students who will enter library school in the summer or fall of 1968.

Applications are available from any American Library Association accredited library school or from the MLA Scholarship Committee chairman, Isabelle T. Anderson, St. Joseph's Hospital, Medical Library, P.O.B. 2071, Phoenix, Arizona 85001.

OE and Army Fund SDC Design of New Training Courses for Librarians

A series of on-the-job training courses to improve the working skills of library personnel will be designed by System Development Corporation (SDC). The $184,673 project, supported by the United States Office of Education (OE) and the Army Corps of Engineers, calls for design and development of a series of training courses to be conducted over a 20-month period and divided into two phases.

The courses are to be adaptable to personnel

in all categories-professional librarians, library technicians, clerks, subject specialists, language specialists, and systems specialists.

During the initial phase researchers will study library operational requirements that are not being met adequately because of deficiencies in knowledge or skills. This part of the study will also explore the new skills necessary for adjustment by personnel to a computerized systems approach to library operations and for effective communication by personnel with automation specialists.

Phase two of the contract will include testing and modification by SDC of the training courses at selected libraries throughout the nation and implementation of the completed educational system, including instructional guidelines, teaching texts, and testing documentation, by the OE and the Army.

Carlos A. Cuadra, head of SDC's Information Systems Technology Staff, will provide general supervision on the project's development through Everett M. Wallace, the project head.

MEETINGS

Symposium on Info Process Mechanization

"Mechanizing the Information Process" will be the subject of a symposium sponsored by the National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, May 27-29 in Washington, D.C. An office equipment show will also be featured.

The objective of the symposium is to promote better management through proper use of mechanization and to highlight the latest developments and advanced techniques in the field of mechanization of the information process.

While in some few instances computer hardware may be discussed, the symposium will feature the latest in technological advances in office paperwork other than by means of the computer. The program will include systems presentations, panel discussions, and state-of-the-art reports conducted by leaders from government and private industry.

Attendance is initially limited to 1,200 program directors, managers, systems men, and other key personnel of the federal government. However, non-government individuals will be accepted as regular participants in the symposium, without charge, to the extent of available space.

For further information, contact the symposium coordinator, M. Osmond Newgard, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D. C. 20408.

Colloquium on Impact of Mechanization of Libraries and Information Centers

The Fifth Annual National Colloquium on Information Retrieval will take place May 3 and 4, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participants will consider the impact of mechanization on libraries and information centers.

The meeting represents an attempt to broaden the horizon of those information center retrieval experts who are in the throes of transition from manual to mechanized systems.

Specific topics are: user feedback, computers and privacy, abstracting services, printer's ink versus the electron, the project manager's information problem, obsolescence in information systems, cost/effectiveness of mechanization, mechanization in the school library, transition states from manual to mechanized systems, computer applications for bibliographic control, reference versus document versus information retrieval, impact of mechanization on library inventory control, improving rapport between the librarian and the system designer, recent co-operative arrangements between public libraries, the copyright problem, information service networks, and automation in the small library.

Sponsors include the regional groups of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Society for Information Science, and the Special Libraries Association as well as the Frankford Arsenal of the U.S. Army, Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania, and the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval.

For further information, write to David Lefkowitz, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.

MLA Meeting in Denver

The Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association (MLA) will be held in Denver, Colorado, June 9-13, 1968. Approximately 700 members of MLA are expected to attend.

Frank B. Rogers, University of Colorado Medical Center, is chairman of the convention ommittee. Scott Adams, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, is president of ILA.

For further information, contact the MLA, 19 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 0611; telephone (312) 642-3724.

Division of Chemical Literature Holds Info Sessions at ACS National Meeting

Topics of interest to information scientists will receive attention at sessions of the 155th National American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting in San Francisco March 31 through April 5. Sponsored primarily by the ACS Division of Chemical Literature, the following sessions will be held:

"Critical Reviews: What, Why, When, and How"; "Technical Information FacilitiesPlanning and Modification"; "The Literature of Food Chemistry-Problems and Some Solutions" (joint session with Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry); "Effects of Proposed Patent Reform Act"; "General Papers"; "Notation Systems"; and "Tutorial Session on Wiswesser Notation— A Tutorial Experiment."

