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Special Libraries VOLUME38 . Established 1910 ..NUMBER2

CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY 1947

U. S. Government Publications in Relation to Industry . IDAM. MEYER

The Preservation of Historical Records and the Need of Saving the Ephemera of Today ...... GERTRUDEL. ANNAN

The Problem of Research Reports ...... D. A. BROWN

What and Where are the Special Libraries ..... ETHEL M. FAIR

The Undiminishing Record ...... HARRY C. BAUER

A Home of its Own ...... DOROTHYG. BELL Events and Publications ......

Announcements ......

Indexed in Industrial Arts Index, Public Affairs Information Service, and Literary Literature

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE ALMA CLARVOEMITCHILL, Chairman and Editor

KATHLEEN BROWN STEBBINS Advertising Manager

The articles which appear in SPECIALLIBRARIES express the views of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the opinion or the policy of the editorial staff and publiher

SPBCIAL LIBRARIES published monthly September to April, with bi-monthly issues May to August, by The Special Libraries Association. Publication Ofece, Rea Building, 704 Second Ave.. Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Address all communications for publication to editorial ofeces at 31 East Tenth Street. New York 3, N. Y. Subscription price : $7.00 a year: foreign $7.50; single copies, 78 cents. Entered as second-olass matter at the Post Ofloe at PWsbwrlh, Pa., under the Act of Maroh 3. 1879, cvnd rt ths speolal rate of postage a8 provided for tn the dot of Pebruwy 48, 1915. 1 HARPER BOOKS FOR SPECIAL LIBRARIES February

THE FUTURE OF HOUSING by CHARLESABRAMS, Author of "Revolution in LandJ' A nationally known authority on housing here makes the most comprehensive study of the entire housing problem currently available. "I found this-for the layman-the most interesting analysis of all the factors involved, social, economic, political and humanitarian, of any book on the subject I have read."-Virginia Kirkus Bookshop Seroice. $5.00 a GE'ITING ALONG WITH UNIONS by RUSSELLL. GREENMAN,Personnel Director, General Cable Corpora- tion. Author of "The Worker, the Foreman and the Wagner Ace' and ELIZABETHB. GREENMAN With over five thousand collective agreements in operation, every executive directly or or indirectly responsible for assuring their successful operation will find this book a source of tested and detailed information on how to make agreements work to the best practical advantage. $2.50 I

I a TESTED ADVERTISING METHODS HOW TO PROFIT BY REMOVING GUESSWORK I By JOHNCAPLES, Vice President, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Znc. I How to write and utilize advertising which will bring immediate response in orders is the theme of this p~pular.~volumeby one of the most conspicuous pioneers in the field of I action-getting copy. Excellent discussion of appealing to the masses."-Printers' Ink. "The author is one of the country's most successful copy writers."-Forb? Magazine. 1947 Rev~sion $3.50 I a THE RELIGION OF A VAGABOND By THOMASDREIER, Author of "Sunny Meadows" and "The Mountain Road" This extraordinarily fresh and heartening book exposes the reader to an appealing per- sonality and a sensibly optimistic outlook. Here in anecdotal, chatty and incisive paragraphs a homespun philosopher well-known as a business editor offers his affirmative wisdom toward living an effective and meaningful life. $2.00 a PRACTICAL PUBLIC RELATIONS ITS FOUNDATIONS, DIVISIONS, TOOLS AND PRACTICES By REX F. HARLOW,Author of "Public Relations in War and Peace" and MARVINM. BLACK,Assistant Director of Public Relations, Foster and Kleiser Company An authoritative and comprehensive manual on all phases of the conduct of public rela- tions work, both at the level of collegiate study and for all practitioners anxious to obtain a systematic view of policies and activities in this entire field. $4.00

ALL THESE BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM YOUR BOOKSTORE AND FROM HARPER & BROTHERS 49 East 33rd St. New York 16, N. Y.

------Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements U. S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS IN RELATION TO INDUSTRY1 By IDA M. MEYER U. S. Department of Commerce, Regional Office, New York

HE U.S. Government has a vast tive data covering the major fields of warehouse, which is not being economic and industrial activity in the Tdrawn upon by industry in this Nation. Approximately 2400 series of country to anything like its potential business facts are presented each month, capacity, of valuable publications on as well as timely special articles. every conceivable subject. During the For more general information Domes- course of my many years with the New tic Commerce is the outlet for the en- York Office of the U.S. Department of tire Department and frequently for Commerce, I have learned a great deal other Government agencies. Those who about the needs of industry for infor- read this publication know that this mation-information which is so read- monthly bulletin carries timely articles ily available in our Department as well on market possibilities for products of as in many other Government depart- interest to distributors and prospective ments. All these data are to be had for consumers. In addition to these fea- either a nominal charge or on a basis of ture articles there are the regular de- free distribution. For that reason I partments which appear each month: want to tell you what we in the De- Business trends on a nation-wide scale; partment of Commerce offer in the way Commerce comments collected by our of helpful facilities. Our commodity is various field offices; Association High service -service to business in all its Lights, covering current topics of inter- classifications from guiding a returned est to Chambers of Commerce, trade as- veteran into proper channels of business sociations and other business groups; to servicing business in general and be- and the section on New Business Books ing of assistance to organizations of all and Reports, where will be found brief kinds from trade associations to educa- reviews on both Governmental and pri- tional institutions. vate publications. The Department's third periodical, DEPARTMENT'SPRESENT PROGRAM Foreign Commerce Weekly, is directed Much of the general information, an- to the foreign-trade-minded reading alyses and statistics of interest to busi- public. I feel perfectly safe in predict- ness is disseminated in the Depart- ing that this class of business public is ment's three periodicals, Survey of Cur- increasing in large numbers because we rent Business, Domestic Commerce and know from inquiries in our offices all Foreign Commerce Weekly. over the country and in Washington that businessmen who have been strict- In the Survey of Current Business ly domestic are now casting their one can keep up to date on authorita- glances on distant markets. It is also a splendid source of information and an 'Paper presented last year before the New invaluable aid to those interested in Jersey Chapter, S. L. A. and brought up to date for inclusion in this issue of SPECIALwhat our world neighbors have to sell LIBRARIES. to us and what we can sell to them, This 36 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February publication contains feature articles on ing, retail, wholesale, service, data on subjects ranging from commodity and housing and supplementary information industrial development to laws and reg- on estimated buying power. The Farm ulations of foreign countries, including Journal, published in Philadelphia, has trade mark applications and related an- gone still further into this study and nouncements and book reviews. compiled similar data on each county Another informative release the De- in every state and copies may be ob- partment issues is a quarterly Regional tained from the publisher for a nominal Report of current conditions. It is com- charge. piled by a Business Consultant stationed You will undoubtedly also be inter- in each of our regional offices through- ested in those publications which are out the country and covers actual field in the process of being printed and al- surveys made by them. These reports most ready for distribution. Mention of are distributed free and can be had for them will appear in either the Regional the asking. Commerce News Bulletin or in Domes- Among our basic stand-bys is the tic Commerce. To give an idea of what well-known Statistical Abstract, issued they will cover here is a brief summary annually. It is a valuable source for of a few of them: summarized information in statistical The Cost of Entering New Markets form, covering government and trade describes methods used in expanding studies of interest to business and edu- markets and suggests ways to figure out cation. It also includes a valuable the additional cost. I might add, this Bibliography of Sources listed accord- book is now available and may be se- ing to subject. I might add, the 1946 cured upon request. edition of this publication is now avail- Distribution Cost Analysis is a study able, so I urge you to purchase your copy without delay. reappraising and bringing up to date the techniques of cost analysis developed Another basic book which has been by the Department over the past 20 out for about three years is the Trade years. In it will be found separate sec- and Professional Associations of the tions on retailing, who 1e s a 1in g and United States. This is a directory of manufacturing as well as examples of approximately 3000 national and inter- results achieved by companies who have state associations. Then there is State made and applied such studies. and Local Trade Associations covering Selecting and Applying Retail Pol- individual states, giving the principal icies covers in detail various store pol- local organizations in each city of each icies (high price, price, multiple state. There is talk of revising these low publications, but in view of our limited lines, limited lines, etc.) It also explains personnel in the Department in Wash- how to establish the policy of a store ington responsible for compiling this and how to apply it to operation. type of work, we are not definitely sure How Long do Retail and Wholesale how soon this task will be started. Establishments Tend to Survive covers A very interesting series of pam- survival experience of retail population for the period 1929-1939. phlets was issued over a year ago based on information contained in all the Cen- A series of bulletins which were held suses of 1939 and 1940, entitled County confidential during the war years and Basic Data, covering the principal coun- which are now being released as Month- ties in each state. These pamphlets con- ly Industry Reports cover the subjects tain a collection of outstanding facts on of Pulp and Paper; Lumber and Wood population characteristics, manufactur- Products; Sugar; Molasses and Confec- 19471 U. S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS 3 7 tionery; Chemicals; Crude Drugs and News Letter which will give a resume Essential Oils; Drugs and Pharmaceut- of economic news from various sources. icals; Construction and Construction I understand that there is much in- Materials; Canned Fruits and Vegeta- terest among scientists and industrial- bles; Domestic Transportation; and ists in the reports on scientific and tech- others which may be forthcoming as the nical developments and processes, prod- need arises. These may be had without ucts, inventions and re1 ate d matters charge upon request from your nearest which were obtained from foreign Regional Office. sources as well as through research Effective Use of Wholesale Drug sponsored by our Government. There Warehouses is a comprehensive report is now being issued weekly a Bibliogra- describing and picturing various meth- phy of these reports, giving a resume of ods of laying out and operating drug the ones made available the previous warehouses. Comparisons are made and week by the Office of the Publication improvements suggested. Board in Washington. They are listed according to subject matter and carry Tobacco Distributor Warehouses - the serial number, price, length and title Management, Methods, Systems and of each report accompanied by a brief Layouts is similar to the drug ware- description of the report's contents. house study. These are available only from the Sup- Retail Operating Ratios is a compila- erintendent of Documents and requests tion of figures collected by trade asso- for information and prices should be ciations, magazines and universities and directed to that office. it also contains a discussion on how to make effective use of them. DEPARTMENT'SFUTURE PROGRAM The Pattern of Expenditures for Non- As we all know, the most compelling farm Residential Repair and Mainte- problem facing business today is that nance provides a sounder basis for esti- of reaching and maintaining a high mating dollar expenditures for residen- peace-time level of production, distri- tial repair and maintenances. It will be bution and employment. To make sound of especial value to all concerned with decisions business men need informa- providing goods and services for these tion about the market conditions of the purposes. goods which they buy and sell including Introduction of New Industrial Prod- needed production and distribution of ucts is a study on the method of bring- goods and services, the pattern of whole- ing out a new product for industrial sale and retail trade and the population purposes, similar to the study on Zntro- and its buying power. The Census Bu- duction of New Consumer Products. reau recognizing this vital need pro- poses to conduct a complete census of A new weekly, Business Service population, including housing and the Check List, lists and gives brief descrip- labor force, quinquennially instead of tions (where necessary) of all material decennially. Data will be collected an- issued by our Department in the pre- nually on a sample basis in order to vious week, i.e., press releases, speeches, show for cities of 100,000 and over and articles in magazines, special studies, for states the year to year shifts in etc. It is sold on a subscription basis of population, housing, employment, occu- $2 a year, except to Depository Li- pation and industry. braries, which receive it free of charge. Annual surveys of the distribution of Plans are also being developed re- consumer income are also planned to garding the issuance of a Small Business assist producers and marketers in ad- 3 8 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February justing their programs. The currently tact between the Department and re- available monthly reports on the na- presentative groups of industry. A new tional labor force will be supplemented marketing division will pursue all by the inauguration of a new program phases of market analysis and a num- for labor force figures which will make ber of studies are in the process of being available on a quarterly basis figures on printed with many more planned. employment and unemployment for each of fifty major local labor market The Office of Small Business will be areas and for the largest industrial operated on the premise that small busi- states. ness men need and must be provided with practical down-to-earth manage- The relaxation of war-time security ment aid. The aim is to issue these aids regulations have permitted the resump- in the most usable form, as brief as tion of publication of detailed export possible and yet clearly understandable. and import statistics to satisfy the needs Material scheduled to be produced will of those firms with interests in foreign cover the field of business operation trade. from merchandising helps to advice on The information resulting from the finance and credit. 1945 Census of Agriculture will soon be In addition to the Bureau of Foreign available to describe conditions in the and Domestic Commerce and the Cen- important producing and consuming sus Bureau, the National Bureau of areas. Standards under the new program, will In conclusion I should like to high- enlarge and expand its present func- light some of the prospective aims of tions. For example, new products and our Department as set before the Ap- materials will be tested for private in- propriation Committee "upon the Hill." dustry. In this work the Standards Bu- Our proposed program of reorganiza- reau will cooperate with small and me- tion and expansion is designed to meet dium sized manufacturers in industrial the growing postwar needs of all types research and specify standards for in- of business for easily understood, down- dustrial materials. It will act on re- to-earth informational aids. While the quest only and not impose any stand- fulfillment of the entire program must ards, tests or researches on business. depend on obtaining the necessary legis- Because this postwar period with its lation and funds, many of the plans are inevitable buyers' market will require now being put into operation within the more painstaking analysis of markets framework of existing legislation and than ever before, the research and sta- budgeting limitations. tistical forces of the Department of Officials of the Department of Com- Commerce are geared to increase their merce are particularly concerned with output. This will cover both domestic strengthening and enlarging our field and foreign material. And speaking of offices so that they can be of greater foreign data, the Department is cooper- service to businessmen and those in ating with the Department of State in charge of their libraries and research planning an expansion of international activities, as well as to associations of informational facilities. The new pro- all kinds. Insofar as business is con- gram will call for an increase of person- cerned, however, the proposed expan- nel that will permit speedier and more sion of services of the Department is detailed service in trade promotion and especially significant. On the industrial in the statistical and analytical fields side, for instance, the plan is to augment than was humanly possible during the published aids with closer personal con- war years. THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL RECORDS AND THE NEED OF SAVING THE EPHEMERA OF TODAY l By GERTRUDE L. ANNAN Rare Book Department, New York Academy of Medicine, New York

