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Special Libraries, June 1924 Special Libraries Association San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1924 Special Libraries, 1920s 6-1-1924 Special Libraries, June 1924 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1924 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, June 1924" (1924). Special Libraries, 1924. Book 6. http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1924/6 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1920s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1924 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 15 June, 1924 No. 6 THE PATENT OFFICE SCIENTI- FIC LIBRARY By miles 0. Tn'ce THE SPECIAL LIBRARY vs THE SPECIAL COLLECTION 59y 1(: H. Johnston THE NEWSPAPER LIBRARY AND MORGUE 9y Charles 9. 3Maugham THE VALUE OF A LIBRARY TO ENGINEERS !By Sidney J. Williams LIBRARY OF THE DIVISION OF LABORATORIES AND RE- SEARCH OF THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROGRAM FOR THE CONFERENCE AT SARATOGA Published Monthly Except July and August by THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION 958-972 University Ave., New York, N. Y. , Checks should be made out to the Association and mailed to Laura R. Gibbs, Secretary-Trensurer 142 Berkeley Street, Boston 17. Maaa. Rales: $4.00 a year, Foreign 64.50, single copies 50 cenla SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION DIRECTORY OFFICERS pms~m~r-El~j+d;12tdUone, State Librarian, State House, Boston, Mass. IST-VICE-P~@D<NT- 'I, orsey W. Hyde, Jr., Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. A., Wsllm~lu,A$ 2ND ~rc~~~ai+nu~.rr-~~b:G. Nichols, Libn., Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, Ill. SE~RETAIIY-TREASUI~~~-L~II~~R. Gibbs, Information Ch~ef, Tel-U-Where Company, 142 Berkeley St., Boston. ASSIWANTS~cne.~~,t~~-Tic~nsu~~~-Gcrtr~ide D. Peterkin, Libn., Legal Dept., American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co., 195 Broadway, New York. Ex- PRESIDE^-Rcbecca B Raokln, Libn., Municipal Reference Library, New York. EXECUTIVEBOARD-Charlotte G Noyes, Libn., Jackson Laboratory, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours &Co., Wilmington, Del.; Ethel A. Shields, Libn., Eastman Kodak Co, Rochester, N.Y. COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN CONSTITUTION-H. 9.Brigharn, Libn., State Library, Providcnce, R.I. DIRECTORY-May Wilson, Libn., klerchants Association, 233 Broadway, New York. MEMBERSIIIP-Rebecca B. Rankin, Libn., hfmnicipal Reference Library, New Yorlc. METHODS-Ruth G. Nichols, Libn, Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, Ill. PUBLICITY-W. L. Pow!ison, L~bn.,Natl. Auto Chamber of Commerce, New York. TRADE CATALOG-Lews A. Armistead, Libn., Boston Elevated Railway, Park Sq. Bldg., Boston TRAINING-Margaret Mann, Engincering Societies Library, 29 W. 39th St., New York. GROUP OFFICERS ADVERTISING-COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL Chm, Mary L. Alexander, Libn., Barton, Durstine & Osborn, 283 Madison Ave., New York. Scc., Grace D. Aikenhead, Libn., W. T. Grant Co., 85 Market St., New York. AGRICULTURAL-Chrn., Claribel R. Bainett, Libn., Dept, of Agric., Washington, D.C. ART-Chm., Lydia E. ICohn, Libn., Ryerson Library, Art Iiistitute, Chicago, Ill. PTTlTPF Ll V lL3 Chm -Ella S. Hitchcock, Legislative Ref. Dcpt., Baltimore, Md. Sec.-Mabel Innes, Bureau of Municipal Research, Philadelphia. FINANCIAL-Chm., Dorothy Bernis, Libn., Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, Pa. Sec., Margaret C. Wells, Libn., American International Corporation, Ncw York. INSURANCE-Chm., Florence Bradley, Libn., Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York. NEWSPAPER-Chrn., Joseph F. Kwapil, Libn., Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa. PUBLIC HEALTH-Mav Casamajor, Libn., National Health Library, 370 Seventh Ave., New York. SOCIOLOGY-Chm., Constance Beal, Russell Sage Foundation, 130 E. 22d St., New York. TECIINOLOGY-Chm, George W. Lee, Libn, Stone & Webster, Inc., Boston. LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON Pres.--Walter B. Briggs, Ref. Libn., Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. See.--Mrs. Ruth M Lane, Vail Libn., Mass., Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. CHICAGO LIBRARY CLUB-No organization of special librarians. LIBRARY CLUB OF CLEVELAND-SPECIAL LIBRARIES SECTION Chm.-Leonore Lingan, Libn., Cleveland Press. Set.-Mrs. D. 0. Ashmun, Libn., Cleveland, Clinic. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ASSOCIATION Pres.--Miles 0. Price, Libn., U.S. Patent Office. Sec.-Robina Rae, Ainerlcan Red Cross Library, 17th & D Streets. NEW YORK SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres--Juliet A. Handerson, New York Law School, 215 W. 23d St. Sec-Elsa Loeber, Libn., Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York. SPECIAL LIBRARIES COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY Chm.