ence and Technology.

Special Libraries Association, $15,769 for operation of the Translations Center. INFORMATION SERVICES

American Geological Institute, $24,781 for planning an Information System Program for the geological sciences, Phase I-Staffing and Communications Support.

Colorado School of Mines, $15,900 for compilation of Paleontologic and Bibliographic Data for Cretaceous Foraminiferida.

Pennsylvania State University, $106,800 for recording of taxonomic, stratigraphic, morphological and bibliographical data for palynology.

The American Museum of Natural History, $71,200 for bibliographic service in ichthyology. INFORMATION SYSTEMS

American Mathematical Society, $163,450 for research on machine aids to an editor of scientific translations.

Center for Applied Linguistics, $209,100 for an in

formation system program for the language sciences, stage two: system design.

The Econometric Society, $11,500 for development of mechanization system for bibliographical indexing. RESEARCH AND STUDIES

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $49,900 for The Role of Information in Parallel R&D Projects. SPECIAL PROJECTS

Information Dynamics Corporation, $1,922 for a study of the feasibility of creating a national inventory of the world's scientific and technical serial publications.

University of Colorado, $44,600 for Academic Libraries Cooperative Processing Center for all Colorado colleges and universities-Phase III: Operational Experiment.

University of Washington, $81,200 for computerized treaty information system.

Washington State University, $89,560 for the on-line automation of the Washington State University Library-Phase II.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)

Puerto Rico will be the site of the Fourteenth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, June 17-20, 1969. The acquisition of Latin American scientific and technological materials will be the special topic for discussion. The program and working papers for the meeting are being planned by the SALALM Ad hoc Subcommittee on Scientific and Technological Materials under the chairmanship of James Andrews of the Argonne National Laboratory. Other sessions will deal with progress made in the past year on matters concerning the booktrade and acquisitions, bibliography, exchange of publications, official publications, photoduplication of Latin American materials, and archives.

Meetings of the Seminar Committee will take place on Wednesday morning, June 18. The first general session will be held Wednesday afternoon to initiate committee and progress reports, and the last one on Friday morning, June 20. Meetings of the Executive Board of the newly incorporated SALALM will be held on the evening of Tuesday, June 17, and at luncheon on Wednesday, June 18.

The topic of scientific and technological materials will be discussed on Friday morning. Discussion groups on SALALM activities in acquisitions, bibliography, library organization and inter-American library relations will meet on Thursday afternoon.

Institutional registration in the Fourteenth Seminar is $15.00, which includes preprint working papers only available through payment of the institutional registration. These papers, including the Progress Report on books in the Americas, will be distributed at the time of the meeting to participants and to those registered but not attending. The registration fee for additional participants from the institution registering is $7.50, and includes preprint working papers. Additional sets of work

ing papers can be subscribed to in advance for $5.00 each. The Final Report and Working Papers will be subsequenty published by the Pan American Union, although with some delay.

Further information on local arrangements for meetings and hotels for the Fourteenth SALALM as well as on registration will soon be available. Information on the content of the program and working papers can be procured from Mr. James Andrews, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439. For other information, refer to the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard, Pan American Union, Washington, D. C. 20006.

An open meeting of SALALM is planned for Tuesday, January 28, 1969, during the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association, in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D. C. Committee meetings will also be held at that time.

The Seminars on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials have been sponsored since 1956 by the Pan American Union as an activity of its Inter-American Program of Library and Bibliographic Development and carried on informally by virtue of libraries and institutions interested in the procurement of Latin American materials. In order to give the program of SALALM a firmer basis for existence and carrying out its desired activities, SALALM was incorporated as a professional association in January 1968.

Elected as officers of SALALM at the Thirteenth meeting in Lawrence, Kansas, June 2022, 1968, at the time of its formal organization after incorporation are: President, A. Curtis Wilgus; Vice-President and President-Elect, Carl W. Deal; Executive Secretary, Mrs. Marietta Daniels Shepard; Secretary-Treasurer, Albert Diaz; and members-at-large, Dominick Coppola and Alma Jordan (for 1 year), Alice D. Ball and Joseph Rosenthal (2 years), and Gilberto Fort and Donald Wisdom (3 years).

International Seminar on UDC in a
Mechanized Retrieval System

A seminar on the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) in a Mechanized Retrieval System was held at the Technical University of Denmark on September 2-6, 1968 at Lyngby under the auspices of the International Federation of Documentation (FID).

