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Special Libraries VOLUME38 .....Established 1910 ..NUMBER10

CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER 1947

Legislative Histories ...... ELIZABETHFINLEY Uses of Legislative Histories ...... MINNIEWIENER

Legislative Histories for Private Business .....MIRIAM C. VANCE

The United States Tariff Commission Library . CORNELIANOTZ

The Scandinavian Librarians' Congress in Copenhagen JORAN BIRKELAND

Report of the 1947-48 Nominating Committee ...... New Institutional Members ...... Events and Publications ...... Announcements ......

Indexed in Zndustrial Arts Index, Public Mairs Information Service, and Library Literature

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE ALMA CLARVOEMITCHILL, Chairman and Editor

WINIFREDYORE FORWOOD KATHLEENBROWN STEBBINS Managing Editor Advertising Manager

The articles which appear in SPECIALLIBRARIES express the views of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the opinion or the policy of the editorial staff and publisher.

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Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES1 By ELIZABETH FINLEY Librarian, Covington, Burling, Rublee, Acheson & Shorb, Washington, D. C.

OMETHING new has been add- sive that social scientists, economists ed to our profession, and whether and business men in general all have S we like it or not, it appears to be occasion to inquire into the history of here to stay. I speak as the practicing certain laws. lawyer's librarian, and I assure you the What, then, is a legislative history? most frequent request these days is It is, primarily, the committee hearings, "Can you give me the legislative history the committee reports, the debates and of this act?" the various drafts of a bill in its passage I can remember the halcyon pre-New through Congress. There are simple his- Deal days when a lawyer never seemed tories, where a bill is enacted within to have any doubt about the meaning of the span of one Congress, and without a statute, and the courts never seemed too much opposition; and there is the to delve very deeply into Congressional more complicated variety, where the intent. Those carefree days are gone bill crops up in Congress after Con- forever, I fear. Beginning with the revo- gress, and arouses a great deal of dis- lutionary idea of "caveat venditor" in- cussion both inside and outside the stead of "caveat emptor" in the Secur- legislative body. Let us consider the ities Act of 1933, lawyers and judges simpler type first, and, for the sake of have more and more inquired into the clarity, let us follow a bill's course background of a statute, apparently through the Congress. often with considerable incredulity that Congress could really mean what it said. COURSE OF A BILL THROUGH CONGRESS The only way to know what the Con- Let us take the legislative history of gress meant is to know what the Con- the Philippine Trade Act of 1946. It is gressmen, and the witnesses they heard, what I call a "simple" history because said about the law before it was enacted. it progressed from birth to maturity The need for us, as librarians, to within the span of one Congress, the know how to assemble a legislative his- 79th. Congressman Bell introduced tory is obvious. You can hardly read an three similar bills on various dates be- opinion of any federal court that does tween September 1945 and January not refer to the legislative intent. Prac- 1946, all of which were referred to the ticing lawyers more and more investi- House Committee on Ways and Means. gate the history of an act before advis- During October and November of 1945 ing a client, even if there is no prospect and February and March of 1946, the of court proceedings. And I do not be- Committee held public hearings on the lieve that the need is restricted to law- bills. After due consideration the Com- yers. The law is becoming so all-perva- mittee reported out a "clean" bill, H. R. 5856, and submitted a written report, 1 This article is a revision of a paper read House Report No. 1821. After only two at the annual meeting of the American Asso- days of debates, the House passed the ciation of Law Libraries, June 25, 1946. The bill, with amendments, on March 29th. original is published in the August 1946 issue of the Law Library Journal, volume 39, page The bill then went to the Senate, and 161. was referred to the Senate Committee 3 12 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December on Finance. Since the time of Philippine All of the ten years of material should independence was drawing near, that be in the legislative history. A bill, of Committee bestirred itself, and held course, dies with the Congress in which hearings in April of 1946. (Quite fre- it is introduced, but if the same idea quently a committee will delay for passes later, there is no reason why the months, or even years before consider- earlier reports and hearings will not ing a bill.) On April loth, the Com- help to interpret its meaning. There are mittee reported the bill, and submitted times, too, when special committees Senate Report No. 1145. Still moving have extensive hearings, not necessarily with unusual speed, the Senate debated on the bill but on the subject matter. and passed the bill on April 12th, with These are usually investigating com- its own amendments. The House and mittees and their hearings and reports Senate versions then had to be recon- are most important. On this Administra- ciled, so both houses appointed con- tive Procedure Bill for instance, there ferees who ironed out the differences, were two special committees which and on April 17th submitted a confer- made studies of the subject-the Presi- ence report, House Report 1955. The dent's Committee on Administrative Senate agreed to the conference report Management in 1937, and the Attorney on April 17th, and the House on April General's Committee on Administrative 18th. The President signed the bill on Procedure in 1940 and 1941. Their re- April 30th, and our infant H. R. 5856 ports, studies and monographs are all had made the grade. It became Public part of the history. Law 371 of the 79th Congress. The problem now is, how do we find All of this material should be in the all of this material? I have broken this legislative history. The printed hearings problem down into two sections: (1) of the two committees, the House, Sen- histories of current acts and (2) his- ate and conference reports, the bills in tories of past laws. The former are much the various stages, any amendments the easier to compile, and stand a much that may have been introduced (and better chance of being complete. printed) in either house, and the de- HISTORIES OF CURRENT ACTS bates clipped from the Congressional First, and most important, I read the Record. Congressional Record every day. "Read" In what I call a "complicated" his- is probably too strong a term, as no one tory the material is the same, but there could really read the Record and keep is more of it. Take for instance the Ad- his sanity. I should say I "scan" the ministrative Procedure Bill, approved Record. If a bill that I think is likely to by the President on June 11, 1946. In be of some permanent interest is re- one form or another that bill has been ported, I start a file on it. Since thou- kicking around Congress for ten years. sands of bills are introduced and never It has advanced to various stages short heard of again, I usually wait until a of passage in five Congresses. Through bill has come out of Committee. Into those ten years there have been hear- the file I put the bill, and all companion ings, reports and debates, as well as bills and related bills. Only one bill has bills. Besides that, almost every Bar As- a chance of passing, but the others em- sociation in the country has, at one time body some Congressman's idea at some or another, expressed itself for or against stage. I add the committee report and the idea. It is a law that is going to be the hearings, and clip the debates from of tremendous importance to all law- the Record. The pagination of the daily yers practicing before any federal agen- Record is not the same as that of the cy. It will directly affect any business bound Record, and if you can find the man who deals with any federal agency. time it is a wonderful idea to indicate 19471 LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES 3 13 the permanent edition pagination on get an idea they are a tenacious tribe. your clipped pages. As the bill pro- They now want a history of every stat- gresses I add each new form of the bill, ute they consider-no matter how an- amendments proposed, further reports, cient or how obscure. Of course your hearings and debates. When and if the library has not compiled histories from bill becomes law the material is all way back when-What to do? there, ready to be indexed and bound. You start with the bound Congres- The committee reports are always cited sional Record, this time. If the statute is in the Record, but the hearings are not. recent enough, you can obtain the bill A committee does not always hold hear- number from the Statutes at Large. If ings, though more often than not it does. you only have the popular name of the The daily newspapers are a good guide statute you can, of course, find the cita- to what is going on in the committees, tion from Shepard's Federal Acts by and there are various commercial ser- Popular Names or from the United vices which aim to keep you advised. A States Code Popular Name Index. Arm- check of the Monthly Catalog of the ed with the bill number you go to the Government Printing Office will usually Record Index for the appropriate Con- tell you when the hearings are in print. gress. The index will give you the re- As a last resort you can always ask the port numbers and page references to committee. the debates. The bills themselves will If you miss your guess on which bills be unobtainable, so you may as well be are important and fail to start a file, firm about that.l If you are a depository you are still not necessarily lost, if you library you will have the reports-prob- catch it soon enough. The House issues ably. The reports will frequently men- a daily cumulative calendar, with a sub- tion hearings -if hearings were held. ject index on Mondays, which will tell The hearings, again, are the difficulty. you where a bill, that has been reported Not every bill has hearings, or if there to either branch, stands. It does not list were hearings, they may have been on bills until they have been reported. The predecessor bills. The House and Senate committees also issue cumulative cal- libraries have published indexes to hear- endars periodically, which are invalu- ings in their libraries which are most able, though rather difficult to obtain. useful. The Senate index is in two vol- The House calendar will not tell you umes and covers up to January 1941. about hearings--only about reports and The House index, in one volume, is up debates and passage. The committee to January 1943. Since these are only calendars, on the other hand, will tell indexes to hearings in the libraries, the you what happened to the bill from the lack of an entry does not necessarily moment the committee received it. Bills prove there was no hearing. But it is are frequently referred to one or more about as close as you can get. The daily departments of the government before edition of the Record will probably be the committee takes any action. The out of print, and, unless you are willing committee calendar will show such ref- to mutilate a bound volume by clipping erence, and will also indicate the de- it, you will not be able to include the partment's reply, if any. debates in your history. But if you in- HISTORIES OF PAST LAWS clude the page references to the Record But suppose you need a history of a in your index to the history, you will statute that was passed ten years ago, have eased the research problem. and you probably will. Although the Other aids to tracing the histories of craze for legislative histories started 2 The only complete file of bills that I know with the New Deal, it is not confined to of is in the Library of Congress. One could, recent laws. Once judges and lawyers at considerable expense, get photostat copies. 3 14 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December past acts are the CCH Congressional In- yers and judges and others who rely on dex Service, the Legislative Reference them for interpretation of the law. The Digest of the Library of Congress, and, problem has been recognized by the of course, the Congressional Record In- Law Librarians' Society of Washington, dex. All of these confine themselves to D. C., a chapter of the American Asso- one Congress only. None of these is per- ciation of Law Libraries. Mrs. Mar- fect, but by putting them all together garett James, of the Claims Division Li- you will add up to a reasonably ac- brary of the Department of Justice, is curate picture. The difficulty about chairman of a committee which has these histories of past laws is that even compiled a union list of legislative his- if you have the citations to all the ma- tories in twenty-three libraries in the terial you need, you will be unable to District of Columbia. Her list, admitted- find most of it. Committee reports and ly only a preliminary list, was published hearings go out of print in a very few in the November 1946 issue of the Law years. Library Journal. The Legislative Refer- ence Group of the washington Chapter I have confined my remarks to his- of Special Libraries Association has re- tories of federal laws. Although lawyers cently appointed a committee to study would like to have the legislative his- methods and procedures on the same tory of state laws too, so far as I know subject. These two Washington groups there is no comparable material for the are hoping to collaborate on an enlarged states. Many states have law revision list for the District of Columbia. How- commissions which suggest legislation, ever, there is no reason to suppose that and sometimes the local Bar Associa- legislative histories are exclusive with tions have legislative committees which the Capital. I think it would be a splen- report for or against proposed bills. But did idea if the two national associations P do not know of any state where the could cooperate on a nation-wide union legislature itself prepares written re- list. We, as librarians, will have to pro- ports or hearings. duce legislative histories. Any help we This, then, is our problem. To find can give each other will be a real con- and collect legislative histories for law- tribution to the profession.

USES OF LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES By MINNIE WIENER Librarian, Law Library, Federal Works Agency, Washington, D. C.

