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Special Libraries VOLUME40 ...... Esfablished 1910 ...... NUMBER10

CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER

Notes from the President's Desk . . RUTHHOOKER Links in the Chain . . RUTH SAVORD Special Librarianship Today: Blue Prints for Action ROSEVORMELKER Publications Sponsored by the Association . . LURASHORB Development of Special Libraries in Australia . BELLEROBERTSON New Guides and Aids to Public Documents Use, 1945-1948 . . JEROME K. WILCOX SLA Chapter Highlights SLA Group Highlights . 1950 Convention Notes . Events and Publications . Announcements .

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SLA OFFICERS, 1949-1950 MRS. RUTH H. HOOKER,President . Naval Research Laboratory, Washington 25, D. C. MRS.ELIZABETH W. OWENS, First Vice-president and President-Elect Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company, St. Louis 1, Missouri BEATRICEV. SIMON,Sewnd Vice-president Redpath Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada DAVIDKESSLER, Treasurer . . . General Motors Corporation, Detroit 2, Michigan MRS. KATHLEENB. STEBBINS,Secretary . 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, New York ROSEL. VORMELKER,Immediate Past-President Business Information Bureau, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland 14, Ohio DIRECTORS PAUL GAY, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4, Pennsylvania MARGARETHATCH, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, San Francisco 20, California ESTELLEBRODMAN, U. S. Army Medical Library, Washington 25, D. C. - - -- SPECIAL LIBRARIES published monthly September to April, with bi-monthly issues May to August, by The Special Libraries Association. Publication Office, Rea Building, 704 Second Ave.. Pittsburgh 19. Pa. Address all communications for publication to editorial offices at 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, N. Y. Subscription price: $7.00 a year; foreign $7.50; single copies, 75 cents. Entered as second-class matter February 5, 1947, at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, Pennsybania, under the Aci of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925. authorized February 5, 1947. L RECOMMEND THESE BOOKS TO YOUR COMPANY EXECUTIVES

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Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements NOTES FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK A Few Highlights from the Advisory Council and Executive Board Meetings Y a vote of the Executive Board sions. The most important change from on November 5, in accordance the present Constitution is that of mem- B with the expressed wishes of the bership qualifications. It is proposed Advisory Council on November 4, the that only professional librarians actively abstracted minutes of the meetings of engaged in special libraries may be ac- the Advisory Council and of the Execu- tive members. For this purpose special tive Board automatically will be dis- library work is defined as not only work tributed to members of the Advisory in special libraries but also work in Council. I believe that this is an impor- special subject departments of public tant step in reaching and informing all and university libraries, the administra- members of actions, contemplated or tion of special libraries and the teaching taken, and of the thoughts behind such of courses in special librarianship. The actions. The latter, i.e., the reason for revision also provides for another class the action, is often of great importance of membership for professional librari- in preventing misunderstandings. I wish ans not engaged in special library work to stress the responsibility that this and for sub-professional librarians. Mem- places on the members of the Advisory bers in this class would be permitted to Council to pass on the information so affiliate with the nearest Chapter, but obtained to other members of Chap- not to vote, hold office nor belong to a ters, Groups and Committees. I think it Group. is especially incumbent on Chapter Another proposed change which we presidents to see that information so should seriously consider concerns our gleaned is made known to their Chapter fiscal and administrative year. We now members. pay dues on the calendar year and man- One of the important items discussed age our finances and administration on a at the Executive Board meeting was July to June year. The proposal is to that of adopting a policy for increas- shift all of the Association business to ing, safeguarding and using our reserve a September 1 to August 31 period. As fund. The Board, together with the Fi- a matter of fact, our activity is now on nance Committee, hopes to work out that basis. It might be well to recognize what seems to be the best policy and to it by paying our dues on that basis and present it at the Business Meeting next by setting up our finances and having June for final ratification by the mem- our officers serve for that period. It bers. It is hoped that the proposal, as would give a little more flexibility to approved by the Board, will be avail- the time of conventions and provide an able to the members before that time interim period for the newly-elected of- so that it may be considered by an in- ficers to become familiar with duties formed membership. about to be assumed. Miss Ruth Savord, Chairman of the The Toronto Chapter asked the As- Constitution Committee, presided at the sociation to consider adopting a policy afternoon session of the Advisory Coun- of determining the place for a conven- cil during the discussion on the pro- tion at least two years in advance be- posed revision of the Constitution. In cause of the long-range commitments as much as several changes have been made by hotels. The 1951 Convention made since the first proposed revision most probably will be held in St. Paul, was distributed, our Headquarters although there was a slight majority at office is having the changes mimeo- the Council who were in favor of hold- graphed and will send each Council ing it in Toronto. The Toronto Chapter member copies of the proposed revi- later found that it would need more 392 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December time in which to secure hotel space for for the delightful way in which the ad- a probable 1000 to 1500 conventioneers. vantages of each were presented to the The Association appreciates the gra- Advisory Council. cious invitations extended by both the RUTH H. HOOKER, Toronto and Minnesota Chapters and President. LINKS IN THE CHAIN By RUTH SAVORD1 Chairman, SLA Constitution Committee AST month, I presented the pro- the greater concentration of special li- posed qualifications for member- brarians in the same geographical divi- Lship together with the privileges sion, it is proposed that a petition for a to be accorded to each class. The Asso- new Chapter will require signatures of ciation is the sum total of its members. fifty or more members holding Active If we restrict working membership to or Life memberships, or representatives those actively engaged in special libra- of Institutional members, all of whom ries, we take the first steps toward a must reside in the territory within which really professional organization, mem- the Chapter is to be established. It has bership in which will be a distinction. also been suggested that such proposed The over-all strength of the Associa- Chapters shall be considered as provi- tion in the past has come from the sional organizations for at least one or maintenance of the interests of its mem- two years until they have proved their bers through two-way division-chap- value and need in the particular area. ters and Groups---operating continuous- Since the proposal for the increase ly between the annual conferences at from 10 to 50 names on the petition which the interests of all are pooled. was first made, it has been pointed out CHAPTERS that often a few vitally interested mem- Many members may not know, and bers may form the nucleus of a new others have forgotten, that while the Chapter. Once it is established, others Association was organized in 1909, the in the area become interested and join Chapters were entirely distinct and au- while it might be difficult to interest tonomous local organizations until 1927. these same people before the Chapter Membership in the Chapters was entire- is established. Therefore, the question ly separate from membership in the As- arises-would it be better to require a sociation itself. minimum of 25? When the national Headquarters was The second proposed change affect- established in 1927, all local organiza- ing Chapters is that of affiliation. It is tions voluntarily became part of the As- suggested that members automatically sociation by affiliation, thereby giving be affiliated with the Chapter nearest to up their complete autonomy. This is their place of employment. If this is one of the reasons why Chapter allot- adopted, it would be necessary for the ments have been automatic as opposed Association to define officially the terri- to Group allotments which have been torial limits of each Chapter. In my made on application. I will go into more opinion this would be a salutary action detail on this point in a later article and would prevent incursion of one discussing finances. Chapter on another's territory. In the With the growth in membership and few cases where this might cause per- sonal hardship, special action might be 1 Librarian, Council on Foreign Relations, taken by the Membership Committee. Inc., 58 East 68th Street, New York 21, N. Y. Members not living within fifty miles 1949l LINKS IN THE CHAIN 393 of an organized Chapter would be con- The rapid growth in total member- sidered unaffiliated members. Upon writ- ship and the privilege of affiliating with ten request to the chairman of the more than one Group without further Membership Committee, an unaffiliated payment brought the membership in member might affiliate with a Chapter most Groups to such unwieldy propor- of his choice. tions that volunteer officers found diffi- While Chapters have always been al- culty in keeping such large member- lowed to have so-called "local" mem- ships informed, in welding the Group bers if they chose, these members have into a workable organization, and in be- been allowed to take part only in Chap- ing informed regarding the abilities of ter activities but not in affairs of the members. This growth has also been Association. It will, henceforth, be de- responsible for an increase in the num- finitely stated that such local members ber of Groups without due considera- may not be officers of the Chapter since tion of overlapping fields of interest. the Chapter, as such, is an official part True, the small closely-knit Group of the Association and since such local makes it possible for officers to know members are not recognized by the As- all members and their abilities and to sociation, they cannot hold office. It will keep in close contact with the member- be recalled that both our present Con- ship. Yet every new Group adds to the stitution and By-Laws and the proposed cost of Association management and revision contain provision that "Chap- care must be taken to justify the or- ters may adopt a Constitution or By- ganization of small Groups. We want to Laws, or both, . . . not inconsistent with and we should support any Group that the Constitution and By-Laws of the fulfills a real purpose in promoting the Association." If Chapter Constitutions professional welfare of members but we and By-Laws allow local members to do not want to waste our substance in hold office, that is inconsistent with the Groups for the sake of Groups. Association's Constitution and By-Laws. As a matter of fact, our Group struc- The questions, then, regarding Chap- ture has just grown like Topsy without ters on which we need advice are: any over-all plan. Over a year ago, I 1. Shall we require 25 or 50 Active or made an urgent plea for a total re-or- Life members, or representatives of Institu- ganization into a few large Groups rep- tional members to sign a petition for a new Chapter? resenting over-all interests with divi- 2. Shall affiliation be determined by choice sion into Sections according to more of the member or shall we require affiliation specific fields. For instance, we now with the Chapter nearest to place of em- have a Business Group which is the ployment? over-all interest of our Advertising, Fi- GROUPS OR DIVISIONS nancial and Insurance Groups. This has From the earliest days of the Asso- been proved at several Conferences ciation, its plan for Group activities has when these Groups have held joint ses- been one of the most vital factors in sions showing their similarity of inter- bringing new members into the Associa- est. Wouldn't union make for strength? tion, in giving them professional help Now that the Constitution and By-Laws and stimulating contacts, and in produc- are undergoing revision is an appropri- ing useful professional tools. Groups of- ate time for consideration of such a fered members the opportunity to con- union. I would like to recommend the sult others with the same problems and appointment of a special committee, to work with others in the same field. which would be charged with the task Professional tools were produced be- of suggesting possible reorganization, to cause of a real need and members glad- study our whole Group structure. ly cooperated in this volunteer activity. The cooperation of company and or- 394 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December ganization officials in allowing their li- They might be authorized by the Ex- brarians to use office time for work on ecutive Board upon written petition of a SLA problems has been a large factor specified number of members less than in Group accomplishment. However, fifty, but the Association would not be the word, Group, seems to carry with it responsible for any financial support. a connotation of a small number of Such Round Tables would be author- maybe 10 or 15 members working on a ized to charge dues or otherwise solicit joint problem. Surprise is often express- financial support for their work. They ed when these officials find that the would be responsible for keeping all Science-Technology Group represents membership and other records during the interests of over 1800 members. this trial period. Therefore, it is proposed to change this While finances of Groups will be dis- designation to "Division" with the pro- cussed in a separate article dealing with vision that new Divisions may only be the whole subject of Association fi- established if they represent interests nances, one question has been raised by distinct from those of existing Divisions, the Science-Technology Group that be- upon written petition of fifty or more longs in this discussion. members (10 is the present require- The members of the Science-Tech- ment) and with the further provision nology Group at the Annual Business that the petitioning members have func- Meeting in Los Angeles on June 13, tioned as a Round Table for at least 1949, passed a formal resolution recom- one year. These Divisions will be au- mending that Groups be permitted to tonomous with the privilege of electing charge a fee for affiliating with a Group. their own officers and drafting rules for While the resolution does not specifical- their own government. They shall also ly state that no affiliation be allowed as have the privilege of further sub-divi- a privilege of membership, I believe sion into Sections when expedient. this was the intention. Such a practice If the new provisions for membership would, of course, give the Groups an privileges, as discussed last month, are assured income provided members felt adopted, each Active and Life member that the Group was of sufficient help to and each representative of Institutional them to justify such payment. On the members will be allowed affiliation with other hand, this takes away one of the only one Division but with the privi- privileges which the Association offers. lege of further affiliation upon payment Here are the points on which the Ex- of 20 per cent of annual dues for Active ecutive Board and the Committee on membership for each such affiliation. Constitution and By-Laws ask your con- This will automatically cut Division sideration and opinion: membership lists as each member, hav- 1. Shall there be a re-organization of ing only one affiliation, will choose that Groups by over-all interests? 2. Shall Groups be known in the future of his primary interest and there will be as Divisions? fewer classes of membership allowed 3. ShalI a petition of 50 members be re- even one affiliation. Thus Divisions will quired to organize a new Group? be strengthened since their membership 4. Is a year a sufficiently long trial-period will represent those actually working for Round Tables to function? 5. Shall we withdraw the privilege of in the field of interest and such mem- affiliation with a Group without further pay- bers will be concerned and experienced ment and, instead, require a fee for a11 such through their daily work with similar affiliations? problems. Both the Board and the Committee The Round Tables, mentioned above, need the help of all members in order would be a test grouping to prove the to draft revisions which will result in a need of members for a new Division. strengthened Association. SPECIAL LIBRARIANSHIP TODAY: BLUE PRINTS FOR ACTION1 By ROSE L. VORMELKER, President Special Libraries Association, 1948-1949

