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The Value of a Library in a Financial House BY FRANCIS H. SISSON Vice-president, Guaranty Trust Company of New York The flnancial library as we know it today bases, of international business, that is no has been built up in response to the demand longer possible. Today the assembling of on the part of bank customers for service. the facts is a task for emerts, and the fleld It is an evolution that has kept pace with of these experts is the financial library. that remarkable change through which an This library is something more than a me- ancient calling, very definite in its processes dium through which the offlcer~l and em- and its object, has become an institution ployees of the bank can obtain immediate access to the information whiqh they re- which touches at a thousand and one points quire. It is also a source of inionnation to the complex life of civilized nations. It is which the customers and friends of the the repository of that institution's history bank have been taught to feel that they may and at the same time one of the instruments come when in difficulty. Therefore, we And through which its sarvices are being con- flnancial libraries wide in the scope of the tinuously broadened and enhanced in value. subjects covered and so organized as to The flnancial library is pre-eminently a make easy the flnding of what they contain. working library. Into it are gathered the In the lilbrary of the Guaranty Trust Com- materials, in whatever form, which the pany of New York there are four main di- banker needs in the course of his business, visions, Statistical Files, Cataloguing and and that business is today concerned with Indexing, Clipping and, Order. The Statisti- a multiplicity of activities simply astonish- cal Biles Division collects material on the ing to the layman. It is no longer a matter various bond issues, reports of railway, pub- of keeping gold or silver or securities or lic utility, and industrial companies, and has valuables safe or of changing money. It is access to mortnaaes, de~ositanreemouts, and similar doc~m&t-s. ~mporta&flnanciai a matter of conducting numberless transac- journals are carefully studied for informa- tions which are the very bone and sinew tion regarding business concerns and mate- of those infinitely co'mglicated processes by rial of value suggested by such study 1s sent which the mental and manual efforts of for and flled. This division also Ales syndi- human beings throughout the world are cate documents and the memoranda which transformed into satisfactions of the needs the bank's statisticians write during the of man. course of their investigations of various aco- To the proper conduct of such a business, nomic and flnancial problems. facts are essential. Generalizations are of New books and periodicals are recorded no avail, it will not do to have a "fair idea." and flled by the Cataloguing and Analzing when you are charged with the investment Division. In this work a comprehensive or the expenditure of money that does not system, designed to meet the special needs belong to you. The customers of our flnan- of a financial library, has been devised. Do- cia1 houses want no haphazard advice. They mestic and foreign publications of a seleot- expect and have a right to demand that ed list are analyzed for important items whatever is done by their banker shall be which are of interest from the viewpoint of based Rrst of all upon an exact and detailed the Company's Ibusiness. Numerous foreign knowledge of all the factors that enter into publications are regularly clipped and in- any particular transaction. There was a dexed by the Clipping Division, and item time when it was possible for the banker to on flnance and foreign trade are clipped absorb that necessary knowledge through each day from newspapers. These items daily handling of various problems and are mounted on cardboard and are carefully through association with the men of affairs indexed for ready reference. The Order Di- with whom his business brought him into vision sends for books and magazines. When contact. In these days of rapidly moving these are received they are read carefully events, of changing flnancial and economic and indexed upon carcls for reference. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

The Guaranty Trust CoInpany's library ticular force at the present moment of his. sontains about 20,000 books and pamphlets. tory. During the war American bankers In addition to these volumes there are about were brought into closer contact than ever 40,000 reports in the Statistical Files, in- before with the bankers of other countries. cluding railway and industrial reports, state- Their whole field of activity was immensely ments, mortgages, and deposit agreements. broadened and at the same time ti, vijion About 300 newspapers and magazines are was obtained of what might be done in the received regularly, including financial pe- future. The hope of our country's industrial riodicals in Zngland France, future is in the expansion of our foreign Spain, Canada, India, China, Japan, Brazil, trade and the increase of American invest- Argentina, and other countries, and the ments abroad. Fortunately, that hope runs, sheets of the London, French, and Amster- to a great extent, concurrent with the neces- dam Exchanges. Books from foreign coun- sities of the situation, but nevertheless 3ur tries, as well as those published in this bankers and businesB men will require a country, flnd their way into the library constantly increasing and broadening knowl- Special efforts are made to get works on edge of conditions and affairs in foreign business and finance by authorities on these coutries. That means close study and the subjects from all parts of the world. Amcmg more carefully organized and selected our other material a number of documents is- flnancial libraries are the easier and more sued by the Chinese Government have been valuable will that study be. obtained. Of particular value to the work There is another side to the financial libra- which the library is caIled upon to perform ry and that is its usefulness to the omcer is a complete Ale of the Commercial and or enlployee of a banli who desires to broad- Financial Chronicle. With this set are in- en his knowledge of the banking business. cluded many numbers of Hunt's Merchants' True, you will find today very succes~ful Magazine, the predecessor of the Chronicle. bankers who have never read any books These publications date back prior to the upon the theory and practice of banking. but Civil War and contain valuable information I know of no successful banker who does about the financial conditions of that period. not recommend such a reading to hls em- The Commerce Reports of the United States ployees, especially those who are young, also are carefully indexed and filed, and are those who have not gotten into a mt, and available for reference when information whose minds are still open to the sugges- concerning foreign countries, tarifrs, and tions growing out of the experience or 011. export o~portunitiesis desired. servation of others. Such a reading will glve From this brief outline of a financial libra- ry an idea may perhaps be obtained of the the student a proper perspective of the busi- important part which it plays in the life ot ness. He will see it more cleaily as a busi- a banking house. There can be no ques- ness which is an integral part 01 modern tion of the advisability of a flnancial library. life and which in its almost uuivcrsal appli- To a bank of any slze at all it is a necessity. cability offers a generous fleld to Ihc liighesl This is being brought home to us with par- intellectual and moral attainments.

The Financial Library and the Student

BY CHARLES W. GERSTENBERG Head of the Finance Department, New York University

There is no place where the need for 11 With possibly one or two exceptions library as a flowing stream instead of a stag- American universities have very ,poor finan- nant pool is felt more keenly than in the cial libraries. The fact is that the effort flnancial departments of our universities I of keeping up a financia1 library and the believe Princeton University was given a amount of space required are probably out very fine library that beIonged to one of of proportion to the amount of use that the downtown New York investment houses could be made of such a library. But there must be in most of the universities that and was collected largely through the efforts have strong econonlic departments a num- of Miss Beatrice E. Carr. If that library ber of students who care to prepare deflnite- has been kept up, as it probably has in ly for financial work. These students will view of the demands that are likely to bc perforce have to restrict their studies to a made of it by Professor Keninierer ant1 his relatively narrow fleld, and it would seem, colleagues, it is probably the best flnancial therefore, that a. financial library intensive- library in any American university. ly instead of extensively maintained will be SPECIAL LIBRARIES the most serviceable to the average uni- On account of the enormous amount of versity. material that would have to be gathered by The problem, however, is not so difficult business men in America in order that they as it would appear, since there is fortunately may get the essential facts about foreign the Conlmercial and Financial Chronicle run- securities, there must be trained in our ning back into the Merchants' Magazine, the American colleges, men and women who complete file of which will serve adequately can digest such material and present it in for almost any research work in business useable form. flnance. Sollle of the foremost books on the The work of the con~mercialorganizationa subject of business finance have been writ- Such as the Standard Statistics Company ot ten almost exclusively from information ob. New Yorlr, the Fitch Publishing Company tained from this source. of New Yorlr, might well be made the basis In the banking field, the Monetary Com- for a study of the way in which information mission Reports can serve as a basis and is digested to meet the needs of practical can be supplemented by the reports of the business. Federal Reserve Board. I am inclinad to believe that since tho 1 have had occasion to attend a great young man or young woman getting into the many meetings recently of business men practical financial game will find the serv- and bankers interested in foriegn trade. The ices of companies like these the most read- chief problem of foreign trade at the present ily available material, some familiarity with time is to And a means for payment for our their nature should be made a pre-requisite goods to-be shipped to foreign countries, and to the completion of any essential course it is generally understood the payment will that makes any pretense to fitting men and have to be made in foreign securities. And women directly for business, And moreover, then the question arises,-"What securi- since these commercial services are com- ties?" So that eventually the whole problem piled by young men and young womon of of foreign trade rests upon the need for in- varying degrees of ability and expertness, formation about foreign securities. In Eng- there are bound to be mistalres; the well- land there is at least one house that has trained stutlent, therefore should be ablo to a very complete collection of facts about compile digests similar to those afforded rompanies and countries all over the world. by the commercinl services in order that Whether such a library or not can be col- where large interests are at stake: the serv- lected in New Yorlr seems to rest entirely ices can be checlred up with information with the foresight of business men in pro- from the original sources. viding the means for rapid collection of The demand for students who can do this books, pamphlets and documents College kind of work is going to be very large. At libraries might well make s limited study present the supply of pcople who can ana- of this field, provide some infornlation and lyze financial facts and figurev is rgcruited encourage its use in connection with courses from an assortment of pcople with n very in Geography, Commerce and Modern His- haphazard training, For this reason, it tory. A study of the financial report of a nauld seem to be wise for Anmrican uni- South American public utility, if well-car- versities to make preparation through tho ried out, will lend to as complete an under- accum~~lationof a reasonablc amount or clnta standing of the con~munity served as a and the offering of snitable courscs baser1 study of that community approachecl in any on that (lath to fill the demand for well- other way trained financial slatisticinns.

