College and Research Libraries EUGENE P. SHEEHY Selected Reference Books of 1970-71 INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE CONTINUES the semiannual series originally edited by Constance M. Winchell. Although it appears under a byline, the list is actually a project of the Reference Department of the Co- lumbia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of the indi- vidual staff members. 1 Since the purpose of the list is to pre- sent a selection of recent scholarly and foreign works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or comprehensive. Code numbers (such as AA 71, 2BD89) have been used to re- fer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books and its supplements. 2 GUIDES Cheney, Frances Neel. Fundamental · Reference Sources. Chicago, Ameri- can Library Association, 1971. 318p. $8.50. 73-151051. With the compassion for the begin- ning library school student awed by the inclusiveness of Winchell's Guide, Pro- fessor Cheney has written this textbook as "an introduction to selected sources of bibliographical, biographical, lin- guistic, statistical, and geographical in- formation." -Pref. The titles included have been chosen on the basis of their importance in general American refer- ence collections, and emphasize English- language sources; the cut-off date for publication is September 1970. The main body of the work is arranged by type, in accordance with traditional methodology of introductory reference courses. Additional features are a brief introduction to "reference/information service," an appendix of guidelines for reviewing as used by the ALA Reference and Subscription Books Review Com- mittee, a list of readings, and an index. In view of the author's distinguished career in reference work and bibliogra- phy, this work has been awaited with in- terest by instructors of reference courses: they will find much to applaud, as in the excellent review of statistical sources (including 1970 census data). However, some may be disappointed, as was this reviewer, by certain or~issions. Surely, the Monthly Catalog and the Checklist of State Publications do not constitute an adequate introduction to U.S. government documents. And why is there no mention of Benet, Commag- er, Langer, or many other handbooks and manuals used daily by general ref- erence librarians? Perhaps in her next edition Cheney will be less discursive on the whys and hows of making diction- aries and encyclopedias, and more in- clusive in the area of government pub- lications and in regard to handbooks and manuals. Until that time, Funda- mental Reference Sources faces stiff competition from Basic Information Sources, the first volume of William Katz's Introduction to Reference Work. -D.G. BmuoGRAPHY Sales Catalogues of Libraries of Emi- nent Persons. A. N. L. Munby, gen. ed. [London], Mansell, with Sotheby Parke-Bernet Publications, [1971- ], v.1- . (In progress) Contents: v.1-2, Poets and men of /39 40 I College & Research Libraries • January 1972 letters. Ed., with introductions, by A. N. L. Munby. £6.50 per v. It has been noted that sales catalogs of private libraries are of interest for various reasons: for the light they shed on the owner's interests and literary in- fluences, and for the clues they give for tracing the peregrinations of a particu- lar book or manuscript. This new series reproduces sales catalogs from British and American collections, both public and private, many of them showing the sale prices and the names of purchasers of individual items. Twelve volumes are projected, each to contain six to twelve catalogs, and each to be edited by an authority in the field. These first two volumes present a se- lection of catalogs of the collections of such famous authors as Lord Byron, Macaulay, Thomas Love Peacock, and Oscar Wilde, along with equally inter- esting catalogs of the libraries of less well-known figures such as Lady Bles- sington and Thomas Day. Brief intro- ductory notes provide background in- formation on each of the sales, point out items of special interest, and some- times provide references for further re- search. Future volumes will include cat- alogs of the collections of scientists, politicians, antiquaries, architects, book collectors, and actors. This promises to be a useful as well as a truly fascinat- ing series.-E.S. Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bucher, 1971/ 72- . Frankfurt-am-Main, Verlag der Buchhandler-Vereinigung GmbH, 1971- . (Distr. in U.S. by Bowker) Annual. DM108 per yr. On spine: VLB. Contents; Bd.1, Autorenalphabet; Bd. 2, Titelregister. The Borsenverein des Deutschen Buch- handels is to be commended for inau- gurating this new series of «German books in print." Listing some 152,526 ti- tles taken from the catalogs of partici- pating publishers, this first issue of the VLB is based on title listings on ma- chine-readable copy. The closing date for entries was June 21, 1971, but an ad- dendum is bound at the end of each volume listing titles announced for pub- lication between June 21 and July 14. One cautionary note to users: entries for monographic series or festschriften are under the name of the series or th·e title of the festschrift in the author in- dex with no entry under the name of the editor or the person honored. These items are, however, cross-listed in the ti- tle volume.-E.M. PERIODICALS Gazety SSSR 1917-1960; Bibliografiches- kii Spravochnik. Moskva, Izd-vo «Kni- ga," 1970-- . v.1- . (In progress) Contents: v.1, Gazety Moskvy, Lenin- grada, i stolits soiuznykh respublik. 277p. 1r., 48k. When completed, this should be the definitive bibliography of Soviet peri- odical literature appearing between 1917 and 1960. Volume 1 devotes itseH to the publications of Moscow, Lenin- grad, and the capitals of the Soviet Re- publics, with 1,697 entries; subsequent volumes are to deal with periodicals from other Soviet cities and populous areas. Compiled from the holdings of the major libraries and archives of the Soviet Union as well as from existing bibliographies, the entries are arranged alphabetically under each city by the most recent version of the title in Rus- sian or Russian translation. There are numerous cross-references for title changes and other bibliographic va- garies. Indexes are plentiful and in- clude one for Russian titles, one for non-Russian Soviet and foreign-lan- guage titles, and a third listing the jour- nals by subject. Abbreviations of orga- nization names and words are spelled out in two additional lists; these are fol- lowed by a bibliography of bibliograph- Selected Reference Books of 1970-71 I 41 ic sources utilized. A single criticism: since the preface specifically mentions that the work is created for .. scientists, · bibliographers, and librarians," the lack of library and archival locations for the journals is regrettable.-E.L. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. Cumulative Author Index for Poole~s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802- 1906. Comp. and ed. by C. Edward Wall with the technical assistance of Edward Przebienda. Ann Arbor, Pieri- an Pr., 1971. 488p. $49.50. 77-143237. This computer-produced companion volume to Poole~s Index and its supple- ments (Guide AF119) will be welcomed wherever nineteenth-century periodicals are used. Listing alphabetically the more than 300,000 names that appear in pa- rentheses in Poole~ s, it cites for each name the volume, page, and column in Poole's, without indication of title or subject of the article. Users should note the compiler's guidelines on form of entry and also take his advice on check- ing variant spellings or versions of a name .. to the limit of one's imagina- tion'~ since entries have been indexed (with their many inconsistencies ) as they appeared originally. It is expected that a supplement to this index will es- tablish standard form for a name and give reference from all variants. A triple-column page in small computer type is readable, has good indentation and useful heads.-R.K. GovERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Pemberton, John E. British Official Pub- lications. Oxford, Pergamon Pr., [1971]. 315p. $9.50. 77-137136. More than a mere explanation of in- dexes and catalogs required for the use of British documents, this new guide "sets out to describe, within the context of the parliamentary and governmental processes from which they derive, all the different categories of British official publications." -Pref. In so doing, it provides a framework which aids in un- derstanding a complicated subject. Af- ter a chapter on British government, there follow sections on such materials as parliamentary papers, debates, acts and measures, committee and tribunals of inquiry, royal commissions, and com- mand papers. Librarians will be grateful for the short bibliographies throughout, the concordance of command papers, identification of royal commissions, the table of regnal years, the list of refer- ence works published by HMSO, and the chapter on obtaining British official publications. An index makes for ease of use.-R.K. Rodgers, Frank. Serial Publications in the British Parliamentary Papers, 1900- 1968; a Bibliography. Chicago, American Library Association, 1971. 146p. $6.50. 