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l.METHODS & TRAINING

Feuturing Articles by

MIGNON GILL

IRENE M. STRIEBY

BILL M. WOODS

ALICE V. NEIL

H. E. BUMGARDNER

GENEVA SEYBOLD

Vol. 43, No. 3. March, 1952 Special Libraries Association SCHEDULE OF Library BOOK REVIEWS Journal

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Technical Work in a Petroleum Research Library'"

by MIGNONGILL, Librarian Universal Oil Products Company Chicago, Illinois

ETROLEUM LIBRARIANS seldom come In some respects, the processing of a Pready made. The staff of such a petroleum librarian resembles the pro- library might well include chemists who cessing of petroleum itself. specialized in food chemistry, trained First, you must start with good stock. librarians who are not chemists, cap- The ASTM hasn't issued any specifica- able stenographers who are neither tions, but if analysis revenls that your chemists nor librarians, or someone with prospective librarian has, in addition to an arts degree who doesn't fall into any sufficient education, the characteristics of these categories. of intelligence, integrity, industry and According to the orthodox view, as intellectual curiosity, you are safe to I understand it, each of these people proceed. may be encouraged to advance his or Next, remove the overhead gases, her knowledge within the specialty for which in the case of the prospective li- which trained, but is not expected to brarian takes the form of nebulous fan- expand very far into other fields. If the cies, their nature varying with the type staff is very large, this is probably a of stock. Your chemist, particularly if reasonable enough arrangement. But in he is just out of school, may secretly the case of an average smaller technical mourn that if he had only gone into library, I believe that the more versa- laboratory work, he might have won the tility the better. Nobel prize at the age of thirty. Your There are at least two good argu- librarian, after an appraisal of the chem- ments in favor of versatility. The first ical terminology which he is expected is that the ultimate function of a libra- to master, may be overcome with re- rian in any capacity is to supply in- gret that he did not take a job in the formation, and it stands to reason that children's branch of the public library. the more he knows, the better job he Ideas such as these will eventually can do. Second, a variety of interests float off into space, but you can help to and abilities goes far toward preventing. speed the matter. Never let them forget boredom with the necessary details of that they are contributing toward pro- library work. gress in one of the world's most important and vital industries; that the ser- :& Adapted from a paper presented at a meet- vices which a technical library can con- ing of the Petroleum section, Science-Tech- nology Division, 42nd Annual Convention, tribute toward research are rapidly be- SLA, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 20, 1951. coming more and more appreciated; and that technical library work is an 1) Name an important abstract journal up-and-coming occupation. published in (a) Germany, (b) Eng- Now (to return to our analogy with land, (c) United States. petroleum processing) you fractionate 2) Give date of the first volume of the and discover some interesting facts. Here American abstract journal. How many is an individual who excels in imagina- decennial indexes have been published? tion, another who is well endowed with Dates? good common sense, and one who is 3) By what names were the following exceptionally precise and accurate. These journals formerly called: Analytical are all splendid qualities for use in the Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chem- manufacture of librarians. Process them ical Engineering Progress, Petroleum properly, you yourself providing the Processing? catalytic activity, and you should obtain 4) There is a set of books which is gen- a good product. erally referred to simply as "Dunstan." As in most other fields, a planned In how many volumes is this set? Give program of on-the-job training is essen- complete reference -author (or editor, tial for the petroleum librarian, what- as the case may be) title, publisher, ever his previous training or experience. year of publication. Summarize briefly In general, the library supervisor is the the general nature of this work. person best suited for arranging such a 5) What do Berichte, Beilstein and course, one especially adapted for the Chemisches Zentralblatt have in com- librarian's needs. mon? Wherein do they differ? Training a New Librarian 6) What classification system do we In our library, the first thing we do use for our books? with the incoming member is to take 7) Collect one copy each of all four him all around the plant, so that he will members of any one group of the jour- immediately get an overall view of the nals listed below. (There follow four company which he is going to serve. groups of four titles each. Titles within Next he is taken around the library. each group are closely similar, and the again with the object of getting the idea is to call attention to this similar- overall picture. He is then given an in- ity, which can frequently lead to con- troductory book to read. Kalichevsky's fusion both on the part of the borrower The Amazing Petroleum Industry. espe- and the librarian. One such group in- cially the first portion, is especially cludes, for example, World Oil, World suitable for this purpose. Everyone seems Petroleum, Petroleum World and Pe- to find it readable. Although reading on froleum (London). Another includes the job is permitted, most people take Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engi- the book home for additional study. neering News, Chemical Engineering After he has been in the library for a Progress, and Chemical Bulletin.) month or so, he is given a set of ques- Various other questions have to do tions to answer. These questions, inci- with the holdings and the locations of dentally, are given to all newcomers, re- special collections. A request is made gardless of background. They are not for the Petroleum Division papers given intended as a test, but as a means of at the New York meeting of the Ameri- calling attention to library holdings, lo- can Chemical Society in 1947. The cations, and procedures. The "question" number of this ACS meeting is likewise method seems to be much more effec- required. This question serves the double tive than a sheet which simply sets forth purpose of directing attention to the the facts, or a vague invitation to existence of the Petroleum Division browse. While I devised the questions papers, so important in our field, and with reference to our own library, they to the fact that each semi-annual meet- are of course applicable to others. Here ing of the ACS is numbered, which may are some of them: not be familiar to non-chemists.

82 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Imaginary telephone inquiries call for too, but did not show up because it was quick action in producing: out of its proper sequence. 1) A patent for which the inquirer Book No. 4 is the tough one to find. knows only the patent number (we file It is the one which you yourself are by patentees only in our library). In- using at a library table, and in plain formation as to correct procedure is sight all the time. given. This little dramatization may seem 2) A copy of a Russian journal - any simple and obvious enough, but it does copy, title unspecified. The point is to serve to call attention in an unforget- know that we do keep them, and where table way to the four most likely places we keep them. where "missing" books may be found. 3) "A blue book about treating petrole- Mrs. Wilson, our cataloger, contributes um - I think one of the authors has a a part of the training program in a series Russian name, and there are two copies of talks and practice lessons pertaining in the library." In order to play fair, to the cataloging aspects of the work. this book is actually blue. Since the She explains the principles of the Uni- idea is to provide simply a preliminary versal Decimal System for Chemistry experience in handling requests of a and Physics which we use in our library. vague nature, we must be careful not to She has prepared a sheet for our loose- let our new librarian receive too much leaf notebooks in which she discusses of a shock at this point. If verisimilitude the arrangement of an index or a card were to be observed, the book would catalog. Her course includes instruction turn out to be red, and both the authors in the care and maintenance of library German. materials. Now we come to the climax, the So far, I have discussed phases of li- "Mystery of the Missing Books." This brary training which are applicable to one can be dramatized if you wish. You most science-technology librarians, play the part of a customer. You pre- whether or not of the petroleum variety. sent the new librarian with a list of four Training for Technical Work books, explaining, "I have checked loca- I am fully aware that some of my tions on these books in the catalog, and ideas are in opposition to those held by I have looked on the shelves where many members of the Chemical Litera- they are supposed to be, but I can't ture Group of the ACS on the one hand, find a one. Where can they be?" and of SLA on the other. As an active If the trainee is smart, she will not member of both societies, I certainly jump to the conclusion that all four would be the last to deny the value of books have been stolen. She will either the chemistry degree or the library de- invite the customer to be seated while gree in a petroleum research library, or she attempts to locate them, or prefer- the necessity that each degree be repre- ably offer to bring them to his labora- sented, at least. As an ideal, I have even tory as soon as they are found. speculated on the interesting possibil- It will probably occur to her first that ities of a staff composed entirely of the books have been lawfully charged holders of both degrees, with the routine out. So she checks the record, and sure work distributed or rotated among them. enough Book No. 1 is safe in the pos- But to return to my opening sen- session of one of the chemists. But where tences, let us face the facts. Petroleum are the other three? librarians seldom come ready made. She now re-checks the catalog and Many library-trained people have little the bookshelves, and to her surprise scientific background, and small interest there stands Book No. 2 in the exact in acquiring one. Many chemists are spot where the catalog said it would be! not temperamentally adapted to library Book No. 3 is the second volume of work. Further, the laboratories, which a six-volume set. It is on its own shelf (Continued on page 104)

MARCH, 1952 83 Books . . . Borrowed, Lost or Stolen'"

by IRENEM. STRIEBY,Librarian Lilly Research Laboratories Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis, Indiana

