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San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1931 Special Libraries, 1930s 9-1-1931 Special Libraries, September 1931 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1931 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, September 1931" (1931). Special Libraries, 1931. 7. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1931/7 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1930s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1931 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 22 September, 1931 No. 7 PROCEEDINGS of the TWENTYdTHIRD ANNUAL CONTERENCE At Cleveland, June 10#12, 1931 A Museum Director Looks At His Library By HAROLD L. MADISON Newark Museum Library By RACHEL T. BENSON Proceedings of the Croup Sessions Membership Report and PIans for the Year Membership Map Publications of the SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION in print July 30, 1931 other than the monthly ieeues of the official organ, SPECIAL LIBRARIES, 1910 to date Serial number arbitrarily 18 Directory of Special Libraries in amigned for use in California. 1930. ........... $ -20 Secretary's Office. Price members. .... .lo 1 Workshops for Assembling Business 19 List of Members of Special Libraries Facte by D. W. Hyde, Jr. 1921 . $ .20 Assoc. 1930.. ........... 1 00 2 Cumulated Index to Special Libra- members. .... .50 ries~~~.1 to 13. 1910-1922..... 2 00 20 Handbook of Commercial and 3 Commercial libraries and the De- Financial Services. 1931. ..... 2 $00 partment of Commerce; a report members. .... J 50 to Herbert Hoover by the Com- 21 Statistics on Commodities. A mittee on Cooperation with De- Chart. 1931 ............... 1 00 partment of Commerce. 1922 .30 22 Trade Directories for First Pur- 4 Preliminary Report on Findings of chase. Supplement to May-June the Committee on Methods. 1923 .15 1931 SPECIAL LIBRARIES In- 5 Employer Selects a Business Libra- formation Bulletin no. 10 .... .50 rian by Louise B. Krause 1924 Free 23 Bibliography of Bibliographies in 6 Special Libraries Directory. 1925 . 2 .oo Electrical Engineering, 1918-1929. 7 Recent Technical B~bliographies. 1931. Inf. Bull. no. 11 ......... 1 50 1925. Information Bullet111 No. 1 .25 24 Bibliography on Illumination 1929- 8 Foreign Bureaus of Information in 1930. Inf Bulletin no. 12. ...... .25 New York City. Inforn~ation SPECIAL LIBRARIES-~IO~~~I~issue .50 Bulletln no. 2. 1925. .25 .... Annual subscription U. S. 5.00 9 Bibliography on Illumination 1924- foreign 5.50 1925. Informatlon Bulletin no 3. .25 10 Cun~ulatedIndex to Special Libra- ries. Vol. 14-17 1923-1926 .50 Pvbli~afionfcompded by Commitlees 11 Bibliography on Illumination 1926- and Local Asso~ialions 1927. Information Bulletin no 5. .25 Special Libraries Dlreciory of the New 12 Bibliography on Electrical Litera- York Metropolitan District 1931.. .. 1.50 ture 1928. Information Bulletin members. ..... .50 no. 6.. .............. .50 Union List of Periodicals in Special Li- 13 Bibliography on Rubber Tech- braries of Metropolitan New York. nology. 1928. Informatlon Bul- 1931 ........................ 4.00 letin no. 7. ................. 1 50 Union List of Periodicals in Southern 1927- 14 Bibliography on Illuminat~on California Libraries. 1931. 5 00 8. ........ 28. Information Bulletm no. .. .25 Water Transportation Bibliography. 15 1928- Bibliography on Illumination Vol. I. 1931. ................. 10 00 29. Information Bulletin no. 9. .25 16 Directory of Special Libraries in Any of these publications may be secured Boston and Vicinity. 1928. ... .50 upon order to I7 Descriptive List for use in acquiring and discarding U S. Government SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION periodical mimeographed state- 345 Hudson Street ments. 1929. ......... 1.75 New York, N. Y. CONTENTS CONFERENCE A Museum Director Looks at His Library-Harold L. Madison. 297 Newark Museum Library-Rachel T. Benson. , . ...... ........303 Proceedings of Group Sessions: Civic-Social.. 305 Financial.. .. .. ... 306 Insurance.. 308 Museum . .. .. 309 Newspaper. 31 1 MEMBERSHIP Map Showing Distribution of Membership. 314 Report oi the Membership Committee, 1930-31... 316 Program, 1931-32. ... ....... ........ .. ....... ... ...... 318 Associate Members-Welcome. 318 One Way That Built Up a Local Chapter--J. A. Conforti.. 319 Introducing- . .. ... .. .. 319 NOTES AND DEPARTMENTS Editorials.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 320 President's Page. .. ... ......... ......... 321 Digest of Business Book Reviews . 322 Personal Notes. 325 Classification and Indexing . 326 Events and Publications. 