College and Research Libraries ~~---------------------~------------------------------------------------~--------------, l the medium itself as a major tool in psy- chiatric research. An extensive bibliography is appended. It is somewhat inaccurate in that certain authors cited in the main body of Onder's work do not appear in the bibliography. The absence of an index makes the book less useful than it might be otherwise. However, it is certainly a valuable ad- dition to any psychiah·ic department li- brary where television is used and is a must for all health science libraries.-Brig- itte L. Kenney, University of Mississippi Medical Center. Agricultural Sciences Information Net- work Development Plan: EDUCOM Re- search Report No. 169. Boston, 1969. 74p. $6.00. At the behest of the National Agricul- tural Library and in accordance with pol- icy guidelines established by an advisory committee representing users of agricultur- al information, an EDUCOM study team set about developing a network concept and implementation plan. The sp ecific goal which emerged was to devise a "pro- gram for mobilizing our proliferating agri- cultural and biological information re- sources and sharing them with the land- grant colleges through a formal, NAL-or- ganized network." The R eport suggested that the land- grant and National Agricultural Library relationships fall into two categories: ( 1) the functional systems providing informa- tion for intermediate or ultimate users, and ( 2) the telecommunication system supportive of the information service func- tioning through rapid distribution of the services of the information network. It was advanced, furthermore, that the basic com- ponents providing the responses would be land-grant libraries, information analy- sis centers, and a telecommunication sys- tem. In the system proposed, the sixty-nine land-grant institutions would be connect- ed to a regional node by a narrow-band teletype line in a regional pall-and-select network. The control of each network would be exercised by a PABDX central- ly located at the National Agricultural Li- brary. Interconnection of each regional network within NAL would be by means Recent Publications I 281 of a narrow-band teletype line and voice- grade line. The regional nodes in the Na- tional Agricultural Library would send messages to one another through a store- and-forward type of switching machine. Included in the EDUCOM study was an investigation by the General Electric Company's Communications Products De- partment. Although the proposal of this group is only illustrative of a telecommu- nication system, it is an interesting feature of the Report. As a supplement to the ba- sic document, it includes the rationale cit- ing the assumptions, the system features , the explanations of the terminals as well as various estimates of costs for equipment and line charges. The GE group concluded that a well-designed communications net- work can be the difference between suc- cess and failure of a nationwide library network. As the great thinker of modern librar- ianship, Verner Clapp, has recently said: "There is nothing new about library net- works except the name." In considering networks we are in many ways really re- ferring to the ancient concept of coopera- tion. In the land-grant institution tradi- tion alone, we can look back as far as the Morrill Act in order to identify the genesis of our collaborative efforts in the sharing of information and resources. What exactly then have the authors Beck- er, King, and Olsen proposed some 109 years later which is new and exciting? In the first place, they admit that their plan is a fundamental one and that its func- tions are not unique. Much of the report is, in fact, old hat in that it emphasizes the elements of interlibrary loan, photo- copying service, referral centers, geo- graphical depositories, and the coordina- tion of acquisitions. These are not new concepts and they do not make the Re- port a landmark study of networks. In fairness to the team, on the other hand, this was not an objective of the EDUCOM investigation. One missing element, nonetheless, is a sound reference to an acceptable philo- sophical position about the purpose of a library network. No matter how crude, no matter how sophisticated it is, this propos- al can have meaning only in its relevance to the information which is provided with- 282 I College & Research Libraries • July 1970 in the network. In this instance, it is diffi- cult to separate the agriculturalist's basic information need from that of any other scientist. If that is so, the advancement of this particular network only fragments fur- ther the larger information problem of control and dissemination. Until a more coordinated national ef- fort is offered, however, this proposed net- work is a forward step toward access to the totality of resources. At least with this kind of a system, we could have available a model to test involving the use of re- gional resources of a land-grant institution on a contractual basis. Whether such a network will result in an increase in self- sufficiency, a relaxation of demands upon the larger land-grant institutions, and a greater utilization of the National Agri- cultural Library remains to be seen.-Le- M oyne W. Anderson, Colorado State U ni- versity. Suppressed Commentaries on the Wiseian Forgeries~ Addendum to an Enquiry. By William B. Todd . Austin, Texas: Hu- manities Research Center, The Univer- sity of Texas, 1969. 49p . (77-89555). "Of making many books" we are told on good authority (Eccles. 12: 12), "there is no end." So it is apparently going to be with the Wise saga. William Todd ded- icates this Addendum, "To John Carter and Graham Pollard Whose Original En- quiry Will Lead to Endless Addenda on the Work ofT. J. Wise." There have already been a flood of books and articles on the subject since the Enquiry's original publication in 1934. An interesting aspect of this phenomenon is the fact that the book itself, though raising great interest in the book collect- ing world, and printed in a small edition, was a slow seller, taking perhaps two dec- ades to go out of print; and it has not, to this day, seen a second edition. William Todd here documents "four dif- ferent campaigns undertaken by American nationals for or against the cause of T. J. Wise," two by Charles Heartman, and the others by Gabriel Wells, both booksellers. In addition Heartman edited the Ameri- can Book Collector and was a noted gad- fly. Texas has acquired his files and corre- spondence about the magazine, from which Todd usefully reprints and annotates his correspondence with Wise, including a revealing article which Wise wrote (or had written for him) with the important sentences: "My own private opinion is that the Browning Sonnets is not genuine. The question is where did Mr. Forman obtain the 'Remainder' from." This article was never published, as Wise demanded its return, which he got, but not before Heartman retained some sort of copy. Miss Fannie Ratchford had seen this docu- ment, as Todd points out in a footnote, but failed to appreciate its significance. Throughout the article Wise refers to Carter and Pollard as "the authors." In other correspondence I have seen, he called them "sewer rats." The Gabriel Well's crusade (Todd calls it "folly") to vindicate Wise, . which is documented, sprang from reasons not re- vealed in this Addendum. The Ashley Library was the most spec- tacular one of the kind of books which were in fashion during the decades it was being formed and there was considerable speculation over its eventual disposal. Wells was, at that depression time, the most active dealer in Americana and the general opinion among his fellow dealers was that his defense of Wise was simply a ploy on his part to ingratiate himself with Mrs. Wise and others so he would be regarded favorably by them when and if an opportunity came along to purchase the collection. The Heartman correspon- dence with Wise is important to the saga, that of Wells is not. Todd concludes with a "Postscript on The Story of a Lie" which documents Wise's methods of handling potentially dangerous problems, in this case, W. F. Prideaux's forthcoming bibliography of R . L . Stevenson. The "Notes," of which there are forty- seven, are occasionally inadequate, or in- accurate, where contemporary personages are involved. Wilfred Partington is con- fused with (presumably) Henry M. Part- ridge. Certainly Mrs. Gertrude Hills and the equally formidable Leonard L. Mack- all could be more satisfactorily identified, and Arthur Swann (of all people!) \Vas