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Co-ordination in Libraries and Abstracts By A. B. EASON, M. A.

a Ilooli, lie could go Lo the most conveniently siLuate11 card in~les and leuni in which 11 I~:lril?sthe liook required could be found. 11 may 11e ol~iectedthat :llmosL every book ci111 lie l'ouncl In the British &Iuseum, but lt tl!a.\ not I)e coiivenler~lto gel to the Nuseum d11ri11g the honrs ;11. which ~t is open. There nc~ulrlIJ~ no reason tor ~nalimgthe entries In Ihis rivtl intlcx catalogue refer only to booLs held in thc four above mentioned lil)~xries. Certain ~olumeswhich are not In these lil)r.u.ies inay exist In the smaller Iil~rarics,and an entry to this effect could 1.e m:\clc For thosc bnolts in the slnaller Ilbr;~~,inswhich are also available in the main libra~y no entry aonld be made of the tar1 t11:ll Lhcy conld be seen at the smaller lil~ral'ies The need for going from one li11r:il'y to wa not her to find a particular book on c1iaiic.c ot ~tsbeing there, should be avoltlcd it ~~ossible Lists of Scientific Books. Delore leilrrng this subject the question oi 11qts ol ~OO~Son scic~~tific subjects may Ilc rcferrrtl lo The writer does not lmow what is the niosl co~npleteone. Apn:(t from ortlii~;t~'ylil)~xi.y r;~t:dogues there esist: (1) ~.'l'c~.l~~~i>t~l~c.Iiirt lwr~i." 1111l11isliod 111 1913 by the Fr:l~lli'st.hr! Verlngshnndlnng, Stuttgnl't, girt~lr:CI I~st01 Gerinan, French, English a~id.\nlericiul IJOO~S on various technical -~~l)jects:(2) 1hc Brit~sllSciencc Guild cala- Iogue indt~des ;I ~ection with naines of I.(:oI\s-this )ear Lhe 1151 is to contain Brit- 1hl1 I~ool\s\vliich ;~rcin 11rint and available I~I.~l~~l~*li~se; (21 the Cllemiral Engineering (':cr~~logt~c11 3Iiulison :\venue, ) 11~1sil scclion nienlioning various boolrs. It is very iticomylcte, nnd does not mention thr ]1111ll1sherof lhe IJOO~S. 202 SPECIAL LIBICARIES December, i920

The Need of Good Abstracts. of the various places where articlcs are re- produced (i.e., if the E. T. Z. publish an secondly, as regards abstracts. In THE article which is reproduced in The Electri- ELECTRICIAN, vol. LXXXII., p. 326, March cian, or the "Journal" of the American So- 21, 1919, the author mentioned various ciety of Mechanical Engineers, these refer- bibliographies and abstracts in existence. ences :IS given). Considering the scope and Since the war has ceased others have been type or article referred to, it seems that the resuscitated. They all tend to overlap one field of journals surveyed could be increased another, and none of them is complete. with advantage. The fleld of engineering as a whole would The "Technische Zeitscl~riftenschau" be surveyed with more certainty if tpey (~111l)lishrt1117 tl~cVerein Drntschcr Ingr- etrch dealt with :I restain dcRnec1 nren. rhc ~lieurer,Bcrlin, X. W. 7, Sommc~rstlnsse.4.1) proposals and criticisms outlined here fall contains b~l~liograpllicalreferences which, under three heads. (a) Definltely divide up in addition to the tille, give a list of the the field of scientific articles from which contents of the article. The alphabetical abstracts are made, and increase the num- indesing is fair, one only needs to glance ber of journals surveyed; (b) index ab- clown the Itey-words at the right-hand side stracts definitely under subjects, using the of the page. The references are grouped Dewey system if desirable. A suggested under four big heatlings: (a) General En- decinlal nomenclature for the classification gineering, 57: (b) Electrotechnics, 20; (c) of engineering subjects is given in the k[an~~fncturing,11: (d) Mining, 11. The flg- "Transactions" of the American Society of uses give the numbel* or references in each Civil Engineers, Vol. LXXXII., p. 1,620, Ue- section oC the January 17th issue, there cember, 1918; (c) abstract articles of the being 11 or 12 references per page. It is "r6sum6 of progress" type, which are left easy to look through 11 references, but 67 unnoticed sometimes, as not being directly in one big group is rather too many. A the report of original work. A good example valuable feature is the list of new boolrs; in of snch articles are Pannell's on air flow each case the index of the contents is measurement which appeared in "Engineer- given, but only German boolts seem to be ing," Vol. CVII., p. 261, 1919. This was a included. valuable pager to those who were interested The "Revue GBnernle de l'Electricit6" (12, in the subject, but who had not been in Place do Laborde, , published fort- direct contact with some of the features nightly) has a separate portion ("Docu- mentioned by Pannell The article did no1 ~nentation") containing abstracts of sclen- appeal to some abstractors. tiRc articles and patents concerlling elec- Bibliographies and Abstracts. trical work. The classification follows a numerical syskm; soqe entries have un- The following bibliographies and abstracts necessarily complicated numbers-viz., 621. are now published: 312, 16, 00, 46-to explain the contents of 1. Revue de 111ng4nieur el Index Tech- an article nique. Trade Abstracts 2. Tecllnisrhe B~itsc.l~~iftensc.llau. "Les Fisches Inclustrielles" (Paris, 21 3. Revue GBn4rale d'Electricit6. Boulevard Uonne-Nouvelle, 20, publislied 4. Les Fiches Industrielles. monthly) contains abstracts of articles in n 5. Technical Review. large inimber of journals Thosc journals 6. Institution of Civil Engineers' Ab- are ol' a very miscellaneous nature, and are stracts. of the "trade" type rather than the "tech- 7. Science Abstracts. nical" type. Each monthly issue deals with 8. Industrial Arts Index. n particulnr group of subjects. The Decem- 9. Engineering Index. ber, 1919, number clealt with paper, rubber, 10. Journal of the Society ot Chemical etc.; the February, 1920, number clealt wit!] Industry. mining, metallurgy and electricity. It con- 11 Engineering Management (Gassier's tninecl al~stractsfrom 55 journals. The ab- Abstracts). stracts ere all of the same length, prinled The publications 7 to 11 have been dealt on one side ot the paper only, and take up with in the article previously mentioned. onequarter or a page, so that if a page is We shnll now give some indication of the cut in fonr the abstracts can be filed in a scope of publications 1 to 6. card-index cabinet. The index follows the The "Revue de l'Ing4nieur et Index Tech- Dewey system. The number of the page nique" (published monthly by the Bureau upon which the original article appears IS dlOrganisation Economique, Paris, 124, Rue not given, and the references are not clear. de Provence, and Kew Yorlr, 119 Broadway) Part numbers may be confused with volume contains a l~ibliograpl~yof current articles numbers indexed on the Dewey system; the titles or The "Technical Review" (published fort- the articles are in the original language, nie;htly, 2, Central Bwldings, S. W. 1) is the the subject headings being in French, Eng- offshoot or continuation of the "Technical lish, Italian and Spanish. Mention is m~de Supplement" published by the War Office. b

