Mary Guerrieri
library@noao.edu

Note: This column did not appear in the original print issue.

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LISA IV (Library Information Services in Astronomy IV) will be held in Prague in early July 2002; tentative dates are July 3-5. Ellen Bouton, Brenda Corbin, Uta Grothkopf and Sarah Stevens-Rayburn are members of the Preliminary Planning Committee, and Marek Wolf is Chair of the Local Organizing Committee.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews will continue to be published by Springer.

Andre Heck posted his results for a Survey of Non-Professional Astronomy Magazines in Professional Astronomy Libraries. Results may be seen at: http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/npam.htm.

In reply to a query regarding whether or not a library at a university that does not conduct astronomy research should keep back issues of the Astronomical Almanac, Brenda Corbin wrote that the USNO keeps a complete collection of U.S. almanacs, as well as those of other nations, and noted that they are used by astronomers, historians and even novelists. She forwarded a note from the USNO Director of Astronomical Applications, who discussed various Web-based services which might act as replacements for or companions to the Almanacs; the print Alamancs, however, are still the most complete and valuable archival tool. Marlene Cummins also keeps the old Almanacs for the UT Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, but suggested that other compilations would serve the needs of a general use library, without taking up so much space.

Brenda Corbin notes that portraits of statisticians and astronomers may be found at: http://home.stat.ucla.edu/history/people/sources.htm."

Liz Bryson has started a three-year term as liason to the PASP. Contact Liz at bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu with concerns or comments regarding the journal.

The 2001 SLA Astronomy Roundtable will be held on Monday, June 11, from 10:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Ruth Kneale will moderate the session. Hope to see you all there!