HAT is a legislative history? A fying for and against the legislation; the legislative history (and in this reports which not only contain the rec- W paper I am confining myself to ommendations of the Senate and House Federal histories) usually comprises a committees but often include general chronological arrangement of those ma- background material and set forth the terials which contain a record of the ac- need and purposes of the legislation; the tion by Congress in the passage of a Congressional Record containing the de- law and, as Elizabeth Finley has stated bates on the Senate and House floors; in her excellent article1, consists basic- and the various prints of the bill show- ally of the Congressional hearings con- ing the changes made by the commit- taining the statements of witnesses testi- tees and on the floors of both Houses. There is a wide variance in the style 1 Legislative Histories. See p. 311 this issue. and contents of a legislative history, and 19471 USES OF LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES 315 rightly so, for the nature of the history of such legislation, a clarification or de- is determined by ( 1) use made of it and finition of its provisions, the views and (2) knowledge, experience and re- opinions of the witnesses testifying be- sourcefulness of compiler and an appre- fore the committees and the sentiments ciation of the compiler for legislative of the members of Congress as express- and related materials. The comwehen- ed in the committee reports and on the sive form that a history might take and floors of the Senate and House-in other the use made of it by the courts is well words, the legislative history. For ex- expressed by Sutherland : ample, librarians in Veterans' hospitals "In construing an 'ambiguous' statute, and other librarians serving veterans courts do not limit their search for the would find the history on the Service- legislative intent to sources embodied in the published act, such as the title of the men's Readjustment Act of 1944, more act, its preamble, chapter, article and sec- popularly referred to as the GI Bill of tion headings, and marginal notes-'intrin- Rights, extremely valuable in answering sic' aids-but they will consider sources many of the questions that arise as to outside the printed page-'extrinsic' aids the educational benefits under the law; to interpretation. Extrinsic aids to the interpretation of statutes deal with the the conditions under which veterans history of the statute. They may be Iegis- may make loans for the purchase or lative, executive, judicial, or nongovern- construction of homes, farms and busi- mental in their origin and may .be chron- ness property; the provisions governing ologicaIly divided into (1) the events leading up to the introduction of the bill the employment of veterans; and the out of which the statute under consider- rights of veterans to unemployment ation developed, (2) the consideration of compensation. These opportunities of the original bill from the time of its intro- the veteran and the responsibilities of duction until its final enactment as the present statute, and (3) the history of the the Federal Government in the rehabili- statute since its enactment."z tation of the veteran are clarified, ex- IMPORTANCE OF LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES plained and analyzed in the committee The value of a legislative history to reports and the voluminous hearings the courts, lawyers and law librarians as and debates. an invaluable source in determining the Another history of far-reaching im- intent of Congress and in construing and portance to the class of librarians serv- interpreting the laws is self-evident and ing special groups, and one which may I shall, therefore, not concern myself be considered truly indispensable is that with the use of histories by those en- on the Administrative Procedure Act gaged in the field of law. My purpose in approved June 11, 1946, which affects writing this paper is to give wider pub- "individuals, partnerships, corporations, licity to legislative histories, to point out associations, or public or private organi- the tremendous im~ortanceof them to zations of any character" having an in- librarians who serve three general terest in the Federal Administrative classes : ( 1) special organizations, so- functions as to licenses, orders, rule cieties or groups, (2) educational insti- making, adjudication, hearings and de- tutions and (3) the general public. cisions. Here is an instance where the To take the first class, it is obvious Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Com- that where legislation, either enacted or mittee appreciated the value of a legis- proposed, directly affects a special asso- lative history as a guide and was re- ciation, organization, society or group, sponsible for the printing of Adminis- a librarian serving such an agency trative Procedure Act, Legislative His- would be performing a better job were tory, 1944-46.3 This document contains she to have a source for the purposes

3 Sen. Doc. No. 248, 79th Cong., 2d Sess. 2 Statutory Construction ( 1943) 481-482. (1946) 458 p. 316 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

those committee reports, committee ruinous depre~sion."~This history plus hearings and proceedings from the Con- the Economic Reports of the President gressional Record which, in the opinion and the Council of Economic Advisers of the Chairman, would serve as an aid constitute a source of official documents in understanding the provisions of the which represent the considered efforts Act. Because a knowledge of the opera- of the President and Congress to estab- tions of the administrative agencies is a lish a stable economy within the frame- prerequisite to the understanding of the work of private enterprise. Again, a stu- Act, an important auxiliary of this legis- dent in political science can learn much lative history is Part I1 of the Federal about our Federal Government and its Register of September 11, 19464 which operating units by studying the many contains the organizational and pro- efforts of Congress and the President to cedural material of the various govern- reorganize the executive departments mental departments.5 and independent establishments to ef- To take the second class: librarians fect economy, e 1i m i n a t e overlapping serving in educational institutions. Since and duplication, and generally to in- the law is to a large extent a record of crease efficiency. The legislative his- the progress of the nation, and since the tories on the Reorganization Act of ultimate purpose of public education is 1945, under which six reorganization the advancement of the nation, I be- plans have been submitted to date, and lieve that it is the responsibility of the Act for the Establishment of the school librarians to see that students of Commission on the Organization of the sociology, economics, political science, Executive Branch of the Government, education and labor study the whys and approved July 7, 1947, comprise two re- wherefores of legislation, i.e. legislative cent excellent sources in political sci- histories of laws affecting the housing ence. Also, the legislative history on the conditions, the health, the employment, Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 the education and even the freedom of presents a fine study of the United the individual in a democracy such as States Congress in action. ours. For, in the last analysis, only after Finally, we come to the librarians we understand the laws that govern the who serve the general public. My case nation can efforts be made to improve for the public use of the legislative his- the conditions of society. tories is based on the following argu- It is my contention that legislative ments: ( 1) that most laws directly af- histories contain a wealth of sociological fect the well-being of all of us, (2) that material which has been virtually un- under our system of government the tapped. To illustrate, a student of eco- public can actively participate in the nomics or labor would do well to study passage or opposition of such laws (and, the legislative history of the Employ- I might add, parenthetically, that the ment Act of 1946 which in the words of extent of such participation is a measur- the President ". . . gives expression to ing stick of the functioning of the demo- a deep-seated desire for a conscious and cratic processes), and (3) in order to positive attack upon the ever-recurring intelligently and effectively participate problems of mass unemployment and in our government, it is necessary for the public to understand the legislation. 4 See also subsequent issues of the Federal A legislative history comprises the Registers for late submissions to the National know-how! How much better fortified Archives and for amendments and corrections. the nation will be if an informed elec- 6 Published pursuant to section 3 (a) (1) and (2) of the Act. torate appreciates the factors involved 6 President's statement on the signing of the in the enactment or defeat of legislation Act, dated February 20, 1946. by understanding the legislative senti- 19411 USES OF LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES 3 17 ments of his Senator or Congressman. tection against the major economic haz- Let me give you an example of legis- ards besetting American families-the lation vitally affecting the public but costs of medical and hospital care, and which failed of action because, in my loss of income in case of unemployment, opinion, the public was not aware of the sickness, disability, retirement or death significance of the measure. A bill, popu- of the bread~inner."~This halting of larly referred to as the Wagner-Ellen- democratic processes would not have der-Taft Bill (S. 1592) and introduced obtained had we an informed public. at the last Congress had, as its purpose, President Truman well recognized the the expeditious construction of adequate weight of 'public opinion when he ap- housing. This proposed legislation was pealed to the people to sustain his veto of far-reaching effect and concerned the of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. welfare not only of veterans and their families, to whom special consideration USE OF LEGISLATIVE HISTORY BY THE was given, but of all the population in- LAYMAN cluding persons of the lower-income Earlier in this paper I stated that the brackets living in substandard houses. nature of the legislative history should Despite the fact that the bill repre- be determined by its use. A lay libra- sented the result of more than two years rian, as distinguished from a law libra- of study by committees of the Senate, rian, need not concern himself with the and despite the fact that the Senate technical amendments or developments passed the bill after extensive hearings in the language of the bill, nor need he were held by it from November 1945 to concern himself with the procedural January 1946, the Act was pigeonholed rules of either House that are followed by the House Committee on Banking by committees in effecting such revi- and Currency. I submit that had the sions, nor is his concern the construction public been informed, had the public or interpretation given to words and had access to materials and information phrases of the measure. All of this as to the pros and cons of the legisla- properly belongs within the province of tion, had it been aware of the groups judges, lawyers and law librarians. represented at the hearings and the po- What does interest us here is that in- sition of those groups, had it been in- formation and those legislative mate- formed of the claims made for the legis- rials which will enable the layman to lation by various factions for and against better understand the bill and to de- the measure, the public would have de- termine intelligently and independently manded action. It was vital legislation whether or not the proposed legislation affecting the well-being of a large sec- will operate to his welfare. Here, we tion of the country, yet it was stale- are concerned only with the broad pur- mated. Now a similar bill (S. 866) by poses of the bill, the effect it will have the same authors is pending. Will it on us as individuals or a group--what meet with the same fate? it promises to accomplish. Therefore, Another instance of legislation of na- histories for the use of the layman tional significance which failed of action should constitute a primary and official because of lack of public support, was source of information to educate the a plan to provide for the national se- public that it may take an active part curity, health and public welfare7 and in the passage or defeat of legislation which, in the words of Senator Wagner, vitally affecting it. had as its general purpose the ". . . pro- In conclusion, the librarian, in this regard, can do much toward encourag-

7 S. 1050, 79th Cong., introduced by Senator Wagner. 8 91 Cong. Rec. 4920 (1945). 3 18 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December ing and directing the reading public to public the materials which will explain use the legislative histories of a library. how a bill is enacted, what are its pur- We will come closer to having a true poses, who is for it, who against it. Let democracy if the public takes a more us as librarians serve the ingredients or active and intelligent part in its govern- the facts and the public will do its own ment toward correcting evils of a social, mixing--come to its own conclusions. political and economic nature. The alert In our democracy the Congress is amen- librarian can make his contribution to able to public opinion, to the wishes of this end by making available to the its constituents, to the will of the people.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES FOR PRIVATE BUSINESS By MIRIAM C. VANCE Librarian, The National Fertilizer Association, Washington, D. C.

IELDS of operation in private publication of general circulation which businesses are very broad and in provides daily information on all bills Feach session of the Congress there introduced in the Congress of the are many bills introduced, which if en- United States, and this publication is acted, would bear either directly or in- daily "must" reading for the legislative directly on their operations. Practically reference librarian. all private businesses maintain legal As the Congressional Record is read, staffs responsible for analyzing the laws the special librarian clips, marks, slips, to make sure such legal provisions are analyzes, abstracts or otherwise gleans carried out by their management and to items which may affect her employer's keep in touch with legislation in the interests. This perusal is of necessity a making. task which must be performed carefully In order that legal experts may make and accurately in order to isolate all appropriate suggestions on pending leg- provisions of legislation whether orig- islation affecting their organizations, inal language or amendments, sections, they must follow closely all legislative sentences or phrases, or even comments activities of the Congress. passed in reported debates, which may To this end, it is necessary that cer- have a bearing sometime in the future tain administrative officials be informed. on the policies of the business. They should have accurate detailed in- Administrative personnel and legal formation immediately available con- staffs frequently require exact informa- cerning each bill introduced in the Con- tion on the current status of legislation gress which is likely to affect them, and pending in the Congress, and for this which they should follow both in the purpose legislative histories are an in- House of Representatives and in the dispensable library tool developed to Senate, through all of its legislative keep track of Congressional activities. stages, including committee hearings, Legislative histories provide facts and committee reports and floor debates. information for legal and administrative This necessary function has created a use which would not otherwise be avail- new field for the special library profes- able but which must be researched for sion-the librarian who is a specialist protection of the interests involved. in legislative reference, The librarian designated to read the The Congressional Record is the only Record is usually responsible for the 19471 LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES FOR PRIVATE BUSINESS 3 19

