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CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER 1942

Subject, Method, Scholarship and the Library Manual MATTHEWA. MCKAVITT The Library Manual of the U. S. Department of Justice . . .LINDAH.MORLEY The Use of Slidefilms in Libraries ...... FLORENCEM. BROWN WIP Broadcast on Microfilm ...... DOROTHYH. LITCHFIELD Tutwiler Collection of Southern History and Literature . . SARAHA. MAXWELL Air Raid Precautions in New York City Libraries . . . . .ESTELLEBRODMAN Do's and Dont's for Blackouts and Dim-outs ...... SAMUELG. HIBBEN The Responsibility for S.L.A.'s Public Relations Program .MARIANC. MANLEY A New Membership Campaign ...... ROSALINDH. MORRISON Events and Publications ...... December Forecasts of Forthcoming Books ...... Announcements ......

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Send for Descriptive Bulletin HARPER & BEOTHERS - 49 East 33d St., New York Subject, Method, Scholarship and the Library Manual'

By MATTHEW A. McKAVITT

Librarian, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

FEEL very humble about discussing and not know how to ride it, or how to the Department of Justice Library hitch it up to a wagon, as it is to have a Manual because I have just finished collection of books and not know how to reading the life of that very wonderful administer it. person, Madame Marie Curie, the great When I became Librarian of the Depart- radium scientist. When I consider what ment of Justice in 1937 I discovered that she accomplished, while wearing a black, nearly 60,000 volumes lacked complete thread-bare dress, then this Library cataloging, that the loan and other neces- Manual, although it might be considered sary systems were antiquated and that a a more or less progressive step, fades into thing was rarely done twice in the same insignificance. manner. So, while we were trying to launch special services and improve an old methods, we also took the time to make As you probably know, this is the first this Library Manual. I, personally, do not library manual to be published by a law think that I should be given much credit library in which the various processes are for its creation other than the fact that I described in detail. As you also know, did have the original idea and did see the there are not many published library matter through. The Library Manual is manuals, either in the general or special entirely the result of cooperative effort, library field. This is deplorable but per- the Assistant Librarian and myself editing haps there are many reasons for such an it, and the Assistant Librarian compiling omission. Of course, it is as easy to over- the very fine index. The members of the emphasize procedures as it is to over- staff also did their share in the work. emphasize subject. To over-emphasize one to the detriment of the other, is not ideal. However, few of us can be proud either of I do not claim to be an expert on any of our comprehensive knowledge of subject the processes we use. I am kept quite busy matter, or of our knowledge of form. on purely administrative matters and Certainly it is true that subject matter naturally cannot be expected to go very cannot be properly diffused for service deeply into some of the problems con- unless that subject matter is administered nected with cataloging and classification, with a view toward the objectives of the although naturally I am consulted on the institution or agency which the library general aspects. I have been very fortunate serves. It is just as absurd to have a horse in having people on my staff who had a scholarly and a reasonable attitude, and if An abridgement of a talk delivered before the anybody would like to consult these ex- S.L.A. Washington, D. C. Chapter, October 13, 1942. perts I can assure you our doors are always 39 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December open. For those people who have law estly wants to examine the books con- libraries, and who may be wondering taining these techniques and use them about the classification of law books, I even in their most simplified forms; or should like to suggest that they consult sometimes it is because an enlightened our Tentative Law Classification Scheme administrator has not been able to obtain which is really a "form" classification in sufficient personnel to do the work. Per- that it is built on the manner in which the haps one of the most glaring failures of lawyers can more conveniently use the administrators has been their complete books rather than on a subject foundation. lack of understanding of the purposes and It is very difficult to set up a classification value and powers of personnel. It seems by subject for law. For instance, we have that if you find employees who know the not found it wise to put all of the legisla- subject matter they do not know library tion in one location in the library. Such methods, and if they know library meth- a procedure may be excellent for those ods they do not know the subject matter. libraries that specialize in legislation. You cannot sew with just a needle or just The classification by subject of legal the thread. Both are necessary and I believe treatises involves problems which cannot that the reason for the undervaluing, and, be found in any other field of knowledge. unappreciative attitude of some adminis- As you know, there is no LC classification trators toward librarians, can be laid to for law, that is "K", except a more or less some extent at the door of the Library skeletonized scheme which we used as a profession itself. I believe that librarians partial basis of our more detailed sche- in the legal and other fields have not re- dules. I mention classification because it is ceived the respect they might obtain be- a subject which has long claimed the at- cause they have not had a scholarly atti- tention of law librarians but which has not tude toward their subject, or toward the received enough close attention, and methods to be used in preventing materials which has more or Iess bafled the non-law from gathering dust on the shelf. The sub- librarians. Naturally we mention our ject must be attractively presented. I do classification scheme in the Catalog Sec- not meag that we should use colorful tion of the Manual and it is, perhaps, un- placards, although that might help, but fortunate that we did not add the Scheme I do believe that we should educate our to the Manual. However, we shall be readers to expect to find in the card catalog very happy to give the Classification and other services, a recognized and work- Scheme to anybody who will write us a able medium between the materials and letter requesting it. the reader. Special librarians are more fortunate than general librarians because LIBRARYPERSONNEL the only educational function of the special There is a minimum amount of basic librarian is to teach the library reader to methods necessary in all libraries, regard- use the card catalog and to present his less of subject, and it is a sad thing, in- materials in an interesting fashion by deed, to know that some of these most special services. The special librarian does usual routines are lacking in many li- not deal with what you could call inspir- braries, law and otherwise. Sometimes ing subjects, i.e., subjects designed to this is because there is an unenlightened elevate the soul of man such as poetry, administrator behind the scenes, or out metaphysics, religion, etc., nor does he, in the open; sometimes it is because not generally speaking, have to assist the enough care has been shown in the selec- school teachers or the women's clubs. The tion of that type of personnel which hon- function of fact finding, or procuring in- 19421 SUBJECT, METHOD, SCHOLARSHIP AND THE LIBRARY MANUAL 359 formation, is the primary one for the between a shelf-list and an accession special librarian. record. Lawyers, medical men, dentists and engineers have lifted themselves in the LACKOF SCHOLARSHIPAMONG LIBRARIANSestimation of most people and have become I have been reading recently a number men not only of scholarly influence, but, of books on the history of Ireland and in quite often of afluence. One reason for this doing so I learned that Ireland had a is the fact that their professional associa- Rcnazssance in the year 700, several cen- tions have demanded rather high qualifi- turies before the European Renaissance. cations before a man or woman could prac- This made me realize that had I been a tice in a profession. Why anybody should better scholar I would, no doubt, have think thut such qualifications should not be known this fact a long time ago. I think demanded of librarians is bqyond my com- that this lack of scholarship on the part of prehension. So, I believe that it is up to librarians, and I mean of course realistic many librarians to place their own houses scholarship, a scholarship that genuinely in order. wants to serve, is lacking among many I do not want to'be misunderstood. It librarians. I say this humbly because I do is possible for a person to know both the not consider myself a scholar but I can see subject and library procedures without how a person without a philosophic or having gone to professional schools, but historical background, can learn to do certainly a person who has not gone to a many things passably well, as a lawyer library or other professional school should can learn to use the law books without feel that it is a matter of conscience that he knowing a great deal about the history or should learn enough from the books stud- jurisprudence of the law, and just as a ied in these schools, and in the various person can drive an automobile without professional publications, to enable him knowing much about electricity and igni- to grasp, at least generally, the principles tion and mechanics. This failure to stop behind subject and method-these are and consider underlying principles has more vital to success than a bibliography, prevented us from being scholarly librar- a library service publication or any other ians and has cost us the respect of the library tool designed to serve. Unless prin- administrators and those who use the ciples are understood, a library publica- libraries. Time and time again, I have tion or any "home-made" library tool, is heard of people being placed in library indeed an anemic curiosity. If the person positions because the administrator who does not know his subject well will thought that the librarian's job was easy, become a student of the subject, he will be that it ranked no higher than that of a less combative with a person who does custodian and that the librarian could know the subject, and the person who spend a great part of his day sitting becomes a student of procedures will be around reading up on the subject matter, less antagonistic toward those who have or doing other less productive tasks. learned procedures, whether in library It seems to me that if a librarian is honest with his institution or agency and school, or out of library school. It is un- with himself, he cannot permit himself important where or how we learn. It is to be called a "librarian" unless he has a important, of course, that we learn-and real interest in both subject matter and learn well. I fear some librarians have procedures. You have seen the individual barely tasted the bread of "subject" or the who proudly called himself "The Librar- wine of "procedurev-certainly few of us ian" but who didn't know the difference have eaten of the cake of excellence! 360 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [Dcccm6er

CONCLUSION connection read the article "Recruits to the Library Profession" by Samuel Sass, In conclusion, I would like to cite an in charge of the Physics Library of the excerpt from a letter I received recently University of Michigan, which appears in from Dr. Ralph Munn, the Director of the the October 1942 issue of the Library Carnegie Library at Pittsburgh. I had been Journal. In this connection, also, I suggest explaining the injustice of library salaries that a committee composed of Federal and was blaming the various library asso- librarians from the various library associa- ciations for the great difference between tions, both in Washington and in the field, the salaries of librarians and their sub- study the library personnel classification ordinates, and I asked him when he thought and then present to the Civil Service Com- that librarians, generally, would be so mission an appeal for a hearing regarding respected that all classes of librarians, the allocation of the whole library series. professional, sub-professional and clerical, I do not wish to leave the impression would receive a decent living wage. He that librarians are less scholarly than responded as follows: other professional people because all of us "I wish of course that I knew the answer to the have seen lawyers, doctors, engineers, section of your letter dealing with the inadequacies dentists, etc., who might have done of the library profession. Libraujans do not rate higher humanity more good had they gone into in the estimation of the world because so many libraries less scholarly professions, but the fact actually descrve no more respect than they receive. They arc mch poor things because of the lack of adequate financial remains that a certain knowledge of tech- upport; szppout is inadequate becausc they are such poor niques was required before they were things, seeming to deserve no better. The entire problem allowed to practice and that only real thus appears to form a vicious circle. Some wedge stzldy, where there are no personnel qualifica- must bc driven into this cricle in order to secure a tions demanded, can give a knowledge of starting place for improvment. My own prescrip- tion is for librarians to focus whatever resources the subject matter and techniques. Librar- they now control on activities which will be recog- ians, as a professional group, have always nized by the community as important to civil bet- been considered rather highly in the esti- terment. In most cases this involves a shift from merely mation of the community but they have giving the public what it wants to a dcjinitc policy of cm- not wielded the influence now held by other phasiqing the informational and educational services of the library." professions, and, perhaps, this is because their knowledge was a jack-of-all-trades The salaries paid the genera1 library variety rather than a specialization type. worker are perhaps another reason for the I prefer the jack-of-all-trades who knows, failure to have well-organized libraries, in addition, his own subject and the meth- because it is becoming more difficult to ods of using it expertly, rather than the attract scholarly people to the library specialist who knows his own subject,- profession because of low salaries. In this and not much of anything else.

