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The Relation of the Public Library To The Private Business Libraries* By PAUL 13. NYSTIIOM, Ph. D., Director, BUREAUOF MERCHANDISINGRESEARCH, INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY, X. '5:-.

The development and application of the tion of the officers and employes wl~atcvcr Library idea seems always to havc been has appeared in r~rir~tthat they should know characterized by growth in details,. one 11y ant1 in such form as to ~nducethem to use one rather than as a whole. At one t~me,we the material. The I~usincsslil~rariati should had a rapid spreacl of Carnegic libraries, at be the concern's specialist on the lirlcs of another of school I~braries,at another of literature of interest to that concern. The children's rooms and story hours, at another business librarian shor~ldboth sift and in- of traveling libraries and library extension. terpret I~usinessliteralu e for his concern's Having establ~shedtlictnselves these detail use. movements go on with the general library The library rn :i l~usincssconcern, qurte m~ovement constantly makmg it more sig- unlilte the Garncgian concept, is merely thc nificant and useful to the public. olFcc in whicl~the 1)usiness librarian works. Just now the nlost rapidly cleveloping It is cquippcrl with supplles which the li- phase of the library idea, it seems to me, is brarian may need In his work for the Com- t!~e establishment of private business libra- pany. Its equipment is long on l~terary ries. A large numbcr of concerns already tools hut s1io1-t 011 collections of I~ooks have bheir libraries or information and data and pamphlets. In fact you may have an departments organized and operating. Still excellent business l~braryscrvlce without larger numbers have begun collections of any collection of books in the cty~ological materials similar to those brought together and cwstotnary sense of the word lihrary". by libraries. The use for business 11tera- The I~usiness I~l~rarianexercises his pro- ture is so clear that other hundreds if not fession through knowledge of where infor- thousands of concerns need only to havc malion, sucli as his conccrn wants, can be the ~deaand suggestion of how to carry it founcl. One business librarian that 1 have out brought to their attention in order to met had no 1)ooks at a11 in his office, but cause them to estal~lish similar depart- did utilize I~ookancl periodicals in eight ments or libraries. public and professional .libraries located in The business library movement is largely his city The ideal l~usinesslibrary con- a tribute to the public libraries. If I mis- tains the I~ooks, periodicals, documents, take not, the servlce of the public llhrary and refcrcnce works of fairly constant and has suggested the possibilities of the spe- currenl use, ancl particularly the guides, cial business library. The systems of the handbooks and directories to the large col- public library have been drawn upon for lections witliin reach. the business lil~rary. Not a few bus~ness 1 he l~usincsslibrarian's worlc when con?- 1,ibraries have come from the ranlts of thc pared with that of the puI111c I~hrarian,IS public libraries. One may truthfully s eak 111ghly specialized He tnust classify and of the business library as a direct off-sgoot sul,classify 111 planes which never can con- of the public library. ccrn the public library, or at any ralc. To make clear the actual and possible wfiich wou,Id not he praclicahle for the pub- relations the public library can work out lic library. The work that hc does must with the business l~brarywe must fifst con- oftcn be done within very definite and vcry sider the peculiar functions of the business limitccl time. An idea, say some news librarian and of the business library. item, may Ix of great value if used today, From sucli study as I have been able to hut of 110 use tomorrow. The business give to the matter, it seems to me that the I~llrar~anmust study the personalities of real purpose of the business librarian in a the people whom he serves in a way hat I~usinessconcern is to bring to the atten- no nublic 11l)rarian can successfully do for 36 SPECIAL LIBRARIES the general public. The business libririan, library can no do.ubt be greatly enhanced in this respect, must adopt the tactics .of by application of this metbod. TO 111~s- the skillful teacher and determine individual trate, no matter how much service a public tnethods ol getting the attention and in- lihrary already renclcrs to its cornmu~l~ty, terest of the right parties within the con- there are certain to be some unworlced pos- cern to the points discovered in his reading sibilities. The library may even already of bus~nessliterature. reach the great majority of people in a The business library function came into community with certain classes of services existence with the clevclopn~entof business and still leave other poss~blehighly valu- literature, and I mean by business litera- able scrvices undone. This is especially ture, literature that can be put to use in likely to be true of stimulating the reading any way by a concern. The function is grow- of I~usinessliterature. mg. The need for the business library is In a concern with wliich I was ac- greater to-day than ever before. It will quainted, employing in the neighborhood become greater and greater, Tllle business of 300 people there was established a public library in one form or another has come branch library sp,ecializing on business to stay. Concerns that are large enoupl~to I~ooks. By investigation it was found that permit of the necessary division of labor scarcely any of these 300 had ever patron- will provide business library organization. m zed the general public library in the city Snlaller concerns will go as far as their for this type of reading. By proper encour- means will pcrmit. There will be such a agement from a live business librarian, a developnlent as this because the business large number of thesc were induced to take library, properly conducterl, pays. up reading along business I~nes,resulting What shall be the attitude for the publio in considerable pain to then~selvesand to library to take towards business libraries the business. springing up about it? I cannot answer The public library had been established t,his question by saying what their attitude in the corninunity for years. Practically all ought to be. 1 can only point out what of the employes knew of the public library their att~tudcactually seems to be and and many of them had wed it in various then make a suggestion or two on how I ways, but it required the special business think greater progress can be made. library loczcted In their own concern to Most public librarians that I know of call their attention to the new values. treat business libraries and librarians just In other words, among these employes as they treat individual patrons of the reading for business was an idea not for- library. Not much attention is given to the merly taught them by the general public business library as such. The business library. The establishment of the business librarian mcrely comes to the public library library indirectly extended the service of and receives the public library service under the general library in a very specific and the same rul'es as other library users. I valuable line to nearly 300 additional resi- have known of cases where he thought dents of the city. Was it not well worth himself lucky if he were permitted even while for th8is general library to establish ~~1~11services. its business branch in this concern. Thcrc are still other librariles that look There is no question but that the public upon the business libraries as avenues libraries can in many communities expand through which to expand the public library their services to business interests, they service and accordingly cooperate in nu- can collect business books, business period- merous ways with business librarians. Such icals and make abstracts of important ar- public libraries are t,o the business libraries ticles in the periodical literature for the much the same as wholesale houses are to benefit of industries in the conlnnunity. setail es,tablishments in other lines of The public library can promote interest business. in business literature to a marked degree, In a few cases the public library is going without doubt, but it is impossible for the to the opposite extreme and is attempting public library to render the intimate special to perform business library service for the service for the particular concern that the business men and bus~nessconcerns in the ~~usinesslibrary performs without sacri- community and whdo patronize the library. ficing something of the general, public There is nothing to discuss about the !ibrary values. first method. I 'take it for granted that no The establishment of business branches well managed, live public library would and business departments in libraries is to restrict its ordinary scrvices to the business Ile highly commended, but this does not librarians in its vicinity. take thme place of business libraries. On the The second plan, wholesaling the services contrary it will help promote the business of the public library to the business library, library idea. deserves more attention. The public li- There is a service which the general brary, must, of course, consider its means library can perform for the business library before extending such service. But where inovement that would be extremely valu- gracticable the nsefulness of the public able to the business pub1,ic as well as highly SPECIAL LIBRARIES 3 7 appropriate ior thc puhlic library. The It needs the service that only thc public public library with I)usitiess departments Iihrary can give. or business branches could serve as a clear- The public lil~rary, I shall venture to ing house for the business libraries, help to say, needs the business library for its organize them, advise the purchasers of freshness of contact with specilic problelns l)usiness library supplies and material, serve in a certain sector of life, for the ~nspira- as an employment bureau for business li- lion to secure concrete results, and for the I~rarians,cooperate with the business libra- opportunity to reach large classes of people ries after establ~shlment and thus align in a new plane of service, that it would bc themselves with the business library move- cliflicult, if not i~npossible for the puhlic ment. There are many details in this typc IilJrary to rcndcr directly. of service which I have not mentioned I~ut That I~usinesslibraries are prijdte insti- which will occur to you as you think the tutions and serve a liluited clientrlc is not matter over. It is also possible that I have an objection for opening up relations with not presented the suggestions in just the public lil~raries The public scrved I)y the way it can be practically carried out. But pul)lic I~hrariesis entirely madc up of riri- T am confident that such a service as this vatc individuals. The noteworthy differ- would be highly appreciated by hsiness cnce I~etween a I~usiness library antl the interests and business people. IL would ordinary pr~vateindividual served I)y Lhe help gain the strong confidence and coop- puhlic lihrary is that the business lil~raryis eration in public libraries that is so much organized to help itself while the private needed in this country. Tt would pay the individual usually is not. Tlic I)uslness libraries. As for the business libraries at lil~raryserve5 a group of people with al- least those 1: know of would welconie the most identical interests while tlic privale establishment of this line of service and individual represents only himself. The would contribute everything within their I)usiness library stands in position to multi- power to the niovement. ply the service of the library while each In conclusion, the business lil~raryis a intlivicl~~alserved I)y a library mercly ntltls, permanent institution that will continue to one to its patrons. grow. The public library has been the I 111avepurposely refrained from tlisc~rss- source of their inspiration and of luany ing in detail the kinds of servicc that a pub- suggest'ions on how to conduct their work. lic lil~rarymay renclcr the business lihrarieq. The public library has in the business li- This is a niattcr that can be mucli better brary field a splendid opportunity to enter tliscussecl after we.have fully agreed upon upon a new line of library extension I)y the relationship desired hetween the two taking part in the movement and by hclp- What is appermost in my mind is that it ing it to take efficient form. is very necessary in the interests of cRi- The business library msovemeni needs the iency of hoth thaL they should get Loqether, hel'p of the public libraries. It needs to and I trust that these Irief remarks may profit from thc pul)lic lil~raryexperience. l~avcnrsistctl in making clear why.

