ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 578 / C&RL News W o o lfs m an u scrip t diaries, and m any others. Szadits was appointed curator o f th e Berg Collec­ tion in May 1969. In adding new works to the collection, she focused on purchases th at served the needs o f th e w riting community, and indeed, in one year alone, m aterial from th e Berg Collection appeared in published volumes on Randall Jarrell, the Peabody sisters, Dylan Thom as, and W.B. Yeats. Among th e most significant acquisitions m ade by Szladits w ere th e m anuscripts and h an d ­ w ritten notebooks dating to 1929 o f th e p o et W .H. Auden purchased in 1975. She established major author files on C onrad Aiken, H.G. Wells, M uriel Rukeyser, Evelyn W augh, May Sarton, Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, and th e James Joyce circle o f w riters in France. In addition she added notably to th e B erg’s existing materials on Joseph Conrad, Alexander Pope, Max B eerbohm , W ash­ ington Irving, W alt W hitm an, and Oliver W endell Holmes. Szladits’ career was distinguished by h e r com ­ m itm ent to broadening th e u nderstanding and appreciation o f th e literature in h er charge. D uring h e r 20 years as curator, Szladits conceived, as­ sem bled, and m ounted some 35 exhibitions viewed by over half a million people, and p rep ared accom ­ panying catalogs, all to convey th e appeal and richness o f literature to the general public. H e r most recen t exhibition, is entitled Words Like Free­ dom, a display which focuses on th e B erg’s collec­ tion o f abolitionist literature. Szladits is viewed by th e literary and scholarly com m unities as a literary N • The B attle o f Antietam and the M aryland Campaign o f 1862: A B ibliography, by D. Scott H artw ig (117 pages, April 1990), brings to g eth er all m ajor references to the bloodiest day in N orth A m erican history, S e p te m b e r 17, 1862, w hen n early 25,000 A m erican soldiers w e re killed, w ounded, o r captured. To many people Antietam is little m ore th an a vague m em ory o f a question on a high school history exam, b u t to our ancestors— both black and w hite— it was a turning point th at p ro m p ted Lincoln to issue th e E m ancipation P roc­ lamation about 100 days later. This bibliography will be of interest to those who have read Stephen W. Sears’s definitive account, Landscape Turned Red (1983). Copies are available for $45.00 from EW M eckler Corporation, 11 F erry Lane W est, W est­ port, C T 06880. ISBN 0-88736-321-0. • CD-ROM Technology fo r Information Man­ agers, by A hm ed E lsham i (280 pages, M arch 1990), contains all th e inform ation you n eed to get started with a C D -R O M collection. Some o f the topics covered are: different types o f optical disks, th e cu rren t lack o f standards, different types of indexing and search techniques, th e use o f C D - ROM for archival storage, online search services, C D -R O M hardw are, and a com prehensive list of 450 C D -R O M products. Copies are available for $35.00 from ALA Publishing Services, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0523-4. • Chronicle o f the World., ed ited by Jerom e UPBLICATI lion in h er own rite, and was the subject in 1984 o f th e only New Yorker profile ever w ritten about a librarian. She was featured in articles in The New York Times and o th er newspapers. She frequently lectured to th e literary and library com m unities, appeared on radio and television, and belonged to a n u m b e r o f organization, including th e Board of the Keats-Shelley Association o f America; th e Li­ brary Council o f th e Rosenbach Foundation; the Council o f th e D ictionary o f Literary Biography; th e F riends o f th e C olum bia Libraries; and the Friends o f th e National Libraries (England), and th e H rosw itha Club. Prior to h e r positions in the Berg Collection, Szladits was a library assistant in th e Art Division of th e N ew York Public Library in 1955, a Librarian in the Rare Book Room o f th e New York Academy of M edicine from 1951-1955, a librarian in th e O ri­ ental section o f L ondon’s C ourtauld Institute of Art from 1948-50, and a medical secretary for the Allied C ontrol Commission, U.S. Forces in H u n ­ gary, from 1945-46. She received h er Ph.D . from P ete r Pazmany University on B udapest in 1946, and did post-graduate work at C olum bia University from 1946-47; at th e Sorbonne, University o f Paris in spring 1948; and at New York University’s Insti­ tu te o f F ine Arts, from 1950-1955. She received h e r diplom a o f librarianship from University Col­ lege London University in 1950, and was nam ed a fellow o f th e Library Association (England) in 1981. ON N ow Blackwell new titles information is as close as your personal computer. If your library spends hours handling new tides announcement forms and reading fiche, these two new Blackwell services w ill be good news, indeed. You can put your PC to work managing new tides information, giving you greater control and faster ordering. On diskette. P C -N e w Titles Announcement Service P C -N T A S provides your library’s N ew Tides Announcement Forms on diskette each week. View your