In the broad and final sense all institztions are educa- tional in that thty operate to form the attitudes, dispo- sitions, abilities and disabilities that constitate a concrete pevsonality. JOHNDEWEY The Library Manual of the U. S. ~e~artmentof Justice'

Reviewed by LINDA H. MORLEY

School of Library Service, Columbia University, New York, New York

HE compilation of manuals has series of manuals published by the Newark received much consideration Public Library,? probably the first printed Tthroughout the whole library pro- manuals, quite possibly were inspired by fession during the past half dozen years. the introduction of the scientific manage- The subject has been discussed informally ment movement in the first decade of the at several S.L.A. meetings. On the initia- present century, since they were published tive of the Financial Group a collection shortly thereafter. of manuals has been established at S.L.A. Some present day library manuals re- Executive Office and four special libraries semble the enlployee handbook and others have deposited their manuals with the the standard practice instruction manual, Association. A recent survey of libraries while some are a combination of the two in educational institutions2 brought to types. The outline suggested for a college light some fifty-three manuals of different library manual by Lucy E. Fay,5 and the types. In fact the terms "library manual" modified version of this recommended to and "staff manual" are applied rather special librarians by Rose Boots,'j provide indiscriminately to a variety of publica- for this double purpose manual. It might tions. be desirable to distinguish between types Probably the library manual originated by using the terms "procedure manual" as an adaptation of similar manuals used and "staff manual." The first term would in a number of business organizations. It apply to a compilation designed and suffi- has been the practice for many years a- ciently detailed, to substitute for specific mong the larger corporations to distribute, to employees, booklets which were for- oral instruction of assistants taking over merly called "rule books" and are now new duties, and as the oficial record for more diplomatically referred to as "em- procedures and decisions, while the term ployee handbooks" or "manuals." One "staff manual" would describe the more of the essential factors stressed in the general publication intended to give the scientific management movement was the new assistant a background knowledge of "standard practice instruction" developed the library, its policies, internal organiza- for all manual and routine work. The tion and clientele, and particularly to in- Bodleian Library Staff Manual3 and the form him of his privileges and responsi-

1 U. S. Department of Justice, Library Manual, bilities as a member of the staff. The compiled under the direction of Matthew A. McKavirt, Librarian (Wash., D. C., The Depr., 1941) ~0dern:~mericanLibraryEconomy Series, 1912-. lor pp. 6 "The staff manual for the college library," Louis R. Wilson and Maurice F. Tauber, "Staff Bulletin of thc American Library Association, XXXI (Aug. Manuals in College and University Libraries," College 1937). 466-7. and research lzbrarrcs, I (Mar. 1941), 126. 6 "A suggested outline of content for a staff man- Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Staff ual," Special Libraries Association, Financial Group manual, (Oxford, England, 1913-38). Bulletin, IV (July 1941) 9-11. 361 362 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December special librarian is more often interested promotional activities and uses specific in the procedure type, because in many means to keep its clientele informed of special libraries employee policies of the current developments, in addition to the organization of which the library is a part publication of its Review, but there are apply also to the special library staff. no sections of the publication devoted to In others the staff comes under civil service these subjects. Even though such activities codes. The Library Manual of the United to a considerable degree transcend routine, States Department of Justice, under review there is much to be said for including- them here, is essentially a procedure manual al- in any manual because they can be so though it includes a brief history of the easily postponed and neglected. Inclusion library and some general instructions ap- of these and other administrative activi- plicable to all assistants. ties in the manual also help the staff to Probably most special libraries with a think of routines in relation to the li- staff of more than two or three persons brary's real objectives and its service have some of their routines in writing, but function rather than thinking of routines not many have a coordinated series of as ends in themselves, a habit of mind instructions in such form that they could easy to contract and somewhat encouraged be considered procedure manuals and fewer by written procedures. In fact, there are still have published such manuals. Mr. executives who disapprove of formalizing McKavitt and his staff are to be congratu- procedures in this way, not only because lated on the publication of this well or- of the drawback just cited, but also because ganized document. Its comprehensive- written procedures have a tendency to ness is evidenced by the fact that it covers inhibit thought, and thereby reduce eval- all but a very few of the topics applicable uation and improvement of methods by to a procedure manual suggested by the the staff. Nevertheless, there are many two outlines7 already mentioned. Under advantages in the maintenance of a man- most topics a careful balance is maintained ual, as so adequately stated by Miss Fay8 between a generalized presentation and the and Miss boot^.^ Moreover, the present inclusion of such minute details that con- manual is published in looseleaf form tinuous revision would be necessary. which suggests revision. However, some additional instruction Part I contains a functional chart of the would probably be required before a new library and a glossary. For a special li- assistant could carry out a number of the brary serving an organization, a chart of processes. Rather limited treatment is that organization as well as one of the li- given to the administrative department. brary, would be useful, especially to new Here the duties and responsibilities are assistants. The glossary consists mostly indicated, but little in the way of proce- of terms well understood by Iibrarians dure is offered, even though some of the with training or experience, although it activities mentioned obviously involve would be useful to junior assistants. One either specific methods or basic policies; looks in vain, however, for terms peculiar such as, the "choice of literature," prepa- to this library, to government libraries or ration of the Jasticc Library Review, and to law libraries, unless the phrases "pock- its distribution, and "maintenance of et parts" or "visible continuation file" duplicate and want list." could be so considered. This is the more In common with most special libraries, surprising because a fair number of terms the Department of Justice Library un- are employed in the text for which a new doubtedly carries on some publicity or assistant, trained or untrained, would

7 Op. cit. 8 Op. cit. 19421 THE USE OF SLIDEFILMS IN LIBRARIES 363 doubtless welcome clarification e.g. bid- assumed that no part of it could be charted. sheet (p. 14), citator (p. 26), research Be that as it may, librarians all too often consultant (p. 8), descriptive-word-index tend to let assistants struggle through the (p. 52), etc. even though the terms them- complexities of adequate reference service selves are not unfamiliar. by the trial and error method, instead of Part 11, "Departments," in its sections conserving and capitalizing their own and on Order and accession, Catalog, Circu- the experience of others for the benefit of lation and main desk routine, and Prepara- both assistants and clients. Such instruc- tion of books, presents carefully planned tions as are here and in Part I11 are well and coordinated procedures in considerable worth study by other special librarians. detail. These would be valuable to a li- Part I11 provides a series of excellent brarian installing a new special library or "General instructions", many of which reorganizing any of these processes, as a would be applicable in any special library. pattern or model on which to base his own The Appendix contains fifty-nine forms procedure. The steps peculiar to the De- which are referred to by number through- partment of Justice Library would suggest out the text and make the procedures easier others peculiar to his needs. to understand. The Reference section, like that on There is a very adequate index which in Administration, could be expanded to general escapes the pitfall so common in advantage, or so it seems to the reviewer. indexes compiled by librarians. However, In a law library, as in many other kinds of the cataloging use of the "see reference" is special libraries, there are types of recur- noted here and there, when repetition of ring requests for which procedures could the page numbers under both topics would undoubtedly be developed which would actually have required less printing and result in more thorough reference service saved work on the part of both compiler and saving of time for client and library. and user (p. 56, 6.r, 65). Effective use of specialized reference books The foregoing suggestions and criticisms and the technique of handling reference in- are matters of minor importance. The quiries from specialists cannot be given manual as a whole is well organized, the much consideration in library school and text clearly expressed and informative. It are not quickly acquired. Perhaps because is a noteworthy contribution to our pro- the heterogenous character of reference fessional literature and should stimulate work has become a tradition we have just the production of other manuals.

The Use of Slidefilms in Libraries

By FLORENCE MAPLE BROWN

Jam Handy Organization, Detroit, Michigan

N EXPERIMENT is being con- used as study material in libraries. Pro- ducted by the Detroit Public jectors, together with slidefilms on techni- A Library to determine the extent cal subjects, such as basic aircraft metal to which slidefilms (film strips) can be skills, preflight aeronautics and machin- 364 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [Dcccmbcr

ing, have been placed in the Technology in charge. Information is sought as to the Department of the Main Library and in type of user, student or worker, and the three branches, the Mark Twain, Mon- purpose for which needed. In most cases teith and Conely. the material has been used by adult work- Although the experiment is still in its ers for individual study to supplement very early stages, Miss Ethel Kellow, training classes. The slidefilms on pre- librarian at the Mark Twain Branch, be- flight aeronautics have been employed in lieves that slidefilms lead to the use of a slightly different fashion. Most Detroit books. One interesting example of this high schools are giving courses in the sub- is the case of the young woman war ject and there are also some evening classes worker who asked for something on rivet- of adults. One instructor brought two of ing. "I have a riveting class tonight which his evening school classes to the library I dislike," she explained. "The teacher to use the slidefilms and several individ- talks about tools and material I've never uals in the classes have returned to study even seen." She was shown one of the them. A picture 11%" x 15" of an airplane slidefilms consisting of more than forty part is obviously easier to study than one pictures of the tools and techniques of the size of the average book illustration. riveting, and also instructed in the use of It appears from results achieved so far the projector. The pictures, with explana- that visual materials can be utilized suc- tory text, are projected on a folding screen cessfully for individual study. They have 11%" x IS'' in size, suitable for use on a desk or table. After a morning spent study- already been employed in groups and the ing the slidefilms, the student took with same advantages apply. It is quite evident, her two books for home study and said too, that they stimulate the use of books. "Now I can really study, because I know It may be that before the close of the what it is all about." experiment new discoveries will be made Printed forms are provided to be filled about the advantages of visual aids in out either by the patron or the assistant libraries.

