College and Research Libraries


478 I College & Research Libraries • September 1979 

that we will eme'rge as the masters, not the 
servants, of the new technology. This paper 
alone is worth the price of the book. The 
rest is gravy. -Gregory N. Bullard, Syra-
ctise University, Syracuse, New York. 

McCoy, Ralph E. Freedom of the Press: A 
Bibliocyclopedia. Ten-Year Supplement 
(1967-1977). With a foreword by Robert 
B. Downs. Carbondale: Southern Illinois 
Univ. Pr., 1979. 557p. $42.50. LC 78-
16573. ISBN 0-8093-0844-4. 
Without question, Ralph E. McCoy has 

rendered an invaluable service to society in 
his latest book, Freedom of the Press: A 
Bibliocyclopedia. This magnificent publica-
tion is a ten-year supplement to his earlier 
work Freedom of the Press. The present 
volume contains some 6,500 entries and fol-
lows the pattern, format, and scope of the 
1968v~ume. , 

Although the author calls it a bibliocy-
clopedia, this opus could well be called an 
encyclopedia in the field of intellectual 
freedom. It is an annotated bibliography of 
books, journal articles, pamphlets, newspa-
pers, dissertations , films, radio, television, 
recordings, and other materials. The annota-
tions are descriptive, and, whenever possi-
ble, they summarize, in the author's own 
words, the major points of the work being 
reviewed. 

The format of this edition follows that of 
the earlier work in its alphabetical listing by 
personal or corporate author or by title, if 
the author's name is not known. A compre-
hensive subject index , at the end of the 
volume , identifies topics, individuals, coun-
tries, court decisions, concepts, and titles. 

The continuing interest in intellectual 
freedom is demonstrated by the fact that 
more than half as many publications relating 
to freedom of the press in English-speaking 
countries appeared in the past ten years as 
in the previous four hundred . 

Robert B. Downs, dean of library admin-
istration emeritus, . University of Illinois, 
himself an authority and champion of intel-
lectual freedom, in his foreword to this vol-
ume, comments on issues and problems in 
the field in the past decade. He reviews and 
analyzes several of the most vital of these 
that developed between 1967 and 1977. 
Among these were freedom of the press 

questions raised by publication of the Pen-
tagon Papers, press gag orders, fair trial 
versus free press, the individual's right to 
privacy, rights of special groups, obscenity 
and pornography, and others. 

The library/information science profession 
and all people who are interested in free-
dom owe a great debt of gratitude to Ralph 
McCoy for this work, Freedom of the Press. 
It has been called a magnificent book, an 
indispensable reference work, "without 
doubt the most complete and most useful 
annotated bibliography ever produced on 
the topics of freedom and censorship in 
mass communication." In the opinion of this 
reviewer, it is all of these and is a book that 
should be a "must" purchase in every type 
of library.-Martha Boaz , University of 
Southern California, Los Angeles. 

Mcinnis, Raymond G. New Perspectives for 
Reference Service in Academic Libraries. 
Contributions in Librarianship and Infor-
mation Science, no .23. Westport, Conn .: 
Greenwood Pr., 1978. 351p. $24.50. LC 
77-9474.2. ISBN 0-313-20311-3. ISSN 
0084-9243 . 
Academic librarians as well as classroom 

faculty members will profit from reading 
Mcinnis if they are able to get through the 
work. The librarian who believes that the 
library has a significant role to play in 
undergraduate instruction will have this 
view supported. The library administrator 
who wonders how to evaluate the large ex-
penditure of resources that library instruc-
tion consumes will have some new ideas to 
ponder. The librarian who questions all of 
this instruction interest in academic libraries 
and the classroom instructor who would like 
to make teaching at the introductory level 
more reflective of the excitement of a disci-
pline will both come away with an apprecia-
tion of what the academic library is able to 
do as part of the active learning process. 

Without a doubt, Mcinnis presents the 
background required to understand how li-
brary research can be integrated into 
classroom teaching, but his presentation is 
circuitous and is made much more difficult 
than is necessary. His insistence on footnot-
ing almost every sentence, which leads to 
eighteen-page chapters with eighty foot-
notes, and his practice of using long quotes