Blackwell N ew Tides profile matches on screen. Search, display, print forms and create orders as needed with the program’s link to Blackwell’s PC-Order. Best of all, the PC-NTAS program and weekly diskettes are available free to Blackwell approval and forms customers. On line. N TO gives immediate answers about new title N ew Titles Online status to libraries with PC/modem hardware. You gain dial-up access to Blackwell’s New Tides database featuring titles of interest to academic and research libraries. Once on line, you can search by a variety of parameters, and generate approval orders (“Be sure to send on approval”) and firm orders. It’s current, comprehensive and very affordable. BLACKW ELL NORTH AMERICA, INC. Part o f a proud bookselling tradition dating from 1879. Lake Oswego, O regon • Blackwood, N e w Jersey Toll free 1-800-547-6426 5 8 0 / C &RL News B um e (1296 pages, 1990), is one o f those books that has been prom inently displayed in bookstores; thus one might automatically equate it with cursory scholars!; p and glib popularization. However, its excellent illustrations and its intriguing way o f using contem porary journalistic headlines and copy- writing to describe historical events cannot help but captivate the casual read er and may even lead the unwary business school student into a lifelong fascination with history. T he headlines are often intentionally amusing: “H eady brew found in fruity ferm ent, N ear East, c.3500 B.C.,” on early wine m anufacture; “‘T ab aco ’ p ip e is good for your health, say American smokers, E urope, 1496,” on the im portation o f tobacco to E urope; and “Things happen like this— probably, Paris, 1812,” on L ap­ lace’s essay on probability. T he chronology starts off in East Africa 3.5 million years B.C. (“Early hum ans stand tall on rear legs”) and continues through 1945. O th er volumes fill in th e gaps with the Chronicle o f the 20th Century, th e Chronicle o f America, and the Chronicle o f the French Revolu­ tion. Chronicles o f aviation, Canada, and W orld W ar II are due out soon. A painstakingly thorough index and alphabetically-arranged descriptions of m odern nations supplem ent this chronology. C op­ ies may be o rd ered for $49.95 from ECAM Publi­ cations, 105 S. Bedford Rd., Suite 311, M ount Kisco, NY 10549-9911. • Electronic Color: The Art o f Color Applied to Graphic Computing, by Richard B. N orm an (186 pages, 1990), covers th e application o f color theory to architecture and design by using color graphic com puting. W ith m ore than 180 color illustrations, this book explores th e ways in which com puters use color and how digital color is differ­ en t from that o f traditional color media. Largely theoretical and for th e artistically inclined, al­ though it contains an analysis o f how th e com puter creates color and an explanation o f how the m oni­ to r and oth er com ponents work. Copies may be o rd ered for $59.95 from Van N ostrand Reinhold, 7625 E m pire Dr., Florence, KY 41042. ISBN 0- 422-23539-9. • T he Encyclopedia o f World Crime, by J. R obert Nash (May 1990, 6 volumes), is another fact-filled reference blockbuster from th e author o f Bloodletters and Badmen. Most o f th e entries are biographical, covering many otherw ise hard-to- find facts about criminals, victims, and law enforce­ m ent agents o f every stripe from th e famous to the obscure. All periods o f history are included, so that one finds the Roman poisoner-em press Livia D ru- silla and th e assassinated Archduke Francis F e rd i­ nand in com pany with Patty H earst, John Wayne Gacy, and the Abscam trials. W estern outlaws, D epression-era gangsters, prom inent Nazis, b o r­ dello madames, political prisoners, unsolved m u r­ ders— even accused cannibals— are only a few o f th e subject areas in which these volumes excel. T he author makes every attem pt to sift fact from fiction in each account, showing how, for example, th e real Bonnie and Clyde bore no resem blance to their appealing, cinem atic namesakes. In some cases this work makes a b e tte r movie com panion than his multi-volume Motion Picture Guide; I found the “Alcatraz” entry very helpful while watching Es­ cape fr o m Alcatraz. Nash him self does not glam or­ ize th e criminals and pulls no punches w hen he thinks a crim e to be particularly odious. U n re­ solved cases, such as Jack th e Ripper, th e Black O rchid case, and John D illinger’s death at C hi­ cago’s Biograph T heater, are exam ined at some length. Volumes 1-4 contain th e alphabetical entries, each o f which includes a list o f short-title refer­ ences. Volume 5 o f th e set is a com prehensive dictionary o f crim e jargon and slang, both historical and current, while the 700-page Volume 6 contains a p ro p er nam e index, a subject index, and full- citation bibliography. As with any 10-million-word reference book th e re are a few typos, generally in place nam es or o th er p ro p er names, b u t abundant source notes should lead fact-seekers to th e right spelling. Some 4,000 illustrations make browsing an interesting if occasionally gruesom e pastime. All six volumes will be available for shipping in July. Libraries may purchase a set for a