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"Getting What You Haven't Got" Fifteen Questions on Copyright Answered Four Great Newspaper Libraries Enquirer News New York Herald-Tribune Washington Star Problems of One-Man Libraries A Symposium

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ARTICLES Four Great Newspaper Libraries Cincinnati Enquirer. By Harry Pence...... 2 76 Detroit News. By Ford M. Pettit ...... 273 New York Herald-Tribune. By D. C. Rogers 27 1 Washington " Evening Star." By C. Fred Cook 270 Getting the Thing You Haven't Cot. By Will Conrad ...... 267 Problems of the One-Man Library. Akron Beacon Journal. By Joseph Sheridan 282 Camden Courier. By Irene Swencicka ...... 28 1 Dayton Journal and Herald. By Ethel L. Harper ...... 278 Decatur Herald. By Nettie S. Lindsay ... 2 79 Sheboygan Press. By Marion Koch ...... 279

CONVENTlON Conference of Newspaper Group...... 288 Questions of Copyright ...... 289 Review of Newspaper Group. By Agnes J. Petersen 269 DEPARTMENTS -NOTES Associations .....29 1 Civil Service...... 284 Dr. Lapp's Address ...... Editorials ...... 286 285 Financial Exhibit. 277 Events and Publica- International Library

tions ...... 293 Congress- ...... 292 Ohio University Li- lnstitu tional Members 264 brarians, , ...... 269 Personal Notes ... 295 Serving Seafaring Men 277

Special Libraries Published Monthly September to April, bimonthly May to August by THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION

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All payments should be made to Mrs. H. 0. Rrigham, Executive Officer, 11 Nisbet Street, Providence, R. I. October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Institutional Members California Michigan General Motors Corporation, Detroit

IMissouri Connecticut Kansas City I'ower- 8.z Light Cornpan)., Yale Univerbiiy Library, New Haven 1<.1ns:~City

Delaware New Jersey Ju PonL de Ne~nours,E. I., Wilmington New Jersey Bell Telephone Conlpany, Newark Newark Public Library, Business Branch, Newark Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, Allyn, A C. & Co., Chicago Newark Byllesby & Co , H. M.,Chicago Standard Oil Development Co , Elizabeth Chicago Tribune, Chicago New York Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Chicago Alexander I-lanlilton Institute, New York Insurance Library of Chicago American Bankers' Association, New York Long Co., The W. E., Chicago Anierican Electric Railway Association, New *Rosrnwald Indust rial M useurn, Cllirago Y or lr American Geographical Society, New York Indiana An~ericanInstitute of Accounlants, New York Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., Fort American Management Association, New York Wayne An~erican Museum of Natural History, New York Maryland American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Consolidated Gas, Electric Light Sr Power New York Co., Baltimore American Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Library, NaVYork Massachusetts American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Law naker Lihrary----I-Iarvartl School of Business Library, New York Administratioli, Association of Life Insurnl~cePresidents, New J3ofiton Elevatecl Railway, Bostor~ l'ork Boston Globe, Boston i3an ingion Associates, New York ('hristian Science Monito~,Hos~on Baker cY. Taylor Co., New York Erlison Electric Illuminating Co., Bnston Barton, Durstinc & Osborn, New York Federal Reserve Bank of Bosto~~ Beeler Organization, New York First Nniionnl Bank, Boston Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York Insurance Library Association of Bosl on Blackman Co., New York Jackson 8 Moreland, Boston British Library of Information, New York Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Li- Brooklyn Edison Company, Brooklyn brary, Cambridge Brookmire Economic Service, New York Metcalf & Eddy, Boston Child Study Association, New York Old Colony Trust Co., Boston Cleanliness Institute Library, New York Social Law L~brn~y,Boston Combustion Utilities Corporation, Long Island Stone & Webster, Boston City

*New members joined alnce last iuue of flpmeial Librarirr. SPECIAL LIBRARIES OcLobcr, 1928

Pennsylvania Armstror~g Cork Co., IAIIC~L~~CI Franklin Institute, 1'Iiil.itlelpllia I-Ioughton, E. F Jt Co., I'h~liitlcll)h~a Jones & Laughlin Stccl Co~npany,l'iltsburgll New Jcrsey Zinc Co., Palme~tori 1'Iiilarlell)hi;i Collegr of I'l~;ir~~~ilry.~ndSc.~enrc, l'illl~l~lcl~llllti I'li~latlel~~lii,iElcrtrir C~II~I~I~~II~.,l'l~iI,itI~lpIi~;~ l'l~iladel~~lii~~1<<11)i(l '~IISI~ ('OIII~I~ y, l'liila- tlelphl,l RlcCall Co~np;i~ly,New Yo1 1.: I'ittsburgli K;iil\\.ays C'onip

OCTOBER, 1928 No. 8

This month we present the story of the Newspaper Group at the Washington Conference. Next month comes to you the stories of the other groups; the Commercial-Technical, the Finance and the Insurance. As we approach the close of the year the lnagazine can again resume its routine, can give mcreased space to the Departments, can present a few articles especially written for SPECIAL LIBRARIES and carry out the editor's policy, something of interest to all of our readers. Thc next number will outline plans for future issues. What do you want the magazine to give you? Tell the editor

"Getting the Thing You Haven't Got" By Will C. Conrad, Editorial Writer of the Milwaukee Journal.

(Lee A. White, editorial executive of The Detroit News, answered at the Toronto confcrencc of the Newspaper Group, the question: "\Vhat does the Editorial executive expert of the newspaper library?" And briefly his reply was summoned up in these words: "What you haven't got." At the Washington confcrence of the Newspaper Group, \Vill C. Conrad, editorial writer of the Milwaukee Journal, replied to Mr. White's answer.)

N editorial writer, so I have seen only to find, when at last you got the A somewhere in your records, question defined in understandable answered the question, "What does the terms, that the request was easy to fill. editor want?" by saying, "Manifestly, The editor, the reporter or the editorial what the librarian hasn't got." That writer not only got his information reply of Mr. White's, as I understand but he got you to do his thinking for it, was the casus belli for this paper. him. Such an attitude is not fair to the But before proceed I should like to newspaper librarian. It is not eve11 fair answer the question that was pro- to the institution for which both you pounded to Mr. White in my own way. and the fellow worker who is lnalring My answer is, "Half the time the editor the request are trying to be of service. doesn't know what he wants." That It is simply putting a handicap on the goes for newsmen as well as editorial library which it should not have to bear. writers. If I were a newspaper librarian again, Of course that is not meant quite as I was before I was demoted to literally. The news worker is conscious editorial writing, I think I should borrow that he wants information or materials. a leaf from furniture advertising and But in all too many cases he has not put all over the place some such placard spent any time in figuring out just what it is that he needs. He asks a hazy as this: "You think out your question, question and puts the burden on the we'll answer it." And I think I should librarian. You are familiar with that sit up nights devising other ways and type of problem. You have all chased a means to lead people to do their own will-0'-the-wisp.request for half an hour, thinking before they asked my services. 268 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928

But I would not lay the blame for true value. Then you will find that the this situation wholly on the news or attitude toward the newcpaper library editorial department. Part of it lies at is changed and that many of the prob- the door of the newspaper library. How lems you now have will disappear. the library is also at fault I shall try to And if I should suggest anything ~OLL make clear as I develop my second now have that you should get rid of, observation. I would say,--Banish all trace of an The newspaper library is the youngest inferiority conlplex. Assume that your sister in the family of journalism. You department is an integral part of the have been all too conscious of your newspaper, a part without which it youth. You have shown a deference to could not [unction, and proceed on that the older departments, almost an awe of assumption. More than that, preach it them, that has kept you from taking the to others. rightful place you should have. You are making progress in that With just a bit of an inferiority com- direction. Perhaps the most iniportant plex, and at the same time wanting very step you ever took to accomplish that sincerely to be of aid, you have at- end, was when you people of the various tempted to give service no matter how newspapersmof the United States found much you were handicapped. You were a community of interest and decided willing to take the vague question and to meet for a solution of your problems. struggle with it, glad only when you were By that step you revealed to yourselves able to rcason your way out of the fog the importance of the newspaper li- and answer it, and thus escape a possible brary. And you found your conception observation from someone that "the strengthened by your associat.ions. It library service is rotten " was then you began to grow into your Now that isn't your attitude and true stature. But there is no reason why that isn't your rightful place in the you shouldn't force the grol~ingprocess scheme of things journalistic. The news- just a bit. paper library is in existence because To make my story short, the thing journalisn~has changed. The old hap- you haven't yet got is not something hazard days in the prodt~ctionof news that can be defined in terms of en- are gone. News, today, is a continuing cyclopedias and tomes of reference. story. The newspaper is contemporary It hasn't much to do with your totals histoty. The news story of this issue of clippings and cuts and mats and hitchec on to the news story of last issue, photographs. It isn't anything material and forecasts that of the next. It con- at all. It is merely a definition of your tains all the facts that are necessary to own place in journalism and a realiza- make the situation intelligible to the tion of how important that place has reader. become. What makes that possible? The When you have done that, you mill newspaper library. It has become the have yet one more step. It will be your repository of the materials from which further task to demonstrate to others the news story, and the editorial if you the importance of that place. They please, are built. It has become the most have drifted into the new era without important factor in the news plant, the realizing the change that has come. very center of that plant. They are making use of the library with- So if I should suggest to you the out understanding that it is the pivotal one important thing you should get point. of the news establishment. So that you haven't got, it would be this: it is your mission to lead them to see Get a realization of the fact that you that without the library the modern are an integral part of the newspaper, news policy would be impossible. equally as important as any department When you have accomplished these that has come up through the evolution two objectives, your battle will be won of journalism. And when you have it, and you will have, not one thing, but a devise ways and means to get it across good many things that you haven't so that others will estimate you at your got now. October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 269 Review of Newspaper Group By Agnes J. Petersen, Chairman, Newspaper Group

It is both pleasant and gratifying to were signers of the petition for the welcome you to the sixth annual meeting creation of this Gro~~p.All four were of the Newspaper librarians. Gratifying outstanding in the new profession to because I believe the stage is set for a which we have the honor to belong. successful and profitable meeting. Pleas- We pause in recognition of their work ant because we can here renew our as- and in regret at their passing, sociations and helpful discussions of our The work of the year has included own problems. some notable local gatherings which From the skandpoint of growth, in- cannot but he of assistance in promoting crease in prestige and professional in. newspaper libraries. One of these was teresk, the year has been outstanding for the New York get-together dinner of the Newspaper Group. We have added November 7, when the librarians of that 29 new members, making a total of 82. city met for a discussion of their prob- %7e have carried to many newspapers of lems. 0ther31essextensive meetings have the country, their managing editors and been held. This is a part of the new librarians, a knowledge of the aims and spirit. purposes of this organization. That Rut as we enter upon our sisth year message seems to have created a very we are also conscious of the tremendous favorable reaction in behalf of the amount of work yet to be done. lye have Newspaper Gro~lp,and to have added been five years, it seems to me, building to the recognition of the part that the our foundation. \?'e are ready now for library plays in newspaper work. We the structure that is to be reared on that have found in our own associations a foundation. We are ready to shape our new spirit and a new helpfulness. profession in such a way that the large When I recount these things I am library will be more certain of what it is conscious of the debt I owe to all you doing, the small library will be aided members who have aided so materially. in buildlng up the service it must give, It has been your year and your ac- and all alike will increase their depart- complishment. And I am conscious of mental standing as integral parts of the what we all owe to Special Libraries newspaper plant. To the outlining of Association for its co-operation. It such a program I invite your attention has been generous in its budget to us, and I trust that our mutual discussions making possible the reprinting of the here will be the beginning of its realiza- questionnaire report and the carrying tion. out of other plans. It has stood ready to grant the adjustments which we asked for, such as the extension to three clays of the program we now have before us. Ohio University Librarians As the parent organization it has shown The Ohio Association of College, University much interest in the building up of the and Normal School Librarians (Josephine Cush- Newspaper Group. man of Akron University, President; Mildred During the current year or im- Semmons, Ohio Wesley an University, Secre- mediately preceding, the newspaper tary), hcld its first meeting at lhe I-Tote1 Group has lost four outstanding mem- Commodore Perry, Toledo, Ohio, on October bers. \Villiam,Frederic Berry of the 19. The topics for discussion ivere "Special Christian Science Monitor; Walter E. CollecLions and Reference Resourccs in Ohio Murphy of the Boston Post; Charles University Libraries:" "The Training of B. Maugham of the St. Louis Post- Teacher-Librarians;" and "Opportunities of Disfintch; Wilbur F. Coyle of the Study Open Lo Members of the University Baltinzorc Sm-these will be with us Library Stalf." Dr. Works, Dean of thc no more to ofer their counsel and help- Graduate Llbrary School of Chicago University, fulness. Mr. Berry and Mr. Murphy was a luncheon speaker. SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928 Four Great Newspaper Libraries

/ The l~brariansof four newspaper libraries, located in Cincinnati,

I Detroit, New York and \lJashington, described to the Newspaper Group 1 the work of the hbraries over which they presided. These libraries might be called typical, but accounts of a dozen other prominent newspaper libraries in the country would probably show the ! same degree of efficiency as is indicated in the stories that follow.