The Importance of Good Reading in the Busi- ness of Finance

BY ROBERT L. SMITLEY Manager, Dixie Book Shop, New York

Books on financial matters are used in The officer or employee of a fllitln::ial in- three wags. titution finds that his progress upward de- The financial institution wishing to promote pends to a great extent upon his t"earetics1 its business builds up a library so that every lzllowledge of the business and his ability department will be at once snpplied v,dth to keep pace with the rhanyh~jiconditions. the right material at the time such material Every lnan and woman who posses n bank is required. balanco should protect this balance thrcugli 124 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

careful study and this study can only be at- schools which have distributed text books. tempted by giving out practical boolrs on the Some of these so-called text book0 are subject. poison to the minds of the students while It is evident that the readers of financial others are the very best that have ever boolrs should be the entire reading popula- been printed. Great care must be exercised tion of the country. From the present sale in making selections of this type. Many of financial books it is evident that very bibliographies contain lists of books which few of the readmg public have been educated are out of print. The bibliographer who to the point of appreciating their use and suggests such a list is not assisting the advantage This is the duty of a library-to client. If the in print books are not of suf- educate the public-and it is very apparent flclent worth, it is better to await the pub- that the l~braryhas thus far failed in this lication of the new book. particular duty. A great mistake is attempting to under- The Victory Loans have awakened the stand a book when it really belongs to a average man and woman, with money to higher grade course. The beginner must protect, to a realization that the responsi- not have recommended to him Chamberlain's bility rests with the individual and not with "Principles of Bond Invastment" without the banker or investment firm. The citi- having first understoocl and read Pratt's zens of England have for years been much "Work of Wall Street." The average man better acquainted with their country's Obli- will have little to gain by reading the re- gations than the citizens of this country. parts of the Monetary Commission of the Even the ill~teratepeasant of France knew United States but the young banker enter- more about the quotation of rentes than the ing upon his career will find these reports educated farmer of the United States knew mvaluable. The student of the stock ex- about the obligations of his country. changes and of speculation will be lost in a Under the circumstances the Libmrians perusal of "Studies in Tape Reading" unless of the United States must keep up to clate he has studied the elementary work of the and give the readers the best books on the exchange through reading such a book as subject. Most librarlans have a very lim- iliartin's "New Yorlr Stock Exchange." ited knolvledge of this department of lit- "The Human Side of Business" and "The Work of a Bond House" are boolrs which erature hecause they have not been re- are p~ln~arily for the man who is actually in quired to learn (They have too much to the business and are much different from learn as iL Is ancl there should be a special- Mead's "Careful Investor" and Esclier's ist for each department.) The suggestions "Practical Investing" which are elementary which have been made, if they ever are books for the layman. made, 'depend upon titles and not upon the These illustrations point out the necessity substance for careful consideration of the book itself There is little reason to suggest the im- before 11 is reconlmended to the reader. portance of reading good financial books So far as is possible it is the wisest plan when it comes to a consideration of the for those intending to purchase boolrs of a banker and the investment firm Nearly flnancial character to buy them plus serv- all the progressive New York Banks have ice from the specialist in the business. This excellent libraries and the various associa- suggestion is analogous with other profes- sipns. The lawyer knows that he will get tions maintain services which are only better results by buying from the law book equalled by those of England or Continental seller and the insurance man will get what institutions. For example may be men- he wants in much shorter time by going to tioned the American Institute of Account- his specialist At the present time there is ants, The American Bankers' Association a great interest in the use of both Banlr and the Association of Railway Executives. and Trade Acceptances. Our inercl~antsare Banks throughout the Middle West and the preparing to take their place in the world West are fast getting into line and have business but if some merchant went to the established Foreign Exchange Departments library to read up and understand the use and New Business Departments. Margraff's and principles of the T'rade Acceptance, how treatise on International Exchange once many librarians would have the ability to sold in the second hand shops for 50 or 85 recommend the proper boolr? cents Recently it has sold as high as $15.00 The field for financial and business books is in its infancy Those who take advantage for a single copy. of the excellent books in print on this sub- There are poor and nlisleading b001is ject will be progressing in a much more on business as well as in other flelds of satisfactory manner than those who base literature There have ,been established a everything on the so-called practical view- large number of business correspondence point. SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Formation of a Financial Library BY BEATRICE E. CARR With Robinson tY Co., New Yo& S~meyears ago, when confronted sudden- endeavor her acquisition of material must ly with the task of forming a financial libra- lie, it is in order for the librarian to take ty with but limited knowledge of how to up the general standardized equipment proceed, the writer consulted two experts which undoubtedly will be necessary as a whp had achieved success along this line of basis for the more individual collection. The work. "Commercial and Financial Chro.nicle" with Said one. "I collect every thing abut its Supplements, is of course of prime im- some thing." portance, likewise such manuals of corpor- Said the other: "I keep something about ate information as "poorW1 and mhfoodg's" everything." (now to be consolidated) manuals on rail- Properly to fulfil its function the financial road, industrial and public utility enter- library should combine these two ideals, ac- prises. The bond end stock cards, corpor- cumulating and classifying all that can be ation digest, trade digest, etc , published by obtained in regard to the "sometl~ing" ih the Standard Statistics Company are per- whidh one's own particular bank or inveet- haps the greatest boon ever vouchsafed to ment house is especially interested, and at overworked or iuexperienced librarians, not the same thebuilding up a flrm foundation only for the information they convey, but of general information which later may be for the suggestions they contain as ta a added to more extensively and intensively possible broadening of the librarinn's field of should the need arise. service. To a firm specializing in railroad The librarian who undertakes to-day the securities, White and Kemble's mortgage formation of a financial library occupies a atlas is a necessity; to one dealing In Gov- position very different to that held by those ernment Bonds' either of this or other coun- Of us who were pioneers some years ago. In tries. in addition to such publications as library making as in home making, much Whitaker's Almanac, the Statesman's Year which formerly had to be worked out at Book and the Fitch Government Bond Rec- great expense of time and patience now ord, practically all flnancial publicat~onsare comes to us already prepared. Such agencies valuable sources of information. Moody's as the Standard Statistics Company and the Investors' Service should be included for Moody Investors' Service have simplified both corporation and Government securities immensely the routine work of the flnancial information. librarian, leaving free time and funds to The problem is likely to differ somewhat devote to other things. At one time our in the case of an institution and an invest- "Chrohicle" and "Poor's, Manual" mere al- ment house, The former is more likely to ~ostall to which he had to turn for a sum- require much more information of a general mary of financial and corporate informa- character; the lattar more data in greater tion-today, the problem is rather from an deta.11 in regard to corporations, munic- embarrassment of riches to know just what ipalities or states. If, however, the banking to choose. institution includes a securities department Looking back from an outside viewpoint among its activities, there is practically no on my only library experience it seems to class of flnancial information which may me that the most valuable counsel which not be required. Worlrs of a general char- can be given to one contemplating the for- acter should include those of recognized au- niat~onof a flnancial library, is-Know vow tliorities on banking domestic and foreign firm or institz~tion.Before drawinc up even commerce, foreign exchange, transportation a tentative classification or purchasing a on land and sea, industrial activities, agricul- single book, m~kea study of the characteris- ture, mining, etc. It is not wise to overloud tics of your employers' business and of the the shelves with matter of this character, special work of those for whose benefit the for the orthodoxy of today'is the heterodoxy library is designed. If every prospective of tomorro~v,and only material likely to be librarian could spend from three to six of permanent value should be cliose~~Re- months in other departments before com- lnenlber, the librarv is alicazls looked upon mencing her work, much futile effort would as an "overhead'' expense, and the acid test be saved. The correspondence flles particu- of a ,good financial librarian is not the er- larly would prove an "open sesame" to tent of her general colle~tion, but how knowledge for lack of which she is likely bimited it can be and yet be effective. to grope blindly along her path of service. While on this subject of general piiblica- Having made a preliminary survey of the tions, those of the United States Govern- situation and decided along what lines of ment must not be forgotten. The various 126 SPECIAL LIBRARIES departments and bureaus publish lists of where they are directly concerned. Find out their publibations, many of which are free, the policy of your flrm. Generally speaking, while all can be obtained from the Super- original circulars of issue should be ac- intendent of Documents for a relatively quired and in the majority of cases, re- trifling sum. TO what extent the librarian tained; all Stock Exchange listings, and the need avail herself of the generosity of her annual reports of'corporations in which the government in this matter must be deter- flrm is more or less interested. Bond-hold- mined by the needs of her employer. A ers agreements and financial plans of all flrm specializing in mining securities might kinds are almost certain to be called for, flnd the publication of the United States also offlcial notices regarding new issues. Bureau of Mines of inestimable value, while Where the Arm is directly interested in cer- some of the bulletins of the Department of tain corporations, practically everything Agriculture would be of infinitely greater in- that is available of either direct or collat- terest to a house about to bring out a bond eral interest should be secured For in. issue of a firm engaged in the manufacture stance, if you know that interest has devel- of farm tractors, and again, while either oped in regard to a certain railroad, not only crass might conceivably worry along with- the documents actually pertaining to that out the reports of the Treasury Department, railroad should be available, but all others one can hardly imagine them missing from likely to affect the problem. What is the the shelves of the .bank llbrary! attitude of the State or states through Legislation, both Federal and State, must which it runs toward taxation what are the be followed closely. Speaking generally, possibilities of future expansion along manu. the Federal Statutes and the Consolidated facturing or agricultural lines; who are its Laws of New York ,State should be in any chief competitors-a dozen ways in which collection, however small, and if possible the library may be of service will at once the banking, insurance, tax and cor~oration present themselves. laws of all states In the case of houses The librarian of a house specializing in ~pecializingin savings bank bonds, the com- Municipal issues must be conversant with pilation of savinqs bank laws issued by the the laws of the various States, the flnanclal Financial Publishing Company of Boston status of the communities in which her flrm should take its place beside the White and is interested; their industries, chief charac- Kemble Atlas. teristics and growth. Naturally, there mgst The librarian will flnd that all kinds of be material on the book shelves to support requests will be made of her, many of them this knowledge. Savings bank laws relat- apparently having no relation to her call- ing to municipal issues must be available, ing. Fishing and game laws have been as such bonds frequently are held largely asked for as well as those re la tin^: to the by flduc~aryinstitutions The Daily Bond Federal Income Tax and information as to Buver and Weekly Bond Buyer must And the location of seats in a theatre. requirerl a pl~ceamonq her ma~azinesand should be for the consideration of entertainment of carefullv read and indexed as well as the out-of-town customers, actual or prospec- pages of the "Chronicle" devoted to State tive, sometimes assumes an importance and Municipal news. It may be necessary equal- to that of the location of a railroad. to keep a record of the bond sales of cer- Therefore.--don't fail to include in your col- tain communities, and comparative statistics lection the humble "almanacs" of general of such sales over a considerable period of information, the Hotel Red Book the Om- ,t~meshould be available. cia1 Rnilwav Guide. the Encyclopedia Britan- The bank librarian, apart from her general nica, a really good atlas and information data, should specialize in what most con- concern;nq all subjects in which members cerns her bank. Complete information as of ynur firm are especially interested as in- to credit, foreign exchange, acceptance, and, dividuals. for the use of the staff, standard works on So much for matter of a more or less gen- money and banking are, almost a necessity. eral character common to all financial libra- The leaflets issued from time to time by the ries. Of what shall the particular informa- Dixie Book Shop are full of suggestions. In tion of your own special financial library some cases, and perhaps increasingly so, consist? there should be added authoritative informa- This must me determined by two things- tion in regard to banking abroad. The se- the amount of space at the disposal of the ries of volumes containing athe reports of the librarian and the class of securities-assum- investigation of the National Monetary Com- ing we are deoling with an investment house mission should not be overlooked. -in which the firm is interested. Some It cannot be repeated too frequently that flrms pride themselves on having files re- too large a collection of material is almost plete with information covering every cor- worse than one which is not suficiently ex- poration extant: others, and this class is tensive. It costs too much for upkeep, if growing steadily as rents and operating handled properly and if, through lack of costs soar skywards, require little except adequate assistance, it is not properly classi- SPECIAL LIBRARIES field, it defeats its own ends. If too costly up to date, but if, almost before your statis- in operation, the library is apt to prove a tician has had time to think of it you We- drain on the producing end of the business sent him with an army of circulars and which more than offsets its usefulness. mortgages covering the sinking fund from "Overating ratio," it should be remembered, every possible angle, he will arise and call plays equally as important a part in a finan- you blessed. cial as in a commercial enterprise. I have left until the last the most impor- A word as to classiflcation It will prob. tant part of a librarian's work-the news- ably be found by most librarians that the paper clippings. The various "services" Dewey system, unadapted, is not suited to now available should supplement, but not the ordinary fipancial library, and that if supplant the daily reading and marking of this method is employed, considerable mdi. the chief metropolitan dailies, and of local fication will probably be necessary. Unless papers, where the Arm is interested. TO time, assistance and money are plentiful, this should be added the best of the weekly the simpler the classiflcation the better. financial publications, and such trade jour- While confessing to a personal liking for a nals as have a bearing on special enter- numerical classiflcation with an alphabeti- prises. Whatever is left undone, the news- cal index, the writer realizes that even this paper clippings should not be neglected. may be considered superfluous and excel- To do so is to court disaster, but with an UP- lent results are obtainable with straight, al- to-date clipping file, it is always possible phabetical flling if done with care. The li- to get through somehow. brarian will find over and over again that The extent to which a library remains her salvation lies in getting data flled merely a fad, an overhead charge, perhaps promptly, and in an tibundance, one might even an actual liability, depends solely on almost say a superfluity, of cross references, the librarian. She alone can make it n most made at ortnr?, and not Aef~rred to some valuable and indispensable factor in her or- "more convenient season." Write them in ganization, or hwe it considered merely as pencil if typewriters are not available, scrib- a storehouse for nore or less usoless mate- ble them, on "scraps of paper" if the supply rial and an rrnnecesary expense. Her wntch- of your favorite pink cards has given out, word should be "service," whether to junior but get them down If your firm is about to bring out a new bond issue with a special clerk or to president; her eyes should bo sfnking fund provision, it matters very lit- fixed on the far horizon so that she n~nysee tle whether your classification cards de- beyond the passing need of the moment, scriptive of different bond characteristics while at the same time. with the imporlancr, are a perfect color sequence and display of "operating ratio" firmly in inincl, stlo a wealth of detail, as far as they go, but brings to the problems of the present thc that it has not been possible to keep them great saving grace of colninon sense. The United States Treasury Department Library BY EMMA M. V. TRIEPEL, B. S., LIBRARIAN There are indications that the building up works on economics, a number of miycel- of a collection of books in the Treasury laneous books which, in other locntions Department commenced very early in its would undoubtedly have been usefnl, bul. history, through the accumulation of Gov- in the Treasury were mare cumberors of ernment documents which, from the very space. When !Mr. Frank A. Venderlip cllmo nature of the work done here, were and are to the Treasury with Secretary Gaga, hr! in- constantly in use. As there was, in the stituted a number of reforms thronghout tho early days, no public library in Washington Department and set about the reorganizcl- where books could be obtained free of tion of the Library, wjth chnrt~cteri,rlic charge, the T'reasury and all the other de- energy. The books were classifled for the partments developed general libraries of first time and a catalogue commenced. The their own, for the use of the clerks. Since useless material could not be reinove(1, how- the Library of ,Congress moved into its ever, without special act of Congress, and present quarters and opened up its stores of that was not forthcoming until much Inter. information to the people of Washington and Moreover, many of the employees, oITiciale the Public Library was instituted, these mis- as well as clerks, opposed any cl~ngein thi~ cellaneous collections have been abolished respect. and replaced by special libraries. An act of Congress, dated December 11. The Treasury Department, prior to 1899, 1908, authorized the 'Secretary of the Treas- had accumulated a considerable number of ury to transfer, from time to time, from the books, including, besides the indispensable Treasury Department Library to the Life sets of Government documents and a few Saving stations, such books as in his ludg- 128 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