compilation of legislative histories and as it lists bills as introduced day by day before one is completed the librarian and cites their position on the calendar will probably have been in communi- in each House. The "Daily Digest" also cation with the Congressional commit- reports the procedure of all committees tees involved, with the Department of and sub-committees of both the Senate State and with the Executive Offices of and House, when and where they are the President, in order to ascertain meeting, and on what bills reports are without delay the exact status of the being made. bill under compilation. In other words, If hearings are held before a bill is the special librarian working in this reported out of Committee, the "Daily field, in order to prepare a comprehen- Digest" announces where each hearing sive legislative history, must observe is to be held and the names of the wit- every action on a bill immediately upon nesses who are to testify on given dates. the assignment of a bill number when It is often presumed that the bills reported out of committee. (If the com- introduced in the Congress affect only mittee fails to report a bill within what the Federal Departments and Agencies seems to be a reasonable time, then the but this is not the case. Many of the librarian must watch for a motion to bills benefit private business, or ad- discharge the committee.) versely may interfere with their work- The next step after being reported ings if not carefully reviewed for pro- out of committee is placement on the tection of their interests. calendar, and it may be the "Consent Here again the legislative history is Calendar" if the proposed legislative ac- used to keep abreast with the actions of tion is deemed sufficiently important. the Congress on any given bill and to Finally, all debates must be watched for digest the testimony offered at any hear- any changes in text, such as amend- ings which may be held on the bill. The ments, and whether the bill is thrown hearings are most important as they into conference. It is at this point that reflect public opinion to the extent wit- it is most important to have in the leg- nesses for or against a bill present their islative history compilation the draft of opinions to the Congress. the bill which contains the numbered Briefly, the action of Congress may be amendments and the conference re- traced as follows: ports. Having this material at hand is Every public bill is numbered and the only method which will yield com- printed when referred to a committee; parison of amendments in disagreement study of the provisions is then under- and continuity until complete agree- taken by the committee membership ment is reached. and often by a subcommittee, before As a reference aid, the Congressional the proponents and opponents of the Record Index is a complete and ac- contemplated 1egis lat ion are heard curate index which is always a great when hearings are called. help in preparing legislative histories. It If a committee fails to report a bill is also possible to check against the his- within what seems to be a reasonable tory of bills as recorded therein when time, the author of the bill may have making individual 1egis 1 at iv e history the privilege of entering a motion to compilations. discharge the committee from its fur- The new "Daily Digest" which is ther consideration. printed in the Record starting with the If the motion is agreed to, the bill is 80th Congress fills a long-felt need and taken out of the jurisdiction of the com- is of inestimable value to researchers of mittee and placed on the calendar. After legislative material. This branches out a bill is reported from a Committee, it to cover more than the history of a bill is placed on the calendar-occasionally 320 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December the "Consent Calendar", but usually on ence report which must be agreed to in the calendar with unprivileged bills toto by both Houses before the bill can wherever it belongs under the rule by become law. If there is disagreement on direction of the Speaker. any of the numbered amendments, an- When the bill is brought up in reg- other conference must be called. ular order on the House floor, it is de- Each phase through which congres- bated and, if passed, referred to the sional action passes adds to the com- Senate committee. This procedure is re- pilation of a legislative history and each peated in the Senate and unless the bill item added increases the work load of is sent to Conference, it has then passed the legislative reference librarian. As both Houses and is signed by the Vice each transition occurs the special legis- President and the Speaker of the House lative reference librarian must be in- and sent to the President for approval. creasingly alert to note every angle of When a bill is returned to the House the proposed legislation. Sometimes in with Senate amendments in which the debate and sometimes in committee a House does not agree, conferees are factor is changed which may work to appointed and the final draft of the bill advantage or perhaps to decided dis- which contains numbered amendments advantage of private business; and when of the Senate is considered by the con- the pending legislation has passed into ferees. This is presented as a Confer- law it is too late to remedy the situation.

THE UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION LIBRARY By CORNELIA NOTZ Librarian, United States Tariff Commission, Washington, D. C.

NDUSTRY, always alert to financial curate information on all new and pend- returns, for some reason or other ing legislation which may vitally affect I did not generally recognize the value their interests and cause losses. As legis- of special libraries of its own until after lation today affects every business and the first World War. Even now, when industry in one way or another, legisla- they discovered after the second World tive knowledge upon which policy can War what research and special libraries be based assumes greater importance. did for German industry, British and Yet legislative material, if it reaches Canadian industry are more enthusi- industry at all, has a way of burying astic about these services than U. S. in- itself in individual offices without com- dustry. Only recently, for instance, the ing to the attention of the officers Royal Bank of Canada, certainly not charged with the making of policy. In- interested in sentiment or lacking in stead of developing legislative refer- subjects for discussion, devoted the en- ence services of their own, industry and tire issue of its December 1946 month- business have been relying more and ly letter to a splendid discussion of busi- more on the services of commercial let- ness libraries. True, many of our indus- ters, lobbyists, pressure groups or spe- tries have organized scientific and tech- cial representatives who gather infor- nical libraries to advance their prod- mation for their sponsors and try to ucts but have failed to recognize the influence votes favoring their special importance of having current and ac- interests. For instance, some concerns 19471 THE UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION LIBRARY 32 1 send key men to Washington occasion- meet the needs of executives and spe- ally to "get the feel." Under the "Reg- cial investigators. ulation of Lobbying Act," Public Law The idea of establishing legislative 601 (79th Congress), 850 lobbyists, not reference services in industry and busi- counting office personnel and assistants, ness is new and unique and has not are registered. Dan Williams wrote in been publicized to any extent. In cases the Washington Post of March 24, where interest was apparent the Special 1946: "It has been estimated that there Libraries Association was ready to give are three lobbyists for every member of aid. Congress." It is difficult to discover the The cost of the service is trifling com- actual cost to industry for this service pared with lobbying expenses and but it is certain to run very high. Lob- should hardly be felt by large concerns. byists are often lawyers who are accus- Small businesses cannot afford to hire tomed to handling broad subjects but lobbyists or have an office in Washing- are not interested in actual digging for ton. They must secure their informa- details. They obtain their more or less tion as best they can from the daily reliable information in diverse ways. press, their associates, the grapevine or Dan Williams in the story cited above the public library. However, by sharing says : "Friendship, entertainment are expenses with others, even if interested used mainly; sometimes gold; some- in different lines, the leading concerns times wine and women." in any community and perhaps the pub- Research workers in industry and lic library or the Chamber of Com- business are becoming increasingly li- merce could set up a cooperative legis- brary conscious. They find, too, that lative service adequate for their com- they need the information furnished di- munity. rectly and indirectly by what Congress, Outside of a few commercial services, through its bills and resolutions, pro- such as the Commerce Clearing House poses to do in their particular sphere. Congressional Index; Legislative Daily Many of them who come to Washing- published by the Chamber of Commerce ton in search of this information waste of the U. S.; and the Congressional much time and money going from place Daily published by Congressional In- to place. Most of this could be avoided telligence, Inc., Washington, D. C., few if they had a special legislative refer- books are necessary. The expenses for ence service at their command at home. printed material are negligible. The ma- A recent example of this was a lawyer terial consists mainly of Congressional from one of our large cities. In his study bills, hearings, reports and other docu- of the reorganization of Congress, com- ments, press clippings and file cases. It pletion of his work was prevented by is self-indexing because filed by legis- one important missing link which he lative bill number and by subject. Cata- was unable to find, a Symposium by loging is unnecessary for this loose ma- Members of Congress and Others, now terial. out of print. He had spent several days The entire set-up however is useless in search of this. As it is one of the sub- if left to the untrained or disinterested jects in which the Tariff commission worker. In the hands of a trained and is interested, a copy was found in its efficient special librarian this material legislative and documentary file to- will be put to a maximum of intelligent gether with press comments and other use. Those at the helm will be reliably material, all of which was made avail- and promptly informed of any legisla- able to him through the library. This tion or changes that might affect them is the way the legislative reference ser- and thus be able to steer their ship safe- vice of any good library can and should ly between Scylla and Charybdis 322 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

HOW THIS TYPE OF SERVICE OPERATES key to the contents. For instance some- Perhaps you are interested to know one wanted the "Buy American Act!' how a service of this kind operates. Let's Intensive research revealed that what make a tour, one a bit out of the ordi- was sometimes called by that name was nary, a visit to the Legislative Refer- in reality Title I11 of the Treasury ence section of the U. S. Tariff Com- Dept. Appropriation Act, 1934. Then mission's library. This began on a very she proceeds to tell us that she receives small scale in 1917 shortly after the daily five copies of every bill. These are organization of the Commission, but its examined and those of interest to the legislative material dates as far back as Commission are retained. Two copies 1842 and the special tariff material is are placed in the bill files, one of which carefully cataloged. As legislation be- is arranged numerically, the other by came more intricate, the scope of the subject; the third copy is sent to the work increased in order to meet the de- Legal Division, while the fourth and mands for current authentic informa- fifth copies go to the specialists inter- tion on legislation pertaining to the ested in the particular subject. If addi- Commission's work until now it is a full- tional copies are required a messenger fledged legislative reference section. is despatched to the Capitol to fetch While the quarters are small and every them together with any reports, hear- bit of wall space in the cubicle is lined ings, acts or documents that are needed. with file cabinets and book cases, the As soon as they are received they are greeting from the assistant in charge distributed within the Commission. makes us feel like long-awaited, wel- 10 :3 0 a.m. -The Congressional Rec- come guests. ord of the day previous is waiting to be 9 :30 a.m. -She has been busy since indexed for special use by the commis- 8:45 checking the morning papers, the sioners and executives. The telephone Congressional Record and other sources rings again and the wool specialist of information to learn what Congres- wants help in locating a very important sional committee hearings of interest to statement someone was supposed to the Commission are scheduled for to- have made within the last year but the day; where and when they are to be informant didn't know whether it was held; what witnesses are to be heard made in the course of a conversation or and the numbers of the bills under con- whether it appeared somewhere in print. sideration. This information she relays, The assistant takes from the subject file typed, to the commodity divisions and the folder containing the legislative his- economists interested in the subjects of tory of the Wool Act of 1948. While the bills in time for the specialists to looking through this she explains to her present themselves at the Capitol when visitors that the important subject fold- the hearings are opened. While she is ers are constantly growing. With the explaining this procedure to us the tele- continued addition of clippings from phone rings and the sugar specialist the Congressional Record, the Federal wants to know the status of the Sugar Register, newspapers, White House and Act of 1948. Having called the Capitol State Department press releases, Con- a few minutes earlier regarding the in- gressional bills, hearings, reports and formation, she is able to tell her inquirer other pertinent matter, these folders that the bill is still in conference. furnish a complete history of the legis- A messenger enters with a package of lation which usually enables the assist- Congressional bills. While the assistant ant to produce the wanted information sorts these out and sends them to the on short notice. The statement called interested Divisions she explains to us for by the wool specialist, however, is that the title of a bill is not always a not in the folder and it becomes appar- 19471 THE UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION LIBRARY 323 ent that considerable research is re- only person familiar with the printed quired to locate the statement if it exists hearings having prepared an index to at all. For the time being the .matter is both hearings and monographs. Con- laid aside in favor of routine work. gress, however, has not appropriated By this time the visitors are so inter- funds to have it printed and therefore ested in the subject file that they ask the index is not available. As an aside and are granted permission to look at it the assistant remarks that documents more closely and examine the folders such as hearings, reports, etc., are of with subject guides and table of con- much importance in library work. Valu- tents for the legislative histories. able information is hidden away in them 11 :00 a.m. -While they are thus oc- but because most of the documents are cupied the assistant begins to index her not indexed the volumes are apt to re- copy of the current Congressional Rec- main closed books. A great part of the ord, bringing out only items of interest indexing that is available, however, has to the Commission's work. She types the been done by Miss Hasse, well known stencil while she indexes and when this as one of the outstanding indexers and is completed the stencil is rushed to the bibliographers in this country. Graphic section where it is mimeo- A telephone call to Miss Hasse brings graphed. The completed work is rushed prompt response in the form of numer- back to the Legislative Reference sec- ous citations all of which are important tion and is distributed from that point. because the industry itself was not rep- 1 :00 p.m. -Lunch time. The visitors resented by witnesses but interesting depart but return promptly at 1 :30. At statements about it were made bv vari- this time a call comes from one of the ous witnesses testifying for other inter- textile specialists who wants to know ests. Immediately markers are inserted why cordage was shifted from the duti- in the proper places and the material able list to the free list in 1921. In con- is sent to the inquiring specialist. nection with this he wants to compare 4: 15 p.m. -The wool question is the wording of the Tariff Act of 1921 still unfinished business. The vagueness with that of 1913. He is given the Con- of the request makes it difficult to de- ference and Ways and Means Commit- cide on a course of action. Through tee reports which supplied the informa- various phone calls to congressional, de- tion. partmental and private sources, each of 3:30 p.m.-Now, a rush call. This which furnished a lead, the way points time a minerals specialist wants to know more clearly in the right direction. After whether a certain industry testified at about an hour's research the answer is the Temporary National Economic found in the hearings on the Interior Committee hearings. As there is no Department's appropriation of last year printed index to these volumes the task in the section dealing with grazing lands. of finding the information seems hope- 5: 15 p.m.- Here it is closing time less. After thumbing unsuccessfully and we must bid the tourists farewell in through several volumes, the assistant the hope that they will pay the Tariff telephones the office of the man who Commission's Library a real visit next nine years ago was TNEC Chairman. He June when the Special Libraries Asso- reports that Miss Adelaide Hasse is the ciation convenes in Washington. THE SCANDINAVIAN LIBRARIANS' CONGRESS IN COPENHAGEN AUGUST 13 - 16, 1947 By JORAN BIRKELAND Cultural Officer in Charge of the United States Information Service Library for Denmark