discounted price o f $500 from M arshall Cavendish, 2415 Jerusalem Avenue, N orth Bellmore, NY 11710. ISBN 0-923582-00-2. • Envisioning Information, by E dw ard R. T ufte (126 pages, 1990), is a com panion piece to th e au th o r’s 1983 work, The Visual Display o f Q uantitative Information. This volume explores th e principles o f inform ation design by enhancing th e dim ensionality and density o f portrayals of in fo rm a tio n — w ith vivid illu stratio n s show ing maps, th e m anuscripts o f Galileo, tim etables, dance notation, aerial photographs, the Vietnam Veterans M emorial, electrocardiogram s, th e draw ­ ings o f Calder, Klee and Lichtenstein, com puter visualizations, and a textbook o f E uclid’s geometry. Readers o f this book will be m uch m ore critical of garden-variety graphs and charts. Highly recom ­ m ended for anyone involved in design. Copies are available for $48.00 from Graphics Press, Box 430, C heshire, CT 06410. • Ethnographic Bibliography o f North America: Supplement to the 4th Edition, com ­ p iled by M. M arlene M artin and T im othy J. O ’Leary (3 volumes, F ebruary 1990), updates the 1975 edition and contains over 25,000 new cita­ tions to publications on Native Americans p u b ­ lished from 1973 through 1987. T he com bined 50,000 citations in th e 1975 edition and this supple­ m ent provide th e m ost com plete bibliography available on Native Americans. Citations include June 1990/581 scholarly and popular books and articles in anthro­ pology, history, sociology, law, political science, linguistics, literature, and the arts. Also included are citations to E R IC documents, dissertations and theses, and U.S. and Canadian government publi­ cations. Indexes are provided for subjects, ethnic groups, and authors. Copies may be ordered for $395.00 from H um an Relations Area Files Press, P.O. Box 2015 Y.S., New Haven, CT 06520. ISBN 0-87536-254-0. • Free and User Supported Software fo r the IBM PC: A Resource Guide for Libraries and Individuals, by Victor D. López and K enneth J. Ansley (216 pages, 1990), describes 60 free or inexpensive MS-DOS programs that could be used in libraries. Several programs in each category (word processing, spreadsheet, database manage­ ment, com m unications, financial, utility, and games) are evaluated. Information on how the program works, its strengths and weaknesses, are accompanied by graphic screen dumps. A rating chart covers such aspects as ease of use, ease of learning, docum entation, and general usefulness. Complete author, company and address informa­ tion is given for each program. The book costs $20.95 and may be ordered from M cFarland & Company, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640. ISBN 0- 89950-499-X. • High Definition Television: A Bibliogra­ phy, by William Saffady (121 pages, May 1990), is an unannotated listing of books, reports, articles, papers, and news items on HDTV technology. The publications cited, many of them in German or Japanese, deal with a varied group of topics, includ­ ing technological fundam entals, broadcasting methodologies, H D TV display and recording equipment, applications, and the national and in­ ternational policy implications of new television technology. The citations range from brief com ­ mentary about the potential of HDTV to highly specialized and detailed treatm ents of HDTV sys­ tem components. The book is available from the Meckler Corporation, 11 Ferry Lane West, West- port, CT 06880. ISBN 0-88736-422-5. • The Movie List Book: A Reference Guide to Film Themes, Settings, and Series, by Richard B. Armstrong and Mary Willems Armstrong (377 pages, May 1990), may prove useful in silencing the occasional undergraduate who begs for a reference book that lists all (or at least most) of the films dealing with, say, lighthouses, dentists, or zombies. Librarians will be pleased to find an entry for films with librarians (12 in all), but shocked by the omis­ sion of Desk Set and The Spy W ho Came in fro m the Cold in that category. Oh well, the authors admit that comprehensiveness was not what they in­ tended. Each genre list is preceded by com m en­ tary. Not an essential book, but I don’t know where else to look for a list of movies about horses, hotels, or the abominable snowman. The cost is $31.95 postpaid, from M cFarland & Company, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640. ISBN 0-89950-240-7. • The Quiet Struggle: Libraries and Infor- mation fo r Africa, by Paul Sturges and Richard Neill (172 pages, January 1990), discusses the problems of access to information in Sub-Saharan Africa, not only in the context of libraries but throughout a range of issues from literacy to satel­ lite communications. The authors present the vari­ ous arguments and offer the solutions most likely to solve some of Africa’s information problems. W rit­ ten by two lecturers in library studies, one British, the other Botswanan, The Quiet Struggle very clearly outlines the “famine of published informa­ tion” in Africa today, and how closely it is linked to political and social instability. Copies may be or­ dered for $55.00 from Mansell Publishing, Pub­ lishers Distribution C enter, P.O. Box C831, R