committees' recommendaticm that the Association Bylaws Committee that: "higher the membership of the SLA Professional Award education is acceptable in part for Active as well and Hall of Fame Committee be composed of two as for Associate membership in Special Libraries immediate Past Presidents, the President-Elect, the Association." Chairman of the Advisory Council, and the Chair- It is therefore recommended that the sentence man-Elect of the Advisory Council. quoted above from Section 3b also be made a part of Article 11, Section 2d. RALPHH. PHELPS Bylaws EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board accepted the recom- This report summarizes the action of the By- mendations and referred to the Bylaws Committee laws Committee during 1966-1967. The Commit- the Bylaws changes for presentation to the mem- tee members, all of whom are serving for the first bership along with other Bylaws changes. time this year, were unable to meet as a committee. Decisions and opinions were given on Chapter and Division bylaws and a Bylaws change is being Advisory Committee to proposed to the membership at the annual Con- Elizabeth Ferguson on a Book: ference. Descriptive Bibliographies Originated Status of Chapter and Division Bylaws. All Divi- by Special Libraries sions have had up-dated bylaws approved and most Division bylaws have been passed by the No annual report. respective memberships. The bylaws of one Chap- ter have yet to be updated and approved to bring them in line with the Association's amended By- Archives laws of August 1965. Proposed Bylaws Changes. The Bylaws Committee There is nothing unusual to report by the Ar- was charged by the President and the Board of chives Committee. Directors to seek ways of improving the timing of Speeches by our President and Past Presidents the Association's nomination/election machinery. before the Chapter meetings were requested by It was felt that a too long time lapse exists be- the Chairman and have been processed and filed tween the nomination of officers and the subse- in Archives file. quent election and there is too little time between Genevieve Ford who indexes the Minutes of the election and the Annual Meeting. the Board of Directors has continued doing this work. The Bylaws Committee's suggested tightened Current material is filed regularly and at this schedule entailed reducing from three months to moment is up to date. one month the period of time after which a mem- JOSEPHINEI. GREENWOOD ber would be dropped from membership for nonpayment of dues (i.e., January 31 instead of March 31). It is this aspect of the proposed Awards change that will have the greatest effect upon the membership at large. During its deliberations on During the 1966-1967 Association year, the this point at the Houston meeting the Board con- Awards Committee submitted the following rec- cluded that the earlier date would likely not ommendations which were approved by the Board work a real hardship on the members, and that of Directors: the change would provide added interest income 1. The Chapter Liaison Officer (CLO) and Divi- to the Association by the earlier receipt of dues. sion Liaison Officer (DLO) will no longer be The Board accordingly approved the proposed members of the SLA Professional Award and Hall Bylaws changes and asked that they be presented of Fame Committee. The Committee will be in- to the membership for vote and discussion at the creased to five members. 1967 annual business meeting. 2. The SLA Professional Award and SLA Hall of If the changes are approved by the majority of Fame definitions will remain unchanged and both members present and voting, the proposal will be awards will be continued. submitted to the entire voting membership by 3. Sustaining membership will receive two unit mail. Results should be known early in August. It was the consensus of the Board that, in the event to the Director of Publications and Public Re- of an affirmative vote, the first dues notice would lations. be mailed November 1, as in the past. The second Statistics Committee-The question of appoint- notice would be mailed January 1 instead of ment of non-SLA-members to the SLA commit- March 1 as at present. tees arose. Further, we have a murky situation as, while SLA has representatives to many other Request for Clarification of Definition of "Afili- ate" Member~hip. Primarily because of difficulties organizations, we have made no provision for representatives from other organizations. encountered by the Admissions Committee, the Bylaws Committee has been considering the pres- Finance Committee-Several years ago the Finance ent definition of "Affiliate" membership as found Committee questioned whether their duty to pre- in the Bylaws and in the Guidelines drawn up in pare a budget put them in the unassigned (and 1965. Since the Advisory Council is planning to uneasy) position of functioning as a project re- consider the promotion of membership rolls at the view committee. forthcoming annual meeting, the Bylaws Commit- Special ~epresentatives-There are forty-two spe- tee has recommended to the other concerned stand- cial representations. Definitions have been re- ing committees (Professional Standards, Admis- quested for each representative. Since there is a sions, Membership) that action be deferred until general statement for all special representatives, after the annual meeting. a policy for extra-Association relationships, and MARGARETL. PFLUEGER presumably correspondence from the inviting organization describing their purpose, this Com- EDITOR'SNOTE: The Bylaws changes were ap- mittee on Committees questions the need for proved by the Annual Meeting and submitted by individual definitions. mail ballot to the voting membership. Tevms of appointment of special representatives need study. There are no definitions for the Re- search Committee or the Conference Committee. Case Study A study of the composition of this Committee No annual report. on Committees as well as its duties has been in- stigated by the Chairman. An index of these Committee definitions and Committee on Committees duties has been suggested. The year both begins and ends with supplying In its role of watchdog, this Committee points revisions to the committee publication SLA Com- out that the Bylaws of the Association permit a mittee Information and corrected definitions for total of six consecutive years membership for any the Oficial Directory of SLA Personnel. one person on a standing committee. Some of the In between, the following studies and defini- terms of appointment listed in the Ofirial Direc- tions were approved by the Board of Directors in tory seem to be in violation. January 1967 : Also, when the composition of a committee is specified in its definition (that is, by type of li- Use of ex officio and ad hoc. and the use of stand- brary or subject interest) confusion can be caused ing, special, and ad hoc to designate committees by committee members changing jobs or other Relationship between the International Relations reasons. However, qualification of membership is Committee and the special representatives to included in a committee definition only when this IFLA Convention Program Committee is important and purposeful to the committee; SLA Professional Award and Hall of Fame Com- therefore, we suggest a consideration of such ap- mittee pointments as they are being made. Academy of Management [McKinsey Foundation] Book Awards Committee Recommendations Scholarship and Student Loan Committee 1. The need for action on the Archives Commit- Planning Committee tee be reviewed by the Board of Directors. The following are being submitted at the May 2. The need for action on the Public Relations 1967 meeting of the Board of Directors: Committee be reviewed by the Board of Directors. Conference Advisory Committee 3. The need for action on the Finance Committee Publisher Relations Committee be reviewed by the Board of Directors. Special Libraries Committee term of appointment 4. The need for individual definitions for each Realignment of standing and special committees. special representative be reviewed by the Board of assignment of Headquarters Liaison, and appro- Directors. priate definition corrections LORRAINECIBOCH Revised sections of SLA Committee Information Previously assigned tasks remaining are: Consultation Service Archives Committee-In June 1964 the Board of Directors deferred action on this committee. The establishment of several new special li- Public Relations Committee and the relationship braries highlights the activity of the Consultation Service for 1966-67. The twenty-five Chapters re- fessional Consultant were received this year. One porting to date received 158 inquiries concerning applicant did not meet the requirements for ap- the Consultation Service. From these consultations, proval; the other two applications were ratified by twenty-eight libraries have been established, and the Board of Directors following their approval twenty-eight inquiries are pending. We are pleased by the Consultation Committee. to note that in nineteen of these libraries quali- Three issues of the Consultation Service News- fied persons are in charge, and in others, college letter, compiled by the Committee, and reproduced graduates, some with library experience, are being and mailed at Headquarters, were sent to each employed. Chapter Consultation Officer, Professional Con- The Executive Director reports that on the Pro- sultant, and Chapter President. fessional Consultation level, ninteen referrals were Plans have been made for a Consultation Serv- made to eighty-nine Professional Consultants (fifty- ice program to be held in New York. This year one different Consultants were involved). the Professional Standards and Consultation Serv- Since the establishment of the Consultation ice Committees will jointly sponsor an open meet- Service in 1957, chapters have reported 1,239 in- ing to discuss the Standards and the Profiles as quiries, which resulted in 190 new libraries. It is they pertain to the work of the SLA Consultant difficult, however, to assess fully the quality of and his relations with management. In prepara- these libraries, or to determine how far reaching tion for this meeting each CCO and each Profes- the Consultants' efforts on their behalf actually are. sional Consultant was asked to fill in a question- Chances are that several of these libraries would naire relating to his own use of the Standards and no longer be in existence. With this in mind, the the Profiles. Chapter Presidents were contacted in the spring Last year, each bulletin editor received a copy of 1966, and asked to advise us about those li- of "What Is SLA's Consultation Service?" This braries or information centers existing within their article, written by the present Committee, with Chapters, which had benefited from SLA's Con- the assistance of a member of the founding com- sultation Service during the past ten years. While mittee, was intended to familiarize every member only fourteen Chapters responded, their replies of the Association with the aims and objectives of were encouraging. We learned that in these four- the Consultation Service. While only ten Chapters teen Chapters alone, there are some thirty profes- have published this article to date, we hope sionally staffed libraries in operation today. Other that others can be persuaded to do so during the small libraries, which were originally reported as year ahead. "pending," are still in existence. Several are still Once again this year the CCO's annual report operating under the supervision of a trained li- form was revised to allow for more complete sum- brary clerical or a competent person holding an mary of his Chapter's consultation activity. Each undergraduate degree. It is interesting to note that reply has been analyzed, and where the CCO has in some cases, the Chapter Consultation Officers presented a specific problem or a question worthy still keep in touch with many of the companies or of consideration, an effort will be made to help organizations they have helped over the years. (As him find a solution to his problem(s). one enthusiastic Consultant explained: "It took A copy of A Checklist for the Organization. one company ten years, but they finally saw the Operation and Ez,aluation of a Company Library light and employed a professional librarian. . . .") was sent to each CCO immediateIy following its Three applications for approval as an SLA Pro- publication. The Importance of Libraries for Busi-

Consultation Service and Professional Standards Committees held a joint meeting. Left to right are Jean Deuss, Florence Armstrong, Ruth Leon- ard, Gloria Evans, Theodore Hines, Mary Lee Tsuffis, and Lillian Hamrick. Chapter Consultation Statistics MAY 1, 1966-MAY 1, 1967 Qualified Professional Inpities Libraries Librarian Libraries Library Chapter Receited Started Hired Pending May Result Alabama 0 0 - *Baltimore Boston 1 0 0 Cincinnati 0 0 0 Cleveland 1 1 0 *Colorado *Connecticut Valley Dayton ? 2 1 Greater St. Louis 0 2 2 + Heart of America 0 1 1 Illinois 1 3 1 Indiana 1 0 0 Louisiana 0 0 0 Michigan 1 2 1 Minnesota 3 1 0 "Montreal *New Jersey New York 4 1 1 *North Carolina Oklahoma 2 2 1 *Pacific Northwest Philadelphia Council 1 2 2 Pittsburgh 1 1 - *Rio Grande San Diego 0 0 0 *San Francisco South Atlantic 1 3 > Southern Appalachian 0 0 0 *Southern California Texas 0 4 2 Toronto - - 5 Upstate New York 0 1 0 Virginia - - - Washington 2 0 - Wisconsin 0 2 ?