December, 1920 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 203

It contains hot11 allstracts and bibliographi- Electrician," "Electrical Review" and "Elec- ca] notices to articles appearing in scien- trical Times" type. This means that they tific: publicntlons, colll~rising62 British, 42 somerimos miss papers of use to general American, 50 Gcrman, and 55 of other na- engineers. The "Technical Review" avoids tions. BIontion is lllntle of new boolts. Tlus this mistake If the Institution of Civil En- IISL~L~to be dour in ollc section at the end gineers left the field of electrical engineer- of the review, but is now done nnder val-ious ing abstracting to "Science Abstracts," ex- Subjects, which is n pity. A single hst of cept where articles covered by hydro-elec- boolrs seems more conven~ent,as the list is tric schemes and sim~lar work involving never largo, x~ldbooks on one subject may "civil" worlr, and If "Science Abstracts" in- be uselul to mcn engngod on subjccts of an cluded references to papers in journals of entirely different nntwe. The references interest to the less scientifically trained but to boolis are noL restricted to English books. more co~nnlercialengineers, and if the ab- AnoLller val~~ablefealnre is that the revlew stracts were published sooner after the pub- IS up to diite. lication of the original article, additional Inst,tutlon of Civil Engineers' Abstracts. abstracts could be provided at no extra cost. The Institution of Civil Eng~neers' "Ab- It is undesirable that the "Civil Engineers' strncts of Papers in Sc~entilicTransactions Abstracts" should duplicate abstracts ap- and C-'er1odic3ls" is now issuecl sepnrately pearing in "Science Abstracts,'' Series B; Prom the minutes of proceedings. It con- and yet, unless they do, their electrical en- tains good t~l~strnclsof the best articles ap- gineer~ngmill be quite incomplete. gearing in high-class technical l~terature. Finally, if journals giving abstracts and It is I~eginningto inrlud~abstracts of tele- bibliographies would agree upon one alpha- graphic, lelophonic, illuminating and olher betical ~ndex,and would all use the same elect ricnl en~~neeringarticles. The index- index, the work of findiug papers on any ing is not perfecL, because the alxtracis are subject would be easier. For instance, let inciesetl under the title of the paper, and papers on electrical fuses be always indexed two art~cleson the same subject are some- under one hending, either "Fuses, elec- linles indcxc~tl under different headings. trical" or "Electr~calfuses," but not some- Consitlerlng the "Tcchnicnl Review," "Sci- times under the one and sometimes under ence Absl~ncls" and the "Civil Engineers' the other, and sometinles under "8mitch Abstracts," ~t Is nppawnt that, for the same gear" and sonletimes under "Transmission." amo~~n!.ol ~01'lidone, n conlplete and fuller The author would not like to say nnder how serics of tlllstrarts could I)e produced if many d~fferenttitles he has found papers there was suitable co-ordinat~on. "Science dealing with the balancing of machinery Alxtracts" and "Civil Engineers' Abstracts" and with the prevention of vibration from do not abstr:~cl~IIIC~I from journals of "The unhalancetl machines in buildings.

Business Library Training at Riverside, Cal. dIr. I)nmc2l8, I)~rc?c'iflrc~f tha J?iz~c~alrlcT.;l)rflY1/ Rrrvicr ScAool, lii,srlly cowaentcd to rr, lorrg rlisltrtt~~~i/r/~'r~r~it~rr~. il'l~ia wlrool Ivrra 11~~Irl'ai libr~criy scnlrool to i.r~c~lrrtlcii~ its r~~~wi~~rllrr~rrIrwirr irry lor O~rxlrrc'x~~lilrt'lrv/l 11 wl,. '1'11 r ?tlosl 11cc1uwr oper~i~~gq~iesiion was, co?rec8fl~cc~tt1/11, 11 11!I 111 IS HI rrtl!~ Ir ctrl 111~rr rrrr~rlr~11 ~~nrfcrf tlrc i'e(/rrlor. sc'lrool co?irso "We 11;ld laid tt great clet~l of stress and was an effort to show that in addition to em~hasis,"said hlis Daniels, "u~onthe fact Imowi~~gn'llo it n-us that wrote Thnuntopsis that librilrianshil) and library service would and how to pronounce chiaroscuro, and never receive due recogn~tion untll llbrn- other evidences of culture and culturine, inns :t11t1 lll)ri~ryservants linew more about the modern successful public servant must whi~twas going on in this world-more know son~ething about the business man- nbont I~uslnessmethods, where the money agement 01 a publlc institution. We took comes l'roul, how it 1s spenl, and so we in- this thing mighty seriously and made it lrocl~iced1011gcr periods in the study of in- lust as ilnportant although not quite so long conle i~ntlesl)endiLures or the bns~nessad- in the teaching, as cataloging and classifl- ministration oC even the snlallest libraries, cetion. \\'e went into the law and the taxation and "I all1 quite sure that other library every phase of the business management. schools were doing the same thing one may We clevelopetl tl very sane conspectus of the or another because that is a phase of library wllole situation America and me drilled service that mnst have made itself insistent the cancli(1atc mto a realizat~on anrl into evel*ywhere,except possibly it may not have solllo familiarity with the subject, but that made a Place for itself in the library school had nothing lo do wit11 the management curricula. of ;I I)usiness library. It was really the "As We went on in our work we found I,~~si~lessmnnagement or any library and it that cataloging and classification which led SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1920 to the ~nrllril~::of ti van1 cai~li~log\rcw, ill IL small, can well afford a business library highly orgnnized nnci technical may, nlerely and are beginning to see it. a ~astof a big finding system and so we "Those who have gone to libraries of added filing and inclexing and some ?d- medical schools, expcri~nent stations ancl vanced topical analysis. The filing and in- cther special libraries seem to have derlved dexing ran us squarely into the husiness great beneflts from the course in business lilirary service. It confirmed 1115' opinions 1il:rarianship and in filing and indexing. I~ascil nl,cnl 11 ~:~~r~~r~it~Iil~qwvliol~oI' 111' 'The work has come to us to stay. We are McCarthy's ~vorli in the Wisconsin legisla- planning its wider use and its nlore inten- tive reference lil~rary. We had several sive special uses. When we move inlo our teacters talie this matter u11 in our short new quarters just east of the nain library, courses-Miss Warren, Miss Day, Miss Ill- me shall have plenty of room for a large man, Mrs Rolls, and then Miss Louise B s:hool and we shall haw plenty of room Krause, who is now coming to us for the also for a first class equipment for the busi- third time in February, 1921." ness library and filing and indexing. In answer to the question, "What response did you get n~:d what are the condit~ons?" "So many of our graduates have gone Mr. Danlels proceeded as follou~s~"How into special library aorlr and business li- does the thiug work out? We have found brarles that me must continue thc work and flrst that it is quite necessary to have a so many ol our graduates who have gone well grolunded proparation in lil~rarytech- into poblic hbrary work tell us that the nique, or as our State Board of Educa- business library training is a most helpful tion calls it, library craft, technique and ps~rtot our worlr, that we are quite sure we, and that then il is quite necessary to of the beneflts derived and the wisdonl of 1l:xve t2e thing t~ugbtin the most grnctical continuing the courses even if none of ollr nltmner 1:y H practical person and we think gradnates eyer became a business librarian. the next step is the apprenliceshil~ in a "I am ren~inded that in my own experi- business library. ence ancl my olvn 1111rary service, I have "Mre have had four or five of our gradu- for twenty years or more emphasized in ates employed as librarians in business semon and out, the necessity of serving the li9raries. There are not maas husiness con- business man even at the public library cerns 011 the Pacific coast that have nrriverl and of learning from him to realize and at the place where they begin to feel the recognize what is going on in this world- need of a llbrarlan although they began in this world where we must know what is to use flliug clerks long ago. The idea going on in order to lnalte a living and in spreads, however. Many concerns, though order to be happy."

Compiling Useful Data

"Where can the information be found to lack of reliable dats, hut on the very qucs- solve such and such a problem? Where did tions discussed from week to week in Power. I see this informr~tion, in sonle technical Frequently, the answers to the questions paper or book7 These are questions that are given 11y sencling those aslting for in- most of us frequently have occasion to pon- formation the pages talten from a previous der over, and we spend much time in issue containing an article dealing cotnpre hensively with the subject All th~sleads searching; all because our memory falls us to llle suggestion, which has frequently st an inopportune time. The amount of been made before, that Power readers valuable data publ~sllecl in technical boolrs shoulcl have some system of malting avail- and magazines for engineers is beyond com- able, when needed, the information pub- prehens~on,hut that there is still n great lished each week perlinent to their par- void that has not been fllled is clearly evi- t~cular pro?llems ' The editor then pro- dent fro~nthe mans inquirres we receive ceeds to give some flrst aid to renders on each week. The nlajor~tyof these questions how to lceeu inforrr~alionavailable. (Power, are not on subjects on which there is a Sov. 2::, 1930. Eclitorial, p. 830.) December, 1920 XPE CIL4L LTBRARIES Business Library Methods

