College and Research Libraries Recent Publications Downs, Robert B. Books That Changed the South, reviewed by Richard Harwell 253 National and International Library Planning, reviewed by Sylvia G. Faibisoff . 255 SCONUL Seminar on Practical MARC Cataloging, 2d. Practical MARC Cata- loging, reviewed by Robert H. Breyfogle . . 256 MARC Users' Group. Proceedings of a Conference, reviewed by Robert H. Brey- fogle .. . . . . . . 256 Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange. Proceedings, First CLENE Assembly, reviewed by Mary B. Cassata . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Continuing Education Opportunities for Library, Information, and Media Per- sonnel, reviewed by Mary B. Cassata . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Borchardt, D. H., and Horacek, J. I. Librarianship in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, reviewed by Judith P. Cannan . . . 260 Chen, Ching-chih. Biomedical, Scientific & Technical Book Reviewing, reviewed by Jeanne Osborn . . . . . 260 Computer-Readable Bibliographic Data Bases, reviewed by Patricia E. Vaughan 261 Pitkin, Gary M. Serials Automation in the United States, reviewed by Jean Hawks 262 Sheehy, Eugene P. Guide to Reference Books, 9th ed. , reviewed by Christine R. Longstreet . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Ray, Gordon N. The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, re- viewed by Joan M. Friedman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 WiUiam Morris and the Art of the Book, reviewed by Joan M. Friedman . 265 Anders, Mary Edna. Libraries and Library Services in the Southeast, reviewed by Mary A. McKenzie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Sullivan, Peggy. Carl H. Milam and the American Library Association, reviewed by W. L. Williamson . . . . . . . . . 267 Milam, Carl H. Carl H. Milam and the United Nations Library, reviewed by W. L. Williamson . 267 Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Other Publications of Interest to Academic Librarians . 273 BOOK REVIEWS Downs, Robert B. Books That Changed the South. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Caro- lina Pr., 1977. 292p. $10.95. LC 76- 13181. ISBN 0-8078-1286-2. Bob Downs is a believer in books-in books and libraries. In Books That Changed the South he continues to bring the mes- sage of the book in the same pattern he has in five earlier volumes, Books That Changed the World, Famous American Books, Molders of the Modern Mind, and so on. The geographical scope of the new book is more limited than before, but there is still plenty of room for Downs to illus- trate that the cultural history of a society is demonstrated in its books. In Books That Changed the South Downs discusses in thoroughly researched essays twenty-five important works ranging from John Smith's The Generall H istorie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624) to C. Vann Woodward's Ori- gins of the New South, 1877-1913 (1951) . His criteria for inclusion in his work rule out the last quarter-century. The works be- tween 1624 and 1951 include such diverse items as Mason Locke Weems' The Life of Washington the Great ( 1800?), Augustus B. Longstreet's Georgia Scenes (1835), George W. Cable's Old Creole Days (1879), and W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South (1941). Downs seems to have made a special ef- fort for a full and fair representation of blacks among the authors he covers. His list includes Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery (1901), and W . E. B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk (1903). Two other books, I 253 254 I College & Research Libraries • May 1977 Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South ( 1857) and Frances Anne Kemble's ]oumal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 ( 1863), are forceful anti-slavery docu- ments, and blacks and their progress figure strongly in at least half a dozen of the other works. Downs attacks his work head-on. There is no beating about the bush, no essay- inspired-by sort of criticism. He tells suc- cinctly what a book is about and then re- lates the reactions of the readers, critics, and historians to it. There is seldom any critical estimate of the work that is ex- pressed as Downs' own. This is a perfectly legitimate technique, but a reader-this reader, at any rate--wishes that Downs would draw more from his wide experience as a historian of books in stating his per- sonal opinions. The compiler of a list of books sets up his own criteria, stakes out his own bound- aries, writes his own ground rules. To argue with Downs' selections is to do a sort of second-hand tilting with windmills. But it is not impossible to dream of a few changes in the list. Additions are easy to suggest: Mary Boy kin Chesnut's A Diary from Dixie first and foremost; if not Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road or God's Little Acre, then the superb You Have Seen Tbeir Faces that he did with Margaret Bourke- White; John Wesley's journal while in America; Will Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee; Beverly N. Tucker's The Partisan Leader; Douglas Southall Free- man's R. E. Lee; Frances Peyre Porcher's Resources of the Southern Fields and For- ests; The Case of the Cherokee Nation Against the State of Georgia ... 