College and Research Libraries EUGENE P. SHEEHY Selected Reference Books of 197 4-75 T ms ARTICLE coNTINUES the semiannu- al series originally edited by Constance M. Winchell. Although it appears under a byline, the list is actually a project of the Reference Department of the Co- lumbia University Libraries, . and notes are signed with the initials of the indi- vidual staff members.l Since the purp'o.se of the list is to present a selection of recent scholarly and foreign works of interest to refer- ence workers in university libraries, it does not pretend to be either .well bal- anced or comprehensive. A brief round- up of new editions of standard works, continuations, and supplements · 'is pre- sented at the end of the column. Code numbers (such as AA 71, 213D89) have been used to refer to titles in the Guide to Reference Books and its ·supple- ments.2 BIBLIOGRAPHY ' U.S. Library of Congress. Monographic Se- ries. Jan./Mar. 1974- . Wash., . 1974- . 3 quarterly issues and annual cumulation. $100 per yr. 74-652501. At head of title: Library of Congress cat~logs. · · Although references . to numbered mono- graphic serial titles are included in New Serial Titles, citations to individual works in those series are not given and ,are : often I. Patricia Clark, Diane Goon, Rita Keckeissen, Anita Lowry, Eileen Mcilvaine, Doris Ann Sweet, Barbara Wendell; Lehman Library, Mary Ann Miller; Physics Library, Laura Binkowski. 2. Constance M. Winchell, Guide to Reference Books (8th ed.; Chicago: ALA, 1967); Supplement I (Chicago: ALA, 1968); Sup- plement II (Chicago: ALA, 1970) ; Supple- ment III (Chicago: ALA, 1972). 308 I difficult to find. As a step toward further bibliographic control over monographs which have been cataloged by the Library of Congress as parts of series, Monographic Series will be hailed by catalogers and ac- quisitions and reference librarians alike. Utilizing reproductions of printed cards, this is a compilation of titles which have re- cently been cataloged or for which printed cards have been recently revised. Even though most of the enh·ies in the 197 4 is- sues are 1973 imprints, many older works, especially foreign-language materials, are included. Broader coverage and frequent appearance give it ·a decided edge over Baer's Titles in Series (Guide AA12) for recent materials. · · Logically, · this alphabetical listing of se- ries is organized by arranging the mono- graphs under the appropriate series head- ing. Numbered series· titles have been listed numerically and unnumbered series titles in _alphabetical order by main: entry. Where Lib,rary of : C,angress uses the corporate body rather than the series title for a series heading, appropriate · cross-references are made. Since criteria for inclusion embrace not only tracings :for series added entries on the card, but also the presence of a se- ries statement, many publishers' series have been included. The compilation is a boon to all librarians who have struggled with identification of titles in series; one ·expects that it will be used ofteri and will become a standard reference tool for . biblio·graphic searching.-B. W. LIBRARIES AND ARCillVES Archive. Archive im deutschsprachigen Raum. 2. Aufl. Berlin, W. de Gruyter, 1974. 2v. (1418p.) $200. 73-90262. At head of title: Minerva-Handbiicher. The second edition of this guide (the first edition appeared in 1932 as Minerva- Selected Reference Books of 1974-75 I 309 Handbiicher, 2. Abt.; Guide AC13) is wel- come both for its expanded coverage and the updated information it provides for war-damaged archives in Germany (East and West) and the surrounding regions that have played a significant role in Ger- many's past-Austria, Switzerland, Luxem- burg, Liechtenstein, and, to a lesser degree, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Altogether, some 8,000 archives are listed. Of these, about 2,000 are described in some detail. This edition includes many kinds of ar- chives excluded from the first, primarily archives of a private rather than public na- ture, such as business, theater, film, and po- litical party archives. All are indexed by type (city, church, etc.), by geographic re- gion, and alphabetically by name. The main section of the work, however, is arranged by city and includes only those archives for which descriptions are provided. These de- scriptions summarize the history of the ar- chive, indicate what bibliographical aids are available to researchers, and briefly sur- vey the holdings. Citations are given to any detailed accounts of holdings which have been published. It is regrettable, especially considering the high cost, that descriptions could not have been provided for all the ar- chives listed. Even as it stands, however, this guide will be extremely useful and ought to be owned by any large research library.-D.A.S. Lewanski, Richard Casimir, comp. Guide to Polish Libraries and Archives. Boul- der, Colo., East European Quarterly (distr. by Columbia University Pr.), 1974. 209p. (Joint Committee on East- ern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. East European publ. ser., 2) $11. 73-91484. This book aims to be a comprehensive guide to repositories of manuscripts and printed records in Poland. Emphasis is on sources in Polish history, civilization, and society, with some attention to other East European countries bordering on Poland or sharing periods of common history and heritage. Excluded are collections in the pure sciences, technology, and agriculture except when they deal with the historical aspect of these topics. Also omitted are collections of foreign materials. The main body of the work is a schemat- ic listing of libraries arranged alphabetically by name of city or town in which they are located. A typical entry includes address and telephone number of the library; name of director; brief history of the institution; a subject profile; numerical estimate of holdings; special ·collections; annual growth in volumes; reader services available (e.g., card catalogs, printed bibliographies, . ad- mission policies, hours, interlibrary loan, photocopy and microfilm facilities); and a short bibliography of publications by and about the library and its areas of strength. A drawback is the brief subject index, This does not immediately direct one into the main body of the guide but is coded to an outline of cities and libraries listed after the preface. Moreove"r, there is no explanation of this fact to aid the user. Information was derived from question- naires and personal visits by the compiler. It is the first of three planned surveys, un- der the general editorship of Paul Horecky, of East European resources in libraries abroad, in the United States, and in Can- ada. As English-language directories, these should prove to be valuable time-saving lo- cation indicators, facilitating in-depth schol- arship and opening up new avenues of re- search.