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Vol. 14 March-April, 1923 No. 3 Bibliography, the Foundation of Scientific Research1

WILLIAM A. HAMOR, Assistant Director of the Mellon lnst~tuteof Industrial Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bibliography, the basis of library science, pe~imentation. Then, too, these methods prov~dcs the foundation for scientific re- conle into regular use in maintaining con- search. Upon the sound groundwork of tact with progress elsewhero in the know- experience which 11 givcs is planned ?ncl ledge of the subjects under study. As in crc:t?cl the structure of esperimentatlon. the time of Francis Bacon, "readmg serves resulting in novel obse~vationsand event- for delight, for orna~mcnt,for ability.. . . ually in the building of new methods antl the wise use it." But like all learning bib- products. In all rcsearch bibhography is liochres~s nlust be n~acle practical, for a fundamental, and the subsequent laboratory booltworw is usually a mere driveler, a investigation, foisn~ulated from existing gossamer in research. kno;vledge and by anology, is tectonic. Bib- Applied science constitutes the esscncc lioglaphy of science is the intelligence de- of industrial rcsearch, which is devoted partment cf scientific research. to the investigation of problems of chemi- Some one has said that a thorough librar- cal and physical technology. It 1s in this ian niust be a co~nbinat~onof bibliogi*aphe~~donlain that bibliochresis is outstandmg in and l3bhophile. To be successful in lab. utililurian valuc. This is because the litera- om ory research, a scientist nlust posses:! ture is so vast in scope ancl volume; in specialized knowledge of and Interest in addition to scientific, technical and trade h~blicchl-csis,the systematic use of scientific, books and periodicals, there is the large boolcs and pcriociicals, as well as ~ntimatq patent literature, domestic antl foreign, acquaintance and regard for cxperinlenta vrhich requires spccial training for its ~nethoclology. The complexity of the scien proper use. Preparation of chemical pro- ces and nrofessions has brought the special ducts, improvement of existing processes, librarian to the aid of research workers. discovery and development of new n~ethods to assist them b~bliographically; but it in, of ~nanufacture,and ascertainment of uses necessary fo~scienl~fic investigators to knon of manufactured products are among the how to utiliw-interpret and apply-facts types of p~~oblemsentruster1 for study to in literature, and this b~bliochretic work laboratories of industrial research, of which mus be clcne by themselves if they are to there arc over 500 in the United States at be productive in research. The systematw the present time. study of the ex~stingknowledge pertainha. Chemical bibliochresis is necessx~~ilyin- to a subject under investigation constitutes terwoven with experimental work in all the the prc.parSatory stage of every scietitific~ investigational actmities of the MeIlon In- inqulry of importance. It is followed by stitute of Industrial Research of the Uni- thc f~~mula'dvestage: analysis and co- versity of Pittsburgh. Indeed, it has had ordination of information obta~nedand then a highly importnnt contributory part In the the laying-down of definite plans for ex achievemcnts of the Industrial Fcllowship perimental work. System. The search methods of bibliochresis arcb The Mellon Institute of lndustr~alResearch. also the indispensable tools of researcl~ workmen in the solution of many mino?. The Industrial Fellowship System, for- questions and problems which arise con. mulated by Dr. Robert Kennedy Duncan stantly during the conduct of laboratory ex. (1868-1914) in 1906, ancl placed primarily SPECIAL LIBRARIES in experin~entaloperation at the Univer- rant the services of at least one man for a sity of Kansas in January, 1907, was in- period of at least one year; and, also, that augurated at the University of Pittsburgh there is no other investigation in progress on March 1, 1911. In March, 1913, Andrew in the Institute on the research topic which William Mellon, naw Secretary of the Treas- is of interest to the prospective d6nor. ury, and Richard Beatty Mellon established The Industrial Fellowships of the Insti- the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research tute are of two general types; v~z.,Indi- on a permanent basis, as a inemorial to vidual and Multiple. An Individual In- Judge Thomas Mellon and to Dr. Duncan. dustrial Fellowship utilizes the services of

Libm~yof ICIellon Institute Their continued financial support has made one research chemist or engineer (with 'it possilble to devclop the system to its assistants when necesswy), who is respon- present strong position. sible directly to the executive staff of the The Ins'itute is a center for technical Tnstitute. A Multiple Industrial Fellow- investigation in chemistry and allled sub- ship utilizes the services of one or more jects. Its purpose is to promote industrial rcsearch men (Jun~orFellows) under the success through scientific research; in other d'irection of a Senior Fellow. who, in turn, words, to find new materials and new pro- is responsible to the executive staff. cesses for industrial developnlent and to The Institute is not of a commercial na- advance manufactunmg through the appli- ture, being entirely independent and deriv- cation of scientific methods to industry. ing no financial profit from the investiga- The Institute is a part of the University tions conducted under its auspices. More- of Pitlsburrh. over, members of the executive s aff of the The following paragraphs present briefly Tnstitute devote their time and ability to the workinq plan of the Institute. the interests of the Institute and of the In accordance with the system of research University without outside remuneration. an individual industrialist, a company, or The donor, on his part, provides a founda- an association of manufacturers, having a tion sum which is adequate to cover the suitable problem or group of problems re- annual cost of maintenance cf the Indus- quiring investigat~on,may become the donor trial Fellowship, which includes operating of an Industrial Fellowship, provided that charges, the purchase of all necessary spec- the probleins are of sufficient scope to war- ial apparatus or other equipment, and the Mar.-Apl., 1923 SPECIAL LIBRARIES SPECIAL LIBRARIES salary of the research man or men selected technology are on the shelves. Books of in- to work on the particular prablcm, the so- terest in connection with the problems be- lution of which is of concern .to the donor. ing worked on by the Industrial Fellows of Coopcration by sympathet~c encourage- the Institute are continually being added ment and pmchcal suggestion is also es- to the Library. From July 1, 1920, to July sential on the part of the donating com- 1, 1921, 753 volumes were purchased. From panies or associations for the successful July 1, 1921, to July 1, 1922, 409 books were conduct of the Industrial Fellowship work acquired by the Library. Thmisnumber does The Institute, in turn, selects the Indus- not include trade or obher catalogs. A large trial Fellow, and the investigation to be collection of tradc catalogs pertaining to conducted is committed to this conlpftent apparatus and mechanical equipment is man, who is no: otherwise preoccupied dur- maintained. There is a separate card cata- ing his incumbency of the Industrial Fel- log of this literature, which lists the names lowship. of companies represented and the articles The Institute provides laboratory, library, manufactured. and consultation facilit~es,the use of its The Library is open from 9 a. m. to 5 permanent research equipment, direction p. m., but the Industrial Fellows have ac- to thc progress of the worlc, and an ntmos- cess to it at all tlmes. phere which is conducive to productive in- All the literature contained In the Library vestigation. All results obtained by the is cataloged and in form convenient for use. Industr~alFcllomsh~p bclong exclusively to Most of the bibliochretic and reference work its donor. is carried out by the mem,bers of the In- At present (Mawh 1, 1923) there are stitute in the Library, but approximately fifty Industrial 1~'ellowships in operation in 300 books are In constant circulation. One the Instilute, of whlch thirteen are sub- experienced in chemical b~bliochresisis able s~clizetl by associations of manufacturers. to find at least a reference to the technical Thcse fifty distinct lines of research require or scientific report in which he is intcrestecl. the services of eighty-five che~nistsam1 en- If, then, the original contribution is not gineers. Booklets desc~iptiveof the Mellon on file in the Institute Library, it is prainpt- Institute and its Industrial Fellowship Sys- ly procured elsewhere. Books are borrowed tem may bc obta~nedupon request. on inter-library loan froin the leadmp pri- vate, institutional antl governmental lihtl- The Library of the Mellon Institute. ries. The 01-gathation of the Mellon Institute The I~brarian,Mrs. Stateler, has recent- Library was begun in 1013, when $20,000 ly compiled a complete list, totaling 1023 was appropriated for the purchase of che~ni- entries, of the boobs, bulletins, iournal con- cal literature. Mrs. Sarah Osgood Bro31~ tribntions and patents by mc~nbcrsof the was chosc.11 as librarian antl shc served for l:ls~ltute, 1911-1922. This list, wh~chhas two years, pu~-chasingvarious foreign and been published as the Institute's Biblio- dom~stic journals and ctltaloging them. g~aphicBulletin No. 1, will be sup~lemc.nt~d The work was then carried on by Miss Ircne a1 nually 'by a list, conlulled In the spring Dchlatty until August, 1913, when she was of ewh year, of all publ~cationsof the pre- succeeded by Miss Clara M. Guppy (now vlous year. Mrs. Clara Guppy Stateler), the present librarian. The Course in Chemical Literature in the This speclal I~brarycontains over 5300 University of Pittsbi~rgh. volumes and aims to cover the important In achl~tion to acquiring a sounil funda- literature of chemistry and of chemical and mental knowledye of chemistry and pmc- jlhysical technology. It includes the publi- tical tr:ur,ing in laboratory technil., the stu- cations of the chen~ical and other scien- dent in the professional cou~~s?must be- tific societies of England, France, Germany, nuwe nroficient in chen~~calbibliochrcsis, Italy, Switzerland and the Unitccl States, the systelnatic use of the literature of chein- and, in addition, the valuable scientific ref- istry, if he exoects t3 succeecl in teaching, erence books of those countries. in~!ustrial work, 01. research. Because of The files of the pcriodicals of less im- the volum~nouslyvast literature, ~t is now portance bcgin with the volumes for 1900. recognized by all except ~nnemonicprotligws The nearness of the Carnegie Library of in the :n.qfession that it is not co important Pittsburah, with its very complete techno- to how chemistry as it is to Imow where logical division, renders it unnecessary for to find it. This anho~ism illustrstes the the Library of the nlellon Institute to have pec!agogic essentiality of chemical biblio- on its shclves the earlv files of all jsurnals chresis. except those of constant use to ressarch Notw?thstanding the lugh value of thor- chemists. The ~ibra$j is intended to be ough instruction in the subject, there are a working library of the first rank for the but few educational institutions which give personnel of the Mellon Institute. their advanced students in chemistry sya- The Library receives currcntly 156 tech- tematic training in the use of a library antl nical and scientific pcriodicals, 100 of which in the literature of the science. The Uni- are bound. All the stanclarcl reference versity of Pittsburgh is among this limited works relating to chemistry and chemical number. The course in chemical literature SPECIAL LIBRARIES and its use was begun at Pittsburgh by the going to enter in subsequent practice. When writer in 1!)15, and at present it IS being this resume of the field is completed, it IS given by Mr. -4. R. Cade, an Industrial Fel- pone over in more detail during the second low of the Institulc. semester's work. The value and scope of This course, which consists of one lecture research is taken up, as are such subjects a week, throughout the entire year, supple- as qualifications for chemists,, ethics, types mented by practical problems of ap~lica of laboratories and organizat~ons,types of tion and search, is open to seninr antl grad- work, etc. This is followed by a review of wte students in the Departlilc?t of C11e.m- the various medals, awarcls, ancl prizes, vwy. The present class iselrldes 12 s~nior etc., oflercd to sc~entific ~nvestigators,es- and 7 graduatc ?tul!cnts. pepially chemists, as well as the scholar- Tho following is a brief outline of the ships, fellowships, and grants available to scope of the course, showing the field them, thus presenting to chen~icalstudents covered : the various goals that they hnvc toward The first semester's worlc IS outlined to which to work, and at the same t!me gwmg present to the slutlent, in us clear, system- them an insight as to the 'big men of the atic and lo,gical way as possible, the "what, past and present, their lives and work, as where and how" of chemical literature; that examples and guides.

is, lectures are glven which sui-nmarize firs'. Next there is taken up a study of the the fundamentals of chemical literature and various sclcntific socktips, their location, then where and how it is proclucecl. Thl:; ~newbershiprequirements, publications, etc., course includes : after which publications are discussed in (1) The producers and ~~ecorders05 deta~l,as to scope, malie-up, etc. The var- chemical inform~lion;writers, societies, -re. ious research agencies are then reviewed search and industrial organizations, chemi- and describccl as to how foyxlccl, how main- cal and "btrrdcring" publications, etc. (2) T.Vhe19e the inforimtion produced iained, type 01 worlc car1.1r.11 on, etc.; ancl may be found; the lbrary, where located, in this connection the various government filing systems, ~uethods of indexing antl agencies which cany on work of intascst cataloging., service available, etc. to chemists are considerctl with the sainc (3) Methods of searching the source:; object in view. available; indexes, catalogs, carcI files, blbli- Subjects pertaining to the history of ographles, abstract journals, review serials, che~nistry,as well as the lives and worlcs of standard inefercnce worlts, encyclopedias, the more impo~tantscientists, are t~mtecl, dictionaries, hanclboolcs, textboolts, e c. but rather lightly, as tllesc twu subjects arc (4) Patent literature; Unitecl States antl taltcn up in more detail in other courses foreign; tlhr publications and how to use offered by the University. Howevcr, their them. inlportance is strongly e~nphasizecland not (5) Allied subjects; types of writers, overlooked. methods of writing, methods of abstracting, When the work as outlined has been cov- and abstract and report writins. ered, use of the material presented js ~nade All these subjects are descrhed in out- by indicating methods for general or com- line form, so that the student may have p~ehensivesearches in the specific branches a clear idea of the field into which he is of chemistry, such as, e. g., general, in- SPECIAL LIBRARIES organic, applied, organic, metallurgical, bio- The Library of the Mellon Institute and logical, and physical chemistry, etc. the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh are available for the use of students, thus af- Besides lectures, the students are given fording them valuable opportunities not practical problems in the search of the liter- enjoyed by many elsewhere. In these two aturc, not so nruch for the finding out of libraries almost any journal, text-book, or any specific information contained therein, reference work needed ca? be found. but so that they may actually handle as No text-book IS used with the course of many of the facilitics as they can in the lectures, but a rather complete list of books time allotted and become acquainted with and journal articles dealing with the sub- the immense amount of material available ject is given and it is urged that the stn- for their use at a future date, when their dents make use of this literature for refer- need therefor arises. ence wherever possiblc. The Special Library in the Field of Education JOHN K. NORTON Director of Research, National Educat~onAssociation "There is, so far as we can discover, no The schools of New Yorlr are as indepen- accurate source of information on this vital dent of those of New Jersey as the schools of subject." Such was the answer received France are independent of those 01 Eng- from the Librarian of the Board of Educa- land. Each of our State schod systems tion of one of our great American cities in uses different methods in meeting its pub!ic reply to an inquiry as to where one might school problems. Consequently, educational turn in order to keep in close touch with development must be based on the experi- current educational materlal. It is not ence of all these systems if it is to be in- difficult, therlefore, to understand why the telligent. At the same time thousands o! National Education Association finds it cities, counties, towns and rural communl- necessary to create a special library as one tles are working out their educational sal- of the divisions of its headquarters or- vations under the system of large local ganizat~on. autonomy that most of our statcs allow. The National Education Association, an The instructors and students in hundreds of oraanlzation of 125,000 of the progressive un~versities, normal schools and private teachers and school -executives of the coun- foundations are also lending their aid in try, maintains its headquarters office in seeing that the billion dollars we spend an- Washington, D. C. This association has as nually for public schools is speilt most ef- its purpose the advancement of the interests fectively. of the teaching profession and the promo- The educational expcrience, invest~gation tion of education. Each of the seven divi- and research that results iron1 thc work of sions of the organization's central office is the 750,000 teachers and school executives charged with certain specific clutics. They in the thousands of state and local educa- can be 1110st effectively discharged only if tional systems becomes available in many the division directors are kept constantly ways. Educational magazines, official re- in touch with the up-to-th'e-rn~nute develop- ports, and pr~ntedpampilets are issued by ments in the educational field that affect the hundreds every month. Valuable wa- their work. terial often does not appear in printed form. This is especially true of the Division of It may be obtainable in miweographcd or Research. This Division is charred with typewritten form, or possibly only by disecl the duty of making available proilptly, in inquiry and correspondencle. This great usable form, vital educatlonnl information. stream of educational material must be It is not enough that this information tapped if our headquarters staff, and partic- should be collected from books or even pam- ularly the Research Division is to be most phlets. Material that has had time to get effective. into books is often no longer current. in It is for this reason that a special library our meaning of the terms. It may be intcer- is Ueing developed as a part of the head- esting to the histdrian and student, but the quarters organization of the National Edu- time of its greatest usefulness to the school cation Association. The special, function of executive has passe& the library division wll be to collect and When the Division of Research was or- make readily available the current ednca- ganized, it was soon found that the collec- tional information v~talto the work of each tion of the source material upon which to division director. Such a task can be per- base its studies was a good sized job in formed satisfactorily only by a trained ex- itself. This material has to be gathered pert, who devotes all of his time and thought from a multitude of educational agencies. to the developnlent of a library, o~ganized First, threre are f orty-eight separate and with the special needs of our organization sovere&n school systenls in this country. in mind. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Reminiscences *

