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Special Libraries, September 1963

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SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Ptrttiizg h'i~ou,l~d.qr10 1I"oi.k OFFICERS President MRS.MILDRED H. BRODE Darjd Tqlor model Basiic, IYn~hji~~ton,11. C President-Elect WILLIAMS. BUDINGTON The John Creva~Librnry, Chicogo. Illiijo~t Adv~soryCounc~l Chalrman CHARLESZERWEKH, JR. Stai~dafd011 Company (New Jet !el), A'eti Yotk, New Yott Advisory Council Cha~rman-Elect MRS.ELIZABETH M HUTCHIXS Young C Rubir~~n,INC.. A'ew Yolk. A11lezi YOIA Treasurer RALPHH. PHELPS Engineering Societies Lih~r~,Nezi YorR. Ntti* Yn1.l Immediate Past-President ETHELS. KLAHRE Federal Resewe Bnnk of Clezdaud. Clrz,elmd, Ohio EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: BILL M. WOODS Special Libraries Association, 31 East 10 Street, New York Z, New York MEMBERSHIP Dues: Sustainiizg-$100 ; Active-$1 5 (Paid For Life-$250) ; Assoride -$lo; Afiliate-$15; Student-$2; Emeritus-$5. For qualifications, privileges and further information, write Special Libraries Association.

Aviation subject headings, 1949 ...... $1.75 National insurance organizations in the A checklist for the organization, opera- United States and Canada, 1957 ..... tion and evaluation of a company li- Picture sources: an introductory list, brary, 1960 ...... 2.00 1959 ...... Contributions toward a special library SLA directory of members, as of Octo- glossary, 2nd ed., 1950 ...... 1.25 ber 21. 1960 ...... members Correlation index document series & PB nonmembers reports, 1953 ...... 10.00 ':'SLA directory of members, as of Octo- Creation & development of an insur- ber 15, 1962 ...... members ance library, rev. ed.. 1949 ...... 2.00 nonmembers *Dictionary of report series codes, 1962 12.75 Source list of selected labor statistics, *Directory of business and financial serv- rev. ed., 1953 ...... ices, 1963 ...... 6.50 Sources of commodity prices, 1960 .... Directory of special libraries, 1953 .... 5.00 Special Libraries Association-its first Guide to metallurgical information (SLA fifty years, 1909-1959, 19J9 ...... Bibliography no. 3), 1961 ...... LO0 Special Libraries Association personnel "Guide to Russian reference and lan- survey 1959, 1960 ...... guage aids (SLA Bibliography no. 4); '!'Special librt~rirs:how to plan and equip 1962 ...... 4.25 them (SLA Monogr,tph no. 2) ...... "'Guide to special issues and indexes of Subject headings for aeronautical engi- periodicals, 1962 ...... 5.75 neering libraries, 1949 ...... Handbook of scientific and technical Subject headings for financial libraries. awards in the United States and Can- 19J4 ...... ada. 1900-1952, 19JG ...... 3.00 Tr;tnslators and translations: services and ':'Literature of executive management sources, 1959 ...... (SLA Bibliography no. 5) 1963 ... 4.25 U. S. sources of petroleum and natural Map collections in the U. S. and Can- gas statistics, I961 ...... ada; a directory, 1954 ...... 3.00 Visual presentation. Our library, 1953 . . " Latest ~ublications SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS-Subscription, $7.00; Foreign, $8.00 SPECIAL LIBRARIES-Subscription, $10.00; Foreign, $1 1.00; Single copies, $1.50 TECHNICAL BOOK REVIEW INDEX-Subscription, $10.00; Foreign, $11.00; Single copies, $1.50

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SPECIAL LIBRARIES SPECIAL LIBRARIES Official Iournal Special Libraries Association

Volume 54, No. 7 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 1963

SLA-Time in the Rockies President's Report: Observations, Opportunities and Obligations Annual Business Meeting Report Treasurer's Report Advisory Council Report Resolutions of Appreciation Executive Secretary's Report Chapter Relations Committee Report Division Relations Committee Report Committee Reports, 1962-1963 Special Representatives' Reports 1962- SLA Official Directory 1963-1964 SLA Scholarship Winners 1963-64 SLA Hall of Fame Sci-Tech Division Publication Award Geography and Map Division Award Current Concentrates of the Library World In Memoriam: Catherine Deneen Mack

NEWS Have You Heard Off The Press

Editor: MARYL. ALLISON SPECIALLIBRARIES COMMITTEE Assistant Editor: EDYTHEC. PORPA Chairman: ROBERTG. KRUPP Consultants: ALBERTAL. BROWN ELEANORKATHLEEN IRWIN DR. I. A. WARHEIT JEANETTESLEDGE Papers published in SPECIAL LIBRARIES express the views of the authors and do not represent the opinion or the policy of the editorial stafl or the publisher. Manuscripts submitted for publication must be typed double space on only one srde of paper and mailed to the editor. Reprints may be ordered immedrately before or after publication. 0 Subscriptions: U. S. $10; foreign, $11; single copies, $1.50. O by Special Libraries Associ- ation 1963.

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SPECIAL LIBRARIES President's Report: Observations, Opportunities, and Obligations

ETHEL S. KLAHRE, President 1962-1963

NE OF THE PRIVILEGES of the President fined directions toward specific goals. This 0 as she nears the end of her term of is the work of the Board of Directors, the office is that of reviewing the year's activ- Association Committees and Special Repre- ities; but retrospection is useless unless it is sentatives, the Chapters and Divisions, and intended to evaluate the progress of the year Association ~ead~~arters. in terms of contributions to the future It would be rewarding indeed if each growth of the Association. member reviewed the of SLA Each President has seen growth in various over a period of five, ten, or more years. areas of activity. This year has been no Effectiveness of membership participation exception. and well-defined direction are clearly shown The Executive Secretary summarized the in these reports. work of the Association in his report to the A healthy trend is growing and should Advisory Council. The proceedings issue of continue to "prow within the Association. It Special Libraries will include the full record is cooperation-cooperation of the various of the year's activities. My report will contain parts of SLA to accomplish a project. This some observations, some opportunities, and Convention is a fine example. The Associa- some obligations of the Association. tion's Education Committee worked with the Convention Program Committee to plan the Observations general sessions and bring before the mem- One Association characteristic that stands bership the need for continuing education. out above all others is the number of mem- The Documentation Division ~lannedthe bers who contribute untold hours to help workshop sessions on automation. All Di- achieve the various projects of the Associa- visions, as usual, planned their parts of the tion. Many of their names are to be found in program. The whole Convention was co- the Association's Official Directory of Per- ordinated and carried out by the Convention sonrzel or listed in committee rosters of Committee and members of the Colorado Chapters and Divisions; but many never ap- Chapter. Association Headquarters, of course, pear in print. Of those who can be counted, carried out its usual responsibilities. approximately 2,000, or one-third of all SLA To add emphasis to the Co'nvention theme, members, contribute their time, energy, and the H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award knowledge to the work of the Association- Committee selected the theme, "Putting a remarkable record and one SLA should More Knowledge to Work-Continuing look upon with pride. Education for Chapter Members." Participation alone would not be enough. Another example of intra-Association co- These efforts must be channeled in well-de- operation is that of the Chapters and Divi- SEPTEMBER 1963 sions working with the Professional Standards sult of a definite request for participation. Committee on the preparation of standards A very recent opportunity in the field of for special libraries. Many other examples management, the McKinsey Foundation Book could be cited, but these are adequate to Awards Program, is under way. A Com- show the strength of combined efforts. mittee has been appointed and is now work- Another trend-that of inter-association ing on this new project. cooperation-is growing and producing re- Committees on the International Manage- markable results. ment Congress, American Management As- Ten years ago SLA had 15 Special Repre- sociation Seminars, and the McKinsey Foun- sentatives cooperating with other organiza- dation Book Awards Program are contribut- tions and associations. In 1963 SLA has 45 ing greatly to SLA's work with management. joint committees and various other joint projects. Obligations The latest of these inter-association activ- Now that SLA has the attention of man- ities is SLA's participation in the New York agement, what will management expect of World's Fair, 1964-1965, American Refer- the Special Libraries Association? An ade- ence Center. ALA-SLA-AD1 are cooperating quate-number of well-trained librarians and in obtaining scholarships and in making information specialists to meet its needs! other plans for this unusual opportunity. It will want standards, salary surveys, and Other examples of inter-association activ- other statistics. The next question is: what is ities are: ALA Statistics Coordinating Com- the Association doing to meet these growing mittee, International Management Congress, demands ? and ALA Commission on a National Plan The two-year-old Education Committee, for Library Education, to name a few. recognizing the need to reeducate the mem- Both intra- and inter-association activities bers to fill the requests of management for make use of members' abilities and Associa- highly qualified personnel, has taken steps tion funds to the best advantage and with to improve the opportunities for continuing the greatest accomplishments. education, encouraging all members to take advantage of the& opportunities. Much has Opportunities been done in Chapters to accomplish this.

Among the many opportunities of 1962- Nine Cha~tersI have Education Committees 1963 are several in the field of management. or other committees responsible for this area There is nothing new in SLA's cooperation of activity. Many of these Chapters have with management, but the horizons have done outstanding work in helping their been extended and the depth of participa- members continue their education. tion is greater this year. It would seem advisable, therefore, that The International Management Congress, each Chapter appoint an Education Commit- a once-in-25-year opportun&y, first came to tee whose responsibility it would be to plan SLA's attention in 1961 at a meeting of the educational programs, encourage participa- Federation of Management Organizations, of tion, and work with the Association Commit- which SLA is a member. Mernbershir, in this tee in overcoming the lack of qualified per- organization was a definite attempt to extend sonnel. The President's Science Advisory the Association's public relations program Committee Report, discussed in the Advisory and to make known what SLA is and what Council meeting, points up the work that the it could do for management. Since early in Association and its members must do in this 1962, plans have been under way for par- area. ticipation in this project. The Congress will Additional education is not enough.- There meet in New York in Se~tember1963. The are not enough librarians and informa- effectiveness of this program will have to be tion specialists. Greater emphasis should be measured after that date. placed on recruitment and more work done The seminars sponsored by the Ameri- by both Chapters and Divisions to bring can Management Association were the re- highly qualified students into the field of SPECIAL LIBRARIES special librarianship. For the first time, we be made available as soon as possible. can measure the effectiveness of our recruit- To work with and for management opens ment program. From this past year's experi- wonderful opportunities. SLA must recog- ence alone, we can analyze the age groups, nize and accept the added responsibilities educational background, and subject interests that accompany these opportunities. of those who responded to the new recruit- One very important milestone in 1962- ment brochure. Chapters are able to evaluate 1963 is the acceptance of the Goals for 1970 their efforts and concentrate them to produce as presented by the Committee. These goals the best results. But one over-all fact re- include, very briefly: recruitment and educa- mains, whatever we have done-we have not tion, public relations, publications and serv- done enough. Even if each SLA member ices, and research. Several of these goals are would recruit one librarian or information discussed in my report as opportunities and specialist, we would only begin to prepare obligations. Certainly, it is an obligation of for future demands. the Association to set up the necessary ma- Management should have available pro- chinery to carry out these goals. fessional standards for special libraries. It is If we accept our opportunities and obliga- urgent that the work of the Professional tions with equal enthusiasm, SLA will reach Standards Committee, the Chapters, and Di- its goals by 1970 and will continue to be a visions continue, and that this valuable tool strong and effective Association. Annual Business Meeting Report MRS. JEANNE B. NORTH, Secretary

HE ANNUALBUSINESS MEETING of Spe- Robert W. Gibson, Jr. told of the role of T cial Libraries Association convened in the Advisory Council in its two meetings. the Denver Hilton Hotel at 9:00 a.m., June The first focussed the thinking of the Asso- 11, 1963, under the chairmanship of Ethel ciation on two of the year's important mat- S. Klahre, President. Mrs. Twyman Guard ters-the Goals for 1970 and the proposed acted as Parliamentarian, and Elizabeth Mul- dues increase. In the second meeting, the hall as Chief Teller. Council again served as a sounding board, in Miss Klahre, in her presidential message, an open discussion of the Report of the "Observations, Opportunities, and Obliga- President's Science Advisory Committee. tions," spoke of the several areas in which William S. Budington summarized his re- greater cooperation was evident. Cooperation port as Chapter Relations Officer, noting the of members as individuals and as Associa- imminent publication of the Chapter Relations tion units to accomplish projects, and coop- Manual, cooperation with the Professional eration of the Association with other pro- Standards and Recruitment Committees, and fessional bodies had grown markedly. Miss the formation of the Dayton Chapter. Klahre spoke of the opportunities the Asso- Dr. Frank McKenna reported as Division ciation has for vartici~ationin activities with Liaison Ofhcer that the Divisions were pro- other management-related associations. Then gressing in their preparation of bylaws and she pointed to some of the obligations which in their understanding of their financial these opportunities entailed, particularly in problems. recruitment and standards efforts. The Goals for 1970 Committee Chairman, Ralph Phelps, Treasurer, reported that for Winifred Sewell, reported the completion the first time in four years, the Association during the year of the working paper and finished the year, on September 30, 1962, then of the formalized statement of the without a deficit. He then indicated some of Goals for 1970, which latter had been ac- the factors responsible and discussed the cepted by the Board of Directors on Febru- prospects for the present year. ary 16, 1963. Miss Sewell reported the ac- SEPTEMBER 1963 tions of the Board in re-establishing the Chapters and Divisions. The H. W. Wilson Goals Committee as a standing committee Company again donated $2,000, and a gen- and giving it the responsibility of informing erous donation from Time, Inc. was received. incoming officers of the Goals and of their Scientific Meetings Committee Chairman, implementation. Joan Hutchinson, reported on the steps in Chester M. Lewis reported on the Ameri- making the former Sci-Tech Division pub- can Management Seminar held in October lication into an Association periodical. The 1962 and the workshop held in March 1963, appointment of an editor, Mrs. Marian Hol- in which librarians met management in a leman, a questionnaire requesting meeting mutual exchange of ideas. Mr. Lewis re- information from organizations, and de- ported that the American Management As- cisions on scope and format have produced a sociation was enthusiastic about continuing publication even more complete and useful these programs. Plans for the International than before. Management Congress to be held in Septem- Following these Committee reports, the ber 1963 were reported by Janet Bogardus. President ascertained the presence of a A workshop in information retrieval, a bib- quorum for the consideration of a proposi- liography of management literature to be tion presented to the membership from the given to each delegate, and a management li- Board. The Secretary moved the adoption brary and display of information-handling of the following: "That eligible Active, techniques are the activities SLA has planned Associate, Affiliate, and Emeritus members for the Congress. be allowed to affiliate with more than one The McKinsey Foundation Book Awards Chapter and/or Division upon payment for Program, sponsored by the Academy of each such additional affiliation of a sum Management to recognize books of significant equal to 20 percent of the dues paid by an insight, ideas, information, or concepts of Active member." After seconding, the vote management, in which SLA was invited to was called for, and the motion was carried participate, was reported on by Esther Kalis. unanimouslv. The SLA committee is working to choose ten The second proposal was presented by books published between July 1962 and July Dr. Paul Wasserman, with a motion that 1963 judged to be the most valuable to man- beginning January 1, 1964, dues for Active agement, and recommendations were en- membership be increased from $15 to $20 couraged. a year and Associate membership from $10 Marian Lechner reported for the Non- to $20 a year. After a second was received, serial Publications Committee that 13 proj- Dr. Wasserman moved to divide the ques- ects were active. Seven new projects were tion. This motion being carried, Miss Klahre considered during the year, of which two asked for a second, and receiving this called were rejected. Miss Lechner noted that sev- for discussion on the motion that beginning eral of the current projects were Chapter and January 1, 1964, dues for Active member- Division sponsored. Two of the 1962 pub- ship be increased from $15 to $20 per year. lications were included in the list of out- The discussion brought out questions from standing reference books of 1963 published the members regarding the necessity of an in Library Journal. increase, whether all alternatives had been Gertrude Bloomer reported for the Schol- examined, and how the increased revenue arship and Student Loan Fund that there had would be spent. been 65 applicants for the seven scholarships When no further discussion was forth- offered. Two additional awards were made coming, Miss Klahre asked for the vote, and during the year to students to allow them to the quorum having been determined present, continue their studies. Miss Bloomer told of an overwhelming majority standing vote was the mail campaign, "Dollars for Scholars," given the proprosal. launched in January 1963, from which $656 Dr. Wasserman then moved that begin- had been realized. Donations had been re- ning January 1, 1964, Associate member ceived with membership renewals and from dues be increased from $10 to $20 a year. SPECIAL LIBRARIES The motion was seconded and discussion in the election of Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, c'dled for. The privileges of Associate mem- President; William S. Budington, President- bers were compared with those of Active Elect; Charles Zerwekh, Jr., Chairman of members, and the fact was brought out that Advisory Council; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hutch- the present dues structure encouraged mem- ins, Chairman-Elect of Advisory Council ; bers to stay in Associate class of membership and of Helene Dechief and Mrs. Dorothy B. rather than advance to Active as they became Skau, Directors. eligible. After further discussion, there be- Miss Klahre declared the above officers ing a quorum, President Klahre asked for a duly elected. She thanked the Board, Asso- standing vote. The tellers counted, reporting ciation committees, Representatives, Chapter a favorable vote of 221 of 278 voting mem- and Division officers, and all who had given bers present, and the motion carried. support to the program of 1962-63. The Gertrude Bloomer, as Chairman of the new Board members were presented to the Scholarship and Student Loan Committee, meeting and were seated at the table in the then read the names of the scholarship win- places of the retiring members. ners : Michael Borowyk, Robert Culp, Patricia Mrs. Brode, in her first presidental mes- Ann Hugghins, Anita Louise Pope, Mrs. sage, spoke of the implications of space-age Judith Atkinson Scull, Richard Edmund librarianship. She likened the new statement Wallace, and Louise Mary Orr. of Association goals to the guidance system The Resolutions Reference Committee as we move forward in our work of relating Chairman, William Richardson, read the res- research and new techniques to the ever- olution of appreciation for the 1962-63 Pres- present human need for knowledge. ident, Ethel S. Klahre, and resolutions of Following a call for any other new busi- appreciation to those who had parts in the ness, Mr. Budington moved an indication of planning and execution of the Convention. thanks by applause to the retiring President Elizabeth Mulhall reported that the mail and to retiring officers of the Board, and the ballot vote for 1963-64 officers had resulted meeting subsequently was adjourned.

Treasurer's Report RALPH H. PHELPS

HE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS of the Spe- vention receipts: Actual $19,485; Budget Tcial Libraries Association for the year $10,000; Over budget by $9,485. ending September 30, 1962, together with This year's net Convention income was the report of Price Waterhouse & Co., certi- $1 1,000 greater than the average of the pre- fied public accountants who examined the ceding three years. Due to annual variations accounts, were published in Special Libraries, this cannot be considered as steady income. January 1963. The financial figures for the first six This is the first time in four years that months of the current fiscal year are interest- SLA has not closed the year with a deficit. ing, but they may or may not be indicative of end results for the entire year. For example, Actual Budget it seems that subscriptions to Special Li- Income $163,249 $144,860 braries and TBRI were, in general, paid Expense 155,563 154,880 earlier this year because of the notices sent out about changes in subscription rates ; most $ 7,686 bal. $ 10,020 anticipated deficit dues payments are received in the first six months of the fiscal year; and the transfer The favorable balance for the year was of any amount over $50,000 in the General largely due to the remarkably high net Con- Reserve Fund to the General Fund is made SEPTEMBER 1963 389 early in the year. This year the amount trans- the income from these two publications; in- ferred was $7,376 compared to $1,572 last creased advertising rates established last year year, the bulk of the increase being due to are now bringing some increase in revenue, the maturing of a block of government bonds as are also increased rates for use of the mail- with substantial interest accruals. As these ing list; and new publications have been is- were the last government bonds held, we sued and others are in preparation. Associa- cannot expect another lump sum such as this. tion Headquarters has recently taken over, Comparative income and expenditures for from volunteers, the work of handling Sci- the J~Xmo~zths are: entific Meetings, which, in all probability, will result in a loss this year. This is typical 1961-1962 1962-1963 of such operations during a changeover Income $131,250 $154,395 period. Part of the loss can be attributed to Expenditures 78,669 91,641 the carry-over of subscriptions at old rates. -- The above list, incomplete as it is, indi- Balance $ 52,581 $ 62,754 cates the changing and expanding scope of

Fund balances as of March 31, 1963 were:

General Fund General Reserve Fund Life Membership Fund Publications Fund Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Translations Center Fund Translators & Translations Fund Equipment Reserve Fund

Among items having financial importance activities of our Association. With your help are the following: previously made changes in working for the Association, in purchasing in investments and savings accounts are pro- and promoting its publications, and in sup- ducing some improvement in return from porting the Association with your dues, the SLA funds; increased subscription rates for activities will grow to further benefit you Special Libmries and TBRZ have increased and the special library profession. Advisory Council Report ROBERT W. GIBSON, JR., Advisory Council Chairman

HE ADVISORYCOUNCIL held two meet- first presentation of the Goals for 1970 was T ings as usual during 1962-63. The Mid- made to the Association through the Council. winter Meeting held in Cleveland on Feb- This Committee's report, which will un- ruary 14 and 15 was well attended with 24 doubtedly have an important bearing on the Chapters, 14 Divisions, and 19 standing com- future activities of the Association, was dis- mittees represented. The Council was fortu- cussed by those present but, more im- nate in receiving informative reports from portantly, those attending were urged to several committee chairmen. Especially inter- present the goals and discussions to those esting was the action to date regarding SLA they were representing. participation in the International Manage- The major portion of this meeting was ment Congress, which is to be held in New spent on a discussion of the proposal for an York on September 16-20 of this year. The increase in Association dues. The proposal SPECIAL LIBRARIES was presented in a panel form shared by Our second major meeting on Monday, Eugene B. Jackson, our Immediate Past- June 10, at Denver, featured a panel dis- President, and including President Ethel cussion of the President's Science Advisory Klahre, Treasurer Ralph Phelps, and Finance Committee Report (Weinberg Report), en- Committee Chairman, Paul Wasserman. This titled Scieme, Government, and Znforma- discussion proved again that the Advisory tiolz. A panel headed again by Eugene Council has an important function as part of Jackson and including William Budington, the Association in that it serves as the Asso- Winifred Sewell, J. Heston Heald, L. H. ciation's sounding board and presents an op- Linder, and Gordon Randall, discussed the portunity for both the Board of Directors Report and its implications for librarians. and the Association membership to present The meeting was then opened for active dis- matters of importance for open discussion. cussion from the Council.

Resolutions of Appreciation Adopted at the Annual Meeting Resolutions Reference Committee, William H. Richardson, Chairman

WHEREAS,the Association has been guided in its All the university, public, and special libraries in activities and represented to others by one who the area for permitting visits of special library displayed graciousness, competence, and efficiency members during this Convention; in leading the Association in its program and ex- The Reverend Noble Kime for his invocation at amination of education for special librarianship: the Opening Session ; BE IT RESOLVED:That the Association hereby ex- Willard M. Grimes for his warm welcome to the presses its debt of gratitude to its 1962-63 Presi- City of Denver on behalf of the Mayor; dent, Ethel S. Klahre. Mrs. Maxine B. Beaton, Chapter President, for BE IT RESOLVED:That in its recognition of the her hospitable greeting from the Colorado Chapter; time and hard work involved in the planning and Dr. Estelle Brodman, Keynote Speaker, for her execution of the 54th Annual Convention, the challenging and inspiring address, which invited Association expresses its appreciation to all those us to gain from "The Pierian Spring" fresh who contributed, especially to: strength for continuing education; The authors of the working papers, Sarah Reed, The Convention Chairman, Phoebe F. Hayes, for George Bonn, Samuel Sass, Grieg Aspnes, and her managerial efforts, and to the Board of Di- Winifred Sewell for their stimulating thoughts on rectors of the Bibliographical Center for Research, education for special librarianship; Inc., Rocky Mountain Region, for granting time The moderator of the General Session, Grieg to their Director to fulfill her duties as Conven- Aspnes, the speakers, Dr. Stuart Baillie, Richard A. tion Chairman; the Executive Committee and the Davis, Dr. Robert Hayes, and Mrs. Claire K. Convention Committees whose Chairmen were: Schultz, and the discussants, Elizabeth Ferguson, Program, H. William Axford; Treasurer, Magda- Ruth S. Leonard, John Sherrod, and Herbert S. lene A. Hughes; Exhibits, Jane Gould; Hospitality, White for their lively, penetrating, and thought- Mrs. Maxine B. Beaton; Information, Mrs. Ruth provoking look at education for special librarian- M. Rogers ; Local Arrangements, Leota Herren ; ship; Meals and Banquet, Barbara Hurley ; Printing, Reverend Stuart A. Plummer for the Banquet in- George E. Halpern and Mrs. Victoria S. Barker; vocation; Theodore D. Phillips, who led the ban- Publicity, Mrs. Eleanor W. Repass; Registration, quet festivities with humor and kindliness as Mrs. Elizabeth K. Buell; Transportation and toastmaster; Max Morath for his musical enter- Tours, Mrs. Charlotte Ratcliffe; and Dr. Stuart tainment; Baillie and Lt. Col. George V. Fagan, all of John T. Eastlick, Librarian, Public Library of the whom contributed to planning, organizing, and City and County of Denver, and his staff for their administering the Convention; hospitality at the reception in their beautiful The Convention Program Committee, Efren Gon- building; zalez, Chairman; John Lamb, International Business Machines, for The Colorado Chapter for its cooperation in host- the use of his facilities and staff for the workshops ing the 54th Annual Convention, and the members on machine methods ; from far and near who worked diligently in mak- The staff of the Flying-W Ranch for the chuck- ing the Convention a success; wagon supper, rodeo, and entertainment for the SEPTEMBER 1963 benefit of the SLA Scholarship and Student Loan Denver Research Institute for the registration kit; Fund ; The exhibitors, for providing helpful information The staff of the Denver Hilton, including the about their products and services; Assistant Manager, Mr. Brown, Mr. Elges and Mr. The Executive Secretary, Bill M. Woods, for his Rames of Sales, and J. Pierre Belasco, maitre d'hotel, executive abilities in keeping the Association ma- for all their assistance to the Convention Chairman chinery running smoothly; the Publications and and Convention Committee; Public Relations Director, Mary L. Allison, for Mrs. Muriel Sibell Wolle for the cover of the the effectiveness of her contribution; Grace Reyn- banquet program; olds, Assistant to the Executive Secretary, for Paul Joos of Friden and Harry Johnson of Royal- her vital contribution to the Association placement McBee for their collaboration, which produced activities; all members of the Association Head- the registration lists and the ticket cards; quarters staff for their individual contributions to The University of Denver for printing; the Special Libraries Association program.

Special Libraries Association Membership as of April 30,1963 ACTIVE (Pd for Asso- AFFILI- Sus- EMERI-HONOR- CHAPTERS ACTIVELife) CIATE ATE TUS Alabama 5 5 5 1 - Baltimore 38 3 - - Boston 211 46 1 6 Cincinnati 42 6 - Cleveland 102 2 1 5 3 Colorado 57 17 3 - Connecticut Valley 78 13 3 3 Dayton 44 12 2 - Georgia 78 6 - 3 Greater St. Louis 54 7 1 1 Heart of America 32 10 - - Illinois 253 34 4 5 Indiana 53 13 - 1 Louisiana 34 7 1 Michigan 130 2 6 2 6 Minnesota 66 16 - 1 Montreal 114 18 - - hTew Jersey 148 3 7 4 3 New York 879 146 25 20 Oak Ridge 42 7 - 1 Oklahoma 24 4 1 - Pacific Northwest 67 8 1 - Philadelphia 221 36 2 6 Pittsburgh 102 27 2 2 Rio Grande 34 8 - 1 San Diego 44 8 1 - San Francisco 219 47 5 2 Southern California 240 53 5 1 Texas 84 13 - - Toronto 104 39 1 1 Washington, D. C. 438 47 5 6 Western New York 129 16 2 2 Wisconsin 39 10 2 1 Unaffiliated U.S. & Canada 52 12 1 1 Outside U.S. & Canada 40 4 1 - - - - 4347 8 1 76

1- 1- BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING I The Fall Meeting of the Board of Directors will be held at the Belmont-Plaza Hotel in New York City, I September 26-27, 1963. I 392 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Patricia Ann Richard Edrnund Mrs. Judith Hugghins Wallace Atkinson Scull

SLA

Robert W. Culp Scholarship Michael Borowyk Winners 1963-64

Anita Louise Pope Louise Mary Orr

MICHAELBOROWYK, a Ukrainian-born Canadian citizen, has completed a B.A. in economics, a B.S. in L.S., and an M.A. in Slavic studies. He is currently working on a MS. in L.S. at McGill University. ROBERTW. CULP, after several years as a registered pharmacist, decided to pursue a M.S. in L.S. at Pratt Institute in New York to combine his scientific background with a potential job in a special library. PATRICIAANN HUGGHINSreceived a B.S. in education with a double major in school librarianship and social sciences from the University of Alabama. She will enter Peabody Library School in the fall. LOUISEMARY ORR received a B.S. in chemistry from Marianopolis College in Montreal last May and will attend McGill University School of Library Science in the fall. ANITALOUISE POPE, after graduation from Antioch College with a B.A. in biology, took a job in a library at the University of Cincinnati and decided to combine her aca- demic background with special librarianship. Miss Pope has entered the University of Michigan's Department of Library Science. MRS.JUDITH ATKINSON SCULL, who holds a B.A. in physics from Rockford College in Illinois, worked for a time in the technical libraries of Northwestern University and Wiancko Engineering Company. She plans to do her formal training at the library school of the University of Southern California. RICHARDEDMUND WALLACE majored in mathematics at Michigan State University, where he earned his B.S. this June. His future plans call for work in information retrieval, and he will attend Western Reserve University's School of Library Science. SEPTEMBER 1963 393 Executive Secretary's Report

BILL M. WOODS

HAT KIND of a year has it been ? Busy, the Association. And in numbers there is Wone of accomplishment, professionally strength. meaningful. It was a year that saw the mem- Association membership on April 30, bership increase by more than 400 persons, 1963 was an official 5,658, an increase of the expense budget by $28,000, and the dis- 309 over the same date a year ago. During tribution of recruitment pieces tripled. It the month of May a record number, 194 becomes inevitable that many accomplish- persons, have joined the Association for a ments must be measured in terms of how present all-time high of 5,852. The increase much, how many. It was a year in which between annual reports has been 434. By the significant breakthroughs to several manage- end of 1963 it is likely that the membership ment groups were made by special librarian- will surpass 6,000. It should be noted that ship and Special Libraries Association. It was the growth since 1959 has been nearly 800. a year in which SLA was in the headlines of As is usual there were a large number of every daily newspaper in the country. (Hap- members who were delinquent on March 31 pily, it was the State Liquor Authority in -516 were dropped for nonpayment of New York and not your Association, which dues. Since that date, 126 have been rein- was the attention getter.) stated. The Associate membership continues I am proud to report to you the following to be a preparatory and transitory member- accomplishments for 1962-1963. ship. In the 1963 review of 131 Associates, it was found that 41 had already dropped Membership their membership; 39 eligible for Active Members give strength to any organization membership did not respond, three resigned, and especially so when, as in SLA, they have eight not eligible for Active became Perma- the talents, capacity for leadership, and de- nent Associates, while 40 were advanced to votion to the purposes and objectives of Active. Membership Breakdown By Class and Year at Annual Report Time 1960 1959 Active 3,897 3,926 Active (Paid for Life) 39 38 Associate 909 809 Affiliate 13 3 Student 195 132 Emeritus 49 42 Honorary 12 14 Sustaining 101 89 - - Total 5,215 5,063 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Since June 1 of last year, 1,094 persons Fund of the Association showed an excess have been accepted for membership (795 of income collected over expenses disbursed since January 1, 1963, including 19 transfers of $7,685.51, the first such excess since 1958. from Active to Emeritus membership), and Fund balances totaled $194,460.51 compared of that number, 946 have paid. Of the 167 with $222,996.59 in September 1961. The not yet paid, 104 were accepted in the first only major difference was noted in the five months of 1963. Assignments by class Translations Center Fund, which was some of membership in 1963 are as follows: $41,350.82 lower as the grant for the Trans- Active 210 lations Survey had been used and most re- Associate 270 serves had been assigned elsewhere. On Student 125 March 31, 1963, assets of $262,296.15 were Affiliate 52 recorded, while in March 1962 they were Emeritus 19 $259,102.34. The Translations Center Fund Sustaining 10 was just half the size; the General Fund was $21,000 larger. Total 686 During the past year the Finance Commit- The membership procedure is handled by tee and the Board of Directors have ex- Association Headquarters in cooperation with amined all sources of income and have taken the Admissions Committee. The Committee steps to increase such income whenever pos- is particularly helpful in providing interpre- sible to provide the necessary financial sup- tations of requirements as outlined in the port for the expanding and demanding needs Bylaws adopted on August 9, 1962, and in of a growing Association. The general 1962- reviewing denials for membership. Since 1963 budget forecasts expenses of $183,070 June 1 of last year, 32 such denials have and an income of $178,580 and a Transla- been necessary, 13 for lack of required edu- tions Center budget of $69,678. The 1961- cation and experience, 11 unemployed, two 1962 budget by comparison was $154,880 not working in a special library (under defi- for expenses and $144,860 for income. In- nition in the old Bylaws), three as their come from dues since the beginning of the work was in an unrelated field, two in non- current fiscal year was $88,061.87 compared professional positions, and one librarian, to $84,208.58 a year ago. An additional eligible for Affiliate membership, who would $6,347.80 has been received since April 1. join only if the Association would get her a Principal investments of the General Re- job for $6,500. (Under present policy Af- serve Fund are in mutual funds and in Sav- filiate members are not entitled to use the ings and Loan Associations. A listing of Placement Service.) It is urged that the By- these investments is given on the following laws and Admissions Committee prepare for page. guidance a written interpretation of Article 11, Section 4 of the Bylaws concerning the Publications Affiliate membership. Last year this report told of publication of Although the increase in number of Sus- three books. During 1962-63 six titles were taining members was larger during the year edited and prepared for production, four than in any previous year, from 116 to 129, were published, two will be issued in the this class of membership has never been summer. fully developed. In February the Board of First to appear in November 1962 was Directors urged the Membership Committee Rosemary Neiswender's Guide to Russia~z to develop a Sustaining Membership cam- Reference and Language Aids: SLA Bibliog- paign in cooperation with Association Head- raphy No. 4. A practical guide to basic Rus- quarters. sian materials, it was selected along with Guide to Special Issues and Indexes of Peri- Finances odicals, published in May, as one of the out- The Auditor's statement for the year end- standing reference books of 1962 by ALA's ing September 30, 1962 for the General Reference Services Division. SEPTEMBER 1963 General Reserve Fund Investments MUTUALFUNDS July 27, 1961 Stein, Roe & Farnham Balanced Fund, Inc. 129 shares at $38.64 $4,984.56 Earnings of $562.43 reinvested 144.270 shares held May 31, 1963. Current price $37.70 December 7, 1961 Loomis-Sayles Mutual Funds 290 shares at $17.23 $4,996.70 Earnings of $301.18 reinvested 31 1.3377 shares held May 31, 1963. Current price $15.60 December 8, 1961 Johnston Mutual Fund, Inc. 318.066 shares at $15.72 $5,000.00 Earnings of $163.35 reinvested 331.223 shares held May 31, 1963. Current price $13.52 February 28, 1962 Stein, Roe & Farnham Stock Fund 146 shares at $34.08 $4,975.68 Earnings of $91.33 reinvested 149.280 shares held May 31, 1963. Current price $32.25 February 28, 1962 Scudder, Stevens & Clark Fund, Inc. 244.499 shares at $20.45 $5,000.00 May 23, 1762 271.150 shares at $18.44 $5,000.00 Earnings of $723.27 reinvested 55 1.953 shares held May 31, 1963. Current price $19.52

