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Volume 55, NO.7 CONTENTS September 1964

President's Report: Guidance System for Space Age Librarianship-Launching Treasurer's Report Annual Business Meeting Report Advisory Council Report SLA Special Achievement Award Geography and Map Division Award SLA Hall of Fame Resolutions of Appreciation 1964-65 SLA Scholarship Winners Executive Director's Report Call for Papers A Creative, Catalytic Convention SLA Membership Chart Chapter Relations Committee Report Division Relations Committee Report Committee Reports, 1963-64 Special Representatives' Reports, 1963-64 SLA Official Directory ALA Institute on Data Processing The AHIL Bibliotherapy Workshop Out of Anonymity and into the Trees- The Forest Service Library Sessions in St. Louis

NEWS Association News Have You Heard Off the Press

Editor: MARYL. ALLISON SPECIALLIBRARIES COMMITTEE Assistant Editor: EDYTHEC. PORPA Chairman: ROBERTG. KRUPP Consultants: ALBERTAL. BROWN HOWARDB. BENTLEY DR. I. A. WARHEIT MRS. ELIZABETHR. USHER Papers published in SPECIAL LIBRARIES express the views of the authors and do not represent the opinion or the policy of the edrtorral stafl or the publrsher. Manuscrrpts submrtted for publrcation must be typed double space on only one side of paper and mailed to the editor. 0 Reprints may be ordered immediately before or after publication. Subscriptions: U. S. $10; foreign, $11; single copies, $1.50. @ by Special Libraries hoci- ation 1964. INDEXED IN Business Periodicals Index, Public ABairs Information Service, Library Literaturr. Management Index and Abstracts. Take 3 minutes to learn exactly what University Microfilms can do for you.

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MILDRED H. BRODE, President 1963-64

HEN I ASSUMED the presidency of this Recruitment Committee of the San Francisco W Association last June, I stated my be- Bay Region Chapter contributed copy for lief that the goals recommended by the Goals seven new Data Sheets, bringing the total of for 1970 Committee and accepted by the As- these one-page summaries of specific types sociation as a whole should serve as the of special library work to 21. Hundreds, in- "guidance system for space age librarian- deed thousands (over 46,000), of these ship." The Association year, 1963-64, repre- items have been mailed to inquirers and dis- sents the launching stage of our space age tributed to high school and college vocational vehicle. Committee Chairmen, Chapter and counsellors. Division officers, Special Representatives, and On the person-to-person level, several individual members have been asked to read Chapter Recruitment Committees have taken the goals thoughtfully and to consider care- effective action. Members of the Connecticut fully how they can best contribute to achiev- Valley Chapter, for instance, cooperated with ing the objectives set forth. Many have ac- the Connecticut Library Association in set- cepted this challenge, and during the year ting up and staffing a well-attended library there has been significant progress toward booth at the 17th New England Personnel making the goals a reality by 1970. Let me and Guidance Conference, and the Southern review some of the accomplishments. California Chapter contributed materials and Goal 1 states: "At least 30,000 well- manpower to a ten-day library display at the trained special libtaria?as-information special- Los Angeles Career Guidance Center, which ists should be working in the field. Means was visited by some 45,000 students, teach- for accomplishi?zg this end are: a) Recruit- ers, and counsellors. The Boston Chapter ment of intelligent young people and compe- seized the unique opportunity to participate tent people from other professions to special in an exhibition held at a large shopping librarianship arzd to Special Libraries Asso- center in Peabody, Massachusetts. This was ciation." real grass roots recruiting since many of the The Recruitment Committee has attacked housewives and other shoppers had never this problem vigorously. Last fall it prepared heard of special libraries and stopped to talk and issued a completely new 16-page bro- with the special librarians at the booth and chure describing the profession for college pick up the recruitment literature. Inciden- students and adults. Entitled Special Libray- tally, this display also succeeded in recruiting ianship-Information at Work, it emphasizes membershipa museum librarian manning that "special librarians act as links in the a nearby booth took time to examine the SLA information chain" and that information is exhibit and promptly applied for member- vital and exciting in all subject areas. The ship ! SEPTEMBER 1964 The Advertising Division took advantage learned by studying these flow charts, dia- of the Seventh Annual Career Conference grams, and sample forms. None of us can of the Advertising Women of New York to afford to be "drop outs" in a continuing distribute descriptive material on the oppor- education program or not to obtain our full- tunities for both professional and nonprofes- est competence. sional careers in advertising agency, trade Goal 1 d) : "Sta~dardsfor special librar- association, marketing, and communications ies should serve as a guide to the type of ed- media libraries. ucation needed and the type of library or- Goal 1 b) : "An extensive program of ganization desirable." education, both initial and continuing, at all During the year the drafts of the standards levels of Association activity." on objectives, services, and staff have been The San Francisco Bay Region Chapter, widely circulated. They have been repro- which won the H. W. Wilson Company duced in a number of Chapter bulletins and Cha~terAward last year for its exceile& distributed and discussed it Chapter meet- program in continuing education for special ings. The Advisory Council considered them librarians, pursued its good work by present- at length at its Mid-Winter Meeting and ing a course on The Acquisition of Special again here in St. Louis. For the pasi four Materials as part of the extension program months Ruth S. Leonard, Professor of Li- offered by the University of California at brary Science at Simmons College on sab- Berkeley in cooperation with the School of batical leave, has been working to perfect Librarianship. The course, consisting of eight the drafts; she has been assisted by an ad- lectures, was specially designed for practicing visor~committee whose members have made librarians who wanted to expand and up- detailed comments on the many revisions. date their knowledge. The Chapter also con- Copies of the last revision, "Standards for ducted a one-day Symposium on the Analysis Special Libraries: A Tentative Draft," have of Library Systems. been included in all registration kits and, if Up in Canada, the Toronto and Montreal you have not already done so, I urge you Chapters joined forces for a full day's Work- to read your copy, study the proposals care- shop on Continuing Education for Special fully, and send your comments to the Pro- Librarianship ; 115 persons attended the gen- fessional Standards Committee, Agnes Brite, eral morning" session and the five afternoon Chairman, as soon as possible. panels on specific educational problems. Statistics are closely related to standards Goal 1 c) : "All meetings and comen- and often form the basis on which standards tions of the Association should have as their of certain types are promulgated. During purpose the corntiming education of the spe- the year, the Chairman of the SLA Statistics cial librarian ." Committee and Representative to the ALA One has only to peruse the present Con- Statistics Coordinating Committee, Ruth vention program to see how this objective Fine, and the appointed Specialist on Special is being fulfilled. Dr. Swanson's keynote Library Statistics, Ann McCann, have worked address was devoted to education; the Metals closely with the ALA Statistics Coordinating Division heard five speakers describe ways Project under the directorship of Joel Wil- of controlling and disseminating technical liams. A series of regional meetings were information; the Newspaper and Picture Di- held in which SLA representatives partici- visions held a series of practical how-to-do-it pated. The Project has now produced a draft sessions; and the eight Sections of the Sci- of a "Handbook of Library Statistics," chap- ence-Technology Division considered better ter five of which is titled "Statistics of Spe- library-management relations, to name just a cial Libraries." It gives basic definitions and few. For the second year the Documentation delineates the kinds of statistics useful in Division arranged a display of nonconven- presentations to management and the public. tional techniques applied to library problems, Goal 2: "Special librarianship must be and this year the exhibit features applications much better known and understood by 1970 being used in small libraries. Much can be than it is at present." SPECIAL LIBRARIES Basically this is a problem of good com- National Librarv Week I~rovided another munications and good public relations on the opportunity to tell the special library story, part of the Association, but most important and many members contributed items to of all, it is "a job well done" by each and their company house organs and local news- every special libiarian. papers, participated on radio and TV panels, I have already mentioned several efforts and arranged displays of many sorts. Special of Association, Chapter, and Division Re- librarians in Minnea~olisare to be ~articu- cruitment committees to inform students, larly commended for their efforts in utilizing teachers, and parents about the potentials of Week effectively. special librarianship as a stimulating, useful, Feature articles about local s~eciallibrar- and satisfying career, and now I should like ies have appeared in a number of newspapers to enumerate other activities that have during the year. The series in the St. Louis brought the Association and its members to Post-Dispatch last fall is perhaps the most the attention of management and profes- notable. sional groups as well as the general public. These are but examples of what can be First of all, the Association participated in done-and must be done-if we are to make the International Management Congress held special librarianship generally known by in last September. Associa- 1970. tion members staffing the model library Goal 3: "The Special Libraries Associa- proved to Congress attendees from all over tion should continue to insure the existence the world how skilled, knowledgeable librar- and improvement of all needed secondary ians could locate desired information suicklv bibliographic publications and services. . . A J and accurately; the displays of information and to identify and participate actively in handling techniques showed some of the encouraging the establishment of essential methods and eq;ipment utilized by special information centers, services, and publica- librarians; and the bibliography, Literature tions." of Executive Management, which was dis- No doubt, the outstanding achievement in tributed without charge (1,673 distributed), this area during the year was obtaining fi- provided a useful tool to help Congress reg- nancial support for the expansion of the SLA UD istrants set I or ex~andI their own reference Special Classifications Center. The Associa- collections when they returned home. tion has long recognized the value of sharing Other exhibits sponsored by the Metah special classification schemes and subject Division at the Metals Show, the Philadel- heading lists, and for 40 years has been phia Chapter at the annual American Chem- building and maintaining a loan collection of ical Society meeting, and the Translations unpublished systems for organizing informa- Center at meetings of ten technical societies tion. Much of this program has been carried depicted the services and programs of the on by volunteer individual members although Association to a wide variety of professional the School of Library Science at Western Re- persons. To help make the public more aware serve University has serviced the collection of the facilities and resources of libraries, for the past eight years. Now, with a grant SLA is currently cooperating with ALA and from the National Science Foundation, the AD1 in operating Library/USA at the New Center has a professional Director and funds York World's Fair. with which to solicit and purchase additional The theme of the H. W. Wilson Company materials to enable it to become a true na- Chapter Award this year, The SLA Chapter tional resource center for classification in- as a Member of the Business and Profes- formation. sional Community, has stimulated several The Translations Center has already estab- Chapters to hold-joint meetings with other lished itself as one of the maior international groups having allied interests and to coop- centers for technical and scientific informa- erate in other ways to bring about greater tion in non-English languages. The Chair- mutual understanding between special librar- man of the Translations Activities Commit- ians and the personnel they serve. tee has personally reported recently on the SEPTEMBER 1964 Center's current programs, but I should like Clearly, this goal is still furthest from at- to recall that SLA was one of two United tainment. However, an Ad Hoc Committee States organizations asked by UNESCO to to Study a SLA Research Program made its send a representative to its Working Party first report at the Mid-Winter Meeting at No. 3 on Scientific Translation and Termi- which it recommended that a high level staff nology. Elizabeth M. Walkey very capably person be appointed to coordinate the Asso- represented the Association at this meeting ciation's research efforts and be responsible in Rome and was chosen to be Vice-Chair- for information and library services at Asso- man of the Working Party. ciation Headquarters. Such a position, if pos- The Association itself has continued to sible, will be created during the coming year publish bibliographies and reference tools in as a first step in developing a research pro- Special Libraries and in book form, and a gram; so it is hoped that in the not too dis- number of members hare compiled and con- tant future the Association can play a more tributed to specialized works issued by com- active role in the stimulation, attraction, and mercial publishers. This is commendable, but furtherance of research, research interests, it does make me wonder if the Associ at' ion and research support. should not do even more to encourage indi- This concludes my summary of the prog- vidual members to publish, either under com- ress made toward effecting the Goals for mercial or SLA auspices. At present it is 1970. A good start has been made; much Association policy to encouragegroup publish- remains to be developed and completed. ing projects by offering royalties to the Chap- However, with though;ful planning Ad vi- ters, Divisions, Sections, and Groups that sion backed up with hard work, the goals have prepared works published under the will continue to serve as a guidance system SLA imprint. Perhaps more individuals in our efforts to ~roducethe kecial librarians would submit manuscripts to the Nonserial and information specialists, the wide-spread Publications Committee if they knew they appreciation and knowledge of the profession, would receive financial remuneration. Per- the bibilographic tools, services and centers, haps, as in academic circles, the prestige re- and the active research program desired in ceived from publishing is sufficient reward. the next decade. At any rate, it might be well to consider Another area of emphasis for the Asso- seriously ways and means of stimulating in- ciation in 1963-64 has been the strengthen- dividuals to prepare bibliographic and ref- ing of our position among professional and erence material for publication. One idea scientific societies of similar or related inter- that comes to mind is to compile a list of ests by cooperative efforts with them. In various subject fields and types of activities addition to forms of cooperation already men- in which references are needed and then try tioned, the St. Louis convention has pro- to find individuals or groups willing to un- vided a meeting place for the United States dertake these works. Forest Service Workshop meetings and those Before passing on to Goal 4, mention of the American Geological Instih~te. should be made of the local tools issued by During the year we have entered into a the Chapters this year: The Directory of Spe- cooperative arrangement with Aslib whereby cial Libraries of G~eaterNew York; U?zio?z each Association acts in its own country as List of Serials for Md-America in Libravies an agent for the sale of each other's publica- of Greater Kansas City dud Sections of Mis- tions. souri, O&lahom~~,a?zd Kamas; Directoyy of On the international level, largely through Special Libraries of Southem California; Li- the efforts of SLA's delegate to the annual braries of New , and Union Lirt of meeting of the International Federation of Periodicals in Libraries of Southern Califor- Library Associations Council in Sofia, Bul- nia. garia, and later by visits to Sir Frank Francis, Goal 4: "By 1970, the Special Libtwies President of IFLA; Anthony Thompson, its Association must have set in motiotz an active Permanent Secretary; Leslie Wilson, Execu- research program ." tive Director of Aslib; and Dr. Reichardt, SPECIAL LIBRARIES President of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der launching period of our guidance system, it Spezialbibliotheken; a Special Libraries Sec- behooves each individual special librarian to tion of IFLA is being organized. It is im- redouble his efforts to achieve the happy perative that our Association give its strong landing hoped for by 1970. support to this new Section, assuming inter- We can well say with Emerson: "The fu- national leadership in our field. ture belongs to those who prepare for it, With such accomplishments during the who work for it, who live for it."

Treasurer's Report

RALPH H. PHELPS

HE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS of the Spe- months this year's income from dues was T cial Libraries Association for the year $113,997 compared to $88,062 a year ago. ending , 1963, together with The net increase of $25,935 represents an the report of Price Waterhouse & Co., Cer- increase of 29 per cent. The long awaited tified Public Accountants who examined the retirement plan for the Association Head- accounts, were published in Special Libraries, quarters staff is now in effect and $5,875 has . been paid into it. Following three years of deficits, SLA has Comparative income and expenditures for had a favorable Llance for the last two the J~.Ymonths are: years. In the past year every income item ex- 1962-1963 1963-1964 ceeded its budgeted amount. The largest in- creases were from Convention receipts and Income $154,395 $185,344 Special Ljb~inies.Totals for the year are: Expenditures 91,641 11 1,394 Actual Budget Balance $62,754 $ 73,950 Income $188,320 $167,510 Expense 183,926 180,000 Fine as it is to be able to present a report -- showing SLA to be in excellent financial $ 4,394 $ 12,490 health, it is even more satisfying to know balance anticipated deficit that by combining money and members' Undoubtedly, major interest centers in the work the Association is continuing to grow result of the dues increase. In the first six in service to the profession.

Fund balances as of March 31, 1964 were: 1962-1963 General fund General reserve fund Life membership fund Publications fund Scholarship & student loan fund Special Classifications Center fund Translations Center fund Translators & translations, 2nd ed. fund Foreign Publications Agency fund Equipment reserve fund

$262,296 SEPTEMBER 1964 Annual Business Meeting Report HELENE DECHIEF, Secretary

HE ANNUALBUSINESS Meeting of Spe- taking place in Division names and in Chap- T cial Libraries Association was held in ter Group names, and outlined many joint the Gold Room of the Sheraton-Jefferson meetings with professional groups and with Hotel at St. Louis on June 10, 1964, at 2 :lo other library associations. Although the prob- p.m. under the chairmanship of Mrs. Mil- lem of bulletin costs are high and elaborate dred Brode, President. Mrs. Marguarite bulletins may not be warranted, he stated Grummer was Parliamentarian, and Eliza- some form of inter-divisional flow of infor- beth Mulhall, Chief Teller. mation is required. Plans for the 1965 Con- In her presidential message, Mrs. Brode vention have alreadv been discussed bv Di- reviewed the accomplishments of Divisions vision Chairmen and interesting proposals and Chapters towards implementing the made. Goals for 1970 in the way of recruitment, Mrs. Gloria Evans, Chairman of the Con- education, development of professional sultation Committee, described the develop- standards, public relations, establishment of ment of the Consultation Service. She re- information centers, services, and publica- ported that the revised consultation Manual tions. She pointed out that much remains to provided to all Chapter Consultation Officers be done especially in the field of active re- and the new Consultation Service Newsletter search, but with thoughtful planning and are intended to serve as a liaison and a clear- hard work the goals will continue to serve as inghouse of ideas between the Chapter Con- a guide for the next decade. sultant, the Professional Consultant, and the Ralph Phelps, Treasurer, reported a favor- Committee. able balance for the second consecutive year Agnes Brite, the active Chairman of the and was happy to announce that SLA is in Professional Standards Committee, spoke on "excellent financial health." the survey undertaken by her committee. She Robert W. Gibson, Jr. reported that at the reported that the draft written by Ruth S. Mid-Winter Advisory Council Meeting in Leonard was based on many factors derived Baltimore the SLA Professional Standards from these surveys, committee reports, and were presented and the Division Liaison Of- her own experience. Miss Brite invited all ficer brought up the subject of reorganization members to send constructive criticism before of the divisional structure. At the second submission of the final draft to the Board meeting in St. Louis, the proposed Profes- of Directors in September. sional Standards were discussed again, and In the absence of Meredith Wright, Chair- a resolution was passed to refer the draft to man of the Special Classifications Committee, the Board of Directors. Barbara Denison, Director of the Center, Margaret Madden gave an account of her outlined the background and development activities as Chapter Liaison Officer and sum- of what is now the new Special Classifica- marized the activities of the Chapters during tions Center. She urged all members who the year, noting how closely all were trying had classifications or subject heading or to implement the "Goals for 1970." She terminology lists to send them or write to the said that a detailed survey of the geographic Center, Western Reserve University, Cleve- distribution of Chapters will start shortly. land, Ohio 44106. Dr. Frank McKenna, Division Liaison Of- Special Libraries Chairman, Robert G. ficer, reported that he presented at the Mid- Krupp, reported on the activities of his Com- Winter meeting a paper on the historical mittee. Commenting on the rejection of pa- growth of SLA Divisions. (Editor's Note: pers, he explained the types of material that This was published in the July- have been overworked and why others were Special Libraries.) He reviewed the changes unsuitable. The Committee has decided to 428 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Reports were present.ed by Elizabeth M. Walkey, Chairman of the Translations Activities Committee, Mrs. Gloria Evans, Chairman of the Consultation Service Committee, and Barbara Denison, director of the SLA Special Classifications Center. The standards pre- pared by Ruth S. Leonard, in consultation with the professional Standards Committee, Agnes Brite, Chairman, were discussed, and questions from the floor were answered.

give help to library school students to make winners: Mrs. Nada Cail, Sherrill Cartt, Da- their papers more acceptable for publication. vid Elazar, Kenneth Ferstl, Mrs. Jo Anne Mr. Krupp listed the suggestions made at Hawkins, Mrs. Joyce Hill, Mrs. Grazina the annual Convention meeting for improve- Juodelis, Marion Merrill, Bonnie Seesland, ments in Special Libraries and said that they and Martha Zelle. will be seriously considered. The Resolutions Reference Committee Ruth Fine, Chairman of the Statistics Chairman, Mrs. Rose Cramer, read the reso- Committee, presented the background of the lution expressing sincere gratitude for the National Statistics Coordinating Project, the 1963-4 President, Mrs. Mildred Brode, ap- object of which is the preparation of a hand- preciation of the Convention Chairman, book of statistical concepts and definitions. James V. Jones, all those who helped in the She summarized the plan of operation of the planning and work of this Convention, and project and reported what has been accom- to all non-librarians whose encouragement plished so far, especially as relates to the and participation helped to make the Con- chapter on special libraries. vention such a success. Holding before members the old Technicd After the motion for the adoption of these Book Review Index, Virginia Garland, Chair- resolutions, new business was discussed. man of TBRZ Committee, was happy to dis- Gretchen Little asked if there was a ceiling play and describe the new dress of TBRI on the Reserve Fund and its limit. Mr.

now in its 30th year. She predicts that TBRZ Phel~sI said that as a result of the examina- will continue to show a profit for SLA. tion of the Association investments, the Fi- Elizabeth M. Walkey, Chairman of the nance Committee has recommended that next Translations Activities Committee, reported year's Finance Committee recommend to the that the Translations Center received more Board the removal of the maximum limit , nongovernment translations than ever be- on the Association's General Reserve Fund. fore. A cumulative master translation index Chester Sanger, Librarian of the Chkstian and finding tool is under consideration, and Science ~oniirin Boston, announced the the second edition of Tvanslators and Tram- establishment of the Jack K. Burness Me- lations: Services and Sources will soon be morial Award as a memorial to the distin- published. Miss Walkey spoke most enthusi- guished deceased newspaper librarian, Jack astically about her visit to Rome as SLA K. Burness, formerly of the Washington Post. representative to the UNESCO Working The annual award of $500 will be given to a Party No. 3 on Scientific Translation and newspaper librarian for recognition of dis- Terminology. tinguished service in the administration of a Mrs. Alice P. Hook, Chairman of the newspaper anywhere in the world. The first Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Com- award will be made in 1965 ; Mrs. Burness mittee, read the names of the ten scholarship was presented to the members. SEPTEMBER 1964 429 Elizabeth Mulhall reported on the mail for SLA, its goals and its best interest, meas- ballot vote for 1964-65 officers, and Mrs. ures up to the responsibility the presidency Brode declared the officers duly elected. has entrusted to him. Mr. Budington stated in his presidential Mr. Budington introduced the new Presi- talk that he would use Dr. Swanson's new dent-Elect Alleen Thompson who moved that word "scientistics" as his very own. By use the Convention show by its applause its ap- of "scientistics" he showed the great strides preciation of the diligent work of those re- made by SLA since its creation in 1909, and tiring from the Board and of the many con- he looked forward to greater strides towards tributions made by Mrs. Brode. SLA goals. He hopes that his great concern The meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

Advisory Council Report

ROBERT W. GIBSON, JR. Advisory Council Interim Chairman

HE ADVISORYCOUNCIL held two meet- their committees. The Division Liaison Of- T ings during the 1963-64 year as usual. ficer introduced the subject of divisional However, through a series of circumstances, structure by giving a presentation of the both were chaired by a Board of Director's history of Divisions within the Association. "appointee." Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hutchins, He suggested that perhaps one way of group- Chairman-Elect of the Council, resigned un- ing our members would be to reorganize the expectedly during December. Accordingly, specialized membership interests into six the Board appointed the undersigned to fill broad categories: Arts, Business, Biological the ice-chairmanshiu until Mrs. Hutchins' Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, unexp~redterm could be filled through a reg- and Applied Science (Engineering). ular election. The Mid-Winter Meeting, held Subsequent to the Baltimore meeting, Mr. in Baltimore on February 13 and 14, was Zerwekh found it impossible to continue as well attended with representatives from 27 Chairman of the Advisory Council and re- Chapters, 13 Divisions, 24 standing commit- signed in early March. consequently, the tees, and eight special committees. Unfortu- second meeting of the Advisory Council on nately, Charles Zerwekh, Jr. was unable to Monday evening, June 8, at St. Louis, was attend the meeting because of family illness. chaired bv the Interim Chairman. Prior to The Interim Chairman presented a sum- the meeting, the Council had received copies mary of Mr. Zerwekh's report to the Council. of the draft of the proposed professional In response to a questionnaire, the Chairman standards and had been requested to read had received several suggestions concerned them before the Monday evening meeting with possible changes in the composition of so that as meaningful a discussion as possible the Ad\~sorvCouncil. A draft of the three would result. Apparently the full agenda completed sections of the new SLA profes- did not discourage discussion of this impor- sional standards, i.e., Objectives, Sxvices, tant paper. Much discussion was also engen- and Staff, was presented by Committee Chair- dered by a resolution to change the timing man, Agnes Brite. The resulting discussion of the meetings of the Advisory Council, the should aid Ruth Leonard, the Association's proposals of the Education Committee, and consultant on standards, in writing the by the statements of the Division Liaison final draft of the entire standards, which was officer on divisional structure. presented to the Council at the Convention It has been a pleasure serving the Associa- meeting. Several committee chairmen brought tion through the Advisory Council during the Council up-to-date on the activities of the past six months. SPECIAL LIBRARIES SLA Special Achievement Award A Special Achievement Award was resented to Mrs. Lucille Jackson Strauss, Librarian, Chemistry and Physics Library, Whitmore Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, in recognition of her editorship and partial authorship of Tech?zrcal Librarie~:Their Orgai~izatiot2ad Manageme?zt. When presenting Mrs. Strauss with an engraved silver bowl President Brode stated: "This book, which was published by Special Libraries Association in 1951, was one of the most notable professional achieve- ments in the technical library field in the past decade. It was an immediate success, filling a long-felt need and forming an induable guide to the literature of special librarianship. Its bibliographies and running synthesis of the literature were among its most important contributions. Although intended prirnaril!. for the novice librarian to whom it has been indispensable as a guide to techniques and sources, it has also been of great value to those of longer experience in scientific and technical libraries and to the managements of organizations preparing to set up a library or information service. For all those wishing to establish good technical library service it has served as a 'Bible' and consultant in time of need." Geography and Map Division Award Miss Nordis Felland, Librarian of the American Geographical Society in New York City since 1944, received the SLA Ge- ography and Map Division's Honors Award for 1964. The citation, which was presented at the Division's annual business eeting in St. Louis on June 8, honored Miss Felland for her utstanding achievements-as Editor of Ctlrreizt Geographicnl 1icatiow.r; for maintaining a research catalog on which the nationally known Curreizt Geog~.apbicalPublii-ntiom has based and which has been photographed in bound vol- mes; for maintaining a collection of over 160,000 volumes; nd for unstinting service to the Special Libraries Association 0th as a Division officer and as Chairman of the various com- mittees of the Division. Miss Felland received her B.A. from St. Olaf College in Min- nesota and her B.L.S. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, with interspersed graduate work in geology at Columbia University. She is a member of the Association of American Geographers, the American Geographical Society, the Society of Woman Geographers, the Bibliographical Society of America, and American Library Associ~tion. EDITOR'SNOTE: All photograph.r in this issue, with the exception of the srholarship zui~zners,ALA exhibit, azd Geography and Map Division Ho?zor.r Award ~i'imzer,were tnkez by Sieve~sPhotographers of St. Louis. All identifying raptiom 1x12 left to right. SEPTEMBER 1964 431 SLA Hall of Fame Four members are honored by election to the SLA Hall of Fame. This recognition is granted for outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the Special Libraries Association and is offered following completion of an active professional career or near the date of announced retirement. DR. JOLAN M. FERTIG Head, Technical Information, Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsb~lrgh 35, Pennsylvania, 1929-1964 Home Address: 712 Princeton Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania President, Pittsburgh Chapter, 1934 Director, SLA Executive Board, 1934-37 Chairman, Pittsburgh Convention, 1938 SLA Second Vice-president, 1938-1939 Chairman, Technical Book Rez~iewIndex Committee, 1940-1959 SLA Professional Award, 1955 Member, Awards Committee, 1955-1956 Member, Committee to Define Special Librarianship, 1955-1956 SLA Member, 1931-date MARGARET HATCH Chief Librarian, Pacific Coast Head Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 600 Stockton Street, San Francisco, California, 1930-1959 Home Address: 129 East Eldridge Avenue, Mill Valley, California Charter Member, San Francisco Bay Region Chapter, 1924 President, San Francisco Bay Region Chapter, 1928-1929, 1939-1940 Executive Board, San Francisco Bay Region Chapter, 1929-1930, 1940-1941 Chairman, Employment Committee, San Francisco Bay Region Chapter, 1932-1939 Member, Committee on Cooperation between Business and Libraries, 1934 Chairman, Insurance Division, 1943- 1944 Member, Student Loan Fund Committee, 1943-1946 Chairman, Joint Meeting of Southern California and San Francisco Bay Region Chap- ters, 1946 Director, SLA Executive Board, 1948-1951 SLA Member, 1923-date MARY JANE HENDERSON Librarian, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Home Address: 98 Church Street, Brockville, Ontario, Canada Charter Member, Montreal Chapter, 1932 President, Montreal Chapter, 1932-1933 Co-compiler, Union List of Periodicals in Montreal Lib~aries,1933 Chairman, Montreal Convention, 1936 Director, SLA Executive Board, 1937-1940 Chairman, Montreal Employment Committee, 1951-1953 Compiler, Canadia?~Sozrces of Information, 1953 SLA Member, 1927-date MARION E. WELLS Librarian, 1931-1963; Archivist, 1963-date, The First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Home Address: 607 Ferdinand Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois Chairman, Financial Division, 1941-1942 President, Illinois Chapter, 1942-1944 SLA Second Vice-president, 1945-1946 Chairman, Chicago Convention, 1947 Chairman, Nominating Committee, 1949-1950 Member, Recruitment Committee, 1953-1955 432 SPECIAL LIBRARIES SLA Representati~e,Joint Committee on Library Work as a Career, 1954-1957 Chairman, Consultation Service Committee, 1955-1956 Member, Chicago Convention Executive Committee, 1956-1958 SLA Professional Award, 1958 Member, Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Committee, 1958-1960 SLA Member, 1933-date Resolutions of Appreciation Adopted at the Annual Meeting

Resolutions Reference Committee, ROSE CRAMER, Chairman

WHEREAS,the Association has been guided by a Protestant Episcopal Church, for the invocation President who exemplifies the special librarian as at the Opening Session; and to the Reverend a creative catalyst and has endeared herself to the Robert J. Henle, S.J., Academic Vice-president, members by her friendliness and resolute attention St. Louis University, for the invocation at the to Association business: Banquet; Dr. Don R. Swanson, Dean, Graduate Library HE RESOLVED:That the Special Libraries As- IT School, University of Chicago, for the keynote sociation hereby expresses its sincere gratitude to address on "The Education of a Catalyst"; its 1963-64 President, Mildred Hooker Brode. Dr. Daniel M. Green for his orientation lecture HE IT RESOLVED:That in its awareness of the on "Creative Organization: the Librarian as a talent and enthusiasm and the inordinate amount Manager" at the second General Session; and to of work required to plan and execute the 55th Dr. William Stevenson for his address on "The Annual Convention, the Association recognizes its Creative Person" at the third General Session; debt to all who contributed, and especially to: and to all the other speakers who contributed so The Convention Chairman, James V. Jones, whose much to the Convention; and to all others who steady composure and administrative ability pro- took part in panels and workshops for the Divi- vided a progressive meeting with typical St. Louis sions ; friendliness and hospitality; and to his adminis- To the toastmaster at the Annual Banquet, Joseph tration at St. Louis University for granting him A. Shea, and to the Goldenrod Players and the time for his Convention duties; the Executive St. Louis Ragtimers for entertainment; Committee and Convention Committee whose To the Convention Board of Greater St. Louis, Chairmen were: Exhibits, Dr. Andrew Eaton; Morris Landau, Manager, and David Stubblefield ALA Co-chairman, Louis M. Nourse; Hospitality, for their help; Mrs. Elizabeth Owens; Local Arrangements, Mrs. To the , Frank Sarles, Jr., Mabel Sarber; Registration, Margaret Madden; Historian, for assistance; and to the St. Louis Meals and Banquet, Constance Ford; Information, Magazine for permission to use the cover from Constance Pfaff; Program, Efren Gonzalez; Treas- the bicentennial issue; urer, William A. Milkinson; Printing, Noel C. To the Chamber of Commerce of Greater St. Holobeck; Publicity, Charles J. Guenther; Trans- Louis for assistance; portation and Tours, Rosalind Dean; and to all To all the St. Louis area firms who assisted, but who assisted them; especially to: Central Microfilms ; Grove Labora- The Greater St. Louis Chapter, Francis O'Leary, tories; Laclede Gas Company; Monsanto Com- President, for hosting the Convention, and to all pany; McDonnell Aircraft Company; Remington- the members of the Chapter and their friends, for Rand; Royal McBee; St. Louis Pat-Di~patrh; their work; Union Electric Company; and University Bindery The Convention Program Committee, Mrs. Jean of St. Louis; G. Hopper, Chairman ; Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, and the The Division Relations Committee, Dr. Frank E. Association Headquarters staff of Special Librar- McKenna, Chairman, for sponsoring the second ies Association for invaluable support; General Session; and to all Division Chairmen The management of the Sheraton-Jefferson Ho- and their local representatives for many activities tel, especially G. R. Lucy, Don Schmoll, and in connection with the program; John Cowlen; and to the Statler-Hilton Hotel, All of the university, public, and special libraries Fletcher Burmit, Manager ; of the St. Louis area for permitting visits by SLA All the exhibitors and their workers, who pro- members during this Convention; and to the vided many new ideas and displayed useful new Washington University Computer Center for open- materials and equipment to aid the special li- ing its facilities to one of our Divisions; brarian in his task of being the creative catalyst The Venerable Charles F. Rehkopf, Archdeacon, of his environment. SEPTEMBER 1964 433 JO Anne W. Hawkins Noda R. Cail Joyce P. Hill Bonnie M. Seesland Grazina A. Juodelis

1964-65 SLA Scholarship Winners

Martha J. Zelle Sherrill R. Cartt Kenneth 1. Ferstl Marian W. Merrill David H. Elazar

MRS.NADA R. CAILgraduated from Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina, with a B.A. in English and library science and has already acquired some library experience. She is attending the Drexel Institute of Technology Graduate School of Library Science. SHERRILLR. CARTTmajored in chemistry and did student teaching at Whittier College in California. She entered the University of California School of Librarianship this summer. DAVIDH. ELAZARreceived a B.S. in chemistry from Wayne State University and has worked in the United Hebrew Schools Library since 1957. He is studying at the Univer- sity of Michigan Department of Library Science. KENNETHL. FERSTLreceived a degree in music and a library science certificate from North Texas State University where he also worked in the library. He is attending the University of Wisconsin Library School. MRS.JO ANNEW. HAWKINSwill combine art and special librarianship. She has a B.S. in art from the University of Texas where she is attending the Graduate School of Library Science. MRS. JOYCEP. HILLhas a degree in chemistry from the Hampton Institute in Virginia and has been a literature searcher and teacher. This fall she entered Rutgers University Graduate School of Library Service. MRS. GRAZINAA. JUODELISchose banking as a career after graduation from DePaul University. She will enter the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in October. MARIANW. MERRILLwas a student assistant in the library at Pennsylvania State Univer- sity where she received a B.A. in journalism. She is attending the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. BONNIEM. SEESLANDhas a B.A. in French from Rockford College, and has worked in the Moline . She is at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. MARTHAJ. ZELLE,who received a A.B. in chemistry from the University of Rochester, has had a few years of'library and research experience. She is studying at Western Re- serve University School of Library Science. 434 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Executive Director's Report

BILL M. WOODS

NCE A YEAR, both as a requirement and the Military Librarians and Metals Divisions 0 as a discipline, we review the year be- and 19 and 20 per cent decreases for the hind us, behind the Association. It's easy Heart of America and Chapters. enough to record the statistics of the year, Slight increases in membership are shown but statistics presented for statistics sake are for Documentation, Publishing, Michigan, deplorable and dreary. It's something quite Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisiana, Montreal, different to assess the accomplishments that Minnesota, , and San Diego and the statistics record. We will try to do both included 117 Active, 170 Associate, six Af- -a lot of statistics and some assessment-in filiate, two Emeritus, and six Sustaining what follows. members. The April 30, 1964 total was 11 Association Headquarters and the staff more than a year ago on that date. The April have the same relationship with the programs 30, 1964 total was 5,697. of the Association as each of you ;IS special During the past year 858 persons have librarians have with your company, agency, been accepted for membership or reinstated or institution. Although housekeeping duties after a year's lapse (including 572 since Jan- demand regular attention, we recognize the uary 1, 1964), and of that number, a total responsibility to serve as a catalyst, a creative of 732 have paid (479 since January). These catalyst. There is not a single objective, goal, figures represent fewer than a year ago when program, or publication of the Association the over-all figures were 1,094 and 946 paid. which in one way or another is not of inter- Assignments by class of membership in est, of concern, and the responsibility of 1963 and 1964 are as follows: Association Headquarters. This report, then, tells what has been happening in 1963-64. 1964 Active 124 Membership Associate 156 Another all-time high in membership was Student 165 recorded during the year. On December 31, Affiliate 2 7 Emeritus - 1963 the total was 6,091, an increase of 358 Sustaining 7 over that date a year earlier and 239 more than reported in the annual report a year Total 479 ago, Official membership counts for statisti- cal and fiscal purposes are taken on April 30 Bylaws of the Association require that and September 30 and for year's-end on De- persons whose dues are not paid by March cember 31. 31, 1964, be dropped from membership. Speculations on the effects of the dues in- This figure in 1964 was 694 for Chapters, crease on membership were many. The Fi- 600 for Divisions, 351 for Sections. By way nance Committee in recommending the of explanation, it should be pointed out that 1963-64 budget anticipated a fiscal year-end these figures are multi-complicated in that (September 30) drop of 332 members (150 both extra Chapter and Division affiliation is Active and 182 Associate). Encouragingly, allowed, that Divisions may determine the the April 30, 1964 official figures of 5,697 number of Sections to which their inembers show a drop of 299 only, and between April may belong (in Science-Technology their re- and September old members will be rein- striction is to one, while in Socid Science it stated and new members added. The Decem- is two), and a number of members affiliate bcr 1964 membership total is likely to match neither with a Chapter nor a Di\,ision. or exceed the previous high. The drops were The Bylaws also outline a promotion of reflected in 14 and 16 per cent decreases for qualified members from Associate to Activr SEPTEMBER 1964 Membership Breakdown by Class and Year

(1964 figures are for April 30, others are for the date of the Annual Report.)

