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Recent Developments in Research

British Special Librarians in Conference

Medical Literature

Next Issue Number Compiled by San Francisco Special Libraries Association Special Libraries Association of Southern California Contents ARTICLES British Special Librarians in Conference ...... 1 62 Harvard Business Library ...... 1 66 How to Consult Medical Literature ...... 1 67 Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings...... 167 Recent Developments in Research ...... 1 59

Atlantic City Conference ...... 1 7 1 European Trip ...... 1 7 1

Associations and Groups ...... 1 79 Events and Publications ...... 1 82 . , Editorials ...... 1 72 Library and Research ...... 1 74 Personal Notes ...... 184 Science and Technology ...... 1 76 World of Business Print ...... 178

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Recent Research HE subject of research is montb by work of the iVlassachusetts Institute of Tmonth increasing in usage and in Tech~logy, the Industrial Research scope. Space will not permit an elab- associations tin-oughout the country, Co- orate discussion of the ramifications of operative Research in the Railroad Field, research in recent years, but a Bibliog- including the Joint Burcau of Research raphy on Research, consisting of a list of noted by F.E. Yoalculn in Railway Age. selected articles from the Technical In the laboratory field is noted the de- Press for the years 1923, 1924 and 1925 velopment of research laboratories in indicates the marked growth of various England and in Germany with brief ref- forms of research. This. publication, erences to a few American laboratories. edited by Maurice I-Iolland, director of The organization of research also the Division of Engineering and Indus- reaches to all parts of the world, includ- trial Research of the National Research ing Europe, South Africa and Australia. Council, was prepared by the Division to University Research is given a special "feel the pulse of industry" and to main- place with aIlusion to reference work at tain a close contact with research activi- Lehigh University, Harvard, University ties. The material is classified into the of Michigan, University of and following groups : Aeronautics, Agricul- many other colleges in this country and ture and Forestry, Automotive C+n g'meer- in Europe. ing, Cement and Concrete, Ceramics, A few general articles of importance Chemistry, Corrosion, Dyes and Paints, on the value of research are noted in the Electrical Engineering, Foods and Bev- publication and special reference such as erages, Foundries, Fuels, Gas and Oil the Sozwce Book on Rescawlz Data pre- Engines, Gas Plants, Geology, Heating pared by the Bureau of Business Re- and Ventilating, Highway, Illumination, search of New Yorlc University. Leather, Lubrication, Machine Tools, In a worlc of this character it is dif- Marine Engineering, Metallurgy, Metals, ficult to pick out item of especial im- Mining, Ore-Dressing, Paper, Physics, portance. The great significance is indi- Pumps, Radio, Refrigeration, Research, cated by the wide range of subjects in River and Harbor, Rubber, Steam En- which research plays a part. gineering, Telephony, Textiles, Wire Another publication which takes for Cables and Ropes, Wood and Wood its subject Cooperative Indzut~ial Re- Preservation. Appended to each entry search, indicating the constrt~ctiveactiv- are the Dewey classification numbers in ity of trade associations, has recently modified form and each item has a com- been prepared by the Department of plete reference to the author, publication, Manufacture of the Chamber of Com- date, volume, paging and number of merce of the United States. Again we words. find a great number of trade associations Under the subject of General Re- combining their efforts to make studies search elaborate plans for the develop- on matters relating to their own particu- ment of research are listed, such as the lar industry. A glance at the panlphlet Research Institute of Canada, Grants of published by the Department will best in- the Alnerican Association for the Ad- dicate tile type of actual stndies con- vancement of Science in Aid of Research, dtlcted by thcse associations. Such Research in China, Research in Bengal, topics, for example, as Bread-wrapping in Great Britain and in Australia; also by tile Alnerican Bakers Association, in the field of Co-operative Research the Causes of Casting Defects by the Anmi- SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1ga6

the organization by the Chief Executive can Malleable Castings Association, tI Methods of Packing Hats by the Na- of the nation. tional Association of Hat Manufac- The Council consists of eleven major turers, Kiln Drying Processes by the divisions, arranged in two groups, the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood first group including physics, mathe- I Manufacturers Association, also great matics and astronomy ; engineering and numbers of economic studies on Adver- industrial research ; chemistry and tising and Marketing, on Standardization chemical technology; geology and geog- of Measuring Sizes, New Uses of Prod- raphy ; the medical sciences ; biology and uct, and many other subjects, are typical agriculture; and anthropology and psy- of the researches. chology. The other group comprises The pamphlet discusses the method Federal relations, foreign relations, states of carrying on the investigations, opera- relations and educational relations. tion of research laboratories, various The Division of Engineering and In- forms of co-operative agencies, such as dustrial Research has its headquarters in the IvIellon Institute, University of Pitts- the Engineering Societies Bldg., 29 West burgh, and other college research bu- 39th Street, New York City, under the reaus, departments of the Federal gov- direction of Frank B. Jewett, chairman, ernment and other miscellaneous co- and Maurice Holland, director. This ! operating bodies, such as the National division is closely affiliated with various Research Council, Institute of Industrial scientific societies and a group of advis- Research, American Society for Testing ory boards and committees. ! Metals and many others. The Council also maintains a Com- Mr. Paul E. Holden, who, under the mittee on Research Information Service direction of Mr. E. W. McCullough, pre- under the chairmanship of Mr. Vernon pared the publication, has also discussed Kellogg, permanent secretary of the the question of selecting subjects, report- Council, Mr. Frank B. Jewett, Mr. ing results and using data developed. George M. Stratton and Mr. Clarence J. Important phases of the study on co- West, director. operative industrial research are the In this country at the present time costs of research, the methods of finan- there are many fine foundations for pure cing and the continuity of work. A few scientific research. Among these institu- outstanding research programs are out- tions may be included the Carnegie In- lined, especially those used in the paint stitute, the Smithsonian Institution, the and varnish industry, by the National Rockefeller Institute and the Mellon In- Canners Association, the American stitute. Within recent months the Bakers Association and the United Smithsonian Institution has made an ap- Typothetae of America. An addendum peal for additional endowments to enable includes a list of the various types of it to support a larger staff in order that research conducted by eighty-one differ- it may carry on its work with greater ent associations. efficiency. The National Research Council has The Engineering Foundation, affiliated also recently printed a list of its organi- with a number of scientific societies, was zation and members. The Council as a founded by Ambrose Swasey and has co-operative organization of the scien- also received bequests under the will of tific men of America, stands pre-eminent the late Henry B. Towne. This Founda- in this country in the field of research. tion is doing active work in connection Established in 1916 by the National with research and has upon its board Academy of Sciences it planned to work many men closely identified with the Na- in close co-oprration with the leading tional Council of Research. scientific and technical societies of this Honorable Herbert Hoover, Secretaly country, together with the representatives of Commerce, is a strong supporter of of government scientific bureaus. An pure scientific research in industry. In executive order, issued by the President an address delivered before the annual in 1918, placed the seal of approval on meeting of the American Society of Me- May, 1926 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 161

chanical Engineers, being the first Henry country. It is only a question of time Robinson Towne Lecture on the "Rela- when such a clearing house will have to tion Between Engineering and Econom- come into existence from the very need ics" and printed in Mechanical Engineer- of such an enterprise. The form that it ing for January, 1926, Mr. Hoover, in should take is a question of serious study, his usual clear and concise manner, il- but in any event special librarians who lustrates the great need of research work are supposed to keep in close touch with in the field of pure science and in this research activities should be interested address he makes a strong appeal for the and it is possible that through the Spe- support of research in pure science in cial Libraries Association such a clearing contradistinction to industrial research house might well be established with good which is the application of science. He results. recalls the statement of Dr. J. J. Carty In conclusion we cannot resist quot- who called the pure scientists the advance ing from an address given by the late guard of civilization and shows that on Ernest D. Burton, formerly president of the basis of the Nobel Prizes in the num- the University of , before a ber of first rank investigators the United small group of investigators in social States is way behind other countries in science on November 26, 1923. We re- this respect. cently obtained a copy of this address In this connection it might 'be well to through the courtesy of William H. P. note the high praise of Herbert Hoover Faunce, president of Brown University. which appears in American Management In his informal talk President Burton for April, in which is shown the value said : of the trained engineer as an executive "What is research? In attempt- officer of the United States. ing to define anything, we must take The worlc of the National Bureau of it at its highest, not at its lowest. Economic Research has already been de- Research at its highest is organized scribed in the columns of SPECIALLI- endeavor to add to the sum of hu- BRARIES. The Bureau has performed no- man knowledge, to find something table worlc in the field of research and that nobody knew yesterday. In has prepared for publication valuable history, it may be something that treatises on Income of the United States, was lcnown but bas been forgotten. Business Cycles and Price Investigations. It may consist of an inference from Anlong the notable bureaus at Wash- lcnown facts. It was discovered at ington which have performed valuable the University of Chicago that every service in research may be cited the atom is conlparable to a solar sys- Bureau of Standards. A recent article tem. Upon this discovery has al- in Industrial Manageme?zt describes in ready been based the wireless tele- some detail the unusual research work phone. performed by this important division of "We are coming to recognize that the Department of Commerce. what we as thinking beings have to It is to be regretted that space will do is not to recite the ideas of yes- not permit an exhaustive study of the terday, but to face facts, to draw numerous research undertakings main- conclusions, and to pass on what we tained by various other institutions in the have learned to others who will in United States. Co-ordination of effort turn pass them on with new con- and the correlation of industrial activity clusions. In this we are simply go- will be stimulated by the National Re- ing back to Jesus. That was, intel- search Council and institutions of a simi- lectually speaking, his characteristic lar character. Yet in all these undertak- method. In a day when everybody ings there is the danger that there will asked ,'What is accepted?' he asked, be duplication of effort and for this 'What are the facts? Does food reason we need in this country a clearing make you better or worse?' house of research which will enable an "Research in this full sense of the investigator to ascertain the progress of word is possible only to persons who similar undertakings in other parts of the already possess a considerable store 161 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1916 ,

