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CONTENTS FOR MAY-JUNE 1941

The Records of a Decade of Industrial Relations ...HELEN BAKER 153 SLA Student Loan Fund ...... ROSE Boors, Chairman 157 Pioneering an Aviation Library .....DOROTHY ANDREWS 158 The Union Catalog of Floridiana ...... A. J. HANNA 160 The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. . BARBARASESSIONS 163 Southern California Plans a Defense Information Bureau . . THELMAJACKMAN 164 On to Hartford! ....EMILY C. COATES,Conomtion Chairman 165 Additions to 1941 Convention Program ...... 165 Who's Who Among the Speakers...... 1 67 The President's Page ...... LAURA A. WOODWARD171 Special Library Resources ...... 17' Personal ...... I73 News Briefs ...... I73 Publications ...... 176

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The Records of a Decade of Industrial Relations

By HELEN BAKER Assistant Dirccror, Industrial Rclrtionr Sccrion, Princcton Univcrsiry, Princcton

HE past ten years have brought as library must develop and maintain close radical and rapid changes in indus- contact with original sources of informa- Ttrial relations as any other decade tion-in this field, companm and labor since the industrial revolution. It is only organizations. necessary to look at the outstanding The Industrial Relations Section of problems of labor relations discussed in Princeton University, as a combined the newspapers and periodicals of 1?30 library and research organization, has and 1940 to see the contrasting conditions built up cooperative relationships with of the beginning and ending of this pe- approximately a thousand companies and riod. One must, however, study the pub- with the principal international and lications of the intervening years to national unions. From these organza- follow the dovnward momentum in em- tions, it has been able to obtain docu- ployment, the impacts of sweeping legis- mentary material not available for gen- lation, the sudden problems oi reemploy- eral distribution. These documents form ment for the defense program, and the the most valuable part of its collection. parallel changes in social attitudes which A review of year to year accessioning of have had tremendous influence upun this more ephemeral material from private current industrial relations policies. organizations as well as government pub In developing a collection of material lications and periodicals gives a quick on current attitudes and happenings in mountain-top view of developments. The the labor field, the special librarian has books in the field have been numerous to depend upon newspapers, magazines, and provide a more leisurely and usually government documents, and material pro- more thoughtful and impartial summary vided by companies, unions, employers of general trends or specific problems. associations, and research organizations. Much of this material is ephemeral in nature and must be secured as issued or Throughout the early 1g3o's, the pe- not at all. Books which appraise events riodical articles and documentary ma- necessarily lag at least a year or two, terial dealt principally with causes of and more frequently several years, bc- unemployment, methods of unemploy- hind current problems. A considerable ment relief, spreading work, the thirty- part of a collection can be built up hour week, lay-off policies, and the through regular checking of periodicals impact of the depression on company available through subscription or mem- personnel policies, such as employee bership in research groups and associa- savings and stock ownership plans, the tions, and government publications. To few company and union unemployment make a collection complete, however, a benefit plans, and loans to laidaff em- ployees. Employee savings and stock invaluable source of information for the ownership plans declined rapidly, and student of labor relations in any specific company benefits for unemployed work- industry. The National Recovery Adminis- ers frequently failed. The publications on tration; An Analysis and Appraisal, by these subjects dealt with the effects of the Leverctt S. Lyon and others1 is an ex- discontinued plans upon the workers. In cellent summary of all aspccts of this this period, short-lived "technocracy" experiment in governmental control of and self-help cooperatives for unemployed industry. Labor Relations Boards2 by Lor- workers were popular subjects for ar- win and Wubnig analyzes in particular ticles and pamphlets. Worker insecurity the effects of Section 7(a) on collective began to be a problcm for governmental bargaining. investigation and action, and has con- In this period, labor union organiza- tinued to be throughout the decade. tion received a great impetus, and, in Congressional hearings and committee competition with the unions, employee reports, and reports of federal and state representation plans and independent em- bureaus and special commissions provide ployee associations had a mushroom the most valuable source of information growth. The current effect of the legisla- on the subject of unemployment relief tion on labor relations and company and social security. Careful and detailed personnel policies were well reported in cataloging was, and is, necessary to make labor journals and in the publications of this documentary material easily usable. the National Industrial Conference Board Among private publications, the stud- and American Management Association ies of the National Bureau of Economic for the years 1933 to 1935. Research and the Brookings Institution are of outstanding importance on the '935-1939 economic aspects of unemployment and The mid-point of the decade, 1935, labor relations. The individual authors saw the enactment of two federal laws writing on unemployment are too nu- which had far-reaching effects upon in- merous for special mention. dustrial relations: the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security "THENEW DEAL" Act. Toward the end of the same year, With 1933 came the New Deal and in the accumulating dissension between particular the National Industrial Re- craft unions and industrial unions came covery Act. Probably no librarian con- to a head in the formation of the Com- nected with industry or labor can forget mittee for Industrial Organization by the sudden mass of releases, temporary eight international unions. codes and approved codes, and criti- The Labor Relations Act and the CIO cisms, speeches, and comments issued by both intensified the unionization of mass or written about the National Recovery production industries; and the increase Administration. The code provisions on in number of unions and union member- hours and wages and particularly Sec- ship affected greatly company industrial tion 7 (a) of the Act greatly affected relations policies. Techniques and meth- developments in the field of labor. In ods in collective bargaining, grievance course of time, the codes were indexed procedures, foreman training in labor and bound and available from the Gov- relations, improved lay-off and discharge ernment Printing Office, and they to- procedures, and seniority became im- gether with the long series of "Works portant topics for discussion in confcr- Materials" reports issued later by the ences, articles, and pamphlets. The Division of Review of the NRA form an old-age provisions of the Social Security SPECIALLIBRARIES Act created a greater interest in private kins. The problems of seniority which pension plans, and niuch was written on are an outgrowth of the demand for job the adjustment of such plans to the Act. security are best covered in articles and The state unemployment insurance laws reports. resulted in a new consideration of the The publications in the field of collec- possibilities of employinent stabilization. tive bargaining have increased tremen- Since we are still in a perirld of indus- dously in number in the past few years. trial relations affected by the legislative A great amount of documentary material and trade union developnlents in I()35, deals with or has been issued by the it is difficult indeed to pick out a few National Labor Relations Board. The books or pamplilets which seem to por- decisions and orders, annual reports, and tray best these events and concurrent special studies of the Board are important problems. both from the standpoint of labor rela- ,~ lhe number of general text-books in tions and government administrative labor relations is large and a special procedures. The National Labor Poiiry library in this field must have all of and How It Works,? by Joseph Rosenfarb them. Almost as many books have been summarizes and explains the functions written on social insurance--unemploy- and policies of the Roard. A commercial ment, old age, and health insurance-~ service Labor Reiviions Reporfers is a use- and the labor library must also incllide ful tool fur any organization trying to these. The documentary material in the keep up to datc on Labor Board activities field of social security includes congres- and other current events in ernployee- sional hearings and reports, annual re- management relations. The hearings of ports, releases and special reports of :he the La Follette Committee (Subconi- Social Security Roard, reports of special mittee of the Committee on Education advisory committees and private research and Labor, U. S. Senatr) on "Violations organizations on the administration of of lzree Speech and Rights of L.abor" the Act and proposed amendments, and provide a detailed record of the stormy state reports. Social Security in Arneri~a,~road of unionization in many companies. a summary of the staff reports to the The aims, attitudes, and problems of Committee on Economic Security, is an labor unions are best seen in their own important historical docun~ent.Descrip- publications. The convention proceed- tions of changes in company pension and ings, periodicals, and all other available benefit plans influenced by the Soc:al publications of the American Federation Security Act are more frequently found of Labor and the Congress of Industrial in magazine articles, printed pmceed- Organizations are essential to any li- ings of conferences, and pamphlets than brary whose users may be interested in in books. The reports of the Aniericm labor problems. The special library in Management Association, Industrial Re- this field must secure all available docu- lations Counselors, and the National ments from the national and international Industrial Conference Board are all unions, and as wide a range of documents sources of information on private pension and benefit plans. -including labor agreements-from local A few recent books deal with the more unions as is feasible. Problems of the specific subject of job security. These relations of unions and industrial man- include Technology and Labor4 by E. I). agement are well-analyzed and discussed Smith and R. C. Nyman, Stabifizing Job in two recent books, Organized Labor and and Wages: by Herman Feldman, and Producti~n,~by Morris L. Cooke and Dismissal Compensarion,6 by E. D. Haw- Philip Murray, and Union Policies and Industrial M~nagemenr,'~ by Surnner hazards to workers and their dependents Slichter. because of short-lived jobs and military The emphasis given to individual sub- training and service. jects in the narrower field of personnel Subjects upon which there is consid- administration and the amount of ma- erable disagreement are the National terial available on each have varied Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor greatly in recent years. Some of the more Standards Act. Although the two wings active subjects have been employee and of labor do not see eye to eye on all the supervisory training, employee tests and provisions of the Labor Act, both want rating, job classification and wage ad- to preserve the basic rights to organize ministration, vacations with pay, senior- assured by the Act. They also want to ity, profit sharing, and group purchase of see maintained the minimum wages and medical care. The most valuable informa- maximum hours set by the Fair Labor tion on these and other company Standards Act. Some but not all of the personnel policies is that obtained di- spokesmen for industry claim that hours rectly from the companies. However, must be lengthened to meet production good summaries of practices have been requirements and that punitive overtime written by individuals especially well- rates increase the cost of production acquainted with a particular activity or dangerously. Labor feels that more of the by one or another of the private research unemployed should be hired before in- organizations concerned with problems of dustry demands much longer hours of the personnel management. employed workers, and that management through higher wages for overtime work, PRODUCTION FOR DEFENSE and perhaps wage increases, should share By 1940 world conditions brought with the employees the profits of in- national problems which made it essen- creased production. These are not prob- tial for industry and labor to unite to lems easily solved to the satisfaction of achieve maximum production as quickly both poini:; of view. as possible. The events of the intervening The available material on the labor years in some instances seem to have relations aspects of the defense program facilitated the quickening production, in is principally in the form of periodical others retarded, and the opinion as to articles, conference proceedings, and short the good or ill effect is sometimes sharply reports. The same organizations and the divided between industry and labor. same periodicals which were sources of All agree that the effect of a long pe- information on industrial relations de- riod of unemployment upon the indi- velopments prior to 1940 are now the viduals who are the supply of labor was best sources of information on technical to make them less prepared to fill satis- personnel problems and labor relations factorily the demands for immediately developments in defense industries. Of efficient workers. Training of inexpe- course, the publications of any new gov- rienced young men and retraining of ernmental administrative groups affect- middle-aged men who had lost their skills ing labor must be followed closely. The and sometimes even an interest in work releases and other publications of the is accepted as a vital part of the defense National Defense Advisory Commission program. There is also quite general and the Office of Production Manage- agreement that the social insurance ment have contained important news program should be maintained, and there items and suggested procedures in certain are many suggestions for expansion to fields. The publications of the bureaus provide benefits to meet the particular and divisions of the United States De-

