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VOLUME 26 FEBRUARY 1935

Libraries and Special Libraries-Julian A. Sohon ...... 35 Important Books of the Year A Symposium (Continued) ...... 36 Help Needed...... 40 President's Page ...... 41 Special Library Survey Public Utility Libraries-Virginia I. Garland ...... 42 For Immediate Attention...... 47 Snips and Snipes ...... 48 Conference News ...... 49 Business Book Review Digest...... , ...... 50 New Books Received ...... 51 Publications of Special Interest ...... 52 Duplicate Exchange List ...... , ...... 54

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MARIANC. MANLEY,Editor FEBRUARY, 1935

Volume 26 +++ Number 2

Libraries and Special Libraries By IULIAN A. SOHON Librarian, Bridgeport Publ~cLibrary

Earach lrom 1 WDWddJvercd at Ule Connecticut Chapter meetin#, Scpkmber, 1934.

OST people like the idea of the three- all the specimens that should be in a museum. M fold purpose of the public library, Consequently we see that the ordinary mu- namely to provide mental recreation, to edu- seum collects and shows what will interest the cate by fostering the development of good most people in the most general manner. reading habits, and to supply information. Let This is true of the public library. Its lack of us disregard the recreational and educational space, its insuficient funds, its staff - trained features and confine ourselves to the third in methods of sorting and arranging ideas point, the furnishing of information. Both rather than in the meaning of these ideas - general and special libraries have this same makes it impossible for the public library to purpose. Both are places where the uninformed go into the detail needed by the specialist. should go to find information so that he may It is the duty of the public library to meet engage in new business or expand his old, a normal demand for general information. We improve his methods or inst'all new processes, should expect the information it supplies to where he can find out how to improve and be encyclopedic, and not exhaustive, in its control quality, and to learn how or why nature. For example, it should be able to others before him have or have not done the supply descriptions of the more general metli- thing he is doing or wishes to do. ods of chemical analysis -but not the method All this can be summed up by saying that used ten years ago in the laboratories of the the person goes to the library in order to get Bureau of Standards for determining some rare ideas. And in this respect the library is no element in a rarer mineral. It should be able longer a library. It is a museum - a museum to tell the arrangements made by a city for of ideas. Our patents record the ideas of men installing fire hydrants, but not the actual of inventive genius. Our picture collection rentals that may be paid. It should be able to shows the ideas of composition, color and per- produce pron~ptlythe items indicated by the spective as conceived by those whom nature first three or four significant figures in library has endowed with ability to see and appreciate decimal classification, but not the further sub- her beauty. Our technical books give the ideas divisions. These "but nots" now lie within of scientists on the ultimate constitution of the scope of the special libranee, but we can matter, ideas on the utilization of the energy make them accessible to the users of the public of steam, gases, electricity, and other materials library too. in devices to produce power in one form or I would like to see the public library as the another. It is a physical impossibility for a center of a regional library scheme, covering museum to put all its possessions on exhibition. an area that may be defined - for the sake of And it is equally impossible for it to acquire the argument-as having a radius of one 36 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1935 hour's drive. Thc special libraries within this If all this is accomplished, the public libra~y area will supplement the public library and can act as a clearing house for requests of n each other and avoid unnecessary book dupli- highly specialized nature, and the resources cation. I would like to see the public library of the public and special libraries will, in and the special hbraries lending freely to each effect, be increased imn~easurably. other as if they were actually branches of one That is what I would like to see done. It is institution. already being done to some extent elsewhere. Assuming that the organizations and boards It is true that many objections can be controlling the public and special libraries are raised against this scheme. The public library in favor of such free lending, there are two may not have the space, money or disposition steps necessary for the inauguration of such a to set up the union catalog, or to act as such a regional scheme. Each special librarian should clearing house. Special libraries are main- spend sufficient time at the central public tained to serve the companies supporting library to become acquainted with its re- them, and the use of the fruit of their labors to sources and its staff. The department heads aid outsiders, and possibly competitors, may of the public library should visit the special be frowned on or even forbidden. hbraries for the same purpose. If the scheme I have outlined above cannot The second step should consist in the estab- be put into effect, even on a modified scale, is lishment of a regional union catalog at the there any other way by which the resources in central public library. This catalog should be special libraries and public libraries may be in the same detail as the catalogs in the re- coardinated so that those we serve may be spective special libraries. served better?

Important Books of the Year A Symposium by Correspondence (Continued) FROM A CHEMICAL LABORATORY Micro-photographs of crystals which it con- LIBRARIAN tains. For reference, Julius Schmidt's " Organo- HE year 1934 has not brought us many metall verbindungen" is used a great deal as is Treference books in the Chemical and also the series on "Organic Syntheses" pub- Pharmaceutical fields. The most outstanding lished by the Advisory Board on Satisfactory one has been Gutman's "Modern Drug En- Methods for the Preparation of Organic cyclopedia and Therapeutic Guide" with its Chemicals. Worden's "Chemical Patents In- many formulae of unusual medicines. The new dex, 1915-1924," the last volumes of which Pharmacopceias of this year have also been appeared this year, has proved most helpful in helpful "The British Pharmaceutical Codex, locating chemicals employed in various patents. 1934" of 1,667 pages with its valuable section The recent books on biochemistry and vita- on proprietary trade names and the "Homoo- mins are helpful only for general information pathisches Arzneibuch," 2nd edition, with its since the newest developments are published in analytical section on drugs and lurnincscence magazine articles, and every week a new idea analysis. A book, the covers of which have is developed. The books are: "Annual Review been worn thin on account of its practical of Biochemistry, 1934," " Fortschritte der value, is "Modern Cosmetics. the formulation Physiologischen Chemie, 1929-1934," Harrow and production of cosmetics together with a and Sherman's "Chenlistry of the Hormones." discussion of modern production and packaging I can only end this fragmentary list by methods and equipment." adding some important names of uncompleted I have a book on my desk, Gielman's " Bilder sets, the continued volumes of which we await zur qualtitativen Mikroanalyse anorganischer with interest from year to year: Grnelin, Stoffe" which is popular for the beautiful "Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie " ; hbrurry, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 37 Mellor, "Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic but its importance lies partly in that "no- and Theoretical Chemistry "; Heilbron, " Dic- where else have the probable effects, adrninis- tionary of Organic Compounds"; Heffter, trative and fiscal, of the several solutions of " Hand buch der experimen tellen Pharmakolo- the metropolitan problem been set down so gie" ; Friedlaender, " Fortschritte der Teer- clearly and convincingly." Professor Clarence farbenfabrikation " and the voluminous set, E. Ridley's study of the "City Manager Pro- Abderhalden, " Handbuch der biologischen fession" is especially timely. "The Municipal Arkitsmethoden."- Mrs. JIe'leskr A. Uret- Yearbook of 1934," edited by Mr. Ridley and more, Aferck & Go., Inc. Mr. Orin F. Nolting, replaces the "City Manager Yearbook" and is a great improve- FROM THE LIBRARIAN OF A UNIVERSWY ment over its predecessor. The new yearbook BUREAU OF GOVERNMENT is an invaluable compendium of illusive facts Your assignment is too much for me. The on city government and includes an authori- few terse sentences I planned to send you have tative resume of the year's municipal activities expanded into pages. and a bibliography of important books and This year we have been concerned chiefly pamphlets. /'Municipal Electric Utilities in with problems of state and local finance, in- ," by Mr. Donald F. Whitesell, isim- evitably emphasizing Michigan conditions. prtant as the only extensive, unbiased fact- Measured in terms of consistent use, the finding survey in this important utility field. release sheets containing local government Professor Thomas H. Reed has thoroughly statistics issued by the various governmental revised his text on "Municipal Government in departments at Washington and the mimeo- the United States." Distinguished by the un- graphed releases of the group of research equalled historical background it presents, the agencies centering around the Public Adminis- new edition devotes more space than the first tration Clearing House have been of greatest edition to current problems of government value. Together with the 1934 edition of "Tax and includes a notable chapter on standards in Systems of the World" and the various state municipal government. Professor William B. reports, they are our most used material. Munro has also revised his text on "Municipal Several treatises on special governmental Administration." The eminence of Dr. Munro problems appeared this year which will un- and the fact that this is the first text on mu- doubtedly remain standard for some time to nicipal administration to appear since 1929 come. Dr. Robert M. Haig's survey of "The assures its extensive use. Professor Kneier Sales Tax in the American States" is an un- has entered the field of municipal government biased and scholarly study of a form of taxa- textbooks with an especially scholarly and tion which has been the subject of much accurate study of "City Government in the propaganda. Professor Joseph P. Harris, in United States." his "Election Administration of the United Since we are not concerned, in this library, States," surveys and criticizes one of govern- with national government except as it relates ment's most important and exasperating un- to local governmental units or to public dertakings. (In this same field, Professor finance, the literature of the New Deal falls James K. Pollock has contributed two illumi- largely outside our scope. \I7e have frequent nating local studies, one of "Election Adminis- recourse, however, to the "Guide to the Offi- tration in Michigan" and the other of "Per- cial Publications of the New Deal Administra- manent Registratibn in Michigan." These tions," by Jerome K. Wilcox. The extensive studies will undoubtedly be followed by bibliography in Professor Arthur E. Buck's others.) All studcnts of electoral problems are "Budgets in Governments of Today" (the grateful for Dr. Edgar E. Robinson's "The book itself is certainly of greatest importance) Presidential Vote 1896-1932," which gives is very helpful. Mrs. Dorothy E. Culver's tabulations by counties. bibliography on "Crime and Criminal Jus- Dr. Lent D. Upson's survey of "The GOV- tice" has simplified sonie of our work, as ernment of the Detroit~MetropolitanArea" is has aleo the Harvard University "Street of particular interest to Michigan residents, Traffic Bibliography." Lists on the "Social 38 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1935 Recovery Plan" received through the FERA that is wrong in our social order and who also library are worthy of special mention. They believe fervently in the possibility of righting bring together scattered materials on such many of the practices which are more or less timely subjects as decentralization of popula- responsible for our present situation. tlon and industry, community recreation and The United States Department of Agricul- self-help. The "International Survey of Social ture issued a volume of 540 pages in 1933 en- Services," by the International Labour Office, titled "World Trade Barriers." The work on+ is invaluable. The "Index of Congressional this was done in response to Senate Resolution Committee Hearings" should not be over- No. 280 of the 72nd Congress, first session. looked. This volume which may seem only another One of the most useful publications of 1934 Government document to many, and a rather to this Bureau is Dr. Wilson Gee's "Social formidable one at that, gives extremely useful Science Research Organization in American and up to date information on agriculturd re- Universities and Colleges." It has been in lief measures of foreign countries and their great demand since its appearance early this effect on American agriculture. It is in three year. -lone ELy Dority, Bureau of Govern- main parts. ment, University of Michigan. The first part gives an econornic and his- torical background; the second is concerned FROM THE LIBRARIAN OF THE BUREAU with types and policies of intervention aflect- OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ing agriculture, such as import restrictions, In response to your request for a statement export aids and restrictions, production aids in regard to a few of the oustanding books and restrictions, and agrarian policies of the which have been useful to us during 1934, I "deficit" and "surplus" countries; the third should perhaps preface my remarks by remind- deals with the effects of trade barriers and re- ing you that we are in the midst of a very active lated measures applying to agriculture, upon segment of the "New Deal" activities growing prices of wheat, hog products, tobacco, fruit, out of the emergency enactments of the last cotton, dairy products, and sugar in the Congress. Unless you remember this our list United States. An appendix of about 250 pages, will probably appear strange to you. It is entitled "Agricultural Price-Supporting Meas--! based, just as you asked that it should be, ures in Foreign Countries," gives for each of upon our experience in the use of the books thirty-eight foreign countries concise informa- listed. I want to remind you also that your tion on measures taken by these countries in request was lor a "few of the outstanding aid of agriculture. The arrangement is by books which have been useful to us duriq countries, and the measures taken include 1934." To our mind this meant not necessarily tariffs, Government control of prices and im- books issued in 1934, but comparatively re- ports, restriction and control of produclion, cent books which have been most useful to us Government control of exports, monopolies, during this period of intense activity, much bounties, milling and mixing regulations, etc. of it in more or less new fields. The volume contains an adequate table of The 67-page pamphlet entitled "Economic contents, but no index. We have found this Bases for the Agricultural Adjustment Act," volume extremely helpful in answering Inany by Mordecai Ezekiel and Louis 1-1. Bean, has different types of reference questions perlain- been invaluable to us in satisfy~ngthe many ing to agricultural rehef measures of all kinds requests we have for a concise authoritative in foreign countries. description of the economic situation of the The greatly increased interest in all ques- last few years, which led to the passage of the tions relating to taxation has made us incrcas- :\gricultural Adjustment Act. Secretary Wal- ingly appreciative of the information contai~retl lace's book entitled "New Frontiers," wh~ch in the volume entitled "Tax Systems of the A is very new indeed, we think should be used World," formerly published as " Fcdcml and along with this pamphlet as giving an insight StateTaxSystcms,"issued by theTas Research into the underlying ideals and Iongtimc view- Foundation. This is a year book arranged ill points of those who believe that there is much tabular form of legislative and statistical in- February, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 39 formation on the tax systems of all the States the following books published in 1934 par- of the Un~tedStates and foreign countries. ticularly helpful in furnishing factual and \Vc have found it useful in answering concisely statistical mater~alwhich is constantly being questions such as the provisions for property sought. During the past pear nursing has most tax collection procedure in the various States assuredly stood 08 and viewed itself imper- of the United States or the provision of grad- sonally fo~the good of its soul. The same may uated land tax of the Co~nmonwealthof Aus- be said of Rehabilitation Work