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between users and creators of information; 
a British professor describes the develop­
ment of copyright guidelines by the Joint 
Information Systems Committees (JISC) in 
British higher education; and a British 
publishing consultant stresses the need for 
librarians and information providers to 
work together to create agreements rather 
than rely on copyright as it is created by 
the software and entertainment industries. 

The electronic publishing section 
opens with a description of the creation 
and development of the electronic publi­
cation Journal of High Energy Physics. It 
concludes with an essay emphasizing the 
need for authors, readers, libraries, and 
referees to all be involved in marketing 
strategies for electronic publications in 
order to find “the right model for jour­
nals publishing in the 21st century.”

 The first practical case study describes 
the development of the British National 
Electronic Library for Health (NeLH) de­
signed to provide information to both 
health professionals and their patients. A 
chapter on the Lombard Interuniversity 
Consortium for Automated Processing 
(CILEA) explains how the group shares 
subscription costs by loading electronic 
journals on a shared server. “The Italian 
Digital Library Project (Biblioteca Telematica 
Italiana)” describes how a digital library 
will be built “of texts highly representa­
tive of the Italian cultural tradition from 
the Middle Ages to the 19th century.“

 The need for standards and protocols 
to ensure accurate, accessible resources is 
addressed in the fourth section with an 
essay that examines the use of two inter­
national standards—the Search and Re­
trieve Protocol (ISO 29350) and the Inter­
library Loan Protocol (ISO 10160/1). 
“Metadata and Metatag: The Indexer be­
tween Author and Reader” is about im­
portant metadata projects in progress and 
the role of the cataloger as a “third party” 
between author and reader. “A Standard 
for the Legal Deposit of On-Line Publica­
tions” is concerned with the need to en­
sure continued access to electronic publi­
cations as technology and format con­
tinue to change.

 “Projects” includes “Co-operation 
among University Library Organizations 
in Italy,” explaining the need for im­
proved cooperative efforts among Italian 
university libraries; a chapter on Sistema 
Biomedico Lombardo (SBBL), composed 
of sixteen libraries that provide health 
information to at least eighty Lombard 
institutions through the Internet; and an 
abstract for a presentation on the use of 
ISSN-based identifiers.

  “Document Delivery as an Alterna­
tive to Subscription” begins the section 
on electronic document delivery. “The 
Digital Future—Realities and Fantasy— 
A View from Marketing” concludes that 
the transition from printed resources to 
the electronic library is not inevitable and, 
in fact, is progressing more slowly than 
has been predicted. “Electronic Document 
Delivery: New Tools and Opportunities” 
focuses on the importance of the use of 
standards for successful document deliv­
ery, and the final presentation, “Electronic 
Document Delivery—The Corporate 
Competitive Edge,” consists only of the 
slides used by the presenter; the text was 
not available for publication.

 This book is an interesting review of 
British and Italian library cooperation. It 
describes a number of digital library 
projects that are either under way or com­
pleted in both countries, as well as several 
projects in other parts of the world. Con­
ference presenters were reasonably bal­
anced between creators and disseminators 
of electronic information. The main draw­
back, as is true for most proceedings even 
in an increasingly digital age, is that those 
interested in particular projects under de­
velopment at the time of presentation will 
have to go elsewhere to find current infor­
mation on them. However, that caveat is 
minor compared to the overall advantage 
of expanding one’s familiarity with digi­
tal library development beyond one’s own 
region or even country.—Ann Hamilton, 
Georgia Southern University. 

The Future of Cataloging: Insights from the 
Lubetzky Symposium. Eds. Tschera 
Harkness Connell and Robert L. Max­



570 College & Research Libraries November 2000 

well. Chicago: ALA, 2000. 184p. $65 
paper (ISBN 0-8389-0778-4). LC 
99-87247. 

Although I had received a number of 
other suggestions for books to take with 
me, on a recent vacation to the beach, I 
chose to bring this cataloging book. I do 
love cataloging. It is fun, challenging, and 
rewarding, but I can live without it for a 
week, especially if I am on vacation. How­
ever, I knew that I had a book review I 
needed to write and vacation just seemed 
to be the only time available. In a way, I 
pitied the authors. They would have to 
hold my attention against the raging sea, 
the deep and soft sand, and the smells of 
salt air and seafood. It was almost unfair. 
Or so I thought until I started reading.

 This book contains fourteen papers 
originally presented at a symposium in 
honor of Seymour Lubetzky held ten days 
before his one hundredth birthday. Despite 
the book’s title, the papers actually cover 
the history, present concerns, and future 
of cataloging. In fact, because the majority 
of the papers do not deal with the future, I 
found the title to be inaccurate and mis­
leading. However, the content is excellent. 
For the most part, the papers are clear, con­

cise, and written in nontechnical language. 
This book is not written in “catalogerese.” 
Instead, it discusses cataloging concepts 
and issues in terms that any librarian and 
most patrons could understand.

