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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. Recording the results of a nationwide survey on public relations activities undertaken for Tide Magazine, it explores all the ways of "telling the story," differentiates the various types of publics to be appealed to, and blueprints helpful and adaptable public relations programs that define the specific duties of every staff member concerned. "Herbert Baus is one of a not-very-large handful of people who understands what public relations is all about; and his book . . . shows it." Reginald Clough, Editor, TIDE. $3.50 Business Barometers and Investment 1948 Revised Edition by ROGERW. BABSON,Babson's Reports Incorporated This newly revised, up-to-date edition of Roger Babson's definitive volume on invest- ing and forecasting is based on a last-minute analysis of investment problems arising out of the difficult period business is now going through. 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

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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. Where few 1947 situation is clear: returns were received from a given area,

Individual Income 1946 1947 1946 1947 Total Groups Librarians Professional Assistants U. S. (Annual income) % 0-2,000...... 19 2,000 - 3,000 ...... 47 3,000-4,000...... 22 4,000-5,000...... 8 5,000 - 6,000 ...... 2. Over 6,000 ...... 8 Adding the percentages from $3,000 moreover, and those returns for salaries and over sharpens the contrast, for higher than other evidence would indi- whereas only 12.82 % of all individuals cate are normal, they could not be con- reporting income received $3,000 a year sidered representative. A disproportion- or more, 68.69% of the librarians and ate number of lower salaries reported in 22.54 % of professional assistants re- some larger cities also tends to dull the ceived $3,000 or over. Concentration of contrast between one area and another. incomes for the entire population lies in Referring again to Table 4 the inquirer bhe range from $0-$3,000, which in- may find, by comparing the relatives cludes 87.43 % of all individuals report- for the three series: librarians' salaries, ing; salaries for the larger percentage of per capita income payments, and teach- librarians in 1946 (69 % ) lay between ers' salaries, a general correspondence. $2,000 and $4,000, and in 1947 58.88% But geographical differences, as Fried- lay between $3,000 and $5,000. man and Kuznetsl show, do not oper- In Slichter's survey of professors' sal- ate the same for all professions. How aries in 1946/47 84% of the institu- they work in the special library field is tions paid between $3,000 and $5,000. still a puzzle. The relatives in Table 4 Compared with that, 58.88% of the li- are, therefore, useful only as some evi- brarians reported in 1947 salaries fall- dence of geographical differences. ing within the same range. Above Comparing salary distribution in cities $5,000, there were 11.3 % of the insti- of varying size may offer some light on tutions, against 9.8 1% of librarians, 1 Milton Friedman and Simon Kuznets. In- which reported salaries in this higher come from Independent Professional Practice. range. On the other hand, within the N. Y., National Bureau of Economic Research, lower range, between $0-$3,000, there 1945 (Chapt. 5) 19481 SALARIES IN SPECIAL LIBRARIES 105 the problem, if, as Friedman and Kuz- point difference. The observation made nets1 suggest, geographic income dif- by Dean3 that as the higher level of ferences may be due to differences in managerial skill is reached, the market the size of cities and in the industrial for men widens and approaches a na- character of communities. Although the tion-wide or regional market, may apply data on which they are based are ad- also to special library positions. This mittedly imperfect, the calculations are may account for some lack of contrast offered to illustrate inter-city differ- between areas. ences : There is little help in cost of living

SALARYDISTRIBUTION BY SIZE OF CITY CITIES HAVINGPOPULATIONS ( 1,000's) Salary Groups Over 1,000 500-999 250-499 100-249 Other $ % 0 - 2,000 ...... 3.7 2,000 - 3,000 ...... 47.6 3,000 - 4,000 ...... 30.6 4,000 - 5,000 ...... 12.4 5,000 - 6,000 ...... 4.0 Over 6,000 ...... 1.7 Certain characteristics mentioned by data or in salary surveys in other pro- the above authors, and by Leven2 fessions to measure regional differences. are apparent in the above table. The Variations in salaries between one area salary level, as indicated by the per- and another are present, but there are centage of individuals receiving salaries no regional indexes for the cost of living within the ranges given, is higher in at the professional level. Other surveys, cities of 250,000 to 499,000, and of local and more general, of salaries in the 500,000 to 999,000 population than in professions, such as the New York the other city groups. The contrast be- Times survey of teachers' salaries4 tween cities of over 1,000,000 popula- are useful but call for further break- tion and "Other" is not so marked as be- down and analysis before regional com- tween the former and cities of 100,000 parison can be made. As for the pub- to 249,000 population. This may be due lished state m ents of revised salary to the concentration of special libraries schedules for public and university li- in cities of larger size and to the scat- braries, they are interesting as evidence tering in isolated communities of re- of the desire for improvement, but fail search centers. Influences other than to show how many individuals are re- city size are apparent if reference is ceiving specific salaries within the made again to Table 4, for there is a 13 ranges given. There is nothing in these point difference between the relatives reports to indicate how much higher the for New York and Pennsylvania, both median salaries are than before the containing cities of over a million popu- change. Until more complete informa- lation; and between Missouri and the tion on professional salaries throughout District of Columbia, containing cities the country is available, intelligent, con- in the next lower range, there is a 30 certed effort to raise the general level is not likely. Local efforts are helpful, 2Maurice Leven. The Znwme Structure of but in the absence of national data may the United States. Washington, D. C., Brook- ing~Institution, 1938. (Chapt. 3) prove stumbling blocks to wider adjust- ments. 3 Joel Dean. "Geographical Salary Adminis- tration," American Management Assoc., (Per- 4 The New York Times, December 30, 1947, sonnel Series, no. 114, p. 39, 1947). p. 20. 106 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SEX AND SIZE Since the staff of a special library is OF LIBRARY more frequently between the range of How important is education in de- one and four, in contrast to the public termining what salary is paid? Appar- libraries reporting, 12.5, and university ently, it is the most important of the libraries, 28.5, its influence on salaries factors considered: experience, size of is not great. If the salaries of assistants staff and budget. Correlation of educa- are related to the size of staff in which tion, experience and size of staff with they work, the correlation coefficient is salary shows a high relative importance .3 1 + or - .003 1, thus showing only a of education, (including professional) moderate degree of relationship. When experience next in significance and size other elements are introduced into the of staff, least. (Equation I, Appendix). picture, as education and experience, the Although the results of correlating bud- lesser influence of staff size is even clear- get, professional and clerical staff with er than when it is isolated. (See Equa- salary (Equation 11, Appendix) pro- tions I, 11, and VII). It is only when a vides on 1y in direct confirmation, it qualitative factor is included, as in Equa- shows that the relative importance of tion 11, professional distinguished from professional as against clerical staff is clerical staff, that staff size becomes im- apparent in the emphasis on quality portant. Even then it has much less rather than quantity of assistants. weight *an other factors of size, such Experience, the next important factor, as the budget. is closely related to sex. When corre- Of the two measures of library size, lated with salary, in combination with amount of the budget and total number sex and education, it shows considerably of staff, when related to salary, that of more influence on the salary rate than the budget is more significant. Even a ' either of the other factors. (See Equa- large budget may not mean higher sal- tion 111, Appendix). As related to sex aries if the clerical staff is large, for the alone in salary determination, it seems latter has a negative influence (Equa- to be the dominant factor. (Equation tion 11). The reason for this condition IV, Appendix). But upon eliminating is apparent: the larger the clerical staff, sex from the equation, the resultant cor- other factors remaining constant, the relation is only very slightly lower lower the general salary level. But the (.0072) than when experience is elimi- lesser influence of staff size is clear also nated. (Equations V and VI, Appendix). in the other equations before mention- Thus a woman with the same education, ed. Further study of budget size and but with more library experience, has a percentages of salary to total budget, in much better chance for a higher salary relation to staff size for different types than a man. How much greater experi- of libraries, though interesting, is out- ence is required, barring employer pre- side the scope of this article. ference, to overcome the salary differ- It is hoped that this briefly presented ence between sexes, is difficult to de- summary may encourage the collection termine, for other qualifications must of more data and the study of library be considered. Between the factors of salaries to test further the findings from professional education and experience, the present sample. the difference, in the salaries of library APPENDIX assistants, is clear. Assistants without METHOD AND TABLES library school training had to work an The postcard form of questionnaire average of eighteen years to reach a sal- distributed to members early in August ary of $3,400 or over, whereas those 1947 called for the following informa- with library school education required tion: Type of organization; Type of li- only eleven years. brary; Total number on library staff, 19481 SALARIES IN SPECIAL LIBRARIES 107

