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Special Libraries, February 1937 San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1937 Special Libraries, 1930s 2-1-1937 Special Libraries, February 1937 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1937 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, February 1937" (1937). Special Libraries, 1937. 2. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1937/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1930s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1937 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Oliicial Organ of th5p.cial Librrrhs hsocistion Special Libraries "P~/tting Kno wtedge to Work " Behind the Tools of Industry ....... Ethel llf. Fair Public Affairs Pamphlets - An Experiment in Adult Education Margaret Barry Important Books of the Year - A Symposium by Correspondence . The Use of Services in a Business Library ...Marian C. Manley In Memoriam ................. Dorothy Clough; George S. Maynard; George Ritchie Marvin; Mary Elizabeth Hyde. S.L.A. Goes on Record .............. Conference News ................ Board Meeting Notes .............. Making a Budget ............... Over the Editor's Desk .............. Letters to the Editor ............... Hearings! - Ruth von Roeschlaub; A Worth While Vacation - M. C. Brace; A Regional Survey of Special Collections - Fannie Sheppard; Subject Headings Again to the Fore! - Sarita Robinron. Publications of Special Interest . : ..... Free. ................... Indexed in Industrial Arts Index and Public Affairs Information Service FEBRUARY 1937 VOLUME 28 NUMBER 2 6 .* SPECIAL LIBRARIES MARIANC. MANLEY,Editor Vol.- 28, No. 2 February, 1937 Behind the Tools of Industry1 By Ethel M. Fair, Director Library School, New Jersey College for Women OME time ago a General Electric Behind the Tools of Imlm~ryStunds &he S advertisement carried the caption: Library. Behind the Tools of Industry. The ad- One might argue that a better version vertisement showed a mass of steel being would be: Behind the Tools of Industry turned on a lathe and fashioned by means Stands the Scientist. This is true. The of precision tools into an essential part of scientist is the agent through whose mind a valuable machine. The caption together and hand the knowledge is applied. The with the General Electric name left no scientist is familiar with the knowledge; doubt as to the meaning of the picture. he knows how to use each bit; he has ex- The mass of metal in its rough unshaped perimented with each known fact or law state was worth only a few dollars. Re- in its relation to other facts or laws. He shaped, the same metal became a valu- even discovers new facts to add to the able instrument. And the lathe had done store of human knowledge. But, after all, the job. Behind the lathe was electric it is only a certain portion of the sum of power. total knowledge of a field that any scien- But even more than power behind the tist or scientists can keep in mind or at lathe was knowledge. This knowledge hand for immediate use. From the vast which was required to understand elec- store of imformation in any field an in- tricity, to manufacture this power, to dividual can keep at his immediate com- smelt the iron and make the steel, to mand only a small portion. It is necessary design the precision tools that fashioned that there be a system of organization the valuable instrument, -was in itself and selection of the whole so that the ineffectual. But assembled, organized individual, the agent who is to use the and properly applied, it drew the speci- knowledge, may call for or extract just fications for the lathe, it harnessed the that portion pertinent to his immediate electricity, it approved the quality of the need. steel in the mass and it determined the Therefore, I say, that the General use to which the finished product was Electric caption truly amplified will read: to be put. Belcznd the Tools of Industry Stands ihe It is this organized knowledge which Library. The Library, that center for the we should consider. I would like to bor- assembling and organizing and dissemi- row the caption used by the General Elec- nating of information, of the materials tric Company, amplify it slightly, and out of which everything great in this use the name to express our work, since world is fashioned. Once in Milwaukee a 1 baed on a lecture In a courae sponsored by the New Jersey Chapter of the Spcaal Llbrarlea A~oaatlon,Newark. Aprll 2, 1936. 40 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 28, No. 2 distinguished scholar from abroad was take charge of the accumulation. Too being shown through the public library. often when the owners of this mass of He had been taken through the busy accumulated print realize the confusion departments where the public belongs, into which the material has fallen they the impressive rows of volumes and finally call for help from the nearest assistant. was left with the Head Cataloger to fill The nearest assistant is often the private out the allotted time of his visit. The secretary or the correspondence file clerk. Cataloger with rare vision undertook to This able secretary or clerk then finds explain her work, - that portion of himself burdened with a new task for library work usually hidden behind which he has not bargained and for closed doors, performed (as far as the which he has no adequate preparation. library borrower is concerned) by faith- With the help of the expert in the field ful silent workers. When the Cataloger he undertakes to set the mass in order. had finished her story of delving into the The expert's familiarity with the mate- contents of volumes and of picking out rial is needed. Anyone working success- the keys to the contents, and indexing fully with the confused, and confusing them, the distinguished visitor gasped mass must be able properly to identify and said, "Why everything that is im- the component units of it. The secretary portant in the world comes across your himself may be an expert in the field or at desk!" Nowhere else in the world is there least mav be familiar with the terminol- such a channel into which all knowledge ogy. But knowing how to identify the is forced to converge. Everything of even units, knowing how to use each unit when passing importance in the world gets into identified does not imply that knowledge print. And if in print it will be assembled of how to organize each unit in its re- into the library organized to receive it. lation to all others in such a manner that So across the library desk comes every- it will be possible to locate and extract thing that is important in the world. the item when wanted. The librarian is to the unorganized In the past twenty-five years the collection of information what the chem- demand for factual information has in- ist is to a composite substance to.be creased by leaps and bounds. In 1904 Mr. analyzed; what the doctor is to a chart Dana first pointed out the importance of of symptoms; what the scholar is to the this factual information that was stored undeciphered hieroglyphics of a clay away in printed pages. He put his under- tablet. Each item is recognized, classi- standing of this significant fact into oper- fied, recorded and indexed so that its ation in the form of the Business Branch significance in relation to the other items of the Newark Public Library. In 1909 is understood, so that it is properly pre- he brought together a group of librarians served for later examination, and finally interested in making this factual material so that it can be located, and extracted, more available and the Special Libraries and used at any time when called for. Association was formed. There are today, So our interest in the librarian, and in - 27 years after Mr. Dana's christening his education is justified. His preparation of the infant movement, - approxi- demands, and deserves the utmost care, mately 325 special libraries in the New and adequate courses. York Metropolitan District alone, ac- Too often the information in print cording to the Special Libraries Direc- accumulates like a flood, floats this way tory; 1935. and that, settles in heaps and even grows With the passing of the depression, in- old and dirty before anyone is found to dustrial, manufacturing and commercial February, 1937 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 4 1 activities, to say nothing of the political tion in schools and colleges. The chosen groups, - have increased and are seek- field is followed through course after ing much needed information on new as- course. The student majors in electrical pects of old questions, engineering, in chemistry, in history, in Thus the demand is created for a staff architecture, in political science, in mod- of agents qualified to organize existing ern languages, or in biology; or more and currently appearing literature and to highly developed specialization, - medi- select pertinent information. cine, theology, archaeology. If a clerk has been put in charge of Accompanying this major interest are organizing a collection of prints, such a certain basic or related fields. English is clerk follows a system set up by someone basic. Unless an engineer can express familiar with the literature, its organiza- his meaning clearly, accurately and per- tion and potential use. And for a time suasively, his knowledge must (as far the clerk may seem to produce the mate- as his efforts are concerned) remain a rial satisfactorily.
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