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This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1950s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1952 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. C L. VOLUME 43 NUMBER 6 .I JULY-AUGUST 1952

Special Librarianship and Documentation Dr. Mortimer Taube

Library Service for Production Technology Dr. John Magnus Pearson

Effective Writing Kermit Rolland

Technical Research Reports Bernard M. Fry

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President ELIZABETHFERGUSON SLA PUBLICATIONS Institute of Life Insurance, New York, N. Y. Aviation Subject Headings. First Vice-president and President-Elect 1949 $1.75 MRS. LUCILEL. KECK A Brief for Corporation Libraries. Joint Reference Library, Chicago, Ill. 1949 $1.75 Second Vice-president Classification Schemes and Subject CHESTERM. LEWIS Headings List Loan Collection of The New York Times, New York. N. Y SLA Rev. Ed. 1951 $1.50 Secretary Contributions Toward A Special Li- KATHARINEL. KINDER brary Glossary. 2nd Ed. Johns-Manville Research Center, 1950 $1.25 Manville, New Jersey Creation & Development of an Insur- Treasurer ance Library. Revised Edition. EDWARDH. FENNER 19-19 $2.00 Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore. Md. Fakes & Forgeries in the Fine Arts. 1950 $1.75 DIRECTORS List of Subject Headings for Chem- ROBERTE. GRAYSON istry Libraries. 1945 $1.50 New York Herald Tribune, New York, N. Y. Nicknames of American Cities, M. MARGARETKEHL Library School, Drexel Institute Towns and Villages Past and Pres- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ent. 1951 $2.00 KENNETHH. FAGERHAUGH Numerical Index to the Bibliography Carnegie Institute of Technology of Scientific and Industrial Re- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ports, Vols. 1-10. 1949 $10.00 HELENM. PYLE Sun Oil Co., Philadelphia, Pa. SLA Directory of Members MRS. NELL STEINMETZ 1951 $4.00 Pacific Aeronautical Library Source List of Selected Labor Statis- Los Angeles, California tics. Rev. Ed. 1950 $1.75 EUGENIAP. TENNEY International Minerals & Chemical Corp. SLA 1950 Transactions. 1951 $5.00 Skokie, Illinois Special Library Resources. v.2-4. Immediate Past-President 1946-1947 $22.90 GRIEGASPNES Subject Headings for Aeronautical Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minnesota Engineering Libraries. 1949 $4.00 SPECIAL LIBRARIES,published monthly Sep- Technical Libraries, Their Organiza- tember to April, bi-monthly May to August, tion & Management 1951 $6.00 by Special Libraries Association, Editorial Offices, 31 East Tenth Street, New York 3, Union List of Technical Periodicals. N. Y. Publication Office: Rea Building. 1947 $6.00 704 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh 19, Pa. SUBSCRIPTIONS:$7 a year; foreign $7.50; OFFICIAL JOURNAL single copies 75 cents. SPECIAL LIBRARIES MANUSCRIPTSsubmitted for publication must Subscription, $7 Annually ($7.50 Foreign) be typed double space on only one side of the paper. Mail manuscripts to the Asso- SPONSORED PERIODICAL ciate Editor. TECHNICAL BOOK REVIEW INDEX REPRINTSmay be ordered immediately prior Subscription. $7.50 Annually to or on date of publication. Send reprint ($8.00 Foreign) orders to Editorial Offices.

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Indexed in Industrial Arts Index, Public Affairs Information Service, and Library Literature

CONTENTS

FEATURE ARTICLES Effective Writing . KERMITROLLAND 201 Library Service for Production Technology . DR. JOHN M. PEARSON203 Special Librarianship and Documentation . DR. MORTIMERTAUBE 206 Picture Research . . ROMANAJAVITZ 209

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION President's Message . . ELIZABETHFERGUSON 197 Your SLA Headquarters . . KATHLEENB. STEBBINS 198 Technical Research Reports, Post-Convention Institute BERNARDM. FRY 2 11 CNLA Joint Committee Report . . BETTYJOY COLE 2 16

DEPARTMENTS Have You Heard, 218; Letters to the Editor, 224; Off the Press, 22 1

Editorial Board Chairman: ALMA CLARVOEMITCHILL ERNESTF. SPITZER HARRYR. SNOWDEN,JK. Ex Officio: EDITHC. STONE

Editorial Staff Associate Editor: DORARICHMAN Business Manager: MRS. KATHLEENB. STEBBINS

Regional Representatives MIDDLE WEST: EUGENIAP. TENNEY WEST: ISABELLAM. FROST SOUTH: MRS.LOUISE T. JACKSON CANADA: GRACEREYNOLDS

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I HAVE noticed a tendency among our members of late to talk about "they." "Why don't 'they' do this" or "They say we must do that." This sounds as if SLA was run by a sort of hypothetical dictatorship, over and above, and completely divorced from "us." If this is true, who are "they"? Are "they" the officers? Thanks to our elaborate set-up of Chapter, Division and Association functions which is due to the great variety of our interests, we have any number of officers. Just look at the roster! Anyone who is willing to do a job is likely to find himself an officer at any time. So "they" might refer to any one of us. And if "they," in the capacity of officer, start trying to lead our alert and vocal members by the nose, our record shows that "they" don't get very far. Personally, I can't accept the idea that the Association is an abstract entity which "they" run. In my book, the Association is literally ourselves and our jobs and the organizations we serve. Our officers are our representatives and, actually, our servants. A silly little phrase we used to use in our family as children keeps forcing itself into this discussion. It was "We, us and company." Perhaps that describes us even better. In any event, I do propose that we habitually say "we" instead of "they." . ELIZABETHYEKGUSON, Pre~ide~~t YOUR SLA HEADQUARTERS

How it works . . . What it can do for you

Mrs. Sfebbins is executive secretary, 1952 convention. Another mimeograph- Special Libraries Association, New York. ed sheet has been prepared for division secretaries or membership chairmen and is available from Headquarters. o MEMBERS who have never visited Tthe Special Libraries Association Addressograph plates are made for Headquarters, its functions and opera- all members and subscribers, and additions may be cloaked in mystery. In tional sets of plates for Association offi- order to dispel that mystery, a large cers, for some of the smaller divisions welcome mat is always outside the door and for periodicals to which publicity of SLA Headquarters in New York and releases are sent. The executive secre- members are urged to visit it whenever tary had hoped that it might be possible they are in the vicinity of 31 East to secure funds for making duplicate of addressOgra~h plates mem- Tenth Street. A staff of eight full-time and two part-time persons is prepared bers of sections. However, the Execu- to explain the operations at Headquar- tive Board felt that the problems of multiple section affiliation and the num- ters and to assist you with your problems. In an effort to acquaint members ber of SLA sections and divisions should with the facilities at Headquarters, an be studied further before any additional plates were added to the ever-growing open house was held last October prior file. to the SLA Executive Board and Ad- A code, designating chapter, one di- visory Council meetings in New York vision and type of membership, is now City, and again on May 24, 1952, prior in use on the addressograph plates. to the annual convention. Copies of this code may be secured on This year, for the first time, the execu- request by any member. tive secretary met with chapter presi- Division Workbook dents at the annual convention in order A, excellent summary of how Head- to discuss ways of Headquar- quarters can help you and how you can ters' service and the best methods for help ~~~d~~~~~~~~has been included handling membership records. So that page four of the workbook of ~i~i~i~~ new chapter secretaries or membership procedures prepared by M~~.~~~~li~~ chairmen may become acquainted with ~l~~~hi~ldand the Division ~~~~~i~~~ the present keeping mem- Committee. This workbook, in loose-leaf bership card records, a sheet of instruc- form, will soon be available for division tions has been and is officers. It is suggested therein that in- to interested members. formation regarding changes of address, The same procedure was followed affiliations and resignations be sent di- when Mrs. Stebbins spoke briefly at the rect to Headquarters. Any questions re- school for incoming division officers. garding membership will be answered conducted by Thelma Hoffman at the promptly and changes made as requested.

