College and Research Libraries this matter in "Some Thoughts on the Book in America," which appears in the October, 1951, issue of Stechert-Hafner Book News. Librarians should be grateful for this re- vision. The Book in Ame-rica should be a constant source of information for librarians and all others interested in books and their makers.-Maurice F. Tauber, Columbia Uni- versity. Two Useful Bibliographies A Selected Bibliography On City And Re- gional Planning. By Samuel Spielvogel. Washington, D.C., Scarecrow Press, 1951. iii, 272 p. $5.50. Dictionnair e de Bibliographie Haitienne. By Max Bissainthe. Washington, D.C., Scare- crow Press, 1951. X, 1052 p. $20.00. Two new bibliographies issued by the Scarecrow Press demonstrate that scholarly reference books can be published in small edi- tions at reasonable prices. A Selected Bibli- ography On City and Regional Planning will be of interest to many libraries. Samuel s·pielvogel, the compiler, had practical experi- ence in planning in England and Scotland before coming to this country to be Research Fellow and Instructor in the Department of Architecture at Yale. The criterion for the selection of material was current usefulness to students and city planners; 2182 items are listed, including books, periodical articles, and analytics for sections in annuals and general works. Municipal and state documents and the pub- lications of universities are well represented. Most of the references are to material writ- ten in English, many of them published in 1949 or 1950. There is a section on "Visual Techniques" which covers films, statistics and graphic pres- entations. "Additional Reference Material" includes directories, periodicals, text-books, and a comprehensive bibliography on city- regional planning subjects. The bibliographic information is adequate; annotations for many of the items indicate the nature of the material and its relative importance. Ar- rangement is by subject, with an author, title and subject index. The Dictionnaire de Bibliographie Haiti- enne appears to be definitive in its field. It complements the Bibliographie Generale et APRIL, 1952 Methodique d'Haiti, published in 1941, cov- ering a more limited field but containing ad- ditions and corrections. M. Bissainthe is N a- tional librarian of Haiti, and was assisted in the final editing by a number of research li- braries, including the Library of Congress. The over 9,000 items are arranged in three alphabets. Lists of works published in Haiti or by Haitians between 1804 and December 1949; of works published in Hispaniola or Saint-Domingue (old names for Haiti) from its discovery through December 1949; of peri- odicals issued in Haiti between 1764 and 1949, are followed by a roster of Haitian journalists and title and subject indexes. Full imprint and collation are followed by location symbols referring to thirteen li- braries, those in the U.S. bemg the Library of Congress, the New Y ark Public Library, and the university libraries of Columbia, Harvard, and Howard. Annotations in French for the more important items give bio-biographical information and, in some cases, critical evaluation. Both volumes are legibly lithoprinted on good paper, and are in sturdy bindings. The Haiti dictionary would be much easier to use if there were some device to identify the parts of the book, or at least an additional table of contents at the front of the volume. We trust that the ingenious publishers of the Scarecrow Press will not only continue to issue reference works at prices within library incomes, but will improve on their physical arrangement without adding to publication costs.-Darthula Wilcox, Columbia Univer- sity. German Research Libraries German University and Technical Libraries: Their Organization, Conditions, Activities and Needs. By Frederick W. J. Heuser. New York, HI COG, Education and Cul- tural Relations Division, Information Cen- ters Branch, Museum, Fine Arts and Li- braries Section, April, 1951. 54 p. Mime- ographed. The one serious deficiency of this important report is that Professor Heuser's modesty forbade him to record his own contributions to the rehabilitation of German research li- braries. We get a hint of his personal efforts only at the bottom of page 30, where he 171 states that since 1947 the Germanistic Society has spent more than $125,000 for American literat1,1re donated to German research li- braries with total overhead expenses of less than $5,000. Most of the overhead expense was covered by Professor Heuser's contribu- tion of his personal services without reim- bursement. The content of the report is an admirable supplement to Georg Leyh's Die deutschen wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken nach dem Kriege (Tubingen, 1947); and it is a re- markably lucid description of the structure of German research libraries. The introductory chapter deals with personnel, training, and professional organization. The next four chapters describe the current status of li- braries in Western Germany with detailed consideration of the Bayrische Staatsbiblio- thek, the West-Deutsche Bibliothek in Mar- burg (the 1,6oo,ooo-volume torso of the former Preussische Staatsbibliothek), the plague of the lnstitutsbibliotheken, and the confused situation in Berlin (with the 1,2oo,ooo-volume torso of the Preussische Staatsbibliothek now called the Oeffentliche Wisse_nschaftliche Bibliothek) . . Chapter VI is a survey of cooperative efforts in post-war Germany, including notes on national bibli- ography, union catalogs and interlibrary loan. The information on German national bibli- ography is in a schematic outline that com- plements the useful narrative account by Kurt Fleischhack of Leipzig in the Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen, LXIV ( 1950), 378-383 (a review of the J ahresverzeichnis des deut- schen Sch,rifttums). Also included in this chapter are sections on foreign exchanges and "A Modified German Farmington Plan." The latter scheme is one by which a "Tausch- und Beschaffungsstelle fur auslandische Lit- eratur" in Bad Godesberg attempts to assist German research libraries in a plan to acquire the world's current publications. Chapter VII discusses American assistance, mentioning contributions of the ALA, the Germanistic Society of America, Oberlaender Trust, the American Physical Society, and others. To this list should be added the ACRL, which makes available to German re- search libraries several complimentary sub- scriptions to College and Research Libraries. The last chapter is devoted to central German agencies which are assisting in the rehabilita- tion process, notably the N otgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft (established in 1949 on the model of the original N otgemeinschaft), the Max Planck Gesellschaft, and the Institut fur Film und Bild. The latter agency is per- forming an important service in the rationali- zation of various microfilm projects. Ap- pendices describe the losses of German li- braries in terms of buildings and books, space for readers in buildings now in use, 1950 budgets, description of quarters now in use, a list of seminars and institutes presently in the various universities, statistics of acquisi- tions of American books and periodicals in 1950, and assignment of special fields in ac- cordance with the German "Farmington Plan." The latter does not seem to be a significant change from pre-war arrange- ments. Altogether this report is an important doc- ument of contemporary library history. It - tells a story of the fall and resurrection of a group of research libraries which, up to 1932, supported the most important group of re- search workers in all fields up to that time. They may soon again be in a position to con- tinue their great work in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ' Free copies of this report are available in limited · number from the Germanistic So- ciety of American, 423 West I I 7t_h Street, New York 27, N.Y. -Lawrence S. Thomp- son, University of Kentucky Libraires. The Executive at Work The Executive at Work. By Melvin T. Copeland. Cambridge, Harvard Univer- sity Press, 1951. 278 p. $3.75. Librarians in administrative posts will find this work by Mr. Copeland, who is Director · of Research and George Fisher Baker Profes- sor of Administration in the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard, full of suggestions for carrying out their responsi- bilities. Not only does he discuss the bases of administration and organization, but he con- siders such matters as the authority of the executive, the executive's lieutenants and how to coach them, keeping informed, keeping the wheels turning, survival in a changing world, the spirit of risk-taking, timing, nurturing morale, extracurricular activities, stanclards of conduct, rewards for management, and 172 COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES