College and Research Libraries 414 I College & Research Libraries • November 1970 brarian of the University of Bonn. The United States is a poor second with thirty- two, Denmark third with eighteen, and It- aly, Sweden, and Switzerland with fifteen each. In his tables, Professor Danton indi- cates that there has been an almost unin- terrupted increase in the total number of festschriften (except in the depression and World War II years) . Not that he assumes he has secured them all; he is certain that some South American and Eastern Europe- an titles have escaped his net. No doubt the publication of this index will bring to light additional titles. In addition to the valuable introduction and the guide to the user, there is a code to abbreviations of the festschriften in- dexed, along with a biographical reference to each honoree where such a reference ex- ists, and a separate section listing reviews of the festschriften. The subject headings used are those of Library Literature with an assist from the Library of Congress, but also include some instances of desirable new headings. Extensive "see" and "see al- so" cross references have been included. The book has been put together in a good format by Bowker, though the index itself has been printed by offset from a typed copy. While a complete assessment of Danton's index must await the verdict of its users, research workers, especially in the field of library history, will definitely want access to this book-Edward G. Holley, Univer- sity of Houston. European Periodical Literature in the So- cial Sciences and the Humanities. By Paul E. Vesenyi. Metuchen, N.J.: Scare- crow Press, 1969. 226p. $5.00 This publication is a handbook to aid re- searchers in locating periodical literature published in Europe in the social sciences and the humanities. The types of materials included are indexing and abstracting ser- vices, bibliographies, directories and union lists. Reference books published in Europe make up the largest portion of the material although a few American publications are listed when they include a large number of European sources. Current and retrospec- tive publications are included. The material has been arranged by coun- try of origin, the items under each country are arranged in alphabetical order . Two ad- ditional indexes are provided to enable the user to locate materials by subject and ti- tle. The information for each entry is ar- ranged in outline form and includes the ti- tle of the publication, the authors or edi- tors, the scope, the publisher and place of publication, and the date of origin. Infor- mation concerning cumulations, indexes, supplements and frequency is often provid- ed. The language of the publication is noted. The two most informative portions of each entry are the "Coverage" and "Notes" sections. The "Coverage" section states the purposes and special features of the publication; the "Notes" section indi- cates arrangement, changes of title and new titles for superseded works. The "Scope" section of each entry, indicating the type of service offered by the publication, tends to repeat information found under the "Coverage" and "Notes" sections. Included in the area of the social sciences are the subjects of "sociology; economics; political science; public administration; in- ternational relations; economic and social history; human, economic and political ge- ography ; public, international and constitu- tional law and statistics." Coverage of each of these subjects is uneven. The subject in- dex lists four titles under "Anthropology" and two titles under "Management" while "Library Science and Documentation" con- tains nine titles. Under "Political Science" ten titles are suggested, and eleven titles are found under "Communism, Fascism, and National Socialism" and "Socialism." The subjects included in the humanities are: "religion, philosophy, linguistics , clas- sical studies , fine arts, literature, music and biographical materials." The "Name Bibli- ographies" listed in the appendix contain twenty-three individuals writing primarily in the humanities. Books contained here seem to have been selected b y virtue of the inclusion of periodical literature about the author. The questions of why and how these authors were selected remains unan- swered. Coverage by country varies from one ti- tle per country, as in the case of Ireland and Greece, to fifty-three titles in the case of Germany. Criteria for selection seem vague when, for example, L etopis' Peri- odicheskikh I zdanii SSSR ( 1950/54- ) is included, but Periodicheskaia Pechat' SSSR ( 1917- 1949 ) and Russkaia Peri- odicheskaia Pecha{ ( 1702- 1917) have been omitted. It is difficult to understand the selection of such general sources as W il- ling's European Press Guide and Willing's Press Guide when other valuable sources are omitted. Of the 307 titles included, 56 percent were found in Winchell's Guide to Refer- ence Books. Several of the publications were located in Walford's Guide to Refer- ence Material, White's Sources of Informa- tion in the Social Sciences, and Wynar's Guide to Reference Materials in Political Science. Since specialists will be familiar with many titles and will have other biblio- graphic sources available, the audience for this publication is limited. Librarians will continue to rely on the standard bibliogra- phies. The number of textual errors sug- gests caution in accepting the bibliographic information without further verification. One entry, Subject Index to Periodicals, illustrates several of the types of errors which recur throughout the work. Under "Frequency" the following statements are made: "Yearly volumes with author index and list of periodicals indexed from 1926 on. The author index has been discontin- ued. Since 1954 a quarterly." According to Walford and Winchell, the volumes have not had an author index since 1926, and since one statement negates the other, the annotation is unclear. Under the "Notes" section this statement adds to the confu- sion: "Subject arrangement in alphabet [sic]; separate author index." Another state- ment in this section repeats that the publi- cation has been a quarterly since 1954. The following statement indicates a lack of care- ful revision and proofreading: "In 1962 it has been [sic] superseded by the British Humanities Index." Paying the first install- ment on one of the standard bibliographies would be a better investment.-Mrs. Ange- la Poulos, Bowling Green State Univ ersity. Information Storage and Retrieval Sys- tems for Individual Researchers. By Recent Publications I 415 Gerald Jahoda, N.Y.: Wiley-Interscience, 1970. 