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For more information, please contact [email protected]. -- - Vol. 18 January, 1927 No. 1 Library of First Wisconsin National Bank Financial Number Special Libraries Association Founded 1909 A CLEARING HOUSE OF INFORMATION Created to DromoTe The Intrrests of the commercial. Industr~al. lechnlcnl. civlc, rnunic~pal,leglslntlve, welfare libmrles, statistical bureaus nnd research orgnnlzations. Also to servo speclnl degnrtments of public libraries and universities. PUTTING KNOWLEDGE TO WORK Executive Board PRIJSIDENT-Francis E. Cacly, Research Library, Nela Park, Clcveland, Ohio. IST Vrc~-Pn~srl)~x~-hllaryLouise Alexander, Barton, Durstine h Osbora, New York City. 2Xn VICE-PRESIDENT-LouiseKeller, I~~depende~iceBureau, Philadelphia, Pa. SECRETARY-RoseL. Vormelker, White Motor Co., Cleveland, Ohio. TREASURER-EthelA. Shields, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N Y. BOARDMemsns-Daniel N. Randy, Insurance Library Assn., Boston, Mass.; W~lliamAlcot~. Boston Globe, Boston, Mass, Committees AUDITING Gertrude 1). Peterkin, American Telephone h Telcfi.rap11 Company, New York City W. L. Powhson. National Automobile Chaniber of Commerce. New York Citv. CLASSIFICATION C11m.-Louise ICeller, Independence Bureau, Philadelphia, Pa CONTINUATION READING Chm.-Frederick A. hfooney, Dcnnison Nfg. Co., Fran~ingham,hiass EXHIBITS Chn1.-Alma C. Mitchill, Public Service Corp ol New Jersey, Ncwark, N. J INDEXING LEGISLATION, Joint Committee. S LA. llember, Herbert 0. Uriglian~,State Library, Provltkncc, R. I. INTERNATIONAL COhfhlERCE CLUB Chm.-Francis E. Cady, Research Library, Ncla Park, Clcvelancl, Oliio. MEMBERSHIP Chm.-Louis A. Arm~stcad.Boston Elcvalecl Railwav.-. 3.ston. llass. METHODS Chm.-Rcbccca R. Rankin, Municipal Reference Llluary, Xew York City NEWS Chm.-William Alcott, Boston Globe, Boston, Xa~s. PUBLICATIONS C11m.-Rebecca 13. Rankin, Municipal Reference Library, New York City. TRAINING FOR LIBRAICIANSHIP Chm.-Rebecca B. Rankin, Municipal Refercnce Library, New York Cily. Group Officers COMMERCIAL AND TECHNICAL Chm.-Frederic A. Mooncy, Dennis011 Mfg. Co., Framingharn, Mass. Vice-C11ni.-Miles 0. Price, U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D.C. Sec.--Mary A. McCarthy, Stone & Webster, Boston, Mass. FINANCIAL Cbtn.-Marguerite Burnett, Federal Reserve Bank, Nclv York Ci~j. Vice-Chm.-Ruth E. Jones, Security Trust 8 Savings Bank, Los Angeles, Cal. Sw.-Sue \2'uchter, Continental & Cotnmcrcial Bank, Chicago, I11 INSURANCE C1im.-Daniel N. Handy, Insurance Library ASSII.,Bostoll, Mass. NEWSPAPER Chm.-Jol~n H. Miller, Icing Featurcs Syndicate, Ncw York City Vice-Chm -Agnes J Petcrsen, biilwaukec Journal, Blil\vaukce, Wis Sec --Maurice Synionds, Ncw York Daily News, New York City. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Magazine of the Association EDITOR, Herbert 0. Brigham State Library, Providence, R. I. Associate Editors Ethel Cleland, Business Branch, Public Library, Indianapolis, Ind. R. H. Johnston, Bureau of Railway Economics, Washington, D. C. Henry H. Norris, Boston Elevated Railway, Boston, Mass Mary C. Parker, Federal Reserve Bank, New York City. Rebecca B. Ranlcin, Municipal Reference Library, New Yorlc City. Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milmaukee, Wis. A. A. Slobod, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Local Associations SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON Pres.- -Margaret Withington, Social Service Library. Set.-Elizabeth Burrape, Administration Library, Boston School Committee II.TJNOTS CHAPTER Pres.-Pyrrha B. Shefficld, Portland Cement Associalion, Chicago Sec.-Frances bli. Cowan, Dartnell Corporation, Chicago. NEW YORR SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres.-Mary Louise Alexander, Barton, Durstine Sr Osborn Sec.-Josephine I. Greenwood, Consolidated Gas Co. SPECIAL LIBRARIES COUNCIL OF PI-IILADELPIlIA AND VICINITY Chm.--Anna S. Bonsall, E. F. Houghton Co Scc.-Helen M. Rankin. Free Library of Philadelphia. PLTTSRURGIl SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres.-Jessie Callan, Bessetner S: Lake Erie Railroad. Sec.-Mrs. Joseph Burke, Mercy Hospital. SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO Pres.-B. E. Strong, Standard 011 Co. Scc-Margaret Hart, Sail Francisco n~~llctin SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Pres.-Mrs. Mary E Irish, Barlow Medical Library, Los Angeles. Sec-Lenoie Greene, Los AtlgeIes Museum, Exposition Pal!:. Recent Publications Special Libraries Directory, 2nd edition, 1925. .......................