HE records I should like to em- documents. Copies of scientific books, phasize are not the old or the except in a few instances where an en- Tvaluable, but the seemingly insig- tire edition was lost or damaged, appear nificant material of today which might on the market today with regularity. easily be discarded and thus lost to the The popular medical works which many future. It is only because of that that consulted in the home to find the proper such material is worthy of discussion. treatment for ailments and injuries, Every librarian is faced with the prob- often fell by the way through constant lems of what to save and what to dis- handling. Today a volume originally card, and obviously what is least impor- published at low cost for the use of the tant to the library is not preserved. The poor may bring a much higher price danger lies in the fact that so many than a scientific work designed for the librarians reach the same decision re- physician, merely because fewer copies garding much of the material that they of the former exist. Fatalities in the all part with the same items. However, third group have been enormous, and what we might classify as junk which much that is of relatively little impor- merits only the wastebasket, the his- tance can command huge sums because torian of 100 years from now may of great rarity. For instance, the hand- pounce upon with glee. Historians are some first edition of Vesalius's work ex- not necessarily bibliophiles who are in- ists in a comparatively large number of terested only in handsomely printed copies, but of the Tabulae Sex, the six volumes in tooled bindings. The his- anatomical tables, only two copies are torical library which collects only such known to have been preserved, and of books is not a working library, for the course these are priceless. In our own historian needs all types of literature in country the first medical publication his search for hidden facts. A glance was the Thacher broadside, A Brief at the different types which have man- Rule to Guide the Common-people of aged to survive through the centuries New England How to Order Themselves shows that our predecessors too were and Theirs in the Small Pocks . . . pub- prone to discard ephemeral pieces which lished in Boston, 1677/8. Only one historians seek today. Perhaps we can copy of that is now known and the sec- learn a lesson from them. ond and third printings of that text are TYPES OF MATERIAL PRESERVED equally rare. The same situation exists If we roughly divide the older med- in regard to manuscripts. The New ical material into three groups, we find York Academy of Medicine recently scientific texts published in book form, acquired a report of a commission ap- popular texts designed for home use pointed in the City of New York for the and the ephemera, including anatomical purpose of inquiring into the sanity of leaves, broadsides, bloodletting calen- one Daniel Wiggins, shipwright. The dars, handbills, manuscript notes and report, dated March 2, 1772, would be extremely valuable to any historian of %Readat a meeting of the Biological Sci- ences Group of Special Libraries Association, the treatment of the insane, for in all March 13, 1946. likelihood few of its kind exist. When 40 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February we see the often fabulous prices brought geomedicine. Research workers in such by examples of this material which re- subjects are forced to go to the past to main, we can have some realization of learn for the future. At the Academy its scarcity. That this same fate can we have had men working for the gov- befall the same type of material appear- ernment searching all available records ing today, can be illustrated by turning to discover why a disease is endemic in to the nineteenth century, a not very certain localities. We have had numer- distant part of the past, whose publica- ous historians working on the history of tions bear comparison with those of to- epidemics, and their wants are frequent- day. ly the ephemera which few have both- Few volumes of that century can be ered to save. To one thoughtful soul classed as rare or valuable books. The we owe a volume containing such mate- textbooks of the period are almost rial which interests the historian of worthless today. With many copies cholera. It is a notebook in which are available, with little historical interest pasted the daily official reports of the taken in them, they languish upon the New York City Board of Health during shelves unused. On the other hand, the the cholera epidemic of 1832. They run pamphlet material, the ephemera, are from July 8 through August 29 and in frequent demand by historians and provide statistics on the number of cases biographers. Annual reports of hos- with street addresses of each, the num- pitals, catalogs of students in medical ber of dead, the number of burials; also schools, biographical sketches, contro- the number discharged, the number versial papers, programs of meetings of dead, the number remaining and the societies, health departme nt reports, number of new cases at the Greenwich, even diplomas, certificates, advertise- Crosby Street, Rivington Street, Cor- ments, are wanted by historians, not the laer, Bellevue and Yorkville Hospitals. run-of-the-mill texts. Unfortunately, This is true source material which every many of these are as scarce as their historian seeks but often does not find, sixteenth century counterparts. An ob- no matter what period he is covering. vious example may be cited in Oliver One physician whose interest in geo- Wendell Holmes's noted article, "The graphical medicine of today has led him Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever." This to investigate medical libraries in this appeared in the New England Quarter- country from coast to coast, in a hunt ly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, for elusive statistical material published vol. I, 1843, a volume which is certainly in Central Europe in the years after worthy of being shelved in a Rare Book World War I, has assured me that not Section, although it does not bring a only were there no copies in this coun- really high price in the market. The try of much of the material, but what contemporary reprint of this same arti- did exist here was scattered throughout cle, however, received the treatment ac- the country to such an extent that no corded frequently to such publications, medical library in the United States and today copies are so few that one had an adequate collection. Now that not long ago was offered for sale for is needed for current medical research, $1000. Surely such a price is ridiculous, not for an essay on the history of medi- except in the eyes of the bibliophile, or cine. Yet many of these recent publica- the so-called bibliomaniac, but it serves tions have not lasted thirty years. to show clearly what prices scarcity can This should make it obvious to us demand for comparatively recent mate- all that we should exercise care and rial. judgment before relegating anything to Other examples may be cited in the the wastebasket. While we cannot fail important field of epidemiology and to view much with distaste, we must 19471 PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL RECORDS 4 1 evaluate material according to its in- moment, after having lain for a number trinsic worth, and not according to its of years in the home of a former official size. We must give the same considera- of the Academy. It is a large volume, tion to the proper disposition of one leaf devoted entirely to the Academy. On as we do to one volume. We must con- page after page are lightly tipped in sider its significance in the future as well original records, a large part of which as in the present. With overpowering cannot be found elsewhere. These docu- quantities deluging every library today, ments, vital to any historian of the it is a hard task to face. Each library Academy or of New York medicine of has' its own interest, however, in which the period, were gathered by Dr. Purple, it can specialize. Each library has its apparently the only one of the Academy own locality upon which to concentrate. membership aware of their importance. Each library must at least preserve its Some are manuscript notes, some print- own memorabilia. ed communications. There are portraits Fortunately there have always been of the Presidents, announcements, re- a few people aware of the great mor- ports, correspondence, all the varied tality of ephemera and have directed memorabilia that are the basis of the their efforts towards its preservation. I history of any organization. have had occasion very often to bless FUNCTION OF LIBRARIAN TO SAVE the achievements of Dr. Samuel Smith ALL RECORDS Purple, the greatest benefactor of the This, it seems to me is one of the Academy library. Dr. Purple had a functions of the librarian, to save all the mania for saving. We have no way of records, great and small, of the organi- knowing what he regarded as useless zation he serves, for few of the mem- and discarded, but we do know that bers have a conception of their value. because of his wisdom and care the This means preserving everything in Academy is far richer today. Literally manuscript, mimeograph, typescript or hundreds of pamphlets are on our print, including announcements, reports, shelves because of his saving them and programs, newspaper clippings, appeals. binding them together in pamphlet vol- I think there are few organizations umes. At least one valuable American which do not make a point of having a item he rescued from an ash can. No complete set of their publications of any doubt many of his contemporaries felt substantial size. Yet actually in the fu- he was an old fogey saving only be- ture their publications in book form will cause he was unwilling to throw any- be far easier to find than the miscel- thing away, but they were wrong. There laneous memorabilia. Much of the lat- was an obvious method in his saving. It ter the librarian would like to file in the was not helter-skelter, hit or miss, as a nearest wastebasket, and would hesitate glance at his various scrapbooks would to spend either time or space upon it, show. This has been particularly on my but he should remember that the his- mind of late, because as next year the torian spends his time seeking small ob- Academy celebrates its centenary, Dr. scure facts. Obvious data present no Philip Van Ingen is compiling a history difficulty. A New York historian told of it. He started with the early minutes me with some irritation and some of the Academy. There he frequently amusement that another historian of the came across information requiring fuller interpretative school had likened him to elucidation, and saw references to re- a bricklayer. This seems an apt simile ports of important committees which to me, for the individual bricks are of could not be found. It happened for- little value in themselves, but when tunately that one of Dr. Purple's scrap- properly put together form the founda- books came to light at that propitious tion of a substantial structure. That 42 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February same simile might be applied to a li- should never be glued directly into a brary collection, for its importance rests pamphlet binder. The eventual result upon the individual items gathered to- of such treatment inevitably ends in gether. If the librarian feels that some mutilation when the paper splits at the of them are too trivial to occupy valu- juncture of the binder. Another meth- able space, he can at least forward them od, more simple, if not quite as satis- to a larger library interested in their factory, is to file the material alphabet- preservation. ically in an ordinary letter file marked HOW MATERIAL IS PRESERVED permanent. This should, however, be There is one point in favor of this only a temporary expedient, as it is material. It does not require much wiser to keep it flat unless it has proper space for storage. Furthermore it will protection. The manila folders might not be in constant use, so that it does offer protection enough were it not for not have to be handily available. To the temptation of overloading the fold- save it is the important thing. How to ers until they become stuffed with save it depends upon the facilities of papers of varying sizes and thicknesses. the library. At the Academy we use Damage is bound to ensue. Torn papers various means, none of which demand should, of course, be mended with trans- expensive equipment or take up much parent tape and very large items which room. Our large outsize pieces are filed must be folded should be reinforced at with our collection of diplomas. We ob- the fold with the tape. Folding should tained stiff manila paper just the width be avoided if possible, as the paper and twice the depth of long drawers in cracks in the fold, but in cases where our atlas cases. These were doubled folding is necessary reinforcement helps. over to make folders, and reinforced at Mimeographed items are generally the folds with adhesive cloth. Each of treated as ordinary pamphlets, but they these folders accommodates several may be easily filed in a correspondence pieces, and any that is fragile or has a file or in folders in boxes. Whether fragile seal upon it, gets a smaller fold- storage is in drawers, cabinets, boxes or er of its own and is then inserted in its shelves is of little importance. The main place within the larger folder. If draw- thing is to save them with as little effort ers are not available they may be put as possible, and use the smallest amount in folders and either filed in boxes or of space, being careful, of course, not to wrapped and stored on cupboard stuff them into any container that is too shelves. For smaller pieces we use sev- tight for them. They must be wrapped eral methods. Large groups of material in some container to preserve them are kept in folders in flat pamphlet from dust and careless handling. It is boxes and put upon the shelves. Single wiser to be generous in the use of fold- autograph letters and similar docu- ers, for wear and tear will destroy what ments are inserted in envelopes which the librarian is trying to preserve. The have been glued in pamphlet binders, paper we use today is chiefly of inferior and filed in legal size filing cases. Thus grade and does not have the quality of they are protected by a stiff surface. endurance of the products of the early These can hold several items, but care days of printing, so that care should be must be taken that not too many are stressed even more for the later mate- put in any one envelope or folder and rial. that the material inserted is smaller I should like to add another plea. We than its container. Otherwise fraying have all been appalled by the dreadful may result, as they must slide in and mutilation indulged in by our predeces- out easily without friction. Also, a warn- sors in their endeavor to show the ing should be given that fragile pieces marks of ownership and location. Most 19471 PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL RECORDS 43 old books in libraries are now spared of that is true. Unfortunately, pointing the indignity of having their title-pages out the real reason for conservation, the chewed up with perforations or half value to the historian of the future. obliterated by library stamps and mark- seems not to convince them. It seems to ings, but often modern material is not me that only a concerted attempt by accorded such consideration. Gouging librarians will have any effect. A library out the necessary information on the association might sponsor such an ap- title-page with a hard pencil should not peal, by preparing a circular letter, each be allowed. ' All writing should be done copy typed and addressed individually with a soft pencil, so that it can be to the director of each organization. The erased in the future if desired. It is letter should be brief, with as concise shocking to consider the damage that an explanation as possible. It should carelessness has wrought in the past and emphasize the time of librarians today no doubt will in the future. The librari- wasted in their efforts to trace informa- an's lack of time cannot be offered as tion of recent years which has been lost an excuse in many cases. It takes no or hidden because no one thought to longer to write gently with a soft pencil send the librarian a copy of a small than to plough up the paper's surface leaflet for preservation. It should men- with a hard one, yet countless scarred tion the historian of the future, who will title-pages show the ravages of this prac- certainly look in the library of an or- tice. No doubt those working with older ganization for its publications of every material have been made particularly kind. The letter might be accompanied conscious of clean and unmarked copies, by a mimeographed description of the because so few survive in such condi- type of material wanted, the type the tion. We are grateful to those of the library is least likely to get: literature past whose care prevented unnecessary covering suggested p o 1ic i e s, training damage, and just as surely librarians procedure, small descriptive brochures, 100 years from now will be equally re- programs and announcements, news- sponsive. It is unfortunate that the paper praise or criticism, typewritten term curator is applied only to those directives issued by officers of the or- who tend the treasures of the past, for ganization, correspondence relative to an important task of every librarian is its progress, leaflets concerning hygiene, to act as curator of the collection he nutrition, home nursing, etc. serves. Librarians not confined to a Rare COPIES OF ALL MATERIAL SHOULD BE Book collection are far better acquaint- SENT TO LIBRARY ed than I with this material. For that Of course many librarians, conscious reason I consulted Miss Angela White of the roles they play in planning for of the Health Department Library for the future, and making every effort to her ideas on the subiect. Besides re- preserve the memorabilia of their or- ferring to a number of the items men- ganizations, are thwarted by associates tioned above, she wrote, "I have had unaware of the need of depositing copies several sessions trying to locate printed of ephemera in their libraries. They court records about certain cases. If the argue that such material is unimportant case was one in 1928 or 1930, no record scientifically, that there are many copies will be found. Upon inquiry they say spread abroad so that no one would that it is so old that it has been stored come to the library to consult it, that it away and nobody knows where to find is not worth preserving as it will be very it. Although there were plenty of copies shortly out of date, that the medical in 1928, nobody ever thought of send- profession is familiar with the subject ing one to the library." Speaking of an- and so would not be interested in it. All other library, she goes on, "All those 44 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February