-Deborah Morris, University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts. Set.-Helen M. Rankin, Free Library of Philadelphia. PITTSBURGH SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres.-Mrs. Blanche K. Wappat. Set.-Adeline M. McCrum, Libn., Tuberculosis League. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Pres.-Guy E. Marion, Libn., Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, Cal. S~C.-Mrs. Mary Irish. Libn., Barlow Medical Library, Los Angeles, Cal. Entered na aecond clnss matter December 17. 1823 at ths Post Omce. New York. N.Y., under the act of March 8. 1Ns- Acreptnnrc for mnlllng nt s~eclalrate of pastnue prorlded for In sectlon 1109. Art of October 3. 1017. muthorizen December 17. 1023 Special Libraries Vol. 15 June, 1924 No. 6 The Patent Office Scientific Library By Miles 0.Price, Lih*ccriar~ While 1 would not go sb far as the de- what he thinks is a patentable devicc, he usu- lightful little Irish lady, appointed to the ally consults a patent attorney, who examines staff of this library in 1872, and still a val- what is known as the "prior art" (art in the ued member of it, and say that the Library patent sense is the manner in which some- of Congress should be suppressed as an in- thing is done), to see if the device or process significant rival, or that the other government in question has been previously patcnted or libraries are mere upstarts, I can truthfully described by some one else. Thc prior art state that the Scientific Library of the United is iound in four places, namely, United States States Patent Office is one of the most im- patent specifications, foreign patent specifica- portant libraries in the world in the value and lions, books and periodicals, and it is of these volume of work done, as well as being one that the Scientific Library collection is com- of the most important technical libraries in posed. The clientele of this library, including the United States. Of American libraries it patent cxamincrs and attorneys is technically is unique, in that it boasts of the only com- trained and very exacting in its demands. plete collection of United States and foreign patcnt specifications and periodicals. It is Statistical thus the American clearing house for what The library is divided into three sub-divi- the French, with their custonlary felicity of sions, thc Search Room, Iiecord Roonl, and expression call the "intellectual property" of Scientific Library proper. In the Search Room the world, including patents, trade-marks and are found one n~illionfive hundred thousand designs. United States patents, sixty-fi\.e thousand de- Founded by Act of Congress in 1836, and sign patcnts, and one hundred and eighty destroycd by fire shortly afterward, it has thousand trade marlts, arranged in classified since passed through vario~tsvicissitudes, bc- order, and so cross referenced as to make in ing again burncd in 1877, but has gradually all four million mcchanical patents, one hun- increased in size and value, and under the dred and twcnty-fi1.e ~housanddesign patents, enlightened administration of the present Com- and three hundred thousand trade marks. The missioner of Patents, Thomas E. Robertson, classification by which these are arranged is who has done so much for the office in many very minute, containing approximately thirty ways, enjoys thc full support of the Patent thousand classcs and sub-classes. In the Rec- Office. ord Room are found the abobe-mentioned Perhaps bcfore going into detail about the patents, tradc nlarlcs and designs in numerical library and its various services, it would be order, with name and subject indexcs, and best to give its raison d'rtrc, as so many pco- in addition the complete record of applica- ple ask why the Patent Ofice should have tions, amendments, rejections, etc., of every a library at all. Under the Constitution, patent granted, in all onc million five hundred Congress is empowered to make provisions for thousand and about one million so-called granting patents to inventors for original de- abandoned files (abandoned in a Patent Office vices, designs, etc., which involve invention, technical sense.) In the Scientific Library provided no one else has received a patent proper are found eighty-five thousand books on the same art~cle,or, two years or more and periodicals and three million foreign pat- before the date of application, has described it ents bound in both numerical and classified in print or explained it to two or more wit- arrangement. The normal increase is about nesses so that they fully understood its opera- fifty thousand United States patents, trade tion. When, therefore, an inventor has evolved marks and designs, fifty thousand patented 128 IAL LIBRARIES June, 1924 files, thirty-five thousand abanilol~cdfilcs, one may dcsire Irom the Sc~entificLibrary. If he hundred and n~netythousand foreign
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