Active Active (Paid for Life) Associate Affiliate Student Emeritus Honorary Sustaining

Total membership. The procedures established for of position at time of application, 13 be- the Associate Review seem of necessitv to be cause they were unemployed, and 30 for lack time-consuming. This year on November 6, of sufficient experience or education. 1963, review notices were sent to 228 per- A new all-time high number of Sustaining sons. (Another 42 persons due to be Got- members, 136, were enrolled at the end of essed had already resigned their member- December, seven more than a year ago. The xhip.) Of the 228, 138 were determined to Membership Committee has given some re- be eligible for Active and have paid, 43 were cent attention to the need for a Sustaining billed for Active but have not paid, one was membership drive and during 1964-65, in co- ineligible for Active and has paid for Asso- operation with Association Headquarters, ciate, 12 were billed for Associate but have will likely develop a workable program. not paid. A group of 34 Associate members did not respond to the first inquiry for up- Finances to-date information to aid in determining Associations normallv are ex~ectednot to their membership status; all were sent second show high profits in their operation as most notices on February, 28., 1964, but none has qualify for nonprofit status under the Inter- responded. nal Revenue Code. For the second straight Several staff members at Association Head- year Special Libraries Association had an quarters participate in the membership ad- excess of income collected over exvenses dis- missions program. The Director, Member- bursed. This figure as shown on the Au- ship Services, and the Membership Assistant ditor's statement for the year ending Septem- \vo& closely with the Admissions committee ber 30, 1963 (See January 1964 News ntzd in interpretation of the Bylaws and their ap- Notes), and including the adjustments due plication to a specific application. There is to transfers between funds, was $10,496.98. still a lack of complete understanding of the Assets on September 30, 1963, were $200,- Affiliate membership so a recent study by 201.54 compared to $194,460.51 a year be- the Admissions and Bvlaws Committees in fore. The March 31. 1964 Statement of providing some guidelines is welcome. The Assets and Fund Balances shows total assets need for consistency in interpretation should of $295,057.73 and on that date in 1963, be emphasized. The observation should be $262,296.15. The increase is noted partic- made that there is general agreement with ularly in the Generdl Fund and reflects in- the membership standards on the part of creased income from dues and fees and in the membership (as evidenced by its ap- all other items except transfers. pro\ ~l in 1962), except when the qualifica- The 1963-64 general operations budget tions of a person in a specific instance do not anticipated income of $216,220 and expendi- meet the minimum qualificationI for a ~3r- tures of $211,558. (Since it was adopted in ticulx class of membership. During the year an additional $2,706.09 has there was a total of 53 denials; ten because been approved for a total of $214,264.09,) SPECIAL LIBRARIES MUTLJALFUNDS General Reserve Fund Stein, Roe & Farnham Balanced Fund, Inc. July 27, 1961 129 shares at $38.64 Earnings of $207.45 reinvested 149.635 shares held April 30, 1964. Current price $39.84 Loomis-Sayles Mutual Funds December 7, 1961 290 shares at $17.23 Earnings of $229.76 reinvested 328.0828 shares held April 30, 1964. Current price $16.42 Johnston Mutual Fund, Inc. December 8, 1961 318.066 shares at $15.72 Earnings of $237.06 reinvested 348.311 shares held at April 30, 1964. Current price $14.85 Stein, Roe & Farnham Stock Fund February 28, 1962 146 shares at $34.08 Earnings of $100.79 reinvested 152.305 shares held at April 30, 1964. Current price $34.95 Scudder, Stevens & Clark Fund, Inc. February 28, 1962 244.499 shares at $20.45 May 23, 1962 271.50 shares at $18.44 Edrnings of $319.70 reinvested 611.522 shares held at April 30, 1964. Current price $19.89 (Marketable Securities 5-31-64, $32,930.51) NOTE:Reinvested earnings are for current report year

Interest Eamed Jme 1, 1963 to I~tefest Rate Ma) 31, 1964 Amerlcan 4.85 $486.95 Lytton 4.97 261.83 Sterlmg 4.85 212.89 Eylrzp117e1ztResewe Fnnd Fourth Federal S & LA 4.25 Gene1 a1 Fwzd Fmt Natlonal C~ty 4.00 West Stde S & LA 4.30 Lzje Member sh~pFmd Central Sav~ngs 4.25 Publll atzon r fiud Callforn~aFederal S 8: LA 4.8 Central Savlngs 4.25 Schol~i~J~IP alld Stzde?zt Loalz Fu)zd Central Savings 4.25 Home Mutual S & LA 4.8 Afotin~zPIL fur e Fmd Manhattan Sa\ lngs Bank 4.25 (new account)

The March 31, 1964 Statement happily re- promptly that approximately 50 per cent of ported income during the first six months the expenditures, but 82 per cent of the of $185,344.04 ($154,395.02 in 1962-63) income, is handled in the first six months of and expenditures of $111,393.63 ($91,- the fiscal year. 640.54 in 1962-63),and an excess of income Income from dues, through over expenditures of $73,950.41 ($62,754.48 , was $1 24,123.90 compared to in 1962.63). It should be pointed out $93,376.67 in 1962-63 and a fiscal year SEPTEMBER 1964 437 total of $96,821.83. Additional income from "Planning the New Library" series, and a dues for a comparable period already is $32,- detailed subject index. A number of favora- 411.38, while the amended budget requires ble reviews have appeared and a recent one $28,792.09. appears in Sonth Afiirmz Libl.arles (since it The total percentage and amount of dues is in Afrikaans, the evaluation is not yet income to be earned in the remaining four known). Since the book was published in months is small. If the percentage increase in September, more than 1,732 copies have been the period October through April (33.8 over sold while another 332 are on order. a year ago) is sustained, more than $6,800 Literdtzrre of Exerutiz~eMazagewzent (SLA in dues income is likely. Income from other Bibliography No. 5) was prepared specially sources has increased over 1963 and should for the International Management Congress produce totally for the year a healthy surplus. but has sold and been professionally noted (Only $30,875.96 need be collected from in its own right. Edited by Charlotte Georgi April 1-September 30, 1964, to meet the and compiled by a group of business librar- budgeted income, while last year income for ians, the work is a selective, annotated list this six-month period was $33,925.17.) of 500 books, journals and sources of value Principal investments of the Association to the international businessman. iMnmge- are held in mutual funds and in savings and i~e~ztIdeas, a monthly published by the loan associations. These are now held in the MMC School of Management in Bombay, several funds noted on page 437. reprinted a number of pages of extracts from the work in a late fall issue. 1,673 copies Publications were distributed to registrants at the Con- A professional association provides one of gress, and a total of-2,564 were sold or its principal services through its publications. specially distributed. SLA is a prolific publisher. Each year a num- Early in March the second edition of ber of books bear the Association imprint. Pic-ture Sour-ces, a project of the Picture Those handled by Association Headquarters Division prepared under the editorship of are described below while those of Chapters Mrs. Celestine G. Frankenberg, arrived from and Divisions (normally library and mem- the bindery. It describes more than 500 pic- bership directories and union lists) are men- ture collections, 305 more than in the first tioned in the reports of the two Liaison Of- edition. New features are an Alphabetical ficers. Fifty-six serials bear the Association List of Sources, a Geographical List of imprint, five noted involve Association Sources, a hard cover binding, and a ~isible Headquarters. All Chapters and 14 Divisions thumb index. issue a bulletin, several with professional Subject Hendings iz Adz,erti.ritlg, illn/&t- content, others with Association news and iiz,?, nad Co~)~t?~~?ziratioiz.rMedia, fourth title meeting announcements. Division serials are published during the past year, appeared in listed in the November Netc:r aizd Notes. May. A project of the Advertising Division, the headings were compiled by Elin B. Christianson and Edward G. Strable. De- Four books were published during the tailed instructions for using the principal past year with editorial attention given to list and the 132 bdsic file folder headings se\eral others. Specinl Libnrries: How to and the list of common sub-headings are Plm mdEqxip 2'hem (SLA Monograph No. gi\m in a "Practical Suggestions for the 2), was edited by Chester M. Lewis as a Beginner" Chapter. This publication, like project of the New York Chapter. It in- the others, has been promoted through ex- cludes facts and figures on space require- tensive direct mailings and noted in Associa- ments, layout, furniture, shelving, special tion and special ad~ertisements.Severd ed- quipment, remodeling, and moving, a itors of advertising journals have requested checklist, an annotated bibliography, a di- reTiew copies so it seems safe to presume rectory of suppliers and manuf~cturers,ten th'lt the work, like the other book, will re- articles reported from the Sprcinl Librlrr.ie.r ceive good press. SPECIAL LIBRARIES 1962-63 Royalty Payments Insurance Division Natio~zal~?zsura?zce Organizatjo~zs Picture Division Picture Sources Georgia Chapter Tramlatois a~zdi"ra?zs~ations Business & Finance Division Soui~cesof Commodity Prices Metals Division Gnide to Metallurgical Information Petroleum Section U.S. Sources of Petroleum Statistics Advertising Group, N. Y. Chapter Gaide to Special Issues of Periodicals Rio Grande Chapter Dic~ionaryof Report Series C0de.r

Sales Since Publication to May 31, 1964 DATE PUBLISHED Guide to Special Issues Gnide to Russia~z Reference a~zdLa~zguage Aids Nov. 1962 Divertory of Members 1962 Dec. 1962 Report Series Codes Dec. 1962 Directory of Business and Fi- ~zancialSer.vices Mar. 1963 Special Librnries: How fo Plan and Equip Them Sept. 1963 Literature of Executive Mm- age??zent Sept. 1963 Picture Sources Mar. 1964 Subject Headi~tgsi~z Aduehs- i~zg,iMarketing, and Com- mu~zic-ations;Media May 1964 * Beginning March 1964, includes copies supplied Sustaining members

Last fall it became necessary to reprint edition of Translatoi~~and Trans~atio~z~: two 1962 publications, the Dictjona~~yof Serzlices a~zdSources under the supervision of Report Series Codes and Guide to Russia~z the editor, Frances B. Kaiser. In addition Refei~ence and Ldnguage Aids (SLA Bib- to Association support, the Georgia Chapter liography No. 4). The latter title was in- and the Georgia Institute of Technology Li- cluded in "Selective Reference Books of brary and staff Association are contributing 1962-63" in College and Research Libraries. to the project. Hopefully the manuscript will

Direr-toq of Business nnd Financial Services, be com~letedI this summer and will be issued published in the spring of 1963, was selected before the end of the year. as one of the outstanding reference books of Other titles nearing completion are a sec- 1963 by ALA's Reference Services Division. ond edition of the Guide to metallurgical In- Soon it will be necessary to issue the bi- fo,matio?z, Developme~ztof special Libraries ennial SLA Directory of Members. Previ- for An~evican Busi~zess and Industry, and ously this has been prepared after the fall Subject Headings List itz Chemical Engi~zeer- Board of Directors' meeting, but this year it ing. Grieg Aspnes has replaced John P. Bin- is planned to produce it during the summer nington as editor of The Organizatiofz a?zd to take advantage of the printer's slack sea- i\;Ia~zagenzentof Special Libnarie.~. son. Also, it is thought the Directory will be In the fall of 1963, SLA and Aslib began generally more useful if available to officers a cooperative program in which each acts and members at the beginning of the fall as sales agent for the other's publications. season. Nine Aslib titles are available from SLA, and Considerable time and attention have been six Association titles are being sold by Aslib given to the details involved in the second in Great Britain. A special Foreign Publica- SEPTEMBER 1964 tions Agency Fund was established to handle Division with the Division Chairman acting and transfer income. 125 copies of Aslib as guest editor. The Division has ordered re- books have been sold, and word from Aslib prints to sell and use as a public relations indicates that SLA books are selling well. device in encouraging management to estab- In the 12-month period ending May 31, lish libraries in the field. Other Divisions 1964, 6,682 books were sold and an income might consider developing similar issues for of $38,183.60 received. 1962-63 figures were their fields of interest. The July-August 1964 5,140 books sold and an income of $27,- issue will note the 55th year of the Associa- 719.05 received. tion. Royalties of 30 per cent of net profits are In his Presidential address in 1937, Howard paid to sponsoring Chapters, Divisions, Stebbins remarked, "I hope some day to see Groups, and Sections. Special Librclries restored to a 64-page book." This hope finally became a reality when the Special Libraries Board of Directors approved printing 64 Confe?zts pages for each of nine issues with the Sep- tember Proceedings issue being as long as Since the 1963 Convention the Special Li- required. This indicates the genuine growth braries Committee and the Editor, Mary L. of the journal, both in advertising and con- Allison, have reviewed 100 manuscripts. tent, during the past five years; in 1959 the Thirty-nine of these papers emanated from average pixiination was 48 pages. The vol- the Denver Convention and, of these, 13 ume for 1963 contained 668 pages, and the have been published in full, two were ac- index grew from 16 to 20 pges.' cepted but referred to the Jouv~zalof Chem- The express purpose of the extra pages ical Docume~ztationand published there, and was to permit expansion of the "Off the 24 were rejected (brief extracts from five Press" section, and in the fall a Bibliographic were used). For the record, 51 of the Con- Assistant, John Shepley, was employed on a vention speakers and panelists had no formal free-lance basis to prepare the annotations for papers. Of the remaining 61 manuscripts, 25 "Recent References." Thus it has been possi- were accepted for publication, 27 were re- ble to devote 14% more pages since July to jected, six authors were asked to revise, and annotated listings of reference and profes- three are still in process of review. sional items. There has also been more space During the year, 32 articles and bibliogra- for book reviews, and at least two and often phies were solicited from persons known to four full length reviews appear in each issue. be experts in certain areas, seven p'ieces were originally presented at Chapter meetings and one at the meeting of another professional society, and 20 unsolicited manuscripts were In the past five years there has been an published. Twenty-five reports were also so- increase of over 22 pages of advertising car- licited from persons attending conferences, ried in Special Librarie~, although the symposia, workshops, and other meetings 1963-64 figure of 157y8 pages represents a felt to be of interest and importance to the decrease of 8y8 pages from 1962-63. Re- profession. There were also irregular reports ceipts, though, were up, $20,684.54 from on the Library Technology Project and de- $18,814.45. A promotional letter was sent velopments in the photoreproduction field. publishers informing them of the increased A number of special issues have been pub- pagination for new books, and another was lished during the year: in October, "Educa- mailed to 25 government agencies and re- tion for Special Librarianship" ; in April, search centers requesting review copies of "Practices and Opinions on Interlibrary pertinent studies and reports. Lending in Special Libraries"; and in May, "Libraries and Librarianship in Advertising, Marketing, and Communications Media." For another year an increase in the number The latter was sponsored by the Advertising of subscriptions to Specid Libvaries can be SPECIAL LIBRARIES reported, 1,885 including 138 Student sub- quarters for 712 subscriptions current on scriptions, an increase of 116 over last year. May 31, 1964. All stock of the publication In addition, all members of the Association, has now been transferred to Association except Student, receive the journal with their Headquarters. membership. The print order for the past year averaged 8,540 copies. A contract was Recruitment signed by the Association and Kraus Reprint Although there is not unanimous feeling Corporation permitting them to reprint vol- that distribution of literature is an effective umes 1-20, 1910-1929, in hard cover edi- technique for recruitment to librarianship, tions. Special Libraries Association believes there is merit in putting into the hands of young News and Notes men and women, parents, librarians, teach- ATez~1.r and Notes was published quarterly, ers, and counsellors information about spe- in July, November, January, and March as a cial librarianship. A completely new broch;re colored supplement to Special Libraries and was edited, designed, and printed in the fall carries official Association news. It is mailed of 1963. Entitled "Special Librarianship- separately to Student members who do not Information at Work,". it Lpresents, in a series receive Special Liblwies. of vignettes, the variety of special library positions as well as basic data on educational Scientific Meetings requirements, salaries, personal qualifications, It appears that in the second year of Scielz- and scholarships. 31,500 copies were printed, tifir iMeetiugs publication under Association but the item has proved so popular that it sponsorship that income and expenses will will be necessary to reprint early in the fall. balance. In January, a key word subject in- "What is a Special Librarian," first pub- dex was initiated to provide another ap- lished in 1962, has been distributed widely proach to meeting information already pro- and will be reprinted shortly. Returned cou- vided by name of association and by date. pons asking for further attention were for- Early in the fall, questionnaires and a cover- warded to Recruitment Chairmen in appro- ing letter were prepared and mailed to some priate Chapters. Ages of the 374 persons 1,500 associations and universities soliciting returning them were: meeting information. An increase in sub- scriptions from 964 to 1,013 is also reported. 13-19 164 Mrs. Marian Patterson Holleman is Editor. 20-29 141 30-39 36 Technical Book Review Index 40-49 20 TBRI began its 30th year of publication in 50-59 8 Not given 5 January 1964 and celebrated the occasion with a face lifting, a new dress, and a new 1963-64 distribution of recruitment mate- printer. For the first time Techuicul Book rial in answer to approximately 3,700 re- RezGew Itzdex appeared with a separate, mod- quests was : ern, colorful cover ; the inside was redesigned Special Librarianship: Informa- for easier readability; and a printing contract tion at Work 24,300 was awarded to Carnegie Institute Press. Sub- Make Your Career in a Special scriptions on May 31, 1964, totaled 1,715, Library 6,000 a decrease of 33 since last year. The Execu- Training the Chemical Librarian tive Director met with the Editor, Anthony (now 0.p.) 115 A. Martin and Committee in Pittsburgh in Recruitment Poster 50 October. Data Sheets Single sheets 3,200 Unlisted Drugs Sets (14 sheets until April For a second year business management 1964, 21 since then) 2,800 of the Pharmaceutical Section's Unlisted What is a Special Librarian 9,600 Drugs was provided by Association Head- Total: 46,065 SEPTEMBER 1964 44 1 Nearly all were supplied without charge with vision, and $5,050 from companies and $325 collected for 19 large quantity order>. foundations. The San Francisco Bay Region Chapter prepared seven new data sheets on chemistry, Placement Service electronics, finance and banking, literature The Board of Directors in ap- searching, medicine, military libraries, and proved a 13-point policy for operation of nuclear science. This brings the total up to the Placement Service. This policy reafl'irms 21 and makes an attractive package that has the value of the Service as an Association- received many favorable comments. The wide service and at the same time recognizes other 14 data sheets were updated and re- the need for efficiency in operation. Ac- printed. knowledged were the frequent lists of arail- Seven John Cotton Dana Lectures in Spe- able positions reaffirming the clearing house cial Librarianship have been arranged by the function of the Service and placing greater Recruitment Committee for the fall of 1964. responsibility with members registering with An issue of the Recrzztnzent Newsletter. was the Service. issued in December. A number of Chapters, A total of 44 lists, beginning with one for notably Boston, Connecticut Valley, and the June 1963 Denver Annual Convention, Southern California have carried out active 18 regular, and 25 special lists have appeared. recruitment programs by exhibiting and dis- They have described 417 professional posi- tributing materials at guidance conferences tions and an additional 36 part-time, sub-pro- as did the Advertising Division at an Ad- fessional, and temporary positions. These po- vertising Women of New York Career Con- sitions were listed at the following salaries: ference in November. A number of other Chapters cooperated actively with other li- $ 5,000-5,999 93 brary groups on recruitment programs. 6,000-6,999 109 7,000-7,999 5 6 Scholarships and Student Loans 8,000-8,999 44 9,000-9,999 2 1 Association Headquarters assumed in the 10,000- 10,999 5 spring of 1964 even greater responsibility 11,000 and over 9 for the processing of scholarship and loan Not reported 80 applications. First of all, 534 requests for Part-time, temporary and information about scholarships were re- Subprofessional 36 ceived. To answer these requests 246 scholar- Interviews, though, are still an important ship applications were sent and numerous part of the Service with 273, mostly with ap- letters and telephone conversations were plicants, conducted by the Assistant to Ex- processed. Sixty-five completed applications were returned to Association Headquarters, ecutive Director at Association Headquarters processed, and sent to the Committee for and approximately 150 placement interviews review and recommendation. Ten $1,000 scheduled at the Denver Convention. Tele- phone interviews are uncounted. scholarships were awarded in 1964 and the Although efforts are made to learn of details of announcement and payment han- dled. Payments and necessary follow-up placements and of positions that have been were also handled for the eight 1963 scholar- filled, communication generally is one-way ships. Details of two new loans, three appli- once a member has registered with the Serv- cations still pending, and seven earlier loans ice or an employer has listed his position. were given attention. Total donations to the Use of the lists has decreased the reason for Scholarship and Student Loan Fund in the applicants to communicate directly with As- year ending April 30, 1964 were $7,736.51. sociation Headquarters as frequently as be- Individual members contributed $658.16, fore and has resulted in a lack of informa- $1,109 from memorial donations, $256.35 tion on placements. from Chapters, $50 from a Division to Generally, placements both in the Chap- honor a member, $613 from the Metals Di- ters and Association Headquarters seem to SPECIAL LIBRARIES Placement Activities: May 1, 1963-April 30, 1964 Compared with Same Period 1962-1963

New positions Positions listed 4/30 New applicants Applicants listed 4/30 Placements

Under $5,000 $ 5,000-5,999 6,000-6,999 7,000-7,999 8,000-9,999 10,000 and over Not reported Subprofessional, Temporary and Part-time have been decreased. In addition to the pos- Dates and hotel were selected for the 1970 sible reasons for this as noted above, it Convention and the Board chose should be observed that more effort seems Cincinnati as the site for the 1974 Annual to be necessary regularly to accomplish fewer Meeting. placements. Management Conventions A major activity of the Association year Education, the theme of the 1963 Denver involving an investment of more than $4,200 Annual Convention, was successfully dis- was successful participation in the Interna- cussed in most sessions while the other topic tional Management Congress held under the receiving major attention was the Weinberg sponsorship of the Council for International Report, presented by panelists b'efore the Ad- Progress in Management in New York, Sep- visory Council. Total registration for the tember 16-20, 1963. A Management Infor- Denver Convention was 1,374. Sixty exhib- mation Center (including a Management itors used 72 booths for the largest exhibit Library and demonstrations of information program to date. Profits from the Convention and automated systems in operation), the were $6,966.67 in addition to the profitable bibliography, Literatme of Execzltive Maw sessions and the western fun of a rodeo and agemeut (mentioned under Books), and co- chuckwagon supper. sponsorship of a symposium on information The Executive Director made a December storage and retrieval for management pro- isi it to St. Louis to meet with the Conven- vided wide opportunity to reach many of the tion Chairman and committees in planning 3,700 registrants. SLA is a member of CIPM for the 1964 Convention. There was an even as well as the now inactive Federation of larger exhibit program-67 exhibitors in 82 Management Organizations of which the Ex- booths and 19 advertisers using 16% pages ecutive Director is First Vice-president and in the Convention Program. Theme of the Treasurer. Another participation in a man- Convention was "The Special Librarian as a agement activity is the McKinsey Founda- Creative Catalyst" with special attention be- tion Management Book Awards Program. ing paid to needs of the small library. An SLA Committee makes nominations for In March, a visit was made to Philadelphia the awards that were presented at a luncheon in connection with the 1965 Convention. in March attended by the Executive Director. SEPTEMBER 1964 Professional Standards Center in the period from April 1963 A principal effort of the Association for through March 1964 have totaled 290. Dur- the past year has been preparation of stand- ing the first quarter of 1964, 226 volumes ards for special libraries. The Professional were sent in reply to 75 requests. Standards Committee with the help of com- Translations Activities mittees in several Chapters and Divisions The translations activities of the Associa- prepared drafts of standards on objectives, tion are a major activity and require attention services, and staff. These were pin&d and not onlv of the Translations Activities Com- distributed in October to the Board and Ad- mittee and projects staffs, but of staff at visory Council prior to discussion before the Association Headquarters. Three trips to Council in Baltimore in February. Ruth S. Washington were -concerned with c;ntract Leonard, Associate Professor of Library Sci- '> and grant negotiations while the Translations ence at Simmons College on sabbatical leave, Center at the John Crerar Library in Chicago served as a Consultant on Professional Stand- was visited in July and ~anuaryfor confer- ards from February until June and prepared ences with Library officials and Mrs. Ildiko revised drafts of the three sections mentioned D. Nowak, Chief of the Center. Holdings above and for collections, space and equip- of the Center have increased to 92,018 as of ment, and budget. These will be discussed May 30, 1964, while receipts in the period with the Advisory Council in St. Louis, re- since July 1, 1963, have totaled 10,748. viewed by the Committee during the sum- 10,960 translations have been sent upon re- mer, and presented to the Board for ap- quest to the Center. Several of the staff have proval in September. also worked closely with Frances E. Kaiser, Editor of the second edition of Tratzslatorc Consultation Service and TramIafiom and her staff, which has in- Accomplishments of the Consultation cluded as many as eight different persons, Service are reported in detail in the report most part-time, on the Association payroll. of the Committee. Association Headquarters The project has offices at the Georgia Insti- receives and refers numerous requests for use tute of Technology. of the Service. Eighty-nine-. referrals were made to the one-day courtesy service pro- Public Relations vided through Chapter Consultation Officers. Pt~onzotionalMaterials Fifteen companies wishing to make use of With one exception, all the descriptive Professional Consultants on a fee basis were brochures were updated or reprinted during given the names of 56 Consultants (34 dif- the year. The most extensive revisions were ferent individuals). in the "Activities and Organization" bro- chure, but current figures, titles, and prlces Special Classifications Center were changed in the brochures for the Trans- Receipt of a grant of $13,838 from the lations Center, Books and Journals, Special National Science Foundation permitted an Classifications Center, and Consultation Serv- expansion in activities of the Special Classifi- ice. There is a completely new brochure for cations Center at Western Reserve Univer- the Placement Service. A descriptive rate sity. Barbara Denison accepted a half-time card on the Addressing Service has also been appointment in September as Director. Visits printed. The Organization Chart, A Resumk, to the Center in September and again in and the listing of Division Bulletins have October confirmed new policies and proce- been redone. The 73-page Oficial Directory dures as outlined in a contract for operation of Pe~sonnel 1963-196$ was issued in late of the Center. An active program of acquisi- August and a 12-page Supplement on De- tions is underway with extensive mailings cember 13, 1963. made to professional associations and to ab- stracting and indexing services. Sixty refer- World's Fnir rals had been made to the Center from The American Library Association in co- Association Headquarters. Inquiries at the operation with Special Libraries Association SPECIAL LIBRARIES and the American Documentation Institute brary Association in Chicago, Tri-State Li- is sponsoring Library/USA in the U.S. Pa- brary Conference, Minneapolis, New England vilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Library Association, St. John's University Fair. In addition to representation on the Congress for Librarians, American Documen- Advisory Committee, the Association was re- tation Institute, International Congress on sponsible for soliciting staff scholarship sup- Scientific and Technical Information and port including $1,000 contributions both Documentation in Rome, Middle Atlantic from the New York Chapter and from the Regional Library Conference, New Mexico Association. Several members of the Asso- Library Association, and the Peninsula Li- ciation have been selected to serve on the brary Association (California). Recruitment staff during the two-year life of the Fair. materials were included in exhibits at the The Executive Director attended meetings of New England Personnel and Guidance Con- the Committee during ALA in July and Jan- ference, the American Personnel and Guid- uary and participated in ribbon-cutting cere- ance Association in San Francisco, and at the monies on opening day, April 22. Los Angeles Career Guidance Center. Other exhibits were set up at the Ameri- can Chemical Society, American Society for One-page memos from the SLA Repre- Metals Metals/Materials Show, USAFC sentative to National Library Week were Conference on Air Force Education, the mailed to Bulletin Editors, Public Relations American Management Association Library Chairmen, and Chapter Presidents and ap- Workshop, a San Francisco Bay Region peared in Specid Libraries urging all mem- Chapter-sponsored meeting at the Lawrence bers to utilize the "Reading is the Key" Radiation Labs in Berkeley, the International slogan and make the Week SLANLW this Management Congress, and a North Shore year. Short descriptive articles were also car- (Boston) Library Week Exhibit. rled in the journal, and a brief article by The Translations Center's two exhibits William Ruder, Chairman of the Board of were shown at ACS, ADI, ALA, ASM, Ruder & Finn, Inc., entitled "It's Your Li- MLA, SLA, Instrument Society of America, brary-and Your Image," was distributed to National Electronics Conference, Society for members for placing in company house or- Applied Spectroscopy, and the Second In- gans and local publications. With the memos ternational Congress on Medical Librarian- went a list of suggested activities, sample ship. NLW display items, price lists, a pamphlet Books were included in the Combined describing NLW, and a list of state NLW Book Exhibit and other book exhibits at the chairmen. William Walker, Brooklyn Mu- American Association of Law Libraries, seum, was interviewed by Hugh Downs on AAAS, ALA, Catholic Library Association, the syndicated radio program "Young Ameri- Fall Library Program of eight regional li- cans in Action" for broadcast during the brary associations, the First Book Exposition Week. Elizabeth Ferguson, Institute of Life of the American Continent in Mexico City, Insurance, and Jeannette Sledge, McKinsey Radio Engineering Show, World Affairs and Co., were selected to appear on the "To Book Fair, Aerospace Medical Association, Tell the Truth" television program during MLA, and Books 1963 Exhibition in . the same period. Press Releases It is believed that exhibits of Association More than 11,000 copies of 50 press re- publications and services before library, user, leases were mailed to the library press, trade and management groups are excellent public and professional journals, library schools, relations. Many of the exhibits were orga- Association officers, and Chapter and Divi- nized and staffed in cooperation with Chap- sion Bulletin Editors. Five releases concerned ter and other volunteers in the Association. new officers and officers' visits, six on awards, Among the library meetings at which ex- three on scholarships, seven on publications, hibits were shown were the American Li- ten on Division and Chapter publications SEPTEMBER 1964 and activities, two on grants, two regarding ters, Rio Grande, New Jersey, and Okla- Convention, and two on Board of Directors homa have already contributed to a special meetings. In addition, four releases went out fund, and a producer of television films has on the International Management Congress, evidenced some interest in making a film on one concerned the World's Fair, two told of special librarianship on a speculation basis. cooperation with other professional groups on projects of mutual interest, two detailed Display iMaterials the technical librarians exchange with the Several new items were added to the col- Soviet Union and the SLA Representative lection of display pieces available on loan in the Unesco working party on translations for local exhibits. The Exhibit consists of in Rome, one summarized the recent survey 16 blue and olive green panels that can be of library resources in the New York area, set up in a variety of ways for large or small two gave up-to-date activities of the Execu- displays. Several panels devoted to the Asso- tive Director, and two discussed SLA's ac- ciation journals and recruitment materials tion stimulated by the Weinberg Report. have been permanently prepared for table- top displays. The tri-o-rama is a three-sided ;Media nlzd Othe~Lists pegboard on a revolving floor pedestal. The Lists of publishers and suppliers of library third major addition are several 16-inch equipment and services are maintained on square signs using the SLA insignia and in- mailing plates to solicit for convention ex- cluding the Association name spelled out hibits and advertising in the Convention Pro- below. They are mounted in heavy plastic gram and Special Libraries. Additionally, 29 and surrounded with a blue border. classified lists of journals and media are maintained to facilitate effective distribution Space and Personnel of publication and press releases. On April 13, 1964, a major reorganization of Association Headquarters was accom- Articles aud Publicatiom plished, and the Addressograph and the In , Admizistr atiz)e Mauage- Mimeograph Sections were moved to space meut and Ofice Execf~tive'sBulletin both on the seventh floor of the Hafner Building. carried feature articles on the value of the The move of all "noise" equipment from company library. In both cases information the eighth floor permitted several over- was~su~pliedto the writers and in one case crowded functions-mail, collating, special the manuscript checked and pictures sup- typing-to expand into the vacafed space plied. Information was also given an editor and an office to be provided the Accounts of Good Honsekeeping for a short piece on and Orders Assistant supervising these ac- library careers. Articles prepared by Chron- tivities. A new electric postage meter mail- icle Guidance Publications, Inc., Westmin- ing machine with automatic feeder was ac- ister Press, and Social Research Associates quired on rental, and the fire and liability were also checked for accuracy. insurance coverage on equipment and publi- cations stock studied and ex~anded. A new position of Subscription and File The television film, "Is Knowledge Clerk was approved and held from Septem- Power?" prepared originally for the 1962 ber to May by Emma Raggi and currently washington convention continues to be by Mrs. Rose Mary Ferrante. Herbert Prival shown and was seen bv two Cha~ters.L,29 replaced Mrs. Jo Ann Beths as Membership library and management staffs, 21 student and Placement Assistant in September. Mrs. and 6 military groups, and once on televi- Adrianne Stanek, Editorial Secretary, re- sion, for a total if 59showings. signed, effective May 29, to join her husband Although an Association film on special in Cleveland. Working as office clerks at the librarianship is still in the tentative pianning present are Max ~raumanand Howard Koe- stages, Board of Directors approval for such nig replacing John Bobbish, John Burr, John a film was given in February. Several Chap- Roth, Lewis Rubman, and Bowman Walsh SPECIAL LIBRARIES Addressograph Plates Maintained at Association Headquarters Scientific Meetings Special Libraries Technical Book Review Index Media Lists Advertisers and Exhibitors Associations and Universities Sustaining Members Professional Consultants Bulletin Editors Board of Directors, Advisory Council, Special Representatives Chapter and Group Division and Section Officers to receive changes Picturescope Paid (Service provided at Addressing Service rates) New York Library Club

Total : who were employed earlier in the year. A Addressing and Addressograph Service series of 14 Staff Seminars were held during Few associations, if any, provide the de- the winter and spring and introduced and tailed service with membership records and discussed many aspects of the Association's changes as does SLA. Monthly throughout structure and service programs. They will the year and more frequently during the be resumed in the fall. season of greatest change, corrected records Details of the staff retirement program are supplied all Chapters, Divisions, and written with the Connecticut General Life Sections and to Groups in New York and Insurance Company were completed and Washington, D. C. This housekeeping ac- upon Board approval became effective on tivity can best be reported by comparative October 1, 1963. Nine staff are participating statistics. initially and will qualify for Association sup- In addition to plates for 5,753 members, ported past-service benefits. Two more will as of May 31, 1964, in a master geographical qualify for the employee- and employer-con- file, and 6,212 in the Division file, plates are tributed program in . maintained for many other mailings. Some progress on the Library and Archives In the 12-month period, the Addressing can be reported with a beginning made on Service handled 115 outside runnings, 62 records for serial holdings, the papers and Division and Section runnings, 114 runnings reprints file, and the book collection. Head- for official use, and 23 for journals. Outside way with Interim filing of correspondence is runnings produced $5,351.02 income for the reported, and with the active cooperation of year. the Archives Committee, the Archives are Membership changes resulted in a maze of reasonably current. cards as illustrated below.

Membership Changes 1963-4 1962-3 New and reinstated members 619 923 Members changed, name, address, or affiliation 2,8018 1,817 Cards sent new officers 20,646 18,682 Cards for changes sent Chapters, Groups, Divisions, and Sections 17,615 11,461 Total number of cards made for all purposes 59,813 50,876 * Several hundred changes are yet to be made to complete the addition of postal zip codes and changes made necessary by Science-Technology Division single Section restriction. SEPTEMBER 1064 447 Meetings, Visits and Miscellany Statistics Among visitors to Association Headquar- For the past year, ALA and SLA have ters have been Indira Sukhtankar, Librarian, cooperated in a National Statistics Coordi- Institute of Management, Calcutta; Harold nating Project with the Chairman of the SLA Holdsworth, Head Librarian, University Col- Statistics Committee serving on the Advisory lege of East Africa, Dar es Salaam, Tangan- Committee. Ann McCann served as Special yika; Madame Joseph Duprat, Conservateur Libraries Consultant and chaired, along with en Chef de la Bibliothi-que du Museum Na- others on the Project, four regional meetings tional d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris ; Hilda at which various groups, including the Asso- Lindstevt, formerly Librarian of the Royal ciation, were represented. The Executive Di- Technical University Library, Stockholm; rector attended the New York meeting and and G. M. Pdterson, Imperial College of Sci- later commented on a revision of the Halzd- ence and Technology and a member of the book chapter on special libraries. Aslib Council, England. Meetings, Visits and Committees Soviet Exchange Details of an exchange of technical librar- With the Past-President, the Executive Di- ians between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are rector represented SLA on the Council of being arranged in cooperation with John P. National Library Associations, served as Sec- Binnington, Project Director, and the Foun- retary-Treasurer, Chairman of the Commit- dation Grants Committee. The exchange of tee on New Members and the Joint Com- seven persons from the United States to visit mittee on Placement, as a member of the the Soviet Union for a four-week period and Joint Committee on Exhibit Managers, and a similar group to visit libraries and informa- two minor committees. He was elected tion centers in this country is included in Chairman of CNLA for 1964-65. the cultural exchange agreement between the Other memberships are in the National two countries tentatively planned for the Association of Exhibit Managers (elected spring of 1965. Director for a two-pear term, Chairman of the New York Group for 1964, and attended JOG the Miami Beach and June Organized following the Advisory Council 1964 New York Conventions), New York discussion of the Weinberg Report, JOG, Society of Association Executives, American the Joint Operating Group (ADI-SLA), is Society of Association Executives, Beta Phi a cooperative action group with the Ameri- Mu, and the Association of American Ge- can Documentation Institute. A representa- ographers. tive of each society serves as Co-Chairman. Talks were given to the Western New An organizational meeting was held at As- York and Toronto Chapters in a joint meet- sociation Headquarters in September at ing in November, to a school assembly at which time various areas of coo~erationand Columbia University School of Library Serv- action were explored. Later discussions have ice in May, and at a Westchester-Putnam- been held, most recently on the possibility Rockland Personnel and Guidance Associa- of a new news publication on documentation. tion Meeting during National Library Week. IF LA A book review and a conference report were SLA since 1947 has been a member of the prepared for the March and December ishues International Federation of Library Associa- of Special Libraries plus an articIe for the tions and has been represented at several re- July-August 1964 issue. cent annual meetings, the most recent in New York Library Club (Trustee), St. Sofia in September 1963. A new Special Li- John's University Congress for Librarians braries Section is being organized with prin- (member of Advisory Committee), an Ad cipal leadership by the SLA Representative Hoc Committee on Reference and Research who was named Organizing Chairman. A Library Resources in New York City (Chair- short report on 1962-63 activities of SLA man), an Ad Hoc Committee that planned was prepared by the Executive Director. the October 1963 visit of 137 British librar- SPECIAL LIBRARIES ians to this country and is planning a similar burgh, Cleveland, and New York, and there tour to Great Britain in 1965, were other were numerous conferences and correspond- principal organizational activities of the Ex- ence with committee chairmen. ~usinesiand ecutive Director. He is serving on the Ad- professional visits were made to offices of visory Board for the Gale Research Company the American Documentation Institute, Management Information Guides, on the American Library Association, Catholic Li- Advisory Committee of the Kent State Uni- brary Association, Council on Library Re- versity Department of Library Science, on sources, Library of Congress, Library Serv- the ALA Commission on a National Plan ices Branch, National Science Foundation, for Library Education and the Interassocia- Office of Technical Services, and the U. S. tion Hospital Libraries Committee. He at- Book Exchange. tended the October Metals Division Fall Special Libraries Association has had, as Meeting in Cleveland, the Council of Plan- usual, a busy, professional year. Some long- ning Librarians in Milwaukee in October, the time programs were brought to successful Eastern College Librarians Conference in completion; others were delayed, others were November, and the -11 Univer- suggested and rejected, others were planned sity of Illinois Conference on Research and initiated. Appreciation is acknowledged Methods in Librarianship. to all those members of the Association who Association Staff attended meetings of the participated so actively and supported the New York Chapter (Christmas Reception, programs of SLA, to officers of all units who 50th Anniversary Dinner, New Members provided uncounted hours of professional Tea, Downtown Luncheon group) and its guidance to Association problems, and fi- Biological Sciences, Geography and Map, nally, a special appreciation to the 15 full- Newspaper and Publishing, Science-Technol- time and three part-time staff at Association ogy, and Social Science Groups, the New Headquarters, ten on the editorial staff in York Library Club, the Chemists Club Sym- Atlanta, Del Mar, Minneapolis, and Pitts- posium, Library Public Relations Council, burgh, and ten contract personnel in Chicago Anniversary Luncheon of the Eleanor Roose- and Cleveland. velt Memorial Foundation, Brooklyn College Let your Executive Director in closing sug- Conference on Reference Services for For- gest some goals for 1964-65 : eign Area Studies, Rutgers University Grad- 1. Appointment of a reactivated Goals Com- uate School of Library Service seminar on mittee to serve as a review and ways and "Alphabetical Subject Indexing" with John means committee to work toward achieve- Metcalfe as chief panelist, press conferences ment of the Association's goals. on demonstration of an information retrieval 2. Initiation of an active research program system at ITT Communications Systems, Inc., coordinated by a Research Committee work- announcement of the $10 million library at ing with a Director, Professional Services, at Association Headquarters. Northwestern University, film showing of 3. Development by the Personnel Committee "Key to Future," two receptions at the Fales of annual salary minimums for special librar- Collection of Rare Books and Manuscripts at ians. New York University, Friends of the Library 4. Preparation of membership pieces di- at Columbia University, Mayor Wagner's rected to personal and Sustaining members. City Hall meeting on poverty, several ses- 5. Organization by the Education Committee sions with publishers, and a variety of re- of a one-day conference of teachers of special ceptions, luncheons, and cocktail parties. librarianship at the 1965 Philadelphia Con- Arrangements were made for the fall 1963 vention. Board of Directors meeting in New York 6. Re-establishment of the Convention Ad- and the Mid-Winter meetings of the Board visory Committee. and Advisory Council in Baltimore. Meetings 7. strengthening of the liaison between As- of a number of committees were attended sociation committees and Association Head- during the Annual Convention and in Pitts- quarters. SEPTEMBER 1964 Call for Papers T THE 56~~ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE SPECIALLIBRARIES ASSOCIATION in A Philadelphia, June 6-10, 1965, a Session of General Papers is planned. The Convention Program Chairman cordially invites library school faculties and graduates, and others to submit abstracts for 15-20 minute papers on original research results that are of interest to SLA members and have not been published nor presented before to any national group. A review committee of Association members will screen the submissions for quality and interest to members. Information and instructions for authors are given below. More copies and the abstract forms may be obtained from: Special Libraries Association 31 East loth Street New York, New York 10003

