Editorial
Analytical Chemistry Volume 44, No. 10, August 1972
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LABORATORY GUIDE
The 1972-73 ACS LABGUIDE Everyone likes to point to a record performance and we are no different. Thus we proudly proclaim that the 1972-73 edition of LABGUIDE—our 18th—contains a record 45,000 entries. Some 2500 companies are listed, and there are 2000 product headings—both new records. Along with new records we point with pride to several improvements: The LABGUIDE now contains 11 sections, up from seven last year. This was accomplished by giving full section status to several of last year's subsections. And we've added a new section—Clinical Instrumentation —in recognition of the remarkable growth clinical laboratories are en joying, and of their equally remarkable appetite for the products of firms that produce and supply instruments and chemicals. These days it seems only fitting that big enterprises—including pub lications—somehow involve a computer. And so it is with this year's LABGUIDE. The text for this edition was photocomposed from master tapes generated, of course, by a computer. These and numerous other improvements are the result of feedback from many thousands of users of LABGUIDE and from suggestions proffered by our Advisory Commit tee. Still, records, improvements, and computers aren't really quite enough. A product such as LABGUIDE, if it is to achieve maximum utility and value, must be easy to use. To this end we have employed such devices as easy-scan type faces and simplified formats and layout. Additionally, this edition features new high-visibility separator pages to mark the start of each section. Keyed to the separator pages are integral sectionindicator tabs which permit quick location of a section by simply riffling the pages. Ultimately, though, the success of our efforts is determined by you, the user. We genuinely hope that you will continue to write to us with your suggestions for improving LABGUIDE. The Editors
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