of knowledge. In order to add has to answer by research. He must knowledge in any field, we must al- resume nature's method as soon as ready possess a large part of the we let him go from school. We knowledge in that field. Roy Chap- should then conduct our colleges in man Andrews was sent by the Mu- a spirit of research and use research seum of Natural History to north- as our method, only recognizing I eastern Asia to test a theory of the that the student is adding to his own origin of human life. One morning knowledge, not to that of the world. before breakfast on a hill above the In life we mix research and appeal camp one of his company picked up to authority, but even when appeal- a bone. He said, 'That's not the ing to authority an intelligent per- bone of a bird, that's the bone of a son always makes a piece of prelim- reptile.' At the foot of the hill he inary investigation as to who is the > picked up the rest of the bone. best person to whom to appeal. After breakfast he found the im- print of a bone. Putting together "Research," stated Professor Bur- the three details, he added to geo- ton, "is henceforth to be the domi- logical history a whole Palaeonto- nant idea of the whole University logical era, and proved what he had of Chicago. This is not a matter of been sent to prove, that human life course. Not long ago, in education, in Europe and America had its research was the one thing people origin in Asia. A college boy, or you did not do. See Newman's Idea of or I, could have learned nothing a University. Today evyry real uni- from those facts. When we have versity must be engaged in research. knowledge, a very little more means Not every university, however, discovery. A discovery in a coal makes this the dominant idea, turn- ball of a fossil of a flowering plant ing the whole institution into an in- took the history of flowering plants strument of research. The Univer- back two thousand years. But the sity of Chicago proposes to conduct man who made the inference knew a research in all fields, including the great deal first. physical and biological sciences, lit- "In fact, research is nature's erature, and all the social sciences. method. A baby in its cradle dis- In order to be able to conduct re- covers many things by the process search in the field of education, the of research. The child also tries to university is to retain its colleges, learn from others. He asks ques- with three thousand students. The tions, but is apt to challenge the colleges will not be places of research answers. The child is a natural in- in the full sense of that word, so vestigator. We only crush that far at least as concerns the stu- spirit out of him by Rabbinism in dents." education. Ninety-nine questions This in truth is the new spirit of the out of one hundred in life the boy universities. British Special Librarians in, Conference FULL report of the proceedings of printed from time to .time some of the Athesecond conference held at Balliol addresses presented before the confer- College, Oxford, September 25-29, 1925, ence and other addresses which were has been received by the editor. It is a issued in pamphlet form have been fur- noteworthy document of hundred nished to persons interested. Neverthe- and six pages and contains the proceed- ings of the conference including the dis- less over a dozen addresses delivered at cussions, a list of visitors and a photo- the conference have not been issued in graph taken on the steps of Balliol Col- any other form prior to the printing of keHall. SPECIALLIBRARIES has re- the proceedings. May, 1ga6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 163

The Right Hon. Sir Arthur Steel- Professor A. F. C. Pollard, in his dis- Maitland, Minister of Labour, in the cussion of the decimal classification of opening address, stated that he thought the Institut International de Bibliog- England needed more than any other raphie, presents the various merits of the country to have the type of ordered work classification system, carrying out the which was represented by a proper use various terms to the finest subdivisions. made of all the institutions which the special librarians represented.' He con- At the conclusion of the address by tinued: "We need it, I think, more than Major T. Coulson upon the Swampscott other countries for a few perfectly clear Conference of the Special Libraries As- sociation, Mr. J. D. Thompson, director and definite reasons. I have been struck, of the Research Information Service of in a varied career, that from a material the National Research Council at Wash- point of view we in this country are ington, gave an informal address. In ages behind not only Germany, but his talk he emphasized the success of the America at the present moment, in our special libraries movement in America appreciation of scientific fact and of and noted the value of round table gath- scientific research. I know of one or two erings devoted to particular groups of laboratories in this country which are of libraries, suggesting the use of such first-class character, for example, the round tables on the part of the British General Electric Laboratory in scientific Association. He referred to the two work; but they are childish as. compared projects in which he himself had been with what is done in the United States concerned, legislative reference service in this way, and therefore it seems to me for the United States Congress and the that in this country quite peculiarly we Research Information Service of the need to amend our ways if we are to re- National Research Council. He dis- tain our position from a material point cussed at some length the service ren- of view." dered by that institution and referred to Sir Horace Plunlcett, speaking for the a personnel file of about fifteen thou- CO-operative Reference Library, paid an sand research men in America who are interesting tribute to an old friend, the specialists in particular fields and noted late Dr. Charles McCarthy, whom the that the records had been codified by the late Lord Bryce, in a letter written to Findex system, thereby classifying the Sir Horace, called "a man of great force, specialists into groups enabling the re- large ideas and unwearied energy." Sir searcher to prepare a list of persons in- Horace continued: "He had played a terested in any special subject and quali- most useful part in the public life of his fied to render service. He also referred state. His only official position was that to a record on cards of existing scien- of librarian in an institution, largely tific and technical bibliographies, either fashioned by himself-the Legislative printed or unpublished, which now num- Reference Library. No less an author- bcrs thirty thousand entries. ity on constitutional machinery than the In a subsequent discussioil Sir Horace late Sir Courtenay Ilbert, in an article PlunIcett, of the Carnegie United King- upon 'The \Visconsin Idea' in the Con- don1 Trustees, referred to the extraordi- ternpol-nry Review of February, 1914, nary quickness with which information gave it high praise. In an article entitled can be found in the libraries of the 'McCarthy of Wisconsin,' published in United States and attributed in part this the ATittetee~ztlz Centz~ryof June, 1915, I ready access to the decimal system of described the working of this spccial li- classification. He added : "General li- brary and told how it led to the creation braries have of necessity, so librarians of the Co-operative Reference Library." tell me, to take a vast proportion of trash The Co-operative Reference Library, in order to get the good stuff-an im- organized by Sir Horace Plunkett, was in mense amount of chaff to get the grain. October, 1925, removed from Dublin to Special libraries do not load themselves London and its administration vested in up with trash. They supply a demon- the Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees. strated demand, and it seems to me im- 164 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1926 mensely important for us to do all we brary which does not include current can to develop this Association." publications in its scheme runs the risk In the paper by Major Simnett on of missing information often of vital im- "Co-ordination of 'Technical Intelligence portance; that the newspaper is already in Engineering," the speaker referred to a widely recognized clearing house and the union of the four engineering bodies liason agency for public informational in the United States under one roof in purposes; that for reasons stated the the United Engineering Societies Build- closest co~operativeand supplementary ing and discussed at some length the un- relations should be encouraged between dertakings carried on by the amalgamated the Special Libraries Association and libraries under the direction of Dr. Har- the press; that government departments rison W. Craves. In the general discus- and public services generally should rec- sion which followed Major Simnett's ad- ognize with greater liberality the prin- dress, other speakers referred in most ciples of publicity: complimentary terms to the magnificent Mr. E. Clephan Palmer, of The Daily library owned by the Engineering So- News, discussed in breezy fashion "The cieties. Library of a Daily Newspaper." 5 Mr. T. F. Burton, in his study of Ab- Space will not permit a full discussion stracting, alluded to the value of a com- of the valuable papers on political mat- bination of abstracts of chemical lifer- ters which enlivened the fifth session, nor ature in the English language covering the study of some notable research li- the American and British systems. braries in Great Britain. In the discussion following Mr. The Business Sessions were of inter- Lewenz's paper on "The Translation of est to librarians in America. On another Technical Literature," a speaker sug- page the editors have referred to some gested a clearing house of lexicography, of the problems presented at these busi- emphasizing the difficulty of knowing ness sessions. The question of closer local words used in various parts of Eng- collaboration with the Library Associa- land. tion of Great Britain was presented, but Mr. L. Stanley Jast, chief librarian of nevertheless it was decided to form a Manchester, introducing his paper re- new association. garding the methods of cataloging tem- At the final session a committee was porary material, referred to the com- appointed to continue and develop the parative merits of the Library of Con- work in hand which made the following gress classification and the Dewey Deci- recommendations : mal classification. 1. The Directory of Special Libraries. Mr. F. E. Hamer, in his discussion of 2. The definition of the scope and "The Press in Relation to Information title of the Association. Burcaux and Special Libraries" referred to his visit to America and the close re- 3. The preparation of proposals for a lationship between department officials constitution, after further deliber- and editors of technical journals. He ation with the Library Associa- also referred to the liberal service of in- tion. formation supplied by the more notable 4. Collaboration with any outside government bureaus of the United States. bodies concerned with matters of He adds: "Judging from my own ex- direct or indirect interest to our perience, I should say that the American work. firm gets far more value out of technical 5. Consideration of various matters publications than most British firms do, brought before the Conference, because its watch for new jumping-off such as: points is more alert and systematic." a. List of reconlmended books. His conclusions may be summarized as b. Inquiry into methods of ex- follows : That the press must be regarded amination and search into as an essential part of any national in- British and Foreign Patent formational service; that the research li- Offices. May, 1ga6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 165

c. The encouragement of the members and associate menlbers at sub- movement for joint abstract- scriptions of two guineas and one guinea ing services. respectively. The subscriptions would d. The question of an interna- be the same for individuals as for insti- tional language and abstracts. tutions but the committee desired that the n~embership should be institutional e. Registration of new technical rather than individual. I-Ie added that terms. they wished to establish free trade in f. The question of an inquiry published information but that there form for library searchers. would be no obligation upon any libra- rian to supply information which he felt g. The co-ordination of sociolog- he was not justified in giving. ical data. On the proposal of Major W. E. Sim- After the passage of final resolutions nett, the committee which arranged the and votes of thanks M. Paul Otlet, two conferences was elected the Council speaking in behalf of the foreign dele- of the new association. gates, said: "In the name of your for- eign guests .I tender you our best thanks Replying to further questions, the for the reception you have given us. chairman said it was believed there were Our impressions can be summed up in sufficient institutions, eligible for mem- one word. I have participated in many bership, to give the association an income library assemblies, bibliographical assem- of about £2,000 a year, if they joined. blies, abstractors' assemblies and so I-Ie added that all persons directly con- forth, but I have never seen a group of cerned in library, research, statistical or people who, in three days, have done such inforination services would be eligible splendid work with such enthusiasm. En- for ordinary membership and that those gaged in many activities, you are yet interested but not directly engaged in like an orchestra in that you embody these services would be eligible as asso- both unity and variety." ciate members. The meeting approved that part of the March Meeting draft constitution referring to terms of membership and subscriptions. It also The Association of Special Libraries thanked the Carnegie trustees for their and Information Bureaux, states the London Times, was formally inaugurated support. at a meeting held at the Institution of The first work of the association will Mechanical Engineers, Westminster, on be the preparation of a directory of spe- March 29, 1926. Mr. J. G. Pearce, di- cial libraries and inforination bureaux rector of the British Cast Iron Research in the United Kingdom. This work, Association, presided. which is to be financed by the Carnegie The chairman, explaining the aims of United I'ingdom Trustees, is estimated the association, said they had examined to cost about &2,000. As to further de- carefully the possibilities of combination velopments, the following statement is with the Library Association and had made on behalf of the association :-"It come to the conclusion that the best in- terests of both bodies would be served is hoped to ari-ange for mutual co-opera- by their working separately. They tion and assistance between institutions were convinced, nevertheless, of the need such as commercial houses, manufactur- for complete co-operation. ing concerns, newspapers, banks and in- On the motion of Dr. R. S. Hutton surance offices, technical and scientific (director of the British Non-Ferrous societies and political, social and educa- Metals Research Association) it was re- tional organisations, and the staffs con- solved to form the association. cerned, in order to develop to the utmost In reply to questions, the chairman the effective use of existing collections in said it was proposed to admit ordinary national, public and special libraries.'' SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1916 Harvard Business Library