74-117628. Mr. Rodgers' exhaustive list ( 1,300 entries) of serial publications which have appeared in the House of Com- mons Sessional Papers since 1900 comes as a welcome aid to the researcher in British documents. Details of the pub- lishing history, such as earliest and latest date of issue, relationship to other pub- lications, and information about non- parliamentary publication when it oc- curs, together with reference to the sub- ject headings used in the General In- dexes (Guide AH58), increase the use- fulness of the work. Arrangement is al- phabetical by issuing agency (except for Irish publications which are listed separately at the end). Titles appear in alphabetical order under the sponsoring agency, and are numbered consecutively. The brief summary of the origin of each major agency, noting the principal changes in its responsibilities and titles as well as the relationship of one agen- cy to another, is another useful feature. A combined subject and agency index 421 College & Research Libraries • January 1972 completes the work. Academic and large public libraries will find this a valuable accession.-].$. BIOGRAPHY The Dictionary of National Biography. [7th Supplement] 1951-1960. Ed. by E. T. Williams and Helen M. Palmer. With an index covering the years 1901-1960. London, Oxford Univ. Pr., 1971. 1150p. Editors of the DNB have established an enviable record for prompt publica- tion of the decennial supplements. Al- though this volume has been slightly longer in preparation than its predeces- sors, it nonetheless puts to shame Amer- ican performance in supplementing the DAB. Included are 760 biographies of "men and women who for a significant period of their careers were British sub- jects and died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1960." -Pref. In his fascinating preface (full of contrasts, parallels, and juxtapositions) E. T. Wil- liams notes that this volume follows the pattern of its immediate predeces- sor diHering in three regards: .. Nobody wa~ killed in battle; there are more sci- entists and engineers to be. disc~;ered here; and there are more women. The continued practice of inviting contribu- tions whenever possible, from those who 'knew the. biographees personally is advantageous and valid, yet the fre- quent recun~ence of "private informa- tion" and .. personal knowledge" in lieu of references to published and manu- script sources of information may of- ten prove frustrating to the reader de- siring fuller details.-E.S. PHILOSOPHY Ritter, Joachim, ed. Historisches Worter- buch der Philosophie. Vollig neu- bearb. Ausg. Basel, Schwabe; Darm- stadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesell- schaft, [1971- ]. Bd.1- . 76-565781. Contents: Bd.1, A-C. More than 700 scholars have contrib- uted to this completely revised edition of Rudolf Eisler's Worterbuch der Phi- losophischen Be griffe (Guide BA30) . Some of the items in the older work- those dealing with psychology, for ex- ample-have been dropped, some have been expanded, and much new material has been added. The articles, ranging in length from a few sentences to sev- eral pages, treat the historical develop- ment of philosophical terms and con- cepts in a very scholarly manner. Docu- mentation is abundant and up to date. An index and list of abbreviations is to be included in each volume. It should be noted that articles on individual phi- losophers are not · within the scope of this dictionary, although schools of thought based on the teachings of a sin- gle man are discussed.-N.S. LITERATURE Combs Richard E. Authors: Critical and B·iographical References; A Guide to 4,700 Critical and Biographical Passages in Books. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow, 1971. 221p. $6. 73-167644. By using a double-column page and employing letter symbols such as are familiar from the Granger and Otte- miller indexes, some 4,700 citations drawn from about 500 books and relat- ing to more than 1,400 authors are com- pressed into this small volume. Arran~e­ ment is by name of the author consid- ered, followed by a key to the symbols for books amllyzed. Each passage cited runs to at least six pages, so the user is assured of substantial length although he is not given the. title of the essay or specific context of the passage. Critical studies predominate; significant bio- graphical content is indicated by the letter "b" in parentheses following the page reference. A high percentage of Selected Reference Books of 1970-71 I 43 the books cited were published in the last twenty-five years. Not all of them are analyzed in the Essay and General Literature Index, and some editions of individual authors' works are cited for their biographical notes or critical in- troductions.-E.S. Eichelberger, Clayton L., comp. A Guide to Critical Reviews of United States Fiction, 1870-1910. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow, 1971. 415p. $10. 