broken down into professional and Assistant to librarian ...... other; Total salary budget of the li- Library manager ...... Professional library assistant ...... brary; Percentage of salary budget to Librarian. air transportation ...... total library budget; Amounts of annual Circulation librarian ...... increments to salary; Position (title). Reference assistant ...... Present annual salary; College grad- Departmental librarian (Univ.) ...... uate; Library school graduate; Sex; Cataloger ...... Librarian. management consult. org. Length of service with organization; and Assistant librarian ...... Years of library experience. Tabulation Librarian. local govt . org...... of returns for various regions of the Librarian. office building ...... United States and Canada are in Table Librarian and secretary...... Librarian. museum ...... 1. Of the total replies received. only Librarian. advertising ...... about 57 were unusable. Some returns Librarian. insurance ...... were only partially useful. because of Librarian and translator ...... the omission of essential information. Reference librarian ...... The least complete responses were for Librarian. service organization ...... Librarian. publishing company ...... "annual increments". part 1y because Periodicals librarian ...... there seems to be no generally stated Readers' adviser ...... policy. and partly because the question Librarian. public relations ...... was interpreted as meaning increments Librarian. trade union ...... Librarian. engineering ...... to the total budget . A preliminary list Librarian. hospital ...... giving type of position. type of organi- Librarian. public utility ...... zation. type of library. salary and area. Librarian. marketing org...... was prepared in the fall and deposited Librarian. financial ...... Head cataloger ...... with the Executive Secretary. Mrs. Librarian. art school ...... Kathleen B. Stebbins. Librarian. health and welfare org. TABLE 1 Librarian. association ...... RETURNS BY REGION Branch librarian ...... New England ...... 12 1 Librarian and research associate.... Middle Atlantic ...... 535 Librarian. industrial (tech.) ...... East North Central ...... 269 Librarian. broadcasting org...... West North Central ...... 83 Librarian. education org...... South Atlantic ...... 225 Librarian. transportation ...... East South Central ...... 28 Librarian. professional sch . (Univ.) West South Central ...... 24 Bibliographer ...... Mountain ...... 15 Librarian. research organization...... Pacific ...... 324 Research assistant ...... - Research librarian ...... Total ...... 1. 624 Librarian. trade association ...... Hawaii ...... 3 Acquisitions librarian ...... Canada ...... 44 Librarian. club ...... Unlocated ...... 17 Librarian. university res. bureau .... Unusable ...... 57 Technical librarian ...... Law librarian ...... All returns ...... 1, 745 Librarian. state library ...... TABLE 2 Librarian. foundation ...... Librarian. foreign govt inf bur SALARYRANGE CURVE FOR TYPES ...... OF POSITIONS Supervisor ...... Music librarian ...... $2000 Assistant chief (federal) ...... Custodian ...... 2 100 Librarian (federal govt.) ...... Archivist (college) ...... 2200 Librarian. newspaper ...... Librarian, employm and voc. org. 2275 Chief of division (federal govt) ..... Abstractor ...... 2350 Librarian and editor ...... Librarian. religious organization...... 2440 Librarian. public library ...... Non-professional assistant ...... 2500 Librarian. patent ...... Librarian. nursing school ...... 2550 Assistant director ...... 108 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

71 Librarian, university ...... 5075 Hospital ...... 3230 72 Acting librarian (federal govt.) ...... 5300 Industrial ...... 3450 73 Librarian, historical society...... 6300 Insurance ...... 3100 The free hand curve for the above ar- Management Consultant organization ...... 2850 ray may be described as a cubic para- Marketing ...... 3600 bola, though the equation, Salary = a Motion picture ...... 8800 + bX + cX2 + dX3, is not an equally Museum ...... 3030 good fit for both higher and lower ranges. Music ...... 2000 X is the ordinal numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. Newspaper ...... 4350 Nursing school ...... 2630 POSITION Mean Median Mode Office building ...... 3000 Abstractor ...... $2400 ...... Public library (fairly Acquisitions or Order li- large) ...... 4640 brarian ...... 3798 3838 3800 Public relations ...... 3200 Acting librarian ...... 5289 5040 5040 Public utility ...... 3270 Archivist ...... 2200 ...... Publishing ...... 3180 Assistant (Professional) .. 2780 2500 2400 Religious organization.. 2440 Assistant (Non-profes- Research organization .. 3620 sional) ...... 2520 2475 2100 Service ...... 3175 Assistant librarian ...... 2860 2700 2530 Trade association ...... 3720 Assistant Chief ...... 4149 4275 4149 Trade union ...... 3200 Assistant Director ...... 5000 5000 5000 Transportation ( other Assistant Editor ...... 3100 ...... than air) ...... 3540 Assistant to Editor ...... 4275 ...... University (fairly Assistant to Librarian ...... 2698 2400 2400 large) ...... 5280 Bibliographer ...... 3752 3648 3648 College ...... 3300 Branch librarian ...... 3437 3535 3500 University research bu- Cataloger ...... 2850 2893 2700 reau ...... 3800 Head or Chief Cataloger.. 3300 3150 3150 Librarian and Editor.... 4500 Chief of Division...... 4378 3550 4902 Librarian and Secretary 3030 Circulation librarian ...... 2806 2800 2770 Librarian and Research Classifier ...... 3300 ...... associate ...... 3450 Curator ...... 3500 ...... Librarian and Trans- Custodian ...... 2100 ...... lator ...... 3100 Editor ...... 3600 ...... Patent ...... 4750 Editorial assistant ...... 3150 ...... Regional ...... 3400 Manager ...... 2700 Librarian Research assistant ...... 3700 Advertising ...... 3100 3100 3000 Research editor ...... 2700 Air transportation ...... 2800 ...... Research librarian ...... 3710 Art school ...... 3400 ...... Supervisor ...... 4100 Association ...... 3420 3180 3000 Technical librarian ...... 3880 Broadcasting ...... 3500 ...... Law librarian ...... 3900 Club ...... 3800 ...... Departmental librarian Employment and Voca- College and Univ.) ...... 2830 tional organization.... 2400 ...... Professional school libra- Educational (non - col- rian (Univ.) ...... 3540 lege or university) .... 3500 3200 ...... Literature searcher ...... 3600 Engineering ...... 3220 3300 3000 Periodicals librarian ...... 3190 Financial ...... 3300 3225 3100 Photo librarian ...... 2300 Foundation ...... 4000 ...... Readers' adviser ...... 3200 Government-Federal .. 4180 4087 3900 Reference assistant ...... 2820 Government--State ...... 3925 3700 3900 Reference librarian ...... 3130 Government-Local .... 2950 2800 2800 Reviser (Federal Govem- Government Informa- ment lib.) ...... 4175 mation Bureau (for) 4000 ...... Searcher (Federal Gov- Health end welfare org. 3400 3400 ...... ernment lib.) ...... 2782 High school ...... 2900 2900 ...... Subject cataloger (Fed. Historical society ...... 6300 6000 ...... Government lib.) ...... 3647 SALARIES IN SPECIAL LIBRARIES

