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SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Putling Ktrouded~r!o lVork OFFICERS DIRECTORS President SARAAULL WINIFREDSEWELL Uniaersity of Houston Squibb Institute for Medical Research Houston 4, Texas New Brunswirk, New Jersey LORRAINECIBOCH First Vice-president and President-Elect Cbarler Bruning Co., Inc. EUGENEB. JACKSON Mount Pro~pert,Illinois Genera! Motors Corporation, Warren, c\licbrg.rti W. ROY HOLLEMAN Second Vice-president Srripps Institution of Oceanography PAULL. KNAPP La Jolla, California The Ohio Oil Compmy, Lirtle~on,ColorJdo Secretary ALVINAF. WASSENBERG MRS. JEANNEB. NORTH Kaiser Aluminum 6 Chemical Corp. Unitrd Aircraft Corpoti//iorc, Ed.r/ EiLwtfo~d8. Cotz):. Spokane, Washington Tteasurer MRS.ELIZABETH R. USHER OLIVEE. KENNEDY Metropolitan Museum of Art Room 5600, 30 Rocdefeller Plax, Neu Yorb, A'. 1'. New York, New York Immediate Past-President DONALDWASSON DR. BURTONW. ADKINSON Council on Foreign Relations National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. New York. New York EXECUTIVE SECRETARY: BILL M. WOODS ASSISTAXTTO THE EXECUTIVESECRETARY: KATHRYN E. SNITH Special Libraries Association 31 East 10 Street, New York 3, New York MEMBERSHIP Dues: Sustaining - $100 ; Active - $1 5; A~sociale- $10 ; Afiliate - $15 ;Student - $2 ; Emeritus - $5 ; Life - $250. For qualifications, privileges and further information, write the Executive Secretary, Special Libraries Association. PUBLICATIONS Aviation subject headings, 1949 ............ $1.75 Nicknames of American cities, towns Bibliography of engineering abstract- and villages past and present, 1951 .... ing services (SLA bibliography no. Picture sources: an introductory list, I), I955 ................................................. 1.50 1959 .......................................................... Bibliography of new guides and aids S1.A directory of members, as of Oc- to public documents use 1953-1956 tober 21, 1960 ........................members (SLA bibliography no. 2), 1957 ........ 1.50 nonmembers A checklist for the organization, opera- SLA loan collection of classification tion and evaluation of a company li- schemes and subject heading lists, 1959 brary, 1960 .............................................. 2 .OO Source list of selected labor statistics, Contributions toward a special library rev. ed., 1953 .......................................... glossary, 2nd ed., I950 ........................ 1.25 Sources of commodity prices, 1960 ........ Correlation index document series & Special Libraries Association-its first PB reports, 1953 .................................... 10.00 fifty years, 1909-1959,1959 .............. Creation & development of an insur- Special Libraries Association personnel ance library, rev. ed., 1949 .................... 2.00 survey 1959, 1960 .................................. Directory of special libraries. 1953 ........ 5.00 Subject headings for aeronautical en- Fakes and forgeries in the fine arts, 1950 1.75 gineering libraries, 1949 ...................... Handbook of scientific and technical Subject headings for financial librar- awards in the United States and ies, 1954 .................................................. Canada. 1900-1952,1956 .................... 3.00 Technical libraries, their organization Map collections in the U. S. and Can- and management, 1951 ........................ ada ; a directory, 1954 .......................... 3.00 Translators and translations: services and National insurance organizations in the sources, 1959 .......................................... United States and Canada, 1957 ........ $3.50 Visual presentation. Our library, 1953 .... TECHNICAL BOOK REVIEW INDEX-Subscription, $7.50; Foreign, $8.00; Single copies, 756 SI'ECIAI. LIRRARIES is publislwd I)?. Sprci:rl I.ibraries Associ:~tion. montlilv Srptr~nhel-to .4pril. I~irnor~ll~lv hhy to August, at 53 hlain Street. Ilrattlcboro. Verolont. Editorial Ofhccs: Sl Eaqt 10th Street, hea- I'ork ::. New York. Sccond class postagr paid at Brattlcboro. Vcrmont. POSTMASTER: If undeliverable, send Form 3519 to Special Libraries Association, 31 East 10 St.. New York 3, N. Y. "A course . in the great tradition" AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS (George E. Uhlenbeck) THE LAN DAU-LI FSH ITZ COURSE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS Vol. 1 MECHANICS An exposition based upon Galilee's principle of relativity and Hamilton's principle of least action. IS0 ~~~$6.50 Vol. 2 THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF FIELDS A systematic presentation of the theory of electromagnetic and gravitational fields. 