T no time in our history has the referred to as an art and also as a sci- number of special librarians, as ence. How does special librarianship, as A judged by membership in SLA, we think of it, measure up to these in- been so large. Nor has there been so terpretations of what it is. What is to be much discussion as to what constitutes found in print on the subject? a special librarian, what the status of Justice Brandeiss, in defining a pro- special librarianship is today, what fession, said: "First, a profession is an training for special librarianship is need- occupation for which the necessary pre- ed and what the future of special libra- liminary training is intellectual in char- rianship may be. Throughout our forty acter, involving knowledge and to some years of history many attempts to de- extent learning, as distinguished from fine special librarianship have been mere skill; Second, it is an occupation made. These definitions range all the way which is pursued largely for others and from a telegraphic sentence using the not merely for one's self; Third, it is an word "special" as an adjective in as occupation in which the amount of fi- many positions as possible but saying nancial return is not the accepted meas- very little (for instance, "A special li- ure of success." The Oxford Dictionary brarian is a librarian working in a spe- puts it much the same way: "A profes- cial field and in a special way") to long sion is a vocation in which a professed discussions wherein the differences be- knowledge of some department of learn- tween special and public librarians are ing or science is used in its application presented as though one might define to the affairs of others or in the practice the one by contrast with some general of an art founded upon it." impressions-many wholly wrong--of Skill has been defined as an art through the other. A perusal of the file of SPE- which one becomes capable of accom- CIAL LIBRARIESwill quickly reveal some plishing something with precision and of these, notable among which are those certainty because of knowledge attained of a charter member, one-time Presi- and combined with ability to put it to dent, Guy Marion2; and those of other practical use. Dictionaries tell us that "giants" of those days, John A. Lapp3 art is skill in doing anything as a result and John Cotton Dana4; and present- of knowledge and practice, while sci- day members, Ruth Savord5, Rebecca ence is defined as a branch of study Rankina and Linda Morley7. concerned either with a connected body Some times it is called a profession, of demonstrated truths or with observed at other times a skill. And again it is facts systematically classified and more or less colligated by being brought under 1 Paper presented at the First General Ses- general laws, which provide trustworthy sion of the 1949 SLA Convention in Los An- methods for the discoverv" of new truth geles, California, June 13. within its own domain. 2 SPECIALLIBRARIES, vol. 10, p.155, 1919. However, words by and of themselves 8 SPECIALLIBRARIES, vol. 9, p.157, 1918. avail little and the time is now for the 4 SPECIALLmRAms, v01. 6, p.158, 1915. 5 Special Librarianship as a Career. Revised Special Libraries Association to come adition. 1948. forth with a definition which will make a SPECIALLIBRARIES, VOI. 14, p.76, 1923. SPECIALLIBRARIES, VO~. 28, p.372, 1937. 396 SPECIAL LIBRARlES [December it possible for the world to understand become a body of professional special- the interpretation we, as an Association, ists or remain a group of non-profession- put on the term. a1 workers working at the occupation of Our Professional Activities Commit- supplying answers to questions, but we tee has been at work on this problem cannot much longer continue to call and the following is an excerpt of a both groups librarians. Non-professional definition presented by Beatrice Simon, workers are no longer librarians, no mat- member of that committee. "In every ter how excellent their performance in profession there has been a transitional the field. The work of A.L.A. in raising period, after the setting up of standards and fixing the standards for qualifica- of qualification, when there is a re- tion for posts in publicly-supported li- mainder group of able people practic- braries has brought this condition into ing without having had formal training. actual being. So-called special librarians This transition period is over as far as must develop their professionalism with- general librarians are concerned. A.L.A. in this framework or set themselves up has set up its standards and has also as a trade." made provision for qualifying the resi- Now this does not mean that profes- due of "unqualified" workers from the sional work is limited to those holding old days. The special libraries group a library school degree. It must be to can do one of two things: it can find the everlasting embarrassment of li- itself another title, an occupational title, brary schools that many of their grad- e.g., "Information Specialists," or it can uates fail in the practical application begin to build up standards and re- of the learning to which they have been quirements in professional education for exposed! Nor does it mean that train- special librarianship. Experience and ing in other fields-chemistry, law, subject classification could then become medicine, business administration -to part of the post-professional training of name but a few, may not frequently off- a general librarian, just as hospital in- set lack of training in a library school ternship and specialized experience and if courses on sources of information in training are required for advancement such and other fields have been included. of general medical practitioners to the Many special librarians without de- status of specialist in any of the special grees are discharging their duties in a fields of medicine. You must be a med- far more efficient way than some who ical doctor before you can be a specialist have them, but they can do so only be- in the fields of pediatrics or opthalmol- cause of the many years they have de- ogy. You should have to be a librarian voted to conscientious study on their (basic training) before you can become own as well as to their years of experi- a specialist in industrial chemistry libra- ence which actually qualifies them. rianship, or medical or legal librarianship. By the same token, far too many so- "Therefore, my definition of what a called special librarians are in reality special librarian should be is: 'A profes- good telephone operators or clerks who sionally-trained practitioner of the art manage, on occasion, to get the infor- of librarianship who has further qual- mation they need from some interme- ified for specialization by additional, diate body with little or no effort or advanced study in the bibliography of ability on their part. Such librarians a special field, plus practical experi- can hold their own only when there are ence in an accredited, in-service train- too few librarians qualified and avail- ing library in that field.' able for such positions. Invariably they "Then, as a body, we should strive to lower the standards of expected per- spread the gospel of professionalism. It formance and too often ruin a service is entirely up to us whether we shall which others have striven hard to de- 19491 SPECIAL LIBRARIANSHIP TODAY: BLUE PRINTS FOR ACTION 397 velop. It is they who are responsible for useful outside the research laboratory. many a wrong impression of what spe- It is in explaining special library ser- cial librarianship is and does-an im- vice to management that we need to pression which, unfortunately, cannot be translate it into terms of its ultimate corrected over night. use in words management can under- WHAT SPECIAL LIBRARIANS DO stand. An executive may understand in We have, at various times, enumerat- some measure that the library is the ed the services of special librarians as place where information is assembled follows : and organized though more often he 1. Collect information on any one subject may think of it only as the place where or subjects pertinent to the organization's "we keep books." If on occasion he has work or "assemble a stock," including such used its services, he may even admit its tools as exist for putting these data to use. 2. Classify and catalog same for use; in services are satisfactory, or even excel- other words, organize them for use. lent, but does he translate it to use- 3. Index materials not indexed elsewhere: either in his own mind or to his asso- not in the sense of alphabetizing but rather ciates in industry and elsewhere? of assigning subject headings (a distinction Not long ago the librarian of a large which clarifies what is professional about in- dexing and what is clerical skill). manufacturing plant was called to the 4. Clip and file data of various kinds president's office for a conference. She (newspapers, periodicals, documents, films, had been delayed and in explaining this wire recordings, pictures, etc.) . delay said, "Sorry to be late, but when 5. Suggest sources of information often not even in print. (Can be done only as a your call came, I was verifying the Ex- result of contacts and experience). port Department's contention that the 6. Prepare reading lists as needed or on rear axle of a competing manufactur- demand. er's product had some engineering de- 7. Make literature searches which are fects." "How in the world can you do basic to any research. 8. Answer reference questions which may that in the library?" asked the amazed range all the way from "What are the rates president. "I knew you had books and on air freight?" to profound matters in the information files up there but nothing fields of science, engineering, economics, art as vital as that! Perhaps we've over- criticism and all the other fields represented in our far-flung organization. looked what the real value of our com- 9. Prepare abstracts and reports. pany library is." We need to present our 10. Prepare translations. department in terms of what it means 11. Take part in conferences. to the work of the organization rather 12. Plan and execute public relations pro- than in terms of statistics. Only in this gram necessary to keep and develop special library service. way will the special library be "sold" to These are all necessary and essential management. and no library worthy of the name could So long as it is possible for any or- omit any one of them. Furthermore, ganization to replace its librarian with most of these are functions more or less a non-librarian and expect him to per- accepted as essential in research labora- form as a librarian, just so long have tories. Directors of research laboratories we failed to make our profession recog- in industry long since have learned that nized. Other professions are not thrust bibliography is its basic "sine qua non." about as is the library profession. No As a result some of our best special organization would think it could turn libraries are in technical research lab- its legal work over to a "nice, bright girl oratories. Often they are identified only in the office" who had no legal training. as "part of the research laboratory" and Nor would management call a school of other departments in the organization medicine to say 'We are thinking of may not even be aware that here is a adding a medical service to our employe library whose facilities could be made relations department and we have a 398 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

