College and Research Libraries


later, are we as a profession still hesitant 
to declare ourselves unilaterally as open 
storehouses and dispensers of the recorded 
resources of knowledge and information, 
regardless of format? 

The intuitive answer may be that infor-
mation in form other than print is suspect 
as being less than intellectual. Let us look 
a little more closely at some of the mono-
graphs on our shelves, where in the name 
of thoroughness and academic freedom we 
have collected biased, poorly written, out 
of date and occasionally unreadable works. 
And let us -compare these with some of the 
nonprint media which vividly capture in 
sight and sound, history, skill techniques, 
procedures, beauty and ugliness, and en-
gaging entertainment. Our shelves should 
proudly contain the totality of the human 
experience, in all the forms devised by 
mind and technology, providing total access 
for that vitally-concerned segment of socie-
ty which is our clientele. 

Nonbook Materials, The Organization of 
Integrated Collections is a guide and a pre-
cept for those who have accepted this chal-
lenge.-Gloria Terwilliger, Director of 
Learning Resources, Alexandria Campus, 
Northern Virginia Community College. 

Recent Publications I 489 

In Professor Lorenz's biography Hugh 
Caine emerges as a talented and dedicated 
editor who only wanted to print the news 
and make money. However, in those days 
an editor had to ally himself and his pa-
per with a special interest group if he in-
tended to stay in business, and thus C aine 
was forced to change sides frequently in 
the tumultuous years preceding the Rev-
olution in order to ensure his livelihood. 

Caine made a fateful decision when he 
decided to abandon the patriot cause in 
1776, and return to New York to resume 
the publication of his New Y ark Mercury 
in that occupied city. Once he had made 
his choice there was no turning back and 
he soon became one of the most hated and 
maligned Tory editors in Revolutionary 
America. His notoriety was further en-
hanced when he became the subject of 
Phillip Freneau' s long and cutting poem, 
"Hugh Gaines Life." Freneau maintained 
that Caine would: 

Always adhere to the Sword that is 
longest and stick to the party thats 
like to be strongest. . . .. 

Unfortunately, Caine underestimated the 
patriots, and chose to support the wrong 
"party." Nevertheless, he remains a major 

Lorenz, Alfred Lawrence. Hugh Gaine; A figure in the annals of American publishing, 
Colonial Printer-Editor's Odyssey to and Professor Lorenz's balanced, well-writ-
Loyalism. Carbondale and Edwardsville: ten, and timely study should be acquired 
Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. by every library with an interest in the his-
192 p. $6.95. tory of the American Revolution.-Michael 
There have been few serious biograph- H. Harris, Associate Professor, College of 

ical studies done on the major figures in Library Science, University of Kentucky, 
Revolutionary journalism. Edes and Gill, Lexington. 
Rivington, John Holt, James Parker, and 
others still await biographers. Fortunately, yAppleba~m, Edm~nd L., e~. Reader in 
Hugh Caine, one of the most controversial Techn1cal Serv1ces. Washmgton, D.C.: 
and enigmatic of the Revolutionary editors, NCR Microcard Editions, 1973. 
has now been given the careful and un- This seventh in a series of Readers in Li-
biased treatment he has so long deserved. brary and Information Science is a compila-

Professor Lorenz has written an impor- tion of articles covering the whole field of 
tant book. For he has revealed, better per- technical services. In one small sense the 
haps than anyone else, the tremendous ob- title is misleading for in actuality descrip-
stacles encountered by an editor who tive cataloging and classification have been 
wished to remain independent of "special excluded from this volume and covered in 
interest" in a time when emotions ran high another of the series. 
and neutrality was viewed as a traitorous The collection brings together materials 
act. In doing so he shows clearly the rea- of a historical nature, some state-of-the-art 
sons for Caine's erratic editorial course from articles, and some attempts at predicting 
1752 to 1776. the future. One big disadvantage is a "de-



490 I College & Research Libraries • November 1973 

liberate attempt to exclude materials that 
have appeared in recently published collec-
tions." For a teacher or student of technical 
services to use a reader of this nature effec-
tively, it must contain all outstanding per-
tinent materials no matter where else they 
have appeared nor how recently. This ap-
proach, then, makes the volume less useful 
as a text but important as a supplementary 
resource. 