198 SPECIAL LIBRARIES It is further suggested that two copies to chapter and division treasurers in of every report or bulletin prepared by January and July as approved each divisions (also by chapters) be sent to year by the executive board. In 1952 Headquarters for the archives. One the amount was based on 12 '/2 per cent copy of each SLA chapter and division of paid-up chapter membership and four bulletin is sent to the School of Library per cent of division membership. An Service Library, Columbia University, extra check for additional division af- which is the only other depository for filiations is sent in April when current such material besides Headquarters. dues have been received. A list of divisions and sections now Services appears on the reverse of the member- Service furnished to chapters and di- ship bills in order that members may visions includes weekly cards to notify check those in which they are inter- secretaries or membership chairmen of ested according to the provisions of new members, changes in address, etc. their type of membership. At the busi- It includes the addressographing of en- ness meeting of the Science-Technology velopes for division bulletins through- Division at the 1952 convention, it was out the year. Since there are now thir- decided that the best interests of the teen SLA divisions, some of them issu- members would be served if affiliations ing as many as six bulletins annually, with only two sections were observed. it would make for greater efficiency it This information, therefore, will now such mailings could be planned in ad- appear on the membership blanks and vance. If Headquarters could be noti- invoices so that those members who fied in the summer of the number and have chosen more than two sections of approximate dates envelopes would be the Science-Technology Division can wanted, it would not be necessary to notify Headquarters which two they keep some divisions waiting while fill- prefer. The Social Science Division, on ing prior requests. Stationery is also the other hand, decided not to limit af- furnished free of charge, as well as pro- filiation with its five sections for at least motional material about SLA and the another year. special library field. Available to members in quantity are copies of the pam- SLA Publications phlet, SLA, What It Is and Does, mem- Sales of all SLA publications, adver- bership blanks, SLA publication lists, tising and publicity are handled at recruiting literature and reprints of Headquarters upon approval by the ex- SLA material. ecutive board in consultation with the Each summer an up-to-date list of publications committee. That SLA can members is sent to chapters and divi- produce "best-sellers7' was apparent sions in order to provide the newly- when the demand for Technical Libra- elected secretary with a current file of ries, Their Organization and Manage- members. A mimeographed list of all ment became so great last winter, fol- SLA members of the Executive Board, lowed by considerable interest in Nick- chapter and division officers, standing names of American Cities, Towns and and special committee chairmen and Villages Past and Present and SLA Di- SLA representatives, is mailed to each rectory of Members 1951, that it was member of the Executive Board and necessary to engage an extra typist- Advisory Council in the fall. Minutes clerk for three months to handle the of the SLA Board and Council meetings flood of orders. held three times a year, are distributed Many chapters, divisions and com- to the officers following each meeting mittees of Special Libraries Association and are available for reference at Head- are forwarding their archival material quarters. to Headquarters for permanent housing. Semiannual budget checks are sent It will be greatly appreciated if such

JULY - AUGUST, 19.52 material is weeded before being sent, so the beginning salary levels with very that only important material will be re- few persons interested in applying for tained. To date, the Michigan, New them. Positions offering higher salaries York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh for considerable experience generally Chapters and the Museum Division have a number of applicants except for have presented the Executive Offices of those requiring a major in science and SLA with bound volumes of their bul- knowledge of foreign languages. letins. It would be invaluable if other In addition to requests for librarians chapters and divisions would assist and assistants, Mrs. Stebbins is asked Headquarters in collecting missing is- frequently to quote salary scales for sues and have them bound. different industries in various geogra- A small loan library is now main- phic areas. As no Association-wide salary tained at Headquarters for the use of survey has been made since 1947, chap- members. In addition to library tools, ter employment chairmen cooperated such as books and pamphlets on cat- in sending information about minimum, aloging, reference work, indexing and average and maximum library salaries filing and similar material, the most by type of position. The Science-Tech- useful collection is that of classification nology Division salary survey made in schemes and subject headings lists. Over 1951 has also been useful in quoting 400 schemes are available on loan for technical librarv salaries. It has been one month, free of charge to members. possible to raise salaries by several A mimeographed list of the material in- thousand dollars a year through such cluded was prepared in 1951 and sells information provided by Headquarters for $1.50. Other unusual materials in- upon request of employers or libraries. cluded in the loan collection are house organs, library publicity, abstract bul- Special Libraries letins, library layouts and similar litera- Situated at Headquarters also, is the ture. Any new classification scheme or editorial office of SPECIALLIBRARIES. It subject headings list will be gratefully is here that the associate editor, Dora received for adding to the collection. Richman, SLA member and former chairman of the Publishing Division, de- Placement Service votes her time to planning, editing and One of the services desired by mem- preparing the journal and other SLA bers from their professional organiza- publications for the press. Due to in- tion is a placement service where mem- creased correspondence in connection bers can learn about job opportunities with this work, a part-time stenographer and employers may leave job orders. has been engaged. SLA has maintained such a placement This brief summation of the services service for many years, first under a now rendered by SLA Headquarters volunteer chairman, and for the past may help acquaint new members and eleven years at Headquarters. Chapter remind former members of the facilities employment chairmen in the twenty- which are at their disposal. As the budget four chapters located outside the New permits, new services will be added, York and New Jersey areas cooperate since it is the aim to give members all by filling positions locally and notifying of the assistance they need from their Headquarters of vacancies in which professional organization. members elsewhere might be interested. Recommendations will be welcomed The local chapter employment chair- by the new president, Elizabeth Fergu- men assist the executive secretary in son, and by the SLA Executive Offices, maintaining a clearing-house for em- for ways in which to improve the serv- ployment at the annual convention. ices now rendered by SLA Headquar- At the present time there are in- ters and to make it a model for asso- numerable special library positions at ciation headquarters anywhere.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Effective Writing'"

Mr. Rolland is in the Public Relations Letter said recently: "The man who can Department, New York Life Insurance explain himself in writing may com- Company, New York City. mand what he wants; he who cannot convey his desires in an understandable way is left to his own personal resources. ECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN a great The persuasive pen or typewriter is R deal of nonsense written and taught therefore among the primary assets about communication. We hear of ex- which an individual and a business must perts who have devised yardsticks to have in order to attain any real suc- measure the readability of what we cess. A letter, for example, seems a sim- write. We hear of experts who have de- ple thing. It has a beginning, a middle signed little plastic gadgets to help us and an end. But between the beginning make ourselves more intelligible. Ex- and the end lie many traps and dead- perts have set down long lists of rules falls." which we must follow if we will write understandably. What a waste of time Characteristics most of these methods are! And what a We know that writing is a very com- lot of money earnest, well-intentioned plicated business. It is impossible to business firms and institutions have put reduce it to any simple formula or set out for the services of experts! of tricks devised by "communication Communication. There is scarcely a experts." In addition, the ingredients of business speech made nowadays in which effective prose are so numerous and so the term is not used. Before the war the abstract that they elude definition or expression was not in general use ex- even identification. But in spite of these cept as a term for a system of com- obstacles there is one approach to an munication such as the telephone or understanding of the craft which we telegraph. Now we use communication may use. It is this: in its basic dictionary sense: the inter- We can select a few of the main change of thoughts or opinions. characteristics which we customarily as- But the term "communication" is per- sociate with effective prose and examine haps too general; it does not describe them in the light of our particular pur- quite accurately what we are trying to pose. If we do this we will discover that do. When we say "communication" what effective writing - all effective writing we generally mean is "written communi- -has two important qualities in com- cation." And when we say "written common. It is clear. It has force. munication" we are doing nothing more than giving a streamlined, progressive Now, a piece of effective writing may name to our old friends composition have other characteristics-warmth, for and rhetoric. example, or splendor, or compassion. But these are qualities which do not The Royal Bank of Canada Monthly concern us primarily in our efforts to make ourselves understood. These are :% Paper presented at a meeting of SLA Di- vision chairmen, 43rd Annual Convention, qualities which lie deep within the per- SLA, New York City, May 26, 1952. sonality of the individual writer.

JULY - AUGUST, 1952 201 Clear writing is easy to understand. plicity, and with greater clarity. There is no doubt in the reader's mind of They tell a story about P. T. Barnum the precise shade of meaning intended and his use of language. When the great by the writer. In clear writing a sentence showman was running his famous mu- should read, in the words of Thoreau, seum in New York City he was pre- "as if its author, had he held a plow sented with the problem of getting instead of a pen, could have drawn a people out of his place once they had furrow deep and straight to the end." seen the exhibits and the demonstra- If we will write clearly we will write tions. He met the situation in a typical simply and concisely. Barnum fashion. He removed the exit What is the secret of simple writing? sign from over the rear door and hung It is this: put only one idea in each sen- in its place a large sign which said "This tence. When you come to the end of an Way to the Egress." Assuming that the idea resist the ever-present temptation "egress" was another of Barnum's fab- to link it to the next idea by means of a ulous oddities, customers elbowed their conjunction, even though it may mean way through the door-to find them- starting the next sentence with a con- selves out on the street. junction. Too many conjunctions make Many of the letters we write are daisy chains of our ideas and bewilder "egress" letters. They lead people right our readers. out the door when we would prefer that Conciseness as a way to simplicity in they stayed with us awhile. writing does not necessarily mean brev- If we will write clearly, then, we will ity or curtness. Conciseness means get- use the colloquial language of the United ting down to essentials -saying what States and we will lodge each of our we have to say in the fewest possible ideas in its own simple sentence. words. Force Business English The other ingredient which all effec- To achieve conciseness in writing, tive prose shares is force. Force gives forget, first of all, that there ever existed movement and strength to our writing. a thing called "business English." The Force in writing persuades people to do implication of the term "business Eng- things. JOIN THE ARMY. BUY BONDS. lish" is that the affairs of business are Forceful writing. Why? The answer lies conducted in a special language known in the construction of the sentence. only to the initiate. This idea has been Force in writing is obtained through responsible for more bad letters in the the use of active verbs. In the active last hundred years than anything else. voice the subject performs the action "Business English" is a place of con- which the verb describes. In the passive fusion and a lodging for the winds. Let voice the action is performed upon the those who insist on using "business Eng- subject. An example. "Susie kissed me." lish" (whatever it may be) write to Active voice; Susie is performing the each other exclusively-for eventually action. "I was kissed by Susie." Passive no one else will understand them. voice, the subject is being performed The language of our written com- upon. Grammar is not necessarily dull. munications is, or should be, the every- If we write clearly, if we write force- day speech of the United States. It is fully, we will write with greater effect. the language we use when we talk with and we will communicate with greater one another. And there is a very impor- success. tant reason for using this language: it The natural and desirable consequence is the language which our readers best of good communication is better under- understand. It is a direct, familiar, standing. And when we understand one straight-forward and colorful language. another, as individuals, as business or- If we make use of it we will write more ganizations, as institutions, as nations, concisely, and thereby with greater sim- we build truly and permanently.

