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collectanea. May I be permitted to end 
with a slightly facetious note: it is amusing 
that this very well produced volume, so full 
of information on early typography, contains 
a modern printer's typographical accident; 
on page 2 4 0 the " J " of Jordanus left its 
proper place and halfheartedly substituted 
for an Arabic " 1 " in the footnote.—Rudolf 
Hirsch, University of Pennsylvania. 

A Garland for Jake Zeitlin on the Oc-
casion of His 65th Birthday and the 
Anniversary of His 40th Year in the 
Book Trade. Ed. by J . M. Edelstein. Los 
Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 
1967. [x], 132p. 

Jacob Israel Zeitlin's infectious love of 
books, his detailed knowledge of them, and 
his keen nose for them have inspired and 
helped hundreds of librarians, collectors, 
and others. Now seventeen of these have 
joined together to manifest their affection 
for and gratitude to the dean of west-coast 
booksellers. 

There is more Fest than Schrift in the 
volume, which is not unbefitting the effer-
vescent personality of the honoree. Two 
of the essays, however, make serious con-
tributions to scholarship. The first is a 
selective bibliography of the steam loco-
motive by Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr., who 
adds illuminating comment to his descrip-
tions of twenty-three books printed from 
1556 to 1966 and relating to Great Britain, 
the United States, France, Germany, Switz-
erland, Holland, and Bussia. J. M. Edel-
stein (also the editor) supplies an expert 
bibliography of the twenty-nine editions 
published between 1929 and 1936 by the 
Primavera Press, of which Jake Zeitlin was 
a cofounder. 

T h e other contributions are chiefly remi-
niscent and, deservedly, panegyric. The 
breadth of Jake's influence is indicated by 
tributes from such eminences as Elmer 
Belt and Bern Dibner among the collectors, 
Lawrence Clark Powell and Robert Vosper 
among the librarians, and Winifred A. 
Myers and Warren R. Howell among the 
professional colleagues. 

Jake's lifetime interest in graphics is re-
flected in two agreeable drawings by Paul 
Julian and Rudi Baumfeld and a superb 
portrait photograph by Robert Bobrow 

showing Jake at his philosophical and un-
ruffled best. 

There are the few inevitable slips. To 
describe Jake as Princeps omnium librarian 
—which can be rendered as "first of all 
plummets"—emphasizes his love of pounds 
rather than his love of books. (That Jake 
has always loved books is nowhere better 
shown than in the large-paper edition of 
Norman Douglas's Capri ( 1 9 3 0 ) , where his 
name appears among such other subscribers 
as Arnold Bennett, D. H. Lawrence, Booth 
Tarkington, and H. G. Wells.) 

The volume has been lovingly produced 
by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantain 
Press (typography); Grant Dahlstrom at the 
Castle Press (printing); and the Earle Gray 
Company (binding). Save for the uncom-
fortable crowding of some lines, it is an 
attractive piece of bookmaking. 

Only eight hundred copies have been 
printed. If everyone who admires Jake 
Zeitlin wants a copy, there will be a second 
edition.—Herman W. Liebert, Yale Uni-
versity. 

Mark Hopkins' Log and Other Essays. 
By Louis Shores. Selected by John David 
Marshall. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String 
Press, 1965. 383p. $9. ( 6 5 - 1 2 1 4 4 ) . 

An enduring faith in the library profes-
sion, a dedication to cooperation among 
its many and varied members, strong con-
victions on what is needed to improve the 
education of these members, and an op-
timistic view of the future pervade these 
forty-four articles and speeches by Dr. 
Shores, selected by John David Marshall 
from some two hundred published between 
1928 and 1964, most of them during the 
ten years of 1950-1960. That these con-
victions have grown stronger is evident from 
a 1962 speech to a group of special librari-
ans. "To this librarian with over four dec-
ades of dedication to his profession, li-
brarianship is a profession of destiny. I rec-
ognize in library science the subject of 
subjects that may yet help mankind to an 
understanding of the universe, not as seg-
mented findings, but as a truthful whole. 
Then will our profession finally contribute 
to the welfare of the world." 