organizations would send to the library tor of an organization with a request a book they published, or a sizeable that he insist that the heads of depart- pamphlet, but anything printed for gen- ments be responsible for depositing their eral distribution, or anything mimeo- records in the library, a system of sal- graphed which is revised frequently, vaging this material might be worked they would never think of sending. Of out. Containers can be kept in each de- course, an organization like this, hos- partment, so that items may be easily pitals and other groups, would not be deposited therein with a minimum of interested in getting samples of every- effort. The contents of the containers thing printed by the State Medical So- can be collected at stated intervals by ciety or any other association. But they the librarian. If this does not have a should preserve everything relating to satisfactory result, reminders should be their own activities, and nobody should sent from time to time until every de- question the importance of even the partment automatically deposits one ex- smallest typewritten material. That ample of each of its productions in the should be the librarian's job. Even a container. That something should be single leaflet on nutrition for pregnant done is obvious, and I am very sure we women which is no contribution to the could enlist the support of local medical physician's education at the moment historians in our plea, for they as well and which five years from now is com- as librarians suffer from the high mor- pletely out of date should be preserved tality of ephemera. as illustrative of the organization's work To be sure, all of this makes more in the field of health education at a cer- work for the librarian, but nearly all tain date." progress entails more labor, and the No doubt Miss White's experiences librarian sorting, dating and filing this are similar to many of yours. It is my material for his successors will be per- hope that if this matter were vehement- forming a much needed and worth- ly brought to the attention of the direc- while service.