United States Naval War College Library

l3y EDWTN WILBY, Ph, D., Lil~rarian

Tlic U. S. Naval War Collegc is one of 1'111: U. S. Naval \?'ar College \:a, one a small group of advanced or graduate [IF the earliest of these institutions (n he schools of Naval Sc~ence. am on^ these cstal)l~shecl, being prccctled only IJ~the the lnost important are the Royal Naval Gcrnian Marineakadenlie. Tts ioclnrlers. War College, , thc hIarineakadeinic, .\tl~niral Luce and Captain Mahali. I)oth , I'Ecole Superieure tlc Marine, ycre fully alive to the necessity fo~I~uild- , and La Scuola Navale di Guerra. 111gup a library which would supply all the Italy. Thcse inst~t~itionsare not interested research needs of thc in5titutio11 1:) Ill:, primarily in the technique of naval sciencc, :irticle on the War College (1'roccc:liyg~ of hut In the larger questions of naval stra- tlic U. S. Naval Institute, vnl IO. 1) rfir), tegy, tactics atid policy. Hence their li- C'aptain Mahan says. "1 have ~iiatlc$1 prac- I~rary collections are getlerxlly restricted tice ,of scnd~n~for the c~talogucani the to thcse and auxiliary sul~jccls. and are Icittling military and naval ho~lisellcrs, at nccorcli~~glysmall and very highly qpecial- homc ancl :~l)roatl,antl cnrcfully scnn~iing ized. their li<~\.\i'hatcver co~~ltlhe fnu~~tlI)ciir- SPECIAL LIBRARIES

ing in any way on the art of naval war, I collcct~on. Among the complete or approx- have ordered for the College Lilxary." In matcly complete sets are those of the va- the same article, he quotes with approval rious service magazines, such as the "hrniy the statement of Napoleon that if any man and Navy Journal", "Tlhe Naval and Mil- will be a general let hini study history. itary Record", "The Journal of the Mili- tary Service Institution", "The United Ser- The collections of the Library of the vice Magazine", "Proceedings of the U. S. Naval War College are, therefore, restricted Naval Ir~stitute", Navy Recnrds Society", n~ainlyto the subjects indlcatetl, to yl~ich Naval I-Iistory Society Publications. may be added a good working collect~onof "Transactions ol the Society of "Naval books on and snch bio- Architects and Marine Engineers", Revue graphy and history as might fomi illus- Maritim: et Woloniale", "Revista Marit- trative material. 1t contains also a fairly tima", Marine Rundschau", "Revue tle good general reference collectio~~,espec- Droit International", "Revue General de ially in bibliography. Droit Jnternational Pul~lic", "American Journal of international Law", "American As the collections relative to naval policy, I-Tistorical Review", ctc. Sets of the im- strategy and tactics arc of utmost impor- portant military, naval and aeronautical tance, every effort is made to strengthen annuals, such as Jane, Lloyd's, etc. are on theni. The I~il)liographyof these subjects, the shelves. however, is not extensive, and a good share of the most important treatises are in for- Tfle lil~raryclassilication is modeled upon elgn languages. Translations are obtained that of the Library oi Congress, but greatly when possible, and when ,ynavailabIe, as ~noclilied antl expanded in the topics of in the case of Uernotti's Fondamenti di particular interest lo the War College. A stratcgia nsvale", nianuscripl translations d~ctionary catalogue is beina tleveloped, liavc been inatlc ;~ndkept on file. which is notewortliy for its extensive analy- tical entries and for the indexins of periotl- The lil~rarycontains a number of early ~calarticles of inlportance. The fact that treatises on naval strategy and tactics, the there are no comprehensi\~cperiodical lists recent l~teratureon naval science and data in ~ililitary subject.; renders suc11 entries on the navies of the maritime nations. i,n~perative The collections in general military science ,1. he lil~raryalso contains many articles antl concl~rct of war on land contain only the books of outstanding importance in manuscript form, a proportion of which particularly valuable treatises on special are Imuntl and shel\ed, tlie unbound items As ilIustrative ntaterial the library has an l~eingpreserved in metal liling cases. These excellent collect~on af history and biog- cases contain also an extensive clipping raphy, selected mainly from the military and paniphltt collection, numbering tliou- and naval vicwl~oiut. T11is includes the va- w~dsof items, classilied 11y sul~ject rious staff histories of recent wars, those relative to the Russo-Japanese and the Charts of the ocean, of course, are nec- South Afr~can wars I~eitigvery complete. essary in the maneuvers required by the Ari extensivc collection OF literature rela- war game, hence the Naval War College tlve to the European War is being col- has a very complete collect~on of United lectccl, which includes several thousand States and Brit~slicharts T1he Hydrogra- items of pa~nphlets,clippings from periodi- phic, the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey cals, and other ephemera. and thc British Admiralty charts are kept on file, and new acccsslons and revisions In International Law, in addition to the added when issucd. In addition to the staildarcl treatises and works on special charts, there is an extensive collection of phases of tlhe subject, particularly Law ol atlases and maps, among them inany cle- \Var, the lihary contains much val~;Ale tailed maps, particularly of the present source material, including Marten's, Re- European War. The collectio~is of tlie li- cueil", British ancl Foreign State Papers, I~rarynuml~er at present; bound volunles and a conlplcte set of the Pul,lications of about 14,000; 7,000 pamphlet: r,ooo manu- the Carnegie Endownicnt for Tnternational scripts; 6,000 charts and ,000 Inaps; in all Peace. 30,000 itcms. r.1 hc rapid changes and developments of The work of the librarian and his as- the inilitary and naval sciences renders the sistants is not restricted to the usual li- periodical literature or thesc subjects very important, for the latest and most valuable I~raryactivities, but, in addition to reference material usually appears in their pages. ancl research work, they arc called upon to For this reason the Nawl War College do 111~~11translat~ng and abstracting from L~brarysuhscr~bes for tlie pul~lications of foreign literatures. Bibliographic and other the various technical associations and for tlie most anthoritative periodicals in Bng- research work is done from time to time lish and foreign languages. The bound for other branche5 of tlic Navy Depart- files of these form an invaluable reference ment SPECIAL LIBIiAliIES

Library of the Surgeon General's Office, WAR DEPARTMENT

By COL. C C. McCU LLOCII, Jr., Librarian . .J his Lil)~ar~was started ~inofficiallpas In addition to the Index Catalogue, the a small outlit of medical boolcs in the olfice work IS supplcnientetl by the extra-official of Surgcon General Lovell, U. S, Army, pu1)lication of the Inclex Medicus by the (about 1836), was added to in a moderate Carnegie Institution (edited by Dr. Fielding way by Surgeon Gcncral Hamnloncl and H. Garrisotl); also by a card catalogue ot liarnes, but was built up through the zeal author titles of books and pamphlets for antl abil~tyof late Colonel John S, Billili.gb, the use of the general public in the Library who \\a, ass~gnetl to duty as L~brar~anHall and s~niilarto that in the Library ot on Dccenll>cr 31, 1864 By obtaining Congress. This Catalogue is now in prep- the u~eof a slusli fund of $80,000, aration and several letters (-4. D.) have turned In froni tlie army hospitals aration and scvcral letters (.4. - I)) have after TSGS, Dr. Uilhngs was able to it is hopccl that the Library will obtain add very nlaterially to this collection, sub- po\sessioti of the large roo111 inimcdiately secluently obtained suitable Congrcssio~lal untlerncath the Lil~rary Hall, a room of aypropr~ation for the purcliase of books the sanzc s~zcas the latter, in which tllc antl for the printing of the Indes Catalogue, mcdical periodicals can be kept in stacks so that tlic collection at present numbers on the first floor, mak~ngthem more readily 01 er 226, I 18 volunic~, 337,~10 pamphlets accessible to visiting physicians. It is also and 5240 portraits of physicians. This tlcsircd to cncouragc research work as far nlakes the Surgeon General's Library sec- ;is possible and to encourage other riletlical ond only to tlie Library of the Medi- lil)rarie\ by the acce+sion of duplic.ites for cal Iiaculty in nuniher of volulncs and pain- csch;inge purposes. plilets and it has long since distanced thc famous medical collectio~i of the military In thc loaning of 1)ooltr and pcriotl~calsto establishment at Petroarad. ~iietlic;~l11lir:~rie.~ and pl~ysicians,antl in sup- On account of its unique and unrivalled plying cl.esired information to the medical collection of ~ncdicalperiodicals, tlie Sur- pt~l~lic,in atlclltion to the al)ove activities, geon General's Library is really the most useful and valuable collection of medical this Lilirary fullils the require~ncntsof a na- books in the world The Index Catalogue tional medical library in every respect. The contams pract~callyall of the world's mecli- personnel COIIS~S~~of Colonel C. C McCul- cal literature of value including the con- locli, Jr., Librarian, Major Fielding H. Gar- tents of medical periodicals, carefully in- rison, M. R. C., now engaged in work on dexed antl arranged under appropriate s111i- the Mcclical and Sargic:d History of the jcct hcacl~ngsIn alphabetical order, as well \i'ar. Dr. 4ll)er-t Allemann, Principal As- as full alp1ial)etical lists of author titles, s~stantLil)rariiir?, Dr. Frank J. Stockman, with notes of biographical sketches, ctc., .\saistant Lil)rarian, Dr. U. IsracIi and Dr. under the nanie of authors. 111 this form, I;ellx Neu~ilann,tr;~nslators, with the usual as a tl~ctionary catalogue of authors and force of clcrical employees and messengers. metl~calsubjects, the 37 volumes compris- 111 acltlition to the Inclex Catalogtic, the pub- ing the hist and second series of thc Index licatio~~sof the Lil~raryincludc separate Catalogue, make it po~~11)lcfor physicians rcprints of the list of al)l~reviatio~~sof peri- to pet all the refercnces they want, in the ~~clicals,w11ich are very valuable as check- casie\t and most readily accessil)le way. A lists, a catalogue OF texts illustrating the third srries of the Index Catalogue has al- I~istolyof medicine (comprising the histori- ready been hegun antl a volutne contain~ng cal collections), a bibliography of mineral the literature con~prlsccl under letter A waters, a check-list of the medical incuna- (1896-I~IS),will be completed during tlie I)ula in press), antl various privalc ptiblica- cninlng year. lions I)y nleml~crsof tlie staff

Special Libraries Association Annual Meeting, with Annual Conference of Amer- ican Library-Association, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. July 1-6, 1918. Headquarters at Grand Union Hotel. Details in a later issue. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

United States Naval Academy Library A Sketch By PROFESSOR ARTHUR N. BROWN, Librarian.