Dr. Shores' professions of faith are ar-
ranged under seven subjects, the first prop-



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erly being "On Books and Reading," four 
essays which affirm his belief in the future 
of the book and the necessity of reading. 
A later section "on the Unity of Library 
Media" advocates a unified materials center, 
long before the term was generally used in 
schools. 

His lifelong interest in reference service 
is reflected in two sections: "On Reference 
Librarianship" and "On Reference Sources." 
In the former he predicted "that in the 
very next few years the reference librarian 
will emerge as the most strategic profes-
sional in our entire family of world occu-
pations." That was in 1957. The other 
contains the earliest essay in the volume, 
one on Noah Webster's Dictionary, written 
in 1928. His article on the ideal encyclo-
pedia, published first in 1937, accurately 
predicts the trends in publishing which 
have taken place in the past twenty years. 

The author's long involvement with li-
brary education and his visions of the fu-
ture are evident in six essays written be-
tween 1953 and 1964, under "On Library 
Education." His optimism shines through 
in "What Is Right With Library Educa-
tion," his view of its objectives is set forth 
in "The College of Library Art, 1984." 

Those aware of Dr. Shores's current 
interest in the library arts college may have 
forgotten that early in 1935, School and 
Society published "The Library Arts Col-
lege: A Possibility in 1954?" This is one of 
the ten essays in the section, "On the Li-
brary's Role in Education," which also in-
cludes the title essay, "Mark Hopkins' Log." 
It is not surprising that he identifies the Log 
as "the universe of the materials of learn-
ing," a point reiterated in "The Essence of 
Learning," in which he states his belief 
that the book, in its broadest interpretation, 
is the composite of the school curriculum, 
and that a better course of study would re-
sult if the curriculum followed the book 
instead of the other way around. 

Of necessity there is some unavoidable 
repetition in the essays, but this does not 
detract from their usefulness as a source 
of inspiration to library school students as 
well as to librarians who view their pro-
fession with a somewhat more jaundiced 
eye than Dr. Shores. For Dr. Shores, like 
Vachel Lindsay's calliope, is "tooting joy, 

tooting hope," if not in such raucous notes. 
—Frances Neel Cheney, George Feabody 
College. 
Annual Review of Information Science 

and Technology, Ed. by Carlos A. Cua-
dra. Vol. II, New York: John Wiley, 
1967. 484p. $15. (66-25096). 
This volume is the second in a series of 

annual reviews, but it is much more than 
that. With quality of exposition, compre-
hensiveness of coverage, and clarity of or-
ganization, it and its predecessor have cre-
ated a discipline where previously there 
was only an amorphous, ill-defined area of 
interesting problems. As a result, the two 
together do credit to the National Science 
Foundation and the System Development 
Corporation, which provided the resources, 
and to the American Documentation Insti-
tute which provided the professional sup-
port. Full honor is due the individual au-
thors, but more than usual is due the editor 
for the superb quality of this volume. He 
provided more than simply editorial guid-
ance. He created an entire mechanism—for 
definition of the structure and coverage, 
for accumulation of the relevant references, 
for selection of the reviewers, for critical 
evaluation and re-evaluation of their an-
alyses, for assembly and production of the 
final volume. 

For the purposes of this review, the four-
teen chapters can be divided into four 
groups: the first three, which present the 
design techniques; the next five, which pre-
sent the technical techniques; the next 
four, which present areas of application; 
and the last two, which present the social 
and professional context. 

In group 1 — 
1. Information Needs and Uses in Science 

and Technology, by Saul and Mary 
Herner; 

2. Design of Information Systems and Serv-
ices, by Harold Borko; 

3. Evaluation of Information Systems and 
Services, by Alan M. Rees. 

These are excellent summaries of the 
state of the art, "critical" in the best sense 
of the word. The evaluations can be sum-
marized by the words of the writers: "rela-
tively few techniques used," "lack of in-
novation," "failure to build on past gains