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What ASA and 239 Mean to Librarians Ruth E. Mason

__f__ The Library of a Fund-Raising Organization Laurence Cazale

I_CI How Trade Papers Are Used By a Special Library Katherine Janis

__t__ Circulating the Table of Contents of Magazines T. J. Kopkin --.c- TOLEDO DAY SLA 46th Annual Convention German Science

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CONTENTS

FEATURE ARTICLES What "ASA and "239" Mean to Librarians . . RUTHE. MASON 191 The Library of a Fund-Raising Organization . LAURENCECAZALE 196 How Trade Papers Are Used by a Special Library ...... KATHERINE JANIS 208 Circulating the Table of Contents of Magazines . . T. J. KOPKIN 2 11

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Toledo Day ...... STANLEY K. GRAHAM 199 Convention Notes ...... 20 1 Among the Speakers ...... 202 Convention Program Chart ...... 206 Report of the Treasurer . BURTONW. ADKINSON2 16 SLA Nominating Committee ...... 22 1

DEPARTMENTS The Executive Secretary's Desk ...... 207 Letters to the Editor ...... 207 Chapter Highlights ...... 2 13 Have You Heard ...... 221

Committee on Special Libraries Chairman: ALMA CLARVOEMITCHILL MRS. MARIE S. GOFF RUTH SAVORD

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THE NEW YORK TIMES INDEX Times Square, New York 36, N. E: Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements What "ASA" and "239" Mean to Librarians

RUTH E. MASON* Editor-in-chief, American Standards Association, New York, N. Y

ANY LIBRARIANS know the Ameri- their votes, and if there is no legitimate M can Standards Association as objection from some important interest, the place to call when they need a ASA then says, in effect, "This standard standard on machine tools, pipe and has received nationwide approval by piping, or test methods of any kind. But the groups concerned and therefore is entitled to be listed as an American Standard." This applies to library practice as well as to machine tools, screw threads, and pipes and piping. The way a standard gets started and the reasons why are described rather entertainingly in a cartoon booklet about Digby Holeston Postlewaite, issued by ASA recent1y.l Digby has a great deal of trouble with many va- rieties of post holes until, as the cartoon shows, agreement is reached on an American Standard. When you look over this booklet, I am sure you will be able to translate Digby's experience they may not know that ASA itself into terms of library practice. does not prepare standards in any of these fields. What it does is to offer a Origin procedure that makes it possible for ASA's procedure of bringing groups the groups who want a standard to get together to agree on standard practice together and agree on what they need. was started following the First World The American Standards Association War. It was discovered during the war then decides whether the standard these that the various engineering societies groups prepare has a broad enough ac- frequently had entirely different stand- ceptance to be considered an "Ameri- ard dimensions for parts that had to fit can Standard." It does not vote on the together. So the American Institute of basis of whether the standard is basic- Electrical Engineers, the American So- ally good. Instead, in effect, ASA says ciety of Mechanical Engineers, the to the committee, "Is this what you American Institute of Mining and Met- think is good? Is this what you want?" allurgical Engineers, the American So- If all the groups concerned with the ciety of Civil Engineers, and the Ameri- standard have had an opportunity to can Society for Testing Materials all present their viewpoints and to register got together and organized a coordinat- ing committee for standards. In only a * Miss Mason is editor of The Magazine of few years this committee was enlarged Standards and ASA staff representative for to include insurance organizations, gov- Sectional Committee 239, Standardization in the Field of Documentation and Library Prac- ernment departments, and trade asso- tice. ciations in many fields. This was due to the need to bring together all the groups Organization concerned with safety of industrial work- Members of ASA committees are ap- ers to agree on safety standards for use pointed by national societies or asso- by industry itself, and also as a basis ciations of users, producers, and, in for state and local regulations to pre- vent industrial accidents. some cases, labor representatives, and include government departments and As a result, the standards coordinat- special interest groups such as the in- ing committee was reorganized as the surance groups who have a special in- American Standards Association. Now, terest in safety standards. Because the ASA has a membership of more than one hundred trade associations and Standards Council is so large and there technical societies as well as some 2,300 is such a wide variety of different sub- companies. The associations and so- jects to work on, the Council has set cieties that are "member bodies" are up small branches to head up the work the governing organizations. Each has in different fields. For example, there membership on the "Standards Coun- are standards boards for the mechan- ci!," the organization that has the final ical and electrical fields, for mining, decision on all technical work, initiation consumer goods, construction, safety, of new projects, and approval of stand- photography, highway traffic, materials ards. The member bodies take turns in and testing, graphic standards, and nominating members of the Board of under discussion is an acoustical stand- Directors which has the final responsi- ards board. These boards review the bility for policy matters and financial work of the committees in their fields matters. and make recommendations to Stand- The financing of the Association comes ards Council on approval of standards, principally from the 2,300 company personnel of committees, on starting members. new projects, and any other problems that arise. Sponsorship of Projects As you can imagine, the process of Work on standards is now being done reaching agreement among all the in nearly four hundred projects- Most groups and individuals on an ASA corn- them are 'ponsored by a mittee is not easy. It takes time to de- trade association or technical society velop an American Standard. But one that has a special interest in the sub- of the basic tenets of ASA is that Ameri- ject. These sponsoring organizations have the responsibility for keeping the work can Standards must be reviewed at of the projects moving. T~~ work on least every five years and either be re- machine tools. for example, is spon- affirmed as up date, Or revised. sored by the kmerican society of -~e- A new list of American Standards chanical Engineers, the National Ma- has just been published by ASA, show- chine Tool Builders Association, the ing what the 1,450 American Standards Society of Automotive Engineers, and cover. the Metal Cutting Tool Institute. Some of the work on textiles is sponsored by It should be mentioned that Ameri- the National Retail Dry Goods Asso- can Standards are not mandatory stand- ciation, some by the American Associa- ards- their use is voluntary. In some tion of Textile Chemists and Colorists, cases, of course, state and municipal and some by the American Society for governments have adopted them and Testing Materials. made them mandatory as state or local The work on documentation and li- regulations. But the great majority are brary practice is sponsored by the Council used by companies and other organi- of National Library Associations. zations on a voluntary basis.

192 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Standards for Library Practice The recommendations on reference Two committees are working on stand- data and arrangement of periodicals ards for library practice and docu- covered in the present American Stand- mentation problems under ASA proced- ard represent only one phase of the ures. One is 239, about which librarians work that Committee 239 might under- have heard for some years. This com- take. The scope of its work has been mittee's work, as its title indicates, is defined as "Standards for concepts, de- on "Standardization in the Field of Li- finitions, terminology, letters and signs, brary Work and Documentation." The practices, methods, supplies and equip- "Z" in its identification number, "239," ment used in the field of library work indicates that it is a "Miscellaneous" and the preparation and utilization of documents." project. It reports to the Miscellaneous Standards Board. The most pressing problems facing The other is PH5. "PH" stands for Committee 239 at the present time are "Photography," and PHs is the commit- concerned with international recommendations continually being referred tee on Photographic Reproduction of to it. For example, the committee has Documents. It reports to the Photogra- been asked to present the viewpoint of phic Standards Board. USA groups on international proposals for bibliographical references, bibliographical citations, transliteration of Committee 239 has one American Greek characters, bibliographical strip, Standard to its credit. This is the Ameri- abstracts, and summaries. can Standard Reference Dafa and Ar- rangement of Periodicals, identified as Committee 239 is now being reorgan- 239.1-1943. It is a revision of the first ized by the Council of National Library edition issued in 1935. Associations. Much of the work under its scope affects publishers and editors This standard grew out of the troubles as well as librarians; therefore, the librarians have experienced because Council is including associations of pub- publishers often do not include infor- lishers and editors among those invited mation they need on title pages of peri- to name representatives on the new odicals, in the tables of contents, in in- committee. A meeting of the committee dexes, or in other places of reference. is scheduled for April 29. The standard includes recommendations on the placing of titles of periodicals, The new chairman of Committee numbering volumes and issues, infor- 239 is Ralph H. Phelps, Engineering mation that should appear on the con- Societies Library, New York; vice-chair- tents page and masthead of a publica- man, Lawrence Leavey, St. Vincent tion, bibliographical information, when College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania; secre- to change the title and size of a publi- tary, Robert E. Kingery, New York cation, and similar points that have Public Library, New York." caused trouble in the past. It was started at the request of a number of librarians and was first approved by a con- Committee PH5 was formed to help ference of those concerned in 1935. In solve some of the problems librarians 1940 when a revision was needed, a have experienced in using microfilm, committee was organized with the Ameri- microcards, and other photographically can Library Association as sponsor. Now, reproduced documents. with the approval of the ALA, the Council of National Library Associa- The Special Libraries Association had tions has taken over responsibility for a hand in bringing about the organiza- the committee's work. tion of Committee PH5 when it voted