ment were no longer needed for use in the Library should ~0mpri~ethe greatest col- Library. lection of books relating to flnance in this BY direct~onof Secretary MacVeagh, a country, but there are many difllculties to committee headed by Assistant Secretary A. be surmounted before this great undertaking Piatt Andrew, went through the Library and can be achieved. Meanwhile, in our own in- discarded all except 8,268 volumes, of which conspicuous way we strive to be helpful and number 5,743 were Government publications are encouraged to believe that we are at and the remainder works relating to finance, least partially successful, by tlie words of together with a few works of general ref- commendation which come to us from those erence. Under Doctor Andrew's direction, who direct the complex operations of this a room opposite the Secretary's omce was peat financial institution. fltted up with steel stacks and other modern a~~liances,and the books were installed there in 1911. Selection of Reference Books for a Since its removal to its present location, Financial Library the work of the Library has increased con- siderably and is of a wider variety, fre- Commercial & Financial Chronicle. quently confldential and very interesting. Poor's Manual of Railroads. In 1914, the Librarian became a part of the Moody's Manual of Private Utilities. personnel of the 8ecretary's office, with an Moody's Manual of Industrials. increased salary. Poor's Handbook of Investory' Holdings. One special and very congenial duty of the Moody's Analysis of Public Utilities and In- Librarian is the ,preparation of the Daily dustrials. Financial News Summary. The important Moody's Analysis of Railroad Investments. newspapers of the country are scanned Manual of Sdatistics-Stock Exchange Year closely each morning for articles relating to Rook-New York. the activities of the Treasury Department Bankers Encyclopaedia. and for financial news generally. Such Who's Who in America. articles are clipped, a summary is made of Federal Trade Information Service. them and stenciled copies are distributed to Standard Daily Trade ,Service. the Secretary's Private Secretary, the As- Standard Statistics Co. (Bond and Stock sistant Secretaries, Chief Clerk, Comptroller Card.) of the Currency and several other promi- White & Kemble's Mortgage Atlas. nent officials The clippings are afterward Fitch Government Bond Record. mounted in scrapbooks and retained in the Banking and Tax Laws. Library. Hotel Red Boolr. All borrowing books from outside libraries Official Railway Guide. for the various offices of the Department is Daily Bond Buyer. conduoted through this Library, the Library Weekly Bond Buyer. of Congress being our greatest resource in Biographical Directory of Railway Ofiiclals tima of need. of America. The general routine work here is similar World Almanac. to that of other libraries. We have a modi- The Mines Handbook. fied form of the Llbrary of Congress classi- Obsolete Securities. (2 vols.) flcation ,and use the printed cards for our Tnsurance Year Boolr catalogue. Copartnership and Corporation Directors. Several of the bureaus of the Treasury Dau's Blue Boolr. Department have small collections of books Directory of Directors of the various cities. relating especially to their work. The vari- Reports of the Banking Departments of the ous offices of the Comptroller of the Treas- various States. ury contain 1,518 bound volumes, mostly law Reports of the Insurance Departments of the books; the Comptroller of the Currency's various States. offlces have approximately 1,600 books on Rand & McNally's Atlas. their shelves and the Mint Bureau has near- Federal Reserve Bulletin. ly 600. The Sub-committee on Libraries of Statesman's Year Book-London. the Economy and Efficiency Commission of The London Banks. which the writer was a member, recom- Who's Who-England. .?ended that all book# in the offlce libraries Stock Ekchange Official Intelligence - Lon- be catalogued and that entries for them, don. with notes to indicate their location, be Stock Exchange Year Book-London. made in the central library catalogue. Some Report of the Council of Foreign Bondhold- progress was made in this work .before the ers-London. war deluged us with more important tasks Directory of Directors-London when we were. compelled to discontinue it Whitaker's Almanac-London. temporarily, but we expect to resume it in Mexican Year Book. the near future. Annuaire des Valeurs admise~a la Cote Theoretically, the Treasury Department Officielle-Paris. SPECIAL LIBRARIES 129 The Bankers Trust Company Library BY M. L, ERWIN Librarian, Bankers Trust Company, New York We of the Bankers Trust Company Library The scope of the Banlcers Trust Coinpany are not yet two years old and like most two- as planned covered a broad fleld, both Year olds we are still talking in words of foreign and domestic, but it was not long one syllable. However, we consider our- before it was reallzed that a Library on such selves large for our age and having already a scale would require a larger staff than outgrown ou~original llabiliments and shot could be accommodntcd and lnore space Up one story, wc are again the victim of than was available so the plan was reduced growing pains. to a so-called "comn~ercial basis" and we Readers of Spocid Libraries need not be are now primarily an adjunct of the bond told that Ia~gebanliiqg institutions often statistical department, thc demands of that have two libraries and two librarians. One, department are paramount and the nccds of a library for the employees containing flc- the corporation Ales its flrst considerat~on. tion, educational, and so-called "inspira- The corl~oration files are divided into tional" books, and the other, a library to three parts: Railroads, Public Utilities serve departmental needs; a bureau of in- ancl Industrials, with n~ateridunder each formation, as it were, on subjects pertinent division filed by companies alphabeticully and impertinent. The library which is the with the sinlplest sort of a classification dis- subject of this article savors of both, bar- tinguished by colored folders. ring the fiction. A card index system with colored signals In order that it may be fully understood for months is designed to follow up annual lust what "departmental needs" are let me reports and a close watch is kept on news explain that a Trust Coingany performs two items for new bond issues, circulars, mort- distinct functions. First, as a banking in- gages, reorganization glans and other cor- stitution it receives money lor deposit on porate data. which it pays interest, gives check book Other files are devotecl to economic sub- facilities and lends money. As a Trust Coni- jects and municipal information. pany it perfornls two distillct kinds of serv- The classification adopted for the library ice: Individual Trusts-services to persons; books and pa~nphlets covers the following and Corporate Trusts, services to corpora- heads:- tions and these are subdivided, for example, 000 General Works. as Individual Trustee it yill act as executor 100 Finances ancl banking. under Wills-as administrator, or trustee, 200 International subjects. as guardian, or as custodian of securities or 300 Railroads. other property. In addition several Trust 400 Public Utilities. Companies also have Bond Departnlents for 500 Industrials. the purchase and sale of securities. 000 Municipals. The infornlation likely to be called for 700 United States Government covers a wide fleld and unless one joins the and departments. staff of a "going" library and so reaps the 800 Foreign Countries. beneflt of a predecessor's experience the 900 " best plan is to spend some time getting an 200 was left open for international subjects insight into the worltings of each depart- that might develop after the war ancl is in ment and an acquamtance with tlie working process of development. tools. Start, if you please, with the supply The economic files have tlie same classi- department, visit the custodian of the vault, flcation ae tho hooks on the shelves with the quiz the page boys, get at least a bowing letter F perfixed to clistinguish the flle num- acquaintance (preferably through the heads bers froin the shelf numbers in the card of departments) with foreign exchange, re- index. This arrallgeinent enables any ono organizations, wills and trusts, probe deeply working on a specific subject to bring to- into the secrets of the bond department and gether boolcs and clippings with the least at the same time keep eyes open for all the trouble. books which seem to be no me's particular As we specialize in corporate material our charge but are nevertheless in more or less Ale numbers are expanded to a greater ex- constant use, for now that a Librarian is in- tent than is necessary for the shelf num- stalled they should all be gathered into one bers, for exanlplo the subject of Federal fold and be carefully shepherded. (Tlial is Control of Railroads is expanded as follows nlarely a pretty figure of speech but the as to the section on railroad finances while initiated will know that a crook: is often under Federal Control :- wanted to get those charged Manuals hack 353.3 Federal Control Finances. General. into their places! ). Interest on deposits in banks. 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Finance Advisory Committee. Di- Debt and finances. vision of FYnance. Banks and banking. Federal Control Central Advisory Insurance. Purchasing Committee. Taxation. Federal Control Capital Expendi- Corporations. tures Division "D. C. E." Official Railways. Circulars. Canals and transporta- Federal Control Advances to Rail- tion in general. roads by Govt. Federal Payments. Public Utilities. Federal Control Revolving Fund. Industries. Compensation. Agriculture. Federal Control Advances by Bank- Mining. ers Trade and Commerce. Federal Control Accounting. Divis. E~ducation. ion of Laws. Federal Control Earnings Water Power. Federal Control Deficit from Govt. By this arrangement, as will be seen, a11 Corporation. boolrs on each subject will be brought to- Federal Control Expenditures, Bud. gether on the shelves under the particular gets country. Federal Control Cash Resources. I have stated that the work of the corpora, Federal Control Betterments and tion section is of most iinportance, but that Improvelnents while under Federal does not mean that we are not alive to the Control. interests of the other departments of the Federal Control Dividends Funds Trust Company. We try to bring to the and Payments Est, earnings on notice of the officers and heads of the de- stocks. partments items of interest in magazines We find this necessary to enable us to and gapers of especial interest lo thcm and locate newspaper clippings quickly and re- invite inquiries on all subjects, the motto duce the crowding of the separate flles. adopted being "Let your willingness outrun Our newspaper clippings are mounted on your obligation " sheets of manila paper cut to size and Magazines are elther bound and indexed stamped with the name and date of tho or clipped and filed by subjects. papers. The librarian has mapped out a study Municipal files are arranged alphabetically course for bond salesmen, a reading course by states with cities alpl~abeticnlly therc- for girls ancl a topical outline for the mes- under with an alphabetical subject sub- sengers and page boys All boolrs for these division. Books issued by municipalities are courses are of course supplied upon demand. classed under 606 for states and 610 for The staff consists of one girl in charge of citles wlth cleciinal notations for subjects the Corporation files with two assistants, and it is a question whether this may not be one assistant librnrian in charge of the more desirable for the files. In our case at economic and municipal flles, a stenographer least, it would be more consistent with our who also types the cards, two boys to clip arrangement of economic subjects. newspa1)ers and act as messengers and the Inasnluch as me did not expect to special- hbrarian in charge. Our accession books ize in foreign literature and reports we fol- show 2700 boolrs ancl ~ampliletscatalogued. low the plan of having all materm1 of a It is not the intention of Bankers Trust foreign country grouped together, rather Company to acquire a large library but it is than under the classified subjects, and have the intention to have a ~o~llectionof up-to- mapped out a geographical arrangement date material on live subjects carefully which it is to be hoped will prove suffici- classifled ant1 indexed and readily available ently elastic to meet whatever changes in upon denland: a library which can be con- geographical limits may develop after the sidered a real asset to the Company. war is settled With the hope that it may provoke discussion ancl criticism let me give an example of our plan as it is, I believe, unique, and has not been subjected to a "As the Newcomer Sees sufficiently lengthy test to prove its inade- quacy. Some one may have tried a similar It" plan and may be able to sound a note of The Bankers Trrut Company Library warning. The numbers 800 to 999 having been dis- BY ONA K. D. RINGWOOD tributed alphabetically by grand divisions, "Bring me all your filing material on U. K. China, for example, receives the number 861 5lhs of 1937." and books on China are classed as fol- "I want the rulings on Foreign Exchange lows : -- for South America." SPECIAL LIBRARIES