77- 14998. Because contemporary reviews of American fiction for the period indicat- ed have not previously been accessible through standard reference works, this attempt to direct the researcher to just this type of secondary source material is welcome. Although it is by no means a comprehensive listing of reviews pub- lished during the period, it does cite re- views of works of several minor authors and of some titles by major authors not previously listed elsewhere. "Critical re- view" has been broadly interpreted to mean "any effort to evaluate the sub- stantive or artistic achievement of the author." -Pref. Citations for the re- views have been drawn from thirty-two periodicals of the period. The body of the work is arranged alphabetically by author or identified pseudonyms and initials. Access to reviews of unidenti- fied anonymous or pseudonymous titles is provided through the appendix. There is an index of titles.-B.W. Muir, Kenneth, and Schoenbaum, Sam- uel, eds. A New Companion to Shake- speare Studies. Cambridge, University Pr., 1971. 297p. $12.50. 78-118066. A Companion to Shakespeare Studies edited by Harley Granviiie-Barker and G. B. Harrison first appeared in 1934. The New Companion is not a mere revi- sion and updating of the earlier vol- ume, but essentiaiiy a new work. The plan is the same-chapters by scholar specialists on a variety of aspects of Shakespeare's life, times, and works- and both British and American contrib- utors are represented. Even though the chapter headings range a bit more wide- ly than in the earlier Companion, selec- tivity was necessary, and the editors re- fer users to Shakespeare Survey no.17 for discussion of some of the topics omitted. The essays are presented as summaries of important developments in Shakespearean scholarship and re- search rather than as bibliographic sur- veys, but appended notes and reading lists provide a selective guide for the student and general reader.-E.S. Repertoire Analytique de Litterature Fran9aise; Revue Bimestrielle d'In- formation Litteraire et Bibliographi- que. v.1, no.1- , jan./fev. 1970- . Bordeaux, 1970- 0n cover: RALF. "Publiee avec la participation de la Section de Langue et Litterature Fran- 9aises de la Faculte des Lettres et Sci- ences Humaines de I'Universite de Bor- deaux." This publication represents an inter- esting attempt to solve one of the most pressing problems that confronts stu- dents of French literature: the difficulty of obtaining up-to-date bibliographic information. The editors promise a time lag of only two to three months between the publication or distribution of a book or article in France and its listing in RALF, as opposed to one to three years for the major annual liter- ary bibliographies. The format of Re- pertoire is still changing, but issues have included citations to books, articles, pro- ceedings, and essays in coiiections, both French and foreign, classed by broad subject areas. These listings are also available on cards, grouped by centu- ry. Descriptive annotations accompany many of the items; a few books are treated in fuii-length critical reviews. To date, each number has included at least one bibliography on a special top- 44 I College & Research Libraries • January 1972 ic, such as sixteenth-century utopias or nineteenth-century periodicals. Despite this abundance of material, the long-term reference value of RALF is unclear. Because of the broadness of the subject classification and the absence of indexes it is difficult to locate specif- ic authors or topics. In addition, more than a year's accumulation of cards would be very tiresome to sift through. Possibly librarians will want to keep only th·e most recent issues in the refer- ence collection and scrap the cards af- ter arrival of the annual MLA bibliog- raphy for the corresponding period, al- though a comparison between the cov- .erage of the latter and the Repertoire will have to be made. At present it ap- pears that the main advantage of RALF is its promptness and frequency. Be- cause of the slowness of transatlantic mails American scholars may not be able to profit fully from this aspect, but they will nevertheless find it easier than before to keep up with new develop- ments in the field of French literature. -N.S. EDUCATION The Encyclopedia of Education. Lee C. Deighton, ed.-in-chief. [New York], Macmillan Co. and The Free Pr., [1971]. 10v. $395. 70-133143. Not since Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education ( 1911-13; Guide CB34) has there been a multivolume encyclopedia of American origin for the field of ed- ucation. This new work, then, answers a definite need. "In more than 1,000 ar- ticles, it offers a view of the institutions and people, of the processes and prod- ucts, found in educational practice. The articles deal with history, theory, re- search, and philosophy, as well as with the structure and fabric of education." -Pref. Emphasis is on American edu- . cation, but attention is given to com- parative education, exchange programs, . and the educational systems of more than 100 countries. Biographies have been kept to a bare minimum, "largely because the detail