for the Tuber- tralia and of the Australian States. culo~~s.These three studies have greatly In view of the greatly increased recognition added t;o real fac~sand figures and have of the social aspects of all relief and recovery pointed the way to Improvement in the fields measures, it may be well to call attention to of nursing and preventive medicine. thc "Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences," Dr. Chapin's articles have been called for of which 13 volumes have been published to so often that their publication in one volume date. Articles which have been found par- has not only facilitated their use, but is a ticularly useful in this library are the ones on fitting tribute to this splendid statesman of the Research, Agrarian Movements, Agricultural public health. Miss Whitney's Death Rates Labor, Land Settlement and similar subjects. By Occupation have shown among other things Articles are signed and are accompanied by that tuberculosis takes the greatest toll anlong very helpful short well-selected bibliographies. the unskilled, that heart disease claims more Cross-references are given when necessary and than the average of professional men; that are sometimes found exceedingly helpful in unskilled workers commit suicide in greater searching for an obscure piece of information. proportion to their numbers than professional Somewhat in the same field are the bulletins of men; and many other facts which answer the Advisory Committee on Social and Eco- many of the typical day's questions. Miss nomic Research and Agriculture of the Social Bassett's very sensible and practical book on Science Research Council. Twenty-one of mental hygiene in the con~munityfills a long these bulletins have been issued, among them felt need and answers many requests that come No. 17, entitled "Research and Social Psy- from students, social workers, teachers, nurses chology of Rural Life," and No. 19, "Research and others for n~aterialwhich will help them in Farm Real Estate Values." In these mono- correlate mental hygiene with its community graphs a discussion of methodology in various allies, all of which influence the development fields of aaricultural- economic research is of human personality. given, as well as sources of information and a very useful cla~sificationof the subject under Co~nmitteeon the grading of nursing schools discussion. We have also found the index to Nursing schools today and tomorrow. Final Volumes 1 to 4 of "Social Science Abstracts" report. N. Y. National league of nursing educa- very helpful in identifying incomplete requests tion, 1934. 268 p. "Too many yet too few" is and for assisting in locating subject material the situation revealed by the Committee's no1 indexed elsewhere. This index contains a report on its eight-year study of nursing edu- list of periodicals and serials in which the cor- cation. There are too many nurses to earn a rect title of a ser~almay be found, which often living, too few equipped to meet the bes~ helps greatly in locating an obscure reference. modern standards of the n~rrsingprofession. I am venturing to add also the "Abstract of tl~c15th Census of the United States." We National organiza~iw for public health lind this abstract invaluable, as it gives a sum- nursing. Survey of puhlic health nursing. K mary ol al[ subjects covered by the Census. - Y. Commonwealtli fund, 1934. 262 p. Dr. iZlarg L'. Lmy, Bureair of Aprlcirllrrral EGO- Livingston Farrand sals in the foreword to nunzics, United Slates Deparlnieltt of Agricnltwe. this volu~nethat public health nursing has proved its \due in the public health program FROM A NATIONAL HEALTH LIBRARIAN and the object of tlic present surtey is to in- The National Health Library of the Na- crease its effcctiveness. Sit)-ei~htotlicial and tional Health Council, New York, has found non-official public health nursing agencies were 40 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1935 surveyed in twenty-eight cities, towns and outlined in her book the far-reaching implica- counties in different parts of the country with tions of mental hygiene and its varied practical a view to learning the details of organization, applications in community life. She discussed administration, program and performance of mental hygiene in its relation and significance publ~chealth nursing in the light of nationally to medicine, nursing, social service agencies, accepted standards and practices. delinquency and law, parental education, preschool child, education and teacher training, Papers of Charles V. Chapin, M.D. A re- the church and theological training, industry, view of public health realities. Selected by F. recreation, psychiatric institutions and agen- P. Gorharn. Edited by C. L. Scamman. With a cies. - Ethel Wigmore, National Health Li- foreword by Haven Emerson. N. Y. Common- brary. wealth fund, 1934.244 p. Dr. Chapin, a former HELP NEEDED1 president of the American Public Health Asso- ciation, has contributed more to the philosophy HE fine list of current foreign financial and methodology of public health than any Tpublications prepared by Mr. George J. living man. This publication of his collected Eder of Standard Statistics for the meeting papers, with an illuminating foreword by Dr. of the Financial Group for the 1934 convention Emerson and an outline of his life by Dr. is in process of revision and amplification by Scamman, serves to honor the man. The col- the Financial Group. It is planned to publish lection includes 16 of Dr. Chapin's reprinted this in time for the 1935 convention. The list papers, six in the field of public health admin- should be as complete as possible. istration, five in the field of control of com- Miss Cavanaugh wishes to compile a pre- municable diseases and five in the field of liminary list to send out for checking and com- epidemiology and statistics. The book serves ment. She needs help in this compilation and not only as a record of past progress in thought needs that help immediately. Will all librarians and action, but as "a new testament of public handling material of this type send the list of health, a guide to the scientific manner of their sources and comments on the merits and inquiry and argument, and a philosophy of defects to Miss Cavanaugh immediately? The performance more packed with wisdom than notes should include data on price, frequency, are shelves of encyclopedic volumes." publisher, contents; ie., prices, production, index numbers, etc., and whether it is in a foreign language or in English. This is another Whitney, J. S. Death rates by occupation chance to put S. L. A. and particularly the based on data of the U. S. Census bureau, 1930. Financial Group on the map, and every mem- N. Y. National tuberculosis association, 1934. ber of the Financial Group should and can help. 32 p. In view of the almost complete lack of official occupational mortality rates by age and ABOUT RECEIPTS cause in the United States for any considerable UE to the constantly increasing volume number of occupations, this volume of Miss D and pressure of work at Headquarters, it Whitney's represents a very valuable contribu- has been found necessary to discontinue tion. The material is based on occupational temporarily the former practice of mailing mortality figures for ten states and is limited acknowledgments of renewals of Institutional, to occupied males aged 15 to 64. Active and Associate Memberships and Sub- scriptions. However, where a formal receipt is Bassett, Clara. Mental hygiene in the com- requested for purposes of accounting, receipts munity. N. Y. Macmillan, 1934. 394 p. Miss will be fotwarded as usual. The weekly listing Bassett, who is consultant in psychiatric of receipts of all membership dyes will be con- social work, Division on community clinics, the tinued, as at present, to the Secretaries/Treas- National Committee for Mental Hygiene, has urers of all Chapters. Fekuary, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 41 PRESIDENT'S PAGE We are delighted lo have a message from M%ssSavord in this isstie. Although she has reslimed the duties of Presidenl, tt is wilhoril complete resforation of health. We know however that she can cozott on S. L. A. members to continue to gzve their loyal cooperatzon so that only imperative matters will require her attenlion. It was smh cooperation thd Bizss Bemis gave and recemed while Acting

