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Val. 13 Octnher, 1922 No. 8 The Research and Technical Library FRANCIS E. CADY, Manager, Research Department, National Lamp Works.

"Arts and sclences the beneflts of which no mind can calculate, depend upon bAoks." Rlchard Aungervyie (Richard De Bury). Thc un~)aralleledgrowth ~n the apprecia- particular the trainer1 scientific invcstiga- tion of the valu: of scientific research in tion of principles and facts of any subject the past few years has emphasized the value based on original and first hand study of of thc scientific and technical library. The authorities or exper;ment." idea of research has expanded to the point It is one c~f the main purposes of the where the term has been seen to apply to library to make available for study the all investigations which mean progress and work 01 the "authorities" referred to. Of development although it inust then be modi- the various tools used by the investigator fied by the aclclit~onof such ,terms as pure, in the realm of pure science research, the applied, technical, engineering, etc. But scientific library stands In importance second whatever the type of research, it is very to none Research is a type of work: which, seriously handicapped if there is not readily because it means advancing inta untried available an aclequntely equipped research territory, necessarily requires a ground- library. The scient st and the en,cinecl$, work from which to advance. It is a rarity when dceply interested in a problem have in these days for anyonc to be working on for the time being what might be called a problem which is so new that ~t has no "single track" minds and any interruptions immediate connection with work already such as a delay in gettmg. information de- done. The library contains the records sired is quite lllcely to result in a side tracli- of prevlous acconil)l~sliments and 1s the ing of the problem which may seriously In- storehouse from which the scientist draws terfere with its rapid solution. It is not the Itnowledge which enables him to avoid difficult to conceivc of the annoyance of a the pitfalls of hls predecessors, to take ad- chemist who has reached a certa~nstep in vantage of the latter's successes, and be analysis where it IS necessary for him to sure that the ground he proposes to cultwate know a certain rare forinuln, when he finds has not already yielded its harvest. that the book containing it is not at hand Another ~hascof the value of the library and inust be sent for. A quantity of valu- to the worker in research is the inspira- able material might be ruined by such a tion which often comes as thc result of delay. Again a physiologist mag be fol- the perusal of the rcports of other inves- lowing out a line of reasoning in develop- tigators. hlnny an extended research has ing a theoretical explanation of some phe- been started as the result of an idea in- nomenon and wishing to look up some ver~fy- spired by the study of some scientific paper. ing expcrinlentnl data, finds that he must The use of a certain principle described in walt for a week until it can be sent for. connection w~thexperimentnl results quite It is quite conceivable that the interruption often suggests its use in a little different would result in such an altered cond~tion field of work. 01. an individual who has of thought clurlng the interval that the fine made a special study of a part~cular~nstru- points of his theory mould have escaped mcnt may, after reading about an investiga- him. When the subject is an abstruse one, tion, sec how the same or better results it is not easy to pick up threads once laic1 could be obtained by the use of the instru- clown. And these illustrations coulcl read~ly ment in which he is interested. As a case be multiplied by concrete cases showing in paint reference might be made to the the value and importance in research work thorough study of photometric instruments of a readily available researcl~library. and methods made by a certain well-known It is rather interesting m this connec- scientist, who, whenever he read a report tion that the Encyclopedia Erittanica in of an experiment or investigation, endeav- the brief article on "Research" gives as ored to see whether or not the problem in- part of a clefinit~on,"The act of searching volved could not be solved in a more satis- into a matter clasely and carefully; inquiry factory manner by thc use of photometry. directed to the discovery of truth, and 111 His success in the field of radiation is well SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1922 known. And, In general, the true research German physickt on a subject which had worker IS always on tllt~11101io~t for prin- been under investigation in our laboratory ciples and lnethods u~lby others, which for over a ycar, and immadiately notified can be applied in his own work. the individual carrying on this work While There are many ways In which the trained the individual would probably in time htlve librarian can be of considerable assistance. conle upon this article in the course of his If the individual undertaking a research regular reading, he was very glad to know on some special subject ltnows of recent of its ex~stenceand promptly took it away work along similar lines and can give a for stucly. As another illustration of this reference to the librarian, it may be pas- same thing, let me refer to a paper pre- siblc for the latter to work back from ;tins sented at a recent meeting of the Amcsican reference ancl gather together a sufficient Physical Society, in which was described an number of works ancl articles on the subject ~nstrumentused in photometric work. Sub- to enable the invest~gator to learn all he sequently the attention of the author of the may wish to know of what has been done. paper was called to a description of an And if the librarian can go further and instrunlent apparently using the same prin- prepare a full bibliography to be inchded clple contained in i boolc which was pub- in the ultimate paper describing ,the re- lished over fifteen ycars ago. Ile had not search, the worker will be saved tlme and seen this boolc when he prepared his paper, effort and the paper will in general be much and would have 'been saved some explana- more valuable. It has been one of the tions had his librarian been able to refcr plans for increasmg the usefulness of our him to it. Still another illustration IS found library to have the librarian prepare bib- in a very recent experience. A well-known liograph~esof the various subjects on which sc~entistwho has been interested in a cer- our staff is working, so that they lnay be tain field of physics recom~nencledto a re- ready in advance and be avallxble for sub- search man an extended investigation into sequent reference. By a little more atten- the accuracy of a law which had not as tion to what IS 111 the books, as they are far as he knew been rigorously verified for being catalogued the librarian in the special nearly fifteen years. In looking into the library niay become sufficiently conversant matter the research worker found an article with their contents to bc able to recommend published within six months, describing an them in cases where they might not other- elaborate stucly made abroad of the very wise be thought of. Thus I have in wind a subject and apparently settling the ques- work on physiology of the eye which con- tion. In this case without do~lbta large tains quite a bit of information which would amount of time as well as the cost of special be useful to a person who mas nndertaking apparatus was saved by the knowledge of an investigation of the effects of intensi- this article published in a foreign periodi- ties of illumination on the efficiency of office cal. Had the scientist been in touch with or factory work. Aqain a certain book on a librarian watcl~in~out for articles in "Color" has a lot of technical data useful which he is interested, he would undoubted- to the experimental psychologist. Of course ly have been informed of this foreign work a librarian cannot be expected to know and and been saved the embarassment of show- remember all that is in every book in his inp his ignorance. or her care, but the more that is known While in general, workers in pure science the more the possibility of helpful assis- are sufficiently familiar with French and tance. German to be able to read articles written A similar and more easily performed ser- in those languages, in many cases such read- vice may be given by the li,brarian who is ing is laborious and time consuming. A sufficiently conversant with the researches librarian sufficiently conversant with either being carried on. by those who use the li- or both languages to be able to make ab- brary, to recognize by their titles articles breviated translations could render an ex- correlative to those researches. It is sur- tremely helpful service in this connection. prising how often two or more workers Perhaps at this point a word or two in different parts of the world will unknow- might be said regarding the attitude of the ingly carry on simultanecms researches on lib~nrgstaff toward the laboratory staff. almost identical subjects. This duplica- In a research library conditions are in many tion may not be apparent until one or the respects different from those in an ordi- other publishes sonle preliminary results. nary public or school hbrary. In the first A prompt recognition and notification by place it is necessary to constantly remind the librarian may save unnecessary ex- oursclves that the library is for the workers penditure of a grcat deal of time and ma- and not the workers for the library. BK terial. Furthermore it is of the utmost this is meant that the purpose of the 11- importance that an investigator keep him- brary .is service, service to be sure to the self informed of the work of others in the greatest number, but service which will fields correlative or overlapping his olvn mean a saving to the investigator not only even where no duplication of effort is likely. in time but also in mental distraction. Recently in reviewina a German scientific Hence while rules are necessary in order, journal the writer fonnd an article by a as stated above, to give service to the great- October, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES est number, their enforcement shmld be considerable work for the librarian at in- carried out with the utmost of discretion ventory time, but it means also a consider- and a lnaximum of patience. This quite able saving in time to the experimenter. frequentIy means "humoring" those who use Nela Research Laboratories had their in- the library and often as a rcsult consider- ception in the spring of 1908, when the Di- able additional work for the librar~an. But rector, now the Director of Research, was the clis~~laccmentof solne volumes or the invited to organize a laboratory for the cost of a few books lost during the year r;tudy of the sciences on which lighting de- due to oversight in not leaving slips or care- pends. Starting with a single department lessness in making them out is insignifi- devoted to the study and development of cant conipared to the value of the time lost the science of light in its relation to il- to the laboratory worker by too much in- lumination, it has grown to include an sistance on compliance with the rules. In applied science department in which the general it is not good policy to do anything more practical side of the subject is being which will seriously interrupt the trend of invest~gated. The library was started im- thoughl.of an individual who is deeply en- media,tely after organization and a number grossed in some particular work, and if of sets of back nunlbcrs of the more iin- under the circumstances lie is abstracted portant journals on physics were acquired or absent-minded a librarian with a good as a nncleus to the present equipment of kindly clisposition mill by suffering infrac- some 4,000 vol~lumcs. At the same time sub- tions of the rules and the postponen~entof scriptions were placed for 97 scientific and enforcement to a Inore propitious time, avoid technical periodicals a number which had a lot of friction and perhaps save a con- grown to 117 in 1920 and 162 in 1921 due siderable amount of time. It is a trait of in the latter case to the addition of a num- human character for one to feel that 111s ber of journals on biology. In purchasing particular branch of the laboratory activi- baclc numbers it was not considered neces- ties is as much if not morc important than sary to go baclc of about 1870, since most any other and it is not uncommon lor the of the valuable experimental work done ofice forcc or the library force to "lay clown prior lo that date has been repeated with the law" to the laboratory staff. But this more accuracy. Ilowever, where it was not is not the right attitude and can be cor- possible to obtain back numbers without pur- rected if it is always borne in mind that chasing complete sets, this was done, as it the purposc of both office and library is was recognized that a conlpletc set is in sem~icc. Another illustration of this point general much more valuable than a partial comes in the arrangement of the b001is and one. periodicals on the library shelves. The Through his position as chairman of the librarian taught the best practice for regu- Progress Committee of the Illuminating En- lar l~brarywork may, in the interest of the g~neeringSociety, the writcr has for some service, have to entirely readjust his ideas years Purnishecl a service to fhc Society on this subject to suit the particular needs in the shape of a monthly index of articles of the laboratory staff. This involvcs the bearing. on the subject of illuminating en- qucslion of arrangement according to nmn- gineer~ng. This work is clone in connec- bers or according to subjects. It may be tion 1~1ththe mnintenance for the labor- that the writer's Itnowledge of library prac- atory of a card catalogue of such articles tice on this point is too limited, but it has together with those on physics, physiologi- been found helpful in the library to lccep cal optics, etc. As is doubtless well known the boolcs divided according to subject and several special libraries furnish service of to put those most used in Lhe most access- this character to the cniployees of their ible location regardlcss of their number respective companies and even go further This has necessitated a special "location" and add brief statements as to the contents index to enable one not familiar with the of the articles. Thc "Index" referred to library to find what is needed. above is published in the monthly transac- Again in the interest of service, it has tions of the Illuminating. Engineering SO- been found advantageous to permit bor- ciety and is used by thc members as a ref- rowers to retain volunles or magaz~ncs erence cattrlogue. A convenient method has until these arc requested by others. This been worked out for the warking of the mag- means that thc librarian muat call up and azines SO that the libranan can prepare find out whether the original useln 1s the material for the index with a ~ninimum through with the book or magazine in ques- of effo~t. tion, and if not see if it is possible to ar- While our library takes practically all range for its joint use. Such a plan can thc ~mportantjournals dcalina with the sub- be employed, of course, ,only where the de- jects it is interested in, including those in mand for books is liw~ted,as ~t is jn a English, French, German and Italian, and special library. In the case of certain vol- has baclc numbers of many of them, occa- umes neeclcd by an investigator but little sionally some one wishes to look up an ar- used by others, such volumes are charged ticle in a magazine nat subscribed for. In to the individual in question and remain that case an cfYolA is made to. obtain it from in his laboratory. This of course means some other library in the city and if this 126 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1922 is not successful, ii is obtthccl from s~nlc is prublematical 21s thwc arc always caws Out of town library thru exchange ~ll'ivi- where it is.importm~lfor a dtpartmcnt to leges. Such requests ha\ r emphaslzcd the have certaln ~ournalsimmediately after value of a catalogue of technical and scien- issue. This can be talcen ctu'e of in sonw tific journals available in the city, and a few instances by tlnplication of sabscriptions. Years ago the librarian of the National Car- And this is almost necessary in the case of bun Company publishecl such t~ 11st tlltho a corporation covcring as much g~onndaa in incomplete form. A revis~onwas under- the National Lamp Works. taken by the librarian of thls library. It One of the first problems encountcred by lists all of the jo~~rnalsavailtrble and shows the librar~anwas that of sultably clisplny- for each one in what libraries or library ing thc pe~v~orlicals. The sack originally it may be obtained, whetl~cr or not it is built for the purpose was found quite nn- bound, and how many back volumes .are satisfact~ryas the mapazincs with only a available. It has beer1 found a good time- few la]-ge size pages werc always flopping saver and the preparation of such a. list over and glving the rack an untidy appcar-