DPMA International Data Processing
Conference in Washington, D. C.

An educational seminar program, the largest meeting of the year for all facets of the business data processing community, will take place June 25-28 during the DPMA 1968 International Data Processing Conference and Business Exposition in Washington, D. C. The Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) educational program will be tailored to the specific needs of the data processing executive, focusing on the latest concepts in management practices and pointing the way to greater effectiveness on the part of managers. New technical applications of the computer and computer equipment will be analyzed in depth. The business exposition is the industry's largest showing of the tools of data processing, including the latest advances in equipment.

A highlight of the DPMA conference is a day-long series of tours to outstanding data processing, including the latest advances in ington.

For further information, write DPMA, 505 Busse Highway, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068.

The former director, Foster E. Mohrhardt, retired in January. He now is program officer for the Council on Library Resources, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Sherrod, a trained scientist and librarian with experience in both traditional and automated information-handling techniques, began his career in library and information science in the Technical Information Division of the Library of Congress in 1952. From 1956-1963 he served as chief, Science and Technology Division. In 1963 he transferred to the Atomic Energy Commission as chief, Information Services and Systems Branch; and since 1965 he has served as assistant director for systems development.

Mr. Sherrod was instrumental in the initial design of an international nuclear information system involving the world's major nuclear powers. Under this system each country prepares, in English and machine-readable form, appropriate indexes and other descriptive material related to its own nuclear documentation. The system is expected to make it possible for the United States scientific community to acquire a greater amount of information at significantly lower cost.

In 1958 he was instrumental in developing a library technician program at the U. S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School, where he continues to teach. He also serves as an adjunct professor of library service at Rutgers University.

Pollock Joins NSF as New
OSIS Program Director

Donald K. Pollock has joined the Office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation as director of the Research and Studies Program. This program is concerned with a broad spectrum of research in many areas of information sciences, including studies in communication patterns and processes in science, information organization and retrieval, and the formulation of new techniques for improving scientific information services.

Mr. Pollock came to NSF from the Office of Naval Research, where he had been a senior staff member for six years and for the past year had served as acting head of the Information Systems Branch. Previously he worked for the Office of Chief of Naval Operations, National Research Council, Office of Naval Research, and the National Bureau of Standards.

New Engineering Index Officers

Engineering Index, Inc. (EI) will have Bill M. Woods as its executive director and Carolyn M. Flanagan as its editorial director beginning March 11. The changes were precipitated by the enormous growth and interest in engineering literature, the evolution in abstracting techniques, and the implications emerging from the Management Planning Study now under way with National Science Foundation support.

Mr. Woods brings to his new post experience as an association executive and educator in the technical information field. From 1959 to 1967 he was executive director of the Special Libraries Association.

After serving EI in various capacities, including that of production manager, Miss Flanagan was made its general manager in 1958. In 1965-1966 she was president of the National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services.

British Museum Librarian To Be CLR Consultant on Foreign Library Work

Indicative of the growing interest in international activities shown by American information organizations is the recent appointment of Sir Frank Chalton Francis as consultant on foreign library developments to the Council on Library Resources, Inc. (CLR). Sir Frank is director and principal librarian of the British Museum.

Sir Frank, who is continuing his duties at the British Museum, will advise CLR of developments, current and potential, in both advanced and developing nations which may come Iwithin the scope of CLR's interests. CLR, established by the Ford Foundation in 1956, is an independent, non-profit organization

devoted to research and demonstration directed toward the solution of library problems generally and especially those of research libraries.

Sir Frank is president of the International Federation of Library Associations and a former president of the Library Association, of Aslib (Association of Libraries and Information Bureaux), and of the Museums' Association. He is also a former vice president of the Unesco International Advisory Committee on Bibliography and a former chairman of the Council of British National Bibliography and of the executive committee of the Council on the Library Association.

He is joint editor of the Journal of Documentation, associate editor of Libri, and an advisory editor of Library Quarterly. He is a former editor of Library.