The Naval Academy was established in library, and it was continued without ma- 1845 and, soon after, as is stated in the pre- terial change until 1913, when a modern face of the catalogue that was printed in form of dictionarv catalogue on sta'ndard 1860, "it was deemed expedient to lay the cards was completed and put into Llse. foundation of a library which should, at In January 1901, thc boolts were renloved some future time, be capable of supplying from the building in which they had Ixcn the literary and professional wants of the since 1869, and were re-arranged In what institution. With this view, Mr. Bancroft, was the first chapel of the Naval Academy, then Secretary of the Navy, transferred to where they remained until May, 1907,when it a few hundred volumes of n~iscellaneous they were again removed and re-arraugecl works which had belonged to the libraries in their present location in Mallan I-Iall, of our ships-of-war and navy yards. Small one of the new buildings of the Naval additions were made to this collection be- Academy. tween 1845 and 1851, when Congress voted The original purpose in forming this a sum of $2000 for the increase and support library has been steadily adhered to and the of the library, and this liberal grant has result is that the collktion today is one been made, yearly, down to the present IJ~the most complete collections of naval time." literature in this country. The design is In 1861, when the Academy was removed to buy all books that relate to the Navy to Newport, R. I., the books of the library and to the profession of the naval oBicer. were packed in boxes and Laken to New- The collection is also particularly co~nplete port. There, as there was no space avail- in #biography and general history, and able for a library, the books remained In ~nnthematics. boxes, with the exception of about a thou- The rate of growth of the lihrary i.j sand volumes which were unpacked and shown 'by the following table. made available. In the summer of 1866 the Academy re- turned from Newport to Annapolis. The house that had for many years been the gubernatorial residence of Maryland was bought by the national government, and rhe first floor was remodeled to receive the library. In 1869 Mr. William I?. Poole, the originator of "Poole's Index", was engaged to re-arrange and re-catalogue the books. He made the first card catalogue oE the

EASTERN DIVI SION MEETING A special war-tlme convention 01 the of the camp l~brnrywork, and the ways in easlern division c t the SPBCIALLIBRARIES which public libraries can Ix of scrvlce lo ASSOCIATIONis to be held in Boston on the the nation. evening of February 8, In the Business Ad- Mr. Ansel Clark, coi~imcrc~alapcnt in ministration Building of Boston University. charge of the B?ston office of the U. S. Mr. William U Swan, lormerly of the Bureau .of ,GI;ore~g~and Don~estic Co~n- Associatel Press, a veteran newspaper man merce, In Fo~eignTrade in War-time," of over 25 years will speak on "Newspapers will give speciiic ~mstanceswhere the pov- in War-time'. He will tell of the keen ernlnent can be of material assi.itancc.- u- con~pet~tionfor war news and the scoops of "War-time Industries," !)y Ernest L. many papers. Little, of the industrial servlce department, "War-time Education," by 1'. L. Davis, Merchants National Bank. will deal with secretary of the College of Business Ad- present day industrial problems. ministration and dlrector of the War Emer- The meeting is called bv the secretary- gency 1)ivision of Eoston University will treasurer of th Association and will 11e sketch briefly the changing nceds of pres- presided over by hi~n. Members OF the As- cnt education. soclation and stl~clents from the dcpnrt- The editor of SITCI.\I. LTDRAI~S, R. L. ments of secretarial studies, journalis~uant1 Power, will speak on "Library Service in lihrary economy have been invited ant1 IVar Tlme," in which he will give a resume an unusually large nun~l~eris exprcted SPECIAL LIBIIAKIES

Library of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company By BUKICE E. PECK, Librarian

Thc Library of the Winchester Repeating special effort is made to bring this infor- Aams CO., at New Haven was instituted in mation before the men who are interested 1913. At that time there were small col- oillher by reason of the positiqn they hpld lections of books In several of tlie offices or because of sonle special investigation which in many cases unnecessarily dupli- thcy may be undertaking. The periodicals cated each other. The department was are circulated in various ways. Those con- started to avoid duplication as much as pos- taining the same sort of material in each sible by having all hooks indexed in a cen- Issue, such as the electrical rnagazmes are tral 11lacc and somcone to take care of the sent out according to a regular schedule. periodicals received. Therc were ,about Those in which there are items of intcrcst live Ilundred books antl seven perioclicals. to many in the organization are rnarkcd Jii 1915, the department was recognized antl sent out with a special slip attacmhed as a Library antl considered worthy of calling attention to a particular article by larger c]uar,ters. The number of books had page and title. At .the present time we are I~ccnincreased and more periodicals ndcletl. also trying out a plan of clipping some of The interest in scientific ~nanagcment at the n~ostim~ortant periodicals which con- this time brought thc library into promi- tain long articles and circulating the indi- ncnce. That section of the Library was vidual clippings in folders. As a completc greatly cstcncletl and now includcs a large copy of the issue will be kcpt on file, the collection of books. clippings will be held only six months and Tl~crcare now ovcr two thousand books Lhcn dcqtroyed. and lifty periodicals undcr the control of Tllc Lihrary also has an extensive file of the Lihrary The I~ooksarc classified ac- trade catalogues, listing three thousand cording to the Dewey decimal system. The manufacturers, and controls tlie catalogue largest numbcr are to be found under thc lilcs in other departments. The catalogue; headings, guns and a~rmu~iiti?n,bpi11 sport- art: Iilecl al,pl~ahetically11y ~nanufacturcrs ing and military; laljor; englncering, in all names and cross indexed on cards by pro- its Ilmnches, b,ut principally mecllanical. d11cts. Under englncermg arc included I~ooks011 It will Ije seen that our Library is a gen- incluatrial engineering or scientific manage- eral technical rcference library, rathcr than mcnt. Iiecently we have acldcd consideral~ly one glven over specially to material on to our matrrial on guns and a~nliiunition. guns and ammunition, althougli of course L!p tr~last year there werc fcw l~ookspull- tliesc subjects have a large share of our in- lishecl on this suhject that werc not mcrcly tercst and we aim to make this section as rcprints ni carlier works. Tn addition ,to colnpletc as possible. many I~ookson ammunition and guns, 111- clutlinl?; machine guns, whicli havc l~ec~l 110th intcrc.;ting and instructive, we have many of the Government pamphlets issued "Die Scl~ulrcform,olgan of the Swiss petlagogical society antl the society ot on tlicsc sul)jects, also thc Annual Rcports Swiss teachcrs of natural science, ,lias be- of thc Chiel of Ordnance from 1872 to date. gun its eleventh volunle with some inter- I3ook.; are purchased for the Libra~yon the reca~iimcndationof thc Librarian. Sug- csting essays on educational and 1itcrar)- topics " gestions map Ilc sent in to tlie Library from any mclnber of the orpanizatiotl and the 1)oolc will bc purchased if it seems ad~is- "Tanks", a list of refcretices on military able Where tlie hook suggested is only of tractors called tanks, has heen compiled hy temporary interest, it IS Ilorrowed from one Mr. H. E. H;iferkorn, Lil~rarian of the of the public lil~raries. JVlien noticc of a United States Engineering Scl~oolLibrary, new I~cmkof interest is rcceived it is sent, Washington, D. C. with a review if possible, to thc man in the organization who waul[! I)c most intereslcd in the su,l)ject. Tf in his opinion the I~oolc would hc of valuc, ?t is orclcrccl on approval, .-\ I~ooksoon to be pul)lislicd, "The Devcl- and, when rcceived is sent to the man for op~iient of Rates of Postage," By .4.. D. rPvle\v. Smith is to cover the history of the sub~ect As moat nf the 1111-to-dale lnalerial is in Great Britain, United States, France, and cor~tained in thc technical periodicals, a Germany. (Allen and Unwin). SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Useful Things in Print

The Portland Cement --isociation, I 1 I W. tile Machinery Operation" and "l'cllliics Washington St., , Ill., has issued a per Pound for Grease or Dollars I)cr YeLir bulletin on "Concrete Sh~ps-a possible for Machinery Replacement." solution of the shipping probleni." Copies may be obtained at the ad,dress above The Research Div~sionof the l:tl~-c;l~~of - 1:oreign and Domestic Cominercc has ~OIII- The Annual Report of the Department of piled a list of sources of information on Commerce Publicatiori Division showed Jiu5sia wh~chare ~nostlyill English, l'hu that this Department, in spite of the de- list is concerned with com~nercialand ccon- crease for the fiscal year, is one of the omit material cheifly. Copies may bc 01)- largest publishing establishments of the lairled from the Rureau. Government. The decrease was due to the fact that distribut~onswere limited to or- l'ri~lter's I~rkfor December 20 has a short ganizations having real need of them. article telling about the trip of business paper ed,itors to Washington. The ol>ject In , the United States De- of the trip was to discover ihrough con- partment of Agriculture Library published ferences with various officials how the 1)~s. a list of recent American directories con- iness papers could assist the (;overnrnent. tained in their library, owing to the in- creased need for directories at the present The State College of Agriculture, tme. They arc ~nn~nlyof manufacturrb .ithens, l~asa large amount of circulars and and business and range from agricultural 1)ulletins for distribution including material implements and subjects allied to agricul- on cotton production, farm management, ture to women's clubs-- and city directories. agriculture, ctc. "How to Win the War," hy Frank A. The Bureau of Commercial Economics, Vanderlip, Natiqnal City Bank, N. Y., 19 p. Washington, has I~eendesignated the offi- deals with war Imance, War Savings Certl- cial distributing agent for the Belgiun? gov- ficates, etc. ernment of its literature and informat~onin relation to the World War. Lil~rariesmay Public Affairs Information Service. Bul- receive material on application and by pay- letin. Third annual cumulation, Oct. 1916 ing expressage charges. Oct. 1917;edited by Lillian Henley, assis- ted by Katherine J. Middleton, 490 p., N. Y., The n~i~iutesof the Common Council of The H. W. Wilson Co. the City of , 1784-1831, arc l~ein~ A comparison of th~sissue with the pre- published. Ten volurnes are now ready and vious Annuals shows a great increase in the the remaining ten within six months. Any an~ountof material indexed. 69% more one may obtain information by writing to publications have been listed durmg the the Secretary, 512 Municipal Ru~ltling, third year of the Service than during the . second. The special mission of the Service -- is to list ,by subject the more elusive mater- The National Magazine Company, Eliza- ial in print. zeth, hTew Jersey, has just issued a new pe- All entries do not represent printed ma- riod~calcalled "Periodicals", to be pul~lishetl terial. Notes, announcements and digests quarterly. It lists the publications which show the trend of public thought and action the company has for sale and describes dif- but do not refer directly to prmted matter. ferent technical pul)lications, changes of Each of the 490 pages of this third an- names, volumes, etc. nual cumulation contains from 35-45 ref- erences, approximately 20,000 entries in all. Tn their llook, "Princiljk and bicthoil5 The subject-headings are non-technical and in Cornnlercial Educalion, Kahn and Klcin,, fully cross-referenced so that the volume is (Macmillan) recommend for a commer- very usable. cial law library a scrles of standard texts on different phases of the law, sucl~as Pol- At1 article in the December number of lock on contracts, Huffcut on agency, and Plqsical Traii~ilrg (124 E. 28th St,.N. Y.) Cook on corporations, or the I-Iornboolc se- entitled "The Young Men's Christ~anAs- ries, publ~shed hy the West Publishing sociation Physical Director's Library", by Company of St. Paul, second, a series of S C. Staley, describes the various kinds of case books on different subjects such as literature that should hc represented in a Williston on contracts, and An1e.i 011 I~ills physical director's library and the way it and notes. should be kept. A selected list of books and period~calsis appended. The ".4rchitcct7s Library" is a forty- - eight page pamphlet which should IW in the , The engineering department of Swan and office of every architect and on the shclves Finch Con~pany, N. Y., has issued two of every architect's library. It contains nu- 1)ooklets "Some Facts and Figures on Tex- merous illustrations with plans, and the list SPECIAL LIBRARIES 43 is annotated. Set~ton request to U. P. C. the Chap~nantype of 1,all bearings; Cable Book Company, Incorporated, New York \Vay Carriages, an 8 page folder descr~bing City. a locking cableway carriage, lssued by the Hlaw-Know Go., P~ttsbur~h;Core Sand "Gctting Maxi~nunlPulley EfficiencyJ' is Mixers, a 12 pagc booklet issued by the Bly- a 38 page pamphlet publishccl by the Amer- stone Mfg. CO., Cambridge Springs, Pa., ican Pulley Company of Philadelph~a. It fully describes space and operation of core contains photographs, cuts, and diagrams .;and mixers. of pulleys for all kinds of work; also rules to find size of pulleys or speed of shaft. The So~thAfrican Journal of Industr~es was first issued in September 1917under the "Processes In Which Wonlen Can Do the authority of the Minister of Mines and Work of Enl~stedMen", a pamphlet of 30 Industries in order to afford publicity to pages published by Corn Exchange Na- the existing knowledge of the economic tional Bank of Philadelphia, was compiled and natural resourses of . fro111 pan~phletsissued by the British Gov- ernment. It contains a list of the trades Thc Utah Agricultural College has been and processes in them in which women can publishing frequent l~ulletinsand circulars effectively take the place of men. of grcat value to the agriculturists of the West ant1 they will send them free upon re- "Getting Your Booklet Across" is sent quest. Address Lhe Utah Experiment Sta- out by the Interlaken Mills of Providence, tion, Logan, Utah. R. I. It is a 30 page cloth-bound 'fbooklct" giving rules and reasons for advert~smgand "First Principles of Filing Systems "is a the medium in which advertising should be text I~ookof 87 pages issued. two years ago done. Tt also contains cuts of the various I,y The Maccy Company, Grand Rapids. kinds of cloth-bound booklets that lend St has chapters on indexing, cataloguing, themselves to advertising. liIing, etc. There are drawings to demon- strate different mcthods, A nominal charge "Cotton Picker Room Machinery", a of 2gc is made for the book. It's worth it. cloth-bound catalogue issued by the Woon- -- - . socket Machine and Press Company, gives The Comnlercial Engraving Pul~lishlng descriptions of the special machinery used Company, Indianapolis, has issuecl a 36 page by them, with cuts and diagrams of thc ma- pamplllet "Copper plate, steel d~e,ancl plate chines. 64 pages including the index. engraving, printing, and embossing "Report on the Mpre Economic Distribu- Space does not permit of an extended tio? and Delivery of Milk in thc City of review of a recent pamphlet entitled "Re- Ch~cago"-a 15 pagc pamphlet issued by port on a survey of statc supported library the Con~mitteeon FIealth of Chicago-was activities in the State of Washington made printed as an effort to solve the milk prob- Ily the State Library Adv~sory Board ,to lem with regard to the interests of the con- and, at the request of the Washington State surnes, the producer, ancl the ~uicldlenlan. Library Commission" (134 p.) We assume It contains comparisons of milk prices in that copies will Ile sent on request to the other cities and recommenclations for the Washington State Library. There arc per- betterment of conditions. tinent suggestions to remedy the rather ,latic condition of the state lil~rary,recotu- The Jordan Marsh, Boston, "S'forc TopicsJ' mendations for a county library system, has recently changed its name to "The Fal- material on llbrarv school instruction and lnw Wni-kcr" and is to represent every incli- reference lists and much other worth-while v~dualin their organization. information. If only a small part or the - reco~ninendationscould be carried ant the "The Iron Trade Review" for December usefulness of the library activities in the 20, gives a list of new trade publications. state would be greatly increased. It would These include: Motors, the second of a he well if other states would follow suit series published by the Westinghouse Elec- and take account 01 stock in the library tric Company, describing motors and gen- li~le. erators for industrial service: Alloy-Metals, a catalog issuecl by the Goldschmidt Ther- "Espert Staff Aids to Management," by mit Co., N. Y., discusses metals used for Dr. F. A. Cleveland, 27 p, has been ~ssued alloys and a few pages deal with the adap- 11y the Industrial Service and Equipment tation of the Goldschmidt process to foun- Co., Boston. The material first appeared dry practice; Flexible Couplings, an 8 page in a paper read Ilefore the Institute of folder issued by the Thomas Flexible Coup- Arts and Sciences of Columbia University. ling Co., Erie, Pa., describes the various types of flexible couplings; Ball Bearings, "The surgeon-~eneral's Library" b.y a 52 ,page booklet by Transmission Ball Lieutenant-Colonel McCulloch, 1.5 pages, 1s nearing Co., Buffalo, gives a history of the a reprint of a paper read at the Nineteenth development of the Chap~nantype ball and Annual Meeting of thc Medical Library .4s- illustrations of driving shafts equipped with sociation. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