* Report not received ness and Management, a paper originally presented MAY 1, 1957-MAY 1, 1967 to the Southern Minnesota Chapter of the Na- tional Office Management Association (NOMA) Inquiries Libraries Libraries in December 1960 by James Soule has just been Received Started Petzding revised by the author, and will be mailed to all 66 6 52 Chapter Consultation Officers and others who may 103 19 37 be interested during the next few weeks. 103 2 7 2 1 Last month a memo was sent to each incoming 90 15 17 President urging him to carefully consider the ap- 115 18 2 9 pointment of his Chapter's Consultation Officer. 133 -77 - 27 The importance of the office, and the need for 135 17 32 competence in the person holding the appoint- 165 2 2 41 ment was stressed. 171 16 25 As in past years, copies of Irrtroducing the C072- 158 28 2 8 rultation Service, a concise summary of the his- - - -- tory and meaning of SLA's Consultation Service. 1239 190 309 will be distributed at the Incoming Chapter Offi- cers' meeting held during the Convention. work of the Consultation Service, but for their Once again, we wish to express our appreciation assistance in so many ways with the publishing to the Executive Director and his staff not only and physical distribution of our communications. for their continued interest and enthusiasm in the GLORIAEVANS 503 Convention 1967 members and others, which was begun in 1965 in Philadelphia, was continued and the procedures The 58th Convention of the Special Libraries somewhat refined. Documentation Division de- Association was held at the Commodore Hotel in voted a session to the presentation of ten papers New York, May 28-June 1, 1967. There were thus received and attracted more than twice the 1,895 members, 222 nonmembers, 48 students, audlence expected. and 189 exhibitors registered, a total of 2,354. The more social occasions were many and varied. The First Conventioneers Reception and the Con- Program vention Reception and Opening of Exhibits were Using the convention theme "Putting Knowl- Sunday features. The Monday Presentation of As- edge to Work" as a base, the convention-wide sociation Awards luncheon took the place of a meetings and events were built around two specific banquet. And the reception to which McGraw- applications: special features of New York City Hill, Inc., invited the entire Convention was a and the significance of automation to special li- highlight. brarians. Individual Divisions held a total of ninety-five The opening session featured a keynote address sessions. These included twenty-two group trips by Thomas P. F. Hoving, Director of the Metro- and visits to libraries and institutions in the New politan Museum of Art and formerly Commis- York area. In addition to those already mentioned, sioner of Parks of the City of New York, and an SLA Committees conducted eleven meetings. address by the, Honorable John V. Lindsay, New York's Mayor. Both talks stressed the emphasis Committees the city places on its support of cultural programs. The Deputy Convention Chairman, Mrs. Vivian The evening at Lincoln Center featured a tour D. Hewitt, and the eleven committees and their (attended by over 1,100 members) of the New members responsible for the many and varied duties York Public Library's Library and Museum of the of running a large conference-the largest in the Performing Arts. history of SLA-reacted well to the expected and The second general session was entitled "Auto- unexpected situations which required their atten- mation in Your Library Future." The Convention tion. The committee chairmen, the members of the Program Chairman was moderator of this session Convention Executive Committee, the New York and the theme was developed by Dr. Charles R. Chapter Officers, and the Division Representatives De Carlo, Director of Automation Research, IBM are hereby recorded and their excellent service ac- Corporation, as keynote speaker. Joseph Becker. knowledged : Director, Information Services, EDUCOM, briefed the non-specialists; Charles P. Bourne, Director. Convention Program: Elizabeth Ferguson, Institute Programming Services, Inc., the specialists; and of Life Insurance Dr. Harold Wooster, Director, Information Sci- Convention Treasurer: Katherine Dodge, McCann- ences, Department of the Air Force, gave the Erickson, Inc. Co-Treasurer: Theodore Slate, summary. Neujsweek Magazine Divisions made a considerable effort to schedule Exhibits: Dorothy L. McGowan, Compton Ad- joint meetings when the subject to be discussed \ ertising. Inc. was broader than strictly division interests. Four Hospitality: Eleanor K. Irwin, Union Club Divisions joined in a meeting, "Focus on Micro- Information: Mrs. Eleanor F. Steiner-Prag, R. R. film," two Divisions in a "Patents Symposium," Bowker Company and five Divisions in a program of wide interest, Local Arrangements: Frances J. Brown, First Na- "The Cost of Putting Knowledge to Work: Budg- tional City Bank eting and Financial Problems." Several of the Meals and Banquet: Louise Stoops, United States Thursday trips also involved more than one Divi- Steel Corporation sion. Printing: Jean Deuss, Federal Reserve Bank of Programs sponsored by SLA Committees are be- New York coming increasingly important. The Reprography Publicity: John N. Berry 111, R. R. Bowker Com- Committee offered "Microselectivity-A Short pany Course in Microfilm Fundamentals" and the Gov- Registration: Janet M. Rigney, Foreign Relations ernment Information Services Committee "Com- Library munication of Scientific and Technical Knowledge Transportation and Tours: Robert M. Brooks, to Industry-Implementation of the State Tech- Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. nical Services Act." The Third Forum on Educa- tion for Special Librarianship, conducted this year New York Chapter Officers on Sunday preceding the conference, was the proj- S. Kirk Cabeen, Engineering Societies Library; ect of the Education Committee. The morning Chapter President panel of the Forum discussed "The Library Tech- Janet M. Rigney. Foreign Relations Library; Pres- nician" and the afternoon panel "Foundation for ident-elect Education in Librarianship and Information Sci- Virginia M. Btrsagel, Institute of Life Insurance; ence," with a luncheon speech, "An Employer Bulletin Editor Looks at Employer Standards." Lee W. Traven, Sinclair Oil Corporation; Treas- The soliciting of technical papers by Association urer Comention Executive Committee the Convention, Monday to Wednesday, May 29-31, the exhibits were open from 9 to 5. Many of our Convention Chairman; New York Chapter Presi- members reportedly would have welcomed evening dent ; Convention Treasurer ; Convention Pro- hours. This was not considered feasible in light of gram Chairman; Mrs. Margaret H. Fuller, the Association's planned evening events, not to American Iron and Steel Institute; and Mary mention the desires of the exhibitors for daytime Margaret Regan, Young & Rubicam, Inc. hours, only. To stimulate interest on the part of SLA mem- Conven~ionDivision Representdues bers to visit the exhibits, a raffle was arranged, Advertising and Marketing: Marilyn Modern, and the winners were husband-and-wife librarians, American Association of Advertising Agencies Mr. and Mrs. Martin Konecnik from Pennsylvania Aerospace: Patricia Marshall, American Institute State College. The prizes were a trip to the Ba- of Aeronautics and Astronautics hamas which were accepted in kind since the win- Biological Sciences: Wesley Draper, Library of the ners were unable to take time for the trip. Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn Business and Finance: Mrs. Elizabeth J. Gibson. Registration Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Chemistry: George E. McCarthy, Geigy Chemical Naturally the Registration Desk was one of the Corporation busiest places during the Convention, as witnessed Documentation: Priscilla Teitelbaum, American by the record number of delegates. The following Petroleum Institute lists of preregistered members, one by Chapter and Engineering: Elizabeth E. Brown, International one by Division, are indicative of the total attend- Business Machines ance by categories. The Convention also published Geography and Map: Nordis Felland. American three lists of those in attendance: preregistrants, Geographical Society and two supplementary listings. Insurance: Mrs. Katherine W. Rose, Teachers In- stitute and Annuity Association of America Metals/Materials: Margaret Anne Gardner, In- Chapter Attendance for Preregistration ternational Nickel Company Alabama Military Librarians: Stephen Jaffe, US. Naval Ap- Baltimore plied Science Library Boston Museum: Arnold Markowitz, Institute of Fine Cincinnati Arts Cleveland Newspaper: Abraham Abramson, The New York Colorado Times Connecticut Valley Nuclear Science: Stella Keenan, American Insti- Dayton tute of Physics Greater St. Louis Petroleum: Lee W. Traven, Sinclair Oil Corpora- Heart of America tion Illinois Pharmaceutical: Elizabeth R. Anson, Lederle Lab- Indiana oratories Louisiana Picture: Betty L. Hale, Public Relations Depart- Michigan ment, Socony Mobil Oil Company Minnesota Publishing: Mrs. Louise W. Field, The Twentieth New Jersey Century Fund New York Science-Technology: Mrs. Judith McGowan, RCA North Carolina Communications Systems Laboratory Oklahoma Paper and Textile Section: Gwendolyn Jones, Pacific Northwest St. Regis Paper Company Philadelphia Public Utilities Section: Mrs. Edith W. Finch, Pittsburgh American Gas Association Rio Grande Social Science: Daniel Wood, Library, Center for San Diego Urban Education San Francisco Transportation: Betty Jane Dougherty Port of South Atlantic New York Authority Southern Appalachian Southern California Exhibits Texas Upstate New York Although the space provided for exhibits could Virginia have been larger in relation to the many requests Washington, D. C. from potential exhibitors, the area was the largest Wisconsin the hotel could provide in three contiguous rooms. The exhibits were officially opened Sunday, May The above list does not include preregistrants 28, with a cocktail party from 5 to 7:30, hosted from the Canadian Chapters. There were some by the Association. During the ensuing days of registrations for which no Chapter affiliation was indicated and some preregistrants were not mem- at the Convention operated from a counter of its bers of SLA. own. As a matter of fact, practically every event was over-subscribed; some members unfortunately Division Attendance for Preregistration had to be turned away, although every attempt was made to provide an alternative. These are in- Advertising and Marketing herent problems in trying to anticipate attend- Aerospace ance figures. Suffice it to say that the membership Biological Sciences responded with equal enthusiasm to the scores of Business and Finance program meetings and the social events. Thirty- Chemistry four meal functions (whether in or out of the Documentation hotel) were planned for the Convention and for Engineering which the Meals and Banquet Committee collected Geography and Map the money. The Printing Committee provided the Insurance tickets for all these events, and for the tours as Metals/Materials well as the printing of the Awards Luncheon menu Military Librarians and program. The Treasurer and Co-Treasurer re- Museum sponded admirably to the collecting and handling Newspaper of large sums of money, before, during, and after Nuclear Science the Convention. Petroleum Pharmaceutical Local Arrangements; Hospitality Picture Publishing The Local Arrangements Committee reacted Science-Technology with dispatch and finesse in servicing the many Social Science concurrent meetings. Every available public room Transportation in the hotel was used, and many were filled to capacity, necessitating careful advance planning to There were many preregistrations for which there insure sufficient space for the required numbers. was no Division affiliation. In addition, the committee, on the basis of information supplied by the Division Representatives, Information; Transportation and Tours made the necessary arrangements for special personnel and equipment, including projectors, op- The Information Committee and the Transporta- erators, microphones, etc. Our experience signals tion and Tours Committee operated in adjacent two warning notes which should be carefully ob- areas and were successful in providing information served in the future: I) the limitations of space of all kinds relating directly to the Association may dictate that only SLA meetings be accom- and some not so directly to numerous members of modated and 2) larger attendance figures indicate the Association. Representing time-consuming work the desirability of standardizing hours or daily in compilation by the Committee, special guides schedules for meetings. to the city and to libraries and restaurants all The Hospitality Committee members were ubiq- proved their worth. In addition to providing buses uitous-helping members on their arrival at the for two Convention-wide events-Lincoln Center Commodore, welcoming new SLA members at the and the boat trip around Manhattan-the Trans- Sunday afternoon tea, meeting and greeting speak- portation and Tours Committee arranged public ers and foreign visiting librarians, serving as hosts transportation for nine Division trips to various li- and hostesses at the General Sessions and diri- braries around the city and nearby communities. sional meetings, and generally offering all the It should be noted, especially by those managing many kindnesses, big and little, that are implied future Conferences, that every event, official or un- by its title. The Chairman has suggested, and not official, which in any way involves members of without merit, that the Hospitality Committee be the Association should be reported to these two combined with the Information and/or Registra- Committees so that no embarrassing situations tion Committee. where information is lacking will be encountered. Publicity Meals and Banquets; Printing; Treasurer Through the good offices and the prowess of the This year the Convention returned to the use of Publicity Committee, the Convention and the As- single event tickets which proved to be quite ac- sociation had the good fortune of "making" the ceptable and more manageable than the all-inclu- New York Times three days in a row, not with sive multiple event ticket. The advance registration mere mention of a convention, but with detailed forms incorporated an accommodation for the accounts of our meetings. The Times, as a matter awards luncheon and the boat trip for the SLA of fact, had a reporter on the premises a good Scholarship Fund sponsored by the Metals/Mate- share of the time, which is some indication of rials Division. Separate forms accompanied the ad- good programs and newsworthy speakers. Some vance registration mailing for the Tuesday evening of the Convention speeches will appear in forth- concert at Lincoln Center for which over a thou- coming issues of Special Libraries. sand tickets were sold. This went was handled by a special committee of the Registration Committee Convention Advisory two purposes: to support the initiation of the bulletin Translations Register-Index and fund the No annual report. general SLA translations program conducted by the John Crerar Library. Convention Program On April 4, 1967, a proposal for a grant to support the issuance of the Translations Register- No annual report. Index was forwarded from the office of the SLA Executive Director. The proposal requests $47,894 Copyright Law Revision over a period of three years from the National Science Foundation until the SLA "index" journal No annual report. becomes self-supporting from an annual subscription fee of $30. The journal is a much needed Education substitute after the discontinuance of activities of the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Tech- In our annual report of 1966-67 we stated that nical Information. Cumulative indexes are no the Education Committee would look into the sub- longer provided for Technical translation^; ject of continuing education. This ties in with the neither does Technical Translations carry nongov- Board action of Saturday, May 27, which action ernmental translations. referred to the Education Committee the recom- A proposal was approved by NSF to extend mendations of the Ad Hoc Committee charged the SLA Translations Center grant, presently in with investigating the desirability of establishing effect from September 30, 1966, to February 12, a series of state-of-the-art seminars. 1968. The third Forum on Education for Special Li- brarianship is being held Sunday, May 28, with Japanese Exchange every indication of growing interest in the event. Copies of a draft proposal for an exchange However, the incoming Chairman of the Educa- visit of Japanese and American scientific and tech- tion Committee and the Committee will take un- nical librarians and information specialists to be der advisement the continuation of such ~ON~S. presented to the National Science Foundation were In March 1967 we were asked to comment on forwarded May 4, 1967, to Bill M. Woods, Dr. what SLA should do about the accreditation of Frank McKenna, and Mrs. Austin Kurtz, Chair- library schools: I) Accreditation is a complicated, man of the SLA International Relations Commit- expensive, difficult procedure; 2) All college ac- tee, for review and comment. No date has been crediting agencies must be approved by the Na- set for these exchange visits. tional Commission on Accreditation, whose policy it is to approve only one agency for each profes- Speaker for SLA Convention sion. ALA is the approved agency for librarianship. On February 28, 1967, a request for a grant Therefore, it appears SLA could be most effec- to underwrite the expense of bringing Mr. Jack tive by pursuing a policy of coordination and co- Bird, Education Officer, Aslib, to the United operation with ALA. Toward this end, ALA has States was forwarded to the National Science invited SLA to engage in discussion of our mu- Foundation. It was planned for Mr. Bird to speak tual interests regarding accreditation. before the SLA education group at the Conven- During 1967-68 the Education Committee will tion in New York. The grant was denied by NSF be considering ways and means of increasing un- on March 23. derstanding by teachers of general courses in library schools of the philosophy, the points of American Documentation Institute Display view, and the needs of special librarianship. Some A request for a grant of $15,924 was made to of the means whereby this might be effected are: the National Science Foundation on April 13, institutes, internships, and other media of com- 1967, to provide for a display, "Current Literature munication. Display on Information Science Technolo- to ERIK BROMBERG be exhibited at the Annual Convention of the American Documentation Institute, New York Finance 1967, and other future events." The display will be based on literature references cited in Volume No annual report 2 of the Annual Retiiew of Information Science and Technology for 1966, published in 1967. Duplicated copies of these references will be Foundation Grants provided upon request of exhibit visitors. If suf- The Foundation Grants Committee wishes to ficient interest is shown at the convention, the inform the Board of Directors of the status of the display will be used at future meetings. library Committee's projects. schools, etc. No reply has been received from the National Science Foundation. SLA Translations Program The current requests for grants from the Na- Future Plans tional Science Foundation are intended to serve An investigation is in progress concerning the availability of funds from the Office of Education Nominating under Title I1 B of the Higher Education Act for a scholarship grant program for special li- For report, see Special Libraries, vol. 57, no. brarians. The Foundation Grants Committee is 10. December 1966, p. 712. amenable to any suggestions from the SLA membership. Nonserial Publications JOHN L. COOK No annual report. Government Information Services Personnel No annual report. 1967 Salary Survey Work on the planning and preparation of the Governmental Relations 1967 Salary Survey was the only activity of the Personnel Committee this year. During the sum- No annual report. mer of 1966 the committee initiated work on the questionnaire and drafted recommendations Headquarters Operations concerning the survey for presentation to the Ex- ecutive Board at its September meeting. No annual report The Board of Directors approved the proposal that a biennial salary survey be instituted as an Association service to members, and that the first International Relations survey be taken in January 1967. The Board also established a Salary Survey Fund to cover the costs Seven foreign librarians attended the annual of the 1967 survey. Convention: one each from Brazil, India, Israel, During the ensuing months, the work was car- Jamaica. Japan, Pakistan, and Peru. Two of these ried on by the Executive Director and the firm represented their country's library associations: engaged to do the survey. The Committee helped Mrs. C. P. Fray of the Jamaica Library Associa- as needed, with completion of the questionnaire, tion and Mr. Hans Wellisch of the Israeli So- preparation of announcements, review of the pre- ciety of Special Libraries and Information Cen- liminary results. and review of the survey re- ters. All seven of the librarians were registered port in galley. The survey was completed as sched- as guests of the Association and they were also uled and was published in the April 1967 issue invited to attend, without charge, the awards of Special luncheon on Monday of the Convention week. Lib~arier. At the present time, the Committee members During the year the committee continued with are collecting comments and suggestions concern- its work: correspondence with foreign librarians ing all aspects of the survey, and using these to interested in special library positions or study in review the questionnaire and the report. A set of the United States, hospitality and arrangements suggestions for the next survey will be prepared for visiting foreign librarians, discussing with and for the use of the Executive Director and the participating in other library organizations which next Committee. It is expected that a number of deal with foreign libraries and librarians. revisions will be necessary, since this first survey was, in many ways, experimental.

Future Surveys Membership In the interest of economy and inter-survey While at this stage of SLA's growth the whole comparability the basic questionnaire and report structure of our membership needs careful re- should become standardized. In the future, the assessment in light of the changes going on in Personnel Committee may be requested to assist the information field, the Membership Commit- with. or review, refinements in the survey instru- tee wants to go on record as favoring immediate ment or the presentation of results, but major reaction by the Board on the recommendations of \-isions should be infrequent. The Committee the Admissions Committee for a reexamination should, however, be responsible for choosing the and restatement of the definitions and guidelines subject to be covered by the last part of the ques- of the Affiliate class of membership necessary for tionnaire. This section is planned so that a dif- continued operation under the existing structure. ferent subject can be used in each biennial survey, The Sustaining class of membership must be ap- or a series of subjects used in rotation. praised again within the next few months. This became mandatory with the establishment by the Other Activities Board of Directors at the January meeting in The Committee is discussing further projects Houston of Patrons and Sponsors. It is our con- which might be undertaken after the analysis of sidered opinion that the Admissions Committee is the best advisor on the course of action to be the 1967 Salary Survey is finished. Reports on further plans will be submitted as appropriate. taken. ELIZABETH MULHALL Placement Policy Recommendations No annual report. 1. That the Professional Standards Committee cooperate with the Statistics Committee in the compilation of statistics and such data as are Professional Standards necessary for consideration in revising Standards The new Chairman began the year's activities and in compiling additional profiles. 2. That the Professional Standards Committee ex- by making tentative plans with Mrs. Gloria Evans, Chairman, Consultation Service Commit- plore with Division Chairmen the best means of tee. to have an open discussion meeting on the promoting professional standards in their respec- use of the Standards and the Profiles, jointly tive fields. sponsored by the Consultation Service and Pro- RUTH S. LEONARD fessional Standards Committees in New York. EDITOR'S NOTE: The Board approved both rec- The purpose of this meeting is to get as much ommendations. information as possible concerning the experience of librarians in applying the Standards and the Profiles for specific purposes, and to learn the Public Relations response of management to them. Toward this end a questionnaire was sent this spring to Chap- During the 1966 Convention, the SLA jewelry ter Consultation Officers, Professional Consul- was available in the registration area during reg- tants. and members of the Professional Standards istration hours on Sunday, and on Monday and Committee. Hopefully, the questionn~'.re returns Tuesday before the morning meetings and during will aid the two Committees in planning for the the lunch hour. For the remainder of the year, open meeting, held on Monday, May 29, from 4 the jewelry has been available from SLA Head- to S: 30 o'clock. quarters. Following is a total of the items sold: In view of the "definition" of the Professional Standards Committee, the Chairman has recog- 1966 nized the possibility that our functions and ac- Con- Dur- tivities may overlap with those of the Personnel, ven- ing Admissions, and Statistics Committees. Within tion Year Total this framework the Chairman has explored with Silver charms @ $4.95 4 6 10 the latter two committee chairmen the ways in Gold charms @ $8.25 12 5 17 which the Professional Standards Committee can Silver tie-tacks @ $4.95 3 3 6 cooperate with them in the continuous effort to Gold tie-tacks @ $8.25 2 0 2 maintain and improve professional standards. Specifically, we are concerned with the need to Included in the price of this jewelry is $2.00 clarify the Bylaws and guidelines relating to Af- which is a contribution to the Scholarship and filiate membership, and have offered our support Student Loan Fund. The original costs of the die to the proposals of the Admissions Committee. have been paid. We recognize that standards are not viable with- The jewelry was again available in the regis- out supporting data. We need continuous com- tration area during the New York Convention- pilations of statistical and other factual data in but during registration on Sunday only. order to revise the standards and to compile addi- The Boston Chapter and the Connecticut Val- tional profiles of special libraries. We, therefore. ley Chapter have completed their joint project of are interested in, and wish to cooperate with, the an SLA pressure-sensitive sticker which can be plans of the Statistics Committee. used on correspondence, notes, memoranda, etc.

Public Relations Chairman gent Loan Fund Marian Lechner acts as JEWELRYl S~"i"of Great saleslady during Conven- -. tion's opening day. This has been attractively packaged in units of Committee Make-up : 100 to a package and was introduced to the mem- The Committee has five members, and the SLA bership at the Convention. The stickers cost Executive Director is a member ex-officio. Cur- $1.00 per package. After initial costs have been rent members were selected so as to represent as met, the profits will go toward the Scholarship many of the subject areas of interest to SLA as Fund. possible. Appointments are for two years, with One Public Relations Newsletter was mailed overlapping expirations. out during the year. Activities: Recommendation In the three or four months of its existence the The area covered by this Committee seems to Committee has met twice by itself, and once with be a nebulous one. Much of the work is already ABPC. (The activities involving ABPC are cov- done by SLA Headquarters staff. There is over- ered in the report for that Joint Committee.) Ac- lapping with other existing committees. It is tion taken to date consists of: recommended that the Committee on Committees examine the Public Relations Committee to de- 1. Requests for problems and suggestions from termine whether it should continue as a standing SLA members have been sought. The description committee and, if so, whether a more definite of the Committee's goals in the March 1967 issue statement of purpose might be prepared. of Special Libraries should help bring in comments. Several have been received to date and are being acted upon. Letters to publishers and meetings are means used. Publication Program 2. Meetings with various associations of publishers are being planned at which appropriate This is a new Committee with new responsi- complaints or suggestions will be aired. Meetings bilities replacing the now defunct Publications with specific publishers will be planned as Committee. The major project undertaken in- needed. Controlled circulation periodicals are one volved a feasibility study regarding the possible topic now. splitting of Special Libraries into two parts with 3. A survey of the problems of librarians in re- different distribution frequencies: a professional gard to the current advertising and marketing journal and a news bulletin. To this end a mar- practices of publishers is being considered, and keting-type questionnaire was distributed to the the Committee is working with ABPC on this Association's "official family" with a resultant 59 project. per cent response. Fifty-one per cent of the re- 4. Letters written without publicity to individual spondents felt that there should be a change in publishers when some particularly good practice Special Libraries and 49 per cent wanted no of theirs is noted will be sent by the Committee. change. Based on this basic answer (plus many The object is to encourage those publishers who others from the questionnaire) and a production are following commendable procedures, but we and staff cost study for such a split, the Commit- will not make any public announcement of the tee reported to the Board that a split operation letters in order to avoid complications which any was infeasible at this time, but recommended that such notification to the public might bring. the study continue. All of this was accepted by 5. One Committee member, Mrs. Katherine Owen, the Board. A second recommendation, that sub- and Bill M. Woods represented SLA and the scription agencies dealing with Association pe- Committee at a conference at Arden House on riodical publications be allowed a 10 per cent March 15-17, 1967, at which publishers and li- discount. was also accepted by the Board. A third brarians met to discuss current trends in both project, investigation of the distribution of ab- fields. A report on this appeared in Specid Li- stracts for Convention papers, was tabled until braries. May-June 1967. after the New York City Convention. 6. A letter has been furnished the Bowker Com- pany for them to use in their relations with publishers whose catalogs submitted to Bowker do not include all the information listed in the As- Publisher Relations sociation's "Recommended Practices for the Ad- Formation : vertising and Promotion of Books." It is hoped that Bowker's calling attention to this document This Committee was formed by the SLA Board will improve the type of data! publishers submit of Directors on January 21, 1967. The purpose is for these national bibliographic tools. to see that the SLA point of view is presented to 7. The Association, with some assistance from publishers of all types of literature of interest to the Committee, submitted the above-mentioned SLA members, with the Committee acting as a clearinghouse for the ideas and suggestions of "Recommended Practices" to other library asso- members along this line. In addition the Com- ciations for their consideration as a document mittee members are to serve also as SLA repre- they could approve. Some hare done so, and sentatives on the Joint Committee SLA has with others are considering it. The document was also the American Book Publishers Council (ABPC) . submitted by the Association to the United States of America Standards Institute (formerly 5. University of California, Berkeley-1963 ASA) for consideration as a standard. 6. University of Oklahoma-1963 7. University of Illinois-1963 8. University of Wisconsin-1963 9. University of Kentucky-1964 Recruitment Committee 10. University of British Columbia-1964 11. University of Michigan-1964 The major effort of the Recruitment Committee 12. University of California, Los Angeles-1964 was to act on recommendations set forth by the 13. Columbia University-1964 Agenda Committee in May 1966, and to complete 14. Atlanta University-1964 the projects outlined in the January 1967 Recruit- 15. Texas Woman's University- 1964 ment report. 16. Louisiana State University-1965 The John Cotton Dana lectures were hosted by sixteen accredited library schools (see below for Year following the school indicates date of last detailed list). There have been mixed opinions on John Cotton Dana lecture. the caliber of the lectures given. Guidelines for these lectures were available, in draft form, at the 2. Approval and publication of Guidelines for the Convention. Hopefully, the Guidelines will John Cotton Dana Lectures. eliminate some of the problems. 3. Publication of manuscripts concerned with re- Two issues of the Recruitment Neu~~.letterwere cruitment in other than library type journals. This pblished. It may be advisable to publish a post- should be done in cooperation with the SLA Convention issue. Headquarters liaison, Guy Bell. The Action Manual for Recruitment was sent 4. Update the Action Manual and fill out sections. out in fall 1966. This will need revisions and 5. Publish one or more issues of the Newsletter. they should be started soon so current information 6. Consider publication of an SLA pictorial re- will he available to start the new recruitment cruitment brochure. J-ear. 7. Plan recruitment meeting for 1968 Conference. To date, the Committee has not published any contingent upon the success of the 1967 meeting. of the John Cotton Dana Lectures nor was the article for Joun~al of College Placement com- Chapter Activities : pleted. This will be on the agenda for 1967-68. The Data Sheets were revised to reflect current The call for Chapter recruitment reports was salary scales. These remain one of the most sent out April 1. Of the thirty-five Chapters, only popular and useful recruitment items. sixteen reported their activities. The problem of distribution of recruitment lit- The Virginia Chapter, in cooperation with the erature was resented to the Board in January Richmond Public Library, sponsored a booth at 1967 in the form of a recommendation from the the Richmond West-End Jaycees Career Program Committee. The recommendation was rejected. In April 5-9. Several thousand students and their order to try to alleviate some of the Chapter parents attended. The success may warrant it be- problems. the Committee is again presenting the coming an annual event. Board with a recommendation, which is stated in The Illinois Chapter reported that of ten refer- full at the end of this report. rals from What IJ a Special Librarian?, only two The second annual Recruitment meeting is have failed to produce any reaction. Members of scheduled for May 30, 1967. A special notice was the Illinois Chapter recruitment committee parti- sent to Chapter Presidents and recruitment chair- cipated in two career conferences, Catholic Asso- men, and Division Chairmen. ciation of Student Librarians of Illinois and A recommendation that SLA seek a way to have Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School. more representation or more voice in the accredi- The Philadelphia Chapter participated in the tation of library schools was referred to the Edu- John Cotton Dana Lecture at Drexel Institute. cation Committee in January 1967. One Chapter meeting was devoted to recruitment with Donald Hunt as speaker. The recruitment chairman included with his report several recom- Activities to be pursued 1967-68 : mendations which will be passed on to the SLA- I. Scheduling of the sixteen 1967-68 John Cotton Recruitment Committee for possible action. Dana Lectures. All sixteen invitations have been Pittsburgh Chapter increased their student mem- sent to the schools. A list of fifty-five candidates bership from seventeen to fifty-two by conducting for lectures has been drawn up and sent to the a "membership-recruitment" campaign at the Uni- Committee for comments, suggestions, etc. versity of Pittsburgh Library School. It is being recommended that this be an annual campaign. The chapter actively participated at the John Cot- ton Dana lecture given by Mrs. Florence Arm- strong. Approximately 150 attended the Lecture. 1. Kansas State Teachers College The Texas Chapter aimed their efforts at guid- 2. Florida State-1963 ance counselors. Over 525 letters and brochures 3. George Peabody College for Teachers-1963 were sent to high school counselors. Response has 4. Ciniversity of North Carolina-1963 been good, some requesting more brochures and Form Lecturer Title Place Date Available Florence Armstrong Special Librarianship Univ. of Nov. 30, '66 Paper Pittsburgh Grieg Aspnes The Special Responsibilities Univ. of Dec. 9, '66 Paper of the Special Librarian Chicago Janet Bogardus Excellence in Special Emory Univ. Dec. 1, '66 Paper Librarianship William S. Budington Sales and Service in the Drexel Jan. 5, '67 No Paper Information Business Institute Moira Cartwright No Title State Univ. Apr. 17. '67 No Paper of New York Robert Fidoten Management Information Rutgers Mar. 8, '67 No Paper Systems Univ. Bernard L. Foy Power Behind the Tomes Catholic Feb. 2, '67 Paper Univ. Elizabeth Tapia Kraus Specialized Services in a Univ. of No\. 17, '66 Paper Special Library Toronto Margaret E. Madden Special Librarianship- Western Feb. 16, '67 Paper All Systems Go Reserve Elizabeth W. Owens Make Your Career in a Indiana Oct. 13, '66 No Paper Special Library Univ. Loyd R. Rathbun Putting Knowledge to Work Pratt Inst. Nov. 1, '66 Paper Virginia Sternberg Special Library Fever Syracuse Nov. 19. '66 Paper Univ. Charles Stevens Realism and the Library of Univ. of Sept. 23, '66 Tape the Future Texas Alleen Thompson No Title Univ. of Nov. 2, '66 No Paper Washington Herbert S. White Special Librarianship-The Univ. of Nor. 9, '66 Paper Special One Is the Customer Minnesota Theodor B. Yerke The Special Librarian: Univ. of Jan. 17, '67 Paper An Information Broker Southern California others indicating SLA speakers will be invited to Careers in Librarianship held at Wade Park speak. On March 21, the committee manned a Manor. Cleveland. booth at the 1967 National Convention of the The Rio Grandr Chapter, operating under the American Personnel and Guidance Association. handicap of no library school in the area, con- The lndima Chapter has put together a one and centrated their efforts toward public, parochial, one-half hour program, dramatizing the philoscl- and private schools and junior colleges guidance phy of special librarianship, opportunities for em- counselors in Arizona. Some fifty-four schools ployment and the challenges and rewards of the were contacted, out of which one so far has re- profession. The presentation is entitled Putting quested a speaker. Knoudedge to Work and combines a telelecture, a It was the Denver Chapter's privilege to have skit, slides, and personal appearances of librarians. Mrs. Elizabeth Usher speak at their annual re- The Baltimove Chapter a window ex- cruitment dinner. There were seventy-five people hibit at the Enoch Pratt Free Library for National in attendance of which seventeen were University Library Week. of Denver Library School students. The committee The Cleveland Chapter participated in the John has also set up a recruitment projection-outline Cotton Dana Lecture presented by Miss Margaret which gives direction and continuity to the re- Madden at Western Reserve. The lecture was at- cruitment effort for the next few years. tended by some 175 students, librarians, and The Montreal Chapter invited library school friends. Miss Madden's visit served a dual purpose students from McGill and University of Montreal as she also spoke at the second conference on to attend their November meeting held at Expo. 512 SPECIALLIBRARIES At the Recruitment Committee breakfast Martha Jane K. Zachert, Chair- man Mary Lee Tsuffis, and Donald Hunt of Drexel listen to Mrs. B. J. Conners, director of Library Recruitment, Pioneer Library System.

