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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1920s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1922 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special Libraries ADELAIDE R. HASSE, Editor, Office of the Assistant Secretary of War Washington, I). C. Val. 13 Dwember, 1922 No. 10 A Summary of the Proposed A. L. A. Scheme of Certification of Librarians Together With a Bibliography on Certification

At the Annual Meeting of Special Li- s'onal library work; and this principle car- ~rariesAssociation in Detroit, a special rics with it as an inevitable corollary the committee was appointed to consider and right and duty of the Associetion to cause report upon Certification for Librarianship. to bc created, and even to contribute to Thc report of the Committee which was ac- the financial support of, some properly cepted, was as follows: constitutecl bocly for accrediting train nz "Your Comm.ttee is of the opinion that institutions which maintain the standards the subject of certification of librarians as of inslrnctian deemed necessary lor effi- proposed in the Amerlcan Library Asso- cient and progressive d~braryservice. ciation has not sumciently developed LO "The principle of accredlting educational warrant specific recommendations at this institutions, 'through voluntary organiza- time. tions, both academic and professional, is It believes, however, 'that the subject is well established. Tremendous advances in of great importance and deserving of the n~cdical education, for example, have Te- serious study of each of our members. To sulted from the application of this prln- the end that this study may have for its ciple. . . guidance the opinion of each of our niem- bers, your Committee recommend that there Voluntary Versus Compulsory Methods be jrmted in an early number of SPECIAL "The situation in the library profession LIBRARIES a summary and bibliography dcmands that emphasis be laid at this time of Certificat:on with a request for an ex- on voluntary rather than conigulsory pression 01 opinion of members on which methods. The need for conlpulsory stand- the Special Libraries attitude m~ghtbe ards of fitness cannot be as readily demon- based. strated to the layman as in such profes- Respectfully submitted, slons as medicine or law, where danger to D. N. HANDY, Chairman, lire and health or loss of property are the REBECCA B. RANKIN, dircct and manifest result of ~ncompetence. CATIlERINE VAN DYNE." Other professions under similar circum- stances have found it expedient to use With a view to carrying out as much of voluntary methods. It is to be hoped that the recoinmendation as has to do with pu5- legislation mill eventually embody any lication of a sutninary and bibliography worlcable system of standards evolved, but the Conirnittee submits the inatenal at- legislation which ?recedes the creation of tached which \vas preparecl at the Munici- such standards is likely to result in more pal Reference Library in New York, under evil than good . . . the supervision of Miss Rankin. "Perhaps lthe principal advantage of the D. N. HANDY, nat~onalv~~luntary system lies in its second Cl~az~n~an.feature-co-ordination and accredlting of training agencies. Following the moderzl ABSTRACT OF REPORT OF THE A. L. A. system of certification for teachers, it may COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL CERTIFICA- be assumed that it will be found desirable TION AND TRAINING lo certify without examinatiotl the gradu- MADE TO THE ANNUAL A. L. A. CONFER- ates of approved training schools. In teacher ENCE AT SWAMPSCOTT, JUNE, 1921 training the state is traditionally a self- Fundamental Prlnclples Involved suficicnt unlt, and can properly be so be- "The proposed national certification plan cause of the large number of teachers re- is based fundamentally on thc principle quired. The number of professional li- that it is not only the right but the duty brary workers, on the other hand, is so of the American Library Association to much sinallel. that many states cannot be formulate stand,ards of fitness for profes- expected to support adequately their om 176 SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922

professional library school. They will Grade 8 necessarily recruit workers, part~cularly Education: (1) Not less than one year for specialized ty_nes of work, from schools of successful study in approved college, or located in other states, but how futile it the equivalent, including reading lcnowledge would be for each of the farty-eight states of at least one modern language other than to make its own examination and accredit- English; (2) one year's study in approved ed list of the twelve ar fifteen, or more, library scl~aol, with recommendation of l~braryschools In all parts of the country, school faculty; or passing of esnminalion and how confusing to schools to be subject in library economy, and such other tests as to the separate and inexpert scrutiny of may be prescribed by Certification Board. forty-eight states, to find themselves ac- Experience: Ten years' successlul ex- cred~tedperhaps by some states and not perience, less one year for each full ycar by athers. The only sensible thing is evi- of study cbeyond the first year) in an ap- dently to provide one central accrediting proved college, and for one ycar of study agency . . . in an approved library school. Types of Positions: Head of public li- Advlsory Conrmlttee Suggested braries in snlaller cities, smaller state li- " . . . In the opinion of the present braries, less important college and univer- Committee, one of the earliest tasks of the sity libraries; assistant librarians in such Certification Board should be the formula- libraries; hcads of departments in librar~es tion of a plan for adv~sorycommittees so of all sizes; branch librarians; reference constituted as to be representative of the librarians; librarians of important school best professional ideals and practice of libraries; heads of important special libra- the states. Upon such advisory cxnmittees ries; teachers in library schools. the Board should rely for much of the in- CLASS 111 formation on which to base its judgments in all cases requiring first-hand knowledge Grade A Education: (1) Gracluation from ap- of conditions " . . . proved college, with reading knowledge of Outllne of Tentatlvc S~heme at least one modern language other thnn English; and (2) not less than one year's CLASS I successful study in approved librasy school, Education: Same as for Classes 11 and with recommendation of school. 111. Experience: None required. Experience : Notably successful experi- ence of at least ten years in library admin- Grade B istration or in professional library work re- Education: (1) Not less than one year quiring spec~altechnical skill and involving of successful study in approved colle.?.e, or considerable responsi~bility. equivalent, including. reading knowledge of Types of Positions to be Filled by Holders at least one modern language; and (2) one of Class I Certificates: Chief librarian, and year's successJM study In approved library occasionally assistant librarians, of large school and recommenclation of school fac- libraries-municipal, state, university, col- ulty; or, passing of examination in library lege, endowed libraries, etc.; head of de- econonly and such other tests as may be partment in large libraries, where position prescribed by Certification Board. requires special technical qualifications, or Exper~ence: None required. broad knowledge of library work, wjth Types of Positions: Professional assis- supervisory or administrative responsiblli- tants in all departments; heads of sl~lall ties; directors of library schools and the libraries; heads of minor departments'; successful professors and instructors in li- branch librarians of s~nallerbranches. brpry schools; officials of state library com- m~ss~ms. CLASS IV Grade A CLASS I1 Education: Four-year course in approved Grade A high school; instruction in approved tram- Education: (1) Graduation from ap- ing class or other approved training agency, proved college, with reading knowledge of as may be required by the Certification at least one modern language other thnn Board. English; and (2) not less than one year's Experience: None. successful etudy in an approved library Grade B school, with recomlnendation of school Education: Four-year high school course, faculty. or equivalent to bc determined by the Cer- Experience: Not less than five years' tification Board; and passing of examina- successful experience after takhg library tion in llbrary technique and such other schaol course, except that one year of ap- tests as may be prescribed by the Certifi- proved specialized or advanced study may cation Board. be substituted for two years of the ex- Experience: At least one year of ap- perience required for Class I1 certificate. proved library work. December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Special Certificates a nmnber in a board of nine, it has been "In addition to these three classes of suggested that the League of Library Coin- general professional certificates, a group lnissions nqht be omitted, since the inter- of special ccrtificatcs should he provided ests represented by thc conlmisslons are for. In thc bc~ilui'n~these shoulcl prob- fully cared for by othe? members of the ably be at least equal in rank to Class I1 Board. The problem is to secure in the certificates and call lor specla1 qualifica- membership of the Board a proper reye- tions in addition to those required for gen- eral profcsslonal ccrtllicate of Class 11. sentntion of all the library and educational Comparatively fey of these may he needed, interests which will come within the in- but with increasing specialization in li- fluence of its activities. The exact form brary service. the list of special certificates of organization is not of primary import- will have to be exlendecl. Among the spe- cial certificates which mill probably be ance, however, because its constitution or found dcsir?ble from the beginning, the articles of incorporation will naturally pro- Board may issue one whkh will stand for vide a workable niethod of changing its special slcill in cataloqing.. Such a certifi- ccn~position and lnachinery to conform to cate sho~~lclcarlay with it a guaranty of thorough general and technical training, changing needs and conditions. with special trnin'ng in cataloging and a "The present comnllttee also wishes to period of successful work long cnough to call special attention to the importance of chlonstrate ability to give satisfactory a suggestion made by last year's cunmittee service in positions of responsibi1:ty re- quiring exceptional slc~ll. Other specla1 in regard to incorporation of the Certifi- certificates should stand for similar spec'al cation Board. It is clearly essential that ability and success. Certificates for high such a body should ha~ea hizh degree of school worlc, chiltlrcn's worlc, and business indepcndencc and not be subject to the ex- lib~arywork arc tgpcs that readily suggest igencics of Association politics or endan- themselves as among the first to be used. ...1, gered by such a drive as might readily be enginecretl by a small but active and dis- Composltlon of Certlflcetlon Board contented element. It must be able to "The committee believes that the coinpo- maintain a consistent policy and procram sitior~and organization of the Certification ovcr R long period of years. The Board Board lncrits some further thought. The should also be in a position to deal without comnnttee rcportlnfi. last gear recommsnde:l fear or favor with all present and future thc creahon of a board of nine mcmbers, five to be elected by the Co~incil of the library organizntions as well as wilh all American Library Association, onc repre- other professional and educational organi- senting a public library with a training zations having any interest in standards class, one a sinall public library, one a of library service and training A Board state or fedcral library, one a colleze or reference library, and one with library re- ~ncorporated by Congress or one of the lations not syxifietl. The four other meni- states, with a membership constituted in bers were to be elected by the Council upon soine such way as recomn~ended by last nominat:on by each of the following or- year's conlmittee, would be sufficiently ganizations. the Association of American amenable to the real opinions and desires Library Schools, the League of Library Col~~missions,the National Education As- of the library profession. The American sacint:on, 'and the Special Libraries Assa- Library Association by appointing a ma- ciation. jority of its members will have adequate "After Ihorou~hconsicleration the pres- control ovcr its nctivitle5 and as an ~nde- ent coininittee cntlorses this plan in prin- ciple but raises the question as to whether pendent incorporated body, its dignity and it would not be advisable tb blninp in also authority would be ~nsured. . . n ycprescntative of institutions primarily engaged in the work of professional educa- Respectfully submitted, tion in gcneral. Many of the library schools are now mow or less closely afliliat- ed with universities, and the tendency is clearly in that direction. If library work and trninlng are to he put on a par with other professions the presence of a representa- tivc of the American Associatian of Univer- s:ties or the National Association of State Universities might prove to be of very greal assistance. To make room for such SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922