N ALL sides we are hearing of the New Alexander ably carried out this mission. Had I 0 Deal. Maybe S. L. A. is ripe for a New been able to carry out these plans, I had hoped Deal of its own. In any case, many things will to bring to you just such a picture as has been be discussed at our June convention which will so graphically presented in SPECIALLIBRARIES. affect the Association as a whole. No member The National Association, through its duly can consider such matters nor vote intelli- elected Officersand Executive Board, is charged gently for the good of the whole without a clear with the administration of the entire Associa- understanding of the background, of the whys tion in the best interests of all its members; it and wherefores of past actions and decisions. is charged with the publication of a creditable Therefore, I was delighted to find in the magazine to advance those interests; it is January issue of SPECIALLI~RARIES the chart charged with the publication of other worth- on our S L. A, organization and the attached while tools of value to its members. data aimed to help you to "know your asso- The Local Chapters, on the other hand, are ciation." asked to bring their members into closer touch I hope all Institutional and Active members, for the benefit of all; they are asked to educate who receive the magazine, have'studied this those'members to a professional responsibility, presentation with care and understanding and they are asked to encourage those members to that they have thereby obtained a clear picture contribute their time and their energies in aid- of our +-up and of our activities, especially ing in publication or employment or member- with a view to seeing how they, as individuals, ship or exchange or whatever other activity fit into the picture. they can contribute most. I am appealing here to all Presidents of LO- Here are well-defined duties. While it may cal Chapters, who have not already done so, seem to the Locals at times that the National to call these two pages to the attention of As- Officers err in their decisions, it must be re- sociate Members so that they, too, may ac- membered that these officers are carrying a quire this knowledge. Would it not be practi- tremendous load of responsibility and very cable to remove these pages and lace them on arduous duties voluntarily and in addition to a display board in a prominent place at your their professional positiotis. They give you next meeting? their best judgment. In fact, why couldn't each Chapter use this The same is true of the National's relations as the basis for a meeting dealing with the As- to the Locals, but it must not be overlooked sociation. To me, this seems very worth while. that the National's responsibility is to the As a matter of fact, one of my most cherished Association as a whole and by so much, it is plans at the beginning of my term of office was the greater. one which would haveenabled me to visit most We are all working toward a common goal - of our Chapters and to outline for them the the advancement of the profession and through work of the Association and their place in that that advancement, improvement of our own work. In September, I had the privilege of status. S. L. A. has been the medium which has speaking at Philadelphia's first meeting and in placed us on a plane wherswe are now a recog- October, at our own New York meeting. As nized power in the library world. Let us under- late as early December, I prepared a schedule stand all factors and consider well before we which would have taken me to every Chapter do anything to lessen that power. from Pittsburgh to Milwaukee and I had prom- RUTHSAVORD, ised to be in Montreal on December 8. Miss President 49 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1935 The Special Library Profession and What It Offers 6-Public Utility Libraries By VIRGINIA L. GARLAND L~branan, Philadelphia Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvan~a

HIS article is based primarily on the any library in the vicinity which might haw Treplies to a questionnaire sent out by the use for the discarded volumes. Special Libraries Association in September of The utility companies are more than ever 1934. The statistics compiled were from four- realizing the value of maintaining their own teen utility libraries. Any person familiar with libraries as is apparent by the questionnaire. this branch of library work is aware that there Considering the fourteen libraries reporting, are many more than fourteen such libraries. one library was organized in 1888; two be- However small the number represented may tween 1900 and 1910; four in the following be, it will serve as a typical group. decade; and seven in the decade of 1920-1930. In writing a report of public utility libraries, This proves that the utility library is coming a few words must be sa~dconcerning the scope into its own, and that it is a coming thing in of such libraries, and just how much is to be the utility field. included. Public utilities cannot be placed in Probably the majority of utility libraries the same category as ordinary businesses for started as a dumping ground. Various depart- utilities are decidedly public service organ- ments throughout the company had books of izations. Public utilities as such, embrace their own, books purchased from their own many fields: electric light and power; water; departmental budget. Soon the collection out- gas; transportation; and telephone and tele- grew the two or three shelves. The quesiion graph. Some utilities are essentially of one then arose as to what should be done with the type, some of another, and some, because of books. They were packed off to some dingy the many ramifications, are combinations of room for storage. There they stayed, inac- several. If the library is that of a public utility cessible and dirty. At a later date these books holding company, for instance, there are many were remembered and placed in some order on hranches of utility business which must be shelves provided for them. The general up- considered. Perhaps the meaning of public heaval in conditions has brought to light some utility itself is the premise that gives this kind of these hidden and dormant libraries. There of library its broad scope- broader than is has been an aroused interest and stmulation actually found in company libraries. for cataloguing and classifying these old col- Although some utility companies are en- lections of books by employees whose duties gaged in more than one kind of business, such have been lessened due to business conditions. as gas, electric, transportation, and steam heat- On theother hand, some departmental libraries ing service, this article will deal primarily with sewed as nuclei for utility libraries, such as the libraries of electric light and power companies. accounting department library of the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Company, which HISTORY AND GROWTH became the start of that company library. In looking over the survey statistics, it was For the most part, public utility libraries are a surprise to see that one library started about maintained primarily for the use of the em- 1888, and has grown to approximately 15,000 ployees. One library I am familiar with, caters volumes. In my reading, however, I found that to the executives only, and does very little, if one library boasts of even an earlier date. The any work with the mass of employees. Cener- Peoples Gas, Light and Coke Company library ally speaking, the employees seek information started in 1855. The size of this library is kept by telephone or by personal calls to the library. down to about 3,500 volumes by donations to Frequently there are out-of-company calls the John Crerar library, the public library, or which are readily taken care of. A utility February, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 43 strives to beof service to thecommunity. In the compared to $50 in 1933: and for periodicals, same manner its librarian does not deny the $50 in 1929 compared to $100 in 1933. public any information she may be able to procure - information which may not be available in any other library in the city. If it is Public utility libraries, in many respects, another library calling for information, the must have a fairly comprehensive collectiotl. utility library is more than eager to serve. This There should be a complete collection of books is simply the performance of reciprocity of in the field or fields in which the utility is which the Special Libraries throughout the primarily concerned. In a light and power country has reason to boast. There is another library, a rounded out library would include all type of borrower which is received graciously the reports, proceedings, and publications of but not sought for. If a student working an a the national association, the Edison Electric thesis dealing with the utility field, finds his Institute, which was formerly the National way into a utility library, the librarian renders Electric Light Association; proceedings and what service