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This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1950s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1954 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOLUME 45 MAY- JUNE 1954 NUMBER 5

Visual Instruction in the Use of A Medical and Dental Library Elizabeth Webb Cooper

Information Files Disposal of Obsolete Material Margaret K. Odell

Subject Headings Selection and Use in "Readers' Guide" Sarita Robinson

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CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Visual Instruction in the Use of A Medical and Dental Library . . ELIZABETHWEBB COOPER 195 Information Files: A Method for Automatic Disposal of Obsolete Material . MARGARETK. ODELL 199 Subject Headings: Their Selection and Use in "Readers' Guide" ...... SARITA ROBINSON 203 New Libraries in Cincinnati . DOROTHYMCNUTT 206 Mailing Library Loans in "Laundry Kits" (Texas Medical Memorial Library) ...... 2 10

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION SLA Convention Notes ...... 208 President's Message: Chapter Visits . LUCILEL. KECK 211

DEPARTMENTS Chapter Highlights ...... 2 12 Have You Heard ...... 2 14 Publications Received ...... 2 17 From Foreign Journals ...... KARLA. BAER 2 18 Letters to the Editor ...... 219 Obituaries ...... 220

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ELIZABETHWEBB COOPER Order and Display , Medical Center Library, University of Alabama

HERE IS NO MORE gratifying experi- difference in the bibliographic experi- Tence to a medical librarian than ence of new students, interns, residents, that of leading the faltering steps of a members of the house staff, professors, newcomer to the library through the local physicians and visiting foreign labyrinth of medical and dental litera- doctors. All of these patrons must be ture until he can find his way alone. given a varying amount of instruction The success or failure of the modern in the use of the library. doctor rests largely upon his ability to Third, the instruction must be avail- keep up with the vast amount of pub- able at all times. Although a large num- lished literature on recent discoveries ber of new patrons come in at the be- and new developments in his field. It is ginning of the school term, others arrive the responsibility of the librarian to see later. There is, in fact, a steady influx of that students and doctors are properly newcomers all through the year. It is instructed in the most efficient and con- impossible, therefore, to complete the venient methods of doing this. The ideal period of orientation in any specific of medical librarians is to provide this time. guidance for each new patron. Lecture Courses Such an ideal cannot be achieved In some medical libraries, steps have without overcoming many difficulties. already been taken to overcome these In the Medical Center Library we have difficulties. Lecture courses in bibliogra- developed a method of instruction which phy are given in a large number of greatly - minimizes the obstacles to be medical schools. The bibliographic tools surmounted. We find the use of visual are explained in great detail, the stu- media in the form of booklets and dents are taken on tours of the library charts to be an effective aid in the and given laboratory periods with writ- orientation of new patrons. This form ten assignments for practice. In many of instruction was developed after care- libraries lectures on bibliography and ful consideration of the problems en- tours of the library are given also to countered in teaching the use of the the interns, residents and any new pro- library and its resources. fessors who desire this instruction. Problems Such steps are a great help in solv- There are three main difficulties to ing the problem of adequate instruction be overcome in order to give each new- in bibliography, but they are not with- comer adequate orientation: out their imperfections. The bibliogra- First, individual instruction, or some phy course is given to the student usual- effective substitute for it, must be pro- ly in his freshman year, although he vided. Since the number of new patrons may not actually put it into practice to in most medical libraries is so large any extent until he reaches his junior that the librarian can no longer give or senior year. The time allotted in the individual attention to each, new ways course for the explanation of the bibli- of teaching must be developed to over- ographic tools, such as the medical in- come this handicap. dexes and the card catalog, is rarely Second, the method of instruction used sufficient for the students to obtain a must be adjusted to the varied back- complete understanding of these instru- grounds of new patrons. There is a wide ments. This situation, which exists be- cause of the complexities of a crowded will also be those few who will either curriculum, is usually one which can mentally or physically sleep through not be easily remedied. The librarian the lecture. can do very little, therefore, except Booklets and Charts exert every effort to make the best of In order to reach these students, and these unfavorable circumstances. also to provide a simple review for Mechanical Aids those who might easily forget what the In doing this, there are various me- instructor has said, we have devised a chanical aids which may be employed. system which preserves for permanent Orientation by use of a motion picture reference the main points discussed in such as the one prepared by Thomas the lecture. E. Keys, The Mayo Clinic Library - Photographs are developed from the An Introduction to its Use, is an excel- negatives made for the lantern slides lent way of giving an introduction to which we use in our lecture on the in- new patrons. The use of lantern slides, dexes and the card catalog. These photo- however, is a less expensive and more graphs, with an explanation of each, widely-used method. are mounted in the form of booklets It is quite simple to take an individ- and charts which may be conveniently ual, or a small group, to the card cat- employed for detailed instruction in the alog and the index table, where the use of the items pictured. object of discussion may be seen, and Indexes the idiosyncrasies explained. The booklet which was prepared as a When the groups of newcomers are guide to the use of medical and dental too large to makessuch a practice feas- indexes in the Medical Center Library ible, however, it is a tedious task to is mounted in a durable back and kept make the explanation of these intricate on the index table where it is readily tools clear enough for the student to available to those who need instruction. understand and remember what he has This booklet is composed of photo- been told. graphs of carefully selected sample Lantern Slides pages from each of the indexes. The The handicap of being unable to topics chosen as examples for study are give the instruction through actual use underscored on the photographs and ac- of the catalog and indexes can be over- companied with a detailed explanation. come to a large extent through the use The subjects selected point out the of lantern slides which present the tools various arrangements of each of the almost as clearly as if they were at indexes. These differences and the par- hand, and in some ways more effectively. ticular advantages offered by the indi- When this method is employed, the vidual indexes, as well as the methods preparation and selection of the slides employed by each, are thoroughly ex- to be used should be done with much plained. For example, in order to show care. Their number should be limited the differences in the subject headings to prevent the danger of boredom, and used in the four series of the Index the photography should be expert so Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Of- that the subject is perfectly clear. fice we have selected a subject and If these procedures are successfully followed it through by using a photo- executed and the slides are then pro- graph of a page from each of the four jected in a partially-lighted room where series. Details of the other indexes are the students can see the instructor, the covered in a similar manner. The ex- use of slides can be a most effective planations are brief and to the point, method of teaching. However, there but no important detail is omitted. will always be those students who are Card Catalog unable to grasp at first glance all that The booklet on the card catalog is the instructor is telling them, and there similar to that on the indexes. The ex-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES planation of this important tool is on a chart similar to the one on the made vivid by enlarged photographs of card catalog. This chart may be used as sample cards of each type used in our an exhibit at meetings of historical so- catalog. A list of the information which cieties and similar organizations. Used may be found on the cards is given either as a booklet, or an exhibit, it is with references to each item on the a great help in explaining our Historical examples photographed. The classifica- Collection to those interested in mak- tion system is explained, the main rules ing donations and we believe it has for filing the cards are presented, and been responsible for some of the gifts a list of the special files in the catalog, we have received since it was prepared. with a detailed account of each, is in- The same thing is true in the case of cluded. rare books. The booklet, Cataloging During the period of student orienta- fhe Rare Book, which is a detailed ac- tion we place above our card catalog a count of how we handle our Rare Book large chart which is composed of a brief Collection, is also prepared in such a outline, or summary, of the most impor- way that the pages may be detached tant information given in the booklet and used as an exhibit. It, too, encour- on the card catalog. On this chart the ages our patrons to consider leaving photographs of the sample cards are their treasured rare books with us for enlarged even more than those used in proper storage and care. the booklet and the explanation is let- Unless patrons are familiar with the tered so that it may bk easily read many facilities offered by the library from a distance. and are aware of the services it renders, Newcomers who hesitate to ask ques- no library can live up to its greatest tions about the simple functioning of possibilities. Through these instruction- the cataloging system, often remain in al booklets the patrons of our library darkness about some important detail are continually reminded of the exten- rather than expose their ignorance. The sive resources offered and are thus stim- use of a chart explaining the operation ulated to make use of the library's of the catalog removes the necessity many services. for questions which might cause embar- This visual method of instruction is rassment. The information is in plain also a good supplement to the courses view for anyone who wishes to read it. in bibliography. It offers an excellent substitute for individual instruction. Medical History The freshmen students use the book- In addition to the booklets on the lets as a means of reviewing the course card catalog and the indexes, we have before examination. The booklets also prepared similar booklets on the Ala- serve as a summary and review for the bama Medical Historical Collection and junior and senior students who may on cataloging the rare books. Our His- have forgotten what they learned in torical Collection is composed almost their freshman course in bibliography. entirely of gifts. When a doctor is con- Students are not the only patrons to sidering making a gift of some historical profit from this form of instruction. It item, we feel that he will be much more offers a means of bridging the wide inclined to present it to our library if gaps which lie between the backgrounds he understands how we take care of of newcomers to the library, from the such material. inexperienced intern to the polished, Our booklet on the Historical Col- foreign, visiting physician. The book- lection explains each step in processing lets may be considered a kind of serve- the material placed in this Collection yourself style of instruction by which for permanent preservation. The pages information is placed on display so that of the booklet are detachable so that the patron may take or leave as much they may be slipped out and mounted of it as he sees fit.