Recommendations: irritation and loss of good will that is occa- sioned by Chapters who have had difficulties or In view of the difficulties and confusion ex- misunderstandings arise when they hare tried to perienced by some of the Chapters with regard to obtain recruitment materials for the JCD Lectures. obtaining SLA recruitment publications and re- The Committee would point out that its best sulting comments by many of the Chapters, the efforts often result in intangible or nebulous re- Recruitment Committee requests that the follow- sults. It is quite frustrating to make arrangements ing recommendations be given consideration and, for the participation of the library school, its stu- if approved, incorporated into the recruitment dents and faculty, a Chapter and its members, and handbook supplied to the Chapters. Specific one of SLA's more outstanding members in a changes are: John Cotton Dana Lecture only to have the en- 1. Availability of SLA recruitment publications, thusiasm and spirit of the occasion diluted due to with the exception of posters, car cards, and simi- misunderstanding arising from trying to obtain lar advertising media, in quantity up to one SLA materials. hundred copies free of charge when the request- If the Committee's recommendations are ap- ing Chapter is host for a John Cotton Dana Lec- proved, the approved policy will be incorporated ture. Chapters will be asked to estimate attendance in the "Action Manual" furnished each Chapter at the JCD Lecture and request recruitment ma- by the Committee. terials in required quantity. The Committee is of the opinion that. whether 2. Posters and car cards or similar recruitment ma- these recommendations are approved or another terial that might be developed will be supplied to policy statement is recommended by the Board, it the Chapter sponsoring the JCD Lecture in quan- is important to the Association that a clearly tities up to and including 10 of each item. stated policy be issued to the Chapter recruitment 3. Such materials are supplied to a Chapter only personnel. when the Chapter is sponsoring a JCD Lecture. MARYLEE TSUFFIS .4. A~ailabilityof recruitment materials to Chap- ters during periods when they are not sponsoring EDITOR'S NOTE: The Committee's rrcommenda- ,I John Cotton Dana Lecture remains .IS currently tions were accepted by the Board. prescribed. The Board is requested to approve these recommendations since the JCD Lectures are one Reprography of the major communication channels of the As- sociation with library school students. In addi- The Committee participated in the revision and tion, the cost of processing invoices and collectinp updating of the DoD Military Standardization the very minor charges involved in supplying Handbook, Glossary of Photographic Terms In- Chapters with these popular recruitment materials cluding Document Reproduction (MIL-HDBK- will frequently exceed the cost of supplying the 25, 20 February 1961) TMll-411. Additions and materials gratis when well-understood prerequi- deletions of terms and changes in definitions were sites are met. The Board should also consider the recommended. SEPTEMBER1967 There have been many changes and improve- all of the members who interviewed the appli- ments relating to photography and document re- cants. A special thanks is given to Grace Reynolds production since the Handbook was issued in and her assistants on the Headquarters staff for 1961. The United States of America Standards their efficient processing and following up on all Institute is handling this revision under contract of the applicants. It is truly a monumental job with the U.S. Army Electronics Command. The and one that could not be handled by an indi- final approved document is to reflect the widest vidual Committee Chairman, especially in a one- technical opinion drawn from industry, science, or two-man library. Thanks also go to the Execu- and the military services. It will include technical tive Director for handling the Committee terms and definitions relating to all aspects of business. It is this spirit of cooperation which photographic materials, techniques, processes, sys- makes progress possible. tems, and equipment designed to be a part of, in- The winners of the 1967-68 Special Libraries terface with, or support military systems. When Association $1,500 scholarships, listed in alpha- it becomes available this glossary is expected to betical order. are: Norman Peter Cummins, have wide use. Brooklyn, New York; Laura Nell Gasaway, Deni- The Committee sponsored a seminar on micro- son, Texas; Joanne Marie Mann, Baltimore, film, presented on May 29, during the Annual Maryland; Frieda Ann Noell, Laramie, Wyoming; Meeting of our Association. The seminar, called Janet Scott Reed, Rochester, New York; Libby Microselectivity-A Short Course on Microfilm Potter Soifer, Gorham, Maine. Alternate winners, Fundamentals, was conducted by two consultants listed in order of preference, are: Elizabeth Ann from the National Microfilm Association, Dr. Unger, Wooster, Ohio; Celeste Nancy West, David Wolf and Carl E. Nelson. Portland, Oregon; Kathleen Virginia Shartran, A file of current trade literature and corre- Fredonia, New York; Dorothy Elizabeth Balogh, spondence information on the state-of-the-art of Vienna, Austria; Elizabeth Marie Barnwell, reprographic processes and equipment is main- East Lansing, Michigan; Sherrilynne Badman, tained. A number of requests for information Bloomington, Indiana. were filled including some from foreign libraries. A summary of the applicants follou-s: ninety- The Committee invites inquiries and comments five applicants, seventy-five women and twenty from the membership. men. Three applicants withdrew. Twenty-eight LORETTAJ. KIERSKY different states were represented and eight different foreign countries. This would indicate that our announcements are being widely circulated, Research widely read, and they are being acted upon. Three members of the five-member Research As in the past, contributions have been made Committee met on Monday, May 29, 1967. The to the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund by or- Committee believes that a Research Unit is a ganizations, by Divisions. Sections, Chapters, and necessary consideration of Headquarters. by individual members of the Association. A par- The Committee proposes that the $2,000 be tial summary of these contributions is as follows: used to sponsor a two-day workshop in research $4,000 was received from the H. W. Wilson methodology as a preconference program in Los Foundation, Inc., as well as substantial contribu- Angeles on June 2 and 3, 1968. The Committee tions from the Standard Oil Company of Cali- will serve as advisors on the syllabus and pro- fornia, the Chicago Osteopathic Hospital, the gram. Following the workshop, the Committee Lincoln Laboratory, and the Bell Telephone Lab- will make concrete recommendations on research oratories. There have been contributions from in- activities to the Board of Directors. dividual members and memorial donations for Anita Favero, Elaine Eich. Mrs. Alfred Brandon. Lura Shorb, Louise Keller, Ruth Snwrd. and Valerie Jean Percy. The Metals/Materials Divi- SLA Professional Award and sion contributed the proceeds of the night at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater and the Insurance Divi- Hall of Fame sion gave a sizeable contribution. See page 474 of this issue of Special Libraries The Metals/Materials Division has long made a for the 1967 Professional Award winner. significant contribution to the Fund each year by sponsoring an event during the Annual Conven- tion from which a goodly sum is realized. The in- Scholarship and Student Loan Fund terest and enthusiasm of this Division and its aid Ninety-five persons applied for the six $1,500 to the Fund are noteworthy and worth the atten- scholarships offered this year. This is a total of tion of the other Divisions. The Guthrie Theater five more than last year. There were many well event at the Minneapolis convention netted only qualified applicants, many truly special-library ori- $75.60. The price of the tickets was not high ented, which made the choices most difficult. The enough; benefit prices should have been charged. Committee feels that the hard work done by the However, it was a memorable evening. Recruitment Committees in the past years may be During the 1966-67 year individual letters paying dividends. The Committee wishes to ex- were written to all of the Chapter Presidents and press its gratitude to the Chapter Presidents and Division Chairmen to ask them to support the SCHOLARSHIPAND LOANFUND Southern California FINANCIALSTATEMENT Washington, D. C. May I, 1966, to Apvd 30, 1967 CONTRIBUTIONS Individual members Divisions and Sections (including jewelry) $ 1,492.75 Insurance $ 1,000.00 Memorial donations Advertising and Marketing 2 5.OO In memory of Ruth Savord (indi- Metals/Materials vidual donations and Business (Scholarship Benefit) 75.60 and Finance Division) 560.00 Pharmaceutical 100.00 In memory of Ruth Hall (Upstate. - New ~LrkChapter) In memory of Anita Favero (Evans Paper Company) Total contributions $ 9,188.35 In memory of Lura Shorb and Total interest earned May 1, 1966, Louise Keller (Philadelphia to April 30, 1967 1,055.05 Chapter) Repayments on loans May 1, 1966, In memory of Isabel Bronk (indi- to April 30, 1967 650.00 vidual donations) In memory of 'Valerie Percy (individual donations) In memory of Elaine Eich (Rio Grande Chapter and Los Ala- SUMMARY mos Scientific Laboratories Li- Cash balance May 1, 1966 $20,854.09 braries) Less-Scholarships and Student In memory of Constance Watson Loans 8,325.00 (San Francisco Chapter) In memory of Mrs. Alfred Balance $12,529.09 Brandon (Baltimore Chapter) Plus-Additions May 1, 1966, to April 30, 1967 (see above) 10,893.40

Cash balance (net) April 30, 1967 $23,422.49' Loans receivable 2,764.00 Organizations Bell Telephone Laboratories Balance in Scholarship and Loan Time, Inc. Fund April 30, 1967 $26,186.49 H. W. Wilson Foundation Standard Oil of California Atlas Chemical Industries ' Cash balance made up of: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Central Savings $16,700.52 American Savings 8,540.47

$25,240.99 Less due to Gen- Chapters eral Fund 1,818.50 Greater St. Louis (including St. Louis Medical Library) Pacific Northwest

Fund in any way possible. Some response was The Board of Directors at the Minneapolis received from these letters. meeting approved the Committee's recommenda- From the response of one of the Chapters, it tion that "the definitions of special library and in- was learned that they sponsor their own scholar- formation centers, approved by the Board of Di- ship activity. An inquiry has been made to further rectors for the use of the Admissions Committee, investigate this activity. It is a laudable project. should be adopted by the Scholarship and Student but if this practice were to be extended to other Loan Committee as a test of the special library Chapters, such a chapter scholarship program orientation of scholarship and loan applicants." might be in direct conflict with the Association's The official name of the Committee was changed plan. to the Scholarship and Student Loan Committee During the 1966-67 pear, one application was at the January 19, 1967, meeting of the Board received for a loan but this was not granted. of Directors. SEPTEMBER1967 There were conversations and correspondence on Scholarship in which their Board of Directors between Dr. Frank McKenna and John Cook, asked if it might be to our mutual interest to Chairman of the Foundation Grants Committee, establish communication between the scholarship about possible SLA interest in a large scholar- committees of the two organizations. We have a ship program for special librarians funded by definite policy of keeping the names of the po- federal money. There would seem to be money tential winners confidential until the Board of available under Title I1 B of the Higher Education Directors has approved the choice and until the Act. Preliminary investigations are being made to names of the winners can be announced at the see what the possibilities are. The Foundation Conference. Further consideration of this c~jni- Grants Committee and the Scholarship and Stu- munication between the two Associations will at dent Loan Committee working together on a least be discussed. study could produce fruitful results. One matter which might be clarified in the form Recommendations letter written to Chapter Presidents to arrange for interviews with scholarship applicants is to state 1. The Committee recommends that five $1,500 definitely the fact that the scholarship applicant scholarships be awarded for the academic year is to contact the President for an interview; it is 1968-69. From twelve applicants for the academic not the responsibility of the President to contact year 1956-57, the second year of the scholarship the applicant. program, the number has grown to ninety-five ap- The manual for the Scholarship and Student plicants for the academic year 1967-68. This Loan Committee is in need of being updated. It growth seems likely to continue. is the fervent hope of the outgoing Chairman to 2. The Committee further recommends that the have an opportunity to bring together a sample closing date for Chapter interviews with the of a new manual for approval which should pro- candidates be moved back to March 31 to facili- vide guidance for subsequent Committees. tate the processing of the applications. The Cnm- A letter has been received from the chairman mittee meeting must be held about the third week of the Medical Libraries Association's Committee in April to make it possible to submit the names

1967-68 SLA SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

N. PETERCUMMINS received his B.A. degree from Hunter Col- lege of the City University of New York in February 1967. Grad- uating cum laude, he was elected to Phi Alpha Theta National History Society. Since August 1966 he has been employed at the Dag Hammarskjold Library at the United Nations, and for four years previously he worked in the UN international law library as an assistant to the librarian. Mr. Cummins has been accepted in the School of Library Service at Columbia University.

LAURANELL GASAWAYwas a member of the class of 1967 at Texas Woman's University with a degree in government. A member of Alpha Chi and Alpha Beta Alpha, Miss Gasaway, whose secondary major was in library science, has been since June 1966 a student assistant at the Library Science Library at TWU, in charge of the circulation desk and assisting students in locating materials. Miss Gasaway began work at the Graduate School at Texas Woman's University in June.

JOANNEM. MANN graduated in June 1967 from Mount Saint Agnes College in Baltimore with a major in mathematics and a minor in chemistry. Since June of 1966 she worked in the library of the Social Security Administration, part time during the school year, in the law section. From 1960 to 1966 Miss Mann did summer work in the Annapolis and Ann Arundel public libraries. She is now at the Graduate School of Library and Information Sci- ences, University of Pittsburgh. of winners to the Board for their approval. Con- of each publication were examined, and a com- siderable final work must be done before the list parative summary of the contents of the two pub- of winners can be submitted. lications was prepared. It was found that the The financial statement of the Scholarship and total number of meetings listed in Scie~zlificMeet- Student Loan Fund is included. ings was greater. However, in some subject cate- ELIZABETH13. BURROWS gories, TMIS carried more meetings and in other subject categories Scientific Meetings carried more EDITOR'S NOTE:On recommendation 1, the Board entries. The only subject category which was ex- voted to award five $2,000 scholarships for 1968- tremely top-heavy was the field of medicine. Sci- 69. Recommendation 2 was approved. entific Meetings had a total of 818 and TMlS a total of 399. It was the consensus of the Commit- tee members that this was not a situation to avoid. Scientific Meetings In fact, it would be advisable to increase the cov- The fifth year of Scientific Meetingr as an As- erage by Scienlific Meetings in the weaker subject sociation publication was marked by innovations areas. It is expected that future issues will reflect in the publication. In addition to a keyword sub- this effort to increase the coverage in the weaker ject index and a chronological index, a geo- subject areas. graphical index has now been added to each is- Since we have not been advised of the total sue. Every effort also has been made to increase number of 1967 subscriptions to Scientific Meet- the scope and content of each issue. ings, we cannot evaluate what effect the increased Last year a meeting was held with the pub- subscription price had. lisher of Technical Meetings Index. Since it JOANM. HUTCHINSON seemed that the editor and Committee members were not too familiar with the competitive publi- Special Classifications cation, a comparative study of the two publications was made. The contents of the 1966 issues No annual report

FRIEDAA. NOELLreceived her B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Wyoming, having transferred there in her junior year from Casper College in Casper, Wyoming. During the summer of 1966 she worked closely with the librarian of Casper Col- lege in the circulation and technical processing departments. In the summers of 1963 to 1965 she was personal secretary to the librarian of the East Junior High School library in Casper. Miss Noell attends the Graduate School of Librarianship at the Uni- versity of Denver.

JANETS. REED,an Associate member of Special Libraries Asso- ciation since 1964, received her A.B. degree from Middlebury College, Vermont, with a major in American literature. She has also studied reference services and materials at the State Univer- sity College, Genesco, New York. Since 1963 Miss Reed was employed in the R. J. French Company Technical Department with primary responsibility for the department's small library. She is now in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.

