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Special Libraries, May 1914

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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1910s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1914 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special Libraries and Shoes The late 0. Henry tells a story of a discouraged shop-keeper who lived somewhere "up in the states" and who was persuaded to embark in the mercantile business in Central America. A shoe store seemed the right stepping stone to international iame and fortune because of inviting representations of the special opportunities in this business. Friends that lived in Central America wrote the shop- keeper that their town, although it had a large population, had not a single shoe store. The shop-keeper lost no time in preparing for shift- ing his residence and seat of commercial activity. He sold out his business in the "states", invested the proceeds in a new stock of shoes and loaded them on the steamer for Central America. When he arrived in the town he found the representations previously made with regard to the population were true, also, there were no shoe stores in the town. A few days later, however, he discovered a very important bit of information which he should have obtained be- fore embarking in the shoe business in Central America. He learned that ninety percent of the people of Central America went bare- footed twelve months in the year. If this disappointed shop-keeper had had access to a special library on the shoe business and had known how to use it, he would have been spared the humiliation of trying to sell shoes in a land where people have no need for them and also he would have avoided a considerable loss of money, which is more important. CARL MOTE. SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Evolution of the Special Library By John Cotton Dana, Librarian, the Newark Free L~brary(Abriclgecl from THE NEWARKER).

The character of librarics, their scope Iwcn~~sethcy were tl10Wht to tell things so and the methods of managing them depcnd slrillfully as to nlalre tllelll of intrrcst nnd ultimately on the character and quantity of value to all tncn tor all time. Among these things intended tn be read. When things were included all the older Greclr and Latin to be read were written upon stone, whether writings, which wcre loolred upon in a cer- in l~ieroglypl~icsor in sculptures or In orna- tain awe, largely 1)ccause tl~t!y were in ments of buildings, libraries were unknown. Greelr and Jatin. Second, boolts on these When things to be read were impressed classic boolrs, studies, expositions, crit- upon bits of clay which were dried or baked, icisms. Third, boolcs on religious subjects and preserved as records, collections of and specially 011 tlleology in all its phases, those records were made and kept, and and including pl~ilosopll~.Thesc books con- librarics began Wl'hcn things to be read tinued to form the greater part of libraries were written upon paper or any of the until within a few years. many kinds of material which were used hefore paper was invented, it was clearly Library Proprieties in 1876, wise to collect them, store them safely and When thc public l~brnrymovement took arrange them conveniently for use. Things form and celerity in our country, about to be read tl111s gnthercd and housed formed for~yyears ago, the accepted field of library the first ltbrsries properly so called. bonk collection had widcned to cover nll kinds of writings. Novels were st111 loolred The Anc~ent,and Surviving, Reverence for on with a l~ttledisfavor, unless thry were Books. hy wrilers time had tried and the ministry approved; science was closely loolrcd at to After the invention of printing, things in- see that it clid not inclinc to infidelity; and tended to be read becrime more common; discussions of sex and society and govern- but, as they were still quite rare and expen- ment wcre feared as tending to promote im- sive, the old methods of collecting and pre- morality and in~mrection. On the wholc, serving then1 were kept up and tlie hahit however, almost anything lhat had the form of giving them a certain reverence was con- of a book could flnd a place in tlie public tinued. library of forty years ago, even tliough it The reverence was due in part to the mighl not be thought Propor to admit it to fact that few could e~therwrite or read, the presence of a Inare reader. in part to the rarity of books, in part to the As a collection of all printed book^ the mystery attached by the ignorant to the art library had arrived; as a something estab- of reading; 1)nt chiefly to llie fact that wit- lished to gather all ltnowledge and all ing and reading and the practice of preserv- thought that the same might be freely used lng books were largely conhned to expo- by all classes of thc conlnlunity, it had not. nents of accepted religious cults. As time went on and books increased in The failure of the public library of forty numbcr and reading became more common, years ago to address itself to all t,he com- this reverence for the book decreased, but munity wilhout distinction of wealth, social ~t decreased very slowly. standing or education, and its failure, so Books were for the pronlotion of culture far as it did so address itself, to flnd its Culture was something wllich the upper advances welcomed and its advantages classes only had a right to get. Science made use of, were due to two factors chief- was pursued by few, and those few were ly: The tcndcncy of tlic librarian to tliinlr scarcely admitted to the aristocracy of boolr- of his collections as rather for the learned than for the learncr, and the tendency of users. It is only within very recent years a that in Englancl, for cxample, the study of the community at largo to think of col- medicine and its allied subjacts, even if car- lection of books as rathcr exclusively de- ried on to most helpful results, gave him signed for those who 11ad been reared to who followed it a good position in the social use them. hierarchy. How the Library Idea Was Broadened. What Our Fathers Called "Real Books." This long-continued, sclf-imposed opinion as to thc proper limitations of tl~clibrary- The real books in the opinion of the edu- using group was broadened in due course cated among the upper classcs, and, indeed, for fieveral reasons. among all of the members of the upper The output of print increased with great classes who were competent to form opin- rapidity; and the newspapers, to speak of ions, were held to be, first, the literary mas- one form only of printed things, caused a terpieces, the books which time had spared rap~dgrowth in the reading habit and led SPECIAL LIBRARIES millions to gain a superficial knowledge of odical literature; perhaps still more in the many aspects of life and thought. publications of public institutions and pri. Public and private schools and colleges vate associations; still more again in the taught more subjects and taught them bet- fleld of advertising by poster, circular, pic- ter, until flnally the sciences were, a few ture and pamphlet; and perhaps most of years ago, admittcd as proper flelds of all in the mere conlmercial wrapper. knowledge and tools of discipline even to the most conservative of English univer- Print Grows by Being Consumed! sitie~. IWom acquaintance with a wide Every added piece of print helps to add range of required school reading it was but new or more facile and more eager readers a step to the demand that a still wider to the grand total of print consumers As range be furnished hy the public library. commerce and industry have grown, print The habit of reading increased very rap- has incrensed also, and naturally and in- idly among women. More of them becamc evitably more rapidly than either. tenchers, more of them entered industrial Considered merely as an industry and life, more of them joined study clubs, and measured by money invested and value of these changes in their forms of activity all output, print fieems to be growing now fast- led to an increase of reading, to a wider er than any other of the great industries, range of reading and to a notable and insist- among which it is one of the flrst; and in ent demand upon libraries that they furnish view of the facL that s like expenditure the books and journals on whatsoever sub- each year produces, t.hanlw to invention and jects woman's broadening inlerests included. discovery, a greater output of things to be Indeed, a certain almost apostolic devo- read, It must be admitted that in its prod- tion to thc reading done by children and ucts, properly measured, print today stands an enthusiastic welcoming of women as in the front rank of all our manufactures. readcrs and students have been two of the most ~narlred features in the deveIoprnent of the library work in the last twenty Years. The Need of Mastering Mere Knowledge and the Difficulty Thereof. The Radical Change In Library Work NOW As modern production, commerce, trans- Under Way. portation and finance have grown and be- Another change in library activities is come more complicated, they have found in now taking place, and is being mainly print a tool which can be well used in the brought about by the increase in things effort to master the mass of facts which printed, already alluded to. And here it daily threatens to overwhelm even the most may be well to refer to the opening state- slrillful in their efforts at safe and profltable ment, thut'thc character of library man- industrial management. In spite of all that agement is dependcnt on the character and is reported iu print of things done, projects quantity of things to be read; and to call planned, tests made, results reached, in the nttenlion to thc fact that tlie immediate ten thousand wide-ranging lines of tlie causcs of cllangcs in the contents and ad- world's worlc-from n new gold reef of un- ministration of libraries-newspapers, chil- exampled richness in the fastnesses of New drcn's wider reading, women's greater in- Guinea's mountains, to the new use of a by- tcrcat in world-knowledge-are themselves product of a city's garbage, much escapes, largely the results of the growth of print or, being printed, is unknown to, him who and tho rem~ltingincreme in things to be can use it to his advantage. And so our read. worldy information goes on piling up; not all of it in print, but so mnch of it in print The Amazing Growth of Print. as to make that which is printed almost im- possible of controL Modern invention, making printing much cheaper than formerly, has led inevitably Other-Worldly Literature. to a tremendous growth in output. And by way of explanation of, though not as an The problem of efllcient lmndling of excuse for, the failure of librarians as a worldly information is difficult enough in class to realize the great changes in scope itself, but to this is added whnt we may aud method of library management which call in contrast other-worldly information. the growth of printing and of the use of Social questions which were seemingly quite things printed will soon bring, it may be few in number only a generation ago, have said that printing and prinl-using gained multiplied marvelously as modem indus- their prescnt astounding rate of increase trialism and universal~educatiouhave pro- only within the past ten or fifteen years. duced their inevitable result of complicat- Few yet realize that printing is only now, ing our social structure. after 460 years of practice of the art, at the These social questions demand solution; very earliest stages of its development and societies to solve them straightway arise, is but beginning to work on mankind its and proceed to inquire, to study, to investi- tremendous and incalculable effects. gate, to experiment, and to publish results. The increaso of print is marked in new These published results inevitably throw hook production; is far mora marked in peri- light on the daily routine of the industrial-