Ipe11. 7. The reason :lntl need for conl- 1 2 V~sit Nnlional City F~nancial 11101'~i;~l illf~rlll:~tionservice. Cr. C. S. Dun- I illrary, fi0 \\'rill Street. Miss Alice L. Rose, c8!1, I.'lllrbl Investlg~ltor,Nationtll Intlnstiinl i.il~ti~rian.6: :<(I P, h1. ('OBIl'ercncc noard. AIilr. 23. (:overnment ~~ul~licntlons,111. FIX'I.!). I~IIS~IIPSNrefer~nce boolcs, I. City, hli Sawyer Il-lrlo :111ll fori?ign cli~~cctories Miss Linda Nnr. 28. Visit Econonlics Division of the 11. Norloy, in ehnrge of Bnsiness Branch, Scw Yorlc IJu?rlic Library. Dr. C. C. Wii- Ihe I\Te\\*nrli I+ee Pnl~licLihrnry. lianison. Chief of Divis~on. 5:30 P.M. Fill). 14. Periodicals contui~iingfi~lancial Mar. ::O. Field inresligat~ons. JIiss AHce :~nd1 r:ltlt) inI'clrnl:ltion. Mlss Alice 1,. Rose, Bonght.on, I-Iead of Department of Statistics I,il)rnrl;~rl, N;llionnl City Financial IAhrnry. rund Investig:ltion, the J. \\'alter Thompson Ic! 1 I nusincss reference IIOO~~S,11. Co., Advertising. AIIIIII;~Is roiles, gl~itle~,gazetteers and dic- Apr. 4. Visit lil~raricsof American Tele- tionnrlcs, hiiss Morley. phone & Telegraph Co., 1!)5 Broaclway. AIiss Fell. 21. 1lo11sc pnbllcations, and the ht- Mary (1e.J. Cox. I.ibrarian 5::H P, &I. c~ri~t~~rcof nation:~l trade associations. Miss hnr. (i. T1.e us(! of stntlstics, I. IIr. 0.P. Rose. Austin, Statistician, the National City Co. Fob. 23. Business relcronce I)oolrs, 111 Apr. 11. S'is~tBusiness Branch, Newark II~~II~IILIOICHan(1 I~ibliographles Miss Mor- Free Pul~licILibrary, 15 Beaver Street, New- ley. arlt Miss Linrla I-T. Uorley, in charge. Fell, 28. Tabnltu. melhods of presenting 7.:~)1'. 11, facts Dr. R. E. Chnildoclc, Associate Pro- A.1 The use of statistics, 11. Mr. fessor, Colu~nlk~University. Austin. RIur. 2. The publicntions of statistical J.111- IS Visit. 1letropollt;m Life Insur- orgnnizxtione and of I~nsiness information anre C'o I,il)r:iry, 1 Madison Avenue. Miss services. Miss Elixnl~elliWrag, Librarian, F. S Cox, Librarian. 5:30 P. b1. 17. 6. Ilnl)ber Co. dpr 20. Al~strnctingand digesting; malt- Mar. 7. Graphic inethods of presenting ing data available nfter assrnlbling. Miss l'ncls. Dr. Cl~ntldoclc. Josc~~hiiieRI. Hefron, Reference Librarian, Mar. 9. Governtnent y uhlications of value Guaranty Trust Co. I11 tho 1,usiness hbrsry, I. 1\11'. R. A. Saw- yt~,Assi~tmt, Eronomics Division, the New Apr. 25. Visit Guamnty Trust Co. Library, Yorlr Public Wbrnry. 1-10 Ti1-erty Street, hIr. E. P. Tate, In Mar. 1.1. Selection, acquisition and treat- rhnrge 5:SO P. 11. ment of material. Miss Elsie Baechtold, I 7 Vlsit 1,iI)rary of dlnerican In- I,ibrnrIan, Irving National Banic. tcrnationaI Corr~oration, 1211 Broadway. I,1 Government pubIicat~ons, I1 Miss Margaret C. Wells, Librarian. 6.30 Mr. Sawyer. P. RI.

Cotton Research Libraries

1\11 a11str;icl ol' tl~rreport of the Egyptian ~,nsscssio~~\,those concerning textiles, and (!olior~ 1icae:irch Boitrd is printed in the especially cotton, are being accorded par- Te~lflcWorld or 17ec. 11, 1920. The Board ticular i~ttention. The British Cotton In- f~ ~I'CC~~IIR:1 5125,000 1:lborntorv nt Giza, dustry Research Association, Incorporated \vhic+h, it is l~ol~erl,will be rends for occll- in June, 191!1, in its first report, issued in pat on 111 June, 1921. Floor plans nccoin- llnrch, 1920, has nlrendy acquired property 1~;inyingthe nbsiract show that liberal 1x0- for temporary housing of offices, a Ilbraw, etc A Du~ltlingFund appeal for f 250,000 vlsfons for library purposes have been made h Among the n~tlnyresearch projects being has been issued, comprehensive scheme undertaken in Great Britain and British of s[)ztracting has l~eenformulated. SPECIAL LIBRAIiIES December, 1920 At Your Service -Five Safety Libraries By MARY BOSTWICK DAY, Librarian. National Safety Council. Many n~einbers of the National Safety ized industr~allibraries of the city, stand Council do not realize that through the li- ready to supplement the files of the Na- brary of the National Safety Council, the tional Safcty Council Library. most complete safety library in the world, Arollnd the corner cram the Council they have not only its servlce at all times headqnartcrs is the Public Library available, but also the services of four other with its large collection of reference books, libraries devoted to safety and allied sub- its governu~ent depository, I)aclr files of jects, and quick access to the greal ltbraries magazines, proceerlings of ongineeririg soci- of Chicago, the headquarters city of tho eties, etc., ant1 the Council ltbrary has the Council. ~~rivilegeor 1)orrowing a large number of A veritable "league of libraries" is tht~s boolts ai all t~mes. The A~~~erica~lLibrary placed at the disposal of the member desir- Association heatlquarters are in thc public ous of some specific information on a safety libral-y l~nilrling,and that orgtin~mtlonren- topic. The four libraries of safety research ders stllual)le assislance to all libraries, in- allied with that of the National Safety Coun- cl~~tlingthat of Lhe Co~tncil. cil are those of the Safety Institute of America, the National Workmen's Comgen- Soine 10,0110 volumes are available throush the Western Society of Engineers, sation Service Bureau, the Independence Burenu, and the Pennsylvania Rating Bu- whose Iteadguarters are maintained a few bloclts awaj. The Council also worlts in reau. These five libraries have a "round robin" system of circulatmg literalure on close co-operetion w~ththe Special Libraries accident prevention and kindred problems. Association, whose meinl~ersh~pincludes Through this co-operative plan each of the some three l~ondredin(lustria1 librarians of five librarians recelves all the material ac- tli e country. cumulated by the other four, and none of Each month sonic ten individuals or more them misses any new suggestions, new tire sent to the Sationt~lSafety Council by safety literature, unusual articles, reports, the other I~brnriesof the city for specific etc., which are of interest. information on some phase of safety. On The National Safety Council Library is an average some twenty-flve telephone calls also linked up with the American Library a month come to it froin olhcr libraries for Association, the Specla1 Libraries Associa- specific data 1-elters are also continually tlon and local library associations. Within cominq in f1'0111 all types of libraries all a stone's throw of the National Safety Coun- over the country. cil headquarters is located the library cen- The National Safely Conncil Library ter of the Middle West if not of the whole stands uniqnc in the field of library worlc United States. Within a few weeks the as the only library which contams the col- John Crerar Library, one of the largest re- lective experience of 4,000 members. It is search institut~onsof the country, will oc- in no sense tlupl~cating the worlc of any cupy twelve floors of its new seventeen- other library, IIII~. gladly avails itself of the stow skyscrflper, nest door to llte Conlicbil's resources of the other libraries, ancl stands headquarters. The Crerar collection, con- ready, with its 10,000 palnphlets, 500 clip- taining approximately 427,000 volumes ancl pings, 500 blue prints and photographs, all 150,000 pamphlets covering such subjects as carefully indexed, Lo assist anyone who mas occupational diseases, socioIogy, applied seck safety Icnomledge (National Safety science, etc., and the files of forty special- News. Dec., 19.20.) Price Fixing Data State control of prices as provided 111 missioners a Montana trade commission arud statutes now in effect in Montana and In- gave the I~oarclpower to license all persons diana is to be made the subject of study engaged in buying and selling commodities by a special commibtee of the Chamber of in the state The power to rcgulate carried ConmerCe of the United States, appoint- with it the power to establish maximum ment of which was announced Dec. 22, 1920. prices or reasonal)le margins of profit. The constitutionality of both statutes in- The Montana Tracle Comnllssion there- valved is I)cing tested before the TI. S. Su- LIIIO~ordered that all articles offered for pre~neCourt. sale be mnrlted with the invoice price and Although the same in principle, the two the sales prices per unit. The state Mer- statutes differ considerably. The Montana chants' Associatiolz of Montana took the law is much more general in its applica- case into the federal district court, which tion. It made of the State% railroad com- held the law in violation of the fourteenth -

December, 1920 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 207 amendment of the federal constitution. The the issuance of a formal complaint on the Attorney General of the State appealed. application of the Western Association of The United States Supreme Court will hear Rolled Steel Consumers of Chicago against the case in April. the long established practice of basing The Indiana Act created a Coal and Food prices of raw steel throughout the country Commission, giving it powers to Ax the price on a shipping base. The appli- on coal. The coal interests immediately cation is for recognition of the contention got the case before the U. S. District Court that the practice involves unfair methods of in it soit brought against the Commission- compet1,tion or a discrimination in prices. ers. The three federal judges, Baker, Evans The point has come up twice recently, 5rst and Zeiger, have glven their decision, which when the Government fixed maximum prices sustains the Commission and goes a great on steel products. This was in 1918, at deli1 further. This extraord~nary decision which time the point was raised in the has been appealed to the U. S. Supreme trade meetings held by the Director of Steel Cowl, but ns the judges who rendered it Snpply of the War Industries Board. Last are anlong the most eminent on the bench sumnler it came up again and aroused some there is small hope of it being overtllrned. discussion in the Iron Trade Review, v. 65, The cases are sure to arouse more or less p. 298, 640, 7S0, 1266; the Iron Age, v. 103, controversy and business Ilbrarians may wish to refer to the Indiana decision. p. 611, v. 104, p 172, 231, 643; the U. S. On November 15 to 17 arguments were Chamber of Commerce General Bulletln heart1 by the Federal Trade Commission on 419, and elsewhere.

