lASSIST Newsletter, Vcl. 2, Nc. 2 (Spring 1978) ECITORIflL COMMENT If you wish to make suggestions for review materiai., please notify Kathleen, or if you wish to write AN OVER VIE W reviews, also let her know. For d variety of reasons no reviews ap- The spring issue, 1S78, of the geared in Volume 2, Number 1, nor IASSIST lewsletter contains three ao any reviews appear m the pres- arETcIes arawn from the papers ent issue. We should be back on given at the meeting in Itasca in track by Number 3, however.. February. The three are related in that they each are directed to some of the problems and opportunities inherent in the archival enter- OUB MISTAKE prise. Beginning with a discussion of the need for cataloging stand- Alice Hobbin informed us that a ards, Sue Dodd (University of North strange type of error occurred in Carolina) sets forth some of the the first paragraph of her article criteria implicit in the need for a (Vol. 2, No. If. It makes no sense means of retrieving and using ma- to say, "Computer tecnnology has chine readable datasets in a mean- made it possible for the tradi- ingful manner. Viewing the arcai- ticnal library to service the user val problem from an cr ganiza tional more quickly and (many enthusiasts perspective, William Gammell (Uni- of on-line data bases would add) versity of Connecticut) describes Sore compli cated than when the ref- the goals and objectives of the new erence librarian relied on manual organizational structure of the methods for searching and retriev- Roper Center, Inc. One of the pri- ing information." The correct ex- mary points empnasized by Gammell pression should be "more fully." is the continued desire of the One typo was, apparently, not suf- Hoper Center staff to improve docu- ficient, for in the final para- mentation standards sc that the ar- graph, instead of ". . . networking chive will have expanded useful- creates the potential for independ- ness. Many of the problems facing ence for computing centers - . .," the Roper Center (and many of the it should read. ". . . networking opportunities as well), are charac- creates the potential for independ- teristic of large, general purpose ence ^om computing centers." archives, sucn as Foper or the ICPSR. Cn a more restricted level. We might note that proofreading yet facing many of the same prob- is a difficult and arduous task, lems, are special purpose arcnives and while we make every erfort to such as that maintained by NCRC at provide clean copy, it is probably the University of Chicago. In his inevitable that some errors occur, paper, Patrick Bova (NOFC) seeks to While we will continue to try to aelineate some of the problems and improve our track record, I sen- opportunities available to special ously doubt that this, or any other purpose archives, and to describe publication will achieve 100% accu- the services the NOEC library can racy. Please bear with us, how- make available to the survey re- ever, search community. SOURCES OF PAPERS BOOK REVIEW EDITOR In issues No. 1 and No. 2 o: During the current year Ms. Volume 2, the papers published m Kathleen Heim will continue to the New sle tter were extracted from serve as book review editor for the those given at tae Itasca Confer- Newsietter. Kathleen served ably ence in February. Because papers auring~i:"Ee editorship of Alice Rob- given at meetings are or ten not bin and has consented to continue polished products, several of tae m that capacity. Readers cf the completed articles have required Newsletter should ce aware that as. occassional (and sometimes exten- HermTs~'aa3ress has changed frcm the sive) copv editing. Ordinariiiy we University of Wisconsin to: would have returnea copy edited pa- pers to the author (s) for review, Ms. Kathleen M. Fieim but time exigencies for the first Graduate School cf Library two issues have precluded that pos- Science sibility. In doing the copy edit- University of Illinois at ing we have attempted to stay— as Urbana-Champaign much as possible— with the author's 329 Mam Library original meaning and phraseology. Urbana, IL 6I8OI I hope we have succeeded. To the present time, however, we r.ave not - i2 - :^.". .^TSl Nfc wsi^ tt-j L , Vcl. I (SpLing 197d) atiS . can oi ter fro ir o the the wou lt;t CO thti t m 1 ffl e Eu ir Id ud ai.y drticies spt t; a zor tht iJt^^sielt eirdininj two iesUkjI tcL m ttie current ntiuue to uublidh ; fapcTs iro:r, Itasca, he UpL-Sdia meeting, t. if any authors ither the North Ac ropean meetings cart pacers ana subirit invite them to do sc o t jar, .ect in d, pa : F-i :i ca dl.y For the we ions af- pers pers n or e vse we FORTHCOiiING DEADLINES I caii your attention to tne ract that tae deadlines for tae summer and fail issues of tae News- letter are rapidly approaching. If you Have any materials roc the Newsletter piease send them as early as possible. The deadlines for Nos . 3 and 4 are as follows; Number J.: Number U : August 15, 1976 Novemter 15, 1978 If there are any substantial delays m publication, the timing of the Newsletter will be off, and, per- Eaps, flie usefulness of the publi- cation will be less. ;WSLETTER rCHHAT During the p iication and di 2, Number 1 o have received a concerning the the journal, format seem to though few hav with enthusiasm ber of lines pe 3y printing eig the lines are c a bit difficult On tne other ha ran about thi lines to the in forty-two pages to tne inch, of publication have one of two terial with th spread out a bi With the lines of cost conside cation, in its not average mor pages per issue comment from r eriou since the pub- stribution of Volume f the Newsletter we number of comments forraat and style of Comments on general be positive, al- e been overwhelmed concerning the num- r vertical inch (8) . ht lines to the inch ompressed and may be , at times, to read, nd. Number 1 , which rty pages at eight ch, would have been long at six lines Because of the cost of the Newsletter we choices: less ma- e vertical spacing t, or more material compressed. Because rations, the publi- presfcnt form- should e than about thirty I will appreciate eadets on this mat- T. W. n. - 3J