OSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES By R. L. POWER f~/r a Univ. cf ^ ;** Boston's Special Libraries BY RALPH L. POWER BOSTON UNIVERSITY The College of Business Administration Librarian of the College and Curator of the Museum Editor of Special Libraries and Alpha Kappa Psi Diary PRENTICE-HALL, INC. NEW YORK CITY Copyright, 1917, by PRENTICE-HALL, INC. All rights reserved To DEAN EVERETT W. LORD Whose inspiration will be the making of many books 22051S1 FOREWORD A librarian plying his trade in the heart of Boston has opportunities to dip into many lines of research closed to workers in a city where literary tradition has less part in the directing of public life. During the collegiate year of 1916-17 the ad- visability occurred to me of visiting and tabulating the various special libraries in and about Boston, partly to satisfy my professional curiosity, partly to compile a guide book for the students of the college, who, I felt, might conveniently use greater special- ized resources than the library under my own charge could at that time offer. The result of several months of study and note- taking was a set of twenty-two articles printed originally in the Boston University News. Later the whole series was summarized and published serially in the Library Journal., while several of the articles appeared separately in various trade peri- odicals. Many issues of the News were quickly exhausted and the continued heavy demand for complete files which could not be supplied demonstrated the ad- visability of reproducing the matter in more avail- able and permanent form. In order to form a more complete guide the number of libraries was increased to cover the en- tire field in the city of Boston. Practically all spe- cial and business libraries listed in the Library Annual and other sources were included. In general the articles are descriptive only of business and of the more unusual types of special- ized collections, but one law, one medical and one theological library have been included for purposes of reference. No attempt has been made to include institutional, public or private libraries of general nature. Two-thirds of the libraries listed here have been visited by me personally. When the pressure of additional duties became too great, members of the library staff visited the remainder. It is from the notes taken from these personal visits that the data has been written. Practically without exception the manuscript describing each library has been sub- mitted to its librarian for correction. Special thanks are due Professor Harry B. Center, editor of the Boston University News, for permission to reprint the material which originally appeared in that publication, and to Alfred E. Longueil, at that time editor of the Boston Uni- versity Beacon, for his valued services in connection with copy editing. RALPH L. POWER. Boston University, September, 1917. TABLE OF CONTENTS NAME PAGE Foreword 5 1. Aberthaw Construction Company Library 11 2. Allen and Daggett Library 11 3. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Library. ... 12 4. American Agricultural Chemical Company Library... 13 5. Appalachian Mountain Club Library 15 6. Boston Chamber of Commerce Library 17 7. Boston Consolidated Gas Company Library 18 8. Boston Department of Public Works Library 19 9. Boston Department of Statistics Library 20 10. Boston Elevated Railway Company Library 21 11. Boston Globe Library 24 12. Boston Journal Library 25 13. Boston Medical Library 26 14. Boston Museum of Fine Arts Library 28 15. Boston Society of Civil Engineers Library 30 16. Boston Society of Natural History Library 34 17. Boston Transcript Library 35 18. Boston University, College of Business Administra- tion Library 38 19. Christian Science Monitor Library 41 20. Civic Service House Library 42 21. Congregational Library 43 22. Cram and Ferguson Library 44 23. A. H. Davenport & Company Library 44 24. Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston Library 45 25. Elizabeth Peabody House Library 46 26. Filene's, William, Sons Company Library 47 27. Franklin Union Library 47 28. French, Hollis and Hubbard, Allen Library 48 29. Insurance Library Association of Boston 49 30. Jackson, D. C, and William B. Library 51 31. Kidder, Peabody and Company Library 54 32. Lamson Company Library 54 TABLE OF CONTENTS Continued NAME PAGE 33. Lee, Higginson and Company Library 55 34. Little, Arthur D., Inc., Library 57 35. Lockwood, Greene and Company Library 60 36. Lowney, Walter H. and Company Library ". . . 63 37. Massachusetts Board of Agriculture Library 64 38. Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics Library 64 39. Massachusetts Forestry Association Library 66 40. Massachusetts Forestry Department Library 67 41. Massachusetts Historical Society Library 68 42. Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library 70 43. Massachusette Public Service Commission Library... 71 44. Mellin's Food Company Library 75 45. Merchants National Bank Library 76 46. Metcalf and Eddy Library 79 47. National Industrial Conference Board Library 79 48. New England Conservatory of Music Library 83 49. N. E. Hardware Dealers Association Library 84 50. New England Telephone and Telegraph Library 85 51. Old Colony Trust Company Library 88 52. Pilgrim Publicity Association Library 92 53. Rollins, E. H., and Sons Library 93 54. Sampson and Murdock Company Library 93 55. Scovell, Wellington and Company Library 97 56. Social Law Library 97 57. Social Service Library 100 58. Stone and Webster Library 102 59. Charles H. Tenney and Company Library 103 60. Town Room Library 106 61. United Drug Company Library 108 62. Vocation Bureau Library 109 63. Wells Memorial Library 112 64. Women's Educational and Industrial Union Library.. 113 65. Youth's Companion Library 116 66. Harvard Musical Association Library 118 Bibliography of library economy 126 Index . 130 Boston's Special Libraries BOSTON'S SPECIAL L^RABOES n 1. Aberthaw Construction Company Library The Aberthaw Construction Company at 27 School Street, established library facilities 15 years ago with a small working collection devoted mostly to concrete and constructional engineering. This concern makes a specialty of reinforced con- crete work in the construction of concrete dams, factory buildings, etc. The work generally consists of excavation, building, and the installation of fit- tings, including engineering connected therewith. The book collections number slightly over three hundred, and the pamphlets, which are kept in pamphlet cases, number 5,000, including blue prints and maps. The magazine list includes all the recog- nized periodicals on industrial engineering and con- struction. The bound books include such association publi- cation as the National Association of Cement Users, American Society for Testing Materials, and trade directories and year books. Other ma- terial deals intensively with reinforced concrete, costs, efficiency, and employment. This library is maintained for the executive force of the concern. Mr. Henry B. Alvord is the Libra- rian. 2. Allen and Daggett Library Allen and Daggett patent attorneys in the Old South Building maintain a library of 1,000 volumes devoted almost wholly to federal law. The collection includes supreme court decisions, 12 ;\ f [ : j 2?6<5T-0N'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES legal texts, reference works, and some material on electrical and mechanical engineering. The Official Gazette since 1790 is bound by months and fully indexed. The library is maintained by the company for the use of its employees and the clients of the firm. The concern was established about 40 years ago. Most of the material in the library is indexed by years. Mr. D. A. Griffin is in charge. 3. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Library The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, housed since 1912 in the new building at 28 New- bury Street, put up in memory of Alexander Agas- siz, contains a large library devoted to mathemat- ical and natural sciences. As in the majority of such cases, this library began with the very estab- lishment of the Academy in 1780. Since then it has continually received additions by exchange, by gift, and through the publications of Fellows of the Academy, who now number five hundred. There are at present 35,000 volumes and 12,000 pamphlets in the collection. The bound books are kept in the stacks, of which there are six floors, one of which is used for storage space. The adminis- trative office of the library houses the pamphlet ma- terial in file cases to the number of nearly 200. The card catalogue is also in this room. It is a guide to the entire collection and lists the material under authors and subjects. The catalogue contains ap- proximately 65,000 cards. Magazines to the number of about fifty, devoted BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 13 to the field in which the library specializes, are filed. Many are of foreign countries. The reading room, which is furnished with com- fortable arm chairs and desks, contains many refer- ence books. The bulk of the material is kept, how- ever, in the stack rooms. Memoirs and proceedings of scientific societies all over the world form a large part of the book collection. The library has un- usual and fairly complete files of foreign scientific society publications. Generally speaking, the mate- rial along this line does not duplicate to any great extent the collection of libraries of similar nature in this part of the country. The building of the Academy contains, in addi- tion to the library, committee rooms, a large lecture hall, and alcoves for folios of scientific works. The Library of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is solely for the Fellows and Members of the Academy and persons introduced by them, though any one wishing to consult a book may do so through the courtesy of the Librarian. Dr. Arthur G. Webster of Clark University is Librarian, but the Assistant Librarian, Mrs. Austin Holden, is in direct charge of the administrative work. 4. American Agricultural Chemical Co. Library The Agricultural Service Bureau of The Ameri- can Agricultural Chemical Company, 92 State Street, Boston, has a library consisting chiefly of books and pamphlets on the subjects of soils, fer- tilizers and farm crops. 14 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES It contains the Manager's large, personal collec- tion of bulletins and reports from most of the Agri- cultural Experiment Stations of the United States and from the United States Department of Agri- culture from the period from 1890 to 1912 and the Bureau's collection covering the period from 1912 to date. This collection represents many thousands of pamphlets and bound volumes. In addition, the following periodicals are on file : The Journal of Agricultural Science, London, Vol. I (1905), to date. Journal of Agricultural Research, Washington, D. C, Vol. I (1913), to date. Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural and Commercial Statistics, International Institute of Agricul- ture, Rome, May, 1914, to date. Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant Diseases, Int. Inst. of Agriculture, Rome, February, 1915, to date. Monthly Bulletin of Economic and Social Intelli~ gence, Int. Inst. of Agriculture, Rome, May, 1914, to date. Experiment Station Record, Washington, D. C., Vol. I (1889), to date. Soil Science, New Brunswick, N. J., Vol. I (1916), to date. Annales de la Science Agronomique, Paris, 1913, 1914, 1915. Centralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Berlin, 1906 through Die Landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs-Stationen, Ber- lin, 1859 through 1915 (incomplete). BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 15 Landwirtschaftliche Jahrbilcher, Berlin, 1912-1915 (incomplete). Zentralblatt fiir Agrikulturchemie (Biedermann's), Leipzig, 1913, 1914, 1915 (incomplete). Agricultural News, Barbados, July, 1914, to date. Agricultural Index, White Plains, N. Y., Vol. I (1916), to date. The library also contains several hundred of the most recent texts and reference books relating to agricultural chemistry, botany, bacteriology, soils, fertilizers, crop production, insect pests, plant dis- eases and other agricultural subjects. Since this collection is used as a reference library by the Bureau, it is usually available for consulta- tion only in the office of the Bureau. The manager of the Bureau and his assistants are always glad to be of assistance to those seeking agricultural in- formation. Dr. H. J. Wheeler, an international authority on agricultural chemistry, is the manager of the Bureau. 5. Appalachian Mountain Club Library The Appalachian Mountain Club, at 100 Frank- lin Street, has an interesting library devoted prin- cipally to mountaineering, exploration, discovery, botany, geology and other subjects allied. It con- sists of about 2,500 bound books and 1,500 pam- phlets, with a card catalogue for the book collection. Maps which form an important part of such a li- brary, and are invaluable for the members, are shelved to the number of 2,000 or over. The annual increase is through exchange with 1 6 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES corresponding societies, donations and appropria- tions. Some geographic publications and periodicals are in the library, but the main collection relates to the literature of mountains and mountaineering, and works of general geographic interest. There are also some small collections on subjects pertaining to the several departments of the Club work, such as snow shoeing, hut building, etc. The Appalachian Mountain Club publishes valua- ble material relating to the White Mountains and mountaineering. The best known of these is its "Guide to Paths in the White Mountains and Adja- cent Regions," without which the many hikers in the New Hampshire Mountains would not enjoy their trips half so much as they do. The Sella Collection is an interesting part of the collection. Besides the original collection there have been many various donations, mainly in 1910. There are now several hundred photographs in the collection showing Alpine and Caucasian mountain scenery taken by Vittorio Sella of Biella, Italy. Loans of photographs are made without charge to societies desiring to exhibit them gratuitously to the public. The library occupies two rooms, one of which is also used as a meeting room for the Council and Committees. The Appalachian Mountain Club was organized in 1876, and material for the library of the club was collected from the first. Mr. Perceval Sayward is secretary of the Ap- palachian Club, and Miss Alice G. Higgins the librarian. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 17 6. Boston Chamber of Commerce Library The Boston Chamber of Commerce contains a li- brary and reading room adjoining the Boston Stock Exchange on the third floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The collection is somewhat general in the main room, but specific works relating to foreign trade, port development, trade statistics, and maritime af- fairs are kept in the several rooms in which special work is going on along those different lines. A fairly complete collection of reports and pub- lications of boards of trade, chambers of commerce, improvement societies and other commercial asso- ciations for the past few years is on hand. It in- cludes the larger and better known organizations in the United States, with the addition of some Euro- pean associations such as those of London, Hong- kong and others. A few reports of national in- dustrial associations are received, such as the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Na- tional Association of Manufacturers, etc. The bound book collection numbers about 2,000. The books are not catalogued. Fairly complete re- ports of useful government publications are on file. These include the many census documents, reports on the commercial relations of the United States and several others. A fairly strong collection of general reference books is also part of the equip- ment. Many newspapers are regularly placed on the racks and a large number of magazines relating to current information and general topics are on the reading tables. In one corner a very representative file of city directories is shelved. 1 8 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Chamber of Commerce Library serves the double purpose of a reading room and general li- brary for its members and a highly utilitarian de- partment of information for the staff of secretaries and other administrative officers. For these, small working collections are in many of the offices and committee rooms. L. B. Hayes, an assistant secretary, whose prin- cipal duty is in investigations, also acts as librarian. 7. Boston Consolidated Gas Company Library The library of the Boston Consolidated Gas Com- pany is located in the commercial department at the company's building on West Street. In addition to the regular library, most of the company's officials have books relating to their specific work in their own offices, and, since the divisions are different, duplication is minimized. Although some material for the collection was bought prior to 1897, ^ was not until about that time that regular attention was given to the book collection. The library now contains approximately 1,200 volumes and 1,000 pamphlets. The collection in this library is mostly of a fairly technical nature. In general the works in this gas library may be found in other commercial and in- dustrial libraries. Since the Gas and Coke Com- pany and the. Construction Company are both wide- ly separated from the main executive department, the resources must also necessarily be divided. The material is shelved according to divisions. These, according to the library catalogue of 1909, BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 19 are somewhat as follows : Civil engineering, com- mercial department, electrical engineering, finan- cial, gas and illuminating engineering divisions, in- dustrial economy, legislation, marine and naval engineering, mechanical engineering, mining and metallurgy, miscellaneous division, railway engi- neering statistics division, street and electric rail- ways, and miscellaneous books, pamphlets and articles. On the shelves are government documents of use to public service corporations, technical periodicals in the gas, electric and allied lines, and proceedings of technical societies. The file of the American Gas Institute publication begins with 1875. The catalogue lists most material in the library. It is arranged alphabetically by subjects and sub- divisions. For instance, gas a main head, is sub- divided under burners, cases, efficiency, engines, fix- tures, operation, rates and theory. The Gas Company library is not at present com- plete. The Librarian, R. C. Ware, was called to the front in Europe before his work was finished. The work is now being done by a filing clerk. It comes under the direction of W. W. Cummings, Manager of the Industrial Fuel Department and Superin- tendent of the Office. 8. Boston Department of Public Works Library On February i, 1911, the street, water and engi- neering departments of the City of Boston were consolidated under one head as the Public Works Department. This is now divided into the follow- 20 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES ing divisions : bridge and ferry, highway, and sewer and water. The library of the department is located in Room 806 in the City Hall Annex. It contains about 3,000 books, besides the thousands of papers and reports in the department archives. The book material, assembled for the use of the employees, relates to engineering, water, streets, sewers, bridges, and all kinds of public works. Engineering magazines, records, water work asso- ciation publications and municipal public works re- ports are kept. Inspectors' reports are catalogued and filed. They include bids, mail lists and contracts. The depart- ment archives take up considerable space and form an historical outline of the growth of the depart- ment as well as a reference collection for any phase of its work. The books and other material are catalogued by authors and subjects. The Public Works Library is open to the public, although it is primarily for the city employees in the Public Works Department. Material is not al- lowed out of the offices. Mr. Charles S. Parsons, clerk, acts as librarian, and is in charge of the work of collecting archives and other material. 9. Boston Department of Statistics Library The Statistics Department on the seventh floor of the City Hall, maintains a library of 10,000 books and 4,000 pamphlets which is open to the public. It is used chiefly by city officials, and contains mate- BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 21 rial on statistics and official United States and for- eign municipal documents. The department collects, compiles and publishes such statistics relating to the City of Boston and such statistics of other cities, for purposes of com- parison, as it may deem of public importance. It also furnishes statistical information to the city depart- ments and public on request. The Boston Municipal Register is compiled annually by the department. The department published the Monthly Bulletin, 15 volumes, and Special Publications, i to 20, in the period 1898 to 1913. The publication of these vol- umes has been suspended since 1913 through lack of funds. The library has been in existence since 1894. It has excellent files of documents issued by Boston and some from the Commonwealth. Other state and national reports besides municipal publications from the principle cities of the world form the bulk of the collection. The Secretary of the Statistics Department, Dr. Edward M. Hartwell, who has occupied that posi- tion since its establishment in 1897, is in charge of the library facilities. 10. Boston Elevated Railway Library The Library of the Boston Elevated, shelved at the general offices of the company, maintains a unique position in the special library realm. So far as it is possible to ascertain, no other street railway company in America supports such a library. The Boston Elevated's collection comprises bound volumes to the number of about one thou- 22 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES sand. It embraces varied branches of knowledge. There are a few works on general business and its various sub-divisions, directories, public utilities re- ports, city, state and national government publica- tions regarding finances, census, electrical data, etc., reports and literature of transportation in other cities of the United States, including street railroad reports of the larger cities, railroad reports of the New England states, and much statistical matter. But mainly the bound book collection deals with safety investigations, accidents, and literature deal- ing directly with street railroad work. Every library of the specialized type depends to a greater extent upon pamphlet material and people than upon books. The Boston Elevated Library must cover a multitude of different phases of human endeavor and knowledge. Approximately five or six thousand pamphlets, leaflets and clippings are included in the collection. And they are so arranged as to be accessible at a moment's notice. Larger pamphlets are filed in pamphlet boxes until enough accumulate to warrant binding. They are then fully catalogued and the bound volume is dog-eared to facilitate its use. Hence the wide range of subject headings in the vertical file. Some of the material is housed in regular vertical files, others in files containing expansive envelopes. By glancing over merely a few of the envelopes one might gain a slight idea of the varied subject mate- rial. As I glanced rapidly over one collection I noticed immense envelopes with the following la- bels : car types, arbitration, cleaning, crossings, barns, cables, cost of stopping, escalators, express, equipment, labor, wrecks, subway, signs, paints, stations, buildings, elevated, insurance, rails, reports BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 23 of hearings. It is only when one fully realizes the magnitude of the undertaking to accurately classify and catalogue such a collection that he can appre- ciate the work of the librarian. Atlases of Boston and its vicinity, maps of va- rious localities and pictures of different properties of the Elevated have an important place in the library. Magazines of use to the immediate constituency of the library are on file. These include literature of electric railroad companies, engineering periodi- cals, magazines containing frequent contributions to the literature of snow removal, grade crossings, safety first, and allied subjects. Contrary to the usual custom of libraries, the Elevated has its catalogue in a filing table. This enables one to turn from one subject to another with great rapidity. In libraries of greater size the use of the filing table is prohibitive by the amount of space it would occupy. All material is indexed, books, pamphlets, etc. making an index of forty to fifty thousand cards, with a yearly addition of over ten thousand. Not only matter actually in the li- brary is indexed, but also such material as is kept in the private offices for the continuous use of offi- cials. A wide use is made of indexes of every sort, and the collection of these bibliographical aids has been thorough. The company maintains what it calls its "reser- voir library" at Sullivan Square. Each department of the company has the privilege of vault space at the Sullivan Square Terminal, and it must, owing to the necessity of utilizing available space about its own offices, store magazines and reports previous to 24 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES ten years in this reservoir library. Here are several hundred volumes. Since it is the only one of its kind in America, the Boston Elevated Library is necessarily the larg- est. Its efficiency is surprising. Without previous library training the librarian has developed an ex- ceptional well-arranged collection by merely ar- ranging material in groups and designating ar- bitrary numbers for each group. Louis Armistead, the librarian, had been research assistant for the Elevated, and when the library was established a year ago was appointed librarian. Material and reports of many years back were collected from the various offices, new material added and the library was well under way. The Boston Elevated Library is not for exhibi- tion purposes. It is a highly utilitarian establish- ment. Mr. Armistead is always glad to be of service to the student who has occasion to make use of the collection, whether for reports, theses or other ma- terial regarding management, public service com- missions, safety first appliances or any one of the numerous topics. 