College and Research Libraries 254 I College and Research Libraries • May 1980 and its 1977-78 Supplement cover the entire field of current business literature most completely of all. With its emphasis on information ser- vices, major newsletters , trade journals, and government and special periodicals , Where to Find Business Information can be of par- ticular assistance in answering questions re- lating to ongoing businesses , such as finding new markets, allied businesses or sources of supply, and advertising new products. It is a welcome additional tool too for handling the business information explosion resulting from new forms of computer and publishing technology.-Barbara R. Healy , University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Goehlert, Robert. Congress and Law- making: Researching the Legislative Pro- cess. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio, 1979. 168p. $17.50. LC 79-11554. ISBN 0-87 436-294-6. Finding information about Congress and federal legislation can be a long and rather involved procedure due to the complex na- ture of the legislative process and the maze of approaches and materials available . Goehlert has prepared an introductory guide that very briefly outlines the journey from bill to law and describes the tracing of legislation and the researching of informa- tion about legislators. Unfortunately, there are shortcomings. For the uninitiated this book is little more than an annotated bibliography of available resources, with few if any hints on how to use these materials. Though the au- thor touches base with a variety of govern- ment and commercially produced legislative reference aids, most of these are only very briefly described. For some publications, such as those from CIS and CQ, little help is needed ; for others, such as the Calendars of the House and Senate, Digest of Public General Bills , United States Code, Congres- sional and Administrative News, and others, the novice needs much more assistance. Numerous page illustrations from reference works often add to the confusion, as they are not self-explanatory, nor is their role explained in this overpriced text. Illustrations , lists of research centers, and a fifty-two-page directory of government depository libraries account for half the Instant shelws stretch storage space without overloading uour budget. Imagine what you could do with quick assembly storage shelves! Demeo workroom furniture is designed to assemble and disas· semble without screws, bolts, hammers or glue .. ~ just one twist of a screwdriver operates the sacure ~~occ;!'s::S:~b!h~:S:~!s:g~~~~~~::~;e books, supplies and equipment in your work 1:"~ area. 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Even a brief outline of SuDocs and the arrangement of the various relevant publications would have given the researcher a major advantage. Coehlert mentions SuDocs, but he does not outline the system or its role in libraries or the re- search process. Furthermore, though Goehlert discusses the Serial Set, no one unfamiliar with it could possibly discern its relationship to ma- terials and the tracing of legislation. In fact, the index to the Serial Set, the Numerical Lists and Schedule, is not even mentioned. A serious drawback is that citational interre- lationships are not clearly explained, such as, for a report, its place in the Serial Set and how to locate it. There is useful information in this book, but it is not pulled together in a way that most laypersons (and librarians) could easily understand. If one is already familiar with legislative research, the text is helpful; un- fortunately, for the beginner it is confusing. If additional space were devoted to some of the problems enumerated and extraneous materials omitted, Congress and Law- making would be a more useful book. -Alan Edward Schorr, University of Alaska, juneau. C herns, ] . ]. Official Publishing: An Over- view. An International Survey and Re- view of the Role, Organisation and Prin- ciples of Official Publishing. Guides to Official Publications, V.3. Oxford, New York: Pergamon, 1979. 527p. $40. LC 78-41157. ISBN 0-08-023340-6. This ambitious survey of publishing activi- ties and information transfer processes in nineteen countries with representative or parliamentary forms of government, nine major international organizations, including the UN family, and three private publishers is both a historical account of the develop- ment of publishing and a current assessment of the "forms of organization, the policies, and the objectives associated with official in- formation and publishing." This is not a bibliographic work nor one that librarians would keep handy to assist in Recent Publications I 255 bibliographic searching or answering refer- ence questions. Instead, it should be read to increase understanding of the field by all librarians dealing with foreign and interna- tional documentation. Students of the print- ing and publishing efforts of the United States and Canadian governments will also find it of value for the comparisons offered. Even though the United States is proba- bly the best-developed country in dissemi- nation of publications, much can be learned from the trials and errors, successes and failures, and shortcomings and achievements of other governments. For the practicing librarian, information is presented on historical quantity and quality of government publishing and its availability through bibliography as well as sources of supply. Occasionally, actual publications are listed in the text or as an appendix for pur- poses of illustration (e.g., Hong Kong Fact Sheets, page 169). Organization charts showing the structure of each government's information and pub- lishing or printing apparatus and working definitions currently in use increase the value of the work for purposes of compari- son and idea generation. Differing attitudes toward copyright versus public domain also offer a basis for further exploration of this complicated and controversial area of public policy. Important differences in theory of in- formation dissemination other than through publication are explored and conclusions drawn regarding their relative success or lack of it. The volume is organized into three parts, including the scope and importance of of- ficial publishing, the survey itself, and the general review and conclusions from the study. While the format is a reproduction of the authors' original typescript for economy and timeliness, neither the type style nor the few typos encountered distract from the topic at hand. The coverage from country to country is somewhat uneven, but necessarily so given the diverse nature of government publish- ing. Each country does include many of the following topics: population, constitution and form of government, information or- ganization, publishing organization, range of government publishing, history of develop- ment, policy, parliamentary publishing, ref-