College and Research Libraries Recent Publications COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950-1977, reviewed by Ruth P . Burnett . ......... .. . . ...... . . . ...... .. ... . . . ........................ .. .. .. 358 Formal Reader Education Programmes in Post-Secondary Libraries: Their justification , Implementation, and Evaluation, ~eviewed by Mary George .......... . .......... 362 Progress in Educating the Library User, reviewed by Robert J. Merikangas . . . . . . . . . . 362 Beyond Media: New Approaches to Mass Communication, reviewed by Mary B. Cassata . .... .. . .... .. . ............. : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Downs, Robert B. Books That Changed the World, 2d ed., reviewed by Henry Miller Madden .. ... .. .... .. . ............ . . . . .. ... . ....................... . ...... 365 Downs, Robert B. In Search of New Horizons: Epic Tales of Travel and Exploration , reviewed by Henry Miller Madden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 National Research Council. Study Project on Social Research and Development. The Federal Investment in Knowledge of Social Problems. Volume 1: Study Project Re- port , reviewed by Thelma Freides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 National Research Council. Study Project on Social Research and Development. Knowledge and Policy: The Uncertain Connection , reviewed by Thelma Freides .... 366 Southgate, Robert L. Black Plots & Black Characters: A Handbook for Afro-American Literature, reviewed by Robert Fikes, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 Mitchell, Betty Jo; Tanis, Norman E. ; and Jaffe, Jack. Cost Analysis of Library Functions: A Total System Approach, reviewed by Barbara R. Healy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Davinson, Donald. The Periodicals Collection, rev. and enl. ed., reviewed by Martha Willett .... ... ....... . ....... ........................................... . . 370 Jackson, Eugene B., and Jackson, Ruth L. Industrial Information Systems: A Manual for Higher Management and Their Information Officer/Librarian Associates , re- viewed by Jata S. Ghosh ................................. . ... ... ....... . . ... 370 Symposium on Retrieval of Medicinal Chemical Information . ·Retrieval of Medicin~l Chemical Information, reviewed by David Kuhner ........... . .... . . . ..... .. . .. 372 Martin, Murray S. Budgetary Control in Academic Libraries, reviewed by George W. Cornell . . ....... . ......... ........ ....... . ... ..... .. ...... . ......... . ..... 373 The On-Line Revolution in Libraries, reviewed by Audrey N. Grosch ............... 374 Dewey, Melvil. Melvil Dewey: His Enduring Presence in Librarianship, reviewed by Jeanne Osborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377 "Libraries and Society: Research and Thought," reviewed by Jovian P. Lang ......... 377 Ash, Lee, comp. Subject Collections, 5th ed., reviewed by Marc Gittelsohn ...... . .. 378 Prentice, Ann E . Strategies for Survival: Library Financial Management Today, reviewed by Albert F. Maag . ..... .. ... . ................. . .. ... ...... ....... . 381 COM Systems in Libraries: Current British Practice , reviewed by Helen R. Citron . . . 381 Morris, John. Managing the Library Fire Risk, 2d ed., reviewed by Joseph z. Nitecki . 382 Corkill, Cynthia, and Mann , Margaret. Information Needs in the Humanities: Two Postal Surveys, reviewed by Charles E. Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Compaine, Benjamin M. The Book Industry in Transition : An Economjc Study of Book Distribution and Marketing, reviewed by Don Lanier ........ . ............ ... ... 384 Turow, Joseph. Getting Books to Children: An Exploration of Publisher-Market Rela- tions, reviewed by Mary E. Thatcher .... ................................ .. ... 386 Lockwood, Deborah L., comp . Library Instruction: A Bibliography, reviewed by Anne Roberts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 Kiewitt, Eva L. Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems: The PROBE Program, reviewed by Sylvia G. Faibisoff .................. . . .. .. ... . . . . .. .. .. ........ . 388 Evans, G. Edward. Developing Library Collections, reviewed by William Schenck . ... 389 Collection Development, reviewed by William Schenck .... .. .... .. . .. ...... . . .. ... 389 I 357 358 I College & Research Libraries • July 1979 Schaefer, Barbara Kirsch. Using the · Mathematical Literature: A Practical Guide , reviewed by Alice W . Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 Lewanski, Richard C ., comp. Subject Collections in European Libraries , 2d ed. , reviewed by Miroslav Krek .. . .. . ...... . . . ........... . ........ .. ........ ... .. 