of educators' lives is not consistently relevant to education" (Pref.), but individual contributions to educational thought and practice are dealt with. In general, entries run to several pages, and closely related articles by dif- ferent contributors are often grouped for convenience of use. Articles are signed, and include bibliographies. The encyclopedia is intended for all adults engaged in some way in educational practice or decision-making and, except where the subject matter dictates other- wise, articles are written in nontechnical language. The separate index volume offers a "Directory of Contributors" and, in addition to the detailed subject index, includes a "Guide to Articles" which lists each article in alphabetical sequence, followed by a list of see and see also references to related entries.- E.S. Weinberg, Meyer, camp. The Education of the Minority Child; a Comprehen- sive Bibliography of 10,000 Selected Entries. Chicago, Integrated Educa- tion Associates, 1970. 530p. $10.95. 79-132336. Produced in association with the Cen- ter for Urban Studies, University of Chicago, for its project "The Urban Negro American in the Twentieth Cen- tury," financed by U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This impressive bibliography on "the child himself, the school, the immedi- ate milieu . . . , the larger community ... [and] the culture of various minority groups" (Introd.) has for its central em- phasis the black child, with lesser cover- age for other groups. Materials listed, with full bibliographical details, in- clude books, articles, dissertations, gov- ernment documents, and research re- ports of the last seventy years. Spot- checking shows that about three-quar- Selected Reference Books of 1970-71 I 45 ters of the entries carry imprints from the 1960s. There are twenty-four divi- sions on such subjects as the black wom- an, school organization, Spanish-Ameri- cans, educational deprivation, the world scene, Mro-American studies, colleges, and social conditions. The longest, "'The American Scene" ( 125 pages), is sub- divided by state and has separate sec- tions for New York City and Chicago. Reference features that will further recommend the work to librarians are its long list of periodicals, a section of nearly 250 bibliographies, and an author index.-R.K. SoCIOLOGY Abrams, Charles. The Language of Cities; a Glossary of Terms. New York, Viking, [1971]. 365p. $10. 76- 137500. To identify and define some of the most relevant terms used in the various disciplines concerned with solving the "'urban problem" and to add his own in- sights and opinions is Mr. Abrams' aim in this work. He chooses terms from the vocabularies of ·'housing and city plan- ning, land economics, real estate, public administration, architecture, social wel- fare, transportation, public law and government, race, and a variety of other aspects of urban life .... " (Pref.) and defines most of them in an informal, personal manner, but often with a keen sense of etymology and usage. Along with the selected specialized terms, he includes common ones such as "'city" and ·nouse," introduces some unexpect- ed terms such as "'lunch" and "'tourist cabin," notes the professional twist of words such as "'use," and sometimes de- votes a page or more to concepts such as "'prejudice" or "'general welfare." The definitions are lively and infused with the author's concern for the urban plight: his glossary is part essay, but it is generally well informed.-M.M. Blake, Judith, and Donovan, Jerry J. Western European Censuses~ 1960; an English Language Guide. Berkeley, University of California, Institute of International Studies, [1971]. 421p. $3.25 pa. (population monograph ser., no.8) 77-634274. As part of the International Census Documents Project at th·e University of California, the authors have produced a guide to the availability and content of the 1960 census volumes issued by the governments of Western Europe (including Greece, but not the rest of the Balkans). The guide furnishes "'the titles and page ,numbers of all statistical tables in every volume of every cen- sus . . . ; a detailed glossary of technical terms that appear in more than one vol- ume of that census ... ; [and] a biblio- graphically correct entry for every vol- ume" (I ntrod.) based on the form of entry used by the Library of Congress. Excluded from the work are all censuses of housing and preliminary reports of population counts. Researchers will be pleased to learn that the compilers are working on a similar guide for 1970 Western European censuses. Since a uni- form English terminology has been es- tablished, as well as the format and the frequency of the censuses of each coun- try, one hopes that the new volume will appear promptly in order to provide more current use.