-L.M.B. Meckler, Alan M. and McMullin, Ruth. Oral History Collections. N.Y., Bowker, 1975. 344p. $29.50. 7 4-32128. Designed to help close "the gap between the development of oral history and the in- formation available about it" (Foreword), this work is more ambitious in purpose than the Oral History Association's 1971 pioneer Directory. Like the latter, it provides (in Section II) a directory, but the larger Sec- tion I serves as a name and subject index to the information collected by question- naire concerning the thousands of inter- views in the several hundred collections of the United States and sixty-one in four for- eign countries. Both sections must be searched, since information applicable to all materials in a collection appears in the directory, and information on a specific name or subject appears in the index. A welcome feature is the inclusion of known additional locations of materials in some en- tries. 310 I College & Research Libraries • July 1975 Inevitably, information is uneven, with many centers inadequately described, but with well-indexed collections re,presented by full descriptions of major projects. Since a reference work in oral history is bound to be out of date by the time it is released, frequent revision and uniform reporting will be necessary if usefulness is to be main- tained. The reader is still urged to write to the individual oral history center for spe- cific information.-R.K. DATA FILES Directory of Computerized Data Files & Related Software, 1974- . [Washing- ton], National Technical Information Ser- vice, 1974- . Annual. $60. 74-642648. Government agencies have often collect- ed and processed information for internal use. Although a great number of computer- generated government publications have re- sulted from these efforts, today' s research- ers have found that they need more tabu- lated data than have been made available through printed sources. To fill this infor- mation gap, sixty agencies are now making available to the public over 500 machine- readable data files. This annual, the first of its kind, has been published as a guide to the available files and related software. In the "Abstract Section" the files have been arranged according to subject fields covering demography, social sciences, gov- ernment, economics, and science and tech- nology. In this first volume there are no listings for many of the seventy-two pro- jected subject fields, but one assumes that when the directory is revised to include all government agencies, data files in almost all areas will be available. Within a subject field entries are arranged by catalog refer- ence number, the first element of which is an acronym for the generating agency. In- formation includes file title, date of file, a physical description of the file, generating agency name and file number, and informa- tion on availability. Price information is orovided only in those cases where the data file is being distributed by NTIS. Also indi- cated in some instances are the sources from which the data were drawn and whether or not software (i.e., programs or format statements) are available. There are indexes by generating agency, by subject, and by catalog reference number. It is readily apparent that this directory is most useful to those researchers and in- stitutions which have the necessary com- puters and programmers at their disposal. The latter are essential because many of the data files are sold without software or with software which must be modified to the needs of the individual researcher. Institu- tions which do not have the hardware, staff, or budget will have to content them- selves with citations to the publications which have been generated from some of the files. On the whole, though useful, the directory is not always easy to decipher. In- consistencies in typography and the way in which files are described will lead many users to hope for changes and improve- ments in the future.-B.W. NEWSPAPER INDEX Zeitungs-Index. Jahrg. 1- , Jan./Marz 1974- . Pullach bei Miinchen, Verlag Dokumentation, 1974- . Quarterly. DM 148 per yr. Willi Gorzny, ed. Major articles in nineteen German-lan- guage newspapers (many of them weeklies, and including the news magazine Der Spiegel) are indexed by subject in this new publication. In addition to papers of more than regional interest from the principal cities of West Germany, Zurich is represent- ed by two titles and Vienna by one. Under topical headings or personal and geographic names used as subjects, arrangement is chronological; entry includes author (for the high percentage of signed articles), ti- tle (often with subtitle to give a better idea of content), abbreviated newspaper title, issue number, date, and pagination. See and see also references are used freely; each article appears to be indexed under a single heading only. No plans for cumu- lating the quarterly issues are indicated, but a number of annual indexes-author, subject, geographical-are promised.-E.S. GovERNMENT DocuMENTS Lombardi, Mary. Brazilian Serial Docu- ments: A Selective and Annotated Guide. f Selected Reference Books of 1974-75 I 311 Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Pr., 1974. 445p. $15. 73-16533. This is a successful attempt to provide a guide to serial documents of permanent research value which have been issued by agencies of the Brazilian federal govern- ment. Chock-full of information, it may also prove helpful in answering questions con- cerning the structure of the Brazilian gov- ernment. The arrangement of the guide follows the organization of the government: the nation as a whole, then the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Within each part, component agencies are treated according to a hierarchical outline. The table of contents provides an outline of the entire government. For almost every agency a brief history is given, including name changes and dates and titles of pertinent legislation. The serials are then listed, usu- ally alphabetically by title, with as much information as it was possible to obtain. This includes title variations (with cross- references to superseded and superseding titles), frequency, and availability of index- ing, etc. Since the compiler did most of her research for this guide in Brazil, she was unable to include locations in American li- braries; instead, she has noted the corre- sponding item numbers in more general union lists. There is an appendix listing libraries and books consulted, and an index to serial titles and agency names.