0 BOOKS AND JOURNALS disappear? the one recognizable common denomi- D If so, why? Answering the second nator is the human element involved. question satisfactorily may aid in solv- The librarian deals with people at the ing the problem posed in the initial ques- same time he deals with books. Among tion-if, indeed, it is your problem. specific reasons the following may be Many librarians do consider it a prob- enumerated: ( 1) the book may be mis- blem and would like to hear the sub- shelved; (2) the client may forget to ject discussed. For present purposes, the charge it; (3) the book may be too dif- term book is an all-inclusive one; books, ficult to find; once the client does find it, journals, pamphlets, pictures and photo- he may reason he can put it to better stats-all are among the types of li- use since others may share his difficulty brary materials that may disappear. in using the library; (4) the book need- The following material is synthesized ed may be physically located where it from the viewpoint of librarians in in- cannot be consulted with convenience; dustrial organizations. It is also recog- (5) the book may be at the bindery and nized that departmental librarians of no record made of it; (6) the book may university and public libraries must also have been loaned before processing is cope with the problem of Books -Bor- complete; (7) the rules for circulation rowed, Lost or Stolen. More often than may not be liberal enough; (8) the book not, however, the policies they follow may have been loaned to another by the are those set by the library administra- person who originally borrowed it, the tion of which they are a part. The in- latter failing to re-charge it; (9) the dustrial librarian has more pioneering book may have disappeared from lab- work to do in that he must formulate oratory or office without the knowledge the policies as well as see that they are of the original borrower; (10) there integrated with overall policies of his may have been a fire or some other ac- organization. cidental reason to cause its disappear- Books may be AWOL for any one of ance. You may think of other reasons; many reasons. Disappearance may re- some are justifiable and some are not. sult from accident or pure carelessness, If books are missing, perhaps reading or it may be directly related to the in- the shelves may bring to light some of dividual needs of the client. Possibly, the missing items; it is surprising how many books may be found out of place. *Prepared as a part of the Panel Discus- Not only may they be misshelved in sion: "Library Headaches" and presented at a haste by a member of the library staff, meeting of the Pharmaceutical section, Science- Technology Division, 42nd Annual Convention, but sometimes a client, in an effort SLA, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 18, 1951. to help "keep house," may consult sev-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES era1 books, then put them back where ing journals in order to complete files he thinks he found them. There is also for the bindery. When plant personnel a possibility that unbound journals will is widely scattered, this plan is not be found out of place, chronologically or practicable. It is then up to the individ- otherwise. File material may also be ual librarian to use his ingenuity to de- juggled until it is the same as lost. The vise original methods to fit the specific chance for error increases if stacks are situations. open and if files are arranged for the If a reasonable amount of time has client's use. been expended to locate the book, it is In case of lost books, perhaps an in- ,is,, before too much time has elapsed, ventory may be in order. Whether this to make a decision either to replace the is made or not depends upon time avail- item if it is important, or to remove the able and the policy of the library. Re- cards from the catalog and forget about gardless of the desirability of an inven- it. If the latter course is followed, it tory, it is still wise to establish the fact might be best to preserve the cards just that a book has really disappeared be- in case some forgetful laboratory work- fore the librarian contacts the clientele er cleans out the space underneath the in regard to missing items. This prin- front seat of his car preparatory to trad- ciple is recognized in good library public ing it in for a new model. Or, if some- relations. one leaves the employ of the organiza- One librarian suggests that it may be tion, the librarian may be in for a sur- a simple matter of guess work to dis- prise. The person leaving may clean cover who has the missing item. Fa- house and return many items, or he miliarity with the interests of his clien- may forget to return anything charged tele enables him to fit these interests to him. with the subject of the missing book. hi^ leads to the problem of the Following his hunch, he eliminates all stolen book. is common experience possibilities, one by 0% until he dis- that few books are deliberately taken covers the book, usually with the aid of without any intention of returning them. the Others place On Occasionally, however, this happens. If bulletin boards and in the company and when it does, text books top the magazine. It is reasonable to assume list of desiderata, so one's best guess is that the problem cannot be too trouble- that part-time student workers, who some in these situations. have not yet reached the age of account- Preparation and distribution of a list ability, are the culprits. If s~,the mat- of missing items is an established pro- ter can be dismissed with the thought cedure in a majority of libraries. Here that the item is fulfilling its purpose on again the frequency with which it is a full-time basis. The best procedures done depends upon the time available in existence may not help in prevent- as well as upon library policy. The cir- ing recurrence of this annoying ex- culation of just one more list of missing perience. books may fail to gain the attention of Borrowed books compose a far more the clientele. TOOoften it goes into the troublesome class for the average spe- waste basket unless the potential of- cial librarian. It is difficult to formulate fender is startled into doing something rules for a known clientele that usually about it. has serious need for many of the items Circulation of such a list may still borrowed. One library reported success not bring to light all of the missing upon adoption of strict rules covering books. Once or twice a year a personal short loan periods. The best remedies, visit by one of the staff members to all however, appear to lie in measures of the laboratories and offices may lo- taken to discourage the disappearance cate missing items. It is particularly ef- of books. What are some of these? They fective when one is trying to find miss- may help you solve your problems al-

MARCH, 1952 85 though some will prove impracticable. 4. The charging system for books and Remedies file material should be made as simple 1. Special emphasis should be given to as possible, not only to save staff time providing as many copies of books as but also to make it easy for the clientele are necessary to fill the need. Of course, to help itself. Seventeen years' experi- there may always be a time when no ence with a modified Detroit charging copy can be found regardless of how system enables the writer to state that many duplicates are available. If there it pays dividends. Stacks are open. The is difficulty in increasing the budget to book identification card is in the book cover sufficient copies, it is time for the pocket. The client, ready to leave with librarian to point out, as did two chem- his book, needs only to remove the card, ists recently, that we milk the cow reg- jot down his name, department number ularly but little do we do to feed it! and date, and leave the card on the 2. A liberal loan policy in regard to charging desk. If the librarian is busy length of time a book may be kept is helping some one else, the client en- recommended by some. This also saves counters no delay in waiting for book time for the librarian who regularly cards to be stamped. "Out cards" for file sends overdue notices. If the item is material and simple charge slips for un- constantly called for by the clientele or bound journals likewise encourage self is needed in the library for reference service. use, the purchase of a duplicate copy is 5. Another preventive remedy along the clearly indicated. This method of wait- line of securing simplicity in loan pro- ing to assess the demand may help to cedures is recommended by the libra- keep the purchases within the budget. rian who places book-size blocks of The problem of whether the duplicate wood upon the shelves labelled with should be charged to the library or to name and author of the various "desk" another department must be determined or departmental copies of books. For by a general purchasing policy for the those who prefer to browse rather than library. In some organizations books are to use the catalog, this method, while regarded as expendable as laboratory not revealing the information contained glassware. in a book, does indicate its existence in 3. The tendency to create "private libra- the organization. Where shelf space is ries" sets up barriers for others who at a premium, this solution can scarcely may want to use the books and sabo- be considered a panacea tages the work of the librarian. A policy 6. The problem of preventing clients specifying that the first copy of any from leaving without charging library book purchased shall be the property of items might be solved if an attendant the library, either for loan or reference sat at a charging desk near the en- purposes, may be the answer in some trance to the library. This would work situations. If another copy is needed for satisfactorily if there were only one departmental use, it must be a second door, an attendant always on duty, and copy. If some clear-cut policy of this the library closed to clientele after type is not worked out with the aid of hours. management, the librarian must accept 7. One library requires that books be the fact that the problem of decentral- consulted in the library. Another virtu- ization will continue as long as there ally has the same policy in that no are books and people. Even this type of journals may be circulated. It is a recog- solution brings attendant problems such nized fact that journals are all-impor- as more work for the staff in processing tant in research work. Such policies can books and indicating duplicate copies in be effective only if the location of the the card catalog, shelf list and loan library is a central one and also if the record. One organization permits no de- clientele cooperates in carrying the pol- partmental libraries. (Continued on page 94)

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Truining for Map Librarianshi6

Mr. Woods is map librarian, Univer- rho01 curriculums. In 1948, according to sity of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. Herman Henkle" eight library schools offered a single elective course in spe- BOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, a cial libraries, two offered courses in A prominent map curator was quoted both special and in hospital libraries. as saying she "learned through experi- One school offered a study of the ad- ence, observation and investigation, as ministration of science and technology there is not, and never has been train- libraries, another, a hospital libraries ing for map curators."' This was prob- course, and a law library course was ably true until last year, but we hope offered by still another. Two library the program now under way at the Uni- schools had programs to train special versity of Illinois will contribute some- librarians, while two others had what thing to the training for map librarian- Mr. Henkle described as intensive pro- ship -training which has surely been grams to train special librarians. No- neglected. where was more than a cursory glance Since 1909, when the Special Libra- given to map libraries. ries Association was organized, there During the past three years the cur- has been concern over the educational riculum of most of the library schools preparation of special librarians. In 19 19, has undergone a drastic revision. At the the Riverside Public Library (Califor- first-year graduate level there is a ten- nia) offered a training program in busi- dency to eliminate many of the so-called ness library methods. Slowly, library technique courses and substitute courses schools became interested in meeting an in surveys of literature, in research ever increasing demand on the part of methods and in communications. There special librarians, that some training be is also a tendency to exclude from the given in the ordinary library school new curriculum, courses of a highly spe- curriculum to prepare librarians to or- cialized nature. ganize and supervise special libraries The curriculum at the University of serving businesses, industries, govern- Illinois Library School has undergone ment agencies, societies and specialized just such a change. The class in special academic libraries. library administration, for example, was Often, a single course in special libra- dropped. However, the following state- ry administration was offered to parallel ment does appear in the 1951-52 cat- similar courses in college and univer- alog, "Students preparing for positions sity, public or school library adminis- in special subject libraries will find a tration. Later, courses reviewing the varied series of courses in subject bibli- literature of specialized fields, or in the ography -both in the Library School administration of a specialized type of and in other divisions of the University." library, were introduced into library Three of the courses listed are in "Adapted from a paper presented before a other divisions of the University: chem- Round Table Discussion, Geography and Map Division, at the 42nd Annual Convention of "Chicago University. Graduate Library SLA, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 19, 1951. School, Library Conference, Education for Li- 1 Library Journal, 75:442, March 15, 1950. brarianship, p. 171-72.

