College and Research Libraries 500 College & Research Libraries pothesis; since only minority type re· sponses were analyzed, how could the conclusions be anything else? In addition, even with this stacking of the deck, the quantity of documentation is low. If only 77 relevant publications have appeared in the last 57 years (an average of 1.35 articles per year), this would not ap- pear to constitute a major preoccupation of the profession with a negative stereo- type. However, by the end of chapter 2 the au- thor has set up this straw man, which she then attacks, primarily through a detailed analysis of librarians' scores on three stan- dard personality tests, all of which show that, in general, librarians are normal, well adjusted, and happy. Other topics touched upon in the book include factors involved in occupational choice, reasons for entering the profes- sion, recruitment, and library education. These are all important topics for the pro- fession, and one can find in this book a fas- cinating mixture of: (a) interesting com- ments regarding the differences in roles and working environments of different types of librarians, e.g., academic and school librarians have an ''especially diffi- cult time acquiring the status they desire . . . [because] the mission of the parent in- stitution of these libraries is in the hands of another and dominant profession''; (b) fuzzy statements that are not explained, but that underlie important positions taken by the author ("Although the li- brary profession is made up of different segments-library educators, public li- brarians, special librarians, (etc.) ... -they make up a dynamic whole, a group, that shares a common fate because they are interdependent"); (c) statements that dismiss important research that could, shed light on an issue ("It is doubtful that one can establish a relationship between tasks of a given occupation and specific personality traits required for members of that occupation''); (d) a very good bibliog- raphy which draws heavily on the litera- ture of sociology and psychology; (e) ex- cellent discussion of examples from the literature of how a negative mind-set re- garding the profession seriously biases one's interpretation of research results; November 1983 and finally, (f) good, practical observa- tions and advice-librarians are their own worst enemies. We should stop writing and speaking in self-destructive ways about our image and status, "acquire a better perspective on the stereotype and learn to take it in stride . . . improve it by not adding to it and by not disseminating it, and most important . . . control [our] response to it." If the cost of the book were reduced by two-thirds, and in spite of its basis on a very poor research design, I would recom- mend the book for all librarians, since the subject has a perverse fascination for most of us, the credibility of the profession is important to all of us, and the author has shown courage and thoughtfulness in confronting controversial issues ( espe- cially library school accreditation), which the profession has not dealt with in a straightforward, intelligent, and construc- tive manner. However, given the critical deficiencies in the research design, the weaknesses in the analysis, along with the very high price of the book, this reviewer recommends: caveat emptor.-Suzanne 0. Frankie, Oakland UniversitY. Libraries. Roberts, Matt and Etherington, Don. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Washington, D.C.: Library of Con- gress, 1982. 296p. LC 81-607974. The compilers of this dictionary claim that it is not an encyclopedia; it is II a guide to the vocabulary-of a field, not a compen- dium on a specific subject.'' Nevertheless, this volume is loaded with encyclopedic information, and it fails as a dictionary be- cause it does not provide lexical informa- tion about the vocabulary it contains. Like so many reference tools defying exact clas- sification, it is a vade mecum falling some- where between the two, i.e., an encyclo- pedic dictionary. It contains more than three thousand words and names, from formal usage, technical vocabularies, his- torical figures and methods, and informal trade jargon, all arranged alphabetically word by word (rather than by letter). 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To order calll-800-233-4175 (In PA 1-800-9 82-4377) Price subject t o change wit h o ut notice. t Denotes tentative price. *Publisher's ISBN Prefix 0-88410- BALLINGER PUBLISHING COMPANY 54 Church Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 502 College & Research Libraries lectors and the Dictionary of Paper, and it is especially valuable because the order of senses within definitions places the mean- ing most relevant to bookbinding first, with alternatives for usage by bibliogra- phers, librarians, collectors, and other us- ers who will nevertheless discover great utility in this volume. The compilers, well known in conservation circles, sought added expertise from fellow conservators such as George Kelley for scientific terms; Harold Tribolet and Bernard Middleton; and bibliophiles like John Chalmers and Frederick R. Goff, who wrote the fore- word. The simple yet remarkably clear and detailed illustrations drawn by Mar- garet R. Brown are a great enhancement, and bibliophiles will love the eleven full- page colorplates of sixteenth- to nineteenth-century bindings and marbled papers that make this attractive reference book a genuine bargain. The dictionary was published by the Library of Congress as part of its National Preservation Pro- gram and is a welcome contribution to a field curiously lacking similar high-grade reference tools. Anyone consulting this book from a par- ticular point of view will assuredly dis- cover omissions. The slant towards book- binding, for example, leaves out much which the bibliographer might want; the codicologist will want still more. The cov- erage is best for the Anglo-American tradi- tion, with less detail and precision for Renaissance and medieval bindings, and still less for early codex forms and struc- tures. Since it treats binding, although it contains considerable information on parchment, vellum, and leathers, it largely ignores the preparation of these materials for text block usage. Terms are presented in their most common form, that is common usage among English- speaking binders; inadequate attention is given to continental usage and parallel multilingual vocabularies. Consequently bibliographers will find this volume not as helpful as they might expect in describing regional styles or in standardizing de- scriptive terminology as a quasi thesau- rus, in keeping with such models as pre- sented by Thomas Tanselle for uniform pattern descriptors. Common usage November 1983 among binders is not necessarily pre- ferred usage, so the compilers did not pro- duce a dictionary that can be used as a the- saurus without further work on the termi- nology. Greater clarification for the fine distinctions between signature, quire, and gathering, for example, would have been helpful; the first two are referenced to the latter, but are not cross-referenced. That could lead users to see gathering as the pre- ferred generalized term. Consequently, there are limitations on the use of this vol- ume's content. Likewise, its appended "Sources and Bibliography" of 373 cita- tions provides references (inexact, since pagination is omitted) to definitions and cannot be misconstrued as a core bibliog- raphy. It must be augmented by the bibli- ographies of Carolyn Morrow, Paul Banks, George Cunha, and others. This dictionary is open to severe criti- cism from the lexicographic viewpoint. Headwords are not uniformly standard- ized infinitives but often are participles, and filing is often under the adjective modifying the keyword without inversion to control consistency (i.e., hot-melt and hot-setting adhesive, .rather than adhe- sives, hot-melting and hot-setting). Con- sequently, not only are terms entered in- consistently, the organization lacks congruence. Information on adhesives, for example, is scattered throughout the book, and see also references are inade- quate because they refer to other adjective forms, such as cold-setting adhesive. Senses are not always ordered clearly; at times historical usage is treated as most common, trade jargon is first in oth~r cases without formal usage at all, and it is doubtful that binders commonly use some of the scientific terms included. 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