NEWS NOTES

The National Society for tlie Promotio~~ago when he was but a successful journa- oi lndustr~alEducation meets in Philadel- list, recently retircd from control of the phia to 23. Atlantic M,ont8hly, now carries as its sub- title !n its Eng1i;h edition, "An Anglo- X publishers' adv~sory board has been Amcrlcan ICe\~ew. forr~~etlin New York C~ty,which, in addi- - tion to the representatives of various groups The Ghaml~erof Export Merchants ancl of per~odicals,also includes spokesmen for 1;oreign Com~nercein Paris, France, has the Authors League and the Allied Prlnrlng estal~lishecla new commercial school with Trades. the object of giving instruction in the fun- damentals ol exportation and importation. The of Paris has Cmertain employees of I~usinesshouses are established in the Paris High School of sent to the school where they take up com- Commerce courscs of Instruction for young mercial legislation, geography, customs men to train for positions In French and rules, navigation, and languages. Amencan 1)usiness houses. - - The United Service Clul~has been or- "There IS a movement on foot to organize ganized by Hotel McAlpin, N. Y., for army a national chamber of commerce for Chile. and navy officers of the United States and In Valparaiso, according to Cominercc El of alliccl countries. The club furnishes. Mercurm, of Valparaiso, publishes the invi- besides war books ancl maps, a sand and tation to the conlmercial pul~licto join in clay representation of activities at the the organization of such a chamber issued front. by the committee of organization." - The Vail Library at hfassaohi~settsIn- "Des Sauvages", written in 1603 by Sam- slitute of Technology, which is now uel De Champlain, describing his travels in nearing the end of its cataloguing, conta~ns , was bought in Pam a few years many interesting volumes which have to ago for thirty cents. Recently the book do with electricity and allied subjects. was sold in N. Y. for the sum of $3600.00. Thcre are also translations of the old stu- dents of electricity, a manuscript dated 1786, The December numbcr of "America ye Vrenna, from the hand of Mesn~er,treatises Intlustrias Americanas" contains an illus- on hypnotism, and a conlplete list of mod- trated description of the Library of Con- ern electrical engineering works. gress. The greater part of Vail's gift came from the wealthy English recluse, George Ed- E. I DuPont De Nenlours & Company ward Dering. Upon his death, Mr. Val1 of Wilmington, Delaware, have issued an purchased his library of electr~caland kind- attractively bound ancl illustrated descrip- red subjects for $IOO,~O,it is sa~d. For lion of their products, covering rgo pages. over forty years, Mr. Dering had a stand- ing order with a publisher ill to A new coetlucational comn~ercialschool purcl~asebooks in any language on electri- is to be opened in Orizaba, Mexico, under cal subjects, and besides this, he attended tlie direction of tlie Orizaba Chamber of many sales personally and collected a li- Commerce brary oi some thirty thousand t~tles. X "Better Business Correspondence The, Merchants National Bank or Boston Convention" was held in Worcester, Mass., has d~scontmuedits Textile Dept., and re- recently. One hundred and fifty persons organ~zetl the work and personnel into a from thir,ty-three cities represented many new Industrial Service Dept. The scope of of the well-known business houses of the the work will he much the same a< formerly country. Plans were made for meeting in except, perhaps, on a broader scale. at Akron, Ohio. Thc art room of the Springfield (Mass.) An ,arti,cle I,y Mrs. N. M. Forbcs, in the Public Library recently held an exhibition November National Municipal Review, sug- of work done in various printing offices of gests a plan by which the ruined cities and the city. It was the first of a series to devastecl land of France might be restored. hring to the attention of the public the A city ,pr conin~unityin the Un~tedStates city's progress in arts and crafts. might adopt" and help rebuild a French town, supplying, also, its former occupants "The n~onthly journal, World's Work, with ,the means of resuming their old oc- which :\mbassarlor #?age founded years rupntlori~. SPECIAL LIBRARIES Special Libraries PUBLM-IED BY PRENTICE-HAIL, INC., Did you ever hear of a newspaper run- FOR TIIE ning a public library? No. But here is SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION one-the New York Evening Post-which Monthly except July and August. offers its library facilities freely to the pub- Publieatiotl Office Pren~icc.Rall, Inc , 70 Fifth lic betwecn the hours of one and four, ex- ~tvcnue.~cw knl k CI~V. cept Saturdays and Sundays. Editom1 Offlcc Boston University, 525 Boylston Street, ~nskn,Mass. Its library consists mainly of reference Entered as Second Class Matter. Noveniber 16, 1917. material inclucling government documents, at the Post Office at ~ewYork, New ~ork; American history, standard works of liter- under the .\ct of hIarch 3, 1879. ature and patnphlc~material on topics of every-day interest. Subscript~o~is(10 issues) ...... $2.00 a year And the Post isn't quietly passing the Single copies ...... 25 cents word around to a few that this lihrary is open to the puhl~c Not a bit of it. It is advertising the . fact 1)roadcasl and 1s backing up promtse with perforrnancc. President ...... C. C. W~lliamso~l While I do not consider that the Evening Municw~lReference Library, Ncw York. Post has the best 11l)rary of any newspaper Vice-President ...... John A. Lapp in New York City I do believe that it rec- Secretary-Treast~rer...... Ralph L. Powel Boston Vn~vcrs~tyCollege of Business Adtn~n~s. ognizes ~ts'dutyto thc public to a greater tratloll extent than any other. We sce here a special library that is at the same tilpe a EXECUTIVE BOARD public library. President, Vice-Prcsillent, Secretary-T~easurel, Guy Marion, 27 State St., Boston, and The collection contains over 6,000 books ISlizal>elh V. Dol~bins,Amcrican Telephone and and about half that number of pamphlets. 'I'elegmph Co., New Yolk. Mr. James W. Jennings is at prcscnt acting as librarian. SPECIAT, LIBRARIES Eoilor-in.Chiel ...... Ralph I.. Powel ASSOCIATE EDITORS Thc subject 0,f thrift, upon which there i:, EI. 1-1. 13. hfeycr Daniel N. Handy to be a big drnive in the cantonn~entsand R. 11. Johnston Ethel M. Johnson camps in Februrary, is one of ilnportance Elcanor Kc1 r to everyone at the present time. An exccl- lent article on the subject will be found The Gunnr~rfyNcws for December, 1917,In "Thrift a National Asset" by W. C. Lane. For a bibliography on the ;ubject there is Antroui~cementhas just been made of a none better than that in One Hundred Business Research and Service Bureau to Years of Savings Banking, 1816-1916" by be established and operated by the College Edward L. Robinson, published last year by of Business Administrat1011 of Boston Uni- the Savings Bank Section of thc American vers~tyon a "self-supporting" basis. Among Bankers Association, New York. The vol- other duties the Bureau will make available ume includes a comprehensive bibliography in printed form lectures and addresses of on thrift-cooperation and good management special impartance dealing with timely sub- as it relates to thrift, cotnpiled by Marian jects; publish reports on research work R. Glenn and Ina Clement. The li:~t of concluctecl by faculty members, students or minutely subd~vicled with main divisions others; distribute at a no~ninalfee copies somewhat as follows: thrift and savings, of printed lectures relating to business and individual thrift, donlestic thrift,. evidences allied subjects; sul~mitto business men and of thriftlessness, economics of thrlft, nation- othcrs at suitable rates detailed re- tional, thnft, international thrift and, thr~ft ports relating to questions of 1)usiness agencies. The material listed includes, administration and supply lists of sup- I~ooks, periodicals, transactions, proceed- plementary reading material on varlous ings, ctc. subjects. The Director of the Depart- "Thrift in our daily affairs is as impera- ment of Secretarial Stud~es,T. Lawrence tive for our national protection as fighting Davics, has been appointed dlrector of the in the lret~clics." new bureau. He is a ~qetnberof the Asso- ciation and has bccp much interested in its work. All facilities of the College will be R!j,liographies to appear in early issucs used in furthering the new work inclt~ding of Special Lilwaries" include: "List OF the secretarial laboratory, business admin- Refcrcnces on Motor Transports in War"; istration lil~rary,commercial museum and "List oi References on the Relations OF educational special~sts. Uritisll Railways to the European.War." SPECIAL LIBRARIES

