Bulletin of the Technical Committee on March 1996 Vol. 19 No. 1 Letters Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ...................................................... David Lomet 1 Letter from the Special Issue Editor .................................................... Eliot Moss 2 Special Issue on Integrating Text Retrieval and Databases Models for Integrated Information Retrieval and Database Systems .......................... Norbert Fuhr 3 Exploiting the Functionality of Object-Oriented Database Management Systems for Information Retrieval ...... .................................................................... Gabriele Sonnenberger 14 Integrating INQUERY with an RDBMS to Support Text Retrieval ...................................... ....................................... Vasanthakumar S. R., James P. Callan, and W. Bruce Croft 24 An OODBMS-IRS Coupling for Structured Documents .......... Marc Volz, Karl Aberer, and Klemens B¨ ohm 34 The System Architecture and the Transaction Concept of the SPIDER Information Retrieval System .......... .............................................................. Daniel Knaus, Peter Sch¨ auble 43