MARCH, 1952 ical literature and reference work, use tion of the problems involved in the of law books and music bibliography cataloging, classification, and care of and reference. Three others offered in maps," is offered for two semester-hours the library school by staff members of credit to undergraduates, or one-half the university library are biological lit- unit to graduate students. erature and reference work, medical lit- Offered again during the second sem- erature and reference work, and maps ester of 1950-5 1 under my instruction, and cartobibliographical aids. The fun- the course enrollment was limited to damental purpose of this paper is to fifteen students, five of whom were geo- discuss Library Science 306, Maps and graphers and ten of whom were librari- Cartobibliographical Aids, as offered for ans. The units were prefaced with a dis- the last two years at the University of cussion of the description, objectives Illinois Library School. and requirements of the course. The Personnel officers and others hiring latter included examination of numer- special librarians are often undecided ous references, reports on relative sub- as to whether a subject specialist with jects and a final examination. Seven an interest in library problems, or a units of varying importance were in- library specialist with an interest in the cluded : subject should be hired for a special 1. Introduction to maps and map library position. Dr. Burton W. Adkin- libraries son, a geographer turned librarian-ad- 2. Cartobibliographies and related ministrator, participating in a 1948 SLA aids round table on training for special libra- 3. Physical care and treatment of rians, said he preferred to hire someone maps with native ability who had special 4. Classification of maps training either in geography or in libra- 5. Cataloging of maps rv sciences. Dr. Adkinson assumed that 6. Old and rare maps no employe would come with all of the 7. Use of maps and cartobibliograph- desirable qualifications, but that fur- ical aids. ther training could well be secured A reorganization of the course outline while on the job. on the basis of experience, and in the When Dr. J. A. Russell came to Illi- light of comments made by both in- nois as head of the newly reorganized structors and students would probably Department of Geography in February, allow for three major divisions covering 1949, his ideas for a course in map appropriate subjects : bibliography were discussed with James Ranz, then map librarian at Illinois. 1. Introduction to maps and libraries Further discussion with Dr. R. B. Downs, (a) Map nomenclature director of the library and library school, (b) History of maps proved that the school was willing to (c) Map activity cooperate and include such a course in (d) Map libraries its curriculum. 2. Cartobibliographies and re la ted The class, maps and cartobibliograph- aids ical aids, is one of six courses in cartog- (a) Works treating maps in gen- raphy. The others, all recently initiated eral or reorganized, are field geography, map (b) Cartobibliographies proper compilation and construction, problems (c) Catalogs of individual collec- in cartography, map reading and inter- tions pretation, and descriptive interpretation (d) Catalogs of governmental of aerial photographs. mapping agencies Details of the course outline were (e) Catalogs of commercial map- worked out originally by Mr. Ranz. ping agencies The course, described as "an examina- (Continued on page 102)

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Current Library Tools and Sources of Information in the Electrical Industry"

Miss Neil is librarian, Research Lab- our history such a department was fore- oratory, General Electric Company, seen, and in 1900 the first industrial re- Schenectady, New York. search laboratory was inaugurated. The laboratory maintains a library of some HE ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY comprises 16,000 volumes and a staff to handle Tmany phases of activity, and it the book needs of about 275 scientists. would be impertinent for me to attempt This library is my respor~sibility. to fulfill the connotations of the title This paper will discuss the functions which has been bestowed upon this of a research library in an electrical paper. Even in my own-the General industry. Electric Company -there are many in- Current tools mean one thing to terests and products which do not con- everyone: periodicals. Our library sub- cern me directly. Just to give you a brief scribes to about three hundred journals, idea of our interpretation of electrical comprising foreign and English lan- industry, I ask the liberty of listing a guage magazines covering the fields of few of our pursuits. chemistry, physics and metallurgy. We are one of the world's largest Very early in the practice of my pro- molders of plastics. For years, we have fession I was introduced to the habit of been active in the field of silicones; our examining, perusing and reading the chemical department manufactures paint magazines. My first mentor, Nell Steel, for use on many types of surfaces; our who was librarian of the former Armour turbines and generators are in use in Institute of Technology, impelled me, every section of the globe; there is a by unconscious example, to investigate group of scientists engaged in the study the journals. I decided to find out why of weather modifications; and one of she always wanted priority on them and the company plants has a laboratory de- why she carried home armloads of the voted to lightning research. This list periodicals. I investigated the informa- only touches upon the infinite variety of tion she culled from them and the use activities, but it suffices to show the she made of it, thereby disclosing an scope. All of these endeavors deal with entirely new world of possibilities. The one phase or another of the electrical following practices stem directly from industry. Even weather bears upon it these early experiences. by virtue of its association with water In our library new magazines never power. leave the room until I have examined So many interests indicate that some- them. It is an unbreakable rule that where in the organization there must every journal is put on my desk. From be a research laboratory. Very early in these I make selections for my personal reading. This is one bit of "fun" in the * Adapted from a paper presented at the 42nd Annual Convention of SLA, St. Paul, library from which I extract a full meas- Minnesota, June 18, 1951. ure of pleasure. Not on131 is the time

MARCH, 1952 89 profitably spent in perusing the journals laboratory whose special delight was -it is also a respected break in the the obituary notices. They have a charm routine. Magazine day is red letter day all their own. for me. Physikalische Blatter is a useful jour- What do I look for? First, let me nal for news of European (particularly make it clear that I am not concerned German) science. with abstracting and that I am not en- Physics Today has good reviews, to- tertaining the idea of becoming an en- gether with news about physicists and cyclopedia. Mine is a case of looking at their activities. as many journals as quickly as possible There are certain kinds of items to (We maintain an index of current tech- look for in journals such as those just nical literature as a further service.) mentioned, including: new laboratories, My magazine reading is for the pur- "names in the news7', award notices, new poses of keeping myself informed first, products, government happenings, sal- and second to be able to help, directly ary surveys, technical employment and or indirectly, the library patron. There society meetings. Information on the are briefly four types of journals in my subjects I have just mentioned will help present analysis: you to be a well informed and, there- 1. Those especially good for news fore, a more useful librarian. 2. Those specializing in good book Noteworthy illustrations of book re- revieQvs view magazines are: Science Progress, 3. The general survey type which is a unique quarterly devoted to 4 Those of general scientific interest survey articles, review essays and nu- A word of warning is needed. Jour- merous short reviews; The Franklin nals given herewith are not being dis- Institute Journal, which has good re- cussed for their contents in general. No views and a long list of new books; attempt is being made to evaluate ma- Science usually has a few good reviews; terial or to enumerate the articles. In and Nature, of course, is excellent for a this paper I am endeavoring to describe variety of reviews and quarterly lists of specialties only. new books. Some outstanding examples of mag- Some other magazines which contain azines which are especially good for excellent book notices are The Journal news are: of the American Chemical Society, The Chemical and Engineering News in Journal of Chemical Education, Journal which the news is brief, timely and, of Applied Physics, Proceedings of the happily, sometimes gossipy. Royal Society, Proceedings of the Phys- Science, along with the former, is an ical Society, Chemical and Engineering excellent source of information about News, and Philosophical Magazine. medals and awards. The American Scientist has a book Electrical Engineering naturally con- review policy which resembles that of tains items of general news interest to Science Progress, and it is invaluable. us. Last, but not least, is the Review of The American Ceramic Society Bul- Scientific Instruments. We are all fa- letin is another magazine which occa- miliar with its spring and fall book lists. sionally yields an interesting item. In all of the foregoing journals the Chemistry and Industry is useful for book announcements are plentiful and British news in the chemical field. alluring. Since I do most of the book Nature is a joy for many reasons. It selection, reviews and announcements still retains much of the flavor of early are of primary importance. scientific writing, yet reports a variety The general survey articles usually of events of noteworthy value. For news appear in journals such as Reviews of of foreign medals and awards it is ex- Modern Physics, Chemical Reviews, and ceptional. We once had a man in our Quarterly Reviews. These periodicals

