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• Bibliography of New Orleans Imprints., 1764-1864, by Florence M. Jumonville (760 pages, 1989), provides full bibliographic descriptions for 3,388 books, pamphlets, and ephemera from the first 100 years of printing in New Orleans. Entries are arranged chronologically, with indexes for printers, publishers, authors and titles. Location information is given for each title, and the author provides an intriguing history of early New Orleans publishing in a well-documented introduction. Copies may be ordered for $59.95 (plus $2.50 shipping) from the Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130- 2179. ISBN 0-917860-25-X.

• The Boston Theological Institute UnionList of Serials (1989 edition, microfiche) contains authoritative CONSER records for more than 10,000 theology and related serials titles held by the libraries of its member institutions, nine graduate theological schools in the Boston area. The list also contains detailed holdings statements. It is available for $27.95 from the Boston Theological Institute, Library Development Office, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138.

• The Broadside Collection of the Vermont Historical Society: A User’s Guide (14 pages, November 1989) describes the society’s ephemera collection and how it catalogs and stores the 7,500 items dating from the late 18th century to the present. Included in the guide is a list of 200 subject categories developed by the staff for filing state and local history broadsides. A computer printout of the authority file for the society’s subject filing system is also available. To obtain a copy of the guide, send $2.00 (plus $1.00 postage) to Reidun Nuquist, Librarian, Vermont Historical Society, Pavilion Building, Montpelier, VT 05602.

• Campus Strategies for Libraries and Elec- tronic Information, edited by Caroline Arms (404 pages, October 1989), has been published as part of an EDUCOM strategies series on information technology. This volume describes, through case studies written by participants, the planning and implementation of library and information systems at ten academic institutions in the United States. An emphasis has been given to information in electronic form. The academic chapters and their authors are: Northwestern University (John P. MacGowan, Karen L. Horny, Betsy Baker); Clemson University (George D. Alexander, Richard W. Meyer); University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (William Mischo, Beth Sandore, Sharon E. Clark, Michael Gorman); Brigham Young University Law Library (David A. Thomas); Georgia Institute of Technology (Miriam A. Drake); University of Southern California (Margaret L. Johnson, Peter Lyman, Philip Tompkins); Columbia University (Paula T. Kaufman); Cornell University (Jan Kennedy Olsen); Carnegie Mellon University (William Y. Arms, Thomas J. Michalak); and Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University (Nina W. Matheson, Richard E. Lucier, Robert E. Reynolds, Karen A. Butter). Contributors from OCLC and RLG and chapters covering recent technological trends and projects at other libraries supplement the case histories. Copies may be ordered for $34.95 from Digital Press, 12 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730. ISBN 1-55558- 036-X.

• Cataloging Motion Pictures and Video- recordings, by Nancy B. Olson (100 pages, December 1989), is the first in the new Minnesota AACR2 Trainers Cataloging Series and is a revision of the 1981 volume. The manual contains 40 examples in card format and on OCLC MARC format worksheets. All examples include complete descriptive cataloging using AACR2, LC subject headings, and LC and DDC classification numbers. Text from the chief source of information is shown, as is relevant information from containers and labels. Copies are available for $20.00 from Soldier Creek Press, Postal Drawer U, Lake Crys-

• Cost-Effective Technical Services: How to Track, Manage, and Justify Internal Operations, edited by Gary M. Pitkin (292 pages, August 1989), is based on the proceedings of a 1986 preconference sponsored by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services. Original papers by Gordon Shillinglaw, Malcolm Getz, and Delmus E. Williams address costing methods and applications, cost analysis and library services in the electronic age, and the superficialities of cost analysis. Eight case studies, including data from Cornell, Vanderbilt, and the University of Oregon, are included, along with an annotated bibliography. Copies may be ordered for $39.50 from Neal- Schuman Publishers, 23 Leonard St., New York, NY 10013. ISBN 1-55570-041-1.

• Critical Issues in Library Personnel Man- agement, edited by Richard Rubin (154 pages, November 1989), include contributions from twelve library and information science professionals on topics such as building job commitment among employees, collective bargaining in public libraries, employee turnover, stress in the library workplace, and managing resistance to change. These proceedings of the 29th Allerton Park Institute have also been published as the Summer 1989 issue of Library Trends. Copies may be ordered (prepaid) for $20.00 (plus $2.00 shipping) from the Publications Office, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 249 Armory Building, 505 E. Armory St., Champaign, IL 61820. ISBN 0-87845- 081-5.