CERTIFICATION OF Certificates for librarians. (New York Li- braries. Nov., 1917.- p: 2.) LIBRARIANS Certificates for librarians [editorial]. New A selected and annotated bibliography Yorlc Libraries. Aug., 1919. p. 215- COMPILED BY INA CLEMENT, 01 ,? \ 6J.U. J New York Municlpal Reference Library Certificat~onof librarians [editorial]. Pub- September, 1922. lic Libraries. March, 1921. p. 136- 300 \ BIBLIOGRAPHY r0l.l Voge, A. Law. Certification of librarians Certification of librarians [editorial]. (New and standardization of library work; York Libraries. May, 1921. p. 200- a list of relerences prepared for a 202.) Considels the s~tbjectfrom four aspects, round-table on the subject, held by iml~ortnncc to l~brarles, to libi'ar~xns, ob- the first district of the California Li- jections ofLen ndvnnced and thc plan rec- brary Association, Feb. 19, 1917. (Pub- ominelide0 by thc Ncw York State Library lic Libraries. April, 191'7. p. 176; Assoclatlon. Library Journal. June, 1917. p. 496- Henry, Will lam E. Certiflcation of librar- 497.) ians [letter]. (Library Journal. Dec., Yorlc State Llbmrp. Ccrtiilcntion of 1919. p. 762-763.) Ilbrmians and stanOardizntlon of librnry Favors some cel.tiflcntlon p!an. Jennings, Mrs. J. 7. State certiflcation of "Tlils llst r;&in~llv compilcil bv A. Lew Voge in Feb., 1'317. 'TI~mnterlai has noxr librarians. (Public Libraries. Dec., becn :lrmngcd chroriologicnlly and the more 1918. p. 463-466.) important ~rtlcleq,,througli Sel~tcmber,1920, Mornan, Lucy L. Concerning stanclard H- hnvc been added. brary service. (Library Journal. DISCUSSION April, 1918, p. 295-296; Michigan GENERAL L~braryBulletin. Sept.-Oct., 1917. p. Bowker, R. R. Library aervice with respect 82-64.) to salaries. oreanizations and civil ser- OLerly, Eunice R. Certiflcation for librar- vice contrbE -(library Journal. Oct., ians. (Library Journal. April 15, 1919. p. 627-632.) 1920. p. 357.) Brett, W. H. Certiflcation of librarians. Critlcises and replies to an editorial on cer- tification In "Special Llbraries," Jan., 1920, (Iowa Library Quarterly. April-June, by J. H. Friedel. 1917. P. 17-19.) Sanborn, Henry N. Standardization of 11- Certification and special libraries. (Li- brary service. (Library Journal. June, brary Journal. March 1, 1921. p. 1919. p. 351-358.) 210.) Simpson, Frances. Certification; the stan- [Discussion of the question of certification dardizatron of librarians. (Library and standard,zation (editorial) 1. (Li- Journal. July, 1918. p. 535; Iowa brary Journal. Nov. 1, 1921. p. 903.) Library Quarterly. Jan.-March, 1918. Eastman, William R. Tests for librarians, p. 65-68.) p. 8-9. (In: Library legislation in Standardizing libraries and library service. 1915. Library Jaurnal. Jan., 1916. (New York Libraries. Feb., 1919. p. p. 5-11.) 155-166.) A report presented to the New Pork Li- Stephens, Edward F. [Statement of ultl- brary Association by their committee on Ie~islation, Sept. 28, 1915 inate success of movement for certifi- Hinsdale, Louise G. Certification of librar- cation and standardination]. (In: ians. (New Jersey Library Bulletin. Library recruiting from the library March, 1922. p. 16-22.) school standpoint. Public L'braries. A comprehensive. clear, concice clipest April, 1922. p. 204.) show~ngthe advnnceinent made in the vm I- Walter. F. K. rstatement of belief in cer- ous states; compares the plans of the few states whcrc ccrtiflcntion has becn aalopted. tification (letter) 1. (Public Libraries. Best rcsuine ol all action on certification. April, 1922. p. 214.) Oberly, Eunice R. Certification and special Why standardization of library service is libraries as related to the reclassifi.ca- -so vital R matter. (New ~orkLibrar- tion problem of Government L'braries. ies. Nov., 1920. p. 124-127.) (Special Libraries, iVIard11, 1921. p. Williamson, C. C. Some present-day as- 46-47.) pects of library training. (American Vogelson, Helen E. CertiflcMion from the Library Association. Proceedings, library assistant's ~ointof view. (News 1919. p. 120-126, 351, 404; (Library ~otesof califorha Libraries. ' Jan., Journal. Sept., 1919. p. 563-568.) 1922. p. 21-25.) Paper rend bcfore the Ainerlcan Ll'brary Gives results of n. questlonn:~ire sent out Aasoc~nt~onConfcrcnce at Asbury Park, to 38 libraries withm the stnlc. June 2G, 1919. Suggests the fortniltion of an American Library Association Training FAVOR I NG Uonrcl that would bc renresentative and Booth, Mary J. A debtor to his profession; employ a. competent full time executive.--^ function of the board would be to Issue cert.fication of librarians. (Public certificates to those cluallfvina. Advocntes Libraries. Jan., 1917. q. 5-8.) corres~ondencecourses and-su6meriiho6i~ Fresidcnt's address at meeting of Illin014 Lo aid apglicants. Glves arguments analnst- Library Assoclntion, Ottawa, Oct. 11, 1916. state certiflcation. December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

OPPOSl NG libraries and certification of librarians, Cert~fication of librarians. (L~braryJour. rcad before the American L'brary As- nal. Nov. 1, 1921. p. 891-892.) sociation at Louisville June 23, 1917.1 Ita~r~tiletlfrom the Boston Evenlng Tran- s~~gtof ~ct 12, iw (Library Journal. Sept., 1917. p. 719- Dana. John Cotton. Certification and civil 724.) service control. (Library Journal. -Council. Resolution offered by the Nov. 1, 1921. p. 881-883.) special comnlittee on national certifi- Frledel, J. H. Aces for librarianship. (Sge. cation and training, at the mitlsurnmer cia1 Libraries. Jan., 1920. p.-15-1&) meting of the A. L A. Councll. (Li- Johnston, Richard H. SLandards and cer. brary Journal. Dec. 15, 1921. p. tificates [letter]. (Library Journal. 1035-1036.) Dec. 15, 1021. p. 1048-1049.) --Council. [D:scussion of recommcnda- CommenLs uimn Mr. Ihna's nrt~cle. tiuns submitted by the conmittee on Tripp, George H. Government supervision national certificatlon and traming, at and a Procrustean bed [letter]. (Li- the Chicago mecting, Dec. 29-30, 1921 ] brary Journal. Dec. 1, 1921. p. 1010.) (Public Libraries. Feb., 1922. p. 105- Enllorse< Nr. Dana's article on certilica- 106.) tin11 UT Ill~~,.trirtns. --Council. [Discnssion of resolutions ACCOMPLISHMENTS conccrning certificat~onat mid-winter ACTION TAKEN BY LIBRARY ORGANI- meeting, Chicago, Dec. 30, 1021.] ZATIONS (:4merican Limbrary Associalion Bolle- Nat~onal tln. Jan., 1922: p. 12-14.) American Library Association. [Discussion -Council. [Notwe of prcsentstion of of report vf the conmittee on nat:onal certification report by C. C. William- certification for librar~ans, at forty- son, Chairman of thc commn~tteeon na- thircl annual mecting, June, 1921.1 tional certificatlon and training.] (Li- (Public Libraries. July, 1921. p. 396.) brary Journal. Jan. 1. 1922 p. 33.) -[Reference to progress toward na- tional cert~fication]. (111: annual re- port of the SecreLary, 1920-21. Pub- nncl plot ~slonsn l11cl1nrra t11 br rccmmnie~,,l- rJ fo~thv lncorpornt~~lnlllh~ rli,, sl~teI~ms lic Libraries. July, 1921. p. 420.) and lo sllgge5L rnrtholls It\' wht~litlic .\k- -[Standardization of library service; a sorwtlon can coopl,r.lle In scvur1ng Drcqcr statement of facts gathered by Miss I~~g~slatlon" Rathbone as a lnmber of the Commit- --Special Committee on Certific?tjon, tee on ccrtificatlon, presented at the Stanclarclization and Libra1 y Traintn:. Dctro~tConference of the Association ] Ccrtificat on, stnndard~zation and li- brary tralnlng; abridged from the rc- (Libra1.y Journal. July, 1922. 11. 613.) ('1:tltn- th:lt t1ie1'r- must bc ;t standardiza- port presented at the Coloraclo Sprin~s 11~111nT 11b1'.1ryscl\ic.e hrhfore there can bo Conference, June, 1920. (Public Li- :L!I:: inler-l~lnx~~yccrt~li~~tlol~ ~che111c --Committee on an Enlargecl Program brar~es. Dec., 1920. p. X1-563.) for Amer can Library Service. [Stan- --Special Com~n~ttccon Cartificnt'on, darcliaxtion and certification; recom- . . . [Digcit of report of the corn- n~endations of Committee. p. 651- mittee read at third scssion of Colo- 652.1 (In: Prcl~minary report of racl~l Sprin~s Conference. (Special Committce. Library Journal. Oct., Libraries. Dec., 1920l. p. 20s-200.) 1919. p. 645-664.) -Special Committee on Certification, American Library Association. C~lill~il. , . . Report presented liy the com- [Discnss on of stanclardization as a mittee: Frank K. Waltcr, Chairinan; ncccssary preliminary to certification.] Alice S. Tyler, Adcline B. Zachert, A. (L~braryJournal. Feb., 1917. p. 81.) S. Root, C. C Wll~i:imson,nt the Colo- -Council. [D~scussion of stanclarcliza- rado Snrings Conference, 1920. (Amcri- tion and ccrt'fication, at nleeting in can Library Assoc~ation. Papers and Chlcago, Dec. 29, 1016. (Library Procced:ngs. July, 1920. p 311-313.) Journal. Peb., 1917. p. 115-117.) -Special Committee on Certiticatlsn. -C~uncil. [Report and reconnnenda- . . . Report presented at Coloraclo tions g~vento the Association by the Sprinss Conference, June, 19'20. ( Li- coiamittec on stantlarclizatioi~ of 1'- brary Journal, Nov. 15, 1020. p. 933- braries and certification of 1ibr:irims 940. j Recolnmenrls a nntlonnl hoanl of rc'tlfl- appointed by the conncil at the last cnt!on cstahl~qi~edby Anier~mnT.111rnrq- -4s- n~iclwlnterineeting to the A. L. A, c3n- s~lrlnllonsirnll.1r Lo thorp of thc .4n1crlcnn fercnce at Loui?v~lle,June 21-27, 1917.1 JIct11r:iI Assoclat~onand Amcnr.tn Ear As- {Alaencan Library Association. Pa- soclntion. pers nncl proceedhgs, 1917. p. 136- -Special Committee on Nat~onalCertifi- 140.) cntion and Training. Report present- Council. [Statement of progress of ed at the Swamuscott Conference. work on plans for standarclizat'on by ~une, 1021. (In: - Annual reports, the committee on standardization of 1920-21. p. 78-89.) SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922

These reports were prlnted separately and bill.] (Illinois L'braries. Supplement. distributed aL the confcrence. They n'ere Jan., 1922. Illinois Library Associa- not reprinted In the procced~ngs. Thc re- Uort outlines a tentatwe scheme specifYlng tion. Proceedings, Oct. 11-13, 1921. various grades of ccrt~flcntes, recomme~tds p. 60-61.) the cc;tabl~shrnentof a Nnt~onalCel tlfica- Library legislation; [discussion of the cer- t~on130i~l.d its \v:is suggested In the 1820 re- port and also mcnt~onsthe adv!sablllty of tification measure.] (Illinois Librar- havnlg stale adv~soryco~nmlttees. les. April, 1921. p. 21-22.) League of Library Commissions. Certifica- Indiana tion of librarians; summary of discus- Certlflcation of libraries. (Library Occur- sions at annual mceting held at Chi- rent. Oct., 1916. p. 133-134.) Statcs that the Iowa Ll~~raryTrustees cago, Dec. 28-29, 1916. (Library Assodatlon and the Iowa L~brarvAssocla- Journal. Feb., 1917. p. 121.) tlon propose to introcluce Into the Legis- -[Discussion of the problem of the cer- lature n provislon for a Board of Exam~n- tlfication of librarians at the annual ers to Issue certlficates meeting in Chicago, Dec. 28-29, 1916.1 Indiana Library Association. FCommiitee (Publ~c Libraries. Feb,, 1917. p. on library legislation proposes tenta- 70-71.) tive outline for librarians licensing bill to the annual meeting of the As- Special ~ibrariesAssociatlon. [Resolution sociation, 1913.1 (Library Occurrent. opposing the proposed certification of Jan., 1915. p. 13.) librarians made ,by Richard Johnston. The Assoclation epprovecl the s~irltof the Following a discussion, it was voted h~lland Instructed the commlttec to ass~st that a committee be appointed to re- In securlng its passage by the legislature. port at a later meeting.] (Special Li- Iowa braries. Sept., 1922. p. J07.) Brigham, Johnson. [Presentation of plan -[Report of specla1 connn~tteeon certi- for certification of librarians adopted fication appointed June 27, 1922, to by Iowa Library Association, before make report at later meeting.] (,Spe- the midwinter meeting of the Leaeue cial Libraries. Sept., 1922. p. 108.) of Library ~ommissiok,Chicago, ~h. Report madc tliirt developments dld not 2, 1920.1 (Public Libraries. Feb.. rvarrmc s~~~clflcrecornniendat~ons at that 1920. p. 35.j tlme. SLI~fichtedthat the sublent deserved serious study by meml~crsof the Assocla- Certificat~on for Iowa I~brarians. (Iowa tlon and that n. b~bl~ographyhe publlslied In Library Quarterly. 0ct.-~ec.,.1919, p. an early Issue of Spcclal L~brar~es 185-186.) State Gwes f6ll outline of the Iowa plan. Calif omia Cert~f~catlonof libraries in IOWR. (Public California Library Associatlon. [Note on Libraries. Feb., 1921. p. 81.) its approval of the proposed law for A ~eneraiplan of cerllfication. (Iowa Li- brary Quarterly. July-Sept., 1919. p. the state ccrtification of all librarians.] ,", \ (Library Journal. Jan., 1917. p. 70.) LIL-J Comment on Dr. Wll~amson's paper Culver, Essae M. [Statement of considera- lowa Library Associatlon. Suggested plan tion of the problem of educat!onal for certification of librarians. (Pub- standards for librarians, and prcsen- lic Lrbraries. Nov., 1919. p. 376.) tation of plan for voluntary certifica- A vountnly pltul of cert~flcatlnn adopted tion, at the meeting of the California by thc Iowa Llbrury ASSOC:~~IOII:pi-ov~deg Library Associath, Junz, 1921.1 for a board of certlficatlon conslstlng of Ave meml~el's, two, the ch~ll'm:~nand sec- (News Notes of California Libraries. retary of the lr~wt~Library Commlss~on,the July, 1921. p. 260.) other three to he a trustce, a lil~lmlmand Greene, Cha rles S. Certification-a sugges- an asslstnnt Four gri~cles of certilicntes tion. (News Notes of California Li- are Included, A life, R. flve year, C, three year, I) one year. braries. Jan., 1921. p. 6-7.) lowa Library Commission. A tental~vescheme to be presented to [Mentions dia- the Callforinn I~~hrnryAssocl,rl~on. Pro- cusslon of certification plan at meet- vldes for n, cerlltlcntion conlnilltre of flve ing held at Des Moines, Oct. 14, 1920.1 members, all to be eng~rgedIn 11bral.y work and not connected w~thnny tralnlng school. (Pnblic Libraries. Jan., 1921. p. 37.) The details concerning types of certlficates Ru~zsas are left to the dlscret~onof th.? board Kansas Library Association. [Statement Illinois by Julius Lucht of need for librarians' Certification bill. (Illinois Libraries. Juiy, standard~zationand certification, with 1921. p. 42.) tentat:ve plan presented at twentieth illlnois Library Associatlon. [Draft of a annual meeting of the Association, Oct. bill providing for the certification of 17-20, 1921.1 (Library Journal. Dec. librarians, drawn up by thc Legislative 1. 1921. D. 998.) Reference Bureau, presented at the * ~,i?t&sota annual meeting, Oct. 13, 1920, by the Mlnnesota Library Associatlon. rdppoint- committee on cert.fication.1 (Public ment of committee on certificitloi and L~b~*aries.Dec., 1920. p. 584-585.) standardization of librarians.] (Pub- -[Report of the legislative committee lic Libraries. March, 1920. p. 166.) Co~nmltteerec~uested to report at the next on the progress of the certification meeting. December, 1922 SPECIAL IBRARIES 181