I I NATIONAL LAMP WORKS PERIODICAL RACKS SHOWING SPECIAL IlOLDERS IN USE in cities which havc quitc a number of ance. After some thought a clevicc was spccial libral-ies 1s a service which is cer- worked out \vhich was incorporaterl in the tain to be appreciated. An extension of new racks installccl In the pl-esent building. this idea has been carriccl out for the Na- These racks were specially designed with tlonnl Lamp Worlts in which the1.e are n few a series of shallow opemngs above alltl departments such as those of law, pubhcity, shelves below. The upper spaccs wcre nitrcle finance, chemistry and engineering wherc to. hold three issues of tlie thicker maga- periodicals arc suhsrribecl for and kept in zines and the depth of succcssive spaces was the departments. A coinplete list of such increased so as to allow for short maga- periodicals, whethel. scienhfic or not, has zines at the bottom and long ones at the been prepared and serves the same purpose top. To prevent falling over a sl1rin.g clip as the larger list previously referred to. was designed and a ser:es of thcse chps One of the objects to be attained by the li- were fastened to thin flat boards fitting in- brary in the futu~eIS the placelllent of all to any one of tlie main spaces. By setting periodicals In the hands of a single llbra- these clips at the proper points and by put- rian who will sec that those especially used ting blocks under the boards it is possible by individual departments are lcept in thosc to adjust any row so that the magazine departments but are still part of the li- stands out enough to have its title reacl, and brary. The extent to which this can be done is supported along one or more edges so Octolsei., 1922 SPECIAL LIBEARIES 127 128 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1922

that it does not fall down. The shelving Laboratories effort has been concentrated space below is providcd to take care of a on maklng available those books most likely year's numbers of most if not all the jour- to be needed by the laboratory workers and nals in the racks. The whole rack 1s the results have been satisfactory in sp.te

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NATIONAL LAMP WORKS LIBRARY "CLOSE-UP" OF PERIODICAL SUPPORTS mounted cn large flat castcrs and can easily of the sinall number of volumes so that it be moved when full of magazines. is conlparatively rare that a request comes In building the library for Nsia Research to the librarian for a work not on the shelves. But of course it is hardly possible without an enormous expenditure of money tn have a library complete on any sub-'ect and sir the value of a library exchange policy between special libraries is evident. Here again a familiarity with thc catalogues of FRANCIS E. CADY, theze other libraries is a help.Cu1 asset on MANAGER RESEARCH the part of the litrarian. DEPARTMENT NATION- Doubtless much of what has been dis- AL LAMP WORKS.- cussed in this paper is familiar to the mem- bers of the organizat~onand if too much space has been talcen with subjects in this class I can only crave your indulgence due to my lack of more detailed lcnowleclge of your work. October, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Library and Industry A. E. WHITE, Director, Engineering Research, University of Michigan. The field of library service for our in- This work would htive entailetl an esamina- dustrial establishnlents has scarcely bcen tion of a number of tent boolrs, technical scratched. We haw in this great State encyclopedias and dictionaries and a con- of Michigan bul three plant libraries suffi- siderablc nunlber of technical pe13iorlictlls. ciently extensive in The manufacturer ac1v:sed thal lye would do scope to warrant the this work himself 21s hc had complete faclli- use of the term "11- tics for conducting tl~isphase of Chc work. b~ary." To ma!ly a I1 is very pi.olx+ble, ho~vever,that he had llbrary is merely n IIO more than me technical encyclopctlia or stcrehonse for the col- dicttonary and probably no more than one ection of hoolcs. From or two pci~uoclicals. It is also very clues- their viewpoint it is ticnab!e if hc had more than thc cur~ent not a bureau that can iwm of these ~eriodicnls. A manufacturer be of servw to the of this type can very pro5ably be considered present day comller- penny wise and pound foolish. clnl needs. It nppenls 4nolher manufactu~er has large quan- to these persons as be- titics of refuse wood. He sent out a re- ing a dim gloonly quest to ascPrtain the proper utl1;zation for cloister and not a thls wood. It was recommended tcr him that

thinn~ ., vibrant with lifc the first step wh:ch sh(~ultlbe taken should and cxprcssion. This zttute of mind is more be a study of the lilcratu~eto ascertain the prevalent Ihnn it should be. The responst- varlous methods emt~lo\reclin thc utilimtion bility fo~its having c3me about is twO-fold. cf waste woocl nnclLlha various degrees of Them haw bc5n thase cumuxtetl w:th our succcss with which these 1net1zt;ds met. This librarics who have not senscd ~ndustry's mm~ufacturcr'srepresentativc advised that viewpoint with sufficient q~~~clcnessto tnuke he was not ill a position to buy bra ns. The the library of real dcllnr and cents value only thing he could buy was cquipinent. Of to industry; or who have not senscd this cnurse, the natural in~plicationis that there viewpoint wilh sufficient quiclcness to arous? were quite sufficient brains in that parti- in industry the fintulicial support necessary cular company for th? proper carrying on for the buildmg up of a rlepartment or clc- cf the work of the company. Thnt imp1 ca- piniments which can serve industry. ticin is possihly q~~itecorrect, yet wl~ucar- Oppcsetl tv that unconscious lethargy on ried to its last analysis it is absurd to think the part of our libra~lans,is the lack of ap- that any company shcn~lcl dogmatically re- preciation on the part of some CIS our in- fu7e to galher the worlcl's experience as set dustrial workers to the possibilities of ser- fmth in our librarics. vice stored up w:thin the walls of our Yct, the 11us:ness Inan is not comuletely libraries. Wc have too many men who to blame for thc feeling that our lihrnrics claim to be scrvlnq industry in the capacity are little better than receiving vaults for of tngineers who have not taken the trouble the cntombinq of the useless, and ticad. or thc time to find out how to use teclinical Technical service in our libraries is rela- librarics. They prefer to incur thousancls tively new. This is a serv'ce whlch must of dollars of expense in tllc manuracturc of be sold. It is a service lor which trained a given p:ece of apparatus wlthout ascer- rersonnel is necessary. Thc tlcvelopillent tsining whcther our libraries give any in- of this pcrsonncl takes time and ev:n for dication that thls same thing has been cne who has lmcl a thorough library train- tried bel'ore or if the process for which the Ing thcrc nlust be develoncd. within this apnxrntus is tleslg.nec1 has been trkd befom percon the field covered by an intlu~tr~, The unwillingness on thc part of mnnu- which training far the adequate i)erf3rm- +cturers to use libraries because of then anca of the task at hand may take nlany qnorancc of the servicc which can be ren- months. dered, 01. bemuse of their unwillinp~ssto We have at the University of Michigan spcntl a small smm for a service which is a ivost excellent technical I~b~ary.We arc not bu It up of woocl, concret~or steel is hardly in a position at this library to give ap~~alling. the type of technical serv ce tlesirsd from Tmt fill1 one of our paper manufacturers industry because it has not been possible to yiehed to asccrtain the possibilities of a build up a personnel familiar with the var- glven process. He was informed that at a ious industrial angles in the State. It is relatively small expense, something like the ccnstant wish and purpose of oar 11- $100.00, he would be advised with regard brarian to pluce at the d'sposal of indmtry to what had been rlorie in this line as re- properlv trained 1:brary searchers and bib- vealed by the literature on the subject. liographers, yet because of lack of funds SPECIAL LIBRARIES and because of lack of financial support or boolis, periodicals and at noniinal cxts the applyciation of a financial character from preparation of translations and bibliogra- tllose firms who could best use this ser- phies. Michigan is no more baclcrvard than vice, it is nllpossible for h~mto surround other states. Th~ssame condition would himself the prsonnel he would like. have held true in any other state. The There are few that appreciate the dif- fundanwntal trouhle is a lad< of appreC a- ferent types of industries and the various tion of the possibilities of service which ranllfications In any industry In a state this information may render. occupying the inclustrial nnportance held Library service, like any other type UP by &Iichigan. There are few that realize service, IS onc wh'ch lnust be sold. It is the extent of our industries devot2d to the a service which to date has not been ad- production of automobiles, furniture, stoves, vertised and we have many business lnen salt, sugar, pharmaceutical preparations, who believe that without advertising there foundry and machine shop practice, ~00'1 can be no sales. It involves, howeyer, a pulp and paper and the hundreds of crther different type of advertising than IS re- industries. quired for the salc of an automobile. It It is alnlost out of the questloll to think it doubted if full-page advertisements in of maintaining at each of our main libra- the Saturday Evening Past or the Literary ries a trained personnel far each of thesc Digest would be worth the expense. industries, though there may be contained It is necessayq for us to bring before the within the walls of that library the data consuming public two direct thoughts, one desired. We realize the necessity, there- is that in this world of ours there is very fore, far every large inclustr~rto maintain little which is fundamentally new, although its own library staff, a staff familiar w:th by the number of patents issued froin our the general field covered by the industry, patent office we might believe otherwise. in order that thls industry may receive the For illustration, I was speaking in Pitts- attention and consideration its importance burgh sometime ago with reference to alloy justifies. Even the ram~lications in one steel. I stated that the use of alloy steel industiy are sufficiently great to tax the had its bcginning about 1888, but it did not ability of our best librarians. It is not nec- begin to conle Into pron~inenceuntil the essary for these industrial establishmcnts to automobile came into extensive use. 011 themselves maintain a Ilbrary, though they the conclusion of my talk I was shown a should maintairi one sufficiently exlensive book written about 1848 which recordecl ex- ta meet then current needs. It is necessary, periments that were conducted to ascertmn however, for them to have within their own the effects of special elements in steel. Al- employ, persons properly qualified in 11- though wc think of alloy steel as being a brary work so that they may intelligently ~naterid which has been cxtcnsively cle- use not only the facilities which are inaclr: veloped within the past 20 years, yet as available by the industrial establishment by a matter of fact, our grandfathers were whom they are emplogetl, but aka so that giving thls thing careful consideration pre- they may intelligently use the library facil- ceding the t:we when tho Forty-Niners ities In our city, stale and university li- were engaged in striking gold in California. braries. We must, therefore, sell the idca that the These industrial librar-es could be of very information that has been procured in the material assistance to our city, state and past and is recorded in our libraries is of university libraries by advising. them with very immediate value to industry when reference to the types of editions which intelligently and properly b~-crug'htto the they be1 eve would he of most profit and attention of those who will be in a posl- benefit to those the libraries serve. As a tion to use the infornlation contained. nlattcr of fact, the three nlaintaincd private Secondly, we lnust malie every edorl to industrial hbraries in this state are the utilize our I~b~arics.Until recently it has ones which use with the best cliscriminat:on, been almost impossible to procure from our and use to the greatest extent, our city and librar~esany technical books. Our libra- university libraries. These three libraries ries inust sell themselves to the industrial are In allnost daily contact with our city pul~licon the basis of the fact that they and unwrsltv libraries and 1 J~elievethe cury and contaln not only records of work executives in charge of these companies have clone years preceding, but that they carry found that the service their libraries Ten- and contain the vcry latest that is in prog- der and receive well repays the costs in- ress. volved. There has been a most dist.nct change It it interesting to note that practically in our libraries in the past twenty (20) no noticc was taken af the 2600 announce- years, a change which has resulted in a ments to the industries in the State of Michi- broadening of their service and an enlarg- Ran a little over a year ago advising. of the ing of their scope. Thc creation of chil- library facilities which the University of dren's reading rooms, thc eclucation of our Michigan has placed at the disposal of in- school children to the uses of our libraries, dustry. Th!s service includes the use of the holding of exhib'tions of paintings, tap- October, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES cstries, types of book bindings, types of an appreciation of the servycc at their printing, and other eshibitq of cultural type, comiuancl lunst be looked upoil as a grad.- the creation of technical service, the prepa- ual me. It is a service which cannot be ration of bibliographies for which there is brought to its fullness In a day, but it is frequent request, and the extension of our one wl~icliis clnily growing in appreciation library facilit'es to many aC our industrial and usci'ulneus and will in due time be establishments are all signs that the li- ~ltilizedto the exicnt now seen in vision by braries of today are keenly awake to the those who apprecialc the vastness of the issues confronting them. lcnowled~e storccl within the walls of our The process of bringing our industries to libraries.

