College and Research Libraries ship in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section in order to assure that they receive its communications. Cave extracts for his appendix from the report Book Thefts from Libraries prepared by a working party of the [British] Antiquarian Booksellers' As- sociation and the Rare Books Group of the [British] Library Association, 1972. In March 1982 the more recent guidelines on marking of rare books and manuscripts and on library thefts drafted by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section were pub- lished in College & Research Libraries News. Also in 1982 the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America published Rare Books and Manuscript Thefts: A Security Sys- tem for Librarians, Booksellers, and Collectors by its president, John H. Jenkins, with a foreword by Terry Belanger. Roderick Cave has provided us with an outstanding resource on rare book librari- anship and this reviewer recommends it highly.-Peter E. Hanft, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley. Maxwell, Margaret F. Handbook for AACR2. 2d ed. Chicago: American Li- brary Assn., 1980. 463p. $20. LC 80- 17667. ISBN 0-8389-0301-0. It is a compliment that the evolution and change that both AACR2 and the Library of Congress' application of AACR2 have undergone have not significantly dimin- ished the worth of this volume. Maxwell's Handbook for AACR2 lays out a generally logical and useful series of examples and commentary that will enlighten the novice and interest the more experienced. The book examines most chapters in AACR2 in some detail: the chapters on description of manuscripts and machine-readable data files, and the portion of chapter 2 that treats early printed monographs, are not covered. The stated reason is that these materials are "not usually acquired by li- braries." Even though we have seen the sudden increase in machine-readable data file collections, these limitations, espe- cially with the publication of several spe- cialized AACR2 manuals, are not serious . The writing is clear, and Maxwell takes a sensible and logical approach to catalog- ing. Most chapters have introductory es- says that provide historical and theoretical Recent Publications 267 frameworks that put the chapter in per- spective. The examples are extraordinarily good, although the "title page" represen- tations are not as good as they might be. For example, they do not portray some of the nuances of title-page typography and layout by which publishers keep catalog- ing as an art as well as a science. The total descriptive treatment of each example puts the rules in a larger context than the examples in AACR2. The examples make use of standard three-by-five-inch card format. The book contains some helpful sugges- tions to aid the beginning cataloger. For example, there are the guidelines on pages 64-66 for recording name of pub- lisher, distributor, etc. Appendixes offer comments on examples, lists of helpful cataloging information (e.g., "uniform headings for common anonymous clas- sics"), and an index to the examples. The index to the examples is most useful when a cataloger remembers an analogous situa- tion to an item being cataloged. Most errors in the text were not incorrect at the time of publishing but have oc- curred as a result of changes in Library of Congress policy or the code itself. Two good examples are the absence of LC' s unique serial identifier used to create a kind of serial uniform title and the addi- tion of certain cartographic materials to the categories under21.1B2 (corporate en- try). More irksome is the incorrect explana- tion (p.ll) of AACR2 "levels of descrip- tion." This concept is frequently misun- derstood or confused with other types of "levels" (National Minimal Level De- scription: Books and OCLC-MARC lev- els). The AACR2 "levels of description" describe the minimum amount of infor- mation required at each level; thus, for the first level, any description that contains the prescribed minima or the minima and any other information up to the minimum required for the second level is a first-level description. If one thinks of the complete- ness of description as a continuum, then the levels are not single points but areas on the continuum. Also, while Maxwell states that third-level cataloging is the standard for large libraries and research 268 College & Research Libraries collections, it is generally acknowledged that second level is the standard. The third level is more likely to be used by national cataloging agencies and for special collec- tions. It is also important to note that a de- scription might look the same at more than one level depending on the rules (or lack of rules) that apply to the piece. Maxwell's Handbook for AACR2 is a nice complementary work to AACR2. Its use- fulness for beginners is unquestionable. It is also of value to the more experienced cataloger and to the librarian who needs some hand-holding while working through the code.-Nancy R. John, Univer- sity of Illinois at Chicago. Gleaves, Edwin S. and Tucker, John Mark, comps. Reference Services and Li- brary Education. Lexington, Mass.: Lex- ington Books, 1983. 306p. LC 81-48266. ISBN 0-669-05320-1. As Fanny Cheney has done throughout her long and illustrious career in librarian- ship, so does she now in this fine Fest- schrift that has been prepared in her honor: she brings out the best in people. Eighteen of her colleagues and former stu- dents have written essays for this volume, each dealing in one way or another with one of her two consuming professional interests-reference services or library education-not in combination, but rather, taken separately. None of the con- tributed papers give the impression of be- ing pro forma or of having been dashed off just for the occasion, and clearly none of them have been accepted for publication here simply because they laud the hon- oree. Although as in any such collection, their quality varies, all are insightful and provocative and deserve being read by any librarian interested in one of the two subjects. Some of the papers constituting the first part of the volume deal with reference sources themselves. Among such papers is one by Jessie Carney Smith that identi- fies and evaluates recent reference sources concerning cultural minorities in the United States-blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and native Americans. William Vernon Jackson discusses a major repository of Latin Americana often overlooked by re- May 1983 searchers, the Bibliotheque Nationale. Donald Thompson draws from his own extensive personal experience in discuss- ing the writing of biographical reference sources. Bill Katz, in the inimitable style that we have come to expect from him, writes of the potential pleasures and bene- fits that can be derived from reading refer- ence books. Other contributions to this part of the . volume concern the administration and delivery of reference services. Larry Earl Bone writes about reference service man- agement. Johnnie Givens and James E. Ward write of bibliographical instruction, Robert Burgess discusses computer- assisted reference work, and Eileen Mc- Grath talks of its delivery in liberal arts col- leges. The second section of the volume con- tains six essays by well-known library ed- ucators. A brace of papers, one by Edward Holley and the other by coeditor John Mark Tucker, elucidate helpfully how li- brary education came to and flourished in the South. John Richardson perceptively relates W. W. Charters' early efforts at li- brary school curriculum, which leads to the current schism between those who would emphasize the why of librarianship and those who would stress its how. Thomas Galvin reviews the advent of the case· method into library schools and its likely role in the future. Frank Gibbons takes a comparative look at library educa- tion in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and Martha Boaz writes of leadership in the field. Also included is the paraphernalia usu- ally attendant to Festschriften. Coeditor Edwin Gleaves supplies a delightful essay on Cheney, along with a chronology of her long professional career. Because of her substantial contributions to the pro- fession, however, both would have fit ad- mirably into the subject matter of the vol- ume even if it had not been prepared in her honor. John David Marshall appends a bibliography of Ms. Cheney's prolific writings, andAndrewLytle,longtimeedi- tor of the Sewanee Review, presents a grace- ful and appropriate cameo on a side of her life which is less known among librarians, her pervasive presence over more than a