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Tools for Library Cooperation in the (To be Continued) Linda H. Morley The Place of the Museum Library . Lee Ash, Jr. Financial Group Memorabilia ..Alta B. ClafEin Professional School and Departmental Libraries (To be Continued) Walter Hausdorfer An Advertisement File for Marketing Students . Marcella Hasselberg Library Magazine Articles of Interest. . S. Richard Giovine Tentative Conference Program ...... Board Meeting Notes ...... S.L.A. Is the Entire Membership ..Alma C. Mitchill Making Up the Magazine ...Marian C. Manley IV. Minor Complications in the Editor's Life The Nominating Committee Report ...... Notice of Annual Meeting ...... News Notes ...... Letters to the Editor ...... A Move for Community understanding - S. Richard Giovine; Publications Available - Emerson Ross; S.L.A. Student Loan Fund - Rose Boots; One more "Letter to the Editor'' - Char- lotte N. Taylor; "Refer-from" References - Esther A. Smith; Glossary on Binding - Louis N. Feipel; Soil Conservation Literature - Mildred Benton; Cooperation for Special Libraries - Elizabeth C. Madden; Appeal to Members - Laura A. Woodward. Publications of Special Interest ......

Indexed in Industrial Arts Index and Public Affairs Information Service APRIL 1939 VOLUME 30 NUMBER 4 SPECIAL LIBRARIES MARIANC. MANLEY,Editor Vol. 30, No. 4 April, 1939

Tools for Library Cooperation in the United States * By Linda H. Morhy, Librarian Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc.,

HIS symposium, participated in by coiiperation between libraries and other Trepresentatives of different countries organizations concerned in research and and presenting reports on the tools for co- in the distribution of knowledge. operation within the several countries, is a The information on hand concerning welcome indication of the trend toward a directories and union lists is not the result world viewpoint in intellectual activities of an exhaustive search and is doubtless and of the forward-looking policies of not complete even for the period from such organizations as the Association of 1900 to 1937, but limited as it is, it never- Special Libraries and Information Bu- theless provides proof that approximately reaux and of the International Federation fifty-five library directories, twenty-six of for Documentation. It is thought that a which are revised editions, and over a survey of the tools for library coliperation hundred union lists and catalogs of vary- evolved or projected in the United States ing kinds, have been compiled and made since the beginning of the present cen- available to librarians during these years. tury would present the best picture of the These figures exclude international and status and trend of facilities for coijpera- other directories of educational institu- tion in this country and that the mem- tions that list some libraries. bers of this conference are interested pri- marily in obtaining such a broad overview rather than a knowledge of specific publi- There are three library directories cov- cations or projects, however important ering the United States as a whole. One of some of these may be individually. the first projects of the official journal of The obvious tools specifically designed the Special Libraries Association, organ- for coijperation between libraries are the ized in 1909, was the compilation of a Di- several kinds of directories of libraries recfory of Special Librariesll which in- and special collections, union lists and cat- cluded a subject index to the 108 special alogs indicating the holdings of groups of libraries listed. The first separate direc- libraries, and a few other guides to library tory was not published until 1921. A sec- resources. In addition there aredirectories ond edition appeared in 1925, and the and other handbooks to sources of special- latest one in 1935. This latest directory,' ized information which serve as tools of I SPBCULLIBMPIES. VoI. I, pp. 27-32, 1910. *Rpared for the hrociatlon of Spclal Llbrarlu and fi Speclol Llbrarien Ammlntlon, SPrld Librnrirr Diwday InformatLon Bureaux of Grmt Britain. September. 1938. oj lhr Unilul Skila and Cannda. New York. 1935. 108 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4 which covers nearly 1,500 libraries, is ar- Local directories have been sponsored ranged geographically in order to facili- by at least eight chapters of S.L.A. and tate local cooperation between libraries, seventeen other local professional asso- and a detailed index provides an ap- ciations. In all, at least eight states and proach through the 3,700 subjects which eight of the largest cities have separate these libraries cited as of importance in directories to their library resources. The their collections. lists sponsored by the S.L.A. chapters, The American Library Directory is and several of the others, give detailed probably the one best known to the information with respect to subject spe- library profession as a whole. First issued cialization of both s~eciallibraries and in 1923, it has appeared in four editions special collections. The recognized value and a fifth is now in process. The present of such guides as these is evidenced by edition lists nearly 10,000 public, college the fact that as manv as five editions and university, reference, governmental have been compiled for one city, and that and institutional libraries and their spe- six other revisions were published be- cial collections, with some statistical tween 1920 and 1937. In many special data for most of these. As a guide to libraries the local library directory is sources of specialized material it is not re~ortedto be one of the most valued as valuable as the S@ecial Libraries Direc- reference tools and is kept on the desk of tory4 because it includes few s~ecial the librarian for frequent consultation. libraries and its subject index covers Special types of libraries have been only collections of outstanding impor- listed in many library periodicals and tance. The forthcoming edition is to have other professional journals as well as in the same coverage. books on library and research methods in The United States Office of Education particular subject fields, and a few lists began the publication of its Statistics of have been separately published, mostly Public, Society, and School Libraries in in mimeographed form. Such lists are 1875, although a list of libraries which available, among others, for: chemistry, probably constitutes one of the earliest business, law, agriculture, history, medi- library directories, had appeared in its cine, music, insurance, public adminis- annual report ' as early as 1870. Issued at tration, municipal reference, state and intervals of from three to ten years from legislative reference libraries. It is in- 1900 to date, this compilation is valuable teresting to note also that in some re- from the point of view of library coopera- cently published directories of organiza- tion primarily for statistics indicating tions in certain fields, such as public ad- the size of libraries and those that lend ministration, science, etc., one of the material for use outside of the building. items of information given for each or- There are two other national direc- ganization listed concerns the library and tories that list special libraries and its resources. Where such organization special collections, but no recent editions directories have a detailed subject index of these have been published. they serve as guides to libraries in spe- cialized fields and also afford a means of New York: Bowker, 1935. 4 09. at. discovering libraries very rich in material 'Washington. D. C.: Government Prlnunn Office. 09.crt. within their particular fields of interest 'W D. Johnston and I. G. Mudgc, SPrcbl Cdkclious in but not listed in the librarv directories be- L~brariesin the United States. Washington, D. C.: Govern- ment Pnntlnn Office. 1912 (Unfted States Bureau of Educa- cause they are not fully organized or un- tion Dulletin. 1912. No. 23). der the direction of a librarian. E. C. Richardson, An Index Direclay lo Specrd Cdlrc- lums in Nmrh American Libmrirr. Yardley. Pa.. 1927. When the need to discover libraries and April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 109 collections in very specific fields occasions with " Regional Union Catalogs" having intensive search, Library Literature and author cards for all important books in other bibliographies act as tools of coop- the libraries of each region in about ten eration in directing one to extended de- sections of the country. No countrywide scriptions of individual libraries that may plan such as exists in Great Britain has as yield positive or contributing evidence of yet evolved, but a survey of library re- the libraries that will be of greatest serv- sources in thirteen Southern states g has ice on the particular problem. just been completed. This is the only study of its kind but it will doubtless be followed by similar surveys for other sec- A survey of the literature of this sub- tions of the country. Such surveys are ject reveals more than one hundred union desirable in advance of regional planning lists or catalogs compiled or in process on a national scale for a country as large since the turn of the present century. as the United States and it is probable Figures available on the number of li- that under the direction of the A.L.A. braries coBperating in these enterprises Board on Resources of American Libra- show an average of thirty-eight per list. It ries and with the cooperation of the newly is estimated, therefore, that libraries par- authorized Library Division in the ticipated in efforts to supply such tools of United States Office of Education library cooperation about 3,500 times. mapping of the United States will get Interestingly enough the geographical under way and regional union catalogs coverage with respect to location of hold- will be established gradually on some sort ings listed is almost equally divided be- of unified and coordinated plan. tween those covering all sections of the The scope of facilities afforded bv these country, those including libraries in one regional union catalogs arid that at the or several neighboring states, and those Library of Congress for determining the limited to one city and vicinity. With the whereabouts of individual books is evi- exception, however, of the Union Catalog denced by the fact that in 1937 the Union of the Library of Congress, all lists and Catalog of the Library of Congress re- catalogs not restricted to certain cities or ported fifteen million entries; lo the states cover one subject or one type of Union Library Catalog of Philadelphia publication only. had records for two and one-half million The movement, now rapidly gaining publications for the 150 libraries in that headway, for the regional coordination of vicinity; l1 the Cleveland Regional Union library resources in the United States has Catalog had two million cards; l2 and the resulted in many new projects in the past New Jersey Union Catalog had received few years. In fact the union lists and cata- thirty-four thousand cards from the logs published or initiated since 1930 county libraries of that state.13 equal the total number that came into be- While most of the earlier attempts to ing during the previous thirty years. The provide tools for the location of particu-

program to develop "document centers" I Robert D Downs, ed . Rasosrccr of Soalhnn Ltbrarirs. in each state got under way in 1932 and is Chlcago. Amerlcan L~braryAssoc~atlon. 1938 United States Llbrary of Consreas. Rcporl of Ihc L~bro- responsible directly or indirectly for most rran of Congress, 1936. pp. 47-53. Wnshlngton. D. C.. of the tools in this field. Another form of 1936. 11 Unlon Library Catalog of Ph~ladelphia Metropolltan regional planning has resulted in the es- Arca, Slolcmcsl of Facts, Phdadclph~a1937 (?), 4 n. tablishment of " Bibliographic Centcrs " 11 Wllaon, hl F.. "Cleveland's Unmn Catalog," L~brarj Journal. Voi 61, pp 801-802. Nov. 1936. a New York. Wllson, 19361938. Chlcago: Amencan nsl~epha~d.F. A, "New Jersey Unton Catalog," Nnc Library A~sociatlon,1934. Jnscy Lsbrary Bullclln, Vol 6, pp 12-15, Nov 1937. 110 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4 lar publications resulted in published the majority include two or more classes union lists, the present trend, as far as of serials and it seems probable that on regional projects for locating books are examination the major portion of these concerned, is toward a union author lists would be found to cover most types catalog, on cards, of the unusual and of serial publications. There are relatively more important books, especially from fewer new editions or supplements in this the research and historical point of view, group of coijperative tools than is the case housed in one of the larger reference with library directories. Not over a dozen libraries of the region, in the form of a have been discovered in this study, and 'card catalog. four of these are still in process. Perhaps to special librarians the sub- Except in so far as regional and other ject coverage of the tools for library union catalogs include serials with all cooperation has the greatest interest. In other kinds of publications, only one in- the United States the field of science and stance was revealed in which a card rec- technology seems to stand alone in the ord was maintained of all of the periodi- production of such aids, with at least six- cals on file locally. This was in the Free teen union lists for material in one or Library of Philadelphia, where, under a another division of this department of plan sponsored by the Special Libraries knowledge. There appear to be few other Council of Philadelphia, the records for subjects represented although historical fifty-three local libraries are maintained and local material and publications in in the periodical department. This offers foreign languages have been covered by an interesting example of coijperation be- a number of lists. tween the public and the special libraries With respect to the forms of publica- of a single community. tions covered, appreciably more than half Of the remaining union lists, a major- of the union lists published or initiated ity cover books primarily, although some since 1900 are concerned with serials. half dozen are concerned with docu- While approximately a dozen are limited ments, several with manuscripts and to thelisting of newspaper holdings,and facsimiles, one with services, and one a slightly larger number to periodicals, with abstracts and bibliographies. (To be Con~nucd)

The Place of the Museum Library Some of Its Relations to the Business and Professional Man By Lcc Ah, Jr.

