College and Research Libraries 498 I College & Research Libraries • September 1981 Spain collection. The volume is physically less inviting because of paper/type selection, which forecast a crowded page and a more difficult readability factor. The organiza- tion, not by sections but by some unexplained listing, demands closer attention to overall concerns for state-local finance aspects. information center managers as it is to any- one concerned with fiscal operations respon- sibility. Neither volume will solve specific budget procurement/ allocation/ evaluation problems. Either one-or both-will add much background information and provide considerable food for thought. It is hoped that such food will not aggravate additional stress, financial or otherwise, among our information-focused personnel.-Harold Goldstein , Florida State University , Talla- hassee. This collection, according to the introduc- tion, "provides an overview of research activ- ities in the major financial and problem areas of state and local government finance." They were published originally as part of a volume of current research in the field of state/local government finance. The issues selected, de- fined, and delineated in the volume are im- portant for scholars and workers in public (nonfederal) finance. The range of topics is indeed comprehensive, from policy to collec- tive bargaining to authority to the improve- ment of productivity. Each piece stresses a research concept couched in terms of exam- ples of activity. There is, overall, a nontech- nical level of language that promotes both attention and understanding. DDC Dewey Decimal Classification. Proposed Revision of 780 Music. Based on Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index. Prepared under the direction of Russell Sweeney and John Clews. Albany, N.Y.: Forest, 1980. 101p. LC 80-16730. 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These seem to be the most important points: it is a completely new set of schedules; it makes extensive use of a systematic faceted structure; an enormous amount of synthesis is available and the nota- tion is as expressive as possible within the con- straints of DDC; provisions are made for dealing with classical music, popular forms (e.g., jazz, blues, country and western mu- sic), and the various ethnic, folk, primitive, and classical music of non-Western tradi- tions. The introduction explains the details of the citation order and other structural fea- tures. The classification of instrumental me- dia of performance is based on the classic scheme of Curt Sachs and Eric von Hornbos- tel (first published in 1914, and finally trans- lated into English in 1964 in Galpin Society ] ournal 17: 45-63) . As in all systems for classifying music and the literature about music, the heart of the system is the part set aside for media of per- formance. As in other versions of the 780s, we have here a parallel system, which is to say that a book about the piano is classed in 786.2 and piano music is classed in M786.2 (or, as an alternate to this: 786.2027). Class 780 is for standard subdivisions, 781 is for general principles, 782 through 788 are for media of performance, and 789 for individual com- posers. Generally speaking, it seems quite logical and is a great improvement over the nineteenth edition. The most radical change is based on the assumption, which is probably valid, that the composer is the central organizing principle for much of the literature about music. For example, we assume that it is helpful to have books about Beethoven and about his music in one class. Thus, class 789 is for works about individual composers (each composer gets a subclass and these are arranged in alphabeti- cal order by composers' names). 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Ob- viously, a library has to choose one of these methods and use it consistently. The basic idea of the new 789 class is sound and it should be enormously useful, but there are some problems. How is it decided which composers get their own subclasses and how are the class numbers constructed? The edi- tors' solution has been to print a list of around 300 composers' names in the schedules, along with the appropriate class notation, and in- structions to "class a composer not named in this list in 789 without further subdivision" (p.58). One would assume that the decisions on inclusion and exclusion should be based on "literary warrant," which is to say that if a sufficient number of monographs have been published about a composer, then that com- poser is included in the list. Now this gets to be a very tricky business when we are dealing with a classification system that is interna- tional (for example, composers thought to be important in France may be hardly known in, say, the United States, Australia, India, or Iceland). In the end, the only generally ac- ceptable solution will be some sort of open system that will permit the addition of names at any time and be such that all composers in 789 are given a subclass. These problems related to class 789 should not obscure the fact that this is the best ver- sion of the 780s ever published. Within the limitations imposed by an international gen- eral system, there is not much more that could have been done to modernize the 780s. -Gordon Stevenson , State University of New York, Albany. Seminar on AACR2: Proceedings of a Seminar Organized by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group of the Library Association at the Uni- versity of Nottingham, 20-22 April 1979. Ed. by Graham Roe. 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