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According to Miss Ruth G. Porritt, Librarian of Radcliffe College, the change in reserve book circulation "is something I've wanted to do for ten years." In addition to the financial saving, she cited "a great many complaints from girls who use the library at night that the reserve books they require are gone...
...majority of Radcliffe students replying to a recent Student Government Association poll on the use of the library overwhelmingly rejected a suggestion to extend the closing hour from 10 to 11 p.m. The questionnaire quoted library officials as stating that reserve books would have to circulate for overnight use at 9 p.m. instead of at 4:30 p.m., if the later closing time were approved...
...Russians have also manifested interest in input-output analysis, and are now training people to perform the necessary operations. Leontief, who visited his native Russia briefly last spring, believes that although they are "having a hard time justifying the use of an analytical tool developed by a capitalist," the Russians will resort to it soon. Certain revisions have to be made in U.S.S.R. statistical methods in order to facilitate use of the analysis, Leontief added...
Underdeveloped countries also have to overcome difficulties in formulating tables to use for planning. Although their economies are relatively uncomplicated, problems do arise in the collection of data, according to Mrs. E. W. Gilboy, assistant director of the Research Project and lecturer in Economics. Another difficulty for them is collecting funds for purchase of the giant computers necessary to construct the chart after the data is secured. Spain, which set up a table several years ago, had to send information to Italy, where computer work was done on Italian machines...
Recently, however, the Department of Commerce announced plans to publish a new small table. This move shows that the government is actually interested in the analysis, and Leontief's predictions of wider U. S. government use in the future seem nearer fulfillment...