N August 13, 1947, there stream- tras, pantomime shows and many, many ed into Copenhagen by train, good little restaurants. 0 ferry, bus, plane and otherwise The Lord Mayor bade the guests from Finland, Norway, Sweden and pro- welcome, and the chairman of each vincial Denmark, hundreds of librarians body of delegates expressed their to participate in the fifth Scandinavian thanks in the ordered, informally form- Librarians' Congress. They were guests al style in Scandinavia. Afterwards, the of the Danish Libraries' Association guests were invited upstairs for a cup of ( Danmarks Biblioteksforening) and tea -to find enormous tables laden they were meeting for the first time with hundreds of colorful, tempting tid- since their liberation from six long years bits to accompany the tea, coffee or of isolation under the Nazi shroud. To- beer. Danes are no longer able to set gether with the host librarians, the dele- the habitually lavish board of pre-war gates numbered over 600. The United years, but guests in town rarely realize States Information Service librarians this from the unstinting hospitality from Sweden and Denmark were in- shown them. vited to attend the Congress as guests, The Congress lasted three full days, through the thoughtful courtesy of Miss or until late afternoon of Saturday, Aase Borregaard, head of the Danish August 16. Packed into those three days State Library Administration's Office of was the world of librarianship in Scan- Information, and secretary of the Dan- dinavia; its history, its achievement, its ish Librarians' Association. problems, its future, its creative person- The American Library Association ality, its spicy give and take, its self- was also informally represented by Mr. criticism and, above all, its spirit of co- Magnus Christoffersen, Danish-Ameri- operation. Like brothers in a "normal" can trained and educated in Denmark household, Swedes and Norwegians, and now librarian at the Hartford, Con- Norwegians and Danes, Finns and necticut, Public Library. Swedes, all challenged one another on The welcoming festivities were staged first this side and then that, but basic- in the Copenhagen City Hall, which ally, inevitably, there is the bond born faces the City Square. The Square was, of early and long association which is in August, still pimpled by the air-raid far stronger than surface irritations. shelter mounds. Around it rise Copen- The public library system and the hagen's many 1o v e 1y green-coppered scientific, or special, library movement spires, and it rests only a stone's throw were both exhaustively reviewed in the from the ancient, bebridged canal, a three days of lectures and discussions. few seconds' walk from the fine old This article deals primarily with the Tivoli garden with its impeccable flow- special library movement in Denmark, er-beds, its fountains, concert orches- but certain highlights from the Danish public library world demand mention A third development in Danish li- in view of the modern recognition of brary activity of tremendous interest to the library as a living community enter- an outsider is the system of royalties prise in a world seeking to rationalize paid by the libraries to Danish authors. its existence for the perpetuation of By law, contemporary Danish authors freedom of thought, speech and act&. receive a certain percentage from the First should be mentioned the spirit circulation of their works at State, or of Theodore D+ssing, Director of the national, government-supported libra- Danish public library system until his ries, in proportion to the number of their appointment in 1945 as Danish Min- works, exceeding fifty, by which they ister to the Union of Socialist Soviet are represented on the shelves. An au- Republics, where he served until he thor's income in Denmark may be thus died in 1947. considerably augmented from the use "Let us, for once, proclaim, quite of his books by library patrons. It is the brutally, that it matters not one whit if Danish authors' league that has brought our country is equipped with libraries this principle into law, and the move- or not, if we cannot perform a library ment was initiated by Peter Freuchen, service of an entirely different sort than who is well-known as a writer in the is performed in many places . . . There United States as well as in Denmark. is a grievous fault in our activity in that A similar system exists in Norway. we do not discriminate; both heaven Finally, the most impressive single and hell are lacking in our preaching." fact regarding the public, or general, li- These strong words by Theodore D+s- brary system in Denmark-particularly sing were quoted by the president of in comparison with the United States the Danish Libraries' Association, Mr. system -is its compact, closely-knit R. Lassen, county magistrate of Svend- character, and the support it receives borg on Funen. "It is the reader's free- from the national, or Royal, govern- dom we must preserve-the right of ment. A network of 33 central libraries, the individual to have access, through serves, and, in a measure, controls the libraries, to a cosmopolitan selection of thousands of smaller district and "par- books, representing all viewpoints, in- ish" libraries, throughout the 500 islands cluding the minority viewpoint. It is not and the mainland (Jutland) that com- the function of a library movement to prise the Kingdom of Denmark. Over select only such books of which it ap- them all is one single director, and all proves . . . Every man has not only a general, public librarians in Denmark right to his own opinion, but the right are trained in one school, also govern- to seek to influence others-at the same ment supported. The whole system, in time that he allows others to disagree." turn, falls as an entity under the Min- Another aspect of the Danish library istry of Education. State, or Royal, sup- movement striking the foreign observer port in 1947-48 is budgeted at about was brought out by the present director four million crowns ($1 equals 4.81 of the public library movement, Mr. crowns). Local support for the smaller Robert L. Hansen. There has been a libraries is matched to as high as 80% significant decline since 1940 in the by the national government. number of books loaned in Danish li- SPECIAL LIBRARIES IN DENMARK braries-a decline that amounts almost So much for the public, or general, to a condition of stagnation. To combat library system as it was presented to the this condition, the Danish library sys- Congress by its host delegation. Closely tem is preparing the ground for a pub- allied to it in many ways is the system lic relations and publicity program of scientific, or special, libraries in Den- through radio, press and film. mark. Of these there are 22. Over them 326 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December all is the Royal, or the King's, Library. ing, as such, is required. Daily library A massive, ancient structure set in a practice after appointment is assumed cloister-like atmosphere beside the to provide such necessary training, al- Royal Castle and the Parliament build- though there is a growing recognition of ing in the very heart of Copenhagen, the desirability of library training such one approaches it along a quiet pond as is required of librarians in general where ducks and swans feed all day libraries, particularly since many of the long with the same complacent security lower staff members in scientific libra- of the pigeons behind the Public Li- ries do have such training. Efforts are brary in Forty-second Street and Fifth under wav in all Scandinavian countries Avenue. Next in hierarchial line is the to establish library training as a pre- University of Copenhagen Library, with requisite for even a head librarian at a its two sections-the humanities and scientific library. Two obstacles are in the sciences. Then follows the whole the way of the fulfillment of this goal: array, from one end of Copenhagen to ( 1) the number of librarians required the other, of advanced scientific, or spe- yearly in each of the countries is so cial, libraries: the Royal Polytechnical small that the training course would be College Library, the Royal Agricultural unreasonably expensive and (2) the and Veterinary College Library, the general scholastic requirements are al- Copenhagen Graduate Business School ready so high that these are rarely satis- Library, the Royal Academy of Arts Li- fied before the age of 25, and an addi- brary, the Industrial Arts Library, the tional course in library practice would Seamen's Library, the Pharmaceutical thereby make the total training dispro- College Library, etc., etc., and last, but portionately long in view of the eco- not least, the third largest State Library nomic compensation available. Finland of Aarhus in Jutland which is a copy- and Sweden, however, have each suc- right library. ceeded in providing a measure of li- These and many others-totalling to- brary training. In Denmark the subject gether about 50 large scientific libra- is under study. In Norway, considerable ries throughout Scandinavia -were progress has been made. If a common represented at the Congress. A sub- Scandinavian training could be estab- ject of lively, if subtle, debate was lished the first obstacle could be sur- the proposition that all the scientific mounted, and if each country's govern- libraries in Scandinavia be joined to ment would support the plan economic- form a "Nordic Scientific Librarians' ally, the second obstacle might be sur- Union". The motion was carried that a mounted as well, according to Mr. Knud librarians' association from each of the Larsen, head of the Copenhagen Grad- countries should collectively subscribe uate Business School Library. to such a union for the solution of Scan- It is evident from the above that, in dinavian scientific library problems. Its general, a higher scholastic standard ob- first concrete task will be to investigate tains in the field of special librarianship the possibility of the establishment of than in the United States. Also, private, common standards for the training of special libraries of individual business scientific librarians. and industries are comparatively un- One common 'requirement at present, known in Scandinavia. Since the evolu- throughout Scandinavia, for appoint- tion of the special library has largely ment to a post as scientific librarian is gone hand in hand with industrializa- a degree almost approximating the tion and concentration of economic pow- United States' Master of Arts (or Sci- er, it is in Sweden, as the most highly ence) from a university or other insti- industrialized of the Scandinavian coun- tion of higher learning. No library train- tries, that the firm, or business, library movement is most highly developed. In centralizing and developing as much as Denmark, private industry gives signifi- possible the national government's in- cant economic support to the technical ternational exchange of publications. It library of the Royal Danish Polytechnic publishes a work entitled Dania Poly- College Library, which serves as a kind gotta, a bibliographical listing of all of central, or union, library for private books in foreign tongues published in industrial and business libraries. Denmark, and containing resumes of all Another common problem of the articles and documents occurring in the scientific Scandinavian libraries is the country's periodicals. This institution is development of specialized and union similar to the International Exchange periodicals indexes in order to avoid Service of the Smithsonian Institute, overlapping and in order to extract the and works in close collaboration with it. maximum use of available resources. All Danish libraries-general as well as scientific-are strongly interested in Scientific libraries throughout Scandi- the rationalization of library practice, of navia were hard hit by the isolation of library training, and of the projection of war and occupation. As far as Denmark the library's services to the public. TO is concerned, the gift of books to scien- this end, the Danish Libraries' Asso- tific libraries effected by Danish Ameri- ciation had appealed to the USIS Li- can groups, under the leadership of Pro- brary for bringing to the Congress an fessor H. Ingholt of Yale University, exhibition of the latest library tech- did much to lift the stagnation of the niques: punch-card systems, catalog war years. The distribution of the hold- cards with microfilm reproductions of ings of confiscated German libraries also book contents, new printing and stamp- helped. A Swedish gift to the University ing machinery and photographic charg- Library and a Royal Society of Medi- ing machines, Library of Congress cards, cine (London) gift have not been in- etc. Unfortunately, no such exhibit was significant. The hundreds of periodicals available to the Office of Information which the United States Information and Educational Exchange of the De- Service Library has been able to dis- partment of State at the time. Although tribute among Danish scientific libraries the moving transmission belt, and the since 1945 is of less importance, since pneumatic tubes pictured in the United files of each title are only in rare in- States Information Service Library film stances complete. A file to be really on the Library of Congress often arouses valuable from a Danish scientific library disbelieving laughter in Danish audi- viewpoint must be, first of all complete. ences and, as often as not, comments on Also, the American need to popularize the alleged hectic, "soul-less" life in even technological subjects is not al- America, there is nevertheless a deep- ways to the taste of Danish scientific lying recognition of the fact that tech- libraries. Book and magazine accessions nological advance need not negate hu- since the war are further handicapped man values but may-indeed must- by the increased cost of books in Eng- serve the human animal. The spirit for land, France and the United States and the extension to the people, through li- by Denmark's own internal economic braries, of the best that has been problem of lacking foreign exchange thought and said is to a high degree from sale of Danish products abroad. present in Scandinavia and an exchange One aspect of Danish scientific library of experience between our countries activity of particular interest outside might go far in taking up a certain tech- Denmark is the I.D.E.: Institut Danois nological lag on the one hand and a cer- des Echanges. This is an exchange in- tain socio-cultural lag on the other, to stitution organized for the purpose of mutual benefit on both sides. REPORT OF THE 1947-48 NOMINATING COMMITTEE