'very apt young man' to put in charge on its special library than any other of it. Could he take a course or two in specific incident. medicine in your school to give him a Another instance of special service few of the fundamentals?" That, how- which impressed management with the ever, is still paralleled for the special value of the company library is the fol- librarian. Too often not even that con- lowing incident. The president of a large cession is made to the basic training firm, on business in England, cabled his needed for special librarianship. No secretary to get some "phandoras" in doubt many librarians have been in- the States and send to England because vited to give the benefit of their experi- much better ones were made here than ence to make of a promising office work- there. Stumped as to what "phandoras" er a real special librarian in anything were, she called on her special library from "fifteen minutes to an hour or so." where the problem was readily solved. No firm would consider it had employed (Should you want to know, you can a physician when it had employed some- buy them on Fifth Avenue in New one who could take an employe's tem- York.) perature. Yet just the other day a large Many readers can recall similar stor- firm, whose librarian had performed ies. They are always fascinating. Inci- most commendably, suddenly and with- dentally, both of these problems were out warning replaced him by a man who solved by the special subject depart- was neither a specialist in the subject ments of public libraries, which are in- field nor a librarian. The only justifi- deed special libraries. I have related cation for making this change was to them for two reasons. First, to show provide a job for someone to whom the that incidental bits of information pro- firm felt indebted. Is it possible to duced when needed by management will imagine a parallel situation affecting a do more to sell the the special librarian chemist, dentist or an attorney in the and library to management than will firm's employ? long reports of statistics or verbiage One of the most laudatory comments about techniques of library science, ever received from management about which will forever be a mystery to most special library service concerned a mat- of them. Physicians and surgeons do ter which was related to the business of not present their profession to the world the company only in a public relations in terms of scalpels or fluroscopes but way. The vice-president needed an item rather in the very broad terms of their to use as an illustration in a talk on per- knowledge and skill gained through severance he was scheduled to give be- basic studies and years of experience. fore a service club in his city. He re- Nor does a dentist talk about scalers in membered having seen on some college prophylaxis but rather about prevention campus an inscription on a memorial to of decay. And second, to emphasize that a former student-a plodder type-who one cannot today define a special libra- became an officer in World War I and rian by contrasting him with a public was killed in action. The inscription librarian, as such. Many a so-called spe- read, "He Played Four Years on Scrub. cial librarian would fail dismally were He Never Quit." He was vague as to it not for the help found through special whether it was Chicago, Northwestern, departments of public libraries which, or Cornell-but thought Chicago, and as has been said before, are indeed high- wanted exact wording of the inscription ly specialized libraries whose workers as well as the man's name. It was run must be subject specialists as well as down within fifteen minutes by an ex- librarians. amination of alumni bulletins and prob- Our need, as special librarians, is to ably did more to sell that management develop a vocabulary of the spirit which 19491 SPECIAL LIBRARIANSHIP TODAY: BLUE PRINTS FOR ACTION 399 will give wing to our words and leave such a way as to meet this unprecedent- no doubt in the minds of management ed demand for special librarians? what special librarianship means. A time-honored method for develov- This will require specific "blueprints ing a course of training in any new field for action" in that this story must be is to learn from those whose only degree presented where those who control man- is from the school of experience. In- agement will hear it, pass it on, and act quiry reveals the fact that proficiency upon it. It means contact with and rep- seemingly remote from their specialties resentation on programs or conferences has been the background for many suc- attended by top executives in any field. cessful special librarians. A children's It means more-and better articles writ- librarian becomes a special librarian in ten for the magazines and other docu- the field of insurance or aeronautics; an ments read by these executives; prep- organizer of a medical library finds the aration of more and better brochures organization of a business library can about special librarianship; seeing to it be built on the same foundation; ex- that these are widely distributed to vo- perience as the general reference libra- cational counsellors as well as to stu- rian in a public library has been the dents. It means contact with employ- basis for success in advertising agencies ment managers and employment agen- and motion picture studios. Is there a cies to see to it that they, too, under- common denominator? The subject de- stand what kind of person is needed mands genuine thought and definite when a request for a special librarian contributions. crosses their desks. It means working A newspaper man once said to me, with library schools in order that train- "I just can't get any real idea about spe- ing for special librarianship, which is, cial libraries or special librarians. It is after all, only a short-cut for experi- said that they deal with all sorts of in- ence, may be introduced effectively. formation. Well, there's no story in that. In keeping with the spirit of inquiry What kind of information? Why was it so characteristic of the age in which we asked of a special librarian-why not a live, many questions have arisen as to newspaper or a bank? What was it what constitutes the best training for wanted for? What would have hap- special librarians. The increased demand pened if no special librarian had been for these workers has made library available?" school directors aware-as has nothing So not only must we keep manage- else-that it is a field which merits their ment in mind in developing the story consideration and for which provision of our work but also those who write in their curricula is essential. On the for management to read, and those who other hand, our professional journals have the responsibility of training our are replete with arguments on subject future workers. knowledge versus adaptation of library Finally, it means perseverance on the and office techniques for special fields. part of everyone of us, for wherever we If we accept the former, how can train- go, and whatever we do, we represent ing opportunities be made available in special librarianship to the world. PUBLICATIONS SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION1 By LURA SHORB Librarian, Hercules Experiment Station, Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington 99, Delaware

HE Special Libraries Association individual Group or Chapter, the chair- has a great need for a continuous man of the Publications Committee Tflow of publications to make the should be notified when the project is largest possible contribution to better started and when the publication is is- librarianship, and to maintain the stature sued. Often Group projects have re- of SLA as a professional association. sulted in publications of general inter- The Publications Committee, former- est. Hence, if the chairman of the Pub- ly the Publications Governing Commit- lications Committee is informed about tee, was created some years ago to each publication in the early stages, achieve these purposes. Its main func- those which appear to have wider than tions are: to evaluate ideas for publica- local interest can be selected from the tion in the early stages and to select start for consideration as an Associa- those which appear to have permanent tion publication. worth for the whole Association and The Group or Chapter should de- sales value; to evaluate the content of velop certain information before under- the manuscripts and to edit them; to taking a project which is apt to result make recommendations for publication in a publication sponsored by SEA. The to the Executive Board; and to suggest first consideration is: Will the publica- that publications be undertaken. The tion be of interest to a sufficient num- Committee does not approve publica- ber of members and other purchasers tions. It recommends and the Executive to warrant its undertaking? Second: Board takes action, for the Board alone Will the cost of publication, distribution is empowered to authorize expenditures, and promotion allow selling prices to be and approval of a publication means such that SLA can make a small profit money out of the treasury. or at least cover expenses? If these In evaluating ideas for publication, answers are in the affirmative, a tenta- one of the first questions to decide is tive plan should be submitted to the how to differentiate between a Group or Publications Committee who decides Chapter publication and one to be pub- whether or not to recommend the proj- lished by the Association. Using the ect to the Executive Board for approval. yardstick of widespread worth and sates The tentative plan should include ap- value as a criterion for an SLA publica- proximate size, that is, number of pages, tion, automatically puts Chapter and time required for preparing the copy, Group directories, membership lists, lo- when the final manuscript will be sub- cal holdings lists, and oth~rpublications mitted to the Publications committee, of local or limited interest among those an estimate of how many copies can be which should be issued by the Group or sold and the cost. The last item is most Chapter concerned. Though such publi- important 2nd should include tabula- cations are published and sold by the tion, typing, extra postage and a rough estimate of publication costs secured 1 Paper presented at the Group and Chapter from a local printer. Ample time for Relations Meeting on Projects and Publica- tions, at the 1949 SLA Convention in Los preparing the manuscript should be al- Angeles, California, June 14, 1949. lowed (some estimates have erred by 19491 PUBLICATIONS SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION 40 1 years) and sales realistically evaluated. and the project chairman who should A post card survey to determine possi- furnish a list for cicularization. ble interest has been successful in some In the past, each annual budget has instances. provided a sum for special publications. Frequently our members have done Publication costs were taken from the editorial work and contributed typing treasury and charged against this amount, time and thus saved SLA hundreds of and revenue from sales went directly dollars; however, the cost of tabulating into the treasury. It was not a satisfac- or typing the manuscript should be in- tory method of bookkeeping because cluded if they are not done by volun- publications costs are usually paid in teers. An advance may be necessary for one or two payments over a short period this purpose, and the Executive Board of time while receipts from sales come will not grant an appropriation for pre- in slowly. publication expenses until it is con- This was brought forcibly to our at- vinced that the new publication is tention recently. Each year prior to worthwhile and relatively certain to be 1948, we published one or more books completed. and pamphlets, These were usually time- After a manuscript has been acted ly professional publications and found upon favorably by the Publications ready sale; however, the editions were Committee, the chairman, together with small, oftentimes only 1000 copies. Sim- Headquarters staff, secures estimates for ultaneously with greatly increased print- printing or for reproducing by other ing costs, we had a year with only one means and determines the sale price. All new title for sale and that was a mem- of this information is gathered together bership directory which was sold at cost. in a brief report, and a recommendation This year Aviation Subject Headings, to publish the book or pamphlet is given Subject Headings for Aeronautical-En- to the Executive Board. From this it is gineering Libraries, the Creation and evident how important it is that each Development of an Insurance Library author or group of compilers give the and A Brief for Corporation Libraries Publications Committee full and ac- have been issued, and the Numerical curate information. Unless the commit- Index to the Bibliography of Scientific tee chairman has it, he cannot present and Industrial Reports is just off the an effective story to the Board. press. The costs of these publications, Once a publication is authorized, the &en if no others are authorized, will far manuscript is returned to the Publica- exceed the budget estimate for 1949. tions Committee chairman for final edit- A survey made by Walter Hausdorf- ing if needed. Or the chairman of the er has shown that "over 85 percent of committee which carried out the project the sales of a publication is made within may help with this and also be con- three years of its publication date, and sulted in regard to binding, type for about 49 percent is made within a year", printing, photo-offset or other processes The result of all this is high expenses of reproducing for which estimates have in 1949 and little income, for the supplies been received. of older, wanted titles are exhausted The editorial assistant at Headquar- and titles in press bring in no revenue. ters takes over the final editing, putting In view of these and other factors, the the manuscript through the press, and Executive Board at the March 1949 does the proofreading. The Secretary meeting adopted a number of recom- sends out press releases and review mendations submitted by the Finance copies, and also handles advertising. Committee. The most important fea- The latter is done in conjunction with tures excerpted from them are: the Publications Committee chairman 1. Revenue from present and future sales 402 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

of individual publications shall be placed in allotments, and recruiting literature against the Reserve Fund and earmarked for such Professional Activities Committee funds. publications. 8. The individual or sales publications 2. Since this amount may not be ade- account shall not include serials issued in quate to finance new publications, advances whole or in part on a subscription or free from the Reserve Fund shall be made tem- distribution basis. porarily, the advance to be a sum supple- I do not know how most Chapters mentary to the amount designated in No. 1 above. Withdrawals are to be made only as finance their publications but the Phila- needed to pay current bills that exceed the delphia Council has a revolving fund amount in the Publications Reserve Ac- called the Helen Mar Rankin Publica- count. tion Fund, which was put into effect 3. Publications should be scheduled so some years ago. Though the details of that at least one or two major ones are is- sued within a year. If this is impossible or operation differ somewhat from the not feasible, then reissue of previous, popular new Association plan, the underlying publications should be made. The size of principle is the same. The Rankin Fund the re-issue edition should be geared to the did make possible the publication of our market. Revision of older, popular titles also should be carefully studied by the Pub- Directory in 1947 without so great a lications Committee, with the counsel of strain on the treasury as the earlier Headquarters staff as to inquiries and pos- edition had been. sible sales. A formula is used to figure the selling 4. Since there is a definite pattern in the price of a publication based on the cost, financing of publications, a budgetary fore- cast should be made. This may be based on free copies to Institutional members, the relation of estimated sales to cost. Since and probable sales, as was mentioned there is a fairly constant relation between earlier. According to the Constitution, the two, as apparent in the analysis of our Institutional members get free copies experience from 1931-1947, the following procedure should be followed: of all SLA Publications except those (a) The cost of a new publication, once ap- which the Executive Board designates proved, should be estimated accurately. as self-sustaining. In recent years only Outside or generous estimates may be three have been classed as self-sustain- used only with caution. Otherwise, esti- ing. They are in order of publication, mated sales will exceed actual sales by too great a margin Classification and Cataloging of Maps (b) Since the relation of cost to sales may and Atlases, Special Library Resources, be determined with a fair degree of volumes 2-4, and Numerical Index to accuracy, the equation Y = 1.529X + the Bibliography of Scientific and In- $126 should be applied. Y is probable dustrial Reports. The former, however, dollar sales volume; X is cost. Thus, a publication costing $3000 should have was sold to Institutional members at a sales volume of 1.529 times $3000 half price. Other special publications plus $126, or $4713. Approximately 49 have been priced, for example, with an percent, or $2300 of the sales, would be edition of 1000 copies, to permit us to made within a year of the publication give away approximately 500 copies to date and an additional 28 percent, or $1300, in the second year, or a total Institutional members, to pay the total income of about $3600 in two years. publication costs on the sale of 250-300 6. A report of data for the principal, ac- copies, and to make a profit on the re- tively-selling titles and totals, both of ex- mainder. penditures for new publications and of sales of all general publications during the year, An individual's reaction to the high shall be made in the March issue of SPECIAL costs of most SLA publications resulting LIBRARIES. from this method of pricing plus high 7. Since sales publications will be sep- printing rates depends on his work in arately budgeted, all nonsales publications the Association. If he is a Board or Pub- shall be charged against appropriate funds lications Committee member and re- in the annual operating budget of the Asso- ciation. Thus, promotion literature shall be sponsible for the finances of the Asso- charged against Public Relations Committee ciation, he wants income to keep the 19491 DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES IN AUSTRALIA 403

