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Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Getting Off the Library Merry-Go-Round: McAnally and Downs Revisited," which addressed the decline in the status of academic library directors; "The Value-Added Process of Librarianship," which focused on the qualifications of school librarians; "The Challenge Continues: Prison Librarianship in the 1980s," which discussed prison librarianship.

The article reports on the need for the American Chemical Society Publications Division and other learned society publishers to maintain the quality of their journals. Society publishers align themselves with commercial publishers that have short-term perspectives. It is viewed that professionals take for granted the general high quality of society publications. Research libraries are forced to purchase discounted publisher-selected collections or bundles of their journals at fixed prices.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children" in the January 5 and March 30, 2009 issues.

Presents a letter to the editor expressing a concern that the American Chemical Society's Governing Board for Publishing may be placing both the ACS Publications Division and Chemical Abstracts Service in the position of inadvertently marginalizing the society's efforts to reach out to molecular biology and applied physics communities.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article in the January 28, 2013 issue which discusses provided archives and the events related to the term "yellow rain" such as the mass pollen release from bees in Sangrampur, India in 2002.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to a letter about the increasing cost of journal subscriptions, published in the July 25, 2011 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the editorial "Demonizing the Press," by Rudy Baum, in the July 10, 2006 issue.

Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "Yucca Mountain Concerns," by Ralph Andersen published in the 2005 issue of the journal "Chemical & Engineering News."

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Public-Access Debate Continues" in the August 16, 2010 issue, an article about oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico in the August 23, 2010 issue and another on reports that the American Chemistry Council is using lobbyists in the August 23, 2010 issue.