HE public relationships of museum ramifications of the interests of the so- Tlibraries are usually determined by called professional man. Often business consideration of the limitations of the will draw upon the advices of the museum scope of the museum's collections. The librarian and the information he is able calls for service, which a museum li- to disperse. In all, the museum librarian brarian most often faces, have originated is very likely to be the focal point of the in the halls of the museum before a dis- oddest and most detailed researches of a play case, in the schools where a problem clientele which is dispersed over the is posed to the students, and in the many world and knows no boundaries, but April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 111 of necessity most of the questions sub- which its meager attempts at library mitted to the librarian originate with administration make upon the time the staff of his own museum. that should be devoted to its regular In order that the part played by the duties. library in museums devoted to either At this point, if the directors of the popular culture or the pursuit of schol- museum are wise, they will realize that arly research may be fully understood the greatest and most successful muse- by the man outside the field, it is impor- ums have organized libraries apart from tant that the usual though often theo- their curatorial divisions, and have put retical independence of curatorial and their collections under the supervision library purposes be understood. of a trained librarian, or in the least they As T. R. Adam has recently pointed have delegated this work to a member of out in his convenient handbook, The the staff who shows some inclination to Museum and Popular Culture,* popular "work with books." It is ushally ex- demand has had little influence in the plained to the newly appointed librarian initial creation of museums. Museums that his work will require the organiza- are usually the outgrowth of the joint tion of the existing book and periodical cultural efforts of a small group within collection, the preparation of materials the community. Mr. Adam holds this to for the reading of the museum staff, the be largely true of museums created for preservation of materials considered various purposes, excluding (for excep- essential to the progress of the work of tions which do not concern us here) the each of the departments of the museum, historical museum. In considering this and perhaps above all the coikdination almost axiomatic fact, it is interesting to and selection of the latest and most reli- note that once the museum is founded it able information upon developments in is, as a rule, without organized library the museum's fields. Often, as well, it is materials. More often there is little understood to be a part of the librarian's thought for library planning. The first duty to satisfy the reference questions appointments made to a museum staff, which come to his attention by mail and other than the administrative body, con- telephone from his public, a public which sist of those persons who are to act in learns to recognize the museum as a com- curatorial positions, directing research, munity tool for its use - a public want- building the museum's collections, and ing to know the variety of ticks found on planning and concluding exhibits western cattle imported to Chicago in grounded in the work of the museum. 1914; a public demanding the most ef- Similarly, as the museum grows from fective methods of hitching dogs to sleds the demands of a small group of the citi- for polar travel. zenry, so does the museum library usually The essentials of the library's relation develop fromathedemands of a group of to the staff of the museum it serves can museum employees, who find that the readily be inferred from the outline pre- mass of informational materials they sented above which hopes to convey some must always have at hand needs special intimation of the origin of museum li- administration. braries. It must be continually realized Soon after the museum has been or- that there are innumerable professional ganized and is in functioning order, the matters relegated to the library staff, curatorial staff observes the inroads which overlap the duties of the curators. For instance, the museum librarian *Adam. T. R. The museum and ~opularculttlre. New York, Amerlcan Amodation for Adult Education, cl939. must be ready at all times to supply in- 112 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4 formation on the most modern methods of quirements of the staff of the organiza- exhibition; he must prepare digests of tion which he serves. This is hardly differ- scientific and technical articles he knows ent from the duties of any employee in to be of interest to the museum staff; he other public or private organizations; must have a reliable system of book however, there is a peculiar relationship selection in order that the best writings between the museum librarian and his in the field will be adequately covered; many services. It is a moot question he must be prepared to furnish adminis- whether the public museum, created trative statistics as well as bibliographical largely for the purpose of influencing advice in answer to any question he might community culture through schools and be asked. These are duties which are adult education, must devote the greater arbitrarily assigned through the desig- part of its attention to the modernization nation of a title "Museum Librarian," and up-to-dateness of its collections, or and these, one must recall, are merely whether it should spend its time and secondary to the technical duties of a money in the diffusion of culture. In the librarian which entail the administration same manner, it is a question which the of a collection of various sorts of printed librarian of the museum must consider: materials. whether to serve primarily his staff of In his public services the museum ti- museum workers or the ~ublicwhich the brarian is often called upon to act in the museum hopes to enlighten. This is a capacity of readers' adviser and to com- matter of no little importance to the pile lists of technical readings, ranging business and professional person, who, from the elementary items with which should the services of the museum li- he may be familiar to the most scholarly. brary be denied him in his individual More often, though, his services are re- wants, will be found in little sympathy quired to supply, substantiate, or dis- with the extension services of the mu- prove the authenticity of data. These seum. Happily, most museums do not questions may be brought to him by the yet limit their reference work, and we can insurance man who wants to know the ignore this danger temporarily; but in probable length of durability of a frame planning for the future we cannot lose structure he is to insure against termite sight of the potential problem. destruction; or from the author who de- To the business and professional man, sires some knowledge of the habits of and to the museum administrator and Melanesian natives in the rainy after- librarian the ever increasing amount of noons of April; perhaps an advertising literature passing over the museums' company, preparing copy for a fad-drink, desks must eventually necessitate limi- wants a picture of the old-time methods tations in the library service of this as in of brewing vegetable stalks, in order that every field. The only method of answer- it may submit truly illustrative pictures ing this problem, which will not necessi- which compare the old method and its tate the delimitation of uses to which the manufacturer's latest discovery. A nearly museum library is put, must include ex- infinite number of sample questions de- tensive planning for larger and better picting the everyday relationship of staffed libraries. To this end it lies largely modern business and the reference service with the business and professional men of museum libraries could be given, but who make use of museums and who are these few may serve our purpose. the leaders in community life to develop It may be said of the museum librarian a foresight which will suggest satisfactory that his first duties are to meet the re- budget allotments. April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Financial Group Memorabilia By Alta B. ClaJin Librarian, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

0 FAR as I can ascertain, the beginnings of ; Alice Rose, National City Financial S separate group organization in S.L.A. will Library, New York; Margaret Reynolds, First be found in the proceedings of the tenth annual National Bank, ; and convention at Asbury Park in June 1919. The Sue Wuchter, Continental and Commercial following paragraph is found in the September National Bank, Chicago. Fourteen banks in all 1919 issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES: were represented at this lunrhwi. ". . . A motion was made and seconded that the formation of an Advisory Council to CONVENTIONPROGRAMS the Executive Board be chosen to represent The Atlantic Citv convention in May 1923 the various groups in the Special Libraries was the first to provide separate group sessions Association, each group to elect two members. The groups were formed by those present and on its program, and from that date each annual the following elected on the Advisory Council. convention program has followed the same . . . Financial Group: Alice L. Rose (National policy. City Financial Library); Josephine M. Hefron As reported in the convention proceedings (Guaranty Trust Company). . . ." each year,-. it will be seen that the Financial Nothing further relating to group organiza- Group programs have, as a rule, been exceed- tion of financial librarians appears in SPECIAL ingly well-planned and appropriate to the LIBRARIESuntil the September 1922 issue, special interests of the Group. It has been our which gives the proceedings of the convention experience that the advance publication, of in Detroit that year. Under the caption, these well-thought-out Group programs has "Informal Group Meetings," it was stated: been the means of attracting to the annual "A most gratifying innovation was the conventions many financial librarians who series of spontanwus group meetings. The might not otherwise have been able to obtain bank, art, insurance and business librarians the consent of their organizations to attend. met among themselves informally in a spirit of The authoritative papers presented by our intense cooperation. No one attending one of these meetings could fail to be influenced by own members, and the addresses by outside the infectious enthusiasm and earnestness of speakers, have frequently attracted to our the librarians. These unheralded demonstra- Group sessions many other than our own tions of devotion to particular lines of work members, and have usually been given promi- were one of the most inspiring experiences of nent space in subsequent issues of SPECIAL the convention." LIBRARIES.It is also interesting to note that Seven Federal Reserve bank librarians were the technical discussions, and papers presented in attendance at this convention, -Mar- by our own experienced members, have been guerite Burnett, New York; Dorothy Bemis, as highly valued, and have had an even more Philadelphia; Nancy Sydnor, Richmond; Alta lasting influence than the addresses by outside Claflin, Cleveland; Ruth Nichols, Chicago; speakers. Mary P. Billingsley, City; and Erin Humphrey, Dallas. These seven held two separate meetings, resulting in definite plans At one of the Financial Group sessions of the of cooperation. During the same convention a Lake Placid convention in 1932, Mddred Robie, luncheon for all visiting bank librarians at the of Standard Statistics Company, presented a First National Bank of Detroit included, in paper entitled, "Ten Years' History of the addition to the Federal Reserve people, Elsie Financial Group." The accomplishments of Baechtold, Irving National Bank, New York; each of the ten years were briefly summarized, Mrs. Larondo Gilbert, First National Bank, and the last paragraph states very well the 114 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4

general scope of our activities since that date: exhibits revived in 1937. The Financial Group "Here, then, we have the starting points of of New York Chapter, under the direction of our three great developments - the making of Mildred A. Lee, set up a model bank library various bibliographies on financial subjects; for the benefit of two A.B.A. conferences at the consideration, as a Group, of the various New York the Mid-Winter Trust Confer- problems of cataloging and classification pcul- - lar to financial libraries; and the enlarging of ence in February, and the Spring Savings our influence in the banking fields through Conference in March. These were followed by exhibits and addresses at their conventions." an exhibit at the 1937 A.B.A. convention in Exhibits. - I believe I am right in saying Boston under the management of Marion ,that no other group in the Association has so Eaton of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, systematically and successfully presented, by and other Boston and New York librarians. means of exhibits, the usefulness of special Publications. -Various types of printed libraries, before conventions of associations in booklets and mimeographed reading lists were the fields served by them. The first organized prepared by special committees for distribution attempt, before a national association, was the at each of the financial library exhibits. The exhibit at the Chicago A.B.A. convention in booklets usually contained a prefatory essay 1924. Thorough preliminary plans had been on the requirements for setting up an efficient made under Dorothy Bemis as Group chair- financial library, followed by lists of up-todate man, but the work of preparing the exhibit books and other publications necessary for its and compiling the booklet was carried out by collection. These booklets were painstakingly a committee of Chicago bank and investment compiled, and the last, prepared under the librarians, with the aid of Margaret Reynolds, chairmanship of Mary P. McLean for the the succeeding Group chairman. 1937 exhibit at Boston, is our last word of what The exhibit was highly successful and was a bank library should be and what it should followed by equally well-planned exhibits contain. before A.B.A. conventions - at Atlantic City Swcial mention should be made of the in 1925 under the management of a New York pamphlet prepared under the chairmanship of group of librarians; at Philadelphia in 1928, Virginia Savage for the Investment Bankers with Ethel Baxter of the A.B.A. library as convention exhibits in 1929 and 1930. Thia was chairman; in 1929 at San Francisco with entitled Sources of Inucstmenl Information, and K. Dorothy Ferguson in charge; in Cleveland was copyrighted by the Educational Depart- in 1930 with Emma Boyer, Union Trust Com- ment of the Investment Bankers Association. pany, chairman; atAtlantic City again in 1931 The revised 1930 edition is still our handbook under the chairmanship of Marguerite Burnett; on investment literature. A Calcndur of Busi- in Los Angeles in 1932, by a group of Los ness StatiStus, prepared by the same commit- Angeles bank librarians, led by Marjory tee, was published by I.B.A. as a supplement Robertson of the Bank of America in Los to its official magazine, Inueslmnt Banking, Angeles. and was also copyrighted by that Association. In the meantime. two uniaue exhibits were Eleanor Cavanaugh's compilation, revised presented before conventions of the Investment in 1929, entitled, Some Sources of Information Bankers Association under the able chairman- on Stocks and Bonak, was and still is a most ship of Virginia Savage, of Halsey Stuart & Co., useful bibliography. We now have another Chicago. The first was at Quebec in 1929 and invaluable bibliography. by Miss Cavanaugh, the second at New Orleans in 1930. In spite of entitled Sekctcd List of Current Foreign Finan- the difficulties experienced by Miss Savage in ciul Sources, which was compiled for the putting on the exhibits almost single-handed, Financial Group and recently published by without assistance of local librarians, these the national Association. A useful bibliography, two were highly praised by officials of the on Bonds in Defoult, 1930-, was I.B.A. of A., and have borne fruit ever since. prepared by Grace Aikenhead in 1937. Though no later financial library exhibits A publication now long out-of-print, but in before the Investment Bankers have been which the Group took great pride, was com- attempted, we are glad to fin4 the idea of piled by its Bibliography Committee headed April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 115 by Marguerite Burnett and completed in 1929. bulletins have been attempted, compilations It was copyrighted and published as an S.L.A. of annual lists for discussion at our convention publication under the title, Descriptive Lisl for sessions have been made, and a "Permanent Use in Acquiring and Discarding United States Book Committee" has been seriously pro- Government Periodical Mimeographed Side- posed. None of these devices have proved mcnts. It was a highly accurate and compre- really successful in helping us in our choice of hensive list of such publications appearing at new book selections. that time, and according to the 1930 report Publicity and Outside Relations. -Advertis- of the Association's Publications Committee, ing our wares and services is, of course, a was "the only bibliography that had brought necessary duty if we are to spread the financial a financial profit to the Association." library idea as far as possible. Margaret Classification and Subject Headings. - The Reynolds did much effective publicity both question of classifications and subject headings for our Group and for financial libraries in especially adapted to financial library needs general. Florence Wagner, of the Wall Street has always been a matter of close interest to Journal, did some good work in connection the Group. with our exhibits, and now Mary P. McLean, In 1928 a survey of classifications used in who describes herself as "publicity-minded," financial libraries was undertaken under the seems to be informally carrying on the job. chairmanship of Ruth Nichols. The project One of the best ways to bring our kind of was intended "to find out what classifications library servite before the banking public has were being used, and why; in what particulars been the preparation of articles for the financial they had been modified or expanded; how magazines. Miss Reynolds again has done satisfactory the results had been, and what the much along this line. needs were." Miss Nichols' report on this Alice Rose's paper before the A.B.A. Execu- survey was a fine piece of work and aroused tive Council was published in Bankers Monthly more than usual interest when presented to for June 1923. Margaret Reynolds and I both the Group at the 1928 convention. The report had more or less ambitious articles accepted by was later published as the leading article of the Bankers Magazine. K. Dorothy Ferguson had March 1929 issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES. an article in Coast Banker, entitled "Start a In 1931, when Miss Nichols was Group chair- ' Run ' on the Bank Library " ; and Laura Jane man, a Tenlotive List of Subject Headings for Gage, of Central Republic Bank and Trust FiMmicrl Libraries appeared. It did not pre- Company, Chicago, had an article on "The tend to be complete, but even in that state was Modern Bank and Trust Company Library" useful for consultation. We are looking forward published in Trust Companies for August 1931. to the time when we can have at hand the revised list that has been promised. Membership and Directories. - Even with an It is, of course, impossible to list the names Association membership committee and a of all who have rendered valuable services both membership directory at Headquarters, it is to our Group and to the national Association. the duty of the Group to keep in direct touch Our members have served as national officers . with the whole financial library field. The con- and as directors on the Executive Board; they tacts by letter and in person with all financial have been chairmen of many important na- libraries and librarians is a part of the work for tional committees; they have served as asso- which we were organized, and is necessary for ciate editors for SPECIALLIBRARIES, and have our continued existence as a live organization. been leaders in their local chapters. 'All I can The various Membership Committees of the do here is to end this review with the proud Group have done effective work in this line, list of the chairmen who have guided our and the directories of financial libraries, which Group through these years: have been compiled from time to time, have 1922-3 Alice Rose, National City Financial been necessary projects. Library, New York Book lhiews. -This question has come up 19254 Dorothy Bemis, Federal Reserve during almost every group session. Book review Bank of Philadelphia 9 116 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4 1924-6 Margaret Reynolds, First Wisconsin 1932-3 Ethel Baxter, American Bankers National Bank, Milwaukee Association. Miss Baxter died during 1926-7 Marguerite Burnett, Federal Reserve this year, and Sue Wuchter, Conti- Bank of New York nental Illinois Company, Chicago, 1927-8 K. Dorothy Ferguson, Bank of Italy, became chairman San Francisco 1935-4 Emma Boyer, National City Bank, 1928-9 Alta Claflin, Federal Reserve Bank Cleveland of Cleveland 1934-5 Elizabeth Holden, 'Federal Reserve 192S30 Gudrun Moe, Bankers Trust Com- Bank of San Francisco pany, New York. Mi% Moe married 19354 Mary E. Jameson, National Indus- and was succeeded by Dorothy Wat- trial Conference Board, New York son, Bankers Trust Company 19367 Ruth von Roeschlaub, Central Han- 193C-31 Virginia Savage, Halsey, Stuart & and over Bank and Trust Company, New Company, Chicago 1937-8 York 1931-2 Ruth Nichols, Federal Reserve Bank 1938-9 Elsie Rackstraw, Board of Governors of Chicago of the Federal Reserve System. Professional School and Departmental Libraries By Walter Hau~dorfer,Librarian School of Business Library, Columbia University (Conlinued) v presd by the attitude of "sticking to our last"] PERSONNEL of what is going on and of why the Association of American Colleges and the American ABaociation Since the staff ranks next in importance to of University Professors are going ahead with the book collection it deserves special consider- their present investigations of college libraries, ation in the organization of a library. Until then I think we shall deserve every crit~cismof recently little has been abutqualifica. our work that may come out of these studiea. We tions of collegiate or departmental librarians, may a100 wake up to the fact that presi- but with the increasing emphasis on the rale of dents will insist on appointing professors with the Ph.D. degree as librarians and departmental the librarian in the teaching program of the librarians without any professional training or university, more attention has been given to e,w.ience whatsoever. such a procedure would academic qualifications. What applied to the not only hurt the profeesion of librarianship but college librarian, as presented in most of the it would be a retrogression calculated to set the recent books and periodical articles on admin- college library back fifty yeamu istration, applies as well to the staff of a de- Thus the requirements set forth are profes- partmental or school library. Such movements sional training and and subject as are illustrated by the Library Project of the H~~ far are met may be Association of American Colleges are of vital seen in conditions revealed by the survey. concern to the profession, for the indictment ~~f~~~i~~to the previous section on the place set forth by Dr. Harvie Branscomb in his cir- of he collegiate and departmental library in cular describing the project and in his Paper the organization (III), one may see how the presented at the Regional Conference of the variation in &-up would affect the character Association on October 23, 1937," must be of the staff. Under library adminiswa- satisfactorily answered for the faculty and tion the director of libraries appoints the presidents of universities. As ProlesaorLucy E. librarian, as he controls also the hiring and Fay stated in a paper presented at the Novem- firing of assistants; hence the professional re- her so, 1937, Group meeting in New York: quirements (if he is not short-sighted) are apt If we show no more awareness than that [ex- to be met. Where the dean or faculty commit-