• The Delaware Estuary: Rediscovering a Forgotten Resource, edited by Tracey L. Bryant and Jonathan R. Pennock (144 pages, 1988), provides a guided tour of this waterway, which extends from Trenton, New Jersey, to Cape Henlopen, Delaware. Enhanced by historical and color photographs, maps, graphs, and species identification guides, more than 50 contributors ranging from scientists to folklorists discuss the history, natural history, and politics of the Delaware Estuary. Libraries may order this oversized (13 X 11 inches) book for $15.00 (plus $1.50 postage) from the University of Delaware Marine Communications Office, 263 E. Main St., Newark, DE 19716. ISBN 0-9619792-0-8.

• Elements of Bibliography: A Simplified Approach, by Robert B. Harmon (288 pages, revised ed., 1989), is a guide to the literature of bibliography, accompanied by basic standards for compiling various types of bibliographic instruments. Most of the entries in the original edition (1981) have been revised. The two major branches of bibliography (enumerative and analytical) are covered in separate chapters, and extensive reference sources and periodicals related to the subject are reviewed. Appendices list the major bibliographical style manuals, a glossary of terms, and major bibliographic organiaztions. Copies may be ordered for $29.50 from Scarecrow Press, P.O. Box 4167, Metuchen, NJ 08840. ISBN 0-8108-2218-0.

• Employment Discrimination: A Claims Manual for Employees and Managers, by Andrew J. Maikovich and Michele D. Brown (206 pages, 1989), is designed both for the employee (who may be frustrated by a failure to understand why a decision is made) and the employer (who may need to know what preventive steps are required to defend a case). Topics include the three acts that protect individuals from employment discrimination, who is covered, exceptions from coverage, proving a case, current issues in employment law, the EEOC administrative process, and procedures for federal employees. Copies are available for $24.95 from McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640. ISBN 0- 89950-436-1.

• Federal Information Policies: The Con- gressional Initiative, by Douglas Price (79 pages, September 1989), is a summary of the proceedings of the sixth annual Forum on Federal Information Policies, conducted by the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) at the Library of Congress in March 1989. In addition to a summary prepared by Price, the publication includes the complete texts of three papers submitted for the forum by Congressman Robert E. Wise Jr., Harold C. Relyea, and Robert M. Rosenzweig. Relyea’s paper examines the constitutional provisions for the nation’s information policies and ways that Congress has provided for publishing government information. Responses to Relyea’s paper by Ralph Nader and Walter Berns are summarized. Nader contends that the availability of government information is “not very good at all,” and Berns suggests that Congress apply the Freedom of Information Act to itself as well as to the executive branch. Other forum speakers whose remarks are summarized are Nancy Kranich, John H. Gibbons, Susan K. Martin, and Anthony G. Oettinger. The summary is free and may be ordered by writing to FLICC, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.

• A Harvest Gathered: Food in the New World, prepared by Daniel J. Slive (37 pages, December 1989), is the catalog for an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library that is on display through April 1990. The primary sources displayed in this exhibit document the identification of New World foods and their procurement, preparation, and consumption as one aspect of the colonial history of the Americas. Copies are available for $4.50 from John Carter Brown Library Books, Brown University, Box 1894, Providence, RI 02912.

• Hyper Source on Multimedia/HyperMedia Technologies (256 pages, October 1989) and HyperSource on Optical Technologies (312 pages, October 1989), both by Ching-chih Chen (Simmons College), are actually bibliographies, but the author has chosen to call them “HyperSources” because they are intended to be linked to each other as well as to several other information sources. The multimedia volume includes unannotated citations on these topics: hypertext, animation, CAD, CD-I, computer graphics, CAI, digitization, expert systems, image technology, interactive videodisk, OCR, scanning, 3-D graphics, and voice recognition. Its companion volume covers CD-A, CD-I, CD-ROM, DVI, digital paper, erasable disk, interactive videodisk, optical card, optical film, videodisk, visual and image databases, and WORM. Both books are published by ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association. The cost for the multimedia volume is $27.50 (ISBN 0-8389-7371-X) and the cost for the optical technologies volume is $29.50 (ISBN 0-8389- 7359-0). Copies may be ordered from the Order Department, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

• International Handbook of Corporate Communication, by William V. Ruch (486 pages, 1989), is much more interesting than it sounds. Organized geographically by continent, the book provides much of the background and cultural rules that you might need to do business or visit there. For example, the section on Denmark gives a brief summary of the country’s history and what kind of people the Danes are (informal but polite, adaptable, close-knit families, avid readers). Several paragraphs on Danish economy include a summary of labor relations laws. A table on Danish corporate communication practices reveals that the Danes: conduct business informally and in English; expect punctuality; shake hands with a firm grip and eye contact for its duration; exchange business cards; use first names only with close friends; have a lowcontext culture; and use time monochronically. A case study of one Danish company, Aalborg Portland-Cement-Fabrik, describes a representative Danish company. Information for the book was derived from Fortune International 500 companies, a literature search, the author’s personal travel experiences, and interviews with foreign embassy personnel. The cost is $49.95, from McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640. ISBN 0-89950-386-1.

