mcilvaine.p65 180 College & Research Libraries March 1999 180 his article follows the pattern set by the semiannual series initiated by the late Constance M. Winchell more than fifty years ago and continued by Eugene P. Sheehy. Because the purpose of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and general works of interest to reference workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either well balanced or com- prehensive. A brief roundup of new edi- tions of standard works is provided at the end of the articles. Code numbers such as AD124 and DB13 have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books, 11th ed. (Chicago: ALA, 1996). Periodicals and Newspapers The Waterloo Directory of English News- papers and Periodicals, 1800–1900. Ed. John S. North. Waterloo, Ont.: North Waterloo Academic Pr., 1997. 10 vols. 7349p. il, facsims, ports. $3,645 (ISBN 0-921075-18-9). This indispensable set has a complicated publishing history. The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals, 1824–1900 (which includes England, Scotland, and Ireland) was published as a single volume in 1976 (Guide AD114). That volume is now be- ing updated and greatly expanded along with the revised directories of Irish and Scottish newspapers and periodicals pub- lished in 1986 (Guide AD124) and 1989 (Guide AD119), respectively. A CD-ROM version of the present title was issued in 1994. This print version adds some 2,000 titles and updates about half the entries. This is Series One of a projected five; each series will supersede the earlier, incorpo- rating all of the information (and correc- tions). The compilers felt, realistically, that if they are unable to complete the whole set for some reason, at least some infor- mation will be available. This first series is an alphabetical list of some 25,000 newspapers and journals in all fields, although the emphasis is on art and architecture, children’s maga- zines, theater, humor, music, and women. Of the 25,000 titles, an astonishing 8,000 were examined in detail. Many of the oth- ers were found cited, but not located; they were included because the editor hopes “to provide an introduction to the field, rather than limit the research in some tidy way” (p.10). The bibliography excludes govern- ment publications and company reports but does include transportation sched- ules, almanacs, and town directories, as well as the more traditional journals and newspapers published at least once a year. When the set is complete, the edi- tors hope to have covered in fifty volumes some 125,000 serials published in En- gland between January 1, 1800, and De- cember 31, 1900, even if most of the is- sues appeared before or after those dates. The information provided for each title varies, of course, sometimes just being limited to a title and date. But when pos- sible, the title, variant titles, dates, place of publication, editor, contributors, circu- Selected Reference Books of 1998 Eileen McIlvaine Eileen McIlvaine is Head of Reference and Collections in Butler Library at Columbia University; e-mail: mcilvain@columbia.edu. Although it appears under a byline, this list is a project of the reference depart- ments of Columbia University Libraries, and notes are signed with the initials of one of the following staff members: Barbara Sykes-Austin, Avery Library; Mary Cargill, Anice Mills, Robert H. Scott, Junko Stuveras, Sarah Spurgin Witte, Butler Library; Deborah Wassertzug, Journalism Librarian; Olha della Cava, Lehman Library; Elizabeth Davis, Music Library; Nancy E. Friedland, Undergraduate Library. Selected Reference Books 181 lation, and selected British locations are listed. There are indexes of issuing bod- ies, places and people, and subjects. The 5,000 reproductions of title pages make it fascinating to browse. Not all the information seems to be complete. The notorious Tit-Bits, for ex- ample, which was published for many years, lists only one date. So I can hope that Tootsie Sloper: A Journal of Brightness, Lightness and Frivolity had more than one issue. And this monumental achievement does shed brightness and lightness, and indeed frivolity on the nineteenth cen- tury.—M.C. Philosophy Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. London: Routledge, 1998. 10 vols. $2,995 (ISBN 0-415073103). LC 97-4549. This is the first major encyclopedia of philosophy in English since Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967, suppl. 1996. Guide BB24). The ten-volume set covers world philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth century. Volume 10 fur- nishes an extensive index that brings to- gether related articles. For example, un- der “medical ethics,” volume and pages of the main article are indicated in bold characters followed by related articles in other volumes from “doctor/patient re- lationship” to the “Tuskegee project.” If you look up a country, entries on philoso- phers of the country are listed alphabeti- cally along with some topics important to the country’s history of philosophy. In addition to individual philosophers, schools and “isms,” the work treats world philosophy from both the historical per- spective and the geographic. It succeeds in bringing some organic unity to the di- versity. The articles were contributed by some 1,300 philosophers worldwide, and each article is accompanied by a bibliog- raphy of reference and further reading. Many university and research libraries will not be ready to trade their worn cop- ies of the MacMillan Encyclopedia for this new version, but this is a worthwhile ad- dition to their collections The set comes with a CD-ROM disc. The Windows-based database requires 133 MHz Pentium processor and 16 MB of RAM. Although the installation guide recommends 9 MB of available hard disk space, in the actual installation 15 MB or more is necessary, even for the browser- only installation. The database typically shows three windows on the screen: in- dex or table of contents, text, and bibli- ography. The DynaText-based database is fairly easy to navigate and better than those textual databases using the Acro- bat Reader.