The purpose of the seminar was to provide a forum for discussion of the work of Robert R. Freeman and Pauline Atherton on the evaluation of the UDC as the indexing language for a mechanized reference retrieval system (the AIP/UDC Project). The work was done under the auspices of the American Institute of Physics with the support of the National Science Foundation.

The seminar included some practical work and computer demonstrations. IBM had prepared a Combined File Search (CFS) system for the IBM 1401 which was available at Lyngby and Mr. Freeman demonstrated the system with a UDC-indexed document collection consisting of 2300 abstracts from one issue of Nuclear Science Abstracts. The seminar registrants prepared search requests and each of them received a computer-printed response.

Mr. Freeman described the UDC-CFS system in detail and explained the use of a dictionary file (the UDC schedules), the document reference or master file, and the descriptor file (an inverted file of UDC class numbers used in indexing the document collection). Professor Atherton described AUDACIOUS (Automatic Direct Access to Information with the On-Line UDC System), an interactive retrieval system which used UDC and Euratom keywords to access pertinent documents. This was an experimental system which used a cathode-ray tube as a display console. The search strategies of this system were different from the UDC-CFS system because the user could interact with the system and employ several commands to browse through the UDC schedules, build a file of pertinent UDC numbers and quickly transform his search strategy as he finds that his retrieval results are not pertinent.

G. A. Lloyd, Head of the FID Classification Department, delivered the keynote address, An FID Viewpoint on the Role of UDC in a World Science Information System. Dr. B. V. Tell,

Royal Technical University Library, Stockholm, critically reviewed the evaluation reports of the AIP/UDC project. Applications of UDC in computer-based systems were reported by L. Corbett, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority; H. J. Norris, Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment; E. Senf, Zentralstelle für maschinelle Dokumentation, Frankfurt-amMain; B. Barnholdt, Technical University of Denmark; and Dan Fink, International Building Classification Committee, Copenhagen.

Other speakers were Donald W. King, Westat Research Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, Evaluation of Information Retrieval System Performance With Special Referenece to Use of UDC in Nuclear Science; T. Caless, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Subject Analysis Matrices for Classification with UDC; and M. Rigby, Selective Dissemination of Information using UDC in International Information Networks.

Pauline Atherton is now Associate Professor, School of Library Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York and Robert Freeman is with the Scientific Information and Documentation Division, Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), Rockville, Maryland 20852.

Financial support was provided by the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., FID, and the Danish Technical Research Foundation. The Northern European University Computer Centre of the Danish Technical University, Lyngby, supplied the computer facilities for demonstrations.

UNISIST

UNISIST is now the official name for the World Science Information System. The feasibility of such a system is being studied by a joint committee of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) and Unesco. According to this committee, the ICSU-UNESCO Central Committee to study the feasibility of UNISIST, UNISIST is neither an acronym nor an abbreviated name.

The Central Committee held its second meeting in Paris, July 23-25, 1968 to receive reports of the working groups. The third meeting is scheduled for January 21-23, 1969.

IFLA Meeting in Frankfurt

More than 400 delegates from 38 countries attended the meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) in Frankfurt-am-Main, August 18-24, 1968. The Sevensma Prize was awarded to Jay Lewis of the United Kingdom for her essay on "Libraries for the Handicapped" and to John Lubans of the United States for "University Library Problems-A study and Suggested Solutions." Foster Mohrhardt of the United States was re-elected to a second 3-year term on the Executive Board.

The 1969 meeting of IFLA originally scheduled to be held in Moscow, is being reconsidered. The decision of the Executive Board will be announced at a later date.

Information Research in the Construction Industries

CIRIA (the Construction Industry Research and Information Association) in England has made a grant of £9,370 to the North-Western Polytechnic School of Librarianship and the Brixton School of Building to undertake a twoyear study of the problems of indexing and classification for information retrieval in the construction industries.

The product of the research will be a comprehensive vocabulary of the terms used in the documentation of the construction industries, systematically organized by clear rules to allow the fullest display of their relationships.

The work (which will be housed at the Brixton School) will be under the joint direction of Mr. J. Mills of the School of Librarianship and Mr. K. Turner of the Brixton School of Building, London.

34th FID Conference

The 34th FID Conference, originally scheduled for September 9-15, 1968 in Moscow, will be held at The Hague December 2-7, 1968. The International Congress on Scientific Information, scheduled for September 16-18, 1968 in Moscow, in conjunction with the FID Conference, has been cancelled.