-E.M. Brownlie, Ian, ed. Basic Documents on Human Rights. Oxford, Clarendon Pr., 1971. 531p. $9.50. 79-27725. Documents as early as the 1688 British "'Bill of Rights" and as recent as the 1967 "'Declaration on Elimination of Discrimination against Women" are in- cluded in this collection of sources on human rights. About a third of the more than fifty declarations, conven- tions, protocols, etc., stem from United Nations standard-setting and implemen- tation, but there are documents showing fundamental rights in national legal 46 I College & Research Libraries • January 1972 systems and others illustrating develop- ments in specific geographical areas. In- troductory notes for each document usually offer some historical back- ground, plus useful bibliographical ref- erences. A subject approach to the docu- ments is provided through the index.- E.S. PoLITICAL SCIENCE Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt. Almanac of World Military Power. [Dunn Loring, Va.], Dupuy Associates in assoc. with Stackpole Books, [ 1971, c1970]. 338p. $19.95. This new almanac, synthesizing much scattered data, is designed to provide "all important information on the stra- tegic situation and defense posture" (Introd.) of all nations of politico-mil- itary influence. Arrangement is geo- graphic by area. After a short regional survey, for each nation there are given "power potential statistics," i.e., area, population, armed forces, GNP, annual military budget, heavy industry produc- tion, merchant marine and civil air strength. Then follow summaries of de- fense structure, politico-military policy, strategic problems, military assistance, alliances, and inventories of armed forces' strength, organization, and arma- ment. Statistics reflect late 1969 infor- mation; where firm recent data were un- available, estimates were made. Infor- mation has been gathered from unclassi- fied sources, principally "standard ref- erences, periodicals and daily newspa- pers" (Introd.), and U.S. government documents, but no list of sources ap- pears. Contributors (with indication of their qualifications) are identified and their contributions named. A glossary of equipment designations and an in- dex are appended. Periodic revised edi- tions are planned.-R.K. ATLASES Hammond Incorporated. Hammond Me- dallion World Atlas. [New Census ed.] Maplewood, N.J., Hammond, [1971]. 1v., various pagings. 32cm. $24.95. 71-654313. In addition to general updating of in- formation, several innovations distin- guish Hammond's "New Census edi- tion" atlases from the "New Perspec- tive edition" of a few years ago: a smaller page size (recommending the volumes for more convenient home and office use), the inclusion of postal zip code numbers for U.S. communities, and three new sections of historical maps representing biblical, world, and United States history. (The "Universe, earth and man" section is here replaced by a similar one entitled "Environment and life.") As in the earlier edition ( Suppl. 1CK21), an index with popula- tion figures (incorporating 1970 census data for the U.S., as well as for Mexico, the Soviet Union, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) accompanies each political map. There is also an in- dex of more than 100,000 names for the world map section; U.S. zip codes ap- pear in both indexes. Small topograph- ical maps, reproductions of Hags, and tables of salient facts about each coun- try are again provided with the political maps. Despite the smaller page size, maps of all but the largest and most populous political units are fairly un- cluttered, legible, and generally attrac- tive. While the Medallion atlas is probably best suited for the general reference collection (and has considerable appeal for the home library), numerous varia- tions in price and inclusiveness are available: they range from a deluxe Hallmark edition (2v., boxed, $39.95) having the same content as the Medal- lion, but with a slight rearrangement of sections, to a Headline version ( 50p., $1 pa.) with a further slight reduction in page size and without index. Librarians feeling the current budget pinch will do well to consider the Ambassador edi- I ~ Selected Reference Books of 1970-71 I 47 tion ( 480p., $14.95) in which all the good, world map features of the Medal- lion are intact, although the "fringe benefits" -the environmental and his- torical sections-are omitted.-E.S. AREA STUDIES Africa South of the Sahara; Index to Periodical Literature, 1900-1970. Comp. in the African Section, Gen- eral Reference and Bibliography Di- vision, Reference Department, Li- brary of Congress. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1971. 