San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1911 Special Libraries, 1910s 11-1-1911 Special Libraries, November 1911 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1911 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, November 1911" (1911). Special Libraries, 1911. Book 9. http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1911/9 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1910s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1911 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Special- Libraries Vol. 2 NOVEMBER 1 9 1 1 No. 9 PUBLISHED BY THE magazines, as there has for the engineer. SPECIAL LIBRARIES AS SO CIATION The wliole fleld Of artisan's trade literature Monthly except July and August has hardly been entered by specialists. The Editorial and Publlcntlon Oflice, Stnte Librnry, proposed Trades Index will open a new op- Indinnagolls, Ind. portunity, and one which will meet with Subscriptions, Oa Broad street, Boston, hfnss. fully as great appreciation and result as Entered at the Postoface at Indlanapolls, Ind., that of. the engineering work. as second-class mnttcr. The objectiou to a sliding scale subscrip- Subscription. ...$2.00 a year (10 numbers) tion is purely an academic one, justifled Single copies .26 cents neither by theory nor practice. Each 11. ................... brary pays for the service it uses, and not President ..................Robert 13. Whltten for what it may receive but does not use. Public Servlce Commission, New Pork Clty. The slidiig scale is already in use success- Vice-Presldent .............Herbert 0. Brighnm fully. The fact that any co-operative Rhode Island State Library. inter-library publication would be well nigh Secretary-Trensurer ............ GUY E. Mnrion Library, Arthur D. Llttlc, Iuc., 93 Brotrd St impossible, makes it the more welcome news Boston. Mass. that the index is to be placed on a com- EXECUTIVD BOARD mercial basis. President, Vice-President, Secretary-Trensulrer, George W. Lee, Stone & Webster, Boston; W. THE STORY OF THE MADE IN NEWARK P Cutter, kglneerlng Socfetles, N. Y. MATERIAL. Managlng Editor of Speclnl Librnries :-John A. Lapp, Stnte Librnry, Indiannpolis, Ind. John Cotton Dana, Librarian. Rend nt the meeting of the Sgecial Librttries The Trades Index ....... ..... 93 Ausocintlon, Sepl. 27, 1911. The Story of the Made In Newark ~eteri;~....... 93 The Office Llbrary and Statletical Bureau of A collection of trade catalogues in a libra- Financial Institutions. ...................96 ry is no1 a new idea. There are several Publlc Utllltles Reference.. ................101 libraries in the United States besides ours Notes. .......... ...............106 Munlcl~alYearbook ......................I07 which have collections of this sort. -- - - -- - - - .-- ...- - - .- Naturally one would oxgect to find in- THE TRADES INDEX. cluded in such a collection the catalogues Joseph L. Wheeler. of the manuPacturers of the town in which the library is located. Newark has been less The report of the committee on a Trades successful with its own business men than Index offers much of suggestion as to the with manufactures all over the United future possibilities in one branch of indus- States. trial library work. Public llbraries have Some months ago the library took decis- done a good deal of talking on the subject ive steps to get together a collection of the of worlc with mechanics and busmess men, cntalogues, also lists or businsss cards, of but so far have accomplished little emcient the most imporlant trades in the city. It reference work with this class of readers, called for the expert advice of an advertis- compared, for instance, with what has been ing man, and got him to write the letters done with engineers. In reference worlc the which he thought would make the strongest line of least resistance has been followed. appeal and bring results. Finding the Engineering Index and other The flrst stey in the process was to indexes and bibliogi*aphies of engineering chcclr the business directory eliminating subjects at hand, libraries have naturally what the Census Ofice calls the "hand taken advantage of them and endeavored to trades", bakers, dress-makers, tallors, car- answer the demands of engineers. This has penters, plumbers and many others. The met with more success in quantity than directory was checked with great care, and quality, for few public libraries have the 2070 letters were sent out on June 12, 1911. expert staff to tender the kind of service The first letter read as follows: which specialists get at