College and Research Libraries


190 I College & Research Libraries • March 1979 

Campus is great-why not let librarians and 
their libraries help?-Dorothy Hagen Kett-
ner, Fergus Falls Community College, Fergus 
Falls , Minnesota. 

Brewer, J. Gordon. The Literature of Geog-
raphy: A Guide to Its Organisation and Vse. 
2d ed. London: Clive Bingley; Hamden, 
Conn.: Linnet Books, 1978. 264p. $15. LC 
78-16852. ISBN 0-85157-280-4 Bingley; 
0-208-01683-X Linnet. 
With, it is claimed, over 400 additional en-

tries more than the first (1973) edition, this 
second edition does deserve its own review. 
The format and organization of both editions 
are the same, as is the purpose. Brewer at-
tempts to provide the student of geography 
with a list of those publications that will be of 
value to the student. He assumes no prior 
knowledge-even oflibrary familiarity. While 
slanted toward geographic themes, the chap-
ter on library use could be read with profit by 
anyone unfamiliar with library practices. This 
is a beginner's book. 

Brewer gives brief but concise descriptions 
of his listed titles , which include any changes 

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over time for serially published items, and 
often illustrates his discussion with sample 
pagesJrom the major works. These two points 
alone make the work notable. His flow chart 
for a literature search and his charts depicting 
the structure of geographical information 
communication and bibliography are clear and 
generally useful. There is an obvious English-
language bias in the selection and a bit of a bias 
toward British editions, though there is an 
effort to be international in scope . 

Mter giving general chapters on geograph-
. ical literature in libraries, bibliographies and 
reference works, periodicals , and mono-
graphs/textbooks/collections, Brewer breaks 
the subject of geography into special areas and 
presents individual chapters on cartobibliog-
raphy , sources of statistics, governmental and 
international organizations' publications, the 
history of geography and geographic thought, 
techniques and methodology, physical geog-
raphy, human geography, and regional geog-
raphy. The index is primarily of personal/ 
corporate names and titles. 

This work should be in the main library as 
\;Veil as any departmental library on campus. 
Geography is a vital field , and any printed 
survey of the literature is out of date before it 
can be published; but , as of this writing, 
Brewer is reasonably current, certainly to the 
point of being very useful in the next several 
years. And , because this is a beginner's book, 
students from other fields can use it easily. 
One hopes for new editions every five or six 
years.-]. B. Post , Free Library of Philadel-
phia. 

Library Conservation: Preservation in 
Perspective. Edited by John P. Baker and 
Marguerite C. Soroka. Publications in the 
Information Sciences. Stroudsburg, Pa.: 
Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross , Inc. , 1978. 
459p. $45. LC 78-16133. ISBN 0-87933-
332-4. (Distributed by Academic Press, 
Inc., New York.) 
The editors of this volume intended to pub-

lish a collection of articles "for librarians and 
others who must grapple with the complex 
problems of preservation and who feel ill-
prepared to do so" due to lack of training and 
limited access to conservation writings . They 
chose selections to deal with the "philosophi-
cal and epistemological aspects of conservation 
of research library materials." 

Baker and Soroka set themselves a difficult