-P.A.C. BIOGRAPHY Garraty, John A., ed. Encyclopedia of American Biography. New York, Harper & Row, [1974]. 124lp. $22.50. 74-1807. Presented as "an estimation of the major figures of American history as seen from the perspective of the mid-1970's," this diction- ary of more than a thousand short biogra- phies of persons, past and present, in all fields, is "intended to aid readers who want to know the whys, not merely the whats, about the significant figures of our history." -Introd. To make this interpretive feature clear, biographies are subdivided: first a concise, factual account incorporating name, dates, education, career, and achieve- ments (these sections prepared by graduate students); then an expert's evaluation or the subject's achievement and importance. The evaluations were written by scholars, are signed, contain a system of cross-refer- ences to other names included, and refer to the standard biography. Standards for inclusion are stated as: significance, achievement, fame, and typicality-criteria weighted differently in different cases, but with influence or significance the deciding factor. The work should prove a handy compendium in a reference collection.- R.K. LITERATURE Bleznick, Donald William. Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language: A Selected, Annotated Guide to Spanish and Spanish American Bibliography, Lit- erature, Linguistics, Journals, and Other Source Materials. Philadelphia, Temple Univ. Pr., [1974]. 183p. $15. 74-77776. In preparing this book, Bleznick planned "a practical guide to bibliography and other basic materials which would serve budding and even mature Hispanists in literary and linguistic research."-Pref. (Italics are the reviewer's.) The usual items expected in a volume of this kind-"how- to-do-research" books, general bibliogra- phies, style guides, literary bibliographies, library guides, and dissertation lists-are given short, but workmanlike, shrift. Then the , compiler settles down to the heart of the matter: guiding the "fledgling investi- gator" through the best histories, antholo- gies, books on metrics, dictionaries, and journals in the field, with lists of publishers and book dealers to help the search. Titles are selected on the basis of being "essen- tial" and "current" (i.e., in print and/ or available in college and university li- braries); cut-off . date is mid-1973. There is an author-title index. Budding Hispanists and mature librarianS' can both learn much from this book abol.lt resources for the study of Hispanic litera- ture and linguistics, though librarians own- ing Faster and Faster's Manual of Hispanic Bibliography (Suppl. 3BD108) will find -its discussion of reference works more in- depth. The Sourcebook would benefit from some careful editing (particularly in the chapter on general bibliographic guides and references), and a lower price would put it into more of the hands for which it was intended.-D.G. 312 I College & Research Libraries • July 1975 Bromwich, Rachel. Medieval Celtic Litera- ture; A Select Bibliography. [Toronto], Univ. of Toronto Pr., [1974]. 109p. $8.95. (Toronto medieval bibliographies, 5) 7 4-82287. The latest of the Toronto Medieval Bib- liographies, this work follows the threefold aim of the series in providing a basic biblio- graphic guide for students new to the field, for more advanced readers who have little training in the specialty, and for librarians interested in building a basic collection in the subject covered. Included are more than · 500 ·books and articles, arranged in five chapters: Intro- ductory materials (bibliographies, collec- tions of texts, etc.); Language; Liter- ary history and criticism; Texts and transla- tions; Background materials (social, cul- tural, and historical studies). Gaelic and Irish, Welsh, and Breton are covered in each chapter in appropriate subdivisions. Entries carry short evaluative annotations. Emphasis is on native literary tradition in verse and prose from the earliest times to about 1450, with recent critical works and editions given priority for inclusion, along with older scholarly works of importance. Citations to reviews are a useful feature.- R.K. Chapman, Dorothy. Index to Black Poetry. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1974. 541p. $25. 74- 8838. Although this index to poems by and about blacks is described in the introduc- tion as a "complete reference of black poems and poets," by including only ninety- four books and pamphlets by individual poets and thirty-three anthologies, compre- hensiveness is not achieved. However, de- spite this and . the fact that the Index ba- sically includes only American black poetry, it is welcomed as a beginning. A spot com- parison between Granger's Index to Poetry and the work under review indicates that, for pertinent authors, the latter indexes many more poems. Three index sections provide access to the poetry: the title/ first line index, the subject index, and the author index. Full bibliographic information is given in the title/ first line index, with a code which directs one to the list of books indexed. Nonblack authors are indicated by an asterisk. In.dex to Black Poetry is an im- portant first step in making accessible ma- terial which has heretofore been largely ig- nored. One hopes that the near future will bring ·an index to black poetry published in serials-an important area which has not yet been covered.-P.A.C. Woodress, James Leslie. American Fiction, 1900-1950; A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit, Gale, [1974]. 260p. (American literature, English literature, and world literature in English, v.1) $18. 73-17501. Addressed to the information needs of those studying American prose fiction of the first half of the twentieth century, this guide is in two parts. Part I, General Bib- liography, surveys not only general works of reference, history, and criticism pertain- ing to the fiction of this period, but also major specialized studies on the novel- "Technique and structure," "Themes and motifs," "Foreign reception," etc.