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SPECIAL LIBRARIES "Putting Knowledge to Work" PROCEEDINGS of the TWENf Y-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE At Lake Placid, June 13-17,1932 ,t WORLD CHANGES By James G. McDonald SOME TRENDS IN SOCIAL AND E~ONOMICTH~NKING By Roderic Qlrendam THEME Changing Times and the Greater Need for Fact Finding Volume 23 JULY-AUGUST, 1932 Number 6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Official Magazine Spacial ~ibkrirr Edilo* FLORENCE BRADLEY LILrarian. Metro htan Llfe lnsurnnce Compnny %w York CIty Assoclolc Edlla for this Proceedinga Number MARTHA FOULK H. L. Doherty and Company New York Clty A full Bdltorial Board is to be announced in the Septtmber.ll~ue Advnlisinp Monoper M. DOROTHY HOWARD OFFICERSFOR 1931-1939 a PrrsMcnl Dirccfws ALTA R. CLAFLIN ANGUS FLETCHER, C.B.E. Libndan. Federal Kcsenre Bank Llbrarlan Cleveland, Ohlo Britlah Library of Information New York. N. Y. JOSEPH CONFORTI ELEANOR S. CAVANAUGH L~bnrlan Libranan, Standard Statlstia Co.. Inc. Pmplcr Gas L~ght& Coke Co. New York, N. Y. Clncnso. Illmols hlRS LOUISE 1'. DORN FRED A. ROBERTSON Llbrannn. Deuolt Bdimn Company 1,lbranJn Detro~t.Mlclilpn Hydro-Electnc Power Cornmiasion Toronto. Ontarlo, Canada ELIZAUISTH 0. CULLEN MARGAKET REYNOLDS Burrau of Kallwny Bconomlcs Ltbrarran 1024 l'ransw~rtdt~onIIldg E'irat Wisconsm Nat~onalBank Washington. D. C. Milwaukee, W18conaln Senclary REBECCA B. RANKIN OFFICERSFOR 1939-1933 Elected at the Lake Placid Convention June 16, 1932 Prcsidrnl Dircclas MARY LOUISE ALEXANDER HERBERT 0. BRIGHAM Marlager of Llhrary-Reaenrch Dent. Batten. Uarton, Durst~ne& Osborne, Inc. Librarlan New York, S. Y. Rhode Island Slate Llbrary Providence, Rhode lrland SOPHIA J. LAMMERS ANGUS FLETCHER, C.B.E. Lthrannn Librarisn The Joaepb Sehaffner Llbrary of Commerce Notthwestern University Dritinh Library of Informati011 229 Bast Chi~xgoAvenue New York. N. Y. 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Codperation Between Special Libraries and the Government - Ernest A . Tupper .... Committee on Cooperation in Business Library Service ....................... Codperation Between Spcial Libraries Association and Trade Associations - Nathaniel Waring Barnes .................................................. GROUP ACTIVITIES Museum .............................................. Commercial-Technical ......................................... Committee on Resolutions ................................................. A Word of Welcome .Mrs . Melville Dewey .............................. President'sAddms ................................................. Our New President ................................................ Reports of Officers and Committees-The Secretary ........................ MembershipReport .................................................. Publications ....................................................... 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Ed~torialand Adver- lising Offices at 345 Hudson Slreet. New York. N. Y. Subscrip~ionprice: 17* 95.00 a war] foreign $5.50; single copies 50 cents SPECIAL LIBRARIES July-August, 1932 Institutional Members f. California Edison Electric Illuminatin~Co.,Dorchcstcr California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank of Boston California State Library, Sacramento First National Bank, Boston Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco Insurance Library Association bf Boston Standard Oil Company of California, San Jackson & Moreland, Boston Francisco Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Library, Technical Book Company, San Francisco Cambridge Massncliusetts Mutual Life Insural~cc Co., Springfield Connedlcut Massxhusetts State Library, Boston Hartford Public Library, Business Branch, Social Law Library, Boston Hartford Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, I-iartford Michigan Yale University Library, New Haven Detroit News, Petrpit , Detroit Public Library, Detroit General Motors Reskarch Corporation, Oetroit ' Delaware University of Detroit, Detroit du Pont de Nemours, E. I., Wllmington University of Michigan, Bureau of Government, Ann Arbor Illinois b7. 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