The Way the Wind Blows

Education, cspecially in research and resenrch and regulatory lines, it is highly laboratory work, as a means of increasing essential that deflnite provision be made for thc \wtlltl~01' Ll~e J)omilllol~of Cnl~ntln,n'nh closer coordination of these activities emphasized in an address delivered %y the through a central agency. Only in this way Uovcnlor Gcwcrc~lol' ('runnda, His Escclh~cy, can thc most effective results be obtained. the Dulic of I)croiislii~~o,nt the begiuiring ot Every effort should be made to bring about tho cwitci~nir~lc.~~tlo\rment ccui~paign for a further correlation of research and reg- $5,(KI0,000con(Inc~tec1 1)s AIcGilI Dllircrsi1.v. ulatory activities with those of appropriate "Untloubtedly," the speaker declared, "at state agencies. The Department has no this momenl we are extremely short of men machinery at this time for accomplishing and womcn who are prepared and capable this purpose. I am suggesting in the esti- and trained for the purpose of research mates that the Secretary of Agriculture be work This is the case not only in authorized to appoint a director of scien- but in Groat Britain and the United States." tiAc worlr and a chrector of regulatory work The U. S. Department of Agriculture an- at $7,500 each." nolrnces Lhe appointment of C. J. Tilden, Professor of Engineering Mechanics of Yale, as director of Iiighway and Transport Educntion Committee, of which Dr. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, ...... " . . ir chairman. The new director wlll take .In~c.lcsExi~~niner : chorge immediately of the worlr planned by .'The largest bnnlr in Ids Angeles-an old, the committee, which includes the cornpila- staid, conservative institution-announces tlon of economic, scientlflc and engineering the establishment of a whole new depart- (latar relative to highway constructioll and ment of information and education. No highway transport, and the distribution of underling, but a new vice president of the these data to educational instituhons. bank-a Inan chosen from high place, em- inent ns publicist and as educator-will have "ViTith the growth and development of the charge of the worlr. Assistants called from department," says the Secretary of Agricul- the faculties of universities will have charge ture in his annual report for 1920, "along of the lesser details and practical work. 208 SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1020

Every officer, every enlploya of the bank large educational and research departlnents will have offered to him the ol~portunityto means no slight expense Banlcs are the learn the theory and the practice of the tcmples of econoniy, rind practice what they positions which RTG now higher rank than prench. In this plan, long in the maturing, he holds. nw may be sure every item of this expense A special division of research is to be has been carefully weighed and has been established, to hunt up all information and dcr ~tletlto be north while. Why? Recause statistics gemuine to the banking b~winiw, the increased efficiency of men are classify il and present it for the information taught to understand what they are doing- of the men in tho bank and, secondarily, am1 what the man who is above them is for the inCormalion of the customers of the thinltiug when he tells them what to do- bank who may ask for it. The bank needs is worth more to the bank than all tlie cost to Icnow, rleflnitely and accurately, what is of getting and giving the information. going on in industry, conimerce, manufac- Not oyerv large institaiio!l can or will do ture and de~elopinent;so that it may know this same thing, but every nlan or woman where to look for the 'accounts of successful can learn the lesson Iron1 it-that it is men, so that it may be able to invest its worth while to lrnow all there is to lrnow f~uidswhere the maximom of usefulness mill about your job, worth while to know what meet the minimum of risk Customers of is going on about you in the world; worth bmllcs are looking to them for more and whilo to be ablc to trace, in your orders more of service, nncl so banks must now be froin above, the worltings of the mind of prep;~r~ilto furnish siflrtl, vevificB clnssi- the man who gives the orders. The bank fied information; to act as gnide posts in is paying money to make its men more the paths of commerce and industry and ralual)le, and it will pay its men more investment. money when they are more valuable, Any man, who will work and study and find out Th~reis very liille of sentiment in this so he can hold tile job that is above his, move of the Security Banlc. To engage mav thus increase his own value and reallze talent and education, to organize and equip IIIWII t11:1t i~ierw\w."

Certification and Special Libraries 'I'll(? report of tlic 5j)ecinl Co~nnlittee on service m(1 the proTession:~l st:itus of library (lert,ificrItion, Btnndarrl.ie:~lioa :nu1 Librnry workers ; thnt pending such co~istitutionnl Tr:~ini~ig,nppointe(1 11y tho ICseculire Bonrd prorisio~i,the Esoculive Board of the A. L. A. of Ilie Aimericnn I,ibr:~ry bssncintioi~, w:ls nlspoint n committee of nine Lo be constitntetl reiid :~tthe iliird session of the Colornclo :IS outli~~erlnhove, and finnllg that the sup- Spri~~gd('ol~f'crew~, nccel?letl by tlie bssocin- port for the Certification Bonrtl is to he tion :IMI rcfc~-i'(~iIdo tl~eCouncil. The mem- provided from funds ~rocurecl through tlie bers ol' the Colnmittce aiu: Alice S. TyIer, Enlrirgerl Progrrun Cninpniml or otlierwise. .itleli~~eR. Zncllcrt, A. 5. Root, C. C. William- 'I'l~ere nre severnl points it might be well son :tntl Frunl< I<. Wnltcr, chninnan. to coiisidcr in this program ns il np~licsto sl>ivial librnrinns Special lil~rnrinns. The Commit tcc reconlfneiids the om tion whothcr Lhcy be medicnl, chemirnl, p11It1ic of ;I board of iiinc, five t? be elected 1357 tllc Couiicil of tlic American Library A~socintio?l. utility. l~anlii~~g,insnrnnre, ngriculturnl, lnw, wr11 of \rl~oinis to rcprescnt n ~j~ecirllkind or nny one, of a nun11)er of otller branches, of librnry, spechifio~lly~inmed, vix.. a lmblic nre wsentinl members of the arg:u~izntlons lil)l'i~ly\vltli n Irnining class, h small l>~\hlic f.rnl)loyi~ig tl~e~nin direct ~~1'0~0S~i~llas they lil~rnry, n state or C(lAernl librnry n~lcl n :Ire nblc to control the informntion apgcr- r8011ege or reference lilw11's. The four other I ~ining to tlica esyecinl 111-nnc~11iuvolvcd. lnrmbers nre to bc clcctcd by the Collnril '1'111s rontrol luny have been nrqnircd by cx- upon nominntion hy ench of the followin:: 11clrir11cc~.1)y nssocintion or by sperinl slncly. oiBg:u~is:~tions. The Associ:~tio~~of -tmcricn~i It is not ro~~ccirnhlethnl. a tlioron~hlyqunli- Lil~rnrySclmols, the Lengnc of Libmrp Coin- fic.tl spccinl mcdicnl librnri~~uwonltl he vcq. a~issions,the Nntioa:~l Ii;cl~~cnfionAssocintinn ~uuvli01' nn nsset in n In\\, ~librnry,nad vice :~ndthe Syeciill Librnrics Aiss~cintion.Thc wrsn, Assuming nl~wyst11;lt n specin1 li- acquisi tion of the ninth incmber is left opcn. 111-.1rinnif3 on~whose success depcnils on the 11l)ilily to co~itrol specinl infonunlion, Ihe Pin? tlelinitc recom~iienrl:llfo~~srlre ~nnrle pro]?osnl to grade specinl lihm~~inilaon the in thc report, viz. : The Incoqiorstion in the I)i~sis of an umrolatcd tcclmifl~~emust 11:. voiistilution of the A. L. -1. of n provi.don ~'ien'ctl with s~mcnplm'l~rnsion. .i~~otb~~. for n National Bo:~ril of Certific:~lion; Lhis ~wiiil,to he co~~sideredis that zunny spe,c!nr Board to emlnntc mil rorrolntc a11 existing lihrnrians are employed by privnte conrrnlq agencws for tcil(:lling libmrp subjects nnd wliose evnlnation of the servlces they require inethods ; the purpose of, lhe Bonrd to be might not in all cnses coi!lride with tl~ntof tllc slj~i~nlaticrnof the inlproyelnent of Iibrnry the proposed Board. December, 1920 8PECIAL LIBRARIES

