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of South Asia, University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis. 

Shores, Louis. Quiet World: A Librarian's 
Crusade for Destiny. The Professional 
Autobiography of Louis Shores. Hamden, 
Conn.~ Linnet Books, 1975. 309p. 
$15.00. (LC 75-2220) ISBN 0-208-
01477-2) 
Louis Shores' professional career has 

spanned more than forty years at mid-cen-
tury. He has, by his own count, been en-
gaged in twenty "crusades" of which li-
brary education has been the overriding 
one, and the others which have most deeply 
engaged him have been for one race, basic 
reference, encyclopedia, library-college, me-
dia unity, and library history. 

The main thrust of his work has been to 
move the library from an ancillary position 
to that as a primary instrument for inde-
pendent learning. He defines the ultimate 
goal of the public library as independent 
study for all; he believes that reference li-
brarians should initiate inquiry rather than 
merely answer the questions put to them; 
he has fathered the library-college which 
seeks to increase effectiveness of student 
learning through use of library-centered in-
dependent study, and he has vigorously 
promoted audiovisual unity with other li-
brary resources as a means to extending in-
dependent learning down into the second-
ary and elementary grades. 

In Shores' account of his early life, the 
roots of his zeal for independent study can 
be readily identified. At the age of four his 
sister took him to the neighborhood branch 
of the Cleveland Public Library where a 
children's librarian brought him fairy stories 
and occasionally read with him. By the time 
he entered first grade he could already 
read, a fact which gave him superiority 
over his classmates. In high school he dis-
covered for himself, as a means of dealing 
with an abstruse textbook on physics, the 
value of comparing authorities. In an eco-
nomics class he made use of an encyclope-
dic overview to impress the pretty young 
teacher. Both these incidents, he says, con-
tributed to the library-college learning 
mode. At the University of Toledo he was 
discontented with the class-centered cur-
riculum. 

Dr. Shores repeatedly says that he dis-

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likes to "tell it as it is," by which he means 
that he eschews the grotesque in art, the 
sordid in literature, and defeatism in his 
outlook for the human race. If he does not 
actually believe in the perfectability of 
man, he at least believes man can save 
himself by his own intellect given the quiet 
and resources of out libraries. 

A great deal is packed into this book, 
which perhaps accounts for the fact that in 
the first part especially the style of writing 
seems a little spare. However, there are 
some delightful bits such as the nine-year-
old boy Walter-Mittying around his news-
paper route or the Fulbright scholar Shores 
entertaining S. R. Ranganathan and intro-
ducing the subject of occultism rather than 
classification so that Mrs. Shores found the 
two men on the floor in lotus leaf fashion 
when she entered the living room. The 
pages on intellectual freedom are among 
the liveliest in the book. 

Dr. Shores has a mystic feeling about his 
quiet world of the library, a feeling which 
comes whenever he enters the stacks and 
smells the mustiness of old bindingsj that 
he has been there before-long before. Al-
most every adult has experienced this feel-
ing of deja vu and that librarian is a poor 
thing who in a silent stack cannot thrill to 
the sense of the continuity of man's mind 
and spirit. 

This book is a fascinating chapter in the 
history of librarianship.-Helen M. Brown, 
Librarian, Wellesley College, Wellesley, 
Massachusetts. 

Lancaster, F. Wilfrid, ed. Application of 
~ inicomputers to Library and Related 
Problems. Papers presented at the 1974 
Clinic on Library Applications of Data 
Processing, April 28-May 1, 1974. Ur-
bana-Champaign: University of Illinois 
Graduate School of Library Science, 
1974. 195p. $6.00. (Available from Pub. 
Office-249, Armory Building, University 
of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820.) (LC 
65-1841) (ISBN 0-87845-041-6) 
This is not so much a review as a whine; 

my major quarrel with this book is not with 
1ts content, format, intent, or expertise of 
the contributors; it is the fact that by the 
time you read this review, or get around to 
the book itself, the information in it will be 
two years old, and considerably out of date. 