MAY - JUNE, 1955 in 1952 to ask the American Standards lege, Flushing, N. Y.Vhis committee Association to undertake work on "equip- reports to the Photographic Standards ment, consumable supplies, and meth- Board of the American Standards As- ods regarding microfilm, with a view sociation, of which Paul Arnold, Ansco, toward quality improvement of end- is chairman. product and ease of use for the purpose To handle the international prob- intended." lems referred to it, Committee pH5 has Very soon after this request, an in- organized a special subcommittee made ternational committee on documentary up of its chairman and the chairmen of reproduction asked for the USA view- its three subcommittees. point on proposed recommendations on Such subjects as terminology, sharp- efficiency of microfilm readers, among ness tests for microcopies and for micro- other questions. copy readers, essential characteristics of This is where the American Stand- 35-millimeter microfilm readers, and of ards Association and Committee pH5 35-millimeter microfilms are among the came in. The cooperation of photogra- international questions that have been phic manufacturers and processors was referred to this subcommittee for com- needed for the development of prac- ment. tical recommendations that could be Mr. Holmes is heading a delegation put into effect, and the cooperation of to a meeting of the international com- librarians was needed to represent the mittee in Paris in June. A representa- users' point of view. Committee 239 tive of one of the photographic equip- could not do the job satisfactorily be- ment manufacturers will be one of the cause its membership did not include delegates. the photographic groups. Therefore, the American Standards Association organized the new committee PH5. The The international work on documenta- Council of National Library Associa- tion standards is being done by com- tions, already sponsor for 239, became mittees of the International Organiza- sponsor for PH5 as well. tion for Standardization. This Organi- The committee works under a scope zation now has thirty-five members, of defined as "Standards for photographic which the American Standards Associa- materials, apparatus, and processes per- tion is the member for the USA. The taining to production, use, storage and members of the IS0 are national stand- preservation of document reproduc- ards associations like the American tions." Three subcommittees are active- Standards Association, but there is one ly at work -on micro-transparencies important difference. All except ASA (microfilm); micro-opaques (micro- are supported, at least partially, by gov- prints and microcards); and documents ernment funds. reproduced photographically and read- The international association was or- able without optical devices (photo- ganized in 1926 but was put into "cold stats, for example). Of course, the com- storage" during World War 11. Now IS0 mittee's scope and the work of these has been reorganized. It has an office in subcommittees also include devices for Geneva, Switzerland, with a full-time reading micro-transparencies and micro- secretariat under the direction of Henry opaques. St. Leger, an American. The president Chairman of PH5 is Donald C. Holmes, is elected. This year he is Dr. Hilding -.. Photoduplication Service, The Library aornebohm of SKF Industries in Swe- of Congress, Washington, D. C.; vice- den. The first president after World chairman, Ernest P. Taubes, Photostat War I1 was Howard Coonley, past presi- Corporation, Rochester, New York; sec- dent of the American Standards Asso- retary, Joseph H. Brewer, Queens Col- ciation.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES IS0 has seventy-nine technical com- This international work is frequent- mittees. The United States is repre- ly misunderstood. International recom- sented through the American Standards mendations are just what the name in- Association as a participating member dicates. They are recommendations. It of twenty-six of these committees; and is up to the individual standards or- ASA holds the secretariat for eight ganization in each of the countries to others. It is an observer on all the other accept them or adapt them to their IS0 technical committees, so it can be own needs if they care to do so. kept informed of what goes on. An important problem at the moment is to develop a United States Technical Committee 46 viewpoint on these proposed interna- IS0 Technical Committee 46 is the tional recommendations. Sectional Com- committee in which librarians are inter- mittee 239 has this problem for the ested. This is the committee on Docu- work of Technical Committee 46 and mentation. The Netherlands standards PHs is handling it for Subcommittee 1 body has the responsibility for its ac- on photographic reproduction. tivities as secretariat. Nineteen coun- The American Standards Association, tries are represented on this commit- as the USA member of the Internation- tee.4 It is in close touch with both FID, al Organization for Standardization, of- the International Federation of Docu- fers its services to do anything possible mentation, and with IFLA, the Interna- to bring your viewpoint to the attention tional Federation of Library Associa- of these IS0 committees so that when tions. At the 1954 meeting in Brussels, international recommendations are ap- both FID and IFLA were represented. proved they will represent our ideas as Despite a good deal of work to locate well as those of other countries. someone, no delegate from the USA was present. Perhaps by the time Tech- References

nical Committee 46 holds another meet- 1 The Strange Case of the Seven-Sided Post ing, Committee 239 can find some way Hole, PM 129, American Standards Associa- to arrange representation. tion, 70 East 45th Street, New York 17, N. Y. Technical Committee 46 has com- Single copies free. pleted three international recommenda- The SLA Representative to Committee tions that have been given official ap- 239 is Mrs. Anne J. Richter, editor, Book Editorial Department, R. R. Bowker Com- proval by the Member-Bodies of IS0 pany, New York, N. Y. and by the IS0 Council. These are on 3 The SLA Representative to Committee abbreviations for titles of periodicals;' pH5 is Chester M. Lewis, chief librarian, The layout of periodicals; and on trans- New York Times, New York, N. Y. literation of cyrillic characters. The last Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, two have not yet been published. France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, The international committee on read- Italy, The Netherlands (secretariat), Portugal, ability of microfilm, efficiency of micro- Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, film readers, and other problems of South Africa, United Kingdom, and USA. photographic reproduction is Subcom- 5 International Code for the Abbreviation of mittee 1 of IS0 Technical Committee Titles of Periodicals, IS0 R4. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, 46. France is responsible for the work Switzerland. Available from the American of this subcommittee. Standards Association. 50 cents. Both Technical Committee 46 and 6 Standardization in the Domain of Docu- Subcommittee 1 have been working mentation. Report prepared by Technical Com- under contract with UNESCO. Last fall mittee ISO/TC 46 (Documentation) of the a report was published which contains International Organization for Standardization a number of recommendations. This (ISO), published in collaboration with UNESCO. The Hague. 1954. Copies available report was referred to in the UNESCO without charge from the American Standards Library Journal for January 1955.6 Association.

MAY -JUNE,1955 The Library of a FundJtaising Organization

LAURENCECAZALE* Staff member, John Price Jones Company, Znc., New York, N. Y.

ROUND THE OFFICES of the John The casebooks on these campaigns, A Price Jones Company, noted New some running to ten volumes or more, York fund-raisers and publicity experts, are without doubt the most distinctive ATL has long been the watchword of feature of the JPJ library's many dis- the wary staff member. It means "Ask tinctions. In many instances the case- The Library". And that can mean al- book provides the only complete his- most anything -from the banal to the tory of an institution's fund-raising ef- bizarre, the specific to the general, the forts. Each book holds an original copy obviously pertinent to the apparently of every piece of material-preliminary pointless. surveys and studies, campaign plans, publicity schedules, worker lists, pro- Heart, soul, and nerve center of the motional pamphlets, and the like-that Company's every operation in fund- relates to a given campaign; and each raising and public relations, this unique library daily stands up to a barrage of book is plainly marked with the number assigned to that campaign. Kept in questions and problems that range from loose-leaf form until the campaign is finding foundations interested in the closed, the books are then bound and deaf to tallying the genes in the human filed by number. In these books experi- body. Through the years, to meet the ence is translated into readable proof challenge, the library has marshalled of a fruitful system for the raising of its forces of reference into the sure defense of authority. The result is the funds. And, of course, the casebooks Company's present reputation for effec- stand as a permanent archive of prece- tive fund-raising. dent and record for ready reference by any staff member of the company. Besides the casebooks, the library's Library Sources other sources constitute a formidable What are these forces? First and fore- armory in themselves. There are files most, the ranks of casebooks that line of quotations, rules on etiquette, bio- the library's walls. During its more than graphical sketches; compendiums of thirty-five years of activity, the John news events and historical dates; rows Price Jones Company has helped raise of foundation reports and college cat- an aggregate total of over 830 million alogs; and an arsenal of reference texts, dollars for more than a thousand clients some standard, others more or less out representing a full flowering of philan- of the way. Included are numerous tech- thropic interests -planned parenthood nical and foreign-language dictionaries; and regional planning, war loans and almanacs; telephone books from across hospitals, social welfare, the fine arts the nation; Who's Who, Social Regis- and higher education, among many ters of principal cities and the Congres- others. sional Directory; American college, medical and hospital directories; Statis- tical Abstracts, Ayer's Directory of * Mr. Cazale, a recent recruit to the staff Newspapers and Periodicals; the Read- of the John Price Jones Company, was asked to familiarize himself with all of the Com- er's Guide to Periodical Literature; the pany's resources for fund-raising. His first Social Work Yearbook, the Encyclo- contact with and examination of the library pedia of Social Sciences, and the Eco- produced the reaction detailed in these pages. nomic Almanac -and these but a ran-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES dom sampling. There are current major periodicals and all New York City papers, plus dailies from Boston, Balti- more, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Washington, D. C. The New York Times is kept for three months, and its Index from 1913 to date. From these papers and magazines one of the library's prime sources has been built up - the Topical File-Cam- paign (T.F.C.) and Topical File-Non- Campaign (T.F.N.C.). Folders in the T.F.C. file bear such heads as "Ques- tionnaires," "Headquarters," "Briefs for Surveys and Plans," "Publicity," "Can- vassing"; under T.F.N.C. come "Founda- tions," "Education," "Unemployment," "Welfare," and many others, from "Ac- cident" to "Zodiac". Here are clippings, GERTRUDEL. LOW,librarian of the cuttings, articles, studies and reports in John Price Jones Company neat profusion-a minute and dramatic survey of the human show around the tice. It is but the basis of work on a clock, down through the years. From campaign, to be modified according to the topical files, articles of special in- individual exigencies and designs as the terest, some fifteen, twenty years old or campaign progresses: basic, but vital to more, come readily to hand, often sav- the library's larger function. For, from ing hours if not days of research else- the sketches in S.P. come the blueprints where. All of the material -in fact, al- in the casebooks; and from these grow most every item in the library-' 1s en- realities of architecture, scholastic en- tered by subject on a central index dowment, hum ani t a r i a n service, or that totals well over 300,000 cards! other fulfillments of vision. There are also books-regular books As for the library's bookshelves, they're -in the JPJ library. But before going filled with volumes on subjects any- on to them, special mention must be where from psychiatry to typography, made of S.P. S.P. is Standard Practice, religion to crime, grammar to philan- and -to extend the military metaphor thropy itself. Down the list from Pub- further -if the casebooks are the libra- licity for Prestige and Profit is The ry's arms, Standard Practice is the mag- Manual of Corporate Giving; further azine, the ammunition source itself. along tower Frazer's Golden Bough and Here, sifted down into nine volumes Frederick Lewis Allen's The Big Change; plus an abridged summary, are the beyond these, Howard Mumford Jones's ground rules developed by the Com- Ideas in America and Toynbee's Study pany to help its staff deal with every of History. Among the stranger shelf- facet of the fund-raising enterprise : fellows are Walt Whitman's Poems, and writing a pamphlet that pulls; setting Insults edited by Max Herzberg; Good- up campaign organization headquar- bye, Mr. Chips and Wuthering Heights ters; drawing up charts, statistics, etc. share space with Kenneth Fearing's The Generous Heart, a novel centered on Tried and true, the careful result of two fund-raising experts and a murder; long experience and wisdom, there is the Official Bowling Guide crowds A yet nothing rigid about Standard Prac- Guide to Civilized Loafing.