I.' SPECIAL LIBRARIES ist, a routine already complex enough; also, or scientist and the social service worker. they tend to modify public opinion or even It is too soon to say in just what man- almost to create a new and hitherto un- ner this new form of service will be ren- heard of public opinion, and this new-born dered. The difference in the amount nf ma- opmion again affects, and often most seri- terial to be mastered makes a wise method ously, the industrialist's routine, Mean- of administration most dimcult of discov- while this new social service spirit takcs ery; and added to this great difference in hold upon rlu~stions of government, com- amount is a diffcrence in what one may call plicates thorn, gives unexpected answers to the proper length of life. them, reverses the old ones, tlnd, so doing, The technique of the management of affects in a startling way the attempts of printed material gathered by librarics has, tl~aindustrialist to establish and maintain in its development in the past forty years, his routine. been devoted almost solely to the accurate Of a11 this social-service and government description, complete inclcxing and careful activity the printed output is amazingly preservation of that material. So elaborate multitudinous. was the ntual in this field ml~icllwas es- In any city of moderate she lhe social tablished and quit,o generally adopted some sol-vice ~nstitutions, including departments twenty years ago that today it costs a of the city, county, state and national gov- library of moderate size from twenty to ernment, and the private and quasi-public flfty cents mercly to pregare and put on organizations which are attempting to mod- the sheif PRC~one of its collected items, ify opinions, custon~s,ordi~lances and laws he the pame a pamphlel of four gages cost- d~rectlyor indirectly, tllrough study, enperi- ing nothing or a scwntiflc treatise of a ment, invesligation, exl~ortation and de- thousand pages costing ten dollars. And mand, are so numerous, so active, so per- this takcs no account of blnding. sistent and in tllc main so ~Rective, and It would be useless to attempt here to pubIis11 annually so many thousand pieces descrlhe or to enumerate the conntless of things to be read, as to mnlce it a1111ost sourcrs from wlilch comes this mass of impossible for any organization to have in niaterial which confronts us, and demands hand full lrnowledga of them all Yet upon of the librarian a reasonable control. It every enterprise in that clty many of those comes from governmental bodies, public and countless institutions have already produced quasi-public institutions and businesses; an effect, or will tomorrow, next week or fro111 private boclies, scientific, artistic, phil- next year. The wme industrialist would osophic, educational, philanthropic, ~ocial; take them into account in planning his cam- and from private individuals. It even in- paigns, and finds it extre~nely difficult to cludes print which is clesigned to advertise do so. but infori~isas well; and in this line thou- sands of makers of things are putting out The Literature of Sclence and the Arts. printed notes on optics, chenlistry, Lravel, Add to thls other-worldly hterature tho food, macl~ines, machine products and n tremendous stream of worldly literatnre al- thousand other subjects, which often con- ready alluded to, and include in the latter tain later and fuller and moro accurate In- the vast flood of trade, technical and scien- formation than can be gained elsewhere. tific journals, proceedings of sodieties and books and brochures from individuals; and The Problem of the Print Which Is Useful then consider the clifficulties which confront, and Yet Ephemeral. on the one hand, the industrialist who would know of the ~ocial, economic, industrial, Nearly all this vast flood of print, to the technical and scientific changes, advances control of wh~chlibraries mnst now in some and movements which may affect his enter- degree address themselves, is in pamphlet prise; and confront, on the other hand, the form, and, what seems to be of thc utmost organization, be it pubIic or private, which importance in considering the problem of how to handle it, nearly all of it is, as 1s trying to Ircep hinl duly informed! More- over, beyond all Lhis is the vast field of re- already noted, epliemeral. Herein, also, as search within which co~ultlesswidely scat- already said, is a characteristic wllicll dis- tered workers, who for lack of swift inter- tinguishes ~t from nearly all Lhe printed change of lrnowledge of their respective material with which librarians have hereto- successes and failures are wasting their fore busied themselves time on misdirected and needless effort. Everything intend~cl to be read which comes into a library's possession must be The Changes Demanded in Library Method. preserved-such is the. doctrine based on the old feeling of the sanctity of print which The change which this swift growth of once was almost universally accepted. Even things-intended-to-be read is today imposing to this day those nro to be found who urge on libraries can now he roughly outlined. the library of a small town to gather and They may properly continue to serve the prcserve all they can lay hands on of all student, in the old sense of that word, the that is printed in or about that town. When child and the inquiring woman; they must Presidcnt Eliot of Harvard a few years ago, also serve the industrialist, the investigator seeing clearly, as can any whose eyes are SPECIAL LIBRARIES open to the progress of printing, that print The New Llbrary Creed. may overwhelm us if we do not master it, list urged that great libraries be purged of dead Select the best books, them elabo- things, the voice of the spirit of print wor- rately, save thcnb forcvcr-was the sum of ship of a hundred years ago was heard pro- the librnrtans' orwd of yesterday Tomor- claiming that nothing that is printed, once ro?u it ?m~stbe. select n few of the best gathered and indexed, can be spared. boolcs ond kaep them, as brafore,bzft also, se- Whereas, did any large library attempt to lect p0m the' vast flood of priwt Ihc things gather, and set in order for use under the yoW con~titlle?~rytl$lZ find hr7pfi~1, ?naTce technique now followed, as large a propor- them ai:nzlaDlr: zozth a nzinin~umof eapense, tion of all that is now printed, as it did of cznd discard them (1s soon as their usefiil.ness what was printed in 1800, it would bankrupt zs past. its con~munity. This latler creed has bcen as yet adopted The amazing growth of the printing indus- by very few practicing Ilhrarians. It is try is overturning the old standards of value gaining followers, howcver, in the fields of of things printed and the old methods of use, research nnrl industry whose leaders are has indeed already done it, though few as rapidly and inevttably learning that only yet realize that this is so. 11y having accessible all the records of ex- To establish this fact is one oC the pri- pcriment, exgloration and discovery pertain- mary purposes of the whole argument To ing to their own enterprise, wherever made, emphasize its truth, two more things luay be can they hope to avoid mistakes, escape mentioned, the moving picture film and the nccdlcss expenditures and lnalre profitable phonographic record I-Iistoricnlly these are advanccs in any department of sciencc or in as important as are any printed records of any kind of industrial or social work our time. Yet what library dare tulrc upon itself the task of gathering ancl preserving Speclal Libraries and Their Association. and indexing them? In recent years has arisen an organiza- I-Icre we have two lrinrls of records of tion called the Spccial Libraries Associa- contemporary life, both closely allied in tion. It came into being in this way: character to printed things, which the all- A few largc enterprises, private, public inclusive library does not even attempt to and