W I P Broadcast on Microfilm

Script By DOROTHY HALE LITCHFIELD Superviser of Periodicals and hficrofilms, Columbia University Libraries, New York, New York

(Station W I P, Phikddphia, Sanday, many divisions of the government. Today October 25, 1942, 2:30 p.m.) we are happy to present Dr. Mary A. Station Anno~ncec Station W 1 P is Bennett, who has charge of the Photo- presenting the second of the programs in graph Division in the libraries of Columbia the series arranged by the Drexel Institute University, New York, N. Y. of Technology on "The College and the Interviewer: Dr. Bennett, will you de- Community". The program today is spon- scribe microfilm for us? sored by the School of Library Science at Dr. Bennett: It is film either 16 millimeter Drexel. One of the exciting technical de- wide similar to that used for home movies, velopments of the last ten years is micro- or 35 millimeter like that used for the film, now playing an important part in commercial movies. We photograph rare 19421 W I P BROADCAST ON MICROFILM 36 books and other kinds of reading matter and sends the films to the Army post office on it. abroad. There they are printed on paper Interviewer: When you say rare books, do and delivered to the soldiers. The paper you mean old ones? print made from your letter is about 4 by 5 Dr. Bennett: Sometimes. But at Colum- inches in size. That means that the writing bia, since the war began, many of our is about one-half the size of the original, orders are from chemical firms which want so unless you write clearly and with black films of articles published in the chemical ink the letter may be dificult to read. journals within the last ten years. There Interviewer: It sounds as if the process are very few copies of the foreign chemical took considerable time and money. journals in this country and we cannot Dr. Bennett: The letters can be filmed at lend our copies widely because they are the rate of several thousand an hour. The needed by the research workers in our own important thing is that the film takes up Chemistry Department. much less room and weighs much less for Interviewer: What about the chemistry of shipping. When librarians want to show microfilm : is it inflammable? the difference in weight between paper and Dr. Bennett: No, it is slow-burning. microfilm they generally use the New York When you touch it with a match there Times as an example. A whole year's file isn't any blaze. It just crumples up and of the Times weighs about 400 pounds, but when a lot of it is stored in one place, it on film it's only z~ pounds. A newspaper doesn't generate an explosive gas like is z feet high, but on a roll of microfilm it's motion picture film. The fire insurance only 4 inches. If we sent all our soldier companies do not raise your insurance mail abroad on microfilm instead of writ- premiums if you happen to have a quantity ing letters, it would save tons of shipping of microfilm on hand. space now needed for food and guns and Interviewer: I suppose a large library to- medical supplies. Paper is so heavy that it day owns a good deal of this microfilm. has to go by boat, but microfilm can be Dr. Bennett: We have around 10,000 feet carried by plane. of film at Columbia. That is over 2,000 Interviewer: That should convince any- separate books and several years' file of one, Dr. Bennett, that one of the things daily papers. The newspaper publishers sell we could do to make our skipping problem subscriptions on film that any library can easier in the war would be to send all the buy. When one of our students needs a rare foreign soldier mail on microfilm. Is there book that another library cannot lend us, any other way in which our government we ask to have it filmed. Most research uses microfilm to save space? libraries in this country can make micro- Dr. Bennett: Yes, in filming records. It film copies. Before the war, we used to buy has been estimated that one-sixth of all films from libraries all over Europe. the space now used in Washington by the Interviewer: The papers have had a great government oilices is taken up by records. deal to say lately about sending the sol- Some of the government departments are diers' mail to foreign countries by micro- filming their old inactive records. They film. I think it is called airgraphs or also discard the original papers to save V-mail. Just how does that work? space. The Census Bureau filmed the entire Dr. Bennett: A printed form, gratis, is index to the census of 1900-about 34 secured from the Post Office. After a letter million cards. Since the beginning of the is written on the form you mail it in the war, the Library of Congress has filmed its regular way. The Post Office Department card catalog. If this Library is ever dam- films all the letters with a rotary camera aged by bombing or fire, the whole catalog 366 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [Dcccmbcr

can be replaced from the negative micro- idea of using this size film to take pictures film. of all the checks that passed through his Interuiewer: What about these records bank. When he found it was feasible, he that are destroyed to save space? Is the wrote an article for a bankers' magazine microfilm of a document as legal as the and all the other banks immediately fol- document itself? lowed his recommendation. The idea Dr. Bennett: That is an important point, has now spread to business firms all over and there has been considerable discussion the country. about it in Washington. So Congress Interviewer: You mean that business passed the Elliott bill which authorizes firms film all their checks? any government department, under proper Dr. Bennett: Yes, and their records too. orders, to destroy its records after they Some of the big department stores film have been filmed. The bill also guarantees their customers' bills. In Brooklyn, New that the Courts will recognize the films York, there is a butchers' supply house to be just as legal as the documents. that sharpens knives and meat choppers Interviewer: Now tell me, Dr. Bennett, and they film the records of these transac- does the government use microfilm for tions. In 1937 some of the railroads began anything else besides saving space? to film their freight waybills. Even li- Dr. Bennett. Yes, it is used in teaching. braries are adopting business methods. The Coast Artillery School uses filmstrips The public libraries of Brooklyn, New to teach aircraft identification. The film- York, and Gary, Indiana, charge books strip is shown on a screen in the classroom. out by the microfilm method. Other divisions of the Army also use film Interviewer: Since microfilm is used so in teaching. For example, a movie camera extensively by the government, in busi- may be set up in front of the instrument ness firms and in libraries, I'm wondering panel of an airplane and the movements if there are enough people in the country of the instruments recorded while the to make all this film, and what they are plane is in flight. Then, instead of running called? off the film rapidly in a movie projector Dr. Bennett: They 're called micropho tog- you use it as a microfilm and study each raphers. A great many of the men who exposure separately. have been doing microphotography in Interviewer: I should not think anyone libraries have been drafted by the govern- would be able to see at a distance the ment departments or the armed services. instruments very clearly on a big screen. There are not nearly enough people avail- Dr. Bennett: No, they would not. A able to make all the microfilm that is film like that would have to be read on a needed and I do not know of anyone who reading machine just as we read films of can make microfilm who is unemployed. books. You put the film in the machine Interviewer: Just how does one learn mi- and turn a handle when you want to read crophotography? Does he have to take a the next page. course in it? Interviewer: Are librarians responsible for Dr. Bennett: Up to three years ago there all this use of microfilm? were not any courses. Now microfilming Dr. Bennett: I wish we could claim the is taught in the library schools of two credit for it but as a matter of fact we owe universities, Chicago and Columbia. It the development of microfilm to a busi- saves time if you study under a teacher and ness man. About fifteen years ago an Amer- also saves raw material. Today the ican banker learned that microfilm had government asks all of those in photo- been used to send messages in the Franco- graphic work not to waste either film or Prussian war. From this he conceived the chemicals. 19/21 TUTWILER COLLECTION OF HISTORY AND LITERATURE 367

Interviewer: I am told at the Drexel Li- across the floor may jar the camera. Then brary School that you teach the course in when the picture is developed, it will be making microfilm at Columbia. Is that so? blurred. So we have the camera fixed to Dr. Bennett: Yes, I do. the wall or to a heavy table. Interviewer: I think if you are giving Interviewer: But books are such different special training in a field that helps the sizes. Suppose you were going to film a war effort, we should know about it. newspaper, wouldn't you have to move You mentioned the fact a little while the camera further away from the page ago that the two courses in microphotog- than you would for a book? raphy in this country are given in library Dr. Bennett: Yes, you would. The camera schools. Does that mean that only librar- is attached to a piece of hollow pipe set ians can study microfilming? up on a table. The book is placed under Dr. Bennett: The courses are intended thecamera, which is moved up or down un- primarily for librarians, but at Columbia til the whole book is in the picture. The we have admitted photographers in other camera is then screwed in place; a button fields. We built a special laboratory in is pressed; the picture is taken; and the film the main library just for making micro- moves forward in the camera. You turn film and for teaching the process. a page of the book and press the button Interviewer: What is the difference be- again. tween a laboratory for making ordinary pictures and one for making microfilm? Station Annoancec You have just heard a Dr. Bennett: One big difference is the discussion on microfilm by Dr. Mary A. camera. When you are taking pictures of Bennett of the Columbia University Li- anything as small as print you have to be braries in New York, N.Y. This program careful that the camera is not jarred by was the second in the series presented by vibrations. A truck driving along outside Station W I P in conjunction with the the building or even someone walking Drexel Institute of Technology.