MAY -JUNE, 1954 Summary Bibliography In this manner we have, to some BARNARD,CYRIL C. "Medical school libraries." extent, overcome the three main diffi- Lancet 2:826, Oct. 3, 1936. , culties in giving each newcomer ade- CROWE,MILDRED R. "Public relations," in: A Handbook of medical library practice. To quate orientation in the library and the be published. literature it contains. CUNNINGHAM,EILEEN R. "Instruction given 1. Through the use of the booklets each to medical students regarding the use of newcomer may obtain the equivalent.of the medical library." J. A. Am. M. Coll. 12:367-385, Nov. 1937. individual instruction. FRANKENBERGER,CHARLES. "The Value of 2. This instruction may be adjusted to the medical college library to the student." his particular needs. He may spend as J. A. M. A. 63:655-56, 1914. much, or as little time as he wishes in HLAVAC,HELEN. "Teaching bibliography at the New York University College of Den- studying the booklets. tistry Library." Bull. M. Library A. 40:360- 3. There is no limit to the period of 362, Oct. 1952. orientation. Whether the newcomer ar- KEYS, THOMASE. "Medical librarianship: rives at the beginning of the school Looking toward 1970." Bull. M. Library A. 27 : 208-212, March 1939. term or in the midst of the summer va- KEYS,THOMAS E. "Symposium on visual aids cation period, the booklets are always and the medical library." Bull. M. Library on hand. A. 35:321-322, Oct. 1947. By using this method of visual in- MARSHALL,MARY LOUISE. "Teaching the use struction the librarian's influence may of the library at the graduate level." Bull. M. Library A. 40:359-360, Oct. 1952. be extended so that every newcomer MEYERHOFF,ERICH. "A Bibliographical man- who wishes it will receive an. orienta- ual for users of a medical library." Bull. M. tion in medical or dental bibliography Library A. 41: 118-121, . that will make him feel as much at POSTELL,WILLIAM D. "The Formal training of medical students in the use of the li- home in the maze of medical and dental brary." J. A. Am. M. Coll. 15:241-244, 1940. literature as he does with his daily POSTELL,WILLIAM D. "Further notes on the newspaper. Who knows what a differ- instruction of medical school students in ence such a feeling of being at home medical bibliography." Bull. M. Library A. may make in the success of the doctor's 32: 217-220, April 1944. RUNGE,ELIZABETH D. "Teaching the use of practice and in his contributions to the the library." Bull. M. Library A. 20:14-15, advancement of medical knowledge? July 1931.

CONVENTION EXTRAS

S~~nclny.May 16. MILDREDOELKE, chief, Wright-Patterson Technical Library, extends an invitation to SLA members to attend the open house in celebration of ARMEDFORCES DAY at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base. The program will feature spectacular aerial demonstrations and a ground display of nineteen different planes used by the Air Force today.

Monday. May 17. The CINCINNATICOLLEGE OF PHARMACYwill hold its annual open house. The American Pharmaceutical Association has sponsored this event annually for the past fifteen years.

Friday, Mny 21. LOITISV~L~.LDAY, the post-convention program in the heart of the blue grass country has been planned hy Ralph Shoemaker, librarian, of The Courier-Jorrrnnl, and by Mrs. Marian Veath, librarian of the Reynolds Metal Company. T.IRRARY TOIJRS. Special trips have been arranged to permit SLA visitors to see some of the outstanding libraries in the environs of Cincinnati. Included among the libraries srherlulrd to receive SLA members are: CHAMPIONPAPER & FIBRECOMPANY, Hamilton, Ohio; NATIONAL CASH REGISTERCOMPANY, Dayton, Ohio; PROCTLR& GAMBLECOMPANY, Miami Valley. A special invitation has been received from the KECNLLANDASSOCIATION TRACK RESEARCH LIBRARYat Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky. The unique collection is devoted lo thoroughbred horse raring and breeding.

198 SPECIAL LIBRARIES INFORMATION FILES A Method for Automatic Disposal of Obsolete Material

Research Analyst, Remington Rand Inc., Washington, D. C.

HE LIBRARY INFORMATION FILE, annually for a single legal size cabinet. Twhether it is maintained in ver- Every file cabinet which houses value- tical cabinets, or in folders, or in binders less or infrequently used materials is on a divider-type, bracket stack, shelf an overhead cost. file, contains all too frequently a large volume of obsolete and useless mate- Automatic Method rial. The retention of this material is An automatic method for clearing due largely to the fact that the acquisi- files of obsolete material is far more tion and processing of new library ma- effective than reviewing each item sep- terials in the interest of serving the arately to determine its current and library's clientele takes precedence and future value. leaves little time for reviewing and re- A plan should be adoptea that pro- evaluating the library file contents. vides for an elimination date signal at Information files in special libraries the time the material is filed so that may contain pamphlets, catalogs, clip- removal is an established regular pro- pings, magazines, reports, studies, proj- cedure operation rather than a deci- ects, correspondence, etc. This informa- sional judgment operation by the libra- tion is gathered on the basis of its use- rian performed at infrequent and irreg- fulness to the organization. Broadly ular intervals. speaking, material that is superseded or otherwise rendered obsolete, material Appraisal It takes time and more than one point that no longer reflects current company interests, may be considered to be with- of view to give proper consideration to out value. The retention of unused ma- the appraisal value of subject informa- terial adds to the cost of equipment tion. One should begin from the point of view of the users of the information and overhead. in estimating the value of the material Housing and Overhead and the period of its usefulness. The fair average current cost of a One of the greatest factors in saving steel cabinet is eighty dollars. The fair overhead expense is the proper classi- average cost per square foot of floor fication and indexing for segregation of space (office space, not storage) is ap- permanent value material from tempor- proximately two to four dollars (high- ary value material and for grading ma- er of course in large metropolitan areas terials according to their life value. where the cost may be double). A legal The "weeding out" (reading) method size cabinet requires three and one-half used for disposal of material in an in- square feet of floor space and the aisle formation file, while apparently very and open drawer, three square feet, simple, is very often a costly and in- when more than one battery of cabinets accurate operation. When the weeding is used. is delegated to one of the junior libra- Therefore, in addition to the actual rians, the lack of experience and knowl- cost of the file cabinet one must reckon edge of the value of the material to the also the rental cost of added floor organization or to the library users space, from seven to fourteen dollars leads to unnecessary risks and to dubi-

MAY - JUNE, 1954 ous decisions. When the weeding is as- symbols to indicate his appraisal of its signed to a well-informed employee, the life value. task of reading inactive material is con- Situations may arise when one user sidered less important than current marks a piece of information "T 2" and operations and consequently is rarely another uses the same information and executed. values it as "T 5" and still another An effective way to appraise the life values it as "P". Each marks his ap- value of file holdings is to mark mate- praisal on the material and the libra- rial returned by borrowers with a pre- rian then selects the longest period for classification symbol prior to replacing retention so as to preserve useful ma- it in the collection. Each folder or each terial. item may be marked "P" for PERMA- The librarian is alert to the need for NENT, and "T" for TEMPORARY,with control of high or careless evaluation the number of years- 1, 2, 3, 4- by any user just as management con- marked thereon. Obsolete information trols the use of RUSH,URGENT, IMME- may be marked DESTROYand perma- DIATE, in transacting daily business. nent inactive information marked TRANSFER. Preclassification It may even be possible to ask a user Preclassification for retention period of special material to mark one folder prior to filing makes for a low-cost pro- or subject each day or each week until cedure providing prompt clearance of completion. temporary value information and pre- When filing current pre-classified ma- servation of permanent value informa- terial, previous material of the same tion. The librarian may assist in the type may be marked similarly. Follow- preclassification marking at the time ing appraisal by the library staff, in- of distribution when a class of informa- formation considered obsolete may be tion has previously been appraised by submitted to the users for approval to the users. Information secured by the destroy. librarian for possible use and filed with- The system is flexible since users of out distribution, should be pre-classified the file may wish to reconsider the use- for retention period by the librarian fulness of the material at hand. who knows the requirements of the li- However, proper consideration of the brary clientele. appraisal value of file information should be made before filing takes place. Cost and Savings The cost of establishing the pro- Consulting the Experfs cedure and the savings effected may be Individuals acting upon, using, or cre- summed up as follows: ating information, are in a position to (a) the time of each user currently for know the value to the organization of marking the symbols "P" or "T2" certain items of information. Executive or DESTROY on a piece of informa- management institutes many practices tion that are followed daily by all members (b) the time of the librarian for plac- of an organization. These are not neces- ing signals on the folder or binder sarily in the nature of a task but may for regular withdrawal be a simple operation, such as signing (c) the preparation of a card record one's initials on a communication to for an established regular chrono- indicate that its contents have been logic removal of information, index noted by the individual. cards, cross reference sheets or Similarly, executives could issue in- cards from the files structions that every user of the libra- (d) the time of the librarian for re- ry's information file material should moval of the information and the mark each item with the appropriate index cards

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Distribution Control indicating the current year's disposal The librarian receives or secures pub- and removes the items so marked. lications and other types of information When the separate large-volume card for distribution to those requiring or index is used for cross-references, the using the information. The distribution cards, with the current year in the cor- may be the publication intact, a clip- ner, may be removed by first arranging ping from the publication, a reproduc- according to subject the material taken tion of the information for multiple from the file to be used as a guide in simultaneous distribution. Therefore a removing the cards from the index file. method is instituted for marking each An alternate method is to prepare a copy to avoid filing permanently sev- disposal card for each subject and each eral copies of the same piece in the cross-reference which can be a dupli- information file. cate of the index cards.

