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Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8‐18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐18; Property Management Volumes 8‐18; Structural Survey Volumes 8‐18.

Annual report (June 1965 through May 1966) on the Chemical Compound Registry system. Columbus, Ohio, 1966. Development work has resulted in a the registration of about 360,000 chemical compounds in a computer system giving an identification in the form of a unique number for each compound and files data on the structure nomenclature and bibliographical citations. b testing of various methods for the input of chemical information in machine language by the use of special keyboards and keyboarding conventions. Thus whenever a compound which is already on file appears in a new reference, the previously assigned number is recovered automatically. The Registry Number acts as a tie for all information related to a given compound. The importance of this approach is indicated by the fact that an examination of the subject indexes of Chemical Abstracts shows that about 85 per cent of the index entries relate to compounds and materials.

“STUDENT” is one of the most abused words in the vocabulary of the library profession. Not only is it used very loosely with regard to those employed in library work—we are not concerned with that aspect at the moment—but it is often used in public libraries to mean anybody who is reading any book other than a novel or the current best‐selling biography or travelogue. This attitude that it is a waste of public money, and bad librarianship to buy books, even for the medium sized or small library, which are only occasionally borrowed is too prevalent. It is deplorable that all too often these books, when they are bought, are stored away in hidden stock rooms not open to the public. An effective request service is not a substitute for the provision of adequate stocks on the shelves at the branches. These books, frequently numbering some thousands, are only available on such request, but naturally they are underused and provide ammunition for the gnat‐minded librarians who cry that “there is no demand for serious books in my area”.

‘A MAP OF THE WORLD that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at’ wrote Oscar Wilde. ‘It leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. And when it lands there it looks out and, seeing a better country, sets sail again. Progress is the realization of Utopias’.

Compiled by K.G.B. Bakewell covering the following journals published by MCB University Press: Facilities Volumes 8‐18; Journal of Property Investment & Finance Volumes 8‐18; Property Management Volumes 8‐18; Structural Survey Volumes 8‐18.

The way of thought and vision and memory is that they often come upon you unexpectedly, presenting nothing new but usually with a clarity and emphasis that it all seems new. This will sometimes happen after a long period of indecision or when things are extremely difficult, as they have long been for the country, in most homes and among ordinary individuals. Watching one's life savings dwindle away, the nest‐egg laid down for security in an uncertain world, is a frightening process. This has happened to the nation, once the richest in the world, and ot its elderly people, most of them taught the habit of saving in early youth. We are also taught that what has been is past changing; the clock cannot be put back, and the largesse—much of it going to unprincipled spongers—distributed by a spendthrift Government as token relief is no answer, not even to present difficulties. The response can only come by a change of heart in those whose brutal selfishness have caused it all; and this may be a long time in coming. In the meantime, it is a useful exercise to consider our assets, to recognize those which must be protected at all costs and upon which, when sanity returns, the future depends.

The law-oriented short stories and novels of lawyer/English professor John William Corrington are receiving increasing attention from legal scholars. However, no one has analyzed the science fiction screenplays he co-wrote with his wife, Joyce, from a legal perspective. This article analyzes two such screenplays and concludes that they are “Socratic” texts whose narrative structures and epistemological processes work in much the same way that the traditional participatory exchange works in law school. My analysis explores the links between law, allegory and science fiction as intersecting methods to imagine the possibilities for the future.

How corporations can achieve growth, especially in these uncertain economic times, is a preoccupying concern for both academics and practitioners alike today. Many of the old models and templates have fallen by the wayside, as competition has intensified, and innovators – both new entrants and renewed enterprises – have changed the rules of the game, the market, and the industry. Here, by looking at some of the interesting players, the article shows an approach to growth. The view is that using “customer minded” principles and tools to drive strategy and resources creates value and wealth through services.