Tutwiler Collection of Southern History and Literature

By SARAH ALISON MAXWELL

Formerly with the Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama

CITY of the New South has ac- present library building. At one end of the cepted the challenge to preserve hall hangs a portrait painting of Major A the records of the Old South. A Tutwiler, while on the opposite wall are spacious hall, IOO feet long, located in the portraits of two other men who played Public Library, Birmingham, Alabama, important roles in the development of houses the Tutwiler Collection of South- Birmingham, Colonel James R. Powell, ern History and Literature. This collection founder of the city and popularly known was made possible by a gift of $jo,ooo as the "Duke of Birmingham," and the in 1926 as a memorial by the family of the late Dr. J. H. Phillips, superintendent of late Major Edward Magruder Tutwiler schools, who in 1886 organized the first whose home once occupied the site of the library. 368 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

The recognition of the need to rewrite the 24-page pamphlet originally selling Southern history in the light of scientific for 25 cents, presented both of these Ala- research has long challenged libraries of bama institutions with a photostatic copy. the South to collect, index and make ac- When a photostatic copy of a rare pub- cessible all material dealing with the lication is not available the library pro- section. There are very excellent collec- cures, if possible, a typewritten one, since tions on Southern history in the libraries from it may be gleaned valuable informa- of the University of North Carolina, the tion. For instance, there were only two University of Texas and the McClung copies, as far as known, of the history of collection in the Lawson-McGhee Li- the town of Marion, Alabama, written brary, Knoxville, Tennessee. by Samuel Townes and published in 1844. The Birmingham collection strives to These were believed to be the first attempt be extensive first and then intensive. Al- at local history in Alabama. One of the though the Birmingham and Alabama ma- precious volumes was safeguarded in the terial is outstanding, the library covers the Department of Archives and History in South from Virginia to Texas, and "his- Montgomery and the other locked in the tory" and "literature" is interpreted in president's office at Judson College, Mar- its broadest sense to include every phase ion. As neither book was allowed out of of Southern life, both old and new. Fea- the building for photostating, a member tures in which the collection is especially of the Birmingham library staff w-cnt to strong are Alabama and Birmingham, the Montgomery to typewrite a copy. antebellum South, slavery, the Civil War, The library contains a wealth of mate- reconstruction, negroes, cotton and de- rial on religious history and the early scription and travel in Southern States. churches. Certainly ample religious in- Among the travel books are a number of struction was provided for all, to wit, an rare Americana. Also there are files of old book published in Savannah in 1842, early bound magazines, such as the Soath- entitled, Religious Instraction of the Negroes ern Literary Messenger, Southern QgarterZy in the United States, and also Catechism Review, Confederate Veteran and De Bow's designed for Oral Instruction of Colored People. Review. From the Library of Congress One of the earliest books published in the representatives were sent here recently to state is the History of the Baptists in Ala- microfilm 15 legislative journals of Ala- bama, printed in 1840. Aside from docu- banla with which to complete the Con- ments, the very first book publication was gressional Library files. In no other li- Henry Hitchcock's Alabama Justices of brary, it seems, could the November 1838 Peace published in Cahawba in 1822. How- Sennte Journal be obtained. ever, Robert Beverley's History of Virginia, The library does not specialize in first a small leather-bound volume with quaint editions zs good copies serve the same illustrations, was published i11 1722 and purpose. The small volume shown open in carries the earliest imprint of any book in the glass display case, Summary Geography the collection. Because of the recent Fed- of Alabama, One of the United States, by eral archeological project in Birmingham, Ebenezer H. Cummins, A. M., printed in Indian antiquities is a topic for which 1819, is a photostatic copy. A gracious there is frequent call. collector, who bought the original from Life was all work and no play for chil- a Nevv York dealer while the Alabama dren during the Civil War period, judging Department of Archives and History and from the juvenile literature published the Birmingham Public Library were de- then, limited as it was to textbooks. The murring because of the price of $150 for nearest approach to a popular book was 19421 TUTWILER COLLECTION OF HISTORY AND LITERATURE 369

the Geographical Reader for the Dixie Chil- presidents. The local district of the Ala- dren published in Raleigh, North Caro- bama Federation of Women's Clubs and lina, in 1863. the Birmingham Music Study Clubs file Although the collection contains ap- scrapbooks in the collection every year. proximately 11,090 books, 8,739 pamph- These are indeed useful as the library is lets, several hundred maps, and 3,398 often called upon for club programs several mounted pictures of historic buildings and years back. ante-bellum homes, this summary by no In building up the collection the book means tells the story of its contents. There reviews in the State historical quarterlies are old manuscripts, deeds, land grants, are carefully checked. Useful also are the ledgers showing plantation records in the bibliographies contained in The South in South, bills of sale of negro slaves and the Building of the Nation. The best source diaries written by soldiers in the War material has been A Selected Bibliography between the States. Among the memen- and Syllabtls of the History of the South, toes are framed pictures of Birmingham's 1~84-1876, compiled by Messrs. Brooks pioneer settlers, a lock of hair reputed to and Boyd and published by the University be that of Jefferson Davis, Confederate of Georgia. The library contains 95 per flags and money. Families of pioneer cent of these works. citizens are urged to donate to the col- Making the material accessible is no less lection mementoes of Birmingham's early important than collecting it. In charge of days. One of the most recent contributions the library is Miss Jessie Ham who attests given by descendants of Robert H. Henley, that a large amount of indexing is neces- Birmingham's first mayor, are programs sary. Sometimes magazine articles, chap of amateur and professional theatrical per- ters of books and much of the material in formances dating back to the early 1870's. local newspapers is included in this in- One of the first purchases was a com- dexing. Also a valuable source of informa- plete set of the signed letters of the gover- tion is a large newspaper clipping file. nors of the State. There is a collection too Extensive clippings are being made of the of autographed copies of the works of role of Birmingham and Alabama in World Southern authors and a number of original War 11, such as citations of service men book manuscripts of Birmingham and for heroism, personal narratives appearing Alabama writers. A collection of 148 in newspapers and the industrial activity scrapbooks are a feature of the collection, of the section. The need that has arisen covering as it does a wide range from the for such clippings covering World War I, convict leasing system in Alabama to with but few available, is believed a gauge Birmingham's Little Theater. A recent of how valuable this material on the pres- addition are 39 scrapbooks kept from 1899 ent conflict eventually will become. The up to the present administration by idea is to incorporate the clippings later Birmingham's mayors and commission into classified scrap books.

Copies of SPECIAL LIBRARIES Wanted If anyone has an extra copy of the November 1942 issue of SPECIAL LIBRARIES, will he please send it to Mrs. Kathleen Brown Stebbins, Secretary, Special Libraries Association, 31 East Tenth Street, New York, New York. Air Raid Precautions In New York City Libraries

By ESTELLE BRODMAN

Reference Assistant, Columbia University Medical Library, New York, New York

EW YORK City librarians have list card microfilmed, then wrapped in newspaper had a "Before Pearl Harbor" at- and packed into the carton. A list of the books in each case was compiled and stored. Two copies titude about protecting their N of the microfilm were made-one for reference libraries from air raid attacks. Except for a purposes in the library and the other for safe- few of the larger libraries, practically keeping in a bank vault. The books themselves nothing has been done. The following out- are out of New York and are unobtainable for the duration, line of the steps taken by a few and the c. Columbia University Medical Library has recommendations made to small libraries divided its rare books into three groups.- The are intended as an aid to librarians just rarest ones (such as the first edition of Harvey's beginning to worry about the effect of air De motu cordis) have been put in the vault in the Dean's office. The largest section of the rare raids on libraries. books was stored in wooden and cardboard pack- ing cases in the storeroom. These two groups are OUTLINE not available for readers. The third group,

I. Catalogs and shelf lists. archival material of the College of Physicians Libraries which have considered protecting these and Surgeons, was placed in shelf list order on have either: steel shelves in the same storeroom. These are a. Microfilmed their shelf list [Kings County available for users. Of course each packing case Medical Library is an example of this type. Set was numbered and a list of all the material made bclmu] or else and stored in another safe place. b. Kept copies of the catalog and shelf list at d. New York University is in the process of widely divergent spots in the library. For exam- deciding which volumes should be stored. ple, New York University has one copy of the . e. The New York Academy of Medicine has Union Catalog at the Washington Square College stored its rare volumes on shelves in the safest Library and another at University Heights. The portion of the library building. This makes the the N~~ york Academy of Medicine ~ib~~~~is keep- library where rare books and ing the safes containing the two halves of the materials, though stored, are available. shelf list as far from each other in the library 3' Remaining building as is possible. Only the Kings County Library reported that anything has been done for the rest of the collec- 2. Rare books. Precautions for these have generally taken prece- tion. The bulk of the working collection is dent over any other single item in libraries. housed in a fireproof stack room. Some volumes a. The New York Pxblic Library has stored its have been placed in steel cases outside of this Cutenberg Bible and other extremely rare manu- room. The New York Academy of Medicine scripts in two bank vaults in different parts of reported that it had marked the spines of all the city. About 15,000 volumes have been sent books printed after 1920, as it had been planned out of the city. None of these are available for originally to keep only a working collection in users. New York and to store the other volumes in the b. Kings County Medical Library packed country. However, this plan has not been about 3,ow of its rarest items into wooden pack- adopted. ing cases. The cases were lined with waterproof 4. The Library building. paper. Each book had its title-page and shelf Some libraries are in buildings of other organi- 3 70 19421 AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS IN NEW YORK CITY LIBRARIES 3 7I