Interest Eawed Interest nzfe May I, 1962-May 31, 1963 Balance American 4.75 $396.50 $10,000.00 Lytton 4.8 193.06 5,193.06 Sterling 4.75 181.27 4,321.68 MUTUALSAVINGS BANK Central 4.75 75.85 342.21

OTHERFUNDS HELD IN SAVINGSBANKS AND SAVINGSAND LOANASSOCIATIONS Interest Earned May 1, 1962-May 31, 1763 Balance Equipment Reserve Fund Fourth Federal S & LA 4.25 $1 14.63 $ 3,389.63 General Fzcnd First National City 4.00 716.58 18,431.24 West Side S & LA 4.00 542.52 13,904.05 Life Membellrhip Fund Central Savings 4.75 137.42 3,748.67 Publications Fund California Federal S & LA 4.75 488.29 10,641.22 Central Savings 4.75 416.63 5,285.36 Srholavship and Student Loan Fund Central Savings 4.75 402.56 15,506.33 Home Mutual S & LA 4.8 168.23 3,638.79 396 SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Rio Grande Chapter's project, Diction- (formerly Handbook) was issued in March, ary of Report Series Codes, edited by Mrs. and favorable reviews have already appeared. Helen Redman 2nd Mrs. Lois E. Godfrey, A project of the Business and Finance Di- was published in December. Its 654 pages vision and edited by Mary A. McNierney, and four pound weight make it physically the Directory describes approximately 1,050 impressive, but even more impressive are the newsletters, bulletins, reports, and other two alphabets listing 12,495 code designa- series of 500 publishers. An Addendum of tions used on reports issued by 3,992 United 125 entries updates the work to January States and foreign agencies and their con- 1963. As with other titles, an extensive di- tractors. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey hailed rect mail campaign was conducted. Already ~t by writing: "This was certainly a monu- 264 copies have been sold and 304 are on mental undertaking and will prove invalu- order. able to documentalists in our country and Production of the New York Chapter abroad." 1,528 copies were printed; 779 monograph, Special Libraries: How to Plan have been sold; an additional 223 are on und Equip Them, is about complete and order; 59 were given on review or to Sustain- printed copies are expected in July. Edited ing members ; 465 copies remain in stock. by Chester M. Lewis, the work will contain Publication of the biennial membership information about basic types of library directory was authorized at the ~eptemb& furniture and equipment, moving and plan- Board meeting, and in less than three months ning techniques, a checklist, ten case his- the SLA Directory of Members 1962 was off tories selected from the "Planning the New the press, giving names and addresses of ap- Library" series in Special Libraries, a bibliog- proximately 5,700 members as of October raphy, directory of suppliers, and a subject 15, 1962. Lists of officers, award winners, index. and Bylaws were included, and 11 advertise- A second work is at the printer and due ments from library publishers and suppliers this summer, Literature of Executive Man- helped defray production costs. agement: SLA Bibliography No. 5, edited An enlarged, updated sixth edition of by Charlotte Georgi and assisted by a com- Directory of Business and Financial Services mittee of special librarians. This bibliog-

1961 -1 962 Royalty Payments Insurance Division National Insurance Organizations Picture Division Pictuve Sources Georgia Chapter Translator? and Translations Business and Finance Division Sources of Commodity Prices Metals Division G'aide to Metallurgical Information Petroleum Section U.S. Sources of Petroleum Stahtics Advertising Group, N. Y. Chapter Guide to Special Issues and Indexes of Pesiodicals

Sales Since Publication to May 31, 1963 DATE PUBLISHED Checklist Aug. 1960 Metallur ical Informution May 1961 Loan Cof lection Guide July 1961 Petroleum Stalistics Nov. 1961 Guide to Special Issues May 1962 Guide to Russian Reference and Ldnguage Aids Nov. 1962 Directory of Members 1962 Dec. 1962 Report Series Codes Dec. 1962 Directory of Business and Financial Services Mar. 1963 SEPTEMBER 1963 raphy has been prepared as one of the issue had the largest number of ads ever, Association's major contributions to the Sep- 26% pages. tember 1963 International Management Con- gress. Each delegate will receive a copy with his registration, while the rest of the edition For some years the Annual Convention of 5,000 copies will be made available for has been a principal source of papers for sale. Special Libraries. Although 77 speeches, Three other works are nearing completion roundtables, and panel discussions were and may be ready before the end of 1963: presented at the 1962 Washington, D. C. Tt,anslators and Trambtions: Services and Convention, the Committee received only 29 Sources, second edition; Picture Sources, sec- papers for review. Of these, 14 were ac- ond edition; and Advertising atzd Market- cepted and 15 rejected and returned to Di- ing Subject Headiags. In the twelve month visions for publication in their bulletins or period ending April 30, 1963, 5,140 books in subject journals. The Committee has read were sold and an income of $27,719.05 re- and evaluated 71 other papers; 28 have been ceived. 1961-62 figures were 4,563 items accepted, 35 were rejected, five were ac- and $14,117.10. May 1963 income was cepted pending revision, and three are now $4,500.22 for 693 items. In April 1963 being read. 1,026 books were sold and $6,583 in receipts Seventy-six feature articles and reports recorded. (1,701 copies were sold during the were published. Their sources were Conven- year 1958-59.) Two revisions of the "Books tion, 14; solicited, 19; reprinted from Rio and Journals" brochure were issued. Grande Chapter Bulletin, 4, and Ca7zadian As usual, royalties of 30 per cent of net Library, 1 ; John Cotton Dana Lecture, 1; profits were paid to sponsoring Chapters, unsolicited, 16; and solicited reports on Divisions, Groups, and Sections of profitable Committee activities, meetings, and seminars, publications. 18. Other short items included pieces pre- pared by officers concerning finances of the Special Libraries Association and a double spread of pictures Circulution showing the Association Headquarters staff In last year's report a recommendation was at work. made to allow $2 student subscriptions to A special issue devoted to United States Special Libraries for Student Members of the government sources of information was pre- Association. The recommendation was ap- sented in January, and it was gratifying to proved, and 119 Student subscriptions are receive quantity orders from two college pro- now current. The total subscriptions for fessors for use by students in political science Special Libravies number 1,769, an increase classes. The Committee and the Editor, Mary of 281 since last year and 687 since 1959. L. Allison, worked several months preparing The subscription rate was increased to $10 the survey of commercial library services pub- in January 1963. lished in May-June. They also endeavored, without success, to locate librarians who Advertising were utilizing mechanical or automatic in- The Board of Directors at the September formation retrieval methods in nontechnical meeting authorized a 25 per cent increase in libraries as they feel information on this sub- advertising rates. Full affect of these rates is ject is very much needed. The search will not reflected in the following statistics inas- continue. The two Consultants were asked much as they were not effective until De- for suggestions on both projects and were cember and a number of contracts extended requested to evaluate some problem papers. into 1963. The increase in revenue went The 1962 volume totalled 620 pages. from $15,856 for the period July 1961-June 1962 to $18,814 for the same period this News and Notes year. Income from advertising has nearly News a~zdNotes was again published as a doubled since 1958-59. The May-June 1963 quarterly supplement to Special Libraries and

SPECIAL LIBRARIES was devoted exclusively to Association news Recruitment and activities. A regular listing of SLA Sus- A bright addition to SLA's recruitment taining Members is included. stable is a 17" x 22" poster prepared by the Recruitment Committee. Against a back- Scientific Meetings ground of librarians-wanted ads, an adver- Mrs. Marian Patterson HolIeman assumed tisement for a s~eciallibrarian is featured editorial responsibility for Scientific Meet- with a red swirl that carries the eye to the ings on July 1 ; however, much of the produc- "best-seller," What Is a Special Librariau, tion detail has been handled from New which was reprinted during the year. Over York. Although" the title remains the same, 310 of the coupons included with What the scope has been enlarged to include meet- have been returned to Association Head- ings of scientific, technical, medical, health, quarters and referred to the nearest Chapter engineering, and management associations Recruitment Chairman. and meetings, symposia, colloquia, and in- Putting Knowledge to Work has been stitutes sponsored by universities in the allowed to go out-of-print and is being re- United States and Canada. Meeting informa- placed by a new piece, which is now ready tion was solicited by questionnaire from 975 for final editing and design for distribution associations and 366 universities. The Jan- during the summer. Six new Data Sheets, uary 1963 issue, the first under ~ssociation each describing a single kind of special li- sponsorship, is intended as a basic issue with brarianship and prepared by the Recruitment the May and September issues as supple- Committee of the New York Chapter, have ments. been reproduced in quantity bringing the A two-color promotion piece with an total number in the set to 14. The leaflet, "Make Your Career in a Special Library" order form and a IDress release were vre- pared and sent to more than 6,000 potential was reprinted. Two issues of the Recruit- subscribers and 800 journals. Ads were ment Newsletter were distributed for the placed in four library journals and in As- Committee. Material was supplied to several Jociatio?~Management. Subscriptions late in authors of books on librarianship as a career 1962 totaled approximately 700. The May and to organizations preparing revisions of 31, 1963 figure was 964. career pieces including one for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Technical Book Review Index Outlook Handbook. TBRI, now in its 29th volume, is edited In 1961-62, distribution of 19,000 copies by Anthony A. Martin. A contract with the of five principal recruitment items was re- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh for the use ported. These totals are reported for 1962-63: of space and services was signed in October. Putting Knowledge to Work 6,000 The May 31, 1963 subscriptions number Training the Chemical Librarian 1,500 1,748, a slight increase from the 1,706 last Make Your Career in a Special Li- year. Subscription rates were increased to brary 13,500 $10 beginning in 1963. A new four-page Data Sheets (24,500 sheets ; 8 sheets brochure describing TBRZ was prepared in per set) 6,000 April. Copies soliciting subscriptions were What is a Special Librarian 29,400 sent to 600 college and public libraries. Recruitment Poster 275 Total 56,735 Unlisted Drugs During August Association Headquarters Nearly all were supplied without charge; assumed responsibility on a service basis for only $88 was collected for 12 quantity orders. the business management of the monthly, Unlisted Drzcgs, published by the Pharma- Scholarships and Student Loans ceutical Section. Approximately 756 subscrip- Association Headquarters worked with the tions are involved. Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Com-

SEPTEMBER 1963 399 mittee on a Dollars for Scholars program, and Library of Congress positions were alsu which collected $656.20. Total contributions distributed. Attention was given to indi- to the Fund were $7,892.06. Scholarship vidual needs, and in this connection 121 information was supplied in answer to 455 interviews, exclusive of Convention, were requests, and 280 applications were sent. held. Requests were unusually high as SLA schol- Placement activity in the Chapters de- arships were mentioned in a Hearst series on creased some, while at ~ssociation Head- scholarships. Applications were received from quarters a slight increase was observed. 62 applicants (two did not qualify) and Again the difficulty to learn from applicants processed for consideration by the Commit- and employers whether a position has been tee. Details of payment for five scholarships, filled and for what salary should be lamented. two new loans, and seven unpaid loans were Beginning salaries dffered by employers handled. are summarized as follows:

Placement Service $ 5,000- 5,499 90 5,500- 5,999 28 Since appointment of a Placement Policy 6,000- 6,999 91 Committee in 1961, attention has been given 7,000- 7,499 26 to policy operation of the Placement Service. 7,500- 7,999 13 This Committee's recommendations are be- 8,000- 8,999 18 ing presented at this meeting for considera- 9,000- 9,999 3 tion. 10,000-10,999 6 Since May 1962 all positions listed with 11,000 and over 1 the Placement Service have been described Competitive or Open 55 briefly on frequent lists sent to Chapter Em- ployment Chairmen and all applicants reg- Conventions istered with the Service. Twenty such lists "Largest" is the best single word descrip- have been issued and have noted 523 vacant tion of the 1962 Washington Convention. positions. An additional list in January re- Attendance exceeded all previous conven- described 46 positions still unfilled. Another tions, with some 1,900 members, guests, and 24 special lists for higher paying, overseas, exhibitors. The exhibit program included 59

Placement Activities: May 1, 1962-April 30, 1963 Compared with Same Period 1961 -1 962 CHAPTERS

New positions Positions listed 4/30 New applicants Applicants listed 4/30 Placements

$ 3,000- 3,999 4,000- 4,999 5,000- 5,999 6,000- 6,999 7,000- 7,999 8,000- 9,999 10,000 and over Subprofessional, Temporary, and Part-time

SPECIAL LIBRARIES exhibitors in 71 booths and 25 advertisers of free service arranged by the Chapters. (20 pages) in the Convention Program. Finally, requests for Professional Consultants Profits from the Convention were $13,356.32. (75 in the file) approved by SLA are re- Visits to several cities were made in connec- ceived at Association Headquarters. Ten such tion with future conventions: St. Louis 1964, requests were received and 50 names given Philadelphia 1965, and Detroit 1970. Plans (38 individuals). The brochure describing for the Denver meeting were aided by a visit the Service was revised late in the year. by the Executive Secretary to Denver in De- cember. The exhibit program for this Con- Special Classifications Center vention is even larger than in Washington- In February the Board of Directors ap- 72 booths (60 exhibitors) and an income of proved a name change from the Loan Collec- $12,5 19 has already been received. Seventeen tion of Classification Schemes and Subject advertisers are using 13 pages in the Pro- Heading Lists to Special Classifications gram. Working papers on library education. Center. Plans for expansion, possible if a the theme of the meeting, were duplicated grant is forthcoming, were discussed with and distributed from Association Headquar- officials of Western Reserve University, ters. where the Center is housed at the School of Library Science, during a Cleveland visit in Management December and with the Assistant Curator

Association Headauarters1 coo~eratedI ac- during her visit to New York. Eighty-five tively with the American Management Asso- referrals were made to the Center from As- ciation in planning their seminars on the sociation Headquarters. Other requests for company library held in October and March. classification advice and loan of schemes President Klahre and the Executive Secretary were received by the Center. The Guide to represented the Association at two meetings the Collection went out-of-print in the of the Federation of Management Organiza- spring, but work on a new edition will not tions. The Executive Secretary served as First be begun until future plans of the Center Vice-president and Treasurer of FOMO, and are formulated. in this connection attended several planning sessions. As mentioned earlier, ALA is par- Translations Activities ticipating in the September 1963 Interna- Considerable administrative and other time tional Management Congress. The staff has is given to the translations activities of the met with the SLA-IMC Committee on sev- Association. The Executive Secretary made eral occasions and with the Congress man- four visits to the Translations Center in Chi- agement. Although Katharine L. Kinder is cago and conferred with the Center's Chief, the Association representative to the Council Mrs. Ildiko D. Nowak, and officers of The for International Progress in Management, John Crerar Library where the Center is informal contacts with CIPM officers have housed. New contracts were negotiated with proven mutually advantageous. Early contact The Crerar Library and with the Office of with the Academy of Management outlined Technical Services. On several occasions SLA participation in the McKinsry Founda- grant support was discussed with the Na- tion Mmagement Book Awards Program. tional Science Foundation. Revision of the brochure describing the Center is completed. Consultation Service Mrs. Lois M. Flury was employed on Consultation Service of the Association July 25, 1962, as Editorial Assistant to operates at three levels. The staff of Associa- Frances E. Kaiser, Editor of the forthcoming tion Headquarters provides consultation by second ed~tionof Tra??~latonrad Tramta- telephone, correspondence, and office inter- tzonr. Questionnaires have been mailed from ~iews.Referrals are made to Chapter Con- Atlanta where the office is housed at the sultants (94 in 1962-63) for possible con- Georgia Institute of Technology. Publica- sultation through provision of a single day tion is anticipated by the end of the year.

SEPTEMBER 1963 Public Relations eight times, and the tape once. Audiences One association executive described public have included seven Chapter meetings, 27 relations as everything from the usual press library and management staff meetings, 13 releases, brochures, and advertising to being student groups, nine before military per- pleasant to nasty members. PR efforts of sonnel, and three television showings. SLA are described under nine headings. World's Fair Promotional Materials SLA will sponsor along with the ALA The principal descriptive brochure, "Ac- and the American Documentation Institute tivities and Organization," revised last year, the American Reference Center in the U.S. underwent another revision in January to Pavilion during the 1964-1965 New York reflect major changes in membership require- World's Fair. During the past several months ments and in programs of the Association. principal efforts have been directed toward A new piece, "A Rbsum.6," was prepared to gaining industry support of the scholarship give a quick overview of the Association's program for staffing the Center by profes- structure and range of activities. Brochures sional librarians for the two six-month pe- described elsewhere in this report were .pre- riods. pared for Technical Book Review Index, the Translations Center, the Consultation Service, and "Books and Journals." Future As part of its expanding public relations brochures are planned for the Placement program, the Association exhibited at a num- Service, Scie?ztific Meetings, Special Libraries, ber of state and regional library association Unlisted Dwgs, and the Addressing Service. meetings as well as at the ALA Conference Approximately 24,750 such items have been in Miami and the SLA Washington, D. C. sent out this year to tell the SLA story. Convention. The Boston Chapter organized Other promotional pieces include reprints a display at the New England Library Asso- of Association Bylaws, Katharine L. Kinder's ciation Conference in Swampscott, the Phila- Library Jotlvnal article on special librarian- delphia Chapter manned a booth at the ship, and Elizabeth M. Walkey's piece on ~enns~lvania-Library Association, and the translations in Special Libraries. Working Rio Grande Chapter sponsored an exhibit papers on library education were sent major at the New Mexico Library Association meet- library schools in the United States and ing. The Association participated in the suc- Canada. A newsletter was prepared for bul- cessful CNLA recruitment exhibit at the letin editors. The Otficial Directory of Per- American Personnel and Guidance Associa- sonuel 1962-1963 was issued in September, tion Convention in Boston to which the Bos- a nine-page supplement in January. ton Chapter made an outstanding contribu- tion by supplying sets of the Data Sheets and Television Film helping staff the booth. Southern California The television film, "Is Knowledge Chapter members set up an informal display Power?" was prepared for the 1962 Wash- at the California Library Association meeting ington, D. C. Convention. Senator Hubert and displayed recruitment material at the H. Humphrey and five government science Los Angeles County Guidance Center Ex- administrators discuss the value of informa- hibit. tion in science research and develo~ment.In The Association also supplied brochures, January a print was made available to meet exhibit books, pictures, display cases, and demands for showing, with second and third other pertinent items for the Metals Division prints ordered in February and March. In booth at the National Metals Congress, the additio'n a separate ten-minute film of Sen- New York Cha~ter's recruitment- seminar ator ~umphr>~'sintroductory remarks and for guidance counsellors, the Congress for the sound tape are available. The 27-minute Librarians at St. Johns University, the AMA film has been scheduled 59 times with book- seminars on library management, and for ings running into 1964, the shorter film National Library Week and recruitment ex- SPECIAL LIBRARIES hibits planned by Chapters and individual li- maintained on mailing plates to facilitate ef- brarians. fective distribution of press releases and Books and journals were displayed in the other announcements. These addresses are in Combined Book Exhibit arranged at the fol- the process of being checked and updated lowing professional meetings: AAAS, IRE, and new titles added. Two other lists of pub- eight mid-Atlantic library association meet- lishers and suppliers of library equipment ]tugs, ALA, First International Exhibition of and services are also maintained for solicit- Scientific and Technical Publications, Inter- ing convention exhibits and advertising in national Congress on Medical Librarianship, Special Libraries. These, too, are being re- Catholic Library Association, and Society of vised and corrected. Technical Writers and Publishers. Articles and Publications The Translations Center's two exhibits were set up at the American Association for Association Headquarters staff conferred the Advancement of Science, Second Inter- numerous times with editors and free-lance national Congress on Medical Librarianship, writers about articles on company libraries Pittsburgh Analytical Conference, Medical and on the Translations Center. The Pren- Library Association, SLA, ALA, Western tice-Hall journal, Ofice Executive, plans to Chemical Show, Georgia Tech, Roger Young carry a major article on libraries shortly. Pic- Auditorium in Los Angeles, Linda Hall Li- tures were supplied Compton's Encyclopedid brary, and UCLA. and Library ]ou~nal,and information and pictures were sent Venture, a magazine for Press Reledses young people, which carried a feature piece The library press, trade and professional on library careers. Ideas were discussed with journals, library schools, Association officers, other writers and publishers. and Chapter and Division Bulletin Editors were kept informed of Association activities National Library Week during the year by 47 press releases. Three SLA members were encouraged to par- related to scholarships, four to conventions, ticipate in NLW by a series of short articles four to officers and staff, seven to awards, in three issues of Special Libraries, by re- two to recruitment, seven to SLA books and ports prepared by the SLA representative to journals, six to Chapter and Division pub- the National Book Committee, and by lications and activities, five to National Li- memos sent Chapter Presidents, Bulletin Edi- brary Week, two to translations, three to tors, and Public Relations Chairmen outlining- programs announced or completed by Asso- possible activities, urging members to com- ciation committees, and one each on the pete for the NLW Publicity Award, and television film, participation in the AMA supplying lists of NLW state directors and seminar, the forthcoming visit of British samples of display pieces. About 300 copies librarians, and new promotional brochures. of an article by Gilbert W. Chapman were The effect of the Association's releases is distributed to Chapters and individuals for becoming increasingly noticeable, especially placement in house organs and trade papers. in other library-oriented journals, which now Tear sheets received indicate the article was regularly carry reports on SLA affairs. Also used by Chrysler and National Cash Regis- a growing number of business, industrial, and ter, among others. technical journals are reviewing SLA publi- cations and running announcements of meet- Meetings, Visits, and Miscellany ings and awards. Five Association units took Association staff were also busy in other advantage of the standing offer to distribute ways. Here are summarized the meetings, releases about their publications and meetings. visits and visitors, publications, and activities not reported in more detail elsewhere. Media Lists With the Past-President, the Executive Twenty-eight classified lists of trade, tech- Secretary represented SLA on the CNLA nical, professional, and library journals are (Council of National Library Associations) SEPTEMBER 1963 as Secretary-Treasurer and was re-elected for of the Geography and Map, Publishing, and another year. He also served as Chairman of Science-Technology Groups, the Library the Committee on New Members. the Place- Equipment and Planning Seminar, the Re- ment Committee studying possibilities of a cruitment session, and midtown and down- profession-wide placement service, and as a town luncheons. The fall meeting of the member of committees, Planning for CNLA Metals Division held in New York was at- Secretariat and Protection of Cultural and Sci- tended by two of the professional staff. The entific Resources, and as SLA representative Publications and Public Relations Director on the Joint Committee on Exhibit Man- served on the Executive Board of the Library agers. Public Relations Council attending a total of Other memberships of the Executive Sec- nine meetings, and attended a Seminar on retary are in the ~mericanSociety of Asso- Latin American Studies and the American ciation Executives, the New York Society of College Library held at Brooklyn College. Association Executives, the National Asso- The Assistant to Executive Secretary attended ciation of Exhibit Managers, Association of the Columbia University School of Library American Geographers, and Beta Phi Mu. Service Annual Alumni Day on new direc- Four articles by the Executive Secretary tions in reference work. were published during the year-one on re- Other events attended included the East- cruiting by special libraries in the July 1962 ern College Librarians' Conference, National Library Journal, which was reprinted in a Book Awards presentation and reception, ded- booklet along with others in ihe series, a ication of the University of Pennsylvania Li- report on SLA for Libri; a piece on indexing brary, University of the State of New York and filing of surveying materials in Proceed- Convocation in Albany, a NSF sponsored ing.r of the Fifth Annual Illinois Land Sur- meeting on documentation, the 75th anni- veyors Conference, and the Foreword in the versary dinner of the Newark Public Library, recently published Gale Research Company's an American Standards Association meeting director^^ of Special Libraries d?zd Znfonna- on trade catalogs, and an NAS-NRS session ti072 Centels. on associations and documentation, and nu- Talks were given to the Colorado and In- merous hotel, convention bureau, and other diana Chapters, to editors of the Chilton receptions. Company, to the Flint Library Club, and to The Executive Secretary attended the ALA Dr. Paul Masserman's graduate class in In- Miami Beach Conference manning the SLA formation Sources in ~dministrationat Cor- exhibit with help from several members nell University. During the second summer and represented the Association at several session he taught class in Selection of Li- meetings. During the ALA Midwinter Meet- brary Materials and Reference Materials in ing he attended an ALA President's lunch- Science and Technology at the Drexel Insti- eon along with President Klahre and meet- tute Graduate School of Library Science. ings concerned with exhibits and statistics. The Executive Secretary served on the Ad- He attended a meeting of the ALA Com- visory Committee for the St. Johns Univer- mission for a National Plan for Library Edu- sity congress for Librarians (attended with cation and the Interassociation Hospital Li- the President and the Publications and Pub- braries Committee to which he has accepted lic Relations Assistant), on an ad hoc com- appointment. He has also been asked to serve mittee planning the October 1963 visit of on the Library of Congress Librarian's Liai- 137 British librarians to this country, on an son Committee. ad hoc committee sponsoring a study of li- Visitors to Association Headquarters have brary resources in New York City, as a iccluded numerous foreign librarians includ- trustee of the New York Library Club, and ing Wilfred Ashworth, Chairman of Aslib on an advisory group for the Chemists' Club Council and Editor of the Handbook of Symposium. Specid1 Librnr.inn.rhip, members and officers Association staff attended several meet- of the Association, and numerous representa- ings of the New York Chapter and meetings tives of management. The Assistant to Ex- SPECIAL LIBRARIES ecutive Secretary conducted 91 office inter- were maintained-a total of 30,650 plates. views with visitors. Business visits have been Rates for use of the Addressing Service were made to the offices of the ALA, Library increased in June. A total of 140 outside run- Services Branch, Council on Library Re- nings produced from May 1, 1962-May 31, sources, U. S. Book Exchange, National Sci- 1963 an income of $5,626.13 (97 and $3,- ence Foundation, and the Office of Technical 446.55 last year). In addition, 57 runnings Services. were made without charge to Divisions and Liaison was maintained with most of the Sections and 138 internal runnings were 33 Standing and 11 Special Committees and completed. Arrangements were made to pro- w~ththe 51 persons holding special repre- vide service to the Picture Division for sub- sentations. The meetings attended were: Goals scribers to Picturescope and to the New for 1970, Foundation Grants, Placement York Library Club. Beginning in March, Policy, Special Librrtvies, Convention Pro- membership changes were supplied to sub- gram, Professional Standards, Headquarters units monthly rather than biweekly. Personnel, Finance, Archives, Consultation Other pertinent figures for the past two Service, and Admissions. years are presented below:

Headquarters, Library, and Archives 1962-3 1961-2 A major accomplishment of the year was New and reinstated 923 772 a complete physical reorganization of Asso- Members changed name, ciation Headquarters. The entire office area, addresses, or affiliation 1,817 2,2 3 1 the eighth floor of the Hafner Building, was Cards sent new officers 18,682 no record Cards for changes sent painted; a private office provided the Head, Chapters, Groups, Accounts and Records Department; and the Divisions, and Sections 11,461 11,587 Addressograph and the Mail and Mimeo- Total number of cards graph Sections were relocated. Reception of- made for all purposes 50,876 28,084 fice furniture was purchased. Additional im- provements were made in the lighting, and a Personnel new telephone switchboard installed. On Changes in personnel were at a minimum March 1, 250 square feet of storage space in 1962-63. Mrs. Adrianne Stanek became was acquired on the sixth floor making it Editorial Secretary and Bowman Walsh part- possible to move all publications storage out time Subscription Clerk. John Burr, John of public areas. Roth, and Lewis Rubman were part-time of- Final result of the several moves was to fice clerks replacing Michael Marotta and permit relocation of the library and archives Richard White who, upon graduation from files into the same area. A very special kind New York University in the summer, became of special library, on special librarianship a research assistant at the NW School of and Special Libraries Association, includes Medicine and a Peace Corpsman in the Do- slightly over 1,000 books shelved under 61 minican Republic, respectively. broad subjects, approximately 100 bound Staff of the Association Headquarters who volumes of journals, 121 current journal have participated in achieving these accom- titles, eight file drawers of pamphlets, 12 plishments and in preparing this report de- drawers of interim correspondence, and 57 serve every thanks from the Association and drawers of archives material. from the Executive Secretary. Addressing and Addressograph Service The work of the Addressograph Section Proposals can best be understood by a statistical re- Once a year your Executive Secretary, view and comparison with last year. Records when reviewing recent accomplishments, has for 5,852 members and 4,481 subscribers to taken stock of future needs and programs of three journals in addition to special files for the Association. Some work to the surface media, advertisers, exhibitors, and others in recommendations made to the Board of SEPTEMBER 1963 Directors, to the Finance, Headquarters Per- 4. Serious attention should be given by the sonnel, and other Committees. Some are Recruitment Committee to preparation of a never disclosed. This year several will be film describing special librarianship as a ca- shared through this report. reer and securing necessary support through 1. One of the goals of the Association ap- efforts of the Foundation Grants Committee. proved by the Board of Directors in Febru- 5. The Education Committee should con- ary suggests that by 1970 SLA must have set sider and recommend possible cooperation in motion an active research program. The between SLA and the American Manage- need for implementing such a goal is ap- ment Association and/or other agencies for parent. As this is an area in which the As- short courses and seminars for continuing sociation at the present time has no going education of special librarians. program, plans should be developed soon. 6. Association-wide efforts should be under- Appointment of a research coordinating or taken to eliminate provincialism and paro- review committee should be made. chialism from the programs and objectives 2. Foremost among the needs of special li- of the Association and all the subunits. brarianship are professional standards. A 7. The Goals Committee should be redefined well-thought through statement of standards as a review committee and continued as a for special libraries should be developed standing committee of the Association. without delay under guidance of the Profes- 8. The Convention Advisory Committee sional Standards Committee. should be reestablished as a standing com- 3. The Association working through the Per- mittee. sonnel Committee should develop annual EDITOR'SNOTE: Positive action has been taken on salary minimums for special librarians. all these recommendations.

SLA Hall of Fame Five members have been honored in 1963 by election to the SLA Hall of Fame. This recognition is granted for outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the Special Libraries Association and is offered following completion of an active pro- fessional career or near the date of announced retirement.