she can. transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers as well as those of other GENERAL ORGANIZATION branches of engineering societies; periodicals Because of the manner in which the utility dealing with power, power plants, electricity, libraries originated, the libraries are under and public utilities; books on electricity, different departments in the various companies. engineering, and utilities. Added to these About five of the libraries reporting are part of would be the handbooks usually found in the personnel department; four are under the engineering libraries; eleclrical, civil and vice-president's or secretary's department: mechanical; textbooks on the several branches one under the statistical department; and one of mathematics. It seems perhaps a bit super- under the research department. fluous to mention books on all phases of public , The libraries generally operate on a budget utilities. The collection should also contain a in the same way the individual departments do. section devoted to economics, both past and One library has a general expense account. present; to accounting arid general business The expenditures are charged to various practices; Moody's or Poor's manuals; and the companies or subdivisions of the larger organ- ever necessary statistical books. Encyclope- ization, based on the pro rata percentage of dias, almanacs and the Industrial arts index the gross earnings. This allots to each company are of course, indispensable. One library main- or division a proportionate part of the library tains the collection on a percentage basis. expenses. four-fifths of the collection equally divided A glance at the book and periodical expendi- among the three utility fields, and the remain- tures is enlightening. We see the growing value ing one-fifth devoted to accounting, business of the current periodical. According to the procedure, salesmanship, et cetera. survey from 1029-1933, book buying was Few libraries have fiction of their own. Some, decreased in every instance. Magazine pur- however, borrow both fiction and non-fiction chases were also frequently decreased, but not from the public library. One has messenger to the same extent as were the book purchases. servicedaily ;another,weekly :anothermonthly Two libraries even increased the amount About six years ago one library had a collection expended for periodicals. The largest amount of 500 fiction books from the public'library recorded in 1929 was for a library of some 6,500 stationed in the Woman's Rest Room I have volumes: $1,400 for books and S600 for period- no assurance that this practice is still con- icals. This was reduced in 1933 to $750 and tinued. Another library, besides the technical $450 respectively. A library of 5,000 volumes collection has a rental library of some 800 spent in 1929, $1,200 for hooks, $2,200 for fiction and popular non-fiction. periodicals, and $4,100 for other expenses. In 1933 it was reduced to $700, $1,600 and $700. WORK ASSIGNMENT One of the smaller libraries containing a hun- The work assignment will necessarily be dred foot shelves, spent $75 for books in 1929 dependent on the size of the library and more 44 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, I935 particularly on the size of the staff. The most subject such as "motors" or "transmission desirable plan would be to have the librarian lines" or vice versa. The librarian may recall supervise the mass of routine work which has where that respective publication was filed, been distributed among the members of the but what about the assistant, or the new staff, so that she might devote her time to librarian? While she is familiarizing herself reference work and special lists. The function with the material in her library, the quality of of a utility hbrary is, after all, to correlate and service is considerably lowered. Some libraries provide information on subjects of pertinent have separate pamphlet catalogues, and some intercst to the organization which it serves. are combined with the book catalogue, with While il is not imperative that a utility library some distinguishing identification. spend as much time on its routine matters as Most libraries have some list in which they does a public library, it is amazing how much specialize. It might be a list of magazine routine is indispensable. The books should be articles; magazine reviews, magazine digests; regularly accessioned, classified and catalogued. book reviews; or abstracts. Some lists are The books, as a rule, cause little trouble. mimeographed and sent to all employees, or Some libraries use the Library of Congress maybe to the heads of departments. Some cards, which simplifies the cataloguing prob- libraries maintain a card file of abstracted lems One of the most complicated considera- articles. One library enlploying this card tions in a utility library is the pamphlet file. system, uses cards of different colors for each Pamphlets seem to literally stream into the year. The cards are kept in the file for only library, by company mail and also by govern- five years, and then destroyed. The color ment mail. Some of them are important in the system simplifies the discards. field, but just as often their only value is for the waste basket. It was suggested in a CIRCULATION convention address of 1932: that it would be The charging system varies. Most libraries such an aid to the librarian if, when an execu- use some sort of charging card, but few use any tive sent a pamphlet to the library and desired form of a borrowers card. The books are usually that it be filed, he so designate it on the charged to the borrowers' name, some for a pamphlet. The librarian must weed out the specified time and some for an indefinite pamphlets as they appear on her desk. After a period. One library has different time limits, three year lapse of time an executive is apt to depending on the publication borrowed. send to the library this hazy request: ''About The routing of magazines is always a com- a year ago, I sent to the library a pamphlet by plicated problem in company libraries. The Mr. So-and-so dealing with the tariff ques- most common usage is that of a permanent list ion." The librarian is expected to produce that of persons to whom magazines are regularly particular publication, even though the sub-' forwarded. One library limits each employee to ject was not one in which the utility is specifi- a specified number of periodicals to be routed cally interested, and though the date of the to him regularly, although this does not pre- publication as well as the name of the author vent him from coming to the library and bor- may be incorrect. The cataloguing of pamphlet rowing additional magaziges. Most libraries material is as complicated a problem as is the attach a routing memo to the magazine. sorting and weeding. We all know the ephem- These pass from one reader to the next by eral nature of such material. It is hardly company mail. One library found that this advisable to spend too long a period catalogu- method delayed the routing decidedly, for the ing pamphlets. On the other hand one never magazines were allowed to remain in a bor- knows how a question is to be asked. by the rower's desk for a week or more. To overcome author? by the title? or by the subject matter? this difficulty, the routing slip contains only If the library uses a broad heading like one name, the magazine automatically coming "electricity" in the file, to the exclusion of back to the library, before going to the follow- some of the minute headings, it is almost ing borrower. In this way the librarian can call certain to expect that the question will be in any overdue periodical. asked using a small subdivision of a broad The utility libraries that are connected with Fobrurry, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 45 railways have an advantage some of the other supply such-and-such a city? Who would ex- libraries do not have. Frequently the railways pect a utility library to need a pap-roll index system is utilized to deliver books to the from 1925 to date for furniture? But that substations in outlying districts. question has come up Perhaps it is simply the list of directors for an industrial company. REFERENCE WORK There may be an arbitration hearing, during A librarian should be able to devote most of which time there arc weeks of constant activ- her time to answering reference questions ity in the library. And so the solutions to the questions are likely to he found anywhere from 111111111~~~11 a dictionary to a magazine article. )Trend df 7Z >dl &/&is o > I The librarian should have a staff adequate to enable her to go to each of the executives to ascertain if the library cannot be of assistance to him in his line of work. SALARIES The accompdnying graph shows a picture of the general decrease in salaries. In some cases the downward trend is very decided as is the case of library "C." The staff during that period from I929 to 1933 was decreased from five to three, which explains the sharp decline. Two libraries show an acclivity, "F" and "I," both of which increased their staR. Average salaries are everywhere decreased except again in the case of "C" .where the decrease of staff increases the average salary. STAFF The general trend of thought among the