N accordance with the amended Director S.L.A. By-Law IX, Section 2, the MISS MARGARETHATCH I names of the candidates for the Pacific Coast Head Office next election with their written accept- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ances were presented to the Executive 600 Stockton Street Board in session October 24, 1947, as San Francisco, Calif. follows: MRS. MARGARETMILLER ROCQ President Standard Oil Company of California MISS ROSE L. VORMELKER 225 Bush Street Business Information Bureau San Francisco, Calif. Cleveland Public Library Cleveland 14, Ohio The Directors whose terms have not expired are Miss Elma T. Evans, Cor- First Vice-president and President-Elect nell Aeronautical Laboratory, Buffalo, MRS. RUTHH. HOOKER New York, who retires in 1949, and Naval Research Laboratory Donald T. Clark, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard Uni- Washington 20, D. C. versity, Boston, Massachusetts, who re- tires in 1950. Second Vice-president MRS. ELIZABETHW. OWENS Mrs. Irene M. Strieby will continue Mercantile-Commerce Bank and on the Executive Board as Immediate Trust Company Past-President. St. Louis, Mo. Section 3 of By-Law IX states that MR. MELVINJ. VOIGT further nominations may be made upon Carnegie Institute of Technology written petition of 10 voting members Schenley Park in good standing. Such petitions, accom- Pittsburgh, Pa. panied by written acceptances of the nominees, must be filed with the Secre- tary of Special Libraries Association at Treasurer Association Headquarters not later than MR. DAVIDKESSLER March 1. U. S. Railroad Retirement Board 844 Rush Street EVALYNANDREWS Chicago, Ill. MARIONL. HATCH PAULINEHUTCHISON MISS WINIFREDSEWELL FANNIESIMON 25 Columbia Heights JOSEPHINE B. HOLLINGSWORTH, Brooklyn 2, N. Y. Chairman. 19471 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 329

FUTURE INDICATIVE

Our theme for the Thirty-ninth Annual Convention of Special Libraries Association expresses in our active voice, developments in the present which should be positive facts in the future. Special Librarianship is a state of mind - - a state of mind flavored by anticipation mellowed by understanding and experience trained by demands, motivated by service and embroidered with fine humor putting knowledge to work. Therefore, Special Librarians are dedicated to finding facts for future utilization in the many varied special subject fields repre- sented in our Association and it is in this mood that we present our 39th Convention FUTURE INDICATIVE in WASHINGTON, D. C. June 6 - 12, 1948

Washington, D. C. Chapter will officially welcome the Convention Delegates, National Officers and distinguished visitors at a lunch- eon on June 5 which will be broadcast over radio station WOOK at 1:30 P. M. Additional program features will be found in forthcoming issues of SPECIALLIBRARIES. NEW INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS May 1, 1947 - September 30, 1947

American Institute for Foreign Trade Northwestern Refining Company Miss Dorothy Burge, Librarian (Formerly Ac- Mrs. Carson tive) Library Phoenix, Arizona St. Paul Park, Minnesota

Boston Society of Civil Engineers Office of Naval Research Mr. Thomas C. Coleman, Librarian Miss Peggy Murtagh, Librarian 715 Tremont Temple Publications Section Boston 8, Massachusetts Special Devices Center Port Washington, New York Brand Names Foundation, Inc. Mr. Henry E. Abt, President 199 West 57th Street Orr and Sembower, Inc. New York 19, New York Mrs. Marie G. Anderson, Librarian Chemical Development Division Brookhaven National Laboratory Reading, Pennsylvania Assoc. Universities Inc., Res. Library Dr. Spencer C. Stanford, Technical Librarian Pharis Tire and Rubber Company Patchogue, New York Miss Ruth A. Geiger, Librarian Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. Laboratory Library Mrs. Mary Louise Hart, Librarian Newark, OOhio Irvington-on-Hudson New York Provincial Library of Manitoba Mr. J. L. Johnston, Librarian General Mills, Inc. Legislative Building Miss Ethel M. Johnson, Librarian Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Executive Department 400 Second Avenue South Salmon P. Chase College Minneapolis 1, Minnesota Mrs. Helen H. Maclean, Librarian Hanford Engineer Works 1105 Elm Street Mr. Christopher G. Stevenson Cincinnati 10, Ohio Technical Librarian Richland, Washington Standard Oil Company (Indiana) Mr. C. C. Miller, Supervisor of the Informa- International Telephone & Telegraph COT. tion Division Miss Eleanor McGonagle, Librarian Research Laboratories 67 Broad Street Whiting, Indiana New York 4, New York Kenyon and Eckhardt, Inc. Stewart Warner Corporation Mrs. Helen Green, Librarian Mrs. Mae Barthel, Librarian 247 Park Avenue Department 23 1 New York 17, New York 1826 Diversey Parkway Chicago 14, Illinois Midland Cooperative Wholesale Miss Jane M. Platt, Librarian Titanium Alloy Manufacturing Company Educational Department Mr. John T. Milek, Librarian 739 Johnson Street, Northeast Research Department Minneapolis 13, Minnesota Hyde Park Boulevard National Association of Broadcasters Niagara Falls, New York Miss Jewel Drickamer, Librarian Research Department Washington State College Library 1771 N Street, N.W. Dr. G. Donald Smith, Librarian Washington 6, D. C. Pullman, Washington EVENTS and PUBLICATIONS1 POST-WAR CONSTITUT~ONSOF THE WORLD In view of the many requests for economic by Henry H. Collins, Jr., has been recently data which the Bureau of Labor Statistics re- released by Microfilm Service. The work con- ceives from libraries, the Bureau's new month- sisting of some twenty constitutions of such ly series of subject indexes to its publications nations as have promulgated them since VJ will be of interest to all librarians. This publi- day includes, for example, the constitutions of cation will be sent regularly to all libraries Japan, China, Brazil, and the States of Occu- which request it. (Washington 25, D. C., U. S. pied Germany. The collection makes available Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Sta- to scholars the bases of law in the newly or- tistics.) ganized Republics of the World in a single * * * easily accessible source. Available on loan from S.L.A. Headquarters This publication, comprising reproductions are Reports of three one-day conferences or- of some 500 pages of text, is available to Libra- ganized by ASLIB and held in London in ries and Scholars at a price of $10 per copy on February, April and May 1946. Subjects of 35mm stock. Orders should be directed to the conferences were: "Indexing and Filing of Microfilm Service, 2153 Florida Avenue, N. Unpublished Material," "Planning and Equip- W., Washington, D. C. ment of Special Libraries" and "Industrial In- *** formation Services." Copies may be ordered PERSONNELRESEARCH AND TEST DEVELOP- from ASLIB, 52 Bloomsbury Street, London, MENT IN THE BUREAUOF NAVALPERSONNEL, W.C. 1. 3s to members; 4s to non-members. edited by Dewey B. Stuit, describes the pro- * * * cedures developed by the Bureau of Naval Copies of the Annual Report of the Wood- Personnel, the various types of tests and other row Wilson Foundation for 1946-47 are avail- research aids devised by the Test and Research able gratis from the Foundation, 45 East 65th Section-and the major results obtained. The Street, New York 21, N. Y. The Report con- emphasis throughout the book is upon showing tains extensive accounts of Foundation activ- what techniques worked and what techniques ities and details of Woodrow Wilson Library did not work. The follow-up studies of the re- activities during the past year. lationship between prediction and performance * * * are especially revealing. As a case history of The Library Association Record for Septem- the application of modem techniques to com- ber 1947 contains an excellent article on "A plex personnel problems, this study will be Gramaphone Record Library Service," by C. D. useful to business and industrial personnel ad- Overton, A.L.A., Walthamstow Public Libra- ministration. A technical appendix gives exam- ries. This issue may be borrowed from S.L.A. ples of tests and methods of calculation which Headquarters. are particularly valuable. (Princeton, New Jer- * * sey, Princeton University Press, 1947. $7.50.) "A Continuous Bibliographic Service in Uni- *** versity Libraries" is a reprint of an article by THE SELECTEDWRITINGS OF BENJAMIN Thomas P. Fleming, Estelle Brodman and Sey- RUSH, edited by Dagobert B. Runes, is a re- mour Robb which appeared in College and Re- cent publication of the Philosophical Library. search Libraries, July 1947. This is an account Among the spiritual fathers of the American of the bibliographical service established at the Revolution, Benjamin Rush takes a unique and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Colum- lasting position. A great physician and nat- bia University during 1939-40. uralist, he gave most of his free time and *** energy to championing the cause of social and OFFICE MANAGEMENT,edited by Coleman L. political freedom. These writings show a wide Maze under the auspices of the National Office range of interest and knowledge, embracing Management Association, is a handbook de- agriculture and the mechanical arts, chemistry signed to meet an insistent demand by office and medicine, political science and theology. managers and supervisors in both large and (New York, N. Y., Philosophical Library, 1947. small companies for a comprehensive, authori- 433p. $5.00) tative and practical handbook covering the * management of the modem office. (New York 10, N. 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York Overseas Division, is divided into three FHA wartime annual reports, originally parts. Part I is intended to acquaint the mimeographed, have been printed for the years reader with the development of foreign trade 1942 through 1945. Copies are available from and the corresponding development of Ameri- the Government Printing Office at 15 cents for can banking facilities. Part I1 covers the in- the 1944 Annual Report and 20 cents each for struments used in export-import banking. Part reports for 1942, 1943 and 1945. A limited I11 covers the operations of the three principal supply of complimentary copies is available sections of a bank's foreign department: buy- from FHA. ing and selling foreign exchange; discounting * * and making advances against dollar bills and FARM WOMEN ASKED US is a booklet de- attending to the collection of foreign bills of signed to give farm families the answers to all types; and commercial credits. (New York some of their life insurance problems. It tells 10, N. Y., Ronald Press, 1947. 397p. $5.00) how life insurance functions, what it is, what * * * it offers to beneficiaries and policyholders and More and more public libraries are adding something of its place in the national economy. film divisions, and this trend was stimulated Its approach is informational, not sales promo- this month by a publication entitled FILMSIN tional. (Canadian edition, published by The PUBLICLIBRARIES which is being distributed Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association, by the Library Journal free of charge to every 302 Bay St., Toronto, Ont., 1947. 30 p. Free). major library. This 90-page illustrated publi- cation is sponsored by the Audio-visual Com- Under the caption "Our Research Library mittee of the American Library Association, Spreads Far Afield," Miss Margaret Talbott and states in effect: (1) public libraries should Stevens tells in a most interesting manner of use films; (2) here's how to get started. FILMS the growth of the Baltimore and Ohio Re- IN PUBLICLIBRARIES is by Hoyt R. Galvin, search Library. Her article appears in the Director of the Charlotte (N. C.) Public Li- June 1947 issue of the Baltimore and Ohio brary. After its initial free distribution to Magazine. Library Journal subscribers, copies will be * * placed on sale at $1.00 per copy, postpaid. (New York 19, N. Y., R. R. Bowker Company, Current interest in the emulovment. . of the 62 West 45th Street, 1947.) physically handicapped makes particularly r * timely the publication of REHAB~LITATX~NOF A wealth of illustrated factual data for tool- THE PHYSICALLYHANDICAPPED by Dr. Henry makers, tool engineers and designers and all H. Kessler. Dr. Kessler, who is president of others engaged in tool and jig construction is the National Rehabilitation Council, has had given in the ILLUSTRATEDJIG-TOOLING DIC- many years of experience in the field, including TIONARY. Over 1000 tooling terms, covering the establishment of rehabilitation centers for all the common and many of the special types the U. S. Navy. (New York, N. Y., Columbia of tooling and tooling procedures, are illus- University Press, 1947.) trated by functional drawings, each accom- * * panied by an explanatory legend. (New York, DANGEROUSWORDS: A GUIDETO THE LAW N. Y., MacMillan Company,* 1947. 349p. $7.50) OF LIBEL by Philip Wittenberg will be of in- * * terest to every author, editor, publisher and The new Twentieth Century Fund survey, radio commentator. The book covers libel in REBUILDINGTHE WORLDECONOMY: AMERICA'S literature and journalism, in cartoons and ROLE IN FOREIGNTRADE AND INVESTMENT,by photographs, and in a new phase of the sub- Norman S. Buchanan and Friedrich A. Lutz, ject, libel by radio. It also includes a glossary surveys previous experience in world trade and of terms that have been ruled libelous. (New foreign investment; the present situation; the York, N. Y., Columbia University Press, 1947.) possibilities of the new agencies such as the International Bank for Reconstruction and De- *** velopment, and the International Monetary Recently returned from the Rio Conference Fund; the hazards of foreign investment under which he covered for the National Broadcast- world conditions of today; the need for multi- ing Company, Edward Tomlinson reports con- lateral trade and the obstacles in its path. A firmation of many of his startling predictions final chapter, by the Fund's Committee on about Latin American politics presaged in his Foreign Economic Relations, including repre- new book, BATTLEFOR THE HEMISPHERE.Re- sentatives from business, labor and agricul- cently published by Scribners, the book ex- ture, presents a program of specific steps look- plains the background for such recent events ing toward development of multilateral trade as the attempted overthrow of Trujillo, as well and constructive foreign investment. (New as the ever present struggle for supremacy York, N. Y., Twentieth Century Fund, 1947. among Nationalistic, Communistic and Demo- 434p. 44 tables. 6 charts. $3.50) cratic elements in Latin America. The inside 19471 . EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 333