JOHN S. BROWNNE,

Librarian of The New York Academy of Medicine.

No more complete verilication of the old fast, that quarters were no longer possible saying-"A11 things conic to him who waits" in our building at 12 West 31st Street. can be imagined, than the supply comng to Through the efforts of many friends-a list our demand for a new building, in which to of whom, with their donations, may be found carry on the various activities of assistance in an article by Dr. C. L. Wheeler in the for the medical profession, in its efforts to New York bleclical Journal, July 22, 1911- care for human life. we were able to build our present home, and The waiting has been fraught with some felt very secure and able to expand. Then misgivings and inuch extra ~orli,but al- it that all the dreams I had dreamed, ways the firm conviction of our usefulness, began to take form and substance. First, and hclp, has sclppl~edthe optimsin which the journal files were looked after for com- our proverb states. Bes~desI have always pletion, and I have spent hours conning felt that thcre is no gift too great or con- sales lists and figuring how many I could venience exaggerated that helps the inedi- fit into funds available. It was so gratify- cal profession. What efforts for huinan ing to he able to supply references called bettcrnient can compare with those of pre- for, that effort in the periodical direction ventive medicine? For the success of pre- seeined no effort at all. Always the genus ventive mcclicine, thcrc lnust be all the helps pamphlet, has had a sort of black eye with extended that are possible in this entire the general librarian. But not with the world of ours, through the medium of re- medic. He grabs every one he can get ports and perioclicals. ancl provides a good berth for it, as well s You have asked me to give a few lines author and subject index. about our Library-its beginnings and con- Well I renlember a ''life saver" in the tinuing~,so I will only touch briefly and for111 of a small duodecimo pamphlet of personally on that department of the ac- twelve pages, which I had carefully pre- tivities of the New York Acadewy of Mcdi- served, as in fact I do even the ubiquitous cine. reprints. There was a request for a cer- When I mas callcd froill an assistantship tain portrait of one of the Indian gods of in the Astor, to take charge of the Library mediaine. The reader had spent three days in the first building owned by the Academy in the British Indian department at the at 12 West 31st Street, thcre were some Public Library, made visits to the wouder- 2,000 test boolts and periodicals, the most ful lot of Medical History boolts in the Sur- in~po~tantof which were currcnt, foreign Reon General's Library, Philaclelphia Medi- and domestic journals. The L~brarystaff cal Library ancl Boston Meclical Library, consistccl of just one person. Physicians wlthont success. Our pcr?,lplrlet which was generally had, at that time, working li- a sort of medical advertisement, by the way, braries of their own and visited our li- supplied the picture. bmry chiefly for reading current periocl- So, in 1890 we had our "new building" icals. I realized, very early in my work, and our activities seemed ~rovidedfor. Our that hcrein lay the secret of usefnl~~essof a readers increased so jyently that the first public library. block we had was-"afternoons for mem- While meet~ngand tal$ng with the doc- bers only." Then stacks had to be changed, tors in discussion of thew various cases, I shelving hung upon every available spot, found how helplul it was to look over the and even then shifting began, and we all journals and make notes for each one, of know what it means to shift boolts, upstairs articles hearing on h~sspecialty. Imagine on landings, down stairs in temporary the efforts of those early times, with no closets and then to cover up mantels and re- Index Medicus, or Cumulative Index! move all tables that can possibly be eliini- Many days I was on duty from 9 A. M. to nated. I was beginning to feel a bit dis- 9 P. M. couraged for the first time in my library Mv bibliographical aids then consisted of career, when lo! the good fairies came out Neal's Digest, Ilayem's Revue, and of the Carnegie and Rockefeller Founda- Schmitt's Jah~buch,and in 18'79, the Index tions and took us by the hand, ancl are going Medicus, most perfect of Meclical biblio- to give us a new building, this time sufi- graphies, appeared. ciently commodious not only to house our After four years, 1 was given an assist- present wonderful collection of boolis and ant, and as my duties then, included the pamphlets, but will wake it possible for us bookkeeping. and superintency of the Acad- to get all those we neecl which for lack of emy, I certainly needed onc. funds bhose tantalizing sales lists have In 1888-89, our Library was growing so dangled before our covetous eyes. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Mar.-Apl., 1923 Lee Urges Lists The following communication has been simple a subject as a list of construction received from George W. Lee, of the library engineers, no list of any considerable value of Stone and Webster, Boston, Mass. is available. The best clue has been a list "The whole snhject of lists is one which, prepared by Boyd's City Dispatch of New Yorli, which gives only the names, and to it seems to me, special libraries ought to follow this up with checking against the give more attention to. Just as in the past files of Moody's Manual, which will give we have been giving considera'Jle attention the additiond information. to bibliographles, so I feel we can make a I think that, as special librarians, we very definite contribution in the preparation cnn make a vdualile contribution in the way of lisLsof names of vaTious sorts. If this of preparation of practical lists of associa- work could be divided so that a given sub- tions, informalion services, e'c., etc. All ject could be assigned to a single library of these are In a sense b~bliog~aphicin char- or to a group cooperating, I am sure that acter and yet they will be different from the some splendid lists could be prepared. average bibli3graphies which we all prepare It has surprised me to find that on so in our daily work."

Medical Academy Gets $2,000,000 for Temple of Science* Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Corporation Each Gives $1,000,000

Inst~tut~on'sPres~dent Tells of Program for Library and Lecture Extensions.

The New Yorlc dcademy of Medicine has readers last year and the number iq rap~dly purchased the southwe~tcorner of Sisticth growing. It is now planned to in~p~ovethe Street ant1 Park Plvenue, with a 100-fool library and its org.anization so as to make frontase on the avenue and a 100-foot front- ava~lak,lethe literature on any topic on short age on S~xtlcthStreet, for the erection of a notice. ten or twelve story building which will be the new home of the Acaclemy and a centre Aid for Puzzled Physicians. for continuous nlstruction of meclical men This service, as it is planned would en- in advancement in thclr sclence. able a physician who was guzzled by some +n enlarged progyam for keepmg phy- curious symptom, or the unusual tlevelop- siclam and surgeons infor~nedof the sound inent of a disease, to have all that hntl been progress of their profession, and for the written on the subject quicltly assembled instruction of the public in prevent~vemed- for him. Such a service is not entirely new, icine, has been underxaken with the backing. but it is expected to be worlied out more of the Roclief~llel'Foundation and the Car- thoroughly 111 the reorganized library than negie Co~po~ation.Each of these great has cvcr been done before, giving the puz- philanthropic institutions is reported to have zled physician a quick survey of all that has contributed $1,000,000 to this purpose. been reported on the subject. "The present Academy has, so to speak, For lack of proper methods for pres:rv- grown so small and cra1npecl that ils use- ing contributions of ~nedicalknowledge so fulness is only a fraction of what it should that they were readily available to workers be. We have a great library, for instance, in the same field, hundreds of valuable sug- but its value is much reduced for lack of ~estionsand discoveries have been lost anti facil~tics. It is the second largest med~cal the advance of medicine illucll retarded, it library in the country, that of the Surgeon was said. General in Washington being the first." "The most valuable book is not always "The New York Public llbrary, for in- the newest one," said Dr. Stewart. "011e stance, is making no serious effort to form of the best books ever written on cancer, a collection of this kind, so that for medi- fo~instance, is nearly a hundrecl years old. cine and allied subjects there is nothing like The use of a good 1ibra1.y keeps a man in the library of the New York Academy in touch and it keeps hnn humble. It is better this vicinity. We hope to increase this li- in this respect than the twenty-third chap- brary largely. It had more than 34,000 ter of Thomas Aquinas on humility." I' Mar.-Apl., 1923 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Library Service for the Chain Store* GRACE D. AIKENHEAb, Librarian, W. T. Grant Co., New York, N. Y.

Within the last few years, there has grad- that the man writes back and tells some ually developed a new sclence, the modern line he is interested In, and names some science of advertising. To keep pace with books he wan s to read, and a nzw readrL this screntific inquiry into the best nlethods is added to the Library. It is an wsy of buying and selling, a whole literature of matter to keep in touch with him '~yletters, merchandising has sprung up. Recently, and by continually suggesting new title.; m-any books have been published devoted and new subjects to him, he is cmbrictl on c11:irely to t!lis subject, while many others lo ilcw fields of thought and broadc;. inter- est;. have been brought out that take up some Another feature of the Library is the special phase af it, as window display, special study courses which we send out to budgeting, purchasing. Many retailers have any man in our organization. To read a found it profitable to make their own col- well planned course on general business will lertion of this mcreasing aiatoriel in order give a man a well rounded business back- that their entire organiaatio.1 may be kept ground to help prepare him ts meet any In touch wlth the new Idens it1 retailing business emergency. We have planned these a. lhey clavrlop. courses so that several men lacated in one The W. T. Grant Company Library came store may rend a course at the same time, into existmc- about two ym.rs ago io col- and discuss the volumes as they read them. lcct the best material on this subject of In sendmg out such a course, we always retailing with its many allied subjects of scnd out a list of supplementary reading

advertising, buying and selling., turnover, which----- can- be done in corr~erationwith the profits. Our company has a large number local public library. of ,department stores situated in the larger The expansion of a chain organization is :ltlc.: thr~~uphoutthe U~itccl States. The very closely related to the speed with which Ilil>rarg i~.located at the esecntiw ofhs, it can train the men in the organization to a~dsei8ves ~tsliatrons enti;*e!y by mail. assume the pcsitions of responsiblity. You At present the Library contains about eight realize that the length of time required for hnndred books covering general business, the training of a man in our organization organization, personnel work, purchasing, is very important. The Li,bsary makes retailing, salesmanship, advertising, ac- available to an assistant the theory of busi- counting, books describing merchandising, ness, while at the same time he is galning banking and economics. Becausc of the na- his practical knowledge of store keeping ture of our Library patrons, it has been in one of our stores. Here we have the necessary to install first the more practical basic idea of the cantinuation schaol. This books, but eventnally, we hope to build a is an ideal combination and is proving its good collection of boolts upon banking, logic, worth by shortening the training period. psychology, applied psychology, and general Our L~bra+yis unique because ~tspatrons econolnics into which the roots of all busi- seldom visit the Library in person. For ness lead. We have also, now, a small col- that reason, it is vital that some means of l~ctionof trade directories which we plan close touch be establ~slled with each ~ndi- to greatly enlarge this coming year. Ilow- vidual reader. Really, our Library is a cver, in order not to haw our readers be- "Parnassus on wheels Ihat goes out to.its come too specialized in business, we have readers." to borrow a phrase from Chr~st- all the most noteworthy biographies of suc- opher Morley. We wish we could follo~up cessful business inen and a small number of each book that is sent out, with several let- travel books. ters to the reader, and bring out the more Thc primary service of the Library is to salient ideas that are nresentecl in the book make available to all the Inen in our or- and coprelate them with other material to ganization the very best business boolts be sent on later to this reader. On a small suited to their particular needs. "The right card called a "Co~nn~a~~card" the reader book to the right man at the right time.." sends back to the Library his personal ideas A few weeks after a man joins oqr arganl- of the book he has just read. Some of these zntion, the Library mails out to him a gcn- comments on the books are very inter~sting. era1 baolt, followed by a letter .describing 3Tay we read several rcentlg received? the library service and giving h~mlists of books on special subjects. Probably this Economics of mtailijty by Paul IS. Nystrom. first book is rather a surprise to him. It "The mos' helpful part of th~sbook is entirely a mattero of choics whethey a to me was the chapter on expenses of man becomes a reader from t?e Sibrary retailing followed by idens on the.fig- or not. However, the general reaction is uring of p~ofitsand fixlng retall prlces. *.idd~ess delivered at the Annual Convention of the I\'. T. Grant Co, at Atlantic CI~Y. February 19-22, 1923. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Thc histo~yof retailing was very in- Although our Library was o~iginally teresting as well as the cha~~reron started with the educational work as its chain st01es." main feature, because of an increasing de- Eco?zortlics of ~etadi~lgby Paul H. Nystrom. mand, ~t has also had to provide for the "I have found the boolc, the Ecovo- exccntives in our New Yorli Ofice. The nlics of Retailing, one of tl~cmost In- con~mercialside of our Library is now being teresting un the subject of nlerchan- developed. We have many reference ques- dising ilnd retailing that I have ever tions, some even that demand research work. wad or used. This book as a whole, Recent questions that have come to us. are: is very Instructive and every Grant "Turnover of stuck by departments man, more especially those just learn- in department stores." in^ the game, should read this boolc, "Location with street address of the take notes on it, and digest it thor- individual stores cf the six largesL 5 ouahls, for thew are many helpful sug- and 1Oc and departnlent store chains." ge&&s given." Value of corner entpances versus In- Retailing bl~~illgby Clifton C. Field. side cntrances." "Know the market-the merchandise We expect to greatly increase the refer- and the place where it is to be sold. ence resourccs of the Library this year by Im~ortanceof knowing-. quantities- to adding many ncw reference books, so that be bo&+t. the work may be done with greater effi- Value of mark-up, and how obtained. ciency and speed. Uniqueness and value of 'Sales De- There are several plans which me hope monstrations.' to carry out in the near fu'ure. May we Knowinx the merchandising business suggest some of them? thoroughly." We hope to create much closer co- Rommccz of CL great stow by Edward Hun- operation with our present readers by gerf ord. keeping very chely in touch with the "I consider this book very good. For reading of each individual man. the entertainment afforded alone, ~t is We are compiling several special well worth reading. But the real value lists of books such as the "Merchandis- of the book rests in the fnct that the ing Five Foot Shelf," which will be writer of it goes into considerable de- sent ~utto all readers. tails concerning the handliriq of the Du~ingthe year, we plan to fry out R. H. Macy Con~panydepartment store. an experiment with books on salesman- There are many methods and sugges- ship and merchandise with the sales- tions mentioned which are worth jot- girls in some one store. We would like tmg down in one's memory for his own to test out a small group of twelve futuye refs~cnce. I would recom~ncnd titles. This. wc realize, is a field that the book very highly to any of the men so far we have scarcely been able to in the stores." touch upon. Chain stores by Walter Hayward. Probably the thing we wish to bring "To every man engaged in chain store about most is to increase the turnover work it must seen1 that Mr. Hayward of books in the Library. It fihould be covered the field very thoroughly for a an easy matter for every man in our single volume. I was particularly in- organizatioil to read one good boolc tervted in the question nf whether the each montl., chams w:ll ever be able to ~ushout the Because indiviclaal n~erchm~is,or if ~wiuwll "The reading of good business books is alnays exist for both." good business." The Contacts of General and Special Libraries* LOUISE KELLER, Chairman, Special Libraries Council of Philadelph~a. The Special Libraries Council 01 Phila- 'beyship all the specla1 1ibrnr.ans in our delphia and Vicinity was organized not region, we have always welcomecl, Indeed quite four years ago, with the iden of malt- clesired, members anlone librarians; believ- ing possible a better knowleclge of the li- ing we had much to gain from their help, brary resourccs of the city and the sur- and In return had some:hing t-~give. For rounding territory. much the same reason we have, on the While lparticular attention was given other hanrl, sought members among thxe then, and ever since, to enroll in our mem- officials of commerce and industry, who, *Oren~ngaclcll'ess at Spcci,~lLilxal lcs sessiu tion, March 2-3, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