156 partment of Labor and the Federal Se- can perform an invaluable service by curity Agency include considerable dis- making available to its clients all useful cussion of labor policies in deftnse information on technical developments industries. The Industrial Relations Sec- and problen~sof policy-including labor tion is attempting to help its cooperating relations-which are of concern not only companies and organizations to keep up to the individual organization but to the with the best available material by issuing nation. from time to time a selected bibliography REFERENCES on Problems and Policies in Indus&d 1. LYON, LEVERElT S. AND OTIIERS. ThcNol1ondR1- Relations in a War Economy." Other or- covcr~Adminirlmlron. Washinaton. Brookinm Imitu. tion. 1935. 947 pp. ganizations have issued bibliographies on 2. LORWIN, LEWIS L. AND ARTHUR WUBNIG. Lnbor special phases of the problem, in par- Ralolionr Uoardr. Washington. Brookings Institution. 1935. 477 DO. ticular on training. 3. SOCIAL SECUXITY BOARD. sarioisriurity in ~~~~i~~. The subject of labor relations is not Washiwton. Government Printing Omce 1037.592 pp. 4. SMITH, ELLIOTT DUNLAP AND RICHARD C. NY- likely to decrease in importance for some MAN Technoiosy nnd Lobor. New Havm. Yale Univer- time to come. Undoubtedly many com- sity Press. 1939. 222 pp. 5. FELDMAN. BERMAN. Slnbiiidn8 Iobr adll'atcr. Nca pany libraries which have been primarily York. Harper and Brothers. 1940. 331 m. concerned with technical material will 6. IIAWKIKS. EVERETT D. Dirmirral Com.%nrolion. Princeton. Princeton University Pre% 1910. 390 Pp. find an increasing demand for the best 7. ROSENFARB, JOSEPH. Thr Nalionol Lnbar Pdiw end books and articles on many phases of Bow il Workr. Now York. Harper and Brothers. 1940. 732 pp. labor and personnel relations. Public and 8. Lobor Kclolionr Rcponrr, Bureau of Kational Affairs, Inc.. university libraries face the same demand Washington, D. C. 9. COOKE. MORRIS I.. AND PHILIP MURRAY. Orban for information on a subject now of wide ired Lobor and Pvodudion. New York. Haroer mdBroth- general interest. The Special Libraries ers. 1940. 277 pp. 10. SLICHTER. SUMNER. Union Poiicicl ond Indwlrioi Association and the American Library Manwcmnl. U'arhington. Braokingr Institution. 1941. Association are making an admirable 597 pp. If. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, INDUSTRIAL RELA- effort to develop a complete record of TIONS SECTION. Ploblmr and Poiirirr in Industrid library resources for assistance to the Rdalia", in o war Economy: n icierlcd, nnnalofrd bib liofrephy. May, 1040. Supplement%. November 15. 19&0. defense program. The individual library and March 1, 1941.

SLA Student Loan Fund

Invitations to borrow money for evcry conceivable purpose are heard nightly over the radio-but at a price. Special librarians are fortunate in having a fund from which they may borrow without paying a heavy penalty. The only proviso concerns tcrms of repay- ment. I quote from the provisions of the fund: "If the total amount of the loan ir repaid within a year of the date ai the completion of thc course, no interest will be charged. If payment is extended beyond n year, interest will be charged on the brlancc at the rate of three per cent per annum." The purpose of the fund is to make library school instruction available to ambitious librarians who realize that additional educational equipment is necessary to professional advancement. Applicants must have been members of the SLA for rt least one year prior to the date of application and must maim:& their membership throughont thc duration of the loan. A single grant is limited to $po. Applications for grants for the school year 1941-42 ~hnuldbe filed not later than Sep- tember 1st. Full particulars will be sent upon request to the undersigned. Rosa Boors, Chairman SLA Student Loan Fund Committee Pioneering an Aviation Library

By DOROTHY ANDREWS

Librarian, Pan Amcrican Airways, Pacific Division, Trcasure Islmd, San Francisco

REASURE Island, port of the organize a company library which could Pan American Airways clipper serve all departments. The nucleus of the Tships which fly the Pacific Ocean, present collection was segregated and the is the home of the new P.A.A. Library fnr work of organizin;: the company library the Pacific Division. This one island, the to include both technical and general largest man made in the world, is situ- business data was delegated to the writer ated in the middle of San Francisco Hay in June, 1940. and was made especially to serve as the The Library has good working quarters site of thc Golden Gate Exposition and and space is providcd for study purposes. later to be converted into a great central All the publications are arranged in a airport. readily accessible manner, so that it The primary purpose of the library is operates as a reference and lending to provide a means of centralizing and library. organizing our company collectiim of The proof of the library's utility and books, periodicals, government publica- value is indicated by the constant use tions, miscellaneous pamphlets and that is made of it. There is a wide range reports. \Ve have found that the coordi- of rcsearch information requested daily. nation of publications on hand eliminates OUI-pilots are interested in obtaining losses and duplicate purchases. It also data on a great variety of subjects, in- makes the material more coniplete and cluding meteorology, navigation, first aid, available for general use. The publicatiuns biography, history and foreign languages. which circulate the most are those used The flight engineers need material on in the various training courses and aerodynamics, instruments, mechanics, examinations for the pilots, flight engi- engine ovrrhaul, hydraulics and mathe- neers, ground engineers and mechanics. matics, among other topics. The mechan- All employees of the Pacific Division ics read the latest information available may use the facilities of the library for on foremanship training, industrial safety, study, research and circulation, as the aircraft construction, welding, machinery library is conveniently located on the and the like. In addition, general requests first floor of the Administration Building. are received on such subjects as business Our Engineering Department library adn~inistratiun,personnel problems, pur- which contains technical information, chasing and inventory procedurc. 'l'hus, was hrrned in Junc, 1939. AS the printed publications ilraling with such a variety marcrial accumulated, it became to<, of subjects have niadr the library an extensive fir an engineer to handlc thc indispcnsable part of thc Pacific Division indexing and filinz uf the collccti:~~::md of lhAmerican ?.irways. t

158 file in certain departments and the card box in the library where additional maga- in the central catalog indicates where zines donated by our employees are these publications may be obtained. On placed, and sent out regularly to the the library shelves the books are arranged Island Stations. alphabetically by author under subject Another feature of the library is the groups. We have found this procedure vertical file containing up-to-date miscel- very practical for those who like to laneous pamphlet material. One section browse through the library collection. is arranged according to subjects and the Anierican and British aeronautical other by geographical locations. magazines are also on file. Special rouring We have been fortunate in the receipt lists have been made up for the technical of gifts from staff members of Pan

One oi tlic Pan American Airwiyi cli~yership? fa kin^ off from the Port oi the TnCeWlnds.Ticr.ure Irixnd. The Admlni~tra- tiun Building. humc of P.A.A. Library, is reen ~mmedlatclyti the right of fix plroe-the semicircular building at ihc corner of the island next to the madway. and business periodicals fur which the Amcrican Airways. The acquisition of company subscribes. Periodic checking an encyclopedia, a dictionary and mis- of these lists helps to keep them in cellaneous technical books have greatly conformity with changing interests. A enriched the resources of the library. completc file of back numbers of aviation Our own collection is supplemented by periodicals is now being maintained. 111 the use of inter-library loans which save addition, the company subscribes to a the purchase of data needed only occa- large variety of recreational magazines sionally and help us to securc prompt which arc sent out to the Island Stations and accumte service on any required -Honolulu, Midway, \T'ake, Guam, suhject. \Ye have found that there is an Manila, in the North Pacific Area, and exccilent spirit of cooperation and desire Canton and Noumea, in the South to be of sel-vice among the members of