2 02 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Library Service For Production Technology"

Dr. Pearson is director of the Physical mean strictly the know-how. By "phil- Division, Research and Development osophy" of the arts I mean the basic Department, Sun Oil Company, New- concepts and principles which serve to town Square, Pennsylvania. simplify our thinking about them. In other words, we need to learn the theory HE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY finds ap- of our arts in order to facilitate our Tplications for a very diverse as- thinking. sortment of arts, especially in its efforts It is characteristic that an art usually to find and produce crude oil. The rela- precedes its theory so that the creation tive emphasis given to the use of each of an art whole cloth from general art varies from one company or individ- theory is rather a rare occurrence. It is ual to another, but the use of the library much more common that a clear under- is common to every program. standing of the basic theory of an art The primary use of any library in ap- leads to useful advances because the plications of science is to bring to hand clear perception uncovers a combina- all the available past experience in a tion of principles not yet tried. There- given field at the lowest cost. This does fore : not imply that the experience recorded The second objective in the use of a in writing is available just for the read- library is to set forth the basic concepts ing, since each individual's background and principles useful in understanding determines his real appreciation of what an art. To define the gaps in under- he reads. It does imply, however, that a standing is essential in pointing to need- reader who is skilled in his field can ed research. place what he reads in such relation to Any invention, including the "flash of the problems before him that much genius" prescribed by our Supreme time and cost may be saved in attempt- Court, involves the fitting together of ing to advance the art. The cost of the several heretofore disunited means to literature search is a small part of the accomplish a new and useful end; in whole cost of a technical development. other words, the creation of a new art. Therefore : The making of inventions is becoming The first objective in the use of a li- more complex as the arts multiply. The brary is to make sure that all the arts problem of finding the inventive com- available to the problem are set forth bination often involves many arts and for proper evaluation and use in the de- several people. The essential steps be- velopment to be undertaken. come, first, a recognition of the basic elements of the problem; second, a de- Basic Concepts termination of arts that can be applied; The next most important function of and, finally, the development of an the library is to provide the philosoph- optimum combination that will answer ical background of the arts. By "arts" I the problem. The role of the library in promoting invention includes the first "Taken from a paper presented at a meeting of the Petroleum Section at the 43rd two objectives mentioned, and, in addi- Annual Convention of SLA, New York City, tion, it includes an assignment of great- May 27, 1952. er subtlety. This job is to locate infor-

JULY - AUGUST, 1952 mation pertinent to the problem at hand, independent of the classification Post-Convention Lines of that information according to other NTO EVERY GENERATION, every ten sciences or intended use. For instance, I years, or every other year, comes a how can we be sure an electronics ex- group of people who are unaware that pert will hear about an especially stable librarians are no longer mere custodians amplifier for low frequencies if it is de- of books. In truth, the special librarian, scribed in the Journal of the American long aware of "documentation," has se- Medical Association as part of an elec- lected, analyzed and stored a vast trocardiograph? Therefore : amount of paper with a view to making The third objective in the use of a li- it available via index or abstract. He brary is to locate information that has has anticipated the needs of the novice application to current problems, regard- in the field. He knows that history has less of how that information is current- a way of repeating itself. He has chained ly classified and filed. This also includes books and company reports only when information in issued patents and in necessary, and even then, with combi- prior arts concerning patent applications. nation locks only. He is aware that those whose need is great will come Finally, a library service is of value upon his storehouse eventually. in keeping abreast of current developments in any of the sciences applied to Memory of Man production technology. This may be done in a variety of ways, but the re- Before one of the greatest of these sult should be to get fresh news of de- institutions for keeping documents fresh velopments to the attention of each sit two majestic lions. They have chang- technologist who might use the infor- ed not a whit since the day when they mation. Therefore : were molded and made guardians of the entrance to that edifice. Some say The fourth objective in the use of a that they smile. Others have heard their library is to keep the working technol- conversation. One must be in the mood ogist in touch with current develop- to interpret this fantasy. But inside these ments that apply to those problems on walls, for many years, research has gone which he is working. on through WPA, NRA, before both, and up through other alphabetic com- Summary binations of government and industry. To summarize, the objectives in the If our lions smile, it is at the memory of use of library services for production man. If they speak beyond idle conver- technology are : sation, may it not be that behind them 1. To learn of past experience in the lies experience and learning and before useful arts. them walk, all unseeing, the seekers- 2. To maximize our understanding after-knowledge. of that experience. Special Librarians 3. To find useful information regard- less of how filed or classified. Must the librarian start anew? Must 4. To keep in touch with current de- the lions roar to reach those who are velopments. burdened with too much paper? Isn't This is a formidable assignment in it enough to remember that special li- the general terms presented. Even when brarians came together in 1909, found- the task is circumscribed to include ing our Association because of a deluge only the projects undertaken by one of printed matter that needed special company, the work is considerable. It is handling and care? Then it was bro- essential that the most effective meth- chures and ephemeral literature. Today ods be employed to meet each of these it is scientific reports and documents. objectives. M. M. K.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES OUR NEW PRESIDENT

AIL TO THE PRESIDENT!We are need for information. For thirteen years H proud of our new leader, Eliz- she was content with the fullness of this abeth Ferguson. library assignment. But there were other I like to remember her first appear- experiences and places to explore. Why ance in our midst. She came to New not New York? No city was too vast to York knowing nothing about our city. daunt that exuberant spirit ready to She advanced upon SLA knowing noth- try out "executive" wings, to cultivate ing about our Association. She entered methods or work for some new profes- the insurance world innocent of its in- sional activity. tricacies and specializations. So, embrac- New York ing the largest city she could find, adopt- After a visit to SLA Headquarters, ing the most controversial branch of the an appointment was arranged for Eliz- profession she could discover, wedging abeth Ferguson to be interviewed for a her way into the insurance business, position as librarian of the Institute of what do we find? A woman with amaz- Life Insurance. When she discussed pos- ing capacity who has developed in these sible library activities with President eight years as the product of our pro- Holgar Johnson, he must have sensed fession we most admire: a small-town that he would find in this applicant the girl who has made good! quality of open-mindedness and the Background acute interest vital to such a public re- Her Ohio life, Cleveland and Lima, lations institution. She must have said has a Vermont background which ac- something about books and public li- counts for her great fondness for ex- braries and the needs for business in- perimenting and pioneering, attributes formation. She may even have said that quite necessary in our world of special public libraries need advice on authori- " libraries. She also had the good fortune tative business books. At any rate, Mr. to work under Georgie G. McAfee who Johnson had faith in her ability and gave her the best that public libraries gave her the opportunity to develop of the last quarter century could give. the unique library which serves his staff Back of this was another valuable ex- of experts. She opened up an approach perience, a bookshop at Halle Brothers also to the larger problem of making in Cleveland. It was a natural step to books and authoritative information on the public library for six months in the life insurance available to the public. children's room, and from that appren- She has written for professional journals ticeship to the library school at West- and is co-author of Creation and De- ern Reserve. velopment of an Insurance Library. From there Miss Ferguson went to the We all wish Elizabeth well. Most of Lima Public Library where she seemed all, we wish her the opportunity to ap- to sense from the first the importance of ply that wholesome sense of fun and a certain group of users who came to humor that may keep her on top of the the reference room -the business men. complicated situations we members de- With her library so ready to back her vise for our officers. We know that we up, Miss Ferguson began to experiment like her professional policies. She has with methods of work and found that done well in the local scene. Now the books had to be supplemented with field of action is more extensive, but we other sources of information and with know that Elizabeth Ferguson will be personal contacts; that "no" was an in- equal to the task. adequate answer to the business man's FLORENCEBRADLEY.