90 SPECIAL LIBRARIES are quickly scanned and the interested tive source of technical data. No other persons notified immediately if neces- single publication yields so much infor- sary. mation to us as this. Even so, we have ~h~ articles of more general scientific had trouble convincing metallurgists content are found in almost any mag- and physicists of its value. However, azine, but there are some outstanding two recent experiences have pointed UP titles which deserve honorable mention. its importance. Our low temperature in- Endeavour, with its especially appro- vestigators thought they had completely priate title, is very valuable. id you covered their field for a literature sur- ever have a scientist request suggestions vey; but they overlooked Chemical Ab- for the subject of a talk to be stracts. We undertook to complete their before a local men's Bible class or a Survey and thereby proved to them that group of science students? Endeavour they had missed at least 50 Per cent of is a favorite source for such material. the references- They will never forget A good semi-scholarly publication de- these abstracts in the future. Again, one voted to a variety of topics is Scientific of our metallurgists discovered that a Monthly. Regaining some of its impor- patent in which he was particularly in- tance in the field of is The terested was given in Chemical Ab- American. It seems to repre- stracts. No other reference to it was sent a cross between the defunct Fed- in any such eral Science Progress and Science Illus- Henceforth, the librarian will scan all trated. future issues of the abstracts for similar material of value to this researcher. Factually stimulating, Fortune is well- written and frequently enlivened by We supplement Chemical Abstracts cryptic pungency. with other services such as Chemisches Physics Today often contains articles Zentralblatt, ASM Reviews of Metal of general importance. One issue last Literature, Metallurgical Abstracts, Sci- year (February) contained a paper by ence Abstracts (A and B), Wireless En- K. K. Darrow on ''How to Address the gineer, or the Proceedings of the Znsti- American Physical Society". Its prin- tute of Radio Engineers which reprints ,-iples apply equally to any association references in toto from the former, Rep- and should help to prevent the audience ertorium der technischen Journal-litera- from "heading for the corridors". ture, and Engineering Index. The American Scientist reappears It is superfluous to mention Beilstein, again in this last category. It has a quai- Gmelin, Mellor, Landolt-Bornstein (the ity not found in other journals and is an fifth edition) and znternational Critical excellent source for "spoofingn articles Tables. They all serve a definite role in which help to spice routines and offer obtaining data on properties and Prep- material for conversation. If you have aration of com~oundsand elements. The not read "How Newton Discovered the standard handbooks on chemistry, P~YS- Law of Gravitationv in the January, ics and metallurgy make up the nucleus 1951 issue, it is hereby urged that you of Our reference collection. They are too do so. It is almost too true and its irony well known even to enumerate. is delightful. Our library has made a There are othkr aids which are par- collection of such articles and we main- ticularly applicable to our work. Among tain a "humor" file which is gleaned these are TIP, which is an outstanding from our reading. example of current document indexing By this time you are aware of the and a fruitful sourcebook in the field of fact that a research organization in the unpublished literature. We also use Doc- electrical industry is much like its coun- toral Dissertations and Microfilm Ab- terparts the world over. Therefore, you stracts considerably to obtain informa- will not be surprised when I state that tion on and copies of doctoral theses. Chemical Abstracts is our most produc- (Continued on page 110)

MARCH, 1952 9 1 LABOR-SAVING METHODS ,4PPLIED TO Magazine Circulation"

Mr. Bumgardner is supervisor of the for each ten names. In addition, one library, The Detroit Edison Company. copy of each of the 260 different magazines obtained is currently kept on the URING RECENT YEARS several periodical rack for ready reference. D changes in our library procedure Magazines are distributed mainly by have been introduced to facilitate the company mail, and the order of circula- handling of magazine circulation. These tion is by company location to mini- changes have resulted in an improve- mize the time required for mailing from ment in the service rendered to em- one employe to the next. ployes, minimized the labor required to The following changes were made do the job and greatly reduced the during the period 1940-1948. They chances of errors being introduced into have been in operation long enough now the records. to have proven to be worthwhile and The following facts will be of interest workable. in understanding our magazine circula- The first change made in our mag- tion requirements. The company serves azine circulation procedure was to dis- an area of about 7,600 square miles, continue having copies of the mag- with many offices and employes sta- azines returned to the library after cir- tioned in outlying districts. Presently, culation to a single individual. They approximately 1,050 employes, regard- are now returned to the library only less of work location, are receiving mag- after the circulation to ten names has azines upon request. The total number been completed. At present, it takes on of magazines-per -employe circulations the average approximately twenty work- handled last year was 192,000 (number ing days to circulate one copy of a of copies x 10 x average number of is- magazine to ten names. This compares sues per year). With twelve employes. with over forty-three days under the the labor required for the operation of old system of back-to-the-library be- the library represents 83 per cent of the tween each circulation to an individual. total expenses at the present time. In Thus, this change, besides reducing the 1940, the equivalent figure was about amount of labor required, has speeded 70 per cent. Thus, not only is this the up considerably the service to employes. largest item of expense in operating our Another change, and one that has library-it is increasing percentagewise. saved considerable labor without any Magazines for circulation are ordina- undue concern to the employes them- rily obtained on the basis of one copy selves, was the discontinuance of the sending of a list of magazines to some ':' Adapted from a paper presented before 1,050 employes once a year for check- the Public Utilities section, Science-Technology Division, at the 42nd Annual Convention of ing those publications desired during SLA, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 18, 1951. the following year. The few changes

SPECIAL LIBRARIES made as a result of the former pro- list preparation. Besides allowing for cedure did not warrant the work in- almost unlimited expansion in the num- volved in preparing tabulations and an- ber of requests handled by the same swering questions about last year's se- amount of help, it is a comparatively lections. Additions or deletions, how- error-free system. It is flexible, too, since ever, are made whenever requested. Em- it allows for changes in circulation lists, ployes who are not on our circulation list changes which can be incorporated so and who desire to be included may be as to take effect almost immediately. added at any time during the year, just The record cards can be rearranged at as before. New employes visit the library any time to place "hold-ups" at the bot- during their indoctrination and thus tom of the list, discards can be removed learn of this as well as other library ser- and new requests can be added in vices which are available to them. proper location sequence. Our card rec- By far the most important change in ords are thus always maintained in an our magazine procedure, from a labor- up-to-date order. Circulation lists are saving standpoint, was the utilization of prepared by machine. These are printed a punched card system beginning about directly from the record cards in groups three years ago. This system does away of ten names once every two or three with the involved and tedious hand months, as determined by the number method of record-keeping and route- (Continued on page 102)

President's Message

For ten full years, SPECIAL LIBRARIES progressed under the devoted (and voluntary) guidance of Alma Mitchill. Last year the association em- ployed a full-time, professional managing editor, Harry Snowden, Jr., to relieve Miss Mitchill and to bring SPECIAL LIBRARIES to a new level of quality and helpfulness. Mr. Snowden had only enough time to make a promising start when he had to ask - with much regret - to be allowed to resign in order to consider a very fine opportunity with a large private publishing firm. To replace him, the Executive Board has appointed Dora Richman, former reference librarian, Consumer's Union in New York City, as associate editor to fill out Mr. Snowden's unexpired term which is open for renewal June 1, 1952. All this emphasizes our need for a long range plan to make SPECIAL LIBRARIES a truly professional journal and to insure a steady, increased growth in its value to all of us. An important factor in that growth will be your help and your criticism. Every time you read a new issue of SPECIAL LIBRARIES you discover articles which appeal to you - new ideas, stimulating thoughts, better sources of material, more effective techniques. On the other hand, you may disagree with what you find, or fail to discover what you hoped the pages would disclose. When this happens it is the time to speak up. Your questions, your criticisms, your offers to write a better article or a different one, will give the editors what they need to make the journal more effective. SPECIAL LIBRARIES is like your child. It cannot grow the way you want it to grow without your help and steady guidance. It needs not only your "Don'ts", but also your cooperation to be what you want it to be. Start doing your part now. Write today to Miss Richman or Miss Mitchill about this issue. GRIEC ASPNES,President.

MARCH, 1952 93 CONVENTION NEWS 9. Never underestimate the power of a secretary. Many organizations provide secretarial training programs. Here is an opportunity to see that the work of the library is described and the secretary told that he can aid in keeping journals moving when they are received en route at a time when the boss is out of town, and in returning other items promptly to the library. This is done in our organization by one of the library staff members who has been invited to participate in the training course. As a part of the program, a visit is made to the library. 10. The orientation idea is extended to the entire personnel during the first week of employment in some organizations. In others, the library staff is invited to interpret library service to the "Have you seen the SLA Convention clientele likely to make frequent use program in the News Bulletin? I am send- of the library. In still others, library ing my registration cards right now." handbooks are intended to cover this MAIL THEM NOW. Advance registra- need. One library reported it a routine tion cards for the convention and for for groups of new staff members to hotel accommodations were enclosed in visit the library where classification, the convention program sent to all mem- loan rules, and other policies and pro- bers recently. REGISTER NOW. cedures are explained. On the other hand, some replies indicate that secur- SbA CONVENTION New York City ing cooperation is all a matter of edu- May 25-29, 1952 cation, that bulletin board notices and personal explanations alone will be effective. Credit for several of the foregoing suggestions should be given to those Borrowed Books who answered questions submitted to (Continued from page 86) them in a survey made by the writer in icies out. The desirability of such pol- 1945 of twenty of the largest libraries icies, which are the exception rather of the Science-Technology Division. than the rule, must be determined by At the outset we should have pinched management, with the overall function ourselves as a reminder that we have of the library in mind. come a long way since the day of the 8. An efficient system for the delivery chained book. Our major concern is and return of books is a great aid in with making library materials available preventing books from straying. In some to all of our clientele; the disappearing libraries, a special library messenger is book is only one of the by-problems available for this service. In other libra- with which we must cope. Nor do we ries, route lists are never used on specific forget that, if all the books were in place items; the material goes to one person on the shelves of the average library, at a time, thus enabling the librarian to there would not be room for recent ac- place responsibility for the loan at all cessions. Utopia simply does not lie times. within the area of our libraries.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES SLA Publications CUMULATIVE STATEMENT ON PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1951 k V) r- m t~ No. Inst. Copies Total Receipts Date Name of Publication Cost Printed Given Sold To Date

