Special Libraries, January 1935

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SPECIAL LlBRAR,lES "Putting Knowledge to Work" VOLUME46 JANUARY 1935 NUMBER1 Important Books of the Year A Symposium (Continued) . 3 Special Libraries: Twenty-five Years Old-Lillian C. Perron. 6 "We Do This" . 8 Keeping Your Directory Up-To-Date . 9 Proposed Technical Book Review Index-Granville Meixell . 10 Our Unemployment committee- Rebecca B. Rdin. 1 1 Know Your Association . 12 Special Library Survey Commercial ~i braries . - . 14 Snips and Snipes. : . : . 22 Conference News . , . 23 Business Book Review Digest. 24 New Books Received. 25 Publications of Special Interest. 26 Duplicate Exchange List. 28 Indexed in Industrial Arts Index and Public Affairs Information Service SECIAL LIBRARIES published monthly September to April, with bi-monthly issues May to August, by The S clal Libraries Asrocirtion at 10 Ferry Street, Concord, N. H. Subscri tion Officer, 10 Fen !$kt, Concord, N. H., or 345 Hudson Street, New York, N. Y. ~dlton$md Advertising 0flces at 345 Hudson Street, New York N. Y. Subrdpt~onprlce: 55.00 a year; foreign $5.50; single m&r, 50 mb. Entered as second-class matter at the Port Ofke at Concord, N. If., under the act of March 3, 1879 SPECIAL LIBRARIES MARIANC. MANLEY,Editor JANUARY, 1935 Volume 26 +++ Number 1 Important Books of the Year A Symposium by Correspondence (Continued) FROM A BANK LIBRARIAN bank practices and the relation of these to During this year 1934, there has been such Federal Reserve organization and policy. widespread discussion in books and pamphlets. Dodwell examines the relations between the of monetary experiments and theories and government and the central bank in Great fundamental changes in banking, that it is Britain and the United States as these rela- difficult to know what titles to include and tions have developed historically, and as they what to omit in submitting a short list of the now exist. He points out the advantages of most useful volumes in the field of money and concentration of government transactions in banking. the central bank and the significance of the I should doubtless include in the list, two apparent increased subordination of our banking- volumes of a somewhat historical Federal Reserve system to the Treasury. character as being important in giving a better From the foreword of Chapman's book the understandinsr- of develooments toward strut- following sentences reveal the nature of his tural changes and reform, Hubbard, "The study: "Professor Chapman has in this voG Banks, the Budget and Business," and ume presented by far the most complete and Malburn, "What Happened' to Our Banks." thorough study of branch banking that Mr. Hubbard's volume is an account of the has bcen published in the United States or events leading up to the banking moratorium, elsewhere. Arguments for, and against, and the banking reconstruction and Treasury branch banking are fully, fairly, and impar- financing following in its wake. He gives also tially presented and examined as to validity a review of measures for recovery. Malburn and reasonableness, with the conclusion that sets forth the principles of sound commercial a considerably wider authorization for branch banking and shows how these principles have banking than that contained in the Glass- been neglected with a resulting crisis. Stegall Act would be to the advantage of I should include also, as valuable aids in American banking and American business." clarifying some of the present banking prob- Anderson's book is a brief history of the lems, Willis, "The Banking Situation"; controversies and litigation growing out of our Dodwell, "Treasuries and Central Banks"; system of dual control of banking. He points Chapman, "Banking Concentration," and out the part Federal and State control plays Anderson, "Federal and State Control of in recent banking difficulties and stresses the Banking." importance of concentration of control, the Willis' volume is a good general survey of the establishment of Federal control over all present state of banking and an examination deposit banks. into the problems of reform. His study is an Much of the literature on money and mone- elaborate one of the development of problems tary policy has been printed in the form of of banking structure, control, commercial articles and pamphlets. It is a pity to pass 4 . SPECIAL LIBRARIES January, 1935 over, for instance, the Farrar and Rinehart as do the other three above mentioned books pamphlets, Carothers, "Experimenting with on money, to a better understanding of Our Money"; Spahr, "The Monetary The- monetary policies of the past year. - Elsie ories of Warren and Pearson " ;and Reed, " The Rackstraw, Federal Reseme