1831; John Est en Cooke's The Wearing of the Gray; Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind; Charles Col cock Jones's Religious Instruction of the Negroes, and on and on. Not all of these are books that "changed" the South, but neither are all in Downs' list. "Change" is a word that sounds fine in the title, but Mr. Downs wavers in insisting on change as a criterion. Fair enough. The CAN YOU KEEP UP? Can you keep abreast of all of the new books coming out in the literature of our profession? SURE YOU CAN! In the two years that the Journal has been published, more than 1800 reviews and informative annotations describing new books have been published in the JAL Guide to New Books and Book Reviews. Where else could you have found the essence of 1800 reviews of so many books? Think of the time saved! SO IS IT POSSIBLE TO KEEP UP? You bet it is! With the Journal of Academic Librarianship. Academic Librarianship P.O. Box 3496 • BOULDER, CO 80307 Personal. . .$ 14 Institutional. . .$25 Schoo1library . . . $14 Small library ... $14 books he treats are interesting and impor- tant. That's the main thing. But I would certainly make room for Mrs. Chesnut and for Margaret Mitchell in the list (and there- by, incidentally, give Fanny Kemble some female companionship). If any single Southern book reflects an era as fully and as delightfully as Mrs. Chesnut's diary, I do not know what it is. And if Mr. Downs thinks In Ole Virginia and Gone With the Wind belong directly in the same tradi- tion, I can only conclude that he has never read them. To make room for other titles in the list obviously something must come out. The reviewer would shirk half his duty to sug- gest only additions. Deletions might legiti- mately be Weems' Washington, Edward King's The Great South, Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, Page's In Ole Virginia, and C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South. One suspects that Mr. Downs was a bit too anxious for chronological coverage. This is a good book, a book that is fun to argue with. And that is one of the things books are for.-Richard Harwell, Universi- ty of Georgia, Athens. National and International Library Plan- ning. Key Papers Presented at the 40th Session of the IFLA General Council, Washington, D.C., 1974. Edited by Rob- ert Vosper and Leone I. Newkirk. IFLA Publications, 4. Miinchen: Verlag Doku- mentation, 1976. 162p. DM 38. ISBN 3- 7940-4424-X. Although it is most unfortunate that the many papers presented at the 1974 General Council of the International Federation of Library Associations have not been pub- lished, at least twelve of the papers, singled out as key papers, appear in this new vol- ume. The publication of these papers two years after the session again points out the serious time lag that exists between a con- ference and the publication of its proceed- ings. In this particular case, however, five of the contributions in this volume have also appeared in the 1975 Bowker Annual. The editors indicate that the papers se- lected for inclusion were intended to heighten awareness and to suggest the variety of national experiences in differing Recent Publications I 255 cultural situations and at different levels of library experience. This collection deals with five aspects of national and international library planning: objectives; developments in selected coun- tries; academic and research libraries and national planning; planning of national li- braries; and, finally, some aspects of library education and manpower planning. The editors acknowledge that there are many gaps in the collection. There are no papers on public libraries and national planning or on such important topics as statistics, planning methodologies, and curricular re- form. The first two papers by Robert Vosper and C. R. Zaher deal primarily with trends in interdependence, the essential tools re- quired for planning, programs for multi-na- tional cooperation such as UBS, IFLA's program for universal bibliographic control, and NATIS, Unesco's National Information Systems. Papers dealing with state-of-the-art sur- veys of national planning in selected coun- tries are presented by Frederick Burkhardt (U.S.), H. T. Hookway (Great Britain), N. M. Sikorsky (Soviet Union) , George Kaltwasser (Federal Republic of Ger- many), and Joyce I. Robinson (Jamaica). The strength and credibility of these pa- pers lie in their authorship; their weakness lies in the lack of documentation. These papers provide a striking contrast between the comprehensive and sophisticat- ed plans for the nationwide integration of libraries and documentation in the de- veloped nations and the frustrations en- countered by planners in a developing nation where librarianship is a barely recog- nized profession and the relevance of libraries is yet to be established. Of the remaining papers dealing with specific problems that require attention at the national level, those presented by F. A. Ogunsheye and Hedwig Anuar are particu- larly noteworthy. Ogunsheye provides an excellent summary on the development of library schools, the structure of the library profession, and the distribution of library manpower in African nations. Anuar dis- cusses concepts, functions, and implementa- tion of plans for national libraries in sev- eral countries in Southeast Asia and the Philippines.