The Evening Star's Library transportation, any volume, illustration, or inforlnation we need, and do not possess. We By C. Fred Cook, Librarian operate in closest harmony with the public I-IE Library of The Evening Star-The library and with the officials and members of T Sunclay Star, U'ashington, D. C., is not a the staff there. Any information the public circulating library, nor a library of fiction, nor library may need, such as the date of publica- even n library, in the recognized sense of the tion of anything that appeared in The Star, word. It is, fundanlentally, a bureau of in- thc intercstcd official there does not hesitate formation for the menhers of the staff ol The to call for it, from us, and me respond as Star. That was the intention of the manage- quickly as possible. mcnt in founding it and that is the view of the '%'e are in an unusual, but fortunate man,lgenlent at prcsent. But w~ththis ex- position-our location, here at the National planation, I shall refer to this department of Capital. Not only the public library, but the The Stnr, as I proceed with this paper, as thc Lil~raryof Congress, that magnificenl I~uilding "library." crectcd at ;I cost of $5,000,000, is at our im- The library of The Star has barely learned nled~atecall. Thcn, we have availahlc the to nalk, and has not yet started in kinder- libraries of thc various Government Depart- garten. It was estal~lishedonly a few years ments and the many spccial libraries here in ago, I\ hen the building we are now in was re- Washington. It is not even necessary to write ~noclelied, following the completion of what a letter and await a reply by mail. A telephone we rcfcr to as the "new building"-a ten-story call usually brings results. For maps, we have addition to Thc Star Building. the U. S. Geological Survey at hand. One reason--and an important one-why With all thc resources, refcrrecl to, available, we are a bure;~~~of information and not a real it mould astonish you to be told, in detail, library, is that lie are in vcry close official, of the number of calls we receive from the sentimental antl physical touch with the public outside, for infortnation. The general public, library of tlic District of Columbia. Mr. in most cases, turns to The Star lor anything Theodore iT Soyes, editor of The Star, is it wants to know. Persons call us, mvariably really the father of the Public Library of the it seems, whcn a call direct to a Government District of Colunlbia. Oficially, he is the Department, or an institution, or an individual, founclcr, was thc first presic!cnt of its Board of would produce an answer, accurate and satis- Trustees-is thc only President. He was largely fying, and in Inany cases more quickly than we responsible for the legislation which brought could give it. The Star's question and answer the library into belng, and is, of course, vitally department is cond~~ctedby the Frederic J. intcrcsted antl concerned in its maintenance Haskin Information Bureau, as a business and betterment. proposition. A statement to that effect is The main building of the public library is not published daily in the question and answer more than six city blocks iron) th~soffice. column, with the information that, by calling A telephone call will bring to us within a few a telephone number, which is stated, any minutes, by special messenger, using motor questions submitted will be answered. Not- October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 271 withstanding, we, in the Library, are kept busy scription. This miscellaneous file we find to be answering our telephone, and endeavoring to of real value. It is growing rapidly. reply to questions propounded by that means. We maintain, of course, a file of biographical We have a great deal of correspondence along data which is extremely important, and of the the same line. We endeavor to treat the public greatest value. This file is made up not only with the utmost courtesy at all times, whether of the notable residents of this city, but of the we are called on in person, by letter, or by world at large. telephone. Our department of illustrations, or cut de- We are provided with all manner of en- partment, is located so as to be immediately cyclopaedias, year books, standard almanacs, responsive to the call of anyone in the News "Who's Who," biographical works, books of Room. We regard it as thoroughly modern and fact, dictionary,of dates, books of quotations, complete. It is on this floor, only a few steps phrases and proverbs, histories of the National from this room. Capital, the City of Washington, the District There are other features of this department, of Columbia, and the complete records of the but I will not go into them because they are Columbia Historical Society, gazetteers, atlases, peculiar to The Star and would be of no maps and other works of similar character, in interest to this group of newspaper librarians. great numbers. The bound volumes of The As a matter of statistics, however-and I New York Times Index we find of much value, have noticed that your reports and question- at times, as an aid to our own index. We have naires cater to statistics-perhaps I should city directories for maiiy years back, and at mention that our force is very small. I have the other end of the telephone, the office of the one assistant-an exceptionally efficient one. directory publisher, where they have directories This is necessary, of course, because one person of many of the cities of the United States. could not be on duty continually during office Right here I would like to say that the hours. Illness overtakes the most healthy of us Public Library recently opened to the public a at times, and it is also necessary to pause during collection of Washingtoniana, which is of un- the day for lunch. But one or the other of us is usual interest and value to us, and should be actively on duty at all times. In addition, we to the public in general. We expect to make use have one indexer and one index copyist, whose of it often. activities are largely confined to the duties We conduct an index, making a permanent mentioned. If need be, one or the other of them record of everything in the way of news that is answers the telephone, or responds cheerfully published in The Star. Each news item is to any request rnade by anyone connected with indexed as to the date it appeared in The Star The Star. and the page on which it may be found. Just across the hall, in the file roorn, are the bound volumes of The Star back to December 16, 1852-seventy-five years ago-when The Star The New York Herald-Tribune first made its appearance. Because of this index, Library and the bound volumes of the paper at hand, By D. G. Rogers, Librarian we have not adopted an elaborate system of clipping and filing everything that appears in HE New York Herald- Tribune, as well as The Star. My experience as city editor dernon- T other foresighted publishers, found it strated to me, overwhelmingly, that a system of necessary to provide modern methods and filing clippings, even on a small scale, very equipment where research for facts could be soon becomes cumbersome. So far, in actual carried on side by side with the publication of practice, we have found our nlethod of indcxing its great newspaper. Our library gathers and and keeping the bound files at hand to be has ready for prompt reference all the informa- entirely satisfactory. We do, however, maintain tion which will be of use in expanding, explain- a file of miscellaneous information, consisting ing and interpreting the daily news stories of clippings, not only from The Star, but from and Sunday features, as they reach the various all newspapers that come to hand. It will editors' desks. require only a moment for any one, or all, of The main purpose of the old "morgue" was you to glance at this file of n~iscellaneous to compile obituary ~naterial of prominent clippings, and you will understand it much people so when they died a comprehensive life's better, at a glance, than you could from any record might be recorded. Obituary material words I might attempt in the way of a de- is still an important item in our daily routine, 272 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928

but it is secondary to other more important Classification of the subject news is vital, functions. Re have prcpared many hundreds for on it depends the coherence of the system of advance obituaries of prorninenL persons and and the certainty and readiness with wliicli national figures, or those 1\1h0 have becn material can be procluced nhcn rcquestecl. featured in the news. Many of these sketches Reporters are constantly dem~ntlingfacts 01 are put in type and held until death calls for confirmation concerning every subject imagm- its use. able. Wc wanL information about pcople more We woulcln't be su~prisecl if one of them for ~tsvalue in connection wllh some current queriecl us as to whether a "warnpus" walked achieve~nentnnd some ncw public interest or waddlecl; or what Ixcame of 1-Iouse Bill in them today, while they are alive, than for 4-11-44 for the conscrvat~onof sitle\vlnclcrs or tile single and final use in obituaries. Our re- horned toads. If u.e replietl "no rccorcl," he porters, if they are mise, consult the library would doubtless danin US \nth:--"I-Iell, what files bcforc going after an interview, to get a rotten morgue." But scriously, The New light on the interests, achievements and York Hernld-Tribz~e reference department characteristics of the person to be interviewed. aims to g~vc100 per cent service from 9 A. 11. The leads thus obtained often develop front to 4 A. M., every day in the year with a staff page stories from what otherwise would be of nine, working different shifts. The library merely second rate matter. Our subject file is cloor is wide open to all our valious depart- the development of h~storyfrom day to day. ments,-with no red tape, no standing in line Through our clippings me are able to follow at a barrecl'door. The young reporter with the progress of any tnovement and to present an ass~gnmenthe is quitc hazy about comes to a history of this movement while it is still us for help. After a little talk on the subject, growing and before it is either old enough or more frequently than not we send him away stabilized sufficiently to be put in book form. happy with the required fact. You must get The New York Herald-Tribzmc Sunday in close contact with applicants for information department features many special stories by ~f you are to thoroughly understand their writers whose function it is to explain and wants Our reference department effects a interpret the news. Much of their time is spent large annual saving in telegraph and cable tolls, on storics which develop the personality of by providing the background and facts in- some figure prominent in theday'snews or gather adequately dealt with in telegraph and cable scattered threads of many months and weavc copy reaching the editor's desks. a concise account of a political, economic, labor The Paris edition office of the New York or scientific situation; or use the knomleclge of Herald-Tribune has bound volumes of the the past to point the possibilities of the future. Herald Tribme. Stories of intcrcst to Europe, To make all th~spossible we have an adequate breaking here and havlng former news con- reference library of several tl~ousandvolumes, nections are easily handled ~vithsmall outlay two separate though closely coordinated files, of cable tolls. The new facts are cabled and a the biographical, with half a million individual reference to date page and column in their folders, the subject index with about threc bound files is given which provides the neces- thousand general subjects and subdivisions. sary background. These files contain every plece of news con- Just a few words as our system of filing. cerning the individual or subject that ap- Unfortunately we have not as yet installed peared from various news sources which come an accunlulation index, the one and only to the notice of the library staff. Many of these permanent record. At present we depcnd records date back forty years. Our clippings entirely upon our clipping file. The latter wh~le are obtained from every responsible metropoli- functioning very satisfactorily will, as time tan newspaper, exchsnge and foreign papers, passes, be weeded out and that record lost. magazines and pamphlets. Lurid sheets are Each clipping we handle is dated with an not clipped for they too often subordinate automatic dating stamp and also carried the facts to sensation. Such clippings if used to base name of the paper or periodical from which it a future story upon, might cause serlous em- was obtained. A two-foot specially made rule barrassment to our paper. The work of each is used to cut papers. We find the rule much member of the library staff is laid out on definite faster and superior in every way to scissors. lines. Each worker specializes in one duty, Our biographical files are seven-drawer steel while being familiar with the general work of cabinets. The drawers are divided into two the department. sections, holding 5 x 8 folders. Each drawer October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 273 holds apploximatcly 1,500 folders and ex- Four by six cards are used. Thcre is a card for pansion envelopes. Clippings are filed in the each envelope in the subject file cabinets. folders in alphabetic order wlth notation as to Cross-reference cards are placcd in the same profession, ctc. If the person is very prominent card indcx. It is easy for anyone even if un- in the news thcir folders ,\re subdivided into familiar with the file, to find a given subject various subjects. To illustlate:- by going to the card index. To illustrate: A Coolidge, Calvin ...... President reporter asks for material regarding "Campaign General, Addresses, Appointments, Armament, Expenses." Going to the card index we find Aviation, Budget, Cabinet, Coal Situation, a cross reference card reading:-"For clippitlgs Congress, Farms and Farmers, Financial on campaign expenscs and funcls," See:- Policy, Foreign Loans, Foreign Policy, I-Iealth, Elections:-Campaign Funds; Also-Congress: Immigration, League of Nat~onsand World - Senate - Investigations - Campaign Ex- Court, Lettcrs and Telegrams, Merchant Ma- pcnses. We then go to cabinet and under sub- .rine, Navy, I'residential Nomination, Oil Land ject of Elections and Congress-Scnate will Leases, IJardons and Pdrolcs, Pensions, Per- find the sub-divisions wantcd. sonal, ISrcsidential Candidatcs 1924-28, Pro- Until a subject becomes active enough for clamations, Prohibition, Railroads, Sltctches, an envelope the clippings are filed in the Sold~ers'Bonus, Tariff, Taxation, Vetocs, War "General" envelope of the subject. If the divi- Veterans. sion grows the material is taken from the In the same may Henry Forci has probably "General" envelope and a separate sub-division twenty or thirty sub-divisions. Many others of thc subject is made. As envelopes fill up, are sub-divided to a lesser degree. Colored the clippings are put in cl~ronological date or cards are used for cross reference. When people name order and placed in the transfer files. dic their folclers are removed from the regular The envelopes holcl clippings Four colurnns file arid placed in a separate cabinet together wide and clippings are filed in one, two, three with death notice or obituary filed in the folder. or four colun~nshut in date or name order. The date of the death is indicated on front of It has been said thc editorial department the envelope for quick reference. The subject is the brains of a newspaper. Well, if that system used is particularly adapted for news- statement is true, the reference department is paper use, being simple and flexible. Each file the memory of the brain. Any newspaper that unit is of steel, four drawers, correspondence still retains the old "morgue" with all its size. Envelopes used are 9 x 11, open at top gloomy traditions is in the same class with a only, so clippings may be filed without re- mental defective. We try to maintain a cheerful moving the envelope. Headmg for card index atmosphere in the library so our customers and folders run in alphabetical order fro111 A to will call again. The more denlands for facts Z, with a great many subjects and sub-divisions. from the staff the more accurate the printed To illustrate:- news will be, fewer news corrections, greater Accidents, General, Asphyxiation, Automobile, assurance against libel and a superior news- Aviation: General (with separate envelopes paper will be produced that will rightfully for big disasters such as the Shenandoah), enjoy the confidence of the reading public. Baseball, Boxing, Buildings, Drowning, Eleva- tors, Fires: General (with separate envelopes The Detroit News Library for famous fires), Football, Hunting, Industrial, Mining, Railroads General, Railroads: Grade By Ford M. Pettit, in charge C~ossings, Rapid Transit: General, llapicl NE of the early problems in the building Transit; Elevated Roads, Rapid Transit: Street 0 of the reference department of The Delroil Railways, Rapid Transit: Subways, Runaway News, and I presume of every newspaper Horses, Shipping: General (with separate attempting a sim~lardepartment, was that of envelopes for big marine disasters), Storms. supplementing the clip files with the bound Many of the hundreds of subjects are finely volunies of our paper. Ctippings often are lost, sub-divided to preclude the necessity of long either permanently through carelessness of research for an article called for. Some subjects persons borrowing material, or temporarily have only two or three sub-divisions while through misfiling. Obviously these clippings others like Agriculture, Congress, Crime, can not be replaced after the edition in which Diseases, Medicine and Ships have 25 to 100 they appeared has been out of print any length sub-divisions. The card index is the key to our of time and the files must remain incomplete subject files and the cross reference its heart. unless we can make use of the bound volumes. 2 74 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1918