Disposal Control Historical Information An orderly procedure for segregating A large part of every information permanent and temporary value infor- file consists of management ideas or mation after the papers have been material used previously that brought marked "P" (PERMANENT)or "T)) results in the past. The material is (TEMPORARY)at the point of creation marked PERMANENTbut does not have or receipt for action or attention is active reference value. Inactive perma- established in the library to fit into the nent material may be transferred to a file arrangement maintained. storage file accessible when reference When the file is maintained under a is required. The inactive permanent file numeric subject code arrangement with must be maintained as a complete file an alphabetic index for subjects and under the same arrangement as the cross-references, the file material for active file. The removal of the inactive each subject is signalled for quick re- permanent material may be accomplish- moval at specific periods and the index ed by preparing a transfer card when cards are signalled at an upper corner the present file is appraised for life of the card with the year for removal value. Thereafter use the subject trans- which corresponds with the notation on fer cards on a five-year interval plan the material itself. for transferring inactive permanent ma- When the index has a small number terial. of cards, one may remove the cards and "fan" them out watching for the date Microfilming in the corner of the card. When a large volume of permanent When the index has a large number inactive material is retained in original of cards, a card for disposal control is forms in a file in storage space, con- kept and the preclassification date and sideration should be given to the possi- the file number and the paper identifi- bility and practicability of microfilm cation (either a date or source or sub- retention with a microdex for quick subject) is entered on the card which finding on the film. is filed chronologically. Manhour Costs Colored Labels The manhour costs of appraising the When the file is maintained under a life value of a piece of information at direct or group alphabetic subject ar- the point of use before filing, and con- rangement, the folder for each subject trolling its removal at the expiration of is signalled with a distinctive colored its life value, is more than offset by shoulder label placed on the right edge savings of equipment, floor space and of the tab of the folder with the year the users' time in handling obsolete for removal. Once a year the librarian pieces of material filed with current checks the file for the colored label live material.

MAY - JUNE, 1954 Compare the manhour costs for a for immediate use. "weeding out" process with the risks Publications received on subscription, taken when floor space forces action. government pub1 ic a t ions, catalogs of Small Libraries manufacturers, etc., are filed by title The special library staff in many or- or source without being indexed for spe- ganizations is too small to prepare the cific items. Finding, therefore, becomes index cards and cross-references for the a searching operation when a request is subjects in magazines, catalogs, reports, made for an item in a publication but pamphlets and other types of publica- the issue date is not remembered. tions. Summary Clipping procedures could be estab- Shortage of manhours results in waste lished to reduce bulk but manhours are of shelf and file cabinet space, floor not available with a small staff. space and slow service from the library, The publications are retained in the due to material not indexed, and to the original form for a one- to four-page retention of unnecessary, and obsolete item of interest, the quickest procedure information or unused material.

- Quest Speakers in Cincinnati Hugh W. Field Verling M. Votaw

Hugh W. Field, vice president and Verling M. Votaw, director of prod- general manager, Research and Devel- uct research, Drug Products Division, opment Department, The Atlantic Re- The Procter & Gamble Company, will fining Company, will present the "Case be the guest speaker at the S-T Pharma- History of a Centralized Abstracting ceutical Section's seventh anniversary Service" at the S-T Petroleum Section dinner, May 17. meeting, Wednesday afternoon, May 19. Mr. Votaw is a recognized authority Mr. Field will review the centralized in his field and has been associated with abstracting service inaugurated recent- The Procter & Gamble Company since ly by the Refining Division of the 1926, when he received the A.M. de- American Petroleum Institute. He will gree from Indiana University. He holds discuss the problems encountered, the a number of U. S. and foreign patents. contribution made by a sub-committee Mr. Votaw's paper bears the pro- of librarians, details on cost and per- vocative title "Splitting Hairs." Its scope sonnel, and how to avoid pitfalls in set- includes brief coverage of the general ting up such service. physiology of hair, hair as a clue to per- Mr. Field served as chairman of the sonality traits, and an entertaining his- Committee on API Abstracts. tory of hair preparations.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES SUBJECT HEADINGS Their Selection and Use in "Readers' Cjuide"* SARITAROBINSON Editor, Readers' Guide, The H. W. Wilson Company, New York, N. Y.

UBJECT HEADINGS are used in the subjects, and we have taken many from S Readers' Guide to list and index the Agricultural Index. articles in periodicals just as the libra- Nevertheless, an article appears oc- ry catalog lists and indexes the libra- casionally for which we can find no ry's books. adequate subject in the Library of Con- The basic tool in this work is the gress list or in the other indexes. Then Library of Congress List of Subject we must formulate our own. Sometimes Headings. As a rule, if there is a sub- these are very simple, involving no ject in this list, that is the form we will more than the use of a term, verifiable use. However there are exceptions. in the dictionary, such as RECLUSES. We try to keep our subjects alike Others may be new terms, not as yet in from index to index of the Wilson pub- the dictionary, but verified elsewhere. lications, but this is not always possible. We recently used HELIPORTS,not found The specialized indexes have more spe- in any dictionary, but listed in Special cific subjects in their fields that are not Library Association's Aviation Subject needed in a general index such as Read- Headings. ers' Guide. If we cannot find a definition for a Industrial Arts Index, for instance, term or any authority for its use, we uses thirty subheads under INSURANCEtry to avoid using it for the time being. COMPANIES:Readers' Guide does not We can put the articles under a broader need such a careful breakdown for its heading, or use titles or inverted titles few articles on this subject. Also, the to keep the material together until s~ecialindexes often use a form differ- more is known about the subject. ent from that suitable for a general in- We have recently had articles on a dex. Education Index uses the form disease which appeared in Korea, called SUPERVISIONAND SUPERVISORS,perfect- in the magazines, EPIDEMICHEMOR- ly intelligible in such a specialized in- RHAGIC FEVER.But no medical diction- dex, but necessarily transformed to the ary gives a definition or authority for form SCHOOLSUPERVISION AND SUPER- the name. So we have indexed these VISORS in the Readers' Guide. articles under the subject FEVER,with a Selection cross reference from the specific name. However, if I must select a' subject Deviations for a new topic not as yet covered by I have said that we do not always use the Library of Congress list, my first the Library of Congress form of head- check is made to see if it is covered in ing. Sometimes this is a case of estab- one of our other indexes. lished usage, the cause for which has This year Readers' Guide has includ- long been forgotten, as in our use of the ed several magazines in the agricultural form COLLEGESAND UNIVERSITIESas field, a subject but poorly represented against the Library of Congress form heretofore. Country Gentleman and of UNIVERSITIESAND COLLEGES. Farm Journal have brought us many Another reason is the Library of Con- articles for which we had no adequate gress shift from inverted to direct form of heading. Eventually we may catch *Based on a talk given at a meeting of the Publishing Group, SLA New York Chap- up with them and change such subjects ter, at the offices of Look, Inc., New York City, as CONCRETE,REINFORCED to REIN- March 1, 1954. FORCED CONCRETE,but as yet we have