JULY - AUGUST, 1952 205 SPECIAL LIBRARIANSHIP and DOCUMENTATION

UT OF THE GENERAL RECOGNITION that the initial preparation is guided 0 that special librarianship and docu- and determined by the ultimate pur- mentation are closely related activities pose of distribution to a special audi- and out of the confusion which is some- ence, preparation of the document is a times engendered by this relationship, part of documentation. there has risen a need for definitions of Unity the two concepts which would exhibit We need not stop to debate this issue. both their identity and difference. Even if we leave out the writing or Special librarianship is concerned with preparation of the record, we must still the collection, identification, organiza- ask whether this combination of pub- tion and servicing of items of recorded lishing and library activities constitutes information (i.e., documents) for the a new unity or is just a fortitudinous to- achievement of special purposes. What- getherness of wholly distinct activities. ever these "special" purposes may be, We could win an easy victory at this as opposed to the general education point. We could say that there exist purpose of a public library, they de- organizations like the Technical Infor- termine the nature and scope of the mation Service of the Atomic Energy activities designed to achieve them. Commission or the Armed Services Tech- Documentation nical Information Agency of the De- Documentation as the designation of partment of Defense which are respon- the total complex of activities involved sible for administering documentation in the communication of specialized in- programs, and we could derive the formation includes the activities which unity of documentation from the unity constitute special librarianship plus the of administration. But administrative prior activities of preparing and repro- unity may indicate, not the unity of a ducing materials and the subsequent ac- program, but, bad administrative organi- tivity of distribution. In essence docu- zation of basically diverse or unreIated mentation is an amalgam of librarian- programs. In other words we must dis- ship and publishing with the added re- cover unity, if it exists, in the activities sponsibility of preparing or causing to themselves. be prepared the materials to be pub- The unity of any set of elements is a lished, collected, organized, serviced and condition of mutual influence and de- disseminated. This last element is the pendence. A collection of pebbles is not weak spot of our definition. There are a unity. But a biological organism with those who would leave out the actual divisions of function, interaction, and initial preparation of materials although interdependence among its parts is a it is recognized that documentation does unity. In the same sense, an economic include the preparation of bibliograph- or political organization can be a unity ical and reference material, i.e. the so- -one corporation or one state. called "secondary publications." I think In these terms we would argue that that to the extent that responsibility for documentation is a unity, that the com- preparing primary materials is corpor- mon purpose of communication per- ate rather than individual, to the extent vades a total complex of activities, each

SPECIAL LIBRARIES RECEIVES SLA AWARD

of his outstanding contributions and pioneering in the library profession. Dr. Taube is a University of Chicago graduate. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California in 1935 and a Certificate in Librarianship the year following. His library experience has covered a wide range: circulation librarian at Mills College, cataloger at Rut- gers University Library, and head of the acquisitions department at Duke University Library. Since 1944, Dr. Taube's field of operations has been primarily in Washing- ton, D. C., at the Library of Congress, where he has been active in various capacities: assistant chief of the General Reference and Bibliography Division, assistant director of the Acquisitions Department, head of the Library of Congress mission in Europe, acting director of the Acquisitions Department R. MORTIMER TAUBE, president, and chief of the Science and Technol- D Documentation, Inc., former 1y ogy Project. He is now president of the deputy chief, Technical Information newly-formed Documentation, Inc. Services, Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Taube has developed a system of Washington, D. C., received the SLA scientific documentation which has been Award for 1952 at the 43rd annual accepted in a modified form as a stand- convention of the Special Libraries As- ard by several government agencies. sociation at the Hotel Statler in New He is the new editor of American Docu- York. The award, a sterling silver bowl, mentation and has contributed widely was presented to Dr. Taube at the an- to many scholarly and professional jour- nual business meeting, May 29, by Mrs. nals in the various fields of philosophy Ruth H. Hooker, chairman of the 1952 of science, logic, documentation and Committee on Awards, in recognition library administration. one of which makes its contribution to etc., etc. The point need not be labored. this purpose and is functionally depend- Documentation is not just a new name ent on the other activities in the com- for accustomed ways of acting. Rather plex. What we publish is determined by it is a new dynamic synthesis which recognized distribution needs; how we encompasses special librarianship and publish is determined not only by dis- more. tribution needs, but by the requirements Now sometimes it is the case that a of identification and organization; how new synthesis will revitalize the old we identify and organize materials is elements which it includes. When I en- determined by the kind of publication tered library school, I was excited about and the requirements of distribution, classification and other methods of or-

JULY - AUGUST, 1952 ganizing material, but when I entered could not contain the swirling rush of actually on my library career, I learned new literature and new forms of litera- pretty soon that the dictionary catalog, ture. New systems had to be created, the Library of Congress and Dewey new methods of publication and dis- Classification systems, the A.L.A. and semination devised, new methods of L.C. list of subject headings and the identification and organization devised. A.L.A. catalog code were pretty much We began to hear talk of television, fac- fixed and final. The profession contained simile, electronic sorters, ultrifax, uni- a few rebels-a Bliss, a Ranganathan, vacs, etc. We applied new logics to an Osborne, and of course the whole classification and organization. We de- rebel clique of special librarians. But vised and tried out new methods of even this rebel clique accepted the basic identification and descriptive cataloging library apparatus and only broke away and thus invaded the holy of holies of from it in handling peripheral, ephe- sanctified library practice. meral and "vertical file" material. Frontier In essence, the material produced by And the end is not yet. I think the documentation activities corresponds to stirring that is taking place now in pro- the old vertical file material that wasn't fessional organizations has arisen out of worth the type of organization usually a recognition that the dynamism of li- accorded to books and periodicals. But brarianship has shifted from the capital the growth of this documentary or re- to the frontier, from the established port material converted a peripheral center to the peripheral ground of ex- concern to a central activity. The im- perimentation and growth. If this diag- portant content of these reports seemed nosis and prognosis is true, I can con- to justify not less, but more organiza- clude by saying that it's good to feel tion than that accorded to books and that we belong to a vital profession and periodicals. And suddenly the fetters of participate in a vital activity in which traditional librarianship burst. The fin- the total past becomes the prologue for ished schemes of the nineteenth century an exciting future.

CONVENTION NOTES

The Special Libraries Association held its 43rd Annual Con- vention May 26-29, 1952, at the Hotel Statler in New York. It was the largest convention in SLA history, attended by approximately 1600 people representing some 700 commercial, industrial, professional, academic and governmental organizations and agencies. More than a hundred programs and tours were scheduled by SLA's thirteen divisions, the program reflecting the wide interests represented in the Association's international membership of librarians and information experts. The Eastern Underwriter, a widely-read insurance weekly, carried this headline in its May 30 issue: LIBRARIANS'VISIT HEREA MODELFOR ALL CONVENTIONS ". . . an unusually large array of experts speaking before the different divisions of the Association . . . it is doubtful if any association coming convention-bent to New York . . . has ever seen so much of the utilitarian, business, artistic and cultural side of the city." Editor Clarence Axman was impressed with the quality, the quantity and the diversity of the convention program.

208 SPECIAL LIBRARIES Picture Research A review of SLA convention discussion

Miss Javitz is superintendent of the of "facts far stranger than fiction" and picfure colIection, New York Public Li- far more useful than fiction, on which brary, New York City. the research skills of his staff are con- centrated. He stressed the importance HE FIRST LIBRARY ~0nventi0nmeet- of pictorial proof and admitted lack of Ting devoted entirely to a discus- faith in texts, words or memory alone. sion of the growing use of pictures as Mr. Hendee stated that pictorial re- documents and picture research in gen- search is an indispensable, basic tool eral was a feature of the SLA conven- and that the resources of libraries are tion program on May 27, 1952 at the invaluable in the work of authentication Hotel Statler in New York. for film production. This picture session stemmed from q Mr. C. 'I?.Thorne, librarian on leave meeting at the Enoch Pratt Free Li- from the Marylebone Reference Library brary (Baltimore) early in February, in London, delighted the audience by when a small group of librarians, con- divulging secrets of picture sleuthing. cerned with the increase of work with He had high praise for the picture col- pictures, met to discuss the general lack lections in the American cities he had of criteria and information available in visited and believed that interest in pic- this field. From this preliminary probe ture research here was more developed into the status of work with pictures, than in Britain. He found pictures ex- came a decision to seek a channel for cellent documentary sources for facts the discussion of professional problems. hard to derive from the printed word The opportunity was provided through alone. To establish exact definition of the interest of Ruth Crawford, SLA appearances he found that the pains- convention chairman, who scheduled a taking search that picture seeking en- meeting which was sponsored jointly by tails is worth the effort. "Often," said four divisions : Advertising, Museum, Mr. Thorne, "pictures that in themselves Newspaper and Publishing, and was at- are useless, prove valuable as 'leads' to tended by approximately three hundred other sources or prove that, like red people. leeches, the subject does not exist ex- The proceedings began with a brief cept perhaps in the fiction realm of a history of the circumstances leading up Conan Doyle." to this meeting by Elsie Phillips, head Speaking for the pictorial press, Natalie of the picture collection at the Enoch Kosek, assistant chief of the picture Pratt Free Library. She told of the ex- bureau at Life Magazine, gave an ac- panding need for an exchange of ex- count of the beginnings of this picture perience in the picture field and the research unit, tracing its growth from a lack of publications on methods of pic- modest start. Separate from the picture ture organization. morgue, the bureau was established to Representing the moving picture in- handle picture location and selection, dustry, Harold F. Hendee, research di- and gather pictorial information. She rector for RKO Radio Pictures, spoke listed some of the major agencies the of his long experience in film authenti- staff calls on for help. The staff main- cation. He presented typical instances tains a source directory of photogra-

