Swedish Computerized Documentation The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), the Royal Caroline Institute, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm are cooperating in a project to make computer-based documentation service commercially available for Swedish industry and research organizations. The project is supported by a $50,000 grant from the Swedish Council for Applied Research. A documentation specialist based at the Academy will make an inventory of existing and planned computer-based documentation systems and investigate the possibility of procuring or in other ways utilizing such systems. The Academy will also keep industry and research organizations informed about available documentation systems and assist in arranging individual or central subscriptions. The documentation department of the Royal Caroline Institute and the library of the Royal Institute of Technology plan to obtain magnetic tapes on a subscription basis and assist in selective information retrieval. As part of the cooperative agreement, a researcher will be sent to Chemical Abstracts Service to follow the work of converting Chemical Abstracts to a magnetic-tape-based information service. Argentine Center in Librarianship A Latin American center for library research has been established with the aid of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The current program of the center comprises studies on the relationship between library services and national development plans, interdisciplinary information processing, the quality of library education in Latin America, library education problems, library statistics, library legislation, and the use of computers in bibliography and documentation work. The Latin American Regional Office of Education and a working group of Unesco's International Advisory Committee on Documentation, Libraries and Archives will support a study on the possible establishment of a regional network of educational documentation centers. A library recruitment film will be produced by the Buenos Aires Research Center in Librarianship with the aid of the Spanish Ministry of Education. IFIP Congress 68 Program A comprehensive review of the current state of the data processing art and dissemination of information on the most important developments and significant advances throughout the world during the last three years will form the substance of the program of the IFIP Congress 68. This Congress of the International Federation for Information Processing will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 5-10. During the Congress some 250 papers will be delivered to the 4000 delegates expected from 40 countries. Invited lectures by international experts will cover computer development and usage, in particular the progress made in major areas of the information sciences and developments of particular importance or rapidity. In addition, 200 submitted papers covering the complete range of information processing activities will be selected for the Congress. To complement this extensive series of lectures, four discussion panel sessions are being organized. The following invited speakers will give papers: T.E. Hull, Canada; K. Nickel, Germany; I. Babuska, Czechoslovakia; L. Schoenfeld, United States; V.N. Faddeeva, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; M. Engeli, U.S.A.; S.V. Yablonskiy, U.S.S.R.; S. Michaelson, United Kingdom; S.S. Lavrov, U.S.S.R.; W.L. Van der Poel, Netherlands; C.A.R. Hoare, U.K.; K. Nygaard and O.J. Dahl, Norway; F.J. Corbató and J.H. Saltzer, U.S.A.; T. Kilburn, U.K.; E. Bloch and R.A. Henle, U.S.A.; G.A. Rose, Australia; E. Goto, Japan; W.J. Karplus, U.S.A.; D.W. Davies, U.K.; A.A. Borsei and A.C. Bos, U.S.A.; G.T. Artamonov, U.S.S.R.; E.A. Feigenbaum, U.S.A.; B. Vauquois, France; H. Kazmierczak, Germany; S. Waligorski, Poland; G. Salton, U.S.A.; A.D. Smirnov, Australia; J.A. Robinson, U.S.A.; G.E. Forsyth, U.S.A.; E. At its General Assembly in Mexico City, the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) elected A.A. Dorodnicyn of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to succeed A.P. Speiser as president following IFIP Congress 68. It also elected a second vicepresident, D. Chevion of Israel, and gave him responsibility for coordinating and supervising the activities of the IFIP special interest groups and IFIP Technical Committee 3 (TC 3-Education). L. Lukaszewicz of Poland will continue as vice-president and be responsible for the activities of the other IFIP Technical Committees. A new IFIP technical committee-TC 4will have as its area of interest medical data processing. F. Gremy of France is its first chairman. IFIP is an international organization formed in 1960 to stimulate cooperation among the various information-processing communities of the world in the development of the information sciences. Since the international conference sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in June 1959 which led to its creation, IFIP has held or sponsored at least two specialist conferences each year; it also holds triennial congresses and exhibitions for the study of all aspects of information processing and computing. The next congress-IFIP Congress 68 -is to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 5-10, 1968. Yugoslavia will be the host country for IFIP Congress 71, which will be held in Ljubljana. British College Offers Degree A degree course in information science-the first of its kind in the country-will be offered by the Department of Librarianship, College of Commerce, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. To be given under the auspices of the Council for National Academic Awards, the course has been planned by the College in conjunction with departments of Rutherford College of Technology. The syllabus combines information science studies with scientific and engineering subjects and will lead to a degree of B.Sc. in Information