Association solvent. If he is a Member- every library should be an Institutional ship Committee member and soliciting member and receive free publications; Institutional members on the basis of and those individuals who do not want free publications, he wants the mem- these publications should be Active or bers to get them. Associate members. Another suggestion There are two opposite philosophies has been to allow a 50 percent discount in most of our thinking. One, rarely on publications to Institutional mem- heard, is that the Institutional member- bers and a small discount to other mem- ship (known as sustaining memberships bers. Give these ideas serious thought in many associations) should be sup- and let your officers and Miss Savord ported by organizations in part at least know what you want. Changes in the for the benefits their employes receive Constitution affecting membership will from the Association, because it brings come up for your consideration at the people with like interests together, and 1950 Convention next June. through its meetings and periodicals The main problem facing all of us, all, fosters professional fellowship. not just the officers and Publications The other viewpoint, by far the most Committee, is how to get more and bet- popular one, is that Institutional mem- ter publications, also how to space them bers pay higher dues on the basis of free to avoid another 1948-1949 drought publications and are entitled to a dollar followed by a deluge. The solution will return. In thinking of this, one should have to come from the membership. keep in mind the fact that our special The ideas are there, the ability to com- publications are all library tools, not pile and write is there, but how can we textbooks a librarian would buy for his get the many to work? That is what we home library. Hence libraries which do need to keep SLA vigorous and alive. not have Institutional memberships are The final decision rests with you-not the ones which pay the total cost of a with the Publications Committee or the publication plus any profit. Perhaps Board!

DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES IN AUSTRALIA By BELLE ROBERTSON Secretary, Association of Special Libraries and Information Services, Australia N comparison with the United States, an increased library grant is apt to the number and size of special libra- make the management look very hard I ries in Australia is not very impres- at the overhead. It took the war, and sive. However, when we consider that the resultant upheaval in the economic Australia, with an area almost as large life of the community to waken a sense as that of the United States, has a of the value of an efficient library ser- population of less than New York City, vice as an aid to technical and other it will be seen that the development of organizations. special libraries and of all other types of Prior to the war, we might say the libraries can not be on a comparable special libraries were in their infancy. scale, since the industrial development, Only the largest firms and a few govern- which decides the expenditure on spe- ment departments had any organized cial libraries, is also on a much smaller library service; in fact, in most cases, scale. As every librarian knows, running workers relied on their own literature a library costs money, and a request for researches in the public and university 404 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December libraries to obtain any information they enquiries was received for information required. Although these libraries are on manufacturing processes; on substi- not being considered here, it must be tutes for materials hitherto imported, said that the abstracting journals held and on available local materials. Many by them have been a godsend to the firms found that a special library did a technical staff of all organizations. little more than just increase the over- Of the firms which maintained pre- head and that an intelligent librarian war libraries, the following might be could and did render valuable aid to mentioned: Electrolytic Zinc Company their technical staff. This new attitude in Tasmania; Australian Paper Manu- of mind is illustrated by the fact that facturers, Pty. Ltd., and Imperial Chem- our Association has recently completed ical Industries in Victoria; Common- a list of technical, and some not so tech- wealth Sugar Refineries in New South nical, periodicals in Victorian libraries. Wales; and General Motors - Holdens This list covers some 80 libraries and Ltd. in South Australia. there is enthusiastic support for an an- The main government departmental nual supplement to keep the list up to libraries were mostly in federal depart- date. Further, arrangements have been ments. Australia has a Federal Govern- made with one of the local copying ser- ment with its official location in Can- vices to supply interstate orders for berra, Australian Capital Territory, and copies of wanted material thus extend- six State Governments, somewhat sim- ing the usefulness of the Victorian list ilar to the system in the United States. to other States. Similar lists are in the As may be expected, certain depart- process of compilation for other States, ments, while purchasing large numbers and the amount of interest in the mate- of books and periodicals, did not have a rial available has proved ample reward trained librarian in charge; in fact, there for their compilation. were only about six people officially There is one recent development in designated as librarians in the list of Australian information work which is in Federal employes, which does not in- line with English rather than U. S. prac- dude the Council for Scientific and In- tice, and this is the setting up of special dustrial Research. The principal libra- Information Services apart from the li- ries were maintained by the Council for brary staff to answer enquiries and to Scientific and Industrial Research; De- supply technical information. U. S. prac- partment of Munitions, Post Master tice is rather to consider this as part of General's Department ( described in the duties of some member of the li- SPECIALLIBRARIES of March 1943), brary staff, but the two main services Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, set up here during the war are inde- Weather Bureau, Department of Civil pendent of the library, although work- Aviation and others. ing parallel with the library staff. Their DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES creation was a direct outcome of the ACCELERATED BY WAR many problems encountered by indus- When war broke out, industry in par- try as a result of the change-over to ticular was faced with a number of war-time conditions. These two services problems which previously had never are operated by the Council for Scien- been considered. Many firms were al- tific and Industrial Research (now re- lied with large combines overseas and constituted as the Commonwealth Scien- were more in the nature of an assembly tific and Industrial Research Organiza- plant than a manufacturing plant, and tion) and the Department of Munitions the problems encountered in such work in the Technical Information Section of are not at all like those in actual manu- the Defence Research Laboratories. facturing. The result was that a flood of Each organization has made available 19491 DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES IN AUSTRALIA 405 to the public the services of a team of for research into some specific subject: technical experts to answer technical Entomology, Plant Industry, Industrial enquiries from all sections of the com- Chemistry, Building Research, etc., this munity and from all over Australia. library is really a collection of very Subjects range from blackberry and rab- highly specialized libraries, with a union bit extermination to button manufac- catalog in the main library. ture, paint and metallurgy problems, Next in size and importance comes etc. The fields covered by each are the Department of Supply and Develop- sharply defined, metallurgy and paint ment, formerly the Department of Mu- and related matters being the responsi- nitions, the main library of which is bility of D.R.L.; the other possible en- under the control of the Defence Re- quiries are C.S.I.R.O.'s responsibility. search Laboratories. From a single li- This setup has been most successful, brary, specializing mainly in metallurg- and the steadily increasing number of ical and paint problen~s,with a strong enquiries handled each week by both leaning to defence matters, it has ex- services is a tribute to its success. Prior panded greatly owing to the natural to this, people wishing to obtain tech- emphasis on munitions during the war. nical information had to rely on the Since the cessation of hostilities, it has sales personnel of the larger firms and been reorganized, taking over the libra- their technical literature or on their ries belonging to the Directorate such own efforts in the public or university as Ordnance Production, and also as- libraries, although the Sydney and Ade- suming some responsibility for the li- laide public libraries operated Research braries in the other departments or sec- Services which compiled bibliographies tions transferred to Supply and De- on request and gave some technical velopment. By now, it must be evident advice. that the problems besetting catalogers The idea of having a technical staff in other countries where postwar re- full time on information work is now organization made a clean sweep of all becoming an accepted practice and is existing departments, or altered names being adopted by other of the larger with what a cataloger would describe as Government Departments, such as La- reckless abandon, have also confronted bour and National Service, Post Master Australian catalogers. General's Department, and others. Most other Federal departments fol- PRESENT STATUS OF SPECIAL LIBRARY low the plan of one main library, with MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA State branches, maintaining a union Space permitting, a brief account of catalog in the main library. State de- some of the larger library setups and of partments, being on a somewhat smaller the more common methods used in scale than the Federal departments, them may be of interest and show the mostly have one library, located in Mel- present status of the special library bourne. movement in Australia. Largest of all Other interstate organizations which is the library of the Commonwealth may be mentioned are the medical or- Scientific and Industrial Research Or- ganizations, the British Medical Asso- ganization', which consists of a main ciation and the College of Surgeons, and library located in Melbourne, and has the Standards Association, while some some 30 branch libraries throughout of the larger firms maintain libraries in Australia. As C.S.I.R.O. is divided into different States. Among these we might Divisions, each of which is responsible mention the Broken Hill Companies, Imperial Chemical Industries, Austral- See SPECIALLIBRARIES, July-August 1949, ian Paper Manufacturers and Austral- p.203-07. ian Consolidated Industries. 406 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