TABLE 4 REGIONALRELATIVES (Mean salaries of librarians related to mean of whole return, compared with relatives for per capita income payments and teachers' salaries, selected states.) Per Capita Librarians' Relatives Income Teachers' Salaries Librarians' Payments Salaries (Means) Salaries Relatives Relatives Mean for whole return ...... $3617 .... $1200 $2424 Alabama ...... 3230 89 6 1 74 California ...... 3689 102 128 136 Connecticut ...... 3079 85 122 134 Delaware ...... 3926 108 124 106 District of Columbia ...... 4283 119 131 140 Georgia ...... 3296 91 67 70 Illinois ...... 3256 90 124 89 Indiana...... 3598 99 97 117 Iowa ...... 3445 95 99 85 Louisiana...... 3371 93 65 9 1 Maryland ...... 3800 105 108 134 Massachusetts...... 3655 101 113 124 Michigan ...... 3587 98 101 128 Minnesota ...... 3310 9 1 9 1 81 Missouri ...... 3248 89 95 82 New Jersey ...... 3579 99 95 116 New York ...... 3647 101 136 140 Ohio...... 3152 87 109 114 Oregon ...... 3506 9 7 99 109 Pennsylvania ...... 3187 88 103 103 Tennessee...... 3547 98 70 70 Virginia...... 3926 108 79 80 Washington ...... 3375 93 112 132 Wisconsin...... 3143 86 100 94 New England (excl. Mass. and Conn.) ... 3200 88 94 106 Canada ...... 2457 68 ...... Coefficients of correlation by rank: Relatives of librarians' salaries with teachers' salaries, .38; Librarians' salaries with per capita income payments, -33. EQUATIONS staff -.6 194. I-Xl = 347 + 560.2X2 + 54.21 111-X1 = 1029 + 209x2 + 947x3 X3 + 194x4 (Head or Chief li- + 43x4 (Librarians of technical brarians) X1 is salary, X2, educa- libraries) X1 is salary, X2, edu- tion*, X3, experience, X4, size of cation*, X3, sex, X4, experience. staff. Code for sex: 1 is female, 2, male. Beta coefficients : Education .9635, Beta coefficients: Education .0466, Experience .3686, staff .0553, Sex .0996, experience ,2989. measuring the relative importance IV-XI= 2216 + 105.9X3 + 114.1 of each factor. X4 (Librarians of technical libra- 11-X1 = 917 + 53.44X2 + 165.05 ries in industry) ' X3 - 3.35X4 (Head or Chief li- Beta coefficients: Sex .0120, ex- brarians) X1 is salary, X2, size of perience .7362. budget, X3, size of professional "Education is coded: staff, X4, size of clerical staff. Neither coIlege nor library school, 3 College, but not library school, 4 Beta coefficients: Budget, .6 178, College and library school, 5 Professional staff .263 1, Clerical Additional points for additional degrees. 110 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

V-Multiple correlation squared of VII-XI = 576 -1 313x2 + 66.8X3 X1 - b3X3 with X2 and X4 = + 3.6X4 (Library assistants) .99 145. XI is salary, X2, education, X3, VI-Multiple correlation squared of experience, X4, number of staff. X1 - b4X4 with X2 and X3 = Beta coefficients: Education .3599, .992 17. experience .9915, staff .249 1.

THE LIBRARY AT THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, WASHINGTON, D. C. By MARY ELIZABETH VANCE Librarian

