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JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AUTOMATION
The first issue of a new quarterly, the Journal of Library Automation, appeared on April 26. The only periodical devoted to use of computers in libraries, it heralds the libraries of the future. The new periodical is an official publication of the Information Science and Automation Division of ALA. Serving as editor is Frederick G. Kilgour, director of the Ohio College Library Center, Columbus. On the editorial board are Susan Artandi, Rutgers University; Joseph Becker, EDUCOM; Vemer W. Clapp, Council on Library Resources; A. J. Goldwyn, Case Western Reserve University and Frederick H. Ruecking, Jr., Rice University.
The Journal of Library Automation will publish original contributions in all fields of research and development in library automation, including interlibrary communications; in research in information science directly related to library activities; and in the history and teaching of these subjects. The issue published in April contains articles from the university libraries of Stanford, Harvard, Texas A & I, Michigan, and Brown. Computers are used in each of these libraries.
The Council on Library Resources has made a grant of $21,000 to the American Library Association to give financial assistance to the Journal of Library Automation for its first three years, after which it will be self-supporting.
The Journal is printed on Permalife paper, which is guaranteed to last five hundred years. Typesetting has been done from punched paper tape, which is being retained by the Journal for future computer storage and retrieval. In order to have all headings and textual material punched on tape, format for the Journal utilizes only two typefaces.
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