Science. It is specifically designed for those who wish to work in industrial or governmental information centers and libraries, but some graduates are expected to find employment in specialized departments of public and university libraries and in college libraries. Other career prospects would include scientific report editing and scientific or technical journalism. The course will be a four-year sandwich with the third year spent entirely in practice. It will begin in September 1968. For further information contact the director of studies, degree in information science, College of Commerce, Department of Librarianship, Education Precinct, St. Mary's Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE18SP, United Kingdom; telephone: Newcastle upon Tyne 26002. Workshop on Government Office Info Retrieval Is Offered A five-day workshop on office information retrieval is being offered by the National Archives and Records Service of the General Services Administration. The workshop is designed to show how and under what circumstances modern information retrieval methods and equipment may be applied to improve dissemination, storage, and retrieval of information in various areas of government offices. Developed primarily by Robert H. Cain, the workshop will be given on a recurring basis in both the Washington and regional offices of the National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, without cost to participants. Participants are introduced to the techniques and systems in use today and to some of those being developed. They are shown how to conduct information retrieval surveys, how to design a coordinate index, and how to select the right method and equipment. The workshop is intended to broaden the understanding and skills of management analysts, systems personnel, and others who may be directly involved in designing and installing government information retrieval systems. Although the workshop is mainly concerned with improving the dissemination, storage, and retrieval of information in the office, it should also be useful for training information specialists in the scientific and technical fields. For further information contact the workshop coordinator, J. W. White, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. telephone (202) 963-4154 (IDS code 13-34154), or the nearest NARS-GSA Regional Office. OE Funds 39 Institutes for Thirty-nine institutes for training in librarianship will receive Office of Education (OE) support in the amount of $1,835,000 during the summer of 1968 and the academic year EDUCATION AND TRAINING of 1968-1969. OE approval has been given for the institutes, to be conducted by 35 colleges and universities in 21 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Some 1,225 persons serving all types of libraries, information centers, or instructional materials centers offering library type services and serving as library educators will participate in the program. Each institute establishes its own criteria for selection of participants. Participants pay no tuition and receive stipends of $75 a week plus $15 for each dependent during the institute period. Applicants must apply directly to the institute in which they are interested, not to the OE. Write to the Institute for Training in Librarianship at any of the following colleges and universities: Universities of Alaska, Arizona, California at Berkeley, California at Los Angeles, Southern California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Washington, Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Puerto Rico. Also: Florida State, Emory, Indiana, Purdue, Eastern Kentucky, Louisiana State, Wayne State, Western Michigan, Appalachian State, East Carolina, Kent State, North Texas State, and Washington State Universities. Also: Catholic University of America, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, State University of New York at Albany, Edinboro State College, Our Lady of the Lake College, and College of Guam. Second CBE Workshop on Graduate A record 20 new courses in scientific writing-a rarity on graduate school curriculahave appeared this academic year as a result of the first workshop on the teaching of scientific writing organized by the Council of Biology Editors. Twenty-three faculty members, mostly biologists, from United States universities from Berkeley to Puerto Rico and from institutions of higher learning in Mexico and Canada attended the workshop at the Rockefeller University and subsequently Arden House, New York, last summer. The second workshop, again supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be held at Carmel Highlands, California, July 8-12. Participation will be limited to 25 persons, and preference will be given to scientists on university faculties. Applicants will be required to furnish proof that they intend to give a course on scientific writing sometime in the future and that their institution supports them in this intention. Living expenses will be defrayed but not travel expenses except under unusual circumstances. Details and application forms can be obtained from F. Peter Woodford, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. 