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Abstract: The present position paper provides an account of the life of Martha Entwistle, the earliest recorded convict nurse who worked within the Castle Hill Asylum. In our review of primary historical sources, Australia's first convict mental health nurse was found to be a resilient woman who endured several traumatic life experiences. Her nursing within Australia's first mental health asylum was highly valued by the superintendent of the service. She nursed in a harsh colonial environment, short of adequate resources, during an era of fast‐paced industrial and technological a change. Martha Entwistle's experiences provide a historical account of the role of the early convict mental health nurse. Her life story enables modern‐day nurses to reflect on the advances made in mental health nursing and contexts of care for nurses today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors propose a bibliometric model for discarding journal volumes at academic libraries, i.e., removal to offsite storage as part of the library's serials collection. The method is based on the volume as the unit of measurement and on user satisfaction with given titles. The discarding age, calculated for each volume, from the year of publication to the year of decision to discard, is dependent on citation half-life, relative productivity, knowledge area, and residual utility (potential consultations). The model makes it possible to predict the approximate size of a collection when a stationary state is reached in which the inflow of journal volumes is equal to the outflow from discarding. The model is also able to determine the rate of growth of the holdings. This information can be used to optimize future use of available space and economic and maintenance resources; thus promoting efficient management of the collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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.

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.