$4.00 Handbook of Coimnercial Ii~formationServices, 1924. ................... 2 00 Cu~nulativeIndex to Special Libraries, 1910-22. ......................... 2.00 Cuiiiulative Iiides to 1923-26 .....................................In Press Inforination Bulletins No. 1-4 ...................................each .25 Our Field SPECIAL LIBRARIANS BUSINESS CONSULTANTS STATISTICIANS RESEARCH ANALYSTS EXECU'I'IVES ECONOMISTS Contents ARTICLES Exhibits and Exhibits. By Margaret Reynolds.............................. 18 How Can We Sell Ourselves to Our Organization. By Emma M. Boyer ........................................................................ 16 How to Advertise Your Library to Your Organization. By K. Dorothy Ferguson ......................................................... 13 How to Sell Ourselves to Our Organization. By Lydia M. Jacobus ............................................................................................. 15 How We Sell Ourselves to Our Organization. By Laura J. Cage ................................................................................... 12 Plea for a Budget. By Alice M. Scheck.......................................... 8 Why Budgets? By R. E. Wright ..................................................... 5 DEPARTMENTS NOTES . - Associations ................................. 26 Biographies ................................ 9 Editor's Desk .............................. 10 Budgets ......................................... 9 Events and Publications...... 30 Business Magazines ............... 22 Personal Notes ....................... 29 ~~~t~ and ~~~~~~~t~............... 32 President's Page ..................... 1 1 covernmentD~~~~~~~~ ...... 22 ... Research Activ~ties ............. 24 N~~~~~~~~ uses R~~ Science and Technology ...... 23 Paper ....................................... 2 1 Published Monthly Except August and September by THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Special Libraries Publishing ofice, 958 University Ave., New York City. Editorial office, State Library, Providence, R.I. Treasurer's office, 343 State St., Rochester, N. Y. .A11 payments should be made to Miss Ethel A. Shields, Treasurer, C/OEastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. Gptered M aecond olnsa matter December 17, 1843 at the Post OBce, Kew Yo%, N.Y.. under the sat of Mamh 9, 187). Accevtnnoe for malllos at special rate of postage orovided for lo neetlon 1101, dot of Ootobar 3. 1917. mh0rlud 1-b.r 17, lU18. Ratea: 14.00 a year. Forein 84.60: single copier 10 cantr SpecialA Libraries Vol. 18 January, 1927 No. 1 Why Budgets By R. E. Wright, Assistant Vice President, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee HERE has been so much tall: these resources, one's talent and one's chances T days of budgets that sometimes I profitably-all this belongs to and is in- think the word has almost lost its flavor. cluded in the word order. Order is man's We budget our income, we budget our greatest need and his true well being." business, our time-some even suggest -From tlzc Journal Inti~~dof Hcnri wc should budget our thinking. We talcc Avziel, 1855. budgets for granted, certainly. Orcler, peace of mind, happiness, call it And why? what you will, it is in the interest of this Why is it that the banks and large quality which is "man's greatest need and stores are spending considerable sums of his true well being," that budgets bave money to establish clepartinents which becn worlcecl out. supply cxpert co~tnselon how to appor- A budget enables us to know where we tion our incoines to get the most possible arc going aid how we plan to arrive value out of them? Why is it that little there. It enables us to organize our lives, businesscs wl~ichintend to become big to distribuk our tiine and our incomes, to businesscs, are so eagerly worltitlg out employ our capital and resources profita- plans of budgetary control for the co- bly. It givcs us inward liberty and free ordination of all departments of their or- command over ourselves, it gives us ganizations ? Why are clubs and lodges powcr. falling into line and budgeting even their Psycl~ologistsand laymen agree, I be- sinall expenditures for a year in advance ? lieve, that the first step toward any sort In short, what's all this sl~outin'about of success is to have a goal. We humans budgets for ? are so constituted that wc must have I caine across a paragraph the other something to work toward, else we day