LIBBYP. SOIFERwas a 1966 graduate of the University of Maine, receiving an A.B. degree with a major in zoology. After graduation Miss Soifer obtained a job at the University of Maine library in Portland, and also worked in the Fogler Library of the Uni- versity as a student assistant. For two summers she worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Commercial Fisheries to gain practical experience in zoology. Miss Soifer is a graduate student in the School of Library Science, Simmons College, Boston. Special Libraries Committee concurred with the editor's proposal that the L. C. card numbers be included with the This Committee continued its efforts to produce bibliographical data commencing January 1967. the official journal of our Association by repre- Although this obviously entailed more work on senting the membership's interests in the editorial the editor's part, the experiment was undertaken offices and by helping the editors in publishing in an effort to make TBRl more valuable. L. C. the magazine. This latter was done by reviewing proof cards received at the Carnegie Library of manuscripts, by advising and recommending on Pittsburgh were utilized in obtaining the L. C. editorial, production, layout, and business prob- card numbers. lems and general policies affecting our profes- Since the supply of TBRl brochures distributed sional journal. by SLA Headquarters was almost depleted, the During the year the Committee u.elcomed the Committee revised the brochure's contents by in- new editor, Guy Bell, and worked towards mak- cluding four updated sample entries and stating ing harmonious the transitional period of editor- that more than 1,300 new technical books are ship. abstracted each year. The Committee, together with the editor, has For the Committee chairman it was noteworthy taken steps to impro~ethe quality of the index- to find that during 1967 the Knowledge Avail- ing of Special Libraries. It is anticipated that this ability Systems Center at the University of Pitts- will enhance the usefulness of the Index and burgh included TBRl in its computer search re- at the same time stand as an example of high sults for the NASA/Industry/University of quality indexing. Pittsburgh Information Spin-off Project. Pending are two items: The print order for TBRI continued at 2,200 copies. During the period April 1, 1966, to March 1. This Committee asked the Board of Directors 31, 1967, $18,797.06 was received and $15,060.22 and the Committee on Committees to change ap- was expended, giving a profit of $3,736.84, a de- pointments to the Special Libraries Committee crease of $4,559.54 over the same period for the from two years to three years. This Committee previous year. One hundred eleven fewer sub- feels that this request is important to ensure the scriptions were recorded, bringing the total to continuity of its work. Those disagreeing with 1,793. this give as their reason the difficulty of getting JEANNINEKREYENBUHL appointees to accept a second three-year term. It seems to this Committee that continuity has priority over ability to reappoint. Tellers 2. The feasibility study regarding splitting Spe- cial Lib~arie.r into a quarterly journal with a The mail ballots for SLA Officers and Directors monthly newsletter, as requested by the Board of were officially counted at SLA Headquarters on Directors at the 1967 Midwinter Meeting, has May 4, 1967. 2,969 ballots were received, 29 of received much of this Committee's attention. As which were declared invalid. 2,940 valid ballots it now stands, this study has been taken over by were tallied. the Publication Program Committee. That Com- The following candidates received a majority mittee's annual report will inform the Board of of the votes cast for each office: Directors of the current status of this feasibility President, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Usher study. President-Elect, Herbert S. White HOWARDBENTLEY Chairman, Advisory Council, Charles H. Stevens Chairman-Elect, Advisory Council, Mrs. Charlotte S. Mitchell Statistics Treasurer, Jean Deuss No action was taken during the year under re- Director (three years), Mrs. Gloria Evans view. The Committee hopes to collaborate with Director (three years), Efren Gonzalez the Professional Standards Committee to establish the statistics needed to supplement the standards and to work out ways and means of collecting them. Translation Activities STEPHENJ. KEES The period 1966-1967 has been eventful, to say the least, for the Translation Activities Com- Technical Book Review Index mittee. A new Chairman, Roger M. Martin, was appointed to replace Mrs. Irma Johnson, who re- Volume 33, 1967, continued with the same signed due to the pressure of her other responsi- format and policy as utilized in the past three bilities. Mrs. Johnson deserves a rousing vote of years, with one exception, i.e. the inclusion of appreciation for her enormous accomplishments Library of Congress card numbers with most en- during her incumbency. In carrying on the fine tries. Although TBRI is not essentially a book- work of her predecessors, the standards she set buying tool, it is used as such by many subscrib- will doubtless be the measure for future Chairmen ers. To make it more useful in this regard, the and Committee members for years to come. Mr. Martin assumed office at the September 1966 Clearinghouse under the terms of the proposed Board meeting. Thereafter, a number of events revisions. took place in rapid succession. At the Midwinter meeting in Houston in Jan- In November, a special meeting was held at uary, the "position statement" was read to the SLA Headquarters attended by President Mc- Executive Board, which voted to accept the state- Kenna, President-Elect Usher. Mr. Woods, Mr. ment. The Board also authorized the institution Martin, and Mr. Budington acting as Contractor of a service charge to be applied by the Center representative for operation of the Translations when supplying a translation acquired and proc- Center. The matter for immediate discussion was essed from 1967 on (it was felt that attempting a proposal by the Clearinghouse for revision of to add such a charge to stated prices for older the contract for partial financial support of the translations in TT, for example, would be enor- operations of the Center. In effect, the proposal mously confusing). The service charge concept constituted a selere reduction in funds paid to is a painful one to accept, after so many years the Center for supplying catalog copy to the without it, but no acceptable means of raising Clearinghouse for listing in Technicul Tvansla- urgently needed funds to continue Center operations. This reduction was so great that it was ob- tions has been developed. vious the Center would recover only a fraction of The Board authorized the expenditure of up to its costs of preparing and supplying to the Clear- $10.000 of Association funds to initiate prepara- inghouse records of translations acquired. It was tion and publication of the proposed announce- tentatively decided that the proposed changes in ment and indexing bulletin. The subscription price the contract could not be accepted and that this has been tentatively set at $30.00 per year. It is particular relationship between SLA and the expected that the first issue of the new semi- Clearinghouse must be terminated. monthly Translations Register-Index will appear In December, a meeting was held with repre- May 1967. The Register portion will announce sentatives of the Clearinghouse and the National new translations received at the Center, with the Science Foundation (attended by President Mc- translations classified and listed in the COSATI Kenna, Mr. Woods, Mr. Budington and Mr. Mar- categories. The Index portion will be in each is- tin to represent SLA) at which some of the Clear- sue, and it will also, using computer technology, inghouse plans for dealing with translations were provide quarterly year-to-date cumulations. It will outlined. These plans included: the establishment include not only the Center collections but also of a $3.00 price for full-size copy of all Clear- those listed in TT and in other lists and from inghouse documents, including translations. re- other sources as information about them is ob- gardless of length; transfer of publishing respon- tained by the Center. This source index will be sibility of TT to Joint Publications Research based on journal and patent number citations, Service; merger of TT with Consoliduted Trans- conference titles, and authors of monographs en- lations Survey, published by JPRS for the Central tries. A grant request has been sent to National Intelligence Agency; and eventual establishment of Science Foundation for sufficient funds to cover a "reference service" at the Clearinphouse for the publication costs beyond that of the SLA ini- answering translation inquiries, including those tial expenditure. Our previous experience with now handled by JPRS. No clear answers were Translatiorzs Monthly indicates that the new TR-I obtained to such questions as the resumption of will be fully self-supporting in one to three years listing translations of patents, of translations from and, hopefully, thereafter will be a continuing copyrighted material, of translations constituting source of funds for operation of the Center it- only a few pages, nor the resumption of cumu- self. TR-I may appear to duplicate other sources, lated indexes to TT itself. The Clearinghouse re- but it should be kept in mind that the format and inclusiveness will be improved; the indexing ported that recent funding restrictions and a re- feature also provides a service which TT does quirement to recover a greater portion of the cost not at present perform and for which there are of supplying documents were the principal rea- somewhat unclear plans at Clearinghouse. sons for both the changes and the proposed re- As is suggested by the foregoing, the principal \ision of the Clearinghouse-SLA contract. problem dealt with by the Committee during Mr. Martin and Mr. Budington had previously 1966.67 has been the perennial one of money. It prepared a draft of a statement, subsequently re- will doubtless also be the principal concern in viewed by President McKenna and Mr. Woods, the future. For many reasons, the relationship regarding the position of SLA in the area of between the Clearinghouse and SLA with respect translations. Mr. Woods read this statement to to translations has not proved satisfactory, and it those at the Washington meeting and invited is most unlikely that assured funds for operating comments. The statement confirmed the continuing the Center can be obtained from that source. responsibility of SLA for sponsorship of the There has also been observed a growing reluc- Translations Center, proposed the publication of tance on the part of National Science Foundation an announcement and indexing bulletin by SLA, to continue its funding indefinitely. SLA must and recognized the need for SLA to seek addi- continue to give evidence, as it has clearly done tional means for financing the operations of the this year, that it is actively seeking means to de- Center. It was also stated that SLA would be velop the Center into a more nearly self-support- unable to continue its contractual relationship with ing operation. Translation Activities get discussed by William Budington, Irma Johnson, Committee Chairman Roger Martin, Grace E. Boyd, and Carl Himmelsbach.

As SLA plans were progressing, it developed of translations. As originally projected, coverage that the European Translations Centre is also ac- was to extend through Technical Translatiorts. tively engaged in the preparation of a continuing July 1965, with Clearinghouse-produced indexes published index to translations. Mr. Martin was expected to take up at that point. Since appearance invited to attend the ETC Executive Committee of the latter remained in question, approval was meeting in Delft, Holland, May 2-3, to consider obtained from NSF to extend coverage through possible duplication in the two projects, as well as December 1966. This would also close the gap areas for cooperation and collaboration. Without prior to initiation of the new SLA journal and question there is some overlap, but the extent is provide continuity for potential cumulation. As still to be determined. ETC presently limits its of May 1967, 93 per cent of the original time activities to translations from East European, span of the four basic lists had been reviewed; of Russian, and Oriental languages and leaves the the expanded time span, 77 per cent has been responsibility for interwestern language transla- reviewed. Checking of the selective and collected tions to the national centers in the various mem- sources will be started this summer. The bulk of ber countries. Thus, a translation from German posting to code sheets, much necessary verifica- into French, or one from French into English, is tion, and all computer and publishing activity assumed to be held by the centers in France and remains to be done; completion is hoped for by England, respectively, and would not be recorded the end of 1967. in the proposed index. The ETC index, to be is- The ongoing work of the Center continued at sued quarterly with an annual cumulation, is high pitch, despite the competing influences of tentatively priced at $20 00 a year, or $30.00 a the consolidated index, revised planning and year in combination with its own announcement start-up activities for the new Trans1ation.r Regic- bulletin. The first sample quarterly index is now ter-Zzdex. In early January, the Center prepared published, and the ETC Committee will be rec- and distributed a survey to about two hundred ommending to its Board at its May 1967 meeting users and contributors, dealing with questions of that authorization be gixen to continue publica- service charge, journal format, and possible sub- tion at least for the current pear. It was quite scription price. Results provided valuable planning clear from the Delft meeting that ETC will be aid. January also brought the necessity for thor- most willing to explore cooperative arrangements ough reorganization. In view of the changed with SLA. However, the ETC Committee ex- funding situation, the Crerar systems analyst pressed its intent to tailor its activities and serv- worked with the Center's Chief on work assign- ices more to the needs of its European members ments and flow. A revised budget was prepared, and to become less dependent on the US. at a reduced level of outlay which, nevertheless, YOU will recall that last year the Association maintained owr-all levels of processing and serv- received from the National Science Foundation a ice. Of particular importance urns maintenance 1.f grant of $80.530 to support compilation of a com- the integrity of the index files, by which refer- bined index to translations cited in various past ence inquiry service is given. The Clearinghouse lists and bulletins. This work commenced during is continuing to provide its rough work sheets, the latter part of 1966 at the Translations Cen- from which card sets are reproduced. Since the ter. as staff could be acquired. Sources to be re- Clearinghouse itself is not believed to maintain viewed included: SLA basic lists, the LC Bibliog- complete card files (since it no longer prints rirphy of Trans1ation.r from the Russiarz, Transla- cards), the SLA Center may well have the only tion Monthly. Tech~~icalTvanslations, about access medium for many inquiries. It is possible twenty-five Western journals publishing selected that any computer-based services from the Clear- translations, and several hundred other collections inghouse will occur only after some months or years. The Center is now processing all govern- on use of the Center. Similarly, there will be an ment translations which it receives, regardless of indeterminate period before we can see whether original language; prior to January, it handled TR-I will also generate income beyond the cost only non-Russian and non-Chinese, with the of publication. Therefore, the main concern of Clearinghouse responsible for the remainder un- this Committee for the coming pear will neces- der its copyright restricted distribution poliq sarily be that of financing for the Center. How- (the latter is now reported to have been changed). ever, attention must also be paid to the fact that Under the exchange with the European Trans- the first seven months of the 1966-67 fiscal year lations Centre originated in 1966, approximately showed a drop in the rate of deposits at the 300 useable items have been received and over Center, reflecting a need for continuing publicity 2,600 have been supplied to ETC. Activity dur- and promotional effort. ing 1967 is in abeyance, pending recent discus- ROGERM. MARTIN sions. A considerable backlog of unprocessed trans- H. W. Wilson Company lations continues in existence from earlier periods, although current accessions are up to date. Chapter Award Approximately 3,500 items of primary priority For the first time this year the Award was and possibly 10,000 of secondary priority are on given for a project which had been carried out hand; of the latter, a large number are rather over no more than a two-year period and which old and probably duplicates. was on a theme of the Chapter's choice. Four Some comment may be made on activity statis- chapters entered: Alabama, Boston, Illinois, and tics covering the first seven months of the budget Upstate New York. year (October-April) . A slight decrease in normal The winning entry was that of the Upstate New deposit of new translations is distorted by com- York Chapter. The project of producing an area parison with last year's period. During 1965-66. library directory was well organized. enabled the large back deposit by Monsanto was sent in Chapter members in a broad geographic area to Xerox installments instead of a large microfilmed work together effectively to make its resources batch; consequently, it was added to and proc- known within and outside the Chapter. and re- essed with current accessions instead of being sulted in a publication of lasting value which is backlogged. Processed holdings have passed the a credit to the Chapter and to the Association. 125,000 mark. The judges feel that every Chapter has worth- In service statistics, the decline in number of while projects and programs and it is the intent copies supplied can be attributed in part, at least, of the SLA-H. W. Wilson Company Chapter to a period in late 1966 of several issues of Terh- Award contest to provide a medium for displaying fziral Trans1ation.r listing few or no SLA items. successful programs to all other Chapters and to Total inquiries processed continued to climb, the Association proper. These programs and proj- however, reflecting increased proportions of "ex- ects should be important to the profession and istence" inquiries as opposed to "direct order" should go beyond internal chapter organization requests. and management. It should be emphasized that, while the service The judges were encouraged by the fact that charge concept has been approx-ed by the Board there were four entries even though the change of Directors, it only goes into effect with the to a possible two-year project was announced only translations announced in the first issue of the a year ago. Although it is too early to assess the new Translations Register-Iadrx. Thus, there change definitively, the entries this year indicate will obviously be a delay before it is known not that the new rules will be beneficial in achieving only what income to the Center will be achieved, the intent of the Award. but also what effect the increased price will have WINIFREDSEWELL

E. Clifton Daniel, managing editor of the New York "Times," talks to the Newspaper and Ad- vertising and Marketing Divisions joint luncheon. Special Representatives' Reports

By the Association's Special Representatives

American Association for the Section or Conference Status (AACP) for Phar- Advancement of Science macy College Librarians? Roster of Librarians of Colleges of Pharmacy. No annual report The Committee has planned the second annual American Association of meeting of pharmacy college librarians to be held June 28-30, 1967, at the University of Michigan, Colleges of Pharmacy Ann Arbor. This meeting will be a pharmacy Joint Committee on Pharmacy College library problems workshop and is being held in Libraries conjunction with the AACP Teachers' Seminar on Pharmacognosp. Tours of University Microfilms, The first meeting of the pharmacy college librar- Inc., and local libraries are planned. ians was held July 13-14, 1966 at the University The compilation of a list of graduate theses of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy. The meeting completed in member colleges of the American was planned by the Joint Committee on Pharmacy Association of Colleges of Pharmacy during the College Libraries with the permission and as- past sixty years will be published by the Special sistance of the Seminar Committee and the Ex- Libraries Association. Dolores Nemec, Editor, re- ecutixe Committee of the American Association ports that the subject index is in process and pub- of Colleges of Pharmacy. lication is expected in the near future. On Wednesday afternoon, July 13, the formal The Joint Committee wishes to thank the ex- part of the program was held. Deans and mem- ecutive secretary of the AACP, Dr. Charles W. bers of the AACP Teachers' Seminar were in- Bliven, for the "Roster of Librarians of Colleges vited. Minifred Sewell, Head, Drug Literature of Pharmacy" and for his advice and assistance in Program, National Library of Medicine. presented planning the meetings of pharmacy college li- a talk on "The Computer and the Library," and brarians. Dr. Carl 0. Douglass, Chief, Facilities and Re- The Joint Committee also wishes to thank the sources Division, National Library of Medicine, Seminar Committee and the Executive Committee discussed the "Medical Library Assistance Act." for permitting the meeting of librarians to be The informal all-day planning meeting of phar- held during the week of the Teachers' Seminar. macy librarians held on July 14 included a con- The Committee recommends that deans of sideration of progress on current projects and member colleges encourage and assist their li- plans for a meeting in 1967. Some of the more brarians to attend the pharmacy college librar- important subjects which were included in the ians meeting June 28-30. meeting were as follows: EFRENW. GONZALES 19G6 Pharmacy Library Survey conducted by the GERTRUDELORBER Medical Library Association Committee on Sur- veys and Statistics and the U. S. Office of Educa- American Book Publishers tion. (The results of the survey are reported in the July 1966 issue of the Bulletin of the Medical Council-SLA Joint Committee Library Association.) Scope Pharmacy Librarian Handbook. (Mrs. Theodora In January 1967 SLA created the Publisher Andrews, Editor, is currently organizing a list of Relations Committee of five members, with the contributors.) SLA Executive Director as a member ex-officio. Bibliography of Books and Reference Works Re- Each of these people was to serve also as SLA lating to the Professional Courses in the Phar- members of the ABPC-SLA Joint Committee maceutical Curriculum. (Elizabeth Jackson, Edi- which had been created by SLA and ABPC in tor, reports the 1963-66 supplement of five 1965. The purpose of the joint committee is to hundred titles is to be published in the American discuss problems of mutual interest to SLA mem- journal of Pharmaceutical Education.) bers and members of ABPC and to take action as seems appropriate. Newsletter-Joint Committee on Pharmacy Col- lege Libraries. (Helen Silverman, Editor, reports Activities the 1967 spring issue has been sent to librarians and deans of colleges of pharmacy.) One meeting was held with ABPC members since creation of the new committee representation portion of the Standards dealing with professional pattern. At the meeting, held February 21, 1967, libraries in hospitals, and requested that it be re- the following topics were discussed: turned to her by May 10. The second portion (dealing with patients' libraries) is now being Arden House Conference-This meeting will al- coordinated, and will be submitted to Committee low invited publishers and librarians to discuss current trends, especially the use of computers members at a later date. and automation techniques. Bill M. Woods and Hopefully, the difficult question of whether or Mrs. Katherine Owen represented SLA at this not to include in the published Standards, stand- meeting in March 1967. ards for auxiliary operated patients' libraries will be resolved at the meeting scheduled to take Surcey of wa)s librarianr use advertising mate- place during the ALA San Francisco meeting on rials-The SLA members and members of the June 29. If this problem can be resolved to the ABPC headquarters staff recommended prepara- entire Committee's satisfaction, and if comments tion of a questionnaire which would show the and criticism of the section on patients' libraries ways in which books are selected, the relative can be returned to Miss Price by fall. a two-day value and ranklng given types of promotional meeting in Chicago should enable the Committee pieces sent by publishers, etc. This will be dis- to finalize its work on Standards, and permit pub- cussed further by SLA and the ABPC staff, as lication of the revised Standards in 1968. both are quite interested in it. While I have so far been unable to attend any Out-of-stock and out-of-print ~ituation-Various meetings of the Committee, Miss Price and I ways of informing librarians what is no longer have carried on correspondence which assured that available from publishers were mentioned. The SLA has not gone unrepresented. The problems value of double-checking with publishers when faced by this Committee are very difficult and I dealers report an item no longer available was hope that the past year's hard work, particularly discussed, since not all such information given by on the part of the Chairman, will permit their booksellers is entirely accurate. A national pub- resolution. lication giving such information was considered as BARBARACOE JOHNSON a possibility. National Book Numbering System-The proposed Commission on a National Plan for system for the numbering of books to show pub- Library Education lisher and serial number was discussed. It is still The American Library Association Commission in the tentative stages. on a National Plan for Library Education met in Publisher Relations Committee of SLA-The dual New Orleans in January 1967. The meeting was role of SLA representatives was mentioned. Our chaired by Carl W. Hintz, University of Oregon, interest is as strong as ever in maintaining our Chairman of the Commission. The chief purpose joint committee with ABPC. of the meeting was to discuss the role of the Commission in relation to the new American Li- Recommended P~actice~for the Advertiring and brary Association Office for Library Education. Promotzon of Books-The ABPC staff distributed Much of the mission of the Office for Library topies of this jointly-approved document to its Education is embodied in the Commission's 1964 members soon after adoption, in the summer of report; the need for the Commission and its role 1966. in the implementation of the recommendations in ELLISMOUNT the 1964 report was thus in question. Dr. Lester Asheim, Director of the ALA Office for Library American Documentation Institute Education met with the Commission and will meet with it again in San Francisco at the Annual No annual report. Conference of the American Library Association to continue the discussion of the Commission's American Library Association future. The 1964 report of the Commission has recently received wide dissemination through Association of Hospital and Institutional publication in the April 1967 issue of the ALA Libraries, Standards Committee Bulletin. RUSSELI.SHANK This Committee has held two meetings since my last report, one at the ALA New York meeting in July 1966, and one durrng the ALA Mid- Interlibrary Loan Committee winter meeting in New Orleans in January 1967. No annual report. Helen L. Price, Chairman, who was unexpectedly called to the chair last year, has spent most of the year coordinating the mass of material produced Library Technology Program during the Committee's existence into a rough Advisory Committee draft which can be considered by the present Com- The LTP Advisory Committee met on Decem- mittee. She has submitted for study, comments, ber 5, 1966, in New York City. The main pur- and criticism of members the rough draft of that pose of the meeting was to discuss the budget request for the next fiscal year (1967-1968) to be Statistics Coordinating Committee submitted to the Council on Library Resources No annual report. and to ALA. A secondary purpose of the meeting was to brief several new members of the Advisory Committee, including the SLA Special Representa- tive. on the activities of LTP. Bibliographic Systems Center, The Special Representative was asked to con]- Western Reserve University pare the past achievements of LTP with the goals set by the "Five-Year Program" drafted in 1963. With the expiration, in December 1965, of the A careful study of the thirty-one programs listed National Science Foundation's grant for the sup- showed that LTP performed exceedingly well in port of the SLA Special Classifications Center at whatever project it did undertake, mainly the Western Reserve University, the collection was evaluation and development of equipment and donated to the University to be cataloged into supplies. But many programs on methods and the Library School's collection. A Bibliographic guide lines to help the librarian in his adminis- Systems Center has been established to administer tratix-e duties have yet to be tackled. this body of literature. Financial support came with a short-term grant from NSF in 1966, and in 1967 a grant was received from UNESCO designating the Center as a "Clearinghouse for English-language Scientific and Technical Classi- LTP Committee on Performance Standards fication Schedules, Key Work and Descriptor for Library Binding Lists, and Thesauri." Three provisional performance standards for By Board action on May 29, 1966, the Special binding used in libraries-one on durability, one Classifications Committee was abolished and a on workmanship, and one on openability-have Special Representative substituted as liaison be- been developed and published. They are based on tween SLA and the Bibliographic Systems Center. a scientific testing and evaluation program that At the same time a recommendation that a con- took five and one-half years to complete. The tribution of $200 be made to the Center for the work was sponsored jointly by the Special Li- purchase of materials was disapproved. braries Association and the American Library One unfinished project of former Committees Association, and conducted by the Library Tech- was the production of a new edition of the nology Program of ALA. The standards are re- "Guide to the SLA Loan Collection of Classifica- produced in De2,elopment of Performatzce Stad tion Schemes and Subject Heading Lists." This ards for Bindin