quasi-public discovcrecl that it paid to gather, list and index. Dimcult as it mould employ a skilled person and aslr him to de- be for any one library, or even any group vote all his timc to gathering and arrang- of large libraries, to collect and preservc all ing printed material out of which he could these records of the human voice and of the supply thc leaders of the enterprise, on de- visible activities of men, still more difficult mand or at stated intervals, with the latest would it be to gather and save all that ia information on their work. printed today. This librarian gnrchased periodicals, jour- The Proper Vlew of What to Do Wlth nals, proceedings of socicties, leaflets, Print. pamphlets, and boolts on the special field in which his employers were interested, studied The proper view op printer1 t1czn.g~is, that them, inrlcxccl them, or tore or clipped from the streont thcrrof need not be anj~zuhsre them pertinent material and filed it under con~pleteli] stored behind the dykes and grOpCl' headings, and then either held him- dams formed by thc shelves of anil lzbmry self in rcacliness to guide inanagcrs, fore- or of uny group of Zzbral-im: but that from men and others directly to the latest infor- that stream, as it rushes bi] expert observers n~ationon any topics they might present, or should select what zs pertinent each to his compiled each meek or each month a list of own c~omstztvcncy,to his own organzzation. pertinent, classified references to the last to his own communily, hold zt as long as zt words from all parts or the world on the contznzrcs to have valz~cto thosr for whom flelds covercd by his organization's activi- he selects it, ncake it caazly ncccsstblc by tics, and laid a copy of this list on the desk somc simple proccss, and then lct it go. of every employe who cnuld make good use Both the expcrt and thc student may rest of it. assured that the cheagness of the printing Roughly described, this is the method of process of our day and the natural zeal and controlling the special information the world self-interest of inquirers, students, compil- was offering them which perhaps not more ers, indexers and publishers, will see to it than a ~corcof progressive institutinns had that nothing that is of permanent value, found it wise to adopt up to five or six years once put in print, is ever lost. Not only are ago. there made in these days compilations and Newark's Special Library. abstracts innumerable by private individu- al~for their own plcasure and proflt; but At that time thc public library of Newark also a very largc ancl rapidly increasing was developing what it called n library for number of societies are devoting large sums men of affairs, a business branch. This was of money, high skill and tireless industry in a rented store close to the business and to gathering, abstracting and indexing rec- transportation center of the city. The li- ords of human thought, research and indns- brary's management believed that nlen and try in all their forms. women who were engaged in manufactur- SPECIAL LIBRARIES ing, commerce, transportation, finance, in- libraries were present, and the librarians of surance, and allied activities could profita- several public and university libraries as bly make greater me than they had here- well. toforc of inforlnation to bc follnd in print. They were sirre that this usefrll inrlustrial When is a Library Special? information cxistetl, for they knew that tho The name Special Libraries was chosen most progressive among men of affairs in with sonlo hesitation, and rnther in default this country, and still Inore in Germany, of a bctier; hilt it has secmecl lo fit the found and made good use of it. Indee(1, they movement admirably. It may be said, of knew that they already had in the main course, that every library i~ in a mensura library's collectiouv lnuch lnal~rial which spccial, in its own field, and that stale li- almost any indnstrial organization and al- bralsie.r, libraries ol collcgcs and nniversi- most any industrial worltcr co~rld consult tics, of medicine, law, history, art and other with profit. Such material was already used. subjects mny be callcd spccial. But a spe- to n slight extent in the central building; cial library, and the spccial de1)artments of but they believed that if what might be more gcncral libraries-like the business called "thc printed matcrial fundamental to branch in Newarlc-are the first and as vet a great nian~~facturingand commercial almost thc only plsint-adminisiering institn- city" were so placed and so arranged that tions which p~'oCessadlyrecognize tho chanqe it could be easily consulted hy men of busi- in library method that the vast awl swiftly ness, the habit of using it would spread mounting bulk of print is demanding; rea- very rapirlly. lize how ephemeral, and at the same tinlc how exceedingly useful for the (lag and An Uncharted Sea of Print. hour, is much of the present output of From the first it was evident that thc li- tl~ings-intendetl-to-be-read,and frankly nilopt brary was entering a field not yet greatly the new library creed as to print manage cultivated. There were no guidos to selcc- ment, of careful selection, immediate use tion of material; there werc no precedents and ready rejection when nscfnlness is past. to serve as rulcs for handling it when found. The Growth of the New Idea. Professional libmm-y literature did not help, because t,his particular form of library The story of the growth and work of thi~ work had never been undertaken. It was association of spccinl libraries not only dem- not difficult to learn that the old rule, gath- onstrates the truth of the statement that er cvcrytl~ingpossible, index and save Por- the motlern printing press Is giving 11s a ever, must here be in the main, discnrtled, new view of its ovrn importance and belp and the new rule, select, examine, use and fulness, it also shows how rapidly the new discard bc adopted. view is being taken by the world of affdrfl; But Lo pnt the ncw rule into practice and, furthermnre, it sug~cslssome of the was very ilificult. incthods to which adoption of the new lid brary creed is giving rise. An Association of Inquirers. The association bcgan with about 30 mcm- bcrs, of whom more than half represented This question naturally arofie, are others spccial libraries that could be prope~~lyso attempting work at all similar to this of called. Tn one pear the number of special ours? Inquiry soon brought to light a few library represcntativefl increased to nore librarians of private corporations, public than 70, and in the next two years to 125. service institutions and city and state gov- In January, 1930, the association heran the ernnlcnts which, as already noted, were also publication of a monthly journal. The clis- working on the new line Correspondence tribution of this journal, which has been and conference followed ; an organi&ation very wisely and economically edited and for mutual aid promised to be helpflll and published by Mr. John A. Lapp, legislative the Special Librarics Association was reference librarian of Indianapolis: the clis- formed. tribution of circular letters, reports and Merely as a matter of history, and chiefly articles in the public press; the meetinqs of because the active and slrillful workers who the association itself and of sub-divisions 01 now have the movcmcnt in hand, promise it and outgrowths from it, all have served to make of this association an institution of as an excellent and effective propaganda of very great importance, it may be well to the idea of the systematic use of print in state here that the suggestion of an organi- the world of affairs. zation of those engaged in what may be A list of spccial libraries in this country, called the sheer utilitarian management of published in Special Libraries for April, print, was made by the Newark library, 1910, not including libraries of law, medi- and that from that library. and from the li- cine, history and theology and including brary of the Mcrchants' Association of New very few public, scientific and reference li- Yorlc, were sent out the invitations to a pre- braries, gave 11s names. liminary conference at Bretton Woods, in Most of the libraries that have joined the July, 1909. association since its first year, 1909-10, have Representatives of about a dozen special come into esistence since that year. They SPECIAL LIBRARIES now increoso in nruntbcr so rapidly that. it d(Jncc?1ll:lt the IIP(.