Information and Instructions for Authors 1. Title of paper and name(s) of author(s), accompanied by two kinds of abstracts should be sent to Mrs. Jean G. Hopper, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103, not later than November 15, 1964. 2. One abstract should be a "short abstract" (3 copies, double-spaced) not exceeding 200 words or the equivalent. Please use the official abstract form for the first copy of the abstract if possible. In any case, please supply the information called for on this form. In case of co-authorship, the name of the person expected to present the paper must be underlined. The name and address of the institution or company sponsoring the research should be given, as well as the names and addresses of the current professional affilia- tion (s) of the author (s) . The author should prepare this abstract carefully so that it will arouse interest in his paper and do justice to it. The abstract should set forth the purpose of the work, im- portant results, and conclusions. Please avoid historical summaries and generalities. The abstract will be circulated to a committee to determine its interest to SLA members and its inclusion in the Session. Notification of acceptance will be given no later than February 1, 1965. 3. The second abstract should be one copy, double-spaced, of either an "extended ab- stract" of at least 1,000 words or a copy of the paper as it is to be submitted for con- sideration for publication in Special Libraries. Only those papers for which an extended abstract or complete manuscript is submitted will be accepted. The long abstract of an accepted paper will be sent to the Chairman of the Session who may forward it to a person invited to initiate discussion at the Session. This ab- stract will be returned following the meeting if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed with it. Manuscripts will be forwarded to Special Librzrrie~after oral presen- tation. 4. Authors should rely on lantern slides to present diagrams and data. Make slides legible through the use of large letters, heavy lines, and limited data on each slide. Printing should be readable from 160 feet. Equipment for lantern slides of standard size (3% x 4 inch) will be provided. If other projection equipment is necessary, it must be spe- cifically requested when the abstract is submitted. 5. No paper will be accepted unless an author expects to be present. 6. The Special Libraries Association has first right to publish papers presented at its meetings. Papers not accepted by the Special Libraries Committee will be released to the authors after review. 450 SPECIAL LIBRARIES A Creative, Catalytic Convention BURTON E. LAMKIN

PECIAL LIBRARIANS are over 32,000 volumes of microfilm, each S from across the United of which can contain UD to dozens of man- States, Canada, and over- uscripts. Also located in this library are seas converged on St. microfilms of rare books, newspapers, and Louis on June 7 for the periodicals. One of the displays showed the Association's 5 5 th Annual Palimpsest from the Bobbio monastery. The Convention. Activity be- under script was identified by Angelo Mai , as the long lost work of Cicero. The upper '2pan immediately as camera enthusiasts headed for the parks to take pictures, while others script is part of the St. Augustine's com- took cabs and buses to the open house at Pius mentary on the Psalms. XI1 Memorial Library on the campus of St. ate; during the Convention the Museum Louis University. and Picture Divisions joined for lunch at The splendor of the Pius XI1 Memorial the Library where Father John Daly, Head Library was overwhelming. Visiting librar- of the Vatican Microfilms, was host and ians examined the collection, paintings, tap- speaker. For many this event proved to be a estry, and exhibits as they enjoyed refresh- highlight of the Convention. ments and relaxed from their trips and the Registrations were forecast at 1,000. By outside humidity. The tour was not without Sunday evening 980 were registered, and incident, as four librarians were locked in a before the close of the Convention the figure stairwell. Charles Ermatinger, of the Knights had reached about 1,200. Brochures in the of Columbus Vatican Film Library, rescued registration kit were bountiful. They identi- the group, however, and proceeded to give fied places to see and restaurants of character an excellent tour of the film library. There and included maps of the city and a Dl- rectory of Libraries in the Greater St. Lous A zmetera?zof many SLA Converztions, Mr. Area, prepared by the Greater St. Louis

LdmRi?? is Manager of the Developrne?zt Lab- Cha~ter.I o rat01.y Library, Getzeral Prodacts Division, A program analysis project was initiated IBM, Sun Jose, California. at the Convention to collect quantitative

Sunday evening members toured the exhibit area, examined new books and equipment, and enjoyed a social get-together in the adjoining Gold Room of the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel. SEPTEMBER 1964 45 1 measurement data about the programs and theory, information processing, and systems meeting attendance. A punched card was analysis, and library education should rest used for reservations for meals, tours, and on this foundation. He urged that under- other activities. graduates with ambitions toward special li- Exhibits opened at 6:00 p.m. with a re- brarianship should major in technical fields ception held in the Gold Room; Division to equip themselves with new and powerful open houses followed. Both contributed to language and techniques for dealing with the opportunity of making new friends and the world in abstract terms. Dr. Swanson's renewing old acquaintances. philosophy contrasts with some of the phi- Eighty exhibition booths were used to losophies on library education that were ex- house the wares of the library vendors. Traf- pressed in Denver last year. fic was reported as being good, and most ex- Monday evening the Association's Past- hibitors seemed pleased with the response Presidents' dinner was a time of frolic and provided to them by the librarians. Some of fun-all business matters were barred. At the

Participants in the Open Session: Andrew Eaton, Bill M. Woods, Louis M. Nourse, James V. Jones, Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, Reverend Charles F. Rehkopf, Dean Don R. Swanson, Efr.en W. Gonzalez, and Francis B. O'Leary. the exhibitors were called upon for special Chapter Presidents' dinner, members enjoyed services, such as reproducing materials a pleasant social affair, with fine food, good needed for meetings, providing labels and company, and stimulating conversation rang- materials for preparing exhibits. Drawings ing from Chapter programming successes to for door prizes were held by Remington plans for the Philadelphia Convention. For Rand, the McGregor Magazine Agency, iome, the business meeting following the Gale Research Company, and Hehn & Hath. dinner was too short for adequate discussion The first general session was opened by or sharing of ideas. Major agreement was President Mrs. Mildred H. Brode. The key- reached in the desirability of a workshop note address, "The Education of a Catalyst," for Chapter Program Chairmen at the annual was given by Dr. Don Swanson, Dean of the conventions. Graduate Library School, University of Chi- The Advisory Council meeting the same cago. He expressed the need for librarians evening featured a discussion of the near- to develop a kind of "intellectual discipline," final draft of the special libraries standards. acquired in part from an exposure to mathe- Members of the Council had received pre- matics, engineering, physics, and the other convention mailings of the standards and had sciences that lead to productive ideas in plan- been requested to study them prior to the ning and operating future libraries. There is meeting. There was some discussion of the a science and technology of information various sections of the document, although 45 2 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Association Past-Presidents assembled for dinner: (standing) Chester M. Lewis, Eugene B. Jackson, Mrs. Margaret H. Fuller, Grieg Aspnes, Mrs. Ruth Hooker; (seated) Rose Vor- melker, Gretchen Little, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Owens, Mrs. Irene M. Strieby, Winifred Sewell, Marion E. Wells (Secretary to the group), Ethel S. Klahre, Elizabeth Ferguson.

one would have expected more. At the end The second general session introduced a of this discussion the Council unanimously new format. It began with an orientation passed a resolution asking the Board of Di- lecture, after which the membership was split rectors to commend both the Standards Com- into four basic discussion groups determined mittee and the Association's consultant on by the size of staff of the library. In his slide- this project, Ruth S. Leonard, for their work. illustrated lecture, "The Structure and Func- Additional reports were heard from other tions of Management," Dr. Daniel M. Green committees. The Special Libraries Committee stated, "Most of man's creative achievements Chairman, Robert Krupp, reported on the are erected upon a base of broad yet detailed surprising percentage of rejects among the knowledge of the principles and practices of papers submitted for publication. Many his particular field of work. . . . So, too, thought-provoking questions were asked by the employment of imagination and initiative the Education Committee's Chairman, Grieg in getting the job done must have a founda- Aspnes. There was so much to discuss in tion in the principles of management struc- these proposals and questions that the Coun- ture and functions." He added that manage- cil should have had copies of the report ment means "getting things done through prior to the meeting. people," and he described planning and con-

President Brode and Chapter Liaison Officer Margaret Madden had dinner with four incoming Chapter Presidents: Mrs. Jamie R. Graham, Greater St. Louis; Robert G. Krupp, New Jersey; Molete Morelock, Indiana; and Mrs. Arline R. Barrett, Western New York. SEPTEMBER 1964 45 3 President Brode presented the Membership Howard Haycraft, President of the H. W. Gavel Award to Mrs. Pauline F. Stabler, Wilson Company, presented a scroll and the 1963-64 President of the Baltimore check for $100 to Raymond A. Bohling, in- Chapter. coming President of the Minnesota Chapter. trolling as its two essential functions. "Plan- The Baltimore Chapter won the 1964 ning includes establishing objectives, divid- Membership Gavel Award with a paid-up ing and assigning responsibilities, and percentage increase in membership of 14.6 developing procedures. Controlling requires per cent. Second and third places were immediate daily supervision to insure that awarded to the Rio Grande and the Cincin- the job is being done according to preset nati Chapters with 11.6 and 11.5 per cent performance standards." The concept of increases respectively. team responsibility was suggested during the Dr. Jolan M. Fertig, Margaret Hatch, workshop as a key to successful management. Mary Jane Henderson, and Marion E. Wells "Notes" from Don Franz and his Saint were honored by election to the SLA Hall Louis Ragtimers kicked off the convention- of Fame for 1964. President Mildred Brode wide cocktail party where the soft blue presented a Special Achievement Award, a lighting of the Boulevard Room induced silver bowl, to Mrs. Lucille Jackson Strauss, several braver souls to don their dancing "in recognition of Mrs. Strauss' editorship slippers. This effervescent beginning shifted to the Gold Room at 7:30 for the annual banquet. Flaming trays of baked alaska ended a very delicious meal, and the program started.

William S. Budington received the badge of ofice, Canadian and United States silver dollars plus a rabbit's foot, as he became lyn College Library, received a scroll and Association President for 1964-65. In recog- check for $75 from Joan M. Hutchinson for nition and appreciation of Mrs. Brode's serv- winning first place in the National Library ice during the year, Mr. Budington gave her Week Publicity Award. a desk set. 454 SPECIAL LIBRAXES Guests at the Banquet Head Tables Back row: Mrs. Joseph A. Shea, Bill M. Woods, Constance Ford, Harry Bitner, Joseph A. Shea, Robert W. Gibson, Jr., Edward G. Strable, Richard B. Sealock, Delbert Bishop, Mr. Fertig, Paul W. Riley, Dr. James E. Skipper, Reverend Robert J. Henle, James V. Jones, Dr. Frank E. McKenna, Howard Haycraft; middle row: Edythe C. Porpa, Grace Reynolds, Eleanor Allen, William S. Budington, Mrs. Richard Sealock, Margaret Madden, Ralph Phelps, Gail Cohn, Francis 6. O'Leary, Mrs. Frances Jenkins, Dr. Richard H. Logsdon, Mary L. Allison; front row: Joan Hutchinson, Mary Jane Henderson, Dr. Jolan Fertig, Ethel 5. Klahre, Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, Marion E. Wells, Margaret Hatch, Mrs. Elizabeth 6. Roth, Mrs. Dorothy Skau, Helene Dechief, Mrs. James Jones. and partial authorship of Techninrl Libmi.- The villain was booed and jeered, while the zes .. Their Ovgamzation atzd Mutzugeme?zt.+' hero was cheered. The success of the ban- Minnesota won the H. W. Wilson Com- quet showed on many faces as they filed pany Chapter Award for the program it out of the Gold Room and headed for walks, developed around the theme, "The SLA open houses, and other points of interest. Chapter as Part of the Business and Profes- Oddly enough, it appears that some of the sional Community." The Minnesota entry de- Divisions might take lessons from the Busi- lineated a program showing the variety of ness and Finance Division, which advertised points of contact special libraries have with its third consecutive open house. It is per- the business and professional community; it haps the frequent open house activity that demonstrated organization and teamwork, causes the uninitiated to translate "SLA" as and provided ideas for other Chapters. the "State Liquor Association." National Library Week Publicity Awards On Wednesday a panel composed of work- were presented by Joan M. Hutchinson, Li- shop discussion leaders from the Tuesday brarian at Diamond Alkali Company, Paines- general session was moderated by Dr. F. E. tille, Ohio, which donated the prize money McKenna. Following the discussion, Dr. this year. The foreign area studies confer- William Stephenson addressed the general ence, student recruitment program, and ex- session on the topic "The Creative Person." hibits worked up by Mrs. Rose Sellers at He took issue with the assumption that in- the Brooklyn (New York) College Library telligence and creativity are highly related. won top honors and a check for $75 for the "Creative people," he said, "are likely to be New York Chapter. Ethel Johnson, General sunny, happy people, if not also traditionally Office Library, General Mills, Inc., Minne- temperamental. We are in the middle of the apolis, received the second prize of $25 for most creative period of history," he added, the Minnesota Chapter. "and it may seem odd that creativity is being Following the awards, "The Drunkard" suppressed in much of what passes for West- was presented by the Goldenrod Players. ern culture. . . . Surely we are involved in SEPTEMBER 1964 Hall of Famers: Mary Jane Henderson Marion E. Wells Dr. Jolan Fertig Margaret Hatch 1 a vast technological revolution, whose hall- year of National Science Foundation support. mark is creation and invention. . . . Yet," The Center is moving ahead in many areas he noted, "there is little that is creative in and is planning several new activities. social and psychological science, as the cur- New officers were introduced, and the rent racial troubles in this country indicate." meeting was then adjourned after a standing This combined program was rated higher in ovation to Mrs. Brode for her successful the program analysis than the two previous term of office and a brief statement of next general sessions. year's goals by the incoming President, Wil- President Mildred Brode presided at the liam S. Budington. Annual Business Meeting Wednesday after- Around 600 participated in a trip down noon. In her report she indicated that many the Mississippi on the steamer "Admiral," of the Divisions, Chapters, and Committees a trip sponsored by the Metals Division are pursuing activities that promote one or for the benefit of the SLA Scholarship and more of the Goals for 1970. She emphasized Student Loan Fund. The warm air refreshed that realization of our goals must be an As- those on deck as the captain bounced the sociation and individual program and that spotlight along the shore to point out sites she was gratified by the advances of the past of interest. Some preferred to dance on the year. Several committee chairmen summa- gigantic dance floor to the songs and music rized their year's work: For example the of the resident . Although some of Scholarship Committee Chairman announced the dances looked weird-the chicken, the the winners of the ten scholarships, and the potato, etc.-the two-step and the waltz were Chairman of the Technical Book Review most common among our members. Return- Index Committee told about the publica- ing to shore, we were greeted by barefooted tion's new "face" and added features. Bar- boys sitting on the levy watching the boat bara Denison, the first paid Director of the dock. Those not taking the trip really missed expanded Special Classifications Center, dis- a treat. It will be interesting to see how the cussed progress of the Center during its first Metals Division can top this attraction.

A representative of Gaylord

Bros., Inc., demonstrates a

ook labeling device to Iris

Land and Beverly Hickok.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Charles Guenther had charge of the press- room and kept quite busy distributing news A - releases to radio, television, and newspaper media. News reporters were present from Indiana and Michigan to prepare articles for their local and state papers. R. Buckminster Fuller was in demand by two television sta- tions that were seeking him for interviews. Several sea-sick type librarians (who were not planning to take the Mississippi cruise) were lined up for local radio interviews. Thursday evening was convention night at the Saint Louis Municipal Opera, where "My Fair Lady" was superbly performed. Lola Fisher and Tom Helman had the leading roles in the production. The music, stage handling, scenes, and costumes were excep- tional, but the opera was cut short as light- ning danced in the sky and rain began to fall. The play was closed shortly after the -- beginning of the second act. Even so, the Members of the Indiana Chapter attending evening was well spent. Biological Science the Convention: (back row) Portia Christian, Division members were exclusive and had Robert McClarren, Jewell Maurice, William dinner at the Musial and Biggies Restaurant Richardson; (second row) Sam Iden, Alice before attending the opera. They, too, were Campbell, Elizabeth Burton, Martha Bailey; rained on, however. (third row) Molete Morelock, Mrs. Judy Field, Helen Loftus, Louise Lage; (front row) Ellen Freeman, Larry Arany, Mrs. Elizabeth Mil- ner, Mrs. Theodora Andrews.

Divisional Activities Advertising1 "A Second Look at Information Retrieval" was taken as Division members and guest speakers reviewed operating systems. Isabel Cubberley related the experiences of the Long Island Lighting Company Library's in- ception and organization as it related to the decision for Uniterm and key work index- ing. Audrey N. Grosch applied the Uniterm Coordinate Indexing system to cake mixes, additives, and other terms used for retriev- ing information at the Marketing Research Representatives from the Council of Na- Library of General Mills, Inc. William B. tional Library Associations: Harry Bitner, Saunders, Marketing Science Institute, de- American ~ssociationof Law Libraries; Mrs. scribed the broad functions of the Internal Mildred H. Brode, SLA President; Dr. James International Marketing and Trade Informa- E. Skipper, Association of Research Libraries; tion Center, INTERMATIC. He stated that Richard Sealock, American Library Associa- tion; Delbert Bishop, Society of American "the IR system that we will use must be user- Archivists; Mrs. Frances Jenkins, American oriented, therefore, before we mechanize, Association of Library Schools, Dr. Richard H. the problems in the handling and processing Logsdon, Association of Research Libraries. of the materials must be resolved." "Socratic SEPTEMBER 1964 producing a "security Shangri-La," which is evident by an increased trend to government- controlled economy. The con~~i&~against private industry was illustrated in the elec- tric utilities field. "Increasing government encroachment decreases the ability of busi- ness to pay taxes," he asserted. The experiences of Jo Ann Aufdenkamp and Janet Bogardus were shared by members attending the program on "Libraries for De- veloping Countries." In working in a foreign 1964-65 officers of the Advertising Divi- country establishing a library, Miss Aufden- sion: Bernadette Becker, Pauline Lybeck, kamp, who served as a foreign consultant in Elizabeth Smith, Betty Dumbauld, and Liberia, stressed that one of the most impor- Louise Stoops. tant factors to remember is that one is work- ing in a different country and culture. It is questioning" is one of the techniques he is essential to understand the administrative using to learn of the librarian-patron rela- framework under which one is working and tionship. the library set-up in the country to assure that the developing library can fit into the system. Biological Sciences Miss Bogardus talked about setting up a In a small, crowded room speakers cov- library in Paris for the Organization for ered the develo~mentand uses of mecha- Economic Co-operation and Development nized procedures to perform library opera- (O.E.C.D.). The main purpose of the li- tions. One spoke on the subject of attitudes brary was to make knowledge and techniques of the librarian and automation. He com- available to participating members. mented that the librarian may eventually say, "Sorry, it is in the computer" rather than, "Sorry, it is at the bindery." He did assert During the business meeting a special that electronic data processing does not make evaluation committee was established. It will library work less attractive. One of the speak- be chaired by Michael Koch to determine the ers characterized the letters IBM as the In- needs for continuing the Division, since some ternational Brotherhood of Magicians. believe it has fulfilled its initial objective in serving as an educational source for docu- Business and Fifza?zce2 mentation information. The American free enterprise system was The workshop on flow-charting and pro- praised for its productivity by Harold Ross. gramming was one of the outstanding audi- He proceeded to identify increasing competi- ence-participation sessions of the Convention. tion between government and business as Don S. Culbertson directed flow-charting as

SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Geography and Map Divkion

toured the Aeronautical Chart and

Information Center of the U.S. Air

Force.

participants block-diagramed a problem. The business meeting. Miss Felland received the concept was presented as an extension of award for her outstanding achievements, con- management science. Hillis Griffin presented tributions, and unstinting service to the As- some of the basic concepts of programming. sociation. The over-all consensus rated the workshop \.cry high. This breaking of new ground in subject presentation was most appropriate as The Business and Finance and Insurance a p: ogram since documentation techniques Divisions' workshop, "An Open Window- dominated many of the divisional programs. A Creative Approach," varied from library- Several hundred librarians visited the Doc- management relationships, writing of tech- umentation Division suite where excellent nical literature and survey results, to looseleaf exhibits of operating documentation methods services. Topics were presented such as and systems were on display. Recordings and "How to Beard the Lion" and "Publish or movies were available to demonstrate systems Perish." Each speaker developed pointed re- in action. The detail and elaborateness of marks and suggestions on how librarians can many of the exhibits indicated mnny hours on a day-to-day basis perform creative and of hard work and preparation by program catalytic.work.-~arian-~echnercharged the chairman, Marjorie Griffin, and the exhib- librarian as having responsibility to interpret itors. Brochures describing many of the sys- the library and explain to management its tems and samples of the card formats were n~edseffectively. The test of the librarians' available as hand-outs. communications ability is evidenced by whether or not management acts. Geogruphy and Map An informative and interesting lecture on Metals the mission and products of the U.S. Air A very full afternoon was spent as ex- Force's Aeronautical Chart and Information perts reviewed techniques for disseminating Center was given by Major J. T. Stephens. information to the users they served. Pre- The program was abbreviated due to the pared papers and samples of bulletins were initial slow start in the serving of lunch, helpful in illustrating the formats. Through- seating problems in accommodating persons out the discussion, the size of staff necessary having had lunch with other Divisions and for providing bulletin service, regularity of coming for the talk, and the impatient arrival publication, the content and format of the of others for the next meeting in the room. bulletin, and acquiring, processing, and costs A tour of the Center was made, and the factors were emphasized. The relationship of sources used for intelligence information management to the library is basic for guid- were extremely interesting. ance, without which the bulletin cannot ful- The Division's Honors Award for 1964 fill its complete potential. Subject areas of was presented to Miss Nordis Felland at the interest to the company were discussed as SEPTEMBER 1964 Metals/Materials Division panel on "Catalytic Action of Librar- Don S. Culbertson and ians in Disseminating Information": Eleanor B. Gibson, Dr. F. E. Hillis L. Griffin conducted McKenna, Alma Girand, Eugene B. Jackson, Elsie Ray, and a workshop on flow-charts. Paula M. Strain. they related to the organization and selection for arriving at a decision to automate. Panel- of the content for the bulletin. KWIC was ists expressed concern about libraries using presented from a historical background, machines just for the sake of automating. pointing out advantages, disadvantages, and Several questions were raised such as: Do variations in format to its current use as a you really need to automate? Is it feasible tool for disseminating current literature. to automate your system? Will it save you On Tuesday roundtable discussion groups money and manpower or open new vistas focused on many phases of library operation. not otherwise available? One speaker pointed The topics were "Cooperation in Multi-Li- to "ordinary" methods of performing library bray Companies," "Procedure Manuals," routines and suggested that these forms of "Library Forms," "New Gadgets and Equip- mechanization be used in a more creative ment," and "Training Programs for Non- way. Professionals." Unfortunately, so many ses- iMusezlm4 sions were of interest it was difficult to make One member was disappointed that the a selection. In the library cooperation session program did not offer a meeting for the numerous areas were suggested where librar- natural sciences librarian. ies could benefit from internal cooperation and better communications. Conferences among corporation libraries were suggested as a means for learning more about what A three-hour session was held on to~ics other company librarians are doing. Stand- providing for a practical exchange of work- ardization in procedures such as recruiting, able ideas on the subjects of library opera- promotion, salaries, and budgets were tion and management. pointed out as beneficial areas of cooperation. A meeting held with the Publishing Di- In technical processing, acquisitions seemed vision heard Associate Librarian F. Charles to be an area where cooperation would be Taylor tell of the rare collections owned by of value but few, if any, indicated that it the St. Louis Public Library. was working effectively. The discussions of About 40 newspaper librarians represent- the Library Technology Project revealed ac- ing the leading newspapers of the United States and Canada heard several ranking ed- tivity in many areas: labels for the spines of u books, carpeting manufactured in squares to itors speak to them about newspaper librar- allow a library to replace worn spots simply ies. J. Holland, assistant to the publisher, Saint Louis Post-Dirpatch, spoke on "Legacy by substituting a square, copying equipment, and Bequest." His background was very in- and other products. teresting, and he provided anecdote after anecdote in his talk-to show the role of hu- mor in advertising. He stated that "people "How Much Automation-When and have the responsibility of doing the& own Where" offered a thought-provoking subject job, plus a general responsibility to mankind at the Transportation and Military Librarians -they must leave some kind of lasting im- Divisions' meeting. Guidelines were outlined press& for their fellow human beings." SPECIAL LIBRARIES Publishi~g7 New ideas were exchanged at a "swap Four Divisions joined the Publishing Di- shop" on how people use pictures at the Di- vision for lunch to hear Mrs. Elinor M. vision's breakfast meeting. At luncheon Coyle, author of Heritage Houses. Male Waldo H. Moore discussed the "Copyrights members felt the talk was of a woman-to- of Pictorial Materials." He gave background woman variety, although the time spent on on the copyright law, conveyed the wide the descriptions of homes in St. Louis was range of the law and the dual s)stem of copy- very interesting. rightable material. Inadequacies in the law were discussed as were the efforts being made Sciezce-TecbzologyX to revise it. History of the word "copyright" The Sci-Tech Sections met separately for dates back to 1870 when it was first used. programs on "Management-Library Rela- tion." To date the copyright-. - law has had four major revisions. Aspects of the rights in In the Aerospace Section meeting very lit- using pictorial materials were brought out tle was offered about management, but much succinctly by Mrs. Helen Faye. Various at- good information was given. H. Sauter talked tempts by kgencies to establish a code of about NASA's report series, microfiche pro- ethics were pointed out by Mrs. Hook. A gram, machine literature searching activity, circular listing picture subjects in a library and the inclusion of non-NASA Documents was recommendkd as a co&unication todl in STAR. J. H. Heald reviewed STINFO to be sent to artists. Alice Hook's discussion and the concept of centralized information of the setting- of - prices for pictures and ad- collection, analysis, and dissemination. vertising the price was weli received since At the Paper and Textiles Section F. Bat- small libraries are easily overwhelmed by the tell moderated an interesting panel discus- demand placed upon them for pictures. The sion in which were considered many phases differences in approach of the art museum of working with management to modernize from others in the release of photographic information services. reproductions was reviewed with examples Among the questions raised at the Petro- and slides. leum Section's meeting were: A "Workshop on the Physical Care of How does management rate your perform- Pictures" was ~iesented.and.rnethods were ance? Are you making the best possible use suggested for handling and cleaning of old of their investment in you? What different photographs. Mrs. Backlund reviewed ways capabilities would management look for if of dealing with everyday problems of the you were replaced by another librarian? picture librarian. A demonstration was given These and many others were discussed as on lamination and the dry mountinubP rocess. were the results of a questionnaire submitted This Division. one of the smallest In SLA. to the supervisors of the Section's members. plans to make a concerted effort to increase It was concluded that "in general, manage- its membership. ment feels that we are doing a reasonable

Book and Author Luncheon hostesses: Mrs. Doris Boyd, Mrs. Louise Field, Mrs. Elinor Coyle, author of "Heritage Houses," Mrs. Mildred Winn, Mrs. Eleanor Steiner-Prag, (standing) Pauline Lybeck, Mrs. Miriam Leslie.

SEPTEMBER 1964 quainted with the services the library can provide. Various programs were described, some with an orientation-only basis and some with a regular, continuing nature. Some of the members present felt that, by providing non- technical reading matter, they had increased the library awareness of their company per- sonnel. There was a brief discussion of li- brary publicity through a regular column or occasional articles in the company house or- Speakers for the Sci-Tech Committee on gan, and many felt that the occasional article Government Information Services: John was preferable. Sherrod, Bernard Fry, Hugh E. Sauter, Those attending the open meeting of the and J. Heston Heald. Committee on Government Information Services listened to presentations on the op- job." In some areas provocative comments erations, plans, standardization activity, and were made, perhaps the most candid being a the reorganization of governmental agencies. request for a librarian willing to work for Cooperation among these agencies was un- less money ! ! ! derscored. Some of the changes will see the "Management, the Library and the Ma- Department of Commerce broadening the chines" was the topic of a Pharmaceutical function of the Office of Technical Services Section meeting at the Washington Univer- as it assumes a federal information clearing- sity School of Medicine Library where in- house role. The price of documents is to be structions and demonstrations were given, lowered and standardized. Service goals are and sam~lesof mechanized serials control to provide fast and efficient service and system were handed out. The serial records eliminate duplication. Agreement by the system uses a tub file of cards for receiving AEC, DDC, and NASA has been reached current periodicals. By processing these re- for reports to be issued on 6 x 4 microfiche. ceipt cards in the computer, a current acces- Documents from the DOD appearing in sions list, bindery notices, and holdings list STAR will have AD numbers, and an index are issued. Dr. Estelle Brodman introduced to STAR will soon be forthcoming. the system in broad terms; Irwin Pizer pre- sented the details of the system and its procedure. This Division toured the St. Louis Police The Public Utilities Section held a work- Department, Academy, and Library, while shop on ways in which the librarian can be some members attended a panel discussion the catalyst in helping management to see on "City Planning and Urban Renewal" and what services it needs and wants. It started "Metropolitan Planning." "The Librarian in with a discussion of the problems involved Urban Renewal Politics" was the title of in the publication of a library news bulletin. Mrs. Vivian Sessions' talk at a luncheon. Various members described their own library The Thursday program was very stimu- bulletins and the response of their managerial lating. Library automation, education, and and/or technical personnel to the various construction were several areas where types of information included in the bul- R. Buckminster Fuller made pointed com- letins. There was a discussion on the fre- ments, forecasting the future in the nation quency of publication and the publishing of and the library. He stated that "automation abstracts of new books in the bulletins. The is being blocked in every way because we problems involved in keeping the managerial fear it. Tools are needed," he added, "to give and/or technical personnel informed of new time to the individual to do the job he is developments in their fields were discussed. best capable of doing-he needs inspiration. Consideration was also given to the prob- In the future," he noted, "large cities will lems involved in keeping management ac- become universities-people will go to school SPECIAL LIBRARIES (continuous education) to remain employed maries are prepared by scientists on the li- --and building projects will be required to brary staff to keep technical personnel in- keep people in jobs." formed of the literature in their field. This is how Monsanto handles the information explosion as explained by Dr. Gordon, Di- Refer to Military Librarians' Division. rector, Central Research Department. Library Tours services include seven publications and com- Tours were scheduled to many of tht. puter-generated book catalogs and literature St. Louis area industries-Mallinckrodt searches. Chemical Works, McDonnell Aircraft Cor- Many marveled at the modern McDonnell poration, Laclede Gas Company, Federal Re- Planetarium in Forest Park, while others ate serve Bank, St. LouLr Post-Dispatch, Shell Queens Land nuts in the Climatron at the Oil Company, Rexall Drug Company, and Missouri Botanical Garden, where the Clima- Union Electric Company's Taum Sauk tron made the outside temperature seem cool. Pumped Storage Plant. 'city tours took mem- Coffee-plant seeds were available for the ad- bers to the Jefferson National Expansion venturous who wanted to grow their own. Memorial, the Saint Louis City Art Museum, Tours to points outside St. Louis were Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, available, and some of our friends from Grant's Farm, Washington University, and Canada headed out for a relaxing cruise urban renewal projects, housing projects, through the Ozarks after the Convention. and other historic buildings. Gaslight Square became very popular for G,eneral Comments its ragtime music, atmosphere, and food. The Convention offered much in the way Time >id seem to be a problem with so many of valuable information presented in a vari- persons wanting to eat in a group ; three to ety of methods. The workshop and roundta- five hours were required for some of the ble discussion groups were very popular. This meals to be served, and this did not include small-group approach encouraged many to dessert. Dorothy Bohn was stranded at Port express and share their ideas with others. St. Louis, where her shrimp were never Extremely valuable tips were exchanged, such caught. She did enjoy watching 14 others in as a process for fattening Japanese cattle by her party eat their meal and indicated that feeding them beer out of the bottle. (The the rolls and relish plates were superb. meat is considered to be a delicacy.) The St. Louis Zoo apparently was a very There was a great deal of conflict among popular place. One New York member was the meetings. Some day, perhaps, a complete rescued from under the ropes at the monkey proceedings of the meeting will be compiled cages.", and another visitor was somewhat em- to alleviate this frequently stated need. barrassed to find that a Committee over The Convention Program Committee, un- which he was to preside was in session. der the chairmanship of Efren Gonzalez, Tours showed the Monsanto Library to should be commended for the excellent pro- be a very striking facility. Interpretative sum- grams that were presented and the smooth

SEPTEMBER 1964 manner in which they were executed. The 8. Refer to Business and Finance Di.vision. Convention was well-attended, with good 9. Refer also to Advertising Division. participation and variety of activity; the en- The author is indebted to many for their coopera- thusiasm of the membership attests to its suc- tion and assistance in collecting information for cess! this report. Specific acknowledgment is due to the following: Grieg Aspnes, Betty Bateman, Frederic Battell, Margery Clark, Barbara Conroy, Duane 1. Refer also to Newspaper Division. Day, Robert Durkin, Celestine Frankenberg, Rob- 2. Refer also to Insurance Division. ert Gibson, Jr., Efren Gonzalez, Audrey Grosch. 3. Refer also to Business and Finance Division. Elizabeth Hollaway, Frederick Holzbauer, Marilyn 4. Refer also to Picture and Advertising Divisions. Johnson, Roy King, Kenneth Knight, Janna Lef- 5. Refer also to Picture Division. fingwell, Constance Moore, Fred Oxtoby, Allan 6. Refer also to Advertising Division. Pratt, Paula Strain, Louise Stubblefield, Mary Lee 7. Refer also to Newspaper and Picture Divisions. Tsuffis, and Theodor Yerke. Special Libraries Association Membership as of April 30, 1964

ACTIVE Sus- (pd. for Assocr- AFFILI- TAIN- EMER- HON- CHAPTERS ACTIVE Life) ATE ATE STUDENT Alabama Baltimore Boston Cincinnati Cleveland Colorado Connecticut Valley Dayton Georgia Greater St. Louis Heart of America Illinois Indiana Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Montreal New Jersey New York Oak Ridge Pacific Northwest Philadelphia Pittsburgh Rio Grande San Diego San Francisco Southern California Texas Toronto Washington, D. C. Western New York Wisconsin Unaffiliated U.S. & Canada Outside US. & Canada

Less extra chapter affiliations

464 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Chapter Relations Committee Report MARGARET E. MADDEN, Chapter Liaison Officer

Shortly after my return from last year's Annual hindering their recruitment activities to the Ad- Convention in Denver, an introductory letter was visory Council. In their experience the definition sent out to the Chapter Presidents naming the of Affiliate membership is equivocal. They are re- members of the Chapter Relations Committee and luctant to extend invitation to persons in many briefly outlining the function of the Committee. It instances because this class of membership re- also included a schedule for the year's formal re- quires so much interpretation. ports and requested cooperation in promptly re- sponding to the requests for various types of in- Education formation that each year brings. One-third of the Chapters reporting noted spe- My first assignment as CLO, which involved an cific activities related to education. Projects pri- enormous amount of time, was arranging Chapter marily designed for continued education of visits for the Association President, Mrs. Mildred Chapter members were: a variety of workshops; Brode (nine) and the President-Elect, William S. Pittsburgh's continuation of a Chapter library; and Budington (eight). endorsements of propositions for accredited li- Assistance was given to the Professional Stand- brary schools within Chapter boundaries. ards Committee in setting up Chapter meetings San Francisco Chapter contributed to the educa- for discussion and comments on the proposed tion of industrial personnel departments by con- standards at the Mid-Winter Advisory Council ducting a salary and job description survey of meeting. special libraries in the participating companies. In summarizing the 29 Chapter annual reports Because of the nature of the Wilson Award this received to date, I am pleased to present a brief year, many activities with other professional or- summary of their activities during the past year. ganizations were reported in the competition by Many Chapters are taking the Goals for 1970 very individual Chapter entries. seriously and building Chapter programs around them. Even those Chapters who did not formally Meetings note the goals in reporting their activities, invar- Joint meetings were popular this year. In many iably described accomplishments that furthered instances, the majority of Chapter meetings were one or other of the Association goals. Therefore, held in conjunction with one or more professional am using the Goals as the framework for this I organizations, not necessarily library associations. summary of Chapter activities. Some notable speakers showed up for Chapter GOALNO. 1: At least 30,000 well-trained special meetings. For example, at various Illinois Chapter librarians-information specialists working in the meetings the members were addressed by Charles field Percy, Bell and Howell; Dr. Don Swanson, Uni- Recvuitrnent versity of Chicago Library School; and Sir Frank About half the Chapters reported an active re- Francis of the British Museum. Dr. Weinberg cruitment program. The most frequent approach spoke to the San Francisco Chapter. The Pitts- used was to the students. Several Chapters burgh Chapter arranged a special series of lectures participated in a Career Day for the high school by Arnold Banks, Carnegie Institute of Tech- students and a tea/reception for library school nology. Let us not forget that our President, Mrs. students and their faculties. Students were also Mildred Brode, and our President-Elect, William invited as guests to meetings and tours of local Budington, shared the honors throughout the special libraries. Minnesota maintained a special country on official visits. The Chapters uniformly students mailing list for their Chapter bulletin. reported good attendance and a welcome recep- Several of the Chapters make a roster of speakers tion where they spoke at Chapter meetings. available for pand programs. A Golden Anniversary was celebrated in the Other recruitment methods mentioned were the grand manner by the New York Chapter, com- use of TV and radio time and the operation of plete with a formal banquet. The Pacific North- booths at various local and regional professional west Chapter had the distinction of holding a conferences including those of library associations. Chapter meeting outside the country when they The Michigan Chapter reported an unusual amount visited the University of British Columbia. of placement activity: about 100 people were in- terviewed by the Employment Chairman, and ap- proximately 25 professional and sub-professional With one exception, those Chapters that form- people were placed. The New York Chapter de- ally considered the Draft on Professional Stand- veloped a Recruitment Kit consisting of 20 pho- ards, circulated for review this year, presented a tographic slides and a speech outline brochure. report of their deliberations at the Mid-Winter The St. Louis Chapter has referred a problem Advisory Council meeting. Janet Bogardus, Chairman, Finance Committee, Dr. Frank E. McKenna, Division Liaison Officer, and Margaret Madden, Chapter Liaison Officer, sit with the Board of Directors during its open meetings.

