List of Voluntary Standards Published

A revised List of Product Standards, Commercial Standards, and Simplified Practice Recommendations has appeared. This National Bureau of Standards List of Publications, No. 53, contains the titles and identification numbers of those voluntary standards issued by the Department of Commerce which are currently available.

The standards were developed under the Department's "Procedures for the Development of Voluntary Product Standards." Also inIcluded in the List are "Tentative Standards" which are in the process of being developed for publication as product standards.

SLA Chapter Issues International Papers

Expanded Communications in a Shrinking World is the title of a new publication by the Washington, D. C., Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. The 54-page volume includes papers by Burton W. Adkinson, Karl A. Baer, Karl F. Heumann, A. P. King (United Kingdom), D.G. Kingwill (Republic of South Africa), Lilia Lodolina (Italy), Ovidiu Popescu (Rumania), H.S. Shahani (India), and Charles Zalar (United States).

Copies are available at $3 each from Sharon Schatz, chairman, Publications Committee, SLA Washington, D. C., Chapter, 137 Duddington Place, Washington, D. C. 20003.

NIH Grants Contract to Info Interscience Inc.

A contract for the preparation and publication of Gastroenterology Abstracts and Citations has been awarded to the 3i Company (Information Interscience Incorporated) by the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health. Items for processing will be selected by scanning of current world-wide publications of scientific literature, selection of appropriate information, and preparation of abstracts and indexes covering this material.

3i Company will prepare 12 monthly issues, as well as Subject Indexes and a Cumulative Index at the end of the year.

ALA Issues New Library Newsletter

Libraries in International Development, a monthly newsletter, appeared for the first time this past spring. Issued by the International Relations Office of the American Library Association, the newsletter has as its purpose the supplying of up-to-date news about the part libraries play in the economic and cultural growth of developing countries.

Emphasis is placed on the developing countries though notes about other countries (e.g., Japan) are included when pertinent. Stress is also laid on programs of support from a wide range of sources.

Juliane Heyman is editor of Libraries in International Development, which is available to libraries and institutions on request. Please address inquiries or submissions of news matrial to her at the International Relations Office, American Library Association, 1420 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

New Documentation Abstracts Address

Documentation Abstracts has a new address for correspondence regarding subscriptions: P.O. Box 8510, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101.

ACS Journal on Microfilm

The first American Chemical Society (ACS) journal on microfilm has been delivered to the Allied Chemical Corporation in Morristown, New Jersey. The delivery marks the beginning of the ACS program for making available microfilm editions of its 20 journals and magazines in various branches of chemical science and technology.

Users will be licensed to file the films and make unlimited numbers of print-out pages for their own use. Current volumes will be filmed as they come out, and the entire past publication program of more than 800,000 pages will be available by September.

The 25-inch row of 16-millimeter cartridges delivered to Allied's Technical Information Service Library contains 45 volumes of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, which formerly occupied six shelves of storage space.

New Lisp Bulletin

A new informal publication, the Lisp Bulletin, has been established for Lisp, a widely used computer programing language for list processing problems. The new Lisp Bulletin will will be published by the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) of the Association for Computing Machinery and will be distributed to SIGPLAN members (along with similar bulletins on Algol, PL/I, Snobol, and Fortran) as an occasional supplement to SIGPLAN Notices, the Group's informal monthly newsletter.

Daniel C. Bobrow has been appointed editor of the Lisp Bulletin. Contributions may be submitted to him at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 50 Moulton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

BIOSIS Publication Plans and
Subscription Rates for 1969

The subscription price for Biological Abstracts in 1969 will be raised to $800 list and $640 (a 20% discount) for non-profit/educational institutions and individuals. A subscription to the Annual Cumulative Index will be increased to $250 list and $200 (a 20% discount) for non-profit/educational institutions and individuals. Subscriptions to B.A.S.I.C. will remain at $15. A review of the operating expenses necessary to keep pace with the literature of biology has demonstrated the necessity for these increases.

In 1969 the BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) expects to provide the following new benefits, in addition to existing services, to subscribers to Biological Abstracts:

(a) BIOSIS will announce at least 220,000 published research papers and reports of importance to biologists in 1969. Of these, Biological Abstracts will represent approximately 135,000; Bioresearch Index will carry an additional 85,000.

(b) The four indexes to Biological Abstracts and Bioresearch Index, B.A.S.I.C., CROSS, BioSystematic, and Author, will increase to correspond to and reflect the broader coverage of these companion publications.

(c) BIOSIS's acquisition program is accelerating not only to encompass the increased coverage planned for 1969 but to respond to the continuing rapid growth of the scientific literature.