~sthew clepartnlents sup- is impossible to li~~)tllc rword of them 111~arcb needs which public ant1 college li- cornplate. Dnc can only say that iuanagcrs brnricas of tho convcnLiona1 type are not sup- of scientific., ensinccria:, ntanufactnrinfi-, pl~in8. Othw cvitlencr could be set forth ~nanaqcrial, conlnlwcl:ll, financial, insur- from Statc librnrlcs, nlunicipal libraries and ance, a~lvcrtising,social and other orrmixa- lil~rnricsof Iepihlativc~rescarclt. tions, inclnding slates, cities, govcrnuie~it Lt if; not snrg~stcrlthat 1ibraric.s or the comniissions and the Iilte, arc, as the rccords tyllt' oC tvn 01- ~vcnlivc? scars ago, public. of the Speejnl Lil)rarics Associntion show, proprietary, St:ttr, hnstorirnl, could ever (10 coming cvyy clay in inrrwriing numl)cr:i to tl~vI\ orlc wltich the cnlishtcn~dind~~slrialist the obviuns co~xl~~sion,that it pa! s to cnl- of today ;tsl(~of tl~especial pl3int-handling ploy a11 rxnci*t wl~ohli:~11 be able, wl~~ntlcpartincnt he s~tsup in and for his ow11 equipl)crl with proper apparatus, Lo givc orsaniz:ltion Liut this scntls c!ville~itcbnotigh them C~*oni(lay to day ncns of tltv 1nLcst from a11 that has hcpn said, t1t:lt the old type movc~~ientsin their iwpcctivc Aclrls nl library innst ntn~lil'yits~lf ill accordanc~ with thv ncw ~icrds~~hiclt tho e~olutionof The Journal, "Special Libraries." linowlrr1g~and thc aro\rtll oF print hnvc Tlie Journal, Sncci:~l T,il~~,arics. has pith- cr~alctl Spc-tkint: of thr frw public lib: ary lished n total of 25 nrlmbcrs, over 100 pafics, only-tho' what is lrnc oC this is truc in a and has grinted scores of I~clpfuI articlw n1~;lsure also of tl~cl imll~l:~,university or on such scbjccts ns "l'lte carnint: powcr of historleal librnry-it slionld try to ~n;~stcr special libraries." "The value of the fipccial so iiturli of 1.11~flood of print as is of im- libraw for the l~nsincssman, the salcsman or portance to its corn~n~~nilyas R whole, and the shop ~spert.""Industrial libraries," "A to tliost~aspccts of indi~strinllifr which are reference library in n inanufactulsing plant," rolnlnon to all nicn ilnd w~itienof nffi~ll-sin and many rarcfnlly prPpa18ed lists of books, its con~rnunlty. rntigaxine nrticlcs, new Icgislative ennct- This paper 111s fatled nf its rnnm purpose rnents nnrl the like. with titlcs lilic the lol- if it has not ~l1oa.nthat the public library lowinc: Accounting, ITntion pictures, Op~n ::linultl (,quip itself to l~anrllea vast ailionnt shnp. Short bnllol, Efficiency, Pnblic Utility ol cpl~rmc~rallvuscful material, ant1 shonlcl, rates by its mrthotls in this mfll'li, suwest to the This association nnrl this journal are ilc- IW~PI~usincss ins1 itulinns how hel~tnlthey srribad help thus f11lly because they sccm \vi1111f1iintl tllv aflnlit~oii of similar work to po~utsn c~lcarlyto the cn~uingc.hnnsr in I: i lhin their I csptvtiw llclds. general library ~netl~orlwith whir11 this Definite S~~ggeotions:Co-operation. whole sr,qu~nrnl concerns itself 111 tltifi lournal we find r~cortlcrl,as mnintainir~gli- Om nnnv hare 11hli if any definite sugges- braries for the sprcial purpose of gathering tions cnn bc mad(>as lo tlrc srlection of use- by world-witlc scarrh all that can throw I'ul print l'roul the uaelrss. tllc inalci~ig it licht, on tl~clirno~lt, tl~r,ir nmrcsscAs of man- tcmpnrarily ac.rcssible, and discnrdini. it ufncture, their mcthnds of snlo and dlstri- 114th eahc mhon its uscfl~lnessis past. As al- hution, s~~cht~slabli6bmcnts :IS these. rcndr stated, thesr are the q~iestior~snow The Anier. TJlnnlm"~ Assn., S. Y: thc confronting librnri~ns. A111tv. Brass Co., \raterbury, Cunn: Thc As to solntion, onc pli111 :~lrcady under Amrr. Tcl. L- Tc'l C'o., S. Y., Tltc noston way 111a y be nicntiono(l. Mr. Johii A. I~pp, Consol. Gas C'n.. Tho Xatirnial Carbon Co , rlircctm. ot Lhr. D~u'ear~or TAcgislnti\c In- Clevelanrl: Stone ant1 Wcl~stc~r,Hostm: for~nation,Tntlinnnpolis, has cstahlishecl a Uniterl Gas Tmproven~nzt('0, I'hilndclpl~in co-opwntivc cntcrprisc for Lllc collection By no itleans all thc intlustrial organim- ;~nddistribution ol' certnin soc,itll and law- tions whitli haw what on? may rnll ~ro- ii~:ll\ing iitl'nrli~:~l inn. From 25 lo 100 li- prietary 1)urcalir; of rcsc~arch haw bcronte brwi~sand intlivi~lu:ds each contribute $25 mcm1)rrs of the Associstion, dircrtly or per year for ntai~~tcnt~nce. throu#h tlicir lil)r';trians. Tn fucd, as nl- 'I'lis Z~~PRII,call~l "l-'nblic Afl'airs Infor- rrarlr stntcd, thrre rnu:;t be nznny of Lhcsc mation Service," collects :~nnounccments IT- special bureaus of whirh the Assorintion garding ir~fornlntioll111 the field of pnblicn has as yet no Iinowlctlgc. Tt 1s worth not- affni~~s,cliyc~sts ihc sanlr and distl-ibutcs the ing, however, that rcl~~csentutiv~sor lnnnv ~opipsof th~rliwsts to s~~bscribeisThe flrms, so tar as they have esprcssed tlicm- inlor111:ition conccrtis such s~~lljcctsns thesc: selvcs, are rl~Lllusiastirover Ll~esncccss of Aqricu Itlira1 Cretlil their ncw rlepartnwnt Civil Serv~cct ('oinrnissions The Lim~tationof the Older Type of Convict, Tabor Libraries. hnrc~Hall Leg~slntion 1)rinliing ('up I?ueslioll '['he fact that we now have an activc Wlinziliation of Party Politics movemenl for thc establislnncnt within large Occupational Welfare intlustrial enterprises of spccinl rlcpart- Market's, Reorganization in New York ments fur the proper control of all pertinent City printed information, is of itself good evi- Xoise Preventiou SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Municipal Lodging IIouses In Doston a bureau of information has Rural Life, Bibliography been organized by several libraries, which Prison Laws, Digest of has a ccntral office in tlle public library of Under hcads lilie thcse a lew lines give the city, and tries to d~scoverfor any in- inforniation snficient to guide one to the quirer, on any topic whatsoevcr, the per- source of printed material alluded to, with son, book, hbrary, clocument, report, or a note outlining its scope. what-not that can give the precise ~nlorma- These nolcs, manifolded on shccts con- tlon he nceds in the shortcst possible time. venient for clipping ancl flling, are sent out The League of American M~~nicipalities to all the libraries, firnls allA inilividuals has long hail in view a plan for establisl~ing co-operating, at the rate, st prescnt, of about a central lnunicipal burem which 6110111d two each week, each containing en average gather notes on the countless activities of of 20 notes. The notes vary greatly in all our large cities and hold them in reatli- length. A recent one gave the results of In- ncss for any demand. Such a burcau wollld quiries into the progress, in every statc in not only savc to every city department in the llnion, of clrinliing cup legislation. every city tile cost of malting its own in- It is iinpossible to set any linlit to the quiries as to now legislation, administra- growth or bureaus of information of this tion, experimenls, tests of paving, lighting, ]rind. Every onc nlust make tor cconorny etc., it n~o~llclalso save to the country at of time and labor in the never-ending largo much af the present vast expcnditurc search, going on in every librarv, in every on new lc~islation ancl new m~tl~odsof law-oflice, in cverv large ~rld~~strinland many lrinds which have somewl~ercalready con~rnercialenterprise, for the latost neas provcn failures. on thousands of suhjects of the day.

