has been working for you. His latest effort is a recently published Computer Literature Bibliography 1946-1963, containing 463 pages and selling for $3.75 a copy. It is available from ter the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402.

Comprehensive, rapid, and economical access to periodical and proceedings literature in speAcialized subject areas has been an increasing problem in recent years. This computer-produced bibliography and index is intended to provide such access to more than 6,000 articles Spublished in 9 journals and to more than 100 proceedings in the field of computers and data processing. The Computer Literature Bibliography 1946-1963 is completely comprehensive for the selected journals and proceedings. OR Every article is listed with its full title and all Pauthors.

The Title Word (KWIC) Index section of the bibliography enables the reader to find an article if any part of its title is known, or to find all the articles whose titles include a particular word or phrase. The Author Index section lists all authors of each article along with the titles of their articles. Both the Title Word and Author Indexes will guide the user directly to the desired article without a cross reference or second look-up.

This bibliography should be a valuable tool for all computing and data processing specialists, and a necessity for technical libraries that cover any part of the computer field.

ALA COMPILES LIST OF NON-GPO GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

A list of Government publications printed by agencies other than the Government Printing Office is available on request from the American Library Association. Entitled United States Government Publications, a Partial List of Non-GPO Imprints, the bibliography was prepared by Jennings Wood of the Library of Congress, and published by the ALA with a grant from the Council on Library Resources.

The 86-page list is intended to bring under bibliographic control some of the Government publications not reported for listing in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government

Publications but which may be depository libraries by the Supe Documents. Entries are arranged ly under issuing agencies within groups: Legislative Branch, Exec Independent Agencies, and Sele Commissions, and Committees. chiefly from 1961 to 1964.

Direct requests for copies to A Huron Street, Chicago 11, Illinois

INFORMATION TECHNOLOG LITERATURE AVAILABLE

The following reports may from the Clearinghouse for Fede and Technical Information, De Commerce, Springfield, Virginia, ? numbers and prices are given.

Automatic Pictorial Analysis R Picture digitizing equipment now struction may be able to convert pi parencies into electrical signals in and record these signals on magn computer input. The equipment cept digital tape recordings in sui and display them in pictorial for graphic recording. Researchers al tive pictorial analysis is now p simple models developed for pict sions. The models help determine ness differences and give results cl to observers' judgments. In de models, the researchers experimen dimensional pictorial stimuli in wh ulus brightness (or density) is co direction and varies only in the stimuli may be thought of as single scans across real-world sional) pictures. The use of such s it possible to study basic textu variables nearly independently of pattern variables, which otherwi subdivision process highly multiva AD 609 711N, Study of Pictorial I Concepts and Techniques, Budd O tion Sciences Center, McLean, Va Force, May 1964, 127 pp., price $

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A Training Manual on Programing. . . prepared by System Development Corp. discusses ats various aspects of the programing job, programer selection, training, careers, and future i prospects in this occupation. The programing field is described in terms of the knowledge on required, the nature of the programs which are produced, and the activities involved in producing programs and data bases. These elements may be grouped in many different ways to form a specific programing job. An initial ring analysis by SDC researchers identified 17 such jobs. The projected growth of the data processing field indicates a continued need for industrial training of programers. Improvements in selection and training can be expected to result from better knowledge of programing ati jobs, continued research on selection tech-ho niques, and applications of new instructional C methods. . . System Development Corp., Santa Fe, Monica, Calif., for the Defense Department, Feb. 1965, 66 pp., Order AD 612 956N, Computer Programmer Selection and Training in System Development Corporation, from there, Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va. 22151, price $3.

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in linguistics. Others apply the eory to the description of natural nd to the design of computer sysachine translation, information reother purposes. Some of the papers ze and reject the dependency notion. 613 469N, An Annotated Bibliogublications on Dependency Theory, poration for the Air Force, Mar. ., price $1.

