College and Research Libraries 626 College & Research Libraries cept for students wishing to gain an un- derstanding of the profession of art librari- anship, most of the essays in this section serve little purpose other than profes- sional breast-beating. Active art librarians are aware of the range of information needs their users have, though Frances Lichten's essay, written in 1959 from the perspective of a library user, keeps the reader mindful of the obstacles well- meaning librarians can throw up in the path of the researcher. In the third section, the essayists at- tempt to analyze the control and retrieval challenges presented by the forms, partic- ularly the visual forms, in which art is doc- umented. For the experienced visual arts librarian, these essays provide the most to ponder. Trevor Fawcett examines the sub- ject limits of the art library by looking first at the expanding limits of art itself, con- cluding that using standard classification schemes to define the art library leads to "arbitrary unions and separations" and proposing an artifact-based scheme in- stead. In the next essay, written three years later for the International Seminar on Information Problems in Art History (March 1982), Fawcett takes on the inade- quacy of classification and subject index- ing for retrieval, particularly of images- an inadequacy that the Art and Architecture Thesaurus has begun to meet. Wolfgang Freitag picks up Fawcett's concern for ac- cess to the visual image in a paper pre- sented at the IFLA meetings in August 1982, "The Indivisibility of Art Librarian- ship.'' In this essay he reminds us that in the study of art it is the art object itself that is the primary source of information and that visual representations, whether illus- trations in books, reproduction engrav- ings, slides, or videodisc images, are sur- rogates, as the originals are not always available for study. Yet, to the detriment of researchers, the image and print collec- tions are too often separate, both physi- cally and philosophically. The final section reviews the movement toward national and international cooper- ation among art librarians. The first essay, by Freitag (Fogg Art Museum), dates from 1968 and sets forth a plan leading to com- munication among the art libraries of the November 1986 world. The final two essays, by William B. Walker (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Philip Pacey, describe the progress art librarians have made in international co- operation from the perspective of two who were early and influential leaders in those efforts . Taken individually, several of the essays are delights. The one written in 1908 by Jane Wright, then librarian of the Cincin- nati Art Museum, describes why art librar- ianship was different from other branches at a time when art libraries were growing rapidly and developing, or finding the need for, some of the bibliographical ap- paratus we now take as standard: indexes of periodical articles and reproductions, such as the Periodical Index of the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago or the H. W. Wilson Company's Art Index; in- dividualized thesauri for local collections, such as the A very collection at Columbia University; and picture and vertical files whose value has been proven by the sub- sequent generations of researchers. The essay is full of the joy of having a job in which one feels as if one can make a difference.-Karen Muller, Quality Books, Inc., Lake Bluff, Illinois. Library Science Annual. V.1 (1985). Ed. by Bohdan S. Wynar and Heather Cam- eron. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlim- ited, 1985. 204p. $37.50. LC 85-650346. ISBN 0-87287-495-8. Publishers in our field have two choices: to publish significant monographs or self- sustaining reference books. The latter ap- proach is often more time-consuming and expensive than the former. Such pub- lishers, however, count on profits from standing orders and repeat sales as new editions become necessary. Here, Libraries Unlimited has decided on that latter approach. Apparently they be- lieve that researchers in library and infor- mation science generate so much new in- formation each year about their field that others, especially librarians, will find it use- ful to have an annual compilation that will (1) "review all En:glish-language mono- graphs and reference books in library sci- ence published in a year, ... (2) evaluate all English-language library science period- Since that dawn of October 12, 1492, when Captain Columbus' crew sighted San Salvador from the bow of the "Pinta," contact with far-off realms has moved from the fantastic to the everyday. But as the world has shrunk, the quantity of available information has ex- ploded, creating a whole new breed of explorer. When you · explore new worlds of information every day, you need a crew of professionals you can count on. • EBSCO has 17 offices worldwide, to help keep you in everyday contact with professional serials management services. For reliable guidance in any realm of the serials world, set your headings on EBSCO. li:t«•J SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES P.O. Box 1943 Binningbam, Alabama 35201 205-991-1182 628 College & Research Libraries icals and indexing services, ... (3) high- light research trends, ... [and] (4) report on the production and distribution of knowledge in library science" (p.ix-x). Divided into four major parts, the edi- tors cover publishing, review mono- graphs as well as periodicals, and abstract 30 of the 102 dissertations completed dur- ing 1983. In the first part, original essays by Eric Moon, Norman Stevens, George Bobinski, Danuta Nitecki, and Donald Case focus on Scarecrow Press, the Cana- dian library press, the history and current state of publishing, an analysis of 105 jour- nals, database reviewing, and the state of information science. In part 2, the mono- graphic reviews are classified into 32 broad areas and read much like those in Libraries Unlimited's ARBA, "a compan- ion volume" (p.ix). Part 3 reviews approx- imately 40 national and subject-oriented periodicals in our field. Two essays in part 1 stand out: Norman Stevens' insightful overview of our pub- lishing houses and Donald Case's human- istic portrayal of information science. Part 3lacks reviews for several notable journals including Library and Information Science Research (LISR), Journal of Library History, Government Publications Review, and Gov- ernment Information Quarterly, while wast- ing space on many of the upstart Haworth Press titles. Nevertheless, the lengthy re- views are informative and occasionally in- clude notes and references for further reading. Part 4 duplicates the bibliograph- ical control of dissertations: e.g., UMI publishes a special list of titles in library and information science. And while LQ previously listed dissertations, LISR has now accepted that responsibility by actu- ally reviewing selected titles. Still, Gail Schlachter, the LSA editor of this section, makes such literature more widely known and does provide an abstract focusing on purpose, procedure, and findings for each highlighted dissertation. To· be sure, this volume possesses minor flaws, but more importantly, it signals a landmark advance for library and infor- mation science. As the editors suggest in their fifth objective, there is "intellectual activity in librarianship" (p.x). Indeed, our epistemology-the way one knows in November 1986 our field-is moving from knowledge based solely on firsthand experience to that developed in systematic qualitative and quantitative discovery .-John Richard- son, Jr. Graduate School of Library and Infor- mation Science, University of California, Los Angeles. Alley, Brian and Jennifer Cargill. Librar- ian in Search of a Publisher: How to Get Published. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx, 1986. 172p. $18.50. LC 85-45512 ISBN 0- 8977 4-150-1. Librarian/Author: A Practical Guide on How to Get Published. Ed by Betty- Carol Sellen. New York: Neal- Schuman, 1985. 247p. $24.95. LC 85- 4593 ISBN 0-918212-83-9. These two books offer practical advice and assistance to the librarian who has de- cided to write for publication. Ostensibly these how-to books cover the same mate- rial: writing and publishing the journal ar- ticle or the book. The similarity ends there, however, for the tone of these books and their emphases differ greatly. The Alley/Cargill book serves more as a motivational tool for those individuals who want to write, but have not actually set pen to paper or fingers to keyboard in the case of the highly touted computer. The Sellen book is a collection of essays written by ex- perienced librarians from the writing and publishing sides of this process; it assumes you are already writing and need to know the "whys," "wheres," and "hows" of getting into print. A cartoon by Barbara G. Scheib ling, in- dicative of the content which follows, be- gins each chapter of the Alley/Cargill work. Filled with "dos, " "don'ts," and "shoulds," page after page takes the would-be librarian/ author through the hard questions that must be asked, and answered, if that deeply felt response, carefully researched question or highly successful program is ever going to find its way into the professional literature in the form of a letter to the editor, a presenta- tion at the local chapter of one of the pro- fessional associations, a journal article, or a book. The authors encourage you to con- sider all formats and repeat the old cliche in new words, that the only way to write is