Pacific Area. \Ve also have a contribution (Conrinu~don gear 170) MAY-JUNE,1941 '59 The Union Catalog of Floridiana

By A. J. HANNA

Chairman, Advisory Council of Union Cntdog of Floridiana, Winrcr Pzck

TS steady growth and the increasing collected and preserved. Materials re- demand for its use since its estab- cording the history of the first three I lishment four years ago at Rollins centuries are to be found, with few ex- College, Winter Park, Florida, as a co- ceptions, in such distant depositories as operative project, furnish convincing those of Spain, France, England, Cuba, evidence that the Union Catalog of Mexico, and other foreign countries. Floridiana is rendering a definite and Several of the large libraries of the United deeply needed service in an extensive States possess valuable collections and at and virtually unexplored field. least forty of these have cooperated with The purpose of the Catalog is two- the Catalog in listing their Floridiana. fold: (I) to answer the question, "What An outstanding example is the John is there on Florida?", by listing ma- Carter Brown Library of Providence, terials relating to that subject and thus R. I. There, Henry D. Sharpe, Chancellor provide a comprehensive index; and (2) of Brown University, has generously to answer the question, "Where can it financed for the Union Catalog of Flor- be located?", by indicating on cards idiana the cataloguing of early Florida where information can be found. The items, and Lawrence C. Wroth, Librarian, geographic division involved is that ter- has prepared for publication in the ritory recognized at any time as Florida. Florida Historical 2uarterly a scholarly Beginning with the reports of Ponce de discussion of the significance of these Leon's discovery of the peninsula in 1513 early publications, some of which can- these records cover more than four cen- not be found elsewhere. turies and are well along in the fifth. Less than a dozen libraries in Florida Studies of prehistoric cultures extend the (private, public, and institutional) possess period considerably prior to 1513. collections of Floridiana worthy the name. All but one of these have cooper- ated enthusiastically with the Catalog Material in the state of Florida is al- and listed their holdings. The one remain- most negligible when the entire period is ing library not listed hopes to respond at taken into consideration. That which an early date. does exist dates, for the most part, from STATELIBRARY SURYEY that relatively brief period since 1821, when Florida became apart of the United A survey of the library situation in States, to the present,-approximately Florida conducted by the Florida Library one-fourth of the entire history of h lor- Association in 1935 revealed many ap- ida. Few of these materials that have palling facts. For example, forty-one of been printed are critical; many of them the sixty-seven counties of the state were are utterly useless. Considerable promis- without public libraries. Trained librari- ing manuscript data exist but need to be ans in the state were to be found only, with minor exceptions, in seven colleges. the Florida State College for Women, Nearly half the total number of hooks in Tallahassee; Watt Marchman, Librarian public libraries were concentrated in the of the Florida Historical Society, St. cities of Jacksonville, Tampa, and Or- Augustine; Seymour Robb of the staff of lando, serving a population of less than the , Washington, 300,000 or approximately one-fifth the D. C.; and Julien C. Yonge, editor of the total population of the state. Probably Florida Historical .C+arterly, Pensacola. the fingers of one hand could indicate the Until his untimely death in 1939 James number of librarians in Florida who have A. Robertson, leading authority in the a sound conception of the significance of field of Florida history, served as a nxm- Floridiana. ber of this Council. Alfred Hasbrouck, The Catalog is, therefore, confronted Assistant Professor of History in Rollins with the opportunities and responsihil- College, acted as part-time director until ities of joining with other forces in the last year, and since 1938 Della F. improvement of the training of librarians Northey, a graduate of the Library in Florida, in the education of the public School of the University of Illinois and to provide adequate financial support for an experienced librarian, has served as Florida libraries, and in the dissemination part-time cataloger and editor. of information about Floridiana. The Catalog was begun with a nucleus of approximately 3,000 cards which were transcribed from the Union and Public The Catalog renders service by making Catalogs of rhe Library of Congress. its cards available for the free use of the The receipt of cards covering the Florida public but principally to students, teach- map collection of the Jacksonville Pub- ers, scholars, and writers. Whenever pos- lic Library stimulated efforts to enlarge sible the Catalog is used personally by the indexing and locating of maps relat- consultants. Where that is not possible, ing to Florida, a field in which little work information is supplied by correspondence had previously been attempted. and occasionally by telephone. It is a dictionary card catalog, arranged by author (editor, compiler, or translator), Equipment, supplies for maintenance, title, and subject with specific subject current administrative needs, and part- headings and analytics to bring out all time salaries have been provided through important subjects in each publication. private benefactions from friends in Cross references are also used. While such Florida and elsewhere. Dr. Hasbrouck an arrangement is not customary in served without remuneration until his union catalogs, it is believed the peculiar other duties became so heavy that he was needs of the Florida field require such no longer free to do so, and Miss Northey an organization despite the additional has contributed much of her time. Some expense and time involved. helpful stenographic service has been The organization of the Catalog is made available from time to time by simplicity itself, as befits a small, pionem, various governmental agencies. Cooperat- "missionary" undertaking. Legally main- ing libraries have made contributions by tained by Rollins College, it is adminis- sending, without charge, a record of their tered by a Council consisting of 4. J. Floridiana. In a few cases where this was Hanna, Professor of History in Rollins not possible, friends who were interested College, Winter Park, Chairman; Kath- equally in the libraries involved and in ryn T. Abbey, Professor of History in the Union Catalog of Floridiana, have underwritten the cost of transcribing in the Diocese of St. Augustine. This items. Appeals for support have been enlargement of the number of subject made to the foundations, but no response cards is designed to assist students and has been received. The representative of scholars in research projects and will be one of these organizations stated that his continued as time permits. foundation was more interested in union A determined effort is being made to catalogs just now than in any other insert critical and explanatory annota- branch of library service, but the gifts of tions to guide the uninformed reader and his foundation have gone to other cata- investigator and to assist, also, in the logs. Apparently a pioneer project such as preparation of materials for the publica- the Union Catalog of Floridiana must tion of a bibliography of Florida. Begun patiently work out its own financial in the summer of 1939 with the copying salvation and brace itself against the dis- of the voluminous notes assembled over couraging delays that hinder its develop- many years by Dr. Robertson, this pro- ment because of inadequate financial posed bibliography is sponsored by a support. committee of the Florida Historical So- A one-page monthly report of progress, ciety. It is hoped this work will be com- mimeographed, is sent to a selected list pleted in another year and that it will of several hundred librarians, historians, then be combined with the Union Cata- and others who are interested. The press log of Floridiana and published as a of Florida has generously featured re- memorial to this scholar who made such leases announcing developments of the a notable contribution to Florida history. Catalog. Similar cooperation has been received from the Florida Historical $uarter/y, the Proceedings of the Inter- American Bibliographical and Library Long neglected, yet colorful, varied, Association, and Special Libraries. and unique, the field of Florida has only recently attracted the historian, sociolo- gist, novelist, and special investigator. The Catalog has supplied information When it is recalled that in the sixteenth to projects as varied as Florida high century the rather loosely defined terri- school essay contests and the editing of torial designation known as "La Florida" Jonathan Dickenson's God's Pratecling reached roughly from the present Chesa- Providence by Dr. Charles M. Andrews peake Bay to the present Rio Grande, of Yale. Among the publications to which it will be recognized that the extent of aid has been given are A Bibliography of the literature of Florida, and the wide the Writings of Irving Bacheiier and A distribution of its source records, consti- Bihiiography of Florida Archeoloxy. Can- tute an interesting and impressive ele- didates for graduate degrees have been ment in the study of American civiliza- helped in writing theses on such subjects tion. Moreover, the field possesses prornis- as "Florida Fiction." Definitive bibli- ing possibilities of connecting this part ographical data have been assembled by of the early Spanish frontier, now such a Dr. Hasbrouck and others on John and strategic point in the defense program of William Bartram, the Minorcan Colony this hemisphere, in a more sympathetic of New Smyrna, Prince Achille Murat, relation with the Caribbean countries. Constance Fenimore Woolson, Florida It is, therefore, hoped that the Union Fish and Fishing, Florida Indians, Flor- Catalog of Floridiana will be of assistance ida Industries, and Catholic Education The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library By BAR:BARA SESSIONS Librarian, Dumbarton Oaks Rcsearch Library, Washington