11. Boston Globe Library In 1892 the Boston Globe established a reference library which now numbers 2,000 books, 300 pam- phlets, 250,000 envelopes of clippings, and 6,000 envelopes of photos. The books are those of general reference, viz., dictionaries, encyclopedias, histories, reports, etc. The collection is classified and catalogued. Three rooms are used for the filing system two BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 25 being used for biographical clippings and the other for clippings of places and things. The envelopes are filed alphabetically in vertical file cases. The system is very much the same as that described at length in the article on the Transcript Library. This brings not only material on current events instantly available but everything collected on any subject. Maps and charts are filed also. The issues of the Globe are filed and bound. Other newspapers are filed for a month only. Nothing is allowed to leave the building, but members of the staff may draw material for use in their offices. The library is open to the Globe em- ployees. The Globe Library is one of the largest news- paper libraries in the East, comparing with those of the World and Herald, both in New York City wonderful examples of scientific search for world- wide information. The Globe facilities are espe- cially strong in New England material. Miss Esther C. Tomelius is the Librarian. 12. Boston Journal Library* Another newspaper library similar to others in- cluded in this book is the library of the Boston Journal, at 268 Washington Street. This collection was formed several years ago, and the establishment of it is a story in itself. There are thousands of clippings and photographs, with about 500 books. The books are of general * The Boston Herald took over the Boston Journal, Octo- ber 6, 1917. 26 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES reference and source books from America and European countries for quick information. There is no card catalogue. The clippings, filed in envelopes, are numbered by envelopes and card indexed. When the photographs are not filed with the clippings they are kept in folders called "shelf photos" with the contents listed on the cover. Files of the Journal are carefully preserved. Other Boston papers are kept for one month. The out-of-town papers are divided into sections and sent to different department heads, such as sporting editor, advertising manager, etc. The Journal library is mainly for the use of the staff. Others may make use of the facilities upon the consent of the city editor or librarian. Mr. Francis Nevin is librarian. 13. Boston Medical Library The Boston Medical Library of 93,000 volumes, 75,000 dissertations and theses, and 60,000 pam- phlets, at 8 Fenway, was organized in 1875. The library is a corporation in itself and is the only medical library in the United States that is inde- pendent of any society or institution. Practically all of the various medical societies of Boston have deposited their medical collections with the library which makes it a center for medical literature in Greater Boston. Important collections are the Martin collection of vaccination and inoculation, a complete collection of Holmesiana, the Spring collection on medical biog- BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 27 raphy and history, the medical medal collection and numerous paintings. Among the latter there should be mentioned Oliver Wendell Holmes by Billings; Henry J. Bigelow by Vinton; The First Operation Under Ether at the Mass. General Hospital, 1846, by Hinckley. Recently the library received the splendid collection of the late Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, probably the best library in America relating to color-blindness. The following libraries have deposited their med- ical books with the Boston Medical Library: 1875, Boston Society for Medical Observation; 1876, Bos- ton Dispensary; 1876, Boston Society for Medical Improvement; 1878, Gynecological Society of Bos- ton; 1880, Roxbury Athenaeum; 1883, Harvard Medical School; 1898, 1905, Boston Athenaeum; 1902. Harvard University; 1903, Cambridge Public Library; 1906, Tufts College Medical School; 1906, Waltham Public Library; 1906, 1908, Boston Pub- lic Library. Six hundred and fifty periodicals in French, Ger- man and other foreign languages were received reg- ularly until the War in 1914. Pamphlets are classi- fied as books and later bound. The library has its own scheme of classification and the books are catalogued. The works in general relate to medicine, science as it touches medicine, old dissertations, dental ma- terial, pharmacy, medical biography, reports of hos- pitals, boards of health and vital statistics, veter- inary medicine, surgery, comparative anatomy, pathology, physiology, vivisection, biology, mor- phology, anthropology, psychology, chemistry, homeopathy, eclecticism, osteopathy, Christian 28 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Science, radiotherapy, Roentgen rays, tropical dis- eases, pediatrics, ophthalmology and otology, pub- lic hygiene, sanitary science, military and naval medicine, medical jurisprudence, toxicology, hand- writing, nervous and mental diseases. The Boston Medical Library is maintained by dues and certain limited endowments and is for the use of its three classes of members, viz. : Fellows, Associates and Life Members. The policy towards the general public is very liberal, however, and gen- erally anyone may use the facilities by signing the visitor's book. Books are circulated among mem- bers only. A new stack addition was planned, but on account of unsettled conditions has been post- poned. Dr. James R. Chadwick was the first Librarian from 1875 to 1905, and was succeeded by Dr. John W. Farlow, the present librarian. Mr. James F. Ballard is the assistant librarian. 14. Boston Museum of Fine Arts Library The Library of the Museum of Fine Arts was organized in 1876, when the Museum was started. It now numbers about 26,000 books, 12,000 pam- phlets, and 42,000 photographs. In the conspicuous position now assigned it, the library, dignified, in virtue of the generosity of Mrs. H. N. Slater, by the title of "William Morris Hunt Memorial Library," is able to make, both to the regular student and the casual inquirer, an ap- peal impossible in its obscure location at the old Museum. The reading-room is excellently lighted BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 29 with three long windows, and the upper walls are hung with tapestries. The bookcases are in two sections, the lower arranged to hold all the library's folios on roller shelves, the upper to hold the most consulted smaller books. The remaining volumes, except the works of reference in the librarian's office, are arranged in a stack which is reached by an electric elevator. When the additional wings of the Museum are built, three of the rooms now occupied by the Collections of Western Art will be transferred to the library, giving it ideal stack and working space on the same floor as the reading- room. The material consists of works relating to the fine and decorative arts and especially relating either directly or indirectly to the permanent collections of the Museum. The principal subjects covered are Greek and Roman Art, Chinese and Japanese Art, Egyptian Art, Indian Art, architecture, paint- ing, sculpture, design, textiles, prints, numismatics, ceramics, and biography of individual artists. The library is constantly used by the students of the Museum School of Art, as well as by artists, designers, teachers, lecturers, and students of Greater Boston. The books may not be removed from the library, but teachers are permitted to bor- row photographs for the purposes of instruction on condition they be returned within forty-eight hours. The library is open during Museum hours and all visitors to the Museum are welcome. The Collection of Photographs represents the sculpture, painting, and architecture of Europe, the Nearer Orient, and Japan. Italian painting is the largest section, and the reproductions of Italian 30 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES sculpture include Bode's "Denkmaler der renais- sance sculptur." The Greek section contains 500 views, the Egyptian 1,000; with photographs of Greek and Egyptian objects in the Museums of those and other countries. The Brunn-Bruckmann "Denkmaler griechischer und romischer sculptur" is here included and the Arndt-Amelung "Photo- graphische einzelaufnahmen antiker sculpturen." Of especial interest is the Japanese section, contain- ing 500 photographs. Most of these are a gift from the Japanese Government, and include the sculpture and painting in the Imperial Collection at Tokio, in the famous temples at Nara, Kioto, etc., and many of the private collections. Thirty-eight hundred lantern slides accompany and supplement the photograph collection. These slides are provided with a unique catalogue, which facilitates reference by furnishing in every case a diminutive print in addition to the slide number. In the public catalogue in the reading-room cards for all books are filed under author, title and subject. Mr. R. Loring Dunn is the acting librarian. 15. Boston Society of Civil Engineers Library The Library of the Boston Society of Civil En- gineers is in Tremont Temple. It is so shelved that it is easily accessible at all times to the members of the society, whether or not an attendant is at hand. The collection is divided into sections for con- venience, each section being subdivided into di- visions. Section one contains society publications, transactions, proceedings, and these are subdivided BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 31 by cities and states, geographically. Section two is made up of a bound periodical collection. The third section is unusual. In it are found municipal re- ports, including those of all the city departments in the United States. These are arranged alphabet- ically; so also are the reports in the fourth alcove, in which the state reports are deposited. Govern- ment documents relating in any way whatsoever to engineering are likewise alphabetically arranged in the next space. Sixth, come bound volumes of con- gresses, expositions, conventions, and also much other material of that sort not kept in the first sec- tion. The 1897 Report of the Library Committee states that sections seven, eight, and nine were to be left open for possible future expansion of other classes, yet there has apparently been no new class which could not logically be shelved in some of the regu- lar sections. The library classification here skips to the tenth section where one finds engineering texts and works of general information and reference. These are arranged by divisions and then by sub- ject; for instance, the materials division is sub- divided into iron and steel, concrete and cement, wood, paints and varnishes, and so forth. In the same way, each set of books in the library has a separate notation, transactions of each society, sets of each periodical, each town, city, state and coun- try, with the several departments of each. This classification of a section, division and book number for each, volume allows of a limited expansion and is suited to a small specialized library where assist- ants are not always in attendance. The Boston Society of Civil Engineers is the oldest engineering society in America, having been 32 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES founded in 1848. It is thus even older than the national organization, The American Society of Civil Engineers. So far as is known, the library began immediately with the founding of the organization. As the so- ciety increased or declined, so fared its library. The collection now numbers between nine and ten thou- sand bound volumes and three thousand pamphlets. Some photos and maps are preserved and complete files of the society's publications are on file. A dictionary catalogue, although not nearly complete, contains eight thousand cards and is extremely use- ful, notwithstanding the fact that the books are very sensibly located and generally available for consul- tation without the aid of a catalogue. Technical periodicals, some fifty or sixty, are regularly received by the library and the back num- bers are preserved. Most of the pamphlet material is bound. A special collection of catalogue studies is stored in a separate case. This is for ready reference. The case contains mechanical engineering cata- logues in fifty volumes with an index to the data. Another specialty is the Clemens Herschel Library of 250 books. Mr. Herschel, a prominent hydraulic engineer of New York City, presented this col- lection and contributes to it frequently. He has endeavored to assemble a unique library of engi- neers and by engineers. Thus the work of engineers constitutes an extremely valuable biographical sec- tion, and the books by engineers cover every imaginable subject and tend to show the wide range of activities in which engineering men are engaged. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 33 The first thing which met my gaze in the Her- schel Collection was Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy in ten volumes; the next was a history and other works relating to Leonardo Da Vinci. I wondered what the connection was between these men and the engineering profession. The encyclo- pedia enlightened me on this point, and disclosed the fact that both of the men were, among other things, engineers Da Vinci being a civil, mechanical and military engineer. Spencer was a railroad engi- neer. The New England Association of Gas Engineers occupies a small section of the library for their small collection of books. This is a gas collection containing material on gas combustion, production, and engineering; petroleum; fuels, gas journals and proceedings not a large library, but there is not such an extremely large number of printed books along this line. All highly technical libraries are, as a rule, small. Engineers civil, electrical, mechanical, mining are eligible to membership in the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. The Society consists of members, honorary members, juniors and associates. Anyone may use the library for reference, but circulation is restricted to members only. The librarian of the society has always been an officer of the organization. Mr. S. E. Tinkham is now secretary and librarian. Three years ago Miss Mary E. Evans was appointed assistant librarian, and since then has devoted her entire time to the reorganization of the library. 34 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 16. Boston Society of Natural History Library The most complete library of its kind in New England is maintained in the building of the Boston Society of Natural History. Starting with the very establishment of the society in 1830, the library has been developed along the line of natural history, specializing particularly on zoology, botany, geol- ogy, mineralogy and some travel. The collection now numbers 41,000 bound volumes and about 35,000 pamphlets and unbound material. The Natural History Library is located on the first floor of the museum building and occupies three large rooms. One of these has recently been en- tirely remodelled with fire-proof construction throughout. The new quarters contain three levels of stacks, the lowest of which is eleven feet high and contains the greatest number of feet of shelv- ing. Map cases and locked cases for rare material are also kept in this room. The library catalogue in three separate cases con- tains over a hundred thousand cards. All material is catalogued by authors and title but not by subject. The entire collection is made up of texts, books in popular and technical style and a large part of the important matter including sets of journals and of transactions of societies of natural history printed on the subjects which are primarily collected. Many of the volumes are extremely old and rare and not to be had elsewhere in this vicinity. Publications of learned bodies and "Proceedings," "Memoirs," and "Occasional Papers" are secured through ex- BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 35 change of the publications of the Society of Natural History. An unusual file of foreign learned society printed matter is in the library, making a reference source difficult to equal. Particular attention has been given to works concerning the natural history of New England. Most of the important journals relating to natural history are obtained through subscription or gift, including American, Canadian, English, French, German and Italian journals. The library is maintained by the Society and books circulate among the members. The general public may be allowed the use of its facilities for reference, but no books may be drawn for home use. The librarian of this collection is Dr. Glover M. Allen, who is also secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History. 17. Boston Transcript Library The library of the Boston Transcript is in two divisions. The first is the literary. The literary branch of the editorial department keeps track of all the volumes sent in for review. These are weeded out at irregular intervals because of lack of adequate shelving space, and because of their gen- eral lack of usefulness to a newspaper office. Never- theless they form a very respectable collection at all times. The second division of the library is the utili- tarian. This is not in the "library," so-called, but in the reference department. It is purely a source 36 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES of information, consisting principally of clippings. As one of the men said, referring to the book-room, "That's the library, but when they want to find out anything they come here." The information library is made up of a larger proportion of pamphlet and clipping material than the general library. It is a highly specialized special library, made for journalists and newspaper men. In this collection some books, few in number but great in real worth, are kept. These comprise a small representative collection of almanacs, atlases, biographies, Congressional records, dictionaries and directories, encyclopaedias, government documents, and other works of similar nature. One of the most valuable and frequently used sources of in- formation is a bound file of the Transcript which comprises all editions of every issue. Many times valuable reference material is found here after it has once been investigated and put into print. The indexing is the most important part of the reference work. It keeps several people busy at all times clipping. The index trays, similar to the vertical file correspondence cases, number over 300, and as each tray holds two envelopes, side by side, the total number of envelopes is approximately 100,000. It is practically impossible to estimate the total number of clippings, for there are anywhere from 20 to 60 or 70 in each envelope. The card index, similar to the library catalogue, is the key to the entire collection. It is not techni- cal, because scientific library practice must be sacri- ficed and a system used which appeals to the jour- nalistic searcher, who is interested in getting quick results rather than familiarizing himself with the BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 37 fine points in library science. The bound volumes in the miscellaneous book collection as well as the public documents, are catalogued and for the clip- pings subject headings are used. Photographs of people and all conceivable objects on the universe are catalogued also in this file. But the photographic material itself is housed in the art department, although newspapers using large num- bers of cuts usually keep the clippings and photo- graphs in the same department. The clipping room in a newspaper office is generally called by its tech- nical name, which is, in the language of the jour- nalist, "the morgue." Another term which appears to be peculiarly Bostonian, is "the graveyard." The functions of the "morgue" are highly specialized, and its construction is very careful. One section of the room is set apart for the "obits," that is, clippings and sketches of people. These are dated and filed in envelopes with the names written across the tops. The data relating to very prominent people is kept as up to date as possible. When anyone dies, all necessary data for the "story" is at hand. But the obituary envelopes are of much greater importance than as "coffin" material. They are constantly referred to for personal data, invaluable for a hurry call for a write-up of some obscure or unpretentious individual who may suddenly have been brought into the limelight. Some concerns supply biographical sketches especially for news- papers. Another section of the index is devoted to coun- tries. Every nation on the face of the earth is rep- resented. The material relating to each country is 38 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES minutely subdivided. For instance, Russia is in- dexed as to agriculture, army, art, commerce, de- fense, fishing, industries, journalism, language, mining, and navy. The majority of subject head- ings are divided and subdivided again many, many times, as defense, navy, shipping, Trojan, etc. A miscellaneous file is maintained. This does not relate to anything in particular. It is made up of live issues of the day, composed mainly of descrip- tions of such subjects as aviation, invention, re- ligion, sports. This file is invaluable and it forms a miniature encyclopaedia of modern events. There are newspaper offices in the country which index, catalogue, and feebly endeavor to run the "morgue" along the lines of library science. But the easiest and most accessible plan is that followed by the Transcript. The requirements of the publi- cation naturally determine the nature of the ma- terial to be collected. The Transcript Library is under the direction of Mr. Fred W. Ford, news editor, who started the col- lection over 20 years ago as a side line additional to his regular duties. It is now generally conceded to be one of the best of its kind. This collection should be of interest to students of journalism and to those who contemplate entering into the newspaper field. The reference department is open to the public for research. 