THE PROBLEM OF RESEARCH REPORTS By D. A. BROWN Chief, Technical Information Branch, Ordnance Research & Development Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland

HE emergence of research re- curity regulations complicated matters, ports as vital components of and in too many cases makeshift meth- Tscience-technology libraries was ods were established. With the ending one of the outstanding developments af- of hostilities and the subsequent remov- fecting the profession during the recent al of confidential and secret classifica- war. But in most plans for postwar tions from most scientific reports, it changes in libraries, apparently no pro- would seem that the time has arrived vision was made for the flood of special for a survey of the situation. reports being released by governmental The problem involves not only sci- and private research institutions. ence-technology 1i br aries, but special During the war, the difficulties con- libraries in many other fields, public nected with the processing, storage and libraries which maintain large science circulation of reports became acute. Se- collections, and particularly libraries in 19471 PROBLEM OF RESEARCH REPORTS 45

the universities which are being selected regarded as bothersome miscellany. as centers for the postwar government- They are not books. They consist usu- sponsored research program. In fact, it ally of about 100 pages or less, cheaply concerns anyone who is interested in reproduced, and do not lend themselves the advancement of scientific discovery easily to permanent binding. They are and exploration. not pamphlets. Their time value is in- Reports are the pioneer documents of determinable. Reports may be invali- scientific progress. They are manifesta- dated a week after their appearance, or tions of the division of modern science they may be used again and again for into innumerable yet interlocking com- 20 years or longer. Their titles do not partments. They are the raw materials appear in convenient cumulative in- of books and of later articles in jour- dexes or in the abstract journals, and no nals; the embryos of new processes, Library of Congress catalog cards are new products, new machines. As source issued for them. As they deal with high- materials, they are usually of interest ly specialized subjects, it is impossible only to limited numbers of individuals, to follow any conventional subject head- and these individuals in many cases are ing list in cataloging them for an index scattered over the nation and the world. catalog. All too often they are filed Most reports are issued originally in away, uncataloged, as serials under the editions of 50 to 100 copies, and their names of the issuing agencies and are circulation is therefore circumscribed. of no further use unless a borrower hap- Too often they never go farther than pens to know the exact number or code the library of the issuing agency and to applied to the particular report which a few friends of the author. he is seeking. Sometimes a scientist in one part of That'some official notice has been government or industry will "hear given to the importance of research re- about" a report issued by another or- ports is evidenced by recent announce- ganization. If the report is what he ments coming from the Office of Publi- thinks it is, he may be saved many cations Board in Washington. The OPB months of work. He begins to make is publishing bibliographies of certain inquiries; he calls upon his librarian for available scientific and industrial re- help. The number of hours and days ports captured from our enemies dur- spent by scientists and librarians in the ing the war. It remains to be seen how time-consuming routine of writing let- far this program will go, particularly in ters and searching for these fugitive re- the field of domestic reports. ports must be staggering in their total. A central agency furnishing periodic The duplication of research carried on lists of reports, arranged systematically because of ignorance of existing reports by classes, certainly would be prerequi- must be even more staggering. site to a final solution. But that is not As a part of the nation's program to the entire problem. Even if they re- maintain its hard-won ascendancy in ceived all the reports of possible in- science and technology, it is the duty of terest to their research workers, few librarians concerned to make it possible librarians could catalog more than a for all reports, however insignificant fraction of these multiplying papers. they may seem, to be readily accessible The problem of selection alone would to interested scientists and technicians. be considerable. In addition to the vast Libraries and librarians are not per- production of reports by government- forming these services, and criticism is sponsored research agencies, approxi- being directed at the profession for mately 2000 industrial and research what might be called dereliction of duty. laboratories and more than 1200 scien- In the average library, reports are tific and technical societies are releas- 46 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February ing reports in varying quantities. the technologist's own tools. There is In a recent article in SPECIAL LI- plenty of room for experimentation in RARIES, Dr. Francis Fitzgerald suggested this field. Experiments have already the formation of an organization which begun on the use of punched cards and would supply technical books and pe- classification systems devised so that riodicals to special libraries, with all each specific subject heading is assigned processing work complete. 1 Perhaps an a numerical or alphabet key. Using this organization of this sort might also device, all research material under a tackle the problem of research reports. particular class group may be so coded This would not be as simple as pro- that specific subjects related to any one viding book and periodical services, general subject can be mechanically however. To assume the success of such sorted in a few seconds. a plan, the cooperative efforts of librari- Printed lists and special bibliogra- ans engaged in many special fields phies, if properly indexed, may be used would have to be called into play. In to replace the conventional catalog most research institutions, copies of all cards in some of the more closely inte- reports are forwarded to the institu- grated series of reports. Another possi- tion's library. It would be the responsi- bility is Dr. Fremont Rider's plan for bility of the librarians to see that copies microprinting whole volumes upon sin- of all reports from their organizations gle 3 x 5 cards. If this scheme is de- reached the central correlating agency veloped, the storage difficulties, at least, for processing. In other words, librari- will be eliminated. A combination of ans would be the controlling force for this plan with the punched card system success or failure. might produce amazing results. If librarians are to attack this prob- Whatever the solution, it will cer- lem with any hope of success, they will tainly be welcomed with equal warmth have to discard many of their oldest by both librarians and scientific research and dearest ideas, and utilize some of workers. If the problem is not solved, the library profession will have to admit de- Fitzgerald, F. E. "Special Librarian and Technical Progress," SPECIALLIBRARIES, V. 37, linquency in the continuous struggle p.35-40, February 1946. for scientific-technological progress.

WHAT AND WHERE ARE THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES By ETHEL M. FAIR Director, Library School, New Jersey College for Women, New Brunswick, N. J.

HAT and where are the special tion may give an idea of the organiza- libraries of this country? This tions as they spread over the land. W is a pertinent inquiry at the Such an analysis was made by the stu- time of the publishing of the second vol- dents of a class in Special Libraries at ume of Special Library Resources. An the Library School, New Jersey College analysis of the nature and geographic for Women, and is presented here as a distribution of those libraries which contribution to the awareness of the were listed in Volume I of this publica- extent of the special library movement. 19471 WHAT AND WHERE ARE THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES 47

To analyze any data it is obviously With each type (and in the right necessary to have a classification or hand column) is given the number of definitions by which to identify the such libraries found to be represented items. Since there exists no definitive or in volume I of Special Libraries Re- even accepted working schedule of dif- sources. It will be noted and argued ferent types of special libraries, the stu- that the terms used in the list are not dents found it necessary to draw up a mutually exclusive. list of types of libraries based primarily As might be expected, the largest on the character of their subject matter. number of libraries is found in the clas- The list decided upon is as follows: sification related to business and indus- try, with chemistry and medicine show- Business ...... 83 Chemical ...... 63 ing strongly as cognate fields. Whether Engineering ...... 53 special libraries will always be found Natural Science ...... 39 strongly established in these fields and Politics and Government...... 36 less strongly in others does, of course, Medical ...... 32 not appear in any such tabulation as Agriculture ...... 30 Industrial Relations ...... here presented. But it is clear that these Insurance ...... interests at present dominate the special Historical ...... libraries field and that, in point of num- Public Utilities ...... bers, here lies the greatest opportunity Museum ...... Social Welfare ...... for activity. If it should be found that Law ...... special libraries will never occur in Military Science ...... large numbers in the many miscellane- Newspaper ...... ous fields represented by the remainder A* ...... Food Industry ...... of the classified list, this fact will have Theological ...... important bearing on the professional Aviation ...... education of special librarians, on the Publishers ...... dominant topics appearing in special Advertising ...... Dental ...... libraries literature and in the discus- Public Health ...... sions and activities of the Special Li- Consumer Problems ...... braries Association. Hospital ...... GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION Communications ...... Motion Picture ...... The analysis made by the students Music ...... also showed the concentration and dis- Patents ...... tribution of the existing libraries over Automobile ...... the country. The greatest number is Education ...... Broadcasting ...... automatically to be found where popula- Geographic ...... tion and industry are concentrated- Labor ...... in the East, on the west coast and in Library Science ...... Illinois. The distribution was found to Penal and Institutions...... be as follows: Architecture ...... Blind ...... New York ...... Deaf ...... District of Columbia...... Library of Congress ...... Pennsylvania ...... Mathematics ...... California ...... National Architecture ...... Illinois ...... Nursing ...... Massachusetts ...... Physics ...... Connecticut ...... Science ...... Ohio ...... Slag ...... Michigan ...... Trade Bibliography ...... New Jersey ...... Missouri ...... Total ...... 629 Maryland ...... 48 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February

Minnesota ...... and of this number 2,033 or 36.5 per Wisconsin ...... cent are professional workers. Georgia ...... Indiana ...... Finally, the calendar of establish- Delaware ...... ment is interesting. Historically, special North Carolina ...... libraries have developed as a reflection Alabama ...... of dominant subject interests. Govern- New Hampshire ...... mental or historical libraries were the Rhode Island ...... Tennessee ...... earliest in the field. Science was also Texas ...... represented in colonial times with Virginia ...... Franklin's support; and universities l Washington ...... recognized libraries as part of their Colorado ...... Florida ...... equipment. Industrial and Scientific li- Iowa ...... braries have multiplied in the 20th cen- Kentucky ...... tury with the vast research and indus- Louisiana ...... trial expansion and are undoubtedly Montana ...... Oregon ...... responsible for the large increase in Utah ...... established libraries since 1900. Tabu- - lated according to date we find the fol- Total ...... 629 lowing (making no attempt to identify Since geographical location has been establishment with type of library) : found to have a strong influence on li- Established brarians' choice of a position, this dis- Before 1800 ...... 1 per cent tribution may affect the ease with which Between 1801 and 1840...... 4 per cent Between 1841 and 1865...... 4.4 per cent positions in certain areas can be filled. Between 1866 and 1900 ...... 16 per cent One other characteristic was analyzed Between 1901 and 1915...... 20 per cent from the descriptions given in Special Between 1916 and 1941...... 54 per cent Libraries Resources: -the total num- It will be interesting to discover ber of persons on the individual library whether or not the special libraries list- staff and the number of professional ed in Vols. I1 and I11 of Special Li- personnel included. These facts have braries Resources will represent the been previously studied by S.L.A. com- same distribution of subject matter and mittees and the present study offers of geographic occurrence. little that is new. However. it is of in- 'It should be stated that college and uni- terest to see that of the libraries report- versity libraries as such are not included in ing in Special Libraries Resources, Vol. Special Libraries Resources, Vol. I, but occur I, 227 out of 765 had only one person here only when they have important collections in special subjects. They have been identified on the staff: that a total of 5,564 per- and distributed through the classification of sons are on the staffs of these libraries this study by their special subject.