ETAILS were given out recently by Behind the main reading room and D the Harvard Business School of the toward the rear of the building are new business library which is being built large work spaces to be devoted to the in the center of the group of new busi- work of cataloging, digesting and index- ness school buildings on the south bank ing the various collections in the building of the Charles River near the stadium. and stacks to accommodate at the outset The building, states the Boston Herald, approximately three hundred thousand will house the collections of the Har- volumes. vard Business Library and the collections There will be one room or a series of of the recently formed Business His- rooms devoted to the uses of those soci- torical Society, two of the outstanding eties which have joined hands with the libraries on business in the country. business library in the accumulation of The building will be an adaptation of business material. The Business His- colonial architecture, facing on the torical Society will have a directors' Charles through a vista of trees and room and the Railway and Locomotive across a yard intervening between two Historical Society will have a room for groups of dormitory buildings. It will meetings of its members in which will measure two hundred and forty feet be gathered together some of the his- frontage by approximately eighty feet torical collections of that society. in depth. The whole of the frontage will It has been felt at the Harvard Busi- be taken up on the second floor by one ness School that for the needs of the large reading room designed for a ca- business community as well as for the pacity of about four hundred and twenty- students of the business school, there five readers, one of the largest reading was required a collection of business rooms of any library in the country. literature complete and distinct in itself. With this fact in mind the acquisitions Corresponding rooms on the first floor of the business library have broadened of the front part of the building will during the last few years to include many be devoted at this time to other uses of works giving the background of eco- the business school. It is foreseen that nomic history and the present theory and with the future growth of the library and practice of business. the school, this space now devoted to The books available for the library school functions will be changed to li- cover the whole range of business his- brary purposes. tory and research from the period of The reading room will have as many merchant adventure, such as Marco book shelves as can be placed against Polo down to the present. the wall and between the windows, on Thousands of valuable collections, vol- which wiIl be kept the most frequently umes and pamphlets have been presented used sources of business information. to both the Harvard Business Libraty There will here be room for a large and the Business Historical Society. part of the books used by the various It is anticipated that as soon as these courses of instruction in the business various collections can be properly sorted, school-such important reference works listed and cataloged, that the new library as the corporation manuals, The Com- in the midst of the group of new build- nzercial and Financial Chronicle, encylo- ings for the Harvard Business School pedias, dictionaries and atlases, and such can be made of inestimable value and various bibliographies as are needed for importance to the student of business and quick reference service. to the professional business man. May, 1ga6 SPECIAL LIBRA.RIES 167 The Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings' By W. Browning, M.D., Directing Librarian, The MedicaI Society of the County of Kings, Brooklyn, N. Y. HE more striking facts in the his- In size it ranks as the fourth in the tory of this library can be resented country after that of the Surgeon Gen- Tin simple order. eral's office. Its sponsor, The Medical Society of No other medical library in this coun- the County of Kings, is the oldest scien- try has accomplished so much at so little tific organization in Brooklyn, having financial outlay. It is the oldest and most celebrated its centenary in 1922. conspicuous example of a successful li- The library was established in 1844. brary conducted by a County Medical It was proposed by Dr. Bradley Parker Society, and can be viewed as a demon- (grandfather of Professor Hereshell stration of much significance in medical Parker,) planned by Dr. Thorne (long sociology. prominent in civic affairs,) and supported It contains one hundred thousand vol- by such men as Dr. H. C. Cullen (father umes besides piles of pamphlets, reprints ,of the late chief justice.) and unbound parts. It is the only public medical library on Long Island. The use of the library has increased It is the oldest public library in Brook- fourfold in the last seven years. And it lyn, aside from the precursor of ,the In- now maintains an average annual gain stitute's collection. in output of 20 per cent. or far faster Only two cities of the country (Phila- than the increase in general population. delphia and Baltimore) have older .pub- This library caters directly or indi- lic medical libraries. rectly to the needs and welfare of every It had and has the first fireproof Brooklynite, and to most of the three (steel) stacks of any medical library in million inhabitants of Long Island, be- this country if not in the world. sides the many elenlents in the popula- It was the needs of the library that tion which it directly serves. Recent de- forced and secured the construction of velopment here of graduate instruction the present medical building on Bedford requires tl~ebacking of the best library Avenue. facilities. How to Consult Medical Literature2 By Charles Frankenberger, Librarian, Medical Society of the County of Kings, Brooklyn, N. Y. HERE are two outstanding reasons There are helps which we recommend Twhy physicians hesitate to write pa- to those about to embark upon literary pers, monographs or boolcs. In the first work to read: place they are unacquainted with the Allbutt, T. Clifford. Notes on the Composi- proper and orderly manner of prepara- tion of Scientific Papers. 164p. Macmillan tion and arrangement of the matter Company. London and New ~ork.190.5. Amcrican Med~cal Association. Suggestions which they wish to present and some- to Mcdical Authors and A.M.A. Style Book, what hesitant about the form of expres- ,;th a id^ to Abbreviations of Biblio- sion to be employed. graphic References. 66p. Chicago. 1919.

lCondensed from an article in Brooklyn, organ of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for January 23. ~926. 'Condensed from an article in Long Island Medical Journal, February, 1926. 168 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1ga6

Macndlan Company-The Author's Book. On papers, names of the authors, titles of the the Preparation of Manuscripts, On the periodicals, volume number, page, date of Reading of Proofs, and On Dealing with issue and year, Authors and subjects Publishers.- ~ 7.70. New York. 1925. are arranged in one alphabet. At no time &Iellish, Maud~.The Writing of Medical Papers (zd Editio?). 168~.W. B. Saun- in the year is it necessary to consult more den Comuanv.- - Ph~ladelphla. 1925. than one alphabet to learn what articles Rolletson, Sir Humphrey. On Writing have been written by a certain author or Theses for M.B. and M.D. Degrees. 28p. what articles have been written on a John Bale Sons and Danielson. London. given subject during the year. It is also 1925. useful in expeditiously finding the refer- Simmons, George H. and Fishbein, Morris. The Art and Practice of IIedical Writing. ence where one remembers only the au- Series of special articles in the "Journal thor's name and about the time of the of the American Medical Association," be- year the article was published. ginning in March 21 and running through subsequenf numbers, concluding with , 1925, Issue. (Recently issued in book Index Catalogue form.) Trelease, S. F. and Yule, E. S. Preparation If, however, the investigator wishes to of Scientific and Technical Papers II3P. Williams and Wilkins Company. Baltimore. make a thorough search of the entire field of medical literature to obtain the 192.5. references to all the cases reported upon In the second place, most physicians a particular subject, his most expeditious do not know how to begin to consult the and systematic method would be to con- literatme because they are not acquaint- sult the Index Catalogue of the Library ed with the various indexes and bib- of the Surgeon General's Ofice. This liographic reference helps which are the publication is a combined index of au- open sesame to the vast amount of thors and subjects, arranged in diction- printed medical material. ary order in a single alphabet, of the It depends upon what the investigator literature contained in the Library of the has in mind as to what sources he shall Surgeon General's Office at Washington. consult to obtain the literature desired. This library, of over three hundred and If he wishes only to read some of the fifty thousand volumes and four hun- latest articles upon a special subject his dred and sixty thousand pamphlets, main- quickest method would be to use the tained by our government, is the largest Quarterly Cuntulative Index to Current medical library in this country and the Medical Literature, a special publication second largest in the world, surpassed issued by the American Medical Asso- only by the library of the Paris Medical ciation. This Index is published four Faculty. Its collection of periodicals is times a year. Being cuinulative, each the largest and most useful in existence. issue includes all references in earlier It subscribes for or receives regularly numbers of the current year. The practically every medical periodical pub- fourth or last number includes the ref- lished, numbering nearly two thousad. erences for the entire year. It does not These, together with the books, Pam- pretend to cover the entire field of medi- phlets, dissertations, and theses received, cal literature, but gives references to the are all indexed under authors and sub- articles contained in a selection of about jects in the Index Catalogue. A volume two hundred and seventy-five of the has been published annually beginning more important American and foreign with 1880 until the entire alphabet was medical periodicals. For example, let completed, followed by a second series us assume that our investigator wishes beginning the alphabet over again and to read some of the more recent papers containing the additions since the publi- upon Epidemic Encephalitis. In number cation of the first series. A third series 2 (Jana-June) of this Index for the cup is in course of publication. Volumes rent Year under the heading of Enceph- 1-5, A-Gaz. have appeared, making alitis, Epidemic, he will find sixty-nine available the additional literature for this references to articles on various phases much of the first two series. The First of this subject giving the titles of the Series of sixteen volumes, the Second May, 1926 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 169