—J.S. Literature Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Ed. Neil Cornwell; assoc. ed. Nicole Christian. London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. xl, 972p. $135 (ISBN 1-8849-6410-9). LC 97-169924. Despite the existence of a number of valu- able English-language reference tools for the study of Russian literature, such as the Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. Vic- tor Terras (1985. Guide BE1411), Wolfgang Kasack’s Dictionary of Russian Literature since 1917 (1988. Guide BE1412), or the ongoing Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian Literatures (Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic Intl., 1977– ), this volume represents an important new contribution that most libraries with serious coverage of Russian and comparative literature will want to acquire. One in a series of reference handbooks produced by this relatively new publish- ing company, the Guide is the collective endeavor of a large team of British, American, and Russian specialists. Its approach differs somewhat from that of its predecessors in its special focus on in- dividual works of literature, including brief summaries of plot and theme and discussion of the major issues of interpre- tation and analysis. The book opens with a series of well- written essays surveying the major peri- ods, genres, schools of criticism, and so forth. In the main body of text that fol- lows, major authors (as well as key anonymous works) are surveyed, from 182 College & Research Libraries March 1999 the Old Russian period to the present. Each article begins with a concise bio- graphical sketch, a bibliography of the key editions and translations as well as critical works, and then, typically, an overall characterization of the author ’s work followed by two- or three-page dis- cussions of major works. Alphabetical and chronological tables of contents, along with a title index, provide varied means of access to the contents. The work lends itself to quick lookups for those wishing to familiarize them- selves with a particular author or work but also admirably serves the needs of those seeking to obtain quickly an over- view of the major themes and issues of Russian literature, to identify potential areas for further research, or to fill gaps in a specialist’s knowledge of the field. It is not only a work that many libraries will find essential for the collections, but it is something that many individual scholars will want to acquire for their personal reference collections as well.—R.H.S. Film and Radio Dunning, John. On the Air: The Encyclo- pedia of Old-Time Radio. New York: Ox- ford Univ. Pr., 1998. 822p. $55 (ISBN 0- 19-507678-8). LC 96-41959. Historical Dictionary of American Radio Eds. Donald G. Godfrey and Frederic A. Leigh. Westport, Conn.: Green- wood, 1998. 485p. $89.50 (ISBN 0-313- 29636-7). LC 97-33140. These two well-researched, comprehen- sive volumes complement each other nicely. In On the Air, John Dunning has updated, revised, and enlarged his ear- lier encyclopedia Tune in Yesterday (Guide BH308), published in 1976. Correcting oversights and adding new material that includes “full descriptive and factual de- tails on hundreds of people and shows not covered in the first book” (Introd.), Dunning has produced an informative, carefully researched work. Alphabetical entries describe individual radio shows and significant radio personalities. Each entry provides a program’s brief broad- cast history and detailed listings of casts, announcers, writers, directors, theme songs, etc., followed by narrative essays that cover the history and memorable fea- tures of the show. A program’s current availability on cassette tape is often noted. Cross-references and an index that de- notes main entries in boldface help the reader identify individuals and program titles. Students of radio broadcasting will also benefit from the extensive bibliogra- phy, divided into books; newspapers and periodicals; logs; and miscellaneous items such as publicity releases and bound scripts. The Historical Dictionary of American Radio, although equally thorough, takes a slightly different approach. Beginning with an introductory essay that gives a brief history of the medium followed by a chronology of significant events from 1837 to 1997, this volume covers the broader political, economic, and social aspects of radio, with less emphasis on programs and personalities. Entries en- compass technical and business terminol- ogy, formats, and descriptions of govern- ment agencies, regulations, and policies that have affected radio. Concise, clear coverage of the FCC’s role with respect to regulatory control, licensing, censor- ship, and deregulation is especially note- worthy. Each entry, arranged alphabeti- cally, is signed. Brief biographies of the hundred or so contributors, all professors in the field of mass communications or broadcast journalism, are included at the back of the volume. Cross-references and an index with main entries noted in bold- face are valuable aids. The Select Bibliog- raphy includes books, journal articles, theses, government documents, and a list of about seventy relevant Web sites rang- ing from the Bellingham Antique Radio Museum to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Both of these volumes are notable for their attention to detail and their schol- arly approach to this burgeoning area of study.—A.M. Langman, Larry. The Media in the Movies: A Catalog of American Journalism Films, 1900–1996. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, Selected Reference Books 183 1998. 