HE establishment of a center of a few examples, but at present does not research at Dumbarton Oaks in form a highly developed branch of the TGeorgetown, recently conveyed by collection. the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods The primary task of the library has Bliss, to that "the been to assemble books and periodicals continuity of scholarship in the Byzantine for the study of the arts summarized and medieval humanities may remain above. In a relatively short space of time, unbroken," has led to a number of in- thanks to the fact that our period of in- quiries concerning the library which forms tensive search for books has coincided an integral part of the gift. It is the pur- with the dispersal of two important pose of the following notes to outline European libraries specializing in our briefly the scope of the Dumharton Oaks field, we have been able to assemble some library, and to summarize rhe facilities 10,000 volumes,-an encouraging first for research which it will offer to accred- step along our way. ited scholars. The problem of organizing for immedi- During the years of preparation pre- ate use a library so speedily brought into ceding the formal inauguration of the being is a major one. In view of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and specialized nature of the material, and Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss have re- the special uses to which it will be put, garded the development of the research we have evolved a classification scheme of library as parallel in importance to the our own, which we still regard as tenta- creation of the art collection. The field of tive in some respects, but which has been specialization of the Library may accord- tested in actual use during the past year ingly best be defined in terms of the range by members of our own staff. During this of periods and cultures illustrated by the period of trial, our cataloguing has been mosaics, ivory carvings, bronzes, textiles restricted to the making of temporary and other works of art in the collection author cards. During the current year itself. Generally speaking, these objects the classification should crystallize into center around a Byzantine nucleus, to an final form. Subject headings suited to the understanding of which they contribute actual working needs of mature students by illustrating the sources of Byzantine will be adopted, and it should then be style in the late classical world, in the possible to resume full and definitive oriental cultures adjacent to the Eastern cataloguing. The almost complete cessa- provinces of the empire, in early Christian tion of book shipments from the European art (particularly of the Eastern Mediter- war areas, though in itself a serious blow ranean area), and in the art of the mi- to a young library, will in compensation grating peoples. Western medieval art of enable us to concentrate for a time on post-migration date is also represented by these technical activities. MAY-JUNE,1941 Other reference material in the library in number, which will be added to as includes a photographic copy of the world conditions permit. While embracing Princeton Index of Christian Art, a copy the whole wide range of styles and periods on microfilm of the catalogue of the already named, in this cullection we plan, Hyvernat Semitic Library in the Catholic to emphasize particularly Byzantine Universtiy of America, and the files of sculpture and minor arts. the Dumbarton Oaks Census of Early The library is served by a book bindery Christian and Byzantine Art in America. of its own, installed and supervised by a The Census, which was initiated in 1938, Keeper of Rare Rooks. The home staff of has assembled descriptions of over 7,000 the Research Library consists of three objects owned by museums and private assistants, a general secretary and two collectors in the United States and field workers for the Dumbarton Oaks Canada; whenever possible the descrip- Census. The librarian has benefited by tions are accompanied by photographs. the cooperation of the Fogg Museum of The library also contains a general study Art, with which the Library has been collection of photographs, about 5,000 fornlally affiliated since 1937. Southern California Plans a Defense Information Bureau THELMAJACKMAN Assistant Department Librarian, Municipal Reference Library, Los Angeles OW to tap the resources con- for the exchange of information among tained in some 6,wo,wo vol- libraries of this area and to serve as a H umes in Southern California medium of information for those engaged libraries has been the topic under dis- in the preparedness program. This plan cussion in a series of meetings of libra- to mobilize the library and research re- rians and representatives of industrial sources of Southern California to meet and business groups in Los Angeles. Miss defense needs has received the enthu- Emma Quigley, librarian, Los Angeles siastic endorsement of many representa- Railway Corporation and western repre- tives of government, business and in- sentative on the National Defense Com- dustrial groups. mittee of the Special Libraries Association In accordance with the plans worked called the groups together for the purpose out by the Committee, the University of of discussing common problems which Southern California has offered to estab- arise from the increasing demands made lish such a bureau provided a grant can upon libraries for materials that relate to be obtained to finance the project. Thus national defense and strategic industries. it appears that cooperative efforts to Participating in the six meetings which meet a common need will soon bear fruit have been held were librarians represent- in Southern California. One of the most ing municipal, county, university, school important accomplishments of the ven- and special libraries, officials from Fed- ture has been that business and govern- eral government offices, civic organiza- ment leaders in the area have become tions, the Chamber of Commerce, busi- aware of the possibilities of library serv- ness associations, aircraft industry, and ice in an emergency-in short, public the Major Disaster Emergency Council. relations have been improved and libra- As a result of these meetings plans were rians are making a place for themselves drawn up to establish a central bureau in the defense preparedness program. On to Hartford!

HE bugle will blow on Monday, After a day and a half of intensive in- June 16th to open the Thirty-third door drills, the mobile brigade will take TAnnual Convention of the Special off Tuesday afternoon for an interesting Libraries Association. The President and trip through Elizabeth Park with its the Convention Regiment have been famous rose gardens to a quaint New working hard to make your visit worth- England colonial village where a halt will while and enjoyable. Even Mother Na- be made. After a buffet supper in the old ture has worked overtime and Spring is town hall at Storrowton, there will be three weeks early. square dances. More indoor drills on Wednesday, will Don't forget that Hartford is on Day- be followed by a full dress parade Wed- light Saving Time, one hour later than nesday evening. Eastern Standard Time. Please help us After a review and a glimpse into the to start and end all meetings on time. future, taps will sound on Thursday and Near the registration desk will be a Special Librarians will march on. box for items for the S.L.A. Gazette. Give EMILYC. COATES, us news of your buddies. Convention Chairman.

Additions to 1941Convention Program (For Tentative Program see April Issue, pp. rz8-133)

MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 16th Norman C. Firth, Managing Edi- 2:30-5:OO tor, dun'^ Review, Dun & Brad- President's Address. Laura A. Wood- street, Inc., New York ward, Librarian, Maryland Casu- Henry Madden, Personnel Direc- alty Company, Baltimore, Md. tor, American Brass Co., Water- Rejearch and its Place in the World oj bury, Conn. "Tomorrow. Fairfield E. Raymond, George Malcolm-Smith, Publicity Director, Administration Division, Department, Travelers Insur- National Industrial Conference ance Co., Hartford, Conn. Board, New York H. Vimo Andersen. Editor. Sun- 6:00-7:30 day-- Feature Section, Hargord Insurance Group Business Dinner: Courant, Hartford, Conn. Margaret C. Lloyd, Chairman, Negative: presiding Robert M. Eames. Executive. MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 16th Underwood Elliott Fisher Com- 8:00-1o:oo pany, Hartford, Conn. Participants in the Debate: "Resolved James F. Leonard, Broker, Buell That a Library Is a Necessary Asset:" & Co., Hartford, Conn. Affirmative: John D. Donoghue, Drama & Music critic, Springfield Daily Science-Technology Group. Petroleum News, Springfield, Mass. Section Meeting. Thelma Hoff- Judges: man, Chairman, presiding James Brewster, Librarian, Con- Technique of Meeting the Information necticut State Library, Hart- Needs of a Patent Department in ford, Conn. Any Industry; for example, Oil E. Kent Hubbard, President, Refining. Charlotte Schaler, Li- Manufacturers Association of brarian, Sinclair Refining Com- Connecticut, Inc., Hartford, pany, New York Conn. Preparation of a Patent Number In- George E. Stansfield, Managing dex. M. P. Doss, Technical & Re- Editor, Harford Courant, Hart- search Department, The Texas ford, Conn. Company, New York

TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 17th WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 18th 8:30-IO:~ 8:30 Discussion Conferences Newspaper Group Breakfast meeting. Leaders: Maurice Symonds, Chairman, pre- Roberta Barnett, Department of siding Public Instruction, State Teach- Libel Law Pertaining to Newspapers. ers College, East Stroudsburg, Howard Carter, of the firm of Pa. Townley, Updike, & Carter, New William C. Lynch, Cooper Union York for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York 10:3P12:30 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 18th Science-Technology Group. Chemis- 2:oo-4:oo try Section. Dr. Else L. Schulze, Biological Sciences Group. Estelle presiding Brodman, Chairman, presiding The Fiflh Column in Libraries. Rose- The Training of Volunteers for Pa- mary Hanlon, Librarian, Mine tients' Libraries. Mrs. Mary Frank Saf&y Appliances Co., Pittsburgh, Mason, Supervising Librarian, Pa. Central Bureau for Hospital Li- Plastics. Henry Griffith, Chemist, braries of the New York Junior Hartford Empire Company, Hart- League, New York ford, Conn. 2:-4:cc Science Technology Group. Dr. Donald TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 17th F,. Cable, Chairman, presiding I :30-3 :00 Title to be announced. Elsie L. Insurance Group Garvin, Eastman Kodak Co., The Chamber of Commerce of the Rochester, New York United States and What It Has 7:30 for Insurance Libraries. Terence Banquet F. Cunneen, Executive Assistant Toastmaster: Dr. George Ross Wells, for Insurance, Chamber of Com- Professor of Psychology, Hartford merce of the United States, Wash- Theological Seminary, Hartford, ington, D. C. Conn. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19th Assistant Librarian, Library of 10:3~12:30 Congress, Washington, D. C. Libruries in Sao Pado, Brazil. Judith A. Wysling, Government Library THURSDAY JUNE 19th Sao Paulo. 1:- Today's Chalfenge to Tomorrow's Pro& Luncheon and meeting of New Execu- lems. Dr. Luther H. Evans. Chief tive Board.