List of Dictionaries of Commercial Commodities and Other Books Descriptive of the Material Used in the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce Cornplled under the direction of H. H. B. MEYER, Chief Bibliographer, L~braryof Congress

Andes, Louis I<. .2ni1nal fats and oils, 9. Chenlistry, theoretical, practical, and their practical production, purification analytical, as applied to the arts and and uses for a great variety of pur- maufactures. By writers of emin- poses, their properties, falsification and ence. London, W. Mackensie. (1882) exanmlation. (Tr. from the German 2 v. in 8. TPg C6. Iqy Charles Sdlter.) London, Scotd, Greenwood, and Co., 1898. 240 p. 10. Ohisholm, George G. I-Iandibook of TP676.A55. commercial geography. 4th ed. Lon- don, New York, Longmans, Green and Vegetable fats and oils, their practical Co., 1903. 639 p. HFroag.C54. preparation, purilication and employ- ment for various purposes, their prop- I : Commercial intelligence bureau (1907) erties, adulteration, and ,examination. Itcl., London. British-made goods and Tr. (from thc German) by Charles where to get them.. . Comp. and pub. Salter. London, Scott, Greenwood & i~ythe Comn~ercialintelligence bureau Co., 1897. 316 p. TP680A55. (1907) Itd., London (1908-10) 2 v. HF3503.C7. Auskunftsbuch fdr die che~nische In- cli~strie,hrap. von H Blucl~er. Berlin, 12. Conference Internationale de statistique commercial Brussels, I~IO. Notes 1'. Siemenroth, 1910-11. I v. TPg.A8. cxnlicaL~ve.s concernant In nonlencla- 44 Belgium. Musee commercial. .Cats- tuie commune des marchandises. lpgue des collections, arr6tb au rer Bruxellcs, Etablissements gfineraux jum, 1886-~er novembre 1887). Dic- d'in~primcrie,rgr I, +tn t~onnaire comtnercinl. I3ruxelles, 1'. HFro41.06 rgrod. M'eissenbruch, r88G-87. 4 v. 1-11~61.114 13, Drake-Brokman, Ralph E. British SO- 1-1 1:G I .H4. maliland. London, Hurst 8: Blackett, 5. Bosch-Spencer, Guillaumc 11. Com- Itd., rgrz. 334 p. DT4o6.D7 merce de la cbte occidentalc dc 1'A- Contains ~nformationon the products mdrique du Sud. Statistique commer- of equatorial Africa. cial du Chili, de la Bolivie, du PCrou, 14. Enclclopedia di chimica scicntifica e in- de l:$quateur, de la Nouvelle-Gren- dustrial~,ossia Dizionario generale di acle, de 1'AmCrique Centrale et du chimica colle applicazioni alla agricol- Mexique. Bruxelles, Impr. tlc D. Raes, tura e itldustrie agronomiche, alla far- 1848. 421 p. IIF3376.S74. macia e materia medica, alla fisiolo,gia ani~nalee vegetale . . (etc.) Torino, 6. Brannt, William Theodore. A practl- Dalla societi I'Unione tipoqrafico- cal treatise on animal and vegetable etlitrice torinese, 18G8178, I I fats and oils; comprising both fixed v. and volatile oils.. .as well as the man- Complemento e supplen~~ento.Tori- ufacture of artilicial I~utterand lubri- no, Unione tipoprafico-editrice, 1879- cants, etc. . .2d ed. Philadelphia, H. 81. 3 v. QDg.E56. C. Baircl & Co., 1896, nv. TP67o.B83. Suppleillento annuale alla Encicb- pedia di chimica scientifica e industri- 7. Browne, Sara 1-1. The manual of com- ale . . . 1581-85-1908. Torino, Un!one merce, containing a concise account of QD5.W. m lie source, rnotle of production or man8- ufacture of the pridcipal articles of 15 Enclycopaedia of cheln~stry,thc~)rctical, comnlerce. Springfield, Mass., Bill, practical, and analytical, as applied to Nichols & Co., 1871. 429 p. the arts and nianutnctures r%~ladel- HP1ogr.B8 8. Capus, Guillaume. Les produits cola- niaux; origine, production, commerce. I 6. Ennis. W~lliam I.) Linsceti 011 :ind I'aris, A. Colin, 1912. 687 p. othcr sced oils, an indus~rial ~~lanual. HF1oqx.C3. hew k~r~,IJ V;tn No~travd ~'onl- "Hihlijiraphie": 13. ix-xvi. paw, 1909. 316 P. ~~$30E6. SPECIAL

Erdmann, Otto L. Ermann-Kbnig, lung Gdschen. 222-223) HF1046.H3j. Grundriss der allegemeinen W,aaren- "Literatur": pt. I, p. 5; pt. 2, p. 6. kunde. Zum gebrauche fin Handels- und Gewerbschulen sowie zurn sell~st- 25. Hefter, Gustav, ed. '~ccl~nologieder rlriterrichte entworfen. TO verb, untl Fctte und Ode. Handbuch der gewin- vcrm. Aufl.. Leipzig, J, A. Barth, nung und verarbeitung der l'ette, Oelt 1880. 566 p. I-IFIo~I.E~. und Wachsarten dcs P~lanzenund Ti- ehhcichs. I.-?. Btl. Berlin, J. Springer Freeman, William G. The world's 1906-10. 3 v. TP6jo Hg. conlmercial products; a descriptive ac- 13. count of the econonlic plants of the 26. Hcnkcl, Johann Dic Naturproducts world and of their comnlercial uses. uncl Industrieerzeugnisse im Welthan- .. . del. Erlanpen, I?. Enke, ~868-6p. 2 v. London, Sir I. Pitman and sons, 1907. IlF497.H;~ 391 P. HFIo~I.F~. a?. I-lolde. David. The examination of hy- (ha, hll~crt. Manual of intcmledi- drocarbon oils and of saponifiable fats ary pharmacy; a very, extcnsive cob and waxes. Authorisetl trans. from lection of drugs, chemicals and phar- 4111 German ed, by Edward Mueller. maceutical products, with their syno- New York, John Wiley & sons, 1915. nyms and many rare fornlulas, in five 483 P. TP68j.H73. parts. With an appendix containing "Kefercnccs". p. xiii-xv the names of druggists' sundries and the prescription tlirections in general 28. Kanig, Johann K. Joh. Karl Kiinigls use. West Hoboken, N. J., Anrig & Warenlexikon fur den Verkehr mlt Co., 1911. 449 p. RS~I.G~. Droger~ und Chemikalien, mit latei- Latin, English, German, Frcnch and nischer, deutschen, englischen, franzd- Ttalian. sischen hollandischen und daenischen llezeichnungen. 12. Aufl. Braun- PO. Grewer, Francis G. A. I. Thc expert schwcrg. 1:. Vicweg h Sohn, rgrr. stenographer, devoted to the interests 631 1). 1~351.1~7. of stenography; an aim to fanliliarize 21). Ilurst, George H. Dictionary of chem- students in stenography with a more icals and taw pro?ucts used in the extended idea of commercialism-that ~natluf;lcture of Ipalnts, colourh, \.a!-- they may have the opportunity of ac- nishes and allied preparations. Lon- quiring that which has heretofore been don, Scott, Greenwood and Co., 191. known only by personal application to 382 p. TPco~.H95 the buginess world. (Philadelphia?) Includes a dictionary of comnlercial 30. Jefferson, Mark S. W. Commercial products. values; an atlas of raw materials of 1911. 168 p. 256.G84. commerce and comn1e:cIJ I tiler- changes. I3oston, New York, Ginn ?< Hager, Hans H. J. Hager Ilandbuch ('onipany, 1912. 64 11. 1-1.1; 1027.14. dcr pharmaccutischen Praxis fur Apo- theker, A.ertze, Drogisten und Medici- 31. Lewkowitsch, Julius I. Chemical tech- nalbeamtc .... Berlin, J. Springer, ro!ogy and analysis of oiis, fats and 1913. 2 V. RSg1.Hzs. wnxe-. .;th ed. London, hlacmillan Erganzungsband unter Mitwirkung. and CO., i<)I3-Ij 3 V. Tl'6j0 L67. 1913 Berlin, J. Springer, 1913. 820 p. 13iljliographical footnotes RSg1,HZj. suppl. 33. Lyons, Albert B. Plant names, scien- tific 2nd popular, including in the case I-lahn. Siegfried, ed. Internationi~lea ol cach plant the correct ootnnlca Worterbuch der gebrauchlichster Arz- name in accordance with the relorm- neitnittel, in lateinischer, , deutscher, ed nomenclature, together with botani- franziisischer, engilscehr und it:ll~- cal and popular synonyms. ad ed. aenischer Sprache, Berlin, C. Hempel (Bernstein und Frank.) 1883. 72 p. , Nelson, Baker & Co., 1907. liS51.I-114. 630 P. Q I<; ~g2. 33. McElrath, Thomas. .I dict~onary of Hare, Hobart A. The national stan- words and phrases used in commerce: dard dispensatory. Containing the na- with explanatory and practical tural history, chemistry, pharmacy, remarks New York, Taintor brothers actions and uses of medicines. In ac- (1871) 679 P. HFroor.Mz4. cordance w~ththe eighth decennial re- vision of the United States pharma- 34. Magnien-Granpri, N Dict~onna~rcdes copoeia, 1905. PhiIadelphia and New productions de la nature et dc I'arl, qui York, Lea and brothers, 1905. 1860 p. font l'objet dn connnerce de la France. RSTj r.z.Hz7. soit avec I'Ctranger, so~tavec ses colo- nies; et des droits auxquels elles sorit Hassack, Karl. Warenkunde. Leipzig, lmpor&s Paris, A Bailleul, I&J. 2 v. G.J. Goschen, 1904-05. 2. v (Sarnm- in 3. HFrolr Mz. 48 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