THE UNDIMINISHING RECORD By HARRY C. BAUER Associate Librarian, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

NE of man's priceless possessions which he can draw specific information is his unique ability to summon at will. Undiminishing, this mountain 0 up the past. It has provided him constantly grows in size, paradoxically with a mountain of recorded knowledge accelerating in growth whenever infor- forming a veritable stock pile from mation is extracted from it. Will this 19471 THE UNDIMINISHING RECORD 49 mountain of knowledge become too Brown's work, countless important dis- large to yield information, much less coveries have undoubtedly been lost for to house? all time in the ever growing mound of Heretofore, man has relied on trans- recorded achievements. lations, on catalogs, indexes, abstracts, After being shown the millions of check lists, encyclopedias, dictionaries, books in the Library of Congress, H. G. concordances and other reference tools Wells is reported to have inquired, for tapping accumulated supplies of the "Why, with all this, doesn't it think?" information he wants. While these de- The answer is "Our intellectual heritage vices have proven valuable, they have does not think." If we are to continue not enabled him to reach every recess to make knowledge serviceable to man- of his intellectual heritage. Students kind, we must improve and expand our and scholars acknowledge the difficulty methods of abstracting, translating and of keeping abreast with the advances in indexing. Otherwise, the steady accre- their special fields and almost despair tion of vast quantities of new publica- of acquaintance with other subjects. tions and the existing impetus to new Each year new publications crowd out scientific discovery might as well cease. previous works. It is generally agreed Provided improvements can be worked that unless their significance is imme- out (and there is no reason to believe diately recognized, the accounts of new they cannot) the growth of our intellec- discoveries are apt to be permanently tual heritage will in no wise impede the lost or at least temporarily buried by extraction of desired information at will. the avalanche of even more recent im- The problem of housing our collec- prints surging through the presses. The tions is not as serious as some would discovery of the Brownian movements, have us believe. There is plenty of which attracted no special attention space and material for stacks and store when first announced, is a case in point. rooms necessary to house the largest To the September 1828 issue of The libraries imaginable. Perhaps librarians Philosophical Magazine, Robert Brown, have not been successful in diverting the Scottish botanist, contributed a funds for their construction, but space paper on the topic, "A Brief Account and material are available none the of Microscopical Observations Made in less. Alarmed by the geometric growth the Months of June, July, and August, of collections, librarians have recom- 1827, on the particles contained in the mended the development of such meth- pollen of plants; and on the general ex- ods of reproduction as micofilming to istence of active molecules in organic solve what appears to be a space prob- and inorganic bodies." Early nineteenth lem. It is questionable whether this is century physicists could not perceive the best approach to the matter. Per- any implications for kinetic theory in haps we should not foster printing be- the Brownian movements. Consequent- low an optimum type size. In the evo- ly, the phenomenon was not fully an- lution of recording, clay tablets gave alyzed until 1858. But it was not until way to papyrus which in turn gave way 1888 that an approach to a scientific to parchment and then to paper. How- explanation was offered by the French ever, in this trend toward more com- physicist, Guoy. Finally, in 1906, Al- pact recording, the prevailing type size bert Einstein worked out the mathe- never went below legibility. A stand- matics of the discovery in terms of ard type size large enough to be read kinetic theory. A few years later, in his easily, by a person possessing normal br i 11 i a n t Nobel- prize - winning experi- vision, without the aid of reading glass ments, Jean Perrin verified Einstein's or projection machine, may be as far calculations. Less fortunate than as we should go in solving the space 50 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February problem. If this standard were agreed greatest concern must be the mainte- upon, microfilms would still have a nance of schemes for gaining access to place in the diffusion of knowledge by the specific information in this heritage. serving the clientele of those libraries An increased production of reference which lacked desired out-of-print or ex- tools, together with the development pensive items. and invention of entirely new devices Society, then, is in a position to pro- for recapturing the past, are the only vide adequate stacks and storage ware- things that will assure continued utiliza- houses for our intellectual heritage. Its tion of the undiminishing record.

A HOME OF ITS OWN By DOROTHY G. BELL

Business Branch Librarian, Providence Public Library, Providence, R. I.

HE "Little House" next to City tage with a picket fence around it, right Hall, in downtown Providence, on Dorrance Street facing the Mall, the Thas had a varied career. It was busiest thoroughfare in the city. During the center of many wartime activities, the war years it was a drab brown, but from servicemen's information to hous- it has been spruced up for its new occu- ing reconversion. Now it is the new pant, painted an attractive red, with a home of the Business Branch of the gray trim. The size of the house has Providence Public .Library, through the limited the Business Branch service to courtesy of Mayor Dennis J. Roberts, Reference and Information only. The ever the Library's good friend. circulating material has had to be trans- The Business Branch of the Provi- ferred to the Central Library, but its dence Public Library has had a down- identity has been kept by placing it in town address for many years. In dis- a well-marked alcove on the first floor. tance it has never been more than a Down at the "Little House" the half mile from the Central Library, but Business Branch Library has its own it has made possible a special service telephone, as well as a connection to the busy businessman right in his through the Central Library switch- bailiwick, the banking, retailing and in- board, and one from the Chamber of surance district. Since 1923 it has had Commerce. In this way it keeps its own a cooperative arrangement with the identity, while maintaining connections Chamber of Commerce. The termina- with its parent and former associates. tion of this arrangement has been un- It is already making new friends. Its fortunate. The expiration of their lease, street level entrance and conspicuous and the current shortage of office space location attract many newcomers, and made it impossible for the Chamber to old friends are gradually locating it, and take the Business Branch Library with finding its small but convenient quar- it to its new location. "Office space" ters a pleasant place to stop for their downtown was just as hard for the financial, statistical and other business Providence Public Library to find, until information. Only eight people can be the Mayor came to the rescue. seated around its one large table, but The "Little House," as it has come to its central location and continued avail- be known, is a two-room Cape Cod cot- ability downtown are great advantages. EVENTS and PUBLICATIONS

PERSONNELADMINISTRATION IN LIBRARIES, INSTALLMENTMATHEMATICS HANDBOOK, edited by Lowell Martin (Chicago, University with Working Formulas for all Types of Trans- of Chicago Press, 1946. 168p. $3), is a col- actions, by Milam V. Ayres (N. Y., Ronald lection of papers presented before the Library Press, 1946. 320p. $10) is based on the form- Institute at the University of Chicago, August ulas developed by the author during his fifteen 27-September 1, 1945. It seeks to examine years' active work as analyst for the National the central problem of personnel at a time Association of Sales Finance Companies and when library hopes have never been higher its successor, the American Finance Confer- than in this first of the postwar years, and ence. The formulas are organized and classi- when the ideal of the librarian as academic fied into groups according to the nature of the and community leader has never held greater transactions involved. potential force. *** *** The September 1946 issue of The Journal WAGES UNDER NATIONALAND REGIONAL of Documentation is extremely interesting COLLECTIVEBAR GAIN IN G; EXPERIENCEIN to special librarians. Among the articles are: SEVENINDUSTRIES, by Richard A. Lester and "A Highly Organized Medical Library", by Edward A. Robie (Princeton, N. J., Industrial David Thomson; "The Planning of University Relations Section, Princeton University, 1946. and College Libraries", by K. Povey; "The 103p. $1) sets forth as its premises that in Planning and Equipment of Libraries in Re- an industrial country, the sound pricing of search organizations and Industrial Concerns", human services may go far to assure a sus- by B. Fullman; and "Essentials in the Plan- tained growth of productivity and income; and ning and Equipment of a University Library", that an improvement in the art of fixing wages by W. Bonser. This quarterly issue is avail- has become vital to a wholesome American able on loan from S.L.A. Headquarters. economy. * * * *** ELECTRICMOTOR REPAIR, by Robert Rosen- FREIGHTTRANSPORTATION FOR PROFIT, by berg (N. Y., Murray Hill Books, Inc., 1946. Henry B. Cooley (U. Y., Cornell Maritime 570p. $5) is a practical, complete, modem Press, 1946. 206p. $5) deals with new, ef- vocational course as well as a quick reference ficient methods for profitable operation of volume. Its unique feature is a duo-spiral air, water, truck and rail transportation com- binding which allows the book to lie flat on panies. It was written particularly for those the bench, showing text in the right-hand sec- who realize the immediate need for overhaul- tion, diagrams in the left. Since this mechan- ing costly wartime operational procedures, for ical make-up is not desirable from the library introducing coordination and efficiency in or- standpoint, the same sheets are now available ganizations confronted by keen and growing to libraries for their own binding, procurable competition. Like its companion volume, through the same dealer channels as the reg- TRANSPORTATIONMANAGEMENT, this book is ular volume. up to date, practical and embodies years of ex- * * * perience in transportation. A Magazine Information Center, dealing ex- *** clusively with all types of consumer and trade TRANSPORTATIONMANAGEMENT, by Henry magazines, has been established for the gen- B. Cooley (N. Y., Cornell Maritime Press, eral public and the publishing industry at 1946. 183p. $5) is an invaluable guide to large by The Magazine Weekly, newsweekly modern management of air, water and truck for the magazine publishing industry, at 146 transportation companies. It contains no the- East 39th Street, New York 16, N. Y. In- ories which the author has not tested, and is quiries will be answered by personal visit, by therefore eminently practical. While written telephone or by mail. for everyone concerned with materials move- *** ment, it is of greatest importance to those in STUDIES OF DESCRIPTIVECATALOGING the traffic, operating, treasurer's and comp- (Washington, D. C., U. S. Government Print- troller's departments. ing Office, 1946. 48p.) is a report to the Li- *** brarian of Congress by the Director of the THE OBSOLESCENCEOF BOOKSIN COLLEGE Processing Department, Herman H. Henkle. LIBRARIES,by Charles G. Gosnell, N. Y. State It undertakes to present a general review of Librarian, is a study of an important factor of the work done on the development of a de- college library work, about which little has scriptive cataloging code, an analysis of the heretofore been written. This pamphlet is comments received on a proposed statement of available from Mr. Gosnell, Librarian, New functions and principles which should underlie York State Library, Albany 1, N. Y. Price the code, and recommendations for further ac- 506. tion. 5 1 52 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February