HE library of any institution business and trade and a group of area must needs reflect in a very con- studies (Latin America, the Soviet Tsiderable measure the character, Union, the Middle East, the Mediter- the purpose, the spirit of the school of ranean, the Balkans, the Far East and which it is the intellectual nucleus. The Southeast Asia). An important part of library of a new type of educational the plan is an intensive language pro- undertaking naturally partakes of the gram designed to supplement the area character of the enterprise and can best studies and thus prepare each student- be described, at the outset, in terms of trainee more fully for his work in the the school itself. international field. The School of Advanced International This, in brief, is the program laid out Studies, organized, in Washington, D. C. for the School by its founders, Dr. Hal- in the spring of 1944, to give advanced, ford L. Hoskins, Director of the School, graduate-training in the field of con- and Christian A. Herter, Member of temporary international affairs, has sev- Congress from Massachusetts and Presi- eral unusual features which are reflected dent of the Board of Trustees. In de- in its Library collections. Its primary veloping its various features, these men concern is to develop first rate personnel had the cooperation of a large group of for overseas duties with American busi- men of long and notable experience in ness and commercial corporations, gov- government and in business, all of whom ernment agencies and certain of the pro- felt the need for a school which had the fessions. It approaches this task by mak- single aim of training young men and ing sure that each substantive course women of maturity and understanding deals with essentials in its field, that it to cope with present-day international is brought to the point of practical ap- problems. In this undertaking they have plication to contemporary problems, had the support, both moral and finan- that it is presented by an experienced cial, of interested individuals and of busi- teacher and that those admitted in lim- ness corporations with activities abroad. ited numbers as students are of highest Those admitted to the School consist personal quality. For these the School of two elements: ( 1) men and women has developed an integrated program of graduates of leading colleges and uni- studies in diplomacy and international versities well prepared in history, gov- relations, international law and organi- ernment and economics and intent on zation, international economics, foreign careers in one or another of the avenues 19481 THE LIBRARY AT SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 111 of international affairs and who may papers, publications of foreign govern- find the master's or the doctor's degree ments, pamphlets and papers of various essential to these plans; and (2) staff foreign political parties are needed by members of the sponsoring business cor- the students to prepare them for their porations, who for the most part are future work. interested in attending one or another Books, pamphlets and periodicals are of the series of intensive area seminars suggested and selected for the Library given each year. Those comprising the primarily under the guidance of the Di- first group are preparing for careers in rector and the Faculty who are experts government, at home or abroad, in vari- in the fields in which the Library is in- ous types of interhational agencies, in terested. Students, however, frequently business corporations with overseas in- come upon valuable documents in their terests, in research or in teaching. research and these student recommenda- THE LIBRARY tions are very helpful in building up the This brief outline may suggest the collection. Various domestic and for- kinds of needs which the Library of the eign dealers' catalogs, book reviews and School aims to serve. In view of the announcements are read and are useful facts (1) that an adequate graduate in book selection and purchase. The research library requires a good many fields covered in this specialized Library years of growth and development and are economics, history, political science (2) that the School of Advanced In- and international law, the same fields ternational Studies is located in Wash- listed above in the description of the ington within relatively easy reach of courses offered at the School. The Li- the rich resources of the Library of brary follows the Library of Congress Congress and certain private institu- classification scheme and most of its tional collections, it has seemed wisest contents fall in the D,G,H, and J classes. to concentrate on a first class reference Since the Library is still in an early library, incorporating extensive docu- stage of development, there are various mentary series, in support of the courses features which are just now being or- offered. In setting up the Library it has ganized. A vertical file of reprints, small been the aim of the Board and the Li- pamphlets, pictures and clippings is be- brarian to collect the basic, standard ing set up, and a collection of maps is publications, both foreign and domestic, being assembled and cataloged. Most of in the field of international affairs. the maps are political such as are need- Some of these documents have been ed by students in the international field. available, but a great number have not Just recently a catalog of periodicals been since the inception of World War not otherwise indexed has been com- 11. A constant search, however, by grad- menced and the same subject headings uates of the School, faculty and others used as those in the card catalog as well interested in the Library is being made as in the Readers Guide. It is planned in an effort to make this collection a to publish a fortnightly list of the most truly representative one in its field. valuable and pertinent articles so that In addition to these earlier basic the students will not miss those which works, the Library is assembling the would be of assistance and interest to current publications of governments and them. international agencies. The documents Extensive inter-library loan is main- of United Nations and its agencies are tained as the students do a great deal extremely valuable to the work of the of research for course papers and other students, as are the publications of the work at the School. Throughout the year Military Governments in the European there are many lectures and evening and the Pacific areas. Foreign news- discussion groups. For these meetings 112 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April the Librarian often arranges displays of shire. The Librarian began weeks in ad- books and other reading material to vance of the last session to discover illustrate the subject of the evening. from members of the Summer Session The Library staff consists at present faculty what materials would be re- of three full-time members, two of quired for constant use and what for whom are trained librarians, plus sev- supplementary reading in each course. eral student assistants, and in view of Beyond this she had to use her own the rapid growth of Library content, judgment, on the basis of the scope and there is every prospect of an increase direction of each course, as to what in Library personnel. As it is, the duties would prove useful. are multifarious, including problems of The same criteria' applied to the se- circulation, reference, purchasing, re- lection of periodicals to be transferred, pair and close collaboration with the in most instances these files, covering faculty. With a view to its maximum the past three years of the journals and utility, the Library, during the winter periodicals relating to the courses of- session, is open Monday through Friday fered, were dispatched to Peterborough. from 7:45 A.M. to 11 P.M.; Saturday In some cases a complete bound set, for from 7:45 A.M. to 5 P.M.; and Sunday example, Foreign Affairs, was shipped. from 2 P.M. to 10 P.M. During the sum- Since it has been found less confusing mer term the hours, Monday through to continue the receiving, stamping and Friday, are from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. The checking in of periodicals at the Library Summer Session, however, deserves spe- in Washington than at summer head- cial mention. quarters, periodical agencies were not THE LIBRARY IN THE WOODS advised of the change of address and Early in the course of its evolution- materials needed ad interim at the Sum- ary growth, the School obviously came mer Session were mailed from time to to need a summer session in order to time to Peterborough. Newspapers, how- provide year-around courses of the na- ever, whose value often depends on the ture peculiar to this institution. Wash- timeliness of their arrival, were mailed ington is not at its best in summer time, direct to the summer headquarters. and after careful study of various possi- Those found essential to the work were: bilities the administration decided to the New York Times, Christian Science test the practicability of operating an Monitor, Daily Worker, Frances Amer- eight weeks' session in New England. ique, Neue Volks-Zeitung, La Prensa, The second Summer Session which end- Russky Golos, and El Tiempo. ed in August last demonstrated the The arrangement of Library mate- soundness of this plan, which, of course, rials for summer use was kept in the has had and will have no small bearing simplest of forms. Materials were so on the problems and the arrangements boxed and labeled that they could be of the Library. A graduate school is par- unpacked and returned subsequently to ticularly dependent upon library facil- Washington with a minimum amount of ities and the operation of a summer ses- confusion in the shelf lists. The card sion at a distance of nearly 500 miles catalog for the Summer Session was from the home base places a greater merely an author index, each card con- strain upon the Library staff than on taining a full author and title entry, the any other element of the organization. imprint and the collation; Since the The problem has been solved, quite books were shelved in Peterborough ac- to the satisfaction of all concerned, by a cording to the course offered, it was process of careful selection of materials thought best to type master lists of all to be transferred to the scene of sum- library materials sent, listed according mer work at Peterborough, New Hamp- to the course for which each was in- 19481 THE LIBRARY AT SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 113 tended. This master list as well as the were added the dates and volume num- author card catalog was available to all bers of each periodical to show which student~ome60 were in attendance issues had been sent to Peterborough. -and proved to be adequate. Each kardex card for the Peterborough All the books were packed in card- periodicals was marked with a green board cartons each one containing ap- flag so that when the files were returned proximately 25 or 30 volumes, depend- an accurate check could be made to as- ing on the size of each book. As each certain which had been returned and book was packed a check was made to which were missing. see that the author catalog card had The truck, containing all the books, been made, that the book had no great arrived in Peterborough about a week physical defects, and that it was well before School opened. Prior to the ar- marked with the name of the School. rival, however, a search was made of At the same time the name of the in- the premises of Kendall Hall for book- structor for whose course the book was cases, large tables, a Librarian's desk, a intended was written on the upper supply closet and reading lamps. These right-hand corner of the inside cover of supplies were all procured and set up in the book and on the upper right-hand the gymnasium of the School. A large corner of the catalog card. laboratory table was found for the pe- As the books were packed, a tally riodicals; nine bookcases and tables sheet was kept to show the number of were located for the courses on Latin the box (each box was numbered) and America, the Middle East, United States the number of books it contained, and to Foreign Relations, Political Changes in give a brief description of the contents Europe, the Soviet Union, Southeast such as: Middle East; Reference; For- Asia, International Economic Relations, eign Affairs; Equipment. This tally Maritime Law, Consular and Diplomatic sheet was very useful when the books Law and Practice, and the language were unpacked as it showed how many texts (French, German, Russian and boxes were sent and approximately Spanish). Two other large tables were where each book was packed. used for reference books and for a large In order to keep an accurate check on collection of Military Government docu- the location of each book, a pink slip, on ments. which was written the classification num- When the books and periodicals were ber, author, title, Peterborough, 1947, was unpacked they were checked against placed in front of each shelf list card. the tally sheet and the master lists to be This was done in the event that during sure none had been lost and then all the summer a book would be needed or the books were arranged on the shelves thought to be lost from the regular in alphabetical order. shelves. Throughout the summer there were The periodicals also have catalog requests for many books which were not cards, which contain the name of the in the collection. Many of these were periodical and the dates of the file sent borrowed on inter-library loan through to Peterborough. A carbon for each one the kindness of Dartmouth College Li- of these periodical cards was made. The brary in Hanover, New Hampshire; the original one went to Peterborough, where Peterborough Public Library in Peter- the Librarian used it for her reference borough, New Hampshire; the Carnegie and to which she added the dates and Endowment Library for International volume numbers of each current pe- Peace; and the National War College riodical as it was mailed her. The carbon Library in Washington, D. C. Parcels of copy was attached to the kardex card the current periodicals and new books to which it belonged and to the carbon were sent weekly to Peterborough and 114 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April with the books were mailed author cards ments relating to the history, politics, for the card catalog and lists for the social and religious customs, economics, master lists of books. government, geography and agriculture The books were packed for the re- of the peoples of the area. Maps, pe- turn trip in the same fashion in which riodicals and newspapers will form an they were packed for the trip to New appreciable part of the collection. Hampshire. Upon arriving in Washing- The Library is one of the collections ton, the pink slips from the shelf list and of the Diplomatic Affairs Foundation the green flags in the kardex were pulled Library and the Middle Eastern mate- and a master list checked to be sure rials, now a part of the DAF Library, that all were returned. Naturally the ex- are the nucleus of the future larger col- perience of each Session will contribute lection of the Middle East Institute. to the handling of materials in succeed- The Middle East collection is now hous- ing years. ed at the School of Advanced Interna- THE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE tional Studies with its parent, the Diplo- COLLECTION matic Affairs Foundation Library. In The actual ownership of the Library the future, however, when the Institute of the School of Advanced International has its own building, the Middle East Studies is vested in the Diplomatic Af- collection will be moved with it. fairs Foundation, a New York corpora- Although still very young, the Library tion, which stood in loco parentis when which serves the School of Advanced the School was organized in 1943 and International Studies already has ac- 1944. Recently this Foundation em- quired a certain maturity. The officers barked on a new activity which has its of administration of the School believe own bearing upon the Library. In June that probably in no other collection re- 1946, The Middle East Institute was lating to the field of international af- established as a feature of the program fairs is the specific gravity of content so of DAF "to develop and maintain fa- high. At all events, it is performing an cilities for research, teaching and publi- indispensable service in a unique insti- cations in cooperation with the School tution; one in which each substantive of Advanced International Studies." course is brought to the point of prac- The Institute has set up a program tical application to contemporary world which, among other things, embraces the problems. It is difficult in this time of building up of a special collection of international crisis to think of a more works dealing with the Middle East. The Middle Eastern area includes Tur- responsible task than that to which this key, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Pales- Library is committed. There is deep tine, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, satisfaction in the opportunities thus North and Northeast Africa, Transcau- provided for combating ignorance and casia, Afghanistan, India and Turkestan. for contributing to the training of men This collection, which is being planned and women to whom this country in the as one of the most complete in this coun- future will rely for guidance and leader- try will cover foreign and domestic docu- ship.

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate itself. - JOHNSON. WEEDING THE INFORlMATION FILE1 By MRS. MIRIAM 0. BALL Senior Lending and Reference Librarian, Newark Public Library, Newark, N. J.

