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More Conference Reports

Contacts and the Public Library

The Library and the Bank

Business Literature Since the War

New Executive Officer for S.L.A.

Groups and Committees

Departments Contents ARTICLES Busmess Literature Since the War. By Robert L. Smit- ley ...... 21 9 How the Business Branch of a Public Library Develops Contacts. By Miss Marian C. Manley ...... 21 3 Relationship of Library and Research Departments to the Bank. By Dr. Donald M. Marvin ...... 2 1 5 Reports of Committees Classification. By Miss Louise Keller ...... 223 Indexing Legislation. By Herbert 0. Brigham ...... 224 Library Exhibits. By Alma C. Mitchill ...... 228 Methods. By Miss Rebecca B. Rankin ...... 224 Publications. By Miss Rebecca B. Rankin ...... 225 Training for Special Librarians. By Miss Rebecca B. Rankin ...... 226 Reports of Croup Chairman Commercial-Technical. By F. A. Mooney ...... 235 Financial. By Marguerite Burnett ...... 232 Insurance. By D. N. Handy ...... 232 Newspaper. By John H. Miller ...... 232 NOTES Business Library Number 229 Ouestions- of the Hour...... 234 Education ~eaibook...... Research in Southern His- For S.L.A. Members...... tory ...... New Insurance Library... Public Affairs Informa- Safety Exhibit ...... tion Service ...... 235 Thoughts on Reading ...... 235 DEPARTMENTS Associations ...... 237 Personal Notes ...... 239 Book Reviews ...... 234 President's Page ...... 23 1 Editor's Desk ...... 230 Events and Publications... 240 We Do This ...... 236

------Published Monthly September to April, bimonthly May to August by THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Special Libraries Publishing ofice, 958 University Aye., Ncw York City. Editorial oflice, Statc Library, Providence, R.I. Treasurer's ofticc, S.12 East 79th St., Clevelnnd, 0. All paynicnts should bc made to hIiss Rose L. Vormclkcr, Treasrlrer, White hlotor Co., 842 I

Entcrerl as sccund class matter Decembcr 17. 1023 nt tho Port Oflco. New York. N Y.. under the act of MnlCh 3. 1870 Acceutnncc for maihng nt speclmi ratc of po5tngc proplded for in scction 1103. Act of October 3, 1011, authorized Dcccmbcr 17. 1023. Rates $1 00 n rcnr. l.'orclnn $4.50: slngle coplcs 50 cents. Special Libraries Vol. 18 SEPTEMBER No. 7 How the Business Branch of a Public Library Develops Contacts By Miss Marian C. Manley of the Business Branch of Newark Public Library

N commenting on the subjcct of this conierencc in thc May-June nuinllcr of SPECIAL Lin~~ia~~s,Mr. Cady suggested that the participants list the Iibrarics, busincss houses I :mtl lnclividuals with whotn they had cstablished contacts for the purposes 01 giving and recciving information Since the Newark Busincss Branch is a clcl~artrnent of a pub- lic I~lrraryand as such, in touch with many, our list would lnoilopoli~can unduc share of time.

Ous organization serves, not a large those who can use thcm, we follow two corporation wit11 clearly clcfined interests, methods of publicity : First, stories in but an uncounted number of individuals Izemspapers or magazines, and second, of diversified occupations. Tlie calls on direcl correspondence Wide results us are varied and made by people rang- from news itenls cannot be definitely as- ing from presidents of corposations LO certained, the fact that they find their messenger boys. The inquirers fall into audiences is shown by thc number of re- two general groups, those wishing a quests that follow the nlentron of any specific address or other detail easily spccific item suc11 as, for examplc, oui- iound, provided our collection is up-to- introcluctory list Hnlf a I~zLI~~I.L~Busi- date and sufficiently exlensive, and those ness Boolzs. The snowball ci3ect of making prolonged studies of economic such items is often quile amusingl!. ap- conditions. parent as in a sequence following the Due to the nature of the work our opening of our new building, the ATm contacts arc, for tltese I-easons, to malx York Mernlcl-Tribwc published an ac- Newark business n~enancl others aware count of this, and the day aftcr a re- of the resources available for their use, porter on the Ncw York Ti17zc.s tele- to co-opcrate ~vitlivarious orgnn~zalions phoilcd fos matcrial for a Sunday cdi- and inclivitluals in matters of research tion feature story. Again within a few and special ~ilfornlationancl to enricl~ clays the editor of the I~ldzutrialDipsf our. collections. aslied for a rush asticlc for their ]uric Contacts-aclvel.tising-ant1 - service, issue. This was all quite probably a re- are three words closely allied in public sult of tlic lcacl given thcm by thc H~wid- library work. That is, through good Tribnttc. News stories arc contact service we establish contacts that mny makcrs, as frcqucntly after such itcms help us in other problems. Through our have appeared, wc are approached by contacts we advertise our sel-vice, and newcomers, referring to them ;:nd aslc- through our advertising we l~laliefresh ing if help can be given along a specific contacts. Therefore, if in cliscussing tlic line methods by which our Business Branch MTc have not. rcached the stage of a of the public library develops these, wc definite advertising or coiltact-malang seem to include mention of any or all of campaign. While cvery thing we do is our activities, it is because the tcnn, in inte~~dedto I)c in accoi-clancc u-ith the coimcction with our work, is in itself so premise that good scrvicc is thc best ad- inclusive. vci-tisement, we watch also for incidental To develop con tacls made prlmnri ly oppo~tuniksto inalie contacts that will that our resources may Ix liilo\vn by iilsurc friends for us in case oi nced and 214 SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927 extend the use of our resources. An contact with people all over the country example of such effoi-ts is the distribu- specifically intcrcstctl along the lines of tion of our Classified List of Magn- our activities. This gives us a number zi~zcs. This subject indes to our four of additional places to turn for special hundred business and trade magazines information when it is necessary. was compiled to brhg about a fuller use Possibly the question may arise as to. of the valuable material in current peri- what these particular contacts are doing odical literature. The result in the use to make the Newark business man more of the first rough dsaft showed clearly aware of the resourccs of his Business that since the difficult work of compila- Branch. We have learned by experience tion had been done, it was proper from a that the more Newarkers hear of their co-operative standpoint to print the list library and its various departments in- and make it available for others. cluding the Business Eranch, through The next problem, that of getting into outside agencies, the more pleased they contact with those who would find. it are and those who have neglected to helpful, is still in process of solution. make full use of it, improve their op- While of general use, it is primarily of portunities. interest to librarians, students and other Another lesson we have taken to heart specialists. Announcements went to at the Business Branch is the wisdom of various library publications and many re- stimulating requests ill connection with quests ensued. We followed this by the distribution of our various publica- sending a personal letter with a copy of tions rather than sending out unsolicited the list to several of the leading profes- though useful pampldets. To secure sors in such schools as the Amos Tuck more intcrestecl attention for the little School of Administration and Finance, pamphlet on the new building ancl our Harvard University Graduate School of work, we are sending reprints of the Business Administration, and the Colum- June Ilzdztstl-id Digest article to a se- bia Uiiiversity School of Business. The lected mailing list of Newark business results were requests for additional cop- men with a note mcntionillg three pam- ies, helpful comments and criticisms and phlets and suggesting that they return specific suggestions which indicate the the list checlted for the publicatiotls they possibility of future co-operation should wish to receive. Those mentioned are the need arise. the ncw one on the branch, at1 iilclusive It was still necessary to find a more list of our city directories for the United far-reaching medium, however. Our States and the Clnssijicd h!Iaga,-i~ic List. next step was the preparation of a para- The painpl~letssent out as a result of graph or two on the list giving the main this will bc of specific interest to the re- features. This was multigraphcd and cipient and a definite contact will have has been and is still being sent out to been made between the branch ancl the business and trade periodicals. Through man this the Mailbag, Forbes, Systc~tt,and Since our first thought is to justify Credit Montlzly mentioned thc list in our expenditures by continually enlarg- their publications. Nulion's Bus~mss ing the circle of our patrons, the greater commented on it editorially and the Tay- number of our contacts are made with lor Society sent a notice about ~t to their this in mind. But the contack for co- members. The result has been that be- operation and exchange of iniormation sides the fifty odd requests received from are many and our list is growing. In its mention in the usual hbrary period- this connection the Donnellcy Company, icals, we have had approximately one the Industrial Relations Counselors, the hundred requests for it from the notes Metropolltan Life, Standard Statis- in the above mentioned magazines, the tics, the New York Municipal Reference writers ranging from industrial engi- Library, editors of various trade jour- neers, bank presidents, and accountants nals, the file rooms of thc Ncwnrk Eve- to journalists and advertisers. ning News, the Public Service Corpora- The publication and distribution of tion Library, and many other places to this Classified List has brought us into mention only those within telephone September, 1927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

range, are all proven sources of special wish to be placed on the complimentasy information. list of a magazine we describe that col- Classified List. Again we watch magazines, lists of lection and the Of publications, membership lists and other course, for many minor publications a sourccs for names of people doing work form letter will suffice. We feel, how- on business problems of interest to us ever, that when we are asking for a gift and to whom a knowledge of our re- of something worth anywhere from a sources might be of use. In other words few dollars to fifty or more, we do better we feel that while we are a city institu- advertising for the library and show a tion and primarily for the use of Newark truer appreciation of the immediate issue business men, anything we can do to if we take the trouble to avoid form let- help research in the business world will ters and make an individual request. redound, indirectly at least, to the bene- Our method, thcrefore, in developing fit of Newark business. Therefore, to contacts seems to be to use correspond- some extent, our resources are at the ence and print freely to make others service of the world at large. aware of what we have for their use Our contacts for enriching our collec- and in turn to find, for our future needs tions are made in the usual fashion of the best sources of information on vexed asking for what wc want. We are quite problems. It is perhaps, only an effort selective in this and inclined to treat each to maintain consistently the spirit of co- case individually; that is, if we want a operation for which both the Newark new directory we mention our collection Public Library and the Special Libraries of similar material and its uses ; if we Association have always stood. Relationship of the Library and Research Departments to the Bank By Dr. Donald M. Marvin, Economist of the Royal Bank of Canada

corning to talk to you when our own library is just getting started, I feel exceedingly Iknble I feel as though there war nothing that I could kll you, md that my business hew should be entirely to listen. Of course, if I launched into a discussion of the Dewey system or some other topic of that kind I know that I would be completely lost, and so I am going to outline more or less the work of our own department, will1 a view to showing how a 11l)rary works into our problem. I do not know !cry much about your organization, and the atrirosphere of real work and formality may make my paper seem a l~llleIormal.

Economic individual~srn is gradually forest. The keynote of modern indus- giving way before the spread of mod- trial economy is interdependence. ern machinery and large scale pl-oduc- Naturally, the economic relationships tion. Northern peoples must have the between nations have become treinen- tropical products of the south and south- dously complex The surplus esports of ern countries have corresponding re- Canada to Great Britain are roughly quirements for the exports of thc Tem- balanced by the surplus of exports froin perate Zone. The city bbuys food from the United States to Canada. The change the surrounding country and in turn sells of tariff in one country may distort the their manufactured products to farmers, flow of trade in totally different corn- ranchers and dairymen. The large auto- modities in other countries. It has be- mobile manufacturing cstablishment re- come an economic truism that s~yeeping quires machinery fsom one plant, steel changes in economic policy are lllcely to from another, cloth from a third, paint do more harm than good since they from n fnurth, and these plants In turn usually produce a series of unforeseen 11laIi~tlc-m:untIs upnn mine and field and t1islocations 216 SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927

Whatever helpful contribution to the library receives over one hundred Europcan econonlic stability was made and fifty perioclicals ancl newspapers, a by the recent International Econo~nic largc number of which are circulated Conference at Geneva was due to suc- among men~bers of the staff; articles cess in dealing \vith a number of appar- which would be of special interest are ently insignificant practical problems and brought to the attention of the proper not to thc great orations on the theory officials of the bank, and those which of frce trade Constructwe work is contain valuable reference matel-ial are rarely spectacular. Sound development indexed A number of these periodicals must be achieved after the careful study are bound, othci-s are kept unbound, and of ultimate relationships and by means the rest eventually discarded of the deadly routine of a series of minor Useful files of pamphlets and reports adjustments. In the great international have been built up and these are indis- banking institution these is a wide vari- pensable in answering reference ques- ety of topics of special significance. tions. The necessary reference books, Thi-ough the library the bad< may keep such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, year its finger on the pulse of international books, dircctories, together with b001cs events, the cl~angesin tariff or taxation on cominodities and countries, constitute or govern~ncntmonetary policy which the backbone of the library. may result in the inflation or contraction of currency, a change in the channels The great national newspapers and of trade or an impetus to the develop- periodicals, such as the d/lanchester ment of new industries. The appreci- Guardial~,Tlze New York Times, The ation on the past of the executive of- Econonzist, and the Conznzercial and ficers of tl~cirnccd for varied and de- Financial Chronicle, are valuable tailed inforination is the factor which sources of reference concerning foreign accounts for the rapid increase in the conditions, but banks frequently require number of financial lhraries in the trad- more detailed information than that ing centers of the world. which is available in these sources and The banking systcm of Canada con- for this reason the library needs a wide sists, in the main, of eleven chartered var~etyof foreign periodicals. Important banks with nearly four thousand decisions may hinge upon the question as to whether a country is in a position branches located in all parts of the coun- to return to the gold standard. Pro- try from Halifax, on the Atlantic, to Vancouver on the Pacific. The. Royal vision must be made to finance the ex- Bank of Canada is the one of these banlcs panding commerce of Latin America, which has the largest number of and detailed market information concern- branches, both in Canada and abroad ing coffee, rubber and cocoa must be The Royal Bank has more than seven available. While the library may have hundred brailches in Canada, and has a considcrablc amount of material which branchcs ~hroughoutSouth America and will throw light upon some general trend, thc West Indies, and in London, Pasis, it frequently happens that lcttcrs from Bascclona and New Yorl\-. I\;aturally, foreign representatives or the iirsthand it is necessary for a bank with such wide reports of experienced foreign observers will be of greater value than any pub- connections to lcccp in touch with busi- In such cases, the li- ness conditions tl~roughout the world. lishcd material. brary may supply supplementary infor- One aid to the solution of this pi-oblem mation or statistics which will throw is the libra~yat the head office for the added light upon thcse reports. Escel- collection ancl dissemination of publica- lent coinpilations of production and con- tions dealing wit11 problems of world sumption statistics and prices are avail- C01111nCrCC. able in such reports as those of Stand- Much infol-mation may be ohtained ard Statistics Inc., the New Yoyk ]OW- from books, but the most up-to-date ma- 7lal of Conznzt~ct.,and the Statist. Spe- terial on economic conditions and com- cial trade papers such as the Iron Age, mercial ancl financia1 statistics is found The Sugar Trade Jozwnal, Tl~cOil, Pni~zt in current periodicals. For this reason, and Drug Reporter, ancl the Newsprint September, 1927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 2x7