Brief Notes on People

Solid-state physicist John Bardeen has taken office as president of the American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Bardeen, who is professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, is well known for his part in the authorship of the BCS theory (B, Bardeen; C, Leon M. Cooper; and S, J. Robert Schreiffer) published in 1957. He assumed office in February at the end of the joint APS-American Association of Physics Teachers meeting in Chicago. Dr. Bardeen is a Nobel Laureate for his role in the discovery of the transistor.

George S. Benton, director of the Research Laboratories, Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), Boulder, Colorado. is president-elect of the American Meteorological Society for 1968. He came to ESSA from Johns Hopkins University, where from 1960 to 1966 he was chairman of the Department of Mechanics. Dr. Benton is chairman of the Panel on Air-Sea Interaction, joint panel of the Committee on Oceanograpy and the Committee for Atmospheric Sciences, National Academy of Sciences; a member of the Advisory Committee for Atmospheric Sciences, National Science Foundation; and a member of the Weather Bureau's Advisory Committee for Education and Training.

Milton Harris has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the 110,000-member American Chemical Society (ACS) for 1968. The chairman of the board is the chief executive officer of ACS-the world's largest organization devoted to a single science. Dr. Harris, the chemist who helped develop the home permanent wave and shrinkproof wool and who was

in charge of research at the Gillette Company when the coated razor blade was developed, was president of Harris Research Laboratories, now a part of Gillette, from 1945 to 1961. He was vice-president for research of Gillette from 1957 until he retired last year.

Murray Rogofsky, formerly chief librarian, Information Management Department, Vitro Laboratories, Silver Spring, Maryland, has been appointed special assistant for technical information systems at the Naval Oceanographic Office, Suitland, Maryland. Mr. Rogofsky will formulate programs and policies for all information-gathering activities of the Office.

Floyd L. Thompson, director of the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has been elected president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Thompson has been at Langley since July 1926 and became director in 1960.

Delmer J. Trester has joined the staff of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) in the Office of Education. Dr. Trester will head an active liaison program to seek cooperation with other federal agencies as well as non-federal groups for incorporating educational resources into the ERIC system. ERIC makes the information available to the educational community through Research in Education, a monthly abstracting and indexing journal, and other special publications. Dr. Trester had previously been with the National Referral Center of the Library of Congress, where he served as chief of the Referral Services Section.

PUBLICATIONS

Most of the material to be printed by the Linotron system is fed into government agency computers for other purposes. The production of magnetic tapes of this material can be regarded as a by-product of normal computer operations which would occur anyway.

Thus, savings result from more economical use of government computer time as well as from reduction of paper used in the finished product, with accompanying reduction in cost of platemaking, printing, binding, warehousing, shipping, and postage. And the byproduct aspect of the new mode of publication represents still another form of savings to government agencies.

GPO's Linotron is now hard at work on 11 different jobs, all of them by-products of computer operations with data in various agencies. Meanwhile the Electronic Printing Service of the GPO learns from the new jobs, debugging and modifying programs and establishing routines which can serve to shorten subsequent Linotron printing processes.

Production of its first job by Linotron, a master cross-reference list of 81 volumes, totaling 32,701 pages, for the Defense Supply Agency in six weeks last fall set a new speed record for typesetting with book-quality composition. An estimated 100,000 hours would

have been required to compose this publication on traditional hot-metal typecasting machines. Quarterly changes to the annual publication will be made, and savings of several hundred thousand dollars are expected annually on printing of this list.

The Linotron was developed to bridge the technological gap between the high-speed digital computer, which can store and retrieve data at ultra-high speeds, and the traditional graphic arts typesetting equipment, which produces a high-quality product at relatively slow speeds. The Linotron receives magnetic tape which has been prepared by a computer and contains all the data to be typeset, along with the format information which instructs it in exact positioning of words and lines and the variations in type size and style.

The second unit, the character generator, is the typographic heart of the system. A glass plate, or grid, contains three complete alphabets of differing typographic styles and is held rigid before what is, in effect, an array of closed-circuit television cameras. The characters on this plate are selected and converted into video signals and sent to the third unit, the photo unit. Here, through the instructions received by magnetic tape, they are positioned and displayed on an ultra-high resolution