GOALNO. 2: Publicity and Public Relations contributions to the literature. Georgia will soon complete "Selected Check List of Early Georgia General Activities Maps from Selected Libraries in Georgia." San As usual the newspaper remains the most out- Francisco is preparing a directory of trade journals standing medium for publicity, although some on science and technology. It should be noted that Chapters were able to obtain radio time. In sev- Georgia is providing volunteer labor and hard eral instances feature stories were run on the cash to help complete revision of Francis Kaiser's local Chapter or some of its special libraries. book, Translations and Tratzslato~s:Serf,ices and Michigan Chapter took a direct approach and par- Sources. ticipated in a panel discussion at an institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers meeting. Min- nesota Chapter's 20th Anniversary was duly cov- At least three Chapters are continuing dupli- ered by the local press. cate exchange programs for interested libraries. New Jersey has proposed a state cooperative stor- National Library Week age plan for periodicals. Southern California be- lieves there should be an area information center From reading the Chapter reports it appears established, and the Oklahoma Chapter President that National Library Week activities did not holds a four-year term on the state's Council of reach the height nor frequency seen in recent Libraries, following a gubernatorial appointment. years. However, there were some notable high- lights. In Minnesota, Grieg Aspnes produced and Internal Reseurch narrated a five-minute TV program. In Pittsburgh, a student became Librarian-For-A-Day at US. Most Chapters have an archives program and Steel Commercial (with accom- there were many reports of and up-dating panying press photographer). One comment may to keep these documents in good order. The New be worth noting: The Boston Chapter found local York Chapter has attempted to overcome some radio time unavailable because their material was archival problems by devoting one issue a year of not controversial enough. its Chapter Newr as the official reference copy of Chapter business and historical information. The GOAL NO. 3: Bibliographic Publications and In- Boston Chapter has started a service roster listing formation Centers members and their past and present contributions to the Association and Chapter. It is interesting to This goal was assigned to Divisions and Sec- note that the Montreal Chapter has provided for tions, exclusively. the transfer of its archives to the McGill Univer- sity should a proposed thesis on the Chapter be GOALNO. 4: Active Research Program undertaken. Cooperative Publications The Chairman's time was torn between duties The majority of the Chapters are working on of the Committee and responsibilities to the Host a directory of libraries and a union list of serials. Chapter of the 55th Annual Convention. Conse- In more than a few instances, revisions of the quently, some planned activities of the Committee union list of serials are involved with conversion will start with the beginning of the next Asso- to punched cards for ease of up-dating. The Mich- ciation year-for example, a detailed survey of the igan and St. Louis Chapters are investigating co- geographic distribution of the Chapters. operative means of producing union lists for the As we look forward, it is encouraging to note entire library community. that Chapters are carrying their part of the load Two Chapters are working on monographic in achieving the Goals of the Association. 466 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Division Relations Committee Report DR. FRANK E. McKENNA, Division Liaison Officer Perhaps soul-searching is an indication of ma- of three groups, plus a joint meeting of the Sci- turity-searching to discover if our aims are fit Tech and Biological Science Groups with the and proper or to determine if our targets are to New Jersey Chapter, SLA, the New York Metro- be redefined or re-aligned. politan Chapter of ADI, the New York Regional In the Board voted "to charge Group of MLA, and the New York Institute of the Division Relations Committee with a re-ex- Food Technologists. amination of the Division Structure as a result It is interesting to note that despite the report of a conclusion by the Goals for 1970 Commit- of the Documentation Division predicting its pos- tee." To date. our approach has been primarily sible dissolution, a New York Documentation one of informal conversations to take advantage Group was organized during the year as the 12th of internal pressures existing within most of the Group in that Chapter. Divisions. An informal presentation of the his- It is equally interesting to note that names of torical growth of the Divisions was presented to some of the New York Groups are not the same the Advisory Council in . This re- as the Association's Divisions: Biological Sciences port was received with unexpected enthusiasm; as and Hospital Group still reflects the now defunct a result, "A Genealogical Chart for SLA Divi- Hospital Division; and the Newspaper and News sions" was published in the July-August 1964 is- Group. sue of Sperial Librarie~. Can one meaningfully ask if the Association's Two Divisions are engaged in a redetermina- Division structure has been influenced by the tion of their names to stay abreast of changing Group structure of the New York Chapter? This knowledge and technology. A petition from the question is, I believe, germane when one sees Metals Division to the Board of Directors is ex- that the Association's Divisions are the descend- pected for a change in name to Metals/Materials ants of the New York Discussion Groups of 1922. Division. The Advertising Division is examining Publications prepared under Division sponsor- a change in name so as to reflect more accurately ship include: I) Subject Headifzgs in Advertising, the interests and needs of its members; a sug- Marketing, and Communications Medja; 2) Di- gested name is Advertising and Marketing Divi- rectory of Business and Financial Services; 3) sion. Literature of Executive Management (prepared A rare phenomenon appears in the report of the for the XI11 International Management Congress) ; Documentation Division. Even though it is now 4) Insurance Periodicals Index, appearing in the the fifth largest Division, the suggestion appears weekly publication, Insurance-Eastern Under- that the next two years may see a proposal for write~;and 3) Picture Sources, a second enlarged the dissolution of the Division on the grounds edition. that: "The Documentation Division has outlived A five-minute 16mm film was produced by the its usefulness . . . such a proposal may lead sim- Advertising Division for use on television sta- ply to a re-alignment of the Division's goals. It tions in the Minneapolis area during National becomes quite apparent that SLA no longer needs Library Week. Recruiting brochures were pre- a separate division just to promote awareness of pared by both the Museum and the Advertising nonconventional information techniques amOng Divisions. special librarians." Joint meetings with other professional groups The Social Welfare Section of the Social Sci- have gained momentum. The 11th Annual Fall ence Division was on the verge of dissolution dur- Meeting of the Metals Division was held in con- ing the year. Only by a slim margin did its mem- junction with that of the American Society for bers vote for its continuance. Metals; again a successful SLA booth was pre- The Public Vtilities Section of Sci-Tech is con- pared and manned during the Metals/Materials cerned by a drop in membership and apparently Show in Cleveland. will discuss the possibility of a merger with an- The Sixth Annual Military Librarians Work- other Section or Division. shop was held at the U. S. Naval Ordnance Lab- Two new Sci-Tech Sections were born by Cae- oratory, Silver Spring, Maryland. A joint meeting sarian Section at the end of the Denver Conven- of the Advertising Division and the Advertising tion: Aerospace (now 295 members), and Nu- Federation of America was held in St. Louis dur- clear Science (now 89 members). ing the SLA Convention. The Geography and The beneficial effect of nearby libraries of sim- Map Division was represented by a delegate to ilar "subject" interests is reflected by the activities the meeting of the Association of American Ge- of the 12 subject groups of the New York Chap- ographers. ter. The 12 groups averaged three meetings per The Sci-Tech Committee on Government In- group during the past year with a range from formation Services has met in Washington, D. C. one to four meetings per group. There were six with representatives of the Department of De- joint meetings of two groups, one joint meeting fense, Defense Documentation Center, NASA, SEPTEMBER 1964 USAEC, and the Technical Documentation Center Board's action in February 1964 have been met, of the Department of Commerce. Another meeting two years have now elapsed since the adoption of was held in St. Louis to achieve better communi- new Association Bylaws in . cation with government agencies who generate This year again, we see that the richest har- technical information. vests of the Divisions are gleaned in two fields: The Metals Division has operated its Dupli- I) specialized publications such as those listed in cate Exchange on a subscription basis and has this report, and 2) their Convention programs in netted a profit thereon. which we all participate each year. The Military Librarians Division printed and An increasingly sterile field is that of communi- mailed to its members copies of the Civil Service cations within most of the Divisions. Even though Commission's "Librarian Series." This Division elaborate bulletins may not be warranted, some also experienced a unique situation: an anony- form of printed communication is required to mous gift of $250. maintain a flow of intra-divisional information. The perennial problem of bulletin costs con- In September 1963, this Committee presented to tinues to vex the Divisions. The number of bulle- the Board recomn~endationsfor changes in Divi- tin issues per Division ranged from zero to five sion allotment schedules in part, to discourage during the year 1963-1964. Subscription bulletins, very small and very large Divisions. The Board in general, report increases in the number of sub- referred these recommendations to the Finance scribers. Nonsubscription bulletins, in general, Committee. It is hoped that the Finance Commit- have had continuing financial difficulties. tee and the Board will take positive action of In regard to Division Bylaws, the Board of Di- those proposals to be effective for the year 1964- rectors (in February 1964) voted that: "the 1965. DL0 to contact the Divisions that the Board of Directors took cognizance of no action regarding EDITOR'SNOTE: An Ad Hoc Committee to Study Bylaws, and if by June there was no action, then Division and Chapter Allotments has been ap- the Board of Directors will in June consider ac- pointed to investigate the merits of this recom- tion relating to stopping allotments; followed by mendation. a letter from the Association President if no ac- tion is taken before June." At this date all Divisions and Sections have submitted proposed Bylaws or revisions to the Board of Directors Meeting Association's Bylaws Committee for approval. It The Fall Meeting of the Board of Di- was impossible to consider adoption during the r.ectors will be held at the Belmont 1964 Convention because some last drafts were only submitted to the Bylaws Committee on May Plaza Hotel in New York City, Sep- 25. tember 24-25. Although technically the requirements of the

The 1964-65 SLA Board of Directors (Back row): Mrs. Dorothy B. Skau, William K. Beatty, Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, Kenneth N. Metcalf, Helene Dechief, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Roth; (front row): Herbert S. White, Joan M. Hutchinson, Jean E. Flegal, William S. Budington, Alleen Thompson, Lorna M. Daniells. 468 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Committee Reports, 19634964 By Committee Chairm.en

Admissions working day in filing and heading subjects to ma- terial for the Archives file. This has been a great As it has done since its formation in 1958, the help in keeping the Interim File of the Archives Admissions Committee continued to make deci- and current material up to date. In addition, the sions on eligibility for membership of applicants file clerk has worked diligently and well in shift- referred to it by Association Headquarters. Most ing the file and making the file orderly. decisions are relatively simple to make and are The Committee met as a group with the Execu- speedily passed around the Committee and re- tive Director once during the current year and had turned to Association Headquarters. Some deci- individual meetings with each member of the sions, however, are not so simple to make and Committee when at Association Headquarters to take much longer. These usually involve much discuss ways and means of using the time of the correspondence among Committee members, the file clerk to the best advantage. applicant, and/or references, and often Associa- Chapter Presidents were contacted for archival tion Headquarters before a final decision is made. material still in their files. This has resulted in In reaching our decisions, we have tried to in- the receipt of a great deal of material that still terpret the membership qualifications as stated in has to be processed and weeded of material be- the Bylaws of August 9, 1962. Where problems fore filing. of interpretation have arisen, the Committee has The exhibit material contributed by libraries consulted with the Bylaws Committee as the final for the 50th Anniversary exhibit at Atlantic City authority for interpretation. Convention in 1959 has been offered to the librar- The Committee met once during the year at ies that cooperated for the exhibit. Since the Denver with the Chairman of the Bylaws Com- material was more a story of industries than li- mittee, the Executive Director and his assistant, braries, the Committee decided it was not ma- and the Membership Assistant. The Committee terial necessary for the Archives file. Many of the Chairman also met in Baltimore with the Chair- libraries asked to have the photographs returned man of the Bylaws Committee. to them. This has been accomplished. Last year, the Committee recommended that Genevieve Ford has completed the indexing of the Board ask the Bylaws Committee to study the the Minutes of the Board of Directors and Ad- wording of Affiliate as contained in Bylaws Ar- visory Council for 1963. Fannie Simon has been ticle 11, Section 4, in an effort to define its terms working on the Chronology and keeping it up to more specifically and thereby clarify its possible date since 1950. interpretation. This recommendation was approved. Mrs. Martha O'Leary has checked the Chapter To assist the Bylaws Committee in fulfilling this Bulletins to be sure the file is complete. Letters request, the Committee submitted information on will be sent to Chapter Bulletin Editors during problems experienced with applications involving the coming year requesting missing copies. In ad- the Affiliate class. The draft guidelines prepared dition, Mrs. O'Leary has been checking photo- by the Bylaws Committee are satisfactory to this graphs at Association Headquarters for those use- Committee. These guidelines should be very help- ful in the Archives file. ful to future committees. JOSEPHINE GREENWOOD THEODORED. PHILLIPS Awards Advisory Committee to Recommendations 1. a) That a "Certificate of Merit" accompany Elizabeth and Ruth Ferguson the engraved silver tray for the SLA Professional on a Bibliography, Descriptive Award; b) That a "Certificate of Honor" accom- pany the Medallion for the Hall of Fame Award. Bibliographies Originated by Suggested wording of "Certificate of Merit": The Special Libraries Association Profes- Special Libraries sional Award 1963.1964 is presented to Miss Jane Doe in recognition of her contribution to the field No annual report. of Special Librarianship. Suggested wording of "Certificate of Honor": Archives The Special Libraries Association Hall of Fame Award 1963-1964 is presented to Mr. John The Archives Committee wishes to express ap- Doe in recognition of his professional achieve- preciation to the Board of Directors for its action ment and contribution to the development of on having a file clerk spend half a day each Special Librarianship. SEPTEMBER 1964 2. The Awards Committee recommends the fol- Bylaws Committee also spent considerable time lowing to be substituted for the present statement on this during its February meeting. We would on the SLA Hall of Fame Award: appreciate comments and suggestions from the SLA Hall of Fame election is granted to a Board of Directors at this time. member or a former member of the Association near the close or following completion of an ac- Recommendation tive professional career for an extended and a The Bylaws Committee requests that the Board sustained period of distinguished service to the of Directors extend the deadline for approval by Association in all spheres of its activities (Chap- this Committee of the Chapter and Division by- ter, Division and national levels). However, pro- laws for one year. longed distinguished service within a Chapter MARGARETH. FULLER which has contributed to the Association as a EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors approved whole may receive special consideration. the deadline extension. Previous statement: SLA Hall of Fame election is granted to a member or a former member of the Association; recognition is granted for an ex- Committee on Committees tended and a sustained period of service to the Association; recognition is granted for specific Archives Committee contributions to the development of the Special The Committee on Committees submitted to Libraries Association; recognition is granted near the Board of Directors at its June 1963 meeting the close or following completion of an active in Denver the following definition of the Archives professional career. Committee: "The Archives Committee shall be a W. ROY HOLLEMAN standing committee of three members from the same geographic areas as the Association's Head- EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors approved quarters, appointed for overlapping terms of two both recommendations. years each. Its duties shall be to collect, review, and organize historical data concerning the Asso- Bylaws ciation and to assure its proper preservation and suitable storage. The Committee shall be respon- This report is a summary of the activities of sible for maintaining a chronology of the Asso- the Committee during the past year and contains ciation and for the indexing of the meetings of one recommendation. the Board of Directors." By the end of January the Committee had re- At that time the Board decided to defer any ceived and reviewed drafts of new or revised action on the Archives definition largely because bylaws from three Chapters, one proposed new the Archives Committee itself is uncertain as to Chapter, four Divisions, and two Sections of Di- what its responsibilities should be. Upon checking visions. At the February Advisory Council meet- with the present Chairman of the Archives Com- ing, Chapter Presidents and Division Chairmen mittee, Josephine I. Greenwood, I have been told were reminded of the deadline set by that the Committee has still not determined its the Board of Directors for approval of bylaws. complete scope and responsibility, particularly as As a result, 29 of the 33 Chapters, 11 of the far as the terminology of certain items are con- 15 Divisions and seven of the ten Sections of Di- cerned. visions have either submitted bylaws to the Com- It seems that with the Board tabling the Ar- mittee or notified us that bylaws are being pre- chives problem and the Committee, on the other pared. Because Divisions and Sections meet only hand, being undecided on its real scope, a status at Convention. the Committee has reviewed all quo exists until either the Board of Directors or of these and is working on the Chapter bylaws in the Archives Committee reopens the case. order of receipt. As time will not permit us to review thoroughly all the Chapter bylaws pending Governmental Relations Committee before the deadline, and to provide time for Chap- In principle, the Board of Directors approved ters and Divisions working on difficult revisions the statement of duties of the Governmental Re- to present them for approval, we request that the lations Committee report dated February 22, 1963, Board of Directors extend the deadline for one subject to ratification by the Committee on Com- year. mittees. Upon reviewing this report. the Com- A notice of the Chapters and Divisions that mittee on Committees recommends the following had not submitted bylaws by the end of April was statement of duties. sent to the Liaison Officers. In June 1963 the Board of Directors approved Recommendation 1. a recommendation of the Admissions Committee The Governmental Relations Committee shall that the Bylaws Committee study the wording of be a standing committee of five members ap- Affiliate as contained in Article 11, Section 4 of pointed for overlapping terms of three years. Its the Bylaws in an effort to define its terms more duties shall be: a) to observe all actions of gov- specifically. Both Committees met during the ernment, primarily at the national level, but also 1963 Convention to discuss the problem, and the in the areas of international, state and local ac- SPECIAL LIBRARIES tivity that might affect special libraries and special mittee with the following duties to perform: librarians; b) to inform itself of such activity Three members should be appointed for overlap- through study of appropriate governmental reports ping terms of two years each. The duties should and materials and by serving as a clearing house be: a) to keep abreast of new developments, for information on governmental activities from equipment, and techniques in the field of re- all SLA members and groups; c) to maintain prography (reprography is defined as a general close liaison with the Washington office of the description of all processes involving the photo- American Library Association; d) to inform the mechanical reproduction and duplication of docu- Association of all important developments by re- ments and associated with photocopying, micro- porting to the Executive Director and the Board copying, microfilm, blueprints and plan copying, of Directors, by preparing factual reports for small offset printing systems, and so on) ; b) to Special Ljbruries and other SLA publications, and represent the Association at meetings and orga- by referring to specific SLA Committees, Divi- nized groups in this field and to recommend to the sions, and Chapters, matters of special concern Board of Directors Association cooperation or to such groups; and e) to recommend to the Board participation in projects; r) to recommend pos- .md to the Executive Director any action neces- sible SLA sponsorship of an activity in this field; sary to protect the interests of SLA and its mem- and d) to keep the Association informed of new bers. developments in the field of reprography.

Personnel Committee and Personnel Chairman Scientific Meetings The problem on hand is that there is confu- The Committee on Committees was requested >ion regarding the Personnel Committee Chairman. to define the scope and duties of this new Com- The Professional Standards Committee definition mittee. and its membership, the Statistics Committee and its membership as well as the Professional Com- Recommendation 4. m~ttee note that the Personnel Chairman shall Five members shall be appointed for overlap- be on all three Committees. However, there is ping terms of three years each. The members shall conflicting description in the scope and member- represent the scientific Divisions of SLA, namely: ship of these Committees. These need to be Biological Sciences, Documentation, Metals, Mili- brought together to be compatible. tary, and Science-Technology. This Committee Upon reviewing the scope notes of the three shall determine policy, review the work, and ad- Committees-Professional Standards Committee, vise the Editor of Scientific Meetings. Statistics Committee, and Personnel Committee- the Committee on Committees submits the follow- Special Representatives ing recommendation. Special Representatives are listed in the OfFrial Directory of Personnel. The number of these Recommendation 2. representatives is becoming larger each year, and To make the three Committees compatible, we in many cases there is insufficient information recommend that the Chairman of the Personnel known or passed along from one representative Committee be an ex-officio member of both the to another. The Committee on Committees has Professional Standards Committee and the Statis- been asked to compose and recommend a defini- tics Committee. We further recommend that the tion of responsibility. Chairman of the Professional Standards Commit- tee shall be an ex-officio member of the Statistics Recommendation 5. Committee, and vice versa (the Chairman of the The SLA Special Representatives to various Statistics Committee shall be an ex-officio member committees, councils, projects, and other orga- of the Professional Standards Committee). In this nizations shall serve for a term as deemed re- way, close coordination among the three Com- quired if less than an Association calendar year, mittees will be assured. or for an Association calendar year only with re- appointment requirements by the President-Elect. Photographic Reproduction Committee These representatives are responsible to the Board While the Board of Directors at its February of Directors. Their duties are as follows: a) to 1963 meeting in Cleveland approved the change represent, protect, and promote the interests of the of the Committee name to Documenc Reproduc- Association; b) to present significant news of the tion Committee, the scope of the Committee was organization; c) to prepare, upon completion of left to the Committee on Committees. The Com- the appointment or annually, a report to the mittee on Committees took the liberty to also re- Board of Directors; and d) make recommenda- view the name of the Committee and feels that tions to the Board of Directors as to specific par- Reprography seems a better term to use as it is ticipat~on by SLA in projects or whatever such more inclusive. participation might require.

Recommendation 3. Statistics Committee The Committee on Committees recommends to It has been recommended that the Librarian of change the committee name to Reprography Com- the United States Office of Education become an SEPTEMBER 1964 ex-officio member of the Statistics Committee. members of the Board of Directors, and two ac- Also, the Chairman of the Statistics Committee tive members of the Association, the latter four should be an ex-officio member of the Personnel to serve overlapping terms. Committee. Since these recommendations some- The duties of the Committee shall be: what overlap with some of the problems as spelled 1. To act as a planning committee whose respon- out above under "Personnel Committee," the sibility shall be to charter the future course of whole concept of these two Committees, together the Association. The purpose of this Committee with the ALA Statistics Coordination Committee, shall be to keep abreast of the state-of-the-art in have been reviewed and compared. the library profession for the benefit of the Asso- Of major significance was the scope of the ciation and its members. Based on these findings, ALA Statistics Coordinating Project, which has as it shall set goals for continuous, coordinated its task the development of standard definitions growth and strengthening of Special Libraries As- and terminologies applicable to the library pro- sociation. fession. These shall then be used for any statisti- 2. At the request of the Board of Directors, the cal purposes as used and submitted by the U. S. Committee shall also act as an evaluation com- Office of Education in its effort to standardize questionnaires and official statistics. It seems, mittee on projects as submitted by other commit- therefore, that the most logical solution would tees or other units, whose projects, if implemented, would require financial support or may affect the be to have an official of that Office become an Association or individual member, or otherwise ex-officio member of the present Statistics Com- should come under the Committee's responsibili- mittee. ties as outlined under item one above. Recommendation 6 3. To recommend to the Board of Directors the The outline of the scope of the Statistics Com- assignment of future programs and projects as mittee as listed in the Oficial Directory of Per- well as financial support where required to the .ronnel shall be expanded to read: "Ex-officio appropriate committees for implementation and members on the Statistics Committee shall be: action. The Chairman of the Personnel Committee; and 4. To act as a reviewing body to insure that an official of the Library Services Branch, U. S. projects and programs as derived from items one Office of Education." and two have been properly implemented by the The Association President shall extend an in- appropriate committees and that a progress re- vitation to the U. S. Office of Education for the port on these projects and programs be submitted nomination of an official to serve on the Statistics annually to the Committee as well as to the Board Committee. of Directors. Goals Committee Recommended Reorganization of Committee The Committee on Committees has been asked Structure to submit an appropriate name and compose the responsibilities of a committee that should in some The Goals for 1970 Committee has further sub- way express the continuation of the Goals for mitted four recommendations as follows: 1970 Committee and be responsible for the im- 1. That the Committee on Committees be re- plementations of the Goals Committee's recom- quested to draw up a short statement of those re- mendations. sponsibilities and relationships all Association Committees have in common to the Board of Di- Recommendation 7 rectors and to Association Headquarters. The Committee on Committees recommends to 2. That the statement should include an outline disband the Goals for 1970 Committee since it of responsibilities, privileges, and duties of Com- was felt that the Committee has accomplished its mittee Headquarters Liaison Officers. task. However, to insure continuation of the task of the former Goals Committee and the imple- 3. That the statement should also identify com- mentation of the goals as accepted, the Committee mittees that have direct relationships with Chap- on Committees hereby recommends the establish- ters, Divisions, Groups, and Sections, and include ment of a Planning Committee in its place. It is a generalized outline of their mutual relationships also recommended that the capability of such a and responsibilities. Planning Committee be further utilized by as- 4. That specific policy should be recommended signing to it the task of evaluating future proj- for communication between Association Comrnit- ects where financial support will be required. The tees, the associated Association Headquarters Liai- scope and name of such a committee shall there- son Officer and related divisional and Chapter fore be as follows: Planning and Evaluation Com- officers or committees. mittee. The committee shall be a standing com- mittee composed of five members appointed for A quick review of the Goals Committee's rec- three years each and shall consist of the follow- ommendations revealed the following: ing: a Past President of the Association who shall 1. Each committee is responsible to the Board of be the Chairman of the Committee, two past Directors, which sets the policy and sees that it is SPECIAL LIBRARIES implemented through committees, and through sufficient time to conduct the business of the As- the Executive Director as it applies to Association sociation in a manner corresponding to modern Headquarters. business practice. The recommended reorganiza- tion of the committee structure follows: 2. Association Headquarters personnel, through the Executive Director, shall assist committees PRESIDENT with needed information. Association Headquarters personnel does not make any recommendations but, if requested, can make suggestions. 3. The Committee on Committees feels that all committees have some identical relationship with Chapters, Divisions, Groups, and Sections with the exception of those directly related to Associa- tion Headquarters. Association Matters 4. The Committee on Committees feels that its Chapter Relations duty shall be to consider the composition, func- Division Relations tion, and general responsibilities of all Associa- Governmental Relations tion committees, but does not recommend specific International Relations policies. We feel that this is the duty of the International Management Congress Board of Directors. Council for International Progress in Manage- Rather than follow through with the Goals ment Committee's recommendation, the Committee on Jointly Sponsored Program for Foreign Librar- Committees feels that while consideration should lans be given to the correlation of a11 committees and United Nations Nongovernmental Organiza- their relationships to the Board of Directors, tions Observer Chapters, Divisions, Groups, etc., it would be Planning and Evaluation advantageous to review the whole structure of all Membership Activities standing and special committees that have been Convention formed during the last 54 years. Convention Program Reviewing our Official Directory oj Personnel, Resolutions Reference we found that we have 31 standing committees, 11 special committees, and 39 special representa- tives. In accordance with Article IX of the By- Board of Directors Minutes laws, these committees were established by the Board of Directors for the purpose of delegating TREASURER such powers and functions as the Board finds de- Finance sirable. It further requires that each committee Finance should submit to the Board of Directors a report Foundation Grants of its activities throughout the year, together with any recommendations considered necessary or ad- visable. Considering that we have a total of 81 Administration committees and special representatives, we think Archives our present committee structure is top-heavy; it Bylaws certainly does not reflect good business practice. Committee on Committees Good and effective business practice requires dele- Headquarters Personnel gation of responsibilities to a pyramid-type or- Nomination ganizational hierarchy. Tellers In order to remedy the situation, the Committee Association Witness on Committees proposes to assign each Director, as well as the Chairman of the Advisory Council DIRECTOR and the Treasurer, major subject areas of respon- sibility. Under each major subject area we have Public Relations placed the standing committees that would fit Public Relations most logically into the respective subject areas. ALA-SLA-AD1 Other standing committees, special committees, New York World's Fair Advisory Committee and some of the special representatives were placed Awards as subcommittees, respectively under the appro- SLA Professional Award priate committee. To intelligently cope with the Hall of Fame large number of special representatives, we pro- McKlnsey Foundation pose that the majority of them be placed in a Book Awards Program subject area called inter-society activities. This H. W. Wilson Chapter Award over-all arrangement would allow the President, Scholarship and Student Loan Fund President-Elect, and the Immediate Past-President Consultation Service SEPTEMBER 1964 DIRECTOR 2-85 Sectional Committee on Library Equip- Standfivds ment and Supplies Special Classification Council of National Library Associations Statistics and Standards Joint Committee for Visiting Foreign Librarians ALA Statistics Coordinating Project Joint Committee on Exhibit Managers National Academy of Sciences Advisory Joint Committee on Library Education Board of the Office of Critical Tables Joint Committee on Library Work as a Career Professional Standards Federation of Management Organizations Interagency Council on Library Tools for Nursing DIRECTOR Interassociation Hospital Libraries Committee Pubkdtions International Federation of Library Associations Publications Committee on Library Building Copyright Law Revision Library of Congress Liaison Committee of Librar- Joint Libraries Committee on Fair Use in ians Photocopying Library of Congress for Public Law 480 Non-Serial Publications National Book Committee Advisory Committee to Elizabeth and Ruth National Microfilm Association Ferguson on a Bibliography, Descriptive United States Book Exchange Bibliographies Originated by Special Li- United States National Committee for FID braries Serials Publications A major philosophy behind this grouping lies Special Libraries in cutting down the tremendous time required for Scientific Meetings the entire Board of Directors to listen to or to Technical Book Review Index read lengthy reports and to make decisions on Joint Committee on Union List of Serials minor subjects or problems that could be dele- Translations Activities gated to individual members of the Board. Translators and Translations In this way, while we have not lost our require- Transliteration ments for all existing committees, we have, how- Reprography ever, delegated more responsibilities and direct DIRECTOR and permanent assignments to individual members Pvofessional on the Board of Directors. While their responsi- Admissions bility shall be in an advisory capacity, the indi- Personnel vidual committees are still required to submit Placement Policy their annual reports plus recommendations to all Recruitment members of the Board of Directors. The respon- Education sible Director, in turn, will, where required, sub- DIRECTOR mit a condensed summary of a given report to Inter-Society Artivi~ies the Board, thus acting as a spokesman for each American Association for the Advancement of Sci- committee and its activity under his jurisdiction. ence The Board of Directors shall, as it does now, still American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, have the right to invite committee chairmen to Joint Committee on Pharmacy College Libraries personally present their committee report together American Documentation Institute with any recommendations the committee sees fit. American Library Association Such reorganization would automatically bring Commission on a National Plan for Library Ed- forth the various relationships to each other and ucation to the Board of Directors, Chapters, Divisions, Interlibrary Loan and Association Headquarters. This streamlining Joint Committee on Government Publications of committee activities and reporting could con- Library Technology Project siderably reduce the work load of Association Advisory Committee Headquarters personnel as well as that of the Resources and Technical Services Division, Board of Directors. Book Binding Committee (Advisory for The Committee on Committees does admit that LTP study of performance standards for the recommended reorganization would not be library binding) the ultimate solution to all problems of work American Standards Association load or relationships of committees among them- Sectional Committee on Photographic Repro- selves or toward other units; we are merely sub- duction, PH-> mitting the above outlined recommendation as Sectional Committee on Library Work and Doc- "food for thought" for the Board's review, com- umentation, 2-39 ment, or possible implementation. 2-39 Subcommittee on Bibliographic Reference CHARLESK. BAUER 2-39 Subcommittee on Machine Coding 2-39 Subcommittee on Transliteration EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved recommen- 2-84 Sectional Committee on Glossary of En- dations 1, 3, and 5; tabled 6 and 7; and referred vironmental Terminology 2 and 4 back to the Committee. SPECIAL LIBRARIES publicity on a wide United States and interna- Consultation Service tional scale. At the June 1956 meeting of the SLA Execu- In its Goals for 1970, the Goals Committee tive Board, the Keport of the Special Committee urged that among other things, a primary effort on Consultation Service, which had been com- of Chapters should be directed toward manage- missioned several months earlier to investigate the ment public relations, particularly through the possibility of setting up an Association Consul- consultant program. Certainly both the Chapter tation Service and establish a workable program, Consultant and the Professional Consultant has an was accepted. In March 1957 the Executive Board excellent opportunity of impressing management appointed a standing committee of five persons to with the importance of libraries and information ;~tas the first SLA Consultation Service Com- centers that are ably administered by qualified mittee. Since that time the work of consultation personnel. We are probably quite safe in assum- has progressed rapidly to the point where it seems ing that no Chapter activity allows for a greater to have proven itself worthy of the recommenda- pursuit of this important contact with business tion made by the exploratory Committee back in and industry than that of the Consultation Serv- 1956 ". . . that the Association undertake this ice. new service as an experiment for several years, in It is with this idea in mind that the Committee order to give it a chance to prove its value. . . ." will endeavor, possibly through the medium of a The original concept of the Consultation Serv- questionnaire, and definitely through that of the ice as proposed by the original committee was Consultation Service Newdetter to draw an ex- "to encourage the establishment of new special li- change of ideas from the Chapter Consultation braries and to enhance the professional reputation Officers. We feel confident that 33 different Chap- of the Special Libraries Association." It is inter- ter Committees working in as many different esting to note that since the establishment of the areas must be gaining valuable experience that Consultation Service in 1957, the Chapters have could and should be shared with their associates, reported 745 inquiries, which resulted in 395 con- in essence, a "workshop" on paper. We hope the sultations, and in the establishment of 124 new Professional Consultants will want to share in this libraries. Certainly this accomplishment is not the exchange of ideas and will be willing to contrib- result of the efforts of the SLA Committee alone ute their suggestions and advice for the benefit of nor of the Chapter Consultants, the Professional all those engaged in consultation activity. Consultants, or Association Headquarters all work- In this same vein, the Chapters will be encour- ing independently. Rather, it has been a joint ef- aged to undertake local publicity programs to fort with each part of the Service contributing its alert local management to the advantages of hav- efforts towards a coordinated and successful opera- ing a professional library or information center tion. within their organizations. And because it is the Briefly, these past six years have marked the belief of both the Placement Service and the Con- establishment of a workable, working group of sultation Service that our aims and ideals are, in Chapter personnel, designated by their Chapter many respects, synonymous, every effort will be Presidents to be Chapter Consultation Officers, and made to coordinate our activities so as to comple- a roster of Professional Consultants approved by ment the work of each Service. the Committee and ratified by the Board of It is essential to the success of the SLA Con- Directors, all headed by the appointed SLA Con- sultation Service that maximum cooperation exist sultation Service Committee, which has as its AS- among the Chapter Consultant Officers, the Pro- sociation Headquarters Liaison, the Executive Di- fessional Consultants, the Chapter Presidents, other rector. SLA Committees, and certainly the rank and file To have the Consultation Service operate in a Association members. The Service has been fortu- uniform manner throughout the United States and nate to enjoy such cooperation for the past six Canada, the Chapter Consultation Officers are pro- years. We look forward to many more years of vided with a Consultation Service Manual, the successful activity. most recent revision having been issued during GLORIAEVANS the past year. In addition, a Cuntultation Service New~letler (which beginning with this year, has EDITOR'S NOTE: The Board approved the Con- heen, and will be issued three times a year), acts sultation Service Manual and four professional as a liaison between the Chapter Consultant, the consultants. Professional Consultant, and the Committee. News of the Consultation Service has spread Convention 1964 with the passage of time. In the beginning, to promote the Service, the original hard-working The 55th Annual Convention of Special Li- Committee instigated a vigorous program of pub- braries Association met in Saint Louis, Missouri, licity, and material describing the Service was from June 7-11, 1964. 1,173 members, visitors, sent to more than 245 periodicals and newspapers. guests, and exhibitors were registered. Of this It is the intention of the present Committee to number, over 800 had pre-registered. The theme, try to duplicate this excellent work, and during "The Special Librarian as a Creative Catalyst," 1964-65 an effort will be made to once again seek was developed by the keynote speaker, Dr. Don SEPTEMBER 1964 R. Swanson, Dean, Graduate Library School, Uni- Publishing: Mrs. Mildred Winn, Saint John's versity of Chicago, during the opening session. Mercy Hospital Science-Technology: Dr. Robert Jones, Saint Louis Committees City-County District Junior College, Kirkwood, The Saint Louis Chapter planned the mechanics Mo . of the Convention. Eleven committees functioned Aerospace Section: Charles Zoller, McDonnell under the direction of the Convention Chairman; Aircraft Company 23 local librarians provided liaison between the Chemistry Section: Mrs. Eleanora Henerey, Divisions and the Convention Committee. Monsanto Company The following Executive Committee and Con- Engineering Section: Rosemary Caldwell, Saint vention Committee Chairmen were appointed: Louis Public Library Convention Program: *Efren W. Gonzalez, Grove Nuclear Science: Mrs. Ruth Hirsch, Southwest- ern Bell Telephone Company Laboratories, Inc. Paper and Textile Section: Wallace M. Kelley, Convention Treasurer: *William A. Wilkinson, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works Monsanto Company Petroleum Section: Mrs. Harriet K. Long, Exhibits: *Andrew Eaton, Director of Libraries, Washington University Washington University Pharmaceutical Section: Efren W. Gonzalez, Hospitality: "Mrs. Elizabeth Owens, Union Elec- Grove Laboratories, Inc. tric Company Public Utilities Section: Mrs. Elizabeth Owens, Information: *Constance A. Pfaff, Federal Reserve Union Electric Company Bank of Saint Louis Social Science: Anne E. Kelly, Washington Uni- Local Arrangements: Mrs. Mabel L. Sarber, Trans- versity portation Materiel Command Planning, Building, and Housing Section: Anne Meals and Banquets: Constance Ford, Union Elec- E. Kelly, Washington University tric Company Social Welfare Section: Anne E. Kelly, Wash- Printing: Noel C. Holobeck, Saint Louis College ington University of Pharmacy Transportation: Mrs. Mabel L. Sarber, Transporta- Publicity: Charles J. Guenther, Aeronautical Chart tion Materiel Command and Information Center Registration: "Margaret C. Madden, Monsanto Publicity Company The publicity program had good results, both Transportation and Tours: Rosalind M. Dean, Fal- qualitatively and quantitatively, when we realize staff Brewery that Saint Louis (like New York and San Fran- * Convention Executive Committee, and in addi- cisco) is rather indifferent to conventions as such. tion: It is to the credit of the Association and all who worked on the Convention that the press, radio, Chapter President: Francis B. O'Leary, School of and TV coverage obtained generally stressed ideas Medicine, Saint Louis University advanced by the Convention, and not personalities ALA Convention Co-Chairmen: *Andrew Eaton, or transient events. Director of Libraries, Washington University; *Louis M. Nourse, Director, Saint Louis Pub- Registration , lic Library Pre-registration kits arranged on shelves in al- phabetical order expedited the registration pro- Division Programs cedure. Complete registration lists were made Advertising: Margaret Pautler, Monsanto Company available through the facilities of IBM and the Biological Sciences: Francis B. O'Leary, School of Monsanto Company. Medicine, Saint Louis University Business and Finance: Constance A. Pfaff, Federal Meals, Tours, and Other Events Reserve Bank of Saint Louis Over 63 activities were handled with the single Documentation: Margaret C. Madden, Monsanto events ticket. This involved 3,375 individual trans- Company actions. This method of handling ticket sales was Geography and Map: Svetlana Netchvolodoff, generally considered to be successful; however, Saint Louis University some confusion resulted as a result of inexperi- Insurance: Mrs. Ann Mounts, Psychoanalytic enced clerks who "needled" one of the functions. Foundation of Saint Louis Exhibits Metals: Alma Girand. Pet Milk Company,. . Green- ville. Ill. A new high in participation by exhibitors was Militarv Librarians: Mrs. Mabel L. Sarber, Trans- set. There were 69 exhibitors using 80 exhibit portation Materiel Command spaces. The exhibit was again officially opened by Museum: Mrs. Brenda Gieseker, Saint Louis Uni- a gala cocktail party at 6:00 pm Sunday evening. versity This event has become traditional, and is most ef- Newspaper: Roy T. King, St. Louis Post-Dispatch fective in setting a good climate of opinion for Picture: Mary T. Bires. Saint Louis University the week. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Program much factual information in regards to attendance The Division Relations Committee sponsored an at the various events during a convention led the Saint Louis group under the direction of Efren innovation in programming for the Saint Louis Gonzalez to an attempt at gathering such data. meeting. A general session was held on the topic, Tabulating cards for ratings were distributed at "Creative Organization: the Librarian as a Man- each program function. Individuals were asked to ager." Daniel M. Green, M.D., of Grove Labora- identify themselves by a pre-assigned registration tories, presented an orientation lecture on funda- number. The response to this was most satisfac- mental managerial practices after which the tory, and when time permits a detailed analysis, membership divided into workshop sessions with we anticipate a report that will give a wide spec- attendance based upon size of library rather than trum of answers to questions about the attendance by subject interest. The fact that several members and degree of satisfaction with the many meetings have written explicitly in praise of this session is held at this Convention. indicative that the effort was worthwhile. The response to the general sessions was as The realization that SLA really doesn't have follows:

APPROXIMATE RATING(Per Cent) MORETHAN NUMBEROF ONEOR SESSION CARDSSUBMITTED EXCELLENT GOOD FAIR POOR No RATING ------1st General Session 485 2nd General Session 455 3rd General Session 350 CHAPTERREGISTRATION Drvrs~oiv REGISTRATION Alabama Advertising Baltimore Biological Sciences Boston Business and Finance Cincinnati Documentation Cleveland Geography and Map Colorado Insurance Connecticut Valley Metals Dayton Military Librarians Georgia Museum Greater St. Louis Newspaper Heart of America Picture Illinois Publishing Indiana Science-Technology Louisiana Aerospace Michigan Chemistry Minnesota Engineering Montreal Nuclear Physics New Jersey Paper and Textile New York Petroleum Oak Ridge Pharmaceutical Oklahoma Public Utilities Pacific Northwest Not indicated Philadelphia Social Science Pittsburgh Rio Grande Planning, Building and Housing San Diego Social Welfare San Francisco Not indicated Southern California Transportation Texas Not Indicated Toronto No Division affiliation Washington, D. C. Nonmembers Western New York Total Registrants Wisconsin No Chapter affiliation If spoken and written praise from conference Nonmember Guests attendees is any measure of the success of a Con- Nonmember Exhibitors vention, the 55th will surely rate high. The fre- Nonmembers quent incidence of such comments made all who Association Headquarters Personnel worked so hard feel that it was well worth the effort. Total Registrants JAMESV. JONES SEPTEMBER 136-1 Convention Program It is expected that the proposals on copyright law may be presented to Congress this year. The wisdom of insuring adequate advanced plan- Committee members attended a meeting held ning of the Convention by permitting each new March 25 in New York between the American Chairman to concentrate two years on the Con- Library Association Committee on Copyright Is- vention held in his city is most apparent to the sues and an Ad Hoc Committee on Copyright incumbent. Law Revision. The latter group consists of approx- At the Mid-Winter Meeting in Baltimore, the imately 20 organizations in the educational and theme chosen and officially approved was "Library related fields. The meeting was an attempt to de- Cooperation: Panacea or Pitfall." There would be termine what, if any, common areas of interest two General Sessions. The Keynote Address on there might be in proposed legislation. the first General Session would be "State of Coop- eration and Its Future." The second General Ses- sion would be devoted to a critical appraisal of library cooperation with three speakers participat- Document Reproduction ing. One of the speakers might describe the me- No annual report. chanics of setting up cooperative projects among libraries. The other two participants would be Education concerned with the "Panacea" and "Pitfall" as- In the past three years the Education Committee pects of library cooperation. Several speakers were has reviewed much of what has been written on suggested during that meeting. the subject of education for special librarianship; Copies of the minutes of the Mid-Winter Con- we have discussed with representatives of the li- vention Program Committee Meeting containing brary schools some of their problems and have ex- these recommendations were mailed to every Di- changed ideas with them concerning the future of vision Chairman, every Division Vice-chairman, special librarianship and new trends in library ed- and every Section Chairman. This enabled the ucation; we have established liaison with other Convention Program Committee to alert these offi- organizations-ALA, ADI, AALS. MLA, the LED cers well in advance so that their program plan- of the U.S. Office of Education-which also are ning for the 1965 Convention could begin at the concerned with these problems. Finally, we have St. Louis Convention in 1964. received suggestions and comments from SLA Subsequently, letters were written to Gordon members and from other librarians. and we have R. Williams, Director, Midwest Inter-Library discussed as a Committee much of what has been Center; Charles A. Nelson of Nelson Associates; said, read, and argued. and Dr. Richard H. Logsdon, Director of Librar- Our main goal has been to decide what SLA ies, Columbia University. To date, there has been can do: 1) to help prepare more students better acceptance from Mr. Williams, the keynote speaker, for careers in special librarianship through formal and tentative acceptance from Mr. Nelson and programs in the library schools of the U.S. and Dr. Logsdon. To get such an early start on these Canada; 2) to help working librarians keep up arrangements in anticipation of the problems that with new developments, techniques, concepts, etc. will probably arise, is most gratifying. on a formal, intensive, selective basis that would Moreover, it will give the Divisions and Sec- augment their individual efforts of reading, at- tions more time for their program planning and tending Chapter meetings and annual Conven- for consultation with the Committee. I appreciate tions, and Division activities; 3) to help the li- all the excellent suggestions from the individual brarian who has been inactive, or the non-special members of the Committee, which have eased my librarian who wants to enter the field of special responsibilities tremendously. There are no specific librarianship, to prepare himself for this new and recommendations to be made at this time. different type of career; and 4) to train sub-profes- MRS.JEAN HOPPER sionals (also called "library aides," "technicians," or "assistants") for duties that would allow them EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved three Gen- to free the librarian from routine work and give eral Sessions. them more time for purely professional duties. No one can generalize about the quality of li- Copyright Law Revision brary education today. No one can safely say The Copyright Law Revision Committee met in whether it is good, bad, or indifferent. It is espt- February to assess current developments in the cially difficult to make such a judgment about ed- copyright law. It concurred with four recom- ucation for special librarianship. But even the mendations made by the Joint Libraries Commit- library schools seem willing to agree that their tee on Fair Use in Photocopying relating to copy- programs are not perfect. And most schools seem right proposals. Five additional interrelated willing to accept help in improving them. It is recommendations were proposed by this Committee SLA's responsibility to offer such help. and submitted to the Board of Directors for ac- The Education Committee very early agreed that tion. They were approved by the Board and re- we need more facts. In spite of all that has been corded in the March 1964 issue of Speciai Li- spoken and written, we do not find much agree- bvaries. ment on exactly what is a special librarian. Me SPECIAL LIBRARIES need to know more about what he is, what he seas. It might even act as a unifying force in de- does, and how he does it that distinguishes him veloping a more standardized curriculum that from other types of librarian. Unless such distinc- many schools could adopt. tions can be drawn, it is difficult to see how any B. The best exchange of information is face-to- special type of education might be needed. face. SLA could help teachers of special librarian- Some of the facts we need are found in the SLA ship to meet by providing an all-day program dur- Personnel Survey of 1959 (now rapidly growing ing the annual winter meeting of the American out of date); others will soon be added by re- Association of Library Schools. Using slides, films, search underway at the University of Michigan displays, and every other possible means of visual and by a survey being made by the U.S. Office of aid, SLA members could take the teachers on a Education. But much more is needed, and most "tour" of special libraries in various subject areas, of it will have to come from members of SLA outlining their goals and purposes, describing who represent the true cross-section of special li- their methods and techniques, answering questions brarians in this hemisphere. from the audience. Continued year after year, such The members of SLA also represent a major programs would provide a systematic way to help market for the graduates of the library schools. the teachers understand better what the special We do most of the recruiting, interviewing, select- librarian is and does. ing, hiring, training (and sometimes firing) of C. Some SLA Chapters have already developed new special librarians. Our collective experience fine relations with nearby library schools, aggres- should provide the schools with a valuable, prac- sively seeking to interest the students in attending tical gauge of how well their graduates are fitting Chapter meetings and joining SLA as Student the needs for service in today's special libraries. members, providing conducted tours of special li- With this background, the Education Committee braries, and offering the services of Chapter mem- offers the following recommendations for specific bers as instructors, guest speakers, lecturers, or action and urge that they be started at once. consultants. One Chapter has reviewed the cur- 1. ACCREDITATIONis a complicated, expensive, riculum of the library school nearby, offering sug- difficult procedure. The library schools already are gestions based on the experience of the Chapter subject to review and approval by ALA, plus vari- members. Other Chapters have helped library ous state, national, regional, and other ~rofes- schools set up new courses in special library sional agencies. The Commission on a National work, and some have sponsored or directed short Plan for Library Education (SLA is represented) courses, workshops, clinics, seminars, etc., in co- offers hope that the interests of all special areas operation with the school for the benefit of both of librarianship will be included in a new unified students and working librarians in the area. accrediting program. At present SLA's interests can This committee should collect records of best be served by working within the structure of all such activities. The Chapters should be com- the National Commission. mended for their work and other Chapters urged 2. CURRICULAoffer problems similar to those of to "go and do likewise." accreditation. There appears to be little agreement D. Divisions of SLA also can help by offering among the library schools on the ideal course of their working experience as a guide to the schools study for a career as special librarian. In fact, in providing realistic and up-to-date courses in the there is not much agreement on what to call the literature of various subject disciplines. The Edu- courses or programs. But we have seen a real de- cation Committee, working through the Division sire by many library school instructors and direc- Relations Committee, can help compile the in- tors to exchange ideas and information on this formation needed and offer it to the schools. subject. SLA could act as a valuable catalyst by E. On an Association-wide basis, SLA could ask helping the library schools see more clearly: I) its members for their opinions about library edu- What IS a special librarian? 2) How does he dif- cation. Such a survey might ask, "If you were to fer (what he does, how he does it) from other go to library school now, knowing what you do types of librarian? and 3) How do such differ- about special library work, what courses of study ences (if any) affect the program of education for would you consider most important?" Or, "Of all anyone aspiring to a career in this field? the courses you took in library school, which do SLA can best serve in this area by: you feel have been most helpful to you in your A. Compiling all available information on the work?" Out of such a survey might come some various courses of study now being offered by interesting general opinions based on practical ex- library schools under the general heading of "spe- perience. Today's special librarian might also have cial librarianship." This would include the names a good idea of what the future may bring, and of textbooks used or recommended, other sug- thus offer clues to what changes need to be made gested or required reading, types of assignments in preparing the next generation of special li- or projects, internship or practice work programs, brarians. tours, visits and other contacts with special librar- 3. CONTINUINGEDUCATION is a must for any ies, and methods of testing. This central collection special librarian. Some of this is accomplished could be used to help schools who might want to through individual reading, attendance at Chapter start new programs in special librarianship; it meetings and conventions, Division activities, etc. would also be helpful to schools in countries over- The great growth since 1951 in the newer methods SEPTEMBER 1964 of information storage and retrieval offer an ex- provals for the following expenditures: $559.06 ample of how special librarians need a coordi- expenses for the International Management Con- nated, intensive, formalized, continuing program gress Committee (an accounting technicality as of re-education in newer concepts of special library sufficient funds had been allotted previously in services as they develop. And each year SLA head- the 1962-1963 budget) ; $184.67 cost of experi- quarters receives queries from librarians or former mental membership directory in excess of esti- hbrarians who wish to know how they can "re- mate; $840.41 charge in excess of estimate for fresh" themselves and qualify for work in a special the Association Headquarters' Staff Retirement library. These refresher courses might be offered Program occasioned by an unanticipated annual by the library schools, in night school or during administrative fee of $1,000 charged by the Con- the summer, or even perhaps by correspondence for necticut General Life Insurance Company. the benefit of individuals whose time and money At the February Board meeting, the Committee are limited. was represented by the Chairman and the follow- 4. LIBRARYTECHNICIANS-boon or bane? What- ing actions taken: the Chairman was in agree- ever name they carry, these persons, with or with- ment with the Scholarship Committee's request to out a college education but with no formal library increase the total number of scholarships granted training, have proved to be valuable in many spe- this year from eight to ten; the request of the cial libraries where they perform clerical and sub- Ad Hoc Film Study Committee for $500, how- professional work, which leaves the librarian free ever, was deferred for the consideration of the for the more professional duties he is qualified to entire Finance Committee; several additional re- perform. Because there is still much disagreement quests were also referred for Finance Committee on how these sub-professionals should be trained consideration. and by whom, this Committee defers any recom- Accordingly, the Finance Committee met in mendation at this time, but will continue to study May. By this date we could ascertain the effect the problem. In view of the need for every special of the dues increase on income. At this meeting, librarian to increase his efficiency by devoting his the Executive Director presented a very encour- energies and talents to those duties which he can aging picture of the present status of income and perform best, it seems obvious that SLA must help future prospects. solve the dilemma. As a result of the examination of the Associa- GRIEGASPNES tion's investments, our Committee recommends that next year's Finance Committee consider rec- ommending to the Board the removal of the Finance $50,000 maximum limit on the Association's Gen- The Committee held meetings in September eral Reserve Fund. and in May. The Executive Director was in at- The Committee discussed the recommendation tendance at both meetings in a liaison capacity of the Ad Hoc Committee to Study a SLA Re- to inform members of current Association prob- search Program for a high-level position with lems and activities. The major portion of business the Headquarters Secretariat that would combine at these two meetings revolved around budgetary "the functions and responsibilities of informa- matters. tion and library officer of the Association with Jean Flegal represented the Finance Committee those of research and research coordinating offi- during the first day of the September Board of cer for the Association." The Committee's conclu- Directors meeting, and the Chairman was present sion was to recommend to the succeeding Finance for the next day. At this meeting, the Committee Committee that it grant high priority, provided submitted the 1963-64 proposed budget which was funds are available, to this recommendation of approved. The Board also approved two Com- the Ad Hoc Committee to Study an SLA Research mittee recommendations: I) a continuance of the Program. present percentage basis for the allotments to the The Committee considered the request of the Ad Chapters and Divisions, i.e., for Chapters, 15 per Hoc Film Study Committee for $500; the request cent of the revenue received from Chapter mem- of the representative to the International Federa- berships, and for Divisions, 5 per cent of Division tion of Library Associations for $500; the prob- memberships; 2) an increase of the minimum al- lem of the Recruitment Committee, which in- lotment to Chapters and Divisions to $150 from volved expenditures in excess of budget totaling $100. At this meeting, however, the Board re- $390, plus the need of additional copies of the ferred three recommendations of the Division Liai- "What Is a Special Librarian" brochure costing son Officer, Frank McKenna, to this Committee. $985 (for a reprinting of 40,000) ; and a pro- These recommendations involved Division allot- posal of the Division Liaison Officer to change ments including discontinuance of special Con- the basis for annual and Convention allotments to vention allotments, discontinuance of minimum Divisions. allotments, and a change in the basis of the al- lotments. Recommendations Interim financial actions of the Finance Com- Relative to these requests, the Committee rec- mittee Chairman together with the two Finance ommends for the approval of the Board: Committee members of the Board included ap- 1. A sum of $500 be allocated to the SLA Motion SPECIAL LIBRARIES Picture Fund as requested by the Ad Hoc Film International Relations Study Committee. 2. The request of the IFLA representative for Because of the distance between the three mem- funds in the amount of $500 to send a represent- bers of this Committee, no formal meetings were ative to the IFLA meeting in Rome in September held. However, there has been correspondence be referred to the Foundation Grants Committee among us, and we have carried on a number of for consideration. activities that indicate our interest in furthering 3. Increase the Recruitment Committee's allotment the cause of international relations: by $1,375 in order to cover an outstanding bill and to provide for reprinting "What." 1. The Chairman served as the Washington or- 4. Appointment of a special committee to study ganizer for the tour of British librarians in Oc- the proposal of the Division Liaison Officer to tober 1963. There were 137 members of the As- change the annual and Convention allotment basis sociation of Assistant Librarians in the tour, and for Divisions and to report to the Board and to provision had to be made for lodging, itineraries, the Finance Committee. tours, receptions, etc. (The one aspect we didn't 5. The Committee once more recommends the plan for was medical attention, but we arranged bervices of Price Waterhouse and Company for that, too. One person was hospitalized, three auditing the Association's accounts. others needed doctors.) The librarians visited ELEANORALLEN Boston and New York as well as Washington during their two-week stay. Discussions are soon EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors approved to take place concerning arrangements for a re- dl five retomrnendations. ciprocal tour of American librarians to the United Kingdom. 2. The Committee has had correspondence with Foundation Grants librarians in several foreign countries offering in- The Foundation Grants Committee wishes to formation and/or advice concerning their interest inform the Board of Directors of the current in coming to the United States for work or study. status of the Committee's projects. During the 3. The California Library Association has estab- past year, the successful completion of a grant lished a Committee on Foreign Exchange and In- request from the National Science Foundation for tern Librarian Programs. There is interest in pro- the SLA Special Classifications Center has enabled moting. for California, a foreign librarian exchange the Center to expand its activities. arrangement similar to the one in the New York The grant request to the National Science Library Association. The IRC is keeping in touch Foundation for funds to support the completion with these groups. of a manuscript entitled "Guide to Cartographic 4. The Committee discussed, through correspond- Research" was rejected. ence, the possibility of encouraging the interest Currently, the Foundation Grants Committee is of Chapters in setting up local committees to ar- actively engaged in trying to locate funds to range for hospitality for foreign librarians and expedite an exchange of Soviet ;and Amer- students at library schools. In Washington, D. C.. ican special librarians. The new exchange agree- a local committee has operated successfully for ment, which was signed in February of this year, several years. The Chapter Liaison Officer will be included such an exchange under the technical ex- approached on this matter later on this year. change section. Interestingly enough, the exchange 5. Unfortunately, there were no foreign librarians was requested by both parties during this nego- in attendance at the annual Convention, but we tiation. The Chairman of the Grants Committee will try to produce a few at the 1965 meeting. has been working closely with both SLA's Execu- 6. The Chairman attended an all-day session (at tive Director and John Binnington, Project Co- the State Department) of the Greater Washing- ordinator, to revise and resubmit a proposal to ton Council of Organizations Serving Interna- the National Science Foundation requesting funds tional Visitors on May 13, 1964. This meeting for the visit. Meetings were held in New York proved to be very useful and enlightening as there City with Frank Siscoe of the State Department, was discussion with other organizations and pro- and in Washington with Mr. Ruggles of the M. fessions about how they work with visitors from Council on Library Resources (a member of the abroad. recent ALA exchange), and members of the Na- 7. tional Science Foundation. Committee members are actively participating in other committees concerned with international ROBERT\XI. GIBSON,JR. relations: the Jointly Sponsored Committee (SLA, ALA, State Department) for Foreign Librarians, Governmental Relations the CNLA Committee on Visiting Foreign Librar- ians, and the Washington, D. C. local hospitality No annual report committee. 8. The Committee respectfully requests the alloca- Headquarters Personnel tion of $75.00 for its budget during 1064-1965. No annual report. ELAINEA. KURTZ SEPTEMBER 1964 McKinsey Foundation new Committee should be able to finish the job during 1964-1965. One reason that the job was Book Awards Program not accomplished is the geographical distances that made it impossible for the five members to The Special Libraries Association was again ever get together at one time. As a matter of fact, invited to take part in nominations for the Mc- in two years we have never had a meeting with Kinsey Foundation Book Awards Program spon- all five members present. sored by the Academy of Management. This pro- The Committee prepared, at the request of the gram, initiated in 1962, recognizes, by its awards, Executive Director, three letters directed for the books that advance the actual practice of manage- most part to the Chapter Membership Chairmen. ment in industry, commerce, and other institu- Two of the letters were concerned with the in- tions. crease in dues and the third was sent to the Mem- As a result of the experience of last year's Com- bership Chairmen with the hope that the Chapters mittee, the Chairman. Esther Kalis, presented a during the year would make a special attempt to recommendation to Richard H. Viola, coordinator interest students in joining the Association. Our of the program, concerning the time criteria for Committee asked for reports on ways that the book eligibility. She recommended that this time Chapters had interested students. We wanted to criteria from July 1-July 1 be changed to the know to pass the ideas on to other Chapters. How- previous calendar year. Mr. Viola brought the ever, only a few Chapters responded; although, recommendation before the Book Awards Council doubtless, most Chapters did do something. It is of the Academy at the awards meeting. After dis- hoped that by starting early. the 1964-1965 Com- cussion of the problem, the Council decided that mittee can see more results in an increase in stu- for this third year of the three-year program un- dent membership. der which it is now operating, the time criteria of ALLEENTHOMI~SON eligibility should remain the same; whether or not the program will continue into a fourth, year depends upon the evaluation of this three-year Nominating Committee program. This decision by the Academy in addition to a For report, see Special Libraries, vol. 54. no. 9, discussion with Miss Kalis led to a change in the , p. S-21 (News irnd Notes). work procedure of the Committee. Rather than covering the entire field of management books published between July 1, 1963, and July 1, 1964, Nonserial Publications each Committee member will select one manage- Four projects have resulted in publications this ment book that conforms to the McKinsey Book past year: Speciul Librmiec: How to Plm and Award qualifications and will review that one Eqaip Them; Literature of Executiz'e Manage- title. As the majority of the Committee members ment; Picture Source.r, second edition; and Sub- are familiar with the management field, this seems ject Headings in Ad7 erlising. Mmietitlg, and a workable plan. Cornmumications Media. The Chairman of the Committee will coordinate A major accomplishment has been obtaining the selections, collect the reviews and biograph- (with the assistance of Bill Budington), Grieg ical material, and send them to the program co- Aspnes as new editor for The Organization and ordinator in DroDer format. The deadline for sub- & & Management of Speciul Libraries. He is reviewing mitting the material to Mr. Viola was July 15, status and considering additional authors. 1964. One new project has been approved, making a total of nine in progress. One project, a revision of Nicknumes of American Citie.r has been released to the author for publication elsewhere since it Membership did not meet all qualifications for an SLA project. One goal of the 1963-1964 Membership Com- Another project, List of Reference Source.r for u mittee was the completion of an attractive bro- Bu.ri~e.udud Financial Librav~was released to the chure that could be sent to potential Sustaining Business and Finance Division for publication in Members. For some time it has been felt that the Bankimg. Another proposed project. U.S. Govern- Association should be attempting to increase this ment and Libruries; a12 Annotnted Bibliography, type of membership. The original work on the was rejected with the recommendation that it be brochure was started in the spring of 1963. More published by ALA or LC. was done at the Denver Convention followed by Two popular 1963 titles, Guide to Rusriun Ref- discussions in September in New York and again erence md LNN~NJ~~Aids and Dic~ion~wyo/ Re- in Baltimore in February 1964. Probably more port Series Codes, were reprinted. was accomplished at the latter meeting than any A summary of active projects and their status is other, but a finished product has not been turned given below. in to the Public Relations Director for her review Project 110. Guide to Cartographic Researrh: and suggestions. The ideas are there and it is dropped by action of the Geography and Map Di- felt that with what has already been done, the vision. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Nonserial Publications Committee Project Report as of May 21, 1964 Preliminary Project Title Author Approval Action; Remarks Guide to Cartographic Walter Ristow Nov. 1955 Request for grant to NSF Research rejected. Chairman resigned March 23, 1964; recom- mends publication by bits and pieces elsewhere. Re- jected. Subject Heading Lists Sci-Tech Chemistry Sec- May 1957 Proofreading in process ; in Chemical Engineer- tion hope to send to NPC prior ing Mary F. Pinches to '64 convention, manu- script received June 2, 1964. Special Libraries: How New York Chapter $400 expenses. to Plan and Equip Chester Lewis Published September 1963. Them 3,000 copies at $5.55. Sources of Insurance Insurance Division Sept. 1959 In final stages. Hope to Statistics Elizabeth Ferguson submit to NPC by October 15, 1964. $200 for indexing June 2, 1961. Development of Special Anthony T. Kruzas $400 for typing and index- Libraries for American ing. Business and Industry Hope to have final manu- script to NPC by August 1, 1964. The Organization and Grieg Aspnes June 2, 1961 $5,000 for editor and con- Management of Special tributors. Libraries New editor. Aims for com- pletion by .

Special Libraries, a Illinois Chapter Sept. 1961 $100 for typing. Guide for Management Edward G. Strable First draft almost complete April 14, 1964.

Translators and Trans Translations Activities Sept. 28, 1962 $10,000 budget. lations, 2nd ed. Committee Prel~minarycopy submitted Frances Kaiser to NPC April 27, 1964,; apprvved start of composi- tion.

Picture Sources. 2nd ed. Picture Division May 9, 1962 $350 expenses; February Celestine Frankenberg 1963-$175 for indexing. Published March 1964. 3,000 copies at $6.75.

Advertising and Mar- Advertising Division Jan. 1963 $75 for expenses. ketmg Subject Head- Elin Christianson Published May 1964. lngs & Edward G. Strable Literature of Executive Charlotte Georgi Approved fall Mail ballot . Managemtnt 1962 Published August 1963. 5,000 copies at $4.25.

First Supplement to Metals Division June 1963 Manuscript received April Guide to Metallurgical Elizabeth Tapia 1964. Information Recommend 2nd ed. in- stead of supplement. Dictionary of German Chemistry Section February 1964 First part of manuscript Chemical Abbreviations Howard Gholston and received. Roger Martin SEPTEMBER 1964 483 Preliminary Project Title Author Approval Action; Remarks 166 Basic References for a Catherine Albrect For publication in BCIJZ~JZ~ Business and Financial . Library 167 U.S. Government and R. R. Chamberlain Rejected April Recommend publication by Libraries; an Annotated 1964 ALA or LC Bibliography

Project 123, Subject Heading Lirts in Chemirul of them would respond to an even more elaborate Et~giweering:one copy of manuscript was received collecting and tabulating system. by Chairman, June 2, 1964. Even in this short form and small sampling. Project 164, Firrt Szlpplenzent to Guide to the responses ranged through all of the listed Metallurgirirl Itzfor?natio)7: the Metals Division categories. In as much as this was only a feasibil- has approved preparation of a second edition in- ity study with very few listings in any one cate- stead of supplement. Eleanor Gibson is to be new gory, no salary statistics will be reported. editor. The Chairman is convinced of the workability Project 165, Dirlio~urj of Ge~ma~zCbemic~tl of a short survey handled simply by the Commit- Abbretfutions: cards for A, B, C, D, portions of tee. (He is prejudiced against making a big pro- the alphabet received by Mary Allison about June duction, perhaps government or foundation fi- 1, 1964. nanced, out of every conceivable opportunity.) From this report you can see that it is quite However, it is suggested that civil service job probable that all active projects will be published descriptions and salary ranges adequately serve as in the next 12-18 months. SLA urgently needs an a guide in some private firms. Perhaps a quickie aggressive approach to new publications. new survey could furnish us with figures to compare. editions, etc. Remember the royalty aspects or In any case, the present study indicates that spe- special awards possibilities in encouraging worthy cial librarians would appreciate having up-to- projects. date information on salary ranges. This could be one continuing goal of the Personnel Committee. Recommendation In addition to the above, the Chairman of the The Pittsburgh Chapter should be encouraged Personnel Committee has been meeting regularly, to collaborate with Dr. L. E. Kuentzel and ASTM as an ex officio member, with the Professional on the continuation and elaboration of CODEN, Standards Committee. He has reviewed and made with SLA to be recognized as a collaborator in suggestions on the "Tentative Draft of Standards future editions and/or supplements to CODEAT. for The Librarian, Series GS-1410." ELMAEVANS WHITTEMORE Recommendation EDITOR'S NOTE: The Board approved the recom- The SLA Board should instruct the Personnel mendation. Committee to complete formulation of a short- form questionnaire and a plan for administering Personnel it to be presented for discussion and, hopefully, During this year, the Personnel Committee has approval at the next Board Meeting. been exploring the possibilities of a short-form, LOYDR. RATHRUN or quickie, salary survey. EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board took no action on the In Baltimore, the quickie survey idea was in- recommendation but instructed the Committee to formally presented to the SLA Board. The Board devise a new questionnaire. instructed the Committee Chairman to continue study and investigation on the possibilities sug- gested. To quickly ascertain the feasibility of the Placement Policy simple approach for a brief survey, the Chairman The Placement Policy Committee submitted to sent questionnaires to 90 Sci-Tech members in the the Executive Board in 1963 at the Denver Con- Boston area. The questionnaire used was a second vention, 13 recommendations to be used as a draft due for changes even before comments were guide by the Chapter Employment Chairman. received from this mailing. These recommendations were accepted by the There were 24 returns from the 90 mailings, a Board and are listed in Special Lib~arias,vol. 54, 26 per cent response. Of these, one quarter of no. 7,September 1963, p. 436. them had suggestions, all helpful. One quarter ex- On March 5, 1964, a request for new recom- pressed enthusiasm and approval for the content mendations, changes, or amendments to the orig- and brevity. Not a single one of those responding inal proposals was sent to Chapter Employment showed any hesitation about answering nor were Chairmen. Where there was no known Employ- there any comments concerning it. It is impossible ment Chairman, the request was sent to the Chap- to know the opinions of those not returning the ter President. questionnaires. As long as they expressed no re- Four replies were received. One reply ques- actions at all, the assumption might be that few tioned Proposal 3A and clarification of Proposal SPECIAL LIBRARIES 9. Another reply wanted a number of changes in made such a survey impossible in the time avail- the wording of the original proposals. As the able. recommendation to change the wording in the 3. The compilation of the list of special libraries original proposals would require editing and re- to be surveyed was one in which more time would writing the basic document, the incumbent Chair- have been helpful. Most members asked for names man feels that this matter and the suggestion to responded very conscientiously. However. there amend Proposal 3A should be discussed with the was a small number of deviations, for example, a new Chairman and the Placement Policy Commit- library no longer in existence. Evidence later ap- tee. Any changes in the basic document will be peared that some suggested could hardly be termed presented to the Board at a future meeting. excellent. By the same token, many excellent spe- JOSEPHM. SIMMONS cial libraries were probably not included in our survey. It is in this area that follow-up, additional questioning, etc., would have been most valuable. Professional Standards 4. The compilation of the questionnaire required The activities of the Professional Standards more time than any other step prior to the time Committee during the past year can be divided Miss Leonard began work as Consultant. It went into the following phases: through several drafts and was tested on a group of libraries in the Boston area. With the realiza- 1. Distribution of the first draft of three sections tion that it would be impossible to return to the of standards to selected members for review and survey libraries with additional questions. we comment. tried to gather all information that might lead to 2. Drawing up a list of kinds of special libraries standards. in preparation for the survey. 5. The response to the questionnaire was excel- 3. Distribution of the list of kinds of special li- lent. Because of the diverse nature of special li- braries to various members of the Association braries not all those returned were filled out en- with the request that names of excellent special tirely. The response in some categories was too libraries in each category be sent to the Commit- small to be useful in attaining valid statistics for tee. those categories. As might be expected, the larg- 4. Compilation of a questionnaire to be used in est response was received from company libraries. the survey. The following indicates the number of question- 5. Distribution of the questionnaire to those spe- naires received: 228 mailed, 168 returned, and cial libraries included in the survey. 25 other responses. 6. Distribution of the first draft of three sections 6. The discussion by the Advisory Council at its to the Advisory Council for discussion at the February meeting was most valuable in guiding Baltimore meeting. us toward the kind of standards the membership 7.Writing of a draft of the six sections by Ruth would find useful. On the basis of this discussion, Leonard. it was decided to write standards that would serve 8. Distribution of Miss Leonard's draft to the as a guide in setting up administrative procedures Board of Directors, the Advisory Council, and for a library. members attending the St. Louis Convention. 7. On February 27, Miss Leonard, Mr. Woods, A year is not sufficient to carry out all these ac- and the Chairman of the Professional Standards tivities as well as one would like. After the com- Committee met in New York to plan the proce- pletion of one step, sufficient knowledge would dures to be followed in writing the draft of stand- he acquired to see how that step could be im- ards distributed at the St. Louis meeting. It was proved. But to produce copy by June 1964, it was decided that Miss Leonard would write prelim- necessary to hurry on to the next step. inary drafts based on our survey, those drafts al- ready written, the discussion of the Advisory I. The members for our advisory board were se- Council in Baltimore, and her own research and lected from those who had worked on Division experience. These preliminary drafts would be and Chapter subcommittees. Several of the com- sent to the Committee and its advisory board for mentaries received were extremely thoughtful and review and comment. Miss Leonard would then constructive. rewrite the drafts incorporating those comments 2. To survey special libraries ~t was necessary to that seemed pertinent and of value. learn the kind of special libraries in existence. Our list was compiled on a sampling from Krutas' A timetable was drawn up for the writing of Directory of Special Libraries and Informatiorz each of the six sections. This schedule was par- Centenr, published by the Gale Research Company. ticularly tight and it is indeed remarkable that This is a very comprehensive directory and in- Miss Leonard was able to produce a section on cludes some organizations that might be more each date. The final tentative draft was distributed properly termed book collections than libraries. A to the Board and Advisory Council on June 1 and survey of the kinds of libraries represented by was included in the kit given to each person at- members of the Association would prcrbably have tending the St. Louis Convention. served our purpose better. The fact that many There is one additional section to Miss Leon- members use home rather than business addresses ard's draft not previously discussed with the SEPTEMBER 1964 Board. On page 32 a profile of a particular type sociation" be spelled out under the art work and, of special library will be found. Unfortunately, when appropriate, the name of a Chapter, Divi- there was not a sufficient response from all kinds sion, or Section; and that the style of type be of special libraries to allow statistical methods to brought up to date. The Board of Directors ap- be applied to all areas of our questionnaire. In proved this recommendation in February 1964, addition, practices followed by some libraries and the insignia has been redesigned and stream- were too diverse to permit comparison. lined into an attractive emblem. It will be used At the suggestion of the Committee, Miss Leon- on all stationery and other printed matter within ard agreed to create a profile of a particular spe- the next year. In addition, large display cards cial library based primarily on the survey. The pro- containing the insignia have been printed and file is not a statistical average of the questionnaire will be available from Association Headquarters involved. They are used as a base. If there was a for use in Association exhibits. conflict between what was done and desirable ac- The Board of Directors also approved the tion, the desirable action was used. Committee's recommendation that the SLA in- If this profile is acceptable, it will be possible signia be used as widely as possible but within to write others based on the survey. The profile the bounds of dignity. The insignia can now be will provide an instrument by which a special li- used on such items as jewelry (both men's and brary can measure its own basic activities. women's), on membership cards, on stationery, The Committee is very grateful to all members and on gummed stickers. Upon request from As- of the Association who gave so generously to this sociation Headquarters, cuts and reproduction project. This draft could not have been written proofs of the redesigned insignia are available to without the participation of those librarians will- Chapters and Divisions for their special use. Pro- ing to spend long hours in filling out the ques- posals by various manufacturers for the use of the tionnaire and in reading and commenting on insignia on jewelry were discussed by the Com- drafts. Miss Leonard not only gave her sabbatical mittee at our meeting in June. but worked with the Committee in all the pre- Arrangements for implementing approved uses paratory work begun last June. of the insignia will be made by the Executive Di- We wish to thank in particular Bert Van rector, and expenses and profits from its use will Uitert, Marketing Research Manager at the New become a part of the general operating budget England Mutual Life Insurance Company, for his except when materials are designed for use by advice and help in compiling statistical informa- a Chapter or Division, in which case they would tion from the survey. assume any expenses or profits. The Committee expects to present a final docu- ment to the Board of Directors for approval at its September 1964 meeting. The Chairmen of the Consultation Service Com- Publications mittee, Recruiting Committee, and Research Com- In its last report the Publications Committee mittee were contacted for suggestions on how expressed its belief that as presently constituted standards should be published. Mrs. Evans sug- the Committee is ill-equipped to serve the Associ- gested that unless the standards are very expen- ation in the publications problems with which it sive to publish, it would not be worthwhile to might deal. The fact that ad hoc committees were bill for them. She expects them to be of great use established to consider two recent problems in to the Consultation Service Committee. Mr. White the area of publications seems to bear out this does not believe it will be too useful to the Re- viewpoint. The Committee reported its communi- cruiting Committee and suggests a nominal charge. cation of this belief to the Committee on Com- AGNESBRITE mittees and proposed that unless specific problems were referred to it by the Board of Directors, it EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved the publica- remain inactive until the question of its composi- tion of the standards in Specid Libra~irsand as a tion is resolved. free separate. No questions have been referred to the Com- mittee since that report, and no activity has taken place. Public Relations MRS. HELENF. REDMAN At a meeting on June 14, 1963, the Board of Directors of the Special Libraries Association re- quested that the Public Relations Committee pre- Recruitment sent a specific procedure for the use of the Special The Recruitment Committee engaged in a nurn- Libraries Association insignia and that we present ber of important activities during the year. The a new design for the insignia. most important of these was undoubtedly the After appropriate study of the design and use publication and distribution of the detailed re- of the insignia, the Committee recommended that cruitment brochure. "Special Librarianship-ln- the familiar "Putting Knowledge to Work" be re- formation at Work." Written by Marian Veath tained but that the words "Special Libraries As- and the Committee Chairman, the brochure re- SPECIAL LIBRARIES places "Putting Knowledge to Work" as the most The Alabama Chapter hosted a field trip, tour complete pamphlet available for recruitment dis- and luncheon for students and faculty members at tribution. Combined with the pamphlet, "What Is Florida State University. The Bo.rtoir Chaptry con- a Special Librarian?" the Data Sheets and the centrated on a program of meeting with high Recruitment Poster, it enables the Association to school guidance counselors in which several Chap- distribute current information to prospects and ter members participated. The Colorado Chapter guidance counselors. All of our major recruitment hosted a recruitment dinner to which library pieces are three or less years old. school students were invited as guests. The Con- The John Cotton Dana lectures, initiated in ?trr/icut Valley Chapter, which operates separate 1961, are being brought into their fourth year recruitment programs for high schools and col- with four lectures to be delivered in the fall of leges, participated in a booth at the meeting of 1964. The 1964 JCD lectures include the follow- the New England Personnel and Guidance Coun- ing: 1) Atlanta University, by Burton Lamkin; 2) selors. The Illinois Chapter arranged participa- The University of British Columbia, by Marjorie tion in a Library School colloquium, field trips for Griffin; 3) Columbia University, by Robert Krupp; students to visit special libraries in the Chicago 4) The University of Kentucky, by Ethel Klahre; area. and literature for career seminars sponsored 5) The University of Michigan, by Eugene Jack- by the Chemical Industries Council. son; 6) Texas Woman's University, by Helen The Michigan Chapter compiled a roster of its Redman; and 7) UCLA, by William Jorgensen. members willing and qualified to follow up re- The 1964 lectures are being held in the fall to cruitment contacts and arranged a panel discus- permit them to have a greater impact on library sion at the University of Michigan Department of school students choosing a vocational specializa- Library Science. The Minne.rota Chapter paid SLA tion. At the conclusion of this fourth year, 28 dues for four interested students and paid for and accredited library schools will have been the re- mailed 600 recruitment brochures to high school cipients of John Cotton Dana lectures, and it is counselors throughout the state. The New York hoped that during the fifth year of operation, all Chapter developed a slide presentation and speak- remaining accredited schools will be offered JCD er's guide to facilitate recruitment talks at high lectures. At the request of the Recruitment Com- schools and colleges. Diego Chapter par- mittee, JCD lectures are being taped, and several ticipated at the annual San Diego Science Fair, have been borrowed from Association Headquar- distributing literature and answering questions. ters for use in Chapter recruitment efforts. The Sun Flzrncisco Bay Chapter held a reception One issue of the Recruitment Newsletter was for library school students, arranged open houses written by the Committee Chairman and distrib- for annual student tours, and wrote seven new uted in December 1963. Data Sheets for the Association recruitment effort. In addition to the Data Sheets previously pre- The Greater St. Louis Chaptev held recruitment pared by the New York Chapter, new Data Sheets talks at high schools and colleges and also pre- were prepared by the San Francisco Bay Chapter sented talks on the profession to service and pro- under the direction of Recruitment Committee fessional organizations. The Southerr2 California member Kenneth Carroll. These new Data Sheets Chapter sponsored library visits for students and cover the areas of chemistry, electronics, literature staffed a booth at Career Guidance Center of the searching, medicine, military librarians, and nu- Los Angeles County School System. The Toronto clear sciences. In addition, a Data Sheet was sub- Chapter prepared an occupational information mitted for finance, permitting reworking this in- monograph on special libraries, which will be formation with an existing Data Sheet for Busi- distributed to high school guidance teachers ness and Finance to allow the issuance of new throughout Ontario. Data Sheets for Business and Finance, and Bank- These individual Chapter efforts are not men- ing. The Association now has 21 Data Sheets tioned to single out particular activities for praise covering most areas of special librarianship gen- and recognition, since other Chapters also held erally or specifically. However, additional Data worthwhile programs, but to indicate the variety Sheets are still needed, and Chapters are urged to of successful recruitment opportunities that pre- adopt some of these as projects. sent themselves to all of us. The Recruitment Committee worked closely During the coming year, the Recruitment Com- with the Board o€ Directors' Film Study Commit- mittee plans to continue the John Cotton Dana tee on the question of an SLA recruitment film lecture series, cooperate in the implementation of and is pleased with Board acceptance of the film the recruitment film project, encourage the com- as a major Association project. The Committee pletion and distribution and additional Data will assist in making the film a reality. Sheets, and investigate the need for additional re- Chapter activity in recruitment, as reported in cruitment literature within the range of "Make annual reports of the Chapter Recruitment Chair- Your Career in a Special Library." Inan, was spirited and ingenious. Only a few ex- The Committee will also continue to revise cerpts will be quoted in this report for the sake and up-date existing publications, work in co- of brevity. However, a complete set of reports is ordination with other committees toward the im- available from the Recruitment Chairman. plementation of the Goals for 1970, continue to Highlights from selected reports include: cooperate with AD1 in the appropriate areas of SEPTEMBER 1964 JOG, and secure publicity for special librarian- sions. Scholarships can be granted only in pro- ship through newspapers, journal articles, and portion to the amount of money available for other sources of public information. them. Association members are asked to take note The Committee appreciates the stimulating ideas of this fact and to support the Fund accordingly. and suggestions furnished to it by members of the Loans, totaling $1,100, were made during the Board, the Advisory Council, and members at year to only two individuals. A third loan was large and hopes that these will continue. approved but not accepted when offered. Several HERBERTS. WHITE requests have been received for amounts far larger than has been the custom to grant-an indica- tion that 5500 does not go as far as it formerly SLA Professional Award did. The seven scholarship winners from 1963-1964 and Hall of Fame have replied to questions asked of them by Ger- The announcement of the Hall of Fame win- trude Bloomer, Chairman of the Committee who ners and their biographies are given in Specid granted them. Three of them have taken new po- Libr'rries, vol. 55, no. 4, , p. 228-9, and sitions in special libraries: Robert Culp at Bur- their achievements are listed in this issue. The rough-Wellcome, Inc., Tuckahoe, New York; SLA Special Achievement Award winner is an- Louise Orr at Aluminium Company of Canada, nounced in this issue of the journal. Montreal; and Anita Pope, Battelle Institute, Co- lumbus, Ohio. Patricia Hugghins has completed her M.S., but will add a course in medical li- Scholarship and Student brarianship before assuming a position. Michael Loan Fund Borowyk has returned to his position at the Na- tional Museum of Canada, Ottawa. Richard Wal- Sixty-five applications for the eight $1,000 lace is faced with a choice of continuing for his scholarships were received this year. Because of P11.D. or entering military service. Dorothy Lun- generous contributions of members and friends, deen anticipates going into a special library the fund was sufficient to allow the Board of Di- eventually, but has taken a position with a high rectors to approve ten scholarships for 1964-1965. school for this coming year. The sincere appre- The selection of the winners was not an easy task, ciation of these winners makes heart-warming read- and the Committee sincerely hopes that those ing. Our "Dollars for Scholars" are well spent. who did not win will continue with plans to en- The Board of Directors approved the request ter the special library field. The splendid coopera- of the Committee that the burden of detail of tion of Chapter Presidents and their representa- the routines be assumed by the Association Head- tives went far beyond the call of duty and is here quarters staff. This has started for the loans, and gratefully acknowledgeii. in 1965 it will be done for the scholarships. It The winners of the 1964-1965 Special Libraries should expedite the processing and it will make Association $1,000 scholarships are: Mrs. Nada it possible for the Committee members to use Ramona Cail, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sherrill their time for intensive study of the applications. Robin Cartt. Delano, California; David Herzl The Board also approved advancing the date for Elazar, Detroit, Michigan; Kenneth Leon Ferstl, submitting applications for scholarships to Frb- Denton, Texas; Mrs. Jo Anne Walker Hawkins, ruarp 1. Austin. Texas; Mrs. Joyce Patrick Hill, Lyncli- burg, Virginia; Mrs. Grazina Astrid Juodelis, Chi- Recommendation cago, Illinois; Marian Warren Merrill, Dunellen, For 1965-1966, the Committee requests that Nmr Jersey ; Bonnie Madeleine Seesland, Moline, seven scholarships be announced with additional Illinois ; and Martha Zelle, Kenmore, New York. ones to be made available if funds permit. The Contributions from organizations and memori- constmtly increasing number of persons apply- als from Chapters and Divisions to the Scholar- ing for scholarships makes it desirable to offer ship and Student Loan Fund have been generous as many os possible from money contributed for this year. Unfortunately, individual contributions that purpose. The need of special librarians is have declined. The financial statement given be- great. This is one way the Association can try to low includes two annual donations from our meet that need. greatest supporter. The H. W. Wilson Company, ALICEP. HOOK and makes it appear that this past year was better than the last, whereas the opposite is really the EDITOK'SNOTE: The Board approved the seven fact. The Metals Division has made a unique con- scholarships. tribution to the Fund through its sponsorship of an event during the annual Convention from which FINANCIALSTATEIVIENT a goodly sum is realized. In Denver it was the SCHOLARSHIPAND STUDENTLOAN FIJND chuckwagon supper and in St. Louis it was the river cruise. The interest and enthusiasm of this Contributions Division and its aid of the Fund are noteworthy Iiidir,idz~dmembers $ 658.16 and certainly worth attention from other Divi- SPECIAL LIBRARIES In memory of Delphine Hum- Cash balance May 1, 1963 phre) Les.c-Scholarship and Student In memory of Helen Ann Loans (1963-1964) Sweeney In memory of Franziska Schacht Balance (from Picture Division) Additions May 1, 1963 to April In memory of George Halpern 30, 1964 (from Colorado Chapter) Cash balance in Fund April 30, 1964 In memory of George Halpern Loans outstanding In memory of George Hdpern (from Baltimore Chapter) Balance in Scholarship and In memory of Alice McCaffrey Student Loan Fund April 30, 1964 (from Cincinnati Chapter) In rnemory of J. Alan MacWatt (from Pharmaceutical Section) In memory of E. Marie Zablocki Scientific Meetings (from New Jersey Chapter) In memory oC Viola Briner Scientific Meetings is now in its second year as (from Cleveland Chapter) an Association publication. This advisory Com- In memory of F. C. Ault mittee also has been functioning for two years. At the Denver Convention the Committee met (from Greater St. Louis Chapter) and discussed various suggestions for improving In memory of F. C. Ault the publication. It was decided that a subject in- dex would be a valuable addition. This was to be a key word index extracted from the name of the association, etc., or from the title of the In Honor symposium, etc. For example, meetings of the In honor of Lucile Keck American Society for Metals would appear under (from Social Science Divi- Metals. Symposium on Geochemistry of Water sion) $ 50.00 would appear under Water and Geochemistry. The entries in part 1 were to be numbered se- Organizations quentially for easy reference. It is believed that H. W. Wilson Foundation, Inc. the subject index, which began appearing in vol- (May 1963-$2000, April ume 8, is a useful addition to the chronological 1964-$2000) $ 4,000.00 index. Standard Oil of California 100.00 In the fall, Mrs. W. Roy Holleman, the Edi- Bell Telephone Labs., Inc. 100.00 tor of Scientiiic Meetings, is mailing a question- Time. Life Broadcast Inc. 500.00 naire to scientific, technical, engineering, health E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. 100.00 and medical, and management organizations re- Atlas Chemical Industries 250.00 questing information about their forthcoming meetings. Last year's questionnaire included the request for information about the publishing of Chapters the proceedings of each meeting, Consequently, Southern California $ 100.00 this additional information has been included New Jersey 50.00 when it was available. Greater St. Louis 100.00 A new section that listed meetings received too New York (Uptown Luncheon late for inclusion prior to the meeting date was Group ) 6.35 inaugurated. The main purpose for such a listing was to indicate the availability of proceedings. At the present time, subscriptions are $7 per year in the United States and $8 per year else- Divisions where. Single copies of the January issue are $5, Metals and the two supplements are $1.50 each. From the Total contl-ibutions $ 7,736.51 latest cost figures for Scientific Meetings, it would Total interest earned seem that subscriptions have increased for 1964 and that the journal should break even. Since May 1, 1963 to April 30, 1964 745.71 this publication does have several competitors, it is recommended that the current subscription price Repayments on loans be maintained. It is hoped that possible changes May 1, 1963 to April 30, in format without change in content could de- 1964 1,110.00 crease the number of pages and the cost of print- ing each issue. JOANM. HUTCHINSON SEPTEMBER 1964 Special Classifications Special Libraries During 1963-64, the major activities of the Although the number of papers submitted to Special Classifications Committee have been co- the Committee for consideration remains fairly operation with the Director of the Special Classi- constant from pear to year, there seems to be an fications Center to establish policies and pro- inexorable increase in the rejection rate. A com- cedures for operation of the Center under the parison of Committee actions for the past four National Science Foundation grant. A contract be- years is given below: tween Special Libraries Association and Western Reserve University, under which the University MSS Being Asked will house and operate the Special Classifications Sub- Ac- Re- Re- to re- Center, was signed October 29, 1963, and mitted cepted jected viewed* vise Barbara Denison, formerly Assistant Curator of 1960-61 73 29 44 0 - the collection, was appointed Director of the 1961-62 103 48 53 3 2 Center on a half-time basis. A code of operating 1962-63 98 40 48 10 - practice was established and has been approved 196344 100 40"" 51 3 6 by the Board of Directors. * as of mid-May It has been agreed that the first efforts of the ** includes two offered and published by an- Center should be directed primarily toward build- other journal ing up the Center's collection of classification schemes and subject heading lists. Brochures de- The Committee has always had problem areas scribing the Center and its increased activities and in which they have found it difficult to justify requesting publicity for its acquisitions program acceptance or rejection of certain papers. One of were prepared and mailed to some 1,037 associa- these deals with computers, their languages and tions in February 1964; a similar mailing was applications to library situations. Too often au- made to indexing and abstracting associations in thors present well-intentioned, highly technical, May. A cooperative program of acquisitions with and sophisticated computer programs in the form the American Association of Law Libraries is of papers but liberally peppered with unexplained well under way, and the Committee is exploring jargon and mysterious acronyms. The Committee the of establishing similar programs knows that Special Lib~urie.r has an obligation to with the American Library Association and the publish in this field and has therefore been en- Federation Internationale de Documentation couraging authors to simplify or generalize their (FID). with particular attention to strengthen- contributions so that less technically oriented li- ing our communications with groups abroad who brarians will not be frightened away but rather are engaged in classification research. Additions attracted to the subject. to the collection through gifts are being supple- Another troublesome area is that of commer- mented by a purchase program. It is anticipated cially oriented papers. Often the contents are that the Center's collection will have grown sig- quite acceptable but contain subtle advertising nificantly enough to justify the compilation and (and sometimes not so subtle) woven into the publication of a revised Guide to the holdings by discussion. Although this is a minor category, it the fall of 1965. As reported by the Director of still requires astute screening. Reluctant rejection the Center on April 1, 1964, the collection now is often the Committee decision. totals 915 titles. The concern and interest by the Association During 196445 it is expected that emphasis membership in the Weinberg Report at the Den- will continue to be placed on acquisitions. The ver Convention prompted the Committee to rec- Committee plans an intensive program with the ommend a drastic reshuffle of papers scheduled for Divisions of SLA, aimed at identifying and ac- the July-August issue to accommodate a presen- tation of the discussion. quiring those classification schemes and/or sub- The Committee was pleased with the number ject heading lists in existence in special subject of papers submitted this year by library school fields but not in the Center's collection, or per- students. They felt that much would be gainecl haps not listed in the usual bibliographic sources. for the profession by providing encouragement Division representatives have been appointed and to these younger and less-experienced writers. met with the Committee at the St. Louis Con- Special assistance was therefore given to these vention to implement this program. authors to help them revise their works and thus The Committee also expects to give attention make them more acceptable for publication. to the use being made of the Center to deter- The Committee was very much aware of and mine who the users are, what their purposes in gratified by the receipt of an increasing number contacting the Center may be, and what use has of "Letters to the Editor'' containing favorable been made of material loaned. A survey of this comments on the journal contents and on profes- type will be necessary to consideration of the sional ~roblems, thus producing a lively collec- problem of support of the Center on a long-term tion of writings. basis. As a direct result of suggestions made during MEREDITHS. WRIGHT the open meeting of the Committee in Denver, SPECIAL LIBRARIES the coverage of non-SLA affairs by Association eration. At a three-day session the Advisory Com- representatives reported in Special Liharies has mittee studied each chapter in detail and made almost doubled over last year. The April issue is further suggestions for change. Work is going a prime example of this effort. forward now on the final draft for presentation The third annual open meeting was held on at the ALA Conference. June 9, 1964, at the St. Louis Convention. During the present conference the Statistics R. G. KRUPP Committee sponsored a meeting of all regional special library representatives and other inter- ested persons. Views on the special library chap- Statistics ter of the proposed "Handbook," as submitted to The report of the Statistics Committee is the Advisory Committee, were solicited, and the really a progress report on the work of the Na- ideas that came out of this meeting will provide tional Statistics Coordinating Project. 'This proj- still another means of perfecting the concepts ect became operative on July 1, 1963. Made pos- spelled out in the chapter. If the interest evoked slble by a grant of $48,960 from the Council on at the regional meetings is a fair index, we can Library Resources, Inc., and $5.000 from the Na- look forward to enthusiastic support from the tional Science Foundation, and with the contri- membership as a whole. bution of office space by the National Library of The Project officially terminates on July 1. Medicine, the project represents a compromise The few months following July are devoted to ad- among the various individual proposals sub- ministrative mop-up operations and to prepara- mitted by ALA, SLA, and the Pacific Northwest tions for publishing the "Handbook" and "Na- Library Association. Its purpose is to develop a tional Plan." Where the project goes from there plan for the collection of library statistics on a is yet to be decided. It is too soon to appraise national basis. It is being administered by the the true value of the whole exercise for special ALA Library Administration Division and di- libraries. We know that the project, as finally rected by Joel Williams, on leave from his post formulated, does not satisfy the immediate de- as Chief of the Operations Section, Division of sire of the Association for quantitative data on Educational Statistics, Office of Education. Spe- special libraries. We also know that meaningful cialists representing public, school, college and quantitative measures could not have been gath- university, state, and special libraries have as- ered without the initial research that has gone sisted the Director; an Advisory Committee made into the chapter on special libraries. Ann Mc- up of representatives from these types of li- Cann's work has laid a sound foundation on braries has provided policy guidance and at- which to build. It is now necessary for each of tempted to achieve general agreement on what us, individually as librarians and collectively as statistical data should be gathered, in what de- members of the local Chapters and Divisions tail, and how terms should be defined to provide that comprise SLA, to begin to orient our think- consistency and comparability. ing, our study, and our data reporting activities One month after the project opened its office toward implementing the purpose of the project, at the National Library of Medicine, the Director namely the collection and publication of meaning- had completed a plan of operations and had out- ful statistical data about our sector of the library lined the contents of two publications that would world. constitute the end product of the project, namely: RUTH FINE 1) a Handbook of Concepts and Definitions to be employecl in gathering statistics, and 2) Ele- ments of a Xational Plan for Collecting National Technical Book Review Index Statistics of Libraries. Recruiting the specialist In the fall of 1963 the Technical Book Review staff took somewhat longer than a month; how- Index Committee met with the Editor. Anthony ever. by January 1 all library specialists had been A. Martin, and the Executive Secretary, Bill Woods, appointed. The Project was especially fortunate to discuss TBRI and plans for it. in being able to obtain, as its special libraries Volume 30 of TBRl appeared with a new red specialist. Ann McCann, who ]

