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•The AACR2 Workbook for East Asian Publications ,edited by Thomas H. Lee and Beatrice Chang Ohta and prepared by the Association for Asian Studies’ Committee on East Asian Libraries (March 1983), will help you understand the cataloging rules for this type of material. Copies may be ordered for $3 (prepayment required) from the Acquisitions Department, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706.

• Accounting for Librarians and Other Not-for- Profit Managers, by G. Stevenson Smith (470 pages, 1983), will help those who have entered a management position for the first time and somehow have to balance the budget. Written as a textbook with practice exercises, the book is nonetheless fairly easy reading and provides numerous relevant examples. Copies are $50 from ALA Publishing, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago,TL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0385-1.

• Ballistic Missile Defense, edited by Ashton B. Carter and David N. Schwartz (455 pages, January 1984), examines the strategic, technological, and political issues raised by nuclear defensive weapons. This study, jointly sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, includes chapters on the relationship of missile defense to nuclear strategy; the potential applications of current and future technologies; and the views on missile defense in the Soviet Union and among the smaller nuclear powers. A cloth copy may be ordered for $32.95 (plus $2 postage) from the Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-2188. ISBN 0-8157-1312-6.

•A Bibliography of the Laws and Resolves of the Massachusetts Bay, 1642-1780, compiled by John D. Cushing (400 + pages, 1983), lists the entire legislative output of the several Massachusetts Bay governments, as well as the relevant acts of the British Parliament and the Continental Congresses. The volume also includes a large number of legislative bills, orders, proclamations, abstracts, and putative printings; all known issues of three Massachusetts Provincial Congresses and those of the State of Massachusetts Bay; many unrecorded variant or separate printings; and numerous bibliographical oddities long unnoticed. Copies may be ordered for $49.50 from Michael Glazier, Inc., 1723 Delaware Ave., Wilmington, DE 19806.

• The Directory of Financial Aids for Minorities, 1984-1985, by Gail Ann Schlachter (305 pages, January 1984), provides information on special resources set aside for Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and minority groups in general. The more than 850 programs described are sponsored by both public and private organizations. Indexes identify financial aids resources by program title, sponsoring organization, geographic location, subject, and application deadline. Copies are available for $35 from ABC-Clio, Riviera Campus, 2040 A.P.S., Box 4397, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. ISBN 0-87436-371-3.

• The Encyclopedia of Second Careers, by GeneR. Hawes (704 pages, March 1984), describes the pros and cons of more than 200 careers and lists their educational and temperamental requirements, growth, income, and entry opportunities. It also provides information that may help careerchangers start a new business or match their irîterests to a new profession. The careers listed range from the more common (bank teller, lawyer, architect) to the more specialized (EEG technician, embalmer, robotics engineer). A career in librarianship is included. Copies are $49.95 from Facts on File, 460 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. ISBN 0-87196-692-1.

• Find That Tune: An Index to Rock, Folk-Rock, Disco & Soul in Collections, compiled by William Gargan and Sue Sharma (304 pages, February 1984), provides a guide to over 4,000 songs from 203 collections of sheet music. Its five indexes are collections, song titles, first lines, composer/lyricist, and performer. Copies may be ordered for $39.95, plus postage and handling, from Neal-Schuman Publishers, 23 Cornelia St., New York, NY 10014. ISBN 0-918212-70-7.

• A Handbook of Latin American & Caribbean National Archives, by Ann K. Nauman (127 pages, 1984), is designed for the first-time user of archival collections in Mexico, Central and South America, the Outer Islands, and the Caribbean nations. Entries include the address of the archive, the director’s name, open hours, a brief history and summary of holdings, catalogs, available services, and requirements and restrictions. It may be ordered for $9.50 from Blaine-Ethridge Books, 13977 Penrod Street, Detroit, MI 48223. ISBN 0-87917- 088-3.

