College and Research Libraries 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 about cost, needs, configurations, and staff- ing, one stands out: Charles T. Payne sug- gests getting acquainted with a local elec- tronics laboratory in order to simplify trou- 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- fuL-Fay Zipkowitz, University Library, 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 Recent Publications I 519 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 520 I College & Research Libraries • November 1975 archives are not described whereas Tanza- nia's poor ones are. Information provided by Panofsky and his judgments about material must be used with caution. Often, he shows poor judg- ment or gives misleading information. He highly praises a bibliography that has never been published, is five to ten years out of date, has been superseded by several pub- lished guides, and is available only in the Indiana University Library! Also, The American Historical Review is not a good source to refer readers to for reviews of African a. Sometimes he is simply wrong. For ex- ample, he states: "There is no single com- prehensive retrospective bibliography of Uganda" (p.212). But there is: Terence K. Hopkins, A Study Guide for Uganda, 1969, 162p. Or again, "Swahili . - . . is the first language of some 88 percent of the popula- tion on the mainland [Tanzania]" (p.214). Not true. There are at least 100 Bantu lan- guages which are the first languages of 88 percent of the people of Tanzania. For the subject I know best-colonialism -Panofsky is inadequate. To cover "Colo- nial Times" (p.68), he cites one book-on explorers! The section on "Colonial Pow- ers" (p.119-34) is better, but Great Britain which had the largest empire in Africa is covered in one paragraph, half of which is taken up discussing the Seychelles! Belgian documentation fares a little better-he cites one article describing Belgian documenta- tion centers. The reader has no way of knowing that material on the colonial powers is also to be found in parts one, two, and three, because there are no cross- references anywhere in this volume (except to Duignan's Guide) I In his sections on co- lonialism, Panofsky · manages to ignore the massive two volumes on British, French, and German colonialism edited by Gifford and Louis and the five-volume series, Co- lonialism in Africa, published by the Cam- bridge University Press, not to mention the work of numerous African historians. Another flaw in this bibliography is the author's penchant for mixing up names. Never mind the simple misspellings of which there are many. More serious · is the confusion about peoples' names. It is not Colin Flint; it is either John Flint or Colin Flight. It is not Harm De Bley; it is either Harm de Blij or Helmut Bley. Almost as ir- ritating are inconsistencies in citing names and titles. J. D. Pearson is listed four differ- ent ways; still he does not make the index in even one of these variant forms. Panofsky's writing is tendentious and awkward. Misstatements occur with dis- concerting frequency. While there is much sound information in the bibliography, the volume must nevertheless be used cautious- ly and critically, for its coverage, judg- ments, references, and updatedness are er- ratic. --The index is a joke. In a book which cites perhaps 4,000 names, titles, institutes, series, and serials, the index runs to under 400 entries! Clearly this is not a book that can casually be put into the hands of stu- dents-let alone faculty.-Peter Duignan, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Foskett, D. J. Classification and Indexing in the Social Sciences. 2d ed. London: Butterworths, 197 4. 202p. £ 5.00. (LC 75-308709) (ISBN 0-408-70644-9) A decade ago Foskett's work belonged on the required reading list of every librari- an and social scientist. Today, as a newly "revised" edition, it is simultaneously fasci- nating and outmoded. Those stimulating ideas that were well summarized and re- viewed in an earlier issue of this journal (C&RL 26:253-54, May 1965) have been preserved. Through the description of the interests of the social scientist and the lucid explanations of the capabilities and intrica- cies of indexing and classification, the au- thor develops a base for mutual respect and closer collaboration between librarians and social scientists. Indeed, improvement of li- brarian-scientist communication is Foskett's main purpose. Unfortunately, this revision comes just ahead of a quantum jump in the activities of analysis and bibliographic control of so- cial science literature. Although billed on the dust jacket as "considerably revised and updated," Foskett fails to rewrite hi's discus- sions of "mechanical indexing and retrieval, and other chapters so as to make the re- vision worthy of the original ideas. His in- terest in the Social Science Citation Index is limited to two paragraphs unnaturally grafted to older text. On-line data bases are presented as potential future developments. It is here that the arguments become un-