Directory Libraries and Special Service

WARD GAVETT. List Servlce Department, R L. Polk & Co., Detrolt.

When R. L. Polk ancl Co. recently joined Directory publishers cannot see their way jvur Association ~vehad no idea that we clear to do thls, but they are glad to have would hc called upon tr, make a tall; before thcir Directory Libraries used as free in- this meeting, but with the thought that per- forlnation bureaus and information covered haps same of the rlcmantl for information by this general class of books is such that of one sort and another which comes to us, the public should only expect to find as a might have an interesting point or so for general thing in a special library. Of you, I am glad to be here today. coursc, most public libraries maintam a In his talk r~ileldayMr. Camphell coin- file of previous editions of their own city mcnted on how lacking we all are in selling directories. Reference to these older books our own library service. I plead guilty is frequent and thcy have an increasing for. my Arm, ancl yet we are doing so much value as they grow older. The first city more than ir: g~nerallyknown that sme of directory of any of the larger citics was a it may be worlh mentioning here-and if small book which classes as a rare volulue it's advertising for Polk, I trust you will today. blaine Mr. I-Iyde, hccaus~I told him I was In sornc citics where dircctoly oflks are neither an orator nor a librarian and, not permanently maintained it has been the thcrefore, could talk on but one subject-my golicy of the Polk or~anizationto supply a own business-even at the r~skof boring limited directory library for the use of local you. business men through the Board of Com- We maintain nearly 200 Diwctory Li- merce, and where there is a 'branch of tile braries in va~iouscities, so I shall try to public library mainlained in the office of tell you briefly something about the infor- thc Board of Coiiinierce this works out very ination other business inen seek through, us nicely. In such cases, of course, the local and some of the steps which we are tak~ng Boards of Commerce know all about repu- to place ourself in better position to supply table directory publishers and are glad to such information. encourage tl~eiu,anti also their Better Busi- Joining your Association is one step along ness Bureaus to discourage the fakes and this line. For inany years we have inain- frauds which have prcyed upon the public tained libraries of city directories ancl under the guise of directories for many county directories. state clirector~es a1l.d years. gazetteers, trade directories, etc., In van- This subject of fake directories is in it- ous large cities. These directory libraries self one upon which I could talk for some- are also free informatlon bureaus and we time, but I can make it shod by saying that receive calls which are nearly as varied as the Association of National Directory Pub- those which come to libraries and to news- lishers, which has ,headquarters in New papers. York, w~llbe glad to advlse any special li- Public Libraries rarely have sufficient brarian as to the merits of any City or funds with which to buy directories of other Trade publication they are considering pur- cities, yet they get many calls for such di- chasing, and in many cases in the past rectories and from time to time it has been their advice has saved business people thou- suggested to us that we donate such books sands of dollars. This applies to Foreign to Publ~clibraries. as well as domestic direotories. * Scr Spechl Libl:u lrs, Septeml,er, v 99 Of late we have experienced a large in- 152 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 192'2

creased demand for facts and fimres re- brought to the attention of people like lating to distribution and markets. It is yourselves who ,might have call for it, al- evident to us that the subjects of territorial though I am not sure that this has been analysis, sales quotas and marketing are done with "Automotive Statistics," copy of receiving a great deal more attention than which I have in my hand. I will see that heretofore. information bout :t is sent to each of you In connection with our mailing list busi- and might say in explanation that when ness, from time to tim~we have Issued the ,book was published we were not inter- catalogs containing stat~sticsshowing the ?stcd in that particular firm. number of concerns engaged in this or that Leading automobile manufacturers are line of trade and are consequently receiving now interested in stat~stics which show many calls for more speclfic and dctailctl them the number of new auton~obiles of information along this 11ne each make sold in each of the 3,000 odd For instance, a large manufacturer of counties in the U. S. each month. It :s varied line of food products containing poss~ble to analyze the registration data some 57 varieties comes to us from time to of many of the states and obtain such a time for figures showing the number of rccard; in other states it is not possible. grocers, delicatessens, restaurants, hotels, If you were a manufaciurer of a bi~pro- hospitals, public institutions with inmates duction car, for instance, it would bc very -in thls or that t~rr~tory.They don't interesting to you to know how many Stude- want the names, all they want are the fig- bakers, Dodges and Fords were being sold ures. each month In this or that coulity and from Through our city directorv twords and comparison of this with you own sales you other information we are able to tabulate could readily determine whether you were the information they want. getting your just and fair share of the busi- It tloe:, not requilc anr exp1:lnation l'roln ness. me as to why they want these figures. You Other llnes of tr:ltle besidc~autmobile all Itnow that. they nqe thr:-n to check ut~ are just as much interested in knowing in the amount of snlcs that this or that tcrri- detail the value of various quotas. tory should produce. On behalf of the National Association Large manufacturers of office equipment of Ofice Appliance Manufacturers, which came to us a while back for some census consists of such firvs as thc B~~rroughs, statistics, populations of various cities in Elliott Fisher, Addressograph, Interna- the country-it is not enough for that firm tional Time Recording Company, Reming- to have the government census once in ten ton Typewriter Conlpany and other similar years, but knowing that we publish the di- interests, we are now pwnnr~nqa business rectories for many of these cities and have enterprise count of the U. S. by counties. in our libraries all the latest city directories In order to get a point from which to of other cities, they know we can furnish start it was necessary that we take some them l!lore up to-date est~matcsthan the cen- GOO different classiiications of business sus glves. which these various manufacturers have Naturally being located hese in the cen- been treating in their records and cnnsoli- ter of the automobile activities we have had date them into a much smaller group which more or less to do with autonlobile mailing would have more general application. lists and statistics regarding the distribut- This has been done and within the nest ing of machines throughout the country. few months we will supply to a number of One of our subsidiary companies makes a these manuftrcture .s ~etailetl analyses of specialty of compiling mailing lists and business enterprises of every county in the statistics of this character. U. S. This information will, of course, also We sold a set of figures for $600 which be for sale to others who want it. Where- showed the total number of automobiles ever we say there are n certain nunlber of registered in each county in the U. S. Last concerns in certaln 1 nes of trade in a year we put this information in a book, given territory we will be prepared to back showing the 1920 population in each coun- up these figures with the names needed. ty, beside that the number of auton~obiles. This, of course, is supplying a definite This book sold for $10. Recently we re- back ground for certain of our mailing list duced the price to $7.50 because the infor- work which is fundamental and far reach- mation is older and consequently not so ing. The main fact that I want to place valuable. before YOU today is that one or two con- The demand for this book at $10 has not cerns alone do not want this information, been so great that we are sure we will get but that a number of then1 want it. it out again in that form, but it is an illus- At least a dozen or so are now seeking tration of how valuable information is regu- it to our present knowledge, and because larly Put in a book and sold at a very low of the fact that this information is being fikwre, and of course, when it gets in book produced co-operatively for a number of form we naturally presume it will be concerns we have been able ta place a very October, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARrES reasonable price on it. We believe that the ~rganizedto meet the ncctls of some par- National Association of Office Appliance ticular business are find ng I;henmlvcs Manufacturers working with us on this called upon to help others which are not so proposition is performing a real service for well organizeti. the business interests of the U. S. and It is evident that this demand for more Canada. Icnowledgc as to where to sell means an I have said enough, I believe, to indicate oppwrtun~ty for special l~brariansand to to you how the business of a long. estab- make their service of real value to busy Ilshed, conservative directory publishing business men, many of whom are so loaded house is being changed and broadened by w~thdetails that they lack time and per- the demand of modern business for more haps a3ility to plan and visualize the future facts. develognlent of their business. To conclude I might su~nmarizein this It is my bclief that the Special Librarian, way: even though engaged in technical resea~~ch (1). City Direclory Publishers are de- work which has to do with manufactur~ng sirous of working with your Association in precesses or wu1.1~ In othrr defin~tctllrec- malting the facts and ligurcs which tire con- tions, will do well to pay clcac attention to tained in cily directories more available everything he or she sees and learns about in the bus~nc~sworltl. sales and marketing nectls, tcrritory annly- (2) The demand for facts and figures eis, quotas, etc , because woner 01% later which wlll assist in malting a more intelli- every one of you is gclin~to tind whcre such gent su~alysisof sales in various territories knowlcclge is wanted qulclcly ant1 in ctrnsicl- is growing r;~piclly and ~pecial librarics ernble detail.