 The first part of the book contains 
three papers that focus on the history of 
cataloging concepts and especially on the 
contributions of Seymour Lubetzky. I 
found the first two papers by Seymour 
Lubetzky, in collaboration with Elaine 
Svenonius and Michael Gorman, respec­
tively, to be excellent overviews. After 
cataloging for almost ten years, I finally 
learned how and why the cataloging rules 
were originally conceived and developed. 
These two chapters should be read by 
every cataloging student and probably by 
many experienced catalogers.

 The second part of the book consists of 
five papers on current thinking in catalog­
ing, most of which also include historical 
information that relate current develop­
ments to Lubetzky’s guiding principles. Of 
these principles, the one that receives the 
most attention is his concept of the “work.” 
The “work” is not a distinct bibliographic 
entity but, rather, the intellectual work 
behind the bibliographic entity. Lubetzky 

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felt that all versions of a “work” should be 
linked so that if a patron searched one ver­
sion, he or she would automatically find 
all the others available in the catalog. This 
is what we attempt to accomplish through 
the use of uniform titles and other special­
ized catalog entries. Martha M. Yee’s pa­
per addressing these linkages is especially 
interesting and well conceived. She has 
great ideas about how to group informa­
tion in a catalog so that the user can see 
the relationships, and she includes excel­
lent examples to illustrate these ideas. Also 
especially noteworthy are Allyson 
Carlyle’s paper on indexes of search results 
and their organization and Michael 
Carpenter’s paper on the online catalog 
display of searches in which he argues for 
a more Web-type display, employing dif­
ferent fonts, etc., for helping the user see 
the various relationships.

 The last part of the book contains six 
papers on the future of cataloging. I found 
this to be the most enjoyable section of the 
book. The chapters are concise and yet 
packed with information. Although one 
does not find the answers to the catalog­
ing problems of the future here, one does 
find many thought-provoking discussions 
on the future of cataloging. Topics covered 

Index to advertisers 
ACRL 544, 565, 566 
AIAA 480, 545 
Archival Products 489 
CHOICE 565, 573 
EBSCO cover 4 
Elsevier Science 493, 495, 497 
Endocrine Society 554 
Faxon/Rowecom 490 
Getty Trust 574 
Greenwood Publishing 499 
Grove’s Dictionaries cover 3 
Lexis-Nexis 479 
Library Technologies 483 
M. Moleiro 509 
OCLC 485 
PNAS 535 
Primary Source Microfilm cover 2 
Salem Press 534 
Theatre Research Data Group 524 

include: putting the URLs in the authority 
file; providing access to “virtual collec­
tions”; providing a subject structure to the 
Web; and revising AACR2. The paper by 
Maurice J. Freedman on the philosophy of 
cataloging was especially insightful and 
clearly written. John D. Byrum Jr’s paper, 
which offers some important thoughts on 
certain cataloging rules that should be re­
vised, and Marcia J. Bates’s paper on the 
Web were especially stimulating, and both 
included many pertinent examples.

 Overall, I was quite pleased with this 
book. I found it to be well conceived, 
clearly written, and thought provoking. 
In fact, I was musing over the concepts 
so much that I even found myself asking 
my friends questions as we lay together 
on the beach. “How would you want an 
index of a famous author ordered?” 
“Should the catalog display the author’s 
name as an added entry differently from 
his name as a main entry in the index?” 
Reading this book really made me aware 
of the philosophical underpinnings of 
many cataloging concepts and made me 
question some of the cataloging rules that 
I have always just accepted. It made me 
question and it made me think, and that’s 
always good.

 I’m going back to the beach later this 
summer. I’ll probably bring a novel this 
time. I just hope it’s as thought provok­
ing as this book.—Isabel del Carmen 
Quintana, Harvard University. 

Hannah, Stan A., and Michael H. Har-
ris. Inventing the Future: Information 
Services for a New Millennium. Stam­
ford, Conn.: Ablex, 1999. 170p. $54.50 
cloth (ISBN 1-56750-450-7); $24.95 pa­
per (ISBN 1-56750-451-5). LC99-28306. 

Inventing the Future, sequel to Into the Fu-
ture by the same authors, is a compact 
book that reads as a call to arms for li­
brarians—who wish to stay relevant—to 
change the way they approach their work. 
The authors offer no “utopian fantasies”; 
instead, they assume a world where print 
and paper will exist but argue that infor­
mation technology will be the core tech­
nology in the library’s future. The authors