,,See B, BrPnromb, ,,Librsry projccl,m (BuNt, tee, or both, make the decision, emphasis is Ir A~sorhriorrd AwhmCdklrr. November. 1937, vol. "New tendendea In college librarln!' [An unpubllmhcd 23, p. 3-369.) WW.~ April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 117 likely to be placed on acquaintance with the instances the school or departmental librarian special subject. In either case the danger lies appoints, with the approval of the dean or in a situation where salaries are low and in- director of libraries. In one instance the office ferior people must be accepted. According to manager approves on recommendation of the the published statistics of the American Li- librarian and of the dean; in another, the state brary kciation for 1935, 1936, and 1937 the civil service officials have the power. It is hard medians of the highest salaries of department to see how some of these individuals could have heads were $2,295, $2,296 and $2,328 re- much notion of the needs of the special libra- spectively, while for school or collegiate libra- ries. Even with a most detailed and forceful rians the medians were $2,000, $1,870 and presentation of requirements, which the libra- $2,130, and for departmental, $1,800, $1,632 rian should prepare when he does not make the and $1,700-$400 less than for department selection himself, he will have greater difficul- heads, or $200 less than for collegiate librari- ties in securing and retaining a strong staff ans. If both requirements are to be met, pro- than if he had the direct authority to appoint. fessional training and experience and knowl- Before qualifications for various positions in edge of special field, fair salaries must be paid. the library can be discussed, some form of work To compare teaching salaries with those of analysis should be made. On the basis of time librarians, in 1935 the median for associate distribution revealed by the survey, the per- professors in land grant colleges was about centages for different activities were: $2,900; I* for assistant professors, $2,500; and Per Hours for instructors, $1,960. If, as is the situation in Aclivily Cent per Week leading institutions, the director of libraries, or Administration ...... 10.8 9 chief librarian has the rank of full professor, Book selection and ordering . . 9.7 8 the librarian of the school or department Cataloging and processing .... 16.9 14 should have at the lowest the position corre- Circulation...... 22.9 19 sponding to assistant professor. Unfortunately Servlce to readers (Ref., etc.). . 16 9 14 Miscellaneous...... 22.8 19 the salary scale indicates a rank, even for the - median highest paid group, of instructor, while 83 for departmental librarians the grade is even lower. The income class (considered region- Obviously some of these activities involve more ally, of course) into which these library salaries clerical than professional work. Even where fall, according to the "Urban study of con- there is an element of the professional, as sumer purchases" of the U. S. Bureau of Brewitt and Carter have shown in their Labor Statistics, is somewhere between the study," the amount of clerical labor in Ad- clerical and wage earner, a situation inconsist- ministration, Book ordering, Cataloging, Cir- ent with the requirements of the position. culation, and miscellaneous activities runs In the matter of authority also, the varying well over 50 per cent, so that of the average 83 degrees of control over the professional or de- work hours per week about 39% are spent in partmental library by the central library and clerical tasks. the school or department have affected the It is therefore apparent that a great deal of administrative control of the librarian. The clerical assistance is necessary in order to free qualifications, appointment and pay of staff the professional members for book selection, members, the size and distribution of the bibliography, reference, and such other duties budget, and interpretation of functions per- requiring library training and experience. formed by the librarian and staff are all influ- Thus, typing of letters and lists, checking of enced by the above condition. bills, keeping of statistics, and so in the other Under central library administration the categories of book ordering, cataloging, cir- director of libraries appoints assistants, after culation, and miscellaneous, clerical help is less consultation with departmental librarians, and expensive and in many respects more satis- sometimes with a faculty committee. In a few factory. u U. S. Omce of Education. "Splprlea In land wmt col- a Theodora R. Brdtt and Man Dunean Carter. "Ra. legen, 1935." Wuhington. Febru~ry.1936. 1.9 p. (Circular fdod and non-professlod work." (L~brary Jmrd, m. 157.) Cktokr 15, 1938, ml. 61, p. 773-775.) SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4

In any analysis it is likewise important to special fields could be lured away from the know what services are demanded by fhe delights of scholarship to concern themselves users of the library. Since only two organiza- with bibliography, reference, and book selec- tions of the whole group report that they func- tion. Those trained in special subjects who tion primarily as reading rooms rather than as have not been successful in their fields, unless libraries, the rest must fulfill demands made they have a greater aptitude for library work, upon a library. That the facts support this are not likely to be any more fortunate in their assumption is borne out by the types of service second as in their first choice. Even the best mentioned: of the 47 libraries 42 report circu- scholars, moreover, are not always the most lation; 43, assigned reading; 47, reference; and competent in bibliography, for they may be 43, research. The type of service activity that quite familiar with lists and sources in their is considered most important and most appre- field of particular interest, but not with those ciated by patrons is that of reference, while in general or tangental ones. The alternative circulation, reserved book work and cataloging suggested, therefore, by Professor Lucy E. are rated much lower. Other types are related Fay,ll and others is that of subject literature to the first, such as compiling bibliographies specialization based on a fair understanding of and indexes, listing periodical articles, main- the subject. It is more useful to have a knowl- taining a clipping file, and digging out new edge of the literature of a wide field than ac- material. Some libraries, however, carry the quaintance with a narrower portion of the whole burden of cataloging and order work as same field. well, both of which are heavy time consumers. Qualifications revealed by the survey indi- In the extensive list of 22 new activities in- cate that most of the members of small staffs itiated between 1933 and 1935, apparently on are college graduates, that, except in three expressed or implied need, most of them were instances, one member at least has library aimed to increase the effectiveness of the training, and that but for eight libraries some reference service, while the rest were scattered member has special knowledge of or a formal over a wide range of library work. degree in the subject. In cases where no train- Since the librarian and his staff are responsi- ing or experience were reported, reference was ble for the success or failure of the departmen- made to clerical or student assistants. General tal or collegiate library, they must be able to library experience seemed leas common than undertake the charge creditably. They must the first three qualifications mentioned. Ap- not only be able but they must also be allowed parently a working knowledge of the subject the time to perform the functions of adminis- sufficient for the purposes of the library was tration, reference, book selection, contact with less frequent than general education or train- faculty and students, and research, well; other- ing. That is borne out also by educational wise the whole library system will suffer. One lacks most often mentioned as found in as- weak unit in the university libraries will dam- sistants, for eight libraries report such a situa- age the reputation of the whole quicker than tion. More frequent, however, was inability to various forms of good publicity can repair it. read or to understand foreign languages, par- Thus there are two aspects of staff adequacy: ticularly French and German. Other deficien- qualifications of the members, and the number cies lay in general background of information, of persons who are assigned the given units of knowledge of library techniques, especially of work. reference, and ability to organize ideas. Qual- Much has been written about the first as- ities most difficult to obtain in assistants were, pect, characteristics of good professional as- first of all, accuracy, ability to follow things sistants, but the two qualities that have been through, imagination and good judgment. most emphasized are knowledge of the special Considering the other aspect of staff ade- field of subject and competence in library quacy, the number of persons required to take technique. Such writers as Dr. Bishop and care of given units of work, one must conclude, Mr. No6 would have scholars or genuine after observation of the data available in this scientists in charge. There is some question, of 1'Gkdyr Burrom and RLta McDonald, "S~dlratlon of ataE in Lbrary work." (Pacific Northwemt Library Auo. course, as to whether competent persons in datlon. Procrdimts. 1936, p. 67-73.) April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 119 survey, and in other published sources, that spective duties well defined the administrative norms have not yet been established. So much organization can be clarified, yet kept flexible depends on factors varying in each institution for emergencies. Not the least advantage is a that no definite figures can be set down. This sound basis for requesting an adequate staff. does not mean, however, that individual Another helpful result of analysis will be a libraries, after an analysis has been made of staff manual, or book of procedures, a very use- the work involved in maintaining the collection ful instrument.18 It will eliminate much repeti- and service at high levels, may not determine tion of instructions to new staff members, and their own staff requirements. avoid possible misunderstandings. Unfortu- Although one cannot set up general stand- nately its use does not seem to be general ards, he may observe certain dangerous condi- among departmental or collegiate libraries, as tions existing in the libraries. One of the most only 11 of 45 reporting have such book, while striking facts is the general absence of regular 9 others report partially written procedures. clerical assistance, as only 9 libraries report Student assistants (since they must still be having any. On the other hand, there are an considered) will find aids of that sort quite average of 3 student assistants and 4 N.Y.A. valuable in orienting themselves in the library. assistants to each library, as against the aver- Working conditions of the staff follow as a age number of regular staff members of be- rule those of the university library. Where the tween 1 and 2. In some instances there are as librarian is on full time, he works on an average high as 16 such temporary assistants to 4regular of 39 hours a week, though the time varies members. Such practice must in the end prove from 37 to 44. In a number of instances the costly in terms of quality of service, and tend summer schedule is lighter, from 30 to 33 to lower the morale of the whole organization. hours. A fairly liberal vacation policy on the There have been, from time to time, discus- whole is observed: the range is from two to five sions of certain quantitative factors that weeks with regular assistants often enjoying affect the size of a staff: the same privileges as the head librarian, Houra library is open. though in a few instances their vacations are Size of student body. One survey recommends 5 shorter by one or two weeks. For part-time members for each 500 students to 1,000; 10 for employees the practice varies from no vacation 1,000 students, and 4 additional for every 500 to 15 days. As for sick leave, where a definite rtudents. statement has been made, the allowable ab- Size of faculty. A suggestion was made of 1 library sence with pay is two weeks, though in about staff member for every 10 teaching staff mem- one-third of the libraries the rule is flexible. bera. Leave other than that for sickness is usually Number of volumes in the library. Rate of growth of the library. taken without pay. Character of building or quarters. In spite of the small stds in most of the li- braries, meetings or conferences are reported Qualitative factors suggested were: as held in 13. In only 3 instances do they occur Sufficiency for technical operations and service jointly with' the university library meetings. functions of high grade. Doubtless the advantages of such occasions Method of instruction. Subjects offered in curricu- for discussing problems that arise in the course lum. Nature and extent of work the library undertakes. of work, new books, new bibliographies, or other reference equipment, are fully appre- Once the work of the library is thus analyzed ciated, but the time for such activities, how- and classified, job analyses may be prepared, ever desirable, is not usually available during and qualifications be estabIished.1' With re- library hours. To demand part of the leisure n Two b~bhonraph~esmay be sungested: Industrial Rela- hours of the staff for that purpose is not con- tlonn Counrelora, Inc. "Job analyala end ita allied actmtlea" (Suppl. & Lsb. Bull., 1932); R. hi. Berg, "Suppl. to man- ducive to good will. It would doubtless be agement blbllomaphy. 1931-1935." American Sos. of Mech. much better to encourage members in con- Eng., 1937, P. 21. For Ilhrariea: "A.L.A. Budgeta. claaa~fica- tlon and compensation plana for university and college tinuing professional education either through Ilbrarim." Chicago, 1929: Bur. of Publlc Personnel Admin. 11 Lucy E. Fay, "The staff manual far the c0llc~elibr~V." "Propord clamlheatlon end com!Jensation plans for Hbrpry (Bullelin aj lhs Amerfcarr Lsbrory Assmial~n,Au~ct. 1937, positions." Waehlngton. D. C., 1927. vol. 31, P 164-4458 ) SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4 formal courses or by individual courses of service-in brief, they can never, however study. In other words, the initiative should be numerous, be an adequate substitute for regu- theirs, though stimulated by suggestion and lar members. No student assistant can feel example. That, at least, is the tenor of sug- that the work he does in the library is of major gestions made by those who offered definite importance, so long as his primary purpose is recommendations. success in his studies. He cannot, therefore, Among the personnel problems the most have the same degree of job satisfaction that frequently mentioned relate to the use of the full-time member enjoys, a very important student assistants. Whatever may be said to element in the most efficient organization of condone the evil of that sort of part time help, the staff. the fact remains that some of the students are The whole question seems to turn, in the not dependable, the turnover from year to final analysis, upon the requirements of highly year is almost 100 per cent, hence such rnem- specialized knowledge and professional train- bers cannot be trained as part of the staff, they ing, the cost of which cannot be met by the are unable to handle difficult reference ques- meagre budgets usually allowed the depart- tions, thus to maintain a uniform quality of mental or collegiate library. (To be eoniinued) An Advertisement File for Marketing Students By Marcella Hasselberg, Librarian Business Library, Temple University, Philadelphia