-and on the short story. Many of the titles cited are briefly annotated to indicate scope or par- ticular importance. Part II, which comprises the main portion of the work, is devoted to individual bibli- ographic essays on forty-four authors, the major body of whose work was written between 1900 and 1950, and "who seem in 1973 to be the most significant pro- ducers of fiction" during this period. Con- cise and up to date (some 1973 works are cited), these essays include a paragraph of biographical and critical summary and sec- tions on (1) Bibliography and manuscripts (including locations for collections of the latter); (2) Works of fiction: novel and short stories (collections of stories only); (3) Editions and reprints; (4) Biography; and (5) Criticism. The essays are quite se- lective but full of explanatory and evalua- tive information to guide the student. An index of names includes author-subjects as well as the authors of the biographical and critical works. An unfortunate error ap- pears on the first page of Section I, where the Dictionary of American Biography is cited as the Dictionary of National Biog- raphy.-A.L. Selected Reference Books of 1974-75 f 313 SYMBOLS Vries, Ad de. Dictionary of Symbols and Imagery. Amsterdam, North-Holland Pub. Co., [1974]. 515p. $40. 73-86087. This interesting work is not a dictionary of rigorous definitions, but, rather, a com- pendium of connotations, attempting to draw together the wealth of subtle associa- tions that particular symbols and images have accumulated throughout centuries of Western civilization. The scope of the work is broadly defined to include symbols, al- legories, metaphors, signs, types, images, common words, proper names, etc., accom- panied by their associations in folklore, mythology, literature, religion, heraldry, psychology, or any other context in which they have taken on some special meaning or significance. As a result of covering such a wide range of words and including many more than just the major or most common associations for each one, the "definitions" themselves, though rich and diverse, are brief, sometimes almost to the point of being cryptic. In its attempt to "prevent too limited an approach to imagery (by showing the am- biguity of many symbols)" (Pref.), the book emphasizes quantity and diversity rather than selectivity or consistency, so that there is no "standard" for the amount or type of information given, even in defi- nitions for words within the same category (e.g., signs of the zodiac). The many cita- tions to written sources provide the reader with the opportunity to clarify and expand his understanding of a word's use; unfor- tunately, these citations include only the barest minimum of bibliographic informa- tion and :rely heavily on unkeyed abbrevia- tions.-A.L. SociAL SciENCEs Encyclopedia of Sociology. Guilford, Conn., Dushkin Pub. Group, [197 4]. 330p. il. $5.95 pa. 73-87072. Peter J. O'Connell, ed. Addressed to the layman and designed "to fill specific informational needs [in the field of sociology] as clearly, comprehen- sively, and concisely as possible" (Pref.), this dictionary of some 1,300 articles cov- ers terminology, sociological theories, insti- tutions of society, concepts, historical rna- terial, biographies of social scientists of the past and present, and research findings in the related social sciences of psychology, economics, anthropology, political science, and history. Entries are short (up to 2,500 words), specific, and arranged in one alphabet; all but the briefest are signed. There is no in- dex, but a vigorous effort has been made to substitute for one through the liberal use of see also references; "subject maps" and "item guides," devices showing relation- ships and organization of specific articles within a large subject; and "consult refer- ences" directing the user to titles in the substantial bibliography that concludes the work. Graphs, charts, tables, and photo- graphs are used to advantage throughout on a three-column page, two devoted to text and one to illustration. Work has al- ready begun on a revised edition. Libraries at every level will welcome this addition to the reference collection.-R.K. Pine-Coffin, R. S. Bibliography of British and American Travel in Italy to 1860. Firenze, Olschki, 197 4. 371p. facsim. (Biblioteca di bibliografia italiana, 76) Students of social history will be inter- ested in this bibliography of first-hand ac- counts of Italy by British and American travelers over a period of more than 400 years. A long introductory essay is followed by two chronological lists, one British (which includes some translations of conti- nental authors), the other American; each is arranged by date of journey and incor- porates bibliographical details of first publi- cation together with a brief descriptive an- notation. A third, considerably shorter, sec- tion is devoted to works on the value and purpose of travel. Only general travel ac- counts have been selected; those devoted to special subjects have been excluded, as have imaginative verse and prose. Indexes of persons; anonymous titles; places; pub- lishers, printers, and booksellers add refer- ence value.-R.K. Pino, Frank. Mexican Americans; A Re- search Bibliography. [East Lansing], Lat- in American Studies Center, Michigan State Univ., 1974. 2v. $10 pa. 74-620088. In accordance with its aim to be an "in- 314 1 College & Research Libraries • July 1975 terdisciplinary guide to the study of the Mexican American," this bibliography cov- ers a wide range of materials. Books, arti- cles, master's theses, doctoral dissertations, government documents, and film~ are listed by author within thirty-five subJect group- ings. These run the gamut from traditional fields of study such as "sociology" and "anthropology" to newer areas such as "cinema-television," "images," and "Mexi- can American literature." Scholars will be especially grateful for bibliographical gu~d­ ance in these less well-trodden areas. Lib- eral cross-references between the sections increase the usefulness of the work, al- though a detailed subject index would ha.ve been preferable for some purposes. For m- stance, the "Bibliography" section will be a help to librarians and researchers, but be- cause of its length (sixty-seven pages) the lack of a subject index makes using it a tedious process. The faults of the bibliogra- phy, however, are far outweighed by the scope and depth of its coverage, and any scholar doing research in Mexican Ameri- can studies should certainly consult it.- D.A.S. Women's Rights Almanac, 1974- . Nancy Gager, ed ~ Bethesda, Md., Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pub. Co., 1974- . 620p. $4.95. 