story of Peron's tumultuous regime is another highlight of Mr. Tomlinson's graphic and time- ly book. (New York, N. Y., Scribners, 1947.)

THE REPORTOF THE UNITEDNATIONS SPE- CIAL COMMITTEEON PALESTINE(New York, N. Y., International Documents Service, Co- lumbia University Press, 1947) is in three vol- umes: Volume I contains the full text of the REPORT.The background for the Committee's work is outlined by chapters dealing with the Send for Our origin and activities of UNSCOP; geographic, demographic and economic factors of the con- Book flict; religious interests, holy places; and the FREE on main proposals of the past decades for a solu- tion to the problem. The chapters of recom- Library Needs mendations detail the separate plans of par- tition and federal state. (65p. $.75) Volume 11, containing annexes, an appendix and maps, is the documentary source material for an under- Here's the easy way to standing of the entire question of Palestine. buy quality with econ- (64p. 4 maps. $.75) Volume 111 contains re- ports of the fourteen public hearings at which omy-write for the free oral testimony was submitted to the Commit- Demco catalog. tee. (247p. $2.00) *** Bibliographies: AIDS TO TEACHINGABOUT THE UNITED NA- TIONS (Washington, D. C., National Edu- cation Association, Office of Press and Radio Relations, 1947) 23p. INTERNATIONALAGENCIES IN WHICH THE UNITEDSTATES PARTICIPATES. The section devoted to each organization contains a list of basic texts and publications. (Washing- ton, D. C., U. S. Dept. of State, Public Af- Periodicals fairs Press, 1946) 322p. SELECTED PUBLICATIONSAND MATERIALSRE- Books LATING TO THE FOREIGNPOLICIES OF THE UNITEDSTATES. (Washington, D. C., U. S. Dept. of State, Office of Public Affairs, Di- We have modem binding vision of Public Liaison, 1947) 12p. THE UNITEDNATIONS: A SELECTEDLIST OF facilities and expert crafts- MATERIALSON THE ORGANIZATIONAND hrNCTIONS OF THE UNITEDNATIONS. (Wash- men to handle your bind- ington 6, D. C., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Library, 700 Jackson ing problems. Please let us Place, 1947) lop. THE UNITED NATIONS OR WORLDGOVERN- know your needs. MENT. Compiled by Julia E. Johnsen. (New York, H. W. Wilson Company, 1947) 285p. UNITEDNATIONS PUBLICATIONS: Catalog No. I-. This catalog lists the publications is- sued for sale during 1946, together with WAGENVOORD & CO. publications of the San Francisco Confer- ence and of the Preparatory Commission of 300-310 N. GRAND AMNUL the United Nations. It also includes impor- LANSING, MICH. tant documents scheduled for publication in 1947. (Lake Success, N. Y., united Nations, Library bookbinders and bookreller. 1947) 334 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

Announcements DR. SAMUEL GUTHRIE -- - - Discoverer of Chloroform New Membership Applications A new type of membership application blank has been distributed for the use of those ap- Percussion Pellets plying for membership in S.L.A.; all old ap- plication blanks in use prior to November 1947 Industrial Chemist should be discarded. These applications, in five (1782-1847) perforated sections, will provide adequate rec- By J. R. PAWLING,M.D. ords for Headquarters, Chapters and Groups. Professor Silliman of Yale Univerkits They represent the composite thought of 20 wrote in 1831 : "I presume it was little sus- S.L.A. members, including the Chapter Liaison pected that such things were doing in a re- mote region on the shore of Lake Ontario." Officer and the Chapter Relations Committee, (Sackets Harbor. N. Y.) . . . . 6 representatives of the Membership Commit- "It is a very timely publication as the centenary of the introduction of chloroform tee, the Group Liaison Officer and 5 members as an anesthetic will be celebrated this of the Executive Board. year."-Yale Medical Library . . "The book is a worthy contribution to phase It is essential that working units of a pro- of the history of surgical anesthesia, but in fessional organization have definite inforrna- addition it should prove interesting to both laymen and phys~cmns as a brief and well tion regarding a member's professional con- told story of significant pioneer accomplish- nection and his title. Heretofore, only the ment."-JournaZ of the Amer.ican Medical Association. home addresses of many members have been available, which is not adequate information Price $3.50 for compiling directories (Chapter, Group, Na- Cloth. Pp. 123, with illustration. tional) nor for the selection of committee members. BREWSTER PRESS The Committee of Five survey indicated 205 TRUSTCOMPANY BUILDING other essential information regarding members WATERTOWN,N. Y. was not available. Chapters have no certain knowledge of the subject or group interest of members; a need for this was indicated. Group Chairmen at present (a) do not know the Chapter affiliation of a Group member; (b) do not know when a member's interest in the REFRIGERATION Group is a primary or secondary one; (c) do ABSTRACTS not know if a member wishes to participate actively in projects and activities. With mem- A staff of experts reviews more than 300 bership in Groups widely scattered over the current U.S. and foreign publications to entire country, a definite need for this infor- compile abstracts of all articles appearing mation was indicated. on the subject of refrigeration and air con- Applications, when completed, are to be sent ditioning theory and applications, carefully to S.L.A. Headquarters and from there the indexed and classified. All patent literature Chapter and Group secretaries will receive is also reported. their card records promptly. Information re- Invaluable for those engaged in research, garding Chapters and Groups appears on the design or in exploration of unfamiliar reverse side of the applications, so one has fields. Published quarterly, supplemented only to turn it to learn what Chapters there by an annual subject and author index. are and the names of Groups. For those en- EDITORJ. MACKTUCKER titled to one Group affiliation there will be University of Tennessee, Knoxville only the first three cards to fill for those en- First issue - January 1946 titled to two Group affiliations there will be Price $7.00 per year, $1.50 per copy four cards to fill out. It has been recognized that revised records Special price to public libraries for the entire membership are desirable. Not $5.00 per year until they are available will the goal for ade- quate information have been reached. Until a plan for annual revision can be put into effect, Order from any member of S.L.A. may request the new

I THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF application blank from the Membership Chair- REFRIGERATING ENGINEERS man in his area or from Headquarters and 40 West 40th St., New York 18, N. Y. thus bring his own record up to date for Head- quarters, Groups and Chapters. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 19471 ANNOUNCEMENTS 335

New S.L.A. Membership Directory to be Published The Executive Board has approved the pub- lication of a new S.L.A. Membership Directory Just off the Press! early in 1948. The Directory will be cross- indexed thus making it a particularly valuable tool for all members. UNION LIST Miss Cole Elected Chairman of the Council of National Libraries Association Miss Betty Joy Cole, Immediate Past-Presi- dent of S.L.A., was elected Chairman of the TECHNICAL Council of National Libraries Association at its fall meeting, held Friday, November 7, 1947, PERIODICALS in New York. Miss Cole succeeds Mr. Edward N. Waters, whose term expired. Compiled by Among the items discussed at this meeting were the successor to the American Book Cen- ELIZABETHG. BOWERMAN, ter, a proposal for a Conference on Library Librarian Education and A.L.A.'s Fourth Activities Com- Armstrong Cork Company mittee. In considering the dissolution of the Ameri- can Book Center for War Devastated Libraries, Lists the holdings of 200 co- and a possible successor corporation to carry operating libraries and contains on exchange rather than one-way shipments, Mr. Milton Lord's Proposal for a Successor nearly 5000 titles of periodicals. Agency to the American Book Center for War Includes a representative group Devastated Libraries was read and commented of all special lihraries in pure on. Mr. Lawrence Kipp (American Book Cen- ter) supplemented the statement by calling at- and applied science. Emphasis tention to the need for an effective channel for given .to small technical lihraries distributing materials that will continue to be located over a wide geographic offered, even after A. B. C.'s dissolution, and to the necessity for action soon in order to range and representing H variety retain the present staff and contacts. Mr. Sid- of scientific interests. ney Hill (American Assn. of Law Libraries) also suggested the possibility that the successor Place of publication, volume agency might be worked into a bibliographic numbers and years, given in most center, to which Mr. Verner W. Clapp (Library of Congress) commented that although the instances. Complete holdings idea has been worked on, and other organiza- listed for the better known jour- tions were interested in the proposal, no de- nals. Exceedingly valuable to all finite plan had been evolved. The Library of Congress, Mr. Clapp stated, special, college, university and is impressed by the fact that we have in hand public libraries as well as to any a tool which can be turned to other objectives, persons engaged in research. and we should study whether or not the tool can be adapted to the purpose of exchange. Third edition. Planographed. Libraries apparently have current sources of duplicates, and also have acquisitions prob- 290 pages. July, 1947 lems in connection with foreign publications. Price: $6.00 In sketching out a plan, a tentative budget has been drawn up, with revenues to be derived from payments of benefitting libra- Order jrom ries. There is also the possibility of using the supply of federal documents, the 150 copies available to the Library of Congress, in this Special Libraries Association exchange, in return for similar publications 31 EASTTENTH STREET from abroad. Notwithstanding the absence of NEWYORK 3, N. Y. definite funds in the Library of Congress budget, L. C. is willing to take on the operation Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 336 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