"About two rnontlls ago the Wall Street made UP mostly of volumes on financial and Journal had an article giving a table which economic subjects. Yet they are unlike in showed the amount due to the railroads a way that makes them supplement each from the government and from the railroads other to advantage. to the government, while you're getting that The Bank boolrs consist largely of general I would like addendum 13 to supplenlent 7 reference boolrs on banking, business, bank- to general order 34 and there is a decision ing laW, economics, etc., and of statistical about a man stealing from a box car that I reports. These books furnish the means for want." doing research work, and may lay claim to When these questions and numerous sim- some completeness. For example, the Treas- ilar ones came flying at my head during my ury Reports incldde the first Annual Report first days in a financial library I wondered of the Secretary of the Treasury on the why a public library llad ever seemed really State of Finance, made in 1814 for the years busy. There at least one could sometimes 1790 to 1814. Plan to look up material and report on ~t The Chase Bank Club books consist later. Here, with an eager statistician chiefly of single volumes on banking, eco- grasping a telepholle to answer some ques- nomics, and other subjects of interest to tion immediately or an important decision bank worlrers, especially to workers enrolled waiting for a tiny detail about a security, in coursas like those given at the American the material must be ready on the instant. institute of Banking and in the Chase After the first confusion cleared, when I Bank's Educational Department. In fact, had tried to familiarize myself with hosts partly because the Library affords students of financial phrases so that I might seem of in these courses so much aid, it has been average intell~gence,the ~nterestillgside of placed under the direct supervision of the it all became very evident. In my work Educational Commitlee of the Chase Bank with economic and municipal files some Club. clipping on coffee or sugar sends ~IY The committee strives not only to pro- tlioughts "Rolling down to Rio": railroad ar- vide students with such standard books as ticles give examples of every possible and those by Mill, Fischer, Taussig, Seligman impossi,ble plan which men have advanced and Seager on Economics, and those by for returning the roads to private owner- writers like ICnfCCen and Wolfe on Practical sl~il),while a statelnent that returning aliens Banking, but also as new boolcs on financial are taking back to Europe an average of matters are ~~ublished,they are perused by eight pairs of shoes for each individual, our Educational Committee and, if found inalres me wonder what I shall pay for next to contain new principles or theories or to year's shoes. amplify those already covered in our vol- Although our library is "strictly business" umes, are nddeil to the Library. questions dealing with general events of the Besides single volun~es,the Chaso Bank day or historical backgrounds for present Club collection contains numerous helpful day conditions come to us frequently. Tlie sets of books, including tliose issued by the usual amount of cataloging, accessioning, Alesander Hamilton Institute in its "&fod- filing, magazine recording and the keeping ern Business" series, the "Foreign Trade" of a simple circulation record fill in all tlle series published by the Business Training available chinks of time. Corporation, and "The Library of Law, Bank- A business librarian's assislant has no op- ing and Rusincss." portunity to regret the comparative calm or The two hundred or more financial inaga- a public library. Almost sooner than ~t zines received regularly by tho Banlr, are seems possible she forgets the original trim- also at the disposal of those who use the lnings of the Dewey Decimal system and Library. Anlong these magazines are many decorates its basic pegs with the classifica- printed allroad, such as "Tho Sltltist" and tion which has proved workable and flexible "The Economist." At present these foreign 111 her particular library. Afler that she publications are more than usually populnr worlcs and works, not losing interest-there because of the information they give in re- isn't time. gard to lahor and interior commerce in for- eign countries, as well as to the export trade situation. The menlbers of the various departments The Chase Bank Library of the Banlr are permitted to borrow books BY BESSIE GRIFFITHS and to retain them for two weelrs. They are encouraged to make free use of the Li- Librarian, Chase Bank Club brary, and also to bring their problems to Thc Chasc Banli Library is really two the Librarian for help in ~ecuringrefer- 1il)raries in one, since it contains a collection ences. Of thesc privileges they talc0 full of boolcs belonging to the Bank, and another advantage, ant1 rarely fail to flnd the nee(1- belonging to the Chase Banli Club. These e(1 boolr An average of about fifty books two collections arc! nlilce in that both arc. are continually in circulation. 132 SPECIAL LIBRARIES The American International Corporation Library