Service Bureau furnish an intimate view sweet potatoes? What are tlie steamship of happenings within an industry or the and railway freight rates? What certifi- condition of a particular inarltet. cates of origin are required? HOWdoes Canadian conclitions are so closely re- the combined cost of production and lated to conditions in the United States freight compare with the same factors that the publicatioils of the Harvarcl when the potatoes coinc from New Jes- Economics Department or the Annals of sey? 111 some cases, the Canadian manu- the American Academy, published by the facturer does not wish to export, but University of Pennsylvania, may be con- does wish to k110w how the costs in Call- sidered among the inost valuable rcfer- ada compare with prices abroad, plus ence sources which might be inentioned. freight and tariff, so that he may com- Reviews of business conditions published pare his position with that of the for- by the banlis and financial houses of eign manufacturer. A surprising alnount various countries contain excellent sum- of all this information may be available maries of general business conditions. in the bank library. Thc remarl

a book, and listen all day long, not to ent talk would be. These bright accounts the casual talk, but to the studied, dc- of travels; good-humoured and witty termined, chosen addresses of the wisest discussions of question; lively or pathctic of men;-th~s station of auclicnce, and story-lelling in the form of novel; firm honourable privy council, you despise! 'fact-tclling, by the real agents concerned "The good book of the hour, thcn-I .in the evenis of passing history;-all do not spca1.r of bad oncs-is simply the these books of the hour, multiplying useful or pleasant talk of some pcrson among us as education becomes more, are whom you cannot other~vise conversc a peculiar possession of the prcsent age. with, printed for you. Veiy useful oiten, We ought to be entircly thankful for telling you what you need to know; very them, and entirely asharned of ourselves pleasant oftcn, as a scnsiblc friend's pres- if we make no good use of them." Business Literature Since the War 1 By Robert L. Smitley, Editorial Adviser to the New York Stock Exchange , . , * NE of the earlier things that I was told, and which I have followed, was, when you arc in doubt be convenlional. I am not normally conventional, and it is very dif- O ficult for me to be that way, so that if I should in any way be unconventional I hope you will pardon me I am very very happy to have the privilege of being here. I have read that as we grow older there are practically two parts to our lile, the earlier part belng that of seeking rcwarcls, and after that one commences to reward one's self, and I fecl that I am reward- ing myself here, because librarians have had a tremendous appeal for me all my life.

The problem which you have given me not an organization for profit The or- is to discuss business litcrature since thc ganizers are men high in business. I war I discovered that title yesterday, believe I am the only poor man, and and not stating which war it was I have the only man who is not a millionaire decided to start with the Trojan War. among that group, so you see the im- However, the one thing that I wish to portance of it. call your attention to is that since the It was also decided, after a great deal late World War we have 11ad an en- of care, that that organization should tirely different viewpoint in this coun- house its material at the new Raker Li- try regarding business literature. brary. The reason for that was that In 1918 there were approximately tl~crewas no other library that could twelve to fifteen hundred boolcs dealing house it. specifically with the general subject of It seems to be generally felt that the business. I a111 not speaking of tlie Busincss Historical Society is a Harvard technique. The consccluence was that affair. It is not. It is a proposition it was not difficult to get tlie book, and wliicll deals with the whole community. not difficult to choose, but since that time I am a Yale man, and even if I were a the evolution of business litcrature has Princeton man I would not allow that reached a pace which is so fast that it stuff to be put at Harvard. The collec- is practically in~possiblefor any one per- tion has reached a point now where you son to lcecp up with it. Production has ladies and gentlemen can hardly realize reached now a condition where we are what thcre is there. Furthennore the having about four thousand books a idea of the association is not so much year published directly on the general to have all that material in one place as subject and its practice. to ham it where it can be used and The main thing, however, and the sig- found. nificant thing in connection with the You see, it woulcl be irnpossiblc to realization of thc value of this subject start back to tlie Trojan War and col- lies in the formation of the Business lect all that stuff and put it up in that Historical Society, about which MI-. one spot. It simply could not be done. Ayres spoke yesterday. In the fisst The main idea is to preserve material, place, that was incorporatcd in Massa- because the past records about business chusetts under the Charity Act. It is that we have had have been thrown 220 SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927 away, and it is vely difficult to firid ma- way and in a teclitiique way is contained terial of that liiild now. in those volumcs of thc Scicrrcc of So-

There are two features of busincss cictv.J literature. One is the collection view- Other boolcs are coming along fast, point and the olher thc purely useful hard to make distinct as from a getneral viewpoint. They both have their place. group, but 1 would suggest that the first Take the collection viewpoint for es- volun~enow in the course of publication ample: While I was up here I rcceivcd of Professor Wesley C. Mitclncll's Btlsi- a letter from my associate saying that wss Cyclcs, which IS really a history on he had inailed up to the society a copy business, supplementing his old Univer- of thc first I-Iistory of Conmerce ever sity of Chicago book, will bc almost an known, written by a man by the name everyday ahir in your libraries. of \Vhcelcr, published in Edinburgh in There arc factors which arc very dif- 1601, and there arc librarians all over ficull for you all, because you are in dif- the country who have been trying for ferent localities. There is a difference ycars to get a copy of that book, and so in tcchniquc and application. In fact, far as I: lanow there are only four copies it is a great trouble to get this \v11ole in esistence. There may be morc, but idea of usable b001is uniform, because that is the older material. The n~oclern they require tliffercnt treatment, and material is an entirely different proposi- emphasize cl~fferentsubjects. In fact, I tion, because today under our produc- 1)clicve that the sectional feature is so tion mctlnods we are putting all those strong that when the clelcgalcs came here out in book form. In the old (lays it from Chicago they put them oil the was mostIy pamphlct form, intlivitlual twelfth floor, ovcr the shooting gallery, reports and boolcs which were writtcn to nzake thcm feel at Izome for a specific purposc, and vcry fcw of You will find tlnat tliei-c are many thcm oi that nature. things you have got to get together on, Thc situation in conncction with the and in that conncction ternlinology is the outstanrli~~gI)oolcs since the war is very niain thing I supposc in that report difficult to discuss l~ccauscof the quan- there might have I)ccn something rcgard- tit!.. 1 might mention the fact that you ing definition or teriniilology 111 conn~c- ladics and gentlemen deal niostly with Lion with I~usinesssubjects, bul if there material of an immediate nature. I is not it seeins to me somethtng should realize that, as far as books are con- bc clonc along that line For inslancl: cci-ned, by the Lime they are published you pick up a book and you read i11 it for husincs liler:~turc, thcy arc, xs a the word Sp~~ul~ti~ti,and the author rulc, ailcient history; therefore, your says one thing; and you picli up another \i70rli lies fundamentally in the field of book and read Speculation and the au- in~mcclinic literature. Yet there are thor of that book means sotnething dif- bool

have had sulRcicnt l,lllis licrc oi Icn:tll ~t.Xosl all lhal has bccn writte~~about it and magnitude to keep your attcntlon oc- has appcarcd in magazinc arlicles 0111~.two books arc publishccl in this cout~tl-y,one a ant1 cupied, and to make you think hard, Lrcnt~sc pul)lishcd by A \\I. Sha\\~k Corn- 1 fclt that rather than make a long I)ans, a prm cssay, and a book on IIICLTSI- speech, and to go into details regarding ?JICJ~~7'ru,\is hy llolmson That hook is all specific boolcs, I would prepare for you light a5 tar as 11 goes, but ~t docs not go Ear. YOLI jusl about get to thc point whcn a short resume of such books as had yo11 ihjnlc )UI :vc go~n:: to li~dorrt sc,mething been chosen in the general fielcl of busi- and you don't. ness-had becn chosen through purchasc Thc onlb litcrat~~rcthat I know oi that rather than through incliviclual selection you ladics and gcntlcmcn can ntill~c for analogies dong Lhnl line is to study ~llcdata on my part, ancl with that in mind I pl-e- Irom tllc E~rgl~sf~Ecarrorr~ist. \\c ha\c in pared for you a short list. that Errglisl~Ecorlo~riist a running accolln: uE In 1925 I preparccl a larger biblio2- \vhal hal)pcncrl to the trusts in a period whch raphy. There were some of these left; is \.cry simllnr to the period in whd~we arc now. lJor csaml~lc-this is lmrcly a per- they have not been used, so I sent them sonal hy~~othcsis-1 would conqlal-c 1026 in up, and they, while in no way complete, 11ic United Statcs wth 1893 In England. and supplement that bibliography. Plcase 11 you will rc:tlizc that you w~ll li~ltl that remcmbei- also that this is not psepasccl thcrc wcrc one h~~ntlrcdand eighty odd trusts In Engla~~dWLII 1~11cliilclrcn each, awl ai1r.r from the viewpoint of the librarian. All thc dcbaclc ihclc wcrc son~cscvc11 lcit thal this inaterial is prepared from two view- had conic out wl~olc. points. It is pseparecl first, from the Now, wlicthcr or not that analogy w~lliol- idea of co~-~~rnei-cial~sin,becausc I lnust lo\\- in this country of coiusc no nnc can say. Thc only way we l~avc ol Icarmng sell those things to make a living, and about th~ngs is through t11c cxpclicncc of it is diffictllt to prcparc thcm froin a sonlcunc in the past. Tn conncc~ionWLII thc purely librarian point of view for thc history ol thc sulqccl, the Fcdcral Xcscr;'e general public. That might surprise you, Aullcli~rs of No\milrcr, 1919, ancl Janunry, but it is true. The size of the boot.; ad 1920, I think contained thc besl mntcrlal the cover of the boo]<,and so forth, sel- MISS Fcn~usow:Is thcre anyth~ngon rcal dom interest the public, although you cst:~lc mortgagc bonds? tnay tliink otherwise. NR.SMITLI~Y : I havc bceri aslicd that clues- tion, I wutdd say without esaggeration, fif- teen lmnclred times in the last ycx, and I can assurc you that so far as 1 know there is nothmg worlh while that has bccn wr~tten MISS \\'o~~~

