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The purpose of this paper is to present a case study about how academic librarians can contribute to the interdisciplinary research endeavors of professors and students, especially doctoral candidates, through an intellectualized approach to collection development.

In the wake of protest movements such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, colleges and universities have begun to develop courses about these events, and it is anticipated that there will be much research conducted about their respective histories. Academic librarians can participate in those research efforts by developing interdisciplinary collections about protest movements and by referring researchers to those collections.

Through a case‐study approach, this paper provides a narrative bibliography about Southern Agrarianism that can help professors and students interested in the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street movements to see their research endeavors from a new interdisciplinary perspective.

The value of this paper lies in presenting a concrete example of the way in which academic librarians can become active research partners through the work of building collections and recommending sources in areas that professors and students may not have previously considered.

AIRCRAFT production is so much in everyone's mind at the present time that inevitably much discussion has arisen around its relationship to design. Schools of thought range from that which would subjugate design entirely to production to that which puts design for maximum performance before all other considerations. It is intended here to review the design and production of current types of aero‐engines primarily from the engine designer's point of view.

THE past two years have seen a notable increase in the number of services on aircraft for which some form of power is required. First, retractable undercarriages, followed by wing flaps, gun turrets, and automatic pilots, have demanded a light and compact source of power, capable of being transmitted to remote points on the machine. As suitable power units have become available, so have other applications presented themselves, with the consequent freeing of the pilot and crew from irksome manual effort.

General and Historical Works, Nevins, Allan. The Gateway to History. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1963.

In recent decades, substantial unemployment once again became commonplace enough in most Western industrial nations to erase the optimism that pervaded the early post‐World War II era. That optimism was fueled by a belief that capitalism had solved the problem of unemployment. Full employment was believed to be a permanent feature of Western economies, just as in the 1930s, mass unemployment was often considered a permanent feature of capitalist economies.

This paper presents the role that the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) plays in furthering the dissemination and practice of quality methods and concepts around the world. It looks at a range of aspects such as principles, mission and objectives of the IAQ. Provides information on the development of the IAQ and its future. Outlines the IAQ’s vision for meeting the needs of the twenty‐first century.

A brief comparison of tooling techniques in the automotive and aircraft industries. One problem arising where the same tooling shop is used lies in the difference between the types of engineering drawings. The aircraft drawings are complicated by the fact that engineering changes are not included in the up‐to‐date working drawings.

A resistance element for an electrical strain gauge comprising, a thin elongated element of a substantially uniform mixture of finely divided carbon and silica and a resilient binder having an elasticity similar to that of phenolic resin.

An exhaust device for internal combustion engines, comprising in combination a toroidal manifold which is transversely of substantially round cross section, a plurality of flared mouth pipes opening individually from said cylinders in a common direction substantially parallel to the toroidal axis and connecting upon the exterior of the manifold tangentially into the interior of said manifold, an engine cowling, and a plurality of flared mouth outlet pipes opening tangentially from the interior of said manifold and tangentially to the engine cowling in a common direction substantially parallel to said axis into the open air.

DURING the past few years the aeroplane has increased in performance to such an extent that normal machines of to‐day have speed, climb, load capacity, economy, and reliability characteristics, combined, only considered possible from individually specialised record making designs of ten years ago. Both airframe and engine are concerned in these gains, and the two now require to be such close partners that apportioning of credit is scarcely possible and research on both components has to proceed in step.