Tentative Progamme

Annual Convention of the Special Libraries Association, Affiliated with the American Library Association, Washington, D. C.

Wednesday, May 27th-2 p, m formation Bureau in the light of three years of scrvice. By G W. Lee, President, Boston, (Opening Session) hluss. Note-At thc recluest of the progmmme (e) Discl~ssion from the floor General committee of tlle An~cricm~Library Asso- Theme: "What is the matter with present ciation, the set parts of the progralnnie have CO-operativemethods? Are thc ~ncthodsnt been considerably shortened to give oppor- fault or are we ourselves a little bit queer?" tunity for visits to p?aces of lib~~~yinterest An opporlunity for a delightful session in Washingtcrn. boosting and being boosled if evcrgborly will 1 Opening: Brid review of year and cx- only unbend and dip in. planation of current programme nud ends to (f) Co-ol~eration and the Special L1- be achieved brarian-Can librarians themselves co-op- 2. Subjert of afternoon Co-ol~erativein- erate in ways that will be l~elpfoland at the fnrlnatlon getting What has been and is samc time practical? Can co-operntion be being done-IVl~at mag be done. rcdured to a simple system which will work (a) Report Methods followcd and re- itself? Dy R. 1-1. Johnston, Librarian, Bu- sults achiered through co-ol~crationof forty reau of Hallway Rcononlics T,ibrary, Wash- legislative reference ancl similar libraries ington, D. C. By John A L~DD,Diroctar, Indiant~Rvreau of Legislative Information, India~lapoli~,Ind. Wednesday, May 27th (b) Report Metlmds followed and re- Evening Session-8 p. m. sults achieved by "International Notes and Queries," fin attempt at co-operation for the Round Table Discu~sion getting of inforniation. By Eugene P. hlc- Explanation-To give opportunity for the Pike, Secretary, American Railwav Perish- infornial consideration by sinall groups of abla Freight dssociation, Editor "Interna- persons of matters of more limited interest, tional Notes and Queries," Chicago. the Executive Conlmittee have arranged for (c) Report The New Index Off~cc-Its numerous Round Table conferences, each aims, methods and achievements. By A. G. presided over by a leader chosen because of S. Josephson, Secretnry, Chlcago, Ill. his fitness to guide the discussion into help- (dl Report The Uoston Co-operative In- ful and pract~calchannels. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Subjects of Hound Table conferences will lishing Company, Pliiladelpl~ia. By E C. be posted on the Official Bulletin Board of Wolf, IkIanager, Emgloyment Department, Special Libraries Assoc~ationat the Asso- Curtis Pubhshing Company, Philadelphia, ciation's Headquarters in the New Willard -Pa. -. Hotel, Washington. (c) Why the special library for a prac- By assigning the greater part of these con- tical 111an? Or, "Business is bus~nesfi" ferences to times in advance of business ses- Speaker to be announced. sions, It is hoped that some matters dis- (d) Discussion from the floor. cussed in Round Tahle confererices will be (e) Brief business session in shape for presentation aR subjects of ac- tion at the business sessions. Thursday, May 28th Thursday, May 28th Evening Session-8 p. m. Morning Session-10 a. m. Business sesslon. 1. Sub~ectof the morning. "The place Unfinished business. of tlic special library in other than academic Reports. efforts for training to greater efficiency in New business. business, commerce, government and in- Election of oRicers dustry." (To be rontiiiued to Friday morning if (a). The place of the special library in necessary.) trainmg men and women for the public service. By Edward A. Fitzpatrick, Secre- Note-Wall cards to show activities, scope tary Committee on Praclical Training for and methods of representative Special TA- Public Service of the Ainerican Polltical Sci- brarics will be on exhibit in Special Li- ence Association. branes' Headquarters at the New Willard (b) Collected information in print and during the convention. Delegates are in- the training of employes of the Curtis Pub- vited to step in and examine them.

Commercial Museum of Trieste (From U. S. Daily Consular and Trade Reports.)