The Training of the Special Librarian CLARIBEL R. BARNETT, Librarian, U. S. Department of Aerlculture.

Sonle munths ago in look in^ over an ar- this evening sliould cover, he suggested that ticle in a magazine, I came across the Mr. Brighum ancl I direct our reniarlcs to- phrase "inharmonio~~sdistribution of ex- ward answering the question "What has penditures," The author of the article ex- the person to whom the service is renderecl plained that it was a term that often would the right to expect, and 11om shall we train ,apply to bu:lding a house, conducting a to meet that need?" The reason why I business, the purchase of goods, or to pcr- took for the subject of 111y y~inarl<~the sonal expenditures. A house lhat is all phrase which I 1:ave given, was that it "front" at the expense of an honest founda- seemed to me to g.ve succinctly onc at least tion; the extravagance in one department of the important answers to Mr. Friedel's of a business at the expense and neglect question, for has not the pcrson whom the of the other departments, illustrate the special librarian serves peculiarly the right author's meaning. As another kind of il- to expect the harnlonious distribution of lustration hc cites the famihnr fact that expenditure of effort, time ancl money? In governesses in rich families are often be- general perhaps it is fa.r to sny that the neath cooks in the matter of pay. Per- public library is itself an institution while haps all of us can think of many other a special library is only a part of an in- illustrations. Probably some of you ]nay stitution. As a part of an ~nstitution,it be thinking of thc salarics of some library is most important that the special library junitors as colnparecl with those of libra- be in harmony with the institution and that r:ans. All of the examples which have been the librarian should be loyal to its intes- given illustrate the inharmonious distr~bu- ests. The only excuse for the special 1'- tion of expenditures of mo~ey. But there brary's existence is to help to realize the is also harmonious and inharmonious dis- aims of the institution. The librarian ought tr~butionof time and effort as well as of to know not only what he is doing but why money. The positive form of the phrase, he is doing it. And he ought to see his namely: "The ka~.mo?~ioz~sdfstrib?ltto?z of work in relation to all the other work of expenditures" may serve fairly well as a the institution or organization. This means peg on Which to hang the remarks I have that he should have a clear conception of to make on the training of the special li- the ideals and policies of the interests which brarian. he is serving and that he shmId identify In the letter which Mr. Friedel wrote himself TVith their purposes. This is es- outlining what he thought the d~scuss:ons sential before be can drive straight to the 134 SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1922 point. To go back to our phrase, has not partment of a library. Unless they are the head of the institution or business a written clown ancl unless some one malces right to expect that the librarian will ob- it: his businesb to see that they are wr'tten tain rcsults with an harillonlous distr.bu- down, unless the judgment which tlie li- tion of effort, time and money, that he will brarian and the asslstnnts ~etIron1 their not spend an undue proportion of his time experience is formulated into clcfinite poli- for the benefit of one department of the cies and n~cthods of proceclure and pre- business at the expense of other depart- served in, useable form, every librarian ments, that he will not spend an undue pro- who leaves an institution, business or or- portion of his resources on equipment at ganization wallts out with a lot of espzr- the expcnse of service. In short has he ience that belongs to that institution or not a r:ght to expect that the librarian will bus~nessas IIIUC~I as to hiinself. I once be fair to all the needs of the institution road in sonle niagazinc article that the malt- ancl see and do things in proper proport~otl. ing of steel would be advanccd iunny years Along technical lines the libra~ianII?US~ if the experience of the men who actually have a general knowledge of thc various tend the furnaces and 111altc the steel could branches of library technique. Th s is be tabulated and fonnulatecl. The article taken as a matter of course. But in addi- went on to say that "what these men lcnow tion, the librarian should have a general of steel inalcing they have learner1 throuqh knowlegge of, the business which his li- a slow process covering a lifetime. Un- brary IS servmg, a lcnodedge of the jn- educated, they arc often unable to impart dexes and sources of inforn~ationpertmn- what they know to their understudies or ing to the business, and a knowledee of the to men who will succeed them in their im- non~enclature and vocabulary of the busi- portant work. When they pass from th's ness. For example in our llhrary the as- worlc, much of what they have acquired goes sistant at ihc loun desk is apparently ex- with thcm. Not only the intlividunl busi- pected to know that T-I. 13. Q K. stnntls for ness but scciety is the loscr." I-Iurnboldt, Bonplantl ant1 ICunth, Genertl For thcse uneducal~cl workers therc is plsntarum, and that P. 2. S. stands for the an excusc, but for librarians there is none. Proceedings of the Zoolog~cal Society of We all are able to use thc English language London, as the requests for these publicn- ancl to sct down what we Itnow. Is it not, tions niid for many othcrs frequently come therefore, our duty to try to preserve in In from the scient~st~:n this ubbrcviated the inst'tutior?~which we serve, the i*es~ilts form. Tlic snecinl librarian who masters of our experience and also to contribute the abbreviat~oiis in comlnon use m the our findings, in the measure of our ab~litv. business which he is attempting to serve to the liLeratui3e of our erofession in order will certainly be able to arrive at results that these findings 111ay have a widcr circle with o gwnter economy of tinic ancl ebort. of uscfulness by helping our professional Hc also needs to a marltetl dcgree the cri- colleagues to solve sin17lar problems. t~calfacully anrl the ability to separate the I conie now to Mr. F;.iedc.l's second ques- e~smtialand the important froin the illass tion. How is the special librarian to get of non-csscntial and unimportant mater~al. the traini~ig.for his particular job. Others The busy executive ancl the investigator do on the program are to rliscuss the training not want to bc burclcncd m'th lnaterial not for special library worlc, wh;ch is already pertinent lo the n~atterwhich they are in- given in library schools or wliicli should vesti~atinq. The special librarian who sins he given. The education which the special 111 this respect ~"slishis reputation for efi- librarian neecls must, however, be supple- c'ency. If in acldition to the cntical f acultv, mented in other ways. One of the ?nost im- tile specla1 librarian has the ability to tli- portant ways is of course by reading. By gest the infoimation mh:ch hc has collected, reading it is possible to got at least the his scrvices will bc still more valued. historical background of the snbjects ?vith Talcing it for granted now that the special which the library deals and to obtaln a librarian has the proper cquipmcnt for his general knowledge of the subject inatter. work, and that he is carrying it on with Another important means of ,adding to his harnionious distrib~ltionof time, effort and trainmp is through intercourse with those money, there is still something more which en~agedin the business which he serves. ~t secms to me the institutipn or business In the case of alinost every business there of which he is part, has a right to expect. are organizations which hold meetings on Every special librarian in carrying on his their special subjects. If tlie special li- work is obtaining very valuable experience. brarian identifies himself with these or- Is it not his duty to capitalize this exper- ganizations, he is lilcely to get 111uch help- ience by malting it available to others? The ful information and his interest in his experience which he gains in h:s work be- work will also be stimulated through his longs to the institution wr business which acquaintance with the personnel of the bnsi- he is serving as well as to himself. The ness, not only of his own particular unit, way to capitalize his experience to make ~t but also of the other units of which his available to others is to write it down. business is a part. He can also get much There are kinks and wrinkles in every de- help through conversation with the members SPECIAL -LIBRARIES of his institution or business if he is always learn from them as well as it is to learn on the lookout for informatiotl and is ready from successes. If he maintains always a to learn from everyone. In add~tionto the receptive att~tucleof nllnd, is hospitable to educational effect on the librarian, this In- suggestions, new methods and new ideas, terest in the work of the members of the makes an honest effort to increase his effi- and relationships will socmer or later enable ciency in every possible way, keeping in him to be of jireater service. mind always the 11armon.o~~~list~ibution of He will probably make mistalccs in his effort, time and money, it seems reasonably work and some of his undertakings may be sure that he will be successful in giving the almost failures. He should study these service which the person to whom it 1s mistakes and failures for it is poss~bleto rendered has a right to expect.

