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San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1949 Special Libraries, 1940s 10-1-1949 Special Libraries, October 1949 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1949 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, October 1949" (1949). Special Libraries, 1949. 8. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1949/8 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1940s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1949 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special Libraries VOLUME40 . Established 1910 . NUMBER8 CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER 1949 Annual Business Meeting, June 17, 1949 . 283 Our Association . ROSEL. VORMELKER286 Reports of Secretary, Treasurer and Editor . 293 Reports of Chapters, Groups, Committees and Special Representatives . 298 Events and Publications . 344 Announcements . 345 Indexed in Industrial Arts Index, Public Atlairs Information Service, and Library Literature ALMACLARVOE MITCHILL KATHLEEN BROWNSTEBBINS Editor 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 publisher. SLA OFFICERS, 1949-1950 MRS. RUTH H. HOOKER,President . Naval Research Laboratory, Washington 25, D. C. MRS. ELIZABETHW. OWENS,First Vice-president and President-Elect Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company, St. Louis 1, Missouri BEATRICEV. SIMON,Second Vice-president Redpath Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada DAVIDK~~SLER, Treasurer . General Motors Corporation, Detroit 2, Michigan MRS.KATHLEEN B. STEBBINS,Secretary . 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, New York Row L. VORMELKER,Immediate Past-President Business Information Bureau, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland 14, Ohio DIRECTORS MARGARETHATCH, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, San Francisco 20, California ESTELLE BRODMAN,U. S. Army Medical Library, Washington 25, D. C. PAUL GAY,Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4, Pennsylvania SPECIAL LlBRARlES published monthly September to April. with bi-monthly iasues May to August. by The Special Libraries Association. Publication Office, Rea Building. 704 Second Ave., Pittsburgh 19. Pa. Address all communications for publication to editorial offices at 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3. N. Y. Subscription price: $7.00 a year; foreign $7.50; single copies. 75 cents. Entered as second-class matter February 5. 1947, at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, Pennsyhnia, under the Act of hfarch 3, 1879. 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An up-to-date account of the accomplishments of Multiple Management Here is a new human relations philosophy that has wide implications for democratic as well as industrial advance. $2.00 AT YOUR BOOKSTORE OR FROM HARPER & BROTHERS 49 East 33rd st. ~ewYork 16, N. Y. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING JUNE 17,1949 HE annual business meeting of ing one term of office, rather than two Special Libraries Association was chairmen having to split the funds. Mr. Theld at the Los Angeles Public Raymond stated that he believed Library, Los Angeles, California, on changing all operations to the calendar June 17, 1949, at 9: 10 A. M., with the year would be the simplest and best for President, Rose L. Vormelker, presid- the Association. He felt strongly, how- ing. After presentation of reports of the ever, that the matter has not been con- President, Secretary and chairman of sidered sufficiently and that no real the Committee on Constitution and study has been made of the advantages By-Laws, Eleanor Cavanaugh read and disadvantages of the calendar year Ruth Savord's recommendation that method of operation vs. the July 1 to the wording of By-Law VII, Section 5, June 30 year of operation. Mr. Ray- Dues in Arrears, be changed to read: mond reported that the main objection "Members whose dues are unpaid on to changing all methods of operation to March 1 of each year, and who shall the calendar year seemed to be that the continue such delinquency for one officers were elected in June but would month after notice has been sent, shall not take office until January. He be dropped." After suggestion by Melvin thought this no disadvantage as very Voigt that the present wording of this little was accomplished in the summer. section of the By-Laws be amended by Conventions could be held in the fall, changing six months to two months, it if preferred. The California Library As- was so voted, with one member present sociation had changed successfully to dissenting. the calendar year basis and found that The next topic of discussion concern- this allowed incoming officers time or op- ed the fiscal year. Miss Vormelker re- portunity at conventions to arrange com- minded those present that the fiscal mittees and finish accumulated business. year was changed last June to coincide The Secretary reported that it would with the Association year, July 1-June be almost impossible to handle the bill- 30. Dues were still paid on the calendar ing of members and subscribers in the year, however. A list of the advantages summer with the present staff. This and disadvantages of changing the bill- would bring the peak business of Head- ing year to coincide with the fiscal and quarters in the summer, with both the Association year, and Jurgen Raymond's convention and billing necessitating hir- suggestion of changing the fiscal and ing extra temporary assistants and Association years to the calendar year, would mean very little work during the were included in the president's News winter months. She explained that the Letter recently issued to all members. entire membership records must be Mrs. Ruth Hooker, president-elect, re- changed whenever a billing occurs as ported that of those replying, 19 favor- some firms must be billed in duplicate ed all operations on the calendar year, or triplicate, many with certified copies. 4 voted to continue a mixed operation, Others have made partial payments or and 66 wanted to change the billing to paid in advance while others have extra coincide with the fiscal and Association Group affiliations for which they must years. be billed. It now takes the bookkeeper It was pointed out that if the billing and an assistant four months to com- were changed to the fiscal year, members plete the billing and then handle the would have to be billed either for six daily deposits of dues which must be months or one and a half years. The itemized and accounted for. The auditor fiscal year was changed last June in believed that more consideration should order that Groups and Committees be given to the matter before another could have all their appropriations dur- change was made. 2 84 SPECIAL LIBFURIES [October It was, therefore, voted that the mat- been read at the first General Session). ter of the fiscal, Association and billing Mrs. Irene Strieby next presented year be deferred for final decision until the report of the chairman of the the next annual meeting and that a Awards Committee. A check for $100 committee be appointed to study care- was presented by Mrs. Strieby to Edwin fully the advantages and disadvantages T. Coman, Jr., recipient of the first of the change so that the matter could SLA Award to an individual for an out- be voted upon intelligently.