Pa per Research

No I4--P:iper rcso~rrch litelxt~rrp. (T). (Ort. 21, 28, 11)20), A list, of the cnntribution~by the stn# of So, lL&-lcl. (TTII). A list of the contrilm- L'Ecol(h frnnqni~ecle lnpf'terie of the Unl- tioris 1)s' men~lrc~sof the Buletlr~of Rtanrlnrils. vwuity of Grenoblc1. Con~p,by Prol'. Bnrl)il- Ik~mtmentof ('o~llruercc, 1910-1920. Conl- lion. I't111er 25, No. 2.7 (Fel,. 11, 1020). 11ilerl by v. A. C!urtis. Pnper Tr. J. $1, So. No. 1.5-L. C. Cnrtl references for paper 19 (Suv. 4, 1920). 111~11. A rlewl~ipti~eboolr bihllogritphy on the Ko 19-The sizing of Imper: A rr''1i1ina nrts, terhnology nnA econo~nics of paper. hst. Coing. lry (Ilnreiw J Wwt. Pnpcr Tr. C:omp. with cste~~~lvcemendntrions from thc J. 1, SO 20, So.' 91 (Kov. 11, 18, 1920). r,ibrnry of CO~IRYPSSprinted index cnrds, hy KO, 20-History of pnl)rr~unlting ill the LI. IIubbnrd. Paper 26, No. 7, No. S (AI)~. United Stnfes. C'o~np.by Maude V. Dlckin- 21, 28, 1920). son. IJnper Tr. J. 71, No. 21 (Nov. IS, 1020). NO. lC+J?iltcr pnper: A rending list. No. 21-Blol ting pnper : A rc!idinr: list. Pomp. by Cllnrcnce J. West. Pt~perTr, J. 71, Comp, by Clarence J. West. P.lp?r 'I'r. J. No. 15 (Oct. 7, 1920). 71, No. 22 (Xov. 25, 1920). No. 17-Pnper ~rscnrrhliternture (VI) . So. ??--The We:iching of Irnlrer pu11,. A list of the contribulions hy the staff of thc Comp l~yClnrence .J. Test. Pap~rTr J Kiini~licheshrnt-ci-ltlalprtifm~ssn~nt en - 71, No. 24 (Dec. 9, 1020). r.i(-l~terfddeWest. Comp. hy TITilhelm ITerz- KO. 23-Paper-lnalcing mnlprials. Comp. berg, t rnnsln tetl nnrl nugrnentcd by Clnrence by Clnrence J. West. Paper Tr. J. 71. No. .T. West. Pnpw Tr. d. 71, No. 17; No. 16 2:. No. 20, 72 (Dce. 16, 93, 30, 1920).

The Room that Makes An American Dye Industry a Fact

"As vitnlly net-essnry for the prolect~onof The chel~lisl carries In his 111iacl nncl in Americnu Dyesluffs users ns the dye mnlting 111s note-book nnlnberless delnils of opern- 111111ntitself, llt~r;been the work of LIIC nu tions, but it is necessnry to 1111re in Lhc I'ont Comp:in y in t 11c alreh~lcollct~tion of worlrs u perwtr nrtlt ir~e~nnr'~/-tl~ellbmry- nll nwilnble clnt:~on cvcl-y krnncll of dye- to nwid tlnl)lfcnt~onof effort in ~.e+arch and tuffs ~munufncturc. nn:~lyticnlworli. The nu Font C'o1n1,nny em- ploys thirty-seven peoljle in iLs Intelligcnc'e Here, in the sc~l~olnsticquiet of this benuti- Division ~11otlevotc tlie~)~selvc~to 1wcpi11:' fnl room, onr resetlrch and espcrimelltnl the lillrary u11 to the minute." c~hcmistscl~eclc their clntn ngnhsl thlt of The preceding text is n reproduction of n I~unil~eclsof recognized nuthorities. Here, l):ige mrcr tlisplny nclvertiseruent which np- contnlnecl in thonsnnds 'of vdumes, is the peareil in the Jnnuarp issues of various tr.1~1~ c*urnulnki~~eIrnou-ledge of nll the world on pupcrs. The text wns attrnctirely set of€ by {lie subject of clyestnffs, nvailnl~hfor the two cuts, onc of which was an interior view usc of the mnnufacturers of Ame15ca. of the Du Pont dyestuff librnry. SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1920

I Congressional Record Index (

The fnmil~arCongressionnl Record Index tee 1s nlso to direct the form imd mnnner Of is under scrutiny. For nhut forty yenrs it the pulrlimtion nlicl distribution of the in- hns ilppenred in much the stilne fom. It is cleses. The Superintel~clcl~tof Docu~ue~~tsis not a bad fonn, not n bnd form at nll. A to employ n sufficient ~~arnberof con~pctent deslrnble clinnge would be n little more flex- persons for thtlt 1)uq)ose at such compensil- ibility, nnd f~rmore libernlib in indexing tions as sl~illl be np~rol~rintedfor. IvheII information included in the Recborcl. not engaged on the 'index, these persons nlr? On Dec. 6, 1920, Mr. Riess, Rep, of Penn- to (lo such other iudexing nwl clltulogill~ sylwnin, introduced 13. J. Rcs. 384, "Pro- provided for by law ns sllnll be ~~rrsignecllo riding for the inclexing of the Congresslonnl them by the Superintenclent. Record hy the Superintendent of Documents This resolution was lntcr incaludecl 111 the * + *" Tlie resolutio,n ~woricles for mmi- monthly nnd session indexes, as heretofore, Sundry Civil Appropriation Rill (11. I{. to be promptly prepared by the Snperintencl- 15,422),wl~ivh hi~s passer1 the IIourre, but, nt ent of Documents under the Mreetlon of the the time of writing, wns still pen fin^ in the Joint Colnmittee on Printing. 'J'his Commit- Sena te.

I Filing Music Satisfattorily I

Many Iibruries circulate sheet music, nm~tfor l~briirypurposes, nltl~t~~gl~perlltil)s, Slicet n~usiois vexatious mnterial to take some extra protection might 11ilre to be Irro- cnre of in qumtlty. The Cl~ristinnSclence vided in this case to gnurtl ngnlnst the wcnr 31 onitov of JRII.6, 1021, pnblishes nn nrticble a11c1 tear in cnrlkge. AIusicX reference 11- clescribing a music vertical file for doi~estic 1)rnries and music snlcs houses might be cs- use. It seems a very practicuble nnSnnge- pc.rinl~1.vinterested.

" Washington Rapidly Becoming the World's Greatest Center for Scholarship "

The quotcd head is the c~~ptioaof a pnru- libr,lries of the Surgeo~iUenerr~l's OlHce, thc gr:lpl~on p. 12 of the repri~~tof the speech Agricoltnrn,l Ikprlrt~ne~it,the Burenu of Edu- of the I-Ion. 8. I). Fcss, Rep. of Ohio, in the [lation, the Rurenu of Shundnrtls, ,the Fish I1,onse of Iiepresentntivcs on . ('ommission, x11d the Ueologlci~l Survey ure 3920. The pnrngi~tl)hrends :IS follows "It the dwst of the kind in the world. IIojre~w, lnny not be BIIOWIIto ill1 ~acrnl~crsof the the Congressii~~nl1,il)rary eontninw not nn IIouse thnt here in Wnshingto~~,connected i~~signifiomtportion of the forw of experts with the various research divisin~ls of the to be found in Washington. Government, nre locntecl the greatest group of grent scl~olnrsthnt crm Ire fonncl 111 nllp "I asker1 :in n~~thorltymne clnys ngo whether other center in Pl'l the world. it w;ls wise to collert a11 thc ~lil)iSnrieqwithin "I want to emg11n.size that stnte~nent. It one lruilclitig nnrl place tl~emunder the con- is abyolntely truc. These scl~~lnrsare RSRO- trol of the Library of Congress. Tl~ennswer citltecl wit11 #the various governn~entnl cle- was in the negatlre; thnt they nll onght'to pnrtmeats, each of which 11ns specinl lil~rnry 11e afii1i:lted with the nlitionnl tlbrtlry, as facility for Its use. There arc a score of sn~h they nre, but that we (lo not have rom over special lilri-nries which n doze11 yenrs ago here, rind that the lihrm-ies cnn be better contained co~~siclernblgover n millio~~volul~~cs nsed for the 11ulpose of rescnrcsl~ where of books nncl pnnlpl~lets. Among them the they are now IocnteA." December, 1920 Special Libraries .a ADELAIDE R. HASSE, Edltor Council of National Defense Washington, D. C. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Claribel R. Barnett Edward D. Greenman Mary B. Day Mary 9.Pillsbury Ella M. Genung Edward H. Redstone