zations. Nursing libraries, for example, may be air raid wardens go to safe quarters within the in school buildings, hospital buildings, nurses building. residences, etc. These libraries generally follow the air raid precautions of the larger units. Examples of this type are the New York Uni- I. Survey your holdings briefly and decide what is versity Library, the Columbia University Mcdi- most valuable. Do not forget all the material by cal Library and the Frick Art Reference Library. and about your institution. Remember that no Other libraries are in their own buildings- and other department is collecting this material, so have of necessity drawn up their own rules. that if your collection is lost, the material is a. Columbia University-South Hall has made irreplaceable. Always include one set of your elaborate preparations for sending readers to safe annual reports in any storage plan. Your rarest parts of the building, for assigning staff members items may be safer in a vault or safe, rather than to posts, for fighting incendiary bombs, etc. in boxes. b. The New York Academy of Medicine has z. Obtain wooden packing cases from your pur- fitted up a small room with blackout curtains and chasing department or from commercial dealers. has made plans to evacuate staff and readers to Have hinges put on the cartons so they may be safe parts of the building. opened or closed easily at will. Line these cartons Practically all places report putting sand, with paper and number each one. Make a list shovels, stirrup pumps and pails at strategic of everything placed in each carton, and keep points throughout the building. Only the Mor- this list in a safe place. Also, check with your gan Library has allocated space for air-raid shel- insurance company to see if your insurance covers ters for its staff and readers. the material when stored. 5. Changes due to war time situation. 3. Leave the rest of your collection intact. New York No library reported changes in hours of open- probably has many libraries like yours, and it is ing and closing or in numbers of library staff, as unlikely that all copies of your holdings will be opposed to changes in numbers of guard or jani- lost. torial staff. Some reported the strong prob- 4. Put your shelf list in the safest convenient place in ability of closing at night in the event of nightly the library. If you do get bombed, you can blackouts. As noted abovc, the New York Acad- rebuild your library from your shelf list. emy of Medicine has provided blackout mate- 5. Work out a simple procedure to be followed in the rials for one small reading room. event of an air raid. Remember that the calmest 6. Procedures in the event of an air raid during library among us will be flustered then, and make the hours. directions so simple that no one could possibly All libraries report that they will conduct misunderstand them. readers to safe spots in thc building. The method' 6. Protect your library building by the usual stirrup of accomplishing this varies from the simplest pumps, sand, pails, shovels, ctc. Prepare one one (in use at the Columbia University Medical room for blacking out. If possible try to have Librarytof announcing an air raid alert in the this room near the catdog. If you have only one main reading room and having the staff lead the reading room, black it out completely or else readers to the nearest safe spot-to the compli- plan to shut down the library at sundown in the event of nightly blackouts. cated method devised at South Hall. Columbia 7. In the event of air raids in large cities, use the University, which has made maps of the build- library as an information center. If Dr. X's o6ce ing, printed instructions and frequent drills a is bombed out and he moves to Ofice Y, the necessity. library should be informed of this and should In between these two extremes are the plans of pass the information on to questioners. This will the Kings County Medical Library, where read- take a great load of work off a very busy and ers and staff go to an auditorium judged to be harassed administration office staff. This system safc; and the New York Academy of Medicine has been used to great advantage in British where all readers and the staff not designated as Libraries. Do's and Dont's for Blackouts and

(The following condensed recommendations are taken from an address delivered by Samuel G. Hibben, Director of Applied Lighting, Westinghouse Lamp Division, Bloomfield, New Jersey, before a meeting of the New Jersey Chapter, S.L.A., November 4, 1942)

I-Do not forget that all of the wartime at least five thicknesses of ordinary news- protective lighting measures are for the paper; a double layer of dark colored rommon good and must be a cooperative window roller blinds; a single dark blind, operation wherein neglect or careless ig- plus a closed venetian shade; opaque craft norance of one individual may endanger paper, etc. Usually a blanket or the aver- lives and valuable structures at points age rug will leak too much light to opaque quite remote from that person. Further- a window of a well lighted room. more defense lighting measures are not 4-To protect valuable instruments, spe- evidences of weakness nor fear hysteria; cial books or documents, etc., and persons rather they are prudent precautions against working near large glass areas, use com- a possible enemy attack and are as logical mon carpet lining material rolled up inside as the fire extinguisher or the first aid of the window but capable of being im- cabinet on the wall that may seldom be mediately dropped to stop splintering used but are always ready for use. When glass. A coat of honey-like transparent protective lighting measures may be sud- binder such as Garinol will help greatly denly wanted it may then be too late to but not necessarily prevent flying glass. inaugurate them. 5-Approved blackout lamp bulbs and 2-Almost any part of this country lighting devices can be used indoors that could be suddenly attacked by enemy air- give about the equivalent of weak moon- men and we must consider ourselves vul- light. Such sources might easily be visible nerable so long as foreign nations possess at close range to a warden but nevertheless aeroplanes capable of flying at altitudes are permissible on the basis that they are above some five miles or above the range not visible to the airmen at much greater of ground artillery and at speeds in excess distances outward and upward. of 300 miles per hour. Enemy aircraft de- 6-Don't forget the use of phosphores- tected 50 miles away may be only 10 min- cent materials to mark pedestrians or utes away and thus blackout measures guards or to disclose the presence of medi- must be capable of very quick application. cal supplies or to indicate stairways, exits, 3-A cardinal principle is to maintain light switches and danger spots. interior operations as usual, at least of 7-Illumination of moonlight intensity important work areas, and hence rather discloses the terrain sufficiently for night than turn off all lights and perhaps en- bombing. The best obscurment is when courage panics or accidents, prepare easily outdoor illumination does not exceed applied window screening or curtaining some 3 or 4% of moonlight, i.e., not much such as double layers of sateen curtains; more than five times starlight. 19421 RESPONSIBILITY FOR S.L.A.'S PUBLIC RELATIONS PROGRAM 3 73

8-Remember that blue lamps are by no means of reducing sky brightness, there- means as useful nor as satisfactory in fore, adds to the safety of coastal shipping. concealment as dim red or yellow lights. 10-Do not neglect to give serious study Since the eye when dark adapted loses its to protective lighting because at best it is ability to detect color there is no virtue in expensive and can be dangerous to us as special colored paints. well as to the enemy. It involves many 9-Dim-outs generally have an entirely talents and consists of very mnch more different objective than blackouts. Reduc- than simply turning off the switches. De- ing the amount of light spilling to the sky fense lighting will probably continue will reduce the glow that is often seen indefinitely even after an armistice and above a city and which on moonless nights will be part of the postwar developments especially may form a luminous backdrop of architecture of important structures, of against which the enemy submarine may methods of lighting and in principles of detect the hull of a vessel. Any reasonable camouflage. The Responsibility for S.L.A.'s Public Relations Program

By MARIAN C. MANLEY

Chairman, Special Libraries Association, National Public Relations Committee

tration of good "public relations." The in- UBLIC relations" for S.L.A. are dividuals who cooperate with other special developed primarily by the indi- and public libraries in making all informa- vidual member through her atti- tion more readily available are carrying on "P a definite part of such a program. Construc- tude toward her own organization and oth- er agencies through which she cooperates. tive war effort may be fostered by S.L.A. It is not by efforts to advertise the associ- by expediting information service. If this is ation but instead as effective service de- made possible through library coopera- velops recognition, that a public relations tion, again librarians are doing their part program may succeed. Sound "public re- in "cooperation for victory." lations" implies the growth of an under- In her work for her own organization standing and cooperative point of view. the librarian might stress what the library Since "Cooperation for Victory" is the is doing toward victory. Have the efforts particular phase to be emphasized, each along this line been noted in the house member may think of her service as it organs, the news sheets, the summaries of pertains to that effort. She has many op- activities distributed throughout the or- portunities to work toward this goal, pri- ganization? Such "advertising" is not to marily in her own day by day occupations. secure recognition for the library. -per se Librarians who are contributing to a spec- but to enable each member of the organi- ial service for the Intelligence Division of zation to realize how the library may be the War Department are cooperating for used to the full to facilitate his own con- victory and their work is an effective illus- tribution toward victory. Stressing the 3 74 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December libraries' service of this kind and discover- ing what more might be done may be In countless ways, S.L.A. Chapters effective in developing this public rela- serve as effective public relations agencies, tions program within the organization, not in seeking to advertise S.L.A., but by but the effort might well go further. Have directing their efforts toward effective librarians brought such features to the service through cooperation. In many attention of their public relations depart- chapters this means active cooperation ment? This would be another demonstra- with public libraries, with school and tion that special librarians exist to serve. college libraries and with other organi- Disseminating this knowledge may mean zations applying information to current extending research and more effective use needs. Cooperation for victory has intensi- of information already available. fied such efforts. In Chicago, special li- A public relations program for S.L.A. brarians have cooperated with the public members therefore begins at home and library in developing and manning a war might be carried out through individual information center and with the Consumer contacts, through inter-department pub- Information Center in organizing its lications and through institutional ad- pamphlet files; in Hartford, four special vertising in its various forms. Not only librarians have been asked to form the in this activity for her company does the "Special Service Section" of the Commit- librarian contribute to the public relations tee on Public Information; in Philadel- program. As she develops cooperative re- phia, a special file of consultants in various lations with other organizations and, fields has been organized in connection through example, intensifies the under- with a possible War Information Center; standing of the value of effective informa- in Newark special librarians have en- tion service in expediting war effort, the deavored through a War Council in co- public relations program is carried still operation with the public library, to make further. Its effectiveness is illustrated, per- the information in the various special haps as much through calls for advice in libraries accessible under certain restrict- developing such information service as in ions. Related developments are carried on any other way. In many sections certain in other cities. librarians act as consultants to other cor- The chapters provide unlimited oppor- porations developing libraries. Through tunities for demonstrating that special various channels, such as S.L.A. Head- libraries are service agencies and the quarters, group chairmen, chapter presi- Special Libraries Association, the coor- dents, the personal knowledge of one cor- dinating body that fosters widespread poration executive or another, the knowl- cooperation. This development through edge spreads that these librarians are service has found expression in several authorities on the possibilities in the places through the promotion of institutes development of special libraries. Many for victory where groups of librarians respond to requests for advice recognizing have carried on an intensive program to that their active participation in such explore all the possibilities for coopera- work is one more way to further the effec- tion toward war effort and to inform all tiveness of research. Although time con- possible users of available resources. In suming, it is time well spent in promoting some cases these institutes have provided an intelligent approach to current prob- opportunities for the various government lems. groups active in the war effort to present 19421 RESPONSIBILJTY FOR S.L.A.'S PUBLIC RELATIONS PROGRAM 375 their program and their needs so that the tively developed. Through articles and librarians have a better understanding of through inter-organization relations, what may be done in cooperation. Other group public relations may be most effec- groups have developed conferences of tively developed. Whether many will industrialists active in war service, of find them possible under current conditions government agencies working in the same is a question. If there were an oppor- field and librarians seeking to expedite tunity to develop an exhibit featuring war service through applied information. cooperation for victory and showing in Again intensive courses in special library what way different organizations might methods have been advocated so that cooperate and publications be applied, librarians might get a better understand- it could be an effective public relations ing of the ways in which their own work project. may be improved. Where chapters have been successful in developing newspaper stories, efforts of If "public relations" means a demon- the chapter members to develop coopera- stration of service, frequently S.L.A. tion for victory have provided another committees are in themselves public re- demonstration of successful public rela- lations committees. The publications Com- tions. It is in stressing what we may do for mittee as an agency for issuing selective the war effort and what we would be glad research tools is an outstanding illustra- to do, that we may be effective at this tion of effective public relations. The time. Chapters provide the framework Training and Professional Activities Com- through which energies may be put to mittee as it fosters an informed group of intelligent use for this important goal. librarians and seeks ways in which shifts in emphasis are developed to meet war THE GROUPSPARTICIPATE problems is making a contribution to the Group activities have always been con- public relations program. The War Activi- spicuous for development of the spirit of ties Committee again illustrates an effort service on special lines and in unlimited to carry on a phase of public relations. areas. The Financial Group's cooperative S.L.A.'s Public Relations Committee is efforts in helping the beginning librarian, well aware that S.L.A. itself is the public in developing projects that facilitate better relations committee. The named commit- service for all, and by sponsoring magazine tee members can act only as the coordinat- articles presenting sound library practice, ing agents through which the public have all been valuable in illustrating the relation work of the different groups, place of special library service. Articles chapters and members may be recognized such as these and those sponsored by the and fostered. To facilitate this develop- Insurance Group in featuring the work of ment the Committee has divided responsi- special libraries, are an important instru- bility among its members as follows: For ment in building up an understanding of groups, Mrs. Irene Strieby, Librarian, time-saving machinery. In finance, in insurance, in the field of science and tech- Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, nology, in social service, in fact through Indiana; for Chapters, Miss Marion Wells, all the groups, effective work has been Librarian, The First National Bank of done. As through these agencies librarians Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. The Chair- have testified to their faith in the use of man of the Committee will be responsible such information so they have provided for Committees, carry on general corre- ways in which service may be more effec- spondence and act as a general coordinator. A New Membership Campaign

