College and Research Libraries By E D N A M A E B R O W N New Periodicals of 1956—Part I JN THE FOLLOWING LIST of new periodicals launched in 1956 there will be found titles of interest to almost everyone. There are journals for the scientist, the psycholo- gist, the librarian, the political scientist, the student, the genealogist and others. Some are obviously propaganda; others state posi- tively that they are without bias. Over half are either the official organ of a learned or professional society or are published by a well established university, library or re- search institution. PLACES. Those journals concerned with specific places and their peoples and prob- lems were the most interesting and the most numerous. For example, the first issue of Asian Affairs has as its general subject "Prob- lems of Economic Development in South- East Asia." The contributions deal with such matters as the scale and speed of the eco- nomic development and trade expansion in Asiatic countries, the economic activities of the Chinese in Southeast Asia and multi- lateral compensation payments in Asia. This journal is published in Tokyo, but it is not intended to limit the contributors to Japa- nese. Atlantico, which is published by the American Embassy and American House in Madrid, is not the official propaganda jour- nal one might expect, but it is rather a gen- eral cultural magazine treating of Spanish and American art, music, literature and his- tory. Although the text is in Spanish, Allen Tate, Robert Hillyer, Vachel Lindsay, Ten- nessee Williams, Lewis Hanke and other Americans have contributions in the first issue. The Australian Journal of Politics and History began publication in November, 1955. Because it was not available for in- clusion in the listing of new periodicals launched in 1955 it is included here. For the most part articles will be based on the re- Miss Brown is head, Serials Section, De- scriptive Cataloging Division, Library of Congress. suits of research done by Australian scholars. While the journal is intended primarily to inform Australians of their political insti- tutions and to assist them in solving po- litical problems it will be equally informative to strangers. Problems of Australian foreign policy, the study and teaching of political science in Australian universities, an article on General Smuts and one on the "federal principle" are illustrative of volume one, number one. Lands East is a popular maga- zine published by the Middle East Institute in Washington. Included in the first issue are brief, illustrated articles on the Freer Gallery, Premier Karamanlis of Greece, and such places as Bahrain and Aqaba. The Po- lish Review is limited to Polish affairs, is in English and is intended to be a rallying point for Polish scholars living in the free world. It will present studies of all aspects of Polish cultural life, past and present, and analyses of events in present-day Poland. It is published by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. Der Welt der Slaven published in Wiesbaden is a journal without political bias. In it German and Slavic writers discuss Russian philology and literature in a scholarly manner. Included is "Slavistische Bibliographie" listing books and articles in journals published in 1954 and 1955. A Look at the Dominican Republic is published by the Dominican Embassy in Washington. Such articles as "Dominican Laws Protect Foreign Investors," "Business and Investment Opportunities in the Pro- gressive Dominican Republic," and "Tru- jillo Warns Against Surrender to Red Tac- tics," suggest the aim of this publication. SCIENCE AND RESEARCH. Another interesting group of new journals is found in the fields of science and research. Cereal Science Today is published by the American Association of Cereal Chemists. It will cover current labora- tory developments in the fields of cereal chemistry and cereal technology. Experimen- tation with frozen bakery products, the use SEPTEMBER, 1956 4 0 9 of atomic energy in food preservation and new agents for bleaching and maturing flour are a few of the subjects discussed in the first number. This journal will be of interest to management as well as to chemists as the latter group find and report on new prod- ucts and new methods of their preservation and distribution. Limnology and Oceanog- raphy is the journal of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Articles are accompanied by abstracts and bibliog- raphies. The authors are members of uni- versity faculties. Monsanto Technical Re- view is a compilation of papers written by the scientists and engineers of the Mon- santo Chemical Company. The editors sug- gest that this journal will not only be of interest to the technical personnel of Mon- santo and other companies but also to col- lege graduates who will see the challenging scientific and engineering problems con- fronting Monsanto professional staff. Nu- clear Science and Engineering is the journal of the American Nuclear Society and will present papers on original research in all of the disciplines represented by the members of the society. Articles are accompanied by references. Nuclear Physics is well described by its subtitle "Devoted to the Experimental and Theoretical Study of Atomic Nuclei, Nuclear Fields and the Fundamental Aspects of Cosmic Radiation." The editor, Professor L. Rosenfeld, is a member of the Depart- ment of Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester, England. It is published in Amsterdam. Research and Industry is pub- lished by the Council of Scientific and In- dustrial Research, New Delhi, for the pur- pose of promoting the application of science to industry. It will carry information on dis- coveries and inventions emerging from the work of scientists in laboratories and insti- tutes. It will seek to enlist the cooperation of industry in utilizing the results of this research. It invites problems of immediate or long-range interest for investigation. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Steel Review is pub- lished quarterly for the British Iron and Steel Federation. It is concerned with the production and consumption of steel in Britain and especially with the expansion of the industry. U. S. Shipping discusses American shipping companies, American ships, trade routes, etc. in the interest of promoting American shipping business. World with subtitle "For World Trade and World Law" consists largely of a report on the World Conference of Scientists held in London in August, 1955. Features pertain- ing to trade were noticeably missing in the first issue. AGRICULTURE. Outook on Agriculture is published by the Imperial Chemical Indus- tries, Berkshire, England. It will reflect the three main interests of the company, crop production, crop protection and animal health. In addition to articles there will be book reviews and abstracts of periodical ar- ticles. The emphasis is on agriculture in Britain. MEDICINE. The abstracts published in Den- tal Abstracts are prepared by the Bureau of Library and Indexing Service, American Dental Association, Chicago. The Journal of Forensic Sciences is the official publication of the American Academy of Forensic Sci- ences. It will publish original investigations and observations in forensic pathology, toxi- cology, psychiatry, immunology, jurispru- dence, criminalistics and questioned docu- ments. The Survey of Ophthalmology will present digests of important ophthalmic ar- ticles together with editorial comment by recognized authorities. The articles included will be sufficiently detailed that it will us- ually be unnecessary for the reader to refer to the original. LAW. Race Relations Law Reporter is pub- lished by the School of Law of Vanderbilt University. It will be a systematic compila- tion of legal materials in the field of race relations, such as decisions of the United States Supreme Court and lower Federal courts, rulings and orders of administrative agencies, boards and commissions, opinions of State attorneys-general, etc. Actual word- ing will be used; there will be some abridge- ments, some summaries. Villanova Law Re- view published by the Villanova University Law School is similar to other such journals, having as its aim the promotion of legal re- search and discussion and the training of students in skills of legal research and writ- ing. ADMINISTRATION. Administration Science Quarterly published by the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration of 410 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Cornell University "expresses a belief in the possibility of developing an administrative science and a conviction that progress is be- ing made and will continue." It will be a "multidisciplinary" journal in that it will encourage presentation of concepts and methods from all relevant fields. In addition to articles there will be included book re- views and abstracts of periodical articles, government documents and other fugitive materials. More practical and less theoretical than the journal mentionel above is Mod- ern Office Procedures. This journal actually reports cases which show how stenographic shortages can be overcome, how to relocate an office, how to simplify billing, etc. STUDENTS. The Student is a journal pub- lished in Leiden by the Coordinating Secre- tariat of the National Union of Students. Its editorial policy states it will "invite and publish articles and features concerning stu- dent life and interests, without political or other form of bias, which will be of interest to students outside the particular area con- cerned." Student problems in Asia and Mel- bourne University and the 1956 Olympic Games are illustrative of the subjects treated in the first number. RETIREMENT PLANNING. Retirement Plan- ning News is a brief journal but holds ad- vice on such problems as when and where to retire, how to prepare a budget for re- tirement living and other pertinent matters. SOCIAL WORK. Social Work, the journal of the National Association of Social Workers, is made up of splendid articles on various facets of the profession. It will be of interest not only to social workers but also to work- ers in related fields of medicine and public health, education, law, etc. PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY. Behavioral Science is the official publication of the Mental Health Research Institute of the University of Michigan. It will publish ar- ticles on general theories of behavior and on research being conducted in this field. Con- temporary Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association, is a monthly journal