Royal Society Discusses Scientific Information

The Royal Society held an all day meeting, October 18, 1968, for the discussion of scientific information. The main theme of the meeting was the need for scientists and professional societies to become involved in information activiities. This theme was emphasized by Sir Harold Thompson, who chaired the first session, and by Professor F. S. Dainton, who made the concluding remarks. Dr. Burton W. Adkinson, Office of Science Information Service, National Science Foundation, invited speaker, talked on "The Role of Scientists and Scientific Societies in the United States." Dr. Adkinson pointed out that, in the United States, many of the societies have multimillion dollar budgets for information activities. In addition, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering have recognized the importance of science information and have appointed a number of committees to deal with specific activities in this field.

Mr. J. R. Smith, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, and Dr. A. K. Kent, The Chemical Society, described the information activities of their societies and Dr. F. L. Rose discussed activities in the pharmaceutical industry in Great Britain. In addition, a number of short papers were given by representatives of various British information centers.

OSTI Gives Grants for Social Science

Bath University of Technology in England has received a grant of up to £4,000 from the Office for Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), London, England, to support an Information Officer for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences for two years. The experimental post will be associated with the INFROSS project (Information Requirements of the Social Sciences). The primary objective is to supplement the data on the information requirements of the social sciences available from interviews and questionnaires. The information officer, working closely with the academic staff in serving their information needs, will

be able to study the flow of information in greater detail. For comparative purposes, it is hoped to extend this experiment to members of social science departments in Bristol University.

This appointment also has wider implications for universities in general, in that the academic staff participating will receive intensive services of the type generally only available to industrial and other scientists from their special libraries and information bureaux. It is intended to evaluate the results of this experiment and the evaluation will be of interest in considering the problems of providing information services based on university libraries.

OSTI has awarded another grant in the amount of £9,774 to the Editor of Sociology of Education Abstracts to develop an improved system of retrieval of value to a wide area of social services. The work will involve the study of existing indexing and retrieval systems with the possibility of computer applications. Additional studies, in collaboration with INFROSS are also planned.

New Members on the U.S. National Committee for FID

Five new members have been appointed to serve on the U.S. National Committee for International Federation for Documentation (FID). Professor Barry S. Brook, Department of Music, Queens College, City University of New York will represent the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Jack Minker, Associate Professor, Computer Science Center, University of Maryland will represent the Association for Computing Machinery. Mr. Grieg Aspnes, Research Librarian, Cargill, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota will represent the Special Libraries Association. Association. Dr. Lee G. Burchinal, Director, Division of Information Technology and Dissemination, Bureau of Research, Office of Education (OE) will represent OE. Mr. Richard C. Raymond, Consultant in Information, Advanced Technical Services, General Electric Company, New York City has been named Member-at-large.

New Chemical Information Service

OSTI has awarded a grant of up to £24,000 over two years to Oxford University to experiment with the use of the Index Chemicus Registry System. Index Chemicus provides abstracts, with structural diagrams, for all new compounds (now approximately 150,000 per annum) reported in 135 periodicals. Magnetic tapes containing the bibliographic information printed in Index Chemicus have been available from the Institute for Scientific Information for some time and tapes containing Wiswesser Line Notations for each of the compounds have recently become available.

Scientists' information requirements related to chemical compounds will be specified in terms of complete or partial structures. These structures will then be converted into the appropriate Wiswesser Line Notation for matching by computer against the Index Chemicus tapes. Citations retrieved in this way will be circulated monthly. Initially this service will be provided to university scientists and later to a selected group of scientists in government laboratories and agencies. Each scientist will be asked to evaluate the service by comparing the citations received with information they obtain fom their usual literature sources. This evaluation will provide an assessment of the Wiswesser Line Notation and will also provide experience in the searching of large numbers of line notations for specific compounds and groups of compounds.

New Unesco Guide

Unesco has published the Guide for the preparation of scientific papers for publication. The Guide is a revised edition of the Code of good practice for scientific publications which was drawn up by the FID-ICSU-IFLA-ISOUnesco Liaison Committee in 1962. All of the essential elements contained in the first version have been retained and only a small number of additions and slight changes have been made. The Guide for the preparation of authors' abstracts for publication is given as an appendix. Copies are available from Unesco, Place de Fontenoy, Paris 7e, France.