By ROSALIND H. MORRISON Chairman, Special Libraries Association, National Membership Committee

MEMBERSHIP Committee has Acquiring new members will be hard been appointed, consisting of the work this year and it seems to me that the A National Chairman, twenty Chapter Membership Chairman, who did Chapter Membership Chairmen and six the best job should be rewarded personally. unaffiliated members in the states of Although it is to be given to an individual, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, the Chapter which this individual repre- Texas, Georgia and Washington. An sents, should be proud of this accomplish- effort is being made to secure more unaffil- ment. It will receive publicity through iated members, so that eventually we may SPECIALLIBRARIES and at the Convention have Chapters in areas, where there is no next year, if there is a Convention. Chapter at present. In addition, it is The Executive Board also approved my expected that each National Group Chair- recommendation to offer an Incentive Plan man will appoint a representative to assist to the representative in areas, outside of on membership. the Chapters, who secures the most mem- At the meeting of the Executive Board bers in his territory. The winner in this and Advisory Council in October, it was classification is to receive $5.00 in War recommended to offer an Incentive Plan Stamps. The award will be given on the to the Chapter Membership Chairman same basis as the War Bond for the Chapter who secures the most members for his or Membership Chairman. her Chapter. This plan was approved by Although we are most anxious to secure the Executive Board. In other words, the as many new members by January I, 1943 Chairman who comes out on top in the as is possible, the competition will con- number of memberships secured, will tinue until March 31, 1943. receive an $18.75 War Bond. This plan is In areas, where there is no Chapter, it is to be based on a percentage of the total suggested that a luncheon or dinner meet- number of members in each Chapter. New ing be arranged once a month, even though members affiliating with S.L.A. before the there are but three or four members in first of the year will be deducted from the that area. In this way, the S.L.A. members will know each other better and as a new total as of January I, 1943, in order to member is added he can affiliate with this figure the increase in new members. One group, until eventually a Chapter may be LIFE member will be considered as the formed. Problems can be discussed. It is equivalent of twenty Active members; one not necessary to worry about the size of INSTITUTIONAL,the equivalent of three the group, in order to get a start. We Active; two and one haIf ~ssocra~eswill may also be able to secure some interesting be considered as one Active. In this way, news items from such groups. Prospective the smallest Chapter has an equal oppor- members may be invited to these gather- tunity with the largest Chapter of winning ings, in order to sell the importance of the War Bond. contact with others. 19421 A NEW MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN

The slogan for our Campaign is Indiana Mr. Harold Sanders, Reference Librarian America needs You.. . on the Facts Front! Indiana State Library Join Special Libraries Association .. . the Indianapolis, Indiana Facts Front. Michigan Miss Dorris M. Berning Since we are at war, the importance 15941 Fairfield Avenue of our Campaign should take on an added Detroit, Michigan significance. It is our year to prove our Milwaukee strength and helpfulness in this struggle Mr. Ira Schnell for democracy. Let us all get behind S.L.A. 3717 West North Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin and our Membership Committee to show Montreal how well united we are in the task that Mrs. Martha Hatch, Librarian confronts us. Robert Simpson Co., Ltd. Montreal, Que., Canada Ncw Jersey Miss Helen G. Buzzell Albany Business Branch Miss Marianna Neighbour Newark Public Library rro Lancaster Street Newark, New Jersey Albany, New York Ncw York Baltimore Miss Olga Anderson Mrs. Esther Horine, Librarian Time, Inc. City Health Department Rockefeller Center Municipal O6ce Bldg. New York, New York Baltimore, Maryland Philadelphia Boston Miss E. Virginia Walker Miss Lillian A. Curley, Librarian Friends Historical Library Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Swarthmore College 175 Berkeley Street Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Boston, Massachusetts Pittsburgh Cincinnati Miss Elizabeth Fry Mrs. Corinne M. Simons Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co. The Lloyd Library and Museum Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 309 West Court Street San Francisco Cincinnati, Ohio Mr. W. Lawrence Shaw, Librarian Cleveland Western Regional Research Laboratory Miss Lucile Wunderlich U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Cleveland Health Council Albany, California IWI Huron Road Southcrn California Cleveland, Ohio Miss Elizabeth Franklin Connecticut Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Miss Esther Glanz Hollywood, California 140 Elizabeth Street Toronto Hartford, Connecticut Miss Elinor Baker, Cataloger Greatcr St. Louis Library, Law Society of Upper Canada Miss Cecilia Kiel, Librarian Toronto, Ont., Canada Employers Reinsurance Corporation Washington, D. C. Kansas City, Missouri Miss Marion Potts, Assistant Librarian Illinois Signal Corps Reference Library Mrs. Madelene Marshall, Librarian Pentagon Building Dental School, Northwestern University Arlington, Virginia 3 I I East Chicago Avenue Chicago, Illinois (Continrred on page 380) 'EVENTS and PUBLICATIONS

The Biological Sciences Group of the Special A suggestion trom the Illinois Chapter Minutes Libraries Association has sponsored a DIRE~ORYOF for October, 1942 impresses us as worthy of comment. BIOLOGICALSCIENCES LIBRAR~BS IN THE SPECIALLIBRAR- The Swift and Company library is assisting the IES ASSOCIATION.This survey was compiled by Grace company in its program of reaching its employees Van Nostrand Raschke, Winnifred Jones and Estelle serving in the war by writing letters and forwarding Brodman, and includes a description of each library, packages to them. Their service flag embraces over its special services and special collections. Obtainable six thousand. Here is an idea, outside of regular from Miss Marion Kappes, 707 Fullerton Avenue, routine perhaps, but certainly worth the effort. One Chicago, Illinois. (Mimeographed, $1.25.) wonders just how librarians wilI meet a change in * * * demand or slump in service within the near future. If it isn't too much to admit that we may not be quite The INDUSTRIALGUARD'S MANUAL is a new hand- so busy waiting on our customers, how shall we book by an outstanding authority (Harry Desmond justify our existence until the tide changes. Any new Farren, author of SabotageHow to Guard Against It). ventures should be brought to the attention of SPECIAL It constitutes an indispensable guide to every guard LIBRARIES.Apparently the last war left little or no and special officer engaged in the protection of Ameri- marks in our journal. At least we forgot to write it can life and property today. This manual can help up, so we have no precedent to go on. Perhaps many your guards successfully police your plant, telling special libraries were too young to worry, or too them what to do-how and when to do it-to save occupied in organization matters. We know that the lives, prevent sabotage and espionage, forestall plant depression made a definite impression on our libraries. damage, cope with bombs, riots, crackpots and How shall we come out of this much greater dilemma? "haters." (Deep River, Conn., National Foremen's Institute, Inc., 1942. $1.25.) * * * The most compact compilation on all branches of the service, with qualifications necessary, pay and The material in the INDUSTRIALCAMOUFLAGE allowances, branches of the units and chances for MANUAL,prepared for the Industrial Camouflage advancement, and location of headquarters areas is Program at Pratt Institute, is intended for student use, modestly labelled MILITARYSERVICE; ARMY, ARMY but it embraces problems in the entire field of indus- AIR FORCES,NAVY, MARINES, COAST GUARD, NURSES, trial camouflage. (New York, N. Reinhold Pub- Y., by Walter J. Greenleaf and Franklin R. Zeran (Office lishing Co., 1942. 1z8p. Loose leaf, $4.m.) of Education, Vocational Div., Bull. #ZZI. 48p. * * * 10 cents from the U. S. Supt. of Documents, Wash- COMMODITYFUTURE STATISTICS, JULY 1941-JUNE ington, D. C.). 1942 is a digest of the more important commodity future statistics, summarized on a monthly basis GOALSFOR AMERICA:A BUDGETOF OURNEEDS AND covering the fiscal year ended June 1942. (Washington, RESOURCES,by Stuart Chase, is the second of six ex- D. C., U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural ploratory reports on postwar problems. (New York Marketing Administration. September 1942. 33p. N. Y., Twentieth Century Fund, 1942. 134p $1.00). gratis.) * * * The World Citizens Association has published a The entire Summer 1942 issue of Law and Con- document of timely interest, the UNITED NATIONS rcmporary Problems is given over to "Labor in War- ON THE WAY,by Henri Bonnet. This study is based on time," a symposiqm on the search for new controls the Treaties and Agreements which have been recently over the employment process and relationship and concluded by or between United Nations, Resolutions the task of adapting old controls to wartime condi- by official gatherings and Declarations by responsible tions. Legislative and administrative measures are leaders which indicate directions for the present and reviewed and the problems of labor mobilization and future. Here is a critical review of the policies which machinery for conciliation are considered. (Durham, have been outlined by the United Nations, in matters North Carolina, Duke University School of Law, of international relations, political, economic and 1942. $1.00.) social. (Chicago, Ill., 1942. 17cp. 30 cents.) 19421 EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 3 79