H. W. Wilson Company Ad Hoc Committee to Study Chapter Award the Need for a Committee to The Committee recommends the following topic Meet with Publishers to be the subject of the 1964-65 competition: In- This Committee was appointed in April 1964 formation Resources Development and Coopera- to study the need for an SLA committee to meet tion. The Committee suggests the need for iden- regularly with book and periodical publishers to tifying the resources in the area of the Chapter, discuss such problems as proper bibl~o~raphicref- identifying the needs, and organizing a program erences, special subscription rates for libraries, for developing and strengthening these regional suitable margins in periodicals for binding, loca- information resources. tion and availability of annual indexes, and avail- We can expect special libraries to take the lead ability of important books going out of print, etc. in such development of regional resources and The Committee felt that its main job. as indi- will probably initiate cooperation with other spe- cated by Mrs. Brode in her letter of April 18, cial. state, regional, public, college and univer- 1964. appointing the Committee, would be to in- sity libraries, information centers, and any groups vestigate what other groups. most likely to have for individuals concerned with the use of in- such committees. had already done and to see how formation resources. LORRAIKECIAOCH this would serve the needs of SLA. It was felt that there was unlikely to be much debate over EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved the above the merits of having some way by which the needs theme. of SLA members could be made known to the publishers; it seemed to be nlostly a matter of studying the means of accomplishing this. Ad Hoc Committee to Study The following information was obtained: Management of the I. Medical L~brary Association. Its President, Louise Darling, reported that thty do itoi have a Publications Fund committee to meet re:,.ulnrly with publishers. They The one definite area of study remaining for do have a Committee on Bibliosraphicd Projects the Committee to consider after the February and Problems to which such questions are pre- meeting was the question of discounts. Working sented for action and ailvice. from the quarterly publication statistics for titles 2. American Association of L~wLlbrdrie~. Its issued since 1960 and from other information sup- I'resldcnt. Harry Bitner. reported that one year plied by Mary Allison, the Committee was able ago they established a Committee on Rtlatlons to establish that the average price of recent SLA with LLW Publishers. It is too early for him to say publications has been $6. This price covers the yet what success this Committee i\ having; thty total publication cost per copy plus a handling are restrlcteil to 1,itr publishers only. cost of $1.50 anJ provides a profit of approximately 3. Americnn Documentation In\titute. Informal $1. For sales of nlultiple copies, that profit in- discussion with ;I Past-President and other active creases. At present less than five per cent of sales members indicated that they do I~OIh~ve any such of books are made through jobbers, and very few committee at present. SPECIAL LIBRARIES 4. American Book Publishers Council. Its Man- be accomplishing things. He expressed a per- aging Director, Dan Lacy, indicated that he would sonal, unofficial interest in the possibility of hav- be happy to help arrange an informal meeting of ing SLA added to the Committee if the Commit- a few SLA and ABPC members to explore the tee members agreed. possibilities of an SLA-ABPC Committee if SLA so desires. Recommendation 5. American Library Association. The Secretary of In view of the above findings, the Committee its Library Administration Division, Alphonse recommends that the Association inquire of ALA Trezza. reported that for several years they have and ABPC to see if they feel it would be mutually had what is known as the ALA-ABPC Joint Com- beneficial to have SLA representation on their mittee. The Committee has met at least twice a joint committee; if so, then make the appoint- year (at the ALA Mid-Winter Meeting and at its ments and give the Committee a suitable trial Annual Convention in the summer). Sometimes period to see if the needs of SLA would be met they meet in between the ALA meetings if needed. by such a joint committee. Among the ALA representation on the Committee ELLISMOUNT is David Clift, ALA Executive Director. Among the AHPC representation is Dan Lacy. Mr. Trezza EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved this recom- reported that they cover many topics and seem to mendation. Special Representatives' Reports

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American Association for the up-dated through the efforts of professional con- sultants, one for each area covered in the work. Advancement of Science Besides the consultants for this project, the Chair- The 1963 annual meeting of the AAAS was man has appointed Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, Phar- held in Cleveland. December 26-30. Section T, In- macy Librarian at Southern College of Pharmacy, formation and Communication, featured a panel to coordinate the reports for this important Com- discussion on the role of the working scientist mittee function. and engineer in the communication of research The Committee is reviewing the Scientific Lit- and development information. Section T's program erature Outline of Martha Jane Zachert, Florida for the 1964 meeting, to be held in Montreal, State University Graduate Library School, at her December 26-31. will deal with various publica- request. It is possible the material can be used tion problems and will feature panel discussions for another project regarding a manual of litera- by journal editors and representative authors. ture searching techniques for undergraduates in colleges of pharmacy. JOHN SHERROD An "Index to Pharmacy Theses for the Past Ten Years" is a project being investigated by Delores American Association of Nemec, University of Wisconsin School of Phar- macy. Format and other basic decisions regarding Colleges of Pharmacy the publication are currently under consideration. The Committee has been asked by AACP Pres- Joint Committee on Pharmacy ident Bowers to prepare a cumulative index to the College Libraries Proceedings of the Association's Teachers' Semi- Under its new Chairman, Dr. Oliver M. Little- nurs, 1959-1963. The Chairman is selecting one of john. Southern College of Pharmacy, the Joint several pharmacy college librarians, who volun- Committee has proceeded steadily with plans for teered, to undertake this assignment. new assignments and projects. The Committee's We look forward with encouragement to the Nru,s-Leite~,issued in December 1963, included useful results from work currently in progress. a comprehensive and informative roundup of bib- liographic news regarding pharmacy and related fields. Editor Philip Rosenstein, Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, noted several activities of SLA mem- bers among the many news items. American Documentation B~bliog~aph?of Books and Reference IY'orks Re- l&ng 20 the Pwfessional Courst,~in the Pharmacj Institute Cuwzculum, by Zachert and Thomasson, will be No annual report SEPTEMBER 1964 American Library Association Frank Rodgers has been named Committee Chair- man to replace Francis St. John. Commission on a National Plan for G. E. RANDALL Library Education ALA Resources and Technical The Association was represented at a meeting of the Commission during the ALA Mid-Winter Services Division Book Binding- Meeting in Chicago, January 27-February 1, 1964, Committee by the Executive Director, Bill M. Woods. No annual report. GREGASPNES ALA-SLA-AD1 New York ALA Interlibrary Loan Committee World's Fair Advisory During the ALA Meeting at Chicago, , members of the Interlibrary Loan Committee Committee presented four papers at an evening meeting, and Library/USA is now a going concern and is a a panel was formed to discuss the papers. A de- distinctive feature of the United States Pavilion tailed note of this meeting appeared in Special at the World's Fair. The librarians who man the Libraries, vol. 55, no. 4, April 1964, p. 227. service are of high quality and are enthusiastic Also, I was requested to present a paper to the about the training and experience. Association of Research Libraries at their July 13, The Representative has helped to expedite SLA 1963 meeting. contributions to the effort in the following areas: At the ALA Mid-Winter Meeting, the Com- 1. Raising money for scholarships (the amount mittee met, and discussion focused around the of money needed to subsidize each library worker need for revising the ALA Code and the possibil- is about $1,000). A mailing to Sustaining Mem- ity of developing a statement of principles for bers with a follow-up produced over $15,000. Of lending on the local and/or regional level. Other this amount, $1,000 each was given by the Asso- items discussed included the feasibility of a pub- ciation and by the New York Chapter. Two spe- lication on the level and in the format of the cial librarians have been designated as recipients Small Libraries Project Series dealing exclusively of these scholarships. At least one further fund- with I.L.L. and another panel discussion at St. raising mailing will probably be undertaken dur- Louis following the same format as the 1963 ing 1964. presentation. 2. Translators in three languages were needed to The panel discussion for this year was held at produce the Encyclopedia Britatznica informational the St. Louis meeting Thursday, July 2, at 8:30 materials that are being made available through P.M. Below is the final program. computer print-outs. Several SLA members volun- The Special Representative presided over the teered their services in this effort. panel entitled "The Changing Patterns of Inter- 3. SLA recruiting literature and information on library Loan." Topics included "Dissertations: An its translation services are available at Library/ Interlibrary Loan Dilemma" by Jack Plotkin, Chief USA for selective distribution. Librarian, Circulation Division, Stanford Univer- ELIZABETHFERGUSON sity Library; "Interlibrary Loan Problems in New Jersey: A Follow-up Study" by Schuyler C. Mott, ALA Statistics Coordinating Director, Bernardsville Public Library; and "Copy- ing as an Interlibrary Loan Substitute" by Davld Committee W. Heron, Director of Libraries, University of See Special Libraries, vol. 55, no. 3, March Nevada. Discussants were Ruth Walling, Asso- 1964, p. 171, and also page 491 of this Issue. ciate University Librarian, Emory University; and Lucien W. White, Director, Public Services De- American Standards partment, University of Illinois Library. JAMESC. ANDREWS Association ASA PH-5 Sectional Committee ALA Joint Committee on on Photographic Reproduction of Government Publications Documents No annual report Two standards have been approved by the Committee: PH5.2/72 American Standard Dimeiz- ALA Library Technology Project siom of Paper Sheets fof Phofo-Reproductioiz of Documents was approved by ASA as of July 1, ~dvis-oryCommittee 1963; and PH5.7/79 Proposed Anterican Stmdard The Committee has not met since the report Specifications for Coiztiizuous Roll-To-Roll Micro- was made to the Advisory Council at its Baltimore film Cotztact Printe~s has been referred to the meeting, February 13-15, 1964. sponsor for appropriate action. SPECIAL LIBRARIES PH-5 has three Subcommittees: PH5-1, the Sub- James L. Wood, Chemical Abstracts Service, was committee on Micro-transparencies; PH5-2, the approved by the ASA Miscellaneous Standards Subcommittee on Micro-opaques; and PH5-3, the Board and has been published as ASA/Z39.5-1963 Subcommittee on Documents Readable without at $2 a copy. Optical Devices. The latter Subcommittee, until The Statistics Subcommittee, under the chair- recently, has not been active. A meeting was held manship of Frank L. Schick of the Library Services May 12, the object of which was to review the Branch is cooperating closely with the Statistics mission of the Committee, to analyze the field it Coordinating Project of the American Library As- covers, and to appraise the need for standards in sociation, of which Joel Williams is the Director, this field. Some 20 individuals met for a full day and with Unesco's work on publishing statistics. and established an effective working program. The draft of a proposed national standard for CHESTERM. LEWIS the Transliteration of Modern Russian Letters, pre- pared under the chairmanship of Dr. Jerrold Orne ASA 2-39 Sectional Committee of the University of North Carolina Libraries, was on Library Work and published in the November 1, 1963 issue of Li- brary Journal. This reflects a joint Anglo-Amer- Documentation ican approach to the problem. Dr. Orne had at- The Committee held two all-day meetings dur- tended the meeting of the International Standards ing the past year, on November 22, 1963, and Organization Technical Committee 46, Working April 10, 1964, while the International Subcom- Group 3 on Transliteration, held in Brussels, Oc- mittee, made up of all Committee Chairmen, held tober 14-16, 1963, through a special travel grant a special meeting on January 10, 1964, the NO- from the National Science Foundation, and was vember meeting having been adjourned because of invited to serve as President of the Working the assassination of President Kennedy. Group. The agenda of this meeting included dis- Under the continuing chairmanship of Robert cussion of general principles for the conversion of E. Kingery of the New York Public Library, as- one written language into another; the revision of sisted by Marguerite von Geyr, Administrative AS- ISO/R9 (Transliteration of Cyrillic Characters) ; sociate, the membership of more than 40 people, a working paper on the romanization of Japanese; including alternates, represents some 37 national the transliteration of non-Slavonic Cyrillic alpha- organizations or offices. The Committee meetings bets; and the transliteration of Yiddish. are extraordinarily well attended and the 14 Sub- At the January meeting of the International committees very active. These include: Committee, action was taken on 3 proposals: a 239/SC-1 International Subcommittee draft proposal on abbreviations of generic names Z39/SC-2 Subcommittee on Machine Coding. Irv- in periodical titles was disapproved for technical ing Sher, Chairman reasons on the advice of James L. Wood, Chair- 239/SC-3 Subcommittee on Abbreviations for Pe- man of the 2-39 Subcommittee on Abbreviations riodicals. James L. Wood, Chairman for Periodicals; a preliminary report on abbrevia- 239/SC-4 Subcommittee on Bibliographic Refer- tions of typical words in bibliographical references ences. Chairmanship open was approved as a first draft on the recommenda- 239/SC-5 Subcommittee on Transliteration. Jerrold tion of Henry Dubester, then Chairman of the Orne, Chairman Committee on Bibliographic References; and a 239/SC-6 Subcommittee on Abstracts. Anne MC- second draft proposal on symbols for languages, Cann, Chairman countries, and authorities was approved on the 239/SC-7 Subcommittee on Library Statistics. recommendation of Jerrold Orne. The next IS0 Frank L. Schick, Chairman meeting is to be held in Budapest, Hungary, Oc- 239/SC-8 Subcommittee on Proof Corrections. tober 1964, with American representation now Karl Brown, Chairman being arranged. 239/SC-9 Subcommittee on Terminology. Jerrold The financing of 2-39, which has made possible Orne, Chairman the increased accomplishments of the group, has 239/SC-10 Subcommittee on Layout of Periodi- been continued by the renewal of a $16,940 grant cals. Anne J. Richter, Chairman from the National Science Foundation. 239/SC-l1 Subcommittee on Finance. Chairman- ship open Z39/SC-12 Subcornmittee on Indexing. John Roth- man, Chairman ASA 2-39 Subcommittee on Z39/SC-13 Subcornmittee on Trade Catalogs. Karl Bibliographic References A. Baer, Chairman Z39/SC-14 Subcommittee on Classification. Ger- No annual report. trude Oellrich, Chairman (Activated 1963) Dorothy Hogan now serves as Liaison Officer to ASA 2-39 Subcommittee on 2-39 from the American Standards Association, re- placing Ruth Mason who has retired. Machine Coding The American Standard for Periodical Title Ab- I must report that there has been no meeting of breviutio~zs, prepared under the chairmanship of ASA 2-39 Subcommittee on Machine Coding in SEPTEMBER 1964 Librarianship and Documentation since my report The Special Libraries Association project for on January 14, 1964. the Congress was well received and continues to As far as I am aware, there has been no meet- be acknowledged favorably. A report on this ac- ing of this Subcommittee since June 26, 1962, tivity appeared in Special Libraries, November when the Subcommittee was under the chairman- 1963. ship of Miss Mandalay Grems, nor has there been The Congress Proceedings have been published. a meeting in the past year under the chairman- The 880-page-. volume contains more than 170 ship of Dr. Irving H. Sher. papers and a list of participants arranged by coun- In view of the long period of inactivity of this try. Copies may be purchased from the Council Subcommittee, I respectfully request the Board of for International Progress in Management (USA) Directors to relieve me of the responsibility of Inc., 342 Madison Avenue, New York 10017. representing SLA on this Subcommittee. The price is $27.50 per copy with a 20 per cent C. D. GULL discount to libraries. Under CIPM's Impact I1 program, 210 men and women from 33 countries attended a four- ASA 2-39 Subcommittee on week, specially designed management course at Transliteration one of five Universities (Columbia. Indiana, Mich- See Translations Activities Subcommittee on igan, New York, and Syracuse). On completion of the university programs. participants Transliteration report, p. 493. attended the CIOS XI11 Congress. This cooperative project between government and private industry is con- ASA 2-84 Sectional Committee sidered to have demonstrated the feasibility and advantage of multi-national participant teams. on Glossary of Environmental In aciilition to continuance of CIPM activities Terminology with the Agency for International Development, No annual report. the Council arranged study programs for groups and individuals coming to the United States under sponsorship of their own countries or govern- ASA 2-85 Sectional Committee ments. Eight such programs were organized for on Library Equipment and German teams. Other countries participating were Japan, Sweden, , and . Supplies During 1963, Council membership was increased A meeting of this Committee has not been called by seven association members, four educational since my appointment to it in 1960. institution members, and 146 business firm mem- I recommend that the Chairman of the Commit- bers. Among those recently added were the As- tee, Forrest Carhart, Jr., be advised that no SLA sociation of Management Consultants, Inc., and representative will be appointed for 1964-65, but the Graduate School of Business Administration should the Committee be reactivated, SLA would of Michigan State Irniversity. name a representative. All four meetings of the Board of Directors G. E. RANDALL were attended as well as the Annudl Meeting and EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved this recom- Banquet. At a special luncheon on May 22. Rob- mendation. ert R. Braun, Secretary General of CIOS, was the honored guest and speaker. It is believed that our contribution to the Con- Conference on Science gress and association with the Council has served to widen awareness of s~eciallibraries and their Manuscripts objectives. KATHARINEL. KINDER The Conference on Science Manuscripts has been inactive during the last year, as during the preceding ones. Upon my recommendation, the As- Council of National Library sociation has resigned its affiliation. KARLA. BAER Associations Special Libraries Association is one of 12 mem- Council for International bers of the Council of National Library Associa- tions. Other members of the Council are: Ameri- Progress in Management can Association of Law Libraries, American A predominant interest of the Council for In- Documentation Institute, American Library Asso- ternational Progress in Management was the CIOS ciation, Association of American L~brarySchools, XI11 International Management Congress held in Catholic Library Association. Council of Planning New York City, -20, 1963. The Con- Librarians, Library Public Relations Council, Med- gress was attended by more than 3,000 persons. ical Library Association, Associa- About 45 per cent of this number was from abroad, tion, The Society of American Archivists, and the 83 countries being represented. Theatre Library Association. SPECIAL LIBRARIES "The object of the Council of National Library CNLA Joint Committee on Associations," according to the Bylaws, "shall be to promote a closer relationship among the na- Library Education tional library associations of the United States The Chairman, Frances Henne, opened the and Canada by providing a central agency to foster November 14, 1963 meeting of the Committee cooperation in matters of mutual interest, by gath- and introduced the members present. Bill M. ering and exchanging information among its mem- Woods, SLA Executive Director, represented the ber associations, and by cooperating with learned. Association. The first item on the agenda was a professional, and scientific societies in forwarding discussion of the Manpower Study prepared by matters of common interest." the Joint Committee on Library Education and the The work of the Council is carried out by its proposed Commission for a National Plan for Li- elected officers and various committees among brary Education of which Dr. Richard H. Logsdon which are the American Standards Association Sec- is the Chairman. Chester M. Lewis reported that tional Committee on Library Work and Documen- the Joint Committee's Manpower Study had not tation, %-39, Joint Committee for Visitmg Foreign gone forward since last they met and asked what Librarians, Joint Committee on Exhibit Managers. the National Plan considered doing. Miss Henne Joint Committee on Library Education, Joint Com- asked Dr. Logsdon to report to the group. Dr. mittee on Library Work as a Career, Joint Com- Logsdon then gave a report of how this group was mittee on Placement, and others. formed and what it proposed to do. The Com- The United States Book Exchange is the out- mission for a National Plan for Library Education growth of one of the Council's first projects. came into being in the fall of 1962. Miss Henne Member associations are invited to participate in was on the drafting committee of this plan, spon- committee work through specially desijinated rep- sored by the American Library Association, and resentatives. Only a small number of the commit- Dr. Logsdon is Chairman. The objective of the tee members are from the actual membership of Commission is to sponsor studies and to reassess the Council. the needs of American libraries for personnel se- Each member association of the Council is usu- lection, education, and utilization of professional ally represented on the Council by its President personnel in libraries. Some of the items to be and by one appointed delegate--its executive sec- considered are: I) What constitutes the profes- retary or a delegate who holds office for several sional level of librarianship? 2) Are there discreet years. SLA's representatives are its Past-President needs in library professional personnel? 3) How and its Executive Director. effectively are libraries using their professional SLA's representatives attended meetings of personnel and other personnel? 4) What about CNLA on November 15, 1963, and May 4, 1964 documentation and library education? 5) How in New York City. During the past pear SLA's many librarians will be needed in the immediate Executive Director served on the Council as Sec- pears ahead to staff all types of libraries? and 6) retary-Treasurer; during 1964-1965 he will serve What finances are needed to develop and support as Chairman. library education? ETHELS. KLAHRE Dr. Logsdon stated that a center should be es- BILL M. WOODS tablished for the study of library education and personnel and there should also be an advisory committee to this center. The director of such a CNLA Joint Committee for center should be on the same level as the dean of a library school. A budget of $600,000 was esti- Visiting Foreign Librarians mated for this center. The question was raised as The Joint Committee has had several meetings to what position the Joint Committee on Library during the year concerned with its main purpose: Education should take. Dr. Logsdon went on to to find funds for a national center that would say the timetable for this plan is to present his serve as a clearing house of information about report to the Steering Committee of the Commis- visiting foreign librarians in the United States. At sion and, if approved, will reach the Commission the most recent meeting, held on April Zlst, it was groups; and then if approved, will be sent to all decided to rewrite the original proposal, directing Commission members and presented at the Mid- it toward the broad interest of academic groups Winter Meeting. If approved there, funds would as well as to foundations. The Committee had a be sought to sponsor the project. Dr. Ralph R. full-scale meeting at the ALA Conference in St. Shaw suggested that the four-year budget be spent Louis. over a five-year period, and the budget should be LUCILEDUDGEON raised to about $800,000 from the $600,000 orig- ELAINEA. KURTZ inally mentioned by Dr. Logsdon. One point stressed by the group was that the Commission should not be one-sided, that it should CNLA Joint Committee on not be strictly ALA-oriented, but should involve all types of librarianship and all organizations. Exhibit Managers It also should not be heavily weighted toward li- No annual report. brary educators. SEPTEMBER 1964 Julius J. Marke asked Jesse Shera what happened CNLA Joint Committee on to the Proceedings of the Western Reserve meet- ing, and Mr. Shera reported that he was working Library Work as a Career on the data. Dr. Shaw made a motion to recom- No annual report mend to the Council of National Library Associa- tions that the Joint Committee on Library Educa- tion support the Commission for a National Plan Federation of Management for Library Education and provide liaison to the Organizations Commission, but continue to be prepared to move No annual report. in if nothing is done or accomplished by the Commission and reactivate the Manpower Study. This motion was carried. Interagency Council on At the luncheon meeting, Harold Roth's "Educa- tion for Special Librarianship" papers were dis- Library Tools for Nursing cussed. Mr. Roth stated that the reports were The Interagency Council on Library Tools for written from the authors' personal views and needs Nursing met twice during the Association year, at the time they went into service. Robert L. Git- on October 25, 1963 and February 28, 1964. ler indicated that the papers were comparable to The principal items of business at the first meet- the National Commission Plan. Dr. Shaw indicated ing were the program and exhibit sponsored by the that the special librarian should have at least two Interagency Council at the Biennial Convention languages "plus English," plus a major in science of the American Nurses' Association, June 15-19, or the humanities. Librarians need the basics plus 1964. The theme of both was "Using and Improv- specialization, and he may possibly need a second ing the Keys to Knowledge." The program was master's degree for specialization. Mr. Woods em- a panel moderated by Mrs. Florence Wald, Dean, phasized that subject competence is needed by the Yale University School of Nursing, on which the librarian more and more today; Mr. Marke said speakers were Dr. Verne Pings, Librarian, Wayne that the reports indicate there is a common core University Medical Library, Detroit, speaking among all special librarians; Mr. Shaffer said a on "Current Literary Resources"; Clara Lucioli, map librarian comes to library school with a pre- Director of Hospital and Institutional Libraries, disposed inclination to be a map librarian, not the Cleveland Public Library, whose subject was other way around; Mr. Moon pointed out that the "Community Resources"; and Seymour Taine, As- object should be to first train librarians, then sociate Director for Intramural Programs, Na- specialists. Another point raised was the mobility tional Library of Medicine, who forecast "The among librarians. Do we really need a subject Future of Information Resources." Dr. Pings and specialist? Mr. Taine are SLA members. After this discussion, the question was raised The background of the exhibit, contributed by whether or not to publish the report. It was the the Public Health Service, carried out the "keys" feeling that the report should be updated and theme. Sample reference tools were displayed, and published, and that these papers could act as a book list and information sheet about the Inter- guidelines to be published either in the Journal agency Council were distributed. The latter listed of Education for Librarianship or, possibly, in Li- the member agencies. brary Quarterly. There was some opposition to The meeting on Thursday, June 18, was at- this, but I believe, in the final analysis, it was de- tended by more than 600 people, and the exhibit cided to publish the reports. attracted throngs of visitors during the week. The final item raised at the meeting was the A report on the feasibility of producing a film purpose of the Joint Committee on Library Edu- on library service to schools of nursing stated that cation and its function in the future. Dr. Shaw such a project has been deferred indefinitely be- suggested planning a series of courses in certain cause no funds are available but that a simpler, areas of librarianship, such as budget and public- less expensive kinescope might be possible. ity, and possibly have a series of institutes for Approval was given of invitations to the Ameri- this type of material. Dr. Kenneth Shaffer said can Medical Association and the Seventh Day Ad- that we should discuss total librarianship matters ventists' Hospital Association, the latter sponsor that need further investigating. Possible items are of the Cumulative Index to Nursing Literature, internships, national plan, and an analysis of why to become members of the Interagency Council. people are leaving the library field. At the second meeting the changing role of the There was a motion of thanks to Dr. Henne Interagency Council, from serving as an advisory for her work as the Chairman of the group for body to one engaged in promotion of library serv- the past two years. ice in nursing education, gave rise to two concerns. Newly elected officers are: Chairman, Julius J. One is financial: promotion requires money. It Marke; Vice-chairman, Chester M. Lewis; Secre- was agreed, therefore, "that the member agencies tary-Treasurer, Katherine L. Kinder; Executive be asked to contribute equally toward the expenses Board, 2 years, Frances Henne; and 1 year, Cecile of exhibits at nursing conventions and similar Kramer. TheTreasurer reported $328.58 in the bank. projects, each contribution not to exceed $25.00 GRIEGASPNES in any given year." SPECIAL LIBRARIES The second concern was the extent to which libraries and methods. The SLA Representative the Interagency Council should become a promo- was one of the faculty members at the Institute. tion agency. This matter will be on the agenda Mr. Beatty and Miss Markus were the Chair- for the October 1964 meeting. In preparation for man and Secretary for 1963-1964; Helen Yast and this, the Guidelines for Conducting the Business Marguerite Gima are Chairman and Secretary for of the Council, originally drawn up March 24, 1964-1965. 1960, were revised. WILLIAMK. BEATTY In its advisory capacity the Interagency Council is still preoccupied with the need for a compre- hensive index to nursing literature. While it International Federation of commended the Seventh Day Adventists' Hospital Association for its publication, it welcomed also Library Associations the report that the nursing organizations will The past year has been an active one for the make possible a pilot study on the need and the SLA Representative to IFLA, who participated in possibility of filling the need by means of a con- the meeting at Sofia in September 1963, at which tract with the National Library of Medicine to a new Special Libraries Section was established. make such an index a byproduct of MEDLARS. Details were published in Special Libmries, No- In connection with the latter, Winifred Sewell of vember 1963, p. 584-6. NLM, gave an informal talk about the demand At the occasion of another trip to Europe, dur- bibliography service of MEDLARS. ing spring 1964, the Representative had the privi- The SLA representative will serve as Secretary lege of discussing the new Section and its future for the October 1964 meeting of the Interagency with Sir Frank Francis, President of IFLA and Di- Council and as Chairman for the Spring 1965 rector and Principal Librarian of the British Mu- meeting. seum. He declared, during a reception given at the JACQCJELINEW. FELTER British Museum, that he was looking forward to the development of the new Section with particu- Interassociation Hospital lar interest because he felt that the leadership in library matters lies now largely in the hands of Libraries Committee special librarians who will have to provide stim- The Committee met in Chicago on July 15, ulus for other groups, such as public and univer- 1963, and January 30, 1964, and in St. Louis on sity libraries. He also expressed his conviction June 29, 1964. The fact that only one member that the group would serve as a most important was absent at each of the meetings suggests that means of liaison between FID and IFLA, and that the increase in membership and number of meet- it would, in that capacity, make a most worth- ings has been a sensible step. while and lasting contribution to unity in the in- The Catholic Hospital Association and the formation field. American Hospital Association have each ap- It was good to find out that Leslie Wilson, pointed representatives to the Committee. This ex- President of Aslib, also welcomed the appearance tends our communication lines and makes it pos- of the new Section. He promised to attend the sible for the Committee to benefit from the IFLA meeting in Rome in the fall of this year or association with more libraries and librarians. to be represented if he were unable to do so. The Committee has been working during the There is a long-standing gentleman's agreement year on an information and reference list for hos- between the Library Association and Aslib to the pital libraries, particularly for those in the initial effect that Aslib represents British librarianship in stages. This list has now been completed. FID, while the Library Association represents it The Committee has discussed the desirability of with IFLA. Mr. Wilson had no doubt, however, sponsorship by the Council of National Library that The Library Association would have no ob- Associations. The official representatives from the jection to Aslib's joining the Section, which was various associations have taken or will take this not in existence at the time when the agreement to their parent bodies for action, and the CNLA was reached; in that case, he promised- to join will take action later in the year. The Catholic Li- IFLA. brary Association, Medical Library Association, A discussion with Dr. Reichardt, President of and Special Libraries Association have officially the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken, approved this step. The Association of Hospital elicited his promise to attend the Rome meeting; and Institution Libraries has recommended ap- he will suggest joining the new Section at the proval to the Executive Board of the American forthcoming meeting of his group. Library Association. All in all, this can be called a most successful The Committee is actively urging the formula- year for SLA, inasmuch as its IFLA connection is tion of a new set of Objectives and Standards for concerned. While several years ago Aslib tried in Hospital Libraries. vain to establish a Special Libraries Section, and The American Hospital Association held an- while I made an abortive attempt in the same other Institute on Hospital Librarianship this direction in Paris in 1958, the Section has now spring in Chicago, May 11-15. This Institute is of not only been established, but stands firmly on its considerable importance in the improvement of own feet. It anticipates becoming the international SEPTEMBER 1964 forum of special librarianship, and a program has 1964 there are five librarians in the United States been developed for the next meeting. working in school, public, college, and special li- The IFLA meeting will also present an oppor- braries: tunity for a continuation of the discussion with our Russian colleagues that was begun last year. 1. Abolghasem Ketabdari, Librarian of the Shrine of Imam Reza, Meshed, Iran, at Philadelphia KARLA. BAER Free Library 2. Ruth Lehrer, Assistant Librarian of Bar-Ilan IFLA Committee on Library University Library, Israel, at Brandeis Univer- sity Library Building 3. Dr. Ljerka Markie-Cucukovic, Head Librarian, In response to a request from Jean Bleton, Medical Faculty of Zagreb University School of Chairman of the Committee, arrangements have Public Health, at UCLA Biomedical Library been made with Association Headquarters to send 4. Amporn Voravathana, Librarian at Suankularb reprints of all articles in Special Libraries on new College, Bangkok, Thailand, at Frederick County libraries. School System, Maryland G. E. RANDALL 5. Lillemor Widgren, Assistant Librarian, Vas- teras Central Library, Vasteras, Sweden, at Phil- adelphia Free Library Joint Committee on Union More sponsor libraries are needed to offer 11 List of Serials months of work to trained librarians from over- The work on the third edition of the Union seas. The undersigned will be glad to supply List of Serials is progressing satisfactorily. In OC- complete information about the program to any tober 1963 it became necessary to request a supple- interested libraries. LUCILEDUDGEON mental grant from the Council on Library Re- ELAINEAUSTIN KURTZ sources to complete the project. The Council approved this supplemental grant for the period ending June 30, 1965. Publication is expected Library of Congress early in 1965. IDRISSMITH Public Law 480 There has been no activity for this Representa- tive to participate in during the past year. How- Joint Libraries Committee ever, there has been much activating of the Li- on Fair Use in Photocopying brary of Congress in the acquisition of foreign publications under PL 480. The Librarian of A summary Statement of Policy of the Com- Congress calls on this Committee only when mittee was published in the February 1964 Spe- ~roblemsdevelop. I recommend continued support cial Libraries. This reviewed activities of the Com- from SLA by having a Special Representative ap- mittee to date and the positions of the Committee pointed more or less on a stand-by basis to be that were endorsed by the constituent organiza- ready in case problems develop in this area. tions represented on it. MRS. RUTH HOOKER Four recommendations were approved by the SLA Board of Directors at the Baltimore meeting and reported in the March 1964 Special Libraries. LC Liaison Committee of Librarians In particular, one of the recommendations author- No annual report. ized broadening the activities of the Committee. The new Chairman of the Committee is Ruther- ford B. Rogers, Deputy Librarian of Congress. National Academy of Sciences CHESTERM. LEWIS Advisory Board of the Joint Operating Group Office of Critical Tables The meeting of the Advisory Board of the Of- (ADI-SLA) fice of Critical Tables, held June 20, 1963 at the No annual report. Academy in Washington, D. C., was well at- tended and interesting. Representatives from var- ious government agencies and councils, the Ameri-

