College and Research Libraries


this matter in "Some Thoughts on the Book 
in America," which appears in the October, 
1951, issue of Stechert-Hafner Book News. 

Librarians should be grateful for this re-
vision. The Book in Ame-rica should be a 
constant source of information for librarians 
and all others interested in books and their 
makers.-Maurice F. Tauber, Columbia Uni-
versity. 

Two Useful Bibliographies 
A Selected Bibliography On City And Re-

gional Planning. By Samuel Spielvogel. 
Washington, D.C., Scarecrow Press, 1951. 
iii, 272 p. $5.50. 

Dictionnair e de Bibliographie Haitienne. By 
Max Bissainthe. Washington, D.C., Scare-
crow Press, 1951. X, 1052 p. $20.00. 

Two new bibliographies issued by the 
Scarecrow Press demonstrate that scholarly 
reference books can be published in small edi-
tions at reasonable prices. A Selected Bibli-
ography On City and Regional Planning will 
be of interest to many libraries. Samuel 
s·pielvogel, the compiler, had practical experi-
ence in planning in England and Scotland 
before coming to this country to be Research 
Fellow and Instructor in the Department of 
Architecture at Yale. 

The criterion for the selection of material 
was current usefulness to students and city 
planners; 2182 items are listed, including 
books, periodical articles, and analytics for 
sections in annuals and general works. 
Municipal and state documents and the pub-
lications of universities are well represented. 
Most of the references are to material writ-
ten in English, many of them published in 
1949 or 1950. 

There is a section on "Visual Techniques" 
which covers films, statistics and graphic pres-
entations. "Additional Reference Material" 
includes directories, periodicals, text-books, 
and a comprehensive bibliography on city-
regional planning subjects. The bibliographic 
information is adequate; annotations for 
many of the items indicate the nature of the 
material and its relative importance. Ar-
rangement is by subject, with an author, 
title and subject index. 

The Dictionnaire de Bibliographie Haiti-
enne appears to be definitive in its field. It 
complements the Bibliographie Generale et 

APRIL, 1952 

Methodique d'Haiti, published in 1941, cov-
ering a more limited field but containing ad-
ditions and corrections. M. Bissainthe is N a-
tional librarian of Haiti, and was assisted in 
the final editing by a number of research li-
braries, including the Library of Congress. 

The over 9,000 items are arranged in three 
alphabets. Lists of works published in Haiti 
or by Haitians between 1804 and December 
1949; of works published in Hispaniola or 
Saint-Domingue (old names for Haiti) from 
its discovery through December 1949; of peri-
odicals issued in Haiti between 1764 and 1949, 
are followed by a roster of Haitian journalists 
and title and subject indexes. 

Full imprint and collation are followed by 
location symbols referring to thirteen li-
braries, those in the U.S. bemg the Library 
of Congress, the New Y ark Public Library, 
and the university libraries of Columbia, 
Harvard, and Howard. Annotations in 
French for the more important items give 
bio-biographical information and, in some 
cases, critical evaluation. 

Both volumes are legibly lithoprinted on 
good paper, and are in sturdy bindings. The 
Haiti dictionary would be much easier to 
use if there were some device to identify the 
parts of the book, or at least an additional 
table of contents at the front of the volume. 
We trust that the ingenious publishers of the 
Scarecrow Press will not only continue to 
issue reference works at prices within library 
incomes, but will improve on their physical 
arrangement without adding to publication 
costs.-Darthula Wilcox, Columbia Univer-
sity. 

German Research Libraries 
German University and Technical Libraries: 

Their Organization, Conditions, Activities 
and Needs. By Frederick W. J. Heuser. 
New York, HI COG, Education and Cul-
tural Relations Division, Information Cen-
ters Branch, Museum, Fine Arts and Li-
braries Section, April, 1951. 54 p. Mime-
ographed. 

The one serious deficiency of this important 
report is that Professor Heuser's modesty 
forbade him to record his own contributions 
to the rehabilitation of German research li-
braries. We get a hint of his personal efforts 
only at the bottom of page 30, where he 

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