SPECIAL LIBRARY METHODS school of the Sydney Public Library, the As regards the methods used in these library school in Canberra, and in the libraries, they do not vary in essentials newly organized library school of the from standard practice overseas. Most Melbourne Public Library. Australian of the firms and the larger departments special librarians have been looking to employing technical staff publish month- special librarians overseas for some ly or bi-monthly accession lists, and guidance as to the best methods of many abstract bulletins, listing items of training to be adopted for training libra- interest to staff in current journals, rians and also for information staff, as which in many cases are used as the the same controversies as have been re- basis of a reference system for peri- ported from abroad are raging out here. odicals. Cataloging rules are those laid CONCLUSION down and universally accepted, but the There is one matter in which all recent tendency is to adopt the Uni- Australian special librarians are agreed, versal Decimal Classification to a great- and this is the necessity for keeping in er extent as there are draft translations touch with other special librarians over- of the French and German tables now seas, and exchanging views on all aspects more readily available. This is a matter of their work. Although A.S.L.I.S. has of interest to A.S.L.I.S. which is work- been in existence for only a few years, ing closely with the British Standards we are proud of producing the first jour- Association and has accepted responsi- nal devoted to library matters in Aus- bility for translation of certain sections tralia, and have arranged a number of to be used as a basis for the proposed exchanges with other countries to en- English edition. In addition, special able our members to keep abreast of classes in the use of the U.D.C. have more important developments overseas. been held over the last five years by We are also building up a splendid li- A.S.L.I.S., and these have been well at- brary on topics of interest to special li- tended by personnel in the libraries brarians. As A.S.L.I.S. grows, we hope using U.D.C. or considering its adop- that our contribution to the pool of tion. Organized instruction in other knowledge will be worthy of the best fields has been given by the library traditions of the profession. NEW GUIDES AND AIDS TO PUBLIC DOCUMENTS USE, 1945.1948 By JEROME K. WILCOX Librarian, College of the City of New York, New York, N. Y. (Continued from November SPECIALLIBRARIES) MUNICIPAL PUBLICATIONS includes charters, general codes of ordi- 76. U. S. Bureau of the Census. Governments nances, special codes and manuals. In division. Municipal reference service. general, the list excludes reports not Checklist of basic municipal documents issued since 1946. The date of the close . . . [prepared by Louise H. Clickner.] of the fiscal year of the city (shown in Washington, D. C., 1948. 92p. (State and parentheses) and the 1940 popuIation, as local government special studies no. 27) enumerated by the Census Bureau, ap- (processed) pear in the heading for each city. Contents: Introduction. - Listing by 77. U. S. Bureau of the Census. Govern- cities. - Listing by subject. ments division. Municipal reference ser- Includes primarily notations of the vice. current periodical reports and serial pub- City periodic financial reports, prepar- lications of 92 cities having a population ed . . . by Louise H. Clickner. Washing- over 100,000 in 1940, and their overlying ton, D. C., 1945. 28p. (City documents school districts and special districts. Also no. 1, January 1945) (processed) A checklist of the collection in the 85. Horrocks, Sidney. Municipal reference service of the Bu- The state as publisher. A guide to the reau of the Census for cities having presentation and publication of official populations over 25,000. documents (In Manchester Review, pub- FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS lished quarterly by the Libraries Com- 78. Brazil. Departmento Administrativo do mittee, v. 5, Summer issue, 1948, p. 65- Servi~oPublico. 74) Catalogo de publica@es do D.A.S.P., Abridged from a thesis accepted in ful- seguido de uma lista de titulos de obras fillment of the requirements for the editadas pel0 D.A.S.P. de 1938 a 1946. diploma of Fellowship of the Library As- Rio de Janeiro, Impr. Nacional, 1947. sociation. 82p. Concerns Parliamentary and Non-par- 79. Brazil. Departmento Administrativo do liamentary publications of Great Britain. Semigo Publico. 86. Inter-American Statistical Institute. Indicador do Organizacgo Administra- Bibliography of selected statistical tivo do Executivo Federal e sua legis- sources of the American nations . . . 1st la@ . . . 1940- Rio de Janeiro, Im- ed. . . May 1947. Washington, D. C., prensa nacional, 1940- 1947. 689p. 80. Bibliographie der schweizerischen Amts- Supersedes the preliminary working druckschriften. (Berne. Schweizerische edition issued in 1945. landesbibliothek) bd. 1- 1946- Berne, "A guide to the principal statistical 1947- materials of the 22 American nations, First volume of an annual bibliography including data, analyses, methodology, of Swiss official publications including and laws and organization of statistical the confederation, cantons, municipalities agencies!' and bishoprics. Includes approximately 2500 titles of British Columbia. Provincial Library. official government and unofficial non- Royal commissions and commissions of government sources, of which about 10 inquiry under the "Public Inquiries Act" percent are articles from periodicals. in British Columbia, 1872-1942. A check- "This Bibliography consists of (1) a list by Marjorie C. Holmes. Victoria, main list in which the publications are 1945. 68p. fully identified [and are arranged in Includes 133 items with index of names three groups: International, national, al- of commissioners and subjects in one al- phabetically by name of country; non- phabet. geographic]; (2) an alphabetical index: 82. Centre National D'information Econom- (3) a subject index; and (4) an ap- ique (France) pendix, in English and in Spanish, show- Guide periodique de Padministration ing the subject classification scheme ac- franpise. Edition 6, April 1, 1946. Paris, cording to which the material of the 1946. 150p? volume has been classified." A current directory of the executive 87. Inter-American Statistical Institute. branch of the French Government. Directory of statistical personnel in the 83. Great Britain Colonial Office, Information American nations . . . with biographical department. Reference section. information . . . Second edition . . . May, Monthly list of official publications, 1944. Washington, D. C., 1944. 101p. no. 1- June 1948- London, 1948- '88. Mexico. Secretaria de Bienes Nacionales (mim) e Inspecci6n Administrativa. Since August 1948, issued in two parts: Directorio del gobierno federal de 10s Part I, General; Part 11, Government Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Mexico City, gazettes. 1947. lxxi, 536p. Part I is a list of publications of the 89. Prontuario Administrativo de Chile segrin colonies, arranged alphabetically by name la nueva estructura de 10s servicios fis- of colony. cales y semitiscales aiio 1945. (Santiago, 84. The Hague. Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Ruil- Empresa Editora Atlas) 110p. bureau. 90. Saskatchewan. Legislative Library. Nederlandsche Overheidsuitgaven, Publications of the governments of the 1942-46. The Hague, 19481 247p. Northwest territories and the province of First volume covered the year 1929. Saskatchewan, 1877-1947, prepared by The last previous volume covered 1940 Christine MacDonald. Regina, 1948. 84p. and 1941. p. 185-202 list the official pub- (mim) A preliminary checklist. lications of the Netherlands government 91. South African Library. in exile. Quarterly bulletin, v. 1, no. 1- Sep 408 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

tember 1946- Capetown, 1946- 93. U. S. Library of Congress. Acquisitions Contains list of government publica- department. tions. European imprints for the war years 92. U. S. Library of Congress. received in the Library of Congress and A guide to the official publications of other federal libraries. the other American republics. I-XZX. Part 1. Italian imprints, 1940-45. Wash- Washington, D. C., 1945-1949? ington, D. C., 1946. 345p. (processed) 19v. (Latin American series no. 9, -, Reproduced and distributed for the 35, 17, 33, 24, -, 25, 31, 19, 30, 23, 29, Library of Congress in the public inter- 27, 22, 15, 36, 37, 34) est by G. E. Stechert and Co. 1945-July 1946, James B. Childs, Italian government publications, p. 133- general editor; August 1946-1949?, Henry 181, 337-41. V. Besso, general editor. Part 2, German imprints, 1940-45. Contents: Washington, D. C., 1946. 315p. I. Argentina, 1945. 124p. Reproduced and distributed for the Library of Congress in the public inter- 11. Bolivia, In press. est by Edwards, publisher. Litho- 111. Brazil, cornp. by John De J. W. printed by Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Noia. 1948 (1949) 223p. Arbor, Mich. IV. Chile, cornp. by Otto Neu- German government publications p. 76- burger. 1947. 94p. 84, 299. Columbia, [comp. by] James v. Part 3, French imprints, 1940-45. B. Childs 1948. 89p. Washington, D. C., 1946. 284p. VI. Costa Rica, cornp. by Henry French government publications, p. 89- V. Besso 1947. 92p. VII. Cuba, In press. 94. VIII. Dominican Republic, cornp. 94. U. S. Library of Congress. Reference de- by John De Noia. 1947. 40p. partment. Census library project. IX. Ecuador, cornp. by John De National censuses and vital statistics Noia. 1947. 56p. in Europe, 1918-1939. An annotated X. El Salvador, cornp. by John bibliography, prepared by Henry J. Dub- DeNoia. 1947. 64p. ester. Washington, D. C., 1948. 215p. XI. Guatemala, cornp. by Henry Issued in cooperation with the U. S. V. Besso. 1947. 88p. Bureau of the Census. XII. Haiti. 1947. 25p. 95. U. S. Library of Congress. Reference de- XIII. Honduras. 1947. 31p. partment. Census library project. XIV. Nicaragua, cornp. by John De National censuses and vital statistics in Noia. 1947. 33p. Europe, 1940-48. Supplement. An anno- xv. Panama, cornp. by John De tated bibliography, prepared by Henry Noia. 1947. 34p. J. Dubester. Washington, D. C., 1948. XVI. Paraguay, [comp. by] James 48p. (processed) B. Childs. 1947. 61p. Issued in cooperation with U. S. Bu- XVII. Peru, cornp. by John DeNoia. reau of the Census. 1948 (1949) 90p. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS XVIII. Uruguay, cornp. by John De 96. Bureau International du Travail. Biblio- Noia and Glenda Crevenna. theque. 1948 (1949) 91p. Catalogue-dictionnaire des publications XIX. Venezuela, cornp. by Otto Neu- en langue franpise du Bureau interna- burger. 1948 (1949) 59p. tional travail, 1919-1948. GenBve, 1949. A comprehensive guide initiated in the 312p. (Contributions bibliographiques, fiscal year 1941 as part of the program no. 1) (mim) of the Department of State for coopera- A checklist of ILO documents in French. tion with the other American republics. 97. Food and Agriculture Organizations of Each is a guide to the governmental struc- the United Nations. ture of the country as well as to its sys- Catalogue of publications . . . Decem- tem of governmental reporting and pub- ber 1948. Washington, D. C., 1948. lishing. Each guide informs about general 28, 121 P. publications and then those of the Legis- Catalogue of printed publications with lative, Executive and Judicial branches. titles in three languages, English, French General publications include rather com- and Spanish with prices. plete historical accounts of its official Supplemented by a monthly, "Publica- gazette, session laws and codes, and con- tions of the Food and Agricultural Organi- stitution. zation of the United Nations issued Janu- ary-February 1949-" processed. January- 1947- Weekly. February issued together. (Its Doc. -, -, 4435, 4449, 4480, Food and Agricultural Organization of 4491, 4509, 4516, 4527, 4533, etc.) the United Nations. (processed) FA0 publications (Printed or photo- This checklist begins with no. 4001 of offset) 1 May 1947. Washington, D. C., the new general series of Documents of 1947. Mimeographed. ICAO. - p. (I/Misc./l3) 105. International Civil Aviation Organization. Food and Agriculture Organization of New ICAO publications (In its ICAO the United Nations. monthly bulletin, June, 1947- Montreal, . . . FA0 publications (Printed or 1947- photo-offset) . . . September 4, 1947. 106. International Refugee Organization. Pre- Mimeographed. Washington, D. C. 1947. paratory commission. 8 p. (l/Misc./26) Documents issued during the first part Food and Agricultural Organization of to the fourth part of the first session. the United Nations. Cumulative list. Geneva, Lausanne, 1947- FA0 publications (Printed or photo- 1948. offset) February 16, 1948. Mimeograph- 4 nos. (Document PREP 28, March ed. Washington, D. C., 1948. 18, 1948; PREP 89, May 30, 1947; - p. (I/Misc./37) PREP 127, July 29, 1947; PREP 157, International Civil Aviation Organiza- November 8, 1947) tion. 107. Lloyd, Gwendolyn. Consolidated list of documents issued Are you stymied by U. N. documents? for the 2nd Assembly of ICAO held in Library Journal, v. 72, nos. 17-19, Octo- Geneva. Montreal, 1948. 20 p. (DOC ber 1, 1947 -November 1, 1947, p. 1337, 6201, 14-10-48) (processed) 1350-51, 1453, 1460-61, 1529-31) Each document gives document num- 108. Meyer, Jose ber and date, title and languages. Publications of the United Nations. International Civil Aviation Organiza- College and Research Libraries, v. VII, tion. no. 4, October 1946, p. 311-18) Index of ICAO documents, April 1947 109. Provisional International Civil Aviation to April 1948- Montreal, 1949- Pro- Organization. cessed. Lisf of documents issued by PICAO up Volume 1 (114 p.) issued without vol- to and including August 23, [1945]- ume notation covered the material for- from June 19th to June 23rd, 1947. Mon- merly published in card form for the treal, 1945-47. (processed) Weekly. period April 1947 to April 1948. Volume (Its Doc. 37, 59, 87, etc.) 2, issued in three parts dated September, Lists Docs. 1-3125, inclusive. October and November, 1948, respective- 110. Signor, Nelle. ly. A cumulative edition, April 1947 to The San Francisco conference - its December 1948, (166 p.) was issued structure and documentation. (SPECIAL dated January 1949 replacing all pre- LIBRARIES,V. 37, no. 1, January 1946, vious issues. p. 3-6) Beginning with the January 1949 issue, 111. United Nations. Archives section. to be issued in 10 monthly issues with Reference guide no. 1- Lake Success, two semi-annual cumulations in June and N. Y.,1947- December. Contents: No. 1, Index to the docu- ICAO also publishes a card index to ments of the United Nations Preparatory the documents, cards being dispatched Commission, 1945-1946. December 1947. monthly to subscribers. 37p. no. 2, Index to the documents of "Documents indexed include those of - the Executive Committee of the United the Assembly and the Council, reports of Nations Preparatory Commission, 1945. technical and administrative committees March 1948. 85p. no. 3, Subject guide and regional and divisional meetings." - to United Nations documents symbols, 103. International Civil Aviation Organization August 1945-April 1948. [April 19481 Library index of PICAO documents -p. - no. 4, Union list of U.N.R.R.A. August 1945- April 1947. Montreal, film. Preliminary guide to motion picture 1947. 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produced by agencies throughout the plete list of indexes, checklists, disposi- world on the activities of the United Na- tions of agenda, items, index notes and tions Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis- other official listing of documents of the tration 1943-1947. March 1949. 2 1p. United Nations and its specialized agen- printed. - no. 6, Subject guide to United cies thus far issued to date. Nations documents symbols, 1945-1948, Contents: Introduction - Part I. 1, April 1949. -p. - no. 7, Checklist of United Nations conferences on interna- records of the war crimes trials held in tional organization, San Francisco, 1945. Nurnberg, Germany, 1945-1948. April 14, 2, Preparatory commission of the United 1949. 2p. Dittoed. - no. 8, Subject guide Nations, 1945. - Part 11, United Na- to United Nations documents symbols, tions. - Part 111, Specialized agencies. August 1945-May 1949. June 1949. 46p. - Annexes. - Alphabetical index. mim. Supersedes no. 6. Nos. 3 and 6 op.; no. 4, a preliminary 116. United Nations. Department of Public edition' of no. 5. Information. Library services. Documents index unit. United Nations. Department of Economic Check list of United Nations docu- Affairs. ments. Part 1- Lake Success, N. Y., Directory of ewrmmic and statistical 1949- projects. A classified list of work com- Contents: Part 1, General assembly pleted, in progress or planned by United (and subsidiary organs) Nations and specialized agencies, no. 1. Part 2, Security council (and subsid- January 1948. Lake Success, N. Y., 1948. iary organs) 130 p. (United Nations publications. Part 3, Atomic energy commission. Sales no.: 1948. 11. D. 1) $1.00 Part 4; no. 1, Trusteeship council, United Nations. Department of Economic 1947/48, first and second sessions, 1949. Affairs. XXI, 59 p. (United Nations publications. Catalogue of economic and social proj- Sales no.: 1949. I. 2) $1.50 ects; an annotated list of works planned, Part 4: no. 2, Trusteeship council, in progress or completed by United Na- 1948. Third session. 1949. xiii, 39 p. tions and specialized agencies, no. 1. (United Nations publications. Sales no.: March 1949. 1949. I. 5) vii, 271 p. (United Nations publica- Part 5: no. 1, Economic and social tions. Sales no.: 1949. 11. D. 1) $2.00 council, 1946-1947, First to fifth session. Issued in cooperation with the Depart- 1949. Lii, 230 p. (United Nations publi- ment of Social Affairs. cations. Sales no.: 1949. I. 4) $5.00 Covers broader scope and replaces the Part 6A, Economic and employment "Directory of economic and statistical commission. projects" (Items no. 93) Part 6B, Transport and communica- 114. United Nations, Department of Public tions commission. Information. Part 6C, Statistical commission. Publications, 1945-1948. [June 19491 Part 6D, Commission on human rights. Lake Success, N. Y., 1949. Part 6E, Social commission. 69p. Part 6F, Commission on the status of Supersedes United Nations Publica- women. tions Catalogue, no. 1 and Supplement Part 6G, Commission on narcotic no. 1 issued during 1947. Lists the titles drugs. and prices of all United Nations publica- Part 6H: no. 1, Fiscal commission, tions issued during the years 1945-1948. 1947-1948, First session. 1949. viii, 11 p. Gives sales numbers of the documents (United Nations publications. Sales no.: throughout. 1949. I. 6) $0.50 115. United Nations. Department of Public Part 6J, Population commission. Information. Library services. Part 7A, Economic commission for Eu- Indexes and checklists of United Na- rope. tions and specialized agency documents Part 7B, Economic commission for and publications. Preliminary list for Asia and the Far East. criticism, prepared by the Library ser- Part 7C, Economic commission for vices, April 1949. Lake Success, N. Y., Latin America. 1949. Part 8, Other bodies. 56 p. (CO-ORD/Library/2, 13 April Part 9, Conferences. 1949) Mimeographed. Part 10, Narcotic drugs reports. Although the introduction states this Part 11, International court of justice. list to be incomplete it is the most com- Part 12, Secretariat. 19491 NEW GUIDES AND AIDS TO PUBLIC DOCUMENTS USE, 1945-1948 411

