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competence, even though these approaches 
present significant potential for establishing 
and expanding their knowledge base and for 
solving ordinary operational problems. Now 
demands for accountability in publicly 
funded programs , the increasing size and 
complexity of libraries and networks , and 
the constantly plummeting costs of com-
puter time suggest that they can no longer 
afford to ignore them. 

On the face of it, a book setting forth the 
use of statistics that takes into account the 
limitations and interests of librarians is 
clearly warranted. For this reason, Car-
penter and Vasu should be thanked for writ-
ing their book , and ALA should be 
applauded for publishing it and , therefore , 
indicating the importance of the subject to 
the profession . Unfortunately , though the 
book ably discusses many of the basics of 
statistics , there are many reasons for con-
sidering this an unfinished work that could 
have been substantially better. 

By " introductory" statistics textbook 
standards , the present volume is slender, 
and as a result of the book's length , several 
important topics are discussed incompletely 
or not at all. For example, while two of the 
five chapters are devoted entirely to sam-
pling and regression , there is hardly any 
mention of probability or the concept of 
statistical independence. Library research 
projects are unlikely to generate data satisfy-
ing the requirements of a valid regression 
model , and it would therefore have been 
helpful to have included material regarding 
control variables and other refinements of 
tabular analysis . From the standpoint of 
their utility to evaluation studies, a discus-
sion of experimental design and analysis of 
variance would also have been desirable. 

The illustrative material could have been 
more provocative ; the many competent and 
interesting studies in the professional litera-
ture might have been drawn upon for this 
purpose or at least mentioned in a bibli-
ography. Working through the sparse selec-
tion of exercise problems is unlikely to in-
spire confidence in the reader that the ma-
terial has been mastered. 

Given these drawbacks , the instructor or 
student may wish to consid~r alternate 
texts. A comparable work by Srikantaiah 
and Hoffman (C&RL , March 1978) picks up 

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more material on research design and 
methodological questions , gives more exer-
cises and a detailed bibliography, but has a 
poorer glossary of terms , less material re-
garding tabular analysis and measures of as-
sociation. Until revisions to either or both of 
these volumes are made , it may unfortu -
nately be better to rely on such generkl-
purpose books as Kerlinger's Foundations of 
Behavioral Research (Holt, Rinehart , 1973) 
or A Basic Course in Statistics by Anderson 
and Zelditch (same publisher, 1975), which 
was written with the specific intention of at-
tracting the student " frightened of 
mathematics. "-Timothy D. Jewell , Bowling 
Gree n Stat e Univ ersity , Bowling Green , 
Ohio. 

Haight, Anne Lyon. Banned Books, 387 
B. C. to 1978 A.D. Fourth Edition of 
Banned Books: Informal Notes .... Up-
dated and enlarged by Chandler B. 
Grannis. With an opening essay by 
Charles Rembar. New York: Bowker, 
1978. 196p. $13.95. LC 78-9720. ISBN 
0-8352-1078-2. 
This new revised edition of Banned Books 

is an important and vital title in the field of 
intellectual freedom. As with the three pre-
vious editions, there is no pretense to 
exhaustiveness. The third edition contained 
a chronological list of books , banned from 
387 B.C . into the 1960s; this edition, the 
fourth , has been expanded by about 60 new 
entries and now covers more than 300 books 
that have been censored, from 387 B.C. to 
the present. The format and content of this 
edition follow that of the earlier ones. It is a 
handbook, a quick reference work that 
shows censorship trends through the years , 
and it covers most of the famous episodes in 
our history of censorship. 

Among the titles are classics and contem-
porary publications, including Homer's The 
Odyssey , Dante ' s Th e Divine Comedy , 
Shakespeare's King Lear, Twain's The Ad-
ventures of Huckleberry Finn , Confort' s The 
Joy of Sex , The American Heritage Diction-
ary , and others . None of the books named 
are banned , at present, in the United States. 