333p. il. $65 (ISBN 0-7864-0433- 7). LC 97-46949. The latest offering form Larry Langman, author of a number of esteemed film ref- erence works, is a compilation of film summaries for more than a thousand fea- tures and serials released between 1900 and 1996 that have as their central con- cern journalism in its different guises, both print and broadcast. The work is in- tended for researchers seeking to trace the film depiction of journalism and journal- ists and particularly how journalists in- teract with their news stories and the public. It also is intended to reflect the way these filmic depictions have changed over nine decades. The book opens with a brief filmographic essay that betrays a heavy bias toward films from the earlier part of the century (primarily before 1960), with later films given only passing mention. The ten stills and posters reproduced in the work also give evidence of the author ’s emphasis on films made before 1960. The film listings offer brief synopses and analyses of the films, which are listed alphabetically and given entry numbers that are used in the personal name index that follows. Listings include the title and release date of the work with studio names abbreviated. The credits show di- rector, screenwriter, and principal actors but do not include the names of the char- acters the actors play. In addition, the book’s appendixes belie its title because they cover newspaper film series and se- rials and peripheral newspaper films; these lists do not include titles that cover broadcast media. A bibliography at the back of the volume lists supplementary readings related to journalism, but not to films per se. Because the criteria for inclusion in this obviously selective work are never dis- cussed, the reader may be left wonder- ing why it is lean on films made after 1960 and why, of those films, titles such as Network and To Die For are omitted but the questionable Dead Men Don’t Die is included. Given Langman’s reputation as a filmographer, libraries with an extensive film collection should purchase this title. But also note the publication in 1997 of a similar work entitled From Headline Hunter to Superman: A Journalism Filmography by Richard Ness, an instruc- tor at Wayne State University’s commu- nications department and researcher in the journalism film genre (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1997. 789p. $89.50). That work, despite its numerous typographical er- rors, has an international scope, lists its films chronologically, has fuller credits and cast listings, and, most important, covers more than 2,100 films, including made-for-TV movies.—D.W. Art and Architecture Ballast, David Kent. The Encyclopedia of Associations and Information Sources for Architects, Designers and Engineers. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Professional, 1998. 814p. $125 (ISBN 0-7656-0035-8). LC 97-20300. Despite its title, this is not an encyclope- dia but, rather, a compilation of directo- ries relevant to those professions named in the title. This work will indeed be use- ful to architects, designers, engineers, and students of those disciplines if care is taken to remember that information de- livery systems are in a rapidly expand- ing and transformative period. Online databases and CD-ROMs change their formats only slightly less frequently than Web sites, and any directory is likely to have some of its contents superseded be- fore it is even published. Still, there is an impressive range of coverage in many of the twelve sections. The 534 entries for associations and or- ganizations include the standard address (including e-mail and Web address) and descriptive information and find groups such as the American Jail Association and the ALA sharing a page. Two sections are given over to journals and newsletters, their publishers, frequency, and prices, which can be useful as a selection tool for librarians, as will the sections on online databases (89 are listed), CD-ROMs (103), 184 College & Research Libraries March 1999 and Web sites (546). However, some sec- tions are of questionable value; for ex- ample, the resources of associations (i.e., publication lists) are incomplete and likely to go out of date almost immedi- ately, and keywords separate from the keyword index are redundant. Moreover, there are factual errors: a quick scanning of the journal titles and the indexes that cover them revealed at least ten titles in- dexed by the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Guide BF209), but not listed as such, which does a disservice to users as well as providers. The strength of this resource lies in its organizational listings, which include government agencies, research and test- ing laboratories, its wide scope of printed membership directories and database list- ings (everything form the American So- ciety of Plumbing Engineers to the Union List of Artists Names), and its successful efforts to include such a wide variety of professional services in its pages.—B.S-A. Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconogra- phy: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Ed. Helene E. Roberts. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 2 vols. 1120p. il. $250 (ISBN 1-57958-009-2). LC 98- 163033. In her introduction to this two-volume work on major themes prevalent in works of art, editor Helene Roberts makes an important practical point: “Without a knowledge of the many narratives from mythology, religion and literature that animate the world’s art, much of that art is closed to modern interpretation and understanding” (paraphrased from p. vii). Roberts and her forty-one contributors have provided a useful means to access the messages underlying the images, folktales, plays, fables, myths, poetry, and other forms of artistic representation that cross many culture and centuries. The main part of the encyclopedia con- sists of an alphabetical list of approxi- mately 120 broad themes, such as aban- donment, madness, witchcraft, melan- choly, etc. Each of these essays discusses a selected group of narratives illustrative of the topic: Oedipus, Moses, and found- ling hospitals are among the major nar- ratives found in the essay on abandon- ment for example. A list of selected works of art and further readings completes the entry. In addition, there are seven indexes that enable the reader to find specific mythological, historical, and Judeo-Chris- tian personages, places, and concepts ref- erenced to the Bible, the Koran, and other religious texts, non-Western cultures, re- ligions and mythologies, artists, authors, composers, filmmakers, and literary texts, and a subject index (called “Other Names and Terms”), all of which refer back to the essays. Illustrations are limited to one full- page black-and-white image per essay. This is a refreshing approach to a sub- ject that is often presented in a single al- phabet, without