BY MARGARET E. WELLS, LIBRARIAN

The reader will note that I have not indi- geneml statistical information, maps, blue cated in the title to.this article the "type" prints, pictures, lantern slides, etc. library one may And at the American In- The American International Corporation ternational corporation, for to be perfectly was organized in November, 1916, but the candld it is rather dificult to do so. To be Library was not started in a systematic may sure, the library is connected with a finan- until the Spring of 1917, though it was in an cial concern, and one might rightfully call it embryonic stage before that time. You cun a "Financial Library," though this name therefore readily see that it is young among would by no means indicate its scope, or the other business libraries in the financial that of the Corporation, for the Corporation section of New York City. The work has is not only u financing Corporat~on,but one grown considerably within the last year so which directly or through its constituent that there has been the problem not only of companies tmdes, builds ships, operates organizing the Library on a sound and broad ships, constructs, invests, makes engineer- basis, but also of endeavoring to give satis- ing and economic studies, etc. T'o show the factory service at the same time. scope of the Corporation the following table When selecting books we have fouud the may be of interest, which tabulates the prop- following policy very effective,--not, adding ositions submitted from various sections of a book, solely because of its timely interest, the world to Amcricun International Cor- but because of its authoritative or reference poration in its first threc years: value, of which a sample test is-would we 70 of go to the book again for information or 1916 1018 Totnl Totnl Agriculture ...... 13s 65 330 Id 1 rather to its sources. It is astonishing how (Irrlgatlon, ~cclnmn- many titles have been eliminated thereby, tion tlmber fibre, and as a result, we flnd a collection of ap- su&, cntti~j proximately 2G00 volumes proving effective Blnnnclng ...... 93 0 127 6.5 (Lonna, publlc nnd for a great maj~rity~ofour needs. The cob prirntc Insurnnce) lection contains both domestic and foreign Mnnofacturinrr ...... 20 1OG 487 20.0 publications, government documents, re- (I n c 1 u d i'n g some propositions for thc ports, etc, and we always endeavor to se- hnndlinz of somc cure the original document rather than a rnnnufn

miscellaneous pamphlets on SUmGAR, it re- function of that Department to make Pre- quires little time, even for anovice; to obtain liminary summaries, and analyses when the information. In passing I might mention warranted, of all propositions coming to the the manuscript section, which is steadily Corporation, as well as to prepare memo- increased by the arrangement by which au- randa and reports on matters of interest to tomatically carbon copies of memoranda of the Corporation. an inforlnative nature come to the Limbrary. At the beginning of the paper, I mentioned we have 600 memoranda and studies of the fact that the Libraiy is still in its in- more or less complete nature, covering com- fancy. I have found it dlfflcult at times to modities, regions, businesses, and other sub- obtain all the information desired, lacking jects, in addition to the titles enumerated for instance, back issues of periodicals, sta- above. tistical repopts of foreign countries, and We find that the periodicals and news- once in a whlle previous issues of Govern- papers, both domestic and foreign, contain ment flocuments. My near neighbors have very valuable material. They comprise an been most generous and kind when r have important part of the work and are carefully called upon them from time to time. analyzed and indexed, after they are check- This necessarily has often called to my ed, then routed to the members of the staff mind the need of an endeavor, on the part which are interested in the particular sub- of librarians, to formulate some scheme ject or subjects. The back issues are kept whereby more co-operation may prevail in a definite time, after whicl? the ones not their field of activity. This broad idea has bound for permanent keeping are destroyed, been discussed several times at Library the indexed artides being removed and filed meetings, and as it is the work of librarians in folders alphabetically according to the to answer questions and to see that the fa- name of the periodical and then ehronologi- cilities are at hand to carry on their work cally. Right here I wish to state our apgre- satisfactorily, to know where to borrow such ciation of the help which we receive from additional matter, where to go for informa- the summarized information services such tion as may be beyond the scope of their as the Standard Daily Trade )Service and libraries to handle, it now seems the tlme the Federal Trade Information Service. for the Business Librarians to "get to- The catalog is a very important tool of getl~er." Why no t meet regubarly, familiar; the Library and of great service to the Cor- ize ourselves more or less with each others poration, for it not only. contains carefully collections, resolve to feel free to call upon analyzed references to boolrs, government one another if necessary, exchange acces- documents and pamphlets, but it also con- sion lists, etc? Even the following plan tains cards covering periodicals, maiiu- (and possibly other similar ones) might be scripts, maps and charts, pictures, reports, effectively carriea out and be beneficial to etc. many of us. Since the Journal of Commerce In connection with the reference work, (also the Annalist) makes no index, a co- the card index file of the Filing Department operative one might be worked out, each of' the Corporation is consulted for material, Library taking a section of the paper. It this being another source to rely upon when seems to me that although the Business Li- seeking data, particularly so because of the braries have already proved their worth and informative memoranda bound with many of help, they have great opportunities ahead the propositions. for' expanding and becoming an important You may ask Who uses the Library? I factor in ,the business world, when the pros- And that everyone is making more and more pects for American economic prestige demands upon the Library, includiny the abroad seems 80 bright. members of the subsidiary companies. It not only serves an executive who may wlsh t.o obtain the best map of the world giving the steamship routes, or another offlcer who PubIications of the Educational wants a bibliography on Port Facilities of the World together with some of the more Committee of the Investment important books on the subject, but also a man who wishes comparative trade ligures Bankers' Association of the Philippine Islands with South America 1. Corporation Finance and Investment- and also with the United States, or a per- Outline of a course of study. son who is seeking material on the Cottrell Electrical Precipitation Process. The re- 2. The Stock Exchange Business-Outline quest for reading matter has been quite of a course of study with references. prevalent among the young men and women Prepared by Dr. S. S. Huebner. of the Corporation. Hence, a Traveling Li- 3. Individual and Corporation Mortgages, brary of the Public Library has been in- by Willjarn Lilly. stalled, the collection being changed month- ly. The Research Department is the great- Published hy Doubleday, Page and Com- est single user, naturally, because it is the pany. 134 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

