A review of the work of the Baker Library in the Harvard Business School upon the attainment of its twentieth birthday reveals a startling contrast between the well-appointed building of to day and the beginnings of the Library when it was a small part of the College Library.

The Baker Library began with a few volumes given it by the Department of Economics, and since then, under the direction of C. C. Eaton '01, it has grown to more than a hundred thousand volumes, including such sections as the Aldrich Library of Finance, the corporation collection, and the original documents division. A good working library has been begun in the field of business and economics, in the assembly of monographs and periodicals.

Foreign Material Needed

The goal of the Library is still a long way off, especially in its lack of adequate foreign material. According to one member of the staff, the Baker Library may be said to have passed adolescence and is approaching maturity, but still has a serious task ahead if it is to live up to its present splendid promise.

The Aldrich Library of Finance, acquired through the generosity of the Aldrich family of Providence and constituted chiefly of the material on banking, finance and the tariff brought together by Senator Nelson Aldrich in his lifetime, adds to the school's possession in these fields. Housed as it is in a separate room, it provides an excellent reference reading library for students who wish to withdraw from the rush of their everyday obligations to read comfortably and leisurely in the history of those subjects which certainly have lost none of their importance since the days when they engaged the interest of Senator Aldrich.

Rockefeller Foundation Aids

A reclassification of printed material on business is being prosecuted by the Library under the supervision of W. P. Cutter. Most of the existing classifications of such material were developed before business came to be conceived of as a science or a field of study, and before any large literature had been developed in that province. The new classification, for which financial support is being supplied by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation, is being prepared with the collaboration of librarians in charge of special business material, such as those in libraries of New York banking institutions.