MAY - JUNE, 1955 What relation to fund-raising have worked with the New York Public Li- the paeans of Whitman, the rules of brary and has served as president of bowling? The answer is people; people the New York Chapter of the Special have interests; and their interests are Libraries Association, holds no partisan JPJ's wherever they lie. It's the libra- brief for "friend" or "foe," insider or out; ry's job to be up on as many as humanly together with her assistants she rises to possible. every challenge with the skill and poise For a library is many things to many that come only of experience in cutting people. There are libraries large and the impossible down to size. small, libraries special and general; That's what the library's files and there are advertising libraries, public data do. But how do they, and the books, relations libraries, libraries maintained and the Standard Practice, and the case- by foundations and various philanthropic books, all fit into the larger picture: agencies. In this field or that some have that betterment of humanity which is information that is more detailed or the goal of every philanthropic effort? more specialized than others. But few Philanthropy today is on a big scale. It attempt to focus on as many aspects needs machinery to run efficiently and of as many public activities as com- economically, and the machinery in pletely as does the John Price Jones turn needs information of every sort library. It is this peculiarly flexible and species. The value of the library ability to piece many facts into many to JPJ and to JPJ's clients in getting pictures that gives the library its spe- quickly and authoritatively to the heart cial edge and flavor. Indeed, it has been of the matter- be it juvenile delin- called the most comprehensive organi- quency or secondary education for girls zation of its kind there is. -is incalculable. Library Services It is far from enough just to be ex- With this highly organized kaleido- pert for expert's own sake. By measur- scope of facts and figures at its coming public opinion, weighing the nature mand, then, the JPJ library is bound of the cause, producing the salient facts, to be on the receiving end of a good the staff member must frame the cogent many S.O.S.'s from researchers each appeal to the correct prospects if the year. Most of the queries are from staff campaign is to be a success. All this the members on specific jobs, but some library makes it possible for him to do. come in from the outside -from the Through its good offices, fund costs are Wall Street Journal and the Metropoli- cut and the client's profits proportion- tan Life Insurance Company; The New ately raised. These are profits reckoned Yorker and Time magazines; the famed in terms of the work of Harvard and Hanover Bank Philanthropic Library- Columbia; the Y.M. and Y.W.C.A.; the and even from JPJ competitors! They Metropolitan Opera; and the American run the gamut, from a request for the Cancer Society, to name but a few of current assets of the Continental Can many. Company to posers like "How many Busy is the word for the John Price eggs does a chicken lay a year?" Jones library. Through its doors staff In fact, it often seems that within members go constantly, planning, ana- the library's purview has come almost lyzing, surveying, investigating blood every request imaginable but the classic platelets or supersonic sound. But it's "How high is up?" All, however, are never too busy for another assignment answered, or at least attempted, with -even at ten minutes to five. Even equal dispatch by Librarian Gertrude then Miss Low, her telephone ringing, L. Low and her able assistants, Dorothy will look up from her desk with an ex- Roche, Eleanor McDevitt, and Mrs. pression that says, more genially than Lillian Winder. Miss Low, who has words, "Just ATL."

198 SPECIAL LIBRARIES "TOLEDO DAY" June 17, 1955

When Major-General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers near Fort Industry (now Toledo) in 1794, he secured once and for all the U. S. claims to the excellent harbor formed by the Maumee River as it enters Lake Erie. Today the port of Toledo handles more tonnage than any Great Lakes port save one. In addition to its pre-eminence as the center of the glass industry, Toledo is important in the manufacture of automotive supplies and ac- cessories, is a large oil refining center, and has the distinction of having had the the first industrial peace board. With ihese solid industrial roots already established, Toledo is preparing for the future growth that the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway is sure to bring. So,ne of the special libraries on which that growth will depend, in part, will be hosts to SLA Convention members on "Toledo Day," Friday, June 17.

The library of the Libbey-Owens- Ford Glass Company has acquired 5,000 books and 3,500 pamphlets dealing primarily with patent research and de- velcprnent in the seven and one-half years since its organization. The subject areas of ceramics, photography, and the basic sciences are thoroughly represented in addition to the central subject of glass and glass development. Over 400 periodicals keep the files of information up to date, and the library publishes both an abstract bulletin and a fiberglass bibliography. The repeated appearance of the name Owens in connection with the glass industry can be traced to the person of Michael Owens who invented the bottle- making machine. The similarity of names PATRICIASNYDER, librarian of fhe does not carry through to products, for Owens-Illinois Glass Company Libbey-Owens-Ford manufactures flat and sheet glass whereas Owens-Illinois material in a Report Bulletin, as a part is devoted primarily to all types of of the library services. The 225 techni- glass containers, plastic bottles, glass cal journals received supplement the block, insulators, pharmaceutical glass- basic collection of 5,100 books that ware, and Kay10 structural material. cover glass technology, chemical engineering, food processing and preservation, temperature measurement, and the field of organic plastics. Current infor- The Owens-Illinois Glass Company mation is to be found also in the 140 Research Library publishes a monthly shelf feet of vertical file material main- research bulletin and abstracts other tained by the Research Library.

MAY - JUNE, 1955 Christian was for many years Dean of the Harvard Medical School, and re- It was recently observed that there ceived his M.D. at Johns Hopkins Uni- seems to be in this country a trend versity under Sir William Osler. toward interpretive newspaper reporting. Such reporting must be based upon sound background material such as that found in a general newspaper library. The University of Toledo was char- The library that is maintained by the tered in 1872 and became a municipal Toledo Blade contains 2,500 volumes institution in 1884. A new library build- plus files of cuts, clippings, and photo- ing, financed by a one per cent payroll graphs. Early files of the Blade are kept levy on salaries paid in Toledo, was on microfilm, and the microfilm facil- completed in 1953 and now enjoys ities are available for other resources maximum flexibility on the interior by that might be borrowed for the use of employing a modular construction while the Blade staff. adhering to a more traditional Gothic exterior design. About 160,000 volumes are held by the library, representing only thirty-two per cent of its capacity. A modern building completed in Sep- Special collections include material on tember 1952 houses the Academy of communications, aeronautical engineer- Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County. ing, American citizenship, arc welding, The Toledo Medical Library Associa- and a collection of 36,000 maps. In ad- tion serves the Academy although it is dition to the General Library, SLA incorporated separately, and is main- members will visit the Law Library and tained by an endowment fund and by the library of the Institute for Silicate membership dues. Among the Library's Research. The ISR is headed by Dr. 10,000 volumes is a collection of 800 Wilhelm Eitel, and it is his extensive books and 3,200 reprints known as the collection brought from Germany that Henry A. Christian Collection. Dr. forms the library of the Institute.

Library of the Academy of Medicine

SPECIAL LIBRARIES CONVENTION NOTES Toledo is fifty-eight miles south The final Convention program lists the of Detroit. The tentative schedule following additional speakers: has been arranged so that the day LEONARDGLUECK, president and general in Toledo begins with a luncheon. manager of Microphoto, Inc. Newspaper Di- After the field trips to libraries vision. Tuesday, June 14. which the SLA member may select, MERLE HENRICKSON,publicist, Detroit City it will be possible to return to Plan Commission. Geography and Map Divi- Detroit, or to depart the Conven- sion. Wednesday, June 15. tion from Toledo. Its geographic WILLIAM T. HUNT, U. S. Department of position permits a wide choice in Commerce, Detroit office. S-T Chemistry Sec- rail, air, or bus connections. tion. Tuesday, June 14. DR. GILBERTW. KING, International Tele- meter Corporation, Los Angeles. Convention- wide meeting, "Automation in the Library," sponsored by the Business Division. Monday, Located advantageously only a few June 13. steps from the heart of the downtown DR. C. M. LOUTTIT, editor of Psychological area, the Toledo Public Library can Abstracfs. Biological Sciences and Hospital 14. boast a modern, well-lighted building Divisions. Tuesday, June constructed so that some exhibit win- MRS. RUBY W. MOATS, head, Bibliography dows are facing the street. The displays of Agriculture Section of the U. S. Depart- made possible by this arrangement are ment of Agriculture. Biological Sciences and Hospital Divisions. Tuesday, June 14. of material aid in maintaining the library's high circulation figures. The li- JOHN MARSHALL,associate editor of Wind- brary's holdings are well over the half- sor Star. "A Canadian View of International Affairs." Newspaper Division luncheon. Wed- million mark with a total of 596,700 nesday, June 15. volumes, and eleven branches are oper- ated throughout the city. HARVEYPATTON, managing editor, Defroif News. Newspaper Division luncheon. Tuesday, June 14. Weather Mr. and Mrs. Edward Drummond Reviewing the weather in past years during Libbey founded and endowed the To- the week scheduled for the Convention, we ledo Museum of Art, and it is today learn that the temperature has been in the one of the finest of those in the U .S. It mid-eighties, with pleasantly cool evenings at is especially renowned for its collection about 58 degrees. According to U. S. Weather Bureau reports, rain falls at sometime during of antique glass and its School of De- eleven days of the month. However, June days sign program. Some idea of the size of in Detroit are memorable for clearness of sky, the $3,250,000 building and additions with beautiful billowy clouds. can be obtained from the fact that as What to Wear many, if not more, of the tapestries in Life in Detroit is comparatively informal, the Vienna Art Treasures Exhibition even for the theater or hotel dining. The Con- were hung in the Toledo Museum as vention banquet is to be informal. Cottons or were hung in any U. S. museum in lightweight summer attire are suggested for which the Exhibition appeared. The greater comfort in case the humidity is high. Museum's reference and lending library Pastel silks and dark cocktail dresses are popular for evening. Jacket or top coat, a has a collection of 15,000 volumes and raincoat, and comfortable shoes should be 25,000 still slides. A music lending li- included for field trips. brary also in the Museum contains Families of SLA members will want to 8,000 records and 400 music scores. bring beach wear, as St. Clair Metropolitan Beach, the "Jones Beach of the Midwest," is STANLEYK. GRAHAM,Chairman within twenty-two miles of Detroit, with direct Transportation and Field Trips Committee transportation available.

MAY -JUNE,1955 AMONG THE SPEAKERS

Convention Program Notes

SLA'S 46th Annual Convention, Statler Hotel, Detroit, Michigan, June 12 - 17, 1955

METALS DIVISION DR. ROBERTF. THOMSONis head of the Metallurgy Department, Research An outstanding feature of the Metals Laboratories Division, General Motors Division program at the SLA Conven- Corporation. Before coming to General tion in Detroit will be a symposium on Motors, Dr. Thomson was associated "New Horizons in Metals and Their with Republic Steel, University of

WILLIAM A. RElCH DR. ROBERT F. THOMSON

Use," to be held on Tuesday afternoon, Michigan (where he received his Ph.D. June 14. Chairman Phyllis Whalen, li- in Engineering), Chrysler Corporation brarian, Clevite Corporation, Cleveland, and International Nickel Company. Dr. Ohio, will present the two guest speak- Thomson is a member of various pro- ers, William A. Reich and Dr. Robert fessional organizations. F. Thomson. WILLIAMA. REICH is manager, Ad- MRS. MARIANA. THOMPSON,librarian vance Development Engineering, Car- of the Commercial Research Division, boloy Department of General Electric United States Steel Corporation, will Company. Mr. Reich joined General preside at the morning session of the Electric in Schenectady, New York, in Metals Division, Tuesday, June 14. 1938, transferring to Detroit in 1953. A Speakers will be DOROTHYJ. FORMAN, graduate of Carnegie Institute of Tech- Library, Research Laboratories Divi- nology, Mr. Reich has specialized in the sion, General Motors Corporation; fields of powder metallurgy, high tem- DOROTHEAM. RICE, librarian, Ameri- perature alloys and nonferrous casting. can Metals Company; and K. GENE- He has been an active member of the VIEVE FORD,librarian, Titanium Divi- American Society for Metals since 1936. sion, National Lead Company.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES NEWSPAPER DIVISION SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY DIVISION The Newspaper Division will present a panel discussion on the "Prob- lems of Small Libraries," Tuesday morning, June 14. LEE A. WHITE, director of public relations for the Cranbrook Foundation, will serve as moderator. Mr. White, chief librarian of the Detroit News until his retirement in 1952, has been a professor and consultant in journalism at the University of Washington, Uni- versity of Michigan, and University of Detroit. He will present panel members Agnes Henebry, William D. Chase, Jane Nightingale, and Mrs. Dorothy Wilkins.