1937 Social Welfare: Subject Headings List ...... $ 293.25 5 11 $ 457.80 * 1946 & 1947 Special Library Resources, Vols. 2-4 ...... 19,658.72 931 (Sets) 15 extra vols. 15,786.13 List of Subject Headings for Chemistry Libraries 986 1,561.18 Union List of Technical Periodicals ...... 738 4,400.40 Aviation Subject Headings ...... 281 483.28 Brief for Corporation Libraries ...... 650 1.129.09 Creation and Development of An Insurance Li- brary ...... Subject Headings for Aeronautical Engineering Libraries ...... Numerical Index to the Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Reports, Vols. 1-10...... Source List of Selected Labor Statistics ...... Fakes and Forgeries in the Fine Arts ...... Contributions Toward A Special Library Glossary SLA Transactions of the 41st Annual Convention Technical Libraries, Their Organization and Man- agement ...... SLA Directory of Members ...... Nicknames of American Cities...... 195 1 Classification Schemes and Subject Headings List Loan Collection ofSLA...... 111.66

t No records kept. 10 * Special Library Resources, Vol. 1 (Now out of Print) ...... 5,178.39 CJl Here is a Cornpan

by GENEVASEYBOLD Division of Personnel Administration National Conference Industrial Board New York, N. Y.

HAT IS A COMPANY LIBRARY? Easy to define? Per- whaps -in general terms. But approach the specific and one is likely to encounter difficulty, for no two company libraries are alike. If ever the term "custom made" applies, it does in this instance. Not long ago the heads of special libraries maintained by twelve large advertising agencies in New York City compared notes. Independently, each made a list of the types of material kept in his or her library and of the services provided. When the lists were compared, the librarians were startled to find that only a few items were common to all. Although their survey had been narrowed to the same business in the same locality, no uniform pattern was evident. In general, a company library implies: Space, Supplies, Staff, and Services. Books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, etc., are assembled in a central place. Here they are organized by spe- cially trained personnel to provide a variety of services to the employes of the company which finances the endeavor. Examination of how a single unit operates may be help- ful -always keeping in mind that no one library is repre- sentative of company libraries as a whole. Take, for example, the library of The Detroit Edison Company, which has been a vital part of that organization for nearly forty years. Central Location Chosen This public utility, which serves an area of about 7,600 square miles, has many offices and employes in outlying districts as well as in Detroit itself. It was in 1914 that the various departments of the company gave up their individual collections of reference materials to start a company library. A location on the fifth floor of the general offices was chosen because it was central so far as all offices in the ten-story building were concerned. A second office struc- ture has since been erected and connected by a concourse

SPECIAL LIBRARIES The wide variety of services such a library can provide is demonstrated at The Detroit Edison Company

to the general offices. Approximately in the library or withdraw it for a four thousand employes work in the limited time at no charge. Included in two buildings. the reference materials are pamphlets, With the exception of collections main- periodicals and indexes. If in this wide tained in the medical, legal, and re- collection the Edison employe does not search departments, the central unit is find what he wants, the company libra- now the only company library. The re- rians will obtain books and periodicals search department library, located at for him from the local public library or one of the power plants, is under the other outside libraries. jurisdiction of the supervisor of the Circulation of Periodicals central library. He reports to the com- In the company library are more than pany's director of research, who in turn 250 periodicals, including foreign publi- reports directly to the president of the cations. About half of the magazines ob- company. tained by the company are acquired for Library in Three Parts use in specific departments and half for In the central library, which has floor circulation to employes who have re- space of approximately 2,900 square quested them by filling out a form. feet, the equivalent of three small read- Ordinarily, magazines for circulation ing or study rooms is provided. In addi- are obtained on the basis of one copy tion to the reference library, there is a for each ten names. In addition, a single technical file section and a rental libra- reference copy of each of the magazines ry. The rental library, stocked with is kept on the periodical rack in the fiction and nonfiction books currently on library. Back copies of some of the mag- best seller lists, is located on the ninth azines are bound for permanent refer- floor of the general offices, near the em- ence. Magazines are distributed mainly ploye-restaurant and auditorium. by company mail. To minimize the time Services provided by the library as a required for mailing from one employe whole are a far departure from mere to the next, the order of circulation is custody of books. The books - more by company location. than 24,000 of them, including bound A punch-card system is utilized in volumes of periodicals - are chiefly on the preparation of route lists. Circula- technical subjects but embrace any tion lists are machine-prepared directly published information relevant to the from master record cards in groups of company's business. They are classified ten names once every two or three under a system that is based on the months. This is determined by the num- Dewey Decimal System, altered and ber of changes made necessary through expanded to meet the particular needs additions, deletions and changes of ad- of Detroit Edison. " Reprinted with permission from Manage- Employes may either consult material ment Record, October, 195 1.

MARCH, 1952 dress. The cards can be rearranged at reference, are circulated to all depart- any time to put names of those who are ments of the company. "holding up" speedy circulation at the The library supplies regular lists of bottom of the list. Discards can be re- its recent additions. (These compila- moved and new requests added in prop- tions, too, are typed and offset.) And er location sequence, so that the card several times a year it sends a list of records are always maintained in up-to- national association and society meet- date order. ings, to be held during the next eight Digests of Books and Articles months, to all department heads who Complete reports of literature searches, might find the meetings of particular abstracts of specific articles and bibli- interest. ographies are prepared on the request At Detroit Edison, company policy of employes. Approximately once a and procedure statements are available month, a four-page typed and multi- to supervisors and employes in the form lithed leaflet called the Library Di- of collections of "Active General Or- gest is prepared and circulated to all ders, Routine Instructions and Com- Detroit Edison employes who want it. pany Memorandums." The library main- Two pages are devoted to five-or-six- tains books of these at many locations line digests of current technical litera- so that a complete file is always avail- ture (articles, books and patents), and able to employes for ready reference. one page is filled with digests of current Another job undertaken by the library nontechnical material. The first page staff is making patent searches. contains a longer review of a report or The division of the library known as study of general interest and impor- the technical file service organizes de- tance to those in the public utility busi- partmental files and assists in maintain- ness. An order blank is provided-in the ing them by classification of technical Library Digest which may be returned and other file materials on a uniform, to the library by interdepartmental company-wide basis. It maintains a cen- mail. On this, the employe can indicate tral subject-card catalog, indexing all of by item number which of the books or the material in the many department pamphlets he would like to borrow. files which it services. Another library service frequently The rental library, which is on the utilized by departments and employes ninth floor and separated from the refer- is the translation of articles, reports, ence library, might be considered a part letters and other documents in any for- of the company's recreation program eign language. for employes. About a third of the books All requests for the purchase of books, in this collection are general fiction and magazine subscriptions or other pub- two thirds westerns and mysteries. They lished materials for use in the company are chosen from reviews and advance are routed through the library. HOG- notices of possible best sellers or are ever, the library does not obtain books the works of popular authors. or periodical subscriptions for the per- Two cents a day is the rental charged. sonal use of employes. Employes at any company location can Newspaper Clipping Service order a book from the rental library by A newspaper clipping service now telephone or through the interdepart- maintained by the library antedates the mental mail. To save sending small library by many years. Going back to change through the mail, employes 1893, the clippings provide a history open accounts by depositing a dollar, file of Detroit, especially of utilities. Cur- from which rental charges are deducted. rent newspaper clippings on public util- Brief notices of new books available ities and related subjects are assembled through the rental library are carried in 8% by 11 inch pages. Photostats of in a regular column in the Synchro- these, numbered consecutively for easy (Continued on page 110)