The National Electrical Manufacturers As- THE SCIENTIFICAND TECHNICALASPECTS sociation has just published the 1946 Edition OF THE CONTROLOF ATOMICENERGY (N. Y., of the NEMA Jon RATINGMANUAL, together Columbia University Press, 1946. 42p. 25~)is with a companion booklet entitled GUIDEFOR the official text of the report of the Scientific USE OF NEMA JOB RATINGMANUAL. The and Technical Committee of the United Na- GUIDE has been especially prepared for those tions Atomic Energy Commission. This is a using the new (1946 Edition) of the MANUAL. basic document giving a concise explanation In it the process of job rating is set forth clear- of the production and utilization of nuclear ly. It undertakes to show specific examples of fuels; the peaceful uses of atomic energy; and the various steps necessary in using the plan. pointing out at what stages of production there It includes a sample job description, 33 sample is danger of diversion to war use. It contains job grade substantiating data sheets, a chart data on the cost and size of the U. S. atomic showing the distribution of job titles correlated bomb project and a glossary of popular defini- with score points, and a sample survey schedule tions of scientific terms. for collecting area wage data. * * * The NEMA JOB RATINGMANUAL and the THE AMERICANCOMPETITNE ENTERPRISE GUIDE may be obtained from the Industrial SYSTEM(Washington, D. C., Chamber of Com- Relations Department, National Electrical merce of the U. S., 1946. 24p. Single copies, Manufacturers Association, 155 East 44th 106) is the report of the Economic Research Street, New York 17, N. Y. at the following Department, designed to state the essentials prices: MANUAL ( 1946 Edition) - $1 per of the American economic system as briefly copy, postpaid; GUIDE-$1.50 per copy, post- as possible. This study of the relation between paid. government and business and of the prospects * * * for the years ahead should be especially useful A copy of the Proceedings of the Organi- to the student or reader who wants to under- zational Conference of the Canadian Library stand the broad outlines of this system as a Association, held June 14-16, 1946, at Hamil- whole, its nature and its system of incentives. ton, Ontario, is available on loan from S.L.A. For further detail it contains an annotated list Headquarters. of references. *** The September 1946 issue of The Library NUCLEONICS(Washington, D. C., Progress Association Record contains an interesting Press, 1946. 38p. $1) is based on official article on "Modern Business Methods as Ap- material prepared under the auspices of the plied to Library Administration", discussing U. S. Navy Department. It is a handbook on the fundamental differences and similarities in the structure of matter, the structure of the library and business methods, with suggestions atom, nuclear structure and transformation, as to how business methods may best be ap- peacetime applications, etc., giving in concise plied to various processes of library adminis- form what everyone should know about atomic tration. Available on loan from S.L.A. Head- physics. Included also is a list of recommend- quarters. ed books and articles for further reading and * * * a brief history, tabulated by date, of the de- Army Information Digest is a new month- velopment of nuclear energy and the atomic ly magazine published by the War Depart- bomb. ment, designed to serve commanding officers *** and their staffs (particularly public relations RUSSIAN-ENGLISHTECHNICAL AND CHEM- and information-education officers) in the field ICAL DICTIONARY,by L. I. Callahan (N. Y., of Army information. For sale by the Supt. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1946. $12, tenta- of Documents, 0. S. Government Printing Of- tive) is a scientifically organized reference to fice, Washington 25, D. C. 15~single. Sub- 80,000 terms, including those of organic and scription price $1.50 a year, domestic; $2, for- inorganic chemistry, chemical technology, min- eign. eralogy, metallurgy, mining, geology, engineer- *** ing, physics, botany, pharmacy and the more ARBITRATIONOF LABORDISPUTES, by Clar- common terms in agriculture, medicine, aero- ence M. Updegraff and Whitley P. McCoy nautics, meteorology and military science. (Chicago and N. Y., Commerce Clearing * House, Inc., 1946. 310p. $3.75) should prove CONTROL CHARTS IN FACTORYMANAGE- of value to business executives, lawyers, union MENT, by W. B. Rice (N. Y.,John Wiley & executives, directors of labor relations and all Sons, Inc., 1946. $2.75, tentative) demon- others having to do with the question of labor strates the basic functions of statistical control relations. It includes the scope of arbitra- in manufacturing plants, emphasizing how the tion; qualifications of arbitrators; rulings on control chart technique can help build econ- evidence; conduct of arbitrators; commonly re- omical quality into a product. curring types of cases; representative decisions. 19471 EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 53

INDEX- DENTAL PERIODICALLITERATURE, PANELHEATING AND COOLINGANALYSIS, by 1942-1944, (Chicago, American Dental Assn., B. F. Raber and I?. W. Hutchinson, is a theo- 1946. 354p.) is an alphabetical index covering retical and practical discussion of the general dental periodical literature published in Eng- principles, design features, types of equipment lish, including publications from Australia, In- and special uses of radiant surfaces. (Wiley, dia, Great Britain, Canada, South Africa and 1947). * * * New Zealand, as well as all strictly dental YOURCARRIAGE, MADAM, 2nd ed., by Janet publications of the United States. Lane, outlines the fundamentals of good posture Included in this latest volume is a special and its relation to health, style and poise. section for the list of subject headings em- Many details as well as the illustrations have ployed in the volume and including certain ad- been modernized and amplified. (Wiley, 1947). ditions which were found necessary during the * * * time the volume was in preparation. Reprints Special Libraries Association was mentioned of these headings are available from: Dental in an article describing the Management Li- Index Bureau, American Dental Association, brary of the Prudential Insurance Company 222 East Superior Street, Chicago 11, Illinois. * * * which appeared in the August 1946 issue of Ofiice Management and Equipment and was COLLEGEAND UNIVERSITYLIBRARIES AND reprinted in the November 1946 issue of Man- LIBRARIANSHIP,NO. 6 in the series, Planning agement Review published by American Man- for Librarianship, was prepared by the College and University Postwar Planning Committee agement Association. of the American Library Association and the *** HUMANFACTORS IN MANAGEMENT (Park- Association of College and Reference Libraries, ville, Missouri, Park College Press, 1946. William H. Carlson, Chairman. (Chicago, A. $3.50) by Schuyler Dean Hoslett, is a collec- L.A., 1946. 152p. $2.50). It is an examination of the present status of college and university tion of lectures and papers by outstanding libraries and some proposals for their future authorities. Part 1 covers the Executive and development, setting forth some of the more The Organization; The Nature and Conditions fundamental principles which have governed of Leadership; Training Leaders in Human or should govern the sound administration of Relations and Part 2, The Worker and The college and university libraries. Organization; Studies in Human Relations; * * * Counseling. * * * How to organize a working industrial re- JOB EVALUATIONMETHODS (N. Y. Romld search department is the subject of a new Press, 1946. $6) by C. W. Lytle, separates job handbook just published by the Standard Oil analysis and evaluation into functional steps Company of California under the title THE as indicated by Chapter headings. This makes COORDINATIONOF MOTIVE, MEN AND MONEY it possible to compare and select methods, IN INDUSTRIALRESEARCH. Reflecting the in- techniques, characteristics, measuring scales, terest of modem business and industry in the etc., to fit any given set of conditions. use of science to develop new products, pro- * * * cesses and markets, the survey enlisted the PSYCHOLOGYIN INDUSTRY(N. Y. Houghton experience of leading industrial and research Mifflin Company, 1946. $3) by Norman R. F. organizations. The resulting handbook ex- Maier, places emphasis on the problems of amines all phases of organization and business morale, attitude and motivation. This book is management practices in industrial research. primarily intended for those who are concerned Extensive charts illustrate divisions of respon- with human problems in industry and who sibility, executive functions, relationships and themselves are not industrial psychologists. limits of authority. The volume was prepared *** by Darrell H. Voorhies, Organization Counsel OCCUPATIONALINFORMATION (N. Y. Pren- in the Department on Organization, Standard tice-Hall, Inc., 1946. $4.75) by Carroll L. Oil Company of California, San Francisco. Shartle, is a working manual for using DIC- * * * TIONARY OF OCCUPATIONALTITLES. It aims BUSINESS BUDGETINGAND CONTROL,by j. toward a better understanding of analyzing Brooks Heckert (N. Y., Ronald Press Com- and classifying jobs. pany, 1946. 546p. $6) sets forth the princi- *** ples, methods and procedures for the prepara- QUICK FROZENFOODS: 1946-47 DIRECTORY tion and operation of budgets for all types of OF FROZENFOODS PROCESSORSOF FRUITS, businesses, both large and small concerns. Each VEGETABLES,SEAFOODS, MEATS, POULTRY, SPE- budget is followed through from the time the CIALTIES, is the second annual directory pub- budget figures are constructed to when they lished by Quick Frozen Foods, E. W. Wil- are compared with the actual results, the vari- liams Publications, 82 Wall Street, New York. ance analysis made and the budget reports Over 200 new packers and many new products made up. are listed in this 1946-47 edition. ($2) 54 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February

"SO YOU WANT TO BE A SPECIALLIBRARI- COMMERCIALAIR TRANSPORTATION,by John AN!" is the title of the article by Lester H. Frederick (Chicago, Ill.. Richard D. Irwin. Asheim, Regional Librarian, Federal Public Inc., 1946. Revised ed. 791p. $5) has beed Housing Authority, Seattle, Washington, ap- almost entirely rewritten in order to key all pearing in the November 15, 1946 issue of discussions to present times. It presents a Library Journal. Mr. Asheim, tells of his ex- picture of the development of commercial air periences upon entering the special library transportation in the United States, the growth field and sets down some of the lessons he and extent of federal regulations concerning it learned "the hard way." and the problems, services and operating meth- * * * ods of the airlines and other agencies of air A write-up of the Library of the Common- transportation. wealth Edison Company of Chicago appears in its House Organ, Edison Round Table, for A new monthly science magazine for busi- November 1946. Miss Edith L. Mattson is nessmen, Federal Science Progress, began pub- librarian of this very progressive public utility lication in mid-January. This publication will library. cover the entire field of government-sponsored * * * scientific and technical research, except re- RARERMETALS by Jack De Ment and H. C. search in military devices and agricultural pro- Drake correlates basic data on rare metals duction. Coverage will be limited to research for the busy professional man and student. It financed by public funds and to information is suitable as a reference text or for supple- available to all publications. The magazine mentary reading in science and engineering will carry no advertising. Available from: courses. Special consideration has been given Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. to rarer elements upon which much of our fu- C. $3 a year, 25~single copy ($4 and 30P ture progress may depend. Some twenty ele- abroad). Published by the Office of Tech- ments, excluding the metals of the rare earths nical Service, U. S. Dept. of Commerce. on which there is extensive literature, are dis- cussed briefly, including some of the interest- METALLURGY,by Carl G. Johnson (Chicago, ing and important practical applications of Ill., American Technical Society, 1946. 3rd ed. these elements. An abridged bibliography of 418p.) is a textbook presenting in a simple rare elements is also included. (Chemical Pub- manner some of the available knowledge con- lishing Co., Inc., 26 Court Street, Brooklyn 2, cerning the manufacture and behavior of the New York, 1946. 392p. $7.50.) many metals and alloys in use in our modern *** civilization. The present revision was made in NOURATHAR,THE FINEART OF LIGHTCOLOR view of the growing importance of metallurgy PLAYING,by Mary Haliock Greenewalt is a in industry, and is recommended for those most unusual and fascinating story of a new working in industry and also as a textbook for art, and the title of the Book Nourathar is trade and industrial schools. the author's coined name for this sixth art, derived from the Arabic roots, "nour" mean- ing light, and "athar", the essence of. So ex- ELECTRONICSFOR INDUSTRY,by W. I. Bendz, haustively has Mrs. Greenewalt covered her presents a practical, non-mathematical ex- subject that it will appeal not only to the planation of the fundamentals of electronics. theatrical and entertainment world but also to Types and functions of electronic tubes, the those engaged in chemical, electrical, physical fundamentals of rectifiers, amplifiers and os- and plastic manufacturing industries. The cillators, basic control circuits, and the appli- illuminating engineer, textile worker, painter, cation of high-frequency for induction and di- interior decorator and costumer will also find electric heating are discussed. Emphasis is this book an ever ready reference and guide in placed on the principles as applied to indus- their work. (The author, Hotel DuPont, Wil- trial equipment. ( Wiley, 1947). mington, 99, Delaware. 1946. $15 Postpaid. * * * 450p. 150 ill.) COMPARISONOF ENCYCLOPEDIAS(34th ed., *** 1945) and COMPARISONOF DICTIONARIES(7th LIFE INSURANCEFACT BOOK, compiled by ed., 1944) are available from: Laurance H. Statistical Division, Institute of Life Insur- Hart, C.E., 14 West Walnut Street, Metuchen, ance, 60 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. N. J. Single copies 256 each, additional copies Y. (64p., charts) has been mailed to libraries. 5~ each. These tables, charts or collations give Additional copies free. This FACT BOOK is the title, publisher's name, address, price, copy- designed for convenient reference use for stu- right date, number of volumes, number of dents, writers, editors, public speakers and pages, number of headings in index, illustra- others interested in fundamental background tions and maps, ages for which suited, ac- material concerning life insurance. curacy, up-to-dateness, strong and weak points. 19471 EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 5 5