BETTY JOY COLE Librarian, Organic Chemicals Division, American Cyanamid Company, Bound Brook, New Jersey, 1930-1963 Home Address: 165 Crescent Avenue, Plainfield, New Jersey Charter Member, New Jersey Chapter, 1935 Chairman, Science-Technology Group, 1938-1939 President, New Jersey Chapter, 1939-1941 Editor, Union List of Scientific Periodicals in Chemical Libraries of Chemical Section of SLA, 2nd ed., 1939 Chairman, Publications Committee, 1944- 1946 SLA President, 1946-1947 Representative, Council of National Library Associations, 196-1948, 1949- 1958 ; Chairman, 1947-1948 Representative, American Documentation Institute, 1947-1948 Representative, Joint Committee for Union List of Serials, 1947-1956 Representative, Joint Committee for Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Resources, 1953-1954 SLA member, 1933-date SPECIAL LIBRARIES JOSEPHINE I. GREENWOOD Librarian, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., New York, New York, 1917-1962 Home Address : 104 Huntington Road, Garden City, Long Island, New York Secretary-Treasurer, New York Chapter, 1926-1927 President, New York Chapter, 1932-1933 Member, SLA Executive Board, 1933-1934 SLA Treasurer, 1939-1941 Director, New York Chapter, 1947-1948 Member, Public Relations Committee, 1947-1949 Chairman, Public Utilities Section, Science-Technology Division, 1949-1951 Member, Archives Committee, 1962-date SLA member, 1922-date

MRS. LUCILE L. KECK Librarian, Joint Reference Library of Public Administration Service, Chicago, Illinois, 1932-1962 Home Address : 555 1 University Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois President, Illinois Chapter, 1935-1937 SLA Vice-president, 1937-1938 Director, Illinois Chapter, 1937-1939 Chairman, Nominating Committee, 1939-1940 Member, Joint Committee to Survey the Special Library Field, 1939-1941 Group Liaison Officer, 1943-1944 Member, Committee to Study Affiliation between SLA and ALA, 1946 Co-editor, Public Administration Libraries: A Manual of Practice, 1934, 1948 SLA President, 1953-1954 SLA member. 1932-date

MRS. KATHLEEN BROWN STEBBINS* Personnel Director, Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan, 1953-1962 SLA Executive Secretary, 1940-1953 Member, Consultation Service Committee, 1956-1960 Chairman, Nominating Committee, 1959-1960 Recruitment Chairman, Michigan Chapter, 1960-1961 Member, Personnel Committee, 1960-1962 SLA member, 1940-1962 * Awarded posthumously ROSE L. VORMELKER Library Director, Forest City Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1956-1962 Home Address: 1886 East lOlst Street, Cleveland 6, Ohio SLA Secretary-Treasurer, 1926-1927 SLA Secretary, 1928-1929 President, Cleveland Chapter, 1935-1936, 1945-1946 Editor, Special Library Resources, vols. 1 & 2, 1941-1945 Chairman, Business Division, 1946-1947 SLA President, 1948-1949 Winner, SLA Professional Award, 1953 Consultant Officer, Cleveland Chapter, 1958-1962 Chairman, Standards Committee, Newspaper Division, 1961-1962 SLA member, 1924-date SEPTEMBER 1963 SLA-Time in the Rockies MARIAN G. LECHNER, Librarian Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut ESTERN INFORMALITY and hospitality, of the Convention Chairman, Phoebe Hayes. W a kaleidoscope of snow-capped moun- But Phoebe triumphed, the cash registers tain peaks, the fresh and clear sunshine of were soon both functioning efficiently, the Denver-all provided a wonderfully appro- lines of ticket buyers moved on, the Conven- priate setting for the 54th Annual Conven- tion Committee lost their harassed looks and tion of the Special Libraries Association, a became genial hosts again. The human ele- Convention with the challenging theme, ment won this round. "Start Learning Again." Over 1,100 librar- Near the registration area the Hospitality ians poured into the Denver Hilton Hotel, Committee had arranged an attracti\;e are; eager to participate in the Convention, to identified by decorative metallic forms called meet old friends and make new ones, to "money trees." This quickly became a popu- learn what is new and exciting in the world lar meeting place. of special librarianship, and to see first-hand Sunday was a busy. day . for the exhibitors. the beauties and magnificence of the West. Located 'in the passageway surrounding the Registration proceeded smoothly and with Grand Ballroom, the exhibit area was a dispatch, thanks to the efficient hotel staff maelstrom of packing cases, supplies, signs, and the careful planning of the Convention and paper required to set up 72 exhibit Committee. To expedite matters, the Con- booths. By 6:00 p.m. everything was miracu- vention Committee had devised an ingeni- lously in order, the exhibits were opened, ous punched card system to sell tickets for and the first Convention-wide reception was meals and special functions. This had been in full swing. The large number of people checked and re-checked and seemed to be attending and their pleased comments indi- absolutely fool proof. All would have been cated itwas a hugeAsuccess. In the exhibit well and the system would have proceeded area during the following busy days, the as planned, except that on Sunday morning coffee-pot was kept going morning and after- during the first rush for. buying meal tickets, noon, another nice evidence of western hos- one of the cash registers refused to cooperate. pitality. ~a~lor-carlisleBook Store, EBS Anyone who has ever tried to find a repair- Book .service, McGregor Magazine Agency, man for any appliance, to say nothing of a the SLA Publishing Division, and other ex- cash register, at 10:00 a.m. on a Sunday hibitors were offering a variety of prizes, and morning can well appreciate the predicament Eleanor K. Irwin, Charles A. Stevens, Wil-

At the reception in the exhibit area members talked to publishers and examined new library equipment and supplies. On the right Rosemary Neiswender, Chairman of the SLA Subcommittee on Transliteration, chats with William S. Budington and Edward G. Strable while manning the Association's Translations Center display. 408 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Participants in the Opening Session at the Denver Convention: President Ethel S. Klahre; Willard N. Greim, Director, Department of Parks and Recreation, Denver; Mrs. Maxine Beaton, Colorado Chapter President; Bill M. Woods, SLA Executive Director; Estelle Brod- man, Keynote Speaker; Phoebe F. Hayes, Convention Chairman; Reverend Noble Kime; and Jane Gould, Exhibits Chairman. liam H. Soika, and Abraham I. Lebowitz and not slaves, that librarianship will change were among the lucky winners of transistor ns the conditions under which it labors radios and clock-radios. change, that to keep the changes under our Immediately after the exhibitors reception, control we must study the conditions around various Divisions held open house-and a us. Dr. Brodman's earnest plea for continu- Division open house goes on and on. Old- ing learning brought about a standing ova- time Denver residents assured us that our tion from her audience. drowsiness was due to the unaccustomed al- At the Sci-Tech Division luncheon on titude-a comforting statement. However, it Monday, John F. Stearns, Chief, National is interesting to note that breakfast meetings Referral Center for Science and Technology, became fewer and fewer. described another method of dealing with Dr. Estelle Brodman, librarian and asso- the information explosion. The National ciate professor of medical history at the Referral Center for Science and Technology, Washington University School of Medicine a special government agency recently estab- in St. Louis, Missouri, delivered the keynote lished at the Library of Congress, has been address at the opening general session on createa in the last year to act as a "central Monday morning. Taking as her text Alex- switching plant" to keep track of informa- ander Pope's couplet, "A little learning is a tion. The agency keeps no shelves full of dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not books but stores information on computers the Pierian spring," Dr. Brodman urged li- and microfilm. General or specific questions brarians to welcome rather than fear the are answered by pointing to a technical jour- prospect of rapid change within our pro- nal, to a laboratory researching a like prob- fession. She urged librarians to learn to lem, or to an expert in the field. Looking understand such new tools as computers and ahead, Stearns said computers and improved punched card sorters and to use them to microfilming will help the agency keep con- further the goals for librarianship. "There trol of the information explosion. "But the is another reason for studying the changes real answer," he asserted, "lies in a better In librarianship which are occurring all about structure of information. The need for spe- us," Dr. Brodman contmued, "I refer to the cialization will continue to increase, but at joy of knowing; the intellectual excitement the same time there will be a need for librar- of learning." Dr. Brodman concluded that ians who are acquainted with several fields to we should be masters of our environment bring about the exchange of information." Unless otherwise indicated, all pictures were taken by King's Service, Inc., Denver SEPTEMBER 1963 409 The Advisory Council meeting on Monday evening was so well at- tended that it had to be moved to a larger room. This was due, no doubt, to the well publicized panel discussion of The President's Science Advisory Committee Report, entitled Scieme, Govei.nme?zt and Informa- tio?z, popularly known as the Weinberg Report. In this Report recom- mendations have been made for the dissemination of scientific information prepared by the government as well as its efficient use. Dr. Wein- berg and his Committee have constantly used the word "documentalist" and "literature scientist" to describe the people in charge of the scientific Convention Chair- information rather than "librarian." One of the panelists pointed out man Hayes introduc- that this statement is the honest opinion of the Committee and that we ing her Executive must take some responsibility ourselves for the image of the librarian that committeeat the we have created. If we want a different image, we must turn our backs on Opening Session. the past and look to the future with our current methods of literature control. A lively discussion period followed (EDITOR'SNOTE: This has been published almost in toto in the July-August 1963 Special fibvaries.) in which some members felt that we were tilting at windmills and that it was merely a question of semantics; that we should stop talking about our image and get on with the many jobs that need to be done. Others felt that the document shows that we already have missed the boat and that we have been poor salesmen for our profession. Those of us who are not in scientific libraries and who have not read the Weinberg Report had best bombard the Government Printing Office with orders for it (available for 254) ; it would seem that this will have a definite effect on the future of special libraries. Of Jr.l As interesting as this session of the Advisory Council was, the opportu- A ' Oar y nity to discuss mutual problems of the Chapters and Divisions was again Council, pres~d- 1ng. ignored. Perhaps the Association is so well organized that we no longer have internal problems ? ? ? President Ethel S. Klahre presided at the Annual Business Meeting on Tuesday morning. In her report she observed that 2,000 SLA members- nearly one-third of the total membershipare active on committees or projects of the Association. In addition, members of the Association are active in 45 joint committees and projects with other library associations or interested groups. She pointed out that advances are being made in our cooperation with management. During the past year SLA has participated in two seminars sponsored by the American Management Association and will participate in The International Management Congress, which will Eugene B. Jack- be held in New York in the fall of 1963-a once-in-25-years opportu- son moderating nity to participate in such a congress. SLA will provide and staff a man- the panel discus- agement library and exhibits of information-handling techniques at the sion on the Wein- Congress and, in addition, is publishing an annotated bibliography of berg Report- management books to be included in the kit distributed to delegates at the conference. The New York World's Fair in 1964-65 will see the Special Libraries Asso- ciation joining forces with the American Library Association and the American Docu- mentation Institute to provide and man a model reference center in the United States Pavilion. In addition, SLA is participating in the selection of the books to be awarded the McKinsey Foundation Book Award. The motion to increase annual Active membership dues from $15 to $20 and Associate membership dues from $10 to $20 created expected discussion. However, both motions ~assedby a large majority. Several committees summarized reports during this meeting. Among them was the

410 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Scholarship Committee which announced the tions and not for one specific career which winners of the seven scholarships and re- he may or may not stay kith for a lifetime. ported that there were 65 applications for Mrs. Claire K. Schultz of the Institute for these scholarships. It was also reported that Advancement of Medical Communication, the Dollars for Scholars campaign had netted Line Lexington, Pennsylvania, attacked the the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund some complacency of library educators who refuse $656 this year. to see the changes on the horizon of the in- The new officers were introduced and as- formation field and the unconcern of the sumed their places on the platform. After a practicing librarians for changes to come. "If standing ovation to Ethel S. Klahre for her effective actions to meet the new demands in leadership during the past year, a satisfactory librarianship are not taken swiftly, librarians business meeting was adjourned. will find themselves unemployed." The second general session on Tuesday Richard A. Davis, Assistant Professor, returned to the theme of education and con- Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel sisted of a panel, "Library Education: a Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, ob- License to Learn." An interesting and stimu- served that it is really the practicing librarian lating debate on the adequacy of library edu- who is the conservative and that the library cation was moderated by Grieg Aspnes, Re- schools would welcome changes that are search Librarian, Cargill Inc., Minneapolis. economically sound. The ensuing discussion "The machine is not something for librar- stimulated the audience into active discus- ians to fear but something for them to uti- sion-from time to time bravos could be lize," urged Dr. Robert Hayes, President of heard from the audience. Advanced Information Systems, Inc., of Los Tuesday night's banquet started promptly, Angeles. "The machine will play only a which put everyone in an extra fine mood. minor role in the new information program. The room was festive with shaded candles on It is the task of the librarian to harness, di- each table and arrangements of pink carna- rect, and utilize it as all other library tools tions on the head table. The ladies at the are used. But competent trained personnel head table looked lovely in bright summer are badly needed to manage the new infor- dresses: Ethel Klahre in turquoise and white mation systems." print silk with a white orchid on her fox Dr. Stuart Baillie, Director, Graduate stole, Mildred Brode in Delft blue lace, School of Librarianship, University of Den- Phoebe Hayes in rosy beige silk, Maxine ver, defended the role of the library school, Beaton in a black and white print with a stating that librarians are and should be edu- bouffant skirt. The gentlemen were hand- cated to fit into a multiplicity of library posi- somely dressed in white dinner jackets.

Panelists and discussants at the General Session "Library Education: A License to Learn" were: Elizabeth Ferguson, John Sherrod, Ruth S. Leonard, Mrs. Claire K. Schultz, Dr. Robert Hayes, Dr. Stuart Baillie, Greig Aspnes, Richard A. Davis, and Herbert S. White. SEPTEMBER 1963 41 1 President Klahre directed the presentation of awards at the end of the banquet dinner:

4 Howard Haycraft, President of the H. W. Wilson Company, presented the H. W. Wil- son Company Chapter Award to the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter for develop- ing outstanding programs for continuing education for special librarians. Roger Martin, a member of the Chapter's Education Com- mittee, accepted the scroll and check for $100.

4 Everyone was delighted to learn that the Colorado Chapter had earned the Member- ship Gavel Award for the second consecutive year. Chapter President Mrs. Maxine Beaton accepted the gavel from President Klahre. The runner-up was the Oklahoma Chapter, and third place went to the Louisiana Chap- ter. The award is given annually for the largest paid-up percentage increase in Chap- ter membership, and Colorado's increase was 32.5 percent.

4 Margaret Madden, Librarian, Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, was pleased to win the SLA National Library Week Pub- licity Award and to receive from Mrs. Irene L. Myers, librarian at the Procter & Gamble Company, which donated the Award, a scroll and $75 for the St. Louis Chapter. The sec- ond NLW Award was presented to Paul J. Burnette, Director of The Army Library, who won $25 for the Washington Chapter.

4 And finally President Klahre bestowed upon her successor the informal presidential badge of office-a red, white, and blue rib- bon signifying the colors of the United States and Canada, complete with a United States and a Canadian silver dollar and a lucky rabbit's foot. Incoming President Brode then gave Ethel S. Klahre an engraved pen set as a token of the Association's appreciation of her efforts during the past year. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Toastmaster duties were ably performed by Ted Phillips, Librarian, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and "the only man in the Federal Reserve Bank library system." After the awards came a completely dif- ferent type of entertainment-Max Morath in "Ragtime Revisited." Mr. Morath played the piano and sang ballads recapturing the days of Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes, the legendary Benjamin Hapgood Burt, the young Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan. The songs were interspersed with magic Recreating the setting and costume of the era, lantern slides and illustrated songs-the Max Morath sang and talked about ragtime. whole program was tied together with suit- Holmes who in 1858 was the first woman able comments and chatter by Mr. Morath. to climb Pike's Peak and was an ardent fol- "Meet Me in St. Louis" brought out a real lower of Susan B. Anthony; Cripple Creek sing-along session. gold; the first coming of Spencer Penrose to On Wednesday we were treated to a re- Colorado Springs and his tremendous Broad- view of highlights of Pike's Peak history by moor Hotel; and the final military discovery a top expert in the field. Marshall Sprague, of Pike's Peak region by the United States Colorado Springs author, addressed the Book Air Force Academy. and Author Luncheon with a rapid-fire series As is true in every convention, attendees of anecdotes ranging from bloomer girls to are forced to make a choice among many the pre-Volstead goodies in Spec Penrose's interesting meetings taking place at the same Broadmoor Hotel wine cellars. Some of time. A panel of representatives from labor, the highpoints-stories of Julia Archibald industry, agriculture, government, and edu-

The Board of Directors, Hall of Famers, Convention Executive Committee members, rep- resentatives of other library associations, the headquarters staff, and invited guests shared the head tables: (back row): Ralph Phelps, Barbara Hurley, Fred Keck, Dr. Malcolm Weyer, Frank McKenna, James E. Skipper, Howard Haycraft, Dr. Robert Hayes, Paul Riley, William S. Budington, John Eastlick, Reverend Stuart A. Plummer, Mrs. Irene L. Myers, Mary L. Allison, Mrs. JoAnn Beths, Theodore Phillips; (second row): Gail Cohen, Bill M. Woods, Mrs. Elizabeth Roth, Robert W. Gibson, Jr., Mrs. Dolores C. Renze, Julius Marke, Mrs. Jeanne 6. North, Edythe C. Porpa, Eugene B. Jackson, Grace Reynolds, Robert Kingery, Edward Strable; (front row): Mrs. Elizabeth Usher, Joan Hutchinson, Rose Vormelker, Mrs. Maxine Beaton, Ethel S. Klahre, Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, Phoebe F. Hayes, J0sephin.e Greenwood, Mrs. Lucile Keck, Sara Aull. SEPTEMBER 1963 413 A Former officers attending the Past-Presidents' dinner were Gretchen Little, Chester M. Lewis, Mrs. Lucile Keck, Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Ruth Savord, Grieg Aspnes, Winifred Sewell, Mrs. Ruth Hooker, Rose Vormelker, Eugene B. Jackson, and Elizabeth Ferguson.

A Harold R. Malinowski, Richard Hlarac, A Adalaide Hammargden, Marilyn Modern, Anne Bruce, James G. Stephens, Donald Elizabeth Mulhall, Joseph Simmons, and Redmond, and Forrest Carhart, Ill. Marie Murphy. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Toastmaster Theo- dore D. Phillips.

A Panelists on the Science-Technology Division's program "Is Library Education Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World?" were: W. Roy Holleman, Sarah Rebecca Reed, Mrs. Doris H. Banks, Eugene B. Jackson, Mrs. Gretchen S. Koriagin, and Neal R. Harlow.

Mrs. Lucile Keck, Rose Vormel ker,. and Josephine Greenwood, the three Hall of Fam- ers attending the Convention, chat- ting about old friends and old times.

Ethel V. Lyon and Ken Carroll enioy- ing the chuckwagon supper.

M. L. Allison A Among those attending President Klahre's party for foreign librarians and the Board of Directors were: (standing) Merl Cuzens, senior Librarian, Repatriation Department, Australia; L. H. Freiser, Chief Librarian, Toronto Board of Education, Sara Aull; (sitting) H. Arthur Vespry, Librarian, Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd.; Mrs. Alma Rosenheck, Li- brarian, Weizrnan lnstitute of Science, Israel; President Klahre; Dick Koppel, Chief Librarian, Prime Minister's Office, Israel lnstitute for Biological Research; Margaret Mc- Rae, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Mary Thomson, Librarian, Australian Con- sulate, New York; Mrs. Elizabeth Usher; lndira Sukhtankar, Librarian, Indian lnstitute of Management, Calcutta.

SEPTEMBER 1963 415 cation all agreed that in the long run the a briefing session at Headquarters of North Common Market would be good for the American Air Defense Command at Colo- United States even though certain indi- rado Springs. viduals and industries would undoubtedly be During their business meetings several Di- hurt by the competition. The attractive Mrs. visions improved their individual organiza- Lorraine Pearce, author of the now famous tions by passing Bylaws and by putting White House guidebook, spoke at a joint their financial affairs in approved order- dinner meeting of the Museum and Picture many were the wails of Division treasurers Divisions. Mrs. Pearce is a member of the while they were completing the required Fine Arts Advisory Committee for the White forms. House and was there day in and day out Committee meetings were sandwiched in from March 1961 to last September while the spare corners with Bill Woods' suite Jacqueline Kennedy went about restoring the needing a traffic light to take care of the executive mansion. In an attempt to evaluate comings and goings. Perhaps part of the the costs of library service as a management attraction was the magnificent view from his tool, Mrs. Elaine Woodruff, Librarian, U.S. windows ! Civil Service Commission, described her Additional western hospitality was dis- work measurement program to the Business pensed by the Public Library of the City and and Finance Division. County of Denver at a reception on Wednes- Tours to special libraries in the area were day night. This library is one of the fine, also a part of the Divisions' agendas-an new ones in the country and has a significant afternoon visit of the Museum Division to collection of Western Americana attractively the Denver Museum of Natural History displayed in the Western History Depart- where a diorama under construction was ment. shown to the group, resulted in one member Thursday was tour day for all Divisions. having her picture taken showing her in the By 8:30 a.m. 13 buses were loading 600 act of making friends with a stuffed sea lion. SLA'ers at the side door of the Denver Hil- On Friday the Engineering Section spent a ton for a 75 mile tour along the front of the ~rofitableday at Boulder visiting the Boulder Rampart Range to Colorado Springs. There Laboratories of the U.S. National Bureau of the various Divisions visited libraries in in- Standards and the National Center for At- dustries of particular interest. Luncheon at mospheric Research. The Biological Sciences the Broadmoor Hotel gave us the opportu- Division found time to visit the Penrose Hos- nity to see for ourselves the opulence and pital Cancer Research Center and Medical grandeur discussed by Mr. Sprague the day Library in Colorado Springs. The Military before as well as a taste of unsurpassed Rocky Librarians Division was privileged to attend Mountain trout.

Eugene B. Jackson, Immedi- ate Past-President, John T. Eastlick, Librarian of the Denver Public Library, and Leota Herren, Librarian of the Marathon Oil Company and Local Arrangements Chairman, greeting visitors in part of the receiving line at the reception held in the new Denver Public Library.

416 SPECIAL LIBRARIES As the sun was setting be- hind the mountains, SLA'ers enjoyed an outdoor chuck wagon supper-compl.ete with beans, beef and gravy, and cowboys pouring hot coffee into tin mugs-at the Flying-W Ranch outside of Colorado Springs.

h1. L. Allison Then on to the United States Air Force ternational Business Machines Corporation. Academy. The modern buildings rise up un- At IBM, attractive young ladies demonstrated expectedly from the semi-arid desert-yet machines to illustrate how some of the con- they seem particularly fitting, even to the cepts of machine retrieval are applicable even much-discussed chapel. A snappy young air- in a small special library. In addition, the man was assigned to each group as a guide Documentation Division maintained a suite for the library tour. Up four flights of stairs in which seats were at a premium. Here dis- at a brisk pace and we were very conscious plays gave examples of mechanized informa- of the President's physical fitness program, tion retrieval actually in use in libraries, even though our very polite guide assured reading lists, and a film program showing ils that at least part of our puffing was caused how information retrieval can be applied to by the altitude. The well-balanced reference library techniques. and reading collection and modern equip- By Thursday large signs indicating the ment make the careful planning that has I.F.A. was arriving appeared throughout the gone into this library quite evident. hotel and surrounding areas. Then large yel- By late afternoon the buses went on to the low footprints labeled I.F.A. appeared on Flying-W Ranch where we really captured various corridor floors-even climbing a few the spirit of the Old West. First, a rodeo at walls. Appropriate research (sorry, not by a nearby ranch with exhibits of bronco rid- machine retrieval) revealed that I.F.A. ing, steer riding, and roping; then to the stands for International Footprinters Asso- Flying-W Ranch for a "good square" and ciation, that they are friends df law-enforce- the cry, "come and get it," from the waiting ment officers, and that they were having their kitchen was as welcome as it was to yesterday's annual meeting. They were just as puzzled cowpunchers. After chow, the ranch hands by SLA-"You mean, these are all librar- doubled as musicians with guitars and fiddles ians ?" and played and sang ballads of the Old Those of us who were able to stay the re- West. The Metals Division sponsored this mainder of the week were rewarded with a festive day for the benefit of the SLA Schol- closer look at the Rockies. Properly festooned arship and the Student Loan Fund. Some with cameras and low-heeled shoes, we went $610 was realized-more than ever before. off on the tour buses for Mt. Evans and All during the Convention the Documenta- Pike's Peak and the Royal Gorge and Estes tion Division sponsored informal teaching Park. The obsemation floor on top of the sessions dealing with some of the basic con- First National Bank Building provided a cepts of information retrieval. Capacity ses- panoramic view of Denver and surrounding sions were held in the Denver offices of In- territory that was magnificent by day or by SEPTEMBER 1963 The 1963-64 Board of Directors Back row: Edward G. Strabie, Director; Mrs. Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau, Director; William S. Budington, President-Elect; Paul W. Riley, Director; Helene Dechief, Director (and Secretary); Ralph H. Phelps, Treasurer; Joan M. Hutchinson, Director; Charles Zerwekh, Jr., Chairman, Advisory Council; Front row: Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hutchins, Chairman-Elect, Advisory Council; Ethel S. Klahre, Past-President; Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, President; Mrs. Elizabeth Boutelle Roth, Director. night. And not to do anything by halves, on Saturday, June 15, we Easterners were A Typical Library Convention Menu treated to a sight of snow-plows making way through some six or eight or more inches of Breakfast Libreries with cream or overdue melon hail-stones. Shredded serials Our thanks go to the Colorado Chapter Hot stocks with syrup for being such-fine hosts, and our sp&ial Hot cross reference buns thanks go to Phoebe Hayes and the Conven- Lunch tion Committees for the planning that made Anti-library-paste-o or soup de [our-nal Filet of silverfish with verb souce or broiled everything run so smoothly. W; had many microfiche stimulating discussions, we absorbed new Dewey decimated peaches or Appleton Century ideas. we made new acauaintances and re- pie newed old friendships, we examined the Dinner latest library equipment, and now we are Best sellery soup or periodicals on the half- shelf looking forward to next year. Lobster Thermofax or browsed pork folios or (Note: The 55th SLA Convention will be Xerox tail ragout held at the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel, St. Quarto'd potatoes, wilted book leaves, buttered green quiet peas Louis, Mo., June 7-11, 1964. The theme of Baked atlas or who donuts the Convention will be "The Librarian as a Beverages Creative Catalvst." Particular emphasis will Who's brew, duplicator spirits, Ginn, dis-still be placed on the problems of small, one-man due, Old Overheld, Iced gazeteo libraries. We hope that you will be there.) SPECIAL LIBRARIES Chapter Relations Committee Report WILLIAM S. BUDINGTON, Chapter Liaison Officer

As in previous years, the Committee has dealt SLA booth at the New England Library Associa- with both the routine affairs of any year's business tion and Philadelphia's activity at the Pennsylvania and with special activities of the current year. In Library Association. The latter typify joint meet- the former category may be noted: the collection ing interest reported by nearly every Chapter, in and summarization of Chapter annual reports; conjunction with local, state, regional, and other collection and examination of Chapter financial national professional associations. The SLA kine- reports and ensuing allotment recommendations to scope, "Is Knowledge Power?," was shown at the Board of Directors; arranging Chapter visits several group meetings as well as on TV during for the Association President (nine) and First National Library Week. Connecticut Valley is Vice-president (seven) ; conducting meetings of undertaking a significant survey of industrial Chapter Presidents at Midwinter Meetings and laboratories and other institutions, hoping to dis- annual Conventions; and correspondence dealing close potential members and create awareness of with Chapter proposals and problems. Several non- SLA and library and information services. routine activities have occurred during the past year. Assistance was given the Professional Stand- Publications and Programs ards Committee in selecting "good" libraries for Publication of bulletins is reported by nearly all a sample survey and in setting up Chapter com- Chapters, and directories by nearly half. Greater mittees to work on drafts of standards; at least St. Louis and New Jersey also participated in area five Chapters (Boston, Illinois, Montreal, San resources surveys, bringing out special hbrary Francisco, and Toronto) have contributed in this strengths. Union lists, new and revised, were undertaking. The Association's Bylaws Committee planned or under way in Connecticut Valley, prepared, working through several draft stages, Greater St. Louis, Montreal, Oak Ridge, Oklahoma, a sample set of bylaws for guidance of Chapters Philadelphia, and San Francisco, while attaining in formulating their own. The Chapter Manual reality in Minnesota and Southern California. was largely rewritten to bring sections into line Chapter manuals were distributed in Greater St. with current practice and requirements. And, Louis and New Jersey, and one is in the planning finally, welcome was extended to the new Dayton stage in Connecticut Valley. Many groups were Chapter, whose installation was attended by the hard at work bringing constitutions and bylaws Chairman. into line with the revised Association document. Meeting programs exhibited their usual great Chapter Activities variety. Perhaps half the Chapters devoted one or Annual reports from Chapters (not all present more sessions to various phases of information for abstracting herein) reveal in most instances retrieval and mechanization. Copyright implications SLA's well-known initiative and endurance in pro- continued a second year of interest in Philadelphia fessional productivity. National Library Week con- and Montreal. The proposed increase in Associa- tinues to be observed in our special ways, as tion dues was considered in many chapters and evidenced in Boston, Colorado, Greater St. Louis, given extensive study with recommendations by Montreal, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Toronto. Alabama, Connecticut Valley, Minnesota, and Cooperation, coordination, and participation in Oklahoma. Visits to libraries, old and new, con- work of nearby library schools was reported in tinue to be the favorite program, with panels Connecticut Valley, Colorado, San Francisco, and and methods sessions as popular as ever. Southern California; Alabama compiled and pub- The Baltimore Chapter, last year and this, faced lished a survey of schools providing special library with seemingly diminishing strength and disband- oriented courses. Short courses and workshops were ment, determined to continue and in so doing re- greatly stimulated by the education goal of this vived interest and loyalty in its members. year's H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award; to Of top importance in coming years will be the date, Montreal, New Jersey, San Francisco, and implementation of the Goals for 1970. For signifi- Southern California report significant arrangements cant progress in any of these areas, Chapter activity in this area. must be stimulated and brought to successful levels Recruitment to SLA was successfully carried out in recruitment, education, application of standards, in Colorado and Southern California, while In- publicity, and cooperation between libraries of' all diana and Oklahoma tell of general promotion types. Perhaps the most unique among SLA's many among schools and counselors. Boston profitably attributes as an association is the spiritual, if not distritiuted career "data sheets" to the American always geographical, cohesiveness within Chapter Personnel and Guidance Association Conference, memberships. Their sense of group potential is while Southern California manned a booth at Los found in few, if any, other professional associa- Angeles' Career Guidance Center. Publicity was tions, and it will continue as a great resource in also achieved by Boston's and Connecticut Valley's the opening years before us. SEPTEMBER 1963 Division Relations Committee Report DR. FRANK E. McKENNA, Division Liaison Officer The Divisions have not only been involved in simple newsletter format. Increased production their active professional programs of publications, costs, particularly when not donated by the bul- projects, exhibits, meetings, and recruitment, but letin editor's organization, seem to be a primary there has also been a concerted effort to establish factor in this change. The average number of issues suitable bylaws and to achieve uniform financial for all Divisions has been two and one-half during reports. the year with a range of one to five issues. The Association's Bylaws, adopted in 1962, re- Another common difficulty has been to find a quire that all Divisions have approved bylaws. In sufficient number of nominees to provide more September 1962 only five of the 15 Divisions had than one nominee for each office. Part of this prob- Bylaws. A cooperative effort between the Division lem appears to be related to the curtailmtnt of and Chapter Relations Committees and the As- traveling expenses by many organizations. sociation's Bylaws Committee resulted in "model" The annual report of this Committee can be a bylaws, which can be adjusted for local needs. By statistical summary of membership changes, proj- the end of the Denver Convention, two-thirds of ects, publications, and the like. Rather than an the Divisions had adopted Bylaws; the others will enumeration of things accomplished, we wish to adopt theirs by mail vote during 1963-64 or at the pay tribute to the Division officers and committee latest during the St. Louis Convention. members whose labors during the year culminated in the superior Convention programs at Denver. In past years a number of Divisions had jeopard- The officers for 1963-64 have already accomplished ized or lost their annual allotments from the As- much in working with the 1964 St. Louis Conven- sociation because of unclear financial reports. This tion Committee (and thoughts are already per- situation has arisen usually when there has been colating for the 1965 Philadelphia Convention). no clear differentiation in the financial report be- With such enthusiasm and future planning in tween earnings (derived from projects) and funds the Divisions, it is perhaps appropriate that, in accumulated from the regular Association allot- February 1963, the Board of Directors assigned to ments. As a first step towards uniformity, a date the Division Relations Committee the "chore" of before the Convention (May 20) has been set as examining the structure of the Association to help the start of the fiscal year for each Division. All in achieving the Association's Goals for 1970. We reporting difficulties have not yet been unraveled, can only begin this task with humility as we view but we hope that a mutually satisfactory format the many years of earnest thought and effort that for reporting the Divisions' financial status will be have been expended in developing our present evolved during the coming year. structure. We hope that future developments or Almost all the Divisions have been forced to de- recommendations will be charitably received by all crease both the number of issues and the number of -whether they are members of large, small, or in- pages in their bulletins. Many have adopted a between Divisions.