98 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Publication of Directory of Libraries and Chapter Highlights information ~ourcesof the Philadelphia Metro- politan Area, 8th ed., begun- last year; (3) Co- operation with A.A.A.S. in supplying SLA and CHAPTER PROJECTS, 195 1-52 S.L.C. materials and manning a special library assembled by A.A.A.S. for its meeting BALTIMORE:(1) Membership drive; (2) Re- in Philadelphia, December 27-30. vision of the Directory of Special Libraries PITTSEURGH:( 1) Union List of Serials; (2) within the Baltimore Area; (3) Study of the Directory of Members. Chapter's Constitution and By-laws with the SAN FRANCISCOBAY REGION: (1) Union idea of revision. List of Serials; (2) Duplicate Exchange ~ist. BOSTON: Membership drive. TEXAS: Beginning work on Directory of Spe- CLEVELAND:Duplicate exchange list in prep- cial Library Resources in Texas. aration. TORONTO:( 1 ) Indexing chapter bulletin; (2) COLORADO:Directory of all special libraries in Revising chapter directory. Colorado. WASHINGTON,D. C.: (1) Handbook and CONNECTICUTVALLEY: Union Serials List. Directory of the Washington, D. C. Chapter; GREATERST. LOUIS: TO increase membership ( 2 ) Library and Reference Facilities in the and attendance at meetings. District of Columbia Area; (3) Activities of ILLINOIS:( 1) Sub-professional course on basic Community Services Committee in collecting reference tools; ( 2 ) Chapter manual. books, magazines, newspapers and monetary INDIANA:Continuing work on a union peri- contribution for the US0 Servicemen's Lounge odical file housed in the technical department in Union Station; (4) Professional Activities of the Indianapolis Public Library. Committee's work in four fields: a) roster of KANSASCrm: Union List of Serial Holdings translators; b) forms of presentation of re- in Libraries of the Kansas City Area. source information; c) rewriting Civil Service LOUISIANA:Check list of current serials. position specifications; and d) position de- MICHIGAN:Booth at the World Metallurgical scription manual, including glossary. Congress in Detroit, October 13-19. Selecting and collecting materials for display, setting up the booth and getting volunteers to man it for Participation in Joint Meetings twelve hours a day. MILWAUKEE:( 1) Printed membership direc- BOSTONand CONNECTICUTVALLEY in conjunc- tory; (2) Continuing work on card record, tion with New England Library Association. Union List of Serials, maintained in the Swampscott, Massachusetts, October 12. reference room of the Milwaukee Public Li CINCINNATIand Miami Valley Librarian As- brary; (3) Special libraries issue of Wisconsin sociation, Dayton, Ohio, May 10. Library Bulletin; (4) Recruitment tea at Mil- CLEVELANDand Library Club of Greater waukee-Downer College for high school stu- Cleveland and vicinity, January 16. dents interested in library work. COLORADOwith Colorado Library Association. MINNESOTA:( 1) Current information file on Colorado Springs, October 12-13. chapter personnel by Placement Committee: GREATERST. LOUISand KANSASCITY, during (2) Revision of Chapter constitution by Con- the convention of the Missouri Library Asso- stitutional Revision Committee; (3) Revision ciation, October 6. of local membership directory by membership GREATERST. LOUISand local A.L.A. members, co-chairman and special committee; (4) File January. of interesting and amusing experiences asso- LOUISIANAwith Louisiana Library Association, ciated with the special libraries work of indi- Shreveport, March 13-14. President Aspnes vidual chapter members by the Publicity Com- among the speakers. mittee; (5) Supply of permanent badges-. MILWAUKEEwith Wisconsin Library Associa- one for each member-prepared and main- tion, October 4-6. tained by the vice-president. MONTREALwith Quebec Library Association. MONTREAL:( 1) Two-day institute on records PHILADELPHIAand PITTSBURGH,as part of the administration and management; ( 2 ) Work on convention of the Pennsylvania Library Asso- union list of serials for fall publication. ciation, Bedford Springs, October 26. (Meet- NEW YORK: (1) Continuation of library training and exhibit.) President-Elect Ferguson ing courses at the Ballard School; (2) Prepara- provided the summation. tions for 1952 convention. SAN FRANCISCOBAY REGIONand SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: Current list of members, busi- CALIFORNIA,during session of California Li- ness addresses and business telephone numbers. brary Association, San Francisco, October 6. PHILADELPHIA:i 1) Award to member of this WESTERNNEW YORK and Glass Librarians, year's graduating class at Drexel Institute of Corning Glass Center, September 29. Technology whose major is in the field of spe- HELENMARY PYLE, cial libraries and whose thesis topic and study Chapter Liaison Officer and Chairman, in the field is considered outstanding; (2) Chapter Relations Committee.

MARCH, 1952 making their work available through publica- Have you heard.. . . tion, despite higher and rising costs. Chemical Engineering Progress, journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, has met this challenge, not only by increasing Chester M. Lewis Nominated its own pages but by putting into effect a publication plan designed to make available, The Executive Board of SLA has at intervals throughout the year and at low approved the Nominating Committee's prices, the authoritative technical work in the selection of Chester M. Lewis, chief li- vast field of chemical engineering. The com- brarian of the New York Times, as a panion volumes to the monthly journal are the candidate for second vice-president to Chemical Engineering Progress Monograph replace Allen G. Ring, deceased. Series and the Chemical Engineering Progress ROSE BOOTS Symposium Series. First volumes in each JOLAN FERTIG series are just off the press. THELMAHOFFMAN In the first monograph, Reaction Kinetics in W. L. POWLISON Chemical Engineering, Professor Olaf Hougen, SARAM. PRICE, Chairman of the University of Wisconsin and interna- tionally known authority in the field, presents the historical development of chemical kinetics as applied to process design, its present status Letter of Correction and the most promising fields for immediate I have read with much interest the article investigation. Ultrasonics - two symposia in- on "Special Libraries in the Near East" in cludes the studies of fifteen experts on the your September, 1951 issue. I hope that you uses and developments of ultrasonic energy, will continue to print similar material on for- with discussion of its application to chemical eign libraries in the future. engineering processes and operations. In the interest of meticulous accuracy there To make the record complete, and to en- are several points in this article which should sure permanency in the literature, the C.E.P. be re-stated, but I will request you only to publication plan calls for two separate ab- print a correction of one such point. With stract reports. Chemical Engineering Progress reference to the statement on page 245 that will publish abstracts of all articles appearing there has been a library school at Ankara in the series volumes, and the symposium University, it should be more properly stated volumes will include abstracts of all articles that for some ten years Adnan Otiiken, now from the original symposia which appeared in director of the Turkish National Library, has the journal. been giving a two-hour course lasting for four Now going to press is the first of two vol- semesters which is basically an introduction to umes on phase-equilibria, and these are to be bibliography and library methods. It is in no iollowed by a symposium volume on kinetics. sense a library school, but it has been a power- In the September issue of Chemical En- ful factor in recruiting librarians who were gineering Progress, Editor F. J. Van Ant- later trained on the job. Contrary to the werpen, writing on Progress Through Separate further statement that the course has been Publication, comments: "Unless some answer discontinued, it is being offered currently, and to the literature needs of our engineers and well over fifty students are enrolled in each scientists is found, the great science and en- of the two classes (first and second year). It gineering future of which we boast may slowly is realized that this is not a full-fledged library fade, owing to a lack of fundamental data in school, and the Turks are giv;ng serious con- technical literature. However, this is the sort sideration to the founding of an American- of challenge that engineers meet in their type library school. everyday lives and we feel that the American LAWRENCES. THOMPSON, Institute of Chemical Engineers, through these Director of Libraries (Continued on page 103) University of Kentucky.

C.E.P. Publication Plan 4 d In this, our time - dynamic, decisive, and i SJA7 &wedicw y swift moving era of discovery -man has 4 solved the riddle of the atom, pierced the at- 2 Statler Hotel 4 \ mosphere to harness supersonic power and h found in the earth heretofore unknown min- New York City erals, to name but three of the changing facets of our turbulent century. Concomitant to this May 25-29, 1952 continuing progress, scientists and engineers in every field are faced with the problem of

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THE FUNDAMENTALS OF TOP MAN- develop all of his abilities. This might be AGEMENT, by Ralph Currier Davis, New passed off as a very nice theory but for one York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. 825p $6 fact: the discussion is practical and based upon Mr. Davis, professor of business organization the methods adopted by the author at his own at Ohio State University and a consultant in plant, methods which have succeeded in rais- industrial management, presents in this vol- ing the organization which he heads from ume a working philosophy for progressive top bankruptcy to leadership. Under Mr. Lin- executives. He examines the broad, funda- coln's system "the workers and the company mental bases of effective thinking that con- have never lost a single hour of production dition the formulation of executive decisions; through a misunderstanding!" discusses business objectives, policies, and gen- The present trend, both in this nation and eral methods of attack that govern the solution in the rest of the world, is toward a socialistic of business problems; and reviews solutions state and a false philosophy of "equality." If that have been applied successfully to such ever a cogent argument were desired to refute problems. The book is intended to stimulate these socialistic doctrines, incentive manage- executive thinking. ment is that argument. It may not be an industrial panacea, but the knowledge that it has COMPENSATING THE CORPORATE EX- been successfully practiced to the betterment ECUTIVE, by George Thomas Washington of this particular company is ample reason and V. Henry Rothschild, 2nd. Revised edi- for attempting it elsewhere. Labor-manage- tion. New York: The Ronald Press Com- ment relations is a troublesome question today pany, 1951. 586p $12 in almost every phase of our industrial life. A new and revised edition of Corporate Ex- The cause of many of our present difficulties ecutives' Compensation ( 1942 ), this volume is the failure of both private business and of studies, against the background of corporate government to provide the necessary incentive law, the system of managerial rewards that for personal development. Mr. Lincoln has has grown up in this country during the past provided that incentive, has based his rela- four or five decades. tions with his workers upon the foundation The legal and business aspects of salary and stone of individualism and has built, therefore, profit-sharing contracts, stock bonus and stock a truly great team. purchase plans, stock options, pensions, de- ferred compensation and related matters are ON BEING INTELLIGENT, by Ashley Mon- all treated in comprehensive fashion. In par- tagu. New York: Henry Schuman. 1951. ticular, the tax aspects of the above subjects 236p $2.95 have received fresh and intensive study in the Professor Montagu, chairman of the depart- light of recent laws and regulations. Stock ment of anthropology at Rutgers and the options especially are treated in the new light author of the recent and widely read On Being cast upon them by the Revenue Act of 1950. Human, now presents us with a guide to in- The book is a direct and careful treatment telligence. Things being what they are, this of the chief legal and practical problems en- volume, to go by the title, is just the sort of countered in the drafting and adoption of book which might prove of value to many of plans for managerial payment. It bids fair to us today. become a landmark book in this increasingly There is nothing superior in Professor important field of executive compensation. Montagu's approach to the subject of facing life intelligently. In a straight-forward and INCENTIVE MANAGEMENT, by James F. readable style he brings into view the salient Lincoln. Cleveland, Ohio: The Lincoln Elec- facts relative to an intelligent life. It is more tric Company, 1951. 280p $1 than safe to say that no adult has anything to The subject of this volume is man himself and lose in reading this book; it would probably his proper position in the industrial economy. be indiscreet to suggest that you might have Incenrive management, as Mr. Lincoln con- something to gain, but chances are that the ceives it, is the method whereby the individual majority of us would benefit by a more intelli- will be given the means and the opportunity to gent approach to the world around us. This, then, is the crux of the thesis pre- 1 Where it is possible the editor has given sented. The fault, as seen by Professor Mon- prices for publication noted in this section. tagu, is in our approach to the social and The omission of a price does not necessarily cultural atmosphere in which we are nurtured. indicate that the publication is free. (Continued on page 112)