MAY - JUNE, 1954 not done so. It involves a great deal of ject CORFUCHANNEL INCIDENT, 1946, work to make such changes. I also won- for what appeared to be a serious inci- der whether it is not an annoyance dent between Great Britain and Al- rather than a help to the user who is bania, but the affair died down, and we forced to follow such changes from is- collected only five or six articles under sue to issue. this subject, which we really did not A third reason why we may differ need. from Library of Congress form, is that On the other hand, the subject we may have had to establish the sub- IRANIAN-ANGLOOIL DISPUTE, 195 1- ject before its use by LC and the form, has served us greatly to. gather together established later, may differ. We used the hundreds of articles written on this the subject COMICS (BOOKS, STRIPS, subject, and which might otherwise have ETC.) long before it was used elsewhere. been scattered under various subjects. The Library of Congress form, COMIC Specificity BOOKS,STRIPS, ETC., SO nearly like it, How specific to make our subjects is does not seem to require a change in always a question. Since we index many our form. weekly magazines which carry articles Subject Coverage on very specific topics, we cannot fol- One of our major problems is to keep low literally Mr. Haykin's rule, that together articles treating of the same "the subject should be as specific as the event, as they appear in various peri- topic it is intended to cover." We would odicals and from week to week. This is scatter related matter too greatly for easy to do if there is a subject definite- best use. All articles on pie-making are ly covering the event. indexed under PIE, whether they be Articles on the Taft-Hartley law will limited to apple pie or mince pie; all automatically arrange themselves to- articles on automobiles are put under gether under our specific heading LA- the subject, AUTOMOBILES,and the BOR LAWSAND LEGISLATION- UNITED titles will show the few limited to dis- STATES- TAFT-HARTLEY LAW. cussion of one make. Not so sim~leare discussions of a "See" References complex question such as American Closely related to the question of military aid to and 's specificity is that of "see" references. reaction. Several subjects are involved, These serve the purpose of guiding the depending on the slant of the article. user from forms of a subject not used We try in such cases to keep them to- to the form used, as CELLOS.See VIO- gether under two or three, with added LONCELLOS, or from part of a compound subjects as necessary. subject to the form used, as DRAPERIES. There are two processes which help See CURTAINSAND DRAPERIES,or from us here. One is that one indexer as a a specific subject to a more general sub- rule indexes the same magazine from ject used, as FAUCETS.See PLUMBING. week to week, and, in as far as possible, With the indexing of short, specific ar- all magazines on the same subject. That ticles, they are indispensable. Our only is, one person indexes all magazines difficulty is to know where to stop mak- primarily on agriculture, another those ing them, since obviously we cannot on music, and so on. Also all indexing make them all. is revised by me, with this problem Certain types of "see" references can mainly in mind. be omitted without too much incon- Current Events venience to the user. If the subject is Current events must be carefully con- obvious, we can safely say the user will sidered. It is difficult to recognize at find the material, though possibly not first, whether they warrant a subject of on the first trial. If he looked under their own or not. Ford automobiles and found nothing, Several years ago we started the sub- would not the second trial be AUTOMO-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES BILES?But if one looked for material "See Also" under HOUSEOF REPRESENTATIVESand "See also" references, which guide the found nothing, could we expect the user to related material on a subject, jump to be made unaided to our form also serve in various ways, though may- - CONGRESS- HOUSE be not as vitally as the "see" references. OF REPRESENTATIVES?I think not and One of these is to gather under the a "see" reference is a necessary guide geographical heading (whether country, here. In doubtful cases, the only safe state, or city), the material related to it. thing to do is to make the reference. Take as an example New York state. Titles In a recent four-month issue of the Also related to this matter of speci- Guide, we had references to twelve ficity are titles of articles indexed. No cities or other geographical divisions of reference librarian need be told how the state as well as the form reference, helpful titles can be in helping her se- SEE ALSO SUBHEAD NEW YORK STATE lect the material she needs, providing UNDER: ARCHITECTURE,DOMESTIC; they do tell the content of the articles. CRIMEAND CRIMINALS;GARDENS; ROADS. For example, under the subject IRON Here were sixteen other subjects where INDUSTRYAND TRADE-UNITED STATES, material on some phase of New York we have the two titles, Can Baltimore state life could be found. hold its top spot, and Pi$ iron: capacity We have begun recently to make is growing. Both of these are helpful in more "See also" references from subject identifying the matter they contain. to person, such as: PAINTING,MEXICAN. Unfortunately many periodical titles See also RIVERA,DIEGO; TAMAYA, or captions do not offer any help at RUFINO.In the issue which I consulted all. In the weeklies they seem chosen there was no entry under the subject more to catch the eye than to tell about PAINTING,MEXICAN, but no doubt the content. Two such we had recently there would be some material under were Prayer Time and Two Way Stretch. these two name entries. The biogrqh- The first is an article on a railway acci- ical approach is very popular in peri- dent in Pakistan, the second on tax- odical articles and this is the method ation in the United States. We often we use to connect the person to subject. add a phrase or word to these captions It may be mentioned here that, con- to help bring out the content, especially trary to library practice and rules of if our subject is a broad one. For in- cataloging, we allow the "See also" to stance we used the subject RAILROADSstand, even when there are no entries -ACCIDENTS for the article on the rail- under the subject referred from. way accident in Pakistan and to the Basic Consideration title Prayer Time, we added, in Pak- We who work on one index must istan, thus more clearly bringing out try to think alike and to learn the which railway accident is described. framework of past usage and thinking Dates into which our work must fit. We must We find that adding the date of know when to omit an article too trivial delivery to addresses is most helpful to be of value, but always to include in identifying talks, especially of such even the short work that has value. We men as Dulles, Eisenhower, Lodge, etc. must learn to read or scan the articles, These talks usually have no specific and quickly transform the gist of the title and are given various titles when matter into one or more subjects, con- they are printed in different periodicals. sistent in all respects to what we or our We bring these various printings of one co-worker did yesterday or six months talk together into one entry, whether it ago, with similar material. And we must is the complete speech or excerpts. The be thoroughly familiar with the vocab- date is a short identification device ulary of the many thousands of our which we find very helpful. subject headings. MAY - JUNE, 1954. NEW LIBRARIES IN CINCINNATI DOROTHYMCNUTT Science and Industry Department, Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio

INCINNATI'S industries, unlike those results of scientific investigations. A c of so many other west and mid- large number of bibliographies are pre- west cities, thrive on roots implanted pared here so that technicians may be more than a century ago, and conse- assured of a good background of infor- quently the libraries associated with mation before new projects are under- these industries were founded before taken. A close association with public, the turn of the century. industrial, military and profession a 1 Our Queen City, however, noted for agencies is maintained in order that old her circumspection, sometimes termed as well as new information may be serenity, has nevertheless been proud immediately available to the General of her diversity in industry and al- Electric research staff. though she has nurtured the old, she Besides publicizing all new literature has not turned her back on the new. by means of a semi-monthly publication Those of us who call Cincinnati home entitled Technical Information Title are well aware of the impressive fact Announcements, the library keeps AGT that we are in the center of a gigantic report files, indexes and catalogs all its atomic activity program. holdings, and coordinates certain spe- cial activities. This includes responsi- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY bility for (a) obtaining translations of The General Electric Company's foreign language articles, (b) assigning Evendale plant, the most recent and serially-numbered laboratory notebooks, secret of all atomic enterprises, is clos- (c) maintaining special mail listings of est' to Cincinnati. This company, tre- c&rolled periodicals, and (d) purchas- mendous in scope, maintains several ing company-paid subscription litera- important libraries. ture. As a special service, the library The AIRCRAFTNUCLEAR PROPULSION staff consults and advises on internal DEPARTMENTlibrary was established indexing and filing problems. in the spring of 1952. With its collection of more than a thousand books and THE NATIONAL LEAD CO. OF OHIO scores of journals, this library, super- The library of the nearby National vised by Mr. B. S. Robertson, is the Lead Company of Ohio (Fernald center of highly technical research con- Plant), another atom and related-sub- cerned with the application of atomic jects enterprise, has more than 1,700 power to aircraft propulsion. volumes chiefly in the fields of chem- Another General Electric library istry and metallurgy. In addition there established in 1950 to serve the com- are in this collection approximately pany's AIRCRAFTGAS TURBINEDIVI- 17,000 technical reports, 10,000 reports SION, is headed by Robert L. Wadland. on Microcards, and a file of more than Its holdings were described briefly in 146 technical journals. che March issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES Inez C. O'Brien, head of the Depart- (page 119). ment of Technical Information Service, - Mr. Wadland submits further that a under whose supervision the library has wide range of queries is received in the been placed, pointed out that her limit- library. These range from inquiries for ed collection of back journals is being single facts to requests for comprehen- gradually filled with microfilm. The sive reports. All the resources of the library has a microfilm reader, a storage library are brought together to provide cabinet, and two Microcard readers. the means for locating and sharing the The Library of Congress classifica-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES tion is used to catalog books and peri- Mrs. Esther Norton. It plays an impor- odicals; the Atomic Energy Commis- tant part in all the Center's activities, sion classification is used for reports. A and assists in some of its present func- weekly accessions list covering books, tions. These include the provision of journals and reports is issued by the li- training facilities and courses for health brary to plant personnel. The library personnel in the operating procedures also provides extensive assistance to of sanitation and radiological health, as technical personnel making literature well as the dissemination of research searches. and investigation findings through pub- Photostat copies of journal articles lications and technical consultations. are purchased upon request, and are The library's services are essential to obtained through the interlibrary loan the entire staff in its studies on such service. The interlibrary loan service is various subjects as water-borne virus of primary importance to this library, diseases, dangerous chemicals in the because of its limited number of back water supply and atmosphere, includ- files of scientific journals. ing the effects of atomic energy radi- ation hazards. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SANITARY ENGINEERING CENTER Another new library, SLA visitors in Cincinnati will want to visit, is the libra- ry tucked away in the new four-million dollar building which houses the Sani- tary Engineering Center of the Public Health Service. Authorized by the 80th Congress in 1948, the center will be dedicated by Mrs. Oveta Hobby, Secretary of Health and Welfare. The structure is located at Columbia CINCINNATI PUBLIC LIBRARY Parkway and Grandin Road, about six All special libraries in this area draw miles east of downtown Cincinnati, heavily upon the vast resources of the overlooking the Little Miami River. It Cincinnati Public Library. The new will be the heart of a vast research pro- building, incorporating modern func- gram designed to find the answers to tional design, provides two public ser- such problems as cancer, polio, and vice floors, four stack levels and an heart disease. office and processing floor, the total It is significant that this is the only area comprising 196,000 square feet. laboratory in the nation to attempt a Somewhat similar to the "Baltimore coordinated study of the health signifi- library plan," all public service floors cance of physical, chemical and biolog- are conceived as open space. Depart- ical forces in the environment. The mental separations are achieved through center's officials have pointed out that the use of movable book shelves. These dramatic population changes, growing divisions are low shelves on metal, industrialization, increasing use of atomic A-shaped frames, quite different from energy, and other factors in modern civ- conventional library furniture, states ilization are making it daily more im- , director of the Cincinnati portant that the effects of the environ- Public Library. ment on the nation's health be under- A highlight of the convention will stood, and that the nation develop and be the opening tea sponsored by the apply the necessary control techniques Cincinnati Public Library Board of to assure a healthful environment for Trustees and by the Staff Association. its population. Visitors, may then tour the new library The library is under the direction of building.