Who's Who Among the Speakers

Special Libraries Association Convention June 16-19, 1941

Hartford. Coonccricut

Mom= S. ALLEN is Assi~tant Professor of Da. Mnmox A. BILLS,Assistant Secretary, English at Trinity College, Hartford. He was a Aana Life Insurance Company, Hartford. Miss formcr member of the faculty of Breadloaf School, Bills is a native of Allegan, Michigan, and took her Middlebury, Vermont. He attended Wesleyan, A.B. degree at the . In 1915, Columbia, Oxford (England) and Princeton. He is she received her Ph.D. degree in psychology and a life member of the Modern Language Association physics from Bryn Mawr. She is the first woman and author of a Satire on John Mantor. ever to be made an oficer of a Hartford insurance CARTERW. ATKINS, Director Governmental company. She was given the Leffingwell Medal for Research Institute, Inc., of Hartford. He came to outstanding work during the year in office manage- Hartford in 1938 from the Governmental Research ment or personnel work. Institute of St. Louis where he had been located Holi. JOHN C. BLACKALL,Insurlince Commis- since 1922. He is a graduate of the University of sioner af Connecticut and President of the National Missouri, and took special courses in economics Association of Insurance Commissioners. He is a at Washington University. He served in the Army former newspaper man. His early political reporting Ordinance during the World \Tar. attracted the attention of a Connecticut Congress- DR. \\'~LLIAM B. BAILEY,Economi~t, Trmeler~ man whoinvited him to Washington as his secretary. Insurance Company, Hartford. Hc received his While there he attcnded law school at Georgetown A.B. and Ph.D. at Yale. Hc has bccn Asst. Professor University. Latcr he opened a Law officein Hartford. Political Economy; Asst. Professor Social Service; Governor Cross appointed him to thc post of Gilbert L. Stark Prof, Practicd Philnnthropy at Insurance Commissioner in 1935. Yale University. He is the author of Modern Sorial EDMUNDB. ROATNLRi~principal of the American Conditioni, 1906; Stotiairr, 1918; Chiihn bitore School (or the Deaf, West Hartford, and a former the Cowti of ConneNicut, 1919; Soriai Work A; o principal of vocational department of the New York Pmjeision, 1922. School ior the Deaf. He is o graduate of the Uni- HEBKYP. BAKEWELLis an attorney with Alcorn, versity of Mississippi with extensive experience in Bakcwell, and Alcorn, Hartford. He is a gradwte engineering, industrial education and administra- of Yale University and Harvard Law School. His tion. He received his M.A. from Gallnudet College, hobby is anything Spanish or Spanish Americm. Washington, D. C. and studied industrial education CLARABassn~, B.A. University of Iowa; at Pennsylvania State College and Colurnbiv Uni- hl. A. Columbia I?niversity, Department of Sociol- versity, specializing in education for the deaf. ogy; graduate of the New York School of Social DR. S. C. Bun~r~cam,M.D. Hahnemann Medi- Work. Formerly Consultant in Psychiatric Social cal College, Chicago, 1908; Licemiarc American Work, Division of Community Clinics, National Board of Psychintry and Neurology; chairman of Committcc for Mcntnl Hygiene. At present, Senior Committee on Public Education of the American Mental Hygienist, Bureau of Mental Hygicne, Psychiatric Association, 1933-; member of the New Connecticut State Department of Health, Hartford. England Society of Psychiatry and the Association Author of Mtntal Hy~iygienrin thr Community. for Research in Nervous and Mental diseases; Consulting Staff, Vanderbilt Clinic, Medical Center, library administration; Vice-president, Society of New York. American Archivists, 1937-38, Member Board of Dr. EENESTJ. CAULFIELD,M.D. Johns Hopkinn, Editors 1937-date. 1920, Asrt. Clinical Professor Pediatrics Yale JOSEPH B. FLCKLENis Chemical Engineer, Trav- University. Author of Infmt Welfare Moacmrnt elers insurance Company, Hartford. Author of in thr 18th Centugv and True Hiitory of Tmiblc Manual of Induirrial Health Hazard$, Smirc to Epidemic Yulprly Called the lhroat Dirtemper, Indmny (1940), translator of Some Methodifor the Which Orcurred in hii Mqieity'i New England Cdo- Detertion and E~limarion of Noxious Gasrr in Air nits Brtavrrri thTezw 1735 md 17.40. (1936). Inventor of methods hr detection and TERENCEF. CUNNEEN, Executive Assi~tmtfor estimation of minute amounts of lead, benzene, Insurance, Chamber of Commerce of the United magnesium, bismuth, carbon monoxide, etc. In- States of America, Washington. D. C. He has been ventor of direct methods for determination of dust manager of the Insurance Department of the in air for lung diseases. Investigated and visited Chamber since 1928. Prior to that time he was mines, plants, bureaus, etc., in Australia, South Deputy Superintendent of insurance of the State Africa, England,- France, Holland and Germany. of New York. SIR AWOUEFLETCHSK. After he retired from GEOXGEA. Dnrm is Assistmt Secretary of the activc service in the British Army in 1919, he Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, worked for three years at the National Industrial Hartford. He has been with the company thirty- Conference Board, New York, later he became eight years. He has been Chairman of the Office Assistant Director of the British Library of In- Equipment Committee of thc Life Office Manage- formation and in 1928 was appointed Director. ment Association and Chairman of the Constitution On January 1, 1941, His Majesty King George VI Committee of the Hartford Chapter of the Associa- appointed him Knight Commander of the Most tion, the local chapter of which he was instrumental Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George in organizing. for the valuable services he had rendered in relation WARDE. Darw, Managing Editor of the Hart- to colonial and foreign affairs. ford Timer is a graduate of Trinity College and Da. ERNESTGRIBFLTH is Director of the Legisla- received his B.Litt. from the Columbia School of tive Reference Service of the Library of Congress. Journalism. He came to the Hartford Times in 1921 Prior to chis he was Dean of the Graduate School of having previously been associated with the Man- American University, Washington, D. C. He is the chriter Herald. He was a Second Lieutenant in the author of Modem Dmelapment of CiJy GowmmmU World War and served overseas. in Linitcd Kingdom and Linirrd Stater, 1927; Cumnt DR. LUTHEKH. EVANSattended University of Muniripnl Problrrni, 1933; Hirtory of City Gooem- Texas, 1919 24; A.B. 1923; A.M. 1924, Government mcnt-The ColoniolPeriod, 1938. major, Economics minor. Summer of 1924 spent CHAXLESC. HEMENWAY,Editor-in-Chief, Hnrr- in study in Paris, Geneva, London. Attended ford Timer since 1929 is well versed in Connecticut Stanford University 1924 27, Ph.D. 1927, Political affairs. Previous to his coming to the Times in 1920 Science major, History minor; Instructor in Citizen- hc was associated with various Connecticut news- ship, 1924 27. Summer of 1927 spent in study at papers. He served in the Connecticut State Senate Geneva, and in travel in England, France, Belgium, from 1917-1919 and was u director of the Connecti- The Netherlmds, Switzerland, and Germany. Was cut State Reformatory from 1932-1937. He received Instructor in Government, New York University, his LL.D. from Rollins College in 1929. Be was 1927-28; Instructor in Political Science, Dartmouth Bromley Lecturer at Yale in 1937. College, 1928 -30; Asdstant Professor of Politics, ELEANORMITCHELL, Librarian, Department of Princeton University, 1930-35; National Director, Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Historical Records Survey, Work Projects Ad- She was formerly on the staff of the Smith College minirtration, 1935-1940; Director, Legislative Art Department. A graduate of the Kew Jersey Reference Service, Library of Congress, December 1, College for Women she has bcen a student at the 1939-October 31, 1940; Director of Reference Sarbonne, with extensive European travel. She is Department, Library of Congress, July I, 1%0- the Technical Advi9er for the Mureom Group, date; and Chief Assistant Librarian, November 1, elected in 1938 to serve five years. 1940 date. BOLE~LAUSJ. MONK~EWICZof New Britain, Author of numerous articles on the Mandates Connecticut was clected Congressman-at-large in System in Amrriron Journal o/ Internarioniil Law, 1938 and scrved one term. He reccived his L.L.B. American Politiral Srieme Reuiem, and of articles from Fnrdhsm Law School and for a while practiced concerning thc Virein islands, the Historical law in New York City. Hc was connected with the Records Survey, archival administration, and United States Navy during the World War. DR. REMSENB. OGILBY,President of Trinity in the English public schools which was published College, Hartford, was graduated from Harvard the following year. University, taught at Grotan School, was a mimster DR.OL~N GLENN SAXOW i~a Business Administra- in Boston and later served us headmaster in the tor and Professor. He received his A.B. and LL.B. Philippines. Hc was a chaplain at \Vest Point and from Harvard and an honorary A.M. from Yale. in thc American forces in the World \Tar. He is it He is Professor of Business Administration at Yale well known carilloneur. He is a member of thc University and was Commissioner of Finance and Medallion Commission for the City of Hartford. Control for the State of Connecticut (1939-1940). COI~KLLIASTKATTON I'AYKLR is the author of Pkor~sso~ANDBE SCHENKEK is Associate Pro- An American Idyll; Working with the Working Girl; fessor of History at the University of Connecticut 7oyoicr Jenny. On the fruits of these literary labors and Foreign Affairs Analyst for Station IVTIC. she dccided to go to Europe and give her three Although of Swiss descent, he is a native American children the advantage of European training. ?'hey and has had many years of study abroad. spent five years in various Europcan countries and MILDEEDSCHUMACHER, Librarian, United Hospi- while there she produced a number of travel books: tal Fund of New York's model patients library was Wmderi Circle; Pom and Happy Plnrei; Gcrman graduated from the Minnesota University Library Summcr; English Summer; rVolrhing Europe Grow; School; on the staffofthePatients' Library st Mayo Daughter of Pan. On her return to America she Clinic. She was a member of the Minnesota Library settled down on a 200 year old farm near Williams- Commission, and of the A.L.A. Committee which ton, Massachusetts, where she still writes and grows edited thc Hospital Bulletin. her own fruit and vegetables and where she accepts ODELLSHEPARD is an Author, Professor of paying guests. English at Trinity College and Lieutenant Governor FAISFIELDE. RAYMOND is a graduate of Harvard of Connecticut. Author of A Lonely Flue (poems); University and the Massachusetts Institute of The Har~eilgf a zuiet Eyc; Thc Joyr of Forgetting: Technology. He has had practical experience in The Lme gf thc Uniron?; Thy Hod arid Thy Clrcl; business management and conducts the research Pedlar'r Progreir, the Lifr of Bronion Alcott (winner work of the National Industrial Conference Bo:ird, Little, Brown & Co.'s centenary prize, winner xew York. Pulitzer Prize for biography); Connrctirut Past md Axor E. REDDING,Field Supervisor in charge of Present. Hc received his Ph.B. and Ph.M. at the Agency Sales Course, Aetna Life Affiliated Compa- University of Chicago, Ph.D. at Hnrvard, honorary nies, Hartford. In the World War he was a com- Litt.D. and Wesleyan missioned officer in the United States Navy. He is University. co-author of the widely used college text book, MAURICEF. SHERMANhas been Editor-in-Chief Casualty Insurance by Crobaugh and Redding. He of the Hariford Courant since 1926. His vigorous has written numerous magazine articles dealing editorials have been widely quoted. He received his with the sale of casualty insurance. B.S. at Dartmouth and later his M.A. from Wes- THELMAR. REINBERGhas been librarian and leyan. He is a former editor of the Springfidd bibliographer at the Bartelle Memorial Institute (Mar.) Union and a trustee of the Carncgie Endow- since 1929. She received hcr B.S. in Chemistry at the ment for International Peace. In 1934 he was chosen University of Oklahoma in 1928, and did graduate to dcliver the Brornley Lecture on Journalism at work at the same university in chemistry, library Yale University. science, French and German. She was Associate Ena~srF. Sw-rz~a'searly education was in Editor, Metals and Alloy, Metallurgical abstracts, Gcrmany. He received his B.S. in chemistry at 1932-1934. Columbia University and studied at School of C~anmsH. Sawvsa is Director of the Worcester Library Service, Columbia. For five years he was Art Museum, Worcester, Mass. Mr. Sawyer abstractor and translator in the Technical Library graduated from Yale College in 1929 and was placed of The Texas Company, New York. Since 1935 he in charge of the Addison Gallery of American Art has been technical librarian Sinclair Refining Co.. at Andover, Massachusetts, after a year in Hvrvard Inc., New York City. Law School. He is considered one of the Lcading E. ROBERTSTETENSON is Editor-in-Chief, specialists in the United States in art education and Waurbury Republirnn Arntriran, Waterbury, Cam. has applied himself to these principles since he was Mr. Stevenson is a classmate and personal fricnd a member of Professor Paul J. Sachs' course in of Sinclair Lewis. He is the editor referred to in thc Museum Administration at Hnrvard Univcrsity book It Con'! Happen Here. He has won many ten years ago. After continuous graduate study at awards, among them the Pulitzer prize for his Harvard and in Europe, in 1936, he undertook for editorials. Besides being reporter for the SpringjXd the Carnegie Corporation a survey of art instruction Republican, Ncw Hoorn Polludrium, New Hewn Rrgisfcr, Nrw Haom 7ournal Couricr, he taught from Smith College and Bachelor of Library Science English in the Hartford High School and at Georgia from Carnegie Library School. She has had varied School of Technology, Atlanta. experience in the library field. She has been chil- ELLATALLMAN i~ in charge of lantern slides, dren's librarian, high school librarian and librarian Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. far the Bureau of Plant Industry Library, Wash- LELIA E. THOMPSON,Lawyer, Connecticut ington, D. C. Mumal Life Insurance Company, is a graduate of DR. lhoao~Ross WELLSis a Canadian by the Yale School of Law. She has been active for the birth. Hc received his A.B. at McMaster Univer- last fourteen years in the local democratic party. sity, Toronto; A.M. Harvard University and Ph.D. CAROLWANNER joined the staff of the W.P.A. Johns Hopkins University. He has been Professor Library, Washington, D. C., after completing her of Psychology at the Hartford Seminary Founda- library training at Drexel. Shc was serving as Asso- tion since 1920, Columnist Horijard Courant sincc ciate Librarian at the time she was appointed 1934. He is the author of Infienu of Stirnulur Librarian of the Advisory Commission to the Council Duration on Reortion Tim; Zbuth and the Opcn for National Defense. This library scrves the office Door; Indioid~olil~and Social Rcrtraint; The Art o/ of emergency management and the office of pro- Being a Pcrron. ductive management. SIDNEYH. \YBIPPLEattended Trinity College JosEpB M. W*~D with the before joining the Royal Flying Corps in the World Muma1 Life Insurance Company since 1923. He w,, H~ is representative for R~~~~I was previously sales agent for International Time credit company.H~is a trusteeof theopen ~~~~~h. Recording Company, and has heen advertising A, WYSLINC, Librarian in Gavernmcnt salesman, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Office, Sao Paulo, Brazil had her library training Keene, New Hampshire, and industrial agent for with the League of Nations Library in Geneva, thc New England Railroads. He has twice been ap- Switzerland. Miss Wysling has been a special stu- pointed to the Field Staff of the Phoenix Mutual. dent at the Connecticut College for Women, New KATHARINEH. WEAD, secretary of the Connecti- London, Con,,. She speaks four languages, English, cut Public Library Committee, received her A.B. German, Portuguese, and French. **+ (Conlinurd from page 159) Our Executive Department has issued the S L A, San Francisco Bay Region a circular to all employees explaining Chapter. Also, we have found most useful the organization and rules and regulations a membership privilege in a university of the library. The librarian has made and a public library. Another helpful UP an O5ce Manual containing sample service is that given through the mail by forms and detailed information regarding the Paul Kollsman Library of the Insti- our library procedures. Book lists and tute of the ~~~~~~~~i~~lsciencesin periodical lists are given a general dis- New York. tribution and new ones are made up mi id^^ having charge of the library semi-annually. Employees are invited itself, the librarian also handles the selec- to visit the library and become acquainted with the material on hand. tion of books and periodicals for use on A further service of the library lies our clipper ships. We buy inexpensive in the fact that many of our employees editions of popular books because they are working and studying toward promo. are often taken as souvenirs by the tion. The establishment of an aviation passengers. The most popular are the library is an invaluable means of helping current publications on world affairs, them to keep pace the fast develop. travel and adventure. A new supply of ing industry. magazines is provided for each clipper Recognition of the value of this pioneer- ship that leaves Treasure Island. A few ing work in aviation libraries has been children's books are available also on the demonstrated by the recent formation planes and, judging from their worn of similar libraries by two other promi- appearance, must be in constant use. nent air lines. The President's Page . .