74-77527. This almanac, the first of what one hopes will become a long annual series, is crammed with names, addresses, statistics, biographies, chronologies? bibliographies- almost a report on the status of the wom- en's rights movement. The volume begins with a state-by-state survey giving for each state, the District of Columbia, and United States territories, demographic information and a directory of elected women officials, women's organizations, commissions, and social service agencies. The next section does the same at the national level, adding information on federal legislation affecting women. A collection of essays relating to various women's issues follows, each essay concluding with a list of sources for further information. These lists are supplemented by book lists and a bibliography of bibliog- raphies. There is a detailed index. And all this for $4.951-E.M. PoLITICAL SciENCE Kanet, Roger E. Soviet & East European Foreign Policy; A Bibliography of En- glish- & Russian-language Publications 1967-1971. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC Clio, [1974] . 208p. $15.75. 73-76444. Employing an author arrangement with detailed subject index, this bibliography lists more than 3,200 references to books and pe~iodical articles. The compiler has aimed at inclusiveness; entries are not anno- tated. Articles were drawn from about 180 periodicals, and "all non-Soviet items pub- lished in English noted by the editor are included," as are all "Russian-language and Soviet-published materials that concern Soviet or East European foreign policy di- rectly."-Pref. Also included is "a selection of Soviet books and articles which deal primarily with such general topics as de- veloping countries and imperialism and also concern Soviet or East European foreign policy." Russian-language items are given in transliteration, with a translation of the title supplied in brackets. Belated appearance of volumes of the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies covering 1967-72 has somewhat alleviated the need for recent bibliographic coverage in the area of Soviet and East European foreign policy, but Kanet' s compilation will be useful both for its cumulative aspect and for the more spe- cific subject approach which it provides.- E.S. Khalidi Walid and Khadduri, Jill, eds. Pale~ine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; An Annotated Bibliography. Beirut, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1974. 736p. Although they have gathered only a "core of sources" on the Palestine question and based their work entirely on the library resources of Beirut, the editors seem to have exploited these resources fully and in- telligently in their aim of building a base for future bibliographic work on this topic. Indeed, they intend to carry on that work themselves by producing supplements every five years. All the material is related to political life; thus, religious and physical topics are excluded unless they are otherwise relevant. Selected Reference Books of 1974-75 I 315 As reflected in the title, Palestine's role in the conflict is the central concern, and the material is arranged by subject, era, and the role of other groups (other Arabs, Zionists, Israelis, Great Powers, international bodies, etc.) during the 1880-1971 period. Within nine major subject sections and four major time periods there are more than . a hundred subdivisions. Special sections are provided for: General sources; Historical back- ground; and The Palestinian people, 1948- 1967 and 1967-1971. Many cross-refer- ences attempt to tighten this arrangement and to compensate for lack of a subject in- dex. Entries include an English translation of foreign-language titles, notes on the lan- guage of the work, and full citation to any translation. Most entries are succinctly an- notated either with a summary of content _ or a judgment of research value. The ma- jority of sources selected for this bibliogra- phy will be available in research libraries around the world (many government docu- ments, United Nations publications, journal articles, etc., are included) and it should prove a useful compilation.-M.A.M. Mackie, Thomas T. and Rose, Richard. The International Almanac of Electoral His- tory. New York, Free Pr., [1974]. 434p. $15. 74-11577. The purpose of this work, according to the introduction, is to "provide a complete and accurate compilation of election re- sults" in twenty-three Western nations. The countries selected represent those industrial societies which have held regular competi- tive elections since the end of World War II. For each country a brief historical summary of the electoral system and laws is given. Next comes a list of the political parties, followed by a list of the exact dates of each election. Finally, election results are given by total number and percentage of votes for each party and the number and percentage of seats that each party won. For countries with bicameral legislatures, election results for the "most important" house are given. Sources are cited at the end of each section. The Almanac is helpful in bringing to- gether in compact format information for which one would otherwise have to consult several sources. However, there are omis- sions which should be noted. First, it omits precisely those countries for which election statistics are most difficult to locate, namely African, Asian, Latin American, and East European nations. (The only country in- cluded from these regions is the Republic of South Africa.) Also, although claiming to give complete election results for the countries selected, statistics for only one branch of government are usually given. Thus, the chapter on the United States deals only with the presidential races; omis- sion of figures for congressional races results in an incomplete and sometimes misleading picture. The same criticism is probably ap- plicable to other countries. This volume is one of a series on electoral behavior spon- sored by the International Political Science Association and the International Sociologi- cal Association; one hopes that future stud- ies will retain the positive qualities of this one while rectifying its omissions.-P.A.C. GEOGRAPHY Harris, Chauncy D. Guide to Geographical Bibliographies and Reference Works in Russian or on the Soviet Union; Annotat- ed List of 2660 Bibliographies or Refer- ence Aids. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, Dept. of Geography, 1975. 478p . maps. (Chicago. Univ. Dept. of Geography. Research paper, no.164) $5. 