From the Editor Your Personal Library
I was recently researching to secure some information requested by an AFS member. While looking through my personal technical library, I was reminded of when I started in the metalcasting industry only a few years back and a practice that I started early in my career. Through the
years, I have saved my copies of Modern Casting, Foundry Management & Technology, Cast Metals Research Journal (the precursor to the current IJMC) and other articles and books. I also purchased a hardcopy of the AFS Transactions every year. Since starting out in my professional life, I often worked in locations that didn’t have easy access to a university or research library like the AFS Butch Peters Library; I found these resources to be valuable friends. As I reminisce, it is hard to believe that the closest thing back then to the new GoogleTM powered AFSearchTM
authors and articles was the 10 year table of contents that was published first separately and then in select issues of the AFS Transactions. As I became active in various AFS
Technical Committees, I always made it a point to come early and visit the library in Des Plaines, IL, now Schaumburg, IL, reviewing the various journals from around the world while also conducting resource gathering for investigating issues back in the plant. As I look back, I realize that one of the most important tools that you as a technologist in the
International Journal of Metalcasting/Winter 10
metalcasting industry can have is your personal library. I know that someday we might see Kindle pads replacing these paper editions, but there is
...one of the most important tools that
you as a technologist in the metalcasting industry can have is your personal library.
something about sitting at the breakfast table on Saturday morning with a cup of coffee looking at one of the latest articles published in the IJMC that is hard to duplicate on an iPod screen. The point I’m trying to make is
to research topics,
that if you receive the IJMC as an AFS Corporate member or a Foundry Education Foundation (FEF) school and therefore share that issue with one of your colleagues, you should consider securing a subscription for yourself. I think you will find that investment in your development and creation of your own personal library to be valuable and rewarding.
This edition of the IJMC continues the
efforts that AFS and FEF took last year to give our metalcasting undergraduate students the opportunity to present
Thomas Prucha
Editor International Journal of Metalcasting AFS Vice President of Technology
tprucha@afsinc.org
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and publish their project activities. This opportunity to be published in a peer reviewed and juried journal is often only given to graduate students, post doctorates and professors. We hope this allows a format so you can see the fantastic work these students are doing. Each poster/paper also was reviewed by the AFS Research
Board, with the top two receiving a cash prize. We will conduct our third contest this year, with the electronic posters on display at CastExpo’10 in March in Orlando, Florida.
The last issue of the IJMC was dedicated to the Carl Loper Cast Iron Symposium. We have gone back to our more traditional format in this issue with a mix of materials, processes and technical topics. For the Spring 2010 issue, we will focus on the advancement in computer modeling activities, especially the application of techniques that have helped to improve process and casting quality and helped make our industry more efficient and cost competitive. As always, we appreciate your comments and suggestions for future issues.
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