MARCH, 1952 Work simplification methods are be- RESEARCH LIBRARIAN ing applied today in many diverse fields for company engaged in color pho- of activity. Every special librarian should tography and television research. be concerned with those methods which Degree in chemistry or physics es- he can best adapt to his own particular sential. Experience librarianship and needs. literature searches. Preferably also knowledge of electronics and lan- guages. Los Angeles metropolitan area. Box A, Special Libraries Asso- Map Librarianship ciation, 31 E. 10th St., New York 3, (Continued from page 88) N. Y. (f) Catalogs of societal mapping -- agencies Expert Service on (g) Catalogs of old and rare map MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS dealers (h) Periodicals for Special Libraries (i) Atlases (j ) Gazetteers and miscellaneous Faxon's Librarians Guide aids free on request 3. Technical processing of maps We stock, volumes, sets, runs and odd (a) Physical care and treatment issues of over 2 million back numbers. of maps F. W. FAXON CO., INC. (b) Classification of maps 83-91 Francis Street Boston 15, Mars. (c) Cataloging of maps Less emphasis would be given map Magazine Circulation history, more emphasis would be given (Continued from page 93) to map bibliographies, and somewhat more emphasis to the technical pro- of changes, rather than annually as be- cesses than was formerly the case. Defi- fore. This minimizes the need for writ- nite outside readings, examination of all ing in by hand the changes on the dis- maps discussed, possibly a single report, tribution lists to take care of the numer- and a final examination would be re- ous deletions, additions, and changes of quired. address which occur continually. It is the purpose of Library Science In 1940, when we had 8,500 company 306, Maps and Cartobibliographical Aids, employes, magazine circulation required to present to both the geographer and one hundred man-hours per week to do to the librarian basic information on the job, or the equivalent of two and map bibliography. one-half employes. In 1951, after we had completed all of the changes enumerated above, and with approximately 11,600 employes, this work is being Microfilm, Federal Register done with only thirty man-hours per The National Archives has announced that week being required. the Federal Register for the years 1936 All of our punched cards and circula- through 1950 has been reproduced on 35mm. tion lists are prepared by another com- film and that copies of this microfilm publica- pany department which handles cus- tion may now be obtained. Annual indexes and codification guides are included. All is- tomers' accounts for electric service. sues for 1951 and for each succeeding year will Many utilities similarly use punched be microfilmed as soon as the annual index has cards for their customer statements. been printed. The complete microfilm edition However, in my opinion, obtaining the sells for $375, but volumes may be purchased equipment needed to do this one job separately. Orders should be sent to the Na- tional Archives, National Archives and Rec- alone could be justified if we were not ords Service, General Services Administration, otherwise being served. Washington 25, D. C.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Have you heard . . . 4 (Continued from page 100) SJU ew4yc In. supplementary volumes, is meeting the chal- 4 lenge and will thereby give one of the most bl Statler Hotel r satisfying solutions to the dilemma." 9 More detailed information can be obtained from, Chemical Engineering Progress, 120 East 41st Street, New York 17, N. Y.

Michigan Installs Teletype System The state of Michigan has now linked its The first machine was set up in the base- libraries together in the first state-wide tele- ment of the capitol, with others being placed type network of libraries in the nation. All in extension offices, in the University of Mich- public libraries and some special libraries are igan Library, the Ryerson Public Library in tied into this latest innovation in library Grand Rapids, the Detroit Public Library and service. industrial reference libraries such as that at A direct result of a fire that almost de- General Motors. stroyed the Michigan State Library, the tele- Today it is necessary only to go to the near- type system was installed as the result of est state library and ask for the desired infor- efforts upon the part of Mrs. Loleta D. Fyan, mation. If the library can't answer your state librarian. The library lost some 35,000 question, the librarian can obtain, via tele- books in the fire in the State Office Building type, the fact you want from a library having last February. Thousands of others were the necessary resources. In similar fashion. damaged and water-soaked. For a time, the it is possible to order books from branch library, with its 500,000 volume collection was libraries. put out of business. Mrs. Fyan, long an advo- In the early stages of the operation only cate of a teletype network for the state library unusual and emergency requests were filled. system, obtained the permission of state of- ficials to go ahead with the plan. (Continued on page 107)

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Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements MARCH, I952 103 Petroleum Research Library stream-lined course in petroleum chem- (Continued from page 83) istry especially adapted for library use. are again opening their doors to girl As a matter of fact, I had long felt that chemists, are offering stiff competition, chemists, too, who were entering pe- which is likely to increase rather than troleum libraries for the first time would lessen. benefit by such a plan. At the risk of alienating the affections Streamlined Course of both societies, I would like to say Having obtained the consent both of that on the basis of my own experience management and of the girls, I arranged I do not feel that either the ACS or a course which was to be covered in a SLA is doing nearly enough in the mat- period of twelve weeks. ter of interesting chemistry students in Since the question style had been so prospective careers as technical librari- satisfactory, the new course was ar- ans. As one example out of many, I cite ranged along the same lines. A two- the case of the professor of chemistry page sheet was issued each week con- in a college for girls with whom an- taining nine or ten questions or re- other chemical librarian and I talked quests which were to be answered by for an hour and a half at an SLA booth reference to the literature. It was fre- last year. Apparently neither he nor his quently asked that references be cited. students had more than the vaguest Discussions were held both before idea that such an occupation as that of and after the preparation of each sheet. a chemical librarian existed, and no In addition, one hour's reading each notion whatever as to what preparatory week was required. In a few cases, the courses might be beneficial. book or article to be read was specified, In addition to insufficient informa- but in general "a book or articles of your tion about this interesting career, chem- own choice" was recommended. The ar- ists are frequently deterred from be- ticles chosen were most frequently those coming chemical librarians because of written by our own chemists about pro- the prestige factor, an erroneous idea cesses with which the girls already had for which the librarians and the chem- some familiarity. ists are equally responsible. It was obvious that in view of our Last fall, a research chemist in our needs, and with the comparatively small company desired to obtain a girl chem- amount of time which we could spare ist to assist him in writing his reports. I from our work, we had no choice but to suggested the transfer of a chemist in plunge directly into organic chemistry. our library, pointing out that the knowl- The first lesson was a general survey edge of petroleum processes and com- of the hydrocarbons in petroleum, and pany interests which she had gained in the first item was naturally, "Define a the library would enable her to become hydrocarbon." The second was, as nat- immediately useful to him. This proved urally, "Name the four broad classifica- to be the case. tions of the hydrocarbons of petroleum." When I came to replace her, I re- There followed a list of twelve chemical membered this argument. Heretofore I compounds, in which the hydrocarbons had always thought in terms of teach- present were to be checked. The gen- ing petroleum to chemists. But here on eral formulae for a paraffin and for an our staff was a group of able young olefin (in terms of C, H, and n) were assistants, none of them graduate chem- requested. Item five required a list of ists or librarians, but all with several the names and corresponding formulae years' experience in the company, and for the first eight members of the homo- all possessing in good measures those logous series of paraffin hydrocarbons, attributes of character which I deemed and indication of which are liquids and so important. I began to meditate on which are gases. Similar information the idea of preparing for this group a for the homologous series of olefin hy-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES drocarbons was next requested. Form- ulae were asked for a paraffin and an WANTED TECHNICAL LIBRARIAN olefin containing twelve carbon atoms. The remaining items introduced the To head Library and Filing Section of large midwest research laboratory (Chemicals, Fuels, idea of structural formulae, and pointed Automotive Engineering). Work will include out the fact that a given empirical planning and coordination of classification formula can refer to more than one systems, and direction of staff. Training or experience in technical classification and structural formula. library techniques desired, plus physical sciences education. State education, experience, Lesson two was entitled "Paraffins and salary desired. Personnel Manager, Ethyl and Olefins." It started out with a long Corporation, 1600 West Eight Mile Road, list of compounds which were to be Ferndale 20, Detroit, Michigan. identified as paraffins, olefins, or other. It continued with the following inquiries: What is the reaction called when a paraffin and an olefin combine? MOODY'S INDUSTRIAL MANUAL, Which would contain the most olefins. 1935 edition wanted. a crude oil or a cracked oil? By what process could you make an olefin from a paraffin? DREXEL INSTITUTE Define "aliphatic hydrocarbon." OF TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY Define a "normal" paraffin. Name 32nd and Chestnut Streets one, using the Chemical Abstracts ab- Philadelphia 4, Pa. breviation for "normal." Give its empirical and structural formulae. Define an isoparaffin (an isomer of a was hardly surprising. What did sur- paraffin) and show structural formulae prise me and please me as well, was the for butane (C4Hlo)and its isomer, iso- way in which they were coming up with butane. the right answers. Obviously this was no Which is more chemically reactive, a time to stop. At no other point in the paraffin or an olefin? course did such depression seem to occur as that induced by the cyclic hydro- Which is a more desirable component carbons. of gasoline, a paraffin or an olefin? Anticipating some such reaction at Lesson three dealt with the "Aro- this point, I promptly handed out a les- matic Hydrocarbons and Naphthenes," son called "On the Practical Side" which and started off with requests for the included a miscellany of questions per- structural and empirical formulae for taining to the company, such as the benzene and cyclohexane, and com- following: ments on their likenesses and differences both as compared to one another What is the ultimate aim of UOP and to the paraffins and olefins. It was chemists in performing the various pro- asked how benzene and cyclohexane cesses shown in your "Code for Process could be prepared from one another or Abstracts?" from aliphatic hydrocarbons. It was Why are catalysts used in most of pointed out that the benzene ring will these processes? always be found in any aromatic com- List the authors, titles and dates of ten pound. Indication of the ortho, meta books written by Universal chemists. and para positions on the ring was re- What new process developed by our quested. company is receiving considerable at- By the time they had finished lesson tention in the current journals? What three, it was obvious that the girls felt five principal reactions occur in this that they were deep in alien corn. This process, and what catalyst is used?

