College and Research Libraries 568 I College & Research Libraries • November 1979 few remain today, obviously a challenge to rare book collectors. Franklin Gilliam , pro- prietor of the Brick Row Bookshop in San Francisco, in his "The Case of the Vanishing Victorians" explains this situation and dis- cusses four collectors-Sadlier, Wolff, Ray, and Parrish-who had the foresight to col- lect these books in their original editions. Canadian popular publishing was dis- cussed by Douglas Lochhead , Davidson pro- fessor of Canadian studies at Mount Alison University , who is writing a book o.; J. Ross Robertson , publisher of the Toronto Eve- ning Telegram . From this research Loch- head describes Robertson's foray into pub- lishing cheap paperback editions mostly of popular American writers from 1877 until the International Copyright Act of 1891 , time enough for him to make a contribution to Canadian popular culture, or at least its Americanization. The two remaining papers are not con- cerned with popular literature but make valuable contributions to the overall picture. Terry Belanger, of the Columbia University School of Library Service, writes on aspects of eighteenth-century publishing and their influence on later publishing. Robert Nikirk , librarian of the Grolier Club, nar- rates the activities of two members William Loring Andrews and Beverly Chew, famous rare book collectors of the late nineteenth century. This modest paperback in the ACRL Pub- lications in Librarianship series makes a genuine contribution to the somewhat ne- glected area of nineteenth-century popular bibliography . It will be a must for all library school libraries , and should have interest for more general collections in nineteenth- century literature, bibliography, and social history as well.-Budd L. Gambee, Unive r- sity of North Carolina , Chapel Hill . Sign Systems for Libraries: Solving the Wayfinding Problem. Compiled and edited by Dorothy Pollet and Peter C. Haskell. New York: Bowker, 1979. 271p . $24 . 95. LC 79-11138. ISBN 0-8352- 1149-5. Pollet and Haskell have produced a truly exciting book that brings to bear the collec- AMBASSADOR BOOK SERVICE, INC. ; AMBASSADOR BOOK SERVICE, INC. "serving academic and research libraries" 42 Chasner Street • Hempstead, NY 11550 Call us 516/489-4011 collect! tive artistic, architectural, graphic, and li- brary expertise of more than twenty-five au- thors , whose training and background fully qualify them to advise on library sign sys- tems. As librarians become increasingly more aware of the need to train their pa- trons to use libraries more efficiently and ef- fectively, the need for attractive and care- fully planned directional signs and other de- vices to guide and inform the user becomes more and more apparent . In buildings under construction , librarians have the opportunity to make an important contribution to the planning of directional graphics. In older buildings , the librarian must often attempt to bring some order to the chaos of accumulated signs or to impose a logical system on an illogical geography without the aid of architects or graphic de- signers. This book succeeds in discussing the issues involved in a variety of settings and in proposing solutions to problems that often require expertise and abilities not usually found on library staffs. The chapter topics indicate the scope and variety of the authors ' approaches: orienta- tion needs and the library setting; mazes , minds , and maps ; perceiving the visual message ; planning library signage systems; the role of the design consultant; sign mate- rials and methods ; the language of signs ; signs for the handicapped patron ; symbol signs for libraries ; evaluating signage sys- tems in libraries ; signs and the school media center; an approach to public library sign- age ; signs in special libraries; a signage sys- tem for a university library ; low-budget guidance ideas; wayfinding in research li- braries: a user's view; coordinating graphics and architecture; architectural techniques for wayfinding; designing open-stack areas for the user; effective library signage: a pic- torial study; and technical and psychological considerations for sign systems in libraries. An annotated bibliography on visual guid- ance systems offers further reading on theory and research, materials and tech- niques, and on such systems in libraries and in other institutions. Barbara Marks's humorous essay on the language of signs should not be confined to this one printing, nor the soundness of her advice lost in her amusing examples. Kitty Selfridge' s advice on planning library sign- Recent Publications I 569 age systems imposes upon the library scene graphic design that is common in other types of modern buildings, but rare in li- braries . The pictorial study of effective li- brary signage, contributed by the Institute of Signage Research , demonstrates that some libraries-even some of the staid old Gothic piles-have solved their signage problems in creative and exciting ways . The exclusive use of black and white photographs in a book describing the inven- tive use of color graphics is an economy that should never have been permitted, but , re- gardless of this one slight failing , Sign Sys- tems for Libraries breaks new ground and should be on every librarian's reading list.-Malcolm C . Hamilton , Haruard Uni- cersity , Cambridge , Massachusetts. The British Library Bibliographic Services Division. Leeds Polytechnic School of Li- brarianship ; produced in collaboration with the Educational Technology Unit . Tape/Slides in Library Science , No .3. Se- ries title on cassette: Talking to Librar- ians , no . TS/3. Leeds , The School , 1978. 76 slides , colored, 2 in. by 2 in ., & cassette , script, and brochures . £35. Order from: Administrative Assistant (Post Experience Courses), School of Librarianship, Leeds Polytechnic, 28 Park Place , Leeds LS l 2SY. The Bibliographic Services Division of the British Library is responsible for the biblio- graphic control of all materials received in the library , whether print or nonprint, and for bibliographic and cataloging services available to libraries and librarians through- out Great Britain and abroad. The division produces six bibliographic tools , British National Bibliography ( BNB) , Books in English , International Serials Data System Bulletin, British Education Index, British Library Automated Information Ser- vices (BLAISE) , a computerized information retrieval and cataloging system, and British Catalogue of Music. Through a tape service, interested librar- ies may acquire the catalog records pro- duced in the division . Each library has a choice between three types of service. The complete or exchange tape is a weekly ser- vice that contains a complete record of all