PROCEEDINGSAND ABSTRACTS OF THE WORLD ecutive editors who began the compilation to CONGRESSON AIR AGE EDUCATION,August meet their own urgent needs for information 21-28, 1946, International House, New York, about labor leaders. Published by Dryden N. Y., is a profusely illustrated, day-by-day Press, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. account of the Congress sponsored by Air-Age * * * Education Research for the advancement of Biologia, a monthly newsletter supplement understanding and the diffusion of knowledge to Chronica Botanica, has been established at pertaining to air transportation. Available the request of numerous biologists from many from: Air-Age Education Research, 80 East countries to fill the need for a newsletter re- 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. Price $1. porting quickly on developments of a profes- * * * sional and international interest, and to help An important book concerning the official unite workers in the various branches of the foreign trade reports of the various countries pure and applied plant and animal sciences of the world has just been published. SOME throughout the world. Regular subscribers to TECHNICALASPECTS OF FOREIGNTRADE STA- Chronica Botanica (annual subscription $7.50) TISTICS WITH SPECIALREFERENCE TO VALU- receive it free. Other subscriptions $4.00 per ATION, by Nicholas M. Petruzzelli, presents a volume (covering two years). Published by: long needed analysis of the causes and extent Chronica Botanica Co., P. 0. Box 151, Wal- of the lack of comparability and utility in the tham 54, Mass. foreign trade statistics of the various nations *** with particular emphasis on the important USE OF AUDIO-VISUALMATERIALS TOWARD question of valuation and related problems. It INTERNATIONALUNDERSTANDING, edited by will be found to be of utmost value to govern- Helen Seaton Preston, is the report of a con- mental officials of the various nations, to ference sponsored jointly by the American economists, students, trade association execu- Council on Education and the Film Council of tives, business men, research organizations, America, June 14-15, 1946, in the interests of universities, libraries and banks. The edition increasing the flow of knowledge and ideas be- is limited to only several hundred copies. tween and among nations. Available from: (Sheiry Press, Washington, D. C., 1946. $3.50.) American Council of Education, 744 Jackson * * * Place, Washington 6, D. C. Price $1.25. The Business Information Bureau of the *** Cleveland Public Library has just issued WHO TECHNIQUESTHAT MAKE THE VOCATIONAL ' MAKES WHAT, a list of manufacturing direc- LIBRARYA USEFUL COUNSELINGTOOL, by tories published for each of the United States Marguerite W. Alexander, Supervisor, Ameri- of America and for Alaska. This publication can Red Cross Vocational Counseling Service, is the result of a survey made of existing direc- St. Louis, Missouri, gives suggestions on plan- tories. It will be invaluable to all who buy ning and use of a vocational library, with and to all who sell. Market researchers, pur- numerous case illustrations. For further infor- chasing agents, salesmen and exporter will mation, write: American Red Cross Vocational find in it directories to sources of supply of Counseling Service, 3414 Lindell Boulevard, raw materials, manufacturqd products and ser- St. Louis, Missouri. vices. Copies are available at 10 cents each. *** Send stamps or money with request to Miss FINANCIALSTATEMENTS: FORM, ANALYSIS Rose L. Vormelker, Head, Business Ifiorma- AND INTERPRETATION,by Ralph Dale Kennedy, tion Bureau, Cleveland Public Library, 325 Professor of Accounting and Business Admin- Superior Avenue, Cleveland 14, Ohio. istration, The George Washington University *** (Chicago, Ill., Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1946. WHO'S WHO IN LABORis a new biographical 559p. $4.50) is concerned with two major dictionary quite worthy to take its place with phases of accounting: the preparation, analysis Who's Who in America and other standard and interpretation of financial statements of biographical dictionaries. It contains "author- industrial corporations and of certain selected ized biographies of the men and women who specialized industries. An extensive series of lead labor in the United States and Canada questions and problems for class discussion is and of those who deal with labor; together provided for each chapter. with a glossary of labor terminology, edited * * * by Dr. John R. Steelman; a chronology of A NOTATION FOR A PUBLIC DOCUMENTS labor legislation; a directory of the labor CLASSIFICATION,by Ellen Jackson (Library press; a list of educational directors; a list of Bulletin No. 8, Oklahoma A. and M. College, the international labor unions; the constitu- Stillwater, Oklahoma, July 1946) was pre- tions of the American Federation of Labor and pared in response to the growing discussion of the Congress of Industrial Organizations." concerning the wisdom of a separate documents Marion Dickerman and Ruth Taylor are ex- collection in libraries, and also, if documents 56 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February

are kept separate from the remainder of the library collection, how they should be arranged. This is not a system of classification but mere- 1708 Titles ly a notation giving a formula for assigning call numbers to a public documents collection Are Listed In that uses the classification by issuing offices. A copy is available on loan from S.L.A. Head- quarters, 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, N. Y. DOCTORAL *** DISSERTATIONS Bibliographies :

AUTOMOBILEPARKING IN THE UNITEDSTATES, accepted by comp. in the Libraries of the Federal Works Agency. (Washington, D. C., Public Roads Administration, December 1946). 47p. American Universities BIBLIOGRAPHIESOF CHEMICALENGINEERING NOMOGRAPHS- 11 AND 111 SUPPLEMENT (Documents 1599 and 1809, American Doc- umentation Institute), is a thirteen-page bibliography prepared by D. S. Davis of the Important independent researches to ex- Government Laboratories managed by the tend and record human knowledge are University of Akron, Office of Rubber Re- I continuously being conducted in our serve, Akron, Ohio, and deposited with the large universities. The findings are pub- American Documentation Institute, 1719 N lished on printed pages, typewritten or multigraphed pages, or on microfilms. Street, N.W., Washington 6, as Document 2222. It may be obtained from the Institute at 50 cents a copy on microfilm or at $1.30 for photocopies (6 by 8 inches) readable DOCTORALDISSERTATIONS is the only key that locates and tells how to obtain without optical aid. this important material that embraces BIBLIOGRAPHYOF BUREAUOF MINESPUBLICA- the whole field of man's endeavor. The TIONS DEALINGWITH HEALTHAND SAFETY list is in seven major subject divisions IN THE MINERALAND ALLIED INDUSTRIES, and has both a subject and author index. by Sara J. Davenport, is a classified, anno- tated list of 1517 titles, with an author in- dex. No. 1. 1933-34. xv, 98p. pa. $1. No. 2. 1934-35. xiii, 102p. pa. $1. BIBLIOGRAPHYON HIGH FREQUENCYAND DI- No. 3. 1935-36. xiv, 102p. pa. $2. ELECTRIC INDUCTIONHEATING, compiled by No. 4. 1936-37. xiv, 105p. pa. $2. the staff of Northwestern Technological In- The four in one bound volume $5 stitute Library, has been issued by North- western University Library, Evanston, Illi- No. 5. 1937-38. xvii, 109p. pa. $2. nois. (Processed, 97 leaves, 15~). No. 6. 1938-39. xiii, 113p. pa. $2. No. 7. 1939-40. xvi, 126p. pa. $2. BOO- FOR VETERANS'GUIDANCE: notes on The three in one bound volume $5.50 significant and authoritative books about the attitudes, problems and opportunities of the No. 8. 1940-41, XV, 142p. cloth. $2.50. nation's ex-servicemen. (Washington, D. C., No. 9. 1941-42. xv, 128p. cloth. $2.50. Public Affairs Book Service, 1946. 10~).25p. No. 10. 1942-43. 110p. cloth. $2.50. No. 11. 1943-44. 88p. cloth. $2.50. CONGRESSIONALHEARINGS, REPORTS AND No. 12. 1944-45. 68p. cloth. $1.50. DOCUMENTSRELATING TO TVA, 1933-1946, No. 13. 1945-46. 71p. cloth. $1.50. compiled by Alice M. Norwood, Reference Librarian, has recentIy been issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority Technical Li- brary, Knoxville, Tennessee. DISTILLATIONBIBLIOGRAPHY, by F. C. Vil- brandt, J. E. Ryan, H. R. Couper and C. L. 1 The H. W. WILSON COMPANY Dorsey, is a recent Bulletin of the Virginia 950 University Avenue Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experi- ment Station Series. It is an annotated New York 52, N. Y. bibliography of 584 titles, arranged by auth- or. Published by the Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 19471 ANNOUNCEMENTS 5 7