of liquidating the agency, if no successor is organized. Mr. Kenneth Shaffer (Simmons College) in Now available to the public presenting his Proposal for a Conference on through International Documents Library Education, outlined some of the back- Service . ground for the suggestion, and called attention . . to the confusion now existing because of the flurry of recent changes in the programs of General Agreements library schools. In the ensuing discussion Mr. Charles F. Gosnell (National Assn. of State Libraries) pointed out that the proposal had some rela- TARIFFS tion to the Public Library Survey in New York, and that some moneys might be found AND TRADE in the State Research Fund to help under- write some of the cost of the conference. The complete text of the tariff sched- Mr. Ralph R. Shaw, Chairman of the ALA ules negotiated between the various Fourth Activities Committee outlined the basic countries which met at the 1947 task of the Committee which is threefold: Geneva Conference on Trade and (1) To examine the present operations of the A.L.A., and its constituent parts, evaluating Employment. both professional and administrative aspects of Volume I contains the protocol, final every function and relationship; making such acts and text of the general agree- recommendations as may result from such ob- jective examination and evaluation; (2) To ments, and the other three volumes investigate all complaints and apparent short- include the tariff schedules, alpha- comings of the Association and its structure betically by countries. and functioning, recommending corrective 4 volumes, $5.00 measures where required and providing reason- able justification in those cases in which the complaints are either unjustifiable per se, or, if justifiable from the point of view of a few, The official are contrary to the common good; and (3) To design the kind of an Association which should YEARBOOK make maximum contribution to the develop- ment of library service and of librarianship, of the and thus, to the welfare of its membership. Following the discussion of Mr. Shaw's re- United Nations, 1946-47 port two proposals were developed by the Council: that the members of the Council The complete story to date, prepared present suggestions and proposals of their con- by a special UN editorial staff. Also stituent associations to the Fourth Activities contains summaries of important de- Committee, or even to meet with the Commit- bates, texts of basic documents, rules tee; and that the officers of the Council should of procedure, a chronology of events, study the effect of the Committee's proposals a roster of member nations, and a along with the organization of other councils. bibliography of publications on UN. S.L.A. Membership Committee 1000 $10.00 Mrs. Elizabeth Owens, Chairman, S.L.A. pages national Membership Committee, has ap- pointed the following Vice-Chairmen to assist her. Order from Chapter Extension Miss Mildred Benton, Chief, Division of INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS Field Library Service Department of Agriculture Library SERVICE Washington 25, D. C. Foreign Memberships Columbia University Press Mr. Francis Thorne, Assistant Librarian 2960 Broadway New York 27 Interstate Commerce Commission 1752 N Street. N.W. Washington 6, D. C.

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Group Memberships Miss Jeanne McHugh, Librarian NEW RAILROADING BOOKS American Iron 8a Steel Institute ANALYSIS OF RAILROAD OPERATIONS By Joseph L. White 350 Fifth Avenue The former executive officer of the Office of New York 1, New York Defense Transportation shows haw annual finan- cial statements and periodical reports Aled with Life Memberships the I.C.C. are analyzed by statisticians. econ- Miss Anita Christofferson, Asst. Librarian omists and others in Anancial concerns dealing in railroad bonds. Calco Chemical Division 1947. 2nd. 304 pages, 87 illus., 29 tables. 5 charts. American Cyanamid Company index, 6x9, $5.00. Bound Brook, New Jersey ROADWAY AND TRACK By Walter F. Rench Region 1 Explanation of American ractice in mainte- Mrs. Hazel Izzo, Librarian nance of track and right-ohay by a former supervisor an the Pennaulva&x. Utilization of Technical Division Library modern mechanical equipment is em hasized. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. 1947. 3rd. 350 pages. 110 illus.. tabyes. index. duD &5 Oil Rochester 3, New York ~~6's-WHO. . - - - .- IN RAILROADING Region 2 Contains 5rs0 biographical sketches. based UD- on questionnaires of the key men in the rail- Miss Ruth M. Tews, Librarian roads of North '~merica. officers of railway Mayo Clinic equipment companies. members of Federal and state renulatory commissions. transportation Rochester, Minnesota economiCts. edifors of railroad journals. heads of Region 3 railroad labor unions and others prominent in the industry. Many of the 2,000 new names are Miss Mildred Hogan, Librarian not found in any other Who's Who. Department of Commerce & Industry 1946. 11th. 780 pages. 6x9. $8.50. IN PRESS Baton Rouge 4, Louisiana LOCOMOTIVE CYCMPEDXA. December. (13th Region 4 Ed.) $8.00. STATE PAPERS OF JOSEPH B. EASTMAN. Miss Isabella M. Frost, Librarian 1942-1944. January. $5.00. Lansing Library Service NEW DEPARTURES IN FREIGHT RATE MAKl ING G Lloyd Wilson. December. 83.00 Safeway Stores, Inc. THE '?27& RAILWAY BATTALION in 'world P.O. Box 660 War 11. January. $5.00. Oakland 4, California SIMMONS-BOARDMAN PUBLISHIN6 CORP. Region 5 30 CHURCH STREET NEW YORK 1. N. I. Miss Audrey Ide, Librarian Board of Trade Toronto, Canada In addition to these appointments each Chapter and Group Membership Chairman should consider himself as an integral part of the national Committee.

Kwajalein Library Named After Rhode Island's State Librarian The Grace Sherwood Library in the Mar- shall Islands came into existence and was named for Rhode Island's State Librarian as the result of Miss Sherwood's interest in send- ing stacks of books to service men in many parts of the world, originally as a war project but which continues through the cooperation of the public in the purposes of the book pool she administers. While the service men of Kwajalein have named their library after Miss Shenvood, actually they have no comer on her services. Her activities as Director of the State Library's Book Pool for the Armed Forces have touched army outposts and Naval operating bases in all directions - from Alaska to Germany. More and more books are needed as well as funds for the purchase of request titles. Checks for book purchase should be made out to Grace M. Shenvood, Special Account for the Armed Forces, and mailed to the Rhode Island State Library, State House, Providence, R. I. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 338 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

Tariff Act of 1930 Amended to Provide Exemption from Requirements of Consular or Commercial Invoices Through the efforts of the Association of NEW TEXTILE BOOKS Research Libraries, the previous regulation about the importation of books, maps, music, Technical books for the reference engravings, photographs, etchings, lithographic prints or charts, as contained in paragraph library, for mills, laboratories, and 1631, Tariff Act of 1930, has been amended by ' public libraries in textile towns. Treasury Decision 51699, effective June 20, ~ 1947, which provides an exemption from the American Wool Handbook requirements of consular or commercial in- Second edition, 1947 voices for importation of materials accorded by Werner Von Bergen and free entry under paragraph 1631. H. R. Mauersberger. $8 The cited paragraph specifies: "Any society or institution incorporated The standard treatise on wool-from sheep raising to the finished cloth. All or established solely for religious, philo- processes of spinning, weaving, finishing, sophical, educational, scientific, or literary and testing are described and illustrated. purposes, or for the encouragement of the Will answer any question on the woolen fine arts, or any college, academy, school, industry. or seminary of learning in the United States, or any State or public library, may Principles of Textile Converting import free of duty any book, map, music, by Irving Teplitz. 1947 $4 engraving, photograph, etching, lithogra- phic print, or chart, for its own use or for The job and problems of the yarn and the encouragement of the fine arts, and piece-goods merchant who also styles the not for sale, under such rules and regula- fabrics and co-ordinates market trends. tions as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe." Textile Brand Names Dictionary 1947 $6 Duplicate Journals Needed The Department of Chemistry, University of More than 4,000 brand names and trade-marks of fibers, yarns, and fabrics. Portland, College of Science, needs the follow- Classifies them. Tells what products ing periodicals: they represent and who owns them. Chemical Reviews, Vols. 24, No. 2 Journal of the American Chemical So- ciety, Vols. 1-25, inclusive Textile Fiber Atlas Journal of the chemical Society, Vols. by Werner Von Bergen and 193 1-1939, inclusive Walter Krauss. 1945 $4 Transactions of the Electrochemical So- 311 photomicrographs of old and new ciety, Vols. 1-2-3-11-13-23;72-78; 86 fibers. Used in criminology and police Transactions of the Faraday Society labs. If anyone has duplicate copies of these mag- azines for disposal, either for sale, gift or Yarn and Cloth Calculations exchange, will he please communicate with by Lloyd H. Jackson. 1947 $6 Rev. Joseph S. McGrath, C.S.C., Head, De- partment of Chemistry, University of Port- Yarn numbering systems with conver- sion factors; grey cloth, and warp and land, College of Science, Portland 3, Oregon. filling calculations ; fabric construction and analysis. Punched-Card Methods Wanted for Filing Chemical Literature Mr. J. W. Perry, Chairman, and Miss Lorna Ferris, Assistant to the Chairman, of the TEXTILE BOOK PUBLISHERS Punched-Card Committee, American Chemical INCORPORATED Society, wish to communicate with chemists, New York 16, N. Y. either in the United States or abroad, who are interested in applying punched-card methods Ask us for hard-to-find or out-of- to solve problems of filing chemical literature print textile books. and data. If anyone can assist the Committee in securing this information will he please write Miss Ferris at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 19471 ANNOUNCEMENTS 339

Magazine Croup Formed in New York Chapter The New York Chapter has recently formed a Magazine Group with Miss Lavina Dobler, Librarian, Scholastic Magazine, 220 East 42nd Street, New York, as Chairman. This Group hopes that eventually it will become a national S.L.A. Group. English Spanish French German Italian S.L.A. Regional Conference st Toronto, Can. Special librarians from the Montreal and Western New York Chapters were guests of the Toronto Chapter on October 17-18, 1947. The Conference was the first for many of the members attending and was in every respect BUSINESS most successful. "Training of Special Librarians" was the subject of the symposium held on October 17, with two representatives of each of the guest DICTIONARY Chapters presenting papers. The first paper By ~ANKGAYNOR, M.A. and summary of the symposium were given by In one handy volume, all the words. members of the Toronto Chapter. terms, and phrases, cross-indexed in On October 18, Mrs. Irene Strieby, national English, Spanish, French, German S.L.A. President, spoke on the Association, its and-Italian. Constitution and the work of the Committee of Five. Mrs. Strieby's talk was followed by 11 ESSENTIAL FOR FOREIGN reports on the organization and activities of BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE each of the three Chapters represented at the "A new polyglot dictionary . . . is Conference. the International Business Dictionary, which supplies a handbook of the The delegates visited the libraries of the most currently used commercial words Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, and phrases. The arrangement is by the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canada English word, with American termin- Life Assurance Company, the Toronto Daily ology emphasized . . . and the equiv- Star, the Chinese Library of the Royal Ontario alent words included are cross-indexed Museum of Archaeology and the Public Li- in sections on German, French, Span- brary of Toronto. ish and Italian terminology. It should furnish a handy desk book for the importer and the business librarian." 1948 Convention Notes -Wilson Library Bulletin Association members should scan the infor- Hel~fulFeatures 1nckde: mation in Special Libraries Resources and out- 11 line in advance the libraries in Washington, D. C., in which they have a special interest. Many of these libraries will be open during the two-day Federal Library Institute, a pre-Con- vention feature sponsored by the Washington,

