College and Research Libraries stream of the information and communica- tion network locally, regionally, and nation- ally. If it fails to overcome its isolation and provincialism, it will disappear and will be replaced by more viable and dynamic insti- tutions. That thrust is achieved.-John T. Eastlick, Graduate School of Librarianship, University of Denver, Colorado. / Wynkoop, Sally. Subject Guide to Gov- ernment Reference Books. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1972. $11.50. vWynkoop, Sally. Government Reference Books, 70/71. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1972. $8.50. The introduction states that Subject Guide to Government Reference Books is essentially a general orientation guide to the most important reference books pub- lished by the Government Printing Office and government agencies. Ms. Wynkoop has done an admirable job in choosing, list- ing, and annotating some 1,016 books and serials with reference value. The resulting compilation is a good introduction for the occasional user and provides an insight into the variety and scope of subjects covered in official publications. The very qualities which go into making a good orientation guide limit the useful- ness of such a guide for reference and re- search purposes. Obviously, the high degree of selectivity necessary to provide coverage for many subjects prevents comprehensive coverage of any particular subject. In or- der to list the most important government reference books, many of the most common also had to be included. The practicing ref- erence or document librarian hardly needs another description of the Statistical Ab- stract or the Year book of Agriculture. Each entry gives all essential biblio- graphic information and a descriptive anno- tation. The annotations are well done, par- ticularly in giving data about previous edi- tions, related volumes, etc·. On the whole, the information is accurate, with a few mi- nor errors which really do not affect the usability of the information. The index in the back of the book is also geared for general purposes. It is made up of the subjects which appear in the table of contents, a title entry for each book or series included, and personal authors when Recent Publications I 487 mentioned. The use of several descriptors for each entry would have done much to increase the value of the guide for refer- ence purposes. Government Reference Books 70/ 71 is the second in a biennial series which forms a record of the most important reference books published by the government during 1970 and 1971. Unlike the Subject Guide this listing is intended to be comprehensive. The format is essentially the same as in the Subject Guide and the 68/ 69 edition with the books arranged by subject. The ar- rangement of the subject headings has been somewhat changed, and while the new ar- rangement is useful in this volume, it is dis- concerting if the three publications are being used as a set. A great deal of repetition of titles is in- cluded in the one thousand-plus entries in this edition. In my opinion this is detrimen- tal rather than helpful. In a biennial survey it is wasteful at best to include two entries for books published annually, four entries for books published semiannually, and in some cases five and six entries for the same title. There are also forty separate entries and annotations for Army Area Handbooks, each entry repeating essentially the same information with slight variations from country to country. One entry describing the series, plus a list of those handbooks pub- lished in 1970 and 1971 would have been sufficient. For people having limited contact with documents, these biennial compilations will be a reminder of the on-going and tremen- dously worthwhile contribution of the gov- ernment in the field of reference materials. For purposes of research, or as a helpful aid to documents librarians, this series has the same drawbacks as does the Subject Guide -an unsophisticated index, general rather than in-depth coverage, and a great deal of space devoted to what every documents librarian should know already or be able to find easily.-]oyce Ball, Head, Refer- ence Department, University of Nevada, Reno. v\Veihs, Jean Riddle; Lewis, Shirley; and Macdonald, Janet. Nonbook Materials, the Organization of Integrated Collec- tions. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Library Association, 1973. 107 p. $6.50. 488 I College & Research Libraries • November 1973 This concise, informative volume should be the media cataloger's vademecum until final decisions concerning Anglo-American rules have been accomplished. This is a manual supplying clear and highly defini- tive principles for entry and descriptive cataloging of nonbook materials. This is a guidebook, providing guidelines for the care, handling and storage of nonbook ma- terials. It is also a sourcebook, with a se- lected bibliography. The volume does not deal with the practical aspects of labeling and identifying materials; Hicks and Tillin' s Developing Multimedia Libraries continues to be a valuable companion manual for those and other important related matters. Nonbook Materials has a prestigious back- ground, prepared in consultation with the CLA/ ALA/ AECT / EMAC/ CAML Advisory Committee on the Cataloging of Non- book Materials. 0 The Joint Advisory Com- mittee, chaired by Dr. Margaret Chisholm, dean of the School of Library and Informa- tion Sciences, University of Maryland, has performed a valuable service in internation- al cooperation. The committee members, who are listed prominently in the introduc- tory pages, represent the Library of Con- gress, public schools, universities, faculties , public libraries, and commercial producers of materials. The authors are highly qualified to deal with the subject matter, having handled au- diovisual materials as catalogers and as ad- ministrators. The thoroughness which the authors have applied is apparent, even to the inclusion of techniques for cataloging machine-readable data files. The immediacy of the authors' knowledge of developments and techniques in the field of audiovisual materials is evident through their detailed statements recommending h·eatment of the endogenous items of description that iden- tify each piece of material. The experience of the authors with the materials themselves is evidenced by de- tailed descriptive cataloging which refer- ences the need for special equipment, as in ° Canadian Library Association; American Library Association; Association for