documents, statistical series, and items of that led through the years to the situation as il kind, and we have available through the rc- exists at present. Such, in short, is the kind sources of the Boston Pnblic Library with which we co-operate, and the Harvartl Busi- of historical material which is being searched ness School, something like three hundred out, collcctcd and preserved. thousand volun~esmore. Informat~on regarding the existence of nuring this short pcr~otl,the ideals of the business data is always appreciated. originators of the undertaking show cvery inclication of an ultimate, successful consum- The material needed consists of old ac- mation. counts and scrap books, copies of legal docu- The interest of many of thc most promi- ments dealing with insurance policies, mort- nent and successful business men of this gages, leases, indentures and the like; his- country has been secured. torles of the development of industrial, trans- The acquisition of valuable historical ma- terial affecting practically every business portatlon and public utility activities; bio- activity this country has evcr known has graphical sketches of prominent men whose steadily advanced. achievements will be an inspiration to our own In short, the Society has made almost phe- growing business men and a legacy to pos- nomenal progress and will surely become the terity that will be sorely necded and highly depository of the largest and most compre- prized. hensive collection of business intormation in the world. The idea of contact which brought this The estate 01 the late Senator Nelson W. to my mind was that if you have any re- Aldrich has made us the depository of the search work, it does not makc much differ- extensive library on finance, amounting to ence what the business is, or what the line about eight thousand volumes, which was uscd in the construction of the Federal Reserve of inquiry is, because if you coln~nurlicate Act as well as the solution ol many financial with us, the chances arc that we can help problems during the period of Senator Al- you out We are recaving a great many of dr.ich's chairmanship of the hlonctary Cotu- these inquirm all thc time. We have in the mlsslon. past six months noticed 3 vcry large increase The Society is not in any sense a local function. Although a very close, co-operahe in inquiries for information, especially in con- arrangement exists with the Harvard Grad- nectlon with historical docun~ents required uatc School of Business Administration a re- for speeches, and for advcrt~sinp,and for view of the membership roll shows that the articles for publication, and thus far we have alumni of over thirty different collefi.cs and universities are members of the Society and not run agamst anythmg that inkrferes with that the non-collegiate menlbers arc in the our glving good results maioritv.. - I simply wantcd, Llr. Chairman, to call It is inlenclcd to make this organization one attention to the fact that we have a very of national and even international importance. Already contacts are being made with fricnds complete eollcction now wh~ch1s growing all in all parts of the world who are giwng thc time. We ate looking for morc historical splenclicl assistance in saving ~aluablebusiness data; as fast as we can get it we secure it data from destruction. either by g~lt-prelerably by gift-but if we The purpose of the Society is to search have to we will buy it. out and assist in the preservation, for thc use of the student all the fragments of In- THECHAIRMAN: I think wc would like to forlnatlon which go to make up the detailed know, Mr. Ayrcs, whrthcr your service is story of the way business mas actually trans- glatis, or is there some compensation con- acted 111 former limes. nected with it? It is espcctcd that our library and those wlth which we are allied will ultimately in- MR.AYRES: We are what you might call clude a g~catden1 that has any bearing on a semi-l1ul111c ~nstilution. Of course, we have the industrial and cotn~nerciallife of the past: to live. Our meml~ershlp is composed OE text books, pamphlets, rcports of the financial some two hundred odd of the most pron~lncnt and physical developn~entof all enterprises, business men in this country, scattered all material relating to methods of transportation the way from Maine to Cal~fornia, and we in usc; the kind of salesmansh~ppractised; have an afiiliated membership designed for the co~nmoditieshandled; the prlccs charged; librarians only, which only amounts to $10 the de\clopment and improvements in the a year, and, ot course, we would like their ~~roccsscsoE nlanuEaclure and data tooching co-operation in that respect, but it is not upon the relat~onsof cap~talto labor and all compulsory. l\'e arc always glad to give the many angles of the subject which have information. September, 1927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Reports of Committees Classification In January, I as its chairman, was invited to attend a conference, In New Yorl<, of li- Miss Louise Keller, Chairman brarians and specialists inleresled in the sub- ject of a lillrary classificatiori and subject The work of this committee is essentially tcrniinolop~lor personnel adm~nistration. As one of service, and since such a work is neces- it was not posslbk for mc to be in New Yo& sarily judged more by its failures than by its at Lhe specified timc, ekerqthlng in our col- successes, it bccomes my duty to be frank lection bearing upon the sublect )!,as dcs- with you, exposing thc comtnittee's shortcom- paichcd to Miss Lintla H blorley, librar~nn ings and difficulties that you may the bettcr of Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., with apply such rcmed~esas are In your powcr, the rcqucst that she act as the S.LA. rcprc- for most certainly the niaster falls into Ihc ser~tativc. As thc rcsult oi this conference, sarnc conderr~nation as the servant. the prosec~~tionof the work was pven to a In the first place, the new accessions to com~nittcc,headed by hIiss hIorlcy. It was a our collection of literature arc so moderate most Io~tunntcchoice from the standpoint oE in the~rcxtent that I have no hesitation in our Association, and you aill, at a later meet- itemizing them lorthwith . ing, enjoy the opportunity of hcaring hl~ss A bibliography, Classificatioirs of Foraslry hlorlcy clescribc the mcthotl sltc has lollowcd Lileralzcrc; from thc Library of the Unitcd in organizing Lhc work of hcr committec. Statcs Department of Agriculture. The cxtent Lo which we should go, and the means we should usc to forwnrd and encour- The Classificafio~iand Calalogirtq of Lo- age group acl~onin classifications has cxer- cal Collrclcom; froni the author, hfr. jamcs cisetl my 1ni1xI sincc I first took up the work Ormerod, sub-librarian, Public Lihra~y, of this committee The corrcsponilcncc will1 Dcrby, England. Miss hlorley, antl later, a collvcrsatron with A classification for a lifc ir~suranceli- her, clarified the issuc. It became nlnnifcstly brary, specializing in agency problems ; from desirable that the group neetling a classifica- the L~feInsurance Sales Research Uureau. tion or reclassification of its subjcct, should assume the chief rcsponsibil~ty. The present Classification of Office Records nrd Cor- Commiltcc on Classifications will still have respoj~drnce,by Charles F Woods, Il~ver- a sufliciency oE work to do as a helping, co- sidc (Call£ ) Publ~c Library; iroln the ordinating and assembly body. Committee on Publications. With hCiss Xlorley's consent, T prescntetl A reprint from Aara containing the clas- this matter to our Executive Doartl at its Alay sification of the l~braryof thc 13oston Ele- meeting, and the Board set its sanction upon vated Iiailway; from the librarian, Mr. thc policy h appointing Miss ;\[o~lcychair- Lewis A. Armislead. man of thc (?ommittcc on Industrial Kclat~ous Classification antl Subjcct Terminology. A Classijicalioiz for Forestry Litrmtzire, It is to Miss blorlcy, as cl?a~rmanof my prepared by the Faculty of tllc Yale For- sislcr cotnmitlec, that I commlt at lhls 111cc1- est School; from Miss Hclcn 11. Rankin, ing the intcrcsis of thosc of you wl~oarc curl- The Free Library of Philaclcl~~liia cerncd wit11 classifications. Secondly, (it may be due to our limitations) A possible opportunily of ~vorl: lor ihc the dcmands for loans from our collection central Colnlnittee on Classificatio~lhas shown werc less frequent than during thc prcccding ilsclI in a rcquest from bIiss Grace Kclley, year. classifier oE Thc John Crcrar I.ibrary, Chi- A hurried rcqucst for aids in expanding the cago. Miss Kclley is constat~tlyIII nccd of 745s of Dewy could nui IK mct. clevclup~nenls in classification, a11d tlcs~rous Another rctlucst, €orwa~tlcclby the Atncrl- of ~ncc~ingothcr librarians si~nilarly intcr- can Library Association, for a tral'lic classi- estcd. A tentative schccnc lor Cl~cm~calEn- fication, is rortunn~ely waiting upon othcr gineering, tlevisecl 11y Miss ICellcy, was lor- work in thc library requesting it. I[ any warded by mc to 31iss Charloltc C. Noycs member, having a classification touching this ior co~nmcnts. For another, scheme, Watch, subject, will lollow Nr. Arm~stead's cxample Clock nncl Ir~sirument Alalilng, I ]la\-c not in scnding it in, we will be the I~cttcrprc- ye1 found a criiic. It is possible that aluotlg pared for tlcnling with this matter, those who listcn to this report are ])co~rlcin- A request for sul~jcctheadings usccl for terestcd in one or rhc othcr of thcse wlljccls a collcct~onot local (lala could not 11e satis- I beg that you will scclc nut Lliss ICclley, ~vho factorily answered. Sul~scquently,Mr. Ortne- is staying. at the Icing Edward, and introduce rod's coniribut~on, with its intcrcsting and yoursclves. helplul introduction was scnt, and the in- In closing, allow me also to colnmrnd 10 quirer introduced by lcttcr to Mr. Ormcrod. the attention of our classifiers, the talk which It1 conclusion on this point, it is consoling hir. FIcnry E Bliss 01 the Thrary oE the to rccall that scvcral other rcqucsts of rather ColIcge o[ the City of .New York, will givc general nnlurc were met lo the apparent sat- to tllc Cataloging Scc11o11 of the A.L A. 1 isfaction of thosc corlcerncd. halre I)een LOIICII with ~II-.Niss antl his You must not, howcvcr, think oi this co~n- worl< for the past year, ~1ldCall aSSII1-C YOU mittce as suffering irom stagnation by reason he has ~rlcaswhich should be illtcrcsting and of the languidness of thc loan collcction. stimulating. SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927

Classifications : D~scussion the l~hrarians I~utby the persoil:ll worltcrs themsclvcs, and 1)y getting a conscnsus of MISS M~INLEY:AIiss ICcller, chairman ol thc opinion, at least a1 present, it would be 110s- Class~ficatiotls Conmiltee has askctl nlc to shle to work up a \vorkaI.de list of head- descnbc to you the plan w111ch the Coiiimittcc ings to use in libraries on this subject. on Classifica~~onfor Pcrso~~ncl,Atlini~listra- tion antl Ind~is~rialliclatio~~s has in ~icw Talcc thc problcm of classiIication or tcr- Indexing Legislation minology, that one subjcct Thcre is a group of organmtions mterested in industrial re- Herbert 0. Brigham, Member of the latioi~s, and so forth, pcol~lc who arc con- Committee for S.L.A. ducting rcscarch work along those I~ncs,and they werc approached by scvcral orjianiza- Thc Co~ninittcc of Indexing Lcgislntion, lions to find out if thcrc was any classificn- consisting of represcntntivcs ol thc American Lion in use that \\;IS satisfactory ancl they did Association of Law Libraries, thc Nat~onal not linon rrT le Thcy called a confc~cnccof Association of State Lihrarics and the Six- workers atid lihrnrinns who werc in Ncw cia1 Libraries Association has talien :in active York, or near h'cw Yolk, to consitlcr iL, md intcrcst in lorwartling tl~epassagc of Icgisla- they fclt that ~t would hc worth-whilc to tmn III Congress prov~tling For an index to work out n terni~nology that w~uld11c ap- state laws. The conimitLce has worked In co- ~lrovcd,and cvcntually, perhaps a clnssificaliot~ ollcralion with ;I siinilar cotn~niltcctton~ the that could I)c usctl or ntlapted to 1ihrari:uns III Anicricnn Bar Association and mcmbcrs YE this grnup, ant1 a conimittcc was al)poitltcd to tlic con~mittcc have niadc an allpcnrancc In cotis~tlcrit utd consid~rplans, and lalc~this MrashirigLon urging tlic passagc of such Icgs- comnii t~ccwas matlc a joint co~iimiltcc Thcrc lation, and co~nmu~licationsha\c hccn scnl to was a real advantngc, T think, in having a Icatl~n; rncml)crs of tlic Senatc and House joint cr~i-r~~niLlccfoi this purpose. Any 11st A circulnr lcllcr n.ns scnt to librarians of hcaclings or terminology nrccls thc assist- througl~outtlic country urging that co~nmuni- ancc antl the ndiicc of people \vho arc cli- cations bc sent to scnalors :und 1-cl)rcsc~itnti\cs recling workers in tlinl s~~l)jcct,a.: wcll as in Congrcss the eupcrlence of all librarialis who havc the Both houses of thc Congrcss [nssctl lhc technical lcnomlctlgc o[ how to appl) that :and proposed 1cgislal1on and on [:cl~ru:~~y10, 1027, develop a classification or n list oF hcadi~~gs Prcsitlcnt Conlidgc signet1 thc Scnalc mcasure for use in ;I libra~y,and 1)y ha\ ing sucl~:I provitl~ng lor the prcparal~l~ii11y thc Lihrary joint coin~uittecwe can get thc ath~ccand of Cnngrcss or a IIICIIIIIA~ index of s~;I~I:legis- co-ope~xtionof both sitlcs. lalion. Thc Lilir:wy or Congress, nntlcr whose Just briefly, to dcscribc the plan as at prcs- auspices the index will hc ~)rcpnrcd,it is un- ent, we wcrc to collcc~lists of dcfin~~innsand dcrslood, ~111soon untlcr~aketlic preliminary tcrnis in this ficltl, ar~dLo 11ut lhese into loose- work upon thc projcct leal form, that is, one tcm~llcr pagc, w~th the definitions that wcrc lountl, to put this into hook form ancl to clistr~lmteit to libra- Methods rians iu order to ham thc tcrms chcckcd up. Miss Rebecca B. Rankin. Chairman ill olhcr words to gel the usage list ns at prescnt This list of terms was then to be At thc mccting of the Euccut~vcEoartl in div~dcclinto g~oups,that is, into logical Kroups, January, 1927, I was askcd Lo scrw chair- and sent to woikcrs In nny cmllloylucnt, pcr- man of thc llcthods Coiiin~i~tccw~th 11ic dis- sr~nncl antl industrial rcla~iolis field, tu gct tinct unclcrstantlrng of ~11cBoartl that it was thcir commcnls and criticis~nas Lo thc tlcfiiu- not lo bc ail active commiltce lions ancl as to ~licgroul~ings. From that thc Thc llethotls Coriimittrc untlcr lliss Rulh comtnillce was lo work out an approvctl tcr- Nichols of Chicam has in tlic 11asl iour ycars minology which could IJC used as thc Lms~s gatlicretl togcthcr a inass ni ~nntc~i.il\\liich of a list OF sul~jcctIientlings incIutling ref- is tilore useful than thc majority oi the mcm- erence, ctc. Later that I~st, thrown inlo bcrs of the Assoc~ationnl~prec~atc The prcs- groups, that is, inlu thosc logical groups, was ent cnnitnittcc hollcs to inalx all mcmbcrs to be used as the Insis of a classifica~ion 111 awarc of what this ~natcrialI<, whcrc 11 is this way: The exisl~ngcl:~ssifications wcrc and how easily it may bc I)orro\vcd to be consitlcrccl to see which was lmt adapted hlatcrinl Lhnt may bc borro~vcd is as lol- to cnch sul~jccl,antl Lhc tcrrn~~iulog~wh~ch lows : find been appro~ctl was to hc suhstitutctl eitl~crin the clnss~ficntion wc clccidcd on or I Prc1i1rritrnr.y Rcport orr Frlrdrr~gs of /lw Collllllit/cr~ orl ~fcthods,31ay, 1023 A pnm- in the standard class~fication,or 111 some of the classifications that wc had scnL to us, phlet ol thirty-one pngcs into \vIi~chhas Imn and this was to hc scnt nut for crit~c~smand cornl~rcssctl huntlrctls o[ [acts nbwt methods then the find results put together, me prin- used in special libraries, stated 1)ricfly or in cipal point therc being simply to get the ex- outl~nclorrn It may hc also 1111rchasedfor pericncc and lwxvlcdge ol both siclcs, both 15 cents from the treasurer of the Associa- the technical library sidc and the knowledge tion. of the subjccts on a working ham. There 11. An cshibit of Photogrnplis of various is a large difference in the terms, not only by spccial I~brarlcs September, 1927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 22.5