From 1919 to the end of 1926 an attempt was protection against error and loss of material, made to solve this problem with the use of a but it was cumbersome, bulky and costly of loose leaf ledger system, with convenient operation. It was the last resort in research, alphabetical divisions. Each day the paper was because of the time which was sure to be wasted marked for filing, then indexed on the loose in poring over the heavy volumes for informa- leaves, with a one-line, typed summary of the tion which might not even be given in the brief item, the date, edition, section of the paper sunlnlary. and page and column in which it appeared. The card index seemed to be an ideal solu- Cutting and filing followed this operation. tion, except for the possibility that in time it From 1919 to January 1, 1927, we had ac- would occupy too extensive office space. All cumulated 15 large volumes, nine of subject the other problems offered by the ledger system clippings and six of biographical. At that time seemed solved in the card system and the the files were divided under biographical temporary value of so much of our files, it was subjects. Since then we have combined them hoped, would tend to hold down the size of the into one file, alphabetically arranged, with card files to a reasonable limit. The card marked saving in time and elimination of index system was established January 1, 1927. confusion. We use cards three by five inches, slightly This system was, at best, unwieldy and con- heavier than good writing paper. In the upper siderable time was lost in searching for material right corner is printcd the year. Directly which, though alphabetically filed by subject under it is a ruled line across the card. Above or name of person, was filed chronologicallp the line the classification is typed just as it within its alphabetical classification. Thus, appears in the clipping file. Below the line, when the time element was uncertain, it often at the right, is typed the day of the month, was necessary to hunt through several pages of abbreviated in its shortest possible form, the single spaced copy to find the material. section of the paper, page, column and edition Another difficulty was presented in the in which the item appeared. For convenience, matter of the cover changing classifications. we arranged that when no edition identification The department has been one of gradual followed the other figures, it meant that the development in which we largely had to feel item appeared in our second home edition. our way. As a subject grew, new classifications All other editions are identified by name. were necessary. And if the index were to equal Directly below, we type a summary of the item, all its possibilities, the changes in classification telling what a copyreader might tell in a hearl- should be entered there as well as in the clipping line if he had to tell the story in the head. files But to change classifications in the index We try to make it as complete as possible, was an almost impossible task. It meant without wasting words, so that the card can searching through one or more pages, erasing give the information and save the wear and and retyping. Or, if not that marking out items tear on the cl~ppings. One person marks all with blue pencil and typing them in elsewhere editions of The NEWS,thc other local papers out of chronological order, which made the and outside papers. Previously this was done task of research infinitely more difficult. It by as many as three persons and the result was such a large task that it was seldom done was that a running story might be found under and the result was that often the original as many as three classifications. Now we are classificat~on,under which an item was in- reasonably certain to find all material under dexed, no longer was a part of our files when an one tubject. Two persons are e~nployedon inquiry came for it. indexing the paper. There is an average of The same was true in the matter of correc- 275 cards a day and this task takes the major tions. Somehow, despite our vigilance, mis- part of their time. One, in addition to indexing, takes crept in, Mistakes are even made now marks magazines and pamphlets for filing. and I have no doubt that mistakes will be made The other has a part of the photograph file. in the future, though I hope to a smaller ex- It is our aim to have all editions of each day's tent. When the mistakes were discovered, paper marked, indexed and in the files before the page in the index on which an item should closing time of the day following publication, be entered, chronologically, had long since and we are holding closely to thie schedule. passed and either the item must be filed with- We are protected against illness and other out regard to time or several erasures made emergencies by having two persons whose and many items recopicd. The loose leaf work of revision and elimination can be dropped system was better than none. It offered some at any time to mark the paper, index or fill in October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 275 wlicrever needed. As a chcck on marking nncl Thc floor space occupied by the card file is indexing, the cards are gone ovcr each clay by eight and one-thircl square feet. We can in- one of the sl~illeclmembers of the staff before crease the files by 23 drawers without increasing filing. the floor space. That means 84 drawers in Two typcs of cards are used. A white carcl cight and one-third square feet, the cabinels indicates that the clipping is filed undcr the being 19 inches clecp with ;L lineal space OF 66 classification indicated on the carcl. A blue inches. The 84 drawers would hold approxi- card indicates tliat the clipping was not filed mately a four ycars' supply of cards. 4t the under that classification. The blue cards are end of 25 ycars, if no cards were cliscartled as used for indexing cartoons, deaths of persons obsolete, the file would occupy 34 feet of wall of minor prominence, stories by special witers space to a height ol five feet. But many of the when it is desirable to hare them available carcls can bc eliminaletl aftcr a Icw years, just under the name of the writer and, in general, as can the clippings, for many of the111 can have for any item not worth a place in the clipping no value beyond a few years And if necessary, file but for which there might be an inquiry the cabinets can lx built higher than five feet. The articles wr~tten by special writers are Now as to the valuc of sucll a file. The card indexed uncler the sullject matter of tlie articles indcs is mole than a substitute for lost clippings. on the white cnrtls and the clippings savcd It offers the quickest way of locating matter under tliat classification. The blue card uncler when there is doubt as to classification, for tlie the xriter's name nmcly gives us one Inore cards are conveniently grouped. When the source for tracing nlaterial. It saves space in correct classification is found, it is only a ~liatter the cl~ppingfile and serves also as a cross index of secontls to find Lhe clipping. more to thesdbject matter. And, often than not, the sulnmary, typed on the In rnarkq the paper, a Iduc cross tells tlic carcl, gives tlie inquirer thc inlor~na~ionwanted indexer that the item is to be intlcxecl on a blue and the Iiantlling oi clippings is eliminated. card All other markings are in black pcncil. Almost daily the circulation clepart~nentasks Just when the blue card is to be used 111ust Ile US for the publicat~ondate of an item someone left to the discretion of thc marker. At first wants to save. Thc card inclex gives us thc dale, blush it woulcl appear that this system in time ecl~lion,page and colunm on which the story would become unmicldy, that the mdcx \voulcl appcarecl. It takes but a few scconds. And the grow out of bouncls. Our 16 months' experience clipping, itsclf wo~~ldnot give all this informa- does not incl~catethat this is so. IVe have now tion. The clipping is stampctl with only thc 61 d~awersin use, each 17 inches deep. Our clate of publicat~onand the edition. Therc are cards take space at the rate of 124 to the inch, frequent telephone calls which we can answer esclusive of guides. We average about 275 quickly from the card index while the ~nquirer cartls a clay. Using that zverage, from the timc thc system was establ~shetluntil May 1 waits When a clipping is lost, and the lost matter IS worth copying lor the clipping files, of this year, 16 niontlis, we have filed 132,000 mc can locate thc story in the carcl file, bring carcls, liowever, we do not have 132,000 cartls out the bound volume ant1 cither copy or in the files. Ifre arc saving space by putting sun~~narizethe item. as many subjects as possible on each card. OItcn we can combine five or six cards into one. Tl~ercis one ilem that might bc ovc~loolted This plan not only saves space,-we have cut as a filc grows and that is keeping pacc with new down the file from 132,000 cards to approxi- guicles Last winter we found that it was taking mately 6S,000-but it provides an additiollal virtually all of one girl's time to file the carcls, check against etrors in indexing and filing ant1 though a year ago that task formed but n small groups items chronologically so that thcre is a part of one person's worlr. Wc bought 1,000 considerable saving in time. ncw guicles and inserted them liberally. We Until recently there was no systematic effort found that by placing thc guides at tlie end, to keep the cards doubled up. We had to buy rather than the beginning, of a subject, we new cases and there was prospect of lurthcr speeded up filing. Instead of from 5 to 7 hours, buying within a short time. Then we started it now takes from 90 millutes to two hours. doubling up the carcls. The job isn't complete When classificat~onsare cliangcd or errors dis- yet, but we have shown a saving of 50 per cent covered, the corrections can be made neatly in space can be macle. Some of the drawers ant1 quickly New carcls can be made out, the are less than half full now, none is fuller than old ones clcstroyecl and clippings and carcls nine inches where the doubling up process has always will agree on classification. The card been completed. index has proved a well worth while venture. SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928

