and has served as editor for all of the volumes. Currently he is conducting a survey of the impact of the Annual Review upon the library and information science field. The survey is supported by the Library and Information Science Research Branch, Bureau of Research, U.S. Office of Education, has become Librarian at York College of the City University of New York System. Mr. Thomas has been associated since 1960 with the University of Chicago Library, most recently as Associate Director of the Library for Services in the General Library. Two New Board Members for The Council on Library Resources has announced the election of two new members to the board of directors. They are John A. Humphry, New York State Education Department Assistant Commissioner for Libraries and Robert Vosper, Librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles. Prior to his present post, Mr. Humphry was director of the Brooklyn, New York Public Library. He received his degree at Columbia University's School of Library Science and has worked in the Harvard Library, the Enoch Pratt Free Library and as director in the Public Library of Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Vosper was educated at the University of Oregon and the Graduate School of Librarianship of the University of California at Berkeley where he served as junior librarian. He later worked in the libraries of Stanford University and of UCLA. In 1952 he became director of libraries at the University of Kansas and returned to UCLA in 1961 as University Librarian and professor in the Graduate School of Library Service. Since 1966 he has also been director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Mr. Vosper is currently a member of the Science Information Council of the National Science Foundation. The Association of College and Research Libraries Has New Executive Secretary J. Donald Thomas has been named Executive Secretary of the Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association. He succeeds George M. Bailey, who Herner and Company Appoints New Directors Dr. Beverly L. Clarke has been appointed Director of Surveys and Special Studies of Herner and Company. Dr. Clarke was formerly Administrative Officer and Research Officer of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and prior to that, Assistant Director of Research of Merck and Company, Inc. In his new position, he will be in charge of the design and execution of readership, information use, and operations research studies as applied to information and library programs General Andrew P. O'Meara, U.S. Army (Retired) has been appointed Director of Adminis tration. General O'Meara will be in charge of contract administration, finance, personnel, se curity, and other supporting services. Genera O'Meara was formerly Commander-in-Chief United States Army, Europe and also forme Chief of Army Research and Development. New Librarian at NIH Mr. Seymour I. Taine has been appointe Librarian at the National Institutes of Health Prior to his present appointment, Mr. Tain was Chief of the Information Services Branch Scientific and Technical Information Division NASA. Previously, Mr. Taine served as progra director in the Office of Science Informatio Service, National Science Foundation and as consultant for the World Health Organization From 1949 to 1964, he was employed at th National Library of Medicine and its predece sors, the Armed Forces Medical Library ar the Army Medical Library. New Director of Research for APA Dr. Harold P. Van Cott became Director of the Office of Communications Management and Development of the American Psychological Association on October 1, 1968. He will be responsible for supervision of the research activities directed toward a national information system for psychology. Dr. Cott was formerly a Director with the American Institutes for Research. He is a Consultant to the National Academy of Science on urban transportation, the Temple University on educational evaluation, and the Ford Foundation on the teaching of English as a second language in Nigeria. He is also Scientific Adviser to the U.S. Army Research Office and the U.S. Army Electronics Proving Ground, USATECOM on electronic equipment test methodology and to the U.S. Army Electronics Command on aviation electronics research and development planning. Brief Notes on People Heinrich Metzendorf of the Federal Republic of Germany has been appointed Director of the recently created Division of Publications, International Atomic Energy Agency. William A. Creager has been elected Vice President of Wolf Research and Development Corporation. In his new capacity, Mr. Creager will direct Wolf's Systems Technology Division, which provides professional systems support to government and industry. The Systems Technology Division is primarily concerned with the analysis, design, and operation of various types of information, data, document handling and control systems. Lawrence M. Kushner has been named Director of the National Bureau of Standards Institute for Applied Technology. As Director of the Institute, Dr. Kushner will have under his general direction the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information and the Center for Computer Sciences and Technology. Allen Sévigny is the new Executive Director of the Central New York Reference and Resources Council. Mr. Sévigny formerly