• Interlibrary Loan Policies Directory, by LeslieR. Morris and Patsy Fowler Bräutigam (448 pages, 2d ed., 1984), lists the policies of 830 public, academic, and special libraries in the U.S. Along with the usual information on types of materials lent and user charges is data on average turnaround time, suspension of services over the Christmas holidays, and listings of libraries for which fees might be waived. Copies may be ordered for $27.50 from ALA Publishing, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-0393-2.

• Kister’s Atlas Buying Guide: General English-Language World Atlases Available in North America, by Kenneth F. Kister (236 pages, 1984), provides descriptive and critical information on 105 general world atlases currently available in the United States and Canada. Kister discusses selection criteria, types of maps and atlases, map and atlas trends, atlas production, map reading, and map language. Copies are $37.50 from Oryx Press, 2214 N. Central at Encanto, Phoenix, AZ 85004. ISBN 0-912700-62-9.

•The Maine Union List of Serials (4th ed., 1984) has been published by the Fogler Library, University of Maine at Orono. This edition includes 15,300 titles in 37,200 holdings statements for 71 academic, public, and special libraries in Maine. Copies are available in hard cover at $30 (plus $1.50 postage) prepaid from Fogler Library, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, ME 04469.

•The Proceedings of the First Soviet-American Library Seminar, May 5-7, 1979, Washington, D.C., edited by Jean E. Lowrie (212 pages, January 1984), are now available from ALA Publishing. The papers cover many aspects of the present Soviet Library System, which includes academic and special libraries. Copies may be ordered for $27.50 from ALA Publishing, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-8389-3290-8.

•Reference Service Standards and Policies (1984), prepared by the University of Michigan Alfred Taubman Medical Library’s Reference/Information Services Department, outlines their standards for reference service delivery and the criteria by which it might be measured. Policy guidelines are given for each of the major reference services. For a free copy, send a stamped (37$), selfaddressed number 10 business envelope to: Reference Secretary, Reference/Information Services Department, Alfred Taubman Medical Library, University of Michigan, 1135 E. Catherine St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0010.

•A 6-page Report covering all the papers pre- sented at the Acquisitions Librarians’ Conference held in November 1982 at Hartley Wintney, England, is available free from: Lesley Willoughby, Alan Armstrong & Assocs., Ltd., 2 Arkwright Road, Reading RG20SQ, England. Telex: 849937.

•Take Retter Pictures, published by Time-LifeBooks in association with Kodak, is a colorful, 104- page guide intended strictly for the beginning or amateur photographer. It may prove useful for library users as well as librarians who are suddenly called upon to provide pictures of their library’s National Library Week activities. It can be ordered for $9.95 (plus $2.23 shipping) from Time-Life Books, 541 N. Fairbanks Court, Chicago, IL 60611. ISBN 0-86706-200-2.

Received

(Selected items will be reviewed in future issues of College ò- Research Libraries).

•Information and Misinformation: An Investiga- tion of the Notions of Information, Misinformation, Informing, and Misinforming, by Christopher John Fox (Greenwood Press, 1983). Because of the ephemeral nature of “information” and the lack of satisfactory definition for the concept of information, Christopher Fox begins his book by considering the ontology of information. Fox then turns to the processes of informing and misinforming, including an investigation of the connections between informing, misinforming and truth in terms of linguistic theories of factive terms. Conclusions regarding informing and misinforming are fully extended into parallel conclusions regarding information and misinformation. Fox’s study represents a departure from the works of those scholars who attempt to explain information in terms of the probability of the occurrence of events. The interdisciplinary scope of the book will also make it appealing reading for scholars in disciplines other than library and information science.

* Online Information Retrieval in Australian Ac- ademic Libraries, by Concepcion S. Wilson (School of Librarianship, University of New South Wales, 1983), is an analysis of a questionnaire sent to Australian University and CAE libraries in 1982. The study is divided into four sections: a general survey of online information retrieval services in academic libraries; an investigation of the charging policies and promotional activities of libraries with respect to online information retrieval services; an investigation of the impact of online information retrieval services on printed A & I services; an investigation of the role of the search intermediary in online searching. The results of the author’s analysis is related to such important issues as the shielding of academic patrons from the increasingly commercial nature of the information market and the need (or otherwise) for search intermediaries in online searching with the advent of desktop computers and search-guidance software.