117. United Nations. Department of Public subject-index to codification of staff Information. Library services. Documents rules. June 23, 1948. 38 p. - No. 19, index unit. Checklist of reports to the Economic and Index note no. 1-Lake Success, N. Y., Social Council and its subsidiary organs, as of 30 June 1948. July 1, 1948. 42 p. 1949-(processed) 118. United Nations. Department of Public Contents: No. 1, rev. 1, Rules of pro- Information. Library services. cedure in current effect, as of 1 April Documents index unit. Weekly index to 1948. April 14, 1948. 2 p. - No. 2, Rev. documents and publications of the United Collected resolutions of the principle or- Nations and the Specialized agencies re- gans, as of 25 April 1948. May 2, 1948. ceived at Lake Success from 1 to 11 2 p. - No. 3, Rev. 3, List of Security January 1949- v. 1, no. 1- (Experi- Council Official Records published, as of mental issue) 14 January 1949- Lake 1 September 1948. September 3, 1948. Success, N. Y., 1949- 7 p. - No. 4, List of General Assembly v. 1, no. 1, printed, v. 1, no. 2- Official Records, published as of 1 Sep- mimeographed. tember 1948. September 8, 1948. 5 p. - A "trial run for purposes of critical No. 5, Rev. 1, List of Atomic energy appraisal" was also issued covering the commission Official records published as period 4 to 10 December 1948. of 1 June 1948. June 9, 1948. 2 p. - Temporarily discontinued with v. 1, No., 6, Rev. 2, List of Economic and so- no. 2. cial council Official records published as 119. United Nations. Department of Public of 1 October 1948. 3 p. - No. 7, List Information. Specialized agencies sec- of Trusteeship Council Official Records tion. published as of 1 April 1948. April 12, Checklist. Publications of specialized 1948. 1 p. - No. 8, Rev. 1, Sales agents agencies, no. 1- 4. Lake Success, 1947- of United Nations publications. May 24, 1948. Mimeographed. 1948. 2 p. - No. 9, List of journals. 4 nos. (no. 1, 5 June 1947; no. 2, 5 February 24, 1948. 2 p. - No. 10, Rev. August 1947; no. 3, 1 March 1948; no. 1, United Nations publications sales 3, Add. 1, 10 June 1948; no. 4, 1 De- numbers. A. Explanation of system. April cember 1948) 12, 1948. 2 p. - No. 11, United Nations 120. United Nations. Department of Public publications sales numbers. B. List of Information. Research section. publications bearing 1947 sales numbers, Check list of papers issued by the Re- distributed to 20 April 1948. May 2, search section. May 15, 1948. Lake Suc- 1948. 8 p. - No. 12, United Nations cess, N. Y., 1948. 4 p. (processed) publications sales numbers. C. List of First issued September 15, 1947 as publications bearing 1948 sales numbers, "Check list of publications" (2 p). Plan distributed to 15 June 1948. June 28, to issue these lists quarterly. 1948. 3 p. - No. 13, Index to selected 121. United Nations. Documents Index Unit. documents on the Palestine question, to 20 April 1948. May 5, 1948. 21 p. Preliminary cumulative list of docu- - ments in unrestricted series issued by the No. 14, Cumulative index to the resolu- tions of the Economic and Social Council, General assembly, Security council, Atomic energy commission, Economic and first to sixth sessions inclusive, 1946- 1948. June 4, 1948. 61 p. Supersedes social council and ifs commissions, In- Document E/INF/2O, 18 February 1948. ternational health conference to 31 July - No. 15, Cumulative index to the reso- 1946. August 27, 1946. Lake Success, N. lutions of the General assembly, first reg- Y., 1947. 1,81, 1 p. (processed) ular session through the second special 122. United Nations. Special Committee on session, 1946-1948. August 25, 1948. 52 the Balkans. p. - No. 16, Cumulative index to the Index (1948-1949) to documents ot resolutions of the Security council to 30 the Special Committee. August 17, 1949. August 1948 (meetings 1 through 356) 1949. September 8, 1948. 18 p. - No. 17, v, 99 p. (A/AC. 16/813, 17 August Cumulative index to the resolutions of 1949) (mim) the Trusteeship Council, first regular ses- Index of UNSCOB Documents 11947- sion through the third regular session, 19481 issued as A/AC.16/236, April 27, 1947-1948. September 13, 1948. 7 p. - 1948 with addenda 1-15, May 3, 1948- No. 18, Subject-index and list of Sec- January 27, 1949. (dm) Restricted. retary-General's bulletins, administrative 123. United Nations Conference on Interna- instructions and information circulars cur- tional Organization, San Francisco. rently in effect, as of 19 June 1948 and Cumulative list of documents issued 412 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

during the United Nations conference on 127. United Nations Educational, Scientific international organization, San Francisco, and Cultural Organization. 1945. UNESCO literature: a bibliography. 101 p. (Doc. 1184 (English) GI125 Paris, 1948. June 27, 1945) (mim) - p. (UNESCO publication 216) A numerical listing of Documents 1- 128. United Nations Educational Scientific 12 16 inclusive. and Cultural Organization. 124. United Nations Conference on Interna- UNESCO publications: List no. B. tional Organization, San Francisco. Paris, 1948. List of documents issued by Delegation - p. (UNESCO document ETPUJ4) chairmen [Steering Committee, Executive 129. United Nations. World Health Organiza- Committee, Commissions, etc.] San Fran- tion. cisco, 1945. First World healfh assembly. Final list 110 p. (Doc. 1216 (English) G/134, of documents. -, 1948. June 28, 1945) (rnim) 27 p. (AJ99, 24 July 1948) (rnim) 125. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 130 Winton, Harry N. M. Bibliographical list of documents re- Documents and publications of the ceived by the Archives unit, 15 Febru- United Nations (College and Research ary-15 March 1949- Paris, 1949- Libraries, v. IX, no. 1, January 1948, p. (UNESCO/CAS/ARC/List/l-) 6-14) (rnim) 131. World Peace Foundation. List 2 covers 16 March30 April 1949. Documents of international organiza- 126. United Nations Educational, Scientific tions. A selected bibliography, v. 1, no. and Cultural Organization, 1- November 1947- Boston, 1947- List of documents issued during the Quarterly. month of -, Paris, 1947- (Doc List Includes the printed and processed 1- February 22, 1947-) Doc List 2- documents of the United Nations, the monthly. (mim) specialized agencies, the League of Na- Title varies slightly. tions, the regional organizations, the war Doc List 1 is List of documents relat- and transitional organizations, and the ing to the Preparatory commission. other functional organizations. SLA CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS

