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San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1952 Special Libraries, 1950s 3-1-1952 Special Libraries, March 1952 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1952 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, March 1952" (1952). Special Libraries, 1952. 3. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1952/3 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1950s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1952 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special Libraries 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 is published twice a nior~thfrom September thloufrh June: monthly in Jul) and August. Its ad\ar~cehook appraisals and special issue5 are schedulrtl as show ri at the ri~ht.Oker 200 leading librarians ~wiewfol Lj. working from ad\ anr e palle~s \$her r possible 90 that their rebic~zscan leach JOU 2 to 2 merks in advance of puhlicatioli. Vil tuall, all impoitant books 12700 last \earl are appraised. and each .ea*oi~'\ output is also pre\ie\\cd m the 21111ounc~en1e11t \ulnl)c~c1-11 subject to hrlp IOU Ijudgrt ahead. SPECIAL ISSUES .Sprirlg .I" ~"uilc~.s wit11 a >ulntnar> of 1111. s~,awn'. o~~lpulby gra~lvand sul,jri.t AI'HIL 15 NEWS OF LIBRARIANS 62 W. $5 St.. N. Y. 36, N. Y. 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Address: The Americana ; Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements Special Libraries a OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Copyright 1952 by Special Libraries Association Editorial Governing Board ALMA CLARVOEMITCHILL, CONTENTS Chairman DORA RICHMAN VOLUME 43 MARCH1952 NUMBER3 EDITH STONE Managing Editor ARTICLES HARRYR. SNOWDEN,JR. Training a Staff for Technical Work in a Advertising Manager Petroleum Research Library, Mignon MRS. KATHLEENB. STEBBINS Gill ............. Books, Borrowed, Lost or Stolen, Irene SLA OFFICERS, 1951-52 M. Strieby .......... GRIEG ASPNES, President Brown & Bigelow Training for Map Librarianship, Bill M. St. Paul 4, Minnesota Woods ............ ELIZABETHFERGUSON, First Vice-president and Current Library Tools and Sources of In- President-Elect formation in Electrical Institute of Life Insurance the Industry, New York 22, New York Alice V. Neil ......... ELEANORV. 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