need of our marketing students Periodical Department that is going THEfor examples of early advertising through a period of expansion. The methods has led to the development of a acquisition of long runs of early maga- file that might be of interest to other zines at this time gives us a start that librarians. some libraries might not enjoy. The common practice of removing all From these advertisements a small or most of the advertising from periodi- representative group is selected. If the cals before they are bound causes, in a name of the magazine and the date of few years, a scarcity of contemporary issue do not appear across the top of the advertisements. This is partially over- page, they are noted in pencil, together come by the new policy of many maga- with the subject heading used. zines of running advertisements and The subject headings, devised with the reading matter together on the same advice of the Marketing Department, page. But leafing through bound periodi- are thus far simple ones. One revision cals in search of advertisements is tire- has already been made; others will un- some to the student and increases the doubtedly develop. wear and tear on the magazine. The dis- The main divisions are : Advertise- tinctly tedious nature of this method of ments, Consumer; Advertisements, In- handling the problem caused us to de- dustrial; and Advertisements, Technical. velop another technique. Advertisements from Iron Age, Textile Our Periodical Department turns World, and Railway Age fall in the in- over to the Business Library all adver- dustrial group. "Technical " advertise- tising sections removed from periodicals ments are those from such periodicals as being prepared for bindery. Parentheti- American Journal of Public Health and cally, it should be added that we are in The Journal of Chemical Education. the advantageous position of having a The next division is that of country, April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES followed by time. Typical folders are: cost in 19062" this file will be a "first" Advertisements, Consumer-Denmark- 1936 among places to look. Advertisements, Industrial -U. S.- 1919 It has been found useful to record on 3 We have been inclined, of course, to by 5 cards the name of each magazine view this from our own standpoint and that has been clipped and the years as a solution to a particular problem. covered. Duplication can easily be avoid- Other uses, however, than that for which ed in this way. The file itself has not been it was designed can be made of this file. set up as a separate unit; it is housed in The evolution of the advertising of a the pamphlet collection where it is particular company can be traced. From available with other materials. a sociological point of view, the file is of Since this is a new development and value in that its contents reflect the still a small collection, its usefulness can- interests, habits, and custonls of the not be judged accurately; but it will group for which the advertising was certainly, in this library, be worth the written. And, of course, for such reference small amount of time required to main- questions as "How much did pianos tain it. Library Magazine Articles of Interest By S. Richard Giovine Assistant Librarian, New York Herald Tribune Bulletin of the American Library Associa- proposal bears much similarity to the . tion, . suggestion for a library federation ad- Munn, R. Russell. Organized labor vanced by John Cotton Dana more than and the library, p. 11-13,50. Many years twenty years ago. Miss Mary Louise ago Mr. John Cotton Dana saw the need Alexander in her examination of the plan for special library service for the great says that "its adoption would be a safe, industries and businesses of the country, interesting, and valuable experiment. " and thus was born the Business Branch and the resulting growth of special libra- Bulletin of the American Library Associa- ries throughout the country. Today tion, , p. 98-126. labor has attained an importance and This is the annual number of the status such as never before in history, Bulletin which contains an entire section and with this has come the need for la- devoted to statistics pertaining to school bor library service. Mr. Munn makes a and college libraries throughout the strong appeal to libraries for them to country. Figures on staffs, expenditures, meet and fulfill this new responsibility. salaries, vacation periods. Additional Orman, Oscar C. A federation of Amer- tables comparing library salaries with ican Library Associations, p. 20-24, 50. those of teaching staffs in the same The versatile librarian of the Washing- schools are given. Needless to say, the ton University Library makes an inter- library position receives far less. The esting proposal for reorganization of the figures were compiled by A.L.A. head- American Library Association which quarters. takes full account of the needs and prob- Miller, Robert A. Centralization vs. lems of all national library associations decentralization, p. 75-79, 134-135. The now in existence, of which the S.L.A. is trend in most large universities today the largest in point of numbers. The is for the creation of departmental libra- 122 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4

ries rather than the maintenance of one Distribution of pamphlets and releases single central library for general use. A will be an important part of its duties. fair exposition of the pros and cons of This sounds like an addition to S.L.A. the centralization of library materials; from the point of view of accessibility, Library Journal, February 15, 1939. cost, efficiency, use, etc. Bauer, Harry C. The technical library of the T.V.A., p. 136-139. The Tennes- Bulletin of the American Library Associa- see Valley Authority is truly breath- tion, . taking in aims: the unified development Beach, Robert F. Some useful tech- of the Tennessee River and all its tribu- niques in the reserve room, p. 185-187. taries. Yet in spite of the immensity of That headache of all college libraries the project the need for a special libra- - the reserve collection - comes in for ry was recognized and given an A-1 po- another share of cure under the eye of the sition in the functioning of the Author- supervisor of reserves in Berea College ity. This remarkable library was created Library. A number of specific procedures in 1933 to provide a reference, research are suggested which will be of interest to and information service for all the em- other school and college libraries. It is ployees of the Valley. Here are basic and interesting to observe that nearly all solu- supplementary reference works which tions advanced for the reserve collection have proven invaluable to engineer and are based fundamentally on the close sand-blaster alike. cooperation of the library with the staff. Wilson Bulletin, February 1939. Catholic Library World, January 1939. Keeney, Philip 0.The public library: Sister Jane Frances, O.S.B. Saints for a people's university. p. 370-377, 387. modern readers, p. 134-138. This bibli- Here is important reading for every ography is a rarity. An excellent selec- librarian and library worker in the pro- ted and annotated guide to some of the fession today. Mr. Keeney makes a readable lives of the saints. The general thorough examination of the control of reference works on saints, and books libraries as it is exercised today. The written by non-Catholics are included. analysis is made of the library in its rela- The list is unusually valuable, for only tion to (1) the trustees, (2) the chief four or five of the references are included librarian and (3) the staff. Much em- in the A.L.A. and Wilson catalogs. phasis is given to the board of trustees - its appointment, its powers, its relation Calholic Library World, February 1939. to the public, and finally its relation to Martin-Dillon, Paul. "Let your light the librarian it appoints. Mr. Keeney's shine before men," p. 147-152. To meet: suggestion for the election of depart- an urgent need of the large Catholic mental heads by members of the staff population in this country, the hierarchy follows the plan adopted and tried suc- of the church in the United States cesfully in the municipal colleges in New brought into being a Bureau of Infor- York City. The extension of the plan to mation with headquarters in Washing- libraries will undoubtedly receive serious ton, D. C. This is a well-organized consideration from library administrators central reference department which will throughout the country. There are many supply information on doctrinal matters problems of administration yet to be of the Roman Catholic Church, espe- solved before the library in this United cially as relating to current economic, States can deserve to be called "A social, political and religious questions. People's University." April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 123 1909 - Special Libraries Association - 1939 Mobilixation of Knowledge Tentative Conference Program Thirty-First Annual Confcrcnce Lord Baltimore Hotel -Baltimore, Md. May 23-27, 1939 Tuesday, May 23, 1939 "Stumbling Blocks to Professional Training 9:30 a.m. for Special Librarians," by Eleanor S. Cavan- augh, School of Library Service Extension EXECUTIVEBOARD AND ADVISORYCOUNCIL. Courses, Columbia University and Librarian, NEWSPAPERGROUP Nominating Committee. - Standard Statistics Company, Inc., New York. Discussion from the floor. NEWSPAPERGROUP - Visit to Sun Library. Committee Reports - (a) Training and Re- cruiting, Marian C. Manley, Chairman; (b) 12:OO noon Employment, Margaret R. Bonnell, Chairman; "Get Acquainted Luncheon." (Separate tables (c) Professional Standards, Mary P. McLean, for Groups and Charter Members.) Alma C. Chairman; (d) Student Loan Fund, Rose Mitchill, President, presiding. Greetings from Boots, Chairman. the Hon. Howard W. Jackson, Mayor of Balti- more, Margaret E. Coonan, President, Balti- 4:45 p.m. more Chapter, Special Libraries Association; Sightseeing trip to Annapolis - Viait to Dr. Joseph L. Wheeler, Librarian, Enoch Pratt United States Naval Academy. (Formation Free Library; Dr. John C. French, Librarian, for dinner.) Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Sanford V. 7:00 p.m. Larkey, Librarian, Welch Medical Library; Dinner at Rugby Hall on the Severn. Dr. Horace L. Flack, Director, Legislative Reference Bureau. Responses by (1) Howard Wedneeday, May 24, 1939 L. Stebbins, Librarian, Social Law Library, 8:00 a.m. Boston; (2) a Charter Member. GROUP CHAIRMEN- Oreakfast - Adeline Macrum, Group Liaison Officer, presiding. "Group Leadership and Achievements: To- FIRSTGENERAL SESSION - Alma C. Mitchill, morrow's Problems," and "Group Manage- President, presiding. "Mobilization of Per- ment and Finance." sonality," by Dr. John Robbins Hart, Lecturer PUBLICUTILITY SECTION, SCIENCE TECHNOL- and Consulting Psychologist. OGY GROUP- Breakfast - Edith Mattson, I' Education for Special Librarianship - Com- presiding. mon Denominators": (a) Herman H. Hen- - STUDENTLOAN FUND COMMITTEE Break- kle, Director, Simmons Library School, Boston; - fast - Rose Boots, presiding. (b) Ethel M. Fair, Chairman, Curriculum Committee, Association of American Library 8 :45 a.m. Schools and Director, New Jersey College for NEWSPAPERGROUP - "What the Newspaper Women Library School, New Brunswick; Libraries in the West are Doing," by Laura (c) "What a Job Analysis Would Do for Pro- McCardle, Fresno () Bee. fessional Training and Standards," by Linda H. Morley, School of Library Service, Colum- 9:30 a.m. bia University and Librarian, Industrial Rela- PROBLEMSCLINIC (All Groups participating) tions Counselors, Inc., New York City; (d) - Lucile L. Kedc, First Vice-president, Spe- 124 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4 cia1 Libraries Association, presiding. (a) Cata- MUSEUM GROUP- Margaret Fife, Acting loging; (b) Classification; (c)Subject Headings; Chairman. (Program to be announced.) (d) Newspaper Clippings; (e) Source Lists in NEWSPAPERGROUP - Frances E. Curtiss, Special Fields. (Correspondence with speakers Chairman. "Behind the News in Washington," is in progress and wording of subjects is tenta- by Blair Moody, Washington Correspondent tive.) of The Detroit News; "The Manual for News- 12 noon paper Libraries," by Blanche L. Davenport, Librarian, Christian Science Monitor, Boston. CHAPTERPRESIDENTS - Luncheon - Edith Portman, Chapter Liaison Officer, presiding. SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYGROUP - Katherine Lloyd, Chairman. "Patent Searches," by FINANCIALGROUP -Luncheon - Elsie Rack- W. W. Chapin, Librarian, Scientific Library, straw, Chairman, presiding. Business meeting. Patent Office, Washington; "Journal Index- " Recent Banking Legislation," by Dr. Clark ing," by Vivian J. MacDonald, Librarian, Warburton, Senior Research Assistant, Federal Aluminum Company of America, New Ken- Deposit Insurance Corporation. sington, Pa. ; " Newsdealers - or Where to Get INSUFL~NCEGROUP - Luncheon - Emily C. It," speaker to be announced; "Organization Coates, Chairman, presiding. "How Can a of Search Reports," speaker to be announced; Research Library Help in the Vast Movement "Food and Drug Law," by Mr. Frederick P. of Conservation of Life and Prevention of Lee, Washington. NOTE,- Biological-Sciences Death," by Julien H. Harvey, General Man- Group will join the Science-Technology Group ager, National Conservation Bureau. for this address. NEWSPAPERGROUP - Luncheon - Guests of SOCIAL-SCIENCEGROUP - Isabel L. Towner, the Baltimore Nms-Post Chairman. "Round Table on Periodicals," - UNIVERSITYAND COLLEGE DEPARTMENTALMary E. Furbeck, Public Affairs Information LIBRARIAN^ GROUP- Luncheon - Dorothy Service, presiding. Speakers; Mrs. E. L. Wright, W. Drake, Chairman, presiding. "The Goucher Chief, Periodical and Newspaper Department, College Library Experiment on the Allocation Boston Public Library; Mary G. Lacy, Li- of Funds to Departments," by Dr. Gardiner brarian, U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Econom- Moment, Acting Head, Biology Department, ics, Washington. Lucile L. Keck, Librarian, and Member of the Library Committee, Joint Reference Library, Chicago. "Publica- Goucher College. Discussion, Eleanor W. tions of the Social Security Board and State Falley, Librarian, Goucher College. Unemployment Compensation Agencies," by Ellen Commons, Librarian, Bureau of Business Management, Social Security Board, Wash- BIOLOGICAL-SCIENCESGROUP - Irene M. ington. Strieby, Chairman. "School of Nursing Li- 5:00 p.m. brary and the Curriculum Guide," by Virginia INSURANCEGROUP - Tea - L. Alexander Dunbar, Assistant Director, Nursing Service, Mack, President, The Weekly Undeyihr and American Red Cross, Washington; "Selected Insurance Press, Host. Reading an Aid to the Patient's Recovery," by Elizabeth Pomeroy, Librarian, Medical and 7:30 p.m. Hospital Service, U. S. Veterans Administra- Banquet. Toastmaster, Christopher Billopp, tion; " I-Iospital Library Interneship," by Eliz- The Evening Sun. Guest Speaker, Sir Willmott aheth Morrissey, Librarian, Sheppard-Pratt Lewis, Washington Correspondent for the Hospital, Baltimore: "The Patient's Library, London Times. "Farewell to Love," a one-act Johns Hopkins Hospital," by M. Theodosia play by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clernents, Chapman, Librarian. NOTE.-At 4:OO P.M. the given by the Hopkins Playshop. Group will jom the Science-Technology Group to hear Mr. Frederick P. Lee, Washington, on Thursday, May 25, 1939 the Food and Drug Law. Washington Day COA~ERCEGROUP -Josephine I. Greenwood, The Washington Day program will consist of Chairman. (Program to be announced.) visits to libraries, sightseeing tours and inspec- April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES tion of a specially arranged exhibit of Govern- ment publications in the Department of Com- BIOLOGICALSCIENCES GROUP - Meeting at merce Auditorium, prepared under the direc- the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty Library. tion of Adelaide R. Hasse. Special Libraries "Organization and Administration of a Special Association Headquarters will be maintained Library from the Viewpoint of Dental Use," at the Washington Hotel where luncheon will by Dr. J. Ben Robinson, Dean, Baltimore be sewed at 1:00 o'clock. College of Dental Surgery; "Regional library plans," by Mildred Benton, Librarian Soil Friday, May 26, 1939 Conservation Service and other librarians of the Department of Agriculture; "How a PUBLIC BUSINESS LIBRARIANS GROUP- Special Librarian Can Facilitate Research in a Breakfast - Adra M. Fay, Chairman. "What Particular Field," by Eileen Cunningham, the Business Man Expects of the St. Louis Librarian, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt Public Library," by Edith B. Varney, First University, Nashville. Tea with Marcia Noyes, Assistant, Applied Science Department, St. Librarian, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Louis Public Library. follows this meeting. COMMERCE,FINANCIAL, INSURANCE and PUB- LIC BUSINESS LIBRARIANSGROUPS - Joint NEWSPAPERGROUP - "New Books and Serv- meeting. "Some Aspects of Income Statistics," ices of Interest to Newspaper Libraries." by Dr. Robert Nathan, Chief, National In- come Section, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; "Financing the Housing Pro- SECONDGENERAL SESSION - "The Associa- gram," by Dr. Ernest M. Fisher, Economic tion" -The President's Report, including Adviscr, Federal Housing Administration. summaries of Committee Reports, Alma C. NEWSPAPER GROUP- Frances E. Curtiss, Mitchill; Secretary's and Advertising Man- Chairman. Query Round Table. (Questions to ager's Reports, Elizabeth Lois Clarke; Treas- be sent by mail.) urer's Report, Adeline Macrum; Editor's Re- SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYGROUP - Katherine port, Marian C. Manley; Chapter Reports Lloyd, Chairman. (Program to be announced.) (Abstracted), Edith Portman, Chapter Liaison Officer; Group Reports (Abstracted), Adeline 5 :00 p.m. Macrum, Group Liaison Oficer. NOTE. Op- - UNIVERSITYAND COLLEGEDEPARTMENTAL "Look- portunity for discussion will be given. LIBRAR~ANSGROUP - Meeting at Johns Hop- ing Backward and Forward - An Appraisal," kins University Library. " Increasing the Use- speaker to be announced. fulness of the Library," by Marjorie C Keen- 12:00 noon leyside, Librarian, Central Y.M.C.A., Chicago. Dinner at Johns Hopkins Club; Greetings, Dr. CHAPTERSECRETARIES AND TREASURERS- John C. French, Librarian, Johns Hopkins Luncheon - Elizabeth Lois Clarke, presiding. University. "Faculty Library Committees," B~OLOGICALSCIENCES GROUP - Visit to Welch by Mildred B. Watson, Department Librarian, Medical Library and luncheon. Commerce Library, Ohio State University, INSURANCEGROUP - Emily C. Coates, Chair- Columbus. man. Round table discussion. Sightseeing trip of Baltimore. (All who register NEWSPAPERGROUP - Guests of The Balti- for entire Conference will be guests of the more Sun. Speaker, Hamilton Owens, Editor. Chapter.) CHEMISTRYSECTION, SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY 8:00 p.m. GROUP- Thelma R. Reinberg, Chairman. BEGINNERS'CLINIC - Kathryn Peoples, ti- SOCIALSCIENCE GROUP - Luncheon - Isabel brarian, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, L. Towner, Chairman. Speaker, Mary V. Pittsburgh, Chairman. This clinic has been Robinson, Director of Public Relations, U. S. planned with the idea of presenting case Women's Bureau, Washington. studies and diagnoses of policies as Iound in 126 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4 company libraries. Provision will be made for tions," Dr. James K. Hunt, E. I. du Pont de discussion from the floor and for personal con- Nemours and Co., Inc., Wilmington. NOTE.- ferences with consultants after the meeting, "The Work and Publications of the Brookings if desired. Participants: Beginners - Jean Institution," by Dr. Laurence F. Schmecke- Norcross, Beatrice Howell, Betty Barrett, bier, Institute of Government Research, Margaret Lloyd, Elizabeth Beach; Consultants , Washington. Report -Jolan M. Fertig, Florence Fuller, Ruth of Nominating Committee - Mildred B. Savord, Geraldine Rammer. Potter, Chairman. Election of Officers. Re- port of Resolutions Committee. May Saturday, 27, 1939 12:OO noon 8:45 a.m. INCOMINGEXECUTIVE BOARD Luncheon. BIOLOGICAL-SCIENCESGROUP - Annual Meet- 5:00 p.m. ing - Irene M. Strieby, Chairman. INSURANCEGROUP -Annual Meeting - Em- Tea aboard the S.S. President Waryield. ily C. Coates, Chairman. 6:30 p.m. Anchors Aweigh! 9:30 a.m. N~E.- (1) Informal breakfats in the Coffee THIRDGENERAL SESSION - "Mobilization of Shop are planned by several groups but are not Knowledge Through Research Agencies." scheduled above. (2) Business meetings of "Translating Research into Policy," by Dr. Groups are not shown unless scheduled by the J. Frederic Dewhurst, Economist, Twentieth Chairman as a separate meeting. (3) Visits can Century Fund, New York City; "The Monop- be made to libraries described in the several oly Inquiry," by Kenneth H. Condit, Execu- issues of The Baltimore News-Letter on Tuesday tive Assistant to the President, National morning between 9:30 and 11:30; Wednesday Industrial Conference Board, New York City; afternoon between 5:00 and 6:00, or on Satur- "Scientific Progres and Its Social Implica- day afternoon.