JULY - AUGUST, 1952 phers and picture agencies but Miss with pictures have not developed to the Kosek informed the audience that this point where there are handbooks and is exclusively for the use of their own methods sufficiently established to paral- organization except when governmental lel the availability of bibliographic tools. agencies call for information. In addi- Briefly outlining the picture resources tion to being familiar with the work of of the Library of Congress, he stated their staff photographers, these picture that the bulk of the pictures represent researchers check through the output of copyright deposits: two copies each of commercial pictures printed from 1875 to 1925. In addition, there are collec- Ronlana Javitz, chairman of the tions that have been presented to the meeting on picture research, be- government, such as the Arnold Genthe lieves that recognition for our pic- and the William H. Jackson photo- torial heritage is long overdue, graphs and negatives. There are about that pictures should be accepted 750 miscellaneous collections; some of as an important part of recorded these have been purchased by the Li- knowledge, and that the problems brary as of national importance. of organization and use must be Mr. Vanderbilt described and com- given professional attention. She pared the three basic types of existing states that the pictures under dis- picture collections: those that are for cussion serve as documents and one specific purpose within an organi- are not considered for aesthetic zation; those that "attempt the impos- content. sible in subject comprehensiveness," the This meeting was planned for all-inclusive picture collection of the the purpose of exploring the ex- public libraries; and those limited to tent of interest in work with pic- pictorial units of national importance tures and to discover whether this produced by a specific source. The interest is great enough to war- Prints and Photographs Division of the rant professional organization mak- Library of Congress is in the third cate- ing it possible to bring about an gory. Collections there have been acces- exchange of ideas and informat~on. sioned in a numerical system, with a number given with each unit. A new method of short descriptions on cards the major photo agencies, so that when has been adopted. Entered on standard a story breaks, they are ready with in- catalog cards, these descriptions serve formation on what is available and for the location of the subject covered where it can be obtained. Miss Kosek by each accession number. finds the work exacting. It demands The question period that took place special skills in picture selection and in disclosed several areas demanding the appraisal of visual content and po- exploration: clarification on copyright tential publication use. The picture bu- practice in the use of illustrations and reau staff is responsible also for picture photographs; the need for a subsidized credits and the tracking down of copy- program of indexing illustrations in cur- right information on pictures selected rent publications; pooling of informa- for publication. tion on the sources of pictures; courses Consultant in Iconography at the Li- of instruction and preparation of man- brary of Congress and specialist in pic- uals in picture techniques. ture organization, Paul Vanderbilt open- The meeting ended with the appointed his talk by congratulating the audi- ment of a Washington and a New York ence on being part of a pioneer meeting committee to prepare the steps towards in a field that was still in a beginning association and organization as a pic- stage. He commented that techniques ture division.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Technical Research Reports POST-CONVENTION INSTITUTE

Mr. Fry is chief librarian, Technical ing and informative discussion of the Information Service, U. S. Atomic En- operational problems of the librarian in ergy Commission, Washington, D. C. the acquisition, cataloging, indexing, reference, security control, etc., of the tre- VER SEVEN HUNDRED librarians and mendous proliferation of technical re- 0documentalists, representing tech- ports. nical libraries and documentation cen- Panel Discussions ters throughout the country, attended The discussions of the Institute were the post-convention Institute on the arranged under five panels, which dealt Administration and Use of Technical comprehensively, if briefly, with Tech- Research Reports held under the spon- nical Reports, The New Literature of sorship of the Science-Technology Di- Science; Processing and Cataloging of vision, Special Libraries Association, in Reports; Controlled Distributions; Ex- New York, on May 30-31. The large ploiting Report Literature; Documenta- numbers, who came over a holiday tion and the Special Librarian. The week-end to hear papers and discuss twenty-two speakers who took part in technical reports problems, gave evi- the full program have been in the fore- dence by their enthusiasm and active front in the development of new pro- participation of the great interest and cedures and the application of library vigor in this new frontier of special li- principles and techniques to the tech- brarianship. nical reports literature. Abstracts of the The new and important body of scien- papers presented have appeared in the tific and technical reports literature June 1952 issues of Sci-Tech News and which has arisen in recent years pre- Technical Data Digest (Restricted) and sents new and highly specialized prob- the papers will be published in full in lems of library administration. At the the July issue of American Documenta- present time, more than 150,000 un- tion. Accordingly, the scope of this ac- published reports relating to national count is limited to a summary of results defense alone are issued annually in of the Institute and to a brief review of this country. These reports, many of the main points brought out in the which are security-classified, are pre- papers. pared by numerous industrial and uni- Problems versity contractors and by government The Institute speakers were in gen- laboratories. eral agreement that the problems of li- The field of technical reports admin- brary organization and administration istration and use is broad and deep, of technical reports collections, as dif- highly specialized and relatively unex- ferentiated from standard library mate- plored. The Institute program provided rials, arise in the main out of considera- a brief guide to discovery of the prin- tions of: (1) quantity of annual pro- cipal problems, with indications of pos- duction, (2) lack of standardization of sible solutions here and there. The format and bibliographical elements, knowledge and experience of the speak- and (3) need for security safeguards ers, shared with the responsive audi- for the majority of report holdings. ence, combined to produce a stimulat- As background for the evaluation of

JULY -AUGUST, 1952 new procedures and techniques devel- ous review of what materials are active, oped for reports handling by libraries with a view towards elimination or re- and documentation centers, E. Eugene tirement of obsolete reports through Miller, deputy director, Armed Services systematic weeding, use of dead storage Technical Information Agency, in a and microfilming. paper on the Genesis of Report Lit- erature, related the early history and Cataloging growth of the reports literature since The fundamental differences in de- World War 11. In addition, he stressed scriptive cataloging between reports and the changed conditions of scientific lit- conventional scientific literature were erature production and use with par- brought out in the paper on Bibliogra- ticular reference to factors of prompt- phic Identification and Organization by ness, security, quality and form of tech- I. A. Warheit, chief, reference branch, nical reports. Technical Information Service, Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge, Ten- Reports Procurement nessee. This is especially evident in the Following this outline of the princi- emphasis on the corporate author as pal features of the reports literature, the main entry and use of the report Eugene B. Jackson, chief, division of number as a convenient and popular research information, National Advis- means of identification. With respect to ory Committee for Aeronautics, speak- Housing and Storage of reports, Saul ing on Acquisition: Sources and Tech- Herner, librarian, Applied Physics Lab- niques, discussed the procedures and oratory, The Johns Hopkins University, chief sources for reports procurement. Silver Spring, Maryland, stated that the This included coverage of security and interplay of the library staff, space allo- need-to-know clearances as well as a cations, security precautions and the review of special techniques peculiar reference function of the library must to reports acquisition. He pointed out all be considered in planning the hous- when an agency and its contractors are ing of reports. once approved and on the mailing list The differences in cataloging practice for AEC, NACA, DSC and TID bulle- between the large documentation cen- tins andlor catalog cards, about 85 per ter and the average technical library cent of the total volume of technical were brought out in papers by Mrs. reports is made available to them. Eleanor J. Aronson, head, cataloging Selection section, Technical Information Division, Additional factors involved in selec- Library of Congress, who discussed tion for Building a Collection were dis- Cataloging in a Large Reports Organi- cussed by John H. Hewitt, documents zation, and by Mrs. Edith Francis, li- librarian, Research Laboratory of Elec- brarian, Northrop Aircraft, Inc., Haw- tronics, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- thorne, California, and Mr. I. G. Carlson, nology. The need to plan a reports col- head, document analysis section, Naval lection to fit the research program of Electronic Laboratory, San Diego, Cali- the organization was stressed. On the fornia, who separately contributed other end of the library processing papers on Cataloging of Reports in a cycle, Jerrold Orne, director, Air Uni- Library. Although there may be vari- versity Library, Maxwell Air Force ations in the cataloging approach be- Base, described problems of Mainte- tween the documentation center and nance and Reduction of a Collection, the military or industrial library, these with primary emphasis upon steps be- three papers were in agreement that ing taken within his own organization there are substantial differences be- to keep the collection from overflowing tween cataloging of reports and conven- its space. He pointed up the need for re- tional literature which make necessary ports librarians to maintain a continu- frequent and continuing compromises