N maintaining an information file that tion would be lost through lack of tech- is useful and workable, two points nical information. Therefore, some meth- I are of equal importance: first, what od must be devised whereby the classi- one puts into it; and second, what one fier reviews outdated material and takes out of it. This paper will consider makes the final decision for discards only the second point. with the least expenditure of time. All of us has had the experience of Several practices have proved of trying to locate one specific bit of infor- value in weeding large information files. mation to answer a telephone request The most satisfactory has been the use and has been forced to dig through a of a weeding date, by which the items, crowded folder to find what is wanted when classified, are considered for the at the very bottom of the pile; or a de- probable length of time they will be of mand has come for the latest statistics value in the file and are stamped with on a certain subject and on top of the that date whether six months or 5 years. material in the folder is a concise report The items are removed from the files giving statistics as of six months pre- by the filer on the specified weeding vious. Are these figures the most recent? date and revised by the classifier for re- Has a later report been published? dating or discard. Another practice is There is no way to be sure except by the use of a colored band for the publi- going through the entire folder to prove cation date, this method often proves to that the one at hand is the latest com- be more practical in a pamphlet collec- pilation in the file. tion where the material is filed like An efficient method of keeping the books on a shelf. file weeded of outdated material would Here is the procedure for the use of have helped in both these instances; the the weeding date: folders would not have been so crowded Since it would be time consuming to and only the latest figures would have change the date for each item classified, been on file. one should plan to use certain specified Obviously, the most efficient way to periods of time, i.e. 6 months, 1 or 2 keep a file free of useless items is to go years and have a separate dater for each through each folder at regular intervals date, marking each with a white sticker. and, using a comparative selection, These can be adjusted each month. Any eliminate all items no longer of value. material to be kept longer than 2 years But few modern librarians have time to should be stamped keep and discarded do much more than to select and class- when worn out. This is all the equip- ify the material, and must leave the ment that is needed. physical care of the file to a clerical As each item is classified one should assistant. consider how long it is likely to be want- Since the discard of material is of ed. Practice will make one really pro- equal importance with the acquisition ficient at this, since items dated for too and classification, it goes without saying short a time keep coming up in the that it should not be left to a non-pro- weeding for consideration. If it is an an- fessional-too much valuable informa- nual report, take your dater for 1 year (February 1949), stamp in the upper l Paper presented at meeting of the S.L.A. right hand corner and attach a note to Vew Jersey Chapter, February 10, 1948. the file to remove the old report when 116 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April filing the new. This is important. An- the file, a few folders a day, noting nouncements of meetings to come can dates and weeding those not examined be dated simply by circling the date in the previous month. In this way, a con- pencil as they usually appear within tinuous weeding process takes place and the six months period. Any material, no folder is overlooked. statistics or reports published at regular The use of a colored band for the intervals should always bear the date publication date works better in a pam- to the filer, to "remove the old!' The phlet file where items are shelved like type of material contained in the file books. Here is a procedure for its use: will decide which date should be used A chart of 10 colors, using a checked or most often. striped band to fill out, should be pre- Each time a folder is used, before it is pared. These colored bands with glued re-filed the filer should straighten the backs were available at Dennisons be- material in it, removing all items with fore the war and may once more be in the current date or any previous to it, stock. If not, colored sheets can be cut then note on the front cover of the fold- to size. Each color should be assigned er in pencil the date she has weeded it. a number, such as lemon for 0 or 1940, The material taken out should then be dark blue for 1 or 1941, red for 2 or given to the classifier to consider for 1942, etc. When classifying a pamphlet discard or for re-dating. If, according to its publication date should be noted or the date on the cover of the folder, it if it has none, the date of its inclusion has already been weeded that month, re- in the file should be used. The corre- file without further examination. An ad- sponding colored strip should be pasted ditional use for this weeding date is for at the top of the spine. In this way, the re-ordering needed material. Suppose a material of any given year on a specific leaflet has been weeded from the files subject is always easy to identify as well and given to the classifier for discard. as the outdated items which should be She finds it to be a catalog, originally discarded. evaluated for one year, then re-dated for It is a great temptation when there is another year. Obviously, no later edi- an office upheaval or a heavy rush to tion has been received so an order is let the weeding go for a month to save sent for a new edition. In this way, fresh time, but this should be resisted if pos- material comes in as the old is dis- sible, for files quickly fill up and when carded. the weeding does take place, one loses Some folders will not have much ac- all the time gained. tual use, so will not come to the filer for So plan your weeding method then weeding by this method. Therefore, she stick to it and learn the pleasures of an should make it a practice to examine information file that is alive and vital.

AN INDEX TO MELODIES By JOHN B. WHITE The University Libraries, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska

VERY library has indexes which will testify to the value of such indexes make possible the location of in library reference work. In contrast to E poems of which only a first line poetry, music has received scant atten- or title is known. Any reference librarian tion from indexers. Yet it is not an un- 19481 AN INDEX TO MELODIES 117 usual experience to have a melody in er, and the source from which the mel- mind which one is unable to identify. ody was indexed. If the same melody The only printed indexes to music gen- has been used for more than one set of erally available are based on the word words, the titles and sources are num- approach, such as the Song Index. bered for identification. An index which makes possible the There is no reason why an index of identification and location of a melody this sort could not include music of all should be of use to the general musical types. In order for the project to be public. The index described here was kept within the bounds of individual ac- prepared for a very small private col- complishment, however, emphasis is lection, but has now grown to a sufficient now being placed on the indexing of size to justify the belief that the prin- hymn tunes. There is, of course, no strict ciples on which it is based are sound. dividing line which sets off hymn tunes At present only songs are included, but from others. The tunes of hymns are de- there is no reason why instrumental rived from many sources. themes cannot also be entered, if the The present index is prepared on p- theme is clearly indicated. slips, with each entry on a separate slip. The basic principle of the index is If such an index should ever be printed, that of location. All melodies are trans- it has been suggested that a more con- posed so that they begin on the same cise notation be used, such as that de- note. The A space of the treble staff was vised by Professor Sigurd B. Hustvedt.' selected as the most convenient. The There are, of course, thousands and time is given, and the melody is written thousands of melodies which might con- in the usual musical notation. Accident- ceivably be entered in such an index if als take the place of key signatures. it is to be inclusive. It may be compared Each note in the melody is a unit. with Granger's Index to Poetry, which Arrangement is according to the dis- certainly does not include all the poetry tance of each note from the base note A. that was ever written. Not all the poems, This distance is measured in half-steps. nor all the melodies, have lived and are The initial note will, of course, be the worthy of inclusion. same for every entry. Rests are ignored, It is obvious that one must have a and the time value of the notes makes tune correctly in mind in order to find no difference. Grace notes are ignored, it in this iqdex. In locating a word in the and tied notes are regarded as a single dictionary a knowledge of the spelling is unit. helpful. It often happens that the first two or It seems reasonable to believe that three or more notes of the melodies be- questions of the sort which this index is ing indexed are the same. The arrange- designed to answer would come more ment is determined by the first note often if it were generally known that which is different. For convenience in they might be answered. When it is using the index, the first nine notes of known that a certain service is avail- each melody are numbered. Where the able, the demand for that service is number of half-steps from the A space likely to increase. Whether the demand is the same but the note is above A in would justify the rather considerable one case and below in the next, the rule cost of publishing such an index is an is that "above" precedes "below." unanswerable question. A complete entry includes the title of the complete selection, with the opening 1 "A Method of Publishing Collections of line if the title is not significant, as is Simple Airs," American Musicological So- often the case with hymns, the compos- ciety Bulletin no. 6, 30-32. SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

A SAMPLE OF THE INDEXING In all of these examples the first three notes are the same. It is therefore the fourth and subsequent notes which de- termine the order in which these tunes will come in the index. In the second entry, the 4th note is one half-step above the A space. Con- sequently it follows the first entry, where the 4th note is on the A space, and precedes entry No. 3, where the 4th note is two half-steps below the A space. The order of entries 3 and 4 is de- termined by the 6th note, as the first five are the same. In entry No. 4, the 6th note is two half-steps below the A space, whereas in entry No. 3 the 6th note is exactly on the A space. Entry No. 6 precedes No. 7 as de- termined by the 6th note. In No. 6, the 6th note is one half-step above the A space, and in No. 7 it is two half-steps below it. EVENTS and PUBLICATIONS1