Board Meeting Notes

HE Executive Board met in execu- relieves the magazine of the burden of Ttive session on February 24th, 1939, already presented material, leaving it with the chief subjects for action the free for fresh content. budget for 1939, the consideration of the The qualifications necessary for the qualifications needed by the next Editor, Editor were discussed at some length and the question of the publication of the were considered to be as follows : 1939 Proceedings, and the possibility of As lo Association Practics the development of an interesting project 1. Know Association background, traditions and in the promotion of the use of business policies. information. 2. Know S.L.A. personalities and interests, and The Executive Board voted to con- how to draw in contributors from the mem- tinue the practice established in 1938 bership. 3. Know how to establish and maintain contacts and publish the Proceedings separately with in activities. because of the widespread interest in these Proceedings by members normally As Magasine out of touch with this phase of Associa- 1. Be prepared to either write for various depart- tion activity, because this action provides s= that comptent do the for prompt publication 'On- 2. Know how to hold department heads to print. ference material in a unit and because it ing schedule for their material. April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 3. Know how to select and epitomize hiation were suggested for contact by the Presi- news from all parts of the country. dent. 4. Know how to create interest through "Letters The Executive Board and Advisory to the Editor," symposiums, etc. 5. Know how to cover professional literature. Council met Saturday, February 25th, 6. Know how to supervise advertising so as to 1939, with a full and interesting discus- make it a creative side-line. sion on many points. The report of the 7. Know how to foresee constructive use of re- Publications Committee showed the fol- print material from the magazine so as to tie it in with the work of other committees or lowing projects were under consideration with the publications program for S.L A. or nearly ready: Union List of Chemical Periodicals; Trade Name Index; Hand- book of Commercial and Financial Serv- 1. Be equipped and have time available for mak- ices; Professional Schools and Depart- ing-up and putting the magazine through the press. mental Libraries Survey; Subject Head- 2. Be prepared to handle the compilation of Pro- ings for a Financial Library; and two ceedings. manuals for organizing libraries. ' 3. Be equipped to prepare or supervise the prep- The report of the Employment Com- aration of the index, covering approximately mittee showed several interesting proj- 1,624 entries, and the use of special type forms ects in prospect. The Membership Committee brought out the fact that 1. Stenographic assistance to handle the exten- activities were moderately well under way sive correspondence needed in assembling in different sections, and that a new and material. For example, the series of articles interesting leaflet for contact with busi- in the February issue involved probably 50 lettere by the Editor. The symposium on ness executives had been prepared. The "Important Books of the Year" involved Board moved that the closing date of the another 50 letters, etc. Correspondence with campaign be extended to April 30th, the printer, typists' assistance in preparing 1939. Thereport of the Nominating Com- copy, etc., are all needed. Filing apace will mittee was presented and accepted with probably be two drawers of a standard vertical tile cabinet. enthusiasm. The report of the Pro- fessional Standards Committee showed It was the consensus of o~inionthat progress and consideration of several the various complications made it almost problems. All in all, much that was con- essential to appoint an Editor from the structive and little that was debatable metropolitan area, and various names was considered in the all-day session. S.L.A. Is the Entire Membership T IS indeed true that an Association S.L.A., I would be in a better position I is only successful as it stimulates and to formulate a program which would be is stimulated by its members. Knowing beneficial to everyone. this, every President of S.L.A. has en- With this idea in mind, my first direct deavored in'different ways to reach its contact was to send a letter to many of members and to keep alive in them the those who had attended their first con- spirit of interest and coijperation. The vention in Pittsburgh asking for their - method which I have used in several in- reaction, and whether the meetings had stances is that of direct contact. It been helpful to them, or if not, why not? seems to me that if I could learn di- The replies received have been of con- rectly from each individual member what siderable assistance to those planning for he or she wanted and expected from the Baltimore Conference. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4

My second direct contact was the I may have to the organization lies simply in the letter sent out with the Proceedings. The fact that there is at leaat one interested person in a virgin field, tho sometimes I doubt that it is responses received have had a great in- a very fertile field." fluence on future policies of the Associa- From a group chairman: "What a good idea this tion. ia! You know I scarcely need to pledge you my The third contact was through the ready support. It is at least very willing, though first issue of the membership campaign I bog down often with pressure of other things. bulletin, "Moving Forward," and the To the best of my ability, and as time permits, I statement of membership proposals. Here will do the things p.1p0ne.d." From the pcridcnr of a wshn chapter: "We shall again I was more than pleased by the indeed be happy to coliperate in every possible evidence of wide interest. The replies way in your membership campaign. Our bulle- have shown that many members remote tin for March will carry a special article to at- from active contacts with Association tract new members. As you know, the object of work still take a definite interest in its our entire program this year has been to promote policies and procedures. While the re- better public relations." From a public librarian: "We have considered turns from those in active touch (two ways in which our membership in the Special from members of the Executive Board, Libraries Aaaociation may be more fully utilled. five from committee chairmen, six from One suggestion is that the attendance of staff chapter presidents, and five from group memben, at Special Libraries Association con- chairmen) indicated that those working ventions be encouraged. It seems to us that directly with Association problems felt such meetings would be fully as interesting and valuable to staff members as the American that their responses to the various points Library Association and other association meet- were understood, the replies from 25 as- ings. . . . Special Libraries Association publica- sociate, 86 active and 33 institutional tiona seem to be used to good advantage at members revealed that many welcomed present. SPECIALLIBRARIES is routed through this opportunity to analyze their inter- the staff and articles and reviews are always in- teresting and valuable." ests and to respond accordingly. The From an institutional public librarian: "I am not geographic distribution of the replies checking the list you sent me, but am taking this show this universal interest as follows: meanr of saying that you may count on us for New England 16, New York 30, New help in everything within our range." Jersey and Pennsylvania 30, the south From an unduly modest member: "It would be 17, the central states 32, and the far west fine to send you mme very fonstructive informa- tion, or even suggest that we take on an Insti- and Canada 15. A selection from the tutional Membership. No, it cannot be, funde many comments show interesting and are low and ideas worse. The amount of it all is stimulating points of view: that we are such a very special, special library, that we do not really get very much, or are we From a chemical librarian: "The suggestions in able to give much to others. . . . All I have the 'Memo to the President' have been in the been able to do is to have my force join 100 per back of my mind for the past year. Bringing cent." them to light should have a good effect." From a subsniplion library: "Whatever I can do It is my sincere wish that every mem- for the Special Libraries Association, I shall be ber of S.L.A. will feel free at all times to glad to do. . . . This is not much of a letter, send in to me suggestions for future but it conveys good-will and shows that your projects. The Association is yours. It memorandum hasn't passed without thought." needs your cooperation and help at all From a far wed mnnbtr: "Enclosed is the little rheet of 'promises.' Of course I realize that times. thew are intended for leaders of groups, but I will do what I can. I realize also that any value April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Making Up the Magazine IV. Minor Complications in the Editor's Life Official Notes, Board Meeting Reports, and other Features