2 12 SPECIAL LIBRARIES with traditional cataloging rules and Journals by John Binnington, head, re- procedures. search library, Brookhaven National Distribution Laboratory, Upton, New York. Prob- lems of publication in journals were de- In the panel on controlled distribu- scribed, and suggestions were made for tions, Louis Canter, supervisor, techni- coordinating and referencing report and cal reports files, Applied Physics Lab- journal holdings. oratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, Maryland, described the The topic on Ways and Means of Factors Restricting Availability of Gov- Reaching the Consumer was assigned to three speakers in order to reflect the ernment Research Reports, including experiences of the Industry Library, the proper use of "channels" and mailing lists in obtaining security-classified contributed by Charles K. Bauer, now reports. The basic Security Problems of assistant chief librarian, Technical In- the Library and their implications for formation Service, Atomic Energy Com- the dissemination of classified reports mission, and formerly head of the Re- were explained by Lt. Comdr. J. Heston ports and Documents Section, Project Heald, documentation consultant, Of- Hermes, General Electric Company, fice of Naval Research, Washington. Schenectady, New York; the Docu- Suggestions were also given for main- mentation Center, by Robert S. Bray, taining adequate security controls by assistant chief, Technical Information libraries. Division, Library of Congress; and the In another area of controlled distri- University Research Information Cen- butions concerned with the Availability ter, by Harold E. Wilcox, field repre- of Industrial Research Reports, Ken- sentative, Technical Information Divi- neth H. Fagerhaugh, librarian, Carnegie sion, Library of Congress. Mr. Wilcox Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, dis- also discussed the responsibility of the closed that most of the industrial re- field representative of a documentation search reports simply are not available center. outside the originating company. Rea- Reports Librarian sons for not publishing the results of In the final paper on technical re- their research were given, with the con- ports handling by libraries, Mrs. Ruth clusion that more reports would be pub- H. Hooker, coordinator of Naval Libra- lished if the companies had specialists ries, Washington, discussed the Reports to prepare the results. In a companion Librarian: Requirements and Oppor- paper on Reports Service to Industry, tunities. The characteristics of a good Mrs. Dorothy Graf, chiefj library, sec- reports librarian were described in terms tion, Office of Technical Services, De- of the special problems he must face. partment of Commerce, Washington, Today the demand for librarians who outlined the functions of OTS in mak- have a good understanding of the re- ing government research information ports literature far exceeds the supply. available to industry. In delivering the final paper of the session, Dr. Mortimer Taube, president Exploiting Reports of Documentation, Inc., formerly dep- In the fourth panel on exploiting re- uty chief, Technical Information Serv- port literature, Elma T. Evans, libra- ice, Atomic Energy Commission, pointed rian, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, out that although many consider the two Inc., Buffalo, New York, led off with a fields as coinciding in all respects, this is discussion of the Reference Use of the inaccurate, for documentation includes Collection and Its Catalogs, referring publishing and distributing activities in specifically to reference work at CAL. addition to special librarianship. He Further guidance in the full utilization also stated that the ever-increasing vol- of reports was given in the paper on ume of scientific and technical informa- Integration of Report Literature and tion will make mandatory this broader

JULY - AUGUST, 1952 2 13 approach to the problems of recording, organizing, disseminating and utilizing RETIREMENTS specialized information. The documenta- GUY E. MARION tion approach, he believes, will provide librarians with greater opportunities for Guy E. Marion was honored by the service to the consumer of information. staff of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce on his retirement after twen- Papers Published ty-eight years as librarian, statistician The last two papers on the program and manager of the Research Depart- were not read owing to time limitations ment. and in order to give ample time for Under Mr. Marion's guidance, the audience participation and discussion. general public as well as the staff of the They included New Methods of Repro- Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce duction, Publication, and the Design of was provided with historical, financial, Technical Reports by G. Miles Conrad, technical and commercial information. documentation specialist, Technical In- Existence of the U. S. Census Bureau formation Division, Library of Congress. tract plan giving complete information- and New Developments in Distribution al breakdowns on Los Angeles' small and Dissemination, by Earle V. Lee, neighborhoods is credited to him. He is chief, document service center, Armed responsible also for inaugurating "green statistical sheets," a feature of chamber Services Technical Information Agency, of commerce service now known through- Dayton, Ohio. These two papers will out the world. be published with the full program in Mr. Marion is a charter member of American Documentation. the Association. He served as SLA sec- No account of the Institute proceed- retary, 1910-1916, and as SLA presi- ings would be complete without men- dent, 1918-1919. In 1923 the Southern tion of the large exhibit of forms, man- California Chapter elected him its presi- uals, and procedures used by various dent. libraries in the handling and control of technical reports. Many requests have been made by libraries for loan of the DEBORAH MORRIS exhibit and an effort will be made to add from time to time other items of On June 30, 1952, Deborah Morris, first librarian of the Fine Arts Library, significance. University of Pennsylvania, retired Conclusion after many years of valued service. The Institute program as a whole She came to the School of Fine Arts was the result of efforts of a great many in 1906 to index bound periodicals librarians and documentalists who are under the direction of a faculty mem- interested in the continuance and in- ber. In 1907 she was appointed assist- crease of activity in this new field of ant librarian and in 1910, librarian. special librarianship. The question nat- During Dr. Warren P. Laird's deanship urally arises-whose job is this, that of her contribution to the school was ac- the librarian or the documentalist? In knowledged by the faculty who elected the view of the writer. there need be no her an honorary member. controversy. Each can make his own The library, under Miss Morris' ad- peculiar contribution. There is the dan- ministration, grew from an architectural library of 2500 volumes to a collection ger, however, that the librarian will fail of over 21,000 volumes. For nine years to grasp the problem as a whole. It is Miss Morris was the sole librarian. The in the field of technical reports handling, staff today numbers nine people. in the application of library principles Miss Morris was one of the founders and techniques to new and highly spe- of SLA's Philadelphia Council. She was cialized material, that the librarian most chairman of the Council, 1923-1925, clearly and immediately faces the chal- and served on a number of committees. lenge and opportunity of documentation. ELEANORF. WORFOLK.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES T WAS NEW YORK'S mayor, Fiorello difficult times in many capacities, hold- I H. La Guardia, at an SLA conven- ing various offices and taking on in- tion, who spoke of Rebecca B. Rankin numerable committee assignments. She as New York's "Rebecca." She had was president of the Association, 1922- worked diligently for him and for a 1923. Her interest has never lagged number of city officials preceding him. and she continues to give us the benefit The Municipal Reference Library, un- of her valuable experience. der her capable direction, had become Rebecca Rankin's career includes an essential part of government re- writing and editing. She is author of search not only for the city of New New York Advancing which went York but for other major cities through- through three editions. The seventh edi- out the world. tion of Guide to Municipal Governmenf The Municipal Reference Library has of the City of New York has just been always meant "Rebecca." It is essen- published and is widely used by of- tially her creation and it is hard to ficials and students. In 1948, Harper's think of it without her leadership. Since published New York: The World's Cap- 1920 she has headed this branch of the ital which she wrote with Cleveland New York Public Library, situated high Rodgers of the City Planning Commis- in the Municipal Building. She has ex- sion at that time. Municipal Reference tended its holdings to make this collec- Library Notes, a monthly which she tion one of the most outstanding re- edits, has had wide circulation. search centers of its kind. In addition to these activities, Re- Biographical items on Rebecca Ran- becca Rankin is chairman of the May- kin are easily located. She is, of course, or's Municipal Archives Committee. She in Who's Who in America and in the has given special libraries courses at New York newspaper files. She was Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She has par- born in Ohio and was educated at the ticipated actively in various library as- University of Michigan and at Sim- sociations. mons. She worked in Michigan and in Rebecca Rankin does not allow ma- the state of Washington before coming terial possessions to rule her life. Her to the New York Public Library. home in Dobbs Ferry has a simple Publicity-minded, with a ready smile charm. She has always loved her gar- and a dynamic interest in everything, den, her camera, and driving in the she has frequently made bylines. To open country. Her summers are spent make the library come alive for the re- by the sea in Nova Scotia. porter has been no effort for her. She has given a kind of library service Those of us who know Rebecca B. which, some of us believe, is altogether Rankin, who have worked with her and too scarce today. No request from her seen her in action, feel certain that her library clientele has ever been too much trips to Florida have included a visit to trouble. She has inspired her library the Fountain of Youth. She is full of staff and has endowed it with her ideals. pep, there is a spring in her stride and Her friends in SLA know her as one a sparkle in her keen eyes. of the founders of the Association. SLA Rebecca retire? We hear that she business has been her hobby and her will, but who believes it? vocation. She has served it well through M. MARGARETKEHL.