The display of books and serials published by the Chapters, Divisions, and Association. 120 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Committee Reports, 1962-63 By Committee Chairmen

tary. For the past eight months she has I) subject Admissions headed and filed into the Archives file copies of The Admissions Committee has met twice dur- forms, notices, releases, reports, and letters mimeo- ing the year, at Washington, D. C. with the Chair- graphed at Association Headquarters; and 2) filed man of the Bylaws Committee and at Cleveland. Archives material to which Committee members At the latter meeting the decision file was brought have headed but not filed. up to date in the light of recent revisions in the Mr. Woods finds that his secretary is now be- Bylaws. This file, based on previous acceptances coming too busy to perform this added duty and and denials, was originally created to be of help he is requesting an additional clerk to do this and to Association Headquarters staff and to the Com- other chores at Association Headquarters. Without mittee itself in an effort to be consistent. such assistance a backlog of filing will rapidly ac- The chief responsibility of the Admissions Com- cumulate and the files will revert to the chaotic mittee has been to decide upon eligibility for condition from which Miss Ford so ably extricated membership of applications referred to it by As- them in 1959. The Archives Committee unani- sociation Headquarters. These referrals have been mously recommends and urges, as it has now for made because of doubt as to the applicant's qualifi- several years, that ten hours of clerical assistance cations on the basis of education, experience, or be assigned to it weekly for filing and maintaining position. In this task the concern has been to the files in a current and useful condition. interpret the membership qualifications according Genevieve Ford has completed the indexing of to the intent and wishes of the Association as the minutes of the Board of Directors and the expressed through the Bylaws passed in August Advisory Council for 1962. Fannie Simon is bring- 1962. ing the Association's detailed chronology up to This first year of the new revisions has been an date starting with 1950. interesting one for what it has revealed. Obviously Shelf space occupied by Archives copies of the it has been possible to accept certain classes of Association's publications has been substantially re- people who were formerly ineligible. At the same duced by limiting the number of copies retained time it has become apparent that the wording of as follows: the Affiliate category has been subject to different interpretations of meaning both within and with- 1. Special Libraries 2 copies (bound) out the Association. When in doubt, the Admis- 2. TBRI 1 copy (bound) sions Committee has sought the advice and guid- 3. Scientific Meetings 1 copy (bound) ance of the Bylaws Committee and has acted in 4. Each nonserial publication 2 copies the belief that it was making a true interpretation of the membership requirements. The wording as Recommendation it stands, however, is creating problems. Therefore That a minimum of ten hours per week of as a help to future committees and to applicants Headquarters staff time be set aside for filing alike, the Admissions Committee made a recom- material into the Archives and interim files and for mendation. typing of the necessary index cards and file folder labels. Recommendation MARTHAO'LEARY The Admissions Committee recommends that the Board ask the Bylaws Committee to study the EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors authorized wording of Affiliate as contained in Article 11, employment of a subscription-file clerk on October Section 4 of the bylaws in an effort to define its 1, whose duties will include Archives' filing. terms more specifically and thereby clarify its pos- sible interpretation. Awards ROWENAPHILLIPS During the year the Awards Committee has con- EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors approved sidered four proposals. The following two are the recommendation. submitted to the Board: National Award for Contribution to the Litera- Archives ture Hall of Fame Award The Archives Committee is pleased to report a. International participation in Association ac- that filing in the Archives file is on a current basis. tivities compared to contributions on the Chap- This would not have been so without the assistance ter level. of Gail Cohen, Secretary to the Executive Secre- b. The Association's recognition be in the form SEPTEMBER 1963 42 1 of a scroll or certificate to be presented to the phies, reference works, and other publications that recipient. constitute major contributions to the literature of particular fields other than librarianship, would not be eligible. It would, of course, be both pos- Proposal for Literature Contribution Award sible and appropriate to have a separate award for It is proposed that the Special Libraries Associa- publications of this kind. tion shall establish an annual publication award W. ROY HOLLEMAN for the year's outstanding contribution to the litera- ture made by a SLA member. This publication award is intended to provide EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors did not recognition at the Special Libraries Association approve the first recommendation and asked the Convention of the SLA member who has made Committee to discuss further and provide addi- the most significant contribution of the year to tional documentation regarding the SLA Profes- the literature of special librarianship. Such an sional Award, rather than the SLA Hall of Fame. award would provide additional emphasis to the high professional standards of librarianship set by the aims and objectives of the Special Libraries Bylaws Association. The many contributions to the professional lit- This report summarizes Committee activities for erature made by SLA members constitute important the year. It is submitted for information and con- examples of the communication of information not tains no recommendations. only within SLA but for librarianship as a whole. The Proposed Bylaws, as amended at the 1962 These contributions are intended to stimulate, in- Annual Business Meeting, were adopted August 9. form, and instruct members on a professional level. Returns on the mail ballot sent to Association The cooperative sharing of research information members yielded 2,189 affirmative and 109 nega- and ideas is the very basis of professional library tive votes. activity and, as librarians, we should be intensely Most changes became effective immediately. Ex- aware of the role which the literature plays in this. ceptions were the provisions affecting the election Whether individuals become more deeply inter- of certain Association officers. With the year ested in the Special Libraries Association, and in- 1963-64 the new office, Chairman-Elect of the deed, the actual success of the Association itself, Advisory Council, is introduced, and for the first depend to a great extent on the usefulness and time the Board of Directors will elect one of its the quality of these contributions. Recognition of members to serve as Secretary. In 1964-65 a exceptional efforts which have broadened and deep- three-year term for the office of Treasurer begins. ened the literature will create a challenge for Following adoption of the Bylaws, further con- members. The award should focus attention upon sideration was given to the possibility that the new the professional obligation of members to con- statement of Association objectives might require tribute to the literature and to make their contribu- a like change in the Certificate of Incorporation. tions as valuable to the profession as possible. This matter was considered by the Association's Should this award encourage the production of a attorney. Since, in his opinion, there was no legal literature which is original and stimulating, it will necessity for amendment of the incorporation pa- contribute to the development of individual mem- pers, it was agreed that no action should be taken. bers, Chapters, the Association, and the profession. In cooperation with the Chapter and Division These features, among others, may be suggested Liaison Officers, "sample" bylaws were developed as considerations in granting the award: to guide Chapters and Divisions in drafting rules for their own government. The "sample" is an a) The national award for individual contribu- tion to the literature will be given for a book, adaptation of the Association Bylaws and similar pamphlet, series of articles, or single article by an to them in content and form. Particular attention individual member, or by working in collaboration. was directed toward inclusion of statements to 6) Among other criteria, the publication shall cover areas requiring coordination of Association, demonstrate one or more of these features to an Chapter, and Division policy. unusual degree: To date, four Chapters and three Divisions have 1. A research contribution of importance to pro- submitted completely revised or new bylaws for fessional librarianship. review. The Chapters were Greater St. Louis, New 2. Extraordinary success in achieving communica- Jersey, Wisconsin, and the recently installed Day- tion of professional information, standards, ideals, ton Chapter. Divisions were Biological Sciences, or aims. Business and Finance, and Newspaper. Each is to 3. Originality in theme, presentation and expres- be commended. Admirable, appropriate use of the sion. "sample" was demonstrated. In every case the spe- r) The award should be given to a publication cific needs of the Chapter or Division concerned representing a contribution to the professional had been considered and adjustments made ac- literature of librarianship rather than a contribu- cordingly. tion to the general literature; that is, bibliogra- KATHARINEL. KINDER SPECIAL LIBRARIES Committee on Committees Bylaws Committee As a result of the new Bylaws, the Constitution The transition of turning over responsibilities of and Bylaws Committee is called the Bylaws Com- a Committee from one chairman to another is al- mittee. This will need to be noted in all future ways a complicated task. Finding out the aims, references to this Committee, and the Association's backlog, and new assignments, which usually go Executive Secretary is herewith notified to make along with such a responsibility, is a tedious one. such a change in the Official Directory of Per- Accepting the chairmanship from a chairman who ~onnel. had several years experience on the committee to a chairman who has never been associated with the committee previously would slow down such a Elections Committee transition period even more. This is what the As a result of the new Bylaws, the Elections present Chairman has experienced. Although we Committee is called Tellers Committee. This will were faced with these difficulties, the Committee need to be noted in all future references, and the on Committees can look back on an activity which Association's Executive Secretary is herewith noti- would fit into the heading of "getting acquainted fied to make such a change in the Oficial Directory with the past, present and future assignments and of Personnel. responsibilities of our Committee." A summary report giving a review of unfinished and new busi- H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award Committee ness to be considered by the Committee was sub- The membership on the W. Wilson Com- mitted to the Board of Directors at their Mid-Win- H. pany Chapter Award Committee shall selected ter Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. Since then, the be from the Association's former members of the following action as related to this report either Board of Directors. This stipulation has not al- took place or is contemplated. ways been carried out, and recommendation has been made to liberalize these stipulations, which Archives Committee would make it easier for future Presidents to ap- The Committee on Committees submitted to the point members to this Committee. The recom- Board of Directors the definition of this Commit- mendation is presently under consideration by the tee: "The Archives Committee shall be a standing Committee. committee of three members from the same geo- graphic areas as the Association's Headquarters, Persons Qualified for Committee Appointments appointed for overlapping terms of two years each. Its duties shall be to collect, review, and Suggestions have been made that the Committee organize historical data concerning the Association on Committees prepare a list of persons qualified and to assure its proper preservation and suitable for committee appointments. The Committee on storage. The Committee shall be responsible for Committees has taken the above-mentioned sugges- maintaining a chronology of the Association and tion under advisement and submitted to the Board for the indexing of the meetings of the Board of of Directors the following statement: "After due Directors." consideration the Committee on Committees ap- The Board of Directors has decided to defer any preciates the difficulties of committee appointments. action on the Archives Committee's definition At the same time the Committee on Committees largely because the Archives Committee itself is felt that it should not have the responsibility of uncertain as to just what its responsibilities should making recommendations or preparing a list of be. Actions on this are continuing. persons qualified for committee appointments. The With the acceptance of the Special Library Committee further is of the opinion that sugges- Association's new Bylaws, as adopted August 9, tions made by them may not be more helpful 1962, the Committee on Committees has found than those which may come from officers and that several actions are required on their part. members of the Association." They are as follows: The Board of Directors agreed, and the matter of preparing a list of persons qualified for com- Nominating Committee mittee appointments has been dropped. A change took place in the procedure for select- ing the Nominating Committee as stated in Article Special and Ad Hoc Committees X. Section 1. Upon Miss Kinder's recommendation, The assignment to the Committee on Committees the Committee on Committees shall give considera- covered actually two parts: I) that of interpreting tion to a regional idea for the Nomination Com- the meaning of a Special Committee versus an Ad mittee. This consideration shall be directed toward Hoc Committee; and 2) how these Committees a plan whereby candidates for election to the shall be listed in the Official Directory of Person- Nominating Committee be selected on a regional nel. basis and that such a plan include a scheme for de- While some compromise agreement in connec- fining and rotating the regions. The Committee is tion with the temporary listing in the Oficial Di- presently working on that recommendation. vectory of Personnel of these Committees has been SEPTEMBER 1963 reached and accepted by the Board of Directors, fined or might not be appropriate for an expendi- the main problem as stated in the first part of the ture of that amount of money at the particular assignment is still under consideration. The Com- time. Consequently, it might act both as a budget mittee on Committees will undertake a thorough and program committee since one cannot approve study on this problem based on the Roberts Rules. money unless one seemingly is approving of the ideas as presented. The Committee on Committees Public Relations Committee is presently reviewing the above mentioned discrep- ancies. A good deal of work needs to be done on this item, especially its relationship to the new ap- Goals for 1970 Committee pointment by the Board of Directors of a Public Relations Director at Association Headquarters. In its May 17, 1962 report to the Board of The Committee on Committees has initiated Directors, the Goals for 1970 Committee had sub- proper actions and plans to work closely with the mitted four recommendations, which the Board present Chairman of the Public Relations Com- approved. The Committee on Committees is pres- mittee. We feel certain that an acceptable solution ently studying these four recommendations for will be found during the 1963-64 Association appropriate action and implementation. year. Special Representatives

Photographic Reproduction Committee Special Representatives are listed in the Oficial Directory of Per~onnel.They are becoming larger While the Board of Directors at its February each year, and in many cases there is not sufficient meeting in Cleveland approved the change in the information known or passed along from one name to Document Reproduction Committee, the representative to another. It would be advantageous scope of the new committee is still under con- if a definition of their responsibilities be drawn up sideration by the Committee on Committees. comparable to those appearing in the Oficial Di- rectory of Personnel for all standing and special Personnel Committee and Personnel Committee committees. To do this the Committee is presently Chairman undertaking a review of all minutes of the Board There is confusion regarding the Personnel Com- of Directors and the Advisory Council for the mittee Chairman. The Professional Standards Com- past five years. We hope in this way to get a mittee definition and its membership, the Statistics better understanding and explanation of these spe- Committee and its membership, as well as the cial representatives' duties, which will enable us Personnel Committee note that the Personnel to recommend an intelligent scope and duty outline Chairman shall be on all three Committees. How- for these representatives. ever. there is conflicting description in the scope and membership of these committees. These need New Assignments to be brought together in order to be compatible. The Committee on Committees is also presently The Committee on Committees is presently re- reviewing and/or expanding or composing a defi- viewing these discrepancies and shall report on its nition for the following committees: Publications findings at the next Midwinter Meeting of the Committee, Scientific Meetings Committee, Con- Board of Directors. vention Advisory Committee, McKinsey Founda- tion Book Awards Program Committee, and possi- Statistics Committee bly the Goals Committee. It has been recommended that the Research Li- CHARLESK. BAUER brary Specialist of the U. S. Office of Education become an ex-officio member of the Statistics Committee. Also the Chairman of the Statistics Consultation Service Committee should be an ex-officio member of the The Consultation Service Committee met twice Personnel Committee. Since these recommendations during 1962-63. The Executive Secretary joined us somewhat overlap with some of the problems as at the second meeting during a trip to Detroit. spelled out above under Personnel Committee, the Committee on Committees is presently reviewing Chapter Activities the whole concept of these two Committees. The New Jersey Chapter continues an active publicity program. A mailing to approximately 175 Finance Committee companies with research laboratories and no li- The Finance Committee is wondering if in its brarian stimulated a significant response resulting functions as a budget review committee, whether in five consultations and the establishment of five it also should function as a program evaluation new libraries. committee. In other words, by saying no to some committee that is asking for a large amount of Newsletter money it is asserting judgment that the com- Association Headquarters mailed the first num- mittee's activities might not be well enough de- ber to Chapter and professional consultants on SPECIAL LIBRARIES March 18, 1963. Excerpts from 11 replies received CHAPTERCONSULTATION STATISTICS follou.: May 1, 1962-May 1, 1963 IN- CONSUL- QUlRlt S LIBRARIES Suggestions fm Mirnual CH.AFTER INQUIKIFSTATIONS PENDIYGSTARTLD Alabama 0 0 0 0 1. Add table of contents, statement of policy re Baltimore 6 0 0 0 revision, and invitation to submit suggestions. Boston 11 3 2 0 2. Eliminate detail. Seems cumbersome. Is system Cincinnati 2 2 0 0 too elaborate ? Cleveland 7 6 4 1 3. Define in detail statistical information desired Colorado 0 0 0 0 on inquiries and consultations. Connecticut Valley No Report Georgia 10 6 Others Greater St. Louis 4 2 1. Add current material to kit including informa- Heart of America 1 1 tion on job descriptions, cost of establishing li- Illinois 15 4 brary; standards. Indiana 3 1 2. Increase local publicity. Louisiana 0 0 3. Consider whether fee is appropriate when con. Michigan 3 2 sultant loses no salary. Minnesota 2 1 4. Improve internal communication. Summarize Montreal 4 4 action at Committee meetings in newsletter. New Jersey 17 7 New York 9 7 All suggestions are being considered and the Oak Ridge 2 0 Committee members urge that others forward their Oklahoma 2 2 comments. Philadelphia No Report As the Chairman completes her term of office: Pittsburgh 1 0 she wishes to express her thanks to each member Puget Sound 4 2 of the Committee for individual support and as- Rio Grande 0 0 sistance over the past two years. The Committee San Diego No Report members wish to extend a special "thank you" to San Francisco 4 3 the Executive Secretary for his assistance especially Southern California 4 3 in arranging for the mailing of the newsletter and Texas 5 2 tevision of the brochure. Toronto 7 2 Washington, D. C. 3 3 Recommendations Western New York 3 1 1. Manual. At a meeting on May 21, the Com- Wisconsin 4 3 mittee suggested the following revisions, p. 21 (In these statements additions are in italics.). EDUCATION:Subject specialization at the college * In some cases libraries had been started before level should be considered of particular impor- the consultation. tance, especially as it relates to the type of em- GERTRUDELOSIE ployment of the librarian or information ~pecialist. Standing of library schools attended should be EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board approved all the rec- considered also; EXPERIENCE:1) Intensity, that is, ommendations except the one for closer proximity the percentage of time given to organization and of its members. administration of special libraries or infornzatiofc centers. Convention 1963 2. Fee. At the consultation meeting during the 1962 Convention, it was voted to increase the The 54th Annual Convention of the Special Li- minimum fee from $50 to $75. btaries Association was the first occasion on which 3. Three consultants presented for approval. the Association has met in Denver. 1.374 members, -I. The Committee recommends closer geographical visitors, guests, and exhibitors went to 77 meet- proximity of its members to improve communica- ings, 19 tours, 23 business meetings, 26 receptions, tion and thereby improvement of the service. 43 meal functions, and listened to approximately SO papers. Once processed by the innovation of The attached tabulation represents an increase semi-automated registration and meal ticket sys- over last year. Twenty-nine Chapters report 133 in- tems, those in attendance mixed Association busi- quiries, 67 consultations, 27 inquiries pending, and ness and professional Division meetings, tours, 22 libraries started. workshops, and visits to exhibits with a measure To avoid delay in mailing this report, it is sub- of entertainment. mitted before receiving statistics from Headquarters Sixty-one firms rented 72 exhibit booths staffed on referrals and requests. by 112 representatives in an exhibit area immedi- SEPTEMBER 1963 ately adjacent to the major meetings. The lounge The attendance is recorded in the following t area established among the exh~bitsagain this year bles: furnished an easily accessible meeting place for friends and exhibitors to visit over coffee for two periods each day of the Convention. Alabama The Colorado Chapter. in following the direc- Baltimore tives of the Association officers, the Executive Boston Director, the Divisions and the Convention Pro- Cincinnati gram Committee, planned the mechanics of the Cleveland Convention. This Chapter functioned with 29 of Colorado its members on Convention committees under the Connecticut direction of the Convention Chairman, provided Dayton liaison to represent the Divisions from its mem- Georgia bers and from two neighboring Chapters, and of- Greater St. Louis fered suggestions in program planning to supple- Heart of America ment the activities of the Convention Program Illinois Committee and the Divisions. During the week of Indiana the Convention, a total of 69 Chapter members, Louisiana assisted by 76 volunteer librarians from the area, Michigan worked at various assignments. Minnesota The program planning was fulfilled by the fol- Montreal lowing persons in their respective capacities as New Jersey Committee Chairmen: New York Oak Ridge Convention Treasurer: Magdalene A. Hughes, Oklahoma US. Air Force Accounting and Finance Center Pacific Northwest Library Philadelphia Pittsburgh Exhibits: Jane Gould, University of Denver Li- Rio Grande braries San Diego Hospitality: Mrs. Maxine B. Beaton, Medical Li- San Francisco brary and School of Nursing Library, Presby- Southern California terian Hospital Texas Toronto Information: Mrs. Ruth M. Rogers, US. Air Re- Washington, D. C. serve Record Center Western New York Local Arrangements: Leota Herren, Research Cen- Wisconsin ter Library, Marathon Oil Company, Littleton Paid registrants Meals and Banquet: Barbara Hurley, Science and Members Engineering Department, Denver Public Library Nonmembers Printing: *George E. Halpern, The Martin Com- Guests pany and Mrs. Victoria S. Barker, Boulder Labo- Students ratories Library, U.S. National Bureau of Stand- Staff ards Exhibitors Publicity: Mrs. Eleanor 'VC'. Repass, Advanced Technical Library, The Martin Company DIVISIONREGISTRATION Registration: Mrs. Elizabeth K. Buell, Technical Advertising 36 Department, Gates Rubber Company Biological Sciences 58 Transportation and Tours: Mrs. Charlotte Ratcliffe, Business and Finance 100 Boulder Laboratories Library, U.S. National Bu- Documentation 46 reau of Standards, Boulder Geography and Map 15 Insurance 18 The Convention Chairman, the Convention Treas- Metals 45 urer, the Chapter President. and H. William Ax- Military Librarians 52 ford, George E. Halpern, Victoria S. Barker. Dr. Museum 23 Stuart Baillie, and Lt. Col. George V. Fagan served Newspaper 33 as the Convention Executive Committee. Picture 15 Publishing 17 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Science-Technology Military Librarians: Lt. Col. George V. Fagan, Chemistry Section U.S. Air Force Academy Library, U.S. Air Force Engineering Section Academy Paper and Textile Section Petroleum Section Museum: Mrs. Edith H. Throckmorton. Social Sci- Pharmaceutical Section ence Foundation, University of Denver Public Utilities Section Newspaper: Mary Ann Bohan, The Denver Post Social Science Planning, Building and Picture: Mrs. Laura Ekstrom, State Historical So- Housing Section ciety of Colorado Social Welfare Section Publishing: Glenn H. Johnson, Jr., University of Transportation Colorado Libraries, Boulder Committees Science-Technology: Jack M. McCormick, National The Convention Program Committee, function- Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder ing for its second year and chaired by Efren W. Gonzalez, and represented in the Colorado Chapter Chemistry Section: Mrs. Elizabeth K. Buell, by H. William Axford, provided "Continuing Ed- Technical Department, Gates Rubber Company ucation for Special Librarianship" as the 1963 Engineering Section: Kenneth D. Olson, Engi- Convention theme. This Committee secured a neering Library, Colorado State University, speaker, Dr. Estelle Brodman, Librarian and Asso- Fort Collins ciate Professor of Medical History, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, whose Paper and Textile Section: Mrs. Mildred K. speech, "The Pierian Spring," was the Convention Cowan, University of Wyoming, Laramie Keynote. The second general session program, also arranged by this Committee, was a panel, "Library Petroleum Section: Virginia Lee Wilcox, Arthur Education: A License to Learn," moderated by Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines, Grieg Aspnes. Four speakers, Dr. Stuart Baillie, Golden Richard A. Davis, Dr. Robert Hayes. and Claire Pharmaceutical Section: Robert T. Divett, Li- K. Schultz, were followed by an equal number of brary of the Medical Sciences, University of discussants. Divisions in many instances pursued New Mexico, Albuquerque the Convention theme and helped to sustain pro- gram continuity in their separate meetings. Public Utilities Section: Cynda Lou Buxton, Public Service Company of Colorado Divisions Social Science: Margaret L. Hayes, Documents Di- The major responsibility for Division programs vision, Sociology and Business Department, Den- rested with the 1763 Division Chairmen, or their ver Public Library appointed representatives, and with the Division Liaison representatives. The successful linking of Planning, Building and Housing Section: Mrs. so many of the Division meetings to the general Frances H. Busch, Colorado State Planning Convention theme involved the active efforts of: Board Social Welfare Section: Mrs. Bernice Stone, Fort Advertising: Mrs. Lois B. Hayna, Cameron and Logan Mental Health Center Jones, Inc. Biological Sciences: Myrna Barrett, Medical Li- Transportation: Myrtle A. M. Swenson, Colorado brary, Fitzsimons General Hospital Department of Highways

Business and Finance: Idris Smith, Business and Program Technical Department, Kansas City Public Li- One hundred eighty-eight separately scheduled brary, Kansas City, Missouri activities took place on the scheduled Convention Documentation: James G. Stephens, Science Li- calendar. The opening session reception on Sunday brary, University of Denver in the exhibit area immediately established the at- mosphere of the Convention and created a rapport Geography and Map: Irvil Shultz, Denver Branch, with Convention-goers and exhibitors that did not U. S. Geological Survey Library diminish in the succeeding days. The stimulating Insurance: Mrs. Barbara J. Conroy, Business Divi- general session presentations of the Convention sion, Denver Public Library theme were followed by successful Division meet- ings, which presented complementary treatment of Metals: Mrs. Jacqueline R. Evanger, Climax Mo- considerable substance. These included the News- lybdenum Company, Climax paper Division's "The Education of Librarians: SEPTEMBER 1963 Applications to the Newspaper Field"; the Metals once initial organization of the desks was estab- Division's "The Metals Librarian: How Did He lished. Get Here? Where Is He Going?" as well as the A somewhat more complex operation was ef- Science-Technology Division's panel, "Is Library fected by the use of Royal McBee Keysort cards Education Meeting the Challenges of a Changing adopted as an activity ticket in lieu of individual World?" and the session on "Continuing Educa- meal and tour tickets. Some confusion resulted in tion for the Life Science Librarian" presented by the marking of these prior to punching; this might the Biological Sciences Division. have been avoided by a clearer identification of In the field of information and documentation functions on the ticket itself and by a better set of retrieval, several Divisions programmed meetings instructions to ticket clerks and to the Convention directed at their particular interests. The informal delegates. We regard this as a successful experi- talks sponsored by the Committee on Government ment on the whole, and perhaps with further re- Information Services of the Science-Technology finement it might prove thoroughly workable as an Division and a panel on NASA programs proved to be of particular interest, as did the Advisory example of applying new methods to an ordinarily Council's decision to include in its usual meeting tedious and cumbersome operation. The measure a discussion of the Weinberg Report. For other of success in ticket sales was that lines at this desk topics, speakers on the Common Market, Marshall usually moved with efficiency. The most serious Sprague on the local history of the Colorado failure of this method proved to be in checks and Springs area, and Mrs. Lorraine Pearce on pictorial sales of tickets at the door for some events; here, research for the renovation of the White House at- breakdown was due to human rather than mechani- tracted audiences. Tours to the Titan Missile op- cal deficiencies. erations of the Martin Company, to the various Denver museums, to the Topographic Division of Conclusion the U.S. Geological Survey, to the Air Force Acad- Although this Convention was smaller than emy, the North American Air Defense Command, some, it has been good to know that it has been and other places in Colorado Springs, and a post- termed one of the more successful in its planning, convention trip to Boulder to the National Bureau its organization, and its programming. The local of Standards and the National Center for Atmos- Convention Committee feels most rewarded and pheric Research proved popular. An evening recep- honors with thanks and appreciation the work of tion hosted by the Denver Public Library was also all who helped to make it so. a success. PHOEBEF. HAYES The introduction of a program of superb enter- tainment by pianist and ragtime expert Max Morath at the Annual Banquet was a highly successful de- parture in Convention programming, as was the Convention Program Chuckwagon Dinner at the Flying-W Ranch, spon- Three years after its inauguration, the Conven- sored by the Metals Division. This affair netted tion Program Committee shows every sign of being $613 for the SLA Scholarship and Student Loan a permanently useful addition to the intricate Fund. mechanisms the Association maintains to insure advance planning and meaningful content of its Local Arrangements Conventions. As in the two previous years, the Local newspaper publicity for the Convention Committee has been able to work closely with was excellent, particularly during the Convention others in selecting a Convention theme and princi- week when a rotogravure feature appeared in the pal speakers well in advance. Sunday edition of the Denver Post, followed by A pattern is developing that permits the outgo- features and special stories on Convention person- ing Chairman to continue Committee work on the alities, including general news coverage. upcoming Convention after he has had the pre- The attractive and well-located physical facilities vious year to guide the Committee's planning for of the Convention hotel proved an important asset the event. Because of continuing arrangements with in the handling of the Convention. Meeting rooms speakers, this procedure seems most useful and al- were convenient and accessible and well located in lows each new Chairman essentially two years to relation to the exhibit area. concentrate on the Convention to be held in his Special mention should be made of the new city. methods in handling registration and meal tickets. Following this pattern, the Committee devoted The registration of Convention delegates was its time this year to consideration of the 1964 processed by means of a Friden Flexowriter and Convention in St. Louis. The bulk of the work was IBM print-out of registration lists in an effort to accomplished during the Midwinter Meeting in reduce manpower requirements at the registration Cleveland where representatives of the Education desk. This was moderately successful. In review, and Goals Committees joined with the Convention our conclusions are that the coding and produc- Program Committee in a thoughtful discussion to tion of the lists on time could have been improved. choose a theme and keynote speaker. It was de- Actual registration moved quickly and efficiently cided to adopt "The Special Librarian as a Creative SPECIAL LIBRARIES Catalyst" as the theme and invite Don R. Swanson, such information to the members of the Associa- newly appointed Dean of the Graduate Library tion. School, University of Chicago, to give the keynote The Committee recommended at the Associa- address. It was also agreed to carry out the theme tion's Midwinter Meeting in Cleveland that the in two General Sessions emphasizing new horizons name Committee on Photographic Reproduction be in the psychology, technology, and public relations changed to Document Reproduction Committee. aspects of special librarianship. There was a rec- This change was approved by the Board of Di- ommendation that another major session be spon- rectors. It further recommended that the definition sored by one or more Divisions. Subsequently, Dr. of the Committee's purpose be changed to broaden Swanson graciously accepted the invitation, at the the scope of its activity. The improvement of proc- same time expressing his personal satisfaction with esses in existence and the development of copying the Convention theme and emphasis. processes linked with electronic devices have Selection and invitation of speakers for the broadened this area of interest. Duplication is also other General Session of the 1964 Convention will of interest as evidenced by the number of in- be initiated after a meeting with Division repre- quiries received for information. This recommenda- sentatives at the 1963 Denver Convention. At that tion was referred to the Committee on Committees time, the St. Louis Convention Chairman and the for study. writer will review the extent of planning and The recommendation to appoint a special repre- scheduling to date and elicit reactions and sugges- sentative to the National Microfilm Association tions regarding specific programs contemplated by was approved by the Board. the Divisions to implement the Convention theme The following activities were carried on: and emphasis. Thereafter, completion of the Com- 1. Supplied information to the Editor of Special mittee's work for the 1964 Convention will be Libraries for publication under the title, "Develop- made by obtaining remaining speakers for the ments in Photoreproduction." other General Session. In the meantime, the Com- 2. Brought current the "Bibliography on Repro- mittee. under its next Chairman, will concentrate duction of Documentary Information" through its efforts on the 1965 Convention in Philadelphia. December 1962. The Committee has succeeded over the past 3. Handled a number of requests for information three years in meeting its responsibilities. Much of including some from foreign libraries. its success is due to the vision of its founders in 4. Maintained a file of current trade literature. providing a meaningful group and to successive 5. Attended several trade demonstrations of equip- Presidents who have continued to appoint knowl- ment. edgeable members to its ranks. Although the Com- LORETTAJ. KIERSKY mittee is always interested in comments and sug- gestions from any and all Association members, its own membership tends to reflect a variety of view- Education points and hopes about the Association which, In its report of June 1962, the SLA Education when heard in formal discussion, approaches a Committee made certain recommendations. During consensus of Association members. the year just past, some progress was made on It has been a distinct pleasure to work on this those recommendations, namely: Committee, especially for one year as Chairman. I hope that succeeding Chairmen will find the past Past Progress efforts of the Committee as useful. There is no 1. SLA 1963 CONVENTION.The theme of the doubt that the Committee can continue to con- Convention was "Education for Special Librarian- tribute its useful share to future Conventions. ship," and the slogan "Start Learning Again." While there are no specific recommendations, some Two General Sessions, various Division meetings changes will undoubtedly be made in the natural and the Advisory Council meeting focussed at- course of operations as more experience with the tention on the many changes occurring in the needs of the Association are evaluated. practice of special librarianship, the new demands EFREN W. GONZALEZ that the future will bring for librarians better prepared to cope with those new and greater de- mands, and the many problems these changes have created in the field of education for librarianship. Copyright Law Revision The Convention must be considered a success in No annual report. its aim to impress SLA members with our great need-as individuals and as members of a pro- fessional association-to concern ourselves with the education problem. This problem includes a Document Reproduction re-examination of the present formal programs of The Committee has kept current with new de- undergraduate and graduate training in colleges velopments in microforms and copying processes, and universities leading to a degree in librarian- including the related equipment and techniques ship; it also includes all the various informal both in this country and abroad and has supplied means working librarians may use to continue their