The Cincinnati Enquirer The house carpenter built me a new set of bins, which we crowded into the already con- By Harry Pence, Librarian gested space. On an old Washington hand- ET me outline some of the vicissitudes press I made proofs of all the cuts on substantial L through which the reference department Manila envelopes large enough to contain all of The Enquirer has passed. Regardless of the the two and most of our three column cuts. merits of our system, mcthods and technique These were placed in the new bins in numerical I can claim familiarity with their evolution. order and in cases of duplication a mark was At one time The Enpirer's Reference Depart- made as a warning that the cut should be ment, NOT thcn so-called, comprised 40 paste- verified before using. Thcre were some 3,700 board boxes, 20 wooden drawers and a set of cuts, many of which I recognized. Many were wooden bins, or pigeonholes, on the wall. discardcd. I then transferred the book entries The entire outfit occupied a space of ten by to cards, pasted clippings of every day's illus- twenty feet in a hallway between the art- trations in a home-made scrap-book, numbered room and the engraving department ad and dated them in the scrap-book, on the cards straggIed out into the latter domain, the bins and on the envelopes in which the cuts were for cuts being along side an etching tub, open filed. It took several months to make the and exposed to dirt and acid fumes. transfer, but the job was finally done. The Most of the material, pictures, clippings, managing editor allowed nie to get new cabinets, data and miscellany. were filed in the paste- especially after I carried into his office one of board boxes. Two wooden chests of drawers, the paste-board boxes so tightly filled that also with doors and padlocks requiring different when turned up side down the contcnts refused keys, contained a varied assort~nentof local, to fall out. sport, dranlat~cand musical material. A year or so later the space prohlenl was I remember the first half-tone experiment The solved, sufficiently for the time. An annex Enquirer made. It was not an unqualified was added to the building and it was something success but though the half-tone had come to of a shock to the staff when two rooms in this stay, at least two-thirds of the cuts were zinc building were asslgned to my usc and the line drawings, portraits largely, without names. word "Library" mas neatly painted on the claor. The method of filing them was primitive. As I couldn't get along with the old equipment They were numbered on the back with etchers' any longer I offered to build something that asphaltum or India ink and dumped into the would do, and my offer \\,as accepted. A planing bins approximately 50 to a compartment, mill turned me out 84 wooden boxes and a after they had been listed in an index book carpenter frlend of more than average skill arranged alpliabetically, divided to the second put up the framework for them in two sections, letter. It frequently required quite a time to each 8 fect high, 7 feet wide and 18 inches locate the name in the book and then there \\as decp. The design was my own but I am quite nothing left to do but yank out and paw over certain we infringed a number of patents which the cuts till the one of the proper number lvas might have gotten us into trouble with manu- found or found to be missing. Such, in outline, facturers of file cases had they ever discovered was T?ze Enpirer's collection of reference the fact. The Enqiiirer paid me $120 for them, materials when I first became acquainted with completed and delivered, and they cost me it. $135, not counting the fitting of tHe hardware- The Sunday Editor was the late George drawer pulls and label holders-and the paint- Randolph Chester, afterward famous as the ing and finishing. These I did myself. creator of "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," who We had, by that time, progressed a step suggested that I seek the custodianship of this beyond the one-man stage. The editorial institution. My first revolution hacl to do with auditor handled the place on my night off the cuts. My first serious blunder, one of a long and I looked out for his work when he was series of unpardonable sins the memory of away Between times he helped rnc out as much which will always keep me from becoming as he could. This was a gratifying arrangement overly egotistical, resulted in the wrong cut and laid the foundation of an enduring friend- getting into the paper. Investigation revealed ship, but ~t didn't solve all my problems. So that it was the right number but that there far as scope of work, mcthods and system wele were two cuts of that number in the bin and I concerned I always had to play a lone hand. simply had to get my hands on the wrong one Of course I had thc full amount of unreason- first. ableness to contend with. Everybody wants October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 277 what he wants when he wants it, but newspaper rcfuse to be hu~riedwe lind ourselves busier edito~sand reporters want it a little Inore than we have ever been before and we are earnestly and loudly than anyone else and set actually enjoying it. up a bigger holler when they don't get it. Our new Library occupies practically five Serving Seafaring Men times the space of the old room. It is light ancl In chronicling the many library activities of airy. As our equipment was modern and still the country we have failed to give proper in good condition wc had but to increase it. attention to the American Mcrchant Marine Of course the moving ancl the rearrangement of Library Association, which maintains a library materials has meant work but they presented service for the personnel of the American no difficulties or perplexities. In one respect, merchant vessels. The service is also extended however, I find myself with a new and very to life saving stations, vessels of the United interesting problem on hand. Our equipment States Coast Guard, light houses, light ships includes book shelves and cases to accornmo- and tenders on the Great Lakes. The head- date approximately 5,000 volumes and we are quarters of the Association are in New York In the midst of assembling a well roundsd and City, but there are twelve distributing agencies serviceable reference library. Till now The at regional points on the Atlantic, Gulf and Equirer has not had the opportun~tyto acquire Pacific coasts as well as the Great Lakes. This anything that could be called a library. Books Association is an outgrowth of a similar ac- of certain sorts we have always had in reason- tivity conducted during thc World War and able profusion. I managed to stack up perhaps maintained by the present President of the 500 volumes. The managing editor, the city Association, Mrs. I-Icnry Howard, who is ed~torand a few others had cases of books in making the undertaking her life work. The their offices largely for scenic and decorative Association furnishes books to abo~rl two purposes. Many of then1 were valuable bul the thousand vessels in the American hqerchant others merely occupied space. Marine, in addition to the various other Then arose the question of how it all should agencies prevjously mentioned. The stock of be listed, catalogued and shelved. To simplify books is maintained by book drives in the the matter I compiled a subject list of ap- leading c~ties. The Dircctor in charge of the proximately 4,000 topics and then studiously enterprise is Dr Alfred E. Burton, former cut th~sin half. This I compared with the Dean of the hIassachusetts I~istituteoE Tech- classifications as set forth by the quaint genius, noIogy. RIelville Dewey. I had originally planned not Financial Exhibit to adopt the Dewey system of classification but A complcte financial l~hrarywas exhibited to formulate a method I fancied would be more by the Financial Group of thc Special Libraries practical for our specific purposes. Association at the Amcrican Bankers Associa- The field of human knowledge is broad, how- tion convcntion in , -4, ever. It overlaps strict boundaries. Division 1928. The colnmittee irt charge consisted of lines bccomc confused and no two persons agree Ethel Baxter, librarian, American Bankers upon all matters of classification. The fiftcen Association; Emma Boyer, librarian, Union divisions which I originally schedulecl soon Trust Co., Cleveland; Edna Casterline, li- grew to twenty-one and still I had not com- branan, Mellon National Bank, Pittsburgh: pletely surrounded the field. Dewey did so in and Florence Wagner, librarian, Wall Strecl ten major classes and though I have to smile Jownal. The exhibit, which was sponsored at some of his divisions and differentiations and financed by the va~iousbanks, was given I have found that my own classifications con- to assist bankers in obtaining the latest and tain an cvcn greater number of grotesqueries, most authoritative financial information. The with less excuse for their being. I have, there- exhibit, which was a model both in point of fore, come to the final conclusion that this equipment and arrangement, consisted of ready-made, time-tried system is well adapted representative financial books for reference and to our needs. general use, also filcs of newspaper clippings And the selection of new books has been far and samples of financial periodicals. In addi- removed from drudgery. We have not assumed tion, pamphlet material was exhibited showing that we knew it all. We have sought and still the best methods of filmg and the valuable seek helpful suggestions. We have changed uses of such files. A pamphlet containing a our minds from time to time and expect to con- conlprehensive bibliography showing how the tinue to do so, but we do also expect to finish library may best serve the bank was prepared the job in a creditable manner, and while we for the exh~bit. SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1918 Problems of the One-Man Library A Symposium by Five Librarians, Who Tell How They Handle Their Chief Difficulties

One of the most interesting features of the confercnce was the brief I I talk by the heads of the one Inan libraries. Vivid stories of a person i carrying the whole burden down to the minor details of library work. 1

Dayton Journal and Herald Department is intended prmarily for our own papers, altho the public cloes makc use of it, By Miss Harper, Librarian, Ethel L. as do the schools, churchcs and some of the Dayton, 0. smaller or local publications. \Ye loan our UR departnients n~ustbe ready for an plctures and cuts, but clo not gn-e anything O opportunity if rerant the opportunity to away unlcss it Ims lost its useftrlness as far as come. We cannot wait for opportunity to our papers arc concerned. invite us. lye have to go out to meet it. As Both editorial and advertising departments soon as one opportunity is met ancl won, work use the pictures and cuts that are on file. By to meet another, making each one a little having both morning ancl cv&ing papers using better than the one preceding. Try to 11c ready the same picturcs and cuts, and only one for the next thing ahcad. person taking care of thcm, it 1s rather hard to Our department must also be efficient, and keep record of where everything is, and keeping then let others know its efliciency. In other everythmg filecl in order. words, we must work for competition. We can- Photographs are always important. Our aim not have 5 o'clock quitting time. A little over- is to havc photographs of all prominent peoplc time, at the cost of a personal inconvenience, on file. Identification is made of picturcs and often makes all the difference between success cuts after ihc printing of the paper. The and failure. Therc are those \vho are depend- name and date when the pictures were used are able, wcll prepared, loyal and industrious and written on the back of each picture, and n they are in denland everyn hcrc and eyeryday. name is printed on a card and each picture, We must show a willingness to supply the and is given a nu~uberand filecl In envelope wants and needs of each department of the accordingly. Cuts are filed according to size. paper and also encourage the workers to ask After identification, cads are printed and cuts for the material they need. 1 have loaned are given a numbcr. The number for pictures pictures to a member in the Advertising De- and cuts with inforniatlon is all printed on one partment. He has taken the pictures and card By using one card, time and space are showed them to a customer and as a result savcd, for all necessary information is there. was able to secure a lalger advertisement. The card indicates whether there is a picture, \Ve have very few clippings, so I cannot and also if there are cuts, and their size. Mats speak of their advantages. We often feel the are filed the samc as pictures. need of clippings but we haven't progressed All cards are filed alphabetically. The that far yet. My object In attending this system used for filing is the card index. 'The convention is to learn, to seek counsel and size card we use is 4" x 6". Pictures-envelope advice from experience of others that are more 10" x 12". Cut envelopes according to size. experienced than I. Sometimes small meetings We have both wood and metal cabinets. in small halls become big meetings in big halls, Personally I like the metal cabinets better for so we hope for our Department. they require less space and more material can The Herald ad Jorirnal Reference Depart- be filed in them. They also look better. ment consists of approximately 45,000 pic- Some local subjects are filecl under one heacl- tures, 27,000 cuts and 16,000 mats, bcsides the ing, then sub-divided, such as schools, churches, obituaries and a few clippings. The Reference etc. Aircraft is also handled the same way. October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 279