LABORARBITRATION, PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES, by John A. Lapp, is a new and comprehensive guide THE UTILITIES,prepared by the Utility Unit of the to successful labor arbitration. (Deep River, Conn., Industrial Salvage Section, Conservation Division National Foremen's Institute, Inc., 194r 26op. of the War Production Board (Washington, D. C., $3.50.) 1942. loose-leaved, gratis) contains proct-dures * * * furnished by several utility companies. It is divided For technical and scientific libraries, one of the into three parts: (I) an alphabetical listing of sal- vageable materials in the utilities with descriptions most useful tools is the ENGINEERINGINDEX. This of rehabilitation procedures practiced by several dif- Index is a veritable storehouse of information, as it ferent companies; (2) photographs of apparatus used gives not only the author, title and location of the in various salvaging operations; (3) scrap material material indexed, but also a brief summary of current specifications taken from various sources. articles in approximately 1,600 publications. These publications include American, English, European, Asiatic and Australian literature. Photostat copies of The War Informztion Center of the Cleveland articles and translations in foreign languages can be Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, is to be congratu- readily procured through the Engineering Index lated on the very fine Bulletins it is issuing. Those we Service. The cost for the annual Index is $50.00, while have seen include an Accession List (#4) of "New that for the Card Service accompanying it depends Books, Pamphlets and Newspapers on War and De- upon the number of Subject Divisions to which a fense"; mimeographed bulletins on "War Costs library wishes to subscribe. (New York, N. Y., Money," which gives specific facts on costs of war Engineering Index Service, 29 East 39th Street.) materials and sources of information on Defense Bonds * * *. and Stamps (Bulletin #,); "Scrap Material fo: War Needs," which shows the relationship between all A study of an over-all view of the history of labor types of scrap and urgently needed war materials relations in the railroad industry and the results to (Bulletin X8); and a "List of Associations and date are to be found in WAGESAND LABORRELATIONS Institutions Publishing Free and Inexpensive Pamph- IN THE RAILROADINDUSTRY 190~-1941, compiled and lets on War Problems" (Bulletin # 9). edited by Harry E. Jones, Executive Secretary for the Bureau of Information of the Eastern Railways (New York, N. Y. Eastern Railroad Presidents' Conference, FOOD IN WARTIMEis the title of a series of six Committee on Public Relations. 194%. 346p gratis). pamphlets under the general editorship of J. M. *** Tinely, written by members of the faculty of the University of California who have conducted re- The United States Department of Agriculture, searches into the various phases of the subject. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics has issued a hand- history, the theory, the experiments of the various book on the PREPARATIONOF STATISTICALTABLES countries in World War I, the present effort, and the (Washington, D. C. 1942. 39p. gratis). Although this future necessities of food rationing, of transportation, handbook deals primarily with agriculture, the rules of changing forms, of total needs, of price control and given for the preparation of statistical tables are ap- of farm production problems are all frankly discussed. plicable to other industries. Here is factual information which will make the *a* wartime food situation intelligible to the layman. With the cooperation of. the War Department, Here is also the knowledge which will build coopera- Navy Department and other government departments, tion with the war purposes and objectives of the gov- Cleveland H. Smith and Gertrude R. Taylor have ernment. (Berkeley, Cal., University of California prepared UNITED STATESSERVICE SYMBOLS, a book Press, 1941. 25 cents each.) which shows over 1,200 colored illustrations which portray the meaning of and the story behind all Much water has flowed ovcr the dam (Atlantic, military insignia of the United States. (New York, Midway, Coral Sea) since the Emergency Price Con- N. Y., Eagle Books, Inc., 1942. 116p. $1.50.) trol Act became law on January 30, 1942. Its avowed *** purpose was to prevent inflation. Has it been success- Old stuff perhaps, but an excellent summary of ful? Is price control desirable? What should it include? accepted methods is in STAINREMOVAL FROM FABRICS; All points of view are represented in PERMANENT HOMEMETHODS by Margaret S. Furry (Farmers' Bul- PRICECONTROL POLICY (New York, N. Y., H. W. letin # 1474. 1941. 30 p. 5 cents from the U. S. Supt. Wilson Co., 1942. 113p. $1.25)- The book is a Refer- of Documents, Washington, D. C.) Everything from ence Shelf compilation of what recognized authorities "Adhesive Tape" to "Wine stains." have written on the subject of price controls. 380 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [Deccmhcr

BIBLIOGRAPHIES (Continued from pqy 37 7) BIBLIOGRAPHYOF AGRICULTURE;Section A, Agri- UNAFPILIATEDMEMBERSHIP CHAIRMEN cultural Economics and Rural Sociology. V.1, Miss Bettye E. Bell, Business Librarian No. 3. (Washington, D. C., United States Depart- The Business Branch ment of Agriculture Library, September 1942, Nashville Public Library pp. 99-153). Annotated. Nashville, Tennessee BIBLIWRAPHYOF BUREAUOF MINESINVESTIGATIONS OF COALAND ITS PRODUCTS1935 TO 1940; Technical Mrs. Dorothy M. Crosland, Librarian Paper # 639 (Washington, D. C. Bureau of Mines, Georgia School of Technology 1942, 43p 10 cents). Atlanta, Georgia BIBLIWRAPHYOF SOMEACIIIEVEMENTS IN CHEMISTRY 1930-1941. Compiled by Lloyd McKinley. (Pub- Mrs. Flake Daniel, Head lished as Bulletin # 11, University Studies, Univer- Technical Department sity of Wichita, Kansas, June 1941, 60p.). Fort Worth Public Library BIBLIOGRAPHYON ELECTRICALSAFETY 1930--1941. Fort Worth, Texas Compiled by American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Committee on Safety. (New York, Mr. Jack C. Morris, Librarian N. The Institute, 1942, 14p. 50 cents. Members Y., University of South Dakota 25 cents). Vermillion, South Dakota BOOKSFOR THE HOME FRONT. Compiled by Lucy Kinloch and Helen Lyon. (Published in the Pub- Mr. Bradford A. Osborne, Head Lishers' Week&, September 26, 1942, pp. 1196-1199). Technical Department Annotated. Tulsa Public Library BUSINESSAND INDUSTRYIN A POST-WARWORLD. Tulsa, Oklahoma (Baltimore, Maryland, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1942, 3p.). Annotated. Miss Ruth Worden, Director DOLLARSF~IR DEMOCRACY: HOW TO PAYFOR THE WAR. School of Librarianship (Baltimore, Maryland, Enoch Pratt Free Library, University of Washington 1942, 3p.). Annotated. Seattle, Washington GOVERNMENTDOCUMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE UNITEDSTATES AND ELSEWHERE.Compiled by James B. Childs. (Washington, D. C., Government The Editor Apologizes Printing Office, 1942, 78p 20 cents). PLASTICS;Basic Information Sources. Compiled by The Editor regrets that due to circumstances be- Constance E. Burke. (Washington, D. C., Bureau yond her control the November and December issues of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Inquiry Ref- of the magazine have been late in reaching its readers. erence Service, 1942, zop. gratis). Annotated. PROBLEMSAND POLICIESIN INDUSTRIALRELATIONS IN A WARECONOMY; Selected References. Fifth Supple- ment; Bibliographical Series No. 69. Compiled by the Industrial Relations Section of the Department of Economics and Social Institutions of Princeton University. (Princeton, New Jersey, The University, 1942, 38p.). Annotated. SELECTEDLIST OF BOOKS,THESES AND PAMPHLETSON TVA. Compiled by Bernard L. Foy. (Knoxville, Tenn., Tennessee Valley Authority, Technical Library Paste Library, 1942, ~zp.gratis). Annotated. SOURCESOF INFORMATIONFOR THE STUDYOF NATIONAL Permanent Cle DEFENSEAND THE WAR EFFORT. Compiled by Cream the Paste with the Dorothy C. Tompkins of the University of Cali- brush. Spread thin. Card fornia. (Berkeley, Cal., Bureau of Public Adminis- pockets.book plates,and even bindings will be inseparably tration, 1942, 49p 35 cents). held. NO. 534 5 oe. Two GUIDESTO BRITISHGOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. Prepared by H. M. Stationery OfKce. (New York, A I oz. sample sent on request of any librarian N. Y., British Information Services, 1942, 33p. SANFORD INK CO. gratis). Annotated. New Trok 19421 FORTHCOMINC- BOOKS 381