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(Continued from page 118) Nowell Ward's PHOTOGRAPHICWORKBOOK The what-to-do's and how-to-do-it's of the teaches the technique of making good photo- small space ad are thoroughly covered in graphs. There are 17 complete lessons and SMALL SPACE ADVERTISINGcompiled by the exercises, progressively arranged and easily Editors of Printers' Ink with an introduction understood even by those who have no pre- by Eldridge Peterson. Developing the thesis vious knowledge of photography. Instructions that small space ads are the backbone of the are complete and explicit. The exercises have advertising business because there are so been planned to supply a thorough basic un- many more small businesses with small budgets derstanding of photography as well as actual than large ones with large budgets, the book experience. The author, an outstanding Chicago is full of facts and findings on such subjects as photographer, has based this workbook on his the regular uses and the special uses of the own experience in teaching photography to small ad, putting punch in small space copy, others. (New York, N. Y., Ziff-Davis Pub- how to pictorialize the small ad effectively, lishing Company, 1947. $5.00) even how to put pull into the classified ad and * * * many others. The book ends with a series of In YOUR NEWSPAPER,nine working news- case histories of successful small space adver- papermen and women, who met while they tising. (New York, N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls were all Nieman Fellows in journalism at Co., 1948. $4.00) Harvard University, have embodied a lively discussion of what is wrong with the press, * * and what can be done about it. They have ELEMENTARYNUCLEAR THEORY by H. A. examined all sections of the newspaper from Bethe, Professor of Physics, Cornell University, foreign correspondence to the comics, and have offers a study of the fundamental theory of nu- told what kind of job the papers are doing. clear forces, the central problem of nuclear Their book arrives as a blueprint for a model physics. Dr. Bethe prepared his manuscript newspaper-from layout and contents to staff from notes taken during a series of lectures requirements and financing. As the first sys- given by him for engineers and scientists of tematic analysis and criticism of modern news- the General Electric Company who were not papers by working journalists, and as a long- specialists in nuclear theory. The book is, range program for improving them, this book therefore, written as an introduction to the may well make newspaper history. (New subject for students and scientists who require York, N. Y., MacMillan Company, 1947. 202 a clear and lucid understanding of the basic pp. $2.75) facts. (New York, N. Y., John Wiley & Sons, * * * Inc., 1947. 147pp. $2.50) TRANSPORTATIONIN AMERICAtells of the development of the modern American railroad * * * system, how it is organized, how it functions HOW TO TAKE,KEEP AND USE NOTES, by and some of the outstanding phases of railway J. Edwin Holmstrom, is No. 1 of a series of research. The book also discusses the relations pamphlets published by Aslib. The object of of the railroads with the public, government this little book is to describe a technique and other types of transportation. There is a found to be effective by the author for storing discussion of the national economy since the items of information together with jottings of beginning of this century, with particular at- one's own ideas in such a way that (1) any tention to economic and transportation trends particular item can instantly be found when from 1919-1939, during the war period and required, and (2) every newly added item also since the end of hostilities in 1945. (Wash- clarifies the picture in one's mind of what is ington, D. C., The Association of American already there. (London, W.C. 1, Aslib, 52 Railroads, 1947. 391 pp.) Bloomsbury Street, 1947. 28 pp. 2s.) This *** pamphlet is available on loan from S.L.A. Ye Alchemical Libraries Almanack, quar- Headquarters. terly bulletin of the Science-Technology Group of S.L.A., is now under the editorship of Miss * * * Gertrude Schutze, Librarian of Bristol-Myers Daniel E. McNamara has edited THE ASCAP Company, Hillside, New Jersey. Issues will BIOGRAPHICALDICTIONARY OF COMPOSERS, contain news and current affairs of the Group AUTHORS, AND PUBLISHERS,a reference book in various Chapters, Executive Board decisions containing the biographies of important Ameri- and activities of S.L.A. Committees. The can composers and lyric writers of today. Pre- Almanack will also carry abstracts of Annual pared with the cooperation of the American Convention papers and those of the Division Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, of Chemical Literature of the American Chem- it includes entries for each of the more than ical Society. Subscriptions, $1.50 per year. 2000 members of that society. (New York: Send checks to Kenneth Fagerhough, Quarter- Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1948. 483 pp. $5.00) master Depot, Philadelphia, Pa. 19481 ANNOUNCEMENTS 12 1

The U. S. Department of Commerce Office Election Ballots of Domestic Commerce has issued a test- Ballots will be mailed to all S.L.A. members run issue of the Domestic Trade Digest-a in good standing by April 15, 1948, and must summary of business information. This publi- be returned not leter than 9 A.M., May 20, cation is intended as a clip and tip sheet for 1948 to be counted. This is in accordance with organizations issuing bulletins and for trade By-Law X, Section 2, Mailing: "At least six papers. The section on Marketing Develop- weeks prior to the annual election the Secre- ments will highlight research and studies under tary shall mail a copy of the Ballot to each way and other pertinent data; Census Com- member of the Association. Ballots shall be ments will carry notes on Census Bureau re- marked, sealed in plain envelopes, and re- ports of interest to the businessman; Com- turned to the Secretary in covering envelopes modity Trends briefs business and economic bearing on the outside the name and address facts from the commodity viewpoint, and As- of the member voting, together with the words, sociation Activities summarizes current activ- Official Ballot. The Secretary shall check on a ities of associations of manufacturers, distrib- list of members the names of all members utors and others. It is proposed to issue the whose votes are received." Digest monthly if there is sufficient demand. Announcement of the newly elected officers Decision is reserved until comments as to will be made at the annual business meeting whether the material will serve a useful pur- on June 11 and their names will appear in the pose are received. Criticism and suggestions July-August issue of SPECIALLIBRARIES. will be greatly appreciated by John L. Haynes, Acting Director. S.L.A. Executive Board Recommends * * * Increase In Dues THECHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF FOODS,by H. The Executive Board, in session March 18- E. Cox, which has been widely recognized as 20, 1948, considered seriously the question of standard for nearly twenty years, is a practical operating costs of Special Libraries Associa- treatise on the examination of food-stuffs and tion. Due to greatly increased prices for sup- the detection of adulterants. Considerable new plies, printing SPECIAL LIBRARIES, rent and matter has been introduced in the third edition, Headquarters operations, the Executive Board, and some of the old has been excised. This acting upon recommendation of members of work is a requisite for the food industry in the Advisory Council, recommended that Asso- general and for health officers and food chem- ists in particular. (Cleveland, Ohio, Sher- wood Press, Inc., 1947, 317 pp., $8.00) *** The second annual edition of 1947 LIFE IN- Periodicals SURANCE FACT BOOK is now available. It is designed for convenient use by students, writ- ers, editors, public speakers and others inter- ested in fundamental background concerning Books life insurance. Copies have been mailed to libraries; additional copies may be obtained We have modern binding from Institute of Life Insurance, 60 E. 42 St., New York City. (98 pp., 156) * * * facilities and expert crafts- A new publication of the Census Bureau, men to handle your bind- Department of Commerce, is the forecast of the population of the United States up to the ing problems. Please let us year 2000. Available through the Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. for 454. know your needs. Announcements

Notice of Annual Meeting As required by By-Law VIII, Section 1, notice is hereby given that the annual business WAGENVOORD & CO. meeting of Special Libraries Association will be held Friday, June 11, 1948, in the Hotel 300-310 N. GRANDAmm Statler, Washington, D. C., in connection with LANSING,MICH. the annual convention of the Association. IRENEM. STRIEBY,President Library bookbinders and booksellera KATHLEENB. STEBBINS,Secretary Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 122 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

ciate membership dues be raised from $2 to $4; Active from $5 to $7; and Institutional from $15 to $20. This entire question will be McGRAW- HILL BOOKS discussed and voted upon by the membership at the annual business meeting to be held June For The Special Libraries 11, 1948 at Hotel Statler, Washington, D. C. If the increases in dues are approved by the Know Your Real Abilities membership, the new rate would be effective by Charles V. Broadley and January 1, 1949. For a discussion concerning Margaret E. Broadlev. the necessity for such a step, please see Janu- This illuminating and forthright baok dis- cusses in detail the important relationsh3p ary 1948 SPECIALLIBRARIES, pages 19 and 20, between the innate aptitudes of an indi- "Why Raise Dues?". vidual and his success in work. It is the product Of 25 years of research work in KATHLEENB. STEBBINS, Johnson O'Connor's Human Endneering Executive Secretary. Laboratory...... r . $2.75