of book and film reviews. Trade information is given for the books mentioned. The reviewers are members of university faculties. Phronesis; a Journal for Ancient Philosophy is published in the Netherlands. It is a very scholarly journal with an international editorial committee. ART AND LITERATURE. Prisme des Arts as the subtitle states is an international journal of contemporary art. The first issue would indicate "international" to mean European in this instance. In addition to articles, con- siderable space is given to announcements and descriptions of exhibitions. Manuscript Lab is published by Margaret Howard in New York. She will publish here the works of new writers who need criticism and help. It is hoped that when the works of these unknown contributors bring the magazine such prestige that it comes to be read by editors, publishers and agents, the authors will have been "discovered" and a potential market secured for them. Das Wichtigste aus Welt und Wissen consists of extracts from new European and American Books. Read- ing this would be a way of reviewing and refreshing one's German. Wisdom published by Leon Gutterman in Beverly Hills, Cali- fornia, states that within its pages "the wis- dom of the world is gathered, selected and presented . . . in a single magazine." Selec- tions are made from the writings and ad- dresses of the world's great people. A selec- tion from a speech of Eisenhower is the first article in the first issue. Other names ap- pearing in the table of contents include Shelley, Maugham, Einstein, Oursler, Erskine, Sandburg, Harold Medina, Robert Louis Stevenson and many more. The library of Indiana University is publishing The In- diana University Bookman as a means of making known some of its rare and unique materials. An article on the Harmony So- ciety and another on the library's Joseph Lane papers were features of the beginning number. LIBRARIES. Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France is published by the Biblioth£que Nationale. Treatment of all the problems of library science, documentation, bibliography, acquisition, administration, special libraries, together with book reviews and abstracts from periodicals will make this a very use- ful journal for French and foreign librar- ians. SEMITIC STUDIES. The Journal of Semitic Studies from the Manchester University Press plans to include research and writing SEPTEMBER, 1956 4 1 1 done in linguistics, literature, history, ar- chaeology and culture of any period of Israel's history. Articles will usually be in English; book reviews will be included. GENEALOGY. Florence Parker of Phoenix, Arizona is publishing Family Tree-Research- er which she says will " b e constructive in being the day to day catalogue and active go-between, the person-to-person, library-to- library medium of information and . . . be instrumental in researchers contacting other researchers who are interested in the same names." A large part of the first issue is made up of "Queries," which is a listing of names of persons about whom practically nothing is known. Readers are asked to supply what- ever information they may have concerning these people. COMMUNISM. Prohlemi del communismo a del socialismo from Milan aims to study the principles and propaganda methods of Com- munism and Socialism, especially the prin- ciples and methods of the Italian Commu- nist Party. This should be a very interesting journal to follow at this time. HORSES. For horse lovers there is Horse published in New York. Such topics as con- sideration for one's mount, the revival of polo, a sporting calendar, etc. are to be found in volume one, number one. Periodicals Administrative Science Quarterly. Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. v.l, no.l, June 1956. 4 no. a year. $7.50. Asian Affairs. Maruzen Company, P.O. Box 605, Tokyo Central, Tokyo, v.l, no.l, March 1956. Quarterly. $5. Atlantico. Casa Americana, Castellana 48, Ma- drid. no.l, 1956. Irregular. Free? The Australian Journal of Politics and History. Queensland University Press, George Street, Brisbane, v.l, no.l, November 1955. Semi- annual. $2.75. Behavioral Science. Mt. Royal and Guilford Ave., Baltimore 2. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Quarterly. $6. Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France. Biblio- theque Nationale, 58, rue de Richelieu, Paris He. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Monthly, 5,000 Fr. Cereal Science Today. American Association of Cereal Chemists, 500 South Fifth St., Minne- apolis 15. v.l, no.l, May 1956. Monthly (ex- cept July and August). $3. Contemporary Psychology. American Psycho- logical Association, 1333 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washington 6. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Monthly. $8. Dental Abstracts. American Dental Association, 222 East Superior St., Chicago 11. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Monthly. $6. Family Tree-Researcher. Florence Parker, 2607 North 8th St., Phoenix, Ariz, v.l, no.l, Jan- uary 5, 1956. Monthly. $3. Horse. 30 East 39th St., New York, v.l, no.l, February 1956. Monthly. $6. The Indiana University Bookman. Indiana Uni- versity, Bloomington, Ind. no.l, January 1956. Quarterly. Price not given. Journal of Forensic Sciences. Callaghan and Company, 6141 North Cicero Ave., Chicago 30. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Quarterly. Price not given. Journal of Semitic Studies. Manchester Uni- versity Press, 316-324 Oxford Rd., Manchester 13. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Quarterly. $4.50. Lands East. Middle East Institute, 1761 N St., N.W., Washington 6. v.l, no.l, January 1956. 10 no. a year. $3.25. Limnology and Oceanography. Mount Royal and Guilford Ave., Baltimore 2. v.l, no.l, Janu- ary 1956. Quarterly. $10. A Look at the Dominican Republic. Embassy of the Dominican Republic, 4500 16th Street, N.W., Washington, v.l, no.l, January 1956. Monthly. Free? Manuscript Lab. Margaret Howard, Box 242, GPO, New York, v.l, no.l, February 1956. Monthly. $3. Modern Office Procedures. 1240 Ontario St., Cleveland 13. v.l, no.l, March 1956. Monthly. $5. Monsanto Technical Review. Monsanto Chem- ical Company, St. Louis 4. v.l, no.l, Spring 1956. Semiannual. Free? Nuclear Physics. North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, v.l, no.l, 1956. Month- ly. $14. Nuclear Science and Engineering. Academic Press, 125 East 23d St., New York 10. v.l, no.l, March 1956. Bimonthly. $6. Outlook on Agriculture. Imperial Chemical In- dustries, Jealott's Hill Research Station, 4 1 2 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES Bracknell, Berkshire, England, v.l, no.l, Spring 1956. 2 or 3 no. a year. Free? Phronesis. Royal Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands, v.l, no.l, November 1955. Semi- annual. $3. The Polish Review. Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, 145 East 53d St., New York, v.l, no.l, Winter 1956. Quarterly. $5. Prisme des Arts. 1 bis, rue Henri Rochefort, Paris X V I I I e . no.l, March 15, 1956. 10 no. a year. 2,600 Fr. Problemi del comunismo e del socialismo. Corso Italia 15, Milano. no.l, 1956. 6 no. a year. L 3,500. Race Relations Law Reporter. Vanderbilt Uni- versity, School of Law, Nashville 5, Tenn. v.l, no.l, February 1956. 6 no. a year. $2. Research and Industry. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Old Mill Rd., New Delhi 2. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Monthly. Rs 8. Retirement Planning News. Retirement Coun- cil, Inc., 342 Madison Ave., New York 17. no.l, 1956. Frequency not given. Price not given. Social Work. 374 Broadway, Albany 7. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Quarterly. $6. Steel Review. British Iron and Steel Federation, Steel House, Tothill Street, London SW1. no.l, January 1956. Quarterly. Free? The Student. National Union of Students, Post Box 36, Leiden, Netherlands, v.l, no.l, April 1956. Frequency not given. Free? Survey of Ophthalmology. Mount Royal and Guilford Ave., Baltimore 2. v.l, no.l, Febru- ary 1956. Bimonthly. $9. U. S. Shipping. Franchar Publishing Company, East Stroudsburg, Pa. v.l, no.2, February 1956. Monthly. Price not given, (v.l, no.l was not available for examination.) Villanova Law Review. Villanova University Law School, Villanova, Pa. v.l, no.l, January 1956. Quarterly. $2.50 for v.l, $5. for v.2+. Der Welt der Slaven. Otto Harrassowitz, Wies- baden. v.l, no.l, 1956. Quarterly. DM 40. Das Wichtigste aus Welt und Wissen. Verlags- union, Biidingen, Oberhessen. no.l, January 1956. Monthly. DM 13,80. Wisdom. 8800 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, v.l, no.l, January 1956. Monthly. $7.50. World. 21 Hampstead Lane, Highgate Village, London N6. Winter 1955/56. 4 no. a year. 10 s. Wisconsin's New University Library After Two Years (Continued from page 393) tory in the building f o r microfilm, mi- crocard, and microprint collections and reading facilities; and the need f o r voice records and playing e q u i p m e n t is being investigated. M u c h has happened in the M e m o r i a l Library in the past two years, and m u c h will h a p p e n in the next twenty-five— by w h i c h time we shall have begun to agitate f o r the new wing sketched into the plans f o r the original building. But a university library, n o matter h o w big, fulfills its f u n c t i o n only when it is pa- tronized by readers well acquainted with its system and its services. T h e larger it grows, the more confusing; and the new reader wanders a m o n g its intricacies as in a maze. W e have tried by several means to insure that the library and its materials are adequately explained to its reading p u b l i c : indoctrination visits and problems f o r each entering class, yearly introductory lectures to new graduate students, additional informa- tion service during the first p o r t i o n of the fall term, and a well-received series of telecasts over the university station, during which the basic services of the library were explained by staff members, and panels of students and librarians discussed points of general interest and puzzling features of the new library. In the o p i n i o n of its users, the Me- morial Library, with its c o m m o d i o u s fa- cilities, its cheerful and varied c o l o r combinations, its attractive furniture, and its services and b o o k stock, has vin- dicated itself and the theories behind it during these first two years. D u r i n g the f o l l o w i n g decades, the duty b o t h of the staff and the faculty will be to make it truly the center of the University. SEPTEMBER, 1956 413