111. Samples oE publications of spccial li- connnittec; probably In 1928 or I929 a tcst- braries-Bulletins-catalogs-hsc olgans- book on Specit~lLibrarics IS to be untlertakcn bibl~?grapliics-11sts. by that commi~tec. It is the expectation of your S L.A. Mcthods Committee that any and IV Exhibits of l[cthods. Fornls used in all iiiaterial which this comniittce has gath- various lil~raricsin all kinds of mcthotls, as ered shall bc t~uneclover to the author of ordering, cataloging, routing magazrncs, elc. the tcsthool~to use as Dr. Chartcrs and his V. Spccial Study on Periodical Itouting co~nrnittee.see fit. and Checking Practices. Consists ol a Id)- Thc cha~rnl:\n of your Methods Chnmlttce liograpliy and exhhit of forins for (I) Re- is also a member of Dr. Charters' Cotnmittce quest Slips and Overdue Noticcs; (2) Itout- on Study of the Curriciilum. ing Slips; (3) Dating Slips; (4) Charping Records ; (3) Chccking Records ; (6) 1lafi.a- zine lists for preliminary checking. Publications VI. Spccial Study on Vcrtical Filc mcl Miss Rebecca B. Rankin, Chairman Clippings. Thc corntnittte cdited and arranged for VII. Special Study on hIcthods in Rcler- printing in Decctiil~cr "Inlormation Uulletin ence \Vorlc. No. 4," enl~tled~%/~ltography of fl[l~rrrirlal~oii conip~lcdby the Technology Group. Twenty- Scnd your rcquests for borrowing the rna- iive huntlrcd copies of an edition of Lwenty- tcrial to Rehccca B, Rankin, Mun~cipalRcl- four pages were printed at a cost oi $aoo.so, crcncc L~brary,New York City. eightccn hunclrctl o[ those wcre senL to thc 11- luniinating Engineers Society, and scven hun- USESTO WHICHTHE METITHODSMATERIAL I-lnvl: dred ncrc d~stributedfrcc to members. BEFNPUT THUS FAR The Illun~inatitigEngineering Socicty paid In January, 1927, the hletliods Committee thc .Association $250, for this-which lcaves of tlie local Boston Assoc~ahonborrowed it a balance ol $50, In this fund. for study in connection w~tha ~~sciulbib- At thc request of the prcs~dentand thc edi- l~ograpliyand survey thcy are making. That Lor, the co~nmitleesul)mitletl thc Cicirrdnti-d undcrtak~ng will be describcd by the local 1udc.r to SPFCIALLrun~~c~es, Voliwle 14-17 for comtnitlcc. printing. It was conipilccl by Charlotte In February bliss blorley borrowcd int~ch Noyes. The Inclex made a pamphlct of matcrial to usc In her spccial library course twenty pages. Fivc h~mlred copies wcre at Colun~hia University. Also in Fchruary printcd a1 a cost of $6.25 a page, tolal $135. Niss IU~oadcs'classes 111 advanced cilalo~ing Thc iorlncr Indcx cost $8, ~nstcadof $0.25 at Columbia University Library School stutl- per page, so yo11 can sce thc saving ~nadcby icd an exhibit of cataloging tncthods usccl in thc comm~ttce The Indcs is bcma (1istril)- spccjal 1il)raries. l~lctl without cost to institutional mcml)crs, A num:)cr of indiv~d~~alspcc~al 1il)rari:ms and at a price of 50 cents Lo all others. Prc- in Ncbv Yorlc C~tyhave I~orrowetlportions or s~~nialdythe Irldes should pay lor ilself and the matcrial to answcr spcc~ficproblems ilicy the fund ol thc Publications Commiltcc is had in !land. not to be used in payment for it. The study of "Methods in Relercncc \Vork" Thc printing of thc I'rogriz~rr~~~c/or thc COIZ- has bccn loancd to Tanics I. \\'vcr who is vcrrtiorr hcrc was takcn care of. It makcs a writing a tcst1,oolc & l~efcl-cncc\\'ark Tor Icnflcl of cight pages with cover One thou- the A L.A. Charters' Committee. sand copics wcrc printctl-scvcn hui~d~ctldis- All this lllustrativ~tilaterial is ava~lal~lcat tributctl hy mad at oncc to all mcmhers antl any time Tlic cha~rnianof this committee threc hnntlrctl brought to Toronto. Thc tntal will mail it upon request to any l~brar~anwho cost oi 11r1ntin.q was $04. assurcs it sale Icecping and return. It IS really A Clossij'iratrori o/ Off~ccRccords nrrd Car- valuable. and can he used atlvantagcously by ~rspo~rdr~rrrby Charlcs F \\'nods of lilvcr- many ot us. s~dc,Cal~lorn~a, was s11111iiittcd for p1111lica- Thc mcmlwrs can also assist the ?\Ietliorls t~on As we cm111ol afford to lmnt a1 thrs Conimittcc ii the, udl scntl In any ncw metll- timc, it has 1)ecn turned o\cr to Ilks ICellcr's ocls which haw l~cen atloptecl sincc Miss Classification Comnilttcc Eor safe kccpil~gatid N~cliolsgatlicrrd Lhc matcrial in the first 11lacc. usc by the Association memhcrs. \\:ill you not makc it a pract~ccto scntl this coliinilttec a sam~)lcof any ncw mcth~din Thc Ioiloming inatlers :u-c st111 under con- your library when it is adopted! sideralioil at this timc for fulu~cpublic~tion: Origi~iall) it \\as the plan oi thc 1Tcthotls (I) The Conin~ercial antl Advertising Conimlttcc to galhcr illustrat~\cmaterial 111 Groups have submittctl a scrlcs oC "B~bliog- ortlcr that a "lTnnual of Spcc~alLibrarics raphics on Soiirces of Priccs ant1 ATnrkcl AIctl~ods" might lle wrlttcn 1)nsctl (111 thc l~csl Analysis" which nould malic a usclul Infor- practices lollo~~~tl11y spec~al I~hrnl-~cs At the mation I3ullctin. prcscnl imc, th~splan tlocs no1 seem fcasiblc, (2) The local Southern California dircct- hccmrsc rhc ~vriting of Lcst1)onks has been ory copy has 1101 LICCII rcccivetl as yct. It was ~;~~tl~rt:~licn1)y thc hal-tl oi I-Ar~ca~ionior \mted at tllc last Rsecdve Uoard mccling L~l~rarlanshipof tlic American Lihrnry Asso- tlml the Publicatmns Corn~iiiltcewas to 11riilt clallon untlcr tlie super\-lsion or 1)r \\' W this Dxcctory Ii'c arc holdrng onrsel~csin Chaitcrs of Ch~cngoUnivcrsily and a spccial readiness to tln so a26 SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927

(3) A suggestion for an Information Bul- letln containing the list of members and the const~tutio~~has been considered. It is hopcd that the persons who are plan- (4) The Technology Group has submitted nmg to prepare themselves for special libra- copy on Sowces of Infotn~ntio~rfor Pzcblic rians should have it In n~inclat the beginning Utility Libraries by Miss Milchill which it of their college course, and arrange tllcir woulcl like printed as an Information Bulle- courses for the first three years of collcge tin to includc such courscs as arc best suited to the~rneeds. For instance, courscs in political economy and business econoinics, psychology Training for Special Librarians and applied psychology, publ~cspeaking, typ- mg, an elementary course in journal~sm and Miss Rebecca B. Rankin. Chairman another in advertising would all be advan- tageous In addition a specialty should be The number of busmess corporations that followed throughout the thrce years, like havc established special libraries within the chemistry, engineering, or finance. .past decade or two would seem to indicate Students preparing ior profession of spe- that here will be a continually lncrcasing de- cial librarian should also plan, if possible, mand for the librarian who is trained in spe- cial library methods. for one or two years as reference assistant UP lo the present, the persons trained for in a reasonably large public library in order public library work or persons who haye been to gam a familiarity with general reference taken from the personnel of the hnsiness cor- tools, only a few of which will be found in porations themselves bccausc thcy are familiar any one special library. with the particular business havc trained them- Your Cornm~ttecon Training therefore sug- selves to occupy the position of special li- gests the following which is in accordance brarian. In practically every case, it has been with standards ior other library courses as an instance of the individual fitting himself outlmccl by the American Library Association or herself to the position. Board of Education for Librarianship : The Special Libraries Association icels that the time has cornc whcn some kind of stand- ards for special librarians might profitably be set. Accord~nglythe Committtee on Tralning has, been requested to outline a course for spccial librar~ans,with the hope that persons Rcquireinents may be trained to fit thc positions in speclal Three years of work acceptable for admis- libraries in order that the entire fortune or sion to the senior class of an approved college success of the special library may not bc tluc or university, evidenced by a transcript of the wholly to thc individual. collcge record. The requirements lor the spcc~allibrarian Two months of satisfactory ol~servatlonand are not thc samc as those made lor thc pub- partxipation in the ~orkof a l~brary,or the lic librarian, university or school librarian. equivalent during attendance at library scho~l. The business ancl professional world detnands Ability to use a typewriter, or in licu of this, certain qualifications not needed in the other typing learned during first semester of course. kinds of library work. It behooves the Spc- Aptitude and nersonal qualificatio~~sfor li- cia1 Libraries Assoclat~on Lo adopt general brary work and evlclence oE ability to pursue standards 01 requiretncnts for preparation in profitably the curriculun~. the sl~cciallibrai y field One academic year. The acaclcmic rec1uirements for a special Ccrlificnte of D~grec li,hrarian ncccl to bc as 111~11as for all lilxa- A certificate froin thc graduate library rlans, a~lcl as high as those cstaldishecl for schools or a degree fro111 the undergracluate most pi-oiessions and for business callings. schools for the satislactoiy completion of the These rccluiremcnts diffcr somewhat in various professional curriculum. states, but thc de~rccwhich represents a com- binatton of three ycars of acadetnic ancl one Seiircs/rr Hows scar of proiessional work is bemg acceplcd Suggc rted Cowses 1st Sem 2d Sern. usually as mccting thc rcquiremcnt for most Sourccs of Information...... 3 3 profcssiolls and for business. The Coinmil- Principles of Cla.ss~ficatiouand tcc on Trainng consiclers that stantlxl-cl as a Cataloging Including Suhjcct rcnsonablc minimum to adopt at this t~~ne. Terminology ...... 3 3 Af~crcourscs for spcc~allibrarians have heen Point oE Vicw Course ...... I .. well cstahlishcd, it Inas hc aclvlsable to raise Business Economics and Or- thc mininiu~n and rcquirc a collcgc clcgrce ganizallor~ ...... 2 I beiorc permitting the professiotlal sl~ccial~za- Apl)lied Psychology ...... I .. lion oi ow or two gcars study. It. woulcl be Editorial M'ork and Index atlvantngcou~ if thc spccial lilmr~cscourse Making ...... I I wcrc given 111 a university havitig a I~usincss 131hl1ographies ...... I I ndministr;~t~onschool in ordcr to providc the Fili~lg1Icthods and Equipment. 1 . . dcs~rctlclcct~~s. Rescarch ...... 2 September, 1927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 227