the benefit of the the- matic arrangement that will satisfy the contextual requirements essential to iconographic interpretation and under- standing. A general reading list in the first volume extends to six double-columned pages and is not duplicated in the read- ings cited in each chapter. The Roberts encyclopedia aims to dis- tinguish itself from this thicket of sources by using a comparative method to de- scribe the use of iconography in art and to organize itself from the point of view of the actions, situations, and concepts that have been selected for the essays (p. viii). In so doing, it recommends itself as a first step when beginning an icono- graphic search, in the knowledge that any further steps can be traced through the reading list and the works of art. This lat- ter feature is especially welcome but could have been better exploited if there had been a key devised from the list of artworks to the bibliographic sources in which it is expected they can be found.— B.S-A. GATF Encyclopedia of Graphic Commu- nications. Eds. Richard M. and Frank J. Romano. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1998. xxxviii, 945p. il. $350 (ISBN 0-13-096422-0). LC 98- 008329. Selected Reference Books 185 GATF, the Graphic Arts Technical Foun- dation, has long been active in providing information to professionals in the graphic communications industries through publications, seminars, and elec- tronic media. With publication of the GATF Encyclopedia of Graphic Communica- tions, GATF has broadened its audience with information useful to a more gen- eral public without neglecting the special- ist. This is a wonderful work with com- prehensible entries on just about everything related to graphic communi- cations. The opening essay entitled, “The Story of Print: The First 500 Years,” provides a useful overview. The main body of the encyclopedia consists of 10,000 terms and more than 650 illustrations related to ev- ery aspect of visual communications: print to desktop publishing, photography, computers and networking, and more. Entries include technical terms, compo- nents, processes, equipment related to visual communications, and biographical entries for those individuals who contrib- uted to the development of visual com- munications through invention. Nice ad- ditions include the history of the alpha- bet and a 16-page color insert on the color spectrum and color reproduction. The well-written and concise entries are arranged alphabetically and are ex- tensively cross-referenced by bolded terms. Most of the entries are a few lines; however, broader topics such as print, photography, and type and typography receive fuller treatment. Generally, entries for broader topics will include a history of the topic followed by information that relates to the medium in a professional setting. For example, the section on type and typography begins with a history of type through desktop publishing fol- lowed by information on characters of type and letter elements such as serif and sans serif and how they were used in the industry. A time line of communications history and a bibliography follow the main body. This work is useful for professionals involved in publishing, printing, or graphic arts and for the general public with interest in any aspect of visual commu- nications. Highly recommended.—N.E.F. Maliszewski-Pickart, Margaret. Architec- ture and Ornament: An Illustrated Dic- tionary. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998. 198p. il. $35 (ISBN 0-7864-0383- 7). LC 97-33112. The perennial complaint about dictionar- ies is that one has to know how a word is spelled in order to look it up. The same holds true with dictionaries of architec- ture; for example, to find out what the space surrounding an arch is called or what terms differentiate among various masonry bonding patterns, one often ig- nores the alphabetical arrangement of entries and, instead, flips through a dic- tionary in the hope of seeing the desired architectural form or diagram revealed in the illustrations. This small, but useful, volume acts as a kind of reverse dictionary to the most- often-used standard sources, such as those by Cyril M. Harris, for example, his Dictionary of Architecture and Construction (2d ed. 1993. Guide BF242), Historic Archi- tecture Sourcebook (1977, and its reprint title, Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Ar- chitecture, 1983. Guide BF245). It presents labeled drawings and photographs of building components and architectural elements in broad categories, such as win- dows and doors, walls, roofs, columns, stairs, ornament and moldings, arches, vaults, and domes so that, turning to the walls section, one has only to look at the illustrations in that section (grouped many or one to a page depending on the nature of the structure) to find brick and stone bonding patterns named and com- paratively illustrated, or at the section on arches to see a spandrel identified in situ. Actual definitions follow in a single dic- tionary section where the terms are ar- ranged alphabetically. The ornament and moldings section presents a variety of patterns and theme variations, making it useful to designers who wish to select a motif in addition to being able to identify one known already. 186 College & Research Libraries March 1999 Finally an appendix, “Describing Archi- tecture,” gives examples of various build- ing types in narrative form that encom- pass a recommended checklist of points necessary to describe a building accu- rately. A bibliography follows. This book will be useful to architects, historians, preservationists, students, and interested lay public to identify, as well as to learn, architectural terms used pri- marily in the context of American archi- tecture and its historical forms.—B. S-A. Music Temperley, Nicholas. The Hymn Tune In- dex: A Census of English-Language Hymn Tunes in Printed Sources from 1535 to 1820. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1998. 