EMPLOYMENTREHABILITATION AND VETERAN ADJUSTMENT; a Bibliography, 1940-1945, compiled by Paul S. Burnham, Assistant ~rofessor of Psychology, Yale University, Periodicals has been published by Public Administra- tion Service, 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, Ill. It is an annotated list of 319 titles, with Books an author index ($1). POLIOMYELITISCURRENT LITERATURE: a pe- riodical annotated list prepared by the Med- We have modern binding ical Librarian of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 120 Broadway, New facilities and expert crafts- York, N. Y. Vol. I, no. 1,2,3--0ct.-Dec. 1946. 27p. men to handle your bind- ing problems. Please let us Announcements know your needs. Committee of Five Preliminary Report Three hundred questionnaires each on Group and Chapter activities were mailed on Decem- ber 10 to a representative group of members, selected according to a formula calling for a certain number of present and ex-national Of- WAGENVOORD & CO. ficers, Group and Chapter officers, also Active members chosen to include those who are in close touch with Chapter and Group activities as well as those who are isolated from them. Any member of S. L. A. had the privilege of Library bookbinders and booksellers requesting either one or both of the question- naires. The response has been better than average and returns indicate that the majority of members have given a great deal of thought to the questions. The comment most frequently PUBLIC AFFAIRS made by members who failed to answer certain sections of the questionnaire was "insufficient PAMPHLETS information." This indicates that the Com- mittee of Five should give some thought, in To increase and enrich the their final report, to a more thorough analysis usefulness of your library. of problems as they presented themselves from Here are the key facts your readers time to time. It is highly desirable that we want on jobs, veterans, labor, fam- have an informed membership participating ily relations, health, unions, race in all activities that are of interest to them. relations, foreign trade, and world Results are now in process of tabulation problems. and it is expected that preliminary interpreta- Special Offer To Libraries tions will be ready for the March Executive Board and Advisory Council meeting. Any THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS LIBRARY-a11 recommendations growing out of the survey pamphlets now in print, plus new will receive consideration at that time. titles issued monthly to a total of 70 pamphlets in all-for only $6. IRENEM. STRIEBY, Chairman. For free descriptive catalogs, free dis- An Invitation play materials, plus complete infonna- The next S. L. A. Executive Board and Ad- tion about PUBLICAFFAIRS PAMPHLETS, visory Council meeting will be held on Sstur- subscription offers and quantity rates. day, March 22, at the Pennsylvania Hotel, write today to New York City, at 9:30 A. M. President Cole extends to all members an invitation to attend PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE this meeting and to participate in the discus- INCORPORATED sion of Association problems and projects. At- 22 tendance at these meetings provides an excel- East 38th Street lent opportunity to become more familiar with New York 16, New York S. L. A!s numerous activities. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 58 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February

New Course-Plan Inaugurated for Medical Library Administration In the academic year 1947-48 the School of Library Service at Columbia University will DIRECTORY offer an arrangement of courses in preparation for work in medical libraries. The basic plan for persons hoping to enter beginning positions OF in large medical libraries or positions in one- man libraries near other libraries will include: (1) the course in medical library administra- MICROFILM tion, which heretofore has been available only in the summer sessions; (2) adjustments in the bibliography and reference courses per- mitting individual emphasis upon the needs in SERVICES medical library work; (3) the course in the reading interests and habits of adults; and (4) choice of the elective course in cataloging or, subject to synchronized scheduling, that on library work with hospital patients. Compiled by Programs for advanced students may include JURGEN G. RAYMOND, Tech. Ln. courses in other schools or departments of Sinclair Oil Corp., New York Columbia University which may have value in medical library work. The offerings, on both beginning and advanced levels, are in HE revised edition of the pop- line with recent suggestions of the Committee 1ular "Directory of Microfilm on Education for Medical Libraries of the Sources" first issued in 1941, has Medical Library Association. just been published. The Geo- graphical List of Services in- New Jersey College for Women Renews cludes 38 states plus Hawaii and Fellowship for Library Service Degree Canada. Included also are a Geo- The library fellowship awarded by New graphical List of Commercial Jersey College for Women, Rutgers Univer- Services and valuable informa- sity, New Brunswick, N. J., is being offered tion about ordering Microfilms again for the third consecutive year. Appli- cations must be made by March 1 for the and their costs. Other Chapters 1947-48 academic year. cover The Copyright Question, The fellowship covers a two-year period and Explanation of Terms, and How permits the recipient to complete a full pro- to Use This Directory. fessional curriculum in library service while holding a half-time position in the College The Directory is compiled pri- library. To qualify, a candidate should have marily for libraries and similar at least a bachelor's degree, should have stood institutions but is equally valu- well in her college courses, should have a real able to the research worker, interest in and concept of the value of li- writer, and business man. Pub- braries, and preferably some library experi- lic, college, university, and special ence. new At the completion of this work-study pro- libraries will find the edition gram the student should be able to assume the an invaluable tool. responsibilities of advanced positions. The Planographed. 52p. October, 1946 money value of the fellowship covers tuition, room and board at New Jersey College for Price: $1.50 Women. Further information may be obtained from the secretary of the scholarship com- mittee at N. J. C. ./-I ./-I Send orders fo-. Financial Group, N. Y. Chapter, Sponsors SPECIAL LIBRARIES Course in Library Management ASSOCIATION The Financial Group of the N. Y. Chapter, S. L. A., is sponsoring a course in Financial 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3 Library Management. This course, which be- I Igan on Tuesday, January 7, is designed prima- Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements ANNOUNCEMENTS 59 rily for assistants who have not had library school training and is open only to members YOU BUY of the Group who are employed in the libraries of financial institutions. Membership is lim- SATISFACTION ited to 20, and applications accepted in the When You Purchase order of their receipt. The course is under the direction of Mrs. "BOUND TO STAY BOUND" Lillian S. Jory, Librarian of the Lehman Cor- LIBRARYBINDING poration. The Co-director is Miss Ethel Siegel, Librarian of Blair and Company. Members AND of the Association who volunteered as speak- PREBOUNDBOOKS ers are: Mrs. Lillian S. Jory, Miss Eleanor S. Cavanaugh, Miss Catharyn Suydom, Miss Mar- NEW METHOD BOOK BINDERY, Inc. garet Siegmund, Miss Ida M. Meyer, Miss Marian C. Lucius, Miss Mary P. McLean, Jacksonville, Ulinois Miss Irma Hafker and Miss Marguerite Bur- nett. Each meeting is held from 5: 30-7:00 P. M. in the Library of the speaker of that evening. A fee of $6 is charged to cover postage, mimeographing, etc., as well as a dinner for the speakers and members of the classes at Library Paste the close of the Course. Permanent Clean Cream the paste with the University of Illinois Library School brush. Spread thia Card Scholarships and Assistantships, 1947-48 pockets, book plates, and even bindings will be inseparably held Several scholarships and assistantships are A 2-05. r~nplesmt on re available for graduate students who hold an QU~U~of MI11 UbFWbI A.B. degree from an accredited college and a 1 degree or certificate for the first year of pro- SANFQRD INK CO. NO.^ fessional study in librarianship from an accred- ited library school. Applications should be ad- dressed to R. B. Downs, Director, University of Illinois Library School, Urbana, Illinois. Purchase - For Sale The Katharine L. Sharp Scholarship pro- BOOKS AND PERIODICALS vides a stipend of $300 for the year and exemp- tion from tuition fees. Application should be DOMESTIC -FOREIGN filed no later than March 1, 1946. Announce- ment of the award will be made on April 1. on Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Medicine, Biology, Natural History University scholarships carry a stipend of $350 and exemption from tuition. They are and related subjects. open only to candidates who are not over 30 years of age at the time when the appointment is to be made. Applications should be filed WALTER J. JOHNSON immediately. Successful candidates will be 125 EAST23~~ STREET notified on April 1. NEW YORE10, N. Y. Assistantships in various departments of the University Library and in some departmental libraries will also be available to graduate students. Three-quarters time appointments re- quire thirty hours of work per week and pay a monthly salary of $120; half-time appoint- ments require twenty hours of work per week and pay a salary of $80 per month. The leqgth of time required by the students to complete the requirements for the M.S. degree usually does not exceed two years. Applications should be filed as soon as possible and no later than May 1, 1947. Appointments will be announced on June 1. -- 60 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [February

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The Reverend Francis A. Mullin, Director of the John K. Mullen Memorial Library, Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., and well-known in library circles for his scholarship, interest in and contributions to the profession, died on January 2, 1947, after an illness of three months. Father Mullin was a member of the Special Libraries Association, American Library Asso- ciation, Catholic Library Association, Catholic Historical Association, Medieval Academy of America, Bibliographical Society of America and the District of Columbia Library Associa- tion. He was a frequent contributor to pe- riodicals on subjects of interest to librarians and served as an Associate Editor of the Li- Illuminates Book Stacks- brary Quarterly. top to bottom! By diredngmore light to the sides. .shielding aisles from glare . Mrs. Rachel Rhoades Anderson, recently building up intensities where light is needed .. . Librarian of the Housing Division of New most. . . the Goodrich Staklite does what no York State, was taken ill just before Christ- other fixture has ever done to provide proper mas, and passed away in New York Hospital book stack illumination! With the Staklite, on January 10, 1947. troublesome shadows are eliminated. Locating titles is easier. .. mistakes are fewer. There's comfortable reading anywhere in the aisles. "LIGHT INCREASED THREEFOLD" The members of S. L. A. extend their sin- cere sympathy to Rose L. Vormelker on the "The light has increased threefold in addition death of her mother. Mrs. Vormelker passed to giving an ideal illumination without glare." away on December 30, 1946. This from Northwestern University. And from other big users of the Staklite: "Light is well distributed between the lamps and on the Expert Service on Magazine lower shelves". .. "Our former equipment was by far more ex- Subscriptions for Special Libraries pensive and less efficient." Learn what Goodrich Staklite Write for a free copy of Faxon's does to earn this unanimous Librarians' Guide. praise! Write for Bulletin 921 I Also odd numbers of magazines, sou tho#gb elechicd volumes, or complete sets. w&iolwlers F. W. FAXON COMPANY 83-91 Francis Street Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts

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