To state that the fall Executive Board and ical Index to the first ten volumes of the Advisory Council met at the Statler Hotel in Bibliography of Scientific and Industrial Re- New York, November 3-5, is one thing; to try porfs. This SLA publication is a project of the to express the amount of thought and prepara- Science-Technology Group and many individ- tion that went into these meetings is another. uals shared in its successful completion. The Fifteen of the twenty-five Chapters were initiative, drive, cooperation, planning and represented at the Council meeting---clearly a working of these members have produced an majority if not a true geographical representa- indispensable tool. tion. During the morning session of the Ex- Accomplishments such as this are made pos- ecutive Board and Advisory Council held No- sible because of the framework and mechanics vember 4, committee reports were read and provided by the Special Libraries Association, discussed. The entire afternoon session was the safeguarding and management of which we, given over to the consideration of Constitu- as members, place in the trust of the Execu- tional revisions. Ruth Savord, chairman of tive Board. It is the privilege of the Chapter the Constitution Committee, presided. In them- Liaison Officer to sit in on Executive Board selves, committee reports were scholarly and meetings. From observing the Board in ses- well written, but over and above this they sion comes the confidence that this trust is not were a cross-section of what the membership taken lightly. It is also a compliment to the is accomplishing. Here is the pulse and the Association that it has chosen its officers wise- heart-beat itself of the Special Libraries Asso- ly. The Chapter Liaison Officer sat in on ap- ciation. Here is the evidence of accomplish- proximately sixteen hours of Executive Board ments-from the original conception of an meetings, and, in addition, approximately eight idea, often by a single member, through the hours of Council meetings between November stages of development, enlargement, translation 3 and November 5. Practically no mathe- into action and final production into actuality. matics is involved to conclude that the Board A current example of this is the PB Numer- was participating in, if not enjoying, midnight 19491 SLA GROUP HIGHLIGHTS 4 13 sessions. Consider now the time that must twentx-fifth anniversary this month. In 1921, be spent by committees to prepare reports for a group of special librarians in that area or- the Board, by the Board to organize material ganized. Margaret Hatch of the Standard Oil for discussion, etc., and we can appreciate that Company, and presently one of SLA's Direc- the honor the Association bestows upon indi- tors, attended that first meeting. In October viduals by electing them to executive offices 1924, a group of thirty-six members voted to is not all pleasure. affiliate with the Association. Membership now 0 Have you read the Proceedings issue con- stands at well over two hundred. taining the Fortieth Annual Convention Re- Opening the 1949-1950 season, the NEW ports (SPECIAL LIBRARIES, October 1949) ? YORK CHAPTERwelcomed its new members at Here you can see how many individuals are a tea on September 29. Ten charter members contributing to and participating in Special signed a petition for a TEXAS CHAPTERon Libraries Association. Your comments and May 7 and by August, eighteen names were on recommendations as individuals or Chapters the roster. Mrs. Elizabeth Owens, President- are solicited by your President. elect, represented President Ruth Hooker at the installation of the TEXAS CHAPTERin Oc- Chapter bulletins have been arriving for tober. Texas-wise, publicity hit sixteen news- some time now and to read them offers further papers. evidence that SLA is endowed with a unique Someone in the WESTERNNEW YORKCHAP- amount of enthusiasm and energy. Betty Lou TER was really up early one morning, for we Otte, Librarian for Minnesota Mining and see that the "Work Simplification" exhibit Manufacturing Company and Secretary-Treas- from the Los Angeles Convention was on dis- urer of the MINNESOTACHAPTER, is, for ex- play there. This exhibit was part of the In- ample, "learning to play an organ and to bowl surance, Business, and Financial Groups' Work -to keep out of the book worm class!' From Simplification Clinic-the high spot of the a recent bulletin of the MICHIGANCHAPTER Convention, according to many. We've heard we learn that President Hooker was guest of other displays going on tour, but certainly speaker at the second meeting of the MICHIGAN the potential possibilities of this idea have CHAPTER on November 15, and spoke on not yet been touched. "What's New in SLA and How it Affects You!' MARGARETP. HILLIGAN Congratulations to the SAN FRANCISCOBAY Chapter Liaison Officer and Chairman, REGION CHAPTER which is celebrating its Chapter Relations Committee. SLA GROUP HIGHLIGHTS

Inadvertently the bulletin of the NEWSPAPER Source List of Selected Labor Statistics spon- GROUPwas omitted from the list of subscrip- sored by the SOCIALSCIENCE GROUP, was ap- tion Group bulletins appearing in the Novem- proved for publication by the Executive Board. ber issue of SPECIAL LIBRARIES. Information The ADVERTISINGGROUP reports that a concerning it is given below. questionnaire was sent to all subscribers of NEWSPAPERGROUP BULLETIN What's New in order to poll them on some Frequency-10 issues a year. points of editorial policy. This successful publi- Price--$2.00 per year cation is now in its fourth year. Subscriptions: Mr. Milton Prensky Final arrangements for the publication of Pathfinder a revised edition of Sources of Investment In- 1323 M Street, N. W. formation have been completed. In accord- Washington, D. C. ance with the agreement, the FINANCIAL *** GROUPwill prepare the material and the In- An informal luncheon was held by the vestment Bankers Association will pay the Group chairmen at the Cafe Rouge in the costs of publication. Laura Marquis, Librarian Hotel Statler, New York, on November 4. At of the Mellon National Bank and Trust Com- this meeting it was reported that many of the pany, is chairman of the committee to revise Groups had their 1950 Convention plans well this publication. under way. The HOSPITALAND NURSINGGROUP reports The SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYand SOCIALSCI- that it is conducting a membership drive by ENCE GROUPShave started the new Association mailing 2400 return postal cards to directors year with the announcement of two publica- of hospitals having 125 beds or over. The tions. The PB Index, edited by Anne Nichol- purpose of this mailing is to secure informa- son, made its long-awaited appearance at the tion on the number and types of libraries SLA Advisory Council meeting held in New serving each hospital and the number and York in November; whereas the newly-revised professional standing of the librarians em- 4 14 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December ployed. The data collected, in addition to The NEW YORK CHAPTER PUBLISHING serving as a basis for a membership drive, GROUPis conducting a survey to ascertain the will be published as a statistical report on the basic reference books and periodicals used in status of hospital libraries in this country and special libraries. The results of the survey in Canada. will appear in a forthcoming issue of Sales A new publicity committee has been ap- Management. pointed by the INSURANCEGROUP to publi- SARAM. PRICE, cize Insurance Book Reviews outside the As- Group Liaison officer and Chairman, sociation. Group Relations Committee.

1950 CONVENTION NOTES

Convention Committee chairmen and Group Convention representatives have been appointed and for your information are listed below: CONVENTION COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Executive Group Luncheons Hazel Levins Mrs. Beatrice Noren Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company U. S. Testing Company 300 Broadway, Newark 1, N. J. 1415 Park Avenue, Hoboken, N. J. Betty Joy Cole Public Relations Calco Chemical Division Katharine Kinder American Cyanamid Company Johns-Manville Research Laboratory Bound Brook, N. J. Library Department, Manville, N. J. Louise Griepenstroh Radio New Jersey Bell Telephone Company Marian C. Manley 540 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. Business Library 34 Commerce Street, Newark, N. J. Exhibits Reception Paul Sutherland Hazel Levins Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Linden, N. J. 300 Broadway, Newark 1, N. J. Hospitality Registration Adelaide Hammargren Catherine Rankin Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. Nopco Chemical Company, Inc. Medical Research Department First and Essex Streets Lafayette Park, Summit, N. J. Harrison, N. J. Information Treasurer Clara Rademaekers Florence E. Carlton 95 Washington Street, Apt. 3R Public Service Electric and Gas Company East Orange, N. J. 80 Park Place, Newark 1, N. J.

GROUP REPRESENTATIVES Adveriising Business Mrs. A. J. O'Leary Helen Buzzell Benton 8r, Bowles, Inc. Business Library 444 Madison Avenue 34 New York 22, N. Y. Commerce Street, Newark, N. J.

Biological Sciences Financial Marie Murphy Mildred Ketola New Jersey College of Pharmacy Rutgers University National City Bank of New York 1 Lincoln Avenue, Newark, N. J. 55 Wall Street, New York 15, N. Y. 19491 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Geography and Map Science-Technology Ruth Crawford Genevieve Ford American Broadcasting Company Titanium Division 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N. Y. National Lead Company, Inc. South Amboy, N. J. insurance Marguerite Rummell Helen Baierle Prudential Life Insurance Company of America Nuodex Products Company, Inc. Management Library, Newark, N. J. 830 Magnolia Avenue Elizabeth F, N. J. Museum Michele Wilson Social Sciences Newark Museum, Newark, N. J. Donald Wasson Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. 58 East 68th Street, New York, N. Y. Newspaper Robert Grayson Transportation New York Herald Tribune Edith Stone 230 West 41st Street, New York 18, N. Y. Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation 30 Church Street, New York, N. Y. Publishing Lavina G. Dobler University and College Editorial Department H. Roth Newpher, Chief of Research Division Scholastic Magazine and Library, U. S. Dept. of State 7 East 12th Street, New York 3, N. Y. 250 West 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y.

Room rates for the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel, 1950 SLA Convention Headquarters, June 12-16, are quoted below: Rooms with Bath Haddon Hall Chalfonte Single ...... For One Person $7; $8; $10 $6; $7; $9 Double (Twin Beds) without ocean view ...... or Two Persons $10; $12 $8; $10 Double (Twin Beds) side ocean view ...... orTwo Persons $14 $12 Double (Twin Beds) ocean front.... For Two Persons $16; $18 $14; $16 Two-room suites are available at $20 per day and up, depending upon location. For American Plan (meals included), add $6 per day per person to the rates listed above. (Breakfast: $1.00; Luncheon: $2.00; Dinner: $3.00). For Group Breakfasts, Luncheons and Dinners, there is an additional charge of $1.00 for each meal. The cost of meals does not include tips. ALMA C. MXTCHILL 1950 Convention Chairman

EVENTS and PUBLICATIONS1

THE BRITISH NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY,a ciations in all fields of literature and published central cataloging service through the British by and under the control of a Council domi- Museum, will start in January 1950. The proj- nated by those bodies. Preparation will be in ect is sponsored by the most influential asso- the hands of a fully qualified staff of librarians who will work in the British Museum and in 1 Where it is possible the Editor has given conjunction with the Copyright Receipt Office prices for publications noted in this section. of the Museum, where copies of every book The omission of a price does not necessarily published in England must be deposited under indicate that the publication is free. the Copyright Ad. 4 16 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