Board, Washmgton. Commodity Dollar." Also we pass Sprague, "Recovery and FROM A TECHNICAL RESEARCH Common Sense" (Houghton, Mifflin) ; Mor- LIBRARIAN gan-Webb, "The Rise and Fall of the Gold In answering your request,for a selection of Standard" (Allen and Unwin), and such in- the fiveorsix booksof 1934whichwe have found teresting treatments of monetary experiments most valuable here in the Mellon Institute in foreign countries as Kjellstrom, "Managed LibraryJ wish to make clear that those listed Money "; "The Experience of Sweden" below are the ones that have come to my at- (Columbia University Press) ; Gifford, "The tention because of frequent use or because Devaluation of the Pound" (P. S. King); they have received many favorable comments. Jauncey, "Australia in the World Crisis" I realize that someone else might make a very (Cambridge University Press), and Ellis, different selection from the titles added to our "German Monetary Theory" (Harvard Uni- library during the last year. versity Press). Our library is devoted almost entirely to But I make special note of four new books chemistry, the chemical industries, and related on money, " Kemmerer on Money" ; Currie, subjects, such as pharmacology, biochemistry, "Supply and Control of Money "; Fisher, foods, etc. The few titles listed below have "Stable Money," and National Industrial been chosen from the whole field covered by Conference Board, "New Monetary System." the library without any thought as to selecting Kemmerer has reprinted in this little book a representative book from each of the major twelve articles on monetary topics of current subjects represented. interest. These articles define and explain I feel that a review or an evaluation of a fundamentals in theory and the present technical book, to be of any value, should be monetary policy. Cume discusses factors made by a specialist in the subject treated in which tend to cause expansion and contraction the book. I have therefore asked several of our in the volume of money, certain instruments Research Fellows to contribute statements of control of that volume, as well as obstacles about the books that I have selected and in- to effective control. He presents suggestions cluded their reviews. for reform and states the most perfect control Of the general or inclusive books added could be achieved by direct government issue during 1934 I think "Chemical Engineers' of all money, including deposits subject to Handbook," J. H. Perry, Editor-in-Chief check. He outlines plans to attain this end (McGmw-Hill Book Co., N. Y., 1934), is in a and recommends concentration of authority in class by itself. "It fills the need long felt by a small board. engineers, chemists, and particularly chemical Fisher explains in the preface to his book, engineers for a handy and reliable source of "This volume aims to give a complete history accurate information. Clear-cut, concise dis- of the past efforts toward inaugurating a stable cussions blending the theoretical with the currency so as to prevent the evils of inflation presentation of the wealth of data pertinent and deflation. It also coven thoroughly the to the principal oprations of the chemical present status of the stable money movement industries make this Handbook an invaluable throughout the world, and discusses the addition to both the plant and the research recent experiences with a managed currency laboratory. International Critical Tables data abroad." are presented in terms familiar to those in the The "New Monetary System" of the Na- engineering professions. The indusion of many tional Industrial Conference Board is a study graphical representations have greatly in- of the measures that have been adopted here creased the accessibility of much of the data. in an effort to assure stability to the general The extensive bibliography has widened the purchasing power of the dollar. It contributes, scope of the Handbook to such an extent that January, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 5 it becomes a veritable encyclopedia in the concealed within the accounts of sensational hands of the inquiring reader." criminal poisonings. Dr. Hamilton has care- "The Handbook of Chemistry," cornpiled and fully collected from the literature and from edited by N. A. Lange (Handbook Publishers, her own expcriencc those pertinent facts Sandusky, O., 1934), has just been published, that make it possible to determine at once and "is not 'just another chemical handbook.' what precautions should be taken to protect It is an example of the degree of thoroughness the health of industrial workers in each indus- and perfection to which all other chemical try in which noxious materials may be handled.

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