391 Roberts, Stephen; Cooper, Alan; and Gilder, Lesley, comps . Research Libraries and Collections in the United Kingdom: A Selective Inventory and Guide, reviewed by Miroslav Krek . . ..... .. . ............. .. . .... .. . . ...... . ..... ... ... .. . ...... 391 Wright, Kieth C. Library and Information Services for Handicapped Individuals , reviewed by Meredith A. Butler . ........ .. ... . . . .. ... .... . . . .. . ...... . . ... .. 391 " Library Services for the Adult Handicapped: An Institute for Training in Librar- ianship, " reviewed by Meredith A. Butler ...... . .......... . . ........ . . . . . ..... 392 Boss , Richard W . "Circulation Systems: The Options ," reviewed by Richard J. Talbot . 393 Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 Other Publications of Interest to Academic Librarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 BOOK REVIEWS American Book Publishing Record Cumula- tive 1950-1977: An American National Bibliography. A Cumulation of American Book Production for the Years 1950-1977, in 15 Volumes , as Cataloged by the Li- brary of Congress and Recorded in the American Book Publishing Record and the National Union Catalog. Arranged by Subject According to Dewey Decimal Classification and Indexed by Author and Title with a Separate Subject Guide in- cluding Library of Congress Subject Tracings , Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers and Library of Congress Classi- fication Numbers. Ne w York: Bowker, 1978. 15v. $1 ,500. LC 66-19741. ISBN 0-8352-1094-4 . ISSN 0002-7707 . R. R. Bowker has undertaken a major proj ect in creating the American Book Pub- lishing Record Cumulative 1950-1977 by adding to the data base for its Weekly Rec- ord and American Book Publishing Record thousands of titles from MARC tapes and from the National Union Catalog , 1950- 1968, to amass over 900 , 000 entries- practically all the titles published or distrib- uted in the United States from 1950 to 1977. Following the pattern of previous issues of the American Book Publishing Record, the first ten volumes are arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification with the se- quence broken carefully between hundreds rather than by size of volumes. Social Sci- ences (300-399) and Applied Sciences (600-699) require two volumes , and unfor- tunately the breaks come in the middle of 340.0942 and 627 so that one would not know in which of the two volumes a desired entry would come. Fiction and juvenile fiction , in separate alphabets by main entry, comprise volume 11. In volume 12 all books lacking Dewey classification, and hence unable to be listed in the first ten volumes , are arranged by main entry. Volume 13, the author index, and volume 14, the title index, list works by the first nine digits of their Dewey classi- fication by Fie or ]uv, or as v. 12 with the author's name in parentheses. Volume 15 is the subject guide , an alpha- betical listing of LC tracings (including proper names and uniform titles used as subjects) from volumes 1-12. Just the hefty title index of 2 ,225 pages in four-column format is quite an impressive project and its usefulness should be proportional to its size. The set is printed on acid-free paper, Sm ythe-sewn , and sturdily bound. The print is very legible even though rather small type. Entries in four columns to the page are very clearly set up with the au- thor's last name in all caps on the left and the Dewey class number on the right with plenty of space in between . Titles are in italics followed by subtitle, imprint, colla- tion , series , notes , LC classification , LC card number, ISBN, price if given in the original ABPR record, and LC tracings . Any entry prepared by the Bowker staff when LC cataloging was unavailable is marked with an asterisk. Since the Dewey numbers for books pub- lished early in the period may have been If your periodical collection is in bound volumes you should know you 're using over 11 times the shelf space the same titles would require in microform! University Microfilms Inter- national, a leader in micro- publishing for 40 years, can show you how to maintain your present collection in only 8% of the space you're using now. And that will leave 92% for your additional use. 