The Commercial Muscum (Museo Com- The t.echnicn1 laboratory examines and merciale) of Trieste was founded and is analyzes imported goods to determine maintained by the local chamber of com- whether their condition is sanitary and merce to promote foreign trade and espe- whether refused goods correspond to sam- cially to ndvnnce the induslrial and commer- ples; to render decisions an to the classifi- cial welfare of Trieste and vicinity. The cation of goods not specified in the tarifi president of the chamber of commerce is law; to reconl~nend methods of packing, president of the museum, and is assisted in handling, and transporting dangerous or per- its administration by a board of 12 manu- ~sli~blegoods, and to ascertain damage to facturers and merchants, of whom 4 al-e cargo and the "average" or proportionate elected by the Trieste Chamber of Com- distribution of loss caused by sea perils. merce from its own membersl~ip,4 by the The museum's informat~onservice inves- municipal council, and 1 by the commercial tigates industrial and cominercial conditions high school, these 9 electmg 3 additional and speculative foreign markets ; supplies representatives from the membership of the Austrian exporters with confidential bulle- chamber of commerce. The active manage- tins on trade opportunities in their re- ment of the museum is in the hands of a spective lines; catalogues and d~stributesin- director general and a technical director. formation on the industries of Trieste and the adjoining Provinces; and compiles sci- Library-Technical Laboratory-Information entific, industrial, and commercial data. This Service. information is acquired through the connec- tion of the museum with similar organiza- The library of the museum contains the tians or chambers of commerce in foreign latest statistical and trade publications, com- countries; with special correspondents mercial laws, and customs tariffs and regu- among foreign l~roducersand traders; with lations of the Austrian and other Govern- traveling salesmen and commercial students ments, and boolrs and pamphlets on scien- abroad; and with the Austro-Hungarian tiflc, technical, commercial and economic consulates and other departlnents of the Im- subjects. perial Government SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Other Museum Activities. trial, and economic subjects, and a quarterly bullctin on tlie mail schedules from Trieste Directories of Trieste and foreign nler- to forelgn countries. rhanls and a descriptive catalogue of com- Investigations have been made of the fish- modities ncm t3 commerce are kept up to ing, rubber, California fruit, and American date. Additional facllit~esprovided by the cottonseed oil and mica industries; foreign inforniation servicr Include permanent ex- markets for wines, Dalmat~ansour cherries, h~bitsol' commercial samples of do~iiestic n~agnesite,and marble; tho use of cllemical and foreign products; deslgus of goods and fortiljzcrs in the Near and Par East; and models oP appliances connected will1 the in- other si~bjccts. The museum has also dustry nr~dconnnercr of the dixtnvt ; drnm- studicd the tariff syslenls of the civilized ings and spwilicatioas of proposed public nations and their effects upon exports, im- works, and sltetches and illustrated descrip- ports, and the welfarc of domcstic and for- tions of approvcd systems of canning and eign industries; the organization, operation, prescrvinc f(md products, of packing goods ii1Id econnnlic conseqiwnces of Gorernment for export, and of lltlndling arid transporting lnonopolies and private trusts: the rclations dangerous and delicate articles. of Government to industry; and tlie effects Tlie museum publishes a daily statistical of legislation and administrative action in bulletin on tlie commerce nnc1 shipping of the regulation and encnuragemcnt of pro- Trieste, monographs on commercinl, indus- rluct,ion nnd trade.

The Library of the American Bankers' Association 6 N~~SS~LIStreet, New York City. By Marian R. Glenn, Librarian.

The American bankers association in- are entitlcd to its reference service as to cludes in ~tsmembersliip national, state, pri- those in New Yorlr. vate, and savings banlrs, trust companies It follows that tllc Travelinr: loan collec- and clearing liousrs. To its l~eadquartersin tion becomes tlie most i111poria11L fcaturc of New Yorlc constantly come questions that the Library. A press dipping service, du- arc rither too general or too detailed to be plicate copies of financial periodicals, pro- readily answered by the exem tlve secrc- ceedings of the forty-eight State bankers tar~ps. So In November, 1911, a library and associations, pamphlets, etc., supply the ma- reference departincnt was created as a fen. terial from which loans wive made last ture of tlie Association's service t3 its menl- year to bankers in thirty-seven states, in bers, and to the American institute of banlc- Canada and Hawaii. ing, which is an affiliated organization with The banker, for ilistarlc:e, who asks for fourteen thousand students. information on cnmmerdal pnpcv lias sent The average Alnerlcan barllcer is not a to him, from this collcct~on,material on the student of economics. He i8 far more in- methods of commercial paper purclinse, col- terested in features of banlring practice tllan lection, registriition and sccilr~ty; discussion in theories of banlring function. The nature as to the relativc mcrits of single and dou- of the material necessary to the answering ble name paper: accounts of Euro1)ean ac- of his qneries d~ffersgreatly from that in ceptances and, 1)ills of exchange, and studies general econon~iccollections, and from thal of fore~gnand domestic discount rnarlrets, in thc collections of securities data often with supplementary articles on credit bu- maintained in connection with bond houses reaus and the ~nanagemenl of credit de- or the statistical departments of banks Tho parttaents. Requests for information on general field of investment lias become the the clearmg of country chcclrs, the fiduciary province of the Investment bankers nssocia- functions of trust coml)anies, thrift cam- tion, so ~t has remained for the American paigns by savings banks, bill of lading leg- bankers association, as the national organi- islation, currency controversy, branch Lank- zation of bankers, to develop an ent~rely ing, mortgage loans, interest on deposits, different type of financial library. fidelity insurance and agr~culturalcredit- To the uncertam problem of what to col- are simply illustrative of the varicty of the lect and where to secure the information on several hundred banlring subjects which it banlring practice, for which there is a book is necessary to have available through the literature of less than a dozen titles, is loan collection. added the dificulty of making the Library's Legal size vertical flles hold the material resources as available to any of the alphabetically arranged by subject, with nu- thousands of bankers in other states who merous sub-divisions, and with cross ref- SPECIAL LIBRARIES erences attached to the guide cards. Clip- nomics, Investment, Agriculturc and Indus- pings are mounted on manila cards, 73Bx934 trjr, Tratlc and Trnnsportntio~~,and Public in size, will1 marginal holes which permit of Fmance The 000 class 1s allotted to gen- their being madc up into loose-leaf books eral refcrence boolcs, including periodicals, and placcd on the shclvcs if necessary. yenrboolrs, etc., v:l~ilr? gov~rnmcnt docu- Periodical excerpts and snlall pamphlets are ments are classified with pi~bl~cfinance in placcd in manila covcrs, wliile envelopes 900. One class has becn left for the posslhle hold the clippings which are too temporary futurc addition of books on banlcing law or trivinl to mount. Small red inctal "vlse wllic~I1are now the propcrty of the Assucia- signals," made by George 13. Graff Company, tion's Legal department. 24 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., are at- One of ll~eLibrary's most ~mportaultasks tachcd to articles to which reference is is the lcccging of i~ chronological rerord of made from some gencral subject. For in- currency controversy, supplerncntcd by a11 stance, a clipping on the issue of notes by av:illable ptlml,hlet literxt~rreand govern- Slate Banlcs may be flled under "Bank nieul publicat~ous Discussions of the pro- Notes." A red checlc mark before that word posed hTat1onal rcswve association, and thc on the cross-rcfercnce guide card for "State rec~ntlyenacted Fcderal rescrve act are Banks" indicates that a related article will covered by tlio~~snnclsof clipping:; chrono- be follnd under "Rank Notes," and the logically xrraapxl in hooks, and indexed. small s~gnalavoids thc necessity of hnnting Septwnle iilcs of mounted clippings are ?cept througl~all the articles on that subject for for loaning purposes A daily indev of coni- the one deslred. rnent on the rl'eclcml reserye law In all the There is also a much wed sl~ecialcol- financinl pcriodictlls rrcc~vedat the Library, lection of bank advertisements and onc of has been lc~plsince th~passage of the bill, mounted bank pictures. Material is sent so tha.1 the Association may havc the most out in large expansive, mailing envelopes complete record of thc new hanlting system with reversiblc address cards to save time in existence. and trouble in returning it So far, but one or two un~mportanllosscs have occurred. Association members arc infonned oC the The growing influence of the American in- JArary's ~'esnurc~st11ro11gI1 tllc nffrcial monthly puhhcation, the "Journal-Bulletin " stitute of banking, the educative effect of Thc following cxcerpt from an a~tic!e in bankers' conventions and currency cnn- a recent jssl~emay convey n better itlw of troversy, with the intcrnat~onalbanlcing pos- sibilities of the new Federal reserve law, thc work of thc Library than furthcr cletails will eventually necessitate the develogmcnt of its mcthods. of the Library's book resources into a large "A mornmg's Inail may bring requests collection, including foreign publications, from bnnlcers in as many states for iniorma- and permit an intensive specialization in tion on suhjects as widely different as bank certain subjects which its present few and prnsions, dnvs of gracr, C11ristm:i~ snvlng uncertain funds make impractical. Of the clubs, overclrn Ett;, reserves, crcdit, state- two thousand boolrs now in the TAbrary ments. and rcal estate loans. The letters those on money, banlcing, credit, and ex- may comc from a banker who is to nlakc an change constitute simply good working col- address before his next stat? convention, lections of practice rather than theory. from another hanker who wants pictures They are loaned locally and plans are being mliirh will snggest a design for a now banli made to duplicate them for loaning by mail bullding, or from the enterprising cashier of to banlrers in any part of tlie country. a c.ouiiti-y bank who writes for spccimcn ad- The reference boolrs include bank com- vcrtisrruents 'wl~ich will lualrc the iarmcrs missioners' reports; stt~tistlcalmanuals; pro- around here sit np and take notice.' While ceedings of the national, state and foreign this male1.1al is bcing loolred up and impared Bankers associations; reports of the Comp- for n~niling,perl~nps a reporter comes from troller of tlie currency, the Treasury de- om of the flnrtnrial papers tor the picture partment, the Mint, etc.; and bound sets of iind biogmpliv of som8 n7cll-kuown banker, or the Commercial and financial chronicle, the to find out how lnany states have 'blne sky' American banker, the Chicago banker, laws, or what thp banlrers are doing in a? Banking law journal, Trust companies mag- riculti~ralextension. The answering of li~s azlne, the Bankers magazine, the Financier, question may be interrupted by a telephone and Moody's magazine Dot11 bound and un- call froni some New Yorlc banleer asking for bound periodicals and proceedings are card- the total capital of all banks in the United indexed for leading articles and statistics. States, the name of tlic prcs~dentof a bank In addition to author and subject entries for that went out oC husiness thirty years ago, boolrs and pcriodicals, the card catalog con- or the total amouiit of deposits in national tains analyticals for the Library's large col- banlcs. lection of State bankers association Pro- "A yoling bank clerk who aspires to be- ceedings, and for the text of Comptroller's come a bond salesman may take advantage Reports since 1866. of the noon h~ncheonhour to consult the The decimal classification devised for the Library's articles on securities, or it may Library covers the general subjects of be n student of the American institute of Money, Banking, Credit, Exchange, Eco- banking in search of arguments for the next SPECIAL LIBRARIES cliaptcr debate, Possibly a bank esamincr clearing house and savings banks subjects studying up on clearing house examinations must be nlade for the section secretaries, is the nest caller, and he inny be followed and whether a question be as general as by a messenger from some banker in a. 'the value of co-olxratlon.' or as speclfic as nearby Ncw Jersey town who has sent over a request for a 'good system of handllng for 'everything you have on transits and col- passboolts,' the Library must be prepared lections.' either to furnish the desired information or "Special collectio~is on trust company, to suggesl where it may bc found."