-[Progress report of the committee on h7ezu Yod certification and standardization of 11- New York Llbrary Association, Merit sys- brarians.1 (Public Libraries. fi1a.v.-, tem for public libraries in New York 1920. p.-288.) State; recommendations to be submit- -[Outline of the proposed Minnesota ted at the Roscoe meeting of the As- plan for certification of librarians, pre- sociation by the coinlnittee on the merit sented at the meeting of the League of svstem. (New York Libraries. AUK.,- Library Commissions, June 4, 1920, 1517, p. 270.) given by I-Iarrlet A. .Wood, c%airinan -[1917 report of coinmittee on the merit of the committee on certification and &stem with discussion. at the twents- standard'zation of librarians.] (Pub- seventh annual meeting of the ~ssocia- lic Libraries. .July, 1920. p. 389.) tion, Sept. 17-22, 1917.1 (New York A board of Ave members is prov~derlfor, Librarles. Nov.. 1917. D. 10.) two cs-oftlclos connected with Ilbrary work -[Report of spekial comi-kttee .on the for the slate. Four grades of ccrtlficates are to be given. merit system and election of new com- -[Elect.on of certification board.] mittee.] (New Yorlc Libraries. Nw., (Public Libraries. Nov., 1920. p. 540.) 1018. p. 137.) -- [Progress report of the certification -[Appointment of merit systen~commit- board presented at the twenty-ninth tee to consult with Pormcr committee on annual meeting at St. Paul, Oct. 31- same subject, at meeting of bssocia- NOV. 2, 1921.1 (Library Journal. Dec. tion, Sept. 25, 1918.1 (New Yo~kLi- 15, 1921. p. 1046.) braries. Nov., 1918. p. 132.) It was voted tllcrt the 1eglsIntive commlt- -[I918 report of the committee on merit tee and the certlficntion board prepare a system, read at the twenty-eighth an- law to be repolled at the next stare meet- nual meeting of the Association, Sept. ing. 24. 1918.1 (New York Librarles, Nov.. -[Report on the certification board, pre- 1918. p: 131.) sented at annual meeting for 1921 at --Suggestions for a plan for grading St. Paul.] (Public Libraries. Jan., ~ublic. - libraries. standardizina service 1922. p. 36-37.) and certifying 'librarians; riles pro- After discussion It mas voted by the As- soclnllon: 1. That the Mlnnc~utanlan he posed for state legislation or for adup- modllied to harmonize with the T>lnn pro- tion by the State Board of Regents, posed by the Amerlcan Library Association submitted for criticisnl and further 2. No appllcnnt then In service to be sub- ject to e\amlnntion other than a statement suggestion by the standardization com- of the facts suh~nittecl In mnlrlna formal mittee of the Association. (New York agp1lc:~tion 5. That all annun1 cerllflca- Libraries. Feb., 1919. p. 168-169; tlon of lihrnrlnn~be made in order to keep Library Journal. May, 1919. p. 317.) the records up-to-date. -[Recommendations to the Board of Missotiri Regents of the University of New York Missourl Library Associatlon. [Progress regarding the certification of librar- report on certificat'on in Missouri pre- ians]. (In: Library Week at Rich- sented by the colninittee on certifica- field Sprlngs. Library Journal. Oct., tion before the Missouri Library As- 1919. p. 666, 669.) sociation at its twenty-first annual con- -[I919 report of committee on standard- vention at Ha Ha Tonka, Oct. 17-19, ization on the program of certification 1921.1 (Library Journal. Nov. 15, for librarians of New York State; ten- 1921. p. 952-953.) tative plan and recommendations pre- 8pcc1nc recommenclnt~ons for the adoptlon sented at the twenty-ninth annual meet- of n plau In Xlssourl were made by the comrnltlce. The committee wns contlrlucd ing of the Association, Sept. 12, 19191. nnrl instlwrtecl to present a further rcport (New York Libraries, Nov., 1919. p. in 1922, also a draft of n blll to bc presented 17-20.) to the Legldatul e. The report mas accepted wlth the substl- New Je~sey tution of the word "regulat~on" for "logls- lation" whel'evcr used It was voted that New Jersey Library Association. Certifica- the report be preyented to the Regents of tion of library service; discussion at the University or the State of New Pork. meeting of Association, April 28, 1922. -[Revised plan for librarians' certifi- (Publlc Li'braries, June, 1922, p. 3%- cate drawn up by committee on stand- !?K7.\ 11. ., ardization.] (New York Libraries. -[Discussion of plans and legislation re- Aug. 1923. p. 91-92.) garding standardization and certifica- -Standardization and certification; re- tion, at a special meeting, Nov. 16, port presented by the committee on

1921.1~~ ~ (Public Libraries. Jan., 1922. standardization at meeting of the As- p. 38-39.j sociation, Lnke Placid Club, Sept. 22, -[Resume of discussion of certification 1920. (New York L~braries. Nov., and standardization at a special meet- 1920. p. 127-130; Library Journal. ing held Nov. 15, 1921.1 (L:brary Oct. 1, 1920. p. 802-803.) Journal. Dec. 16, 1921. p. 1038.) Recom~nei~datlonswere unnnirnously ap- No action talccn. Tho Assoclaiion was proved and adopted Rccornmends - state urged to make furlher study of the subject. certification of head hbrari~tnsonly. 182 SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922

-[Remarks on national and state certi- the Iltemture for those ~irofewons. An exanilnnllon of engineering periollicuIs re- fication of librarians by C. C. William- veals the fact that a3 a prnfeswnn the ellgi- son In his presidential address before neers have many slrn11,ir alms and are meet- the thirty-first annual meetinq at Cor- ing many of the same cllmcultles as 11brar- ian8 in a move~nentto license rn!2lncers. nell University, Sept. 12, 1921.1 (Li- The fact that the ekos is curre~ltand Yet brary Journal. Oct. 15, 1921. p. 856.) has aclvtmced much further thnn ihc move- Rl~odeIsland ment for certiflcatlon of llbmrians makes thclr expe~iel~cevaluable to us. Onlv two Drury, Francis K. W. [Report on intro- sl:~tes have ~a~Sedcertification laws for duction of a measure for the certifica- Ilbrar~ans(a iiumber have sp~t'lnllaws for tion of lfbrarians into €he Rhode Island cour~lyand sch~~olllbrnrinns while, nccord- Ing to an eilltotl,~lin the Englne~rlngh'ew legislature.] (Library Journal, March for July G, 1923, nlnetcen states have passed 1, 1921. p. 226.) lams I~censlng englnccrs h brief b~bllo- Wisconsin graphy on tho subject folloWs: Wisconsin Library Association. Report of TEACHERS committee on certification of librarians Cook, Katherine M. Certification by ex- to the annual-. meeting. Oct. 1918. amination-the open door.to the teach- (Wisconsm Library ~ulletin. Nov., ing profession. (Amerlcnn School 1918. p. 236-237.) Board Journal. July,.. 1920. p. 29-30, -Wisconsin certification ulan : re~ort 119.) presented at the meeting at ~adfson, Cubberley. Ellwood~. P. Some recent de- Oct. 11, 1920. (Library Journal. Jan. velopkents in secondary education in 15, 1921. p. 62.) Plan applies to pul~l~clibrarles only Cer- California. (Education. Oct., 1916. tlflcatlon Board conslsts of tivc nieml~crs, p. 77-85,) two appointed by the Governor from nomi- Davis, Calvin 0. State cornily regarding nees selected by tl~eWi\consln Library As- soc~;iLion, one library Lrustee appolnled by teachers' life certificates. (American the Gove~lio~~,one member from the Wis- School Bonrcl.~ Journal.. - . Nw.. 1914. D. consin J,I~I;II~Commiss~on staff, scblected 11-13, 61-63.) 1,y tlw Cnni~n~sslon,one from the rniver- "llesiilt~ of air mvrsticntl~nn show that slty faculty (nut z l~l~rnrlan),nomlnnletl a SPII ~t of romlLv clocs ih:ia~lycslqt mnow by the Prev~de~ltol tlie Unlver\lLy. Four the srveral states I,e.;pwtlng the vnl1rl;~tlon #ratles of cerl~llcntesare prtascl ihed based of ce~~t~llcates.POII~~PPII +late? rrrve full won educat~on nnd Ilbrary tralnllig .Zg- reco~n~tlonto 'the lire cel t11ir:ltr issued by pllcilnts not possessing rpqu~reil academic the ITniversitr of i\I~ch~mn.35 give ~)nrtlnl trdining may lbe grnnted certlficntes by rrco#nitlon, one Elves co~itlltlo~<:~l1~evogn1- satisfying the b0md that equivalanl attaln- ti011 and scven glvc no reco~nltlon" nlerlts are r~~esrntt~l Kock, Henry E. Recog~ntion of standard ACTION TAKEN BY THE STATES colleaes and normal schools in the cer- Camper, Eita L. Certlficat~onof l~hrarians tifica-tion of teachers. (American in other states. (News Notes of Cali- School Board Journal. Jan., 1917. p. fornia Libraries Jan., 1922. ?. 17- 27-28, 70.) 20; Public Libraries, Feb., 1922. p. x coml)ni~sor~of conrlitions with tiiosr r28 95-98.).- rel'enltd I)y I.:. P. Cul~herly111 a ptil)eln tell Paper read at meet~nsof Cal~PorniaLI- 3'e.lh IIP~~Ie. Shows mar~ltctl proxrchs to- brarg' Xswciatlon, Lake TAhoe, June. 1021. v:arr3 the aaccplnnce of college clegl%eu in Su~nrnarlacu ~~rogrcssmade In varims 'place of cxnmlnations. s~ale-. National Society for the Scientific Study of High school librarles. (In: United States. Education. The certification of teach- Bureau of Education. Bulletin, 1919. no. G4. Library activities, 1916-1918.) ers; a consideration of prcsent condi- St;~ndmd~eat~onof ~erlulrements for hlgh tions with sug,qestions as to lines of school I~ln:t~-l;lnsIn states whir11 palsed future improvement. (Fifth Yearboolc. laws ill 1916-1918 Pt 2. 93 p. 1906.) I ilinois. Leg~slat~veReference Bureau. A vei y thorough sludy of the sul~jcct. Certificat'on af librarians; ['bill on Ootllnes tlie problems 111 1oc;ll and stt~te certitlcation. shows defects nlid ofre1 s rcln- certification]. (Illinois Libraries. Apr., cilles 1921. a. 25-28.) U. S. Bureau of Education. Statc laws and Failed -to lmis ' Regents to flx standards for library service. regulations governmg teachers' certifi- cates, by Katherine M. Cook. 1921. (New York Libraries. AuP..-, 1921. a. 229-230.) 244 p. (Bull 1921. no. 22.) Yust, Willlam F. [Legislation on cert~fica- LICENSING ENGINEERS tion of librarians, p. 689-6991. (In: American Association of Eng~neers. Engl- Library legislation in 1921. Library neers license laws; copies of tlie acts Journal. Sept. 1, 1921. p. 687-696.) in those states in which all-inclusive llcense laws for professional engineers CERTIFICATION DISCUSSIONS have been enacted. Fcb. 1, 1922. 136 p. OF OTHER PROFESSIONS. Shows that Inws have been passed In six- teen state\ NuLr.-It seemcrl yuffldent to include ref- American Society of Heating and Ventilat- erencrs to only two professionn. S~mllnr matella1 can rct~tllly be obtain~d for doc- ing Englneers. Publication Cornm~ttee. tors, lawpel's and accountantb by study~ng Licensing of engineers; [comprehensive December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