NE of the complaints made in other quently most trying to the Editor, who 0 days about SPECIALLIBRARIES was struggles to get the records in proper the infrequent reporting of Executive form and correct printing set-up, while Board actions. During the last five years shifts must be made in response to tele- reports of Board meetings, covering the graphic notice of complications develop- important actions in concise form, have ing up to the last minute of going to press. appeared regularly. Since almost invaria- It seems probable that until an editor bly these reports have gone to the printer has gone through the labor of printing a long before the official Board meeting convention program several times, she minutes were available, one of the Edi- will not have solved many of the prob- tor's several tasks has been to draft the lems involved in type and arrangement. notes and secure official approval, with- To be consistent in style and economical out too great delay on the part of the in space, and therefore cost, is much mails or otherwise. more difficult than the finished product Other official notices caught on the fly may indicate. The Program Chairman are conference notes, data and statistics who realizes that copy for the printer from membership chairmen, Nominating should never be less than double-spaced committee reports, Employment Com- and that underlining, which may mean mittee announcements, notes from Group one thing to her and another to the chairmen and Chapter presidents, official printer, can most safely be left to the rosters for the Advisory Council and Editor, does much to simplify the prob- many other official and semi-official items. lem. A study of earlier forms as printed In most cases individuals have made in SPECIALLIBRARIES for preceding years valiant efforts to coiiperate in sending will help in this. The carefully preserved material promptly. That such efforts are printer's copy of earlier programs show- not always successful can be attributed ing type indications will in turn help the to the difficulty of realizing the rapid Editor. Since different types, sizes and passing of time when any connection styIes must be used to designate days, with the printing press is'involved. Air hours, groups, speakers, themes and other mail is all too necessary in providing for features, the study of the earlier forms printing the official news of the Associa- will help immeasurably in conveying in- tion. The many complications have fre- formation and keeping costs down. quently made it easier for the Editor to submit, for change, her suggestions for The Proceedings needed copy, rather than "hold the The year 1938 saw the first appearance presses" while others wrote. of the Proceedings of the Annual Con- ference as a separate publication and the Convention Programs resulting release of pages in SPECIAL The conference program problem is one LIBRARIESfor fresh and stimulating of the most trying of the year's complica- articles. The Proceedings were compiled tions - trying to the Program Chair- and put through the press by the Editor man, the Conference Chairman, and fre- of SPECIALLIBRARIES, however, so the 130 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4

Convention was, for her, not without its Editing long-winded speeches, calm- heavy aftermath. ing the nerves of hysterical chairmen, Since a first issue should serve as a adjusting statistical tables to page re- model for later volumes, problems of quirements, deciding on type sizes for compilation, type and format required titles, subtitles, and meeting designa- attention. Pre-printed official reports, tions, all have their humorous though radio broadcasts, general session papers, exhausting moments. The mere physical joint meetings, luncheons, the Beginners' task of pasting up more than 2,200 inchea Clinic, and Group proceedings and meet- of galley proof in the appropriate page 5ngs all had to be blended into a logical work to form a satisfactory volume made and harmonious whole. When the mate- of this first Proceedings volume a fan- rial consists, on the one hand, of long tastic task for which its great value to papers and, on the other, of informal the membership at large compensates. notes inadequately prepared, and may Volume I of the Proceedings of the be immediately at hand or can only be Special Libraries Association represented secured by complicated negotiations, the a strenuous life for the Editor. The ex- Editor's life is not without its moments pressed appreciation of members, how- of stress. These complications are not ever, and the compliments that have lessened if she puts the Proceedings been received from university and public through the press while working with a librarians as well as research workers short vacation staff, preparing for her more than compensate for the crowded own vacation, and handling a number of hours of those sultry July days. special reports. M. C. M.

The Nominating Committee Report

HE Nominating Committee submits the Tfollowing list of candidates as officers of Special Libraries Asso;liation for the year 193%1940: President - Alma C. Mitchill, Librarian, NOTE.-The Directors whose terms have Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, not expired are Mary Jane Henderson, who Newark, New Jersey retires in 1940, and Howard L. Stebbins, who First Vice-president - Laura A. Woodward, retires in 1941. Librarian, Central Research Library, The As the last retiring President, William F. Maryland CasuaIty Company, Baltimore, Jacob continues to be a member of the Execu- Maryland tive Board. Second Vice-president - Josephine B. Hollinga- worth, Department Librarian, Municipal Notice of Annual Meeting Reference Library, Los Angeles, California AS REQUIRED by By-Law VIII, Section 1, Treasurer - Josephine 1. Greenwood, Li- notice is hereby given that the annual business brarian, Consolidated Edison Company of meeting of Special Libraries Association will New York, Inc., New York, New York be held Saturday, May 27, 1939, in the Lord Director for Three Years - Ross C. Cibella, Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, in Librarian, Hall Laboratories, Inc., Pitts- connection with the annual conference of the burgh, Pennsylvania Association. DOROTEYM. AVERY ALMA C. MITCHILL,PreJidCnt. Mas. LOUISEP. DORN ELIZABETHLOIS CLARKE,Secretmy. April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES News Notes Special Library Manuals. . . . The News- of different media for business information, paper Group is planning a handbook for those based on a specific project such as the develop- who are organizing or reorganizing newspaper ment of a certain business in a particular area. libraries. Approximately twenty different li- Methods. . . . Always an important subject brarians are engaged on chapters on various for special librarians, this has had marked at- phases of the work. . . . The Public Business tention at recent meetings. The Pittsburgh Librarians Group has ten chaptere of its Chapter gave a thorough and comprehensive manual already prepared and in the hands of treatment of the subject at a well-attended Marian C. Manley, co-editor with the Group meeting. . . . The New Jersey Chapter de- chairman, Adra M. Fay. . . . The Science- voted its March meeting to an informal dia- Technology Group has had " Organization and cussion of methods used in acquiring informa- Administration of Technical Libraries" in tion, in making it available to the organization, prooess for some time, but completion is and in establishing contacts for securing planned for the first of May. . . . News comes information through membership work. . . . from Mary Louise Alexander that the manua! The Illinois Chapter had for its February proposed as part of the Trade Association meeting a discussion by Mrs. Betty Fisher of Project is practically ready except for basic the Reuben. H. Donnelley Corporation, on lists of material. The prospects are that the fall "Methods of Compiling, Classifying and Cata- will see some important and long awaited pub- loging the Donnelley Red Book," a subject lications in this line. that was of great value to the members of the Training Courses. . . . After careful investi- Chapter. . . . The Cleveland Chapter held gation of members' interests, the Southern Cal- its Methods Clinic at the March meeting under ifornia Chaptk is carrying on a survey course the leadership of Rose Vormelker. mvering the department8 of the Los Angelea The President Visits. . . . With thin ad- Public Library. Each department librarian is ministration, S.L.A. is making a marked effort giving one lecture and a conducted tour of her to send the President to all of the chapters 80 department. This generous public service is that the Executive Board may have an oppor- offered by the public library in the interest of tunity to secure help and advice on Associa- improving relationships between the special tion problems and the members may have librarian and the public library. The course is closer insight into questions coming before the open only to members of the Chapter, and a Association as a whole. Miss Mitchill spoke to small fee to cover costs is required. There is an the members of the Philadelphia Council at enrollment of 42, of whom 14 are new members. their December meeting. In January she at- The Chapter is to be congratulated on the tended the joint meeting of the Baltimore effective work done by the chairman and Chapter and the District of Columbia Library committee members of the In-Service Training Club, and discussed the advantagis of coijpera- Committee. tion between special and public libraries. In The Pittsburgh Chapter's training project February she visited the Connecticut Chipter is an evening course in bibliography covering at its Springfield meeting. various types, the methods to be followed in In March Miss Mitchill carried out a tour compilation, and the technical requirements of several Chapters, beginning with a meeting of god work. The course is given in three lec- on March 14th in Chicago; on March 15th in tures by Moms Schrero of the Technology Milwaukee; on March 17th in Detroit; on the Department of the Carnegie Library of Pitts- 22nd in Cleveland; and on the 24th in Mon- burgh. . . . The New Jersey course on Busi- treal. This makes a comprehensive round. ncas Information Sour= is given under the Groups. . . . The Sodal Science Group is joint mspicee of the University of Newark making a special effortto discover publications and the New Jersey Chapter. This course con- which the group might promote. . . . The msta of ten lectures given by Marian C. Man- University and College Departmental Librari- ley, and ~rovidesa quick survey of the uses ans Group is showing marked activity and 10 132 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4 bringing out an informative bulletin which has ing, administration, cataloging and classifica- included basic reference lists for departmental tion, equipment and supplies, government libraries, and a consideration of the functions documents, order work, pamphlets and pic- of the departmental librarian. tures, periodicals, reference work, and a mis- In February the Cataloging, Commerce, cellaneous heading. This noteworthy mntribu- Financial, Insurance and Junior Conference tion brings up to date the earlier bibliography Groups of the New York Chapter met for a on the same subject issued in'the joint meeting. After a visit to the library of the issue of the Bulletin. National Industrial Conference Board and din- The New York Chapter this year has lim- ner at a nearby restaurant, the groups heard an ited its general meetings to four in number. interesting talk on "Monopoly Investigation " The third was held March 15th, with the sub- by Dr. Robert F. Martin, Director of the Divi- ject, "The Pros and Cons of Compulsory sion of Economic Research, National Indus- Health Insurance." . . . The March meeting trial Conference Board. . . . The Science- of the Pittsburgh Chapter turned from business Technology Groups of the New York and New and professional problems to a social and cul- Jersey Chapters had a profitable and enjoy- tural evening, with the speaker Dr. Solomon able meeting in February when Dr. Otto Bett- B. Freehof, talking on "The Four Great Books man of the Bettman Archive for Pictorial of 1938" in a joint session with the Pittsburgh History and Research, formerly a Berlin Library Club. . . . In Philadelphia the March librarian, gave a brief commentary on how he meeting, like that at Pittsburgh, had a delight- came to adopt the profession of pictorial re- ful literary tendency, with Mr. A. J. Goldin, search. 0 insurance lawyer, author and student of News Here and There. . . . The New York Dickens, speaking on "The Case of Bardell vs. Municipal Reference Library will provide an Pickwick." In April the annual dinner will be important part of the exhibit in the City Ex- held at the Poor Richard Club, and will be hibit Building at the New York World's Fair. purely recreational. One feature is a photo-mural explaining the The Baltimore Chapter followed the exam- siphoning into the library of printed material ple of New Jersey by having a dinner meeting and its use by city officials and citizens. Photo- on March 28th, to which businessmen were graphs of the acquisition and cataloging proc- invited. One of the guest speakers was Mr. esses in the library and of reference work Roger Jones, who talked on the recent report for the public form the background of the of the Central Statistical Board to the Presi- mural, while six three-foot shelves flat in the dent, showing that there are 135,000,000 sta- wall contain representative city publications. tistical reports received by the government Adjoining the exhibit is an information desk from businessmen, 98,000,000 of which are which functions for the City Exhibit Building required by law. . . . The Montreal Chapter demonstrating the type of service a civic li- believes in snappy publicity for its meeting brary is prepared to give. announcements, and sent out for the meeting, Some Chapter Actitdies. . . . The March 24th, a full-page newspaper headline Chapter Bulletin strikes a new note by print- calculated to make the members sit up and ing a page of greetings from the editors of the take notice. The fact that the meeting was Montreal and Cleveland bulletins. . . . The held at Chez Ernest aroused envy on the part Southern California Chapter had for its March of those who visited Montreal in 1936. meeting two topics, "Streamlined Public Rela- The February meeting of the Boston Chap- tions," something essential for special libra- ter was held at the Dewey Library of the rians, and "Filing of General Records for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with Business Libraries," another important topic. the speaker Mr. D. V. Brown, Assistant Pro- . . . The March issue of the Bulletin of the fessor of Industrial Relations. In March the Southern California Chapter has a valuable Chapter had a delightful visit at the Children's bibliography of periodical articles on special Museum, while April plans include a joint library methods from 1936 to date, divided meeting with the Connecticut Chapter at the under such headings as abstracting and index- American Antiquarian Society in Worcester. April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 133 Here and There in Print. . . . The : "If you are in Specid Library work or issue of Harper's Mugaeim has an interview have thought about it at all, the new Proceed- with Ida M. Tarbell, with a note pleasing to ings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Spe- special librarians. "At that time there was in cial Libraries Association is about the best the Public Library of New York City one of thing you can get hold of on the subject, being the ablest of American bibliographers- full of timely articles on all phases of specialized Adelaide Hasse. She had helped me more than librarianship. The 'Beginners' Clinic' papers once to find a scarce document." What Miss are especially rich in good hints to the begin- Hasse did in this instance is not unusual for ning special librarian." her, but it makes the story worth reading. The U. S. Department of the Interior, Office "Librarians Lend a Hand at the Institute of of Education, has recently published Bulletin Government" was the title of an interesting No. 23, " Professional Library Education," article by Josephine B. Hollingsworth, Li- by Nora E. Beust. . . . It has all the things brarian of the Los Angeles Municipal Refer- librarians do every day illustrated with little ence Library. It appeared in CiviG Affairs, the line drawings such as borrowers make in the publication of the Civic Affairs Council of the margin of your best books. School of Government and the Department of Texlib World for February 28th contains in Political Science, University of Southern Cali- its Way-to-Profits Section on page 105, this fornia. sound statement: "A good librarian responsi- Francis Maule's book, "Road to Anywhere," ble for review of the literature and efficient gives a review of the achievements of Agnes notification of the department members of Law, of the Columbia Broadcasting System. current articles bearing on each individual's . . . The rotogravure section of the St. Lods activities, together with a well-cataloged sub- Globe-Democrat for February 19, 1939, con- ject file covering notes, correspondence, and tained a series of photographs of various de- reports of the department is invaluable." partments of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. A.S.L.Z.B.Informtion, in its issue of March Louis, including one showing the library. . . . 1939, reviews "The Special Library Profession A photograph and an interesting note about and What It Offers," saying in part: "This Cornelia Notz appeared in the American Im- volume comprises and presents a most useful port and Export Bulktin for February 1939. and informative symposium on the work and The February 1939 issue of Pennsylvania opportunities of librarians in a number of Planning, the publication of the Pennsylvania specialist fields. . . . Special Libraries Asso- State Planning Board, contains a good article, ciation of America deserve congratulations on "Library Service as a Planning Tool." . . . the successful compilation and issue of the most Norma Olin Ireland wrote about S.L.A. Pro- informative volume on special library work ceedings in the Wilson Bulktin for November which has appeared for some time past." Letters to the Editor To enable the librarian to feel the strength of A Move for Community Understanding his co-workers, to hear the problems of the library HE Metropolitan Library Council, with in the present-day world discussed, and to add his Theadquarters in New York City, has been voice, his Ideas, and hisexperience toward forging recently formed to bring together thoee who use a guide for action - a group of librarians in New and those who work in libraries in order to York City decided to hold a series of monthly strengthen and extend library facilities to all the forums on topics such as, "The Library and people and to make the library an active force in Social Thinking"; "The Library in a Democ- our democracy. Particularly is it important for racy "; "The Author in a Changing World," etc. librarians to take an active part in the world of This group chose aa temporary chairman, Wil- today, for it is impossible for them to remain liam H. Brewer, Jr., Librarian of Stuyvesant aloof or unaffected by the changing scene which is High School, and invited a number of thew col- moving at a faster pace than at any other time in leagues from the Metropolitan area to act as hltory. sponsors of the undertaking. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4