which arc of all types. There may be a simple utility libraries is that the librarian should be question of the verification of the date the library trained. When the libraries tirst hegan World War started. What is the plural of in the utility companies, it was not though1 rhinoceros? Is it the same, or does it add "es"? necessary to have that training. An executivc Have you material which will be of help in does not realize the problelns that arise in a writing a paper for entrance in the B. C. library, nor the ease in which many of them Forbes pnze contest? What gas companies can be handled because of the training received 46 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1935 in library school. A knowledge and under- and every employee. One library sends a dail! standing of economics, mathematics, and hectographed bulletin to department heads business problems are of value as well as.of Depending on the size of the lihrarl staff, the that of the particular utility of which the librar~esvary In the issuance of their reviews libraty is a part. and abstracts: some arc sent weekly, and some Only four of the fourteen libraries started monthly, and some occasionally or spasmodi- with assistants. The other libraries had only cally. One library has a printed reminder to be one in charge, and two of those devoted only placed under the glass on the executive's desk part time to the duties of the library. The with the library telephone number, so there utility libraries were affected by the depressiorr need be no delay in getting in tmtnediate as were all types of business enterprise, communication with that department. The especially so by the curtailment of expendi- employment department of the Public Service tures. It was, however, gratifying to see that Corporation of New Jersey makes a special the company executives realize the value of a point of informing each new employee that library and the work that is accomplishcd there is a library maintained by the company therein. Comparing the staff of 1929 with that for his use. I might also mention here. that of 1933, and considering twelve of the fourteen several of the libraries keep a personal file, list- reporting libraries, we see that three of the ing under the name of the employee anysubject larger libraries decreased their staffs but still or hobby in which he is particularly interested. retained two, three and four members: six One form of publicity carried out by the remained stationary, and three enlarged their Philadelphia Company prior to 1934 was that staffs. Eight is the largest numbered staff of the Girls' Reading Club under the direction reporting. of the librarian. A yearly program was planned Judging from the questionnaire replies there in the fall The books included in the list were is a slight preference for women in the utility of fiction and non-fiction. The girls met once libraries, in that women are employed although every two weeks for a luncheon meeting. After men are not necessarily cxempt. the lunch the girl who had been assigned the Considering ten libraries, three work a book for that day gave a short review. 40-hour week; one a 39%-hour week; one a 38%-hour week, two a 38-hour week and three FUTURE a 35-hour week. Fourteen libraries report a As long as the executives of utility cotn- two weeks' vacation panics deal with the complex proble~nsof their own utility fields and those of general economic PUBLICITY conditions; as long as there is an ad\,ance of Publicityis a problem which is handled more science bringing about the rapid changes the unifornily in all uttlity libraries, regardless of world has encountered in the last two decades: thc specific held in which the utrlity may oper- just so long will there be a denrand for facts, ate. The majority of the utility companies have the latest and accurate facts, to meet the ever house organs which contain some type of currcnt demand for solutions to technical, advertising for all departments. Herein is financial, legislative and personnel problems. found a library colutnn containing reviews of The utility library can be and should be a some new addi~ionsto the library, or perhaps reservoir abounding in just such facts. s~~nplya list of thc ncw Imoks. Some of the The human achievement of a utility library librarians utilize to advantage the bulletin cannot be evaluated in the term of facts and Iloards scattered throughout the company statistics entirely. After all it can orily be buildings by placing a list of new books, or an measured in terms of thc service rendered to attracti~eposter calling atteritiotl to the fact the many individuals who form an integral that tlic lil~raryis still in existence, for each part of the entire organization. February, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 47

PUBLIC UTILITY LIBRARIES-A BIBLIOGRAPHY A. E. R. A. library fulfills a valuable function. Public utility library. R. E. Creveling. SPEC~,~L J. R Kelly. AERA 20: 199-201, Ap. '29. I~RARIE~21: 257-9, S. '30 Baltimore Consolidated gets results fmm its Railroad library SPECIALIJBRARIES 6, 1, Ja. lihrary. F. E. Kunkel Gas Age Record 72: '15. Bureau of railway econorn), at Wash- 128, Ag. 5, '33. ington. Besserner and Lake Erie Railroad Company. Report of subcommittee on cornpany library. J. Callan. Stwxit LIBRARIES16: 281-6, 0. American Gas Assoctallon Proccedillgs 1928: '25. 63-9. Boston's special lihrdries. Ralph L Power, Selling the library to thc cornpan!.. Library Prentice-Hall, Inc. N. Y. 1917. Journal 50: 354-5, Ap. 15, '25. Bureau of railway economics library, Wash- Special library as a stepping stone to othcr or- ington, D. C. R. 11. Johnston. SPECIAL cupations, public service. E. M. Johnson. LIBRARIES9: 129-35, Je. '18. SPECIALLIBRARIES 23: 215-16, My '32. How the special library serves public utility Southern Pacific libmry. SPECIALLIBRARIES companies. SPECIALLIBRARIES 16: 277-88, 16: 58, F. '25. 0.'25. American telephone and telegraph Special libraries in street ratlway service. Dor- co.; Public service corp. of N. J.; Besselner sty I~I.Hyde, Jr. SPECIALLIBRARIES 11: & Lake Eric railroad co.; Illinois power 165, s.-O. '20. and light corp. 12,000 employees can use the Philadelphia HOWone transportation company serves its in- rapid transit cotupany Ilbrary. fiiEGtsiCRail- dustry. E. Cullen. SPECIALLIBRARIES 18: way jozlnra170: 582-6, 0.127. 288-93, N. '27. Value of organized information and research to It isn't hard up a good electric rail- a great pllblic utility, E. Dana. EleclricRat!- way library; lnethods of the Boston elevated J~,~~~~~J4, : A. way 66: 21-2, JI. 75 sanle, sPE- railway. 1,. Armstead. AERA 16: 198- LI~RARIES16: 258, 0,'2.5. ~~~t~~~ 212, S. '26. elevated railway. Libraries for public utilities. I. A. May. SPE- CIAL LIBRA~IBS 12: 106, MY. '21. FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION Library service for telephone system employ- ees. Kendall Mcisiger. SPECIALLIBRARIES HE American Library Institute, ill cn- 13: 42-3, RIr. '22. Southern l~elltelephone Tlarging the scope oi its activity in "the in- and telegraph. vestigation, study, and discussion of problems 1,ihrary of the Consolidated gas company of wilhin the ti eld of library theory and practlce " N. Y and afiliatcd gas and electric com- invites both Fellows of the Institute and other panies. J. Greenwood. SPECIALLIBRARIES members of thc library profession to submit 21 : 242-3, 0. '30. papers embodying reports or projects of rc- I,ib;ary of the Publtc service corporation of search work. N. J. Alma C. Mitchill SPECIALLIRRARIES Thc authors ol the papers selected will he in- 9: 200-1, N. '18 vited to present them at a mceting of t.hr Insti- Public utility libraries as sources of informa- tute at Atlantic City rm Rlarrh 1.5 or 16. On tion. E. L. Rlattson. SPECIALLIBRARIES 20. this occasion persons prescntitlg papers at thts 11-12, Ja. '29. meeting will receive paymcnt by the Institute Public utility libraries in . SPECIAL for railroad fares and necessary expense at a LIBRARIES17: 219-22, Jc. '26. Pacific gas specified hotel. and electric company library, San Francisco, The Institute reserves the right of tirst pub- Pacific telephone