abstract covering the present status (Engmeer~nyNcws-Record. July 27, D. of legislation for the liccnsing of en- 1922. 1-156.)- -, gineers in the various states.] (Anzeri- State.. ~RI.LLCUI:W of ~~ropo?edaltlcles of can Society of Heating and Ventilating a~remient Eng;neers. Journal. April, 1921. p. A rational approach to thc licensing prob- 326-335.) lem; an effort to suggcst a v.ewpoint Bean, George L. Professional engincermn and to formulate the principles that laws ys. "license laws" [letter]. (En- should govern cons~deration of the gineerlng News-Rccord. April 14, problein ; [editorial discuss~on.] (En- 1921. p. G50.) gineermg News-Record. July 6, 1922. Boston engineers report against licensing P. 8-10.) law. (Engineering News-Rccard, July Rcciproc~ty 111 state licensing llns. (En- 21, 1921. p. 104.) gineer.ng News-Rccord. Mar. 30, 1922. A Chicago Engineer. Administering engi- p. 629.) neers' l~censelaws [letler]. (Munici- State l~censing of engineers; sununary of pal and County Eng'neering. Feb., the requirements of the law of the six- 1922. p. 46.) teen states that require the licensing Discussion on licensing engineers. (Min- of engineers. Who 111ust be licensed ing and Metallurgy. Feb., 1922. p. and whn are exempted. (Public Works. 36-36.) March 25, April 1, 1922. p. 208-209, Engineering Council. Uniform law for 231-232.) registcrlng engineers, architect and Trautw~ne,John C., Jr. Reasons advanced surveyors recci~iniendeclby specla1 com- against laws requiring registration of mittee. (Western Society of Engi- cngmeers [ letter 1 (Engineering neers. Journal. Oct., 1920. p. 26-32 ) News-Recorcl. ,411ril 14, 1921. p. 650.) Tucker, Harry, Defends licensing of engi- Engineers in many fields discuss licensing; extracts froin letters commenting on neers; urges need of laws for protection the editorial cliscusslon of the subject of qual~fied engineers and the public, published in Engineering News-Record and to nlalte ~nginec~ingn real profes- of July 6. (Engineering News-Record. sion. (Engineer~ngNews-R3cord. July Aug. 31, 1922. p. 356-358.) C, 1922. p. 10-11.) Goodell, J. M. Ciwl engineers' attitude SOURCES OF INFORMATION toward licensing engineers. (Mimng Library Publications and Metallurgy. April, 1922. p. 15- 4" \ American Llbrary Association Bulletin. *I.) 1914-1921. Gottsberger, B. B. Advantages and disad- Illinois L~braries. Apl.11, 1920 to date. vantages of licens'ng engineers. (Mln- Iowa Library Quarterly. 1914 to date. ing and Metallurgy. illarch, 1922. p. Library Journal. 1916-Aug., 1922. 47-50.) New Jersey Libraries. Oct., 1914-March, Licensing of engineers; committee appoint- 1922. ed by Engineering Council recommends New York Libraries. Nov., 1914-May, uniform . registration law. (Mechani- 1922. cal Eng1neer:ng. Jan., 1920. p. 77- News Notes of California Libraries. 78. ) 1915-April, 1922. ~innesotaenacts weak license law; any Public Libraries. 1916-July, 1922. one may practice as engineer or archi- Wisconsin L~braryBulletin. 1914-1919.* tect urovided term "reaistered" is not Other Publ~catlons used.- (Engineering ~ews-~ecord.May 5, 1921. p. 783.) Industrial Arts Index. 1920-July, 1922. Proposes interstate agreement on reciprocal U. S. Bureau of Education Monthly Record of Current Educational Publicn- licensinr: State Ennineerinr Examin- tions. Feb., 1914-Jan., 1921. ers wi1~'consider pl~nfor recognition * Dicl not have access lo Wisconsin bul- of license in other than issuing states. letins for 1820 to date SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922 Investment Bankers Association of America Reviews Consideration of a National Financial Library A number of years ago, possibly in 1916 contributors and sponsors for such an un- or 1917, the I. B A. was interested in the dertakmg. I think the President desires collection of data 011 international finance, from you now more a general expression foreign investments, etc. from as many as have an opinion as to the Last month this same association held usefulness of such a library, if established, its annual convention at Del Monte, Cali- to the members of this Association. fornia, sitting from October 9 to 12. The The practical mechanics of the thing are question of the establlsh~nentof a national ~omethingas follows. There exists in New financial library entered into the discus- York at the present time a very valuable sion of the convention on the 9th, following library that Professor Dewhg of Harvard the presentation of the report of the Edu- considers the second best financial library cation Committee by Mr. Lawrence Cham- In the country. This library is a nuclcus ber1a.n (of Lawrence Chamberlain & Co., for such an undertaking which offe~sno N. Y.) as chairman of the Committee. In immediate expense. It might be purchsaed his coniments Mr. Chamberlain stated that over a iluinber of years or might be re- "such a library would naturally be the turned eventually to the present owner, if repository of many documents now housed that seemed the best ultimate disposition in certain trust companies in New Yorlc, of it. But wc could begin with a very sub- for the benefit of certain classes of our stantial nucleus to such a librarv and I members" . . . and "it would als3 be the think that the principal banks in New York natural clearing l~ouscfor the investigat~on having libraries would be very glad to con- of very inany of the problems that are be- sider loaning a large part of their l'braries fore us pmctically as investment bankers." toward an amalgamated library to reduce Mr. Chamberlain's remarks were as follows: the expenses of ma~ntenanceand accretion. "There is another work that the Chnir- The idea was that if this were under- man of the Education Comwlttee has been taken this library might be given a space concerning himself with in behalf of the in one of the civic assoc~ationsof New York llssociation which the President desires him near the financial centre, and that the coat to comment on-that is, Lhe passible pro- of maintenance of such a library might be priety of the Association as such being in- at the start between $25,000 and $60,000 a terested in the establishment of a national year. financial library. The idea originated a I have discussed the pract~cabiljtyof the number of ycax ago :n cmneckion with the scheme with six of eight different librarians reassiinilation of American securities placed in the city of New York, including the Pub- abroad and in the purchase of foreign se- lic Librarian, the Librarian of the Engi- curlt~esto adjust the unbalance of trade. neering Society and others, and also with Mr. Lamont, as Chairman of the Fore:gn some of the bank presidents and vice-presi- Securities Corninittee, had the matter under dents that are particularly interested in advisement in his committee. Later on the this aspect of the banking business, and work was taken up by Mr. Wiggin and there is undoubtedly a very strong senti- more recently by Mr. Hoclges. Mr. Hodges ment in New York in favor of the establish- was compelled by the death of his partner ment of such a library. to surrender to the speaker the task of Naturally, as far as the Association is looking into the desirability of the estab- concerned, it is interested In how such a lishment of such a library. library might be available and serviceable The idea was not, and is not, I think, to the members outside of the City of New that the Investment Bankers Association York. It is undoubtedly true that New should be pr~marilyresp~nsible for the es- York is the logical place for the estnblish- tablishment of such a I'brary if it mere inent of a nat!onal library at the present deemed advisable, but merely that it should time and probably would be for a number be one of the contributing factors to such of decades to come. an establishment. It seems to the speaker But ~t is also equally logical that the that the logical princi~alsponsor for such benefits to ,be obtained from such a library a library would be the American Bankers would be more manifest and evident to peo- Association, so far as it mas any associa- ple that are easily in physical access to tion whatever, but that possibly thc banks such a library in the City of New York. in New York which maintain very expen- But the experience of all the commercial sive, very elaborate and very valuable in- libraries in the City of New York is that dependent libraries might be the prhcipal their members are ahle to get great benefit December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

from them, even though they reside a thou- basis. Translation from foreign lan~uages, snncl or two thousand miles away. in connection with foreign government Such a library would, naturally, be the bonds would be undertaken in the same way. ~epositoryof inany doc~imcntsthat are now One of these coinlnercial libraries in New houst?d jn certain trust companies in New York, with an income af something over York for the benefit of certain classes of $50,000 a year, derives about a third of its our mcinbers, it stems to me. It wonld incoine from these niiscellaneous fees re- also he the natural clearing house for the ceived from its members for special work investigation of very many of the problems undertaken." that are before us practically as investment President Beebe in suggesting that those bnnlcers. I was discussiny with one of the des~ringto voice their opinions in the mat- Mlcldle West bankers yesterday the nlatter ter communicate thew views to the Secre- of n thorough investigation of Drainage tary of the Associatlon or the Chairman Districts securities, and the laws governing of the Education Committee, sa'd: them, and things of that character. He This library question is one which, ns tells me that, although there is an inlnlense Mr. Chamberlain stated, came up some amount of veyy valuable material lymg hid- years ago. As a matter of fact, the origi- den away in archives of various orqaniza- nal suggestion of the need of such a Iqbrary tions, that there has been no general effo~t was incorporated in a report by Mr. Thonlas to pdl this i~~alel-j?lill YIC~form that it Lsmont, who was Chairman of our Foreign woulcl be serviceable to all those dealing in Secuntles Co~nmittee at that time. Mr. this type of bonds. Such a library would Wiggin, of the Chase Nat:onal Eank, who naturally be the place to housc this ma- has been Chairn~anof the Foreign Securi- terial, and the staff of the library would ties Commitlce this time, is in sympathy naturally be the proper medi~im for the wlth the need and the desire to have such collating of the material, and the getting a library. If there are any of our mem- it into such shape that ~t would be avail- bers who have any opinion to express so able to members interested in this type of that the oficers of the Associatlon may securities. And that would be equally true know just how widespread such a need or of any other of the activities of the Asso- demand IS, it would help yery nluch if they cia t'ion. wonld now express their views. One of our Thc matter of ccst is, of course, impor- difficulties on this whole question would tant. So far as,the Library wns sustained seem to be largely embodied in the fact by the Associatlon, it would be a simple that the location of the library woulcl be at ~ntltlcr,if this Association was interested one point, whereas our member.ship is scat- in the project, to make a modest appro- tered throughout the country. It would be priation each year, just the same as we necessary and I would suggest that if any- do the Nat~onalChamber of Commerce, and one has not a definite opinlon which they so on. Then the specific service that the care to express on the floor that it would Library ]night render to incliviclual mcm- be very helpful if they would write a letter bers would, nnd probably should, be paid either to the Secretary's office or to the for on a per diem basis, or per hour basis. Chairman of th! Education Colninittee ex- That is the way these libraries are usually pressing their vlews. It is very necessary run. If a house in Spokane desired the in- ~f we are going to handle these things in vestigt~t'onof a certain mortqage in New the interest and to the satisfaction of our Yorlc City, the request would be sent by members that me have the help of the wire, and the work would probably be un- members in determining what that' action dcrtalcen on a per diem basis or a per hour should be.