being charged with the asse~nblingof facts a big library borrowecl in hastc from a lit- and information, are in a pos~t~onto up- tle sister, a publication unaccountably miss- pruciate the value of an oi~gmizntionsuch ing from its own shelves. as wc hope to be. Our sccond bibliographical conlrtbut~on As our name implies, our body came to- is slowly gctting under way. I refer to the gether with the idea of taking counsel, one Union List of Periodicals. Of this Dr. with the other. There was no idea of mak- Lewis z1.111 speak later in the morning., but ing rulcs ancl regulations for cooperation to one aspect should properly be treated now. which every member nlust suscribe. Each A worlc, such as our Directory, that is library must bc, and is, the judge of how printed and spread broadcast, entails no far it will open ~tsdoors to aid another. insuperable difficulties for an organization Wc promlse no more than the means of without a home, that is without permanent nlaliing zvkmts and helps known; nor have headquarters and staff, but it is time for we yet perfected the nlachinery for doing serious thought when such an organization evFp this: but we have made a beginning begins to collect data, which for one reason lhrough the courtesy of The Free Li- or another, cannot be duplicated. Lacking- brary of Philadelph~a,lts Division of Muni- the money that will equip and maintain cipal Reference acts as our clear in^ house. the !lome, it must either content itself with To its Chief, and our Secretary, Helen M. an mperfect use of the data, or lt nust Rankin, go many an S. 0. S. By no means discover sonle agency-some George to do all 01 these come from special librarians. the deed. Such an action is not reprehen- In a nunuber of cases it is not necessary sible when it holds a benefit for Gexqc. to trouble the clearing house, as the Di- In untlertalcing the care of our card cata- rectory of Libraries will suggest the most logue of Periodicals, the Periodical Depart- likely source of information. ment of The Free Library hopes to benefit This Directory of Libraries of Philadel- ~tself,ancl held its renders. The Council phia and its Environs is our first sb~blio- hopes that this may be the result. graphical contribution to librarlanship. It I have failed in my pmpose, if by this was necessary, first as an introduction of time I have not made clear to you, that the our members to themselves, and secondly, Council is primarily an agcncy engaged in to introduce to them the hbraries of the making more readily accessible to its mem- City, whether members or not. Perhaps bers the vast storc of information wh~ch thc! Con~mitteecharged with editing the in- exists in Philadelphia or the places readily formation cauoht a fine fever and gloried accessible to it; and that to do this, the task in new librar'es and subjects. I strongly can be approached in no spirit of littleness, suspect "Playbills" .w35 seized as eagerly or fol. merely selfish gain. Each one must for an entry as "Pa~nt." The question was contribute that gift of service it 1s best indeed raiser1 whether a direchry Issued calculatecl to render; not aslting an eye for for a special 1 brary association should not an eye; but rtlther exchanging the service draw the line somewhere; but this was re- of an eye for that of a hand; understand- futed by the anxious query of a special li- ing that the very essence of succcss lies in brarian, who had undestaken to discover the using members for the work thas qre best signilicance of the lily in Chinese art. The equipped to do; making. capital of that which stand taken was, that the librarians even diff erentialcs us. of a business house, niiqht as a by product, The ways in which thc genera! library be callcd upon for advice ranging from in- fant's nutrition to Pharoah's tm~b. The can serve the special library are ohvious. consequences of this liheral attitude have It can be used as a storehouse, a resesvolr bcen, that useful as the Directory is to from which we draw that which is not so special librarians I believe I can say it has frequently useful as to deserve a plac:! becn Inore valuable to, and mare frequently upon our own shelves. lhe pwera! library, uscd by the librarians and the general pub- particularly the public library, can be'ter lic,; a fact that can be rated as value ~e-act as the custodian of joint records; as ceiwd against the increased use of librarlcs the clearing house ; the neutral ground by the speciaI librarians. where conflicling ~nterestsmeet. Serv~ng There is no reason however, why the the public, it can serve special libraries, Iibyaries should not aslc for a return of the even though they be private libraries, as library couitesies which they have almpst no private library can make a business of universally accorded the special libraries. serving other private libral'ics. Some special libraries have riaid isestric- On the other hnd, tl~csl~ecial library, tions about the loaning of certain types of worltiny intensively. can often supply out- material, such as magazines, even to their of-the-wz:y information; boolcs and maga- own clientele, but nsually these libraries zincs nP too specla1 a clmrartcr to justify will go as far for a stranger a5 for their the expenditure of public funds. Even in own people. You can penerally arrange for general subjects, it can be a useful auxil- a visitor to be admitted, and in many cases, iary when b001is are out, or magazines at books, etc.. will be loaned to you for use in the bindery. A speciaI library is often your own library. a picker up of unconsidered triflles, that 111 The value of this borrowing privilew is the general library would become as the not restricted to unusual or extreniely tpch- needle in the haystack. It is apt to house- nical subjects. I know of one case where clean; ancl unless it is large, wth an ex- 28 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Mar.-Apl., 1923 tensive staff. it has no time to sell, or ad- fessional services in an intricate mathe- vantageously dispose of its discards. An matical calculation. energetic public library will consider all It is this side of the work, the locatlng of these matters and turn them to account. specialists, I should like to see better de- Above all in estimating the possible uses veloped. I am hoping for a greater number of special libraries, in or near Phlladelp!lia, of special libraries, it must be remembered spreading among business and techllical our sources of knowledge are not confined men an appreciation of library technique, to the printed word. One of our members and a dependence on library resources. once applied to another for help in some ob- Above all, the owners of thcse speciu! li- scure problem. The librarian was unable braries inust be impressed with the ha to find the information, but referred the that a library that stands alone does JIQ~ question to an official of her company, who give a full measure of service. It canna;! promised to write an opinion upon it. While Its powers are limited. The sum of all I this may be unusual, it is not unprecedented. have to say to general librarians, those of My own firm, applying to thls same librar- Philadelphia particularly, is this: We, the ian for help mas put in touch with a Inan snecial librarians, can clevelop special powers who lent us his personal books, and with that will, in the end, help you. whom we subsequently arranged for pro- Help us! The Library and Legislation* By GREGORY C. KELLY, General Manager, Pennsylvania Compensation Rating and lnspectlon Bureau. Law making under our democratic form middle states lives in cities and the of government IS not an art which has been is the inevitable confusion and interdepen- scientifically developed and u lack of or- dence which occurs when .a large number ganized knowledge is especially obvious in of people live close together. This change the enactments of State Legislatures. Leg- from s~lnpleto complex methods of living islation can not apply significantly to hu- has not only occurred but it has become so man affairs unless individual legislators much a matter of course that the rapidity have themselves a broad knowledge of the of the change is generally disregarded. Yet fundamental facts relating to the indus- it is the very rapidity of change that has tries, the domestic rclations and the relaxa- carried society beyond lc~islativeorganizu- pons of the people for who111 they legislate. tlon so that laws and law malting are un- rcr illustrate, there is now before Penn- sulted to present necds. sylvania Legislature a bill for An act One hundred and forty years ago modern requiring cities of the th~rdclass to fur- industry had its beginning with Watts' im- n~shbooths for the protection of traffic of- provement of the steam engine. In the in- ficsrs." Cities of the third class in Ponnsyl- tcrvening years civilization has become me- vania are those with less than 125,000 Twpu- c5anical ta such an extent that even cloth- lation. Another bill praposes an amend- ing and food are machine-made and the ment to "An act to revise, anwnd and con- spinning mills and weave sheds, the tan- solidate the 1,aw relating to fish and pro- neries and shoe factories, the knitting mills vlding penaltms." Separate appropriation and clothing factories are filled with ma- bills have been presented for thiyty-one hos- chine operators. Candy is mechanically pitals and fourteen bills propose amendment made; milk is separated and stcrilized by in the detail of electing public officials. Al- machines; bread is baked in mechanical together five hundred bills have been pre- ovens and meat is machine packed or me- sented in the first month and a half of this chanically handled. Not only art! all nr- session, sixty-one of which affect the State ticles of coinmon u?e made by machine, but Constitution or the government of coun- ? large part of the population IS engaged ties, cities, towns or boroughs which have In operating the machines which malie already been organized for many years. things and yet only a century npo thrw Organization and constructive betterment artic!cs, if made at ,,ll, were mdc ny hsnc!. have no part in this hodge podgr,. It- may Society could not now exist without me- be said how eve^ that Pennsylvml,~1s no chanical inesn.; of communicaticn, c.l;mzra- exception in respect to the complexity r~nd tively new 3s they are. The first nilr road confusion of proposed legislat~on. project In his country, whinh was but The modern form of State Government sixteen miles la length and wk.icn secured had its evolution In a tlme of simple social its locomotive f?om England, is now but organization which it well suitecl. Since n7r:tty yewq ~JJ.Bell's improven~~:?~tnf then the country has developed into what the telephore, at-. xnprovement nhich 1r.ade lnav be called an urban nation. Seventy-five it a useful instrument, occurred less than per cent of the population of the eastern and fifty years neo The ships f jr the first *Arldress at Specla1 L~l~r.ilwsscsslon or N. J.-Penna., Library hssoclat~on Convenlion, hIarch 2-3. 10%. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