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A Cumulative Index of Research Results in Oria: 1964 ... for the Air Force Office of Aerospace Research identifies reports produced under or contracts, grants, and projects in 137 subject areas. These include such topics as weather observation and forecasting systems, solid proCapellants, radio and radar astronomy, crystal physics, energy conversion, and geodesy for naviguidance. Each bibliographic entry in- cludes corporate author, title and date, and acthecession number. Many of the unclassified reports can be purchased from the Clearinghouse ... AF Office of Aerospace Research, 1965, 275 pp... Order AD 614 096N, OAR Cumulative Index of Research Results, 1964, from the Clearinghouse, U. S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va. 22151, price $6.

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Computational Linguistics . . . are covered in a bibliography listing 93 articles on linguistic theory, linguistic research, computational techniques, the Russian and English languages, information retrieval, automatic content analysis, psycholinguistics, and character readers Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., for the Air Force, April 1965, 35 pp . . . Order AD 613 975N, Annotated Bibliography of Rand Publications in Computational Linguistics, from the Clearinghouse, U. S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va. 22151, price $2.

List Assembly Programing System . . . combines some of the best features of several list processing languages for computers and makes notable improvements. An effort has been made to keep the language natural and easy to learn. It is flexible and general in that most functions of list processing are easily obtained, yet specialized abilities may be added with minimum difficulty. The LAP system will process a source program to produce an object program for a nonexistent list-processing machine. Its processor simulates the missing hardware and allows the program to be executed on the existing computer. The machine language program assembles subprograms written in the language of the existing hardware. The LAP controlling tape system is the overall master control for the other functions. These four functional,

related pieces of the LAP syste language to the computer produ machine. Its use as a research t cipated in the design. Order A LAP-List Assembly Programn General Electric Co., Santa Ba June 1964, 77 pp., price $3.

Additional Literature on Meta

The Defense Metals Inform lists papers on high strength metals, nonmetallics, and refra added to its collection during Fe Order AD 611 845N, Selected Ac telle Memorial Institute, Columbu 55 pp., price $3.

Translation Title List . . . Tra quired in 1963 on nuclear subjects the Atomic Energy Commission. raphy from foreign sources is p tinuing series. Order TID 4025 (Pt. 1) (Suppl. 3), Translation 1 Cross Reference Guide, AEC, N pp., price $6.

LATEST NSF PUBLICATIONS

The following publications wer the National Science Foundation c May 1965. They are available fro intendent of Documents, U.S. Printing Office, Washington, D. ( Scientific Information Activitie Agencies

National Aeronautics and S istration

No. 29

NSF 64-29. Price 10 cents
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National Agricultural Li
No. 30

NSF 65-5. Price 10 cents Scientific & Technical Personne eral Government 1961 and 1

NSF 65-4. Price 40 cents Financing a College Science E NSF 65-6. Price 20 cents Sixth Annual Weather Modifica 1964

NSF 65-9. Price 30 cents

wing grants and contracts were the National Science Foundation il and May 1965 in support of imemination of scientific information.

AND STUDIES

nstitute of Physics, $2,013 for editing the f the International Conference on Classirch.

of Rochester, $23,600 for support of a valuation of behavior-related studies in scientific information dissemination. elopment Corporation, $49,900 for support for analyzing document representation ee page 9.

ON SYSTEMS

of Chicago, $294,000 for support of basic methods of translating languages by ma

Dynamics Corporation, $18,000 amendxisting contract for the development and information system model.

Dynamics Corporation, $49,200 contract of the feasibility of creating a national the world's scientific and technical serial

Inc., $3,000 amendment to an existing upport of a project concerned with mag of textual information during the pubentific journals.

ONS SUPPORT

nstitute of Physics, $36,600 for support tion of the 1965 issues of the Chinese Physics Sinica.

nstitute of Physics, $1,150 for scientific English translation of D. Ya. Martynov's se in Practical Astrophysics.