Planning a Safety Exhibit MARY BOSTWICK DAY Librarian National Safety Council, Chicago Some of the prcblems whlch confront the an attractive and different manner, recent librarian each year before the Annual Con- developnlents in the field of accident pre- gress of the National Safety Council are,- vention and indnstrinl health; what the how to bring direct1y.t.o the 2,000 delegates 3,500 meinbers are accomplishing; what new in attendance the acEivities of the L~brary government, state, county and city reports and Information Bureau, so that they will have been issued; what has been accom- realize just what the library servlce IS, how plished in foreign countries, as well as em- they may use it, and what benefits may phasizing such timely subjects as dust ex- be der,ived from such use. Each year it plosions, static electricity, fatigue studies, must portray graphically and pictorially in forthcoming safcty codes, etc. For four SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922 years the Library has maintained such an August 28th to Scptc~nbcr1st. =ItLract;ve annnal exhibit, varying in design and con- hall exhibit cases, cenlrally located, were tent from lihe huge book, representing Na- usccl, which gave amplc space to eshibit tional Snfcly Council Proceetlinqs, whosc the fifty larp clarlc green mats, with white pages were bulletin boards, used in Cleve- lettering, which carried out the Council's lanrl, to the model business library in the c~lors,-green anti white. Books, pamph- State House in Boston. hts, chal.ts, inclucling also a collection of An outline, giving in dctail the routme 111ernl)er company house organs, wrc used necessary for thc preparat~onof the esh~btt, in the cases. Tables and chairs were con- has been worlml up, and is fol!owecl with vcniently arl.angec1, miih aclverlising litera- some modifications. This outline lists the tnrc horn publishers for d~stribution. TO necessary supplies and equipment, as well the left of the eshibit was the U. S. De- as the various publications for which there partmcnt of Agriculture exhibit on grain is usually a demand,-such as the Council's clcvat ,r esplosions, to thc right Lhe De- Constitution ancl By-Laws, Roberts Rules troit Plre Department exhibit, and further of Order, coinplete file of ava~lableCouncil on other exhibits, iIlus:i,at~ng commer- publications, standard books on Accident cial safety appliances. Besides the hun- Prevention, ctc. A tentat~ve clesijin is clrccls of requests answc~cdat the Booth, worlied out s3on nfler the Congress is ovcr, for Lhc coming gear, and graclually worked Boy Scouts dcliverecl material, 3;: needed, over as definite space is assigned and Con- to thc sectional meet~ngsheld all over the gress plans formulated. builrhn~,and some sisty research requests The exhibit this year was held in the Ear infolmation were brought back to head- new Cass Technical High School, Detroit, quarters in Chicago for investigation.

Extension Service of the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago LYDIA ELIZABETH KOHN Attributor and Classlfler of Slides and Photographs The College Art Association of Amcrica shall have grown unto the fullness of the published In its June bulletin, an article sLature of the name. ent~tlccl "An Art Service Bureau." Mr. For many years the Ryerson library has Hohnes Sni~th,the author, toucl~es upon lwned ~tsphotographs and lantern sl~des, the purposes and methods of such a service, free of charge. for all educational and re- ancl, 'wh~lc not unclerrntinq the ~aagii~fi- ligious purposes throughout Chicago and cent work done by the great agencies of Cook County. They have been used by li- art,' he espresses the hope that someone brarles, churces, schools, muaeums, univer- mill be found who will enclow such a bu- sities, hospitals, settlenlent houses, faclor- reau as Mr. E. W. Scripps of West Chester, ie, laundries, Y. 31. C. A.'s, Y. W. C. A.'s, Ohio, has endowed the Scicnce Service Bu- and during the war, by the various military reau. Mr. Smith states that a vastly camps throughout the country.t greater portion of our population is not The Ryerson library now extends this interested in art and belleves that some privilege to you, librarians of thc Statc of organized effort should be made, thrn the Illinois, and hopes that you. especially you, inecliunl of the daiIy press ancl the inotion wha are farthest removed from the nrt ten- picture, to reach thesc people 'to whom art ters, will put forth your hand to take. is closed and scaled.' Our collection consists approxiinately of While this Mr. Someone of Somewhere 30,000 photographs, 22,000 lantc?rn slides, is being paged, I wan1 to tell you how the 20,000 post carcls, and 3 000 color prints, Ryerson library of the Art Institute of all of which circulate. Of the photographs Chicago serves as an Art service burcau and colar prints which do not circulate I to the people of Chicago and Cook County, shall speak later. thru its photograph and lantern slide de- For you who have the stereopticon, there partment. arc the slides, for the radiopt~con,the post Art service bureau niay seein too impos- carcls. To those of you who have neither, ing a name for the service which we are, we offer the Alinari and the Anderson at present, able to give, but we never reach photographs, and the Seenlann color prints, higher than we aim, and perhaps, by the time this Mr. Someone has been found, we 'iSlnce writln~the above Lhc 11b1a1.yhas ex- tentlcd the flee use of ~tsphotogral)hs, slides *Paper glvcn heforc the Illinois Llbrary As- nncl color prlnts to dl educntlonal and rehgious soclatmn. lnstltutions throughout the State of Illlnols. December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES which delicately tinted, interpret the origi- advice in the arrangement of their art pro- nal beauty of the picture. A half dozen grams; lists are sent to them on the sub- of these prints or photographs placed in a jects which we arc able to furnish; these happily chosen nook of your library may lists are checked, retuned to us, and the be an inspiration to some otherw:se com- phutographs and slides are placed on re- munplace existence. zerve for the date of the lecture. This We offer you the best in painting, sculp- circle of clubs begins at New York City, ture, architecture, and the graphic and ap- extends thru Dakota nnd Minnesota to plied arts. Oregon and Washington, up into British Your histor:an will find the Egyptian Columbia, down into California, across into temples and Pyramids, the Greek Parthe- Texas and Florida and up along the East- non and the Roman Forum, the cave-paint- ern coast. Almost every state in the union inm of Spain, the catacombs of Rome, and has, at some time, been represented on our thi old Italian frescoes. fist. Our circulation of photographs and The tourist may enter the great cathe- slides last year was 637,978. drals of the Old World, walk thru the This work of the photopap11 and slides Italian gardens and villas, look upon the department is supplemented by work in the Greek Roman ina~bles,and study tile mas- xference room. One does not need to pre- terpieces of painting, both old and new. sent oneself in person at the library to re- The lover of our own native land will ceive attention. Calls calm to us from meet Whistler and West and Copley, Sar- every quarter and from every source. They Saint-Gaurlens, and our owh beloved come froin art collector, the art dealer, the Lorado Taft. prcacher, the scholar, the woman's club, Our classified card catalog will provide the business man, the news reporter, down lists for the little ones: CKildren in art, to the advertising man who wanted designs animals in art, the Christmas story, and for menu cards for the Great Northern others. Railroad. At the children's story hour, Joan of Arc Bibliographies have been sent out on will tell how a girl's dream came true (in various subjects: Egyptian, Indian, and 26 slides). Two little Greek boys of the American art; women artists; Illmois and 4th century before Christ will tell their Chicago artists; present day painters and story (25 slides). The Nuremberg stove sculptors; landscape painters and mural wlll talk (with 11 slides and photographs). decorators; landscape garden'ng and town And the Moon princess will be there (with planning, the city beautiful; Chinese porce- 35 slides). lains; Indian pottery, American tapestries For these and other children stories, we and Cashmere shawls. have taken the Children's bulletins of the These bibliographies arc sent to the MeGopolitan Museum of Art, and illus- smaller places and do not include the tech- trated them with slides from our own col- nical subjects which are coinpiled for our lection. This has been done with the kind daily patrons. permission of the Metropolitan Museum. The student will delight in the maim- Any of our bibliographies will be sent to script lectures: ''A brief survey of the you an request. development of painting" (illutrated with Some years ago Mrs. John Sherwood pre- 40 slides). "French cathedrals and their sented to the library, for circul,ation, her builders" by Lorado Taft (86 slides). collection of photographs and sl!des, num- "French sculpture of the 19,411 ceutury" by bering several thousand, together with her Lorado Taft (70 slides). The frieze of booklets, numbering several hundred. the Parthenon" b~ Miss Helen Gardner These booklets consist of bi~bliographical (115 photographs). sketches of artists and their work and of These inannscr~ptslectures are but the various phases of the applied arts; this beginning of what we hope some day will material had been taken from the standard develop into ,an active lecture bureau magazines of the day and froin other re- I have not mentioned our work with the liable sources, and bound into booklets thus Woman's clubs nor with the people outside bringing many articles on one subject to- of Chicago and Cook County as a small gether. And, the joy they carry into the rental fee is charged then1 which places little corners tucked away without 'a li- this branch of our work beyond the bnrders brary. From January to October of this of library extension. year 369 boolclets were sent out, 37 biblio- However, as it is our duty, as librarians graphies, and inquiries answered to 166 to be All-Wise, it IS well for you to know letters. This service has been given free Where the key is kept which unlocks the and freely, without money and without doors of Benz~ty,that you may place it in price. However, we have a reward in the the hands of your people, that they may kindly expressed appreciation of the re- become as familiar with good pictures as cipients. with good books. These booklets are for your use. We have our own clientele of Woman's When the inquiry coines from a state clubs, ,who come to us year after year for which has established an art commission,. 188 SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922

the inqnirer, is referred to such commis- erences are made to the d'fferent titles sion or to her own state library. under which the picture is known and to As the Ryerscn library is purely a ref- the various artists to whom the picture was erence library, this phase of art work has previously attributed. This requires much not been sought, but the call came, we had research, especially in case of the Old Mas- the material, wc administered it, a sort of ters, and each photograph is attributed ac- "first aid." There is great opportunity for cording to the new light thrown upon it in service in this branch of the work. the latest boolcs. From this catalog. we In addition to the photographs and color will supply you with lists on any subject prints which I have mentioned. the library of reproduction in our collection. It IS also possesses 18,000 Braun autotypcs and 200 of value in identifying pintings from colored Medic1 prints, these are too large c~p'eswhlch you niay send to us to ident~fy. to circulate but may be used for reference This catalog is at your service. in the library at any time. We have many It has long been Miss Mitchell's desire oversize photographs which we are planning to send out a "Travelling library of art to have framed so that any library in the books" for the use of the various libraries in state may loan the picture for a period of the state, this is not an unattainable ideal several months, by paying the cost of trans- and some day this ideal shall beconle real. portatlon and sending the picture on to the We have a weekly "News lctter" sent out next library on the list. Th- itinerary is by the museum, type written, which you now being made and any librarian who may like to put on the bulletin board in wishes to open up this treasure house to your library; it is yours for the asking. her people will kindly make he~selfknown. Thls lLNewsletter" contains little i?timate We have, also, color reproductions of our sketches of events and happenings In and own museum paint'ngs which will be put about the Art institute, describes in brlcf, into frames to tour the the libraries. thc various exhibitions and gives other bits At the A. L. A. meeting In Detroit, there of interest concerning art in general. was voiced the great need of an index to An artist said recently: "If we clo not the reproduct'ons of paintings, either glve people a chance to see beautiful things photographs or slides, this indcx to consist there will come a time when there will be of artist, subject and gallery card. We no beatiful things made." And was it have such a card catalog for our photo- Gcethe who sa'd that a person should hear graphs and slides, this of course comprises a llttle good ~ILISIC,see a good picture, and only these reproductions which we have In a sunset every day? our collection. We have worked out a You have the sunset, we offer you the olassification schemc which includes not picture; a Corot for a Words~vorth; an only painting but architectnre, sculpture, Inness for a Thomas Gray; a Millet for and the graph'c arts. (.4ppliecl arts in a Robert Burns; a Winslaw Homer for a process of compilation). Each photograph Longfellow; a Raphael for your Shalte- has an artist card with full name, dates, speaye, and a Michelangelo for vour Dante. and country to which the arti~:,is assigned, Have I renewed your intcrest in art? If a gallery card, and snbject carcls enongh so, go thou and interest another with the to satisfy any student of art. Cross ref- good things which are offered freely.

