Editor\u27s Message, Spring 1979

Welcome to the first issue of POD Quarterly. The purpose of this journal is to provide information on resources and discussion of issues of direct interest to POD members as well as to provide news of POD. It is intended to do so in such a way as to encourage and facilitate linkage among POD members. A perusal of the table of contents (on the back cover) will indicate the means of carrying out that purpose: Editorial features, regular Departments, and refereed Articles