AGNESHENEBRY has been librarian of DR. E. J. CRANE the Decatur Herald and Review since 1931. She supervises the central filing DR. E. J. CRANE,editor of Chemical Ab- system and other libraries for Lindsay- stracts, will be the guest speaker at the Schaub newspapers. Miss Henebry is Science-Technology luncheon meeting, a former chairman of SLA's Newspaper Thursday, June 16. Under his direction, Division. She is currently the Division Chemical Abstracts, which utilized 159 Archivist. abstractors at its inception in 1907, has WILLIAMD. CHASE, librarian of the grcwn so that it now requires the ser- Flint Journal, doubles as Book Editor vices of 950 workers to prepare annual- for that paper. Before coming to Flint ly over 70,000 abstracts from 5,300 pe- in 1949. he was geographer in thp OSS, riodicals. Born and educated in Colum- a teaching fellow at the University of bus, Ohio, his influence has spread Michigan, assistant curator at Clements throughout the chemical, scientific and Library, and chief of the Library Sec- library world for over forty years. tion, Aeronautical Chart Service, USAF. He is founder and secretary of the Sham In 1953 Dr. Crane was the third re- Society of America, and editor of the cipient of the Austin M. Patterson Shaw Bulletin. Award for Contributions to the Docu- mentation of Chemistry. He also re- JANE NIGHTINGALE,librarian of the Windsor Star (Ontario), serves also as ceived the Priestley Award in 1951, and secretary to the president of the com- Phi Lambda Upsilon conferred upon pany. A graduate of Windsor Business him Honorary Membership in 1952. Dr. College, she is a member of the Pilot Crane is coauthor, with A. M. Patterson, Club, an organization of Windsor busi- of A Guide to the Literature of Chem- ness women. An accomplished singer, istry (John Wiley) 1927. Miss Nightingale is a member of the Rackham Choir, an affiliate of the De- troit Symphony Orchestra. director for the Red Cross and staff MRS. DOROTHYWILKINS, librarian of member of the Mobile Public Library. the Mobile Press Register, has been a She is a member of the Alabama Libra- kindergarten teacher, social recreation ry Association and Eastern Star.

MAY - JUNE, 1955 203 S-T ENGINEERING SECTION S-T PHARMACEUTlCAL SECTION "Information Retrieval as a Phase of Dr. W. F. Waldeck, Lucy Olga Lew- Automation" is the topic to be presented at the S-T Engineering Section ton and Dr. Mildred C. Rebstock are meeting, Tuesday morning, June 14. the guest speakers to be presented by Several speakers are scheduled to dis- the S-T Pharmaceutical Section on cuss various phases of the subject. Tuesday morning, June 14. The sym- CYRILW. CLEVERDON,librarian at the posium topic will be the "Relationship College of Aeronautics in Cranfield, of Management, the Research Worker, England, will discuss "Information Re- and the Library." trieval in England." He was formerly associated with the Bristol Public Li- DR.W. F. WALDECK,director of Research braries and was technical librarian at and Development Division, Wyandotte the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd. from Chemicals Corporation, will discuss 1938-1946. Mr. Cleverdon is a member "Research Management Looks at the of the ASLIB Council and was former- Technical Library." Dr. Waldeck holds ly Honorable Secretary of the ASLIB degrees in chemical engineering and Aeronautical Group. chemistry from New York University. DR. KARLF. HEUMANN,director of the Before joining Wyandotte Chemicals Chemical-Biological Coordination Cen- Corporation, he was employed by the ter, National Research Council, will dis- Columbia Chemical Division, Pitts- cuss the work of the Center. Dr. Heumann burgh Plate Glass Company. was formerly in the Technical Informa- tion Section of the Minnesota Mining LUCYOLGA LEWTON, chemical admin- and Manufacturing Company. istrative assistant to the Department of DR. JAMES W. PERRY,associate con- Chemical Research, Hoffman-La Roche, sultant at Battelle Memorial Institute, Inc., will participate in the S-T Pharma- will review "Mechanized Literature ceutical Section symposium, Tuesday, Searching" at the S-T Engineering Sec- June 14. Miss Lewton has had wide ex- tion meeting. Dr. Perry has a rich perience in industrial research labora- background which includes experience tories as a technical librarian and re- as a research chemist with Allied Chem- search chemist. She has been associated ical and Dye Corporation; ballistician with U. S. Rubber Company, Lehn & with the Ballistic Research Laboratory, Fink, Inc., Pease Laboratories Consult- Aberdeen Proving Ground; director of ants, International Nickel Company, the scientific literature department, Freeport Sulphur Company and the Bjorksten Research Laboratories; and Celanese Corporation of America. consultant with the Research and De- velopment Board, Washington, D. C. During the war Miss Lewton was chairman of the SLA Cooperative Ab- MRS. NELL STEINMETZ,librarian at the stracting Group on Conservation and Pacific Aeronautical Library since Substitution of Strategic Materials for 1944, will discuss "Centralized Coordi- the War Production Board, and one of nate Indexing as Developed at the Pa- cific Aeronautical Library." Mrs. Stein- a panel of three librarians advising the metz, formerly with the Los Angeles War Metallurgy Advisory Committee Public Library system, is the coauthor on the classification of Ordnance Re- of Professional and Non-Professional search Documents. She is the holder of Duties in Libraries (ALA ) 1948. She is two U. S. Patents-one licensed to an active SLA member, serving pres- Fleischman Yeast Company; the other, ently on the Executive Board as a "A process for removing harsh con- Director. stituents from tobacco."

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ruary 7 came word that she had been named to receive the 1950 Women's National Press Club Science Award to be presented to her by the President of the United States at an award dinner in the nation's capital on April 15. The Washington week end was undoubtedly the most memorable in her career. Honored along with her were Olivia de Havilland (Dramatics), Mar- tha Graham (Dance), Dorothy Fosdick (Politics), Claire McCardell (Fashion), and Pearl Wannamaker (Education). Dr. Rebstock found meeting Miss de Havilland a particular thrill, for the young actress revealed that Chloromyce- tin had saved her life during an earlier struggle with virus pneumonia. Pres- entation dinner guests, in addition to the President and his family, included Supreme Court Justices, senators, repre- MILDRED C. REBSTOCK sentatives, cabinet officers and ambas- sadors. DR. MILDREDC. REBSTOCK,recipient of Speaking of the honor accorded her the 1950 Women's National Press Club by the Women's National Press Club, Science Award, will discuss "The Chem- Dr. Rebstock says: "Considering the ist, the Library, and the Research Lab- fact that previous awards had been oratory" at the S-T Pharmaceutical made to such outstanding people as Section symposium, Tuesday, June 14. Dr. Gerti Cori, famous biochemist, Dr. Dr. Rebstock joined Parke, Davis & Lise Meitner, physicist, Senator Mar- Company in 1945 following completion garet Chase Smith, Rebecca West, Mrs. of her studies at the University of Illi- Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Mrs. Anna nois toward the Ph.D. degree in chem- Mary Robertson Moses, I felt very istry. Less than four years later, the much honored and completely over- first successful practical synthesis of a whelmed to have been considered. In naturally-occurring antibiotic was com- fact, it seemed entirely incongruous for pleted by a team of her research asso- a common, ordinary person like myself ciates, and she herself obtained the first to have been named with such a group." minute quantities of life-saving Chloro- And that is typical of this extraordi- mycetin via test tube and beaker. nary young scientist's reaction to her No one was more surprised over the newly found fame. Through it all she acclaim awarded the introduction of the has remained as retiring and modest as drug than the young scientist credited has always been her nature; and con- with its synthesis. Very soon after stantly she emphasizes the fact that she the synthesis was announced she was is only one member of the team respon- named to receive the Eleanor Roosevelt sible for the Chloromycetin story. Her Woman of the Day Award. Later she statement is undoubtedly true; and yet was requested to speak before a sem- one has only to talk for a moment with inar of the University of Illinois Med- the other members of that research ical School. The American Pharmaceut- team to realize that her role was a ical Association invited her to lecture vitally important one and eminently before its Toledo Chapter. And on Feb- deserving of the honor accorded it.

MAY - JUNE, 1955 205 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION - CONVENTION PROGRAM CHART Detroit, Michigan- - June 12-17, 1955 Breakfasts Morning Luncheons Afternoon Dinners Evening SUNDAY Executive Board Meeting Executive Board Meeting Metals- Open House JUNE 12 Open House and Tour- Detroit Public Library

MONDAY Financial OFFICIAL OPENING OF Publishing, Advertising Convention-Wideprogram Joint Dinners: Science - Technol- JUNE 13 Newspaper CONVENTlON and Newspaper ~~t~~~ti~~in the ~ib~~~~:Biological Sciences ogy- Social Science Fact or Fantasy? and Hospital Open House Convention-wide Financial, Advertis- I Program I ing and Business I Automation - Its Ef- fect on US ~ociaiscience I - 1, Transportation , - TUESDAY Joint Field Trip: Advertising Advertising and Picture Executive Board and Executive Board Business, Financial Biological -sciences and Biological -Sciences and Advisory JUNE 14 Museum. Publishine Hospital Joint Field Trip: Advisory Council Transportation Business, Financial, Mu- Business. Financial, PASTPRESIDENTS l1 Council Meeting BTJLLETINEDITORS' Advertising and Ge- seum. Publishing. Insurance. Museum. Pub- Roum TABLE ography and Map Transportation lishing, rans sport at ion, Newspaper ' Advertising Bioloaical Sciences Newspaper S-T Pharmaceutical Hospital an& Hospital Picture Geography and Map Newspaper Insurance Science-Technoloevu. 1 Hnsoital Science-Technology Metals ~ngineering ~etHls-- Social Science Vewspaper Petroleum Newspaper Education and Picture Pharmaceutical Science-Technoloev Library Service science-Technology Public Utilities Sectional ~eetr

MAY -JUNE, 1955 How Trade Papers Are Used By a Special Library*

KATHERINEJANIS Assistant Librarian, Development and Research Division, International Nickel Company, Inc., New York, N. Y.

