Brodman, librarian and professor of medical history, School of Medicine Library, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

Optical Character Recognition in
Computerized Management of Info

An international conference of commerce, industry, and government executives will review the impact of optical character recognition on computerized information management in the next decade. Scheduled for December 4-6, 1968, in Hollywood, Florida, the forum will be sponsored by the International Business Forms Industries (IBFI). More than 600 corporate heads and government officials are expected to participate. Representatives are expected from 27 nations.

Optical character recognition eliminates the commonly used keypunch stage in developing information for computer input, thus reducing input time and avoiding errors in transferring information from the original sources.

Forum co-chairmen are James F. Conway, IBFI president, and Dara Hekimi of Geneva, Switzerland, secretary-general of the European Computer Manufacturers Association.

Keynoting the Forum will be U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Rosel H. Hyde. CBS news commentator Eric Sevareid will review the problems of contending with the massive amounts of information developed in our society.

For further information contact IBFI, 20 Chevy Chase Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20015.

Library Institute in Illinois

The Fifteenth Annual Allerton Institute, Cooperation Between Types of Libraries: The Beginnings of a State Plan for Library Service in Illinois, will be held November 3-6, 1968, at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois. Participation is by invitation and is limited to Illinois librarians.

For further information write to Timothy W. Sineath, Extension in Library Science, 111 Illini Hall, Champaign, Illinois 61820.

SLA Chapter and Purdue
Plan Meeting on Automation

A two-day meeting on automation in the library will be sponsored by the Indiana Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and the Purdue University Libraries October 4-5, 1968, at Purdue University. This meeting will be a sequel to a meeting held in 1964.

Theodora Andrews, pharmacy librarian at Purdue University, is chairman in charge of meeting plans. For further information address Mrs. Andrews at the Pharmacy Building, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana 47907. Communications Meeting

The Cedar Rapids Conference on Communications, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers sectional conference, will take place September 19-21, 1968, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. For further information contact W. S. Elliott, P. O. Box 907, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52406.

PEOPLE

Proposed Lister Hill Center for
Biomedical Communications

Senator John Sparkman has proposed that the National Library of Medicine's planned new annex be designated the Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications. The proposal came as part of a tribute to Senator Hill on his retirement after over 40 years of public service.

NLM's Board of Regents and staff joined in the formal tribute, as did U.S. Department of

Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Secretary Wilbur J. Cohen; Worth B. Daniels, M.D., first chairman of the Presidentially appointed Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and Mr. Hill's personal physician; colleagues from both Houses of the Congress; officials of HEW; and many other friends from the biomedical community.

Regents chairman, Barnes Woodhall, endorsed Senator Sparkman's proposal for creating the Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications.

New DPMA International Officers

Charles L. Davis of Arlington, Texas, was elected international president of the Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) at that group's recent International Conference and Business Exposition in Washington, D. C. Mr. Davis assumed his duties July 1. Other officers newly elected or re-elected include: D. H. Warnke, international executive vice president; and international vice presidents Virg DeVine, Edward O. Lineback, James D. Parker, Jr., Bernard R. Purslow, Shirl T. Reinhart, Herbert B. Safford, and James W. Stephens. David B. Johnston, Jr., was re-elected international secretary-treasurer. Theodore Rich remains on the DPMA International Executive Committee as immediate past president.

Brief Notes on People

Alfred Asch has been appointed chief of the National Library of Medicine Office of Computer and Engineering Services. Mr. Asch recently retired from the Air Force. He had served as chief of Data Services Division, Sacramento Air Materiel Area, McClellan Air Force Base, and earlier had planned, organized, and activated an ADP Systems Center for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Huly E. Bray has been named chief of the National Library of Medicine Office of Public Information and Publications Management, following his recent retirement after 30 years in the Air Force.

Eileen Cooke, who was assistant director of the American Library Association Washington Office, is now associate director.

The new director of the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile is Roque Estéban Scarpa.

Clem M. Hall has joined the American Library Association Washington Office as assistant director. Miss Hall, who came to ALA from the position of young adult librarian of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Library, will work on the implementation of legislation.

Gerald N. Kurtz, who left the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on June 30, now heads the Office of Communications, National Institute of Mental Health. He was formerly chief of the NLM Office of Public Information and Publications Management.