354 pp-$11.00 Vol. 3 QUANTUM MECHANICS-Non-relativistic Theory Covers a wide range of problems which can be treated without the use of relativistic theory. 515 pp-$12.50 Vol. 5 STATISTICAL PHYSICS An exposition of statistical physics and thermodynamics, completely rewritten and augmented from the original Russian edition. 496 pp-$12.50 Vol. 6 FLUID MECHANICS Covers topics not usually found in such books, i.e. heat transfer and diffusion in fluids, combustion, dynamics of superfluids, etc. 536 pp-$14.50 Vol. 7 THEORY OF ELASTICITY Includes the ordinary theory of deformation of solids, plus topics such as thermal conduction and viscosity in solids, etc. 134 pp-$6.50 Vol. 8 ELECTRODY NAMlCS OF CONTINUOUS MEDIA The theory of electromagnetic fields in matter and theory of the macroscopic electric and magnetic properties of matter. Includes a very modern treatment of plasma dynamics. 370 pp-$12.50 THE SIGN OF EXCELLENCE IN SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING BOOKS ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. Reading, Massachusetts, U. S. A. FEBRUARY 1961 Announcing an Important New Journal KYBERNETIK A Journal Dealing with the Transmission and Processing of Information as well as with Control Processes in Both Automata and Organisms Zeitschrift fiir Nachrichteniibertragung, Nachrichtenverarbeitung Steuerung und Regelung in Automaten und im Organismus KYBERNETIK aims to further experimental and theoretical investigations in the follow- ing fields: information theory; theory of automata; theory of control systems; mathe- matical foundations of communication theory; sensory processes and micro- and marcrophysiology of the central nervous system in relation to information handling by organisms (including man) and task-oriented groups; mathematical models for communication and control processes in organisms. The issues of KYBERNETIK, published by Springer-Verlag. Germany, will appear at irregular intervals during 1961. Volume 1, Number I, January 1961 .........................$3.60 Maximum price for Volume 1. .....$19.20 WALTER J. JOHNSON, INC. Subsc-i rptron Depn~tmelzt 111 Fifth Avenue, New York 3, N. Y. A New Reprint Now Available Nuclear Science Abstracts Volumes 1-8, 1948-1954 Cloth bound set ..........................................$230.00 Paper bound set ..........................................200.00 Volumes 1-3, 1948-1949 Single volumes, paper bound. .............................$20.00 Volume 4, 1950 Paper bound volume .................................... 30.00 Volumes 5-8, 1951-1954 Single volumes, paper bound in 2 parts. ..................... 30.00 JOHNSON REPRINT CORPORATION New York and London 11 1 Fifth Ave., New York 3, N. Y. 17 Old Queen St., London, S.W.1, England SPECIAL LIBRARIES For The Reference Library- 34MATCHES SLA Directory of Members As of October 21, 1960 An alphabetical listing of the names and addresses of the 5,429 members of Special Libraries Association of whom ' Standard's 5,321 are individuals and 108 are or- ganizations supporting the Association Library Furniture as Sustaining members. All Association officers for 1960-1961 are listed sep- Form and function combine with arately. specialized craftsmanship and the 204 pages 1960 finest materials to make $2.00 - A1ember.s Standard's line of library furniture the complete answer to your library operation and decor. A Checklist for the ...fi Organization, Operation and Evaluation of a Company Library EVALOU FISHER Part I presents general problems; Part I1 covers specific operational problems; Pdrt 111 recommends a minimum plan. Suggested reading lists. Appendix. Index. 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