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San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1948 Special Libraries, 1940s 4-1-1948 Special Libraries, April 1948 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1948 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, April 1948" (1948). Special Libraries, 1948. 4. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1948/4 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1940s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1948 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special Libraries VOLUME39 . Established 1910 ......NUMBER 4 CONTENTS FOR APRIL 1948 Salaries in Special Libraries ........ WALTERHAUSDORFER 103 The Library at the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D. C. MARYELIZABETH VANCE 110 Weeding the Information File .......MRS. MIRIAM 0. BALL 115 An Index to Melodies ............ JOHN B. WHITE 116 Events and Publications .................. 118 S.L.A. 39th Annual Convention, June 6-12, 1948, Washington, D. C., Transportation Rates ........... 119 Announcements .....................12 1 Indexed in Zndustrial Arts Index, Public Maim Znfomation Service, and Library Literature EDITORIAL COMMITTEE ALMA C~.mvoeMITCHILL, Chairman and Edifor LOUISELEE OLIVIER KATHLEENBROWN STEBBINS Managing Editor Advertising Manager The articles which appear in SPECLAL LIBRARIES express the views of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the opinion or the policy of the editorial staff and publisher. SPECIAL LIBRARIES published monthly September to April, with bi-monthly issues May to August. by The Special Libraries Association. Publication Oface, Rea Building, 704 Second Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Address all communications for publication to editorial ofaces at 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, N. Y. Subscription price : $7.00 a year; foreign $7.50 ; single copies, 75 cents. Entered os secondwlass matter February 6, 1947, at the Post OPce at PJttsburgh, Pennsylvania, under the Act or March S, 1879. Acceptance for &hag at 8pedoZ rate or postage provMed lor in tha dot 01 February 28, 1926, arthorlzed Februwy 6, 1947. YOUR COMPANY LIBRARY SHOULD CONTAIN THESE NEW BOOKS Public Relations At Work by HERBERTM. BAUS, Aufhor of "PubIicity: How To Plan, Produce and Place It" This new public relations manual is distinctive in being both a comprehensive review of the best current practice in scores of successful companies and a summary of the author's wide consulting experience. 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For wise and profitable investing, every business organization will benefit from its helpful, sincere counsel on business and financial problems peculiar to the present day. $3.00 Introduction to Advertising Principles and Practice by THOMASE. MAYTHAM,Director of Markefing and Account Executive, Maxon, Znc., New York Every advertiser and advertising agency should have this new, comprehensive and systematic study of the what, why and how of present-day advertising. Indispen~able as an office reference manual, it is the first inclusive text on operating procedures in the field to appear since the war. Among the numerous topics treated are marketing and market research, how to plan the advertisement, how to write headlines and copy, layout, media selection, testing, direct mail, packaging, and agency organization. The author writes out of long experience and thorough mastery of every phase of the cubject. Indexed and illustrated with over 75 line cuts and half tones o] advertising layouts. $6.00 Getting Along With Unions 1948 Revised Edition by RUSSELLL. GREENMAN,Personnel Director, General Cable Corporation, and ELIZABETHB. GREENMAN Described by the New York Times as "an intensely practical and valuable volume," this book has gained wide recognition as a guide to successful labor-management relations. The new edition is revised in the light of the broad changes wrought by the Taft-Hartley Act and kindred legislation upon the relations of unions and management. $2.50 AT YOUR BOOKSTORE OR FROM HARPER & BROTHERS 49 East 33rd st. ~ewYO* 16, N. Y. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements SALARIES IN SPECIAL LIBRARIES By WALTER HAUSDORFER Chairman, Finance Committee, S.L.A. ITH the spiral of wages and for some peculiarities of rank evident prices merrily weaving its way toward the upper limits of the third W upward, the problem of ade- quartile: Assistant chief, Acting librari- quate salary in the professions becomes an, Chief of division, Public or Univer- more acute. Action calls for knowledge, sity librarian, which are all apparently in this case of what salaries are paid, associated with large libraries, not all and what factors may influence the rate special. Since the array represents the of pay-in other words, how much for approximate valuation of positions in what, and why. To learn something terms of salary, it is a fair picture of the about the current salary situation and relation of one type of position to an- about what may affect the rate, the Spe- other. cial Libraries Association, through its SALARY AVERAGES Executive Board, authorized a ques- In spite of the data being sketchy for tionnaire survey of salaries to be made some areas of the country and for some in the summer of 1947. Data used in types of positions, averages for positions this analysis, therefore, relate to con- are appended in Table 3. As much infor- ditions in late August and early Sep- mation as available is presented, none- tember 1947. theless, so that the picture may be fairly RANGE OF POSITIONS complete. Because the means, medians One of the interesting questions in and modes are calculated from nation- any study of income is what is paid for wide data, they may in some cases be different types of work, which is the best influenced by geographic differences. paying, and which is the worst paying Some idea of these differences may be position. A general answer may be found obtained by examining Table 4, of Re- by averaging all the salaries for like gional Relatives. These relatives are the positions and then arranging them in result of dividing regional averages of order, from lowest to highest. The re- head librarians' salaries by the national sultant figures, if plotted on a chart, average, $3,617. They are therefore ap- would describe a curve, convex at the plicable only to that group, though they beginning and concave at the end, or a may be characteristic of other groups cubic parabola. Referring to Table 2 it as well. It should be borne in mind, too, may be seen that the position of the that grades within the classes of posi- financial librarian is at the mid-point, tions also may account for wide vari- with an annual average salary (adjusted ation in salaries. The complex of re- to the curve) of $3,320; the librarian of quirements for one position, say, libra- a local government organization, such rian of a technical library in industry, as a planning bureau, half way be- which makes it more highly paid than tween the lowest and the financial li- another of the same type, cannot be brarian's salary, or at the first quartile, fully discovered by statistical analysis. $2,950; and at the third quartile, or half Detailed data of this sort are normally way between the mid-point and the end, available only as a result of the em- is the club librarian, at $3,775. The ar- ployer-employe interview. Examination ray given in Table 2, of course, con- of the effect of some factors, such as tains salaries adjusted to a free-hand experience, education and sex, on sal- curve, hence not actual averages. Dif- ary is made in another part of this re- ference in the size of libraries accounts port. In comparison with 1946 the mean 104 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April of librarians' salaries in 1947 is $528 were only 4.7% of the institutions pay- higher, and of professional assistants, ing professors below $3,000 while $464 higher. 31.31 % of the librarians received sal- DISTRIBUTION OF SALAFSES aries below that amount. More interesting, however, in the dis- REGIONAL VARIATION tribution of salaries, is that there has Differences between salaries in one been a general shift since 1946 to a section of the United States and an- higher level. In 1946 the mode, or the other, though they are present, are dif- salary most frequently occurring, was ficult to measure. Similar positions may $2,600, whereas in 1947 it was $3,100. not have the same level of requirements In other words, there were fewer pro- from one region to another. In some in- fessional librarians in the lower income stances the presence of government or brackets in 1947 than there were in industrial research centers, established 1946. Measured against last year and away from larger cities, causes librari- against the distribution of income groups ans' salaries to be much higher than the reported in Statistics of Income, the general level for the region.