~ - and the Center in referral of requests, nor will it EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved the recom- prerent Divisions or individuals from donating mendation. materials to the Center. ALICED. PAULIN

Reference Sevices Division, EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board voted to discontinue Cooperative Reference Service special representative liaison with the Biblio- No annual report. graphic Systems Center.

Resources and Technical Services Division, Council for International Progress Catalog Code Review Committee in Management No annual report. No annual report. Council of National Library held in Chicago, August 21-24; and 3) reports on the activities of member organizations. Warren Associations Albert, of the Archive-Library Division of the The Council of National Library Associations American Medical Association, representing on met twice during the past year, December and this Committee the Society of American Archi- May. Reports were given by the various com- vists, was chosen coordinator for exhibit activi- mittee chairmen. ties. A report from the R. R. Bowker Company on As was true in 1966, the exhibit will emphasize the status of the latest edition of the Bowker the services which CNLA member organizations Amual of Library a~rdBook Trade Information can provide those establishing or trying to better indicates that for the first time it is breaking even. hospital libraries. Examples of helpful guides will Alice D. Ball, Executive Director, reported on be handed out this year, as well as the Commit- the U. S. Book Exchange. She noted that it was tee's own publication "Basic List of Guides and started in 1948 and now has a collection of four Information Sources for Professional and Patients' million magazines and fifty thousand books. In Libraries in Hospitals," and informational bro- 1966, 600,000 publications were sent to 1,500 chures published by member associations. Another libraries. meeting has been scheduled for July 14 in Chi- Mrs. John Ottemiller asked the group for an cago SLA was represented at the Joint Commit- opinion as to when the fifth edition of Who's tee's meeting by both Bill M. Woods, Executive Who in Library Sewice should be published. She Director, SLA, and me, who served as secretary. also asked for answers to some of the questions that had arisen during the compilation of the fourth edition. The Association of Jewish Libraries was unan- Joint Committee on Library Education imously elected to membership in CNLA. No annual report. Melville J. Ruggles, Executive Director, Na- tional Advisory Commission on Libraries, reported on the Commission. The Commission hopes to Joint Committee on Library Work as a Career have its report soon. As the report is being done No annual report at the request of the President. the Commission is being very secretive about what its findings will Joint Committee on Placement be. In fact, apparently the group is under orders not to gi~eout any information until it is re- The Committee is continuing its experimenta- leased by the President. tion in the use of the placement services offered Mrs. Helen E. Wessels spoke with much en- by the U. S. Employment Service's National thusiasm about the new reception center for for- Registry for Librarians and is developing a pro- eign librarians that is to be located at New York gram in machine matching of jobs and applicants State University at Oyster Bay. It will be an for librarians and libraries. Meanwhile, it is keep- orientation center for visiting librarians. ing an eye on other developments and is preparing The Nominating Committee report was pre- eventually for a Conference on Library Place- sented. Dr. Luther H. Evans will be the next ment to bring together those interested and year's chairman. knowledgeable to try and get a consensus on the ALLEENTHOMPSON best approach for librarians. BILLM. WOODS When the Committee met in New Orleans in January they spent considerable time exploring Joint Committee of Exhibit Managers the placement possibilities of the information available in TY/ho's Who in Library Sewire. It One meeting of this informal Committee was was agreed that the potential usefulness of the held in New Orleans during the January 1967 TY/IVLS data for both placement and manpower American Library Association Conference. At this resource studies was most interesting and the mat- meeting and through informal exchange, informa- ter was tabled for future consideration. tion on exhibit problems of library associations Information on the graduates and job offerinps were discussed and solutions suggested. Chair- for the February 1967 graduating class of the man of the Committee is M. Richard Wilt of University of Illinois Graduate School of Library the Catholic Library Association. Science has been sent to Hillis Griffin, and early BILL M. WOODS in March information relative to the June class will be supplied. A feasibility report should be Joint Committee on Hospital Libraries available at the meeting in January 1968. RUTH NIELANDER The February 10 meeting held at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago was chiefly devoted Joint Committee for Visiting to I) a report on the Committee's successful sponsorship of its first exhibit at the 1966 annual Foreign Librarians meeting of the American Hospital Association; 2) This Committee has met twice during the past plans for an exhibit at the 1967 meeting to be year: a brief meeting during the ALA conference in New York and a second at the International meeting. At the first meeting the accomplishments Studies and World Affairs Center, State Univer- of the Council since its inception in 1960 were re- sity of New York, Planting Fields, Long Island, viewed by Edith Rathbun, Chairman, as follows: in March 1967. "The recognition of the need for an international The latter meeting was arranged so that the nursing index, which is now an accomplished fact; Committee could observe the SUNY program and the preparation and wide distribution of the consider the possibility of using these facilities Reference Tools for Nursing list, with its recent for a referral center. Unfortunately, only a small revision; the 1963 NLN program and the 1964 representation from the Committee could attend. ANA program; exhibits at both meetings; and However, the members are presently studying re- the identification of several other needs in the ports from the meeting and are to offer the Chair- library tools for nursing field." man their comments on the tentative scheme to The Council will again sponsor a program dur- work with the Center. ing the annual meeting of the National League of MARYANGLEMYER Nursing in May as well as a booth in the exhibit ELAINEA. KURTZ area. Among the reports of the member agencies, the editor for the Cumulated Index to Nursing Literature announced that a three-year index was Documentation Abstracts, Inc. in preparation; the Yale University Nursing It is with considerable satisfaction that this re- Studies Index Project reported that v. 3. 1950-56, port to the Board is submitted by its Documenta- has been published. In the afternoon the Council tion Abstracts representatives. As the report is met with Gertrude Annan, Librarian, New York written, the final issue of Volume I is expected to Academy of Medicine and Josephine Dolan, be distributed shortly. Volume 11, no. 1, is nearly Chairman of the National League of Nursing ready for computer typesetting, and, hopefully, Committee on History Source Material, to dis- 1967 will see the publication back on schedule. cuss the problems of collecting, preserving, and The Articles of Incorporation of Documenta- recording historical material. tion Abstracts, Inc., have engendered considerable At the March meeting, plans for the Council's work on the part of many individuals over the participation in the National League of Nursing past half year, and revision will soon be sub- meetings, May 11, were reviewed; the program is mitted to the State of Delaware. The revision entitled "Library Service in the Health Sciences"; will delineate the purpose of the publication; the booth with exhibit material has been approved eliminate the provision for members, since DA is and was to be manned by Council members. A intended to be operated in the simplest fashion, program and an exhibit for the American Nurs- through a Board of Directors; clarify the tax ing Association 1968 meeting in Dallas was dis- status under Section 501(C) (3) of the Internal cussed. Further comments were made on historical Revenue Code; resolve Board representation; and collections, regional collections in nursing; it was introduce the opportunity of other organizations decided to have the fall 1967 meeting jointly being represented in due time. with the NLN Committee on Historical Source As of May 1, 1967, 517 subscriptions had been Material. entered for Documentation Abstracts. The cash The problem of a directory for nurses was as- balance of the organization had reached $5981.19 signed to the October 1967 agenda. The Cana- and it appears that no contribution from the spon- dian Nurses Association was formally invited to soring organizations will be necessary this year. join the Council. The chairman for fall 1967 is The following individuals make up the Board Susan Taylor of American Nurses Foundation; of Documentation Abstracts as currently con- secretary is Mrs. Pauline Vallencourt, American stituted: C. Conrad, Chairman, DCL; J. Kuney, Library Association Representative. Vice-chairman, ADI; J. Werdel, Secretary, AD1 ; R. Snyder, Treasurer, SLA; M. Schoengold, SLA; L. Starker, DCL. Your representatives have entered into the work International Federation of of the Board of Documentation Abstracts with enthusiasm and it is our hope that the progress of Library Associations the publication will be so evident during the up- No annual report coming months that future reports to the Board can be even more brief, factual, and favorable. Committee on Library Binding No annual report Interagency Council on Library Tools for Nursing Joint Committee on The Council met twice in 1966-67, October 28 Government Publications and March 6, in New York City. This representative attended the second. but not the first No annual report. Joint Committee on of the Philippines and Miss Katalee Sombatsiri of Thailand, who returned to their homes in Sep- Union List of Serials tember 1966; Miss Marilyn Chapman from One of the responsibilities of the Joint Com- Guiana and Miss Nilawan Indageha from Thai- mittee is to make certain that New Serial Titles land, who arrived to begin their programs in Sep- is fulfilling its role as a continuing supplement to tember 1966; and Mr. Yoshitomi Okazaki, who the L'niou List of Serials. It had previously been arrived in April 1967. decided that a survey would be an excellent Efforts have been made to promote participa- method for obtaining this information. The Joint tion in the program, because a drastic cut in funds Committee received a grant from the Council on supplied by the Department of State, and a con- Library Resources to support a consumer sunrey current lessening of the Department's efforts to and study of New Serial Titles. Dr. A. F. Kuhl- push the program, have resulted in a lack of man was appointed to conduct this survey. A nominations. The steps taken have included an prospectus and a questionnaire were sent to all article in the October 1966 issue of Special Li- subscribers to and participants in New Serial braries; a letter to Dr. Charles Frankel of the Tit1e.r. Dr. Kuhlrnan requested additional infor- Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at mation from the Executive Director of SLA con- the Department of State, and a number of per- cerning nonparticipating special libraries. Your sonal letters from the SLA Representatil-es to the representntil-e was asked to read and comment on Committee to USIA personnel abroad whom they the preliminary draft. The final report is to be know personally. The net effect of these activities presented to the Joint Committee at its meeting is not, so far, encouraging. We hope that SLA in June. will take an active part in promoting this pro- The second project which has been claiming gram, especially since foreign special librarians the interest of the Joint Committee is the work of ha\e been among the outstanding participants. the Subcommittee on the World List of Serials. MARYANGLEMYER At the meeting in January, Dr. F. H. Wagman, ELAINEAUSTIN KURTZ Chairman of the Subcommittee, presented a Proposal for a Serials Data Program. The over-all objectix-e of a serials data program is to create a Library of Congress for computer-based central store of data on all known Public Law 480 serials. A serials data program of this scope would be a national and international undertaking. A No annual report. full scale serials program can only be achieved at the end of several phases. The Subcommittee sug- Liaison Committee of Librarians gests four phases: I, Preliminary Design; 11, Re- duction to Practice; 111, Pilot Running and For the first time the three liaison committees Planning for Conversion; IV, Conversion to and of the Library of Congress met at the same time Implementation of Total Program. The proposal for two days in March 1967. Bill M. Woods and presented set forth a plan to carry out phase I. Dr. F. E. McKenna represented SLA on the Li- The Subcommittee recommended that the Joint brarians Liaison Committee. The other liaison Committee approre phase I of the program. The committees are for the sciences and for the Joint Committee has given its approval and humanities. Such annual meetings provide for ex- funds for it are being solicited. change of information between the Librarian of Irms SMITH Congress with his staff and the representatives of the special communities that depend on the Li- brary of Congress. Joint Libraries Committee on F. E. MCKENNA Copyright No annual report. National Academy of Sciences- National Research Council, Joint Operating Group (ADI-SLA) Office of Critical Tables, EDITOR'SNOTE: By concurrent action of the SLA Advisory Board Board of Directors and the AD1 Council, the The Office of Critical Tables has just published Joint Operating Group has been discontinued. its 1966 revision of "Continuing Numerical Data Close liaison between the two organizations will Projects-A Survey and Analysis." It describes be continued through means of special representa- fifty United States and foreign projects actively tion. engaged in the compilation of data, and lists their issued compilations. It is a very useful reference Jointly Sponsored Program for for library accessions, because it delineates the Foreign Librarians subject area limitations of each project and its publications more clearly than the project's title During the past year there have been a total may imply. of five grantees in the U. S.: Miss Ruperta Reyes Dr. Rossini in his preface says that "In the foreseeable future, a sufficient number of pro- panels, recommends priorities and the creation of grams should be created to provide compilations new areas of activity and gives advice on such for all significant areas of the physical sciences. matters as data evaluation procedure, usage of When that state of affairs comes about, the ICT symbols, units, and terminology, and other de- will have been revised in the manner envisioned tails involved in the presentation of data com- by the Office of Critical Tables when it was estab- pilations. The Data Program is expected to grow lished in 1957." rapidly during the next few years. Unfortunately the book's index will be some- The best source for learning of new U. S. and thing of a disappointment. That reference data for foreign compilation centers and new publications alkaloids are available is not shown in the index that give numerical values for reference data is the under alkaloids or drugs, but under the first letter National Bureau of Standards NSRDS news sec- of the title of the publication "Spectral Data and tion in the monthly NBS Terhr~icalNewr Bulletin. Physical Constants of Alkaloids." One is advised Monthly scanning of that Bulletin's "NSRDS to scan the contents when searching for the ex- News" by a member of the library staff is highly istence of reference data on a class of material. recommended. The writer confesses to a lack of proper repre- If SLA adopts a news organ plus technical sentation for SLA. She should have thought about journal publications policy, it is suggested that the indexing of that book and offered to comment OSRD might be asked if its three-page "NSRD on it from the reference librarian's viewpoint be- News" could be regularly reprinted in one fore publication. or the other of the two Association serials. In the During the American Chemical Society Septem- meantime perhaps Sci-Tech News would like to ber 1966 Meeting the Division of Chemical Lit- inquire about doing so. erature's Symposium on Compilation of Data on As a member of the Advisory Board of OCT a Chemical and Physical Properties of Substances was memorandum from the Director of the Ofhce of attended. The historical and organizational back- Critical Tables with a copy of the Office's 1966-67 ground of the data compilation program in the annual report to the National Research Council, National Bureau of Standards and the compilation an agency of the National Academy of Sciences, projects in the United Kingdom and U. S. engi- the copy of the book mentioned above. and an neering societies were described. information sheet concerning the recent formation The activities in six numerical data centers in of the international Committee on Data for the United States were detailed by personnel from Science and Technology (CODATA) under the the centers. In general the procedure is to assem- auspices of the International Council of Scientific ble all available data from literature, industry and Unions was received in March 1967. The memo- universities, critically evaluate the procedures randum solicited comments on the general prob- by which they were obtained, plot the best results lem of providing evaluated numerical data for to ascertain the best numerical values and if possi- science and technology, and suggestions regarding ble check them against a theoretically calculated the collection and selection of information for the numerical value obtained from other properties enlarged international "Survey and Analysis" of determined with more exact and modern methods critical compilations of evaluated numerical data of measurement. by CODATA. In the case of several substances plots of all The Annual Report for July 1965-June 1966 the numerical values available for a certain prop- of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical erty of each material were presented. They Technology of the National Research Council graphically illustrated the variation in numerical was another item received during the past year. values our literature searchers can produce. and It appears that in this report the important in- therefore the great need for just such critical formation for SLA members comes more often in evaluations as are being carried out in these data the reporting of work done in the National Stand- compilation centers. ard Reference Data System than in the Office of All of the centers are not equipped or staffed Critical Tables. to answer requests for information. Some must Issuance of a new edition of OCT's comprehen- restrict their activity to data evaluation or data sive detailed Consolidated Index has been aban- production. When numerical data are ascertained doned by OCT as beyond its capabilities and they will be published. Those attending were funds. It indexed, by indhidual substance and strongly urged to submit to the centers all nu- specific property, the numerical values given in publications so far issued. Ultimately the NSRD merical property data their organizations produce Program map undertake an equivalent. The next in order to assist in the el-aluations and to increase issue of the Directory of Conti?~uirc,qA'un~e~iral the amount of available data. Data P~ojert.r will not be under OCT auspices. but The NBS Office of Standard Reference Data put together by the Central Office of CODATA, (OSRD) welcomes requests for specific data that with OCT supplying input from the U. S. Other in- users cannot find published. formative references SLA members will find useful The Executive Committee of the Office of are also listed below. Critical Tables. as Review Committee for the National Standards Reference Data Program. to- 1. National Academy of Sciences-National Re- gether with seven subject area scientific advisory search Council. Continuing Numerical Data Projects, A Survey and Analysis, NAS-NRC Pub- The meetings were held April 26-28 at Miami lication No. 1463. The Academy, Washington, Beach, Florida. D. C. 20418, 1966. $5.00 The major objective of the Convention was to 2. U. S. National Bureau of Standards. Na- present information about microfilm systems at tional Standard Reference Data System, Status Re- various levels of sophistication and also to indi- port, April 1966, NBS Technical Note 289. GPO, cate the requirements of such systems. Two gen- Washington, D. C. 20402, June 1, 1966. 504 eral sessions and twelve seminar workshops were 3. --- . Information Handling in the National held. Standard Reference Data System, NBS Technical Papers presented at the first session described Note 290. GPO, Washington, D. C. 20402, July innovative systems making use of microfilm in 1, 1966. 25C information retrieval, transmission of engineering 4. --- . National Standard Reference Data documents, and computer output. Papers given at System, Plan of Operation, NSRDS-NBS 1. GPO, the second session covered new technology and Washington, D. C. 20402, December 1964. 156 the state-of-the-art review. Panelists spoke at each 5. "NSRDS Publication Summary." Technical of the workshop seminars on subjects dealing News Bulletin, NBS, vol. 50, no. 12, Dec. 1966. specifically with recording, viewing, hardcopy ANNEL. NICHOLSON printout, and selection of systems. One seminar discussed microforms in archives, libraries, and education. National Librarv Week This vear for the first time eleven "users" showed their microdocument systems. This af- The Representative continued a liaison between forded an opportunity to discuss the systems that National Library Week program staff and SLA had been developed to provide information in a Headquarters and membership by mutual exchange particular area. Your Representative expressed of information. Releases were prepared for Special the hope that this exhibit area would be expanded Libraries concerning the 1967 program and at future NMA meetings and, also, that a micro- memoranda were prepared for bulletin editors film copy of the applications displayed be made and Chapter Presidents, etc. available at a nominal sum. Through Helen Lee, NLW Publicity Director, One of the highlights of this meeting was the L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress, wrote international session, the second meeting of the the 1967 article for Chapter and Division bulletin International Micrographic Congress. Other mem- editors and SLA members to use in house organs. bers, in addition to the United States, are Aus- SLA Headquarters reported an unusually high tralia, Canada, France, England, Germany, Italy, number of requests for this story. Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Na- As a special project designed to work toward tional associations are being formed in Austria, accomplishment of SLA's goals for 1970 (lb and Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand, and the Union 2 ). the Representative arranged an early-bird of South Africa. It is expected that they will also shopping spree-fashion show with Arnold Con- become members of the group. This points up the stable's for the 1967 Convention. This event was need for international standards for microfilm and discussed with Helen Lee, who was interested in equipment. It also indicates the future possibilities publicizing special librarians modeling in the for fast exchange of information world wide. fashion show. One of NLW's areas of emphasis A dynamic keynote address was made by Wil- this year was "the recruitment, education and ef- liam H. Gove, international marketing consultant. fective placement of professional librarians." As The title was "Value Added." His statement you know, NLW is a year-round program cul- was that we should give something more than is minating in an annual "week" designed for maxi- required to every transaction: give an importance, mum media placement. an appreciation, even an idea, but something more At the request of the President, who felt there that adds worth or value to the transaction. This would be a possible conflict of the event with the idea can certainly be applied to information trans- Annual Business Meeting, this program was can- actions as well as to the direct buyer-seller re- celled by the Convention Chairman. lationships he described. The Representative expresses the sincere hope The National Microfilm Association expects to that there will be sufficient members recruited by expand its activities by conducting special work- some other means by 1970 to take advantage of shops and seminars for users. To further this ac- the Bylaw changes enacted at this meeting. tivity it has created the office of Manager of PAULINELYBECK Services and increased its staff. In a paper given at the 1960 NMA Convention this Representative National Microfilm Association concluded by proposing that a Consumers' In- formation Bureau be established and should pro- The 16th Annual Convention of the National vide the following: Microfilm Association was an outstanding meeting. This was due to the high interest level of the 1. Standards for judging the quality of micro- papers presented, the exhibits displayed, and the reproductions for library use. international aspect of the concurrent meeting of 2. Aid in the progressive planning for microre- the Second International Micrographic Congress. productions in the library. 3. Consideration of the library market, its needs Subcommittee PH5-1 reported on a draft for the and user preferences. revision of specifications for 16mm and 35mm 4. Improvements in presenting available products Microfilms on Reels or in Strips, PH5.3-1958. to the library consumer. This Subcommittee also reported on a draft for 5. Liaison with committees of library associations. the revision of the standard Practice for Storage 6. Organization of informative discussions and ex- of Microfilm, PH5.4-1957. hibits for local chapters of special libraries. Subcommittee PH5-2 reported on the proposal 7. Demonstrations of library applications at meet- for a microfiche standard. The basis for this USA ings of professional but non-library organizations. standard will be the National Microfilm Associa- This would have a direct influence on library tion Specification M-1-1963 Microfiche Standard services. Specification for Documents 8% by 11 inches and smaller. Some changes are to be made in order The Representati~econtinues to be concerned to reconcile it with the COSATI and DoD speci- with these items, and welcomes comments or sug- fications. gestions from the membership. Subcommittee PHS-3, of which this Repre- LORETTA J. KIERSKY sentative is also a member, met four times this year. It has been concerned with studies on test methods to determine the aging characteristics of United Nations Nongovernmental paper. The work of several other groups in this Organizations Observer area, such as the William J. Barrow Laboratory, has been studied and found to be of interest to Invitdons to briefing sessions at the United the members. A task group of this Subcommittee Nations are received regularly by the Observer has been studying the preparation and use of a and, as in the past, cover a wide range of dis- proposed chart which might be useful for check- cussions of indirect concern to the Association. ing various characteristics of printout from hard- The Observer will attend the Annual OPI/ copy printers. NGO Conference June 7 and 8. The theme for Liaison activities have been carried on with this conference will be "Preparation for the In- other committees or groups concerned with re- ternational Year for Human Rights." lated areas of interest. The Representative wel- Since the United Nations represents one of the comes comments from the membership relating areas of legitimate interest to the Association's to standards in this area. members. I recommend that we reaffirm our sup- LORETTAJ. KIERSKY port of the United Nations by continuing the appointment of a Nongovernmental Organizations Observer. Sectional Committee on Library Work VIVIAND. HEWITT and Documentation, 2-39 During the past year the scope of 2-39's respon- United States Book Exchange sibilities has been expanded by vote of the Sec- tional Committee and with the approval of the No annual report. Council of National Library Associations, its sponsor, to encompass certain aspects of publishing as related to the library field. The new title United States of America will be Standardization in the Field of Library Standards Institute Work, Documentation and Related Publirhing P~actices;its scope will cover "Standards for con- Sectional Committee on Photographic cepts, definitions, terminology, letters and signs. Reproduction of Documents, PH-5 and methods in the fields of library work, in the The United States of America Standards Insti- preparation and utilization of documents, atld in tute was formed at the end of August 1966. It the aspects of p~bliihi?2~~that affect libuars supersedes the American Standards Association methodr and u.re." and will have a broader policy and larger repre- In August 1966 the American Standards Asso- sentation. It will encourage the development of ciation. of which 2-39 is a Sectional Committee, needed standards by competent organizations, in- was superseded by the United States of America crease participation in international standardiza- Standards Institute, which will now be the U. S. tion programs, and emphasize the interests of the member body of the International Standards Or- consumer. ganization. The reorganization was required to This Committee met twice this year. It heard meet the challenges of the present era. reports of its Subcommittees and a report on the The Eleventh Plenary Meeting of Technical meeting of Technical Committee 46, Subcommittee Committee 46 of the International Standards Or- I of the International Organization for Standard- ganization, with which 2-39 is affiliated. is to be ization. Among items of interest reported on at held June 24-27 in Moscow, and a delegation of the latter meeting was the incompatibility of the four are to attend, under a grant from the Na- French proposal on microfiche with that of the tional Science Foundation. to include Dr. Jerrold U.S.A. and the U.K. This will probably result Orne, of the University of North Carolina Li- in two separate documents relating to microfiche. braries, Chairman; Mrs. Anne J. Richter. of the R. R. Bowker Company; James L. Wood, of been approved by 2-39 and is awaiting final ac- Chemical Abstracts; and Robert Frase, of the tion by the USASI review board. American Book Publishers Council. Dr. John Rothman's SC/12 which is revising The sixteen subcommittees of 2-39 have had a the Indexing Standard (239.4-1959) has held very active year. Mrs. Henriette D. Avram, of the regular meetings and, of eight proposed sections, Library of Congress, has headed the SC/1 on draft texts have been approved for five. The com- Machine Input Records. With the support of a mittee's aim is to provide a revised standard special grant from the National Science Founda- equally applicable to conventional and machine tion and the Council on Library Resources to indexing systems. provide research assistance, a report on Data Ele- SC/13, whose scope now colers Trade Catalogs ments in books, serials, reports and articles will and Directories, chaired by Dr. Karl Baer, has pre- be published by June 1. pared a working paper for a Standard on Library In July 1966 the National Clearinghouse for Directories for consideration at the Moscow meet- Periodical Title Word Abbreviations was estab- ing. lished to provide continuing standard abbrevia- Other subcommittees actively at work are SC/4 tions to supplenlent ASA-2.39.5 published in Bibliographic References, Dr. Maurice Tauber, 1963. A revised word abbreviation list covering chairman; SC/6 Abstracts, Dr. John H Gribbin, some five thousand periodical title words or word chairman; SC/8 Proof Corrections, Bruce Young, roots was issued in the fall of 1966 and quar- chairman ; SC/15 Filing. Dr. Theodore Hines, tcrly supplements beginning March 1967 will keep chairman; and SC/16 Bookbinding, Stephen Ford, the list up to date. The Clearinghouse, which is chairman. funded for a three-year period by the National Dr. Jerrold Orne, Chairman of 2-39, has con- Science Foundation, is located at the Chemical tinued his close cooperation with various gobern- Abstracts Service in Columbus. under the super- ment agencies concerned with standardization and vision of James L. Wood, Chairman of SC/3. has coordinated plans for the U. S. participation The Library and Publishing Statistics Subcom- at the ISO/TC-46 meeting in Moscow, holding a mittee, under the chairmanship of Dr. Frank L. meeting of all subcommittee chairmen on May 15. Schick, has completed both the draft of a Library In addition, two subcommittees which he chairs, Statistics Standard, based on "The Handbook of SC/5 Transliteration and SC/9 Terminology, Library Statistics" (ALA 1966) and a Publishing have prepared material for the Moscow meeting. Statistic Standard. These will be circulated for The annual meeting of the Sectional Committee final vote of the Sectional Committee shortly. will be held this fall at the call of the secretary, The new UNESCO questionnaire, recently mailed Harold Oatfield of Charles Pfizer and Company. to member states, reflects the recommendations ANNEJ RICHTER resulting from the ISO/TC-46/IFLA Statistics Conference held at the Hague in 1966 under Dr. Sectional Committee on Library Schick's chairmanship. The revised Standard on Periodicals: Format Equipment and Supplies, 2-85 and Arrangement (formerly 239.1 Reference Data No meeting of this Committee was called dur- and Arrangement of Periodicals) prepared by ing this vear. SC/10 of which Anne J. Richter is chairman has

