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This article presents a list of books and publications related to design, testing, and evaluation of information systems or services. Some of the books listed are "The Testing of Index Language Devices," "Study of Theories and Models of Information Storage and Retrieval: New Foundations for Retrieval Theories," "The Function of a Modern Special Library," "Multipurpose Information System Design," "Tentative Principles of Information Retrieval," and "User Responses in the Evaluation of a Flexible Indexing and Retrieval System."

The article presents a bibliography related to information science that appeared in the 1963 issue of the journal "American Documentation." It includes author and corporate source index, documentation, general reference works and sources of information. Some of the documentations include: "Concerning the Probability That a Given Paper Will Be Cited," by M.M. Kessler and F.E. Heart; "Action Plan for Improved Dissemination of Engineering Information," by Eugene Wall; "The Critical Problem of Biological Information," by B. Glass.

The article focuses on the contributions toward a bibliography of documentation have been prepared by the Committee on Bibliography. An experimental model of an electronic hardcopy output system for use with the other elements of a mechanized library system has been designed and constructed under contract between the Council on Library Resources, Inc. and the Avco Corp. Earlier reports have covered the design and construction of an information system consisting of a camera making high resolution microphotographic reproductions of original documents on a memory plane.

Several forms of citation index were compiled with the aid of punched card techniques from 11,000 citations appearing in a coherent body of scientific literature which contained more than 740 citing papers. Preliminary statistics on citation patterns are given. The potential uses of various types of citation indexes are discussed and are related to problems in recording and standardizing data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that in the postwar world, the United States and the Soviet Union will represent two different ideologies and, willy-nilly, two competitive forces. Other nations will inevitably fall under the influence of one or other of these two potential rivals. There are some sceptical minds who are inclined to the worst predictions about this prospect, and there are a few optimists who believe in the evolution of understanding and the development of friendship. Many exaggerate Russia's resources; very few understand what advantages the United States possesses in comparison with Russia. After the destruction of the old regime, the aim of the Russian Revolution was to transform Russia into a highly industrialized country and the slogan. Russians like everything on a grand scale. Nurtured on the wide Russian expanses and unlimited Russian possibilities, they have no use for half-measures. Thus, it is not surprising that this attitude marks their approach to industry, namely, to set up new standards, to attain a greater scale.

The article focuses on documentation in scientific information. Scientists need information both in order to keep abreast of published and not yet published work, and to avoid repeating research already done. They also need specific items of information from time to time or exhaustive surveys of a special subject. Fast communication among scientists is usually based on informal and somewhat haphazard methods rather than on publication, although the latter is much to be preferred if it can be speeded up. There has been a proliferation of sciences, scientists and scientific publication; subjects, people and journals are widely scattered. So far nothing is as satisfactory as print for effective, unified communication.

The article focuses on documentation work concerning coding of chemicals. In recent years, the problem of identifying complex chemical compounds by conventional chemical means has become so difficult that various codes and ciphers have been devised for the purpose. The ones that have found the most use--known as linear notation systems--consist of single-line sequences of letters, numbers and other common typographical symbols. When perfected, such systems can identify unambiguously each one of some three million known chemical compounds.

Provides information on books concerning the study of plays. 'Chief Contemporary Dramatists,' edited by Thomas H. Dickinson; 'Longer Plays by Modern Authors,' by Helen Louise Cohen; 'Portmanteau Adaptations,' by Stuart Walker.