College and Research Libraries 168 I College & Research Libraries • March 1981 D. King (U.S.A. ) contributes " Informa- tion Measurement as a Tool of Manage- ment' ' (p.367-75), a suggestive paper but one that is not quite clear. G. Carrion- Rodriquez of Mexico has a perceptive paper called " Forecasting Curricula ... in the Developing Countries" (p.43S-51), but un- fortunately it is limited to science and tech- nology and to academic libraries. To this re- viewer, the best paper is B. Tell's (Sweden) " Changing Role of Those Working in the Library and Information Center" (p . 426- 71). He points out that " ... the developing countries are neglecting the principle which should be guiding the new era, namely in- formation responsiveness to user's needs" (p.463). Certain papers, especially those on social processes , seem to be written as though there were no human beings, only bureaucratic systems. The papers, in gener- al, seemed to be " talking" past each other, as though they were written on different planets and based on totally different assumptions. We can only hope that the pubs did a brisk business and more face-to- face meetings resulted. Very few papers , except the one by F. Lancaster of the U.S.A. (p.223-33), seemed to be aware of on-line interactive systems and their poten- tial impact on the interfaces between hu- man beings and systems. Nor did anyone seem to address the questions around the economics of information (except King): its measurement , uses , benefits, and costs. This reviewer, based on this collection, has the uncomfortable feeling that the "new trends" are terribly tentative , not very clear, and soon to be outdated .-Robert S. Taylor , Syracuse . University, Syracuse, New York. Bellamy , B. E. Private Presses & Pub- lishing in England since 1945. New York: K. G. Saur; London: Clive Bingley, 1980. 168p. $33. ISBN 0-85157-297-9 Bingley; 0-89664-180-5 Saur. It would be hard to quarrel with the ma- jor premise of this latest contribution to the bibliography of the private press , namely, that during the last three decades private printers have made a remarkable resur- gence , particularily in England. While no private press today even remotely approaches the sort of grandiloquent ges- tures so nobly tendered by the Kelmscott, Ashendene, and Doves presses at the be- ginning of the century, still there is a re- freshing enthusiasm in many that demands attention , if not always admiration. Bellamy is an admirer , but, unfortunately, not al- ways attentive to the niceties of biblio- graphic arrangement one would naturally expect from a "practising librarian . " This volume, as the author notes in his introduction, is based on chapter 18 and 19 of Roderick Cave's Private Press, published in 1971 by Faber and Faber. A comparison of the two reveals that Cave's work has sup- plied not only the inspiration but much of the material as well, reworked and ex- panded as promised , but disappointingly derivative. Part two , consisting of a survey of eight contemporary British private press- es , is what makes the book worth having. Biographical and .critical information about contemporary private-press printers is frus- tratingly scarce; it is usually available only in journal literature and hard to get at, especially in smaller libraries. However, coupled with an appendix that lists the ma- jor titles published by the eight presses, Bellamy has compiled a useful guide to their work. Nevertheless, it is disappointing that he has chosen to describe a "repre- sentative cross-section of current practices," that of the many presses now active in En- gland, only a small fraction are covered here in any detail. The primary source of biblio- graphical information about small private presses is an annual bibliography, Private Press Books, issued by the Private Libraries Association , though the last volume pub- lished (1976) puts it somewhat behind the pace. This series, supported by the Cave and Bellamy volumes , would go far toward establishing a nucleus reference collection on recent private-press work. It would, I suppose, be ungrateful to mea- sure this volume by the same standards of printing routinely practiced by the presses it attempts to describe . However, competent design , copy editing, and typesetting might reasonably have been expected from the publisher. The appendix of press imprints is a typographic muddle and could have been modeled more closely on the format in the Private Press Books annuals. Book citations A practical, step-by-step guide to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2d Edition Handbook for AACR2 MARGARET MAXWELL Designed as .a companion to AACR2, this new work will as- sist library school students and experienced catalogers in gain- ing a clearer understanding of how to apply the most com- monly used rules for description, choice of access points, and form of heading as set forth in the Anglo-American Catalogu- ing Rules, 2d Edition. The Handbook is easy to use since it follows the now familiar structure of AACR2. The organization also has im- mediacy in its numbering of paragraphs to correspond with specific rules of the code. Explanation and commentary, together with full cataloging examples, are keyed to the brief statements given by AACR2. Rules are elaborated in three ways. First, each chapter highlights basic directions and shows departures from AACRJ as well as relationships to other rules. Second, the rules are presented more succinctly for better understanding. Third, for almost every rule, a copy of a title page is given to show how the rule is applied in actual practice. 