SEPTEMBER 1963 education to keep themselves up to date with new to it what we believe are the particular educational developments and new demands of our rapidly criteria for a successful career in special librarian- growing and ever-changing profession. ship. 2. SLA CHAPTEREDUCATION ACTIVITIES. This year We will continue to review and study educa- the H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award went to tional activities of SLA Chapters. With the help of the SLA Chapter that had the best program for the Chapter Relations Committee, we will try to helping its members continue their professional stimulate more Chapters to do what some Chapters !ib:ary education. Full details of this award can be have and are doing in all areas of library education. found in the report of the Wilson Award Commit- Some Chapters already have an Education Chair- tee; the many fine entries for this award show that man ; others have a combined Recruitment-Educa- most SLA members are acutely aware that new de- tion Committee. We can suggest that all Chapters velopments in librarianship call for renewed efforts do something similar to develop more aggressive at learning about new concepts, new methods, new educational programs. techniques, and reconsidering the basic philosophy In cooperation with the Professional Standards of special librarianship. and the Recruitment Committees, we should ex- 3. COOPERATIONWITH OTHER PROFESSIONALLI- amine thoroughly the highly controversial matter PBARY ORGANIZATIONS.Any efforts SLA might of education for sub-professionals. This would focus make toward improving the present methods of ed- especially on "short courses," which have a noble ccation for librarianship should be done in concert purpose but which may do special librarianship a ~iSeptember 19, with "Next, we must attain recognition of the infor- Katharine Kinder as Co-chairman with a repre- mation field and the basic part played in it by the sentative from management. Bart E. Holm, infor- special librarian. Primary efforts to gain this rec- mation systems specialist of E. I. Du Pont, will ognition must be directed to those in management, public figures who have recognized the need for speak on "Techniques and Equipment to Handle improved information handling but may not be the Expanding Information Flow." Norman Zach- fully aware of the ability of the special librarian, ary, Vice President, General Telephone and Elec- potential recruits to the profession, and those re- tronics Company, will follow with "Relating a sponsible for career guidance. Retrieval Program to Your Company Needs." "A continuing responsibility of the Association 2. Literature of Executive Management, an an- in which the special librarian has long played an notated bibliography of some 500 titles, has been important role is that of insuring the necessary compiled by Charlotte Georgi as editor. Other secondary bibliographic resources. With increased contributors are Eleanor Allen, Lorna Daniells, pressures recently, it has become more difficult for Esther Kalis, Audree Malkin, Shirley Margolis, the individual member to do as much on a volun- Marion Smith, and William Woods. The bibliog- teer basis as has been possible in the past. In the raphy is now in the hands of the Publications Di- future it may be necessary for him to participate rector and will be published in 5,000 copies- more in an advisory capacity; but his responsibility 4,000 to be presented to the delegates to the Con- cannot be abrogated. gress in their registration kits and 1,000 copies to "Finally, more knowledge is required to analyze be sold by SLA. the trends and changes suggested here and their 3. The Committee will set up and operate a effects. And experimentation is necessary in tech- management library at the Congress headquarters. nics to solve problems as they are identified. In Lee Traven is directing the work on the library short, a basic and continuing research program and bas made arrangements with library furniture should be carried on. and equipment dealers to provide a fully furnished "If the special librarian can accomplish these library. Elizabeth Gibson, assisted by Anne Mendel goals and encompass this philosophy, he has an and Mildred Breamell, with the cooperation of exciting and challenging future in a field that is basic to continued human progress." book dealers, is assembling a collection based on WINIFREDSEWELL titles in the bibliography as well as sample vertical file arrangements and a card catalog. Jeanette Sledge is developing a visual presentation of in- formation systems chosen to illustrate various tech- niques used in information handling and its dis- Governmental Relations semination to management. Some 35 volunteers from the New York and New Jersey Chapters No annual report. have been recruited to staff the library under the direction of Virginia Smyth. While we believe that our plans are progressing satisfactorily, we know that there is still much work to be done in the time remaining before the Headquarters Personnel Congress. No annual report. JANET BOGARDUS 432 SPECIAL LIBRARIES International Relations By the middle of April 1963 our Board of Di- rectors had considered favorably our participation This Committee has been concerned with a in this unique opportunity for SLA to work closely number of activities during the year, both through with an important management group. By May 8th correspondence and through the Chairman's repre- the SLA McKinsey Foundation Book Awards Com- sentation on other related committees (CNLA mittee had been appointed by the President. On Joint Committee for Visiting Foreign Librarians May 21st the chairman received from the Coor- and Jointly Sponsored Program for Foreign Li- dinator of the Program, Richard H. Viola of the brarians ) . Graduate School of Business Administration, Co- Association Headquarters has referred letters to lumbia University, the necessary information and the Committee (for reply or advice) from foreign criteria to enable our Committee to start selecting, students and/or librarians who wish to come to culling, and evaluating those eligible management the United States for work, study, or other reasons: titles published between July 1, 1962 and July 1, there have also been several letters from foreign 1963. librarians who have an interest in attending the Because SLA was late in being approached, the Annual Convention. McKinsey Committee has only until August 1, Tentative plans have been made for hospitality 1963 to select a list of from one to ten nominations to foreign librarians who will attend the confer- for the awards to be chosen by a panel of judges ence. Hospitality will include free registration, representing business and education. Announce- help in planning daily schedules, free banquet ment of the awards will be made to the Academy tickets, and one or two social events. The alloca- of Management's membership at the annual rneet- tion of a budget of $75.00 to the Committee makes ing in December 1963. Presentations of the awards the "free" items possible. Since the Chairman of will be made in January 1964, with national press the Committee is unable to attend the conference, coverage. the other two members of the Committee will Nominations will be accepted from: I) Academy share the responsibility of carrying out the plans. of Management members; 2) publishers; 3) re- The Chairman of the Committee is currently viewers of management books; and 4) members of serving as a local chairman of the British Librari- Special Libraries Association as represented by this ans Committee. The responsibility involves the Committee. The nominations take the form of: a) planning of a Washington itinerary and finding free concise (five to ten pages) synopses and critiques bed and breakfast for 5 nights for 137 British li- of each book, giving the author's concepts and his brarians who will visit the United States in Oc- rationale; 6) a summary of reviews by competent tober. Upon the Committee's request, the Board critics; and c) any other pertinent information or of SLA has authorized a contribution of $250 promotional material as evidence for the nomina- toward the expenses of the British librarians who tion. are travelling on their own personal budgets. Obviously we are working against time for a ELAINEA. KURTZ project that includes us as peers with an associa- tion representing the executive officers of American business and finance, government officials, and the McKinsey Foundation educators who staff the management and business administration schools in our colleges and univer- Book Awards Program sities. The members of Special Libraries Associa- tion have the knowledge and experience to partici- In March of this year Special Libraries Associa- pate with the Academy of Management in the tlon was invited by the Academy of Management nominations for the McKinsey Foundation Book to participate in nominations for the second MC- Awards Program. Kinsey Foundation Book Awards Program spon- We recommended that the Association members sored by the Academy. The Academy is made up of be encouraged to submit recommendations to the representatives of business and government admin- 1963-1964 Committee through the year. istration and professors of higher education who have made a significant written contribution to the theory and practice of management. The prime objective of the McKinsey Book Awards Program, initiated in 1962, is to recognize Membership books that contribute significant insights, ideas, The Chairman has attempted to carry out the information, or concepts to managers with major directions of the Board given at the meeting in policy responsibilities-the chairmen, presidents, Cleveland in February 1963. Copies of the "Man- and chief executive officers, who influence our ual of Procedure for the Membership Chairmen" economy and our culture. The awards are restricted were to have been sent from Association Head- to books that make an original and valuable con- quarters to Committee members, per request made tribution to basic understanding and knowledge of prior to the Board meeting. Unfortunately, two top management and advance the actual practice of members did not receive theirs, and additional such management in business or public administra- copies were mailed out at a later date. No word tion. was received from the other two members, al- SEPTEMBER 1963 though comments and suggestions had been re- gwge Aids; Directory of Busitzesr and Financial quested. Semices, revised edition; Dictionary of Report The member who has, so far, had an opportunity Series Codes, and SLA Dii.ectorj of Members 1962. to respond agrees with the Chairman's feeling that Two projects, Special Librarie~:How to Plm and the present Manual is too bland; we also believe Equip Them and Literatwe of Executive Manage- that certain procedures should be followed as they ment. are at the printers now. Two others are ap- are now set forth, and that a more effective Com- proaching the final stage: Picture So~m-es,second mittee would be composed of persons geograph- edition, and Advertising and Marketing Subject ically close enough for better communications. As Headings. Eight other projects are making satis- the Manual states that Chapter and Division factory progress. A total of twelve projects re- Membership Chairmen are part of the Association main active at the end of the year. An additional Committee, it should not be necessary to have project was submitted May 15, 1963. regional representation within the appointed Com- One project, Subject Headings List for a Trans- mittee. portation Libraty, was cancelled because of lack So far, no one has produced an outstanding of interest. Another project, Subject Headilzgs for idea for a "Sustaining Membership" brochure Audio-Visual IMaterials, was withdrawn because from the end of February to the end of May is new methods are being developed to prepare the not enough time for such a large project. We necessary lists. shall try to have some suggestions for next year's Six new projects have been considered by the Committee. Committee during the year. Two of these were Letters have been written to several individuals rejected because they did not meet SLA publication iisted in the Americ~~nLibrary Directory but not standards. Favorable Committee action has been in the SLA Directory. Several Chapters and Di- taken on the other four projects and preliminary visions have undertaken extensive campaigns, and approval has already been received from the Ex- there has been gratifying enthusiasm evident in ecutive Board. ;heir letters and reports. Details of each numbered project are given on EUNICEV. SALISBURY the accompanying chart. Two of our SLA publications, Guide to Special Nominating Issues and Indexes of Periodicals and Guide to For report, see Special Libraries, vol. 51, no. 9, Russian Reference and Language Aids, have been November 1962. p. 549. included in the outstanding reference books of 1962 according to the April 15, 1963 issue of Li- Nonserial Publications b~aryJournal. SLA can be proud of its publica- Four projects have resulted in completion dur- tions program. ing the year: Guide to Russian Reference and Lan- MARIANG. LECHNER

Nonserial Publications Committee Project Report as of May 15, 1963 Preliminary Project Title Autho~ Approval Action; Remarks Nicknames of Ameri- Gerard L. Alexander Rejected by NPC. can Cities. new edition. Copyright to be released upon request. Subject Headings List Transportation Division May 1957 Cancelled April 1963. for a Transportation B. Hickok Library Guide to Cartographic Geography & Map Di- Nov. 1955 Plan to request grant from Research vision Foundation Grants Corn- W. W. Ristow mittee. At least a year nec- essary for completion. Subject Headings for M. Lois Gauch Withdrawn January 1963. Audio-visual Materials A Guide to the Pub- John M. Bobb 1955 Engineering Section, Sci- lished Series of College ence-Technology Division and University Engi- will consider need for this neering Research De- publication at June 1963 partments in the U.S. meeting and report to NPC. Very little progress has been made. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Preliminary Project Title Author Approval Action; Remarks

Subject Headings List Sci-Tech, Chemistry Sec- Mav 1957 Very little progress. in Chemical Engineer- tion Still hopes to complete list ing Mary F. Pinches in 1963. Special Libraries: How New York Chapter June 1956 At the printers. to Plan and Equip Chester Lewis Them Sources of Insurance Insurance Division Sept. 1959 Have made substantial Statistics Elizabeth Ferguson progress. Estimated completion, 1964. Guide to Russian Ref- Rosemary Neiswender Published November 1962. erence and Language Aids (SLA Bibliog. no. 4) Directory of Business Business & Finance Di- April 1960 Published April 1963 and Financial Services, vision revised edition Mary A. McNierney Dictionary of Report Rio Grande Chapter June 1960 Published December 1962. Series Codes Helen F. Redman Lois E. Godfrey Development of Spe- Anthony T. Kruzas Sept. 1960 Making suggested revisions. cial Libraries for Amer- Expects to complete manu- ican Business and In- script by September 1963. dustry The Organization and John P. Binnington Sept. 1961 Half of the chapters are Management of Special completed. Estimated com- Libraries pletion early in 1964. Special Libraries: A Illinois Chapter Sept. 1961 Progressing slowly. Guide for Management Edward Strable Estimate first draft com- pletion December 1963. Translators and Trans- Translations Activities Sept. 1962 Total advance of $10,000 lations, revised edition Committee ($6,000 from Translations Frances Kaiser Center Fund, $4,000 from Publications Fund). Reim- bursement will be made from sale of the directory. Progressing satisfactorily. First draft to be submitted late in 1963. 159 Picture Sources, second Picture Division May 1962 Total of $525 has been edition Celestine Frankenberg advanced from the Publica- tions Fund. Nearing completion. 160 Forum on Abstracting Sci-Tech Petroleum Sec- Published by Petroleum Sec- . . . Petroleum . . . tion tion with NPC approval. Literature Lee Traven 161 SLA Membership Di- SLA Headquarters August 1962 Published December 1962. rectory, 1962 edition 162 Advertising and Mar- Advertising Division Jan. 1963 Total of $75 advanced from keting Subject Head- Edward Strable Publications Fund. ings Elin Christianson Expects to submit manu- script August 1963. 163 Literature of Executive Charlotte Georgi Oct. 1962 At the printers. Management 164 Supplement to Guide Metals Division Submitted May 15, 1963. to Metallurgical Infor- Elizabeth Tapia To update original publica- mation tion of April 1961. SEPTEMBER 1963 Personnel be called to the attention of members not regis- tered with the Placement Service whenever ap- No annual report. propriate. 6. The Placement Service will provide full inter- view and referral service during the Annual Con- Placement Policy vention. In the spring of 1961, the Placement Policy 7. Interviews on job placement and career counsel- Committee was reactivated to make a study of the ling will be scheduled by appointment at Asso- present state of the SLA Placement Service and to ciation Headquarters at other times whenever formulate a policy to be used in guiding the possible. The service will do all it reasonably can Placement Service in the future. to assist applicants to locate suitable positions but On August 4, 1961 a report was sent to the cannot assume responsibility for persons lacking 32 Chapter Presidents of the Association, outlin- adequate personal or professional qualifications. It ing the status of the placement service. Their cannot be responsible if the position lacks the advice and counsel was requested to help the challenge or future potential expected. Placement Policy Committee develop a program 8. As a general principle the names of applicants which would benefit the Placement Service at As- in the file will not be given to employers without sociation Headquarters. permission of applicant. Under special circum- This report made the following proposals for stances and at the discretion of the Executive Di- the Chapter Presidents' consideration: I) recom- rector this rule will be waived. mended that placement on a Chapter level be 9. Applicants will be removed from the file after strengthened by appointing an aggressive Place- a one year period. If an applicant has been unable ment Officer; 2) combine the position of Chapter to locate a suitable position during this period, Placement officer with that of Consultant; 3) he may ask to be reinstated. abolish the Placement Service; and 4) continue the 10. Members shall notify Association Headquar- Placement Service. ters and the local Chapter employment officer Responses were received from 18 Chapters or when accepting a new position. 56 per cent of the number contacted. 11. Part-time, low-paying, nonprofessional, and A summary and analyses of these findings were other positions requiring some library skills will submitted to the Executive Board on December be listed for the information of Student and 20, 1961. A recommendation was made that fur- Emeritus members interested in these types of vacancies. ther study was needed in certain areas and a final report would not be submitted until a future date. 12. The Placement Service will attempt to acquire A meeting was held in Washington, D. C. on information about vacant positions that have not May 30, 1962, and the problems and issues were been listed with the Service. discussed. From this meeting and the one in San 13. Chapter Employment Chairmen will receive Francisco, plus our survey, we were finally in a copies of the lists issued by the Service. They, in position of preparing a report to be used as a turn, will keep Association Headquarters informed guide for the Placement Service. of their activities and supply necessary information and statistics as requested. This report should not be considered as final, Recommendations and the Committee recommends that it be studied 1. Placement Service is valuable and should be and reviewed annually. We suggest amendments or continued. changes to eliminate any inequities and to make 2. This service should be continued as a free changes whenever necessary to keep abreast with service. the economic, sociological, and professional atmos- 3. Service restricted to members of the Associa- phere in the future. tion except: JOSEPHM. SIMMONS a) Executive Director has the authority to ap- prove service to others (librarians not members of EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors approved the Association who are interested in special li- all recommendations. brarianship) 6) Placement Service will cooperate with other agencies, except employment, whenever possible Professional Standards (assist in placing qualified librarians from foreign The Professional Standards Committee is pleased countries). to report significant progress toward the establish- 4. The "list method" will be used to notify ap- ment of standards for special libraries, especially plicants of vacancies. The list will be issued standards on objectives, services, and staff. These semi-monthly. represent the thinking of the Committee on these 5. When vacant positions require special compe- subjects and are based on work by the Professional tencies or when an applicant has unique qualifi- Standards Committee, by Division committees last cations called for by a position, a more direct year and by Chapter committees during the cur- personal service will be provided. Vacancies will rent year. SPECIAL LIBRARIES On September 27, 1962, the Committee met 1. Use of the Seal. The Committee suggests that in New York with the President of SLA and the seal be used as widely as possible, but within other individuals interested in furthering the the bounds of dignity. The Committee would ap- standards project. Among other things, it was prove the use of the seal as proposed by the Boston agreed to invite the assistance of selected Chapters. and Connecticut Valley Chapters. It is felt that It was felt that Chapter committees would have the dignity of the Association would not suffer if an advantage over divisional committees because the seal was used on pins, membership cards, sta- they would be comprised of individuals located in tionery, library displays, and Association, Division, a limited geographical area and thus could meet and Chapter publications. more readily for discussion. 2. Design of the Seal. The Committee suggests With the help of the Chapter Liaison Officer. that the design of the seal be changed to include the cooperation of the following Chapters was the name of the Association. An example of a de- obtained: Cleveland, Connecticut Valley, Michigan. sign is to be found in the proposal of the Boston Montreal, New Jersey, Rio Grande, San Francisco, and Connecticut Valley Chapters. 'Toronto, and Western New York. Chapter com- 3. Procedure for Use of Seal. The Committee sug- mittees were appointed by the Chapter Presidents, gests that the use of the seal be approved by the and the chairmen of these committees accepted Executive Secretary or his representative, and that assignments in each of the six areas to be covered. all materials bearing the seal be ordered and dis- The reports sent in by these chairmen were read tributed from Association Headquarters. When and criticized by each member of the Professional materials are designed for the use of a Chapter Standards Committee, and the usable material con- or Division, it is suggested that expenses and in- tained in them was combined with that which the come be assumed by the Chapter or Division. Committee already had. The Committee met in JOHN P. BINNINGTON Boston on April 13th with the purpose of produc- ing final drafts in those areas where it was felt EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors has asked there was sufficient material and sufficient agree- the Public Relations Committee to submit a new ment among the Committee members. design or designs for a seal for the Association. In the areas of budget, space, and collection no Until a new seal is accepted, the present policy on drafts approved by the Committee exist as yet, use of the present seal will continue. The Board although there is a considerable amount of mate- also moved that Chapters using seal stickers dis- rial in the files. The Committee feels more work continue doing so until a decision has been reached is necessary here, especially in the areas of budget about a possible new Association seal or device. and space, where it recommends that surveys be made to get an adequate picture of what the re- quirements are in various types of libraries. The Publications Committee has collected a list of representative In the absence of any specific assignments to the libraries and has done some work toward prepar- Committee and in view of the study of its com- ing questionnaires. position by the Committee on Committees, no for- As the Board is aware, an application for a grant mal action has been taken by the Publications Com- from the Council on Library Resources has been mittee during the period of this report. made. The application has yet to be acted on. Al- A preliminary study was made of the various though the Committee feels that progress has publications of Divisions and Chapters that have been made during the past year, it feels that ef- been sent to the Chairman during the past year. If forts to obtain a grant should still be continued it is decided that the Publications Committee should have a major responsibility for providing "with vigah," since even if the work can be com- continuing assistance to the serial publications of pleted without it, the funds will be needed for Association units, better communications will need implementation. to be established between the Committee and the The Committee wishes to express its thanks to editors of the serials to insure that the Committee the Chapters which cooperated with it; such will have a more representative sampling of the cooperation not only helps to expedite the project publications than is now available. but also provides grass roots support, which brings the Committee closer to the general membership. SAMUELSASS Recruitment Public Relations The Recruitment Committee engaged in a num- ber of major activities during the past year. Prob- In response to the Board of Directors' request ably chief among these was the preparation of a that the Public Relations Committee develop guide new detailed recruitment brochure as a replacement lines for proper and dignified use of the seal for for the out-of-print "Putting Knowledge to the Association, the Committee's suggestions are as Work." Written by Marian Veath and Herbert S. follows: White, with editorial assistance from the rest of SEPTEMBER 1963 the Recruitment Committee, from Mary Allison quested by the Recruitment Committee, for distri- and from Bill Woods, the new brochure was bution by the American Library Association as part planned for distribution at about the time of the of a series financed by Demco Library Supplies. 1963 Convention. With the publication last year The brochure will be published during the forth- of "What is a Special Librarian?" the Association coming Association year. will soon have two new up-to-date major recruit- As of May 7, 1963, 289 coupons expressing in- ment publications for distribution. terest in a career in special librarianship had been The project for a recruitment poster, initially received at Association Headquarters in response contemplated in 1961, was brought to fruition in to the brochure "What Is A Special Librarian?" 1963, with the publication and widespread distri- These responses have been analyzed to determine bution of a provocative 22" x 17" poster designed the areas in which our recruitment campaign is for use on bulletin boards and with displays. The achieving its greatest impact and to provide needed poster design and production were accomplished feedback to the Recruitment Committee for plan- by Committee member Mary Lee Tsuffis and other ning its future projects. A partial analysis of these members of the Connecticut Valley Chapter. statistics appeared in the May 1963 issue of the The John Cotton Dana lectures, initiated in Recruitmerzt Newsletter. 1961, were brought to their third successive year All coupons received at Association Headquar- with seven additional speeches by members of the ters have been forwarded to the nearest or most Association. In the three years of their existence, appropriate Chapter for direct contact. Chapter the Dana lectures have now been presented at 21 Recruitment Chairmen have been asked to submit of the accredited library schools. As an added annual reports to the Recruitment Committee. feature, this year's lectures were taped at the re- These reports indicate that the contacts are re- quest of the Committee, and this practice, which ceiving aggressive follow-up and that the program will be continued for future JCD lecture series, is achieving its primary objectives. Chapter Re- will make available at Association Headquarters cruitment Chairmen have been asked to docu- recorded recruitment lectures for loan to library ment all contacts and to maintain records to per- schools, Chapters, or other interested organizations. mit further inquiries and follow-up. These records The 1963 John Cotton Dana lectures include the will become part of the Chapter recruitment files following: and will be transferred to future Chapter Recruit- 1. "Special Librarianship, with Emphasis on Ap- ment Chairmen to insure continuity of effort. The plication of Automation to Information Retrieval," SLA Recruitment Committee will continue to an- presented at Florida State University on February alyze returns and responses to determine the ef- 8, 1963, by Charles Bauer. fectiveness of the program and to get indications 2. "Special Librariesane of a Species," pre- of needed changes in the program. sented at the University of Wisconsin on April 24, Many of the Chapters carried on active and sig- 1963, by Dr. Paul Wasserman. nificant recruitment programs at the local level. 3. "What's So Special?" presented at the Uni- While too numerous to spell out in detail, these versity of North Carolina on April 26, 1963, by included programs at library schools, visits from Robert W. Gibson, Jr. students, career day programs, exhibit booths at 4. "A Hidden Resource for Industrial Develop- national, statewide and local conventions, and co- ment," presented at the Peabody College on May operative efforts with guidance counselors. These 1, 1963, by Bernard Foy. efforts have been encouraged and assisted by the 5. "Putting Knowledge to Work-A Goal and a Committee. Reality," presented at the University of California, Voluminous correspondence was carried out by Berkeley on May 6, 1963, by Thelma Hoffman. the Committee Chairman and members with re- 6. "John Cotton Dana, the Business Man, and the gard to specific Committee projects and in response Telephone Directories," presented at the University to inquiries and suggestion. of Illinois on May 9, 1963, by Edward Strable. For the year 1963-64, the Recruitment Com- 7. A lecture to be presented at the University of mittee makes the following suggestions and sets Oklahoma in the fall of 1963 by Elizabeth Owens. itself the following tasks: Two issues of the Recvurtment Newsletter were 1. A continuation of the John Cotton Dana lec- written by the Committee Chairman and distrib- tures, and widespread publicity and distribution of uted in September 1962 and May 1963. These former lectures to schools, Chapters, and other issues carried announcements of new publications, organizations. lectures, and Chapter activities. 2. Further development and publication of the SIX additional Data Sheets were written by the Data Sheet series. New York Chapter Recruitment Committee. A 3. Further analysis and increased follow-up for total of 14 Data Sheets are now available for dis- the response coupons to "What Is a Special Li- tribution-all written by the New York Chapter. brarian ?" Additional Data Sheets, and particularly participa- 4. Investigation of the need for a new recruitment tion by other Chapters, are still required. publication within the range of "Make Your Ca- William S. Budington has completed the first reer in a Special Library." draft of the brochure on special libraries, as re- 5. An investigation, with the Foundation Grants SPECIAL LIBRARIES Committee, of the feasibility of preparmg and dis- revised definition of the Professional Award. tributing a professionally produced recruitment film on the special library profession, as initially recommended by the New Jersey Chapter. EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors approved 6. Close coordination with the Membership Com- the recommendation. mittee and the Education Committee to move to- ward meeting the requirements recommended in the Goals for 1970 program. Scholarship and Student 7. Continued investigation, in coordination with the Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Committee, ~oanFund of the feasibility of using stamps as a vehicle for recruitment and as a fund-raising venture for Sixty-five applications for the seven announced ?cholarships. $1,000 scholarships were received this year. The 8. Institution of an active campaign to secure pub- majority of the applicants were very well qualified, licity for the special l~brary profession and its many of them having worked in libraries at times recruitment needs through journal articles, news- and having strong motivation toward the special papers, and other media of public information. library field. The Committee was able to make final selections only after extensive consideration of HERBERTS. WHITE several factors in each individual's case. The winners of the 1963-1964 Special Libraries SLA Professional Award and Association $1,000 scholarships are: Michael Bor- owyk, Ottawa, Ontario; Robert Culp, New York Hall of Fame City; Patricia Ann Hugghins, Selma, Alabama; Recently suggestions for the Professional Award Louise Mary Orr, Montreal, Quebec; Anita Louise have been few, apparently because the statement of Pope, Cincinnati, Ohio ; Mrs. Judith Atkinson Scull, purpose seems restrictive. On the other hand, such Altadena, California; and Richard Edmund Wal- nominations as have been received reflect a lack lace, East Lansing, Michigan. of distinction between the Professional Award The seventh scholarship had been offered to and membership in the Hall of Fame. It appears Diana Gifford Cross, Colby College, Watemille, that more initiative must be taken by the Com- Maine, who could not accept, and her alternate mittee itself in collecting and evaluating ideas for was Louise Mary Orr, Montreal, Quebec, who ac- the Professional Award. But the time between cepted. the closing date for nominations and choice of the recipient is not sufficient for the necessary re- Report on 1962-1963 Scholarship Winners search. Letters were written in May to the three 1962-63 The Committee proposes the following redefini- scholarship winners who are now attending library tion of the Professional Award: The SLA Profes- schools. Replies were received from two of them. sional Award is given to an individual or group Mary Lou Woehlk, winner of the $500 Cavanaugh who may or may not hold membership in the As- Scholarship, wrote that she has enjoyed her studies sociation, in recognition of major achievement in, at Western Reserve University library school and is or significant contribution to, the field of librarian- now eager to put some of her learning into prac- ship or information science, which advances the tice. She appreciated the SLA scholarship because stated objectives of the Special Libraries Associa- it enabled her to spend all her time on her studies. tion. The timing of the Award shall follow, as soon Miss Woehlk has taken a job as cataloger at Cal- as practicable, the recognized fruition of the con- ifornia State Polytechnic College at San Luis tribution. Obispo, California. She states that the California The Committee also suggests that the incoming Chapters of SLA helped her, but that no special Committee request recommendations for the two library openings were available to her. awards at different times and that nominations Barbara Biebrich wrote that her year at the Uni- for the Professional Award be received in the fall, versity of Michigan would have been difficult, if possibly before the Fall Board Meeting. This not impossible, without the $1,000 scholarship she would enable the Committee to evaluate recom- was awarded by SLA. She has been working part- mendations, to consider ideas of their own and to time in the chemistry library at the University. do research on the value and impact of those con- She has taken a position as an Army librarian and tributions being given serious consideration. expects to be sent abroad for two years, at the end No further statement on the Hall of Fame of which she hopes to return to work in an indus- Award is recommended, pending a report from the trial library. . Awards Committee on the question of the recog- One 1962-1963 scholarship was offered to an nition to be given to Chapter and Division ac- alternate, but too late for her to accept it. By con- tivities. sent of the Board of Directors in January, this scholarship is still being held for Dorothy Ann Recommendation Lundeen, who wishes to enter the University of The Committee recommends adoption of the Wisconsin Library School in Septembr 1963. SEPTEMBER 1963 Contributions to the Scholarship and Student Loan Organizations Fund Standard Oil Company of Califor- The H. W. Wilson Foundation, Inc. has again nia contributed $2,000 to the Fund. Gifts have been Time, Life Broadcasting Inc. received from other organizations also, including Atlas Chemical Inc. $500 from Time, Life Broadcasting, Inc. Three E. I. DuPont deNemours & Co. Divisions have donated amounts, Science-Technol- ogy giving $1,200. The Pharmaceutical Section once again donated $200, and several Chapters have made gifts. Many memorial donations have been received, several of them being sent in mem- Chapters ory of George Halpern. Minnesota In January the Committee launched a "Dollars Oklahoma for Scholars" campaign to raise funds. As of April Western New York 30, 221 individuals had contributed $628.30 in Wisconsin this drive. Connecticut Valley Helen Loftus has supervised the building of a Puget Sound wishing well to be placed in a conspicuous area San Francisco to attract contributions to the Fund by those at- tending the Denver Convention.

Loons During the year two loans amounting to a total of $1,039 were granted. In January, William Business & Finance Baum, the recipient of a previous loan, declared Metals bankruptcy, owing $500. This amount reduces the Science-Technology funds available for loan for a period of several years. In order to restore a workable amount of $4,000 to the Fund, the Committee recommends that the Board of Directors approve the raising Sections of the loan fund ceiling to $4,500 from its present Pharmaceutical ceiling of $4,000.

FINANCIALSTATEMENT Total Contributions $5.892.06 SCHOLARSHIP& STUDENTLOAN FUND Total interest earned May 1, 1962 to April 30, 1963 591.02 May 1, 1962 to April 30, 1963 Repayments on loans May 1, Contributions 1962 to April 30, 1963 275.00 Individual members $2,152.06

Memovial donations SUMMARY In memory of Isabelle Bronk Cash balance May 1, 1962 $13,973.28 In memory of Franziska Schacht Less-Scholarships and ($100 from Picture Division) Student Loans ($20 from individual donations) (1962-1963) $4,039.00 In memory of Kathleen B. Stebbins Less-Bank charges 2.24 (from Eleanor Gibson) 4,041.24 In honor of Margaret Rocq (from Petroleum Section) Balance $ 9,932.04 In memory of Rose Boots (from Additions May 1, 1962 to April 30, McGraw-Hill) 1963 6,758.08 In memory of Rose Boots (from Mrs. Jean A. Guasco) Cash balance in fund April 30, 1963 $16,690.12 In memory of George Halpern Loans outstanding 3,710.00 (from Science-Technology Divi- sion) Balance in Scholarship and Student In honor of Thelma Hoffman Loan Fund April 307 1963 (from Petroleum Section)

Recommendation The Scholarship and Student Loan Fund Com-

SPECIAL LIBRARIES mittee recommends that the Board of Directors Since the publication of the first issue, sugges- approve the raising of the loan fund ceiling from tions and comments have been made by the Com- its present level of $4,000 to $4,500. mittee members for improvements and changes in future issues. Also Mrs. Holleman, Editor, has re- ferred several problems to the Committee for their opinion. EDITOR'SNOTE: The Board of Directors approved JOAN M. HUTCHINSON the recommendation. Special Classifications Scientific Meetings The Special Classifications Committee has con- Scientific Meetitzgs was turned over to the Spe- tinued relatively inactive, pending decision on the cial Libraries Association on January 1963 by the request for a National Science Foundation grant Science-Technology Division. In anticipation of to support the Loan Collection. Despite this, use this changeover. a committee was appointed to of the Collection has continued to increase, and give advice and make recommendations concerning the curators at Western Reserve University report this publication. that new inquiries for service are being received As a starting point, Mrs. W. Roy Holleman was at the rate of 25 a month. To reflect an anticipated recommended for the position of Editor, Scientific enlarged scope of activity and support, the As- Meetings. She accepted, and the planning began. sociation has approved a change in name from During the Washington, D. C. Convention, the Special Libraries Association Loan Collection of Committee met and drafted the scope of this pub- Classification Schemes and Subject Heading Lists lication with the intent to increase the coverage to to Special Libraries Association Special Classifica- include regional, national, and international meet- tions Center. The Committee's activities during ings, symposia, conventions, and colloquia of scien- 1963-64 will include planning for this increased tific, technical, engineering, health and medical, and support and the preparation of a new edition of management organizations including divisional the Guide to the SLA Loan Collection of Clasifica- meetings of national or international organizations. tion Schemes and Subiect Headi~gLists, now out It was suggested that information concerning meet- of print. ings be solicited from the associations. A letter MEREDITHS. WRIGHT describing the publication and a questionnaire were drafted to include the following information: name of organization, inclusive dates of meeting, city, Special Libraries state and hotel, name of meeting and number of In fulfilling its prime purpose, the Committee annual or national meetings, theme, registration fee, this year reviewed about the same number of man- sponsor or sponsors, address for additional infor- uscripts as last year, although the total number of mation, where proceedings will be published, lim- pages involved was almost 20 per cent greater. A itation of attendance, and additional information comparison of Committee actions for the past of interest. Several books, which list names and three years is given below: addresses of organizations, were to be used for compiling a mailing list for sending the letter and Mss Sub- Ac- Re- In Process questionnaire. mitted cepted jected of Review* The format for Scientific Meetings was suggested 1960-1961 7 3 29 44 0 to be: Part 1, an alphabetical arrangement by name 1961-1962 103 47 46 10 of sponsoring organization; and Part 2, a chrono- 1962-1963 98 40 48 10 logical arrangement and alphabetical under each * As of mid-May. set of dates. The first issue of each year was to be a compilation of all known meetings for that cal- The Committee continued to have deep con- endar year and succeeding calendar years. The other cern over the high rate of manuscript rejection. issues to be published in spring and fall were to Some of the usual reasons for this action are: 1) serve as supplements and carry meetings not listed unsuitable subject for use in the journal; 2) sub- in the first issue. ject on which there had already been much pub- The problem of obtaining information about lished in the journal and on which nothing new symposia and meetings sponsored by universities is offered; and 3) poor composition, grdmmar, and was considered. It was suggested that the Public format and rambling treatment of subject. Relations Department of the universities be sent The Committee decided to urge authors to con- the explanatory letter and the questionnaire. This form to a more standardized format and accord- was done but did not prove too successful. ingly a set of suggested instructions was published In order to make the transition of responsibility as a guide in the January 1963 issue. In order to more evident, a note of explanation was drafted stimulate a larger number of manuscripts of a still by Ethel S. Klahre for publication in volume 7, higher quality and with more suitable subject con- number 1 of Scientific Meetings, and the Com- tent, an editorial was prepared for publication in mittee approved the inclusion of this note. the November 1962 issue, and in March 1963 a SEPTEMBER 1963 list of suggested subjects was sent out to all the appointment of a project director and on May Chapter bulletin editors. In many instances the list 2, Joel Williams was offered the post. The ap. was published, but the success of this approach pointment will be for one year beginning July 1. cannot, of course, be immediately determined. In its present form the project will lead to the A suggestion from the New Jersey Chapter that development of a set of generally acceptable con- there be set up an annual Association award for cepts and the design of a program for the collec- the best paper by an SLA member was looked upon tion of library statistics for administrative use with favor except for the frequency mentioned. It "with its ultimate goal a coordinated series of was recommended that this not be made mandatory. periodic studies" covering public, academic, school, The matter was successively considered by the As- and special libraries. sociation's Publications Committee, the Board of As in the case of the earlier drafts of the proj- Directors, and the Awards Committee. The latter ect, four specialists are to be appointed to the will present a report to the Board in Denver. project staff for a three-month period. One of the The Committee compiled a list of organizations specialists will represent special libraries and the known or thought to provide library reference, Board of Directors will be called upon to make rec- bibliographic, or consulting services on a commer- ommendations for this appointment. It is not clear cial basis. Data from the 20 responses to the ques- whether the specialists will be appointed for a tionnaire were published in the May 1963 issue. continuous three-month period or at what time The Committee felt that there was just cause to during the life of the project they will be needed. raise the advertising rates for Special Libvaries. These questions of necessity must await the ap- Accordingly, seven recommendations were made pointment of the Director of the project and the known at the September 27, 1962, meeting of the development of his work program. The Board of Board of Directors, and all points were accepted. Directors will be advised as soon as firm informn- The new rates became effective December 1, 1962. tion is available. The second annual open meeting of the Committee It is expected that all sponsoring organizations was held on June 12, 1963, at the Denver Conven- and the Council of Library Resources will an- tion. Wider publicity had been given the meeting nounce the project at the same time. this year. RUTH FINE ROBERTG. KRUPP