Scrriestcr Hours IX. , Research. A col~tinuationof Course I. Sz6ggeslrd Cowses 1st Smz 2d Sem Morc intensive work to be done in rcscarch, Publicity Methods and Adver- golng beyond printcd sourccs Preparatlorl ~lsingPrinciples ...... I of studies or reports based on rcsearch and Acquisition LIethocls and Elirn- tcchnlque of research procedure. ination h~lcthotls ...... I X. Publicity hlethods and Advertising Spccial Library Administration. .. I Principles Applled to Special Lil~rarics. Statistics ...... I . . Public Speaking ...... I XI. Acquisitron Methods and Eliri~ination Elective ...... I Methods. This coursc will inclutlc "beggrng," - - exchange mcthods, records, ordering, purclia7- Total ...... 1.5 I5 mg, general publishers antl tlealers, and spe- cialists. Coarrses Dcscribcd Sol~tcwhnlzn Detail XII. Speclal Library Administration. This I. Sources of Itlformation. This is the course will include personnel budget, rtlations main reference coursc in which the gencral with organization and staff, profcssional con- refcrcnce books will bc stutlictl. In adtlition, tacts, developing a staff, anticipating a ned, the basic books in all subjects, pamphlets antl etc. ephcrneral material, documcnts, services, di- yectories, assoc~at~ons,indcxes and periodicals XITI. Stallstics. A general cou~sc. If 111 all subjects will bc included slutlcnt has studicd, t~mcmay Le allowcd for clectivcs. Iilrliog- Spccial L111rary. r:il~li~c\on sl~cc~alsul~~ccls ],cct~lrc YI. Scr\ icc atid rcscnrch orp:n~izn- ~lolls, Commcl.cial, rrRicial ;i~ldctlucatio~d 1'111. 1:iliny .1Icthotls :lnd Fquilrnicnl. orgallieali(rns lllc Slrcc~al I,hrariall slli)llk! 1'10111 liI~r:iry mid comn~c~c~alsjstc~ns and nicliotls to I)c stutlictl. Fam~li:lrity w~th Itnow. crlullmic1it to Irc acclu~rctl. C.i~c~~lni~c~rland Lcclrl rc \:TI. I)il-cclur~cs-R~giu~~nI,trade RII~ I-ULIIIII!: rn~.thodbs~~~tlicd. profcssional 228 SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927

Lccturc VIII. Fedcral, State and Municipal Detroit fro111 Octobcr 25-29. This cxhibit was publicatio~is and oficials as sources ot In- in thc vcry capdl)lc ha~idsof Miss Mary B. iormalion for the Spccial Lil~rary. Day and hlrs. Mary 11 LYells ancl graphically Lecture TS. I:)isccnc~y and selection ol Spc- portmyctl clcvcloplncnts in acc~dcnt preicn- c~alLibrary ~~~iol~n.ltio~~alm;rler~al. tinn, industrial licaltli ancl allied subjects as dc\doped during the past ycar IJ~mcmbcrs o[ Lecturc X. Methocls OF xtlnisitic~nand clim- the National Salety Counc~l, go~erlimenl, ination ol iniormntional n~atcrial. state, and local organizations and 11v icchnical Lccture XI. Org:lnizntion oE Spccial T-~l~rary olgan~zntlons;und sc~c~ct~cs.Onc OF ihc in- il~formatlonalnia~crial Gcncrnl Pr~nciplcs. icrcstmg Ica~urcs\\.as a d~splayoi iorcign Lcctr~rcXTT. Orgntiizaiion of Spccial 1-ibrnry safety posicrs-from England, lhncc, Gcr- inlortnational ii~~tcrial.Procecl~irc-Arra~igc- niany, Japan, Alrica, ctc. mcnt, Class, Indcs~tig,Filing Thc sccoild cshil~itwas contluctetl by thc Lecturc SIII. Organization uf Spccial Li- Ilh?ols Chap~crof the Spccial Lihrarirs As- 11ral)- inFormaiior~alniatcrial Sl~ec~nltypes soc~ation which under the chninn;ulsh~p of ci maicr~al. hliss Grace Gilman, h:~l chargc ol the In- Lcctrlrc S1V. Orgxnizntion of Spccial 1-i- formation Booh at thc Power Slio\v, l~eltlin hrary i~~lormationnltiia~cr~al. Jndcs~ng thc Coliscrlm, Chicago, undcr tlic auspices or yroblcins peculiar to Spccial L~hraries. thc Mitlwcstcrri Engir~ecrlnfi.Exposition Com- 1.ccturc SV. Intornlation inJ IicTcrc~ice pany, J~ic Thc prcliti~inarywo14i ol the mcm- SCI-\ice-Gcricral 1)rinclplcs and vicwl~oi~~tIws of thc Ill~no~sChapicr cons~slcclin mali- in Spcci;d L~brnl-ywork. inq ihrcc accuratc card intlcucs, onc undrr thc name ol ilic company cuhihiting, g~vit~g Lccturc SVI. TII [PI 1na~io11and ILc lcrc~ice scr\icc-cnncrctc mcthotls :m(i procedures. alplial~cticallythclr nnmc, atlclrcss, antl I~oolh numlrcr ; 11ic sccontl m rangctl numerically ac- Lcctnrc S\'TI 1icsea1cl~ work :111cl I c1101.L cording to thc nun1l)cr of tlic booth, tliiq in- wrlting. dcs, also gn\c the name ol ilic coml)nlly es- Lcct111c SYTII. Gcncral atlminisL~aLilm lLc- hihiting ant1 11s atltlrcss; tlic tli~rtlintlcu was 1;1tions with org-nn~mt~o~icscculivcs, clicn- n subjcci filc w~tlict)ml~lctc c104s rcfcrcnccs tclc ant1 s~afl C:o~~lacis~iictlinds cstcrnal showmg products ~ii;i~~uiacturrrtll)p tlic I xi- nncl inlcl-n:~l,11y co~rcspcmtlcncc, tclcplioi~c, ous csli~l~itit~rrcompnnws, also ~ncludi~igtrade ClC. nruncs oi products. \\'it11 tlicsc ;lccuratc filcs Lccturc SIX. I

up for the establishment of an insurance li- Business Library Number brary in Chicago along the lines of the large The JVilso~zBdlelin for May, 1927, is a libraries of insurance literature of New Yorlc Business Library number. Mr. Dana, in a and Boston. The Chicago Imnrd has taken hundred s~~ccinctwords, discusses business over the library fountled in 1882 by the Fire and the improveqent of thc world. Iliss Underwriters' Association of the Northwest Hasse, former editor of SPECIALLIBRABILS, and under the name of the Insurance Library ol Chicago, the board intends to develop a shows the clcvelop~nent of special libraries, and Miss Mary Watlcins Dietrichson, libra- library that will be in the near future the pri~narysources of lnsurance information in rian, Minneapolis Business Branch, has a ihc middle west. readable article upon "Thc Business Lil~rary The old library quarters on the Twenty- and Business Profits." M~ssEthel Cleland, firs1 floor of the Insurance Exchange Build- associate edltor of SPECIALLIBRARIES, prc- ing will be expanded and many new books scnts "A City Directory Exchangc and Its will be added to the shelves, so cataloged By-Products." Miss Bfarian C Llanley, li- and arranged that any question relatmg io brarian of thc Newark Buslncss Branch, has insurance can be answered rcadily. The Chi- two articles, one entitled "New Worlds 10 cago board has obtained in hdlss Pyrrha R. Conquer," the other, "What Makes a Business Sheficld, an experienced spccial librarian, to Branch," and descrhes the growth OF a busi- undertalce the dcvcloptnent 01 this new activ- ness library. Two interesting bibliographies ity. Miss Sheflicld has been in charge or thc are incl~~ded,"lndexes to Busincss Inlorma- library of [he Portland Cement Association t~on," by Miss Linda H. Morley, librarian, for thc last seven years and beforc that she Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., New was connected with the Chicago Public Li- brary for eleven years. With her specialized York City, and "Some Business Library Kei- knowleclge of library work ~t IS expected that erences" compiled by Miss Adelalde R. Hasse. the ncw librarian will build up a valuablc The issue is a creditable add~t~onto the selies l~braryof comprellcnsive lnsurance literature of JVilson Bdletins. that will be of great aid to the insurance business interests of thc city. Safety Exhibit During the annual congress of the National Education Yearbook Safety Council which will occur in Chicago, The Department of Supermtendcnce of the September 26 to 30, the library of the coun- National Educntion Associat~on01 the United States has issued its FiflA Yearbook which cil will present an exhibit which wll be on considers as its main subject the Junior T-Iigh display at the Stevet~sHokl. Thls will be Scl~oolCurriculum. The editions for 1924 the eighth year hat the hbrary has thus mam- and 1025 concerned curr~culain thc clemcn- tamed an exhibit at the Congress of thc Na- iary school The J'carbook for 1926, under the tional Safety Councll. The program ior the Ileading "The Nation at Work on the Public meetings covers all phases of saiety and it School Curriculum," paved the way for the is to be hoped that special hbrarians in the latest edition prcv~ously noted. The book is vicln~lyof Chicago w~llattend some of the an exhaustive study of the place of the Junior sessions and also vicw the eshib~t. High School In the American program oE education and ovcr one hundrcd vcscarch stuclics arc revealed in this Yea~boolc. New Insurance Library Thc Olticial Report oE the l)epa~tment of Accord~ngto an announcement by Ernest SuI~cr~~~tencIcnccis also a valuable docutnent $ Palmer, manager of thc Chicago Board of \yhicl~recounts the proceed~ngsof thc meel- b Unclern ritcrs, definite plans havc Leen drawn ing Dallas, Tcsas, in the spik 01 1927. Special.A Libraries EDITOR: HERBERT0. BRIGIIAM ASSOCIATE EDITORS: WILLIA~LALCOTT, LXWIS A. ARIIISTEAD,DANIEL N. HANDY DEPARTMENT EDITORS: ETHELCLELAND, R. H. JOBNSTON,HENRY H. NORWIS,MARY C. PARKER, REBECCAB. RANKIN,MARGARET REYNOLDS, A. A. SLOBOD.

