Cumulative Index

To "Pim" To Be

Published

The management of the "Pacific Islands Monthly" has engaged a pro fessional librarian to compile a cumu lative index to PIM to be published for sale. The index will begin with the first issue of August, 1930, and will cover the first 15 years of publi cation.

A second cumulative index cover ing the period from August, 1945, to July, 1959, will be compiled and published if there is sufficient public support for the first one.

People in Australian academic circles have already expressed keen interest in the indexing project. Mr.

H. E. Maude, of the School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, told PIM re cently: "Everyone I have spoken to re gards the index as a most welcome project which will turn PIM into easily the most important source for contemporary Pacific history (and not

only contemporary). Clearly, PIM is going to be microfilmed soon and sets bought for all standard libraries everywhere; and the indexes will then be invaluable."

Copies of PIM for the period 1930- 1949 have long been out of print.

But the publishers still have limited stocks—only one or two copies in some cases—of the issues from January, 1950, to date.

Copies for the period, 1950-1959, are 4/- Australian or 80 US cents each; those for 1960-1963 are 3/- Australian or 60 US cents each. Sur face mail postage is included.

PIM has also recently been asked to try to find a buyer for a com plete, unbound file of the magazine from Vol. 1, No. 1 to date. This file, which is available from a deceased Islands estate, is believed to be the first complete set ever to come on the market, and it is probably one of only a dozen or so complete sets in existence.

Offers for the set, which is in first-class condition, should be made to: Mr. Robert Langdon, Pacific Publi cations Pty. Ltd., Box 3408, GPO, Sydney, NSW.