ROM a desk shoulder-deep in rich we may not realize until we meet in S.L.A. correspondence-directory Hartford! But however satisfactory we Fquestionnaires-committee repc~rts may feel the progress of our organization -convention program-from such a desk, has been, I believe that our chief pride I am thinking about the "President's lies in the ability and success of the Page" and its final message before the individuals who comprise it. Hartford Convention. \That shall it be? TYe are working in Baltimore on the Chiefly, I think it is one of gratitude final editing of Special Library Resources to the loyal and hard-working individual announced to the membership a few members of the Association. You have weeks ago. Rose Vormelker, who is di- been bombarded with air-mail letter:;- recting this work, ordinarily is more in- telephone requests--telegrams-and you visible than the President. But not in- have never quailed for a moment! In- frequently one is sure to say to the other dividuals, committees, groups, chapters, "It's the most fascinating thing I've officers,-all have given whole-hearted ever done!" or "Look here; I've tried cooperation which is the President's and tried to collect information on eleva- most important asset! First of all then, tors and here is a library that has a I wish to say "Thank I'ou." corcplete collection of books in English Perhaps the next most important on the subject !" thought to share with you is the hope, At Hartford Special Library Resources pride and stimulus which the achieve- will explain the reason why the President ments of the Association as a whole feels a great pride in the work of the warrant. The year has been rich in individual members of S.L.A. achievements of various kinds;-how LAURAA. WOODWARD 4 4 4 Special Library Resources RACTICALLY all of the questic~n- work. Eleanor Cavanaugh and Mary naires sent to the membership for Louise Alexander are taking turns spend- P the Survey of Resources are now ing long weekends in Baltimore also in. The Committee has been working helping out. night and day to meet the publication ,Ihe. Survey is the most extensive one date tentatively set for this month. ever undertaken on special library They really are working nights-far inn1 resources. It will give the complete the night too. Rose Vormelker has taken history of each library, including the a month's leave from her library in holdings of that library. You can find Cleveland and is devoting her whole time out, for instance,-what we have never to the editing of this survey. Maria Brace known before-how many volumes in the and Laura Woodward are spending all entire special collection in the United the time, when they are not on their jobs, States, what percentage of this collection including weekends, helping out in this is pamphlets, how many volumes are