4v. $325.74-170939. This bibliography will almost certain- ly serve as a major source of documen- tation for students of African civiliza- tion. It has been compiled from the bibliographic card services of three Eu- ropean research institutes, from various publications of the International Afri- can Institute in London, and from a number of journals not adequately cov- ered by existing indexes. Most of the articles cited have appeared within the last ten years, and French and English are the predominant languages (though practically every other European lan- guage is represented). Files of more than 1,500 periodical titles have been gleaned. Arrangement is by country or area, then by subject. Emphasis is on the social sciences, but some items of a tech- nical nature have been included. Cita- tions to about 3,000 Mrican literary works are listed in an appendix. Entries vary widely in format and amount of bibliographic information, depending on the source from which they were tak- en; some are annotated. It is unfortunate that the increasing- ly important field of African studies must be served by such an unattractive, unwieldy, and unsystematic bibliogra- phy. Some entries are nearly illegible, there are no running heads, subject headings are not uniform, and there is no indication as to which years of a giv- en periodical have been indexed. There is no other single listing, however, that is so extensive. Not only will this work spare scholars the task of scanning many other indexes, it will often fur- nish them with citations to elusive ma- terials that might otherwise have es- caped attention.-N.S. Union Catalogue of Asian Publications, 1965-1970. Ed. by David E. Hall. Lon- don, Mansell, 1971. 4v. £140. Comp. under the ·auspices of the Ori- entalists• Group, Standing Conference of National and University Libraries; sponsored by and edited at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Uni- versity of London.-t.p. Entries for about 60,000 Asian publi- cations acquired by British libraries since the beginning of 1965 are listed in this main entry catalog. Emphasis must be placed on the word "acquired," since this means that usefulness of the catalog is not limited by a beginning date: many early imprints are to be found along with very recent materials. The term "Asian publications" here re- fers to "works published in all lan- guages in Asia outside the Soviet Union, and to those published in non-European scripts in North and North-East Mri- ca." -Pref. Periodicals and works of pure science and technology are omitted. With the exception of the Library of the School of Oriental and Mrican Studies (which publishes its own cata- log) and the Bodleian Library, all of the major British oriental collections are represented among the sixty-five con- tributing libraries. Working from accession lists submit- ted in a wide variety of forms, the edi- tor has endeavored to achieve as much consistency as possible in matters of ro- manization and forms of entry. Multi- ple variant spellings of many names have been brought together under a sin- gle bracketed form in order to save the catalog user the trouble of checking all of the variants. Numerous see and see 48 I College & Research Libraries • January 1972 also references have been provided throughout, and helpful introductory notes explain the editor's practice in handling works from specific areas or in particular languages, as well as varia- tions in romanization. Annual supple- ments are planned.-E.S. SCIENCE Todd, David Keith, ed. The Water En- cyclopedia; A Compendium of Use- ful Information on Water Resources. Port Washington, N.Y., Water Infor- mation Center, [1970]. 559p. tables, maps, plans. $27.50. 76-140311. More a statistical handbook than an encyclopedia in the accepted sense, this work contains "a variety of water re- sources data, facts and statistics" (Pref.) drawn from widely scattered sources. It includes information on climate, hy- drology, surface and ground water re- sources, water use and needs, quality, constants and conversion factors, and information on water resources agen- cies. Material is presented in tabular form, the only text being the accompa- nying explanatory notes. Special atten- tion has been paid to dating the infor- mation used, with distinction made be- tween the date of the table and that of the data it contains. A source of infor- mation appears for each table, but of- ten such citation is to an agency rather than to an agency publication. Citations to trade publications, however, are full- er, giving author's surname, title of book or journal, publisher (in the case of monographs), and date of publica- tion. An index of subjects adds useful- ness.-R.K. REFERENCES 1. Diane Goon, Rita Keckeissen. Eileen Mcilvaine, Mary Ann Miller, Janet Schneider, Nancy Schroeder, Barbara Wendell; School of Library Service, Ev- elyn Lauer. 2. Constance M. Winchell, Guide to Ref- erence Books (8th ed.; Chicago: ALA, 1967); Supplement I (Chicago: ALA, 1968) ; Supplement II (Chicago: ALA, 1970).