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In the first ten vol- umes prime marks divide the Dewey num- bers into logical breaks so that a shorter number may be assigned by a nonprofes- sional in a smaller library. At first glance this set seemed like a very handy tool for any reader who wanted to find the author of a particular title, or other works of a favorite author, or more books on the same subject. It is-but that is a small part of its usefulness. It will be very valu- able to librarians needing reliable LC cataloging and classification when they are reclassifying from Dewey to LC, for finding LC call numbers when OCLC records give only Dewey call numbers, for revising cataloging done under old editions of the Dewey Decimal Classification, verifying interlibrary loan requests, finding the con- tents of collections, or developing collec- tions in various subjects. Libraries not own- ing The Combined Index to the Library of Congress Classification Schedules may find some of their questions regarding numbers for particular authors, classes of persons , geographic names, or all the class numbers relating to a single topic answered in this set. Perhaps a certain amount of nit-picking is necessary in reviewing a set such as this. I found relatively few misprints, but even the computer became fatigued at the magnitude of the filing job and dumped problems in a clump at times. In the tite index, numbers were quite well alphabetized except for a little clump running "1967, 1980, 1976, 1967, nineteen bishops" and then on accu- rately again. In volume 12 there were many for your FREE Comprehensive Catalogue: AMS PRESS, INC. 56 East 13th Street New York, NY 10003 titles beginning "Report" or "Proceedings," but at the beginning of each were clumps of mystifying entries such as: 1. "Report [Amherst?] v. 29 em. annual. Report year ends June 30. s8" with the tracing "I. Mas- sachusetts. University. Library." 2. A similar report with the tracing "I. Howard University, Washington D.C. School of Law." Although I did not locate 1. in the NUC, I presume the tracing should have been the main entry as was the case with 2. which had no tracings in the NUC. 3. "Proceedings. Urbana, Ill. University of Illinois Agricul- tural Ex'periment Station [1957] 106p. I. Harwood Sawlog-Grading Symposium, In- dianolis, 1957." The main entry in the 1958-62 NUC was "Hardwood Sawlog-Grading Symposium, Indianapolis, 1957," and there were no trac- ings. "Who's who in golf' and "Who's who in Malaysia" fell between "Who, What, when in Kansas" and "Who, why, what." Acronyms and initialisms caused some problems. Acronyms were usually filed as though they were words. Initialisms were filed at the beginning of a letter when there were periods between (as A.L.A.) but were filed as words otherwise (ALA). U.S. had its variations: some were interfiled with us, some with United States, and some ap- peared at the beginning of the u's. Mr. was filed as mister except for five cases as mr. Mrs., on the other hand, was under mr except for five under Mistress. Of course, I take no notice of thousands of cor- rectly filed entries! Since there are no references in the au- thor index, in order to find all of an author's works, one would need to know both the author's real name and pseudonym if works were cataloged at different times under both. Often, however, the entry for one would give the other in the author state- ment, as for example, the case of "Moravia, Alberto" and "Pincherle, .Alberto" -plus in this case the spurious variations of "Pin- chere" and "Pincherie" who also tum out to be "Moravia, Alberto." If one looked under a pseudonym when only the real name was used, nothing would be found. Recent Publications I 361 It was very easy to locate items in the fic- tion and unclassified volumes through the indexes, but one cannot deny the fact that using an up to nine-digit number to gain ac- cess to the first ten volumes is really cum- bersome. In the author index, there may be, for one author, a block of Dewey num- bers in paragraph form separated only by semicolons. For example, Julian May has eighty-five Dewey class numbers after his name. If one remembered the first one long enough to look it up in the proper volume, it would be necessary to find one's place again in the index paragraph each of the other eighty- four .times unless one is efficient enough to write them all down on scrap paper and cross them out one at a time. A double- column listing of numbers under the name or at least several spaces between numbers would help. Also guide numbers at the tops of pages in classified volumes use only three digits so there may be many pages headed 973-973, for example. At least in the title index, I thought, there would be only one class number for a title, as The Remarkable Henry Cabot Lodge 923.273. Entries for 923.273 are ar- ranged by author or main entry on pages 943-957 of volume 10, but since I don't know the author I'll hope it was another Lodge. No such luck, so there's nothing to do but go through all the entries on four- teen four-column pages until I find The Re- markable Henry Cabot Lodge under "Zeiger, Henry A." If the author's name could be given in parentheses as in the fic- tion and unclassified volumes, the title would b_e easy to locate. The subject guide has no references, but all headings and subdivisions used are printed out individually. A page at