Associate Editor's Desk 'r is a welcon~eannouncen~ent that is made on the President's page that at last S.L.4. is to have permanent headquarters and a permanent executive in I charge. It is a consun~mationdevoutly to be desired. For several years the question has been agitated. The need was recognized by all How to do it was the problem. Mr. Cady has solved it. S.L.A. approaches its 20th annual con- ference jn 1928 at the City of Washington, with a unified membership througll- out the country and a permanent*** headquarters and executive. After three years of service as editor of SPECIALLIBRARIES, Mr. Herbert Olin Brigham felt compelled to relinquish that position. The announce- ment, made formally at Toronto, brought deep regret to a wide circle of friends and admirers. His broad Icnowledge of the whole library field and hls int'lmate relation to the Special Libraries Association from its very beginning, co~nbined with prodigious energy and much literary ability, enabled him to lift the maga- zine to the highest plane in its history, and to bring it a fame more than nation- wide. Special Libraries Association and all its members are under lasting obli- gation to him. *** The retirement of Mr. Brigham as editor created a serious situation. Hap- pily the crisis has been averted. President Cady has prevailed upon Mr. Brig- ham to continue as editor, while relieving him of much editorial detail, which will be assumed by the new permanent executive, Mrs. Brigham. Quietly and unostentatiously, Mrs. Brigham has had much to do with the magazine during the whole period covered by Mr. Brigham's service, and it is no disparagement to any one to admit that her help has been effective and large. The editorial associates on SPECIALLIBRARIES welcome Mrs. Brigham to the new position and pledge to her their loyal and ***unreserved co-operation. Mrs. Brigham, by training, background and experience is well fitted for her task. She was educated in Switzerland and graduated froin Vassar Collcge in 1914. Her first library duty was the organization of the Package Lil~rary Rareau at the University of Pittsburgh. This mas followed by the librarianship of the Research Bureau Library of the Alun~inumCompany of Alnerica After her marriage to Mr. Brigham she retaincd her interests in Association matters and assisted the editor to a large ***degree in the preparation of the magazine. In the July-August issue of SPECIALLIIIRARIES the first instalnxnt of the proceedings of the Toronto Conference was printed, and in the current issue the remainder of the papers and reports presented to the general sessions appear. It is proposed to print in subsequent issues the Group Proceedings, probably onc group at a time. In the October issue will be printed the proceedings of the Financial Group. X** What does Special Libi-aries Association mean to you in service? What is the greatest value you find in it? Make the answer bricf and snappy, please, but let us have it. The Membership Comnlittee wo~ildlilic to use some of your ideas in selling S.L.A. to the industrial orgailizations of this continent. September, 1927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES President's Page Progress many years those who have been entrusted with the conduct of affairs FRin our Association have realized the importance and desirability of a central office in charge of some one devoting their wholc time to the business of the society. This was stressed in my annual address at the Toronto Conference and also in the report of the Secretary. But the expense together with the liin- ited character of our finances have in the past proved effective in preventing the establishment of such an office with its officer, although it was felt that the de- velopment of the society demanded it and the effect would be in turn to increase the society's financial resources. Now an opportunity has opened up for us to obtain the services of Mrs. H. 0. Brigham, the wife of our efficient Editor, and 'l am very happy to an- nounce the action of the Executive Board in appointing her as Executive Officer with an office at Providence, Rhode Island. This will be known as the General Office and the duties of the Executive Officer will be to take care of practically all of thc routine work of the Secretary and Treasurer, to provide as far as possible a clearing house of inforination, look after all matters connected with the publication of the journal except those handled by the Editor; as far as feasible, assist the chapters if so requested, in the preparation of programs, in methods for creating intercst and extending memberships; and in general to consider ways and means for promoting and maintaining the welfare of the Association. The advantage of having a general office is so self-evident as to need no justification. In the past your officers, particularly the Editor, the Secretary and the Treasurer, have been greatly overworlted They have given of their time and services freely and generously and no one but theniselves ltnows of the sacrifices which have been made in time and cffort in order to carry on thc work of the Association in conjunction with regular duties. Many hours have been required outside of office time and in spite of all efforts it has been im- possible to do all that these officcrs would like to have clone even in the way of routine work. The office will bc opened September fiftecntli and after illat date all pay- ments for clues, sul)scriptions, bulletins, aclvci-tising, etc., all I-equcsts for 11iEor- mation about the society, all material for the journal escept that sent to asso- ciate editors, sliould be scnt to Special 1,iI~-arksAssociation, 11 Nisbet St., Providence, Rliode Island. Any qucsii(~nswl~icl~ can not I)e ans\wrecl 11~7the Executive Olficcr will I)e scnt on 1)y her to the pl-oper aut1101-ity Those who pick up interesting bits of news, those wlio run across bibli~~tapl~iesin uncs- pccted places, thosc who are looliiiig for lil~rarypositions and those IV~Oha\W posltion~to fill wdl now have a cen~ralofhc which call I)c reici-~.edto withnut fear of 11-cspassing on the time of an already overaorlied oificial. The 1:sccutivc 1:oal-(1 fccls that in the estal)lislimcl~toi this general oificc with a paitl executive a big step for~rardhas 1)ccn takcn n-hich will increase interest in tlic Association, assist 111 thc enl;lrgr.mcnt of its mcml)ership, justif!. thc recent iiicreasc in dues and in gcneral Iiclp ~t to I,ccome more in [act ivhat ill theory it has al\v:lys lookctl forward to being-a Clcarinx THouse oi 111fo1-mat~otl. FRA~CIESE,CAIW, Prcsid~~~f. SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1ga7 Reports of Group Chairman Financial Croup that thc group can arrange to dlvide the re- ma~ningwork among its membcrs, so that an Marguerite Burnett, Chairman accurate and worth-while list may be pro- The Financial Group during thc year 1920- duced that will be of value lo thc whole As- 27 has merely consol~datrclits position, as it sociation. were, and has no ou~standingactivity to re- port No library exhibit was put on at the Insurance Croup A.B.A. Convention as in previotls years. D. Handy, Chairman A directory 01 linancial libraries has been N. compiled, which was based on a question- The report of the Insurance Group will be naire sent oat Lo the names on all available brief. Bcsidcs corresponding with members lists. One follow-up lettcr was sent out, aficr and with new librarians in an effort to in- which the libraries not heard lrotn were tercst them in the work of the Association, dropped from the list. Consequently thc di- the group has been chicfly interestcd in an rectory is far from comylcte and hrms merely effort to provide machinery for the indcxing a convenient llst of the hctter known libra- of certain Lifc Insurance material. The chair- ries in the conntry, for nse by Lhc members man of the group hopes to submit a full re- of the group. port on thls work at the group meelilig in Names are included in the Financial Li- Toronto. braries Dircctory that are not members of the A reccnt survcy shows that LhcrE arc not S L.A., and it would probably be a wse move less than thirty-four libraries or information for the Membership Comtnittec of thc As- departmcnts devotcd to some branch ol in- sociation to write to these persons. A large surancc now maintained by conipanics or as- field undoubtedly exists for Increasing the sociat~ons in the United Stalcs Less than membership of the Financial Group. Miss half of thcsc apparently are rcpresented in Cavanaugh, the chairman of the Ncw Yorlc Spccial Libraries Association An effort is be- Fmancial Group, reported that sornc twelve ing made to persuatlc the others to join the hundred investment bankers and brokers mere S.L.A. In New York City, and thcse represent lrotcn- tial libraries. Undoubteclly in a great many ol these houses, there is a nucleus of books and Newspaper Group file cases of pamphlet material, with a satis- John H. Miller, Chairman tician or perhaps only a file clerk in charge. It is my privilege to report on the actit hies These persons should be told about our As- of the Newspaper Group since our last con- sociation and made members. This would f erence. be an important step toward intercst~n~their Immediately followmg the Atlantic City firms in establishing a regular library In chargc meeting the resignatloll of 11r. Alcott, chair- of a trained librarian man, was received and acceplecl with rcgrcl Our chief activity as a group naturally ten- Ily thc 13ccut1vc Committee. Thc prewlL ters around our annual program, and thls cha~rrnan was appo~n~edby thc Exccr~tive year we hope that one of our papcrs 1v1ll be Committee and the change and thc short Icml an especially useful I~ibliographical contribu- beforc him did not look wry favorable for tion It consists of a list ol govcrntncni press accornpl~shmentand activity. releascs whlch indicates those of temporary Howcver, a questionnaire idca stnrtcd last value that can be discarded when ~11~~arc year was devclopcd to a very high dcgrce of replaced by later publications, and those of succcss by thc hrethods Commlttec of which permanent value that must bc lccpt since the), Miss Agnes J Petcrsen, librar inn ol 7'hc Mil- arc thc origmal and

Book Reviews

DICE,CHARLES AMOS. The Stock Market SOUTH AME~ICANHANDBOOK, 1927. South Shaw. Chicago. 1926, American Publications. London. 1927. The widening group of investors has A useful little volume which should find its caused a demand for books describing the way into every library which has an interest handling of securities and the markets de- in foreign trade, comes to us through the veloped for such purposes. The volume pre- agency of the H. W. Wilson Company. The pared by Professor Dice of the Ohio State little volume is full of useful facts regarding University is written primarily for the trader the countries of South America and in ad- and investor. The bulky volume is filled with dition to the stateinents for each country, valuable information conccrning the stock there is a physiographical description of the markct, the broker, the various types of sales, South American continent. The volume also market theories, various technical phases, contains a brief glossary of Spanish and forecasting of trends, and analysis of securi- Portuguese words, a travel guide based largely ties. The book is well written and explains upon the journey froin Europe and supple- in considerable details the handling of stocks. mentary chapters concerning sport in South Forms scattered throughoul the book are an America and the products of South Amer- aid to the reader and an appendix contains ica. Appended to the voluine are references to the stock market terminology. books upon South America, also stcamsh~p service to that part of the world. A list of banking facilities and railways in Latin America con~pletesthe volume. CARRET,PHILIP L. The Art of Specztlatiojz Barron's. Boston. 1927. The shadowy line between investment and speculation is not always clear and this vol- Questions of the Hour -~ urne bv~ < Mr.. Carret.~. whilc confined to sDecu- lation, might well be read by many men who Qftcstio~zsof the Iiottr, compiled by Miss term themselves investors. Written in a more Julia E. Johnsen, is a late in the Reference Shelf issued by the H. W. Wilson popular vein than thc previous volume, it has c~,~~~~,q-his study outline comprises within its pages answcrs to many puzzliw ei~hteenprograms on current and timely po- questions. Both speculator and trader can litical, social, economic, industrial, inlcrna- draw valuable kllowlcdge from this volume, tional, and other topics of the day for the use of clubs and other study groups. These pro- grams are based on sixtyisix volumcs in the Handbook and Reference Shclf Scries. Ref- erences to readmg selections have been made MCCANN,CAPT. E. ARMITAGE.Ship Modcl to give a comprehensive and balanced view of Makixg. Vol. 11. Henley. New York. 1926. the various subjccts. In a lew cases, refcr- ences not found in the volut~~csanalyzed have A fitting sequel to Volume one which con- been introduced. These are given in full and cerned models of galleys and galleons, the )vill usually be found accessible for reading second volume j~ertainsto the Aincriran clip- in thc library, LIany of thc topics are de- batable and selections have been includcd for per sh~ps; hull, sails rigging, evcrgthi~~gcs- both sides. sential from kecl to truck, with detail as to tools, ropes, spars, and filtings While de- signed for the practical guidance of the en- thusiast or the skilful amateur in model mak- When will men understand that the reading ing, with numerous sail and body plans, and of great books is a faculty to be acquired, nor copious detail drawings, il comprises in 146 a natural gift, at least not to those who arc pages enough to attract the inkrest of either spoiled by our current education and habits yachtsman or sailor-R. B. BURCHARD. of life -FREDERICKHARRISON. ! September, 1ga7 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 235 I it Public Affairs Information Thoughts on Reading j Service Preserve proportion in your reading.-- i The PzMc Affairs Itrfor~iratiorr Service, THOMASARNOLD. i originally sponsored by thc Special Libraries ; Association, recently submitted its annual re- Books, it is true, are silent as you see them I port for 1926, which indicated a very pros- on the shelves; but, silent as they are, when I perous financial condition. The report of the enter a library I feel as if almost the dead Publication Committee, George H. Godard, were present, and I know if I put questions chairman, states that the subscription list is to these books, they will answer me with faith- now the largest of its history, and in the fulness and fulness which has been left in I opinion of the committee the curnulatcd bul- them by the great men who have left the letin for 1926 is the best volume issued by books with US.-JOHN BRIGHT. the P.A.I.S. The report of H. J. Grumpelt, public ac- The best books for a man are not always countant, submitted to the Publication Com- those which the wise recon~mend, but often mittee shows a net profit amounting to $587.93, those which the pcculiar wants, the natural and a surplus as of September 30, 1926 of thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken in- $5,619.96. Mr. Grumpelt's statement presents terest and rivet ~~~~~~~.-CHANNINC. a scries of exhibits which indicate a sound - financial condition ; securities worth over Travel opens the mind; but so does print; $10,000 listed on the balance sheet with addi- and print is the cheapest mind opener there ir, tional cash and inventory amounting to $1,000 and the best.-JOHN COTTONDANA. The P.A.I.S. is to be congratulated upon its excellent showing. - Surely the next best thing to offering life is to offer that renewal of life, inexhaustibly Research in Southern I believe in budgets. I want other people History to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that I am The News Shcct of the Bibliographical So- head of the organization that makes the ciety of America lor February g states : "From greatest of all budgets-that of the United the University of Virginia comes word from Slates government Professor Dumas Malonc. He writes, 'We CALVINCOOLIDGE have initiated a project here in connection - with the Institute for Research in the Social It is by visualizing facts and meeting eco- Sciences. We have begun work on a bibliog- nomic conditions that men or companies pro- raphy of Southern History since Reconstruc- gress. tion. We dcfine "South" as including the - southern states east of the Mississippi and It's like a book, I think, this bloomin' world, at present are working on the material of Which you can read and care for just so long, cconomic history. We hope to produce in But presently you feel that you will die time a more comprehensive and authoritative Unless you get the page you're readid done, bibliography than has yct appeared. I am di- An' turn another-likely not so good; recting the project, and hlr. Lester J. Cappon, But what you're after is to turn 'em all. recently of thc University of 't\Gsconsin and We may die, but the idea lives on forever.- Harvard is compiling the materials.' " CHARLESKINGSLEY.

Good manneis and soft words have brought For S.L.A. Members many a different thing to pass.--SIR JOHN VAN Any member of Special Librarles Associa- BRUGH. tion who did not receive a copy of Canada - a?zd thc Tzuenfieth Ccntwy, distributed at the Although I should hesitate to say that a confcrcncc in Toronto, may do so by apply- city without a library is a city without a soul, ing to thc Economist's Department of The I should not fear to say that it is a city with Royal Bank ol Canada, Montreal. a soul that is starved.-HALL CAINE. SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927 We Do This Margaret Reynolds, Department Editor Index for We Do This. If you arc in- Electric Rnilw.~y Prnctlces. The nccotnplishrnents of many successfully operated r:dwys, w~thcx- terested in a spectal index Tor the WE DO nmplcs :wtl illurtrnt~ons, ale ol sl~ec~alInterest to the ~nechnn~cns ncll as to thc wny enjilncer "CO- THISDcpartmcnt write to George Winthrop or~lin:lt~onof llnil and Ilus" 1s the titlt ol a chap- Lee, librarian of Stone E; Wcbstcr, Boslo~i, tc~show~n;: onc phase of tlevelopmrnt. A few of thc other chapter hentlmji< arc' who may publish one in mimeograph form SOME AII)S TO GEXEIZAL AU31ISISTIL4- Post Card Acknowledgements. To save TIUS time we have had postal cards printed ac- IIO\\' TIIE TRANSPORTATION DEPART- knowledging receipt of rccluesls {or infor- .\IISST IS 1-1ELPISG GOOD FELLO\JrSIII1' PROlIOTES SERV- malion and tnentioning whcn the informa~ion ICE may be expected. All questions and answers ECOSOAIIES IN THE \YAY DEPART- are turned over to the Assoc~atcdPress, who 11Eh'l' SOAtB POIVER UEPART3IENT ECOKO- feature the Interesting ones, thus giving the AtIES Illinois Chambcr of Commerce good pub- l'li~sI)ool. 15 full of 11elpIul ~nfo~matlonto all slu- licity.-Mrs. Jennie Lee Sc/zmi~t,ma~~ager Re- dcnts of t~31151101 talion. scar.cl~Department, Illij~nis Cl~anrbei,of Corn- THE DUSIXESS MAS AXD IIIS BANK mer~ce,Chicago. My \Ym. 11. Knlffcn A l~ooliof v~Lal mtctcst to cve~yone,whether you Request Postals. The Business Ltbrary haw one dollar 111 thc 11mk or one thousand. The author, n well known author~ty on bankmg, h?.s which is located in the Bush Terminal Sales treated the subject from thc vlewlromt of the cus- Building, New York City, contains l~ns~ness tornel. The man who stands beio~ethe der's w~ntlow I.noms that the receiving tellel t;~i,cs h~s papers, catalogs, directories and infortnat~on dqrns~t rind the paying tuller caslius 111s ~hecl~. I-Ielr he may leal11 how loans ale ~n~dr,how to for buyers. They have a very good printcd cad n hank statement, and how Lo open n sev- postal card form to use when asking for mgs acrount. "4 bank," says 311. Kn~ficn,"IS no longer n I~ank-it 1s n department stole of finat~ce." free material. This may be suggestjve to others, so I am reproducing it.-EII TIIE AIAGNIFICEXT IDLER, THE STORY OF WALT WHIThIAN By Cameron Roge~s BUSINESS LIBRARY For many years, 3 noisy, iea~some contloversy w.~ged al~out"the good gtay pact"--totlay h~sclaim Business Papcrs, Catalogs, D~rectories to a high place in American literature is seldom questioned Free verse is 11ow the order of the day Information for Buycrs a11d the followers of Freud have smoothed over the once corwdcred rrnpropr:et~es. Fow comes this BUSH TERMINAL SALES BUILDTNG I~ool; to tcll 11s In :i fanilliar way of \Vdt Wh~t- man's b;~cI~ground. The story of 111s family, of I30 West 42nd Strect, New Yolk City how his mot he^ ~nflucncccl h~mto IIC an ~dler,a rnagn~hcctitrdler. Though 111s hands were dc, all Plcase scnd to lioorn No. 412 at your early but a short spnce of h~slife, when he tur~~ededl- to1 of o newspapel and thcti afmn calpentcr, his convcnicnce !;i~nd was 111,1sy st~uggllng with ~rlui~sfor h~s and oblige Lwves of (rrass " It 1s a story of w.uidcri~igs or1 horse rals and bps on fer~y boats; of gathcr- hgand gleanlng t~~lusualtlio~~gl~ts 111 u~rt~sual ~vaj\, BUSINESS LIBRARY a story of a soul w01k111g to eqlress itself In Per...... lroetry.

