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For more information, please contact [email protected]. - Special...... ..... -..... ---Libraries .......... - . - .- -- Vole 4 JUNE 1813 No. 6 - - - - - . - - -- ---- ___ PUBLISHED I3Y THE Kunlcipsl rererence work in New Yorlc City SPECIAL LIBRARTES ASSOCIATION .....................Mrs. Von Hohofl: I.ibrarian, New York City. Monthly except July nnd Aiuwst. Insurance Libraries Edltorlrl nod I'ubllcntlo!~ Olflcc, stnte Llbr-nry. ...................... Indlunnpolls, Ind. .............Dr. Frederick 11. Hoffman. Subscrll)tlons, 03 Itrond street, Boston, hfIIs~. Stat~stician, Prudcntitll Life Ins. Co., ICntered nt the l'ostoftlce nt Indlarinpolls, Ind., Newark, N. J. as second-clnsa matter. - - 2nd Meeting, Wednesday afternoon, June 25 Subscription.. .$2.00 a year (10 numbers) Address on Methods of the Luce Clipping Single coplee .................... .26 cents I3ureao ............Hon. Robert I~uce, formerly Lieut. Governor of Mass. I'renldent .......................D. N. Hnntl~ Iusurnnce Llbrary Assoclation, Iloston, Mnss. Report of Committee on Clippings.. ...... Vlce-President .................R. El. Johnston ..................Jesse Cunningham, Bureau of Rnllwny IZconomlcs, Wn~hington,D. C. Chairman, Librarian, School oC Mines, Sccretnry-Trensnrer ............ Guy &. binrlon Llbrnry, Arthur D. Llttle, Inc., 03 Broad St. Ilolla, Mo. EXECUTIVE UOARD Address on Clipping Mcthods of the Wall Frerldent, Vlce-President, Secretnry-Treas~~rer. Street Journsl Library ................. 0. E. Normnn, People's Gns Light nnd C'okc ................Dr. ,J. Franklin Crowell, Co., Chlcrgo; and MI ss Florence Bnencer.- Na- Wall Street Journtll. tlonnl Clty Bank, New York Clty. hi~naglngRdltor of Speclnl Llbrnrier :-John A. Report of Committee on Special Lihrary tnpp. State Llbrnry, ~lndlnnnpolie,Ind Training ................On E. Norman, Asnlstnnt Rdltor. Etbcl Cleland, State Llbrary. Chairman, Librarian, Peoples' Gas, Light Indlnnnpolla, Ind. and Coke Co., Chicago (JONTRIBUTINQ EIDITORS Is there a demand for indexes in special F. N. Morton Unlted Gas Improvement Co.. ~hlladelphln: flelds of agriculture and education. ...... H. H. l7. Meyer, Librnry of Congress. ..........................H. W. Wilson, D. N. IIandy.-. Insurance Llbrnry Assocl~tlon. H. W. Wilson Company, Minneapolis, Minn. Program of S. L. A,. .................-111 - .- Proceed~ngsof the S. L. A., Manhattan 3rd Meetlng, Thursday evening, June 26th District Meeting .....................I12 The Library of Congress as a clearing-house Summary of Addresses and Discussions, lor record of work done in economic sub- Manhattan Dlstrict Meeting .........113 jects .................EI. H. R Meyer, American Municipal Documents. ......,117 Chiel' I3ibliograpllcr, I~ibraryof Congress. Select List of References on Train Grew A Review of the Chief Sources for Special Legislation ..........................I21 Library Collections ..................... Legislative Reference "Scheme". ......,125 .................Miss Nari F. Lindholm, Blbl~ographies .........................I26 Assistant T,lbrarian, Public Service Com- Current References ...................I27 nlission Library, New York City. News and Notes ....................,130 The Library of the School of Architecture at I-1arv:~rd University,-the treatment of PROGRAM OF THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES collections relating to Landscapes Archl- ASSOCIATION tecture, including city planning ......... Annual Convention, Hotel Kaaterskill, N. .............. Miss Theodora Kimball, Y., J~me23-28, 1913. Librarian, School of Architecture, Harp - vard. 1st Meetinp, Tuesday afternoon, June 24th. The English Rook-trade Library* ........ Relation of the Special to the General Li- ...........................R. A. Peddle, brary.. ....... Dr. W. Dawson Johnston, St. Bride Foundation, London Librarian, Columbia University. Review of Special Library work during the The Library a Necessity of Modern Busi- year ....................Guy E. Marion, ness.. ..................N. C. Kingsbury Secretary, Special Libraries Asso. Vice Pres., Am. Tel. and Tel. Co., N. Y. *Paper to be read by a member of the Relation between the Municipal Library and Association. Legislators ..... .Andrew Linn Bostwick, Municipal Ref. Librarian, St. Louis. THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION The Library of the Research Laboratory, The meeting of the Special Libraries As- General Electric Company.. ............ sociation at Kaaterskill marks its fburth ..................Miss Helen R. Hosmer, anniversary. The association was formed Librarian, Research Laboratory, General by a small group of special librarians at the Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Dretton Woods conference in 1909. SPECIAL, LIBRARIES The first allnual ~iieetingwas held in New lion of the special library hafl been most York city in November 1909 and annual successful. The great frmd of these ex- collvelltiolrs have been held since as fob periences is accumulaling and settled prin- low8:-Mackinac Islaud, July, 193 0. New dples are being established. The special York city, Sept., 1911, Ottnwa, Canada, library is no longer an experiment but a July, 1918. perulunent force in government, social re- Reslrles tlicse meetings an infor la1 meet- form, business and industrial lines. illg was held at the Pasadena conqerence of L the 8. J, A,, and three district meetings PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL LI- have been held in Boston, one in Chicago BRARIES ASSOCIATION, MANHAT- md one in New York. TAN DISTRICT MEETING The association has published Special 121- May 15, 1913 hraries since January, 1910 and has made llumeroos reprints of articles and bibllogra- The flrst meeting of the Manhattan Uiu- phies of value. The membership has grown trict of the Special Libraries Association from forty to upwards of thrce hundred was held May 15th in the officefl of the and the work of the association and its ac- Official lnformation Bureau, Guaranty Trust tive members has been instrumental in es- IJuilding. The arrangements were in charge tablishing or reorganizillg many special 11- or Willis D. Porter of the OfRcial Informa- tion Bureau, chairman of the Manhattan braries. A perceptible influence has also district. Representatives were present been observed in the tendency of the gen- from twenty-six special libraries or special eral libraries to adopt special library meth- departments besides individual members of ods in many flelds. the association. The meeting was success- But great as the progress has been from ful from all points of view and has resulted the efforts of the few who have seen the to the benefit of the Special Libraries As- possibilities of this movement and who sociation. Another meeting will be held in have been willing to give of their time and October. effort to promote it, the real movement is The addresses were as follows: just beginning. Only the edges of the idea Preservation of leather binding ........ have been touched and there remains a .................. Miss Janet C. Lewis, whole great "undiscovered country" where A Good Banking Asset,-The Financial the special library idea might be applied Library, ......... ,,Mr. Francis T. Tilton. with inflnite proflt to individuals and to The Importance of Special Libraries to society. the Public Library. .Mr. C. C. Williamson, The age of efliciency in all lines is In Subject,-Benefits which may be derived its merest infancy; but men are beginning by holding District Meetings. Informal to recognize the value of knowledge wheth- remarks and discussion by the members. er found in books, pamphlets, reports or One result of tlfe meeting was a schedule letters or as in personal experiences and of inquiry in regard to special libraries id systems of bookkeeping. They have come New York city which is to be used in in- to see that the rule of thumb has passed vestigating the extent of the special librury and that Rllccess depends upon the widest activity. acquaintance with the minutiae of their The schedule is given here as a guide own business and of related business as to other districts in the same connection. well as of economic and social conditions. The special library is the princlpal agen- Schedule of Inquiry in regard to Special cy in this work. The special library is the Libraries In New York City. picket line of the advancing army. The 1. Name of Library or of Institution main- special librarian should he the scout who taining it ............................ determines in advance the location of the .......................................... enemy - ignorance -and its probable 2. Street Address ....................... strength, gathers facts concerning the ten- 3. Name of Librarian or person in charge dencies of the forces in the fleld in which .......................................... he is working and opens