transatlantic steamship service were built ers through the safeguarding of machinery in 1838, and it is only in the past twenty- and of dangerous places. They relate also five or thirty years that our familiar trol- to the sanitation of the working places. ley cars and subways have been developed. Workmen's Colnpensation laws have as well B~Rcities, since they produce no raw ma- become general 111 this country. These com- terials or food stuifs, arc dependent entirely pensation laws provide for the payment of on means of transportation. An interrup- a proportion of wages during disability to tion of transportation for only four or five those injured by work accident. They pro- days, would produce extreme hardship in vide also for a distribution of the financial Boston, New Yorlc or Philadelphia. burden of these competlsatlan payments Just as electric and steam railroads have through an insurance system. In thls way made our big cities so also the typewriter, this proportion of the cost of work accidents the filing cabinet and the adding machine is borne by the consuming public. have made it possiblc to organlze the execu- There is, moreover, discussion of social tive ofices of the great industries which legislation which will provide old age pen- themselves depend on modern mechaniza- sions, sickness funds and unen~ployinent tion for their operation. Interdependence funds. All of this mass of Labor Legisla- is the result of this mechanical development. tion recognizes the existence of a perma- Machines will not function witho~~thum~n nent class of wage earners. It recognizes control. Trolley cars and steain trains as well that such workers receive as re- mnst have crews of men to operate them muneration for their labor, amounts too whether to carry the factory worker or the s~nallto per~nitthe accu~nulationof wealth factory product. Each person is now de- and too small to provide fnr the expected pendent for the bare necessity of life up011 misfodunes of their occupation. the cooperutive efforts of many people. Because of this complexity of human af- Certain moclifications in social organiza- fairs today, it is not posslble for legisla- tion have kept pace with the increasing use tors to act intelligently on the many diverse and development of machine~y. For ex- and intricate problems with whlch they are ample, Medical Science has solved new prob- confrontcd. This is one of the reasons which lems arising from the crowd'ing of many results in differences between separate neople into small areas and chemisbry has states in 1egisIative action on the same sub- had a tremendous impctus fro111 the demand ject. For example, the laws governming the of industries for beifcer and cheaper means organization of corporations in the states of of proclucti~on. Real Estate, Insurance, New Jersey and Delaware have been of the Bankinq, in fact all business and science sort to (attract capitalists. These laws have have altered greatly in one hundred years been so different from the laws of other and in the course of these social changes states that corporations were organized there has been created a permanent wage under the charters granted in New Jersey class. and Delaware although they owned no It was but a few years ago that the property and did no work in bhe state. Penn- country was principally agricultural. So sylvania for instance has developed a State short a time as forty years aqo, but thirty Consbabulary that has been a model for pcr cent of the fourteen million people of other states though it has been questioned this country lived in cities: now, however, as to whether llie organization satisfies a slightly ovcr half of the fifty-four millions public need or performs a public function. of people are city dwellers. In earlier days Legislatures are made up of individuals there was still governn~entland to be had with qualifications largely political. They for the taking and enterprising peonle then are for the lnost part respected members bccame farmers or merchants in the new of their communities, well meaninq and cle- communities thus formed. Wage earners sirous of meeting the responsibilities before were enqaged in hand trades and could be- them. The tenure of office, however, is not come pioneers and homesteaders ~f they long and legislative procedure is intr~cate. wished. Moreover, the proportion of wage Legislakion is in fact a difficult problem. earners was not a inaioritg of the popula- The sessions are short-in Pennsylvania tion, whereas now some ninety per cent of they occupy four or five nionths each two the people gainfully employed are wage years. Literally thoasanrls of bills arc pre- earners. Practically the whole S-ocial or- sented in this time. Thc presentation is ganization is now engaged either In manu- perfunctory and reference to a standinq facturing articles for sale or in buying and committee is also perfunctorily made. Bills selling. may or may not be reported out by the Starting with mechanics liens and the committee to which they have been referred. exemption of wage payments from attach- Moreover, the legislator has much to do in ment, legislation has to a certain extent the way of securing places for political had to follo~these changes in social or- followers, log rolling for measures in which ganization although so-called Labor Legis- ,he is parDicular,ly interested, committee laticn has more recently concerned itself work and the attendance upon public hear- with hours of labor and minimum wages al- ings and formal sessions of the legislature. most entirely. Factory laws have been en- All this activity leaves little time for study acted. These relate to the safety of work- or thoughtful consideration. A large num- SPECIAL LIBRARIES ber of the probleinn prescllted come as new has escaped at sonic time or some place from subjects to the le~islator. No one person the subject of leg~islmative enactment. To can be familiar with banking, legal proceed- collect antl keep up source infor~nationand authoritative reference of so broad a scope ure, ra~lroatlvaluation, civic government, is a very general and a very big undertali- diversified iatlustry and 111c like. ing. In this vxriecl characte: of subjects and Not only is legislation wlthmt scientific in the need of their careful study lies the j~lrestigation and exact knowledge but it province of the Legislative Reference Li- 1s also haphazard. The fact that sixty- brary. New Yorlc State formed the first one, separate bills could be presented to of these Reference Libraries in 1890 as a a slngle legislature, all rdating to a single dcpartnlent of the State Library. Its pu1'- subject and In a period of abous one 111011th, pose and chief occupa ion was the indexing 1s bad enough. These bills, however, all and class~ficationof the general legislation propose changes in the detail of government of the several states. Wisconsin f ollowcd of ex~stingcounties, cities, towns or bor- with the formation of such a libmry in 1901. oughs. No comprehensive or unified sys- This latter l~brarg,however, had a broader tem of legislat~on can result Iron1 these purpon?. In aiiditiun to the indexing and confusing proposals. classify~iigof laws, many of which are llot Here Indeed 1s another and still unex- well zidapted to thc~rostensible purposes, ploitecl field for the reference librarian- this library has from the beginning done codification of proposed legislatlon is be- reference work an proposed leg-islation. conling a publlc need. Under stlch a system The functions which arc perfoiBmed by the bills would be presented at a short advance Legis1,ative Reference Libraries now organ- legislative session. They would then be ized appear, with one or two notable ex- classified by subjects, arranged as far as ceptions, to he largely of a secretarial na- possible in unity and presented to th? proper ture. Proposed legislation is put in legal legislative coinmittee by the Librar~an. Porm, titles are a~ranged,numbers assigned Although of public benefit, at least two and endless formalities of the sort are per- d~fficull.ies would be encountered by this fcrnied. This proposed legislation is re- codification program. Legislators wish to corded historically as to its author, the be known as the authors of bills fitted to the date of presentation, its committee ~efc~-popular prejuclices of their conshtuents. encc antl the like. Conlpletccl lgislatlon is Legislation, moreover, is not spontaneous indexed am! ,classified. Legal as well as but results generally from the desire of labor iirbrary traming is required for eficient or capital to secure new legislatlon or performance of this task and libraries change old legislation ror their own advan- "learned in the law" are specified in the tage. Unostentatious presentation and dex- organizat~onof these libraries. Not only tesous committee assignment 1s soinetinles is Ihi.s work useful but it IS also a big and resorted to for such bills which may he ye- exacting taslc. Appropriations, however, ported out from committee in the closing are limited and this is cloubtless the Peason cl~ags of the session along with a flood of lor the omission of the more useful function other bills and so escape attention during of reference work. their perfunctory passage. Certainly no Much attention is given in the reports public harm could result fro111 codification of these Legislative Reference Libraries to and public cliecuesion of such bills as these. t,hc indcsing and classifica~tion of news- The province of the Rel'erance Librarian paper and pclind~calclippings. Such in- of the future is one oC social importance of fornmtion is of LranGtory and inexact char- the first order since legal systems depend- acter antl as such is a waste of time mhere- ent upon formality and precedent rather as source infmnation is the primary re- than equity and justice are beconling de- quisite for intelligent study. cadent. &onomic and sociological study Legislative Reference Libraries are geu- of affairs of the day must hmave its effecl cral in charactr. Every activity of the on legislation. Investigati,on and research people is subject to the control of leeisla- a1.e fundamentals of effective Ilrogress. The tion. W~ththe great mass and miscelhne- library is the guide and the advisor of such ous character of laws as a bnsis it would investigation and the very instrument of be almost safe to say that no human act such research. SPECIAL LIBRARIES A Union List of Periodicals' By FRANK GRANT LEWIS, Librarian, Crozier Theological Seminary Rcal people of our day want cto know the organized, we began to fcel the need of a facts. Knowledge 1s at a premlula. Good union llst of special period~calsfor Phila- indexes are the keys to the knowledge which delphi,a and the Philadelphia cornlnunity real people insist on having A bibliog- as a whole. Probably one rrason why we raphy is a special form of index and one felt this need was our acquai~ltancewlth that is indispensable. In our quest for real the very great value af the Union List l~ub- things, a bibliography of per~odicalsis one llshed in 1908 and its supplemc~~tin 1910. of the most essential lcinds of bibliography When Miss Keller becanle chairman of as a whole, because many of the most val- the Council and emphasized the work of uablc discussions appear only in periodical committees, one of the committees pro- form. A unlan llst of period~calsis a par- vided for was that on per~otl~calliterature. ticularly significant b~bhography because When she asked me to serve as chairman of it is an index at once to the periodical liter- that committee she hardly hew, I am sure, ature of a particular conlmunity and en- though she may have seen syn~ptowsof the ables the investigator to ascertain directly fact, that cluring nearly a quarter of a cen- whether an item is available anywhere with- tury one of my standing dissipations has in an extended circle of library collections. been an unrestrained indulgence in periodi- Among the union lists of perlod~calscom- ual publications. I recall for example how piled cluring the last twenty-five years ancl mcre than twenty years ago wlicn I had become indispensable for uncovering. facts occasion to handle the first two volumes of for the investigator, that issued by the thc Atlantic IMonthly, I mas interested to libraries of Philadelphia and vicinity uncler observe that the editor, beginning. his pub- thc auspices of The Free Libl-ary of Phila- licat~onin November, 1857, u~~tlcrstooclthat clelphia in 1908 xnd 1910 stands preemi- such a magazine should be arrnngcd in two nent in one particular. I mean of course volunles per calendar year and accordingly the Sact that it shows not only what pcriodi- put seven numbers in each of the first two cals are received in the libraries in thls volumcs in order that thercaftcr each cal- community but also shows where any por- endar ycar might be div~ded into two vol- tion uf any set may be consultecl. This item ulncs of convenient size. alone has given to the Philadelphia Union I vcnture to mention this item and to List an outstanding sipn,ificancc. An ex- touch upon this aspect of periodical litcra- perlence which came to me some ten yews turc because the form of a j~e~iotlict~lis ago illuslralrs the pc.ss~blllties. next in importance to its contenth as an A gentleman wishccl to consult the files element of utility. While a unim list dues of the Independent back in the 80's. The not reveal this, those who malir use of tlie Philadelphia Union List revealed painfully union list are soon aware of the fact. An- that the Inclependcnt for that period was other item will illustrate the poi'lt not to be had anywhere about Philadelphm About a dozcn years ago I Alst c1bse1-ved This cliscvvcry while negative, was of in- hcw the benighted Btlptists of ?II.~ssachasetts mense economic value, since the nest thing in 1803 when they began to publish the in mportance to knowing where an iten1 Massachusetts Baptist ~~~~~~~~~~~y Mags- is, is knowing where it 1s not, because 1111- aine, and issued a number at ~rre,gular In- ~nediately Lhe need for seurching the li- tcrvals as they had niate~'ial,~~cvertheless braries of a field is obviated and all the rurranged the lssucs from 1803 to the close time whlch would be spent in such investi- of 1816 in four volumes with title pages gation is saved. and indexes which it is a pleasure to hmldle When I found that the Inrlepenclcnt of tcday because of their excellent form as that period wns not available in the vic~nity well as the 1-arity of the contents. of Philadelphia, I turned to the vmt list Inl~ei~itingsuch agreeable items frm the of periodicals of the Librxry of Cong'l'ess psi, when I note that the Intcr.lationa1 ancl saw that the portion of thc Indcpendent Book Rev~ewbegan pubilrations \\I-h De- desired was not I~sted. Accori5ngl:: I cou~cl cember, 1922, when it minht just as well tell thc rcader that the pages he wishcd to have begun in Jannary, 1923, has :>n In- consult were avahble in Wasli~ngton. Be- tolerable page! nnd adds tcl the absurdity cause ol the%xistc;~ceof a union list, ancl n of the magazine by paging each number urant list, I 11srl been able withm a few separately, I am inclined to have con side^- minutes to loccts an item whtch otherwise able synlpathy with the Fundan~entalists would have rcqulrecl diays or weeks of when they say, in effect, "Day by day in S~ELSC~Iif ~t were to be uncoverecl. every map the world is woroer and worseis." Almoslt as soon as the Special Libraries In spite, however, of the ignocntlce, witless- Cou~cilof Philadelphia mcl Vicinity as ness and comme~*cialisn~of the edi:ors of SPECIAL LIBRARIES Mar.-Apl., 1923 periodicals, a union list is indispensable, as shown by the printed Union List of 1908 and the Special Libraries Council of Phila- ~nd1910. delphia proceeds accordingly. Another element stressed was that each In view of the importance of the matter special library should give particular a - for the Philadelphia area, Miss Keller pre- tention to reporting its highly technical vailed upon Miss Graffen, with her large and.therefore specially rarc periodical pos. sessions. This was emphmized because we experience as chief of the periodical divi- found that a librarian was likely to reg-ard sion of The Free Library, and Miss Rankin, such highly technical material as beyond the secretary of the Counoil, in addition to the interest of manybody other than its own the other members of the committee, to co- technical staff. The corninittee as a whole, operate in the movement contemplated. however, insisted that one of Lhe chief pur- Various meetings of the committee were poses of a union list is precisely the rx~rd- held and all details of the plan considered. ing of such rarities. As an onbcome it was decided to prepare It will he easily understood that the work the union llst on regular L. B. cards fo,r use involved in the preparation of such u union in that form at once and as a basis for list is cor~siderablefor each library. As a printing at a later time if that should be- result some libraries are con~pellccltr, dis- come possible. It was agreed to prinl 5,000 tribute the work of preparing the cards over months of time, and only about twmty of cards in form somowhat like L. B. order the libraries identified with the Council cards but entering into less detail, each hmave yet returned the cards to The Fre: Li- card to bear the exact name of a periodical, brary. Already, however, the items rc- the library where this periodical is avail- ported show the large significance of 'he able, the inclusive dates and volumes avail- project undertaken, 315 items not in The able, and, in the case of current publica- Free Library appearing. at present in the tions, the place and frequency of issue, and list. the price. These cards were then distrib- I can illustrate the outcomc at ~rescnt uted among the libiv~ries connected with thus far in a single case by menlioning the the Council, according to the number of result for one of the two librarie5 with titles each librtlry through itself likely to which I am personally connected. We report, an,l at the ,same time a farm letter found that in the ~~eriodicalco1lcct;on bz- was sent to each library giving somcwhat longing to Crozier Theolog~calSeminary wc detailed suggestions as tc. the purpose of have about 270 titles which are either not the list, the use of the cards, ancl the best represented in The Free Library of Ph~la- methods for preparing the cards for the use delphia, according to the Union List of intended. 1908 and 1910, oy are in the Crozier lihrary One highly important element in the pro- more complete than at The Free Library. ject was a generous agreement on the part Obher special collections will undoubteclly of The Free Library of Philadelphia to show even more surprising results in pro- serve as a depository of the union list and portion to the extent of their possessions. to undertake to give infor~imtionby tele- Altogether. while the labor involved in phone, or otherwise as far as poss~ble,con- the ~lanand its execution is far from in- cerning the data furnished by the list. In considerable, we are certain that it will view of this it was understood that librar- more than justify ~tselfin the days ahead ies willing to prepare these cards should as real people more ancl more try to get omit all items available in The Free Llbrary down to the fact of life and its activities.