served as Public Library Consultant in the New York State Library Division of Library Development. The Executive Office has been moved to 102 W. Center Street, Canastota, New York 13032. Walter C. Christensen, formerly Director of Technical Information, in the Office of the Deputy Director of Defense for Research and Engineering, has accepted the position of General Manager for Special Systems with the Information Systems Company (a part of McGraw-Hill). He will have offices in both Washington, D.C. and New York City. Ivan G. Rice has been named Chief of the Information Services Branch, Scientific and Technical Information Division, NASA. Mr. Rice formerly was Head of the Research and Analysis Section of the same Branch. Paul L. Horecky, Assistant Chief of the Slavic and Central European Division of the Library of Congress, has been appointed by the governing bodies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council to serve for the coming year on the Subcommittee on East Central and Southwest European Studies. Lee G. Burchinal, Director, Division of Information Technology and Dissemination, Office of Education, has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Committee to the Office for Library Education of the American Library Association. Chester A. Newland, Professor of Public Administration at the University of Southern California, has been named Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas. Dr. Newland will assume his new duties on a full-time basis next February. · PUBLICATIONS Project LEX Thesaurus The Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms is now available. It contains over 18,000 descriptions for use in indexing and retrieval and about 5,000 entries referring to preferred terms. All areas of science and technology are covered including the engineering disciplinesmechanical, civil, electrical, chemical, etc.—-the sciences of physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences including medicine and biology, social sciences, economics, and military science. The Thesaurus is designed to lay the ground work for compatible information systems in all disciplines. It provides a base for effective retrieval by any engineer or scientist familiar with the subject area in which he is searching. The book was developed over a period of two and one-half years as a joint project of the Engineers Joint Council and the U.S. Department of Defense. More than 300 engineers and scientists from government, industry, and universities took part in the project. The joint effort, known as Project LEX, was administered by the Office of Naval Research. The Thesaurus contains 696 pages and has three indexes-permuted index, subject category index, and hierarchical index. It is available from the Engineers Joint Council, 345 East 47th Street, New York, New York 10017. The price per copy in hard cover is $25.00 and in flexible cover, $19.50. NSF to Cease Publication of CRDSD The series, Current Research and Development in Scientific Documentation (CRDSD), will be discontinued with the publication of CRDSD No. 15. The last and final edition has gone to press and publication is expected in early spring. Like the previous editions, No. 15 will be published by the U.S. Government Printing Office. The price will be announced at the time of publication. Most of the earlier editions of CRDSD are out-of-print. Only four are available from U.S. Government Printing Office No. 10, $1.25; No. 12, $1.50; No. 13, $1.75; and No. 14, $2.00. All others must be purchased from the Clearinghouse, Springfield, Virginia 22151, at $3.00 each for paper copy or sixty-five cents for microfilm. Solid-Liquid Flow Abstracts A new quarterly journal, Solid-Liquid Flow Abstracts, offered by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., will cover reports of theoretical and experimental work in the solidliquid flow field, emphasizing flow in pipes, tubes and capillaries. Abstracts of published reports and theses on the flow of coal, sand, minerals, ores, food products and other solids in pipes; the pipeline flow of capsules, slugs, and pastes; the flow of blood; and the flow of muds, sludges, and other plastic materials will be covered. Other topics to be presented include viscosity and viscometry, sedimentation, thickening and fundamental studies on the flow around regular and irregular shapes in infinite and finite flowing media. Author and subject indices are provided. The journal's first issue contains 45 abstracts including "Transportation of coal by pipeline," "Fluid dynamic model studies of blood flow and artery dilatation," "Facility for the hydraulic transfer of irradiation containers," and "Gauge measures solid content of heterogeneous suspensions." Subscription rates for Solid-Liquid Flow Abstracts are $38.00 per year for printed volumes and $35.00 per year for the microfiche edition. The journal is available from Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10011. The Linda Hall Library has published a comete listing of all serials in its collection. Preous editions of Serial Holding in the Linda all Library did not contain titles of all the trospective holdings. In addition to being mplete, this edition contains a list of conrence proceedings and symposia publications Ided to the library's collection from November 67 through September 1968. Present plans are to update