"I'm ready, let's start the meeting" seems to be Robert Krupp's message to the Convention as he awaits developments in the Commodore's Windsor Terrace. SLA Official Directory 1967-1968

Association Officers CINCINNATI:Eleanor Scott, Miami Valley Lab- PRESIDENT oratories, Procter & Gamble Company, P. 0. Box 39175, Cincinnati, Ohio 45239 Mrs. Elizabeth R. Usher, Chief, Art Reference Li- brary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth CLEVELAND:Julian R. Larson, Research Librarian, Avenue and 82nd Street, New York, New York Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, P. 0. Box 31, 10028 Barberton, Ohio 44203 COLORADO:Jack M. McCormick, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P. 0. Box 1262, Herbert S. White, Executive Director, NASA Fa- Boulder, Colorado 80302 cility, Documentation Incorporated, P.O. Box 33, College Park, Maryland 20740 CONNECTICUTVALLEY: Mrs. Margaret E. C. Howland, The Travelers Research Center, Inc., 250 Constitution Plaza, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Charles Stevens, Project Intrex, Massachusetts H. DAYTON: Theodore J. Nunn, Jr., Technical Li- Institute of Technology, Room 10-403, Cambridge, brary, Building 30, National Cash Register Com- Massachusetts 02139 pany. Dayton, Ohio 45409 CHAIRMAN-ELECT,ADVISORY COUNCIL GREATERST. LOUIS: Harriet Steuernagel. Li- Mrs. Charlotte S. Mitchell, Library, Miles Labora- brarian, School of Dentistry, Washington Univer- tory, Inc., Elkhart, Indiana 46514 sity, 4559 Scott Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110 TREASURER HEARTOF AMERICA:Mrs. Billie Struble, Refer- Jean Deuss, Research Library, Federal Reserve ence Librarian, Business and Technical Service, Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Post Office Wichita Public Library, 223 S. Main Street, Station, New York, New York 10045 Wichita, Kansas 67218 ILLINOIS:Mrs. Janice B. Bentley, Librarian, Con- DIRECTORS tinental National American Group, 310 S. Michi- Mrs. Theodora Andrews, Pharmacy Library, Pur- gan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60604 due University, Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (Serve- .?dry) INDIANA:Louise C. Lage. Chief Librarian, Eli Lilly and Company, 740 S. Alabama Street. In- Mrs. Gloria M. Evans, Librarian, Production & dianapolis, Indiana 46206 Engineering Division, Parke Davis & Company, Detroit, Michigan 48232 LOUISIANA:Mrs. Exum N. Estrada, Librarian, Texas Eastern Library, Texas Eastern Transmis- Phoebe F. Hayes. Director, Bibliographical Center sion Corporation, P. 0. Box 1612, Shreveport, for Research, 1357 Broadway, Denver, Colorado Louisiana 71 102 80203 MICHIGAN:Phyllis Sears, Chrysler Corporation, Charlotte Georgi, Librarian, Graduate School of Engineering Library, P. 0. Box 1118, Detroit, Business Administration, University of California, Michigan 48231 Los Angeles, California 90024 MINNESOTA:Harvey G. Johnson, Assistant Librar- Efren W. Gonzalez, Bristol-Meyers Products, 225 ian, Central Research Library, General Mills, 2010 Long Avenue, Hillside, New Jersey 07207 E. Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55421 Ruth Nielander, Librarian, Kemper Insurance. MONTREAL:Hilda I. McLean, Medical Librarian, 4750 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois 60640 Medical Library, Royal Victoria Hospital, 687 IMMEDIATEPAST-PRESIDENT Pine Avenue W., Montreal 2, Quebec, Canada Dr. F. E. McKenna, 148 West 10th Street, New NEW JERSEY:Don T. Ho, Library Supervisor, York, N. Y. 10014 Technical Information Libraries, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 NEWYORK: Janet M. Rigney, Assistant Librarian, Chapter Presidents Library, Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 58 ALABAMA:Kenda Carolyn Wise, Reference Li- East 68th Street, New York, N. Y. 10021 brarian, Business Library, University of Alabama, NORTH CAROLINA:Charles E. Kip, Chemstrand Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 Research Center, Box 731, Durham, North Caro- BALTIMORE:Martha Ann Peters, 400 Cathedral lina 27702 St., Baltimore, Maryland 21202 OKLAHOMA:David R. Weiser, Manager, Techni- BOSTON: Loyd R. 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Box 11472, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15238 CHEMISTRY:Mrs. Elizabeth W. Tapia Kraus, Li- PRINCETON-TRENTON:William H. Fisher, Librar- brarian, Kodak Park Works, Research Laboratory, ian, Western Electric Company, Inc., Engineering Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y. 14604 Research Center, P. 0. Box 900, Princeton, New DOCUMENTATION:Herbert Holzbauer, Assistant Jersey 08540 Librarian, U. S. Department of the Interior, Wash- RIO GRANDE:Jack Key, Librarian, Medical Li- ington, D. C. 20240 brary, Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education ENGINEERING:Robert E. Fidoten, Pittsburgh Plate & Research, 5200 Gibson Boulevard, S.E., Albu- Glass Company, P. 0. Box 11472, Pittsburgh, querque, New Mexico Pennsylvania 15238 SAN DIEGO: Michael J. Sadoski, Reference Li- GEOGRAPHYAND MAP: Muriel 11. Parry, 2800 brarian, Navy Electronics Laboratory Library, Point Quebec Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20008 Lorna, San Diego, California 92152 INSURANCE:Mrs. Annette H. 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Bell Houston, Texas 77006 PUBLICATIONSAND PUBLIC RELATIOSS TORONTO:Steven Bene, Central Library, Room ASSISTANT 713, Ontario Dept. of Economics & Development, Marguerite J. von Geyr 950 Yonge St., Toronto 5, Ontario, Canada DIRECTOR,FISCAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT UPSTATENEW YORK:Paula M. Strain, Librarian, Margaret Price IBM Corporation, Owego, New York 13827 OFFICESERVICES SUPERVISOR VIRGINIA:John D. Sharp, Librarian, New Products Mrs. Ellen Maky Division Library, American Tobacco Company. 400 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, Virginia Outside New York 23224 SCIENTIFICMEETINGS EDITOR WASHINGTON,D. C.: Dr. Madeleine J. Wilkins, Mrs. W. Roy Holleman National Clearing House for Mental Health In- 2069 Sea View Avenue, Del Mar, Cali formation, 5454 Wisconsin Avenue, Barlow Build- fornia ing, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20015 TECHNICALBOOK REVIEWINDEX EDITOR WISCONSIN: Joseph Fischer, Metallurgical Li- Anthony A. Martin brarian, Ladish Company, 5481 S. 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New Jersey 07801 Road, Garden City, New York 11535 MUSEUM:Mrs. Margaret Zorach, Art Librarian. AWARDS:Mrs. Jean A. Guasco, Chief Librarian. Art Reference Libram, Brooklyn Museum, Eastern McGraw-Hill, Inc., Library-22, 330 West 42nd Parkway. Brooklyn, New York 11238 Street, New York, New York 10036 NEWSPAPER:Mrs. Josephine R. Johnson, Head BYLAWS:Margaret L. Pflueger, Assistant Chief. Librarian, Courier-Journal Er Louirville Times. Technical Services Branch, Division of Technical Itjc.. Library, 525 West Broadway, Louisville, Information Extension, U.S. Atomic Energy Com- Kentucky 40202 mission. Oak Ridge. Tennessee 37830 NUCLFARSCIENCE: Lee F. Parman, Manager. CHAPTER RELATIONS:Joseph M. Simmons, Li- Technical Libraries Department, Sandia Corpora- brarian, Chicago Sun Tinzes Daily Neujs, Sun tion, Sandia Base. Albuquerque. New Mexico Times Plaza, 401 North Wabash Avenue, Chi- 8711 5 cago, Illinois 6061 1