A Business Library That Goes Out to Its Readers ELIZABETH HANNER Libranan, Retail Credit Company of Atlanta How would you like to have your library eral business principles, management and come to you instead of you going to it? life Insurance and are chosen with the idea Such is true of the business hbrary of the of broadening the reader's outlook upon Retail Credit Company of Atlanta, which life so that he may develop the greatest effi- makes inspection reports for lnsurance ciency posslble along the above lines. companies. This organization maintains a The idea of the Li'brary originated with Library for the benefit of its employees and the books are sent to over three hundred the President of the organization, Mr. Cator readers in its offices throughout the United Woolford, and was started on a small scale States and Canada. They travel from in 1910. As the company grew and coast to coast and from the Sunny South branched out to all the important cities of to the Wintry Climes of the North. The the country and crossed over the boundary books are on character development, gen- into Canada, and the need of a broader December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

'scope in the Library was felt, it was added top is the one who reads and has his eyes to and extended to fill thls need. open to catch all helpful thoughts thnt colnc Therc are over a thousand volnmes in the 111sway. Library and these are being constantly ad- There is a card for each reader upon ded to as new ,books of interest come out. which is kept u record of the boolcs sent These volumes are carefully chosen and are him and in this way he does not receive kept in circulation all the time. To keep duplicate boolts, although sometimes a book the Library up-to-date old boolcs which have is requested for a second reading. On the served their purpose are weeded out. rcverse side 01 the card is recorded the reader's position, whether RIanager, In- Not only does the Library serve as a .;pector, Stenographer or Clerk, his age and ~ti~nulusto its readers but it also is a con- wine of his chief characteristics, especially necting hnlc between the Home Office in those in which he needs slrengthening and Atlanta and the thirty-eight Branch Offices froin this record the Librarian form n men- of the company. Reading the same books tal picture which guides her in selecting has the faculty of getting all the employees n book for the reade~. She takes into con- thinking along the same lines. sideration all of these points and scnds the Included in the Library are the manuals boolc best fitted to the employee's need. If of the organization, which contain instruc- nn omployee is lacking in seif-cmfidence tions for each desk and these are assigned rrr poise, a ,book is sent to encourage him 3x1 each employee two or three tilnes a year, in relying upon hiinself and to think "I -these reviews keep before them fhcir can if I only will," if he is slow or hasn't specific duties and give them infornlation "punch" enough, one full 01 "]>cp" is scnt. about the general organization, which is If a man is in training for the manager- very necessary for them to know in order ship of an ofice, he is sent a bonk on man- to lceep them "up to the mark" in their aqement so thnt he may think along the own work and to stimulate interest in what line of the work belore him. their fellow employees are cloinr. Our most unlquc feature and the onc A crying need for more technical books from which the best results have been ob- was felt, and, as boolcs on inspections were tained is what we call our comment cards. very rare and hard to find, the idea mas There are two of these cards, which arc conceived ,of buildin~g up boolclets along sent out with each boolc and urwn thcm this line, so, whenever articles of interest the reader is asked to give an expression on inspections and underwriting are found, of the helpful ideas he nmy have gained. they are combined in boolclet form and are One card is returned to the Librarim with circulated to the inspectors. Boolclets on the boolc, which is carefully rcviewcd by employinent and the handling of employees her and filed with the reader's card. Vcry have been compiled in th~ssame way. oftcn from th's comment is gained nn in- Every employee from the rank of execu- sight into the character of an einployoc tive to that of messenger boy is given the which would not otherwise be cvident. The same privilege of reading the books. It is othcr card is to be kept by the rcailcr him- not a matter of choice, however, whether self for his own reference. Somctimcs the one shall read the boolcs or not, for they readers have these cards for scveral ycars are sent out to all alike and it is a part of back and it is interesting for the111 to hnve the "job" of each one whether high or low a line on the boolcs which they have mad. to read and s,tudy them to the best of his The comment from the render also provcs ability. To the anhitions empl,oyee this a help to the Librarian in judging the means a rare opportunity and they gain value of the book from the reader's view- -food for thought which wiIl help them not point, so that loolcing at it from all angles, only in the business world hut in their per- her own and the reader's, she mag clccide sonal living- as well. to what other employee it may be sent. In inalcing her reviews the Librarian After an elnployee has been with the works very closely with the Personnel Di- Company for sometime, has tlciuonstraled vision, is vcry oftcn able to give some points his ability to make good, and has shown thnt are valuable in the diagnosis of an an interest in thc Limbrary, he is inadc u employee. If a reader has made an un- Postgraduate. This does not mean that usually good record, this record is written books are not still sent but they are not up for his folder so that it may be used, sent quite so often and instead of the li- if he is recommended for promotion. If brarian selecting them, the reader is given the record is bad, this is also on file, so the privilege of choosing them for hii~lsclf. that the Personnel has access to it. It has In addition to the usual books, boolcs on been clearly proved and tested that the em- travel and biographies are found in the ployee who wants to grow and go to the Postgraduate course. SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922 American Bankers Association Information Bureau CARL H. GETZ One hundred fifty young women, most of questlon asked on the firs1 day of registra- then1 secretaries to presidents and chairmen !ion was, "Where is John D. Roclceleller, of bjards of direclurs, and l~branans,irom jr., conclucling his 13iblc class?" And the thp New Pork banlis, served as an inlorma- cluestion was answcretl promptly. tlor personnel [luring the forty-eighth an- At the cenhal swilch board installetl cs- nual c~nvcilt~mof the Amcrlcan Bankers pccially in the Commodore fo~the Conven- Asso~iatlonheld in New Yorlc rccently. tlon there was a stntt' of l~branansfro111 Prevlous to 1922 the largest attendance at the banlis who hat1 such books as the city any meeting of the banlters' association was directory, banlccrs' rllrcctory, directory of 4,600, in Chlcapo, in 19OD. This year ad- directors, Recl Book, etc., and thcy wcre pre- vance registratiun statistics for fifteen years parccl to give thc operators any inforwa- prevlous were studied and a month before tion that delegates might aslc of thcm. the convention it mas agreed that thc en- One delegate wanterl to lino~vthe name of rollnlent at the convention would not ex- a good Chmesc restaurant on the East Side. ceed 6,500. A convention staA was or- Anolher wanted to know whcther it was pan~zedto take care of that many peop!e. possiblc to get up int.3 the hand of the But what hspnenetl? Nearly 12,000 regls- Statue of Liberty. St111 nnothcr wantecl to tered-the oflicial registration was 11,536 Iinow how to see the crowds in the subways. and several thousand women who were prcs- All of the questions were answered. ent with their husbands dld not register. The clelegatcs were scattered in 101 One of the exhibits which interested the hotels. In twenty of them information Imnlrers was an exhibit of boolis for booths wcre eslal)l~shcdand kept open froin banlcers. This was prcparcd untlcr the 8.30 in the mornins until ten at night dur- direction of the librarians of sevcral of Lhe ing the week of the convention. These larger banlis. booths made it possible for the delegates to Fifteen thousand people from all parts get any information they wanted about the of the United States can ask a lot ol ques- convention from those hotels without go in^ tmns but the information pwsonncl of thc to the Hotcl Con~niodore, the convention recent hankers' convention were able to headquarters. answer most of thcin. In fact, there is no 4t the Hotcl Comniodore the main in- record of a question which went un- formation booth was established. The first answered. National Research Council Assistance to Librarians The National Research Council, Washing- of bibliographies in scicntlfic and technolo- ton, has established as one of ~tsmajor de- gical su8bjects. partments a general clearing-house lor in- At present the records of persons quali- formation about the natural sclences and fied for such work are few and ~ncoinpleto. their applications in industry, engineering Readers of this Journal who meet the scien- and education. Librarians are cordially in- tific requirements for entry in the pwson- vited to avail themselves of the aid of this nel file of Research Infonnalion Service are clearing-house in connection with scientific invited to supply their records. Personnel or technical inquiries which they cannot blanks for report niay be obtained by ad- satisfactorily answer with the resources at dressing Information Service, National Re- hand. search Council, Washington, D. C. Research Information Service does not That the Research Information Service niainta4n an enlployment bureau, but lt does n1a:ntains an extensive personnel file will furnish on request lists of persons seeming- interest many librarians. From time to ly qualified for specific tasks or appoint- time requests are received by Information ments. There is no charge for registration Service for the names of scient'fically in the file. Service is rendered solely for trained persons with library or biblio- the pronlotion of research and its industrial graphic experience, or for the names of li- applications. brarians with training for research in one Librarians desirin~more explicit infor- or another branch of science or technology. mation concerning Research Information Such requests usually pertain to open4ngs Service or reply to speclfic requests should for librarians in scientific or industrial es- address Znfo~nzation So~vice, hratio?z. Ha- tablishments or to need for the compilat!on search Council, Washington, D. C. Special Libraries ADELAIDE R. HASSE, Editor Office of Asst. Secy. of War. Washington, D. C. Associate Editors CLARIBELR. BARNETT ALTA B. CLAPLIN

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This number of SPECIAL LIBRARIES is the closing number of the thirteenth volume. Slowly but surely the special libraries movement is gravitating towards an altogether promising maturity. It would be most difficult to forecast the status of the movement a decade hence. This is owing largely to ihe changing popular appraisal of and demand for information. Today an enterprise is rarely initiated with- out a preliminary attempt at a survey of the information bearing on the subject of the enterprise. The operating centers of the demand for information are principally the great commercial, trade and engineering associations, large manu- facturers, workers groups, regulatory groups and the observer coi~ollarics of 211 of these, such as the N. I. C. B., the N. A. M., and many others. Al- ready this demand is so strong that certain sources of supply are estab- lished. What part will special libraries play in the line-up of further sources of supply? Will they develop into producing sources or into storage sou~ces?It is a strategic point and a strategic moment. Able minds are giving thought to the coinparative investment value of coordinated as op- posed to heterogeneous information. There is printed in this issue of SPECIAL LIBRARIES an instance in point in the case of the I. B. A. No delegates today attend important conferences unless accompanied by informational experts. This is special library work of the highest type. Shall this gravitation of our work carry us with it? A Happy New Year to all our Membership! SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922;

