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Presents abstracts of research on documentation and librarianship. "A. I. A. Standard Filing System," by the American Institute of Architects; "Translating Spoken English Into Written Words," by Edmund C. Berkeley; "Biological Research--From Journal Article to Abstract"; "Conservation of Library Materials."

The article presents a bibliography of documentation which appears regularly in the journal "American Documentation." One of the notes provides that the Division of Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation, for administrative purposes, has departed from conventional terminology, such as biochemistry, biophysics and physiology, in its system for grouping research projects into categories. For this purpose, biological sciences have been divided into areas covering the full spectrum of biology with the molecule at one extreme and the psyche at the other.

The article reports that the annual meeting of the American Documentation Institute will take place in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., on February 15, 1951. All sessions will be held in the Coolidge Auditorium. Dr. Raymund L. Zwemer, as chairman of the Program Committee, has planned an extraordinarily well integrated and stimulating series of papers. A special feature of the meeting will be an exhibit of documentation equipment in which will be displayed latest models of a wide range of devices useful in various aspects of documentation.

In this article the author presents information on the social image of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. According to the author, Roosevelt was an imaginative and foresighted man. But he could not have predicted the pertinence of his observation for the picture of him. The author remarks that with the publication of The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt in the journal American Documentation, his public image will gain new clarity. The purpose of the Roosevelt Project is to select for publication from approximately 100,000 letters written by Roosevelt those which reveal his thought and action in all the major and many of the minor undertakings of his private and public life.

The creation of social science data libraries has reemphasized many important methodological issues associated with contemporary research techniques. Since documentation of the data-gathering and coding processes is vital for the secondary analyst, considerable attention is focused upon these activities. As research workers become increasingly sensitized to the potential exploitation of their data by others, there is a tendency for them to document their activities in greater detail. Since data libraries are energetic in their attempts to obtain such documentation, this activity is being emphasized repeatedly. While it is often submerged somewhat by individuals working with information collected by them personally in a familiar milieu with an opportunity to establish an unequivocal shared understanding with the source of the information regarding each specific datum, this understanding is problematic for the secondary analyst.

This article reports that in the future it may become commonplace for some documents never to be issued in "original" or printed form, but to be reproduced from typewritten or "cold-type" copy directly by one of the processes of micro-photography. While it may also become commonplace in the future for every home and office to be equipped with its own reading machine, right now it appears that the best customers are librarians. Some of the libraries suggested that a retrospective "micro" publishing program should have a higher priority than a program to publish current materials.

The article presents information on the Management documentation preview that is announced by Documentation Inc. Management's Documentation Preview will feature reproductions of the contents pages of current periodicals and books in business and management. Regular scanning of Management's Documentation Preview will enable research minded management to keep abreast with the increasing volume of management literature.

Presents an abstract of the article "Physics Literature: A Reference Manual," by Robert H. Whitford. Information on a survey of physics literature at the college level; Description of efficient library methods; Comment that background materials have been interspersed for greater interest and information.

Presents an abstract of the journal ""Some Photographic Copying Methods Useful in Libraries," by Karl M. Weigert. Information on the use of photographic copying by the library visitors who wish to record quickly and cheaply small parts of articles or books for further study; Description of different methods of making photographic copies; Report that Leica Auxiliary Equipment is applied where only ordinary room light was available.