3. "Aids to Magazine Routing Systems." Convention-I 0th Annual Meet- Edith Phail, Librarian, Scovill Mfg. ing of the Special Libraries As- Co., Waterbury, Conn. sociation at Asbury Park, 4. "Aviation-as Applied to the Indexing of Aeronautical Literature." New Jersey, June 24, 25 F. L. Faurote, Mgr. of Dept, of Educa- and 26, 1919 tion and Sales Promotion, Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corporation, New PROGRAM York City. First Session - Tuesday Afternoon, Group C - Representing Commercial and 2.30 P. M., June 24, Palm Financial Librarles Room, Hotel Monterey 5. "How the Sgecial Library Can Help Address by the President. Build Industry." Guy E. Marion, Director of Record F. M. Feilier, Editorial Director, Section, Coniinunity Motion Picture McGraw Hill Company, Inc., New Burean, New Yorlc City. York City. Report of the Secretary-Treasurer. 6. "Some Whys and 130~sof Our Library Caroline E. Williams, Librarian, Experi- -and a Few Don'ts." mental Station Laboratory, E. I. Leon I. Thpmas, Editor of "Factory," Du Pont de Nemours & CO., Wil- Chicago, Ill. mington, Del. 7. "The Literature of Foreign Trade." Report of the Editor of Xpccial Libraries. DT. E. E,. Pratt, President of E. E. J H. Friedel, National Industrial Con- Pratt & Company, Inc., New ~ork ference Board, Boston, Mass. City, Former Chief of U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Reoort~- - of-- t.he---- Ekecutive Board. J. H. Friedel, National Industrial Con- ~~i~dsession - ~h~~~d~~ ~~~~i~~, ferenco Board, Boston, Mass. Reports of ~ommittees-~embersl~ip-~u~r- 8 P, M., June 26, Palm Room, VAV.. --. Hotel Monterey New Business. Papers-Group D-Representing Municipal Appointment of a Nominating Committee. and Civic Libraries Adjourninent to the Formal Program 1. "Good Government and Better Citizen- Papers-Group A-Representing General ship via the Civic Library." Interests of All Specialists Dorsey W, Hyde, Jr., Rlunicipnl Refer- 1. "The Obligations of the Special Libraries ence Librarian, New York City. Association." 2. "The Library and the League of Munici- John Colton Dana, Librarian Free palities " Public Library, Newark, X. J., First Homer Talbot, Execntive Secretary, President of the Associat~on. New Jkrsey Stnte League of Munici- 'palities. 2. "Documentation in the F~eldof Rehabil- itatinn of the Disablecl." Group E-Represent~ng Welfare and Indus- Dounlas LIchlurtie, Red Cross Tnsti- trial Libraries intc for Cripples, New Yorlc City. 3. "Humanitariailis in Industry." (Illus- 3. "Lil~rtiry auf Statistic11 Work with the trated with Slides.) Prudential " Gertrude Beeks Easley. Director Wel- 11'. S. Crum, Asst. Statistician of fare Dept. of The National Civic l'rudel~i~alInsurnnce Co., Newark. Federation, New Pork ~ity. ;v J 4. "4mericnnization by Indirection." (11- !. Discus~onand Adjournment. lustinted wlth Motion Pictures.) Leslie Willis Sprague, Industrial Serv- Second Session--Wednesday Afternoon, ice lhvision, Community Motion Picture Bureau, New York City. 2-30 P. M., June 25, Lounge, 5. "Indnstrial Arcidents anrl the Library's Hotel Monterey Part in Their Reduction." Papers-Group 8-Representing Engineer- Estelle L Uebmann, Libranan of ing and Technical Libraries National Worlimen's Con~pensation 1. "Special I~ihrariesand Lhe Large Refer. Bureau, New Yorlc City. encc u~l~rwies." Fourth Session-Friday, 9.3o A. M., E, Il. Tweedell, dsst. Librarian, John Room (to be. announced) - C1rerais Library, Chicago, Ill. 2 "A Terhnolo~yDegartment as a Busi- Hotel Monterey ness Invcstment." Business Session to conlplete all unfln- D. Ashley Hooker, Technology Librari- islied bnsmess of the Convenlion. an, Detroit Public Library, Detroit. Election of OfRcers. I\lichiqan. Adjournment. In addition to this more formal part of Special Libraries the program* a nupber of exhibits have been planned. The business meetings will pro- Published Monthly except July nnd August duce much of interest and importance. Editorin1 OfEcs Never before has the Association stood on 108 Jeraey St., The Fenwey, Boston, Mase. so solid a footing; never before has it re- garded the future more hopefully. Ten years ago we were looked upon as a handful of Entered nt the Post OWce at Boston, Mnss , US uecond clnss mntter. Acceptnnce for mmulling at enthuslasts Today our memhrship roll is the spccinl rnte of postnge provided for In sec. one at which we can look with pride, and tlon 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, aothori'mcl Juue Bpecial Libraries is read in every part of 10, 1019. the United states, while our list of subscrib ers includes individuals and institutions On Subscriptions (10 issues) ...... $4.00 a yenr every continent Single copies ...... W.W Ten Years ago we were men and women Correspondence with reference to contributions with a new idea. Today that idea is directly to Special L~brnrresshoulcl be addressed to the affecting all library endeavor and will tend Editor-in-chief. in time to revolutionize it. For the special Subscriptions, npplicntlons for membership in library is sound, and, in spite of the dispar- the Specinl Librnriea Associntlon, nnd remittnnces should bc sent to the Secretnry-Trensurer. agement of unprogressive forces, the idea will grow, gaining in vlgor and in force. The whole field of human activity lies before us, SPlCIAT, LIBRARIES dSSOCIATION for wherever men do things there the spe- President ...... Guy E. Marion 3 Stnte Street, Boston, hInssnchusetts cial library has a place. Yip?-President ...... Wdwnrd A Redstone The widespread endorsenlent of buslness Mnss. Stnte Library, ~deton,Mnssnchusetts men and others who at our suggestion have Secretnry-Treawrer...... Ct~roline E. Wtlllnms adopted the special library into their work lxperlment Stntlon. sliould only stirnulate us to increase our en- E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del. deavors in this respect. Let us reach out into EXECUTIVE U0.4RD tliis wider field in which we have already Presldent, Vice-Freaiclcnt, Secrclnry, Trensurer, proved our value. The greatest opgortuni- J. IT. Friedel, Boston, illass. ties for service lie before us. May this con- Miss Edith Fllnll, Wntcrbury, Conn. vention help us to sense our responsibilities and opportunities more closely and give us new inspiration in the good work we are SPECIAL IJBRARIES doing. Editor-ln-Chief...... J. EL FRIEDEL ASSOCIATE EDITORS Agrlculturnl and Government Libraries h Library Endowment Cliiribel R. Barnctt Stnte LiDrnrjes...... Ilorbert 0. Brlghnm NO librarian should overlooli the open Rl~sincssnnO Cornnlercinl Lihrnrles. .Mary B. Dsy meeting of the Council of the A. L. 4. at Binnncinl Llbrnrl~s...... Elln M. Gcnung which is scheduled for discussion the ques- Tccl~riologicnl nntl Engincerlllg Lil~mriefl tion of raising an endowment for the work Edwnrd D. Groonlnan of the A. L, A As an affiliated association Theologicnl nnd Blne Arts Llbmrles and as rne~nbersof the American Library Mnrg A. Plllsbury Association, we cannot regard this pro- Lnm Libraries...... Edwnrcl IK. Rodstone posal except with the gravest concern. On the one hand there is the desire to render increasingly useful library service, on the other the question of how to do this. EDITORIALS If it is agrced that there are some tasks or problems peculiar to all libraries ancl which these libraries because of insufficient funds The Convention of other reasons, cannot enter usgon, hut Everything is in rearliness for the Con- which through combined acticn worilcl be rention of the Special Libraries Association renclered l~ossible,then it is ob~ionslyde- at Asbury Park. The program, as printed sirable that some jomt effort sllo~ldbe made in thc May issue ancl as reprinted elsewhere toward the solution of these prolklenis. Shall with sl~ghtallernlions in this issue, has the A. L. A. beronle tliis central agency? It won the cntllusiastic approval or librarians, is an flllportant question of policy illvolving both within and ouisicle our association. a radical step. Important as the addresses to he clelivered ~t present the A. L A. 1s depe~lclei~tupon are, the niorc ~mportantand desirable part its lllelllbers for all fullds to CarrY On Its is the iliscusfiion Only in so far as the worlc. Dissatisfaction with the work of the papers arouse and stiinol:~te discussion can officers or of the Associatioll Call, if other they Le hel11Cul. nlealls fail, be expressed through cancella- SPECIAL LIBRARIES tion of nlembership and withdrawal of dues ever the judgment of the present year's or 6ontributions. It is a salutary check and work, the editorial staff goes before tile con- the most effective in the hands of members. vention conscious of the importance of the Whether an endownlent will tend to loss of task entrusted to, it by the last convention this recognition of responsibility and tend and hopeful that it has contributed' some- to develop an association run by the few and thing to the well-being of the entire special careless of the opinions of the many is well libraries movement. In the middle of our worth consideration. term of office, the subscription rate was The American Library Association is not doubled, yet only two individuals cancelled today the national association of American their subscriptions. During the year the librarians which it should be. Its officers number of subscribers has been increased are drawn almost entirely from the public by one-third. This, indeed, has been the libraries and the viewpoint of the special most encouraging sign of progress. librarians is strangely unrepresented. The Our aim has been not only to improve the War Library Service is, we are told proudly form of special librar'ies but also the content. by those in charge, being carried on today as In both of these directions notable changes a special library service. Yet not a special have been made. The May number, ror ex. librarian is included in the management of ample, was the largest ever issued. In con- the War Service. If the American Library tent, we have aimed to encourage new con- Association is to be regarded by all of us as representative of all librarians of the tributors, but. througl~out'the aim has been United States then it must include in its always to get the best for our readers. counsels and in its activities representatives In the business management of the maga- of the special libraries. The Special Libra- zine, the same opportunity for constructive ries Association, the American Association work existed and here, too, great improve- of Law Libraries, the National Association ment has been made. An extensive exchange of State Libraries, the various aections of list maintained for no apparent reason was special libraries, are surely important immediately cut off, An unsatisfactory enough to be given consideration. If the A. publisher's contract entered into in 1917, L. A. continues to conceive itself as nar- and showing little business judgment was rowly as it has, then there is obviously room terminated amicably to our great advantage. for an association that shall be both na- Wastes of all sorts have been eliminated. tional in scope and inclusive in representa- This has made possible various savings to tion. Such a steg, if forced, would indeed the Association. The editorship ha8 been be a calamity. But it should be realized that important as the public libraries are, there with us a trust and in every instance we are several thoutsand . special libraries have discountenanced the ulse of Specid equally desirious of having the national as- Libraries for personal advantage. sociation expressive of their viewpoint. It The editor wishes to express his sense Of is time that the offlcers shall not be drawn obligation to his associates for their aid on exclusively from among the public libraries. various occasions. Some of the associate It is an American principle as old as the editors have done more, others less, but all Republic that taxation without regresenta- have shown a good, helpful spirit and, had tion is tyranny, and the A. L. A, composed of they been able, would have given the~selves the best in American librarianship today and up entirely to the service of the magazine. drawing its support from public and special To Misses Barnett, Day, Genung and Pills- librarians shorild and must have a larger bury and to Mr. Greenman our obligation is conception of itself and its obligations. perhaps deepest as their assistance was Otherwise the endowment, fraught as it is greatest. To Miss Williams, secretary-treas- with serious consequences, must become a fund managed by a few for the few. The urer, ever ready to, assume any task no mat- A. L. A. needs the support and counsels of ter how onerous, the editor Peels also deeply all but it should remember that one cannot indebted. Every officer, every member has, recoive with a closed flst; you have got to whenever approached, willingly and cheer- open up. fully sho,wn the most commendable spirit It is hoped that a large number of special of helpfulness. It is this spirit that has librarians will be present at the meetings made possible many of the improvemex~ts of the Council and that they will give vig- inaugurated. It is .this spirit that we have orous and unmistakable expressions of their tried to interpret in our year's work opinion. Let us not go back to where we were last year. There is still room for great change. The editor is, with the Executive Board, the The Selection of a New Editorial most potent force for constructive effort in Staff the Association. The choice of a new editor This is the last number to be issued unaer is one of the important matters before the the direction of the present editor. What- convention. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