On the evening of January 27th, thirteen spon- which do not have these publicationa and which sors met with the temporary committee to dis- would find them very valuable. These reporta cuss the purpose and objectives of the forums and record, as you how, the activities of the relief to effect some kind of organization. The name program as administered by the Federal Emer- Metropolitan Library Council eeemed to the gency Relief Administration from May 22, 1933, sponsors to express an idea which they wished to through June, 1936. An long ae the supply laata, convoy, namely, that these forums should not be complete sets or odd issuea will be sent free to only for librarians and friends of libraries in New any library. Addreas inquiries to The Library, York City alone, but should also be open to those Worke Progrew Administration, Washington living in the surrounding areas of Long Island, Auditorium, Washington, D. C. Westcheater, New Jeraey and Connecticut. EYERSONROSS, Director, At this meeting, officers and an executive com- Diviswn of Statistics and Economic Restarch. mittee were elected from the floor. William H. Brewer, Jr., Chairman; S. Richard Giovine, Sec- S.L.A. Student Loan Fund retary; Elizabeth French of Abraham Linmln HE Fund continues to grow, slowly but High School; Ole Groos of the New School for Tsurely. Contributions to date total $147.50, Social Research; Margaret Kenny of Hunter distributed as follows: College; and Kathleen Leighton Foley, Rornana Javitz and Adele C. Martin of the New York $10.00 National Insurance Group (first con- Public Library, members of the executive tribution) committee. 27.50 Contributions of individual members Adequate public support of libraries to enable 65.00 Chapter contributions (Illinois $50; them to met the demands of changing times, the Southern Caliiornia $15) extension of library servioe to the forgotten 37% 40.00 Loan Fund for Student Librarians' of the people of the United States who have no Committee of the Education and access to books, the need of widespread cduca- Public Welfare Department of the tion among all the people to insure the preserva- Chicago Woman's Club (repreaent- tion of culture, pay for librarians comparable to ing the amount of interest paid by that of men and women in other occupations re- the Chairman on a loan enabling her quiring similar training, fdomfrom censorahip to attend Library School) in the selection of booh and periodicals and aim- 5.00 Contribution to the Association from ilar subjects were discussed at this sponsors' H. W. Wilson Company, paid to meeting and at subsequent executive committee Miss Marguerite Burnett; thia meetings, and possible speakers were suggested. amount having been tendered aa a The first forum will be held on Friday evening, meeting attendance fee. April 21st, at 8.15 P.M., in the auditorium of the - New School for Social Research, 66 Weat 12 $147.50 total Street, on the topic, "The Library in a Democ- In addition to the above I am happy to report racy." Two other meetings will be held before the the following: summer holidays, one each in May and June and, during the summer, plans will be laid for a 1. A pledge of $100 by the New Jersey Chapter program for the corning fall and winter. At each to be paid in . 2. Ten Chapters thus far have signified their forum an admission fee of 50 cents will be intention of coaperating by holding benefit charged to defray expenses. parties in April or in making contributions Anyone desir~ngfurther information, or wish- ing to be placed on the mailing list may write to in other ways: Boston, Connecticut, Illinois (in addition to $50 contribution); Michigan; the chairman or secretary, care of the Metropoli- New Jersey (in addition to $100 pledgc); tan Library Council, 243 East 39 Street, New New York; Philadelphia (in addition to $16 York City. raised at Board meeting at opening of drive) ; S. RICEARDGIOWNE, Secretary. Pittsburgh, and Southern California (in ad- dition to $15 contribution), and plans are Publications Available under way in Milwaukee. HE Works Progress Administration has for 3. Announcement (seen in Pittsburgh Bulletin) Tdistribution a large supply of Monthly Re- that the entire proceeds of a course of three ports of the Federal Emergency Relief Admin- lectures on Bibliography, given by Mr. istration. Morris Schrero at the Carnegie Library at It is thought that there may be many libraries Pittsburgh, to 13 membem of the Pittsburgh April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 135

Chapter are to be given to the Fund In view of this information it seems unwise for (amount unknown). the committee to issue, at this time, what can at Individual contributions, great or small, will best be but an incomplete list. We are, therefore, be appreciated and may be sent to the Special postponing indefinitely the publishing of the pro- Libraries Association Student Loan Fund, 345 posed lithoprinted list. Hudson Street, New York City. There will be ESTHERA. SMITH,Chairmun, no closing date for donations, but we hope that Committee on " Refer-from" References, the goal of $1,000 to be raised during this ad- of Ih A.L.A. Catdog Seclion. ministrative year will be reached before the Glossary on Binding Baltimore Conference. GLOSSARY of Terms Relating to Library ROSEBOOTS, Chairmaw, A Binding has been completed by Louis N. S.L.A. Student Loan Fund. Feipel, Chairman of the American Library Asso- One more "Letter to the Editor" ciation Bookbinding Committee, for the Manual of Library Binding projected for publication by PPARENTLY, in our recent letters, Miss A.L.A. The firat draft, in mimeograph form, cov- A Morse and I have failed to convince each era more than fifty pages and includes terms re- other of the tenability of our respective positions. lating to supervision of binding purchases by There is, of course, a great chance for difference librarians and to the processes in the bindery. A of opinion, since Special Libraries have varied few copies of the Glossary are available to mem- tremendously in type, in requirements and in bers of the Special Libraries Association, who opportunities. Several Special Libraries Associa- wieh to undertake to review the draft and offer tion committees are now at work on projects suggestions for additions and revisions. To those which should result in the presentation of a who agree to cdperate, a copy will be aent with- clearer picture of the field. I believe that it will out charge. eventually be possible to work out definitions and Lours N. FEIPEL, standards which will represent a real coneensus of Public Library, 1 Hanson Place. opinion in the Association. Until that time comes, Miss Morse and I will have to agree to disagree in Soil Conservation Literature everything except our mutual desire to see the T HAS occurred to me that there are perhaps Association grow and prosper. I same special librarians who may be interested CHARLOT~EN. TAYLOR, in a bi-monthly, mimeographed publication, is- Ekpcrimrmtal Station, sued in the Library of the U. S. Department of E. I. du Ponl & Nemdurs & Co., Inc. Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service. It is en- titled " Soil Conservation Literature - Selected Library of Congress " Refer-from" Current References." References Although it is our policy to restrict the mailing ORD has been received from the Library list to membere of the Service, cdperatora, add w of Congress that "considerable progress agricultural libraries, I shall be glad to consider has been made during the year on the projected specific requests from librarians who may have fourth edition of the Subject Headings. It is particular need for it. hoped that the work may be issued by the end of MILDREDBENTON, Librarian, 1940 or before July, 1941, but a postponement of Unrkd Stabs Department of Agriculiurc. the date of publication may prove necessary be- Soil Consmiion Seniu. cause of the continuing bulk of our cataloguing An Appeal to Members work. Whether or not, in the final determination . of the content of this book, we find ourselves Please send in your able to include the 'refer-from' references will Advanced Registration Card depend in no small part upon our solution of Hotel Reservation Card the typographic and other problems involved Wash~ngtonDay Questionnaire, and in the undertaking. For that reason we shall wel- Cruise Reservation Card if YOU wme suggestions from cataloguers regarding the plan to go to Williamsburg. typographic style, size and general make-up of These cards (whether or MIYOU are coming to the volumes (bearing in mind the fact that the the conference) will help us so much in making projected fourth edition may require perhaps our plans for luncheon and banquet and An- 2,800 to 3,200 pages if printed with, and perhaps napolis. 2,000 to 2,200 pages if printed without, the 'refer- LAURAA. WOODWN, from ' references)." Confnnicc Chairman. lo* SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4

Naturally all this is rather outside the field of Cooperation for Special Libraries other special library group, including techno- O~PERATIONin every phase of life seems logical libraries, hospital librariee and those C to be the slogan of our age. In the midst of connected with business organizations. Tho= the deplorable chaos of international affairs we librarians, however, could well cotiperate in this hear pleas for collperative action among nations. instance, by displaying professional interest in In our own country, big business and labor groups the project, and by participating personally in an urged to cdperate in an effort to end their at least one tour. In their own field, nevertheless, perennial strife and clashes. Entire countries, there are countless scientific undertakings or amaller local groups and even individuals are events in which they may take part, and to which organizing cdperative societies as a solution of they have much to contribute. modern economic and social problems. Libraries, Hospital libraries, for instance, and librariea of as well, are sharing in this movement. The idea of medical schools or of medical eupply firms, might union catalogs is constantly gaining in favor as a collperate in displays at medical conferences held means of inter-library cooperation. More and in their locality. In the same way, the libraries of more, public libraries are joining forces with business organizations could participate in in- other community organizations or institutions in dustrial exhibits or meetings. In most cases, no carrying out some local project or exhibition. single special library of this kind has the staff, A group of junior librarians in New Jersey this time or equipment to undertake euch activities, year have organized a series of tours to historic but a group of librarians working together could and interesting libraries in their state. At the accomplish aomething very worth while, both to outset, historical society libraries in that vicinity their libraries and to the community. offered much source material about the old libra- All that I have said bears out the remarks of ries and other historic sit=. Reginald Coggeshall in his article, "Making the Some special libraries, those of historical Library News," which appeared in the Library societies or colleges, for example, may, for one Journal for January 15, 1938: "If you want pub- reason or another, be included in such tour licity for a library, you will have to make it." itineraries. There is a splendid opportunity for Special libraries, just as much as public librariea, them to coiiperate, and incidentally to benefit muat be alert today, must be eager to utilize by some helpful publicity. These same libraries every means of publicity and community cdpera- may have in their files interesting old pictures or tion which comes their way. Librarians, like rare historic data wh~chthey could make avail- nations, cities and individual citizens, may well able for publicity purposes. Local newspapers find in helpful, friendly collperation the aolution and most magazines are eager to secure unusual to many of their problems. It may also prove the story material of this type, and the fact that the beginning of greater development and progress library in question has prov~dedthe information for their own libraries. this time may impress the editors with the fact ELIZABETHC. MADDEN, that therein lie rich possibilities forfeatun articlw. Monlclair Public Library. Publications of Special Interest Agar, Herbert Pursuit of happiness. Houghton, Burlingame, Roger. March oj the iron man. Boston. 1938. 386 p. $3.00. Scrfbners, I. Y. 1938. 500 p. 83.75. Thls atory of Amencan democracy la a thoughtful. pcne- A fasdnntlng book showing both what Invention ha1 trating analys~sof the conditlona brought about through done Lo make thla country a nahon and what problema It energy and entcrpriac combined with greed, careleas araatc. has created Stlmulnt~ng,sclectlve writing, well docu- and polltlcal corruption. The ~owbllltyof reform through mented for further study. Excellent llluatratlona mhowlng a clearer vlslon of Jefferson's underlrmg prlnclplen la clearly technical promem Good alphabetically arranged blbllog- Indlcatcd. Well documented. raphy with claaalfied Index. Helpful chronology of evenh Brooks, R R R Unions of their own choosinp. and inventlono A thrllllng plcturc of compllcated progress. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. 1939. 2% p. Cadee, H. R Handsome is as handsome does. $3.00. Appleton, N. Y. 1938. 104 p. $1.50. An ~llumlnatmgaccount of the National Labar Relatlone A airnple, practical and eRcctlve account of MY# to de- velop good lwka and good physique In bable~. Board and 1t8 work ahowmg the many cases acttled- before- formal procedure is necersry, the reawn why a amall num- ber of cases have hen the baoia for formmg a good deal of carfer,J~~ and ogden, jess. E~~~~~,~ publlc oplnlon, and how the Board and its procedure re- drama' American for Educationl flectn the current ph~lomphytoward ernoloyer-- emolovce..-- N. Y. 1938. 136 P. $1.00. relat~onn.Well documented and comprehensive. A atudy of the soseommerdd theatre in th. Usltd April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 137

