College and Research Libraries 78 I College & Research Libraries • January 1979 documents collections, or the depository li- brary system. However, Downey is perhaps a bit more comprehensive in his treatment of reference sources, the . problem of non- GPO government publications, and the OP market. The entries for each issuing agency in the second section, with the exceptions of the Department of Health, Education, and Wel- fare; Commerce; and State, are very brief. The forty-page chapter on the Agency for International Development is a fine analysis of its publications. My primary criticism of this second section is that it merely includes a random group of federal publications that might be of interest to foreigners. This is basically the same criticism I have of Morehead's book. Downey does not provide a systematic or well-organized list; indi- vidual titles may be noted while some basic reference works from these agencies are omitted, making it very difficult to believe such a listing is of much value to anyone with more than a cursory interest in the publications of the federal government. It is extremely difficult to be comprehen- sive in listing government publications that would appeal to an international audience, but haphazard attempts do not seem the best method to follow. Given that I ques- tion the methodology employed, it should be pointed out nevertheless that Morehead's treatment of congressional and judicial materials is more comprehensive than Downey's, though when it comes to the executive agencies it is a tossup be- tween the two books . Government publications librarians who have access to works by Morehead, Schwartzkopf, O'Hara, and others will gen- erally find little in this book to justify its exorbitant price.-Alan Edward Schorr, University of Alaska, Juneau. Carpenter, Ray L. , and Vasu, Ellen Storey. Statistical Methods for Librarians. Chicago: American Library Assn., 1978. 119p. $12.50. LC 78-3476. ISBN 0-8389- 0256-1. Librarians are far from embracing empiri- cal research methods and statistical tech- niques as core elements of their professional The newest title on Faxon's reference team ... Index to Outdoor Sports, Games, and Activities by Pearl Turner Joining the Useful Reference Series of Library Books, this new title indexes nearly 500 publica- tions and seven periodicals on out- door sports and activities, from the most popular competitive team sports to the most exotic in- dividual pastimes. From baseball to skin diving, soccer to kayaking, football to falconry- the Index to Sports provides quick complete access to information sources for For information on the Index to Sports and other titles on Faxon's Useful Reference team, write for our Publications Catalog. ISBN 0-87305-105-X 408 pp. $18.00 [WF.W. FAXOn COmPAnY, IDC. Publishing Division 15 Southwest Park, Westwood, Massachusetts 02090 competence, even though these approaches present significant potential for establishing and expanding their knowledge base and for solving ordinary operational problems. Now demands for accountability in publicly funded programs , the increasing size and complexity of libraries and networks , and the constantly plummeting costs of com- puter time suggest that they can no longer afford to ignore them. On the face of it, a book setting forth the use of statistics that takes into account the limitations and interests of librarians is clearly warranted. For this reason, Car- penter and Vasu should be thanked for writ- ing their book , and ALA should be applauded for publishing it and , therefore , indicating the importance of the subject to the profession . Unfortunately , though the book ably discusses many of the basics of statistics , there are many reasons for con- sidering this an unfinished work that could have been substantially better. By " introductory" statistics textbook standards , the present volume is slender, and as a result of the book's length , several important topics are discussed incompletely or not at all. For example, while two of the five chapters are devoted entirely to sam- pling and regression , there is hardly any mention of probability or the concept of statistical independence. Library research projects are unlikely to generate data satisfy- ing the requirements of a valid regression model , and it would therefore have been helpful to have included material regarding control variables and other refinements of tabular analysis . From the standpoint of their utility to evaluation studies, a discus- sion of experimental design and analysis of variance would also have been desirable. The illustrative material could have been more provocative ; the many competent and interesting studies in the professional litera- ture might have been drawn upon for this purpose or at least mentioned in a bibli- ography. Working through the sparse selec- tion of exercise problems is unlikely to in- spire confidence in the reader that the ma- terial has been mastered. Given these drawbacks , the instructor or student may wish to consid~r alternate texts. A comparable work by Srikantaiah and Hoffman (C&RL , March 1978) picks up Recent Publications I 19 more material on research design and methodological questions , gives more exer- cises and a detailed bibliography, but has a poorer glossary of terms , less material re- garding tabular analysis and measures of as- sociation. Until revisions to either or both of these volumes are made , it may unfortu - nately be better to rely on such generkl- purpose books as Kerlinger's Foundations of Behavioral Research (Holt, Rinehart , 1973) or A Basic Course in Statistics by Anderson and Zelditch (same publisher, 1975), which was written with the specific intention of at- tracting the student " frightened of mathematics. "-Timothy D. Jewell , Bowling Gree n Stat e Univ ersity , Bowling Green , Ohio. Haight, Anne Lyon. Banned Books, 387 B. C. to 1978 A.D. Fourth Edition of Banned Books: Informal Notes .... Up- dated and enlarged by Chandler B. Grannis. With an opening essay by Charles Rembar. New York: Bowker, 1978. 196p. $13.95. LC 78-9720. ISBN 0-8352-1078-2. This new revised edition of Banned Books is an important and vital title in the field of intellectual freedom. As with the three pre- vious editions, there is no pretense to exhaustiveness. The third edition contained a chronological list of books , banned from 387 B.C . into the 1960s; this edition, the fourth , has been expanded by about 60 new entries and now covers more than 300 books that have been censored, from 387 B.C. to the present. The format and content of this edition follow that of the earlier ones. It is a handbook, a quick reference work that shows censorship trends through the years , and it covers most of the famous episodes in our history of censorship. Among the titles are classics and contem- porary publications, including Homer's The Odyssey , Dante ' s Th e Divine Comedy , Shakespeare's King Lear, Twain's The Ad- ventures of Huckleberry Finn , Confort' s The Joy of Sex , The American Heritage Diction- ary , and others . None of the books named are banned , at present, in the United States. This edition, in Appendix 1, as did the third , covers "Trends in Censorship," with discussion of the political and religious con- trol of books , overseas libraries, library cen-