TO OUTAlS ANY OF THE T1001C KEVIEn'S, Bulletin Boards, A Library Bullet~n, PLEASE FILL IN A UORIIO\VEK'S APPLICA- printed on a sheet 11 by 8% inchcs, in which TlOS I3IASK ASL) FOR\\'ARD TO THE LI- IIKARY several sizes of bold black type are used, has been found effective in establishing contacLs -Carolyu Schmrtz Fnl!ennnyer, librarini~, with our ~nenemployed as power-stat1011 opci- Philadelphia Rapid Tramit Co. ators, conductors and motormen. Here is a Reference Questions: We had a ref- sample Bulletin : erence question during the summer on what LIBRARY BULLETIN PHILADELPHIA RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY the charge should be when you operate a 15'0 Spruce Strcct wholc floor for a company. Thts, of course, did not include rent but did include every- >IAIiIXti TRAKSPORTATION PA\- By Henry H. SOITIS,Ed. thing else. We found practically nothtng in A tllgest of presentations made by electr~c ra~l- our files about this as most articlcs told about ways to Lhc Charlcs A. Coffin Fou~lrlat~onIn I~AJ aid a ncw ced~t~outo thc ever populor series of the rental cost of the floor space As is our September, 1927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 23 7 custom we tried lo secure the information idca. It may sound positively brill~ant to irotn other libraries and Lhrough the efforls some of thc rcst of us I thank you. of Xss Ruth Nichols, librarian of the Fed- 11 R eral Reserve Bank ol Chicago, obtained good ~natcr~nlfrom Miss Carrie Xaudc Jones, 1i- Mimeographed Bulletins. The Research brarlan of llle Nat~onalAssocialion ol Real Ikparln~cntof lhc Illil~o~sChaml~er of Com- Estate Boards in Ch~cago. We sent this ma- Lycrcc is ~ssuingmimcographccl bulletins at tcr~alto Niss Eleanor S. Cavanaugh, libra- intervals and sending tlictn to thc members rian of the Standard Slatistics Company, Inc., to whom they will bc of spccinl interest. Two as Miss Cavanaugh did not have the material bullctins arc cnlitled Aratio~uzl Wealtlz asrd in hcr filcs. She frequently has hclpecl us I~lcoirt(~,which is bascd upon the report of and we thought th~swas a way of showing the Fedcral Trade Cointn~ss~on,and 1Manz~- facl~rrir~gBulletin which contains m~scellan- our appreciation. eous ~nformationabout Illmois. Tbc indus- some Have you ideas for thc We Do This tries in which Illino~s ranks first, second, department? Think ahout the poor dcpart- third, fourth and fifth are listed.-Mrs. Jen- ment etlilor Letters to solne of you ha\ c nie Lea Scltrairt, riiarmgcr Resiarch Dcparf- not I~rougllta response. Send in your bright arrnt, Illinois CLavlbar of Coirrirccrce, Chicago. Associations Cincinnati The annual dinner tnceting of the Special L~brariesCouncll of Phlladclph~aand Vicin- On May 12, a group of sgccial librarians in Cincinnati was entcrtamed at tca by The ity was hcld on May 6, at the Women's Clty Procter & Gamble Con~pany.During the social Club of Philadelphia, at 6.30 P Af. Follow- hour which followed an infollnal inspection mg the dinner, we were entertained by a de- of their attraclive library, the question of lightful address on Walt Whitman, By Mrs. organizmg a local Special Libraries Group Madge B, l'eurer. Mrs. Fcurcr told most in- was discussed and met with much iavor. tercslingly of tile tnan and h~sworks, illus- Plans were made for anolher meeting when trating her iallc nilh rate cdttions and manu- it is hoped to bring together more intcrestcd scripts iron1 her Whitman collection librar~ans. A survey of thc annual reports of thc of- **I ficers and conmillec chairnlen show PI ogrcss dinner meeting atknded by sixteen was for the year. The secretary's report records A six regular rneeti~igs and onc joint meetmg held on June 2 at the Cincinnati Busincss with the Pennsylvania Library Club, with an Women's Club, followecl by a short business avcrage attendance of forty-five, an lacrcase sesslon. lIiss Grace Stowell of The Procter The collcclion of literature & Gamble Company was elected chairman ant1 over last year. bliss Gerlrude Avey, field represcntali\*c 011 special libraries housed at thc Secretary's E. oficc and available for loan was Increased of the Cincinnati Public Library was clcctecl during the year. The placement work for secretary-treasurer Miss Virginia Hickman the year shows an increase In thc number of of the l'irnes-Star, Miss Edythc Cowie of thc open positions over last year, while there is Chamber of Commerce, and Xiss Elsie Flyru~ a slight dccrease in the nun~bcr rcg~stering of The Procter & Collier Company were a1)- for positions The Directory Comm~ttecrc- pointed a Program and Entertaintnctlt Com- mittee, Affiliation with the national organi- porled the co~npletionand publ~cation of the zation was discussed, but final dccis~on was fourth echt~onof ihc Directory of Lzbrorrcs deferrcd until more information could hc ob- of Philadelphia a~rd Vicinity. Publicily Corn- tained. mittce reported on thc newspaper space al- lot~eclto notices of tncetings of the year, and Philadelphia of the conling convention a1 Toronto Pcri- The Spccial Libraries Council of Pl~iladcl- odical Cotnnlittcc reported progrcss on the phia and Vicinity held its April meeting in Uirion List of Periodicals irt the Spectal Li- the auditorium of the Philadcllihia County braries oJ Philadel~hia. To date thirty-seven Biedical Society. The discussion of the eve- libraries have contrihutecl cartls showing thrir nmg "The Uacon-Shakespcarc Controve~sy" holdmgs to the List, which now conlam was most ably handled by a numbcr of in- slightly less than two thousand cards. SCY- teresting speakers including Xss Bessie cral libraries havi~lfilarge and valual~led- Graham of the W~lliamPcnn Evcmng High lections arc ~orltingon their cartls, ad ~t School and Willard Parker, preslclcnt of the is hoped in another ?car to have adclccl these Bacon Society of Amcrica, Following the and others to 11s alrcady most usclul kt. addrcsscs, Miss Keller csplai~iccl brietly Lhe 1Tcmbcrship Colnrnittcc rcportcd se\-cn new new schedule of dues about to be adopted I.)y nlclnbcrs during the year Thc commlltee Special Libraries Assoc~alion. arc considering plans ior all encrgetlc cam- 238 SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927