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Budington, Librarian, Alleen Thompson, Library 080, General Electric The John Crerar Library, 35 West 33rd Street, Company, Atomic Power Equipment Department, Chicago, Illinois 60616 175 Curtner Avenue, San Jose, California 95125 NONSERIALPUBLICATIONS: William A. Wilkin- STATISTICS:Stephen John Kees, The Library, Ni- son, Technical Librarian, Information Center, agara College of Applied Arts and Technology, Monsanto Chemical Company, 800 North Lind- Box 248, Welland, Ontario, Canada bergh Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri TECHNICALBOOK REVIEW INDEX: Jeannine PERSONNEL:Mrs. Shirley F. Harper, Librarian, Kreyenbuhl, Librarian. Chemical Division-Na- The A. G. Bush Library, The University of Chi- trium Plant, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, cago, 225 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 P. 0. Box 191. New Martinsville, West Virginia 26155 PLACEMENTPOLICY: Ralph E. Swinburne, Jr., Librarian, Technical Information Library, Room TELLERS:Marilyn Modern, Member Information ?A-165, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, Services, American Association of Advertising New Jersey 07931 Agencies, 200 Park Avenue, New York. New York PLANNING: Robert E. Fidoten, Manager, Infor- mation Services, Glass Research Center, Pitts- TRANSLATIONSACTIVITIES: Roger Martin. Chief burgh Plate Glass Company, Box 10.172, Pitts- Librarian, Shell Development Company, I400 burgh, Pennsylvania 15238 53rd Street, Emeryville, California 94608 PROFESSIONALSTANDARDS: Ruth S. Leonard, As- H. W. WILSON COMPANYCHAPTER AWARD: sociate Professor, School of Library Science, Sim- Gretchen D. Little, Librarian, Atlas Library, At- mons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, Massa- las Chemical Industries, Inc., Wilmington. Dela- chusetts 021 15 u'are 19899 PUBLICATIONSPROGRAM: Robert G. Krupp, Chief, Science and Technology Division. New York Special Committees Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, New York 10018 ADVISORYCOMMITTEE TO ELIZABETHFERGUSON ON A BOOK: DESCRIPTIVEBIBLIOGRAPHIES ORIGI- P~JRLICRELATIONS: Russell Shank, Smithsonian NATED BY SPECIALLIBRARIES: Elizabeth Ferguson, Institution Libraries, MNH Room 22, Washington, Librarian, Institute rf Life Insurance, 277 Park D. C. 20560 Avenue, New York, New York 10017 PUBLISHERRELATIONS: Ellis Mount, Engineering CASE STUDY: Betsy Ann Olive, Librarian, Grad- Library, Columbia University, 422 Southwest uate School of Business and Public Administra- hludd, New York, New York 10027 tion, Cornell University, Ithaca. New York RECRUITMENT:Margaret E. hiadden, Librarian, 14850 Technical Information Center, Central Reports CODE OF ETHICS: Rose L. Vormelker, Kent State R229, Monsanto Company, 800 North Lindbergh University, Kent, Ohio 44240 Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63166 COPYRIGHTLAW REVISION:Chester M. Lewis, REPROGRAPHY:Loretta J. Kiersky, Central Re- General Services Manager. New York Tivzr.~.229 search Library, Airco, Murray Hill, New Jersey West 4?rd Street, New York. New York 10016 07971 RESEARCH:Mrs. Glenora M. Rossell, Assistant Director for Planning and Administrative Services, Special Representatives Lniversity of Pittsburgh Libraries, Pittsburgh, AMERICANASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT Pennsylvania 15213 OF SCIENCE:Dr. F. E. McKenna, 148 West 10th RESOLUTIONSREFERENCE: Margaret R. Anderson, Street. New York, New York 10014 Chief Librarian, Science Center Library, North AMERICANASSOCIATION OF COLLEGESOF PHAR- America Aviation Company, 1049 Camino Dos MACY; JOINT COMMITTEEON PHARMACYCOL- Rios, Thousand Oaks, California 71360 LEGE LIBRARIES:Gertrude L. 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Snyder, Director of Libraries. NO, 800 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washing- Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia. ton, D. C. Pennsylvania 19104 AMERICANLIBRARY ASSOCIATION-ASSOCIATION Morris Schoengold, Technical Library, Esso Re- & OF HOSPITALAND ~NSTITUTIONALLIBRARIES, search Engineering Company, P. 0. Box 51. JOINT COMMITTEEON REVISIONOF HOSPITAL Linden, New Jersey 07036 LIBRARYSTANDARDS: Mrs. Barbara C. Johnson. ~NTERACENCYCOUNCIL ON LIBRARYTOOLS FOR Director, Department of Libraries, Harper Hos- NURSING:Joan Titley, Chief Librarian, Medical pital, 3825 Bush Street, Detroit, Michigan 48201 School Library, University of Louisville, 101 West Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 ALA COMMISSIONON A NATIONALPLAN FOR LIBRARYEDUCATION: Russell Shank, Smithsonian INTERNATIONALFEDERATION OF LIBRARYASSO- Institution Libraries, MNH Room 22, Washington, CIATIONS: Dr. Karl A. Baer, Chief Librarian, Na- D. C. 20560 tional Housing Center Library, 1625 L Street. N.W., Washington, D. C. 20006 ALA REFERENCESERVICE DIVISION INTERLI- BRARY LOAN COMMITTEE:James C. Andrews, Li- Donald Wasson, Librarian, Council on Foreign brary, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Relations, Inc., 58 E. 68th St.. New York, New Cass Axenue, Argonne, Illinois 60440 York 10021 ALA LIBRARYTECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ADVISORY JOINT COMMITTEEON UNIONLISTS OF SERIALS: COMMITTEE:Don T. Ho, Supervisor, Technical Idris Smith, Head, Business & Technology De- Information Libraries, Bell Telephone Labora- partment, Kansas City Public Library, 311 East tories, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64108 JOINT LIBRARIESCOMMITTEE ON COPYRIGHT: ALA STATISTICS COORDINATINGCOMMITTEE: Chester M. Lewis, General Services Manager, The Stephen John Kees, The Library, Niagara College New York Tines, 229 West 43rd Street, New of Applied Arts and Technology, Box 248, Wel- York, New York 10036 land, Ontario, Canada JOINTLYSPONSORED PROGRAM FOR FOREIGNL1- COUNCILOF NATIONALLIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS: BRARIANS: Mary Anglemyer, 2035 Trumbull Ter- Dr. Frank E. McKenna, 148 West 10th Street, race, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20011 New York, New York 10014 Mrs. Elaine A. Kurtz, Associate Executive Direc- CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEOF EXHIBIT MAN- tor, U. S. Book Exchange, Inc., 3335 Vee Street, AGERS:Executive Director, Special Libraries Asso- N.E., Washington, D. C. 20018 ciation, 235 Park Avenue South, New York, New LIBRARYOF CONGRESSLIAISON COMMIITEE OF York 10003 LIBRARIANS:Mrs. Elizabeth R. Usher, SLA Presi- CNLA JOINT COMMITTEE ON HOSPITAL LI- dent, Chief, Art Reference Library, The Metro- BRARIES:Mrs. Barbara C. 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CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEFOR VISITINGFOREIGN UNITED STATESOF AMERICASTANDARDS INSTI- LIBRARIANS:Mrs. Elaine A. Kurtz, Associate TUTE, SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONOF DOCUMENTSPH-5: Loretta J. Library Supervisor, Technical Information Li- Kiersky, Librarian, Central Research Laboratory, braries, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Holmdel, Airco, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07971 New Jersey 07733 UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICASTANDARDS INSTI- UNITEDSTATES BOOK EXCHANGE:Elizabeth Fer- TUTE, SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON LIBRARYWORK guson, Librarian, Institute of Life Insurance, 277 AND DOCUMENTATION2-39: Mrs. Anne J. Park Avenue, New York, New York 10022 Richter, R. R. Bowker Company, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036 IJNITEDSTATES OF AMERICASTANDARDS INSTI- ASSOCIATIONWITNESS: Ireta E. Burgess, Li- TUTE, SECTIONAL COMMITTEEON LIBRARY brarian, Ford, Bacon & Davis, 2 Broadway, New EQUIPMENTAND SUPPLIES2-85: Don T. Ho, York, New York.

George H. G inader Director

7 EORGE HALL GINADERhas been appointed Executive Director of Special Libraries G Association effective September 11, 1967. Born in Buffalo, New York, George grew up in Warren, Pennsylvania. He attended Allegheny College for his undergraduate degree (B.A., history) and gained his M.S. in library science at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia (1964). Before attending Drexel, he was employed in the retailing field (Lord & Taylor, New York, and John Wanamaker, Philadelphia) ; in the insurance field as job analyst in the Insurance Company of North America; and as acting curator of the Thomas McKean Automobile Reference Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Since graduation from Drexel, George has been located jobwise in the Wall Street area of New York City. His first position was as head librarian of the Chamber of Com- merce of the State of New York. He then moved to the New York Stock Exchange, where as chief librarian he implemented a program putting all the existing annual reports and SEC records of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange on microfilm. A personable bachelor, George has proved tenacious, thorough, and conscientious in his SLA employments and deployments: i.e., he has served as head of the New York Chapter Directory Committee (11th edition Directory soon to be published), as editor of the Advertising and Marketing Division's publication, What's New, as Vice-chairman of the Business and Finance Group, New York Chapter, and as a member of the SLA Tellers Committee. All of us in SLA extend to George Ginader our heartiest congratulations and warmest best wishes for a bright and enterprising future as Executive Director of Special Libraries Association. LOUISESTOOPS Public Relations Library U.S. Steel Corporation Bill M. Woods SLA Executive Director

Blackstone-Shelburne, N. Y.

HE APPOINTMENT OF Bill M. Woods as the Association's fourth full-time Executive T Secretary* was announced during the Fiftieth Anniversary Convention of the Special Libraries Association. Mr. Woods took up his duties at the Association's New York office in August 1959; in 1963 he was named Executive Director. He has been a SLA member since he received his B.S. in library science from the University of Illinois in 1947. Undergraduate and graduate studies in both geography and library science had laid the foundations for Mr. Woods' earlier professional positions as map and geography librarian at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, and later as head of the Processing Section, Map Ihision, Library of Congress. After receiving a B.A. in geography and English from the Peru (Nebraska) State Teachers College in 1945, he received a B.S. in library science from the University of Illinois in 1947. Further graduate study in geography at the University of Nebraska was followed by an M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois in 1953. In 1959 Mr. Woods was the joint recipient of the Honor Award of SLA's Geography and Map Division for "outstanding contributions to the field of special librarianship." In addition to positions which he had held in the Illinois Chapter and in the Geography and Map Division, he had served as secretary of the Advisory Council as well as a member of several Association committees. Bill Woods has projected the Association's interests to many other organizations in the fields of librarianship and information science. SLA's first exhibit at an ALA Conference occurred in Cleveland in 1961 with a display of SLA's publications and services. Also in 1961 invitations were extended to representatives of the member associations of the Council of National Library Associations (CNLA) to be at SLA's Convention in San Francisco. In 1963 Association Headquarters cooperated actively with the American Man- agement Association in planning the first AMA seminars on the company library. From his election as a trustee of CNLA in 1961 through two terms as secretary-treasurer and three terms as chairman of CNLA, Mr. Woods provided active SLA representation on the Council of National Library Associations. The CNLA-sponsored Committee 2-39 on Library Work and Documentation of the USA Standards Institute also bene- fitted during his term of office as CNLA chairman. In addition to his articles on map and special librarianship, he has also served on editorial and advisory committees for: the 4th Edition of Who's Who in Library Service,

:' Mrs. Herbert Brigham, 1927-1931, first paid (part-time) Executive Secretary; Rebecca B. Rankin, 1931-1933, elected Secretary of the Executive Board, assisted by a paid employee; Elizabeth Lois Clarke, 1933-1940, Executive Secretary; Mrs. Kathleen B. Stebbins, 1940-1953, Executive Secre- tary; Marian E. Lucius, 1953-1959, Executive Secretary; Bill M. Woods, 1959-1967, Executive Secretary, later Executive Director. the Encyclopedia of Library and Znformation Science, and the Gale Research Company's series "Management Information Guides." Other activities have included trustee and secretary of METRO (the N. Y. Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency), member of the Council of the New York Library Club, treasurer of the Federation of Management Organizations, and member of the Librarians Advisory Committee of the Library of Congress. A continuing interest in education for librarianship, which began when Bill Woods was at the University of Illinois, has continued with participation as a member of the ALA Commission on a National Plan for Library Education, the Advisory Committee of the Kent (Ohio) State University Department of Library Science, and the Advisory Committee of St. John's University (Brooklyn) Congress for Librarians. On a number of occasions he has taught courses or has conducted workshops at the Graduate School of Library Science of Drexel Institute of Technology. During the past eight years the total number of pages in Special Libravie~ has been increased by about 50 per cent. News and Notes as an insert in Special Libraries has replaced the former Bulletin; and Scientific Meetings became a serial publication of the Association. New and continuing grants for the SLA Translations Center at The John Crerar Library were negotiated with both NSF and CFSTI; and in spring 1967 the Asso- ciation announced its new serial publication, Translations Register-Index. During Mr. Woods' incumbency the number of exhibitors and booths at the Associa- tion's Conventions has almost doubled. He has served as a director of the National Asso- ciation of Exhibit Managers and as Chairman of the New York Group of NAEM. DR. F. E. MCKENNA Immediate Past-President

Grace Reynolds Returns to Canada

RACE REYNOLDScame from Canada in 1962 to join the staff of SLA. Now she has G resigned and returned to Canada. This was to be expected sooner or later for her heart has deep roots in her native country. As an international association, SLA was strengthened by having her on its staff, but Grace gave us much more. She is a gracious lady, deeply dedicated to librarianship as a profession, and in promoting it she gave of herself unstintingly. It was in contacts with individual members (and really, what else is an association?) that Grace excelled. Most of her contacts may have been by mail or telephone, but always she had the happy faculty of considering matters from the point of view of the other person and responding accordingly. What could have been more important in her position as Director of Membership and Personnel Services where she dealt with persons ranging from scholarship candidates, to applicants for membership, and members of all grades? Both the employer and the librarian using the SLA Placement Service found her ever ready to help, as did also the SLA committee member who needed guidance and help with committee problems. SLA is fortunate to have had Grace Reynolds on its Headquarters staff for five years and we will miss here there, but as one of us in the special library field she is still with us and we wish her well. RALPHH. PHELPS,Director Engineering Societies Library New York LTP Reports to SLA

Typewriter Keyboard Conservation Manual Two typewriter manufacturers are offer- Manuscript and illustrations are coming the keyboard developed and approved by plete for the first in a series of pamphlets the Standard Library Typewriter Keyboard that eventually will comprise LTP's proposed Committee of the Resources and Technical manual, Conservation of Library Materials. Services Division of ALA, a committee ap- It is still too early to estimate a publication pointed at the request of LTP because of its date for the first pamphlet, to be called work with industry in developing or im- "Cleaning and Preserving Bindings and Re- proving library products. IBM's distributors lated Materials." The pamphlet, by Mrs. have available what the company calls the Carolyn Horton, describes methods of mark- "library elite element" for its Selectric type- ing disintegrating books for attention, pro- writer. Olivetti Underwood is offering what cedures for attachment of loose materials, it calls its "library and bibliographical key- and techniques for cleaning books and for board" for its electric and manual models. applying leather preservatives. It also in- When there are definite commitments from cludes an appraisal of materials used in con- additional manufacturers to market this key- servation work. board, they will be reported. This pamphlet is part of the first phase of The approved keyboard, called "ALA's a major project to produce the manual on Standard Library Bibliographical Keyboard," conservation. Also a part of Phase I is the has forty-four keys with eighty-eight char- working out of a detailed plan for the entire acters-a diagram of it was published in program, including an outline for the series the July issue of Library Technology Reports. and the selection of writers for individual pamphlets. Library Technology Reports There were three evaluations by Wil- Binding Study liam R. Hawken, LTP's consultant in docu- LTP's report to SLA in Special Libraries ment reproduction, in the July issue of the for May-June, 1967, announced the publica- Reports-one on the Filmac 400 series of tion of Development of Performame Sta~d- reader-printers for microforms, one on the avds for Binding Used in Libraries, Phase Atlantic F-66 microform reader, and the 11. During the study that produced this re- third on the SCM Coronastat photocopier. port, three provisional standards were developed-for durability, workmanship, and New Project openability-as well as two testing devices for measuring the performance of binding. The Council on Library Resources has One testing device is the Universal Book made a grant to support a third evaluation of Tester (UBT) for measuring durability and about twenty-four inexpensive record players the other is the Openability Test Plate for suitable for library use. The evaluations are measuring openability. A UBT, built from planned for publication in Library Technol- the plans and specifications for the original ogy Reports. model, is now installed in a testing laboratory in Chicago, so that anyone wishing to Certified Products List test the durability of bindings in accordance LTP has copies of the 1967-68 Certified with the provisional standard may do so. Products List for distribution on request. Those interested in more detailed informa- The pamphlet, published by the Institutional tion on either the equipment or the testing Research Council, of which ALA is a mem- may request it from LTP. ber, is a catalog of cleaning and maintenance products and commercial carpets and textiles MRS.GLADYS T. REZ,General Editor that have been laboratory-tested and/or cer- Library Technology Program tified to comply with IRC standards. American Library Association, Chicago Have Yon Hedrd. . .