Statistics Technical Book Review Index Activities during the year dealt primarily with The Technical Book Review Zndex completed continued consultation and promotion of the Na- its 28th volume in 1962. The Index included ab- tional Library Statistics Coordinating Project pro- stracts or excerpts from reviews of more than 1,200 posal. A new project design was presented at the books. Including the annual author index of seven Midwinter Meeting of the ALA-LAD Statistics pages, there were 204 pages. Since the Book Re- Coordinating Committee and was subsequently view Digert has revised its policy and includes adopted in principle, with revisions suggested at only scientific and technical books of interest to the meeting to be incorporated. the layman, it leaves the Technical Book Review The revised form was prepared by Joel Wil- Zndex as a valuable and unique tool in its cov- liams, Chief, Statistical Operations Section, Divi- erage of materials intended for the specialist. sion of Educational Statistics, Department of For many years TBRZ and the Carnegie Library Health, Education and Welfare, and was subse- of Pittsburgh have had an informal understanding quently accepted by the LAD Statistics Coordinat- concerning their respective benefits and responsi- ing Committee, the ad hoc advisory committee to bilities in the publication of the TBRZ. An agree- the proposed project and the Council on Library ment between the two parties was signed in Oc- Resources. tober 1962, in which the library furnishes space. As approved the present proposal calls for use of periodicals, and facilities. The Association. $8,000 more than the original budget approved in by this agreement, pays Carnegie Library $100 per principle by the Council on Library Resources, annum. The agreement was made for a period of which called for funding in the amount of three years, terminating September 30, 1965, and $48,970. As of this date the difference has, in thereafter to be renewed annually. part, been made up through the generosity of the The staff of TBRI consists of the Editor, An- National Library of Medicine, which has arranged thony A. Martin, and his clerical assistant. The to provide the project with 500 square feet of assistant works approximately 38 hours a month. space and basic furniture for a 12-month period During the summer months when she is not avail- beginning July 1, 1963. Negotiations are underway able, the Technology Department staff assists with with the National Science Foundation for $5,000, the location of the reviews. which wilt take care of the remaining amount. Al- The Publications and Public Relations Director though negotiations have not been completed, in- of the Special Libraries Association prepared a formal concurrences have been sufficient to warrant brochure on TBRZ. The brochures were mailed to SPECIAL LIBRARIES 600 public and university libraries with budgets The results were as follows: exceeding $25,000. It is hoped that this promo- Voting Members Present 278 t~onalact~vity will offset any dropouts caused by Votes No 4 1 raising the cost of the publication to $10 in the Voting Members Abstaining 16 United States and $11 for foreign subscribers, which Votes Yes (By subtraction of took effect January 1963. votes no & abstentions) 221 The TBRZ continues to show a profit as re- Number Voting Members Votes vealed in the following table: Needed to Carry (% of Ort. I, Ort. I, voting members present) 185 1960- 1961- Resolution Carried by 36 votes Sept. 30, Sept 30, 1960 1961 1962 Income $12,723.65 $13,191.20 $14,757.18 Expend- Translations Activities itures 10,407.23 10,691.21 10,721.43 First the Chairman wishes to acknowledge the Profit $ 2,316.42 $ 2,499.99 $ 4,035.75 strong support and interest received this year from In September 1962, extra copies of TBRI were the Committee members, NSF, OTS, the Head- sent to Association Headquarters for storage. quarters staff and members of the Association, the Translations Center staff, John Crerar Library, VIRGINIAL. GARLAND Federal Society of Linguists, American Translators Association, a number of commercial translators, Tellers and the many individuals who have written re- garding their problems and interests in this chal- An official count of the mail ballots for the re- lenging and stimulating field. vision of the SLA constitution and Bylaws was During the year the Committee and the Center's made at Association Headquarters on August 9, staff have followed up, by correspondence, many 1962. A total of 2,316 ballots were received. of the translations sources discovered through the Eighteen were eliminated as invalid and 2,298 Tradations Survey. As a result, about 60 new valid ballots were counted with the following re- donors have forwarded material to the Translations sults: Center in 1962-63. While some of these contrib- utors represent only five or less translations, the Yes Vote - 2,189 Committee is in the first stage of a threefold direct No Vote 109 - mail campaign to reach all members of appropriate The mail ballots for the SLA Officers and Di- Divisions, translations users and donors, and the rectors were tallied at Association Headquarters general public to assure the Center of a large and on May 15, 1963. 2,711 ballots were received, 14 continuing flow of English science-technology of which were declared invalid by the Committee, translations. leaving a total of 2,697 ballots valid and counted. In conjunction with Committee meetings the The following officers were elected: Chairman attended Board meetings in New York and Cleveland. The Committee itself met in President Mrs. Mildred H. Brode Washington in September 1962 with OTS and NSF representatives, and in Chicago in February President-Elect William S. Budington 1963 with Bill Woods. The latter meeting pro- Chairman, Advisory Council Charles Zerwekh, Jr. vided opportunity to tour the impressive new home of the Translations Center and the John Crerar Chairman-Elect, Advisory Council Library on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hutchins Technology. The move from Randolph Street was accomplished with a minimum disruption of serv- Directors Helene Dechief ice in late September 1962, although a temporary Mrs. Dorothy B. Skau backlog was accumulated at the Center. During On June 11, 1963 at the Annual Business Meet- and following these meetings, opportunities for ing held in the Denver Hilton Hotel, Denver, additional translations services were under in- Colorado, an official count was made of the voting vestigation, and at least two of these may be an- on the proposal to increase dues for Associate nounced in the near future. Members. The count was made by four members of the 1962-63 Tellers Committee with the assist- Contracts ance of three SLA members who offered their To prepare the Center for additional activities, services for this meeting. The number of voting the Committee, after appropriate study, presented members present was tallied by a Monitors Com- a statement of the Center's status and potential to mittee headed by Leota Herren, Chairman, Local the Board of Directors in September 1962. This Arrangements, Convention Committee. statement, accepted by the Board, acknowledged

SEPTEMBER 1963 that the Center performs needed services in col- Chairman, published in the Southern California lecting, processing, and disseminating translations Chapter bulletin brought response from far out- and related information but must also exert firm side the area, through Chapter bulletin exchange. national leadership in translations matters by be- Additional articles will be prepared for wider dis- coming a complete national union catalog of all tribution. existing English language science-technology trans- The brochure on the Center's services was lations, cooperating with all groups and individuals rewritten to incorporate Committee suggestions and actively working in this field, and offering an ex- was ready in time for the Denver Convention. panding program of services. The folder will be mailed to members of Sci-Tech, As a first step, the Association's contract with Biological Sciences, Metals, and Documentation John Crerar Library was modified to facilitate op- Divisions, and to others as appropriate. erational details covered by these recommendations. The Chairman cooperated with Southern Califor- Recently the Association's contract to supply trans- nia Chapter's and the SLA's Public Relations Di- lations to the OTS also was reviewed and divided rectors in two interviews. As a result articles into two different documents-an official contract describing SLA's translations activities appeared and a separate "agreement." Both contracts were in the Los Angeles Tin2e.r (June 9, 1963) and studied in detail by the Executive Secretary and the the Denver Po.rt (June 13, 1963). Committee before agreement was reached. Talks on translations activities were given by Frances Kaiser in the Atlanta area in March 1963, Exhibits and by Dr. Gingold at the December 1962 meeting Since June 1962, the two copies of the Transla- of the American Association for the Advancement tions center exhibit have been seen in: Miami of Science in Philadelphia. Beach (American Library Association), Atlanta (Price Gilbert Memorial Library, Georgia Institute Subcommittee Activities of Technology), Philadelphia (American Associa- Although the Committee cannot claim it offi- tion for the Advancement of Science), Kansas City cially, it is indeed proud of Rosemary Neiswen- (Linda Hall Library), Pittsburgh (ACS Pittsburgh der's published Guide to Russian Reference and Conference), Los Angeles (ACS Western Chem- Language Aids and salutes Frances Kaiser for her ical Show; Rodger Young Auditorium, and En- diligence and devotion to her subcommittee's cur- gineering and Math Library, University of Cal- rent project of compiling the second edition of ifornia), Denver (SLA), San Diego (San Diego Translators and Translations: Serz,ices and Sourcer. Public Library), and Washington, D. C. (Inter- Reports from these Subcommittee Chairmen follow. national Congress on Medical Librarianship). In ELIZABETHM. WALKEY addition, space is reserved in New York and Cleve- land. As Mrs. Nowak. or other members of the Cen- Subcommittee on Translators ter's staff, cannot always be present for discussion and Translations at the Translations Center booth, the Southern Cal- ifornia Chapter, at the Committee's suggestion, Origin of Project took over handling the exhibit at the Western The present project of compiling a second edi- Chemical Show during the spring 1963 American tion of Translators and Translations: Services and Chemical Society meeting in Los Angeles. The ex- Sources was initiated by the Special Libraries As- periment was so successful in interest and good sociation in the form of a proposal submitted by will generated among Chapter members and vis- the SLA Foundation Grants Committee to the itors that the information kit and plan developed National Science Foundation on Map 5, 1961. This at this time will be used in inviting future Chap- proposal remains the most complete statement of ter cooperation in other important exhibit areas. the purpose and procedure of the project, and all For the Denver Convention the Committee was subsequent proposals are based upon it. especially fortunate to have assistance from for- While action on the NSF proposal was pending, mer Committee members Jackson, Weiser, and the project was submitted to the SLA Nonserial Binnington, and others informed on translations Publications Committee on August 26, 1961, for matters: Margaret Pflueger, Richard Davis, and preliminary approval as a publication project, and Ethel Lyon, as well as present Committee members. approval was subsequently granted. On January 30, 1962. the National Science Publications and Talks Foundation notified SLA that it could not support The Committee, with NSF, OTS, and other As- the project. The TAC Subcommittee then revised sociation members cooperated in editing the taped the NSF proposal and submitted the project to the record of the Washington translations luncheon Translations Activities Committee on May 15. proceedings, subsequently published in the Febru- 1962. The estimated mailing list had increased ary 1963 Special Lihriiries. Reprints of this discus- meantime from the 1961 total to 2.500 translators, sion have been disseminated widely and are used in 150 pools, and 250 bibliographies. Compensation explaining the Center's work. for the editor was eliminated, and one part-time edi- Two open letters on translations, from the torial assistant was requested. The SLA Board of SPECIAL LIBRARIES Directors, at its meeting of May 27, 1962, gave the ber 27-28, 1962. The Board authorized a separate project preliminary approval, authorized the issu- fund for the duration of the project, transferring ance of a news release, approved the hiring of a $6,000 from the Translations Center Fund and part-time assistant, and authorized the Editor (Sub- $3,000 from the Publications Fund, with a stipu- committee Chairman) to charge necessary expenses lation that monies received from the publication to the Publications Fund. The exact budget was be repaid to the respective funds in the order not stipulated to allow for increases in the mail- named, and that consideration of reimbursement of ing list resulting from the news release. The Sub- indirect costs be considered at the appropriate committee was instructed to prepare a firm budget time. The Board also approved the appointment for consideration by the Board of Directors at its of Mrs. Lois M. Flury as part-time ed~torial as- meeting in September 1962. sistant to begin work on the project immediately. On February 14-16, 1963, a revised budget in Participation of Georgia Chapter the amount of $9,894.40 was presented to the The Subcommittee voted on April 14, 1962, to Translations Activities Committee and by it to submit the project to the Executive Board of the the Board of Directors. The increase of nearly Georgia Chapter of SLA for acceptance as a joint $1,000 resulted from: I) an increase in domestic project of the Subcommittee and the Chapter. The postal rates; and 2) an increase in the mailing Chapter Executive Board accepted the project on list, as a result of a special mailing to SLA Survey May 9, 1962, appointing the Subcommittee Chair- Respondents on January 18, 1963, as well as fur- man to serve simultaneously as the Chapter Com- ther replies to the news release. At this time the mittee Chairman for the project. Board authorized an additional expenditure of In addition to supplying volunteers to help at $1,000 if necessary, bringing the total budget to all stages of the project, the Georgia Chapter, at $10,000. its Executive Board meeting of April 1, 1963, ap- propriated $200 from the Chapter treasury, to be Current Status used at the discretion of the project chairman in Questionnaires were mailed to approximately any emergency which might develop in the closing 3,000 translators in the United States and Canada stages of the project. during the last week in April 1963, with May 31, 1963, set as the deadline for reply. To date, hun- Participation of the Georgia Institute of Technology dreds of valid replies have been received. although The Subcommittee Chairman (Editor), as a a surprising number of respondents have failed to member of the staff of the Price Gilbert Memorial complete essential elements of this carefully de- Library, enjoys faculty status and benefits in many signed questionnaire, necessitating some repeat ways, both tangible and intangible, on the project. contracts. Also a number of forms have been re- Office space and some equipment have been pro- turned by the post office as undeliverable for a vided through this relationship. variety of reasons, despite first class mailing. The The Rich Electronic Computer Center at Georgia Computer Center already has begun keypunching Tech generously offered, in a letter dated May 9, a test sample of these returns. 1962, its data processing and computer facilities, Still to be mailed are approximately 600 ques- in order to use the project as an experiment in in- tionnaires to national, international, professional, formation retrieval on the Burroughs 220 com- and other noncommercial organizations, the replies puter. The terms of the offer were that the Rich from which will be keypunched as received. Also Electronic Computer Center would furnish at no still to be keypunched are approximately 300 ref- charge professional help in redesigning the project erences to bibliographies of translations, although questionnaires, in developing a computer program, bibliographic data is nearly complete on these en- and in producing the final manuscript as a print- tries. Short annotations must be written. out from the computer. In return, the Special Li- The Rich Electronic Computer Center has begun braries Association was asked to defray the cost of designing the computer program, but this stage of keypunching, materials, postage. printing, etc. and the project will take several weeks of work with to guarantee the continuation of the project to the the Subcommittee and correspondence with Mary extent of updating the directory at a later date, Allison, SLA Director of Publications. preferably annually. Subsequent informal negotia- While the Subcommittee and its chairman are tions between SLA and the Center in September making the maximum effort to speed the project 1962, led to a commitment by SLA of its intention to completion, the sheer volume of material to be to publish at least one supplement, in order for handled presents a problem. Barring unforeseen the Center to be able to update its computer tapes emergencies, the manuscript should be ready for and retest the program, but the time of such sup- the Nonserial Publications Committee by Septem- plement was left indefinite. ber 1963, and the computer staff hopes to turn out a preliminary printout in August 1963 for final Budget Revisions during 1962-1963 editorial review prior to the official printout. A firm budget of $9,000 was presented to the This report would not be complete without a Translations Activities Committee and by this sincere expression of gratitude to all of the SLA Committee to the Board of Directors on Septem- members and committees who have helped the SEPTEMBER 1963 project with their service, advice, and encourage- this belief and offers a good example of practical ment. We are particularly grateful to Mrs. J. H. ways and means for accomplishing it. These fea- Crosland, Director of Libraries, Georgia Tech; tures made the presentation outstanding: Clarence E. Miley and the Computer Center staff; Georgia Chapter and Executive Board, Mrs. Lois 1. The program attacked the problem on four Flury, editorial assistant; Bill M. Woods and fronts: a) professional librarians; b) library assist- Mary Allison of the Association staff; and Eliza- ants; c) automation; and d) built-in future plan- beth M. Walkey and the Translations Activities ning. Committee. 2. The procedures are adaptable for other Chap- ters. (The other entries are also suggestive.) FRANCESE. KAISER 3. There was high participation by the Chapter membership. Subcommittee on Transliteration 4. Cost was very low. Since the Association does not formulate trans- 5. The program had excellent public relations and literation standards but, rather, makes recom- press coverage. mendations based on library and bibliographic 6. There are possible uses of the program for re- needs, the Subcommittee's principal activity this cruitment. year has been participation and cooperation in the 7. The format of the presentation was excellent. program of the American Standards Association as Seven Chapters entered the competition. They a member of its 2-39 Subcommittee on Translit- were: Cleveland, Montreal, New Jersey, Pitts- eration. The 2-39 Subcommittee met April 19 at burgh, San Francisco Bay Region, Southern Cal- Chapel Hill. North Carolina, with Chairman Jer- ifornia, and Wisconsin. rold ome. Discussion at the time focused on Cyril- ELIZABETHFERGUSON lic transliteration and romanization of Chinese and Japanese characters. Ad Hoc Committee to Study the Publications Fund H. W. Wilson Company As reported informally at the Board meeting of Chapter Award February 16, the Ad Hoc Committee to Study the The theme of the H. W. Wilson Company Publications Fund met during the Midwinter Meet- Chapter Award for 1963 was "Put MORE Knowl- ing and reviewed the outline of questions concern- edge To Work-Continuing Education for Chap- ing the Fund that had previously been prepared. ter Members." The amount of educational activity It was the consensus of the Committee that in among Chapters, as reflected in the entries, is evi- general the present management of the Fund is dence that education is considered of vital impor- satisfactory, although some uses to which the Fund tance. is put should be reconsidered. The areas in which The Committee gave the Award to the San the Committee felt the great problems lie are the Francisco Bay Region Chapter on the following pricing policy, the discount policy, and royalties bases: and payments to authors. The Committee members Since the Association is dedicated to professional agreed to study these questions further, comparing education and advancement, the Committee be- them with the policies and practices of other pro- lieves that a tie-in with library schools has great fessional associations. The Committee will meet again in Denver and will draw up recommenda- reciprocal advantages both to the schools and to tions concerning these policies and the uses of special libraries. It believes that Chapters can the Fund. It is hoped that an informal report can make a great contribution to the library schools by be made available to the Board before the end of providing professional experience, instructional the Convention and that it will be followed soon talent, and information resources, and that aca- by the Committee's formal report and recommenda- demic credit for Chapter educational projects is a tions. desirable potential. The San Francisco project strongly bears out SLA Sustaining Members The following organizations are supporting the activities and objectives of the Special Libraries Association by becoming Sustaining Members for 1963. These are additions to the Sustaining Mem- bers listed in earlier issues and include all applications processed through August 16, 1963. NATIONALPUBLICATIONS COMPANY STAUFFERCHEMICAL COMPANY Los Angeles, California Mountain View, California 446 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Sci-Tech Division Publication Award HE SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGYDIVISION'S Publications Award T was "bestowed upon the Rio Grande Chapter for their sponsorship of the Dictionary of Report Se~iesCodes, and to Helen F. Redman and Lois E. Godfrey for their outstanding joint editorship of the publication." This citation was pre- sented at the Division's June 13 Business Meeting in Denver. The Report Series Dictionary Committee of the Rio Grande Chapter, which undertook the project in 1959, was composed of librarians from Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, White Sands Missile Range, and Sandia Cor- poration. The Dictiomzvy lists 12,495 code numbers and letters identifying the technical documents issued by 3,992 United States government agencies and their contractors and similar foreign government agencies. Published by SLA late in 19'62, Mrs. E. Godfrey and Mrs. Helen F. Redman it has been enthusiasticallv received bv the scientific communitv. Mrs. Redman, who has been Head Librarian at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory since 1953, served as the Dictionary Committee Chairman. She received an A.B. degree from Wellesley College and a B.S. in L.S. from Western Reserve University. Prior to her pres- ent position, she worked in the libraries of Howard and Western Reserve Universities. Working closely with her on the Dictiotzary as well as on the job is Mrs. Godfrey, Assistant Head Librarian at LASL. Mrs. Godfrey attended the University of Michigan and received her B.S. (L.S.) from Simmons College. Before her move to New Mexico, she was Reference Librarian at Johns-Manville Research Center in New Jersey. Geography and Map Division Award R. WALTERW. RISTOW,Chief of the Map Division at the D Library of Congress, received the SLA Geography and Map Division's 1963 Award for Outstanding Achievement. The award, which was presented at the Division's June loth Business Meeting in Denver, recognized Dr. Ristow's contribu- tions to the fields of geography, historical cartography, and map librarianship. Dr. Ristow has spent more than a quarter of a century in service as a map librarian-first, from 1937-1946 with the New York Public Library, with the war years spent in the Mili- tary Intelligence Division of the War Department, and since then with the Map Division at the Library of Congress. His achievements are too numerous to be listed in detail, but he is Walter W. Ristow widely acknowledged as a bibliographer in the areas of three- dimensional maps, aviation cartography, marketing and road maps, and historical car- tography; a long-time representative to the Board on Geographic Names; a scholarly student of American cartography; and author of works on Christopher Colles, John Melish, and early American atlases, among many others; and as an adviser of geographers and librarians in need of help. He is currently the editor of the Division's publication project, "Guide to Cartographic Research." Dr. Ristow received his B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in his native state and taught geography for several summers while obtaining an M.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from Clark University. SEPTEMBER 1963 447 Special Representatives' Reports

By the Association's Special Representatives American Association for the hard-to-find titles. The Committee is pleased that it was instrumental in encouraging final prepara- Advancement of Science tion of the list. Reprints will be supplied to all pharmacy college libraries with Committee funds. The SLA Representative attended the annual A second publication appearing soon in the meeting of the American Association for the Ad- Americdn Journal of Pharmaceutical Education is vancement of Science held in Philadelphia, De- "Selected List of Monographs in Pharmacy" by cember 26-30, 1962, and participated in the Coun- Mrs. Martha Jane Zackert and C. Larry Thomas- cil meetings. SLA members may be interested in son. This is the second edition, in somewhat re- knowing that the Section on Information and Com- vised form, of an earlier list of recommended munication of AAAS, which was inaugurated in books, reference works, and periodicals for phar- 1961 and of which SLA is a charter member, now macy college libraries. The new list excludes pe- numbers 17 professional societies as associated riodicals. The citations are those selected from groups. Plans are being made for a Section pro- recommendations by some 600 pharmacy college gram emphasizing interdisciplinary communica- personnel. Mrs. Zackert of MLA agreed to under- tions at the AAAS convention in Cleveland, De- take this revision while still a member of the cember 26-30, 1963. Committee and librarian at Southern College of JOHN SHERROD Pharmacy. Assistance and criticism have been of- fered by other Committee members. Reprints of this list will also be provided by the Committee American Association of to pharmacy college libraries. Philip Rosenstein, Brooklyn College of Phar- Colleges of Pharmacy macy, has prepared the first two numbers of the Committee's Newsle8tes, which is sent to AACP personnel and libraries. Containing items and re- Joint Committee on Pharmacy ports on a variety of subjects, its pleasant, in- College Libraries formative style and attractive appearance have earned a cordial reception, with requests for more Composed of two members each from the Amer- detailed information on some reported items. ican Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Medical American Standards Association Sectional Com- Library Association, and SLA, this Committee will mittee 2-39 on Library Work and Documentation meet on June 15 for the first time in several years. now has under consideration the important "Pro- With the stimulation provided by personal ex- posed American Standard for Periodical Title Ab- change of ideas, renewed efforts will be made to breviations," which was completed after several carry out or initiate new projects of interest to years of effort by a subcommittee of 2-39. Mrs. pharmacy in general. Several possible projects are Mildred Clark has been the AACP representative under discussion. on both committees since AACP became a member The year 1963 marks the culmination of two of the parent committee. Eloise Givens served as a projects several years in process, the first being Subcommittee member and both Section members publication of the "World List of Pharmacy Pe- actively assisted in the several stages of preparing riodicals" by Mrs. Theodora Andrews and Wini- the standard. Since a number of procedural steps fred Sewell in the February issue of Amerimn are necessary before the standard is accepted by Jou~ndof Ho~pitulPhiwmucy. This superb exam- ASA. it is impossible to say when, or even if, this ple of bibliographic workmanship includes 911 publications, approximately 650 of them current, will become an American Standard and eligible for including standard scientific journals, business and submission to the International Standards Organi- professional types of publications, papers of official zation for adoption. Committee members feel this and legal bodies, news and trade magazines, ab- is a workable standard, which effects a compro- stract and review journals, and lists of new drugs. mise between currently used methods of abbreviat- Both C'nlislrd Dmgs and Copnip are included. ing the elements of periodical titles, a fact that Covering, as it does. the whole field of pharmacy should make it acceptable to those concerned with publications, scholarly as well as less weighty the orderly prcsentntion and use of such abbrevia- publications, this list has attracted world-wide at- tions. tention. It is helpful in locating obscure journals EFRENW. GONZALEZ and publications of trade organizations or similar MILDREDP. CLARK SPECIAL LIBRARIES PHS-3 Subcommittee on Docun~ents Readable American Documentation without Optical Devices has resolved or defined Institute the areas in which it will work. It will concern itself with "production of images by action of No annual report. light." or radiant energy. American Library Association Library Technology Project ASA 2-39 Sectional Committee Advisory Committee on Library Work and No annual report. Documentation The American Standards Association Sectional Resources and Technical Services Committee 2-39 on Library Work and Docu- Division, Book Binding Committee mentation held two all-day meetings during the past year, on November 2, 1962, and April 5, No annual report. 1963. Under the chairmanship of Robert E. King- ery, of the New York Public Library, with the as- sistance of Marguerite von Geyr, Administrative Statistics Coordinating Committee Associate, the group with its 13 subcommittees has See Statistics Committee report, page 438 of been very active. Thirty-one organizations are now this issue. represented on 2-39, and members of the Special Libraries Association are playing key roles. Among the achievements of the past year was American Standards the completion of the long-awaited Proposed Association American Standards for Periodical Title Abbrevia- tions, prepared by the subcommittee headed by James L. Wood of Chemical Abstvacts, represent- ASA PH-5 Sectional Committee on ing the American Chemical Society. This excellent and impressive work is now being voted upon by Photographic Reproduction members of the 2-39 Committee and will shortly of Documents go to the Miscellaneous Standards Board of the ASA with the recommendation that it be adopted Two meetings of PH-5 were held. Actions at the and published as an American Standard. The docu- meetings were as follows: ment consists of a statement on purpose. scope, and 1. November 16, 1962. needed definitions, sets forth 16 rules, and con- The Proposed American Standard Dimensions of tains a list of recommended standard abbreviations Paper Sheets for Photo-Reproduction of Docu- for approximately 2,500 of the most common title ments, PH5.2/72, Revision of PH5.2-1957, was words. submitted to the sponsor with a recommendation Dr. Jerrold Orne of the University of North for favorable action. Carolina Library and his Subcommittee on Trans- PH5-1 Subcommittee on Micro-transparencies literation have been busy following the assign- analyzed the merits of the micromire, which is a ments received at the International Standards Or- test object proposed by the International Standards ganization, Technical Committee 46, meeting held Organization. It would be used principally in in Paris last summer. Work is in progress on re- Europe to find out if film is legible. vising the existing IS0 International Standard for PH5-2 Subcommittee on Micro-opaques sub- the Transliteration of Cyrillic Characters in addi- mitted a proposed American Standard Specifica- tion to preparation of a working draft on the ro- tion for Micro-opaque Readers, PH5.7 for letter mnnization of Japanese, a responsibility assigned ballot of the sectional committee for approval and the American delegation. Meanwhile a working transmission to the sponsor with a recommendation team of specialists in Chinese is being assembled, for favorable action. pending the receipt of the initial working papers 2. May 24, 1963. PH5-1 Subcommittee on Micro-transparencies on this project from France, whose delegation was analyzed problems in regard to resolution targets, given the task of drafting standards on the roman- proposed standards for readers for microfiche and ization of Chinese. aperture cards, standards for processors, and meth- Dr. Orne's Subcommittee on Terminology, ods of reader luminance. which he had represented in 1960 at an IS0 meet- PH5-2 Subcommittee on Micro-opaques is work- ing in Berlin, continued to serve as a referral ing on a standard for micro-opaques, considering group, and the third draft proposal on Naming quality requirements for micro-opaques and image Principles, stemming from the Berlin meeting, has location in microfiche. now been approved. SEPTEMBER 1963 Dr. Frank L. Schick of the Library Services Branch, Office of Education, Chairman of the Sub- Conference on Science committee on Library Statistics, which has been in Manuscripts close contact with the SLA Statistics Committee as well as those of other library organizations, re- No annual report ports that the Council on Library Resources has undertaken to fund the Library Statistics Coordi- Council for International nating Project proposed by these joint groups. The chairmanship of the Machine Coding Sub- Progress in Management committee passed from Miss Mandalay Grems, This report is submitted for information and representing the Association for Computing Ma- contains no recommendations. chinery, to Dr. Irving Sher, representing the Amer- The Council for International Progress in Man- ican Documentation Institute. agement is considered the only United States man- A new subcommittee under the chairmanship of agement association devoted entirely to encourag- Dr. Karl Baer, representing the National Associa- ing better management internationally. As of tion of Home Builders, is at work on proposed January 30, 1963, its membership consisted of 17 standards for trade catalogs. associations, 59 business firms, and 22 educational Other subcommittees include the international, institutions. proof corrections, bibliographical references, ab- The membership application of Special Libraries stracts, layout of periodicals, finance, and indexing. Association was accepted by the CIPM Board of An invitation to hold the next IS0 meeting in Directors on June 20, 1962. Associations are Class the United States has been declined, due to the A members of the Council and the representative costs of travel. Hungary is to be the host country. for each serves as a Director. Members from the Special Libraries, in its February 1963 issue, industrial and educational fields are represented carried an article entitled "2-39 Today: Its Work proportionately on the Board. and Its Subcommittees." This material was re- Four Board meetings and the Annual Member- printed and has been widely distributed. A release, ship Meeting were attended. On the occasion of News about 2-39, condensed from this article was the Council's yearly banquet, SLA was most ably prepared and sent to all library periodicals this represented by Esther S. Kalis. spring. A major interest this year was preparation for ANNEJ. RICHTER the CIOS (ComitC. International de l'organisation Scientifique) 13th International Management Con- ASA 2-39 Subcommittee gress, September 16-20 in New York City. CIPM is the United States affiliate of CIOS and host for on Bibliographic References the Congress at which an attendance of approx- No annual report imately 4,000 is expected. On April 17. 1963 a total of 717 registrations had been entered. Of these, 407 were from the United States and 310 ASA 2-39 Subcommittee on from abroad. The budget for the Congress is based on 2,500 attendees. It should be noted here that Machine Coding the activities of the Special Libraries Association The Subcommittee did not meet at all from July 1, in contribution toward the success of the Congress 1962 to June 30, 1963. are considered extremely valuable by CIPM. The C. D. GULL details of SLA activities are more appropriately reported by the Committee directly responsible. ASA 2-39 Subcommittee The CIPM program conducted under contract with the Agency for International Development on Transliteration consisted mainly of four-man teams holding six- See Subcommittee on Transliteration report, week seminars in foreign countries. In addition, page 442 in this issue. 20 individuals recruited by the Council supervised projects abroad which extended over periods of from one week to six months. Change in the tech- ASA 2-84 Sectional Committee nical assistance program from industrial countries to the developing nations of Latin America, Asia, on Glossary of Environmental and the Middle East reduced the number of study Terminology programs arranged for visitors to the United States. A 1963 contract with AID is in effect but No annual report. the amount of money involved is smaller because of reduced work load. ASA 2-85 Sectional Committee on The Council also arranged study programs for 21 groups coming to the United States under their Library Equipment and Supplies own company's or government's sponsorship. Next No annual report year, eight groups are scheduled to come from SPECIAL LIBRARIES West Germany and five from West Berlin. Ar- CNLA Joint Committee on rangements for groups organized by the Japanese Management Association are anticipated. Library Work as a Career In the coming year, attention of the SLA Repre- sentative to CIPM will be given to investigation of No meetings of the Committee were held of ways in which our Association interests may be which the SLA representative was informed, and coordinated further with the several aspects of no communication from the Chairman or any other this international management program. Sugges- member was received. A meeting of the Committee tions will be most welcome. has now been scheduled during the ALA Conven- tion in July 1963, and the Representative will at- tend this meeting. HERBERTS. WHITE Council of National Library Associations Federation of Management The representatives attended meetings of the Organizations CNLA on December 3, 1962, and May 3, 1963, the Executive Director serving his term as Secretary- The representatives attended the September 7, Treasurer. 1962 and the April 23, 1963 meetings of FOMO. The Committee on Placement, of which Mr. The Executive Secretary served as Treasurer and Woods is Chairman, recommended the following, First Vice-president during 1962-63. which were approved: It was proposed that FOMO consider establish- 1. CNLA should establish a Joint Committee on ing a Management Week on an annual basis, with Placement to study and recommend the best possi- each society having its own program but common ble method for the needs of the profession for registration. placement. President Clarence E. Davies suggested that all 2. CNLA should authorize the Chairman of CNLA societies currently on the paid membership list to seek funds for use of the Placement Committee carefully review their plans for the future in edu- to support its study. cation as one of the principle objectives of FOMO 3. CNLA should consider sponsorship of a Place- is aimed at education and research. ment Seminar to be attended by several appropriate Also, see the report of the Executive Secretary, representatives of member associations and other page 397 in this issue. invited, interested guests. ETHEL S. KLAHRE For reports of other CNLA Joint Committees, BILL M. WOODS see below. EUGENEB. JACKSON BILL hl. WOODS Interagency Council on Library Tools for Nursing CNLA Joint Committee for The role of the Interagency Council on Library Visiting Foreign Librarians Tools for Nursing, heretofore an advisory body only for the organizations concerned with nursing No annual report. and nursing education, changed in 1962-63 when it undertook its first independent activity-the CNLA Joint Committee on planning and presentation of a program and an Exhibit Managers exhibit on library service at the 1963 biennial con- vention of the National League for Nursing. The The Committee met in February during the NLN acted on a suggestion from the Interagency ALA Midwinter meeting. No recommendations Council when it allotted time for the program, were made. Thursday, May 16, 2 p.m., and donated a booth BILL hl. WOODS in an excellent location. The theme for both pro- gram and exhibit was "Libraries: A Force for Better Nursing Care." The program was a panel CNLA Joint Committee on discussion in which the participants, two library Library Education and two nursing representatives, were: Gertrude No annual report. Annan, Librarian of the New York Academy of Medicine; Mrs. Earbara Coe Johnson, Director of Libraries, Harper Hospital, Detroit; Dorothy Tay- CNLA Joint Committee on Library lor, Supervisor of Surgical Specialties, Hartford Problems Related to the (Connecticut) Hospital; and Veronica Lyons, As- sociate Dean, Cornell University School of Nurs- Peace Corps ing. The moderator was Lucy D. Germain, Execu- No annual report. tive Director, the American Journal of Nursing SEPTEMBER 1963 Company. The exhibit emphasized selected refer- ANA-NLN Film Service. Miss Linden stated that ence tools important to nursing libraries with the cost would be $35,000-$40,000. The first step, books and photoenlargements of sample pages; a to be taken before funds can be solicited, is the more comprehensive list of "Reference Tools for making of an outline of content. Miss Linden Nursing" was available for distribution, and a asked that members of the Interagency Council member of the Interagency Council was on duty serve with film experts on an advisory committee throughout each day to meet the public. Because to assist the ANA-NLN Film Service. It should the Interagency Council has no funds or budget, be possible to make progress on the outline before the modest expenses of the exhibit were defrayed the Interagency Council meets in October 1963. by contributions of the Council members or the MRS. JACQUELINEW. FELTER organizations they represent. The Biological Sci- ences Division of SLA was one of the contributors. According to custom, the Interagency Council Interassociation Hospital met twice during 1962-63, on October 19, 1962 and February 8, 1963, at National Nursing Head- Libraries Committee quarters, New York City. The Special Libraries No annual report Association was not represented at the October 1962 meeting. Mrs. Jacqueline W. Felter, Director, Union Catalog of Medical Periodicals, Medical Li- International Federation of brary Center of New York, represented SLA at the Library Associations February 1963 meeting. Mrs. Felter succeeded Mrs. Barbara Coe Johnson as SLA representative in Committee on Library Building January 1963. No annual report. At the February 8 meeting the items on the agenda, in addition to the plans for participation in the NLN 1963 convention, were: Joint Committee on 1. American Nurses' Association biennial conven- Union List of Serials tion, April 1964. It is anticipated that the Inter- agency Council will have another opportunity to The work on the third and final edition of the make a library exhibit and to participate in plan- Utzio~Li.v of Sevials is progressing according to ning a library program. It is hoped that an earlier the time schedule previously set up. A first print- start will enable the Council to plan a more elab- ing of 3,000 to 3,500 copies is anticipated by the orate exhibit than that in 1963. If such activities H. W. Wilson Company. The analysis of the funds are to continue, sources of funds will have to be of the Committee indicates that they should be suf- found. ficient to finish the project. 2. Librarjj Handbook for Schools of Nursing (Na- IDRISSMITH tional League for Nursing). Copies of the second edition, 1963, in stock are sufficient for the time Joint Libraries Committee on being. No revision is planned in 1963, and the Handbook has no priority in the NLN publishing Fair Use in Photocopying program. The book is still generally useful, except On March 10, 1961, the Committee issued its in sections where publication dates and prices are Report on Single Copies. This report was subse- no longer current. quently published in the September 1961 issue of 3. Nursing Studies Index. Virginia Henderson, the American Libvary Association Bulletin and Editor, reported that volume 4, 1957-1959, of this was adopted by the American Library Association, comprehensive, retroactive index to nursing litera- the American Association of Law Libraries, the ture will be published by Lippincott in April 1963 Association of Research Libraries, and by the and will cost $10. Though the last of a four-vol- Special Libraries Association. In the intervening ume set, volume 4 is the first to appear. Volumes period the Committee has followed further devel- 1-3 are being compiled and will be published later. opments, has discussed the matter with representa- 4. Film on research and nursing. Kay Linden, the tives of publishers and with counsel to the American Nurses' Association film specialist, re- Committee, and now recommends that its con- ported that a survey of educational films showed stituent associations approve an amended state- that there is not an adequate film about research ment of policy reading as follows: and nursing, including utilization of library re- The Committee recommends that it be li- sources. The survey was conducted as a result of brary policy to fill an order for a single a recommendation of the Interagency Council in photocopy of any published work or any 1960 that such a film be produced. It is expected part thereof. Before making a photocopy of that the American Nurses' Association and the an entire work, a library should make an National League for Nursing will be willing to effort by consulting standard sources to de- sponsor such a film and attempt to obtain funds termine uhether or not a copy is available for it. The production is being turned over to the through normal trde channels. SPECIAL LIBRARIES The amendment to the report is the italic sen- National Academy of tence. This has been approved by the Committee. Your representative would recommend affirmative Sciences-National Research action by the Board of Directors on the amend- ment. Council, Advisory Board of The Committee proposes the amendment in fair- ness to publishers who have authorized agents to the Office of Critical Tables make and distribute photocopies of their copy- The Consolidated Index of Property Values: righted out-of-print works. Pb3.sicul Cbemistr) and Thermodynamics, men- CHESTERM. LEWIS tioned in last year's report, was issued in 1962 in hard cover as NAS-NRC Publication 976 ($6). It covers the physicochemical, thermodynamic, and EorroR's NOTE: The Board of Directors approved thermochemical properties of 12,000 substances, the recommendation. elements, and their compounds and alloys. Use of the "Alphabetical List of Elements with Finding Numbers and Page Guide to Chemical Groups" at the end of the volume provides the Standard Order Jointly Sponsored Program System Code to use for the substance searched. The Office of Critical Tables is working to have for Foreign Librarians the International Critical Tables replaced by an The Special Libraries Association has continued array of publications periodically revised and is- to cooperate with the American Library Associa- sued from a number of scientific centers, each tion and the Department of State on the Jointly qualified in a special field. These centers would Sponsored Program for Foreign Librarians. critically evaluate published data and produce The Washington Committee has placed a total needed data. of 41 foreign librarians in American libraries since It is planned that the Consoliduted Index would the program began in late 1956. Of this number methodically incorporate these additional compila- 31 librarians from abroad have completed their tions. The Index does not itself supply the nu- year in the United States (11 months of which merical value of a property, but under each sub- was in a sponsor library, which paid a maintenance stance or compound directs the inquirer to the allowance to the participant sponsored) and re- proper published source for the data by the use turned home. As of May 1963, six foreign librar- of codes for the substance, for the name of the ians are in the United States, and four (one each property, and for the original compilation. The from Israel, Thailand, Uruguay, and Yugoslavia) codifications are amply revealed in the book. Hav- have accepted invitations from four American li- ing this single directory to all the critical proper- braries and will arrive in this country shortly. The ties of one compound given in six publications Committee is negotiating in the placement of sev- makes any necessary short study of the codification eral other candidates who have recently been nom- worthwhile. The Office of Critical Tables suggests inated by American overseas posts for participa- that the code forms could be adapted to machine handling for information storage and retrieval. tion. A total of 31 American libraries have thus In May, an announcement of a meeting of the far participated in the project. Advisory Board of the Office of Critical Tables to be held at the Academy on June 20 was received. The writer expects to attend.