35. (Mertenz, W., & Co., Berlirb.) Kolonial- technical terms connected therewith. praxrs; Handbuch fur Kaufleute, Indu- London, New York, E& F. N Spon strielle, Banken, Beharden und Kapi- (18831, 136 P. sF21.s~. talisten. Uerlin, W. Susserott, 1911. 389 P. HFro4r.Mg A handbook of British commerce; be- "Lderatur" : p, xv-xvi. ing a ilescripfive and statistical ac- count of the various articles forming 36. hlichelson, Edward H. The n~erchant's the import and export trade of the polyglot manual in nine lai1guages:Eng- . London, Moffat & glish, German, Dutch ,Swedish, Danish Paige, 1892 204 p. IIF3506.S5g. and Norwegian, French, Italian, Spanirh, Portuguese. Chiefly extracted from tl~c Thc con~mercialproducts of the sea.. . tariffs of all nations. London, Jdongvlan, London, Griffith and Farran, 1879. Green and Roberts, 1860. ,336 P. 484 P. SH331.Sgg 1879. PB345.M5. National paint, oil and varnish associ- New and cheaper edition. New York, ation, A revised list of the trade E. P, Dutton & Co., 1883. 484 p. names registered ~11th the National SH331S59. part, oil and varnish association. New Slater John A., ed. Pitinan's commer- York city, (1914) 1 v. TP9345N3. cial encyclodpaedia and dictionary of Payne, George 1;. Payne's dictionary business . . London, New York, Sir of pharmacy. The oflicial drugs and I. Pitman & sons, 1912. 4 v. forlnulas arc based on the United HFIooIS~~. States pl~ari~iacopoeia.8th revision, 1900-1910. Arranged in a question and Dictionary of the world's coinn~ercial answer form. Atlanta, Ga., G. F. procl~~cts,with Frcnch, German and Payne, 1g12 167 p. RSSI-P~. Spanlsli equivalents for the names of B~bliography: I 11. at end. the co~nlnercialproducts, zd. ed. Lon- don, Sir I. Pitrnan & Sons (1907?) 162 The Pharmacopoeia of the United 11. (Pitman's commercial series). States of America. 9th decennial re- HFroq1S65. vis~on... Official froni September I, 1916. Philadelphia, P. Blaltiston's Son Smith, John, A dictionary of popular & Co., (1916). 728p. RSr41.z.Pg. 1916. names of the plants which furnish the natural and acquircd wants of man, in The Pharmacopoeia of the United all matters of dolnestic and general States of Anler~ca. Epitome of the economy. London. London, Macinil- Pharnlacopoeia.. . with comments, pre- Ian and Co., 1882 457 p. SBro7S6. pared for the use of physicians under authorization of the Council on phar- Spamer, Otto, firm, publishers, Leipzig. macy and chemistry of the American Otto Spainer's Illustrirtes Hanclels- Medical association. . . Chicago, Ameri- lexicon. Praktischcs Hulfs und Nach- can medical association, 1916. 250 p. schlagebuch iiber allc Gegenstaende RSr41.n P55 1916. und Verhaeltnisse des Handcls und Wcl tverkehrs. . . Leipzig, 0. Spamer, I'lischl, Viktor, Allgemeine Warenkun- 1876-79. 4. v. de Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1912. 504 p. lllustrirtcs Handels-Lexikon. Nach- HFroqr.F7. dchlageb\actter zum taeglichen Ge- SanjinCs, T. Alberto. Diccionario do- brauch aus dein Gebiete des Handels mercial, adaptado j. la tarifa aduane- -und Verkehrslcbens im achten Jahr- ra.. La Paz, Bollvia Tall. graf la zchnt. Leipzig und Berlin, 0. Spa- Prensa, 1912. 452 p. HFIO~I.S~. mar, 1881. 232 p. HFIOOIS72. Scllcrzer, Karl, rittcr von. Das wirtll- Spon, Edward. Spons' cnclyclopaedia schaftliche Lebeli der VBlker. Leipzig, of the industrial arts, manufactures and A. Dh, 1885. 756p. HC53.S4. commercial products. London, New York, E. & I? N. Spon, 1879-82. 5 v. Schroder, Georg. I-Iandbuch fiir Zoll- Tg 576. kmte und Steuerpflichtige. Ein al- phabetiscll geordnctes Waarcnver- Stoll, Rudolph 0. Thc knowledge uf zeichniss. 6. Aufl. Cassel, T. Fischer, wares. A book desianed- for use in 1860 p. 286, 242 p. H J6925 S4. commercial collegcs and technical sc11o01~. Eau Claire, Wis., R. 0. Sinlmonds, Peter L. A dictionary of Stoll, 1893. 358 p. HFro46.S87. useful animals and their products. A manual of ready reference for all Thorpe, Sir Thomas E. A u~ctionary those which arc coinnlercially impor- of applied chemistry. London, New tant, and others which man has utilized, York, Longmans, Grcen and Co., 1912- jnclu(ling also a glossary of trade and 13. j V. TPg.T7. SPECIAL LIBRARIES 49

Toothalcer, Charles R. C,ommercial gtlages; a glossary and an mdex. . raw materials; the~rorigin, prepara- 3d ed., rev. London, G. Philip l(r son, tion and uses. (I'hiladelphia). The 1887 504 p. (His manuals of com- Philadelphia museums, 1915. 108 p. merce: technical, industrial and com- HFro46.T7. mercial). HP352. Yq;. Ullmann, Fritz. Enzyklopacdie der 66. The natural history of tlie raw ma- technischen Cheinie, unter Mitw~r- terials of commerce. With a copious kung von l~achgenossen.1-2 Bd. Bcr- list of comrnercial terms in several lin, Urban tk Schwarzenberg, 1914-15. languages. New York, Scr~bnrr,Wel- 2 v. TKg.UG. ford & Armstrong, 1878. 440 p. (His ford & Armstrong, 1878. 440 p. (HIS., Villavecchia, Vittorio. Dizionario di Technical, industrial and trade educa- merceologia e di chimica applicata alla conosccnza dei prodotti delle cave e AI~EKDA miniera, del suolo 0 deIl' industria con 67 Allen, Alfred H. Allen's conumercial specinle rlguarde ai prodotti alimen- organic analysis; a treatise on the tari, chimici e farnzaceutici.. . jd ed. properties, inodes of assaying, and Milano, U. Hoepli, 1911-13, 2 v. proximate analytical exarnication of '1'Pg.v~. 1911. the various orgamc cheln~cals and products employed in the art>, manu- Watt, Sir George. The commercial factures, nledicine, etc., 4th ed. En- products of India, being an abridg- tirely rewritten. Ed. by Henry Left'- ment of "The dictionary of the cco- mann and W. A. Davis. Philadelphia, nornic products of India." London, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., rg09-17. J. Murray, 1908. 1189 p. 9 v. QD271 A 45 HC432. W22. 68 Anderson. William. The~ London com-- 61: .4 dictionary of the economic pro- nlercial dictionary, and sea-port pazct- ducts of India. London, W. 13. Allcn tecr, exhibiting a clear view of the com- 10. inerce-and inanufactures of all nations; & Co... 1889-06.p- .7. v. in HC482. W2. and Lheir several products, with thc name of each In every European Ian- 62. Watts, I-Ienry. Watts' Dictionary of guage. London, E. Wilson, 1819. 846 chemistry, revised and entirelv rewrit- I?. H F toor. A s by M. P. Muir and Mar- 69. ~lalrel~,Edward T., A handy dictiotlarp ley. London, New York, Longmans, of con~mercialinformation. London, Green and Co., 1898-1901. 4 v. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1875 385 p. QD5.W. I3 F 1001. E 6 63. Weidinger, G. Waarenlexikon der 70 Colange, Leo. The American encylo- c!lemischen Industrie und der Pharma- pcdia of commerce, manufactures, and cle. Leipzig, H. Hassel, 1868-69. 811 commerc~al law, and finance Boston, P. TPg.W4. Estes & Lauriat, [1880-811 2 v FI I: root. C 6a 63. Wood, George B. The dispensatory of 71 Dictionnaire du commerce et de l'ia- the United States of America 18th ed. duslrie. Bruxelles, So.ci6tC typogl-a- rev. and largely rewritten.. . Phila- pliique belge, 1837-40. 4 v. in r. dclphia, J. U. Lippincott Company 1-1 F Ioor. D qj (I&). 1999 p. RSrgr 2.W8 1899. 72 Dictionnaire universe1 du commerce. de 64 Wurst, Charles A. Dictionnaire tle In banque et des manufactures. Par pure et appliquee comprcnant la cK- une sociCt6 de !zegocians et de manu- mle organlque et inorgat~iqne,la c!ii- fact~lricr~ Pnrls, -4. Delahays, ISSO. niie appliqu6ce B l'industrie, B I'agri- 2 v. H I? roor. D 5 culture, et aux arts, la chimie analy- tique, la chimie physique et It min6ra- 73 Ilictionna~rcuniversel th6or1quc et pra- logie.. Paris, 1-Iachette et cie, (1868- tiquc tlu conmierce et de la navigation. . a kc1 Paris. Guillaunxn et cie, 1863. 78) 3 v, in 5. T: l3 Supplement . . Paris, T-Tachette et - 61 roar. sa cie. (1880-86). I v. in 2 74 I;UI t, hi The chemistry oi dyestuffs; ~ekiiime' supplknient . . . Paris, a n~anualfor students of chemistry and ITaclzctte et cie, 1Sga-1<)o8 7 v. dyeing. Cambridge, Eng., University Q Do W94. pres,, 1017. 311 11. (The Carttbridge ) F 6j. Yeats, John. The natural history of technical serlcs T P gro G tlie raw materials of commerce II- lustrated by synoptlcal tnhles, and a fo- 110 chart; a copious list of comrnercial products and their synonymes in the princ~pal European and Oriental Ian- 50 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

;(. Graham, jan~esSr George i\. S. Oliver] 86 I'hilipp~~le Islancls. Bureau of educa- English, German, French and Spanish, tion. Lon~mcrcialgeography; the ma- be~nga comprehensive, systematic, and terials of conl~nercelor the Philippines, .~lnhal~cticvocabulary of commercial by Hugo H. Mil1,er. Manila, Bureau arid tinanc~al tern~s,titles, articles of of printing, ICJIj. I21 p. traclc, . . New Yorlc, Macmillan and C'o., 1906. 283 1). [bfoclern manuals of Poole, Braitliwaite. Statistics of Bri- conlmerce.1 H I; 1001. G 7 tish commerce. Being a compendium of the productions, manufactures, iln- Guillaumin, Gillicrt U. ed I

'Fhc lili~nryof tl~eTuck School is one of Tllc .\nos Tuck School of Aclministra- the Imt stocked business libraries in thc tion and Iiinance at Dartniouth College, a country. Thc clircctor of the school and pioneer 1,usiness school of college grade, the library, Dr. Harlow S. Person, is serv- which was also the pioneer in the teaching ing IVasIiington at the heacl of the board of scientific inanagenient and which is the on personnel. headquarters of the Taylor Society devoted to business efic~ency,is one of the scl~ools training men for lnilitary supply work un- der specific government approval. Only Dr. George I-laven Putha~n's paper on picked men are taken. The fifth course of "The Production and Distribution of six wecks started January 14th. After the Books", an address I~eforethe New York six weeks training at the Tuck School the Library Association Conference, has been students take a further course of about five ~rintedin the West Publishing Company's weeks at the Watertown Arsenal. All are Docket" for , assured positions. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Women-War-Time Occupatiotls and Employment" List of References Compiled by Ethel Ma Johnson, Librarian Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston.