MAY - JUNE, 1954 Convention Program Notes

JOHN P. ALDEN,manager of technical CHARLESZACHARY HARDWICK, vice information, Research and Develop- president and manager, Refining and ment Department, Phillips Petroleum Marketing Department, The Ohio Oil Company, will discuss the application Company, will discuss "Oil Prices and of uniform library practices and the Competition" as a part of the special successful development of an indexing program planned by the S-T Petroleum procedure which makes use of IBM Section, May 19. Mr. Hardwick has cards and a number code. had extensive business experience in the petroleum industry. CLIFFORDS. BROWN,library equipment and construction consultant, Hamilton Manufacturing Company, has had long KARL F. HEUMANN,director of the Chemical-Biological Coordination Cen- experience as an engineering and de- velopment specialist on library work ter, National Research Council, will take part in the S-T Division session on covering alterations and new buildings. Library Equipment, covering "What's His talk on "Basic Principles in the De- sign of Library Equipment" will be New and Efficient in Equipment." based on past practice and current trend. DR. FRANCESBRIGGS JENKINS, associate professor, University of Illinois Library EDWARDD'ALLESANDRO, chief, Book School, is responsible for courses in Repair Division, Cleveland Public Li- library administration and in the litera- brary, received his B.S. in L.S. at West- ture and bibliography of science. She ern Reserve University where he held received a B.L.S. from the University of the Scholarship California Library School, and a Ph.D. in 1938. Mr. D'Allesandro will discuss in biochemistry from the University of "Some Recent Developments in Econ- Illinois. Dr. Jenkins will discuss "Cur- omy Binding of Books and Other Ma- rent Reference Sources for Science Li- terials." braries."

Library, AGT Division, General Electric Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Publisher Meets the Librarian Publishers and librarians.wil1 forgather in Cincinnati, Tuesday morning, May 18, to discuss what publishers can do to help special librarians. This outstanding meeting on the SLA Convention Program is sponsored by the Publishing Division. Widespread interest, cutting across all division interests, has led to active par- ticipation in this session by a number of SLA Divisions including: Advertising, Biological Sciences, Business, Financial, Insurance, Metals, Museum, Newspaper, Picture, and Science-Technology Divisions. Mrs. Marie S. Goff, librarian, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, will serve as moderator and will review briefly the panel discussion which took place at the SLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, , 1953, when representatives from nine SLA Divisions commented on the complications arising frequently in the ordinary acquisition and use of publications. A summary of the discussion was published in the issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES, and reprints were sent to publishers. The present meeting gives publishers the opportunity to present their side of the picture and to hold further discussion which may lead to solution of some, at least, of the current problems. Members of the discussion panel representing publishers include: Roy B. Eastin, executive assistant to the Public Printer, U. S. Government Printing Office; John Hallenbeck, circulation manager, Life; Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, vice president, NLcGraw-Hill Book Company, and editorial director of Chemical Week, and Chemical Engineering; Daniel Melcher, R. R. Bowker Company. SLA members speaking for librarians include: Mrs. Eileen Cunningham, librarian, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University; Helen Loftus, assistant librarian, The Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company; Mrs. Martha H. O'Leary, librarian, Benton & Bowles, Inc.; Winifred Sewell, librarian, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, E. H. Squibb & Sons.

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BRIGADIERGENERAL DALE 0. SMITH, CHARLESPHELPS TAFT, guest speaker director of education, Air University, at the SLA Annual Banquet, is a lead- Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, will ing tax and trial lawyer, a labor con- present a paper on "The Need for Lay sultant, and a housing expert. He is a Study of Military Art and Science and son of William Howard Taft, the 27th How Libraries Can Help to Meet This president of the U. S., and a brother of Need." General Smith is a West Point Robert A. Taft. Mr. Taft was born in graduate and saw active and distin- Cincinnati and is one of its leading guished service in World War 11. citizens.

MAY - JUNE, 1954 209 Mailing Library Loans in "Laundry Kits"

Library loan service by mail presented a shipping container problem to the Memorial Library of the Texas Medical Association in Austin. This sprightly account describes the way in which a troublesome problem was approached and the resourceful way in which the problem was resolved. It may suggest to readers a similar solution for related problems. Pauline Dufield, librarian of the Texas Medical Memorial Librarv., . sent this informal report which was prepared by mem- bers of the library staff.

HE OLD SAYING that necessity is just must be done! Isn't there some kind Tthe mother of invention certainly of box or kit that could be sent back has proved itself once more. and forth?" The Memorial Library of the Texas "That reminds me. Do you remem- Medical Association was established to ber at college those small kits we used serve the doctors of the state of Texas. to send our laundry home? All you had Approximately seven thousand doctors to do was to reverse the label on the kit. have access to the library reference ser- Couldn't we have something like that?" vices and have the privilege of borrow- "That's an idea! A small laundry kit ing library materials. Regardless of -sturdy, no string to be tied and un- where a doctor may be located, mate- tied, neat, light-weight, the right .size. rial requested is sent to him prepaid. Let's try it." Inevitably, members of the library It was an excellent idea-the Board staff carrying out this mail-order refer- members were right. But where could ence service developed an acute aware- we find a firm that would make a "laun- ness, scrutinizing all incoming paper dry kit" in all the sizes that we would cartons and appraising them for poten- need, that would fill all the require- tial service as containers for library ments, and at a reasonable price? materials sent through the mail. Good We began our search by selecting a boxes were highly prized. shipping carton from our film library to The doctor receiving library material help illustrate what we had in mind would in some instances save the box and set out on a tour of exploration. when it could be re-used. Generally, the Our venture led us from a paper com- box was consigned to the wastebasket. pany, to a stationery supply house, to a As a result, the office girl, the nurse, or box company, a printer, a packing firm, the doctor, and occasionally all three, a luggage store, a luggage manufactur- were forced to search frantically for er and finally, to several manufacturers anything that could be used to enclose specializing in sample cases. One of material for its return to the library. these latter manufacturers was willing The results may be imagined: Where to take an order for a limited quantity the effort is considered too great, lead- in each size wanted. ing to considerations of doing without We measured the largest journal in or going elsewhere, and there are the library, and for a week, measured mounting complaints -time for action each package of material sent. We found is at hand, and the Board of Trustees that four sizes would meet our needs: considered the problem. 12 x 9 x2 1/2 inches; 12 x 9 x 1'/z inches; If the ensuing discussion had been 12 x.9 x 4 inches; and 11 x 8 x 4 inches. recorded, one might have heard: The boxes were made of heavy vulcan- "These packages leave the library in ized fibre with metal corners, each box good shape, but where in a doctor's having two web straps with safety office do you expect to find all this catches. An address holder on each box paper and cord? The last time my was found to be impractical and was nurse used adhesive tape! Something discontinued after the first order. The

SPECIAL LIBRARIES boxes weighed about one and three- President's Message quarter pounds each. Our first order for forty-five kits was My tour of visits of several Eastern chapters filled in two weeks. We now have occupied the first two weeks of March. 150 kits. In the six months that the Washington, D. C. kits have been used they have proved My first stop on March 4th was with the Wash- economical to use, with less wear and ington, D. C. Chapter, where I shared the lime- light with Representative Rees of the House Com- tear on the material which is coming mittee on Post Ofice and the Civil Service and back in better condition. The doctors with the former executive secretary of SLA, Mrs. find it more convenient to use the libra- Kathleen B. Stebbins, who was a Washington visitor ry facilities and members of the library that day. It is always interesting to me as director staff find life more agreeable. Several of a public administration library, to visit the Washington scene, but as President of SLA I was of the doctors have asked us to order privileged to include the TID service in my visits kits for them. along with several libraries in my own field. If these kits seem to offer the solu- Baltimore tion to your mailing problem and if That evening I met with the Executive Board of any further information is wanted, this the Baltimore Chapter. Several members of this library will be glad to answer queries. Chapter had accepted the invitation of the Wash- ington Chapter to attend the meeting there the previous night.

New Jersey The New Jersey Chapter meeting at Plainfield on March 8th was very pleasant, and we had a lively discussion period after my talk.

New York The New York Chapter meeting in the new building of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter- national Peace was notable for a talk on the American Library in Paris by the director, Dr. Ian Forbes Fraser. A tour of the Carnegie Endowment Library under the direction of its librarian, Mr. Lee Ash, followed the meeting. I spent an interest- ing morning at SLA Headquarters on Wednesday.

Montreal In Montreal on March 12th I had a busy day, beginning with a tour of the McGill University Library and a lecture to the Library School students. There was a luncheon with the Chapter Executive Board and at dinner the Chapter meeting was held at Cercle Universitaire. I was happy to include SLA President in Print this north-of-the-Border Chapter in the itinerary. A biographical sketch of Mrs. Michigan Lucile L. Keck, SLA president, On March 15th I made my last stand with the appeared in the issue Michigan Chapter in Detroit, in a day which in- duded visits to two libraries, an Executive Board of Current Biography. and Advisory Council luncheon as guests of the The article describes in some Ford Motor Company Industrial Relations Division, detail Mrs. Keck's activities in a tour of the Ford Archives, and a dinner meeting Special Libraries Association, her of the Chapter. This Chapter already has its plans academic background and her pro- well organized for the 1955 Convention. fessional achievements. A list of All the chapters I visited are engaged in various, her contributions to professional useful projects; everywhere I was struck by the publications is included. enthusiasm and liveliness with which they are undertaken. I weycome this opportunity to thank Current Biography is available the members of these chapters for their hospitality from The H. W. Wilson Company. and for the understanding and interest they dis- played in general SIA problems. LUCILEL. KECK

