NEWSAND NOTES SLA TRANSLATIONS CENTER Continued federal support of the work of the SLA Translations Center has been announced by the Special Libraries Association. According to Roger M. Martin, chairman of the Association's Translations Activities Committee. and chief librarian of Shell Development Co., Emeryville. Calif.. the Translations Center has received a grant of S48,915 from the National Science Foundation in partial support of the Center's operations. This is the eleventh year that KSF has contributed to the Center's support. Mr. Martin also announced that the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Sational Bureau of Standards. C . S. Department of Commerce. has renewed its contract with the Association. Lnder this agreement the Translations Center provides the Clearinghouse with bibliographic and subject analyses for the more than 6000 translations it collects each year from nongovernmental organizations. The SLA Translations Center. located a t The John Crerar Library. ;i5 \Vest 33rd St.. Chicago. Ill.. is a depository and information center for unpublished translations into English from around the world on the natural. physical, medical. and social sciences and their technologies. Established in 1946. the Center's collection now totals more than 120.000 translations donated by scientific and professional societies, industry. business, universities. and other nongovernment institutions. Translations received by the Center are listed in Technical Translation,\. the semimonthly publication of the Clearinghouse. T o aid in its objectives of helping to eliminate expensive duplication of translation efforts and to disseminate copies of translations and information about them, the Center is currently compiling for publication a cumulative index of translations in the collections of the SLA Center and the Clearinghouse. English cover-to-cover translated journals, selections in English from foreign language journals. material cited in other translations indexes. and items available from other sources. The project, begun in June 1966 and partly underwritten by a S80.713 grant from the National Science Foundation. is scheduled for completion next gear. The activities of the Center are directed by Mrs. Ildiko Kowak with the advice of the SLA Translations Activities Committee.
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY SEMINARS All seminars will he held a t 4:10 P.M. in the Lehigh University Center, Room 303 C-D. Further information may he obtained from the Center for the Information Sciences. February 2: "How and Why Chemists are Using Computers for Information Processing." Herbert Koller. EBS Management Consultants, Inc.. Washington, D . C. February 9: "Practical Problems in Automated Handling of Textual and Graphical Materials.'' Ruth M. Davis, Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense, Washington, D. C. February 16: "Verbal Inference in Question-Answering Systems." R . F . Simmons, System Development Corp., Santa Monica, Calif. March 16: "Quantitative Studies of Invisible Colleges and the World Setwork of Scientific Literature." Derek J. de Solla Price. Yale University, S e w Haven, Conn. April 13: "Transformational Grammar and Psycholinguistics." Herbert Rubenstein, Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. April 27: "Current Problems in Transformational Grammar." George Lakoff, Research Fellow in Linguistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY ON INDEXING A N D CLASSIFICATION ISSUED I N MICROFICHE The Suclear Science and Documentation Divisions of Special Libraries Association have published a bibliography entitled Indexine and Classification: A Selected and Annotated Bibiiorraph? . I t was prepared by Winifred F. Desmond and Lester A. Barrer and microfiched by the Oak Ridge Sational Laboratory Library. I t contains 635 citations to report, journal. conference. and other literature covering the period from 1960 to mid-1964. Subjects covered include manual, mechanized. and automated techniques. evaluation of systems, standards, storage and retrieval systems. research, vocabularies. author participation, permuted title indexing. citation indexing, abstracting. and specialized indexing requirements-i.e.. chemistry. medicine. patents. and engineering drawings. As a n experiment in primary publication on microfiche. this bibliography is an attempt to determine the utility and reader acceptance of bibliographic compilations in this efficient and economical form. There are two computer-produced subject indexes: one is conventional, and the second, an index of manually selected terms, provides a comparison of the two methods of access. An author index is also included. and the introduction contains an analysis of the sources of the entries to help librarians plan their reading in this field. Equally significant is the fact that this publication is a cooperative venture of industry. government, and a professional society. Compiled and supported by two Divisions of SLA. it was issued in microfiche form by the Union Carbide Corp. which operates the Oak Ridge Sational Laboratory. I t is available from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information. Springfield. Va. 22151. as SP-15937 at a price of $5 for hard copy and $1.75 for microfiche.
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY The Division of the Information Sciences, within the Department of Philosophy, offers a n M.S. program in the Information Sciences, designed to fulfill several objectives. First. it provides a broad base of both theory and application for those who will he concerned with the design, operation, and management of information systems. As such, it may he considered a terminal degree. Secondly. the program offers a foundation for the growth and development of individual research interest and further graduate study. The Department of Philosophy offers a doctoral program in the foundations of the information sciences. A related doctoral program also exists in the Department of Industrial Engineering in information systems. Three core areas are a t the heart of the M.S. program: information processing systems. information retrieval theory, and the analysis of information. As an interdisciplinary program, maximum advantage is taken of courses in other departments on the campus. These include management information systems. design of experiments, linguistics, discourse analysis, formal grammars, retrieval structures, computer languages, human communication. mathematical models of learning, digital systems, and network theory. The Division is closely linked to the Center for the Information Sciences, through which a broad range of research is conducted. Current research is conducted in such areas as computational linguistics, document retrieval theory, relevance, methodology of evaluation of retrieval systems, the man-system interface in libraries, system simulation, automatic indexing, experimental system design, and library systems analysis. This research is done in collaboration with interested departments across the campus.
