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Special Libraries -- - Vol. 4 APRIL 1013 No. 4 PUBLISHED BY THE and discussions of the technical problems of SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION the special library, especially those of classi- Monthly except July and August. ficdtion and ~ndexingant1 of terminology. The Editorial nnd Publlcatlon Oflce, State Llbrary, many devices which have been originated to Indiuuapolls, Ind. meet the special needs of different libraries Subscrlptlons, 03 Broad street, Boston, Mnss. will be brought out and deductions drawn from Entered at the Postomce nt Indlanupolls, Ind., the varying methods. as second-class matter. Two committe reports of unusual interest will Subscription.. .$2.00 a year (10 numbers) be presented and discussed fully, one on the Single copies ....................-26 cents collection and use of clippings and one on the training of special librarians. These reports Preddent ....................... D. N. Uandy will summarize the methods in vogue and will Iuaurance Llbrary Association, Boston Mnes. atiempt to set forth some general and special VlcePresldent .................R. H. ohn net on Bureau of Rnllaay Economlce, Wnshlngton,. D. C. conclusions based upon common experience. Becretury-Treasnrer ............ Guy E. Marlou Of the place of meeting, the Bulletin of the Llbrary, Arthur D. Little, Inc., 93 Broad St. A. L. A. says: EXECUTIVE BOARD "The Hotel Kaaterskill stands in a very beau- Presldent, Vlce-Prealdent, Secretary-Treasurer, tiful location on the top of Kaaterskill Moun- C. E Norman, People's Oaa Light and Coke tain, at an elevation of 3,000 feet above the Co., Chlcago ; and Miss Florence Spencer, Na- tlonal Cit Bank, New York Clty. sea. From the piazza the visitor has an un- Mrnaglng &itor of Elpeclal Llbrarles :-John A. obstructed panorama, stretching across the Hud- Lapp, gtate Llbrary, Indlana olle, Iud. son River and Valley and the hills of New Arslstant Edltor. Ethel ~lelani State Llbrar~.-. Indlanc~polle,ind. England, covering a sweep of over ninety CONTRIBUTING lDITORS miles. The hotel is advertised as the largest F. N. Morton Unlted Gas Improvement Co., mountain hotel in the world, having a capacity ~hlladelphln: for between one thousand and twelve hundred H. H. B. Meyer, Library of Congress. guests, the exact numbel accornrnodated de- D. N. Handy, Insurance Llbrary Assoclatlon, pending, of course, on how many desire to room alone. The A. L. A. will have the ab- Annual Convention ................... 53 solutely exclusive use of the entire hotel dur- Library of the School of Social Workers 54 ing the whole time of the cor~ference Having Uniform Systems of Accounts.. ........ 66 all delegates in one hotel is an important fea- Recall of Judicial Decisions.. .......... 59 ture and always brings about easier and more Current References ................... 60 frequent personal confcrcnces and a general Bibliographies ....................... 64 unity which is difficult to obtain where delc- Rotea and Events.. ....................67 gates ere housed under a number of separate roofs. Any possible ovelflow will be accomrno- dated at a smaller hotel, a mile from the SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Kaaterskill, conveyance hack and forth being ANNUAL CONVENTION provided. It is not likely, however, that there The annual convention of the Special Li- will be more applications than the headquar- braries Association will be held at the Kaater- ters hotel can comfort;tbly handle. There are skill Hotel in the Catskills, New York, during 700 rooms in the Kaaterskill and Annex, 100 the week of June 23-2'8, 1913. This meeting of whicl~have private baths. The dining room will be in conjunction with the A. L. A, and has a seating capacity for 1,200 people. In affiliated organizations. the way of amusements the management calls Mr. H. H. Johnston of the Bureau of Rail- attention to excellent golf links, boating and way economics is cha~rman of the committee fishing in a small mountain lake near by, ten- of the A. L A. in charge of the program and nis, bowling, driving and motoring, mountain has tentatively worked out a program which climbing, ctc. A new ball room floor was laid bids fair to'be one of the strongest and most in 1912. Meeting halls are adequate to ac- interesting yet presented by ' the association. commodate the general sessions, section meet- The first meeting will be devoted to a re- ings and those of the four affiliated organiza- view of the developments in the special li- tions." brary field and to papers and discussions on The library meetings promise to be the larg- the value of special libraries to those who est in the history of the A. L. A., and of the pay for them and ,the relation of the special Special libraries association and others as well. !D the general library. Reservation for room9 at the Kaaterskill Ho- A second sesssion will be devoted to papers tel should be made early. Applications should 54 SPECIAL LIBRARIES be addressed to Harrison S. Downs, Berkeley countries, but also including many valuable Lyceum, 19-21 W. 44th Street, New York City. books and single pamphlets. It already con- The rates for library week are as follows: stitutes one of the most important libraries of Two persons in double room without pri- this sort in the country. vate bath, $3.00 per day, each. "The Library is the property of Simmons Two persolis in double room with private College, and is administered under the direc- bath, $4.50 per day, each. tion of a Council, which at present consists of One pelson in single room without private Henry Lefavour, Charles W. Birtwell, Mar- bath, $1.00 per day. garet Curtis; Mary Lee Hale, James Hardy One person in room with private bath, $6.00 Ropes!' per day. In order to try to carry out some of the Travel arrangements are being made for a promises held out in this circular, my assist- Boston party, a Western party and a party ant and I arrived the end of September and from Washington, Philadelphia and New York. set to work as soon as the workmen, who still The post conference trip is planned for the had possession of the premises, transforming Adirondasks. Detailed information will be the building of the New England historic found in tlie A. L. A. Bulletins or may be ob- genealogical society into the building of the tained from Mr. George B. Utley, Secretary of School for social workers, could be driven out. A. L. A., 78 E. Wash Street, Chicago. The first thing we had to do was to take Index and Directory of the 8. L. A. over the collection of the 25,000, more or less, A list of members of the Special libraries books, pamphlets, periodicals and reports (I association' and an index of the material al- mention them in inverse order to their num- ready published was issued as the January, ber and importance), which were brought to 1913 number of Special Libraries. This con- us from the Children's aid society, in 200 or stitutes a handbook of information about the more bookcases. The sorting out and classi- scope and activities of the association and is fying, to say nothing of the dusting of this a record of substantial progress. mass of material, has been no small task, as Criticisms have been made because the in- the arrangement was somewhat chaotic. The dex part was not issued as a separate, so as newer material had been put into the cases to facilitate binding. It is hardly likely that without any system at all, as the Children's special librarians will find this a serious ob- aid society had had no one for more than a stacle to its effective use, but for those who year to look after its library, and never has desire an extra copy for binding purposes, the it had the full time services of any one. It is secretary or the managing editor will furnish surprising what they had been able to do un- a copy on request. der these limitations. The scheme used in the older portions was a geographical one, with an alphabetical arrangement of 600 or more THE LIBRARY OP THE SCHOOL OF SOOIAL books. As a preliminary, therefore, we had to WORKERS collect together the reports, etc., which be- longed together, and we frequently found them Address by Miss Ketuham, Librarian at the in three or four different places, and then to 8. L. A., Boston, Jan. 1, 1813. tie them up with strong cord, this being our I cannot tell you about the Social service inexpensive system of binding, so that they library better than by reading a sort of pros- should not get scattered again. pectus that was gotten out last spring: '(In Next came the question of what scheme of connection with the School for social workers, classification to use, and I finally decided upon in its new quarters at 18 Somerset Street, Bos- the Library of Congress schedules. First, be- ton, it is proposed to maintain a special Social cause I was told at the School of philanthropy service library.