544 pages Paper ISBN 0-8389-0301-0 $20.00 • ~ Order Department IB ,)'- AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 170 I College & Research Libraries • March 1981 in the text and captions are haphazardly capitalized and some illustrations are ill- chosen. Why, for example, reproduce a page from the Basilisk Press' facsimile edi- tion of the Kelmscott Chaucer, which through the various reproduction processes is at least six times removed from the orig- inal? Moreover, a bibliography that pur- ports to be a guide to some of the most imaginative and finely crafted books being produced today must have at least a modi- cum of allusive charm. The whole private press philosophy is centered on crafts- manship and respect for the printed word. As one proprietor noted, "I am far more in- terested in having my work go into the hands of people who are readers and book- lovers, not the picky packrats who 'collect' press books .... " Finally, though "printing for pleasure" is usually a private avocation, paradoxically it is a form of communication as well; it bears noting that the concluding chapter of Bel- lamy's book, "Reaching the Customer," pre- sents a candid summary of the marketing problems that plague the "business end" of many private presses.-David Pankow, Rochester Institute of Technology, Roches- ter, New York. Wynar, Bohdan S. Introduction to Catalog- ing and Classification. 6th ed. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1980. 657p. $22.40 cloth ($27 foreign); $14 paper ($17.50 foreign). LC 80-16426. While reviewing a text on cataloging and classification could be viewed as an ordeal, it can be handled reasonably if the usual method of reading cover to cover is not fol- lowed. One possible method, which is fol- lowed here, is to read selected parts, try application of some of the instructions, com- pare with AACR2 (for descriptive catalog- ing), look for outstanding features or notable omissions, and compare with earlier edi- tions. It is interesting to see the many ways this work has changed since it began as a "pre- liminary edition" in 1964. In format it has changed from a slim mimeographed paper- back to a hefty book with effective graphic design that is offered in cloth and paper. The contents, of course, have been chang- 'ing over the years to treat catalog code revi- sions, new editions of Dewey and Sears, de- velopments in subject analysis, and the changes wrought by bibliographic network- ing. In the latest edition these changes have dictated more a rewriting than a revision. There is still a healthy portion of back- ground theory to support the main topics. Brief outlines of some of the lesser-used classification systems and newer methods of verbal analysis are included with examples, and the sections on Library of Congress subject headings and Library of Congress classification are considerably expanded and fully illustrated. The section on centralized services, cataloging routines, and catalog and shelflist filing is updated and expanded. The descriptive cataloging section, which constitutes more than half of the book, is keyed to AACR2 by rule number and is illustrated by numerous examples. In recog- nition of the increasing use of machine- readable cataloging records, rule examples are no longer given in traditional card for- mat. In some cases transcriptions or copies of the chief source of information are sup- plied as an aid to interpretation. The rules are conveyed by many direct quotes from AACR2, to which are added discussions of problem areas and words of advice regard- ing interpretation and possible future changes. A good deal of enumeration of rule numbers and captions without comment shows the problem of condensing the code to a size that would not overwhelm the rest of the book. Most of the omissions are understandable, but the slight treatment of capitalization and abbreviation places full burden on the examples. This is a work of shared responsibility, with principal responsibility attributed to one person (AACR2, Rule 21.6B1). In the preface Bohdan Wynar gives credit to other authors for either "writing," "preparing," or "revising" many of the chapters. Arlene Taylor Dowell handled AACR2, while Jeanne Osborn covered document indexing, filing, centralized processing, and cataloging rec- ords and routines. Wynar was wise in his choice of these assisting authors. Their sec- tions are well written and show excellent understanding of background, current prac- tices, problems, and future trends.