All pictures and cuts of city scenes, buildings, war)-from the very standpoint which they such as New York, Detroit, Boston and etc., clam the employer is working from to their are filed in one envelope and under one number. detrinient. Money sho~~lclbc thc expression of value,-human value and comparative value. The Decatur Herald The newspaper librarian must be a newspaper man. Where does thc work of the newspaper By Miss Nettie S. Lindsay, Librarian, librarian stand? Is it on the plane with that of Decatur, 111. editor, the city edltor, copy readers or reporters? Is the librarian's work a lesser part of the HE pioneers of the Mrssissippi Valley, as adjunct of the newspaper, an adjunct as it T well as thosc of the far West, early learned were of the news department or should it stand tliat their difficulties were nothing to speak of, as a department of the whole business concern yet out of the good fellowship of give and take with Lhe head librarian on the basis of the hcads was wrought out understanding of each of departments, of the business? It is a subject other's viewpoint and problen~s, that has to be studied out and worked out, without brought courage and inspiration to all con- envy, without malice or resentment, and with- cerned. We are still pioneers in this field of out any sense of injustice or fear, but with an work. understanding of the facts in the case and with The newspaper of from 25,000 to 50,000 the ~notivcof helping to work out one of the circulation often has the same ambitions and world's big proble~nsfor the general good. problems that the newspaper has tliat counts Tlierc may be the claim that some work must its circulation by the 100,000 instead of by the be sacrificial and cannot be paid for, but the 10's of thousands. It takes the same knowledge claim is largely based on hypocrisy and is the of jvorld affairs, the samc data at hand, the outcome of a lack of thc courage to dig through same quick work-to furn~slidata and write tlie crust of self-complacency in ordcr to reach an editorial for the Decafur Herald, if it is the truth of the matter. Some have worked done equally well, that it does for the New York out the problem intlividually, and such working Times or the Boston Globe. The smaller news- out is always reccii,ed with gratitude by busi- paper n~ustkeep within its limits of money ness manager and editorial manager n.110 have and floor space which necessitates careful, not worked out these questions and are harassed steady weeding out and careful judgment as to by them. what goes into the files. We file everything that All business and all phases of busmess are will go to make a good biography but on general our Father's business and when are know the matter we rliust consider carefully whether this truth allout any problem that truth shall 1na1ce or its equivalent may be found quickly in the us free,-will add to the good fellowship, the nearby public library. happiness and succcss of all concerned. Suggestions for featurc stories always keep us on the lookout. Time was when we furnished the finished product but with the added Sheboygan Press reportorial staff that work is divided, yet we The still must kcep suggestions ahead. By Miss Marion Koch, Librarian, A plan for taking care of local historicnl Sheboygan, Wis. data has not been found. Whetlicr a card catalogue, with subject and refercnces to the RIOR to prepnringtl~ispaper on "PI-ol~lems bound files is a satisfactory method, is still an P of thc One-1Zan Library, and IIow They open question. are Handlecl" I jottcd down those that loom The question of salaries is a subject tliat most gigantically before me as librarian of the newspaper Itbrarians as well as all librarians Sl~cboygailPress. There it-erc so Illany of so need to ~vorlcout Librarians are in a class many varieties that I aslccd 1n1.self "WiaL's with the teaching profession, those who give wrong with this picture?" for it did not seem largely, who in thc very naturc of things nlust possiblc that any tlepnrtnicnt of a newspaper give generously, who have the al3ility to give could Imve so many proble~ilsand yet function and love to Bve, but who do not rcceive in at all satisfactorily. I sl~oulcllike nothing I~ettcr money value according to the giving. The than to "listen in" on the problen~sof the others question of wages is a big problem in lifc. in this symposiun~.Tller~ I woulcl know wl~ether The l311or unions have tried to work it out and our library trouliles are gencral or i~tdiviclual. have gained some. What but the unions have It seems to me tlut tlie biggest problem that worked largely through do~ninntion-(through confronts me is onc \vI1ic11 I believe is universal 280 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928 even when persons have learned the value of that this be done for the Press hbrary has been it ancl learned not to waste it-I refer to the organized for approximately six years. En- problem of time for completion of the manifold velopes have become worn and ragged and must duties a librarian must perform daily. It is by be replaced. Then, too, my ideas on filing have the cornplction of these duties each day that changed during these years of experience, ancl, one can "kcep up" aith the race of the hours I believe, improved, so it is imperative that via the rolling of issues Iron1 the printing press. some of the classifications be changed. Our ll'hile there are three persons employed in the daily clippings from our own paper average Press library at the present time, the third sixty to ninety. Then there are always some l~avingstarted work the beginning of April, from other p&ers as well as magazine articles none of us devotes full time to library work. for filing. Each day I date the stories I sant to To the library many of the non-classifiable file and one of the girls clips the paper. How- dut~esof a newspaper office have pigeon-holed ever, I still file all of the clippings for I believe themselves. What's more they seem to be in a library of our size, one person should be increasing daily. Among our tasks are opening responsible for them and should endeavor to oC the mail, handling of the NEA Services, generalize them to the extent that the others preparing releases for city and telegraph edltors, can locate them. I file many more clippings editing all corresponclence, handling of contests, than are called for on many more subjects promoting of new serials, writing of chro- than will possibly ever be called for, but since nologies, checking of paper's features, reading there is no librarian who can give a rule as to of front page of country edition for errors, what and what not to file, I believe it safer for writing of letters on nliscellaneous matters, my future to have practically everything "in handling of all features, reading and clipping stock." But clippings just will accumulate of all exchanges, assisting in the reading of rapidly and it is always necessary to hold over proof, conferring with the editor dally, sending some because a proper classification can not be out of editorials and news stories to persons thought of at the time of filing. The preparation not Press subscribers, preparing scrap books of a list of subject filings by the Newspaper of editorials, Cozy Corners and editor's personal Group would be a real boon to all of us, I am clippings. sure. All of these duties are in addition to the From the Toronto convention I learned of regular library work of filing all clippings, mats, the success newspapers had had with the photos, cuts and taking care of editors, re- questionnaire idea in securing biographic porters and outsiders' requests. Right now we material and photos, and when I returned I are attempting a reorganization of the library, was determined to try it out on Shoboygan. which is both timely and necessary. We have Questionnaires were prepared and mailed to additional room space and new equipment practically all of the prominent men and women which coupled with hours of -overtime will in the city and some in the county. About forty eventually mean the accomplishment of my per cent were returned which is good con- dreams-a library like that of the Miltuaukee sidering that a follow-up letter was never sent. Journal. In addition to having preparedness on all But to go back to this problem of time. So local persons, we are endeavoring to bring our many days are so crowded with the performance library information up to date by cross- of these other duties and wit11 the taking care referencing articles in bound files prior to 1922, of requests that there are just no minutes for the date of library organization. There are me to file clippings. So often I have planned many stories in these volun~esthat have great an hour or two for an attack on a folder of historical and biographical value. From time clippings requiring cross-referencing only to to time we are obliged to look up histories of be disturbed so often that progress is im- city departments, institutions and biographies. possible. It seems the library is the clearing The memory of a newspaper man is vague and house for all questions, which is as it sl~ouldbe, much time is lost in trying to spot the year and I am sure every one here would feel and date of the appearance of the story he dissatisfied if the library was not called upon "remembers he wrote." When this is ac- to furnish information. Nothing is Inore complished and all important stories indexed, gratifying than to go to one's cabinets, con- it will mean an untold saving of time. fident that the clippings and art sought are Handling the NEA Services myself enables housed therein. me to learn what preparedness we have been Time for weeding clippings is another prob- supplied with, so that when requests come for lem that confronts me. It is most opportune art I generally know whether or not we have it. October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 281