Library Binding Institute National Book Committee No annual report. National Library Week was launched in 1958 to help build a reading nation and to spur the use and improvement of libraries of all kinds; and Library of Congress from its inception SLA has participated in its ob- servance. Advisory Committee on Each year an increased amount of interest and activity has been noted, and 1962-1963 is no ex- Public Law 480 ception. For example: No annual report. 1. Thanks to the efforts of Mrs. Dorothy McNutt, our last year's Representative, The Procter & Gam- ble Company agreed to contribute $100 for NLW publicity awards. These awards, one of $75 and Liaison Committee of Librarians another of $25, will be presented at the Annual No annual report. Convention Banquet and will be given for the two SEPTEMBER 1963 most effective 1963 NLW projects carried out by 2. A particular appeal to librarians of those conl- a library represented in the Association's member- panies who have personnel on the NLW Steering ship. It is a pleasure to report that the response to Committee. Perhaps an article on special librarian- this competition has been enthusiastic and the proj- ship or on the functions of special libraries might ects undertaken outstanding. be initiated by the cooperative interest and support 2. Letters were sent to Chapter Presidents, SLA of the librarian-Steering Committee member com- Chapter and Division Bulletin Editors, and Public bination, if the company were a publisher; or a Relations Chairmen suggesting possible projects special program might be developed if the com- and urging them to get their memberships to par- pany were a radio or television network. ticipate in National Library Week. 3. Communications should be sent to the Groups 3. A listing of the State NLW Chairmen was sent within Chapters, and these Groups should be urged to Chapter Presidents, and it was suggested that to appoint committees to undertake the encourage- they encourage cooperation between those Chair- ment of NLW projects by individual members. men and our special librarians. As SLA Representative for 1963 National Li- 4. Subsequently, another letter was sent to Chap- brary Week, this reporter attended the SLA Ad- ter Presidents, enclosing an article by Gilbert visory Council Meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, in Chapman, former President of Yale and Towne February and reported on activities to date. At that Manufacturing Co., President of the New York time a plea for renewed interest and efforts was Public Library, Chairman of the Council on Li- made. brary Resources, Inc., and a member of the NLW MRS. ELIZABETHM. HUTCHINS Steering Committee. This article was written as a possible insert for company publications or trade papers and was open-ended so that each I~lir;tr~an National Microfilm Association could add material on his own library. Chapter The SLA Representative to the National Micro- Presidents were asked to alert their members to film Association was appointed in May 1963. this article so they might make the necessary ar- During the year, informal discussions were held rangements with the editors of their companies' with members of the National Microfilm Associa- publications. tion on the need for low cost reading equipment, 5. Constant reminders about NLW were published trends in microforms, and related problems. in the various issues of Special Libraries. "How A new organization under the sponsorship of Many Times Is Enough?" started off the campaign, the NMA, The International Micrographic Con- and "Is Your Slip Showing?" tried to stimulate gress held its first meeting concurrent with the the late starters to positive action. Interim issues 12th annual meeting and convention of the NMA. carried articles on past NLW activities by special Its purpose is to broaden understanding and co- libraries. operation among the professional societies of the 6. Contact was maintained throughout the year world, which are engaged in furthering the prog- with Beryl Reubens, Director of National Library ress and application of microreproduction. Week, who reported the tremendous cooperation he was receiving from the various media of adver- tising-radio, television, newspapers, and maga- zines-and from many stars of stage and screen. United Nations 7. The New York Chapter exhibited a NLW poster prepared by Young & Rubicam, Inc., at its Nongovernmental 0bserver Library Furnishings and Equipment Seminar. The Observer has no specific actions to report Undoubtedly the interest in NLW and the re- this year. sultant activities are increasing, but it seems that Invitations to briefing sessions at the United the greatest place for improvement and emphasis Nations continued to be received, but since, as in lies in the channels of communication. The need the past, they did not concern Association activ- is to get closer to the librarian in this drive for ities, the Observer has not attended. more projects, more public relations programs, In spite of lack of activity, it is strongly recom- more effort to promulgate National Library Week. mended that the Association show its support of Possible approaches toward this end are: the United Nations by continuing to maintain this 1. A better liaison betwen the special librarian relationship. and the NLW State Chairman. Particular attention is directed to the article in Life magazine of April DONALDWASSON 19, 1963, which indicated the various projects undertaken for NLW throughout the country. If United States Book Exchange there had been a better working arrangement and communication with the NLW State Chairmen, The Representative of SLA attended Board from whom this information was obtained, some meetings of the USBE on July 27, 1962, January mention might have been made of the projects of 11, 1963, March 24, 1963, and April 8, 1963. The special libraries as well as those of public libraries 15th Annual Meeting of the Corporation was held and communities. in Washington on March 25, 1963. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Your Representative became the President and ticals and meteorology and related subjects. In the Chairman of the Board following the untimely latter field, a first attempt to mechanize the use of clemise of Mrs. Henrietta Perkins on September 26, I!DC in the United States is proceeding under the 1962. In the course of the Annual Meeting in auspices of the American Meteorological Society. March, he was reelected for the year 1963-64. Active study committees of FID are continuing This year has seen the USBE continue its steady work in the fields of mechanization of information growth in service and operations, both domestic handling, technical information for industry, and and foreign. A serious threat to the good direction general classification. Progress in all these areas of USBE was surmounted with an amicable final was recorded during the 28th meeting of FID agreement with union negotiators on a contract for held in The Hague last September. Also, at the certain ljSBB employees. The establishment of a same meeting, FID convened the first inter- West Coast branch is still in the offing, with for- national meeting of editors of documentation mal requests for initial funding pending. It has journals. Among those present was Dr. Herman hren a difficult year for USBE, but every indica- Skolnik, Editor of the Journal of Chemical Docu- tion is for more progress in the next, with less mentation. time required for emergency actions or jurisdic- FID is also initiating the development of a tional disputes. standardized vocabulary of documentation which, as it comes to fruition, will be of inestimable help to all of science in talking about their documenta- tion problems meaningfully, regardless of national United States National or disciplinary boundaries. Under the explicit guidance of the United States Committee for the National Committee, the Organizing Committee for the 1965 Congress to be held in Washington, International Federation D. C. in October 1965, is taking form and de- for Documentation (FID) veloping plans for its program. Its makeup in- cludes R. A. Harte, Chairman and General Secre- During 1962 the Committee held two meetings tary; M. 0. Lee, Program Committee Chairman; (February 28 and June 12, which your Repre- G. J. Sophar, Finance Committee Chairman; and sentative attended) ; in addition, the Executive John Sherrod, Local Arrangements Chairman. Committee met on several occasions to consider At its meeting of February 20, 1963, USNCFID various problems referred to it by the FID Bureau voted to defer contribution solicitations from mem- or Secretariat. Substantive advances can be recorded for several ber societies and bodies for two years and ask NSF of the programs of FID. Work is proceeding ac- to bear 100 per cent of the cost. SLA is therefore tively on the updating of UDC with particular free of any budget obligation in 1963 and 1964. emphasis on scientific fields, including pharmaceu- RITCHIE R. WARD

Convention Papers The following papers presented at the 54th Special Libraries Association Convention will be published in future issues of Special Libraries. Not all papers have been received, so the list includes only those manuscripts that have been reviewed by August 16, 1963. Extracts of about six other Convention speeches will also be published. BRODMAN,ESTELLE, The Pierian Spring DAVIS,RICHARD A,, IS the Traditional Library School Meeting the Needs of the Profession ? EASTLICK,JOHN T., The Conservation Library Center of North America Ems, ROSCOEC., Purpose of a Library Survey FARLEY,EARL, A New Permuted Title Index in the Social Sciences and the Humanities FURTH,STEPHEN E., Mechanized Information Storage and Retrieval GERLACH,DR. ARCHC., National Atlas of the United States HARLOW,NEAL, Bookman, Information Expert, and Documentalist-How Library Schools Meet the Challenge HAYES,DR. ROBERTM., Directions for Library Education MURPHY,MARY, Will Automation Work for Maps ? ORGAIN,MARIAN, Newspaper Library Budgeting RHYDWEN,DAVID A., The Application of Microphotography to Newspaper Clippings SEPTEMBER 1963 455 SLA Official Directory 1963-1964

Association Officers Mrs. Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau, US. Department of Agriculture Library, New Orleans Branch, PRESIDENT Southern Regional Research Laboratory, 1100 Mrs. Mildred Hooker Brode, David Taylor Model Robert E. Lee Boulevard, New Orleans 19, Louisi- Basin. Washington 7,D. C. ana Edward G. Strablt, J. Walter Thompson Com. PRESIDENT-ELECT pany, 410 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 11, Il!i- William S. Budington, The John Crerar Library, nois 35 W. 33rd Street, Chicago 16, Illinois IMMEDIATEPAST-PRESIDENT Ethel S. Klahre, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleve- Charles Zerwekh, Jr., Standard Oil Company land, P.O. Box 6387, Cleveland 1, Ohio (New Jersey), 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, New York CHAIRMAN-ELECT,ADVISORY COUNCIL Chapter Presidents Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hutchins, Young & Rubicam, Inc., 285 Madison Avenue, New York 17, New ALABAMA:Mrs. Ann W. Logel, Redstone Arsenal , York Research Division, Rohm & Haas Company, Hunts- ville, Alabama BALTIMORE:Mrs. Pauline F. Stabler, 803 Easley Ralph H. Phelps, Engineering Societies Library, Street, Silver Spring, Maryland 345 E. 47th Street, New York 17, New York BOSTON:Mrs. Irma Johnson, Hayden Memorial DIRECTORS Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-, Helene Dechief, Headquarters Library, Canadian Cambridge 39, Massachusetts National Railways, 935 Lagauchetiere Street, W., Montreal 1, Quebec, Canada CINCINNATI:Jackson B. Cohen, Science & Indus- Joan M. Hutchinson, T. R. Evans Research Center, try Department, Public Library of Cincinnati & Diamond Alkali Company, P.O. Box 348, Paines- Hamilton County, 8th & Vine Streets, Cincinnati ville, Ohio 2, Ohio Paul W. Riley, College of Business Administra- CLEVELAND:Lois W. Brock, Research Department, tion, Boston College, Chestnut Hill 67, Massachu- General Tire & Rubber Company, Englewood setts Mrs. Elizabeth Boutelle Roth, Library, Standard Avenue at Holmes, Akron 9, Ohio Oil Company of California, P.O. Box 3495, San COLORADO:Gertrude E. Schalow, 2584 S. Gaylord ~rancisco-20; California Street, Denver 10, Colorado CONNECTICUTVALLEY: Whitney N. Morgan, 22 Townley Street, Hartford 5, Connecticut Headquarters DAYTON:John L. Cook, Jr., 428 Goldleaf Avenue, 31 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y., 10003 Vandalia, Ohio 212-Spring 7-8116 EXECI.TIVEDIRECTOR GEORGIA:Mrs. Linda M. Johnston, Research Li- brary, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta 3, Bill M. Woods Georgia ASSISTANTTO EXECUTIVEDIRECTOR Grace E. Reynolds GREATERST. LOLJIS:Francis B. O'Leary, Medical Center Library, St. Louis University, 1402 S. PUBLICKIIONSAND PUBLICRELATIONS Grand Avenue, St. Louis 4, Missouri DIRECTOR Mary L. Allison HEARTOF AMERICA:Mrs. Verna B. Riddle, Old PUHLICAilONS AND PUBLICRELATIONS American Insurance Company, 4900 Oak Street, Kansas City 12, Missouri ASSIS I ANT Edythe C. Porpa ILLINOIS:Ruth Emerson, Louis Livingston Library HEAD.ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS of Baking, American Institute of Baking, 400 E. DEPARTMENT Ontario Street, Chicago 11, Illinois Mrs. Emily B. Shoemaker INDIANA:Ellen Lucille Freeman, 319% N. Lin- coln Street, Bloamington, Indiana

SPECIAL LIBRARIES LOUISIANA:Harriet Leniann, Cunningham Library, WISCONSIN:Lawrence D. Medley, Library, A. 0. International House, 611 Gravier Street, New Or- Smith Corporation, P.O. Box 584, Milwaukee 1, leans 12, Louisiana Wisconsin MICHIGAN:Mrs. Mildred K. Hulme, Dearborn Public Library, 22100 Michigan Avenue, Dear- Division Chairmen born, Michigan ADVERTISING:Pauline E. Lybeck, Information MINNESOTA:Lawrence W. Werner, Ordnance Li- Services, Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc., 9 Rockefeller brary, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, Plaza, New York 20, New York 600 2nd Street, N., Hopkins, Minnesota BIOLOGICALSCIENCES: William K. Beatty, 1509 MONTREAL:Jane Laird, Company Library, Bell Forest Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Telephone Company of Canada, 1050 Beaver Hall Hill, Montreal, Quebec, Canada BUSINESSAND FINANCE:Charlotte Georgi, Grad- uate School of Business Administration Library, NEW JERSEY:Ellis Mount, 21 Highfield Lane, University of California, Los Angeles 24, Califor- Nutley 10, New Jersey nia NEWYORK: Marilyn Modern, American Assn. of DOCUMENTATION:Philip Leslie, 4792 Mt. La Advertising Agencies, 200 Park Avenue, New Palma Drive, San Diego 17, California 'k'ork 17, New York GEOGRAPHYAND MAP: Robert C. White, Map & OAKRIDGE: Donald D. Davis, 112 Meadow Road, Geography Library, University of .Illinois Library, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Urbana, Illinois OKLAHOMA:Virginia 2. LaGrave, 1008 N.W. INSURANCE:Jeanne Wood, Employers Reinsur- 33rd, Oklahoma City 18, Oklahoma ance Corporation, P.O. Box 2088, Kansas City 42, Missouri PACIFICNORTHWEST: Julia M. Schmitz, Central Medical Division, Boeing Airplane Company, P.O. METALS:Mrs. Katherine Faber, Information Cen- Box 3707, Seattle 24, Washington ter, Central Research Department, Air Reduction Company, Inc., Murray Hill, New Jersey PHILADELPHIA:Albert C. Gerould, Central Public Departments, Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan MILITARYLIBRARIANS: Logan 0. Cowgill, Office Square, Philadelphia 3, Pennsylvania Chief of Engineers Library, Room G-118, Bldg. T-7, Army Department, Washington 25, D. C. PITTSBURGH:Jeannine Kreyenbuhl, Callery Chem- ical Company & MSA Research Corporation, Cal- MUSEUM:P. William Filby, Peabody Institute Li- lery, Pennsylvania brary, 17 E. Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore 2, Mary- land RIO GRANDE:J. Arthur Freed, 126 Bandelier Avenue, White Rock, Los Alamos, New Mexico NEWSPAPER:Elwin S. Greene, Library, Worcester Telegram Publishing Company, Inc., 20-22 Frank- SAN DIEGO:Keith G. Blair, 3770 Nassau Drive, lin Street, Worcester 1, Massachusetts San Diego 15, California PICTURE:Forrest H. Alter, 1522 Cromwell Ave- SAN FRANCISCO:Kenneth D. Carroll, Technical nue, Flint 3, Michigan Information Center, Lockheed Missiles & Space Division, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, Califor- PUBLISHING:Mrs. Doris Boyd, Meredith Publish- nia ing Company, 1716 Locust, Des Moines 3, Iowa SOUTHERNCALIFORNIA: Helen J. Waldron, 948- SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY:W. Roy Holleman, 2069 11th Street, Apt. 10, Santa Monica, California Sea View Avenue, Del Mar, California TEXAS:Edwin F. Vaught, Southwest Research In- CHEMISTRYSECTION: Mrs. Elizabeth K. Buell, stitute Library, 8500 Culebra Road, San Antonio Technical Department, Gates Rubber Company, 6, Texas 999 South Broadway, Denver, Colorado TORONTO:Margaret Elaine Fitzpatrick, Paint Re- ENGINEERINGSECTION: Charles H. Stevens, Vir- search Laboratory, Canadian Industries Ltd., 1330 ginia Road, Lincoln, RFD, Concord, Massachu- Castlefield Avenue, Toronto 19, Ontario. Canada setts

WASHINGTON,D. C.: Fenton L. Kennedy, Applied PAPERAND TEXTILESECTION: Genevieve L. Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Reidy, Deering Milliken Research Corporation, 8621 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland Box 1927, Spartanburg, South Carolina WESTERNNEW YORK: Vera 0. Chase, Business PETROLEUMSECTION: Marilyn K. Johnson, and Technology Division, Schenectady County Shell Development Company Library, Emery- Public Library, Schenectady 5, New York ville, California SEPTEMBER 1963 PHARMACEUTICALSECTION: Mrs. Evelyn Walker EDUCATION:Grieg Aspnes, Cargill, Inc., 200 Armstrong, Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Cargill Building, Minneapolis 15, Minnesota Laboratories, Division of Merck & Company, Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania FINANCE:Mrs. Eleanor B. Allen, Lippincott Li- brary, University of Pennsylvania, 36th & Wood- PUBLICUTILITIES SECTION: Mrs. Betty H. Solon, land Avenue, Philadelphia 4, Pennsylvania Toledo Edison Company, Madison & Superior Streets, Toledo 4, Ohio FOUNDATIONGRAXTS: Robert W. Gibson, Jr., Technical Processing. Thomas J. Watson Research SOCIAL SCIENCE: Ellen Brennan, Pennsylvania Center, P. 0. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New Economy League, Liberty Trust Building, Phil- York adelphia, Pennsylvania GOVERNMENTALRELATIONS: Alice D. Ball. 2820 PLANNING,BUILDING, & HOUSINGSECTION: 31st Street, S.E., Washington 20, D. C. Howard B. Bentley, 333 E. 30th Street, New York 16, New York INTERNATIONALRELATIONS: Mrs. Elaine Austin Kurtz, 8 Terrace Court, N.E., Washington 2, D. C. SOCIAL WELFARESECTION: Mrs. Eunice G. Lovejoy, 172 W. Main Street, Westerville, Ohio MCKINSEYFOUNDATION BOOK AWARDS PROGRAM : Esther S. Kalis, Main Library, Building 2, General TRANSPORTATION:Mrs. Iris Land, Trans-Canada Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Air Lines Library, Place Ville Maire, Montreal 2, Quebec, Canada MEMBERSHIP:Alleen Thompson, Atomic Power Equipment Department, General Electric Com- pany, P.O. Box 254, San Jose, California Committee Chairmen NONSERIALPUBLICATIONS: Mrs. Elma E. Whitte- more, AC Spark Plug Division, General Motors Standing Corporation, P.O. Box 1002, Flint 1, Michigan ADMISSIONS:Theodore D. Phillips, Research Li- PERSONNEL:Loyd R. Rathbun, 13 Bristers Hill brary, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Fed- Road, Concord, Massachusetts eral Reserve P.O. Station, Kansas City 6, Missouri PLACEMENTPOLICY: Joseph M. Simmons, Chi- ARCHIVES:Josephine I. Greenwood, 104 Hunting- cago Sun-Times Daily News, Sun-Times Plaza, ton Road, Garden City, Long Island, New York Chicago 11, Illinois AWARDS:W. Roy Holleman, 2069 Sea View Ave- PROFESSIONALSTANDARDS: Agnes Brite. New nue, Del Mar, California England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 501 Boylston Street, Boston 17, Massachusetts BYLAWS:Mrs. Margaret H. Fuller, American Iron and Steel Institute, 150 E. 42nd Street, New York PUBLICRELATIONS: Marian G. Lechner, Connecti- 17, New York cut General Life Insurance Company, Hartford 15, Connecticut CHAPTERRELATIONS: Margaret E. Madden, Tech- nical Information Center, Monsanto Chemical PUBLICATIONS:Mrs. Helen Redman, Los Alamos Company, 800 N. Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis Scientific Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Ala- 66, Missouri mos, New Mexico

COMMITTEEON COMMITTEES:Dr. Charles K. RECRUITMENT:Herbert S. White, Technical In- Bauer, Scientific & Technical Information Depart- formation Center, IBM Data Systems Division, ment, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Marietta, P.O. Box 390, Poughkeepsie, New York Georgia SCHOLARSHIPAND STUDENTLOAN FUND: MIS. CONSULTATIONSERVICE: Mrs. Gloria Evans, En- Alice Palo Hook, Historical & Philosophical So- gineering Division, Library, Parke, Davis & Com- ciety of Ohio, University of Cincinnati Library pany, Detroit 32, Michigan Building, Cincinnati 21, Ohio CONVENTIONPROGRAM: Mrs. Jean G. Hopper, SCIENTIFICMEETINGS: Joan M. Hutchinson, 37455 2101 Walnut Street, Philadelphia 3, Pennsylvania Grove Avenue, Building 7, Apartment 103, Wil- loughby, Ohio DIVISIONRELATIONS: Dr. Frank E. McKenna, Information Center, Central Research Department, SPECIAL CLASSIFICATIONS:Miss Meredith S. Air Reduction Company, Inc., Murray Hill, New Wright, Parma Research Center, Union Carbide Jersey Corporation, P.O. Box 6116, Cleveland 1, Ohio DOCUMENTREPRODUCTION: E. Heiliger, Libraries SPECIALLIBRARIES: Robert G. Krupp, Bell Tele- and Information Retrieval Services, Florida At- phone Laboratories, Inc., Room IA-1O1A Holrndel, lantic University, Boca Raton, Florida New Jersey

SPECIAL LIBRARIES STATISTICS:Ruth Fine, Bureau of Budget Library, Special Representatives Washington 25, D. C. AMERICANASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT TECHNICALBOOK REVIEW INDEX: Virginia L. Gar- OF SCIENCE:John Sherrod, Information Services & land. 4601 Bayard Street, Pittsburgh 13, Pennsyl- Systems Branch, Division of Technical Informa- vania tion, US. Atomic Energy Commission, Washing- TRANSLATIONSACTIVITIES: Elizabeth M. Walkey, ton 25, D. C. Library Services, Bell & Howell Research Center, AMERICANASSOCIATION OF COLLEGESOF PHAR- 360 Sierra Madre Villa, Pasadena, California MACY,JOINT COMMITTEEON PHARMACYCOL- TRANSLATORSAND TRANSLATIONS:SERVICES LEGE LIBRARIES:Mrs. Mildred P. Clark, Win- AND SOURCES:Frances E. Kaiser, Price Gilbert throp Laboratories, 1450 Broadway, New York 18, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology, At- New York lanta 13, Georgia Efren W. Gonzalez, Technical Communications, TRANSLITFRATION:Rosemary Neiswender, 3720 Grove Laboratories, Inc., 8877 Ladue Road, St. Strand. Apt. 1, Manhattan Beach, California Louis 24, Missouri AMERICANDOCUMENTATION INSTITUTE: Mar- Special jorie Griffin, 1 Park Place, Saratoga, California ADVISORYCOMMITTEE TO ELIZABETHAND RUTH ALA COMM~SS~ONON A NATIONALPLAN FOR FERGUSONON A BIBLIOGRAPHY,DESCRIPTIVE BIB- LIBRARYEDUCATION: Grieg Aspnes, Cargill, Inc., LIOGRAPHIES ORIGINATEDBY SPECIALLIBRARIES: Cargill Building, Minneapolis 15, Minnesota Elizabeth Ferguson, Institute of Life Insurance, ALA INTERLIBRARYLOAN COMMITTEE: James C. 488 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York Andrews, Library, Argonne National Laboratory, CONVEKTION:James V. Jones, St. Louis Univer- 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois sity Library, 221 N. Grand Boulevard, St. Louis ALA JOINT COMMITTEEON GOVERNMENTPUBLI- 3. Missouri CATIONS: Frank J. Bertalan, 5117 Fairview Ave- COPYRIGHTLAW REVISION: Chester M. Lewis, The nue, McLean, Virginia New York Times, 229 W. 43rd Street, New York ALA LIBRARYTECHNOLOGY PROJECT ADVISORY 36. New York COMMITTEE:Gordon E. Randall, 2240 Van Cort- HEADQUARTERSPERSONNEL: Ethel S. Klahre, Fed- land Circle, Yorktown Heights, New York eral Reserve Bank of Cleveland, P.O. Box 6387, Cleveland 1, Ohio ALA RESOURCESAND TECHNICALSERVICES DI- VISION, BOOK BINDINGCOMMITTEE: Paul How- INTERXATIONALMANAGEMENT CONGRESS: Janet ard, Department of the Interior, Washington 25, Bogardus, Reference Library, Federal Reserve D. C. Bank of New York, Federal Reserve P.O. Station. New York 45, New York ALA STATISTICSCOORDINATING COMMITTEE: Ruth Fine, Bureau of Budget Library, Washington, 25, NOMIKATING:Mary Catherine Dunnigan, U. S. D. C. Brewers Foundation, Inc., 535 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York ALA-SLA-AD1 NEW YORK WORLD'SFAIR AD- VISORY COMMITTEE:Elizabeth Ferguson, Institute RESOLUT~OMREFERENCE: Mrs. Rose F. Crarner, of Life Insurance, 488 Madison Avenue, New 5506 Fair Ridge Court, Jennings 36, Missouri York 22, New York

