College and Research Libraries page 90; Will Ransom's Kelmscott, Doves and Ashendene (p.242) was published by the Book Club of California in San Francisco, not Los Angeles where the book was printed; and the Morris statements in the Appendix are not indexed under "Morris, William-views on bookmaking." Some printing historians might question the statement on page 208 that John Henry Nash "became the most famous printer in America." Perhaps a bit of hyperbole. The author teaches the history of books and printing in the School of Library Ser- vice, Columbia University.-Tyrus G. Harmsen , Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. Chen, Ching-chih. Scientific and Technical Information Sources. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977. 519p. $24.95. LC 77- 9557. ISBN 0-262-03062-4. Guides to the literature of science and technology do not increase in numbers, for- tunately, as much as the literature itself does; but with each new guide on the mar- ket the inevitable comparisons with older Recent Publications I 323 and established titles occur. It was in 1954 that Frances Jenkins at the University of Il- linois produced her first edition of Science Reference Sources, that useful outlines that many of us science librarians cut our teeth on. Then in 1959 came Albert J. Walford's excellent Guide to Reference Material, pub- lished by The Library Association, with vol- ume one designated "Science and Technol- ogy." Both these stalwarts appeared in several subsequent editions over the years . Walford is still with us today, but Jenkins has earned a good rest and the present work is said to be taking over her banner. In 1967 another heavyweight-we use the term in reference to the quality and not the pagination-appeared; H. Robert Malinow- sky edited the work that now, in its second edition, is titled Science and Engineering Literature , A Guide to Reference Sources, with the good assist of Richard and Dorothy Gray. In 1972 Earl J. Lasworth and Scare- crow Press produced Reference Sources in Science and Technology. The first mentioned reference guides 18 000 ,: '}<,'' - -~{~(.~R11l ·~t;0 ~ (~ ~i0 , ·'Yf·- ~r;-~r- ~"~\~u~, ~~r:b LIBRARIANS .:u il }v ~ \ - 1;:~~\.~~~ \ r\ "'J ~- (~:...~'7- \ KNOW... ~ ~~ ,~/ ~~~~i . . . there's more to running a library than checking out books and checking '\___,/ in periodicals ... There ' s the exhilaration of introducing a five-year-old to Dr. Seuss. Or locating the periodical that gives precisely the information the student is searching for to document his term paper. Running a library also has its problems . Like keeping track of hundreds of subscriptions to periodicals . There are better ways for you to spend your day. 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The Las- worth title and the present Chen work are arranged first by the format of the listed references, such as encyclopedias, dic- tionaries, handbooks, and bibliographies, then subdivided by science fields. Mark this difference well. Chen, who is an associate professor at the School of Library Science at Simmons Col- lege, says that the work "is intended primarily as a reference guide for science and engineering librarians and their assist- ants and as a textbook for library school stu- dents engaged in the study of the structure, properties, and output of scientific litera- ture." There are twenty-three sections in the new guide ranging from selection tools and guides-to-the-literature, through the usual reference book categories of hand- books and dictionaries, all the way into the newer fields of nonprint materials and data bases. Each entry is arranged by title within the sections and subsections and followed by a brief annotation of the book's coverage and character, and, finally and very use- Your Best Buy in 1978 ... Best Buys In Print complements Books In Print, providing access to quality books at discount prices . The second issue features the following : listings from 22 companies ; 7000 titles not included in the first issue of BBIP ; an as- terisk preceding titles not included in the first issue (you won't duplicate efforts in checking titles you ordered in earlier is- ues) ; and a double asterisk preceding titles which have an expiration date. A purchase of one title listed in BBIP can save the cost of y"our subscription to this quarterly publication, (lD Best Buys In Print. That's a best buy! PIERIAN PRESS P.O. Box 1808, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 fully, a listing of citations to book reviews for that particular item. The only index in the back is by author. Finding a work quickly, if one already knows the title, is sometimes difficult be- cause one must decide which one of the twenty-three main sections contains it. This operational difficulty of finding known works and the decision not to include older reference books (the majority here have im- print dates since 1970). limit somewhat the usefulness of this compilation. There are some bonuses: a good reference list of cita- tions to articles on a wide range of informa- tion science topics and up-to-date entries on guides to patents, technical reports, confer- ence proceedings, etc. Finding information for science library users almost always revolves around a sub- ject area of science first and then the technicalities of finding the proper type of handbook or periodical or whatever. Guides such as the present one have much useful bibliographical information, but their library-science oriented format often acts as a hindrance rather than a help.-David Kuhner, Nonnan F. Sprague Memorial Li- brary, Claremont, California. M uehsam, Gerd. Guide to Basic Informa- tion Sources in the Visual Arts. Informa- tion Resources Series. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Jeffrey Norton Publishers/ABC- Clio, Inc. 266p. $14.95. LC 77-17430. ISBN 0-87436-278-4 . . Bibliographic sources to the arts are not new. The earliest recorded art bibliography dates back to 1651 when Raphael Trichet du Fresne compiled a list of entries to accom- pany an important work by Leonardo. Since that time various books have erratically ap- peared throughout the years. I must here venture the statement that nothing so com- plete as Ms. Muehsam's guide has yet been published. The standard guide in the past has been every art librarian's intimate acquaintance, Mary Chamberlin's Guide to Art Reference Books, published by the American Library Association in 1959. Chamberlin's guide was prepared for essentially the same readers as was Muehsam's volume; these are art histo- rians, art librarians, and students. The