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KWIC—Key Word In Context—is a form of automatic indexing using computers. It is automatic in the sense that the computer system determines the indexing from free text input. Luhn first described the method in which text of a length which can be accommodated on a single line of print is indexed at the centre of the page, the words that precede and follow the indexing keyword being displayed on the same line. As a control device a list of words for which no indexing entry should be made is stored in the computer program. This list, often referred to as a ‘stop list’, includes the articles, conjunctions and commonly occurring trivial words which do not form useful indexing entries. Less frequently occurring ‘useless’ entries are carried, but at little cost and with little damage to the usefulness of the index. The system is often referred to as quick and dirty: quick in that it is cheap to run, easy to prepare and not demanding of intellectual decisions at input; dirty in that useless entries will appear in the index, and, since the indexing vocabulary is uncontrolled, the user must consider alternative words that may express the concept for which he is searching. When the input is prepared in‐house a number of control features can be used to supplement the stop list to make the index more effective but requiring more thought at input. This paper concerns a number of such added control features.

This review aims to present a speciality to the general documentationalist. It will contain too little chemistry for the chemist, and too little documentation for the documentalist. A reviewer cannot win!

The phenomenon of a rapidly increasing volume of technical literature is well known. The cost and time involved in the intellectual indexing and classification of much of this literature is uneconomic. A lowering of indexing standards and free text searching is being forced upon us. Computer applications and techniques are being devised to turn cheap and crude input into an acceptable level of output. This paper describes the application of such a technique and evaluates the search results. The search was conducted on the Uniterm Index to US Chemical Patents, issued by Information for Industry Incorporated, known as IFI.

The last two Aslib meetings which I have attended I found perhaps a little disturbing. The one before the last was the Annual Conference of the Chemical Group and, although I was not there for all of it, I did listen to the discussion. One speaker started out essentially bemoaning that librarianship was not what it used to be; it had gone to the dogs as far as he was concerned, and part of the blame—at least a large part of the blame—was that infernal machine, the computer. We can be thankful the discussion did not end on that note.

The origins of the UNISIST programme proposals are to be found in the concerns of the scientific community itself for the survival of its traditional communication institutions. From the outset, the concern transcended political and ideological boundaries. Scientists of East and West, meeting under Pugwash Conference auspices, in Karlovy Vary in 1964, viewed the tendency toward fractional and unco‐ordinated mechanization of information processing in different countries and in different fields of science with apprehension. Were the sciences in the process of creating in the electronic age a new Tower of Babel? Would the adventitious application of technology defeat the fundamental purpose of free and open scientific communication among all nations?

Faced with the need to undertake the retrospective conversion of the library catalogue, we searched the literature for advice and experiences which might prove useful for our situation. However, apart from Crowe and Matthews reporting on OCLC and Dartmouth respectively, there seemed to be little of value to us.

The remit for this, the last session of the Conference, was to consider the papers on specific issues given by the other speakers, to comment thereon, and to try to take a look into the future on the basis of what has been said. The views presented here are those of a librarian/information officer concerned almost solely with practical, day‐to‐day work and not directly with research activity. They therefore represent an overview as seen by one who is the recipient of the output of research workers and who must consider the applicability of research findings to systems and procedures at the point of use.

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The development and practice of school leadership in the Philippines is influenced by a rich history that has helped to shape policy and education in a diverse cultural landscape. Periods of Spanish and American colonization have challenged core Filipino values of community and kinship and shaped the way contemporary school leadership preparation and development occur in the Philippines. The role of school leaders in the Philippines is further framed by kinship dynamics, which have been consistently integral to the Filipino concept of self and to the way individuals interact with others. Kinship is the nucleus of the Filipino social organization, from indigenous groups to colonial aristocratic ethnic and social groups. The Filipino concept of leadership is derived from a value set that rests on both biological and ritual forms of kinship, which in turn drives leadership practice in communities and schools.