MARCH, 1952 Which two UOP chemists are on the cording in our bibliography files, clip- Nomenclature Committee of the ACS, ping, abstracting, and the like. and can give you the latest information Every one did very well on this test. about naming of organic compounds? While there was a slight tendency to The next lesson dealt with some over-select, as is customary with be- miscellaneous compounds and reactions, ginners, at least no one missed any ar- and our method of coding articles about ticles of importance. In several cases them from the current journals. This selections were made which showed required a list of some organic com- special knowledge of company interests. pounds which contain 1) oxygen, 2) The next two lessons dealt with 1) nitrogen, 3) sulfur, and also a list of the coding of articles on hydrocarbon an- halogens. Other items pointed out the dysis, separation and treating, and 2) difference between physical dehydra- coding of journal articles on a variety tion and chemical dehydration. of specified subjects. We next considered the processes Lesson eleven was a study in the use used in the petroleum industry, such as of Chemical Abstracts and other ab- cracking, isomerization, alkylation. In- stract journals. The next time I give stead of asking for definitions directly, this course I am going to place this les- the first question inquired whether each son near the beginning where it properly of the nine processes would be likely to belongs. Each girl was assigned annual in- result in compounds which, with re- dexes for a different year, and was re- spect to the original compounds, are quired to look up certain formulae in a) larger, b) smaller, c) the same or the Formula Index, certain patents in about the same size. The second ques- the Patent Index, and certain company tion requested, for each of these pro- chemists in the Author Index. It was cesses, the mention of two catalysts pointed out that in the Subject Index, which have been used, or for which use references to derivatives of a compound is claimed in patents, and a list of the are listed in a separate section imme- corresponding operating temperatures diately following references to the com- or ranges of temperatures. pound itself. Comparison of the ar- This information, which was readily rangement of Chemical Abstracts with obtained from our abstract cards, re- that of Chemisches Zentralblatt was in- vealed the fact that a given catalyst can vited, and attention was called to like- be used for more than one process, and nesses and differences. gave a notion of how the ranges of tem- The course concluded with a general peratures used in performing the va- review. rious processes compare. The remainder Was it a success? I would say yes, of this lesson was devoted to the coding decidedly. I certainly do not claim that of articles pertaining to processes. a short course such as this is going Lesson seven was a review. to make anyone into a research chemist, In lesson eight, we came to our first nor qualify anyone for unsupervised practical test as to whether any good work as a chemical librarian. I do claim was really coming out of all this effort. that such a program will permit non- Each girl was assigned different issues chemically trained personnel to do work of the Journal of the American Chem- of a considerably more advanced na- ical Society, the Journal of Organic ture, and will also help the chemically- Chemistry, the Journal of the Chemical trained to become rapidly acquainted Society (London) and Chemical Re- with the special interests of a petroleum views. She was asked to select from research library. these chemical journals all articles of In conclusion, a planned program of interest, on the basis (defined on the on-the-job training is recommended for sheet) whereby we regularly select ar- the petroleum librarian, whatever her ticles from the current journals for re- background.

106 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Have you heard . . . to encourage the study of the literature, drama (Continued from page 103) and theatre, especially that dealing with Shakespeare, in the early period as well as Gradually however, the tempo was stepped- later, the Folger Library has announced two up as the big state library began to resume $1,000 prizes for the two best book-length its functions. Plans are now under way to manuscripts submitted for publication. One extend the service to other cooperating libra- requirement is that a substantial portion of ries throughout the state. the research upon the books submitted must have been carried on in the Folger Library. Metals Bibliography Available One prize of $1,000 will be offered for the A Bibliography of Recent Literature on best manuscript of a book submitted in the Metals at Elevated Temperatures, compiled by history of English civilization in the period G. Meixell Snyder and F. Edith Manley of the between 1500 and 1700. Books dealing with Babcock and Wilcox Company, is now avail- any aspect of the cultural history of this able on loan from the Professional Literature period will be eligible. Manuscripts in the Library maintained at SLA headquarters. This history contest should be sent to the Director bibliography was presented at the World of the Folger Library not later than October Metallurgical Congress and Exposition held in 1, 1953. Detroit, October 15-19, 1951 as part of the Another prize of $1,000 will be offered for program of the Metals section of the Science- the best manuscript of a book in the field of Technology Division of SLA. English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or in the history of the English drama and theatre of the eighteenth Folger Library Offers Two $1,000 century, or in the interpretation of Shakes- peare, and the history of his reputation and Book Prizes the performance of his plays in any period. To encourage creative scholarship in the Manuscripts in this contest should be sent to field of English civilization for the sixteenth the Director of the Folger Library, Washing- and seventeenth centuries, 1500 to 1700, and ton, D. C., not later than October 1, 1954.

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Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 108 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Robert W. Christ Robert W. Christ, assistant librarian of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, died December 23, 1951, after an illness of two months, at Duke Hospital. Mr. Christ, who was forty-two years old, was a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia: he received his MS. in L.S. from Columbia in 1948. Be- ginning in 1930, he worked at the Columbia University Library, Mount Holyoke College Library, as assistant head and then head of the reference department of the Grosvenor Library. Buffalo, New York, and as chief of the information section of the reference divi- si6n of the U. S. State Department in Wash- ington. In 1948 he began his work at Duke University. A member of SLA since 1945, Mr. Christ was a charter member and first president of the Western New York Chapter. He served as national chairman of the Public Relations Committee from 1946 to 1950 and was always interested and active in association projects. He was chairman of the Reference Librarians Section, A.C.R.L. He collaborated with Pro- fessor Paul Saintlonge on Fifty Years of Moliere Studies; a Bibliography, I89Z-I!MI, and contributed to The New York Times Book Review and other journals. Members of the Western New York Chap- ter will always be proud that he claimed it as his "favorite chapter" and remained on its membership roll although he moved "out-of- bounds." News of his death brought deep sorrow and a sense of great loss to us all. The same feelings will be shared by all his friends. As was said of Matthew Arnold, "To have known him, to have loved him, to have had a place in his regard, is part of our life's un- alterable good." ELIZABETHCONGDON.

Emma E. Crandal ICmma E. Crandal of La Grange, Illinois, clierl recently at the age of seventy-eight. Miss Crandal was head of the library at Universal Oil Products Company, Riverside, Illin.~is.from 1925 until her retirement in 1945. During this period she was editor and com- piler of the Library Bulletin of Abstracts, a publication with world-wide distribution to scicntists and technologists in the field of petroleum. She was a regular contributor to Chemical Abstracts. A member of SLA for many years, she was active in the Illinois Chapter. Her interest in the Science-Technology Division was marked by the valuable service she rendered in the compilation of the Patent Index to Chemical Abstracts, 1907-1936. The Association regrets the loss of this dis- tinguished member. MIGNONGILL.

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