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profiles have been based.-Wesley T. 
Brandhorst, Director, ERIC Processing and 
Reference Facility, Bethesda, Maryland. 

Comparative & International Library Sci-
ence. Edited by John F. Harvey. 
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977. 
286p. $12. LC 77-8923. ISBN 0-8108-
1060-3. 
The literature of comparative and interna-

tional librarianship is beginning to bulge, 
and this work is another addition to the 
field. It is a collection of essays written by 
individuals whose names are well known in 
comparative and international librarianship. 
Harvey's introduction presents the 
framework and gives the parameters of the 
contributions. The purposes, as stated by 
the editor, are legitimate ones: "to describe 
and assess significant and recent progress in 
comparative and international library sci-
ence." In general, the essays are well writ-
ten, ranging from original and excellent to a 
rehashing of work done in other sources. 

Part I, "Definitions and Research," is led 
by J. Periam Danton's pithy essay on the 
inadequacies of definitions of comparative 
and international library science. His 
critique begins with work done since 1972, 
since there have been several competently 
done prior to that date by Simsova, Harvey, 
and Danton. Including D. J. Foskett's 
analysis of comparative studies in other 
fields is an excellent idea and helps to draw 
parallels between theoretical problems in 
comparative studies in such fields as educa-
tion, history, and linguistics. Frank L. 
Schiek' s years of experience with library 
statistics makes his brief paper on problems 
in comparative library science a solid con-
tribution. 

Part II is a miscellaneous section con-
cerned with recent progress in international 
and comparative librarianship. The thirteen 
papers cover a wide range of subjects: "In-
ternational Organizations," "National Or-
ganizations," "National Library Services," 
"Public Libraries," "Children's Library Sci-
ence," "The Changing Role of Audio-Visual 
Media," "Comparative and International 
Bibliography," "Multi-Culturalism, Librar-
ies, and International Terminology," and 
"Art Library Science." The Kaser essay on 
nine international organizations is analytical 

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and gives an interesting approach to the 
role of organizations in international library 
science. Horrocks' paper is limited' to na-
tional organizations in Canada, Britain, and 
the United States. Aman's treatment of the 
current status of world bibliography is 
scholarly and includes Third World nations 
but ignores, as an example, the regional 
bibliography of Oceania. The independent 
nations of Papua New Guinea and Fiji have 
national bibliographies. 

Other noteworthy essays are on compara-
tive and international library studies in 
library education, international children's 
literature, and an international look at the 
changing role of multimedia in education. 

This collection of essays leaves one hope-
ful that comparative and international 
library science is building a body of knowl-
edge, despite the growing pains. The work 
should be of general interest to librarians, 
and most certainly to the growing band of 
internationalists in the field.-Miles M. 
jackson, Professor, Graduate School of Li-
brary Studies, University of Hawaii at 
Manoa, Honolulu. 

Huq, A. M. Abdul, and Aman, Mohammed 
M. Librarianship and the Third World: 
An Annotated Bibliography of Selected 
Literature on Developing Nations, 1960-
1975. Garland Reference Library of Social 
Science, v.40. New York: Garland Pub-
lishing, 1977. 372p. $32. LC 76-30916. 
ISBN 0-8240-9897-8. 
The 1,475 entries composing this system-

atic bibliography appear under three types 
of headings: (1) "international," for refer-
ences to developing countries jn general, to 
more than one continent, or to international 
and comparative librarianship in relation to 
the Third World; (2) twelve categories for 
regions (e.g., "Asia, South," "British Com-
monwealth," "Middle East"); and (3) sixty-
nine individual countries. For the compil-
ers, the newly developing countries in 
Africa, Asia, and Latin America constitute 
the Third World; thus excluded are Euro-
pean nations, U.S., Canada, USSR, Au-
stralia, New Zealand, China, and Japan. 
Even so, not all countries find a place 
here-among them Cambodia, Uruguay, 
and several in Central America-
presumably because the authors encoun-