Joanne Mullican, who has been working with production of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY'S LabGuide since its beginnings
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followed by a "Directory of Instruments and Related Apparatus". Muller's articles were extremely detailed and were filled with photographs and diagrams of actual instruments. However, the fact that this field could be so covered in one issue of the JOURNAL contrasts sharply with the situation today when it would scarcely be possible to cover one major subdivision of analytical instrumentation in such space. The war years intervened with these editorial efforts, and nothing resembling a LabGuide appeared again until 1955. In the meantime, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY inaugurated its formal Reviews program in 1949. This represented a major effort to organize all the analytical research that was published after the war years. The LabGuide's subsequent development was closely allied with the Reviews program, and a "Buyers" Guide" appeared regularly with the Review issues from 1955 through 1965. In 1966 the LabGuide was physically separated from the Reviews, and it has appeared
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as a separate issue since that time. In that same year, three new sections were added to the Guide: research chemicals and services, trade names, and books. The following year, preparation of the LabGuide was simplified by the aid of a computer. This was a logical way to handle the increased size and complexity of the operation. ANALYTICAL
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Advisory Board: Donald H. Anderson, Richard P. Buck, Velmer Fassel, David Firestone, Robert A. Hofstader, Marjorie G. Horning, Philip F. Kane,* Barry L. Karger, J. Jack Kirkland, Lynn L. Lewis,* Harry B. Mark, Jr., Walter C. McCrone, Harry L. Pardue, Eugene A. Sawicki, W. D. Shults* * LabGuide Advisory Panel
The Editors
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Associate Editor, Easton: Elizabeth R. Rufe Assistant Editors: Barbara Cassatt, Deborah M. Cox, Nancy J. Oddenino
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Advisory
Board has helped with this issue of the LabGuide. A special three-person subcommittee from the Advisory Board has been asked to give specific attention to the operation. They are Philip F. Kane, Texas Instruments; Lynn L. Lewis, General Motors; and W. D. Shults, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This group met in May with editorial and production people to discuss various facets of the LabGuide operation. They offered many ideas and will continue to help us in our efforts to increase the usefulness of the LabGuide. Some editorial controls have been instituted to ensure that laboratory supply houses and their branch locations are listed as such in that section and that the companies listed in Section 3 are actually manufacturers or exclusive importers of the products under which they are listed. We are also attempting to restrict listings in the LabGuide to unique products for the laboratory and to eliminate mundane items and industrial products. We thank all those who have been helping us in these efforts and ask their continuing support. We ask users of the LabGuide to contribute also toward these ends.
Contributing Editor: Claude A. Lucchesi Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, III. 60201
Magazine and Production: Bacil Guiley Research and Development: Seldon W. Terrant Circulation Development: Marion Gurfein Manuscript requirements are published in the April 1977 issue, page 686. Manuscripts for publication (4 copies) should be submitted to ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY at the ACS Washington address. AUGUST 1977 9