HE LIBRARY of the International pending on their value to us. As to the TNickel Company is a highly spe- two hundred and five important jour- cialized library interested primarily in nals, we bind those with papers of e the properties, processing, and uses of technical nature which will be of last- metals, our own and competitive ones. ing value for literature searches. These We follow the literature here and abroad, number sixty annually. To cite a few as does our library in England. Our examples, we bind Chemical Engineer- library at Copper Cliff in Canada spe- ing, Iron Age, Machine Design, Product cializes in the mining of the ores. Each Engineering, Steel, Welding Engineer. library publishes an abstract bulletin Some important magazines are kept which is in turn abstracted at the other indefinitely but are not bound. This is libraries so that all may have as com- due to a storage problem, and when our plete a coverage of the world's litera- space runs out, these will be discarded ture as possible. A smaller library at first. We try to keep a run of a mag- our Bayonne Laboratory depends on us azine in each field as long as possible. for many services. Such periodicals as Aviation Week, At the International Nickel Com- Canada's Foundry Journal, Business pany library in New York more than Week and Railway Age are kept un- five hundred periodicals are received bound. Some important magazines are every month, mainly through subscrip- retained for only one year, such as tion and membership. This figure, which Aero Digest, Agricultural Engineering includes trade and society magazines, and Power. The magazine we choose to may seem large for a company library, retain depends upon use. For example, but E. I. du Pont subscribes to 1,100 we keep Aviation Week instead of Aero titles. We also receive many checking Digest because the former mentions copies and trade journals sent gratis to more materials used in airplanes and those in industry, e.g., Finish and Indus- because it publishes statistics which our trial Heating. We obtain practically men follow. Through experience and every trade paper in metallurgy, -and through the advice of the men them- since our metals are used in almost selves, we know which journals are every industry, we must follow the lit- used more often in our company. erature in various fields, e.g., electronics, In any case, all these important mag- food processing, marine, railroad, tex- azines are abstracted, and before they tile, etc. are discarded, all the articles that have been abstracted are clipped and put Retention of Periodicals into a Paper's File. When a magazine, These magazines are divided into which is not bound, is abstracted, a important and unimportant ones, de- little form is taped on the cover stating which pages must be cut before discarding. *Based on a paper presented at the Na- tional Conference of Business Paper Editors, We subscribe to many foreign mag- New York City, March 2, 1955. azines to keep abreast of foreign de-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES velopments as they affect our activities. Abstract Bulletin For example we receive Stahl u. Eisen, You may be interested in the Ab- Metaux, Metallurgia, Metal Industry. stract Bulletin we publish, which is only We keep the last or last two issues for the use of company personnel. It is of the magazines which are only of cui- published by the ditto process every rent interest. Many are abstracted and two weeks and contains about one hun- clipped before discarding, but a great dred and thirty abstracts of important majority of these are just circulated, technical material including magazine such as Advertising Age, Army Navy articles, patents, government publica- Journal, Boats, Sports Afield, Forbes. tions, pamphlets, and translations. It is These are trade papers of interest main- especially valuable to our Development ly to advertising and salesmen. Papers and Research, Laboratory and Field such as Industrial Laboratories and In- men, who are much too busy to read dustrial Equipment News are thorough- all the literature in their subject field. ly read by our men because they look We scan the journals for items perti- for equipment and machinery parts nent to our activities, bringing them to where our metals can be used. Many the attention of the research personnel. of these are discarded to interested per- Many men cut up our bulletin and keep sonnel for their private files. Journals, pertinent abstracts on file. such as Spirits, are obtained for but one After the bulletin is published, the purpose-to have on file any article master steets are cut up and run off on that may appear on the clouding of cards, which are filed by author and wines by metal contaminants. subject. There may be as many as ten We receive two or more copies of cards for one abstract. In this way, we most of the magazines abstracted and keep a running bibliography of all bound. One copy goes to the abstracting pertinent subjects. desk and is used to answer special requests, while other copies start circulat- To answer literature requests and to ing the day received. About seventy-five compile a specific bibliography, in most men are on the circulatlion lists. Where cases it is only necessary to refer to the list is very long, we have as many our subject file, since it is so complete. as four or five copies, e.g., Zron Age, However, we do have searches and Fortune and Steel. Iron Age circulates bibliographies that require the use of to forty-five men. indices such as Chemical Abstracts, En- Besides the magazines received reg- gineering Index and Industrial Arts Zn- ularly, many others find their way to dex. Smaller libraries without an ab- the library as sample copies. Last year stracting service make much more use we received five hundred and eighty- of these indices. three what we call "first-time-received:' Many company libraries publish ab- journals. We go through these to see if stract bulletins, and it is interesting to any warrants a subscription and then note the different kinds. I have describ- circulate them to the men for their ed ours which is of a technical nature advice. with detailed abstracts. American Metal A magazine reading list has been Company puts out a bulletin mainly compiled which is revised every three for the executives and junior executives years. Every man in the company has which announces various news items of received one and every new man is interest to them. Johns-Manville's bul- given one. He checks the journals he letin is of a technical nature, but their wishes to receive regularly and indi- abstracts generally consist of one sen- cates the fields in which he will spe- tence. No matter what type of abstract cialize. From these lists we determine bulletin is published, the perusal of the circulation for each magazine. trade papers is quite evident.

MAY -JUNE, 1955 209 Use by Company Personnel ous journals want, so as to place ow All the men go through the various advertisements to best advantage. publications for general information One man looks at the business and and to keep up to date with news in statistics periodicals to keep up to dat? industry and in their specific fields. on information for budget control. The individuals in the Development Another uses the advertiser's index and Research Division and in the Lab- in each journal to check on our adver- oratory look for technical articles in tisements. However, not all trade papers their field. Many of them, due to the include this feature. time element, use Tables of Contents One man concerns himself only with only. Biographical material and pic- the readers' service department in each tures of authors prove useful. They are magazine to check on our product and also interested in programs of meetings literature announcements and to see and conventions, in personnel and per- what others are offering. sonnel changes, news items for new International Nickel Company pub- uses of materials, new processing meth- lishes several house organs such as ods, foreign developments and trade Inco Magazine, Nickel Topics and Nick- names. These men write quarterly and elsworth. The editors of these house annual reports on the trend of the in- organs are constantly looking for infor- dustry in which they specialize. They mation which will give them back- look for production statistics; who is in ground material and story leads. They production and the type of production. are interested in statistics, promotion The Patent Department watches the ideas, new techniques, production ideas literature for patent developments and and equipment. for what may become a patent infringe- To place in proper journals the many ment. papers our men write, the Advertising There is one staff member in the Department must be familiar with the Corrosion Engineering Section who various periodicals. looks through the literature for corro- The Art Division of the Advertising sion data only. Department has a rather unique use for The Industrial Chemical Section trade papers. It cuts out illustrations of searches the literature for nickel and a technical nature, so that their draw- cobalt chemicals and salts. ings which appear in our own publications will be authentic. The Sales Department looks at the Other departments follow informa- advertisements and for information perti- tion on market research, sales, produc- nent to our materials. It is concerned tion, public relations, new ore deposits, with new methods and new products to financial data, and current statistics see how our metals may be applied. such as construction data, production Advertisements and articles which can and consumption figures, employment be used for reprinting as mailing pieces and wage data, prices. In quoting sta- interest this department. Product and tistics, we feel that the source should company directories provide contacts. be credited. The Direct Mail Department scans This is the picture of what happens magazines only for changes in person- to trade papers in our company. Every nel as they would affect our mailing section of each magazine has been thor- lists. oughly scrutinized by various individ- The men in the Advertising Depart- uals by the time it is ready for filing. ment keep abreast of our advertise- This, however, is not unique in our com- ments and advertisements in general pany -Johns-Manville, E. I. du Pont, for ideas. They must see what the vari- and others follow similar procedures.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Circulating the Table of Contents of Magazines

T. J. KQPKIN Librarian, U. S. Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C.

OME SPECIAL LIBRARIES are experi- the appropriate table of contents. S menting with a system of circulat- When the library receives these tables ing the tables of contents of magazines of contents from the branches, only the in advance of the magazines themselves. ones marked for reserve are retained. Such a system has many advantages, The rest are discarded except for one both for the special library and the copy of each issue which is retained in technical personnel who use it. This the library for possible future reference. article contains information on how The tables of contents sheets which are such a system can be made to work in marked by prospective readers are re- a small technical library. tained in folders, one folder for each magazine. Thus, there is a folder for Business Week, Chemical Engineering, Preparation Electrical Engineering, etc. In each r~f The Naval Gun Factory Technical these folders, the reproduced tables t~f Library subscribes to ninety-two peri- contents are filed strictly in the order odicals. Approximately thirty are re- of time received. The first person sub- ceived each week. Therefore, each week mitting a reserve notation on a mag- we send out about thirty appropriately azine table is the first verson to receive marked magazines to have multilith that magazine when it is removed from paper plates made by Xerox photogra- the Current Periodicals Shelf. phy equipment. However, the file is so arranged that As soon as the Xerox-made plates in the case of only one subscription the are finished, the average time being two current periodical is kept on the Cur- days, our magazines are returned and refit Periodicals Shelf. The current pe- placed on the Current Periodicals Shelf. riodical is available for routing only In another day, our forty-five copies when the succeeding issue is received of each Table of Contents are ready from the Xerox reproducers. In the for collation. Collation to us means col- case of a duplicate subscription, the lection of forty-five sets of alphabetic- duplicate issue is immediately routed ally arranged magazine tables of con- as requested. tents. Formerly these forty-five sets In checking out periodicals to be were placed in ordinary file folders to routed, the same charge-out card is be routed to the various branches in- used for all issues of the same magazine. terested. We have now graduated from On this charge-out card are noted branch file folders to a specially designed cover code, magazine issue, and date routed. sheet. This cover sheet carries the em- At the top of the charge-out card is the blem of the Naval Gun Factory, the title of the magazine and a list of the title, Table of Contents of Current branch codes of those interested in the Magazines, a little box for the code magazine. When the magazine is ac- number (branch routing), the date, and tually routed, the table bearing the re- the issue number. Each person inter- serve notation is enclosed in the mag- ested in any specific magazine writes azine. This reminds the reserver of his his or her name and code number on selection.