Series of twenty-one volumes, and the that some other writer has already per- first five volumes of the Third Series formed this task. As an illustration we (fortytwo volumes in all) contain prac- cite the following instance :-In Slugcry, tically every item of any real value to Gy~mologyand Obstcrics, volume 40, medical science from the earliest times March, 1925, on pages 387-400, Dr. H. down to the date of the publication of IV. Mills reports three cases of "Gas the last volume, 192j. The medical pro- Cysts of the Intestine." He has made fession of the entire world is indebted a thorough search of the literature and to the late Dr. John S. Billings for de- has collected ninety-one cases to which veloping and bringing into existence this he adds his three, bringing the total to monumental and indispensable publica- ninety-four. In this paper he reviews tion, which is the most complete and ex- the cases reported by the various writers haustive index to medical literature ex- and concludes his article with a well tant. compiled, con~pletebibliography alpha- betically arranged by authors. Index Medicus The Index Medicits is now a quarterly Index to Dental Literature classified record of current medical liter- Dentistry now has an index to its peri- ature, published by the Carnegie Insti- odical literature. The Dental Index tution of Washington. It covers the Bureau of Buffalo has issued the follow- material contained in the Library of the ing volun~esof the Index of the Peri- Surgeon General's Office and is made UP odical Dental Literature published in the from the same cards as are used in com- English language : 1839-1875 ; 1876-1885; piling the Index Catalogue. It appeared 1911-1915; 1916-1920; 1921. as a monthly publication from 1879-1920, with the exception of 1900-1902 during which it was suspended. During this Other Reference Publications period of suspension the Institut de Bib- liographie of Paris issued the Bibliog- There are other reference works raplzia Medica, similar in character to the which are useful adjuncts in reviewing Itzdex Medicus and which filled in this the literature: break. For many years the Germans have Beginning with 1921 the Index Mcdi- been publishing their Jahresberichte, cus has been published quarterly. Each Zentralblatter and Bibliographien. These present issue covers the entire field of annual, monthly or weeltly publications, medical literature for approximately as the case may be, are devoted entirely three months. The material is arranged to some one or a group of the special- alphabetically by subjects, elaborately ties or to medicine as a whole. The subdivided, closely following the classifi- Jalzresberichte and Bibliographien pro- cation used in the Index Catalogue. Each vide very con~pleteand detailed bibliog- number in its alphabetical arrangement, raphies of the literature in all languages forms a complete subject index for the upon the subjects to which they are de- period it covers. Shortly after the com- voted. The Zentralbliitter supply a vast pletion of each volume an Annual Igzdex number of brief signed abstracts of the of Aztthors is issued. literature upon the subjects to which they Frequently an investigator who has an limit themselves. There has been a interesting case or cases to report, wishes marked increase in recent years in the to find out what other cases have been issuance of publications devoted wholly previously reported in the literature. In- to bibli~graphitsor abstracts of varlous stead of searching the indexes to com- divisions of medical literature, especially pile the reported cases he will often- in English. The following groups are times be spared this toil by referring to not to be taken as complete lists, but the latest articles published upon the con- have been selected as types of the pub- dition in which he is interested, and find lications to which we have reference: .-

170 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 19536 Periodical Publications Giving English Abstracts "Bibliography of Industrial Hygiene" (Pub- lished by the International Labor Ofice, When a periodical containing Geneva). the original paper cannot be obtained or is "Salvate Parvu10~-Bibliographic . . . de! Ouvragcs et Articles Relatifs j. l'enfant. printed in a language the investigator (Geneva.) does not read he can often find abstracts that may give him a sufficient summary Comprehensive bibliographies have ap- of the original article to satisfy his pur- peared as separate publications such as : pose. The following is a list of some Bibliography on Laryngcal Tuberculosis. 80p. of the important periodical publications Bibliography on Tubercular Diseases of the devoted wholly or in part to English ab- Eye. sop. stracts : (Both of these publications compiled by the Research Bureau for Medical Litera- Abstracts oi Bacteriology. (Baltimore.) (Be- ture, New York, list chronologically every ginning with 1926 to be continued as Bio- art& published from the earhest record logical Abstracts.") to December, 1922.) Chemical Abstracts. (Easlon, Pa.) Bibliography on Radium. Its Uses and Re- International Abstract of Surgery. (Supple- sults from Its Discovery up to January, men;, to "Surgery, Gynecology ancl Obstet- 192.2, and Supplement Number I, coverlng rics, Chica~0.o.) year 1922. 132, 47p Compiled by Rcsearch -. Bureau for Medical Literature for United International Medical Digest. (Hagerstown, States Radium Corporation. Maryland ) Holmes, S. J. A Bibliography of Eugenics. International Medical and Surgical Survey. 514p California. 1924. Publ~shed by American Institute of Medi- cine, Ncw York. (Temporarily suspended, Rockefeller Foundation-Intertlational Health March, 1925.) Board. Bibliography of I-Iook-worm Di- sease. 417~.New York. 1922. Journal of the American Medical Association. (Current hfeclical Literature, Chicago.) Sayers, R. R and Davenport, S. J. Carbon- inonoxicle Literature. 54~.Washington. 1925. Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Abstract United States Public Health Service-Pub- of thc Literature. (Baltimore.) lic Health Bulletin, Number 150.) Medical Sciencc Abstracts and Rcviews. (London.) (Ceascd publication September, Hospital Library'and Service Bureau, 1925.) Chicago, through its Bibliography Serv- Pllysiological Abstracts. (London.) ice, has issued a considerable number of Trop~cal Disease Bulletin. (London.) bibliographies on all phases of hospital work. As a further example of ex- If one wishes to review in colidensed haustive bibIiographies forming separate and selected form the recent advances in volumes or single works, we quote the medicine, the following Yearbooks are following : recommended : Barker, L. F. (editor) Endocrinology ancl Practical Medicine Series of Year Books. Metabolism. Volume 5. Bibliography. Eight volumes annually covering Medicine; 694~.New York. 1922. Surgery; Eye, Ear, Nosc and Throat; Biedl, A. Innere Sekret~on. . . 4. Auflage. Pediatrics ; Obsletrics and Gyilecology ; Band 3. Literatur 480~.Berlin. 1922. Therapeutics ; Dermatology and Urology; Nervous and Mental Diseases. Ophthalmic Year Book (Chicago). One vol- Excellent bibliographies of ten form a ume annually. valuable part of books and monographs. Progressive Medicine. A Quarterly Digest To illustrate we cite one or two recent of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements instances : in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. (Four volumes annually.) (Plnladelphia.) Jackson, C. M. Effects of Inanition and Mal- nutrition upon Growth and Structure. International Medical Annual A Year Book Philadelphia. 1925. Bibliography comprises of Treatment and Practitioner's Index. (London and New York.) One volume an- 1-1. 479-586. nually. Low, R. C. Anaphylaxis and Sensitisntion with Special Reference to the Skin and Its International Clinics. (Pour volumes annual- Diseases Edinburgh. 1924 Bibliography ly.) (Philadelphia.) Volume I of each comprises p. 305-80. Series contains an extensi~earticle on the '~fogressof Medicine." May, 1926 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 171

We wish, however, to note here that a books without seeing patients is not to number of these foreign periodicals pub- go to sea at all." lish English summaries or abstracts of But there is another phase of the in- their contents, or in some cases articles tellectual developnlent of the medical pro- are published in the language in which fession, which is essential for the per- it is submitted by the author. For ex- petuation of the high and noble ideals ample, eleven of the Acta and other im- upon which it is founded. It is the ton- portant Scandinavian journals publish ing up of the cultural aspects of medi- articles in either English, French or Ger- cine-the awakening of a greater inter- man, according to the wish of the au- est in the history of the art of healing thors. This also prevails with a num- and of its master minds of the past. We ber of the Japanese publications. The have a wealth of material for those who Japan Medical World is published en- would become more familiar with medi- tirely in English and the Japanese Jour- cine's great leaders and the real contribu- fial of Medica2 Sciences, in English and tions which they have made to the German, give abstracts of all important progress of medical science. articles appearing in medical journals in Out of a vast storehouse we can bnly the Japanese language. The Revue mention a few to emphasize our thought: Franco-Russe de Mkdecine et de Bi- Garrison, Fielding H. An Introduction to ologie gives us a medium in French for the History of Medicine. 3rd ed. Phila- Russian medical literature including a delphia. 1921. bibliography of articles appearing in Camac, C. N. B. (Conrp.) Epoch-making Contributior~sto Medicine, Surgery and the medical magazines published in the Rus- Allied Sciences. Philadelphia. 1909. sian languages, The Bratislava Medical Cushing, Harvey. The Life of Sir William Journal of Czechoslovakia and the Hun- Osler. 2 vol. Oxford. 1925. garian Medical Archiv publish English Osler, William. Aequanimitas with other Ad- summaries of their contents. Thus are dresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine. Philadel~hia. the writings of these workers of other 1904. tongues being made available to the Eng- lish speaking people. European Trip We have one case of a German peri- The Pre-confercnce European trip odical Jahrcskurse fur Arztliche Fort- bildung publishing an entire English edi- under the direction of the Travel Com- tion under the title Yearly Courses for mittee of the A.L.A. will start from Physicians, and of another journal, Ars New Yorlc on the Caronia, August 21, Medici, which is devoted wholly to Eng- and will return in time for the Atlantic lish abstracts of articles in German City conference as the party will arrive periodicals. in New York via Tuscania on October 3. Keeping up with current literature is England, Scotland, Belgium and France are in the itinerary and the entire trip, a necessity for the physician who wishes exclusive of extras, will cost $580.00. to know and apply the most recently proven methods. Full details may be obtained from "Medical Education is. never com- F. W. Faxon, chai~manA.L.A. Travel pleted." Thc struggle against disease is Committee, 83 Francis St., Boston, continually in force, and those who have Mass. chosen tomservein the ranks to conquer its ravages must be constant students of Atlantic City Conference medical progress. "The true doctor As we go to press, word has been re- must always be an earnest student. ceived by the Editor that various com- Each day and each case brings to him mittees of the Association are making problems about which he wishes to con- active preparations for the annual .con- sult the experience of others. These he ference The program, under President finds in his medical books and his medi- Handy's direction, is rapidly taking cal journals." -It was Dr. Osler who shape and definite dates for the various said "To study medicine without books meetings have been assigned by the is to sail an uncharted sea while to study A.L.A. Special Libraries EDITOR, Herbert 0. Brigham State Library, Providence, R. I. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ethel Cleland Henry H. Norris A. A. Slobod R. H. Johnston Rebecca B. Rankin Margaret C. Wells Margaret Reynolds