Accounting-Municipal issued by Adam Hilger, Ltd., 75a Camden The National rnunlcipal review for April, Road, London, England. 1914, prints a bibliography on "Municipal City charters, ordinances and documents accounting; list of publications issued in A supplement to the "List of city char. the United States since Jan. 1, 3900 (not ters, ordinances and collected documents including art~clesin period~cals)," com- irl the New Torlc Public library," wliich piled by Mary Banlrs, of tlic M~mcipal ha6 appeared serially in 5 parts in earlier research bureau, UTest Sound, Wnsh. p. numbers of the Bulletin, is printed In the 449-453 April, 1013, number of the Bulletin. p.313- Advertising 359. Two boolrs of the past year on advertis- City planning-New York (city) ing-"How to advertise a retail store, in- The Division of public documents of the cluding mail order advertising, n complcte New Yorlr Public library has compiled a and comprehensive manual for promoting "Selected list of references hearing on the publicity," by A. E. Edgar (4th ed. Adv. city plan of New York." which appearfi in World, 1913) and "Advertising and selling, llle Bnlletin of the Library, May, 1913. prlnc~plesof appeal and response," by H. p.396-408. L. EIollingswortl~ (Appleton, 1913), con- Compulsory education tain bihhographies on advertising, the U. former 9 pages and the latter 4 pages Part 6 of S. Bureau of education Bul- Agricultural credit letin, 1914, no 2, wh. no. 573, entitled The Ohio menlbers of the American "Compnlsory school attendance," is a "Bib- Commission to st~tdyEuropean agricnl- liograpliy of compulsory education in the turo and rural credits, inclndc in their Re- United States '' p.131-134. port, issued Feb. 12, 1914, a "Select bib- Defectives l~ography'' p 85 A list on "Mental deficiency and eu- Agricultural education genics" by Frances I3 Cheney mny be An "Agricnltural study bibliography, ar- found in the Rulletin of the Massachusetts ranged for ready reference" completes a Library club for Oct. 1913. study by R. W. Stillison on "The Massa- Consumers' leagues chusetts home-project plan of vocational The Repolst of the Consumers' league agrirult,urnl education," recently issued as of thc rity of NEW Yorlr for 1913 contains U S. Bureau of educntion Bnllctin, 1914, a bibliography of general works on no. 8, wh. no. 579. p 75-94. wornen's labor. referenccs on hours of la- Ammon~a vapor bor and on wages, and articles on the Con- An article on "The properties of suger- sumers' league. p 46-52. heated ammonia vapor" by G A. Good. Corporations-Federal control enough and W E Mosher, published as a The Library of Congress published in Bullet~n of the Engineering experiment March, 1913, the first part of n "List of station of the Univers~tyof Illinois, con- references on federal control of conltnerce tains a 3 page bihliography. and colporations," which took up the gen- Beef eral aspect of interstate commerce. Part -4 Bulletin of the Texas Department of 2 of this list, which appeared early in 1914. agriculture, "Baby beef," by E. E. Scholl, is devoted to special aspects and applica- contains a 5 page bibliography on the sub- tions The author and subject indexes ~ect.1913 simplify the use of the very exliaustive Chemistry-Absorption spectra list. 104p. A bibliography on the chemical signifi- Directories cance of absorption spectra (organic com- The entire issue of the Monthly bulletin pounds and the rare earths) may be found of the St. Louis Public library for August. In a Circular upon Spectrophotometers 1913, is taken up by a "List of United SPECIAL LIBRARIES