(Continuecl from Jan uary 1918 number) 291. Bla~r,Sir Robert Contntns section on Rcsponisbility of the Wur work of tho London Schools. (Man- industries for training needed workers. unl Tru~n~rigMng. Oct. 1917. p. 37-40). What some industrinl plants ore doing Wornen truined to do men's work. Training in emergency training. The contribution workers for niun~tionfactones. ~ndustrinlschools can rnakc for ele~ncn- tary twining, Industrial schools and the 292. Dodd, Alvin E. brnnches of military service. What, some Truinmg women to cam-n nntional niove industrial and technical schools nre do- ment. (Journnl of IIome Economics, Oct . Ing for emergency truining. I91 7. p.441-446). 301. Power, Ralph L, 293. Glenn, Marion ed. Ihergency instruction for busi~~esswomen. Women left behind lo be taught how to (Office Appl~nnccs,Oct. 1917. pp. 116-120). protcrt their property. (Forbea Magnzine Account of the wnr courses offered by the Gcpten~ber1917. Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 94). College of Business Administration, Bos- ton University. 204. Great Britain Board of Trade of won,el, in ,,griculture, (net- 302. Ontarlo Commission on Unemployment ember, 1!116, g. 448). Lnbour Gazette. Training women for factory work. (Re- uort 1916., .n. 172.) 295. Mm~stryof Mun~tions 303. Railway Age Gazette Training of nlunit~on workers. (Appendix St. Louis Snn Francisco estnblishes school of report on Employment of Women on for women. (Vol. 63 p. 361, Aug. 24, 1917). M~ulitiona, issued Feb. 1916). 304. Smith, Anna Tolman 296. Board of Aariculture Demnnd for vocnt~onal education in the Trnining women for farm work. (Jorrrnal countries nt war. (United States Bureau Dcc. 1916, p. 881). of Uducntion Bulletin, No. 36 of 1917, 16 Stapleford trnin~nghostel, Hertford. pp. Wnsh. 1917. 297. Green, E. Everett 305. United States Labor Statistics Bureau The school of woman signallers. (World's I

* No attempt 1s made Lo inclucle newspnpcr material, which represents much of the Unlted States literature on the subicct. Nor has it seemed possiblc In a list OF this sort t(r evaluate the articles included. A good deal af the material IS naturally of the popular ty e. There is doubtlcss considerable dupllcatlon, as many qf the American articles are simply reviews o? English ones. Wh~lethere is profus~on of material in the American magazines, there is as yct little that is based an actual investipntmn of the situation in this country. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Addenda Gibble, S. ,H. Women 111 JVar, K. 1'. BIBLIOGRAPHIES Dutton, 1917, 4oo.p., $2.75. McBride, Christine, and Kingsburyj Susan Grunsky, Clothllde. War and Wornen's (should read) Employment, in California Alumni Fort- Social welfare in time of war and disas- nightly. December 15, 1917, p. 249. ter. (Survey, Oct. 27, 1917. 11. 94-96, Norton, Esther. Women in War Indus- loo-101). tries. In the "New Republic" Decetuller 15, Classified and annotated list of publica- 1917, p. 179-181. Some of the new industrial tions in the English language. Sec- fields beir~gopened to women in thc United tions on Women's Services in War States are briefly considered. Time, Industrial Adjustment in War Usborne, Mrs. H. M. Time, and Employn1ent.- Articles of JYomen's work In War Time, I~JI~.Lon- special interest are starred. don, Laurie. The ~b~bliographyis to be continued monthly suppleme~lts The first of these Severd of the Business Libraries of Boston appears in the issue for Dec. 8, 1917. p. assisted In the prcpnration of this list by permit- 287-289, p. 301. ting thcir collections to be consulted. Pnrticu- Russell Sage Foundation Library. N. Y. C. lnrly valuable materinl was secured from the War occupations of women. Merchants Nntionnl Bank. Acknowledgement List in process. fihould aIso be made of the courtesy of the In. Information from letter, Nov. 22, 1917 surnnce Librnry Asociation of Boston, the New York Public Library, and the Detroit Libr~ry,in permitting their lists to be used in compiling tho present one. Reiser, Charles A. Industry, the war and the woman. (This list was brought up to Dec rg, and (General Federation Magazine Dec. 1917 has not been revised to brmg it UII to the P 13-14) present time.)

Proposed Revision of Dewey Classification for Engineering Libraries This monumental undertaking in twenty- astray in adopting this new class~iication five pages of fine print substantially worked as it stands for civil engineering, and with out for civil engineering and affording an such amplifications as may bc needed for ample prospectus for other branches, dc- his special department in other branchcs of serves the applause of the rnany, nzany englneerlng. Let us hope, too, that it will librarians and engineers who have been receive wlthout publicity a generous criti- yearning for a haven of rest in the matter cis111 at as early a date as practicable. of classification. It would seem to be some- A relative index will need to Follow as thing that they could tie up to and with an added convenience, but it ought not to reasonable assurance that it will work bet- I)e a great deal of trouble to make this nor ter than anything that has yet been devised, overmuch trouble to develop the various and that they will not be sorry they have hranchcs in keeping with the development adopted it And yet, shoulcl we not take of civil engineering. this precaution before recornrnc~iding it without a misgiving? Should we not en- The issue of the proceedings 1)f the deavor to have it underwritten lnorally and :imcrican Society of Civil Engineer; IDec- mentally at least by some such I~odyas ember, 1917) in which this classification is The Special Libraries Associat~on at its given, contains also the classification of the annual meeting, after a Committee of able library of that Society, in which the capital and experienced thinkers has given it due letters A to Z are used for thc primary conalderation and commctlded it for official divisions and the small letters, as Ear as adoption? There is, moreover, a far-reach- may be needed, for the first sul)tl~\~i~ions. ing nlovement to revlse the Dewey classi- After this follow nun~crals There ii little fication in order to have that fit the neccls of the mnemonic about it, ancl ir~lhis it of the engineering profession. .Ind thcn, differs interestingly from the classification too, we need to be sure that its three figures that was adopted somc years ago 11)- Dr. to the left of the decimal ancl the indelinite \\%ltten, when he was lil~rarian-s1,iti~sticiatt number,to the rlght do not collRict ~vitll for the New York Pul)lic Service Co~nmis- the copyright of Mclvil Dewey, who notes sion, First District. In .the irltroductlon to hi\ clnssilicntio~lthat This whole matter of classiric~tinr i< "the ~)ublishersInsist, as the copyright en- deadly serious and ought not to I)e zt~tescd titles them to, that oul- numI>ers sliall not Into lightly. I-Iundrcds and hundreds have he l~rintedwith ciiangetl meanings witllout had thcir nostrnms and, as the authors say, some clear lntlication of the fact ill the this proposed classification 1s the re<~rltof nml)er itself." We trust, llowever, that the con~pari~~gnlany others Coast i-3 .lent' and that one canno1 go far G. JV. Lee, Roston. SPEClAL LIBRARIES

IN THE FIELD

Miss Alice A. Atwood, Dept, of Agricul- Miss Margaret McMichael, Drexcl '11, ture Library, has been elecled secretary of has resigned from the Penn, State College the District of Columbia Library Ass'n. Library and is now in the ofice of the Sig- Mr. Andrew L. Bostwick, former presi- nal Corps at Washington. dent of the S. L, A. and librarian of the St. Miss Marion S. Morse, Pratt 'or, is now Louis Munic~pal Reference Llbrary, IS in lil~rarianof the Packer Institute Library in Washington witlh the statistical division of Uroolclyn. the Council of Natmnal Defense. Miss Rebecca E. Ritchie, Drexcl '12, has Miss Edna Bullock, N. Y. State '(15, is a resigned from the IPenn. Statc Lollege temporary cataloguer with the Alnerican Library to go to the Navy Department at Red Cross, Washington. Washinglon. Miss Anne G. Cross, librarian OF the De- Miss Elizabeth T Stout, Tll., '08, lil~rarian partment of Com~nerce,has been appointed of the Montana State Collegc of Agricul- treasurer of the District of Goluml,~a Li- ture, is now librarian in the Lewis and Clark brary Association. High School, Spolcane, Washington. Miss Mary E. Dann, for several years a Miss Katherine H. Wootten, Stnithsonian niember of the Association, tells of her ~dea institution LlI~~ary,was recently elected of Heaven in the "Roycroft" lor December. 2nd vice-president of the District of Colum- Miss E. V. Dobbins, Am. Tel & T:!. CO. 11ia Lil~rarpAss'n. Library, is now in Washington as Chief of Records aj;d Files, Division of. Loans linokplatc Society's "Bookplate Booklet" and, Currency. l~asIxen changed to the "Bookplate Quar- Miss Addie Duprey, Syracuse, has been terly" with editorial office in Portsmouth, appointed on the cataloguing staff of the N. 1-1. U. S. Naval War College, Newport. Mr. T. L. Davis, Boston University, has The famous Grolier Club in New York been anoointecl director of the new Busl- has moved to its ncw location on East Six- n& search and- Service Bureau. t~thStrcct and is exhibiting many lint Miss Edith Endicott, Pitt. '14, is in the I~indings. Many additions and improve- War Department at Washington. incnts have been made to the club library. Miss M. L. Erwin. librarian of the Bank- Thc gallery, stacks, furnisl~ings have all ers Trust Company bf New York, has a lil- I~een ~uadewith the idea of giving the erary article of two pages in the September cffect of a library in an English college. issue of tlie North Carolina Library Bulle- "A libra~ywill never become first class tin. w111lc its librarian is second class!' Mrs. Helen G. Pitchet, N. Y. State '13-'14, is teinporatily a cataloguer in the Massa- "A library cannot render good service cllusctts Agricultural College Library. with a good librarian who is handicapped Miss Sarah Hallsted, a graduate of Mt. yith an inefficient staff," "Inefficient libra- Holyoke and N. Y. Statc Library School rlans mean unsatisfactory service." has been appointed assistant llbrar~an of "lVomen publishers and booksellers of the National Bank of Commerce, N. Y. thc co~~ntryllave formed a national organi- Miss Marie A. Hammond, Ill., '09-'10, has zation, with headquarters in New York been oppointccl a cataloguer in the Portlar~d City. They have been excluded from the Cement Company Library in Chicago. n~eetingsof the regular trade In Ncw York Miss Harter has established an engineer- and Pl~iladelphia, though not in Boston." ing library for tl~c New York Edison Company. Down in a basement on Liberty Street, Mr. Carlos C. Houghton, librarian of the New York, is the Dixie Book Shop of Mr. Federal Trade Commission. has been am Rugcnc 11. Lcvy. Mr. Levy entered the pointed a member of the Executive Corii- Cotifcclerate Army as a private. and left mittce of the District of Colunlbia Library with the same rank. HIS shop 1s a trea- Ass'n. sure-house of books, including not only Miss Mary Hubbard, Ill. '13, bas left tlie rarc volumes on economics, the Civil War, University of Washintgon Library to be- history, etc., but the later literature of come Reference Librarian at the Spokane business and finance Mr. Levy is seventy- Public Library. eight years old, and yet nearlv every day Mr. Ernest L. Little has been appointed finds him at work. An interesting write-up ass't' manager of the new Indrlstrial Ser- of him will be found in "Cotnrrtarce arid Pi- vice Dept., of the Merchants National Bank ~ta~lcc"for January g, 1918. of Boston. ~~ . Mrs. Adelaide B. Maltby, Pratt '00, has "Report of a Survey of the Un~versitvof Bern placed in charge of the Travelling NevadaJJ, Bur, of Educ. Bul., No. rg. 1917, Libraries Department of the New York is a study of univcrsity adnlinislration of Public Lil~raryon . interest to othcr institutions as wcll. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