The Five Great Rules of Selling United Nations Essay Contest by Percy H. Whitin#. - An international essay contest to select ten Five practical rules that cover the prob- lems of how to get the prospect interested. members of non-governmental organizations to how to present the facts, haw to make the be awarded fellowships to study the work of prospect want the article, how to answer objections, and how to close. ...$3.00 the United Nations at Lake Success has been announced. Each contestant will be required How to be a Successful to submit an essay of approximately 1200 Advertising Woman words on "The role of the Individual in the Edited by Mary Margaret McBride. United Nations" in his own language. In ad- A practical and stimulating survey of careers for women in advertising with dition, he must demonstrate that he has some contributions by sixteen leading women proficiency in oral French or English. executives who evaluate the opportunities Arrangements for area contests will be made in her particular division of trade. $3.00 . by national committees in the countries within Effective Letters in Business the areas under the United Nations Informa- bv Robert L. Shurter. tion Centers in London, Paris, Copenhagen, presents the fundamental principles of the Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, New Delhi, Shang- major types of business letters, the point of view from which letters are written. hai, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico. These centers and the application of these princi~les. must send one or two essays from each country Numerous -examples...... $2.75 in their areas to the Department of Public Pattern for Good Labor Relations Information at Lake Success by June 1, 1948. by Lee H. Hill. Winners will be chosen by June 25. Essayists, Designed for executives, personnel direc- all of whom must be bona fide members, be- tors, and all concerned with employee re- 20 30, lations in business and industry. Presents tween the ages of and of national or- idea that good labor relations are basically ganizations which actively cooperate with the a management responsibility. ..$3.00 national United Nations Association or the In- Personnel and formation Center, will receive transportation Industrial Psychology between their homes and Lake Success, plus an by Edwin E. Ghiselli and allowance of $10.00 a day for 30 days while Clarence W. Brown. they are at Lake Success. They will be granted Authors stress the necessity for approach- all facilities for studying the work of the Secre- ing personnel and industrial problems tariat and of any organs meeting at Lake Suc- from the scientific point of view. Covers basic techniques and Andings in ?he field cess during the time they are there. Fellow- of personnel problems and industrial prub- ships may be used at any time between July 1 lems. $4.50 ...... and December 31, 1948. Getting Results from This contest, which was authorized by the Suggestions Plans second session of the General Assembly, is the by Herman W. Seinwerth. first of its kind to be held by UN. Based on actual operating experience, this handbook shows you how to get your sug- gestion plan off to a flying start and keep it functioning effectively and usefully. Library School of Carnegie Institute of Eleven nationally famed suggestion plans Technology Assumes Graduate Status are described. $3.00 ...... Carnegie Library School of Carnegie Insti- tute of Technology will assume graduate status McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. in September 1948, and award the degree of NEW YORK 18, NEW YORK Master of Library Service to graduates of its one-year courses. Graduate status will be Please Mention Special Libraries When Answerind- Advertisement8 19481 ANNOUNCEMENTS 123 based upon recognition of general education as the most essential pre-professional preparation for librarians. Undergraduate library courses will not be required. Major changes in the school will include: 1. Higher enhance requirements, both as to content of the undergraduate education and the grades attained. 2. A short intensive course in sub-profes- sional routines will precede the regular open- ing each fall, and will be taken without aca- demic credit. 3. A new curriculum, with more time avail- able for courses on the general principles of librarianship, specialized elective courses. 4. A final problem of semi-thesis proportions, to test the student's ability to carry on inde- pendent investigation and reporting. 5. The appointment of several part-time in- structors for specialized courses. 6. The raising of all demands made upon students to the graduate level. The courses for general and children's libra- rians are quite different. The general course BUY FROM US is substantially modified for students interested in high school or technology libraries. The A stock of more than two million change in status has been approved by the copies of 6,000 periodicals, year- A.L.A. Board of Education for Librarianship for an experimental period. books, reports, proceedings and other library reference material Summer institute on U. S. in World Affairs enables us to fill 85 per cent of The Fourth Summer Institute on the United States in World Affairs will be conducted by all orders immediately and at the American University of Washington, D. C., reasonable prices. in cooperation with the Civic Education Ser- vice, June 14 through July 23. The Institute will offer six weeks of intensive study with 60 lecture-discussion sessions. The subjects of study will be current international problems SELL TO US and issues. Lectures will be given on this problem, each being dealt with by an authority Send us lists of periodicals; par- in the field covered. Most of the lecturers are ticularly technical, scientific and well known government officials, university scholarly, which you want to sell. professors or journalists. An important feature of the session will be a visit to Lake Success, Our stock of periodicals needs to see the United Nations in action. Visits will constant replenishing and you be made to Congress, embassies, government may wish to sell just the ones we departments and agencies. The course offers six semester hours of graduate credit. Studente need most. may, if they wish, enroll as auditors. A non- credit seminar will offer an opportunity for the study of materials and methods in current his- Cable Address TELEPHONE tory teaching. Sessions will be held on the WILSONDEX JErome 7-0900 American University campus, where facilities are also available for housing Institute mem- bers. 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Two-Year Library Service Fellowship New Jersey College for Women Just Ofl the Press A two-year fellowship in Library Service at I . . . New Jersey College for Women, Rutgers Uni- versity, will be offered for the period beginning September 1948, according to Dean Margaret T. Corwin. During the period of the fellow- ship the recipient will complete a full pro- fessional curriculum in library service, while holding a half-time position in the College library. To qualify, a candidate should have at least a bachelor's degree, should have stood MEMBERS well in college courses, have a real interest in and concept of the value of libraries, and pre- ferably some library experience. The fellow- ship covers tuition, room and board at New Jersey College for Women. Further informa- SPECIAL LIBRARIES tion may be obtained from the Librarian, New Jersey College for Women, New Brunswick, N. J. New Social Science Group in S.L.A. The Philadelphia Council of S.L.A. has an- nounced the organization of a Social Science An alphabetical list of some 5000 Group. Miss Evelyn Butler, Librarian, Penn- sylvania School of Social Science, is chairman. members of Special Libraries Since last May three meetings have been held. Association, as of January 1, The Group has launched an indexing project 1948. Institutional members are and is planning vital things for the future. cross-indexed by name of libra- President of Western New York Chapter, S.L.A., Resigns rian as well as by organization. The former Miss Barbara R. Cole, Librarian at E. I. du Pont de Nemours 86 CO., Rayon De- Includes up-to-date list of SLA partment, Buffalo, N. Y. has tendered her resig- nation as President of the Western New York publications now in print and Chapter of S.L.A. due to her recent marriage those in preparation. to Mr. Shelley. Mrs. Lona Thurber Coates, Librarian for Oneida Ltd. and former Vice- President of the Chapter, will succeed Mrs. Invaluable as a source of locat- Shelley as President. ing addresses of members of Spe- S.L.A. News Items to be Mailed Headquarters cial Libraries Association and an The Public Relations Committee has pre- aid in all local and national As- pared a new mailing list of nearly 500 selected sociation activities. Supply limit- journals and press associations of nationwide coverage to receive its press releases relating to ed. Send your order today. the work of the Association. The list includes about 400 periodicals in the subject fields re- Planographed. 148 pp. presented in S.L.A., and was used for the first time early in March for the distribution of a Price $3.00 April, 1948 news story on the Washington Convention. The Committee urges all members of S.L.A. to watch for Association publicity in their read- ing, and where possible, to clip the item and send it (with identification) to S.L.A. Head- quarters. Where clipping is not feasible, please Special Libraries Association jot down the reference and send it in so that there will be a means of estimating the effec- 31 E. Tenth Street tiveness of our Public Relations Program. New York 3 Medical Library Association Meeting The Medical Library Association celebrates this years the Fiftieth Anniversary of its found-

Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements ing and the annual meeting will be held in Philadelphia, May 28-30; the headquartem will be the Hotel Warwick. The commemora- For your reference shelf tion of the Association's founding in Phiiadel- phia in 1898 has a prominent place on the and every librarian's desk program with an address on "The History of the Association" by Dr. Archibald Mall&, New York Academy of Medicine; "The Md- ical Library Association and Medicine" by Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, University of Texas; and LITERARY "The Medical Library Aswciation faces the future" by the President, Mrs. Eileen R. Cun- ningham, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Library. The Speaker at the Annual market place dinner on May 29 will be Dr. 0. H. Perry Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania Group meetings will be held to discuss prac- tical library problems end these, with the 1948 edition business sessions and social functions, should make the three-day convention attractive to all who are interested in the work and develop- ment of medical libraries. THE COMPLETE DIRECTORY Canadian Library Association Conference of Ottawa, June 1948 AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING The Annual Conference of the Canadian Li- brary Association will be held on June 6 to 10, 1948, in the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. Be- sides the General meetings, there will be meet- 30,000 answers to your questions ings held to discuss UNESCO, National Li- about book publishing and its re- brary Setvices and other vital topics. Visits will be made to the Government and other libra- lated fields. A year's research, ries in Ottawa. A public dinner will be held at 1,000 telephone calls, and 5,000 which the Honourable Louis St. Lament, Can- adian Minister of External Affairs, will be questionnaires have brought the guest speaker. Mr. Robert Lester, Secretary of 1948 Literary Market Place up the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will address a luncheon meeting. A garden party at to the minute and made every the Experimental Farm has been arranged. previous edition obsolete. There will be a personnel institute to discuss matters of staff recruitment, conditions of em- ployment, job classification, salaries, etc. Mate- rial other than books will be discussed at an -TEAR OUT AND MAIL THIS ORDER FORY- Audio-visual Institute. A Special Libraries luncheon has been ar- ranged for Monday, June 7, so that Canadian R. R. BOWKER COMPANY special librarians can attend both the S.L.A. 62 WEST 45~~STREET Conference in Ottawa and the S.L.A. Confer- NEW YO- 19. N. Y. ence in Washington. Gentlemen: Historic and Rare Newspapers Preoeated to Please send us -.-.-....----- copies of the Stanford University LITEBARYMARKET PLACE,1948 edition. A valuable collection of 975 historic and @ $3.50 per copy. rare newspapers has been presented to Stan- ford University, California, by Jam- Wright Brown of New York, owner of Editor & Pub- lisher. This collection is known as the James Wright Brown Journalistic Collection. The Address ,---..-...-.,- -- newspapers range from colonial and early Bill w O Remittance enclosed American to unusual contemporary issues auch as special editions and papers published during SLu8 storms, floods or other crises. Plea- Mention Special Librarjea When Anewering Advertisements 126 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [April