Stntm, shorlnr the rrowing contncta through the Peded tory and romance of New Hamwhlre am Its movth is repre- Theatre Project, the college theatre movements. the little .caW thmwh art and ~nduatry.The wupl good aelst~onof theatres, etc. The fine work done by Individuh in South illuatratlons and of ~u~~lmentprychronology and blbUog- Dakota. North CaroUm, etc.. la noted. Attention la given raphy la ahom In thla tut. Another mUent contribution to audlence reaction throughout the country. to an Important rrim. Chancellor, John, TompHas, Y. D. end Medway, Gubbels, J. L. American liighways and roadsides. H. I. Helping the reader toward sev-education. Houghton, Miftlin, Boston. 1938.94 p. 52.75. American Library Assoc., Chicago. 1938. 111 p. An enUghtdna account of roadaldc landrpplng and ita $1.25. relation to emnodcd. ufe and beautiful highway6 as It touche8 on ermioa and other problem. Well ~Uustrated. A aoad brief survey d material aMllable for reader hdp, Spne and colutructlve In discussion. The tremendou#growth indudinr concir practical auggeatlona for techniques and and vital plnce of highway development makes thla partlcu- ~cdentaurveya of Uterature on thls and related toplea. In- larly urful. dud- a good llat on descriptive Uterature for npecific voca- tlonu and ty~ea. Hacker, L. M. American problems of tadoy. Chenoweth, L. B. and Machle, W. Industrial Crofts, H. Y. 1938. 354 p. $3.00. hygiene. Crofts, IT. Y. 1938. 235 p. $2.00. Thia hiatow of the Unlted Statea atnce the World War A prsctlcal, simple treatment lowing cblef causca of eivm an acellent summary of the emnornic, political, m- clal and cultural Lrenda and developmenb amply nupple- scddenta. preventive measures, first aid measures, health mented by bibl~ographicalreferences. Many tables and rcrvicc of induatry, etc. Well Illuatrated, Including equip- ment Plcturea, anmples of accldent procedure, etc. charta am included. The author la fan and dlrerning In hla approach. Connah, D. D. How to bu17d the radio audience. Jaquee, F. P. Canoe country, illustrated by P. L. Harper, N. Y. 1938. 271 p. $3.00. Joques. Univ. of Minn. Prese, Yieapolis. Rovlding the nudlence la as important as providing the 1938. 78 $2.50. vronram, and the variou8 atepa in build-up are diectlvely p. prucnted. A kautilully ~lluatrattd,aimply told account of a canoe trip rn the lake country of Northern Mlnnemta through Connolly, S. H. What do you know? McKny, the hauntaof theloonand wild duckand even of Lhe moose Philadelphia. 1938. 454 p. $2.00. and bear. Cloa observatlan and mt~cInterpretation mark both the tat and the Illustrations. Wlth the current quiz fever, thee queatlona and amera we an entertalnlng and enllghtenmg storehouse for asslat- gahn, H. S. How to make the most of your life. an=. Indued by aubject and by type of quh, auch a# true- Harper, Y. 1939. 149 p. $1.75. falle, multlplcchoice, Identlficatlon, etc. IT. A practical, lucid and enterta~nlnghtmenL of the dif- Ewing, C. A. M. Judges of the Subreme Court. ferent phaaea, human reiationa, health, mental hyglene. Udv. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 1938. money, ~nchcalphllomphy, etc The common sensc pmc- 124 $2.00. tlces that we all know are treated In a snappy, intereating p. way. Whlle them la nothlng p~rtlcularly orig~nal nor A careful analys~aof the appolntmenta to the Supreme atartling it does glve worthwhde advice in easlly acaimllattd Court on the basia of atate and uctional representation, age. doaea. education and prior publ~cofice uperlenm. The author's sp~roachto the study is rnterestlng and dlatlnctlve and the Landry, S. 0. Life insurance - what it ir and how rmulta indlcate careful atudy and arrangement. it helps you. Pelican Pub, Co., New Orleans. Feded Writers Project. Eric, a guide to the city 1938. I26 p. $1.25. and counhy. Wm. Penn Assoc., Philadelphia. Much that la hiatoritally intereatlnr and mote that la of 1938. 132 p. $1.50. lmmedlate practicnl value Included in th~asmall volume, Sumdul in givlng vivld hlatorlc notes and colorful rather jerky In style, but wnnble nnd conatruetlve in mn- atorles of a later day and comprehendve in it8 treatment of tent. Glvcs good account of mnthemhd bade of llfe 14data. Not an .~tIdactorym phydcal makcup am moat Insumnee and valuable ~uggeatlonon individual problcrna. of the serles. Lockhaxt, R H. 8. Gum or butler. Little, Brown. Federal Writers Project. Minnesota. Yig Boston. 1938. 429 p. $3.00. Ress, H. Y. 1938. 523 p. $2.50. Travel In Germany, Austria, the Balkma and In Scandi- In Mlnnemta, the American Gulde Scrim covers a atate navla, dwelllnr particularly on the reaction I~wnrdcurrent that haa comprcssnl pioneering daya and the development evenla of leading figures in political Me. Falr, sympathetic of major metropohtan arena into one short century, and and rllumlnatlng. The notea on Rumania and Bulgaria are covers intereats ranglng from larrmng to mining, lumbering particularly enl~ghtening.Another side light on the person- and dlderne~preservation. The unusual quaUty of the allties and problems of present day Europe. atate'a hlatorv iareprernted In theenterprise of It# leaders, a quality effectively trented In thla acellent handbook with Lorenz, Theodor, ed. and tram. Friedrich Pat- the uaual fine features pertaining to this scrier of nuldcs. sen, an autobiography. Columbia Univ. Press, H. Y. 1938. 514 p. $3.25. Federal Writbs Project. New Hamjshirc. Thrs autoblogtaphy of a great German educntor shows Houghton, MifBin, Boston. 1938.559 p. 9.50. hln develoDtnent from a chlldhwd in qulet a~ricuitunlaur- Thla gulde to the granlte atate aLllUully recorda the h~l- mundings on through the influences of etimulatlrlg teachers 138 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Vol. 30, No. 4

In school and univemdy to the author's own conetructlve who make our laws and helpful as indlcatlng trends In rmlit- work in pedaaogy. Delightful In Its direct unaffected plcture ical thought. Good hdef notes on varioua contributors ln- of hls response to the influences of home and environmsnt cluded. and engrossing In ~tsatory of the changing point of vlew toward educational theory. Foreword by Nlcholas Murray Simpson, Kemper. Margin trader. Harper, N. Y. Butlcr 1938. 170 p. 52.00. Lowell, A. L. What a university president A searchlns analyda of the margin trader's relatlon to the bualncsa cycle wrltten wlth caustic clarlty. Helpful In ahow- has learned. Macmillan, N. Y. 1938. 150 p. Ing undcrlylng ~roblem~In the markets for securltles. $1.75. Indudes tables ahowlng volume of trading, securlty Issues, A allrewd and scamned obscrver comments, from hls past etc. uperlence as teacher and uecutive head of a large unl- verolty, on the psycholog~calfactora in effectlvc admin~c Smith, L. P. Unjorgotten years. Little, Brown. tntion and on other phases of student-faculty relntlonshlp. Boston. 1939. 296 p. 12.50. Mmrked by wund common sene rather than the creative An enchantlns record of the Quaker boyhood and youth splnt. of one of the gcrfect atyllsta of this Ilternry age. Days In England wlth Quaker revlval~atparents, daya In Phlladel- Murrell, William. Histoy of American grabhic phia wlth Walt Whltman as a falnlly intimate, atdwng humor 1865-1938. Macmillan, N. Y. 1938. 271 gllmpaen of unusual and brllllant women and endearing p. 16.50. notes on hfc under many pleasant cond~tlonatold wlth en- chanting humor and tender appreclatlon. This fine survey, publlahed under the ausplces of the Whlting hfuaenm of Amdcan Art, 1s a soclal hmtory as well Sorenson, Herbert. Adult abilities. Unk. of na a fascinating record of humor as repreaented In dlfferent techn~queaand for many decades. The author showa a keen Minu. Press. Minneapolis. 1938. 190 p. 52.50. appreclatmn of the factors enterlng Into thc development of A conndrratlon of one pilax of adult education that dlf- cartoon and cmcature The selections of lllustratlons are en- fus from most texts In the field by relatlng the assembled grossine. A good list of sources Is Included. data to pomb~l~t~eafor indlvldual development and pre- sents constructwe Ideas for growth that can result in mental Odell, G. C. D. Annals oj the New York stage. stlmulation. Intcrestlng in Its notea on aptitude for various Columbia Univ. Press, N. Y. 1938.884 p. $6.75. types of claae work as affected by agc and ezperlence. Volume of the amarlngly complete record compiled by Steams, H. E. ed. America now. Sctlbnere, N. Y. the Brander Matthew Profcamr of Dramatrc L~terature. Records the achlevunents and failurea in opera concerts and 1938. 606 p. 53.00. on the dramatic and variety atage. Includes many p~cturca. As In 1022 the same editor assembled eseaya on dlfferent phaaea of C~vlllzatlonin the United Statea by some tlllrty Pach, Walter. Queer thing, Painting. Harper, authors so m this volume thlrty-two discus8 the dlKerent N. Y. 1938. 335 p. $4.00. social and economic problems facing the country. The va- rlet~In uointa of dew helpa to create lntereat and the excel- The understanding record of development In modern art lent bromphlcal notea asalat In interpreting the authors' and the relatlon to it of crit~ca,dealers, collectors and othen. approach to a prnblern The friendah~pof many of those deserlbed has enhanced the 11fe of the author-a gift shared freely w~ththe reader. of Viking French, Mcdcan and American artlsta are most d~seuascd. Stolberg, Benjamin. Stoy the C.I.O. Flne ~lluatntionr. Press, N. Y. 1938. 294 p. $2.00. A provocative, vivid atory of a great labor movement by Penny, Prudence. Prudence Penny's cook book. an able and prejudiced author. who dves much permnal and Prentice Hall, N. Y. 1939. 385 p. $2.50. tactrcal datn colored by hls own strong vlewa. Intereatlng. vlv~dand thought-provoking. Particularly good for notea The home econonucs ed~torof the Lus Angdcs Bramcner on Indindual and organlzatlonal movements around the wntes an excellent cook book that glvrs spcclfic Instructions for measurements and tlme In cooklng. Good definltlona of country. terms, many genrral timetables for vanoua ty~esof cooklng and aood foreign reclpea. Pract~calin suggestions Straus, Ralph. Lloyds: the gentlemen at the coffee house. Carrick and Evans, N. Y. 1938. Roger, J. H. C@italism in crisis. Yale Univ. 327 p. $3.75. Press. New Haven. 1938. 210 p. $2.50. A full story of the development slnce 1574 of a major A clear dlscuaslon of the present economlc mtuation buslness Inst~tutlonthrough Its inception In qn early coffee eDltomlnng the varlous pants of vlew of leading economlsts. howe to ~tspresent Impresalve xttlng and technique, bankera nnd financlal atudents a~lddrawing sane conclus~ons glvlng much data on marltlme disasters and progreaa. for steps for actlon. Well documentcd. Intereatmg In presen- tation. Tiattner, E. R. Architects of ideas. Carrick and Salter, J. T. ed. American pol~tician. Univ. of Evans. N. Y. 1938. 426 p. $3.75. North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 1938. 412 The storm of the great theorlea of manklnd as developed by Cowrn~cus,Lavoiser, Malthua. Darwln, hiam, Ell~etcln p. $3.50. and others Clearly told In excellently wdtten emys wcll Excellent characterization and conclse studlee by elullful supplemented by h~blioymph~calreference3 and illuatmted wrlters In the fields of hlstory. journallsrn and polltical by portraita of the varloua leaders whose work la dlscusaed. aclcnce of leadmp Americana who have been elected to An excellenl summary of the thoughta that have "nioved varlous offices. Important In the conmdemtion of the men the world." April, 1939 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 139 Van der Leeuw, T. G. Religion in essence and I manfistation. Trans. by J. E. Turner. Mac- S U B S C R I p TI 0 N $ millan, N. Y. 1938. 709 p. $6.75. .nd :i h m ia of any AMERICAN Antltropology, soctology, history and paycltolog~nil con- bed& and a tnbute to thta d~scuwionof the factors that enter into recuoMbbprioer. religloua experience of all kinds. A scholarly, exl~auattve and llluminatrnn treatment. well su~~lementedby biblrc- S-idt~- .. CoIll~lete Bets and lamer mphcal references. runs of ouGtanding aid prominent %&- I tific Periodic&. White, W. A. A Puritan in Babylon. Macmillan Sunpb eo ru &, lirrr price qua- N. y. 1938. 40p. 53.50. I ~~QIU~~~~~Urniahal. --- A synmathels. closely woven btography of Calvin Cool- idge, falr In lta realtzation of hts merits and his limttat~ona and fasnnating in ita analysis of the dry, ahrewd Yankee's relarion to the lnvolved wltttcal pageant of Ids years of &tabI*M IW maturity. I Wilkins, R. l'7. Spirit of ihe legalprofession. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. 1938. 178 p. S2.50. An understanding Interpretation of the best In legal 1118 tory and what the legal profeseion haa brought to the acrvice of manllnd. A discerning and selective picturc of the mowth of legal pnctlce tllrougl~Rome. England aud Amer- ica baaed on listed authoritlea. BOOKS Wflron, L. R. Geography of reading. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1938.481 p. 51.00. Endle~facta about Library diatr~bution,per caplta u- penditurm, Index of book den, income Indicea, cultural RICHARD S. WORMER fators and almost anythlng remotely related to library development, ably presented in a long and erhaustive study. PP WEST 48~~STREET excelling In factual data but without interpretations, dc NEW YORK ductiona or forecasts concerning po.%ible mental or aplrltual develo~mentbthind the statistics.

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