Jointly. Sponsored. Program can Petroleum Institute, American Society for Testing and Materials, and Purdue University de- for Foreign- Librarians scribed their current data compilation, evaluation, The Committee has placed a total of 46 librari- and dissemination centers and programs; then the ans from abroad in 31 United States libraries since proposal for a National Standard Reference Data the beginning of the program in 1956. As of June System (NSRDS) was explained. SPECIAL LIBRARIES This System has since been formally established ments were made for the judging and presentation by the Federal Council for Science and Technology at St. Louis of the competition awards. with administrative responsibility assigned to the Through the efforts of Research Librarian Joan National Bureau of Standards (NBS). The System Hutchinson, her employer, the Diamond Alkali will consist of a National SRD Center at NBS and Company, Painesville, Ohio, generously gave the various standard reference data centers in other money for this year's awards. government agencies and at universities, research It should be pointed out that Mary L. Allison institutes, and nongovernment organizations. The of the Association Headquarters staff does con- centers will be required to meet quality standards siderable work in SLA's NLW promotion. This established by NBS and the independent and op- includes publishing extra articles in Special Li- erational status of existing critical data projects braries, handling all NLW mailings of the Special encouraged. Representative, promoting the award money, this The SRD Center at NBS will receive evaluated year procuring, reproducing, and mailing the arti- data and plans seven forms of output services: cle by William Ruder "It's Your Library-and periodical descriptive disclosures of what is availa- Your Image," and last but not least, nudging the ble; data subscription services packaged to meet Special Representative to keep him working. the needs of spec~ficindustries, industry groups, and government research and development pro- Recommendations grams; referral service especially for needs not met 1. National Library Week items in Special Li- by other output services; correlation and prediction braries should carry early and continuous informa- service for computing values not contained in the tion on promotional materials, where they may be SRD Center; mathematical and statistical service ordered, and the cost. The sample kits sent to techniques for evaluating new data; aperiodical Chapter Presidents, Public Relations Chairmen, tabulations, review monographs and papers, com- and Bulletin Editors simply do not circulate suffi- puter card decks and tapes; and summary reviews ciently. I received late inquiries from several parts assessing the state-of-the-art in fields with little of the country. data that suddenly need exploration. 2. In addition to the individual members taking The National Bureau of Standards will be as- part in the usual manner, some sort of coordinated sisted by the Advisory Board of the Office of program of all Chapters participating in NLW CI-itical Tables, interagency panels, expert con- might be effective. For instance, all Chapters sultants, and working committees of scientific and could plan meetings on the same night during engineering societies and industry associations ac- hTLW, with their libraries' management as guests, tive in the field of critical data. or plan a Saturday luncheon with young people This type of organization was evolved for fi- as a recruitment promotion. Something of this nancial rrasons in part. The Office of Critical Ta- sort announced and conducted simultaneously bles found that a great deal of this type of work across the nation should be more telling md more was being done in numerous places but without stimulating than the usual sporadic news efforts. common standards of evaluation no financial sup- port for dissemination or the gathering of needed data. Of interest was the disclosure at the June meeting that the International Critical Tables National Microfilm $200.000 effort of 1921-25 would now cost $50 million. A full description of the NSRD System is Association given in Scientific Information Notes (NSF) Vol. The Representative attended the 13th Annual 5, No. 1: 1-2 (August-September 1963). Meeting and Convention of the National Micro- film Association, April 28-30, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme of the Convention was Microreproduction-Media of Progress for Infor- National Book Committee mation Control. Representatives of the Interna- tional Micrographic Congress were available for Activities of the Special Representative were discussions. basically the same as reported in former years. In One paper, "Microscopic Spots," presented at the fall of 1963 I met with Mary Allison and the fourth technical session by R. W. Henn and Beryl Reubens, Director of National Library Week, D. G. Wiest (Eastman Kodak Co.), was a prog- and was briefed on the background of NLW and ress report on investigations of microscopic spot what we in SLA might do to participate. I wrote formations found in rolls of processed negative five items of a promotional nature to appear microfilm. This investigation and also the research monthly in Special Libraries. One letter of in- conducted by the National Bureau of Standards formation concerning NLW activities competition indicate that no information loss has been ob- and also containing suggestions for individual li- served and that the spots appear to have developed brary promotions was mailed out to the Chapter after the film was stored. Information on this Public Relations Chairmen. I appeared before the problem, including methods for inspection, have Advisory Council meeting in Baltimore to present been published in National Bureau of Standards a brief report and "pep talk." Finally, arrange- Handbook 96, Inspection of Processed Phozo- SEPTEMBER 1964 graphic Record Films for Aging Blemi~hes, 1964 "The USBE Story," by Jerrold Ome, Chairman of for 25 cents. the Board. The Representative attended an informal pre- ELIZABETHFERGUSON convention session in which microfiche (flat sheet microfilm) and related reading and print-out equipment was discussed. It was announced at this session that AEC, NASA, DDC, and OTS would United States National standardize on one size microfiche and reduce or Committee for the drop supplying hard copy to requesters. Previous to this session, the Representative had reviewed a International Federation for proposed NMA Microfiche Standard "Specifica- tion for Documents 8% x 11 Inches and Smaller, Documentation (FID) M-1-1963." This standard has been sent to the The eighth meeting of the United States Na- American Standards Association for review. tional Committee for FID was held at the Na- After having had discussions with representa- tional Academy of Sciences in Washington on tives of the microfilm industry on possible and February 24. A portion of the meeting was used future library applications, the Representative for a discussion of the role of the US. Com- strongly recommends that SLA members extend mittee in formulating and taking part in the FID their interest in this area so that their requirements program. Because FID has both limited staff and for low-cost equipment may be considered by the interests, the USNCFID can and should play an industry. important part in defining the role of FID. The LORETTAJ. KIERSKY discussion was devoted to a series of reports and recommendations on present and proposed pro- grams of FID in the following specific areas: I) United Nations Information Centers, 2) Linguistics, 3) Mecha- nized Storage and Retrieval, 4) Training of In- Nongovernmental Observer formation Specialists, and 5) Information on Doc- The Observer has no specific actions to report umentation. this year. The result of the discussion was a feeling that Invitations to briefing sessions at the United the problems presented were all valid, but that Nations continued to be received, but since, as in they would need better delineation if positive rec- the past, they did not directly concern Association ommendations were to be submitted to FID. An activities, the Observer has not attended. early meeting was planned during which the In spite of lack of activity, it is strongly recom- USNCFID's Executive Committee would submit mended that the Association show its support of or request other Committee members to submit the United Nations by continuing to maintain this proposals of action. The meeting was called on relationship. May 5, and several suggestions and proposals DONALDWASSON were discussed and action from the US. Commit- tee agreed upon. Some time was spent at each of the two meet- United States Book Exchange ings to note latest developments for the 1965 FID Congress to be held in Washington, D. C., in The USBE is in good operating order, both October of that year. This will be the first time fiscally and otherwise, largely because of the loyal the Congress will have been held in this country. support of USBE's 1,200 member libraries (1080 Individuals from SLA membership will be con- United States and Canadian and 120 foreign), in tacts to serve on various committees, as the or- continuing and increasing their use of its services. ganizational plans do not at present assign specific This is a remarkable accomplishment in view of duties to member organizations of USNCFID. two catastrophic crises during the year: ROBERTW. GIBSON,JR. 1. The loss of funds, as of December 1963, from the Agency for International Development (State Department), for furnishing books to foreign li- braries. Special librarians joined with other librar- The October issue of "Special Libraries" will ians from all over the country in writing letters carry the remarks of the three general session of protest to the government, unfortunately to no Convention speokers: Dr. Don R. Swanson, key- avail. At present, AID is working toward future noter, "The Education of a Catalyst"; Dr. Dan- cooperation on a new basis. iel M. Green, "Creative Organization: The Li- 2. A devastating strike by employees, which, since brarian as a Manager"; and Dr. William a solution could not be reached, necessitated a Stephenson, "The Creative Person." Also in- complete reorganization of the operation. cluded will be a summary of the panel discus- A full account of these developments is given in sions following the second general session. Library Journal, February 15, 1964, p. 803-6- SPECIAL LIBRARIES SLA Official Directory 1964-1965

Association Officers Kenneth N. Metcalf, Librarian, Henry Ford Mu- seum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich- PRESIDENT igan William S. Budington, The John Crerar Library, Mrs. Elizabeth Boutelle Roth, Chief Librarian, 35 West 33 Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616 Standard Oil Company of California Library, 225 Bush Street, San Francisco, California 94120 PRESIDENT-ELECT Mrs. Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau, USDA Southern Alleen Thompson, Librarian, Atomic Power Equip- Utilization Research and Development Division, ment Department, General Electric Co., P. 0. P. 0. Box 19687, New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 Box 254, San Jose, California 95103 IMMEDIATEPAST-PRESIDENT CHAIRMANADVISORY COUNCIL Mrs. Mildred Hooker Brode, Chief Librarian, Lorna M. Daniells, Reference Department, Baker David Taylor Model Basin, Washington, D. C. Library, Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, 20007 Boston, Massachusetts. Chapter Presidents CHAIRMAN-ELECTADVISORY COUNCIL Herbert S. White, Director, NASA Facility, Doc- ALABAMA:John K. Cameron, Air University umentation, Inc., P. 0. Box 5700, Bethesda, Mary- Library, Reader Service Division, Maxwell Air land Force Base, Alabama 36112 TREASURER BALTIMORE:Eleanor M. Mitten, Apt. 6603 D, Glenbarr Court, Baltimore, Maryland 21234 Jean Flegal, Librarian, Business Library, Union Carbide Corporation, Room 9-101, 270 Park Ave- BOSTON:Joseph Dagnese, 47 Samoset Road, Win- nue, New York 10017 chester, Massachusetts 02139 DIRECTORS CINCINNATI:Roscoe C. Eads, Librarian, The Cin- William K. Beatty, Librarian, Northwestern Uni- cinnati Enquirer Library, 617 Vine Street, Cin- versity Medical Library, 303 East Chicago Ave- cinnati, Ohio 45201 nue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 CLEVELAND:L. Dolores Ryan, Fenn College Li- Helene Dechief, Librarian, Headquarters Library, brary, 1960 East 24 Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Canadian National Railways, 935 Lagauchetiere Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada COLORADO:Mrs. Elizabeth K. Buell, Librarian, Research & Development, Gates Rubber Company, Joan M. Hutchinson, T. R. Evans Research Cen- 999 South Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80217 ter, Diamond Alkali Company, P. 0. Box 348, Painesville, Ohio 44077 (Secretary) CONNECTICUTVALLEY: Charles E. Funk, Jr., American Cyanamid Company Library, 1937 West Main Street, Stamford, Connecticut. Headquarters DAYTON:Marie Koeker, 2445 Fairport Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45406 31 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y., 10003 212-Spring 7-8136 GEORGIA:Mrs. Linda M. Johnston, Research Li- EXECUTIVEDIRECTOR brary, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Bill M. Woods Georgia DIRECTORMEMBERSHIP SERVICES DEPART- GREATERST. LOUIS:Mrs. Jamie R. Graham, 4541 MENT;ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVEDIRECTOR Ashland Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63115 Grace E. Reynolds HEART OF AMERICA:Leota Beckwith, Spencer PUBLICATIONSAND PUBLICRELATIONS Chemical Company, 610 Dwight Building, Kan- DIRECTOR sas City, Missouri Mary L. Allison ILLINOIS:Joseph Simmons, Chicago Sun-Times PUBLICATIONSAND PUBLICRELATIONS Daily News, Sun-Times Plaza, Chicago, Illinois ASSISTANT 6061 1 Edythe C. Porpa INDIANA:Molete Morelock, 421 Waldron, West HEAD,ACCOUNTS AND ORDERS Lafayette, Indiana DEPARTMENT Mrs. Emily B. Shoemaker LOUISIANA:Marie Spivey, Waterways Experiment Station, US. Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi SEPTEMBER 1964 MICHIGAN:Mrs. Annetta D. Ohlson, Librarian, National Bank of Detroit, .Box 116, Roosevelt Division Chairmen Park Annex, Detroit, Michigan 48232 ADVERTISING:Elizabeth L. Smith, Librarian, Camp- bell-Ewald Company, General Motors Building, MINNESOTA:Raymond A. Bohling, 2142 Inca Detroit, Michigan 48202 Lane, St. Paul, Minnesota 55102 BIOLOGICALSCIENCES: Joan Titley, Kornhauser MONTREAL:Nora T. Corley, Librarian, Arctic In- Memorial Medical Library, University of Louis- stitute of North America, 3458 Redpath Street, ville, School of Medicine. 101 West Chestnut Montreal 25, Quebec, Canada Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 NEW JERSEY:Robert G. Krupp, Bell Telephone BUSINESSAND FINANCE:Irene E. Fink, 5943 Laboratories, Inc., Room 646B, 463 West Street, North Warnock Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New York 10014 19141 NEWYORK: Mary W. Covington, Union Carbide, DOCUMENTATION:Marjorie Griffin, 1 Park Place, Ore Division, 270 Park Avenue, New York 10017 Saratoga, California OAK RIDGE:Martha Anderson, 240 North Pur- GEOGRAPHYAND MAP: Robert C. White, Libra- due, Apartment 310, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. rian, Map and Geography Library, University of OKLAHOMA:Vern Hutchison, Librarian, U. S. Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois Bureau of Mines, P. 0. Box 1321, Bartlesville, INSURANCE:Agnes Brite, Librarian, New Eng- Oklahoma 74004 land Mutual Life Insurance Company, 501 Boyls- PACIFICNORTHWEST: Mrs. Helen D. Strickland, ton Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02117 6808 34th Avenue, N.W., Seattle, Washington METALS/MATERIALS:Elsie Ray, Business Research 98107 Department, Room 2157, The Anaconda Com- PHILADELPHIA:Richard A. Davis, 21 Snowden pany, 25 Broadway, New York 10004 Road, Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004 MILITARYLIBRARIANS: Charles R. Knapp, 10 Vir- PITTSBURGH:William Betcher, 12114 Joan Drive, ginia Hills Avenue, , Virginia Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1523 5 MUSEUM: Jack S. Goodwin, 223 Pennsylvania RIO GRANDE:Lee F. Parman, Supervisor, Library Avenue, S.E., Washington, D. C. 20003 Division, Sandia Corporation, Sandia Base, Al- buquerque, New Mexico NEWSPAPER:Rex Schaeffer, Library Director, Times Union and Democrat and Chronicle, 55 Ex- SAN DIEGO: Richard J. Tommey, 6073 Avenida change Street, Rochester, New York 14614 Chamnez, La Jolla, California PICTURE:Mrs. Helen Faye, Harcourt, Brace & SAN FRANCISCO:Marilyn Johnson, Assistant Li- World, Inc., 757 Third Avenue, New York 10017 brarian, Shell Development Company Library, Em- eryville, California 94608 PUBLISHING:Mrs. Louise Field, Research Asso- ciate, Library, The Twentieth Century Fund, 41 SOUTHERNCALIFORNIA: Edythe Moore, Aerospace East 70th Street, New York 10021 Corporation, Building C 2312, P. 0. Box 95085, Los Angeles, California 90045 SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY:Mrs. Helen Redman, Li- brarian, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, P. 0. TEXAS:George W. Binkley, Research Department, Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico Humble Oil and Refining Company, P. 0. Box 2180, Houston, Texas 77001 AEROSPACE:Malcolm M. Ferguson, Supervisor, Library Services, Itek Corp., 10 Maguire Road, TORONTO:Shirley K. Wigmore, Research Librar- Lexington, Massachusetts ian, Department of EducationaI Research, Ontario College of Education, 344 Bloor Street West, To- CHEMISTRY:Mrs. Eleanora Henerey, Patent Li- ronto, Ontario, Canada brarian, Monsanto Chemical Co., 800 North Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis 66, Missouri WASHINGTON,D. C.: Lillian A. Hamrick, 3119 Quesada Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20015 ENGINEERING:Walter Kee, Chief, Library Serv- ices, US. Atomic Energy Commission, Division WESTERNNEW YORK: Mrs. Arline R. Barrett, of Technical Information, Washington, D. C. Librarian, Photographic Technology Division, East- 20545 man Kodak Company, Kodak Park Works, Roch- ester, New York 14650 NUCLEARSCIENCE: J. Arthur Freed, 126 Ban- delier Avenue, White Rock, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544

SPECIAL LIBRARIES PAPER AND TEXTILES:Louise Allen, Librarian, EDUCATION:Grieg Aspnes, Research Librarian, Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Camas, Wash- Cargill, Inc., Cargill Building, Minneapolis, Min- ington 98607 nesota 54402 PETROLEUM:Beverly M. Knower, 16 Franklin FINANCE:Janet Bogardus, Chief Librarian, Fed- Avenue, Claymont, Delaware eral Reserve Bank of New York, Reference Li- 0. PHARMACEUTICAL:Elizabeth S. Eaton, 1020 brary, Federal Reserve P. Station, New York 10045 S.W. 3rd Street, Gainesville, Florida PUBLICUTILITIES: Fred B. Oxtoby, Chief Ac- FOUNDATIONGRANTS: Robert W. Gibson, Jr., quisitions Department, John Crerar Library, 35 Head, Technical Processing, Thomas J. Watson West 33rd Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616 Research Center, P. 0. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York SOCIALSCIENCE: Philip Rappaport, 201 Clinton Avenue, Apartment 54, Brooklyn, New York GOVERNMENTALRELATIONS: Alice D. Ball, 2820 11205 31st Street, S.E., Washington, D. C. 20020 PLANNING,BUILDING, AND HOUSING: Mrs. INTERNATIONALRELATIONS: Mrs. Elaine A. Kurtz, Florence E. Johnson, 5476 South Harper Ave- 6640 Adrian Street, Lanham, Maryland 20801 nue, Chicago, Illinois 60615 McKrNsEY FOUNDATIONBOOK AWARDS PRO- SOCIALWELFARE: Janet I. Wasserman, Rocke- GRAM:Idris Smith, Head, Business and Technol- feller Office Library, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New ogy Department, Kansas City Public Library, 311 York, New York East 12 Street, Kansas City, Missouri TRANSPORTATION:Wilmer H. Baatz, Chief, Li- MEMBERSHIP:Mrs. Sonia L. Gruen, Librarian, brary Services Division, Hq-600, Federal Aviation Albert Einstein College of Medicine Library, 1300 Agency, 800 Independence Avenue, S.W., Wash- Morris Park Avenue, New York 10061 ington, D. C. 20025 NONSERIALPUBLICATIONS: Charles H. Stevens, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachu- Committee Chairmen setts 02173 Standing PERSONNEL:Loyd R. Rathbun, 13 Bristers Hill ADMISSIONS:Portia Christian, 214 South Bryan, Road, Concord, Massachusetts 01742 Bloomington, Indiana PLACEMENTPOLICY: Mrs. Moreen Hopkins, 333 AKCHIVES:Josephine I. Greenwood, 104 Hunt- East 79th Street, New York 10021 ington Road, Garden City, Long Island, New York PROFESSIONALSTANDARDS: Agnes Brite, Librarian, AWARDS:Lee W. Traven, Engineering Library, New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, Socony Mobil Oil Company, 150 East 42 Street, 501 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02117 New York 10017 SUBCOMMITTEEON ETHICS:Rose L. Vormelker, BYLAWS:Mrs. Margaret H. Fuller, Librarian, Li- 1886 East IOlst Street, Cleveland, Ohio brary, American Iron and Steel Institute, 150 East PUBLICRELATIONS: Marian G. Lechner, Librar- 42 Street, New York 10017 ian, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, CHAPTERRELATIONS: Margaret E. Madden, Chief Hartford, Connecticut Librarian, Technical Information Center, Mon- PUBLICATIONS:Richard A. Davis, 2 1 Snowden santo Chemical Company, 800 North Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri Road, Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004

COMMITTEEON COMMITTEES:Edward G. Strable, RECRUITMENT:Herbert S. White, Director, NASA J. Walter Thompson Company, ,410 North Mich- Facility, Documentation, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland igan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 REPROGRAPHY:John Sherrod, Chief, ~nformati'on CONSULTATIONSERVICE: Mrs. Gloria Evans, Li- Services & Systems Branch, Division of Techni- br.lrian, Engineering Division, Library, Parke, cal Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commis- Davis and Company, Detroit, Michigan sion, Washington 25, D. C.

CONVENTIONPKOGRAM : Grieg Aspnes, Research SCHOLARSHIPAND STUDENTLOAN FUND: Mrs. Librarian, Cargill, Inc., Cargill Building, Minne- Dorothy McNutt, Science and Industry Depart- apolis, Minnesota 54402 ment, Cincinnati Public Library, 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio DIVISIONRELATIONS: Dr. Frank E. McKenna, Su- pervisor, Information Center, Central Research SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS: Joan M. Hutchinson, Department, Air Reduction Con~pany,Inc., Mur- Building 7, Apartment 103, 37455 Grove Ave- r'iy Hill, New Jersey 07971 nue, Willoughby, Ohio 44094 SEPTEMBER 1964 SPECIALCLASSIFICATIONS: Meredith S. Wright, TELLERS:Elizabeth M. Mulhall, Librarian, The Librarian, Parma Research Center, Union Carbide Chemists Club, 52 East 41st Street, New York Corporation, P. 0. Box 6116, Cleveland, Ohio 10017 SPECIALLIBRARIES: Robert G. Krupp, Librarian, H. W. WILSON COMPANYCHAPTER AWARD: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Room 646B, Lorraine Ciboch, 5060 Marine Drive, Apt. C-8, 463 West Street, New York 10014 Chicago, Illinois 60640 STATISTICS:Dr. D. T. Bedsole, Manager, Techni- Ad Hoc cal Library, Aerojet-General Corporation, P. 0. AD HOC COMMITTEEON ASSOCIATIONAND UNIT Box 1947, Sacramento, California RELATlONS WITH GOVERNMENT:Kenneth N. TECHNICALBOOK REVIEWINDEX: Virginia L. Metcalf, Librarian and Archivist, Henry Ford Mu- Garland, 4601 Bayard Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- seum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan vania 15213 AD HOC COMMITTEETO STUDYDIVISION AND CHAPTERALLOTMENTS: William K. Beatty, Li- TRANSLATIONSACTIVITIES: Mrs. Irma Johnson, brarian, Northwestern University Medical Library, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts AD Hoc COMMITTEETO STUDYTHE ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEEON TRANSLATORSAND TRANS- COUNCILMEETING SCHEDULE: Robert W. Gib- LATIONS:SERVICES AND SOURCES:Frances E. son, Jr., IBM Research Library, Thomas J. Watson Kaiser, Price Gilbert Library, Georgia Institute Research Center, P. 0. Box 218, Yorktown of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Heights, New York

SUBCOMMITTEEON TRANSLITERATION:Rose- AD Hoc COMMITTEETO STUDYTHE NEEDFOR A mary Neiswender, Assistant Librarian, The COMMITTEETO MEET WITH PUBLISHERS:Ellis RAND Corporation Library, 1700 Main Street, Mount, 21 Highfield Lane, Nutley, New Jersey Santa Monica, California Special Representatives Special AMERICANASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT ADVISORYCOMMITTEE ON THE BIBLIOGRAPHYOF OF SCIENCE:John Sherrod, Information Services DESCRIPTIVEBIBLIOGRAPHIES ORIGINATED BY SPE- and Systems Branch Division of Technical Infor- CIAL LIBRARIES:Elizabeth Ferguson, Librarian, mation, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Wash- Institute of Life Insurance, 277 Park Avenue, ington, D. C. 20545 New York AMERICANASSOCIATION OF COLLEGESOF PHAR- CONVENTION:Anne L. Nicholson, Librarian, MACY, JOINT COMMITTEEON PHARMACYLIBRAR- Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation, 900 First Ave- IES: Mrs. Mildred P. Clark, Librarian, Winthrop nue, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406 Laboratories, 1450 Broadway, New York 10018 COPYRIGHTLAW REVISION: Chester M. Lewis, Efren W. Gonzalez, Director, Technical Commu- Chief Librarian, New York Times, 229 West 43 nications, Grove Laboratories, Inc., 8877 Ladue Street, New York 10036 Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63124 AMER~CANDOCUMENTATION INSTITUTE: Marjorie HEADQUARTERSOPERATIONS: Mrs. Mildred Griffin, 1 Park Place, Saratoga, California Hooker Brode, 4607 Connecticut Avenue, Wash- ington, D. C. 20008 ALA ASSOCIATIONOF HOSPITALAND INSTITU- TIONAL LIBRARIES,STANDARDS COMMITTEE: Helen MOTIONPICTURE: Efren W. Gonzalez, Director, Huelsman, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola Technical Communications, Grove Laboratories, University, 706 S. Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, 11- Inc., 8877 Ladue Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63124 linois 60612

NOMINATING:Alvina Wassenberg, Technical Li- ALA COMMISSIONON A NATIONALPLAN FOR brarian, Department of Metallurgical Research, LIBRARYEDUCATION: Grieg Aspnes, Research Li- Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, Spo- brarian, Cargill Inc., Cargill Building, Minneapo- kane, Washington 99269 lis, Minnesota 54402 ALA INTERLIBRARYLOAN COMMITTEE:James C. RESOLUTIONSREFERENCE: Barbara Anne Begg, Andrews, Director, Library Services Department, 73-D Parkway Apartments, Cherry Hill, New Jer- Argonne National Laboratories, 9700 South Cass sey 08034 Avenue, Argonne, Illinois

SLA PROFESSIONALAWARD AND HALLOF FAME: ALA JOINT COMMITTEEON GOVERNMENTPUB- Ethel S. Klahre, Librarian, Federal Reserve Bank LICATIONS: Frank Bertalan, 5117 Fairview Ave- of Cleveland, P. 0. Box 6387, Cleveland, Ohio nue, McLean, Virginia SPECIAL LIBRARIES ALA LIBRARYTECHNOLOGY PROJECT ADVISORY CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON EXHIBITMAN- COMMITTEE:Gordon E. Randall, 2240 Van Cort- AGERS: Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Spe- land Circle, Yorktown Heights, New York cial Libraries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New York 10003 ALA RESOURCESAND TECHNICALSERVICES DIVI- SION, BOOK BINDINGCOMMITTEE (Advisory for CNLA, JOINT COMMITTEEON HOSPITALLIBRAR- LTP study of performance standards for library IES: William K. Beatty, 1509 Forest Avenue, binding) : Paul Howard, Librarian, Department of Evanston, Illinois the Interior, Washington, D. C. 20025 CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON LIBRARYEDUCA- TION: Grieg Aspnes, Research Librarian. Cargill ALA CATALOGCODE REVISION COMMITTEE CON- Inc., Cargill Building, Minneapolis, Minnesota SULTANT: Mrs. Florence E. Johnson, 5476 South 54402 Harper Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60615 CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON LIBRARYPROBLEMS ALA-SLA-AD1 NEW YORK WORLD'SFAIR AD- RELATEDTO THE PEACECORPS: Ralph C. Simon, VISORY COMMITTEE:Elizabeth Ferguson, Librar- 231 Sherman Avenue, New York 10034 ian, Institute of Life Insurance, 277 Park Ave- nue, New York, New York CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON LIBRARYWORK AS A CAREER:Herbert S. White, Director, NASA Facility, Documentation, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland ALA STATISTICSCOORDINATING COMMITTEE: Dr. D. T. Bedsole, Manager, Technical Library, Aero- CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON PLACEMENT:Ruth jet-General Corporation, P. 0. Box 1947, Sacra- Nielander, Librarian, Lumbermens Mutual Casu- mento. California alty Company, 4750 North Sheridan Road, Chi- cago, Illinois 60640 ASA SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS,pH-5: Chester FEDERATIONOF MANAGEMENTORGANIZATIONS: M. Lewis, Chief Librarian, New York Times, 229 William S. Budington, The John Crerar Library, West 41rd Street, New York 10036 35 West 33rd Street, Chicago, Illinois 60616 Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New ASA SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON LIBRARYWORK York 10003 AND DOCUMENTATION,2-39: Mrs. Anne J. Rich- ter, R. R. Bowker Company, 1180 Avenue of the INTERAGENCYCOUNCIL ON LIBRARYTOOLS FOR Americas, New York 10036 NURSING:Mrs. Jacqueline W. Felter, The Med- ical Library Center of New York, 5 East 102nd ASA SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON GLOSSARYOF Street, New York 10029 ENVIRONMENTALTERMINOLOGY, 2-84: George Mandel, Technical Information Division, Lewis INTERNATIONALFEDERATION OF LIBRARYASSO- Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space CIATIONS: Dr. Karl A. Baer, National Housing Administration, 2100 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, Center Library, 1625 L Street, N.W., Washington, Ohio D. C.

IFLA COMMITTEEON LIBRARYBUILDING: Gor- ASA SUBCOMMITTEEON DOCUMENTSREADABLE don E. Randall (Correspondent), 2240 Van Cort- W~THOUT OPTICALDEVICES: Chester M. Lewis, land Circle, Yorktown Heights, New York Chief Librarian, New York Times, 229 West 43rd Street. New York 10036 JOINT COMMITTEEON UNION LIST OF SERIALS: Idris Smith, Head, Business & Technical Depart- COUNCILFOR INTERNATIONALPROGRESS IN MAN- ment, Kansas City Public Library, 311 East 12th AGEMENT:Katharine L. Kinder, Chief Librarian, Street, Kansas City, Missouri Johns-Manville Research Center, Manville, New Jersey. JOINT LIBRARIESCOMMITTEE ON FAIR USE IN Chester M. Lewis, Chief Librarian, New York PHOTOCOPYING:Chester M. Lewis, Chief Librar- Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York 10036 ian, New York Times, 229 West 43rd Street, New York 10036

COUNCILOF NATIONALLIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS: JOINTOPERATING GROUP (ADI-SLA) : Eugene B. Mrs. Mildred Hooker Brode, 4607 Connecticut Jackson, Research Laboratories, General Motors Avenue, Washington, D. C. 20008 Corporation, 12 Mile & Mound Roads, Warren, Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- Michigan braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New York 10003 JOINTLYSPONSORED PROGRAM FOR FOREIGNLI- BRARIANS:Lucile Dudgeon, 3020 Cambridge Place, CNLA JOINTCOMMITTEE FOR VISITINGFOREIGN N.W., Washington, D. C. 20007 LIBRARIANS:Lucile Dudgeon, 3020 Cambridge Mrs. Elaine A. Kurtz, 6640 Adrian Street, Lan- Place, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20007 ham, Maryland 20801 SEPTEMBER 1964 LIBRARYOF CONGRESSFOR PUBLICLAW 480: NATIONALMICROFILM ASSOCIATION: Loretta J. William M. Lee, 1312 Bolton Street, Baltimore, Kiersky, Librarian, Central Research Laboratory Maryland Library, Air Reduction Company, Murray Hill, New Jersey LIBRARYOF CONGRESSLIAISON COMMITTEEOF LIBRARIANS:William S. Budington, The John UNITEDNATIONS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGAN- Crerar Library, 35 West 33rd Street, Chicago, IZATIONS OBSERVER:Ralph C. Simon, 231 Sher- Illinois 60616 man Avenue, New York 10034 Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New UNITEDSTATES BOOK EXCHANGE: Elizabeth Fer- York 10003 guson, Librarian, Institute of Life Insurance, 277 Park Avenue, New York NATIONALACADEMY OF SCIENCESADVISORY BOARDOF THE OFFICE OF CRITICALTABLES: UNITEDSTATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE Anne L. Nicholson, Librarian, Pennsalt Chemicals FEDERATIONINTERNATIONALE DE DOCUMENTA- Corporation, 900 First Avenue, King of Prussia, TION:Robert W. Gibson, Jr., IBM Research Li- Pennsylvania 19406 brary, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P. 0. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 NATIONALLIBRARY WEEK: Duane R. Day, Li- brarian, Campbell-Mithun, Incorporated, North- ASSOCIATIONWITNESS: Mrs. Sara L. Meyerson, star Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 42 West 12th Street, New York 10011