Certification At the Det~oitCon.fe~ence the S. L. A. .rentation to fhs S. L. A., but did ?rot c~rvive took uct~uii,tentutivelu, on the qziestion of in tiwe lo be wucl. It is uolo p~tblishcd fo~ Certificutioiz fo~special libvavies (see p 108, the i~~fol.ti~~tionof ine~nbew Certification Septewbe~,Special Libraries.) The biblio- is a s,iibject of the ,utmost itnq~oo,ta~zcto g~uphy,which it zuas ol.dewd shcdcl be specicil lihra~muffectiwg tlze~rl pwbubl~ prixted ill Speczul Libwwies, is. Dez'ny pe- nioive vitnllu thm it docs /he gcncrcil 1zbr-n~~ pal-ed. iuodie?.. It clese)*,vcs,tkcrefovc, the seviolcs The follozui?~gletie~ was wl-ittcn for pre- ~.aflectzo)~of all specicd libwricim. June 26, 1922. I know that it is ass~uln~eclin scme quarters Mr. Richarcl H. Johnston. that the S. L. A. is favorable to cerlifica- Special Llbrar~esAssn. Convent'on, tion and that it will cnclorse whatever pro- Hotcl Statler, Kram is _nlaeecl before it on th's subject. Detroit, Mich. Both to ascertain whether this assumption is correct, and because I feel that the mat- Dear Mr. Johnston: ter is of such importance as to warrant I find at the last n~on~entthat lt will be an expression cjf opinion from every special impossible for me to be present at any of librarian, I believe that the matter should the sessions of the Special Libraries As- be placed frankly before the Association for sociation, ancl I am, therefore, writing to ~t to decide the policy that its Execntivc esk if you will not be good enough to pre- Committee ancl officers shall in future pnr- sent to the convention, in my behalf, illy sue. good wishes for a snccessful ineeting. I As indicated, I have been opposcd to cer- beheve that Mr. Hyde has during his two tification from the outset. The mope I have yeears of service at the head ol' the Associa- talked with those who are favorable to tlcjn done a great deal to further its inter- certification and the more I have sludicd the ests, to extend its scope and usefulness, and matter, the more clcfimte has my feeling that he deserves the thnnks of the entire bccome that library certificat~onfor special inembership. libraries would be one of the worst courses There is one matter of sonic importance upon which we might embark. which I had hoped to bring up in person The whole special libraries ~iiovewentis at the meeting, because it touches us all yct in its infancy. Methods and standards ancl on which I believe an expression from are still being developed. We are just be- the Association should be sought at the ginning to view the n~ovementobjectively. time of the annual meeting. I am writing We are beginning only now to inquire in a to you because I know that Ihe inatter is scientific and dispassionate way what the also of some interest to you, with a request personality, training and objective of the that you lay it before thc meeting. special librarian should be. We have as At the convention in New York two years yet not worked out any method or courses ago, the question of library certification of training for special librarianship. I do first came up. You will remember that at not see how we can approve library cer- that meet~ngI spoke against certification tification until we have given more study to Others present, including yourself and Dr. the whole subject of special librarianship Williamson and Mr. Marion and MISS Cara- and have put that on a basis of more corn- bin, then our President, expressed their mon agreement about the work than now views, but the Association itself took no prevails. To do otherwise wonld, in my action. I am not aware that any actipn opinion, prove a great setback to the whole favorable to certification of special libraries movement and I would therefore urge the has been taken at any of the conventions convention at this time to set up a com- subsequently, nor that the matter has been mittee to study the subject from a11 angles, officially referred to the membership. Yet to consult with special librarians in and SPECIAL L IBRARIES October, 1922 outside of our ranks and to report its recom- policy only with the sole good of the special mendations Lo the next annual meeting, libraries moven~entat heart. For this rea- but that for the present it be understood son a broatl-gauged committee should be se- that t!e Assoc~ationdoes not endorse cer- lected to report to the conference at a fu- tificatlon. ture time and in SLIC~a way that the report I do not see how we can agree to ccrtify and views of librarians shall be definitely unless we know what we are going to certify and clearly available for everyone's under- for. I have found 11 a rule that those who standing. know the least about special library work May I request you to place this letter be- have the most decnite opinions about it. fore the Association? Whlle I am person- Few as are my opmlons about business li- ally opposed to certificnt'on I w~ulcl be braries, which I believe I know mtinwttely, loath to aslc the Association to go .on record I would be ~nclincclto be cautious in es- in ogpos~t~onwithout a full study of the pressing oplnions about otl~c~classes of subject and a canvass of the membership. spec~allibrary work. Every point of view shculrl be heard on certification for special Sincerely yours, Ilbrarians and ii7c should detenuine our

NEW SCIENCE ABSTRACTS BANK LIBRARIES AND REVIEWS ilzlst~diulzSciewe A8sirncfs is the title On page 137 01 this issue there is printeir of a qualterly publicat'on to be issued by thc a picture 31" the bank l~brar~answho were Au~t~al'anNational Resmrch Council, The guests at a luncheon given in their honor Scimtific A~istvctlicl~lof July 15 (p. 70) an- by the Flrsl National Bank of Dctro i: on nounces. Xr. A. B. wall ion^, of Linnean Hall, the occasion of the S. L. 4. Convention Elizabeth Bay, Syclncy, N. S. W., has been there, the weclc of June 26, 1922. The dcan appointed cclitrjr, and will supply further of American tank librar~ans,Alice L. Rose, inf ormat~on. Librarian of the Wa- tional Citv Financial REVIEW OF CHEMICAL LITERATURE. 71 itIa1,ion SparlcsJ Chemical Literature and Llbrary, is not among its Use, ed. 1921, receives a favoi-able no- those librarians shown tice in Chenlische Wacliblad, Aug. 12, 1922, in the group. Miss p. 334. AIiss Sgnrlrs is Librzry Assistant Rose was present dur- ing the luncheon, but in Chemistry, University of Illinois. was unavoidably de- REVIEW OF ASTRONOMICAL LITERATURE. tained from joining M. Aug. Collarcl, Librarian of the Royal the group for the pic- Observatory of B~~ILII-II,is the author @I ture. fiIiss Rose has, "L'Astronmtic ct les Ast~onumes,"Brussels, however, kindly con- 1021. 119 pp. The volume is a revizm , scnted to supply a of the literature of astronomy since 1880, <, photograph so that and continues the Blbliographi~Generale de ALICE L. ROSE the pictured news of I'Astronomie of J. Ch. Houzau and A. the 1922 convenl'on of Lancaster bank librarians is now completc.. In the REVIEW OF PALEONTOLOGICAL LITERATURE group, and including Miss Rose, fourteen Joleaucl (M. L.) Revue de paleontologic d~fferentbanks are represented. All told animale. (Rev. Geneml des Sciences. June we havc a record of twenty-four bank li- 15, 1922: '336-345.) braries in operat~onin this country at this In ;t q~rri~liil.nltlrl~' 11: LI .Toleaucl p~1111i~lle~~time. Irl Lhis lournal for July .,Om 1!1?0, hr reviewed tlie pul,llcations or1 Lhlh subject hich hat1 a~p- The staffs of these libraries are engaged 1~c:irt.d In tlie venrs 1917, 191s nml 1:11!1. 111 the upon some .of the no st highly specialized present a~ticleLhc .~llthol' rci'li-n's those IJLI~I- l~sl~etlIn 1020 and l!IZ l1 Joletincl is 3I:iltre work being done in special libraries. Very Ae C'onferences cle Palvontolog~c;~t the. Sor- little of il is other than technical reference honne and research worlc. Altnost none of it is REVIEW OF NUTRITIONAL CHEMISTRY LITERATURE. welfare worlc. The third installment of literature (large- As soon as this group begins to function ly continental) on nutrit:onal chemistry, cooperatively we may look for some con- 1919-1921, is found in Chen~ilce~Zcitu~tg, structive bibliographic work from it, in the Aug. 22, 1922, p. 750-751. way of extension classificat:ons, etc. tl!.

/ October, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Special Libraries ADELAIDE R. HASSE, Editor Office of Asst. Secy. of War. Washington, D. C. Associate Editors CLARIBELR. BARNETT ABBIEG. GLOVER ALTAB. CLAFLIN JOSEPHF. KWAPIL REBECCAB. RANKIN HERBERT0. BRICHAM

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EDITORIAL THE CHIEF OF THESE IS MORE INFORMATION It is a common occurrence now to read in trade and technical journals espressions equivalent to the caption. Sometimes tile S. 0. S. for informa- tion concerns some specific commodity, sometimes it embraoes all industry. An editorial in Clze.l?zical and Metallzwgical Er~gi~zeeringof August 16, confesses to a craving for facts. Facts the scientist must have. They are the anchor from which his imagination soars to realms uncharted. The MamAester Gainvclian Com?nercial has been running a very good series entitled "Practical Economics" the conclusion of which was printed in the July 6th issue. It is the source of our caption. "Fortunately, for the future, there is an increasing recognition of the nature of our needs. The chief of these is more information. We want information that will guide us in choosing the most promising avenues of development and will provide us with means of gauging the extent to which our efforts reveal pi-ospects of future success. Information is also required which enable the general public to form an opinion as to the fairness of the dis- tribution between wages and dividends, and thus form a basis for true in- dustrial harmony. To obtain this information is the work of all who are connected with industry. Those collcerned with financial control have naturally the main responsibility for obtaining the necessary statistics to judge of the position as a whole. Those concerned with political control must insist on the com- pulsory publication of any information required for statistical purposes or for giving the representatives of labour such facts as the absolute depend- ence of the lives of the people on industry entitles them to demand * *."

Members are urged to read The President's Page carefully. Here each month, President Ranliin will speak to members directly. Each month the S. L. A. will, in eZect, meet with you. There will be no with- drawal and an annual get-together, but there will be a continual get- together with an annual culmination. This is the idea. Help it along. It is your Association. October, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

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It is my idea that in this space, which one upon which we can expend our energies has been accorded me in SPECIAL LI- to a good cnd. The accsmplishment of BRARIES, I may bring before all the mem- such a pro~ranl,partidl of course, should bers of our Association certain suggestions seen at our next annual convention in for definite plans upon wh~ch wc may 1923; in 1924 nlore 1.esu1ts coultl be clenlon- launch our plans partly executcd which we strated and so on yeal. by year. may continue to advance this year. If we In ordcr to accomplish much, we need a have a constructive progranl ahead 01 LIS, complete unity in our organization; we want and a definite goal to reach we ma^. hs able strength in the central body. Our sssoc~a- to tell where we are going and how far we tions as they esist now are not closcly have progressed each year, and In the com- enough knit. in their activities. The New ing year continue fro111 that accomplish- Yorlc Spccial Librmies Association, the ment, however httle it may be. B3ston, the Specla1 Libraries Councll of At the Convention in Detroit I was forci- Philadelphia ancl the others are all inter- bly impressccl by a sense of vitality and en- ested in the same problems, despite the fact thusiasm among our members. Each meet- that each has developed indivitlually and ing showed that the persons therc wcre indepcnclently of others, and yet tlirrc IS allve antl interested, and eager to sho~ not a unity of action among them. TITe are their willingness to attack the every-day all special librarians and really a part of prcblems of their lil~rarles. They were thc Special Lihrarics Association and yet v~tallp~ntcrested in what others of us wise in actuality are not the Special Libraries do~ng,and of presenting thelr own methods Association. Can we not devise a scheme or thcir questionings. There was cvldent vhcreby the national association leads the a desire to lurther our oppo~tuniticsfor way, ,and coordinates the activities of all sewice, and on no side did one esperlence the local associations? The mechanism any reticence or declining of respons~bility, should not be stiff or inelastic; thcre slust ur an o~~porturi~tyfor incrcaslng the amount be allowance for much play in the machin- of ~t.An avid~ly for inore opportunity ery, reason.able freedom in the local really permeated the atmosphere. Th~s b~mlchesor associations. but ~t should be ahveness, this splentlicl vitality ancl alert- guided by the national. Work we attempt ness is one of the happy characteristics of must be broad enough in interest so that the special librarian which maltes it pos- all the membership responds; purely local blble for our Association to go ahead with great strdcs. conditions or p+cldems ]nay be mct in an individual way by a local association. But Due to the great diversity of kinds of even such a local problem, studied and slwclal libvaries and the many varied inter- solved, may give suggestions of nlethocls ests to bc found in special I~bzaries,I was and results applicable, with revision per- prepared to find widely clivergent opinions haps, in another local association. We do among the nlembers. I was agreeably sur- pnsed to tind a dcc~cletl unity of purpose pot want waste and lost motion; our ltlcal among special librarians. In niy discus- ln spec4 libraries is this and yet in the or- hions antl conversations with many of you, qanization of our Association I doubt if we I1wm those gen~rallyconsidered to be the have properly applied it. mc:st radical among us to thosc of morc Instead of appointing comimttees for consclvative ideas, thc same ideals were Special Lihrailcs Assaciatlon of thc inclivld- ~~ndoublcrllythe basis for all. First, it is uals in its mcnlbershi~who n~aybe in- do the j:~b, acconlplish the object started terested in the subject, may we not select for; second, do it q~licld!j,better and more the chairman of that same cm~niiltee of eawly; antl thirdly, by unity of purpose the local associations, Boston, Wnshinglon, and action we can snvc oursclvcs a great Chicago, etc., to form thc national commit- dcal. FIcrc the Special Lil~rtw~esAssocia- tee? The local eseculrvc board is able Lo tlon bck~nsto function; when each appre- know personally and thorou~hly those of c4ates h:)w illuch coope~at~onand exchangc its ~nembersbest prepared and fitted to act of iclcas means then OL~. Association is on a conmiltee. T~JPExerlitlvc Boill~lof gaining. the National Association cannot know all We haw the energy ancl enlhusiasm COY its n~embers. By appointment by the hTa- OLIY joh; we are always seeing opportunity tional the association is very apt to fall in- to the hands of a fcw persons who are best everywhere; we have a unity of purpose known but not necessarily best able to do ant1 an itlcal for selvlce. What me need the work. Then, fol' exanll)le. the nub- is a pl'oRYan1 well thou~htout and planned, licity committee or the employment com- SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1922

