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Letters 

Bibliography of Africana 

To the Editor: 
Hans Panofsky' s Bibliography of Africana 

may be every bit as bad as Peter Duignan 
says it is (C&RL, November 1975), but at 
that it is no worse than the judgment of 
whoever selects the C&RL reviewers (and 
Mr. Duignan's judgment in accepting the 
assignment). Surely someone less personal-
ly involved could have been found. If "this 
bibliography cannot stand on its own; it 
must be used in conjunction with another 
reference book-Guide to Research and 
Reference W arks on Sub-Saharan Africa, 
edited by Peter Duignan," the same Peter 
Duignan seems hardly the one to tell us.-
Thelma Freides, Swarthmore College Li-
brary, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. 

Response 

To the Editor: 
I do not understand the Freides objec-

tion. Is she saying that reviewers should not 
review books in fields in which they have 
written? That's a preposterous view! The 
normal scholarly view is that the person 
who has written on the subject of the book 
to be reviewed is the best one to review 
that book. All book review editors that I 
know and have reviewed for operate on 
that premise. I clearly am qualified to pass 
judgment on Panofsky' s book. Others seem 
to agree-three journals asked me to review 
the book. A most unusual consensus of book 
review editors! The C&RL editor is to be 
congratulated, not condemned. 

The major defect of Panofsky's work is 
that it is not a Bibliography of Africana; it 
is a truncated survey which mostly covers 

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material published between 1970 and 1973. 
To label the book a Bibliography of Afri-
cana is inaccurate and misleading to buyer 
and user. And this I said; not, howe~er, to 
exalt my own work or to remove the threat 
of a competitor but simply because it was 
true. Panofsky himself continually refers the 
reader to "Duignan's Guide"! Why would 
not I as a reviewer do the same things 
since it is relevant. Likewise, there was no 
personal malice involved; Panofsky and I 
have been friends for over 15 years and 
have worked on national committees for as 
long a time. The book is simply a badly 
conceived and executed bibliography. It 
would have been unprofessional of me not 
to have reviewed it. 

Finally, my comments about the bibliog-
raphy not being able to stand on its own 
only take up two paragraphs; eight para-
graphs deal with other concrete defects of 
the work-Peter Duignan, Director of 
Africa Program, Hoover Institution, Stan-
ford, California. 

Interlibrary Loan 

To the Editor: 
The review of Thomson's Interlibrary 

Loan Policies Directory (C&RL, Sept. 
1975), states that there is only other work 
of similar nature: A.L.A.'s Directory of 
Reprographic Services. Both are valuable; 
however, any librarian in Canada or one 
who deals with Canadian libraries should be 
aware of the Canadian Library Associa-
tion's Directory of Interlibrary Loan Poli-
cies and ,Photocopy Services in Canadian 
Libraries, Ottawa, 1913.-]udy Kelly, Ref-
erence Department, Library, University of 
Saskatchewan. 

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