A Library in a National Bank

BY SARAH HALSTEAD, ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN National Bank of 'Commerce in New York

A. library in any institution or business The reference work in this libmrary is in- house will not be a general one, but will creasing with great rapidity, an interesting have for its purpose the selection and care commentary on the tendency of the Ameri- of only such material as will flnd a deflnite can flnanciitl cbmmunity to utilize the most use in the work of the institution. So in the modern and scientific metliods of securing library of a national bank, on account of a information. Some inquiries are made by deflnite need and also on account of the telephone, some in person and some by value of space, only such books as have messenger. Practically all questions requiro speciflc use are purchased. The national imnledlate answers so that the catalog must bank of today is so different from the bank be exhaustive. All magazines which are of yesterday that the scope of woslr is lcept on file are read for material, which broader than one might at flrst think. should be analyzed in the catalog. They are The Library of the National Bank of Coni- also read for material of interest to speciflc merce in New York was organized in Sep- persons and degartmonts. tember, 1917, as a part of ,the Service De- It is not possible to measure the activities partment of the bank. Its aim is to gather of a library of this type by circulation. The and organize material of a commercial and nmin task of this library is reference work statistical nature to serve every department and, as indicated above, all material in it of the bank, as well as its customers. It is strictly technfcal in character. It is avail- also promvides educational reading for the able not only to the various del~artments employees of the bank. General books on for their actual working use, but to em- economics, flnance, business law, commer- ployees who deeire to read for self-i~nprove- cial and industrial development, slid year- mat. It may be of interest to note that books of various sorts are ~urchased,but circulation of books and magazines is now most of the purchasing of books is done only nearly 1,000 per month, while clippings and on a definite request or when a definite need pamphlets are literally circulated by the becomes evident. Magazine subscriptions thoasand. are made in the same manner. Statistics are The work is of n most exacting character, kept on the use of periodicals, so that any as not only must the replies be immediate unnecessary ones may be eliminated. but they must be specific and the scope of Government publications, such as those business of a great commercial bank Is such of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- that almost any type of inquiry may be, re- merce and the Bureau o,f the Census are of ceived across the library desk in a day. For great use, and with the increasing possibili- instance, it may becosme necessary to know ties for foreign trade, it is being found in detail the governmental regulations re- necessary to have the e.conomic and statis- garding exports or imports of the Uniterl tical documents. of many foreign countries. Stataa or some other country. Full flles are This collection is well under way. maintained on subjects of this type. It may The magazine list includes economic and be necessary to go 0xhaustively into the banking magazines, trade journals, as well powers and duties of some governmental as a few of general type. The trade journals body, such as the British Boarcl of Trade are found especially useful for the statis- Inquiries apparently trivial in character may tical material they publish. be of great importance, such as the exact Besides the collection of books and maga- equivalent for a foreign name in another zines, a clipping flle is maintained, which language than that in which it is ordinarily is found to be of great value in answering seen. Inquiries as to the minutest details reference questions. To keep thls file up to of statistics of production of commodities, date, financial and daily papers as well as and import and export data are frequent. many magazines are clipped. This material This, in 'brief, outlines the wo& of a is arranged in an alphabetical subject lile, library in a national bank. The success of the clippings being placed in large envd- such a library is measured by its capacity opes bearing the heading assigned. Con- to handle with speed and accuracy inquiries tinual supervision is kept over this file to technical in character and of the widest eliniinate all superfluous material. possible range. 138 SPECIAL LIBRARIES List of References on Women in Agriculture PREPARED BY THE LIBRARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Charles R. Green, Librarian AMHERST,MASSACHUSETTS

The references are classifled under the Cranston, Mary Rankin. How I bought my following headings,. the titles in each group farm. Outlook, 100:92-96, Jan. 13, 1912 being arranged alphabetically by authors: Cranston, Mary Rankin. The mistress of Overlook farm, Subulrban Life, 17:133, General Mecllanics Poultry 147-148, Sept., 1913. Beekeeping Cranston, Mary Rankin My beginning as a Dalrying ,Bibliography farmer. Collier's Weekly, v. 47, no. 25, Education Flction p. 21, Sept. 9, 1911. Forestry History Crow, Martha Foote. The young woman on Horticulture Organization the farm. N. Y. State College of Awlcul- ture, Cornell ~eading-Courses,v. 3, no. 63, References on Women in Agriculture May 1, 1914. GENERAL Davenport, E. Shall the farmer's wife pitch Aglionby, A. Mary. Women's work on the hay? Country Gentleman, 83, no. 8, p. 15, land and its possibilities. British Review, Feb. 23, 1918. 12: 357-366, Dec , 1915. Demeter's daughters: the women of the field. Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic effects of Craftsman, 31: 116-122, Nov., 1916. the war upon Women and children in Devenhom, Alice. Women on land. Wom- Great Britain N. Y., Oxford Univ. Press, en's Employment, 16:4, Jan. 21, 1916. 1918. p. 63-67. Devon women volunteers work on the land. Bates, Blanche An actress and her farm. Women's Employment, 16:4-5, Nov. 17, Country Life in America, 16:491-494, 638- 1916 639, Sept., 1909. Dlaclt. William. Scottish women farm Bird, &I. Mostyn. Gardening, dairy work, workers. Englishwoman, p. 210-223, poultry raising. In Womnn At Work, p. 96- March, 1915. 102. London, Black, 1911. Diaclt, William Wonlen and farm work, Borlase, W. Agricultuml de,monstrations by Englishwoman, p. 1-2, April, 1916 women in Cornwell. Journal Board of Diack, William. Women farm workers and Agriculture Great Brltain, 23: 139-143, May, a minimum wage. Enghshwoman, v. 34 191 6. no. 102 p. 190-195, June, 1917. Bradley, Ed~thand LaIvIothe, Bertha. The Doyle, H. W. She farms alone. Country lighter branches of agriculture w~than in- Gentleman, v. 83 no 32 p. 36, Aug 10, troductlon by the Countess of Warwick. 1918. London, Chapman, 1903. 346p (The Woman's library v. 6). Druclrer, Amy J The new farm labourer, British women entering agriculture. Sur- Englishwoman, p. 49-56, July, 1916. vey, 38:526, Sept. 15, 1917. Drysdale, William. Agriculture and floricul- Brownell, Edith. Countryside women want. ture. In Helps for ambitious girls. p. ed. Countryside Magazine, 24: 250-252, 395-419. N. Y., Crowell, 1900. May, 1917. Emerson, A. N. Women as coonerative Bussard, Odette Les femmes, l'agriculture farmers. Women's Employment, 14 1, et la guerre La Vie Agricole et Rurale, Nov. 6, 1914. Ann. 7 p. 361-366 May 26, 1917. Forbes, Eilidh Hays. The way in which Central Bureau for the Enlploynlent of women can assist agriculture and the in- Women. Farming and horticulture. In creased production of food during the The Fingerpost: A guide to the profes- war. Jour. Rd, of Agric. Great Britmn, sions and occupations of educated women. 22:929-931, Jan., 1916 p. 94-114. London, ed. 3, (1908?) Forward to the land. A woman's success Cockrell, T. D. A. War work of college on the land. World's Woi'k, 26: 118-119, women in the west School and Society, May, 1913. 6: 699-705, Dec. 15, 1917. Geddes, Alice Spencer Helen Holmes of Cornstock, Sarah. The lady and the land. Hlllholm Farm. Suburban Life 15: 133- Colliers, v 45, no 21, p 20-21, 24-27, Sept. 134, Sept., 1912. 3. 1910. Geer, C. T. Out of the lritchen into the ~ranston,Mary Ranltin. Fourteen acres and fields. House Beautiful, 44:184-185, Sept., freedom. Suburban Life, 16:25-26, 46-48, 1918. Jan., 1913. Gildersleeve, Virginla C. Women farm SPECIAL LIBRARIES