Education- al Communications & Technology; Educational Media Association of Canada; Canadian Asso- ciation of Music Libraries. the case of a double-frame filmstrip·, or the make and model of a videorecording ma- chine. Such information is an absolute re- quirement for the user, and might be car- ried even further in notes on the catalog card which would specify the type of sup- port equipment necessary for utilization of all nonprint items. The authors have struggled to achieve consistency in the terminology employed for cataloging purposes. The Glossary pro- vided is a practical one, reached by coop- erative agreement, but beset with some problems in identifying the various forms of audio and video materials. One solution, patterned by analogy after the term micro- form, would seem to be to employ audio- form as a generic term including cylinders, discs, rolls, magnetic tape, and wire. V id- eoform would encompass videotape, video- cassettes, videodiscs, and any other future developments. (Specific physical descrip- tions are required in the collation for each item, identifying reel tapes and ips, phono- discs and ips, number of frames, size of maps, etc.) Librarians who have been resisting the inclusion of nonbook materials to their col- lections of monographs in buckram bind- ings will be well advised to study this slim volume. The policies of information retriev- al for media, or nonprint materials, are de- veloped by extending existing cataloging policies to the new forms. Examples are presented in standard 3 x 5 inch format and are indeed, traditional catalog cards, with impeccable use of descriptive cataloging techniques applied to nonbook materials. One tends to ponder the reason for re- sistance to both the inclusion of nonbook materials into the collection and to the de- velopment of nonbook cataloging tech- niques. Surely the fact that an intermediary device is required cannot be a primary de- terrant; have not microforms, with their viewers, been accepted almost universally? Collections of phonodiscs are solidly plant- ed in both public and academic libraries. This author recalls with nostalgia the splen- did collection of 78's which was on open shelves for home loan in the early forties in Springfield, Massachusetts. That library also loaned framed prints, ready for hang- ing. Why then, more than a generation later, are we as a profession still hesitant to declare ourselves unilaterally as open storehouses and dispensers of the recorded resources of knowledge and information, regardless of format? The intuitive answer may be that infor- mation in form other than print is suspect as being less than intellectual. Let us look a little more closely at some of the mono- graphs on our shelves, where in the name of thoroughness and academic freedom we have collected biased, poorly written, out of date and occasionally unreadable works. And let us -compare these with some of the nonprint media which vividly capture in sight and sound, history, skill techniques, procedures, beauty and ugliness, and en- gaging entertainment. Our shelves should proudly contain the totality of the human experience, in all the forms devised by mind and technology, providing total access for that vitally-concerned segment of socie- ty which is our clientele. Nonbook Materials, The Organization of Integrated Collections is a guide and a pre- cept for those who have accepted this chal- lenge.-Gloria Terwilliger, Director of Learning Resources, Alexandria Campus, Northern Virginia Community College. Recent Publications I 489 In Professor Lorenz's biography Hugh Caine emerges as a talented and dedicated editor who only wanted to print the news and make money. However, in those days an editor had to ally himself and his pa- per with a special interest group if he in- tended to stay in business, and thus C aine was forced to change sides frequently in the tumultuous years preceding the Rev- olution in order to ensure his livelihood. Caine made a fateful decision when he decided to abandon the patriot cause in 1776, and return to New York to resume the publication of his New Y ark Mercury in that occupied city. Once he had made his choice there was no turning back and he soon became one of the most hated and maligned Tory editors in Revolutionary America. His notoriety was further en- hanced when he became the subject of Phillip Freneau' s long and cutting poem, "Hugh Gaines Life." Freneau maintained that Caine would: Always adhere to the Sword that is longest and stick to the party thats like to be strongest. . . .. Unfortunately, Caine underestimated the patriots, and chose to support the wrong "party." Nevertheless, he remains a major Lorenz, Alfred Lawrence. Hugh Gaine; A figure in the annals of American publishing, Colonial Printer-Editor's Odyssey to and Professor Lorenz's balanced, well-writ- Loyalism. Carbondale and Edwardsville: ten, and timely study should be acquired Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. by every library with an interest in the his- 192 p. $6.95. tory of the American Revolution.-Michael There have been few serious biograph- H. Harris, Associate Professor, College of ical studies done on the major figures in Library Science, University of Kentucky, Revolutionary journalism. Edes and Gill, Lexington. Rivington, John Holt, James Parker, and others still await biographers. Fortunately, yAppleba~m, Edm~nd L., e~. Reader in Hugh Caine, one of the most controversial Techn1cal Serv1ces. Washmgton, D.C.: and enigmatic of the Revolutionary editors, NCR Microcard Editions, 1973. has now been given the careful and un- This seventh in a series of Readers in Li- biased treatment he has so long deserved. brary and Information Science is a compila- Professor Lorenz has written an impor- tion of articles covering the whole field of tant book. For he has revealed, better per- technical services. In one small sense the haps than anyone else, the tremendous ob- title is misleading for in actuality descrip- stacles encountered by an editor who tive cataloging and classification have been wished to remain independent of "special excluded from this volume and covered in interest" in a time when emotions ran high another of the series. and neutrality was viewed as a traitorous The collection brings together materials act. In doing so he shows clearly the rea- of a historical nature, some state-of-the-art sons for Caine's erratic editorial course from articles, and some attempts at predicting 1752 to 1776. the future. One big disadvantage is a "de-