MAY - JUNE, 1955 Advantages and Disadvantages 4. All patrons who are eager to see their This simple system did not operate favorite magazines do not have to wait in an entirely smooth fashion at first. an overlong time for news of the maga- Some people found that they were not zine's contents. Everyone receives the getting the magazines quite as often as contents at the same time without delay. they previously did and had to be re- 5. Our technical personnel now has a assured. Some of our patrons felt that better knowledge of what is available this routine complicated an already to them through magazine resources. complicated system. They also were assured that it would all work out to After four months of operation under the advantage of everyone. Others were this new and different system, the perti- interested in each and every issue of nent objections have become negligible. specific magazines and were not satis- The service has become an integral and fied with the table of contents. In such accepted part of the library's function. cases, a permanent card was set up in these specific magazine reserve folders making it unnecessary for these people Cost to reserve their favorite magazines. They A word now as to the cost of such a receive them automatically as each is- program. For tables of contents which sue graduates from the Current Period- are exact replicas from the magazines icals Shelf. themselves, the Xerox process is ad- There have been instances when pat- visable. Using this system, single copies rons needed magazines immediately for take two to three minutes; offset mas- reference purposes. When this happens, ters take three to five minutes. the magazine is loaned out. There is no Complete Xerox equipment can be desire, ever, to withhold valuable in- rented for approximately $900 per year. formation from those who need it. This annual figure includes the rental The above are some of the objections of the equipment, the cost of six plates, to this system. However, beyond all developer, cleaner and electricity. Fur- these objections, there are some very ther, if only direct copies are desired, positive results. each reproduced sheet would cost twenty 1. We find that more magazines are re- cents for labor and materials. This cost quested more often. For instance, Mac- remains constant. agement Review is used much more However, the Naval Gun Factory frequently by the shops than formerly. Technical Library is using facilities At the same time, Foundry, a magazine which couple Xerox equipment and a applicable to special shops, is used more multilith machine. By this method, a often by the administrative branches. multilith master is produced by Xerog- This is because it contains good infor- raphy. This method makes it possible mation on administrative routines for to obtain each reproduced sheet at less industrial operations. than five cents a copy, including costs 2. We find that we in the library know of labor and materials. The greater the more about what our patrons want to number of copies desired, the less the read than was previously the case. We cost for each reproduced sheet. can see, week by week, what interests These costs may seem exorbitant; each person. This makes for a closer but cooperative effort will enable a association between the library and the greater number of libraries to use this technical personnel. system. By pooling their funds and 3. The library circulates its material to their magazine resources, many libra- more people each day with exactly the ries can avail themselves of this system same size library staff. of magazine routing.

2 12 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Chapter Highlights

Illinois page manual contains the Chapter's During the month of April, members Constitution and By-Laws, and the func- of the Illinois Chapter attended a series tions and responsibilities of each officer of four "visits with a purpose," arranged and committee. by the Chapter's Education Committee. Mrs. Katherine LaMont and Mrs. The visits were made to organizations Rachel MacDonald, immediate past- which had good collections of resource president and president of the Michigan material in Pictures, Maps, Business Chapter, were responsible for the prep- and Commercial Services, and Govern- aration of the manual. In commending ment Publications. Each class-visit was them for their efforts, Robert Armstrong, designed to study (1) how the material president-elect of the Michigan Chap- is obtained and organized, (2) informa- ter, said: "Many of us have long felt tion values of the material, and (3) tech- a need for a definite statement of duties niques in using the material. In addi- and procedures to guide us . . . All who tion, problem situations were set up by see the manual will realize the great the librarian acting as instructor to al- service Mrs. MacDonald and Mrs. La- low participants to handle the mate- Mont have rendered the Chapter." rials and become familiar with them. *** * * * New Jersey Michigan A panel discussion on "The Field of The Michigan Chapter has completed Special Librarianship" was conducted a Procedures Manual for the purpose before members of the New Jersey of "aiding Chapter officers in their lead- Chapter and High School Guidance ership of Chapter activities." The 30- Counselors on December 2, 1954.

Executive Board members of the Southern California Chapter are shown meeting in the Board Room of the Prudential Insurance Co., Los Angeles, March 3, 1955. Seated leff fo righf are: Dorothy G. Armstrong, Los Angeles State College; Elizabefh M. Walkey, Consolidated Engineering Corp.; Hope Smalley, U .S. Naval Civil Engineering Research and Evaluation Laboratory; Margaret Anderson, Rand Corp.; Margaret Cressafy, College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons; Johanna Allerding Tallman, Engineering Library, University of California; Ruth Hoff, Alhambra Public Library; Barbara Wight, Harbor General Hospital; and Sherry Taylor, Prudential Insurance Company. Standing are Frank R. Long, North Ameri- can Aviation and Helen Azhderian, University of Southern California.

MAY - JUNE, 1955 2 13 Representing, respectively, the in- New York dustrial, historical and business library, The Professional Training Commit- were Betty Joy Cole, Alexander Wall, tee has prepared a descriptive, illus- and Alma C. Mitchill. Katharine Kinder, trated folder on the training oppor- librarian of the Johns-Manville Re- tunities sponsored by the New York search Center, served as moderator. Chapter. Copies of this folder have been mailed to all members of the Chapter Betty Joy Cole, librarian of the recently. Members of this committee American Cyanamid Company, spoke have also been attending meetings of of some special library services which the different groups in the Chapter to are not available in a public library. describe training opportunities available. She referred to certain methods of guid- A newly formed Recruitment and ing the readers to material in the librs- Training Committee will combine the ry, such as abstract bulletins, reproduc- work of the Professional Training Com- tions of current tables of contents, and mittee with the work of recruitment. literature searches. Through these and Robert E. Kingery is chairman of the other services, the special library inte- twelve-member committee. grates itself with the organization it serves.

Alexander Wall, director of the New Oak Ridge Jersey Historical Society, described the The March 1955 issue of Particles, specialized holdings of an historical li- bulletin of the Oak Ridge (Tennessee) brary and the wide duties of the libra- Chapter, includes a summary of a forum rian. He must have a knowledge not on the "Evaluation of Library Mate- only of the holdings but of what is in rials," presented on January 21, 1955. them, be versed in the art of the preser- Participants were Elizabeth Howard, vation of manuscripts and books, and Mrs. Louise Barry, and Marion Garber. alert to rarities both of the past and of Speaking on "Setting Up a Technical today. In common with all special libra- Library," Elizabeth Howard of the Oak rians, the historical librarian must have Ridge National Laboratory library said a fundamental interest in the organi- that the librarian must know the aims zation which employs him. and purposes of his company, the nurrl- ber of people to be served, the available Alma C. Mitchill, librarian of the space, and the amount of money to be Public Service Electric and Gas Com- allotted to the library budget. The areas pany, spoke of services saving time and of cooperation and support that the money for the company. Using her librarian will receive from Managemenc library as an example, Miss Mitchill must be clearly defined. On the other referred to the fact that two-thirds of hand, Management will expect service the items in daily circulation go to lo- - quick, efficient, and complete. The cations outside the main building. A degree of success with which the library weekly bulletin on labor and union prob- fulfills this function is dependent upon lems is sent to about one hundred of staff qualifications, resources at hand the management personnel. Employees or readily available, and the overall are notified whenever anything of in- lines of communication which exisr terest to them is received in the library. within the company. If the collection A special file with this employee infor- reflects the subject needs of the com- mation is kept up to date by a member pany and the library sells its services of the library staff. If interests are wide- successfully, by providing information ly duplicated, the library may subscribe in a convenient and usable form, the to as many as twenty copies of one company's efficiency will be enhanced magazine. and the library will "pay its way."

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Mrs. Louise Barry of the Oak Ridge The intelligent execution of the li- National Laboratory library spoke on brary's program will not only depend "Selection of Materials." Mrs. Barry on its own holdings, acquisitions, bind- indicated that the librarian must be ing and withdrawal policies, but also aware of the specialized requirements on interlibrary cooperation. The ad- of his company, its current and antici- vantages of cooperation have been pated needs, before any attempt at se- manifest in the Oak Ridge area by the lection can be made. In establishing a use of a local union list of serials and a new library, assistance in selection can union catalog. This could possibly be be obtained from the following basic expanded by areas of cooperative bind- sources : L. Jackson's Technical Libra- ing, a more routine check of purchases, ries: Their Organization and Manage- and certain areas of responsibility de- ment; Winchell's Guide to Reference fined for each of the several libraries. Books; Hawkins' Scientific, Medical and *** Technical Books Published in the Philadelphia United States of America and Supple- The Philadelphia Council has made ments; Cumulative Book Index; Pub- provision for an Achievement Award lishers' Weekly; Technical Book Review to be granted only when a particularly Index; and Ulrich's Periodicals Direc- outstanding achievement has been noted. tory. Candidates for the Award may be librarians or non-librarians within the geo- Marion Garber of the Oak Ridge In- graphical area served by the Council. stitute of Nuclear Studies library, dis- The Award may be granted in recogni- cussed the "Handling and Maintenance tion of a short-term project or of work of a Collection," which, she said, be- carried on over a period of years. comes as important as its initial selec- Members of the Philadelphia Coun- tion. The company's field of interest cil have been asked to submit the names will determine the inclusiveness of the of persons for consideration as the first journal collection as well as the bind- recipient of the Achievement Award. ing policy. Binding may also be depend- The Philadelphia Council also presents ent upon the availability or usability of an award each year to an outstanding journals in microform. The reprint file student majoring in the field of special may be handled as a substitute for, or a libraries in the School of Library Sci- supplement to the journal collection. ence of Drexel Institute of Technology.

CHAPTER AND DIVISION FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Treasurers of Chapters and Divisions must submit annual financial reports of each Association year. This procedure has been instituted on advice of SLA's auditors in order (1) to make possible a more comprehensive review of expenditures incurred, and (2) to provide a basis for more effective budgeting by the Association. The following form has been prepared for use by Chapter and Division Treasurers: SPECIALLIBRARIES ASSOCIATION (Name of Chapter or Division) Date of Report Balance on hand brought forward: Income : (Itemize) Expenditures: (Itemize) Total Income : Total Expenditures: Balance on hand: (as of date) Respectfully submitfed Name of Treasurer ( Chapter or Division) Two copies of each financial report should be sent to the Executive Secretary at Headquarters not later than sixty days after the end of the Association year. The Annual Business Meeting marks the close of the Association year.