mittee, consists of the persons of the local present, our results are at best only in associations who are conducting that work piece meal. for their locality; all the work of the na- As far as membership in the S. L. A. is tional should be the sum total of what all concerned I should like to make the re- the special libraries associations are doing. lationship closer. When vou say you are It should not be something added to or n member of the S. L. A. I should like it to superimposed on what the locals are already mean S. L. A., not N. Y. S. L. A. or Boston doing; in that way we work at cross pur- S. L. A. only, but S. L. A. which applies to poses. Through cc~mmitteesformed in this any locality wherever you chance to be. way we c~ixldhe alnvivs in close touch with We can strengten ourselves in this way. what we all all were doing. Outside our ranks there is much confusion Practically the initiative is taken by the between the locals and S. L. A. Need there local associations; the interest begins there, bm? You mav belonq to S. L. A. no matter the problem arises and it is stadied. The where yvr library is and you may partici- national will really take its cue fr~mthe pate in its meetings at its Annual Conven- lion and at any of its local meetings where- activities of thn locals, ccordinate all of cvcr you are or wherever you go. Member- them and guide or supervise them; it will ship in S. L, A. should involve membership have a survey of the entire field and should ~n all its branches. This can Be accom- be able to steer a clear course which will plished by one membership due. In just arrive at a definite accnnlplishment for the what way may it be designed to do this? entire' association and the good of all. At Your suggestions will be appreciated. r- Association Activities 1

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION. 4 found positions through thc S. L. A. Constitution 4 found positions otherwise. Thcre was but onc opening for an execn- The revision of the Constitution is under tive position, one for a semi-executive po- wag. Members are urged to submit spg- gestions to the President. It is most ?m- sition, the others were for cataloguers. The portant, for, upon the provis~msof this greatest problem the Committee has had instrument, will depend, to a large extent, was not lack of openings but lack of proper qualifications and the low salaries offered, the progress of the S. L. A. in the imme- the average being from $1600 to $1800. The diate future, Members are urpcd to read greatest demand was for college and li- The President's Page. The possibilit es for brary school training combined rather than greater coherence with concnrrent expan- special training. Experience did not seem sion are outlincd there. Only a wsely to make up for these. It seemed as though drawn constitution will enable thc S. L. A. too much emphasis is being laid on tra'n- to operate according to these plans. ing and not eno~~ghon experience. Employment Committee. The two announcements published in Due to a most unfortunate circumstance SPECIAL LIBRARIESbrought immediate and the report of the Employnlcnt Committee, very good results. which was to have been read at the Detro:t The Chairman also thanks the various Conference, was delayed from presentation members who have cooperated with her dur- to ~nemberswith the reports of other stand- ing the year. She urges that anyone thinlc- ing committees. The report is now avail- !ng of making a change wr~teto her as it able and follows herewith. IS very convenient to keep the applicatians on file. The information is kept carefully To the S. A. L. in Convention Assembled: and confidentially. Your En~ployment Committee reports The work of the Employment Committee as follows for the year ended June, 1922: should be and could be greatly enlarged but Number of openings registered 14. Num- under present conditions this would be ber of openings filled 4. very difficult. It would require a great Of those not filled, 2 offered such low deal of correspondence and clerical labor. salaries that no one would apply for the which the present Chairman has been unable positions, 6 never replied after names had to do. There is a great deal to be done and been sent to them, 1 was so far away no could be done if a paid secretary could be one would go there, and in the other 6 cases employed, we could not find the persons with the Respectfully submitted, proper qualificat~onsat the salaries offered. ESTELLE L. LIEBMANN, 37 pcrsons registered. Chai~-ma7~. SPECIAL L-IBRARIES

Rochester Speclal Llbrarles Assoclatlon went to the Y. W. C. A. ncarby, where an For some time the special librarians of excellent dinner was served to the forty- Rochcstcr have felt the need of some or- seven Akron and Clevelancl people present. ganization which should act as a clearing After the d'nner, visits were made to the house for the information which they have Akron Law Library, the Un~versity Li- been gathering separately. Early in May, brary, the Library of the Goodyear Tire a group met in the Business Branch of the and Rubber Company, and the unique little Public Library and talked the matter over. branch of the Akron Public Library. At the It wns not at all difficult to persuade those last place, a brief account of the history present that such an organization would be snd ~ctivitiesof the Akron Club was glven of groat valuc to those who belonged to it. by Miss Josephine A. Cushman, its first The meeting adjourned until the last Fri- president, at the request of the Cleveland day in May when the group somewhat aug- visitors. MISS Alta ,B. Claflin reciprocited mented again met and the officers for 1922- with a short account of the Cleveland Club. 23 wcre elected and the Constitution read Thanks for the success of this joint meet- and approved. .ng were due in great measure to Miss The organization is very small but en- Fanny M. Slnbaugh. president of the Akron thusiastic. A typed bulletin is circulated Library Club, and to Miss Herndon, libra- each month during the Fall, Winter and rinn of the Alcron Public Library. Spring with two or three smaller numbers The organizations represented were as to appear during the Summer. The officers f dlows : are: Gladys E. Love. President, and Ethel Froill Cleveland,-The Globe Wernicke A. Shields, Secretary and Treasurer. Company, Western Reserve University Li- lirary. Federal Reserve Bank of Clevdand, Clcbdand Club of Speclal Llbrar~ans Cleveland Museu~n of Art. Cleveland Mu- Twenty-one members and friends of the seum of Natural History, Cleveland Press, Cleveland Club of Special Librarians ac- Cleveland CI:nic, Wh~teMotor Company, cepted the invitation of the Alcron Library Wm. Taylor, Son & Co., and the Carnn-lrie Club for n joint meeting in Akron, Tues- West Suncrior. and Hough Branches of the day, Septembdr 12. Cleveland Public Library. The trip from Cleveland was made in a From Akron -Thc Akron Public Librarv, chartered n~otor-busand the two-hour ride the Alcron Law Library. Alcron University was much enjoycd. The party arrived in J,ibrarv. the R. F. Gordrich Rubber Con- Alcron at 5.30 in the afternoon, and after pany, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com- a brief visit at the Akron Public Library, pany, and the Alcron School Libraries.

