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For more information, please contact [email protected]. -- - - Vol. 19 May-June, 1928 No. 5 Washington Number VIEW OF WASHINGTON FROM THE MONUMENT Entered as second class matter at tho Poat Offlee, Providence, R. I. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in scctlon 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 22,1927. Rates: $5.00 8 year. Foreign $6.60: single copies 60 cents. Contents ARTICLES District of Columbia Collection of the Washington Public Library. By Emma Hance ................148 Federal City to National Capital. By Louise P. Latimer .....................................................1 39 Knowledge Tours of Washington. By Elizabeth 0. Cullen .......................................................1 40 Library of Congress Notes. By Frederick W. Ashley 146 Public Documents Library. By Mary B. Hartwell I47 Washington of Tomorrow. By Major Carey H. Brown ..........................................................145 CONFERENCE Annual Dinner ........... 157 Map of Washington .... 152 Conference Notes.. .. 156 Pres. CadyYsMessage 150 Glimpses of Libraries 154 Program ...................... I49 Hotels ....................... 149 Travel ....................... 149 -NOTES Agricultural Biblio- Domestic Economy. 159 gra~hies.................... 158 Railway Biographies . 1 57 Census Reports ............ 163 Chemical Indexes........ 163 Time Savers ............ 1 59 Crime Survey.. ............ 158 Western Society of Distribution Studies ... 157 Engineers ............... 158 DEPARTMENTS Associations ................ 160 Events and Publica- Editorials ................... 1 5 1 tions ...................... 159 Personal Notes. ......... 159 Special Libraries Published Monthly September to April, bimonthly May to August by THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Publication Office, 11 Nisbel Strcct, Providence, R. I. All payments sho~~lclbe made io Mrs. 1-1. 0. Brigl~am,Executive Officer, 11 Nisbet Street, Providence, R. I. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Welcome ! It is a ~re;ltpleasure for me to extend to the Special Libraries Association a cordial greeting and welcome in conneclio I with the 1928 Convention. As President of the Board of Commissioners I speak in behalf of the 540,000 people in the District of Columbia and assure you of a cordial welco~neto your Natio~ialCapital City. This is your city just as 1nuc11 as it is our city for those of us who live here, and we appreciate the responsibility that we have imposed upon us to care for and maintain the various services of the municipality so that its growth and development may be consistent with all that makes for a National Capital. I hope that your stay among us may be a profitable one and that your deliberations here will bear fru~tand fulfill the aims of your Association. PROCTOR I,. DOUGHERTY, Greetings to the Special Librarians from the officers and members of the District of Colu~nbiaLibrary Association (organized in 1894). We are looking forward to the Washington Conference of the Special Libraries Association in the evpectation that the gathering will be both profitable and pleasant to guests and host alike. Washington, with its 220 libraries, large and small, and its nearly 9,000,000 books, is Izorne to all American librarians. No members of the family need have any fear of wearing out his welcome. All our doors will he wide open! FREDERICK W. ASHLEY, Preside11t , Utslrizt oj C'o1ut~~62'uLibrury Asso~iution. Special Libraries Vol. 19 MAY-JUNE, 1928 No. 5 WASHINGTON NUMBER Edltor: HERUERT 0. BKIGHAM "Federal City" to National Capital By Louise P. Latirner, Author of "Your Washington and Mine," and Director of Work for ChiIdren, Public Library HE capital city was named after By 1900 the city had slumped again. T George Washington, but George- From Madison's time each building, town, which mothered the delicate new monument and park was considered city, was not. For what George it was without relation to the others, thus named history neglects to say. General marring the cornposition planned by Washington right modestly spoke of the L'Enfant and U!Tl'asl~ington.In 1900 place as The Federal City and never upon urgent representation ol the local called it Washington. conditions by the An~ericanInstitute of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Architects, a Parking Conmission was Hamilton at least once actually agreed authorized to study the entire matter. for, so 'tis said, their agreement dictated These four men I-ecomrnenclecl a return the general location of the capital, while to the plan of L'Enfant wlie~everyossi- Washington chose the esact site, part ble and made proposals in sympathy in Virginia, part in Maryland. with the original plan. Then caxe that man of genius, Pierre To succeed this Commission, Congress Charles L'Enfant, and to him we owe in 191 0 most wisely created a perinanent the wonderful plan of Washington, part Conmission which is call&l the Com- of which plan has been lost by neglect mission ol the Fine Arts. In 1924 Con- and an undue economy. To \Vashing- gress created The National Capital ton, Jefferson, LIEnfant,PYilliam Thorn- Parking and Planning Commission. On ton, the architect of the capitol and the~etwo gro~rpsand on Congress rests James Holjan, the architect of the the responsibility for a consistent and White House should praise unstinted adequate Capital. Strength to their he given for most of what is right in arms! Washington. Pennsylvania Avenue will one clay Then came a false step in 1846 ~vlien be the noble street it was planned to be. that portion of the ten miles square UP this broad avenue history has lying in Virginia was returned to the marched from the very beginning. Tri- mother state by cession of Congress umphal 111arch mcl ~OLII-ningcortbge. and the District of Columbia was \j~hatcliffercnt tunes 111e bands have reduced to the 69 square miles it now is. played! But every tune the bands haw Haphazardly developed, the straggling played and every nlarching foot have village-city took on new life and a new been nat~onalmusic. And the faces of pride under the cllrection of Alesander the marchers and the faces of the R. Shepherd, President of the Board of watchers are history. The spirits of Public Works who, in 1871, fearlessly Washington, the Adarnses, Jefferson, and in the face of almost universal Maclison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, opposition set about rectifying some of Roosevelt, lb'ilson, of such is the city the mistakes of the past. lnade. 140 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May-June, 1918 Knowledge Tours of Washington By Elizabeth 0. Cullen, Reference Librarian, Bureau of Railway Economics ASHINGTON is the witching city. special librarians who glory in "snaking" Serious persons come from afar small cars through intricate traffic and Wfor the single purpose of arriving at making ~naximumspeed in stretches, 8 :45 sharp at 14th and B Sts. S. 11. and the mind will be sufficiently occupied the Libraries of the Department of with speculating on the chances of Agriculture, or 17th and H Sts. N. W. staying in this world to keep it from for progression throug!l the economic straying to vistas and landn~arks. and financial libraries 111 that vicinity. At 10:45 the library staffs, not having Proper planning of routes, however, heard from the hospitals, realize that and a mental picture of the special another has succun~bedto the lure of librarian's W'ashington divided for es- ihe cool beauty of the Monument ploration of knowledge sources into four Grounds or the lively children, pigeons "quarters" by Pennsylvania Avenue, and squirrels frolicking in Jackson which extends southeast to northwest, Square, arid may be found at the close and 15th Street northwest to southwest, of the working day wandering along make possible a series of tours that take the river wall to find the perfect place in a great deal of the city, many li- to see the sun set over Arlington's hills, braries, and many points of interest or standing on the coping of the White and can be made in a relatively short House fence, south side, trying to see time. Rebecca, the first raccoon in the land. A thorough exploration of all the Time, appointments, agricultural prob- libraries open to the public, all the pri- lems and cconornics have been forgotten. vate libraries, all the information sources Because of these experiences the outside of the libraries, and all the erroneous conclusion has been drawn points of interest including this spring's that in order to arrive at any of Wash- baby bears at the zoo, the instruments ington's 220 libraries, blinders should for recording earthquakes in George- be worn en route to avoid sight, and con- town arid the model basin at the Navy sequently the tenlptation of the scenic Yard would require the detailed prepara- and