Said in Standardized Stanzas Dr. Keith Preston, who is, in his serious The bear was quite resentful, but moments, professor of Latin in Northwest- The keeper of the zoo said, "Tut! ern University. but who, In his unofficial Your taste, clear Bruin, does you proud, moments, conducts a column of literary But I must cater to the cro~vd." criticism in the Chicago Daily News, under Ihe title, The Periscope, came up for breath The lion gave his hale one look: not long ago and conlmentecl in these terms His baleful roar the cages shook. on standardizationrin libraries.-according "O-o-oh!" said the keeper of the zoo, to "The Survey" (Oct. 15, 1922) : "Guess I ,must get a bone or two. The keeper of the zoo, one day, And so the lion got his grist; Deaided to buy only hay. The bear went on the waiting list; "Since we must standardize." said he, The big majority still chew "Hay suits the big majority." Abwk what Nature meant them to. Special Libraries LEONORE A. TAFEL, Editor, 125 Washin90n Pl,ace New York City Associate Editors CLARIBELR. BARNETT ALTAB. CLAFLIN &BECCA B. RANKIN

-. Rates: $400 a year; slngle copies 50 cents. EDITORIAL SPECIAL LIBRARIES Our magazine is now in the hands of our enthusiastic and capable new editor, Miss Leonore A. Tafel. Miss Tafel has been in special library work for a number of years, having served as assistant librarian, and act- ing librarian during the War, of the New Jersey Zinc Co. Library. Follow- ing that she built up the library of the American Cotton Oil Co., where she continued her work as librarian for several years. While with them she also assisted in editorial work. She has recently accepted a research position with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Library. Miss Tafel received her first library, training al Drexel Institute Library School where she graduated, and later supplementecl that by the second year in the New York Public Library School. She has known the Special Libraries Association for most of its life-time and for several years has been very active in its behalf. She is splendidly qualified to serve as editor of our publication, and the Executive Board congratulates itself on having persuaded her to assume this task of editorship. Some delay was caused in the issuance of the February number, due to the change of editors and the necessary adjustnlent of details therewith. Only by the ready assistance given us by Mr. Hyde and Mr. Lindsay in Washington, were we able to get it printed as early as we did. This num- ber we are combining, making it the March-April number, thereby giving the editor opportunity to overcome this past unavoidable delay which was no fault of hers. In the future, I am_conficlent the editor will have all issues printed and distributed to our members regularly and on time, as the past editor has done so well during the last five months. It is our hope that all members will cooperate with Miss Tafel by supplying her with news of individuals, libraries, and local associations, and by sending in suggestions or contribytions. The date of going to press is the fifteenth of each month-have all copy to the editor before that date. R. B. R. ITS COMPONENT PARTS If the whole is equal to the sum of its component parts, think what a chance there is for s successful meeting of our national organization at Atlantic City this year! Built up of necessity, on the interest of librarians --and particularly of y~oupsof librarians-in every part of the country, 34 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Mar.-Apl., 1923

the national ~~ganizationthrives or languishes according to the interest demonstrated locally. As component parts of the Special Libraries As- sociation, think of the Philadelphia local association with its successful session at Atlantic City recently, the first session of the kind planned by special librarians, primarily for general librarians; its union list of periodicals and its revised directory. Recall the series of very active meetings in New York which have been appealing to business men as well as librarians and this ass,ociation's cooperation i11 planning courses for special library work; the very definite results obtained by Boston in its published report on Methods; its Sponsorships for knowledge; the work of the Washington local on the Reclassification bill. Then consider the weekly gatherings of special librarians of Chicago; the newly formed as- sociations at Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. During the year these local groups have been hard at work organizing their ideas and now they ~7ill come together with definite realization of needs and with real plans for carrying them out. These ideas coordinated will result in a strong national program-a real national house of information, the parts contributing to the success of the whole and the whole so successf~~lthat it give dignity and public recognition to each corr~~~om~tpwt. THE SECRET IS OUT Plans for the annual Special Libraries Association Convention are announced on the President's Page of this issue. They souncl so alluring that we prophesy there will be a rush for accon~modationsat the Hotel Chelsea. It will be to your interest to make reservation at once! Particular attention is callecl to the speakers who are to address the various session;. The Association is indeed fortunate to have as their guests for the occasion Mr. Bruce Barton of New Work, Dr. David Friday of Michigan Agricultural College, Mr. J. 13. Puelicher of the American Eanlters Associaiion, Mr. Charles F. D. Belclen of the Boston Public Li- h~ary,Mrs. Robert F. Arn~strongof the Eastman Kodak Company and numerous others. Group interests and special library methods hold a prominent place on the program. There is bound to be competition among the group chair- men-each of whom is responsible for planning his own group meeting- and we look forward to some interesting results. The methods conference, covering cataloguing, order work, reference work, book selection, clocu- ments, union lists, and library specialists is a new departure which looks most p~omising. Attention should be called in particular to the convention meetings of the New York Special Libraries Association, the Philadelphia Special Libraries Council and the District oi' Columbia Library Association. These meetings have been arranged by the local associations at the request of the Special Libraries Association to form an integral part of the Convention program. This is an opportunity which you should not neglect to learn special library facilities of other cities and to come into personal contact with the indivclual members composing each local association. Write to the secretaries of these associations telling them you will be on hand. And don't forget the social activities. All work and no play leaves librarians listless. No danger of that at Atlantic City! The title of this editorial is not altogether truthful as regards social activities planned for Conrention Week. Look forward to some interesting developments. The Comnlittee on Social Activities, Miss Marguerite Burnett, Chairman, has been doing some heavy thinking and plannng. We're betting on Burnett! Mar.-Apl., 1923 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 3 5

--- The President's Page - ----I -, PROGRAM OF S. L. A. FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION, HOTEL CHELSEA, ATLANTIC CITY, MAY 22-25, 1923 h1onthly meeting of the New York Spe- Cataloging-Miss Margaret Mann, Engi- cial Libraries Association, Monday, May neering Societies Library, N. Y. 21, 4 P. M. IVIetropolitan Life Insurance Order Work-Miss Thesdora Abbott, Na- Co., 1 Madison Avenue, New Yorlc City. tional Bank of Commerce, N. Y. Open~ng Reception, Tuesday evening, Reference Worlc-Mr. E. H. McClellantl, May 22, 8 P. M., at Hotel Chelsea, Atlan- Carnegie Library, P~ttsburgh. tic City, N. J. Sources for Book Selection-Mis.i Julia McCord, GeAog~cnl Survey, Washing- TENTATIVE PROGRAM ton, D. C. First general session: Wednesday, May Docunients-Mr. E. H. Redstone. Massa- 23, 1923, 10.05 A. M. chusetts State Library. Address of Welcome: Wm. L. Rader, National List of Pcr~odicals-Mr. H. M. Mayor or Atlantic City. Lydenberg, New York Public Library. Aclcl~~essby a representative of American Specialists in Public Libraries-Miss Library Assoc~ation,either Sec~etary Gladys Love, Rochester Public Library. Carl A. Milam or the new President. Annual address by President of SPECIAL SECOND GENERAL SESSION, THURS- LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION, RE- DAY, 2.35 P. 31. BECCA B. RANKIN. "How to Makc Facts Work," Spealccr to "ICnowleclge is Power," be announced. Speaker to be announced. "Serving Humanity," by Brucc Barton, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, N. T. GROUP fiIEETINGS-WEDNESDAY, "Business Prophesies-i)r for \that sub- MAY 23, 2.36 P. M. jects will 111usiness librarians be called Thcse meetings will be held ax the same upon in thc coming year," by Dr. tiinc but a separate rooin for each group. Davd Friday, President of Michigan Each group will have a Chairman who has Agricultural College. arranged the program, allowinp particu- larly for in1ormal discussions of everyday SOCIAL EVENING-TI-IURSDAY, M=1P problelns. 24, 1923, 8 P. M. Financial-Miss Alice Rose. Chairman. In charge of Sxial Committee, under ~nsurance-Miss Frances S: Csx, Metro- Xiss Marguerite Rurnett, Federal Reserve politan Life Insurance Co., New York. Bank of New Yorlc. Medical-Miss Janet Melvain, Co~nmon Dramatics, stunts and other interesting Service Committee, New York. features promised. Religion-Clara Clarke, Biblicnl Sen~inary 111 New Yorlc. BUSINESS SESSION-FRIDAY, NAY Industrial-Miss Louise Keller, Indepencl- 25, 1923, 10.05 A. M. ence Bureau, Ph~ladelphia. All business transacted. Reports of Civic-Miss Ina Clement, Municipal Ref- co~nmittees. Election of Officers. Discus- erence Library, ~ekYo1.k. - sion and adoption of new c3nstitulion. Re- Technology-Mr Georqe Wintkrop Lee, ports froill local associations New officers Stone & Webster, Boston, Mass. wlll assume office. Sociological-Mrs. Bertha V. Hartzell, Sxial Service Library, Boston. THIRD GENERAL SESSION-FRIDAY, Agricultural and Sc~entific-Miss Claribel MAY 2S, 1923, 8.05 P. &I. R. Barnett, Departnlent of Agr~cul- New President .Presiding tural, Washington, D. C. "Need of Libraries in the Financial World," by Mr. J. I-I. Puelicher, Presi- CONFERENCES ON METHODS, dent dnzer~canBankers Association. TFIURSDAY, MAY 24, 1923, "The Public Library and its Relation to 10.05 A. M. Business Interests," Charles F. D. These meetings will be in sessions at the Relden, Boston Public Library. same time, but in different rooms. Each "I-Iuman Relations in the Eastman Kodak nleeling will be in charge of s chairman Company,"- -. by Mrs. Robert F. Arm- who has arranged his own propram to snit strong, Eastman Kodak Company, its particular needs. Informal discussion Rochester, N. Y. will be encouraged. Monthly ineeling of the Special Libraries 36 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Mar.-Apl., 1923

Council of Philadelphia and vicinity, Sat- These rates will extend to and through urday, May 26, 8 P. M., Philadelphia, Pa. Sunday, May 27th. Members desiring ac- Monthly meeting of the District of Co- co~nn~odationsare requested to write di- lumbia Library Association, Saturday, rect to the Hotel Chelsea. May 26, 1923, 8 P. M., at Washington D. C. The Chelsea bus meets all trains at the Delegates will be given an opportunity to Pennsylvania Station, or jltney busses may visit any or all special librarias' in New be obtained. Yorlc City, on Tuesday, May 22. Miss Elsa Baggage skoztld Be checked direct to the Loeber, New York State Chamber of Com- Hotel Chelsen, or it may be sent via Parcel mercc, has offered to make her library Post. It will be placed directly in room headquarters for all visiting delegates dur- assigned. ing their sojourn in New York, Monday EXHIBIT and Tuesday, May 22-23. There will be The Exhibit is in charge of MISS Grace a committee appointed to give all possible A. Child, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance assistance and information to all librar- Co., Hartford, Conn. A11 arrangements ians interested in visiting special libraries for exhibits should be made thyough her. in New York. The same opportunity will be afforded TRAVEL ANNOUNCEMENTS them to visit libraries in Washington, SPECIALRATES D. C., or Philadelphia, on Saturday, May A rate of fare and one-half w;ll be avail- 26. Local conimittees will give delegates able to Atlantic City. When purchasing every assistance and attention. one-way ticket ask for a certificate, not IL wceipt, and immediately on arrival at ho- HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS tel, have it endorsed by Mr. Alfred Lind- Headquarters will be at the Hotel Chel- say, Secretary. This certificate presented sea, South Morris Avenue and the Board- to ticket agent will entitle bearer to reduc- walk, Atlantic City, N. J. The following tion on return trip. rates including meals are as follows: Regular one-way fares fro111 principal One person in room (without cities are given below: bath) ...... $7.00 per day Boston, via New York ...... Ifi13.19 Two persms In room (without Boston, vla Philadelphia ...... 14.00 bath) ...... 13.00 per day New Yorlc ...... 4.93 One persm in roo111 with Philadelphia ...... 2.92 bath) ...... 9.00 per day Pittsburgh ...... 14.64 Two persons in I.ooin (with Washington ...... 7.32 bath) ...... 15.00 per day Chicago ...... 31.88 (Some of the large front rooins will Detroit ...... 26.85 be $16.00) Cleveland ...... 19.73 Association Activities yJ -

A. L. A. Annual Canvention "Wc wish to assemble at A. L. A. Heacl- The St. Louis Public Library is planning quarters, a file of library staff plays, in- to entertain eastern and northeastern me~n- cluding of course, plays written and pro- bers of the Amerlcan Library Association duced by library sc:hool classes. There is and the Special Libraries Association who no thought of publishing or even of miineo- pass through St. Louis on their way to Hot graphing at the present time, but single Springs, on Sunday, April 22. A cordial copies in manuscript will be valuable for invitation is extended to meet thc librarians loan purposes. Any librarian who has such of St. Louis on that day. a play is asked to send a copy of it to this Milton J. Ferguson, State Librarian, Sac- ramento, California, will represent the off1ce.l' American Library Association at the World Lecture Course of Publlc Speak~ng Conference on Education, Oakland, San San Frnncisco, June 28-July 6, held in con- A series of five lectures on Public Speak- nection with the annual meeting of the ing will be given at Hot Springs during N. E. A. the A. L. A. Conference by Professor Franlc- lin L. Gilson, State Teachers College, Em- A. L. A. Wants Library Plays poria, Kansas. Advance enroll~nentis nec- Secretary Milan1 of the A. L. A. .rvri:es: essary. The lectures will be given in the. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Eastmnn Iiotel at 8.15 cach morning from bership, or contribntions of books, reprints, Tuesday to Saturday, April 24-28, inclu- or funds to carrv on the work. sive. Professor Gilson will probably be The annual meeting of the Medical Li- available also for inf ormal and personal brary Associati,y will be held in Baltimore, cunferences with those who have enrolled May 7-9, 1923. for the course. This subject was selected for this year's lecture course because of New York Special Libraries Association the interehl expressccl by those who attend- The MirLWinter Meetmg of thc New ed the Blcyer lectures at Detroit. There will Torlc Special Libraries Association at which be a two dollar fee for the course. If you the Financial and Commercial Libraries of are Interested please send yonr name at the Association/ acted as hsstesses, was once to A. L. A. IIeaclquarters. The fee held on Tueslav ~vening,February 27th at can be paid at Hot Springs. Stnnlcy's Restaurant, 198 Ercadway, New The Medlcal Library Association York Ci'y. After Miss Frances Cox, President of thc Dr. John Ruhrah has Icindly furnished the Association and Librarian of the Metro- following account of the Medlcal Library politan Life Insurance Company, made var- Association : ious announcen~ents of interest to the As- "This is a national association, including sociation members, she mtroducrd Ihc first most of the larger medicnl libraries and speaker of the evening. Mr. Oswald W. many of the smaller ones, as well as a Knauth of R. H. Macy Company. His sub- lar~enumber of individual n~emberswho iect was "Income and its Relat:ons to Bnsi- are recruited from those of the prafession ;less Cycles." I-Ie described briefly the dif- or laymen who are interested In medical ferent financial and fwecasting services libranes, and medical literature and the necessity of collecting varied sta- The Assc~ciationwas founded in 1898 by tistical information for such serviccs. He Dl3. George M. Gould, its first President, in also described briefly the purpose and work connection with Sir William Osler. The of the National Bureau of Economic Rc- object of the Asscciation is the fostering search, publishers of solne recent publica- of ~nedicallibraries, nncl maintenance of a tions on the income of thc United S ates. system of eschange of medical literature Mr. Raleigh S. Rife, Economic Stntisti- rmong them. Any medical society, assocla- cian of the Guaranty Trust Company, mas tion, university or callege, having a fixed thc next speaker. He talked on the business home, and a library of at least 500 volun~es, of foreign financing and how the finmcinl with a librarian, or other altendent, in library fits into the whole scheme of under- cl~arge, is eliqible for membership. The mritin~foreign loans. He tracer1 briefly libraries pay $10.00 a year dues, and may the history of forc~gn linancing in the be represented at the Annual Meetings by United States and how America has de- two persons. The individual meinbers pay veloped a remarltable power of absorptim $5.00 per year. of foreign bonds. This IS one slep taken The Association has resulted in uniting by the American investor 111 the foreign fi- togethcr those interested in a betterment of nancial field; the next one to be takcn, ac- conditions In medical libraries. The An- cording to Mr. Rife, is ~uttingpriyate capi- nual Meetings have afforded opportunities tal into the developluent o€ f3re1pn coun- foi interchange of opinions on topics relat- tries. All this is placing additional demands ing to lnctlical libi?ry work, the end in for inforination on financial libraries. It vicw be ill^ the placlng of up-to-date tools, is no1 so easv to go and see foreign koun- that is medical books and journals, in the tries, as it is to see firii~shere. and ewn hands of the profession. The Annual Meet- ir one does go, he may not see all he might. ings havc been held in various places have A man who has studled thr' countries mas afforded tln opportunity to inspect most of know nlore than one who has been royally tlfe larger libraries, bot6 medical and other- entertained. When a country asks for a wise. There has becn the development of a loan, the bank nlust know the past record. splcndicl esprit de corps among the nleclical Tl~crcfore,it mu$ ht~vesome one on the 1ibrari:ms. The Association maintains an job of cligglng up ~nformationall the time. Exchange, which IS a sort of clearing house Decisions must be made at once. From through which books and journals are sent this, cne can judge that it is llecessary to from one library Lo another; thus utilizing have accurate and UD-to-date mformation quantities of duplicate material otherwise available at a moment's not~ce. A librarian wastcd. This is in no sense done on a busi- in such a library must sense the relation neqs basis: the larger libraries giving freely, betweex infor~nationand the needs of her nncl the smaller ones receiving, but cven concern and it is her dutv to obtain it. so much material is received by the larger Businzss lnen nre sold on the financial li- libraries. b~.ary.hnt the denland is growinq for great2r The hcadquarters of the Associat~on are adaptability on the part of the library cle- at 121 1 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Maryland, garhaent to ncze out in~portantdata and and all commnunications should bc sent t:, get ~t to t,heim. th~saddress. We shall be pleased to have My.H. W. Wilson of H. W. Wilson C7111- applications for indiviclual or library men?- pany, spoke about the possibility of issuing SPECIAL LIBRARIES