MAY - JUNE, 1954 Chapter Highlights

Connecticut Valley libraries in this area has been compiled by A presentation by Wilma Zimmerman on Russell J. Schunk, Minnesota State Director the benefits derived by the community from of Libraries. the Hartford Public Library's Business and .Periodical Holdings and Subscriptions in Technical Branch, made use of the SLA visual Eight Minnesota Libraries, a 378-page union aid, "Our Library," at the February meeting list that was two years in preparation, is now of the Chapter. available for purchase. Robert S. Ake introduced the speaker and Libraries participating in this joint effort pointed out in connection with the presenta- included: James Jerome Hill Reference Libra- tion, that librarians must seek out oppor- ry, St. Paul Public Library, Hamline Uni- tunities for making known the services of their versity, Carleton College, Macalester College, libraries, and that to do an effective job, St. Olaf College, The College of St. Catherine, librarians must learn to speak "fluently and and The College of St. Thomas. forcefully." Copies of the publication may be ordered at *** ten dollars each (plus postage) from: Georgia Russell F. Barnes, Librarian The Georgia Chapter's first year is a not- James Jerome Hill Reference Library able one for the excellence of its stimulating Fourth Street at Market program schedule and its informative bulletin. St. Paul 2, Minnesota There are thirty-three members in the Chapter * * * at the present time. Newest additions to the Montreal membership list include librarians from South A report by Enid Marrotte, chairman of the Carolina and from Tennessee. Union Serials List Committee, announces pub- Meetings have been scheduled at Emory lication of the list covering the holdings of University; at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, approximately sixty libraries in the Montreal Marietta, Georgia; and at Callaway Mills area. Company, La Grange, Georgia. Members of the Montreal Chapter were Volume one, number one of the Georgia asked to fill out and return questionnaires un- Chapter Bulletin (Martha Jane K. Zachert, signed, filling in only the annual salary re- editor) featured an admirable symposium on ceived and checking whether the title was "Special Services in Special Libraries" with librarian or assistant librarian. No further in- contributions by Georgia Chapter members formation was requested. from six libraries. The survey was intended to furnish some "A Survey of Atlanta Business Libraries: basic salary figures which would be helpful Resources and Services," compiled by Linda both to employers and to librarians. Thirty- M. Johnston, appeared in the nine replies were received and tabulated in issue of the Bulletin. the February issue of the Bulletin. *** *** Indiana Toronto Slanf, the Indiana Chapter Bulletin (Helen Copies of the "Directory of Special Libra- Loftus, editor) appears in a completely new ries in the Toronto Region" are available at and well-designed format, in line with the $1.50 per copy (plus postage) from Mrs. K. trend for improving the appearance and con- E. Sutton, North American Life Assurance tent of publications, noted throughout the Company, 112 King Street West, Toronto 1, Association. Canada. The March issue of Slanf includes a classic There are now one hundred and thirty-two description of how special libraries are born: members in the Toronto Chapter. Evelyn B. Blue's account of "The Insurance A course on government publications will Research and Review Library." be given by Florence Murray at the six-week Members of the Indiana Chapter are co- summer session offered by the University of operating with the local chapter of the Ameri- Toronto Library School, July 5 to August 13. can Society of Quality Control Engineers in Miss Murray, a Chapter member, is a lec- the preparation of a bibliography on quality turer at the Library School. control of products listing all material avail- * * * able in this area. Washington, D. C. *** The personal touch was emphasized in the Minnesota intensive month-long SLA membership cam- Members of the Minnesota Chapter will be paign in Washington, D. C. A special com- on the scene when the ALA Convention takes mittee of fourteen, headed by Paul Burnette, place in the Twin Cities, -26, 1954. Army librarian, contacted 237 libraries in To facilitate planning, a current list of special the Washington area. Each committee mem-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ber was responsible for finding one person in SLA Authors in Print each of the seventeen libraries assigned to CORY, JOHN MACKENZIE:Library-sponsored him, who would distribute membership litera- group services. ALA Bulletin, vol. 48, no. 4, ture and application blanks. , p. 208-210. An estimated five hundred persons attend- * * ing the American Congress of Surveying and Dow, ROBENAand WALES, KATHERINE: Mapping in Washington, D. C. on March 22- Bibliography and current reference sources on 24, viewed a display arranged by the Wash- Canada. SLA Toronto Chapter Bulletin, vol. ington Chapter. 14, no. 11, February 1954, p. 12-15. The newly published Map Collections in * * * the United States and Canada was featured DOWNS,ROBERT B.: Are college and uni- prominently. Mrs. Marie Goodman, chair- versity librarians academic? College and Re- man of the Map Resources Committee which search Libraries, vol. 15, no. 1, , p. 9-14. compiled the directory, gave a paper at the * * * Congress describing the Committee's work. FERGUSON,ELIZABETH: SLA's public rela- Alfred C. Stiefel, staff engineer,, Topographic tions clinic: our public relations problem and Division, U. S. Geological Survey, then re- what we did about it. Wilson Library Bulletin, viewed the potential uses of the map directory vol. 28, no. 7, March 1954, p. 566-568. and discussed Mrs. Goodman's paper. * * * Two other newly published works on dis- FRAREY,CARLYLE J., co-author: Costs of play were the Library of Congress' Guide to expanding the card catalog of a large library. Historical Cartography and a compilation of College and Research Libraries, vol. 15, no. 1, federal and state law provisions penalizing the January 1954, p. 87-89. destruction of survey monuments issued by * * * the Coast and Geodetic Survey Library. HARWELL,WAYNE M.: Notes on mailing a National Archives, Library of Congress and questionnaire. Library Journal, vol. 79, no. 5, SLA publications were used to illustrate how March 1, 1954, p. 418-419. libraries can serve to maintain, evaluate, clas- * * * HERNER,SAUL: How scientists seek and ob- sify and provide sources of information needed tain information. Industrial and Engineering by cartographers and surveyors. Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 1, January 1954, The Professional Activities Committee of p. 228-236. the Washington Chapter is considering various *** means for conserving valuable research ma- HOWARD,PAUL: Consequences of manage- terials in the event of a catastrophe such as ment surveys. Library Trends, vol. 2, no. 3, an atomic bomb attack. One measure under January 1954, p. 428-435. discussion is the creation of "shadow" libra- * * * ries. Selected libraries near the Washington LANCOUR,HAROLD: Specialization in li- area, but not within what might be con- brary education. ALA Bulletin, vol. 48, no. 3, sidered the danger area, would be encouraged March 1954, p. 132-133; 162. and assisted in developing their collections in * * * specific subjects, so that they might serve as SAVORD,RUTH and WASSON,DONALD, com- substitute libraries if the major research col- pilers: A foreign service reading list. The lections in Washington were destroyed. Foreign Service Journal: World Affairs, Janu- With the cooperation of the National Coun- ary 1954. 24p. cil of Library Associations, the compilation of * * * a bibliography of standard book lists for vari- SCHUNK,RUSSELL J., compiler: Special li- ous subject fields is to be started. The com- braries in the Twin Cities area. SLA Minne- pilation will indicate in what subject fields, sota Chapter News Nofes, vol. 11, no. 4, basic lists of standard works are needed. April 1954, supplement. As a follow-up of the study conducted last * * * year, another survey of binding costs will be SHERA,JESSE H.: Education for librarian- conducted. The present study will cover ship - an integrated approach. ALA Bulletin, federal government libraries only, and should vol. 48, no. 3, March 1954, p. 129-130; 169- reflect any changes in binding costs resulting 173. from the use of the waiver privilege, by which *** federal libraries can now give their binding to WILKINSON,WILLIAM A. : Selected bibli- commercial firms rather than to the Govern- ographies of source material in Canadian edu- ment Printing Office. cation. SLA Toronto Chapter Bulletin, vol. 14, Another project of the Professional Ac- no. 11, February 1954, p. 8-12. tivities Committee is to explore the possibility *** of a uniform statistical reporting system for WOODS,BILL M. and FELLMAN,JEROME F., government libraries. compilers: New books. SLA Bulletin of the IDAIR SMOOKLER,Chairman Geography and Map Division, no. 13, October Public Relations Committee 1953, p. 9-11.