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The papers in the volume are very informa-
tive and quite practical, and almost every 
one of them iterates somewhere how rapid-
ly the field of minicomputers is changing, 
how wide the range of costs for hardware 
is, how flexible the applications are, and 
how rapidly their limitations are being 
overcome. 

To highlight the presentations briefly, a 
very detailed cost accounting for IBM Sys-
tem/7 is provided by Lois M. Kershner, 
along with the complete description of its 
operation. The Stanford BALLOTS pro-
gram, one of the most ambitious and ex-
panding systems in operation, is described 
in part, and I especially liked the ideas ex-
pressed in the paper by Ann H. Schabas 
and Gene A. Damon of the Faculty of Li-
brary Science at the University of Toronto, 
which describes the hands-on learning ex-
perience with a minicomputer. 

Among the many useful tidbits of advice 
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bleshooting in a system with components 
supplied by several l.Jlanufacturers if you 
are planning an EDP installation with that 
characteristic. His paper particularly looks 
hard at maintenance as well as design and 
implementation. Most of the papers stress 
the versatility and range of minicomputers, 
as independent units or parts of systems, 
with good illustrations of both. 

The book is interesting: I finished read-
ing it wishing that I knew how each of the 
activities described are doing now, some 
two years later. Some are well known; oth-
ers may have folded. Follow-up information 
or more rapid publication would be help-
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

Panofsky, Hans E. A Bibliography of Afri-
cana. (Contributions in Librarianship 
and Information Science, no.11) West-
port, Conn.: Greenwood, 1975. 350p. 
$15.00. (LC 75-823) (ISBN 0-8371-
6391-9) 
It is not clear for whom A Bibliography 

of Africana is meant or what purpose it is 
intended to serve. The book is too poorly 
organized to be easily used by students or 
faculty. Most damaging to the overall value 

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of the book is the fact that this bibliogra-
phy cannot stand on its own; it must be 
used in conjunction with another reference 
book-Guide to Research and Reference 
Works on Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by 
Peter Duignan. 

Numerous times Panofsky writes: "This 
section, as many previous ones, will merely 
amplify and update Duignan's Guide" 
(p.92). While this appears to be the ra-
tionale for A Bibliography of Africana, that 
basic fact is not everywhere made clear to 
the reader, nor is this purpose consistently 
carried out in all relevant sections. But 
even if he did consistently "amplify and up-
date Duignan's Guide,'' Panofsky' s book 
would still be unsatisfactory because the 
bulk of the Mricana reference material will 
be in the Guide and not in the Bibliogra-
phy. Without a reasonable summary of ma-
terial in the Guide, Panofsky' s volume re-
mains truncated and of limited use. (And 
the Guide to which Panofsky refers the 
reader so often is inaccurately cited the two 
times the full title is given.) 

Parts one, two, and six of A Bibliography 
of Africana are not very useful. To try to 
cover African studies throughout the world 
in eighteen pages is clearly impossible. Not 
only does he fail to describe the major ref-
erence books which contain information on 
programs, libraries, archives, and institutes; 
but he also leaves out the two Germanies 
and the Scandinavian countries. African 
studies in Africa gets a little more than one 
page. Parts three, four, and five are good 
sections with much useful material de-
scribed, although they only update and 
slightly amplify "Duignan's Guide." 

The internal organization of part five 
(the country surveys) is confusing and er-
ratic. For the first time in part five we get 
coverage of North Africa. In no other part 
of the bibliography does Panofsky discuss 
North Africa. It is a good section, but it is 
not properly integrated into the rest of the 
book. 

The country section is not orderly and 
systematic. You cannot find similar sub-
headings in each country survey. Bibliogra-
phies may be discussed in three different 
places within a country profile. Each coun-
try in effect has different subheadings and 
whether or not a country has a specific sub-
head seems arbitrary. Zambia's excellent