JULY - AUGUST, 1952 COUNCIL OF NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS

REPORT

HE SPRING MEETING of the Council should be continued toward improving Twas held in New York on May the standards and increasing the uni- tenth. There has been considerable ac- formity of examinations already being tivity by the Council this year as the given at the state level for civil service following report on the Joint Commit- examinations or any other library ex- tees will show. aminations. Joint Committee on Education for 239 Librarianship This is the ASA committee on library The sub-committee on education for standards. Presently, it is concerned with special librarianship has been quite ac- layout of periodicals, statistics and ab- tive. Librarians in seven fields were breviations used in citations and trans- contacted for suggestions and criti- literations of Cyrillic characters. The cisms of courses to be given for train- ASA through its committee 239 is trans- ing in special work. These replies will mitting a proposed standard of periodic- be studied with the intention of deal layout to the International Standards veloping courses best suited to special Organization. The work on statistics is needs. Before such a program can be of an exploratory nature. An attempt is taken to the library schools, it is ad- being made to learn if there is a need or visable to make a survey of personnel possibility for standardization of statis- needs, e.g., the possible number of open- tics. The abbreviations of periodicals ings in special fields at present and five used in citations of reference is not uni- to ten years from now. Such a survey form. A good standard method is need- should show what type of library has ed. Good usage versus standards should the greatest need at present and give be indicated. In the field of Cyrillic an indication of future development. transliterations, the British Standards With this information library schools Institute is promoting its own system. will be in a better position to plan and Probably there should be a compromise conduct courses in special fields. in which the British and the Americans The committee will also study the develop a uniform system. problem of re-defining special librarian- Other work in which IS0 Technical ship in its relation to the profession of Committee 46 is interested is docu- documentalists, information officers and mentary reproduction, standardizing of archivists, and especially the require- abstracts, layout of periodical articles ments in training desirable as prepara- and other bibliographic standards. 239 tion for these vrofessions. participates in T46 and should enter Following a study of numerous com- into all phases affecting American proj- ments sent to Dr. Maurice Tauber, ects. chairman of the subcommittee which U. S. Book Exchange considered the Kavanaugh and Westcott Even though the U. S. Book Ex- Resort,-. "A National examination as a change is not responsible to the Council, basis for library certification; a survey the Council is very much interested in of opinion," Library Quarterly 21: 198- the work as the USBE is the continu- 205, July 1951, the Joint Committee on ance of the former American Book Library Education went on record as Center, a Council project. The USBE being opposed to a national examina- is now on a self-supporting basis and tion as a requirement for entering the does a great deal for both foreign and library profession, but agreed that work domestic libraries.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Joint Committee on Protection of Joint Committee of Union List of Serials Cultural and Scientific Resources This committee held a two-day meet- This committee which was originally ing in Washington, June 2 and 3. The known as the one on Safeguarding of expense and time involved in the com- Library Materials has changed its name pilation of a union list are great, so care- and enlarged its membership to include ful thought and planning are essential agencies other than libraries. Its chief before the work can be started. Deci- aims are the protection and preserva- sions regarding completeness of cover- tion of our cultural heritage and scien- age, reporting of holdings of co-operat- tific information. The committee, realiz- ing libraries, method of publication, fi- ing the broad territory of this work, nancing and future maintenance of such wants to stimulate local groups by the a list are far from easy. formation of local committees in many Further reports on the Council and parts of the U. S. It believes that its its Joint Committee will be published in work cannot be carried out successfully SPECIALLIBRARIES, whenever it is ad- unless local interest is aroused. visable. I BETTYJOY COLE, Joint Advisory Committee for Library SLA Representative, Projects CNLA Joint Committee. The organization meeting of this committee was held on May 9. Since one SLA Nominating Committee of the purposes of its formation is to The following members have been advise on foundation support of library appointed to the 1952 Nominating Com- projects, it was felt that a file should be mittee by Elizabeth Ferguson, SLA's set up to provide information on foun- president: dation interests and to list names of Jo ANN AUFDENKAMP individuals to contact when support is Illinois Chapter desired. The committee also feels that MILDREDBENTON Washington, D. C. Chapter it should compile a list of projects under MRS. KATHLEENS. EDWARDS way or under consideration by the vari- Southern California Chapter ous library associations. Since there SARAM. PRICE seems to be a tendency on the part of New Jersey and New York Chapters foundations to withdraw from the li- MRS. MARIES. GOFF, Chairman brary field, it was believed that the Philadelphia Council committee should advise foundations of All SLA members, and especially projects worthy of their support if and chapter presidents, division and committee chairmen, are urgently request- when the occasion arises. The commit- ed to send their suggestions for the tee will probably act in an advisory ca- elective offices to the chairman: pacity and as a clearing house of infor- MRS. MARIES. GOFF mation. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Technical Library Joint Committee on Relations Between 3152 Du Pont Building Wilmington 98, Delaware Libraries and the Federal Government Prospective names, with reasons for This, too, is a new committee, having their selection should be mailed as soon held its organization meeting the latter as possible since in accordance with By- part of April. At that meeting, the work Law IX of the SLA Constitution, the seemed to fall naturally into two fields: Nominating Committee must present the study of services now rendered by the 1953-1954 slate to the SLA Execu- the federal agencies to libraries and the tive Board by November 15, 1952. There are two candidates for each services which individual libraries can office. These include : President-Elect give to the federal agencies. Further (Vice - President), Second Vice - Presi- work of this committee will be reported dent, Elected Secretary, Treasurer and later. two Directors for three-year terms each.

JULY -AUGUST, 1952 217 Have you heard . . . .

SLA Authors in Print SLA Members in Print Papers by a number of SLA members are Rebecca B. Rankin was the library person- included in a "special reprints" issue (no date) ality-of-the-week during the SLA Convention. of Hospital Topics. Noted in this publica- Pictures and stories appeared in all of the tion were: local papers and The New York Times devoted " (The) Medical Library Attains Fresh an editorial to her. Recognition" by L. Margueriete Prime. "Standards for Hospital Libraries" by Lize A lively cartoon of Matthew Redding, libra- K. Giraud. rian of the New York World-Telegram and "Standards for Nursing School Libraries" Sun, appears on the cover of the March issue Charlotte Studer, joint author. of the Scripps-Howard News. Lead article in "Certification of Hospital, Medical and the issue is headed "Keepers of the Morgue", Nursing School Librarians" by Margaret G. an informal and informative account of the Palmer. World-Telegram and Sun's library and its "Services in the Hospital Medical Library" chief. Mr. Redding. by Claire Hirschfield. "Betty Ferguson Head of Special Libraries" "Cooperation with Hospital Libraries" by is the name of a feature story on SLA's new Helen Yast. president which appeared in The Eastern Un- "Special Training for Medical Librarian- derwriter, insurance weekly, May 30. ship" by Wilma Troxel. Completing this issue are two papers on the Bonnie Dewes, librarian at D'Arcy Adver- Medical Library Association by Rosalie M. tising Company, St. Louis, was elected presi- Saitta and Helen G. Field. dent of the St. Louis Women's Advertising Of interest in other publications are the Club, June 2. Miss Dewes was winner also following: of a television award for her work in adver- "A Library for Radio and Television" by tising. St. Louis papers carried feature stories Frances Sprague, in the Stechert-Hafner Book and photographs. News, April 1952. "Cartography in the International Geogra- "For Fingertip Information Consult the phical Congress" was the subject of Dr. Burton Plant Library" by Dorothy Dunham, in Plant Adkinson's paper before the Cartography Engineering, May 1952. W. Division of the American Congress on Survey- "National and International Pharma- ing and Mapping at its twelfth annual meeting copoeias: A Checklist" by Mrs. Irene M. in Washington, D. C., as reported in the Li- Strieby and Marjory C. Spencer, in the Bul- brary of Congress' Information Bulletin of letin of the Medical Library Association. June 1952. A~ril1952. 16, "A Program of Library Staff Development" The SLA Editorial Office has received news- by Louise C. Lage, in the January issue of paper clippings covering the annual "bosses" the preceding publication. luncheon of the SLA Minnesota Chapter. A "Suggestions for a Small Ornithological Re- feature story referred to forty special libraries ference Library" by Monica de la Salle, in in the Twin Cities and gave brief reviews of Audubon Magazine, March-April 1952. some of them. Among those so noted were: "Technical Library Offers Dynamic Service" Frederic C. Battell's library at the Minnesota by Michael Koch, in the Journal of the U. S. and Ontario Paper Company, Bernadette Naval Supply, Brooklyn, New York, February Becker's collection at the Minnesota State 13, 1952. Department of Business Research and De- velopment, Helen Nebelthau's collection of material at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Skriftserie 21 the General Mills' research library, and some O~ubliceradeForskningsrapporter: Ett Bib- of the special collections at the University of liografiskt Problem is the title of the Swed- Minnesota. ish edition published in Stockholm (1951) of Eugene B. Jackson's Unpublished Re- search Reports: A Problem in Bibliographical New Address Control. (Occasional Paper No. 17, Uni- versity of Illinois Library School, December Kenneth H. Fagerhaugh, a member of the 1950.) This is one of a series of pamphlets SLA Executive Board, formerly of the John published by the TLS and is known as Tek- Crerar Library in Chicago, is now librarian at niska Litteratursallskapets Skriftserie 21. Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh.