MAY-JUNE,1941 added annually, how many members are You could also find out who has the working in the special library field and best collection in the country on Egyptol- what percentage of these workers are ogy; where there is a good collection of professional. Also you can find out how French literature of a certain period in many magazines an individual library New York City; who has the best col- receives, how many are bound and what lection of costume design; where you can disposal is made of the others. With an find runs of very old newspapers and also adding machine you can answer this same long runs of foreign, technical, or medical question for the entire special library journals; where you can find proceedings profession. of various learned and technical societies. Suppose you wanted to locate a spe- If you are interested in knowing where cialist in some subject, either in a library the best collection on nutrition, adult in your own vicinity or in any library, or education, housing, air raid precaution, to know whether Russian could be trans- history of canals and railroads in the lated in some particular library. The Sur- United States in the early eightecn hun- vey will direct you to the library with dreds, or early 16th and 17th century specialists on its organization staff, stat- American houses in New England is, ing in what they specialize, and also will just look in the index. tell you whether or not they are trans- Volume one will cover completely lators and what languages they translate. holdings of from 500 to 600 ourstanding Also you can find out whether a library special collections. Unfortunately some has an interloan system and whether or of the reports have been received too late not it has reproducing processes and what to be included in the first volume, but a these processes are. second volume is under consideratiun. The Survey also will have the most This is undoubtedly thc most ambitious complete subject index ever attempted. Should you want to locate all the material project ever undertaken by Spzcial Libra- that ever appeared in the English ries Association and is an outstanding language on the subject of elevators, it contribution to professional literature. will tell you where to go. Should you want It will be of iuestimable value to all to locate a copy of David Hunt Miller's scholars and research workers. Be sure Diary 4 the Peace Corifrrence, it will to watch for the publication date for send you direct to the library that has it. you will use it daily in your own library.

The world of bookr is the most remarkable crtation of man. Nothing else that hr builds eorr lastr, monuments fall, nations perish, cioilizations grow old and die out. And &-r an ero of darkness, nm races build others. But in thc world of bookr arc volumes that hnor reen thii happcn again and again and ye1 line on, still young, still fresh or the day they were written, slill felling men'r hearts of tht hearts of men centuries CLARENCE DAY. Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, has technical charge of the project. ART BOOKS The general objective io the development of n. NEW AND SECOND-BAND library center lor the eollcction and dnsemination of printed and other materials, especially official New York: L. Fciningm: Tan Wdcuta, 1941 Lwbon: 0s Prirnitioas Patuguwea, 1940 census publications, relating to papulatron for all Ladon: Maa Dclails.. .National Qallq, 1941 countries oi the world by (a) the concentration of Bode: Niklnva Manuel Deulsch, 1940 such materials in a central location in the Library Shanghai: B&f HHislory of Chinme Amhiledurs of Congress, (b) the completion of the collections BEND FOR PBICEB. WANT USls WEWOUE. of the Library, (c) the development of a union SIIOWBOOMI 38 East 57th Street catalog of materials not in the Library but available Wittenborn 81 Co. New York City elsewhere, (d) the creation of a broad reference service for both scholars and the general public, --LIww and (e) the preparation and pubhcation of a bibliog- raphy, or guide, to official census materials. POSITIONS LIBRARIANS By Proxy WANTED SUPPLIED The May 1941 issue of the Balrimorr Ncwi-LelIer For Librarians well For positions of contains an excellent digest by Elsa von Hohenhoff qualified for all any type in any of a Conference Discussion Group Meeting on bmnrhes of library part of thecountry. "Management Principles Involved in the Selection, work. This srrvia: isfree. Acquisition and Preparation of Material." The crisp definitions alone .Ire worth the time rcquired to read this. Why not be generous and make this part of the The American Librarians' Agency discussion 3s well as thc former onc available to all WINDSOR. CONNECTICUT S.L.A. members at a slight cost? It would be moot helpful. .. American Library in Paris A recent A.L.A. Rulteriu states thnt the Ameri- I f PICTORIAL ARCHIVES I can Library in Paris is open, lending books and I I cooperating to same extent in service to prisoners. 1 Illustrationsfrom Old Books I There is a staff of four, headed by Miss Virginia I Old Prints and photogritphs--and illustrations I Rerder. It is unofficially stated that no books have I from old books, magzzines and newspapers. ' been removed, although some have been segregated I I at the request of the German authorities, to bc lent I Research and R~adineMatter 10.000 Subjeots I I under spccial circumstances. i 228 East Forty-first Street The .4merican Library in Paris was incorporated I in 1920 to care for the books and periodicah sent I NEW YORK I I I to Europe by A.L.A. for the use of our overseas I Telephone: Murray Hill 2.6668 I forccs. The founders' purpose was to furnish a living I I memorial to thc A.E.F. and to promote a knowledge of American history and culture. PERIODICAL Contributions for the upkcep of this library are MARVALUX BrNmRs being accepted by the New York Public Library. for PAMPHLETS, REPORTS, Etc. A Special Library in a File Cabinet AI.1. SIZES rn . In a recent issue of 'Th Norih Wettern MiNn. there is a most interesting article, entitled A Notable Catalog of Wheal and Flour Chemiitry. It tells the story of the development by Dr. C. H. Bailey at the University of Minnesota of n small file on this sub- ject and how it has grown to 21,000 cards and fills a file cabinet of 18 drawers. It has been used as the basis iar research by individuals and organizations from the Antipodes to eastern Europe. In other words it is a special library. Social Security Personal A recent list, entitled, Srtcctrd Lir: of Subject Hcadingi in the Sorinl Security Board Library, Library Service in the Field Washington, D. C. has just been prepared. It covers all phascs of social security and related social Recently Miss Mary G. Lacy, Assistant Depart- welfare fields. Kith definitions and cross references. ment of Agriculture Librarian, and Librarian of the A few copies are still available hr free distribu- Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Washington, tion to libraries that are inteiestcd. D. C., has mndc un extended trip to field officesof the Bureau, as well us other officcs of the Depart- In Print ment of Agriculture in the interest of library scrvice. The city of Memphis, Tenn., has reccntly pub- Theodore Wesley Koch Jishrd a monograph entitled, 3ohn Giiilon, Cirizm, a tribute to the man who gave the city the John In March Theodore Wesley Koch, Librarian, Gaston Hospital, Gaston Park, and Gaston Com- Northwestern University Library, died at Evans- munity Center. This booklet is written hy our own ton. He had been librarian of thc Korthwestern Uni- member Louise Gambill. versity Library for the past twenty-two years. He had led a long library career. He was Assistant A Librarian's Reading Librarian of Congress, 1902-+ Assistant Librarian, The New York Library Association has evolved University of Michigan, 1904-5; Librarian Univer- a splendid contest among its membership based on sity of Michigan, 1905- 16; Chief, Order Division, the reading done by the individual members during Library of Congress, 1916.19; and sincc then Li- the first six months of 1941. At least twenty per brarian, Northwestern University Library. cent must be professional reading! Five awards of Mr. Koch was the author and translator of many forty dollars each arc being offered which will pay books and monographs. During the World War he the expenses of a week foi the Fall Conference at was extremely active in War Library Service for the Lake hlohonk. ALA, and as a result wrote extensively of his experi- Why not use this corking idea and give thrcc cnces. He was a member of many clubs and associa- such awards for next year's S.L.A. Convention! tions, among them the ALA, ALI and SLA. President I'ranklin B. Snyder of Northwestern Super Special Library University delivered a memorial address at the The past few years have brought a striking in- funeral services. Speaking of Mr. Koch's work as crease in popular and scientific interest in the librarian of the University, President Snyder said: various phases of the population problem. That this "His mere presence in the library was a stimulus to trend will continue in the future seems evident from cvcryone engaged in thc scholar's quest for the growing number of contemporary social ques- truth.. . ." tions, the solutions of which are related to the shifting population pattern. In view of this situa- Arthur Sumner McDaniel tion, the Eighth American Scientific Congress With rcgict we record the recent death of Arthur sponsored the formntion of the Inter-American Sunmer McDaniel, Assistant Librarian of The Asso- Statistical Institute, and urged die creation of a ciation of the Bar of the City of New Yark at his world demographic collection at the Library of residence in New York City. Congress. He bcgsn his library work in the Harvard Collcgc Concurrent with these recommendations, a Library from which institution he came to the Bar Ccnsus Library Project, sponsored jointly by the Association in 1902. He was an active member of Bureau of the Census, the Carnegic Corporation, SLA and ALA. and the Library of Congress, was formally estab- lished at the Library of Congress an September 16, 1940. The project is under the general supervision News Briefs of a committee consisting of Dr. Halbert L. Dunn -- - far the Bureau of the Census, Dr. Frank Lorimer, for the Population Association of America, Dr. A New Definition Stuart A. Rice for the organizing committee of the When Mr. Roger Johnson of the New England Inter-American Statistical Institute, Dr. Richard Council spoke before the Connecticut Chapter of 0. Lang for the American Statistical Association, SLA, he handed on to us an intriguing new dcfini- Mr. James B. Childs, Chief of the Division 03' tion of a special librarian. He called us, "Brokers of Documents of the Library of Congress, as Chairman. Information." Not bad! Mr. J. H. Shera, formerly bibliographer of the SOS - Do you wish to sell either a rag paper or regular wwd pulp edition of bound volumes of the New Ha rtf 0 rd-the ~nsuranee. Tork Timer, running from 1914 through 1938, or Industrial and Cultural Center of the any year or years within those dates? If so, corn- World awaits the rnunicate with Richard Giovine, Head Librarian, of PM, New York. He has been making a desperate Special Librarians search to locate these volumes. in June More About South America HOTEL BOND Due to the courtesy of Mr. Paul Kellagg, Editor WILLARD 1%. ROGERS of the Surury Gruphir, New York, complimentary Preridcnc ond Qcnsrd Maw~cr copies of the special edition of the magazine, under - the title, The America~ South end North, dated March 1941 were went to all members of SLA. The Roorcvclt Memorial Asrociarion Many thanks. I announcer the ~ublicationof tbc More Defense Aids I THEODORE ROOSEVELT CYCLOPEDIA Dcfrnrr Bibliography Seriei (1941) prepared by the Municipal Reference Library is available at 8.30 for a set of five. Individual numbers may bc purchased as fallows: Allen White. # 1, Air Raid Shclttrr. 8 p. 10L ~hcvolume is 7~ by 10% inches and contains xiii # 2, Dc/cnsr Planning for Lard Goormmrnr.r. + 674 pax., prlnlcd in 10 pt,InferfypG?ramond.on 60 Ib. stock anfrguc paper, and baund m buckcam. 3 P. 5C PricesQUO # 3, Public Protccrion in Defmrc Plans. 4 p. 56 Roosevelt House 28 East 20th Street. New York # 4, Health in o Norional D+mr Program. I 20 p. 1st # 5, Protrrtion of Electric and Wafcnrrr Urilitirs During Wartime. 4 p. 51 Thcse may be secured fram the Municipal Refer- RARE BOOKS ence Library, 300 City Hall, Los Angeles, Calif. ON Plower Arrangement SPECIAL SUBJECTS The mail brought us recently an intriguing book leaflet entirely in Japanese! It was quite beyond us v to decipher it, but fram the envelope we gleaned it was from the Ikcnobo Library for Flower Arrange- RICHARD S. WORMSER ment, Kyoto, Japan. Evidently another special 22 WEST 48TH STREET library. NEW YORK