the be- ginning of volume 15 showing how to use the guide explains the fact that some trac- ings appear in both abbreviated and full form. One may locate related material by using one headin'g and turning to its class number and browsing. The use of geo- graphic names may lead one to interesting local history items. The subdivision "Juvenile literature" will help librarians lo- cate books on many subjects suitable for younger readers. The 920s in volume 10 may help locate 362 I College & Research Libraries • july 1979 biographies of people in various occupations and categories-scientists, journalists, baseball players, etc. Although I found no explanation of it, some entries ip the other classified volumes had a B after class num- bers (823.912B, 551.0924B) which also were biographies, but not all biographies were so marked. I found no explanation for two other symbols: a dagger before an 809 number and a small s after many 551.08 numbers. There is a fantastic bibliographic base in this American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950-1977. I think it would be of greatest value to libraries converting from Dewey to LC or adding retrospective hold- ings to OCLC. It would be of tremendous value to many small public and school li- braries who cannot afford many biblio- graphic tools, but they also could not afford this set unless it became available on microfiche. It may be unfortunate for Bowker that Carrollton Press has recently announced a Cumulative Title Index to the Classified Col- lections of the Library of Congress, 1978. That publication of 132 hardcover volumes scheduled for completion in 1982 will con- tain in one alphabet six and one-half million titles. Less information will be given in each entry (title, author, LC call number, LC card number), for it is intended to be used with the National Union Catalog and Man- sell by means of the LC card number and author, or the LC Sheljlist in microform by means of the call number. Academic librar- ies and large public libraries who could af- ford this set ($11,432 prepublication price) would have access -to many more titles cov- ering a greater geographic area and a much longer period of time. Most libraries, I fear, will be waiting and hoping for a microfiche edition of one set or the other!-Ruth P. Burnett, State University of New York, Col- lege at Oneonta. Formal Reader Education Programmes in Post-Secondary Libraries: Their Justifica- tion, Implementation, and Evaluation. Papers Presented at a Seminar Held at the Caulfield Institute of Technology, Victoria, 25-27 January, 1978. Organized by the Chief Librarian, Patrick Condon, and the Reader Education Librarian, David Foott. Caulfield: Caulfield Institute of Technology, 1978. lv. (var. pag.) A$7.50 plus postage (sea mail $2.00, air- mail $4.40, surface air lifted $3.50). ISBN 0-909176-04-3. Proceedings volumes are typically a "mixed bag" of strong and weak papers more or less addressing a common theme. This example, the record of an Australian conference on library use instruction (termed " BI" for "bibliographic instruction" in this country and "formal reader educa- tion" in Australia) qualifies as a uniformly thoughtful and helpful contribution to the literature in this ever-expanding area. For one thing, the papers included give Ameri- can readers a reassuring sense that everyone shares the same problems and concerns, from cost-effectiveness and objectives to staffing and evaluation. The ten published presentations touch on all of these issues and others as well. Especially interesting are the details of a survey done by Chooi-hon Ho, which show "overwhelming evidence that libraries with Formal Reader Education programmes have a substantial increase in reference transac- tions." Ursula Newell cautions in her dis- cussion of appropriate methodologies that there is often a difference between librarian and faculty cohcepts of what students need to know and that in selecting a means of in- struction the entire educational system must be taken into account. David Foott's piece "Why Evaluate ; What to Evaluate?" is likewise straightforward and insightful. Several short case studies conclude the volume, giving a picture of current BI efforts in Australia. Although it is staple- bound with paper covers and lacks continu- ous pagination and an index, this item would be a worthwhile addition to any li- brary science collection or to any BI refer- ence shelf in an academic library.-Mary George, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Progress in Educating the Library User. Edited by John Lubans, Jr. New York: Bowker, 1978. 230p. $15.95. LC 78- 12758. ISBN 0-8352-1102-9. This collection of fifteen papers is "meant to complement and bring up to date the 1974 volume, Educating the Library User," •