the list at nineonth intervals and to issue a supplement coving additions and changes during the interim riod. Serial Holdings is available from Linda all Library, 5109 Cherry Street, Kansas City, issouri 64110 on subscription for $25.00. New Publication for Endocrinology A new bi-monthly publication, Endocrinology Index, has been developed by the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (NIAMD) to facilitate communication, integration of research and clinical efforts, and literature retrieval in the field of endocrinology. The index, based on the National Library of Medicine's Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS), was made possible through contract assistance to Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, under the direction of Dr. Grant D. Liddle. The Endocrinology Index contains an organized listing of references to recently published endocrinology-related articles from throughout the world and provides a key-word abstract of each citation. Several experimental issues of current bibliographies in endocrinology were prepared in response to indications from leading endocrinologists of the need for such guides. On the basis of this experience and evaluations provided by an advisory committee the present format of the index was developed. The new publication is the latest of a series of well-received and unique current awareness periodicals established by NIAMD since 1964, including Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases Abstracts, Diabetes Literature Index, Gastroenterology Abstracts and Citations, and Artificial Kidney Bibliography. Inquiries concerning any of these publications may be addressed to the Scientific Communications Office, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. MIRA uses UDC The Library of Congress is asking the readers of the Monthly Index of Russian Accessions (MIRA) to comment on the substitution of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) System for the Library of Congress subject headings in the subject index of MIRA. UDC has been used in the last six issues of MIRA and the Library is considering applying UDC to the list of monographs. Computer Impact On Engineering The Instrument Society of America announced publication of Computer Impact on Engineering Management, a 120-page book containing papers from the 16th Annual Joint Engineering Management Conference held September 30-October 1, 1968 in Philadelphia. The 13 papers in the book focus on present methods utilized by engineering managers to use effectively the computer, and future aspects of computer utilization. The book is available from the Instrument Society of America, Publications Department, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219, price $5.00. The editor, Carlos Cuadra, has selected new and competent authors for all of the chapters. The series, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, is a standard reference work for professionals in the field of information science. It is sponsored by the American Institute for Information Science with financial support from the National Science Foundation, the System Development Corporation, and the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc. All three volumes are available for $15.00 per volume from the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc., Annual Reviews, 425 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611. MLA Membership Directory The Directory of the Medical Library Association, compiled to July 1, 1968, lists the addresses of more than 2000 individuals and institutions. Individuals are arranged in alphabetical order; institutions are arranged geographically and telephone numbers are given. Available to non-members from the Medical Library Association, 919 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, upon advance payment of $25. COSATI Report on Mechanized Systems The Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) has issued a publication which describes thirteen computer-based, operational systems for the announcement, storage, retrieval, and secondary distribution of scientific and technical reports. The publication was prepared by Herner and Company for the Panel on Operational Techniques and Systems of COSATI. The description for each system covers a general description of the system, input process, publication and announcement services, reference and query response services, and contemplated plans. Selected Mechanized Scientific and Technical Information Systems, Herner and Company, April 1968, 143 pp. is available (Catalog No. Y3, F31/16:2M46) from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, for $1.50. Library Science Publication The University of Maryland's School of Library and Information Services has issued in book form the proceedings of the reclassification conference held last spring in College Park. Edited by Conference Chairman Jean M. Perreault and entitled Reclassification-Rationale and Problems, the book contains moderator's comments along with summation of the discussions. The conference covered administrative problems and arrangements, automation and basic problems with classification systems, especially applicability to content and facilitation of retrieval. The book is on sale at the University's Student Supply Store, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, for $5.00. |