Our British Confreres LL special libraries on this side of the Atlantic will follow with keen interest A the story of the completion of the organization of the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux in Great Britain. It is apparent that they have faced there the same problems which we have faced in America. Of the utmost significance is their decision to develop the special library interests inde- pendently of the British Library Association. Of only less significance is their decision to encourage to the utmost co-operation and friendly relationships with this Association. Those who have studied the field of the special library with imagination see clearly that the highly specialized interests which it will serve can be served best by placing the emphasis constantly on information and infor- mal'on getting, rather than upon the things which necessarily will preoccupy those who guide the destinies of the general library. To special libraries in America, the active interest shown in the movement in Great Britain by those who represent the Carnegie interests will come as a sur- prise. It does not seem to us, however, that there is anything inconsistent in this attitude. Work of the special library is clearly apart from the worlc of the gen- eral library and in fields which require a very different technique of exploitation. Wc see no reason why a foundation which is concerned with the development of library activities should not carry its interest into the related field of information gctting and using. This would seem to be particularly true of a foundation whose funds are derived from riches amassed in a highly technical industry. Again, to members of the American Special Libraries Association, the sum of 22,000 set aside by the Carnegie interests for the expenses other than print- ing of preparing a Directory of Special Libraries in Great Britain seems generous, although not too generous. While S.L.A. in the United States has already issued two editions of a Directory of Special Libraries, these have fallen far short of what they might have been had the work been liberally aided as the worlc will be In Great Britain. Also, we must congratulate our British associates on the due which they have placed upon an association of this kind at the outset, as representecl by the mice at which they have set their annual membership dues, a price nearly double that at which we have placed the dues in the S.L.A. While our British associates have been good enough to express appreciation of their indebtedness to our American Association it is evident from now on that May, 1ga6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES I73

we are to learn much from them. Why should we not adopt an early policy of representation at the English meetings? We may feel sure that such meetings would welcome a representative of our Association. Would it be too much to plan definitely not only for annual representation, but for a method of making a choice of delegate who would be thoroughly representative of the Association? It would be presuinptuous to speak in this matter for our English associates, but we can conceive of nothing which would be more beneficial to both groups of special library workers than an interchange of delegates annually. * * * The item in SPECIALLIBRARIES for April, 1926, entitled "A Library Query," has aroused considerable interest and Mr. William E. Foster, librarian of the Providence Public Library, in the issue of the Boston Transcript for , answered the question, reproducing a letter from President Faunce addressed to him on March 8, 1923. The original information appeared in the Quarterly Bul- letin of the Providence Public Library for April, 1923. There was also noted in SPECIALLIBRARIES, December, 1923, page 179, an extract from "Ex Libris, September, 1923, page 74. Apparently this stray comment of Professor Loeb has been the cause of much interest during the past three years and we are glad that we revived the subject. * * * Mr. James Omerod, sub-librarian of the Public Library of Derby, England, is planning a classification of the books on Dcrbyshire. The collection consists of over eight thousand bound volumes on the subject, including places, persons, authors, imprints and books issued in the surrounding counties which are con- nected in some way with Derbyshire. Can any one suggest a suitable classification for this particular collection of* books ? * * The June issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES will be a California number. The two local associations on the Pacific coast have undertaken the work of compilation and committees especially appointed for the purpose are now preparing and edit- ing manuscript. We shall print an increased number of copies, but menlbers de- siring extra copies should order* in advance* of publication.* "The Editors Make It Unanimous" states the N.Y.P.L. Staff Bzdletiw, print- ing in a special box on the front page of the April issue the comments on the new Staf Bulletin made by various editors of library periodicals. On another page of the issue several librarians offer their friendly cotnments. Under the heading "Three MusketeersJ' is presented the negative reaction on the part of three metnbers of the N.Y. Public* Library* Staff.* The United States Department of Agriculture Library has recently received a request for a list of references on "Agriculture as a Life Work." Miss Bamett, the librarian, is anxious to how whether any other library has collected refer- ences on this subject. * * * The April issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES contained an article entitled "Agricul- tural Libraries of the United States." The title should have read "Apicultural Libraries of the United States," as the context clearly showed. SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1ga6 Library and Research Prizes for Research tion both on the electric transportation The Chicago Trust Company is offering industry and other business subjects in which they may be interested. While the prizes for research rclating to the subject of Business Development and the Modern Trust publications which we have collected cov- er the field of public generally Company and allied subjects. The Triennial utilities and deal with many other subjects, nat- Research Prize, amounting to $2,5001 is urally we have more information per- awarded every three years for an unpublished study which is submitted in competition and taining to our own industry than to any other. which is considered to contain the greatest original contribution to knowledge and ad- "The library should be of especial bene- vancement in the field outlined. Papers must fit in this regard. For instance, employees be filed not later than June I, 1927 and the preparing talks in connection with the reward will be made in the autumn of 1927. Public Speakers' Organization or the There are no restrictions as to eligibility of Company Section, will find publications contestants for the prize and the donors have on file giving them facts not only about in mind particularly officers of banks, business the Rapid Transit Lines but also about executives, practicing attorneys and advanced similar organizations throughout the coun- graduate students in the field of economics try. and business. Annual Monograph Prizes, first prize $300, Welfare Activities second prize $200, will be given for briefer The Travelers Insurance Company of Hart- studies not exceeding twenty thousand words ford has prepared for the Special Libraries in length. Papers should be filed not later Association, under the authorship of William than August 31, 1926 and the award will be B. Bailey, Ph.D., a survey of Personnel and made about December I, 1926. This comge- Welfare Activitzes. It is a preliminary study tition is open only to students registered in and statistical summary of the personnel and the American Institute of Banking and to welfare plans of one hundred and twenty-five other bank employees, to students in depart- American companies. The topical index in- ments of economics, commerce and law in dicates the wide range of welfare services colleges and universities and to graduate stu- maintained by the various companies. These dents who have not completed more than one companlcs cover all forms of industry, in- year of graduate work. Master's theses in cluding the manufacturing 01 mctals, textiles, the field of finance are considered desirable automobiles and many other industries. The contributions in this contest. Further dctails preponderance of companies conducting wel- concerning thc conditions of the awards may fare work is located in the New England and be obtained from the secretary of the com- middle Atlantic states. The various types of mittee, Leverett S. Lyon, Robert Brookings personnel and welfare plans are shown as Graduate School of Economics and Govern- thrift, insurance, including group insurance, ment, Washington, D.C. salary allotment, benefit associations, unem- ploytnent funds and various pension systems. New Traction Library A study was made of various other saving The Chicago Rapid Transit Company has and investment plans, also a study of re- recently installed a business library for the muneration methods. Other forms of ern- joint use of the Chicago Rap~dTransit Com- ployee aid are noted, such as job analysis, pany and North Shore Line employees, states legal advice and financial aid. The pamphlet The High Line, the house magazine of the also discusses other methods of education and Chicago Rapid Transit Company. bliss traming, such as libraries, house magazines, Florence M. O'Donnell, assistant secretary and works councils, partnership plans, suggestion treasurer, has general supervision of the li- methods, lunchrooms, vacations and extra- brary and Miss Marie McNamara has been mural development, such as gardening, hous- placed in charge. Miss O'Donnell states : ing, medical service and recreation. Dr. "Our aim in establishing this library is Bailey has done an unusually fine piece of to assist employees in obtaining informa- work in this valuable study. May, 1926 SPECIAL L IBRARIES 175