74-84784. Addressed to those "who wish to become informed on the corpus of serious scientific work in geography and related disciplines published in Russian . . . or dealing with the geography of the Soviet Union," this work presents "a relatively comprehensive inventory of bibliographies published in the Soviet Union on all fields of geography" and includes "a selection of the more im- portant reference materials in Russian of particular geographic value, such as atlases, statistical sources, encyclopedias, hand- books, gazetteers, geographical dictionaries and biographical directories" (Pref.). It reads, in fact, like a Winchell of Russian geography. Coverage is primarily of 1946-1973 'pub- lications, with earlier works listed selective- ly. Bibliographies separately published and those in major monographs (listing more than a hundred references) are included. 316 I College & Research Libraries • July 1975 A classed arrangement is followed under these main divisions: General bibliographi- cal aids; Reference works and associated bibliographies; Systematic fields of geogra- phy (i.e., physical, economic, history, meth- ods); Regional geography: the Soviet Union; Regional geography of areas outside the Soviet Union; Bibliographies and refer- ence works on the Soviet Union in Western languages; Note on sources. While the book's principal audience will, of course, be interested geographers, librarians will find useful the identification and descrip- tions of hundreds of social science sources. Entries include full bibliographical infor- mation, translation of title, and descriptive annotation. An index of authors, titles, sponsoring institutions, subjects, and places adds reference value.-R.K. HISTORY AND AREA STUDIES Abajian, James de T., comp. Blacks and Their Contributions to the American West; A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings through 1970. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1974. 487p. $29.50. 74-8695. This solidly impressive bibliography notes and locates materials by black authors and about black activities in Alaska, Ari- zona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The great majority of its over 4,300 items were located in a survey of 155 California li- braries; roughly twenty-five other libraries, principally in the western United States but also including the Library of Congress, Howard University, and the Schomburg Collection, contributed other titles; still oth- ers were found in newspaper or wire ser- vices offices, private collections, etc. Ac- cording to the compiler, the preponderance of California-related titles is due to its long history, proportionately larger black popula- tion, and the analysis of the 1965 Watts riots; also, the initial impetus and funds for the bibliography were supplied by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Li- brary. Mr. Abajian has eschewed general black studies books and sources listed in the Readers' Guide and the Index to Periodical Articles by and about Negroes in favor of local imprints, specific information, and ob- scure titles unlikely to be picked up in gen- eral bibliographies; the exception is the in- clusion of all titles of Western black author- ship other than scholarly work in Mrican studies. Cited are: books and parts of books; periodical and newspaper articles; federal, state, and local government docu- ments; doctoral dissertations and master's theses; oral history tapes, typescripts, and other manuscripts; and ephemeral materi- als, e.g., term papers, booksellers' catalogs, scrapbooks, broadsides, legal transcripts, publications by private associations, etc. Very brief descriptive notes are sometimes given to clarify content. A list of black periodicals and newspapers from the region is followed by an author/ subject index. The compiler laments the lack of atten- tion, staff, and funding given to the acqui- sition of local and regional imprints and primary source materials in the Western states. He also indicates that only the Cali- fornia State Archives have been investigat- ed in any detail for this compilation, and further research would probably uncover many valuable collections. Despite the modest disclaimer that this is not a "defini- tive" bibliography, it is a valuable contribu- tion and will probably encourage the collec- tion and utilization of resources in the field. -D.C. Encyclopedia of Latin America. Ed. by Helen Delpar. N.Y., McGraw-Hill, [1974]. 651p. il. $29.95. 74-1036. More than a hundred scholars, mainly from United States colleges and universi- ties, have contributed to this new compila- tion which is intended as a "comprehensive yet concise reference book offering authori- tative information on the history, economy, politics, arts and other aspects of Latin America."-Introd. It treats - the eighteen Spanish-speaking republics plus Brazil, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, with a survey arti- de included for each of these countries. Emphasis is ori the national period of Latin American history, but attention is given to important colonial figures, events, and in- stitutions. An alphabetical arrangement is employed, and there are numerous see and see alsQ references. Articles are signed; only the longer ones include bibliographical ref- Selected Reference Books of 1974-75 I 317 erences. Thus, biographical sketches of fig- ures in literature and the arts seldom in- clude suggestions for further reading, al- though a "Select bibliography of bibliogra- phies" (p.649-51) is intended as partial compensation for this lack.-E.S. Encyclopaedia Rhodesia. Contributing edi- tors: Peter Bridger [and others. Salisbury, Rhodesia, College Pr., 1973]. 448p. $12.50. 74-165100. Although the editors have made no claim to comprehensiveness, this . volume brings together information on Rhodesia, which, were it available at all in other sources, would have to be retrieved with consider- able effort. The work is divided into three sections. The first and most lengthy is the "encyclopedic" section, which is an alpha- betic listing of short, unsigned entries deal- ing with all aspects of Rhodesian life. A major emphasis has been placed on flora and fauna, but there are numerous entries which deal with geography, biography, and the structure of the central government. This section is well illustrated with draw- ings and photographs, and each geographic entry has been keyed to a large foldout map in the second section. The relatively short map section serves as a mini-econom- ic-atlas of Rhodesia. The appendixes which make up the last section include statistical tables, historical documents, lists of princi- pal administrators, and a chronology. As the first work of its kind devoted to Rhodesia, the ready-reference value cannot be mini- mized. However, one would hope that in future editions, instead of blanket acknowl- edgments to government agencies, exact citations to sources of statistical tables, etc., be given.