Keeping up with the filing of mats and cuts short career as a newspaper librarian, for it generally is simple, for while I look over the pointed the \yay to a new philosophy and envelopes bcfore they are placed in the cabinets enabled me to cnjoy work that had been a to catch errors in typing and filing, I havc put source of constant worry and discouragement. the wliolc responsibility of getting the art The Courier Library originally consisted of a filed on one of my assistants. For some time mass of unfiled cuts, mats and photos that were prior to the arrival of our new equipment mc heaped on shelves, piled in heavy wooden had to place all art too large for thc 2-col, cut drawers; an incongruous collection of clippings file in a desk drawer. That often worrlecl me for that tilight be filecl away anywhere in some I wondered yliethcr it co~~ldbe located at a reporter's desk or between the covers of wiclely moment's noticc if needed. I-lowever, now that scattered 11001:s. The work nt liancl was to acldltional cabinets providc room for expansion organize immccliatcly a scrvice vital to a fast I hope soon to have the envelopes in one entire growing newspaper. The material with which drawer in the large cabinet alphabetized and to clo tliis, as mcntionctl bcfore, was a mass of the big mats clroppccl In and properly cross- incomplete. files, uniclcntifiecl cuts, mats and referencecl from the onc-co1111nn file. The such data ant1 trash as usually finds its way into envelopes will be the expansion ones antl will be nooks and corners of editorial rooms. able to hold a goodly numher of them The The slow work of cataloguing and filing lower part of a large storage cabinet takes carc began. Days and weelis passed without visible of f111l page mats, cuts as well as large plioto- signs of progress. Tlicre were any number of graphs. photographs to be identified,--and those with Noa-return of clippings used to present a return dclrcsses had to be rnai!ed to their problem to me, because I did not have a rightful owncrs; envelopes bulging with clip- proper system of checkmg back on thei~ pings had to be gone over and weeded; old return. Now I keep a record of claily informa- papers arranged antl filecl; and special editions tion requests in a notc book instead of jotting stored anray. It sccmed discoulaging. And tlien them down on a slip of paper and dcstroying one clay, in a dra\rerful of almost everything that after the number has bcen reg~stcredon in creation, I founcl the card with iLs imprint. thc monthly request sheet. The advantage of I belie~eI would rather havc resignccl my the notc book is that it is pobsible to check the position than go through the process of iclentify- requests weekly to learn whether or not they ing and filing the cuts away had not this card have becn returned, and if not, to go to the turnccl up. "There is a fortunc in it for the man reporter and ask lor their return. I hope tliis who learns to love his worlc." Tlierc is some- recital of niy own proldcms in what is rcally thing about it tllnt spurs you on. It taught me a one-man library though there arc three to like lily nark, and in a natural turn, thc day employecl in it, has not givcn you the im- was less laborious. Today, I enjoy tlie benefits prcssion tl~~tmy prospects for tlie future of of my fortune, ~neasurecl in the satisfaction the Press library are gloon~yfor things were derivccl from creati1.e work. never brighter. I hope that you may lncet solutions to all of your problems at this con- Lack of conlidence in the reliability of the ference and that the coming year will bring library handicapped ~tsearly devclop~nent. your library ncarer to yonr rcalimtion of Rcporters, ad men antl circulation mcn would perlcctlon. spcnd hours looking for rcrtain inforn~ation. LVhen asked wh~tthey wished, looks of disdain were cast in my rlircction, but it took only n Camden Courier slight application of coasing and kidding Idore By Miss Irene Swencicka, Librarian, they would \vealten ant1 reluctantly tell me. Not like the I. C. S. course "Everyone was Camden, N. J. astounded when they found I lcnew this," \E is a fortune in it for the man who but they gained confirle~~cein tliclr morgue. "THE'learns to love his work." So rencls the Now, before valuablc tinle is wasted, they ask maxim wll~chadorns many an office dcsk. It me first. spurs many worlters on In tlicir daily tasks, It \\.as not unusual to find envelopes with for there are thosc who rclp upon such quota- their contents missing and cuts and ~nals t~orisas a driving force. I mcnlion this only thrown around the clcslts. Sornc rcpo~iers becausc it is intin~atcly concerned with my ~voulrleven take or11 the'indcx cartls during my story. I saw it first ill a drd1werlul of un- abscnce. I clecitled to ask the co-operation of identified cuts. I consider it a mile-post in my the cclitorial department, who naturaIIy ~onld SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928 benefit the most, and convinced our managing Akron Beacon Journal editor to post a notice requesting strict ad- By Joseph Sheridan, Librarian, Akron, Ohio herence to the rules' of the library. No cuts, mats or clippings were to leave the library CCURACY in ready reference couplcd without depositing a slip with the librarian A with economy of space were the rnost im- showing the date, name of borrower, his de- portant factors contemplated when the new partment, subject and file number. In addition, system of filing was adopted by the Akrolz loaning material to outside friends, which Beacon Jozmal in the fall of 1927. Prior to practice was a common one previous to the that time the system in operation was the establishment of the library, has been strictly card index. The new system is direct, no cards forl~idden. An exception is taken to this rule being used, and it has been found to be a vast only in very rare cases and even then such an improvement over the old system. The old order must contain the personal 0. I<. of method of filling out a card and filing it and either the publisher or the managing editor, of marking one or more containers for the who assume full responsibility. materials to be filed required much more time The fruits of endeavor were not to be enjoyed than is now the case. for long, however, for just as things began to For example: Under the card index system run smoothly, the Evcizing Courzer bought over we will assume that one John Henry Sni~th- our compet~torthe Post-Telegram, which was stone has been elected president and general later changed to The Morning Post. Their manager of the local gas company. He is a filcs, if one could call it that, necessitated the newcomer in town. A photograph of him has repetition of the process of weeding, indexing, been obtained. From it a cut has been made. numbering and filing but with a system already A biographical sketch and other information installed it was only a matter of a few months concerning hlm has been collected and printed. before the Courzer-Posl lihrary proved itself of Therefore, the newspaper librarian using the vital importance to those who hcnefit from its card index system would handle the case of 24-hour-a-day service. John Henry Sm~thstonesomething like this: Write on a card his name, position, etc. Then The first editions of both papers are gone a number, like 32641, indicating that his cut over thoroughly and shoulcl they contain a will be found in an envelope bearing that news story that could be illustrated, such number. Another number, C-24678, indicating material as is available is taken in to the city that clippings, manuscripts and other printed editor. Clippings, obits and other information or wr~ttenmatter concerning him will be found on individuals are also produced in time for in a different envelope. There is also a photo- use in the next ed~tion. graph. The card index wdl give the added Four years ago the Cozmer had a circulation information that In an envelope marked of less than 29,000 in Camden and South P-99824 the photograph of John Henry Smith- Jersey. Toclay the Euetzing Coirrier and the stone will be found. Mortting Post cover half the State with a com- Later on if there is occasion to look up art bined total of 70,457, an increase of 41,457 or information on this man the pcrson operating readers in four pears, or an increase of 10,000 the reference library must first consult the per year. files of cards. Having found the card he learns In 1924 there were filed approximately: that in three different places or scctions in the reference library he will find in one thc cut, 3,000 one colun~ncuts in another the clippings, or in another part the 700 two column cuts photograph All of this is detail. It is system, 4,000 one and two column mats surely, but it is also both a time and space In 1928 there were filed. consumer. 8,000 one column cuts, an increase of 5,000 The matter of space was a serious one with 2,000 two column cuts, an increase of 1,300 10,000 one and two column cuts, an increase UP when we mere contemplating the organiza- of 6,000 tion of a new reference library In connection with our new building. In ordcr to study the Beside all of that we have any number of systems in ,vogue elsewhere the newspaper refer- clippings, pamphlels, books, hundreds of ence libraries in other cities were inspected. copies of bills introduced in the State Legis- In the ofices using a direct filing system the laturc and what not. Such are the trials and efficiency of it was readily apparent. There tribulations of a one-man library. seemed to he no lost motion. Materials were October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 283 filed away quickly, after having been quickly Nothing but cuts are filed in "A File." In assembled. In the orfices still using the card "B File" we use manila envelopes with black index system we noticed that materials were printrng for two and three colunm cuts; not quickly filed away and, perhaps, not manila envelopes with red printing for clip- quickly assembled for filing. Hence our ob- pings, prlnted or written matter, and gray servations influenced our decision in favor of envelopes for photographs or matrices or both. the direct system of filing. We have never (We file matrices ) We file matrices with photo- regretted making the change. graphs, if we have both, because both being It had been our intention to "amalgamate" paper neither will injure the other. In this file the ideas we had picked up in the various direct we also use cross reference cards. filing systems, and work out a system for the This means that if we have rnaterial on file Beacon Jour?tal. Just at that time we were in the sizes larger than but not in the 5 x 8 called upon by the representative of a concern envelopes the card will direct the seeker to the making newspaper reference files, who urged a proper cabinet. Cross reference cards are also direct system. But it was not entirely accept- used in the case of group cuts, clippings, photo- able to US. The manufacturer proposed to file graphs or matrices. For example: Tom, one column and half column (thumb nail) Dick and Harry figure in the news and appear cuts in 5 x 8 envelopes This would not have in the same cut or photograph. Therefore we encouraged economy in space. The manu- file the cut, clipping and photograph under facturer insisted that his Idea was correct the name nearest the beginning of the alphabet. because the 5 x 8 file would be the "master In this case it would be Dick. A cross reference file" and take the place of a card index. card will be placed where one would loot for It has no doubt been the experience of most information on EIarry, and another one with newspaper librarians that the smaller cuts, respect to Torn. These cards will read: "See one column and half column, are called for Dick in B file for group cut, plloto and clip- more often than are the cuts of larger sizes; pings." called for four or five times as often. There This is a system of compactness. It is a case are four or five times as many of these small of "one, two, three," and we have all the cuts in the files. We convincecl the manu- information pertaining to a person or subject facturer that his equipment should include immediately under thc fingers when we pull smaller cabinets to hold 3 x 5 envelopes, these open the proper cabinet drawer. "One" is the to be used in filing one column and half column envelope with the cut; "two" is immediately cuts. The manufacturer has adopted the behind it with clippings; "three" behind "two" suggestion. with photograph, matrix or both. Therefore we have the 3 x 5 envelope in what Take the case of John I-Ienry Smithstone, as we call our "A File." The next size is the 5 x 8 an example. We have seen what work was envelope in the "B File." The "C File" con- necessary in filing away and finding matter tains envelopcs measuring 9%xll% it~ches; referring to him in the old card index system. the "D Flle" with envelopes 9% x 14% inches, In this case we simply go to the cabinet drawer and the "E File," a shelf cabinet capable of labelled "SMI" and guided by the marginal accommodating cuts, matrices or photographs guides therein we quickly come to "Smith- of full newspaper page slze. stone, John Henry; General Manager, Gas Co." The "B File" (5 x 8) is the "master file." Right the~e,"one-two-three" we have all the It is the index to the whole system from "A" information the Beacon Journal has heen to and including "E," with this single ex- gathering on him since his name first attracted ception: Cuts filed in the "A File" are not editorial attention. One "grab" between the indexed in the master file unless there happens thumb and two fingers will lift out tl~ethree to be material on the same subject or pcrson envelopes, in one motion, and disclose the whole in another portion of the system. This is done information concerning John Henry Smith- because the "man-on-the-desk" may ask Ior stone. a single or, half column cut. It is not then In many instances, particularly so in the necessary to consult the master file. This would case of public men, me will have several "red" be lost niotion. We go direct to the "A Fde" or clipping envelopes. We have the clippings in search of the cut. If we do not have it in the sorted into subjects or topics-Lindbergh and "A File" then we consult the "B File" to his various flights; President Coolidge and his ascertain if there is anything on file, cut stnncl on various bills and questions. Of photograph or matrix referring to the subject course Lhere are instances where we will have or person. clippings and nothing else, or cuts, or photo- 284 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928 graphs. But whatever vie have is found im- person obtaining the material, if on the Bencox ~nccliately,and after but one look, not at a card Journal. This book is checked over each day, inclcu, but for and at the envelope-container. and inaterial still out is gone after, to the 111 the "C File" and "D File" we have pcrson who took it out. In this nianner we provitlerl cnvelopes for only cuts and photo- keep "right after" those individuals who might g~npl~s and mats. h here are occasions, 11ow- "forget" to restore what belongs in the refer- evcr, when we lla\.e printed or written matter to ence library. Matler loaned outside is charged filc and cannot get it into the 5 x 8 s~zc.In that on a daily card file, and is "chcckccl" after a casc we cut off thc printing from the 5 x 8 reasonable pcriorl of time. and paste it on the black printctl manila envclope oI 1;lrgcr size. When it is necessary Civil Service Vacancies to file matcr~alin the shelf cabinet, "E File" Tlic Unitccl States Civil Scrvice Commission we first make an envelope of the required size, announces a series of examinations for several using heavy wrapping paper, and paste on it appointments in the Servlce, one of which is thc printed portlon from a 5 s S envclopc. for a hospital lil~rarianto fill vacancies in the Informat~on pertaining to persons is in- Veterans' Bureau, entrance salary of $1,680 scribed on the left-hancl of the envelopes. annually. Application for this vacancy should Pertaining to inanimate things or subjects it is be filed at Washington not latcr than Novem- inscribed on the light-hand side. If there is ber 6th. Another examination will be given for atlclit~onalmatter on filc In any of the other junior librarian, under library assistant and sized cnwlopcs refcrence to it is madc in the minor library assistant to fill vacancies in de- spac'es provided in the lower half of the en- partmental service at Washington. The en- velope. Thus "I3 File" will disclose that there trance salaries are $2,000 a year for junior is additional matter in "C File," and "C File" librarian, $1,440 a year for undcr library will show that "R File" also contains matter assistant and $1,260 a pear for n~inorlibrary on the subject. assistant Applications for these positions While it is true that the direct system has must he filecl not later than November 20th. many advantages over the card index system The Commission also announces an exarnina- one, in particular has been experienced. Thc tion for associate librarian to fill a vacancy in direct system does not permit stuffing of the the United States Naval Observatory. The filing envelopes This was the case under the entrance salary is $3,000 a year and applica- card systcn~. It was like "fincl the number, tions must he received not later than December then stuff the envelope." Under the direct 13th. system the envelopes are opened at the side. Another interesting position of higher calibre Stuffing will not suggest itself. Thcrc are no is that of chicf of press service to fill a vacancy bulging packages, no torn anrl raggcd cl~ppings uncler the Federal Radio Commission. En- or cla~uagecl photographs. Everything 1s in trance salary is $3,800 per annum and applica- neat array. It must be that way if one is to tions should be filed not later than November fincl things quickly. Filing cabinet clrawers .29th. The duties mill consist of contacts with are 1101 overloaded with metal because, with newspaper correspondents concerning the ac- the exception of the small cuts in the "4 Filc" tlvitics of the Federal Radio Con~mission,the cahinet, the weight is cl~n~inislieclhy thc prcs- issuance of inforinative anel timely articles to encc of clippings, photogrdphs and matrices. editors regarding the radio situation, thc niain- Thc systein rcadlly allows for expansion when tenance of an up-to-clatc newspaper and ii is lo~~nclnecessary to add Inore sections of periodical mailing list and the preparation and drawers. Left-hand guides in the drawers issuance of the official Bullctin of the Corn- assist in filing names or persons Rlght-hand miss~onas well as press releases and general guidcs do the same for inanimate things or orders. suhjccts. The names of states, territories and Another vacancy of similar importance is nations are right-hanclecl. that of technical editor to fill a vacancy in the Whenever any nlaterial is removed from an Forest Products' Jahoratory, Marlison, Wis- envelope to hc uscd by a tlcsk man, reporter, consin, entrance salary of $3,800 a ycar. Thc or in any department of the paper, or loaned out clnties u-ill consist of critical reviews of scientific to responsible persons, associations or con- and tcchnical manuscripts pertaining to forest cerns a charge slip is inserted in the envelope research and wood utilization. The appointee showing what was rernorctl, the date of re- will also be required to perform general editorial moval and to ahom deliverad. In addition a duties. Applications must be filed not later than charge is cntered on a clay-hook against the November 21st. October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Dr. Lapp's Address Dr. Lapp's notaldc address at the annudl them to name a boolc on a nioclern economic conference of the .4ssociation, has provoked or social proldc~nread by thcm In tlie last five comment in somc of tlie lentlmg newspapers of ycars, not onc could do so It came out that the countr).. \Vc repent hy per~niss~ont~o the> coolcl not evcn name such a book ~~nrencl editorials-thc furtiier fro111 The rVew I'ork by tlicnl, and ivhen he mentionccl Iiipley's Tzrucs for and the lattcr from Tkc "\Inin Stree~ant1 i\'nll Street" they lookctl Clrtcago EZ~IIZII~Post for . The blank until Iic told them eoniclhing ahout it. ecl~torwill be glad to rcceive othcr comnients Thcn they Iaughccl at thc idea of '1 professor 01 tliat have come to thc reacler's attention economics writing n boolc worth the attention Roo~sran Bcsrsr:ss >In of their practical mintls." "Speaking franltl!v to a rcccnt meeting oft he "Appreciating his ~mmunitiesas n collegc Special L~brar~esAssociation, Dr. John A. professor, Dr. Lapp advises the l~brariarrsnot Lapp, n professor at AIarquette University, to tcll business nlcn that thcy Iiam rcatl no made suggestions obviously not intended for books in the last live ycars. "It \voulcl be true, general circ~~latiun.Thcy uere meant for the but it woultl not be cliplo~nntic." Lcgislati~e ears of the special I~hrar~ans,who were to act l~brarianshc assigns to the in~possiblctask of on them so subtly and discreetly that thc educating thc legislators. Vi'hen three-fourths business nicn at nhom they were really aimed of the old men~bersdo not return, the best that \voulti not suspcct that they were being worked can bc done is to show thc new me11 what to on. But thc spcech has brcn published in the look for, meanwhile searching for latent gcnius last number of SPECIAL LIBRARIES, and tliernsclves in order to str it up." may fall into hancls for which it was not meant, hZ~s1'1'110 DOX'TRRAD ROOKS so one may consider that thc game is up. "An address made by Dr. John A. Lapp of Anyhow, there is somcth~ngwomanish, like the thc faculty of Marquette univcrsiiy beiorc the indirection of Maggie Wylie in "What Every Special Libraries Association and publishcd Woman I

The Newspaper Group presented at unfavorable. To those persons who have the Washington conference a fine series felt that certain features of special of addresses, which should be of interest library work have been overlooked, the to the members of the other groups. editor calls attention to a short article Our associate editor, William Alcott, a on page 231 of the September issue. veteran newspaper marl, has edited the *** proceedings of the group as a contribu- The Editor has had an inquiry con- tion to this number. cerning the pamphlet entitled "Raffinage *** et Blanchiment des Huiles, Graisses et Our Personal colunln frequently rnen- Cires a L'aide du Frankonit," published tions courtesies to vlsiting librarians by in 1912 by the Pfirschinger Mineral- members of our local associations. The werke at Kitzingen, Germany. An affairs are usually informal and give the edition dated 1915 is entitled "Das visitor a fine impression of hospitality Raffinieren und Bleichen von Olen, among librarians and a sense of friend- Fetten und RTacliaen mittelst Frank- liness within the profession. onit." Possibly some of our technical *** libraries may posse'ss these publications. The advance publicity issued by the * * * Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia Publicity was a strong feature of the and vicinity is most attractive. The twentieth annual convention. Mr. secretaries of the locals should write to Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr., Chairman of the Miss Helen M. Rankin, Free Library of Local Committee on Arrangements, has Philadelphia, for a copy of the unusually prepared a scrap book containing refer- interesting advance program. ences to the conference and during the *** three days of the conference the papers In the September issue, through a contained numerous articles about the slip of the types, the Civic-Social Group activities of the convention and even was misnamed Civil-Social Group and after the conference closed five articles in the July-August issue the word appeared in the local press. Mr. Hyde "American" on page 182 became trans- is to be congratulated upon the value of posed in the final lockup. We regret this publicity and the widespread these slight errors which seem to be the interest which the work OF the local com- mittee created in Washington circles. inevitable accompaniment*** of printing. *** This month we have adopted a new Angus Fletcher, of the British Li- editorial layout which we hope will meet brary of Information, attended the with the approval of our readers. !Ire annual conference of Special Libraries are constantly striving to make improve- and Information Bureaus at New Col- ments in the magazine, and will appre- lege, Oxford, England, from September ciate comments both favorable and 14 to 17, as a representative of Special October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 287