Mr. Applebaum has done an admirable 
job in presenting the historical perspective 
to the basic problems which are facing us 
in technical services today. The discussions 
on cooperative cataloging and Dewey's clas-
sification system, at the first Conference of 
the American Library Association in 1876 
and the presentation and discussion of cata-
loging at the London Conference of Li-
brarians in 1877, are classics. The remain-
der of the volume covers the areas of ac-
quisitions; bibliographic control; coopera-
tive and centralized processing endeavors; 
and future prospects. 

Who would be better than Mr. Apple-
baum to select outstanding articles in the 
area of acquisitions, from policies to blan-
ket-order plans, from administration to fu-
ttue trends? Articles by Metcalf, Downs, 
Veaner, and the excellent symposium 
chaired by Perry Morrison are good exam-
ples . 

The section on bibliographic control is 
less cohesive. Certainly all articles included 
are important ones but perhaps not all 
should be included here. For instance the 
Introduction to the Anglo-American Cata-
loging Rules must have been read at least 
once, if not a dozen times, by all students 
of cataloging-probably all have their own 
copies-and the articles on serials by Clara 
Brown, delightful as it is, doesn't really 
seem to fit into the sequence. Otherwise it 
contains a good representation of articles 
on bibliographic control of monographs and 
serials. One previously unpublished article 
on "Book Catalogs" by Scott Allison, is a 
very good state-of-the-art paper. Classic 
pieces such as the one by W. W. Bishop, 
as well as current deliberations such as the 
ones on the National Serials Data Program, 
are valuable items for discussion. 

Cooperative and centralized processing 
is an area with which Mr. Applebaum has 
been very intimately involved for several 

years and has used his expertise in bringing 
together a chronology of developments on 
this subject. 

The final section deals almost exclusively 
with MARC and its national and interna-
tional implications-those being the solving 
of some important problems in technical 
services. 

Particular criticism could be leveled at 
the volume for the exclusion of any discus-
sion on nonprint materials, their acquisition, 
storage, and accessibility.-Robert D. Stu-
earl, Graduate School of Librarianship, U ni-
versity of Denver~ Colorado. 

!~Pope, S. Elspeth. The Time-Lag in Cata-
loging. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 
1973.209 p. 
This book is the result of the author's 

doctoral dissertation at the University of 
Pittsburgh. It is primarily concerned with 
the attempts made by the Library of Con-
gress and American publishers over a long 
period of time to bring books and catalog 
copy together quickly. These efforts cul-
minated finally in the Cataloging-in-Source 
program ( 1958-59) and its reincarnation 
in the Cataloging-in-Publication program 
( 1971). 

The aims of the study were ( 1) to dis-
cover whether the various programs at the 
Library of Congress were sufficient to de-
crease the time-lag in cataloging, and ( 2) 
whether it is possible for the Library of 
Congress to accept bibliographical data as 
provided by publisher's catalogs. 

To answer the first question, a statistical 
sample of 5 percent of American trade pub-
lications in 1969 was taken from the N a-
tional Union Catalog. The selected entries 
were checked against the time of their ap-
pearance in Copyright Office records, Li-
brary of Congress cards, MARC tape input, 
and Publisher's Weekly. Programs were de-
signed and data fed to a computer. The re-
sults were compared to an earlier study 
done by Roger Greer in 1961, and it was 
found that, in spite of the various attempts 
which had been made by the Library of 
Congress to expedite the cataloging of 
books, the time needed to get cataloging 
information had in fact increased. The full 
details of the Greer study, an unpublished 
doctoral dissertation, are not given, so it is 
difficult to assess the validity of the com-