The President's Page -- 1 I= .- It is often quite natural for an organiza- is interested. This means you tion,, part~cularlya national association, to should let your interests be known, fall Into the hands of a few people A ten- and that you should be willing to dency for such an associat~onto be ruled or run by a small number 1s apparent to all. accept appointment on a conunittee This tendency is clue in part to those into and work. whose hands the responsibility for leader- ship has fallen, but I am inclined to think (2). If you have an idea or a su,qgestion, is mostly caused by the indifference and or want ta see a certain thing at- apathy on the payt of the majority of the tempted, you have a house organ members. "Special Libraries" that will voice Members who have been elected or chosen yoqr opinions. This organ is in- for ofice In the Association feel the re- tended for all members and not only sponsib~lityplaced upon them, and in their for the editor or the officers. eagerness to do the best for the organiza- tion may assume too much authority, and (3). When you are asked for a definite together with the few who have opmions opinion, or an answel., on any mat- about the running of the Ass~ciationmay form a small group or inner circle and the ter, givc it willingly and promptly. controlling power. Usually such a group In the near future you will be called of people in an association grows w~thoul upon for such opinions; don't hesi- the individuals forming it being aware of tate ,to state them. Whatever the it; sometimes such a ruling minority is con- sciously formed but not often, I be1:eve. majority wish, shall be abided by as far as possible. More often such an executive group be- comes a power in an association because the Soon you will be urged to give us infor- members clu not express then~selves. Every mation and through a questionnaire. This menlber should have an oyinion and it be- is necessary on account of the wideness of hooves every member and all members to ex- the territory we cover, due to the fact that press these opinions. We want a democratic we are national in scope. Do not take of- spirit in the Specla1 Libraries Association fense at a questionnaire; we need your How can wc get it? It is impossible unless fncts and this is the only way we can get you, as an individual mernber, are willing them. Give us the information at once. and anxious to make yourself heard. How If 74021 (10 and all do, we shall produce some- can the officers of your association know thing worth while for you. what you wish and what the majority of the members wish? Remember that a democratic organiza- tion or the lack of a democratic spirit rests There are three ways in which each mem- decidedly on you as an individual member ber can help in preventing an inner circle, You can make this Special Libraries As- and in securing a really democratic orgaai- sociation what you will. Your Executive zat~on:- Board is urging you to help them make it (1).We should have many committees and a real united body working for a worthy cause whlch is desired by all. give each individual an opportunity to work on something in which he REBECCA B. RANKIN. December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Association Activities -1I onded and carried. Mr. Handy was ap- po-nted cha~rman of the co~nmitlee on The Executive Board met in the Muni- ~dethods. cipal Reference Lilrary in New York lhr. Handy was called upon to report on City on October 24 and 25 to consider the Library methods iron1 the convention at report of the Colnmittee on Revision of the 1)etrolt. he said the committee had becn C6nstitution. lost In the shuh~e,but he bel~evedthe sub- The Cominitte on Busmess Services met ject was to be I'ollowed up this winter. in New Yorlc Citv on October 25 and Xr. Arm.stead distributed copies of the formulated plans fir a Directory of Bus- report; of the committee on "Soc~ety Ad- iness Services. dr~sses"whlch was read and accepted. Mr. Lec ~novedthat the comm~tteebe continued. Special Libraries Association of Boston. Mot~~ncarried. Mr. llrmistead moved that September Meeting tne secretary of the Special L braries As- The S~ecialLibraries Association of Bos- sociation of Boston write to H. 13. Wilson ton held ~tsfirst meeting of the season 1922 Co.,., to ask if they would be willing to and 1923 in the Members' Dining Room of pubhsh the 1st of society addresses. The the Women's Educational and Industrial motion mas carried. Union. Twenty melnbers came to supper, Mr. Chase, chamnan of the c3mmlttee on and thirty-two were present at the business the Union Catalogue, read hls report, which meeting following. was accepled. Minutes of the May meeting read and Mr. Lee started the discuss on asked for accepted. by Miss Rankin regarding the convention Letter from Miss Ranlcin read. In ac- by reading an interesting and carefully pre- cordance with her request, part of the busi- pared report of the "Special Libraries As- ness ineetlng was given over to reports, sociation of Boston in the Light of the De- discussions, and ojinions of the convention troit Conference." The report in full is at- at Detroit, and to a cliscussion of a closer tached to this report. union of the national and local Special Li- Mr. Handy reported on his experience at braries Associations. Her definite proposal Detroit as a ~ne~d~erof the Special Li- as a starting point for discussion and action braries Association. He said there were was that the Special Libraries Association some 1,800 people, and about sxty meetings have its branches like ours in every city, all pulI,ng in different directions, He had but that the dues be one, three dollars- the impression that the American Library Asscciation had grown so large and of such fifty cents to the local, fifty cents to the diversified interests that the necesity of national, and two d:llars to the periodical elimination and subordination was so great Special Libraries, rhat the national as- that subsidiary societies could better conduct sociation be made up of the locals, and business at a separate convention. He be- function through them, the standing com- lieved in affiliation with the American L:- mittee of the national to consist of the brary Association, but he Iclt that the pur- chairman of each committee of the local pose of the special l'brary is more snecific associations. than that of the public library, and that as Discussion concerning dues showed that a whde, the Suecial Libraries Association is many members felt our association could interested in different problem from those not exist on fifty-cent dues, and that our which appeal to the majority of people who dues should continue one dollar. Mr. Lee attend the American Library Association. moved, however, that the Executive Com- Publicity cannot be very great for the mittee take up consideration of dues be- Special L'braries Association in an Ameri- fore referring the matter to Miss Rankin. can Librarv Association conventon, and it Motion carried. Mr. Redstone asked for a would further the interest of the SpeciaI show of hands of those In favor of $1.50 Libraries Assoc'ation if at least once in dues-one dollar for local, fifty cents for three years thev met in a large commercial national association. Twenty-three In favor center. Mr. Handy got the impression out of thirty-two present. in Detroit nf ucnole cont'nnally waiting- Mr. Redstone moved that we carry out waiting. in the lobby for sowthing to happen, the suggestion of M:ss Renkin in regard to speakers waitinw for audiences, audiences having the cha~rwan of our colnnlittees wat:ng for sneakers-or a penera1 rushinq n~eliibersof the standing committee of the f~omone widely separated pbace to another. national association, and that we make The convention was too 101?g, the Special four comm'ttees to coincide with those of Libraries Association meetmg were scat- the national association, adding that of tered through four or five days, and nlanv Methods to our other three of Membership, members could not stay to attend them all. Publicity, and Employment. Motion sec- blr. Redstone suggested that arrange- SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922 inents be made to have the next convention Library work with children in a l~ospital: an ir~d~v~clualSpecial Libraries Assoc.ation Miss Elizabeth W. Reed, L brar~an,Ros- one. ton City Hsspital. Xrs. Hartzell and Mr. Chase felt that too Medical library In a general hospital. Nrs. many members or the Special Libraries ds- Grace W. Myers, Librarian Treadwcll soc.ation were ~nterestedin public hbrary L~brary,M. G. H. w~rlcto wish a cleavage of attendance at Gram work in hosoitals: Miss E. Knth- conventions. lee; Jones, Mass. -library Commission. Mr. Chase moved that ti7e suggestion be made that therc bc a nud-winter nleeting November Meeting of tllc Specla1 Llbrar es Association in zones to minimize expense. Sea-board, Middle On the evening of November 27, the AS- m7est, etc. Motion carried th rteen to five. sociation met at the B~stonAthenaeum. It was movecl and unaninlously voted that Mr. Bdton, the Librarian of thc Athen- we cooperate wlth Miss Kanlcin to help her aeum, told about the library and showed all we can. soine of its chief treasures. This was an Further discussiori f sllowed about c3n- unusual opportunity, and inany members vent~ons. hT ss E. IC. Jones sad that the availed thelnselves of the courtesy shown meetings In Detroit were mixed up. She by the Board of Trustees nnd the Librarian always wished she was smlewhere else than in thus opening the library for the benefit where she was, and felt it was not feas~ble of the Association. to hold a convention in a big city, as the Miss Guerrier, of the Boston Public Li- convention was tog scattered. brary, and Miss I-Iirano, oT the staff of the Mrs. Hartnell suggested the Special Li- Musemn of Fine Arts, both of whom speilt braries Association mcet at the same place part of the summer in Europe, lolrl about as the American Library Assoc'ation, but some of thc European libraries which they start one day ahead, so as to have all the visited. meeting in onc day. Miss GiBbs sugkested, that if the conven- New York Special Libraries Association ti~nswere tn continue as large as that of Detro t, it would be well to segregate those The first mecting of the year, a Dinner of eimiltn8 interests In one hotel. Mect~ng,was held on Wednesday, October Miss Donnelly said that the problen~ of 25, 1922, at the Fairfas Tea Room. 80 Library Schools was similar to that of the Nassa~~Street, New York City. About 150 Special Librt~rlesAsscciation, and that they attended it. Mr. Dorscy W. Hycle, Jr, i'or- had solved the p~ohlemin the Swampscott ~nerlyPresident of the National S. L. A. ccnvention s3 that, instead of being and Mr. D. N. Handy. cf the Boston S. L. swtmped 111 the American Library Associa- A,, spoke very generally on the Detroit tion, they met the day before in Boston. Conference. Mr. Hyde describer1 how past She suggested the Special Libraries Asso- ccnferences had been planned, with what ciation miyht do thz sail~e-that is, meet objects in view, and the splendid rcsults he at approximately the same place a lttle thought had been accompl~shed therefrom. befure. He also talked briefly on the progmss that The mccting adjourned at 9.15. has been made in Washington, D. C, MARGARETWITHINGTON, through publicity, in ,br~nginpbefore the Secmtu~.y. p$neral public the value and importance of special lib]-aries. Publlcitg, according October Meeting to Mr. Hyde, shoulcl be more and mo~cused This meeting. was held on the evening of to help further the work ancl ewphasm 9ctcher 23, at the hlassachusetts General the importance of all phases of lib~a~y I-Iosp~tal. The subject of the meet~ngwas work. The Rfisscs Helen E. Hemphill, EIu~pital L~hraries,ant1 the pro,gram was Isabclla Brokaw ancl Aha C. M~Lchell tle- as follows: scrlbed briefly the meetings they attended Army and navy hosnital libraries: Re- at the Conference, and Miss Marguerite c~uirementsancl equipment Miss Annis Burnett, Librarian of the Federal Reserve I,. Kinsman, Librarian Chelsea Naval Bank, New Ywk City. gave an interesting Hmpital. account of the luncheon g~venby the First Hospital ethics for the librarian: Miss Ida National Bank of Detroit to the bank li- M Cannon, Chief of Social Service De- brarians. Miss Rebecca B. Rankin, Presi- partment at the M. G. H. dent of the Nat~onalS. L. A. spoke of her Ward work in a hospital library: Rliss plans for the coming year. She hopes, by Carrie L. Williams, Librarian U. S. Vet- putting through several schemes now In e~ans'Hospital, Parker Hill. process of formation, a closer afiliation may Bcclc selectloll for a mental hospital: Miss prevail between the National S. L. A, ancl Marjor~e Martin, Librarian U. S. Vet- the various local special libraries associa- erans' Hospital, West Roxbury. tions throughout the country. Library work in a general hospital: &Irs. Lydia 13. Jewett, Librarian Warren Li- brary, M. G. H. December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia The nweting expressed the wish to know and Vicinity tpe character of the clearing house which The regular meeting of the Council was 1. L. A. hopes to conduct, and the manner postponed a week in order that the Chair- in which it hoges to carry on the techn~cal man and Secretary might attend the meet- work of the Assaciation. Ing of the Pennsylvania Library Associa- Since the meeting Friday night, the tion at Altoona. A report of the round Periodical Committee has reported that the table of special librarians attending that ~ardsfor the Union Catalog are beginning meeting was given to the Council. With !o come in. this exception, the entire evening was de- HELENM. RANKIN, voted to a consideration of the proposal of Secretaly- the President of the Special Libraries As- sociation; that the local associations be Special Llbrary Associatian of Southern morc closely affiliated with the national Californla association. Upon the removal of Miss Beth Pasko, It was the concensus of opinion that the librarian of the Southern Californ~aEdison matter could not be satisfactorally consid- Company, from Los Angeles the S. L. A. of ered until the new constitution of the S. Southern CaIif0rn.a elected Mr. Guy E. L. A,, giv~ngthe exact terms of affiliation, hlarion, former president of the Special Li- was submitted. In a general way, how- braries Association, to fi1.l the unexpired ever, the meeting expressed the desirability term of M:ss Paslip as vice-president of of cooperating with the S. L. A., and the local association. Mr. E. B. Edwards, strengthening its work, but felt the terms Librarian of the Standard Oil Company at should be arranged in such a way that the El Segundo was elected to the vacancy on local associations did not lose the ability the executive Board vacated by Mr. Marion. to fit their work and requ~rementsto local conditions. It was felt that to cripple local Chlcago Spacial Librarians associations in doing necessary work, or The Special Librarians in Chicago have meeting a peculiar situation, would hurt luncheon each Tuesday at Carson Pirie's. the local body, and through it, the natiunal These meetings have been well attended and assoc!ation. nre very popular. fi I Special Library Field Doings Martha L. Gericlte, Librarian States Re- versity of Wisconsin in 1917 and has since lations Servke, U. S. Department of Agri- done both secretarial and reseach work at culture, has compiled a classified "Selected the Chase National Bank, with the Russell List of References on Rural Econorni~sand Sage Foundation and with Dr. Irving Sociology, 1913-1921." It is printed in the Fisher. Pvocccdings of the Thirtlj-Jifth Aamal In line with Dr. Bishog's defense of scien- Convextion of the Associnbiow of Lond tific bibliography in Scie~zceof August 25, Gmnt Colleges, 1921, pp. 70-89. The list the editorials in E'conontic Geolouy of May includes 362 titles grouped under the fol- and June-July of this year are interesting. lowing headings arranged alphabetically: Mr. Bateman pleads for the release of Aprkultural I-Iistory and Development 21, cconomic geologic data collected by indus- Agricultural Land 14, Agricultural Prices 12, Cooperation 1'7, Cost of Production 26, trial companies Mr. Bateinan quotes a Te- Farin Labor and Wages 17, Farm Manage- port that about 75% of the funds spent in ment 36, Marketing 56, Rural Church 11, the U. S. upon geologic investigation ema- Rural Credit 35, Rural Economics-General nated from commercial companies. 29, Rural Populat'on 11, Rural School 8, Special librarians struggling with verti- Rural Sociology-General 40, Rural Surveys cal file installation will be interested in 16, and Tenancy 13. llCollecting and F:ling Data" by Wilhelm Mr. W. P. Cutter, formerly librarian of Kaufrnan in ~Machine~yfor October, pp. the National Aniline and Chemical Co.. at 136. Buffalo, has resigned to accept a pos:tion Virginia Savage, formerly librarian of with Arthur D. Little, Inc.. Cambridge, the Western Society of Engineers, has been Mass. Mr. Cutter will have charge of the xnpo'nted librarian of Halsey Stuart Co., information department and library. Chicago. Elsie H. Dictel has been appointed to Mary B. Day was elected First Vice- carry on the library and research work P~esidentof the Illinois State Library As- nnder Robert F. Foerstery, in charce, of sociation at the meeting held in Chicago at the industrial relations library at Pr'nce- the Chicago Beach Hotel, October 19th-21st. ton. Miss Dietel graduated from the Uni- Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr., writes on "Keeping 196 SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922