uth­ erford, NJ 07070. ISBN 0-7201-2019-5. Incidentally, if you are looking for African books, you might investigate the African Books Collective, a self-help initiative by a group of African publish­ ers to prom ote their book lists outside of Africa. At present the Collective stocks only English-lan­ guage material, with an emphasis on scholarly and academic books, creative writing by African au­ thors, critical works on African literature, and cer­ tain general interest titles. A limited range of pre- 1988 backlist titles are also available. For more inform ation, contact African Books Collective Ltd., The Jam Factory, 27 Park E nd Street, Oxford OXI 1HU, England. • The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, by Luciano Canfora (205 pages, January 1990), chronicles the heydays and dark days of the ancient Library of Alexandria, Egypt. Originally published in 1987 in Italian, this transla­ tion gathers together what little information exists Advertiser index Ahmadiyya M ovem ent..........................554-55 American Library A ssociation.............cover 3 Amigos Bibliographic C o u n cil................... 539 Ballen.......................................................... 560 Blackwell.................................................... 579 Book H o u s e ............................................... 569 Bowker A & l................................................ 547 Chadwyck-Healey..................................... 501 EBS Book Service..................................... 534 Faxon..........................................................522 Institute for Scientific Info........................... 510 Mohawk M id la n d ........................................525 Omnigraphics......................................... cover 4 K.G. S a u r................................................cover 2 H.W. W ils o n ............................................... 529 5 8 2 1 C&RL News about th e library from prim ary and secondary sources. E rudite b u t entertaining, this book d e ­ scribes vividly w hat it m ust have been like to be a scholar in th e ancient M editerranean world. C op­ ies are available for $22.50 from W.W. N orton & Company, 500 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10110. ISBN 0-09-174049-5. ■ ■ C A L E N D A R June 18-September 1—Summer workshops: The College o f inform ation Studies, Drexel U niver­ sity, will offer a selection o f week long graduate- level workshops which may be taken on a credit or audit basis. Students may choose from a wide variety o f topics in th e library and inform ation field. F o r inform ation contact: Associate D ean John Hall, College o f Inform ation Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104; (215) 895-2474. Septem ber 6-Novem berl7—SLIS: The University o f W is­ consin-M adison School o f Library and Infor­ mation Studies’ C ertificate o f Professional D e ­ velopm ent program provides an organized con­ tinuing education curriculum for librarians and inform ation specialist. Most courses will be held on the University o f Wisconsin campus. W orkshop may be taken on an individual basis or may be applied tow ard th e certificate of Professional D evelopm ent. This is a N on-credit program th at provides C ontinuing Education Units (CEUs) from the University o f W iscon­ sin. F o r a com plete brochure with course d e ­ scriptions and fees contact: Jane Pearlm utter, O utreach Program M anager, SLIS C ontinuing E ducation Services, 600 N. Park Street, M adi­ son, W I 53706; (608) 262-6398. 30— October 2—NELA: T he New England Li­ brary Association will hold its Annual C onfer­ ence at th e Sheraton Sturbridge R esort in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. F o r m ore inform a­ tion contact: Mary Ann R upert, N ELA C onfer­ ence M anager, 49 G overnor W entw orth Road, Amherst, N H 03031. October 31- November 2—African Studies: Archives- Libraries C om m ittee (African Studies Associa­ tion), fall m eeting, Om ni In n er H arbor H otel, Baltimore, Maryland. T he m eeting agenda and room and tim e designations will appear in the Africana Libraries Newsletter. F o r information Contact: Phyllis Bischof (C hairperson), 340 M ain L ib ra ry , U n iv e rs ity o f C a lifo rn ia , Berkeley, CA 94720; (415) 642-0956. ■ ■ Information literacy articles needed Barbara Ford, ACRL vice-president/presi- dent-elect, has declared inform ation literacy to be the them e o f h er 1990-1991 presidential term . Individuals are invited to subm it articles on this topic for a series that will appear in C & RL News beginning next fall. Topics that might be addressed include inform ation liter­ acy and social issues, lifelong learning, con­ sum er literacy, political literacy, or inform ation literacy and the curriculum . F o r fu rth er inform ation on this series, con­ tact Trish Ridgeway, Van Pelt Library, Univer­ sity o f Pennsylvania, 3420 W alnut St., Philadel­ phia, PA 19104-6206, (215) 898-8118; or G em m a Devinney, State University o f New York at Buffalo, (716) 636-2818. Articles may be su b m itted directly to G eorge E b erh art, Editor, C & R L News, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; (312) 280-2511.