4 
P r ®P®ring a paper on "The Field Use of Electronic Calculators."—— 
From NOAA Week, vol. 3 (3), 1972, p. 3. 
KEEPING UP WITH ARPA-II 
The ARPA network is now the number one candidate for be¬ 
coming a nationwide network, according to DATAMATION, April, 
1972. Pressure is increasing on DOD from universities, other 
government groups, and private organizations to be allowed to 
join the net. A movement exists, apparently, to change the 
status from a DOD-sponsored research activity to a commercially 
run computer net. It is still very expensive to participants, 
however, and probably would be too high priced for most if it 
went commercial.--JAP. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CLASSIFICATION 
The Classification Society (T J Crovello, Sect., Dept of 
Biology, Notre Dame IN 46556) has initiated a bibliographic 
project designed to aid its members in keeping up with the current 
literature on classification. A Committee of the Society has 
spent two years drawing up a list of references dealing with 
classification theory and methods. The list was gradually reduced 
in size to a basic profile of 50 articles. This profile has been 
submitted to a multidisciplinary information retrieval organiza¬ 
tion, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which also 
publishes Current Contents and the Science Citation Index. ISI 
is providing on a weekly basis punched cards containing articles 
("hits") published during that week which cite one or more ar¬ 
ticles on the profile. The punched cards are being accumulated 
and at six-month intervals will be sorted by computer, after which 
a list of hits will be mimeographed and distributed to members. 
The cost of the service, currently on a one year trial basis for 
North American members only, is being borne by a $3 surcharge on 
the basic $3 membership fee.--Abstracted from article by W W Moss, 
in Entomological News. 
I'M SORRY, BUT COULD YOU REPEAT THAT? 
Investigators at the National Bureau of Standards have found 
that high noise levels in computer laboratories not only contri¬ 
bute to simple and recurrent errors by programmers, but also is 
so high that individuals in the room are in danger of losing their 
hearing. Ear plugs, anyone? 