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ISl’s NEW WEEKLY AWARENESS GUIDE
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A new weekly service by IS1 (Institute for Scientific Information), Philadelphia, Pa., is a publication named Current Contents of Chemical Sciences. T h e inaugural issue appeared in January. CCCS is a companion publication to ISI’s Current Contents of Life Sciences and Current Contents of Physical Sciences. An unusual feature of CCCS is the provision of structural diagrams representative of compounds mentioned in each article. A unique new subject index of chemist-selected terms from which the computer creates all possible permuted-pairs is also featured. The initial list of journals covered was selected by an editorial advisory board of eminent chemists and represents virtually all phases of pure and applied chemistry. Journals will be added regularly to fill the special needs of subscribers. The journals in CCCS cover theoretical chemistry: organic synthesis: analytical. physical. and inorganic chemistry: polymer chemistry: surface chemistry and catalysis: chemical engineering: and other chemical technologies.
The Department of Defense has announced the availability of a detailed technical report dealing with mechanized systems being planned. developed, and used within Defense technical libraries and information centers. The report evolved from a contract study recently completed by Booz, Allen Applied Research Incorporated, Bethesda, Md. Purpose of the study was to gather and consolidate complete information on efforts made to date to automate DoD libraries and to use this information for improvements in the Defense Department’s interchange of scientific and technical information. The basic report describes and evaluates various efforts in thesaurus building. file structure, input processing, serial control, selective dissemination of information. circulation control, equipments, information retrieval systems. organizations. operation and application. and summaries on mechanization status. scope, and size of collections. I n addition to the basic report, individual in-depth reports were generated concerning 35 of the 76 facilities involved in the study. The basic report, AD 640 100. is available to Federal organizations and contractors registered with the Defense Documentation Center or to the general public from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, \‘a. 22151. Cost from the Clearinghouse is $7.00 for full-size copies and 51.75 for microfiche copies.
ISI’S ASCA SERVICE A new feature has been added t o ASCA. A scientist can now indicate his subject interests by telling the ASCA system what words. word stems, and phrases describe his areas of interest, it was announced by IS1 (Institute for Scientific Information), Philadelphia, Pa. The ASCA (Automatic Subject Citation Alert) system then automatically sends him weekly computer printouts reporting new research of interest to him. More than 1600 journals are covered in the ASCA system. The basic rate for ASCA remains at $100 per year.
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H. William Koch has been appointed Director of the American Institute of Physics. As the fourth director of the A I P since its founding in 1931, Dr. Koch will be responsible for the Institute‘s programs in the history and philosophy of physics, publication of journals of physics societies, research on information systems, public information, education and manpower, and international liaison with organizations devoted to physics. A grant from KSF will be used to fund for one year the AIP’s Information Analysis and Retrieval Program. This program will be directed by Dr. Arthur Herschman, who will be responsible for developing a universal physics index for all A I P journals and Ph),,qics Abstracts. Dr. Rita G. Lerner and Stella Keenan will also work under this program. Several experimental studies with professional organizations and A I P member societies are also being conducted in conjunction with this program. Miles Libbey, who was appointed to the A I P staff in May has been named program director of the AIP’s Information Planning Program. This program will be responsible for two areas: (1) the improvement of current communication within the physics community and ( 2 ) the design and development of a total physics information system. The current AEC-supported study of a proposed centralized preprint distribution system falls into this program. So does AIP cooperation with the study being made by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Research in Science Communication of the 1966 Fall Meeting of the Optical Society of America. AD1 MEETING The 1967 annual meeting of the American Documentation Institute will be held in New York City, October 23-26, 1967. at The New York Hilton Hotel. The general theme of the convention will be “Levels of Interaction between Man and Information.”
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To THE EDITOR: Dr. Kurt L. Loening of the Chemical Abstracts Service has kindly called my attention to five errors which appear in the last column of the table a t the end of my paper in J . Chem. Doc. 6 , 206 (1966). Entry Entry Entry Entry Entry
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These are human errors in preparation of the table or in assigning heteroatom locants and not computer errors. Thank you for attention to this. I am sorry to have caused these errors to appear and only wish I could operate with the precision of the computer! PATENT SEMINARS The U . S . Patent Office can now provide a lecture program. or seminar panelist, of interest to students in the library science or documentation fields. Such service may be arranged as an individual event or scheduled on an annual basis through Mr. Issac Fleischmann, Director. Office of Information Services, c‘. S. Patent Ofice, Washington. D. C. 20231. Specifically, selected members of the Patent Office professional staff are available-with slides and literature-to speak knowledgeably and interestingly about the patent system. The program, which is tailored for each audience. covers the role of the patent system in a modern technological economy as well as the availability. value, and use of the “storehouse of knowledge“ reposing in an ordered collection on L.S.and foreign patents. This latter aspect includes a consideration of the basis. techniques, and operations of the U. S.patent classification systems. Also surveyed are some of the recent activities in mechanizing or computorizing patent information storage and retrieval and the “International Patent Classification.” T o facilitate scheduling please advise. at the earliest possible date. of interest in such a program. Available dates and time, as well as the nature and expected size of the audience. will allow for optimum presentation.
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