(d) The BIOSIS translation program is also expanding, especially in the Eastern European and Oriental language areas.

The Biological Abstracts service provides coverage of all of the life sciences at a fraction of a cent (0.0044 cents) per report.

College Library Notes Published for Academic Institution Presidents

A new communication medium designed to inform college presidents of current library developments will be published by two national educational organizations. organizations. College Library Notes will be published four times each year by the Association of American Colleges (AAC) under the direction of the Joint Committee on College Library Problems and the Association of College and Research Libraries. The project is aided by a grant from the Shell Companies Foundation.

Basil Mitchell, executive director of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, will edit the new publication, scheduled for initial distribution in September 1968. The Notes will present library topics of importance to academic administrators in a format which will stress speed and ease of readability.

The Joint Committee is a liaison group concerned with the needs of libraries in four-year liberal arts colleges and the relationships between librarians and other members of the college community. The Committee's undertaking is expected to assist the college librarian in his continuing efforts to keep his president informed of new trends and new ideas in library service so as to promote an effective role for the library in the education program of the college.

College Library Notes will include topics relevant to innovations in organization and operation, technological advances, acquisitions programs, library design, financing, budgeting, staffing, and personnel administration. The Notes will be mailed free of charge to presi

dents of all 900 four-year colleges and universities that are members of AAC.

Mr. Mitchell, the new editor, was formerly chief of the Academic and Research Libraries Bureau of the New York State Library's Division of Library Development and, for seven years, head librarian of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

The editorial address for College Library Notes will be Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, 103 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601.

DDC Sets User Charges

A service charge for full-size copies of technical reports has been established by the Defense Documentation Center (DDC) of the Defense Supply Agency. Full text will continue to be available to all users in microform at no charge.

During the five years from 1962 to 1967 DDC users doubled their requests for copies of documents. The increased use of research and development reports has led to the necessity for considering additional sources of DDC support. Users' charges for hard copy have become effective. All DDC services and products except hard copies of technical reports will continue to be provided at no charge. The Department of Commerce's Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information will be the agent for collecting and handling all financial transactions with DDC users.

Brief Notes on Publications

Electronic Composition in Printing-Proceedings of a Symposium, edited by Richard W. Lee and Roy W. Worral, National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 295. February 1968. 128 pp., 70 cents. Available from the 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 Symposium on Electronic Composition in Printing was held at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), Gaithersburg, Maryland, June 15 and 16, 1967. Sponsored by the NBS Center for Computer Sciences and Technology, the symposium reviewed the state-of-the-art of a rapidly advancing field of computer application. The papers presented in the Proceedings-29 in all-cover a wide range of topics. Leaders from industry reported recent

technological advances in the field, such as computer image drawing from digital data. Other papers were devoted to government policy, nongovernment applications and research, and specific applications with several government agencies.

Accessory Equipment and Teletypewriter Modifications for Remote Computer Consoles, by Charles H. Popenoe and Robert C. Thompson, National Bureau of Standards Technical Note 419, issued February 1968. 20 pp., 20 cents. Available from the 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. Documents some of the modifications which have been found by NBS to be especially useful and also describes accessory equipment which has been constructed and used in an exploratory manner. Among the equipment discussed is a device for generating serial groups of characters, thus providing automatic typing of often-used programing instructions at the touch of a single button. Also discussed are a consecutive two-page digit number generator, remote tape reading and spooling equipment, code modifying switches, and modifications to facilitate tape editing. The descriptions are sufficiently complete to enable the reader to duplicate the modifications or equipment with little or no design effort.

Disclosures on: Autoeditor-A Semi-Automatic CopyEditing Apparatus, edited by David Robbins, National Bureau of Standards Technical Note 440, issued April 1968. 47 pp., 40 cents. Available from the 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. Describes a semi-automatic apparatus for incorporating editorial revisions in narrative text by using punched paper tape combined with marksensing techniques. The pencil marks placed on an original draft by an editor are used directly by the apparatus to perform a variety of editing functions, such as automatically capitalizing the first letter of a word, capitalizing an entire word, or stopping at the point where a change is to be made. Addition of text is entered manually with an electric typewriter; and deletion is accomplished by activating a “mark skip" key which advances the tape without typing until the next control mark is sensed.

Primer for Agricultural Libraries, by Dorothy Parker, F. C. Hirst, T. P. Loosjes, and G. K. Koster, International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists. 1967. 72 pp., $2. Available from PUDOC, 6a Duivendaal, P.O. Box 4, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Essentially a practical tool to put in the hands of an inexperienced worker in an agricultural library to aid him in recognizing his broad areas of responsibility as well as his specific duties. The Primer identifies for the librarian the scope and the variety of his responsibilities and also the relationship of the library to the organization in which it is placed and the clients whom it serves. Bibliographic tools, book selection, periodical selection, and reference material

are emphasized as the topics which will most directly lead to improved services to users.

