College and Research Libraries 576 I College & Research Libraries • November 1979 tions in the second part , only Sandra Parker's " Conceptual Framework for the Performance Measurement of a Canadian Federal Government Health Science Li - brary Network" is equal to the quality of the presentations of the institute staff in Part I. Parker's contribution is a highly per- ceptive piece that deserves to be widely read. There is also an excellent topical bib- liography of recent publications using statis- tical approach es to research in librarianship. This volume is a useful if not an essential contribution to the literature and should be of interest to planners of institutes as well as to librarians interested in applying quantita- tive methods in their libraries.-Joe H ewitt , University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill. Kirk , Thomas , comp. Course-Related Li- brary and Literature-Use Instruction: Working Models for Programs in Under- graduate Science Education. A Mi- cropapers Edition. New York: Jeffrey Norton , 1979 . 31p. + 11 microfiche. $14.95. LC 69-64352 . ISBN 0-88432- 013-8. In 1976 Earlham College designed a se- ries of workshops, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation , to de- velop well-planned programs in science literature-use instruction. Twelve colleges, of varying size and type , sent representa- tives to study the techniques used at Earl- ham and adapt the highly successful Earl- ham program to their own institutions. Like Earlham , these colleges based their pro- grams on the principle that library instruc- tion closely integrated into the science cur- riculum and team taught by librarians and science faculty produces the best results_. One of the objectives of the project was to publicize the resulting programs so that they might serve as models for other col- leges offering library instruction in the sci- ences. This book fulfills that objective. For each college, a description of the in- stitution and the science course provides the context for the instructional materials, sample assignments , and outline of the li- brary instruction program. Perhaps most useful is the preproject and postproject dis- cussion that has been included for many of the institutions. Although these transcripts of the discussions that occurred during the workshops are often confusing and speakers are poorly identified, much can be learned from them. They increase the usefulness of the programs as models, since they describe problems that occurred and possible changes to improve the programs. The bulk of the information in this book, the program descriptions, is included on eleven microfiche stored in an envelope in the back of the book. Aside from the prob- lem of keeping the microfiche in the en- velope (they slide out easily when the book is tipped) , this format seems to require a great deal more editing than was done for this book. Although a list of what is in- cluded precedes each program description , a heading identifying each page would eliminate the need to return to the begin- ning to see what a document is. It is often difficult to tell if the item being read was a handout for the students, an outline of what was covered in a lecture, or a part of the preparation at the Earlham workshop. An analytical index provides access to the project descriptions . Despite problems such as blind cross-references and . questionable choices for some subject headings (bibliog- raphies on biology are listed under "library produced bibliographies , biology" with no cross reference under "biology"), this index can be very useful. The projects are indexed by size of institution , class size, student level, as well as various aspects of instruc- tion. The book has a wealth of ideas, practical details , and advice about library instruction in the sciences. Better editing would have made it less frustrating to use.-]anet L. Ashley, State University of New York , Col- lege at Oneonta. Whitby, Thomas J., and Lorkovic, Tanja. Introduction to Soviet National Bibli- ography. Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Un- limited , 1979. 229p. $25 U . S. and Canada; $30 elsewhere. LC 79-4112. ISBN 0-87287-128-2 . The title of this work is somewhat mis- leading for it fails to indicate that two-thirds of its contents is represented by a transla- tion by Tanja Lorkovic of the second edition of lia Borisovna Gracheva and V. N. Frantskevich' s Gosudarstvennaia bibliog~ Announcing: A Major Publishing Event! International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences BIOGRAPHICAL This new volume is an indispensable update to the landmark International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences and a significant reference work in its own right. The BIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT contains 215 biographies of the most important figures in modem social science. Included are such notable men and women as Hannah Arendt, Bruno Bet- telheim, Erik H. 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MACMILlAN PROFESSIONAL AND UBRARY SERVICES 100B BROWN STREET, RNERSIDE, NEW JERSEY 08370 578 I College & Research Libraries • November 1979 rafia SSSR; spravochnik (Moskva: "Kniga," 1979), a work originally compiled by IU. I. Masanov in 1952. An introduction precedes this translation, giving the historical background and legisla- tion concerning registration and legal de- posit of works with the state agencies before and after the revolution. It also briefly touches on the current practices of these agencies with respect to cataloging, classi- fication, standardization, and automation . The emphasis is always on the biblio- graphic publications of the state agencies , e.g., the All-Union Book Chamber and the Chambers of the Republic of the Union as well as of the autonomous republics. Within that the emphasis lies on current bibliog- raphies published periodically rather than on cumulative or retrospective bibliographies , such as Literaturno-khudozhestGe nnye al- manakhi i sborniki , which is omitted. The term bibliography is used on the one hand in a broad sense to cover not only monographs but also serials , newspapers, music , the fine arts [here called pictorial arts] , cartography , . indexes ·of periodicals , and reviews ; on the other hand it excludes works national in scope, issued by the All- Union Book Chamber, and essential for the proper use of the bibliographies, such as works on pseudonymous literature. The translation was particularly difficult because the terminology as used in the Rus- sian work often does not have exact equiva- lents in English and vice versa. In some in- stances perhaps better terms could have been chosen. Examples of entries given in the original Russian are translated in ap- pendix III (p.195-99) where the translitera- tion of the titles is repeated . The titles of the individual bibliographies are generally given in translation , to which is added-at first occurrence-the translit- eration of the Russian title . Since this work will be used mostly by persons with knowl- edge of Russian , the reverse, namely, trans- literation with a translation at first occur- rence would have probably been preferable. The listing of the titles in English transla- tion in the index was also unnecessary. More care should, instead, have been de- voted to the referrals. Under Knizhnaia letopis', for instance, reference is given to p. 76-91 but not to p.149, 151 , etc., where the same title is used in the republics . Because of the limitations specified above and because coverage-with few excep- tions-does not go back in time before the year 1917, leaving out bibliographies nor- mally used in the course of bibliographic searching, the work is more an academic textbook than a practical bibliographic tool. However, the very detailed list of issues and description of the various supplements and indexes that make up the bibliographies will make the work useful to librarians, par- ticularly those charged with binding. The authors are to be commended for having brought this little-known Russian work to the attention of the English- speaking world and for having given insight into the workings of the official Soviet book agencies.-MiroslaG Krek , Brandeis UniGer- sity , Waltham , Massachusetts. Bonk, Wallace John, and Magrill, Rose Mary. Buildi~g Library Collections. 5th ed. Metuchen, N .J. : Scarecrow, 1979. 380p. $10. LC 79-11151. ISBN 0-8108- 1214-2. Background Readings in Building Library Collections. 2d ed . Edited by Phyllis Van Orden and Edith B. Phillips. Metuchen , N .J . : Scarecrow, 1979. 417p. $12.50. LC 78-31263 . ISBN 0-8108-1200-2. These two books , one a survey and the other readings on building collections , to- gether form a strong teaching instrument, since they closely complement each other. There has been considerable revamping of the fourth edition for this new fifth edi- tion of Building Library Collections , and it carries forward the contributions of Mary Duncan Carter (Isbell), who died in 1978. The purpose of providing a guide to the lit- erature of library science with regard to principles , procedures , problems, selection, and acquisitions remains the same . There has been a reduction of thirty-five pages from the fourth edition; however, the type is slightly smaller, and printing is more compact. The alterations, reformatting, and updating have not deterred readability. Virtually every chapter has been changed in some way, such as chapter one-with the checklist of selection principles relocated in