Public Administration from an impartial point of view and in There has just come from the press a new the light of the extensive study that we bibliography-it is A Bibliography of Public have made of this matter. Administration by Sarah Greer, librarian of Yours very truly, the National Institute of Public Administra- J. E. ICAVANAGH, tion and New York Bureau of Municipal Re- Second Vice-president, search. It is published by the National In- Metropolitan Life Itrsurance Company." stitute of Public Administration, 261 Broad- way, New York City and copies are obtain- Illumination able from them. A volume of two hundred The Bibliography on Illumination, issued as and forty pages containing approximately Information Bulletin No. 3, is a credit to the twehty-eight hundred titles of books pub- Committee on Illumination of the Technology lished in the past ten years, it comes as a very Group. Miss E. Mae Taylor, of the Phila- useful list. The material is divided into ten delphia Electric Co., was chairman of the chapters, e.g. General Administration, Po- committee and the other members were Mr. litical Parties and Elections, Civil Service Francis E. Cady, Mrs. Ruth McG. Lane, Mr. and Employment Management, Public Fi- George W. Lee, Miss Edith L. Mattson, Miss nance, Public Works, Public Utilities, Public Alma C. Mitchill, Mrs. Jennie L. Schram and Health and Sanitation, Public Welfare, Pub- Miss Rose L. Vormelker. The publication lic Safety and Administration of Justice, and first presents a brief historical bibliography Education. Each chapter is subdivided into of electric lighting. This bibliography, it is sections with headings clearly .designating the stated, makes no pretensions of completeness : material, which makes it easy to use. There and is offered only as a basis for more schol- is no index nor does one seem to be needed arly research. The bibliography on illumina- The importance of the bibliography is that tion contains references to articles from Jan- it is carefully selected, and has been done by uary, I924 to May, 1925 and discuss,es such Miss Greer and those persons of the New widespread subjects as the effect of light on York Bureau of Municipal Research who are egg production, the effect of light on the constantly using the books and are familiar eyes, glare, glassware and reflectors, head- with them. We are sure that it will become lights, interior lighting, eflect of light on a source-list for many libraries, for municipal plant growth, searchlights, street lighting, bureaus and offices and for students of gov- traffic control signals and sources. The Tech- ernment. nology Group should be congratulated for the excellence of this piece of research. Pension Plans The library of the Wisconsin Academy of The editor has recently received from the Medicine, now regarded as one of the finest Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. a reprint of collections in athe country, will be available three articles on Retirement Plans in Indus- for licensed physicians in Wisconsin within try, prepared by Gurden Edwards for The a few weeks. This was the action at the last Amtnlist. Accompanying the articles was the meeting oi seventy members in the new Acad- follpwing letter : emy building, 153 Oneida Street, . "Every in~portantemployer is unques- A research fellowship will be established at tionably paylng pensions of one kind or the Bureau of Standards by the Atlas Lum- another. These pension payments may be nite Company to provide for continuous ex- unrecognized or disguised, but they are perimentation and study of concrete propor- nevertheless being made. A businesslike tioning and the effect of water on concrete method of soundly dealing with this sub- made of lumnite and other concretes of high ject is, therefore, of prime importance. alumina content. "The Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany is interested in helping to establish The library of the Marland Refining Com- sound pension practice. If you have any pany is in process of re-cataloging, using the questions in this matter, please feel eri- Dewey Decimal System for necessary expan- tirely free to consult with us without any sion. The library, in charge of Mr. Basil implication of obligation on your part. Turner, is the largest business library in the Yonr particular problem will be studied south-west. SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1ga6 Science and Technology A. A. Slobod, Department Editor "Progress in Steam Research" as revealed of a new great lake in Canada which would by a number of ASM.E. reports, is shown in connect with Lake Superior through existing a series of brief articles on pages 151-60 of waterways. Over ~,ooo,ooohp. in hydroelec- Mechanical Engineering for February, 1926. tric energy would be available. The second issue of a new periodical, In- Radio Broadcast for February, 1926,has on, dustrial Psychology, that of February, 1926, pages 465-6 a list of European, South Ameri- is devoted almost entirely to articles on the can, Mexican and Cuban broadcasting sta- relations between immigration and labor sup- tions. It gives the location, call signal, wave- ply, while its April issue treats on "Women length and power of each station. in Industry." Volume I of Insulated Electric Cables b>* The textile industry has not been slow in C. J. Beaver, deals with the materials used realizing the benefits which the use of elec- in their manufacture and methods of design; tricity can bring. The European progress in vol. 2 will deal with their manufacture and this field, is described in Electrician, London, installation. A good book on a timely sub- for February 26, 1926, which is the 8th an- ject. Published by Van Nostrand. nual textile number, while Siemens Zeitschrift The current press reports the invention of devotes its entire issue of December, 1925, to a glass substitute that can be bent and shaped. this subject. It presents a number of well It is made of organic materials. It will not illustrated articles (in German) most of which burn and may be colored with the most deli- have to do with various forms of individual electric drive for textile machinery. cate vegetable dyes. It could be used to great advantage in the making of windshields- Volume 123 of the Aa~lalsof the Academy for automobiles.-Scientific American. May, of Political and Social Science, dated Jan- 1926. page 326. uary, 1926,presents forty-two papers on vari- ous phases of "Industrial Safety!' The pa- For the last few years considerable atten- pers are classified into seven groups desig- tion has been given to the development of nated as follows: "The Need for Safety in a method of cooling electrical machitlery by means of hydrogen The operation of ma- Industry," "The Organized Accident Preven- tion Movement," "Safety Code Development chines in a hydrogen atmosphere would have and Enforcement," "Safety in Specific Indus- the following advantages: less windage loss, tries," "Accident Prevention for Certain Haz- because of the low density of hydrogen; bet- ards," "Educating the Worker in Safety" and ter conductivity of heat and greater safety, because the insulation cannot burn. The most the "Relation of Safety Compensation and Rehabilitation." important contribution on this subject is that by E. Knowlton and others in the A.I.E.E. The application of electricity to agriculture Jozwnal, vol. 45, pages 724-34 July, 1925. and the extension of electric rural service is interest are : being pushed in a number of our states. In Other papers of the C.R.E.A. Bulletin published by Commit- N.E.A.L. Proc : 826. 1925. tee on the Relation of Electricity to Agricul- Power. 62 : 7. J1. 7, 1925. ture, 1116 Garland Bldg., Chicago, will be Arch f. Elek. 12: 361-9.Je. 30, 1923. found the results of the latest investigations. Zeits f. Techn. Phys. 4: 468-71.1923. A new Sweclish monthly recently appeared Ind. alee. 35: 145-6,149-54 Ap. 10, 1926. which is entirely devoted to this subject. Its Good books on science written for the lay- title is "Lajzdsbygdselelztrifierirrg oclz Moto- man are scarce. The following recent titles klbltzw," 6 Vasagatan, , C. can be recommeilded: A description with map of the proposed Food and Health. R. H. H. Pliminer and "New Water Supply for Grcat Lakes" is pre- Violet G. Plimmer. Longinan;. 1925. sented on pages 464-5 of Power, March 23, A small book on vitamins and their im- 1926. This scheme involves the construction portance in our diet. May, 1ga6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 177

Evening with the Stars. Mary Proctor. Brown-Boveri Review. Monthly. Harper. 1925. Brown, Boveri and Co., Baden, Switzer- Chemistry and Civilization. A. S. Cush- land. man. Dutton. 1925. A very good magazine published by a A popular text rich in historical and bio- leading European concern which recently graphical material. established an American branch. Ways of Life. R. S. Lull. Harper. 1925. Electricite and Mecanique. Bi-Monthly. On development of life. Compagnie Franqaise Thomson-Houston, Microbe Hunters. Paul de Kruif. Har- 173 Boulevard Hausmann, Paris VIII', court, New York. 1925. France. An account of the achievements of our A magazine very similar in nature to foremost bacteriologists. our General Electric Review. English Electric Journal. Irregular. Chemistry in Industry. 2 vols. H. E. Howe, English Electric Company, Itd., Queen's ed. The Chemical Foundation. House, Kingsway, London, W.C. 2. Animals of Land and Sea. Austin H. Deals with heavy electric machinery, Clark. Van Nostrand. 1925. electric traction, etc. Kruppsche Monatshefte. Monthly. We enumerate below a number of high- Friedrich Krupp Aktienges. Essen, Ger- class house organs published abioad which many. should be better known tb our libraries. Published by the famous Krupp con- They are of special interest to our large li- cern; primarily of interest to the me- braries having science or technology depart- chanical engineer and metallurgist. ments and also to the special libraries serving La Mailleraye. Monthly. the manufacturers of mechanical and electri- Sociitd de la Mailleraye, 79 Rue de Miro- cal apparatus and the central station field: mesnil, Paris. A.C.E.C. Quarterly. (In French.) A high-class housc organ devoted al- most exclusively to the technical as- Ateliers de Constructions electriques de pects of insulating oils. Charleroi, Charleroi, Route de Philipville, Belgium. Metropolitan-Vickers Gazette. Monthly. The publishers are one of the foremost Metropolitan-Vickers Co., Ltd. Trafford electric manufacturers of Belgium. Park, Manchester, England. This magazine is abstracted in Science Mechanical and electrical apparatus. Abstracts, Section B. Shibaura Review. Monthly. Shibaura Engineering Works, I Shinha- A.E.G. Mitteilungen. Monthly. macho, Shibaku. Tokyo, Japan. Allgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft, Ber- In Japanese. Most of the contributions lin, N.W. 40. deal with electrical subjects. Mostly descriptive literature of electri- Sietnens-Zeitschrlf t. Monthly. cal and mechanical apparatus and of Siemens-Scliuckertwerke, Siemenstadt bei various installations. An English edi- Berlin, Germany. tion is also available. It is called A.E.G. Devoted primarily to electrical subjects, Progress and may be obtained through with special emphasis to German ap- A.E.G. Machinery and Apparatus Co., paratus and instruments. 76 Victoria St., London. S.W. I. Telefunken Rundschau. Irregular. Asea Journal. Monthly. Telefunken Gesellschaft fuer Draftlose Allmanna Svenska Elektriska A.B., Ves- Telegraphic, Hallesches Ufer 12, Berlin, teras, Sweden. SW, Germany. The Swedish edition is entitled Aseas Radio telegraphy and telephony. Tidning. Telefunken-Zeitung. Irregular. Bergmann Mitteilungen. Irregular. Telefunken Gesellschaf t fuer Drahtlose Bergmann Elektrizitats-Werke, Akt-Ges., Telegraphic, Hallesches Ufer 12, Berlin, Berlin, N 65, Germany. SW, Germany. Good contributions of both theoretical Of more serious nature than the pub- and practical nature, on heavy electric lication mentioned above. Includes apparatus, locomotives, etc. contributions on radio theory. SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1ga6 The World of Business Print Ethel Cleland, Department Editor Nowhere in recent business literature is McGraw, a broad survey of the function of there more active evidence of the use of the the inventory not only in stock control but scientific method than in recent books in the also in relation to material control in indus- field of merchandise control, a phrase which trial enterprises and in computing taxable in- seems to have crystallized from a group of come; Retail Method of Inventory, by MC- terms such as budgetary control, inventory Nair, Shaw, devoted to the invpntory prob- control, accountmg control, stock control, ma- lems and practices of the large retail estab- terial control. Nineteen hundred and twenty- lishnlent ; and Economic Control of Inventory, five includes a distinctly interesting group of by Barber, Codex, a case study of economic books on various phases of merchancl~secon- control through inventory. trol. Scientific stock control plans are worked Mention should be made, however, of sev- out in three small but valuable volumes: eral publications appearing prior to 1925. In More Profits from Merchandising, by Filene, I~ZZan epochal book was published in MC- Shaw, in which the author develops a sim- Kinsey's Budgetary Control, Ronald. In plified stock plan worked out fr0.m actual 197.1-1922, two surveys were issued by the practice in his own business; Stock Control Northwestern University School of Com- in Depart~nent Stores, by Lazarus, Textile merce made in co-operation with the Na- Publishing Company, who explains his title tional Association of Retail Clothiers en- as referring specifically to stock planning; title Selling Expenses and Their Control, a and filevchandise Control, by Wess, Textile Study in the Retail Distribution of Clothing Publishing Company, which covers the same and Costs, Merchandising Practices, Advertis- subject from a little different angle. ing and Sales in the Retail Distribution of Three volumes in a new Prentice-Hall "Re- Clothing. Also as pioneers in scientific in- tailing Series" are the result of actual co- vestigation to establish basic principles of operative investigations in large retail stores merchandising, one must not omit mention and carry the subject of control in such es- of the long series of bulletins from the Bureau tablishments from a general survey of aims of Business Research of the Harvard Gradu- and methods-Retail Mercltandiskg Planning ate School of Business on operating accounts, and Control, by Fri-through the problen~sof operating expenses, systems of stock keeping the purchase, receipt and record keeping of in several lines of retail and wholesale busi- stock-Retail Buying, by Brisco and Win- ness. This year the Bureau publications of gate, and Retail Receiving Practice, by the this nature were: Operatilzg Expenses in 'Re- same joint authors. tail Grocery Stores in 1924; Operatiltg Ex- The value and use of accounts as guides penses in the Wholesale Drug Business ifi to the store executive in management and 1924; OPeratzng Expenses in Departmetit planning is the theme of a comprehensive Stores in 1924; Operating Exbenses in Re- volume from the Chicago University Press, tail Jewelry Stores in 1924; and Cases on Retail Accounting and Control, by Hodge. Merchandising Control in the Wholesale Barton's How to Write Advertising, Lip- Grocery Business. pincott, is another book of interest: in this A study of the business budget in connec- connection as the author is an advocate of tlon with economic trends, forecasts, etc., may commercial research and investigation as a be found in Barber's Budgeting to the Busi- basis for successful advertising. And Tos- ness Cycle, Ronald, and an actual exposition dal, in his Principles of Personal Selling, re- of budgetary control in a single industry is gards salesmanship as essentially an economic presented in Schneider's Budgetary Control and scientific problem. A book for the sales for the Cloak and Suit Industry, Maxwell manager which is based on the rcsults of Keller Publishing Company. research and case work is Kenagy and On merchandise control through inventory Yoakum's Selection and Training of Sales- there are three books to be noted: Inventory men, Scientific Methods in Developing Sales Practice and Material Control, by Kilduff, Organkatiorz. May, 1ga6 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Other evidence, if it were needed, of the three at least deserve to be mentioned here: use of the scientific approach to business Crum's lntroductiolz to the Methods of Eco- problems is the increased interest in books nonzic Statistics; a new edition of Secrist's on statistical work, index numbers, and the standard work, lntrodwction to Statistical making of graphs and charts. One little book of the past season in the field of sta- Methods; and Riggleman's Graphic Methods tistics is exclusively for merchandising, Vital for Presenting Business Facts, limited to just Department Store Statistics, by Wess, Textile the more common forms of statistical charts. Publishing Company. A statistical study of And one should not fail to include the new great interest to the merchant, Purcltasirrg volume in the Johns Hopkins "Studies in Ad- Power of the Consumer, by Berridge, Win- ministration," The Statistical Work of the No- slow and Flinn, Shaw, is in reality three tional Gouernntefit, by Schmeckbier, a thick studies as it consists of three prize essays volume which surveys in detail the statistical in a recent contest for the best plan for a information available in United States gov- statistical index of the purchasing power in this country. ernment publications and which ought to A large number of books on statistical serve as a guide to this, our best source of methods appeared during the year of which statistics. Associations Boston Dudley W. Knox is now in charge of the The Special Libraries Association of Bos- library ton met in the Armory at the Charleston From a few hundred books collected in Navy Yard Monday night, , and 1882 the library cards now note 55,500, ex- were addressed by Rear Admkal Elliott clusive of an aln~ostperfect set of congrcs- Snow, U.S.N., and Dr. Arthur E. Bostwick, sional documents. librarian of the St. Louis Public Library. The appropriation under which books are Supper at a downtown restaurant preceded obtained specifies them to be "Professional the visit to the Navy Yard where, owing to books and, periodicals," but as practically daylight saving time the visitors were per- every field of science is touched by officers of mitted to inspect the U.S.S. Constitution. the Navy, their professional needs include Dr. Bostwick, who had already addressed books on nearly every subject. There is an three other Boston audiences during the day, unusualy fine collection of voyages to the spoke a word of greeting. Arctic, Antartic, around the world, and to Admiral Snow spoke of the wonderful navy all parts of the globe. library in Washington. The state, war and The library has charge, in the War Rec- navy building, which housed the first Navy ords ofice, of documents captured by the navy Library, was constructed at a cost of $2,000,- in time of war. A short time ago amol~g covering a period of seventeen years. these records were discovered some unopened Professor James Russell Soley of Massa- letters which had been captured from the chusetts in 1882 was given the task of collect- British frigate Java, on December 29, 1812, ing the books which formed the nucleus of by the U.S.S. Frigate Constitution nearly one the present library, and he established the hundred and fourteen years ago. Three of system of cataloging and classification. these letters were brought to the library meet- In 1881 Capt. John G. Walker when ap- ing at the Navy Yard last night, and in the pointed chief of the Bureau of Navigation, presencc of naval officials and the special li- began to collect records of the navy in the brarians of Boston were opened. Civil War, with a view to having them pub- Admiral Snow gave some very interesting lished. At the end of four years this work sidelights on noted visitors who have used was also handed over to Professor Soley, and the Navy Library. Santo Dumont, the Bra- under him ' the library and the Naval War zilian inventor of the dirigible made much records office made great progress and were use of it. In its rooms Theodore Roosevelt brought to a high state of efficiency. Capt, wrote most of his history af the War of 180 SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1926