6 I/ Special Library Field Doings I

Raze1 Lning, a member of the Class of Guy E. Marion, for many years identified 1916 of Milwaukee-Downer College and of with special library work, has been ap- the Class of 1917 of the W!sconsin Library pointed Assistant Librarian of the Los An- School, has resgned her position as libra- @es Public Library beginning July first. rian of the Buhl, Minnesota, Public Library His work will be chiefly in the fields of to become a cataloguer under Miss Mary science, technology, sociology and pnblicity, B. Day, librarian of the National Safety where he is already rvell known. Mr. Marion Council, Chicago. founded one of the earliest industrial li- Ralph L. Power, late vice-president of braries in this country, that of The Aineri- Spec,al Libraries Association and author can Brass Co~npanyof Waterbury, Conn. 'of several books and many articles on special After studying 1bra:y nlethocls and prac- library work, writes at length in the New tice abroad during the summer of 1909 he Yo~kHelnld of September 2, on schools returned to Boston, where he became Li- of training for business. brarian of Arthur D. Little, Inc. During Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, formerly Vice this time he was secretlrv of thc Silecial President and chief statistician of the Pru- Libraries Association. Later his attention dential Life Insurance Company, has been mas directed to the organization of corpo- securcd by the Babson Institute, to give mtion and business libraries, among them his services to lead a small selccted group the libraries of the United Drug Com- of college graduates in business research. pany, The Pilerim Publicity .4ssocia- Under Dr. Hoffman's leadership the Babson lion of Boston ,and the Associated Adver- Institute is prepared to provide research tising Clubs of the Wm.1~1 of New York work for each of America's industries. City. The latter collection was gathered SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1922 for the St. Louis National Advertising Con- the way, is also editor of the Bimt Wisco?z- vention in 1017 as "The Model Business sin Tdle)-, house organ of the First 11%- Library," was also exhibilecl at the Louis- cmsin National Bank. v~llcnlectin~ of the Amerlcan Library As- The Centurion. In the September Cen- sociation and now forms the nucleus of the tztq/, refers to Mr. Charles E. Rush, Li- best advertising reference library in csis- brarian of the Ind~anapolisPublic Library, lence. More recently &IT. Marion, as dire- as "the man who perhaps most influences tor of the Record Section of the Commun~ty the readers of our town." We were also Motion Picture BuI'~;~I~.W~.CII distr~hutetl most pleased to note the Centurion's refer- all the filnls to the Allied armies during the ence to the fact that in th~slibrary the li- war, made the most complete cnrd catalog brarian holds weekly conferences with his. of motion pictures ever attempted, embrac- imrkers. ina over 300,000 entries. The Library of the U. S. Dcpartnlent of Saluuel EI. Ranclc, Librarian, Public Li- Agriculture has recently iswed two new brary, Grand Rapids Mich., delivered the numbers, namely. Nos. 2 and 4. 'n ils ~nimeo- dedication address 01 the Branch Library g~aphedseries bf ~iblio~rapl~icalContribu- Building at Deralur, Ill., on July 21, 1922. tlons. No. 2 is "A Checklist of publicatlotls RIr. Ranck's address, cntitled "The Pu5lic of the state agricultural experiment sta- Library as a Coinlnunity Vitalizer," is tions on the subject of plant pathology, printed in full in the July issue of Illixois 1876-1920." This list was prepared in the Lib~a~ies.Mr. Ranck's outlook is whole- Bureau of Plant Industry I'brary by Miss some and virile and he draws, in this acl- Eunice R. Oberly, Librarian, and Miss Jessie dress, for his illustrations very largely 31. Allen, Assistant Librarian, being corn- from special library experience. A thorough pletecl by the latter after Miss Oberly's reading of the address 1s reconmended to death. It colnprlses 179 pages and gives a all library workers. gcncral survey of the work in the various Laura A. Thompson, Librarian, U. S. stations ~11plant pathology as shoum in their Department of Labor, has a most timely publicat~ons. No. 4 is entitled i'Bibliograp~~y annotated bibliography on "Worlcers Edu- on the preservation of fruits and vegetables in transit and storage, with annotations." cation" in the June, 1922, number of the It consists of 78 pages and was prepared by Month2~ Labor Reuiezc, pp. 181-1 9i1. ~t Miss Kathar:ne G. Rice in the l~braryof is confined to references in the English lan- the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estlmatcs guage, is simply classified, so that it is, (now the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- ultogether, a thoroughly worlcable tool for noinics) the American special librarian. Reprints . Ruth Canavan, Librarian for Metcalf and trre available. Eddy, consulting engineers, Boston, Mass.. Prof. William Warner Bishop, Librarian leads off the September number of The of the University of Michigan, on May 26, Anzevlca~~Crty, with a technical article 1922, aclcli~essed the annual meeting of the "The Stand-Pipe that Solved Gloversv~lle's Michigan C11anLe1. fit S1g~i.l XI. The acl- Water Storage Problem." The rev'ewer dress is a noble defense of bibliography as has no knowledge of the subject discns?ed a hand n~aidenof reseal-ch. It is reprinted and is therefore prohibited from inalclng in full in Scleuce of Angust 25, 1922, pp. any observations upon the construct~onen- 205-216. d copy should be put into the gineering value of this article. It is, how- hands of every library school student. ever, such nn innovation to see librarians in public capably discussing the subject of Jessie Callan, during the past year with their activities as opposed to librayg the Library of the Interstate Cornmerce method, that we are more than pleased to Conmzission, has resigned to undertake the bow to Ruth Canavan's gallant success. reorganization of the information center of the Bcsselner and Lakc Erie R. R. in The Library of the late Bureau of Mar- Pittsburgh. n'llsr. Callan is a member of kets and Crop Estimates, now the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, of the U. S. De- S. L. A. and attended the Detroit conference. partment of Agriculture, has issued a rnime- Esther ,41111 Manion has gone to the Na- ographed "Selected List of Publications on tional Geographic Society as junmr assisl- the Marketing of Faml Proclucts;" 39 fo- ant nl the library. lios. It comprises the second supplement The Statistical Section of the U. S. Treas- to the bibliography compiled by Mary E. ury Department 1s reorganlzirlg its re- Griffith and issued in April, 1918. sources into a working research labotxtory. BRASS WORKS LIBRARY The Jlilzuclzikee Ss~rtiml Sio~dciy ITICL~CL- Under the heading "L~brary Changes" zi71u of August 20, has a spccial story on the Scovill Bdletil~,published monthly in "Financial Ad~~ertisingWomen" of M11- the interest of the employees by the Scovill waukee, prouzinent among whom is the Foremen's Assoclatipn of the Scovill Manu- chairman of the S. L. A. Publicity Commit- facturing Co., pubhshes the following in- tee, Margaret Reynolds. Miss Rcynolds, by teresting story by E. H. Davis. October, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Although the plant Library was officially looked ovcr by members who are interested, discontinued, as such, in August, 1021, when before passing finally into the d~scard. its files were turned over to the Statistics A constantly used part of the Library Division of the Factory Accounting De- is its extensive file of trade catalogues. partment, yet certain parts of its service The several thousand pamphlets of this were essential in character and have been ~ort,of every form and size and represent- so consistently maintamed that, to all prac- 1n.p an indescribable variety of products, tical intents and purposes, the Library may are filed under a system conveniently ar- be said to be a contmuing institution. As ranged for immeclinte reference. This sys- noted in an earIier issue of the Bulletin, tem involves classifying the catalogue by the Library service was at once restricted the name of the company issuing it. It is to a basis of inter-departmental service, be- occasionally perplexing to hit the right Ing confined to purposes of assisting depart- cataloguc when no company name is re- ments in the conduct of their professional called by the applicant, who wants simply work. This made it possible to effect a con- to know about a certain type or description siderable reduction in working staff alld in of manufactured product. In such cases, material expense. Late in May, 1922, a new the Library makes a preliminary reference transfer of the Library material was made, to some such comnlercial register as the being placed this timc under the charge of Thomas or Hendricks business directories, the Rescarch Office in the third floor of where an extensive list of manufacturers is Building 6. Here it is being conducted as given for practically every lcincl of manu- before, for general reference by all depart- factured article. In th~sway names are n~ents. All material in the Library which found for the more imparlant conqmnics is not directly pertinent to its inter-depart- making thc product in question, and the mental functlon has been transferred away, catalogues are then readily obtained from beinfi for thc most part distributed between the Library collection. The continued ar- the Foremen's Association and the Scovill rival at the Library of new catalogues pre- Girls' Club. This process of simplification scnts a constant and ~ntercstingproblcm of is still bcing continued. In May, 1922, there cataloging and filing, in order to keep these was a distribution of back numbers of un- catalogue sources up to date. bound technical magazines to various depart- ments, offices and associations which could LIFE INSURANCE LIBRARIES benefit from Lhem. Prudentla1 L. I. Co. The Waslhgto?! Star of June 25, an- Early in the spring a considerable supply nounces the f ollowlna: of garden pamphlets was distributed between The Prudential Life Insurance Compans the Girl's Club and the Foremen's Associa- has made an unconditional gift of the med- tion. These are valuable reference ~naterial, ical and scientific section of its large library representing the best information published to the United States surgeon general's li- by State and Government Agricultural Bu- brary. The gift has been approved by Sec- raus. They cover flower, vegetable and retary Weelts of the War Department, and fruit production, storing, canning, and cook- Maj. Gen. M. W. Ireland, surgeon general ing, and also poultry breeding, as well as of the Army. landscape gardening, etc. Recently, a con- This donation for the use of the public siderable file of College Catalogues and re- health service of the country inarlcs an im- ports was also sent to the Foremen's Club. portant step in the concentration of valu- The larger part of the current technical able statistical information for public use, magazines taken by the Llbrary have bcen it is declared. The Llbrary inclucles count- bound, so that the already extensive files less reprints, articles and clipp~ngson medi- of such volun~esmay be kept up to date. cal and related subjects collected by Dr. Only a single copy of any current maga- Frederick L. Hoffman, who has been the zine is now being received, and this has Prudential statistician for thirty years or necessarily limited in some measure the more. use which can be made of it. There IS It is said that the collection of books, maintained, nevertheless, a circulating sys- documents and data is esti~nateclto reprc- tem, whereby these magazines are +egu- sent about 90 per cent of the cntm public larly loaned for a limited period to offices health material for the civilized world, rep- having special interest in them. resenting between fifty and one hundred A considerable number and variety of mis- thousand volumes and publications, and as cellaneous period~calmatter is received by far as practicable, the series of official rc- the Library, either as sample copies or in ports is historically complete. connection with some general advertising The library is arranged on the subject- movement. Such magazines are not of per- index plan, readily accessible, and all pos- inanent value and are for the most part sible facilities mill bc extended by the sur- destlned only to the waste basket. In re- geon general's library to students and others cent months the procedure has been to for- in search of information usually out of ward these magazines to the read in^ room reach of the general public. of the Foremen's Club, so that they may be The books will be transfered gradually SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1922 to Washington for reinstallation on thc cd a substantial contribution was sent to main floor of the surgeon general's library, the Veteran's Mountain Camp. where a large section is being cleared for I the purpose, to be known in the futurc as BUSINESS LIBRARIES the sratistical division. A. M. Cheney, of the Publicity Depart- Metropolltan L. 1. Co. ment of the Cleveland Trust Co., writes in The Library of the Metropolitan Life In- the Clezielaxd Trust Montl~lyfor July, on a surance Company, both the general library subject which has Inany practical bearings I and that of the Law Division, cooperating for the business l~braryfacing the problem with the Publication Division, held an ex- of joint operation of library and files. tremely intcresting book sale June 23rd for the beneiit of the Veteran's Mountain Camp Eleanor Gilbert's article in The 0ff:ce 1 oi the Amcrican Legion at Big Tupper Ecol~omistfor July-August, on "The Five I Lake, New Yorlc. Foot Shelf in the Business Office-Making Practically every department in the Met- the Business Library Pay Dividends," starts ropolitan had done its share to help estab- out with a very telling point illustratmg the average busmess man s obliv~onto the iish thc camp by giving cake and candy use he can make of a busmess l~brary. It is salcs, mid the Llurcrry, IlJi to be outdone, determinctl to ;l:ive a botrl; sale, which would an exceedingly practical article written very ue in liceping with their activities ancl be evidently coy some one in the game. hfferent enough to attract the interest and Ethel Cleland, Librarian Business Branch pitronagc of the Metropolitan Home Office, af the Ind~anapolisPublic Library, has an which houses a small town-7,000 people- article in C~ussror August, 1922, "Getting during the working hours of the clay. Facts from the Public Library." We quote Six weeks before the affair, Miss Cox of the ed~tor'snote: "Getting the Facts" is the General Library and RIr. Northrup of often a necessary preliminary to successful the Law Library made plans for securing aclvertlsing and sales work. A recent co~ the coopcrallon of prominent publishers. tributor to Class suggested that public li Brcdcl-ick A. Stolccs Company, Doubleday braries have sources ol information which Page, Applcton Company, G. H. Doran Com- shoulcl be used to a greater extent for this sort of thing. Miss Cleland is an pany, Prentice Ball, Inc., G. Schirmer, Inc., enthusiast on the subject of service to 9busi- Bibliophile Society, F~~nli& Wagnalls, ness men by reference libraries, and offers Manual Arts Prcss, M. D. Berlitz, Bnlcer fk hints and suggestions in the following that Taylor, ancl Bicldle Press contributecl many will be worth upplying in your own town." nutogrnphetl boolts. hlr. X1.Lhur 13. Glbbs of Brant rPr Kirpatrxk, nuthurs' agents, collect- J. H. Friedel, Executive Assistant to the ed x large nmnbcr of autographed books Managing Director of the National Indus- which nssisted the sale materially. trial Conference Board, writes in September Booth Tarkington, Gertrude Atherton, .4dminist?-ution on "The Administration of Frances Bnrnett, John Dos Passos, Ring the Business Library." Mr. Friedel has Lardncr, 31arie Van Vorst, Edgar Lee seen public library service, he has organized Masters, Sir Harry Johnston, Owen Johns- specla1 libraries, and for two years was ton, Christopher Morlcy, Alfred Noyes, F. editor of SPECIAL LIBRARIES. In this Scott Fitzgerald, Samuel Merwln, Eden article Mr. Friedel's chief contribution is Phillpotts, Will~mnl Whiting, Eclwin Bjc~rk- his segregation of the various functions of man, Mary Johnston, Cosmo Hamilton, business libraries. It is n~ost desirable Sa~uucl Hopklns Adanls, Bruce Barton, that a similar segregation of all special Arthur SLrimcr, Sarah Tzasdale, John libraries be formulated with as little delay Farrar and Mark Sullivan were authors as possible, in order that precious time may ~.cprusentedby autographed cop~csof their not be consumed in repeated cliscussions. work Mr. Friedel's article furnishes the basis A~~toprapheclbooks wcre auctioned off for a classified segregation of the busincss by Mr. Joseph P. Day, the biggest real es- library. Readers are reminded that art, tate auctioneer in thc country, fa~uousfor chemical, engineering, law, music, utillty, his million-clollar-a-day sales. Mr. Day's agricultuml, newspaper, medical, insurance, witty palter, which kept the audicncc railroad and many others, are all special laughing, soon drew substantial contyibu- libraries. Each kind of a special library is Lions to the veteran's cause. The Life of capable of being segregated, exannned and George Washington autographed by Wood- descr~bedaccording to its individual char- row Wilson brought a sale price of $51. acteristics, just as Mr. Friedel has done for The Cruise of the Ihwa by Walter Trap- the business library. As soon as we shall E. have accomplished some part of this segre- rock drew the next highest price. gation, then we shall bc in a position to dis- Light fiction for summer reading and cuss profitably the constructive servicc side magazines were sold to the public at es- of our work. Therefore we are much in- tablished prices, and when the sale conclud- debted to Mr. Friedel for his article. October, 1922 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY. It mav not be wlthout ~ntcrestto print 111 E. H. McClelland, head of the Technology this connection an extract f1-0111 section four Depart~nent of the Carnegie Library of of the Mutrchcstcv G~tuvdic~t~Colntr~e~cinl Pittsburgh, contr~butes 8 lnost valuable "Reconstruction in Europe," July 0, 1922. nrtiele In Engineering Education, vol. 12, In this section Lunarharskl, Commissary Nov. 9, 1922, pp. 407-420, "Instructio~l of for Education in the Soviet Repubhc, has a Students in the Use of Technical Literature; cornprehensivc article on thc state of educa- nn unexploited phase of engineer in^ edu- tion in soviet Russla. He says: L'A vast cation." Needless to sag, Mr. McClella~ld network (when cons:dered nbsolutcly and is thoroughly equipped for his subject, but, not in relation to the size of Russit~) of inwe than that, he has Lhc unusual glft to kindergarten schools has been creatcd, har- write from the consumer's view point. Thib boring well over 200,000 children. In the field of post school ecluctition a campaign alsticle too, should Lc added to the library for the cxtcrmin:rtion of illiteracy has been school student's rcquirerl reading. undertalten, by cstablishinr schools for the RUSSIAN LIBRARIES adult population, libraries, part-time sclmols, ant1 by a widespread postcr propaganda * .k ,I, -4s many as 100,000 rearl~lig huts haw heen opened 111 the v~llaaesto enable the pensanl to read his papcr, pamphlets and fict~o~~.Libraries have been put in ortlcr and their number has been increased. Petruqwl led thc movement. Enormous stores of books have been created with the librnrles tnlren from landowners. Alto- pether thc position of the popular liiiraries in Russia has advanccd by leaps and bounds. Poster, pamphlet and theatrical propaganda has been sct on fuot to exploit the powerful influence of art on the human soul." RAILWAY ECONOMICS LIBRARY. So often has Srec1.4~IABRARIES ~enuflect- ;11so wvc 1n:Inv lives ed to the prodigious tntlustry and produc- "Al~ply~nfiltcrlf to 1iu1n:~nltvnf American li- t~t7Illa11t.thp I:u~.<~.iullalles Lllnt tll+y ~111!lot tion of tl~cLibrary of the Bureau of Rail- fall Lo follow the nol~le ~~s,~rnpI~~of .\mcl'lc:ln way Economics, that the most recent supcr- nation 11olcli11jxout to I:uhhla a 11~.1pn1#haiiiL anll production of this organization leaves us \\a? will ilnd a of ~~IILTIIIC tih?lr lt~~s~innCnl- at a loss for proper recognition. This as- tonishing niece of work is "A List of Refer- ences tu Literature relating to the Union Pacific System.'' August 15, 1922. 299 folios. The work of 623 different authors is listed, soinc of lllesc hy fivc or more con- tribut~oas,besides a large number of public documents. MEDICAL LIBRARIES Dr. Franlrlin R. nIartin, Director-General of the dmo~icanCulleg-e of Surgeons, 40 East Erie Stmet, Chicago, Illinois, In a re- cent Ictter, tells of an extensive library ser- vice which is beinq organized to serve the Pellotvs of the College as well as Ltic sur- gical profession acnerally. Dr. Ruth Guil- der will be in cl~a~-geof this new service whjch wll be uncles the Department of Literary Rescarcli ol' w111ch she 1s chicf. The library was cstablishctl as the rcsult of the action of the Board of Regents in June. - - ...... 1921, which provided for the assembling I,*brarians, library trustees and others of a lar~ereference library as ~vellas for willin,: to contribute money for this puypose the development of a special service by should senti drafts, mnney orclcrs or checks means of which the witlest ~~scfulnessmag to the A. T,. A. headquarters in Chicago. be obtained. A short description of the They shonlcl be ~naclepayable to Edward D. undertaking is publishctl in "Surgery, Gyne- Tweedell, treasurei, who will forward the cology and Obstet~ics,"Deccmber, 1921, and moncy to the American Rel~efAdn~inistra- further information is canla~netl in thc tlon. ..March, 1022, issue of the same pel-ioclical. SPECIAL LIBRARIES October, 1922