and telegraph company lication of papcrs appearing on its program. library; Southern California Edison; Los Papers and abstracts must be sent to the .4ngeles gas and electric, Southern Pacific; Secretaty before Febrrtary 15. San Diego consolidated gas and electric: HERBERT0. BRIGHAM,Se~~eIar)~-Tr~~as~~rtr, Pacific coast gas assoc. American Library Instituk, Providence, R. 1. SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1935 SNIPS and SNIPES Ltrcky Dog Departmenl . . . While we're Painter, Librarian of the Boston Medical Li- merling and terling we get this from Editor brary, and Reginald Fitz, Chairman of the Manley: Harvard Medical School Library, werc among Palm Beach those who accepted. . . . "Going bathing in another hour. Sun bright. Flowers blooming. Very grand altogether! " . . . Congraldattons, Contrecficut. . . . We hear the Connecticut Chapter had an unusually in- Foyeigx Fzelds. SPECIAL LIBRARIES . . . teresting meeting on January 12th at Bridge- does get about a bit. The other day Mildred port under Chapter President Laura A. Eales. Clapp Chamberlin, chairman of the Duplicate Mary Louise Alexander, Eleanor Cavanaugh, Exchange Connittee, had a request from Linda Morley and Adelaide Kight went up Ding Doo, librarian of the Chiao Lung U. from New York for the meeting. Miss Alexan- University, Shanghai, for some of the books der spoke on the Association; Helen D.Hertell listed in her column. Her committee has dis- of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. tributed 700 publications since September to on "Special Collections in Connecticut Li- libraries in 25 states and Canada. Not bad braries"; Walter R. Meyer, electro chemist, coverage, as the magazine promoters say. . General Electric Co., on "The Technical Li- Spelling Bee. . . . Gertrude Van Ostrand, brary as a Tool of Research" ; and Marshall A. librarian of the Customs Court, New York, led Lane, artist, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., on the field at the American Women's Association "The Library and Industrial Design." . . . spellirig bee and galloped in first to win a large gilt-paper medal and a flash'light. Betting ran A Platn Public's Plainl. . . . "Will you high on Isabella M. Cooper, who showed good please indicate your choice of Group affilia- form until she tried to hurdle "syzygy" and tion: Biological Science, Civic-Social, etc.? " came a cropper with "sisogy." . . . Note from E. Lois Clarke. Oh, I'd like to join a Group, but I can't make up SniPfiels. . . . The .new building of the my mind Frick Art Reference Library opened its doors Whether I should go Commercial or Museum. to users early in January. We hear from Re- Civic-Social becca B. Rankin and Katharine D. Franken- And Financial are alluring, too, I find. stein, who were at the formal reception a week Oh, dear, I'm quite upset - in fact, I'm in a pet before, that the building and equipment are For I'm a Public. beautiful. . . . Mary F,. Irish's Barlow Medi- cal Library in Los Angeles became the Library I take the yellow shp and each Group afreah I view. of the Los Angeles Medical Association in Public Business meets the eye, Science Tech and October. 'Che library moved into new and good 01' Bi- handsome quarters and to show off their ele- ologic Science and Newspaper, too. gance, the staff entertained the Southern And still I fume and fret, as I flounder in the California Chapter at a Christmas party. net - . . . The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Library, For I'm a Public. 8 West 40th Street, New York, has just issued an 8-page pamphlet describing itself. All the Yes, it's hard to join a Group, for I simply can't things you like to know about a library are decide. given, including hours and a list of periodicals Though I'm told I cannot lose, with so much from which to choose on file. James F. Ballard, president of the . . . I fear I'm being taken for a ride. Boston Chapter, has organized a Biological For it'8 hard for them to let a Plain Public Science Group. All persons interested in bio- quite forget logical libraries were invited to a meeting. Dr. That she's a Public. Lincoln Davis, President, and Charles F. M. C. B. Fabrurry, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 49 Delegates. . . . President Savord and Re- becca B. Rankin have been appointed official Conference News A. L. A. delepates to the Dercxibme Congrls HE 27th annual conference of Special International des Bibliolh2qzres e.! & Bibliogra- TLibraries Association will be held in Bos- phie to be held in Madrid, Spain, May 20-30, ton June 11-14, 1935. The invitation of the 1935 In addition, Miss Rankin goes as one of Boston Chapter to have S. L. A. meet in Bos- the four Rapporteurs on special libraries to the ton in 1935 was presented by James F. Ballard, session on Bibliothkques sptciales: B~bliothbque~ president of the Boston Chapter, at the meet- d'entreprises naduslrielles el comrnerciaks. . . . ing of the Executive Board in New York on December 1, 1934, and was accepted Importarrt Books of the Year. . . . While we This will be the third time that S. L. A. has were reading the symposium in the December met in New England since its organization at and January issues of SPECIALLIBRARIES, one BrettonUToods,N. H., on July 2,1909.In 1921 sweetly solemn thought kept intruding o'er S. L. A. met with A. L. A. at the New Ocean and o'er. What would these same librarians House at Swampscott, Mass., and in 1925 have put down if they had been asked: "What S. L. A. returned to the same place to meet book read during 1934 was most important tu with the Northeastern library associations. you as people, not librarians?" Or aren't li- The Hotel Statler has been selected as con- brarians people when it comes to reading? At a vention headquarters for 1935. This is the best venture we asked two Specials. One said, Ken- convention hotel in Boston. It is new and neth Roberts' " Rabble in Arms," the other thoroughly modern, with ample space for gen- Vera Brittain's "Testament of Youth." eral and group meetings, located conveniently What's your choice? . . . to business, shopping, and amusement centers, and close to ample parking facilities. The Stat- ' SPECIAL LIBRARIES INDEX ler offers the rate of $3.50 per day for single room with bath, and the rate of $3.00 per day ISS BEATRICE HAGER of the Munic- with two persons in a room. ipal Reference Library in New York is M Miss Elizabeth Burrage, librarian of the compiling the index to SPECIALLIBRARIES for School Administration Library of the Boston 1934, with the assistance of Miss Mildred School Committee, who was president of the Robieof thestandard Statistics Company, Inc. Boston Chapter last year, has been named as She is including in the index the back covers of convention chairman, and the work of organ- the magazine that give group, chapter and ization has been promptly started. First of all, committee appointments, and wishes to re- Frederick W. Faxon, a member of the Boston mind the readers who bind the magazine to Chapter, who served for many years as chair- keep these covers. man of the A. L. A. Travel Committee, has been appointed chairman of the Travel Com- The Editor Apologizsr! mittee, with Miss Gertrude D. Peterkin of The January issue included a list of the New York to serve on the committee with him. members of the Executive Board and Advisory The News Committee has been organized Council. Through some inadvertence a line with Miss Mary E. Prim, editor of "The Li- was slipped in printing and the name of one brarian " column of the Bosion Evtning Trans- of our largest and most active chapters, the script; Miss Helen Wallace of the Cl~ristiarr Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Scicncc Monitor Library; and William Alcott of Vicinity, President, Alfred Rigling, The Frank- the Boslot~Globe Library, chairman. lin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, 20th Under the direction of Miss Blanche L. Street and The Parkway, was omitted from Davenport, librarian of the Christrart Science the list. This omission is particularly distress- Monibr Library, who is chairman of the News- ing to the Editor in view of the generous co- paper Group, plans have been started for the operation she has received from this Chapter. 13th annual conference of that group. 50 SPECIAL LIBRARIES February, 1935 Business Book Review Digest Compiled by the Staff of the Business Branch of the Public Library, Newark, N. J.

Whale space ltmilalzons pernut only Ihe more intporlant books to be covered t7r lhese pages, Ihe Bzrs2- ness Branch matntams an zndex to business book rmews. Thrs NOW covers ap$roxznrately 5,000 htles, runttz~~gjronr 1922 lo date. This index may be freely consulted by special librurtarrs.