G. Burroughs Mider has been appointed assistant to the director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for medical program development and evaluation. He will provide continuing professional technical and medical evaluation of NLM program responsibilities. Dr. Mider has served at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1952. Most recently, he was director of laboratories and clinics, responsible for all intramural research for the NIH. Earlier he was associate director in charge of research for the National Cancer Institute. Oleg A. Mikhailov recently assumed the responsibility of the position of director of the Department of Documentation, Libraries and Archives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Mr. Mikhailov formerly was director of the Central Research Institute for Patent Information in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was a member of the U.S.S.R. State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries.

Daniel A. Mills has joined the Toxicology Information Program as chief for products and services planning and development. Mr. Mills most recently served on the staff of the Chemstrand Research Center in Durham, North Carolina, as section head for technical information.

Vladimir A. Parail is the new director of the Division of International Cooperation in Scientific Research and Documentation, Department of Advancement of Science, of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He comes to Unesco from Odessa, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where he was vicepresident of the Polytechnical Institute from 1962 to 1968.

PUBLICATIONS

For each of the substances included in this data collection, the DAT lists the Chemical Abstracts systematic indexing name; the specific medical subject heading (MESH) term that identifies it in Index Medicus and NLM's MEDLARS (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System); other names by which it has been referenced in the literature, including generic, trade, and trivial names and published laboratory numbers, and the reference sources which use each name; the molecular formula; and the CAS registry number, which interlinks all data associated with the substance in the CAS Registry System. The DAT presents these data in three separate listings organized by name, by molecular formula, and by CAS registry number.

By establishing the chemical identity of each substance and relating to this the various names by which it is identified in the published literature, the DAT provides a bridge between data on these substances in some 60 published sources, including Chemical Abstracts, Index Medicus, and a variety of handbooks and standard reference works. Nearly 140,000 names are listed for the 33,000 substances covered. If sufficient interest is demonstrated, CAS will undertake periodic updating of the information.

The DAT is the first publication to be derived from CAS's Chemical Registry System, a computer-based data collection that will eventually bring together information on virtually all known chemical substances. The Registry uses

chemical structure as a basis for unique identifying each substance, then assigns to an identifying number-the registry numberthat serves as an "address" for organizing fil of information on the substance. The speci data collection from which the DAT was d rived is a subfile of the registry covering su stances of particular interest to NLM ar FDA.

The DAT will be published in 5 volum totaling 5,300 pages. It will be available early November, 1968, as PB 179 900 and ma be obtained for $100.00 from Clearinghou for Federal Scientific and Technical Inform tion, Springfield, Virginia 22151.

NSF Uses Two Methods To Fund
Publication of Japanese Embryology
Book in English

Drawing on several resources for maki foreign scientific information accessible f United States scientists, the Office of Scien Information Service of the National Scien Foundation has arranged for the translatio and publication of Invertebrate Embryolog The volume, a compilation of significant pape in the field, was edited by Matazo Kumé Ochanomizu University and Katsuma Da president of Tokyo Metropolitan University

Translation of the volume from Japane and editing of the English text were unde taken by President Dan's wife, the America

biologist Jean C. Dan. NSF funded this work under its regular translation program.

Publication of the volume followed with support from NSF's Special Foreign Currency Science Information Program. NOLIT Publishing House in Beograd, Yugoslavia, completed this work under its P.L. 480 contract with NSF.

The 605 page book, with copious illustrations and general, author, and species indexes, is available for $6 from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151.

Physics Translation Journal

Ukrainian Physics Journal, a new cover-tocover translation of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences' Ukrainskii fizicheski zhurnal will offer original papers and brief communications on experimental and theoretical physics esecially in solid-state areas. It also will cover nuclear physics, plasmas, lasers, and other opics.

Under sponsorship of the Atomic Energy Commission and with support from the Naional Science Foundation, Volume 12 (1967) of the Journal is being translated by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations under the NSF P.L. 480 Special Foreign Currency Science Information Program.

Publication by the American Institute of Physics begins with Volume 13 (1968). In its 12 Russian issues, Volume 13 will contain some 2,100 pages. The first translated issue is schedled for mailing in October. Subscriptions to Volume 13 are available for $80 ($84, foreign) rom Dept. AP, American Institute of Physics, 35 East 45th Street, New York, N. Y. 10017.

ASME To Publish Translation ournal on Heat Transfer

A new selected translation journal, Heat Transfer Bimonthly-Soviet Research, will be ublished by the American Society of Mechancal Engineers (ASME). The National Science 'oundation has granted $19,175 to ASME for he purpose. Thus NSF continues to make oreign scientific information accessible for United States scientists.