4 vols. $550 (ISBN 0-19-311150-0). LC 97- 25758. This work aims to present a scholarly or- ganization and treatment of hymns, as well as to provide a practical means of accessing information about them in a variety of ways. Its subject is British and American hymns and metrical psalm tunes published before 1820. A four-volume work, the tune census comprises volumes three and four with entries for 17,424 tunes. Each entry con- tains a tune number (assigned in numeric sequence), the tune coded in alpha/nu- meric form for identification, the tune meter, the keys in which the tune has been published, and a tune-setting code. This last code indicates the number of voices for which the tune has been written and the placement of the voice that carries the tune and thus serves as the basis for the coding. In addition to these musical at- tributes, each entry contains the author ’s or editor ’s name, any additional author or editor source attribution, the code for the text incipit, the tune’s name or head- ing by which it is known, the year of pub- lication, and a letter code indicating the country or region of publication. For any of this information, italic type is used if information is not taken from the item, but is being supplied by the author. To access the information in the cen- sus entries, a number of indexes are pro- vided in volume two. The “Index of Tunes by Musical Incipit” contains the coded tunes listed in order by numeric code. Using this index requires the ability to hum or sing the tune’s pitches and to es- tablish a pitch center (identified as “1”). Every other pitch is then coded into num- bers relative to the distance from “1.” The “Index of Tunes by Name” points to an entry in the tune index, but if the same name has been given to more than one tune, the coded tune Incipit for each en- try is given to facilitate identification. The “Index of Tunes by Composer” contains the last names of the composers or edi- tors and refers to entry numbers, as do entries in the “Index of Tunes by Text Incipit.” The last index contains codes listed in alphabetic order, the letters of which are formed from the first letters of each word in the first line of text (e.g., OMSWMT = “O my soul, what means this sadness”). “Tunes for Unusual Text Metres” (the most common being lines with 8 or 6 beats, or combination thereof) completes the indexes. Volume One provides the scholarly ap- paratus detailing the state of research in the field, historical and technical intro- ductions, and a bibliography of sources. A concordance to three standard hymn collections is provided. Despite the chal- lenging appearances of many of the codes resulting from their machine-readable source, this volume will meet the infor- mation needs in the area of hymn identi- fication and study.—E.D. Political Science Burg, David F. Encyclopedia of Student and Youth Movements. New York: Facts on File, 1998. 254p. il. $50 (ISBN 0-8160- 3375-7). LC 97-32408. This informative, if selective, encyclope- dia provides an overview of international youth movements and student groups from the Middle Ages to the present day. Rather than an exhaustive approach, the author acknowledges that he has neces- sarily had to exclude more than he has included. His aim has been to describe groups that “represent the most signifi- Selected Reference Books 187 cant of those movements and events, while also revealing their diversity” (Pref.). Arranged alphabetically, the brief, clearly written entries include move- ments, groups, and significant individu- als as diverse as Joan of Arc and Abbie Hoffman. Cross-references to related top- ics as well as bibliographic sources at the end of some entries are useful aids. Black- and-white photographs throughout the text both amplify and illustrate the pro- tests and events being described. An ex- tensive bibliography at the end of the volume provides sources for further study. Although the index is useful for locating a specific group or individual, it lacks geographic access points that would list youth movements and groups by country. Though it might have been more com- prehensive in its coverage, especially of the extent of involvement of American students in protests of the late 1960s, this well-researched encyclopedia will be for value to undergraduates and others studying student movements and their impact on political, social, and cultural de- velopment.—A.M. A Historical Guide to the U.S. Govern- ment. Ed. George Kurian. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1998. 741p. il. $75 (ISBN 0-19-510230-4). LC 97-47442. This encyclopedia is “a composite profile of the U.S. government through a history of the various departments and agencies that constitute it” (Pref.). It has four- to five-page signed articles on general top- ics, each with a fairly substantial bibliog- raphy ( “Civil Service,” “Statistical Infor- mation,” etc.), as well as specific agencies. The preface states that the editor did not include the judiciary branch, but impor- tant court decisions are sometimes cited in the bibliographies and there is an en- try on the “Supreme Court Decisions on the Presidency,” though not on the Su- preme Court itself. The volume includes a convenient ap- pendix of some of the basic documents relating to government administration, such as the Hatch Act and the Freedom of Information Act. There is a detailed and useful index. Despite its title, it does not have the historical scope of Government Agencies, compiled by Donald R. Whitnah (1983. Guide CJ120). There are no separate en- tries for the Children’s Bureau, the Job Corps, or the Works Progress Adminis- tration (all included in the earlier book), though there are scattered references to these agencies in the index. The bibliog- raphies in the newer volume are fuller, but the Greenwood volume occasionally lists primary sources. Any library sup- porting programs in American history will need both volumes.