MILITARY BOOK REVIEWS "The Cantonment Manual." By I<. W. G. "Complete United States Infantry Guide, Kilner and A. J. MacElroy. New York, -from Government publications." Com- Appleton and Conupany, 1917,illus., 307 p, piled by Major Ja~nesK. Parsons. Phila- $I. nct. delphia. Lippincott and Company, 1917, 2074 "The Cantonment Manual" is a hook for u., $6.~net. recru~tsin U. S. Army. It takes up school American soldiers in can not take of the soldier, squad and company, setting a library with them. If they could, the up drill, inspections, honors, manual of best library would be Lippincott Com- tent pitching, interior guard duty, court pany's" Complete U. S. Infantry Guide" martial, iirst aid, signals, Articles of War, which is In reality twenty-five books, since -4 chapter is devoted to French and the it contains a con~pilationfrom that nu~nber appendix contains informat~onof a general of government publications for officers and nature. Lists of National Guard and Army non-commissioned men in the army. Ca~npsis included, making the vol~~n~eone The material contained in it is as follows: oi the nlost 11p to date on the subject. Field Scrvice Regulations, Infantry Drill Regulations, Manual of the Bayonet, Man- Army and Navy Information. By Major ~talof Interior Guard Duty, Instruction for D. W. C. Falls, Dutton & Co., New Yorlc, the Care and Repair of Small Arms and Or- 1917, 192 p. $1.00 net. dnance Equipment, Regulations for I;ield This timely volume presents in n reatlable Maneuvers, Personal Hygicne .and First manner information about the United Aid, Manual of Physical Trainmg, Small States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, as Arms Firing Manual; United Stales Rifle, well as the armies and navies of foreign Model 1903. Un~forrn Regulations, U. S. countries. It was the intention to have the Army, Unit Accountal~ility Equipment volume one that would be readily under- Manual, Signal Book, Arn~yRation Issue stood by the lay reader, I~utit also presents and Conversion Tables, Engineer Field technical infora~ation to a certain extent Manual, Manual of Courts-Martial, General for those already in service. Several color Orders, Circulars and Bulletins of the War plates bring out more clearly ensignias of Department, Army Regulations, complete rank in all branches, and many drawings to Changes 55. Rules of land Warfare, In- show the uniforms of all countries. Such structions for Assembling the Infantry a book must necessarily be out of date in Equ~pment;Auton~atic P~stol; Regulatrons a comparatively short time, because of for Field F~r~ng,Machine Gun Drill liegu- rapidly changing conditions. These are, lations, Tables of Organization; Model however, only in detail, bccause the main Remarks for Muster Rolls. features remain the same. The indcx is not quite so complete as the average civilian The inaterial is nearly all presented in could wish, Ixcause it does not treat the thc exact manner as In the government subject minutely documents. Illustrntions are the samc ex- - cept in a few cases where substitutions "New Handbook of Military Signalling " have been necessary. lu this volume a man, By Iloward A. Giddings. New York, Ap- whether ,he be novicc or expert, can find pleton and Company, rgr; illus., c m. 114 the military information he is looking Eor p. 60c. with the aid of a great detailed index of 50 This is a new edition of "Instructio~isin pages. It it is not there is it safe to assume Military S~gnaling". It contains the Atncri- that it is not yet In print. 4 more thorougl~ can and International Morse codes: mater- and comprehensive book on military train- ial on the l~eli,ograph,fiash, v~si~alsignal- ing is not on the market. Bound in sturdy ling, and iln.,h signals, etc. I~uckram,it wlll stand hard use such as n copy in tra~ningcamps is liltely to Iiavc. "The Junior Plattsburg Manual." By Garcy and Ellis, New Yorlc, Thc Century Company, 1917, illus., agg p. $1.50 net. The two infantry captains, F. G. Garey "Do's and Don'ts in the Army-for officers and 0. 0. Eclclis, authors of The Platts- and men." By Harold Ilersey. New York, burg Manual" and also th:,authors of "The I3r1tton Publishing Company, 1917, 121 p. Junior Plattshurg Manual. With over ZjO 5oc. net. illustrations this manual teaches the fun- R.Itrc11 important information from man- dameitals which the soldier IIILIS~ know. uals for officers and non-co~nmissioned of- Tt takcs up the school of the soldicr, squad licers has been gleaned and condcnsed into and company, target pract~ce,patrol duty, this valuable and important handbook .for carnplng, first aid, rifle exercises, signals new men in the Army. It is of pocket size and closes with ~naxinlsof great leaders. and especially useful where onc cannot It has a good index. take many books with him SPECIAL LIBRARIES

"Cortina French-English Military Man- army rc6.ulations; patroll~ng;security; mar- ual. By Jean A. Picard. New Yorlr, Cor- ches and convoys; camps and bivouacs; tina Academy of Languages, 1917, 2nd ed. supply atid transportation; sanitation and 274 p., $2.00. horsemanship. A text book for the American soldicr The book was prepared under the direc- who has an elementary knowIeclgc of tion of Major General Leonard Wood and French Thc French is colloquial rather the Jve chapters on special arms of the than literary and follows the forms corn- servlce were written by military experts in mon to Army life. those lines. The volume aims to instruct in the funtlamentals of military service so a man who studies it in co~lnection wit11 "The American Soldier in France- a mil- Field Service Regulations and the regula- itary guide hook to the French language, t~onsof his chosen branch of service may army and nation." By George N. Tricoche. I~ecome thoroughly trained theoretically. N. Y. Cortina Academy of Languages, 1917. 10.5 P. An invaluable little book of pocket size "My Four Years in Germany". By Jarnes for the American soldier containing voca- W. Gerard. ICew York, George H. Doran Com~pany,448 p., illus, $2.00 net. bularies and dialogues in techn~caland 11111- Ambassador Gerard's "Four Years in itary French. Germany" is selling into the thousands and it is still sellin$ by the hundreds. "Fundamentals of Naval Service':. By It IS by far the 1110st ~lnportantcontribu- Yates Stirling. Philadclph~a, Lipplncott tion to the war literature and gives, as noth- and Company, 1917, 575 p. $2.00. ing else can or will, the inside iacts of the Commander Stirling's book is divided in- " the greatest military to five parts. The lirst dealing with pol~cy power the world has ever seen". Mr. Gerard and war; our naval policy-past and pres- tells the facts of his four ]ears as ambas- ent; naval strength; naval strategy; tnili- sador and includes reproductions of inany tary character; traditions; trailling; honors docunlents that were never intended to be and distinctions. Part two: sea power: !nade public. From the sailing from Amer- fleet; modern drcadnought; cruiser; naval Ica to his return the author tell of his life aeroplane: airship; ; ~ncrcantilc ~II,?of thc attltutlc of the German people. marrne; Part three: work of the Naval Americans do not grasp either the mag- General StaH; Naval War ColIege, organl- nitude or the importance of this war." That zation of the Navy Department; Navy is Mr. Gerard's main idea in writing his yards, stations and submarine I~nses:war- hook. To bring home to the American ship reorganization, training of warship for people that we are in the war to win. Tn battle; and training the fleet for battle The no way is it possible to realize the mind of fourth part: seamanship ; navigation ; naval the German people and the state of the construction; ordnance; electricity in Navy; Empire today w~thouta thorough reading and engineering in Navy. Fifth division: of "My Four Years in Germany." No brief duties of the Navy in peace; the sailor nq a review coultl ever do the book justice. soldier; Naval Reserve; first aid and hy- glcne; and the Navy as a career. "The Immediate Causes of the Great Of special irr~portanceare ihc chapters War". By Ol~verP. Chitwood. New York, on Naval aeroplane, electricity in the Navy, ?'hornas Crowell Cotnpany, 1917, I& p.. and first aid and hygiene. The perusal of Y. $1 35 net. this I)ook will ~iveone an excellent i!ea The author traces the leading events of of the fundamentals of naval servicc European history during the past 25 years. whether the reader is in the service or out From the ultimatum of Austria to Serbia of it. It is true that in no chapter does the hc gives a synopsis of the diplomatic cor- writer go into intricate details For the respondence which passed among all the reader who would continue further into the Powers. At the end of the book the au- subject there are good I~ihliographies ac- con~panyingeach part of the hook. thor states his conclusions.

"With Cavalry in the Great War." By "Fundamentals of Military Service", I)y Frederick Coleman. Philadelphia, George Captain Lincoln C. Andrews. Philadelphia, W Jacohs and Company, 1917. 302 p., illus., Lippincott and Company, ~grG,428 p. $1.50. $I 50 net. In twenty-five chapters thls mhtary man- "A personal narrative of a British trooper ual takes up military policy; psychology in the trench line, through the second bat- of the service; military training; organlza- tle of Fpres." This volu~netakes up the tion; infantry drill; field artillery; coast ar- thread of Coleman's narrative. "From tillery, engineer corps-; Signal Corps; tac- Mons to Ypres with French." There are tical rules; military courtesy; guard duty; many interesting illustrations. The author, riot duty; small arms firing; map reading an American, was for inany months with and sketching, care of arms and equipment; the British forces.

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