an Index to Financial Periodicals. The Association was hcld at the studio of the matter was left open for future discussion Universal Fllm Corporation ancl was a at the forthcoming annual convention of great success. Mr. Armstrong, the libra- the Special Libraries Association. rian, provlded a chicken dinner, and after Miss Marla Leavitt, who is the candidate we had finished eatlng we walked all over of the New York Public Library in the "the lot" to see the sets for the prorlllctions drive of the Good-Will Elect~ons,under the on which the company was working.. They ausplces of the .4merican Cornmittce for were buiIding the front and the courtyard Devastated France, spoke briefly upon her of the Cathec1r;l of Notre Dame for the hopes of going abroad and MISS Erncstine production of The Hunchback of Notre Rose made a few remarks on behalf of Dame" in the exact scale and wlth every Miss Leavitt. The Association had pledged detail of architecture of the original. Hun- 1,CW votes for Miss Lcavitt, bcs:des various dreds of Inen were warking in the night individual pledges which were given at the shift on the building. It was most enter- meeting: that evening. Miss Leavitt is the taining. only librarian who has been naminated At the Februal-y meeting, Valentines in throughout the field in connection with this the form of souvenirs from the First Wis- undertaking. consin National Bank of Milwaukee will be MARGARETC. WELLS, distributed. These inclnde pencils pen- Secretnw/. holders, paper cutters and some prinLetl matter. Meeting of Chicago Special L~brarians Contributed by MARGARETREYNOLDS. At the meeting of the Chicago Library Club, on the evening of February 8, a special Special Libraries Association of Boston Round Table was devoted to an informal dis- The Coinmittee appointed to I~andleclis- cussion of recent developments in special carded material requests librarians having library work here in Chicago, under the such books, periodicals and pamphlets to Chairillanship of Miss Mary B. Day, Li- send their lists to Miss Loraine Sullivan, brarian of the National Safety Council. Fine Arts Departmen+, Boston Public Li- Miss Julia Elliatt, of the Indexers, spoke brary, or to any other member of the Com- of the principles upon which he13 classifica- mittee. The inforn~ationneeded is as fol- tion had been bnilt up, and had a copy of lows : author, title, imprint, if periodicals, the classification which had jast come from whether ,bound or unbound, and whether the press, Miss Ruth Niohols, Librarian of discarded regularly; the library and person the Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, as from whom whey are obtained; length of Chairman of the Committee on Methods time during which they will be held. These of the Special Libraries Association, ye- lists may be consulted ai meetings of the ported on the progress of this Committee, Association and at Miss Sullivan's desk at Miss Louise Ayers' Report on the Commit- the Boston Public Library any time before tee cn Clas$fication of Tracle Catalogues 5 P. M., cxc~ptThursdays. was read. Standardized forms" were dis- cussed by Niss Ircnc Warren, Director of the Chicago School of Filing. The medi- cal libraries had a sectional meeting wlth Miss Metta M. Loomis, Librarian of the College of Medicine Llbrary, University of Illinois, as Chairman. A meeting of the Special Libraries As- MARY B. DAY, Clmhuiz. satiation of Boston will be held on Monday, Pittsburgh Special Librares Association March 26, at the State Library in the State The Pittsbnrgh Special Librarics Asso- House. The subject is to be Documents, ciation met on March 15 in the Allegheny and the speakers are: Miss Jennie Foster, County Law Library. There was a brief State ancl Federa'l Documents; Mr. John business meetine, followed by an address Eclmonds, State Archives; Miss Edith Guer- bv Mr. R. Z. Virgin, Editor of the Coal rler, Document Pu~1,licity; Mr. Walter B. Trade Bulletin, on the ways of gathering Briggs, Reference Use of Documents. and assemblina facts for a technical jour- MARGARETWITHINGT IN, nal. Mr. G. E. Clarlcson, of the National Seo.ata)y. Safety Council, then spoke on the library aspects of the Council's publications. h1r. New York Special Libraries Association J. Oscar Einrich, Lihrarlan of the Alle- The -4pril meeting 01 the New Yorlc Spe- gheny County Lam Librarv, conducted a tour through the library, and explained his cial Libraries Association will be held on system of cataloguing material ancl corre- Tuesday, April 24th. It is to he a dinner lating information. meeting at the Metropolitan Life Insurance ADELINE M. MACRUM, Co., 1 Madison Ave. The program is in Ssc~etu~~~-2'~acts1~1~e~~.charge of the Sociological group of which Miss Jnllct Handerson is chai~man Th? Los Angeles Special Libraries Association maill speaker of the evening is Th3inas The January meeting of the Los Angeles Mott Osborne. Mar.-Apl., 1923 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 39

Boston Special Lrbraries Association Pecple from outsiclc the city wired, tele- The Committee on Melhods of the Bos- phmetl, or wrote, asking permission ts ton Special Libraries Association nrrangecl come, and finally between 05 and 100 were an interesling mceting which was held on present, representing 27 librarics. Among February 26th at Boston Sch301 of Filing. thcse from out of town were MY. Currier The program of the cvcninc included two and Miss Tucker from Harvard, and Miss addresses, one by Mrs. Eugenia Chick, Xonrad from Yale. The libraries of Principal of the Boston School 01 Filing Bridgeport, Ct., and East Oran.:e, N. J., on "The Work of the School," trnrl one by were also represented. Mr. Lawrence Preston Morse, I~eadof Ihe After dinner Miss Mann briefly set f~rth Research Depaytment of the Babson Statis- the purpose of the meeting, ancl spoke of tical Organization on "Bus'ness Facts- the advantages to be derived if catalogers Their Orfi.anization and Interpretation." were to get togcthcr to further the:^ own Mr. McDunald of the Massachusetts State ends. An informal discussion followed, in Library made the arrangements for supper which inany enthusiastically took part. which was held prior to the meetln~at Enlphasis was laid on the need for hnving King's Chinese Restaurant. An n la carte nleetings of catalogers from time to time, supper was served in a privatc yoom at at which questions of adn~inist-at~on,spe- 6.30 P. M. cial classifications, or any particular prob- MARGARETWITHINGTON, Secretu~y. lem c3uld be talked over. The value of the inspiration to be derived from the per- Meetrng of New York Catalogers sonal touch of meeting others of one's pro- fess~on ancl seeing what they are doing, Catalogers in ancl around New York was brought out. The questlon of a di- City pot together at dinner on February rectory of catalogers was laken up, also lGth, for the purpose of discussing a closer that of support of the Catahg divi-lon of organization of the Catalog section of the thc Library of Congress. After an inter- A. L. A., which might carry out the inter- esting discussion of all the possible advan- ests of libraries large and small, help solve tages to come from such gatherings, there problems which come up, and ~nalte the was a unaninlous vote expressed for malt- cataloger's place felt more in the library ing th~semeetings of catalogers a per- world at large. manent thing in the Ncw Yo~kdistrict. The hearty response to the notice sent Miss Cragin of the New York library out by Miss Margaret Mann, Chairman of was appointed Chairman of a Committee the committee, war lnost gratify~ng. The to draw up resolutions to be sublnitted by numbers soon soared so high that many Miss n'Ian11 in her report to the Catalog late applicants could not be taken care of. sect~onof the A. L. A. in April.

Notes on Meeting of Special Libraries Association of Boston By G. W. LEE, General Subject-How to get up-to-date rnformation on Business Subjects.

There were ten speakers. ferent labor unlons and Mr. Perltins of the NT.L. A. Amzistac~d of the Boston Ele- Department of ",ahor and Inclustry, who vated said that the librarian receives re- makes up thc port each month, 1s glad ports of cxccutives who hold meetings of to give information that the lawyers of the all the department heads. Through these Company use in arbilration. reports it is easy for the librarian to antici- By keep~ngin touch with those whc have pate what is lilrely to come up in thc next to do with publishing the State Documents, two or three years. This anticipation prob- he gets thew ten days ahead. Mr. Red- ablv helas the hbrarv service mom than stonc is also helpful in this matter. anythin& else. As regards the City of Bosh, he is He famil~arizes h~mself with the per- fa~nlliarwith the Transit Conlmission ancl sonnel of the various p~lblicdepartlnents m with the Statistical Deaartnlent at the Clty Boston: for instance, when the Public S~P- all. vice ~blnmission reports fail to give in- From the Bureau of Foreign and Do- formation he deals with Mr. Brooks of thc mestic Commerce, he receives the Techni- Dcpartmcnt of Public utilities. So likewise cal News Bulletin, whlch comes every mcath, wlth Mr. Phillips of the Department of and which gives notice of what is to be pub- Labor and Inclustrg. The Boston Elevated lishd later on. This J311rcau has a Division Railway Company has to do with 120 dif- of Building and Honsing Mr. John Grxrs SPECIAL LIBRARIES in charge). The Company has some eight facts about the Hoosac T~ulnel (in news- niillions of dollars in buildings under way, paper cl~ppings, etc.) For construction and by keeping in touch with Mr. Greers, notes she has found the Stone & Webster he gets the report ten or fifteen days ahead cards that list periodical references of much of the public. This is a great help to value and believes in building up that sort their Purchasmg Department. of a collection as often it contnlns much Mr. Leonard, Purchasing Agent of the that is not in the printed indexes. Navy Department in Boston, supplies hlm Miss filcwion G. Eaton, Federal Reserve with Navy specifications which he does not Ban1c.of Boston, has found that her college get by arranging with the Boston Publlc experience, farming experience, and cx- Library as a depository. periences in other places have equipped her Mr. J. 1% Priedel of the N?tional Indus- well for the statistical work of the Federal trial Conference Board Tecelves telephone Reserve Bank. She has learned not to trust and telegraphic communlcatims from Mr. figures too far or too much In annual re- Arlnistead and renders great service. So ports and to verify what comes in such also Dr. Harrison W. Craver of the En- familiar annuals as the Statemen's Year gineering Society's Library, New Tork City, Book. and generally speaking, if Dr. Craver has They subscribed for literature that covers told what is there upon the subject, he feels world affairs and they cater to the necds assured that that is all there is. of the boys who are taking night courses as The National Railway Appliance Conl- well as to the officers of the Bank. They pany of New York, which has a London of- assume thnt the oficial Government fi$ures fice to which it nlaltes a monthly report, are ccrrect and rely upon the Unitcd Stntes gives Mr. Arnuisteacl access to their report and British Statistical Asbstract. Census before it goes to London and thus he has Reports aye used n great deal as also the his advance ~nformationalong transporta- Controller of the Currency, Secretary of the tion lines. Trensury, etc. The Federal Reserve Bulle- The Bureau of Railway Economics, tin is relied upon for eschanqe rates, 2t.c. through Mr. R. H. Johnson, Librarian, State Library is relied uuon for forei~ndx- lncans a great deal to the Boston Elevated uwents and its collection is improving all Library. the time. Book storcs render service by supplying The League of Nations publishes a month- the book on telephone call, which IS fol- ly bulletin of s'atistics of several foreign lowed up by requ~sition. countries, and is a useful comnenclium on He has a baclc number department of his finance and trade. Non-official sources, own covering about ten gears, and is able such as Who's Who, Manuals, Directories of very frequently to supply calls for single Directors, are used a good deal and Sta.tes- numbers upon request. men's Year Book is carefully checked be- 1111.. Jnnw P. Hoaton of Chamber of Com- cause the editors seem to fear gaps more merce, has the worlt of answering inquiries than mistakes. They receive the Corpora- by mail, telephone, or call in person, re- tion of Foreign Bond Holders' annual re- ceiving perhaps 100 by letter or telephone nort. Thev rely upon the Commercial and during each day, and of the widest variety Financial Cllroniclc and the London Econ- (fro111 the histcry of the Old North Church omist as grod standbys and having good on Salein Street to January statement of ex- indexes. The Ohronicle and its prerleces- ports and ~mports.) scrs they have baclc to 1839. There is not He has tried to confine himself to a com- room for bound newspauers except thnt pact set of reference books after Dr. El- they keep the Boston News Bureau, the iot's five-foot shelf, and he believes in Journal of Commerce, Boston Trsnscript, knowing his bodcs thoroughly. Often he etc., for a month. finds that people in calling him up already Tnformation files are one of the most im- have the information In hand in some book nortant features of this special library work. of their own, and he has lilccwlse found In connection with this, the subject matler h~rnselfoverloolting a book that he himself is classified carefully for reacly r~ference. has had under his eves daily. He has taken Interestinp articles in the ma~amnesare particular pains to familiarize himself with clipped and are noted on cards, and such as the World Almanac from cover to caver, is of normanent value is filed away at the the Statistical Abstract, and the Census end of the year. Abrstract on manufactures. Second sight Is pained by trllri?.~with 11Iius E. L. Sheehnn, of Fay Spofforll PL people and findinp out how far what is Thorndike, says that her library is confined given them has satisfied their needs. largely to bridge and water front problmm A bundle of slips contaming memoranda She uses many of the familiar reference is kept on her desk and sorted out from books like Hendricks Commercial Register. time to time. some going into the perma- She appeals to Sampson & Murdock Com- nent files and giving clues to important in- pany for the names of various commis- formation. sioners and the like. She has found the Mrs. Ja11~esof the Ha~.va?~dGradztate Reference Department of the State Library ScI~oolof Business Adminisz%atiow said that particularly useful on such a subject as her worlt suggestecl that of the Chamber of Mar.-Apl., 1923 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 4 1