1812. Admiral Hood and Admiral Sowerby "The Natural History Society sent cir- of the British Navy, who commanded cruisers culars and some of its publications. "Gardeft: The Horticultural Society had in the battle of Jutland, when each went down a shelf of thirty books and a printed list with his ship, had been 'frequent users of for distribution, also a photograph. the library. "A section of bulletin board devoted to The Admiral also told about some of the religion had material from the General oldest books in the collection which comprises Theological and Congregational Libraries, including the beautiful drawing for the one published in 1482, six published in the book-plate of the latter. sixteenth century, and thirty-one in the sev- "The Harvard Business School covered enteenth century. a bulletin board with an interesting col- * * * lection of old bills and other documents illustrative of its historical collection and The annual meeting of the Special Libraries of the work of the Business Historical Association of Boston is to be held on Thomp- Society. son's Island in Boston Harbor on May 2a. "One corner had a few publications of the Esperanto Society and a picture of its library. There will be a meeting of the Extension "The S.L.A.B. itself was represented Service of Greater Boston at the Twentieth by an interesting chart of the Registration Century Club on Tuesday, . At this Conlmittee, contributed by Mr. Stebbins." dinner meeting the Extension Service and The committee, consisting of Miss Katha- "Modeltown" will be discussed. The Exten- rine Maynard, Miss Ruth Cooke and Miss sion Service of Greater Boston has as its Laura R. Gibbs, chairman, extended its grati- aim the organization of information through tude to the members of the Association whose sponsorsltip and already six subjects are es- work helped make the exhibition possible. tablished and seven other subjects are under consideration. New York The New York Special Libraries Associa- tion held its monthly dinner meeting with the The Special Committee on Modeltown, Public Service Corporation of New Jersey at held in Boston from April 7 to 13, made its Newark, N.J., on . The meeting, ar- report to the S.L.A.B. on , 1926. ranged by the Technical Group, was unusuaIIy The Committee stated : successful. The speakers were: Mr. R. P. "The Exhibit was especially intended to Whiting, manager Customer Ownership Di- show the work of libraries of a semi- L. Doherty Co., who public type, as being more consistent with vision of the Henry the purposes of the entire exhibit, and spoke on "Customer Ownership"; Mr. E. Rob- more closely related to the adjoining ex- nett, Customer Ownership Campaign manager hlbits of the State Library Commission of the Public Service Corporation of New and the Public Library, than would have been one more strongly emphasizing pri- Jersey, who presented a motion plcture en- vate business libraries. With this purpose titled: "New Jersey and Public Service"; and in mind the space was given- to the fol- Mr. W. L. Powlison, librarian of the National lowing: Automobile Chamber of Commerce, who de- "Art: photographs of the Museum of Fine Arts and of the Boston Public Spe- scribed the Patent Library of the Chambe: cial Libraries, together with a collection of Commerce. Mrs. Foster of Kuhn, Loeb of catalogs of the special collections in the and Company, who is retiring from library latter, both in art and other subjects. work, was the guest of honor and the as- "History: The Massachusetts Historical Society sent photographs, a representative sociation gave her a bouquet of roses. shelf full of its publications, and a sheet * * * descriptive of its work. The Financial Group of the New York "Law: The State Library had a photo- Special Libraries Association met at the li- graph and descriptive sheet. "Medicine: Mr. Ballard supplied book- brary of the H. L. Doherty Co. on Wednes- plates, pictures, descriptive matter, and day, April 7, 1926 A round-table discussion most interesting of all, a shelf of books was conducted on the following topics: Some approved by physicians for the home li- Current Affairs in the Financial Field; Re- brary. There were copies of the list of these for free distribution. The Mas- views of Three New Books; Important sachusetts General Hospital had a poster Movements in Banking. Plans for the group showing its work with patients in the activities during the convention were also a wards. matter of discussion. May, 1926 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 181

Philadelphia tute and Miss Spinning, the librarian, pre- sented the problems of the Institute Library. The Special Libraries Council of Philadel- phia and Vicinity held its monthly meeting on Opportunity was given to inspect the library and the various laboratories of the Institute. April 9, 1926, at the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. The speaker was Miss Marie H. Law, vice-director of the School of Li- brary Science, Drexel Institute, who discussed The regular meeting of the Special Libra- "Certain Problems in Classification and Sub- ries Association of Southern California was ject Headings." held on Saturday evening, , 1926, at the Consolidated Gas and Electric Company, Miss Law's admirable treatment of the sub- San Diego. An account of this meeting will ject from the earliest period to the present be given in the June number. time was exceedingly instructive. The points in favor and charges against each of the main classifications were brought out in de- Commercid-Advertising-IndustrialGroup tail. An enthusiastic discussion followed. Mr. F. A. Mooney, the chairman of the The monthly meeting of the Special Li- Commercial-Advertising-Industrial Group, has braries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity appointed the following committees : Research was held at the library of the Philadelphia -Miss bikenhead, Miss Mitchell, Miss Peck Electric Co., , 1926. The early part of and Miss Tafel; Publicity-Mrs. Schram, Mrs. the evening was devoted to the election of Beven and Miss Elias ; MembershipMiss officers and business reports and the remain- Shields, Miss Jessie Callan, Mr. D. F. Brown der of the evening offered an opportunity for and Miss Rose L. Vorrnelker. a good time and library anecdotes. The list This short articlc is not a report on com- of newly elected officers will appear in a mittee work but only an outline of the things later issue. we are trying to do. The Research Committee is gathering in- Pittsburgh formation on three points :

