Comment on IEEE publication plans

Reading in the August issue that the recommendations of the IEEE Publication Committee are to publish three kinds of IEEE magazines, a monthly of essentially the Electrical engineering type, various professional technical group Transactions and, in addition, a Proceedings of the IEEE, makes the author wonder how the Institute membership may approve of such a plan. He feels it is well to have a high quality monthly, mailed to every member of the Institute, which is on such a level that it can be understood by, and is of interest to, the great majority of the membership. However, there is no need to continue with a Proceedings type of magazine. He argues that accordingly, it would be to the advantage of the member interests, aws ell as of the Institute budget, to modify this early Committee recummendation by dropping a Proceedings-type of publication in favor of an expanded monthly of the Electrical engineering type (as suggested by the Committee) and of the many PTG Transactions which in their entirety will cover all fields of electrical engineering, and which should include all Proceedings-type technical papers. No harm will be done, but a lot of money will be saved.