Ernst Zinner Astronomy Collection automation programs, and examples will be San Diego State College Library proudly an- given of automation projects under way in nounced the recent acquisition from Ger- special libraries throughout the country. For many of the rare Ernst Zinner Collection, a detailed information contact Margaret War- major research collection on the history of rington, Drexel Institute of Technology, astronomy. Consisting of 4,192 items, and Graduate School of Library Science, Phila- including 2,700 volumes dated variously delphia, Pa. 19104. from 1485 to 1965, the collection constituted the private library of Dr. Ernst Zinner of GRANTS Bamberg, Germany, formerly professor of FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS astronomy at the University of Munich. Its purchase was made possible, partly through WASHINGTONSTATE UNIVERSITYLIBRARY, Friends of the Library and San Diego State which last year started a long-term library College Foundation contributions. Copies of automation project aimed at all library activities where the computer can offer im- a New~lettef' describing the Collection in greater detail are available from the college provement in services, has received a $69,300 librarian and SLA member, Dr. Louis A. grant from the National Science Founda- Kenney. tion. This one-year grant is for the analysis and design of an on-line computer based Toronto Public Library Board Announces technical services system, book catalog cost New Study study, and for the development of specifications for an on-line library terminal. A survey of a representative sample of firms in engineering and allied fields, under- INTERNATIONAL.COUNCIL ON ARCHIVES, taken in cooperation with the Science Secre- with the assistance of a $17,200 grant from tariat in ~tcawa,will be made in order to the Council on Library Resources, is engaged determine the extent of need for improve- in a project to promote easier access to source ment in the supply of technical information materials contained in the world's archives. in the metro-~Gontoarea. At present, it is Two special committees, appointed by the estimated that approximately 20 per cent of Council to undertake the work, will base all inquiries and use of the Toronto Public their suggestions on the decisions of ICA's ~ibrarisystem concern the various fields of Extraordinary Congress which was held in science and technology. The results of this Washington, D. C., in May 1966. The com- survey will be compared to suggestions con- mittees will place special emphasis on the tained in a simila; study prepared for the reduction of periods of closure, creation of Organization for Economic Co-operation and an international readers card to aid equal Development (OECD) in 1963. access to source materials regardless of na- tionality, liberalization of microfilming pol- COMING EVENTS icy to facilitate reproduction of entire series or archive groups and of documentation con- AUTOMATIONFUNDAMENTALS FOR SPECIAL LIBRARIANSis the title of a conference, spon- cerning the history of foreign countries. In sored by Drexel Institute of Technology, addition, most economical and efficient meth- Graduate School of Library Science, to be ods will be studied for the publication of held November 2-4, 1967, at the Sheraton archival sources, giving particular considera- Hotel, Philadelphia. The conference is de- tion to the potentialities of microfilm. signed to acquaint special librarians and in- WESTERNRESERVE UNIVERSITY has received formation center directors with the prin- a $20,142 grant from the U.S. Public Health ciples, equipment, and applications of data Service through the Extramural Program of processing and communications to library the National Library of Medicine to initiate services. Special attention will be focused on a one-year experimental program in continu- developments relating to national library ing education for medical librarians. The objective of this research project, which was interlibrary loan service, and acquisition of initiated on June 1 under the direction of periodicals and translations. SLA member Alan M. Rees, Associate Pro- GUENTERA. JANSEN,director of the Suf- fessor, School of Library Science, will be folk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, the exploration of alternate means of up- New York, has been appointed New York grading the quality of existing medical and Regional Membership Chairman for the hospital library practices. American Library Association, it was recently announced. He succeeds Mrs. Eleanor MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Vreeland of St. John Association in New SCOTTADAMS, deputy director of the Public York City. Health Service's National Library of Medi- LINDAJOHNSTON, librarian of the Federal cine, Bethesda, Maryland, took office as the Reserve Bank of Atlanta, is serving on the new president of the Medical Library Asso- Advisory Council on Title 111, Library Sen- ciation during the closing session of MLA's ices and Construction Act, Interlibrary Coop- 66th Annual Meeting. He succeeds Mrs. eration, of the State Board of Education of Mildred C. Langner. the State of Georgia. JANETBROOKS, librarian for the U.S. Army JOHN G. LORENZ,deputy librarian of Con- Engineer Geodesy, Intelligence and Map- gress, was elected vice-president of the ping Research and Development Agency United States Book Exchange, Inc., for the (GIMRADA) , Fort Belvoir, Virginia, re- term, 1967-68. cently received an award in the form of an Army certificate and $30 for submitting a PAULINELYBECK of New York City has cost-saving suggestion. been appointed associate director of editorial research and library at Look magazine. JOHNKENNETH CAMERON, chief of Reader Before joining Look, Miss Lybeck was Services Division, Air University Library, director of information services at Papert, U.S. Air Force, Maxwell Air Force Base, Koenig, Lois advertising agency. Alabama, retired on June 30, 1967, after twenty-one years with that library. He will NATHANN. MENDELOFF,assistant head of take a position with the Reference Depart- the Union Catalog Publication Project, Li- ment of Marquette University, Milwaukee, brary of Congress, was presented a twenty- Wisconsin. five-year Federal Service Award pin on April 19. ELIZABETHFERGUSON, librarian, Institute of Life Insurance, New York City, has been M. ELIZABETHMOORE, formerly supervisor of reference services cataloging at Detroit elected president and chairman of the board Public Library, was appointed librarian for of the United States Book Exchange, Inc., for the term, 1967-68. the corporate library in Detroit of the Bur- roughs Corporation. HELENM. FOCKE,long-time member of the JEANNEB. NORTH,formerly chief librarian, School of Library Science at Western Re- Government Document Division, Stanford serve University, retired this past June. She University Libraries, has joined the Ad- taught in practically every area of librarian- vanced Information Systems Division of ship, and at Western Reserve she initiated Programming Services, Inc., in Palo Alto, the first course in documentation to be of- California. fered in any library school in the United States. As of December 15, 1967, Miss RINEHARTS. POTTShas been elected presi- Focke will teach as visiting professor of li- dent of the Faculty Association of Glassboro brarianship at the University of Washington, State College, New Jersey, for the year Seattle, Washington. 1967-68. He is documents librarian at the College where he also teaches a course in GERALDINEGIEGER has been promoted to librarian in Esso Research and Engineering reference. Company's Baytown Research and Develop- LILLIANPRIMACK, formerly editorial assist- ment Division, Baytown, Texas. She is re- ant at the Ford Foundation, New York, was sponsible for cataloging books, providing recently appointed reference librarian at Nezu~zueek magazine. In the past, she also I earnestly hope that some means can be worked as head librarian at the New York found to reduce the cost of the accounting Wovld-Telegram d Sun. portion of overhead. The Copying Methods Section of the American Library Association's LOUIS SHORES, dean of Florida State Uni- Resources and Technical Services Division has versity's Library School, retired on Septem- formed a Committee on Simplified Payments ber 1 after serving in that post since 1946. for Photocopying. As Chairman, I would wel- Dean Shores, who is also editor-in-chief of come suggestions from any members of the Collier's Enc~clopedia,will continue to work Special Libraries Association. in that position and devote full time to writ- ALLENB. VEANER ing and editing. Dr. Shores, who has an esti- Chief of Acquisitions mated two million published words to his The Stanford University Libraries credit, including twelve monographs, may Stanford, California be best known for his books Baric Refereme Snzmes, used as a standard text in library schools, and Instructional Materials used as I agree with I. A. Warheit's comments in a text book in many teacher education in- the "Letter to the Editor," Specinl Libraries, stitutions. December 1966. I do not have any data to HELENE. WESSELLShas been appointed confirm his statement "that the librarians, as a rule, do not apply their skills to those in- coordinator of The New Books Preview for formational matters which are of immediate the Baker 8: Taylor Company. consequence and contribute directly to the success of the companies." However, my ex- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR perience and instincts tell me that the basic premise of his letter, unfortunately, is true. THE HIDDENCOSTS IN PHOTOCOPYING In a former ~ositionas librarian in an air- In reaction to Ralph Phelps' article "Factors craft and missile manufacturing company, I Affecting the Costs of Library Photocopying" suggested revised procedures for a number of (Special Librarie~, February 1967) several the, so-called, non-library information func- additional factors come to mind that will tions, and was asked by management to fortify and strengthen his position. recommend new systems. Among these Besides the direct costs mentioned in the ar- activities were establishing a more effective ticle, there are substantial indirect costs of correspondence file, a records management which the public is not normally aware, such program, developing a better program for pro- as supervisory overhead, staff benefits, equiva- ducing, indexing, filing and up-dating engineer- lent value of space and utilities, and the like. ing drawings, and for revising the system to To these may be added the costs of maintain- control scheduling and delivering of contrac- ing and reconciling deposit accounts. blanket tual documents (reports, technical manuals, requisitions, and the requirement to invoice on microfilm, drawings, computer output, etc.) to the purchaser's own forms, and the need to government customers. After acceptance of the build reserve funds for equipment purchases. new systems by management, most of these There has grown within the past decade, per- activities were assigned to the Library for ad- haps since the advent of rapid copiers, the ministration. feeling that photocopying is "just another li- The point I wish to make from this brief brary service," and ought not be specifically recital of history is merely that I recognized charged for, just as we do not charge to cir- the need for improvement in certain of the culate a book or answer a reference question. information activities. I studied the activities My own answer to this has always been that and volunteered improved procedures to uncontrolled, free photocopying would run management. The concept I was attempting away with the entire library budget, since it to establish in the mind of management was involves a service which consumes expensive that the company had experts in science, en- supplies and equipment, as well as these over- gineering, management, finance and that li- head costs; this is very much less the case with brarians were the experts in the field of in- circulation and reference. A service that is formation science. somehow accounted for is self-limiting, an im- My successor, unfortunately, did not con- portant consideration, since no institution pos- sider these "non-library" activities appropriate sesses unlimited capabilities for service, for the attention of a professional librarian. whether it is photocopying or computer time. Consequently, the functions were assigned to a different manager. In this instance the li- DP, the granddaddy of EDP, the outcome brarian rejected the opportunity to make a could be a cliffhanger. Nevertheless, it is with major contribution to the success of the com- ease that divergent interests develop auto- pany and, simultaneously, performed a dis- cratic, incommunicable, and incompatible service to the library profession. I might add, techniques. that eventually the company considered the Of your four contributors, none saw fit to "non-library" activities of sufficient impor- mention standards. And, to exemplify this tance to require company-wide direction under lack of an interest in standards, one of your a corporate officer. contributors, in the throes of discussing a tool If we are not willing to actively participate of the systems analyst used as illustration in developing the broad spectrum of informa- the darndest set of conventions yet to illustrate tion services required by the organization, flow-charting techniques. then perhaps we should resign ourselves to Systems analysis takes time, is costly, and operating the archival functions. This is the continues long after recommendations have be- role to which we already have been delegated come realities. Perhaps the final goal of sys- by some of the self-appointed prophets in the tems analysis is the integration of all possible information field. Our future actions, or lack activities everywhere into a smoothly func- of them, will determine whether these tioning, well-coordinated whole. For those of prophecies are accurate. us who deal in information, this should mean WALTERA. KEE that ultimately a single link originating in a Senior Technology Utilization system at one locality for a particular item Officer could be 'dropped' into another system else- Division of Technical Information where to retrieve the same item. Voild, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission terminal set produces a string of numbers, or Washington, D. C. 20545 a tape, our holdings are beat against the numbers, or tape, and we either have it-or not. Standards for con~n~unication,both in the design of systems and the systems designed, I should like to congratulate you on the fine are necessary now. A big job, yeah. Difficult, issue of Special Libraries (February '67, vol. ~eah,and getting more so as more and more 58, no. 2). It is certainly time that systems systems evolve (especially those EDP-type analysis be brought into the sunlight of our systems). Worth it, now more than at any trade, rather than languish in the shade of other time. As sophisticated devices and tech- another organization in a different land. niques come into play, the chances for com- All is not congratulatory, however, and this munication between them grow dimmer and same issue points up the one glaring omission dimmer, and as the light is extinguished, we that invariably follows those who wander into fall into the very abyss from which we were data processing: to wit, where are the stand- trying to emerge in the first place: that of too ards. It would be difficult to embellish on the many items, too little control, with control case made for data processing standards by synonymous with standards. Messrs. Brandon and Kirch in their six-article series in Computers and Azltomdtion. How- JOHN C. KOL~NTZ ever, those gentlemen were talking EDP, County of Orange Public Library whereas librarians are still DPing. Thus with Orange, California Offthe Press. a a BOOK REVIEWS fact that a certain level of reading knowledge in a foreign language can be acquired within NATIONALACADEMY OF SCIENCES.Language a relatively short time period (two hundred and Machines: Computers in Translation and hours or less of study). The assertion is made Linguistics. A report by the Automatic Lan- that a scientist can, thus, read foreign-language Processing Advisory Committee, Divi- page material in his field. It is not stated that sion of Behavioral Sciences, National Academy this same scientist might misinterpret impor- of Sciences, National Research Council. Pub- tant passages due to an insufficient knowledge lication 1416, Printing and Publishing Office, of idiomatic intricacies. Furthermore, there is National Academy of Sciences, Washington, a difference between acquiring knowledge and D. C., 1966. 124 p. $4.00. retaining it. Our scientist would have to pur- This report of a committee established by sue a diligent and continuous foreign reading the National Academy of Sciences constitutes program to retain his rapidly acquired reading the first major discussion of projects in for- knowledge. eign-language processing (automatic and hu- Perhaps some of the shortcomings, such as man) supported by the U.S. government. It these, could have been avoided if an able full- contains a careful assessment of the current time translator had been appointed as a com- status of translating work in the United States. mittee member. The report provides stimulat- A brief description of two machine-aided trans- ing reading for anyone interested or engaged lation projects is included: work of the Fed- in computational linguistics or translating. eral Armed Forces Translation Agency at GABRIELEWOHLAUER Mannheim, Germany, and of the European Information Chemist Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg. It Shell Development Company is only natural that major emphasis has been Emeryville, California placed on technical as opposed to literary translation work. The conclusions arrived at The Canadian News Index, March 1-15, 1966. are neither surprising nor revolutionary: 1) the human translator cannot and should not Edited by Bernard K. Johnpoll, published by the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Cam- be replaced by a machine; 2) the machine should be used to provide linguistic tools to pus, Regina, Saskatchewan. make the job easier for the human translator, This is an index of Canadian news from thereby improving quality of translation, in thirteen of the newspapers published in Can- general, and increasing translation speed; 3) ada's ten provinces. The foreword to the pub- computational linguistics, including "studies of lication says it covers "all significant Canadian parsing, sentence generation, structure, se- news events and is cross-indexed in as many mantics," and other fields, deserves full future as twelve categories depending on the scope support. of the items covered." The index is to be pub- The report is equally interesting from the lished by-weekly. As yet the final subscription point of view of its omissions and the, at times price has not been determined, but it is esti- questionable, opinions it discloses. For in- mated at about $250.00 per year. stance, the problem of translation quality has Although it is difficult to judge a tree by its been of considerable concern to the distin- first fruit, the initial volume of Canadian guished committee submitting this report. It News Index certainly indicates it has a most is recommended that practical~evaluationmeth- valuable place in any library concerned with ods be developed. No mention is made that, current events and history in Canada. But it perhaps, the translation profession as a whole has much room for improvement. Lacking en- should be better organized, that an official tirely are "see" and "see also" references and accreditation system (as currently advocated the indexing leaves much to be desired because by the American Translators Association) of the inconsistency in subject headings and should be set up to identify those individuals entries thereunder. As an example, there is no particularly qualified for translation work in classification FIRES but if one looks under given subject areas and from certain languages. ALBERTA Fires there is an abstract "Cal- The statement that the target language (for gary bookstore destroyed in fire." Under ON- technical translations, in most cases English) TARIO Fires there is one abstract "Ottawa should be the native tongue of the translator hotel destroyed in fire" but no name of the needs to be substantiated by actual studies. hotel. Under the classification ONTARIO Another example: the report points to the Disnsters there is the same abstract pertaining to the Ottawa hotel fire, but also a listing of a Library Services Held at Oxford Under the fire which destroyed "Union du Canada As- Chairmanship of Sir Frank Francis and spon- surance office in Ottawa." sored by the Old Dominion Foundation of The UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA is New York, 30 June-3 July 1966." Mansell, listed as such, with a number of entries. But 1967. xv, 175 p. $6.50. (L.C. 66-30544) there is also a classification CANADA United Charch with one entry only and this item is During 1965, a number of events led rep- not indexed under UNITED CHURCH OF resentatives of the British Museum, Oxford, CANADA. Nor are the entries under the and Cambridge to consider joint investigation UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA listed un- of the utility of computer-based production of der CANADA United Church. The Anglican catalog data. Specifically, Cambridge urgently Church of Canada is listed as such but there needed a union catalog of its large number of is no listing under CANADA Anglican separate collections, almost literally hidden Church, as is done with the United Church of among its sixty-eight separate libraries; Oxford Canada. was faced with the necessity of replacing the The classification CANADA Capital Pun- existing "dilapidated" catalogs of the Bodleian ishment has four entries but not all of these Library; and the British Museum was faced appear under the classification CAPITAL with the updating and reprinting of its "Gen- PUNISHMENT and there is no "see also" eral Catalogue of Printed Books." reference to direct the user from one to the As the first step, in January 1966 a team of other. Under PARLIAMENT Capital Pun- representatives from each of the three institu- ishment there are a number of items indexed. tions visited the United States and met with a some of which do not appear in either of the number of individuals and organizations de- previously mentioned categories. The classi- veloping mechanized catalog systems. Since fication DEATH PENALTY has one entry, there are so many parallels between the efforts but this does not appear under CAPITAL of the Library of Congress and the Association PUNISHMENT. There is no classification of Research Libraries and those of the three HANGING although this is the legal form British libraries, it seemed clear that a more of capital punishment in Canada. formal exchange of ideas was called for. The The inconsistencies would seem to stem result was the conference summarized in this from the lack of a subject heading list or small volume. classification scheme. The complete lack of The conference met for the better part of a "see" and "see also" references causes much week and was organized around ten preprinted confusion in using the index. The abstracts papers which were discussed in a more or less also leave much to be desired and often ap- formal manner by the invited participants: pear to be simply the head from a newspaper 1) Paper 1, by Chaplin (of the British Mu- story without the story to explain the heading. seum), Shackleton (the Librarian of the Bod- Perhaps the most confusing of all, though, leian Library at Oxford), and Oates (of the is that most of the items listed in the index for University Library, Cambridge) described the March 1-15, 1966, have dates of publication situations at the three major libraries which for after March 16! led to the meeting itself. The discussion of this This is a first effort and the criticism is paper was, in many respects, particularly il- offered constructively. The undertaking is a luminating, raising many issues about the mag- big one and a complex one. The University nitude of the proposed tasks, the benefits to be thus deserves much commendation for its ef- derived, and the methods for financing. forts and perhaps future issues of the Index 2) Paper 2, by Wells (of the BNB), pre- will have these flaws eliminated. Already sented the plans for production of the British changes in format have been announced and National Bibliography by computer. The prin- the changes should improve the Index, should cipal emphasis was on the particular organiza- make it much easier to use. tion of the BNB, as a classified catalog with Praise be to the University for its effort. an alphabetical subject index, and the prob- D. A. RHYDWEN,Chief Librarian lems it raises for computer application. The Globe and Mail 3) Papers 3 and 4, by Parker (University of Toronto, Canada Missouri) and by Kilgour (Yale), discussed general issues concerning the use of machine- HARRISON,John, and LASLETT,Peter, eds. The based records for library operations and repre- Brasenose Conference on the Automation of sent rather cursory summaries of "library- Libraries. Subtitled "Proceedings of the Anglo- systems." American Conference on the Mechanization of 4) Papers 5 and 6, by Palmer (of Harvard) and Cain and Jolliffe (of the British Museum) leaf pages from computer print-out in upper provide a striking and illuminating contrast in and lower-case type. It will contain approxi- their discussions of specific problems in con- mately eight hundred pages and will cost $225, version of records. The project described by including a binder and a year's updating Palmer is that presently underway at the Wid- service. Updated revisions of the Thesaurus ener for conversion of its shelf list; it is prag- will he issued at least four times a year. matic, with many compromises forced by machine limitations and by economics, but it is Citation Press Launched by also productive. The requirement described by Scholastic Magazines Cain and Jolliffe establishes an ideal of per- fection, in its specification of multiple fonts, Scholastic Magazines, Inc., will launch a including non-Roman alphabets; the project series of original paperbound books in the is therefore hypothetical but of value in its field of education. The series will appear presentation of the reasons for such richness under Scholastic's new Citation Press imprint in typography. (Samples of pages from the and will include books of prime interest to BM catalog are included in an appendix as il- school administrators, supervisors, professors lustrations of the needs.) and students of education, librarians, and 5 ) Paper 7, by Avram and Markuson (of the teachers. Citation Press paperbacks will focus Library of Congress), presents details on Proj- on trends and changes in education and point ect MARC in excellent, though necessarily ab- the way toward the future, says Mary Allison, breviated, form. Scholastic's professional books editor, former 6) Papers 8, 9, and 10, by Bregzis (Univer- SLA Publications and Public Relations Di- sity of Toronto), Austin (National Library of rector. Four Citation Press titles were pub- Medicine), and Pizer (State University of lished in May, and five additional titles are in New York), present the issues in library-based preparation and scheduled for summer-fall information networks from three different but publication, including The New York Uni- related points of view: Bregzis emphasizes the versity List of Books in Education, compiled by potential role of the on-line, reactive, com- SLAer Barbara S. Marks. puter stored catalog as one of the bibliographic tools in large networks. Austin presents the New Edition of Boston Chapter program of NLM in establishing regional medical libraries and Medlars search centers. Union List Available Pizer presents the SUNY project intercon- In this seventh (1967) edition of the Union necting three medical libraries in a cooperative List of Serial Holdings in Sixty-eight Libraries network, utilizing common machine stored of the Special Libraries Association. Boston catalogs and shared equipment. Chapter, there is an increase in the number of contributing libraries, and also in the coverage: The volume as a whole is valuable for the hospitals, insurance companies, and banks are contrasts it presents as well as for the specific now included. Alice G. Anderson is the editor content. of the publication; per copy price is $15, which ROBERTM. HAYES,Director must be paid in advance. Please send orders Institute of Library Research and checks to: Special Libraries Association, University of California, Los Angeles Boston Chapter, Alice G. Anderson, Raytheon Company, Mayland Laboratories, Boston Post N. Y. Times to Publish Road, Wayland, Massachusetts 01778. Information Retrieval Aid A new reference work that will help organize Fossil Finds in Maryland . . . library and newspaper information files and is the title of a retrospective bibliography com- make information retrieval easier will be pub- piled and edited by Mildred D. 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REFERENCELIBRARIAN-B~~~~~~c~~ Sciences (Li- brarian 111, $8600-$10,450). Training in biologi- PHYSICALSCIENCES LIBRARIAN-S~~~~ $13,000. cal or related sciences desirable. Responsibilities: coordinating chemical, engineer- REFERENCEL1BR~R1AN-General (Librarian 11, ing, and physics libraries; expanding reference $7100-$9000). senices; developing and strengthening collections in physical sciences; planning of library facilities ASSISTANT HEA-Loan Department (Librarian for new campus site. Requirements: M.L.S.; li- 11, $7100-$9000). brary experience, 2 to 5 years in administrative Positions available July 1, 1967, Subject to Ap- capacity; background in chemistry, physics, or en- proval of 1967/68 University Budget: gineering. Benefits: state-paid TIAA and CREF, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, and tuition waiver plan BIBLIOGRAPHER-Acquisitions Department (Li- Replies to Mark Sylvestri, Ass't to Director for brarian 11, $7100-$9000). 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