gress symposia in the areas of state of the art reports, research tools in information for scientists, scientific papers as a source of information, education and training, trends in documentation, information systems, retrieval systems, indexing and abstracting, thesauri, and classification. A limited number of copies of an abstracts volume of symposia papers is also available, free of charge, from the same address.

International Conference on Education for Scientific Information Work, Proceedings, FID Publication No. 422. 1967. XI + 270 pp., 30 Dutch Guilders ($8.40). Available from the International Federation for Documentation, 7 Hofweg, The Hague, Netherlands. The conference, held in London on April 3-7, 1967, and organized on behalf of FID by Aslib, the Institute of Information Scientists, and the Office for Scientific and Technical Information, was attended by 54 experts from 14 countries and two international organizations. The volume contains the full texts of the 33 papers presented and detailed reports of the discussions, the opening addresses, and the final summing-up. Areas discussed are future needs of education in information science, educational background for entry to courses and their ultimate aim, syllabus and structure of courses, collaboration, and the provision of teachers and research workers.

Guidelines for the Development of Information Retrieval Thesauri, prepared by the Sub-Panel on Classification and Indexing, Panel on Operational Techniques and Systems, Committee on Scientific and Technical Information, 1967. 9 pp., 15 cents. Available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Sets forth guidelines for the selection of appropriate subject indexing terms and the display of these terms in a thesaurus format. In the preparation of the guidelines, reference was made to the procedures followed by several operating systems, such as the Educational Resources Information Center, the National Agricultural Library, the Engineers Joint Council, the Defense Documentation Center, the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, and Project LEX. Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, First Edition, OE12031, U.S. Office of Education. $2.50. Available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. The Thesaurus is the first comprehensive subject authority for storing, searching, and disseminating educational research and research-related information acquired by the Educational Resources Information Center. The Thesaurus should be used in searching the subject indexes of Research in Education, OE's monthly abstract journal.

Cumulative Indexes to Research in Education, 1966 and 1967, Office of Education. In two volumes: Report Résumé Index, $3.75; and Project Résumé Index, $1.75. Available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Provides indexes to the research projects and reports announced in the monthly issues of Research in Education from November 1966 through December 1967. The monthly author, institution, and subject indexes published in those 14 issues of Research in Education

have been cumulated in these volumes to create a more efficient search tool for the aggregate collection of informative abstracts in the monthly issues.

Evaluation of Information Systems: A Selected Bibliography with Informative Abstracts, by Madeline M. Henderson, National Bureau of Standards Technical Note 297, issued December 1967. 209 pp., $1. Available from Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402; the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151; or local U.S. Department of Commerce Field Offices. A survey of the literature on the evaluation of information retrieval systems and document reference systems, conducted at the National Bureau of Standards. The papers, reports, and book sections reported in this bibliography are those oriented toward evaluation or testing of systems, subsystems, or components rather than design or selection of systems.

Reviews of National Science Policy: United States, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1968. 546 pp., $11.50. Available from the OECD Publications Center, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. Eighth in a series of reviews of national science policy. Chapter XI, "Policy for the Transfer of Results," describes information policy and activities.

Automated Language Processing, The State of the Art, edited by Harold Borko, System Development Corporation, 1967. 386 pp., $12.95. Available from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. A part of the Information Science Series, for which the general editors are Robert M. Hayes and Joseph Becker. Topics covered are "Language Data Processing," "Statistical Analysis," and "Syntactic Analysis."

Proceedings of the 1967 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, edited by Dewey E. Carroll, University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science. Available for $2 in paper cover and $3 in cloth cover from the Illini Bookstore, 715 S. Wright St., Champaign, Illinois 61820. The conference was held April 30-May 3, 1967, on the Urbana campus. Contributors include S. R. Ray, Richard E. Chapin, Eugene B. Jackson, Don R. Swanson, Charles T. Payne, Richard W. Counts, Ronald A. Zuckerman, Elizabeth B. Hage, and Barbara Evans Markuson.

Using Audio-Visual Materials, prepared by Dorothy N. Lynch, audio-visual consultant, The Nassau Library System, Garden City, New York, with the assistance of members of the Audio-Visual Committee, Adult Services Division, American Library Association. 4 pp. Up to 25 copies available free on request and 26 or more at 3 cents each from the Adult Services Division, ALA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. First publication in a new series, ASD Guide to the Literature of Adult Services.

Information Retrieval, The User's Viewpoint: An Aid to Design, proceedings of the Fourth Annual National Colloquium on Information Retrieval, May 3-4, 1967, edited by Albert B. Tonik. 225 pp., $12. Available from International Information Incorporated, 2101 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Penn. 19103. Includes 20 monographs

by experts on a wide range of topics related to computer-based information storage and retrieval systems.

A Selected Bibliography of Documentation & Information Science, Autumn 1967, Center for Documentation and Communication Research, School of Library Science, Case Western Reserve University. Available from Edward Verhosek, administrative assistant of the Center for Documentation and Communication Research, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. A selected list, revised in October 1967, of papers and reports contributed to the field since 1964 by the staff of the Center.

Library Surveys, edited by Maurice F. Tauber and Irlene Roemer Stephens. 1967. 286 pp., $13.50. Available from the Columbia University Press, 440 West 110th St., New York, N.Y. 10025. Contains papers presented at the Conference on Library Surveys June 14-17, 1965, sponsored by the Committee on Library Surveys of the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association and the School of Library Service, Columbia University.

Federal Funds for Research, Development, and Other Scientific Activities, Fiscal Years 1966, 1967, and 1968. Vol. XVI of a series of surveys of science resources, National Science Foundation. NSF 67-19, 248 pp., $1.25. Available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Part II describes the use of federal funds for scientific and technical information. Part III covers the collection of general-purpose data.

HYDOR, A Yearly Index of the World's Scientific Literature in the Field of Water Resources, 1967, American Water Resources Association. 280 pp., $10 ($8 for members of AWRA). Available from the circulation manager, AWRA, P. O. Box 434, Urbana, Illinois 61801. HYDOR is a computer-produced annual index of the 1967 volume of HYDATA (which appeared in 12 monthly issues). It consists of two chapters, a key term index, and a bibliography.

Guide to Programs, NSF 68-6, National Science Foundation, February 1968. 79 pp., 50 cents. Available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Section VI covers science information programs.

Instrumentation Publications Catalog, 1968, Instrument Society of America (ISA). 42 pp. Available free of charge from the Publications Department, ISA, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. Comprehensive source of current data on published material covering the instrumentation technology.

Communication in the Space Age, The Use of Satellites by the Mass Media, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Place de Fontenoy, Paris 7e, France. 1968. 200 pp., $4. Available from the Unesco Publications Center, 317 East 34th St., New York N.Y. 10016. Contains chapters relevant to the

field of information science: "Benefits of World Exchanges" by Armando Cocca (page 77) and "Transfer of Information Between Libraries" by Harry C. Campbell (page 83).

1968 Catalogue of FID Publications. Available free of charge from the International Federation for Documentation, 7 Hofweg, The Hague, Netherlands.

Science Policy and Organization of Research in the U.S.S.R., No. 7 in the series, Science Policy Studies and Documents, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 116 pp., $1.50. Available from the Unesco Publications Center, 317 East 34th St., New York, N.Y. 10016.

Romanian-English Dictionary and Grammar for the Mathematical Sciences, by S. H. Gould and P. E. Obreanu. 1967. 51 pp., $7.10. Available from the American Mathematical Society, P.O. Box 6248, Providence, R.I. 02904.

The Concise Guide to Library Research, by Grant W. Morse. December 1967. 214 pp., 75 cents. Available from Washington Square Press, Inc., 630 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10020.

Science Information Specialist Training Program, A Progress Report, March 1968, by Charles W. Shilling and Bruce Berman. 27 pp. Available from the Biological Sciences Communication Project, George Washington University, Suite 700, 2000 P St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Fundamental Research and the Universities: Some Comments on International Differences, by Joseph BenDavid, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1968. 111 pp., $1.50. Available from the OECD Publications Center, Suite 1305, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006; or from the OECD Publications Office, 2, rue André-Pascal, 75 Paris (16e), France.

The following publications, resulting from NSF-supported projects, can be ordered by PB number for $3 (65 cents, microfiche) from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151:

An Information System Planning Guide: Preliminary Development and Checkout, by John A. Whittenburg and Anne W. Schumacher, Whittenburg, Vaughan Associates, Inc. PB 177 601.

A Serials Data Program for Science and Technology, 190 pp., by William A. Creager and David E. Sparks, the Information Dynamics Corporation. PB 169 405.

Information Storage and Retrieval, Scientific Report No. ISR-13, by Gerard Salton, Cornell University. PB 177 812.