MAY - JUNE, 1954 Have you heard . . . NMA Award Lawrence Quincy Mumford, director of the The National Microfilm Association's First , has been appointed Annual Award was presented to George L. as Librarian of Congress to succeed Dr. Luther McCarthy for his pioneer work and contribu- H. Evans who resigned July 13, 1953 to be- tion to the microfilming industry. come director general of UNESCO. Eugene B. Power, NMA president, announc- Mr. Mumford is a graduate of Duke Uni- ed the award at the 1954 convention of the versity and received his B.S. in L.S. from National Microfilm Association held in Cleve- Columbia University. He was on the New land (Ohio) last month. York Public Library staff for a number of Mr. McCarthy is recognized as the inventor years, serving as executive assistant and co- of modern microfilming. In the middle twen- ordinator of the General Services Division ties, when he was an official of a New York prior to becoming assistant director of the bank, Mr. McCarthy invented and built the Cleveland Public Library in 1945, and subse- first microfilmer. Its purpose was to make a quently, director. photographic record of checks in order to Mr. Mumford will be the eleventh Librarian protect the bank against fraud. Many banks of Congress. as well as other types of business now use photographic accounting record protection. At the present time Mr. McCarthy is chair- man of the Board of Recordak Corporation, a MLA Annual Meeting subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Company. The Medical Library Association will hold its Fifty-third Annual Meeting, -18, 1954, in Washington, D. C., with headquarters at the Hotel Statler. The Armed Forces Documentation Institute Medical Library is the official host. The Second Annual Institute on Logic and The program will include a panel discussion Machines in Organizing Information, to be by embassy attaches on "The International held in Washington, D. C., -4, 1954, Aspects of Medical Research." A symposium has been announced by Documentation Incor- will be held on "Government Sponsorship of porated. Medical Research." The Institute is intended for librarians, in- "The Science Resources of the Library of formation officers, intelligence analysts, en- Congress" will be discussed by Dr. Raymund gineers, docufnentalists, and others concerned L. Zwemmer, chief of the LC Science Division. with organizing data. Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Registration should be made by May 15. Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, The fee for the entire Institute is $100. will be the guest speaker at the annual ban- quet, Friday evening, . The United States Book Exchange located in the Library of Congress, will hold open International Organizations house Friday and Saturday, -12, and also on Saturday, . Bokstavsignaturer for Internasjonale Orga- nisasjoner og Foreninger Politiske Partier pro- vides a list of abbreviations of the names of hundreds of organizations in various fields of New York Library Club international relations in all countries of the Mrs. Rose 2. Sellers, chief special services world. Both official and non-official bodies are librarian at Brooklyn College Library, and noted as well as technical and non-technical chairman of the SLA New York Chapter groups. Museum Group, has just been elected presi- Appended to the main list of 168 pages is dent of the New York Library Club. Mrs. a list of organizations whose official names can Sellers assumes office in July, succeeding usually be noted in a foreign language differ- Helen E. Wessells, editor of the Library ent from the alphabetical series of the abbre- Journal. viations, and adequate cross-references are Founded in 1885, the Club is one of the made to the proper abbreviated form. oldest associations of professional librarians This compilation is a most unusual tool for in the country. A roster of its early officers in- the reference librarian and should be useful to cludes such illustrious names as R. R. Bowker, libraries with any interest at all in foreign , Mary Salome Cutter, Arthur affairs. The mimeographed publication, issued E. Bostwick, , John Shaw by the Utenriksdepartementets Bibliotek of Billings, Isadore Gilbert Mudge, and Jennie the Norwegian government, was published in M. Flexner. Oslo, 1953.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Glass Technology Newspaper Checklist A List of Subject Headings for Glass Tech- NEGRONEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM.A Se- nology, just issued, has been compiled by lected List. 1953. 8p. 15 cents. Available from three SLA members: Rita Brantlinger, libra- Photoduplication Service, Library of Congress, rian of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Washington 25, D. C. Glass Division Research Laboratories, Creigh- NEWSPAPERSON MICROFILM.Compiled un- ton, Pennsylvania; and Mrs. Catherine D. der direction of George A. Schwegmann, Jr. Mack, librarian, and Mrs. Norma P. H. 2nd ed. 1953. 126p. $2.25. Available from Jenkins, assistant librarian, of the Corning Card Division, Library of Congress, Washing- Glass Works, Corning, New York. ton 25, D. C. The list is basically an integration of the POSTWARFOREIGN NEWSPAPERS. A Union card catalog headings used in the libraries List. 1953. 231p. $1.60. Available from Card of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and Division, Library of Congress, Washington 25, Corning Glass Works. It has been issued in D. C. Availability of foreign newspapers in a preliminary edition in order to measure its ; excludes Latin-American effectiveness and usability as a library tool newspapers. for subject headings pertaining to glass tech- RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN,AND BELORUSSIAN nology. NEWSPAPERS1917-1953. A Union List. Com- The unique fifty-page list is available on piled by Paul L. Horecky. 1953. 218p. $1.45. request from Miss Brantlinger. Available from Card Division, Library of *** Congress, Washington 25, D. C. SELECTEDLIST OF UNITED STATES NEWS- Papermaking PAPERS. Recommended for Preservation by "A Survey of Early Papermaking with Em- the ALA Committee on Cooperative Micro- phasis on Europe and the Fifteenth Century," film Projects. Edited by the Union Catalog is the title of No. 3 in the Kent State Uni- Division, Library of Congress. 1953. 92p. versity Department of 's series, Available from Union Catalog Division, Li- Aspects of Librarianship. It was written by brary of Congress, Washington 25, D. C. Robert K. Johnson who is chief of the Catalog UNION LIST OF LATIN AMERICANNEWS- Branch of the Air University Library at Max- PAPERS IN LIBRARIESIN THE UNITEDSTATES. well Air Force Base in Alabama. (Bibliographic Series No. 39.) Compiled by Copies are available without charge on re- Arthur E. Gropp. 1953. 235p. $1.50. Available quest to Professor John M. Goudeau, Kent from Pan American Union, Washington, D. C. State University, Kent, Ohio. * * * Aptitude Test OEEC Publications An objective type test to determine aptitude The Organisation for European Economic for work as a cataloger and classifier of library Co-operation has announced that its publica- materials has been developed by Dr. Thelma tions, distributed formerly by the Columbia Ebton, associate professor, University of Illi- University Press, are now available from its nois Library School, Urbana, Illinois. The test Washington office. has been in preparation for several years and Publications include studies on The Use of has been administered both to practicing cata- Aircraft in Agriculture in the U.S.A.; Foreign logers and to students just entering the profes- Trade Zones in the U.S.A.; An International sion in order to establish achievement norms. Comparison of National Products and the Pur- The cataloging aptitude test has been de- chasing Power of Currencies; The European signed as an aid in counseling undergraduate Textile Industry in 1953; Sulphuric Acid and students who may be interested in library the Manufacture of Phosphatic Fertilizers; work. It will also be helpful in counseling Boron Steels: Production and Use. beginning library school students in choosing A catalog listing all OEEC publications may an area of specialization in library work. be obtained by writing to: Single copies for inspection are priced at OEEC Mission 35 cents each and may be obtained from the Publications Office Illini Union Bookstore, University of Illinois, 2002 "P" Street, N.W. Urbana, Illinois. Packets of ten copies are Washington 6, D. C. $1.25. Dr. Eaton, author of the cataloging apti- tude test, has been a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois Library School Nuclear Engineering since , teaching the courses in A selective bibliography of literature on cataloging, classification, and history of print- nuclear engineering has been compiled by the ing. Prior to this appointment she had been members of the Western Cartridge Company's Head of the Department of Library Science library staff: Melvin B. Morgan, Lola Lyons, at Mississippi State College for Women. and Verna Woodman.

MAY - JUNE, 1954 2 15 CONVENTION SPEAKERS CONVENTION CHECKLIST WILLIAMA. WILDHACK,chief, Office of Transportation Basic Instrumentation, National Bureau Cincinnati is served by eight of Standards, and president, Instrument railroads. Society of America, will, present a paper on "Instrumentation Literature, a Meth- The Queen City is a major port for all principal airlines in the od for its Organization and Retrieval" country. at the S-T Engineering Section meet- A broad network of highways ing, Wednesday afternoon, May 19. leads directly into the city making BRIGADIERGENERAL PASCHAL M. auto travel convenient and fast. STRONG,division engineer, Ohio River Headquarters Division, is an outstanding authority on he Netherland Plaza is SLA flood control and has had wide experi- Convention Headquarters. It is ence in many parts of the world as en- located in the heart of downtown gineer in charge of a wide variety of Cincinnati. construction programs. He has been Room rates are approximately decorated a number of times for dis- $7. to $8. per day. tinguished service. General Strong will Meals are listed at $2.50 to discuss "Flood Control as Practiced by $3.50. the Corps of Engineers," at a meeting Garage service is available in of the Geography and Map Division, the hotel. Tuesday morning, May 18. All meeting rooms, restaurants, the lobby and lounge, are air con- ditioned. ARCHIVAL MANAGEMENT Convention Fees Radcliffe College will conduct ~egistratibnfee is set at $6. for an intensive Institute on Historical the entire convention. The daily and Archival Management, June fee is $2. 23 - August 17, 1954, co-opsnored The fee for the Annual Banquet by the Department of History, is $6. It will be held in the Hall of Harvard University. Mirrors. The Institute is open to college' Weather graduates and employees of de- "Cincinnati is pleasant in May. partments of archives and historic- The weather is usually mild with al societies. Students will study lots of sunshine during the day." archival and historical resources (Mrs. Dorothy McNutt, Conven- and procedures, problems of pre- servation, care, analysis and use of tion Publicity Chairman). materials, government and busi- Queen City Sights ness records, and the uses of Tyler Davidson Fountain microfilm, microprint and other Taft Museum reproduction techniques. Zoological Gardens The Institute will include field Art Museum trips to archival and historical in- Cincinnati Public Library stitutions and museums within a Kidd's Book Store fifty-mile radius of Cambridge and Gourmet Restaurant will offer practical work with ma- Carew Tower Observatory terials under study. Rookwood Pottery Earle W. Newton, editor of University of Cincinnati American Heritage, is director of Botanical Gardens the Institute. Summer Opera Publications Received