This edition, in Appendix 1, as did the 
third , covers "Trends in Censorship," with 
discussion of the political and religious con-
trol of books , overseas libraries, library cen-



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sorship, paperbound books, . and textbook 
censorship. Added in this section in the 
fourth edition are "Government Papers, the 
CIA, Official Materials," and "Censorship in 
'A Good Cause.' " 

Appendix 2 covers statements on freedom 
of the press from John Milton's 
Areopagitica, from Thomas Jefferson's writ-
ings, from John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, 
from amendments to the Constitution of the 
United States, from the Library Bill of 
Rights, from Eisenhower's letter on intellec-
tual freedom, and from the Freedom to 
Read Statement. 

Appendix 3 contains "Excerpts from Im-
portant Court Decisions." Appendix 4 is an 
added feature and includes excerpts from 
the 1970 U.S. government document, "The 
Report of the Commission on Obscenity and 
Pornography." Appendix 5 is a selection of 
federal statutes and customs and postal reg-
ulations relating to matters of censorship. 
The "Selected Readings and References" at 
the end of the volume will serve as guides 
to further reading and study for persons 
who wish to do additional study in the field 
of intellectual freedom and censorship. 

The informative, witty, and challenging 
essay written by Attorney Charles Rembar, 
which appears after the preface in this edi-
tion of Banned Books, gives an entertaining 
picture of censorship and law in America. 
This lawyer who successfully defended 
Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Cle-
land's Fanny Hill, and Miller's Tropic of 
Cancer describes (among other topics) 
landmark obscenity cases and discusses the 
safeguards of the first amendment. 

Banned Books is a valuable source of in-
formation for educators, librarians, students, 
writers, publishers, and for all people who 
are interested in preserving our First 
Amendment freedoms. -Martha Boaz, Uni-
versity of Southern California, Los Angeles. 

The Copyright Dilemma. Proceedings of a 
Conference Held at Indiana University, 
April 14-15, 1977. Edited by Herbert S. 
White. Chicago: American Library Assn., 
1978. 199p. $8.50. LC 78-5929. ISBN 
0-8389-0262-6. 
This conference had as its focus problems 

of implementation and provisions of the new 
copyright law. As editor White points out in 

the preface, it was hoped that the confer-
ence would provide the environment for 
" ... the development of a solution through 
intensive debate[,] and compromise could 
iildeed result in a rational outcome . . .. 
The proceedings that follow indicate quite 
clearly that this assumption was -highly pre-
mature." For those who have participated in 
or followed the copyright saga and have 
been aware of the tensions between librar-
ians and copyright proprietors in recent 
years, that statement comes as no surprise. 

The conference planners put together a 
panel of distinguished representatives for 
the various viewpoints, providing a balanced 
program of representatives from govern-
ment, publishers, authors, information ser-
vices, as well as various types of library 
interests. The conference began with a his-
torical overview of copyright legislation, 
presented by Professor Maurice Holland of 
the Indiana University ·school of Law. 

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Government representatives included 
Thomas Brennan, chief counsel of the Sen-
ate Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, 
and Copyright; Jon Baumgarten, general 
counsel of the Copyright Office at the Li-
brary of Congress; and Robert Frase, assis-
tant executive director of the Commission 
on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted 
Works (CONTU). Also participating was 
Lee Burchinal, director of the National Sci-
ence Foundation's Division of Science 
Information. 

Representatives of the copyright proprie-
tor community included Irwin Karp, coun-
sel for the Authors League of America; Bella 
Linden, senior partner in the law firm of 
Linden and Deutsch, which has as its 
clients a number of major American pub-
lishers; William Koch, director of publica-
tions for the American Institute of Physics; 
and Paul Zurkowski, president of the Infor-
mation Industry Association. 

Representing the library community were 
Robert Wedgeworth, .executive director of 
the American Library Association; Richard 
de Gennaro, former president of the Associ-
ation of Research Libraries and director of 
the University of Pennsylvania Library; 
Efren Gonzalez, past president and member 
of the copyright committee of the Special 
Libraries Association; and Alphonse Trezza, 
executive director of the National Commis-