College and Research Libraries discussed candidly. It is stated that the changing budgetary pressures in today' s higher education have had a proscribing ef- fect on much of what the library is planned to be. Because of the current economy a large share of the planned-for-functions, particularly the electronic, have yet to be realized. There is an admirable honesty in this volume. Mistakes in building and service design are admitted, e.g. "The (library) is laced with conduits, with outlets, where we do not want them and no outlets where we need them." The philosophy expounded is one meant to change the college library and to in- crease its effectiveness. It deals with, "the renewal of a static if not moribund organi- zation-the library-and of a profession that grows in numbers but dies in content and purpose." Although the author is cer- tainly convincing in his argument for chan- ges to improve on current library problems there are many promising indicators that the profession is trying to get with it and sometimes succeeding. In this vein, formal experiments (sponsored by the Council on Library Resources) with the use of student assistants for reference work have been set up with good results at Brown University, Wabash College and elsewhere. We will nevertheless learn much from the Hamp- shire experience whether it's dramatically successful or not. One aspect not emphasized enough by Taylor is the problem of how to change the teaching faculty's attitude toward the li- brary. Librarians can do much to help in- dividual students with library instructional programs of all kinds as long as the student needs to know but the real long-lasting ef- fect must come from the teaching faculty. This can only happen when they become knowledgeable and enthusiastic library users and begin to consider the effective use of the library by students as part of the course work. We librarians can repackage systems and products and try our utmost to interrupt the cycle of library misuse and nonuse by students but to little effect if the faculty are not really with us. If the faculty are "different" at Hampshire it is not so stated in the book. Indeed they appear to be similar to professors at conventional col- leges when it comes to book selection: "The Recent Publications I 497 faculty members were either not interested or not able to define and recommend a ba- sic book collection in their field."-John Lubans, Jr., University of Colorado. lnternationale Bibliographie zur Soziol- ogie und Psychologie des Lesens [Inter- national Bibliography to the Sociology and Psychology of Reading]. Compiled by Eymar Fertig. Edited by Heinz Stein- berg. Verlag Dokumentation, M unchen- Pullach, Berlin. R. R. Bowker Co., New York, 1971. 230p. $12.95. This bibliography is the by-product of an educational meeting entitled "Research Subject: The Book," which was held at the American Memorial Library in Berlin dur- ing February 19 and 20, 1969. The publi- cation is intended to be a guide to literature explaining who reads what and why. Included in the list of 1,027 articles, pamphlets, and books are 347 titles in En- glish. The bulk of the remainder are in German, with enough other languages rep- resented to validate the use of the word "international" in the title. Brief annotations (in German) are supplied for the less de- scriptively titled entries. Among the items listed are titles dealing with such questions as how television affects reading habits, what people read in various geographical areas, whether library usage increases dur- ing election years, etc. Most of the items listed were published between 1945 and 1971. The exceptions are a few pre-1945 classics, chosen for their recognized importance to the topic. The editor cites as an example the works by Douglas Waples representing an "obvious pioneering feat" or setting an "indispensa- ble precedent." The entries are listed alphabetically by author and divided into three broad subject categories: ( 1) Communication, ( 2) Book- selling, and ( 3) Library. Each of these cat- egories has the two subdivisions: ( 1) The- ory and (2) Empirical observations. Be- cause the wide variety of subjects covered do not all fit neatly into these categories, the organization seems a bit contrived; but the subject index and index of compilers, authors, and persons mentioned in titles and annotations alleviate this shortcoming to a certain degree. The subject index, how- ever, is a rather unwieldy mixture of sub- 498 I College & Research Libraries • November 1972 ject terms (in German), corporations, and locations. For the research library this bibliography is a must because of its foreign coverage of the topic. The patron who reads only En- glish will encounter difficulty in using this listing, but with patience he can sort out the 347 English titles. Since the cost is high and since the book would be supplementary rather than basic to many library collec- tions, librarians will want to consider their particular situation carefully before order- ing this bibliography.-Margaret Eide, So- cial Sciences Librarian, Eastern Michigan University Library. Arellanes, Audrey Spencer. Bookplates. A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Literature. Gale Research, 1971. 474p. illus. $15.00. The bibliography covers English lan- guage periodicals (United States, Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand) from 1822 to August 1969. It is organized "alphabetically by journal and chronologically under each journal. . . . When known, both the title and the author of the article are given, followed by the number of illustrations in parenthesis, vol- ume, and/ or issue number, page, and date." (Introduction) Previously published English language bibliographies are listed preceding the 414 indexed periodicals. These vary from gener- al: Harper, Time Magazine; to specialized professional: Dental Research, Journal of Production Managers; and hobby maga- zines: Handicraft, Heraldic Journal. Art, history, and library periodicals are, of course, heavily represented. The largest number of citations, 1938 titles, out of the total of 5,445, come from the Journal of the Ex Libris Society. The brief annotations which follow each title are informative, crisp, and often in- clude direct quotations. A 1920 quote un- der the entry "Danish Bookplates" tells us that the "Plates are almost always sincere, very rarely extravagant, and hardly ever in bad taste." The illustrations, although contemporary and primarily from members of the Ameri- can Societ of Bookplate Collectors and Designers (note sequence), represent all major styles. The plate of Clare Ryan Tal- bot, author of the enthusiastic preface, shows the earliest extant bookplate of a fifteenth century German monk in its cen- ter. Norman Strouse, the well-known book collector is represented with a Rococo style plate, and Rockwell Kent designed a brooding landscape for Earl H. Gibson. Already a quick glance at this bibliogra- phy reveals that the scope of this subject goes beyond the interest in bookplate col- lections. Anybody studying symbolism and allegory, or the development of taste in Western Civilization, will find a wealth of material. The index entries include: Baskin and Durer; Darwin and Einstein; Chemis- try and Zoology, as well as practical sub- jects like repairing, buying, and selling of bookplates. References under Celebrated Women, Cultured Women, Colonial Dames, DAR, Ladies Bookplates and Wom- en, include interesting references for those interested in Women's Liberation. The custom of identifying books with printed labels or Ex Libris (a term intro- duced in seventeenth century France) de- veloped in Germany shortly after the intro- duction of printing. Beginning with simple woodcuts, the engraving and etching of elaborate subjects soon became a popular art. How bookplates can be used for ideo- logical purposes is signified by the action in 1966 of the Cultural Council of the Ger- man Democratic Republic. Artists were in- vited to participate in a competition for Ex Libris design, and public libraries were asked to enhance their books with these creative plates. Ex libris, in the words of the council were given, "a new, significant function. Books available to the public must have the same identification as those of wealthy collectors, we must avoid the threat of a dead end street of art for collec- tors only." This book then, is much more than a bib- liography for collectors. It is a well edited and compact source book in cultural and. social history. In view of its merits the im- perfections are so insignificant that I hesi- tate to give examples. There are some mis- spellings and-as usual-in foreign words: Volkswagen appears also as Volkswagon, Willibald Prickheimer is called Billibald. The reference under "Packet of Sherlockian Bookplates" might be included under \