-B.W. Pearson, James Douglas, ed. A Bibliography of Pre-Islamic Persia. [London], Man- sell, 1975. 288p. (Persian studies ser., 2) £11. About 7,300 items are included in this bibliography which employs a classed ar- rangement with author index. There are four principal sections, each with appropri- ate subdivisions: (a) Languages and litera- tures; (b) History; (c) Religion; and (d) Art and archaeology. A full table of con- tents facilitates use, but there is no detailed subject index. The compilation "represents an attempt to include all the [relevant] printed literature available in western European languages" (Introd.), with the addition of selected publications in Persian. Spot-checking turned up no publications later than 1970; items not examined by the compilers are marked with an asterisk. There is a list of periodicals consulted (with indication of dates of coverage) and another list of "Festschriften and collective works consulted."-E.S. Stember, Sol. The Bicentennial Guide to the American Revolution. N.Y., Saturday Review Pr., E. P. Dutton, 197 4. 3v. 73- 23108. Contents: v.l, The war in the North, from Fort Ticonderoga to Concord Bridge. 39lp. $4.95; v.2, The middle colonies, from Washington Crossing to Valley Forge. 173p. $3.95; v.3, The war in the South, from Savannah to Yorktown. 217p. $3.95. Mr. Stember has visited over 600 sites of Revolutionary War battles in order to provide as complete a description as pos- sible of each site for the armchair traveler and the vacationer. He compares the battle- field as it is now with the battlefield as it appeared 200 years ago, placing the de- scriptions in a geographically arranged nar- rative detailing the campaigns and the events of the war in the individual states and cities. Though not a conventional reference book, there is much factual information here to supplement Boatner's Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (e.g., that the site where Nathan Hale was hanged was 46th Street and 1st A venue in New York City). Most libraries will want these vol- umes in a circulating collection, and some may not feel they can afford the luxury of adding another set of this very readable touring guide to the reference collection.- E.M. U.S. National Archives and Records Ser- vice. Guide to Materials on Latin Ameri- ca in the National Archives of the United States, by George S. Ulibarri and John P. Harrison. Wash., 1974. 489p. $7.85. 74-600051. This work supersedes the 1961 volume 318 I College & Research Libraries • July 1975 of virtually the same title (Guide DB114). The companion volume promised for the earlier publication was never issued; and, as the first volume was out of print, it was decided to issue a new guide to Latin American source materials in the National Archives. The new guide incorporates en- tries from the 1961 work along with "de- scriptions of pertinent records of the execu- tive, legislative and judicial branches of the government that were not included in the earlier guide" (Introd.). The descriptions are detailed, giving size of the collection, indexes or finding aids, specific restrictions on the file, and an extensive discussion of representative, documents "in sufficient de- tail, both as to type and content, so that the reader can reasonably be expected to deter- mine the value for his purpose of other rec- ords in the group or series described." There is an index of issuing bodies, geo- graphic names, and significant subjects, plus appendixes giving lists of National Ar- chives files available on microfilm, and lists of diplomatic and consular posts with archival records. For the 1961 edition the diplomatic and consular post records were described by means of two folded maps which are not included with the new edi- tion; since these are useful graphic repre- sentations, librarians may want to keep them with the 1974 volume. Research workers in Latin American studies will be pleased to have these great archives so well described, and the National Archives and Records Service is to be con- gratulated on another in its continuing se- Iies of finding aids.-E.M. Writings on American History; A Subject Bibliography of Articles, 1973/74- . Wash., American Historical Assoc.; Mill- wood, N.Y., Kraus-Thomson, 1974- Annual. ([v.l] 266p., $13.50) 74-13435. James J. Dougherty, compiler-editor. The last volume of the previous series of Writing-s on American History (Guide DB25) covered the year 1960 and was published in 1972. The great time lag was a matter of some concern to historians, and the decision to try a different approach has resulted in this new series. In this first vol- ume, articles cited in the "Recently Pub- lished Articles" section of the American Historical Review for the period June 1973- June 197 4 have been assigned subject head- ings and arranged in a chronological, geo- graphical, and subject framework; there is an author index. Rather than risk increasing the time lag, entries were not annotated. The list of journals at the beginning of the volume includes a number of foreign- language journals and some · conference and symposium papers. In future volumes the editors hope to be able to add books, disser- tations, and F estschriften as well , as more journals. Librarians and researchers will be grateful to the association and the publish- er for their efforts to cope with the problem of currency; that they did not succumb to the temptation of indexing by keyword-in- title is a blessing. One hopes that a detailed topical index will he added in later vol- umes. What are the plans for covering the in- terim years? The American Historical Asso- ciation has announced that Writings on American History, 1961, is in press; 1962- 1973 will be covered by a cumulative bib- liography to be published by Kraus-Thom- son later this year. The new series will be continued annually.-E.M. NEw EDITIONS AND CoNTINUATIONS Having outgrown the two-volume format of the eleventh edition (1968; Suppl. 3AA 31), the twelfth edition of The Reader's Adviser is to be in three volumes. Volume one, covering "the best in American and British fiction, poetry, essays, literary biog- raphy, bibliography, and reference," has appeared under the editorship of Sarah L. Prakken (N.Y., Bowker, 1974. 