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Special Libraries, March 1928 San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1928 Special Libraries, 1920s 3-1-1928 Special Libraries, March 1928 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1928 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, March 1928" (1928). Special Libraries, 1928. 3. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1928/3 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, 1928 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 19 March, 1928 No. 3 LIBRARY OF ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICAN DIRECTORY PUBLISHERS, DETROIT, MICIIIGAN. Entered as second class matter at the Post Ofice, Prov~denco, R. I. under the Act of March a, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provlded for in section 1103, Act of October S, 1917, authorized October 22,1927. Ratea: $6.00 a year. Foreign $6.60; ~inglecopies 60 cents. Contents ARTICLES City Directory Libraries. By H. H. Burdick .......... 6 5 Co-operative Catalogikg of Chemical Literature. By Nathan van Patten.......................................... 69 Fact Center for Municipal Information. By Rebec- ca B. Rankin ................................................66 Information Files of Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce. By Guy E. Marion......................... 7 5 Training for the Special Librarian. By Rebecca B. Rankin .......................................................... 72 NOTES- Cataloguers and Classi- Read Trade Journals fiers ..................... 74 and See the World.. 68 Course in Special Li- Washington Confer - braries ................... 78 ence ................. 79 Institutional Members 86 DEPARTMENTS Associations ................ 83 We Do This .......... 80 Special Libraries Published Monthly September to Aprll, bi-monthly May to August by THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Publication Office, 11 Nisbet Street, Providence, R. I. All payments should be made to Mrs. H. 0.Brigham, Executive Officer, 11 Nisbet Street, Providence, R. I. Special Libraries Vol. 19 MARCH, 1928 No. 3 City Directory Libraries By H. H. Burdick, Chief Librarian, Association of North American Directory Publishers 1876 a prominent City without fear or favor and totably free BAE%k-ypubllisher conceived the of any baqeful subsidized interest. notion that ,patrons of his publications They stand squarely on their own feet were entitled to s,omething extra in the to mirror a city as it really is. Then, way of service in return for their sup- is it any wonder that the iniormation port and patronage. Fro,in this notion seclcing public is daily making gestures the idea of maintaining the present of appreciation for thc free service chain of over 400 City Directory made possible by the ~nembersof ,the Lilbraries, was born, through the mein- Aesociation of North American Direc- bership of the Association of North tory Publisl~ers by installing and maiti- American Directory Publis$xrs, which taining City Directory Libraries in consists of the leadling publisliers of over 400 oi the chief cities of the the United States and Canada. Through United States and Canada? a system of exchanging tllkir publica- Maybe a word picture of thc func- tions. which is one of the requisites of tions of the Chief Librarian's ofice in membership, thcse libraries are built directing this man~mothcivic informa- up and maintained with current edi- tion service would not be rcmiss. time from year to year; all ramifica- I11 the first placc, it is oac of the tions being handled through n central requisites of rncmlbership in the Asso- bureau under a Chicf Librarian. That ciation of North American Directory they have come to be accepted as a Publishers that allowance bc made for real, constructive service is obvious library copies whenever a publication from detailed.reports# kept in the office is being printcd and bound. The vnri- of the Chief Librarian of the Associa- ous illember publishers are notified tion of North American Directory how many copics of each City Direc- Publishers. tory arc needccl for library purposes Reasons for City Directory Libraries previous to publication and a !list nf the are legion. For co.mparative purposes, libraries to which the Imoks are to bc when onc desires to compare one city forwardecl is prepared Ry virtue of with another, as a home site or as an the system no book is sent to any industrial, conlmercial or educatjonall library when thc lprcvinus issue nf the center, there is no medium designed same boolc has not been used since it that paints as true an economical pic- was received. ture. Facts regale but fancies ridicnle In order to ,determine book usrage n when cornparisoils are in order-par- well devised system of "record carcls" ticularly in the case of comn~unities. has been put into effect. It operates City Directories1 are based upon and as follows : each library is supplied owe their very existence to their repu- with a quantity of "record cards" tation as fact dispensers. They are stamped *with the name of the 1;brary built on cold unvarnishe,d facts, col- in question. When an information lected !by trained employes, and as- seeker enters the library, a card *is sembled with the sole idea of present- handed him upon which he is aslced to ing the community represented in its "fill in" the name of the City Directory true civic, social and industrial colors consulted, the section of the boolc used, 66 SPECIAL LIBRARIES March, 1928 the infor~nationsought and whether copies of his publications are fulfill~ng or not it was o~btalned. The filkd in the mission for which they were in- cards are forwarded to the Chief tended. Many consultants are timid Librarian's office ,monthly ancl there about filling out the carcls, feeling that recorded on the master sheets of the it is nobody's business what they are library to which they apply. This part seeking, !but when they understand of the system enables a close check to that it is entirely up to them whether be kept 011 the book usage upon which thc City Directory Library they use is the shipment of subsequent issues is up-to-date and efficient they usually based. The indication on the card of comply with the request. the section used graphically pictures The plan upon which the size ancl what portions of the books are most scope uf a library installation is cleter- in demand, with the consequent in- mined has been carefully worlcecl out. crease in effort on the part of the pub- Such factors as the trade affinities of lishers to raise the efficiency of the the city with other communities and most popular sections by amplification railroad and waterway connections are and improvement, and the "yes" or talcen into consideration as well as "no" answer to whether or not the in- wholesale and retail tracliag areas. formation was obtained is an invalu- Every library always contains a copy Ale index as to the accuracy of the of every City Directory published by a publications and the information there- contained. These cards, after they membcr of the Association of North in American Directory Publishers in the have served their purpose for the Chief Librarian's records are the? forwarded state in which the library is located to the publisher whose books have irrespective of whether it shows use by been consulted as an evidence that the the "record card" syste,n~. A Fact Center for Municipal Information* By Rebecca B. Rankin, Librarian of the New York Municipal Reference Library NE day this week as I sat at my less than that. It happens that both 0 desk in the Municipal Reference these civic responsi,bilities may be per- Library here in the Municipal Build- formed without coming to the Mutlici- ing, a man approached seeking statis- pal Building. But you should pay a tics on some municipal affairs of last visit to the Municipal Bui1,ding-you year. We were in the ,midst of ~p-would have an increased feeling of plying the figures, when he interrupted pride in your City; here are centered to query-"Do you know I have lived most of the offices of .tlx administra- in the City of New York for more than tive departments of the City. The twenty-five ycars but this is the first running of your City is a huge under- time I have ever been inside of the taking, admirably done. You can Municipal Building?" I was not sur- afford to give this governmental ma- prised. Undoubtedly there are hun- chinery more attention and study. dreds of thousands of our citizens who Our inquirer continued with another have never visited the Municipal question-"Do you know I had never Building. Unfortunately, the average even heard of the Municipal Reference c~tizenconsiders that he has only two Library until today ?" Again I was civic duties. One duty is to pay his not surprised! There are undoubtedly tases and the other civic duty to go to hunclred,~of thousands of our citizens the polls to vote, once a year, some- who do not know of the existence of times once in four years, sometimes the Municipal Reference Lil~rary, *Talk given over the Radio WNVC on Wednesday, March 7, 1928 at 9.46 p. m. March, 1928 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 6 7 Room 512, Municipal Building. This of all departments. In the case of New Library is only one of many, many York City, it means many dld and bureaus in the City and in this build- valuakle clocuments of Ncw York, ing, and our service in its very nature Brooklyn and Long Island City and is not a conspicuous one.
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