Published Monthl~except Jnlv and August at 20 Veseg Street, New York N. Y. Rntered as second-class matter al. the Post OfRce at New Yorlr, N. Y. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized June 10, 1919. Rater;: S4.00 a year; single copies 50 cents.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION President...... Dorseu W. H~de.Jr. Packurd Motor -car Co ;~e'troit First Vice-President, ...... Helen E. Hemphill WcsLern Electric Co, N. P. City Second Vice-president...... Ralph L. Power College of Wllli.itrn flnd Alary, Wllliamsborg, Va. Secretary-Treasurer ...... Estelle L. Liebmann Ronald Press, N. Y. City Asst. Secretary-Treasurer...... Margaret C. Wells hmerlcnn InternaLlonal Corporation, N. Y. City

EXEC(JT1VE BOARD The offlcers ex-oficio with E. H. Redstone, Helen Norris and Maud A. Carabin. Checks for dues and subscriptions should be made out to the Association and mailed 1.0 Miss Margaret C. Wells, Asst. Sec'y-Treasurer, care Amerlcan International Corpora- tion. 120 Brondwav. New Yorlc Citv.

EDITORIALS S. L A. MEMBERSHIP Once more we call the attention of our from whatever angle, is desired. Begin to rertders to the imnlinence of the census make yonr plans now. The only way to letter. It is now in the mails. It may have have a successful, live, active, up and doing renched you, Fill ~t out and return it Association is to have a live, actwe, up and promptly. Remembor your friends. If the doing mem'bership. The surest way to kill Association is good for you, it will be for an tlssocaintioa is never to conw to 1ncct- them. And both of you are good for the ings, to protest if you are not put on com- Association. Add the names of yonr friends mittees, and to dwell in elegant leisure if who are not yet members to the census you are. letter. Therefore let us have R rousing attend- The time for the annual convention is ance and rousing reports. If you are not drawing closer. Last year four hundred on a comnlittee and have good ideas for a persons attended the convention. Are we report, send them in to SPECIAL LI- going to have four hundred more or less, BRARIES The Editor is most hospitably or twicc four hundred in attendance this Inclined towards good ideas, and the con- ywrl 'l'hc l~rrsencc? of every m:u and tributing habit is one we wish to encourage woman interestecl in special library work, in all our members. SPECIAL LIBRARIEB Deceml er, 19~0 VOLUME TWELVE A good rouncl baker's dozen we will have s~~bscriberswith your renewal. to our credit next pear this time. The next An index to precedhg volumes is in numller of SPECIAL LIBRARIES begins a preparation. The current and succeeding new rolume. Renewal of subscrlptions is volumes mill be indexed by the H. W. Wil- In order. Send in the names of prospective son Co. for the Industrial Arts Index. A KEY INDUSTRY The phvase was, we believe, introduced Business is, therefore, not unaccustomed to in Eng1:lnd during tlie war. The true "lcey" this differentiation. It is now, after the industries are not the great basic or staple war, nlnlti:ig inrl~vidualapplication of it to lnclustrles of the country, but a number of its own particular cases. One of the out slnull industries ot comparatively secondary stnntllng developnients is that business h:~s r~nliin themselves, nevertheless of funda- decided thot rese3rch is essential. nlentnl importance to the industrial life of Many industries &re maintaining researcli the nation. st:~P[s as a part of their national trade or- IC we could once 1)ring ourselves to con- pnnisntions, mauy businesses are utilizing duct our work xs an industry, then we the research staffs of advertising agencies, mo111tl be 111 a posilion to claim it to be a many are maintaining their own organizn- "hey" inllustry par excellence. Hlsewhere tions. There never has been as much in this issue there is printed a summary money spent on the private assembly of of some curent reasexrch worlr in progress facts as is being spcnt today. It is being or recommended for pursuit. In his report s1:ent for nssenlbling them by the process on coffee research Prof. Prescott refers to ol research. the large mass of literature his committee There never has been a time when money was obliged to sift before it was even able is as much wanted by libraries us it is tn classify the gist of such analytical work todny. The conversion of the process we as had already been done. lrnow as reference worlr into the more mod- Contingencies of the war injected into canl lrlocws UP ~~escwrc~li,~iiiglil, c*onccirnl>ly, business a hard and fast differentiation be- bring library worlr out of its obscurely com- tween essential and non-essential industry. pensated seclusion.

I Association Activities I

N. Y. S. L A. Meete

The inccti~lgon the evening of .Tnnnnry 14, wns n grc:lt success. Group Ieiulers lml heen nppni~~trrl 11s fol~lows' Fincmrirr1.-Miss Alice Rose, S:~tionnlCity Rnnlr. ('or~?~rlrrcinZ.-JIihs Pliilenn Dickey, Sin- (-lair ('onsolidnted Co. .-lccorlrttortrll, Ir~sro~crrrccnrarl Lrylo1.-Miss EAith Ihly, Kntional Couiicil of W~'or1rmen's Compcnsrition Insnrnnce. A tlrrt.liscrs, R.lbporler8, Scrr'ujrrrlrcrn nizd I'rrblixl1c~rs.-3Iiss Harr~et Elins, Gcorgc Bn ttcn & Co. Cizirs, PtrBlic 1,-lilitics crr~dForeign.-Mrs. E. G. Ar~nst~~oiig,Cmixclinn l'ncific RnilrouA Compnny. CA cmicn7 nri (7 JIcdiccl7.-Mlss Dloreiice Rrarlley. Sntionnl Orgn nizi~tion for IJuhlir~ Rcnlth Xursing. rSocioloylico7, l3*anonric (rud 7hTrrr~1tiorinl.- Mirs .J:\n~t ~Idvnl11,Aiiieric-~ui Sociiil Hy- giei~r Society. 11'~7lginzr s e~dC1 t~bs.-Mrs. T. R IAl, Ilor~rtl of IIoinr Missions. I'r~sln-terinn December. 1920 SPECIAL LIBRABIES 213

Nibs Itni11~i1111lso rrportc~lthat Lhe list of Sprc.i:il I,il)r;irius in Sew Torlc Cily wns tw111~1l~t~11:111il will 1\1)11e:1rin t11c J:~lmm~' l;I111 i~mcof Illc I,ll)r~iry dour~lal.Through llir Ii111tll)e~~oC Miss UU~~~:ITI,Etlitor Of the I.il)~-tlryJournnl, rcprmTs nrc to bc miule for 11c :III~Ione rolq. will hc srril to encall me111l)er 01' tlw Assoc~ntion.

A. L. A. COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN.~, 1920-21 Comi~~ittc-'eto Assist in Revision of Aclams' and Charitable and Correction Institutions- Mf~~ni\lol' I-Iistorical Literature-A. H. dl~rinnlE. Carey Shearer. (!onmittee on Library Trnlning-Malcolm Commltlw on Boolc1)inding - Gerlrltde G. Wyer. Eliles. Committee on Ne~nbershlp-Grntia A. Committee on Hook Bnyi~~g-M. I,. Raney. Countrymtln. Cottmillee on Cntalogln-William TV. Commitkc on Preparation of a Biblio- Eihhop. gr.ai11iy or I-Iunmnistlc Lilerature-IVilliam C'oii~nilllee on Civil Service Relations- \V B~sliop \V. D. JOIIIISLOII. Committee on Program-Alice S. Tyler. Deci~nnl Clwsification Advisory Commit- C'om~nlttcc on Public Documents-H. H. tee-C!. \\'. Andrems. 13. Meycr. Con~illlttee on Educntion- Harriet A. Columittee on Reciprocal Relations with Comnlilter. on lFcdern1 and State Rela- Other National Organizations-Mary Eileen tions-J. I. \f'yc~-,.Ti*. Ahern. Collliniltee on Finance-George B. Utley. Committee on Sponsorship and Knowl- Cnn~~ullteeol' Five on Library Service- edge-Charles F. D. Belden. Arthur E. Rostwiclr. Comn~itteeon Standardization of Libra- Co~umitleeon Foreign Eon-RIrs. E. ries-P. I,. S\7indsor. l,erll~etior. Committee on Travel-F. W. Faxon Comniiltee on Internationnl Relations- Comniittec on Union List of Serials-C Herl~ertPntnnm. W. Andrews. Conlniitter, on 1-,egislation-W. F. Yust. Comnlittee on Ventilation and Lighting of Cmnrnitlee on Library Administration- Public LihrUy Buildings-S. H Ranclc. F. 17. tIop11er. Conmittee on Work with the Blind- Conimilieo on Idil~r:n*yWork i11 Hospilals Mabel K. Gillis. I Special Libvary Field Doings I I cden~sntsof c:~lalof$~lg and of clnsslflcation t111cl :in iid~':lnr~etlcourse 011 the use, arrnnge- Yrdcrnl nnd Stnte. Tlierp will be cnurSses in Reference \Vorlr, 214 SPECIAL LIB12ARZES December, 1920