FOREPTRY LIBRARY. Fair with a poster, which, besides showing j The late Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock, "Father two photographic views of the Library and of Pennsylvania Forestry," before his death the name of the bank, had the following I expressed the wish that his books, photo- inscription : I graphs and slides be given to the State De- FURNrSHERS OF FACTS partment of Forestry. Accordingly the col- FOR I lection is being prepared for such disposi- BANKS AND BANKERS tion by Dr. Joseph S. Illick, chief of the research division in the Department, and I who worked under Dr. Rothrock. September 22, 1922. i Dr. Rothrock was a frequent contributor STATEMENT OF THE OWNEIRSH'IP, MAN- to the scientific press, and eighteen articles AGEMENT, CIRCULATION ETC., RE- QTJIRED BY THiZ ACT OF ~ONGRESSOF from his pen are listed in Hasse's Index to AUGUST 24. 1912. i the Documents of the State of Pennsylvaniff, Of SPECIAL LIBRARIES Published monthly, the earliest dated as long ago as 1869. except July a11d August, at' WashingLon, D. C., MUNICIPAL REFERENCE LIBRARIES. for October 1, 1922. Elizabeth Howard West, State Librarian, D~str~ctof Columbia, ss- Austin, Texas, writes on "Municipal Refer- Before me, a Notary Public, In and for the ence Service for the Small City," in The Dlstr~ct :~foresa.id, pcrsonally appeared Alfrsd American City for September. €3. Llntlsay, who, having been duly sworn acA cordlng Lo law, deposes and says that he is the It is a short article and general in its Business Manager of SPECIAL LIBRANES, statements, but suggestive of great op- md Lhat the following is, to the best of his portunities for a well-developed mun~cipal lcnowlcdge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid reference library. publlcat~on, for the date shown in the above LIBRARY PUBLICITY captlon, rewired by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodled in section 443 PosLnl Laws and Regu- Anna P. Mason, Librarian of the Ca~on- latlons, to wit: dolet Branch of the St. Louis Public Li- 1 That the names and addresses of the pub brary in "Showing off the Library" (St. lisher, editor, managing editor, and business Louis Public Library, 1922, 21 pp., illus.) managers are: Publisher, Special Llbrarles while referring to the St. Louis Public Li- Assoclztlon 429 Homer Bldg., Washington, D C : Edltor. idelude R. I3asse 1731 I3 St., N. W., brary, describes the working, in fact, of a Washington, D. C.; ~anadlngEditor, none; great collection of specid libraries. Trac- Business iuanager, Alfred B. Llndsay, 429 Homer ing briefly the early history of the library, Bldy.. ~ashlngton;D. C.

Mrs. Mason launches into extension chil- 2. That L.~P owners are: Soeclal----. Lihrarles. -~ -..~ Assoc~i~l~on,Rebeccu. B. ~ank6,Pres~dent, L1- dren's work, cxhibits of the library at brarlan Brnn~~ipalReference Library, New household shows, arts and crafts exposi- vork C~ty,N. Y.; Alfred B. Lindsay Secretary- tions, the American Mining Congress, "Own Treasurer, Assistant Llbrarlan. ~urAauof Rail- Your Own Home" Exposition, cooperation zay- Economics, 429 Holncr Bldg., Washington, with the churches, etc. It is all told simp- ly,'humanly. devoid of any trace of patron- 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and othcr sccui~ityholders owning or holding 1 king sometimes, unfortunateIy, found in per cent or more of total amount of bonds, works of this sort. The little pamphlet is mortgages, or othcr secur~tiesare: none. an attractive reprint of pp. 77-95 of the li- .1. That the two paragraphs next above. giv- brary's annual mpost for 1921-22. ing the names of the owners stockholders and secutlty holders, if any, con)tafn not on1; the Whether to fire a workman who has grown list of slockholders and security holders as stale on the job and who is too bigoted to thcy appear upon the books of the Company but adopt modernized methods, or whether to also, in cascs wherc the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of tlm company give him a chance to reorganize himself, as trustee or in any other Adudary relation, :., the substance of a story in the Satu~day the name of the Person or corporation for whom Evening Post of September 9. The au- such trustee is actlng is glven' also that the said two paragraphs cohtain stat&ents embrac- thor, William J. Neidig, makes of the hero Ing amant's full knowledge and behef as to the of "Hardener's Beat," one of those impos- circumstances and condltlons under which sible people, devotees of the creed "it has stoclcholdcrs and securities holclers who do not appear upon the books of the company as trus- always been done that way." They are tees, hold stock and securities in a capacity found everywhere, even in the library other than that of n bona ficle owner; and this world. unfortunately. This particular hero amant has no reason to bclieve that any other person, nssociation, or corporation has no reason is giver, the choice to find another job or to to believe that any other person, association, or lay of? on half pay 'and read up in the li- corporation has any interest drect or indirect brary on what improven~ents have bpen in the said stock, Fonds, or other securitias made in his line. which is steel hardening. than as so stated by him. He is specifically recommended to the ALFRED B. LINDSAY, 'Crerar Library." Business Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22d The Library of the First Wisconsin Na- day of September, 1822, at Washington, D. C. tional Bank was represented in the Edu- (Seal.) H. W. SHAW, cational Building at the Wisconsin State Notary Public In and for District of Columbia.