MAY -JUNE,1955 Report of the Treasurer

I respectfully submit the financial statements of the Special Libraries Asso- ciation for the year ended December 31, 1954, including the statement of assets and fund balances, statement of income, expenditures and changes in general fund balance, and the summary of changes in special fund balances. The report o.F Price Waterhouse & Co., who examined the financial statements, is included herewith. BURTONW. ADKINSON, Treasurer

February 21, 1955 THE EXECUTIVEBOARD SPECIALLIBRARIES ASSOCIATION 31 East 10th Street New York 3, N. Y. Dear Sirs: We have examined the appended statement of assets and fund balances (Exhibit I) of Special Libraries Association as of December 31, 1954 and the related statements of income, expenditures and changes in fund balances (Exhibits I1 and 111) for the year then ended. Our examination included tests of the accounting records maintained at the Association Headquarters, and other supporting evidence and other auditing procedures, as outlined generally below. The cash in banks at December 31, 1954 was confirmed by correspondence with the depositaries and the securities representing the investments carried in the statement of assets and fund balances were counted by us at the safe-deposit vault of The National City Bank. We ascertained for a test period that the recorded cash receipts agreed by totals with related deposits appearing on bank statements, and that the recorded disbursements were supported by paid checks. In addition, we examined invoices, payroll records and other data in support of disbursements for the same period. We ascertained by computation that income receivable from investments and savings bank interest had been collected. We tested recorded income from membership dues by reference to a membership card file, subunit membership rolls and other related records and by direct confirmation with a selected number of members. We also requested from four selected local chapters (of a total of twenty-nine such chapters) confirmation of memberships and of financial transactions recorded on the books of the Association Headquarters. A physical count of the inventory of publications on hand as at December 31, 1954 was made by employees of the Association. We made test counts of a number of the inventory items and satisfied ourselves generally as to the method used by the Association in determining the quantities on hand. Tests were made of the basis on which the inventories were valued by reference to purchase and sales invoices. We also ascertained that transactions affecting the General Reserve Fund, the Life Membership Fund, the Publications Fund and the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund were in accordance with policies adopted by the Executive Board of the Association. As instructed, we did not attempt to ascertain the composition of the various fund balances as at July 1, 1950, the start of the period covered by our initial examination. A review of transactions prior to that date would have involved an unreasonable amount of time and expense. The accounts of the Association are maintained substantially on a cash basis. The amount of expenses unpaid at December 31, 1954 not recorded on the books was not material. However, included in income for the year ended December 31, 1954, as shown in Exhibit 11, are dues and subscriptions applicable to years subsequent to 1954, as follows: 1955 1956 1957 Dues ...... $32941.80 $ 8.00 ...... Periodicals: Special Libraries ...... 3,130.90 120.05 $ 11.50 Technical Book Review Index...... 5,733.45 242.85 27.25

$41,806.15 $370.90 $ 38.75 -. - - As at December 31, 1954 amounts receivable from sales of periodicals and publications and from advertising therein not recorded on the books nor included in the attached statements aggregated approximately $1,080. In view of the Association's practice of taking into income dues and subscriptions in advance of the periods to which they relate, we cannot express an opinion that the attached financial statements present fairly the position of the Association at December 31, 1954 and the results of its operations for the year then ended. However, as far as our examination extended, the transactions were found to have been recorded properly on the basis indicated. Yours very truly, PRICE WATERHOUSE& CO.

2 16 SPECIAL LIBRARIES EXHIBIT I SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND FUND BALANCES DECEMBER 31, 1954 (With comparative figures at December 31, 1953)

Assets 1953 1954 General fund: Cash ...... $ 49,195.18 $ 56,886.37 Loan receivable ...... 750.00 ...... Miscellaneous receivables ...... 18.76 Inventory of "Our Library" (a visual presentation) at estimated sales value which is below cost ...... 2,659.14 869.00 -- $ 52,604.32 $ 57,774.13 -- General reserve fund: Cash ...... $ 3.98 $ 137.99 United States Government securities, at cost (approximate market value 1953 - $48,000; 1954 - $49,300)...... 45,016.03 45,730.53

$ 45,020.01 $ 45,868.52

Life membership fund: Cash ...... $ 2,217.99 $ 2,208.34 Publications fund: Cash ...... $ 11,055.86 Inventory of publications, at cost or estimated sales value, whichever is lower ...... 9,799.61

Scholarship and student loan fund: Cash ...... $ 5,243.06 Loans receivable ......

$ 5,243.06

Fund Balances General fund: Accounts payable and sundry credits ...... Fund balance (Exhibit 11) ......

Special funds (Exhibit 111) : General reserve fund ...... Life membership fund ...... Publications fund ...... Scholarship and student loan fund ......

Note- The accounts of the Association are maintained substantially on a cash basis. The amount of expenses unpaid at December 31, 1953 and 1954 applicable to the respective years was not material. However, included in income during these years are dues and subscriptions applicable to subsequent years, as follows: Year ended December 31, 1953 1954 1954 ...... $ 37,953.98 ...... 1955 ...... 362.05 $ 41,806.15 1956 ...... 47.75 370.90 1957 ...... 7.50 38.75

MAY - JUNE,1955 EXHIBIT II SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION

STATEMENT OF INCOME, EXPENDITURES AND CHANGES IN GENERAL FUND BALANCE

FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1954 (With comparative figures for the year ended December 31, 1953)

1953 1954 Actual Actual Budget (2) Income (Note 1) :- Dues ...... Periodicals : Special Libraries ...... Technical Book Review Index ...... Net receipts from convention (after payment of expenses amounting to $11,005.07 in 1953 and $11,131.63 in 1954 ...... Interest on funds in savings bank account ...... Net proceeds from sale of equipment ...... Miscellaneous ...... Total income ......

Expenditures: - Allocations of funds to subunits: Chapters ...... $ 6,752.88 $ 6,857.06 $ 6,752.07 Divisions ...... 2,547.72 2,743.36 2,535.88 Committees ...... 1,881.40 2,193.87 1,550.00

$ 11,182.00 $ 11,794.29 $ 10,837.95 --

General operations : Salaries ...... Rent ...... Postage ...... Supplies ...... Payroll taxes ...... Porter service ...... Accounting ...... Legal fee ...... Telephone and telegraph ...... News bulletin ...... Public relations clinic ...... Equipment service and repairs ...... Building repair and maintenance...... Cost of preparing minutes ...... Insurance ...... Miscellaneous ......

Periodicals: Special Libraries ...... Technical Book Review Index ...... Write-off of "Our Library" costs in excess of estimated sales value of inventory, less proceeds of sales of $1,597 in 1953 and $610 in 1954 ...... Publications survey ...... Travel-President ...... Travel-Executive Secretary ...... Equipment purchases ...... President's fund ...... Camed forward ......

SPECIAL LIBRARIES EXHIBIT Il - (Continued) 1953 1954 Actual Actual Budget (2) Expenditures (brought forward) ...... $ 78,966.93 $ 84,768.67 $ 78,799.95 Membership in other organizations ...... 162.00 164.00 175.00 Placement reorganization ...... 224.64 ...... Publishers reprints project ...... 88.16 ...... -- Total expenditures ...... $ 85,245.47 $ 78,974.95 Excess of income over expenditures $ 5,579.98 _$ 2,110.q5 Fund balance, January 1 ...... 52,592.46 Interfund transfers, net ...... (432.01) Fund balance, December 31 (Exhibit I) ...... $ 57,740.43 Notes- (1) See Note to Statement of Assets and Fund Balances, Exhibit I. (2) Additional appropriations for special items aggregating $3,824 subsequently were authorized by the Executive Board.

EXHIBIT Ill SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION

SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN SPECIAL FUND BALANCES FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1954 (With comparative figures for the year ended December 31, 1953)

GENERAL RESERVE FUND 1953 1954 Interest on United States Government securities ...... $ 309.98 $ 848.51 Balance, January 1 ...... 44,710.03 45,020.01 -- Balance, December 31 (Exhibit I) ...... $ 45,020.01 $ 45,868.52

LIFE MEMBERSHIP FUND Interest on savings bank account ...... $ 54.56 $ 58.34 Transfer to General Fund of interest on savings bank account - 1952 and 1953 ...... (67.99)

$ 54.56 ($ 9.65) Balance, January 1 ...... 2,163.43 2,217.99

Balance, December 31 (Exhibit I) ...... $ 2,217.99 $ 2,208.34

PUBLICATIONS FUND Proceeds from sales of publications ...... Production and selling expenses ...... Decrease (increase) in inventory at December 31, from previous year ......

Excess of income over expenses ...... Balznce, January 1 ...... Balsnce, December 31 (Exhibit I) ......

SCHOLARSHIP AND STUDENT LOAN FUND Income: Gifts ...... $ 1,751.50 $ 2,700.18 Interest in savings bank account and loan ...... 104.15 192.59 Transfer from General Fund ...... 500.00

$ 1,855.65 $ 3,392.77 Balance, January 1 ...... 3,387.41 5,243.06

Balance, December 31 (Exhibit I) ...... S 5,243.06 $ 8,635.83

MAY - JUNE, 1955 Have you heard . . .

