College and Research Libraries Recent Publications COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES Frick, Elizabeth, Library Research Guide to History: Illustrated Search Strategy and Sources, reviewed by Joyce Duncan Falk................ . . . . ...... . . .......... 583 Boston Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: 1640-1800, reviewed by Marcus A. McCorison... . . .. . .. . .. .. . ................ ... . .. .... ...... .......... . .... 584 University Library History: An International Review , reviewed by Edward G. Holley. . 585 Coburn, Louis, Classroom and Field: The Internship in American Library Education, reviewed by Lucille Whalen ............... : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586 Essays from the New England Academic Librarians ' Writin g Seminar, reviewed by Richard D. Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587· O'Reilly , Robert C., and O'Reilly, Marjorie I. , Librarians and Labor Relations: Employ- ment Under Union Contracts, reviewed by Billy R. Wilkinson.................... 588 Bailey, Martha J. , Supervisory and Middle Managers in Libraries, reviewed by Elizabeth M. Salzer. . .. . .................................... ... . .. ................ . 590 The Professional Development of the Librarian and Information Worker, reviewed by Dan Bergen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 Dale , Doris C., Career Patterns of Women Librarians with Doctorates, reviewed by David Laird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594 Lundy, Kathryn Renfro, Women View Librarianship: Nine Persp ectives, reviewed by David Laird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594 Collection Development in Libraries: A Treatise, reviewed by John G . Williamson . . . . . 596 Rowley, J. E. , Computers for Libraries, reviewed by Peter G. Lipman ........ . .. .. .. 597 Smith , David , Systems Thinking in Library and Information Management, reviewed by Peter G. Lipman ......................... . ..... . ... ·... .. . . ......... . ...... 597 Maranjian , Lorig, and Boss , Richard W. , Fee-Based Information Services; A Study of a Growing Industry , reviewed by Haynes McMullen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598 Research on the Impact of a Computerized Circulation System on the Performanc e of a Large College Library. Part One: The Main Library, reviewed by Ellen Altman..... 600 Rink, Evald, Technical Americana: A Checklist of Technical Publications Printed Befor e 1831 , reviewed by Thomas R. Adams............. . . . .. .... . ... . .. ............ 600 Tebbe! , John , A History of Book Publishing in the United States . Volume IV: The Great Change, 1940-1980, reviewed by David H. Starn . . . .............. . ....... .. .. . . 604 A Library Science Research Reader and Bibliographic Guide, reviewed by John N . De- Pew . .. . . . .. ...................... . ..... . .. .... .. ....... .... .. . ..... .... 606 Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 Other Publications of Interest to Academic Librarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614 BOOK REVIEWS Frick, Elizabeth. Library Research Guide to History: Illustrated Search Strategy and Sources. Library Research Guides Series, no.4. Ann Arbor , Mich.: Pierian Pr., 1980. 96p. $9.95 cloth; $5.95 paper. LC 80- 83514. ISBN 0-87650-119-6 cloth; 0- 87650-123-4 paper. This guide outlines a search strategy for a term paper, through the use of a sample search topic, and introduces basic reference sources in chapters on topic selection, the card catalog, evaluating books, indexes to current information, government docu- ments, and guides to historical literature. The text is supplemented by a classified list of six hundred basic reference sources for his- tory, a summary of three methods of search- ing for materials for a paper, and an index to the text (which does not include the bibliog- raphy). Written primarily for college juniors and seniors, the book is also of interest to graduate students, history professors, and reference librarians. Its chatty, informal style holds the reader's attention and each chapter concludes with a clear, concise sum- mary. Use of a specific search topic some- I 583 584 I College & Research Libraries • November 1981 what skews the presentation of reference tools, but it is a far more effective teaching method than mere discussion of each tool one by one. Furthermore, concentration on American history as a sample topic keeps the book to a manageable size for the student. Occasionally the author does not general- ize from the tools examined for the specific search topic to a search strategy useful for other topics. For example, on pages 6-7, spe- cialized book bibliographies are introduced, but the relationship between the three cited bibliographies and a search strategy for any other topic is not drawn. Presentation of such general and peripheral tools as PAIS Bulletin and Social Science Citation Index before spe- cific history tools appears to be in reverse or- der. Neither does Frick's work solve the prob- lem, exhibited by other guides to reference sources, of isolating abstracting services as a distinct form, and thereby inadequately em- phasizing their function as current bibliogra- phies. Here the most comprehensive current bibliography in American history, America: History and Life (AHL), is relegated to the end of the list of tools considered, a weakness made more noticeable by the absence of the AH L Index to Book Reviews from the discus- sion of book review indexes and the omission of the AHL American History Bibliography from the earlier section on history indexes. The text is generally well designed, clear, and amply illustrated (37 figures). There are, however, several instances of references in the text that are not clear in the illustrations; one of the illustrations on page 28 is in reverse order of the text's discussion, for no useful reason; and several captions need more com- plete information for accurate identification. The list of basic reference sources inexplica- bly begins, following its initial outline, with- out even a heading or generous space divi- sion, in the last two inches of the inside column of a verso page. This useful, attractive guide to history re- search may be used effectively by biblio- graphic instruction librarians and history professors, and it is priced for student purchase.-]oyce Duncan Falk, American Bibliographical Center, Santa Barbara, Cal- ifornia. Boston Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers: 1640-1800. Ed. by Benjamin Franklin V. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. 545p. $30. LC 80-17693. ISBN 0-8161-8472-0. This reviewer likes books, and in particu- ·lar he likes books about books. How-some- ever, as someone once said, he does not like this book. The book contains a number of excellent biographical sketches of printers and pub- lishers who were active in the Town of Bos- ton, Massachusetts-particularly those by Mary Ann Yodelis Smith, J.P. O'Donnell, R. E. Burkholder, John B. Hench, Charles E. Clark, and a few others who did some origi- nal research. Madeline Stern contributed a tour de force that overwhelms sketches of persons in the trade who were much more important to it than was Joseph Nancrede. The primary yardstick for determining the length of the entry allotted to a person ap- pears to be his significance, but nowhere is "significance" defined, except in an indirect way, such as the number of imprints in which the subject's name appears. Thus, "less im- portant individuals" are defined as "gener- ally those appearing in fewer than twenty- five imprints." The emphasis on imprints and the editor's device of attaching to each sketch lists of "Major Authors" and "Publishers Served" has caused authors of the sketches to emphasize highlights and milestones in their subject's lives which sometimes obscures a balanced view of the whole. The narrative style decreed for all sketches makes the brief- est ones appear ludicrous. A telegraphic "Who's Who" style of entry might have been more appropriate for those. The majority of the sketches are based on common secondary sources (or no sources) and add little to the sum of our knowledge. The best that can be said about this compilation is that it lists in one convenient place the known members of the Cambridge-Boston book trade in the sev- enteenth and eighteenth centuries. This reviewer dislikes saying such critical things about a book put together by someone carrying as distinguished a name as Benjamin Franklin V. But! ... It begins with an illus- tration of a "Ramage Press as used by James and Benjamin Franklin." Ramage made his first press about the year 1795. The sketch of Isaiah Thomas contains the amusing, but apocryphal, story of Thomas's printing of Fanny Hill. The manufacture of this book about printers is all but a disaster, although