Prof. Hoot in Rook Selection nnd by Prof. Miu.Oscar E. Perrigo, of Prntt and Whitney \Irnlter in Public T)oc~u~neatsshould appenl C'o., n'ritcs in tlic December number of to libraria~isof some esgerience wlio wish System on "F:~ctswe wmt when we want to refresh their lmonr1rdge of these subjc~ts tl~~n~".It is n wry l~rnuticrilarticle on cir- or to study tlwm with a view to ncw work cnlnting trndc cntnlo6.ues and trncle gnpera. in these fields, All thcse courses count for L'nirersity credit towrcl n degree The co111i1y libmries of Cnlifor~~iilare Cnndidntes for ntlniis,sion to the courses descr111ed at dlenglh in an illustrated article in library Methods slmuld noply in nclvance in tlic Christiitn Science hionifor of Oat. 15, of registration to the Director, Wm. Wnrner 1920. R4sliop, Unirersily of i\Iichignn Librnr~', Ann dl-l>oia,Michigml, as only ~ersonsduly AIiss Laura Grover Slllitli \~ri1esin the :tdinitted to tlie work nrc nl~loweclto register. Cliristinn Sclcnce BIonitor of Oct. 15, 1920, on the sell001 libraries of Los Angcles, Cnl. Mr. Uorsey I\'. I-Iyde, Jr., President of S~ecialLibrnries Association, lins accepted A press despatch fro111 , Ont., ad- tilie position of AssistnnL-AIminger of the vises that tlie new yenr ogcns with edu- newly-crcotetl Civic De~elop~nentDepnrr- cxtion111 c~unl~:~ignin thr~l.(lily which lloltl~ ment of the Chamber of Com~i~erct?of the sollie new fe~ttures. One of these is the ex- U. S. Mr. Hydc wns nppoinled Llb~xriaaof tension of the public lilwarg to the sChoOls. tlie Pnclrurd JIotor Cnr CO., Detroit, Micll., Already one bntnch 1ibrnl.y hns becn estnb- in E'eb. 10%, having yw~iously held the lisllecl in one of the city public schools and position of Iai)r~trinnof the Mnnicil)nl Kefer- t.1~vic~-l)rincil)nl hns heen plrwetl in chnrge. ence Lilrmry of . Mr. Hycle The idea is to carry out this iden further 11ssumei1his ~tou.dnlies ill W~~sllingto~l,1). C'., and lit~ve every o~ieof the lnrger public 011 Jnn. 1, 1921. ~c11001sprovidc11 from #the ci,ty library. >11ss Bt11i:t R. Oenrhnrt is \\-itll llie Indinna Three liundrecl voluincs corering the fielcl Legislative Rcfercnce Bui'onu, Miss Genr- of Amcricnn nctirities in tlic World Wnr harc hnnt was forn~erlywith the l~>r~onomicDivi- 1)ecn reccivcil throug11 the medium of The? sion of the N. T. P. I,., Rncl lnlcr with the Binericn~iLe~ioa Weeltly ns n slnnt of a co111- Iiesearcl~ Scrvice of the -imericnn City l~lete Idegion wnr librnry, wlilch mill be Burenn. Miss Genrhnrt hns coirtribntcd to estal)ilitlhed in n room nt nntionrll hettd- Special Libraries mf P. A. I. S. (lUnrtei%

Thc gersoiiliel of the Penn:meat Group Director of the Royal Alfred Observatory, Committees ngpointed by the Secretnry of Mauritius. The Mauritius Stationery & the Trensury to ctirrp out thc ~vcommenda- Printing Co., Ltd. 10 Rupees. tions of the first nnrl secwncl Pan-Americnn Nnnncinl Co~lferenceshas been printed in The South African Sugar Journal Annual 10 pnge pn~nplilct. Special 1il)rnriaiis of 01.- (the Uba Printing Co., Ltd., Durban, Natal), ganizations hnvi~~gLet111 American nffilix- contains a well illustrated description of tioils shonlcl wrluirc :~nenrly copy. Thc the Natal and Zululand sugar estates and title is simply "List of Members of the Per- factories compiled by the organ of the Natal manent Group Committees." Sugar Industry. Price 7s. Gd. net, postage 1s. The second installment of an interesting The Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. publishes study in trafflc geography, both inland and a house organ under the title "The Melting terminal, in various parts of the world, ap- Pot" In a recent number calculations for pears in the July and August double num- the weights of high-speed and tool steels, ber (1920) of the Ai'chiv fur Eisenbahn- wrought iron and cast iron are given. wesen. A Dlgest of Canadian Grain Act, compiled The Mauritius Almanac and Commercial by Chas. Birlrett, Secretary of the Fort Handbook for 1920. This publicat~on,in its William-Port Arthur Grain Exchange, Fort ninety-flfth year, having first ,been issued in William, Ont., has been ~ssuedin 64 pages. 1769, is a heavy quarto volume in paper covers describing all the institutions of the A current bibliography on ill~umination colony, tariff's, laws, statistics, weights and appears in the monthly transactions of tho measures, etc. Naturally information re- Illuminating Engineering Society. It is In- lating to the sugar industry is fully gone ternational in scope and averages about 100 into, and there is a comprehensive list of titles. the sugar factories. An excellent index as- Yopp's Cipher Directory contains a list of sists the reader greatly. Compiled under the mills, buyers, dealers and most of the the direction of A. Walter, F. R. A. S., brokers and chemists engaged in the oil December, 1920 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 215 mill trade. 127 pages. Dorsey Co., Dallas,. Prof. Samuel C. Prescott. Director of ,the Tex., publishers. - $3.00 bound-in cioth. Scientific Coffee ~nvestigation undertaken for the Joint Coffee Trade Publicity Com- The Peachy Process Co., Ltd., 40 Gerard mittee, made a Report of Progress to the street, London, W. 1, has recently issued a National Coffee Roasters' Association. It is pamphlet covering the capitalization of the printed in the Tea and Coffee Trade Jour- comgany, the chief advantages of the nal for December, 1920, p. 716-721. Peachy process of rubber vulcanization, a short 'biography of the inventor, reports on An investigation was recently completed the process of vulcanization and a historical by the resenrch staff of E. E. Houghton & review of Goodyear's hot vulcanization Co., , on the causes of skin process. sores and boils among metal workers. The The U. S. Federal Trade Co~nmissionre- details appear in ;I copyrighted booklet cently issued its slxth monthly bulletin on issued by the company. bituminous coal coats giving preliminary costs for June, 1920. The Bulletin gives The Asphalt Sales Department of the costs of 565 operators. In issuing this bul- Co., 1 Battery place, New Yorlr City, letin the Commission announced the sus- has just issued a booklet on how to save pension of further publication of the worn-out pavement with Texaco asphalt. series until the courts render final decision on the collstitutiondlpoTver of Congress to Southern Pine, what it is and how to use authorize the Commission to require reports it, is the title of a new pamphlet being dis- on costs of production. tributed to architects, engineers, builders and others interested by the Southern Pine 1T11gerer's 131illetin, 1% \\\'eat 19th strrei, Association, New Orleans, La. Scw Yo'k O~ty,Ry~l~posiuii~ of Aro~ncltics. .L coliilrlete list of lrroducts usrtl 1r.y lrcr- The Employers' Year Book was issued I'i~lners11nd loilct sonl) mukers. Nine spec4111 . It is edited by Philip Gee. The lll~til~lesby Illell \ye11 l~llo\~~llill illdllstl~y, COIll- address is 246, Templo Chambers, London, prise the contei~tsof' $1 rec-en1 iiuniber. E. C. Price 25s. Anton Chiris Co., 18-20 Platt street, New New magazines are appearing in spite of Yorlc City, has issued a handsome boolrlet costs, paper shortage and various other dis- of facts about the Company, which was es- courage~aents. Natural Gas, Vol. 1, No. 1, tablished in 1768 in for the manu- appeared in October, 1920. The Glass In- facture of essential oils. clusirv.". Vol. 1. No. 1. was issued in Novem- The Chicago Section of the American her.. The ~liriter,mostly devote; to rub- Welding Society has issued a little boolrlet ber culture and its problems, made its ini- with the title, "Keep the Guess Work out tial appearance in 1920. It is published by of Welding." Copies may be had upon ap- the Incorporalerl Society of Planters, Knaltl ulication to the American weld in^ Societv.-. Lumnur.-. Federated Malay States. 608 South Dearborn street, chicago. The Magnesia Association of America, "Aulogenous Welding," the house organ of 721 Bulletin Dldg., Philadelphia, has issued Davis-Uoornonville Co., Jersey City, N. J., a new book, "Defend Your Steam." Its for October, deals further with its Pyro- author, Austen Bolain, a man of engineering graph, in the fabrication of flange boiler Lralning, ,llas long been a close student of plates in shipyards. The setting up of the problems of insulation, and has made porlable welding equipment is also de- this boolc an intelligible discussion of the scribed nncl illustrated. fundamental question of the defense of M. E. Faber, of the C. A. Shaler Co., of steam for which 80 per cent. magnesia cov- Waugun, Wisc., writes in the Nov, 1920, ering is everywhere a recognized standard. number of the Hardware Dealers' Magazme on the functions of tho tracle catalogue. Eagle-Picher Lead Co , 100 William Street, 'New Yorlr City, has issued a 16-page boolrlet National Aniline and Chemical Co., Inc., listing the le~clproducts which it manutac- has just issued a boolc of Dyers Formulas, tures. The illustrations show variou~ giving the receipts that have been worked Eagle-Picher plants and a graph of the de- out in its laboratorios for matching the rivatives of lead. shades that have been standardized by the Cement mill lubrication is discussed in Textile Color Card Association and shown in the August 20, 1920, issue of Cement, Mill the Fall 1920 Color Card. The receipts are and Quarry, to the extent of 4% columns. for silk, cotton, wool and leather, and will be found useful to dyers engaged in coloring Ihiilding ;\lutcrit12 Prices in 1021, hy Wil- any of these materials. Copies may be ob- Iritl l. Ring, is t~ 181~gereln.int froin illp tained by dyers and others interested with- Arc.hitevturn1 l~rc~cxtlof Junnmy, lM1. Tmt out cost fronl any of the offlces of the Na- is rr]rl:l~~t~tl11s 11'. W. Dotlgt. C'o.. 119 West tional Aniline and Chenlical Co. 40th rtrcct, Xew Yorl; City. December, 1920