18. College of Business Administration Library The College of Business Administration Library at Boston University is gradually building up a well-rounded collection of business literature, both BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 39 in book and pamphlet form. The library contains works on the "academic" studies necessary in the thorough training of men for the business profes- sion. Besides these, it has a working collection of accounting, which is unusually complete. It has complete files of the Journal of Accountancy, and nearly every book relating to accounting published in the last ten or more years. The literature of journalism has developed to a large extent and the C. B. A. Library contains some texts published in England as well as American works. Publications of university schools of jour- nalism are numerous and leaflet material is a neces- sary adjunct to the information in this department. Other subjects which are well represented are the various lines of insurance, education, commercial law, transportation, advertising and salesmanship. A few books regarding the many industries and trades are kept, and the subject of foreign trade, including ocean transportation, descriptions of South American countries, exporting and foreign languages, are all important divisions of the re- sources of the library. Several studies of an aca- demic nature, economics, English, psychology, and others, have lately developed a new class of printed books in their specific relation to business. General business information, comprising the various smaller sub-divisions about which there has been very little printed, are perhaps the greatest in- formation sources for the average all-around execu- tive. In this classification there is material relating to credit and collections, purchasing, retail trade, management, and others. The printed word in business is necessary in every 4O BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES well managed business organization in the world to-day. That it is becoming an acknowledged fact is evident in the increased number of specialized libraries or sources of information in the adminis- trative forces of the larger business enterprises. Not every concern, however, is able to maintain a department of this sort. Library development in recent years has been more strikingly evident in the public libraries rather than in those of educational institutions, yet there are always exceptions. Such is the case in the Busi- ness Administration Library at Boston University. In the past, throughout the country, university au- thorities have sometimes failed to recognize the real function of the university library, the larger scope and functions of its activities, the multiplicity of de- tail connected with its administration. But in the case of the College of Business Administration, the Board of Guarantors, composed of prominent busi- ness men throughout Greater Boston, have fully recognized that the library must necessarily become, if it is to obtain its rightful position, the very centre of the department a sort of working laboratory for each and every division. Although the first function of an institutional li- brary is to meet the demands made by its students and faculty, there is another important field of service lying at its very door. This is the idea of being of greater service to business interests in gen- eral. The library is primarily for reference and does not circulate its material, but to those who find a real use for the books on the shelves, vertical file material, or maps and photographs, all possible assistance will be given freely. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 41 It is the purpose of the College of Business Ad- ministration to be of service to the city, state and nation, and the library as an integral part of the college fully recognizes the part which it must take in future development. Mr. Ralph L. Power is librarian of the college as well as curator of the museum. 19. Christian Science Monitor Library The Christian Science Monitor Library is a prac- tical collection of 1,500 books and pamphlets. General and biographical information and books of reference form the bulk of the material. Because of the international character of the paper, historical data is carefully collected for reference work. Books relating to journalism, printing and pub- lishing are also included. Government reports and documents, federal, state and city, are a feature of the library. Volumes pertaining to subjects which are no longer current topics are weeded out from time to time. One room is devoted to clippings from the Moni- tor and other newspapers. These are placed in en- velopes and filed according to subject matter and form a good sized "newspaper morgue." When the subject matter becomes available in books or other sources this file material is discarded. The Christian Science Monitor is bound in quar- terly volumes and the material is card indexed by subjects. A card catalogue is kept also for the books of reference. Books in the collection have been accumulating 42 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES since the fall of 1908, but the library has existed in its present form only since the first of the year 1917. The library is used principally as a key to matters which may come up in connection with the editing of the paper. Employees and members of the staff may take material from the library during the day, but everything must be returned each night. The library is in charge of Mr. W. Frederick Berry, as librarian, with general oversight by the editor of the Monitor, Mr. Frederick Dixon. 20. Civic Service House Library The Civic Service House at no Charles Street has a library whose specialty is immigration, with special emphasis on the boy problem. There are 1,000 books and 500 pamphlets, none of which is catalogued. The material is shelved and a list of the contents of each section posted at the end. Most of the books are donated. The House is a school of citizenship which aims to train and help immigrants, largely Poles and Italians, with a few Jews, to become citizens. Classes are held during the evenings in winter, and clubs of an educational and literary nature are formed by the students. In these the library plays an important part. Text-books on all subjects from spelling, history, etc., to commercial topics are kept for the use of students who do not buy their own books. The pamphlets on different topics are mostly in Yiddish. A good list of newspapers in many languages is sub- scribed to. Some of the material is fiction for general read- BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 43 ing. No circulation is allowed, but the library is open to the public. No regular librarian is employed. The library comes under the supervision of Mr. Philip Davis, Director of the Civil Service House. 21. Congregational Library The Congregational Library maintained by the American Congregational Association at 14 Beacon Street is a large library devoted broadly to religion and history, especially the religious history of the New England States. In 1853 the Congregational Library Association was established, and in 1864 the library became a department of the American Congregational Association. There are in the collection 65,000 books, and 60,000 pamphlets. Nearly 200 periodicals are re- ceived at the library. There are several special rooms or collections in the library. Among these are the Bible Room con- taining besides other works a folio chained Bible in four volumes; a locked stack containing books on the development of Congregationalism; and the Bishop Stubbs library of 6,000 volumes, chiefly on English history and religion. The collection includes not only books on Chris- tianity but works on Buddhism and other religions. The American History collections consist of local, sectional and national material. Philosophy, ethics, sociology, poetry and other like subjects are also represented. The library is open to the general public for reference. 44 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES This is the sixty-fifth year of the library and the thirtieth year of the present librarian. Dr. Wil- liam H. Cobb, who is also assistant treasurer of the association. 22. Cram and Ferguson Library Cram and Ferguson, architects, at 15 Beacon street, established their library when the firm was organized in 1892. It has 1,000 volumes and many hundreds of pamphlets from this country and Europe. The material deals with architecture and allied arts, sculpture, painting, decorations, stained glass, etc. The architectural collection contains works on the Classic, Romanesque, Gothic and Byzantine. All periodicals, of which there is a goodly num- ber, are kept for the period of one year. After that the illustrations and other valuable material are clipped and filed in portfolios. A card-index system has been devised for the entire collection, but it is very little used, as the employees have become accustomed to using the books without it. The firm employs no regular librarian. Dr. Ralph A. Cram, senior member of the firm, is Pro- fessor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. 23. Davenport and Company Library The A. H. Davenport and Company Library, 573 Boylston Street, composed of three hundred books and hundreds of clippings, covers the fields of in- terior decorating, architecture and furniture. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 45 Irving-Casson and Davenport and Company both collected books as they needed them. When the firms were united a few years ago the library was established. A card catalogue indexes the book material by subjects. Trade catalogues are filed and house or- gans and technical periodicals are received regu- larly in the library. A useful scrap-book is kept in loose leaf form. Cuts of furniture of different periods and styles are clipped from various sources and arranged in the folio. Thus furniture, tapestries and other decora- tions for all uses are easily available. The Davenport Library is for the use of employee and the public. Miss Ruth V. Cook is their libra- rian. 24. Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston Library The Edison Electric Illuminating Company estab- lished a library in 1907 at their Boylston Street quarters which were moved in 1914 to 1165 Massa- chusetts Avenue, Roxbury. There is still a branch library at the old offices. The material at the main library comprises 4,000 books and 500 pamphlets, largely devoted to electrical engineering. The li- brary committee meets quarterly to discuss addi- tions to the book collection. The collection is a technical one and books on electricity, manufacturing and catalogues of differ- ent manufacturers predominate. Everything is classified by the decimal system and an excellent card catalogue is kept up to date. Clip- 46 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES pings are filed in the vertical file. The library enters into inter-library loans. By this means material in other libraries is instantly available. A list of magazines is sent to each employee from which he chooses six that are sent to him regularly. An average of 800 magazines are sent out each month. The library is very adequately housed, and there are lounging and smoking-rooms for the em- ployees in the same building. While primarily for the employees of the com- pany, material is accessible to the public if not ob- tainable elsewhere. Mr. V. L. Voight is the librarian and Mr. A. D. Stone the assistant librarian. 25. Elizabeth Peabody House Library The Elizabeth Peabody House on Charles Street maintains in its buildings two libraries, both of which are being built up wholly by donations. The first is a collection of five hundred books on kindergarten subjects with a few on sociology and general subjects. It is owned by the Froebel Club a kindergarten club. Books are fully catalogued. The material does not circulate and is used only by club members. The second is the Children's Library of 500 vol- umes. It has no special classification system. It belongs to the Settlement and is for the use of the children, though no circulation privileges are given. The Elizabeth Peabody House is a settlement house supported by private donations. Both libra- ries were established about 1900. Miss Ethel M. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 47 Remely, resident in charge, has the administration of the libraries. 26. Wm. Filene's Sons Company Library William Filene's Sons Company maintains on the top floor of the building a library for its employees. It was started in 1912 with the opening of the store. The collection is all non-fiction. The library is operated solely for employees of the firm, and they alone may take books out. Gen- eral business, including efficiency, scientific manage- ment and the like, make up the larger part of the material. There are 500 books and 600 pamphlets which are kept in verticle files. The decimal classification is used and the books are catalogued. The library is used as a means of welfare work for developing the employees. To this end material requested by them will be added to the collection. Cooperation with the Public Library adds to the value of the library, although it is not a depository or in any way connected with the library system of the city. Miss Margaret E. Murray is the librarian. 27. Franklin Union Library The Franklin Union, an endowed school of tech- nology of preparatory school grade, maintains a library which is open to the students and the public during the school year. The library was organized in 1907 and is main- tained by general funds founded by Benjamin 48 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Franklin and continued by Andrew Carnegie. The profits of the supply shop operated by the school are also contributed to the library. There are 500 books and about the same number of pamphlets. The library specializes in steam, electrical, chemical, civil and gasoline engineering. Bulletins and catalogues of various institutions, especially technology establishments are collected, as well as a large number of very useful manufac- turers, catalogues and announcements. The material of the library does not circulate. Miss E. A. Caiman is the librarian. 28. Hollis French and Allen Hubbard Library Hollis French and Allen Hubbard, consulting en- gineers, maintain a library at their offices, 88 Pearl Street. It is the personal property of Mr. French and Mr. Hubbard. There are about 400 bound volumes and two or three hundred pamphlets. The firm has been in existence since 1898 and books have been bought as they were needed. The general subjects covered are: mineralogy, geology, mechanical and electrical engineering, manufactures and physics. The pamphlet collection consists chiefly of en- gineering papers and pamphlets. The library is fully catalogued. Books may be used and circulated among the employees of the firm, but the library is not for public use. No regular librarian is employed. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 49 29. Insurance Library Association The Insurance Library maintained by the Insur- ance Library Association of Boston at 141 Milk Street is the most complete library of the literature of fire insurance and fire protection engineering in the United States. In fact, it is believed to be the most complete in the world. All standard works on fire insurance and fire pro- tection engineering; sets of all the British and American insurance organizations; practically com- plete sets of the reports of government supervising insurance officials, both for the United States and Great Britain and its colonies, and an enormous mass of pamphlets, clippings and special reports col- lected from many sources in both Great Britain and America are in this library. Among the unusually complete sets on insurance periodicals are some of the earliest published in England and the United States. The Association has spared no effort to secure documents and other material which throw light upon the manner in which fire insurance and fire protection engineering have developed. In many respects the collection of early fire insurance policies, broadsides, photo- graphs, and manuscripts could not be duplicated. The Insurance Library has been made the custo- dian of a most interesting collection of fire prints and engravings, the property of Gayle T. Forbush, president of the association. Recently one of the broadsides issued in London in 1681, by Dr. Nicho- las Barbon, one of the pioneer fire insurance men, came into its possession. This broadside, which is notable as containing one of the completest argu- 50 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES ments for fire insurance made at the time the system was being projected, is probably the only one of its kind in existence on either side of the Atlantic. Other features of the library collection would well repay the investigator. It is difficult to appraise the value of the special library in terms of the number of its books and pamphlets. Nevertheless it is interesting to note that the Insurance Library contains some 15,000 books and pamphlets and a very considerable num- ber of classified clippings and cuttings from news- papers and magazines. Its collection is made easily accessible by an analytical card index now numbering between 45,000 and 50,000 cards. This index is being added to at the rate of 8,000 cards a year. The library is maintained by an association in- corporated under the laws of Massachusetts. A board of twelve trustees, five of whom are nomi- nated by the executive committee of the National Board of Fire Underwriters of New York, act in a supervisory capacity. The library issues a quarterly bulletin, which prints lectures given before the Association's even- ing classes, and a dictionary index to the current literature of fire insurance and fire protection en- gineering. All of these aids are of the utmost im- portance to students of fire insurance and allied subjects. The maintenance of the library is derived from contributions from fire insurance companies doing business in the New England states, fees derived from memberships the Association now having BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 51 about 450 members and a direct contribution from the National Board of Fire Underwriters. At the rooms of the National Board of Fire Underwriters in New York City a complete card index of the ma- terial at the Insurance Library in Boston is on file. The collection is of such extreme importance as to warrant this duplication of the card index. The Insurance Library Association, incorporated in 1887, has always had a capable librarian. Daniel Handy, the present librarian, was at one time a student in Boston University and is now Instructor in Fire Insurance in the College of Business Ad- ministration. While the library is maintained wholly for mem- bers of the Insurance Library Association, students who are investigating the field of fire insurance and fire protection engineering are frequently granted permission of making use of the map and reading- room, and are allowed the freedom of the book stack-room. For such research work Mr. Handy is usually able to grant the desired permission, al- though in certain instances the authority of the trustees must first be secured. 30. D. C. and Wm. B. Jackson Library In the Garden Building the firm of D. C. & Wm. B. Jackson, engineers, maintains a technical library of which the specialty is electrical engineering. The firm, who also have an office in Chicago, are con- sulting engineers for electrical and allied properties. The business includes the drawing of plans and specifications, examinations and reports, general su- perintendence and management and supervision of construction. 52 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES This electrical engineering library began with the establishment of the firm in 1908, but not until 1911 did it become fully organized with a trained libra- rian in charge. The collection at the present time contains some 2,500 volumes, with 12,000 trade catalogues and pamphlet material. The trade catalogues are particularly interesting. There are thousands of them, containing descriptive and illustrative data relative to various kinds of engineering appliances 'and machinery, especially that relating to electrical engineering. As new cata- logues and bulletins are received they are placed with those which they supersede, an attempt thus being made to keep, for certain subjects, complete files of the bulletins of the more important manu- facturers. These "historical" files, especially the ones containing cost data, are invaluable as works of reference when one considers new inventions, improvements in machinery, and fluctuations in prices. Besides these catalogues there are some year- books which cover the whole field but do not go so minutely into the various phases as the commercial catalogues. All this material is practically indis- pensable and gives information much of which would otherwise not be available in any form, or at least in only scattered shape. Nearly twenty-five vertical file cases are devoted to pamphlet filing and to the "clients' file," which is completely catalogued and indexed. This division contains confidential information and literature relative to the firm's clients. This division also contains a large collec- tion of cost data compiled from many sources. The bound book collection consists mainly of the BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 53 proceedings, transactions and journals of scientific societies, and many specialized texts relating to elec- trical engineering in all its various subdivisions, and to other associated engineering subjects and of books relating to management and efficiency. A good assortment of trade directories for such a library is kept up to date. As in other specialized collections, many water supply papers and geological surveys of the states are on the shelves. About twenty technical period- icals are subscribed to covering the various branches of engineering. Over 100 pamphlet boxes containing a mass of valuable data published some years ago are ar- ranged by subjects. The pamphlets were collected previous to the real organization of the library, and when they are arranged in an accessible manner much good material will be discovered which would not be brought to light if they were not so arranged. The members of the firm who are authorities in their line of work, have been in a position to see that nothing has escaped which should be in a library of electrical engineering. Dugald C. Jackson, senior member of the concern, is Professor of Elec- trical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Consequently the library has de- veloped an unusually well balanced collection of material regarding this kind of engineering. The use of the library is limited to the members of the firm and staff, except in special cases when permission is granted by the members of the firm. Miss Dorothy G. Bell is the librarian. 54 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 31. Kidder, Peabody & Company Library Kidder, Peabody & Co. maintain a financial and statistical library at their offices, 115 Devonshire St., Boston. It corresponds very much to the other financial libraries already described in this book. The collection includes about 3,000 books and pamphlets catalogued and placed in their present ar- rangement in 1909. The material is grouped around the regular as- sortment of financial and statistical data including Poor's manuals, railroad and public utility reports. Financial libraries have their collections standard- ized more perhaps than any other library. The library staff are pleased to undertake at any time to answer any question that may be asked. Mr. Robert Storer is the librarian. 32. Lamson Company Library Lamson Company has maintained, since the sum- mer of 1915, a library for the use of its employees. The business of the firm is pneumatic tubes, cash and parcel carriers, conveyors and elevators. Since efforts are confined wholly to collecting available data of pneumatic and conveying ma- chinery, so the collection is not very large. It in- cludes about 250 books and over 100 pamphlets. The books are card catalogued. Periodical ar- ticles relating to the firm's business are clipped and filed. When a sufficient number of these clippings accumulate they are bound for future reference. A BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 55 small number of books on salesmanship and sales management are also kept, for the use of employees. The Lamson Company Library, although prima- rily for the use of the concern and its employees, may be used as a last resort by those who are seek- ing information along the line in which they spe- cialize. Miss C. L. Crockett is the librarian. 