workers. New Republic, 12: 132-134, Sept. Hayward. Victoria. "Foreign" women who 1, 1917. work for Canada. Canadian Maga.zlne Gray, Grace Viall. The woman on the farm. 62: 553-563, Nov., 1918. Farm Engineering, v. 5 no. 8 p. 14, Aug., Hockin, Olive. Two girls on the land, war- 1917. time on a Dartmoor farm. London, Ar- Great Britain Bd. of Agriculture. Country nold., 1918. 158p. creches. Jour. Bd of Agric., 24:1001, Dec., A holiday in the highlands in Amgust, 1917. 1917. Spectator, 119:378-379, Oct. 13, 1917. Great Britain Bd, of Agriculture Employ- Ireland Dept of Agric. and Tech. Inst. ment of women on the land. Jour. Bd. of Women agricultural workers In Germany. Agric., 22:1312-1315, Mar., 1916; 23 :143- Journal, 17.225-241, Jan., 1917. 145, Mag, 1916. James, Harlean. Cutting loose from the city. Great Britain Bd. of Agriculture. The Country Life in America, 19 :158-160, Dec., French agricultural labour problen1.- 1910. The work of the French peasant women. Joor, Harriet. The winning of a honiestead. Jour. Bd. of Agric., 23:l-2, Apr, 1916. Craftsman, 27: 436-440, Jan., 1916. Great Britain Bd. of Agruculture. Lincoln- Keyes, Helen Johnson. One woman and a. shire creche to release women for farm farm. Technical World, 23:795-796, Aug., work. Jour. Bd. of Agric., 23 : 146-147, 1915 May, 1916. Great Britain Bd, of Agriculture. Success- Klinclr, Mrs. Fannie M. My interest in agri- ful employment of women in agriculture. cultnre. Missouri St. Bd. of Agric. An- Jour. Bd. of Agric, 22:1006-7, Jan, 1916; nual Report, 1916,,p. 549-562. 23:75-76, Apr., 1916; 492-3, Aug., 1916; Landman, M. V. Women farmers. Cornell 1249-1252, Mar., 1917. Countryman, 11: 479-602, Mar., 1917. Great Britain Bd, of Agriculture. Testing Loines, Elmrt. A course in estate manage- farm women. Jour. Bd. of Agric., 24:691, ment for women in war time. Ney Coun- Sept., 1917; p. 785, Oct., 1917; p. 881, try Life, v. 34 no. 1 p. 66-67, May, 1918; Nov., 1917; p. 1449, Mnr., 1918. pt. 2, 1)oveloging timber land and water Great Britain Bd. al' Agriculture. Women's power, v. 34 no. 2 p. 61-63, June, 1918; work in agriculture in peace and war. pt. 3, Balanced farming and development Jour. Bd. of Agric., 22:859-866, Dec., 1915. of arable land. v. 34 no. 4 p. 56-58, Aug., Great 13ritain Bd. of Agriculture. Women's 1918. work on the land. Jour. Bd, of Agric., McICay, G. L. Women as agriculturists. 25:716-717. Sept., 1918. I.Io&rd's Dairyman, 56 : 890-891, Jan. 17, Great Britain Bd, of Agriculture. Women's 1919. worlr on the land. Jour. Bd, of Agric., MacKenzie, Cameron. mlgland's farmer- 25: 839-841, Oct., 1918. ettes Couatry Gentleman, v. 83 no. 9 p. Great Britain Bd. of A~riculture.- Women's 6-8, 48, Mar. 2, 1918. work on the land. Jour. Bd, of bgric., MacICenxie, Cameron. Putting England's 25:995, Nov., 1918. acres to work. Country Gentleman, v. 83 Great Britain Bd, of Agriculture. Work of no. 5 p. 14-15, 37, Feb. 2, 1918. women on the land. Jour. Bcl. of Agric., McLaren, Barbara, Miss C. E. Mntlmson 23: 876-879, Dec., 1916. and the village land worlrers. I11 Women Great Britain War Department. Women's of the War, p. 2G-30, 114-117. N. Y., Doran, war worlr. London, 1916. 1918. Greig, G. A. Women's worlr on the land. Martineau, Alice. An assured future for London, 1916, 48p women on the land. Englishwoman, p. Grosvenor, Caroline. The question of 128-134, Aug. 1915. women in agriculture. Spectator, 114: 809- Marvin, Gertrude L. Earning of women in 810, June 12, 1915. rural life. Woman's Athenaeum, 9 :27-28. Hall, A. D. The Cooeition of women in agri- (Some of the opportunities in agriculture.) culture. Jour. Bcl. of Agric. Great Britain, Mendsen, 13. V. B. Two women and a farm.. 25: 785-796, Oct , 1918. Fruit Grower, v. 28 no. 2 p. 67, Jan. 15, Hamilton, Ida. A contented woman farmer. 1917. Suburban Life, 11:392-393, Dec., 1910. Meredith, Virginia ' C. Women farmers. Hamlyn, Sylvia Calmady. A woman's farm Breeders' Gneette, 67: 853-854, Apr. 29, 1916. in Devon. Jour. Bd. of Agric. Great Merritt, E. Farnl work of women in mar Britain, 25: 834-839, Oct., 1918. time. Address before the National confer- Harmon, D. Is the woman needed on the ence of state leadcrs of home demonstra- farm? Ladies Home Journal, 35:1OK, May, tion worlr in northern and western states. 1918. 8 p. mimeographed. (U.S. Dept. of Agric. Harriman, Grace. Successful holdings Por States. Relations Service.) ladies. The crucial elements. 15 yrs. ex- Moulton, Robert H. Intensive farming for perience of the author of "Tomato and women. Craftsman, 28: 610-613, Aug., 1915. fruit growing as an industry for women." Night farming by women in England. Scien- Harrogate, Aclrrill, 1904, 4313. tiflc American, 118-341, dpr. 13, 1918. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

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The following courses of interest to Libraries and Child Psychology are nlso to special librarians are being given this be given. summer: A meeting of librarians interested in ac- Columbia Unzversit~l,New York.-"Index- cident prevention literature is to be held ing, Filing, and Cataloging as Applied to at the Ilotel Monterey during convention Business," Irene Warren, Director Chicago week Those wishlng to attend should get School of Filing and Indexing. in touch with Miss R. Louise Keller, at tho New York State LiBrar~School.-Seven- Independence Bureau, Philadelphia, or at teen lecturcs on social problenls growing out Asbury. of the war. Mzmicipc~l Rc~ctence Noies Tor April 30, flzmmons Co1lcge.-"Library m7ork with 1919, has a list of boolrs on various aspects Children," by Miss Hazeltine. of the heallh problem entitled Guzde Posts on t7te Road to Health. The list is prepared Riverside (Gal.) LiBryy Service Bchoo1.- by Miss Sara L. Hnlliday, Librar~nnof the "The Business Library, by Mary E. Day, Public Health Division of the hIunicipa1 Librarian National Safety Council; "OfRce Reference Llbrary, New Yorlr City. Dorsey Filing," Mrs. M. B. Rolls, Friends Central W. Hyde, Jr., Librarian, writes an Introduc- School, Philadelphia. Lectures on School tion to the list. 146 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Community Catalogue as a Sample of lishers of the different entries, perhaps it may be possible to get from then1 the names Library Coordination of subscribers or recipients that have the It is obvious that we can hardly hope to publications available.) solve the great problems of labor, cost of living, peace of nations, and general sanity, Aeroplane-Published in London, begmning unless we are in pursuit of fact. In the case in 1911. of librarians this means, among other things, American Medical Association Chemical collecting and collating sources of accurate Laboratory Reports-(Chicago). information so that these will be available American Oil Journal-Published in Kansas when needed. City,.". - of which Volume I began March 20, A source of information in which libra- 131'1, rians should take deep interest is that of American Palnt Journal-Possibly a contin. the local availab~lity of periodicals and uation of American Paint and Oil Dealer. serials, their current issues and their back American Poultry Associations-Proceec1. ~umbers. To make a catalogue of such ings. First issue in 1915. availability calls for painstalring persever- Amer~canSociety 08f Railroad Superintend- ance in getting at sources which often al- ents-Proceedings. First year 1881. most defy tho seeker. American Society of Sanitary Engineers- Specifically I have in mmd the commun- (Proceedings) . ity catalogue that 1s being made at the American Zinc and Lead Journal. First Boston Public Library by Mr. T. J. Honler, number dated August, 1916. of which a section containing the entries It would be particularly satisfactory if that begin with the letter A 1s likely soon these could be located before the entries to be published. This morlr is impressive under letter A go to press, so that the first in scope and accuracy, and yet, with all the section, when published, mill contain them compiler's patience and care, there are still all. In any case, this article is of a propa- many publications thaL he has not as yet ganda. nature, intencled to stimulate interest succecclecl in locating in this vicinity. Why? in the general need for illstrict catalogues Partly because of the apathy of the co- of available serial publications; and the operntprs; their lack of vxion and of focus; writer hopes that at Asbmy Park there will their failure to see as of immediate im- be a determination to give far more atten- portance the gathering of information which tion to such sources of information than the world at large deelns only of speculative has hitherto heen shown. If we librarians importance. can impress upon the rest of the world Tt would hardly interest librarians outside that we have prepared such sources of in- of the Boston district to read a lengthy list fornlation on all things, the rest of the of the "unlocated" serials, but the following world w~lllook upon us as live business few may be of interest as typical of what people whose reward should be commen- are lflrely to be "at large" in any district surate with thal of the banker, the railroad where such a cat.alognc is being made. The man and the highly pair1 experts generally. very fact of this gap in a11 otherwise well- Hov can we do better than to begin with nigh perfect catalogue emphasizes the need the Community Catalogue? for co-operation 111 these details. This need G. W. LEE is, I hope, somethi~fglibrarians generally will soon recognize. Ask yourself how many An excellent and very comprehens~ve times you would have almost given your eye bibliography on Alwnzi?~u?nant1 Its Light teeth to know where a certaln publication dllmj,s may be found in circular 76, issued can be borrowed, and then cons~derwhether by the U. S Bnrcau of Standards, April 21, you mould not be interested in the actual 1919. construction of a catalogue that would an- ticipate wants of this Bind. It sometimes The City Planning Board of Boston, hiass., seems as though the interest in putting has just issued an excellent survey and com- through such a catalogue (on the pnrt of prehensive plan for the developn~ent and the many) was almost in inverse ratio to inlprovement of I'71c North &?1c1 A limited the intensity of the desire to flnd a publica- number of copies are available for distri- tion when the pressing demand arises to tion. make use of it, Nultiply these light sam- ples by several hundred and you have n Economic Geology for May 1919 contains fair idea, of the omissions that are likely a Babliogral~hz~of the Occwrence, GeoZogy to exist for lack of due co-operation when and Nin. 121.g of Manganese wit 7~ some Ref- the work mill have been brought to a finish. erences o?e its 1MetalZlwg?j und Uses compiled Here is the list of serials for which it is by Mr. Ilarold L. Wheeler. librarian of the desired to know the availability and corn- Missouri School of Mines, Rolla, Mo. Re- pleteness of sets in the vicinity of Boston. prints may be obtained by aclclressing the (By sending a copy of this list to the pub- author at the above address.

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