nulletin (i. e. rerision) 5 of the Repor1 of luled 1)y E. 11. Rurroughs, Dil)liogn~pherof the Coiuulittee on Stanc1nrtliz:ltim of Petro- thc linrel~u. 111 cl~a~xclwit. is of the clnssi- leum Specifications is out. It sullcrscrlcs lied nl)strnct form, illtcn~:llio~~~ll111 scope, nnd liulletins 1-4, and con~prisesGO follos. The so spnced 11s to nllon, clllq)111g. Commitatee operates under 13secuL1ve order of July 31, 1918. Rnlletin 5 is ~rrlnted I)y Tlic Pinuncii~~lPublishing Co., 17 Joy St., the U. S Bureau of Mines, 1021. I-losttnl, Mass., annouliccs the issue of "Con- solidnteil 'L7:tbles of ROIIA Values". The The Kntional rlutomo1)ile Cl~nnlber of volume mvcrs yields from 2.90 LO 15%, pro- ('on~rnctcehns issued in preli~nin:lry fornl for gwssing by 10th~n~~d Yths to 7%, by 10th~ 1'320 its annuas1 "Fttcts and Figurcs of the :1nd qulirters to 10% tl11(1 by loills only to Autornotlvc Iadnstry During the Yenr." 15%. Mnturiiies re conil)utecl from G A. Norden & Co.,establisher1 1808, address ~nonthsto 100 yetlrs nil11 ~ou1)011rntes of 3, Cotton Escliange Buildi~g,Sew YorB City, 3%, 4, 4x, -ks, -4%, 5, 5%, 5%, 6, lins just issued in chart form ".i Qunrter (is, 7, 754 mlcl 8% re comlmted in vnluea C'cntnry of Cotton." The chnrt wns prcpi~red cc~rrierlto two clecimnl plrwes. The pdces of t~ythe General Drnfliug Co., Inc., 9 Church the clcslc edition is $1>.00 n single copy and St.. N. Y. Cily. It shonrs rlunrterly high nnrl p1.3.0i1 :I copy for tllc al~ri(lgcclerlltion. Re- low prices for AIlddling Uplruicls in New ductions are made for qu:n~lity p~lrchnscs. Sork f:rw~140.5-l(i to 19l9-20, nncl, for tlic (!lnrl;s' Clnr Loitd Grain '.Lhl)les. 8th ed. nt silrlle years, tclbnli~tio~~sol r1sil)lr s~q)l~ly01 2L~lleric:ln rotlo11 each senson, cotkon gin11~A $2.20 1s out. It contuim titlbles s11owing rc- U, durtions by 50 lb. 1)renlts ns follon's : Oats iu thc S., n-orld'h t~vns~1111)tio1iof .lmcri- nncl coltton seed: Eight tnl>ks rcflnce tmy cnn cotton, as well :IS t'orcign ncrenge ulld \vnpl~l1ro111 20,000 to 105,000 lb~lo llushels consumption statistics. nl' 32 lbs. Mnlt: Eighl. tnl)lcs rlny weight Forty-iwo lrgislaturcs are in convention. form 2O,ClIlO to 7.?,000 11)s. Lo 1)ushrls of 34 11)s. '1'11i11'i 01 it! ~'~l'lpt\voLIOIIICS ,nth tlwi+ Rarlq.. h~~li\\.i~~:~tt~ntL IIui~g.~riun grnss ~~iiudsfillell wll h ideas of revising tnxes, seed: Sercn tables re(1nc.e any \wight from lilnlcilig II~IHICJ'~llenp~r, labor hnppier, rc. P0,iHlO to !X,WIO lbs. to bushels of 48 lbs. Aucing cost.^, and fllling up our data files. Corn, rycA :111tl fills scwl: Kine t;tl)lcs ret1uc.e "Itecent drtirales on Petroleuni ruid dllirtl from 20,000 to 110.00ll Ibs. to b~lsllclsof Si Snbstmwi" is the title of serial1 2198, is- 111s. Whcnt, ~lovcl..1)~ ~h ill111 ~)O~II~OCS Xinix sued Uccen~bcr1920, of the U. 8. Bureau of tllble rcdncc 120,000 to 119.(I(IU 11)s. to Bushcls JIiacs. It coll~~rises27 folios, and is com- of 00 lbs. Congress in Convent ion The extraordinary session of the 66th numbers introduced by each, a very com- C:onglScss 1%; nellri~~gits c.lnse. Llbr:~riuns, plete and originally arranged subject index, Ils such llilre rlll illtelSest not SO 11111~h n lisl of slip laws by Committees, with slip in the redistributed representation conse- law nnmd~ers,a checlring record of riders, R quent on the November election, as in the history of appropriation bills and a numeri- probable outcome of th~srepresentation. cal status of all legislstion. Thus from Run~orsof federal reorgsnizatlon have been whatever angle approached, current federal afloat for some time. Every change in ad- legislation may be traced by means of this lninistrallve readjustment affecls the libra- con~pendiunl. In the June, 1820, issue is rian's records SPECIAL LIBRARIES, with included a list of laws of the 64th Congress its eclltor located at the seat of government, l~nving direct or indirect bearing on the will have special Cac~l~tiesfor keeping its trans-Atlantic war. readers promptly advised of changes, and of the effect of these changes on library records. With the convening of Congress the pro- cession of hills lwgna lo flow fro111 tlw House and the Senlte. Three hundred and fifty new bills and resolutions were intro- duced in t'le House alone, on the firs1 day of the session. Are all special librarians acqua7ntecl with the Conlpeiidium of current legislation enacted hy Congress? W, Ray I,oomls, of the House Docunlent Room, is the editor The Compendium is issued weekly, with monthly cumulations. It is very complete, comprising a checking rec- ord of investigatmns ordered by Congress. arranged by the Committees directlag the invest gation, m alphabetical list, by Sena- tors and Congressmen, of bills with their INDEX TO VOLUME 11 IN VOLUME 13.