Commerce. They serve students and pro- the collection of these last are not up-to- fessors and often have the problem of find- date. He has tried to impress upon people ing out what a pcrson really wants. the importance of finding out where things The subject headings in the card cata- are kept and thoroughly believes in cor- logue are of great hclp. Industrial Arts poration lists. He finds it a great hantli- index is particularly valuable in covering cap not to have publications from Germany such publications as Printers' Ink that have up to date, and he emphasncs the import- no indexes of their own. The New York ance of patent claims because they are Times index 1s used a great deal, so nlso statements of facts. Inventors niay pub- the Statistical Abstract, Poor's Manuals, lish their ideas in periodicals but in their and other publications are among their patent claims make a very different state- valuablu assets. ment Miss Dorothy Bell of Jaclcson & Moreland. Miss Ruth Camun?l of Metcalf LG, Etlcly. They have two del)artmenlrj--Engineering She called attention to the foreign book shop and Construction; one having to do with maintained by George Reuschel in the reports, appraisals, inventories, rate cases, Studio Building, where she can oftzn get etc.; the other with differences of power things that Schcrenof does not have. She plants, supervision and construction. They has information that falls into two 1iea:Is- have the usual sun o1 questions suggested the verification by basic sources, and gen- by accounts of other libraries; they have eral information froni general sources. to check up the names of individuals, hence She uses the Sweet's Archilectural cak- have to use various year books, Who's Who logue, the Chemical catalogue, and the in Engineering, ctc. The McGraw Man- Chemical Abstracts a great deal, besides uals are much used, nlso Poor's and Moody's,. ci her indexes; also the World Almanac, antl They have many questions concerning the Special Libraries Directory of Boston. equipment and machinery, and they have a She finds the Insurance Lihlary of B3bton fairly comprehensive trade catalogue for a very useful resource on street maps, and the purpose. They use Public Utilibies Re- she notcs that the Census Bureau at thc ports Annotated a good deal. Statc Housc has Massacl~usettsmaps up to They telephone to various companies foi9 date. first-hand information, a notable instance Miss Lnzcrcl R. Gibbs, of the Tel-U-Whxe beina recently when inquiry was made as Company of America, spoke of the "Dwec- to the largest steam turbine plallt. ticnary," a combination of the d~rectoryand Nr. Willi(iin P. Cutter. (Arthur D Little, the dictionary, wh~chis ts be pubhshe~l 111 Inc.)-He said that a large part of his the spring. 160,000 ccpies mill be distrib- work has been in putting the library in order uted to business houses and many resl- as there has been 110 regular person in dences, and additional copies ~111be for charge for ten nionths It IS a library of sale on the news stancls. This is compiled about 5,000 bnolts and there is not room froni trade name lists, t~xtlerlirecto~-ics, for its growing larger. So far it has been ctc., which arc a large feature of the Cm- well indcxccl. It includes the archives of pany's eclulpment. Thc~rcard catalog~~e the business also. of trade names means a great deal, althou~h This particular work has to do with ap- the cards ape talcen out in answering qoeh- plied chemistry, and bccause of the impxx- tions on the telephone, antl it 1s surprising licabillty of Iceeping much of the alaterial he with what accuracy they are put ba:.Ii. needs he avails himself of niany outs~de They receive about 150 calls a day, most- resources, and he has fou?ld the libraries of ly having to do with art~clcson tisade names. Boston very usable. They tried the Rand Visible Indes for Just before he came he was presented handy reference purposes, hut thcre were with a copy of a list of chenlical pe~iodicnls too many cards and too many changes for in this country, and whcre they can be found, this sort of an index, and they had to give which was publishecl by the American Chem- il up, using the card catalogue instead. ical Society. Boston does not have many They had expected that much of their in- of these as it does not need them, and he has formation coulcl be delivered by mail, but to get the articles l'ronl far and wde, which, experience showed that it cam largelv over in many cases, are photostated, and be- the telephone and was wanted immetliately lieves that a photostal machine is nluch The kind of ~nquiriesthey receive helps needed by the Boston Public Library. them vcry much to anticipate what is want- From the Boston Public Iib~a~yhe gets ed. They have about 30,000 trade names on specifications of United States and English file, 10,000 n~anufacturers,and absut 12,- patents and Wme Germall patents, although NOsubject information iartls. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Special Library Field Doings

Harriet L. Hale, Librarian of the Refer- established a fund to provide for a course ence Library of the Industrial Accident of twelve lectures by radio experts for the Commission of the State of California, benefit of advanced students and members writes concerning that library: This Ref- of the engineering staff. erence Library is primarily intended for the The Newark Museuim Association has re- use of the Depa~tinentof Safety of the ceived a gift of $600,000 from Mr. Louis Commission, but it is becbming a soul~e Bainberger for the erection of a byilding of information for industrial plants and for the collection at present housed In the others interested in safety work. We have Newark Pulblic Library building. It is been gradually getting together as much planned to raise a fund of half a nlillion information along safety lines in the way dollars which will combine endowment, PUT- of safety publications, bulletins, photo- chasing and equipment funds. graphs, clippings of interest, etc., as we Among the lecturers at Pratt Institute can with the limited means at our com- School of Library Science th~syear on the mand, and at the present time believe we work of special libraries were Miss Rebecca have a valuable nucleus for the formation Rankin who talkecl on special libraries in of a good reference safety library." general and the work of the Municipal Ref- An account of the hlunicipal Reference erence Library in particular; Miss Mary Library, New Yorlc appears in thc New Parker of the Federal Rescrve Bank !vho York T~mesfor Februrrry 18, 1923. spoke on subject filing. and the organiza- According to the New York Times of tion of the filing department; and Miss March 4, the Collectors' Club has just re- Mary Cambs of the staff of the Brooklyn ceived one of the largest and most valuable Hospital who talked on the possibilities of philatel~clibraries in the world. It repre- hospital library work. During the next sents virtually the life work of a promi- term there will be two lectures on technical nent Austrian, Judge Victor Suppan+chi- books by Dr. Donald Hendry of the Applied tsch. The library includes practically Science Reference Room of the Pratt Insti- everything that mas published ir. all lan- tute Free Library. Several of the students guages on the subject in the nineteenth are taking the open courses offered by thc century, and comprises nearly 1,200 volumes New York Public Library on the Adminis- and about 30,000 periodicals, with many tration of the Special Libra1.y and on society publications and early prlce lists of Sources of Information relating to Industry postagc slamps Of the books, about 550 and Business. are in the English language, 208 being pub- Postnlaster M. 0. Chance has issued the lished in the United States and Canada, following announcement. "Publishers arc 429 in the Gernlan language, 139 in French, advised that under the provisions of para- 19 in Spanlsh, 17 in Italian, 14 in Dutch. graph 1 (f) section 419, Postal Laws and Among the periodicals are sets of early Regulations, advertisers receiving one copy philatelic jo~wn'als which are now very each in proof oE the insertion of their ad- rare. Judge Suppantschitsch was a con- vertisements in publications of the second- tributor to the various stamp journals, and class may be included in the "legitimate list the conipiler of a bibliography of German of subscribers' required by law, hut copies philatelic literature, published in 1892. sent in excess thereof are not entitled to "Plain Talks to Girls lor Business Snc- be mailed at the second-class pound ratcs of cess" is a series appearing in the New York postage, but are chargeable with postage Evening World. Number 3, The Woman at the transient second-class rate of one Librarian, is an Interview with Miss Re- cent for ea$ four ounces or fraction of becca B Rankin of the New York Munic- four ounces. ipal Reference Library, By Ruth Snyder, on February 26, 1923. Herein Miss Ranlan Personal Mention has given her vicws on the qualifications Gertrude Reissmann, Librarian of the and training of the librarians, how the Research Laboratory of the Eastinan Ko- standards are being raised, and the possi- dak Company, passed away at her home bilities in this field of work. in Rochester, N. Y., on Decelizber 31, 1922. State Libraria? Godard, of Connecticut, When the Kodak Park Laboratory was announces an increase in salaries of the established in 1912 as part of the Research mcmbers of his staff within the last month. Laboratory of the sastman ICohak Com- A fund for the purchase of a library de- pany, Mr. Eastman appointed Miss Reiss- voted to the science of radio has been es- rnann librarian. This position she held tablished at Yale University by Dr. Lee de until her death. Forest, inventor of many improvements in The library was organized with the idea radio apparatus. Dr. de Forest has also that it should be the most complete photo- Mar.-Apl., 1923 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 43 graphic library in the world, an end which was married on Februayy 22 to Louis deB. Miss Reissinann had ever in mind and Lwett, at Sho~tHills, AT. J. During ,the which, it is believed, had been attained some way, Miss Webster was in charge of the li- time before she died. The original library brary service in the hospitals of this coun- consisted of about 600 books and subscrip- try and France. tions to approximately 50 periodicals, back Meta Harrsen is now assistant in the numbers being secured wherever possible. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. This list lengthened from time to time until Mrs. Hildegarde F. Millar, who before at present there are more than 800 bqolrs her marriage was the librarian ?f the on the shelves and 200 tzchnical magazines Standard Oil Library in San Franc~sco,1s coming into the library each month. Miss to have charge of the business library work Reissmann's time was taken up to a large to be glven at the Riverside, Calif., Library extent in giving assistance to other in- School this spring. During the five weeks' dustrial and technical libraries as well as course, each student is to take the subject individuals interested in photographic liter- in which she is most interested and run her ature. Translations for all branches of own special library on thls subject. the Rochester plant were not a small part Grace Orr has been appointed general as- of her worlc, and she was always to sistant in the Social Service L~brary,Sim- help the research worker when the informa- mons College, Boston. tion required was given only in German or Marion Bowman is the new librarian of French wlth which he was unfamiliar. the Old Colony Trust Co., Boston. Librarians throughout the country will Ethel Garey has gone to the library of remember Miss Reissmann's ready coopera- Landscape Architecture, I-Iarvard Univer- tion and helpfulness, and her going will be sity, as specla1 assistan: a deep loss to the librar,? field. Maria B. Sainucl has recently been ap- An account of the work of Florencc Wil- pointed Librarian of the Pennsylvania Hor- son, Chief Librarian of the League of Na- ticultural Society. This is said to be the tions is given in "The Woman Citizen" De- oldest horticultural society In this country, cember 30, 1922, under the heading "Li- having becn founded in 1827. brarian E~trao~dinary." Dorothy C. Nun has been appointecl Sta- Miss Amy Meyer, formerly Chief of the tion Librarian, Field Service, at the Navy Music and Drama Eepartment of the De- Yard, Philadelphia: troit Pnblic Libraiv has heen anooinled Lillie C. Lilliquisl is now library con- circulation manager "of the Musicai bigest, sultant to the Library Bureau, Chicago. New Yo1.B City. Marjorie Zinlcie has accepted the position &telle Ashcraft, of the Library School of librarian of the Idaho Technical Insti- of the Un~versitgof Wisconsin, is doing tnte, Pocatello, Idaho. laboratom worlc in the First Winconsin Doris E Wilber is now with the Cable National "~anlc~ib~ar~,. Milwaukee Department, Farmers Loan C Trust Com- Julis C. Stockett has resigned her posi- pany, 22 William St.. New Yorlc City. tion with the United States Veterans' Hos- Margaret R. Richter has resigned from pital 1;1brary, at Waulccsha, Wisconsin, to the library of the Southern California Ecli- organlee the extension work of the Willtes- so11 Company to ioin the staff of the LOS Barrc, Pa.. Public Library. She is suc- Angcles Public Library. ceeded at Waukesha by Caroline E. Robin- An article by Miss Rebecca R. Rankill s on. entitled Facts for the Taxpaycr appears in Lucy Condell is now with the library of "Broolclyn," March 3, 1923 the New Jersey Histarical Society, Newark. Florence Foshay, cataloguer of the Na- Marjorie Fisher has been appointecl cata- tional Industrial Conference Board, has loguer for the National Industrial Con- resigned to accept a position as head cata- ference Board, New Yorlc Citv loguer of the Washington Square College Caroline Farr Webster, of Geneva, N. Y., Library of New Yorlc University. 44 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Mar.-Apl., 1923. -- - -- New Publications -