33. Lee, Higginson & Co. Library Lee, Higginson & Company, the old firm of Bos- ton bankers on State Street, established in 1848, have probably been collecting sources of informa- tion since the organizing of the firm. Definite in- formation points to about 1880 as the approximate time when any systematic attempt was made to gather printed matter and when the statistical de- partment was organized as a unit of the company the library proper became a reality. The library is divided into three divisions the main room with offices, and two auxiliary apart- ments across the hall. The bound books, to the number of 4,500, include public service commission reports, financial manuals, bound stock exchange sheets, a general reference collection, state depart- ment reports of insurance, gas, electricity, and bank commissions, government documents, census re- ports, and a text-book collection relating to eco- nomicS) money and banking, stocks and bonds, etc., which is allowed to circulate. This is used by bond salesmen in the library and also for home use. One section of the library contains about eighty glass cases devoted to a collection of duplicate rail- 56 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES road reports, arranged alphabetically. The regular copies are in another room for reference only, while the duplicate collection is for reference and possible loan. The permanent set is bound with several years in each volume. Some go as far back as 1846. Few periodicals are subscribed to. Several were formerly taken and the back numbers are bound and preserved in one of the rooms. The chronicle files begin with the first number. Newspapers of cities in which Lee, Higginson & Company has interests are taken and clippings saved. The documents and pamphlet material number at least 75,000. Row after row of vertical files house such material as mortgages and bond offerings. Bond circulars are posted in scrap books. These books are numbered and the clippings are indexed in a large filing-table which indexes books and other material. Duplicates of the circulars are filed in wooden drawers. An immense case of sixty- four sections, each having six boxes, contains information about rail- roads, industrial and commercial companies. This includes letters, clippings, articles, legal papers, and so forth. Each is kept in an envelope and they are filed numerically under the company, thus bringing the latest available material at the end. The library comes under the statistical depart- ment, and besides the material already mentioned it includes the regular stock of this type of depart- ment, such as various "services," corporation rec- ords, daily reports and other special financial sources of information. In libraries devoted more or less to a specialty, it is almost impossible to tell what will and what will BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 57 not be called for. This accounts for such a large department and for the store-rooms of the library in another part of the building. While the library collection is somewhat special along the lines of finance, it is more in the nature of a statistical col- lection. The Lee, Higginson Library is under the direc- tion of Mr. C. E. Perkins, head of the statistical de- partment and library. It is open to the general public for reference. 34. Arthur D. Little, Inc., Library The library of Arthur D. Little, Inc., chemists, is an ideal type of a private commercial library. Al- though it has been compiled primarily for the use of the firm and employees, I, nevertheless, feel sure that a resume of some of its principles and practical methods of application, stated briefly, will be of benefit in bringing home to students the place of the library in modern business. Technical knowledge is necessary for the consult- ing engineers, chemists, and other specialists of the Little Company. It must not only be at hand, but it must be at hand immediately and in convenient form. This is the principle on which the collection is laid out. The collection of bound volumes, num- bering approximately three thousand, covers a wide range of subjects closely allied with the managerial and technical work of the firm. This material com- prises works relating to such matters as water sur- veys of the different states, wood pulp, various pub- lications in foreign languages of highly technical subjects, books on engineering, industrial and tech- nical chemistry, proceedings, papers, and reports of 58 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES chemical and other societies and institutes, public service commission reports, geological surveys of states, and mining engineering. Besides this mass of material there are volumes devoted to textiles, plant industries, agricultural subjects, minerals, tanning, lumbering, publications of the United States, Canadian industrial reports issued by the Canadian government, rubber, brass, and metals. Supplementary to the bound collection there are envelopes and folders, arranged in many vertical files. These files contain catalogues of different companies and pamphlet material of all sorts. Map cases hold large numbers of maps and miscellaneous blue prints. It is difficult to estimate the total num- ber of pamphlet material in such a collection. Roughly, there must be around eight or nine thou- sand. The company subscribes to a large number of periodical publications. So in the magazine line the library contains periodicals on electricity, power, chemistry, gas, and public service companies. Several methods used in this library and in other "commercial laboratories" may aptly be described here. The method of filing magazine articles is very interesting and instructive. When a magazine is first received a slip listing the names of those who habitually read the magazines is pasted on the front cover. The names of those who invariably read that particular magazine are underlined. The maga- zine is then routed from department to department, from man to man, as scheduled, each reader passing it along to the next man on the list when finished. If there are any articles which the reader desires BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 59 filed or catalogued, or called to the attention of other investigators, he notes them in the blank left at the bottom of the tag for that purpose. Correspondence "carding" is anoher modern idea. Many times there is valuable material in corre- spondence; such data is carded and filed in the card catalogue after the letter is answered. This leaves the letter itself in the right position in the vertical file and full information is available through the card index. Museum material, such as oddly shaped and sized samples of interesting products needed for future reference, is indexed in the catalogue, labeled, given a number, and deposited in cases with glass doors. The library of this company is especially well equipped for chemical research work for prac- tical chemical problems. It was started in 1886, when the firm first began business and its growth ever since has been closely linked with the activities of the firm. The library is one of the most exten- sively cultivated special libraries of any in this sec- tion of the country. The method used for magazine distribution enables material of future importance to be thoroughly catalogued. The library catalogues are exhaustive. The analytical work necessitates much cabinet space. There are probably eighty thousand cards in the firm's card catalogue. The library is kept exclusively for the firm's own information. It houses much material of confiden- tial nature, such as miscellaneous technical reports of the firm and of other companies, volumes con- taining their certificates of analysis in short, re- ports and other valuable literature not in print. 60 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES The librarian is Edward D. Greenman. In Oc- tober the firm will move to its new building in Cambridge, where the library will have better facili- ties for carrying on its work. 35. Lockwood, Greene and Company Library Lockwood, Greene and Company is another of the many firms who have learned through practical experience that it is not economical nor advan- tageous to scatter sources of information among several departments. This company established its library in 1912, using for the nucleus data accumu- lated from many years of engineering experience. The next step in development was the purchasing of a private library of nearly fourteen hundred vol- umes from the estate of Mr. Brooks, at one time connected with the faculty of the New Bedford Textile School, who was the originator and founder of textile correspondence courses. This little ad- dition, composing as it did the lifetime collection of a textile engineering man, proved very valuable. The firm of Lockwood, Greene and Company is composed of two companies: Lockwood, Greene and Company, Engineers, and Lockwood, Greene and Company, Managers. Through their several offices in the East and Middle West their principal business is to supervise the construction of indus- trial plants and the operation of such plants. This calls for knowledge of the whole field of the particu- lar business, not only as the business is affected by such local conditions as labor supply, transporta- tion facilities, taxation, etc., but also as it may be affected by many larger influences, such as competi- BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 61 tion, or the probable changes from the development of the industry, or from revision of the tariff. Since one man cannot be a great specialist in two things which demand totally different points of view, the staff of the company comprises highly specialized experts in every line. And this means a demand for a highly specialized library. The library covers thoroughly the fields in which the firm is engaged steam engineering, electrical engineering, water power development, designing of textile and other industrial plants, reorganiza- tion of industries, and architecture. Because the firm is unique among the exclusively engineering organizations of the country, the library is unique, too, and is adapted to the firm's own individual needs. Without exception this library is the largest and most completely equipped textile manufactur- ing library in New England, and, considering the preeminent position of New England in this line, it is extremely doubtful if this library has any rivals in this country in its particular field. While the collection of books includes some his- tories of textiles and many original papers on calico printing of fifty years ago, the main division of the entire library department concerns present-day methods and tendencies. With the bound collection of three thousand volumes, and pamphlets number- ing slightly more than that figure, this library covers an unusual scope of human activity in the technical field. Serial publications not of any great value in most libraries form a most important part of the equipment here for instance, such serial works as congresses, societies, conventions; leagues and as- sociations of civil engineers, mechanical engineers, 62 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES cotton manufacturers, dyers, wool manufacturers, cement users, architects, building constructors and other such bodies. The books of the collection, like other material, circulate for reference among the executive staff. This part of the library covers many branches in a general way and many others quite specifically. These subjects they are all more or less sub- divided are: dyeing, calico printing, wool, cotton, mathematics, publications of the United States Geo- logical Survey and the United States Bureau of Standards, concrete, building construction, archi- tecture, textiles, and many others. The textile division comprises technical works, textile costs, methods, managerial works, and a goodly number of other topics of special subdivi- sions, such as silk, wool, cotton, combing, cleansing, spinning, weaving, etc. Publications of textile growing and methods in foreign countries play an important part in the library. In specially constructed map cases are kept maps of the United States Geological Survey. These geological survey maps of quadrangles are issued in the form of a folio. The several folios, when com- plete, constitute a geologic atlas of the United States. Each folio is designated by the principal town in the quadrangle, and comprises topographic, geologic, economic, and structural maps of the quad- rangle, with other illustrations and general descrip- tion. The new librarian at the Lockwood, Greene and Company Library is Miss Christabel Robinson. On behalf of the firm she will be glad to offer library BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 63 facilities to students particularly interested in this line that is, students of management; factory, of- fice, business, scientific, and industrial efficiency. Such students will find in this library a wealth of material for their needs. 36. Walter M. Lowney and Company Library The Walter M. Lowney and Company, confec- tioners, established some years ago a library for the several departments of the business. It contains nearly 500 books and a quantity of pamphlets. Some books on business, such as advertising and salesmanship, are kept for employees who are work- ing for higher positions. Books on machinery are also kept, especially those relative to the types used in candy manufacture and allied topics. The book collection is catalogued. Any material connected with candy making is preserved, such as sugar, pure food laws, adultera- tion, etc. A few trade journals are regularly filed like the Confectioner's Journal. A good collection of cook-books issued from various sources is care- fully saved for reference. The works of the company are at 486 Hanover Street, but the offices and library are at 427 Com- mercial Street. The library is for the use of the company and is not open to the public. Miss Mary Casey is the librarian. 64 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 37. Massachusetts Board of Agriculture Library The Massachusetts Board of Agriculture main- tains a library in its quarters in the State House. This library began when the department was or- ganized in 1852, and is devoted chiefly to agricul- tural literature. The principle subdivisions are dairying, agronomy, horticulture, agricultural edu- cation, agricultural commerce and natural sciences. There are 4,000 books in the library, 6,000 pam- phlets and a large number of agricultural period- icals. Files of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and its own Department are in the library as well as experiment station bulletins of the government and different college and state stations. A card catalogue brings out all material under author and subject. The library is open to the pub- lic and all material circulates. The library is used to a great extent in compiling publications and reports of the State Department of Agriculture and by special investigators. There is only one other agricultural library of any size in the state the Library of the Massachusetts Agri- cultural College. Mr. R. Edwards Annin, Jr., is librarian of the Board of Agriculture Library. The Assistant Li- brarian is Mr. H. E. Robinson. 38. Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics Library The Library of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics was established as a part of the Bureau's BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 65 activities shortly after the founding of the latter in 1869. The book collection numbers about 3,000 volumes. It consists principally of recent publica- tions relative to industrial subjects, including many official reports of Bureaus of Labor and kindred departments in the United States and foreign coun- tries. In addition to the bound volumes this Bureau receives regularly 15 daily newspapers published in Massachusetts, 43 weeklies, 104 monthlies, and 24 other periodicals, making a total of 186. The library is in charge of a Librarian, but its immediate direction lies with the Chief of the Labor Division of the Bureau, because a great majority of the books, pamphlets, periodicals, etc., which come to the Bureau pertain directly to the work of this division or relate to social or industrial matters which come within the broad scope of its investiga- tions. In addition to the library work incident to the proper listing and cataloging of the books, period- icals and newspapers received, the library force does considerable research work in connection with the preparation of the various publications of the de- partment and in answering numerous inquiries re- ceived by the Bureau. Another important branch of the library work consists of the examination of the leading daily papers in Massachusetts, of trade journals, official organs of trade unions, and other publications, for information relative to subjects in which the Bureau is officially interested. The in- formation thus obtained is of considerable value, since it treats of matters of current interest which are being widely discussed. The more lengthy ar- ticles thus obtained are filed in pamphlet cases, and 66 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES the clippings are classified, indexed, and mounted in scrap books devoted to specific subjects to which they relate. In all, about 70 topics are covered by this clipping service. The Bureau also subscribes to a private press clipping service covering certain important topics, but so limits this service as to avoid duplication of the work done by its library force. The library is maintained primarily as a refer- ence library for the use of the Bureau, but responsi- ble persons may use its facilities for reference in instances where the material is not accessible else- where. Mr. Roswell F. Phelps is chief of the Labor Division and Miss Helen G. Estey is librarian. 39. Massachusetts Forestry Association Library The Massachusetts Forestry Association, at 4 Joy Street, shelves a library of forestry for the use of its members. There are 500 books and pamphlets, but no card catalogue is kept. The majority of this material has been sent in from other associations and from the collections of members. The books include much general forestry infor- mation, and specifically state foresters' reports on Alabama, Alaska, California, Iowa, Indiana, Illi- nois, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin and West Virginia. Forestry information outside the United States BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 67 includes Canada, Hawaii, Labrador, Nova Scotia, and various other places. "The Forester" which began in 1895 and was changed to "Forestry and Irrigation" and later to "Forestry and Irrigation and Conservation," then to "Conservation," and lastly to "American Forestry," is on the shelves of the library, complete. Material on lumbering, trees, shrubs, injurious insects, economics of forestry and forestry in New England rounds out the collection. The office of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests is also located at 4 Joy Street. The Library may be used by the public, since the association was founded to place before the general public's attention the vital need of conservation of American forests. The library was established in 1898. Mr. Harris A. Reynolds is the Association Secretary. Miss Nina L. Davison is in charge of the library. 40. Massachusetts Forestry Department Library The library of the Massachusetts Forestry De- partment, Room 408 in the State House, was estab- lished in 1904. Its main speciality is forestry and arboriculture, of which it has 200 books and 2,000 pamphlets. The book collection deals intensively with for- estry, insects, tree diseases, and subjects bearing on such studies. Many valuable government docu- ments are included. Gypsy moth and similar topics are carefully studied by experts, and material on the 68 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES general subject, and the activity of other states has been collected. In like way every subject has been treated with an eye to its practical use in the work of the State Forester. A few reference works are kept as part of the collection. But for the most part the entire collec- tion has been assembled and developed solely in connection with the work of the Department, and the material has been added as the needs arise. The pamphlets are kept in pamphlet cases, which are filed and numbered. The books are catalogued by subjects and also the individual cases. The public may take books out upon payment of a deposit, which is refunded when the volume is returned. Mr. Frank W. Rane is State Forester. Mr. H. O. Cook, Assistant Forester, has charge of the library. 41. Massachusetts Historical Society Library The Massachusetts Historical Society the oldest historical society in the country has, as part of its equipment, an excellent library of Massachusetts and New England history. The collection includes about 61,000 volumes, 120,000 pamphlets and 5,500 broadsides. The li- brary was organized in 1791 with gifts of books donated by members of the Society. The Rev. Jeremy Belknap was the chief founder of the Society. The object of the Society has been the collection, BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 69 preservation and diffusion of the materials for American History. Fifty volumes of the "Proceedings" of the So- ciety form another series of its publications, cover- ing the record of all its meetings for 126 years, and containing historical documents of permanent value, discussions by members on interesting or important historical questions, and memoirs of deceased mem- bers. Its first volume of Collections was published in 1792 and the seventy-second volume in July, 1917. Editions of Hubbard's "History of New Eng- land" and Bradford's "History of Plymouth" have been printed by the Society; and it has recently is- sued a final edition of Bradford in two volumes. Among the patrons of the Society are: Thomas Dowse, who gave his private library; Rev. Robert C. Waterston, who bequeathed the greater part of his private collection and left a generous bequest, and John Langdon Sibley, for many years the li- brarian at Harvard College, its largest single bene- factor. Ellis Hall commemorates the bequest of the dwelling-house of Rev. Dr. George E. Ellis, a for- mer president of the Society, which was sold and the proceeds used toward the erection of the build- ing it now occupies. It has published in its "Col- lections" the Winthrop, Mather, Belcher, Belknap, Pepperrell, Trumbull, Heath, Warren, Jefferson, Bowdoin, and Temple Papers ; also Cotton Mather's Diary, Wetmore papers on Rhode Island Commerce, Copley-Pelham Letters, and the Warren-Adams Correspondence. It has a gallery of historical portraits and relics, 7O BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES among which are the Appleton and Adams collection of coins and medals, the crossed swords used by Col. William Prescott and Capt. John Linz at Bunker Hill, the punch bowl used by the Boston Tea Party, the gorget and epaulets of Washington and the pen with which President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Society's collections and its books and papers do not circulate. Although primarily for the use of the members, the library is open to anyone every week-day, and the Society desires to encourage his- torical research. For this purpose the greatest source not usually available is perhaps its large and important collection of old and rare manuscripts. The Acting Librarian of the Society is Julius H. Tuttle. 42. Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library The Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society is one of the foremost of its kind in the world, while its collection of purely horticultural works is the finest in existence. It was founded in 1829 and is maintained by society and special funds. The library contains a superb collection of natural science, including: horticulture, floriculture, botany, gardening, entomology, forestry. The principle cur- rent horticultural and agricultural periodicals of the world are in the library. A card catalogue has been developed and a printed catalogue, being printed at this time, will be ready for distribution this year. The classification scheme BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 71 is a sort of Cutter system which has been worked out for the library. Works upon the botany of India and Southern Asia are very complete. Excellent material of for- eign countries is also kept. A catalogue of plates of plants, fruits, flowers, etc., that are owned and housed in the Society's building, has been compiled. There are in the library 20,000 books and several thousand pamphlets. Material may be taken out by members only, but the public has access to the col- lections. The librarian is Mr. William P. Rich. 43. Massachusetts Public Service Commis- sion Library The Massachusetts Public Service Commission maintains at its offices, i Beacon Street, a well-or- ganized library of 4,000 books and 2,000 bound pamphlets, covering transportation, law, the tele- graph and telephone, and various other subjects, with their subdivisions. The Commission supervises such utilities as : rail- roads and railways, express companies, steamboat and steamship lines, telephone and telegraph com- panies. Its library is the only one in the city having a complete collection of literature and reports con- cerning transportation. Valuable materials are sev- eral sets of the complete reports of the Massachu- setts Railroad Commission and its successor, the Public Service Commission, and approximately full sets of the reports of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission and of the various railroads and public ser- vice commissions throughout the country. 72 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Many technical periodicals and magazines of transportation are subscribed to. About 1,500 of the bound-book collection are in the law section. The library has a very good collection of books relating to the history of transportation. One of the sets of Massachusetts railroad reports already referred to covers the time from 1834 to 1868 in- clusive, viz., from the beginning of railroading in this Commonwealth to the creation of the Railroad Commission. That commission in 1913 became the Public Service Commission. The policy of the commission is to preserve every pamphlet of importance in relation to railroad legis- lation and operation. Consequently these pamphlets, which are permanently bound, cover the entire field from the first discussions of canal and railroad transportation to the present time, including every turnpike and canal charter and all the railroad and railway charters. Particular attention is given to the subjects which from time to time engross public attention in rela- tion to transportation. For instance, there is a very full collection of the various public discussions in relation to valuation of railroad right-of-way, in- cluding full reports of the evidence in the original investigation, and collections of briefs and evidence submitted in subsequent hearings by the Interstate Commerce Commission and in conferences of ex- perts. Special care has been taken in indexing this subject under the various headings which relate to theories regarding original cost, reproduction cost, historical cost, opinion testimony, franchise values, constitutional protection, appraisals, fare values, BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 73 going value, depreciation and theoretical deprecia- tion. Another subject to which close attention is given is rate-making. The material on this subject in- cludes verbatim copies of the original discussion in Congress, all the evidence submitted and schedules filed with the briefs and arguments in connection with what is known as "The Five Per Cent. Case," "The Minimum Rate Case," and the "Western Ad- vance Rate Case." All of the available statements and briefs submitted in the recent "Fifteen Per Cent. Rate Case" were bound, catalogued and on the library shelves within a very few days of their pub- lication. The aim of the Executive Secretary has always been to coordinate the work of the library with that of recording the records and keeping the files of the Commission. In this connection there are in his office two consolidated indexes relating to railroads and railways in Massachusetts from the first. The cards contain approximately 40,000 items and cover everything that has happened to a Massachusetts railroad or railway from 1825 to the present time, either in the General Court, the Railroad Commis- sion, the Public Service Commission or the Inter- state Commerce Commission, including the page where an order or report appears in the reports of either of the commissions mentioned, the docket number of the case where the original papers may be found in the files of either commission, and, in the case of unpublished orders or certificates, the page where they may be found in the records; also the number of any books in the library relating to the history or business of a corporation. 74 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES As books and pamphlets are received by the li- brary they are entered in the accession book with such detail that the cataloging may be done later without further reference to the books themselves. The card catalogue guides readers to the material in the library, and in addition is a catalogue of all Library of Congress cards referring in any way to the subject of transportation. These are carefully classified so that at any time it will be possible for the commission to know what books and pamphlets are in print on any subject, while if the publication is in the library the classification number appears on the card. In connection with the law section of the library the Executive Secretary prepares frequent compila- tions of the General Laws of Massachusetts in rela- tion to railroads and railways and the other classes of utilities supervised. The last edition issued cov- ered over 400 pages and contained 100 pages of index in fine print. He has also prepared two in- dex-digests of decisions, precedents, and general principles enunciated by the Commission, of some- what over 100 pages each. The Annual Report of the Public Service Com- mission in two volumes is also prepared and pub- lished under direction of the Executive Secretary. These reports, in addition to their general circula- tion, are used as a medium of exchange to keep the sets of reports of other commissions up to date. It is frequently necessary in connection with the work of the law library to make very thorough studies of decisions and precedents in this and other states, and whenever this is done, special cards are placed in a separate index. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 75 Two years ago, when the subject of jitney regu- lation was engaging the attention of legislatures, commissions, and local authorities in all parts of the country, a collection of all the newspaper and magazine discussions, laws, and ordinances was made, and through the inspection department the situation in every Massachusetts city and town was investigated and the local ordinances obtained. This material was carefully bound for preservation, fully indexed, and used as the basis of a study of the entire subject made by the executive secretary which appeared in volume- one of the Annual Report of the Commission for 1915. This library has never, except on the jitney ques- tion, made a practice of preserving clippings. But all the important weekly and monthly publications bearing upon its special subjects are bound and placed upon the shelves. Such publications are read as they appear, and special articles and editorials which may be of interest to the Commission are catalogued in a special card index, the printed in- dexes bound with the publications being depended upon for use, if needed. The library has been in process of development for many years. It is open to the public, but does not circulate its material. The Executive Secretary of the Public Service Commission, Mr. Charles E. Mann, has direct charge of the library and its work in addition to his other duties. 44. Mellin's Food Company Library The Mellin's Food Company, Boston, have a li- brary of i ,000 volumes, consisting principally of 76 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES books pertaining either directly or indirectly to In- fant Feeding. They also have many reference books such as the later dictionaries, encyclopaedias, gazet- teers and several other books that a business house would find useful. Besides the bound volumes, they keep on file up- wards of one hundred different Medical, Chemical and Drug Journals. These are reviewed carefully and all articles of interest are catalogued. The Medical and Drug Journals are kept intact until they are about a year and a half old. At that time the articles catalogued are extracted and filed away in folders in a vertical file. The Journals that are not mutilated are then passed on to the Boston Medical Library. The Chemical Journals are bound and kept. Card catalogues are maintained for both the bound volumes and the articles appearing in the dif- ferent publications. In both instances these are cata- logued under the author's name, also title and sub- ject. A circulating library of upwards of seventy-five different magazines is also maintained for the em- ployees who wish to avail themselves of it. The Library is not open to the general public, but the company are very glad to permit the use of it to anyone who will apply. Mr. Philip A. Myrick is the company librarian. 45. Merchants National Bank Library Organized only the middle of last May, the Tex- tile Department Library of the Merchants National Bank has already made an unusual start towards BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 77 developing a unique and useful collection of printed matter on the textile industry in all its varied forms. The library includes over three hundred bound books, all of them devoted to some kind of textile work, about 7,000 clippings and pamphlets and tex- tile periodicals. One of its best means of information is a fairly complete set of the annual and semi-annual reports of the National Association of Cotton Manufac- turers which contains various articles on such phases of the textile industry as raw material, technical features, manufacturing and marketing of goods, foreign commerce, et cetera. Other material includes statistics compiled by the Department of Commerce, information on textile mill centers, water power, available mill sites, trans- portation facilities, warehouse facilities, storage, rags, wages, housing, labor conditions, reports of labor unions, labor laws, labor reports, and cor- poration and taxation laws of all textile and mill states in the United States. Numerous English technical publications treating of the textile industry and cotton growing have been secured. All government reports of the De- partments of Agriculture and Commerce on plant- ing, grading, sampling and testing of cotton, ware- house construction, cotton fields of Arizona, Cali- fornia, Brazil, Peru, Egypt, Argentine, Sea Islands, India and other parts of the world are carefully collected. An information file contains all current literature of technical interest ; for instance, the latest develop- 78 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES ments of machinery manufacture, crop reports of government and brokers, articles on cost accounting, cost sheets, factory organization and administra- tion, cotton fields of the world, marketing of goods in foreign countries, textile manufacture in Euro- pean and South American countries, reports of special investigations of the U. S. Department of Commerce, cotton goods market of world, reports on hosiery, men's underwear, clothing, knit goods, lace and other textile industries. Clippings are kept in the vertical file. Each year's stock of clippings from various sources is mounted on paper a different color, so that the latest avail- able data is available immediately. First-hand in- formation on New England mills, with a capitaliza- tion of $100,000 or over, is kept in compact form. This includes, among other things, mill hands, cap- ital stock, officers, equipment, production, financial statements, etc. The Textile Department issues monthly and oc- casional publications on the textile industry and ex- port trades and also special reports and letters on government legislation affecting the textile interests. The Textile Department of the Merchants Na- tional is a department of service and cooperation for textile and allied industries of the United States. The library is open to the bank's clients and to the general public. The material circulates to textile in- terests and service is gratuitous. W. Irving Bullard is Manager of the Department. The library comes in immediate charge of the De- partment Secretary, Ernest L. Little. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 79 46. Metcalf and Eddy Library Metcalf and Eddy, consulting and civil engineers, 14 Beacon Street, organized their library in 1907. It comprises 3,000 volumes and 2,000 pamphlets de- voted to civil and sanitary engineering, chemistry and bacteriology. The library has an almost complete file of the United States water supply papers, a good collection of national, state, city and town reports and many books and reports upon valuation and rate cases, particularly in the field of waterworks, society and association journals and periodicals, trade cata- logues, and from 500 to 600 lantern slides, negatives and photographs are valuable features of the col- lection. The books are fully catalogued and they are classified by the decimal system. The library is maintained for reference purposes in the ordinary course of the firm's business. The public is welcome to come to the library for infor- mation along the lines of civil and sanitary engineer- ing. The librarian is Miss Ruth Canavan. 47. National Industrial Conference Board Library As part of its equipment, the National Industrial Conference Board has recently established a library at 15 Beacon Street. The National Industrial Con- ference Board is a cooperative body composed of representatives of national industrial associations, organized to provide a clearing house of informa- 8o BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES tion, a forum for constructive discussion, and ma- chinery for cooperative action on matters that vitally affect the industrial development of the country. With a small collection begun only a few weeks ago, a library is being developed which will contain current information from all parts of the world on industrial subjects. Unimportant material before the current year, of more or less historical interest only, will be used in other libraries of Boston and elsewhere. The Board intends to collect only litera- ture relating to industry, labor and allied questions, but will give particular attention to present-day ten- dencies and latent but nascent problems. Much of the material is in books, more in pam- phlet literature, and the rest in clippings and photo- graphs. The library will contain among other things material on government, labor legislation, work- men's compensation, industrial diseases, accidents, first aid and safety work, social insurance, labor dis- putes, arbitration and mediation, labor supply, wages and hours of labor, industrial preparedness, cost of living, trade and commerce, transportation and his- tory and development of the various industries in America. A complete file of the most recent United States and state documents relating to health, labor statistics and commerce is accessible and the library is collecting similar material on foreign countries. A small but steadily increasing number of trade catalogues, clippings and pictures is available for reference. The catalogue system is very interesting. When completed, it will include books and will also index periodicals whether in the library or not. The en- tries will be annotated not only as to contents, but BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 81 as to author, his qualifications, prejudices and point of view. This will make an unusual and costly card system of untold value. Books rare and difficult to obtain and material not in the library will have a card in the catalogue, containing a brief description and note of the book. This source of information will be valuable beyond measure and will give access and knowledge of material throughout the country. Several large libraries in this country collect cata- logue cards of other institutions, but, so far as is known, no other library has attempted to send trained cataloguers about the country to note mate- rial in the various libraries and make their annota- tions on the spot. The library is preparing for future developments. The librarian is a staunch advocate of library as- sistants learning foreign languages as a measure of preparedness for future problems. For example, he is of the opinion that after the war European coun- tries, particularly Russia, Holland and the nations now at war, will publish many works which will be extremely useful to Americans in commerce and in- dustry. The Swedish nation is one of the foremost of European nations at the present time in the issu- ing of government and private printed matter on industrial and commercial subjects. South America and the Far East are just waking up. No dead wood is allowed to stay on the shelves. By a weeding-out process, only the latest issues and editions are kept in the Conference Board Library. The material used in editing its weekly publication, Industrial News Survey, and other bulletins is lo- cated and checked by the library staff. The library department, like all other departments in any busi- 82 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES ness, must pay for itself, and it is making a strong effort to make itself a big asset to the organization of which it is a component part. It therefore at- tempts to aid the Board members in their work and to develop personal contact in each instance. The following national industrial associations are represented in the Board : American Cotton Manu- facturers' Association, American Paper and Pulp Association, Electrical Manufacturers' Club, Manu- facturing Chemists' Association of the United States, National Association of Cotton Manufac- turers, National Association of Manufacturers, Na- tional Association of Wool Manufacturers, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Association, National Council for Industrial Defense, National Erectors' Association, National Founders' Association, Na- tional Metal Trades Association, Rubber Associa- tion of America, Inc., Silk Association of America, and United Typothetse and Franklin Clubs of America. With such an organization behind it the library must become a vital and forceful factor to all who come in contact with it. Students of economics, labor problems, trust problems and other similar courses should find the material on current happen- ings of unusual importance. The librarian is J. H. Friedel, formerly of the Economics Division of the New York Public Li- brary and assistant to the librarian at Cornell Uni- versity. He will be glad at any time to assist, so far as he can, any investigators along the line in which his library specializes. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 83 48. New England Conservatory of Music Library The New England Conservatory of Music on Huntington Avenue has a splendid library of 4,300 volumes. The rare and valuable works are many, including complete editions of Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Palestrina and other noted composers. Elsewhere on the shelves are a good biographical collection, works on musical history, harmony, acoustics, general literature and special literature on the piano, organ and vocal music. The library also includes the Choral Library of the famous Boylston Club and its successor, the Boston Singers. This is now the property of the Conservatory. The collection contains over six hun- dred carefully selected works representing the high- est type of vocal polyphonic composition from the great mediaeval school down to the present day. Portraits of famous singers and other musicians of the past and present are mounted, as are also short biographical sketches, analyses of symphonies, opera stories and other clippings of general interest. These are filled alphabetically and posted on the bulletin board at various times. The Thursday Morning Musical Club Library and the Orchestral Library of the Conservatory are also shelved in the Conservatory Library. The librarian is Miss Mary A. Thayer and the assistant librarian, Miss Gertrude G. Brailey. Miss Thayer is also librarian of the Harvard Musical 84 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Association on Chestnut Street. The library is maintained for the faculty and students of the Con- servatory. Visitors are always welcome. 49. New England Hardware Dealers' Association Library The New England Hardware Dealers' Associa- tion, affiliated with the National Retail Hardware Association, has been collecting since 1892 an in- formation file relating to hardware interests. There are over 1,000 books and pamphlets. The books are mostly registers and directories, while the pamphlet material is composed of trade catalogues. Hardware periodicals are filed as well as New England Hardware News, published monthly by the association. The catalogues and government pamphlets are filed and cross indexed. The principal source of information is the direc- tory of all hardware dealers and factories in the United States. Factories are listed according to the articles which they manufacture. For instance if a person wished to know who manufactures a cer- tain kind of chisel in his vicinity, he would find all makers of that chisel listed alphabetically. Although the material in the office and library of the association is primarily for the members, out- siders may refer to the collection for information. The association employs no regular librarian ow- ing to the small collection. Mr. George A. Fiel is the secretary. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 85 50. New England Telephone & Telegraph Company Library The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company is among the public service corporations which maintain strong working collections of books and other sources of information. Their selection of material is unusually thorough and comprehen- sive, embracing as it does questions relating to labor in its various phases. The book collection outside of the main deposi- tory may be broadly classed as law, including state reports of the five states in which the company op- erates, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island; United States Supreme Court decisions; state legislation of the five states; all text-books on corporation law; public service commission reports of all the states and Canada. Electricity is a subject in which printed material is unusually short-lived and the collection of about one hundred volumes contains practically all of the most up-to-date authoritative text-books on elec- tricity, with special reference in its relation to the telephone. The accounting books include the prin- cipal texts. Thirty or more war books have re- cently been purchased to answer various service questions. The collection proper includes a great deal of material on all labor questions, hygiene, conditions, wages, etc., reports of the New England states, New York and Pennsylvania, publications of the United States government, chiefly those of the Cen- sus Bureau and the Department of Labor. The principal aim is to get new material in regard to 86 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES labor especially the employment of women, of whom over seven thousand are employed in the company. Larger questions of socialism and col- lectivism are studied and more narrow questions of lunches, housing, clubs, and societies of employees, libraries, savings, morality, profit sharing, and the like. One feature is the information of corporate relations along the lines of government ownership and regulation; for example, theoretical works on the basis of rate making. This is a new field except the rate making in railroad literature. The book collection of 2,500 volumes, including all bound works in the several scattered locations, includes standard works in economics, efficiency, pensions, insurance, minimum wage and social- ism all of these broader than mere statistical ma- terial. Every possible printed article which might enlighten the officers regarding the employing of women is studied. For instance, one book in the collection is a novel, stating the exact experiences of a working girl how she lives, how she apportions her wages. There are several hundred pamphlets which are weeded out twice a year for material which has be- come valueless. The book collection being scattered and small needs no card catalogue, but the vertical file material is indexed according to folders. The decimal system is used and each folder contains several minute subdivisions of the subject. The in- dex of the file contains about 300 cards each card containing ten or more sub-division entries. Eco- nomics, labor, electricity, and the other subjects are all included. Although as a rule it is not necessary to use the index, it is a necessity for those not fa- BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 87 miliar with the arrangement of the vertical file. In another department The Archives the complete correspondence of the company is filed by subjects, making a comprehensive record of transactions and operations of the concern by topics. The magazine collection is small. It embraces economics, labor, vocational training and industrial education, both American, English and Canadian. These magazines are only of use for present-day information for the practical use of the corpora- tion and are not preserved. The company also has a strong collection of general reference books, government reports, and recent sheet reports of English war investigations. The guiding genius in this work has found that invariably questions arising in Europe, especially in England and Germany, re- garding phases of labor problems generally arrive in the United States, some five years or so later. It is this world-wide policy of the company to watch developments and their relation to our people that makes their services valuable. The library facilities of the New England Tele- phone and Telegraph Company are not along the line of welfare work for their employees. The ma- terial is rather for scientific study and investigation to enable the concern to more efficiently handle the human element connected with their work and to be able intelligently and efficiently to serve the general public. The company has always maintained a reputation for exceptional service, unique methods and general efficiency. This work has perhaps been present before the public more recently through the house organ, Telephone Topics, which has a circu- lation of about 15,000. This publication is full of 88 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES interesting data, both for telephone employees and the general public. The reference facilities of the New England Telephone Company, which are used principally by executive and administrative officers and experts, began about ten years ago. The "library" is not open to the general public. The majority of ma- terial housed there may be found in other libraries, but not so easily accessible nor with the expert guidance, without which the value of a collection is not on a par with what it should be. Mr. Edward A. Wilkie, a graduate of Boston University Law School in 1880, has direct super- vision over the details connected with this work. He was for many years a prominent practising at- torney who make the study of labor questions his avocation. 51. Old Colony Trust Company Library The library of the Old Colony Trust Company Library is unique in that it is not unique. The li- brary is not the only one of its kind ; neither is it the largest nor the most complete. It is just a real col- lection of really workable material all in really usable form. The only claim made for the Old Colony Library is that it serves a purpose which is, definitely stated, along the line of furnishing sta- tistical data and financial information to employees, clients and the public. The general public has yet to be educated to recognize and use libraries of special types. Busi- ness men now recognize fully the value of such col- lections, and, where, ten years ago the idea was BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 89 scoffed at on all sides, now there are few business houses but do not rely in some form or other on a "special library," so called. In its statistical department the company main- tains two libraries the law library and statistical library. The former is a collection of 1,000 bound volumes, the latter a collection of over 2,000 vol- umes, with a mass of pamphlet literature in addi- tion. This vertical file material I should roughly estimate at 50,000 to 60,000 in number. The law library is in essence one of the regular type of privately collected law works, comprising miscellaneous law texts and various reports con- cerning legal and other matters. The company places decided emphasis on legal work in relation to its own business, and this library is maintained for reference. They would rather depend on it than depend on attorneys outside of their own force. Mainly the works housed in the legal department comprise Massachusetts and other state reports, United States Government and legal statutes, text- books on law, etc. The statistical library is by far the more interest- ing, as well as the most important division of the Old Colony information sources. The Credit De- partment carries on its work in cooperation with the Statistical Department. Because of this fact an enormous amount of material which might prove of extreme value to both departments is vertically filed. There are thirty or forty cabinets containing annual and financial railroad reports of companies in the United States filed alphabetically. Reports of mining concerns, industrial companies and pub- lications of business houses, all of which are per- go BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES tinent aids of such work as the Trust Company is engaged in, are also kept. The files of the library are many. It is not pos- sible to use one continuous file, because the subject material to be filed relates to so many phases of finance. So each presents its own peculiar prob- lems as to the best methods of filing. Cabinets are used as corporation files. The reports and mis- cellaneous publications of every kind of corpora- tion, industrial, commercial, public, etc., are filed there. Pamphlets are taken care of by being placed in pamphlet boxes. Normally, this method is not the logical one to follow, owing to the limited expan- sion. Material filed this way is more difficult to reach and must be continually shifted if the collec- tion keeps growing. The Old Colony's pamphlet collection is, however, small, and about thirty-five boxes care for all this material. Their main leaflet material is not in pamphlet form, but in circulars and miscellaneous reports which can be accurately classified. The book shelves contain large numbers of finan- cial reference books, dictionaries, directories and other like material, with bound copies of magazines, and also the current numbers. Still another file lists hundreds of investment bond circulars of companies, arranged alpha- betically by companies, and over 100 which con- tain specific information relating to particular sub- jects are fully catalogued. Lists of securities, also, with current quotations must be full and complete, with an alphabetical arrangement to guide custom- ers and clerks intelligently. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 91 What the statistical department terms an "index key to the files" is a catalogue of the various file material. In the main catalogue there are some ten to twelve thousand cards, each of ten to twenty entries. These are the guides to the mass of ma- terial and are supplemented by other catalogues one of these gives a list of obsolete securities for companies, a service which is of immense value to the firm. Another card compilation undertaken by the li- brary is the catalogue of quotation service which gives prices of unlisted securities gained from vari- ous sources. This is somewhat of an undertaking itself. To facilitate the library work several "special services" are subscribed to. Some of these issue daily and weekly sheets of financial matters, monthly and quarterly cumulations of like kind. One, which is really an index of marketable bonds, tabulates in convenient form on card sheets special information of bond investments. The balance sheets, operating income, history, etc., of large rail- road, public utility, and industrial companies, com- plete descriptions of bonds, together with their range of prices and other information, are con- tained in the tabulations. Government loans and corporation stocks, with complete data, are kept to date. Analytical work such as is performed by this kind of service is impossible in any one financial firm. By supplementing the library with such serv- ice and numerous special files and catalogues, the Old Colony Trust Company Library maintains an efficient standard of work. Only within the past two or three years has this 92 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES library been recognized by the company as an asset. Before that time it was merely a small static collec- tion of small or irrelevant matter. The library specializes in steam railroad litera- ture all phases regarding the existing steam rail- roads of the country, whether equipment, lines or financial standing. That is their particular hobby, and, because of their strong collection, the library is specially well qualified to advise in railroad mat- ters. The main work of the Old Colony Trust Com- pany Library lies in its service to their Trust and Bond Department, but its services are freely given to the public, whether patrons of the company or not. The Old Colony librarian and statistician, Mr. Edward H. Kittredge, is an ardent believer in co- operation and would be glad to assist in any possible way students of finance. 52. Pilgrim Publicity Association Library For the past ten years the Pilgrim Publicity As- sociation has been slowly developing a library of advertising and salesmanship. It contains about 500 books and 50 periodicals. The material has been carefully catalogued and classified. The Association has over 400 members. The Educational Committee uses the library to a great extent in their lecture and class work for the mem- bership throughout the winter months. The library is maintained by voluntary contri- butions of money and books from the members. A "Give-one-book Campaign" last year netted a good many new books and some funds. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 93 The Pilgrim Publicity Association Library is the only one in the city devoting itself wholly to adver- tising and in time it should develop into a collection of unusual possibilities. It is really not open to the public, but to the Association members. A very liberal policy, however, is pursued in this line and students of advertising problems will be well treated there, if they find the library of value in their work. Mr. Guy E. Marion is the association librarian. 53. E. H. Rollins and Sons Library E. H. Rollins & Sons, investment and bonds, at 200 Devonshire Street, maintain a financial and statistical library of about 500 volumes. This library in the main contains books that would be of assistance in the study of finance. The collection includes reports of public service commissions, bank commissions, railroad reports, insurance department publications and statistical year books and census of Canada. Poor's Man- uals, Commercial and Financial Chronicle, daily bond buyer and other material found in such collec- tions constitute the nucleus of the library. Some pamphlets are kept, and a printed catalogue was issued in 1912. The library is maintained for the employees and clients of the firm. The librarian, Mr. Donald Ordway, is at the front in France. At the present time the library comes under the direction of Miss Mabel E. Cheney. 54. Sampson and Murdock Co. Library An unusual library is that maintained by the Sampson & Murdock Company at their office, 246 94 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Summer street. This collection is made up almost entirely of directories, including city and town books, directories covering entire counties and states, and special trade directories covering the entire country. The City and Town Directories cover practically all places in the United States, and these books are kept strictly up-to-date. The Sampson & Murdock Library can well be divided into three parts : first, a set of latest city and town directories; second, a set of latest trade di- rectories; and third, a set of old directories run- ning back in many cases to the date that the first directory for the place was published. For Boston, as an example, the directories are kept on file running back to 1789; as a matter of fact, the Sampson & Murdock Company has pub- lished the Boston Directory ever since 1846. This company also publishes the New England Business Directory and city books for over 30 places. The file of current directories is used by the Sampson & Murdock Company for compiling all kinds of mailing lists, and the manager of this de- partment gives much data showing the advantages of securing lists taken from the latest up-to-date information compiled to order, so to meet actual requirements as nearly as possible. During the last eight or ten years, direct mail advertising has been growing by leaps and bounds, and the Sampson & Murdock Company has estab- lished a separate department for compiling lists, furnishing "typewritten" letters, and in fact, for handling any details connected with their clients' mail advertising. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 95 There are ample accommodations for the general public to use the library and for all ordinary refer- ence work ; there is no charge. The file of old direc- tories is used principally for tracing persons whose addresses have been lost. Perhaps those using this service the most are attorneys. Directories are fre- quently used as court evidence and important wit- nesses are often located by the use of old books. To be more specific about this, assume that we are hunting for a George Freeman who used to live in Portland, Maine. By looking up the old Portland Directory and following through each year, we find that in 1911 Mr. Freeman moved to San Francisco, California. Then, by referring to the latest issue of the San Francisco Directory, we secure at once the correct address of Mr. Freeman. This same service is used by collecting agencies. The current directories cover something like 4,000 cities or towns, and these books are all card indexed with cross references making it possible to locate quickly small towns that are included with many others in one publication. That is, towns which are too small to have a directory of their own are often grouped together and a combined di- rectory published covering eight or ten places. The card catalogue numbers over 6,000 cards. The directories are shelved by states and then alphabetically by cities and towns. Each volume has its given number and the entire collection num- bers over 4,000 volumes. A duplicate file of six or seven hundred direc- tories one year old are kept on file in the Boston Public Library, though still the property of Samp- son & Murdock. 96 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Sampson & Murdock Company was estab- lished in 1846, thus having 71 years of uninter- rupted service to its credit. The library has been a part of the organization from the first and has flourished with the business. The company is one of the oldest of its kind and the library is certainly the largest and most complete in New England and probably on the Atlantic Coast. Even a brief visit at the Sampson & Murdock Company Library gives much valuable and inter- esting information concerning directory advertis- ing. Directory advertising is reference advertising. Magazine and newspaper advertisements may create a desire for a certain article. Directory ad- vertising explains the kind of merchandise or the kind of service that the advertiser is capable of supplying. After you want something, the direc- tory tells where you can get it. It is especially in- teresting to compare advertisements running in the present directory with those for similar and in many cases the same concerns twenty-five or thirty years ago. In the older book the advertising was gen- erally little more than a business card; almost no information was given. Through the untiring efforts of the Sampson & Murdock Company and the Association of Directory Publishers, directory advertising is now recognized as reference adver- tising and the advertisements in the current direc- tories give valuable data regarding the firms represented. Mr. C. H. Hawkes, manager of the list and letter department, is also in charge of the library. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 97 55. Scovell, Wellington and Company Library The firm of Scovell, Wellington and Company, Certified Public Accountants and Industrial Engi- neers, have accounting library facilities in the pri- vate library of Mr. Clinton H. Scovell, senior member of the firm. The library was started with the firm in 1910 and now numbers about 600 volumes. The material is along the lines of general business, general and cost accounting, auditing, banking, commercial law, scientific management, correspondence and adver- tising. Some pamphlet material is kept but filed in vari- ous offices under classification systems which are in process of revision. A card catalog indexes the book material by sub- ject. The library is for the general use of members of the organization. Mr. J. Chester Crandell is the office manager. 56. Social Law Library The Social Law Library in the Court House is one of the most interesting specialized libraries im- aginable. It has always been housed in the same building with the court. The library has been in the present Court House since 1 893 ; up to five years ago it was on the second floor and then it was moved to the present quarters in what was at that time a new addition to the building. The appointments of the rooms are ideal. The harmonious blending of artistic furnishings with the 98 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES specially designed stacks tend to give the library an appearance unlike the average library. Bells at each reading desk bring, at an instant's notice, a page who will bring any desired books of the 65,000. Many unique and rare articles are in the archives of the Social Law Library. It should be interesting to note a few. The library possesses the only known set of volumes comprising the complete trial of the famous Rowland Will jCase of years ago. At the time this case caused great comment because Hetty Green was a party in the suit. Justinian's Insti- tutes, 1472, is also in the possession of the library. This work of the famous jurist is still in its original binding, and the hand engraving on the parchment is in a fine state of preservation. Another treasure is the watch of Lemuel Shaw, for 30 years Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. His grand-daughter, who presented the watch to the collection, stated that it was the only watch the Chief Justice ever had. Perhaps the most interesting of all these exceptional possessions is the original and only copy of the complete evidence in the case of Jesse Pomeroy, who has been so recently in the gaze of the public. The trial of his case is dated February 19, 1877. But this library is not a museum only. It con- tains shelf upon shelf of legal periodicals. It has the reports of each state, numerous texts; and the reports and laws of Australia, England, France, Germany, Scotland, and all other European coun- tries. The reports of English trials and pamphlets in the legal field are durably bound for preserva- tion. A small library of miscellaneous publications and subjects, mainly received through donations, is BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 99 located where the readers may have prompt access to it. The stack rooms shelve the collection of duplicates, law briefs, session laws, some federal report, and State Bar Association reports. A card catalogue of over 100,000 cards forms the key to the library. An author catalogue shows what is on hand by authors, and a subject catalogue gives the resources of the library on each topic. The maintenance of the Social Law Library is under the direction of a board of trustees who are elected by the proprietors. Any members of the bar may become a proprietor or subscriber by pay- ing a proprietor's fee or an annual subscription. Limited circulation is allowed proprietors only. One may perhaps wonder at the name Social Law Library. The law at the time of the organization stated that any seven men might organize a library. So a few men who were of the legal profession met, organized a library, and added the name "social," hence, the name Social Law Library. It was organ- ized in 1804 an d incorporated in 1814. The library is the second oldest of its kind in the country, and is the third largest, excepting the Har- vard Law, in the United States. Mr. Edward H. Redstone, the librarian, who has been with the library since 1908, successfully engi- neered the planning and moving of the library to its present location and efficiency. This Law Library is not a public library, but is an exceptional library of the legal type. Our own Law School maintains a legal library especially fitted to meet the needs of its students. ioo BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 57. Social Service Library The Social Service Library, 18 Somerset Street, opposite the Court House, is another of the inter- esting special libraries of Boston. More than twenty years ago the Children's Aid Society began collect- ing annual reports of societies and institutions, and national, state, and municipal publications from all parts of this country and from Europe, as well as books on social questions. These made up the pres- ent library before it was moved from the Children's Aid Society in 1912. Since that time the collection has been greatly expanded, and now numbers over fifty-eight thou- sand volumes, including pamphlets, reports and books. The library contains all classes of material relating to the various movements, educational, medical, philanthropic, and economic, which may be broadly classed under the head of Social Service. Public health, medical social service, mental hygiene, alcoholism, penology, criminology, social insurance, city planning, vocational education, child welfare, including studies of the defective and delinquent child, are among the special topics of immediate interest. All these are being catalogued in a card catalogue system. This library is in the building with the Simmons College School for Social Workers. Students in these courses are the chief users of the library. Ma- terial for them is easily available and the library is used for assigned reference readings and research work. Further reading of certain books may be done at home. In addition to the student body, there are a great BOSTON'S SPECIAL, LIJBRASIES- :oi. number of professional and social workers in Bos- ton and the vicinity who make use of the collection. Books are asked for by representatives of the Social Service Departments of all the large hospitals, the Boston Associated Charities, the Massachusetts So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Elizabeth Peabody House, probation officers, stu- dents from Technology, Boston University, Harvard and Simmons, and legislators from the State House. The Social Service Library is maintained and de- veloped partly by Simmons College, and partly by private interests. As the library is used extensively by the students of the School for Social Workers, Simmons College contributes a part proportionate to the service rendered. The remainder of the ex- pense must be met by private subscription. The Social Service Library is open as a free ref- erence and circulating library to all who are inter- ested in social problems of the day. Books may be withdrawn for two weeks, subject to renewal, and a summer privilege of taking six books for July and August is allowed all borrowers. To the students of Sociology this library should have a strong appeal. The librarian, Miss Margaret Watkins,* is a Bos- ton University graduate. It is a noticeable fact that Boston University is well represented in libraries in Massachusetts. Notwithstanding the fact that Bos- ton University offers no courses in library training, the graduates who have entered the library profes- sion hold responsible positions, using their collegiate * Miss Elizabeth Fanning has been librarian since the res- ignation of Miss Watkins in June. s BrOSTDN v !s/ SPECIAL LIBRARIES training as a base and acquiring their specific library training either in other institutions or in practical work. 58. Stone and Webster Library The Library of Stone and Webster, maintained for the members of the organization, is exception- ally strong in engineering, statistics, finance and public utilities. With over 5,000 books, half that number of pamphlet material and a good assort- ment of magazines in the technical field, the library takes an important place in the administration of the firm's work. The library collection proper includes works on civil, electrical, mechanical engineering, public utili- ties, a large number of special indexes, and general reference works. The growing tendency to co- operate in the purchase and use of reference works will mean more and more that this library avoids the purchasing of many a book of value when it knows that a business neighbor has it, or will have it, available. A card catalogue of approximately 75,000 cards indexes not only the books and other material actu- ally in the library, but more and more refers to material elsewhere in the offices and in other Boston libraries, and even in collections out of the state. Books and magazines are sent around to different specialists in the office and articles of value are marked for preservation. Furthermore, experience has shown that it is exceedingly important for a library of this kind to know who's who in the or- ganization and what their several specialties are; so BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 103 that the resources for getting at information include persons as well as printed matter. The same need for personal resoruces, of course, is true outside the organization as well. Consequently the card index which primarily refers to books, pamphlets, etc., has a goodly and growing insertion of colored cards that refer to personal resources. In short, the index might be called a "Where to look cata- logue," and the library an "Information Bureau." This is in accord with the trend of library work in connection with business. The Library of Stone and Webster is probably the oldest of its kind in this country. While it is main- tained primarily for the members of the organiza- tion, through courtesy and cooperation it is available to others also. Mr. George W. Lee has been the librarian since the library was organized in 1907. 