ALA Institute on Data Processing Y THE MORNING of June 24, 1964, over heads and staff members rather than head B 300 librarians had made their way by librarians. These people came to learn, and plane, car, and bus to the University of Mii- learn they did. In two and a half days, 12 souri at Columbia. They had come from as speakers presented papers on the backRround far away as Alaska and the Canal Zone. The of data processing, its hardware, the applica- drawing card was a three-day ALA Pre-Con- tion of computers to serials work, cataloging, ference Institute offering an Introduction to circulation, acquisitions. dissemination of in- , . Data Processing. Sponsored by the Reference formation, and automatic classification and Services Division and the Resources and indexing. Papers were also presented on the Technical Services Division of ALA, in co- Library of Congress project and MEDLARS. operation with the University of Missouri, The importance of the librarian in the the Institute was ably chaired by Edward automated library of the future was continu- Heiliger- of Florida Atlantic University. As ally stressed throughout the program. All badges were scanned, it was soon apparent speakers agreed that the comiute; will not (and the registration list later confirmed) replace librarians but will free them for that most of the librarians attending were more creative work. The importance of high from colleges and universities of all sizes. standards, accuracy, and service in machine The list also revealed a few registrants from operations were also emphasized. It was public, school, and state library systems, with pointed out that if standards must be lowered industrial librarians a rarity. in order to use machines, then machines The aim of the Institute was to present, in should not be used. fairly general-and comprehensible-terms, A highlight of the Institute was the open- the story of data processing and how it has ing-night banquet, at which Chairman Heili- affected and will affect libraries, with some ger greeted some 350 people who, as he said, case studies and a dash of theory. The con- "had come to pay homage to the computer." tent was explicitly intended for librarians The featured speaker was Dr. Ralph Parker, who had little or no experience in computer- Librarian of the University of Missouri, who ized libraries. Was the aim accom~lished? showed a thorough understanding of both In the opinion of this writer, it was. the capabilities and limitations of data proc- It was a real grass-roots institute, attended essing machines. by doers rather than planners, department Most participants felt that the Institute SPECIAL LIBRARIES was valuable, even for those who didn't respect tradition, but they should not be completely grasp the content of some of the tradition-bound. They must be able to adapt papers. They-and others-will have the op- themselves to new and better methods. Even portunity to study the printed proceedings in if a librarian is in a position where a com- the winter issue of Library Resoztrces and puter is not likely to be in the picture for a Techtzical Seevjces. Participants seemed to long time-if ever-he should be aware of agree that the opportunity to discuss ques- how some of the concepts of automation can tions with the speakers and other participants be applied in his present job. Attending in- made the trip worthwhile. stitutes such as this one is one way of achiev- Summing up, the Institute was good. The ing this awareness. The ALA and the Uni- program was comprehensive and well- versity of Missouri are to be commended for planned. There should be more like it, per- their effort. haps in connection with workshops where librarians can learn more about the concepts THEODORED. PHILLIPS, Reference Librarian of things like flow-charting and program- IBM Corporation, Los Gatos Laboratory ming. In this day and age, librarians should Los Gatos, California The AHlL Bibliotherapy Workshop IBLIOTHERAPY is not the care and treat- validation before a therapy can move from B ment of books-it is the organized use the hypothetical to the practical stage. These of reading material in the treatment of pa- points were all discussed at greater length on tients suffering primarily or secondarily from Friday and Saturday. mental problems. Librarians, physicians, and he seven sessibns (four on Friday and psychologists have been using bibliotherapy three on Saturday) alternated between in various wavs for about 50 years. A broad "closed" and "open" discussion. Dr. Marion picture of the history and current condition E. Bunch, Head of the Psychology Depart- of bibliotherapy is presented in the October ment, Washington University, St. Louis, 1962, issue of Library Trends. These facts moderated these sessions. Closed discussion led to the planning of a Bibliotherapy Work- involved the 12 consultants (five librarians shop by a committee of the Association of and re~resentatives from occu~ational and Hospital and Institution Libraries held at activity therapy groups, psychiatry, social St. Louis, June 25-27, 1964. The National work, nursing, and rehabilitation) ; the open Institute of Mental Health made a grant to discussion included the 30 observers who support the workshop and the publication represented a variety of therapy, counseling, of the proceedings. library, education, and publishing organiza- Dr. Howard P. Rome, Senior Consultant tions. While Dr. Bunch permitted everyone for the Section of Psychiatry at the Mayo to have his say, he kept the workshop oh its Clinic, was the keynote speaker Thursday course and made helpful summaries from evening. He gare a thoughtful and stimulat- time to time. ing address on changing methods of psychia- The cross fertilization of viewpoints and trv and some of the internal and external ideas was most helpful. The educational re- attitudes toward these changes. During the quirements for the bibliotherapist or "clin- discussion afterwards, several important ical librarian" (a useful term suggested by points were developed : the importance of the Dr. Fierman, one of the consultant psychia- degree to which a person "reads himself" trists), received considerable discussion. into what he is reading, the difficulty of sep- What courses should be taken in college and arating the effect of the reading from that in library school and the role of post-gradu- of the interpersonal relationship between the ate training and on-the-job seminars were librarian and the patient, and the need for questions &alt with at some length. Ernpha- SEPTEMBER 1964 The Association occupied two booths at the ALA Convention to exhibit its services and publications to public, school, and university librarians. Here Bill M. Woods (far left), William K. Beatty (center), and Flora Edwards (second from right) are staffing the booth. sis was placed on broad courses in the formal The workshop brought together represent- schooling, with the more specific and prac- atives of many disciplines and viewpoints. tical work handled as part of "continuing These were all blended with practice and education." Research was recognized as a theory into a worthwhile group activity. major need. This could most effectively pur- Plans are under way by committees within sue the following lines: specific studies of the AHIL to carry on the momentum, in- effects of reading by categories of patients; sight, and interest generated by the work- the translation of the clinical diagnosis into shop. Announcements will be made of these a prescription for specific bibliotherapeutic activities. items; the effects of reading as distinguished from those of interpersonal relationships; WILLIAMK. BEATTY and how the normal differs from the dis- SLA Representative and Librarian turbed individual in the projection of him- Northwestern University Medical School self into his reading. Chicago, Illinois

CLR GRANTS The Association of American Law Schools typesetting by perforated tape for library received a $54,000 grant to study a means operations. The bibliographic information of improving law school libraries. The proj- used by libraries can be put on paper tape ect involves preparation of book selection and then used to produce catalog cards, book lists and improved methods of acquisition catalogs, order and accession lists, bibliogra- and preservation. The lists, which are not phies,-book cards and labels, and other neces- a duplication of catalogs but a selective com- sary records. This system is currently being pilation, will be concerned with Anglo- used by the National Library of Medicine for American (the initial list), foreign, interna- the Index Medicus. tional, and comparative law. Completion is CLR has awarded a six-month $35,959 expected by early 1966. contract to Carson Laboratories, Bristol, Con- The Library of Congress through an ar- necticut, for further investigation of the rangement with Inforonics, Inc., of Maynard, practical feasibility of high-ratio microstor- Massachusetts, and with the financial support age in crystals based on the color-center phe- of CLR, will study the use of automatic nomenon. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Out of Anonymity and into the Trees-The Forest Service Library Sessions at St. Louis

THEODOR B. YERKE, Librarian, Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture, Berkeley, California

F YOU WALKED along the corridors of the how he coped with his information problem I Sheraton-Jefferson's big second floor by describing the process of documenting his where the smaller meetings of the St. Louis forthcoming book on forest ecology. Over SLA Convention were held, invariably the 20,000 references had to be winnowed down loudest din came from the forestry meetings. to 2,000, and these 2,000 had to represent The racket was made by 32 forestry librarians, a balanced bibliography of the subject. six forestry research scientists, and four ad- The Thursday morning panel of six re- ministrators of forestry research, all talking searchers, who discussed their needs as li- madly to each other the moment the floor brary users, brought intense discussion from was opened for discussion. And why not? the floor. As one of the administrators pres- It was the first time the nation's small corps ent has since written, "The response from of forestry librarians had ever seen them- the floor amazed me." In general, it would selves in one room. seem that librarians think they can do more On Wednesday evening Dr. Stephen H. for researchers than the researchers think Spurr, Dean of the University of Michigan's they can. Librarians took exception to many School of Natural Resources, admirably set of the generalizations made by the panel the keynote in his dinner talk: forestry litera- scientists who represented the fields of fire ture is very old and prolific; foresters (like research, entomology, plant pathology, silvi- many other scientists) do not make maxi- culture, and wood chemistry. mum use of existing bibliographic aids and At lunch Mrs. Pauline Jennings, Chief, services; yet when they do, they are inun- Division of Lending, National Agricultural dated by citations. He explained in detail Library, read Foster Mohrhardt's paper on

Sieuerr Key participants in the "Technical Information Problems in Forestry" Workshop (left to right): Mrs. Elizabeth B. Roth (representing SLA President Brode), Theodor B. Yerke, Dr. Stephen H. Spurr, Dr. Robert H. Twiss, and Mrs. Pauline W. Jennings. SEPTEMBER 1964 513 forthcoming improvements in the Bibli0~7.a- derdeveloped areas object to spending money phy of Agricultwe and discussed the acquisi- on library services when it could be spent to tions policy of the NAL. Mrs. Jennings sub- raise their standard of subsistance. Food for stituted for Director Mohrhardt, who could the stomach is a first consideration. They not attend at the last moment. In the after- have plenty to think about as it is. noon session, Joseph A. Miller, Research The second Friday session considered ac- Associate and Librarian of the Forest History quisitions problems with Forest Service non- Society of St. Paul, Minnesota, and myself serial publications and of publications ema- presented papers and remarks on The Ox- nating from National Forests and Regional ford System of Decimal Classification for Headquarters. The key talk was made by Forest~y.This system, adopted by the FAO/ William W. Huber, Assistant Regional For- IUFRO Joint Committee on Bibliography, is ester for Information and Education in the widely used throughout the world except in Southern Region, which headquarters at At- the United States. A principal obstacle to lanta, Georgia. Librarians are interested in Oxford in the United States is its require- many of these documents, but unlike the ment of a classified catalog. At the same documents of the Forest Service research time, the system operates with remarkable ef- stations, their publication is less often a ficiency and is really the only forestry classi- matter of public or bibliographic record. fication available. Its future in the United Means of assuring citation in the Monthly States is by no means clearly predictable. Catalog of Goz~etxnzentDocmme~zts as well Friday's sessions were devoted to two as other channels were suggested. panels: on the first, Dr. V. L. Harper, Dep- A short afternoon meeting heard Joan uty Chief for Research, U.S. Forest Service, Titley, Chairman of SLA's Biological Sci- read a paper on FAO/IUFRO developments ences Division, woo the forestry group into in multi-lingual terminological standardiza- the larger group. But the forestry librarians, tion ; Dr. Joseph Groesbeck, Deputy Librar- while interested, did not want to lose their ian of the United Nations library in New new-found subject identity, and further study York City, discussed the problems of FA0 in the coming year on the matter of affiliation and the UN library in a lucid and interest- with Biological Sciences Division seemed the ing fashion. It is well to remember that un- consensus of desire. Association News Soviet-United States Exchange of Special ogy, Cambridge; Dr. Frank E. McKenna, Air Librarians Reduction Company, Inc., Murray Hill, New According to an agreement worked out by Jersey; Gordon Randall, Thomas J. Watson the U. S. Department of State and signed in Research Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, on February 22, 1964, Special Li- New York; and Winifred Sewell, National braries Association will sponsor an exchange Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. of visits between Soviet and United States Boris Gorokhoff of Washington, D. C. will special librarians as one of 19 scientific and serve as interpreter for the delegation. technical exchange programs. The SLA Board The six delegates met during the Associa- of Directors has appointed the following tion's annual Convention in St. Louis to dis- members to represent the Association in a cuss plans and to review the objectives of the library tour of the Soviet Union during the visit. These objectives, as noted in the pro- spring of 1965 : John P. Binnington, Brook- posal from Special Libraries Association to haven National Laboratory, Upton, New the U. S. Department of State are as follows: York; William S. Budington, John Crerar "The primary objective of the delegation Library, Chicago, and SLA President; Mrs. is to study and observe the procedures and Irma Johnson, Charles Hayden Memorial techniques employed by the Soviet technical Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- librarians and information specialists in the 514 SPECIAL LIBRARIES collecting, organizing, and disseminating of The training and experience of the library information in the specialized fields of sci- staff. The education of librarians, informa- ence and technology. To accomplish this ob- tion specialists, and documentalists. jective the following broad areas of librarian- ship are to be examined: "Over two-thirds of the members of the Special Libraries Association are employed 1. The organization and function of units in small and medium-sized libraries and in- within the Soviet scientific information sys- formation centers where unique procedures tem and problems in librarianship exist. It is the The study of the role and responsibilities desire of the U. S. delegation to bring to the of the State Committee for Co-ordination of membership of the Association, and to other Scientific Research, the ALL-Union Institute librarians throughout the United States, a for Scientific and Technical Information and full account of Soviet progress in this area of Propaganda, the national level industrial in- the library profession." formation institutes, the information insti- To bring to the membership a wide cover- tutes of the republics, the regional informa- age of the status of Soviet technical libraries, tion organizations, and the institute and it is planned to issue a report of the visit in plant sectors of scientific-technical informa- Specid Libmries. It is anticipated that a large tion. number of photographs illustrating Soviet 2. Bibliography, indexing and abstracting catalogs, indexes, equipment, furniture, and The review of national bibliographical, in- buildings will be taken so that members of dexing, and abstracting programs in science the delegation can accommodate Divisions and technology including a detailed examina- and Chapters with illustrated lectures. tion of the work of the ALL-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. The Grant for SLA examination of the scope of bibliographical Representation at IFLA effort in institute and plant libraries. The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded 3. Collections Special Libraries Association a $500 grant The procedures of book and journal selec- that will permit Dr. Karl Baer, Librarian of tion in large research libraries, smaller re- the National Housing Center Library in search and plant libraries. The policies and Washington, D. C., to attend the meeting of methods of acquiring scientific books and the International Federation of Library As- journals. The use of magnetic tape, micro- sociations (IFLA) in Rome, - film, and micronegatives. The preservation 18, 1964, as the Association's official repre- and maintenance of collections. sentative. Although SLA has been a member 4. Readers' services of IFLA since 1947, it has only recently as- The policies and procedures which ensure sumed a position of leadership in this inter- the maximum use of library facilities. The national field of librarianship. Dr. Baer at- access to and use of libraries and the review tended last year's IFLA meeting in Sophia, of bibliographical and reference services Bulgaria, where he was instrumental in made available to the users. establishing a Special Libraries Section of 5. Technical services which he was elected Organizing Chairman The study of classification and cataloging (See Special Libruries, November 1963, p. and technical processing procedures for 584). This was the first time that special books and journals both by conventional and libraries as a type of library with unique mechanized systems. aims, requirements, policies, and problems 6. Buildings and equipment achieved international recognition. Proposed The observance of basic plans to new areas of cooperation include union lists of buildings with emphasis on smaller libraries. periodicals and books in specialized areas, Design and arrangement of stacks, furniture direct interlibrary loans between special li- and files. Mechanical equipment and devices. braries in different countries, direct reference 7. Personnel assistance among such libraries, and surveys SEPTEMBER 1964 of existing methods and development of not compiled but were issued separately, were new methods on an international basis. Pri- published only as abstracts, or were not mary projects are the compilation of an in- published at all (in cases where it might be ternational directory of special libraries and reasonable to assume publication), these facts the definition of a special library. During will be furnished in the same format. For the past year Dr. Baer has maintained close documents, AD numbers will be provided liaison with representatives from Germany, whenever possible for Defense Documenta- Poland, and and has encouraged other tion Center users, and N or X numbers will library associations to join IFLA and take be supplied for National Aeronautics and an active role in the new Special Libraries Space Administration users. Section. He has helped develop a program for the Rome meeting of the Section, and Development of Resources Theme of 1965 will also take part in a special meeting of H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award United States and Soviet Union librarians who will discuss library education, mechani- "Information Resources Development and zation, public libraries, and the 1961 ALA Cooperation" has been announced as the report on its visit to Soviet libraries. theme of the 1965 H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award. This is an annual competi- tion in which the 33 Chapters of the Asso- Aerospace Librarians to Publish ciation may develop their meeting programs "Proceedings in Print" or special projects around a professional li- The Aerospace Section of the Science-Tech- brary problem or situation. The H. W. Wil- nology Division of Special Libraries Associa- son Company, publishers of library reference tion is undertaking publication of a new tools, sponsors the Award and provides the reference service for scientists, engineers, and $100 prize, which is presented at the banquet librarians. Entitled Pvoceedings in Print, held during the annual Convention. The each bi-monthly issue of approximately 50 judging and final decisions are made by a pages will provide full bibliographic data about proceedings in as wide a subject range committee of SLA members, chaired by Lor- and span of years as is pertinent to current raine Ciboch, which also determined the technology in the aerospace fields. Subscrip- themes of the yearly awards. tion orders for Proceedings in Pvint are now Since special librarians are very aware of being accepted at $20 per year. For volume the advantages of cooperation and since one, prepayment is required. Checks should many Chapters already are developing their be made payable to Aerospace Section, Spe- local resources through the aid of member- cial Libraries Association. Send orders, with ship directories, union lists, and duplicate payment, to Maurice Rahilly, Business Man- exchange lists, this year's theme is particu- ager, Proceedings in Print, Avco Corpora- larly apt. It also ties in with the theme of tion, Research & Advanced Development Di- the 56th Convention to be held in Philadel- vision, 201 Lowell Street, Wilmington, phia in June 1965, "Library Cooperation- Massachusetts. The editors are striving for a Panacea or Pitfall?" The H. W. Wilson clear, simple, self-explanatory format with- Company Chapter Award Committee sug- out a puzzling array of symbols or cryptic gests that Chapters identify the resources in entries. A person with an incomplete refer- their geographical areas, identify the infor- ence citation or merely a clue can look in mation needs, and then organize a program the alphabetical index comprising the second for developing and strengthening these re- section of Proceedings in Print to find a gional information resources. This may be number referring to a full citation in the first done by cooperating with other special, state, section. Proceedings in the form of books, regional, public, college or university li- journal issues, or separate documents will braries, information centers, or other groups all be noted. Further, if it has been estab- or individuals concerned with the more ef- lished that the papers of a conference were fective utilization of information resources. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Seven Scholarships for Graduate Study in As a second positive action toward en- Special Librarianship to be Offered larging their knowledge, skills, and refer- The Association will award seven scholar- ence collections, the Division is planning its ships of $1,000 each to qualified men or Annual Fall Meeting around the theme "The women who want to do graduate study in Materials Age." This meeting will be held in special librarianship leading to a degree at Philadelphia, October 22-23, in conjunction an accredited library school in the United with the 1964 ASM Metals/Materials Show. States or Canada during the 1965-66 aca- H. R. Clauser, Editor of Materids ;in Design demic year. The scholarships are available to Engineering, is scheduled to deliver a key- college graduates working in a special library note orientation address entitled "This Is or with experience in a special library, or to the Materials Age." Following a paper, recent college graduates or college seniors "Numerical Reference Data for Materials," intending to enter the special library profes- by R. Gordon Brunner, Assistant Technical sion. Qualifications include a definite interest Secretary, ASTM, there will be a roundtable in and aptitude for special library work, a discussion on "Materials Information." Fri- sincere intent to contribute to the profession, day morning will be devoted to a session on high academic standing throughout college, "Meeting the Challenge of the Materials financial need, and provisional admittance to Age" in which four speakers will present the an accredited library school in the United roles of gases, powder metallurgy, copper, States or Canada. Applications may be ob- and steel in the new materials concept. tained from the Association, 31 East loth Nominations for Professional Award, 1965 Street, New York 10003. Completed applica- Each Chapter President, Division Chairman, tions must be returned to the Scholarship and and the Board of Directors have been asked Student Loan Fund Committee at the same to submit nominations for the 1965 SLA address by February 1, 1965 at the latest. Professional Award in time for the Septem- The names of the winners will be announced ber 14 deadline. The definition of the SLA at the Association's 1965 Convention. Professional Award, the highest recognition During the past nine years the SLA Schol- granted by the Association, is: "The SLA arship and Student Loan Fund has provided Professional Award is given to an individual funds for 48 scholarships. This Fund is sup- or group, who may or may not hold mem- ported by contributions from companies, bership in the Association, in recognition of SLA Chapters and Divisions, and individu- major achievement in, or significant contri- als. A Student Loan Fund is also available to bution to, the field of librarianship or in- provide financial assistance to individuals formation science, which advances the stated who plan to pursue graduate study in special objectives of the Special Libraries Associa- librarianship at accredited library schools in tion. The timing of the Award shall follow the United States or Canada. as soon as practicable the recognized fruition of the contribution." Metallurgical Librarians Change Name Acutely aware of the current "materials In Memoriam revolution" in which new materials and Dr. Hans Peter Luhn, President of Ameri- compacts are being developed to meet the can Documentation Institute for 1963-64 and special property requirements of modern creator of the SDI (Selective Dissemination science and technology, members of the SLA of Information) and KWIC (Key Word Metals Division voted at their annual busi- in Context) systems died August 19. Dr. ness meeting in June to change their name to Luhn formed H. P. Luhn and Associates and Metals/Materials Division. The new name worked in the Advanced Systems Develop- reflects the expanded scope of the subject ment Division of IBM. In 1963 he edited matter needed in the libraries and informa- Automation and Scientific Commuzication. tion centers serving research and technical Dr. Luhn was one of the organizing forces personnel in what were formerly strictly in the formation of the Joint Operating metallurgical organizations. Group (ADI-SLA) . SEPTEMBER 1964 Joint Publication Considered Systems Development Division, Los Gatos; A proposal for a jointly issued newspapr- and Robert S. Meyer, Librarian, Lawrence type publication, journalistic in style and Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. reporting on matters of information science was recently drawn up by an ADI-SLA National Scientific Library System Proposed Joint Operating Group (JOG) ad hoc com- Dr. Stafford L. Warren, President Johnson's mittee. This proposal is being presented to Special Assistant for Mental Retardation, has the AD1 Council and the SLA Board of Di- advocated the establishment of a National rectors for their consideration. The details of Library of Science System. The plan calls for the proposed publication have been devel- the creation of a computer-based pool of oped at several meetings, and the National all scientific literature and a distribution Science Foundation has been approached network through which this information for funds for the first year's operation. It is would be made available to scientist users felt that this new news organ could well re- upon demand. Scientific data on tapes, micro- place and extend the coverage of NSF's film, and/or microforms would be fed con- Scientific I?zfomzation Notes. It will report tinuously from existing and new information on meetings, professional and academic programs in the government and private sec- activities, letters to the editor, editorials, for- tors into a central storehouse. The literature eign news, notes on new equipment and serv- pool thus developed would then be replicated ices, and outstanding appointments. Adver- into seven or more regional centers, which tising will be solicited to help defray the cost. would serve as distribution points and would "stock inexpensively the libraries of organ- Grant for Research on Indexing izations throughout the country." The scheme The National Science Foundation has awarded would cost more than $300 million for the first six years. The Committee on Scientific a $74,000 grant to the Western Reserve Uni- versity Center for Documentation and Com- and Technical Information is currently con- munication Research for continued research sidering the proposal. in "Automatic Processing of Metallurgical Abstracts for the Purpose of Information Re- Coming Events trieval." The aim is to develop a set of rules The AMERICANASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- for automatic indexing so that the time lapse VANCEMENT OF SCIENCEwill hold its annual between the appearance of an article and its meeting in Montreal, December 26-31, 1964. index can be shortened. Mrs. Jessica Melton, A callfor papers appeared in Science, May Associate Director of the Center, will direct 22, 1964. the study. The RUTGERSSEMINARS ON SYSTEMSFOR THE INTELLECTUALORGANIZATION OF IN- Workshop for Library Assistants FORMATION will be continued for a second On and 11, the San Francisco year with the aid of a $30,500 grant from Bay Region Chapter conducted its second the National Science Foundation. Dr. S. R. Workshop for Library Assistants at the Uni- Ranganathan, the noted Indian classification versity of San Francisco. Speakers for the expert, will be the featured speaker at the lecture-demonstration series were Mrs. Mar- fourth seminar to be held on November 19 garet Uridge, Head, Inter-Library Borrowing and 20, 1964. A panel will discuss his pres- Service, University of California at Berkeley; entation on the second day, and Dr. Harold Mrs. Charlotte G. Owens, Librarian, Lock- Wooster of the Air Force Office of Scientific heed Missiles & Space Company, Palo Alto; Research will deliver the banquet address. Marjorie Griffin, Librarian, IBM Advanced Details are available from the moderator of SPECIAL LIBRARIES the seminars, Dr. Susan Artandi, Assistant ject you can name. The present program is of the Professor, Graduate School of Library Sen- broadest nature, with no subjects ruled out before- ice, Rutgers, the State University, New hand. If any of you feels moved to recommend pub- Brunswick, New Jersey. lication of a book that might make it easier for you and your colleagues to do your job more New Index of Non-Book Materials effectively, please write to me at Funk & Wagnalls Co., Inc., 360 Lexington Avenue, New York, The 14-volume Educational Media Index, New York 10017. Your cards or letters will be which lists and describes more than 30.000 acknowledged, and the possibilities discussed with films, film strips, kinescopes, slides, trans- you individually. parencies, maps, charts, picture sets, video- ROBERTL. CHAPMAN.Chief Reference Editor tapes, phonograph records, programmed in- Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc. structional materials, models, mockups, and New York cross-media sets, has recently been issued by McGraw-Hill Book Company. This is the first time that this rapidly increasing type of Mr. Paul Vesenyi's letter in Special Libraries, April 1964, p. 247, makes refreshing reading to educational material has been brought under one who has spent many years in attempting to bibliographic control, and the accomplish- promote international standardization in library ment is the result of unique cooperation be- work. Like Mr. Vesenyi, I deplore the reluctance tween an agency of the federal government of publishers to adopt even the easiest and most (the U. S. Office of Education), professional elementary recommendations of the International Organization for Standardization. Unfortunately, and trade associations (14 of whom are rep- the other international organizations themselves resented on the Educational Media Council), are often among the worst offenders, and a whole and a private, commercial publisher. Another rogues gallery of title and format changes, erratic unusual feature is the use of conventional numbering and the like could be formed from their publications alone. data processing equipment, combined with It is of course perfectly possible for a competent advanced graphic art techniques, to compile lay-out man to find an inch or two of space on a and reproduce the text, indexes, and cross cover for a "manchette bibliographique." We can references. Volume I of the Index covers all all think of examples, and some of them look very nice. Some covers are artistically so bad that materials for kindergarten through grade no amount of "manchettes" could make them any three, volume 2 covers grades four through worse. six, volumes 3-13 are arranged by subject for Acceptance of the IS0 standard on abbreviating materials suitable for grade seven through titles of periodicals seems to me to be rather college and adult education, and volume 14 more advanced-perhaps because it is largely li- brarians themselves, and not publishers, who use is a master title index. Volumes may be pur- the abbreviations. It is also to be noted that work chased separately or as a set. Supplements on abbreviations has been going on for over 30 are planned for the spring of 1965. years, whereas the recommendations for "manchet- tes" and presentation of periodicals, in general, date only from the 1950's. Maybe it takes 30 years Letters to the Editor or more for librarians to persuade nonlibrarians. Which brings me to Mr. Vesenyi's main point -that a joint meeting at top level between librar- As part of a new and expanded program of ref- ians and publishers, with the support of the pro- erence publication, we are attempting to sample fessional organizations, might serve to establish the opinion of librarians as to the new reference understanding of the problems involved. I believe books most needed in their day-to-day work. By it might, and I hope that the SLA and ALA, as this sampling we hope to take some of the guess- well as the ASA, will join forces to promote a work out of our selection of manuscripts and our move of this kind. It should not be impossible to commissioning of books. demonstrate to that certain minimum Our theory is quite simple: the men and women who staff the reference desks and answer the tele- standards of presentation are just as important in phone are precisely those who know best what the world of print as they are in that world of questions the books now available do not answer. science and technology to which so much of the Our house tradition favors books in the fields print relates. of language and religion, general encyclopedic FRANCISL. KENT,University Librarian works, and dictionaries, yet in our more than 80 American University of years we have published books on nearly any sub- Beirut, SEPTEMBER 1964 Book Reviews cil placed a contract with Bolt Beranek and New- man of Cambridge, Massachusetts, for "Research SPECIALMATERIALS IN THE LIBRARY. J. Bwkett on Concepts and Problems of Libraries of the atzd T. S. Morgan, eds. London: The Library As- Future." This study resulted in a number of sociation, 1963. 179 p. 40s. technical reports of which several have been pub- This book makes available in printed form a lished in scientific journals. This is a report giving series of 14 lectures that was organized by the a summary of progress made and interpreting re- Department of Librarianship, North-Western Poly- search findings within the context of library func- technic and held at the Library Association and tions. Aslib Headquarters in London in 1962. The lec- The report has six subdivisions: 1) the research tures dealt with the problems of the acquisition, program in perspective; 2) making information cataloguing and classification, storage, and routing available to the machine; 3) storing information of "special materials." The roster of lecturers is in efficient form; 4) communicating effectively most impressive and each brought to his audience with stored information; 5) symbiont: a system to the thinking and practical suggestions that can facilitate the study of documents; and 6) QAS: an only result from personal involvement with a automated system for answering questions. problem. The following subjects were covered: In the library of the future, man will continue government publications, foreign literature (the to read, though books and pamphlets as we now social sciences and the humanities and science and know them will be absent, and the present con- technology), report and trade literature, local his- cept of reading a book from cover to cover will tory and maps, music and recordings, audio-visual have disappeared. "Organizers" will replace the materials (including films), and microtexts. traditional card catalog. Printing fonts will be In some instances, brief summaries of the dis- standardized to allow digital computers to auto- cussion following a lecture have been added. Sev- matically read, interpret, and catalog information eral of the chapters have bibliographies appended. and place important data in the "document dis- The one on music lists 100 references, but the penser" and the "information dispenser" for later usual listing is from six to 23 items. A detailed retrieval. index adds to the usefulness of the volume. The The key element in organizing this informa- chapter on trade literature should be singled out tion for logical retrieval is the high speed digital for the examples of card indexes and an 8-page ap- computer keyed to separate consoles in the li- pendix of a subject index for trade catalogues. brary, home, or office. Thus, the computer has the The chapter on report literature includes a discus- function of "information dispenser" supplying the sion of security requirements of classified govern- text requested in replica form, and if the library ment material in juxtaposition with the problem of making certain that individuals receive those re- is sufficiently versatile, it may include transcrip- ports relevant to their work. Each chapter, in fact, tions of recorded music or reproductions of paint- packs in an enormous amount of information, and ings. In a system called "Symbiont" the student the book as a whole should prove to be a valuable is provided a unique environment for studying, aid to many special librarians, particularly those which includes a desk, an electric typewriter, a who are either new to the ~rofessionor are in the display screen, and a light sensitive pointer or process of setting up a new collection. The sub- light pen. The user requests services and controls ject matter cuts across every type of library-pub- operation by typing command characters or sym- lic, college and university, technical, commercial bols on a typewriter, or by touching illuminated -and is international in scope, with an under- areas on the display screen with a light pen in standable emphasis on the availability of material searching for different or related text. In con- in England and in the United States. junction with this physical search, the system will not only find answers already programmed into BLANCHEVITROGAN, Humanities Librarian Brooklyn College Library the "information memory," but will also give Brooklyn, New York answers in natural English through logical reason- ing and deduction. TOWARDTHE LIBRARYOF THE 21s~CENTURY: A It is interesting to compare this report with the REPORTON THE PROGRESSMADE IN A PROGRAM recently issued "Automation and the Library of OF RESEARCHSPONSORED BY THE COUNCILOF Congress"' and ALA's "The Library and Infor- LIBRARYRESOURCES. Bolt Beranek and Newman, mation Network of the Future.'" Both reports I?2c., Cambridge, Mass.: March 1964. 42 p. pap. 1 KING G. W., et al. Auton~ationand the Library of apply. (L.C. 64-19449) congress: A survey sponsored by the Council on Li- brary Resources, 1963. $2.00. Under a grant from the Ford Foundation, the AMERICANLIBRARY ASSOCIATION. The Library and Council on Library Resources conducted a pro- Information Aietwork.i of the Futnre (Prepared for gram of research and demonstration toward the Rome Air Development Center under Contract AF 33 (602)-2578), (RADC TDR 62-614. AD 401347.) April solution of library problems. In 1961, the Coun- 8, 1963. SPECIAL LIBRARIES mention use of "consoles" or "remote stations" New Number Series for DDC-OTS Documents tied to the library and/or regional information Department of Defense technical documents that centers to provide the patron with requested in- are unclassified and have no release limitations are formation, but neither report suggests a system now being numbered in the AD 600,000 series. as sophisticated as the one in "Toward the Li- The first documents in this series were announced brary of the 21st Century." This reviewer feels, in the DDC Technical Abstract Bulletin (TAB), however, that consoles are more of an engineer's July 15, 1964. Under agreement with DDC, these dream than a librarian's reality. Those who recom- reports are being processed by the Office of Tech- mend consoles should spend a week in any large nical Services of the Department of Commerce library during any school vacation period to witness (OTS) . The AD (accessioned document) num- the chaos involved in using a simple alphabetical bers are divided. All unclassified documents are card catalog and to eavesdrop on the often enig- numbered in an even hundred thousand series matic, vague, ambiguous, and idiotic questions (200,000-400,000) and all classified by an odd tossed at the reference librarian. numbered series (300,000). Starting with the The key ingredient in the library of the future July 15 TAB, all documents numbered in the is not a librarian but a digital computer. To de- 400,000 series above AD 439,700 will be unclassi- velop a computer capable of reading a standardized fied limited. printing font is within the present state of the art. This is a relatively simple task as compared IR in Social Science Fields with a machine that can understand, catalog, and place this data in the "information dispenser" for The June 1964 issue of The American Behavioral later retrieval. For effective retrieval-as in a Scientist, vol. vii, no. 10, is a special issue entitled special library-the computer must be aware of the "Information Retrieval in the Social Sciences: user's needs and must catalog differently for the Problems, Programs, and Proposals." It includes articles on systems research, social research data, chemical patent attorney than for the chemical retrieval systems, literature retrieval problems, and technologist. It is a matter of conjecture whether library programs. The issue may be ordered for $3 a computer can be developed embodying the in- from the editorial office, 80 East 11th Street, New tuitive ability to ferret out what the reader-patron York 10003. actually wants, which a good reference librarian develops only through years of experience. Thomas Register on Microfiche The library of the future is a disquieting one for the professional librarian. A librarian is men- The Thomas Publishing Company, publisher of tioned no place in this report. Presumably he is the Thomru Register, has recently placed this cata- placed in the archives along with the few re- log on microfiche, which can be read with the maining books as a vestigial product of former new table model Bell and Howell reader. The set days or as the technically unemployed because of of 666 microfiche cards, which are alphabet~cally indexed by manufacturer, represent about 30,000 automation. When the intelligent, thinking com- catalog pages. The manufacturers are first located puter arrives, unemployment will not be a prob- by product in the Product Index and then the lem for librarians but for all facets of per se, proper microfiche card is inserted in the reader. our society. However, given all that has been said There are 72 frames per card, representing up to about the "information explosion" and the in- that number of pages. Thomas leases the cards, crease in the world's total store of literature Index, and reader for one year at $250. There is reaching 10'' volumes by the year 2000, this a midyear Index and card supplement, and a com- may well be the shape of the library of the future. plete new set of microfiches and a revised Irzdex MORTONN. WASSERMAN,Technical Librarian are issued each year. For further details write to Information Center, ITT Communication Systems Thomas Microcatalog, 461 Eighth Avenue, New Paramus, New Jersey York City.

World Inventory of Abstracting Services Book Review Corr,ection The International Federation for Documentation, following the recommendation of its 1959 Warsaw The review of Art Museum Documentation Conference, has compiled An Index to Material and Practical Handling (Special Libraries, Collected by FID in 1962/63, an inventory of ab- May-June, 1964, p. 318) erroneously gave stracting services in science and technology and the price as $16.50 and the United States the social sciences. The Index is based on 1,500 distributor as George Wittenborn. The cor- valid replies to a questionnaire sent to 50 countries rect price is $16, including postage and and contains a title list, which is a copy of a UDC handling, and it may be ordered directly multiple-entry card catalog, and an A/Z subject from the publisher, Choudhury & Choud- key. The cost is $1.50 and is available from FID hury, P.O. Box No. 229, Hyderabad, India. General Secretariat, Hofweg 7, The Hague. Infor- mation from the questionnaires is available free SEPTEMBER 1964 of charge except where extensive searching is RECENT REFERENCES required. The data contained in the questionnaire are: details on the abstracting service, subject mat- ter and types of literature covered, and the size, Librarianship annual number, language, arrangement, and time- AMER~CANLIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 82nd Arznual lag of the abstracts. Conference Proceedings, Chicago, ]uly 14-20, 1963. Chicago: 1963. 125 p. pap. Apply. Directory of Special Libraries Around Summary proceedings of the general sessions, Philadelphia Published council sessions, committees, and divisions, and The eleventh edition of the Directory of Li- the Conference Within a Conference: "An In- braries and Information Sources in the Philadel- quiry into the Needs of Students, Libraries, and phia Area has just been published by the Special the Educational Process," full proceedings of Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity, a which will be published separately. Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. This AMERICANLIBRARY ASSOCIATION, COMMITTEE OF 168-page spiral-bound edition contains listings for THE PUBLICLIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Costs of Pub- 388 libraries located in the Delaware Valley and lic Library Service, 1963. Chicago: 1964. 17 p. within a 200-mile radius of Philadelphia. In- pap. 75&; in combination with Public Librury formation on name, address, librarian, type and Service, $2. (L. C. 60-1433) size of collection, subject specialization, and bor- The third supplement to Public Library Service, rowing privileges is given for each library. Orders published in 1956. Presents the actual budgets of should be sent to the Council at 106 South 33rd four widely different types of public library sys- Street, Camden, New Jersey, and checks should tems in different geographical areas. New feature be made payable to Special Libraries Council. is a series of "building blocks" to provide budget Price is $3.50 per copy. percentages for the major categories of expendi- ture, basic salary schedules, and unit costs for SLA Authors books and periodicals. GLAZIER,Kenneth M. Africa South of the Sahara. Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for A Select E. Annotated Bibliography, 1958-1963, the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1963. Washing- vol. 16. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution ton, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1964. xxiv, 169 p. Books. 1964, 65 p., $1.50 (L. C. 64-20983) pap. and cloth. Apply. (L. C. 6-6273) REES, Alan M. Libraries and Information Centers. Discusses the expanding activities of the Library College 6 Research Libvaries, vol. 25, no. 3, May of Congress and gives financial and other statistics 1964, p. 200-4. on acquisitions, cataloging, binding, card distribu- SHERA,Jesse H. Dimensions of the Master's Pro- tion, publication, photoduplication, reference serv- gram. ALA Bulletin, vol. 58, no. 6, June 1964, p. ices, etc. Index. 519-22. BAILLIE,Stuart. Librmy School und Job Success (Studies in Librarianship, vol. 1, no. 3). Denver: "Nonconventional Technical Information University of Denver, Graduate School of Librar- Systems in Curr.ent Use" ianship, 1964. x, 176 p. pap. $3.50. Under a contract with the National Science Foun- An attempt to predict I) success in the graduate dation, Herner and Company, Washington, D. C.. library school at the University of Denver, by such is preparing the fourth edition of the Founda- variables as undergraduate grade point average, tion's publication, Nonconventional Technicul In- the Graduate Record Examination Aptitude Test, formation Systems in Current Use. First issued in and the California Psychological Inventory, a per- 1958, this report series has been an important sonality test; and 2) "lob success," using a Library medium for disseminating descriptions of informa- "Job Success" Rating Scale prepared by the au- tion systems which embody new principles for the thor; and to arrive at 3) a description of the organization of subject matter, or employ auto- "model" librarian. Many tables. matic equipment for storage and search. In the EMMISON,F. G. to Lon- fourth edition, other important aspects of informa- Introduction Archiz'es. don: British Broadcasting Corporation, 35 Maryle- tion handling such as announcement and dissemi- bone High St., 1964. 28 p. pap. illus. 500. nation will be emphasized as well. To identify and obtain descriptions of specific nonconventional Describes briefly the main categories and reposi- tories of archives, with the emphasis on English systems, questionnaires will be mailed to a large and Welsh local records dating from after the number of public and private organizations. In close of the Middle Ages. Bibliography. addition, Herner and Company is eager to hear from individuals or organizations operating sys- HANLEY, Mary. Centralized Processing, Recent tems not covered in previous editions of Noncon- Trends and Current Stntur: A Review and Syn- z.entional Technical Injo~mationSystems in Cur- thesis of the Litevuture (Occasional Papers, No. rent U.re. Communications should be addressed to 71). Urbana. Ill.: University of Illinois Graduate Herner and Company, 1424 K Street, N. W., School of Library Science, 1964. 24 p. unbound. Washington, D. C. APPLY. SPECIAL LIBRARIES A discussion, with bibliography, of the litera- Syracuse University, 1964. x, 44 p. pap. illus. $2. ture on centralized processing published between (L. C. 64-19743) 1950 and the summer of 1963, but including some A Special Library Project report to the direc- earlier articles of importance. tors of Project I of the Inter-University Program HARRISON,K. C. First Steps in Librarianship: A in Teacher Education on the use of library re- Students' Guide, 3rd ed., rev. London: Andre sources by university students. Discusses the gen- erally low level of competency of students in Deutsch; New York: London House & Maxwell, 1964. 248 p. $6.25. availing themselves of library resources and makes A handbook of newcomers to the field, revised, recommendations for encouragement and improve- writes the author, against a "backcloth of rapid ment, through instruction, faculty cooperation, change, and (taking) into consideration most of seminars, film strips, etc. the significant developments." Concentrates on SPYERS-DURAN,Peter. Moving Library Materials. British practice, but previous editions have been Milwaukee, Wis.: Library Associates, University popular in other countries. Suggested reading list; of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 2500 East Kenwood List of abbreviations common in British librarian- Blvd., 1964. vi, 51 p. pap. illus. spiral binding. ship; index. 62.50. A manual covering all steps in library moving ~NTERASSOC~ATIONHOSPITAL LIBRARIES COMMIT- operations. Gives the theoretical and practical ap- TEE. Basic List of Guides and Information Sources proaches to moving a thousand to a million or for Setting Up Hospital, Medical and Nursing Li- more books. Time and motion study; specifications braries. 1964. 13 p. mimeo. pap. Single copies free and contract forms; bibliography. From SLA. An annotated list of basic publications, with a STECKLER,Phyllis B. The Bowker Annual of Li- 'directory of publishers and information on six brary and Book Trade Information, 1964. New lospital and library associations from which mate- York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1964. 370 p. $7.50. rial is available. (L. C. 55-12434) Ninth annual almanac gathering together statis- Library Services and Construction Act of 1964 tics, charts, reports, analyses, and general informa- (Public Law 88-269). Washington, D. C.: Govt. tion on libraries and the book trade. Articles in- Printing Office, 1964. vi, 15 p. pap. 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