10021. Junior College Library Info Center A Junior College Library Information Center, established by a $15,000 grant from the J. Morris Jones-World Book EncyclopediaAmerican Library Association (ALA) Goals Award for 1967, begins operation at ALA headquarters in March. The project will be under the supervision of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of ALA. Serving as director of the information center on a half-time assignment for twelve months will be Peggy Anne Sullivan. The information center has been funded as a crash program to collect and disseminate information on a variety of subjects of concern. Recommendation for a center of this kind was part of a ten-point program developed in 1965 by the American Association of Junior Colleges/ALA Committee on Junior College Libraries, librarians, junior college administrators, and instructional personnel. Materials on such topics as standards for junior college libraries, innovative programs, surveys, budgets, and annual reports will be sought out and organized for reference and loan for individuals, colleges, and other agencies interested in this rapidly growing and indigenous American institution, the two-year community college. Medical & Biomedical Library Training Medical and biomedical librarians will receive intensive training in the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science at Urbana, with support from a two-year $112,945 grant from the United States Public Health Service, administered by the National Library of Medicine. Ten trainees each year will participate in the program leading to an M.S. degree. The program actually will take 14 months-an academic year and two summer sessions. The last summer session will be split between a five-week medical literature and reference service course at the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center and a threeweek seminar in computer-based systems for libraries at Urbana. Another unique feature of the training program will be a one-semester assignment for each trainee as a bibliographic assistant with a scientific research project in the medical or related fields. The three-year program will start in June 1968. Application forms and additional information may be obtained by contacting Frances B. Jenkins, 322 Library, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Battelle Offers Indexing Courses A five-day training course on fundamentals of coordinate indexing and indicative abstracting is being given by Battelle Memorial Institute. The course, taught by information specialists from Battelle's Columbus Columbus Laboratories, places emphasis on drill in actual abstracting and indexing of documents, with special attention to the use of links and roles as syntactical controls. The techniques taught have proved suitable for handling scientific and technical information but are applicable to other areas of knowledge. Other topics included in the lecture and discussion periods comprise causes and effects of the information problem, information system objectives, approaches to information organization, levels of services of information systems, mechanization of coordinate indexes, language problems, and thesaurus development and utilization. Training program dates are March 11-15 and May 6-10. Sessions will be held in either Washington, D.C., or Columbus, Ohio. The cost of the course is $200 per registrant. Further information may be obtained from Carol A. Tippett, Battelle Memorial Institute, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Library Data Processing Clinic The Sixth Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing will be held May 5-8 at the University of Illinois at Urbana. The clinic is sponsored by the Division of University Extension and the Graduate School of Library Science. For further information write to Timothy W. Sineath, Extension in Library Science, 111 Illini Hall, Champaign, Illinois 61820. N.Y.U. Offers Microfilm Course A course in microfilm information retrieval systems is now offered by New York University's Management Institute. Designed to introduce the working business manager or systems specialist to microfilm technology and its use in business or government, the 12-session course is instructed by Belden Menkus, editor of the Records Management Journal. In the classroom, strong emphasis is placed on design and costing of information retrieval functions. The varied types of microform are studied, and their specific applications are evaluated. MIT Summer Courses in Info Technology A summer course in aspects of information technology will be offered August 19-30 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Using the MAC-TIP system as a working model, the program will demonstrate the present capabilities and review the promise of computer technology as applied to the handling of scientific and managerial information. The lectures and demonstrations are intended for those who have an active interest in the design or management of advanced computer-based information systems for industry, government, and universities. Information on the program may be obtained from the director of the summer session, Room E19-356, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. New MLA Award The Medical Library Association (MLA) will present the first Rittenhouse Award for an outstanding original contribution in June of this year. This $100 gift of the Rittenhouse Book Store, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is being offered annually for a manuscript paper of a student in an MLA-approved medical library course or a trainee in an MLA-approved internship program. Papers should be submitted to William Postell, Tulane University School of Medicine Library, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, by May 1, 1968, to be considered for this award. The Rittenhouse Award, together with the Ida and George Eliot, the Otto H. Hafner, and the Murray Gottlieb essay prizes, will be given out at the Annual Meeting in Denver, June 9-13. UCLA Library Stipends The School of Library Service of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has announced fellowships, scholarships, and traineeships for the 1968-1969 academic year in amounts of $1,000 to more than $5,000. Applications for the stipends are made in conjunction with applications to the UCLA Graduate Division for admission to graduate status. The deadline is March 15, 1968. For further information write to the Graduate School of Library Service, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024. MLA Scholarships The Medical Library Association (MLA) is offering two $1,500 scholarships and the Paul Jolowicz scholarship of $1,000 to qualified |