59. Charles H. Tenney and Company Library Charles H. Tenney & Company maintain in their offices at 20 1 Devonshire Street a library devoted largely to industrial engineering. This concern manages some twenty public service companies, such as gas, electric, street railways and others of like nature. The library contains all available printed matter relating directly or indirectly to the work of the company and the concerns it manages. Some of the volumes are made up of decisions of public ser- vice commissions and of state and federal courts, public service corporations and railroad reports of different states, texts on accounting, industrial engi- IO4 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES neering, water power engineering. Municipal works of all sorts, viz., ordinances, reports, and so forth, journals, and periodicals of electricity, gas and chemistry; laws of states, directories of cities where properties are located, banking, workmen's compen- sation, taxation, steam roads, public service, peat, municipal ownership, meters, insurance, fuel, elec- tric lighting, railways, lighting, coal, are also found. Several vertical files are used for customers' cor- respondence and for pamphlet material. These pamphlets number about 1 ,200. Bound books mount up to about 1,000 volumes. Storage space on an- other floor cares for the earlier years of serial pub- lications and bound periodicals. The library proper is not the entire source of in- formation. Each department has its own highly specialized collection as an adjunct to the main library. The advertising department has in its cases sev- eral standard works on advertising and distribution. The advertising of the several concerns are pre- served and bound in volumes for each locality. The purchasing department has hundreds of trade catalogues, all fully indexed in one large cata- logue. These cover all articles on manufacturing which are purchased for the different companies. In the engineering department texts of engineer- ing are shelved and there is a large assortment of catalogues of electric and mechanical engineering material. These are mostly of a technical nature. Some are the property of members of the firm. Financial books are on file in the treasurer's office BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 105 and accounting and auditing works in the auditor's office. The Drafting Room contains numerous fireproof cabinets for maps. Each company has a letter of the alphabet assigned. All maps and blueprints of the plant and vicinity are filed according to size. This necessitates a complete catalogue of the mate- rial. The maps number several thousand. A large number of constructional blueprints and maps and tracings are kept in the vertical file. In another room are filed in specially constructed cases the log sheets of different companies in 30 immense volumes. The investment department has as complete a collection as any of the departments. This com- prises corporation records, a daily report service, indexes and literature of various securities. Num- erous files of investment clients and prospects are fully indexed. Financial manuals are also kept here and many investment circulars, besides a private file of additional material. Descriptive statements of various securities are issued from this department and hence the material gathered there must be reli- able and authentic. Altogether the many sources of information not in the library proper, probably number 7,000 books, pamphlets, and maps. These, of course, form a very valuable addition to the library department. The library proper is the depository for the type- written material regarding each of the several com- panies which must be used in the compiling of the annual report of each. The Tenney Company also publishes a mimeographed sheet weekly for man- io6 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES agers and department heads. Tenney Service, the employees' magazine for the organization, is issued monthly. The library was established about fifteen years ago. The library is purely for reference to the com- pany employees, and stockholders. Each local com- pany under the direction of Tenney & Company has its own circulating library for its employees. A card catalogue serves as a guide to the library, which is classified under the Dewey System. Miss I. A. Appleyard is the librarian. 60. Town Room Library The Town Room Library at 3 Joy Street is de- cidedly unique in the realm of specialized libraries. When the Twentieth Century Club was quartered on Ashburton Place years ago it began a collection of books. Early in 1906 the Club moved, and it then formally installed its library and employed a librarian to develop its unusual selection of mate- rial. At the present time the collection numbers over 4,000 books and 50,000 pamphlets, all made acces- sible by a card catalogue of over 125,000 cards. The magazine collection numbers about forty units, all relating to social work and city and town life. Sociology in its very broadest sense is the main feature of the library and its norm in choosing mat- ter. The pamphlet matter, which in such an array of material is of so great value, is shelved in boxes with the books which treat of the same subject. Psychology, ethics, morals, economics, charity, criminology, and material on a mass of allied sub- BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 107 ject such as town planning, city management, city improvements, civic betterment and other subjects are dealt with by the library in great detail. The library, which is maintained by the Twen- tieth Century Club and the Massachusetts Civic League, was established primarily for the members of the two organizations, but it is open to the gen- eral public for reference. Circulation is allowed members, and the public may borrow books upon payment of a nominal fee of one dollar a year. Material is often sent parcel post to small libraries and individuals in outlying communities. As a browsing place near the center of the city where readers may find all sorts of material, and as an efficient library where they may find the latest available treatment on city, town and village im- provement interests, as well as complete files of so- cieties and associations in movements that make for social betterment, the Town Room Library is unequaled in New England. For years the dream of Joseph Lee, the Town Room became a reality through his generosity. The personality of Mr. Lee has been extremely evident in the moulding of the policy of the library. To this may be attributed the genial and hospitable atmosphere of the place with its alcoves and fur- niture of olden days and the huge fire place where one may watch the burning logs and read on a win- ters day. The Town Room reflects the spirit of Old New England and deserves a wider acquaintance with the reading public. The librarian, Miss Florence A. Johnson, has been with the library for the past ten years. io8 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 61. United Drug Company Library The United Drug Company has established a library devoted mainly to the lines of merchandis- ing, drug trade and pharmacology. This is another one of the libraries organized in 1913 under the direction of Guy E. Marion, formerly secretary of the Special Libraries Association. The static book collection here is not very large, for the majority of technical works relating to phar- macology and chemistry are kept as a working library in the analytical department. But in this general library the entire field of purchasing, sell- ing, advertising, and displaying of drug store goods receive the larger portion of attention. Books re- lating to these subjects and to miscellaneous matter number 600. Some of these are along the lines of pharmacy and of publications of technical societies. The catalogue collection is over 700 in number. As in other such collections, only catalogues relat- ing to the business are kept. The material contained here is devoted to the field of drug store specialties, such as soda fountains, ice cream making, store fix- tures, and so forth. Almost 400 pamphlets and clippings are filed alphabetically according to the subject. The book material and the files of the house organ of the organization are catalogued in a card catalogue of 20,000 cards. This is done by author and subjects. The material, especially the official publication, Recall Ad-Vantages is minutely in- dexed. In general, libraries such as this, operated by private firms, go in thoroughly for analytical indexing, especially in their own publications. Each BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 109 firm usually has a complete file of its own material wholly indexed. Even the minutest details are instantly available by this catalogue material not yet published in book form regarding salespeople, retailing, distribu- tion, turn-overs, price maintenance, chain stores, wages, locations and expenses, and especially those subjects as adapted to the retail drug business. Even the latest material, published a comparatively short time ago, is kept track of. Drug, pharmacy and trade journals, about sev- enty-five, are kept on file and the more important ones are bound although all are preserved. The library department comes under the direction of the Rexall Clubs Department, Mr. Thomas B. Wooten, director. The United Drug Company is very proud of what it is able to do through its library, in the disseminating of information regard- ing Twentieth Century methods of conducting a drug business. The Rexall Clubs and the Rexall Ad- Vantages are enabled to maintain their high state of efficiency through the sources of informa- tion in the library. Miss Viola H. Burnham is librarian of the United Drug Company Library, which is chiefly for the executives in the organization, although others may use it also if given permission. 62. Vocation Bureau Library* The Vocation Bureau of Boston, in its quarters * On October 3, 1917, the yocation Bureau was taken over by the Department of Education at Harvard University. It is now known as the Bureau of Vocational Guidance. Mr. Roy W. Kelly is the new director, while the associate director remains the same. no BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES at 6 Beacon Street, maintains the most complete collection of literature regarding vocational guid- ance to be found anywhere in New England. This library was the first of its kind to be established in this country. The formation of the Vocation Bureau was in 1908, at the Civic Service House in Boston. The next year it was placed on a firmly organized basis. From the very beginning all sorts of printed in- formation has been gathered, until now students of educational work turn to the Bureau in the making of theses, reports, diagrams, statistics and like material. The book collection is not large in number there are, roughly, around three or four hundred volumes but the bulk of material lies in the pamphlet field. Hundreds and thousands are filed in cabinets, files, cases, pamphlet boxes, shelves, and by other easily accessible methods. A store of information has been gathered from the world of industry and com- merce. Reports, manuscripts, press and magazine clippings, material from European countries bear- ing on the subject of vocational guidance, files of individual letters regarding different trades, publi- cations of state and national agencies interested in life-career problems, all these are available for the student and investigator. The Bureau is a clearing-house for vocational guidance and is primarily a research body a phil- anthropic institution. In its individual services, in- vestigations and instructive experiments in the fields of education and employment, made with the aid of the Boston City Schools and Boston business firms, the Bureau has published several works. Many of BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES in these are entire books regarding vocational guid- ance and education. Others are in bulletin and pam- phlet form, each covering some particular trade. Much time has been spent in original investiga- tions by the special investigator for the bureau the minimum length of time spent on any investi- gation being three months. Valuable information is often contained in tentative pamphlet form, manu- script and typewritten reports received from various sources. An endeavor is made to add to the collec- tion everything published in this country and abroad dealing with the field of vocational literature, whether in book or other form. The Boston Vocation Bureau, to supplement its services for the Boston City Schools, cooperates with The Home and School Association, The Girls' Trade Educational League, and the Women's Mu- nicipal League. The Employment Managers' As- sociation is also actively interested in the work, and through all these agencies the transition period of the boy or girl from the school to life work has been seriously studied to prevent needless waste of time. The problem of education to-day is not only to in- struct youth, but to guide in the struggle for a firm hold in life. Under modern conditions of labor division and high specialization in commerce and in- dustry, this advisory service has become a grave necessity. The material to be found in the Bureau's Library should be of inestimable value, not only to students of the vocational guidance course in the University, but also to students who intend to specialize in com- mercial teaching and those who are enrolled in the department of education as well. H2 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES No regular librarian is employed for the Library. The collection is under the supervision of Mr. Fred- erick J. Allen, Investigator of Occupations for the Vocation Bureau of Boston. Mr. Allen was at one time an instructor in the College of Liberal Arts and is now in charge of the special course on vocational guidance given under the direction of the Teachers' Course of the University. Students are cordially invited to make use of the material of the Vocation Bureau and are assisted in every possible way. Mr. Meyer Bloomfield is the director of the Bu- reau. 63. Wells Memorial Library The Wells Memorial a working people's club at 985 Washington Street, has a library of 800 vol- umes. The library was started in 1879 and is fully catalogued and classified. It is primarily for the use of working people who may take books out upon registration. Funds for the maintenance come from the general treasury of the Institute. The subjects covered include : biography, history, economics, general literature, reference books, re- ligion and some fiction. In connection with class work certain vocational subjects have their litera- ture in the library, namely: cooking, automobiles, etc. Magazines and papers are on the reading-tables, but with one exception none of the periodicals are preserved for future reference. William C. Ewing, Superintendent of the Insti- tute, has charge of the library. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 113 64. Women's Educational and Industrial Union Library The Library of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union is supposedly the only one of its kind in the United States. Without doubt this is the only library in America specializ- ing on women's vocations and women in industry. To be sure, many large libraries maintain special collections of similar nature; notable among such collections are those of the John Crerar Library in Chicago and the New York Public Library. Our own library in its Galatea Collection maintains a superb library of suffrage, biography, and history of women. But these libraries handle their depart- ments more from the historical and bibliographical side. They do not treat of women's work and voca- tion in such a way as to give business-like informa- tion live, up-to-the-minute accurate data. Started in the fall of 1910, the Union Library has confined itself primarily to pamphlet material, not that this is easier or more economical than book collections, but because literature of the kind suitable to the Union's needs is found mainly in unbound form. There are some bound volumes, about eight hundred, mainly relating to industrial and social problems. Besides these you will find on the shelves government documents adapted to such a library's particular needs. As is the case in all special libraries, the Indus- trial Union Library makes great use of their ver- tical file material which is not catalogued, but arranged alphabetically in the files. Between seven and eight thousand pamphlets on ii4 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES the subjects of minimum wage, trade unionism, labor laws, vocation, current industrial problems, and so forth, are in the Library. Leaflet reports of different state boards; letters requesting special in- formation and carbons of the answers; copies of lists of specific occupations compiled by the Library, make up the major portion of the pamphlet collec- tion. Newspaper clippings are widely used for current topics and present tendencies in various oc- cupations and trades. Every month over two hun- dred magazines are received, including a large num- ber of English publications which are not generally found in this section of the country in small li- braries. The Union Library's magazine field em- braces economics and vocational education. A college catalogue and publication collection, though .not nearly complete, is fairly representative. It is composed mainly of catalogues of non-sectarian in- stitutions in the United States which are open to women. The Women's Educational and Industrial Union Library is both a business library for the Union de- partments and a public reference library. One special feature of the library is its Legislative In- formation Service which gives complete information about social welfare measures in Massachusett, wo- men's clubs, and bills of legislation on women. This scheme has been in vogue several years and has been exceedingly useful not only to the patrons of the library but to legislators and social workers generally. In conjunction with this service there is also maintained a file of members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate, and this gives BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 115 full information about each member. The list is alphabetically arranged and indexed by towns and districts. Daily and semi-weekly bulletins of ses- sions, dates and schedules of the General Court are filed. Biographical sketches of Congressmen and members of the General Court are part of the mate- rial. Some attempt even is made to keep track of Federal legislative measures affecting women and children. The Union Library has arranged an address list of organizations, including women's organizations and others. For the smaller and little known clubs this index is many times of very great value. The Union and its departments, including the li- brary, enjoys the very closest cooperation with Sim- mons College. Some courses are given jointly by both institutions and as both are in the vocational field a number of Simmons' faculty members serve on the Union staff and committees and vice versa. This arrangement offers an ideal solution to the problem of vocational education for women. While the Library is maintained as a department of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, and is also supported in part by private donations, a large portion of its funds are received through the earnings of the Industrial Departments. To students of Economics and to those interested in vocational education of women this special library should have a special appeal. The librarian, Miss Ethel M. Johnson, who has built up this unusual collection, has, since her graduation from college, taken several courses in Boston University, both in the College of Business Administration and the Col- lege of Liberal Arts. n6 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES The Library is open to all and all possible assist- ance is freely given. 65. Youth's Companion Library An editorial reference library is maintained by the publishers of the Youth's Companion in their building on Commonwealth Avenue. In its strictest sense this collection is not a specialized library, for it contains a diversity of material, including general reference works in English and foreign languages, sociology, natural sciences, the arts, literature, travel, and other books of varied nature which per- tain to a general library. It is in its manner of preserving part of its re- sources that this library takes on somewhat of a special nature. Take, for instance, the editorial library. The editorial library of the Companion is not so complete in specialties as are those of many technical libraries. But it has something about everything, so that an editor can find illustrative material at hand, and this makes it unique by putting it in a special class. The vertical file material of this library is kept in about 125 drawers, which house an enormous mass of information in a sort of loose leaf encyclo- pedia style. As magazines arrive they are stripped of covers, binding, staples and advertisements, and the articles and portraits to be preserved are checked. Each article is then stamped and "stabbed" with a wire staple and deposited in an oblong vertical filing envelope which contains practically all the material on the subject, or its sub-divisions, possessed by the library up to date. The magazine collection is ex- BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 117 tremely large and covers all branches of human activity. All leading European periodicals are sub- scribed for, as well as the American publications. In addition, the most prominent newspapers in the world are received. This magazine-pamphlet collection, which is com- posed mostly of magazine articles, is in this respect unlike a newspaper library, which does not generally contain this class of print, but solely newspaper clip- pings and other transitory material. The "loose-leaf" material is divided into several sections. First, there is the biographical division, which is arranged alphabetically. More prominent persons, such as Clemens, Samuel L., have several folders, general folder, portrait folder, and folder of homes. The files of places comes next, and in it the United States is divided by states and cities. Europe is treated in the same way. Next is the miscellaneous file of all material not in another classification. In the last section most of the en- velopes relate to artists and illustrations. Work -of these men is arranged alphabetically. There are also spaces devoted to cover designing, to commercial catalogues, to the costumes of the several historical periods and of the many countries. The art depart- ment has thousands of larger and more bulky photo- graphs, which are all classified. All this material mentioned above, and all bound book references, are noted on the envelopes in the vertical files, so by turning to the envelope which contains the information which you are looking for, you find the envelope to be a catalogue in itself. In addition, a card catalogue is kept for the bound books. n8 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES This collection of information in the form of classified articles and other pamphlet material gath- ered from every source and arranged for instant reference is what distinguishes editorial libraries, which are important for reference, from other types of technical libraries. The editorial reference library of the Youth's Companion was started in 1898 as an editorial li- brary. At the present time it has about 1,500 bound volumes and hundreds of thousands of magazine articles. The Youth's Companion was first issued in 1827, the earliest juvenile magazine in the world and the only one that has continued to the present day. Its file of back numbers is very valuable, and each para- graph, article and author in every number since 1875 is indexed in a gigantic card case. This is used chiefly to locate references and to answer queries of subscribers. Mr. Paul P. Foster, an assistant editor, is libra- rian and states that the library may be used by stu- dents engaged in research. 