Chemical Literature, Volume 13, Number 3, Fall 1961 Page: 15
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Fall 1961
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and equipment. A column in the ALA
Bulletin reports results of their studies;
information may be requested by writing
to Library Technology Project, American
Library Association, 50 East Huron
Street, Chicago 11, Ill. MCP
Automation Raps at the Door of the
Library Catalog. C. A. Vertanes.
Special Libraries 52, 237-42 (1961).
Copies of a printed catalog prepared by
the library at Long Island Lighting Co.
are distributed to personnel and make
the library holdings available to these
people, who are at various locations over
a wide area. The printed catalog is
prepared from IBM punched cards, includes
author, title, and subject entries,
and is kept up to date by cumulative
supplements. MCPThe Language of Lilliput: A Thesaurus
for the Users of Microfilm. Frederic
Luther. Library J. 86, 929-32 (1961).
The first two parts of a seven-part
article describe equipment and preparation
of material for microfilming. WFK
MISCELLANEOUS
Current Research and Development in
Scientific Documentation. No. 8 National
Science Foundation, Office of Science
Information Service, 1961. 193 pages.
May be obtained from the Superintendent
of Documents, Washington, D.C. MDSCopyright Low Revision. B. Varmer.
Special Libraries 52, 185-88 (1961).
A status report on the projected revision
of the Copyright Law. MCP
The Librarian & the Machine. Jesse H.
Shera. Library J. 86, 2250-54 (1961).
Description of the objectives and program
of the Center for Documentation and
Communication Research at the School
of Library Science, Western Reserve
University. WFK
Effective Use of Information. W. T.
Knox. Science 133, 1274-75 (1961). A
letter calling for a large national effort
in the US "... to discover and apply
new and better techniques for training
individuals in the most effective use of
information, ahd then to devise an information
system which can serve these
better-developed citizens.'" KGNATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION STUDY
The National Science Foundation today announced
a grant of $56,000 for a one-year study of chemical
notation systems, to be conducted by the National
Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (NASNRC).
The study will be directed on a part-time basis
by Dr. I. Moyer Hunsberger, Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, University of Massachusetts. He will be
assisted by an advisory group, which will include representatives
of the NAS-NRC Committee on Modern
Methods of Handling Chemical Information and of other
interested organizations. The study will be administered
jointly by the Division of Chemistry and Chemical
Technology and the Office of Documentation of the
NAS-NRC.
Chemists first became interested in the use of
notation systems for structures of chemical compounds
as possible substitutes for names, many of which do not
identify compounds uniquely and unambiguously. It
was believed that a notation could be made to do so
more easily than a system of nomenclature and might
have other advantages as well. In addition, during the
past decade or more, interest in the possibilities of
using machines to handle scientific information has
been growing rapidly, and chemists have devised a
number of notation or coding systems for representing
chemical structures in mechanized information systems.
The notation system devised by G. Malcolm Dyson of
England, now Director of Research for the ChemicalAbstracts Service, formed the basis of the international
standard adopted in 1959 by a commission of the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; at the
same time, the commission recommended certain revisions
in the notation, and it is expected that the revised
edition will be published soon. This international
notation and a number of other systems are being used
for a variety of purposes, some systems having been
designed primarily for use with punched card equipment
and others for use with computers, and some being
suitable for use in printed lists or indexes and others
for mechanized structure searching only.
The purpose of the new study is a thorough
analysis of the characteristics of the various systems,
the similarities and differences among them, the uses
now being made of them, the criteria which led to their
adoption or development, the problems encountered
in their use, the potentialities of each system for more
widespread use, the needs not met by existing systems,
and the purposes that might be served by agreement
among chemists on the use of one or more standardized
systems.
Persons and organizations working with chemical
notations are invited to send information about their
systems to Dr. I. Moyer Hunsberger, Dean, College of
Arts and Sciences, Bartlett Hall, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Massachusetts......... M-6
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