808p. $23.50). "For the first time the work of revising each chapter of the first volume of this edition has been entrusted to a single editor who has special expertise in the area of his chapter."-Pref. Jean Peters is the editor of the fifth edi- tion of The Bookman's Glossary (N.Y., Bowker, 1975. 169p. $10.50), a revised and expanded edition in enlarged format. The appendix of terms from the foreign book trade found in the previous edition (Guide AA227) has been omitted since this information is readily available in vol- umes devoted to that topic. Selected Reference Books of 1974-75 I 319 Subject Collections; A Guide to Special Book Collections and Subject Emphases, compiled by Lee Ash, has appeared in a fourth revised and enlarged edition (N.Y., Bowker, 197 4. 908p. $38.50). The work is ~ow computer-produced to make for easier expansion and updating of future editions; yet, despite wider coverage in the new vol- ume, the editor points out that some listings from the previous edition (Suppl. 2AB13) have been dropped for various reasons (e.g., at the request of the holding library or because a library failed to respond to the compiler's questionnaires). The third volume of the German-English part of Harrap's Standard German and En- glish Dictionary, covering L-R, has now ap- peared (London, Harrap, 1974. £ 15). Like the previous volumes (Guide AE271; Suppl. 2AE42), this one was edited by Trevor Jones. Biographical sketches of more than 38,- 000 scholars appear in the sixth edition of the Directory of American Scholars (N.Y., Bowker, 1974. 4v. $148.50). The four- volume division follows that of the previous edition (1969; Suppl. 3AJ9); cross-refer- ences are again supplied for figures active in more than one 'discipline; and a complete alphabetical index of biographees appears in volume four. A new feature is the geo- graphic index at the end of each volume. Nearly 590 numbered items are included in the fifth edition of Richard D. Altick and Andrew Wright's Selective Bibliography· for the Study of English & American Litera- ture (N.Y., Macmillan, 1974. 168p. $2.95 pa.). As in earlier editions (Suppl. 2BD 44), alternate pages of the bibliographic section of this now standard guide are left blank for student notes. Theses and Dissertations on Asians in the United States, compiled by Paul M. Ong and William Wong Lum (Davis, Asian American Studies, Dept. of Applied Be- havioral Sciences, Univ. of Calif., 197 4. 113p. $3.50 pa.) represents a major revi- sion and expansion of Lum's Asians in America (1970; Suppl. 3CC19). It lists 1,372 items in topical arrangement, with keyword and author indexes. Frederick J. Dockstader's The American Indian in Grad- uate Studies; A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations first appeared in 1957 (Guide CC67); it was reprinted in a second edi- tion in 1973, omitting the addenda, p.362- 64, and the index. A companion volume designated as "Part 2" has now appeared (N.Y., Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1974. 426p.; Museum Contributions, v.l5, pt.2), covering theses and dissertations of 1955-70. It continues the item numbering from the main section of Part I (i.e., beginning with item 3,660) and incorporates the addenda from the original volume into the alphabetical author sequence of Part 2. A new index to both volumes is provided; the total number of entries is now 7,446. "Edition 5" of The Foundation Directory (Guide CA35) has recently appeared un- der the editorship of Marianno 0. Lewis (N.Y., Foundation Center, 1975; distr. by Columbia Univ. Pr. 516p. $30) . This edi- tion lists 2,533 foundations having either $1 million or more in assets or $500,000 or more in grants reported. Arrangement fol- lows that of the fourth edition (1971), with the addition of a new supplementary index which lists foundations under the cities in which they are located. FOur supplements "are planned for the period before appear- ance of Edition 6 in !917."-Introd. A "two-in-one" publication entitled Bu- reau of the Census Catalog of Publications: 1790-1972 (Washington, 1974. 320p., 59lp. $7.10) reprints the bureau's Catalog of United States Census Publications 1790- 1945 ( 1950; Guide CG42) and adds a new section covering some 6,000 bureau publi- cations of the 1946-72 period. This latter section is based primarily on the annual is- sues of the bureau's Catalog (Guide CG41) for the years in question. Each of the two sections has its own index. The revised edition of Walter Laqueur' s A Dictionary of Politics (N.Y., Free Pr., 1974. 565p. $14.95) includes references to events and new developments through early 1973. The "Bicentennial Edition" of Mark Mayo Boatner's Encyclopedia of the Ameri- can Revolution (N.Y., McKay, 1974. 1290p. $17.50) is a reprinting, with minimal chan- ges and emendations, of the 1966 edition (Suppl. IDB3). A few bibliographic ref- erences to recent publications have been supplied in the text, but apart from a brief "Addendum" (p.l273) the general bibliog- 320 I College & Research Libraries • July 1975 raphy has not been updated. Admiralty Officials, 1660- 1870, compiled by J. C. Sainty (London, Athlone Pr., 1974. 161p.) forms the fifth volume of the series Office-Holders in Modern Britain. As in the preceding volumes, chronological lists by offices and departments are followed by an alphabetical list of officials; agam, a schol- arly introduction and useful notes are fea- tures. The fourth edition, revised and expand- ed, of Robert G. Albion's Naval & Mari- time History; An Annotated Bibliography (Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1973. 370p. £ 6.95) combines the listings from the third edition ( 1963; Suppl. 2EI32) and its two supplements with new listings for works published through mid-1971. More than 5,000 entries are now included. Mter having undergone a number of changes of title, frequency, etc., the Amer- ican Chemical Society's List of Periodicals (Guide ED12) is now appearing as the CAS Source Index. The "1907-1974 cumu- lative" (Columbus, Ohio, Chemical Ab- stracts Service, 1975. 2v. $200) "cumulates nearly 40,000 entries into one alphabetical sequence and carries title abbreviations based on international standards." As be- fore, entries are arranged alphabetically, letter-by-letter, according to abbreviated form of the title; locations of files are indi- cated for 398 libraries (326 in the United States; 72 in foreign countries). 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