The BIBLIOGRAPHYwill comprise a weekly tile, electronic, machinery, construction mate- book list, classified under Dewey headings, rials, food, rubber and fuel industries. printed on one side of the leaf only to facili- The Department of Commerce will co- tate the cutting out and pasting of entries on operate with any trade organization that wishes library catalog cards if desired. A monthly to convey this information to its members or author index will appear with each fourth business firms in its area. A sample quantity week's issue to simplify reference. of Newsletter copies (for any one issue) is The weekly lists will be cumulated to form available without charge. These may be dis- an annual volume at the end of each year. tributed directly, or used as part of a regular This volume will be in classified order, and mailing. Requests for up to 100 copies can will have a cumulated author index. Orders usually be filled immediately; larger amounts should be addressed to J. Whitaker 86 Sons, may require 30-day notice. Ltd., 13 Bedford Square, London, W.C.l, Eng- A regular supply of Newsletter copies may land. be ordered each month. Bulk-copy discounts *** are available. The Newsletter is not copy- THE OUTLOOK FOR WOMENIN OCCUPATIONS righted, and use of any of its items for insti- RELATEDTO SCIENCE,which is Bulletin No. tutional magazines, house organs, etc., is wel- 223-8 published by the U. S. Department of comed. For further information, write the Labor, devotes an entire chapter to techno- Office of Technical Services, Department of logical librarians. The library manual described Commerce, Washington 25, D. C. on page 8-3 of the Bulletin is the work of Miss * * * Helen Basil, Librarian of the Crane Company A DICTIONARYOF ECONOMICSincludes terms in Chicago, and a member of the Illinois Chap- in common use in both elementary and ad- ter of SLA. The Bulletin may be borrowed vanced economics courses and in practical and from SLA Headquarters or purchased for 25 business economics. The authors, Harold S. cents from the Superintendent of Documents, Sloan and Arnold J. Zurcher, have made an U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington effort to identify the newer economic vocabu- 25, D. C. lary that has developed as a consequence of *** the contemporary relation of the state to The May 1949 issue of Personnel Adminis- economic life. A noteworthy feature of the tration caned an article written by Mrs. Mary DICTIONARYis its system of cross references, Virginia Wenzel, Librarian of the U. S. Civil which enables the reader to assemble practic- Service Commission Library in Washington, ally all the material in the volume that per- D. C. In her article, "Library Services and tains directly to the topic he may be investi- the Personnel Administrator," Mrs. Wenzel gating. (New York, N. Y., Barnes % Noble, describes the many bibliographic se~cesren- Inc., 1949. 268pp. $3) dered by the Commission Library. Another * * * SLA member, Ruth Canavan, was represented An analytical and selective guide to the in the columns of print when her article ex- more important newspapers and periodicals of plaining the economy of the use of microfilms 25 Europaan countries has just been issued by in the library of Metcalf and Eddy, Boston, the Library of Congress. Entitled THE EURO- Mass., appeared in the September 15, 1949, PEAN P-6 TODAY,the study was prepared by issue of Engineering News-Record. Harry J. Krould, Chief of the Library's Euro- *** pean ASain, Division. The I~stituteof Gas Technology News Let- The countries covered in the work are Al- ter is Bent free of charge to any company, li- bania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslo- brary or individual requesting it. The Insti- vakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, tute is affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Technology. (Chicago 16, Illinois, 3300 Fed- Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Ru- eral Street) The Institute also publishes Gas mania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Abstracts, a monthly. (Subscription price, $15 Kingdom, the U. S. S. R. and Yugoslavia. per year) Introductory statements on the condition of * * *- the press in each country where freedom is As a service to American industry, the U. S. curtailed are presented, and the newspapers Department of Commerce has inaugurated a and periodicals are listed. (Washington, D. C., monthly Technical Reports Newsletter calling Library of Cangress, Card Division, 1949. attention to significant business opportunities 152pp. Multilith. $1) arising from federal and other non-confidential * * * research. Docket No. 5695, issued by the Federal Each Newsletter issue generally includes Trade Commissian on August 24, 1949, de- 3%ms of importance to every major field of in- dares that the American Council on Public dustrial technology such as the chemical, tex- Affairs, located in Washinptan, D. C., ir 19491 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 417 operating in violation of the Federal Trade been made to bring the work up to date. The Commission Act. The Docket lists six publi- most important writings on college libraries cations offered for sale by the Council under since 1944 have been analyzed and their con- titles implying that these publications are new tribution is recorded in the text, footnotes and and original. Actually, they are U. S. Gov- chapter bibliographies. Among other impor- ernment publications and available to libraries tant changes, the treatment of library build- under the usual conditions. For copies of ings and of the teaching function of the library Docket No. 5695, address Federal Trade Com- has been amplified in the light of recent de- mission, Washington 25, D. C. velopments. (New York, N. Y., H. W. Wilson *** Company, 1949. 608p. $5) The August 1949 issue of Aslib Proceedings * * * is entirely devoted to papers presented at the OFFICIALDIRECTORY, AMERICAN ILLUSTRA- 23rd Annual Conference, held at Ashorne Hill, TORS AND ADVERTISINGARTISTS, VTDT is spon- near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, sored by the Society of Illustrators, Inc., the September 17-20, 1948, and to matters arising Art Directors Club of New York, and the Ar- therefrom. Readers of SPECIALLIBRARIES will tists Guild of New York. It is published by recall Ruth Jacobs' lively account of the Con- the American Federation of Arts in coopera- ference which appeared in the February 1949 tion with the Joint Ethics Committee of the issue of the magazine. The Aslib Proceedings three organizations. Its object is to simplify issue is available on loan from SLA head- contact between buyer and artist. It lists 718 quarters. individual artists and 43 artists' representa- * * * tives, studios and art services in 37 states. LABOR-MANAGEMENTRELATIONS, A Re- (Washington 6, D. C., 1262 New Hampshire search Planning Memorandum, was prepared Avenue, N.W. $6) by John G. Turnbull and is a publication of *** the Social Science Research Council. Re- 106 SUCCESSOPPORTUNIIZES is an exploration search interests, projects and publications in of the best careers available today. Presented the field of labor-management relations have in highly readable style, it takes up the duties increased markedly in recent years. This of the career, how to get a start, what is need- memorandum considers briefly the present ed, who should and who should not take up situation and its development, and then ex- the work, where the work is located, earnings, plores in some detail a research approach outlook, how to secure help in starting and which may have certain values for future in- where training is obtainable. (New York, N. vestigations. (New York, N. Y., Social Sci- Y., Arco Publishing Company. 1949. 391pp. ence Research Council, 230 Park Avenue, 1949. $2.50) 112pp. $1.25) * * * * * More than 400 sources of information on BUYINGAND ADMINISTERINGCORPORATE IN- radio and television are listed in a new Radio SURANCE is a report of the American Manage- and Television Bibliogrspby issued by the ment Association. Characterized by the As- Office of Education, FedBtal Security Agency. sociation as the first analysis of corporate This guide was prepated by Gertrude C. insurance management practices, the study is Broderick, Specialist in Radio Education, under based on a questionnaire survey of 226 repre- the direction of Franklin Dunham, Chief, sentative companies, case studies, and inter- Educational Uses of Radio, Office of Edu- views with leading insurance buyers, brokers cation. and carriers. The report was prepared by Rus- Sources of general information and an alpha- sell B. Gallagher, AMA insurance vice-presi- betical index to the bibliogrsphy's 417 entries dent and manager of Philco Corporation's In- conclude the Office of Education publication. surance Department, and covers methods of Copies are available from the Superintendent determining policy on insurance matters, or- of Documents, U. S. Govenunent Printing ganization of company insurance departments Office, Washington 25, D. C., at 15 cents each. and their position in the corporate structure, *** and the procedures used in determining day- A SURVEYOF SCIENTIPICABBTRACTINQ AND to-day insurance matters including losses. Y., INDEXINGSERVICES by Dr. W. W. Varoasieau (New York, N. American Management is publication No. 236 of the International Association, 1949. 122pp. $3.75) Federation for Documentation, The Hague 6, * * * Wilem Witsenplein. This sumy was pre- The second edition of THE ADMINISTRATION pared on behalf of the Committee for the Co- OF THE COLLEGELIBRARY, by Guy R. Lyle ordination of Abstracting Services of the In- and others, has been painstakiigly revised both ternational Federation for Documentation for in style and in the organization of the material, the International Conference on Science Ab- and numerous additions and deletions have stracting, UNESCO House, Pad#, June 20-25, 418 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

1949, convened by the United Nations Edu- cational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. This publication is available on loan from NUMERICAL INDEX SLA Headquarters.

TO THE STEDMAN'SMEDICAL DICTIONARY,seven- teenth edition, is an indispensable tool for BIOGRAPHY OF anyone having to do with medicine. This edi- tion, edited by Norman Burke Taylor and SCIENTIFIC Allen Ellsworth Taylor, has been as thorough- ly revised as previous editions, with proper at- AND tention given to deleting obsolete words and revising old definitions, as well as to adding INDUSTRIAL REPORTS new material. No trade names have been added in this revision, and most of those in Volumes 1-10, 1946-48 the last have been taken out. The derivations have been carefully examined and revised where necessary. The short biographical sketches PREPAREDby the Science-Tech- of the principal figures in the history of medi- nology Group of Special Libra- cine are a new feature. (Baltimore, Maryland, Williams & Wilkins Company, 1949. 1361pp. ries Association with the co- $8.50) operation of Socony-Vacuum Laboratories, Paulsboro, N. J., and the Office of Technical Ser- vices, Washington, D. C. Obituary A source of information for all those who use and maintain Stephen A. Greene, Chief Librarian of the fiIes of the PB reports. Facili- News Library of the Providence Journal-Bul- tates identification and acquisi- Ietin since 1931, died at the Jane Brown Hos- tion of reports, mentioned in pital in Providence, R. I., on December 3, 1949. technical literature and in U. S. Mr. Greene was a native Rhode Islander and Patent Office actions, by PB num- veteran Providence newspaperman. He started his career with The Providence Journal in ber or by other American and 1910 and for many years covered the State British document Series number. House as a legislative and political reporter. Patent attorneys will also be in- From 1920 to 1931 he headed the legislative terested in these unclassified staff of the two newspapers. documents as anticipatory publi- After he took over the news library, he made a number of changes including micro- cations. filming of old files of the papers. In addition one of his important duties was organization Planographed. 1949. 532 pp. of the machinery used by the papers for tabu- lating Rhode Island election returns, and at Price: $1 0.00 the 1948 general election, more than 300 per- sons in addition to the regular staff members of the papers were used to rush that project Order from through. SPECIAL LIBRARIES A member of SLA since 1932, Mr. Greene was named Chairman of the Newspaper Group ASSOCIATION at the 1941 SLA Conference in Hartford, Conn. , 31 EASTTENTH STREET Surviving are his second wife, Mrs. Miriam NEW YORK3, N. Y. Winton Lyne Greene, former staff member of The Detroit News, whom he mamed in 1945, and a step-daughter, Mrs. Frank E. Barrett. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 19491 ANNOUNCEMENTS 4 19

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Helen K. Starr Retires; Russell Barnes Appointed Librarian of James Jerome Hill Reference Library 30 DAY Word has just been received of the retire- ment of Helen K. Starr, librarian of the James Jerome Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, Minnesota. Miss Starr first joined the BINDING SERVICE staff of the Hill Library in 1918 and served in the capacity of chief cataloger and assistant librarian until 1930, when she was appointed librarian. A charter member of the Minne- All orders are bound and sota Chapter, SLA, Miss Starr has been an shipped within thirty days after Active member of the Association since 1938. Russell Barnes, Librarian of the Minnesota they are received. Historical Society, has been appointed to suc- ceed Miss Starr as librarian of the Hill Li- brary. Mr. Barnes served as president of the Bound volumes in your li- Minnesota Chapter, SLA, during 1948-1949. brary will be matched. Honorary Consultants Urge New Army Medical Library Building Years of experience, skilled A resolution asking for construction of a new building for the Army Medical Library craftsmen, and modern facilities highlighted the Sixth Annual Meeting of the combine to assure first class Association of Honorary Consultants to the Army Medical Library, held in Washington, workmanship. October 21, 1949. Major Frank B. Rogers, MC, former assist- ant director, assumed his new post as Director Two-way shipping costs paid of the Library, succeeding Colonel Joseph H. McNinch, MC, who was reassigned to the Of- in full. fice of the Surgeon General. Colonel Mc- Ninch will continue as Chief of the Historical Division, where he is supervising the prepara- Complete information sent on tion of the history of the Army Medical De- partment in World War 11. request.

Georgetown University Receives Wagner Papers The private and public papers of former Senator Robert F. Wagner, sponsor of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, were presented recently to Georgetown University. Some 300 vertical files and 30 bound volumes of manu- THE HECKMAN BINDERY scripts and correspondence, as well as mem- oranda and reports, will be cataloged, making 916 N. Sycamore available to scholars a major source for re- North Mancheater, Indiana search in the field of labor economics.

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