The Department of Agriculture has re- of information about American business and cently publ~shed a very helpful "L~stof manufacturing. Their work was really Serials received in the L~braryof the U. S. notable. Department. of Agriculture" (U. S . De- A group of men associated in collecting partment of Agriculture, Department Clr- this war information later formed them- cular 187, 1922). The list is in four parts selves into the "National Bureau of Eco- as follows. Part 1, List of periodic?ls, Part nomic Research. They were interested in 2, List of other serials, Part 3, Sub~ectlist, this new field of statistical information and Part 4,Geographical list. It will be seen tha: also in interpreting it. Recently, under the the list of titles, yhich contains 5586 dif- direction of the National Bureau of Eco- ferent entries, is dlvided ~ntotwo parts, the nomic Research, they have published a re- first including pcriodicala and the sccolld port on Income in the United States. This other serials such as annual reports and book is a brief sumnary of an exhaustive series of bulletins, each number of which is search into the income of the United States a monograph. In sonle cases, however, the from 1909 to 1919 made by statisticians line has been difficult to draw. In the sub- and economists of high ability under the ject list and in the geographical list no supervision of the Board of Directors rep- distinction has been made between titles of resenting various economic interests and periodicals ancl other serials. The list does clnsses in the country. not inclucle publicutions rcceivetl by the The National Burenu of Economic Ra- Weather Bureau Libral-y search is now preparing another report on The list of pcriodicals which contains "Uneniployn~ent and the Business Cycle" 2,610 titles was prepared by Miss hIargaret which ~ivesthe results of an investigation T. Olcott, forlnerlg Assistant Chief of the made by the President's Confwence on Un- Pe~ioclicxl Divis~on. It supersedes Lihn~ry en~ployment. This study shows that busi- Bullctin 75, published in December, 1909, ness cycles, each consisting of a period of \\hie11 contained a list of the 1,675 perid- prmperity and depwssion, are vital forces cals received by tbc Library at that time. that invest~jiato~~sare seeking to inter- It. will I)e seen, thcreforc, that the number pret. To foresee these periods of fluctua- of periodicals currently received by the tions in business, is very important. Bnsi- Lihw17y has increased 1,035 in the ~mst ness men are using nlany business services twelve yetirb, or at the rate of 86 a year. to help them plan ahead for these periods The list of other scrials, such as annual of prosperity and depression. There ape reports, transactions and series, each num- many good business services, all of them ber of ~'hlchis a monograph, contains 2,976 ingenious attempts to interaret facLs, of different tltles. These were not contained which the information IS still ~ncomplcte. in Library Bulletin No. 75. This report tries to give a more complete In the subject and ge3graphical lists basis for jutl~ingbusiness fluctuations. both pcriodicals and other serials are In- cluilccl in onc arrangement. In the geo- The Hospital Library ~rrrphic:~llist publications issued in the The American Library Associalion has United States aye not included, but the in hand ~i~anuscl-iptfor a book on "The suhject list contains a list by Statcs of the Hospital Library" which will be published agricultural pcriodicals of this country. if a real cle~nanclfor it is cvidencecl by ad- The Ilst of serials and the subiect and vance orders. The book has been edited geographical lists were prcparecl by Miss and a large part written by Edith Kathleen Emma B. Hawlcs, Assistant Librarian, who Jones, General Secretary, Division of Pnb- also etliterl the bulletin. 11c Libraries, 3Iassacl1usetts Department of Education, Boston. She was forlnerlv li- Income and ~tsRelation to B~~sinessCycles brarian of the McLean Hospital, Waverly, hlr. Oswald W Knauth of the R. H. Mass.,.nnd is now Chairman of the A. L. A. Macy Conlpany chose as h~ssubjcct at the Commlttce on Hospital Librar~es. She has February n~eeting.of the New Yorlc Svecial probably given more thought to the clevcl- Libraries Association "Inco~ne and its X+ opment of practical library service in hos- lation Co Business Cycles." pitals than any other person. Up to the time of the mar, there was The material brought together for this very little real statistical information con- book includes chapters on the scone of hos- cerning industries and many basic facts pital library services, hospital library or- werc! almost entirely lacking. The war ganization and adminislration ; book selec- brought about a very decided chnnpc in tion; the medical library; serving the chil- this respect. The War Industries Board was dren's wards, stories to read aloud, and responsible for assembling a vast amount a list of over two thousand books to n~cet Mar.-Apl., 1923 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 45 the needs of hospital patients and nurses. America to tha Brazll Centennlal Exposi- There is also ii selected list of magazines tion at Rio Janeiro has issued a number of for the hospital. interesting pamphlets descriptive of varlous The book will be illustrated with photo- offices of the Government to accompany the graphs of hospital library rooms, equip- exhibits sent by the Commission. ment and activities. Practical advice is The Bureau of Standards of the Depart- given on what to do and what to avoid in nlent of Comnlerce has recently issued as the highly specialized field it covers. its circular !No. 81 a "Blblio~raphg of Useful not only to hospital and library scientific literature relating to helium." authorities, but to persons responsible for The Natlonal Research Council Bulletin, libraries in other institutions for both December, 1922, No. 26, is entitled "Co- adults and chilclren. operation with the federal government in It is estuna'ed that the material will scientific work." A list of the publizations make a book of about 224 pages, which will of the Council which accompanies the bul- be issued In attractive form, cloth bound, letin states that the following circulars are at $2.25. now in press: No 36, List of manuscript Readers interested in Hospital Library bibliographies in chemistry ancl chemical Work from any standpoint, are asked to technology, by Clarence J. West; No. 40, place advanced orders and thus iilake pos- The usefulness of analytic abstracts. Gor- sible publicaticn of this useful book. don S. Fulcher; No. 41, List of manuscript bibliog~aphies in astronomy, nlathamatics The Engineering Index and phys~cs,by Clarence J. West and Callie The Committee on Publication and Pa- Hull. pers announces two changes 111 the Engi- iieprints of the Report of the C3iiilnittee neering Index for 1923. In this editlon, the on Follc,w-up iNethoc1s of the Spzcial Li- Index itenis will be printed on on? side brarles Association of Boston, which ap- of the sheet only, so that they way be peared in the L~braryJournal of December clipped. In the seconcl place, nrticl~sre- 1, 1922, may be obtained from Mr. Lewis A. ceived up to three days before aoing to -4rn1istead, Librarian, Boston Elcvated press will be indexed and included on a Railway Co., Boston, hIass. separate gage, so that the Indcx will be "Ask the Hibernia Bank" is the title of up-to-date at iiine of printing. an attractively printed leaflet issued by the Hibcrnia Bank & Trust Company of New Women of 1923 Orleans. "A Cross Section of Tspizal "MTomen of 1923" has just been issued Day in the Research Department, and .A by the Women's News Serwce, Inc., 30 Close-up of the Research Department Filcs" East 42d St., New York City. It aims "to show some of the questions that arc asked set forth to some extent the achievements this department, which is under the di- of women in practically every field of en- reckon of l"re!l W. Ellsworth, Vice Presi- deavor," ancl is based on the answers to dent of the H~hcrnia. c~urstionnai~~essent to governors, senators Copies of ths rep:;t made by Henrv and ~'epesentativcs,national orjy~nizations Welles Durham on Street Pav~ng and of women, and prominent ~ncnand women Street Maintenance in Eurqean cities" are in practically every walk of life. While available as glfts ts any library, ~nstitu- the Special Libraries Association does not tion or individual on application t3 th: appear as an association, a brief account Municipal Reference Library, Rooni 512 of lhe special library field is given uncler Municipal Bldg., New York City. Staiilps Library Work, and particular mention is for parcel-nost shoul~l.beenclosed. made of the work of Miss Elsie Baechtold, Wr~ting In Anlemxm Indrist?.ies for Miss Rebecca Ranlcin, Miss Louise B. ICrause March, the Copper and Brass Asssciatim and Miss Gaynell Hawlcins. A short notice attribute to research and educational work of the Amarican Library Association ap- a large part in the rapid growth of the pears under National Organizations of consumption of brass and copper during. Women. the vear. See "Research as Aid to thc In- "Rural California." by E. J. Wickson has t!us&," page 21. .just been issued. This is the third volume "Educational books of 1922," an anno- in the Rural State and Province Series pub- tated list of 100 titles, has been issued ?JY lished by the Mac~nillanCompany. Among the Youngstown, Ohio, Public L~brary. It the cha~tersespecially intercstinx lor li- is planned to publish a similar list in Jan- brary Feference use are: Chapter 4 on uarv, 1924. the histoyy and development of agriculture The Chica~oPublic Library has published in California; Chapter 7 on cooperative a catalc,gue of its collection of instruinental organizations; and Chapter 10 on educa- and vocal scores. This is a volu~iieof 232 tional ancl research organizations of Cali- pages, with a classified table of con.tenld fornia, of which four pages are devoted to and an alphabetical index. It will be kept libraries. No detailed description is given up-to-date by means of supplenients from of the agricultural collections of California time to time in the Book Bulletin. libraries. The National Bureau of Casualty and The Commission of the United States of Surety Underwriters, 120 West 42d St., SPECIAL LIBRARIES

New Yorlc City has just conlpiled a very eral; I1 By states; I11 Forei~ncountries. It comprehensive bibliography on State in- is issued in eight mimeographed pages, and surance-Particularly Worlcalcn's Con~pen- nlaterial in the Library of the Bureau is sation State Funds (Both Monopalistic and starred. Competit~ve). The arrangement is I Gen-

Pamphlet Literature of the National Chamber The purpose of the Chamber of Comme~~ce The official organ of the National Cham- of tho United States is to serve American ber, "The Nation's Business" is well known business by encouraging trade and coin- to every special librarian for the interest- merce and its primary function in this con- mg articles and rcferences to special Li- nection is to provide a means, through its brary work published from time to time in referenda and resolutions, for the recording past issues. For two years pasl the value of business sentiment on the great problenls of this publication has been increased by the of the national economy. publication of a very complete annual index. This task in itself is a tremendous one The list of the publication:; issucd by the and the need for it and its importance is at various departments of the National Cham- once obvious. In addition, however, the ber is too long for reproduction but there National Chamber extends direct service to are several more recent pamphlets which its constituent members through eight rep- illustrate the field covered : resentative departments which parallel the 1. The National Rudgct: Analysis of main divisions of Anlerican bus~ness. These Accompl~sh~nentsto Date and Recmlnenda- departments, which are in addition to the tion for Further Improvement. May, 1922. original administrative department:; (Rc- 2. Foreign Commerce Ilanrlboolc; 1922- solutions and Referenda, Research, Field 1923. Issued by the Foreign Commerce De- and Editorial), are as follows: partment, 1922. (Pamphlet nims t3 serve Civic Development as an indication of sources of export and im- Domestic Distribution port service in the Unlted States). Fabricated Production 3. Budgeting for Business Control. Finance Fabricated Production Departmcnt. 1922. Foreign Commerce Insurance 4. Perpetual Inventxy or Stores Con- Natural Resources Production trol. Fabr'catcd Production Department, 1922. (Discusses thc need for proper stock Tmnspo~tntion and Coinmnunication keeping and records system). An interesting presentation of the or- 5. Chain Stores. Address by Paul H. ganization and activities of the National Chamber is contained in a pamphlet. en- Nysti'oni before Tenth Annual Meeting. titled "Chamber of Colmnerce of the United 1922. States: Lts Organization, Functions and 6. Mercha~idise Turnover and Stxk Service." by D. A. Skinner (Washington, Control. Do~uestic Distribution Dcpart- D. C., 1922) . The activities of the various ment. 1922. bureaus of the Civic Dcvelopment Depart- 7. A Co~nnlercialTower of Babcl. Do- ment arc described in another pamphlet en- mestic D~stribution Departmcnt. 1922. titled "The Nat;onal Chamber's Civic Work" (Discusses the need f3r simplificatim of (Washington, D. C., 1922). snes and variet~esof retail products).

Publications of the National Association of Cost Accountants

"Some time ago you wry kindly gave us the privilege of examining several publica- tions put out by your Asaoc'ation, amonq them a copy of SPECIAL LIBRARIES and WORK SHOPS FOR ASSEMBLING BUSINESS FACTS. I read them with con- siderable interest at the time and particularly ibted your statement to the effect that the function of a business library was to preserve data of value to the busi- nes- executive. Inasmuch as we have finally decided to make our material available to public SPECIAL LIBRARIES

libraries and public institutions at special rates, we believe you xvill bc interested in knowing something about the work we do and its relation to busmess management. We are a non-coinmercial organization composed of busincss executives and cost accountants who are trying to bring home to industry the value and need for sound cost accounting methods. We publish an Oflicial Publication twice a month, each one of which deals wilh some problem of cost accounting or business management in an in- dustry about which little or nothing has been written before. Consequently, our pamphlets have a peculiar value as in mast instances thcy represent thc only available data on the subject. The enclosed llst of available publications will give you a fairly good idea as to the wide scope of these pamphlets. Nan-members may purchase coples at seventy-five cents each, until the supply is cshauated, Many libraries have taken advantage of our mw plan of library subscription and have becoine Library Members. The fee is twelve dollars per year, and entitles a library to copies of all Oficial Publications issued during the year, and a copy of the annual Year Book. Anlong the 11brarles that have found our materlal of sufficient value to take our Library Memberships are: Detroit Public Library University of Columbia Library Chicago Public Library University of Illinois Library Los Angeles Public Library University of Pittsburgh Library Providence Public Library University of Indiana Library Newark Public Library University of Chicago Press Llbrary John Crerar Library U. S. Department of Agriculture Library Library Association of Portland. Free Library of Philadelphia, elc., etc We would like to bring to the attention of libraries throughout the coulltry the fact that we do issue pamphlets containing facts of value to basiness executives that cannot be procured elsewhere, and we are seeking to enlist your co-operation, as we do not know how best to acconlplish this. It is undoubtedly to the advantage of a library to be acquainted with our nlaterial if they arc seek~ngto maintain a wcll equipped technical department.'' LIST OF AVAILABLE PUBLICATIONS Volume I. No. 7. "Accounting for By-Products"-Research Dept. N. A. C. A. Volume 11. No. 7. "Purchase Orders and Purchase Recorc1s"-Homer N. Sweet. NO. 9. "Cost Accounting. for Public Utilities"-E. D. Bistline. No. 10. "A Biblio- graphy of Cost Books"-Research Dcpt. N. A. C. A. No. 15. "What is Wrong with Cost Accounting?"-G. Charter Harrison. No. 16. "A Method of Distributing Factsly Payroll"-Mattllew Prosky. No. 17. "Coal Production Costs"-R. W. Gardiner. NO. 18. "Uniforn~ Cost Accounting Methods in the Printing Industy." No. 19. "A Cost System for an Electric Cable Plant"--I?. Benlce. Volume 111. No. 4. "Some Cost Problems in the I-Iawaiian Sugar Industry"-P. I-Iaenisch. No. 6. "Some Phases of Cost Accounting in the Chemical 1ndust~y"- Rosen. No. 7. "Cost Acconnting in the Soap Industry"-Wnl. C . Iioch . No. I). "A Method of Accounting. for Waste in a Cotton Spinniu~Mill"--No. 10. "List of Refer- ences on Interest as an Elenlent of Cost." No. 11. "The Scrap Problel~i"-- I. JV. Kolcins. No. 15. "Flour Milling Coslsl'-C. A. H. Narlian. No. 16. "Distr~bu- tlon of Operating Costs of Centralized Power Plants. No. 10. "Normal Burden Rules1'-C. Van Zandt. (at Low Capacity-M701fe). Volunle IV. N:. 3. "Proceedings of the Fwst New England Regional Cost Con- ference." No. 5. Steamship Operating and Tcrminal Costsw-U. Robe~tsL?c J. J. Nuler. No. 6. "Cost Practices &z Problenis in the Production of Colre"--Sheppnrd. 30.7. "Accounting for Production Costs in the Manufacture of Phonosraph Records." No. 8. "Cost Problems in the Wrought Iron Industry." Na. 9. "Pric~s, Profits and Production"-A. I?. Stock B MI. B. Godpn. No. 10. "Cost Accounting for Crancs &. Holst.s"--P. D. StoAenbur. No. 11. Cost Accounting in the Tool Steel In- dustrvU-J . Keefe. No. 12. Cigar Manufacturing Costsu-A . H . Berman. No. 13. "wal: Time Depreciation in Open Hearth Steel Plants Lk Rolling IV1ills"-J. I. Rodale.