The production of this journal will consist

in the selection and translation of approximately 1,200 Russian pages from over 12,000 pages of significant Russian material and the composition and publication of about 1,200 English pages in six issues by Scripta Technica, under contract with ASME. The Society will handle the subscriptions, circulation, and promotion of this selected translation journal and will supervise the project.

The journal is expected to become self-supporting at an early date. Two journals, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and Friction and Wear in Machinery, translated and published by ASME and supported by NSF in the past, both became self-sufficient, one in 1964 and the second in 1965.

Vol. III of Quaternary Period

To Be Translated from Russian

Translation of the Russian monograph, Chetvertichnyy period (Quaternary Period), will be completed under a National Science Foundation grant. Volume III of this monograph, by K. K. Markov and A. A. Velichko, has just been published by the University of Moscow Press and so becomes available for translation by the American Geological Institute (AGI) under the $9,290 grant. Last year NSF supported translation by AGI of the first two volumes of the monograph.

Translation of the monograph was recommended by Gerald M. Richmond, president of the International Union for Quaternary Research.

AIP Arranges Rapid Distribution of British Physics Journals

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) will handle all regular rate subscriptions in North America to journals of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society (IPPS) in the United Kingdom, beginning in January 1969. A major advantage of the arrangement for United States, Canadian, and Mexican scientists is the speed of receipt of the journals: IPPS will air freight supplies of the journals to AIP, which will then disseminate them through its normal distribution channels. AIP's facilitating the journal's transmission should have the bonus effect of broadening the readership of these journals.

In addition, AIP contemplates utilizing input from the journals received for its own information sevices. The apparatus for such input is still under negotiation, as are arrangements for some type of reciprocal activity by IPPS, such as an announcement service, in connection with AIP publications.

The IPPS journals to be handled by AIP are as follows: Journal of Physics A, B, C, D, or E or A through E combined; The Proceedings of the Physical Society, Physics Bulletin, Physics Education, and Progress in Physics.

For further information write to the Fulfillment Manager, AIP, 335 East 45th Street, New York, New York 10017.

German Chemical Journal Surveys Users

Chemisches Zentralblatt has recently completed a survey of its users. The purpose of the survey, carried out by distribution of questionnaires, was to determine significant characteristics of the journal's users, such as location, education, employer, scientific and technical interests, sources of information, and major duties. The results will be collated and analyzed.

Czechoslovak Study of Use of Compact Book Shelving

An English translation of a study by a Czechoslovak author, Drahoslav Gawrecki, together with six selected appendices that treat various aspects of compact shelving, has been published by the Library Technology Program of the American Library Association with the assistance of funds from the Council on Library Resources. Compact Library Shelving is essentially a study of the utilization of storage space. It presents a thorough discussion of theoretical aspects and of the history of compact shelving in America and Europe.

Originally published in 1960 in the Czech language, Gawrecki's study comprises five parts:

(1) general characteristics of compact shelves; (2) revolving compact shelves; (3) drawer-type compact shelves; (4) sliding compact shelves; and

(5) new developments in compact shelving in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Czechoslovakia.

Compact Library Shelving, 185 pages, trar lated by Stanislav Rehak, may be ordered f $7 from the Publishing Department, Americ Library Association, 50 East Huron Stre Chicago, Illinois 60611.

German Documentation Society Issues New Bilingual Current Awareness Servi

German Documentation Literature, a ne documentation service of the German Doc mentation Society, is available on subscriptio This new current awareness service, in t form of an abstracts journal appearing on quarterly basis, keeps track of German doc mentation literature; summarizes all origin articles from ten German core journals documentation, archive, and library scien and presents them in a content-by-journal wa for easy browsing; and reports on German re erence works, monographs, and serials in t field of documentation and on original articl relevant to documentation from other Germa journals.

I. Dahlberg is the editor.

This new bilingual (English and German documentation and information service available for $5 annually (including postage from the publisher, Deutsche Gesellschaft fi Dokumentation, Bibliothek und Dokumenta tionsstelle, Westendstrasse 19, 6 Frankfurt a Main 1, Federal Republic of Germany.

New "Biological Information Notes"

"Biological Information Notes" is the titl of a new section in the British Institute o Biology Journal. Appearing quarterly, this se tion will attempt to keep biologists up-to-dat on research programs in the information fiel and abstracting services in the United King dom and major centers and services elsewhere new books, reports, and articles on informa tion documentation and retrieval and on th use of biological literature; details regarding forth-coming meetings, symposia, and courses and occasionally short biblographies on specifi aspects of information documentation and re trieval.

The first appearance of the new section is on pages 29-30 of Volume 14, No. 5.

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