•As the title so explicitly states, History of Libraries: Ancient and Mediaeval, by D.N. Marshall (Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., 1983), examines the genesis, growth and development of libraries. The work is intended primarily as an introduction to the subject for those interested in the study of how human records have evolved and how they have been preserved, processed, and organized for use. It is not intended as an academic, in-depth study, but rather attempts to provoke interest and further research in an area the author finds fascinating.

•The Information Dilemma: A Critical Analysis of Information Pricing and the Fees Controversy, by Harry M. Kibirige (Greenwood Press, 1983), is an analytical overview of the ongoing revolution in data collection, processing, storage, retrieval, and distribution. Because information systems are merely esoteric abstractions unless they can be accessed, Kibirige’s nontechnical text concentrates on the interface between information systems and end-users. Some of the issues explored by Kibirige include the management of computer-based information resources, pricing information services and products, the current controversy over fee vs. free information, information marketing research, and the legal implications of accessing large information data banks. There is also a selected bibliography that offers suggestions for further reading.

•The third edition of Monique MacKee’s A Handbook of Comparative Librarianship (Clive Bingley Ltd., 1983) completely updates and revises this sourcebook for students of comparative librarianship. The book offers a convenient international compendium of sources on librarianship for national, academic and other libraries in need of documents on foreign libraries or wishing to contact active bodies or individuals in other countries. As a bibliographic working tool for further investigations, it provides a guide, under standardized headings, to the main sources on librarianship, documentation, information science, and bibliography throughout the world. The further readings section underlines the special characteristics of librarianship in different countries, and such important developments as UNISIST and NATIS are discussed.

• To Free the Mind: Libraries, Technology, and Intellectual Freedom, by Eli M. Oboler (Libraries Unlimited, 1983), is a discussion by the author of his concerns about modern information technology. He suggests that librarians must recognize the dangers as well as the benefits of adopting new technology. In interpreting the impact of high technology on librarianship, Oboler pays particular attention to the vulnerability of intellectual freedom and argues for the extension into our computer age of the humanistic philosophies innate to librarianship. Oboler examines the civil liberties implications of phenomena ranging from micrographics to communications satellites. His intent is to provoke all those who value the freedom to read, investigate and think.

• The Landscape of Literatures: Uses of Subject Collections in a University Library, by Paul Metz (ACRL Publication in Librarianship No. 43, 1983) uses data on over 55,000 books charged to over 10,000 patrons to shed light on what library materials are important to different user groups. The data may have strong impact on how funds are allocated for collection development. Crossdisciplinary use is much more extensive than would be assumed from citation studies, supporting arguments against the balkanization of library service. Metz also shows that specialists and readers from outside fields use subject literatures quite differently, suggesting that fund allocation schemes in academic libraries may encourage the building of collections that are of limited general use.

• Understanding Accreditation, by Kenneth E.Young, Charles M. Chambers and H.R. Kells & Associates (Jossey-Bass Inc., 1983), is an attempt to fill the need for a comprehensive guide to accreditation in postsecondary education. The authors provide information on goals, policies and procedures of accreditation; responsibilities and rights of institutions under review; functions of accrediting bodies; constituencies served; and problems threatening the integrity of the entire accreditation system. The book also includes recommendations for improving current practices and responding to future challenges.

•Author William Saffady, in Introduction to Automation for Librarians(ALA, 1983) attempts to provide library and information science specialists with a comprehensive survey of available computer technology in an accessible, nontechnical manner. Part one of the book explains how computers process and store information. Part two discusses those library applications for which there is specific hardware. Separate chapters cover circulation, cataloging, reference, and acquisition and serials control. The discussions are preceded by an analysis of each of these activities in order to clarify the systematization of the particular automated processes that have been introduced. The book’s intent is to be useful in library and information science courses, continuing education programs, and as a reference source for working professionals.