States and Canadian directories In the St. and condition of the Jews in various Louis Public library." p.177-208. countries" has appeared in four parts in Drainage the Bulletin of the New York Pubhc li- A. L. Bostwick, Municipal reference li- brary. July-OC~.,1913. brarian, is the compiler of a list on "Land Mun~cipalities- Administration - Bibli- drainage; its economic, agricultural and ographies engineering aspects," which is published Joseph Wright, Librnrian of the Bureau in the Bulletin of the St. Louis Public li- for rcsearch in municipal government, brary, Dec. 1313. p.302-10. I-Iarvard University, has compiled n bibli- Drugs-Deterioration ography of "Bibliogmpliies relating to The Lilly scientific bulletin, a publica. muniripal government," whlch appears in tion recently inaugurated by the Eli Lilly the National municipal rcvicw, April, 1914. Company, Indianapolis, contains in the Tlic items are grouped under tho various number dated April 6, 3914 (Ser. 1, no. 6), subjects into which municipal government "A bibliography of the deterioration of branches. The list as a whole will prove drugs and pharmaceutical products," a very valuable guide, particularly to which was presented by E. G. Eberhardt those interested in the accumulation of a and F. R. Eldred to the Scientific section municipal library. p.430-449. of the American pharmaceutical associa- Music tion at Nashville, Tenn., Aug., 1913, and The Chief of the Art department of the printed earlier In tho Journal of that As- St. Louis Public library has compiled "A sociation, Jan., 1914. p.181-193. selected list of books on the appreciation Electrlc welding of music," which is printed in the Bulletin "A list of works in the New Yorlc Pub- of the Library for Feb., 1913 p 50-53. lic library relating to electric welding" Labor organlzations compiled by W. B. Cfamhle, Chief of the A recent Publication in econonlics from Division of technology, is printed in the tlie University of California, "Launchin: Bulletin of the Library for May, 1313. The of the Industrial workers of the world, items are arranged by years, beginning by Paul V Rrissenden, contains 29 pages with 1786, and thus give an historical view of bibliography. 1913. of the subject and its literature. p.376- Numismatics 393. "A list of morlcs in the New York Pub- Eugenics lic library relating to numismnlics" is ap- A selected bibliography accompanies an pearing serit~llyin the Bulletin of the Li- article on "Eugenics" by A. E. Hamilton, bRLrjr. Parts 1, 2 and 3 may be found ill in the Pedagogical seminary, Mch. 1914. the Bulletins for Dec , 1913, p.981-1049, ~.58-61. Jan., 1914, p 59-86, and Feb., 1914, g.149- ~eography 175. The order of arrangement is. Bibli- Mary J Booth contributes to the Jan., ography; Peviodicals; Gencral worlzs-col- 1914, issue of the Journal of geography a lections and dealers' catalogs; Ind~vidual list of "Ma,terial on geography which may countries, All but part of the, last division be obtained free or at small cost." p have been prmted 129-151 Patents Granger movement Thc Bullelin of the St Louis Public li- S. J. Buck's "The granger movement; a brary for May, 1913, contains a "Select study of agricultural organization and its list of references to boolrs and neriodicals political, economic and social rnanifesta- on patents and invent~ons,"compiled by tions, 1870-1880," contains 39 pages of bibli- by S. D. Watkins. p.125-127. ographic material, 1913. (Harvard 111s- Psychology-Education torical studies.) "Bibliographies .of educational psycholo Industrial education gy" from tlie Library of Clark university Bulletin no. 2, Vocational series no. 1 are edited by IV. H, l3urnham. 44p. Sept., from the Indiana Department of public in- 1913. struction, enlitled "Tentative course of Public servlce of University officers study in industrial subjects for the public Under the above heading, are listed, in schools of Indiana," contains, under the the Columbia university quarterly, March, head "Bibliographies and equipment," 1!)34, the names of the members of the short lists on; Vocational and industrial faculty of Columbia with the various serv- education-general; Suggestive list of ices each renders to the public through boolrs on manual arts for teachers; Help- his association with government or volun- ful references for domestw science tary activities of various lmlds. The list courses; References cited in the courses occnpies 12 pages and is a revelation of in agriculture. p.186-206. tlie numerous and various undertalrings in Jewelry which these omcers share. The Attleborough (Mass.) Public library Public utilities-Commiss~ons has issued a list of "Books of aractical in- Appendix 3 of "The work of pnblic serv- terest to jewelers." 1913. ice con~missionswith special reference to

Jews the-~. New Yorlc~ Commission" by William A "List of works relating to the history Anderson, ~ublishedas current-problem8, 82 SPEC1AL LIBRARIES

no. 1, of the University of Minnesota, con- Telegraph and telephone sists of a bibliograpl~yof sources, books The American telegraph and telephone and articles which were found particularly library has had printed vol. 1 of the Cata- valuable in the preparation of the paper. log of its Accounting library, in a p.42-44. Nov., 1D13. pamphlet of 76 pages. The list is ar- Quartz lamps ranged in order of the classification num- A short list on mercury-vapor auartz bers, and, although the Library was in- lamps suppleme~~taa paper on that sub- tended originally to serve only the office Sect by W. A. D. Evans, printed as part of of the Comptroller of the company, it has the Proceedings of the Association of iron broadened out so as to include many and steel electrical engineer6 for 1913. books, pamplllets and periodicals of inter- p.167-8. est to the other departments of the com- Sex education pany. 1914. A short list of "Books on sex education Telegraph and telephone-Government Own. and hygiene" Erst appearing in the Quar- ership terly list of books of tho Brookline Public "A list of references and authorities" library, March, 1913, has been reprinted in constitutes appendix 11 Commercial the Massacl~usetts Library club Bulletin bulletin no, 7, ~~~~~~~~~~~t~lanrl prlvilte for the same month. p 40-45. telegraph and telephone utilities-an anal- Smoke ysis" issued March 2, 1914, by the Amer- "The smoke UIIi~ance; its cause, abate- ican telegraph and telephone company, p, ment, prevention, etc. List of references 85-95. to books and periodicals," compiled by S. Tuberculosis~School children D. Watkins, may be found on p.54-56 of To an article on 'iTuberculosis among the Bulletin of the St. Louis Public li- scllool by G. E. Jones, in the brary, Feb., 1913. Pedagogical seminary, March, 1914, is ap- Soclal forces pended a bibliography of 106 titles of "Social forces, a topical outline with books, articles, reports and works referred bibliography" prepared by the Education to in the text, p,89-94. cornni~tteeof the Wisconsin RToman's suf- frage association, a Committee created for Typewriters education in the duties and responsibili- "A list of works in the New York Pub- ties of contains over 75 short lic library relating to the development and bibliogmplues accompanying the various manufacture of typewriting machines" topics of the outline. The following are cOmplled by w. 13. and jirst ap- tile main divisions: fiIodern governmental pearing in the Bulle,tin of the Library for methods and ideals,National, State Mu- SePt., 1913, has been issued in a separate nicipal; Labor and industrial topics; Of pages. Woman-and some human problems; Ed- U- S- President-Term ucational problems; Social forces at com- Estella E. Painter is the compiler of a mand; L~~~~~~ otl,er countries teach; recent volume in the Abridged debaters ~~~~l responRibility of the citizen or handbook series, entitled "Selected arti- voter. cles on the six-year presidential term," Steel mills-Motor driven which contains a 4 page bibliography. A "List of references on motor drive 1913- steel mills" may be found on p.205 of the Veterinary medicine Proceedings of the Association of iron and A recent volume on "Veterinary toxi- stecl electrical engineers for 1913. (James colog~"by G. D. Lander contains a 3 page Farrington, Sec.-treas. LaBelle Iron worlcs, bibliography on the subject. Steubenville, 0.) Vocational Education Teachers-Pensions Since Sept., 1013, the magazine "Voca- A book on "The teacher and old age" tional guidance" has conducted in each by C. A. Prosser and W. I Hamilton, rrp- issue an Index to periodical literature on pearing recently in the Rivers~doeduca- vocational education. It also reviews new tional monographs series, contains a long book^ on the topic and notes all publica- list on teachers' pensions. 1913. tions received in that line. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Current References

Agricultural cred~t mation of smnlup and overflowed la~tds" The Oluo members of the Amcrican by Cliarlev L