Dr. Nathan van Patten, Professor of Bibli- ography, who obtained the collections for Stan- ford, states that this new collection brings Stanford to first rank in newspaper holdings Now Available - - - among American libraries. Last year Stanford secured a collection of 45,000 colonial and early American newspapers, which were pur- SPECIAL chased partly with University funds and partly through a substantial contribution from the LIBRARY then Superior Court Judge Elmer E. Robinson of San Francisco, the city's new mayor. In addition to American and Canadian items, the RESOURCES, V. 2-4 collection contains British, European, Latin American and Japanese papers. The most valuable single item in the Brown After considerable printing delays collection is one of two existing perfect files of Volumes 3 and 4 of "Special Li- "War against War," a chronicle of #e Znterna- brary Resourcesn are now off the tional Crusade of Peace, edited by the great British journalist, William T. Stead, and pub- press and available for immediate lished in London in 1899. The only other ex- delivery. isting perfect copy is in the British Museum. The earliest English newspapers in the col- lection are a file dating from 1665 of the Complete description of the hold- London Gazette, first newspaper published in ings of some 1600 special libraries England, including 26 numbers issued from in the United States and Canada Oxford where Charles I1 and his court took refuge to avoid the plague which was raging included in Volumes 2 and 3. Ar- in London. ranged geographically by state and Obituary city. Detailed information about special collections and holdings in Qlilabgs Bp~nr~r specific subjects. Miss Gladys Spencer of the University of Illinois Library School faculty died on Novem- ber 22, 1947 at the home of her sister, Mrs. Exceedingly valuable to all special, Roy B. Deer, 771 Summit Ave., Westfield, New college, university, and public li- Jersey. Miss Spencer had been ill since last braries as well as to the individual spring, but finished her seventh year of teach; ing in the Library School before leaving. She researcher in locating needed ma- received her Ph.D. in 1939, and in 1943 her terial. dissertation, The Chicago Public Library, Ori- gins and Backgrounds, was published by the University of Chicago. Each volume contains individual indices. Volume 4 consists of a Bn~tltaqnnnra Mallaglp cumulative index. Sold as a set A pioneer member of S.L.A. in the south only. PLANOGRAPHED. and a charter member of the Louisiana Chap- ter, Miss Rosilia Honora Callaghan, died at Baton Rouge, March 14, 1948, following an illness of several months. A member of the Louirriana State University staff for many Limited supply. years, she served as librarian of the L.S.U. School of Journalism. Miss Callaghan held Send your order today. a BacheloZs Degree in Journalism from L.S.U. and had studied library science at Columbia University. Special Libraries Association On leave during the war from her L.S.U. position, Miss Callaghan was editor of the Woodville, Miss. Republican, and was corre- spondent for the Time-Picayune, New Orleans, in that area. She has been a member of S.L.A. since 1938. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 19481 SPECIAL LIBRAIUES 127

During the last war, in a conversation with a government official on the problem of obtain- ing sufficient materials for library binders, I BACK NUMBER SETS mentioned a report on the binding industry and its needs that had been written and submitted to WPB by Mr. Pelham Barr. The official im- mediately said: "Yes, I remember. It was just qbout the finest piece of work that anyone ever handed British Periodicals in to us. It was accurate, complete and exactly what we wanted." This incident is recalled here because it and Journals embodies two points characteristic of Mr. Barr, whose death on January 11, 1948, after a pro- longed illness has deprived the library pro- fession of one of its ablest servants. First, the job itself was done thoroughly and intelligent- Also proceedings and transactions ly: he did everything that way, from editing a literary magazine at Columbia to mastering of Institutions and Academies. the intricacies of chemical engineering. Sec- Send us your specific ondly, the work to which he chose to devote requirements. himself was, of its nature, without fanfare and publicity. The fact that binders were, despite shortages, able to achieve what they did during the war years was largely due to Mr. Barr's ceaseless and systematic work behind the scenes. BRITISH PUBLICATIONS, INC. Mr. Barr's aversion to publicity of any kind 150 EAST 351~ST.. NEW YORK 16. N. Y. was doubtless a part of his English heritage, as well as of his own individual personality. He was born in London in 1892 and remained in England until he was fifteen years old. He came to this country when his family moved here, and attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City, later taking the six- year combined course of liberal arts and en- gineering at Columbia University, where he was a member of the Peithologian Society (the literary society) and editor-in-chief of the literary periodical, the Columbia Monthly. When he was graduated in 1913 with the de- gree of B.S. he was class poet--denoting an unusual balance of gifts. Writing, in one form or another, was an important part of Mr. Barr's work throughout the rest of his life. His first job was on a A mild, odorless, pure agent for technical journal devoted to city planning and cleaning book pages. No fuss, no engineering; from 1918 onwards he wrote many rubbing, no chapped hands. Gener- reports while filling such varied posts as con- sultant on business methods, as a research ous free trial sample upon request. economist, as an organizer of trade groups and as economic adviser to banks, industrial cor- porations and book and magazine publishera In 1930-31 he was in charge of investigations and the preparation of reports for the Eco- nomic Survey of the Book Industry. In 1933 he helped to organize the Book Manufacturers' Institute, and during NRA was assistant code director for the book manufacturing industry. His contributions to the Library Journal over a period of years on library binding problems established his reputation among librarians as Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 128 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [AP~

the outstanding authority in this field. On many occasions he demonstrated in practical ways his interest in and understanding of the bind- ing problems of special librarians. He was a member of S.L.A. from 1940 until the time of his death. 30 DAY It was in 1935 that Mr. Barr organized the Library Binding Institute and became its ex- ecutive director. Its Joint Committee war an innovation, and LBI is probably the only trade BINDING SERVICE organization whose members' affairs (standards and practices) were placed in the hands of their customers-the librarians. Those who knew Mr. Barr personally are not 0 All orders are bound and likely to forget him. They are also not likely to know much about him personally. Miss shipped within thirty days after Gladys Ford, his able assistant for twenty they are received. years, remarks that "it was difficult for me ever to get him to talk about himself. One of the outstanding facts about him becomes more evi- 0 Bound volumes in your li- dent as time goes on-every few days I hear from someone telling me that last year, ten brary will be matched. years ago or twenty years ago, Mr. Ban helped him in one way or another and that it has never been forgotten." 0 Years of experience, skilled PHILLIPSTEMPLE, Librarian Georgetown University craftsmen, and modern facilities Washington, D. C. combine to assure first class Corrections workmanship. When printing the article by Beatrice V. Simon on 'Training of Medical, Hospital and Nursing Librarians" in the March 1948 issue 0 Two-way shipping costs paid of SPECIALLIBRARIES a statement was omitted to the effect that this paper was presented be- in full. fore the First Regional Conference of S.L.A., Montreal, Toronto and Western New York Chapters, October 17-18, 1947. 0 Complete information sent on On page 90 of the March 1948 issue of request. SPECIAL LIBRARIES a new brochure on the Business Information Bureau of the Cleveland Public Library is mentioned. This was pre- pared by the local chapter of the American Marketing Association about the Bureau in- stead of being-- prepared - by the Bureau as stated in the write-up.

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