Knowledge on Tap" in Ofice :7Iii)~ngenle~?ta Center of Chemical Education" in the for October, Mr. Hyde's ar;icle is based on Jmrmcil of I~~cl~tst~icilcoad Eitgi?leo.i?lg -4.P, &I. Flem ng's new book on industrial Chcr~ristqjfor September. The mtlcle has research. Fleming was one of the earliest been reprinted as a separate and should in- of thc modern writex on this subject, a telsc:t all special Iibrarians. list of 111s earlier conti-ibutions appeitrs in Specit~lLibraries of January, 1920, p. 22. Medical Libraries Al~ceL. Rose, formerly 1 braisinn of the Librarians of medical libraries will be National City Financial Lib~ary,resigne~l intcreated in the fourth installment of "Our the tirst of November. Medicine-Men" in the October Co~tuq. Mary Hayes, for four years hear1 of the reference departnlent of the Nat~onalCity Coal Directory F:nancial Library, has been appointcrl 11- The Keystone Consalidated Publishing brarisn. Co., Inc., 711 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, has Lalla May Damon, for the past two ycars issued the Cocil Ccitalog coinbi~red7~1th Cod head of the cataloging department of the Fiold Directwlj for 1922 (1350 pp., $10.00 National Clty Financial Library, has been a copy). This is the third edition of this appointccl ass'stant librarian. catalog, the first ancl seconcl hav~ngbeen May L. Milllgan, formerly reference as- issued in 1918 and 1920 respectively. Tlie s~stant,is now head of thp reference de- features of this volume of especial interest part~nent of the National C~tyFinancial lo special l~brarians are those covering L brary. handling, ownership, and organization. The Florence A. Grant, assistant catalcrger in history and management of the several ex- the National City Financial Library, has changes, the officials, chtwacteristics and been made head of the cataloging depart- output of individual mines, and a coinplete ment. list of coal associations are alone worf;h Thc Chicago Mun'cipal Reference Library the price or the volun~e to librarians, in has ~ssuccla m~meographedlist of "Current the time saver1 by having this information Periodicals on File." so conveniently at hand. The volume con- The A. L. A. has issuecl "Essentials in tains maps of individual states showlng the I.,ibrary A~d~lli~il~t~atioll,llby Lutie E. coalficlcls in each, nnmerous illustralions, Steams, 1922. 87 pp. am1 the Stoeli bulletm on the Storage of The~cis much practical infomlalion i11 Coal which has been unobtainable for some the little volume. We reqrct t3 see that under "Library Associations" (11, 81) there time is no reference to S. L. A. ancl under Library Directories "Periodicals" (p. 78) no refe~ence to The New York Library Club has just SPEC1AL LIBRARIES. published a Directory of the Libraries of Greater New York, together with a list of Library Laws its members, constitution, and by-laws. The Bullet'n No. 20, 1922, of the U. S. ?:lseau directory was compiled by Miss Isadore G. of Education is a con~l~ilationof State Madge, Reference Librarian of Cdumbia Laws relating to Eclucntmn enacted in 1920 University, assisted by a cominittee of the and 1921," 269 pn. On pp. 226-232 \!ere is club. It is the first direclory of the li- a summary or I~brarylez'slati,~n. lhirty- braries of New York City published since two states enacted 58 gene~allibrary laws, 1902. The info~mationgiven inclurles the and 9 states enacted 11 laws atiectina pub- name of the librarian, regulations govern- lic school l~brnr~es. ing its use and resources. There is an index to special collections. Thrce hun- Special Libraries dped and seven libraries are inclucled. The Lucius I-I. Cannnn. libra~iaiiof the Rlu- clirectorics may be obtained from Miss nicipal Reference Lihrn~yof St. Lnuis, ant1 Marion F. Schwab, Secretary of the club, an active menibrr of S. 1,. A,. crmrhicts a whosc address 1s Brooklyn Public Librurg, Department 011 Books and Authors in the 26: Brevoort Place. Brooltlyn, N. Y. The DrriZ7~ Jo~cnlnlGC East St. T,ouis. In the price is $1.00 postpaid. Only a limited issue of October 22: MY. Cannon writes number of the directories, remaining after niost interestinqlv on "Special Ljbryies d~st~ibutionlo members, are available. and the Special Libraries As~ociat~on. The New Yorlc S. L. A. cooperatecl activc- ly in this undertaking It ~nclutlesa list Association Directories of the special libraries in Ncw York City A Directory of Consumers' Cooperative and sets forth the increase in libraries in 6.3-ociat~rns in the U. S. fo1.111~ nnrt (l~p. the 20 years since the last directory was 99-146) of U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, published. B7tlletiw No. 313. Social Service Directories Technology Libraries The Helen S. Tronnstine Foundation, E. H.McClellanil, head of the Technologv Cincinnat~,O., has just issued "Handboolt Deaartment . of thc Carnegie Librarv of cf Social Service Resources of Cincinnati Pittsburgh, has written on "Pittsburgh as ancl Hamilton County,'' 104 pp. The volume December, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES was conlpiled by H. Dora Stecker and Eu- phone and City Directories and Directories genia L Remclin. It is co~nprehensiveand uf Trades in which we are interested re- very well arranged. garding the sale of our apparatus. Since Lhcn considerable new material has been Business Libraries added. The Dewey Decimal System is used. Ethel Cleland, Llbrar an of the Business IVc have four indexes which are by author, Branch, Indianapolis Public Library, has nuinber, subject and title. prepared the A. L. A. Reading Course on The R. F. Sturtevant Company design Business, an 11-page boolclet, very altrac- and manufacture fans, blowers, exhausters, t.vely arranged. clectric motors, steam engines, air washers, Ralph L. Power writes in the October heaters, generating sots, fuel cconomizers, number of Wcstew Advartising on "The vacuum cleaners, steam turbines, stokers, Business Library-Its Scopc and Service." collecting and conveying systems, drying In a breezy ~nformalway Mr. Power drives machinery, and heating and ventilatmg home some useful hints. systelns. The main purpose of the library Special librarians will be particularly is to furnish infornlation to the engineering intcrestcd in Clmpter 5 "Facing the Facts" staff but ~t also contains data pertaining of M. C. Rorty's Swne P?*oblews in Cur- to accounting, advertising, cost finding. 1~~1Eco~~o~~~ils (A. W. Shaw Ca., 1922. tilne keeping, drafting, filing, and produc- 143 pp.). In fact, the whole volume has a 11011, in order that all departments may be feeling of vividness in regard to its sub- benefited. ject, which reaches out and invites particl- pation in the discussion No doubt this 1s Aircraft Llbrarles due to the author's intimate cantact with Thc Ae~~onu~~licuLDzyast of September practical problcms and hls unusual back- cuntains a very convincing article on "The ground a! both economic theory and fact. Value of a Llbrary to Aircraft Companies." The Manchcster (Engl.) Commerc a1 Li- brary has published a "List of Books and Bank Llbrarles Pamphlets in the Library on South Amer- Prof. Ralph L. Power, of the University ica." Copies can be obtained on applica- of Southern California wr~tesin the Coast tion at Room 115 Royal Exchange, hlan- Eclnlier of October on "Putting Libraries chester. into Banks." In t11.s article Prof. Power S. C. Metcalfe writes in The Citg Builder, rcviews the princ~pal existing bank li- of September, published b; the Atlanta braries. Chamber of Com.merce, on Go to ,)he Li- Botanical Library brary Young Man and GROW. The Harvard University has come into pus- author stresses the possibilities to the young session of the Parlolv botanical library, man of the practical information conta'ned considered one of the most valuable col- in the business books at the Library. lcction of books dealing with cryptogam- Guy E. Marion, Assistant Librarian of n~icbotany in the world, quarters having the Publ'c Library of Los Angeles and a hen provided for it which meets satisfac- past President of S. L. A,, wr~tesin SO~L-torily the conditions of gift contained 111 em Califomza Bu~ivessfor November on "Lcaning on the Pub1.c Library." Mr. the will of Professor William G. Farlow, Marion describes in detail the service a n-110 died in 1919, public library can render to the business Under Professor Farlow's will, this col- man. Icctioa, comprlslng 11,GDD volunles, mas Charles D. Johnson, Librarian of the qlven to Harvard on cond~tionthat, within Cossitt Library, Me~nph~s,Tenn., writes In three years after the testator's death, su~t- the October .107i~wd01 the M~inphisCham ablc arrangements should be made for bcv of Conu,lemc on Public Library Serv- placing it In fireproof quarters in proxim- ice to Business." Mr. Johnson speaks up !Ly to the Farlow Ilerbar~umof crytoganl- valiantly for the spec'al business library. mic plants, already owned by the univcr- sity. These conditions have been met by New Mechanical Library the decision of the Harvard Corporation to Thc Sturtevant Special Library was oT- housc both the Farlow library and the her- ~anizcdJanuary, 1922. The niaterial in bar~umin the Divinity Llbrary building. it has been in process of collection for sev- The Farlow library and herbarium are eral years but not until this time had definlte known by reputation in botanical establish- effort been made to thoroue;hly classify and nlents all over the world. The former 1s index this material in order to organize a full of rarities not to be found elsewhere department for supplying ,information to in America, or procurable fur consultation members of the organization. When or- o.dy with the grcatest difliculty, and also ranized there were about 800 volumes, con- includcs full sets of the more itnportallt sisting of reference and text books on jonrnals and proceedings in varlous lan- Chemical. Electrical, Mechanical and Steam suages and coinplete sets of special papers, Rngineermg; Reports and Transactions of tl.cat,ises, ctc. Professor Farlow spent Engineering Societies; bound volulnes of BIty years assembling the library, and his magazines; catalags, Mailing Lists, Tele- linowledge of the subject and 111s judgment SPECIAL LIBRARIES December, 1922 in such matters are considered by his Har- graphic copies of rare drawings, papers or vard associates to have been unsurpassed. articles that cannot be readily circulated. The Farlow collect~on of books will be a valuable asset to the univers~ty,both be- Labor Libraries cause of its completeness and because of On Saturday, Dec. 2nd, the L:brary of the importance of crytogammic botany, the Cleveland Joint Board was opened which deals with the non-flowering plants officially. Manager Solomon of the Amal- and inclu~ks the mosses, lidhens, fungi, gamated Clothing Workers of America, bacteria, and other lower forms of plant delivered the keys to the Secretary, Sister life, many of which are of great economic Bolst, who is to act as Librarian. An ar- importance on account of their dcstructive- rangement has been made with the Public ness. Cryptogammic botany, it is said, is Library of the City of Cleveland by which malting an ever-increasing number of points the Amalgamated will serve as a branch of of contact with everyday practical inter- the Cleveland Public Library. There are ests in agriculture, medicine, sanitation and volun~esin English, Italian, Yiddish, Ger- industrial processes. man, Bohemian and Russian. The Amalgamated Temple Library of Engineering Library New York C~tyis open. Miss J. Meyrowltz, An engineering library, said to be the 1.brarian in charge, says that the collection largest of its kind in the West, is being es- includes at least one thousand volumes. Be- tablished for Colorado engineers. It is sides that lhere are magazines, pamphlets modeled after the library of the United and newspapers in English, Yidd'sh, Italian Engineering Societies and will be located in and Russian. So far as known this is the a room of the Denver Public Library. This first attempt in New York C:ty of a labor room, the Technical Room, will be set apart union to put such an undertaking through. and remodeled to properly care for the Various unions keep some kind of reference valuable collection. The money for estab- librar es, but these are not for the member- lishing the library was secured through the ship at large. The Temple Li,brary, of foresight of the Colorado Enginxring Coun- course, is free to all members, both for read- cil at the framing of the engineers' license ing at the library and as a circulating li- law. The Council, consisting of delegates brary. The circulation, or loan department, from the seven largest technical soc'eties however, will not be 'administered for in Colorado, feared that the fees paid by another week or two, to allow for proper engineers for securing licenses and renewals installation of the necessary records. would be abso~bedfor ordinary state pur- And there are other b'gger plans. The poses. It therefore inserted a clause in the education department hopes to build up law specifying that the money so obtained around the library a regular center for shalI be used for "the purchasc of technical reading, study, and constructive instruction. boolts and publications." The original con- tributions to the library consists of over Bibliography of 2700 Business Books 3,000 boolts now owned by the Colorado Under this title the Dlxie Business Book Scient3ic Society. To this will be added Shop, 140 Greenwich St., New York City the scientific collection of the Denver Pub- has issued a price list of 114 pages cover- lic Library, and books to be purchased from ing new, in pr.nt, used and out of print an available fund of $12,000 and an annual boolcs on business subjects. The volume is income of from $2.500 to $4,000. A pho- well classified and is fully worth the 25 tostat will be installed for furnishing photo- cents asked for it.