Bell, W. H. Accountants' reports. Ronald, d~scus\ed, and the Deane. Ohlo and W~rcons~nplan 1934. 397 p. $5.00. revlewd. One imp]tant suggcstlon the author makes Ir that all pulrlic rclicf should Ile financed by a nat~onal The author, In th~sth~rd revised ed~tion,emphasizes sales lax. Hlghly rpokcn uf as constructtve, timely and the changes that have occurred In accounting practice, leadable, and recummended fur its luc~d,pungent, v~p 111 tl~clast fcw years The arlangemcnt 1s such that a oruus style, ~mtrammeled thought and freedom from coll~psrisonIxtwcen present ant1 recent prnctlce can be prejudice ~nade.Some of the changes cousidcrcd most important dre quest~onsconccrn~ng treasury stock, valuat~onof Afa~~agr~nct~tI?.. Januaty 1935 p 27. 85 words. Investments, proht and loss deficits and pa1d-m surplus. + N. Y. T~mesBook R., December 2, 1934 p. 37. 625 words. Accoualr~~gR., p. 348 250 wolds. Credit artd I:ru dfanflgc111e111.Dcccn~ber 1934. p 30. Frederick, J. H. Industrial marketing. 75 words. rV. A. C A. B.1, September 15, 1934, p. 114 250 Prentice-Hall, 1934. 401 p. $3.50. words A discuwon of the problen~of niarkettng industrial products of a manufactured or setnimanufactured na- Bingham, W. V. How to interview. Harper, ture. Market and trade channels, pcrsonal sdlesman- 1934. rev. ed. 308 p. 13.00. ship, indust~laladvert~siny, matters of policy, pricc- baaing methods, marketing costs, and act~v~tiesof trade Th!s rewsion contains a new chapter on apply~ngfor arsociations are some of the aspects considered and n poslt~o~~,and fresh nlater~alhas been added to the are presented from the v~ewpaintof the producer. chapters un the mtervicw in educat~on.soc~al work. The d~xussion1s related, as far as possible, to the and the mental clinic Ihe l~stof suggestions to rnter- Nat~onalIndustr~al Recovery Act and various codes. wewerr In the chapter, "Learning How to Interv~ew," There are many footnotes throughout the text. has hen expanded and the bihl~ographybrought up tu date. Appmd~cescontam an outl~neprcpared by the Adv. and Sell., Octohr 11, 1934. p. 54. 75 words. Nat~onalComm~ttee for Mental Hygiene and "A~dsto Amer Econ R, Decemkr 1934. p 728 100 words the Vocat~onalInterv~ewer" by the Psycholog~calCorp. Ind. Arts Inder. p iv 60 words. Favorably spoken of as "sumniar~z~ngthe hest, even ~f I. of Rctn~hg,October 1954. p. 92. 200 words nleagre, information ava~lableIn this deld, and a hook Yat~auemcatR. p. 320. 100 words. N A C A Bul, October 15, 1934. p. 207 150 that every personnel worker should own " words. Ind. Arts Index, September 1934. p. ~II45 words Prrntrd Salcm~anrhtp,Noven~ber 1934. p. 144. 240 Uaira~ernentR. October 1934. p 319 100 words. words. -k Pcrsow~el1 , December 1934 p 240 1 000 words Chapman, J. W. Railroad mergers. Sim- F~nney,H. A. Principles of accounting. mons-Boardman, 1934. 157 p. $3.00. Vol. I, Intermediate. Prentice-Hall, 1934. 765 p. $5.00. A survey and d~scuss~unof the more Important p113ses of the problems connected w~thra~lroad merge14 and Llw cRcct of proposed leglslatlon on ladroad and Finney, H. A. Principle6 of accounting. Vol. uther accurltle5. Contalns a hr~efh~storlcal sketch of 11, Advanced. Prentice-Hall, 1934. 825 p. he ulovemcnt, discusses the spec~alprol~lems created $5.00. by the Transportation Act uf 1920 and g~vesan outhne Re~ommendedfor ~tsclearness of express~on,con- of the F. Ii l'r~ce-Barr~ngrrpla!~ now under cons~dera- c~se,unequ~vocal language and welLarranged ~nfor. tlun The append~xcontams stat~stlcaldata coverlng matlon, of use not only to the student as a text-huh, rntlroad mileage, etc. Federal Uankruptcy Act of 1933 but also to the accountant as a rrfcrence book. It IS nlld the Intetstate Commerce Comm~ss~onPlan In the cr~tlc~zedby one revlewel on the score that the nu- uplnlon of onc rcwewer the p~tnclpalvalue of the laoh thor'~VICW~ on lniportant subjects such as funds and Ite. in the ~t~formation~iven in the appendices. No reserve<, surplus accounts, etc., III the first volume. crit~calcomment given differ widely from those held by a majority of account- Ant. hror~R . Septemller 1934 p 502 100 word< ants Fol that rcasnn he feels that student-readers may Banlrrs df . p 129. 19 words accept it au a wholc, because of ~tsmany rxcrllencies. In11 4rtr Ir~dct.Peb~ua~y 1934 p 11. 100 words. and later find thcmsclves in difficult~es Elbert, R. G. Unemployment and relief. Account~trgH. Septembe~1934. p. 273. 350 words. Ind Arts I11dc.z. AU~IIS~1934. p. 11. 50 words. Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 136 p. + J uf dccon~~tuncy,Dccen~llcr 103.1. 11 173. 1,500 1\11 cxami~~auonol the causes of uncniployment with wurdh 5uggestiun.s fur its relicf. The gcncral ndture of unem- -t N A L' A. Brl., Augud 15. 1931 p 1426 505 pluymmt Ill~UrdllC~wlth argummts for and agalnrt 15 ~urda. February, 1935 SPECIAL LIBRARIES 5 1 Graham, W. J. Public utility valuation. Uni- +tiidcnts of th~ssiihiect The analysis of organirat~on versity of Chicago Press, 1934.95 p. $1.00. rcactionr will be of especial interest to associat~onex- ecutives in the olunlon of onc reviewer "This is presumably not intended as a texthok. AIII Eco~t R. December 1934. p. 753 550 wordr Imt as a general d~scuwonof the author's vlews on + the subject As a text-book ~t would be somewhat open 1Jo~Curr~tii , October 10, 193.1. p. 119. 100 words 26, 22 to thc criticism that ~t does not deal sufficiently def. Oasi~rrssIVrrk, hlay 1934. p 35. words lllu~ioyc~rirrttR.. September 1934 p. 283 200 ~nltrlywith existmg practice. As a general discussion word\. of the wbjcct it suffers somcwhat from the fact that Prizitrd Selrs~~~orirk~p,October 1934 p 96. 400 the approach is very d~stinctlytheoretical." Coutains words. n billiography and a reference to cases. Spoken of as n clenr-cut, well-reasoned discussior~of two siunlficant SjIrdicotr Storr M~rclmit, p. 6. 1,200 nrpects of the problem of public-utility regulat~on words. Il'orld ColirrlilioIt Dotes. 11ugust 1934 p 28. and a useful vtudy for those who already ~ssesga ~casonableknowledge of the subject. 1,700 wordr. lcroirrit~iioR, p. 186 560 words. Williams, H. Flexible budget. McGraw- + Am Ecori R. December 1934. p 722. 800 words. 1. + 1. of Accountn~icy,. p. 70. 1,50U words H111, 1934. 288 p. $2.00. - 1. of Am. Stat~sArsoc.. December 1934. p 4.17. A practical, rigorous treatmcilt. wrltten for general 1,400 words cxecutiveb from the vlewwint of management rather System, . p. 538. 25 words tlioii of accoiintancy. It describes the steps In setting M. 1111 a budget, shows how the operating budget may be Haig, R. Sales tax in the American iihed to control expense and to organize, co6rdinate states. Columbia University Press, 1934. and stimulate the activities of cxecuttves; explains the 833 p. $4.50. organization and use of a financial budget. Tables, h study of the sales tax movement, its development, forms .?nd n 11~tof cxlrlb~tsmchded In the appendrces. advantages and disadvantages, legal problems, re- So ci~ticnl comment given action of taxpayers, and renults An analysis for each .-lssn ('~~~isultinoMur~ngemc~it EII~IIICPTS hrcu~s state having the tax in force IS given Favorably DM/.July 1934 p 8 30 words. spoken of as a thorough, detailed analysis which will Barrori's. Noveniber 12. 1934 p. 18 200 words. be of value to executlvcs, tax adm~nlatrators, and lid. Arts Iiidcr. November 1934 p 111. 65 words

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