The Pittsburgh Special Libraries Association I. How many librarians have a definite met on Thursday, , in the Allegheny budget. Do those who have one feel that County Law Library, for the annual election it is a decided advantage to the library, or of officers. This was the last regular meet- not. ing of the year. Plans are being made for a z. How can the work of the special library bridge luncheon in May. be brought to the attention of the executives. Officers elected to serve for thr coming 3. What is the money value of the library year are ; president, Jessie Callan, Bessemer to the company. & Lake Erie Railroad ; vice-president, Mary Elizabeth Key, Aluminum Company of Amer- The Publicity Committee are studying the ica, New Kensington; secretary-treasurer, general subject of publicity and are consider- Mrs. Joseph Burke, Mercy Hospital Library; ing some definite ways in which the work members of the executive committee, Mrs. of this group may be advertised. They are I?. W. Wappat, Carnegie Institute of Tech- also looking for ways to bring the association nology, and J. Oscar Emrich, Allegheny to the attention of more people. County Law Library. The Membership Commmittee, as you can well imagine, is searching for new members. Letters have b'een sent to everyone, now in Southern California the group, asking for .aid in gathering re- cruits. If you, who are reading this, know The monthly meeting of the Special Libra- anyone who should belong, we would be ries Association of Southern California was very glad if you would send in the name. held on Sunday afternoon, , 1916, at We will do the rest. the California Institute of Technology. Pro- fessor Ernest C. Watson of the Physics De- ETHELA. SHIELDS, partment discussed the work of the Insti- Secretary, SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1996 Events and Publications Rebecca B. Rankin, Department Editor The Anthracite Bureau of Information, The Nezus Bulletin, issued by the J. Wal- Philadelphia has issued a pamphlet of fifty- ter Thompson CO., takes for its title for the four pages, The Avcthracite Strike of 1925- March issue "What Do Our Rural Neigh- 1926 which includes the agreement finally bors Buy?" It is well illustrated and even reached, discusses the reading habits of the rural and small-town people. Reprints of E. H. McClelland's Review of Irort and Steel Literature for rgzg-it is a classified bibliography-may be secured from The problem of traffic is today one of the the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. most serious confronting city governments and no group of persons should be more con- cerned than retail business men. They should Government Control of Exports and Im- read Trade Information Bulletin No. 394 of ports k Foreign Countries, compiled by A. the United States Foreign and Domestic Corn- M. Harvey, Library of the Bureau of Agri- merce Bureau entitled, Vehicular TrafficCon- cultural Economics will be useful to the finan- gestion and Retail Business. cial libraries.

The April 7 issue of the Municipal Refer- Frank E. Lutz, curator, Department of In- ence Labrary Notes is devoted to the subject sect Life of the American Museum of Nat- of "Parks." Its up-to-date statistics will be ural History, is the author of a little Pam- found useful. phlet entitled Nature Trails, an Experiment in Outdoor Education, published as Miscellan- If you haven't a copy of Guide to Origiltal eous Publications No. 21 issued by the Mu- Sowces for the Major Statistical Activities seum. of the United States Government, ask the United States Bureau of Efficiency for one. Wilmer L. Hall, assistant state librarian of Virginia, $as compiled A Bibliography of A Horticultural Trade Directory for 1926 Taxation in Virginia Since 1910. It is is- has been published by the A. T. De La Mare sued as a Bulletin of the Virginia State Li- Co., Inc., ~8 West 37th Street, New York brary, Richmond. City.

William Murray Hepburn, librarian of Pur- The Technology Department of the Car- due University, and Professor Louis Marten negie Library of Pittsburgh has recently pub- Sears of the University, have published a vol- lished a bibliography on Literatwe of the Cod ume entitled Purdue University; Fifty Years Industry, prepared by E. H. McClelland, of Progress. technical librarian.

The dfunicipal Index 1926 which is the best general reference book on municipal activities The Chase Economic Bulletin for April 2, of all cities of the United States has just 1926, is largely devoted to a discussion of been published by the American City, 445 German business and finance under the Fourth Avenue, New York City. Dawes plan prepared by Benjamin M. An- derson, Jr., Ph.D., Economist of the Chase More Books is the new title of Boston Pub- National Bank. lic Library's monthly bulletin, which has been much enlarged and enlivened in content, and Library Journal for April IS, 1926, contains it has a more attractive cover. Of interest to as the leading article "Significant Business special librarians is the article, "A Great Busi- Books of the Year," compiled by Miss Ethel ness Library" which tells of a new venture in Cleland, librarian of the Business Branch of Boston. the Indianapolis Public Library. May, 1916 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 183

The Division of Engineering of the Na- George W. Lee, librarian of Stone & Web- tional Research Council has recently issued a ster, Inc., 147 Milk Street, Boston, who is volume on Research which contains articles vice-chairman of the Extension Service Com- on the subject which have appeared during mittee of Greater Boston, is issuing a broad- the past three years. The National Research side entitled Kilzks in Comntunicatiotr. The Council would be glad to send copies to any series will deal with practical phases of of- library desiring them. fice and filing procedure and may be obtained without charge upon request to Mr. Lee if A publication of interest which is now in accompanied by postage for reply. its second year is LJEconomiste Roumain, the monthly bulletin of de L'Institut Economique Roumain et de L'Association des Banques The Committee on New England Industries, Roumaines. The current issue describes the under the auspices of the Boston Chamber of development of radio communication from Commerce, has prepared a group of studies Bucarest to various parts of Europe. of New England. The first survey covered the shoe manufacturing industry and the sec- - William Warner Bishop, librarian of the ond survey related to agriculture in New Eng- University of Michigan, has recently published land. These monographs have been issued as a volume entitled The Backs of Books and supplements to Cwrent Affairs, the magazine Other Essayr on Librarianship. The volume of the Boston Chamber of Con~merce. is published by Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, and will be reviewed in a later issue of SPE- The National Spectator, a new magazine CIAL LIBRARIES. established for the purpose of publishing in- formation about the activities of the Federal The Jourflal of the American Clzewzists As- government, maintains an Information Bureau sociation for March contains a report on the for the benefit of advertisers and subscribers, deterioration of leather b~ndingsprepared by This i~~cludesinformation concerning business Messrs. F. P. Veitch, R. W. Frey and L. R. interests and the Bureau even plans to make The Leinbach of the Bureau of Chemistry. hotel reservations for anyone coming to summary of the report may be found in Pub- Washington. lislters' Weekly for Apr~l3, 1926 and Library Journal for April 15, 1926. The Free Public Library of Newark has de- Agricultural Library Notes, prepared by the voted considerable attention to travel. In United States Department of Agriculture Li- January, 1926, an extensive exhibit of adver- brary, continues to present a fine group of tising hterature, of books of travel and of bibliographical and statistical notes. The posters was made by the library. The pos- March issue presents a few succinct refer- ters came from one hundred and forty-four ences to recent books on agricultural subjects, firms located in all parts of the world and an unusually valuable group of references on one hundred and twenty-five posters were hung "Bibliographic Style in Literature Citations;" in the corridors and various parts of the also a list of abbreviations of scientific peri- building. A little leaflet relating to the use odicals, a list of statistics of land-grant col- of maps and European Beginnings in America leges for the year ending June 30, 1924, and was distributed by the library. the usual departments. The Mellon Institute of Industrial Re- The Eureau on New England Affairs of search of the University of Pittsburgh has the Boston Chamber of Commerce has pre- prepared in its Bibliographic Series a Fourth pared a little pamphlet containing informa- Supplement to Bulletin No. I, entitled A List tion of interest to tourists or visitors relating of the Bulletins, Journal Contributions, ad 3 to the highway number system in New Eng- Patents by Melnbers of Mellon Institute of land. It includes a list of historic locations Industrial Research During the Calendar Year prepared by the state librarians of the sev- 1925. We are informed by W. A. Hamor, as- eral New England states. Appended is a list sistant director, that copies of this list will of requirements at the American-Canadian be sent gratis to all readers of SPECIALLI- border. BRARIES who make inquiry. SPECIAL LIBRARIES May, 1926 Personal Notes Margaret C. Wells. Department Editor George S. Godard, state librarian of Con- fied with the New York Public Library, hold- necticut, has been appointed chairman of the ing various positions of importance, and is at committee appointed by Governor Trumbull present director of Information Service of for the construction of a Connecticut building the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Williamson at the sesqui-centennial exposition in Phila- is a former President of the Special Libraries delphia. Association.

Mrs. Jeannette B. Foster, for many years Mr. Charles A. Chamberlain, formerly of connected with Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York, Moody's Investors Service, is now with the will retire to private life on May I, 1926, She Better Business Bureau, New York. 'leaves her many special library friends with their very best wishes and highest regards. Miss Clement, of the Municipal Reference She has been one of the leading figures in Library, New York, has been granted a leave the Financial Group of the S.L.A. and will of absence, April 15-, to work on the leave a gap which cannot readily be filled. A.L.A. 1926 Catalog under the direction of Miss Cooper in Washington, D.C. Miss Josephine W. Lyon succeeds Mrs. Bos- ter at Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York. She Miss Elizabeth Baxter, cataloger of the has been with the law firm of Cravath, Hen- Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has re- derson & De Gersdorff, New York, for the cently been appointed librarian of Haskin & past two years and before that was in charge Sells of New York. Miss Burns, the former of the Income Tax Files in Albany, N.Y. librarian, has resigned in order that she may take a trip abroad. Miss Marie Hamilton Law, vice-director, School of Library Science, The Drexel Insti- Miss Phyllis Molten is now connected with tute, spoke before the Special Libraries Coun- the Commercial Department of the National cil in Philadelphia on April g on the subject Board of the Y.W.C.A. "Certain Problems of Classification and Sub- ject Headings " Miss Dorothy Bemis, formerly librarian of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Miss Isabel L. Towner, reference librarian and later identified with the Library Bureau, of the National Health Council of New York, has been appointed librarian of the Hampton has been appointed assistant librarian of the Institute Library, Hampton, Va. Smithson~anInstitution Library, Washington, D.C. Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin, a member of the Library of Congress staff, died on April Miss Frances Hart, head of the Periodical 15 at the age of seventy-four. Mr. Griffin Department of the University of Norman, began his library career at the Boston Pub- Oklahoma, has accepted a position as assistant lic Library in 1871. He served with that li- librarian, in charge of cataloging and circu- brary and with the Boston Athenaeum until lation, in the Marland 011 Company Library, 1897 when the became identified with the Li- Ponca City, Oklahoma. brary of Congress. He has held the position of chief bibliographer and prior to his death Miss Ruth Canavan, librarian of the firm of was chief assistant librarian. His passing is Metcalf & Eddy, consulting engineers, was the a deep loss to the library profession. beneficiary of a bequest of $1,000 under the will of the late Leonard Metcalf, senior mem- In the January, 1926, SPECIALLIBRABIES an ber of the firm. item in this column appeared noting that Miss Lotus L. Mitchlee has become associated with Dr. C. C. Williamson has been appointed Sullivan & Cromwell, New York. The cor- director of Columbia University Libraries. rect name should have been Miss Lotus L. Dr. Williamson was for many years identi- Mitchell. Pages 185-190 deleted, advertising.