D. C. Chapter, June 7 and 8. Others will be . . open during the formal Convention. Libraries dates-in 5 languages, 11 oGeograph1c names with their equiv- which are not included in the hospitality list alents in 5 laneuaees. will receive visitors by arrangement with the 0 Currency units-of-63 nations. 0Comparisdn of the Metric and Ameri- Chairman of the Appointment Calendar, Miss can systems of measurements. Mildred Benton, Chief of Field Services, U. S. .Units of weight, ,length, etc.. in 5 languages, includmg a conversion Department of Agriculture Library, Washing- table enabling the user to convert ton 25, D. C. Miss Benton will also be glad to Metric measurements into the Amen- arrange appointments with Washington person- II can system and visa versa. nel for the convenience of Convention visitors. $6QQ The following list of suggested reading, com- piled by Miss Ethel Lacy, Curator, Washing- , toniana Division, Free Public Library of the PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY District of Columbia, will provide S.L.A. mem- Publishers bers with interesting facts about the history of the Nation's Capital, as well as an index of 15 E. 40~~STREET DEPT. 142, NEW YORK 16, N. Y. what to see while there:

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Washington Yesterday and Today Bloom, Vera. There's No Place Like Washing- ton. 1944. A New Bibliography "With affection toward most and malice In An Important Field toward none" the author dispenses first hand information on official Washington society. Brown, George Rothwell. Washington, a not too serious history. 1930. RADIO A desultory description of the charm of old Washington. Accounts of early landmarks, BROADCASTING historic buildings and picturesque person- alities are well illustrated. AND Browning, Mary E. Our Nation's Capital, a portrait of pictures. 1944. TELEVISION: A collection of pictures suggesting the va- riety and charm of the Washington scene. An Annotated Bibliography Bryan, Wilhelmus B. A History of the Na- tional Capital from its Foundation through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Oscar Rose $1.50 Act. 2 v. 1914-1916. A comprehensive history of the District of Columbia from the foundation of the Gov- ernment to 1878. Accurate and reliable. A literature of radio exists, and Gaemmerer, H. Paul. A Manuel on the Origin an extensive one at that. The and Development of Washington. 1939. same is true, but to a lesser ex- An excellent publication of interest to the general reader wanting facts about the city's tent of its coming leap into tele- development. Illustrated. Based on the vision. author's Washington: the National Capital. Clapper, Olive E. Washington Tapestry. 1946. Memories of Washington, 1917-1944 by the This new bibliography is a key widow of the well-known newspaper corre- to the literature of substantially spondent. the entire field of radio broad- Daniels, Jonathan. Frontier on the Potomac. 1946. casting and television that has Government interpreted as an autobiograph- appeared in books and pamphlets ical enterprise. "And America, God bless us published in this country. Highly or help us, is what we are." Davis, Deering, and others. Georgetown technical books are not included. Houses of the Federal Period, Washington, D. C., 1780-1830. 1944. Material is listed by appropriate Illustrations and brief history of 2 1 George- town houses. subjects with accompanying an- De Vore, Harry L. City in the Potomac; notations that give the substance Washington in pen and ink. 1946. of each. The value of this book Included are explanatory narratives for each of the 50 drawings. to students, researchers, men and Ecker, Grace D. A Portrait of Old George- women choosing vocations, and town. 1933. the general public is self evident. A picture of the section of Washington which was laid out about a half century be- fore the Federal City was established. * * * Essary, J. Frederick and Helen. Washington Sketch Book. 1932. Thumbnail descriptions of places and build- ings of interest to the newcomer. A photo- The H. W. WILSON COMPANY graph accompanies each sketch. 950 University Avenue Frary, Ihna T. They Built the Capital. 1940. A history of the Capital, scholarly yet read- New York 52, N. Y. able. Generously supplied with photographs of the building, and reproductions of early F sketches. Please Mention Special ~ibrariesWhen Answering Advertisements 19471 ANNOUNCEMENTS 34 1

Halle, Louis J. Spring in Washington. 1947. This description of spring (the period be- tween the first and last migration of birds Now from the south) will quicken the pulse and - stir the imagination of lovers of the Na- Back in print again ... tion's Capital. Justement, Louis. New Cities for Old; city building in terms of space, time, and Invaluable money. 1946. Pages 95-144: A case study in city planning: for Special Libraries. .. The plan of Washington. Latimer, Louise P. Your Washington and Mine. 1924. ULRICH'S A convenient and reliable one volume his- tory for visitors and students. Leech, Margaret. Reveille in Washington PERIODICALS 1860-1865. 1941. Cabinet members and Congressmen, army men and lesser lights come to life in the DIRECTORY pages of this stirring portrayal of the Na- tional Capital under stress of war. compiled by Salamanca, Lucy. Fortress of Freedom: the story of the Library of Congress. 1942. CAROLYNF. ULRICH The author believes that one measurement former Chief, Periodicals Division, of our spiritual heritage is the Library's New York Public Library continuous rededication to satisfying intel- lectual needs. An up-to-date list of 7500 mag- Schmeckebier, Laurence F. The District of azines of North and South Amer- Columbia, its Government and Adminis- ica, Great Britain, and Europe tration. 1928. A comprehensive survey of the political ...complete information, classi- status of the District of Columbia. fied by subject, alphabetically Starling, Edmund W. Starling of the White indexed. House. 1946. The story of the man whose secret service plus ... detail guarded five presidents from Woodrow European underground publica- Wilson to Franklin D. Rwsevelt. Tindall, William. Standard History of the tions of World War I1 ...an City of Washington. 1914. important historical record. Compiled from a study of original docu- ments. The latter half of the volume forms Price $15.00 an excellent supplement to Bryan's History. Washington Yesterday and Today; prepared by Social Studies Teachers in the Wash- ington, D. C. Public Schools under the -Use this Handy Order Form- direction of George J. Jones. 1943. A textbook written for use in the schools of Washington, but also of interest to the adult who wants a general history of the city. Writer's Program. District of Columbia. Our Washington; a comprehensive album of GENTLEMEN: the Nation's Capital in words and pictures. Please send us ...... copies of 1939. ULRICH'S PERIODICALS DIREC- This volume is designed as "a photographic TORY @ $15.00 per copy. index of what to see in Washington." Writers' Program. District of Columbia. Wash- ington, D. C., a guide to the Nation's Name Capital. 1942...... This is a condensation and revision of the Address earlier Washington, City and Capital. Little Bill us Remittance enclosed of importance has been lost in the process SL1247 of paring down the 1937 edition. Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements 342 SPECIAL LIBRARIES [December

Helen M. Steele Succeeds Laura Thompson as Librarian for Department of Labor Announcement has been made of the ap- Now Available - - - pointment of Miss Helen M. Steele as Libra- rian of the U. S. Department of Labor, suc- ceeding Miss Laura Thompson, who retired SPECIAL from Government service in June. Miss Steele, a member of Special Libraries Association LIBRARY since 1942, joined the Department of Labor Library staff in 1933. Previously she was em- RESOURCES, V. 1-4 ployed in the State Department Library and in the Seattle, Washington, Public Library. She was named Assistant Librarian of the De- After considerable printing delays partment of Labor early last spring. Volumes 3 and 4 of "Special Li- brary Resources" are now off the News From Cairo, Egypt press and available for immediate Word comes from Dr. Mary Duncan Carter, delivery. Regional Director of Library Service in Cairo, Egypt, that she recently spoke before the Cairo Library Association on "Trends in Ameri- Complete description of the hold- can Librarianship". Dr. Carter and Mr. Glidden ings of some 2400 special libraries of the Library of Congress are engaged in in the United States and Canada making a survey of the Egyptian National included in Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Library for the Minister of Education, Sanhury Arranged geographically by state Pasha, who is considering making changes in and city. Detailed information his librzry based on observances made during about special collections and hold- his recent visit to the Library of Congress. ings in specific subjects. Miss Jean Norcross Sails for Bavaria Exceedingly valuable to all special, Miss Jean Norcross, wife of Lt. Col. Myron college, university, and public li- K. Barrett, has resigned her position as Libra- braries as well as to the individual rian of the firm of Dun and Bradstreet to join her husband in Wurzberg, Bavaria. Col. researcher in locating needed ma- Barrett, a member of the American Military terial. Government, expects to be stationed in Ba- varia for another two or three years. Miss Each volume contains individual Norcross organized the Library at Dun and indices. Volume 4 consists of a Bradstreet in 1939 and has administered it up cumulative i~dexto all three vol- to the present time. She is well known for umes. Vol. I sold separately, Vol. her activities in the New York Chapter of S.L.A., having served as First Vice-president 2-4 in a set only. in 1939-40, and as President in 1940-41. She was national Treasurer of the Association in PLANOGRAPHED. 1942-43. Miss Norcross sailed for Germany Vol. I, 1941 . . . . $ 6.20 on December 6. Vol. 2-4, 1946-47 . . $22.90 Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act of Limited supply. Congress of August 24, 1912; as Send your order today. Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, and July 2, 1946 of Special Libraries, published monthly, except May-August which are bi-monthly, at Pitts- burgh Pa. for October 1, 1947. Special Libraries Association State 'of ~ewYork 1 Country of New York I SS. 3 1 E. TENTHSTREET Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared NEW Yomc 3. N. Y. Kathleen Brown Stebbins, who, having been duly sworn according to law deposes and says that she is the Business ~anagerof the Special Libraries and that the following is, to the best of her knowledge and belief, a true statement of Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements ANNOUNCEMENTS the ownership, management (and if a daily, weekly, semi-weekly or triweekly newspaper. the circulatian), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, re- quired by the act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the acts of March 3, 1933, and July 2, 1946 (Section 537. Postal Laws . and Regulations). orinted on the reverse of this form. to wit:

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LAW LIBRARIES-= take note of three outstanding works on international law A Concise History of the Law of Nations By ARTHUR NUSSBAUM Zffiii",' $&"lp2ty For the first time in a hundred years, a comprehensive work that includes both doc- trinal and political developments, from antiquity to the outbreak of World War 11. Exhaustive original bibliography . . . "Zndispensable addition to any library with inter- est in history, political science or law!' LIBRARY JOURNAL.Just published $5.00 The New Foundation of International Law

One of the ablest Latin American experts on international law offers his concept of world organization, and discusses the legislative, executive and judiciary aspects of an international superstate. Just published $3.00 A Modern Law of Nations B~ PHILIP C. JESSUP Hamilton P6sh Prolessor ol Intemat4onal LCMC Columbia Universfty; b'peoial Delegate u.N.' Brilliantly this book explores the body of international law in the light of two modem revolutionary concepts, and seeks to reformulate existing legal thought accordingly. Coming soon. Probable price $4.00

of three entertaing books on legal lives MEN OF LAW ETERNAL LAWYER Confessions of An From Hammurabi to Holmes A Legal Biography of Cicero Un=Common Attorney By WILLIAM SEAGLE N. W'LK'N Juege ol the United Btates Encycloped.iaFormerly of Lam Editor,shnces Distract Court for the Northern By REGINALD L. HlNE District 01 Ohio The lively autobiography of a 14 colorful biographies of A modern interpretation of well-known English lawyer great men who made history the many-sided Roman . . . by changing the law of their "Leaves one with a clearer with a passion of law, litera- times. Fascinatingly told, full understanding of the lawyer's ture and antiquarianism. Ad- of legal information and hu- position in society." VIR- venturous, moving, humorous, man interest. just published. GINIA LAW REVIEW. with many anecdotes. Just $5.00 $3.00 published. $4.00 THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Please Mention Special Libraries When Answering Advertisements