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SPECIAL LIBRARIES Letters to the Editor The Biblio Press is preparing to pub- 1953, issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES. The stand lish an index of popular names asso- is designed to fit on to the front flange of metal shelving, and can be moved about to ciated with United States Government any part of the library. Books can thus be reports and committees which is now consulted at the shelves without fatigue. Aslib being compiled by a local librarian as Library has acquired a blue-print of the book- a private project. stand, which may be borrowed by members This is to request the cooperation interested in construction for their own use." and assistance of District of Columbia and other librarians in locating informal files or other material on the subject. You are to be congratulated on the As an example of the type of informa- particularly fine February issue of tion we are seeking, the Department of SPECIALLIBRARIES. the Army Library has in its Reference I hope we shall have more cost analy- Branch an informal card file which in- ses in the future, as they are very useful cludes such entries as "Brewster Re- in evaluating one's own library services. port" and "Doolittle Board Report" with Winifred Sewell's article on the bibliographical citations. Squibb Abstract Bulletin was especially Any suggestions of similar files and thought-provoking. I am sure librarians their availability for copying by a mem- reading her article will review their ber of our staff would be appreciated thinking on bibliographical services. Co- greatly. operation in special library services will BARTONBLEDSOE, Editor have to move forward if the literature Biblio Press continues to grow at its present rate. 1129 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington 5, D. C. Miss Sewell points out the cost of dupli- cated effort in one field alone as a mil- lion dollars. How long can special libra- ries afford to act as isolated units in The issue of SPECIAL finding and disseminating information? LIBRARIEScarried a short item in which MRS. LOIS B. WARREN,Librarian Victor Chemical Works I described a movable bookstand used Chicago Heights, Illinois in one of our libraries. I expected some interest in further details about the stand, but I was amazed at the actual On January 6th our Administration response. During the month or so fol- building, which housed the library, was lowing publication, 43 librarians wrote completely destroyed by fire. Only ten to me for more information. One of of our 6500 volumes were saved, being these requests came from Hawaii, five checked out at the time. were from Canada, and two from Eng- land. I thought that you would be in- We are to start a new building soon, but unfortunately we do not have suf- terested in knowing that SPECIALLI- ficient insurance to re-stock our library. BRARIES is read widely and promptly. ELSEL. SCHULZE,Librarian For that reason we are asking if you The Procter & Gamble Company would care to donate some books for Cincinnati, Ohio our library. We are "starting from scratch" and ED.-The March 1954 issue of AsZib Zn- formation, the monthly bulletin of the Asso- can use books on any subjects. Any ciation of Special Libraries & Information consideration you are able to give us Bureaux (Great Britain), carries the follow- will certainly be appreciated. ing item: "Members may have seen an illus- MAYMEESTES, Librarian tration of a movable bookstand produced for Cisco Junior College the Procter & Gamble Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, Cisco, Texas which appeared on page 404 of the December, ED.-SLA cooperation is solicited.

MAY -JUNE, 1954 Halsey W. Wilson Alfred Hafner 1 868 - 1954 1 866 - 1954 Halsey W. Wilson, founder of The H. W. Alfred Hafner, who for many years headed Wilson Company of New York, died at his the firm of G. E. Stechert & Co., forerunner home in Croton Heights, Westchester County, of the Stechert-Hafner Company, booksellers New York, March 1, 1954, after an illness of and publishers, 31 East Tenth Street, New several months. York City, died at his residence near Zurich, Mr. Wilson headed the 56-year old com- , , 1954. pany bearing his name and was internationally Mr. Hafner was born in Switzerland and renowned as a bibliographer. Publisher of was educated in Frauenfeld and in Zurich. His more than twenty major indexing and refer- activities in the book trade began here and ence services acclaimed as indispensable to were continued in Geneva where he acquired research and scholarship in libraries, he was. broad experience in this field. He became a pioneer in this field. Today, the Cumulative proficient also in a number of languages. Book Index and the Readers' Guide to Peri- His association with the Stechert firm began odical Literature are the familiar reference in 1889, shortly after his arrival in the United tools of every librarian. States. In 1897, he became a partner of The Saturday Review once had occasion to Gustav Stechert, founder of the firm, and fol- comment: "The name H. W. Wilson is to lowing Mr. Stechert's death, became sole bibliography what Webster is to dictionaries, owner of the business. Bartlett to quotations." In 1926, Alfred Hafner was joined by his Mr. Wilson was a familiar figure at SLA two sons, Walter A. Hafner and Otto H. Conventions. Representatives of the Associa- Hafner, and under his guidance and extra- tion were invited from time to time to sit ordinary organizational ability, G. E. Stechert unofficially with The Wilson Company's Board & Co. attained pre-eminence in its unique field. of Directors and were asked to advise on the Alfred Hafner's awareness of the remark- improvement of services and the specific needs able developments in industry, reflected in the of librarians. establishment and growth of scientific and Special Libraries Association paid special special library collections, led him to specialize honor to him at the convention in Washington, in filling the need for scientific, technical and D. C. in 1948, on the fiftieth anniversary of scholarly books and periodicals. He main- the first Wilson publication. tained branch offices in England, France, and In addition to his services to research, Germany, as well as a number of agents H. W. Wilson made several unique contribu- throughout the world. tions to the field of publishing. One of the In 1946, the Stechert-Hafner organization most notable is the plan he originated for was incorporated and took its present name. saving and interfiling type for the "cumulative" Alfred Hafner retired in 1949, turning over to indexes associated with his name. his sons the control of the organization. Another unusual contribution is the "service Special Libraries Association was particu- basis" method of charge, which not only made larly indebted to Alfred Hafner for his keen possible the publications of hundreds of refer- interest and his contributions to the special ance volumes, but made it financially possible library field. for libraries on six continents to own them. *** Alice R. Knight, research librarian of the Griswold-Eshleman Company of Cleveland, Ohio, died on October 28, 1953. Marion Effie Potter, a director and the Miss Knight had served as secretary of the oldest employee of The H. W. Wilson Com- Cleveland Chapter and as chairman of the pany, died , 1953, at the age of 83. Public Relations Committee. Miss Potter joined the newly founded *** Wilson Company, then located in Minneapolis, ~i~~~~~t~,in 1898. she was the first editor Jean Gilbert Maxwell, librarian at the of a number of wilson publications, including Canadian Institute of International Affairs,

Cumulative Book Index, Readers' Guide to died On August 309 periodical Literature and Industrial Arts In- Miss Maxwell was an active member of the dex. 1952 she was made editor emeritus of Toronto Chapter, having served as treasurer the zndustria1 ~~t~ zndex, but she and chairman of the Membership committee. her regular office schedule until the end. *** Special recognition was given to her accom- Sarah C. Wells, a special representative of plishments by John L. Lawler in his book, the New York Life Insurance Company for The H. W. Wilson Company: Half a Century thirty-four years, died on July 21, 1953. of Bibliographic Publishing (University of Miss Wells was a member of SLA's New Minnesota Press, 1950). York Chapter.

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Library Schools Foreign Students A supplementary report tabulating additional information on study facilities in this country for foreign students in librarianship will appear in a forthcomina- issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES. The report now in preparation will also revise and bring to date information in the original report by Gwendolyn Lloyd, published in the January 1954 issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES (pages 7-1 1). All accredited library schools are asked to cooperate by sending revisions and further information not later than July 1, 1954, to: Miss Gwendolyn Lloyd 2412 Durant Avenue Berkeley 4, California

MAY -JUNE,,1954 2.2 1 L L The most solid of recent books published on foreign policy."

"A massive contribution to 'revisionist' history." -WINFRED E. GARRISON PETUAL A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF FRANKLIN DELANO WAR O ROOSEYELT AND ITS AFTERMATH PETUAL The definitive revisionist treatment of the responsibility for the Second World War and American entry therein, and of the consequences of our involvement in the conflict. The conclusive answer to the defense of the Roosevelt-Hull foreign policy by Professors Langer and Gleason and Herbert Feis. Edited by HARRY ELMER BARNES, author of The Genesis of the World War, with the collaboration of: WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN, PERCY L. GREAVES, JR., GEORGE A. LUNDBERG, GEORGE MORGENSTERN, WILLIAM L. NEUMANN, FREDERIC R. SANBORN, and CHARLES G. TANSILL. "The book remains an art of outstanding cour- "If there is one book that should be read hy age which so far 21s I nm concerned, sets the those who want a straightforward analysis of editor and his associates high on a civic the ofticial myths about the origins and after- pedestal . . . I cannot help nursing the hope rnxtlr of the Second World War, Professor that by some miraculous intervention the book Barnes has provided it. Here in a single volume will be listened to and will sfart a stream of is material that would otherwise have to be criticism that will wash the court historians' sifted from at least eleven separate works." out of their trenches. I hope the book will -JEANNE DANFORTH,The Freeman twa~)cthe doom of silrnce under which its pnelllies are probably this ,,lolllent conspiring "I wish to congmtulate the gifted writers wl~c~ to bury it." hare described so convincingly the diplomacy of -P~os~tsso~tFERDINAND SCHEVII.~~ rwrnt years which iu still being followed and will rntl in disaster, sooner or later, to our llr nlost solid of tile books recently on foreign policy . . . It is a series of sharply -ADarmar, Hannn L. YARNELL vriticul essays by individuals who, like the rditor Dr. Harry El~nt-r Barnes, cannot be 'Ton~l~actand full of good things . . . the arpu- ovcrlo'oked in the final determination of Hlc rnents remain si~nply,~~nanswerablt. . . Thp wisdom of a course ahieh has rost us so much in in~prachmt~ntof the historical blackout; maker; blood and resources over the last two decades." a first-class introdnction not only to the volrlm~ -1'~os~sso~RAYMOND IloLEr but to the study of the entire, Kl-ic2gnchuZdfrage." "Thp reader who desires a succinct as well as -PROF&RSOR IHOMASCALLANDER authoritative revision of the distorted writing "The revisionist case deserves to be heard. and of hnerican diplomatic history by New Deal we run learn from this statement of it . . . If advocates ail1 find the present volunle invalu- the revisionists will turn their fire upon today's able . . . Here is a. book that should be in every rapid drift toward the death of Western civilixa- public library and every school library in this tion, they may help 11s avoid the 'one more wur' ronntry. 'I!he American people deserve the truth, after which thrre would be nothing left worth and it s11011ld be the whole truth." arguing ahout," . . -P~o~rb:sson KENNETHCOLEGROVE -PROFESSORD. F. BLEMING,Tlic Nation

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