Geological Institute, $48,300 for the prodistribution of a selective translation hemistry International, Vol. II (1965). Cathematical Society, $19,100 for the proEnglish edition of Transactions of the ematical Society, Volume XIV (1965).

American Mathematical Society, $79,968 for support of a program for selective translation of mathematics research articles from Russian and other foreign languages.

American Museum of Natural History, $88,200 for the preparation and publication of a Catalogue of Smaller Index Foraminifera.

American Museum of Natural History, $1,750 for publication of a monograph, Deltatheridis, A New Order of Mammals.

American Shore & Beach Preservation Association, $750 for the preparation and publication of a 30-year cumulative index to Shore and Beach.

Biological Abstracts, $112,800 for the publication of Biological Titles, a separately bound supplement to Biological Abstracts, containing computer-produced indexes to articles that are not included in the regular issues.

University of California, $72,600 for the preparation of Volume VIII, Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates.

U.S. Department of Commerce/Joint Publications Research Service, $7,040 for the translation of Acta Geologica Sinica, Volume 44, nos. 1-4, 1964.

Engineering Index, Inc., $100,000 for the preparation and publication of Engineering Index.

New York Botanical Garden, $3,425 for the publication of the Manual of the Leafy Hepaticae of Latin America, Part II.

Research Institute for the Study of Man, $8,000 for support of a bibliographic guide for social science research in the non-Hispanic territories of the Carribean. Yale University, $5,610 for the preparation and publication of a 6-year index to Radiocarbon.

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN SCIENCE INFORMATION

American Geological Institute, $1,500 for support of a resume of earth sciences publications activities. Biological Abstracts, Inc., $1,840 for support of a resume of biological science publications activities.

National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, $4,744 for the preparation and publication of a new edition of the International Directory of Anthropologists.

Syracuse University, $5,725 for support of a symposium on the Foundations of Access to Knowledge to be held in Syracuse, NY, during July 1965.

The 1965 Congress of the International Federation for Documentation will be held in Washington, D. C., at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, October 10-15. The congress is sponsored in the United States by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council and the American Documentation Institute. Registration is open to all who are interested in documentation and information science; the active member registration fee is $35. Affiliation with a documentation organization, library, or allied institution is not a requisite for membership in the congress.

Eminent documentalists from many parts of the world will participate in symposia scheduled under five areas of investigation, as follows:

Education and Training of Documentalists, Chairman-William N. Locke (MIT) 1. The present state of education and training

2. Needs for the next ten years and how to meet them

Organization of Information for Documentation, Chairman-Pauline Altherton (American Institute of Physics)

1. Transformation and organization of information content-contributions from applied linguistics, logic, psychology, classification research, and related fields. 2. Comparison and evaluation of transformation techniques and organizational structures in documentation systems

Information Needs of Science and Technology, Chairman-Robert W. Scott (Esso Research and Engineering Company)

1. Methodology

2. Increasing the efficience of information Information Needs of Society, ChairmanLowell Levin (Yale University)

1. a. Relationship between information and social behavior

b. Projection of future needs for in

formation for social issue: analysis

c. Organizing a methodology

mining information needs d. State of the art for i systems

e. Elements, complexities, i of an ideal information w 2. Specific knowledge areas: anthropology, psychology,

political science, economics, Principles of Documentation ar Design, Chairman-Mortimer Ta mentation Inc.)

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In addition there will be s volunteer papers and technical e industrial firms.

A full program of entertainme arranged for all registrants, in number of special events for Among the social events includ registration fee are a special oper National Gallery of Art and a rec buffet dinner.

Luther H. Evans (Columbia U is president of the congress and Adkinson (National Science Four president of FID.

Advance registration is urged, a accepted until September 15. The abstracts will be mailed prior to th to those who have registered by Registration facilities will also b during the congress. For full in and registration and hotel forms write to: Secretariat, 1965 gress, 9650 Wisconsin Avenue, W D. C., 20014.