—M.C. Women’s Studies Amico, Eleanor B. Reader ’s Guide to Women’s Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 732p. $125 (ISBN 1-88- 49657-7). LC 98-138939. This is an excellent starting point for femi- nist research. Some 500 topics are ad- dressed, including individuals, historical events, social movements, feminist theory, and general topics of current in- terest. Each entry provides a list of rec- ommended books, followed by a discus- sion of the relative merits of each work. The entries are well written and long enough to provide useful information. Although this work is clearly intended for the generalist or beginning researcher and cites only books in English, it will be in- dispensable in all reference collections. Entries are arranged alphabetically (Aboriginal Women to Zaharias, Mildred “Babe” Didrikson). A thematic list groups topics into categories (e.g., Amazons, Ancient Classical World, Ancient Near East, Hatshepsut, Prehistory, Hunting- gathering cultures, Hypatia and early philosophers, Matriarchal theory, Sappho), and there is a subject index. The Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies is highly recommended. We look forward to an update.—S.S.W. Kimball, Michelle R., and Barbara R. von Schlegell. Muslim Women through- 188 College & Research Libraries March 1999 out the World: A Bibliography. Boulder, London: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 307p. il. $75 (ISBN 1-55587-680-3). LC 96-25718. This is a disappointing bibliography on a subject for which there is considerable interest and demand. The bulk of the bib- liography (some 2,905 citations) is ar- ranged alphabetically by author with no annotations. It focuses primarily on “scholarly studies in English written in this century through 1995, with some works of fiction, early travel accounts, popular publications and works written by practicing Muslims which would be called ‘devotional’” (Pref.). There is a small section (53 citations) of recom- mended books and articles. The author arrangement would be fine if there were an adequate index, but the index is seriously flawed. Many articles are not listed in the subject index at all. For example, “Women and Shi’ism in Iran” by Mina Modares (m/f 5-6:61-8) was not listed under Shi’ism, Iran, or Women. Articles that have been indexed are al- most as difficult to find. For example, Marchia Hermansen’s “The Female Hero in the Islamic Religious Tradition” (An- nual Review of Women in World Religions 2:111–43) does not appear under either religion, hero, or heroine but, instead, under Islam—the female hero in (filing alphabetically after “t” for “the”). It ap- pears that most of the indexing is based on words in the title of the article, rather than upon any sort of understanding of the subject of the book or article. This kind of sloppy indexing is inexcusable at a time when we turn to printed bibliographies for the sort of access we cannot get from online sources. The Index Islamicus, Women’s Resources International, and KVINNSAM all provide better access and indexing of materials relating to Islamic women. This bibliography is useful for verification of older material (when you have the author ’s name) and does pro- vide adequate subject access for most ar- ticles. However, the danger is that a reader might assume comprehensive cov- erage and not search the other sources.— S.S.W. Women in the Third World: An Encyclo- pedia of Contemporary Issues. Ed. Nelly P. Stromquist. New York: Gar- land, 1998. 683p. Garland Reference Library of Social Science, 760. $135 (ISBN 0-815301502). LC 98-14689. The editor and contributors of Women in the Third World set for themselves the task of providing a feminist perspective on issues dealing with socioeconomic devel- opment in third-world countries. Specifi- cally, they wanted to gather in one vol- ume relevant information on existing, as well as emerging, issues pertaining to women in the developing countries and to bring a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of these issues. The more than sixty articles in the en- cyclopedia are grouped into ten sections. One section deals with conceptual and theoretical issues; several sections docu- ment the situation of women in political, legal, demographic, social, and economic contexts; and still others deal with women and the environment, to explore topics that prepare for and promote change. Geographical entries comprise the last section. The essays within the sections present up-to-date information, within a feminist framework, on both traditional and well-identified issues, as well as on emerging issues such as domestic and sexual violence, creation of women- friendly cities, AIDS, and the gender con- sequences of ecological deterioration and of war. All essays follow a set of uniform pa- rameters, but because the authors come from both the First and the Third Worlds and were drawn not only from the ranks of established scholars, but also include well-known activists and new figures in feminist literature, there are variations in approach and presentation. Thus, entries run the gamut from syntheses of the lit- erature, to interpretations of current events, to advocacy of special issues. Quality was safeguarded through a rig- orous process of peer review. The content is enriched with bibliographies, charts, and statistics. There are an annotated bib- liography for the entire encyclopedia, an Selected Reference Books 189 index, and several appendixes containing the texts of several key instruments of im- portance to women. This is a work of high quality and broad scope, but it is more than an exer- cise in meticulous fact-gathering and good organization. The work is a com- mitment to the cause of women, for the ultimate goal of the compilers was to pro- mote an understanding of the condition of women across different settings and countries, to underscore the pervasive reach of gender ideology, to demonstrate the relation between gender and power, and to provide insights that might lead to a proper conceptualization, and even- tual solution, of the problems encountered by women in the Third World.—O.dC. History Reader’s Guide to American History. Ed. Peter J. Parish. London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. 880p. $103 (ISBN 1-884964-22-2). LC 98-101338. Reference librarians are familiar with the scene: a student comes to the desk want- ing a general work on some aspect of American history. The choice has usually been to show him hundreds and hun- dreds of titles under United States—His- tory or the outdated Harvard Guide to American History (Guide DB13). The recent Guide to Historical Literature, sponsored by the American Historical Association (Mary Beth Norton, editor. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1995. 2v), has helped but is too general to be useful in many cases. The Reader ’s Guide to American History should offer relief. It is an encyclopedia analyzing the most significant books written on some 600 topics in American history. It includes events, individuals, and themes (though I was surprised to find no entry on the Frontier Thesis) concentrating on politi- cal, social, and economic history. It should be useful to both the beginning history student trying, for instance, to negotiate through the vast number of books writ- ten on the Civil War and the more ad- vanced student starting research on a spe- cific topic. This volume does not, and does not pretend to, offer one-stop shopping. It does not list reference works, primary sources, or, for the most part, periodical articles. But it does offer an invaluable service by summarizing and evaluating the major works in American history clearly and understandably.—M.C. New Editions and Supplements Il Vocabolario Treccani (Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Fondata da Giovanni Trecanni, 1997. 5v. and CD- ROM disc and Guide. L2289000) is the re- vised and enlarged edition of Il Vocabolario della Lingua Italiana (1987. Guide AC527). Now including 160,000 entries for words accompanied by hundreds of illustra- tions, the emphasis is on living language and the dictionary actively adds new words and meanings. The dictionary is not meant to double as an encyclopedia, and proper names of people are excluded unless they have become part of common vocabulary. A typical entry is composed of part of speech, word origin, sample conjugation for a verb, meanings of the word, and examples of usage, which are often quotations from classic authors such as Manzoni and Ariosto. The dictionary is visually appealing offering beautiful plates, excellent drawings and the C. Plantin typeface for the text. The set in- cludes a CD disc that offers the possibil- ity of compiling one’s own personal dic- tionary.—J.S. The Foundation Center has revised several of its publications. The National Guide to Funding in Arts and Cultures by Elizabeth H. Rich is in its fifth edition (New York: Foundation Center, 1998. 1409p. $145 paper) and gives information for 4,618 grant-making foundations, 342 direct corporate-giving programs, 277 public charities, and 1,100 descriptions of recently awarded grants. Especially en- riched is the index with more subject and geographical terms. In the revision of the Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing by Jane C. Geever (New York: 1997. 213p. $20 paper; 1st ed. 1993), there is an interesting section on what should go into the proposal. 190 College & Research Libraries March 1999 Joseph Gibaldi has revised the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Pub- lishing (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998. 343p. $25.00; 1st ed. 1985, comp. Walter Achert and Gibaldi, Guide AA317) to “establish ground rules and provide practical advice for schol- ars—from advanced undergraduates to authors preparing their first book for pub- lication. Of especial interest are the chap- ters on legal issues in scholarly publish- ing, citing electronic publications, stan- dard abbreviations. The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, also by Gibaldi (4th ed. 1997. 293p. $20.00 paper), is in- tended primarily for undergraduates. Another style manual received revi- sion: Where Credit Is Due: A Guide to Proper Citing of Sources, Print and Nonprint by Nancy E. Shields (Lanham, Md.: Scare- crow, 1997. 189p. $32.50; 1st ed. 1985. 252p) is addressed to the beginning stu- dent. It includes information on citing nonprint material such as microscope slides, radio broadcasts, telephone/con- ference calls. There also is a glossary of terms in common use today, such as In- ternet, URL, reel to reel, slash, and a list of standard abbreviations. British Directories: A Bibliography and Guide to Directories Published in England and Wales (1850–1950) and Scotland (1773– 1950), compiled by Gareth Shaw and Allison Tipper, is in a second edition (New York: Mansell, 1997. 459p. il., maps $150) (see Guide AL1 for details on the first edition, 1989, and also on its relationship to other bibliographies of British directo- ries). This bibliography adds directories of specific trades, provides comprehen- sive coverage of all Scottish directories prior to 1950, reports holdings of 120 li- brary collections that have been visited, and offers revised indexes arranged by publisher, place, and subject. There is a new chapter on the use of directory ma- terial in historical studies and a list of corrections and additions received since the first edition. Shaw and Tim Coles have begun a new work, Guide to European Town Directories, following the same pat- tern (Aldershot, Hants Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate). Volume one covers towns in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries (1997. 327p. $93.95), and volume two will focus on France, the Low Countries, Italy, Portu- gal, and Spain. The third edition of Literary Research Guide: An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies, by James L. Harner, maintains the same wealth of information (New York: MLA, 1998. $19.75; 2d ed. 1993, Guide BE396, formerly subtitled A Guide to Reference Sources for the Study of Literatures in En- glish and Related Topics) and has “deleted 47 entries, added 60, revised 560 result- ing in an edition that includes 1,027 en- tries, refers to 1,331 additional books, ar- ticles and electronic resources in annota- tions and headnotes and cites 752 re- views” (Pref. to 3rd ed.). Harner goes on to say that although he has cited “URLs for Internet sites related to printed works, databases and online library catalogs. I have admitted a few resources that exist only as World Wide Web sites. As I write (April 1997) the Web is too unstructured, unregulated and unstable to offer many library reference sources of value.” He does, however, offer his own Web site for revisions and additions: http://www. english.tamu.edu/pubs/lrg. The Wing Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries (New York: MLA, 1972–1998. 