66. Harvard Musical Association Libray The Harvard Musical Association was founded in 1837, and one of its earliest activities was the formation of a musical library which, in 1843, con- sisted of between three and four hundred volumes. This number increased until now there are about 9,000 volumes of music and literature relating to music and the kindred arts. The collection is sys- tematically arranged and carefully indexed for the use of musicians and students. The library is open BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 119 to members of the Association and to non-members under certain restrictions. It is maintained from membership dues and a fund bequeathed by the late Mrs. Julia M. Marsh. The library is located at 57a Chestnut Street, Boston. Mr. Ernest O. Hiler is the librarian and Miss Mary A. Thayer the assistant librarian. 120 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES BIBLIOGRAPHY This bibliography or reading list of library economy for business librarians is not intended to be exhaustive. It is merely a suggestion of the reading which should be a part of the training of every business librarian. The larger part of the material listed is of the past three or four years only. The manuals, containing material of cataloguing, classification, and other kindred subjects, should be of value to those studying library economy, for while, as a rule, many of the rules and ideas are of no value in business library work, yet some of the fundamental principles are there, and excellent ideas can often be culled from the reading. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 121 ADMINISTRATION HOPPER, F. F. Order and accession department, rev. ed. A. L. A. RATHBONE, JOSEPHINE A. Shelf department. A. L. A. STEARNS, LUTIE E. Essentials in library administration, rev. ed. A. L. A. BIBLIOGRAPHY LOWE, JOHN A. Books and libraries, 71 p., Boston Book Co., 1916. MUDGE, ISADORE G. Bibliography. A. L. A. NEWARK, N. J. PUBLIC LIBRARY 1600 Business Books, arranged by authors, titles and subjects. Compiled by Sarah B. Ball. Second ed. rev. and enl. to 2100 titles by L. H. Morley and S. H. Powell. 232 p. H. W. Wil- son Co., 1917. BUSINESS ENGLISH BAMBURGH, WILLIAM C. Talks on business correspondence. 246 p. Little, Brown '16. GARDNER, EDWARD H. Effective business letters. 376 p. Ronald '16. HOTCHKISS, GEORGE B. AND CELIA A. DREW Business English. 376 p. A. B. C. '16. CATALOGUING HITCHLER, THERESA Cataloguing for small libraries, new ed. A. L. A. 316 p. 122 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES IMHOFF, ONA M. Cataloguing in legislative reference work, Spec. Libs., 3:149-54, September '12. CLASSIFICATION BACON, CORINNE Classification. A. L. A. CANAVAN, RUTH Two features of the engineering library. Eng. News Record: 46 ap. 5, '17. CLIPPINGS Care of clippings. Ind. 75 :568-9, September 4, '13. FOSTER, PAUL P. Reference libraries for busy men. Ind. 67:1125-8, November 18, '09. LUCE, ROBERT Clipping bureau and the library. Spec. Libs. m 4:152-57, September 10, '13. DOCUMENTS WYER, JAMES I., JR. Government documents, state and city. A. L. A. U. S. Government documents in small libraries, new ed. A. L. A. FILING BARKER, H. F. Devices for efficiency. J. Educ. 84:373-4, October 19, '16. BUNNELL, S. H. Filing of correspondence in a manufacturing business. Eng. M. 34:479-82, December '07. BUSH, F. Simple system for filing and handling tracings and prints. II. Eng. M. 45:546-61, June '13. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 123 CLARK, N. M. Files that find letters in a hurry. II. System 28:216-20, 320-4, 434-8, August-October '16. Colored band methods of filing pamphlets and books. Bull, of BibL, Ap. '15. p. 155-6. CRAMER, J. A. Filing department. Bankers Pub. Co., '17. DOLKART, L. Our easy way to file bulky papers. II. System 34:786-7, June '16. FRAILEY, P. L. Every man his own text book: how the meat of technical periodicals is clipped and filed for department heads. System 25 :318-9, March '14. HUDDERS, EUGENE R. Indexing and filing. 292 p. N. Y. Ronald '17. KENNER, ALVIN R. Indexing and filing technical literature. Eng. and Mining Jour. May '15. 99:851-56. MURPHY, C. D. Why business men don't forget. II. System 29:582-92, June '16. PERRY, E. J. Handling telegraphic correspondence. Bankers M. 82:351-2, March '11. RING, JAMES, JR. Correspondence file used by Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis. II. Bankers M. 80:236- 42, February '10. ROBINSON, MRS. A. L. Filing. Spec. Libs. 6:147-49, November '15. TARRANT, S. C. Cross filing instead of remembering. II. System 26:84-5, June '14. 124 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES THOMPSON, C. B. Right filing and easy finding: logical mnemonic classification. System 23:586-92, June '13. WlGENT, W. D. AND OTHERS. Modern filing. 100 p. Rochester, N. Y. Yaw- man Erbe, '16. GENERAL GlLLIAMS, E. L. Library for business men. System 24:188-90, August '13. HANDY, DANIEL N. AND G. E. MARION Business library. II. System 26:96-9, June '14. JOHNSTON, RICHARD H. Special Libraries. A. L. A. LOOMIS, M. M. Libraries that pay: efficient business houses and classified information. Ind. 74:1436-8, June 26, '13. MEYER, H. H. B. Select list of references on special libraries. Spec. Libs. 3:172-76, October '12. INDEXING CANAVAN, RUTH Indexing lantern slides. Eng. News Record :229, August 2, '17. CUTTER, WALTER P. An international technical index. Spec. Libs. 2:83-6, October '11. HUDDERS, EUGENE Indexing and filing. 292 p. N. Y. Ronald '17. MORTON, F. N. Indexing and abstracting of current literature for the benefit of employees. Spec. Libs. 2:16, February '16. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 125 MUNSON, F. G. Making of a law index. Am. Law R. 43 :801-12, November '09. WILSON, H. W. Problems of printed indexes in special fields. Spec. Libs. 2:83-6, October '11. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BAXTER, R. M. Legislative reference library. Arena 39:674-81, June '08. CARTER, CHARLES F. First aid to legislators. R. of Rs. 49:587-90, May '14. CLELAND, ETHEL Legislative reference 1914-1915. Am. Pol. Sci. , R. 10:110-13, February '16. FLOWER, E. Sounding the retreat. II. Harp. W. 60:417-18, May 1, '15. KAISER, JOHN B. Law, legislative and municipal reference libraries, 477 p. Boston Book Company. National Legislative reference bureau. Nation 92:315, March 30, '11. Legislative clearing-house. Nation 81 :478, De- cember 14, '05. MCCARTHY, CHARLES Federal legislative reference department. Survey 28:298, May 18, '12. MANUALS BUDLONG, MRS. M. G. Plan of organization for small libraries, 71 p. Boston Book Co., '17. 126 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES FAY, LUCY E. AND ANNE T. EATON Instruction in the use of books and libraries, 449 p. Boston Book Co. WARD, GILBERT C. Practical use of books and libraries, third ed., 118 p. Boston Book Co., '17. MUNICIPAL REFERENCE CRECRAFT, E. W. Municipal reference library. National Munic. R. 2:644-53, October '13. FLACK, H. E. Importance of municipal reference library. Nat'l Conf. City Gov't 1908:308-16. HALL, E. R. Plea for municipal reference library. Survey 28:770-1, September 21, '12. HASSE, A. R. Municipal reference library. Lib. J. 40:699, '15. KAISER, JOHN B. Municipal reference library. Nation 94:109, February 1, p '12. Law, legislative and municipal reference libraries, 477 p. Boston Book Co. LAPP, JOHN A. How to organize a municipal reference bureau. Am. City 11:206-10, September '14. Municipal reference library. Survey 26:872-3, September 23, '11. Report of Committee on municipal reference libraries and archives. National Munic. R. 5 :172- 4, January '16. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 127 REFERENCE HOPKINS, FLORENCE M. Reference guides that should be known and how to use them. 187 p. Detroit, Willard Co. MUDGE, ISADORE Kroeger's Guide to the study of and use of reference books, rev. ed., '17. 147 p. A. L. A. MILLER, A. V. How to use reference books. J. Educ. 72:439, November 3, '10. SPECIAL LIBRARIES for November, 1917, is a special issue devoted to the training of business librarians. Addresses from the viewpoint of library schools, schools of business administration, personal quali- fications and a general discussion of the subject will appear. A list of references by the Library of Congress on "Business Libraries and the Rela- tion of the Business Library to the Business Man" are included. INDEX 130 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES INDEX* Aberthaw Construction Co. 1 Accounting 18, 50, 55, 59 Accounting, Cost 1, 45 Accoustics 48 Adams Collection 41 Advertising 18, 36, 55 Adulteration 36 Agassis, Alexander 3 Agriculture 4, 35, 37 Agricultural Chemistry. .4, 37 Agricultural Education 37 Agronomy 37 Alcoholism 27 Allen, Frederick J 62 Allen, Dr. Glover M 16 Allen & Daggett Library. 2 Alvord, Henry B 1 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Library. . . 3 American Agricultural Chemical Company Li- brary 4 American Congregational Association 21 American Cotton Manu- facturers' Association. . . 47 "American Forestry" 39 American Society for Test- ing Materials 1 American Society of Civil Engineers 15 American Paper and Pulp Association 47 Anatomy 13 Annin, /?. Edwards, Jr 37 Anthropology 13 Appalachian Mountain Club Library 5 Appleton Collection 41 Appleyard, Miss I. A 59 Arboriculture 40 Architecture .... 14, 22, 23, 35 Architecture European. . . 14 Arizona 45 Armistead, Louisa 10 Art 14,22 Artists Biography 14 Auditing 55 Automobiles 63 Bach 48 Bacteriology 4, 46 Ballard, James F 13 Banking 31,33,51,55,59 Barbon, Dr. Nicholas 29 Beethoven 48 Belcher Papers 41 Belknap, Rev. Jeremy 41 Bell, Miss Dorothy G 30 Berry, W. Frederick 19 Bible 21 Bigelow, Henry J 13 Biography 11,15,19,63 Biography Artists 14 Biology 13 Bishop Stubbs Library 21 Bloomfield, Meyer 62 Bonds 31,33,51 Boston Athenaeum 13 Boston Chamber of Com- merce Library 6 * Numbers refer to library number and not te pages. BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Boston City Schools 62 Boston Consolidated Gas Company Library 7 Boston Department of Public Works Library.. 8 Boston Department of Statistics Library 9 Boston Dispensary 13 Boston Documents 9 Boston Elevated Railway Company Library 10 Boston Globe Library 11 Boston Herald 12 Boston History 21,41 Boston Journal Library. . . 12 Boston Medical Library.. 13 Boston Museum of Fine Arts Library 14 Boston Public Library 13 Boston Society of Civil Engineers Library 15 Boston Society of Medical Improvement 13 Boston Society for Med- ical Observation 13 Boston Society of Natural History Library 16 Boston Stock Exchange. . . 6 Boston Transcript Library 17 Boston University College of Business Administra- tion Library 18 Botany 4,5,16,42 Bowdoin Papers 41 Boy Problem 20 Brailey, Miss Gertrude G. 48 Brass 35 Brazil . . .45 Bridges 8 Brooks, Mr 35 Bullard, W. Irving 45 Burnham, Miss Viola H... 61 Business English 65 Byzantine Architecture 22 Calico Printing 35 Caiman, Miss E. A 27 Cambridge Public Library. 13 Canavan, Miss Ruth 46 Candy Manufacture 36 Casey, Miss Mary 36 Cash Carriers 32 Cement 35 Ceramics 14 Chadwick, Dr. James R. . . 13 Chambers of Commerce... 6 Charity 60 Chemistry . .4, 13, 35, 44, 46, 59, 61. Chemical Engineering 27 Cheney, Miss Mabel E.. 53 Child Welfare 27 Children's Aid Society... 57 Children's Books 25 Chinese Art 14 Christian Science 13, 19 Christian Science Monitor Library 19 Citizenship 20 City Planning 27, 60 Civic Service House 62 Civic Service House Li- brary 20 Civics 60 Civil Engineering. . . 15, 27, 35, 46,58. Classic Architecture.. . 22 132 Clemens Herschel Library 15 Clippings 45 Cobb, Dr. William H 21 Collectivism 50 College Catalogues 27,64 Color-blindness 13 Commerce 6 Commercial Chemistry 35 Commercial Education 62 Commercial Law 18, 55 Commercial Organizations 6 Comparative Anatomy 13 Concrete 1, 35 Confectionery 36 Congregational Library... 21 Congregational Library Association 21 Conveying Machinery 32 Conveyors 32 Conservation 39 Copley-Pelham Letters 41 Corporation Law 45 Cook Books 36 Cook, H. 40 Cook, Miss Ruth V 23 Cotton 35,45 Cotton Mather's Diary. . . 41 Cover Designing 65 Cram, Dr. Ralph A 22 Cram & Ferguson 22 Crandell, J. Chester 55 Criminology 27, 32, 60 Crockett, Miss C. L 32 Cummings, W. W 7 Current Events. ..11, 12, 17, 19 Dairying 37 Davenport, A. H., and Company Library 23 Davis, Philip 20 Damson, Miss Nina L 39 Decorations 22 Decorative Arts 14 Design 14 Dental Material 13 Directories 10, 51, 54 Dixon, Frederick 19 Dowse, Thomas 41 Drug Trade 61 Dunn, R. Loring 14 Dyes 35 Eclecticism 13 Economics ...18,33,38,50,60, 63,64. Edison Electric Illuminat- ing Company Library. . . 24 Education 18 Education, Elementary. .20, 25 "Efficiency" 1, 26, 35, 50 Egypt 45 Egyptian Art 14 Electrical Engineering. ..2, 15, 24, 27, 28, 35, 58. Electrical Machinery 30 Electrical Manufacturers' Club 47 Electricity ....24,30,35,50,59 Elevators 32 Elizabeth Peabody House Library 25 Ellis, Rev. Dr. George E.. 41 Employment 1, 50, 62 Employm ent Manager s' Association 62 Engineering ..1, 2, 8, 15, 27, 28, 30, 35, 46, 58, 59. Engineers-biography 15 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 133 Entomology 42 Estey, Miss Helen G 38 Ethics 21,60 European Law Reports ... 56 European Sculpture 14 Evans, Miss Mary E 15 Ewing, William C 63 Exploration 5 Fanning, Miss Elisabeth.. 57 Farlow, Dr. John W 13 Ferguson and Cram 22 Ferries 8 Fertilizers 4 Fiel, George A 49 Fifteen Percent Rate Case 43 Filene's, Wm. Sons Com- pany Library 26 Finance 10,31,33,51,53 Fine Arts 14 Fire Insurance 29 Fire Protection Engineer- ing 29 Five Percent Case 43 Floriculture 42 Forbush, Gayle T 29 Ford, Fred W 17 Foreign Languages 18, 65 Foreign Languages (news- papers) 20 Foreign Trade 6, 18, 45 Forestry 39,40,42 "Forestry and Irrigation". 39 "Forestry and Irrigation and Conservation" 39 Foster, Paul P 65 Franklin Union Library.. 27 French, Hollis 28 Friedel.T.H.... .. 47 Froebel Club 25 Furniture 23 Gas 15,35,59 Gasoline Engineering 27 Geology 5,16,28,35 Girls' Trade Educational League 62 Gothic Architecture 22 Government Publications : Municipal 8, 9, 15, 46 National 35,40,51 State 15,36 Great Britain, History 21 Great Britain, Religion... 21 Greek Art 14 Green, Mrs. Hetty 56 Greenman, Edward D 34 Griffin, D. A 2 Gynecological Society of Boston 13 Gypsy Moth 40 Haberdashery 45 Handel 48 Handwriting 13 Handy, Daniel N 29 Harmony 48 Hartwell, Dr. Edward M. 9 Harvard Medical School.. 13 Harvard Musical Associa- tion Library 66 Harvard University 13, 62 Hawkes, C.H 54 Hayes, L. B 6 Heath Papers 41 Higgins, Miss Alice G. . . 5 Highways 8 Hiler, Earnest 66 H olden, Mrs. Austin 3 134 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Holmes, Oliver Wendell.. 13 Holmesiana 13 Home Economics 36, 63 Homeopathy 13 Home and School Asso- ciation 62 Horticulture 37, 42 Hospital Reports 13 Rowland Will Case 56 Hubbard, Allen 28 Hunt, Wm. Morris 14 Immigration 20 India 45 Indian Art 14 Industrial Education 50 Infant Feeding 44 Inoculation 13 Insects, Injurious 39, 40 Insurance 18, 29 Insurance Library Asso- ciation 29 Interior Decorating 23 Interstate Commerce Com- mission ; 43 Investments 31,33,51 Irving-Casson 23 Jackson, D. C. and W. B. Library 30 Japanese Art 14 Jefferson Papers 41 Jeffries, Dr. B 13 Johnson, Miss Ethel M. . . 64 Johnson, Miss Florence A. 60 Journalism 18, 19 Justinian's Institute 56 Kelly, Roy W 62 Kidder, Peabody and Company Library 31 Kindergarten 25 Kioto, Japan-sculpture 14 Kit tr edge, Edward H 51 Labor 10, 38, 47, 50, 62, 64 Labor Legislation. . .38, 45, 47 Lamson Company Library 32 Lantern Slides 14, 46 Law 2,43,50,51,56 Law Libraries 56 Lee, George W 58 Lee, Joseph 60 Lee, Higginson & Co. Li- brary 33 Literature 63,65 Little, Arthur D. Inc., Library 34 Little, Ernest L 45 Linz, Capt. John 41 Lockwood, Greene and Company Library 35 Lowney, Walter M. and Company Library 36 Lumbering 35, 39 Machinery 30, 32, 36, 45 Management 18 Mann, Charles E 43 Manufactures 28 Manufacturing Chemists' Association of the United States 47 Marion, Guy E 52 Massachusetts Board of Agriculture Library 37 Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics Library 38 Massachusetts Civic League 60 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 135 Massachusetts Forestry Association Library 39 Massachusetts Forestry Department Library 40 Massachusetts History 41 Massachusetts Historical Society Library 41 Massachusetts Horticul- tural Society Library... 42 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 22, 30 Massachusetts Public Ser- vice Commission Library 43 Massachusetts Railroad Commission 43 Mather Papers 41 Mathematics 3 Mechanical Engineering. 2, 15, 28, 5& Medical Biography 13 Medical History 13 Medical Jurisprudence 13 Medicine 13, 44 Mellin's Food Company Library 44 Mendelssohn 48 Mental Diseases 13 Merchandising 61 Merchants National Bank 45 Metals 35 Metcalf and Eddy Library 46 Military and Naval Medi- cine 13 Minerology 16, 28, 35 Mining Engineering 15 Minimum Rate Case 43 Minimum Wage 50 Morals . , 60 Morphology 13 Mountaineering 5 Mozart 48 Murray, Miss Margaret E. 26 Music 48 Musical History 48 Musicians Biography 48 Myrick, Philip A 44 Nara, Japan-Sculpture 14 National Association of Cement Users 1 National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. 6, 45 47 National Association of Manufacturers 6, 47 National Association of Wool Manufacturers.. 6, 47 National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. 47 National Board of Fire Underwriters 29 National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Associa- tion 47 National Founders' Asso- ciation 47 National Council for In- dustrial Defense 47 National Erectors' Associ- ation 47 National Industrial Con- ference Board Library. . 47 National Metal Trades Association 47 National Retail Hardware Association 41 Natural History 16 136 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Natural Sciences 3, 16, 65 Nature Science 37 New Bedford Textile School 35 New England Association of Gas Engineers 15 New England Forests 39 New England Hardware Dealers' Association 49 New England History. .21,41 New England Conserva- tory of Music 48 New England Mills 45 New England Telephone and Telegraph Company Library 50 Nerves 13 Nevin, Francis 12 Newspaper Libraries.. .11, 12, 17,19 Numismatics 14 Old Colony Trust Com- pany Library 51 Old Dissertations 13 Opera 48 Ordway, Donald 53 Organ Music 48 Osteopathy 13 Painting 14, 22 Painting, European 14 Palestrina 48 Parcel Carriers 32 Parks 8 Parsons, Charles S 8 Patents 2 Pathology 13 Pediatrics 13 Penology 27 Pensions 50 Pepperrell Papers 41 Perkins, C.E 33 Peru 45 Petroleum 15 Pharmacology 61 Pharmacy 13 Phelps, Roswell F 38 Philosophy 21 Physics 28 Physiology 13 Piano Music 48 Pilgrim Publicity Associa- tion Library 52 Plant Diseases 4 Pneumatic Machinery 32 Pneumatic Tubes 32 Poetry 21 Pomeroy, Jesse 56 Port Development 6 Power, Ralph L 18 Printing 19 Prints 14 Prescott, Col. William 41 Psychology 13, 18, 60 Public Health 27 Public Hygiene 13, 27 Public Service Commis- sion Reports. . . 10, 31, 33, 35, 43, 53, 58, 59 Publishing 19 Public Works 8 Purchasing 18 Pure Food Laws 36 Radiotherapy 13 Railroads ..10,31,33,43,51,53 Rane, Frank W 40 Redstone, Edward H 56 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES 137 Reference 11 Religion 21, 63 Religion, Boston 21 Religion, New England... 21 Remely, Miss Ethel M 25 Reports of Hospitals 13 Retail Trade 18 Reynolds, Harris A 39 Rhode Island History 41 Rich, William P 42 Robinson, Miss Christabel 35 Robinson, H. E 37 Roentgen rays 13 Rollins, E. H., and Sons Library 53 Roman Art 14 Romanesque Architecture. 22 Roxbury Athenaeum 13 Rubber 35 Rubber Association o f America, Inc 47 Sales Management 32 Salesmanship 18, 32, 36, 52 Sampson & Murdock Com- pany Library 54 Sanitary Engineering 46 Sanitary Science 13 Sayward, Perceval 5 School of Social Workers 27 Science 3, 13 Scientific Management. 26, 35, 55 Scovell, Clinton H 55 Scovell, Wellington and Company Library 55 Sculpture 14, 22 Sella Collection 5 Sewerage 8 Shaw, Lemuel 56 Shipping 6 Shrubs 39 Sibley, John Langdon 41 Silk 35 Silk Association of Amer- ica 47 Simmons College 57, 64 Slater, Mrs. H. N 14 Social Insurance 27, 47, 50 Social Law Library 56 Social Service Library.... 57 Socialism 58 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire For- ests 39 Sociology .20,21,25,27,50,60, 64,65 Soils 4 South America 18, 45 South Sea Islands 45 Stained Glass 22 Statistics ...9,31,33,38,51,53 Steam Engineering 27,35 Stocks 10,31,33,51,53 Stone, A. D 24 Stone and Webster Li- brary 58 Storer, Robert 31 Streets 8 Sugar 36 Surgery 13 Tanning 35 Technology 27 Telegraph 43 Telephone 50 Telephone Topics 50 Temple Papers 41 138 BOSTON'S SPECIAL LIBRARIES Tenney, Charles H., and Co. Library 59 Textile Engineering 35 Textile Industry 45 Textile Mills 45 Textiles 14, 35, 45 Thayer, Miss Mary A.. 48, 66 Theology 21 Tinkham.S. E 15 Tokio Imperial Collection 14 Tometius, Miss Esther C. 11 Town Room Library 60 Toxicology 13 Trade Catalogues. . . 15, 24, 27, 30, 46, 49 Transportation 18, 43, 45 Travel 5,16,65 Trees 39 Tree Diseases 40 Tropical Diseases 13 Trumbull Papers 41 Tufts College Medical School 13 Tuttle, Julius H 41 Twentieth Century Club.. 60 United Drug Company Li- brary 61 United States Department of Agriculture 45 United States Department of Commerce 45 United States Geological Survey 35 United States History. .21,41 United Typothetae and Franklin Clubs of America 47 Vaccination 13 Vital Statistics 9, 13 Vivisection 13 Vocal Music 48 Vocation Bureau Library. 62 Vocational Books 3 Vocational Education. .27, 50, 62,64 Vocational Guidance 62 Voight, V. L 24 Waltham Public Library.. 13 Ware,R.C 7 Warren-Adams C o r r e - spondence 41 Warren Papers 41 Water and Water Works. 8, 35, 46, 59 Waterson, Rev. Robert C. 41 Wat kins, Miss Margaret. 57 Weaving 35 Webster, Dr. Arthur G... 3 Wells Memorial Library.. 63 Western Advance Rate Case 43 Wetmore Papers 41 Wheeler, Dr. H. J 4 White Mountains 5 Wilkie, Ed-ward A 50 Winthrop Papers 41 Women in Industry 64 Women's Educational and Industrial Union Libra- ry 64 Women's Municipal League 62 Wool 35 World War 50 Yiddish 20 Youth's Companion Li- brary 65 Zoology 3,13,16 ANNOUNCEMENTS forty-one Universities use as a class text. MATERIALS OF CORPORATION FINANCE By CHARLES W. GERSTENBERG, Ph.B., J.D., Director of the Finance Department, New York University, School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. This volume represents the work of the author over a period of many years in compiling financial reports, documents, reports and readings. They illustrate every phase of the organization, funding, financial management and reorganizations of corpora- tions. 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