San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Special Libraries, 1970 Special Libraries, 1970s 9-1-1970 Special Libraries, September 1970 Special Libraries Association Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1970 Part of the Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Collection Development and Management Commons, Information Literacy Commons, and the Scholarly Communication Commons Recommended Citation Special Libraries Association, "Special Libraries, September 1970" (1970). Special Libraries, 1970. 7. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1970/7 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Libraries, 1970s at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Special Libraries, 1970 by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The big ones are even bigger this year. BOOKS IN PRINT 1970. Nearly 3 10,000 books are listed by author and by title - a net increase of 35,000 over the 1969 edition. Provides complete ordering infor- mation, in most cases including International Standard Book Numbers. The title index also features a directory of all known U.S. publishers. ISBN: 0-8352-0419-7. LC: 4-12648. Cloth. Postpaid price for the two-volume set: $27.50 net in U.S. and Canada; $30.25 elsewhere. Ready late October. SUBJECT GUIDE TO BOOKS IN PRINT 1970. Lists some 270,000 books from 1900 U.S. publishers and indexes them under 42,500 subject headings with 47,000 cross references. Helps you track down books on nearly every conceivable subject - popular or obscure. Entries include full bibliographic information. ISBN: 0-8352-0420-0. LC: 4-12648. Cloth. Postpaid price for the two-volume set: $23.50 net in U.S. and Canada; $25.85 elsewhere. Ready November. PUBLISHERS' TRADE LIST ANNUAL 1970. Now published in six volumes the same size as its companions, BOOKS IN PRINT and SUBJECT GUIDE. Includes the trade order lists of some 1900 U.S. publishers. Gives descriptions of books, series, and bindings; gives International Standard Book Numbers; outlines discount policies. ISBN: 0-8352-0421-9. LC: 4-12648. Cloth. Postpaid price for the six-volume set: $17.50 net in U.S. and Canada; $19.25 elsewhere. Ready Now. In New York please add applicable sales tax. R. R. BOWKER COMPANY, 1180 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10036 As many of you know, a number of our long-time "standing orders" were inadvertently dropped last year. Please do not assume that your "standing orders" are active. Start afresh by indicating your present "standing order7' requirements. We will take special pains to see that this "fresh start" is not duplicated with any past "standing order" request now on file. AN0 MATHEMATlCAl LINGUISTICS Selected articles from Nauchno-Tekhnicheskaya lnformatsiya (Institute of Scientific and Technical lnformation of the USSR - VINITI) Faraday Advisory Editor: L. Cohan, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Soviet Editor: A. I. Mikhailov Focuses on experimental methods of analyzing, translating, encoding, searching and correlating scientific and technical information. Covers problems in the development of information languages, classification and indexing, and automatic analysis of texts. Describes new projects in automatic documentation, mechanical translation, mathematical linguistics and information retrieval. Sample contents include: Preparation of Secondary Scientific Documents Improving the Format of Scientific Documents A Linguistic Description of the Nomenclature of Organic Chern~stry Some Causes of Loss and Noise in Document lnformat~onRe- trieval - The Concepts "lnformation" and "Sign" = Fundamentals of Scientific Abstracting Methods The Problem of Translation and Modern Linguistics Documentation and Problems of Classi- fying Sciences Problems of lnformation Storage and Retrieval Grammars Describing the Relationships between Natural Lan- guages Automatic Textual Analysis Analysis of lnformation Flow as a Means for Predicting the Future of Research Projects Research on Qualifications for lnformation Speclalists In Chemis- try Optimal Structures for Subject Indexes of Abstract Journals A Distributive Theory of Sentences with Bound Regions An Ap- proach to Definition of Certain Fundamental Notions in Informa- tion-Retrieval Languages Syntactical Homonymy in Russian (from the Viewpoint of Automatic Analysis and Synthesis). 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