4v. Guide AA683) is now complete with the publication of volume four, Indexes (1998. 1078p. $250). This pro- vides the “Index of Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers,” and a “Chronological Index of Non-London Publications.” The headnotes for the printers were complied by Carolyn W. Nelson and Malcolm Seccombe and are, in many cases, very brief (e.g., dates and address, but with a reference to the source). The printer ’s name is followed by a chronological list- ing of titles of works with Wing numbers. Covering from “A Band Apart Produc- tions” to “Zoom Lens,” Anthony Slide has updated his American Film Industry (1988. Selected Reference Books 191 Guide BH254) and retitled it New Histori- cal Dictionary of the American Film Indus- try (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 1998. 266p. $55). Featuring about 200 new entries (e.g., Agents, Akeley Pancake Camera, Body Building in the Cinema, Alcohol- ism), he has dropped some (e.g., anima- tion, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films) and revised others (e.g. Blacks in American film, Columbia Pic- tures). The entries still feature short bib- liographies and references to primary re- sources that now include holdings of sev- eral additional libraries. Louise Spain’s Dance on Camera: A Guide to Dance Films and Videos (Lanhan, Md. : Scarecrow, 1998. 238p. $65) is the revised edition of Dance Film and Video Guide by Deirdre Towers (1991. Guide BH149) and offers a title listing of 1,400 films giving information such as credits, source, abstract, and distributors. The in- dex adds awards, categories, excerpts, and series titles. Volume One of Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies of the Formation of a Dis- cipline (1995) covered historians from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Volume Two (New York: Garland, 1998. 465p. $95. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 2071), edited by Helen Damico, “provides thirty-two accounts of men and women from the 16th century to the 20th who developed medieval phi- lology and literature into a profession” (Pref.). Essays cover figures such as the Grimm brothers, C. S. Lewis, Rosemary Woolf, and Ramon Menendez Pidal, and also includes a selective primary and sec- ondary bibliography. The volume ends with a good subject index. Volume three will deal with scholars of medieval phi- losophy, art, and music. Who’s Who in British History appeared in volumes covering certain periods, such as Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Late Medieval, Early Hanoverian (1988–1997. Guide DC298). These have all been merged into one alphabet, Who’s Who in British History: Beginnings to 1901, Geoffrey Treasure, general editor (London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 2v. 1392p. $270.00), but with a chronological list of entries. Also, there are indexes by name and by cat- egory, for example, philosophers, politi- cians and royal advisors, newspaper pro- prietors and publishers, religious women, sports and games figures. Further read- ing concludes each entry, and there is a general reading list by period. According to the preface of the Dictio- nary of Irish Biography by Henry Boylan, the third edition (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1998. 461p $35.; 2d ed. 1988, Guide AH255) corrects minor errors from the earlier edition and adds new entries. The “work has been completely rede- signed and reformatted and is illustrated for the first time.” Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehen- sive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, compiled by Everett Jenkins (1996) cov- ered the period from 1400 to 1865. Jenkins has extended the dates with Pan-African Chronology II for 1865 to 1915 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998. 572p. $65). The New Encyclopedia of the American West, edited by Howard R. Lamar (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Pr., 1998. 1324p. $60) is a revision of Lamar ’s Reader’s En- cyclopedia of the American West (1977. Guide DB174). The number of contributors has grown to about 300, more individuals are treated, especially writers, the bibliogra- phies and statistics are updated, and there is a new index by name of person. Also new is the Timeline of the American West 40,000 BC–1998. Herman C. Kemp has expanded his Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographies on Indonesia (1990. Guide AA78) to include all the countries of Southeast Asia, Bibliogra- phies on Southeast Asia (Leiden: KITLV Pr., 1998. 1128p. $126.50. Bibliographical Se- ries 22), with good coverage through 1996 and a few entries from 1997. The 5,380 en- tries are arranged by subject, and the volume concludes with author/subject/title indexes. Finally, the new edition of the gazet- teer has arrived: Columbia Gazetteer of the World, edited by Saul B. Cohen (New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1998. 3v. 3578p. $750), formerly called Columbia Lippincott 192 College & Research Libraries March 1999 Gazetteer of the World (1962. Guide CL85) because it was based on Lippincott’s Pro- nouncing Gazetteer (1855, rev. 1905). Five years in the making, almost every entry has been changed and there are 3,000 new ones. The United States is well covered with 40,000 entries for every incorporated and many unincorporated places, every county, some special-purpose sites, and physical features. But other areas of the world are thoroughly addressed (e.g., 6,048 entries for Russia, 2,007 for Greece, 69 for Malta). The information given is very full with much reliance on official sources. As is true of the earlier edition, there are no maps. An electronic version is planned for fal1 of 1999. Ny litteratur om kvinnor, the interna- tional women’s studies bibliography from Gothenburg University Library, is avail- able as a free database: KVINNSAM (http://www.libris.kb.se/english/ special.database.DAKS.html) and super- sedes the printed volumes from 1981 to the present, with more than 60,000 refer- ences books, journals, journal articles, book chapters, scholarly papers, booklets, and research reports.—S.S.W.