a special library. The woik which public (libraries have Gentlemen :- done with artisans and mechanics has been Your cntnlogs, prlcc lists nnd other printed mntter are needed by the Librnrg to complete made capital of in annual reports and to our flle of Busincss Liternture of h'ewttrk Alan- get appropriations from city councils. It ufacturers at the Business Btanch, 18 Cllnton has been largely the mere purchase and cir- Street. If you wlll mail them to us It w~llbe n fnvor culation of books. There has been nothing to us, and will help to mnke vnlonble nn im- in the way of an index to the artisan's portnnt new department of tbe Llbrnry ; nnd we SPECIAL LIBRARIES know from the thousnnds of calls on the 1,lbrnry All answers to the circular letters are for iniormatlon, that you jWll dcnve Ilencfii acknowledged Whenever a manufacturer from I~nvlngprlce Ilsts and desrrlptlo~~aof your lines on file wlth us. sends a letter with his calalogi~e, an ac- A carefully nrrangcd double Indes Is kept, by Icnowledgement, No. 1, is sent which read nnmes of hrms nnrl by arllcles manafnctured, as follows: so that lnformntiorl nbout yon ~rnd your pro- ducls wlll be instnulls nvnllnble, cltller for per- Gentlemen :-A sonal inipectlon by I~iqulrera, or for our use in Thtmlc yo11 scrr m11cl1 for your printcd mntter answering lellcr nntl te1el)hone inilulr~es. Tour for our "1111tle lu h'ewnrlc" Blle nncl Indes, and cntnlor nt the llb~nrywlll be worth ten tlmev for your courtcsy iu wrlting us. as mlch ns nuy other copy goo serld out. If you wlll now put the Lilrrary on your Plcase hnve the rnnlllng clepnrtment send us n~a~lingIi5t lo ~ccrlvcnll new cntnlogs wc shnll all the prlnted mntter. Better, won't you per- be nblc lo Itccl) your cltrds in thc illden up to sonnlly mall it to us todny so thnl me slnlll clntc. be sure to get it7 We hnpc to Irc able in a few nw?lcs lo lnvlte Yurs truly, you ln cume to the Uuslness Iirnncll to Inspect LIBIlARIAN n coolplele cnlnlog flle. P. $.--If you do not issue a cnlnlog, send Yours trulv llsts of the thlngs yon ~n:~nuCnvtr~I'cor yollr * 'LIBI~AI~IAN. business cnrd, so that your nnme wlll be inclutled in thls "hlnde in Newark" flle When a catalogue is sent wilhout a Iet- To this letter No. 1, 470 answers wele re- ter, a postal, No. 2, is sent, as follows: ceived. Tlllnp' ~nndcin Newnrk: nn Index. Yon IIII~Ckinrlly scnt us your On July 3d, the flrst follow-up letter, No. cnt:llogq In rc5ponsc to our letter of 2', containing a stamped newspaper wrapper rcccnt dntc. Tllesc nre belnp inrler- etl nnd placcn with those of mnuv addressed to the Free Public Library was other nlnnnfllcturcrs of the city. We sent out to the 1600 who had not answerer1 ~l~nllnoon hnvc n very complete the first letler and read ns follows: sllnwlnc of lhc outout ol Ncwnrk's mnnni'tii.1 urers. Ce.ntlemen :- lht the I1l)rnry on yonr Iiqt to Plensc put your most rerent rntnlol: nrlcl prlre Iwrlve !!I1 of your fnl11l.e 1)nbllca- llst In the stnrnrled mnller enclos~d. They nre I~IIII\. J 111s will be WOL.III J.OIIP to be used to cdmnlete our "Jlaclc In X\'a\v~~rlc" \rllllr Depnrtmeul. Tours trnly. You are cordlnlly lnvltrd tn tislt the 1:11s:ncss TIIP Ipree Publlc IAbrnry, Brnnch. 18 Cllnton Etreet, In n few wrrlc,, Xemnrk, X J. when Ge hope we shnll have n 111nct1c;lllg ram: plete Index of evcry mnnufncl~uer nnf every article mnnnfactured in Newnrk, Inclurl~ng yo11 nnd vaur line Whenever a manufacturer sends the in- ~lioscnd S'our fr~cnds. formation that he does not publish a cnta- Also call on us nt nrls tlme, nnd often, when you wnnt to know wlltr- mnnnfnctures onylhlng logue, or whenever a business card and let- Just tclephone 23'20 I\' 3111rket ter is sent an aclmowledgement, No. 3 is Thin "Mnde in Newnl.h" ble Is tllc best in sent as follows. any cltg in the country. It wlll help to hcrensc Geutlemen .- your business. Yours trulv. LIURARIAN. P S.-If 3.011 do not Irslle n cnlnlog, send n ~~~ 11, ~u 1Ist of the lll111ns SI~Imnn11111ctu1~ or your 1)1151. We hope to IIC 1111le few werlcs lo Invite yon to wmc to tlw I:!!slness Urnnch to lneucot ness cnrd, so n~ntyour nnme mill be Incl~~Qcd i romplele Index. in tlils "Mnde 111 Scw~~rlc"flle. Yaws truly. To this letter No. 2, 332 answers were LIBRAILTAN. received. When .a business card is sent without a Six weeks later, on August 14th, the.sec- letter, n postal No. 4, is sent. ond follow-LI~Iletter, No. 3, was sent to 1,250 Tllings mnde In Sewu~k:nn In(ler. who had not answered either the Rrst or You hllve lcindly sent oa your cnt~llog<lo rcsponse lo our leller of * seconrl letter.