329 PUBLICATIONS NEWS Publications of 5. L. A. in print . .Inside Front Cover Water Transportation. ... .. ........................ 328 New Publications of S. L. A . 332 Trade Directories . , . , . , . , . .. 333 A Chemical Dictionary . ,....... .... .. .... .... ... .. 333 S. L. A. ORGANIZATION . Back Cover NEXT MONTH The October issue will be a special COMMERCIAL-TECHNICAL GROUP number under the editorship of Marian Manley. In addltlon, we will inaugurate new departn~entsdevoted to the interests of each Group. - Special Libraries Publlshed Monthly September to Aprll, bimonthly May to August by THE SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Publication Office, 45 Richmond Street, Providence, R. 1. All payments should be made to Special Libraries Association. 345 Hudron Street, New York, N. Y. .2'3 SPECIAL LIBRARIES September, 1931 Institutional Members California Jackson & Moreland, Boston hlassachusetts Institute of Technology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Library, Cambridge Calilornia State Library, Sacramento Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco Springfield Standard Oil Company of California, San Massachusetts State Library, Boston Francisco *Dr. B. Stepanek, San Francisco Metcalf & Eddy, Boston Technical Book Company, San Francisco Social Law Library, Boston United Fruit Company, Boston Connecticut Michigan Hartford Public Library, Business Branch, Detroit News, Detroit Hartford Detroit Public Library, Detroit Phoenix Mutual Life Inaurance Company, General Motors Research Corporation, Detroit Hartford University of Detroit, Detroit Yale University Library, New Haven Miesouri Delaware Kansas City Power & Light Company, Kansas du Pont de Nemours, E. I., Wilmington City Illinoie New Jersey Byllesby & Co., H. M., Chicago Bakelite Corporation, Bloomfield Chicago Tribune, Chicago Combustion Utilities Corporation, Linden Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago Montclair Public Library, Business Branch, Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, Montclair Chicago New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, Newark Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Chicago Newark Public Library, Business Branch, Illinois State Library, Springfield Newark Insurance Library of Chicago Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, Middle West Utilities Company, Chicago Newark Museum of Sc~enceand Industry, Chicago R C A Radiotron Co., Inc., Harrison People's Gas Light and Coke Company, Standard Oil Development Co., Elizabeth Chicago United States Rubber Company, Passaic , Indiana New York Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., Fort Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York Wayne American Bankers' Association, New York Maryland American Electric Railway Association, New York Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. American Geographical Society, New York Baltimore American Institute of Accountants, New York Maryland Casualty Co., Baltimore American Museum of Natural History, New York xnlerican Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Baker Library-Harvard School of Business Library, New York Administration, Boston American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Law Boston Elevated Railway, Boston Library, New York Boston Globe, Boston Association of Life Insurance Presidents, Christian Science Monitor, Boston New York Edison Electric Illuminating CO., Doicliester Baker & Taylor Co., New York Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Bankers Trust Co., New York First National Bank, Boston Batten, Barton, Durstine & Oaborn, New York Insurance Library Association of Boston Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York 'New Membern joined alncs laat hue bf Spsn'al Libtoria. September, 1931 SPECIAL LIBRARIES New York Ohio Blackman Co., New York Ohio Oil Co., Findlay British Library of Information, New York Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati Brooklyn Edieon Company, Brooklyn Brookmire Economic Service, New York Oklahoma Child Study Association, New York Cleanliness Institute Library, New York U. S. Bureau of Mines, Bartlesville Consolidated Gas Co. of New York Doherty, Henry L. & Co., New York Electric Bond &Share Co., New York Penneylvania Engineering Index Service, New York Federal Reserve Bank of New York Armstrong Cork Co., Lancaster Ford, Bacon & Davis, New York Franklin Institute, Philadelphia General Electric Co., Main Library, Houghton, E. F. & Co., Philadelphia Schenectady Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Pittsburgh Goldnian Sachs Trading Corp., New York Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh Grant Co., W. 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