135p. $8.95. This book, the most recent addition to the Wiley-Interscience Information Science Series, is intended primarily for the use of researchers in any subject field who want to organize their personal or office collec- tions of documents into some manageable system. Throughout, "documents" is taken in its broadest sense to include any kind of graphic storage of information. Most of the discussion is directed toward imposing a system on collections which range in size from several hundred to about 10,000 docu- ments, which will be a live and growing collection for at least five to ten years in the future. Having thus defined his audience, J ahoda examines the functions of an index and the fundamentals of how any indexing system works, pointing out several approaches to the problem of information storage and re- trieval. The major part of the book deals with index variables (e.g. , pre- versus post- coordinated indexes, specificity, vocabulary control, depth, types of access points) de- scribing each of them and then comment- ing on the costs and benefits of each possi- bility, both in terms of the time required to index, clerical time, equipment costs , and so on. However, like the rest of the litera- ture in th e field , very few hard cost figures are given. A little attention is given to index evaluation and most of this is of a subjec- tive nature with the matter of relevance generally set aside, although the trade-off relationship between recall and precision is explained. Major types of indexes including conven- tional, coordinate, KWIC, and citation in- dexes, as well as some less common ones, are discussed in detail. In each case the ba- sic attributes of the indexing system are identified, the mechanics are explained, and occasionally case histories of the use of such an index are given. After a summary of ma- jor advantages and disadvantages of each scheme, the names and addresses of equip- ment suppliers are listed. The most novel and potentially the most useful chapter of the book is that which will help a researcher determine which of the indexes described will best fit his needs. 416 I College & Research Libraries • November 1970 This is accomplished by the use of a flow- decision chart which asks some very specific questions; for example, if the answer to the question "Searches for single or a few good documents?" is "yes," the researcher is ad- vised to consider the index with the least input cost; i.e., a minimum index. Like- wise, a dozen other questions are asked and the appropriate indexes are suggested. A final visionary chapter deals with an on-line system which can potentially allow many individuals to access other research- ers' personal collections if problems of pri- vacy and the necessary economic support for research can be overcome. The book is designed for a layman in in- formation science and is a good sell-con- tained introduction to indexing; however, for a person interested in more depth, bib- liographies are provided. The book, in spite of its title, should have real usefulness to any person who wishes to index a small special collection, such as local history or personnel files. Finally, because of the wide-ranging view of indexing systems, it should prove to be a useful survey text for students of indexing.-Charles M. Cona- way, Rutgers University. Education for Librarianship: Report of the Working Party. NEW ZEALAND. The Working Party on Education for Li- brarianship. Wellington, 1969. 70p. $NZ 1. On May 30, 1969, the New Zealand Gov- ernment, with some gentle nudging from the New Zealand Library Association, set up a five-man working party to report to the Minister for Education "on the present facilities employed in education for librari- anship and on any changes deemed neces- sary for fully effective provision for the li- brary needs of New Zealand having regard for available resources and the cost of al- ternative measures .... " Two of the five were librarians, W. J. McEldowney of the University of Otago and T. B. O'Neill of the National Library; D. C. Mcintosh, Dep- uty National Librarian, served as secretary. After twenty formal meetings, visits to li- braries and the New Zealand Library School, and consultations with many bodies and individuals, including Lester Asheim of ALA who was visiting the country, the working party delivered its report on Sep- tember 30. The past history of education for librari- anship in New Zealand is well covered by McEldowney in Library Trends (October 1963). The present survey finds four ma- jor deficiencies existing-no facilities for advanced study and research, no catering for school librarianship, no provision for continuing education, and no review board to monitor existing courses and advise on new ones needed. The Library School in Wellington is considered inadequate to remedy this situation. This is not a reflec- tion on the caliber of the School, rather it is recognition that its present administra- tion as a division of the National Library is no longer appropriate. For the future, the working party recom- mends the creation of a New Zealand Col- lege of Librarianship as an autonomous body linked closely with the Victoria Uni- versity of Wellington. This might lead to an M.L.S. degree awarded by the Universi- ty to graduate students. The report is less clear on its proposals for nongraduate stu- dents and school librarians, although it feels both groups should receive their education at this new College. This amount of cen- tralization is probably desirable in a small country (population 2~~ million) but this very issue of size raises the question of whether there is real justification for creat- ing a separate structure of administration in an independent institution. The working party seems to have been very much influenced by the success of the College of Librarianship Wales at Aberyst- wyth. But is this large-scale operation real- ly transferable on a smaller scale to Wel- lington? And can quality full-time staff to- taling "10 or 11" be found to operate the proposed programs at all levels of teaching and research? No disparagement of the quality of the domestic librarians is implied, but it is to be hoped that the "10 or 11'' can receive overseas experience to broaden the necessarily limited New Zealand profession- al background. Both of the present senior lecturers have taught in the U.S. (at Pitts- burgh) which is an encouraging sign of the recognition of this need.