Libraries Association. He was invited ton, Durstine & Osborne. Miss Eliza- to address the conference and conveyed beth Wray, librarian of the United to them a message of good will from our States Rubber Conlpany accompanied Association. In his remarks he com- Miss Alexander and took part in the mented upon the similarity of the discussion. problems of the two associations and At the Danville meeting of the Illinois congratulated the conference upon the Library Association short talks on high standards achieved by their dis- special libraries, in a program arranged cussions and upon the escellent directory by Miss Mary B. Day, librarian of the which the Association had recently National Safety Council, were a special published. feature of the session on Thursday, *** . The recent edition of the Bibliography Meetings of this type help to foster of Rubber Technology, issued as In- the contacts between the special library formation Bulletin No. 7, has aroused and the public library. considerable interest throughout the *** United States and requests for the The Editor recently received a friendly publication have come from a wide letter from Theodore H. Price, editor of range of purchasers. Le Caoutchouc a~td Commerce ad Finance. The writer la Culta-Percha for September 15, 1928, states : contains an appreciative review which states that the brochure is indispensable "My attention has been es- in all rubber libraries and a recent order pecially drawn to Mr. Harold received from Madrid, Spain, indicates C. Moulton's article upon 'The that this type of publicity is of con- Special Library and Research.' siderable value. The rubber sub- com- I have enjoyed reading it, but I mittee deserves great credit for the must disavow the authorship of undertaking. the final paragraph in which *** Mr. Moulton attributes what Cornnzerce and Finance said It is noteworthy that the representa- about the tact, graciousness tives of the special libraries in this coun- and consideration of speclal try have taken an active part in recent libraries to me." meetings of state library associations. "I like to give credit where At the New England States Association credit is due, and I take the op- conference at Portland, Maine, on June portunity of calling to your at- 26-29, Mr. William Alcott was in charge tention the fact that the para- of a session devoted to the interest of graph in question was written special librarians and at the annual by my co-editor, h4r. McCready meeting of the New York State Library Sykes, and not by me.'' Association at Richfield Springs, Septem- ber 4-9, a Round Table discussion on On behalf of the Association, we take "What the public library can do for the this opportunity to estend to Mr. business man" was conducted by Miss Sykes sincere thanks for the kind words Mary Louise Alexander of Batten, Bar- of commendation. Executive Board President-Francis E. Cady, Research Laboratory, Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 1st Vice-President-Ethel Cleland, Business Branch, Indianapolis Public Library, Indianapolis, Ind. 2nd Vice-President-Angus Fletcher, British Library of Information, NeW York,

N. Y.-~ Secretary-Rose L. Vormelker, Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio. Treasurer-Elizabeth Baster, Haskins & Sells, New York, N.Y. Board Members-Joseph Kwapil, Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa.; Elizabeth 0. Cullen, Bureau of Railway Econon~ics,Washington, D. C. 288 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928 Conference of Newspaper Group sixth annual conference of newspaper The second session was held on Tuesday THElibrarians mas called to order by Miss afternoon at the Washington I-Iotel, but it was Agnes J. Petersen, librarian of the Milwaukee preceded by a visit to the library of the TT7ash- Jozmtal, and chairman of the Newspaper ington Star, where Col. C. Fred Cook, librarian, Group of Special Libraries Association, at the explained tlie system employed in the library Hotel Washington, Washington, D. C , on of tliat paper. Then everybody adjourned to Mor~clayafternoon, May 21. The attendance the Hotel Raleigh, where tlie Eveniitg Slar exceecled any previous confetence of the group, management entertained tlie company at and the program attracted to the meetings luncheon. Forty-five plates were set about n dozens of other special I~brarians who were large oval table, and an exquisite luncheon was interested in certain phases of the newspaper served. Col. Cook presided, and afterward he program. introduced Dr. Gcorge F. Bowerman, li- Miss Petersen spoke of tlie increasing in- brarian of th~District of Colun~biaLibrary. terest in the newspaper library movement and Dr. Bowerman explained the mtizuate reldtions the increas~ng efficiency of thc newspaper which cxist between thc l~braryand the Star, libraries thtougli the development of better and told how the district library was the result ~nethoclsand wider contacts, and she spoke of of the long editorial agitation of Theodore 51;. four mcnibers of thc group who had recently Noyes, editor of the Star, who upon the creation passed away. of tlie act establishing a tax-supported library, Miss Marie A. E. Wallter of the New York was made chairman of the board of trustees, Tiincs, gave the report of the secretary- a position lie lias since held, so that relations treasurer, showing membership to be 83, of between the two institutions, the library and whom three were institutional members, 57 the Slar were unusually intimate, and tlie active members, and 26 assoc~ate ~iiembers. closest and friendlicst co-operatioq existed. William Alcott of tlie Boston Globe, as chair- Incidentally, in welcoming the newspaper man of the membership comn~itteereported librarians to U'ashington, Mr. Bowerman said the follo\ving accessions during the year: he was one of them, as he had served in tliat Institutiondl nlenibers 3, active 9, am1 as- capacity on tlie NEW YorL Tribune more than sociate 16, total 28. 25 years ago. Paul P. Foster of the Pl~iladelphzaIirquirer, "Recent Developments in Ne~vspapcr Li- as charman of the committee on cthics, re- braries," was the first subjcct consiclcrcd on ported two draIts of a code, which were latcr Tuesday afternoon, and t he contributors to the relerrcd to a committee. discuss~onwere David G. Rogers of the New Ilarry Pence ol the Ciiicimati E?rqrlirer, York Herald-Tribwze, Ford M. Pettit of tlie reported for tlie committee on ~netliods, n Delroit News, and I-larry Petice of the Cirr- recommendation for further study of tlie ciiiriati Enpqcz'rer. This was followed by brief questionnaire prepared last ycar, for a report adclresses on three \Vashington Institutions: next year. By Dr Allen Johnson, director of the Dic- A series of 15 questions on copyright prob- t~onaryof American Biography, by Dr. Eclwin lems, prcpnred in nclvnnce, most of tlieln by E. Slosson, director, and Mark Watson, man- John IT Miller of the PidJic Ledger, Philadel- aging editor, of Scieizce Service, and by David ph~n,and submitted to I-Ion. Tliorvalcl Solberg, Lawrence, editor of the LTnzled States Daily, register of copyrights, was read by 5Ir. Alcott. who spolce for their respective interests. 1-lon. Richard C. De\Yoll, legal ad\-iser to the The tlii~dsession was lield Wednesday after- copyright clivision, was present to answcr noon, and wns opened with a symposium on further questions on the subject, and there "One-Man Libraries and Their Problenis," was an interesting period as questions of many in which Miss Ethel L. Harper, Dayton (Ohio) kinds Lame flom all parts of the room, and Herald ai~d Jo?iri~al, ivIiss Marion I

C. Conrad, former librarian of the 1Mzlwairkee the Medical Library Exchange, had planned Journal, and now editorial writer for that to be present to tell of the development of that paper. exchange system, but was prevented from Willard E. Keyes of the Bosfo?~I3erald and attending, and his paper was read by Mr. Traveler, as chairman of the nominating com- Alcott Subsequently a committee consisting mittee, presented the following names for of Miss Petcrsen of the Mzlmaiikec Jozimal, officers for the cnsuing year, and they were Miss Lindsay of the Decatzrr Ileruld ancl h'Ir elected: Chairman, Maurice Symonds, New Alcott of the Boston Globe was appointed to York Daily Ncws; vice-chairman, Col. C. Frcd considcr the subject. Cook, Vashington Star; secretary-treasurer, On Tuesday lnornmg Mauricc Symonds of Ford M Pettit, Detroil NEWS;niembers of the the NEW York Daily iVews, mas cliairrnan of the executive committee, Miss Agnes J. Pctcrsen, brcakiast conference, and the subject was Milwazlkce Jo~irrral, and Joseph F. Ksapil, "Alphabetting." Philndelphia Pirblic Ledger. On Weclnesclay ~norningHarry Pence of thc Mr. Kwapil brought up thc matter of a Cincinnati Eqtrirer was chairman, and spoke standard classification for clippings, and the on the work of preparing "Events of the Year," matter was referred to a committee consisting a task he has done for the Etzqz~irerfor many of Mr. I

A news association sends out a photo bearing Three Questions on Photo on the back this stamped notice: "Note to Editors: Service Photos "Under each reproduction of this copy- A photo service company sends out a copy- righted picture must be carried the following righted photo with this stamped on the back: credit: 'Blank News Photo.' This picture may "Copyright and all non-copyright photographs not be syndicated, rented or loaned, nor used may be reproduced for the price charged and for advet tising purposes. The News Associa- the following credit line under each repro- tion." duction: I-Inncock & Everett, Washington, There is no other notice of copyright than the D. C." assertion in the stamped notice. Ques. 13-Does the credit line requested Ques. 15-Does this copyright notice con- properly cover the copyright? And is it in- form to the law? fringement to publish a copyrighted photo Ans. 15-The statement quoted is not a without the copyright notice? notice of copyright in the form prescribed by the Ans. 13-The statement quoted as appearing law, but, as was stated above, the law does not on the back of the copyrighted photograph is expressly require the notice to be placed on not the for111 of copyright notice required by copies, unless and until the work has been law. The law, however, does not expressly re- published. Unpublished photographs are quire the notice on unpublished photographs. frequently copyrighted, and the absence of a Where the owner of a copyrighted photograph notice on any particular cbpy does not in- stipulates that it may only be reproduced upon validate the copyright. SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928 Associations Boston ancl with a realization of what this tlevclop- Spccial 1,ihrarics .4ssociation of Boston held ment will nlenn in serving the l'hilatlclphin its first ~nect~n):of the season on AIonday region with uninterrupted electr~csernce. 1Iiss evcnlng, Septcmlm 24, 1928, at thc I~hraryof Shearer cl~stril,ute(l n little boolilct ~lescr~bing

Boston Univcsrs~ty, College of Busincss Atl- thc projcct. $ '6 + ministr,~tion. l'rolcssor Roy Ihvii, asslstnnt tlcan of thc Thc Special IAilmriesCouncil ol I'hilatlcll)lii;~ College of Business Atlnlin~str~~t~un,atldrcsscd ant1 vicinity has issued a plogralu fur 1028-29 the meeting. in n most nttrnctivc forni. This nnnount.c~llcnt ltiss Ruth C.inn\.:ln, I~l)rar~anof llelcslf & which XI-as printctl 1y rnr~~trsgof 11:. 1:. Ii~ugh- Eddy, civil cnglnwrs, sl)okc in detail of her ton k Co~np:~ny('onti1lns tnl~loidskclrl~cs ant1 \vorIc and dcmonstratctl the why and I\ herefo~e photo~raphson thc margin of tach 111(~11tl11y of her system in a very interesting manner. not~firation.In atltlition to thc opcning scssion Mrs. Franccs R. Coe of the education cnln- on Oclober Stli, 1~111cliis notcll in anothcr ~nittec,lecl a tliscuss~orl:111out a class in library scction of SPECIAL LIBRARIES, the No~em- methods for the current season. XIuch ~nterest bcr rncctmg n~llbe hcld at the Rcgional Plnn- was evidenced In the matter ant1 uncloubteclly a ning Fctlerat~on Olfice. The leading fcat~~re large class will be formed to take advantage of will LC a lantern sldc talk by Mr. IIonnrtl this splcnclid opportun~ty to study library Strong, of the Regional Planning Fcclerat~on, niethocls lror~~an exrellcnt tcacher. upon the plans for the Ph~laclelphia region. The followi~lgcha~rmcn werc announced by The Decelnbc~'meeting to bc held on the 7i11, the prcsident: Eclucation-Mrs. Franccs at the \%'liarton School, will give an oppor- Rathl-ronc Coe, State Library; Hospitality- tuni~yfor Niss Dorothy R. Bemis, Librxian Mr. Joscpl~Grandcll, Boslon Globe; Member- of the Lippincott Library of the \&'harton ship-Myra E, White, Northeastern Unl- School, to tell ahout the orgnnieation of a versity; llethotls-1Iarion Bowman, Old Col- departmental library. In January the Council on y Trust Company; News-Susan M. Meara, selected the fourth of the month to visit thc Boston Bnzcracalt; Registration-Ethel M. library of the Department of City Transit Turner, State Library. in thc New City Hall Annex. The princ~pal Prior to the meeting supper was served at address w111 be by Mr. Charlcs 1-1. Stc~cns, the Erunswick Shoppe. Enginccr of Design of thc Department of City Tcn ycars have elapsecl since the foimat~on Transit, on "The Construction and Equipment 01 the Special Lihrarics Association of Boslon, of the Broad Strcct Subway." All mcctings \

The lil~raryof Ford, Rncon ancl Dnl-is is now Thursday, . Miss Margaret Reynolds, locntctl a1 30 Broarlnxy, Ncw Yorlr, S. k'., the librarian, actctl as hostcss John Henry Paw, I~brarian. *k* *** Tlic Scplenher issue of tlic Jo~rrlrnl of tl~c

The Iinnsns Cily Tcst~ngI~l~orato~y has .dl mcrictr t~ Rakers Assoczoliori ntid Anzarico)~ issuetl n 1928 ctl~lion of thcir ffirtrdbnol: oj Irrstilute of Baking tlcscr~bcs tlescril~cs the Pefr.o!crrrrt, Asplrall ccrrd iYdrlr.al Gns, I)?. .1Coy "pnckncr. I~brary" operaled by AIiss K. E. Cross. Pritltlat as one of the lilm~yscrlwes of the **+ Ins~ilutc. Sloirr oitd TThbrtCr IOIIYIIH~of August, 1928, *** has an interesting and wcll ~llustratetlarticle A Bihliograpliy of RcLaili~ig, a selected list on thc Lihnry of the "\I'orltl IJeace Founcla- of hooks, ~>a~nphlctsand pc~iotlicals,compiletl tion," Boston, 3Iass. by P A. Systrom, is publisllctl 11s thc Colz~nrbiu ?Yk* ririo~,r'silyPr~ss, pricctl nL $2.50; it is a valual~le C~tiizr)i~rtgsKrgistrr-thc Bluc Book directory tool \vl~icli may have bccn ovcrlookecl during and manual of thc huiltling Intlusl~y,SCW the su~~inier. York and 1IctropoIitan Area ctlit~on,niny have * 4 * cscapecl your noticc. Tlic lIicli~g.~nSta~e Til~rary celcbrdted tlie * * * onc hunchcdth annivers:~ry of the estahlisli- Tlic Illi~roisJorlrri~rl of Cotirr~rc~celor Aug~~st,mcnt of tlic Statc Library on October 18, 1928. 1928, carr1c.s as its lcntling a1 ticlc, ''Corn is King One of the fcaturcs ol tlic celehrat~on was a of thc Prniric Statc," by Jennic Lee Schram, banquct at tlic Olds Hotel, Lansing. a member of S. L. A. *** * * * Cowmcrcial TT7esl for June 2tl clcscribes the "Rusincss Book Storcs" is tlic title of a library of tlic First Wisconsin National Bank rcatlal~learticle in Pt~blrskers' Tl'cckly for July of .\liln.aul:ce in a reaclnble articlc by LIiss 28th. It describes the activitlcs of a g~oup i\I,lrgnret Rcynolcls. Tlic article contains a of these stores in lower New Yorlc. picture of the library and ~tsefficient librarian. * X * *** The Lihrary ol the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- An articlc liy Jocl N.Eno in the dmcricarta, sity has issued n "List of Refercnccs on Protocol Illzrs/rnl~~dfor Octobcr, 1928, tl~scusses in a for Pacific Settlement of InLe~nat~onalDisputes, valuable nay American Gcnealogicnl Sourccs Geneva, 1924." t~ncl Gencalogicnl Lin1it:~tions. A slinrt bib- *** liogrnphy acco~npnnicsthe article. Jf~~)ric~paIRcj~~re)ic~: Librnry Notes, issued by *** the New York hlunic~palRefctence Lil~vary, Tlie KCI~IRnrld IV~WIfor June 15, 1928 for , 1928, is a Pul~licRecreation clcscrilm tlic reorganization of tlic L~brary Xumber. Division r~ntlcr tlic tlircctlorl of i\I~ssFlora *** Lilic~iLhal.The n~ticlcmcnlions in consitleraMe Racl~o Reallocation is tlic subject of tile tlctnil the uork of hl~ssLilientlial as a library Con~rcssioirulD.iges1 for October, 1928. Each organizer in this conntry. number of the t~ingazinetakes up a national *** subject of interest. The University of LIissouri has iss~led a * * * history of tlie lihrnry of the 1!111versity as Attractive little leaflets giving thc titlc of Library Scrles So. 15, p~eprccl by Hcnry some interest~ngtravel books haw recenlly Ormal Severxncc, Librdrian The puldication been issued by the Bank of Italy They are is wcll illustrntcd ancl accompaniccl by graphic unsigned but bcar evidence that Miss K. charts. Dorothy Ferguson prepared them. *** *** Adirll Ed~rcntiotzand l11c Libmry, onc of the The Fmt Wisconsin National Bank of valual~lcpublications of the Amricnn Library i\/Iilwaukee enterta~ncd the librarians of the Association, clescribcs in a recent number the Wisconsin LiBrary Association at tea on library of thc Phenix Mutual Life Insurance 294 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1928

Company, especially featuring the en~ployee's Library Bulletin, no. 2, July, 1928, of the use of a business library. Industrial Relations Counselors, 165 Broadway, * *+* New York, N. Y., contains a survey of current Two articles entitled "Value of the Public literature in that field. Fifty-three references Library to Manufacturers" and "The Special were selected from a possible three thousand Library and its Fine Growth," originally considered-here is real selection. A bibliog- prmted in American Industries, the national raphy of employee handbooks and list of firms organ of the National Association of Manu- using handbooks may be suggestive to many facturers, have appeared in pamphlet form. industrial librarians. * * * * + * The September issue of the National Safety Ex Libris, the house organ of the A. W. Shaw News, in the report of the Managing Director, Company, presents in the May issue an article describes the consultation service maintained on "The Growth of the Private Business by the Council. Over seven thousand requests Library," by I-. L. Briggs, Professor of Econ- for information were answered by the Library omics, University of Vermont. Articles of this and Information Bureau. type written by persons outside the profession + * + are of great value in helping the business world "Engineers" is a new reference book pub- to appreciate the value of special libraries. lished by the Neo-Technic Research Corpora- * * * tion. General Motors Building, New York, Alexander B. Andrews, attorney-at-law, N. Y., valuable to every technical and industrial Raleigh, North Carolina, is chairman of the library. It possesses the features of a directory, committee of the American Bar Association on a handbook and a manufacturers' directory- Judicial Salaries. He offers to send gratis a useful in all branches of engineering. copy of Senate Document 81, 70th Congress, *** 1st Session, which gives valuable details con- The Index to Legal Periodicals and Law cerning the salaries of the United States judges Library Journal offers as a valuable aid to and judges in the several states. subscribers a photostat service. Any article + * + indexed in the Index to Legal Periodicals and Some recent studies in traffic regulation will Law Library Journal may be secured by writing be desired by many special libraries. For to the Editor, Professor Eldon R. James, Har- instance, have you seen "The Speed Traffic vard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. Control Problem of the City of Boston," pre- * * + pared by the Erskine Bureau of Harvard We believe that we have not yet noted the University, the "Traffic Survey of the City of description of the research library at the Whit- Providence," prepared by Miller McClintock, ing Refinery of the Standard 011 Company of Director of the Erskine Bureau, and Pitts- Indiana, which is mentioned in The Library burgh's "Central Business District Street Occurrent, the publication of the Library Traffic Survcy?" All these studies are corn- Division of the Indiana Library and Historical prehensive and splendid technical pieces of Department. work. + * * + +. + The financial Post of Toronto, the leading The little leaflet issued by the Business financial newspaper of Canada, publishes a Branch of the Newark Public Library, dis- complete annual service on Canadian securities, cusses in each ~nonthlyissue a particular group including Survey of Corporate Securities, of material. The September numbcr dealt with Yearbook of Canadian Business, Survey of directories. October will discuss investments Mines, Government and Municipal Survey and and the following month magazines. Eartier Record of Prospectuses The Past has a New issues contained references to maps, business York office at 80 Wall Street. condition surveys, and the executive's book *** shelf. Persons desiring to complete their files In connection with the seventeenth annual may obtain the earlier numbers by application safety congress in New York City, an exhibit to the Business Branch at 34 Commerce Street, was arranged by the Library and Information Newark, New Jersey. Bureau of the National Safety Council. Miss *** Mary B. Day, librarian, and other members The Rate Research Committee of the of the staff were in attendance at the specially National Electric Light Association, New designed booth at the Pennsylvania Roof York City, has prepared a report on the electric Garden. light and power rates in the United States. A October, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 295 partial bibliography of the literature on electric P. Garvan, head of the Chemical Foundation, rate making, compiled by Charles E. Neil, subscribed $250,000 to this fund. secretary of the Rate Research Committee, has been appended to the pamphlet. A reference is made to the exhaustive bibliography pre- Those in the educational field must not fail pared by 0. E. Norman and published in the to secure a new cataloging tool-"List of 1926 proceedings of the American Gas Associa- Educational Subject Headings," prepared by tion. L. Belle Voegelein, reference assistant in the *** Bureau of Educational Research at Ohio State At a meeting of the American Chemical University. The undertaking was initiated by Society, held at Swampscott in September, the National Educational Assoc~ation Com- states the New York Times, large sums of money mission on Co-ordination of Research Agencies were contributed to aid the cause of chemistry. and its Committee on the Classification of Among various items, 118 industrial concerns Educational Materials is responsible for the contributed $250,000 for the publication of results. The book can bc secured from the chemical abstracts, and, in addition, the Ohio State Un~versityPress, Columbus, Ohio. Society itself appropriated $110,000. The In the educational field an up-to-date list of Soc~etyalso announced the raising of $500,000 subject headings was certainly needed, hcnce this year toward its proposed entlow~~lentfund this scholarly attempt by Miss Voegelein, of $2,000,000 for the permanent financing of this who is well qualified to do it, is a most com- project of getting the news of science to leaders prehensive list, logically made, fully cross- of industry and education in America who need referenced, uscs up-to-date terms and seems to to keep abreast of scientific advances. Francis be a practical tool.

Personal Notes Mary C. Parker, Department Editor

Miss Estclle Brucker has been appointed Mexican and Central American collections in acting librarian for the Rescarch Library of the the I-Ioover War Library, Stanford Cnivcrsity. White XIotor Company, Cleveland. * * * 3Ir. Angus Fletcher, fornicr prcsltlent of the Special Libraries Association of New York Miss Helga Linde, formerly of the cataloging and the plescnt librarian of the British Library department of tlic Scw York Public Library, of Information in New l'ork, was a visitor in is now with the Standard Statistics Co~npany, Boston in Junc, when he mas entertained at Inc., of New l'orlc City. luncheon by the executive con~tnitteeof the Boston Special Lil~rariesAssociation. *** 1Iiss Dorothy Lenthold, a recent graduate of the Columbia Library School, who was with Theodore L. I-Iaman has bcen appointed the Standard Statistics Company, Inc., during business librarian to Mr. Joseph R. \Val ner, the summer has accepted a position in the 61 Broadway, New Yorlc. Tbc Library Joi~rnal cataloging department of Princeton University. stales that Mr. Haman's position, which has recently been created, covers gene~alresearc11 in commerce, economics, and finance. -4 luncheon was given in Kew k'ork on *** Thursday, October 4, for Miss Mary B. Day, Miss Margaret Witlhgton, who, to the rc- librarian of the National Safety Council of gret of her multitude of friends and admirers Chicago, by a number of hcr friends in the in Boston, has left Boston to become the New York Special Librarles Association. Miss librarian at Scripps College, Claremont, Cali- Day was in charge of the library exhibit. fornia, was the guest of honor at a luncheon given by the executive coninlittee ant1 former Helioclore Valle, chief of the bibliographical presidents of the Boston Special Libraries section, library division, Ministry of Education, Association at the Hotel Bellevue on Tuesday, Mex~coCity, has been appointed curator of the June 26. Pages 297-304 deleted, advertising.