To Theatre Fans A new catalog Booki of the Theatre which in- cludes new and second hand books as wcll as tirst editions has just been issued by S.L.A. member, R. Rowland Dearden, of Jenkintown, Penna. Copies will be sent to our members by request.

Orchids AND SON INC. In Induibiol Montering, April, 1941, vol. 26, no. 4, pap32 and 36 is a nice tribute to the special library by Dr. Howard T. Hovde, President, Ameri- can Marketing Association, and Assistant Professor of Marketing, Wharton School of Finance and Cam- merce, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Military Dictionary President Raosevrlt has approvcd the continua- tion of a WPA project employing writerr and trans- I/ BOUND lators in the production of a military dictionary. The project, directed by the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department, is engaged in translating military terms to and from English nnd six foreign languages. At the present rime there is no military dictionary in English which can be used in consulting nrilitnry literature in foreign languages, or in examining Our bindings are bound to win foreign prisoners in time of war. \Yhcn complctcd your hearty approval. the work will be of great service to stat?, officers and We rebuild shabby books into personnel of the United States Army and research strong beautiful volumes by using workers. the finest materials and the most modern equipment. Another Miniature Libraw Our skilled craftsmcuwill complete The Lilrnry of !he We~trilprnReicarch Laboratory in your binding order in every detail. the San Franrirro Bay Region Chirprer Bulletin for We have convinced a distinctive April 1941. clientele. Lct us convinre you1 Book Mobiles DESS &TALAN CO.,Inc. The use of modern, motorized library field units, SPECIALISTS IN cooperating with organized library services through- LIBRARY &SCHOOL BINDINGS out America to serve the rural public is reported 217-21 E. 144th St. New York, N. Y. now to exceed 200. !Ye are wondering if thcre are any Specialbaokmobilcs!

Publications I we are in the market for Garden Classification I SCIENTIFIC It is a joy to encounter such n spring like subject I PUBLICATIONS -as well as such s helpful &osificrtion for garden lovers! BOOKS PERIODICBLS This clnssification was developed by Marjorie B. Cleliand, Librarian of the Garden Centcr of Foreign Domestic Greater Clevclnnd, who found the Dewey system I for such a collection. She worked out the PLEASE MAKE OFFERS present unified and flcriblr scheme suitcd to the approach of the users of thc Garden Center Library. Copies of this classification may be obtained Just issued: from the Garden Center of Cleveland. Scientific Periodical Sets Another Occupatioaal Aid Special Spring Bargain List Please write for list The \Vestern Personnel Scrvice, u rcscarch in- stitute of sevcral \Vestern Colleges and Universities, located at Pasadena, Cal., has enplorcd another new B. GESTERMANN CO., INC. field in thcir latest rclease entitled, Motion Pirture Cnrmoninf. It covers completely this expanding BWXBELLEA~ I~~PORTEBSfield of animation from training, production methods a0 West 48th St., New York to chances for BKynnt 9-6633 This brief timcly presentation should be a valuable aid to young peoplc who are in search for new occupational opportunities. A Truly Real Help If you want help on your war subject headings, Early American you will surely find it in the January 1941 Finonrial Group Bullcrin. (Our former copy was lost; that is the reason we have not noted this before.) SHEET MUSIC This issue of the bulletin contains so much of value that wc can only mention a iew items. Its Lure and Its Lore Wor Suhjrcl llcadingr-Eleanor S. Cavanaugh War and Nolian DCicnse Svbjcil II~adinar-Florence 1768-1889 Wr#"e' Nation Ds/cnra Suhjcd Rcadin~r-Stein and Roc by Library and First National Bank 01 Chicaso Library HarryDichterandElliott Shapiro Notional Dcirnsr Svnircl Rcndin8r---K. Dorothy Fcrguron Price $7.50 Nalionui De/cnsc Prosrun-How to Comply With ItBulletin 01 Budncsr Informrfion Bulletin ot Cleveland Public Library "I can say unqualifiedly that it ia by far the most important publication on the A limitrd number oi this Bulletin devoted to a subiect that has vet n~oeared. I was study of War and hroiional Dcfcnie are available ~ariicularlyenthuiisstii bver the direct- upon request to Marion E. Wells, in care of The bry of music publishers which help find the year when pieces were issued. Thia First National Bnnk of Chicago. Enclose r threc- is most useful to libraries." cent stamp to cover mailing costs. -CARLETONSPBAGUE SMITH, Chrdoffh. Mwlr pio

Hours and the Defense Program A most timely monograph on Houri Adminiilru- tion ar Inzenred by the Ddenmre Program by Edward PERIODICAL P. Moore has just been published by the lndustrial Relations Section of Princeton University. Junt BINDING -$1.65 now this subject is of vital importance. The publicn- tion discusses the types of multiple-shift schedules Jat rate includes md the many factors involved in changing over to multiple-shift schcdulcr. At the end there is a good volumes to 14 inches list of further references. Just now this will be of great help to executives of defense industries which are having to change to EUC~rchcdulrs. American Library Association Boosting Libraries specifications: best quality and Again the Financial Group has brought out an appearance; expert handling. important and timely bulletin on Promotion ond Free shipping cartons supplied. Publirity Mzthodi. They believe in showing by actual examples just how certain libraries turn the trick. Three binderies to serve you. You will find most helpful the examples and nug- Address nearest one for full gestions under thesc headings: particulars. Bulletin. and Lists Forthe Company " " " -For r wider Public Promoting the Library-Far Employees EDWIN ALLEN COMPANY " " " Forr wider Public 110% S. Wabash Ave. CHICAGO Yes, you will find many helpful idcas, which you 9015 E. 65th. St. CLEVELAND can put at once to work for your own library. Santa Fe Bldg. Unit P DALLAS Remember to enclosc a three cent stamp to cover mailing cost when you send for this to Marion E. Wells, First National Bank of Chicago. Microfilm Early Latin-America (Conh'nurdfrom pngr 162) Thousands of pages from books and documenrs, in placing the history of Florida in its dealing with the early civilization of Latin-America, are being copied on microfilm for the use of scholars proper perspective in relation to that of everywhere under a special project now under w;ly the Americas as a whole, and that it at Brown University. will contribute to the needs of the pres- The project, made possible by a grant of 535,MM ent and the future by making possible a from the Rockefeller Foundation, represents part of Brown's share in the nation-wide movement to comprehensive understanding of the past. develop closer relationships with Latin-America. With this policy, which must appeal Recently an initial shipment of 3,500 exposures alike to the public-spirited citizen as well on microfilm, representing 7,000 pages of early as to the scholar, the Catalog proceeds South American historical works, reached the uni- versity, according to Dr. Irving A. Leonard, profes- with its program of being a clearing house sor of Hispanic civilization at Brown, who is in for Floridiana by a thorough listing of charge of the project. (I) printed books, pamphlets, reports, All of the material to be microfilmed during the public and private records and docu- next thrce years in the archives of libraries in South America, Central America and Mexico will be added ments; (2) newspapers and periodicals to the exceptional original material on Latin- published within the state, and news- America now housed in the John Carter Brown and paper and other periodical articles about John Hay Libraries at the university. Brown University plans to use the microfilmrd Florida published elsewhere; (3) manu- books and manuscripts in connection with expanded scripts, diaries, and letters; (4) maps and opportunities for undergraduates and graduate charts; (5) pictures, photographs, and students who want to study Latin-American culture. other likenesses, motion picture films, and Eventually the university expects to become a world reference center for scholars of early Latin- microfilms; and (6) relics, memorabilia, American civilization. and other rariora.

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