• Library Genes and Other Considerations:A Remembrance of Keyes DeWitt Metcalf,by Alicia Metcalf Miller, commemorates Metcalfs centenary with this memoir of the distinguished librarian by his great niece. Miller, author of the recent novel, Home Bodies, remembers Metcalf as a storyteller and an elder whom children found beguiling. The publication was designed by Eric May, professor of art at Kent State, and one of the designers of the Logan Elm Press printing of Inangaro (1987). It is available for $5.00 (prepaid) from Sandy Clark, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH 44242.

• Library of Congress Rule Interpretations for AACR2, 1988 Revision:A Cumulation through Cataloging Service Bulletin Number 45,compiled by Alan Boyd and Elaine Druesedow (350 pages, 1989), has been completely revised and reissued. Oberlin intends to continue providing (with quarterly looseleaf supplements) a handy, low-cost cumulation of all LCRIs at a cost far below the bulkier Library of Congress compilation. The price, $26, includes quarterly updates for Cataloging Service Bulletins 46-48. Order from Alan Boyd, Oberlin College Library, Oberlin, OH 44074.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by David J. Garrow (18 volumes, 1989), brings together many elusive or unpublished sources of scholarship on the civil rights movement. Each volume is meticulously indexed with a grand total of more than 20,000 entries. Volume 7 reprints Ralph D. Abernathy’s 1958 master’s thesis on the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956, while volume 17 includes 49 interviews with members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966-1967. Orders for the full set will be billed at $1,150, although individual volumes are available separately. For more information, contact Carlson Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 023350, Brooklyn, NY 11202-0067.

• A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions, compiled by Bill McBride (76pages, 4th revised ed., 1989), lists the methods that 2,296 publishers use to identify their first editions. Included are publishers from the United States, British Commonwealth nations, and other Englishlanguage publishers around the world. The guide lists the identification methods in a simple, mnemonic code (EP=First Printing, FE=First Edition) so that the user can quickly find a publisher’s name and know at once what to look for in a given book. Since many publishers changed their methods over the years, the guide enumerates the methods and indicates the dates they were in effect. The book is suitably compact (4x6 inches) for use in the field. Copies are available for $7.95 from McBride/Publisher, 161-R S. Whitney St., Hartford, CT 06105.

• Protecting Engineering Ideas and Inventions, by Ramon D. Foltz and Thomas A. Penn (373 pages, 3d ed., December 1989), provides an overview of patents, copyrights, secrecy agreements, outside disclosures, outside consultants, and trademarks that will be useful to researchers and inventors in engineering as well as in other fields. New in this edition are sections on warranties and licensing, and the very latest changes in the law (current as of November 1989). The manual costs $56 and is available from the Penn Institute, P.O. Box 41016, Cleveland, OH 44141. ISBN 0- 944606-05-9.

• Special Collections at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries: A Guide, edited by Gerald D. Saxon (386 pages, December 1989), is a guide to more than 500 of UTA’s manuscript, archives, and oral history holdings. The library is especially strong in the following areas: Texana, especially labor and political history; the Mexican War; Mexicana, 1810-1920; and the history of the university. Copies may be ordered for $21.50 from the Special Collections Division, UTA Libraries, P.O. Box 19497, Arlington, TX 76019.

• State Data and Database Finder, by Mat-thew Lesko (536 pages, 1989), is a subject-arranged list of state offices and agencies that may be useful to businesses or information centers. The author’s informal, knowledgeable introductions add value to the directory, as do some of the annotations for the listings. Thirty-seven subject areas (among them business financing, expert databases, freedom of information, small-business incubators, and unclaimed property) list all relevant organizations arranged by state. The cost is $145, from Information USA, Inc., P.O. Box 15700, Chevy Chase, MD 20815.

• Third World Libraries (vol. 1,1990- ) is anew scholarly journal published by the Rosary College Graduate School of Library and Information Science that will focus on the impact of libraries on socio-economic development in non-industrialized regions. The managing editor is Guy A. Marco, an international consultant and educator. Contributing editors are Tze-Chung Li and William V. Jackson. For more information, contact Third World Libraries, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest, IL 60305.

• Vietnam on Film and Television: Docu- mentaries in the Library of Congress, compiled by Victoria E. Johnson (77 pages, July 1989), lists more than 400 items ranging from a 1941 Nippon News segment relating to the Japanese occupation of Indochina to a PBS documentary on refugees building new lives in America. The majority of entries are documentaries made by television networks in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and are listed alphabetically by title. Cross references are made from episode titles to series titles. Each entry includes titles, collection, production company, year of release, minimal production credits, telecast date, copyright information, physical description, shelf location number, and a brief summary. Copies are available free while the supply lasts from the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.