DECEMBER FORECASTS OF THE Forthcoming Books INDUSTRIAL ARTS

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Announcements Prize- winner: NEW 1942 S.L.A. War Activities Committee Mr. Phillips Temple, Librarian, Riggs Memorial Library, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., International Year Book and Chairman of the S. L. A. War Activities Commit- tee, requests that special and other interested librar- Chosen by a jury of reference librarians as one of the ians send to him information on such activities as ten indispensable volumes for a WAR REFER- preservation and protection of collections, bibliog- ENCE SHELF. The contest was conducted by raphies on selected subjects relating to the war, Louis Shores, editor of the WILSON LIBRARY duplicate exchange projects, contacts with camp BULLETIN'S popular CURRENT REFERENCE libraries and similar matters. An extensive Informa- BOOKS column. tion File is being compiled by the Committee to 766 pages . . . 6m articles . .. ~oootopics covered handle inquiries from librarians, as well as to serve and cross indexed . . . special articles by ZOO au- those officials of the Government who request in- thorities . . . maps . .. charts and diagrams . .. formation about libraries and their activities- 120 photographs . . . Concise complete accurate account of EVERY major event in EVERY field More S.L.A. WAVES of human endeavor the world over. From the S.L.A. Washington, D. C. Chapter comes Limited edition, no reprinting word that Miss Anna Haddow, formerly Chief of Educational Research Service, American Association Sturdy cloth binding (7" x 10") $6.75 of School Administration, and Miss Eloise S. Blake, formerly, Main Library, U. S. Department of Justice, FUNK & WA-GNALLS GO. have joined the WAVES. 354-4th Ave. New York

Regular A.L.A. Mid-winter Conference Cancelled At the A'.L.A. Executive Board Meeting in Chicago on October 5-7, it was agreed that the regular Mid- winter Conference, in the form that has developed in U. S. GOVERNMENT recent years, should be given up because of transpor- PERIODIC tation problems, and that in its place the Association should sponsor for a limited group an Institute deal- PUBLICATIONS ing with Libraries and the War and Post War Prob- A DESCRIPTIVE LIST lems. The Executive Board will meet as usual and there will be a one-session business meeting of the Council. The other groups that have been accustomed Current publications and releases of to get together are asked to give up their sessions the important government bureaus except for business meetings of importance, dealing and agencies. Gives title, frequency directly with the war effort. Dates: Jan. 30-Feb. z, of publication and form. Tells what 1943. publications to keep and what to The Institute is planned as a demonstration to be discard. Invaluable in keeping up copied, as far as seems desirable, by approximately to date on government releases, so twenty regional institutes and a much larger number important in the war effort. of local ones which the Committee on Libraries and the War and the Board on International Relations hope to arrange during the following months. In- Plus 1O$ postage and handling. vitations to the Institute will be issued to those who 100 pages. Planographed. will be asked to help with the regional meetings and June 1942. enough others to make a representative gathering. It was also agreed by the Executive Board that the regular annual Conference scheduled for Toronto SPECLAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION should not be held in 1943. The Board at its December 31 East Tenth Street. New York meeting will decide what kind of limited substitute meeting, if any, should be held in June. 384 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

S.L.A. Members Participate in Boston, Mass. Book Fair Week THE The Annual Book Fair Edition of the Boston Herald, October 19, 1942, contains two articles by members of the S.L.A. Boston Chapter. One is by AMERICAN Miss Natalie Nicholson on "Libraries Give Swift Access to Data on all Phases of War" and the other LIBRARY by Mildred R. Lasser discusses how "Technical Works and 'How to do it' Books Have Vital Import- DIRECTORY ance in War Production." 1942 Woodrow U7ilson Memorial Library The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Library of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation located at 8 West 8 Fortieth Street, New York, N. Y., has assembled a Contents include large collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals dealing with the postwar problem. These are available LIBRARIES IN THE U. S. to anyone working in the field of international affairs. Public (7,820), junior college (447), higher In addition to this material, the Library contains New education (1,168), law (320), medical (1941, York Times dipping files carefully classified over a institutional (132), hospital (1691, federal twenty-year period, bulletins and reports issued by the (242), state (153), and special (462)-11,107 Iibraries. representatives of the United Nations and the govern- ments-in-exile as well as those of our own Govern- LIBRARIES IN THE U. S. TERRI- ment Agencies. TORIES AND DEPENDENCIES Priorities and Allocations for Special Libraries Includes all types of libraries-69 libraries. Since the subject of priorities was reported on in LIBRARIES OF CANADA AND the October 1942 issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES there has NEWFOUNDLAND been a change in the requirements which should be Includes all types of libraries-588 libraries followed by special libraries. According to a report by Mr. Phillips Temple, Washington Representative, LIBRARY SCHOOLS S.L.A. Emergency Binding Committee, it will not hereafter be necessary to put any "allocarion classifi- in the United States and Canada-39 entries. cation symbol" on purchase orders, as the classifica- tion system has been revoked. However, there has LIBRARY ORGANIZATIONS been no change in the priority ratings connected with An alphabetical list of national, regional, buying binding. Special libraries should continue to state and provincial essociations, and local library clubs in the United States and Can- follow the suggestions in the last paragraph of the ada-164 entries. article on page 309 of the October issue. The ending of the Allocation Classification System STATE AND PROVINCIAL would indicate that the W P B authorities are now EXTENSION AGENCIES making estimates of civilian requirements, before deciding on the allocation of available materials. Indexed by state. Mr. Temple urges every special librarian to have ready for quick reference if and when needed, a list SPECIAL COLLECTIONS of necessary supplies and materials regularly used by Index by subject of special collections, spec- the library, and the quantity of each item used during ial subjects, and special libraries. the past year. Included in this should be binding, as PRICE $15.00 the materials used by the bindery are considered a requirement of the library-the materials being used to maintain and repair the library's property. Mr. Pelham Barr, Executive Director, Library Binding B. I%. BOWKEB CO. Institute, suggests that in the case of binding, it will be sufficient if the librarian has a record showing the 62 W. 45 ST. number of books, the number of periodicals and the NEW YORK, N. Y. number of pamphlets and other types of materials bound each year during the past few years. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Cranbrook Institute of Science Opens Hall of Michigan Plant Associations 6 Reasons Why.I . . . Those of our members who either visited Cran- The Engineering Index should brook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, during their be in your library attendance at the S.L.A. Detroit Convention or read 1-COVERS EVERY BRANCH OF ENGINEERING The developments made in the automotive civil and the article describing the Craubrook Institute of electrical fields are indexed just as completeiy as those Science in the May-June 1942 issue of SPECIALLIDRAR- made in management, marine, mechanical, mining, petroleum and railroad engineering. IBS will be interested in the announcement of the opm- 2-WORLD-WIDE IN SCOPE ing of the Institute's Hall of Michigan Plant Associa- Articles indexed are selected from the engineering litera- ture, no matter where it is published. tions. In this new museum typical examples of the 3-BROADENS YOUR INTERESTS three forest climaxes, evergreen, oak-hickory and Each volume contains references on more than 5,000 subjects. black-maple, are authentically reproduced. With 4-MORE THAN AN INDEX them are shown four other Michigan plant communi- Following the title of every article indexed is a concise digest which gives accurate conception of its contents. ties which are transitional and successful communities Names mentioned in the text matter, including those of authors engineers scientists and many prominent leading up to the three climaxes. industrklists are grouped alphabetically in an Author Index. A Call from the Seamen of the 5-SAVES TIME AND EFFORT With references classified under alphabetically arranged British Merchant Navy subject headings; with copious cross-references grouping material under broad subjects bringing together dl The seamen of the British Merchant Navy need related articles; you can learn almost instantly of aU published information on any subject. books-used or new novels, non-fiction and illusuated 6-DEPENDABLE, COMPREHENSIVE magazines. If you have any to donate send them to the The number of magazines you find time to read in the course of a year is but asmall percentage of those publish- New York British Merchant Navy Committee, Sea- ed; consequently you do not get a complete picture of engineering pro&ess. Only the amassed periodical men's Institute, 25 South Street, New York, N. Y. technical literature can give you that, and only the This Committee will distribute them to the sailors Engineering Index has the facilities to index this wide and varied collection of information, and make it acces- who man the Atlantic convoys. sible as the telephone on your desk. price $50.00 Suggestions Wanted by S.L.A. Nominating THE ENGINEERING INDEX Inc. Committee 29 West 39th Street. New York. N. Y. The Nominating Committee would like sugges- tions from the S.L.A. membership-at-large as to next year's officers-President, First Vice President, Second WALLACE NUTTING Vice President, Treasurer and Director for Three Years. Please write or telephone any member of the "PUT KNOWLEDGE TO WORK Committee giving your ideas-and do it soon! These three books prove it 1. WALLACE NUTTING'S BIOGRAPHY. 304 Miss Florence Bradley, Librarian pp. Seventeen Chapters of Adventures. Price Metropolitan Life Insurance Company $2.50 less 40y0 Net $191.. Postpaid. I Madison Avenue 2. PATHWAYS OF THE PURITANS. 432 pp. 7 by 10 Cloth. An unusual volume. History New York, New York accurately told of 17th Century homes. One hundred full pages of illustrations. An expensive Mrs. Margaret Buck Gledhill, Librarian work, would ordinarily sell at a much higher price. Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science Now a rare book. Beautifully bound in blue linen and hand stamped in gold. Ideal fur a 1201 Taft Building Christmas Gift. Price $5.00 Net Postpaid. Quan- Hollywood Boulevard at Pine Street tity limited Hollywood, California 3. VOLUME THREE of THE FURNITURE TREASURY. 560 pp. Wallace Nutting's Mas- Mrs. Marian Spater Magg terpiece. A real furniture glossary, contains 301 West Main Street hundreds of line cuts and drawings of details for cabinet makers, woodworkers, or repairmen. New Britain, Connecticut Used as a textbook in many Vocational Schools. Appreciated by Reference Librarians. Brown Miss Marguerite Rummell, Bond Department Buckram binding, stamped in gold. Price $8.00 Prudential Insurance Company of America less 374% Net $5.00 Postpaid. Newark, New Jersey Indexes in each Book Satisfaction assured. Stock limited, order now. Mr. George A. R. Gilfillan--Chairman The W. L. NOLAN Co. Reference Department 151 Corey St. West Roxbury Dist. The Detroit News Boston, Mass. Detroit, Michigan SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

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