AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1968

Vol. 10, No. 4

The new Center will also provide regional acilities for the dissemination of computer ervices and products from other sources as well as ACS as an integral part of a total inormation system. The educational effort will xtend to future users of the national system hrough the development of study courses, one f them of graduate level, on modern techniues in chemical literature handling by Paul E. Fanta of the IIT Department of Chemistry. The grant permits initiation of the first hase of a three-year program designed to esablish the Center and to utilize its feed-back o improve operation of the chemical informaion system being developed now.

Martha E. Williams, manager of IITRI Techical Information Branch, will direct the projct. Peter G. Lykos will participate in the deelopment of the computer services.

River and Estuary Info Center

A Riverine-Estuarine Information Center as been established by the Science Informaion Services of the Franklin Institute Reearch Laboratories. The Information Center s one of the projects of the newly-formed In

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stitute for the Development of Riverine and Estuarine Systems (IDRES), sponsored by the Science and Engineering Foundation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Science Foundation. M. B. Zisfein, associate director of the Franklin Institute Research Laboratories, is director of IDRES.

The Information Center will function as a clearinghouse for information on such aspects of river and estuary resources and utilization as industrial use, transportation, waste management, recreation, and biological and watershed resources. The Information Center's activities will be coordinated with those of the Water Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC), U. S. Department of the Interior, and of other centers concerned with water resources science and technology.

For investigators involved in projects pertaining to river and estuary development studies, the Information Center will offer a single source for maintaining and providing references to published literature, for referrals to people and organizations highly qualified in specialized areas of interest, and for advising of current progress and developments.

IDRES participating membership includes,

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in addition to the Franklin Institute, Lehigh University, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and Temple University.

The Riverine-Estuarine Information Center is under the general direction of Alec Peters, Manager of the Science Information Services. In cooperation with Temple University, Earl Finbar Murphy of the University's Law School will aid the Center in matters pertaining specifically to water resources, law, and public planning.

J. Walter Thompson Info Center

A new Information Center, set up by the J. Walter Thompson Company, will open offices in the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago in late 1969. Services of the center will be restricted to the company, its branches, and its clients.

The center will provide central bibliographic control in all subject areas covered and will hold the collections of information materials for some of the subject areas. These areas range from scientific to commercial and include advertising, marketing, food and nutrition, cosmetics, insurance, and transportation. The materials will be drawn from every information source within the organization.

Edward G. Strable will plan, organize, and administer the center. Mr. Strable is leaving his position as executive secretary of the American Library Trustee Association (ALTA) October 1 to return to J. Walter Thompson Company, where he formerly was library director. He has been with ALTA for three and a half years and until recently was also executive secretary of the Reference Services Division of the American Library Association.

Data, Documentation Studies Included in International Ocean Exploration Plans

Handling of oceanographic data will constitute an important aspect of work during the International Decade of Ocean Exploration. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, has announced that the Council has contracted for the National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering (NAS/NAE) to conduct an initial

study of the scientific and engineering aspects of United States participation in the Decade. NAS and NAE will assist the Council in developing the U.S. contribution to the Decade and in identifying scientific and engineering goals, objectives, milestones, priorities, and timing.

The study will include the identification of capabilities required to achieve these goals in terms of manpower, marine data, instrumentation, sea and shore facilities, and funds. It also will identify the end products that should be produced during the Decade, such as scientific literature in the form of charts, maps, research reports, and atlases. The investigation will also be concerned with benefits to be expected in terms of advancements in science and engineering and in the Nation's capabilities to use the seas more effectively.

The NAS Committee on Oceanography, chaired by John C. Calhoun, Jr., and the NAE Committee on Ocean Engineering, chaired by Thomas C. Kavanaugh, are organizing a steering committee of experts to plan and participate in the study. The final report is scheduled to be submitted by April 1, 1969.

The Marine Science Council was established two years ago by the Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act of 1966 and is composed of the Vice President, five Cabinet members, and three heads of other Federal agencies. It has statutory responsibility to advise and assist the President in policy planning and coordination of the marine science programs of 11 Federal agencies.

Scientific and Technical Info Program Promoted for Metropolitan New York

An additional $2.5 million needs to be spent annually in the New York metropolitan area to provide top-notch information services for the professional physical science and engineering community, according to the findings in Russell Shank's report, Regional Access to Scientific and Technical Information: A Program for Action in the New York Metropolitan Area. One million dollars of this total would mean that libraries in the area studied could do an adequate job operating as they do today. An additional $1,500,000 would have to be spent