pa.ign for the coming year. Program Com- Chase rcportecl for the Spccial, Libraries As- mlttec reported in full on the meetings of sociation of Southcrn Califorlua, and said In thc year, which included a variety of sub- part : jects, both tcchnical and cultural. The arrangements for the program oE 1926- T!le following officcrs were clccted for thc 7 were left in the hands of the chairmen of commg year: chairn~an, h[rs ticrtruclc \V two committees; General program and place Maxwell, librarian, Electr~cStorage Battery of meeting with Miss Hollingsworth, and Company ; wcc-cha~rman,Charlotte G. Noyes, Methods w~thMrs. Miller of the Statc Fish- librarian, Experimental Station, E. I du Pont eries Library. de Nemours & Co.; secretary, Helen M. Ran- Delightful and instructive meetings were kin, hcad, Municipal Reference Div~sion,Thc the result. The city of Los Angeles IS the proud Free Library of Philadelphia ; treasurer, Miss possessor of a new beautiful and pernianent Anna S. Bonsall, E. F. Houghton Company home and the first meeting of the year was Library. a joint meeting with the Slerras Club at the San Francisco !ibrary with interesting talks on the build- Miss Margaret Reynolds was thc guests of mg and a conducted tour over it Another honor at the San Francisco Special Libraries joint meeting was at the Unlvers~tyof South- Association meeting held on August 8 at thc ern California with the librarians ol the uni- Casa Alta. vcrsities and colleges of southern California Although a number of our mcmbers were Book binding was given spccial attcnt~onand vacationing, the table was set for twenty-fivc discussron, as well as thc disposition of public and perhaps the warmth of the welcome ex- documents. tended to the guest made up for the vacant The Henry Huntington Library was visited scats, Miss Reynolds, having closed her scrles and the treasures stored there enjoyed. A of lectures at the Riverside Library School, visit to the Los Angeles Express Llbra~ywas gave an informal talk on the aims and the one of unlque experience. We rcnlized after hopes of the National Association for thc inspecting the card index files the rcal man- coming year, enlisting our support not only ing of the use of the word "Morgue." in the canvassing of institutiollal member- Three meetings were hcld at the Barlow ships as paving the way toward a pad sec- Med~calLibrary, the Security Bank and the retary for the Association, but also asking Westcrn Precipitation Company. our fullest co-operation and support for the An all day trip to Riverside, Cal~fornia, SPECIALLIBRARIES magazine. was the most dehghtful of all, twenty-six Miss Reynolds remained a week in San lunching at the Mission Inn together Other Francisco, where she visited several of thc members joined for the mecting at the li- libraries. brary of the Southern Slerras Power Corn- pany where the service of the library was ex- Southern California plained. This was followed by a drive and The May meeting of the Special Libraries visit to the lihrary and grounds of the Citrus Association of Southern Californla was held Experiment Station. on Friday, May 13, at Los Angeles. The Dr. John Lapp was in the city for a Wel- members gathcrcd for dinner at the Pig'n fare Convention and the Special Libraries of Whistle and afterwards visited thc \Yilliam Southern California tcnclcrccl him an inIornial Andrew Clark, Jr. Library, followed by a reception at the Los Angeles Chamber of visit to the Clark Observatory. Commerce. He gave a delightful talk with The June meeting, the last of the season, rctniniscences of early clays of Special TAra- was held on June 7, at the library of the ries Association. Southcrn California Edison Co at the invi- On two occasions me havc bccn guests uf tatlon of Miss Purcell. Mrs. Mary E. Irish special banquets of c~vicorganizations in- presided over thc rnccting, and after the re- viting us to take our place In activities of ports of the various committees thc president the city. brought up for discussion questions concern- Almost every meeting has hecn preccdcd by ing the annual electlon of officers and it was a dlnner and business meeting Discussisn of moved that the constitution be reviscd in or- the methods of handling the libraiy work has der to have it in conformity with present proven of value. The Directory Comrn~tiee condition since the amalgamation with the has completed the work of listing the Special National Assoc~ation. Miss Frey, hIrs Town- Libraries of Southern Californla and with the send and Miss Greene were appointed a com- co-operation of the Spccial Llbrarles of San mittee to revise the constitution. The fol- Francisco and Vlcinlty and the National As- lowing officers were elected: president, Miss sociation expect to produce a cred~table Di- Joscphine B Hollingsworth, Scicnce and In- rectory for California Special Lhraries very dustry Department, Los Angeles Public Li- soon. brary ; wce-president, Miss Rose Narie Pur- The question of bccommg nienibcrs of the cell cf the Southern California Edison Co.; National Association, as proposed by the na- treasuicr, hIrs. Helen D Townsend of the tional offcers received careful considcmtion, Barlow Medical Ltbrary; member of the and the result has been reported. Special Exccutive Board, Xiss Lcnore Grcenc, Los Libraries of Southern California co-operates Angcles ~~uscuni,~x~~osit~on Park wlth the Nat~onal Association and we are At the Toronto conference, Georgc E. glad to try out the new plan. September, 1927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Personal Notes Mary Parker, Department Editor Miss Josephine 8. Hollingsworth, formerly months, touring Enplnnd, Scolland, Francc, of the Science l!lepartment of the LOS Switzcr1;lntl and 1t:lly. Angelcs Public Library, has been appointed head of the Municipal Reference Library Mr. Walter E. Murphy, late librarian of which is to be located in the new Los Angelcs the Bostoit Post, has been appointed by City Hall. Mayor Nichols of Bostoii to the position of librarian oE the engineering library of the I'viiss Maude Ellwood has been appointed Public \Vorlcs Department. The Mayor and librarian of the Dow Chemical Company, Mr. Murphy were fom~crfellow-tncmbers of Midland, Mich. the Boston Post staff Mr. John Miller, for many years librarian Mr. Harold T. Dougherty, formerly libra- of King Features Syndicate, New York, has rian of the Ncwton Public Library, and later resigned to accept a position with the Sunday with Hcr~nanGoldbcrger's magazinc agency, Magazine department of the Public Ledger, has returned to the public lhrary field, and Philadelphia. Last year Mr. Miller was is now librarian of tlic ll'estfielcl (Uass.) li- chairman of the Newspaper Group. brary. Miss Rachel Benson, librarian of the Ah. Walter 13. Briggs, assistant librarian of Horace Mann School, New York, has been Harvartl College Library, returned to duty appointed as acting librarian of the Con- on Augus~I after a leave of sis months, stantinople Woman's College. For this pur- which was spent in travel Erom Boston to pose she has taken a leave of absence from Florida arid California. the Horace Mann School Miss Dorothy Brown, formerly of the Los The name of Miss Margaret Reynolds of Angeles County Library, has becn appoinkd Milwaukee has been added to thc speakers' librarian of The Maycrs Company, Inc., Di- bureau for the A.A.U.W. and for the Busi- rect and Gcneral Advertis~ng, I240 South ness and Professional Womcn of her district. Main Strect, Los Angeles, California. This is significanl for it is the first aclvcrtising Mrs. Bertha V. Hartzell, recently librarian library lo be cstablishecl in Los Angcles. of Dana Hall, a preparatory school for girls at Welleslcy, Mass., will bccome supervisor Miss E. Louisc Sliechan who has for the of the library training class at the Boston last eight years hcen will1 Fay, Spaford and Public Library this fall. This is a new posi- Thorndikc, 44 School SLreet, Eoston, has IC- tion and means a new departme~it of work signed to accept the position ol cntalogcr with for the Boston P~il11icLilxary, Mrs. Hart- the 13alter Library, I-Iarvard Graduatc School zell will begin her duties in Scptembcr, and of Adrninistrnticm, cffectwc Oclohcr I, 1927 the first course of instruction will opcn on Xiss Janc Barnik, Libra~ian oi Kidder, October IG. Already a considerable number Pcabody, is going abroad Seplembcr I on of applicarits have appeared for the i~cw lcave or abscnce for a year. course. Miss Alicc Rose, formerly wit11 thc nab- Miss Xfaric J. Carroll, assistant librarian son Service Corporation, has sailed for Eng- of the World Peacc Foundation in Boston, land to allcnd thc Library Association of the spent the summer in Europe She visited United Kingdom, and the Association oE Spc- many of the Eumpcan capitals, and was in cia1 Libraries and Information Bureaux be- Geneva for the opening of tl~cAsscml~ly of ing held in September. She is being accom- the League of Nations. panied by 1Ciss Elsa Loeber, libranan oE thc Ncw York Statc Chamber of Commerce. Mrs Franccs Rnthbone Coe, head of the Catalog Department of the Massachusetts The Federal IYater Service Corporation of State Library, sailed for Europe on August 6, 27 U'illinm Strccl, New Yorl:, is planning to and will be gone for a l~ttlemore than two organize a special library in the near ft~tul-c. SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1927 Events and Publications Rebecca B. Rankin, Department Editor Cleanliness ~nstihtehas recently been cs- The Bank of Montreal, in comme~noration tablished by thc Association of American Soap of the sixtieth anniversary of confederation, and Glycerine Proiluccrs at 45 E, 17th St., has issued a booklet entitled Tlw Birth hid Growth of Canada. A compact little volume New Yorlc Clty. The Instltutc is first a re- of twenty-nine pages, it describes the begin- search and fact-finding agency, and thcn an ning of the Dominion and its heritage from instrumcnt for the use of the knowledge thus the French and English. Copies may be ob- obtained, co-opelatlng mlth schools, health tained from the New York office of the Bank of Montreal, 64 Wall Strcet, New Yorlc City. and social service organizations and other public welfare agencies. The library 1s an The Cornmlttec on Library Extension of the important part of the olganization, .headed American Library Association, in answer to many requests, has cstablishcd a Clij Skcet by Miss C. Margaret hIunson, librarian, for newspapers and magazines. The first is- which will serve as an information bureau sue consists largely of short quotations re- on all subjects relating to cleanlir~ess. lating to books in libraries ancl a few articles The Institute has begun the publication of extracted from varlous sources. The Clip SIzcet also prescnts two longcr articlcs on the Cleadiness Joziwal, no I, July, 1927, Roscoe "Function of the Public Librnty" by Charles C. Edlund, general dircctor. The magazine F. D. Belden and John Cotton Dana. It is contains articles of practical suggestions an excellent method of publicity and worthy of emulation by other associations. New York University at Washington The Library of the Bureau of Rallway Eco- Sqmrc is offering two courses this fall m nomlcs has prepared a list of references on railway rnolor cars dated June I, 1927 sup- printing which may be of interest to spccial plementing l~stdated September, 1925. librarians ; one, The Appreciation of Print- ing to be given by Henry L. Bullen, libra- Pierre Key, Inc., 239 West 39th Strcet, New rian the Typographic Library and the sec- York, is anxious to know the names of li- of braries which make a specialty of music, ond, Graphic Processes, by Frederic W. either as depart~nentsof a large library or as Goudy. a special music collection. Their request also covers rare manuscripts or collections of in- struments. Persons interested should corn- The Research Department of the Illinois munlcate with thcm. Chamber of Commerce under the direction of Mrs. Jennle Lec Schram, is responsible for Thc Idad Printer for June, 1927 has an intercstmg article by Uthai V. Wilcox en- the compllatlon of "Con~mercial Services," a titled "Puzzled? Ask Your Uncle Sam," which mimeographed pamphlet of thirty-seven pagcs gives Information about some government It contains succinct descriptions of the best publications and services, mentioning in par- commercial serviccs of thc country, ancl a ticular the Bureau of Eficiency. subject index, and alphabct~calindex of names Thc Executives Service Brclletin, issucd by makes the study easily used. the Policyholders Service Bureau of the Mct- It might almost be considered as a con- ropolitan Liic Insurance Company, lists in tinuation of thc Special Librarm Associa- the June Issue some rccent problcms prcsenled to ,the Bureau by executives. Among the in- tion's Handboolz of Conliirercial Infornzatiogr qumes Ivere Paymcnt of Salar~edEmployees Servires which was published in 1924. That Durlng Sickness ; Installation ol a Modcrn "Handbook" is now out of date, and RCiss System for the Collection Department of a Schram's list is very similar in content and Bank; Direct-By-Mad Suggestions for Hotel Advertising; Suggested Organ~zationfor the is right up-to-date. Execution of Fire Drills; Advantages qf A copy may bc secured free of charge from Suitable Shoes for Women Worlccrs ; Analysls the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, 35 East of Labor Turnover In an Officc Force This Waclcer Drive, Chicago. shows the wide range of work whlch comes l~ropcrly before a large insurance company. The Bzilleii~~also discusses the "Pipc Organ The Co~rmercialand Iiirzanc~nl Chronirle Chart" and gives prominent space to a story for June as, 1927, contains a reproduction in on "My Grcat-Grandlather's First Dab Book" part of thc Toronto talk glveri by Donald h1. prcparcd by John S Lawrence, president of Marvin, Royal Bank of Canada, on thc work the New England Councll, and a prominent of the bank library. manu f acturer. September, I927 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 241

The Pac~ficNorthwest Library Association serlts as the leading article "A Natio~ialBook has issucd a pamphlet entitled Spccinl Collcc- Pool" by Luxmoore Newcombe, librarian, tzo11.s ill Libraries of tlic Pacific A:orthwest. Central Library for Studen~s,London. Elsc- The pamphlc~was compiled by Chalks \\I. where in this number we commellt upon Col. Smith, cha~rmanof the Committee on Blb- Newcornbe's paper. Mr. Milton J. Ferguson, liography, and reports the special collections state libranan of California, contrlbutcd an in forty-two libraries located in the slates of article entitled "Blazing Trails" describing Idaho, Montana, Oregon and WashingLon and connty library work in the tiolden State. The the Province of British Columbia. Under- wrllcr notes the slze of Calilornia and shows takings of this sort all assist In the co- thal its population is so unevenly scattered operative development ol library resources that for an indefinite period trail-blazing slcill and eventually we will have in onc comp~la- will be required in getting the r~glit books tion a union list of such special collections. to the right persons in adequate quantities. Under the title "Ourselves" the editor pays The Library of the Interstate Commerce trlbtue to Mr. Ferguson as one of the out- Commission is anxious to obtain the f01lo~- standing men in American library work ing p~~blications: Cranch Reports (United I-lisforical Fiction Sadable for Junior arid States) Vols, x, 2, 5, 7, 8; Anm~canSLatc Report5, set, American and English Arlno- Se/zior Hagh Schools is the title of an initial tated Cases, Vol. 1916-D to end; L.RA, pamphlet In the publicat~onsof thc National new series, Vol 37 to cnd; Supreme Court Council for the Social Studies. Thc publi- Reporter, Vols 1-38. cation is compiled by Hannah Logasa of ihe Communications should be addressed to Univeisity of Chicago High Schooi and is Mr. Leroy S. Boyd, librarian, Inicrstate Corn- published by the McKinley Publishing Corn mcrcc Con~rnission,Washington, D.L. pany at the price of $1.00. A Fiitdiitg List on Illustrators, compiled by "Better Homes in America," with head- Miss Louise P. Latimer ol the Public Lh-aly, quarters at 1653 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., is issued as No 27 01 the Washington, D.C., is ~ssuinga group 01 pub- Bullelins of Bibliography Pamphlets. It is lications on various types of home problems not an exhaustwe list ,and only ~ncludesil- which may be obtained for a notnirlnl sum. lustralors whose work in books for boys and Mr. James Ford is executive director of the g,irls is of suficient merll to warrant inclu- orgalmation and Hon. Herbert Hoover is slon. chairman of the Board of Directors. The New York Public Library has reccntly The Libvary Review is the title of a popu- issued a list of references on "seleni~~m"com- lar magazlne on libraries and literature which piled by Marion Foster Doty The rcfe~ences made its initial appearance in the spring of are arranged chronologically, beginning wit11 1927 It is ed~tedby Robert D. I\IacLeod 1817 to 192.5, and divided into speciijed who may be addressed at 47 Pilcalrn Street, groups: an author index, a subject indcx and Brucefield, Dunfermline, Scotland. The first an Index of patentees is appended to the issue makes an excdle~~tappearance and prc- volume. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Magazine of the Association EDITOR, Herbert 0. Brigham State Library, Providence, R. I.

Associate Editors William Alcott, Lewis A. Armistead, D. N. Handy Department Editors Ethel Cleland, Business Branch, Public Library, Indianapolis, Ind. R. H. Johnston, Bureau of Railway Economics, Washington, D.C. Henry H. Norris, Boston Elevatcd Railway, Boston, Mass. Mary C. Parker, Federal Reserve Bank, New York City. Rebecca B. Rankin, Municipal Reference Libraiy, New York City. Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwaukee, Wis. A. A. Slobod, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y. Local Associations SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON Pres-Howard L. Stebbins, Social Law Library. Sec-Gladys L Saville, Christian Science Monitor. CLEVELAND CHAPTER Pres-Emma M. Boyer, Union Trust CO. Sec.-Minnie W. Tavlor.-. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. ILLINOIS CHAPTER Pres.-Frederick Rex, Municipal Reference Library, Chicago, Ill. Sec.-Frances Cowan, Dartnell Corporation, Chicago, Ill. NEW YORK SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres.--Angus Fletcher, British Library of Information. Sec.-Treas -W. L Po~vlison,National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. SPECIAL LIBRARIES COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY Pres.-Mrs. Gertrude W. Maxwell, The Electric Storage Battery Co. Sec -Helen M. Rankin, Free Public Library. PITTSBURGH SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres.-Jessie Callan, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad. Sec.-Henrietta Kornhauser, Mellon Institute SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO Pres.-R. Strong, Standard Oil Co. Sec-Margaret Hart, San Francisco Bulletin SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Pres.-Josephine Hollingsworth, Muiiicipal Reference Library, Los Angelcs, Cal. Set.-Helcn D Townscncl, Barlow Medical Library, Los Anpeles, Cal. Recent Publications Special Libraries Directory, 2nd edition, 1925...... $4.00 Handbook of Commercial Information Services, 1924...... 2.00 Cumulative Index to Special Libraries, 1910-22...... 2.00 Cumulative Index to Special Libraries, 1923-26...... 50 Information Bulletins No. 1-4 ...... each 25 Our Field SPECIAL IAIUKAKIANS BUSINESS CONSULTANTS STATISTICIANS RESEARCH ANALYSTS EXECUTIVES ECONOMISTS

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