Subject Guide to Microforms in Print, 1968-1969. $4 postage paid; paperbound. Available from NCR Microcard Editions, 901 26th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. A biennial, cumulative list, arranged by subject, of books, journals, and other materials available on microfilm, microfiche, and other microforms. Contains over 15,000 titles arranged by broad subject categories. This is a companion volume to the Guide to Microforms in Print, listing microform publications in alphabetical order.

A Guide to Scientific and Technical Journals in Translation, compiled by Carl J. Himmelsbach and Grace E. Boyd. 1968. 96 pp., $4.50. Available from the Special Libraries Association, 235 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003. Because most references to translated journals originate from citations to the original language publications, data are presented as: original language title, translated title, year and issue of the original which first appears in translation, frequency of issue, publisher of the translated journal, and additional information such as the "lag time" in the appearance of the translated version. Journals have been examined in both their original form and their translated counterparts.

Symbol Manipulation Languages and Techniques. Proceedings of the IFIP Working Conference on Symbol Manipulation Languages, Pisa 1967, edited by J. G. Bobrow. 1968. 487 pp., $19.50. Available from the North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 103, Amsterdam-C, The Netherlands. Survey of current techniques and languages in use on computers for the manipulation of symbolic data. Techniques used in this field are important over a broad range of applications, including construction of computer languages, symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions, exploration of mathematical entities on the computer, and modeling of physical systems. The volume contains papers presented at a conference organized by Technical Committee 2, Programming Languages, of the International Federation for Information Processing in Pisa, Italy, September 5-9, 1967.

Structural and Operational Schemes of National Science Policy, No. 6 in the series, Science Policy Studies and Documents, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 90 pp., $1.25. Available from the Unesco Publications Center, 317 East 34th St., New York, N. Y. 10016. Conclusions and recommendations of the third meeting on science policy and research organization in the countries of North Africa and the Middle East. Presents priority programs and methods of scientific cooperation. One of the five programs described at the regional level is the establishment of regional scientific documentation centers (page 38).

A Selective Survey of the Literature on Transportation. 1968. $12.50. Available from the Franklin Institute Research Laboratories, Science Information Services, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Covers current status of the transportation industries, their structures, characteristics, problems, and proposed solutions. Lists 41 specialized

bibliographies, organizational and manufacturing directories, and primary sources of information on transportation.

Investigation on Nuclear "Core Journals." EUR 8887 e, by E. Böhm, European Atomic Energy Community, Center for Information and Documentation (CID). 1968. 21 pp., 4 French francs or 40 Belgian francs. Available from the Office Central de Vente des Publications des Communautés Européennes, 2, place de Metz, Luxembourg. Prepared in English under the sponsorship of the Commission of the European Communities. Reports an investigation regarding articles of nuclear interest abstracted by Nuclear Science Abstracts and by 17 other abstracting and indexing services. CID scanned a total of 21,467 abstracts published during the first quarter of 1965.

Bibliography of Translations in the Neural Sciences 1950-1966, National Institute of Mental Health. 111 pp. Available free of charge from the Office of Communications, Information Services Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, 5454 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20203. Lists translations from 13 languages. Most of the translations listed are from Russian.

Czechoslovakia: A Bibliographic Guide, compilation and accompanying essays by Rudolf Sturm, Library of Congress, Slavic and Central European Division. 157 pp., paperbound, $1. Available from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402. Part II contains a bibliography of more than 1,500 entries for books and periodicals discussed in the essays in Part I.

SDI Bibliography-1, SRTP-1095, by T. R. Savage, 1968. 26 pp. Available from Share Research Corp., 8704 State St., Santa Barbara, California 93105. First publication in a new report series on information retrieval. Consists of a bibliography and index of more than 200 items published on the subject of selective dissemination of information through December 1967.

List of Serials, 1967, Biological Abstracts. $2. Available from the Business Office, BioSciences Information Service, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Compilation of 7,400 serial titles, with the accepted United States of America Standards Institute abbreviation for each periodical title listed.

Science Policy and Organization of Research in Japan, No. 8 in the series, Science Policy Studies and Documents, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 86 pp., $1.75. Available from the Unesco Publications Center, 317 East 34th St., New York, N.Y. 10016.

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

Research on Machine Aids to an Editor of Scientific Translations, Report No. 1, American Mathematical Society. PB 177 879.