Conference on Information Processing Archives Institutes Plans for a conference at Western Two institutes on archival manage- Reserve University on the Practical ment will be held during the summer Utilization of Knowledge resulted from of 1955: a week-end meeting of information specialists representing various industrial HISTORICALAND ARCHIVALMANAGE- and governmental organizations, pro- MENT,offered by Radcliffe College and fessional societies, and educational in- the Department of History, Harvard stitutions. The group met on March 19 University, June 20 - August 12. The and 20, 1955, to discuss the problem of course will permit a detailed study of improving the processing and correla- archival procedures and the problems tion of information at the invitation of of preservation, care, analysis and use Dr. Jesse H. Shera, dean, School of Li- of manuscript, printed and audio-visual brary Science, Western Reserve Uni- materials. Attention will be paid to the versity, Cleveland, Ohio. problems of government and business The purpose of the conference will records, and the uses of microfilm, mi- be to evaluate requirements that in- croprint and other reproduction tech- formation methods must meet, to con- niques. sider the effectiveness of conventional The applicant must be a college grad- and newly developed methods for the uate or be presently employed in an abstracting, indexing, retrieving and archival or historical institution. Tuition correlating of recorded information, and for the eight weeks course is $200. Ap- to encourage research in the develop- plication blanks can be obtained by ment of methods, techniques and sys- writing to the Director, Institute on Ar- tems. The date for the conference will chival Management, 10 Garden Street, be set at the next meeting of the Plan- Cambridge, Massachusetts. ning Committee. Meanwhile, working groups will be involved in preliminary PRESERVATIONAND ADMINISTRATIONOF spadework. ARCHIVES:ADVANCED, offered by The The Special Libraries Association is American University, Washington, D.C., represented on the Conference Plan- July 5-16. The institute is open only to ning Committee by Allen Kent, a mem- applicants with considerable archival ber of the SLA Committee on Special experience or with comparable aca- Classifications. demic background. *** WR Workshop The American University is also offering an institute in RECORDSMANAGE- Mrs. Marian M. Winser (Marian MENT, June 20 - July 1. Admission will Manley) will conduct a workshop for be limited to qualified persons who hold trustees and librarians, "The Library positions of responsibility in the field and the Community," at Western Re- or wish to qualify for such positions. serve University, Cleveland, Ohio, July 11-23, 1955. Tuition charge for the institutes on Mrs. Winser, a member of SLA's records management and archives is New Jersey Chapter, was librarian of $50.00 for each. Students may register the Business Branch of the Newark, for both courses at the reduced rate of N. J. Public Library for twenty-eight $90.00. For further information, write to years. She is the author of A Handbook the Director of Institutes, The Ameri- for Library Trustees published recently can University, 1901 F Street, N.W., by R. R. Bowker Company. Washington 6, D. C.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION SLA NOMINATING COMMITTEE 16th Edition in Process The appointment by Chester M. Lewis, First Vice-president and Editorial work on the 16th edition of President-Elect, of the following the Dewey Decimal Classification is members of the Nominating Com- under way. Since January 4, 1954 it has mittee to prepare the slate for the been carried on by the Library of Con- 1956 election, was approved by gress, although the ownership remains the Executive Board: unchanged, Lake Placid Club Educa- Jo ANN AUFDENKAMP tion Foundation being the owner, and Illinois Chapter Forest Press, Inc., the Foundation's pub- L. VERONABEKKEDAL lisher. Puget Sound Chapter MRS. DOROTHYB. SKAU The 15th edition which was publish- Louisiana Chapfer ed in 1950 was a radical departure from LAURAM. MARQUIS previous editions in that, for the first Pittsburgh Chapter time, it embodied abridgements as well K. GENEVIEVEFORD, Chairman as expansions and a considerable num- New Jersey Chapter ber of changes in meaning. Although Prospective names, with reasons the 15th came about as the result of a for their selection, should be mail- clamor by librarians for a standard ed as soon as possible to the chairman, K. Genevieve Ford, Titani- edition, it turned out to be abridged to a um Division, National Lead Com- greater degree than librsries anticipated. pany, South Amboy, N. J. In accordance with By-Law IX of the In response to library demand, the SLA Constitution, the Nominating 16th edition is being carried on by a Committee must present the 1956 library in conformity to criteria drawn slate to the SLA Executive Board on the basis of criticisms of previous by November 15, 1955. editions and with the assistance of a Two candidates are nominated large number of library groups, individ- for each office. These include: ual librarians, and last but not least, President-Elect (First Vice-Presi- specialists in various subject fields. dent), Second Vice-president, Treasurer (two-year term), Sec- Editorial policy of the Dewey Deci- retary (two-year term), and two mal Classification is controlled by the Directors for three-year terms Editorial Policy Committee of the Lake each. Placid Club Education Foundation. The interest of libraries is represented by a Special Advisory Committee named by Librarianship as a Career the Division of Cataloging and Classifi- "Nominating Librarianship as a cation of ALA. At the Library of Con- Career" is the subject of a meeting gress, the Decimal Classification Sec- sponsored by the Joint Committee on tion, which provides the class numbers Library Work as a Career at the ALA on Library of Congress cards, has spe- Conference in Philadelphia, July 7, 1955. cific duties to perform in helping the editors with the work on the 16th SLA members who will participate edition. are Gretchen D. Little, president of the Association and technical librarian at In order to make sure that the 16th Atlas Powder Company, Wilmington, edition will prove as satisfactory as Delaware; Francis R. St. John, chief possible the editor and his staff are librarian, Brooklyn Public Library; and anxious to receive criticisms of the 14th Mrs. Elizabeth L. Wright, superviyor of and 15th editions and suggestions for personnel, Boston Public Library. the 16th. The suggestions might take

MAY -JUNE, 1955 the form of criteria to which the classi- Contents in Advance fication as a whole should conform (for Subscriptions and inquiries about Con- example, length of number, for what tents in Advance, a new monthly peri- type and size of library intended, maxi- odical which will regularly reproduce mum size of the 16th edition), criteria the tables of contents of some two applicable to particular classes, divi- hundred domestic and foreign journals sions, or sections (such as, degree of in the fields of library science and docu- subdivision in chemistry, provision for mentation, should be addressed to: period subdivision under countries, dif- Contents in Advance, P. 0. Box 64, ferentiation between geography and Williamsbridge Station, New York 67, travel), and suggestions for improve- New York. ment in the terminology of the sched- - ules and the index. SLA AUTHORS IN PRINT As the work progresses, the Editorial CLAPP, VERNER W., coauthor: Are your Office will supply to any interested spe- microfilms deteriorating acceptably? Library cial librarian the preliminary schedules Journal, vol. 80, no. 6, March 15, 1955, p. it has developed and will welcome sug- 589-595. gestions with regard to their improve- * * . DONAHUE,GILBERT E.: Library of the ment. To date the schedules for history, Cowles Commission for Research in Eco- biography, geography, chemistry, ge- nomics. Illinois Libraries, vol. 37, no. 3, March ology, and medicine have been com- 1955, p. 89-94. pleted. The address of the Dewey Deci- * * * mal Classification Editorial Office is HARSAGHY,F. J.: Roads to aeronautical research. College and Research Libraries, vol. simply, Library of Congress, Washing- 16, no. 2, April 1955, p. 164-167. ton 25, D. C. * * * DAVIDJUDSON HAYKIN KEHL, M. MARGARET:Tbols for pharmacy Editor of the Decimal Classification college librarianship. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, vol. 19, no. 1, Win- ter 1955, p. 15-28. *** Library School Conference KENT, A., PERRY, J. W., et al.: Machine The Twentieth Annual Conference literature searching. VII. Machine functions of the University of Chicago Graduate and organization of semantic units. American Documentation, vol. 6, no. 1, January 1955, Library School, to be held on June 20- p. 33-39. 24, 1955, will be devoted to the theme, * * * "The Future of the Book: Implications STRABLE,EDWARD G.: Hemingway: a brief of the Newer Developments in Com- bibliographical survey. Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library, vol. 37, no. 1, January munication." The papers to be present- 1955, p. 3-5. ed include Developments in Mass Com- .** munications by Raymond H. Wittcoff, STRIEBY,IRENE M.: Simplified library-to- chairman, National Citizens Committee dealer purchasing. Stechert-Hafner Book News, vol. 9, no. 7, March 1955, p. 81-82. for Educational Television; Develop- *.* ments in the Storage and Retrieval of TAUBE,MORTIMER and associates: Storage Knowledge by C. D. Gull, administra- and retrieval of information by means of the tive officer, National Research Council; association of ideas. American Documentation, vol. 6, no. 1, January 1955, p. 1-18. Implications for Library Services by *** Ralph Shaw, Graduate School of R. ZACHERT,MARTHA JANE K.: Techniques for Library Service, Rutgers University; reorganizing the catalog of a special library. and Implications for Documentation Journal of Cataloging 8s Classification, vol. 11, and the Organization of Knowledge by no. 1, January 1955, p. 29-37. Verner W. Clapp, chief assistant libra- * * * ZWEMER,RAYMUND L.: Medical science re- rian, Library of Congress. sources in the Library of Congress. Bulletin The registration fee for the Confer- of the Medical Library Association, vol. 42, ence is $15.00. no. 4, October 1954, p. 432-438.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Workshop on Audio-visual Materials Law Libraries The Syracuse University School of The Chicago Association of Law Li- Library Science will offer a two-week braries will be host to the Forty-eighth Workshop on Audio-visual Materials Annual Meeting of the American Asso- in Libraries, August 15-26, 1955. The ciation of Law Libraries to be held at Workshop will cover the selection and the Drake Hotel, Chicago, July 5-8, acauisition of audio-visual materials for 1955. Preceding the Annual Meeting, libraries; organization for use; prob- an Institute for Law Libraries will be lems of finance and personnel; selection conducted at Northwestern University of equipment and experience in its Law School, June 28 to July 2. Pro- operation; techniques of effective utili- grams for the Annual Meeting and the zation. Consideration will be given to Institute will be announced shortly. motion pictures, slides, filmstrips, micro- Marian G. Gallagher of the Uni- films, microcards, etc. versity of Washington, Seattle, is presi- Tuition for the Workshop is $66.00. dent of the American Association of The course can be offered for credit for Law Libraries. Dorothy Scarborough, the master's degree in Library Science. Northwestern University, and William For further information, write to Dean D. Murphy, Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Wharton Miller, School of Library Sci- Martin & Ellis, Chicago, are chairmen ence, Syracuse University, Syracuse 10, of Local Arrangements for the Annual New York. Meeting. The former president of the Illinois Chapter of the Special Libraries Asso- RETIREMENTS ciation, Ruth Nielander, is a member KATHARINED. FRANKENSTEIN,man- of the Publicity and Printing Commit- ager of the Library-Research Depart- tee, which is preparing for both events. ment of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc., retired on March 31, 1955, after thirty years of service with the MLA Scholarships agency. Two $150.00 scholarships will be Miss Frankenstein was formerly chair- offered by the Medical Library Associa- man of Special Libraries Association's tion in the advanced medical literature Commerce Group (now called the Ad- and reference work course, June 20- vertising Division). In 1945-46 she July 16, at the University of Illinois served as president of SLA's New York Library School. Chzpter. She is a charter member of Applications must be filed by May the Council of Advertising Agency Li- 25 and should be made to the school at brarians in New York. * * * the time of enrollment. For further in- FREDERICKREX, librarian of the Mu- formation and applications, write to nicipal Reference Library of the City of Acting Director, Library School, Uni- Chicago, retired on December 31, 1954, versity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. after forty-eight years of service in that position. Mr. Rex was a former president of CORRECTION SLA's Illinois Chapter (1917). He won I esteem as an authority on municipal The Map Workshop, sponsored by affairs, serving as secretary on a num- the University of Illinois Library School ber of Chicago municipal committees. in Urbana, will be held from July 11-22, On December 31, 1954, the Chicago 1955. The April issue of SPECIALLI- City Council extended its felicitations BRARIES erroneously reported a June to him on completion of fifty-six years date. of public service. I MAY - JUNE, 1955 Announcing . . . WHO'S WHO IN LIBRARY SERVICE Third Edition

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