SPECIAL LIBRARIES Award to Ohio Librarian SLA Exhibit in Texas Meredith S. Wright, librarian in the re- An excellent report has been received at search laboratories library of the National SLA Headquarters from Mildred Hogan, booth Carbon Company, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, was chairman of the SLA exhibit at the Southwest the recipient of the Alpers Award for 1952 Conference of the Institute of Radio Engineers, presented at the Kent State University Library held in Houston, Texas, May 16-17. Symposium on May 16. The report gives a detailed description of The award of one hundred dollars is given the exhibit, the materials displayed, the pro- annually by August Alpers, president of the cedures followed, instructions to booth attend- General Bookbinding Company, to an Ohio li- ants, forms used and the expenses incurred. brarian with fifteen years or less of library experience, who has made a significant con- Samples of free literature distributed by the tribution in the library field. SLA Texas Chapter include a listing of repre- Miss Wright was graduated from Barnard sentative special libraries in Texas, the service College with a geology major in 1941. In 1945 available from SLA's local employment chair- she was graduated from Western Reserve Uni- man, Mrs. Louise T. Jackson, and a paper versity School of Library Science and took her entitled "What Does a Special Librarian Do?", present position where she organized and dean adaptation from Agnes Hanson's article, veloped a special library which is considered a "Information Specialists." model of its kind. Included in the report are two photographs Miss Wright lectures at WRU School of of the exhibit. Library Science twice each year on mechanical methods in special libraries and also on subject indexing. Special Japan Project A prominent member in SLA's Cleveland Chapter, Miss Wright is active also in the Before the new International Christian Uni- Science-Technology Division. versity in Japan can secure its charter it must have twenty thousand books in its library, Receives Prize ten thousand in English and ten thousand in Japanese. Knowing of this need, the founda- Jane Ross received the prize of fifty dollars tion in New York City, which is sponsoring for outstanding work in the special libraries ICU, has called upon the Special Libraries As- course at the Drexel Library School. sociation for assistance. The award was made by the Philadelphia Council of Special Libraries Association. At the present time a Language Institute Miss Ross is a Smith College graduate and is being conducted on the ICU campus just plans to do medical library work. outside Tokyo. Therefore books are needed immediately in English grammar, speech and composition. Wins Titania Gems sLAmembers who registered for the con- Since the University will open its Liberal vention, automatically participated in the College in April 1953, there is need now for books in the following categories: HUMAN- drawing for the lucky winner of a pair of matched titania gems, *hese synthetic gems, ITIES: philosophy, ethics, psychology, sociology, noted for their brilliance and their beauty, religion, education, history, geography, antho- were donated by the T~~~~~~~Division of PO~O~Y,literature and foreign languages; SO- the xationalLead Company (Sayerville, New CIAL SCIENCES: political science, economics, J~~~~~1, in whose research laboratories the psychology, sociology, domestic science; NAT- gems were developed. URAL SCIENCES:mathematics, physics, astron- omy, chemistry, geology, biology and psych- The winner of the titania gems was an- ology. nounced following the drawing at the convention-wide luncheon on Tuesday, May 27. He The purpose of the new non-sectarian was T. F. Herdegen, of the literature depart- school is to train leaders in education, religion, ment, Smith, Kline, and French Laboratories, government and public service for the new Philadelphia. Japan. Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan, is chairman of the special drive for Admitted to Practice ICU here in this country, Evelyn DeWitt, librarian at Baker, Hos- Those having books which they would like tetler and Patterson, a Cleveland law firm, has to contribute to this worthy cause should get been admitted to practice before the U. S. Su- in touch with Dr. Stanley I. Stuber, Japan preme Court. Miss DeWitt is an active mem- International Christian University Foundation, ber of SLA's Cleveland Chapter. 44 East 23 Street, New York 10. N. Y.

JULY - AUGUST, 1952 2 19 New Library Publication Geographical Literature The University of Illinois Library School The Royal Geographical Society (London) has launched a new quarterly publication for is resuming the separate publication of lists of librarians. It is called Library Trends and its additions to its library and map room. purpose is to review and evaluate current These classified lists give the titles of books practice and thinking in librarianship and to and important articles on geography and re- estimate the future import of present library lated subjects, including the contents of geo- trends. graphical periodicals in a number of languages, Harold Lancour, associate director of the with brief indications of their scope or refer- library school, is managing editor. Each issue ences to critical reviews. will be planned and edited by an authority on The present plan calls for issuing two parts the subject featured. a year. The first number in the new series is Editor of the July issue, the first number of dated June 1951. the publication, is Robert B. Downs, director Orders for New Geographical Literature and of the University of Illinois Library and Li- Maps (New Series) should be sent to the brary School. The issue is devoted to a dis- Office of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 cussion of "Current Trends in College and Kensington Gore, London, S.W.7. The sub- University Library Development." scription rate is $1.25 postpaid. The October issue will feature "Current Trends in Special Library Development" and Wall Street Journal on Microfilm will be edited by Herman H. Henkle, librarian The Yale University Library has been au- of the John Crerar Library in Chicago. thorized by Dow Jones and Company, Inc., to Subscription is five dollars a year, single microfilm the Eastern edition of its publica- issues, two dollars. tion, the Wall Street Journal, from its beginning in 1889 to the present and on a continuing basis. Papers on Librarianship Positive copies of the microfilm will be A series of papers on Aspects of Librarian- available beginning September 1952, at a cost ship will be issued by the Department of Li- of 8.4 cents per foot. The plan is to place brary Science, Kent State University, Kent, issues for three months on one reel, four reels Ohio. Editor of this series is John M. Goudeau, for each year. The cost for the year 1951, for associate professor of library science. example, will be approximately $33.60. The first number in this series is a nine- Orders for positive copies of the microfilm page mimeographed paper on "Maps in the are now being accepted and should be ad- Library", written by George Williams. The dressed to John H. Ottemiller, associate libra- author presents a lucid discussion on the cur- rian, Yale University Library, New Haven, rent popular interest in maps, criteria to aid Connecticut. the librarian in map selection, reference books and periodicals listing map sources, the care Enoch Pratt Free Library of maps, their classification, and a useful "You Can't Beat Baltimore's Library" is bibliography. the name of an article that appeared in the Copies of this paper are available from the June issue of Pageant. University free on request. Written by Michael Bakalar, it offers a popular exposition of the unique services of- MLA Meeting fered the community by the Enoch Pratt Free Library and describes its extraordinary status The fifty-first annual meeting of the Medical in Baltimore. Library Association was held at the Lake Placid Club, New York, June 24-27, 1952. Micocard Reader There were five separate group meetings: The microcard reader pictured in the May- Dental, School, Pharmacy, Medical Society, June issue of SWCIALLIBRARIES, Model 6A, is and Hospital. manufactured by the Microcard Corporation Dr. Austin Smith, editor of the Journal of of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and is available in the American Medical Association, gave the New York from the Technical Microcard Pub- opening address on "Common Publishing lishing Corporation. It sells for approximately Problems." $223. Lt. Col. Frank B. Rogers, director of the Armed Forces Medical Library, reviewed the history of the Army Medical Library and its Next Issue reorganization. The September issue of SPECIAL LI- Estelle Brodman, former SLA Executive BRARIES will feature SLA convention Board member, and editor of the Bulletin of papers covering various phases of li- ths Medical Library Association, participated brary administration, management and in a panel discussion on "Teaching of Medical personnel. Bibliography."

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