SLA PROFESSIONALAWARD AND HALLOF FAME: ASA SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON PHOTOGRAPHIC Eugene B. Jackson, Research Laboratories, Gen- REPRODUCTIONOF DOCUMENTS,PH-5: Chester eral Motors Corporation, 12 Mile & Mound Roads, M. Lewis, New York Times, 229 West 43rd Street, Warren. Michigan New York 36, New York

TELLERS:Elizabeth M. Mulhall, The Chemists' ASA SECT~ONALCOMMITTEE ON LIBRARYWORK Club Library, 52 East 41st Street, New York 17, AND DOCUMENTATION,2-39: Mrs. Anne J. Rich- New York ter, R. R. Bowker Company, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New York 36, New York H. W. WILSONCOMPANY CHAPTER AWARD: Lor- raine Ciboch, 604 McKinley Avenue, Mundelein, ASA 2-39 SUBCOMMITTEEON BIBLIOGRAPHIC Illinois REFERENCES:Lillian A. Hamrick, 3115 Q Street, S.E., Washington 20, D. C. AD Hoc COMMITTEETO STUDYMANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLICATIONSFUND: Mrs. Helen F. Redman, ASA 2-39 SUBCOMMITTEEON MACHINECODING: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Dake Gull, 541 Beall Avenue, Rockville, Mary- Los Alamos, New Mexico land

SEPTEMBER 1963 ASA 2-39 SUBCOMMITTEEON TRANSLITERATION: ~NTERASSOCIAT~ONHOSPITAL LIBRARIES COMMIT- Rosemary Neiswender, 3720 Strand, Manhattan TEE: William Beattp. 1509 Forest Avenue, Evans- Beach, California ton, Illinois Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Libra- ASA 2-84 SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON GLOSSARY ries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New York 3, OF ENVIRONMENTALTERMINOLOGY: Robert J. New York Havlik, US. Office of Education, Library Services Branch, Washington, D. C. INTERNATIONALFEDERATION OF LIBRARYASSO- CIATIONS COMMITTEEON LIBRARYBUILDING: ASA 2-85 SECTIONALCOMMITTEE ON LIBRARY Gordon E. Randall, 2240 Van Cortland Circle, EQUIPMENTAND SUPPLIES:Gordon E. Randall, Yorktown Heights, New York 2240 Van Cortland Circle, Yorktown Heights, New York JOIXT COMMITTEEON UNION LIST OF SERIALS: William H. Simon, 17 Priscilla Road, Windsor, Idris Smith, Business & Technical Department, Connecticut Kansas City Public Library, 9th & Locust Streets, Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- Kansas City 3, Missouri braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New York 3, New York JOINT LIBRARIESCOMMITTEE ON FAIR USE IN PHOTOCOPYING:Chester M. Lewis, New York CONFERENCEON SCIENCE MANUSCRIPTS:Dr. time^, 229 West 43rd Street, New York 36, New Karl A. Baer, National Housing Center Library, York 1625 L Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C. JOINTLYSPONSORED PROGRAM FOR FOREIGNLI- COUNCILFOR INTERNATIONALPROGRESS IN MAN- BRARIANS:Lucile Dudgeon, 3020 Cambridge Place, AGEMENT:Katharine L. Kinder, Johns-Manville N.W., Washington 7, D. C. Research Center, Manville, New Jersey Mrs. Elaine Austin Kurtz, 8 Terrace Court, N.E., Chester M. Lewis, New York Times, 229 West Washington 2, D. 43rd Street, New York 36, New York C. LIBRARYOF CONGRESSFOR PUBLICLAW 480: Mrs. COUNCILOF NATIONALLIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS: Ethel S. Klahre, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleve- Ruth Hooker, 3385 Highview Terrace, S.E., Wash- ington 20, D. C. land, P.O. Box 6387, Cleveland 1, Ohio Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- LIBRARYOF CONGRESSLIAISON COMMITTEE OF braries Association. 31 East 10th Street, New LIBRARIANS:Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, 4607 Con- York City 3, New York necticut Avenue, Washington 8, D. C. CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEFOR VISITINGFOREIGN Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- LIBRARIANS:Lucile Dudgeon, 3020 Cambridge braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New Place, N.W., Washington 7, D. C. York 3, New York Mrs. Elaine Austin Kurtz, 8 Terrace Court, N.E., NATIONAL ACADEMYOF SCIEI~CESADVISORY Washington 2, D. C. BOARDOF THE OFFICE OF CRITICALTABLES: CNLA JOINTCOMMITTEE ON EXHIBITMANAGERS: Anne L. Nicholson, Research and Development Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- Laboratories, Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation, braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New 900 First Avenue, King of Prussia Park, King of York City 3, New York Prussia, Pennsylvania

CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON LIBRARYEDUCA- NATIONALBOOK COMMITTEE:Loyd R. Rathbm, TION: Grieg Aspnes, Cargill, Inc., Cargill Build- 13 Bristers Hill Road, Concord, Massachusetts ing, Minneapolis 15, Minnesota NATIONALMICROFILM ASSOCIATION: Loretta J. CNLA JOINT COMMITTEEON LIBRARYWORK Kiersky, Central Research Laboratory Library, Air AS A CAREER:Herbert S. White, Technical In- Reduction Company, Murray Hill, New Jersey formation Center, Data Systems Division, IBM Corporation, Box 390, Poughkeepsie, New York UNITEDNATIONS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZA- TIONS OBSERVER:Donald Wasson, Council on FEDERATIONOF MANAGEMENTORGANIZATIONS: Foreign Relations, Inc., 58 E. 68th Street, New Mrs. Mildred H. Brode, 4607 Connecticut Avenue, York 21, New York Washington 8, D. C. Bill M. Woods, Executive Director, Special Li- UNITEDSTATES BOOK EXCHANGE:Elizabeth Fer- braries Association, 31 East 10th Street, New guson, Institute of Life Insurance, 488 Madison York City 3, New York Avenue, New York 22, New York

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NSF Programs and Problems the quality of this type of planning. When UENCE and technology in our time have planning is national in character, one has to S taken on a new order of magnitude that compensate somehow for the lack of the cor- promises bold new achievements and poses rective influence of this competitive factor. problems of new dimensions. Nations have Unfortunately, our experience with program come to regard scientific and technological planning has grown far less rapidly than our achievement as essential not only to national organizations, so that the sheer task of col- goals but as symbolic of national prestige lecting and analyzing data on which so vast and the object of international competition. 2n entity as a modern government can make More and more the responsibility for financ- decisions is one that is still to be solved. ing and often for operating research and Nevertheless, certain general considera- educational enterprises is being assumed by tions stand out. Recognizing the overall lim- national governments. The scope of today's itation in national terms with respect to what research and development programs-some can be done in science and technology, a of them global and even extraterrestrial- study of priorities indicates that a large pro- have created extraordinary requirements for portion of the major undertakings stem from both funds and skilled manpower, thus mak- military requirements, others from promising ing them the direct concern of government. and desirable commercial enterprises, still Science, and especially technology, have be- others from national needs apart from de- come the subject of long-range planning and fense, such as health, housing, transportation, special management techniques. and communications. As a relatively new fac- The breathtaking acceleration of science tor in modern times, there are increasingly and technology is a phenomenon that carries insistent demands for elaborate basic re- with it a critical need for increasing study search programs and facilities, such as high- and attention, first because of the urgent re- energy nuclear accelerators, radio telescopes, quirement for planning that it forces and, high-altitude observations by balloons and second, as a social problem of far-reaching rockets, and studies of the deep crust and significance. Certain problems can already be upper mantle of the earth. Notable among identified that are of such magnitude, global such ambitious research and development significance, or involvement in human sur- plans are the exploration of space and broad vival as to preclude confinement within na- programs such as oceanography. tional boundaries. Others will ultimately be Because basic research in science is closely forthcoming. Besides, from the scientific related to scholarly work in all disciplines viewpoint alone, there are many aspects of and to the arts, it is the mark of a mature modern basic research in which international nation to allow full play to exploration of cooperation and consultation are highly de: the mind in these directions. sirable, even essential. Although the desirability and importance On the planning side, one is necessarily of such an ideal is surely understood by concerned with objectives, feasibility, effi- thoughtful people everywhere, it appears to ciency, and economy. These points become be one that is very difficult for a country to all important nowadays because of the neces- adopt as a national objective. sity for overall planning. In private enter- Extracted from "The Director's Statement" by prise, in business and commerce, the element Alan T. Waterman in National Science Foundation of competition has traditionally taken care of 12th Annual Report, 1962. SEPTEMBER 1963 SLA Participating in Xlll CIOS International gress by special librarians from the New Management Congress York and New Jersey SLA Chapters. A Special Libraries Association is among the symposium on "Information Storage and management organizations, educational in- Retrieval for Management" will be co- stitutions, and corporations that are members chaired by Katharine L. Kinder. of the Council for International Progress in Management (CIPM), which will host the ADI-SLA Joint Operating Group Organized XI11 CIOS International Management Con- The Board of Directors of Special Li- gress, September 16-20, 1963. An estimated braries Association and the Council of the 4,000 managers from business and govern- American Documentation Institute have ap- ment, and management educators are ex- proved the formation of a Joint Operating pected to attend the eight general sessions Group (JOG) that will coordinate and and 52 symposia at which 185 papers will be utilize the breadth of talent in the member- presented on a wide variety of important ships of both organizations to assume re- management subjects relating to the gen- sponsibility for and take action on matters eral Congress theme of "Human Progress of mutual concern. This coo~erationand co- Through Better Management." During the participation has been prompted by the re- past two years an SLA Committee chaired by cent report of The President's Science Ad- Janet Bogardus, Librarian, Federal Reserve visory Committee, Science, Government, and Bank of New York, and composed of eight Infornzation. The need for positive action other prominent special librarians (Esther S. seems urgent since this document, popularly Kalis, General Electric Company ; Katharine known as the Weinberg Report, presents a L. Kinder, Johns-Manville Research Center ; challenge to all who are involved with dis- Charlotte Georgi, Graduate School of Busi- seminating, storing, retrieving, and using ness Administration, University of Cali- scientific and technical information. fornia; Mrs. Elizabeth J. Gibson, Merrill The objectives of JOG will be: Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Jeanette 1. Marshalling existing skills and recruiting Sledge, McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Vir- as necessary to fulfill the objectives suggested ginia M. Smyth, American Petroleum In- by the Report. stitute; Lee W. Traven, Socony Mobil Oil 2. ~dentification of s~ecific ~roblemareas Co., Inc. ; and Chester M. Lewis, New York and prompt response to them. Times), has been developing plans, pro- 3. Initiation of additional activities of mu- grams, and publications as the Association's tual interest. contribution to the Congress. All registrants 4. Participation in future government-spon- will receive a copy of the new SLA publica- sored information-handling studies. tion, Literatwe of Executive Management: Earlier this summer the Presidents of SLA Bibliography No. 5. In the spacious Special Libraries Association, Mrs. Mildred Rhinelander Gallery near the Congress reg- H. Brode, and the American Documentation istration area at the New York Hilton at Institute, Dr. Robert M. Hayes, sent a Rockefeller Center, SLA will set up and jointly signed letter to Dr. Jerome B. Wies- man an information center and a manage- ner, Special Assistant to President Kennedy ment library. The library will contain most for Science and Technology, in which they of the titles listed in the bibliography, plus informed him that the two professional so- other basic reference volumes, while the cieties intended to set up the JOG. information center will feature visual pres- entations and equipment demonstrating suc- Reference Data System for Physical Sciences cessful techniques and systems for informa- The National Standard Reference Data Sys- tion processing, documentation, and retrieval. tem, which is administered by the National The area will be staffed throughout the Con- Bureau of Standards, will provide evaluated 462 SPECIAL LIBRARIES data on the physical and chemical properties of materials on a national basis. The NSRDS will consist of a National Standard Reference Center at NBS, other government agencies, universities, research institutes, and other organizations. With an advisory board to re- view and recommend operational policy, the NSRDS will receive data from scientists who are critically reviewing and evaluating the literature in their fields for classification and storage. The Center will make the data available by means of: I) a periodical service Oscar di Associates, Inc. designed to list new acquisitions; 2) a paid In a private ceremony William S. Buding- subscription service supplying data on a ton presented to ALA President James E. particular subject on a continuing basis; 3) Bryan a framed pen and ink drawing of the a referral service, which will handle special ALA headquarters executed by Chicago art- requests; 4) a correlation and prediction ist James Swan. The accompanying plaque service for computing values of data not con- reads "Presented by the Special Libraries tained in the Center; >) a mathematical and Association to the American Library Asso- statistical service for evaluating new data; ciation on the occasion of the dedication 6) a periodical products such as tabulations, of its new headquarters building, July 14, review monographs and papers, and com- 1963." The framed picture is now hanging in the ALA staff room. puter card decks and tapes; and 7) summary reviews to provide a rapid assessment of the librarians considered in a series of work- state-of-the-art in fields where there is little shop sessions the problems confronting them but important data. due to the increasing use of libraries at all age levels, and second, the dedication of the New Rapid Electronic Reporting System newly constructed ALA headquarters build- The Lockheed Missiles & Space Company in ing at 50 East Huron Street. Attendance hit Sunnyvale, California, has inaugurated a an all-time record as librarians flocked to new electronic data system in which produc- Chicago to tour the new quarters, attend tion information is conveyed from missile general sessions and committee meetings, and and space vehicle assembly lines to manage- take action at the business meeting on a re- ment personnel 400 miles away in fractions port on the "Access to Public Libraries," of a second. The system is called ADA for a study based on a nation-wide survey of ac- automatic data acquisition. RCA produced cess to libraries by racial, religious, and the "nerve ends," called EDGE units (elec- political groups and individuals. Printed tronic data gathering equipment), and the copies of the report are expected to be ready "brain" consists of two RCA computers, by early fall. Dr. Frederick H. Wagman, which have a 88,000,000-character memory. Director of the University of Michigan, was At present 206 remote-reporting EDGE installed as 1963-64 President, and Edwin units are being used in missile and space Castagne, Director of the Enoch Pratt Free production work, and by the end of 1964 Library, was elected Vice-president and Pres- the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation expects ident-Elect. Among the many awards be- to have 850 reporting units operating in five stowed were the Clarence Day Award to Lockheed Divisions in the United States. Dr. Robert B. Downs for serving "librarian- ship with distinction at home and abroad" 82nd ALA Conference and the Margaret Mann Citation for out- Two events made the 82nd Conference of standing professional achievement in cata- the American Library Association in Chi- loging and classification to Arthur Hugh cago, July 14-20, unique--first, the "Con- Chaplin, Keeper in the Department of ference Within A Conference" in which Printed Books, British Museum, London. SEPTEMBER 1963 Library Statistics Coordinating effective program built around a chosen Project Established theme. The winning Chapter will receive a A national statistics coordinating project $100 check and a scroll, which will be pre- whose objective is the establishment of a sented at the banquet at the 55th Annual national system of standardized library data Special Libraries Association Convention in collection for administrative use and re- St. Louis in June 1964. This year's theme is search needs has been set up. Although the intended to encourage the 33 SLA Chapters project will be administered by the Ameri- to cooperate actively with business and pro- can Library Association, it will serve the fessional associations in their geographical interests of the Special Libraries Association, areas. Offering speakers, organizing joint which supported the request for funds to meetings, initiating joint projects, co-spon- support the project. Grants of $48,960 from soring seminars, and similar activities are the Council on Library Resources, Inc., and examples of what Chapters can do. The suc- of $5,000 from the National Science Foun- cess the Association itself has had in par- dation, plus the contribution of office space ticipating in workshops, meetings, and proj- and equipment by the National Library of ects jointly sponsored by the Council of Medicine in Bethesda have been made to National Library Associations, American support the project for one year. Joel Wil- Management Association, International Man- liams, Chief of the Operations Sections, agement Congress, and other societies indi- Standards and Processing Branch, Division cates that the SLA Chapters have excellent of Educational Statistics, U. S. Office of opportunities for developing mutual under- Education, Department of Health, Education standing and cooperation with similar or- and Welfare, has been given a year's leave ganizations in their own communities. of absence to direct the project. Plans for the project have been worked out during the Members in the News past several years by the ALA-LAD Sta- MRS. CLARAEGLI LE GEAR,honorary con- tistics Coordinating Committee on which sultant in historical cartography to the Li- Ruth Fine, Librarian, Bureau of the Budget, brary of Congress, was named the first win-

Washington,- D. C., serves as SLA's official ner of the C. S. Hammond Company Library representative. The over-all purpose is the Award at the ALA Conference in Chicago. coordination of statistics of academic, spe- cial, school, and public libraries on national, ROBERTR. KEPPLE,Supervisor of Readers' regional, state, and local levels. Plans call Services in the Library Services Department, for the compilation of a list of cooperating Argonne National Laboratory, has a two-year organizations, which would be called upon appointment as Head Librarian at the Inter- to take an active part in the study; compila- national Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, tion of a check list of basic items and useful Austria. classifications in each statistical field; de- RALPHJ. SHOEMAKERhas retired as Librar- velopment of a handbook that would be pub- ian of the Coz~rier-Journaland the Louisville lished; and operating a national program of Times, a post he had held since 1947. One library statistics. of the deans of newspaper librarians, Mr. Shoemaker plans to continue his professional H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award interests by lecturing on journalism and li- Theme for 1964 brary science and acting as a consultant on "The SLA Chapter as a Member of the newspaper libraries. Business and Professional Community" has CHARLESE. ZERWEKH,JR., newly elected been selected as the theme for the 1964 Chairman of the Advisory Council, has been H. W. Wilson Company Chapter Award. named Manager of the recently created Rec- This award has been given annually since ords Management Division of Standard Oil 1959 by the H. W. Wilson Company to the Company (New Jersey). He will make his SLA Chapter that has carried out the most headquarters in New York City, leaving Baytown, Texas, where he was Head of the libraries will be discussed. A meeting on Technical Information Section of the Humble interlibrary loans will be held October 4. Oil & Refining Company. Other participating groups are the State Library Associations of Minnesota, Wiscon- Coming Events sin, and Iowa. Registration is $4 or $2 per The AMERICANDOCUMENTATION INSTI- day. TUTE'S 26th Annual Meeting will be held at the Pick-Congress Hotel, Chicago, Oc- Library Courses and Workshops tober 6-11. Based on the Convention theme The course, Search Strategy, an introduction "Automation and Scientific Communication," to and survey of the whole field of informa- the program will be concerned with opera- tion science, is being offered in three parts tional and experimental automated proce- by DREXELINSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY'S dures and deal with the problems of gather- Graduate School of Library Science during ing, processing, and retrieving information. its 1963-64 academic year. Mrs. Claire K. Registration is $20 for nonmembers and Schultz, SLA member and Research Associate $12.50 for members. Further information is at the Institute for the Advancement of available from the Executive Director, ADI, Medical Communication, who first taught 1728 N Street, N.W., Washington 36, D. C. the course last year, is the instructor for the weekly three-hour Friday evening sessions, The Minnesota and Wisconsin Chapters of thus enabling working information and re- SLA will participate in a TRI-STATEREGIONAL search personnel to attend. Part I, given LIBRARYCONFERENCE at the Pick-Nicollet during the fall term, covers the historical Hotel in Minneapolis on October 2-4. Vari- development and includes equipment, prin- ous aspects of school, special, and public ciples of classification and indexing, and how In Memoriam: Catherine Deneen Mack ATHERINE MACKdied suddenly of a massive cerebral hemor- C rhage on July 24. What can one say when an active and ' productive life is suddenly snuffed out, except that both the li- brary profession and the world are the poorer. She left behind her a rich professional heritage and many friends, who not only mourn their personal loss, but whose lives have been enriched by her friendship. Since 1930 Mrs. Mack was connected with the Corning Glass Works where she served as the company librarian and for two years (195 1-33) as librarian in the museum housing the antique was a Life member of Special Libraries Association who devoted much time atyd effort to serving the ~ssociation.She served as a member of the Board of Directors (1956-59) during which time she displayed both enthusiasm and devotion to the office and to which she contributed intelligent and imaginative service. She was also a leader of that small group known as the "glass librarians," who looked to her for both advice and inspiration, and was active in the Western New York Chapter. The library profession in general and the Association in particular have been nurtured and advanced bv Dersons with her abilities and ideals. She left behind her a rich bodv of J I professional accomplishment and many friends as well, who will not only miss her per- sonally but for whom the light of leadership has been dimmed. Her personal labors are over, but her inspiration and contributions to the profession will live as a memorial to her life. Repiescat in pace! ALBERTAL. BROWN SEPTEMBER 1963 465 to compile a thesaurus. Part 11, given from the Technical Information facility, and then (after January 3 to March 20, and Part 111, given how many weeks?) documents begin to flow again. from April 3 to June 12, will offer workshop Meanwhile, there is a gap in the library's file of STAR. First thing the librarian does is request sessions and field trips, which will compare and obtain the missing copies. Then he checks his and evaluate various computer techniques. shelves for missing reports in the categories of in- Applications may be obtained by writing in terest to the new contract. He orders them. After a care of the course at the School, Philadelphia certain number of weeks, he now has an up-to-date file of NASA material. Meanwhile, the contract has 4, Pennsylvania. been in force and the people he serves are demand- The School of Library Science at the UNI- ing the latest NASA data. Their library naturally does not have it yet. VERSITY OF SOUTHERNCALIFORNIA is offer- Why in the world could not NASA stick to the ing a new course, Information Retrieval, dur- older procedure of continuing those organizations ing its 1963 fall semester. Mrs. Sophia on the distribution lists which are more or less con- White, SLA member and Librarian at Bur- stantly doing space work? This would seem to be easier, cheaper, and much better for the progress of roughs Corporation, is teaching the course, the space program. I have written to NASA in pro- given on Saturday mornings, beginning Sep- test but have no reply. This is no time to stifle the tember 28. The program includes informa- flow of technical information unnecessarily, there tion theory, characteristics, and methods of is so much we can do nothing about. I urge that communication and use ; linguistic problems ; users of NASA technical information request a change. documentation techniques; and a survey of RINEHARTS. POTTS,Librarian mechanized information systems, with em- Aero Service Corporation phasis on the nonconventional systems. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Further information is obtainable from the School, Los Angeles 7, California. I have just had the occasion to review the list- In Memoriam ing of commercial library services, which appears in the May-June issue of Special Libraries. This sort ETHELCLELAND, Head of the Indianapolis of listing is a valuable information resource, and I Public Library's Business Library for 30 would encourage the pursuit of this kind of ac- tivity on the part of SLA. years before her retirement in 1948, died In the past, I have used several of the services June 22 in Indianapolis. She was 85. listed and from the results would be hesitant to ALICE LOUISELE FEVRE,retired Professor give an unqualified endorsement to any of them. Emeritus of Librarianship at Western Mich- One group, which does not appear in your listing igan University, died June 18. and which has given us excellent service, is the Capitol Hill Research Group. It is my understand- ing that this is a group of expatriate Polish scien- Letters to the Editor tists-some of whom work for the Sci-Tech Divi- NASA DOCUMENTDISTRIBUTION POLICY sion of LC-who have banded together in this I have this morning a letter from NASA's Office activity. They specialize in searches of the open of Scientific and Technical Information, indicating literature of the Russian scientific press. If you they are going to establish a new procedure for the desire further information concerning this group, I distribution of NASA documents, including STAR. suggest you contact: Zdzislaw Milobedzki, Capitol Apparently an organization will receive such Hill Research Group, 326 Pennsylvania Avenue, items only while actually registered with NASA S.E., Washington 3, D. C. as on a contract involving the space program. At PETERG. POCOCK,Manager-Library first sight this sounds reasonable. However, those General Electric Company smaller organizations which have gone through the Santa Barbara, California same procedure in the past with ASTIA know how unworkable this can become. Only the very largest contractors are aluuys working on a NASA contract. The others are on CORRECTION and off several times a year. Each time a contract Figures 3 and 5 were inadvertently ends, they automatically stop receiving documents, transposed in "Circulation Control by including their subscription to STAR (according to Computer," by R. W. Gibson, Jr., and the new procedure). Then, when a new contract starts, they must obtain a new application from G. E. Randall, pages 335 and 336, in NASA, fill it out, send it to the cognizant author- the July-August 1963 Special Libraries. ity, forward to NASA, then NASA forwards to SPECIAL LIBRARIES National Catalog of Patents tion write the Center at 1808 Adams Mill Road, N.W., Washington 9, D. C. Rowman and Littlefield, Inc., with cooperation from the United States Patent Office, has under- taken the publication of The National Catalog af Technical Translations Index Putents, a projected multi-series catalog of patents. Cumulative Indexes to Technical Translatiotzs, vol- The Catalog will cover the classifications of: 1) ume 5, January-June 1961, and volume 6, July- chemical and related arts; 2) electrical, communi- December 1961, are now available. Each volume is cations, radiant energy, and related arts; 3) me- $1 and may be purchased from the Superintendent chanical, manufacturing, and machine element arts; of Documents, Government Printing Office, Wash- 4) transportation, material handling and treating, ington 25, D. C. motor and pump, weapon arts; 5) instruments of precision, body treatment and care, heating and New Edition of N.ew York Chapter Directory cooling, static arts, and miscellaneous; and 6) designs. In print, to date, are the 1961 chemical The loth edition of the Special Libraries Directory and electrical Supplements. The patents are listed of Greater New York was issued during the surn- according to subject classification, and the volumes mer. It describes 1053 special libraries and col- contain a numerical and subject classification in- lections in the metropolitan area, 250 of which are dex as well as a related patents index, which lists, listed for the first time. Entries are arranged in 28 numerically, the patent numbers of similar items. subject categories and include for each library the The 1961 mechanical Supplement will be available address, telephone number, names of staff members, in October. In preparation is a cumulative index size of collection, subjects covered, clientele served, for patents from 1790-1960. Six volumes for the inter-library loan service, whether open to public chemical and five for electrical and mechanical and/or SLA members, and hours of business. There sections will be ready by October, November, and is also a single alphabet index of libraries, per- December 1963 respectively. The actual catalogs sonnel, subjects, and special collections. The price for the first three classifications will be ready by for Association members is $G ($5 each for or- the end of 1964 and for the remaining three, by ders of two or more) and $12.50 for nonmembers. the end of 1966. Each volume of the Strpplement Orders should be sent to Beulah Kramer, Metro- and Index will be $50. No price has been set for politan Life Insurance Company, 1 Madison Ave- the catalogs. A free examination period is extended nue, New York 10, New York, and checks should for the publications. For further information write be made payable to "Special Libraries Association, the publisher at 84 Fifth Avenue, New York 11. New York Chapter."

Biological Abstracts Searching Aid New Serials A machine-produced Systematic Index has been ASIAN ABSTRACTS,a weekly account of Asian developed as a searching service in each semi- political and business affairs, began publication monthly issue of Biological Abstracts to enable July 1. The 12-16 page journal, published at 2-J, scientists to find quickly, under one taxonomic Clifford House, Collyer Quay, Singapore, will be unit, the abstract number and field of study for indexed quarterly. The annual subscription rate is all organisms used, whether as laboratory tools $51 airmail and $37 seamail. A one-side printed or as the primary object of research. The Index, edition, arranged for clipping, is printed on air- although still in an experimental stage. is a de- mail paper and costs $63 a year, airmail. tailed guide for selecting specific taxonomic data CURRENTLITERATURE ON AGING,formerly titled from over 4,000 abstracts appearing in each issue. Selected Acquisitions, will begin publication on a

Library of Education The Center for Applied Research in Education, Back Issues Wanted Inc. has initiated a publishing program called the Library of Education, which will contain informa- The supply of January 1963 issues of tion on historical background, current educational Special Libraries is very limited. It will research theories and practices, and developments and their application and implications for educa- be appreciated if those who have extra tors. Each volume of the planned 100 matched copies will send them to Association volumes also contains a bibliography and index. Headquarters at 31 East 10th Street, Elghteen volumes of the Library have been pub- lished and are available, as will be the future vol- New York 10003. umes, on a subscription basis. For further informa- SEPTEMBER 1963 quarterly basis in 1964. The journal will list se- FRY, Alderson. Planning the Medium-Size Library lected publications and articles relating to aging in for the Computer. Bulletin of the Medical Library fields such as housing, employment and retirement, Association, vol. 51, no. 2, April 1963, p. 211-13. health, social welfare, recreation, and others. The GARFIELD,Eugene. Generic Searching by Use of publisher is the National Council on the Aging, Rotated Formula Indexes. Journal of Chemical 49 West 45th Street, New York 36. Distributed on Documentation, vol. 3, no. 2, April 1963, p. 97- a subscription basis only, annual rates are $2.25 in 103. the United States and Canada; $2.50 elsewhere. GULL,C. D. Mechanization: Implications for the Medium-Size Medical Library. Bulletin of the JOURNAL OF DATA ~NAGEMENTis the new of- Medical Library Association, vol. 51, no. 2, April ficial journal of the Data Processing Management 1963, p. 197-210. Association and is published monthly. Articles HARTWELL,Wayne M. "That Toddlin' Town" cover data processing and computer techniques, Also Reads. Library Journal, vol. 88, no. 12, June management, personnel systems, accounting, pur- 15, 1963, p. 2426-9. chasing, production control, and other data proc- HENEBRY,Agnes C. Quick-Reference Guide for essing problems. Yearly subscriptions are $5 in Filing and Finding. Advanced Management-Ofice the United States; $10 elsewhere; available from Executive, May 1963, p. 30-1. the publisher at 524 Busse Highway, Park Ridge, HINES, Theodore C. Programed Materials. Li- Illinois. brary Journal, vol. 88, no. 10, May 15, p. 2055-8. HYSLOP,Marjorie R. Case Histories in Informa- METHODSOF INFORMATIONIN MEDICINE,an in- ternational journal for the methodology of medical tion Searching. Metals Review, June 1963. research, information, and documentation, is pub- JONES, Holway R., co-author. City Planning: A Sacra- lished quarterly in English or German. Abstracts Basic Bibliography of Sources and Trends. accompany the articles, which are devoted to the mento, Calif.: California Council of Civil Engi- theory and mathematics of medical research, neers and Land Surveyors, 1962. xv, 95p. $3. methodology of clinical and other research, prob- Kov~cs,Helen. Present and Future Plans. Bulle- lems of nomenclature and classification, automatic tin of the Medical Library Association, vol. 51, data processing, and literature documentation. Sub- no. 2, April 1963, p. 176-80. scriptions are $5 available from Joseph Bourgholt- LYBECK,Pauline. Advertising Today, Yesterday 8: zer, Inc., 170 East Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, Tomorrow. Printers' Ink, 75th anniversary issue. vol. 283, no. 11, June 14, 1963, p. 350-1. New Jersey. MCKENNA,Frank E. Graphic Symbols for Glass PETROCHEMICALNEWS is a weekly news service Systems. Journal of Chemical Documentation, vol. concmned with news of corporate changes, ex- 3, no. 1, January 1963, p. 24-8. pansions, markets, legislation, and other items of PERKINS,Henrietta T. An Odyssey. Bulletin of interest to management in the field. The journal the Medical Library Association, vol. 51, no. 1, is produced by offset and will be sold by sub- January 1963, p. 26-32. scription only for $85 a year from 54 West 40th ROSENSTEIN,Philip. Changing Objectives of the Street, New York 18. Pharmacy College Library. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, vol. 27, no. 2, Spring PSYCHEDELICREVIEW is a quarterly containing 1963, p. 248-61. original research, reviews, pharmaceutical litera- SKOLNIK,Herman, co-author. A New Posting ture, and essays on various hallucinatory substances Method for the Preparation of a Cumulative List. such as LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin. The Journal of Chemical Documentation, vol. 3, no. 1, journal, published by the International Federation January 1963, p. 21-4. for Internal Freedom, P.O. Box 9, Cambridge 40. . Introduction to Symposium on ACS Di. Massachusetts, costs $5 a year and $1.50 per issue. visional Preprints-Purpose, Production and Coqts. and Place in the Chemical Literature. Journal of Chemical Documentation, vol. 3, no. 2, April 1963, SLA Authors p. 63. BRODMAN,Estelle. Japanese Medical Libraries. TATE,Fred A. The Place of Preprints in the Chem- Bulleti~z of the Medical Library Association, vol. ical Literature. Journal of Chemical Documenta- 51, no. 1, January 1963, p. 16-25. tion, vol. 3, no. 2, April 1963, p. 779. CLUXTOX,Harriette M. You Too Can Enjoy a VORESS,Hugh E. Searching Techniques in the Busman's Holiday. Shuron Continental Digest, Literature of the Sciences. College and Research 1963, p. 25-30. Libraries, vol. 24, no. 3, May 1963, p. 209-12. DIVEIT, Robert T. Medicine and the Mormons. WEIL, B. H., et al. Technical-Abstracting Fun- Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, vol. damentals. I. Introduction. Journal of Chemical 51, no. 1, January 1963, p. 1-15. Documentation, vol. 3, no. 2, April 1963, p. 86-9. DRAPER,Wesley. History of the Academy of Med- YERKE,Theodor B., co-author. The Oxford Sys- icine of Brooklyn Library. Bulletin of the Med- tem: A Study of Its Uses at a Forest Experiment ical Library Association, vol. 51, no. 2, April Station. Jourmd of Forestr), vol. 61, no. 4, April 1963, p. 168-75. 1963, p. 295-6.

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