College and Research Libraries library development as a necessary ele- ment in nation-building; and it illustrates needed use of professional guidance in shaping this aspect of national policy.- Carl M. White, University of California, San Diego. Roads to Research: Distinguished Library Collections of the S outheast. By Thom- as H. English. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1968. xiii, 116p. $1.95, paper ( 68-54088) . Early in 1967 officers of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries decided to sponsor publication of a guide to re- search collections in the libraries holding membership in their organization, and Pro- fessor Thomas H. English, scholarly chair- man emeritus of Emory University's De- partment of English, was selected as com- piler and editor. Professor English pro- ceeded with dispatch and good judgment to produce within slightly more than a year's time this useful, small volume. Roads to Research is a collection of fifty-one brief sketches each of which de- scribes a special collection that can be re- garded as of value to serious scholars. The collections are listed in the table of con- tents and by each title is the name of the library of which it is a part. The range is surprisingly broad; included, of course, are the regional collections-Georgiana, South Caroliniana, Virginiana, etc.-but in addi- tion one finds such diverse topics as em- blem books, detective stories, ornithology, children's poetry, Irish literature, and New Orleans jazz. Twenty-eight libraries are members of ASERL and sixteen of them reported collections which the librarians and Professor English judged worthy of inclusion. Those reporting the largest num- ber of research collections were Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chap- el Hill with eight apiece; they were fol- lowed by Louisiana State University with six. The descriptive notes were prepared in collaboration with the holding libraries, and the editor visited the libraries to gain firsthand knowledge of the collections and to bring a measure of uniformity to the whole. In spite of this the reports vary in quality and usefulness, but perhaps this is Recent Publications I 171 only natural since the collections them- selves vary so widely. However, by bring- ing this information together in one pub- lished work ASERL has performed a serv- ice that will be appreciated by librarians. With the collections identified and the general facts made available, scholars who need detailed information can inquire di- rectly and more intelligently. In general the format of the volume is good. There is a bibliography which is probably too general to be of much help, and there is a well-prepared, selective in- dex. It is to be regretted that at least three of the more important libraries in the As- sociation are conspicuously absent. Also, this reviewer wishes that the essays had been arranged by some plan or classifica- tion; an alphabetical arrangement might have served nicely .-]. Isaac Copeland, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Ed. by Allen Kent and Harold Lancour. 18 vols. Vol. 1: A-Associac. 676p. illus. Marcel Dekker. 1968. $45. per vol. (nonsubscribers); $35. per vol. (subscription). ( 68-31232). Publication of the first of the projected eighteen volumes of this work has partially satisfied the curiosity and expectation of many librarians, information specialists, and possibly others. Although a studied and just review of the encyclopedia should await completion of the set with its index, a preliminary estimate may now be based on Volume 1, A to Associac. This review- er's evaluation is mixed, but with the bal- ance on the plus side. The work establishes two major firsts: it is the first encyclopedia published anywhere covering the two re- lated fields of library and information sci- ence, and it is the first American encyclo- pedia on the former discipline. Informa- tion science is well represented, filling about 40 per cent of the first volume, but in terms of articles it is outnumbered by library science by about three to one. There has been a recognized effort to be international, both in choice of articles and in the information included in the articles, rather than limiting the scope to topics and practices applying only in the United 172 I College & Research Libraries • March 1969 States. Some contributors seem to have taken too literally the instructions to repre- sent world library practice, as in the ar- ticle "Abbreviations ," where nearly half of the titles cited are either in a language other than English or refer to practice in countries other than the United States. But in "Academic Status of Librarians" the international approach is well handled and appropriate. Within the intended scope of the work, the selection of articles appears to be, for the most part, adequate. Contributors, at least those whose names are known to this reviewer, are well suited to their assign- ments. But a reference work of this kind is barely begun when decisions have been made on articles to be included and con- tributors have been invited and have sub- mitted their articles. There remains the long and painstaking job of editing the contributed pieces for length, style, level of information, and bibliographic form. This kind of editing is conspicuously ab- sent in the work. No control seems to have been exercised on the length of articles commensurate with their importance. The article on "Airlie House Conferences" runs to nine pages, the one on "Abbreviations" more than eleven pages, and that on "Ab- stracts and Abstracting" twenty-two pages; but the article on "Acquisitions" is given only nine pages, that on "Administration" only six pages. Further inequities in length are "Armed Forces Libraries" twenty-eight pages, and "Art Libraries and Collections" · fifty pages, but "Architectural Libraries and Collections" only five pages! Style differ- ences are more difficult to control than those of length, and rigid standardization of style is not desirable. But the opening sentences of the article "Airlie House Con- ferences" hardly seem appropriate to a work of this kind: "Airlie House is a 'U- Haul' think-tank situated, very appropri- ately for those who remember Oscar Wilde's definition, in the fox-hunting coun- try of Virginia. The style is English coun- try house; the menu is hearty, is unin- spired." The desirable level of information and sophistication for the expected reader should also be sought and ensured by careful editing of each article. In this first volume most articles are written on a level that should provide helpful information to the average reader. But the opening para- graphs of the first article, "Abbreviations," are almost meaninglessly elementary. Good editing would have eliminated some ar- ticles like that on "Aden, Libraries in," the first sentence of which states that prac- tically no information is available on the subject, with the remaining few sentences quoting matter from the yearbook, Mid- dle East and North Africa. There need be no compulsion to include articles like this simply because articles on libraries of other countries are included. Mention has not been made of the many excellently written articles or of the quan- tity of useful information in this volume. While it may be unfair and unnecessary to single out any articles for specimen mention, those on "Abstracts and Abstract- ing," "Aldus Manutius," "Algorithms," "Al- phabet," and "Ancient and Medieval Li- braries" seem to this reviewer especially informative and well written. Despite any faults it has, the set will, when completed, serve a much felt need and be a useful ref- erence work-Rolland E. Stevens, Univer- sity of Illinois. Copyright in Historical Perspective. By Lyman Ray Patterson. Nashville: Van- derbilt University Press, 1968. 264p. $8.50 ( 68-22415). The author of this book is a law profes- sor at Vanderbilt University. As would be expected, therefore, it is written with an eye to its value to his colleagues in the legal profession as well as to those who have a more general interest in the history of copyright. It should · be of interest to any librarian who is concerned with protecting the re- spective rights of users', authors, and the publishers of books. And at this point, there is hardly any librarian who is re- sponsible for the copying policies of a re- search library ·who should not be so con- cerned. Whether we like it or not, librar- ians are in the· middle of these conflicting interests which are becoming more com- plicated by the day. The book presents a dispassionate legal history of the development of the idea and use of copyright from a device to protect the printer-publisher through its use b y the